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T1IE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 8, 1907.
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TOTS OP TIE BUSY I
CEMENT IS MORE POPULAR
Vse of Concrete in .Building Growi
Every Day.
MOBnannaaMM
OMAHA. MAN HAS A QUAINT HOME
Ileverts to Ideal of m Drimt Time
and Model III. llonse on
Lines of Hoonr Com
fort.
. iocal dealent In cement report a probable
decree in the price of thl Important
building- commodity. The price at present
J $2, the aame aa it was a month ago.
Failure of the railroads to furnish cara
has kept down the supply, which under
normal conditions might have been much
larger at this time. Dealers are looking
for lower prices In the spring because of
an increase In the output and a greater
competition among the rival manufactur
ers. ' The use of cement in Omaha has in
creased by leaps and bounds, taking the
place formerly occupied in many parts of
the house by lumber, which is now
snubbed to a considerable extent because
of the price. Lumber has been going; up
and cement has been coming down. At
the present time, because the market is
declining, no one is buying more than Is
absolutely . needed for present building
operations.
A house being completed by an Omaha
business man In the west part of the city
is to be the most pronounced example of
the admirable old-fashioned type yet
erected In Omaha. This man comes of a
well known family ot some colonial prom
inence.'1 From this ancestry he. thinks he
gets his taste for the colonial style of arch
itecture. "There Is nothing so comfortable as the
houses our forefathers built and lived in,"
said this man. "They didn't live so fast
then as we do now and they had discov
ered the true secret of comfortable living.
, In these days of rapid living and fads
people have tried to improve on the styles
of a hundred years ago. But to my way
of thinking they have made a notable fail
ure In their efforts. I have copied as
nearly as possible the rooms of the house
my great-grandfather lived' in as they have
been described to me traditionally."
' The kitchen of this house is of large
proportions. The ceiling Is raftered and
the rafters are not polished and varnished,
but rough hewn and exhibiting all the
pristine beauty of the sturdy timbers of
which they are made. There is a fire
place, made of rough brick, roughly laid.
It looks Just as though grandfather, who
vu a good hand at all kinds of jobs, had
built It with his own hands. Above the
fireplace is a rrtantel and on the wall above
this hangs a musket, two or three sabers,
a powder horn and other colonial relica
At one side of the fireplace In a corner
stands a grandfather's clock. In the fire
place Is an old-fashioned crane, from
which hangs a kettle.
An old cupboard occupies much of one
side of the kitchen. The lower part of this
Is provided with doors, but the upper por
tion consists of half ten shelves on
'. ., which are plates, . pewter ware and brass
utensils. .;-(.-.
' The furniture Is all In keeping. The
chairs are Dutch or Windsor In their lines,
the rockers being broad and comfortable
looking, and the other pieces being built
to give the greatest comfort.
Home made ruga cover the floor, which
la made of rough hewn plank, the man
who owns the house declaring that he Is
'not afraid of running an occasional silver
through his shoe soles. He turns up his
""nose at polished floors and kindred evi
dences of on effete and effeminate (theae
are his words) taste In the modern cltlaen.
The charm of the whole house cannot be
denied. When one Is within he can al
most seo.the spirits of the revolutionary
fathers hovering about the rooms and re
joicing In the fact that their good taste
has been admitted and an attempt made
to give It a renaissance in the modern day.
