THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912.
But There's Nothing Like Fine Feathers, Though Vain, for Blue Ribbons
CHICKENS ARE ON EXHIBITION
United Fanciers Open Poultry Show
in the Auditorium.
NOVELTY BIRDS ARE SHOWN
Exhibition Will Be Made Both Af
ternoon! and evening Throagn
oat Entire Week of the
Carnival.
-Chickens and other poultry traveled a
long way to get to the poultry show of
the United Fanciers' exposition at the
Auditorium In Omaha. Pennsylvania and
Texas are represented. One tag on a crate
that came In reads as follows:
We are traveling from West Juniata
Poultry Yards, Juniata, Pa.,
The great United Fanciers' Exposition,
Omaha, Neb., 1,137 miles.
ir Please water us.
The poultry show opened yesterday
morning and before 9 o'clock visitors be
gan to arrive to see the birds. This is
the first chicken show equipped with uni
form cooping ever held in Omaha. A set
of : uniform all wire coops have been
suipped In and every fowl is enclosed In
one of the uniform wire coops.
Children's Day Announced.
By some error the press had announced
that the price of admission to the show
would be 60 and 26 cents. In reality the
price of admission is 25 cents fori adults
and 15 cents for children.
X children's day is being planned by
the management, when the school chil
dren are to be admitted free of charge.
The matter will be taken up with Super
intendent Grari to see what can be done
in the way of having the schools dis
missed for a time so ' the children may
avail themselves of the opportunity of
seeing the show.
Some splendid sped mens of bull terriers
and English Toy Spaniels are among the
exhibits of blooded dogs. Blooded cats
lare also on exhibition.
Pink chickens not born pink, but dyed
pink will be the feature of the exhibi
tion. Dresher Bros, cleaners and dyers,
have arranged to dye a group of chickens
to show what can be done In the arT of
dying as well as to afford novelty.
Open Day and Night.
The ohicken show will be open evenings
as well as during the day until Friday
night. Besides seeing the poultry and
other exhibits at night those who attend
will" be treated to a moving picture show
every evening. .
THREE DAYS' WORK $25,000
Promoter In Sugar Deal Cot Hi Bill
to that . Amount for
Spot Cash.
' Wallace P. Wlllett, expert sugar, statis
tician, received $25,000 front H. O. Have
meyer about ten years ago for bringing
three Utah beet sugar plants into the
ffugar trust, a task that consumed exactly
three days of his time.
When Mr. Wlllett testified to this be
fore Special Examiner Wilson E. Brlce
In New York there was a sharp Intake
of .breath on the part of those whom
either curiosity or business brought to the
hearing In the government's dissolution
putt against the American Sugar Bann
ing company and its subsidarlea . .
But Mr. Wlllett named the amount just
casually, .and then proceeded to testify
that he ought to have got $83,000 for the
three days work.
The witness said that about the year
1891 Mr. Havemeyer commissioned him
to go to Salt Lake City and negotiate for
the purchase of half the stock of three
beet sugar plants owned by the Utah
Sugar Refining company. This was after
the American Sugar Refining company
had Inaugurated its policy of extension
so as to include the beet sugar Industry,
v Mr. Wlllett said that he cleared up the
Work , in - abort seventy-two hours and
then returned to New York for his fee.
which according to Ms agreement with
Ir. Havemeyer was to have been 6 per
jcent of the price paid by lie trust for
the stock. This was U, 250,000. When he
dropped in at the office of the American
(Sugar Refining company for his money
Mr. Havemeyer told him that the direc
tors vere at that moment discussing the
purchase and Mr. WlUett's' commission.
Mr. Havemeyer then offered him $25,000
for his services.
The witness said that he did not like
the Idea of losing $37,000, but that Mr.
Havemeyer gave him his choice of wait
ing for a decision of the directors or
taking his $25,000 on the spot ' Mr. Wll
lett took the $25,000. New York Sun.
"There could be no better medicine than
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. My chil
dren were sick with whooping cough.
One of tbem was in bed, had a high
fever and was coughing up blood. Our
doctor gave them Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and the first dose eased them,
and three bottles eyed them,", says Mrs.
K. A. Donaldson, of Lexington, Miss. For
sale toy all - dealers Advertisement
' : Force of Habit.
Two nice young girls out for early
bargains met in .front of a store on
the avenue.
' "I saw you In church yesterday, dear,"
gurgled one.
