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Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
BY A. EDWIN LONG.

He rode on the back of Jesse
James" as a youngster, at Red Oak,
la. Once he nearly got his head cut
off while Jesse James" was gollop-
ing around the barnyard with him.
Jesse James" was a big white
horse owned by the father of Julius
Orkin. Julius when he was small
boy loved nothing so much as to
mount this brute and charge the fence
posts or the ash heaps in the alley,
Just to see the ashes fly. The tradi-
ton was that the Missouri despefado
once held up banks and ran down
express trains from the back of this
white charger-hence his name.
Once when julius had spurred
him dawn the alley too often
Jesse" got disgusted, took the bit in
his teeth and charged the open barn
door like a super-six in delirium.
When Marmion galloped over the
drawbridge at the Douglas castle,
Walter Scott said of him: d
'"To pass there was such scanty room
The bars descending grazed his plume
Well, Julius Orkin had no plume to
Craze, He ducked to save his head
from the rafter over the door, but he
left part of his scalp and some of his
dark locks dangling from a silver on
the rafter.
He wanted to be lawyer, too, but
the instinct for merchandising was too
strong to permit it. Yes, Julius Orkin
had the law craving so strong as a
young maffthat he entered Drake uni
versity in Des Moines and actually
thrust his nose for two years into
thick volumes of torts, contracts and
jurisprudence.
Huh" he grunted one day as he
slammed the covers of his book after
getting letters from his five brothers.
Huh, these brothers of mine are
all making good in the merchandising
game; and here Pm spending a
healthy part of lifetime to learn to
be a lawyer. There is no guarantee
anywhere that l will get case when
I get out. There is no guarantee any
where that I would win case, even If
I should get one"
"Huh," he grunted again, and car
ried his books down to secondhand
store. He packed his trunk and bade
the school pals goodbye.
He rode the first passenger train to
Sioux City, where four of his brothers,
J. L., M. E., ]. B. and P. H., were al
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
A Bad Predicament

1 A Westchester county man took his nu.
merous progeny to county fair. As they
moved about the grounds. the father felt
his fifth born tuggIng at his coattails. He
turned, and the youngster begged him to
buy some candy.
Buy 1t yourself" said the father. 'Whery
Is the dime I gave you a little while ago?'
Its down my neck"
"Well, shake it out!'
"But, dad, can't. It was In my mouu
when 1t went down."-New York Times.
On the Road to Thrums.
Robin McPhairson met David Drumnlon'
on the road to Thrums.
"Gude morrnin', lad!' said Robin. IAN
hoo is your guide wife. an all the wean,
at hame?"
"The weans are ne'er at hams." an
swered David, bitterly. "An' dinna blami
them. My, guide wife Is a bletherin' aule
bellum, an drives me frae my-ain but an
ben wi her sour looks an worrds!"
Heck! thought she was the apple
yer e'e?"
apple? Ay. the bapple!"-Clevelant
Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
cIhus OrRIn

ready Aourishing in dry goods busi
ness.
/ When he got a chance to show
goods, however, he proved to be SO
fast salesman that the boys had to
recognize him, and soon he was on a
par with the squad of brothers, though
they we're all Older than he.
Then Sioux City was not big
enough to suit the boys. ]. B. went
to New York and into the merchan-
dising game there. M. E. and P. H.
stuck by Sioux City. Julius, Max
and J. L. swooped down upon Omaha,
and alighted at 1910 Douglas street.
Ladies apparel was their speciality,
and this fine of business they de-
| veloped until J. L. and Max became
infatuated with Sixteenth street and
moved. Julius stuck by Douglas, be-
| lieving it was the coming street Of
| the city. He has been in Omaha
twelve years and has now what he
believes to be the largest exclusively
women's apparel store west of Chi
cago.
Next in This Series, How Omaha Go,
Harry n. BOwen.o 20 "
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

game of pitching horseshoes were
more generally recognized. 1t is in
expensive and the results are highly
beneficial" said Mr.. Antilles. as he
looked at his watch and noted that
he was nearly due at game of toss
ing equine footwear.
If you want real hobby, buy
telescope, take it home and mount it
near a window in your home. Oft in
the Silly night train the glass toward
the empyrean vaults and then see
what you shall see. That il what w.
]. Broatch will relate if you ask him
what his hobby might be. He has
telescope at home and AYERS he has
found many interesting and profitable
moments in the gentle art fstar gaz-
ing. He is on speaking terms with
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Sa-
turn, Uranus and Neptune. He keeps
posted on the conjunctions of the
heavenly bodies and knows the run
ming schedule of the comets. He con-
tends that astronomical phenomena is
more interesting than golf. And he
believes his hobby is the best nerve
tonic on the market
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

many and never failing occasions that
he has become known to his friends
as "Chauncey Depew." In fact,
Chairman Charley Saunders, of the
Ak-Sar-Ben hustling committee fre-
quently introduces him at the COM
mittee dinners as "the Chauncey De-
pew of Omaha"
Has George Antilles hobby?
George Antilles has hobby. What is
his hobby? His hobby is horseshoes.
Who is George Antilles? He is the
expert accountant at the court house.
MIR. Antilles mind runs to figures
during the days work. He can solve
the most difficult mathematical prob
lens and unravel any accounting
snarl. Once away from work.. how
ever, and he should hear of horse
shoe game, there he will go, as fast
as he can move.
He AYERS that pitching horseshoes
is not to be sneezed at. The game,
he adds, steadies the general nervous
system and improves the optic nerves.
For case of nerves he recommends
horseshoe pitching. The game also
develops the lungs, he contends.
az wish the ancient and honorable
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Comb Honey
By EDWARD BLACK.

