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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08
CHANCE TO SECURE PRIZES
Those Who Enter Booklovers' Now
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PICTURES HELD FOR LATE ONES
Back PunEIes sell Mt Business office
of Zee for one Cent Each and
Catalogues IL Priced At
Only rs Cents.

For the benefit OF those who have not
yet entered the Booklovers' contest u
may be said that there still remains
plenty Of time for solving all the puzzles
and preparing the answers to be sent N
10 The Bee. Picture No. "a appears ~
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lished are seventy-five. Those plcturef
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next wednesday. Send in your orders
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After the last picture appears, on oe-
tober 30, the total OF seventy-five win be
ready and will be sent 10 any address
upon receipt Of cent for each picture
Those contestants who enter the game
now will have plenty OF time TO solve
the pictures Several days will be given
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ting ready the answers. So those who
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chance as those who came into the game
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have a fair show. some OF the prize
winners In the last contest did not enter
the competition until more than sixty OF
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You will need the title catalogue. which
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Ask your friends about the contest and
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Of Il.
Lat of Attractive PFizes'
First--A White Steamer automobile, {
beautiful flve-passenger car, celebrated
for its durability and speed. valued a
1900. II Is exhibited At Drummond's
Eighteenth and Harvey streets
second--A ten-acre ranch In beautiful
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08


products; passenger traffic is affected
later and often only after considerable
interval Yet on the theory that busi-
ness travel should 50 with business IT.
self, one would think That the upward
and downward curves of freight and
passenger traffic should correspond
pretty closely.
The seeming anomaly of a disparity
between the two is deepened by the fact
that during the last decade there have
been some special and familiar forces
operating adversely to passenger traffic
During that period the long distance
telephone has come in more and more
as a commercial and industrial coeffi-
Client. 1t has reduced what but for It
would obviously have been a large volume
of railway travel
To it is to be added the automobile,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08

It's rivalry has been sunk in its char
acter as a subsidiary, saying nothing
of the larger values of the electric line
as a direct lateral and its facilities for
focusing travel at the urban station
The automobile has the same duplex
character OF feeder and rival. 1t COM
petes with the steam line at many points
and often on long distances, but it also
brings the home. the shop and the store
in closer touch with the station. The
rural home of wealth, formerly remote
is now hardly, by figure of speech by
automobile, across the street from the
steam railway. The maxim that travel
makes travel may prove as true in the
relations of the automobile to the steam
roads as in the case of the trolley
Railway Age-Gazette.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08

Tehama county. California delightful
climate. rich fruit land; value. $1,000 Full
information concerning this land may be
had AZ the office OF the Trowbridge-
Bolster company In tho City National
bank building. Omaha.
Third--A beautiful Krell Auto-Grand
player plano (have the music Of the mas
tiers in your own homes value, $500. This
prize Is exhibited at the Bennett store.
sixteenth and Harvey streets.
Fourth-one lot In the business district
of Ralston, a lot 25xiOO feet, on haywood
street; value, sg75. Full information may
be had az the office of the Ralston Town
site company, 800 South Seventeenth
street. Omaha.
Flfth-In the beautiful suburban town
OF Ralston. one lot In the residence por-
ton. 5Oxl2O feet; this lot is valued at s226.
Full information may be had at the Of
fees OF the Ralston Townsite company,
oo) South seventeenth street, Omaha.
sixth, Seventh and Eighth-Three ssts
twelve volumes) or Nelson's Loose-Leaf
Encyclopedia. the encyclopedia that can
not grow old; each set valued at sos.
These books are exhibited at the store
OF W. a. HixenbauRh Co, 1874 st.
Mary's avenue
Ninth and Tenth Prizes-These prizes
consist OF twenty-four volumes cloth
bound sets of the Book OF knowledge"
an encyclopedia made especially for chill.
dren and sold at $50 set This work ID
written IN simple language and is q
wonder book" "a that II makes simple
all knowledge necessary to broad educa'
ton. II may be aeen at the Omaha office
OF w A. HiXenbaugh. 1874 81, Mary'i
avenue.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08
CAPT. CHANDLER COMES
FOR AVIATION SCHOOL

