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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1909)
L TTIE OMAHA SUNDAY HKF.: NOVEMBER 28. 1003. TuirpinifltaipcB Dn 24th end L Sis., SOUTH OMAHA. i I HcLDinnKB 1! o ells IFopoMoFe 20 Below Oimalia Price: i i We have just purchased for cash a large amount of high grade furniture, and while the manufac turers announce an advance of 10 in the prices for 1910, we can offer these goods for the next 30 days at much below former prices. Al ILapcj Line of Useful Moiicflay Presents Spring styles in rugs for 1910 now in. Come see our complete line of Lowell Wiltons in all sizes. V J V1 1 - - . " -a HIBUiplllllTTI-i' I i 3 f ' v x- - -rt! e 9x11 Brussels Rugs 9x12 Velvet Rugs -9x12 Axminster Rugs V : i I T Combination Book Case and Writing Desk ; (x n r , Empire finish. . . U. U SOLID OAK DRESSER. tttttw $6.50 15113 $6.00 Sanitary Springs at $3!f Solid Oak $21.00 Buffet $14 High grade Steel Range like cut 4 hole $22.50 6-hole 24.50 Stoves sold on payments. " jp 4 $21.00 Princess Dresser like cut; solid 50 oak polish $23.00 Sewing Machine, like cut solid oak f "1 C fl case 1 JU Thirty styles of Library Tbles; from $4.50 M O Well made, full size 9 QA ta VlO Steel Couch ?LttyJ ys below former prices. ffipinc FnrnltDre: Company 24th and L Sts., South Omaha Ten 50ft. Felt Mattresses . . . $7.50 Finely finished, full size Brass Bed, 2-in. posts, at $12.50 POPULAR SOJCS PICTURED "Modern Art" Give the Eye the Best of the Game. SCENES FITTED TO THE MUSIC tome of the Hnii Emplorfd to Pro- dnro Nnappy Bltaatioaa for tho Dime Clrcnlts of the foontrr. Hv you had a call from the Illustrated ong man and his model yet? If not, who are you and where do you live? If you have tt house with a porch or a garden, have you never come home to find a lovesick couple mooning In one another' armi on the Harden seat or Just pushing off In your private boat or posing In the mldet of your favorite flower bed? If you have any kind of a place of bual neHi, a dairy, a dellcateaeen, or a chicken (Idirm. haven't you been besieged by the picture man, to allow him to come out and take Just a few pictures to Illustrate a song that Inadvertently mentions a cow, a ham sandwich, or a cackle? And even If you don't ownthe roof over your head, do you mean to say that you haven't met them In the parks, on the lake front, on the streets. In crowded railway statlons-anywhere at all enacting their parts In their desired surroundings before the camera of the ubiquitous picture man? If you haven't you muBt be blind, for with fall coming on and the muslo publish ers all putting out new songs, with the new copyright la w," which allows a pub lisher royalty on eauh picture that is made to Illustrate his song, and with this method of popularising a song acknowledged to be foremost. It naturally follows that the pic ture man Is buay. Every one has seen and heard the Il lustrated song In the E and 10 cent theaters. Sometimes the pictures have been better than the sons., but more often tt has been the other way. One song that made quite a "hit" de scribed a lover's dream of the girl he loved. He dreamed that she was sitting on his lap In their visionary little home. Tho music was pretty and the sentiment "hot bad at all, but the picture of a super annuated youth being slowly squeesed to death In a rocker by a heavyweight cham pion of the opposite sex was about as pleas ing and loving as would be the Image of a baby hippo on a Illy pad. And that was not all. A roaring fire In the fireplace was ecreeued by a healthy, bright green rubber plant Perhaps you will say that that was the fault of the artist, who, when painting the slide, put flames In the empty fire place behind the plant, and no doubt that 4 Is true, but what of the man who selected t and posed those models? The least said probably the better. Dream Pictures. Has anyone escaped hearing a certain "Moonlight" song whereof one Illustration depicts the young man as he rows upon the lake In the moonlight, dreaming of "her"? It Is no uncommon thing to put these dream pictures of the absent sweetheart or home or mother, in the fireplace, or on the mantle-piece, or In the clouds of one's cigar or pipe, and as the nickel show habitue Is usually liberal minded. It mat ter not If these dream linage assume the clearness and high colors of corporeal re ality. Such appearance, however, had a start ling effect In the case of the moon light scene, wherein the amorous youth, calmly resting on his oars, gased Insipidly i at the real head and shoulders of bis sweetheart emerging out of the water amid a searchlight of niuoubeame happy though drowning I But such absurdities are becoming rare. VAllde companies or transparency companies as many of them call themselves, appear to be doing a thriving business, and people seem to like Illustrated songs, so It nat urally follows that mora care . is being taken fb secure artistic pictures, with good scenic effects and somewhere near good looking models. That Is why you, Mr. Home Owner, and you, , Mr. Shopkeeper, are likely to find strangers encamped on your doorstep, for the picture man argues that he Is taking nothing from you when he takes the pic ture of your belonging. Let us take a trip with him long