niK M)MAHA SUNDAY NKE: AUGUST 23, 1907.
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LIGHT WEEK IX JEW WORK
Contractor! Say They Are Catching
Up a Little Now.
MACHINE FOR MOLDING CONCRETE
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Wnltsots. However, Hi! have been kept
;rec ion of home, an,, i. completing
with tha voluma of work .om.what. but
Ihey do not see any letup yet.
"I ftaw something new w.,.n I wa,
Minneapolis the other day." sal,, an Om.ha
builder, -n wa a ,,IH.,h,r., for mol()1
houses out of cement. Tiie machine
only about a foot thk-k anrt a couple of
ft long, it was. In fact, merely an
1nnloua arrangement for niakln the ce
Jiient blocks right on the walla when
1hay are to ha laid. The. house waa about
Ji32 feet. I should" suy. Rigid ateel rods
were uaed an tracks on which to move a
mold for cement blocks. Thla track waa.
cf course. Just the length and width of
the house, and waa held up by ropea sus
pended, from ateel T-ahaped suf-norts about
sixteen feet hlffh and fastened to the floor
beams of the houae.
"1 watched the rm-n al'o'it tun minutes
apd they laid a strrtt h of wall about five j
feet long. This waa done' by the wimple
W'thod of ponrinq the cement into the
rt old. then removing the latter and moving
It along th- rail to the next adjoining
position. When one layer of wall had been
completed the entire tracR on which the
mold ran waa- raised and the process re
peated. By thia method no mortar Is
needed, for the whole bouse la melded into
a solid block of concrete. You could turn
such a hnune on its aido and it would re
main intact."
Rod dealera report a growing business
In Omaha, which Indicates that the home
builders arc paying Increased attention to
this Important, economical, but often nng
lifted part of the home spot. But it is a
fact that the prettiest lawns are produced
from the seod. Three things are required
for making good lawn from the seed -good
seed of the. maximum weight, good
soil and good care. The soil should le
spaded deep In the full and allowed to lie
fallow all winter for the aclion of the
frosts. In tt.r1 spring it should b'i harrowed
and carefully levrled. Then the seed
should be put in. When the graps haa at
tained a good height Ihe soil should be
rolled or omew.se pac, u. . .--u
Five houaea are being erected on the
southwest corner of Nineteenth and dark
slmeta and the method or operation thern
Is unique. A complete cemeni building
blo. plant has been st up and the blocks
WteAeing mad on the spot. They are
setilut. to dry and mature right In the posi
tions along the proposed walls where they
will -e handy for the masons. By this
,Wins considerable handling and the break-
age incident thereto la avoided.
"Delay In ordering furnace repairs this
summer Is going to be a serious thing for
the procrastlnators when cold weather
does come." aid a representative of the
Omaha atove repair works. "The furnace
men have been urging the necessity of
action all summer. The big demand for
hot air furnaces which are being Installed
In most of the new houses being built this
season has kept the furnace men fairly
busy It Is reshied. however.- from past
experience that 'there will he a, larr-e num
yVr of people who will put off this work
f until the last moment and then there will
be a deluge of rush orders."
The Hussey Hardware company say that
thla has been the best summer they have
ever bad In tlte furnace line. Their experi
ence Ima been that furnace work usually
lags during the warm months and begin
ning about Pent ember. 1 it becomes very
brlxk. "If this rule oblalna this fall." aald
Harry Hussey. "the furnace men will not
be able to take care of their rush orders
when the cold weather reaches us."
Mr Katon of the Omaha stove repair
works haa been very Insistent upon repairs
being made during the warm weather
Cox Bros, have been kept very busy dur
ing the summer season Installing furnaces,
both in the city of Omaha and throughout
the country.
They all Insist, however, that It would be
f I much better if ordera were uooneu ...
I V present time. o that they might clear up
' some of these smaller repair job. before
V Jrh regular rush. The man who haa a
fum.ce requiring perhapa an hour or two
of work will not be able to unoer..u
when hU furnace man Informs him that
the work cannot ba done Inside of two or,
three weeks. The ordera will have to take
their turn. The wise householder will take
the tip and place hia order for repairs at
once.