"Oh, were you 4n cnurchT gurgled the
other, -.
"Yes, love. And I noticed that you had
at last made your husband accompany
you to divine worshSp."
"Of course he Went with me. He'd
rather go to the-theater, but the theaters
aren't showing, anything on Sundays now.
But he disgraced me."
. "In churchT How?"
'-'The rector read four chapters from the
Acts of the Apostles. -And my husband
Insisted on getting up and going out after
every act1 Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Key to the Situation Bee Advertising
UNCHARTERED PERILS OF AIR
Causes of the Growing: Death Soli of
Aviation.
MYSTERY OF MANY FATALITIES
Holes In the Air the Greatest Danger
: of AH Because They Defy De
tection How They Are
Formed. -
Aviation's roll of victims for 1913 is cer
tain to surpass that of any previous year
since the heavler-than-alr flying machine
came Into use. September has added a
great number to the roll both in the
United States and abroad. Three double
fatalities, all army officers, have been
recorded in Europe, and many single
fatalities have been reported, showing
the great hazard of flying with motor
driven appliances.
The principal causes of the disasters are
three kinds-holes in the air, inexperience
and recklessness. Recklessness is com
mon among aviators who have commer
cialised the business of flying. Inex
perience claims victims among army of
ficers and a class of amateurs who at
tempt flight with defective machines.
Holes In the air claim victims from every
class and are considered a peril against
which there le no safeguard or danger
signal.
The real and actual hole in the air, as
explained by a scientist in the Boston
Transcript is to be found in the center
of an air whirl, and it is a counter part
of the hole that you see in a wash bowl
when the water is flowing out of the hole
In the bottom of the bowl. When the
water Is flowing out of the bowl rapidly
you notice that it has a swirling motion
and a little whirl-pool Is formed, the cen
trifugal fapee of the water causing the
water to recede from the center, and a
"hole" in the water Is visible there. The
water forced away from the center Is
heaped up at the outer edge of the bowl.
The size of the hole in the water de
pends on how fast the water is flowing In
the bowl.
Apt Illustration.
If water is put into a wash bowl which
has no outlet, and the water Is stalrred
round and round in the same direction
with the hand, a partial hole will be
formed at the center of the bowl, and
will remain plainly visible as long as
the water is kept moving rapidly around.
The hole in the water is, however, not
so deep, and Is less perfect when there
is no outlet to the bowl.
So, too, whirls are formed in a stream
of running water, as one may see by
looking at any- running water surface,;,
and the more rapid the stream the greater
unevenness in the bed and the change In
direction, the greater and more frequent
are tne wiuris ana tne accompanying noie
in the water. The .whirlpool at Niagara
forms a huge specimen of this character.
In the atmosphere there exist air whirls,
the counterparts of water whirls, and they
have their accompanying holes at the
center of their whirls. The little dust
whirls seen on a dusty road are very
good examples in miniature of the usual
air whirls which form in such varying
dimensions that' in the extreme case one
covers two-thirds of a hemisphere. All
these whirls have holes in the air at
the center; these holes being more or less
pronounced." Even the great hemispheri
cal whirls have what may be termed a
hole in the neighborhood of the poles of
the earth, as is Indicated ,by the lower
barometer reading at and near the pole.
' Diverse Currents, i
A class of air movements which In
their effect are simlUar to the real holes
In the air are produced by the action, of
the strong air ; currents which blow; in
the upper air In an .easterly direction in
air, latitudes combined with ' the i more
local air currents which exist around' the
cyclones or areas of low barometer and
which shift through all points of tlhe compass-
In cyclonic-area, which may consist
of a huge ' atmospheric whirl several
hundred miles in diameter, the wind
blows in somewhat different directions
at various elevations; but in general the
velocities increase with the elevation al
though not so much as one would think
at altitudes above 600 or 1,000 feet.
The movements of the clouds, If care
fully observed, will show anyone that
the wind direction varies at various ele
vations. It is Just as though a seces
sion of rivers of air were moving along
quite Independent of each other. But at
the dividing lines between these air
rivers having different . directions , and
different velocities there is a rumpus in
them depending In intensity on the dif
ference of directions, the difference in
velocities and the length of time that
this condition has been kept up.
White Caps In the Air.
Air waves are produced by the blow
ing of an air current, over another, just
as water waves are produced by an air
current blowing across a water surface.
