Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1909, Page 15

‘ | Home Furniture Co. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BE NOVEMBER 28 Sells Furniture 20% Below Omaha Prices We have just purchased for cash a large amount of high grade furniture, and while the manufac- turers announce an advance of 10% in the prices for 1910, we can offer these goods for the next 30 days at much below former prices. 24th and L Sts., SOUTH OMAHA. A"—L.fiar ge Line of Useful Holldéy Presents Spring styles in rugs for 1910 now in. Come see our complete line of Lowell Wiltons in all sizes. SOLID OAK DRESSER...... Combination Book Case and Writing Desk; Well made, full size $6.75 Thirty styles of Library . $18 Thles; from $4.50 below former prices. ( 9x11 Brussels Rugs 9x12 Velvet Rugs 9x12 Axminster Rugs b\ e’ $6.00 Sanitary Springs $3Z High grade Steel Range— like cut— 4hole ...........$22.50 6-hole ...........$24.50 Stoves sold on payments, South Omaha Home Furniture Company 24th and L Sts., Ten Mattresses. . .. $28, oul $21.00 Princess Dresser— like cut; solid $1250 oak polish. .... CASE...ccvnnunn flIIIIIIII .00 Sewing Machine, like o $17.50 Finely finished, full size Brass 50ft. Felt Be .. $71.50 at.. d, 2-in. posts, $12.50 POPULAR SONGS PICTURED “Modern Art” Gives the Eye the Best of the Game. SCENES FITTED TO THE MUSIC tome of the M Auce Snappy Situati Dime Clreuit Country. ns Employed to Pro- for the of the Have you had a call trom the illustrited song man and his models yet? If not, who are you and where do you live? If you have a house with a porch or a garden, have you never come home to find | o lovesick eouple mooning In one another's | arms on the garden seat or just pushing off in your private boat or posing in the midst of your tavorite flower bed? If you have any kind of a place of busi- ness, & dalry, a delicatessen, or a chicken farm, haven't you been besieged by the bicture man, to allow him to come out and take just a few pictures to illustrate a song that inadvertently mentions a cow, & ham sandwich, or a cackle? And even if you don't own the roof over your head, do you mean to say that you haven't met them in the parks, on the lake front, on the streets, in crowded rallway stations—anywhere at all—enacting their parts In their desired surroundings before the camera of the ublquitous picture man? If you haven't you must be blind, for With fall coming on and the music publish- ers all putting out new songs, With the new copyright law,“which allows a pub- lisher royalty on each plcture that is made to lilustrate his song. and with this method of popularising a song acknowledged to be foremost, it naturally follows that the ple- ture man is busy. Every one has seen and heard the il- lustrated song In the § and 10 cent theaters, Sometimes the pictures have been better than the song, but more often it has been the other way. One song that made quite a “hit" de- scribed a lover's dream of the girl he loved. He dreamed that she was sitting on his lap In their visionary little home. Tho music was pretty and the sentiment hot bad at all, but the plcture of a super- annuated youth being slowly squeesed to death In & rocker by a heavywelght cham- plon of the opposite sex was about as pleas- ing and loving as would be the image of a baby hippo on & llly pad. And that was not all. A roaring fire in the fireplace was screened by a healthy, bright green rubber plant. Perhaps you will say that that was the fault of the artist, who, when painting the slide, put flames in the empty fire- place behind the plant, and no doubt that is true, but what of the man who selected and posed those models? The least said probably the hetter. Dream Plotures, Has anyone egcaped hearing a certain ‘‘Moonlight"" song whereof one illustration deplets the young man s he rows upon the lake In the moonlight, dreaming of “her It 18 no uncommon thing to put th dream pletures of the absent sweetheart or home or mother, in the fireplace, or on the mantle-plece, or in the elouds of one's clgar or pipe, and as the nickel show habitue is ususlly liberal minded, it mat- ters not if these dream images assume the | clearness and high colors of corporeal re- aliy. Such appearamce, however, had & start- ling effect in the case of the moon- lght scene, wherein the amorous youth, | calmly resting on his oars, gazed insipidly ot the real head and shoulders of his sweetheart emerging out of the water amid & searchlight of moonbeame—happy though drowning ut such absurdities are becoming rare. 1de companies or transparency companies ®s many of them call themselves, appear | considering | this merely as a pastime, to be doing a thriving business, and people seem to like illustrated songs, so it nat- urally follows that more care. is being taken 6 secure artistic pictures, with good scenic effects and somewhere near good looking model That 1s why you, Mr. Home Owner, and you, Mr. Shopkeeper, are likely to find strangers encamped on your doorstep, for the ploture man argues that he is taking nothing from you when he takes the ple- ture of your pelongings. Let us take & trip with him long enough to lllustrate one song. That means that twelve pictures are needed—s—four for each of the two verses, and four for the chorus. But some of these pletures may not be £00d, 50 it s safer to take some twenty from which the twelye may be chosen. First the picture man read over the song, it carefully. 