-The beat all-around flower for rrowth
In yarda In Omaha Is the carnation, aaid
a local florist. "It la pretty-no nowr
except th. roa. U prettier-It la hardy.
It like, city Ufa a- wellaa the country.
Moat flower, don't thrive In the amoKe
and murky atmosphere of the city. I na
carnation doea.
"Carnation beds should be dug In the
fall The .oil should be turned up to
,h."d8pth of a foot. that it is good
ground, and if it U r. A very rich put
manura In at a e,p.h of M: r.Bh, Then
i.t the around lie fiHow rtur:uE i"
ter for the frosta to act upon.
Hunting
Mineral Waters
Inersl water business has f r
hn a anucia'.iy with our
logue.
SOME UXffXZAI. W4T1 TKIOSB
Maiitoo Water, doaen. J.'.OO; case, 0
quarts. 1 1 Ou. .
Boro-I.khli ' Water, doxen, 3.0; ca,
KS ..iuHi 111 Kit
Nnk-mk" I.lth.a. doaen. IS.00; casa. 60
quarts, $ til.
Crsta! I .It Ha Water. &-gallon jug. J.
!lubinl Herre t Spain), t-uttle. lie; ds-
Idanha Water, doaen. 11. bO, cuae. iO
quart. 11.50
41 pints. IMO.
Pure Distilled Water, case, 1 'i-gali..
II li
K-gai. jug Crystal I.lthla. 12.00.
allowance for return of einpti.-.
xm'" MoOOingliL IiUO CO,
Cor. Ittu attd Dod--wi
rasa covrwurt,
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mm. We buy our waters atracs
i ionna-s or if a foreign water, liireei from
1 Ko".?. Wo ara .h..a abj. w "a
I .he lowest po.sible price, and to ao-i
I uielv ruara.itee fraslmtwa ar.u gouulun-
n.,.y We sell 100 k.nds. Writ for cata-
!0S HOME BUILDERS
A Twentieth Century Cottage
The dnsian here shown Is of the favored
colonial stl The lurge porch, with Its
subsantla.1 columns gives It an inviting and
homelike appearance. A few small changes
In the Interior arrangement would make
this a fine farm house. The exterior Is
finished In aiding to second floor and shin
gled on the gnbles.
The arrangement of the rooms on first
floor gives a unique am different Idea, but
till retains the essence of what la oonsid-
'Hi
ared essential to a well-ordered house.
The view of the reception hall with Itt
large open lireplace, with seats on either
side, gives this home a very inviting ap
pearance when first entering the door
1 lie doorway on tne stairs to the left
opens to the den, or library.
The large, well-lighted living room opens
off the hall to the rlM and Is connected
direct wtli the Hinfno' rnntti An wwu
Anora cou,d ,)e ubfltlUlted jf
should be donf1 in April or May on a dry
day. The HouvrM. once started, lll
tlirive and they add much to the appear
ance of a yard. The carnation produces
a beautiful effect In window boxes und
the trailing varieties of the flower cm
be used to advantage on the edge of
porches. They are also a pretty flower
to use as borders to walks."
An Omaha homemaker who had made
the round of the furniture stores buying
furnishings for the new home declared
that tills Is the ag of "freak furpitura."
As an evidence h pointed fo the many
decigns of chairs beds, chiffoniers and
other varieties of furniture now on exhi
bition at the stores. He found even what
he called tfw "lajy chair." Thla is com
paratively a new thing and seems to have
been designed especially for the man who
slides down In his chair and rests chleMy
upon the small of his hack. The hack
of this chair la concave and runs in a
direct concave line with ttie Feat, whiili
Is also concave. The chair scat la of a
soft texture covered with plush. Furni
ture men say it Is proving very popular.
Ceramic tiling has a rival In the shaoe
of rubber tiling which is now on (hi
market and Is being extensively Intro
duced. This article posseaKes all the vir
tues of the ceramic tiling with the added
desirable quality of being noiseless to the
step. It costs somewhat mure, but Is
said to be even more durable than thr
ceramic tile, it Is said no rubber tiling
has ever been worn out; that there is no
house constructed that will outlast It.
MERRY WAR0N BILLBOARDS
Cnergetlc f'nnipaicn for Civic Beauty
Waged by t'itltrni of
Tacoma.
