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T1MELT REAL ESTATE TALK
Growth ef Suburban Twm Curinff,
Summer Quite Like a Bcom.
SOUTH OMAHA IS CtNTER OF ACTIVITY
Much Work Bring- Done la Mnulc
llty la Way of Improifiiiml of
1'rltate Property for
Immediate I me.
Wliile Unialia Is developing rupliily, both
from tlio points of population ami cim
merciul industry, Its citizens "'A per
mitted to lose night of the fact that the
mall towns very close to It are enjoying
their full ineawure of pmspiirity. A rlda
on tho sftrect car out through ono of these
suburbs discloses to the Omahiui dwellings
bc-irig built on nil Bides. The suburban
resident notes the growth In a inatter-of-foct
way and says, "O yes, we're growing
right along. Did you think we were let
ting Omaha have all the proilty ."' At
a mooting of the OmaJia Ileal tate ex
change recently K. A. Denson volunteeied
the Information that UiO 1uildlng permits
had lieen Issued in Benson this year. At
the meeting IuM week W. L.. Helby re
ported on Dundee, He said twenty-nine
houses had been erected this year ut an
average cost of $4,000. or a total cost of
Illfi.OnO. One and one-half miles of cement
idewalk had been laid and l&O.Oro worth
of grading had been done. Other adjoin
lug towns report similar conditions.
South Omaha bricklayers and carpenters,
Just as their brothers In the Gate city,
have all the work they can possibly do.
The building movement In dwelling houses
and small business structures does not
seem to abate with the near approach of
winter. One of the bigger Jobs lately
undertaken is the erection of the new bot
tling works for tho Jetter brewery. An
other one of Importance for . which the
contract was let some time ago, Is the
nrw city hall, a structure two stories In
height and 60xS5 feet. Another projected
building announced not long sine Is one
for the Nebraska, and Iowa Btock Food
company. Builders of dwelling houses are
rushing work to get as many houses as
possible enclosed before rigorous winter
eta lu. When the mercury la low In the
thermometer they can. work on th In
teriors. The Jetter Brewing company will erect a
two-story brick bottling works costing $35.
000, at the brewery at South Omaha, The
contract lias been let to K. Fluor and the
work will begin at once.
Otto Siemasen reports the saje of a lot
at the northwest corner of Twenty-sixth
and O streets. South Omaha, to the Jet
ter Brewing company, which will erect a
brick building on it. The company has
built a number of brick buildings la that
city In the last year.
Florence is experiencing a building boom,
as well as a boom In tho prices of lots, and
this beautiful suburb Is coming to the
front as a leading outlying residence dis
trict of the neighborhood. Florence Is
easily accessible from Omaha because of
1U splendid street railway facilities. Al
though the cars at present are running
but every fifteen minutes, this is little
Inconvenience when one becomes accus
tamed to catching the cars on . the ap
pointed time. The hillside west and north
of Florence presents one of the finest
views In Douglas county. Tho river, slowly
winding Its way, can be traced for mile,
while in the distance can be seen Missouri
'" Valley and the smoke from Omaha and
Council Bluffs. Some lots have been
bringing good prices, and some sold under
the hammer on the top of the hill sur
'prised the olde3t inhabitant with the price
they brought, showing the demand for
lghtly lots.
Omaha still grows as a Jobbing center.
The Rock Island Plow company has In
creased Its business since moving from
Council Bluffs to Omaha until It must
now erect a large building. It is negotiat
ing for a site and In all probability will
build next summer. The company Is now
In rented quarters In the building of tho
Avery Manufacturing company, across the
viaduct from tho Union depot.
The Real Estate exchange has again ap
praised the lot at the southeast corner
of Sixteenth and Farnam streets, and
again, as a year ago. it named a value
of 13,500 a foot on the Farnam street front
age. About a year and a halt ago the
Same lot was appraised by the exchange
t $3,000 a front foot. The lot Is 66 feet
wide on Farnam street and runs back 132
feet along Sixteenth. At the appraise
ment the lot would be worth $231,000, but
It Is rumored that the sum of $;5o,O0 has
been offered for It. Whether this is true
or not. It Is stated on authority that It
would take more than $150,000 to get !L
In the Judgment of the majority of the
realty men this Is the most valuable retail
corner in the city.
whoever wants to see the giant steam
hovel and the miniature railway at work
on the grading of the Northwestern freight
terminals must go soon. A great hole has
been torn out of the earth between Thlr
teentb and Fourteenth streets north of
Davenport street and only a small portion
of the dirt remains yet to be moved. The
operations of the graders can be seen from
a Walnut 11111 car and It Is a Bight well
iworth watching.
