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    TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1904.
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TRIFLES LEAD TO TRACED1ES
Littla Things Pity ImpsrUi Part in
the Affftin of tkt Wrli
AS USUAL THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENEI
Gesss the Report ( MHrtf
T voted te Weights THIm sad
Aaalyslas; Tklr EsTeet
Hamaat AsTalr.
Br lt annual report, just submitted, the
committee Ml accidents ot ths Society for
the Investigation of ths Unexpected Uys
marked emphasis on the triviality of the
cause producing tragic, results and other
wise during the year ending December 1.
1901
"Never before." says the committee,
"hav little things played so prominent
a part In the Important affairs as this
year. A very careful Investigation into
almost numberless ease has shown that
Instead of the great passions, love and
hate, this year petty things have held the
center of the stage."
.The committee Instances "murders," and,
although acknowledging that such hap
penings do not necessarily come under
the title of unexpected, yet they have
thrown this Investigation In as good meas
ure, so to speak.
"The number of homicides that have
been caused by such petty thlnga as cold
..ffe, burned beefsteak and 'pies such as
mother never could have made' are only
surpassed by the number they might have
caused," says the committee. "There Is
on record a ease in Dubuque, la., where
the accidental dropping of salt In ' Ice
cream resulted In a homicide which broke
up a silver wedding. There Is another
case In which a statement that My first
wife, Emma, was a wonder at making
soup' brought on a calamity.
"There are many cases where a refusal
to dance with one man and the acceptance
of another man's invitation resulted In an
affray. A balky horse brought on a feud
in Kentucky, because one of the feudists
happened to laugh at the efforts ot the
other side to start the horse. Beans have
caused murder this year, and so have
grapes and other vegetables and fruits,
while the casualty list due to watermelons
Is very large, principally in the southern
states after dark."
Bo far as suicides are concerned, the list,
the report says. Is equally large and trivial
"We lost count of the number of cases of
self-destruction because the back hair had
become disarranged In public or some por
tion of the drees had become undone. We
hate to think of how msny, principally
women, Have speeded themselves) because
somebody else was five minutes late, tea
minutes late or did not show up at all, or
became cold and scornful or argumentative
or intoxicated or many other thlnga
"So far as the lateness Is ooncerned,"
oontlnuea the report, we have no record
of any married men adopting such extreme
there' would not be any married men.
Street Car Another Cans.
"Then there Is the record of where a
street car caused a young man to end all.
He was not struck by the street car, but
in a western town he rode until he espied
a young woman of Whom he was much
enamoured. Seeking to make an impres
sive exit from the car he swung himself
gracefully off a rear step to alight on an
.unsuspected slippery spot The spectacle
of a flying hat, flying heels and eye
glasses, to say nothing of the further act
of the slippery spot on the light summer
,ault, caused the young woman to laugh.
Being supersensitive the youth In question
went home to do his rash act."
' One broken pen caused a similar act. A
young man in New Madrid, Miss., took the
only pen available to write a note inviting
a young woman to accompany him on a
moonlight excursion. The pen broke and
there was not another to be had. As a
result the young woman received another
Invitation before the young man could go
down town and purchase a new pen.
On the suicide subject the committee is
In doubt toward the last section. It says
;nat many tragedies were caused by small
things which cannot be put down to sui
cide or homicide. They think the lattar.
however, Is th'e best place for the young
man who carelessly takes a position a few
feet distant from the heels of a mule or
leans up against an alligator cage or turns
nis race southward on the southbound
tracks of a city railroad and tries to see
what is going on in the slot.
They think also that the unsophisticated
youth who tried to make a pet of a gorilla
and faced a grliily bear, trying to calm It
vr um power 01 nis eye, may be said to
come dangerously near suicide, probably
on the same line of reasoning that in
duced a western coroner's Jury to bring a
suicide verdict on the young man who
forcibly told the late Wild BUI In strong
wurai mai ne was untruthful.
When It comes to accidents the com
mittee fairly revels in small thlngs-nats,
one flea, birds, all kinds of animals from
mice and moles up to goats, they say
caused troubles of the unexpected kind all
summer. A sunbonnet, a flirtatious young
woman, one oumDieoee, a dress suit case,
an Innocent Berkshire pig. many DUDDlea.
a ploture frame, a strand of blond hair (not
domestic), me cough of a boy In church,
seven poll parrots, the wink of an eye. a
garter snake, a tadpole and earwig. The
committee grew tired of counUng banana
and orange skins, to say nothing of the
slippery gangplank, the sensitive boat, ths
vroaen oar Diaoe and the tin can.
In Its details the committee tells of the
case of a young woman In Washington
who was nearly killed accidentally
through an Innocent parrot. The parrot's
young woman's bed room. One night In
trying its bill it turned on the gas, and
the young woman would have died If the
parrot had not struck a match with Its
bill and lighted the gas.
The tragedy of the single blond had
happened to William Fortner, of Bangor,
Ma It was his wife's treas that caused
the trouble.
Fortner waastandlng by her side at ths
window one braesy evening and the wind
iblew the hair InVo his mouth. He turned
'to expel It quickly when his shoulder hit
a table, upsetting a lamp, which set the
place afire and burned the house.
Activities ot a Flea.
