T11K UKB: OMAHA. MONDAY, FKl'KTMiV 17. mi:? Before deciding on your insur ance 'phono D. 1275, and as about the new low cost, all guaranteed pol icies, all plans. Iilte, Limited Payments, En dowmonts. Joint or Pert- P.0""0" ".Monthly Incon.V or Pen sion Policies, f.rn.aeSH Co- of America U0 CARPENTER, Mjr. ijis-aa city wan nk. magM Omaha I Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company OF MILWAUKEE MANN & JUNOD General Agents 038-514 Hrantlels nultdlng. QMAHA 'Notes from the Insurance Field Equitable Life Assurance Society U, S. Assets over500,000,000. Paid Policy holders over $815,000,000. H. D. NEELY & 00., Managers II. D. NE13LY .J012 KliUlX Merchants Xnt'l Hank Hltlg. k. ii. piokaku Obey That Impulse! Not the man who INTENDED hut the man who INSURED left provision for his family. G. W. NOBLE, General Agent. CHAHLES X.. HOPPER, Special Agent. J. O. HITCHMAN. gpeclal Ajwnt. orriOEBi 638-643 Brandels Bid. Omaha. THE Union Central Life Ins, Co, or ACTIVITIES OF FIREBUGS Analysis of the Operations Through out the Country. BUSINESS MOVES BY SCHEDULES llovr "Sinii(iinriMia Continuation" I)rtroH V n prof Itnlilr Storks of (iooiln mill lltitlilliiBTR Spur of Insurance .Monej. Arson's mighty toll of JtiSO.OW.OOO u year fn tl.o I'nltcd Stutes mid Cnnudu serves as a show window In whirl, Arthur E. McFarlane exhibits tin- orlous activities of firebugs hustling for Insurnncp money. This particular exhibit, the second of tho series In Collier's "Weekly, deal with "Arson by Schedule." "Professional arson." ho says. ' now has Its, "retailers' and 'wholesalers,' lu 'mort- CINCINNATI, OHIO HARRY O. STEEL General Agent. 311-313 Ramara Bid, rhona D 3103 WHEN Bl'YINO T-lirre tvstti ...i. ... whn knows tho life J"u"nnce business; one who is able to advise you the best form of policy i4 or you. There are more than 60 different kinds of policies Issued. Get the form best suited to your condition in life. Write or cnll. Clarence N Anderson, 430 Bee Building D. 2266 Omaha, Nebraska "State Mutual Life" OF WORCESTER, MASS. OHE OF THE OLDEST-69 YEARS and Best Companies on Earth. W. H. INDOE General Agent 052 Uce Building, OMAHA ORGANIZED 104C. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of NEWARK, NEW JERSEY GEO. T. BLANDFORD, General Agent. 415-10 City National Dank BIdg. Omaha, Nebraska. You Get Any f This Wioraey? Coincident "with an enormous Increase of btislnesB during the last five years The Bankers Reserve Life . Company of Omaha increased Its payments of annual dividends to policy holders as follows: ' 1907-50,444.00 1908 $G4,582.0O 1909 $81,787.00 - . '' ' 1 910-$98,028.0Q ,1911 $108,609.00 No other life company pays larger dividends in proportion to business in force. WHEN A MAN LIVES CLEAR UP TO HIS INCOME He owes it to himself and his business to provide adequate life insurance the un expected is always happening. See TM KELLY INSURANCE MAN" Douglas 861. EIGHTY MILLIONS ASSETS ( A. 3. LOVE, President. FRANK J. HASKELTj, Sec'y. Love -Haskell Company Known Kind of Insurance Every .111-321 Omaha Xnfl Bank Uldg. Phone Douglas 380. Let the Buyer Beware SEE US BEFORE GALLAGHER & NELSON General Agent Xlllnola Surety Co, ANY BRANCH BITTING ANOTHER POLICY IN OF INSURANCE. 483 Br&ndela Bldg. D. 3382 ' REINSTATE YOURSELF, How? By buying a policy in a company which will ncrralt you to do BO. Yes, without a new medical examination. When? By paying the premiums in default with interest at any time while tho policy is In force as extended insurance. Extended in surance becomes automatic after the payment of three premiums. This is only one of the many favorable provisions contained in our policies. For rates and other particulars call or write w z SNELL. President. THE MIDWEST LIFE A Nebraska Company. . &. Hjjm offices! Plrat National Bank Building, Llnooln. A. A. TAYLOR and QEORQE CROCKER, General Agents, Rooma 1313-1314 City National Bank Building, Omaha. Your opportunity may be here The real estate bargains and business chances which are offered in the classified section of The Bee are among the best presented by any paper in the west. Hundreds have gained immensely through reading these pages and taking advan tage of the opportunities presented there. Phone Tyler lOOO grige fixers and 'assignees, Us bands who specialize on stores, on loft factories, on stables full of horses. A really up-to-date organization, as was shown recently In Chicago, does everything from procur ing tho Insurance to collecting It. 