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BIGGEST OF DIAMOND SHOWS
Blaze of Gemi to Mark the Durbar at
Delhi, India.
WEALTH OF PRECIOUS STONES
KoklaMt anil Other Prrrloaa Dia
mond, Rabies aad fVarla, Will
AllfH Royalty.
The keepers of the rtrltlsh crown Jewels
re making preparation for their safe
transport from London to Delhi In readi
ness for tha great durbar, at which Kin
:enrge will crown himself Emperor of
India. Tho,who attend thin durbar will
have a chance: to see such a dlxplay of
precloua atonea aa the. eye of no lit Ing man
has ever Rased on.
The British crown Jewels, fine aa they
are, cnnnot, with the exception of a few
Individual itmi. cwmpare with some
of , the " areat Indian collection. The
prince, rajah and maharajahe of India
have the accumulated wealth of fenera
tions Invested In ' counties dazzling
em. whose value fs Incalculable. But
f every Indian rajah bad aa great and as
valuable a collection as the aggregate
of all their collection even then. In the
ea of tndla, the . Ilrttlsh crown Jewel
would surpass them all. And this, for the
sake of on stone, the Kohlnoor.
- Compare with either of the Stars of
Africa, as tha Cutllnan diamond are now
"ailed, the Kohlnoor la Hut a splendid
oebble. Its history I what apprnls to the
Indian mlndi Ixing year ago It whs tin
ihlef Jewel of the Mogul emperor and
remains to this day thn symbol of lm
perlal authority In India.
The history of the Kohlnoor I fairly
well known, but there are period around
which a halo of mystery still hang. It
was brought to Kngland after the Sikh
wars, and at once met with a Strang"
If somewhat unromantlo adventure. .The
official who brought It over sent It to
the wasli In ' his waistcoat pocket. At
that time,' lis weight was 11 carats, which
was subsequently reduced to 104 by tho
reouttlng ordered by the prince consort
When It belonged to the great Moguls."
the Kohlnoor was a far greater stone.
The French Jeweler Travernler. who saw
It In tha seventeenth century, described
It aa 7S74 carats In weight, uncut, or
merely "flatted" on one side. He com
pared It to an egg cut In half. Mortenslo
Horglo. a dishonest or unskilful Italian
diamond cutter, was then called In and
reduced It to W carats. He nearly lost
hi head when the cmporer saw what had
been dona to his favorite gem1
Srnsbola f Imperial Aathorlty.
Many expert consider that the Orloff
diamond of the Russian regalia, 193 carat
In welgli and also a large fragment of
l.!2 carats, may have both been cut from
the remains of the Mogul diamond. But
the Kohlnoor, which Kan Jit tilngh uand
sometimes to wear In the socket of his
blind eye, continued to represent - the ori
ginal gem, and when It Is1 seen in the
erown of George V at Delhi neat Decem
ber,, for levery native present It will be
the symbol of Imvtrlal authority.
HIKtorloally the" return of the Kohlnoor
to .India will In native eyes set the final
seal upon the great ceremony at Delhi. ,
But soma of the other gem In the British
regalia will Certainly produce their effect
upon a people so accustomed to symbolism.
There Is tha great Aglncourt ruby, won In
the. battle , from which It takes Its name
before the Moguls Introduced splendor of
life, into tli imperial places they .built so
lavishry It -will Certainly ba watched' with
kean Interest .by RaJpVt eyes as It glows
from tha ' central cross - of -the- English
crown.
Then there Is tha pale sapphire In the
topmost cross at ova the orb. ' That will
surely make ita appeal, for It came from
the confor's tomb In Westminster Abbey
and has a 900-year-old record behind It.
And beyond all question the new, tin his
toric! stars of Africa lll have their
triumph. In a way they will bring home i
to the native of India the majesty of tha
oocaslon better than their proclamations,
processions, Jail deliveries or the sound of
guns. The two gigantic South African
atones will hava begun their careera of
symbolism when they blase out unrivalled
and unchallenged over what will prcsbably
be the most stupendous assemblages of
gems that Europe or Asia has ever seen.
Wealth ! Preoloes fttoaes.
None can estimate the huge wealth that
ties hidden In Indian treasuries In the
form of Jewels. At the 190S durbar tha
blase pf Jewels surprised even tha Indian
princes themselves.
The nlxam of Hyderabad wore the Nizam
of 277 carata and the Victoria of 180 carats.