Captain J. ID. Chandler, head OF aero
nautical affairs In the army, arrived in
Omaha yesterday morning from Kansas
city. where he had been Officiating an
the International balloon races which
started from that place last Thursday,
Accompanying him are Major Rabsr OF
Chicago and two other army officers,
who viii conduct the school OF aviation
az Fort Omaha next week
The operations at the fort will include
the use OF the big dirtgible balloon and
The captive balloons. Army officers from
Forts Crook. Omaha, Leavenworth, Dear.
born ana other army headquarters will
make up the class under Major Raber
Major Russell and Lieutenant Haskell
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08

likewise affecting a wealthy group OF
habitual travellers; and. finally there has
been the extension of competing street
railways using the form to include cross
country and long distance lines.
The long distance telephone has had
hardly a perceptible qualifying feature.
Now and then 1t may enable Brown 10
notify Smith to make a railway journey.
but in the vast majority OF cases IT is a
preventive Not so, however, with the
parallel street railway. At first an ac-
tive and serious rival of the steam line,
It has now, apparently, taking the
country as a whole, become, in its sec
ondary stage. a feeder A small rival
still between near together stations of
the steam line. it has grown more and
more to be feeder from further points.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08
FEEDERS TO THE MAIN LINE
Autos and Trolley Cars Seem to In
crease Travel on steam
Roads.

The records of railroad traffic show in
passenger miles a mile an increase since
1901 of 81 per cent. as compared with 70
per cent in freight ton miles a mile;
and even during the panic period, lS07-OS,
they increased about 5 per cent, while
freight business decreased nearly s per
cent.
Hard times in business admittedly hit
the freight business first, particularly
that branch of II mat covers factory
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08
Hunnewell to Have
Council Of Women

TOPEKA. Kan, Oct, THE entire ad-
liiinistratlon Of Hunnewell, Kan, In the
hands OF women appears now to he the
plan Of Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor OF the
town. Mrs. Wilson was In Topeka today
70 consult the attorney general
III the counciimen are ousted," she
said, Il win name a council that will
help, and all the members will be women
II necessary TO get council that win CO.
operate with me"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
Famous Publishers Prophecy

sible to write a great work of fiction
based upon New England life. Some
of the short story writer's may con-
tinue to give admirable vignettes Of
this life; there are numerous quaint
hooks that remain to be discovered in
New England But quaint hooks do
not call forth great novels.
mo, the day of New England in fic-
ton is passing, and the day of the
west in it is dawning. The great orig
inal work of fancy and imagination by
an American is to have for its back
ground western life, and it must be
told by some one who has been ia
familiar with that life. By West |
mean that part of the country which
lies beyond the Allegheny mountains;
and it may be that this great work OF
fiction will come from west of the
Mississippi"
The great American novel, so called.
that Mt Fields clearly had in mind is
yet to come but long since there ap,
peared on the center of the literary
stage of the country the depictors of
the life of the West. displacing the
school of New England writer's.
copyright, 1911, by E. ]. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
The Robert e. Lees Pilot Wheel.

The pilot wheel which guided the
steamboat Robert E. Lee in the
famous race with the steamer Nat
chez in 1870, when the Lee made the
record on the Mississippi between
New Orleans and st. Louis, is now
being used on the stc-m er Nashville,
plying the Cumberland.
The old nautical relic was recov-
cred from the City of Providence, to
which steamer it had beer removed
from the Lee The wheel is over ten
feet in diameter, more than thirty
two in circumference and is made of
walnut and cherry 1t is of the
double circle type OF wheel, with two
circles of stays -round the spokes,
which are inlaid with two rows Of
highly polished Eastwood. The wheel
is in an excellent state of preserva-
ton and apparently is as sound as
when 1t guided the Robert E. Lee to
victory in the famous old steamboat
days on the Mississippi. The record
run was made with Captain Cannon
in command of the Lee, and as the
story goes, 81 negro on the safety
valve. Nashville Correspondence St
Louis Republic.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
emperor Was Enraged Because the
American Said French Could In
wade England With His "Cook-
ing Water" Invention.

