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THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEEj FEBTIXJAET 10, 1907. ' 3 ) t 3 TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK Annul Problem for Bsitst A cent ii low i Looming Up Bis. v . HOUSE HUNTING SEASON SOON OPENS Demand JNr Cottar ef rive an Six Kofflnu Already BxooeAe Sapply end the Other KLneVAre Imim Vo. It will not bo "Ion until tha beginning of the season of hous hunting. People wno rem nouses tm be-ln to change" aoout ana other will com from the coun try to make their home In the city. v This l the time when the rental agent begin to wonder whether he will have enovjh bouaea fo meet the demand. Last i year he did not, and a far aa five and six-room houses are concerned, he 'doe not expect to have enough this year. Of the larger hduses there are plenty juat at ! present. Real estate men aay the building of dwellings la continually lagging behind the ffrowlh of the city. Hundred f new house were erected last year and yet the . housebuilding- firms are laying plan for more extensive operation thla season. Thoae who think taxes high In Omaha must have been astonished when they read the statements of D. T. Oilman, president of the Bloux C(ty Real Estate exchange, en taxes In Bioux City. In that city, he say, a piece of business property yielding an annual rental of IS, 000 1 taxed for city, county and state purposes to the amount of 13,100, while property of the same earn ing capacity In Omaha Is taxed at $1,400. In Sioux City the school district levy tax Is 40 mills, as compared with U mills In Omaha. 3. B. Brans of Bait Lake City, formerly f Omaha, Is considered by the real estate men of Omaha a rery lucky man. This conclusion was drawn naturally after Mr. Evans remarked before the Real Estate exchange last Wednesday that In every transaction he had made In tha west be had doubled his money. Scarcely a man was- present who did not remember having lost on real estate, and many remembered Where Mr. yE vans had lost, back in the years of general financial depression. How ever, they all are making money, now. Mr. Evans was once In tha real estate business In Omaha, The talk of ' completing- th Auditorium begins to assume a mora definite form of promise. Architect John La tenser, acting under authority from th board of direc tors yjf the Auditorium, will, receive bids next Tuesday. Something more than $26,000 has been subscribed and tha canvassing SATISFIED $5,000 twenty years ago; $20,000-today. Twenty years ago YOU wrote my policy. Twenty years after YOU pay me in cas,-' IT MEANS... Permanency Persistency ' Reliability Read Ponder Reflect Results Tell i t THE Equitable Life Assurance Society . ' Or THE UNITED STATES PAUL MORTON. President l:aXi Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager, Omaha, Neb. . . My Dear Sir:-- ' Regarding my $6,000, Twenty year de ferred dividend policy, No. 244,280, written byyourself February 18, 1887, I eleot to aooept the oash value, a sum in excess of allv premiums paid. You have written all the members of our firm. large amounts. My confidence in you and your great Company has never been shafcen, and now, . after s more than twenty years of unbroken friendship and business "dealings, I have taken an additional new policy with you in the sum of $20,000.00. I think this letter is an answer to your Question this morning, "Are you sat isfied?" Yours very truly, 0. D. NEELY, Manager lor Nebraska 40244-5 Merchants National Baak Euildlnfj, . . . OMASA IV&I. BENRY CS0UN. Cashier George RL Cooper, U. Fay Neely, Central Agents, Omaha H. LoDflhrldae, . Joe Klein. General Ajts Llneola, Neb. Land Marks and Eye Sores T V. WHERE THE committee sees It way clear to aecua th remainder of the necessary $40,000. Jobbing; houses, with few exceptions, are not vacant for long In Omaha. The M. Eplesberger A Son company moved a short time ago Into Its new quarters on Farnam street, leaving- the Horbach building at U06-7 Harney . street. This was scaroely vacated until It was snapped up by the Nebraska Electrlo company, as It needed three times th room It had at th north' east corner of Thirteenth and Harney streets. Now the Singer Manufacturing company, which had Its stock In different warehouses about the city, has taken the building vacated by th Nebraska Eleotrio company. 