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f THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1912. Nebraska News of West Point and Cuming County WEST POINT, Neb., July 4.-Speclal.) -State Fire Warden Buck of Wisner was In West Point Wednesday morning and upon complaint of citizens officially con demned the old frame building ad1oinln tlie Nellgh house, the leading hotel of the city. The building has been occupied for some years. . It is slowly decaying and is a standing menace to the safety or the surrounding district. The sewerage situation as developed by reason of the destruction of the dam across the Elkhorn river at West Point Is unlaue. The main sewer empties Into the mill race at a point a few rods be low the mill. By reason of the loss of the dam this race now has no water and as a natural consequence the sewage Is left exposed, to the great danger of the public health. A special election DDE TO HAPPY ACCIDENTS Many Great Discoveries the Result of Odd Mishaps. CHANCE SOLVES PROBLEMS Articles In Common t"e Carry Es perimental Romance Fame, and Fortune Quickly r Follow. ' , It is repetitive history that many a per son who has spent hours upon hours com bining and recombining the factors of his problem has had the solution thrust upon his attention by some casualty of dally life. Such occurrences are the spice of research and lead on many a weary in vestigator in hard and exacting labor. Here la the field where the trained ob server has all the advantage. For how many fortunes may never have been real ised only because no one had. eyes to be hold the revelation? In our own time every beet sugar fac- was tory was confronted with these two prob- held In the city on Tuesday , to vote $14, 000 bonds to carry proposed sewer im provement Into effect. The bonds car ried by about to 1, the actual majority In favor of the proposition being 122. Two or three small showers during the past three days have been of consider able benefit to corn and potatoes, which needed moisture badly. Small grain and pastures are suffering, greatly for want lems: How most cheaply to move the beets from the storage sheds to the sllcers; and how to cleanse the beets from the dirt, small stones and rubbish carried from the earth silos. A German factory happened to have a considerable quantity of beets piled alongside an open drain. A very heavy rainstorm came on, and when it was over It was found that the beets had not only been carried to the very of rain. Small grain Is In just that stage &r of the factory, but were cleaned as where moisture is required to nil out the weu. irom mat time on every factory heads. Bains have been abundant on all has flushed Its beets from storage to sides of Cuming county but aside from P,ant and saved money by combining the two or three light showers no apprecl- two operations of transportation and washing. Corn Starch. Thomas Klngsford discovered the proc ess of making starch from Indian corn by cured, the clear, dry weather of the patL,, ' , . , . . ,. ' a.... ,a v. --..u tatoes and from wheat, but it had st able quantity has fallen here for two weeks. Early potatoes will be a short crop, but the late variety promises bet ' ter. Hay Is practically all cut and Is a heavy crop of excellent quality, well , ten days being Ideal hay weather. Lincoln Democrats Divide Over Bryan (From a Staff Correspondent). LINCOLN, July 4. (Special.) Whila, smiles illuminate tthe face of a great many Lincoln democrats over" the nora- lnatlon of Woodrow Wilson, still some chunks of gloom have not yet passed iwv . under the smiles of those who seem satisfied. Most of the faithful are awaiting the arrival of Mr. Bryan to get the proper cue as to movements to be made, but others seem to think that they do not care to follow Mr. Bryan any farther. fine nromlnent democrat who was a lusty singer In the cause of the Bryan home guards four years ago said yes terday: "I was born and raised In the south. I have voted the democratic ticket every year of my life since I be came a voter. I never voted for a republican for an Important office, but after the nomination of Wilson I think that It Is about the time for me to change my pollttcs. I shall vote for Mr. Taft because he represents some thing." ' Another prominent democrat said when asked what effect the victory ot Mr. Bryan at Baltimore would have on the situation here in Nebraska as regards