"Merely because It Is winter Is no rea
son why those who have gardens shoull
neglect them or overlook them," said a
local gardener. "The garden or yard
cheme. if It Is properly conceived and ex
ecuted. Is a thing of beauty In the winter
at well' as the summer. Trees and shrubs
should be planted which retain colors the
year round. Nature has provided plants
seemingly for the very purpose of bright
ening up -the winter landscape. Evergreen
trees are always beautiful. In the winter,
capped with snow, they are especially a
pretty sight. If such plants, for exam
ple, as scarlet berried alders, red branch
willows and cranberries are planted, they
make a gay chowlng against the green
background' of a pine or spruce tree. Na
ture has provided various blue, black or
purple borrlod plants which can be worked
Into the color scheme wun a oeuumu. r
uH." F M. Hamllng. the tile man and dealer
I Jn plain and fancy fireplaces and mantles,
reports a continued boom In the market
for these commodities and appurtenances
tt modern economical aa well aa artistic
homes. The renaissance of the Are place he
tonsUers a good sign from every stand
point It 1. a sanitary M'ncy M well as
i thing of beauty in a house, for there Is
' o better mean, of ventilation than a
' Wace m a living room. The use of tiling
e" . well
for
the fronts 01 i"i -
a. for
constructing manwi. -
tiv They are practically
creased
Wructible. They are germ proof. They
' an be w.s-a with a. little' harm to them
can M.lnaware. Moreover, they
Z in all colors and designs and
raumu panter'n. can be mad. by a skilful
u ma-on. There are many ""'P'"' '
hf. "las. of work in new Omaha home.
. end In not a few old one. renovation, have
been made by mean, of ornamental tile.
No one would guess that .there wu any
such thing as a financial flurry judging
from the report of the Omaha building in
spector for November. The permits Issued
in November of the present year number
106 In the same month last year only 100
permit, were issued. The total value of
the building, for which permit, were Issued
In November of this year was 1351.765. For
the same month In 1M the total value
was S37 178 For the first eleven months of
190 the value of the buildings for which
permits were Issued was K061.3W. For the
first eleven months of lfT the total value
was ti.JM.SJ.
Greg tfeat Was Ore.
It was mr good fortune the other day
to wander through one of the giant tank
;mers of the Tldowster Pipe lane com
pany. The chief mate U!d the honor.
This "little" boat carries only 8.0u tons
i.f oil :irroft the Atlantic. The mat
treated. H wanted to give away the shl.
lret old ulcli generosity. It was the
firm time I ever laHted gTog. He filled
a iUHrl glass with e I k I j t lumps of sugar,
a pint of . ulti.g water and nearly a pint
if rum. Whan a man dunks that mix
ture tie Wants to go on deck and battle
wiui e. brg for teu lioura. Grog! New
Kuik I'll
ME
Building Operations for November
Building for November shows a decrease
of SO per cent In comparison with the cor
responding month a year ago. Official re
ports from thirty of the principal cities to
Construction News shows that during the
month permits were taken out for the con
struction of 6, Ml buildings at an aggregate
CITY.
No.
Bldjrs. Cost.
New Tork, Including Manhattan and Bronx Wt $ 4 444 045
Brooklyn 4 im.m
Chicago 4(; 2.2fc.l50
Philadelphia , 7 ' 1.169,026
Milwaukee Ml 1.119,8X7
IVtrolt 28 1.4n8,4fiO
Cleveland 473 8"i.:m
Buffalo .' 2M S?A,niiO
St. Ixiuls 4r3 7V9.16
ft. Paul . . art 683.3W
Minneapolis 2v8 6lfi.3t5
Cincinnati 96 RIS.WI
Washington 363 396.783
Omaha '. V 391.76&
Atlanta 2S8 874,3
Rochester , 137 344,2tiO
Allegheney ?,S 234, 518
Indianapolis .....j 194 163. 255
Orand Rapids. ..77. 56 Ih9.ft.s7
New Orleans 151.741
Tacoma 130 1M.2W)
Birmingham 76 146.4
Dallas 80 128.624
Toledo 67 Ji'5,441
Peterson, N. J 47 99747
Louisville y 92 56.478
Mobile 24 30.461
Iavenport 9 14.9H0
Pueblo ; 12 9.100
Duluth 36 66.065
Total
The flurry In the money market which
affected the larger cities to the greatest
extent was also effective In curtailing
building operations In the leading cities.
Of the thirty cities there are decreases In
seventeen and Increases In thirteen. The
Infloence of the pinch In the money mar
ket was naturally felt most keenly In the
larger cities and these have experienced
heavy decreases. The decrease In , New
Tork was 24 per cent, Brooklyn 53, Chicago
61. and Philadelphia 42. Bt.' Louis, it la
believed. Is now beginning to feel the effect
of the fair In addition to whatever Influ
ence the panic in the money market may
have had, as the falling off Is 66 per cent.
