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Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30

took tho gun. ana went with him. Whom
we got there ! said: II do / dol' So
papa gave me tho gun and l shot. killed
the rabbit. but the gun went off twice and
Knocked one OF my teeth out and split my
lip open. II happened at about o'clock
IN tho afternoon. Papa then called the
doctor IN Prage ana he didn't come until
about O'Clock at night He put three
ssltohes IN my lip, then he put iodine on
Il ami l got along fine.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
MOlly's Trip to New York

BY Leona Walter. Aged Years. wahoo,
Neb. Blue Side.
This is the first time l have written l
am going to tell you the story OF Molly's
trip 20 New York. Little Molly did not
live with her parents, but with her grand
mother. Molly had not seen her mother
or father since she was a baby. One day
as Molly was playing out in the yard
she saw the mail man stop and put a
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
The Beavers Home.

BY Amelia Frerichs, Aged IL Years, Tai
mage, Neb. Red Side.
Tho beaver is found in North America.
When the winter comes. five or six
beavers live together as a family in a
house. built In the water. of sticks, mud
and stone. These houses are built "ery
queerly They are round on the top. and
the entrance is under the water.
The beaver spend great deal of his
life in the water, ana is always found
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
School Closes Early.

la. Route 8 Blue Side
This is the first time I have written 70
the Busy Bees. Ny father takes The
Omaha Bee. read the chlldrens page
every Monday. live IA the country. I
am In the seventh grade at school I like
nly teacher. Her name Is Ida Dellehant.
Our school closed May a
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
Zebra or Wild Horse

BY Jeanette oliphant. Aged Years
zoe South Garfield Avenue. Hast
ings. Neb. Red Side.
Perhaps you have seen the zebra. n
you have. you must have noticed ita
stripes. The first horse-iike creatures
were probably striped IN much the same
way. These animals never ate hay and
oats. and, AT first they did not eat much
grass There was little II any. grass
a. that time. These horse-like crea-
lures lived on marshes and ~ swamps
bordering streams and lakes. TAey prob
ably ate stems and leaves OF plants tina,
grew on narshy lands. They did not run
as horses run today. but they plodded
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30

is seven and half miles south of town.
live in town. ] 90 to school and am
In the sixth grade l have one sister and
three brothers. Ny older sister teaches
school My mamma goes after her on
Fridays 1 reeS the paper and thought
would write
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
Photo by MINISTER.

along on the soft ground. They spread
out along so as to keep from sinking.
This is the fourth time l have written
TO the Busy Bees. ! hope my story will
be In print. ! hope the Busy Bees will
enjoy my story as I enjoy every one OF
the Busy Bees stories.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30

BY LlldlVE = Wesley, ARed I3 Years,
Cedar Bluffs. Seb Blue Side
About three years ago IN February /
bad an accident. Ny younger brother
saw = rabbit sitting on the ground and
IT'D para 20 briRg the gun 50 papa
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
Attends Wedding CeIebratiOn.

BY Birdie Baldwin. Aged Y Years, Ne
maha, Neb. Blue Side.
Last Sunday went with my papa.
mamma. sister and brother 10 my uncIes
and aunts fortieth anniversary party. II
was a surprise. There were about forty
five people there. I played with some
boys and girls until they had to go
home. We folks did not go home until 8
o'clock. II is beautiful farm. The place
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
Likes "Children's Hour"

Nv Howard F. Mattox. Aged Years,
s2i South Fortieth Street South
Omaha. Blue SIDE
At school every girl and boy in our
class reads Longfellow's poems and Joel
Chandler Harris stories.
Longfellow and Joel Chandler Harris
we're great writer's. like ''The Chill
dren,s Hour" in which Longfeilow told
abou, his three little girls, Allegra. Edith
and Alice.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30

EMoRIAL DAY Decoration perhaps
Is This
o
i " southern armies which fought In the civil
having with
still tell stirring the
linked with
quicker with
should each school, established Though
their their voices with emotion their
shine gln effort with the children they
sauate the fagl
allegiance the republic which
nation indiyisbe with liberty and justice for all"
children soldiers
send honor the OF dead sailors
aimed inst
eeng side the south
being the and the United States
Shrlmpton the Blue
prize Side
o Bculsh the Red Side
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30
Stories of Nebraska History
NJ A u. SHELDON

(By special permission OF the author,
The Bee will publish chapters from the
History OF Nebraska, by A. e. Sheldon,
from week TO weck.)
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-30

Bailey Service means upkeep.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
FOREST FIRE LOSSES.