The flea accident came from Fresno,
Cal., and the flea was a native of that
state. A motorman was Just about to take
his car down a steep hill whan the flea
made its presence known Just In the No
man's land. Just south of the shoulder
blade and eastward of the middle of the
back. The motorman became so much
Interested In waiting for the flea to get In
a Ashling sons that he forgot his car
1 until it was too late to check its speed.
The motorman received three broken ribs
and numerous contusions about the face.
The record does not show what became of
the other participant.
The mice accidents were usually the
same and consisted of a narrative of frac
tures received by falls from chairs, tables
and sofas. ...
The bumble bee, as might be supposed.
was winging along the North Adams
(Mass.) country road that Henry Morton
was driving over In a surrey, In which
ware Mrs. Morton and several children.
The bee sod Mr. Morton's eye came Into
close contact and his gestures so fright
ened the horse that It ran away. None
was seriously hurt.
The picture marks a household tragedy.
It was being hung by one Theodore Reich
man, of Beaver, Pa. Mrs. Relchman and
her great-aunt were holding the steplad
der. The picture supped a little bit and
Relchman squeesed his thumb. He forgot
where he was as he turned to apply the
usual first aid to a thumb and fell ofT the
ladder on the great-aunt, who threw Mrs.
Relchman against a table, where she re
ceived a fracture of the jaw.
The tadpole for a joke was placed in
the hand of Miss Bertha Boone, of Will
lam sport. Pa., at a small summer resort
known as Lily Pond. Miss Boone and
some friends were In a boat. The moment
she saw the tadpole she shrieked and
swung around wildly, with the result that
the boat was upset Everybody was saved.
The cough of the boy in church, it Is
admitted by the committee, appears rather
far fetched, but little Samuel Rabert was
seated one Sunday morning of July in a
Salem, Mass., church Just behind Morde
cal Sample, a deacon. Mr. Sample, he aft
erward remembered, was sleeping and hap
pened at that moment to be dreaming that
he was In a battle or some other depressing
place end on the point of being shot.
At the climax Bammy coughed and the
deacon, feeling that he had really been
shot, sprung up, to fall back with a stroke
of apoplexy. Although he was stout the
committee contends he would not have re
ceived the stroke had Sammy kept still
and allowed him to awaken at the proper
moment as all dreamers do.
The gnat got in the eye of an engine
driver of Missouri and he did not see a
signal change on the track, thus precipi
tating a collision between a freight and a
work train laden with Italian laborers.
When It came to the accidents for which
the small dog was responsible the com
mittee shows an inclination to bunch
things. It gives speclflo instances where
the small dog In its heedless enthusiastic
way ran between the legs of persons stand
ing on the brinks of rivers, on piers, on
top steps and the like.
It considers the case of Buttons, a fox
terrier in Omaha, as a fair example. This
dog, although weighing less than ten
pounds, caused one death a mile distant
from his own scene of operations. But
tons belonged to James Harkness, a worthy
cltlsen. It was wont to accompany him
each evening down to the cigar store where,
while Its owner gossiped, it waged an un
relenting "kill or burn" campaign against
a neighboring furrier's cat
Can ant a Rnaaway,
Buttons made an unusually vicious charge
on this enemy on the night of August 10,
which resulted In the cat Jumping on a
stuffed beer insecurely fastened to the wall.
The bear fell over and a passing woman
screamed and Jumped to the curbstone,
where a physician's horse was meditating.
The horse ran away and a mile distant hit
a negro woman, inflicting mortal Injuries.
The case was well substantiated, the com
mitted declared.
The earwig was the contribution from
another small boy, who found it In the
woods near his home at Jamestown, N. T.
He took it home and suddenly showed it
to his mother at the supper table. Her
quick move to leave the scene entirely to
the earwig unset the table and scalded
her husband with the coffee.
The Berkshire pig was responsible for
a railroad derailment, In which a ; tramp
was mortally hurt, near Cresllne, O. It
got in the way of the engine and greased
the tracks at a curve.
"While exceptions may be taken to some
of the causes we have herein set forth,"
says the oommittee, "we are sure slight
thought will show that we have investi
gated carefully. We well know that the
causes may appear remote to the minds of
the captious, yet we assert that the things
we have mentioned would never have hap
pened had it not been for the ofttlmea in
nocent animals, insects or things." New
York Herald.
SAFETY DEVICES AND TRAINMEN
Mechaaleal Coatrtvances of Little
Valao When Orders Are
Disobeyed.
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F. W. Haskell, writing in the December
Issue of the Engineering Magaslne, says
that the large number of accidents on
American railways Is attributable to a
habit of carelessness which the trainmen
cultivate with the connivance of their su
periors. The operating rules, says the
writer, are sufficient to prevent nearly every
accident and the record of late has been
appalling but they are habitually disre
garded. Part of Mr. Haskell's article is
quoted below:
Given a solid roadbed, heavy rails, strong
equipment, proper signals and almost per
fect operating rules, why do we have the
almost dolly murder of passengers from
preventable accidents?
Because the admirable rules for the gov
ernment of employes are habitually disre
garded. We are prone to speak with something
like contempt of the average Englishman's
blind slavlshness to "regulations," and to
compare it to Its disadvantage with our su
perior fashion of disregarding fixed rules
and using Individual intelligence. But we,
with our quicker intellects, kill our pas
sengers, while the "dull-witted" English
man carries his In safety. A train la
unexpectedly stopped between stations. The
rules provide that a flagman must go back
a very considerable distance. It is snowing.
