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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

work OF the clubs was carried on with
difficulty and a few reference books early
became necessary. This was the beginning
and the books were loaned by one club TO
another. frequent additions being made to
the collection until the state federation
established system by which clubs might
borrow such books were necessary to its
years work and at a cost only sufficient TO
cover the expense of shipping and packing
the books. The demand soon so far ex-
ceeded the supply that a committee on
library extension was appointed to agitate
and cooperate with others interested in the
establishment of a state travelling library.
This was accomplished In 1908. when the
state legislature created the Nebraska
Public Library commission, with an appro-
priation of $4,000 for its support The fed
GRAFTON then turned over to the commission
its collection, which has by this time be-
come most creditable in numbers and
quality. ~
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

The commission also has a fair collec-
ton of books on special subjects, of which
the Woman's club collection forms a sub
stantial part This is being increased right
along. and in the meantime the state IL
brary and the State university library
have loaned the commission books that its
own collection does not afford.
The commission afforded one of the in
teresting exhibits in the educational de-
partment at the last state fair, specimens
of the regular travelling library. the school
library and books from the. special loan
shelves being shown.
The exhibit was in charge of the secre-
tary or her assistant and gratifying
amount of interest was manifested by all
who visited it., many of the people asking
for application blanks.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

IT found this" said Miss Amelia taking
a brown pod from the mantel shelf, last
fall in the porch. and I threw II into my
work basket Last night could not sleep.
for thought mouse was scratching, and
this morning we found the pod open and
this lovely butterfly. This pod is cocoon,
Dick"
'Oh, I'll have 10 tell that for my fact!"
said Dick. stufing his pockets with cookies.
Thank you"
When he opened the door the butterfly
fiuttered slowly out into the yard Dick
chased IL breathlessly across the field 10
the school house. Miss Amelia watching
him until he was out Of sight
When the teacher called for the facts
Dick stood up very straight and said:
Miss Melia, my friend who gives me
cookies, found a coon in the porch last
fall and when IL was In her basket long
time II turned into a mouse, and then TO a
butterfly .,.e
The scholars laughed a little. but they
were much interested when the teacher ex-
planned about the caterpillar. the cocoon
and the butterfly Dick had not understood.
The Outlook.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

"A fact, SAID MS mOtner.
What's that for?"
80 we viii know how TO use our eyes
and tell things afterward." explained Dick.
stretching his own eyes very wide open.
The mother laughed and said: We'll
Dick. it's fact that I'm very glad you are
home, for need your help very much to
run downtown to the market, 10 the post
ONCE and to the dry goods store.I
When Dick got home with all the things
In his express wagon. supper was ready.
and after supper he helped his mother with
the dishes. Then IL was bed time and the
next morning he was so busy that the for
got all about the "fact" until he was al
most at the school house.
lie stopped to think about It, and lust
then window in a little white hotse few
open and voice cried out: ''DickT boy,
come here; want to show you some
thing"
Some dear friends Of his lived there. and
IL generally meant delicious. sugaE cookies
when they called to him. 50 N went In
very willingly
Miss Amelia could not walk without
crutches and Dick felt very sorty for her.
She was IN her wheel chair now. and she
rolled It over by the window while her
mother went to get the cookies. and there
on the sunshiny pane was q great. crimson
and black butterfly. y ~. --.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

Indeed, am surprised at the extent and
equipment of Uncle Sans workshops
which have so recently been put up here
on top of the Blue Ridge. When Prof.
Willis Moore. the head of the weather bu-
reau, presented the project, through Secre-
tary Wilson, TO congress, he was told to go
ahead and spend what was NECESSARY to
carry out his plans. There was. u kslieve,
no restriction on the weather bureau ap-
preparation. So far he has expended only
1000 and he tells me that when the en-
tire equipment, buildings and all. are COM
pleted, which will be within the next three
or four years, the cost will be not more
than $4,000. For the sum already spent
he has here ninety acres of ground, right
on top of the mountain. fenced<and cleared.
and a part of It laid out in walks and
drives. He has put up eight different
buildings, including stables and wagon
house, quarters for his men, an electrical
power plant and machine shors, several
Laboratories and a large administration
building. The latter is of stone, with walls
two and one-half feet thick, with wide
porches and comfortable rooms for the
scientists who are to stay here. The power
plant has a thirty-five horsepower gaso-
line engine and an electrical machine which
will decompose air so that the hydrogen
gas can be taken out, compressed and
shipped to the different stations all over
the country for use In balloons.
The idea is that when, a great storm &C.
ours at a given moment each of the sta
tons within certain radius of the storm,
may send up, balloons. Each balloon will
contain an apparatus which will make
automatic records Of the aerial conditions
through which it passes. AS each balloon
reaches a certain height the machinery is
such that It will explode. and this appa-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