At this time Of year much damage
is annually reported from forest fires.
This is a matter affecting not merely
the localities where these fires occur.
The heavy damages Of this kind have
done a great deal to reduce the supply
OF lumber, thus adding to the cost Of
all building operations.
Also in many sections woodland is
owned by farmers, and its increase in
value is often large part of the profit
in their business. If this growing re-
serve is wiped out, the losers become
disguised with land holding, and go
into other occupations. At "a time
when efforts are being made TO en-
courage people TO go back on the soil
and increase the food supply, such
losses are double unfortunate
The match or cigar end or camp
fire may start a confiagration destroy
ing many thousands worth OF prop
erty. When so much capital goes up
in smoke. il is a blow TO the industry
OF the country. If the forest is owned
by a farmer. he has that much less
capital Cor development of his land
and increase of his food production.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27

A handful of Texas capitalists have
raised S75O.O0O in good hard coin. to
colonize the lower Rio Grande country
OF Texas. with Belgian war refugees.
That's hardening 10 the knock Of
old war opportunity in a practical
way. The emigrants will be furnished
land. homes. stock, seed and even
food. until the first c. is made. The
Brownsville section Texas is very
rich and fertile and its mi-trophical
climate admits Of unusually early
crops. The Belgiens are said TO be
excellent farmers, patient. INDUSTRIOUS
and frugal.
The experiment will be watched
with much interest in Texas and else
where. and il may pan out all right.
for the men identified with the Texas
movement are not philanthropists but
hard headed. far-seeing business men.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
MARYLAND VS.. NEVADA.

a Maryland court of appeals has
rendered decision which, if it sticks
in the court OF last resort, viii simply
raise cain in the select society circles
of that state. 1t makes a divorce,
granted in Nevada, or in any other
state OF temporary residence, void.
Just think how this will muss things
up for. no telling how many. Mary
land couples: close to a hundred in
Baltimore alone. IN the first place. it
makes all those who have remarked,
bigamists, but that we can overlook,
for their intentions were good though
their execution was poor. But now if
they keep on being remarked" they
are liable to get muchly talked about.
The thing to do, of course, is TO per-
manently forsake Maryland, chase out
TO Reno, where the six months law
is on again. and do il all over start
anew, be really Renovated, as it were.
But supposing. just suppOsing. that
some of them fell down on their di-
vorce stunts this time, or that some of
the re-divorced men and the re-di-
vOrced women got crazy about each
other and didn't go back home at all,
or that Great Scott! it's too filled with
dread possibilities to talk about Some
body ought TO Oslerize those judges
quick. They deserve it.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
BEGINNING BASEBALL SEASON.

South Bend should extend a very
open and official welcome TO the
Southern Michigan baseball league
Wednesday. when it opens the season
here-Saginaw meeting the local
team. 1t is regrettable that a half
holiday has not been called. With
baseball the principal relaxation fea-
ture OF our city life. it is to be re-
GREETED that the business interests
have not been called upon to afford
the masses of people the largest pos
sible chance TO see the game, and in
cidentally, give the home team an un-
usually handsome send-off. 1t seems.
however, that neither Mayor Keller,
head OF the local civil government, nor
Pres't Engman of the Chamber of
Commerce. have cared 10 take the ini-
tiative. SO that the question settles
down 10 one OF individual dispositions.
OF course. this is the best kind OF
disposition 10 have If the people can
only be educated up to it, One would
think that just now when everybody
is imagining themselves victim of
that could result from a half day off
would De so incOnsequential that il
might almost be regarded as a profit,
but il seems that there are concerns
here when pushed 10 the wall, are
not willing TO look at it in that way.
II might be possible 10 work up 10
one or 1880 o'clock and then stop, the
game calling at three.-either OF
which would be better than no chance
at all 1t remains 10 be seen. the
kind OF reception the baseball season
is 90 have. from which. perhaps. a
gl.ess may also be ventured as TO its
conclusion.
We understand that Manager Smith.
owner OF the local club. has made es-
pecial efforts this year 10 give South
Bend the best team in the league. He
RETAINED from taking it from here 10
Muskegon because of the opinion that
this city would appreciate his efforts.
IL is up 10 Us 20 make good or IL may
be a long while before we shall have
another such treat Everybody that
possibly can should attend the ball
game Wednesday, holiday or no holt
day, and let the city administration
and Chamber OF Commerce sit back
on their oars as tightly as they will.
There can be such a thing as civic
pride without civil or civic organiza-
ton.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27