Tacoma, Wash., haa a vigorous local
society known as the North Knd Improve
ment society. It is "dead set" against
billboards, and it haa adopted a plan of
campaign which Is rapidly proving, ef
fective. In essence It Involves the prin
ciple of the boycott. '
The society has made a list of bill-boards
In Its district, and It writes to each ad
vertiser that uses them asking him to
abstain, as the boards are objectlonahie.
If the first letter does not bring results, a
second and stronger letter la sent, and
this Is followed up until something hap
pens, the last step In the procedure being
a rising vote at a public meeting, at which
the members pledge themselves to abstain
from purchasing articles that are adver
tised by billboards in its district.
Here are the results of ' the society's
efforts to date:
The billboard people have stopped ex-
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preferred, as there is ample room for either.
The porch, which opens off the dining
room, could be enclosed and would maite
an attractive little conservatory or sewing
room.
A good pantry connects with a fine
kitchen, which Is large enough even for a
farm house. The steps from the kitchen
to the landing give the same effect as a
back stairway. Four large bed room,
with ample closet room, and a fine bath
room, with linen closet, are finished on
second floor. The cellar extends under the
entire house snd Is seven feet to joists;
first floor nine feet, second floor eight feet.
Those who have not already done so
should send for a copy of the book. Twen
tieth Century Cottages, as the Information
It contains will he found very valuable for
those about to build. It will be sent to an
address upon receipt of 25 cents. Address
all letters to Home Building Department,
care The Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb.
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temiing their available space and have
curtailed their working force.
The lax against the boards In Tacoma
lias been doubled. Most of the old ad
vertise have ceased to advertise, and not
very many new. ones are apiearing. Sev
eral large boards have been taken down.
One Immense billboard near the University
Of Puget Sound la down. This was a very
large double-decker. Mount Tacoma, a
beautiful mountain about three miles high.
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covered with snow and in plain sight fronvJBrm Is fractured, hut how it happened I
many parts of the city, was actually cut
off from the view of the residents of the
North Knd.
A good suggestion comes from Buffalo,
where the Courier proposes that the namea
of all persons who rent their vacant lots
for billboard purposes should be published
In the paper. This for two reasons so
that the tax assessors may take such
rentals into consideration in assessing the
property, and so that the people may know
who are selling their civic pride and
patriotism for rash. New York Outlook.
A REMARKABLE BLIND MAN
Hullds a Well-Conslructed Cottage,
Uoiag All the Work
Himself.
Slasgow, Ky., !,a ont of the most re
markable men in the Cnited States In the
person of William Settle, who is totally
blind.
Settle, who Is a graduate of the Ken
tucky lnstltutlonfor the Education of the
Blind, first come Into public notice some
ti n years ago, when he made a proposi
tion to the people of (Glasgow that If they
would present him with a lot he would
build a home on It, doing the work, him
self. In order to assist an ambitious but
unfortunate young man, a committee waa
organized and the money raised to pur
chase the lot. Settle selected a lot front
ing seventy feet on Front street and run
ning back XV feet, and it was purchased
for JJT5. In building his cottage on this
lot Settle cut the rafters, put down the
floors, and. In fact did all the carpenter
work, but his chief delight waa in the
cabinet work, such as making and putting
up banisters, windows and doors. All of
the Quints are perfect, and the work he
did shows good taste and hears no scars
made by the mlscuo of hia tools.
Br trade Settle Is a broommaker, and
he has a large contract with a wholesale
house here that uses his entire output and
would gladly use more, as the brooms are
far supi rior to the average ones. He Is of
an Inventive turn of mind and possesses
much talent along Mat line. He Is the
inventor of a very valuable machine de
signed for tine cabinet and carpenter work.
About three mouths ago a very impres-
AND TUCUEKH AT DoL'Oi-Ad COfNTY
slve Idea presented Itself to Settle and has
been successfully carried out. to the as
tonishment of his most intimate friends.
From a thin board Mr. Settle carved three
fancy letter, and had them painted in sil
ver bronie. He fastened the letters to a
board ten by twenty-seven Inches, with a
background of black, bordered with gold
brotise, making an attractive ph-ce of work.
