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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1909)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 3, 1909. B o nnnitrmiT All m TTTl S0" ) liliU N Til Tlifl M. E. Smith & Co. inc. W7io7esae Dry Goods "The Market Place ol the Market Town" FARNAM, DOUGLAS AND KlNTH STREETS GROWTH OF THE JOBBING-TRADE (Continued from Eighth Para ). p i namma. Floor Space 313,632 Sqnare Fet or 7 Acres. V. ... ' i - . it 't'jlw We Manufacture the Famous "Ideal" Brand Goods Consisting of Shirts, Overalls, Jumpers, Duck Clothing, Canton Flannel Gloves and Mittens. SHEEP LINED COATS, ETC. There Is Nothing Better There Are Few So Good ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THEM Retailers Are Invited to Inspect Our Plant great growth In both manufacture and Jobbing has been wholesome, the flgurea In representative lines may be quoted. They ho that no single Una has participated beyond Its due In the melon cutting and that a liberal share of the fruit has fallen to each. In agricultural Implementa the thtrty-nlne houses of the city have sales for this year of 112,125,000. In 1KB they had 17,110.000. Dry goods Increased from $5,710. 000 to $11,156,000, and groceries leaped from 113.000.000 to 18, 815.000. Hardware men dipped In for thrlr shjri, going from I3.6R0.. 000 In l05 to ii.G2B.0U0 In this year of grace. Likewise In manufactures. The packing houses, by far the largest line, have gone from $107,000,000 to $M3,l35,0"0, a neat little Increase of $.16 000,000. Creamery product show an Increase of ll.OOO OHO, a figure which is believed to be too small for the great growth here In this line Is famous. Omaha Is In fact the first butter market in the world and the Elgin price Is likely to disappear from the Quotations, with Omaha" on the date line In Its place. Men's clothing has gone up a cool million and the production of alcoholic liquors has been boosted $5,200,000, or a little better than a million a yrar. Manv causes have contributed to this rrowth. Omaha's position Is strnfjr'c. Its command of raw products is sure, its rail way service Is such that not only Is a firmer grip being made on o'd turltor. hut new Is constantly being added. Th.n Benin there Is the enormous agri cultural wealth, which Is the real basis of Its commercial and industrial success. In a state all Its own, which raises more wheat per capita than Kansas, more corn per acre than any other state In the coun try, with Its farmers largely practicing di versified farming, the most certain wealth producing form of agriculture, Its Increas ing live stock resources Omaha's certainty of being a great primary market is abso lute, sd far 'as things human are absolute. From the viewpoint of tho manufacturer and' Jobber with but a little Imagination, there Is an enormous field if wealth to come in the country to the west, the soil of which has not even been scratched and n.hixh heinnes to Omaha Jobbers and manu facturers by a right difficult to alienate. the right of geographical position ana topographical formation. A cateclysm which would destroy this would aesiroy everything. The full import of the figures of In crease is difficult to grasp or to convey. They must be interpreted In various ways; by the Increase In bank clearings, by the new buildings going up of every kind for store and office buildings, new theaters, new churches and new homes, are but co ordinate reflexes of the other movements. To sum up: Omaha's commerce and In dustry have grown prodigiously. The growth has been equal, or approximately so, in all branches. The growtn ns ni been forced; 'Is the result of no boom. Its roots tap living waters nd find nourish ment In the richest soils. When the gov ernment census takers of 1910 begin to accumulate data with regard to Omahas activities and resources they will find plenty of material to work upon. r '. '" '-' ';in ' ; I TI 1TLJT ii an How lie Mad m. Cuddle. A gentlemen went into a pipemaker's hop with the Intention of seeing the method of making ptpea. Tn proprietor, who was a Scotchman, had arrived from Edinburgh a few week ago. When the Philadelphlan got In the shop tie found only a boy back of the counter, ao without mora ado he thus addressed blm: "Well, my callant, I'll give you a quar ter If you show me how you make your pipes." "I canna mak' a peep, air," replied the lad. "I ca only mak' a cuddle.' "A cuddle! What's that, my' hlnney?" "It's a short peep," replied the boy, "sic as men and women, smoke oot on." "I'll give you a quarter If you show me how to make that." "Gle's yer quarter furst," was the reply. The gentleman gave the boy the quarter. and he took a long pipe and broke a piece off it, saying: "There, now, sir, that Is the way I mall' cuddles," Philadelphia Ledger. Bla Blase at St. Anthony. DES MOINES, la., Oct. 2. Fire early to day, from an unknown source, destroyed half of the business section of St. Anthony, la., doing damage which totaled $45,000. The flames started In the postofflce building. BIRDS FIND THEIR WAY HOME Experiments with Tropical Birds Car . rled BOO SI lies from Their . Nests. CRAME OMAHA tie laii Iroi Company . OIVEAIHLA. '.,( '' ' '.'4 " "'' '"'(""' - 'V vrJ ," -'s.'i tvrt, r i t' . J; ,"Vi 'i' " ' '' " " ' i - y -.,.v.. ... .-, - - ;, . , ,--.;.