The gaekwar of Baroda had hi Star of
the South, a Brazilian crystal of the first
water, weighing 125 carats. In the rough
It weighed 2'i. He also had the famous
Akbar Shah and the Eugenie; the last, as
its name Implies, was onca owned by the
ex-empress of the French.
The maharajuh of Patlala had the fa
mous Sancy diamond, which at various
times has been owned by Charles the Bold,
duke of Normandy; Emanuel, king of
Portugal; NUholaa de Marlay, fileur de
Sancy, James II of England, who fled with
it and other crown Jewels In lfW8; Louis
XIV, Louis XV, Napoleon, Napoleon's
brother Joseph, king of Spain, and Prince
Denildoff.
nut these famous and named stones are
only a small part of and are often actually
smaller than countless others in the un
cetalngued treasuries of the Indian princes.
No mention of pearls has been made yet,
but the prince of Owallor wears, besides a
necklace of thirteen rows of perfectly
mali hod peaiiM as large as filberts, a curi
ous sash of crimson velvet depending from
his left shoulder to hi right knee, the ma
terial of which Is hidden by similar stone.
But the maharajah of Tiavancore can
outdo the prince of Owallor In pearls.
New York Sun.
UNCLE SAM'S MAIL POUCHES
Vast -omhrr In I se, How They Are
Made and Territory They
Travel Over.
What do
you unow
about this?
Mr. Wage
Earner
' You love your wife and
you vrant to see her dress
well. You have.no money.
: Vhat! Well, that makes
no difference! You don't
need any money no-how.
Just come here and get all
you wint.
; HEU'S
DEPARTHEHT
Men's Suits, Men's Ov
ercoats, Men's Shoes,
Men's Hats, Boys' Suits,
Youths' Suits.
.LADIES'
DEPARTMENT
Ladies Suits, Ladies'
'Cloaks, Indies', Capes,
' Indies' Skirts, Waists,
Girls' Coats.
PAY A3 YOU CAN
"A LITTLE AT A
TIME."
RIDGLEY'S
1417 Douglas.
f.T.MT.R BEDDEO,
"'"" Manager.
Uncle Bam has twenty-eight different
kind of mail ohkh In service and they
range In- cost from 22 cents to $2,156 .each.
There are mail pouches for almost every
conceivable use, and you can ship almost
anything that comes within the postal reg
ulations with a minimum of loss and break
age. Probably the most peculiar mall bag
is me one arranged for carrvlnn bee.
Sending bees by mall was a dtffioult opera
tion .before the "bee bag" waa adopted.
Usually the bees arrived at their destina
tion dead or ao exhausted that they wera
of little use. Now these little honey mak
ers can be shipped by mail several thou
sand miles In the "bee bag" without suf
fering, and can obtain aid and a good sup
ply of food during their transit.
Mail bags are made of various materials.
The cheapest are-of cotton and the most
costly of leather. Those used on fast ex
presses are reinforced with metal so that
they can be flung from fast moving trains
without damage. Even then these bags,
or "catcher pouches," do not last much
more than a year and a half, while some
of the cotton bags used for the work will
remain In. service upward ot ten years.
In parts of the west where the mall must
ba carried for many miles on horseback
special pouches are In use for Slinging over
tha anlmala'.' flanka Ia,4,ho far frosen
north special bags are mads- for sled traaa
portatlon, and Jn-.lhe clUea; a bag In use
for pneumatic tube service J made of a
composition, ballad ' leatherolV.", The ordi
nary cotton mall bags are woven 'so closely
that they ara practically waterproof, and
In tha weave ' there ara thirteen stripes of
blue. Each country marks Its own mail
pouches in soma Individual way, ao that If
one gets lost In a far country ita ownership
can be readily detected..'
Nearly sixty-five million mall bass a
used each year by the whole country, and
as they are being worn out all the time,
the aupply has to be kept up. There are
mall bag hospitals where tens of thousands
of them go every week. One such mall
bag hospital repaira upward of 5,000 a day.
These crippled bags are-In all aorta of
dilapidated conditions. A railroad wrack
may Injure several hundreds or thousands,
and these must all go to the hospital be
fore entering active Ufa again. Christmas
la responsible for much damage to tha mall
bags owing to the hard aervlce they get.
and Immediately after tha midwinter holi
day aeason several hundred thousand baa
go to the hospitals.