"Have you ever noticed." said a realty
dealer the other aday to one of the laity.
that we dealers and also our customers
are prone to ask more for property than
we are ready to sell it for? Well, that is
because buyer of real estate always try
to beat us down on our prices. We always
have to start In several hundred dollars
high to protect ourselves. When the mIIot
has boosted the price of a lot and ttn n
knocks off a few hundred he Is more likely
to sell than If he offered it for Just what
he would take. If buyers were not always
Crying to get something for nothing, tills
condition would not exist."
One by one the small and unsubstantial
one-story buildings are disappearing from
the better portions of the retail district.
This time it Is on Farnam street, between
Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, that tile
mall structures are to be torn down.
iney win in ail prooaDiuty make room
for a five-story building which the b.li
of the Redlck estate announce that the
eontemplute erecting. While no final plans
have been made, the Redicks will not re
new the leases, which expire In January,
on the stores situated on the property
structure the Redicks expect to build
may be used for stores and ofrtoea, but
probably will be made an annex to th
Uenahaw, at least the three upper flour.
Here U something from the November
Dumber of Bonds and Mortgages that
might afford a little information as to th
conditions accompanying the rapid dovel
pinect of western Nebraska:
A middle west banker whose firm Is
handling a grviLt deal of mowy placed on
real oatate loaus In western Nebraska re
marked a few dais ago that In hi
tloa of the couatry the small barkers were
oumlng to ui limit of their local loa
fund and In many Instances ar refusln
to aocommodals borrowers except thioug
Vlacing tncir loans ror mem In some eai
in vuu-iuuAlty. ''While tut west Las
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HOME OF GEORGE
avod a ureut'deai of money." naid h.
It i)a.t bibo been a vel-v llfM.ral ai.iwi,-i
during tho last three or four yearn, fcim
tno Kiiiount ol savu.KS availaom lor loajui
on real estate is deciu.Uly uiinitilslied. Uno
is umiiK lis money in aeveiopinent
piiipoBt-s uaiu cons.'iUeiuiy is not willing; to
accupi the coiiip,irai.ivt ly small rate ol m-
I'aJU oy me real estaio loan. 1 ne
roMult is it i looking toward new supplies
for this elatw of Investors and loau.s are
lively ulterud to eastern bauKcrs and in
vestors." 1 Ills condition Is iWiilprllv f i vi.n. I.:., tn
the t-asiern investor, who lias no sucn op
poituiiiUcs for speculation in coinnaia-
livi-iy iat enterprises as is Jiift now the
portion of tho westerner. With the les-
ining of tiie wesiera loan fund that is
available for this class of Investment the
moiiuy rate Is kept strubK and the demand
ior accommodation continues with each
succeeding season of development. One
hears no more talk of lower interest rales
in the middle west. Ol" course, the remote
nations where rates have been anywhcie
from 7 to 10 per cent are gradually coming
to the regulation condition that exists In
the older settled portions. A uniform In
terest rate of i pr cent to C' per cent
net Is the probable outcome of the farm
loan field in all the middle west country.
The 6 per cent rate will exist only in the
most stable and well-established sections;
me niKner rutw, are those of the newer
communities.
The R. II. Morehouse company, lumber
and coal, has purchased a block of land be
tween Twenty-eighth street arid Txnty-
elghth avenue and Boyd and Taylor streets,
on the Belt line, for a modern coal and
lumber yard. This company has recently
moved to Omaha from out In the stato. The
dial was made through the agency of A. P,
Tukey & Sou, they buying for Mr. More
house lots 1 to 5, block 11, Boyd's addition,
from the Callahan company, through F. D,
Wead, and lots 6 to 10, block 1L from the
Barker company.
Hastings & Heyden report the following
snles: Lot lit Kountze Tlace, on Finkncy
stroet, between Twentieth and Twenty-first,
to Arvld Anderson, to bo improved; lot on,
Brown street, between Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth streets, to D. Turney; lot on
the northeast corner of Twenty-fourth and
Brown, to Robert Bauer, nn which he will
build a house; lot at Twenty-sixth and
Templeton, to B. JI. Headloy; five lots in
Patrick's Second Saratoga addition at
wenty-second and Brown, owned by Ed
Patrick; new house for Sarah O. Patrick
at Twenty-third and Brown, to be built ut
once; contract for two mew houses at
Twenty-second and Clark streets, for L. A.
Goldsmith; lot on Sherman avenue, between
Blnney and Wirt streets, to Bruce Stephen
son, on which a house will be built lmmedl-
tely; house No. 2)(7ti Blnney street, to Mrs.