dent made in the earth by person step
ping on the ground floor of the laboratory
or walking by outside. The instruments
now used by the station will register the
minutest vibrations of the earth thou
sands of miles away. They recorded the
earthquake at San Francisco few sec
onds after it's occurrence. Indeed, It is
said that the best of the seismic instru-
cents of today have recorded earthquake
waves which have gone clear around the
world. This was in the Osaka observa-
tory of Japan as to the Indian earthquake
of 1905. The waves. which reached Japan,
passed on across the Pacific ocean to
America and Europe, and finally returned
to Japan, having completely encircled the
globe. The time required was two hours,
three minutes and thirty-five seconds.
Similar instruments will be installed here
at Mount Weather
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

ana STUDIES.
This station at Mount Weather has little
TO do with our daily reports. It will be de-
voted entirely to research. Its scientists
will investigate the laws governing the
atmosphere, the earth ana the forces cleo
trical and otherwise connected with them,
in order to improve our weather forecasts
of the future. To do this they must have
the finest of machinery ana also a location
absolutely free from disturbances of any
kind. Some of the instruments here are 80
delicate that they would be affected by the
electrical current of a street car passing
the door, and others in the magetic labo-
ratory would show great variations II the
rocks of the neighborhood contained iron
or certain other metals.
For these reasons this place in the wilds
of Virginia, on the top of the Blue Ridge
mountains. six miles away from railroad
station, was chosen. Before 1t was de-
cided upon the rocks had 10 be analysed.
and in making certain of the buildings
copper was used in place of iron, and the
horses, which did the hauling about the
grounds nearby had their iron shoes re-
moved before. being put To- work. The
same care has been taken as to every con-
dition connected with Mount Weather, and
the machinery and buildings are. as far
as possible, absolutely perfect of their kind.
-
worked by a WOman's Hair.
Indeed, 1 despair of being able to de-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
whore IL b. Away. Calm.

In striking contract with these great
changes are the conditions found inside the
magnetic laboratories. These buildings are
so made that throughout ,ne year the tenn
perature changes not more thun onc-tenth
OF one degree. The buildings have triple
walls, with dead air spaces between them.
One OF them has no windows, and rhe rays
OF the sun never penetrate It. Both build
ings were constructed without The least bit
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Edna BulIock,s work.

Miss Edna Bullock was installed as sec
rotary of the commission, with headquar-
tiers at lincoln, from where cases of books
We're shipped upon request. Miss Bullock
visited various parts of the state, present.
ing the work of the commission before
various assemblies and so creating an in
terest In library extension which resulted
in the establishment of libraries in many
towns and of library stations in scores OF
smaller towns and at farm houses and
postoffices I'm the rural districts to which
the books are shipped upon request, Be-
fore the expiration of the first biennial
term 1t became evident that the appropria-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Charlotte TempIeton in Charge.

The work of the commission received
fresh inspiration few months ago in the
succession OF Miss Charlotte Templeton Of
Omaha to the secretaryship, Miss Bullock
having resigned the ONCE to take up other
library work. Miss Templeton graduated
from the Omaha High school in 1897 and
from the University of Nebraska in 1902
During the vacations she gained experience
in library work in the Omaha public Ii
hrary. In February. 1902, she became a reg
ular assistant and year later took charge
of the reference department. In 1904 and
1905 she took special library work at Pratt
institute and in August of 1905 became
librarian in the public library Of Oshkosh.
Wis With this experience and with pc
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
The Rasket OF cherrie..

