THE BKBi OMAHA, TUESDAY, .JANUARY 1.1, 1914.
The Twentieth
Century Prophet
When a Fellow's in Love I
t By Nell Brinkley
" CnnvrlHit 10(1 International Nrwn Service-
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By GARRETT P. SKRVIS.
Once moro 1 see with delight the holi
day book shelves smiling with a fresh.
icw edition of Jules Verne's stories. I
happen nt thfs writing to be In France,
Whcro the popu
larity of the most
InVcntlvo of story
If Hers establishes
nn exception to. the
rule, about m-ophetx
In their country.
T h e two ntictVi
century Is Ju.i t
Xatchlng up with
Jules Verncv and it
thrills through all
'Us nerves nt the
.spectacle of some
of his dreams turn
ing Into realities.
,i?o ninny of his breathlessly bo.U fore
casts have proved veritable prophesies
that one experiences a feeling of uncer
tainty and expectation In recalling those
.which have not yet como true. You feel
(hat they, too, are eggs that may sud
denly hatch out. ,
A marksman who hit an apparently un
attainable . 'arfcet as many times as he
da may not really have missed It when
,lij seems to have done so. In the face
tof tho mysterious and hitherto hidden
pbwers of nature on which we today have
1cgun to lay revealing and conquering
hands, who can feel sure that Jules
Verne's "Trip to the Moon and Journey
Around It" Is. essentially any less likely
'.to .prove, u. dream fulfilled than was his
"Journey Under" tho Sea," his "Balloon
Trip Across. Africa," his "Hound the
yoId In Eighty Days" or his "Travels
wjth a ytcam House?"
'The difference between Jules Vcrno
'and other writers of .extraordinary sto
ries based on apparently Impossible In
ventions Is that ho dreamed his dreams
and wroto his stories before the inven
tions had actually been made, whllo his
.followers and imitators write after the
event, and simply enlarge upon what tne
world already knows. Ho alone among
them all shows true original genius. He,
stands above thorn like Napoleon above
Ms' marshals.
Even yet, with all the credit that has
been given him, Jules Verne has not had
full Justice. As a writer he poseseed
Vhat "Shakespeare lacked Invention In
vention In the large. Including scenes, in
cidents, atmosphere, everything. Shakes
peare cribbed his plots and stories with
,lardly a sinzte exception. He cribbed
;hjs. Incidents whenever he could. He
cribbed. In many cafes at least, the out
lines and spirit of his characters. The
Whole secret of the Irresistible power or
Shakespeare over our minds lies In his
nmtchicss ability to say what he wishes
10 iEay wiin a wealth ana n Titness or.
verbal expression such ns no other writer
(ycr piB s'cd. ,-Shaketipenre -was -the'
greatest trainer and handler of language
that the vforld has' known. He was not
Ojgreat original thinker and all his philo
sophy was borrowed, but dressed up tn
rb.'cs of language so splendid and ox
prjc.sslyc that we instinctively enroll It by
the' livery that it' wears.
Jules Verne Invented a 'new world the'
wortU of the Ideal engineer, the world of
scientific romance, and, wild and Improv
able as it appeared, his vision was so
true that within a few decades after he
wrote wq sec'that world unfolding before
our eyes tamtd a display of wonders some
o which? would have astonished even
him. He'-had little of the Shakespearian
g(ft of expression or of characterization,
and his" literary technique was so simple
that the critics generally Ignore him. But
the scenes and the personages that he
o'reated do not grow dim with the pas
lage of time.
jjle saw a future age as clearly .as
Walter' Scott saw a past one, anad made
as vivid $n image of It. Every great en
gineering' triumph of the twentieth cen
tury smacks of Jules Verne, for every
ono of them has In It an clement of ap
parent impossibility overcome. The fifty
story building is a Jules- Verne story
translated Into steel and concrete. The
Panama canal Is emphatically a Jules
Vjne 'achievement, and Colonel Goe
tljals .Is ono of his greatest characters
"lining Into real life.
'riiincas Fogg and Captain Nemos are
thV typical heroes of this now age. which
hardly waited for Jules Verno to be In
his grave before its amazing dawn broke
over -the globe. In fulfilment of his pre
diction of a time when science should
transfigure the earth, tho air and the
water. We can excuse a little literary
Imperfection in a genius which exhibited
such prodigious originality and such
boundless wealth -of Invention.
Coming of
The Sunbeam
How to Avoid Those Paint and Distress
Which so Many Mothers Hare Suffered.
' '
Nell Brinkley Says:
When a fellow's In love he lies awake In tho small, pale hours.
He takes to walking the country-side under moon and starlight and
making verses on Spring and things. , Ie -watches the dawn como
which the old sleepy-head never did before. The light of her eyes
is the paling stars. In her hair and bosom tho planots aro caught.
