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PART TWO
AUTOMOBILES
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VOL. XXXIX-M). 17.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, lD0t.
SINGLE COPY FIVE) CENTS.
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Latest Autumn Dress Fabrics
An exhibition of Fall fabric fashion, beautiful in the extreme. Table
after table fairly groaning under stocks of new imported and domestic wool
ens of the most wanted kinds. Every color brought out in n score of shades.
Rich broadcloths, fancy self-color weaves and plain materials for suits and
dresses. "We are doing an immense business because we show the variety and
name the most moderate prices
75c-89c-$l-$125-$3
Monday Special
39 Pieces
India Twills
"A very handsome imported twilled
fabric, 46 inches wide, light weight
and fine texture, large rangi(? , ft Q
of colors; $'2.00 goods
Golf Jled Coating We have on Bale now a
line of beautiful, bright red coating, spe
cially well adapted for children' coats.
It's 66 Inches wide, al wool, and heavy,
Monday 99
Trimmings and Hralds Quite the best show
ing of dress garnitures of the season, prac
tically every new thing with any , merit
i Is featured. Foreign novelties to match
the new dress goods.
Jet Trimming A special lot- narrow and
wide widths, band effects, 25c and 35c
values at 12
Hardware
The Newest Silk
36-Inch
Cashmire de Soie
This is a wonderfully fine soft silk
with a dull finish, drapes gracefully
and is in great'favor for evening and
dinner gowns, also shown in many
shades suitable for street wear a
full yard wide and worth Of f Q
$2.00, for 1.1 J
Skinner Lining Satin In the best colors, gen
uine article with name on selvedge 36
inch, our price k CI .25
COME HERE FOR BLACK SILKS MONDAY
We will have on the counters a late ship
ment of very brilliant Black Taffeta, a yard
wide fabric that has lots of body and
which will give excellent service, made for
$1.25 retailing, our price Monday . .7X?
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FREE Any liW Indies' Homo Journal rat-
tern with the Fall Style Hook, at 20?
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Art Needlework Novelties
Our importation of foreign novelties for the., holidays have arrived. We
show exclusively:
German Embroideries Done on silk moire and linen crash; designs taken from
old tapestries of ancient castles.
Boarfs, Pillow Tops, Table Squares Including the new table pieces In cross
design, something entirely different and new.
We also have complete stocks of new stenciled and stamped pieces.
Stamping done arrd designs changed to suit.'
October Dinnerware Days
Very impressive bargains on fine Import d China in open stock
patterns O. l. A., CHAS. FIELD, HA VI LAND CHINA.
, Four Patterns Greatly Reduced.
100-Picce Dinner Set Pink rose?
border, with gold line, plain
shape, a beautiful
$65 set, at
$42.50
100-Piece Dinner Set Handsome
green border decorated with gold
line and gold stippling, very de
licate design and real AO CA
$65 value, at s)l.0U
100-Piete Dinner Set In green
reed border, with Intersecting
pink roses, gold lined and matt
gold handles. $80 CA
sets, at , 90"
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100-Piece Dinner Sets Very fine,
heavy body China, with heavy
' Incrustations, plain shape, a mag
nificent $i&o C11C
set, for 7llt)
23 PER CENT REDUCTION on above patterns from oen stock.
Women's Fall Suits
New shipments for Monday something dif
ferent to any we have shown this season.' Rich,
refined, dignified, plain tailored models of the
choicest materials, lined with, the heavy guaran
teed Skinner satin.
."Women's apparel with tone and individual
ity as well. You feel the satisfaction that your
purchase is well made when you buy these suits.
They are devoid of all trimming; just the
slightest touch of self-strapping is given to them
to break the monotony.
These are values in thqdr truest sense and
typify the Bennett endeavors to give you better
garments than any other
house in the city.
Prices are
$25-$29i
Late Wooltex Models
"Wooltex suits are attractive because of their exquisite fit,
simplicity and quiet refinement. Excellent materials
and beautiful tailoring are shown to their best advant
age in Wooltex suits. These splendid styles are iden
tical to those pictured in the Ladies' Home Journal and
are chosen by America's best dressed women
"Wooltex is sold in Omaha exclusively at
Bennett's :
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'35 L
Every housewife will appre
ate these savlnga In the en-
Inelwar section.