A long tramp means wet feet The flagman
reasons: "We will be here only a few sec
onds anyway. I will be called In before I
can get back to my post and then the
train will be delayed while I am running
back to it besides, the block signal will
hold back any following train."
Many roads having Installed a perfect
system of block signals destroy Its entire
effectiveness by establishing the "permis
sive block" or "going ahead under green,"
By this system a following train Is given
discretionary power to run In a block al
ready occupied. This permission Is always
coupled with the Injunction that the engi
neer must use caution, and "at all times
have his train under perfect control." But
In actual operation "caution" usually
means not exoeedlng the maximum possible
speed of the engine.
I once stood by the side of a busy line
with the signal engineer of the road. This
line had a complete Installation of block
signals. We watched a dosen heavy freights
rush by at thirty miles an hour, with sot
100 yards of daylight separating any two of
them. I expressed surprise at the reckless
disregard of signals, and the officer said:
"Freights run regardless of the blocks. We
couldn't get them over the road If we kept
them a block apart." a
In the rear-end collision last year on the
Central of New Jersey the engineer of the
following train disregarded the red block,
the waving lanterns of two flagmen and
the tall lights of the first train. Into which
he plunged.
In a butting collision a few months 'ago
In Michigan ths engineers of the opposing
trains saw each other's headlights on a
straight track for four miles.
Every added mechanical device for the
protection of trains (short of one which lo
spite of the efforts of the trainmen would
automatically stop and hold a train) is an
added source of danger, until svery man
connected -with the train service Is drilled
to the point that he would murder his
mother In cold blood as soon as he would
disregard an order or a signal. '
If you have anything to trade advertise
It In the For Exchange oolumn of The Bee
want ad page,
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MY FIRST CHRISTMAS III AMERICA
On Christmas morning. 14-Just fifty
years ago today I first set foot on Ameri
can solL Parting with kindred, friends
and schoolmates at my native village In
Bohemia, In the middle ot September, and
accompanying my parents to the seaport
of Bremen, we traversed the ocean In the
packet ship "Cleo." a three-mast sailing
vessel, and landed- la New York harbor
after a voyage of forty-two days. Emerg
ing from the ship, which landed in the
neighborhood of Castle Garden, we, that is,
my father, mother and seven children
five boys and two girls marched up the
middle of Broadway In Indian file, to take
our first view of America's metropolis.
The sky was clear and the air quite
crisp on that memorable Christmas morn
ing, and the streets were crowded with
people arrayed In their holiday apparel.
Here and there was a policeman wearing a
flat Dutch cap with an elevated crown In
stead of the helmet of today, pompously
directing the passing throng at the cross
ings. As everything was strange and new
to me In this new world, I gased with In
tense interest at the quaint old buildings.
Lower Broadway half a century ago still
retained its somber Dutch architecture,
with here and there a four or five-story,
flat-roofed American warehouse or store
building.
As we proceded a few hundred yards up
Broadway I viewed with awe the eight
eenth century cemetery that surrounds
Trinity cathedral and craned my neck to
the utmost in looking up at the steeple of
the monumental church edifice, which was
then the highest object visible In New
York. While taking a birds-eye view of
Greater New York out of the window of
the office occupied by The Bee, the other
day in the twenty-third story of Park
Row building, and yet two stories below
the highest floor, I looked down upon the
venerable edifice dwarfed Into insignifi
cance by granite, marble and steel struc
tures of cycloplan dimensions, looming up
In the sky line almost Into the clouds. As
In a dream, I see myself walking up
Broadway with the group of emigrants
carrying bundles and babies and gasing to
the right and to the left at everything and
everybody they passed. Bands of music
are playing, jauntily dressed young men
In military uniforms are parading the
streets, and the flags are flying from the
greatest of American hotels of those days
the Astor house and from the city hall of
modest dimensions and pretensions on
Printing House square. Now we walk and
walk through crowds until we reach the
very heart of the business section at the
crossing of Canal street and Broadway,
and then we separate at our temporary
destination an emigrant hotel on Green
wich street
But before starting out on a tour with
my father I am presented with my first
American Christmas gift a pea green
Jacket bought at a ready-made clothes
shop for the munificent sum of $3, which I
proudly donned and wore for two years
thereafter, when It was transmitted for
further wear to one of my younger broth
ers. Presently we reached a tenement
house, where my father hoped to meet an
old country acquaintance. We climbed up
two stories and knocked at the door, which
was opened by a negro of huge propor
tions and rather forbidding aspect. We
had never seen nor met a negro before
and precipitately retired two flights down
without explanation.
It is Just fifty years ago today that I
took my first lesson In English in read
ing the big signs .over the stores of New
York "City' Bnd these' object lessons have
been continued off and on whenever I
travel at home or abroad. The streets of
New York of 1854 were very unlike the
streets of New York In 1904. Broadway
was paved then with' square blocks of
stone and on business days the rush of
omnibuses, drays and other vehicles that
choked the street from dawn to dusk was
simply deafening. The most rapid loco
motion was by ordinary carriage. The
street railway had not made its appear
ance. The elevated road had not even
been imagined and a bridge across the
"East river was an Iridescent dream. The
tallest building In New York was not
over seven stories and the office building
had not yet been invented.
These reminiscences are In the lights and
shadows of a somewhat busy life as well
as a orceful reminder that my first Christ
mas In America was also the first Christ
mas that a handful of pioneers celebrated
In the newly founded city of Omaha.
