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THE OMATLV KUXDAY BEE: MAY 1.". 1010.
A talk to -the mai who-has
I of printin;
"to -let. tomorrow
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Two years ago I started in the print-'
irvg business in Omaha.
I had ten years practical experience
in New York, Boston and Omaha, a
time-strengthened purpose and rplenty
of capital.
For the first quarter my books
showed a loss. Month after month
passed and the result was the same.
1 kept at it. I put aside all comforts and pleasures. I worked hard days and spent my even
ings enteriug up my cost sheets and preparing advertising. Finally at the end of the first year n
profit balance was shown. The tide jiad turned.
Why was I successful? Solely and entirely because I was operating under a cost system. My
cost sheets showed that woidd be making money when my plant was running at capacity. AU
I had to do was to keep firing work at tle boys. n
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Since Uie tide turned I have been constantly increasing my capacity and intend to keep on
doing so. This adv. is liable to cost me hundreds of dollars. I may have to biy a new press to take
care of new customers. I would buy a flying machine if a customer ordered enough work to keep
it busy.
Mr. BusinessMan, what is the weak point of the printing business? Youkuosy- it as well as
I there is no uniformity in prices. Bids on printing will vary iOfc. Why? Because the average
' printer does not work under a cost system. (
Our Slogan: " TAKE YOUR
TIiyiES PUBLISHING CO., Inc., lth and Harney Sts Omaha; Phone i ouglas 2166
If you live out of town, write for "HowM uch." our price list on printing. We are the only printers we know of that issue a price list; we are different. Yov cant saw wood with a hammer
Now when oiy of my compositors works an hour in setting up a job 1 know just what I have to
charge for that hour's work in ardor to pay his salary, to pay for distributing that type back in the
proper cases, to pay rent, interest on capital invested, depreciation of madiinorv, and all over
head expenses. To this cost 1 add Ity.l profit. Would you be satisfied with as little? ,
There are several hundred jbos of printing to be let In Omaha tomorrow, if you have twin telephone me and let
me call and have a few minutes' talk with you about It. XT job too large or too small for me to Iihu.IIo. Anything from
cards to catalogues and by the way. we have printed more fine rutaloguen for out of town than any other firm In
Omaha. Let me show you samples and. puote prices and you will understand why.
I must not close this adw without mentioning my employees well paid young men of exper
ience, with new ideas. Wouldn't you like to do business with a firm, whore young blood, push,
energy and best service are combined to please customers? If you are a "crank" on printing 'you
are at liberty to talk your job over with our foreman, our pressman, our binder, or even the errand
boy. You can gamble the job will be done the way you want it and delivered when promised.
We allow a 2ro discount on prompt payments and haVe sufficient capital to grant any reason
able terms desired by resrwnsible firms.
Want ioiue blotters! Youre for the asking.
That's all, except remember to telephone me about your next job.
Yours for business, '
I President Times Publishing Company, Inc. '
P. S. Let us send you "How to Order Printing," a valuable pamphlet written for us by
"Black the Hatter." . ,
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WEALTH IN BROOM CORN
Price of Sweepers it Inclined to Be
Somewhat Skyward.
tOLLOWS PATH OF P0RKCH0PS
ThlrO-Threa t Conald
rrrd Hnrgala Kljtur for Ordinary
lirooiu 11 Voislvurj' fa
World at peabbrr.
UKEAT BARGAIN!
The! choloe brooms are going at
only 93 ctnla each.
Thirty-three cent tor a broom and a
bargain at that. The foregoing placard
prominent displayed In the window of un
Omaha shop tell In tabloid the htory of
how broom corn, like porkchops Bnd beef
steak, in. in a comparative sense, becoming
t h rival of diamond and anthracite.
Thirty-three units for a broom!
Only a few year a to, 20 cent would
buy a broom any day In the week at any
shop in town.
But now In this era of prosperity when
.prices are high and everybody Ua money
1 in plentiful quantity, W cents is not an
unusual price for a broom. IteaUy, then,
tle man who of fore brooms for 33 cent
each its givafig a bargain.
