A series of ten bright articles on interesting 

 nature topics will be furnished Birds and all 

 Nature by the well known educationr 1 writer, 

 W. E. Watt, during the present year. His 

 articles in the July and August numbers have 

 received so many commendations from our 

 friends that we have been encouraged to arrange 

 with Mr. Watt for the series. 



Cbe Omaba Exposition. 



When the World's Fair at Chicago ceased to 

 exist, it was supposed th:it we should ne'er 

 look upon its like again. However, the Trans- 

 Mississippi Exposition at Omaha has effectively 

 reproduced in similarity all of the buildings 

 which made the White City so attractive in 1893. 



It does not now take weeks to wander through 

 grounds and structures and then be compelled 

 to go away with a jumble of ideas, for the 

 Omaha Exposition people have profited by past 

 experience, and have so improved the arrange- 

 ment of exhibits that no more than two or three 

 days of time need be consumed in admiration 

 and inspection of the mar\'elous resources of the 

 West, collected together in the chief city of 

 Nebraska. 



Even the new Midway, is a reproduction of 

 the far-famed Street of all nations of 1893, with 

 many improvements upon the original. 



The electric lighting of the buildings, grounds 

 and lagoon at night makes a scene of enchant- 

 ing beauty, alone worth traveling a thousand 

 miles to see. 



The means of communication between the 

 city and the grounds are ample, and the distance 

 to be traversed is short. 



The ways of reaching Omaha are innumerable, 

 but chief among them is the direct Chicago and 

 Omaha short line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 St. Paul Railway, with its electric-lighted, 

 vestibuled trains, leaving Chicago every night 

 at 6:15 p. m., and arriving Omaha at 8:20 the 

 next morning. Dining car service en route 



Exciirsion tickets are on sale at every coupon 

 ticket office in the United States over the Chi- 

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