E, ROSEWATER.
CURIOSITIES ,0F PENN TOWN
Philadelphia with Dogs to Hire Tells
Boats Secrets of the
Business.
A pet stock dealer of Philadelphia has In
his shop window a sign that reads: v
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: DOGS TO HIRE
: BY DAY, WEEK OR HOUR. I
: Rates Reasonable. t
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A man asked the dealer the other day
the significance of the sign.
"Oh, it means Just what It says," the
dealer said. "People like to hire dogs now
and then, the same as they a like to hire
horses or pianos. I clear from this branch
of my business quite $10 a week.
''Do you see that handsome Russian wolf
hound over there In the corner T Well, I
hire him out a good deal to young women
who are going to be photographed. In Eng
land a lot of women of fashion and In
America a lot of millionairesses have had
their pictures taken of late with Russian
wolf-hounds at their side. That has set a
fashion. Young women all over nowadays
desire to be photographed with wolf
hounds. "But do you know what a wolf-hound
like Pete there Is worth T Well, sir. he Is
worth $4"0 or (600. And do you know what
he can be hired for a couple of hours for?
He can be hired for $1.50. Hence he is
hired often. He Is In greatvdemand. On
the mantel of many a poor man's house
you can see today the wife's or the daugh
ter's photograph with a magnificent Rus
sian wolf-hound In the foreground.
"Aside from hiring -dogs for photographlo
purposes I hire them for promenades.
Young women, visiting the city like to rent
a Boston bull or a wire-haired Irish ter
rier to walk down Chestnut street with. A
good dog on a morning's walk gives a
young woman distinction, and It is now
possible, thanks to me, for any girl to
achieve this distinction for It or $2.
"The dogs for whloh there Is most de
mand aro bulls, Boston bulls, terriers and
wolf-hounda I require a deposit bsfore I
let a dog go out" . , ,
oBas4kln.gr Worse Thaa War.
"Well, how's the war?" the newspaper
man was asked.
"Oh, I'm weary of the war; ask me some
thing olse, was the tart reply.
"But," insisted ths questioner, "those
fellows over la Manchuria have one great
advantage over us."
"In what way?" asked ths newspaper
man, in a surprised .tone.
"Well." was the sly retort, "they don't
have to bother about buying; Christinas
presents." Nsw York Times.
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MISCELLANEOUS
TRY KELLY'S TOWEL SUPPLY. Tel. 3530.
R-376
PRESSORIUM
Clothes Pressed. 1K4
am am.
R-M411
CITY SAVINGS BANK pays 4 per cent
R 378
IF YOU waut to buy, sell or rent property,
borow money, sell note or account, call
at R. a, N. Y. Life. Tel. 133. Glover & Son.
R-3S0
ADV. CUTS WHEATON, in Bee Bldg.
R 382
Pianos for Rent, '
$3.00 MOO. New Pianos. High grade. Rent
allowed If you purchase. Perfleld Piano
Company, bill Farnam. Telephone 7U.
Open evenings. It SS3
EAGLE Loan Office; reliable, accommodat
ing; ail business confidential. 13ul Douglas.
R-4
BLACK sells the best $-.60 hat on earth.
ANTI-MONOPOLY Garbage Co., 621 N.
16th. Tel. 1779. R-386
WANTED Horses to winter, $2.50 per
month; good feed, plenty ot water. A. 11.
Read, 610 Ware block. R-M347
STOVE & FURNACE REPAIRS
Tel. W0. 1207 Doug. Omaha Stove Rep. Wks.
R-37
P. MELCHOIR, machine works, 13th and
Howard. R 3S8
Electro plating. Oni. Plafg Co., 1508 Harney.
R-366 D27
ELSASSER St BRICE, machine and- gen
eral repair works, 317 S. 12th 8t. Tel. 1477.
R Mmo J 2
SPECIAL sttentlon given architects' plans
and specifications; contractors should In
vestigate. Lew Wentworth, 618 Paxton
block. R M966 J7
OMAHA Safe and Iron works make a spe
cialty of fire escapes, shutters, doors and
safes. G. Andreen, prop., 102 S. 10th St.
R ML56
ALL our second-hand Talking Machines
at your own price.
Collins Piano Co., 118 B. 17th St.
R 653
TAXIS TOILET GOODS-Cholce Xmas
boxes. Tel. 2694. R-M538 24x
3 P. C. YEAR
From $100 to $5,000 loans on renl estate or
personal note at S PER CENT PER
YEAR. All good loans wanted. Call or
write and get my system. W. L. East
man, 1108 Farnam, Omaha. R M723
D. W. DUDGEON, the expert PLUMBER.
Two 'phones, 1966 and L2873.
R M993 M7
CITY STEAM LAUNDRY.
211 SOUTH 11TH. TEL. 254.
We trust everybody. Flannels and colored
goods laundered at our risk.
R-M172 J23
COLLINS PIANO CO., wholesale and re
tall musical Instruments. Talking ma
chines, records exchanged. 113 S. lith St.,
Omaha. R
ELECTRIC light plants, water works and
powef plants built; approved projects
financed. R. S. Ashe, 2f10 Humboldt St.,
1 Denver, Colo. RU7 D25 S F5x
WANTED SITUATION
A YOUNG man nearly 18, having a fair
business education, would like employ
ment in the office and store of some
wholesale house; willing to make himself
generally useful. Address O 33, lien office.