Only In the case of air currents' acting
one on the other the waves produced are
about 1,000 times as' big as the ' water
"waves produced by" air blowing over
water.
Thus the counterparts of water waves
three feet long would be air billows
about 3,000 feet, long. These afcr billows
have their crests and, their troughs, and
the aviator who trusts - himself In the
air in a strong wind practically learns
to ride these billows Just as a vessel
rides the water waves. We often notice
in a long continuing wind that gusts
occur with almost clock-like regularity,
at Intervals of a few minutes. These
gusts mark the passage of the trough
of one of the huge air billows that have
formed In the great air movement that
is going on.
At, places we shall have a downward
movement, and between them an upward
movement of the air. When the contrasts
of wind above the below are very great
the air becomes much more tumultuous
than the white-capped water waves. The
squally days which the wise aviator has
already learned to shun are brought
about by such conditions as these.
The Air Tunnel.
A special danger to the aviator is the
hole in the air which extends tunnel
wise in a nearly horizontal direction.
This Is caused by two air currents lying
one above the other and coming from op
poKite directions and meeting as a com
mon broad surface. This causes a long
spindle-shaped whirlwind, in which the
central axis is horizontal and not verti
cal, as In the case of the whirlwinds
thal( have been mentioned. When clouds
are formed in a whirlwind of this char
acter the position of the whirl is marked
by a long cigar or roller-shaped doiid,
and this would have extending through
Its center a hole of the worst kind, for
It would make an aeroplane turn a
somersault Such conditions may occur
In the upper air, but well within the
region of air flights, much more fre
quently among meteorologists have re
corded among their observations. If so,
the aviator will soon find It wit
So mobile is the air and so easily
moved that almost any conditions of wind
are liable to form whirls in which the
hole in the air Is more or less pro
nounced, and the attendant dangers
quickly become multiples of such as ex
isted, In the straight blow.
HEADY WORK SCORES QUICKLY
Initiative in the Boy Foreshadoiva
the Destiny of the
Han.
"Boy wanted not a common boy, but
one with uncommon snap and courage,
a boy who knows the meaning of that
big word 'initiative.' He must know how
to use the talents he has without being
told more than thirty-seven times."
"There!" said the busy superintended
of one of Chicago's smaller manufactur
ing companies, asjie finished dictating
his ad for a boy. "I hope I can gel
a boy who can do a few things with,
out having to tell him each time. I
certainly do need a bright boy to take an
active interest around here."
Then he ordered his stenographer to
telephone the ad to the paper, with In
structions to set It In double space.
At 8 o'clock the next morning th
passageway to the man's outside office
door was crowded with a motley aggro'
gation of young candidates, who thought
they could qualify. The superintendent
was regretting the trouble of picking out
the right boy from this crowd as ha
elbowed his way on Into his office. There
he was surprised to face one bright look,
ing lad, hat in hand, calmy waiting for
him.
"Why, what are you doing herer ex
claimed the superintendent
,I came, for that Job," the boy. re
plied, i -was here first and: I : climbed
through' the-window there in order to get
tff:see ypu' first The other boys don't
know. I'm here."
"Where was .the last place you
worked?" asked - the superintendent,
without showing the interest he "really
felt in this, lad of slight build, who has
foresight enough to avoid the rush and
crush tit ' the door, -courage enough to
climb in the window, and sufficient cun
ning to avoid the watchful eye of Jake,
the - Janitor.
At the Blank company," the - boy
promptly replied.
"Why did you" leaver
"I was fired," was the equally prompt
reply.
"Firedr
"Yes; It was like ' this. , Another boy
and I' were told to carry some packages
from the shipping room and load them
on the delivery truck out In front of th
factory. My boss told me that the bun
dles should be down at the depot Just as
soon as possible. ' And he told me to ti!
the truck driver to start1 right out with
them and not to wait for any more. Jrtut
the truck driver didn't show up and 1
couldn't find him. so I Jumped In. It
was an auto truck and the driver had
let me learn how to run it. I drove down
town and delivered the packages and was
back to the factory in about twenty-five
minutes. But when I got back the boss
fired me on the hpot. Ho told me that I
had a whole lot more nerve than was
good for me. That is exactly how It hap
pened. But I want the Job adver
tised. I can make good."
The superintendent lost no time tele
phoning the Blank company to verify fho
boy's statement, then asked him when
he could come to work.
