T1IK BKK: OMAHA. MON'DAY, FKl'HT KY 17. 1JH3 Before deciding on your Insur ance 'phono L. 1276, mid as' about the new low cost, all guaranteed pol icies, all plans. Life, Limited Payments, En dowmonts, Joint or Pert- -.,... TTTTTT. nersnip, vo,r- slon Foilcle,- 1U'Un,5r lnC T Pen fjnl0SHal In- Co- America m nr,Slc1' Co - New Jersey ?io 5, ebrnska and South Dakota us-aa city nan n. uiag-., omah. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company OF MILWAUKEE MANN & JMOD Gencrnl Agents 538-511 llrnmlels IlulltllnK. OMAHA iNotes from the Insurance Field Equitable Life Assurance Society i?e U. S. Assets over-$500,000,000. Paid Policy holders over $815,000,000. H. D. NEELY & 00., Managers H. D. XE13LY .K)13 KI.K1N SIcrclintits N'at'l Rank IlltlR. K. li. piokakd Obey That Impulse! Not the man who INTENDED but the man who INSURED left provision for hi family. G. W. NOBLE, General Affent. CHARLES X,. HOPPER, Special Agent. J. O. niTCHMAN, special Ajwnt. OFFICES I 638-e43 Brondeli Blag-. Omaha. B THE Union Central Life Ins, Co. Of CINCINNATI. OHIO HARRY O. STEEL General Agent. 311-313 Hams' Bldff. Phone D 0183 ACTIVITIES OF FIREBUGS Analysis of the Operations Through out the Country. BUSINESS MOVES BY SCHEDULES How SpnutnnroiiN Combustion" Itmlntjn I'lipruf Untile Storks of (iomls iiiul It nil ill turn Spur of limiirnniT Monr), Arson's mlKhty toll of X2S0.OU.fi a year fn tl.o I'nlted States and Canada serves as a show window In which Arthur li. McFarlane exhibits tin1 arlous activities of firebugs hustling for Insurance money. This particular exhibit, the second of the series In Collier' Weekly, ileal with "Arson by Schedule." i-nuess ouai arson, icsnjs. now rawi , , ,. . ,,,, . , ,. . . ,, , j.i, ..... . compares with 534 fires of a like destrue ns 'rctn ers' and 'wholesalers. Its 'mort- . ' . .. gnlge fixers' and 'assignees.' Its bands who specialize on stores, on loft factories. had to give five days of Brace. And the fire came on the night of the fourth! Here, as usual, no one found any ei dence of Incendiarism." Decrease in Fire Losses Shown in the January Record The losses by fire In the I'nlted Stntcs and Canada during the month of Jan uary, as compiled from the carefully kept records of the New York .lourtml or Com merce and Commercial llulletln, aggre gated tiXMtt.&V). as compared with MS, G,t,i:iO In January last year, and JSI.HSi. 4,Vi for January. 1911. DurlnK January this year thero yrvKQ no less than 3iV fires causing a loss of $10,000 . or over In each Instance. This 3INSURANCE consult 'one who knows the Ufa who Is able to advise you tho best form of policy WHEN BUYING LIFE insurance business; one vni? vnn There aro more than 60 dlfforent kinds of policies Issued. Get the form best suited to your condition in life. Write or call. Clarence N. Anderson, 430 Bee Building D. 2266 Omaha, Nebraska J "State Mutual Life' OF WORCESTER, MASS. ONE OF THE OLDEST-69 YEARS and Best Companies on Earfh. General Agent 052 JJce Building, OMAHA OEQANIEED 1045. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of HEW AUK, HIW JES8K GEO. T. BLANDFORD, Oenerol Agent. 41G-18 City National Bank Blag. Omaha, noDrnsia. You ef Any of This Money? Coincident with an enormous Increase of business during the last five years The Bankers Reserve Life Company of Omaha 1 increased Its payments of annual dividends to policy holders as follows: I 1 1907-$50,444.Q0 1908 $64,582.00 1909 $81,787.00 1910 $98,028.00 f 1911 $108,609.00 No other life company pays larger dividends In proportion to business In force. on stables full of horses. A really up-to-date organization, as wns shown recently In Chicago, docs everything from procur ing tho Insurance to collecting It. 'There Is every Indication,' says one Insurance authority. 'Hint. New York has a reRUlar flro exchange.' Hut there Is worse than that. In the tenements of New YorJt and Chicago and Cleveland and I'aterson and Pittsburgh arson Is taught as In a school. "Between January i 19o!, and July 31. 