Washington, which has never figured to a
remarkable extent in the building opera
tions of the country, shows a decrease of
70, while Indianapolis. In which construc
tion ha. been upon an unusually' active
scale because of necessity a. a result of
the heavy tnorease In population, shows a
falling off of 62 per cent. Otherwise the
decreases are at remote point, in which
Economy in Use of Lumber
There Is a tendency on the part of men
whi l,,mh. n Hr.n Inln h.klt nf
using certain grades and length., Vhether
,
It be In the line of economy or not. Con-
iraoiors wno agree 10 duiiu a noun xor
a certain amount of money and who fur-
nlsh the material themselves, study -the , By careful attention It is possible for the
question of length, and waste a. little a. manufacturer, without sacrificing his ' in
possible. They are. however, usually bound terei,tg, to secure more of one length than
by contract of furnish certain grade, which anotner but only t0 a ,lmUe1 tent and an
the owner wlshe. put Into hi. building But exCegslve am1 contlnuou8 demand on the
when the contractor doe. not furnish hi. t of tne consumer fop certal ,
kind of' wood -most easily worked -nd on
the lengths causing him the least labor.
Now this means, very often, unnecessary
expense to the owner. -,' .
wood costing the lea.t possible money to
give good service where utilised, the work
of placing considered.
True economy mean, the use of lengths
cutting to the best advantage, not gen-
erally, but specifically applying lo the
building In hand, taking lrtto consideration
the labor required. ,
True economy means the use of grades
costing the least money to give good service
In the part of the building where used,
the labor of utilising the different grades
being about equal.
Real economy may be practiced in the
selection of the kind of wood, to be used
In certain part, of the building but in this
short article no further mention will be
made., of this. A strong plea Is entered,
however, for the builder to co-operate with
hi. workmen In an effort to secure economy
in the use of length, and grade.. The
manufacturer cannot cut all hi. log. of
equal length. Think a moment; a' tree
just felled l being mea.urea on ror tne
from limbs. This may be cut into one
sixteen-foot, one fourteen-foot and one ten-
T , mav h. ,iit IntA nti RlvtMn.
foot and two twelve-foot logs. It may be bout 2n?r ent J ,th,e run
cut into four ten-foot logs or It may be Pduct at the mill will grade into the up
cut Into two fourteen-foot and one twelve- Per rade. ,
fnnt lnar Knw msnv consumer. ' of lumber
Insist on .Ixteen-toot length, even when It
doe. not cut to advantage and results in
a waste of material. The manufacturer
would .upply the whole.aler and through
him th. retail dealer with the lengths
wanted. If possible, but cannot cut tho
forty-foot length Into two sixteen-foot
logs a. he would have an eight-foot left
ONE MORE CASE OF TYPHOID
Aa.ota.er Attack of Fovor Traced to
tho Cbriattao.eo Bros. '
Dairy,
Another, case of typhoid fever, traced
by the city health commsaloner to the
Chrlstensen .Brothers' dairy, at Fifty-first
and Dodge streets, has been reported. This
Is the cut of Charles Cunningham, 2520
Seward street. . This make, the twelfth
case traced to that source.
Dr. Connell say. that unless some change,
are made In condition, of the city there la
a probability of art Increase In typhoid
; $.i'- -- i - .v. a
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APAKTMENT HOL'SiS BLllr'iJY J. C. KOOT AT THIHTV-BiX'OND
MLIMS'
estimated cost of I2O.015.UO for the month
just closed, against 7,685 buildings Involv
ing $2S.841,871 for the corresponding month
a year ago, a decrease of 1.874 buildings
and $8,820,731, or 30 per cent. The figures
in detail tire as follows:
-1907.-
-1906.-
nf
No. of
Bids.