A 115 24x
JUNIOR drug clerk of 3 years' experience
desires position in Nebraska. Address O
87, care of Bee. A M133 26x
LAUNDRYMAN Wanted, a portion by an
all-around, up-to-date laundry man; 15
years' experience. 11. A. Blunt, Platts
mouth. Neb. A 139 26
LAW school graduate and stenographer
wants position in law office. Address O 40,
Bee. A M174 25x
SHOE MAN open for position, salesman
or manager, January 1; 15 years' experi
ence; references of the very beat. O 41,
Bee. A M183 24
ATTORNEY of five years' experience de
sires position In law office; stenographer.
Address O 44. Bee. A M195 26x
SITUATION wanted, registered pharmacist.
Ph. G., open for engagement first of year.
Clay Sheffrey, Oxford, Neb. A-M250 2Sx
SHOE MAN open for position, salesman
or manager, January 1; 15 years' experi
ence; references of the very best. O. 41,
Bee, A-316 25
WANTED, place to do chores by business
college student. L 5, care Bee.
A-M402 27x
SITUATION wanted by expert draughts
man ; references. L 84, Bee. A M403 27x
YOUNG man Just out of college wants
situation where there is a chance to work
up. L 23, Bee office. A M404 27x
POSITION wanted by man experienced on
the road; also as city salesman. L 19,
Bee. A M406 27x
YOUNG lady stenographer wants position
In lawyer's office. L 8, Bee.
A MWfl 27
WANTED TO BUY
SHONFELD, the ANTIQUARIAN, 822 N.
Y. Life, pays highest price for books.
Tel. 8038. N-419
CASH for a trackage lot In wholesale dis
trict. F. D. Wead, 1524 Douglas St.
N 160 25
WANTED Will pay .cash for a good second-hand
piano. Address and state price,
O 88, Be. N 490 24x
CASH for 2d hand clothing. 808 No. 161 h.
N-347 25
WANT to buy a good hotel In Iowa or Ne
braska town, price $5,000 or some higher.
Address O 63. Bee. N-357 25
WILL BUY a good saloon, price no con
sideration, but must be worth It and well
located In Iowa or Nebraska town. Ad
dress O 66, Bee. N 368 25
WANTED H interest In good 'paying
Omaha saloon, L. 14, care Bee.
N-M392 27x
WILL pay cash for good bakery in north
part of town. L. 26, Bee office
- N-M393 27x
WOULD like to hear from some one with
good team for sale, suitable for coal
wagon. L. 27, care Bee. N M894 27x
IMMEDIATELY, good-Jaylng rooming
house; about 26 rooms; close to town, il
It. Beo office. N M396 27x
MEN'S second hand clothing. 808 No. Kith.
, N-M394 27x
WILL pay cash for good grocery store
well located, or would buy good busi
ness of any kind; I have $4 000; what have
you? Address O (1, care Bee office.
N m 26
OSTEOPATHY
Johnson Institute. Ui N.Y.LIfe bldg. Tel. 196
MRS. JOHN R. MU8ICK. Osteopathy Phy
sician; office, Douglas block. TL t21
i1
DR. FAR WELL, specialty nervous disease,
61$ N. Y. Life. u8
DR. C. W. FARWETJ Osteopath, who hat
been located in the Paxton tl k the past
two years, has moved to (1$ New Trk
Ufa buildlos. Hi fa
WANTED MALE HELP
1905
WINTER TERM
OF
BOYLES COLLEGE
OPENS
JANUARY 2.
COMPLETE BUSINESS COURSE
COMPLETE SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING COURSE
COMPLETE NORMAL AND ENGLISH COURSE
COMPLETE TELEGRAPHY COURSE
COMPLETE CIVIL SERVICE COURSE
COMMON SENSE
. AND AN UNCOMMON BUSINESS COLLEGE MOVE.
Mr. II. IJ. Uovles personally inspected, tested and adopted
Chartier's Electric Shorthand for Hoyles College.
For twenty years before organizing lloyles College, Mr. Boyles
was ono of THE expert Shorthand Writers of this country, and
fifteen years an OFFICIAL COUKT REPOUTEK, He is known
all over the country as a leading member of the Shorthand He-port-ing
Profession. He knows what must be in a system of Short
hand to enable that system to be of most benefit to that student
desirous of becoming a top-notcher in the Shorthand Profession.
Mr. Royles' prosperity depends upon Boyles College. The
prosperity of Boyles College depends on its popularity. Its
popularity depends on what kind of Stenographers hs course and
its studies produce. N
Knowing ail this, Mr. Boyles has adopted
CHARTIER'S ELECTRIC SHORTHAND .
and he is ready to stake every bit of his reputation and the reputa
tion of his College on the veracity of each and every claim we have
ever made or ever will make in favor of this new, this marvelous
shorthand system.
That's plain enough English for anybody!
The same teachers teach Titman and Gregg Shorthand to
students who prefer them. Catalogue free.
nnvi cc rrt i roc 18TH and harney sts.,
BOYLco UOLLcLid, . omaha, neb.
Nebraska Business College
SEVENTEENTH
A. C. On;, A. M., LL. B., Pres.
Winter Term Opens January 2, 90$.
We invite you to investigate OUR METHODS of training young people for srtual
business. We teach Bookkeeping- and Banking as it Is practiced today In the leading
buesiness houses all over the country, every student handling notes, checks, drafts,
Invoices, college money, etc., etc.. from the very first day of entry. This department
Is under the Instruction of one of the ablest commercial teachers in the west, he having
bad over twenty years' experience as an Instructor.