1 As far as' the Omaha Real Estate ex change Is concerned. It will not agitate this year th establishment of a legal rat of commission on realty; neither will It ask the legislature to pass a law compelling the payment of such commissions In cases where verbal contract only Is made. The real estate men frequently lose their commission where they have no written contracts, but the exchange says a law to compel payment would cause endless complications and squabbles, as every agent I Pit 1 v " B'wm B OMAHA kTw Tork OtBoei 680 UOAOWAT. r arts i x Bin Amsoxaa tbomas. February 4, -'O? ' - ' - - '-- - - . .f . .-"I". V- . Em m .. . - -,.. ..... . . '.. ... -n. '- ! """ .- ; Wit Mi NEW COHSM BLOCK WILL STANOl who even suggested a piece of property to 1 the buyer would be after the seller for commission. The exchange thought other wise on the subject at one time and tried to have a bill on the subject introduced In the legislature, but, as W. 1 Belby said, It didn't even get a pleasant look. The agitation for reduced street car fares receives a setback now and then from the protests of property owners In the out lying portions of the city who want to see the car lines extended. The Fontanelle Park Improvement club has gone on record as preferring- extension of lines to reduced fares. It fears the street car company will not make the extensions if Its revenues are cut short. The club passed resolutions after a "whereas" which says: "It Is very Important to the city as a whole that men of small mean shall be given encourage ment to build homes on the low-priced lands In the outlying additions." A well known and reputable colored man, janitor in one of the principal buildings of Omaha, said Tuesday morning: "I am. up against a very serious proposition. The lease I have had on my house expired Feb ruary 1 and I have been notified that the lease will not be renewed. I have put in about all the time' I can spare during the last few days trying to secure another house. All the real estate men I have thus far approached tell rhe they cannot rent to colored people. What am I to do? I think I am a pretty decent man. have a wife and two small children, that go to school, and I pay some personal taxea One or two houses that I might be able to gt are In such a shape that they are not fit for a human being to live in. We colored people are human and have some little pride. We are Christians, too, and it seems to me that we are entitled to some consideration. I pay my rent promptly and am trying to make good citizens out of my children. The question Is a serious one with me, and I understand that there are some other good, respectable colored men, in the some box I am. It seems to me that the question Is on that ought to be taken up by the Real Estate exchange, and that something be done for the colored people who are trying to lead decent lives." Some of the real estat men who are Interested In the development of the dis trict far south of Thirteenth street, are trying to persuade th Btora Brewing oom pany to establish a park in " th neighborhood. It 1 said th Stars com pany has consented to oonsider th propo sition, but ha made n. decision. Krug park was laid out by brewery Interests, and recently Mets Bros. Brewing company bought Ruaer's park, with the Idea that It mlghtf b. decided to use It aa a pleasure resort. . New Arm In th real estate and In surance business are always an Indication of a healthy real estate market. The new, firm of Blrkett ft Tebbens has been organized. Charles Blrkett has been In this Una of business for about Ov years and was formerly with tha First National bank. Phillip J. Tebbens was for many years with th Omaha National bank and. more recently, has been with N. P. Dodge & Co. They have opened an office at 423 Be building, and will be ready for busi ness after February 1L ' Reed Bros, have just sold to Hastings A Heyden eight houses, on Thirty-seventh street, between Dodge and Davenport. These Jiouses are to be all remodelled at once and made in first' class condition and put on th market again In the spring. Hastings A Heyden have just sold to Lillian C. mils, six lots on Twenty-ninth and Plnkney streets. The earn wore bought for investment and will probably b