The shell-pink that grows In tho east 1b tho soft illusion of her
gown. Tho sun is tho glory of all her golden boauty. Her smllo ia
tho first blinding ray that lights tho world and glows on his ador
ing, lonely, watching figure. ".Lonely" It Is, sure, for when a chap
Is in lovo Ivo'b all alono In the world tho world lsn'.t any biggor than
room to stretch In and thq sun IB tho splendid faco of the girl be
loves. Lot mo. whisper, this In your oar eho may bo a plain littlo
brown bird just a mud-colored lltjtlo porson; but it tho light of the
world lies inhor oyos for somo one If tho gem of "his lovo' docks hor
plain littlo breast why, then she's tho rising sun . in tho cast sure
enough! ,
The Scientific Art Road of the Future
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By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
test m?mmr
"It has been observed, with wit. and
truth, that 'Uncle Sam,' without a Pan
ama canal, Is like a householder that has
to run around the block to chase a
tramp out of the
back yard." And cer
tain it Is that It Is as
difficult for a city,
state or nation to
run itself without
owning Its thoiough
fares, common roads
and railroads, as It
would be for a hotel
department storo or
office building to
run Itself without
owning Its passago
wnyn. stairways und
elevators." Albert
KImsey Owen,
Logan Wallr Pace
director of the
t'nlted States office of public road,
says: "Nations are as strong orfls weak
! as their roads arc great or Insignificant."
The noftian road system was wonder
ful. Every conquered province was
traversed in nil directions with connect
ing roads.
Of the narrow paths, three to six feet
i wide, found In conquered Gaul, no less
i than 13,000 miles are Bald to have bean
.Improved. In Britain tho toad Improve
I ment Is estimated Jo have been at least
j 2 500 miles. Across the Alps, through
I Gaul to Spain. Austria and the regions
i of the Danube, led the great military
roads.
RZSiim Xor were the countries beyond, the se
VMr t lennreJ. fitraluht to the water's edge
MoVu VrFrerrJW.tk7e;. th8 road from Home, and then pn the
the ronscle. enables thno to expand without shore beyond was the continuation. ' Euc-
iom'r.nD roThlJS? JlfElSS??' JSSLfliEir 'nl,r 8My. Africa and ,even Asla nil
women to r torourt maternity without pals, ..... . . , '
mate, mornlnf elckness or soy of tba dreaded bear witness of the wonderful energy
'WSfca KFffSSSF mind.! which strive, to .bind- firmly every menu
Tbe tiourtts do not dwell pon palo and eof-l her of 4he great empire Into a living
I.Tlnr,' (or alt eneb are arolded. Tbouaanda of ' whole.
womm do lonjrr rnlen tbrmxlrca to tbo , -, j .
thousht that ilckneii and dtatrras aii natural! "r Tr" energy directed exclus-
They know better, for la Mother's Friend they Ivelv toward Imperial progress and the
hai found a wonderful, penetrating- remedy t I t,n,,t . w.. - . ...
banUh all thoao dreaded einerlenSea. i building of roads for the moepi.ent uf
gj-eat military roads. Tho roads were no
longer exclusively military, but wero also,
filling the domestic needs of tho farmers.
Albert KImsey Owen of Baldwlnsville,
N. Y,, one of the great altruistic, brainy
men of tho age. Is bending alt his abilities
to the establishment of 4.4CO miles of
good roads in America.
His idea is uplifting and inspiring; and
It Is to be hoped- that President Wilson,
to whom the matter has been presented,
wilt see its great value to America, In
dustrially, socially and morally.
because It means employment for the
unemployed, home for the homeless anil
cleanliness for the unclean.
Here is a brief summany of Mr. Owen's
, gigantic and beautiful idea:
Sclentlfia art rpads or auto highways
are to be grand magnlflcent-multlway
boulevards along which the people are
tn he attracted with order and system
to readjust themselves, their homes,
farms, factories, banks, villages, schools,
lecture halls and amusements.
Whllo the width of tho right-of-way
will be one mile, the width of an outo
highway proper will be but 1.430 feot, and
will consist of one cement or brick-paved
road twenty feet wide, on which roller
skaters will glide up and down and. across
ways.
This roller-skate road will be the mid
dlo road of ten roads, five on a side, in
order that the five different classes of
vehicles now In use will not only be con-
rr-
It la a subieet ttttj woman abonld be fiml-1 lcqloni, or to fatlat.e an empire with the
l!awrrriStWw e of remote countries. If ;,,ot At
lome. rrospectl'a mother to whom a word la I first, at least later in Its develompont,
time about Mother Friend will mm wnn
oerful bletalnr. This famoua rroiedj la aoll
T all drnzrUta, and I only 11.00 a bottle.
It la for eatrrnal use onlr. and la reallr worth
) .elgbl In cold. Write lo-dar to ike Brad
f'ld Ileculatnr i' 1ST Lamar UIJ;., Atlaiiu,
Oa.. fjr a uvit Taiuabla bwk.
jiuiifc saw in us roaas vaiue.oiner man
nlUtarv, for, In the re'" of Auirpstus.
there was a rmlnl' well-devlred v.
m of prossrf"d Jndlni; i and ""nne"t
'ng !'ases end even farms with he
Here is a Song of the Good Eoad
By T5LLA WHEELER WILCOX. . .