enough to illustrate one song. That mean that twelve pictures are needed four for each of the two verses, and four for the chorus. But some of these pictures may not b good, so it Is safer to take some twenty from which the twelve may be chosen. First the picture man read over th song, considering it carefully. If one wonders why the picture man la Inclined to be cynical, let him carefully consider the lines of a few popular songs. One thing In common they all must have that Is, If they have any chance at all to become popular. There must be plenty of love therefore, a pair of lovers. So It will be welt to engage permanently the services of two good "spooning" models. Next where ts It? Perhaps a country scene Is required, so with the two models and the picture man, loaded down with hi heavy plates and large camera, we "hike" for the railway station and take a train out of the city say north, to the region of exclusive summer homes. . Pleasure Without Worry. The picture man believe It 1 better to appreciate the things you do not have than to have things you do not appreciate. Many of the wealthy people do not appreciate the luxuries which surround them. But the picture man does. He Is In a position actu ally to enjoy those luxuries. He designs to is them without paying for any of them. It Is something like the automobile aw fully nice, If the other fellow own it. So the millionaire has the worry added to the pleasure, while the picture man has the pleasure with none of the worry. The picture , man la a grouch always. Jimmy, the young man who looks like an ad for some smart tailor, nonchalant, as suring the young woman that he la doing this merely a pastime, while both of them are planning how to spend the dollar per hour they are engaged In earning. Arrived at a suitable spot, the picture man gets his camera ready, then takes out the lines of the song, which are carefully written on a scrap of paper. Perhaps the line (If the song has any chance at all) read something Ilk this: A pair of lovers strolling One moonlit eve alone. He said, "My dear, 1 love you. She answeied with a moau "I cannot love you, Harry. The reason give me pain." Hut Harry took her to his heart And murmured this refrain: . CHOHU8. . Parting, I can't live without you. What is life without you. dear? Darling, skies look sad and lonely, When I know you are not near Parting. I can't- live without you. Won't ycu to mj your love give. Let me hear you say, "I love you" Without you, dear, I cannot live." Let no cynlo scoff at the above lines. Publishers' Incomes bear out the statement that with a little muslo or other loud noise, a singer, and the man behind the picture machine, that song has every chance of getting "a big hard." no. with this song. Mr. Picture Man goes to work to secure one picture to every two lines. "A pair of lovers strolling one moonlit eve alone" Is the event now to be pic tured. Art as tt shine. The two lover are requested to take their at and la the large flower bed of Mr. Millionaire, who Is not at home and whose gardner Is smoking one of Mr. Picture Man' clgara Picture No. I will show the same couple seated on Mr. Mlllonaua's boalhouae steps, or Just getting into his launch, or occupy- ! lug one of his porch chairs, and by this j time Mr. Picture Man l probably tearing his hair in the effort to get two wooden Images to look loving. He takes a few of those optical Illusion pictures, wherein th couple appear to be kissing one another, whereas we are solemnly assured that they only seem to be. Then, after they have been pushed, scolded, and enticed into some twenty other tender altitudes, th only change being In the background, unless, perchance, the author has left one of them alone long enough to dream of that other, the work Is over for the models, at least. Mr. Ploture Mn, after dismissing them with the proper' compensation and perhaps a luncheon at some nearby restaurant, be takes himself, with his camera and plates, to his studio in town, where he or his as sistant develops the negatives, which are then printed upon transparent slides of glass. Many sets of these elides are made, each set containing fourteen slides, counting one which shows the title page of the song and another bearing the printed, chorus. The artists In another room now get these seta of slides and go to work to color them. In tho song Just quoted th scene was moonlight. Therefore It Is up to the slide artist to put In a nice round moon, color ing the sky darkly and pricking In twink ling stars with a pin. That Is hew moon light scenes are made to order, so that the next time you see one In an Illustrated song you think how nice It would be to be there yourself, Just stop and reflect that when that picture was taken It was In the garish light of day, that there was ho moon, only a grouchy photographer overlooking the spooning with such sar castic remark as, "Aw, hold on to her as if you meant It," or, "For heaven's sake, Miss Blank, don't lean on htm as If hs was a red hot stove," or perhaps under his breath, "O, blankety blank, why didn't I bring out Sviiieotie from the morgue?" Thus is the moonlight difficulty solved by the picture man. But there are others. For Instance, it may be winter and the song which demands Immediate