5c Pieces lor iJVC
Hnameled egg poachers ftA
qt. enameled pitchers AH
qt. Berlin sauce pans
S4-qt. Preserving Kettles . ...3so
10 tt 12-qt. enamel water palls 3o
7-qt. Enamel dleh pans 3o
qt. Berlin Kettles o
0alvanlzed Iron Coal Hods..,.s8o
And 20 Orjen Stamps.
furnace Scoops ase
And 10 Green Stamps.
l5o Stove Pipe, special 10
1,110 SIDVO r-ipe iwmprr w
S 5o Wilson Bread Toaster lBo
2 6c Elite Sink Strainer '. .18o
s!vc Oalv. Wash Tuba Monday. .B9o
7 be Gal v. Wash Tuba, Monday, etc
Peninsular Stoves
Four numbers we are featuring
a : less than regular prices
Ck Ooel. Heaters,.' with l4-lnch
- fire pot." on -sale at ....... .T.80
14.00 Base 'Burner,' 15-lnch fir
pot .... ...gSS.SO
1400 Steel Range, Peninsular
Electro, for SJ3.0O
4.00 Laundry Stoves at 13.00
Capitol
Coal
Try a Sample Sack
for 30c
So positive are we that fcap
Itol Coal la the best coal for you
to buy, we sell sample sacks
for a trial test before ordering
a quantity.
Hundreds of families buy
Capitol Coal year after year.
It'g the best soft coal mined.
Gives more heat, burns -up
cleaner, and 1 more . lasting
than any other coal we know
of selling up to $8.60 a ton..
Capitol !.56 a
Coal
Ton
Better try a "sample sack If
you have never Tused Capitol
Coal bellverles to Omaha and
suburbs.
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utumn Millinery
An exhibition of new Fall hats expressive of the highest types of
fashionable headgear. New broad tip-tilted styles are in high favor
'and abundantly shown in new moire, silk, felt and beaver effects,
sumptuously trimmed with rich wings, ostrich, Persian bands, etc.
Dennett's Popular Prices
again have caught the public fancy and making record-breaking sell
ing. Bennett's hats give you more style, richer materials and more
artistic -conceptions at a lower cost than all Omaha is offering.
No better time to put us to the test than now.
Table
Linen
Monday only 70
inch bleached, all
linen damask; 90o
value-- '
75c
Towel
"Seconds"
Hemmed Huck
towels, 22x45-lnch,
only slightly Im
perfect, 17c value,
1 '
lie
Spreads "
Hemmed and
fringed, full bed
size marsellles pat
tern; $1.76 value,
Si .39
Sheets
" Special
' Bleached sheets,
full bed size, 3-in.
hem, center seam;
69c quality, Mon
day 48c
Cotton
Blankets
Full size, heavy
weight, grey or tan,
worth $1.39 pa,ir,
at
98c
Comforter
Bargains
Large cotton fil
led c o in f o r ter,
hand tied, best
$1.35 line, at
$1 .00
Aa Entire Week of Mnslo
Bargains .
Sheet Music
Per
Copy
5 Six for
C 25c
Thousands of copies, hundreds
of titles. Most enduring and uni
versally popular music ever written
at a wonderful bargain price all
week. TOOAX,
Ave Marli
Anchored
A f t e r w srds.
Alone, Celestial,
Calvary, Alda,
'Iream of Para
dise, Heart
Howed D own.
My Rosary.
Pilgrim's Chor
us, Voices of
the Woods,
Wearing of the
Green.
Relieve me In all those enduring
young charms.
inSTBDHKnTAi,
Alice. Angel's
Dream, Anvil
Chorus, Angel's
Serenade, Bat
tle of Water
loo, Bl'k Hawk
W a It s, Blue
Danube, Colon
ial Guards, Cav
alleiia R u s t 1
e a n n. Chop
Sticks, Ovor the
Waves, Over
ture (patriot
ic), On the
.Meadow, Poet
and Peasant,
Come . Back to
Eiln. Camp of
the Gipsies.
Dorothy, Dying
Poet. Edel
weiss Glide,
Flower Song,
The Winnt.ln
Garland of
Roses, Jlo m e,
Sweet ITo m e
(with , varla-'
tlons). Rustic
Dance. 8llvery
Wave. The Tu
lip, Woodland
Echo, II Trova
tore. Love and
Valor. I. aat
Hope, Mounts in
Hello, Maiden's
Prnver, March
ing Through
Georgia, O 1 d
Kontucky Home,
Mocking Bird
with variations.