I am a Road; a good road, fair and smooth and broad i
And I link with my beautiful tether
Town and Country together,
Like a ribbon rolled on the earth from the reol of God..
Oh, great the lifo of a Road!
J am a Road; a long road, leading on and on; '
Apd I cry to tho world to follow, . I .
Past meadow and hill and hollow, :
Through desolate night to tho open gates of dawn,
Ob, bold-tho life of a Road! .
I am a Road; a kind road, shaped by strong hands.
I make strange cities neighbors; t
The poor grow rich with my labors, , ;. ,
And beauty and comfort follow me through the lands,
Oh, glad tho lite of a Road! '
I am a Road; a wise road, knowing all men's ways; -And
I know how each heart reaches ...
For-the things dear Nature teaches;
And. I am the path that leads Into green young ' Maya,' ' -
iQh. sweet tne me of a Hoad:
I am a Road; and I speed away from tho' slums,
Away from desolate places.
Away from unused spaces;
Wherever I go, there order from chaos comes.
, Oh, brave the life of a Road!
At
I am a Road; and I would make the whole world one.
- I would give hope to duty,
And" cover the earth with beauty.
Do you not see, oh men! how all this might be done?
So vast the power of the Road!
fined each class to its particular and ex
clusive road, but that each class will bo
out on a road on ono' side of the roller
skate road and come back on the other
side of the roller-skate road. Taking 3no
side, tho arrangement Is to bo us followi:
One cement road, fifteen feet wldo,
with threo stool-plate, brick or other Im
proved ways for motor and other cycleu;
one cement road twenty feot wide, with
two steel-plate, brick or other Improved i.cky. Draper and
ways for automobiles that will not run 'others, was to work
more than twenty-five miles an hour, i out such splendid
The Philosophy of Hi story
Ily REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.'
The publication, 189 years ago, January
8, 1725, of Vlco's "Bclenza Nuova "Now
Science" cleared tho Way for tho mighty
engine of human" thought now known ua'
the "Philosophy of
History," which, In
the hands ot such
men as Montes
nu I o u , Iluckle,
one cement road twenty feet wide, with
two steel-plate, brick or other Improved
ways, for fast automobiles use; cement
road twenty feet wide, with two steel
tracks, onq for electric cars for pas
sengers and one for electric cars for
freights; and one cement road twenty
feet wide, with two steel-plate, brick ai
other improved ways, for carts, wagona
and carriages.
Altogether, an auto-hlghway .proper
consists of cloven roads, two zones, each
thirty feet wide, for water, gas and oil
pipes; for tubes for drainage, wires and
rabies .and tubes for pneumatic and
other services; six zones, each 103 feet
wide, for factories, public buildings und
dwellings; two park zones, each 100 feot
wide; four lawn and flower zones, oacli
twenty feet wide; sixteen shado-troo
zones, each ten feet wide, and twelve
footway each ten feet wide. The re
mainder of tho area Inoluded In the ml'.o
wlde right-of-way will bo occupied by
farms, orchards, forests, stock ranges,
etc.
Auto-highways stand for the combina
tion of roads, rails, tracks- ways and
paths', roads for wagons, rails for else
trie cars, steel-plate traoks for fast auto
mobiles, cement ways for cycles, cement
ways for roller-skaters, and cement and
brick paths for pedestrians, '
In all there are eleven thoroughfares.
The cement way for roller-skaters Is In
the middle and Is twenty feet wide- On It
skater can move both ways.
The construction ot theso roads, tho
settling of the workers oil'' their farmi
and In their own garden-homes, and the
building of many varied and Intersustaln
Ing Industries along theso roads will give
results.
Giovanni natttsta
Vlro, tho ton of a
poor bookseller of
Naples, Was born
In lflOS. At nu
early ago ho mani
fested the ability
which usually belongs only to men of1
mixture age. and while still a young man
he demonstrated a profound acquaintance
with history, philosophy, Bclcnce and'
jurisprudence.
Vlco was the first to ask: "Why have
we a science ot nature, but no science of
history?" and tho "Hclcnza Nuova" was
the great man's unswer to that all-Important
question. In the' courso of his'
benk he developed tho Idea that man, as
well as tho material world !rr the midst
of which he moves, is subject to law a
taw wide-reaching, Immutable, uncom
promising, by which all human actions
are governed, and in tho light of which
the history of those actions must 'be
studied and explained.
No man, not even the strorigest, can al
together break away from his Intellectual
environment, and this great Italian was
to tho last moro or less dominated by the
conventionalism of the middle ages, which
was still tho fashion of tho, day; but In
spite of all that 'he reached out for,
grasped, and left behind him for the
help of future thinkers tho material out
ot which they were to construct along
right lines tho majestic tcmplo of hlstorlo
truth.
Nearly the whole of Vlco'a lite was
spent In Naples. In poverty and loneli
ness, but his name ia .destined to outlive
given him to 4jo a reaper in those fields,
but by a Just and beneficent arrange
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