1f one wonders why the picture man is inclined to be cynical, let him carefully consider the lines of a few popular songs. One thing in common they all must have —that is, If they have any chance at all 10 become popular. There must be plenty of love—therefore, & pair of lovers. So it will be well to engage permanently the services of two good ‘‘spooning” models. Next where is 1t? Perhaps a country scene is required, so with the two models and the plcture man, loaded down with his heavy plates and large camera, we ‘“hike’ for the rallway station and take a train out of the city—say north, to the region of exclusive summer homes. Pleasure Without Worry. The plcture man believes it is better to appreclate the thidgs you do not have than to have things you do not appreciate. Many of the wealthy people do not appreciate the luxuries which surround them. But the plcture man does. He is in a position actu- ally to enjoy those luxuries. He designs to use them without paying for any of them. It is something like the automobile—aw- fully nice, If the other fellow owns it. So the millionaire has the worry added to the pleasure, while the plcture man has the pleasure with none of the worry. The picture man Is a grouch—always. Jimmy, the young man who looks like an ad for some smart tailor, nonchalant, as- uring the young woman that he ls doing while both of them are planning how to spend the dollar per hour they are engaged in earning. Arrived at a suitable spot, the pleture man gets his camera ready, then takes out the lines of the wong, which are carefully written on & scrap of paper. Perhaps the lines (if the song has any chance at all) read something like this: A pair of lovers. strolling One moonlit eve alone. He said, “My dear, I love you, She answered with a moan— “I cannot love you, Harry. ‘The reason gives me pain.' But_Harry took her to his h And murmured this refra CHORUS Darling, I ean't live without you, What s life without you, ‘dear? Darling, skies look sad and lonely When 1 know you are not newr— Darling, I can't live without you, ‘Won't ycu to mo your love give, Let me hear you say, "I love you' Without you, dear, I cannot live.” Let no Publishers' ‘ncomes bear out the statement that with & little music or other loud noise, a singer, and the man behind the ploture machine, that song nas every chance of gotting big bard." So, with this sy goes to work to secu two lines. “A pair of lovers strolling one moonlit Mr. Pioture Man one plcture to every | eve alone” te the event now to be pic- tured. Art as it Shines, The two lovers are requested to take thelr stand 1o the large flower bed of Mr. Millionaire, who is not ut home and whose gardner is smoking onme of Mr. Plcture M clgars. Pioture No. 2 will show the same couple seated on Mr. Millonaire's boathouse steps, or just getting into bis launch, or occupy- ing one of his' porch chairs, and by this ime Mr. Picture Man is probably tearing cynic scoff at the above lnes. | his hair in the effort to get two Wooden images to look loving. He takes a few of those optical illusion pictures, wherein the couple appear to be kissing one anothe: whereas we are solemnly assured that they only seem to be. Then, after they have been pushed, scolded, and enticed into some twenty other tender attitudes, the only | change being in the background, unless, perchance, the author has left one of them alone long enough to dream of that other, the work is over—for the models, at least. Mr. Picture Man, after dismissing them with the proper compensation and perhaps a luncheon at some nearby restaurant, be- takes himself, with his camera and plates, to his studio In town, where he or his as- sistant develops the negatives, which a then printed upon transparent slides of | re made, each set containing fourteen slides, counting one which shows the title page of the song and another bearing the printed. chorus. The artists In another room now get these sets of slides and go to work to color them. In the song just quoted the scene was moonlight. Therefore it is up to the slide artist to put in a nice round moon, color- ing the sky darkly and pricking in twink- ling stars with a pin. That s Haw moon- light scenes are made to order, so that the | next time you see one In an illustrated song’ you think how nice it would be to be there yourself, just stop and reflect that when that picture was taken it was in the garish light of day, that there was fio moon, only a grouchy photographer | overlooking the spooning with such sar-| castie remarks as, “Aw, hold on to her as if you meant it,” or, “For heaven's kake, Miss Blank, don't lean on him as if he was a red hot stove” or perhaps under his | breath, biankety blank, why didn't I | bring out someone from the morgue? | MULTITUDES OF STUDENTS Twenty-Two German Universities Have 50,000. RELATIVE RANK OF BIG SCHOOLS University of Paris Leads Colleges of Other Nations, but Every Has One or More in the Front Rank. Although twenty-two German univer ties are reported as having an aggreg: |of more than 50000 students, only twe or| three of these universities exceed in size | a number of the other