'There Is every Indication." snys one Insurance nuthorlty. 'that. Now York has u regular flro exchange.' Hut there Is worse than that. In the tenements of New Yor!; and Chicago ond Cleveland and l'nterson and Pittsburgh ntjson Is taught as In a school. "Between January i 1!M!. and July 31. 1912. thirteen tenement houses In one row gave fifty-six fires. Another row gave Its fifty-three, another Its forty-eight. Individual liouses had their seven, nine, fourteen! One can follow aison through the streets of our great cities as one can follow It by trades and seasons. One can follow It by families, a-s other forms of crime have been followed In the chronol ogy of The Jukes. In Fast New York there Is a family known to Insurance de tectives os 'tho family with UW fires. Chicago has great tenement districts which, If the risk can be measured by the Insurance rnte, are now more dangerous than our powder mills. On n Ilnslnonn IIiihIh,' "For thirty years. In our fire problem, we have been pursuing a policy of ostrlchlsm and knownothtnslsm and pre tense. In our Insurance world 'moral hazard' tho hugo proportion of our fires that are dishonest has been a kind of gieat 'secret of I'ollchlncllo.' Everybody knows It. but nobody must talk about It to outsiders." Ho seeks to show that there aro dis tricts In cities and states where arson rages and. that even more cnlculably, there are arson "seasons." He follows the Intimate relation between fire epi demics and the progress of prosperity In the business burned out, but ho has not vpt raised the ntiestlon of the blamo. Ho has not, like Commissioner Johnson, sug gested that a more rigorous preliminary Inspection before the issuance of ioUc!es would cure tho evil, for most of the dls- far has not been of over- Insurance. Speaking of the geographical arrumte ment of arson, he says: "In the case of Minnesota, some one at once says, 'Forest fires.' But the stnto fire marshal's reports show that nearly one-half of Minnesota's devastating for est 'fires In 1911 took place In mercantile buildings and lumber yards In the city of Minneapolis; and that they, raged al most as unquenchably In similar forest fastnesses In Winona and Duluth." In Rochester, too. It appears there was what the Insurance men call a "sit uation." H was swept by Incendiarism, but rather than have the Insurance coin panics pull out of town, the city pre tended they were accidental, and fever ishly Increased Its fire fighting force and equipment. "Up to date, Rochester has paid-enough In additional Insurance and spent enough money on additional flro protec tion to run tho fire crooks out of ever second city In tho country. And If you will look up the fire record for 1911. the lost available, you wlllflnd that In tho year the number of fires In Rochester Increased by 197. mostly mercantile, with un addition to her fire loss of J20O.M3. about 76 per cent above the figures fur 1910. The total Incendiary fire loss In Rochester In 1911 was-offlclally $.. And yet, when In 1912, the writer made confidential Inquiries of a high Rochester official as to the real causes of the Rochester situation, no pretense what ever was made that the causes weie physical. He was simply referred to the chief of police." "Seasonal" Fire Arrangement. Still more Interesting Is tho demonstra tion of "tho seasonal" arrangement of fires, particularly in seasonal businesses. Just as December and January are tho Inventory and settlement months wheii Dun's or Bradstrcet's look for an In crease' of failures, so the fire Insurance president knows that December and Jan uary win always Dnng an increase oi fires. "The