Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-03
KING OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS
And the Monarch of the Daily Papers.

(We mean THE OMAHA Bee of course. EX-
cuse this apparently superhuOus explanation
but some folks who read this may be strang-
ers, not acquainted with the institutions Of
the great weSt)
The encyclopaedia complete and The OMA-
HA BEE, daily, Sundays included, for year.
How much for the twol Guess.
You know what TIE DAILY BEE costs, 5
cents day and 5 cents every Sunday. That
makes SlS25 year A decently pound re-
print Of the Encly yclop9dia Britannica, the
one that every student and literary man uses,
will cost you $50. That makes S7S.25 for
both.
How would $50 for the two strike you'
Cheap enough, ehl Well, we can do better
than that for you. Forty dollars would be
liberal, wouldn't itl We can go lower still.
Here is what we offer:
We will furnish the Americanlzed Encyclo-
pedia Britannica (you will find it described
below-its as much superior to the original
Britannica as that is to all the rest of them
and The DAILY BEE for one year. Sundays
included, both delivered at your homes,
FOR THIRTY DOLLARS
and take our pay in monthly installments Of
$3.50. The first five volumes of the encyclO.
paedia will be delivered when you ma Ike your
first payment the remaining five volumes
will be delivered within four months.
D'Fhis is just a fraction more than cents
day. You must have daily paper any
how. Take pencil and bit of paper and
| figure out for yourself the sort of offer we
| are making you
| You know what THE OMAHA BEE IS.
| But you don't know what the Americanized
| Encyclopaedia Britannica is yet. That's
what we are going to explain to You.
| The original Encyclopaedia Britannica is
the standard work Of reference of the English
speaking world. Its articles in every depart
| ment of science, history and literature repre-
| sent the thoughts and discoveries OF the most
famous men OF all nations. The cost of its
| preparation was considerably over a million
dollars. 1t is a monumental work, accested
as the authority by all students and literary
men. 1t is on the shelves of every public
| library, and in hundreds of thousands of
| homes; and for every person who owns it
there are probably five others who don't own
| it, only because it costs SO much that they
| can't afford to buylt
But the Ency clopada Britannica has de-
| fects. 1t was compiled in England, for the
special use of Englshmen, and quite naturally
therefore it devotes great deal of space to
subjects of interest to Englishmen eXClu-
sively, and comparatively little space to
many matters about which Americans care
| good deal. An English county has
moro said about it than aa Ameri-
can state An English king gets
columns of biography, while an American
president has only few lines of mention.
plymouth, Colchester and Teignmouth are
told about eXhaustiyely, while Oshkosh, Kal-
amazoo and Tacoma are dismissed with few
| particulars of location and population. This
is all very well for Englishmen, but it some
times makes an American swcar-or feel like
| swearing, anyhow.
Another trouble is that the plan Of the
| Encyclopedia Britannica excludes biogra-
phics of living people. A man has got to die
before the Encyclopaedia Britannica will take
any notice of him. And quite nuUber of
| persons about whose lives Americans would
! like to know something have decided not TO
die yet awhile, not even for the sake OF being
| mentioned in an English Encyclopaedia This
also provokes outbreaks of profanity.
The publishers OF the Americanzed Encyc-
lopmdia Britannica have remedied all this
Taking the Encyclopedia Britannica as
the scientific, historical, biographical
and other articles uOequally interest
ing to both Engshmen and Americans,
they have had rewritten by competent
staff of qualified writers all the articles
of special interest to Englishmen, as well
as those of special interest to Americans;
reducing first within reasonable limits and
expanding the second to embrace the fullest
details. They have also added a complete series
of biographies of prominent living men and
women and ninety-six finely executed maps,
including n new map OF every state OF the
union. And they have brought every article
in the entire work down to the present year
1890 The result is the Americanzed Encyc-
lop9dia Britannica, work which combines
all of the advantages Of the latest English
edition, with those of a distinctively Amer-
can library of reference 1t is a monument
of enterprise, ingenuity, learning and re-
search.
Can you afford to be without itl You
know best, of course, but we don't think you
can.
Our representative will call on you shortly;
or if you would like to have him call at once,
postal card to us will bring him.
Eight cents and trIfe more than fifth Of
a cent daily. Put that by, and taking one
month with another, it will amount to $3.50
month, or $50 year And for that SO,
paid in monthly instalments of $3.50 each,
we will furnish you with "A complete set OF
the Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica,
in ten volumes, and the DAILY BEE every
ay, including Sundays for a year. Both
delivered at your house.
You won't have to do any waiting, either,
We attend To the waiting part of the transac.
ton. When you make your first payment OF
g. 80, you get The first five volumes of the En-
cyclopaeda have just come of the
press; and the delivery OF The DAILY BEE
begins next day. Within four months after