1912. thirteen tenement houses In one row gnvo fifty-six fires. Another row nave Its fifty-three, another Its forty-eight Individual houses had their seven, nine, fourteen! One can follow nt son through the streets of our great cities as one can follow It by trades and seasons. One can follow It by families, ius other forms of crime have been followed In the chronol ogy of Tho Jukes. In Knst New York there Is a family known to Insurance dc tecllvcs as "tho family with HO fires. Chicago has great tenement districts which, if the risk can be measured by the Insurance rate, are now more dangerous than our powder mills. f WHEN A MAN Ho owes it to himself and his business to LIVES CLEAR UP Provide adequate life insurance the un TO HIS INCOME expected is always happening. See TOM KELLY INSURANCE MAN" EIGHTY MILLIONS ASSETS Douglas 8G1. the In- STATE INSURANCE A FAILURE Mail Order Methods Fail to Secure Applicants for Policies on Lives. AGENTS ARE FOUND NECESSARY Ailvrrtlnlnn nml ClerU Hire M'rlt Init Letters Knocpil the Cost of MnliitnlntiiK Audits In the Kit-lit. tlveness during Jnnunry, 1D1S. when severe climatic conditions greatly creased the number of serious Ires. The prluclpnl large fires during the month Just closed wero as follows: Knnsns fit v. Mn.. office building.. MSO.000 Chicago. 111., buslines block MW.W0 Mason city, la., hotel, newspaper plant and other.., ...... .xw.uw Calgary. Alberta meat packing Plant !u.wu Kdmontou. Alba,, several business houses owi.wm Cleveland. O.. garage and hotel... 200.000 Newark, N. J., storage warehouse, aw.wv Trenton, Out., block of business houses A. J. LOVE, President. PRANK J. nASKETjTj, Sec'y. Love-Haskell Company Every Known Kind of Insurance X14-!VZl Oninlia Xntfl Bank Uldg. Phone Douglas 380. Let the Buyer Beware ttWf SEE US BErOHE BUYIHO ANOTHER POLICY IN AMY BRANCH Or INSURANCE. GALLAGHER & NELSON General Agent ZUlnoia Surety Co. ' REINSTATE YOURSELF, How? By buying a policy In a company which will oermit you to do BO, Yes, without a new medical examination, "When? By paying the premiums In default with Interest at any time while the 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 tt x SNELL. President. THE MIDWEST X.irE A Nebraska Company. ' Home Offices: First National Bank Building', Lincoln. A. A. TAYLOR and QEORQE CSOOKEB, Qeneral Agents, Boom 1313-1314 City National Bank Building, Omaha, Your opportunity may be here The real ostnte 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 fliere. Phone Tyler lOOO On n llnslnesa Haul". "For thirty years. In our fire problem, we have been punsulng a policy of ostrlchlsm and knownotlilnglsm and pre tense. In our insurance world 'moral hazard' tho hugo proportion of our fires that are dlshonost has been a kind of great 'secret of Pollchlncllo.' Everybody knows It. but nobody must talk about It to outsiders." Ho seeks to show that there are dls trlcts In cities and states where arson rages and, that even more calculably, there are arson "seasons." He follows the Intimate relation between fire epl demlcs nnd the progress of prosperity In the business burned out, but he has not mi rnlspd the nuestlon of the blame. He has not, like Commissioner Johnson, sug' cestcd that a more rigorous preliminary Inspection beforo the issuance ot olicles would cure tho evil, for most or the ins. cusslon bo far has not been of over Insurance. Speaking of the geographical nrranne- ment of arson, ho sayB: "In the case ot Minnesota, some one at once says, 'Forest fires.' But the statu 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 n- 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." It was swept by Incendiarism, but rather than have the Insurance com panies 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 the fire crooks out of ever second city In the country. And If you will look up the fire record for 1911, the last available, you wlllflnd that In the year the number of fires In Rochester Increased by 197, mostly mercantile, with an addition to her fire loss of J200.M3, about 76 per cent above tho figures fur 1910. The total Incendiary fire loss In Rochester In 1911 was officially f!,S5. And yet, when In 1912, tho 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 wele physical. He was simply referred to the chief of police." "Seasonal" Fire AjrnnKeiiient , Still moro 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 monthB when Dun's or Ilradstreet's look for nn In crease' of failures, bo the fire Insurance president knows that December and Jan uary will always bring an increase or fires. "The midwinter cold Is the obvious explanation?" asks Mr. McFarlane with sarcasm. "The midwinter cold causes Its dozens of wretched little