Who make the brpuins?
Wlieie it broom corn raised?
These uueslions. In view of the upward
4ind in broom price, at once become In.
terestlng. 1 i
Comparatively few persona are aware,
perhaps, that the largest broom factory In
the world la located at Deshler, Thayer
county, Neb. Such is a fact, however, and
the Ueshler Institution ia glow lug rapidly.
Broom corn ia grown in certain sections of
southern and western Nebraska, but the
greater part of the crop comes from Okia
Iroma and parta of northern Texas. UUuois,
in the vicinity of Mattoon, also produce
a fairly good quality of broom corn. '
One of the mot Interesting reasons for
the increase tn price of broom i the fact,
so dealer say. that the Ameifcan house
keeper, growing more fastldhai year by
year, demand a high quullty of .broom.
Time was In the day of li slid 20-cent
luooiiis whin any old thing would be ac
cepted. As a rule the villus blind man.
rntconsed In some h jle-tu-tt e-w all, safe
away from the high rent it strict, made
brooms by hand. ills task .was tedious
and he iiuived slowly, but by keeping ever-
supply the community. In ihose days,
factories lil.e the one which now flour-jbh-s
at Hoshler. were unheard-of proposi-
Now the I lind inun ha been sup-
rianied hy urgu.---yed fptratcis. who guide
machinery especially instructed for the
waking of broon . Ii the ieshler factory,
machinsry even separate the corn In the
romib. cyliaig the good from the bad and
tossuig li luu dlfft-reiit pile indicating the
grade,
bounds anooialou?
Kerliap o. but If any there be who
doubt, let the skeptic Journey down to
lkcshler and aee for himself. Iieehler Isn't
a nwitropoli by any nieacj. but Ieshtr
A, to the front in giving the balance of
: c wor!i gn oppc.ituuky fr a clean sweep.
J Ho mVtar mecsanioal achievement
T L.a te'' tactory does everything by
machinery except to collect the price of the
brooms. '
"But," queries the stickler for facts, "if
a few years ago the village blind man
could largely supply enough brooms, why
Is tluje now a demand for the output of
large factories?"
Severalreasons might oe compressed into
an answer, but one of the most obvious
JtpIauallon of the increased demand for
broom, is the fact that the packing house
industry has grown at remarkable strides
pot only in South Omaha, but throughout
the United eitaten, especially in the west
and southwest.
"But,' continues the stickler, ''what have
packing house to do with brooms?"
Kvtr been through a packing house?
liver observe how scrupulously clean the
floors axe kept?
Well, it takes broom corn to do It.
Indian corn fattens the hogs and, the
cattlee that are slaughtered, but broom
corn must come along to clean up the de
lru that flow in the wsake of the packing
pi Qcess.
1'ackUig houses are Jarge consumers of
brooms und liey must .be the vary atrong
est of brooms, too. This broom that would
suffice to sweep milady kitchen would not
last Jong on a packing; house floor.
Then, another reason for the Increased
demand for brooms, is ttle fact that the
population of this coifntry Is growing
rapidly. Jivery uew Xamly .means a new
broom. That .broom soon wears out, and
then there must be uiiotlter and another.
Moreover, it ,may be that cleanliness is
on the increuse That is a cheerful view
to lake, und perhaps it may be so.
Be that aa It may. tUe fact Is well estab
lished that there is haisk demand for all
the broom corn the western farmer I
likely to produce, and with broom corn sell
ing for 1100 per tonend that is not by any
iiyeans a remarkable price and an average
yield of one-half ton per acre. It is obvious
at a glance that there Is money in the
culture of broom corn.
"But,", warns the agricultural expert,
"dou't make the mistake of believing that
broom corn grows like rag weeds."
No. not hardly. Broom corn, even after
It has been raised, rtajulre scientific care,
so that it ' may be acceptable when It
reachea the factory. The average farmer,
versed in the habits of hogs and cattle and
knowing by, long experience how to handle
the cereal crops, will, unless he devote
some time to scientific study, make a fail
ure a a broom corn raiser. Like most
everything' else in this old work-a-day
world, It's easy when you know how.