Matthews, for a home; four lots frontinr
outh on Ames aveuue, just east of Twen
tieth, to YV. C. Norrls, on which two new
ouses have been started. Sulphur Springs
dditlon Is showing great activity In build
ing. There has scarcely been a week passed
of late but what n new house has been
tarted In this addition, on ISInnev. Wirt
nd Spencer streets, east of Sherman ava-
ue. Two new houses started In this addi
tion last week, otie on Sherman avenue and
ono on Wirt street, both are built for
homes; fourteen new houses were built In
wo blocks In Sulphur Springs addition this
year.
Hastings & Heyden have leused tho entire
second floor of the new Conservative build
Inn on Harney street, opposite Bennett's
for a number of years, which they will sub
let for offices. The building is nearly com
pleted, leases to begin January 1. All the
rooms are finished in oak and are light and
niry. i ne rooms are all connected so a
enant can rent a number together if ihey
desire. This will not make any change with
their present location In the Bee building.
DALY CHUM0F GALLAGHER
Vice President of Eastern Railroads
Old Mate of Deputy Dis
trict Clerk.
C. F. Daly, who has just been made vice
president of the Lake Shore and the New
York Central lines, is an old friend of Dep
uty District Clerk A.- M. Gallagher. The
two started to learn the telegraph code to
gether moro than twenty years ago. They
were brought up lu Canton, 111., and in 1&2
betfan learning the telegraph code. Before
that time Daly had worked as a boy In the
coal mines and as a clerk In a drug store.
Young Daly had many difficulties in learn
ing the telegraph business and did not give
any evidence ut that time of his future
success.
"I reiiipmlur particularly one night when
I was working In the Wabauh office," said
Mr. Gallagher. "It was just after we had
begun to barn the business. Duly came
down to the office one night and began to
practico on the key. I noticed he dropped
his head on the table and began to cry. I
asked him what the matter was and he
replied, 'I will never be ble to learn the
telegraph business." ! encouraged him and
he remained in the office until t o'clock In
the morning practicing."
Shortly after that Daly was given a sta
tion, but had to give it up becaua be could
not handle It. He stuck to the railroad
business, however, and shortly after that
began to make rapid advances, which he
continued until he landed In the vice presi
dency of two of the larrvst roads In the
ast.
T. M. ORR BACKFR0M COAST
Returns -from Vancouver After Two
Moatn's star Beaeatea
In Health.
T. M. Orr, assistant to General Manager
Mohler of the I'nlon Pacific, has returned
from his two months' trip to Vancouver,
taken In the Interest of his health. During
his absence Mr. Orr has accumulated quite
a wealth of tan and has also added several
pounds to his weight. He says be Is feel
lug splendid after his enforced absence and
Is now able to roaumo Lis work.
New Homes Lately Erected
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MILWAUKEE TO THE COAST
Official Boute Confirms Eumor that Ham-
ma u Control the Eoad.
LINES IN DIRECT COMPETITION TO HILL
Sow Keuariled Certain I ill on l'll
clBe )lanalc lias Seised This
W'hlo as Another Weapon
on Ills Rival.
The persistent rumor that HaiTiman lu
gained control of the Milwauko railroau
nnds new confirmation, it is believed, in
the route of the Milwaukee's extension to
tho Pacific coast, the extremity of which,
west of Butte, has been made known for
the first time officially in a descriptive map
sent out from headquarters in Chicago
This route certainly tends to indicate that
whoever controls the Mllwauke is an'aich
rival of Hill and is building a line with
the prime purpose of competing with
liiil for tho great transcontinental
traffic which he has been enjoying over his
Great Northern and Northern Pacific. And
iiie logical conclusion is that "whoever" is
Harrlman.
Tiie Milwaukee gives out the official state
ment that if plans carry the line to ButU
will be completed by January 1, 11)08, and
io the coast a year later.
That the Milwaukee and the Harrlman
interests are closely allied Is con
ceded in most circles, but, because of tiie
newly enacted laws which make railroads
preserve their separate identities, the cor
porations will be held entirely distinct ami
may bo able to work In harmony against
their common enemy, Mr. Hill.
The new road is called the Pacific coast
extension of the Milwaukee and starts at
Glenham, S. D., eighty-nine miles west of
Aberdeen and eight miles east of Evurts,
S. D., tho present crossing of the Missouri
river. An enormous bridge will be built
across the Misrourl at this point by tho
bridge department of the Milwaukee rail
road. Route of ew Line.