GREGG SHORTHAND
This system of shorthand was first Introduced in our school over four years ago,
and was taught along side of the Ben Pitman and Graham systems. Its superiority
was soon recognized end the demand for it has been so great that today we are mak
ing a specialty of Gregg Shorthand. For speed and legibility it cannot be equaled.
The principal in this department la a graduate of the Oregg School for Teachers, and
he has had years of experience as an lnatru ctor.
TYPEWRITING DEPARTMEMT,
In this department we have over sixty typewriters of standard make In constant
use. thirty new machines having been pur chased since September to meet the demand.
We teach the Touch System, and every slu dent is carefully instructed to manipulate
the machine properly.
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. MEMBERSHIP FREE.
Every student who takes out a full term scholarship Is given a year's membership
in one of the above associations without extra charge. No such proposition was ever
made before by any Institution. The value of this membership to a student can
scarcely be computed. To be a member of the Y. M. C. A. or Y. W. C. A. means
character, culture and refinement.
NIGHT SCHOOL
Apply for catalouge and college literature.
A MAN of good appearance to call on Job
bers, factories, etc., in the city or nearby
places. Address with references, O otf,
Bee. H 11
WE ARE In need of a great many good ap
plicants to till vacancies wh.ch will occur
the nrst of the year. We received eight
calls for help before 9 o'clock this morn
ing. If you are capable come and see us.
THiil WESTERN REF. & BOND AbS N,
MU N. Y. Life bldg.
WANTED FOR U. S. ARM Y Able-bodied
unmarried men, between ages of 21 and U,
cltlsena of United States, of good charac
ter and temperate habits, who speak.
read and write English. For information
apply to Recruiting Officer, 13th and
T , . . 1 s-, 1 . . tjHnl,n TJh . Of
Sioux City. ia. B M287
RELIABLE person, each locality, for busi
ness position; salary $20 weekly and ex
penses; expense money advanced: posi
tion permanent; previous experience un
necessary; business established. Address
Mr. Cooper, Como block, Chicago.
B M6S4 24x
WE have the best proposition In the oily
for a good real estate salesman.
WESTERN REF. & BOND ASSN.,
Ml New York Life.
B 243 26
MEN TO LEARN barber trade; free rail
road fare upon our fuilure to convince
you of this being the BEST and only re
liable, most practical barber college In
th United Stales. Write for catalogue
today. Western Barbers' Institute,
Omaha, Neb.
WANTED, first-class salesman to call on
established trade In this state; mention
experience, references and salary ex
pected. Lincoln Overall and Shirt Co.,
Lincoln, Neb. B Mlsl 2Sx
I HAVE a money-making proposition to
offer good solicitors; experience not neces
sary; nice work, good commission. Either
call or write at once. E. C. Boyles, IliM
Farnam st, B 381 23x
MOLER'S Barber College, Denver, Colo.,
learnes ine oarosr iraun in a w uiu
guarantees positions.
Special terms.
write.
B Mf28 Jlox
BY manufacturing house, trusty assistant
for branch office; 18 paid weekly; position
permanent; no capital required; previous
experience not essential. Address Branch
Manager, &S Dearborn, Chicago.
B M26S Six
WANTED Men to travel; salary and ex
penses; experience not necessary. Address
(Kelman) Kel-Bro Mercantile Co., 0 Wa
bash, Chicago. B266 26x
DETECTIVES Every locality; good sal
ary; experience unnecessary. Inter-State
Detective Agency, Milwaukee, Wis.
B 260 25x
WANTED, person to call on retail trade
for manufacturing house; local territory;
salary Slio, paid weekly; expense money
advanced; previous experience unneces
sary. American House, Star building,
Chicago. B iSO 26x
WANTED, 10 men In each state to travel,
tark signs and distribute samples and cir
culars of our goods; salary 175 per month;
13 per duy for expenses. Kuhiman Co.,
Dept. D 22, Atlas Block, Chicago.
B 257 26x
MANAGER wanted, every section, to ap
point agents for new scientific) game, re
placing forbidden slut machines In public
places; evades law everywhere; played
with nickels: finish beautiful, like rash
register; rented or sold on easy payments;
smnple sent on thirty days' free trial;
proposition will please you if we still
nave opening in your sej tlnn. Independ
ent CMh Register Co., Department 67,
Chicago. 111. B 24 2Sx
I WANT and furnish drug clerks, drug
tores and doctors, Knlsst, 701 N. Y. L.
B til
WANTED MALE HELP
AND HARNEY STS.
A. J. Lowry, Prln.
B
TELEGRAPH department open In Decem
ber. Boyles College. B MS01
I HAVE a money-making proposition to
offer good solicitors; experience not nec
essary; nice work; good commission.
Either call or write at once. E. C. Boyles,
ltilt Farnam St. B Mai 24
WANTED A bright young man or woman
to manage our local department; previous
experience unnecessary; salary, 116.50 per
week, paid weekly; expenses advanced;
permanent position to satisfactory party.
Apply at once, The Panama Co., 306 Pan
ama bldg., St Louis. B M197 26x
WANTED Men, everywhere, Rood pay, to
distribute circulars, adv. matter, tack
signs, etc.; no canvassing. Address Na
tional Advertising Co., 100 Oakland Bank
building, Chicago, 111. B MM 23x
WANTED Several good solicitors and
crew managers; position permsnent; good
Income. Address O 46, Bee office.