"How can 1 Iarn the broom corn .busi
ness?" queries the man who thinks he
would like to sweep In sotuu additional
revenue.
Whereat conies the suggestion that any
of the reliable farm journals published for
this sec l ion vt country contain valuableln
formation along this line. ,
Right now, perhaps, it is pertinent to In
ject the suggestion that there J acre after
acre of undeveloped broom corn Und in
Nebraska, and dollars might be stacked
up by careful attention to he .crop. One
thing la certain: The price of broom is
not likely to go gny lower and the chances
are that next time the shop keepers jut
on a special sale of brooms the price lag
wkll be "forty-thxee" or ven fitly-ttuee '
Instead vt the "thlrly-tlie ee" that inspired
this little cUAPter un biuuins.
Some Thing-s You Want to Know
Spiritualism and Magic IV. Rope-Tying and Rappings
1 (iuM Jt Did.
Teacbcr Wbete dues the Mlssiss.ppl .river
rise T
Raddy Hackrow In Louisiana.
-Teacher No, ho! Think again. You
know where It rises.
Keddy Backrow In Ijuslana.
Teacher What makes you so euie of
that?
iteddy Hackrow How could thev hiva
jthofce awful floods there tf it didn't!
Jails. -
No method of deception practiced by
spiritualistic mediums of the commercial
class Is better fitted for the conquest of
doubters than that of .allowing the medium
to be tried or otherwise fastened m such a
manner that .lt is seemingly impossible for
him to .do the tricks that are . afterward
done. Irusome of the "materialism" seances
the medium- In tied, and in fact has no
direct part in the manifestation that after
ward takes place. But, as a rule, the
mediums escape in whole or in part from the
harness placed about them and do have
some part, in the manifestations.
One of the most striking Instances of
rope-tying in which the medium had a
part In the susbequent manifestations was
that of the first Anna Kva Fay, who
toured this country. There are .several
Anna liva Fays, by the way. She per
mitted herself to have her , wrists firmly
bound, tied behind her back and fastened
into a ring attached to a stanchion. A
bandage was placed around her neck and it
was attached to a screw-eye farther up on
the stanchion, and she was seated on a
tool in front (of this post. Her feel were
tied together With a long rope, the one end
of which was constantly held by a member
of the committee of volunteer spectators.
In order to make assurance doubly sure
lliat she .could In no wise escape from her
predicament all knots were carefully sewed
toegthpr. In this position, and lied as she
was. every member of the committee as
serted that she could not possibly escape
or reach any of the objects placed with her
In the cabinet. Vet as soon a the curtain
was drawn a bell began to ring. Then a
f-gtass of water wan set in front of her
and the water disappeared from the glass.
Later a guitar was played and then thrown
over the curtain of the cabinet. After all
of these manifestations, tlx; medium asked
'that the curtain be drawn aside, that her
bandages be re-examined, and then that a
member of the committee be blindfolded
and seated by her side. He was to place
his hands upon his knees and make sure
they did not move. Yet directly the sound
of a nail being driven home was heaid.
plher fnunlfeatations followed, one after
another, and no person in the room nor
any one of the committee had the slightest
idta how It was accomplished. ,'ot one of
them believed that Anna Kva Fay had pro
duced the manifestations herself.
Yet tney were entirely mistaken, for the
woman was not tied so that she could not
move. Although her hand were tied to
gether behind her and the bandages passed
through the .ring in the stanchion, there
was about six inches of slack in the band
ages ou her hands. (Siie was something of
a contortionist, and by taking advantage
of the alack she twisted and slipped bi-r
body around so that she could reach the
artidts iu the cabinet with her bound
band. t neither her head nor her feet
were moved during -the performance. Of
couise -Uii trick requires great physUal
ability.
Vther jnedtuais Lave pirmitted them
selves to be placed iu packing case, large
paper ae. locked rnail bag, and in other
places from -which it would seem impossible
to escape, and UII have brought forth
mar tf-ttiou just the same. In one case
a medium was locked in a strong packing,
t
box, ,Jn which he had. been placed by a
committee, - after havirig been handcuffed
with pair of regulation police handcuffs.