He secured this to the end of a heavy steel
bar six feet long and chose the midnight
hour In which to go to the highest part
of his metal roof, where be fastened it se
curely with iron rods. The braces were
scientifically fastened to the roof and to
the perpendicular bar, ami the next- morn
ing the word "try" appeared above thj
house built by the blind nun. The neatness
of the design and the inspiration it suggests
has been a subject of much praiseworthy
comment.
Settle Is a close student of the human
voice, and is also a great lover of music.
He can take any of the ordinary reed or
gans apart, even the complicated octave
couplings, and he has never found any in
strument too hard for him to repair. His
success In life Is attributed to self-reliance
and to following his motto. "Try."
He uses a typewriter for his correspon
dence, and In matter of speed and-neatness
his work compares favurably with
that of the average person. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
ONE OF FATE'S FAVORITES
Series of Remarkable Adventures of
a Colombia Wreck Knr
Tlror. If the stars of good fortune ever sang
In unison over a human life they have
Joined In marvelous harmony over the ad
venturous career of Frank C. Hager, son
of Oeorge A. Hager, a millionaire real
estate owner of Johnstown, Pa. The youth
Is now In Portland, a survivor of the Ill
fated Columbia, recovering from severe
physical Injuries at the time of the dis
aster and from the fearful ordeal through
which he passed when the vessel scat
tered its bones on the bottom of the sea.
until he was safely landed In the harbor
of Eureka. Cal.
Hager, who Is only 25 years of age, seems
to have been the shuttlecock of fate from
the time he was a child. He lost his mother
In the Johnstown flood of May 30. 1S?9.
when he was a child of 7 years. With his
brother he was snatched from the roaring
onrush of the raging waters and carried in
the arms of neighbors to the hills, where
safety lay.
Four years ago Hager was saved from
asphyxiation by the timely assistance of
! members of his family. At that time he
hovered between life and death for seventy-two
hours, as the result of inhaling the
deadly fumes of escaping gas.
Yet more marvelous Is his escape from
death when the steamship Columbia was
rammed and sunk recently. While he was
unconscious a greater portion of the time
and can give only a disconnected account
of his experiences, he was literally saved
from death four times in that fateful night.
His own story, so far as he is able to re
call, is as follows:
"I have heard somewhere that an an
cient king scourged the waters of the in
hospitable Hellespont, and I will say that
If I could get nil the waters on the face
of the globe In one body I would heap
greater curses on them than did that
storied monarch. '
"The angry flood In Johnstown cost me
my mother, and but foA the heroism of
friends the lives of my brother and my
self would have been snuffed out also.
"I cannot remember a great deal about
me Columbia disaster. I know my riaht
to not know. Both my legs and feet are
bruised and swathed In bandages. How
I received those Injuries Is equally a mys
tery. "I felt the chill of teeming waters, liv
ing ages and ages, and remembering noth
ing distinctly until I found myself In a
bunk on the San Tedro, with rains and
aches shooting through me, one arm use
less and my legs numb.
"Shortly after I retired I heard a vole a
cry out: 'All hands stand by!' I roller! over
and dozed off again, and then came the
order. Kverybody on deck:'
"I then had a hazy notion that something
was wrong, and I Rot up. Somebody yellel
to me, 'My God, man, get busy! The ship
Is sinking!' I had nothing on but my under
shirt, and somebody thrust me :t llfepre
server. That fellow saved my life, for I
was deathly sick that night and would
not hav lasted a mlnuto without one.
"I got the lite belt on usslde down, and
had just time to leap dear of Ihe vessel
when It seemed to give forth a huge sigh
of distress and sank beneath the waves.
nave airucK something or same
wreckage must have bumped Into me when
I Jumped, for I have no clear recollection
of what happened after that, though T must
have been floating about unconsc'ous in
the water for at leust two hours.
"I could not have held out long In that
condition, but the same kind fate that
had spared me before was at hand, and I
was hauled, limp and apparently lifeless.
Into the lifeboat manned by the strond
officer and a seaman of the Columbia.
"I found out later that I lay huddled in
the stern sheets of the boat, never regain
ing my senses, although the boat was rowed
hither and thither until dawn, when the
San Pedro was sighted nearly a mile away.