gfeat continental schools. In fact, Berlin and Munich are the only German universities that outrank in size the great schools of either Italy, Spain, England, Austria-Hungary or Rus- sla, and the University of Paris has four times as many students as any German university except those of Berlin, Munich, Leipsic and Bonn, while the University of Lyons is considerably larger than most German universit The University of Madrid ranks only just below Munich In numbers, and the Uni- versity of Naples is of about the same size as Madrid. Several English univ ties are above any but the largest four In Germany. The Unliversity of Vienna comes next in size after Munich, and the Csech uni- versity at Prague is larger than any but four of the German universities. It has long surpassed In size the ancient German university of the same city. Budapest has a university ranking only Thus 18 the moonlight difficulty solved | by the picture man. But there are others. For Instance, it may be winter and the song which demands tmmiediate fllustration, | may likewise demand a summer sceme of | flowers and' trees. { The slide artist then paints in the green | follage upon the bare trees photographed, | while artificial vines and flowers are used | to entwine garden seats or swings, and the | models stand about shivering in a cold | [wind and leave thelr heavy winter over- | coats just long enough to pose in the sum- | mer clothes they wear underneath The ploture looks like June, whereas it | was taken in February. The picture man, like the comedian and | the “funny man' on the newspaper, is a sad and sober minded individual. He has long since ceased to laugh at the things which happen to him in his business, but occasionally he tells some of these things, | and then wonders why his friends seem 80 amused.—Chicago Tribune. BATTLES WITH BABOON, MONKEYS SAVE HIS LIFE Little Ani Set Up Soream and Bring Ald to Unfortunate Keeper PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 2.—Struggling for his life with an infurlated baboon, Fred | Wilson of Brasil, Ind., a trainer employed by an animal show, fought desperately for half an hour yesterday with a baboon that attacked him in the cage. The beast clutched Wilson's throat, 50 long as the trainer could keep on his |feet he had the best of the fignt. At | length he fell, exhausted from loss of blood [and the strain, and the animal gnawed at | his legs. A score of monkeys in the gage kept up & shrill screaming during the progress of the fight and this finally at- tracted the attention of other employ who rescued Wilson. Wilson is in a serious | condition. | Wo Study Active Volcano. NAPLES, Nov. f.—Frank A. Perret, the American volcanologist, left here today fo the Island of Tenerifte, study the eruptions which are taking place and compare the phenomena with those of Mount Vesuvius und Mount Etna. but ‘|1Il|u| opinion, |any but the four or five greatest German | fever. Jjust below the greatest German univers! ties. Bven the University of Athens ranks only just below Bonn with its 8,00 stu- dents, and the University of Rome, which is third in Italy, ranks between' Frelburg and Breslau, the latter of which has nearly 2,30 students. Scandinavia's Leaders. Denmark’'s one university, that of Copenhagen, ranks along with Heidelberg, which stands ninth in the list of German universities. Two other Scandinavian uni- versities, those of Upsala In Sweden and Christiania in Norway, rank above the six smaller German universiiles and the far northern University of Helsingfors in Fin- land ranks with the first six, Several of the Russian universities, when they are not shut up for liberality of po- have as many students as insuitutions. Below the great University of Madrid there are two or three anelent schools of Spain with from 1800 to more than 3,00 students, and the single Portuguese uni- versity, that of Colmbra, one of the most pleturesque seats of learning In the worl by reason of its clinging to mediseval dress and customs, ranks mbove seven or elght of the German universities. At least two of the provinelal universities of France rank with the first ten unis versities of Germany, and the one great Cathollc university of Belgium, that of Louvain, 18 of about the same rank. The Itallan University of Turin stands above Frelburg in numbers Four or five universities of the United States rank with the first three German Institutions, but would hardly do so were the undergraduates counted out America the University of Buenos Ayres stands with the first four or five German universities and Is growing. At least one other South American university ranks with the great school Medineval Schools Were Large. Even the greatest of German universities, Berlin, with its 7,194 students, {s small com- pated with some of the medideval universi- tles. Although communications were costly, low 4nd difficult in those days, the ap- versity would quickly attract students from the mediaeval universities ebbed and flowed ’(rom year to yea) Sometimes, too, a quarrel of some kind with the government or with the teaching force would bring a sudden secession of hundreds of thousands of students along with part of the teachers. When Abelard lectured at the University of Paris the number of students is said to have