illustration, may likewise demand a summer scene of flowers and tree. The slide artist then paints In the green foliage upon the bare tree photographed, while artificial vines and flowers are used to entwine garden seats or swings, and the models stand about shivering In a cold wind and leave their heavy winter over coats Just long enough to pose In the sum mer clothes they wear underneath. The ploture looks like June, whereas It was taken In February. The picture man, like the comedian and the "funny man", on the newspaper, is a sad and sober minded Individual. He has long since ceased to laugh at the things which happen to him In his business, but occasionally he tells some of these things, and then wonders why his friends seem so amused. Chicago Tribune. BATTLES WITH BABOON, MONKEYS SAVE HIS LIFE Little Aalaaala Bet 1'at ftcreaua and BrlB; Aid to t afortanate Keeper. PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 27. Struggling for hi life with an Infuriated baboon, Fred Wilson of Brasll, Ind., a trainer employed by an animal show, fought desperately for half an hour yesterday with a baboon that attacked him in th cage. Th beaut clutched Wilson's throat, but so long as the trainer could keep on his feet ha bad the best of the fight. At length he fell, exhausted from loss of blood and th strain, and th animal gnawed at h'.a legs. A score of monkey in the gage kept up a shrill screaming during the progress of the fight and this finally at tracted the attention of other employes, who resoued Wilson. Wilson I In a serious condition. MULTITUDES OF STUDENTS Twenty-Two German Universities Have 50,000. RELATIVE BANK OF BIO SCHOOLS Ve tadv Active Volcano. NAPLES, Nov. r.-Frank A. Perret. the American volcanologlst. left here today for the Island of Tenerlffe. where he will study the eruptions which are taking place and compare the phenomena with those of Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna. University of Paris Leads Colleges of Other Nations, bat Brery Land Ha One or More in the Front Rank. Although twenty-two German universi ties are reported as having an aggregate of more than DO. 000 students, only two or three of these universities exceed In slxe a number of the other great continental schools. In fact. Berlin and Munich are the only German universities that outrank In site the great schools of either Italy, Spain, England, Austria-Hungary or Rus sia, and the University of Paris has four times as many students ns any German university except those of Berlin, Munich, Lelpslc and Bonn, while the University of Lyons Is considerably larger than most German universities. i The University of Madrid ranks only Just below Munich In numbers, and the Uni versity of Naples Is of about the same size as Madrid. Several Kugllsh universi ties are above any but the largest four In Germany. , The University of Vienna come next In Blse after Munich, and the Cxech uni versity at Prague Is larger than any but four of the German universities. It has long surpassed In slxe the ancient German university of the same city. Budapest has a university ranking only just beiow the greatest German universi ties. Even the University of Athens ranks only Just below Bonn with Its 3,800 stu dents, and the University of Rome, which Is third In Italy, ranks between' Freiburg and Breslau, the latter of which has nearly :,S50 atudents. Hcnndlnavla's Lender. Denmark' one university, that of Copenhagen, ranks along with Heidelberg, which stands ninth In the lint of German universities. Two other Scandinavian uni versities, those of Upsala in Sweden and Chrimlania In Norway, rank above the six smaller German unlverttl les and the far northern University of Helslngfors In Fin land ranks with the first six. Several of the HuHsian universities, when they are not shut up for liberality of po litical opinion, have as many students as any but the four or five greatest German Institutions. Below the great University of Madrid there are two or three ancient schools of Spain with from 1,800 to more than J.0JO students, and the single Portuguese uni versity, that of Colmbra, one of the most picturesque seats of learning In the worM by reuse n of Its clinging to medlueval dress and customs, ranks above seven or eight of the German universities. At least two of the provincial universities of France rank with the first ten unl vemltles of Germany, and the one great Catholic university of Belgium, that of Louvaln, Is of about the same rank. The Italian University of Turin stands above Freiburg In numbers. Fcur or five universities of the United States rank with the first three German Institutions, but would hardly do so wer the undergraduates counted out. In South America the University of Buenos Ayrea stands with the first four or five German universities and Is growing. At least one other South American university ranks with the great schools. Mediaeval Schools Were Large. Even th greatest of German universities, Berlin, with Its 7,11 students. Is small com peted with some of the mediaeval universi ties. Although communications were costly, slow gnd difficult In those days, th ap pearance t a great teacher at any uni versity would quickly attract students from other seats of learning, so that In Dumber th mediaeval