household fires. Dut It does not start tho flro which counts, the J100.000 'burn out' with total loss, on the seventh floor of the team-heated, 'fireproof loft building or manufacturing plant." Mr. McFarlane demands some other explanation than a thermometrlcal oni for the fact that December's fire loss will normally run ahead ot February's by from $3,000,000 to J4.OCW.000. jfe goes on to show where fires can be proph sled by seasons. "For example, unprosperous summer hotels become unusually dangerous risks in October and 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 because they are out of fashion. Therefore, in those months, when the hat makers, the clothing makers' and 'the fur make's have finished stocking up the Jobbers and retailers, and have not yet com menced manufacturing for next year, tha insurance companies expect an. Increase of fires in these trades.- The expectation Is rarely disappointed. The seasonal fur flro has 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 th agent knew, this was the time of the vea.- when that terant would not nor- i nir-.Uy need more Insurance. lie used the telephone and ascertained the worst. A spr'nkler order had been Issued against I that eftabllshment. Instead of Increa." t Ing the Insurance, the agent ordered It H Kr.r'tieu at once jie was loo luie i.y 3 the conditions of the standard policy he Effect of Rate War On Modern Woodmen Membership Accordltm to the Chicago Itecord Hernld the controversy of the Modern Woodmen of America over the proposed Increase of rates, which has now uccn nbandoned, had an injurious effect on the membership. Tills wns over l.OOO.OW at the beginning of last year, mil mo order entered tho year with a member ship of 900.WR. Thero were S0.Ii2 members In temporary suspense over sixty days and less than six months nnd 27,608 mem bers In temporary suspense less than sixty days. Now that tho advancert raio question has been abandoned, It is ne lieved that many of these will return, that being thi cause for their retire ment. Miss Murphy Returns Thanks for Check The following letter rolatlve to an In surance picture published In Tho Heo Ij self-explanatory: "OMAHA, Feb. 11. National Fidelity and Casualty Company, Omaha.-Gou-tlcmen: I wish to thnnk you very much for tho check you sent me In lieu of threo months Ak-Sar-en policy, ns win ner In the comletltlon in The Sunday Heo of January 20, 1913. "I submitted the slogan. 'Accidentally Injured, but safely Insured.' and In view of tho 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 give me a check In lieu of the same, your action Is very much nppreclafcd bv me. Many otner compunito nuu.u awarded the prize for a less meritorious answer to a man In order to avoid nny complications. "I thank you very much for this very fair settlement nnd I wish you all suc cess. Very sincerely yours. "MISS MARY H. MURI'HV. wfl NATIONAL H y) SlXCttUAllYCoA When one scans the vast figures of life Insurance and sees the enormi us amount In fn-ce, he Is compelled to tnko off his hat to the men In tho fclld, w'vi have been largely responsible for this magnificent achievement. II ad thero been no agents persistently and tulih fully cnnvn.sslng tho people, Utn amount of Insurance would show a much differ ent result." s-iys the I'tnlerwrlter. "It Is Interesting to dlsect the rcP'fl made on the Postal Life by tho New o-k department In the effort to ascertain whether Insurance by mall Is rcnllv sue cessful and If It Is gotten at tcs cut than through tho medium of agent', i While perhaps the plan has not been tried sufficiently long to reach an oxj t conclusion, yet the figures so for Inill- cato that the cost of advertising ard postage expense, together with the sala ries of those required In writing letters to prospects, are In excess of the agency method. One letter will not bring nn application. Much correspondence back and forth ensues. This requires time and money. "After all, there is no producing factrr that can bo compared with the agents They give the life insurance buslncsj that personal touch that It needs. Ap plications are hard enough to secure by personal solicitation. To close them I y medium of a letter Is much moro diffi cult. "The much-exploited state life insur ance scheme In Wisconsin so far Is a dismal failure. Hut a few uppllfatnis have come In. Tho theory of reducing cost by applicants voluntarily seeking '-i- surance and thus eliminating tho agent s commission Is beautiful In theory, b.it In practice the personal power and per suasion of the agent has to be prcsont to secure tho signature. 