Tho road will run from the Missouri
river up the valley of Oak creek and Its
tributaries for about forty miles, from
which point it runs parallel with tho stato
line on the plateau between the Cannon
Ball and Grand rivers for about fifty miles,
from which point it glides to the crossing
of the Little Missouri. The first eighty
miles west of the Missouri river is within
the boundaries of the Standing Rock reser
vation, and when the line enters North
Dakota It emerg's from the reservation.
Tho country between the valleys of the
Missouri and the Little Missouri Is well
adapted to cultivation, although it has been
used almost exclusively for grazing. Thn
government land west of the reservation
has been rapidly taken up during the last
six months and settlers have been moving
In in large numbers.
Corral, Sandstone and OTallon creeks
are followed from the Little Missouri river
to the Yellowstone and along this route is
round pood farndnff land. The itate lino
between North Dakota and Montana Is
crossed eight miles west o' the Little Mis
souri river. The Yellowstone Is followed
from Terry to Forsyth, where there will
Building Record
Building for November In thirty-six of
the kadtug cities shows a very baliifactoiy
gain. During the mouth permits were
taken out, according to official reports to
Construction News, for S.icy buildings at
an tbUniatecl cost of IJo.oSo.KW, against K.SOi
CITY.
New York, Borough of Manhattan and the
Bronx
Brooklyn
Cnlcago
liiilauelphia
St. ixiuis
1i Angelex, Lai
Pittsburg
Denver
Newark
Milwaukee
ClevelajJ
Kansas City
Porii-tnd
Uufialo
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
Rochester, N. Y
Atlunla
Tacoma
New Urli i.is
Allegheny
Grand Ha pi da
Toludo
liousivllle
Dallas
Dululh
S in Antonio
Puo4lo
Kuoxvillo
ial-lson, N. J
Lincoln, Neb..
TuM-ka
Mobile
Davenport
Tetul.
Of the total number of cities enumerated
there were lowxs In nineteen and gJn In
seventeen. It U significant tbat the gains
were chiefly In the smaller cities ahd the
greater number ef loets are In the larger
places. For example, Portland, Ore.,
leads with a gain of 77 per cent,
Allegheny 34. Rochester 28, Patersun,
N. J.. 31. Knoxvllle 26. Newark. N. J..
H. New York City suffered a decrease of
ii per cent, Chicago 10. Philadelphia 26,
Pittsburg 10. St. Louis L Pueblo 84, Louis
ville 70, Denver 66, Mobile 69, Topeka. 48,
Kansas City 36, Davenport 37, Tacoma 26,
Buffalo 18, Los Angeles 13, Brooklyn 10,
Omaha 12, Bin Antonio and Toledo .
U should b rcnicaiu(d. tUiVt In the clttrs
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be nn overhead crossing of the Northern
Iflc, the distance between Terry
and
Forsyth being ninety miles. In'thls dis
tance the river is crossed three times, the
first being about five miles west of Terry,
tho second about cloven miles eaat of Miles
City and the third about six miles west of
Miles City. Miles City, being a large plriro,
an effort will be made to establish division
terminal there.
Gliding away from tho valley of the
Yellowstone at Fersyth the Milwaukee
will follow Porcupine and Home creeks to
he Muswetahell valley, which valley is fol
lowed for a distance of about 1O0 miles to
Harlewton, where connection will be made
with the Montana railroad.
Country Well Watered.
The country between Forsyth and Mus
selshell creek Is well watered and adapted
to grazing, but wheiv Musselshell creek Is
reached a fertile valley springs Into view,
one whlch Is well cultivated at present.
The bench land on both sides of ihls valley
affords splendid grazing opportunities and
the prosperous ranchers now control the
valleys. These lands are available to farm
ers and stock raisers.
As the Milwaukee is building a trans
continental railroad, the Montana road will
have to be practically rebuilt to accomo
date the heavy traffic which will traverse
this road. At Summit station, forty miles
west of Harlowton, the Belt mountains are
crossed at an elevation of 5,RoO feet.
The Northern Pacific Is again crossed at
Lombard overhead and the Missouri river
also Is crossed by a six-span bridge, 60"
feet In length. The Missouri and Jefferson
rivers are followed to Whitehall, on the
east elope of the continental divide. The
road then runs to Butte, tho largest mining
copper camp in the world, through Pipe
stone pass, at a maximum elevation of
6,350 feet. Here some expensive railroad
Ing was required for two tunnels, ittO and
1,2W) feet in length, and three steel trestles
from 100 to 1C0 feet in height and from 4O0
to 600 feet long are distinctive' feature
which required the greatest engineering
skill In construction. The road then glides
down the side of the mountain Into Butte.
