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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

Il 10
were the children of poor peas
ants who lived many many
- hundred years ago. But even
kEN~&Gal at the time in which they lived
SS the second day of February
was looked forward to with a great deal
of anxiety. AS 1t is today. so it was then;
for II the second day OF February was
clear and bright the grounding would come
forth to see his shadow; and seeing 1t,
would return to his hole to remain for six
weeks. And In that event the spring would
be very late.
AS the last of January was near to han
little Roger and his sister Ann began to
hope for a cloudy February 2, for then
the grounding would come out, and seeing
no shadow, would remain out till the first
of March, and that would signify an early
and glorious spring.
Now, as I told you at the beginning of
this story, little Roger and his sister Ann
lived many centuries ago. and there were
fairies in that day. And many of the
peasants had been assisted by the fairies
in time of distress and trouble. And as
the last of January was drawing near little
Roger and his sister Ann began to won
DER IL they might not pre- yail upon som
good fairy to see that an early spring
was forthcoming.
"In tell you what VIC might do. Ann. -
said little Roger, as he and his sister sal
beside the fireplace one afternoon. w
might make a sign by the cross roads that
will attract the fairies to us. Old Master
Blow told me that a red cross having
white ends made on the sign board at the
cross roads always brought the fairies, and
that II one would hide in the brush neal
TO it he could see the fairies. And ther
he might make a wish and the fairies
would grant it"
Let US try IT," said Ann. "It can dc
no harm. and might do much good. WE
must nave an early spring If possible, foI
the cattle are going hungry. and our father
has not enough grain to last till the gras!
grows unless It comes very early. And GU
own provisions are giving out. and w
must get the early warm weather TO grow
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Chasing a Butterfly

North Eighteenth Street, South Omaha
Blue.
William and his sister. Emily, went out
on a fine day In June TO see the men cut
the grass. But soon the little girl saw
a yellow butterfly and cried out, "Oh,
William, do help me to catch that beau
tiful, beautiful butterfly"
So the two started in chase OF the bright
little thing. William took off his cap
and held IL so he could put 1t over the
butterfly, If the insect would only be so
good as to light on one OF the dandelions
and walt But the butterfly did not
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Poor Soldier Bill

All day long in the attic
Sits poor old Soldier Bill,
Not one soul there to cheer him,
And all about so still.
The past he we'll remembers,
When he. a bright new toy,
Was brought there to that mansion
To cheer a little boy.
But years ago that soldier
Was to the attic sent,
For Little Boy had grown so big
lat off to school he went
And when back home he sometimes came
To see his parents dear,
Not Once paid he a visit
To the poor old soldier. drear.
And there, up In that attic
Sits poor old Soldier Bill,
Without one soul to cheer him;
Alone, where all is still.
Annie JamsA
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
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CHILDREN's DEPARTMENT.,
Omaha Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

Esther Newman, 29l4 North Twenty-fifth
Mildred Erickson, sOs Howard street,
Oscar Erickson. 200 Howard street,
Omaha
Jean De Long. Ainsworth, Neb.
Irene Mccoy, Barnston, Neb.
Lillian Merwin, Beaver City, Neb.
Mabel Witt, Bennington, Neb.
Agnes Dahmke, Benson, Neb.
Vera Cheney, Creighton, Neb.
Louis Hahn, David City, Neb.
Rhea Freidell, Dorchester, Neb.
Eunice Bode, Falls City. Neb.
Ethel Reed, Fremont, Neb.
Hulda Lundburg, Fremont, Neb.
Marion Caps, Gibbon, Neb.
Marguerite Bartholomew, Gothenburg, Neb.
Lydia Roth, COS West koenig street, Grand
Island, Neb.
Ella Voss, 4O7 West Charles street, Grand
Island, Neb.
Irene Costello. 115 West Eighth street,
Grand Island, Neb.
Jessie Crawford, 46 West Charles street,
Grand Island, Neb,
Grand Island, Neb.
Martha Murphy, 923 East Ninth street.
Grand Island, Neb.
Alice Temple. Lexington, Neb.
Ruth Temple, Lexington, Neb.
Anna Nelson, Lexington, Neb.
Edythe Kreltz, Lexington, Neb.
Alice G~rassmeyer, 1916 & ST., Lincoln, Neb.
Marian Hamilton, 2029 l. St, Lincoln, Neb.
Elsie Hamilton, 202y l. street, Lincoln, Neb.
Irene Disher. 1880 l. street, Lincoln. Neb.
Hughie Dlsher, 2030 L street. Lincoln, Neb.
Louise Stiles, Lyons, Neb.
Estelle Mcdonald. Lyons. Neb.
Milton Seller, Nebraska City, Neb.
Harry Crawford, Nebraska City. Neb.
Harvey Crawford, Nebraska City, Neb.
Lucille Hazen, Norfolk, Neb.
letha Larktn, South Sixth ST., Norfolk, Neb.
Emma Marquardt, Fifth street and Madi-
son avenue, aNorfolk. Neh.
Mildred F. Jones, North Loup, Neb.
Hugh Rutt, Leshara, Neb.
Hester f. Rutt, 1eshara, Neb.
Mary Brown, 1922 Boulevard, Omaha.
Lillian Writ. 415S Cass street, Omaha.
Emile Brown, 1920 Boulevard, Omaha.
Eva Hendee, 4402 Dodge street, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
Honorable Mention.)
Two Battles