-'-;r . e . ' 1 'i . . - . ... . . . - . , r - : ; ' ; S ' ' ' - EVERYTHING FOR WAGONMAKERS, CARRIAGE MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS, MACHINISTS and AUTOMOBILE REPAIRERS MORI, STEEL, HEAVY HARDWARE, TOOLS, HARDWOOD LUMBER, ETC. AUTOMOBILE EQUIPMENT, PARTS AND SUPPLIES The question as to whether animals have a special homing sense can never be an swered y experiments' upon the homing pigeon. It was this thought which led me to make a study of distant orienta tion in two speclea of tropical birds which are found upon Bird Key, a little deserted mound of aand about $00 yards in diame ter, lying In the middle or me nun pi Mexico. This key Is a member of the Dry Tortugas group, sixty-five miles due west from Key West The birds' in question are the noaay ana sooiy wrn, .... to the gull family, and not differing much in size from the homing pigeon. In the fall and winter months they are to be found distributed generally over the tropi cal waters of the Caribbean sea. un may 1, almost to the day, about 26,000 to 30,000 of them migrate to Bird Key and remain there for the nesting season. Bird Key Is thus the northern limit of migration. A study of their habits shows that they do not get out over the water In their search for food for distances greater than fifteen to eighteen miles; consequently any dis tance north of Bird Key greater than this would take the birds Into an unknown territory. Here, if anywhere, then, we have material at hand for carrying out experiments upon distant orientation. We can send birds out over an ocean pathway or we can send them Inland. My experi ments have not been carried very rar at the present time, but they have already progressed far enough to give some really astonishing results. After the egg Is laid the male and fe male birds take turns at brooding, and one bird is always to be found at the nest. At this time the birds are bold and can be captured easily. After being captured they are marked Individually with large streaks of different colored oil paints. These marking can be so varied that each bird sent out has a different marking. The nest Is then tagged, showing tne time oi the bird's removal. On tho early morning of June 13 five birds were put into a targa insect cage and given into the charge of Pr. H. E. Jordan, who was returning to New York. He carried the birds via the government tug to Key West. There food was purchased for them (small minnows). At 1 in the morning of Friday, the Hth, t)r. Jordan boarded the Mallory boat Den ver, which was leaving Key Wist at that time for New York. On board the boat the birds (which were carried In the hold of the vessel) were both watered and fed On Sunday, the 16th, at f in the morning the birds were released at latitude Si de1 trees, longitude 75 degrees 10 minutes (ap proximately twleve miles east of Cape Hal- teras). The wind was fair and fresh for several days after the birds were released. I kept their nests under constant observa tion, but had almost given up hope ot their return, when, to my surprise, on June 21, at 8:30 In the morning I found two of the marked birds upon their re spectlve nests. The nest mates of the other three birds bad taken new nest com panions; consequently, had the marked birds returned, they would have been un able to obtain possession of the nest. A few days later I, by chance, observed one of the marked birds attempting to alight at its own neat. It was Immediately driven away. Three of the five birds are thus known to have returnsd. I have little doubt that the other two birds, also .re turned. The dlttauee in a airalght line from Hatteras to Bird Key la approxi mately fcoO mile. The along shore route is about 1,01 mOea. The latter la the route in all probability chosen by the bird, slnoe by studying their habits I .found that they do not fly at night, nor swim nor rest upon the water; and yet are dependent upon the occaa for their food and water. This distancs vras covered in a little leas than six days 1'rvf. iolia ii. Wauon in Harper's Mttgasma. A Little Hasty. Numerous complaints had come before a certain publio official In regard to the quality of food served to the inmates of one of the public Institutions and he deter mined to- Investigate for himself in' order to see If the matter really required atten tion. , Making hi way- to the particular build ing in question just about dinner time, he walked straight over to where the kitchen was located. At the very door he encoun tered two muscular looking men carrying a huge, steaming boiler, "Put that kettle down," he ordered brusquely, and the men at once obeyed. "Get nie a spoon," he next' commanded. The man that brought the spoon was about to say something, but was ordered to keep silent. "Take off the lid," was the next com mand; ''I'm going to taste It." The two men were utterly cowed by the official's brusqueness and wonderlngly watched blm gulp down, a good mouthful. "Do you mean to say you call this soup?" the official demanded. "Why it tastes to me more like dirty water." "So It la, sir," replied one of the men, respectfully. "We were Just scrubbing the floors." Uncle Remus' Home Magasiue. If you nave anything to sell or and want quick action advertise J'he Bee Want Ad columns. s trade It In 1 ., . ilSflEirlillllSnrL "Visit Oup Wholesale Pry (Goods louse .Byrne 'Ikv Goo . Mammeff d Coo , u1 t ii . A 1 . i : ft i 4 1 n ft :-':t T.."i :.. a