B M203 SOx
WANTED Energetlo, experienced profes
sional or business men, on salary and
commission, to represent a leading life in
surance company In cities and county
districts In Nebraska; reply with refer
ences. Address O 48, Bee. B 216 80
GOOD salaried position for active man who
has 15,000 to Invest In well established
manufacturing business. Address P. O.
Box 464, Lincoln. Neb. B M283 Jan S
A FEW capable salesmen, staple line with
strong Inducements. Something entirely
new. High commission, with expenses
advanced. Permanent. Sales Manager, 26
W. Atwater St., Detroit, Mich. B
MEN WANTED to sell full line of hardy
fruit and ornamental trees. Work full or
part time .as you prefer. Pay weekly;
outfit free. Lawrence Nursery Company,
Fort Madison, la, B
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S eleotlon in
sures an increase In civil service ap
pointments. Those Intending to take the
next examination should send to the Co
lumbian Correspondence college, Washing
ton, D. C, ana secure its free civil ser
vice announcement, containing dates, sal
aries, places for holding examinations
and questions recently used by the ov
ernment. B
WANTED Responsible man to manage an
office and distributing depot for large
manufacturing concern. Salary 81,600 per
annum and commissions. Applicant must
have good references and 11,000. Capital
secure. Address, Bup(. 123 West 12th St.,
Chicago. B
WANTED Men to learn barber trade; few
weeks completes by our method of con
stant practice; licensed teachers; wages
and expenses In shops Saturday before
completing; tools given graduates; years
avd. Join now and complete for epMng
rush. Call or write for catalogue. Moler
Barber College, 13(4 Douglas st.
B M2J1 Mht
CHAIN, GREGG
SHORTHAND SCHOOLS
OMAHA 711 N. Y. L. building.
SOUTH OMAHA Glasgow block.
COUNCIL BLUFFS-Merrlam block.
Most approved and up-to-dste method.
Course finished In about half the time.
Standard typewriter at your own home. '
Call or write for particulars. B-J69 26x
WANTED EVERYWHERE, MEN WILL
Ing to distribute samples, tack signs, etc.,
fit 83.00 daily. Permanent. No canvass
ng. Continental Distributing Service,
Chicago. B 83$ 86s
PORTRAIT MEN Send us a few orders
and compare with work you are now
handling; prices low; all work guaran
teed. Write Omaha Art Co. B fcl 81
CASH for Id band clothing, log No. 16th.
BU 86
WANTED MALE HELP
MEN TO LEAKN
BARBER TRADE? i
Send for free catalogue and compare our
terms and advantages with ethers.
American Barber Collige, cor. 12th anU
Douglas sts. B 1'1 frx
WANTED, a coachman, one who has hn i
experlrnce with fine hortes. Applv A. 1.
Biandeis, Boston Store. fa 116 i9x
IT Is drawing near the first of the year, at
which time, there will be a great many
positions to be tilled. Write tor particu
lars. We need st once:
1 A 1 electrician.
1 electrical workers.
1 boy with two years In high school.
1 experlenced-grocery Baleaman. traveling,
t men who have been In general mercantile
business.
1 young man quick and accurate with fig
ures. 8 tank men.
1 stenographer for Smith-Premier.
1 traveling salesman, jewelry.
1 good appraiser for bank. i
1 good printer.
Call or write for list of vacanrtea
THE WESTERN REF. A BOND ASStf
840 New York Life Bldg., Omaha.
Tuesday and Thursday, open until 11 p m.
B-241 26
WANTED, men to UNI garden seeds to the
farmers; write me for terms at once; big
wagrs can be made. Address O. P. Conk,
lln. Seedsman, Red Onk, la. II M1U
IF YOU are In need of a position, call and
have a "heert-lo-henrt" talk with HART.
THE EXPERT, a N. Y. Life. B-W J4
WANTED Two young men lo run on
train as news agents; Omaha to Denver.
Inquire ltilil Farnam. B 14) 2v
WANTE-FEMALE HELP
WANTED A girl for housework in a fam
ily of two. Apply at 3316 Dodge st.
C-118
WANTED Girl for general housework:
family of two. C. C Montgomery, 618
South 40th. C M164
GIRL for general housework. 610 Park ave.
Mrs. W. H. Munger. C M181 25
80 GIRLS, Canadian office, 15th and Dodge.
C 11
USE Landreen's Antiseptic Hair Tonic.
C-48 J14
LADIES BO thousand, copying letters, no
mailing to friends or furnishing ad
dresses; stamped cnvelujc, particulars.
U. S. Advertising Co., Dept. 325. Chicago.
C-2T8 26x
LADIE9 $J6 thousand copying short letters
st home; mntei'ul sent free everywhere.
Send stamped addre sej envelope for cop
of letter and full particular. Eastern
Co., 817 Heed Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.
C-261 26x
WANTED Ladles to learn splendid paying
profession. We teach halnlretslrg, man
icuring, facial mansngp; earn (aim It'i to
8J0 weekly: also tplcndld chance tor resl-'
dence work; few weeks completes; can
earn wages while learning. Call or write
Moler College, 1302 Douglas st., Omaha,
Neb. C M229 3i)x
1 GOOD stenographer and bookkeeper.
1 good glove saleslady.