A curtain was drawn, the spectators held
their, brualh for. a few minutes, and then
Uie signal was given that all was in readi
ness for the opeaiugof the box, manifesta
tions of spiritualistsc power, having taken
place in the meantime. When the box was
opened by the committee there was found
in It, handcuffed, u - young womaji, who
bore no resemblance whatever to the orlg
iral occupant. While everyone was in
terested in her, the medium who had been
locked in the packing case In the first in
stance, made hi appearance on the stage.
The explanation of this escape is very
simple, when one understands. The pack
ing box had two handles.1 By turning one
of the screws to one of these handles one
end of this box was released and taJten
out! The imprisjped medium then crawled
out, secured a key. to the handcuffs from
a confederate, ana unlocked them. He then
placed them on the wrists of his fair con
federate, she crawled Into the packing box,
and replaced the screw in Its original po
sition. To this day (hat comjiltlee doe not
know how the exchange of occupants was
eifecied.
In another case the meudium and all
his I si iters gathered around. a large table,
find placed their hands lowujd the center
as the spokes iifn tuwardb the hub of a
wheel, and through holes in the table they
were all tightly interlaced and bound to
gether and to the table by the weaving of
aopper wire through the botes and around
their arms. Yet when the lights were put
out the manifestations appeared. The
secret of this was that medium had a set
of fslse sleeves out of which his hands
cotild readily be slipped. When through
with his performance all he had to do was
to place his hands back in the sleeves
and call for the lights to be turned on.
It I said that nothing Mil the whole
category of binding materials has such
terrors for the medium a a piece of or
dinary white thread. A large or stiff rope
Mill permit of manipulation quite readliy.
but it is impossible to manipulate white
thread without the manipulation being af
terward discovered.
One readily may infer how difficult it Is
to tell what actually does happen In the
darkness of a seance room when the fol
lowing experience of a lia'ned magician
and medium Is told: A medium and her
sorts of manifestations seemed to .appear
around his head. A music box near her
began to play. Other things happened
which could not happen except by the use
of a' free hand or by supernatural mean.
When the lights were turned on the
medium sftll had hr palms upon the backs
of the hands of the ltter. He was mysti
fied, and spent many .hours trying to solve
the problem. At last he called In his wife
and tried the same-performance with her.
His' theory proved correct. By having his
hand cloe together, she gradually slipped
her right hand away and covered his two'
hands with h.-r left. If the very elect
may thus be deceived In so simple an ex
periment, how must It be with him who
knows nothing of the trick of the ,magi-c-an?
About theirst experience that comes to
tho person who visits a medium Is to hear
the rapping of the spirit who wishes to
converse with him or with' whom he wishes
to communicate. Spiritualism had Its be
ginning in rappings. There were two young
girl ln Xew York state, knows as the Fox
sisters. They could produce rappings of
various kinds, and thus started the mys
terious art of the spiritualistic medium.
They afterward confessed that those rap
pings were produced by the Joints of their
knees ond toes. In spite of the confusion,
there are many who to this day believe that
they were produced by supernatural meth
ods. And strange to say, among thoMe who
do so believe are some of the writers who
have written careful and detailed exposures
of the methods of the commercial medium.
Kappingij are produced In many way. A
boot heel pressed against a table leg and
properly worked up and down will accom
plish It. Of course, the rapping is on the
leg of the .table, but as th ventriloquist
throws his voice by calling attention to
the point at which he wishes It to appear,
so the medium has the rapping appear ori
top of the table by declaring that it will do
so. Another method Is to put the thumbs
end to end on the table and hy passing the
thumb nails past one another riiaKe a
napping noise. Leaning heavily on a
somewhat rickety table will also produce
the raps.
There are many involved mechanisms by
which these strange noises may be pro
duced,, and they may he so concealed In
the furnishlntts of a room that no Inves
tigator has any faith in lappings produced
In a medium's own apartment. It is rmlv
V ALOE OF OUR WATER POWER
Some Recent Estimates Based on the
Possible' Horse Power.