risen to 50,000, Francis I, visiting the Spanish University of Alcala de Henares in the sixteenth cen- tury, found 11,000 students. Bologna unive sity had 10,000 students at the early helght of its prosperity. It is now flourishing with 1,600, Padua, which owed its first success to a schism at Bologna, was threatened with extinction almost immediately afterward, in the year 1228, because dissatisfied stu- dents received a proposal from Vercelll to give them §00 houses and other. privileges and convenlences if they would remove to that place, Bologna in the early part of the sixteenth | century felt itself in the depths because it had only 1,400 students. Haif a century b fore it numbered 200 students' from (e many alone. Salerno, which had had a famous school of medicine, took on the character of a university for a time when the faculty of Naples came over to it and was a great school. Naples had brief revival, a tre | mienduous reputation, and a great roster |for two or three years after 1212 because | Thomas Aquinas was one of the lecturer: | The University of Salamanca had 6,000 stu- | dents in part of the sixteenth century. The German mediseval universities | not rival the greatest of Italy, France and Spain In the number of their students and their great growth in that respect has come with thg recent material prosperity of Ger- many and the world-wide reputation of | German scholarship. The Gottinges, which |18 not mediaeval in origin, had mere stu- dents in 1823 than It had eighty years later. The Dutch universities, though not so fa- mous as they were 300 or 40 years ago, probably have about as many students as they had in their greatest days. TREATING FEVER IN DISEASES When Temperature Should Be Re-| duced—Value of Cold Baths and Fresh Alr. | | The normal temperature of the human body Is about 95.6 degrees, a temperature | which the internal forces of the body are able to maintaln at a constant figure a most entirely without regard to the tem perature of the surrounding atmosphere. | Any elevation of the body temperature above 8.6 degrees or 9 degrees is called and s an indication of something wrong. 8o also s & fall of the temper | ture below the normal point; but this is & |raser condition than fever and s due| usually o speclal causes which it is not | necessary to consider here Since fever Is the most evident symptom |of a number of different diseases and the | |one that gives character, as it were, to | many acute Infectious diseases, it has come to be synonymous with disease itself, and | it is common to speak of some one being | sick of a fever. But fever Is so far from | being the disease that it is often the cura- tive and life-saving condition Many infections, such as pneumonia and typhoid fever, would be more often fatal It it were not for the high body tempera ture that characterizes them. In pneumonia, for example, it has been noted that the {higher the temperature—under certaln | dia In South | WWits, of course—the more favorable 1s the | wich qust a course of the disease. It is therefore not |a wise thing to give remedies to reduce | tever unless the elevation of temperature | has continued a very long time or I8 80 high | —over104 degrees—as to threaten in Itself | | the normal performance of the vital fune- | | tions. | Sometimes, of course, the fever may got | out of control, and from being inimical only to the germs of the disease actually endangers the life of the patient. In sugh is called for. | mine in the form of a tub bath. The patient sliould be put into a bath at 80 or 9 de- Krees, the water then being graduslly re- duced to 70 degrees, or he may be wrapped in a sheet wet with cold water or sponged with cold water. Water ls & safer and better fever remedy than the so-called antitic drugs, the use of which fs bad for the already weakened heart. This cool water treatment should aiways be mupplemented by the freest possible use of fresh air, even in very cold weather. The old fashioned belief that a person with a fever i golng to “take cold” easily h no toundation whatever.—Youth's Compan- fon. WINTER FATAL, TO. MINERS L Cold Weather Responstble for Many of the Terrl Dinasters. I it A1a not get cold in winter, 2,000 of those who meet death In the mines each year might live. Experts now state that the vast majority of explosions are from coal dust, not from gas. They say that coal dust fills the mine When It i§ exceedingly dry. The mine gets exceedingly dry in cold weather, and for thia there is an explanation that is the point in the whole matter. Ventilation is the prime necessity In all mining operations. Air contains ‘vast quan- tities of molsture, but warm air carries more cold air, in the summer time the warm alr which is forced Into the mines is abundantly laden with molsture. It be- comes cooler underground and Is more likely to deposit molsture than to take it up. Then the mine retains at least a normal amount of molsture. But when cold weather comes the pro cess is reversed. The cold alr with a tem perature of thirty degrees or tains little water. As it advances through the mine it grows warmer, demands always more moisture and extracts this from the sides and top and bottom of the mine When at last this air comes out of the mine it is from twenty to forty