midwinter cold Is the obvious explanation?" asks Mr. McFarlane with sarcasm. "The midwinter cold causes Its dozens of wretched llttlo household fires. But It does not start tho flro which counts, the JIOO.OOO 'burn out' with total loss, on the seventh floor of tho team-heated, 'fireproof loft building or manufacturing plant." Mr. McFarlane demands some other explanation than a thermometries! ont for the fact that December's fire loss will normally run ahead ot February's by from W.OOQ.000 to H.OM.OOO. He goes on to show where fires can be proph sled by seasons. "For example, unprosperous summer hotels become unusually dangerous risks In October ond In November, while win ter resort hotels burn briskly in April and May. Spring and autumn, when winter and summer clothes are useless, except for Insurance purposes, witness epidemics of little 'closet fires' In tho tenements. It goes without saying that this year's hats and muffs must next year be sold at a heavy discount becauso they are out of fashion. Therefore, in those months, when the hat makers, the clothing maker and 'the fur makes have finished stocking up the Jobbers and retailers, and have not yet com menced manufacturing for next year, tho Insurance companies expect an .Increase of fires In these trades,' The expectation is rarely disappointed. The seasonal fur flro lias been a fireman joke for years. "On one occasion an Insurance broker visited a New York agency to get more Insurance for a big loft tenant. As Di ligent knew, this was the time of the i'n,- when that tenant would not nor. , nir'.ll)- need more insurance. He used the telephone and ascertained the worst. A j t.ir nkler order had been issued against i that establishment. Instead of lncrea.'- i i ing the insurance, me agent oruereu it y irr.neiea at once, ne was too iuie. uy $ I the conditions of the standard policy liu had to give five days of grace. And the fire came on the night of the fourth! Here, as usual, no one found any evi dence of Incendiarism." Decrease in Fire Losses Shown in the January Record The losses iy fire In the t'nlted Slates and Canada during the month of Jan uary, us complied from the carefully kept records of the New York Journal of Com merce and Commercial llulletin. aggre gated $20.19S.2fO. as compared with ISS, Ki3,KiO In January last year, and JSt.l'iS. 450 for January. 1911. During January this year thoro wctj no less than 365 fires causing a loss of IttO.OOO.or over In each Instance. This compares with 634 fires of n like destruc- tlveness during January. 191S. when the severe climatic conditions greatly in creased tho number of serious fires. The principal largo fires during the month Just closed were as follows: Knnsfls Cltv. Mo., office building.. JJfAOOO Chicago. III., business block M0.W0 Mason City, la., hotel, newspaper plant and other.., 300.000 Calgary. Alberta meat pocking plant i'lw.wv Edmonton. Alba., several business houses 3.ow Cleveland. O., garuge and hotel... 200.TO0 Newark, N. J., storngo warehouse. a,w Trenton, Out., block of business houses ow.uiu STATE INSURANCE A FAILURE - i- Mail Order Methods Fail to Secure Applicants for Policies on Lives. AGENTS ARE FOUND NECESSARY Effect of Rate War On Modern Woodmen Membership According to the Chicago ltecord Herald the controversy of the Modern Woodmen of America over the proposed Increase of rates, which has now been nbandoned, hnd an injurious effect on the membership. Tljls was over 1.000,000 at the beginning or lust year, uui mo order entered the yenr with a member ship of 9C0,W8. There were 80.222 members In temporary suspense over sixty days and less than six months and 27.508 mem bers In temporury suspense less than sixty duys. Now that tho advanced rate question has been abandoned, It is be lieved that many of these will return, that being ths cause for their retire ment. Miss Murphy Returns Thanks for Check The following letter relative to an In surance plcturo published In Tho Heo Ij self-explanatory: "OMAHA. Feb. 11. National Fidelity and Casualty Company, Omaha.