r-sol4 or Improved during the summer. GOOD ADVICE FROM FRANCE American Builders Chldod for Sot rains; Batter Material la EU - p.nalv Balldlna-a. WASHINGTON. Fob. t. An International authority, writing In a recent Issue of La Construction Modern. Paris, commenting upon our terrific annual flr wast and our mod of more or less flimsy construction of buildings, and having th lesson of San Francisco particularly In mind, gives some timely advlc that our architects and build ers would do well to heed. Says th writer: "In th crowded, city district Ameri cans should avoid granite, marble, sand or llmeston for exterior work. Th.se orumbl. and disintegrate under fir. Brick and - terra ootta constitute far praf arable mauiials where surrounding Or Is so im minent. Th framawork, th skeleton, should b of steel, well coated with cement as protection against rust and covered with trick or hollow til as a protection against fire; th floor and partitions should also b of brick or hollow flreprooflng tile. Or, if ther is any special advantage In it re in f oread ooncret construction may b used, but it, in turn, similarly to th steel, should b fully protected with brick or hol low tile. To claim that concret In Itself la fireproof Is tolly. Particularly th oon cret generally mad in th United State, which la in many respects Inferior to th French, largely on account of th dlff.r nc In labor condition. Aa a matter of fact in th United Stat actual collapse of reinforced concrete buildings vn when not exposed to fir, are not unusual. Wood should b used most sparingly, even In decoration of buildings. Marble and plaster and paint ar much more effective and leas dangerous. Windows should b glased with wire glass. Elevators and stairways should be enclosed and the prin cipal stairway should b so planned as to constitute In itself the ordinary and nat ural escape from a building hi case of panic or real danger. Th gran test Intelll (eac should b brought to bear -la d- That Will Give Way to Modern Buildings signing a building so that nothing but In combustible material is used and so com bined as to minimise the Are damage, re membering that a building that Is only "fireproof' In part does not merit the ap pellation at all. A a chain is only as strong as Its weakest link so is a build ing only as fireproof aa Is Its most vul nerable part." CANADA PAYSPRETTY PENNY Government Ownership Proves Quite Costly In Case of Railroad. a Single OTTAWA. Ont., Feb. . It Is only by juggling with figures that the advocates of the municipal ownership of public utilities can give even the appearance of profit to their pet system. Investigation of city owned traction lines in England proves that the profits are largely fictitious, and now we have an example of this nearer home. The world in general and Canada in par ticular has been led to believe that the Intercolonial railway,, the line owned by the dominion, paid a handsome, profit, but It appears that this profit is on paper only, and that the figures when analysed In reality show an immense deficit. By a child-like attempt at deception the promoters of state ownership in Canada credit money received to the railway, while all the rolling stock, etc., paid for by the government, is not charged against the roa'd. For the last four fiscal years the road has lost $1,000,000 a year, and dur ing that time the government has not re- oeived a penny of Interest on the loans it has made to tha line." Compared with the Canadian Pacific the Intercolonial run ning expenses are about 12,000 per mile greater, while its per mile earnings are over $1,200 leas. Compared with tho Orand Trunk th government line earns $3,686 less per mile, while its expenses are $310 per mil mora. To operate each mil of the government road It costs 125 per oent of the earnings ' per mile. This enormous proposition Is almost double that of the other two lines and vastly more than the ' proposition of tha average privately owned road. Nor are th financial conditions of th Intercolonial likely to Improve, for the government is abbut to pursue tha almost suicidal policy of paralleling it in part with a seoond road at a cost of $20,000,000. There Is absolutely no industrial, geographta or financial reason why this sec.nd road should' be constructed. There Is but on reason for building It, and that Is political. It will be used as a means of employing th government's political friends, just as the Intercolonial Is. Every broken-down government adherent, every "statesman out of a Job,"- every wirepuller In th do minion Is foisted Into th payroll of th unfortunate road. Of course, a few prac tical railroad men are retained, but they are burled In the mass of men holding office for political reasons only. Hew Cruiser Ready. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. I.-The new cruiser Bt. Louis which went to sea several days ago on a preliminary trial run, re turned to Hampton Roads today. The naval board of Inspection Is expected to reach here from Washington Monday and the cruiser Is scheduled to go to sea then for Its final acceptance trial. Harrison Starts for Chfcaaro. LOS ANGELES, Feb. I -Carter H. Har rison, former mayor of Chicago, who has been spending the winter at Pasadena, leave. 'this evening for Chicago, over the Bant Fe. Mr. Harrison stated today that he would accept the democratic nomination for mayor if tendered him. Building Record for January Building operations for January, 1907, show a decrease as compared with tha 'cor- responding month of liwtt. According to of- ficial reports to Construction News from thirty-eight principal cities of the United States, the operations for January, 1907, ahoV a total of $U2,257,ift2, as compared with CITT. New York. Boroush of Manhattan and th Bronx Brooklyn Chicago OU lLilUB. . , Los Angeles, Col... Washington , Detroit Cleveland Pittsburg Philadeluhia ....... Newark Cincinnati Indlanauolls Atlanta, Ua Pueblo Kansas City MinnoaDolis bunaio. N. Y Milwaukee Loulsvili .' New Orleans St. Paul WorotHiter Columbus Dallas Rochester. N. Y... Omaha Salt Lake City Ban Antonio Grand Katilds Lincoln. Neu Luluth Allegheny Paturson. N. J Mobile Hurrlsburs; Portland LHinver'. Colo Davenoort .. Total. It will b noted that the decrease Is largely due to the decreased operations In New York City, where the business has fallen off 48 per cent. Excluding New York the operations ar on a par with last year for the entire country. Bom of the smaller cities ar making- a vary ood showing ; . fl-j ' 'V1''- ' . 8TTB) Of TOT tTKIOK PACTFIO HEADQUARTERS. QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE SBBSBBSSnBSBM '"one of th Quer Thiiei that Actually Happened Darintc 1906. WOMAN KILLED IN A BARGAIN RUSH Trained Mare Rnns Down a Horse Thief, a Walter Falls Dead When Given a Tip and Other Events Equally Strange. Curious happenings of the year 1906 were numerous and as varied as the peculiarities of the population. Some remarkable events were pulled off, not of the history making class, but such as serve as garnishments for the routine bill of fare dished up day after day. Human nature provides the basis of th scenes, reportorial art the frame and the easel. On thousand women nearly mobbed a store In St. Joseph, Mo., one day In Au gust In a wild scramble for dish pan bar gains. Scores were Injured, two fatally. but the survivors are ready for another rush as soon as the wreckage has been cleared away. The proprietors would make a hit by adding to their next announce. ment of bargains: "Ambulances In wait ing, and all Injured In the crush will be entitled to a rebate on their purchases." Managers of a swindling game In Kansas City disappeared with the spoils, leaving on the door a card Inscribed with large letters, "Goodby, suckers, goodby." John Zulky, accused of being; a horse thief, was caught by C. E. Rogers, a Mon tana horse trader, -through the us of a trained mare which,' like a" blood hound, took the scent of the stolen animal and led the owner direct to it. Rogers, with a herd of sixtjr horses, was-camping near (the drainage canal in Lockport when he and his men were aroused early Sunday morning by uneasiness among the horses. With a shout that he would soon have the theif , Rogers mounted the mare, which promptly took the scent. For nineteen miles they went west, and finally th thief and th horse were caught. Larkln Pogua, aged 21, a waiter, was given a $6 bill as a Up recently by Henry Cole of Cripple Creek. Pogu took a look at th bill, then fell to th floor uncon scious and died a few minutes later. Th coroner declared the