The Milwaukco follows U:e Deer LodRe,
Hell Gate, Missoula and St. Regis livers
to a point about four miles west of Saltese,
Mont., where the ascent of the Bitter Root
mountains befrlnB. To cross these moun
tains n timnel 8.500 feet In length carries
the train across at an elevation of 4,KX
feet.- The drainage of the St. Joe river
is then followed to within a few miles of its
mouth and the Idaho-Washington state line
Is crossed Just east of Tekoa, Wash. Here
white pine and cedar are found In abun
dance.
A well settled and splendid agricuHurtl
country Is traversed from Tekoa to the
Columbia' river, which Is crossed by
bridge of fifteen spans, having a total
length of S.750 feet, exclusive of the steel
trestle approaches, l.Ood feet In length, at
ench end of the bridge The steel In this
bridge will weigh 40,000 tons and the grade
line Is eighty feet above the low water
mark, the piers being of concrete
Twenty miles west of the Columbia river
Johnson Creek summit Is encountered and a
tunnel 3,400 feet in length has been built
to cross this, and at Snoqualmle pass
tunnel two miles long will be required, 'but
for tho present the cars will be run over
the top.
Between the Columbia river and Puget
sound are vast forests of fir, red cedar
for November
buildings at an aggregate cost of J33,91Xldr
for the samo month a year ago, a decrease
of three buildings and a decrease of $8,233,
ii, or 23 per cent. The figures in detail art
as follows, according to the Construction
News:
I 11)06. I I lCo. (Percent.
No. No. i
lildgsl Cost. bides Cost, Igaiulloks
2W t 4,908,935 83 110,439,987 f3
l.UU b.Mu.SV VH ti.loo.orf 10
7f 4,tjl,:)"0 bM fi.om.tiuO lu
LolU 2,018,1,16 l.CtoO 1:5
tint Z.Bol.oTl b') 2,ffv,637 1
M 1,IM!,643 b-ii 13
I'i'S l,(n,77a 317 l,JhA2 10
I'M 4i.lt 211 J.U.1.M6 66
iiil 1,010,412 1'.' M,l'i li
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6Hi tm,Sl U46 t-',7 Ilk,
1T77 4'..810 .W 77i,!.) Zt
&M li76.:A 2U SM.767 TV
Iif7 bit,,:") 174 &.S.huo IS
'iJi b,7ti0 241 670,449 3
Klo 649,130 k. 4:.-6i0 2
HO .V7,17i 4,:50 U
133 8y3.J0 hio 3,4o6 2S
214 371.776 3 JJi.utJ 13
113 71,2.5 111 li,3ad IS
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63 i,4!il D8 lk,t&) S4I
91 17&.&H 113 luM.it 11
67 K3.ua) txi 173,3,u
a4 1;.,7' 1i)7 6o3,ti70 70
IM m.TM 100 lM,.,-22 16
66 i:u.7Vx 45 17j,:0 14
'JI7 llV.ti. MM l.'4,B&5
14 19.J03 18 12V, KM 4
lot, 36 k2,750 26
2S 10n,M 28 76,1.71 81'
47 .!. 7 40 71.3T.0 3
32 8.".,V 6o .'U0 48
30 23.'J 41 I 67.0.14 61
6 16.7UU 12 '20.260 J7
S.2 t30.6t.6'. 8.26 38,&l.m 23
In which the heaviest loaecs are shown all
previous high records have been surpassed
during the last year or two, the activity
being upon a phenomenal scale. A decrease
was to have been expected, and the
grand total shows a loss of 23 per cent.
Real estate continues active In all sec
tions of the country and rents are hlghet
thau ever before. There la no Indication
of a decline In rents, notwithstanding the
supply probably. In some cases. Is catching
up with the demand. Building news con
tinues to come In upon a generous scale
and the activity In localities which have
been quiet for apme time will make ur
f its absence la certain record, breaking
sections.
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HOME OF JUDGE E. M. COFFIN. BEMIS
and other valuable cedar. Connection Is
made at Maple Valley, Wash., with tho
Columbia & IMget Sound railway, over
which tracks an entrance and ample ter-
lii.il facilities will be had at Seattle.
Between Black River Junction and Tacoma
new line will be built, large terminal
tracts having already been secured at Ta-
oma.
Contracts rnrtlnlly Let.