We rowed up alongside, and the survivors
were removed from the lifeboat and were
hauled onto the hurricane deck of the
San Pedro." Portland Oregonian.
Inatltate nines Officers.
DETROIT. Aug. I4.-The Associated Chap
ters of the American Institu.ite of Rank
ing, which has been in convention here for
several days, today elected the following
officers: President, A. Waller Morton of
Baltimore; vice pr.-sid-nt, R. I. Stone of
muwauHee; recorder, tianmel j. Ih'lirv of
Washington; treasurer, Irving A. Sanborn
of Han Francisco; trustee, F. M. IVIIard
of Pittsburg.
TEACH XNsiTirLTJ!
CRISIS IN DIAMOND MARKET
De Been Monopoly No Longer in Ab
solute Control.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE WORRY
tompetltlon of Prrmlrf Com pa ay May
Brlnsr Dew a Price of Dlaiaoads
or l.ead to a ttlaser
niamoad Traat.
IXNDON. Aug. 21. There Is a great
'crisis in the diamond market. The stability
or rather the steady Increase In the prl,-e
of diamonds which has prevailed for mora
than a decade Is seriously threatened.
Mysterious movements In the prIOs of
diamond shares which have been taking
pUca during the last few months will La
followed by one or two things; either a
diamond war involving a big collapse In
the price of the stones or the formation of
a new and larger diamond trust to take
the place of the De Beers syndicate and to
control the world's output. The cause cf
the crisis is solely the competition cf the
new Premier diumond n-.ine In the Trans
vaal. In order to understand the situation It is
Important to know how the world's supply
of diamonds Is put upon the market. It 1
a matter of common knowledge, of course,
that until the last three or four years the
supply of standard stones came, almost
exclusively from the seemingly Inexhaust
ible Klmberley mines of the De Beers com
pany. The product of these mines for more thsn
ten years has not been put upon the mar
ket by the De Beers company Itself. It
has been sold annually by contract to a
diamond syndicate in which leading De
Beers people are largely Interested. The
De Beers company has. of course, made
enormous profits, but so also have the
members of the syndicate, and many share
holders have for some time been agitating
a grievance to the effect that a large share
of the profits earned by the syndicate be
longs legitimately to them.
The methods of the syndicate In market
ing diamonds are equally arbitrary and
effective. The diamond cutters of the
; world are compelled to ttuy their supplies
In Ijondon how and when the syndicate
dictates. They s)iecify their wants both
as to aggregate value and number of
stones as long In advance as possible. '
Then they must wait until they are sent
for by the manager of the syndicate.
When they arrive one or perhaps two or
three collections of stones are shown them.
The price of each package Is fixed and un
changeable. They may examine the rough
Jewels as minutely as they pleae. and
then they must take them or leave them at
the price named.
If. they decide not to purchase they
simply go away and awslt their next turn.
It will be seen, therefore that the syndi
cate's coptrol of the output of diamonds
has been complete and absolute.
This was the situation until the Premier
Diamond company a few months ago began
to be an Important factor as an outside
producer. Even now the De Beers com
pany and Its sssoclate syndicate pTetend
to be utterly Indifferent to the competition
of the Premier snd ell other diamond
producers. They have Intimated that the
LFremler stones, like the Brar.llian, are of
Inferior quality.
The first outward sign of serious dis
turbance In the market was the shsrp
fluctuations which have taken place In the
prices of De Beers and Premier shares on
the Stock exchange during the last two
months. Then came an application by the
Premier company to the Transvaal govern
ment for permission to keep secret the
figures regarding Its output.
It should he remembered that the Inter
est of the Transvaal government In the
Premier company Is greater than that of
the shareholders themselves, by reason of
the enormous tax Imposed. No other In
dustry In the world Is so heavily taxed as
that of diamond production In the Trans
vaal. It amounts to no less thsn 9 per cent
of the net profits. Some Idea of the fabu
lous wealth of the Premier field may be
gained from the fact that In spite of this
tax the aharea of the .company are quoted
at eighty times their par value and they
have sold as high as 140 times their par
value.