degrees warmer than when it entered, and carries great quantities of molsture which It has drunk while under ground. The mine is Just 50 much the drler for its having passed through. At a single mine where the ulr | entering and leaving was carefu’ una- lyzed It was found that this air was dafly #apping the mine to the amount of fifty tons of water. The same is true of every mine of its size, and the amount is greater or less according to the size of the mine. When the great fans have driven this current of alr through the mine for a few weeks It becomes as parched as Sa- hara. It might be supposed that If there was | water on the floor of this mine it would be drunk up and that the balance of the mine would remain molst. This Is not true, |for but a small portion of the air can come in contact with the surface of the water, while every atom of it is calling for mols. ture and is exacting It from whatever it comes In contact with. The activities in the dried and parched naturally pulverize the coal fan it into the air. Finally the point is reached, for the this dust Then a blast is set off and the coal dust Is lgnited. If it is & busy mine It is filled nd every part of it suffers from the explosion. The greatest danger is In the first few weeks of cold weather Sprinkling is of little avafl have devised a better schem which s through the introduction of steam. This steam can be led along and r ed at Ppolnts where the mine Is becoming warm: and drier. It can be released in any quantity necessary to keep down the dust and keep the alr in the desired condition and the expense is small.—Technical World and danger mine is full of The experts where he will | pearance 'of & great teacher at any uni-|CAse treatment to reduce the temperature | Magaszine. other seats of learning, so that in numbers| This is beat done by means of gool wnler[ Novelues—FRENZEB—iith and Dodge. more con- | CALDERA LETTER KEPT DARK Believed State Department Has Heard from Consul in Nicaragua. | |MESSAGE SENT TO MEXICO? Reported Two Countries Are Now Conferring Over Situation in Cens- tral America and Program Will Be Decided Soon, fi.‘" | WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—There is reason lto belleve that the State department at |1ast has received a communieation from Mr. Caldera, the American vice consul at | Managua, but the contents of his message |#0 far have been kept a profound secret |and if the department has recelved any- thing from Nicaragua recently of an im- | portant chargoter it s likewise being with- | held, | The report that the United States is in |communication with President Dias of | Mexico with reference to some joint ac- |tion In the Nicaraguan situation is dis- |eredited in naval quarters, but It Is be- |lleved telegrams relating to Nicaragua are | passing between the two ecountri it was stated at the department that it was extremely unlikely that any official an- nouncement of importance coneerning Nicaragua would be made earlier than Sun- day night or Monday morning. This is assumed to Indicate that matters of con- sequence are under consideration which may be expected to oulminate about that time. if secret orders have been issued to the army transports—Logan, Crook and Bu- ford—at San Francisco, to prepare for im- mediate departure for Nicaragua, as has been reported, the action was taken with- |out the knowledge or authority of the sec- retary of war Such was the statement made at the War department today. The navy is waiting on the State depart- | ment. That accounts for the indecision |over the date of salling of the Prairle | from Philadeiphia with the 400 marines for | the Isthmus of Panama and possibly for [ ssrvice 1n Nlcaragua. The Albany and Yorktown are still held in Magdalena bay, awaiting developments |in Central America. The Tacoma, Marletta | and Des Moines are in the vieinity of Port Limon, Costa Rica, just walting. The | Vicksburg is at Corinto, Nicaragus. | As long as there is & possibility | marines being needed in Nicaragus. | Prairie will remain at League Island | The Navy department has adopted this | course 80 as to be able to send 800 marines or more’to Nicaragua from the United | Btates proper in event they are needed in | Nicaragua. The battalion of marines to be sent to Panama numbers about 400, | The arrival today or tomorrow of the Missourl at Hampton Roads from New York will be watched closely because of | the rumor that 1t was to be sent to Cen- | tral America. Intention of sending it on such @ crulse is denied at the Navy de- partment, however. ot tho oOtt-H ke, ! Any man can succeed in being a fallure. A woman's crowning glory is her puffs. The man who pays dearly for his ex- purience is willing to sell it cheap. . If God made the country and man made the town, the devil musi have made the [ suburbs. MWhy a1t that a girl s almost as much afraid of caterpillars as a boy is of getting | his ears washed? Love is what prompts & woman to bs | miserable with one man rather than be heppy with another. When & small boy says to school, take him away. developing brain trouble. he likes to go He in surely New York Tim: s, A Total Eclipse | of the functions of stomach, liver, kidneya |and bowels 18 quickly disposed of with Electric Bitters. Wc. For sale by Beatoa Drug Ce.