"Right now," replied the boy, showing
eagerness to begin.
Then the superintendent stepped to the
outside office door and told the other
boys that the job was filled.
"The best time to get the habit of mak
ing good," says this youngster, "is in
boyhood." Chicago Tribune.
THE SUN AS A LIGHT-TENDER
Stops and Starts Beacons for Marin
ers with Incredible
Precision.
The sun Is the most trustworthy of
lighthouse-keepers. The sun, or the heat
from it, lights many hundreds of beacons
along our coasts and waterways evening
after evening and extinguishes them
punctually every morning. They are
guides on land and sea that never are
touched by human hands from one
month's end to another. The way in
which the United States government
through its lighthouse board, has utilized
the services of the sun and made that
great lamp of heaven a faithful and un
erring servant Is most interesting.
The discovery of acetylene gas was the
first step toward retiring the lonely keep
ers of the little lights in far-off places.
Modern magic was not slow in recogniz
ing the fact that by the application of
certain well known scientific principles
the lighting of the great chains of bea
cons that girdle the coasts of the two
seas and the gulf and cover the great
lakes and every navigable stream In oupi
huge country could be much simplified.
The United States did not become Inter
ested In the acetylene Ught and Its auto
matically generating gas buoy until about
six years ago, and did not adopt it until
1908. Then the engineers of the lighthouse
board devised some wonderful Improve
ments, among them the utilization of
the sun. In the last three years many
hundreds of the old? type of lanterns afloat
and ashore have been superseded by this
new device. About sixty of them have
been installed in Alaska this year.
The self-lighting and self-extinguishing
acetylene beacon Is a very simple thing,
but It depends almost entirely on the
"sun valve," which Is one of the most
wonderful but least complex of the
achievements of modern science.
In the first place, the source of light
for these lone beacons is dissolved acetyl
lene, wWch Is stored under pressure in
steel cylinders. One of these cylinders
can be charged With enough gas to last
a small beacon three years. Usually, how
ever, in the case of floating buoys, a
six months' supply Is all that is neces
sary, as such buoys are overhauled and
painted twice a year. Knowing the size
of the flame and Its hourly consumption
of gas, it la very easy to compute how
long a cylinderful will last and how often
it will need to be visited. That is all
the care the light will need. The sun
valve does the rest.
The scientific principle upon which the
sun .valve depends is that light-waves
become transformed In different degrees,
according to the nature of the Intercepting-body.-
Sunlight upon dark surfaces
rr
inr inp
pecial
Sale
of Desks
During the next few days e will sell all our high class Gunn desks and other office
furniture at special prices. Gunn desks are the kind that meet the demand of the best
office. They are substantially-constructed of solid oak, have every modem convenience
and are sanitary. There is no better desk than the Gunn. Here are just a few-prices:
Roll Top Gunn
, Desk, 54 in. $27.50
Roll Top Gunn
Desk, 60 in. $35.00
Flat Top Gunn
Desk, 54 in $21.50
Flat Top Gunn
Desk, 60 in $24.00
Swivel Arm Chair,
at $ 6.50
Roll Top Gunn.
. Desk, 50 in $33.00
Roll Top Gunn
Desk, 54 in. .....$40.00
Roll Top Gunn
Desk, 60 in. $45.00
Flat Top Gunn
Desk, 50 in. .....$24.00
Flat, Top Gunn
jDesk, 54 in. .....$27.50
Flat Top Gunn v
Desk, 60 in. .....$30.00
Miller, Stewart Beaton Co.
415-17 South Sixteenth Street
is converted into heat and heat produces
expansion. This expansion Is especially
perceptible in certain metals. In a care
fully sealed and substantially mounted
glass Jar nearly a foot high and about
one-fourth that in diameter a thick black
rod is placed perpendicular through the
center. It is supported by three slender
rods of hIghlypollBhed copper. The big
black rod Is of copper Jbo and is coated
with lampblack to make It absorb light
to the greatest possible degree. The sup
porting rods reflect light without absorb
ing It and do not expand or contract to
the same extent as the largest rod.