'One of the papers thus refers to t.u state plan of Wisconsin: ' 'Applications for stale llfo Insurnn.-o made posslblo by the act of the 1911 leg islature arc coming Into the office of the state Insurance commissioner so slowly that tho plan threatens to be a failure Only about twenty-five applications, ac companied by money to pay for :he yearly premium, luivu been received In two months. More than 3.000 lnqulrtu not only from Wisconsin, but from vari ous states, have been received asking tor Information concerning stnto Insurnneo nnd the conditions under which It Is to bo Issued. No provision for advertising was mado by tho legislature when the law was passed. Neither Is a fund avail able for solicitors, agents or manager). All the publicity the movement will gist Is by sending out literature explaining the matter In which tho policies aro Is sued. " PREMIUMS. Decombor 31, 1312 $184,000.00 Decombor 31, 1D11 $159,973.43 V December 31. 1010 $122,518.54 December 31, 10O! $103,430.44 December 31, 11) 0s $30,793.03 Decombor 31. 1007 $1,776.00 Accident, Fidelity, Surety Bonds, Plato Glass, Burglary. J, H. EVHthen Co, INC. 021-1 (MTY NATIONAL hank m,no. Surety Ilonds, Ktnploycrs' Lia bility, Automobile Liability, lliirglnry. l'lnto Glass. INSURANCE rr . Oood Opening Vw Producers CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY Larnest exclusive Health and Accident company In tho United States. L H W IS V. OKU SI , DI.Hlrlct. Slniiager. .11 1 I'nvlon Itlock. -J Joseph Barker JlaD. Foster - roster-Barker uempany Successors to H. E. Palmer, Son & Co. Iiimiraiice Notes. The Missouri senate has appointed a committee of three to Investigate fire In surance rates, owing to tho demand for the repeal of the rating law. As a result of the retirement of so many Iowa fire Insurance companies the Iowa reinsurance bureau Is being liqui dated. It was operateu to onaoic Iowa companies to taao care oi mid lines that were offered, and proved very successful for a time until the retirement of several companies within a few weeKs forced the survivors to discontinue operations. Tho Argus has made a tabulation or 19.M7 casualties reported to the police In r.i,i.. .inrinir 1912. -Of these 4.106 were attributed to railway accidents caused by wagons or other vemcies, j.iuj 10 "'" 3,031 to personal violence ana w various causes, of which dog bites led with 1,817, followed by Injuries from gns and smoke with 331, scaldlngs and burn ings with 309. Thero were 1,004 automo bile accidents ana z.x moiuri.-ji.-iw un dents. A bill has been Introduced In the Con necticut legislature authorizing the Hart ford flro to increase us capuai siuin. from $2,000,000 to 10,O0O,C0O. It Is under stood that this Is merely a general per mission and that If the bill passes it Is not tho Intention of the company to take advantage or the cnye aumoruy hi. present. The Aetna of Hartford now holds the distinction of having the larg est capital of any fire Insurance company in the country, wnn ,ww,w. Tho recent reinsurance of several Iowa fire Insuranco companies has caused much unrest among the agents nnd pol icyholders of the remaining companies, nnd In order to reassure tho latter. In surance Commissioner Weakley has Is sued a public 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 had been reduced to a point at which they could no longer afford to risk It In such a hazaruous Diisiness as lire insur ance. While the companies specializing on farm Insurance In Kentucky hnve ma terially reduced their territories and limited their writings because of the re duction In rates made by the state rntlng board, a number of other companies which wrote a limited amount of farm Insurnneo Individually, but whoso writ ings In the aggregate were conslderbie. have discontinued the cluss entirely, hold ing that there Is no possible chance ror profit under the rates. In conseuuence there are dozens of counties where It Is impossible to obtain Insurance In stock companies on farm property and their legislators nro 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. Metlinillut M:nllc Ilreoniiucnila