-Gcu-tlcmen: I wish to thank you very much for tho check you sent me In lieu of thrco months AJi-Sar-Bcn policy, as win ner In the comietltlon In Tho Sunday Bee of Januory 20. 1913. "I submitted the slogan. 'Accidentally Injured, but safely Insured,' and In view of the fact that you awarded this prize to me through a spirit of fairness, al though no 'company Issues a policy of this kind to a woman, and offered t glvo me a check In lieu of the same, your action Is very much nppreclafcd bv .. ..t.l l.n..-x me. Many otner companito iu uu.u awarded the prize for a less meritorious answer to a man In order to avoid any complications. "I thank you very much for this very fair settlement nnd I wish you all suc cess. Very sincerely yours, "MISS MARY H. MURPHY. lv fl NATIONAL fly) vdlFIDELITVC Kry AiMrrtUlnR nnil flrrk Hire Wrlt liiK Letters llmreed llir font of Mnliitnlnlnn Aiienls In the riolil. "When one scans the ast figures of life Insurance utid sees the enonmus amount In ft-ce. he Is compelled to take off his hut to the men In the felld. w'm have been largely responsible for this magnificent achievement. IId thero been no agents persistently and lalih fully canvassing tho people, the amount of Insurance would show a much differ ent result," says the t'nder rlter. "It Is Interesting to dissect the repft made on the Postal I.lfc by tho New i o-k department In the effort to ax-ertaln whether insurance by mall Is reolh sue cessful and If It Is gotten nt less cut than through tho medium of agents. While perhaps the plan has not been tried sufficiently long to reach an exa t conclusion, yet the figures so for Indl- j cnte that the cost of advertising ard postugo expense, together with the sum rles of those required In writing letters to pro'pects, aro In excess of the agency method. One letter will not bring an application. Much coircspondence back and forth ensues. This requires time and money. "After all, there is no producing racier that can bo compared with the agents They glvo the life Insurance buslnes.i that personal touch that It needs. Al pllcutlons nro hard enough to secure by personal solicitation. To close them ly medium of a letter Is much moro diffi cult. "The much-exploited state life insur ance scheme In Wisconsin so for Is a dismal failure. Hut a few upplleuti vis have come In. Tho theory of reducing cost by applicants voluntarily seeking H suranco and thus eliminating tho agent's commission Is beautiful In theory, b.it In practice the personal power ami per- sunslon of tho agent hits to he presont to secure tho signature. One of tho papers thus refers to tru stato plan of Wisconsin: 'Applications for state life Insuran -o made possible by the act of tho 1911 leg islaturo ore coming Into the office of the state Insurance commissioner so slowly that tho plan threatens to be a follurv Only about twenty-five applications, ac companied by money to pay for ;he yearly premium, huvo been received In two months. More than 3,000 Inquiries not only from Wisconsin, but from vari ous Btates, have been received nsklng lor Information concerning stnto lnsurnnco and the conditions under' which It Is to bo Issued. No provision for advertising was inudo by the legislature when the law was passed. Neither Is a fund avail able for solicitors, agents or monnweri. All tho publicity the movement will gut Is by sending out literature explaining the matter In which tho policies aro Is sued.' " NO INSURANCE AND HIS BODY IN POTTER'S FIELD PREMIUMS. ) nccomhor 31, 1912 $184,000.00 December 31, mil $159,973.43 December 31. 1910 5122,518.54 Deoombor 31, 1901) $103,430.44 December 31, 1 DOS $30,793.03 December 31, 1907 $1,776.00 Accident, Fidelity, Surety Bonds, Plato Glass, Burglary. fj. H. Mithen Go. INC. 021-1 CITY NATIONAL HANK 11M)Q. Surety Honda, Employers' Lla lilllty. Automobile Iilnblllty, lliirglnry. 1'lnto fllnws. INSURANCE Good Opening Kor Producers CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY Largest oxcIubIvo Health and Accident company In the United States. I. M V IS V. OltU M , District. Malinger. 