BY verna Kirschbraun, Age IL Years, 511
South Twenty-fourth Street. Omaha.
Red.
"Oh. Marie. we are going to have an
examination in history and whoever does
best in it is going to get a prize" said
jeanette White as she rushed into her
sisters room.
do you think you will get it?' asked
her sister.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

out for a little play. She saw a little boy
whose name was Phil. They both played
together and they went out to the woods
and it was getting dark and they didn't
know the way back. But they started and
got home before very late. Griselda had
many funny dreams, some of which l may
tell you of in another story.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

Juanita lines, 27G9 Fort street, Omaha.
Never Cohn, S46 Georgia VENUE, Omaha.
Anna Gottsch, Bennington, Neb.
Minnie Gottsch, Bennington, Neb.
Ada motifs, Jlz4 Franklin street, Omaha
Myrtle Jensen, 2N9 lizard street Omaha
Gail Howard, 4722 Capitol avenue, Omaha.
Helen Heuck, 1625 LothrUp street, Omaha.
Emerson Goodrich, 4C1O Nicholas, Omaha.
Helen Goodrich, 40 Nichola St, Omaha
Maurice johnson, 1874 Locust St, Omahe'
Leon Carson, 112i North Fortieth, Omaha.
Wilma Howard. 4I22 Capitol Ave, Omaha.
Hilah Fisher, 1910 South Eleventh. Omaha'
Mildred Jensen. 27O7 L~eavenworth; Omaha
Louis Raabe, 1909 Uorth Nineteenth avenue
Mabel sheifelt. 1914 North Twenty-fifth
Emma Carruthers, a211 North Twenty-fifth
walter johnson, 2i5 North Twentieth
Leonora Denison, The Albion, Tenth and
Pacific streets, Omaha.
Genevieve NJ. Jones, North Loup, Neb.
Madge l.. Daniels, Ord, Neb.
lola Beddeo, Orleans, Neb.
Agnes Richmond, Orleans, Neb,
Marie Fleming, Osccola, Neb.
Lolita Woods, Pawnee City, Neb.
Earl Perkins, Reddlngton. Neb.
Emma Kostal, 1916 o street, South Omaha.
Edna EMS, Stanton, Neb.
Ethel EMS, stanton Neb: No,
Ina Carney, sutton, Clay county, Ned
Mae Grunke. West Point Neb'
Elsie stnstny' WILDER; Neo'
ALA NlhSHI Natpl NEb.
Pauline Parks, York, Neb.
Edna BehlinR, York. Neb.
Mary Frederick York, Neb.
Carrie b. Bartlett, Fontanelle, Ia.
Irene Reynolds, Little Sioux, Ia.
Ethel Mulholland, Box II, Malvern, la.
Eleanor Mellor, Malvern, a,
Kathryne Mellor, Malvern, Ia.
Ruth Robertson. Manila, Ia.
Mildred Robertson, Manila, Ia.
Edith Amend, Sheridan, Wyo.
Henry L. Worklnger, care Sterling Remedy
company, Attica. Ind.
Fred Shelley, go Troup street, Kansas City.
Kan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

~H HE BUSY BEES are starting the reign Of the he king and queen
splendidly, with plenty Of good stories and new Busy Bees Joining
every week. In fact, 81 many good stories were sent in tina 1t vas
difficult to decide which were.t the best.
Several new names have been added to the Postal Card exchange
this week and tine children write that they enjoy exchanging postal cards
Some Of them write that they have vey good collections of cards, mostly
views Of the towns and cities where some of the other Busy Bees live.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