universities ebbed and flowed from year to year. Sometimes, too, a quarrel of some kind with the government or with the teaching force would bring a sudden secession of hundreds of thousands of students along with part of the teacher. When Abelard lectured at the University of Paris th number of student I said to have risen to 30,000. Francis I, visiting the Spanish University of Alcala d Henares in the sixteenth cen tury, found 11,000 students. Bologna univer sity bad 10,000 students at the early height of Its prosperity. It Is now flourishing with 1,600. Padua, which owed its first aucoea to a schism at Bologna, was threatened with extinction almost Immediately afterward, tri the year 1228, because dissatisfied atu dents received a proposal from Vercelll to give them 600 houses and other, privilege and convenience if they would remove to that place, Bologna In the early part of the sixteenth century felt Itself In the depth because It had only 1,400 students. Half a century be fore It numbered 200 students' from Ger many alone. Salerno, which had bad a famous school of medicine, took on the character of a university for a time when the faculty of Naples came over to it and was a great school. Naples had brief revival, a tre Bienduous reputation, and a great roster for two or three year after 171 because Thomas Aquinas was on of the lecturers. The University of Salamanca had 6,000 stu dents in part of the sixteenth century. The German mediaeval universities did not rival the greatest of Italy, France and Spain In the number of their students and their great growth In that respect has come with thf recent material prosperity of Ger many and the world-wide reputation of German scholarship. The Gottingeq, which la not mediaeval In origin, had mora stu dents In 1823 than It had eighty year later. The Dutch universities, though not so fa mous as they were 300 or 400 years ago, piob&hly hav about as many student a they had In their greatest days. TREATING FEVER IN DISEASES When Temperature Should Be Re dnced Valne of Cold Bath and Fresh Air. The normsl temperature of the human body la about 98.6 degrees, a temperature which the Internal force of the body are able to maintain at a constant figure al most entirely without regard to the tem perature of the surrounding atmosphere. Any elevation of the body temperature above 9H.6 degrees or f degrees Is called fever, and Is an Indication of something wrong. So also Is a fall of the tempera ture below the normal point; but this Is a rater condition than fever and is due usually to special cause which It is not necessary to consider here. Since fever Is the most evident symptom of a number of different disease and .th one that gives character, as It were, to many acute Infectious diseases. It has come to be synonymous with disease Itself, and it Is common to speak of some one being sick of a fever. But fever Is so far from being the disease that it is often the cura tive and life-saving condition. Many Infections, such as pneumonia and typhoid fever, would be more often fatal If It were not for the high body tempera ture that characterise them. In pneumonia, for example, it ha been noted that th higher th temperature under certain limits, of course th more favorable 1 th course of the disease. It Is therefore not a wise thing to give remedies to reduce fever unless the elevation of temperature ha continued a very long time or 1 so high 104 degrees a to threaten in Itself th normal performance of the vital func tlona Sometimes, of course, the fever may get out of control, and from being Inimical only to the germs of the disease actually endanger th life of the patient. In such case treatment to reduce the temperature is cenea tor. This Is best dun by means of qool water In the form of a tub bath. The patient should be put Into a bath at 80 or M de gree, the water then being gradually re duced to 70 degrees, or he may be wrapped In a sheet wet with cold water or sponged with cold water. Water la a safer and better fever remedy than the so-called antltlc drugs, the use of which 1 bad for the already weakened heart. This cool water treatment should always be supplemented by the freest possible use of fresh air, even In very cold weather. The old fashioned belief that a person with a fever I going to "take cold" easily hs no foundation whatever. Youth's Companion. WINTER FATAL, TO. MINERS Cold Weather Responsible Many of the Terrible Disaster. for If It did not get cold In winter. 