the organization of the state committee, replied "None ' whatever." The. same elements whlch'i control the state committee .now wllL control It at the Grand Island meeting." A well known official at the , state house who was not talking for publica tion said: "I think Mr. Bryan showed ways been found Impossible to separate corn starch from the accompanying glu ten. The wheat starch methods did not answer. Klngsford was a mechanic work ing long hours, and all his experiments were made In his own kitchen with his wires pans, tubs and buckets as his laboratory utensils. The unsatisfactory results of one of his experiments a mush . of cornmeal and water he dlstustedly threw lntd a gar bage tub. A little later his wife threw Into the same tub some lye wastes. Upon emptying the tub the next day Klngsford was surprised to find a small amount of fairly pure starch at the bottom. His wife fortunately remembered throwing n the lye, and thus the basic principle was discovered. Klngsford soon worked out a practical process for making cornstarch comraer; dally and he not only made a great for tune for himself and his descendants, but laid the foundations of an Industry which consumes 30,000.000 bushels of corn an nually In the United States alone. Sliver Plating. In 1742 Thomas Bolsover, a mechanic of Sheffield, England, discovered the art of silver plating. He was repairing the han dle of a knife In which both copper and silver were used. Accidentally the two metals were fused together. Based upon this observation he developed the new process. Upon a thick Ingot of copper he bound by Iron wire a thinner ingot of silver. The whole was then heated in a reverbatory furnace until the edges of the silver ingot were observed to begin to melt. The two ingots were then ritmnveri Irqm the furnace, slowly cooled and pickled, cleaned and rolled to the desired thickness. The result was a plate of copper more or less thinly covered with silver on one side. This was the first Sheffield plate. For fifty years following an unlimited amount of gall to go in and defeat Champ Clark for first place the copper was plated on one side onlv. and then offer to make the speech of Later the process was so perfected that nomination for him for the second place on the ticket" Orkin Bros, Buy Segerstrom Pianos no- copper was left exposed. All the sil ver plate of the world was made by this process, until electro-plating was discov ered and made commercial. The many technical processes of the ancients were without doubt of accidental origin. Until comparatively recent times there was no groundwork of theory In nn. f th iar.Rt local nlano transfers e'ther metallurgy or chemistry, and in- ever recorded in Omaha has just been telllgent investigation, planned to accom nrti. wrn fn hnvinir our- Pllsh certain result, cannot exist without chased the entire piano stock and bust- nis groundwork. The only opportunity of the Segerstrom Piano Co. at "" f'"' was mai arroraed Nineteenth and Farnam streets. The L"nce ln conjunction with a keen and nrwm. T,..rrhfld not onlv the nianos. Ln(luIr,n observer. For instance, the 100 in number, but the entire store ?,M knew nothing of the metal zinc, un.l.nt : all the Sertrom stools But Bome obeying Roman mechanic had bonches, scarfs, player rolls, store fix tures and office equipment, etc. One may readily figure out what an advantageous purchase the Orkin ; es tablishment has made, when it is said that most of the instruments ln the found that when stones of a certain kind were heated with copper a hard, yellow metal was obtained. Thus brass was discovered and ln this manner It was made for centuries. We know now. that the stones which possessed these curious I nrrtn.rfl. wr. tK. l...t. ..1 . , Segerstrom stock were purchased at 35 LmltW. t. . - ... i ui 1 1 vu lc ami LaiuUIUie OI line, respectively. They occurred together in mines, which were, at that time. cents on the dollar. The Segerstrom Piano company will ln the future con fine Itself mainly to piano manufacturing, the Omaha retail business having taken too much time and attention. Many ex traordinarily fine makes of Instruments were handled by the Segerstrom com pany, this firm having featured such makes as the "Knabe" in addition to In struments of its own manufacture. An immense sale of the Segerstrom stock Is just being announced and the Instruments must be disposed of within thirty days at the present Segerstrom location at Nineteenth and Farnam streets. AH the Interests of the former Seger strom concern will in the future be taken care of by the Orkin Bros. Co. (formerly Bennett's), who will stand back of the guarantee. A brilliant future, I the piano f ieid has been predicted for the Orklns and this special selling of the Seserstrom stock will undoubtedly prove the means of placing pianos in a hundred Omaha homes that until, now have been with out Instruments. SEVERAL BUSINESS HOUSES IN KEARNEY ARE ROBBED KEARNEY, Neb., July 4.