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Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
OMAHA CENTER OF
RAILROAD WHEEL
Nine Trunk Lines Handle 1853
Trains at Local Stations
Every Day.
NETWORK OF RAILROADS
By A. r. GROH.

Seventy-seven passenger trains
come flying from all directions into
Omaha every day in the year.
Seyenty-six trains go wirizzing out
of Omaha in every direction every
day. ...
This is about one train in or out
every ten minutes, day and night
Probably not another city in the
whole country is so favored with
railroad facilities for bringing in the
people in radius of 500 miles and
taking them out.
Nine trunk lines of railroad center
IN Omaha, They operate 5000 miles
OF road in this territory, with Omaha
as a center.
Compare this with Philadelphia,
the third largest city in this country,
which has only three railroads.
Forty-nine per cent Of the trans
continental travel moves through
Omaha.
The nine trunk line railroads with
the number of trains they have in and
out OF Omaha daily are: Chicago &
Northwestern, forty; Burlington,
thirty-nine; Union Pacific, twenty
four; Rock Island" eighteen; Mis-
souri, Pacific, eight; Milwaukee,"
eight; Great Western" six; Wabash,
six; Illinois Central, four.
Excellent Facilities
The perfect network centering At
Omaha formed by these railroads 10
shown by the fact that sixty-two out
Of the nincty-three counties in Ne
braska are reached from Omaha with
out any change Of cars. Twenty-six
of the others are reached with only
one change of cars. Five counties in
the state have no railroads within
their borders. ,-'-
Iowa has ninety-nine counties and
the people in sixty-three of these can
come to Omaha without changing
cars, The inhabitants OF thirty-three
others get to Omaha with only one
change OF cars.
Thirty-seven out OF Missouri's lis
counties are reached from Omaha
without changing cars. Fourteen out
of Colorado's sixty-two counties have
similar advantages.
The people in thirty-six out OF
South Dakota's sixty-six counties can
get on trains and ride right into
Omaha without changing cars or by
changing cars only once.
Out of Wyoming's twenty-five
counties sixteen have direct trains to
Omaha and FIVE others reach here
with only one change.
As in ancient times, it was said "All
roads lead to Rome" SO today all
roads seem to lead to Omaha. "
Gifts in all right, doesn't IT'D
So let the multitudes come this
week. Seventy-seven mighty engines
pulling seventy-seven great trains can
bring in scores of thousands of peo-
pie every day to King Ak-Sar-Ben's
gaily-arrayed capital city, city OF
flags and bunting and crowds by day
and of incandescent brightness and
crowds by night.
A little music, professor! Now, all
together:
"You-can-takc that choo-choo
train for O-ma-haw."
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
To Take Motion Pictures
Of the President in Omaha

The Selig Polyscope company Of
Chicago has notified c. w. Taylor,
manager Of the General Film COM
pany in this city that. they are send
ing special camera man TO Omaha
Thursday to take pictures of Presi-
dent Wilson's activities in connec-
ton with the Ak.Sar- on the day
OF his visit here. These pictures will
be made part of the Selig-Tribune,
one of the best-known motion picture
weeklies, and will be shown in all
theaters in the United States using
the Selig news films as we'll as in
Omaha. 1t will be a considerable
advertisement for Omaha and Ne
braska. Arrangement was made on
the suggestion of Mr.. TAYLOR.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Section of the Omaha
Speedway Track Burned

Wanton malice Of some unknown
man is blamed for the fire Monday
morning which burned away twenty
square feet of the Speedway track.
The fire was discovered at 4 o'clock.
The authorities feel sure that it was
of incendiary origin.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Mother and Three
{ Children Have Close i.
Call in Morning Fire

The lives of three young children
and their mother were seriously en-
dangered this morning at $50 o'clock
when Chester Washburn, 25l7 Corby,
dropped some lighted newspapers too
near a big can OF kerosene. The
liquid exploded. The resultant fire
did 5000 damage to the home and con-
fined Mrs. Washburn and three tots
to fame-surrounded room.
Mr.. Washburn was about to light
fire in the kitchen stove when the
accident happened. The flames spread
quickly right to the door of the bed
room, where his wife and children
were asleep. Mr.. Washburn finally
got them out OF the burning house
BY way of window.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
HighWaymen Get Nothing
When They Rob CoIored Man

Two white men, armed, stopped
Elmer Kemp, colored, l2l9H South
Sixteenth street, on the Sixteenth
street viaduct Sunday night and asked
him for a match. Kemp gave them
the match and got sluggged on the
head. Then the highwayment went
through his clothes, but found moth
ing
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Several Report the
Loss of Their Autos