Any of the Busy Bees may send cards to any n whose name is on tn
Postcard Exchange, which now includes:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

The editor vas pleased to receive SO many little letters with the stories
that we're sent in this week. Several Busy Sees ave written that they never
miss reading the Busy Bees Own Page.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

Prizes were awarded this week to Nina Ewes of oNen and to Bessie
Jackson Of Omaha Honorable mention as given to Virna Ktrschbraun
All three were o the Red side.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

The illustrated rebus last week ws a difficult n and was al follows
1.-The boy went to a menagerie and IA a giraffe, n an elephant a pear
Virginia Greene of Omaha sent in a correct answer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31

TILE Roger and his sister, Ann,
were the children Of poor peas
ants who lived many, many
hundred years ago. But even
at the time in which they lived
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
To Invite President Taft.

The Saturday Review, an Irrigation
Journal of Denver, gives the following
concerning the opening of the Gunnison
Tunnel:
Representing the Gunnison Tunnel
Opening committee for Montrose, Colo.
F. D. Catlin and J. F. Kyle visited
Denver last Sunday to consult with the
officers of the United States reclama-
ton service and arrange for the invita-
ton of President Taft to be present at
the big public function which will be
held about the first of July. The ma
tion's chief executive will be asked to
pull the cord which will start the flow
of the waters of the Gunnison river
through the great tunnel into the
spreading Uncompahgre valley.
AS President Taft's proposed tour Of
the West will take him through Colo
RADIO, he will be invited to stop off al
Montrose and officiate in the impress
sive ceremonies which will mark the
completion and success of the great
and almost immeasureably valuable
enterprise which had it's inception ten
years ago. Along with the president
will be the chief officers of the United
States geological survey, the secretary
of the interior, the governor of the
state and the chief state-officers and
United States Senator Newlands of
Nevada. the father of the reclamation
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
Denver Markets.

DENVER UNION STOCK YARDS, May
l2-Receipts of cattle were very good
last week but about half of them were
southern stockers going through to
northern and eastern pastures, leaving
some 3, 100 head of native stuff for the
market Demand for the good beef
cattle was strong and both cows and
steers closed Is to 25 cents higher than
preceding week. Good feeders and
stockers were also in strong demand
and closed 10 to Is cents higher. The
palmer cattle of all kinds were slow
and the market weak to little lower.
Steers sold up to S620 the highest
price paid here this year, and several
punches brought S.. 10 to $500. Cows
and heifers sold at $3.50 to $5.25 for
the good to choice and one bunch of
fancy heifers, sold in the country, was
weighed up at $3.50 Bulls were steady
and veals closed weak but the market
was higher again today. Feeders and
stockers sold at 81 90 to 81. 80, quality
of the offerings rather common, though
good to choice steers are quotable at
"a. S5 to $40 and on up. Receipts to-
day 1,500 head. Everything snapped
up readily at an advance of Is to 20
cents over last week s closing prices
despite the fact that the eastern mar
kets were lower.
The run of southern stockers to
northern pastures was fairly inaug
urated during the week and this fea-
ture will be an important one of the
local market for the next two months.
A good many steers have already been
contracted to northers buyers and all
those going through here last week
had already been sold, but from now
on a large number of these stock cattle
will be offered on the open market here
each week. A good many buyers have
signifed their intention of coming to
this market to purchase and indications
are that good business in this line
will be done here. The cattle are not
as feshy as last year owing to contin-
ued dry weather in the South, but
those received here thus far were of
good quality and with the good grass
which a liberal supply of moisture dur
ing the winter insures for the northern
grazing country, will put on flesh rap
idly.
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
Prohibit il bv Law.

Judge Kinkaid, congressman from
Nebraska, is trying to "induce the
post Office department to consider the
case of the country publisher before it
goes extensively into the business of
advertising to print return cards of
stamped envelopes. Some enterprising
official has begun advertising that the
department will do this work at better
prices than anybody else can make,
and the printers and country newspa-
per offices are up in arms about it,
Mr.. Hitchcock has also had some pro-
tests about the matter, and an effort
is afoot to have the government quit
the printing busineas and confine itself
to running the post Office.
Such appeals are well enough as far
as they go, but even though the post
Office should yield to them it would not
settle the question, nor prevent the
post Office department at later date
from renewing the enterprise. Such
printing of envelopes in direct compe-
tition to the printers of the country is
wrong and should be prohibited by law.
Two bills are now before congress
and all effort should be concentrated
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
NeD Outlook For tbs Law.