ENERGY ' COST ' KILOWATT HOUR
Interestlao; Computation Covering;
Europe aad Thirteen states, with
Deductions Based on Experi
ence of Golan; Plants.
hui-band came to the magician's town and I l,,'n th' are called into strange sur
wtre invited to spend a Sunday with him I rounding ttiat their work even appears
at hi Home. They accepted tho Invitation. testifying. One medium ha a hollow boot
It did not take much conversation to re- i fc,,l which is concealed a little hammer,
v-fcal to tli madiuni and her husband that ! There is a mechanism which makas this
(-timir host well understood the ait of hammer strike the floor at the will of the
! n eiumaiicy. lint the husband of the 1 medium. In another case a telegraph key
f medium inflated that his wlte could do j a tiossd box. the top of which has a
mLuy thiugB of a medium. stic nature that; very slight piav. Is u.-d to produce the
were not laiuted with fraud, in order to ; rapping. By pressing the palm of the hand
I prove thl she gave a private seance for j unobserved against the lid or the box the
j the benefit of the host. When this began rup i made. There are many other
, she told the boJl to place his hands, palm j methods by which these rappings may be
down, ppun the table Then she placed produc ed after a little practice. Not one of
Iher palms upon the back of hi hand. the men who have exposed the practice
I She then lifted one hand and asked him I of commercial mediums regard the rapping
jif tie could feel It when she lifted one of produced by such mediums ' as anything
I her hand. He replied that he could. Then other than natural phenomena.
:she lifted the other, asked the same ques- j Br nT.XMtL0 J HAaKIW
I it til A nri rtit'il Mil t it a-j mu -.,,1 t . .. AW .
Itwy of three maneuvers of this k.nd all! vWtuaU.m and Magic. T
V ptill rbetography.
By PRESTON C. ADAMS.
NEW YORK, May H. (Special Dispatch
to The Bee.) Estimating, as they do In
the west, that a single horse power of
energy, applied in a creative form, ' is
worth 921 a year, the statement that there
Is from 75,000,000 to 15O,OW),0OO undeveloped
horse power. available In the United States,
runs the value of the power that will one
day be utilized In this country so far into
figuren' that the mind gets dlxzy contem
plating the total.
T. Commei'ford Martin, secretary of the
National Electric Light association, and
the greatest electrical statistical authority
In the world, has prepared a report which
he will read at the twenty-fifth' annual
convention of the association which starts
at St. Louis on May 23, In which he shows
tho enormous value of the water power of
the nation and points out how far ahead
tf the other countries of the world the
United States is. s '
The approximate water power develop
ment of 'the country, according to Mr.
Martin, is 3.500,tu-horse power, of which
l.tttC.OOO-horse power is used in electrio
lighting, power and railway plants and
.W,',0, j In Industrial plants. As against
this the public. -utility companies of New
York develop 600,000-horse power by steam.
tV'hnt - tinro;e -Una.
It is estimated that the amount of water
power available for development at a cost
Comparable with steam Is S7.fl0t,WWvhoie
power, and the ami unt available at reason
able cost is, us stated, from 75,O.)O,0uc! to
0.0A.'.C00-hore power. The tight leading
ountries of Europe, according to Mr.
'Martin's eeport. have about Sil.Wli.OOo-horse
j power that could be developed on the basis
; of the quantities of water per second avail
1 able during nine months, and the follow Ing
table shows what this is:
Hp. Per
'..ojO
IB.l
L'-i.i
P.H.U
I'O.U
IA-,.0
1. -'.!. U
U.4CW.0
Beck, chairman, stated last February that
the total amount under contract was 27.&0
horse-power, which at an average of $20
per horse-power, as against SSO for steam
energy, would represent a saving of 11,039,
nOO per annum, ' ,
The wtstern country with its tremendous
amount of undeveloped power will rival
the east, once the power Is placed In a
creative condition, which is rapidly being
done. The mountains of California, Ne
vada, Colorado and other western states
will supply an Inexhaustible amount of
power for all purposes.