-Specia:.)-In what would seem the natural sequence of crooks traveling west from Grand Island, where some bunglesome safe cracking was done Monday night, two of Kearney's business places were entered early this morning, the Downing green house office, where about 18 was taken, and the Mike Kanzler lumber office, worked for the Iron ores. Vitruvius Is our authority for the state ment that the manufacture of red lead wasthe result of an accidental fire. He also tells us that red lead made by cal cining white lead ln a furnace was much superior to that obtained directly from the mines, DUoovery of Glass. This Is similar, In a way, to the legen dary story of the discovery of glass by ! the Phoenicians. The tale runs ln this way: Certain of their merchants, return ing from Africa in a ship loaded with natron (crude mineral soda ash), found It necessary on account of bad weather to seek harbor. They found themselves on a sandy plain near Mt. Carmel. They built fltes on the sand and placed their kettles over the fires on lumps of natron. The beat fused the sand and natron to gether, forming the first glass. Whether or. not the ctory be true ln Its details as handtd down the essence of it is cer tain, viz.. that glass was discovered in this manner, prcbably at different times bymen of different nationalities, as its manufacture was known by many people j at an early period. - Vitruvius again, tells us that in Spain were found Certain stones, which, after having been "punished" (beaten) Store, Closes at 5:00 OXlock ORKIN BROTHERS COMPANY, Successor to 16TH AND HARNEY STREETS Store Closes at 5:00 O'Clock -J You Will Save By Spending at the Sale of the Bennett Entire Half-Million Dollar Stock That the "economy of the woman is fully equal to the earning power of the man" wise sociologists have admitted. But the wisely economical woman does not economize chiefly by pinching and scrimpiug-rather she chooses her occasions for buying. MOST OF THE PRICES IN THIS BIG CLOSING OUT OF THE BENNETT HALF-MILLION DOLLAR mm mm mm mm,m,m.m,m,m,mtm.... - r--, ""v-rf-M-Vn ii-VsnnniTLn TLiin nri n Worth $10 to $15 for t7 (T R 200 Foulard Dresses Like those that created such a sensa tion last Saturday, are offered Friday at When we say like those that sold last Saturday at $3.95, we mean that the qualities correspond. The styles are a little later, perhaps, for these came in the special purchases of Bennett cancelled orders,, and there is even greater range of colorings, patterns and trim ming schemes for your selection. The material is an elegant quality twilled foulard. Low neck styles with lace yokes, short sleeves and other good points that will make them in high favor with the particular woman. The sale will begin with all sizes for misses and women, but, in order to be sure of securing the exact size and dress you want, it will be well to come in the morning, as the enormous sales of last Saturday are convincing proof that early choosing is to your advantage. Wash Dresses of chambray and tissue ginghams in plain colors and stripes; collars and cuffs of white and colored embroidery; some Norfolk styles are included; $3.95 values at $2.50 Tan linen Norfolk dresses with white pique collars and cuffs and patent leather belts; $9.95 val ues at $4-95. . White pique dresses in low neck and short sleeve styles; light blue embroidered waists; some in Nor folk styles with novelty collars; $5.95 values at $3.95. Striped' lawn dresses in many different styles; $5.95 values at $3.95. Heavy Ramie linen Norfolk dresses in Copenhagen blue, pink and white; patent leather belts and bow ties; $13.50 val., $6.95. Two-toned striped Bedford cord Norfolk dresses with jackets of white pique; skirts are to be had in lavender, pink, light blue, black and white; $15. v0 values, $7.95. and embroid dresses with Colored, striped ered dotted lawn lace yokes