"oh-oh. how pretty" said Edmund.
reaching up his hands. GRANDMOTHER.
may / have some foWers?''
These are cherry blossoms" answered
grandmother, pulling down long spray
for him. After while the tree will
shake them loose and they win ny away.
But In their place they will leave the baby
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Temperature below Ground.


AS l walked with Chief Moore about the
grounds at Mount Weather, he mentioned
some OF his plans for future experiments.
Said he: a..
1--WE want to investigate the changes Of
temperature below the earths surface in,
order to study them In relation to the
changes In the air above. You know
that after one goes down q short dis
lance the earth becomes rapidly warmer
The increase is one degree for every forty
or fifty feet. You soon reach a point at
which one could boil eggs, and down thirty.
miles or so come to heat great enough to
reduce everything to a molten mass were
1t not affected by other forces We ex-
pect to bore wells one hundred, two hun>
dred or three hundred feet deep, here on
top Of the mountains; and II may be also
in the Loudoun valley. twelve hundred feet
below. We shall place automatic record
ing thermometers, ten feet apart or less,
all the way down to the bottom Of such a
we'll, and will have arrangements by which
we can know the changes at each depth.
at all times"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Earthquake Machines.

The instruments in the physical labora-
tory will be quite as remarkable as any
have mentioned. Some to be used in re-
cording the vibrations are so delicate
that they would record the impression or
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

ratus fall slowly to the ground under a
parachute.
The apparatus will have a card attached
to IT, offering a reward for it's immediate
delivery to the nearest weather station.
Such widespread reports have never been
attempted elsewhere, and it is thought that
the facts, gathered in this way from all
parts of a storm region, may be of great
value. Prof. Moore tells me that the ordi-
nary Illuminating gas, now used, is totally
unfit for balloon purposes, and that 1t is
only by this means that the proper gas can
be economically supplied.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

Copyright. 1906. by Frank G. Carpen:er.)
@oUNT WEATHER. Va. Sept. 3d.
MI l Especial Correspondence of The
Bee.)-I am at Uncle Sans
E5%31N scientific weather station, on the
~s1e0 top of the Blue Ridge mountains.
1t lies near the northern bound
airy of Virginia and within almost a
stones throw of the West Virginia line.
AT my left can see the Maryland hills
which look down upon Harper's Ferry. and
Just to the west of them is Charlestown.
where John Brown was hung. Right in
front of me Is the Loudoun valley. famed
as the homo of the Lees and Fairfaxes,
with the Bull Run mountains bounding its
horizon, while at my back lies the Valley
OF Virginia, with the Shenandoah winding
Its way through It and with Winchester
and the scenes of Sheridan's ride in plain
sight, not more than twenty miles away.
4 am just about sixty miles from our ma
uonal capital. and so high up that, by
standing on the roof of the administration
building here, can see the white shaft OF
the Washington monument kissed by the
rays of the setting sun.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

tuition is situated in the Andes at about a
mile and a half above the sea, and II has
in addition recording station. with
automatic instruments, on the top of
Mount MIST, which is almost four miles
high. BY means OF these kites our weather
scientists will be able. to make records OF
all the conditions of the atmosphere
straight up in the air as high above Mount
Weather and higher than the highest Har-
ward instruments in Peru. and that not
only here but at other places throughout
the United States. Indeed, the arrange
ments at this station for studying weather.
phenomena, both on the earth and above
it, are not surpassed anywhere in the
world. -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

ton of 1900 was inadequate and an effort
has since been made and is still being made
to increase it to at least $4,000 The travel
ing library consists Of fifty books and these
are loaned to any part of the state with
out cost, except that of shipping and pack
ing. Where town or a community wishes
to become a permanent library station
that is, to have the use of books all the
time, receiving a new box as soon as the
previous one has been finished-it sub
scribes the cost of one box of books. Sew
eral libraries in smaller towns have been
supplemented in this way, while other COM
munities by this method are able TO have
few books all the time. During the first
three years 10000 loans were made.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

which our thinking and feeling are natur-
ally tethered to a little worn round" and
with a realization of this truth in the
newness of their prairie homes, the women
of Nebraska laid the foundation for a sys-
tenn that is today one OF the states most
substantial achievements for education, the
Travelling Library commission. The first
concerted action to this end was taken by
the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs
soon after its organization twelve years
ago. But even then only few of the most
sanguine dreamed or hoped that their ef-
forts would eventually be. rewarded by
state support.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Go to Farms and Ranches.