William Tell,
Under the Dou
ble Eagle. Lar
go, Morning
Prayer.
Groceries
Bennett's Golden Coffee, lb...2Co
And 30 Green (Stamps.
Bennett's Challenge Coffee, Ib.lSo
And 10 Green Stamp.
Bennett's Teas, assorted, lb.. 48c
And 60 Grien Stamp.
Heinz Hour Mixed Pickles. tt..80o
And 20 iren Slamp.
Virginia Swiss ('hreve. lh....SSo
And 10 Green Stamps.
Cream Cheese. :b 80o
And 10 (ireen Stamps.
Tea Garden Preserves. Jar 30o
And 30 Green Stamps.
Gaiilard Olive Oil. large bnl..70o
And 70 Green Hlamps
Stollwerck Bros. Cocoa, ',4 -lb. can
for 30o
And 20 Green Htamp.
French cut I.oaf Bugar, pkg...S8o
And 10 Oren Ptumps.
Sweet Pickled Peachea, qt S!o
And 20 Green Stamps.
Cocoanut and Vanilla Cookies,
freh 13o
Strait's Cube Pineapple. can..aoo
And 30 Green tampn.
Capitol AVheat r Oats. :-lb. pkg.
for Xla
And 10 Groeft Stamps.
Capitol Pancnke, nkg Ho
And 10 Gre.m Stamps;
Capitol Raking Powder, lb. cun 80
s And 20 Greon Stamps.
Tankee Hose Toilet Soup, 3 for SSo
And 10 Green Stamps.
Pick lea, - assorted, hot t le ICo
And 10 Green Stamps.
Polk's Soups, 'hree cans SBo
And 10 Green Stamps.
Xvaporated Feaohes A close out
sale while quantity lasts splen
did Evaporated Peaches, lb.. So
EOXJBLB STAMPS ON SVOAK.
European Impressions of a First-Tripper
ay v. Adolf Holt, Pastor Swedish Xmacaaual lutharaa Church of Omaha.
' X. .
WEDEN. U a pretty land. Its
people are a kind people. To
travel there Is a Journey of de
light. The manner and meth
ods of the Swedish nation have
oftenlnc and polishing ease
tti iell ' of southern Influence. They are
by Ml odds the, gentlest and roost, re
fined uif the Germanlo DeoDlea of Eurone.
-
s Influence has been at work In
i since the days of the brilliant and
ly Gustaf III (1771-179:2) and later
h the present talented Bernadotte
y founded In 1818 by Napoleon's
1, a native of Pau In the Pyrenees,
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Franc
Swede'
literal'
Uu-ouJ
dynas
eral
a4. elected to the throne by the Swedish
people
the altrand-plllaglng. fearless vikings.
whoael raids were dreaded from the Baltic
to the shores of Portugal. Once "the snow
majes iy of the north," the noble and
might Ouatavus Adolphus (ltUl-lKE), ruled
over jne of the three world powers of
Euroi , which were England, France and
Swede
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rinlaj
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Once Sweden was the home of
n. In those days the Swedish char-
was historically creative and pollt-
ambltloua. Gustavug Adolphus threw
soldiers Into Germany In the Thirty
war and hi genius, generalship and
wladoifa achieved the glorious Independence
of a I Protestant civilisation from the
threatfened subjection under a Latin, South
Europtean type of civil and religious life.
Moderln history was rescued. Today the
Land (of the Midnight Sun la the home of
an lntl-lllgent, gentle and gifted people that
are otlit of the great race of the military
nation
erful
come
XII (
tragio
happy
s ef Europe. How could the pow-
people of Quatavua Adolphus be-
the docile nation of today? Charles
7-mS), the celebrated erratlo and
warrior, bled Sweden byTila un
campalgns, and finally was crushed
U7O0) At Pultawa by Peter the Great. Just
ars afterwards (1S09) Sweden lost
J to Russia. Almost a century from
Mb) Norway slipped away from the
h scepter and the pacific and learned
II acquiesced in the separation with-
stroke of his polished sword. The
serious and determined king might
acted otherwise. Those three national
defe iu have hammered down the will of
the Swedish people and hence '.'the gentle
Swt de" of later history. A nation may
suff Lr temporary reverses and still retain
Us prowess If victories only some time
oorr. s back, but mo years of continuous
los must tell, and has told, on the na
tion s Ufe. The -re.t weakness of fair
8we. ltn today la Its lack of sturdy will
powi r and initiative such as you find
la tl loee seml-Celtlc northerners, the rug
ged, Iforward and contentious Norwegians.
splendid mountain people.