2S6
676
740
1.010
24.1
3W
661
197
660
228
315
168
491
100
314
1.13
63
258
91
Gain. Loss
2i
03
51
Cost.
f 6.968 956
4,4.4fl8
4.561.8'fl
2,01.1.616
9J5.212
722,200
8.027
t'.&oo
2.351.071
6K6.7Wt
649.130
390.410
1.276.95
367,175
ri,775
39.1, 2!0
221.491
4.14.197
178,690
222.2X0
171.915
133.2X0
142.712
163.0S0
110,719
1.W.72S
23,090
15.700
13.4ns
132,586
43
21
95
8
52
17
12
33
io
1
13
C
v
66
70
62
11
82
12
10
35
10
65
'6
82
66
io
113
80
126
66
80
201
30
5
14
65
10
32
6.811
$20,016,140 7.685 $28,841,871
'
the granting of a permit for one building
may change the percentage very materially
either way, and therefore does not have
very much weight In a review of tho gen
eral situation.
Borne iA the cities of moderate popula
tion continue to make a very gratifying
report. Including Detroit, In which there
wos an Increase of 95 per cent, Buffalo 52,
Cincinnati 83, Milwaukee SI, St. Paul "17.
Minneapolis 13, Omaha 10, and Cleveland 8
per cent. ( "
It la believed that the worst has hap
pened and that the situation will show re
covery from now on. Interest In projects
concerning the development of which It
was thought at first there might bo some
delay, resulting In their being Indefinitely
deferred, has now been . revived and It is
also believed that a number of people who
have been expecting a decline in the cost
of materials will now go ahead with work
they have had in contempation for a long
time. ,
which, is not a desirable length. If he cut.
OVCT the limb, he ha. reduced the CTAfl
f Prlcally all of the lumber coming
from that log from clear to common and
. ., . .
made It Impossible to socure another log
ot desirable length and grade before reach
nff the fork, of the tree.
wilt eventually make It necessary for the
manufacturer, to charge more for that
length and cause the retail lumberman to
fix the price of that length as the basis of
, sale on all lengths' of' that t grade. So"ln
d1'tln Jo using the length which cuts
wlth the ,e"t waste' the consumer should
Insofar as possible use the proportion of
lengths produced by the mill for In the long
run thl WU man economy. Wiiat Is
true of lengths is also, to a leaser extent,
of widths.
Economy In grade is more Important still.
The writer has no patience with the man,
who, after howling himself sick about the
awful cost of lumber and saying there Is
no, money In building, rushes oft and buys
and pay. for No. 1 common yellow pine for
sheathing .when No. 2 common Is just as
serviceable and costs less money. Every
day men are buying and putting Into their
buildings material of high grade when a
lower grade would answer every purpose
and COBt ieB8 money. Knots do not Injure
aimenslon or boards at all If placed so the
pleco , not weakened, The lagMng. quality
,g not ffig
wrUr constant dls-
,ncIlnatlon of tne
consumer to accept and
use lower grades of lumber when possible
to do .0 has had a strong Influence In rais
ing the standard ot price on average sale.
men again, in ine maraei ior lumDer,
whether you build a house, barn, corn crib
or fpnc. make a study of length, and
grades be.t .ulted to the work in hand and
buy accordingly. Tour own best Judgment
nl that of your lumber dealer will result
in economy not only to yourself, but to all
engaged In the production and handling of
lumber. - M. N. DODDS.
fever next summer by reason of flies going
Into the house, from outside vault, and
carrying the germ, of disease with them.
To change this condition the doctor desires
to close all vaults in those parts of tho
city connected with sewers. He does not
question his power to do this under' the
sanitary regulation, of the state and city,
but to accomplish the purpose he must have
more money at his command than that ap
propriated last year. He hopes the division
of the general fund between the depart
ment, next yecr wll be made In such a way
that he can employ inspectors enough to
enforce all sanitary laws. Including those
regulating the cutting- of weed, during the
summer. .
TIMELY. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Reports Show Extreme Quiet All Over
the Country.
MORTGAGE MONET IS SCARCE
Many Borrowers Force to Malt
V'ntll Kelt Sprlnar Owing; to .
fMrlnarnrr Wtlrh Ha. t at
Oft Aapply.