and velvet ribbon trim mings; $15.00 values at $7.95. Junior Wash Dresses Junior wash dresses of ging hams, lawns, linens and percales; all colors; ages 13 to 17; Friday, $1.23 t6 $4.05. Tailored Linen Suits Tan tailored linen suits in smart Norfolk styles; $12.00 to $13.50 values at $3.95 and $6.95. Linen Coats Tan linen coats la fine and coarse weaves; fancy and plainly tailored styles with high and low collar effects; $12.00 to $13.50 values at $5.95 and $6.95. Norfolk Suits Norfolk suits of white Bedford cord or white pique that Bennett's. pncea ai iio.uu, wnne they last, at $7.50. Reinforcements in Muslin Underwear Sale After the corset comes perfect fitting muslin underwear. The Bennett Company wis notable for the perfect fitting qualities of its muslin underwear-each gar ment being correctly proportioned as regards comfort and the prevailing fashions. Then there's great variety in materials and trimming schemes to fit every purse and need. All this" muslin underwear-the very best that can be purchased-is priced in this closing out sale at less than the wholesale cost. Five hundred dozen corset covers and drawers, worth 39c the garment, at ... . . . OQ Four hundred dozen corset covers, drawers and skirts, worth OQ 75c the garment, at . . . sy Corset covers, drawers, gowns and skirts, worth 75 cents to 85 A Q cents the garment, at . . . TT7C $1.25 corset covers, drawers, com bination suits, gowns and f!Qg skirts, at . ..... . .' O&C $1.50 corset covers, drawers, com' bination suits, gowns and Q Q skirts at . . ., . . 0JC $1.75 corset covers, drawers, com bination suits, gowns and QQ skirts at JOC Broken Lots of Corsets are Further Reduced In Price There are many styleB and lengths embodying all the materials and points that make for per fect corset satisfaction. Best quality batistes, coutils and brocades, boned with non-rustable boning and equipped with good hose supporters. Bennett's prices ranged from $2.50 to $10.00. Sale prices, $1.69 to $6.00 Pair Other corsets from the most reputable makers, in all of the styles that are fashionable for all types of figure, are priced at $1 and up to $15. All corsets selling at three dollars or more are fitted by expert corsetieres free of charge. Save Money in Pure Food Store A Sale of BATISTES This is one of the best items of the entire sale and is from the cancelled orders of the Bennett Co. Full 30 inches wide and a good vari ety of patterns for your choosing. 19c and 25c values, priced for Friday's selling, the yard- 12VaC 19 lbs. granulated sugar, $1.00 35c Bennett's Best coffee, 30c 68c assorted teas, lb 58c 15c tea sittings 12c 1-lb. can Bennett's Capitol bak ing powder .20c ,18-lb. box soda or oyster crack ers .$1.10 3 large cans Cottage condensed milk 25c Vi pint bottle Blue Label catsup for 10c -lb. cake Walter Baker's Premium chocolate 15c Onion Salt, bottle 12c Pull cream cheese, lb ......... 18o Neufchatel cheese, each .4o Bennett's Capitol lemon or vanilla extract,-bottle 13o Bennett's Capitol flour, sack'. . 1.30 , 10c pkg. seeded raisins, pkg ....60 18o apricots, lb 18o 4 pkgs. Minnesota Elbow macaroni for 26o 10 bars "Diamond C" soap 35o 10 bars "Beat 'Em All soap.... 85o 11 bars New Style soap 8S0 1 dozen boxes safety matches... 60 Butter and Eggs Bennett's Capitol creamery, butter, 1-lb. brick, full weight guaranteed, at ,....35o Best country butter, lb. .S5o Good butter, lb 33o Fresh eggs, doz SOo Pure Candies 50c Fluffeatta chocolates. lb....3So 60c frosted Brazil creams, lb., 40o 3 6c pkgs. Hershey's milk choco late 100 Toasted marshmallows, lb loo Grape nuts, pkg lOo Medium sour pickles, quart loo 3 10c pkgs. crackers ,...85e Fruits.Vegetables Fancy new -potatoes, peck, 85c Fresh home grown peas, qt, Be Fresh home grown cauliflower, large head 6c Fresh home grown cucumbers, 2 for Be 4 bunches fresh beets and car rots ..Be Fresh string or wax beans, lb. 5c Large heard cabbage 5c Large basket fancy peaches for . ,22Hc Large basket fancy tomatoes for 22Jsc Express Wagons The famous "Pioneer" brand boys' Blue Express wagons will be placed on sale Friday at the prices quoted below. They have extra heavy wheels, loup grip, bent handles and hub caps and are the very higb est grade of boys' steel wagons. Made, principally, for service. $2.00 wagons with 12x24inch bodies and 8-inch and 12-inch wheels $1.19 $2.25 wagons with 18x26-inch s bodies and 10-inch and 18-inch wheels $1.39 $2.60 wagons with 14x2S-inch bodies and 11-inch and 14-inch wheels .... .