It was explained in the Sun a yesr or
more ago that this company waa develop
ing Its fields In a most conservative and
systematic manner. Its development work
until now has been devoted entirely to the
poorest portion of Its deposit. It Is Just
entering upon the richer part of Its field,
which. It Is calculated, according to careful
tests which have been made, will require
nearly half a century to exhaust. '
It Is hardly surprising, under these cir
cumstances, that the De Beers company
realises st last that It has a great com
petitor to meet. How it proposes to deal
with the situation is the problem of the
London Stock exchange today, and nat
urally It is a mstter which Interests every
woman who wears a diamond ring or who
hopes one day to possess a necklaoe of
brilliants.
It is argued that one of three results will
follow. The present dictators of the dia
mond market, with their enormous re
sources, may seek to buy control of the
Premier company. One report Is that they
have already succeeded In doing so.
Second, they may endeavor to break tha
competition by flooding the market with
diamonds, thus rendering competition un
profitable when It is handicapped by a 0
per cent tax. Third, they may take the
Premier company Into virtual partnership
and form a new world syndicate, which
might keep the price of diamonds at some
thing like the present standard. Opinions
on the London Stock exchange Incline to
ward the last solution, but no definite
knowledge on the subject Is yet available.
The great rise In the price of diamonds
In the last few years should not be al
together attributed to the workings of the
syndicate. It i. an acknowledged fact that
the tremendous wave of proaperlty which
has rolled over America has also con
tributed to produce this effect.
One of the first desires of Mme. Nouveau
Rlche is for brilliants, and she gets them;
so she has helped to make America the
greatest market In the world for these
precious stones. France and Germany
come next. But while the American woman
buys her diamond's for sheer love of the
glittering things or from a desire to be
resplendent In the eyes of her neighbors.,
the continental woman has a business pur
pose In tills Investment of her money.
Her diamonds are regarded ss a quick
asset and at their value la stable, she
knows she can if in flninrtal difficulties
naiiie on her JiWels. Of i-ourae. this Is
chiefly true of the demimonde, but It can
be safely stated that It Is not only the
tliumouds of the demimonde which make
enfoiced visits to tha pawnshops when
their owners are temporarily embarrassed.
Kngland tomes fourth In the list of con
bu iur.". I' s said that this is parly due
to the lc k of enterprise or the jewelers.
They work forever from the -.Id designs.
i and if u I, oyer wants something quite new
he is obliged to wait untn a model of it
can le made in wax.
An American purchaser not long ago
wished a cosily diamond ornament. Ha
tiieu In a:n to buy It in London. No
J. w.ler lad anything surn as he wanted,
but ail offered to prepare designs. He did
not care to wait, sod tried Parts, where
be found exactly the thing he wanted. In
deed, he could have Innight it In five dif
ferent shops.
Uermaa Raak la Persia.
The concession which has been obtained
by Herr Uuttmann of the German Orient
bank, for the establishment of a German
commercial Iwnk In Persia. Is valid for
forty-five years If the lnk starts opera
tions within two years from the date of
the concession. According to the Cologne
Gasette, the bank will enjoy the patronage
of the Persian government, inasmuch as
official assistance will la- accorded in the
recovery of debts. while the bank's
branches will at need be entitled to claim
the protection of the military. The maxi
mum dividend payable by the bank In any
one year is not to exceed 12 per ccut, and
profits In excess of this sum are to In
devoted to public enterprises in Persia. Tile
bank will lie allowed to participate In the
minting of silver coinage In the same pro
portion as other banking institutions which
already enjoy this privilege. The govern
ment reserves to Itself the right of an
nually Investigating the conduct of the
bank, and the hank on tts part Is pledged
to negotiate government payments abroad
without charging a commission. The re
sult of the present experiment will, it is
thought, furnish a stHtidrd by which the
prospects of rurther German financial and
commercial undertakings In Persia may le
gauged.
Captain Pustau. a German naval expert,
publishes a prediction that within a decade
motor-airships will come into general use
not only for military but also ter snorting
and other purposes. He says:
"We must realize that the atmosphere,
like the ocean, offers us innumerable routes
of travel. Who in the future will invest
his money In the construction of cable
railways and rack and pinion railways up
mountains, when It will be possible to
reach the most elevated points more rap
Idly and more agreeably with less danger
by means of airships?"