2.000 of those who meet death In the mines each year might live. Expert now state that the vaBt majority of explosions are from coal dust, not from gas. They say that coal dust fills the mine when It Is exceedingly dry. , The mine gets exceedingly dry In cold weather, and for thl there la an explanation that Is the point In the whole matter. Ventilation is the prime necessity In all mining operatlona. Air contains 'vast quan tities of moisture, but warm air carries more cold air. In the summer time the warm air which Is forced Into the mines Is abundantly laden with moisture. It be comes cooler underground and Is more likely .to deposit moisture than to take It up. Then the mine retains at least a normal amount of moisture. But when cold weather comes the pro cess I reversed. Th cold air with a tein peratur of thirty degrees or mor con tain little water. As It advances through the mine It grows warmer, demand h always more moisture and extracts this from th side and top and bottom of th mine. When at last this air comes out of the mine It Is from twenty to forty degrees warmer than when It entered, and carries great quantities of moisture which It has drunk while under ground. The mine Is Just so much the drier for Its having passed through. At a single mine where the tilr entering and leaving was careful ana lyred It was found that this air was dally sapping the mine to the amount of fifty tons of water. The same is true of every mine of its sire, and tho amount la greater or less according to the alze of the mine. When the greet fans have driven this current of air through the mine for a few weeks It become a parched as Sa hara. H might be aupposed that If thtr was water on th floor of this mine It would be drunk up and that the balance of the mine would remain moist. This Is not true for but a small portion of the air can come In contact with the surface of the water, whll every atom of It i calling for moi. tur and 1 exacting It from whatever It come In contact with. Th actlvltle In th dried and parched mln naturally pulverise th coal and fan It Into the air. Finally the danger point Is reached, for the mine is full of this dust. Then a blast la set off and the coal dust is Ignited. If it is a busy mine It Is filled wltl dust and every part of It suffers from th explosion. The greatest danger Is In tti flrt few weeks of cold weatht.-. Sprinkling Is of little avail. Th expert hav devised a better scheme, which la through th Introduction of team. This steam can be led along and released at point where th mln 1 becoming warmer and drier. It can be released In any quantity necessary to keep down the dust and keep the air tn the desired condition and the expense 1 amall. Technical World Magaxlne, Novelue-'KEN'ZEB-iith aud Podg. CALDERA LETTER KEPT DARK Believed State Department Hai Heard from Consul in Nicaragua. MESSAGE SENT TO MEXICO f Reported Two Countries Are Now Conferring; Over Sltaatlon In Cen tral America and Proaram Will Be Decided oon. fllj 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 There I reaaon to believe that the State department at last ha received a communication from Mr. Caldera. the American vice consul at Managua, but the contenta of his message o far have been kept a profound aecret and if the department ha received any thing from Nicaragua recently of an Im portant character it is likewise being with held. ; The report that the United SUtes la In communication with President Plas of Mexico with reference to some Joint ac tion in the Nlcaraguan situation I dis credited In naval quartera, but It Is be lieved telegrams relating to Nicaragua are passing between the two countries. It was stated at the department that It wa extremely unlikely that any official an nouncement of Importance consrnlng Nicaragua would be made earlier than Bun- day night or Monday morning. Thl I assumed to Indicate that matters of con sequence are under consideration which may be expected to culminate about that time. if secret orders have been Issued to the army traisports Logan, Crook and Bu ford at Ran Francisco, to prepare for Im mediate departure for Nicaragua, aa ha been reported, the action was taken with out the knowledge or authority of the sec retary of war. Such was the statement made at the War department today. The navy I waiting on the Stat depart ment. That account for the Indecision over the date of sailing of th Prairie from Philadelphia with the 400 marine for the Isthmus of Panama and possibly for service in Nicaragua. Th Albany and Yorktown ar still held In Magdalene bay, awaiting development in Central America. The Tacoraa, Marietta and Des Moines are In the vlotnlty of Port Union, Costa Rica, Just waiting. The Vlcksburg Is at Corlnto, Nicaragua. Aa long as there I a posslblrlty of marine being needed In Nicaragua, tho Prairie will remain at League Island. The Navy department ha adopted this course so as to be able to send (TO marine or more' to Nicaragua from the United States proper In event they are needed In Nicaragua. The battalion of marine to be lent to Panama number about 400. The arrival today or tomorrow of th Missouri at Hampton Roads from New York will be watched closely because of the rumor that It was to be sent to Cen tral America. Intention of sending It on such a cruise Is denied at the Navy de partment, however. Off-Hand Remarks. ' Any man can succeed In being a failure. A woman's crowning glory la her puff. The man who pays dearly for hi eg pirlence is willing to aell It cheap. If Ood made the country and man made the town, the devil must have mad the suburbs. Why is it thst a girl Is almost as much afraid of caterpillars as a boy Is of getting hi ears washed? Love Is what prompts a woman to b miserable with one man rather than b l.appy with nother. When a small boy says he likes to go to school, take him aav. He ts surelv developing brain trouble. New York Tlnr s. A Totnl Urllpe of th function of stomach, liver, kidney and bowels ta quickly disposed of wlt'i Electric Bitter. Wc. For sal by Boaloa Drug Co. r