$1.69 $2.75 wagons with 15x30-inch bodies and 12-inch and 15-inch wlieelM ....$1.79 Cut Glass Tumblers, 17c 76 dozen star cut heavy tumblers; an especially high grade of cutting; regular price, $3.98 dozen;, Friday, each.' mw va i 17c American Carbons This great collection em braces Romney carbonselec trotones, albumens, green carbons and royal photo graphs in all sizes from 7x9 up to 32x48 inches. , They are the best. repro ductions from the old mas ters, while a few prints of the most noted buildings in this and the old countries are in cluded. All are priced at less than half, the sale markings rang ing from 25c to $10 EmbroideredSwisses One lot of 27-inch embroidered Swisses ln checks & dots; r 15c and 19c values, at... 2.C Bed Spreads Hemmed bed spreads, the right weight for summer cover; regular sale price $1.00, Friday, each..... ..,,(UC Table Linen at 33c 64-lnch mercerized table linen; a variety of patterns to no choose from; 45c values.. OoC Colored Cretonnes 36-inch art cretonnes In' all light . colors; 19c values, the ir yard at ..1UC Seamed Bed Sheets 72x90' seamed bed sheets; Ben nett's price 55c each, 0f " Friday at ... ....... OOC New Patterns in Dress Ginghams 27-inch dress ginghams in light and dark stripes and checks all new patterns; 10c values, at 6ic Clothes Pins 75 hardwood clothes pins; all per fect . goods none de- Uvered except with other . toods-Friday at. ......... v w STOCK RANGE AROUND A HALF or less than the cost of manufacture. And the offerings include everything wanted and needed for the ward robe and the home. Can you think of a more opportune time or place for supplying yourself with all present and some future needs! EVERY ITEM IN THE STORE IS A BARGAIN. BETTER COME EARLY. Iron rods, for a sufficient length of time, began to -"perspire," and the "perspira tion" was mercury. Certainly It was a crude manner of reducing the mercuric ore, cinnabar, with metallic iron, but surely feasible. He fails to tell, and. one cannot but wonder by what happy acci dent the method was discovered. Could wry careful study he noticed that a part cf the window frame down which the acid first ran was covered with tin. It ap peared that tin was' the active element, with and further experiment confirmed this where nothing was taken but In which I mmering st0ne was an off! from a heavy sledgehammer and few charges of explosives, some blasting pow der being found on the floor. The green housa was entered through a side screen door, the screen being cut with a knife to allow of Its unhooking, which gave the burglars an opportunity to enter the office, where a locked drawer ln the desk was pried open and the cash register change, amounting to about 18, taken. No other damage was done. v Nobody Is Too Old to learn that the sure way to cure a cough, cold or sore lungs Is with Pr. King's New Discovery. ' 50c and 11.00. For sale by. Beaton Drug Co. 1 clal punishment then as It is now? Changing- Dye Colors. In setting or mordanting certain dyes the salts , of tin are lndispenslble. The origin of their uee is but little known. Cornelius Drebbel, about the year 1610, was doing some work with cochineal. On a shelf overhead was a bottle of aqua regia, a mixture of nitric and muriatic acids. This bottle was broken and the acid trickled down a window frame and part of It ran Into another bottle con taining an extract of cochineal. A bril liant scarlet resulted. Drebbel later at tempted to repeat the experiment by add ing; aqua regia to extract of cochineal, but there was no change of color. After conclusion. As a result Drebbel owned the secret of making a dye having many new and valuable qualities, and today this Is an important use of tin. Roentgen was not looking for X-rays, but, after an experiment on an entirely different subject, he noticed that 'some photographic plates, which had been left near by, were fogged. He sought the reason and his great X-ray discovery was the result. Coal Tar Derivatives. In 1884 Dr. Reusen was conducting an extensive research into a certain family of coal-tar derivatives. One of his stu dents was a German named Fahlberg. This young man, one evening after re turning to his boarding house, ate his dinner without having washed his hands. During the course of the meal in some manner he became aware that he had some extremely sweet substance