Wanted the Worth of Ilia Moaey.
"All we can afford to give you. miss "
said the trustee of school district No. m
to the young woman who had applied for
the position of teacher, 'is I5 a month."
"At that figure, of course, von wouldn't
expect me to teach anv fads." she caid.
"Fads?" echoed the trustee, taken slightly
aback; "why h'm ves. If vou can teach
It we'll want that, too."
"But If It isn't in the curriculum"
"You may as well understand, miss, that
we ain't throwln' any money awav. Tli,
a month is to pay for the "whole tiling
fads, crickalum and everything else i
that's goin'." Chicago Tribune, I
H. D. Frankfurt
ARCHITECT
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Room 51 Douglas Block
Look for the Name
On the Sidewalk
If It's "Grant"
Then It's Guaranteed.
JOHN GRANT.
636 Bee Bldg. 'Phone Doug. 7242.
HOT WATER
HEATING
B-room house , 1200.00
7-room house S250.OO
8 to l-room house ....$300.00
JOS. W. MOORE,
Tel. Web. 884S. 1B42 N. 18th St
Good Concrete Blocks
All our blocks are thoroughly tested before leaving the yardl
Everyone absolutely water cured safe, sound and true.
Owen's Concrete Posts
We are exclusive manufacturers of the Owen's fence and hitching
post the best reinforced concrete iiost on the market.
It will pay to consult us before ordering.
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4005 Leavenworth Street Telephone Harney 436
Not "Dabblers," but the
FINEST DISPLAY OF
ART DOMES and STAND LAMPS
IN THE
ELECTRIC LIGHT
and COMBINATION
L. G. Lowrv
AmericdLiv
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Electric Light 1403 Jackson St.
and Power B .nm flC. tXT Phons Un..ol..
Contractors.
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C. B. HAVENS & COMPANY
BUILDING MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS
LIME, CEMENT, PLASTEll, Cltl'KHKIi ROCK, 8AXO, UR1CK AND
SEWEK PIPE.
Get Our Quotations lieore Flaring Orders EI how here.
Phone Douglas 517
g3heei Hejal Work of all Kinc-T
II METAL CEILINGS L
J j 215-20-22 North I3th St. Telephone 2575
GOOD
Cary'is Flexible Cement Hoofing; Asphalt (iiavtl iuW
in; "Barrett Specification" Pitch and (travel Hoofing.
'Phone Douglas 871 for Special Salesman to Call
SUNDERLAND ROOFING AND SUPPLY COMPANY,
1006-8-10 Douglas Street.
EIJVIX C. LilSXXBTT A- CO.
Electric Steel Conduit and Raceway Experts
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING ENGINEERS
TaL DoBflas SS1S FECZriCaTIOsTS 160 raraam at
IH Til
OMAHA LOAN AND
BUILDING ASS'N.
and keep it growing by adding a
little to It every week. A balance to
your credit will esnl.le you to take
advantage of a profitable opportun
ity should one present Itself to you
Inter in life. Why not oo-n an ac
count today anil be ready ivhen "for
tune knocks." We pay 6 per cent In
terest on deposit accounts and make
homestead monthly payment lo:i:is.
OSes B. Cor. Sixteenth and Bodge.
G. W. LOOM IS. Presld '.it.
G. M. NATTlXGKll. Secretary.
SOUTH OMAHA (Opposite Postoftice)
J. H. KOI'IKTZ. Agent
Don't experiment
ENAMELS
Ths arfnd that (font wear off"
Wi'-TH Transparent
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for
Hardwood
Floors.
Linoleums,
and
' Furniture.
sisxjis USJ 4PM 4 Thl
ENAMELS
For Old or New Floors, Furniture
and Woodwork.
Wears like Cement Dries over
night with Brilliant Gloss. Contains
no Japan or Shellac. Write at onoa
for Free Booklet, Color Card and
List of Dealers.
Trial Can Tree (sand 10c to pay
postage). Enough for a Chair, Table
or Kitchen Cabinet.
Add res SI
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Sold in Omaha by
Orchard & Hllhelm Carpet Co.
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national Roofing Coj
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