The thick black piece of copper In the
center of the Jar is extremely sensitive
to light and heat. As the sun appears
and the atmosphere grows warmer In the
momlnir this rod lengthens. It pushes
down into the metal chamber In which the
glass Jar rests and touches the end of a
lever. It presses down on this lever
which Is controlled by a spring, and cut
off the flow of the gas to the lamp. '
When the sun disappears from view In
the evening and the temperature of the
air falls the process Is reversed. The
rod contracts and releases Its pressure
on the lever, allowing the gas to flow
upward to the lamp. The gas is Ignited
by a little pilot flame that is never ex
tinguished. Thus the beacon is lighted
at the proper time and is put out when
it is no longer needed, although along
desolate coasts It may never gladden the
human eye for months at a time.
The engineers of the lighthouse board
say that the precision of this device Is
almost Incredible. It can be used with
equal certainty In equatorlcal heat and in
polar cold,, for It responds with the ut
most accuracy to small variations In tem
perature. It Is used on lonely Islands In
the Pacific There are nearly a hundred
of these sun-valve beacons In Alaska. In
summer .they are aids to navigation and
in winter they guide the travelers on
dogsledges over the frosen wastes. Harp
er's Weekly.
Omaha Architect
on Board of Experts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. l.-(Spe-clal
Telegram.) The capltol building
commissioners this afternoon announced
the selection of the following Jury of ex
pert architects to aid them in selecting a
plan for tho new state house: William
B. Ittner, St Louis; B. Cllpton Sturgls,
Boston, Mass.; and Thomas R. Kimball,
Omaha.
Ittner la the architect of the St. Louis
Board of Education. Sturgls Is vice presi
dent and a member of the executive com
mittee of the American Institute of Archi
tects. Kimball also is a member of that
organization. The experts are expected
here tomorrow to begin work. The ten
architects seleoted for the competition by,
the elimination contests some months ago
will each be requested to submit eleven
sketches of their plans, showing different
elevations and interiors. It may be sev
eral weeks before a selection Is made.
Taft Gains Strength (
Out in the Stat d
Forty-five of the petitions for Taft
electors, all fully signed, ' were returned
to republican state headquarters at the
Paxton hotel yesterday. The petitions
must' be In' the hands of the secretary
of state by October 5. Bach petition
sent In has been accompanied by an en
couraglng letter from the man who cir
ulated It. II. C. Henderson of Wilson,
vllle writes there has been a rapid change
from Roosevelt to Taft in the precinct
where he resides. From signers on his)
petition, he says, he knows definitely
that the Taft votes at the election will
be seven-fold what they were at the
primaries. ...... v
"I have an old popuitst for a neighbor;"
says Mr. Henderson, "who has voted for
Bryan every time he has been a candU
date. He says he will vote for Taft.
Several republicans who voted for Rooee
velt and La Follette at the primaries
have told me they will vote for Taft at
the election." ,
The Taft people , are working hard at
the headquarters at the Paxton. Some
prominent speakers 'are to be secured
soon for Omaha meetings.
The Eternal Impulse.
Fair Suffragette And now. If any one
who has heard my speech wishes to ask
a question, I shall be happy to answer.
Masculine Voice (from rear of hall) If
you haven't any -other company, -may I
see you home this evening? Judge.
MIMpwWMMMlMllwuiiMii II. II . M Htp-
it.
Single Comb Brown Leghorns
After many years of breeding I now have ,
one of the greatest laying strains inr exist
ence, and they have proven exhibition qual
ities they have been winning the blue rib
bons wherever shown..
I have a limited number of cockerels for
sale. Eggs for thatching in season. Don't
fail to see my exhibit at the Exposition,
O. C. '''GEHRfVlAN
Phone Web.1170.
2850 Fowler Ave., Omaha Neb.
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AT THE GREAT
T o A
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.Fillers
O fl o
I have a splendid collection of utility females on exhibition-one
of the best I have every shown. Because I do not wish to move
these and be bothered with the work incident to clearing out the'
exhibition, Ihave placed particularly low prices on this collection.
See these birds and learn what you can get for extremely low prices
ess
mw n n w in ss
n
These probably are the world's best layers. For fifteen years I have selected
the most vigorous rapid growing chicks for breeders. My system of using for
breeders only birds thatjhow rapid development and vigor when chicks has devel
oped in "Peerless" birds vitality rarely equaled, even by the -best barnyard: fowls.
Almost anyone can make money with "Peerless" birds. You should1 see my
stock. We certainly can do business after you examine the birds I possess.
Attend the great exposition and see my birds and talk to me about the ''world's
best layers." If you cannot see me in person, write for a catalogue.
Box 12 B, Station A
Omaha, Nebraska
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