The line from Glenham to Butte Is un-
er contract to Mcintosh Bros, of Mil
waukee. The Bitter Root tunnel and ap
proaches for two and one-half miles on
each side are being built by Nelson Ben
nett of Tacotna, Wash. The line between
the Bitter Roots and the Coast Is under
contract to H. C. Henry of Seattle. All
teel bridges and trestles will be erected
by the bridge department of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St, Paul company.
Grading Is completed and track laid from
Glenham to a point about twenty miles
west of the Missouri river, tjie crossing
being made upon a temporary pile bridge.
Much grading has been done in the Yellow
stone and Musselshell valleys, and sub
contracts have been let and forces are at
work upon the balance of the line.
CATCHING COLD IS EASY
an Be Dodsed with Equal Facility
by Common Sense Pre
cautions.
About the middle of each winter most
people go around sneezing and coughing
with a cold that hangs on for weeks and
makes them miserable and disgusted with
themselves and life In general. "Now, If
had only dono thus and so," says your
sneezing and complaining cold catcher,
could have avoided this cold."
This Is the time to avoid colds. Begin
now.
Get your paraphernalia ready to prevent
nn attack of the enemy and to rout tho
first sneeze, even before the tickle an
nounces its coming.
The two most enticing invitations to a
cold are malnutrition and overfatigue. One
of those, combined with wet weather, cold
winds and mental depression, will act as a
refrulor welcome sign to a cold.
I put mental depression In because the
person who Is exceedingly low in his or
her mind does not breathe properly: at
least, not for the time being. Proper
breathing, deep breathing, a diaphragmatic
breathing, will ward off depression and
colds. M?ike a habit of this, first of all
When you fel yourself becoming chilled,
start ri-jht In to breathe from the depths
of your lungs, breathing slowly, retaining
the air and then exhaling slowly again.
Be sure that the air Is fresh. By keoplng
this up for somo time the circulation Is
restored and a glow of warmth will begin
to permeate the chilled body.
For women one of the most Important
Miings to remember, both for their health
'tnd for their looks' sake. Is to keep the
feet warm. Cold and damp feet are tho
cause of a great many of our pallid com
plexions and rubicund noses. Don't let
vanity Interfere with health in regard to
the foot covering. Wear woolen stocking?1
or a heavy combination of lisle or silk and
lisle. Some women simply cannot wear
heavy stockings. Their feet are either too
tender or the sensation of wool Is ex
tremely unpleasant. For those who must
have very thin stockings there Is an anklet
which slips on over the foot and Is worn
under the stocking, and is so mude as to
keep the ankles warm. These anklets are
especially good for people who suffer from
rheumatism. Stockings should be changed
every day In winter, Just as In summer.
It Is exceedingly bad to put on & stocking
that Is still damp from the perspiration of
the day before. Shoes also should be dried
before wearing.
A to shoes, there Is a choice. Some
women alinpty cannot wear heavy shoes.
They seem to tire them out. But high
shoes are absolutely Important In winter.
Spats are very well as a makeshift be
tween seasons, but there Is too often a
space between the spat and the low shoe
or pump which permits slush, wind and
wet to reach Uie stocking. Don't lose your
rubbers 1
A person whose feet are always cold
should make a stiff fight against this afflic
tion. For cold feet, physically as well as
In the slang parlance, make cowards of a
healthy person and Invite coughs and other
Ills.
Sometimes, In a rounabout way. Indiges
tion Is the cause of cold feet. When re
tarded digestion disturbs the circulation
the feet become cold and the nose usually
shines. Then is the time when the un
wary person sitting in a draughty res.
taursnt catches unto himself a cold, which
will be his close companion for many
weeks. v
Women with cold feet will do well, after
the morning bath, to take one of the hair
mitts, moisten It with alcohol and rub the
feet, particularly the soles of the feet, and
up the leg with brisk movements. Always
rub upward.
Neat hi importance to keeping the feet
warm, fer women at le;ut. Is the wearing
of su (ardently warm petticoats. The fash
Ion may demand a clinging style In skirts,
but It Is bettor to be a II trie luus fashion
able and a little more healthy.
As soon as the cold weather seta In we
shut our windows and continue to breathe
and breathe over again the same atmos
phese for hours at a time. After a while
everybody becomes dull and drowsy. Then
some one has the brilliant thought that the
air must be bad. General rush for open
ing windows. Large draught. Everybody
catches cold and vows never to open the
windows again. The constant breathing
of vitiated air depletes the system and
makes it more liable to become chilled at
the first draught. To prevent a cold, beglr.