IL is stated in history that in 1903
Robert Fulton constructed a small
steamboat on the Seine and endeavor-
ca to get the French government in
terested in his invention, with an idea
OF utilizing it in Napoleon's proposed
invasion OF England, project that was
tnen receiving much attention from
the 1ttls Corsican. The following
anecdote which | have from the lips
OF Baron Eckenstein, who for many
years has been associated with the
diplomatic life of Germany, sheds a
dramatic light on this attempt of Full
ton to interest the first Napoleon in
the application of steam to naviga-
tion.
AT the time Bismarck was at the
height of his power" said Baron Eek
ensteln during a recent visit to this
country, Il was a member of his Off
cial family. At dinner which he gave
to a number of us who were so asso-
c1ated with him. one of the company
gave it as his opinion that the new
telephone instrument, which was then
Just being introduced in Germany,
ought to be of great service in affairs
of state. The speaker called atten-
ton especially to the fact that tele-
phone line had been completed be-
tween Potsdam and Breslau, saying
that this would surely prove a great
convenience when the court was at
the palace at Potsdam.
Bismarck, who was one of the best
Of listeners, but who could also tell
story very well himself, made no d.
rect reply to his guests statement, but
Instead told the following anecdote;
=" In the summer of 1851 / paid a
visit to Prince Metternich at the castle
of Johannisberg, at Frankfurt on the
Rhine. That was before his exile from
Austria, as result of the revolution
airy outbreaks of '4S, had come to an
end. We had many talks together,
and one evening, when the prince was
entertaining quite party of friends,
he was asked if he ever saw the first
Napoleon excepting in ultra-official re-
Iations.
Metternich replied that while he
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
COMES A TIME
When Coffee Shows What 1t Has Seen
Doing.

"Of late years coffee has disagreed
with me- writes a matron from Rome
n. Y
Its lightest punishment being TO
make me logy' and dizzy, and 1t seem
ed to thicken up my blood.
The heaviest was when it upset my
stomach completely, destroying my ap-
petite and making me nervous and IT.
ritable, and sent me to my bed. Attef
ne of these attacks, in which nearly
lost my life, I concluded to quit the
coffee and try Postum.
TT went right to the spot! l founo
IT not only a most palatable ana re-
freshing beverage, but food as Wen.
"All my ailments, the 1oginess ana
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condltlon
of my blood, my nervousness and lrrl-
liability disappeared in short order
and my sorely afflicted stomach began
quickly to recover. 1 began to rebuild
and have steadily continued until now
Have good appetite and am rejoicing
in sound health which owe to the use
OF Postum Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little Book 'The Road TO
Wellviile,' in pkgs. There's reason.
Ever read the above letter. a new
enc appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF humaA
interest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
New NEWS =
OF YESTERDAY
.AyE. eE ES1EANeX<WI%

II have just been having an audience
with the American minister, M. Liv-
ingston. He brought to me an inven-
tor, an American; the inventor said to
me that he had been told l was anx-
ious to invade England, but had been
deferred because France had no navy.
And he said he had an invention that
would make it possible for me to in
wade England without paying any at
tention to wind or tide or England's
navy What, think you, was this
Americans invention. with which
would be able to invade England no
matter what the wind or tide were?
Bah! 1t was nothing but cooking wa
ter! He told me, Napoleon, that with
cooking water l could invade England!
l dismissed him"
1.-The name of this inventor, Prince
Metternich told us, continued Prince
Bismarck, was Robert Fulton, and we
all know a few years after he told
Napoleon that with boiling water it
would be possible to invade England,
Fultons steamboat was sailing upon
one of the great American rivers
Copyright, 1911, by E. ]. Edwards. All
Rights ReserVed.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
James T. Fields In 1879 Predicted
Writers Familiar With Western
Life Would Soon Displace the
New England School.