man died from th shook, superinduced by surprise and amassment at receiving such a large fe. A Chicago woman, who had prayed for a, husband fifteen fruitless years, before a plaster saint, presumably Interested In sucb matters, disgusted at last, threw the Idol from th window. That did the busi ness. When the man with th broken hood opened his eye It was to g,ase Into thos of th unwilling spinster, then playing- nurse and the wedding followed. ' One lover has cabled hi proposal to New Tork from Buenos Ayres, and another, over in London, took advantage of his dentist's trade to send his heart-deep prop osition neatly engraved on th plat of a set of falsa teeth. Both won out. Christmas Ttm for Cavts. Charles Rogers, of Elizabeth, N. J., who has no children, rigged up a Christmas tree for b's pet cat, Maria. Besides all the Christmas gewgaws, h. strung line of sardine and mice, that leaped and frolicked from the and of ' $38,677,687 for January last year. Thkj shows a decrease of 16 per cent for the month, It must be remembered that last year's operations established a new high record and notwithstanding this aligut decrease th .operation ere still at a very high level. Th figures ar as foliowat N ( 1907. J 1906. Per Cent. Bldgs. I Cost. I Bldgs. Cost. Gain Loss 631 $,454,213 643 $14,424,040 t .. ii tf ,&.( 1,438.150 61 44 ,,ou tin i.SJu.JXl Vi ... el 1, 674 1.74j,6j6 .. 8 6,4 .8,ll4 834 LMM.&ti .. 28 OH L1S7.904 347 7.4, iMi 63 - .. 2& ittl.MM ZH i l,4oa,(M 63 45 4Z1 707,773 360 I.i)17,to4 ,. 63 164 UiXU 2b8 1.4,tti4 .. Ii stf X,4&A.4oi) LOis L73M4 43 110 buu.tfl 147 tU3,137 .. 13 3a tlS.Si 134 47,(M 110 123 , 64MU6 131 3b8.4$ 22i . 331 . 4M.SM7 40 S10,ub 66 13 46,046 17 23.KN i 444.it 213 631,410 .. 6 Ui 340, 4t XM 432, 7ui .. 21 163 41S.000 121 Hkt4,4HO 41 93 ;&.& ... u.7t .. $ 133 177.UU3 144 3J4.t3 .. U SU.Vie ... 264.3U6 23 140 379,36 136 24f,344 12 M 4 312.DU6 37 130. 7W 76 .. 94 lto.376 42 96.176 106 161 . ltH,371 L, 1S6.343 70 W7.9itt I 136,!i 37 78 170.776 . 46 124.600 37 19 70,200 36 U2.&J0 .. 67 31 1&2.SM) 149 61,170 143 .. 43 43,786 til 36.161 43 6 H39 36 38,610 133 . x 31 . 1.6o6 36 66.836 23 , 33 ' 6t,&5 63 77,u6 .. 14 2 3:,X1 30 ' bO.M .. 33 27 60.376 36 37.1.W 36 13 SN,UJ6 14 30,r6 .. 4 313 J,la 183 400.643 43 143 270.066 161 3b8.6 .. 33 9 22.066 t 12,360 7 rTlU $32,267,663 8,131 $38,877,687 7! Among those might be mentioned Indian- spoils, San Antonio, Lincoln, Cincinnati and Columbua Chicago shows an increase of 16 per cent and Philadelphia of 43 per cent Th outlook la very favorable, especially (or wastara and south.ru section, strings. After th candles had been lit, pussy was permitted to enter. ' It did not take, the kitten long to find the mica. With a bound sh. went after them, and for a time cat, mloe, tree, can dles and flam made Christmas merry and exciting In the Rogers home. After the neighbors helped put out the fire Roger declared he would never again have a Christmas tree for the cat. "I'll wait until I have a better cause for such an ornament," he laid. Up in Blddeford. Me., an honest farmer had a dream, reminding him that he owed a neighbor a dollar. Both had forgotten it, but having figured that the loan was of twenty-six years' standing, It was form ally closed up. Donald Burn, .keeper of the blrdhous In New York zoo, took a serpent's tooth from his right thumb. Tha was last Oc tober but the original bite which had pre sented the man with the sharp little me mento bore date of 1887, and was Inflicted on the left forefinger. A land deal of unusual Interest took place at Bradensburg, Ky., when "Doo" Prat her of "Dead Horse Hollow," near , Paynesvllle, this county, purchased th farm belonging to Judge W. A. Barkett and B. F. Bewley, near Irvlngton, known as the John L. Henry piaoe, th considera tion being $10,160. A feature that made the transaction novel was that the purchase price was paid in gold. The money instead of being drawn from bank was dug from mother earth, where It had be& placed by Prather for "safe keeping. " ' Overjoyed at seeing her mother, whom she visited In anticipation of Christmas, Miss Daisy English,' of AtlanUo City, N. J., a young and pretty girl, crushed her parent to ber breast with such fervid em brace that she broke one of th older wo man's rib. ' , The German