In the mild weather to accustom yourself
to fresh air. Get your lungs Into the habit
of trebtUn nothing but purs sir, so that
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the minute tho air is bad you notice it
Instinctively. And above all things, keep
your windows open at nisht, no matter if
you have to pile on the bed the sofa cover,
the steamer rug, the bath mat and all the
nntl-mncassars. Have a warm bed sown
mude, heat tho chilly bed with a hot water
bottle, or if you haven't that, just a plain
glass bottle filled with hot water and
tightly corked. If your head is sensitive
to cold, wrap It up In a shawl. Then
breathe through your nose and keep your
window open. New York World.
CHARITY MEETING PROGRAM
Mayer Will Deliver Address of Wel
come and the Governor
the Response.
The following program has been an
nounced for the annual meeting of the
Nebraska Conference ol Charities and Cor
rections to be held at the Crelghton Col
lege of Law Thursday and Friday, De
cember 20 and 21:
THURSDAY MORNING.
Invocation Rev. T. J. Mackay
Address of Welcome
Mayor James C. Deniman
Response Governor J. H. Mickey
President s Address ....
Rev. Joseph Reusing, West Point
The Moral Responsibility of a Memtnr
ot a Hoard of Directors or a private
Charity Rev. H. C. Herring. D. D.
The Moral Responsibility of a County
Commissioner to tho Community....
Victor Rosewatei-
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
The Merit of the Juvenile Court
Rey. George A. Bcecher
Parental Responsibility-lie Home...
Rabbi Frederick Cohn
Parental Responsibility to the State
Judge Ben Lindsay, Denver
Probation and the Indeterminate Sen
tence.. Chaplain P. L. Johnson, IJncoln
The Ounce of Prevention
Superintendent W. L. McBrlan, Lincoln
THURSDAY EVENING.
The Relation Between Private Charily
und Public Relief
Alex. Johnson, New York City
FRIDAY MORNING.
Reports of Committees and Election of
Officers
General Topic "What Nebraska Has:
1. State Orthepedlc Work. ...Dr. J. P. Lord
2. State Industrial Work
I). B. Hayward, Kearney
3. State Defective Work
Dr. Frank A. Osborne. Beatrice
4. State Insane Work
Dr. W. B. Kern, Hastings
5. State Soldiers' and Sailors' Work....
Rev. W. H. Presson, Milford
6. State Rescue Work
Mrs. H. A. Albright, Milford
7. State Penitentiary Work
Warden A. D. Beemer, Lincoln
8. State Blind Work
Prof J. A. Merey, Nebraska City
9. State Deaf and Dumb Work
Prof R. K. Stewart, Omaha
10. State Dipsomaniac Work .
Dr. S, C. Hay, Lincoln
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
General Topic "WTiat Nebraska Needs:"
1. Minneapolis. 1!7 Alexander
Johnson, Seoretary National Con
ference of Charities and Corrections
2. The I-Ral Aspect of the Child Labor
Problem H. W. Pennock
3. A State Humane Society,.
Rev. John Williams
4. The Standard of Irving.. .. Prof. W.
. L. Tavlor. University of Nebraska
6. The Prevention of Poverty
.G. M. HiteheocK
Introduction
journment.
of
new president and ad-
BRACELETS Frenzer, loth and Dodge.
T. F. HALL HURT BY STREET CAR
Steps In Front of Motor
Knocked to the Pave
ment. nd Is
After alighting at the south end of the
Sixteenth street viaduct from a northbound
car, Thomas F. Hall, 2215 Sherman avenue,
manager of the Hall Distributer company,
stepped across the tracks In front of a
southbound car about 2 p. m. Friday and
was seriously injured by being thrown to
the pavement. The car which struck Mr.
Hall was traveling at a high rate of speed
and the Impact threw him to the ground,
where he lay unconscious for several min
utes. His head was badly cut and he sus
tained severe bruises on the body, hut waa
able to be assisted to his home, where his
injuries were attended by Dr. MeClanahan.
Mr. Hall Is confined to his home for a few
days, but it Is believed the Injuries will not
prove serious.
HOPES FOR NEW SYNAGOGUE
Rasltsn Congregation of Israel Will
Try to Start Work In
Sprlnar.
Some time ago the Russian congreiratlon
of Israel bought a lot on the southeast
corner of Twenty-first and Chicago streets
on which to build a synagogue. Borne diffi
culty has been experienced In getting the
deed signed up In proper form, but the con
gregation hopes to complete the deal In the
near future. The cnurcn now owns me iot
at 1212 Capitol avenue, but this property Is
for sale and as soon as tnis is soia tne new
synagogue will be built. It was hoped to
get the new building started In the spring,
but this Is not certain unless a Bale Is made
of the other property. The price paid for
the corner was 17.600 and the synagogue Is
to cost about $26,000.