Somebody copped the goat Of +.
M. Dellenbach, 1920 WHIT street, also
his auto. The goat was figure Of
DR.. Yak that stood on the hood to
the front of the car.
George 3. Prinz, 5l8 South Twen-
ty-ffth avenue; L. P. Kerbel, 48l0
Grant street; Earl Clayton, 443l
South Twenty-hfth street; DR.. L.
Langstaff, Blair, and Phillip Sachs of
Council Bluffs all report the theft Of
autos to the police.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Omaha Gets 1,700 Sacks -.
Of Grain hV Boat

The Julius F. Silber, Captain Neff
commanding, steamed into Omaha un-
der the Douglas street bridge with
100 sacks Of grain. 1t made the
trip from Decatur. The boat has re-
Gently been plying from Decatur to
Sioux CITY.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Arthur Lowry Dies of
Oiphtheria on SUNDAY

Diphtheria claimed the life OF Ar
thur Lowry, 9 year old, son of J. w.
Lowry, 1928 Center street, Sunday.
The boy had been i'll only ten days.
The funeral, which was private, was
held this morning, with burial in
West Lawn cemetery.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
LEGAL NOTICES.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF
STOCKHOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given that tho regular
annual meeting of the stockholders OF the
st. Joseph & Grand Island Railway company.
for the purpose Of electing directors for the
ensuing year, and for the transaction Of such
other business as may properly come before
said meeting, will be held at the principal
office OF the company In the town OF Ell
wood, In the state OF Kansas, at nine 90
o'clock a. M, on Tuesday. the seventeenth
Q7) day OF October, 1916.
GRAHAM G. LACY,
President.
ALEXANDER MILLAR,
S22-oct. 3-d1t Secretary.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Postal Receipts
Show Big Gain for
Month of September

Omaha postoffice receipts for Sep
tember showed better than a 10 per
cent gain yer those OF the corre-
spending month in 1915. The figures
for September were Sl35,470.39, as
against $l22,459.53 in the correspond
ing month last year. The increase
was $l3,0l0.86, or 1916 per cent. The
increase in September, 1915, over the
corresponding month in 1914 was 7.3
per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Federal Judge Woodrough to
Hold Court at SprinufieId

Federal Judge Woodrough has
gone to Springfield, Mo-, where he
will sit at short term Of the United
States district court.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03

Dangerous bronchial and lung ailments
follow neglected colds--take Dr. Kings New
Discovery; 1t will keep you well. All drug
gists.--Advertisement.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03

AT AUCTION.

MONDAY, OCT. l6, 2 p. NJ,
Platte valley farm; 200 acres well i'm
proved located 3 miles west OF Chap
man, Neb. VIII be sold regardless of
price. In tracts. or as a whole. to suit
purchaser. For detailed description. write
or see,
NEBRASKA REALTY AUCTION Co,
Central City, Neb
l.666 acres .near Wood lake; cuts 400 tons
hay; running water: fair buildings;
fenced; this Ia In the big hay country
and this ranch Is priced to sell: s12,5O per
acre. terms
THOMAS CAMPBELL
keeline Building
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03

lhlS is one bushel per acre less
than the estimate of two weeks ago
on the Omaha division, three bushels
per acre more on the Lincoln division,
four bushels per acre more on the
Wymore division and the same on the
McCook division,
Very Little Soft Corn.
1t is also stated the entire acreage
this year will be either sound corn or
fodder, with very little of the soft,
wet corn.
Flowing and seeding of winter
wheat are practically completed. The
Burlington finds fair average crop
of potatoes in its territory, disputing
to some extent the report OF the gov
ernment.
The sugar beet crop will be an aver
age to 80 per cent better than an aver
age crop.
Pastures and meadows are dry, but
not in an especially unsatisfactory
condition.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
REAL ESTATE-Other Cities

6 ACRES. 2 in alfalfa; new 7-room house,
with basement; new outbuildings; excel
lent location for good painter and paper
hanger. w e. Parks. Surpr!se, Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
Motorcycles and Bicycles

HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLES Bar
gains In used machines. Victor Roos. The
Motorcycle Man. s705 Leavenworth
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03

FOR sALE-For SIS per acre, cash, my i'm
proved 200 acres adjoining Ericsson. Neb.
W. A. Olive, Indianola Ia.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03