While Sweden lost her prestige she turned
to tk4 Inner life. The peaceful arts have
thrtvell the mote tht last 4) years.
Moderkt education the world over knows
the SiieeUah "sloyd." or manual training.
and the revolution It Is effecting inthe
entire school system . of today. There
are less Illiterates In Sweden than In our
own land. Sweden's literature Is a, mar
vel of beauty, as the language Itself Is
one of the world's moat expressive, finished
and ringing. The lyrical (song) poetry
often matches Heine and Shakespeare at
their very best You may go among Nha
upper .classes or the peasantry, every
where the prevailing tone is refined. In
this one respect the German falls by com
panion, is angular, provocative and In.
cllned to resentment. As the Swedes are
a nation of fine, well-nigh fad (wehmu
tlg) feelings, whatever they do and say
tends to have that same spirit. There iJ
as much feeling In the Swede as there Is
will In the Independent, charactered Nor
wegl:in. At the tame time the Swede is
a calm and clear thinker. Had the pro
found philosopher Bostrom been a German
and not a Swede, his gigantic personality-philosophy
would have been one of the
grand landmarks of thought. But the
Swedes are poor at self-advertisement (ex
cept In the present general srlkel). In
fact, they have been a little too proudly
Indolent to make their treasures known
and hence Bostrom has remained exclu
sively a Swedish figure. If the Swede
would exchange some of their refined
backwardness for a little of the almost
Celtic push and clamor of the Norwegians,
the world would be astontuhed at the
wealth of Intellectual, spiritual and artistic
attainments of the people In that pretty
land of the midnight sun.
Southern Sweden somewhat resembles
Iowa and Illinois plus a certain picturesque
northern cast of the landscape. Middle
Sweden Inclines to become rugged, es
pecially toward Norway. Northern Sweden
Is an Irregular foot-hill country worn
down by the Norwegian glaciers, and U
the most sombre and wild, romantic and
mysterious part of the land. There the
midnight sun blazes all through the night
of early summer, a sight of gorgeous, yet
calm aplendor. Farthest north you have
bald hllla and bogs like in Finland and
Russia. Of the ten Eurupeann capitals I
have seen, Stockholm has the most glorious
situation, Berne of the Swiss Alps alone
contending with the northern metropolis.
Situated on Islands and ragged, rocky
shores of the world-famous "spaergord"
) (skerry walls) of Stockholm in that
strangely luminous atmosphere of northern
land that seems like a prism, Stockholm Is
a city of Indescribable loveliness. Not so
much the civic works as the location
astitilshed and pleased me beyond telling.
Sweden la not a wealthy land, consider
able of Its natural -esources are, though,
underworked, and too often In the hands
of foreigners. Its cities evidence the fact.
You will not seek Berlin's civic pomp here.
But If you love pleasing effects, homey,
cheery, fresh and bright sights and a
population that knows how to enjoy life
In a prevailingly cultured and hearty man
ner, then look to the luminous cupltal of
the north, beautiful Stockholm. Would
this city command the wealth of London
or Paris,' those strategically beautiful Is
lets and shores would offer the finest op
portunity for architectural magnificence
and Janscape architecture of perhaps any
capital in Europe. But the Swedes nre not
now a commerlcal people, do not love
money for money's sake as we Americans,
though they are faithfully Industrious and
poNsessed of actual genius for mechanical
engineering of every kind. (Our John
Erickson of "Monitor and Merrimac" fame
was trained in Sweden. Swedish civil
and mechanical engineers are found all
over America and the world). Therefore
Stockholm can hardly become Just such a.
show place as Berlin. Its palace Is a plain,
but quite majestic structure. Perhaps the
finest new building is the superb "Nor
dlska museet" (Northern museum). In a
sort of Swedish Rococo style of arch
itectureas atrlklng a piece of work as the
similar German Rococo "Rathhaus" of
Liepzlg. And what a stroke of genius the
conception of h1s museum and Its open
air consort. "Skanseii," out ou a most
captivating peninsula, formerly a royal
park. In the museum all the provinces of
Sweden are represented in, different rooms.