1t is estimated, that fully half the loans
made go to people living on farms and
ranches The shipment is made to some
person who will be responsible for the col
lection and distributed in the community in
that way. The regular travelling library
has books for children and adults, divided
into good fiction, and readable. miscellan-
eous books for each. The travelling school
library is designed to suit the need of the
rural school districts where the teacher
commonly has little to work with but a
few text books, and consists of books TO be
used as supplementary reading. as we'll as
books for pure pleasure There are books
for the little folks just starting to school
and books for the big boys and girls. who
often make weekly visits to the school IL
brary for books, even after they have
stopped school and gone to work on the
farm.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Above the Clouds.

That shows how clear today is. Tomor-
row we may BIO 7shrouded in fnist so thick
that one Scan see but few feet. The
weather station is often hidden in the
clouds, and the clouds come and go. wrap
ping 1t as in blanket and then passing on.
/ have a summer home on a neighboring
peak and know the region well. We have
here all the cloud effects OF the Himalayas
or the Alps. In midsummer we are often
above the clouds, and the Shenandoah val
ley Is sea of fieecy wool, rolling in bill
lowy waves to the mountain range on the
opposite side. We can see the storms COM
ing and going. The hills clap their hands
as the thunder reverberates through them,
and the gods of the lightning give us fire.
works more grand than any ever conceived
by man. We are high up in the skies, in
the very heart of the weather, and often
above 1t; and in one OF the best places on
earth to study and investigate its phe-
uomena-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
why Mount weather Wa. Cho.en.

why Mount Weather Was Chosen.
A location like this is indispensable to a
station such as Uncle Sam has here. We
have more than 300 weather stations scat
tered over the United States, and we spend
almost a million and a half dollars annually
in forecasting the weather. They foretell
the storms. the heat ana cold, and are
worth to American industries at least s50,
100000 year Those stations are, however.
mere working stations; they apply the SCI
entihc principles already discovered. and
have neither time nor the machinery and
surroundings to make further investigations
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Dicks Fact.

0EACHER told us, said Dick, quite
cut OF breath running so fast,
- ito bring a fact tomorrow to
S school to tell about"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

Federation Starts Its own.
With few books in the homes and no
libraries outside of the cities, the study
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Eikhty-Eisht Per Cent Correct.

Efkhty-Ef9ht Per Cent Correct.
The conversation here turned to the rreHk
emit efficiency of the weather bureau. and I
asked DR.. Moore what percentage Of its
predictions turned out TO be true.
I'VE are right about lightweight times
out of every hundred" was the reply.
This has been the average during the
past FIVE or ten years, and l believe It is
about as we'll as we can expect to do with
our present knowledge and machinery.
We hope to learn things here which will
better our forecasts"
SIS the value of your work increasing"
Eyes. The reports of the weather hui
reau are now annually worth millions to
the people of the United States. Indeed.
they are so valuable that the various mari
time. agricultural ana manufacturing inter-
ests will not permit them to be curtsiled in
any way. We have demands for new sta
lions daily. and. as II is. cannot recon-
mend the establishment OF one in every
fifty of the applications I receive. At
present the increase in the bureau is not
more than per cent a year. We believe
that II should have slow and healthy
growth, and II is upon that basis that we
are extending II as fast as we can"
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Observation. of the SUN.

''wnl you make much study OF the suns
heat2"
I'VE shall use the bolometer and various
forms of the perhyleometer for measuring
the quantity Of heat received from the sun
as distinct from the temperature of the air.
We expect to make apparatus for more ex-
actly registering the beginning and ending
of precipitation. DIR. oliver L. Fassig. who
has charge OF our upper air experiments.
has partly worked out device for this
purpose. We are also studying how to bet
ter record the lightning. and, In short, are
making large number of Investigations
which are practical as well as scientific"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

HERE is no equal substitute for
books. There Is nothing else
which will break for us the poor
hobbies of everyday sights and
sounds and habits and tastes by
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30

worked by a woman's Hair.
Indeed, I despair of being able to de-
El farol. (Capitan, Condado de Lincoln, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1905-19??, 1906-03-13
Captain Condado de Lincoln Mexico, 49, 1900
Tremendo Quemazon.