Who hears today of James Thomas
Fields? Yet in what has been termed
the golden age of American literature,
he was a famous man, albeit his fame
was not so great as that OF some OF
the many men whose publisher he
was-Longfellow, Hawthorne, Elmer
son, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier. But
he was not a book publisher only; he
was a writer and lecturer Of wide rep
utation. and a famous editor. After
James Russell Lowell resigned the
editorship of the Atlantic Monthly
which was published by Mr.. Fields's
house, Mr. Fields himself assumed
the editorial direction of that famous
periodical. That occurred in 1862, and
for eight years thereafter he held the
post, although at first his purpose IN
taking the position involved no more
than temporary editing until he could
find some one competent to fill Low
ellis place From the day in 1889,
when he became publisher, until his
death in 1881, he had more intimate
perso nal associations with the great
literary men and women of the United
States and Great Britain than any
other American, and. perhaps, any
English speaking person.
When l met Mr. Fields, in 1879, two
years before his death, his long beard
quite the beard Of a prophet, was
streaked with gray, as was his abun-
dant head of hair. His complexion
was fair; his eyes seemed to be dark
brown, but owing to a constant witch
Ing of his eyelids, it was almost i'm
possible to decide whether the color
was dark brown or deep gray. A slen-
der man, of medium height, his stoop-
ing shoulders, OF the bookworm type,
caused his stature to appear shorter
than it really was.
Let us sit down." he said. in de-
Iightful voice that at once backed up
The reputation he had long enjoyed OF
being a man of charming personal
qualities, of deep sympathies, and of
great liberality in all his dealings
With authors, let us sit down, and
will make answer, according to my
ability, to your questions; Are there
any young writer's of promise to whom
nv attention has been called?
There are one or two in Massa-
chusetts. ! mean, of course, writer's
of fiction. But / am now satisfied
that the great masters of American
fiction will hereafter be men and wo-
men who have had personal familiar
ity with the new life of the west.
Bret Harte and Mark Twain have al
ready shown how rich that field is.
Our New England writers have al
most exhausted New England as
field for fiction. Modern New Eng
land is intensely practical and mate
r.al. I doubt whether It is longer DOS
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
Napoleon and Robert Fulton

was stationed in Berlin from 1903 to
1906 as Austria's representative at the
Prussian court, he was instructed to
hold a special audience with Napol-
con; and the appointment having
been arranged for he presented him
self at the palace at the proper hour.
"'He was kept waiting for some
time in the anteroom. He thought
this strange, since Napoleon was usu-
ally very prompt in keeping his ap-
pointments. But at last the doors were
thrown open, and Napoleon burst into
the anteroom. He was clearly in a
state of violent anger. He took no
heed of Prince Metternich at first, but
stormed back and forth speaking to
himself in his outbursts of fury.
"'This continued for some time;
then having gained control of himself
Napoleon observed the prince and
promptly apologized for losing his tenn
per-
"'"But what would your" he said.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
o. n. Plat Absorbed 1t From the BIZ
BILE, Hoar Studied De Quincy and
Hooker, Morgan Talked as
He Thought.

Three United States senators of yes
terday who were noted for the purity
of their English style and the appro-
priateness of their speech were Or
vile H. Platt of Connecticut, George
Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts, and
John T. Morgan of Alabama. Their
knowledge and employment of the Eng
lish language were constant source
of mingled admiration, envy ard Won
der to many another senator less adept
in his mother tongue, and before each
man had been long in the senate he
had achieved a national reputation as
master in the English tongue.
Senator Platt," I said to him one
day, as he lay at full length on
soft while he enjoyed a cigar-he was
an inveterate smoker-"many persons
have often wondered whether the pur-
ity of your English style--your mas
terry of the languages the result of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
POOR RETURN FOR CHIVALRY
incident That Probably Has Forever
Discouraged Kind-Hearted
Mr.. Jones.