Persistent Advertising Is the Road
to Success.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
CORN YIELD BETTER
THAN LOOKED FOR
Burlington Crop Report for the
Week Notes an Increase of
Bushels Per Acre,
ALL OF 1T rs HIGH CLASS

The yield OF corn in Nebraska will
be better generally than first antici-
patcd, according to the weekly crop
report OF the Burlington railroad.
The estimate OF the acre yield on
the various divisions OF the Burlng-
ton are as follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
FARM LAND WANTED

WANTED-Stock farm to rent with priv
ilege Of buying; would like near a section
Of land, with two houses II possible; give
full particulars: can give good reference
Address Box No. 4S9. Rockwell City, Iowa
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03

INVESTMENTS. TNsURANC7-sloo tn
come on price. $500. icing 8 houses. a
rooms each near high school and
Creighton college. Also and Groom
bungalows. 5000 down. and two 8 rooms.
$95 down. balance monthly
CHAS. e. WILLIAMSON CO.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-03
WANTED TO RENT.

WANTED-Houses, stores and apartment,
for our rental department ~ p Dodge
Co.. Harney St at 18th Telephone
Doug, $40
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

Just a. coal, when It burns, leaves
behind q certain amount Of incombus-
tible material in the form of ashes. so
the food and drink taken day after day
leaves in the alimentary canal a GER
tain amount of indigestible material,
which II not completely eliminated
each day, becomes food for the mill
lions Of bacteria which infest the bow
els. From this mass Of leftover waste
material, toxins and ptomaine-like poi
sons, called uric acid. is formed and
then sucked into the blood where It
continues to circulate, collecting grain
by grain in the joints of the body
much like rust collects on the hinge
rs shown above.
Men and women who suffer from
lumbago, rheumatism or sore, stiff,
aching joints should begin drinking
phosphated hot water, not as a means
to magic relief from pain. but to pre-
vent more uric acid forming in the
system. Before eating breakfast each
morning, drink q glass of real hot
water with q teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in 1t. This will first neu-
tralize and then wash out Of the stom-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
COLONY HAS FEW INDUSTRIES
Belgian Congo, After Thirty Years, 10
Still In the Early Stages Of
Development.

Belgian Congo, founded thirty years
ago, is still in the early stage Of de-
velopment. So far practically no
manufacturing industries have yet
been established and. aside from the
important copper mines in the Ka-
tanga district, the only large indus
trial enterprises are the railways and
river transportation services. It
may be said that all business activi.
ties in the colony are devoted to the
collection of tropical products-rub-
Der. ivory, gum copal. palm oil and
kernels, cacao, etc.-and the railway
and river services are in reality only
accessories to these activities, having
been established primarily to aid In
the transportation of these products
to the seaports. The gathering of rub
Der In Congo has never recovered its
former activity, and in all probability
will never again be 50 rich Q source
Of income to the colony - It was pre-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
ROYAL ADMIRER OF AMERICA
Queen Sophia Of Greece Invariably
Employs Architects Trained In
This Country.

Queen Sophia Of Greece is a great
admirer Of American country homes
and knows many OF our finer places
we'll. remarks the Saturday Evening
Post. She takes regularly all our
publications devoted to country life,
and studies in detail our methods Of
landscape gardening. tree culture and
floral display. She thinks we have
the most cheerfully and brilliantly
beautiful homes in the world-"bril.
liantly cheerful" was her phrase, IN
fact-and is trying to adapt Ameri-
can ideas to the ornamentation of
the royal residences not Only in the
country. but in Athens as we'll
Her majesty does US the honor to
employ American architects on all the
buildings in which she is personally
interested. and an American has made
the plan for the model Greek hospital
which she hopes to build 40 soon as
the funds accumulate. There are prac.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