1 saleslady who speaks German and Bo
hemian. THE WESTERN REF A BOND AS8SN.,
840 New York Life Bldg;, Omaha.
C 242 25
CASH for 2d hand clothing. 308 No. 16th.
C 318 26
WANTED SALESMEN
WHY not travel with pocket sample only
and make tAM.OO to 8400.UV weekly selling
staple article, requiring no experience?
M. L. Brown, Equitable Bldg., til. Louis,
Mo. 277 26x
SALESMEN wanted to handle our newly
patented specialty as a side line; nets 83.U0
to $30.00 daily; name territory traveled.
Chicago Specialties Mfg. Co., 109 E. Ran
dolph St., Chicago. 274 26x
SALESMEN of all lines of business (splen
did side line), to sell our advertising fans,
76 different styles, newest, latest pat- '
terns, Just the thing customers want; wa
pay the largest commissions. Many of
our men give their entire time to our
line and make from $76.00 to 8126.00 every
week; guaranteed best side line ever of
fered. Write promptly with reference;
commissions paid promptly. The Kern-per-Gcbhart
Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.
271 26x
SALESMEN Specialty ; want another hus
tler on best proposition to conntry trade
offered; of 8 salesmen out, 6 sold re
spectively two thousand, fifteen hundred,
twelve hundred and nine hundred dollars
goods last week 18 per cent commission;
worth fJ00 week. Box 1063, St Louis, Mo.
th9 26x
WANTED At once, salesman In Nebraska
and southwestern Iowa to sell a line of
Malleable Steel Ranges; good salary to
right man; must have road experience
and acquaintance In Nebraska: no other
considered. Address Ward, Room No.
logo. Boyce Bldg., Chicago. 297 26x
WANTED A first-class salesman for Ne
braska, excepting Omaha and South
Omaha, for 19u6 to sell exclusively our
first-class line of calendars, advertising
specialties and druggists' labels ana
boxes. Our line is so complete that every
merchant and manufacturer In each and
every line can be seen. Our goods are
first-class, strictly up-to-date; our house
has been established 20 years and Is well
and favorably knpwn; commission, 15 to
26 per cent. An energetlo salesman can
easily make from 860.00 to $100.00 per
week. New samples for 1905 will be ready
Jan. 1. First-class men only wanted.
Enclose this advertisement with your ap
plication. Address C 41, care Iord Sc
Thomas, Chicago. 206 2Sx
WE are enlarging our selling force for
1906 and can use one good specialty sales
man In Nebraska. Only capable and ex
perienced men need apply. Frank R.
Jennings & Co., Detroit, Mich. 804 X
WANTED Experienced salesmen to han
dle our high-grade Imported and domestio
calendars and advertising specialties; ex
clusive territory. Apply, with references,
to The Specialty Adv. Co., St. Joseph. Mo.
259 25x
EXPERIENCED traveling salesmen; tw,
exceptionally good positions open for 1906
by large Cleveland lobbing house; sales
manship, energy and business ability will
make the ponltlon permanent; general
mercantile trsde; high commlnalona with
$16 weekly. 8. 8. Flnley Co., 90 Prosnect
St., Cleveland, Ohio'. 263 26 X
CAPABLH salesman to cover Neb. with
staple line: high commissions with ad
vance of 8100.00 monthly; permanent posi
tion in rlirlit man. Jess H. Smith Co.,
Detroit, Mich. 263 2tx
TRAVELING salesman by large wholesale
house to sell general stores in Nebraska,
Position permanent .Watson, sales man
ager, 66 Fifth ave., Chicago.
2S6 Kx
SALESMAN January 1st. A first-class, ex
perienced patent medicine salesman; fine
position; salary or commission. Box 665,
Chicago. 283 26x
WE nM one salesman four hundred and
eighty-nine dollars commission ' In one
weeiu Pocket sample. D. T. Weir Whits
Lead co., bt. L.ouis, mo. zm ax
WANTED, bv manufacturer of perfumes,
toilet articles and flavoring evtrarts,
salesmsn to flH vacancy In Nebraska,
Address O 48. Beo. 281 Zxy
STHR LINE traveling men ran make 8?5 ti
8M per week carrvlng side line of moti
line of monl
"f our ex- I
Season now
he Kemper- m
:., Sts'lon H, "
tin-to-date advertising rans "r our ex
clusive end special designs.
onenlng. Apply at once. The
Thomas Company, Fan Dept.,
Cincinnati, O. 266 2Cx
WANTED, experienced men to sell our
Patented and , Copyrighted Advertising
Fsna. tKs most sttrat've, nove.1 and best
sellers In the market Samples now ready,
lrg commissions, prompt settlements.
Write for Information and erlvs reference.
United States Novelty Company, Cincin
nati, O. 256 25 x
WANTED Experienced traveling sslesmsn
to call on Iowa end Nehrs-W trade with v.
our new snrlrtg line of well known "Per
fection Brand" lsdles wrspners, dressing
s coil's and klmonas: eomnart side line;
llhersl commission; re'renes remilred.
V. n. TOwensteln v Co.. 815-617 V. tn
St., St. Louis, Mo. 116 tSx
FOUND
FOUND, lady's set brooch. Address Zee,
station A, Omaha. Found-Its 26x
FOUND Lady's purse with small tuna ot
tnonsy. Inquire at Be efflce.
, Found J8