This is the pea Hunt department. In upper
stories there comes a chronological display
from the middle and higher classes. Here
you can see how the people lived In their
homes, the furniture, the clothes, the
utensils, and the national costumes on
fairly good wax figures. Out on the rocky,
woody "Skansrn," Sweden's folk games
and folk dances are given every day by
experts. Characteristic pe.rsant cottages
have been brought In from all over the
land. Home pleasantry and folk music
are offered In these, while national amuse
ments, such as the "Maypole" are engaged
in out of doors during the proper season.
Folk life addresses and lectures, folk con
certs. Instruction in questions of import
ance to home and church and state any
thing that tends to waken the national
sense or to reimburse the national con
sciousnes finds artistic and scientific
treatment. It la an open air ethnological
exhibition and university in real life and
for Sweden's cutiunoi, peuple especially.
The patriotic and educational value of this
unique Institution h.ss been. is. and will
be Immense. Nothing in all Snedt.n In
terested me quite as much, hardly the
surging green Trollhattan falls, or the long
and narrow ihaisn-luke of Fryken. or
Gustaf Vaea's realms in far north
Dalarne. Even my cathedral enthusiasm,
satisfied so thoroughly at that aublimest
church of Sweden, the cathedral of Lund,
or at the larger restored Gothic temple of
Upsala. almost yielded to the prophetic
"Skansen."
Seeden Is coming to her old self again,
I hope, even If first through more agony
and a deeper crisis, what and when; only
the God cf history knows. She has had too
much of the French for IIS years, too little
of her native sturdy Swedish. Remarkable,
though, how exceptionally flno her develop
ment has been. If we except the American,
British and Scandinavian liquor evil and
the too prevalent habit of cursing. There
are 2,000,000 Swedes and Swedish-Americans
in the United States. If the legal frater
nity should depend on these for their ex
perience" at the bar and for Income U(o
lawyer's profession would be no attraction.
The criminal history of our land has a com
paratively brief story to tell so far of the
misdeeds of Swedes and their descendants.
There must, therefore, have been some
splendid training over In the good land of
Sweden to make such results possible. The
Lutheran church of the country, whatever
her numerous faults, )as deeply Influenced
the Inner life of the people. Jt has often
stood for high Ideals, all things consid
ered. Sweden's rulers have generally been
men of manly motives, not always great
men, but kindly and fatherly toward the
people. Moreover, the Swiles are not a
passionate nation of extreme tendencies,
but harmony loving. They might, In a nay,
be called the Greeks of the north, so calm
and contemplative are they and warm of
sentiment without thu white heat of peoples
with a more pronounced will. Where but
In Sweden could a general strike be carried
on In all lines of Industry so peacefully,
with a royal order forbidding the s-ale of
Intoxicants, and that manifesto almost be
coming the new platform of the labor
unions themselves? A week ago the strik
ers threatened to boycott the Stockholm sa
loons climax of labor union humor!
Next to Stockholm I think that the most
characteristic single number for the tourist
is the famous trip on the Gotha canal
from Gothenburg to Stockholm, or Its best
part, from Stockholm to Jonkoping, the
city on Lake Vettern with Naples-like sur
roundings. You go clean across the coun
try from the southwest to the capital on
the Baltic, midway up the east coast. Over
the plains, through the large lake of Ven
em, again on the Ostgotha plain, then Into
tho crystal clear, easily stormy ,Luke Vet
tern, over hill districts and peaceful lake
lit . Into the Skaersord of Stockholm the
entire ay teems with Interest of a placid
and often amazingly lovely order. No Eu
ropean Journey excels this tour In Its own
line. It is not the Norwegian grandeur,
but the pleasing, winsome, fair Swedish
type of scenery you get on this ca"fral.
Sweden's s.enery ha its counterpart
In Sweden's men and women of genius.
Not grandly wild and awesome as the
Norwegian fie'ids and Norway's Ibsen, but
beautiful In the Greek sense of fine har
mony, calm contemplation, a very soul
ful and spiritual profundity. Few peuple
of the world have been so innately re
ligious as the Swedes. True, the country
Is since some fifteen years in the midst
of a serious Intellectual, social and relig
ious crisis. Young Saeden, whatever its
hot aspirations may be, falls far behind
the Immediately preceding generation, the
men and women over 20 years of age.