ship Hathor brought to Se attle last month a thrilling story of the rescue of the women passengers of the Brit ish steamship Beacon Grange oft Bahla, when th Britisher had taken fire. Ta meager cable report of the rescue did not tell of the saving of tha boatload of women to pieces In the frenzy of the man-eaters to reach tho occupants. . The school of sharks, thirsting for blood, and children from a school of sharks that hod followed 'th passengers for hours and which threatened at times to ttash th boat hovered about tho boat for hours. When th Hathor arrived alongside, according; to Captain Breckvoeld, the sharks became en raged and threshed about th water, mad nd by the Intarf arenoe that cheated them of their prey. Onoe, when on of th women was being hoisted from a small boat, a hugh shark. emboldened by hunger, leased at her feet. Th woman narrowly escaped Injury from th shark's teeth, which tore her dresa Other sharks tried to leap Into on of th boat. Two of th women swooned and were carried unoonsoloua to tb Hathoc'a deck. Hoodoo lantm Wilmington,-Del., prodooed th ohampioa IS story. Francis E. Davis, with 11 letter In his name, was arrested by Patrolman Francis O. Green (dirt) at 10:13 on Janu ary 13, th call going In from box IS. At I is next day be was arraigned before Ed win R. Cochran (13 letter again), and bis fine and costs totaled at exactly $18. Miss Margaret Schldu of Cleveland, on August 23, sent Invitations to 2t friends to attend her 28d birthday party. September a. at 28 .Bast Twenty-third street. An or chestra of 28 pieces discoursed exactly S3 sweat dances from behltd 28 palm. Th other hoodoo d!1t' cam up twice In Anrll. one when a Baltimore darkey was arrested for stealing IS chicken; galn at st imU. whar a base ball "fan" fail dead of heart disease during the ISth In ninir of the Bt. Louis-Pittsburg game. fhlcaro - and Kansas City give two of th best of the year's hard-liquor yarns. Tn one ease three saloon keepers wer fined 87.600. to be paid th orphans of man who had died of drink: and, In th other, a uertain Belby Jones was sentenced to ret drunk and stay so. Poor Jones was later arrested ln Chicago for stealing, In order to raise the wherewithal to carry out the Kansas City sentence. Kansas also reports a cider well, wher a farmer ha stored his sppl Julc In a ce mented pit. v A "miser" l ilden wealth" story appears about one a 'Month from somevhere In th country. T'J-n ampl from Indiana varies from th jMtd yarn In that th wealth belonged tn t blind man. Her It la: In a tarpet bag under the bed wher Jacob Railsback died recently wer found eleven packages containing currency amounting to $9,940. Railsback had been blind for several year, and th money must have been tied up by him before he ,lost his sight, all th bills being turned th sain. way. H leave no heir. Th currency Is very musty, and mildew has greatly defaced It, so that some of th flgur can scarcely b seen. Most of It Is dated previous to 1860. It will have to b sent to th Treasury department and ex changed. Dlvora sne4t. " Th divorce- mill seems to have recorded a new "Farthest North. A Seattle Judge separated an even dozen ooupl In sev enty-five minutes In February, on for merly fond husband receiving th boon for which h. prayed beoauM hi wife ha becom a Shakeress, and another because his better half had circulated a report that he was an anarchist. Mrs. Lorenz, on the other hand, received a divorce In Cincinnati on the plausible ground that it was difficult to live peac fully with a man who insisted, on appear ing In the parlor with neither shoes nor stockings. Des Moines produced. In May, a baby who changed ctlor three times a day, When little til (Rami awakes h. is a proper pink. By noon he 1 dark ginger In hue, and befor bed Urn b Is atarUlng-l pale. But, then, he Is the son of a Hindoo father and an Illinois mother. In AHgust the "hello Indy" on the Una between Meredith and Woifboro, N. IL, heard the vole of a two-hour-old sub scriber. Th news of his arrival In th world came first, and then his infantile Indorsement traveled across Lake Wlnnl pesaukee. Mrs. Christian Hooh of Brooklyn willed the ashes of her body, when cremated, a fertiliser for a rose bush on her son" grave; Mrs. Isabel Krcamer, at West minster, England, left