Mr.. Peary. and his remarks are to say
the least. ill-timed.
1t is bad business 10 start anything
tending 10 strain the most cordial re-
latiOns existing between this country
and Canada. Still, there is a middle
course which might well be adopted
and that is a direct treaty between the
two countries for mutual cooperation.
commercial and military, to preserve
the integrity OF North America in case
OF a sudden shifting Of the scenes.
This rather trivial Peary incident
will serve the purpose, at least, of di-
recting the attention of congress and
the administration, TO the three thou
sand mile boundary between the two
countries. absolutely unprotected, not
fort along the whole line. not a bat
tleship on the Great lakes. Agrees
sion from Canada, by the Canadians,
is hardly within the range of POSSIBLE
tiles, but with the war fever raging
and no man able to predict with any
degree OF certainty the final outcome.
it is well TO give a thought or two to
the back door OF our country. which
stands invitingly ajar.
Expansion. territorially, is one
thing. Measures calculated TO pre-
serve the land we started business
with, is another quite, and far re-
moved from militarism in its true
sense
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
WORK OF PATRIOTIC ORDERS.

The annual congress Of the Daugh-
ters OF the American Revolution in
session at Washington the past week.
always attracts a great deal OF inter-
est A member OF this order once
remarked. that when these delegates
get down 10 Washington. they fight
like cats" This perhaps accounts for
the large amount OF newspaper space
given TO these meetings.
Whether or not this was a fair criti-
cism. warm rivalries and even acerb-
ity CT controversy reveal that an or
ganization has internal energy and
contains forces capable Of good.
In the earlier history OF some pa
triotic orders. it sometimes seemed as
If the members got together TO cele-
brate the glories OF their own blood
and lineage quite as much as to per-
form any patriotic service. some
people are so conscious OF the superb
ority OF their ancestry that they feel
no need of making any efforts on their
own part.
Yet there is real work for these
nearly a century and a half ago It
is all ancient history. To the young
person in the schools IT is as remote
as Julius Caesar or Agamemnon.
Teachers should be thorough students
Of American history. become familiar
with the lives Of the great Revolu-
tionary patriots. and make these lives
vivid TO their pupils by narrative and
anecdote.
AS warriors. YOU almost have 10 go
back 10 the spartans at Thermopylae
10 find anything more wonderful than
the beating Of the finest army in
Europe by rowing bands OF ragged
troops
As makers Of a government. the
fathers were pioneers in a new field.
other peoples had previously created
republics. They were republics only
in name being merely societies of aris-
tocrats who divided up among them
selves
The Constitution makers OF cur ma
ton were as much pioneers as the
hardy men who went out into the
prairies and felled forests and fought
Indians. The Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution and other similar So
cieties need never fear that too much
will be said about the genius of the
men who did this pioneering work on
the field OF battle and in the council
hall Of the constitution makers.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY

tism and economy have stabilized
business methods, and the country is
we'll prepared for a wave of pros
Observation-Disclosures. Paris, Tenn,
April 16, 1915.
Mobile is beginning to feel the re-
turn Of good times. There is nothing
like a boom on, but IL can safely be
compared with a swell that is rising
higher every day and sweeping on
with the added momentum of increas-
ing business. This is seen in the brisk
ness of trade among the retail mer-
chants. in the growing crowds Of
shoppers on the streets, in the reports
from the banks of larger deposits and
in the improvement noted by the rail-
roads of local business along the lines
in and out of Mobile.-Register Mo-
bile, Ala, April Is, 1915.
The balance of trade in favor of
the United States is approximately
$500, 900 for the first four months
ended March last, according to fig
ures made public by the department
of commerce. The balance has grown
at an average of $150.000,000 a month
during the last four months.
According TO the latest figures show
ing the commerce for the week ended
April 10, imports amounted to S32,-
654.566; exports to S5O,333,S33, and
the excess of exports TO $l7,679,261.
The duties collected for the week end
ed April 10 were SS,515,206. All of
the totals for the week show decreases
over the preceding week.
The imports for March are esti-
mated at s16O.OOO,OOO, exports at
1905, 100000, with excess of exports
Of s145,0O0,000 The duties collected
during March totalled SIC, 5S6,325.
The Advertiser has been Informed
by a number Of Montgomery business
men that this week has been one OF
the best trading weeks they have seen
in many months. With many mer-
chants last Monday was the best trad
ing day Montgomery has seen since
the war began.
People feel better. Conditions are
fundamentally better all over the
country The two circumstances COM
hined are midable.-Advertiser
Montgomery, Ala, April II, 1915.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
ANYBODY WOULD GET HOT.