The German socialistic Ideas have tem
porarily crazed and bewildered the funda
mentally moderate and thoughtful Swede.
There ate grievous reason for social un
rest inherited from the past. Wages have
till lately been low. The poor a ere
obliged to hold their cap in hand ab
jectly to their euperlors. Sweden's most
unprofitable capital has for two centuries
been, not Its excellent common people, but
Its laiy, too much pleasure-loving men of
business and gentry. The state church
question also of late agitates many, as
all over Europe In Protestant or Roman
or Greek countries. A state church Is from
now on an anachronism, whatever Us un
doubted services In former ages and these
are very considerable when studied his
torically. The norpially kind Swedish mind
Is at present In a flutter. There is an
anxious feeling in men's hearts, and a
grim look on the faces of some radicals.
Sweden must come back to her old fear
less sturdlness, is my deep conviction.
Tliut alono will solve the problem. The
courage, manliness, self-sacrifice, kernelly
mentality of the times of Gustavus Adol
phus must return. To her old-time beauti
ful contemplation and nobility of purpose,
unparallellcd hospitality, almost spiritual
seriousness and honesty, still with hot
in a nilldened decree, must cume more
determination to dure and to do, to battle
In deed as well as word. She needs no
less refinement and no less spiritual sincer
ity, but she must acquire boluness to act
quickly and w Isely in a cris;s ond to hit
hard when necessary. It will not harm
her, if she adds to her sensitiveness,
courtesy and regaid, the German and Nor
wegian emphasis to convictions' and accent
to the deeds. In many pelnts she has no
superior in Europe, particularly In Inner
fineness of mind and rather unmaterlalis
tlc view of life. Scholarship and culture
stand In higher repute there than In our
own laud almost. She has had and hsu
men and women of towering excellence.
Linne was hers, our Johu Erlvsun too.
Jenny Llnd and Christine Nelson were her
daughters. Great philosophers like Geljer
and Bostrom have taught her thinking
men. Eminent poets as the soaring Ideal
ist Tegner (Longfellow translated his
"Children of the Lord's Supper quite
meritoriously) and thai national bard,
Sweden's Schiller, Runeberg, and other
lyric and epic poets of exquisite genius
sang In her realm. As we may expect, she
has no eminent dramatist; her mind Is
lyrical and epic. All probabilities point
toward the granting of the next Nobel
literary prize to her now world-known
novelist. Selma Lagerlof. The most cul
tured monarch of his time was the late
venerable, Oscar II. I can name only a few
of her mighty ones. There has for genera
tions been an abundance of rich personali
ties within her borders. When a powerful
impetus la once given to tl.e Swedish will,
Sweden can yet again take her rank
among tiie most influential of nations. It
rests with her to waken and focus her
really superb, but scattered energies ii. a
few momentous and actualized convictions
of heart and mind and life. Will she? She
can. If she will!
Sweden is a land of many charms, a
very haven of restful pleasures. And, oh,
the self-sacrificing hospitality of Its cheer
ful homes! To the thoughtful tourist there
Is a strange mysticism In nature and In
man there, not of the gigantic, Ibsenesque
Norwegian type, but of the heart of things,
a land of song sad songs, where the
fireside tale that la told receives a touch
from mystical realms of blissful loveliness.
a land of poets, singers and fruitful
thinkers. There dwells a people once In the
first ranks of Europe, at present in use
ful, retired quietness, but capable, under
God, of throwing lis many wonderous gifts
again Into the greater current,of universal
life, on the one condition of unequivocal
return to Its own fine genius.
ARMY CONTRACTORS WINS
W. K. Thomas lleers etrs While
Here of Court Award Ulvlnsr Hint
TOO, OOO In Kansas t'lty.
W. E. Thomas, an srmy supply contractor
of prominence. Is In Omaha making prep
arations for the subsistence of the Seventh
cavalry on the march overland to Fort
Riley from Fort Omaha. The Seventh will
leave Wednesday and Mr. Thomas will ac
company the troops along the march.
An Interesting chapter In the annals of
the Thomas-Devlin coal and coke company
failure famous In Kansas financial history,
Is contained In a message received by Mr.
Thomas while here. The United States
court of appeals has sustained the dower
rights of Mrs. Thomas in a large tract In
Kansas City adjoining the site of the new
Union station there. This adds to the
wealth of the Thomas family Ly t75O.0OO.