Condition, of the real estate world In
Omaha are not different from reports of
December In other cities, where, as a gen
eral thing extreme quit prevails, and dur
ing the past week a number of sales have
been made In Omaha which would Indicate
a better condition In Omaha than in other
cities of tho west.
A month ago the report compiled for
western business said: "Cities along Iho
Missouri river are favored with excellent
realty conditions. There Is a marked Im
provement In . general business and the
crops have been good. The farmers ato
prosperous and farm lands are readily sold.
The country districts have outgrown the
cities and the latter are enjoying activity
In real estate Incident to a much needed
enlargement. Many, houses and business
buildings are In the course of erection.
There are few vacancies. Mortgage money
I. abundant at reasonable rates."
Just a month later a careful canvas of
the situation from correspondence of
Omaha real estate dealers with dealer. In
other cltte. uncover, the fact that condi
tion, vary according to the locality.
Duluth report, much Improved condition.
In tho realty market, the demand, for all
classes of property being normal and good.
Minneapolis has felt the effect of the
monetary situation, which ha. killed the
business to a large extent In the Twin
cities and their environments. Sioux City
reports business more quiet than at any
time during the last 'two years, and large
purchasers 'of city property are squirming
under the load. George C. Call, owner of
large tracts of land within the city limits.
and who 1. .pending money laying out new
additions, said In a recent meeting of tho
Real Eslate exchange, "I have not a cent
invested In bank stock and cannot longer
be classed as a banker. I have all m;
money In Sioux City real estate and that Is
what worries me."'
. De. Moines, Cedar Rapids and Council
Bluffs report conditions better than
month ago. Kansas City ha. had little
demand for blty property, but report, an
active demand for farm lands to actual
farmers at prices higher than ever before
renllzed.
The conditions In Omaha have been Influ
enced largely by the fact that mortgage
money Is scarce and hard to get. Loan
and building associations were never
stronger, but the stringency has cut oft
their Income, and what money they are
receiving I. being paid to those who con
traded loans before the 'lid" was put In
position by the national banks.
But there I. a tendency In Omaha to buy
home, and those who have the cash are
keeping up the market and the demand
has not been a great deal less than a year
ago. Those who must borrow to buy
have naturally given up the idea of secur
ing property this year and will save dur
Ing the winter, Which will . make their
loans smaller next spring.' One real estate
Arm ha. .old twenty out jQl forty houses
which It held since November 1,. and the
fthaoclania wept on October IT. 'All houses
were sold for posh. Under ordinary cir
cumstances, they would have sold , about
the aame number of home., but would
have disposed of them to customers secur
ing loan. Instead of to cash purchasers.
The financial situation has made the cash
purchasers loosen up In Omaha and cut
down the number who have been buying
with borrowed money.
Throughout the United States the real
estate market is feeling the money strin
gency, which started In the larger busi
ness center, and spread to the smaller
towns and cltlea. Prices have not gone
down, nor are they likely to fall In such
substantial cities as Omaha, but the ex
treme difficulty of borrowing money, ab
normally high Interest rate, and commis
sions, have made things quiet.
. In the New England states small sales
amount to practical! nothing. Employe;
are being discharged and factories have
closed down. Vacancies are occuring In
rented properties and rent, are hard to
collect. I
Ban Francisco report, an Improvement
In real estate during the last month, while
Portland report. . stationary conditions.
Seattle report, excellent conditions, but
mortgage money Is scarce. Mortgage
money was plentiful a month ago In 8po
kane, Seattle and Portland.
Stagnation reigns In the eastern Atlantic
states, but builders are reporting materials
cheaper than before the quiet season and
every effort la being made by homeseekers
to build at this time. In the far .west.
Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, the
newspapers and real estate papers report
that conditions are the same aa during
the last few months and the entire area is
enjoying real estate prosperity. This I.
particularly true of Denver.