511 INivtnn Hlnck. Joseph Barker ( I Jay D. Foster - U mm m At. roster-Barker company Successors to H. E. Palmer, Son & Co. Fire, Tornado, I ii mi rune i- JVoten. The Missouri senate has uppoinica committee of three to Investigate fire In surance rates, owing to tho domand for the repeal of the rating law. As a result of the retirement of so many Iowa fire Insurance companies tho Iowa reinsurance burcnu Is being liqui dated. It was operated to enauie uie lowa companies to laao enre ui mis lines that wero offered, and proved very successful for a time until the retirement of several companies within a few weeks forced the survivors to discontinue operations. Thu Aro-ti. linn made a tabulation of 19.347 casualties reported to the police In Chicago during 1912. Of these 4,100 were attributed to railway accidents caused by wagons or other venicies, io '"'n' 3,034 to personal vloienco bm i,mi i various causes, ot wnicn aos uura ira with 1.817, followed by Injuries from gas and smoke with 331, scaldlngs and burn ings with 339. There were 1,004 automo bile accidents and 254 motorcyclo ncci- dents. a i.in him lippn Introduced In tho Con necticut legislature authorizing the Hart ford flro to Increase us capuui biuci from 12,000,000 to 10,000,C00. It Is under stood that this Is meroly a general per mission and that ir tne mil passes u is not tho Intention of the company to take advantnge of the onro authority ot present. The Aetna of Hartford now holds the distinction of having the larg est capital of any fire Insurance company In tho country, with J5.000.000. Tho recent reinsurance of several Iowa fire Insuranco companies has caused much unrest among the agents and pol icyholders of the remaining companies, and In order to reassure tho latter. In surance Commissioner Blcakley has Is sued a nubile statement declaring that the remaining companies have sufficient reserves on hand to reinsure all their outstanding policies. He explained that the retiring companies had suffered from such fierce competition that their profits bod been reduced to a point at which they could no longer afford to risk It In such a hazardous business as fire insur ance. While the companies specializing on farm Insurance In Kentucky have ma terially reduced their territories and limited their writings because of the re- ductlou In ratCH made by the state rating board, a number or othor companies which wrote a limited amount of farm Insuranco Individually, but whose writ ings In the aggregute were conslderble, have discontinued the class entirely, hold ing that there Is no possible chance for profit under the rates. In consequence there are dozens of counties wherd It Is Impossible to obtain Insurance In stock companies on farm property and their legislators are being urged to repeal the state rating law. The lack of Insurance Is making It hard for the farmers to get loans on their property. Bletlinillst Mlulatrt Ilt-ennimemla Chamberlain's Cnuuli Remedy. Rev. James A. Lewis, Mllaca, Minn.. writes: "Chamberlain's Cough Remfdy I has been a needed and welcome guest In i our home for a number of years. I highly recommend It to my fellows as being a medicine worthy of trial In casts of colds, coughs and croup." Give Chamber lain's Cough Remedy a trial and wo aro confident you will find It very effectual and continue, to use It as occasion re quires for years to come, as many other havo done. For sale by all dealers. In a recent news nrtlcle In the Chlcngo Tribune tho last sentence, "He loft no Insurance," preaches a sermon nnd tells a significant story. It speaks In n lan guage all can understand. Tho nrtlcle Is: "On New Year's day last year tho Iangs entertnlned friends at their hand some apartment on Millard avenue. Mr. T.ang, then a prosperous real estnte broker, exchanged congratulations with his guests for health, wealth and hnppl- ness for tho coming yenr. Their daU(;h tors, high school students, had their friends nt thu house, too, all happy. "On N6w Yenr'B day this year. Mrs. Lang, now reduced to working as