Por tres dias de la senana pas
ada TN quemazon devastd los
1lanos al oriente del Rio Pecos,
en- este territorio y extiendio por
cerca de dos cientos millas para
el estado de Texas. Ell paste,
cercas, y casas, Sc quemaron aun
gran numero de anin1ales pere-
cieron en- las llamas. Tn trecho
de 90 millas de ancho por cerca
de 200 millas de largo fue que
mado, y la perdida de propiedad
ascendera tres cientos mil pesos,
El farol. (Capitan, Condado de Lincoln, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1905-19??, 1906-03-13

metGrselas en- los bolsillos de su
gaban.
Este incidente lie quito la gana
de tocar ell violin. PusoSe, pues,
a deshacer sus maletas, hacer-
las de nuevo, a arreglar papeles
Y Il leer algua musico.
Asf lie sorprendid la noche.
Segun obScurecfa, empezaron a
asaltar d Serafin sinieStros temo-
res: volvid Il pensar en- el billete
an6nimo y en- los peligros que lie
anunciaba: la imagen fatidica
del capitan Sc lie aparecid tai
como la habfa visto aquella
manana entire Suehos, Y Sumer-
gi6le en- mil reflexiones aun mas
fantasticas ell recuerdo del SCI
desconocido que velaba por q
dentro del buque...
El farol. (Capitan, Condado de Lincoln, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1905-19??, 1906-03-13
Ell PAs0 & SOUTHWESTERN SYSTEM.

DEPARTMENT. GENERAL. DE TRAN
SITO.
Aperture del nuevo estacjon de
union, Ell Paso Texas. Elective
el dia |, de Mario 1906, todos los
trenes de esta compania llegaran
y saldran, del nuevo Depo Consol-
idado para Transuentes en- E! Pa
so Texas, cl cual sera alberta al
publice en- esa fecha. Sobre ne
gocio transuente despuss del dia
% de Febrero 1906, sera inncccs-
ario inclulr cupones de trasferir
entire nuestro estaclon y la de cual-
quier otra linia en- Ell PaSo sobre
tarjetas que conducen por esta
Ciudad.
Tambien sera innecesario in
cluir el cargo de so centavos por
trasferir Ell cualesquiera tarrifa
de viaje consecutive via, nuestras
linias, hecho por este punto.
Tarrifas consecutivas arbitrarias
que estan ahora basadas Sobre
esta EN- adicion, deben ser reduci-
dos desde esta fecha en- adelante.
V. Il. STILES,
Ageute General de Transuentes.
Welch & Ellsworth, conpran
novillos de aho, y reses de cria.
El farol. (Capitan, Condado de Lincoln, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1905-19??, 1906-03-13
FOLLETlN.
El Final de Norma.
P0r Peolro de 1I0rcon
PARTE SEGUNDA.

'iDiabIo!" exclamaria Al
berto. -dijo Seraffn.-i iEsto
Sc complica. lQui6n me guerra
matar? lQui6n me dara este avi-
so? Isl sera otro medicamento
del captain para distraerme de mi
desventurado amor?
Aunque semejantes rehexiones
parecian trarquilizadoras, no de-
10 el mdsico dc tomar alguna
medida de precaucidn, como fu6
buscar sus pistolas inglesas, ex-
amman 81 cstaban corrientes, Y
El farol. (Capitan, Condado de Lincoln, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1905-19??, 1906-03-13

Y crey6se transportado a un
nundo de 6spectros. Y toda
aquella tripulaci6n de rubios ena-
nos, y ell captain, y ell negrito,
empezaron a girar en- su imagin-
acidn, y a hacerle muecas, y i
mirarle con odio, y Il reirse de 81
y Il predecirle su muerte.
La camara Sc hallaba Sumer-
gida Ell tinieblas.
Las olas gemfan tristemente al
estrellarse Ell los costados del
buque.
Ell v1ento silbaba con eco fun
eral.
En- aquel instante oyd ruido
sobre su cabeza, y la camara Sc
inund0 de una claridad vivfsina
Seraffn Sc puso de pie, mon
t,udo una piStola,