Along the Ohio river mortgage money
can be secured, but the rates of Interest
are very high. This condition Is not true
In Omaha, A'here Investors are buying S
per cent mortgage, on city property, but
the money 1. scarce, especially with the
building and loan associations, who have
not advanced Interest rates, but simply
explain frankly that It will be some time
before' they can take care of the loans
which they have contracted. Private
AND PA CIPIC JSTREKTS.
money may be secured in Omaha at the
same rates asked at any other time." dur
ing the last year, and there may be those
found who are willing to loan It on good
city property, but do not care to be both
ered with the monthly payments, which
have been a growing favorite with borrow
ers for home building. For that reason
the private money Is not always available,
but those who wish to borrow for pay
ment in one, three or five years find Utile
difficulty In securing private money at
reasonable rates of Interest.
Among the nrst real estate exchanges of
the United States to endorse the plan for
national organization ofeal estate men
was the Omaha exchange. The mdvement
was started In 18!, but the panic at that
time allowed a good thing to go by do
fault. It la asserted by real estate men
that such will not be the case In the
preeent movement, and that the organ
isation, which will be born under bright
stars next spring, will be a success. Among
the organizations of real estate men which
have endorsed the movement are: Direc
tors of the Real Estates exchange of Bt.
Paul; Realy Estate exchange of 8t. Ixiuls;
Detroit Real Estate board; directors of the
Boston Real Estate and Auction board;
directors of the California' Realty associ
ation; the Milwaukee Real Estate exchange
and the Real Estate Exchange of Balti
more. Florence la to become the beauty spot of
Omaha suburbs. As Dundee Is the "city"
looking residence district, Florence will be
the "country seat" as the place Is being
divided Into tracts, which will always re
tain the rural appearance. It will be dis
tinctly a suburb of country homes and
nothing of the crowded residence suburb.
One of the Vales the past week was a ten
acre tract which Maurice Terkelson bought
of iF. A. i Brogan for ?150 per acre. Mr.
Terkelsen has announced that he will build
a country home atsonce.
Mrs. Augusta E. Chrlsman of California
sold th residence at 924 North Twenty-
seventh avenue the past week to D. Q.
Russell, through Payne & Bostwlck. The
consideration mentioned was $2,000.
Jergen Rahn sold the two-story brick
flats at Twenty-fifth and Ersklne street to
Mary Cummlngs for $3,400 during the week
and Dr. L. C. Ellis sold the lot and new,
home at Twenty-fifth and Franklin streets
to Ebtella E. Fead for $3,200.
Mrs. Anna A. Wareham sold the lots at
the northwest corner of Twentieth and
Cass street, during the week to Bert B.
Booth and Henry Lanfenburg, , who will
erect two-story brick fluts In the spring.
The consideration Is reported to-be $0,500
and the deal was made by George & Co.
PIPING OFF JNDIAN SUMMER
Prose Poet of New EsKlsad Smites
Ills Bloomlna I-yre and
Then Home.
When dun cloud, streak low along- the
.unset horizon; when the dew. ktow
frosts, and the moon dips and floats In
snow mist, far up; when there steals Into
the senses, as In the precious early morn
ing sleep, an apprehensive shiver, that
warn, one that the sweet dream Is even
now vanishing, and at a .soyid It will be
gone then we know that we have been
dwelling In a house of vision, in the magic
"circle of illusion the Indian summer. The
charm that has pervaded all our neigh
boring earth and made our ' landscape
what our life would fain be, full of se
rene fepose and fortunate response. Is all
the secret of that rare season, of satisfy
ing perfection. The ' breaks of rain, the
few gray day.,' these also have not missed
a charm of their own a music In tone
with the sunshine and haze that have sur
rounded them. Quick with delicious qual
ity. All Saint, and All Souls began the
rich lonata of nature now In It. last
movement the adagio of the autumn, In
which stray here and there eloquent ol
legrrettosv of the central theme of endless
life, whose finale is prophecy, for
yet the end Is triumph; hark! the wings
Of singing seraphs sweep the aspirant
strings!