house keeper In other households, spent tho day on tho second floor of a small frame building on West Fourteenth street. With her weru her daughters, one 16 and tho other 18 years old. Both of tho girls wero sick and tired from long hours of unaccustomed work behind tho counters of a loop department store. "The father's body lies In the potter's field In Portland, Ore. Ho left no In surance. Liability, Automobile, Burglary, Brandeis Bldg. Accident, Plate Glass, Bonds, Etc. Phone Doug. 29 WALTEtt a. Yoxraon W. LEKOY WILCOX B. L. BALDWIN & CO. SO0-1O rirat irtKonal Established 1891. OBlTIJRAIj INSURANCE Talsplton Dong. 371. Wheeler & Welpf on Co. RELIABLE INDURANCE Or AZiX, KINDS Fhona Douglas 100. MARTIN BROS. & CO. GENERAL INSURANCE BARKER BLK. TEL. DOUG. 735 ran INSURANCE SATES ARE LARGELY THE SAME, BUT THERE IS A DIF FERENCE IN SERVICE RENDERED Sco Mo I adjust losses. Nat IVleisfep GKNKHAIj INSIJHANCH 1313-14 CITY NATIONAL DANK DUILDINO. D. 1703. OMAHA BOYS TO ISSUE NEBRASKA UNI- MAGAZINE After a year's battle with all sortB of faculty objections and all manner iz difficulties tho staff of tlje new maga zine of tho University of Nebraska will put out the first Issue Monday morning. Full of Jokes, enrtoons, literary wo-k, wrlteupa and take-offs on every con ceivable phase of college life in IJnoiin, the new book Is expected to fill the emn .y place In tho literary field at Nebraska. Originated and directed by Umaua boys, tho book stands forth as almost entirely their work. The editor of tte new mngazlne Is Chandler Trimble; man aging editor. Ralph Northrup; athletic editor, Htuart Oould; business managv Russell Clark; circulation manager, Wni ter Lyman. The remainder of the staff U composed of others In tho school who havo a penchant for the typewriter and brush. The magazine will be Issued twice a month, the first and fifteenth. The pur pose In entering literary matter In addi tion to the Jokes and cartoons and ether humorous or near-humorous sketches Is that there may bo some one of the school publications thut shall have "freedom of the press within reasonable bounds of consideration for others' happiness." The BOOST TOR OMiZIA Columbia Fire Underwriters or oiteiA Roma Off leas Entire Third rioor Merchants National Bank Building. Fhona Douglas 461. O. Talmsg-a, Managar. Iff. B. Le&sa, Assistant Manager. BALDRIGE-MADDEN CO. GENERAL INSURANCE Fhona Dour. 300. v Baa Bulldlnc INSURANCE KIIUO TORNADO AL'TOMOHILK PIjATK GLASS HOILEK HUHGIjAHY HEALTH ami ACQIDKNT ALFRED 200 First Nat'l Hank IlldR. KENNEDY Thc-no Douglas 722. LINCOLN ENGINEERS WILL HOLD INTERESTING MEETING An Illustrated lecture on the Missis sippi river power plant at Keokuk, la., will bo given at a meeting of the F.n glneer's club of Lincoln, which will bv held next Wednesday at p. m. In th mechanical engineers' building of the t'nlvorslty of Nebraska. Invitations have been extended to mem bers of the legislature and other offluuits and the object of the meeting Is to In terest the public In the possibility of hydro-elect rlo development througnu'it tho state of Nebraska. There are many available sites that could be made to Moduce enough current for adjoln'i'g communities and pictures of such Iih-i-lions are to he presented. Protect You Time Your Earning Power Our Accident and Health Policies Cannot Be Met in Competition. See Them Before You Buy. Lion Bonding & Surety Co. W. 0. W. Bldg. Phone Douglas 678, Accident Dept. Suit AkiiIiihI Ail in I rut Drue). i- a an i vrn-riKT 1..1, m A.i...-ni .. . . V. W4. . . L u. .v. ..miiiiim. I Dewey's dog bit William T Johnson last ! July, so JohnBon today sued the admiral for J20.000. The pup wbb In charge of the admiral's loiuhmaiw so Johnton mad him a defendant, too. To DlMitiilvr tilt- Dillon of stomach, liver nnd kidney troubles and ou if blllousneui and malaria, tuke Kleetrle Hitters. Guaranteed Only 26c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Advertisement """ Insiirance, In All Its Branches AT Webster, Howard Co. 'Fhona, Douglas 970. :- -!- -I- -I- 333 Bca Bldg. 11 1