Ten years Mr. Thomas bought land at $60
a front foot which is now valued at (500.
The decision Just handed down gives his
wife one-third Interest In his holdings, one
half of the partnership property.
ACTRESS' DOGJN DOG WAGON
Fair Oeitr Thinks Omaha License
Oea-ht to Protect Pua Krrrr
where In Nebraska.
At least one woman sojourning tempor
arily In Omaha believes that the dog
catchers sre too sudden. She Is a member
of one of the theatrical companies, and
yesterday she went for a stroll with a
friend. Near Sixteenth and Harney, she
placed very carefully on the ground a pet
dog about aa big as a shoe.
"I had hardly turned my head." the
said later. In the city clerk's office, "but
when I tried to find my dog he had dis
appeared. By Quick search we discovered
a man had picked him up and was putting
him in a horrid looking wagon; and before
he would give him back to me I had to
pay a dollar. Here's the receipt the mar;
gave me," exhibiting one of Ab Wag
oner's hieroglyphics, "and what i want to
know is, does this receipt protect my dog
In every other town In Nebraska?" She
was told It would not, and was plainly
vexed as she remarked, "Well, If that Isn't
the limit."
PAPER READBY OMAHA MAN
I. R. Klson Tells Life I adrrwrlters
Abont Asjenrr Organisation
Prise Eaaays Hraii.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Oct. -The final ses
sion of the National Association of Life
Underwriters' convention was held today.
S. R. Elson of Omaha discussed "Agency
Organization" and prize essays on "L'.fe
Insurance Agent as a Public Benefactor"
acre rad.
EXPAND AR-SAR-BEN'S SCOPE
Penfold Advocates Keorganization
with $50,009 Capital Stock.
PROPOSES TO ISSUE BONDS, TG0
Wnnts an Exposition Combining Best
Elements of l.nrgr Shuns to
Ron Two Weeks Instead
of Ten Days.
In the wake of the AU-Snr-nen cclehrsV
thin, active minds are busy with plans fot
next year and for the years to come.
"Boost for Omaha" Is the slogan of the
Knights of Ak-Sar-Uen and this motto will
prompt the men behind the fall festival to
strive for a greater, a bigger and more
attractive celebration next year.
One of the first moves of the Knights
probably will be to re-Incorporate the com
pany. This Is the dream of II. J. Penfold, '
secretary. At the next meeting of the
organization he will preucnt a plan to In
crease the capitalization from $i;.000, the
present figures, to JOO.OOO and possibly to
J100.000.
With the organization on a gilt-edged
financial basis and with-every assurance
of pecuniary success in future years, Mr.
Penfold believes that 6 per cent Interest
bearing bonds may be issued to stock
holders... Make a Big; Exposition.
"There Is no reason," as Mr. Penfold,
why Ak-Sar-Ben carnhal could not be ''
transformed Into an Ak-Sar-Ben exposi
tion, far greater In scope than the present
celebration. It Is my dream now Just a
filmy vision of the future but I believe
the dream will be realized.
"I want to see the Ak-Sar-Ben exposi
tion a combination of the famous Mardl
Gras of the sunny southland, the Wild
West celebration of Cheyenne and the
gaytty equaled nowhere In the orld of
New York's Coney Isle
"The celebration should be doubled. We
should have a two-weeks' frolic of fun.
The people do not tire of Ak-Sar-Ben.
With a fortnight's carnival we would he
enabled to secure the banner attractions of
the world, which today cannot afford t
tarry In a city for ten days. Today we get
the floaters the traveling shows whlut
live transient lives. We want the big as
tractions of America, Coney Island and
the old world.
"Omaha and the state of Nebrr.ai.a reap
the benefits of Ak-Sar-Ben's efforls. The
call of the boosters will be answered and
I sm confident next year's celebration will
eclipse any festival of the past."
Although complete figures are not In It
Is estimated the net earnings from this
year's fete will exceed t0,0O0. Thursday
night, with practically all contracts with
tho amusement companies settled, theie
was a balance in the treasury of $!i,39t.M.
With the total Incomes of Friday and Sat
urday to go to the treasurer's account, U
is thought the earnings will exceed those
of lust year.
The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben today tin
property, absolutely unincurabei d, valued
a l PVj0.