Ortoaenurlan Is Lost.
A letter has been recHved by Chief
Donahue from John L Thomas ef London.
Ont., requesting his assistance in finding
Fryce Owen, a retired farmer, 80 years of
a tie. who Is believed to be In Nebraska.
Owen Is a native of Wales and a relative
of Mr. Thomas.
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HOUSEBOAT IX Bt'RIvE CASE
EiTr Vessel Thontiht to Have fotuft ( oa
leotiou with L'jiterj.
FlLATIVIS at wk on the clue
Two len lii
Runt Pnllril 1 V tu
al.t Itrfore Voima
Vi Ko mill
Deed.
Florence
Men
A houseboat Is likdv to nfiure conspicu
ously 111 t!ie mystery of the doth of Her
bert G. Burke, whose body w.i f und ':':
nenr the iisii dump of the w:iter wo: lit
Florence the morninic of October 1"
According to the st:itcii.enl of Mxh.oi
lwly, nlht watchman nt tho FoieI!re
pumplns station, a houseboat put In i:s
nppearaneo aNmt 7 o'clock the ni'lht of
October 9 at the river front near the sta
tion, comius from the north, i.nd war. tied
up at the tool house at the Intake. o-
cording to iMly's statement, two men were
In tho boat and they al;i d Daly about 'lie
arrival anil dipartuic of the street cur t
and from Omnha. lie told them, ind tl:
two men asked him to loo!: ;:f:er the boat
while they were pone. lie talked wi'h
them about fifteen minutes. One of tie mi
was a tall, full-whiskered mini, who told
Daly that they were representatives of a
Sioux City newspaper and mado animal
trips down the Missouri river In a hoti-e-boat
from Sioux City, wilting up the corn
try and muklnfr photographic views for the
paper. After this talk the two men left
the boat and went up to Florence, as Mr.
Daly supposes. This was the last he sn'v
of either of them. He went down to the
tool house about ! o'clock and the boat was
still tied up there. Ho locked up the tool
house and waited for a while for the men
to return, but they did not, while ho w n
there, though he kept on the lookout for
them, thinking their actions somewhat
strange.
Sure o Hotly Was There.
Daly goes on further to say he parsed
almost directly over the spot where Burke s
body was found the next morning, but ho
is sure no body was lying there while he.
was on duty. If a dead body had been
lying there, he says, he would have seen it.
In tho morning the mysterious houselMiat
was gone. No ono else about the pumpim;
station had seen the houseboat. It had
disappeared aa mysteriously as It came.
Just what connection this houseboat m.iy
have had witli the Burke case is not clear,
except that with all the careful and unre
mitting investigations made by tho county
authoritieb and by the special agents em
ployed by the relatives and friends of
young Burke up to this time no one has
mentioned the appearance of the house.
boat. It Is not thought probable the two
men In tho houseboat knew anything about
the Burke affair that night; yet It Is re
garded quite aa certain they would have
seen the body of a man lying directly In
their pathway from Florence to the point
whtro their boat was tied up.
Mr. Daly now thinks there w;ls an evi
dent Intention on the part of the two men
to keep the boat concealed, though they
were frank enough with him In their con
versation. In addition to this Mr. Daly
says he looked cLrefully over the ground
each night between the ash dump and the
tool house, and hud Burke's body been ly
ing there at any hour of the night he was
oil duty he would have seen It.
This houseboat clue Is being followed up
by tho friends of young Burke, who have
not ceased working on tho case since hit
mysterious death. They still adhero to the
theory of murdor und that the body wns
curried and laid where it was found. Som
additional clues are being worked and a
secret investigation is being carried on in
which considerable new evidence bearing
on the matter has been taken during th
present week which shows thai Burke did
not give up his life without a struggle, at
a point it Is not deemed wise to divulge at
present.
Injured Students Improving.
ITHACA, N. Y., Dec. S The students
who were injured In the Chi Psl lodge Are
yesterday are all doing well and are ex
pected to recover.
We believe that every roan, woman and
child should have a savings account even
If the amount they are able to spare from
their earnings Is but little. People forget
one great fact In saving, and that Is this:
Every dollar you save makes you one dol
lar better off, and further, that the saving
of a dollar a week will soon show how
money grows In the custody of the frugal
and saving people. Why not open an
account today? We pay six per cent on
savings accounts and also make easy pay
ment loans on homesteads.
Omaha Loan &
Binding Ass'n.
New Location, S. V.. Corner 10th and Dodge
Streets.
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