Haines, who murdered fellow whom
his wife was foolish about, has been
convicted and may serve prison term.
The plea of insanity and the unwritten
law were both ignored in his case.
Was the jury less emotional? Is the
opinion of the people changing? Is
law going to occasionally be allowed to
stand as law? or was the defendant just
unlucky?
Again this week occurred the sentenc-
ing of the kidnapping Boyles to the
penitentiary, he for life and she for
twenty-five years. This result is par
ticularly satisfactory and encouraging.
Only two weeks ago even member
of the American Sugar and Refining
company was prosecuted criminally and
it was made stick, after his bunch had
been fined some $2,OOO,OO by the
United States in civil suit.
The dignity and usefulness of the law
may yet be preserved.
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
When Knighthood
Was in Flower.

Fifteen years ago was the Populist
epoch of Colorado's fitful political his
tory, and Davis H. Waite was governor.
In it's haste to spread reform" a
populst legislature passed many bills
to change the constitution of the state.
When Gov. Waite sought election
the second time it transpired that these
notices to submit the proposed amend
ments had to be published.
The governor and his campaign aG-
visers saw ready made sop for the
populist newspapers of the state in
these publications. They must be pub
lished for five weeks before election
and of course no paper that did not
support the populisU ticket could have
them. In weekly papers they counted
some $24O or $3.50 and in dailies about
$780, AT that time there was no law
to establish a legal daily and very
many of the weeklies saw an oppor-
tunity to change to dailies for the
campaign and scoop in that $50 for
publishing the constitutional amend
ments. This was an easy thing to do.
1t would give them prestige and the
two-by-four daily could, as soon as
election was over. go into what Mr..
Cleveland termed ''inoxuous desue-
tude.''
The result was that campaign
fund-at the expense of the state
was thus formed amounting to many
thousands of dollars. But in the mean
time Colorado voters, as is their GUS
tom, had sobered up bit and were
yearning for fresh political mixed
drink right off the ice. In his second
campaign Waite was showed under.
His ghost, appearing in the bills for
publishing constitutional amendments
bobbed up serenely and were, in many
cases, as serenely turned down. Final
ly most of these bills have been paid
in one way or another by the state,
some of the latest, with their accumu-
lated interest, having been "dole out"
as relief appropriations to an occasional
veteran editor who had fought in
Waite's "bloody bride" war and had
bled (the state) along with that patri-
arch of Populism and reform.
And so 1t goes on in Colorado, even
unto the present day.
Perhaps the worst thing resulting
from the constitutional amendment
publishing fiasco was the passing of
the present statute compelling news
paper IN have heen esta ahlishad and
published regularly and consecutively
for period of six months before it
could legally publish court advertise
ments. This was done to prevent the
little campaign daily frauds of the class
mentioned. In the case of new weekly
papers it works hardship, and it
/ should be amended SO as to apply only
to campaign daily newspapers estab-
lis. ed for the obvious purpose named.
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14

upon bringing pressure to bear on con-
gressmen to take immediate action on
these measures, rather than to- waste
time in probable fruitless appeals to
the post Office department.
No such extensive campaign of ad-
vertising as the post office department,
under the direction of Third Assistant
Postmaster General Lawshe, has in
augurated, is going to be abandoned
because of mere appeals.
The matter must be settled once and
for all by law, and now is the time to
do it. The printers and publishers of
the country are waking up to the situ-
alton, and are being brought together
for united action, and now is the time
to press the fight to finish.
Either one of the two bills before
congress should be made law, and our
congressman will be ready to act wheh
they realize how much in earnest every
printer and publisher in the land is in
regard to the matter, Western Pub
Usher
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
BORROWED EDITORIALS