Surely this has been a memorable fall
In our region of mid-New England. None
so dull as not to recognize and reserve
In memory this season of beauty. The
spring flower.. In the bright . way they
have of answering to the familiar mellow
warmth, are not wonting to the wonders
of the season. Tear by year the asters
and goldenrods ripen and wither and scat
ter their seeds, but there are young plants
that feel the Invitations and bloom be
neath the protection of the copses and the
sheltering nooks of the fields. The hepatl
cas, which sometimes forget the fall, and
begin their harbinger beauty on the edge
of the spring, even In February, are
now to be found In their exquisite deli
cacy smiling at the southing sun, as It
retreats, thankful for It. veiled- ray. on
rock hillsides. For the music of the season
we have only chickadees, the faithful
ones; yet now and again there chirps a
solitary cricket beneath the warm stones
of the grassy mounds of the pastures.
There are numerous little flies, too we do
not love the file. In summer, but now
they come to u with a confiding po
sesslon of ' life, and none repels them.
The ant. have not ceased their Industry
and beneath the wild apple they luxuriate
In the fallen fruit and that fruit as
sumes a pleaBlng quality In this air, and
In the open Its tang has a .ttmulating
heartlne.s, which one can not bring horne
with him, for the wild apple belongs with
the wild field and forests. Everything to
Us own, ond.only those familiar with
rambling days In the midst of farewell
know, as Thoreau did, how superior Is
the wild apple, be It sweet or sour, or
even crabbed, to all that culture can do
for the orchard', pride.
In all this beauty, thl. .weetness of na
ture's heart, breathea and blesses the
divine life, that riddle never to be solved,
but ever to be enjoyed, for it la in these
manifestations that God himself Is ex
pressed, with more comforting fullness
than in the contradictory and disappoint
ing nature of man the crov.n of nil life,
at his best, and the sure culmination,
here or eons henc?, of the purpose of
the earth's evolution. The old creeds are
right in that that the end of all things
la "to glorify Old and enjoy Him forever."-Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
BIG HUNT JN WYOMING
Pbllatlrlplilen llnnsrh It on th Haarh
Where Vlr Wrote "The
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With many heads of deer, antelope and
mountain sheep as proof of their prow;
as huntrs, a party of six ynung aoclety
men and women of Phllndelphla have just
returned from three month, of roughing It
In Wyoming. The pirty were tlte guests
ff Mr. Gilpin levering, upon his ranch
near Pubols, Wyo.
Bronzed and healthy looking, the. re
turning young people, by their appearance,
gave full corroboration to their tale of
riding scores of miles over rough roads,
lying for hours In wait for deer and
ramping out on trails unon which men
have only begun to make an Impression.
When the party reached Mr. Iverlng's
ranch, which I. eighty mile, from the
nearest railroad station, they began a life
very different from that they had led In
their own luxurious homes. Instead of
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ringing a bell for a servant when they
wanted any attention, they got busy and
attended to their own wants. The serv
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tion of Wyoming In which Mr. Lover
Ing's ranch is located, the reason being
that . there are no servants. When you
want dinner you cook it, and you apply
the same method In fulfilling any other
desire you may have.
Mr. Loverlng'a ranch 1. eighty miles
from Lander station, upon the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad. It covers 2,000
acres of ground, and ha. an elevation of
7,000 feet. Situated upon It I. a fine warm
house of logs and plaster, which, with Its
open fireplaces and large rooms, proved
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. The house posessesse. a sentiment In
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Philadelphia Inquirer.
DREAMS AND THEIR CAUSES
Baltimore Professor Telia Hon
Psychologists Are Now Kegsrd.
Insr Them.
At one of the theaters in lialtlmore Inst
week a njan In a prominent sont fell
asleep. In the dream theater he probably
saw a performance a. Interesting as tho
one going on around- him, for he moved
his arms and shook his head and seemed
to be wholly wrapped up in whatever wa.
occupying his mind at the moment. The
Incident aroused some curloBlty In the mind
of one of the spectators of the double
show, and yesterday Prof. James Mark
Baldwin of the Johns Hopkin. university
was asked to tell something of the nature
of dreams and their cause.