her cork leg to th parish poor warden, and a woman of Flor ence, Italy, bequeathed $.t,fc to the staff of a looal newspaper "111 gratitude for having been so often -ntertslned by their writings." In Milwaukee one Martens, playing ghost to frighten some negroes, fell downstairs In the dark-and became a RhoM. And a fellow named Durenne, living near Que bec, In the belief that the rope by which a suicide has hung- himself will bring a later owner luck, stole such a rope, only to fall to his death the next minute through the rotten flooring of the belfry. In Colunn county, California, Miss Flor ence Barker ran against her father for school trustee and won out In spite of th fact that he was standing to succeed him self. "She did ft because she heard he was crolng to oust a teacher who was her girl hood Intimate. October saw Mrs. May Foster of K komo, Ind., publicly baptizing her huabaml In the creek of Woodlawn school house. while not many weeks earlier had com word out of Bavaria of three mothers-in-law living happily under the roof of th common son-in-law. More than this, each mother-in-law had her own mother, while the host had his', his wife (No. S!) and four daughters twelve of the gentler sex ta on mere man! TIMES ON SCHOOL AFFAIRS! Thnaderer liyi Ban Francisco Inri dent Has Been Provoked by; Perverse Politician. i t LONDON, Feb. a (Special.) Tha Lon. don Times, which has been paying a great deal of attention recently to the contro versy between th United States and Japan over the California school question, prints the following editorial leader, commenting upon the statement of polley of the Japa nese prime minister: The incident which has been provoked by the perversity of the local politician and by the prejudices of the population of the state of California has not as yet been permanently closed. Thei prime min ister of Japan touched upon this delicate subject in a recent debate with the tact and courtesy which are Indicative of hi . nation, but also with an undertone of firm ness which cannot be misunderstood.'. Th government of the emperor have taken, he affirms, all proper measures on the sub ject. That we believe In unquestionably the case and It is even said they have gone so far as to let It be known in Wash ington that It Is their policy to discourage emigration to t:.j Pacific coast. The Mar quis fcjaionjt fully recognizes the strenuous efforts which are being made by President Roosevelt and his cabinet to find a satis factory solution for this awkward situa tion. The actions begun at San Francisco show that these efforts are earnest ana sincere. But reports from San Francisco how conditions of general demoralization prevailing in that city which must en hance the difficulties of the federal gov ernment in dealing with a delicate Inter national question. The Japanese prim minister declares that his government con fidently anticipates a suitable adjustment of the difficulty; ana ne aaas, noi wnnout significance, that their commence is Dasea not only on the Interests of "Justice and humanity, but also upon treaty stipula tions. Japan Is perfectly moderate In th assertion of Its rights, but It is at th same time quietly resolved to uphold them In their Integrity. Keep your ambition to make money, on the increase and save some of it. No matter how little it may be, keep up the practice. Continue to live ,o,j less than you make and put by the cap ital which will one day mean inde pendence to youT If you want to be a money saver, make tne wise move w day and open an account with our . strong institution, -where your caslk will be saved. We pay six per cent on 1 Savings Accounts, and make monthly payment homestead loans, which are easily paid. OMAHA LOAN AND BUILDING ASS'N 0. W. LOOMS, Pres. O. M. NATTINGER, Sec'y. . A CLEANING TEETH TOOTX TAX.X SO. 108. A thing of prime importance to th patient and the one most slighted by the duntlst Is the cleaning of teeth. The vast majority of den tists simply polish the anterior surfaces and the patient is none the wiser. In my office close attention is paid to the removing of particles of decomposed food (causing decay) fnpm between the teeth. I charge $1.00 for cleaning teeth. DR. FICKES, p"' 'Phone Doug. 17. is pee lildg. 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