One matter which will be thoroughly
threshed over at the St. Louis convention
will be the attitude of Ulfford Plnchot on
the conservation question. It is likely that
some decisive action will be taken, but
Jus: what that action will be la yet un
known. Cost In United States.
In his report Mr. Martin will show the
benefit which has been conferred on the
public by private transmission enterprise
in the United States by a table prepared
by Alton D. Adams, summing up the data
of ten hydro-electric transmission com
panies a follows:
Million kw-hours
sold during the
year.
0. 26
1. tiO
2 40
I.S0
70.
18.20.
M.70.
!4.s).
Average rates In
costs per-kw-sold.
t.0600
1.7000
1.8.SUQ
1.4200
8.400
r. 0.82O9
C.77U0
.0.6X00
14J.00 0.7O4O
2'3.U0 078
It shoulld be noted that a million kilo
watt hour Is in horse-power 1,330,000 horse
power hours.
The last-clttd plant at this rate yielded
l,(.0.-i.K1 total revenue. It dealt with, only
thirty-three customers. About H per cent
went to lighting and traction, the rest to
miscellaneous and chemical uses. Nothing
but water power would have rendered such
prices possible, and the cumulative saving
of coal. can be easily computed. -
Her Madden Hesolve. '
."George, you certainly must ask father's
conseiil to our marriage."
"Your father doesn't like me."
"He likes me, Oeorge, and that will make
It ail right."
"I-I'in afraid not. He told me quite a.
while ago that sooner than see yoti rrr
me he would send you abroad and let you
lay there a year."
"Kid papa say that? rti Europe a year!
I believe I'll take him up." Cleveland
ila-n i-ct1er.
Or eat Britain.
Hp. Per
Hc. Km.
3.it
.b
3'i.t;
1 .11
zo.o
Total Hp
ixvt.OUO
Germany 1.4i,:ii
, f-w itseriand l.tsio.oim
1 ltud i.6nci.cl
1 France 6.K'7,uiO
; Austiia-Hungary cMHc.Uiu
. nweuen . ino xo
(TXorway J.ftuo.MW
i iu t.unuda. Mr. jaailin says, the Hydro
electric commission of Ontario has so far
advanced with Its. plans that energy from
I ii r.iia in firomiseu ioi oeiivery at
I point hk' London, Ontario, bv July 1
The gci.oral result .of thl governmental
jentuipilse will be watched with ureal In-jtcre.-t,
the plan Involving Beneation of
;M w) horat -power and a ti ansmisslon
potential of Ko.ooo volts on the line. The
. plans of the conimlvHloii Include the up-
plying of about 11, tm hom-power to thir
teen cities. V
Frier la Toronto.
Toronto Is to get lO.OuO horse-power at
itm.10 per horse-pou'c r for twent-four
i hours' service and New Hambuig is to
get horse-power at tJS.jir To the
costs are. of course, to be added those of
jtlie local distributing system. Hon. Aaam
Notice To Fat Women.
Prreumably you know, ladle, that the
proper caper nowadays is lines. Curves are
passe. You have got to take off your fau
This must be done in one of three ways,
hy dieting, by exercises, or by means ot
Marinola Prescription Tablets. The two
lormer will keep you busy for months and
ptmUh you pretty severely, the latter wlli
cost you 7 cent at the rirnvirlsiv Tl,.
taniets wnr not make any alteration In
your diet necessary, and yet In all prob
ability, before you have used up one case,
you will be losing from U to 1 ounce
of fat a day. Which method do youjlka
the best?
If you fancy this pleasant method of
geciing- on ine iat. see your druggist Iti
Istantiy, or elxe write the .Mai inula Co.,
o33 Farmer Uldg.. Oetroit, Mich., to send
you a case by mall. These case contain
so generous a iiuantlty of tablets that the
.treatment Is very economical. It Is, also,
(quit harmless, for the tablets are made
.exni-tly In accordance with the famuus
oiarnioia tTeai ription. (Adv.)
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