was blotted out, there was no sky.
even our mastheads were lost to view,
and our horizon was such as tear-blind-
ed eyes may see.
1t was weird, strangely weird.
looked at Maud Brewster and knew
that she was similarly affected. Then
l looked at Wolf Larsen, but there was
nothing subjective about his state Of
consciousness. His whole concern was
with the immediate, objective present.
He still held the wheel, and felt that
he was timing time, reckoning the
ward lunge and leeward roll of the
Ghost.
Go for'ard and hard-a-lee without
any noise" he said to me In low
voice. "Clew up the topsails first. Set
men at all the sheets. Let there be no
rafting of blocks, no sound of voices.
No noise, understand, no noise"
When all was ready, the word hard
alec" was passed forward to me from
man to man; and the Ghost heeled
about on the port tack with practically
no noise at all. And what little there
was-the Shaping of few reefpoints
and the creaking of sheave In a block
or two-was ghostly under the hollow
echoing pail in which we were
swathed.
We had scarcely filled away. 1t
seemed, when the fog thinned abruptly
and we we're again in the sunshine, the
wide-stretching sea breaking before US
to the skyline. But the ocean was
bare. No wrathful Macedonia broke
its surface nor blackened the sky with
her smoke.
Wolf Larsen at once squared away
and ran down along the rim of the fog
bank. His trick was obvious. He had
entered the fog to windward of the
steamer, and while the steamer had
blindly driven on into the fog in the
chance Of catching him he had come
about and out of his shelter and was
now running down to re-enter to lee
ward. Successful in this. the old smile
Of the needle in the haystack would be
mild indeed compared with his broth
er's chance of finding him.
He did not run long. Jibing the fore
and main sails and setting the topsails
again, we headed back into the bank
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
SYNOPSIS.
IL

Humphrey Van Weyden. critic and diet
tante. finds himself aboard the sealing
schooner Ghost, Captain Wolf Larsen,
bound to japan waters The captain
makes him cabin boy 'for the good of his
soul" The cockney cook. Mugridge, is
Jealous and hazes him. Wolf hazes a sea-
man and makes II the basis for a phil
osophic discussion with Hump. Cooky and
Hump whet knives at each other. Humps
Intimacy with Wolf increases. A carnival
OF brutality breaks loose in the ship. Wolf
proves himself the master brute. Hump.
despite his protest, is made mate on the
hell-ship and proves by his conduct in a
blow that he has learned ito stand on his
own legs" Two men desert the vessel
In one OF the small boats. A young wom-
IN and four men. survivors of a steamer
wreck, are rescued from a small boat
The deserters are sighted, but Wolf stands
away and leaves them to drown. Maude
Brewster, the rescued girl. and Van
Weyden find they know each others
work. They talk together of a world alien
10 Wolf. Maude sees Mugridge towed
oversize In bowline to give him a bath
and his foot bitten OFF by a shark as he
Is hauled aboard. She begins to realize
her danger at the hands of Wolf. Van
Meyden realizes that he loves Maude.
Wolfs brother. Death Larsen, comes on
the sealing grounds In the steam sealer
Macedonia and blankets VOLTS boats so
stealing his catch. Death Larsen "hogs"
the sea again and Wolf captures one of
MS boats with its men,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

remaining two of the enemy. The de-
serted boat was in the trough Of the
sea, rolling drunkenly across each
comber, its loose spritsail out at right
angles to it and fluttering and Tapping
in the wind. The hunter and boat
puller were both lying awkwardly in
the bottom, but the boat-steerer lay
across the gunwale, half in and half
out, his arms trailing in the water and
his head rolling from side to side.
Don't look, Miss Brewster, please
don't look" had begged Of her, and
was glad that she had minded me and
been spared the sight.
Head right into the bunch, Mr.. Van
Weyden." was Wolf Larsen's COM
mand.
AS he drew nearer, the firing ceased,
and we saw that the fight was over
The remaining two boats had been cap
tured by our five, and the seven were
grouped together waiting to be picked
up.
Look at that" cried involuntarily,
pointing to the northeast.
The blot of smoke which indicated
the Macedonia's position had re-
appeared.
Eyes. I've been watching it." was
Wolf Larsen's calm reply. He meas
ured the distance away to the fog
bank and for an instant paused to feel
the weight of the wind on his cheek
We'll make it. l think; but you can
depend upon it that blessed brother Of
mine has twigged our little game and
is just a-humping for us. All. look at
that!"
The blot of smoke had suddenly
grown larger. and 1t was very black.
I'll beat you out, though, brother
mine," he chuckled. "I1l beat you out,
and hope you no worse than that you
rack your old engines into scrap"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
Many Are Four-Flushino.

There's many q Broadwayite posing
as ready money who only has two
changes of raiment-on and on. Yet
the tailors here decree that a man
must spend $4,000 per annum for sar.
torial effects II he must pose as a gen.
tleman. First he must have a cereal
suit Of brocaded silk or velvet to
wear in the morning when he eats
his roasted sawdust. And then he
should have a suit for every occasion
after that Here's the dope for the
swell dresser-twelve sack suits, cut
Always. full evening clothes, dinner
coats. six or seven overcoats, attire
for riding. polo. yachting. golf. tennis,
a dozen or 30 fancy vests. in fact,
suit or two or six or eight for each
and every occasion must be included
IN the wardrobe, and it can all be
done for the trifling sum of $4,000 q
year. or 500 week. It's very SIM
pie when one knows the system, the
molders Of fashion say. Some of the
fellows who have a suit for every day
In the week. and that Is the one they
are wearing. are thinking of establish
ing credit with their tailors and 20 to
It. The tailors then may alter the
aforementioned decree.-New York
Times.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05
CHAPTER XXI.