Mail bags ara tha most traveled ot all
articles In use today. They ara constantly
moving, and It would ba Impossible to es
timate the number of milea a bar ten yeara
old has traveled. Harper'a Weekly..
SOUNDING THE OCEAN'S FLOOR
aai isdslsliag Plains Me Two or
Three Miles Brarath the
the Waves.
Fomprrow! Am Attractive Lot Buiy
Opportuiiniity iini66IB(D)iniiniieDeinidee99
Make a firm resolve to see "Bonnie Dundee" and picturesque "Happy Hollow" SATURDAY, APRIL 22. Board
a West Farnam-Dundee car and NOTE that it takes but TWENTY minutes to reach Dundee; note the frequency with
which the cars run; every EIGHT minutes; note that you traverse Omaha's most SELECT residential district in reach
ing Dundee; note that the streets you traverse are PAVED all the way. Leave the street car at the entrance of the
Happy Hollow Country Club on Underwood Ave.; observe the difference 'twixt "city atmosphere" and
COUNTRY AIR at once. After you've studied scenery a bit, walk one block east, where we have promi
nent signs and courteous salesmen. Even then you are not solicited to buy; you are invited to leisurely
examine the property in your own way; identification is easy, for in the center of each lot one finds a
WHITE STAKE bearing a lot and block number. Thus, you may, if you wish, select your OWN lot, unin
fluenced by others; with plenty of time at your disposal.
Consider the natural beauty of the "little city of homes" before you; consider that YOU
may own a lot there at a REASONABLE price; consider that you need pay down but ONE
TENTH of the price of the lot, paying the balance at the rate of ONE PER CENT OF PUR
CHASE PRICE PER MONTH, virtually as you earn it.
See Dundee Tomorrow, Arbor Day
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Air is
Bracing
Out JzR
There'"
Property of Pleasing Promise Of fered on Terms
Exceptionally .Easy, for Even the Small Investor
ne Teeth Bowa
Alld 1 chaSePPrlce Per MOHll
The Investment you MAKE must prove lucrative.
Look to the "West" for the Finer Future Homes.
When paving will have been completed, (and squad after squad of pav
ers are diligently working every day), Dundee will possess EVERY
advantage possessed by those living on West Farnam St., in Ornaha.
Street cars, electric light, telephones, gas, many
Dpmdee
Already Has:
shade trees, city water, storm water, sewers, sani
tary sewers, cement curbs, park gutters, cement sidewmlks, etc
Our "Fairacres" Automobile will
Meet You As You Leave the Car
, . Those wishing to see beautiful nearby "Fair
acres", while visiting Dundee, may have free use of
our automobiles, which wW be stationed at the en
trance of the Happy Hollow club, just where you
leave the car that has brought you from Umnha.
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Purchasers of Dundee Lots Are
NOT Required to BUILD
It must be borne in mind that you are JvOT
REQUIRED to BUILD upon such lots as you may
purchase in Dundee, but, SHOULD you build in the future,
reasonable building restrictions must be bserved, thus keeping
up the "standard" of Dundee property in genera).
Vhaja'MMBaMAatat'a''
George & Company, Agts., K City National Bank Bldg.
region of coral reefs and atolls. Between
these regions of small annual variation
thera ara two bands surrounding- the earth
where the annual variation Is greater, and
may exceed In certain regions 40 degrees
Fahrenheit at an one spot. Sir John Mur
ray In Harper's Weekly.
The ocean has been gounded in nearly
all directions with modern appliances,
and these soundings show that the floor
of the ocean conalnta of vast undulating
plains, lying at an average depth of about
two and one-half miles beneath the surface
of the waves. .In acme places huge ridges
and cones rise from theae submerged plains
to within a few hundred fathoms of the
sea surface, or they may rise above the
j surface as volcanlo Islands and coral atolls.
The greatest depth hitherto recorded Is In
me mauenger (or Nero) Deep In the north
Pacific 6,260 fathoms. If Mount Everest
wera placed In this deep t,00 feet of water
would roll over the peak of this, the high
est mountain In the world. fThe greatest
depth In the-Atlantic la in tha'Narea Peep,
between the West Indies and Bermuda
SJ fathoms. The greatest depth In the
Indian ocean Is S.828 fathoms. In tha Whar
ton Peep, between Christmas Island and
the coast of Java. We now know fifty-six
of these deepa where -tha depth exceed
three geographical miles, ten areas where
the depth exceeds four miles, and. four
places where It exceeda five miles.