Chivalrous Mr.. Jones purposely
dropped a fifty-cent piece at the foot
of a poorly dressed woman who
passed through the Subway turnstile
loudly lamenting that the ticket agent
had cheated her out of half dollar,
then he picked the money up and
gave it to her.
Excuse me, madame" said Mr..
Jones, 81 think you dropped this"
ooh, no. she said, lit can't be
mine. Perhaps you dropped it, your
self"
"Oh. no. said Mr.. Jones' at is
yours, am sure. l picked it up just
as you passed"
She took the money, and hurried
after another man who had passed at
the time the money dropped.
Excuse me, SIR she said, Il think
you lost this"
Thanks said the other man, and
jumped aboard train that was ready
to start
e =" said chivalrous Mr.
Jones.-New York Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
Masters Cultivated Their Style

cultivation. arduous study, or wheth-
er it is natural gift
you know" began the senator,
that my native place was the little
town of Washington, in Litchf1eld coun-
ty, Connecticut. l had only common
school education; l had no time as a
lad to study English style. Later, when
I read law, was too much occupied
with the problem of getting ready to
earn my living to give any thought to
securing an English style. But all
the while, l recognize clearly now,
had an unconscious teacher in English
style.
AS a child 1 was great reader OF
the Bible. The familiar Bible stories
attracted me greatly and l pored over
them again and again. When l be-
came young man l was greatly i'm
pressed by the majesty of the Book
of Job. read and re-read it. Unsus-
pected by me, l know now, I was
taught by the Bible what l know Of
the English language, for I read it
constantly and Systematically during
my most impressionable years-a hab-
it that / have never broken entirely,
for even in my buster days l read at
least chapter of the Bible day, and
that chapter, nearly always, is one
from the Book of Job.
MY experience was partially that Of
Senator Hoar," continued Mr.. Platt
you must observe that he is a mas
ter of English style, especially of mar
rative style | once asked him how
he came by this.
From two or three sources, was
his reply. 4 am reader of the Bible.
I also read DeQuincey, whose style is
rich, and l constantly read that old
English divine, Hooker. l have alb
sorbed his style. 1t has a majesty, a
swing, unrivaled by any prose writer
since Milton
Then Senator Hoar asked me if I
had ever noticed the limpid purity of
Senator Morgan's style. have some
times listened intently to one of his
speeches., said Mr. Hoar, in the hope
of catching him in some grammatical
slip or some clumsy use of English,
but have never been able to discover
fault in his style.
And Senator Hoar is right-Senator
Morgan never makes mistake in Eng
lish in his speeches. He is never call
ed upon to correct in the record a sin
gle word unless there is error on the
stenographer's part. Yet he never pre-
pares his addresses; he speaks extern
poraneously for hours at a time, with
out even hesitating for a word His
is truly wonderful style, yet he has
assured me he never cultivated it. I
talk as l think he said, and / never
speak unless l have a clear idea of
what 1 am going to say
Il have heard much advice given
about the cultivation of an English
style" concluded Senator Plat, but
as for myself, my experience in the
senate has taught me that any man
who attempts to cultivate an English
style spoils his own natural lyle, and
impairs his originality, and becomes a
mere mimic. Whatever cultivation
there is should be unconscious. like
that which | received when in my
youth l constantly read the Bible"
Copyright, 1911, by E. j. Edwards All
Rights ReserYed.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
The Wise SAVAGE.

Now" said the intrepid explorer,
after he had shown the guileless ma
tive the inside workings of the brass
watch and had noted his naive won
der at the mysteries of the mechan-
ism, 81 will let you have one of these
for two tusks; then you can be the
envy of the whole tribe" The native
gentleman yawned. Il traded a Sec
ond-hard war club for bushel of
those things when l was at the worlds
fair in st. Louis" said he, "and there
was not one of them that ran for
more than week. Got any chewin'
about your clothes?"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-21
Jones.-New York Times.
Musical Note.

A music teacher in New England
school was trying to make the chill
dren in the fourth grade understand
the value of a triplet-to get them TO
know that three-quarter notes under
a brace were equal to two quarter
notes.
She couldn't make them unde-
stand; and finally, in despair, she
asked: What are three little babies
born all at the same time called!
"Accidentals!" shouted a small boy
with a vague remembrance OF the les
son of a week before.