When we hove to, hasty though or
derby confusion reigned. The boats
came aboard from every side at once.
AS fast as the prisoners came over
the rail they were marshaled forward
into the forecastle by our hunters,
while our sailors hoisted in the boats,
pell-mell. dropping them anywhere up
on the deck and not stopping to lash
them. We were already under way, all
sails set and drawing, and the sheets
being Stacked of for a wind abeam, as
the last boat lifted clear of the water
Ind swung in the tackles.
There was need for haste. The
Macedonia, belching the blacklist of
smoke from her funnel, was charging
down upon us from out of the north
east. Neglecting the boats that re-
NAMED to her, she had altered her
course so as to anticipate ours. She
was not running straight for us. but
ahead Of US. Our courses were con-
verging like the sides of an angle, the
vertex Of which was at the edge of the
fog-bank. 1t was there. or not at all.
that the Macedonia could hope to catch
us. The hope for the Ghost lay in
that she should pass that point before
the Macedonia arrived at it.
Better get your rifles, you fellows. I"
Wolf Larsen called to our hunters:
and the five men lined the lee rail.
guns In hand, and waited.
The Macedonia was now but a mile
away. the black smoke pouring from
her funnel at right angle, so madly
she raced, pounding through the sea at
a seventeen-knot gait Sky-hooting
through the brine,'" as Wolf Larsen
quoted while gazing at her. We were
not making more than nine knots. but
the fog-bank was very near.
A puff of smoke broke from the
Macedonia's deck, we heard a heavy
report, and a round hole took form in
the stretched canvas of our mainsail.
They were shooting at US with one of
the small cannon which rumor had
said they carried on board. Our men.
clustering amidships, waved their
hats and raised derisive cheer. Again
there was a puff of smoke and a loud
report, this time the cannon ball strik-
ing not more than twenty feet astern
and glancing twice from sea to sea to
windward ere 1t sank.
But there was no rifie-firing for the
reason that all their hunters were out
in the boats or our prisoners. When
the two vessels were half mile apart,
third shot made another hole in our
mainsail. Then we entered the fog. 1t
was about us. yelling and hiding US in
its dense wet gauze.
The sudden transition was startling.
The moment before we had been leap
ing through the sunshine, the clear
sky above us, the sea breaking and
rolling wide to the horizon. and a ship.
vomiting smoke and fire and iron mis-
siles. rushing madly upon us. And at
once. as In an instant's leap. the sun
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-05-05

AS we entered l could have sworn
saw a vague bulk emerging to wind
ward. l looked quickly at Wolf Lar
sen. Already we were ourselves
buried in the fog. but he nodded his
head. He, too, had seen 1.-THE Mace
donia, guessing his maneuver and fail
ing by a moment In anticipating it.
There was no doubt that we had es-
capped unseen.
I'D give five hundred dollars,
though" Wolf Larsen saids lust to be
aboard the Macedonia for five minutes,
listening to my brother curse"
And now, Mr.. Van Weyden," he
said to me when he had been relieved
from the wheel, I'VE must make these
newcomers welcome. Serve out plenty
of whisky to the hunters and see that
a few bottles slip for'ard. I'll wager
every man Jack Of them is over the
side tomorrow, hunting for Wolf Lar
sen as contentedly as ever they hunted
for Death Larsen"
Wolf Larsen took the distribution of
the whisky OF my hands, and the bot
ties began to make their appearance
while l worked over the fresh batch of
wounded men In the forecastle. had
seen whisky drunk, but never as these
men drank 1t, from pannikins and
mugs, and from the bottles-great
trimming drinks, each one of which
was in itself a debauch. But they did
not stop at one or two. They drank
and drank, and ever the bottles slipped
forward and they drank more.
The steerage, where were two
wounded hunters, was a repetition of
the forecastle. except that Wolf Lar
sen was not being cursed; and 1t was
with a great relief that I again
emerged on deck and went aft to the
cabin. Supper was ready, and Wolf
Larsen and Maud were waiting for me.
While all his ship was getting drunk
as fast as it could he remained sober.
Not a drop of liquor passed his lips.
He did not dare it under the circum-
stances. for he had only Louis and me