The sea, aa aU the world knows, la aalt
It is salted where atrong dry winds, blow
acroaa the surface, aa, for tnatanca. In the
trade-wind regions and In the Mediter
ranean ana the Red sea. It la lesa salt
toward tha polea and In the deeper layers
of tha ocean. It has long been known that
the very aalt water of the Mediterranean
flowa as an undercurrent outward through
the Btratt or Gibraltar, and thua affects
the salinity of tha deeper waters of the
Atlantic over a wide area. Although the
amount of aalt In sea water varies, the
composition ot aea sella remalna very con
stant; alight differences have, however,
been noticed along the continental coaata.
In tha polar regions, and In tha water In
direct contact with deep-sea deposlta.
The temperature of ocean water varlee
at the surface from 28 degrees Tehran
helt at the polea to over to degrees Fehr
enneit in the tropica. The cold water
toward tha polea baa aa annual' variation
of less than 10 degree Fahrenheit at any
one spot, and the warm water of the
tropica also haa an annual variation of
lesa than It degreea Fahrenheit la a band
that nearly encircles the earth; this la the
CATCHING ON TOMEN'S TIPPLES
Boston Clubwomen Reaching? Oat for
All the Comforts ot
Life.
Members of the exclusive Chilton club,
one of the largest women's clubs in the
world, situated In the heart of Boston's
Back Bay, may be served with a cocktail,
highball or any other s irt of "brscer" that
they may desire after May 1, if the license
commissioners see fit to graft t it the license
it has asked tor.
Mrs. Robert Lovett. a vice president, said
that she was confident the license would
be Issued. She said the members could not
expect o serve their male friends with
ginger ale.
But there Isn't to be a regular bar at the
club, at leaat, not for some tlm. The
drinks are to be served on trays by waitresses.
Women may amoka In the club now. They
have, no regular smoking room, but the
members and their men or women friends
who desire to do so may puff a cigarette
or fragrant cigar In the roof garden. Only
cigarettes are aold in the olub.
The list of membership comprises some
of the most fashionable women of tha olty.
There are 450 resident members and 100
nonresident. New York World,
A money aaver The
Shopper on e 8. f
Uea'a Market
A Bachelor'a Reflections.
The wedding presents that you cast upon
the waters sink.
Compared with being nice to some people
even the gout Is fun.
It's extra easy for a man to make a
fool of himself when a -girl arranges It
for him.
When a man takes the family to the
theater he looks as If he were going to a
funeral.
The man who sells you gold bricks
doesn't do It because he s so smart, but
because you're such a fool.
It's- eaay enough to acquire any habit
unless It's a good one.
Families are very useful for making
other troubles seem light. -The
kind of weather we like la always
the kind we had the other day.
A woman would rather have free postage
stamps than free grocery bills.
There are people who can decide to be
iealous before they find out what about
(ew York Press.
FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF BUSY BUSINESS MEN
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for patrons, who tony finish correspondence
on toe train dlctato letters have them typed
and mailed en route. Tha Pennsylvania pays
for the service. It's FREE to PATRONS.
Leaves Chicago (statwn) Quarter to Three p. m. Daily
Arrives New York ( ) 9.40 a. m. Daily
Pennsylvania Station la New York is only b
block from Broadway,
Peniilvaiiia
-Lines
Limited trains are all-steel collision-proof
and ride smoothly over dnstleas, rock-bai
lasted roadbed.
Farther information given on request.
Address W. IL ROWLAND, Traveling Passenger Agent
319 City National Bank Building, OMAHA
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Below Omaha Prices
Not only one day,
but every day
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9x12 Axminster 'Rugs,
at $17.00
9x11 Velvet Rugs,
at ..: $11.00
9x12 Wilton Velvet Rugs,
at $16.00
See onr line of Wilton and
Body Brussels Rugs, in all
sizes 20 7o below Omaha
prices.
Full car load of Grand Rap
ids Refrigerators just re
ceived in all sixes, priced
at
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in her . ability to manage her affairs
economically, and in keeping down ex
penses, should be interested in seeing the
finest Refrigerator made. We carry a full
line of the
Leonard Clcanablc
Refrigerators
$5.50 to
$39.00
acknowledged to be the most perfectly construc
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ket Save fully one-third on your ice bill and lasts a life
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