"While there are many questions con
nected with dreaming which have not been
satisfactorily answered," said Dr. Bald
win, "psychologists are pretty well agteud
a. to the general nature of dreams. They
consist of a aeries of Imagea Impressed
on detached portions of the brain, and not
us in our waking moments, on larger areua,
which would enable u. to view the thing
we are drcumlng of In It. relation to the
facts of our past experience. Consequently
the most absurd things do not appear at
all absurd in our dreams.
"There are two diametrically opposed the
ories to account for this dream action
one that It Is caused by u rush of blood
to the brain and congestion there, the
other that It Is caused by the absence from
the brain during the repose of Bleep of
the ordinary quantity of blood. Both are
true, probably, the one causing one kind
of dream, the other . another.
"Motion of the various arfs of the body,
as of arms and legs. Is caused by stimu
lation of the various ureas of the bruin. J
When we consider the ordinary workings
of the nervous syftem the wonder is not (
that there Is as much movement during
sleep as there is, but that there Is no j
niorc. You nilgltl imamne mm '
bullsm would be a nightly occunrnce with
almost every one.
"The old theory, by the way, thut som
nambulists never come to harm In their
movements unless awakened has teen dis
proved. Fatal accident. -have occurred in
many cases, and one of my own relatives
a little gill fell down the stairs v.hlle
walking tn her sleep and hurt herself
rather eertoiuly. Homnambullsts do per
form risky feats, but that Is due to the
absence of fear or reection or doubt. Most
men can walk twenty fret on a rail on
the ground, but few 4uld do it in midair.
"Alinost everyone dreams, although there
are some person, who say that they never
do. That wun of this clas do dream,
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however, has bcenproved by observation
of them duilng sleep, and there Is some
ground for the theory (hut everyone
dreams, the Image, presented to the brain
being stronger or fuluter, a. the cose may
be. Some of the animals dream, especially
those of the higher order, which Is not
surprising when we consider the slmllurlty
ot their brain formation to thut of th.
human being. It Is a common occurrence
for a dog, for Instance, to move and even
bark In his sleep.
"Some writers have attempted to estab
lish a teleiathic theory regarding dreams
to provo that they are due to the influence
of one mind upon another, but nothing of
that sort I. accepted by psychologists.
Others have attempted to show that the
range of auhjects connected with dreams
I. very limited, but they havenjt proved
their case, either. One man said once that
no one ever dreamed of thing. In motion.
That, to me. Is ubsurd. Another .aid w.
never dream of music, but thut 1. not true.
"We usually dream of things familiar
to us, although they may appear In un
familiar relations. Prof. Jastrow ,of the
University of Wisconsin, formerly of the
Johns Hopklnx, made a very Interesting
Inquiry Into the dreams of deaf-mute.,
and he established the fact that person,
barn deaf and those who became deaf at
an curly ago never dream ut hearing. I
II. Ink the uiif he gives Is seven yrars.
"There are several phases of this guxa '
tlon which have not been lnvestlnut.'
thoroughly, and I' do not know of unyoi,
who is working on thun at this tlmo."
Baltimore News.
llarlrJ. Money In the Hoc Lot.
There Is ut least one man In this country
whose confidence in banks ha been re
stated. This nun appeared at the First
National bank in Indlunupolis with green
backs to the amount of foU7. or rather
what two weeks ago represented that
amount of money. The money, when
brought to the bank, was In a deplorable
condition. It was in waits and rolls, and
alMO In many pieces. The timn acknowl
edged sheepishly that he hud heroine ex
cited over the f'nanclal flurry and had
drawn the money from one of the banks.
He took It home and burled It where he
thought lis presence would be least sus
pected In the hog lot.
He was shocked to find thut his treasure
had been looted up by ihe hnKS ard part ,
of It eaten. A humlred-dollnr bill was nita- ; V
Ii g. and the remainder of the roll, which 1 I
was In denominations, was chewed and loin '
to pieces, lie wun)ied all of the money a.
ciemi mm fjuBnnut uim nm. u uic i-ev to
gether as well as iws could The hsuk ac
cepted the money and will send It to the
l ulled Htutes treasury. The hanking of
ficials are of the opinion that he will
lose at leant half of the money be buried.-
Indianapolis Newa,
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