We are mighty glad that rules of
evidence. the court and the attorneys
won't let Roosevelt say what he wants
TO say while on the stand as a witness
in that libel suit.
1t makes just one more forecful citi-
zen deadly mad at the policy Of making
a fellow swear 10 tell the truth. the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
and then have a Judge and a bunch OF
and then having a judge and bunch
OF lawyers prevent his doing IT,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27

The Ellsworth Galleries Co. of
Washington, Pa, has resumed opera
tions at it's Cokeburg plant and taken
on 1000 men. The Mariana mine of
the Pittsburgh Buffalo company has
resumed again with 500 men.
At Calumet, Mich, the Tamarack
mine has reopened with 500 men and
the Hancock mine has resumed ship
ping after eight months suspension.
All mines in the lake Superior cop
per district are increasing their output
and taking on more men.
The Florence Iron Mines co. ar
Florence, Wis, has resumed opera
tions and mines of the Reading Co.
also will reopen soon.
The United States Steel Co. will re-
sumo work at once on its $40 100000
plant at Duluth.
Western mines and smelters are
working their plants to full capacity
and more men are being taken on
every day.
In Ohio the Empire and Thomas
sheet iron mills at Youngstown have
reopened and all the sheet iron mills
in the Mahoning valley are now run
ming full blast.-Wave, Marshall, Ark,
April 16, 1915.
That business conditions in Henry
county are showing marked improve
ments since the first of the year, is
evidenced by t e bank statements
published in this paper last week. 1t
was also brought ought in the state
ment Of the First National bank, pub
lished several weeks ago. The state
ments published last week were of the
Commercial bank and bank Of Henry
at Paris, and the Cottage Grove Bank
& Trust Co, and show on deposit a
total of S55O,06S.52. This is an ex-
cellent showing for this season or
the year.
In fact. business conditions through
out the country are showing marked
improvements in almost all lines, ac-
cording 10 reports from national bank
examiners made by the national
treasury department. OF the go ma
tional bank examiners, so reported a
permanent business Improvement The
first week in April was an improve
ment over March business, and March
was the best month since the begin
ming of the European war. Conserva-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27

the land in which you have come now
is the fact that you must no longer
mention the word Los Angeles. For
you are getting close 10 San Francisco.
1t is not necessary to say anything OF
a boosting nature about Los Angeles
TO place San Francisco folk on their
guard. Just the simple uttering OF
the word-that and nothing more.
and they begin TO bristle with re-
torts and counter-charges. II you wish
to start a complete riot quietly ask
the first man you meet on the street
in San Francisco If ii is true that city
is now EXCEEDED by Los Angeles in
population.
I dislike to think of what might fol-
low II you were TO put a question like
that 10 a man subject TO apoplexy.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27

Sec'r Bryan's recent scoring OF
Commander Peary for his utterance
regarding expansion. will meet with
the approval OF the truly democratic
part OF the country's population. Ter
ritorial expansion. colonial acquisition.
has not proved a bowling success as
far as II has been attempted by Uncle
Sam. The most OF rs would be heart
ly in favor OF trading the Philippines
eff for a package OF starch. or so. We
IRE not seeking further expansion. at
l8ast not ia the direction indicated by
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
THE MEL TING POT
GOMEZ TAKE PO7LUcK WITH U.s.