Chamberlain's CkiikIi Remedy. Rev. James A. Lowls, Mllaca, Minn., writes: "Chamberlain's Cough Renwly NO INSURANCE AND HIS BODY IN POTTER'S FIELD In a recent news article In the Chicago Tribune tho Inst sentence, "He loft no Insurance," preaches a sermon nnd tells a significant story. It speaks in a Ian guagu all can understand. Tho article la "On New Year's day last ycur tho Twangs entertnlned friends nt their hand Borne apartment on Mlllnrd avenue. Mr. Ting, then n prosperous real estate broker, exchanged congrntulntluns with his guests for health, wealth and happi ness for tho coming yenr. Their ilauph tors, high school students, had their friends nt tho house, too, all happy. "On N6w Year's day this yenr, Mrfl I.ang, now reduced to working ns house keeper In other households, spent the day on tho Becond floor of a small frume building on West Fourteenth street. With her wero her daughters, ono IB and the other 18 years old. Both of tho girls wero sick and tired from long hourH of unnccustomed work behind the counters of a loop department store. The father's body lies In the pother's field In Portland, Ore. He left no In surance." Fire, Liability, Automobile, Burglary, Tornado, Accident, Plate Glass, Bonds, Etc. Brandeis Bldg. Phone Doug. 29 WALTEB A. YOZTOOn W. LEEOY WILCOX B. L. BALDWIN & CO. S09-1O rirst irtt.onnl Established 1091. OBXraRAI. IHBURANCE Tslspnon Dong. 371. Wheeler & Welpton Co. BXI.IABT.I1 INDUBANCE Or ALT. KINES 1011 Dodga Btreat. Fhong Douglas 108. MARTIN BROS. & CO. GEIMEIAL INSURANCE BARKER BLK. TEL. DOUG. 735 INSURANCE KATES ABE LAKOELY THE SAME, BUT THERE IS A SIT FEEENCE m SBBVIOB RENDERED See Mo I adjust losses. Nat IVIeister CJHNKItAL INSintANCK 1313-14 CITY NATIONAL BARK DUILDINQ. D. 1703. OMAHA BOYS TO ISSUE NEBRASKA UNI- MAGAZINE After a year's battle with all s,orts nf faculty objections nnd all manner or difficulties the staff of th,o 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 collego life In IJnoiin, the new book Is expected to fill the emn y place in the literary field at Nobraska. Orlglnuted and directed by oma'ia boys, the book stands forth ns almost entirely their work. The editor of ire new magazine Is Chandler Trimble; man- nirtnc editor. Rnlph Northrup; athletic editor, Stuart Gould; business manage Russell Clark; circulation manager. Wo! ter I.yman. The remainder of tho staff Is composed of others In tho sohool who have a penchant for the typewriter and brush. The magazine will be Issued twlco a month, the first and fifteenth. The pur pose In entering literary matter In addl tlon to the Jokes and cartoons and ether humorous or near-humorous sketches Is that there may bo some one of the school publications that shall have "freedom f the Dress within reasonable bounds of consideration for others' happiness." The BOOBT rOB OMiIA Columbia Fire Underwriters has been a needed and welcome guest In i our home for n number of years. I highly recommend It to my fellows as being a medicine worthy of trial In cases 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 ret quires for years to come, as many other hnvo done. For sale by all dealers. Mult Airnlimt A l mi nil Done). WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. -Admiral Dewey's dog bit William T Johiufou last July, bo Johnson today sued the admiral for jy.OOO, The pup was In charge of thf admiral's coiu-hmanr so Jolineou mad him a defendant, too. LINCOLN ENGINEERS WILL HOLD INTERESTING MEETING An Illustrated lecture on the Mlssla slppl river power plant at Keokuk, lu. will bo given at a meeting of the Kir gl Deer's club of Lincoln, which will bi held next Wodnosday at S p. m. In th- mechanical engineers' building of the I'hlverslty of Nebraska. Invitations have been extended to mom bers of the legislature and other officii! and the object of the meeting Is to In terest the public In the poaslblllty of hydro-eleotrlo development througnu-U tho state of Nebraska. There are many available sites that could be made to pioduce enough current for adjoin', ig communities and lectures of such loen tlons are to be presented. or oaCaiA Bom Officaa Entire Third Floor Merchants National Bank Building. Phona Douglas 4B1. 3. O. Talmare, Manager. M. E. Lease, Assistant Manager, BALDRIGE-MADDEN CO. GENERAL INSURANCE Phone Doug. 300. 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