on his fingers. He at once returned to the la boratory and tasted of every solution there. In a certain beaker he found the source of that sweetness. He gave the new substanoe a commer cial nickname, saccharin, and It was a wise action, because its real name was "orthobenzosulphonlmlde." Whether the fortune he made waa due to a lucky acci dent or his boarding house training, re mains a moot point among his contempo raries. It is also curious to note, in this connection, that after more than twenty five years of general use by diabetic suf ferers as a harmless substitute for sugar this substance has. recently been put under the ban by the chemistry bureau of the Agricultural department. It is forbidden not only to the sick, who consumed great quantities of it, but to the well, who have unknowingly eaten their share under guise of table sirups. The pages of science are replete with similar instances, and that is one of the reasons why the hard and dreary out lines of technical research are softened and rendered alluring: The chance of the great discovery, the possibility of great fortune or renown, the plamour. the en ticing glamour that leads the student dig ging deep for nature's secrets ever on and on. Popular Magailne. MAKING STEAM WITHOUT FIRE Electricity as Heating; Power Boiler Amply Demon-atrated. la That a tubular steam boiler may be operated without any fire, the water in each tube being heated by an electric ele ment contained within the tube itself, has now been amply demonstrated. Ex pense will probably prevent the use of such boilers for motive power, but there are conditions in which they will be val uable. They are In use, for instance, In generating steam for heating trains drawn by electric engines. One might think that It would be more economical to use the electric current directly for the heat ing, and so it would where electric power is to be used to operate the train through out its course. In many cases, however, an electric engine Is ured only within city limits or within a definite sone, and steam must be used for heating after It Is un coupled. Hre, therefore, the electrically heated steam boilers come usefully into play. Says a writer: "The boilers are cylindrical, vertical and tubular. In each tube is a heating cle ment consisting of a tube, within which are fixed resistances formed of a nucleus of steatite around which Is rolled , a re sultant metallic wire of special composi tion and very refractory.'. "The boilers already built contain 148 tubes 44 feet long and 1 Inches ln diam eter. They can furnish about 860 pounds of steam per hour at a pressure, ot fifteen pounds to. the square centimeter. The heating elements are grouped by section, each connected with independent switches to control the production of the steam. "The system ' Just described . has been applied on electric locomotives to produce the steam pressure to heat the train. The results have been satisfactory.' The elec tric heating of boilers will probably not come into general use, because of the high price of electric energy. It may nevertheless render service ln certain special cases, for example, when It Is necessary to keep boilers under pressure in the reserve station of a water power house, so as to be able. In case of need, to start the steam engines quickly. Dr. Elkstrom and A. Tengvall have patented an arrangement In which the heating ele ment of the boiler Is combined with a relay and a contact manometer, in such , fashion that the deilred pressure may be obtained automatically. Calculation seems to indicate that to keep a tubular boiler of 720 square feet under- -a pressure of one atmosphere a power of sixteen kilo watts should be sufficient Literary . Digest. : , . . - : . r- Persistent Advertising Big Returns. ' is the Road to , . Trainmen. Hart at Hautnton. . HAMPTON, la.. July 3.-(Special Three trainmen were Injured, none of them fatally, when a southbound Rock Island passenger train ran into an open switch two miles south of here to day. The injured afe George Golden.,' engineer; Bert Potter, fireman, and J. , L. Lee, baggageman. The engineer lumped. The engine - tank and baggaga car left the track and delayed traffic for several hours. . ' - "I was cured of diarrhoea by one do- -of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy'," writes M. E. Gebhardt. Oriole, Pa. There is nothing better. For , sale by all dealers. ,