spring seems 10 be to get lettered
sweater coat"
THE golfer frequently has il thrown
in his face that the energy expended
on the links during the season would
cultivate an acre field and produce
enough vegetable food TO feed a fam
lily for year, or build a mile of mod
ernro2dway which would sensibly re-
duce the h. c. OF !. If the golfer makes
any reply 10 this he says. Well I
have added a year TO my life, and are
we to consider vegetables and good
roads in the balance against lOngev-
typ"
WE reporters have many happy
days, and especially the days that our
dope" appears are the brightest
days OF our lives. A friend of mine
wrote a feature story about the skel-
eton Of an animal and in the descrip-
ton he wished TO write the following
sentence. This skeleton is supposed
to be the best proof that the univer-
sity has and the old erratic type
writer got too much gas and skidded
TO the side of the road leaving out one
Of the o's in proof as usual.
THE navy" says Sec'y Daniels, lis
better and bigger than in 1913" and
our country is better and bigger, and
our crops are better and bigger than
they were in 1913, and all these
things are going to be better and big
ger every year. This may be taken
for a little ante Fourth of July en-
thusiasm, induced by the hot weather.
A Michigander's- Mother Goose.
code, and paid. to Berrien Coz
Tom. Tom, the sun-of-a-gun,
Had a pig, and let it run;
The pig was blind, but Tom was kind
To the copper, who didn't mind.
Jack and Jill carried the swill
To Tommy's little piggy;
They got caught, then Jack he fought,
While Jill stood looking silly.
AUSTRIA has removed the tariff on
all foodstufs, the first admission that
the bottom of the national larder is in
sight. still, Austria's credit is good
with us
BUSINESS is getting better. writes
L. B., and the rush of modern bust
ness is certainly awful A hen down
in Connecticut recently tried to lay
four eggs and died in the attempt.
WE have received an appealing
price list from our coal man. but un-
like the Christmas fund schedule 1t
runs only one way-up. The sugges-
ton is TO dismiss your dreams of sum-
mer JOY and buy coal for winter COM
fort.
GREECE will remain neutral-as
long as she can.
BUT neutrality is Greece is a slip
perry substance.
G. y. f.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
OF The Daily Times.

Harry ]. Kellogg, artist, died. aged
81.
Charles NJ. Heaton. the first tele-
graph operator. one OF the first JUS
tees Of the peace. and the first ex-
press agent. died in Washington, d.
c., aged 80.
d. G. Butcher. resigned as a member
OF the chemical engine company and
was succeeded by Woolford Grant.
Mrs. &. II. Murdoch and children left
for a visit TO New York city
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
DIPPY DITTIES.

VH.-Just F1fty-Fifty.
60 the tune the aged bovine demised
upon)
Fifty miles from Coyote town,
Just as the blOomin' sun went down,
tenderfOOt was seen TO land
Throwed by a bronze, understand.
Stick i'm the Bend, boys, where its
Don't never 90 west i'm search of
fame!
Fifty yards off a cowboy near,
Set up a laugh so strong and clear,
That tenderfoot he got so mad,
He jerked a gun, which ne oughten
10 had
Never start west, boys, stay where
YOU are,
Its safer here than il is out thar!
Fifty feet wide the bullet went,
But the cowboy shifted the battle
scent,
His skier barked in sharp reply
That tenderfoot just had TO die.
BE wise, my boys, avoid the strife,
Never go west to enjoy your life!
Fifty inches meath the prairie sod,
They laid that riddled human pod,
The parson gave a model sigh
That was the end of the tenderfoot
guy.
So boys don't ever venture west,
Unless you wanta join the blest!
r. NJ. II.
PERHAPS you have noticed that
there are more people walking on the
sidewalks than riding in the street.
What's the answer? The answer, to
our notion, is that some Of the people
who walk do so from choice, but the
most of them from necessity, while on
the other hand most people who rid >
do so from choice, and some of them
from necessity. An element of ex-
pediency also enters into it.
MANS natural means of locomotion
is pedestrian, but early in he his
tory of the race he discovered that he
could make certain animals do the
walking for him. The transition to
animal drawn vehicles and thence to
the power propelled was slow, but
certain. 1t has arrived. Out of his
brain man has evolved a machine that
beats nature 40 city blocks.
THAT, we infer, is what brains were
made for.
MANY a father, writes a y. D. con-
tributor, gets this question but few
answer it correctly:
Il suppose your son is nearly ex-
hausted working for his sheep skin
this year ?"
Father: "Oh, no, not quite that
bad. His most important work this
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27

An exchange observes that there are
fewer suicides among coal miners
than any other elias sOf workmen. We
know the answer all right; they don't
live long enough.