Not one per cent of the partisan
work in state legislature ever pays.
Better cut it out.
Both Castro and Abdul Hamid had
an eye 10 business during the years of
their official life. Their private for
tunes are reckoned in the millions.
In less than sixty days after retiring
from the White House an ex-president
shot lion in Africa. President Diaz
can see what he is losing by holding
on to his job SO long.
Among the new taxes proposed in
England is an additional cents u gal
identity considered a luxury by the
British Treasury Department.
Weston condemns Marathon races as
physically injurious. A little constitu-
tional of forty miles a day, at four
miles an hour, ls better fer the health
and ought to satisfy any reasonable
person.
New England, where the ice some
times freezes several feet thick, makes
the loudest complaints about the ice
trust. Probably it would pay even
Canada to get its supply of ice from
the factories.
A French scientist proposes that the
interior heat of the earth be utilized by
digging a gigantic well several miles
ho GolI
ment would be Sicily, where another
volcano wouldn't matter greatly.
Massachusetts, is spending a great
deal of money for improved state roads
and in the last five years has planted
16, 900 shade trees along the highways.
Though not big state in area Massa-
chusetts fits the adjective in other re-
spects.
Gen. Daniel H Rucker, aged 81. is
the Oldest soldier in Washington. He
fought against the Indians seventy
years ago, was with Taylor at Buena
Vista and served through the civil war.
Another of his claims to military dis
tinction is that he is the grandfather
of Gen. Phil Sheridan's children.
The king of Italy believes in farm
ing uplift and has established at Rome
an International Institute of Agricul-
ture to promote the business of tilling
the soil. A building and endowment
of $50, 600 is the kings contribution to
the work, the plan of which he hopes
will interest other countries. King
Victor Emmanuel III has shown him
self to be hard worker along practical
Iines
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14
a Business Parable.

Once farmer had 1,8OO bushels of
wheat, which he sold, not to single
grain merchant, but 1,SOO different
dealers, bushel each. A few of them
paid in cash, but far the greater num-
ber said it was not convenient then;
they would pay later. A few months
passed, and the mans bank account
ran low. How is this?" he said.
my ], 800 bushels of grain should have
kept me in affluence until another crop
is raised, but l have parted with the
grain and have instead only a vast num-
ber of accounts, SO small and scattered
that l. cannot get around and collect
fast enough to pay expenses" So he
posted up public notice and asked all
those who owed him to pay quickly.
But few came. The rest said, Mine
is only small matter, and l will
go and pay some of these days, !"
forgetting that, though each account
was very small, when all were put to-
gether they meant large sum to the
man. Things went on thus. The man
got to feeling so bad that he fell out
of bed and awoke, and. running to his
granery, found his 800 bushels of
wheat still safe there. He had only
been dreaming. Moral-The next day
the man went to the publisher of his
paper and said: Here, sir. is the pay
for your paper, and when next year S
subscription is due you can depend on
me to pay promptly. stood in the
position of an editor last night, and
know how he feels to have ones hon
estly earned money scattered all over
ford News, Trafford City, Pa.
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14

Denver's Chamber of Commerce. has
started out to encourage canning fac
tories in Colorado. Delta would be
good place to make a beginning. There
is building and equipment here,
which, it is said, Denver people helped
to institute, then. because of unfriend-
ly feeling among themselves, tied up
and suspended indefinitely. The plant
is here and there should always be an
abundance of raw material. We hope
to see it put substantially upon its feet
this summer.
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14

The city of Delta council will make
an effort to fund its floating debt,
which the new body estimates at about
$58, 900. Much of this, we presume,
has come from the extensive walk and
other improvements, considerable
amount of which is still due the city
from property owners. Members of
the council favor rigidly economical
administration and speedy return to
cash for whatever outlay may be nee
essary. Naturally it costs something
to run city and the larger the city
gets the more must be the necessary
outlay But, likewise, the income is
also larger. In any event town, city,
county, state or nation should have, at
all times, good, sound business man.
agement. Good business management
doesn't mean stinginess any more than
it means waste. 1t means success. If
it does not spell success it indicates
failure. 1t is not often that body of
men can be assembled who prove col
lectively able to engineer a successful
cause, but let US hope Delta's council
will prove an exception.
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14

In France the strike feature has
extended to the government postal
department. Those French are an
excitable lot Once they set out to cut
off the heads of every man in France
who had money or whom they could
call an aristocrat. Just down to a
common, everyday strike, looks like
civilization might have hewn a few
steps in the stone walls since the days
of the commune.
The Delta independent., 1909-05-14

An exchange remarks: 'If you want
to buy land in the Pecos Valley'-but
we don't. If we had money to buy
land with, we would buy it right here
in Delta county, where we know its
value and where we feel quite sure the
Gunnison, Uncompahgre valleys, Sur
face Creek and all of the dozen or more
fertile mesas, have the Pecos or any
other old valley beaten out of sight.