Pep.
Our Uncle Samuel is giving US the
finest demonstration Of pep this coun-
try ever has witnessed. The old man
has been pictured as an easy-going
person, with chin whiskers and non
chalant smile. He will have to be
photographed again, with grim deter
.nination written into the lineaments
OF his face.
There's chores to be DONE" says
Uncle Samuel, and forthwith one hun
dred millions of nephews and nieces
face about and apply themselves to
the tasks at hand. .
These are days Of pep. If we would
know what real pep means all we
have to do is to follow Uncle Samuel,
He does not contend that the best
form of pep is marching down the
street, carrying flag and beating a
drum; or working ones jaws down
at the general merchandise store. He
says demonstration Of pep can be
shown in the back lot with hoe and
spade, or in the kitchen, or wherever
ones legitimate work happens to be.
1t is to be pep all down the line. II
is time of speeding up, time OF
a new national forward movement; OF
cutting out superhuities and waste.
The~little fly in the fable showed a
lot Of pep by hustling to get out, but
| it did not get anywhere. Real pep
means getting somewhere and do
ing something in the least possible
time and with the least possible ef-
fort.
Conservation of natural and manu-.
factured resources calls for pep with
/ a purpose.
Don't be a business Stacker" !:
| the caption OF splendid placard be
ing distributed, This means thai
every mothers son and daughter mus
show some pep in helping to main
tain the normal channels of business
10 dispel wartime hysteria which fol
q while threatened to become cpl
demic in form; to economize wisely
but not niggardly; to keep the shiI
OF business on an even keel.
The commander-in-chief has calleC
| for pep and the word is being passec
along the line.
4 Doing our little bit, in any plac,
we happen to be, calls for pep AM
more pep.
| 1t is a big little word, is PEP.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

the police force, he has rebuilt more
than 200 instruments and has real
lied small fortune in their sale.
Sergeant Ferris spends hours 'of his
time going through secondhand shops
in his quest for old broken down
violins. At times he runs across
very valuable instruments, once hav-
ing secured Stradivarius model that
was said to be more than century
old.
Sergeant Ferris is no less than an
authority on violins and their makers.
A large number of his friends con.
suit him before they purchase one OF
the stringed Instruments.
While Sergeant Ferris is a master
in rebuilding old violins, he is also an
expert violinist, beside being able to
play other musical instruments, SUCH
as mandolin and either. Besides he
can play piano and cornet,
After-dinner speaking might be said
to have become hobby with Charley
Black. If it is not hobby with him,
it has become a hobby with his
friends to call upon him for such
speeches. Charley always makes
good, too. He has made good on SO
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

pmistic point Of view and trying tc
make others happy"
Mr.. Beveridge loves his work. In
stinctively the boys and girls are
drawn to him and the unruly boy and
girl is won without realizing how il
happened.
II took up teaching" he continued
"for the purpose of my own growth
and development mentally and h
eIwise, and because | liked children.
The teaching germ was well devel-
oped in my consciousness through
my father
Two boys were brought before him
for having creased a school pole.
"That was { c grease you used,
he said to one of the boys, who wa:
completely subdued.
Mr.. Beteridge learned that thu
boys father was a manufacturer o.
axle grease,
well, boys, it is up to you to settlt
this matter in the right way. / will
leave it to you. Report to me tomor
row." was his rebuke.,
The boys returned the next day
and reported that they had made
amends, after hich they accounted
the superintendent as one of theil
best friends.
Mr.. Beyeridge is more than forty
in the journey life. His advance
mcnt has been steady from the tint
he entered his first school room a,
teacher back in Ohio. He has beer
superintendent for nine years il
Council Bluffs. was superintendent
six years in Missouri Valley and wa.
in charge Of the schools at Glidden
Ia, during his early educational worl
in Iowa. Now he is to assume lead
crship Of $4,000 children in fifty-hvt
schools of Greater Omaha.
He has two children, Wendell, ,~ir
junior high school at the Bluffs, ant
| Lenore, at Grinnell college,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

hospital and thus the enterprise had
good and favorable beginning.
Accidents soon began to happen.
People were run erby automobiles,
they fell off of high buildings, their
fingers were crushed in machinery.
The hospital was we'll patronized.
Soon visitors hours were set and
nobody was allowed to visit patients
except at those hours. Everything
went along as the builders had pre-
dicted. The stream of sick did not
waver. The hopes of the builders
were realized to the fullest limit.
Today we have twelve hospitals
and it is our pride that they are all
we'll filled all the time.
This success inspired people to go
farther. 1t was found that there was
number of deaf and dumb people
in the state. Why not establish an
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

James L. Davidson, general mana
ger of the Omaha Electric Light and
Power company, has a hobby, but he
does not think OF it, as such. His hobby
is outdoor exercise. He does not take
kindly to physical culture a la
solitaire, but enjoys the sociability
which goes with game Of squash or
golf or whateverJit may be. His work
with utility plants has taken him
from Vermont to Michigan, thence to
Oregon and now he is located in
what he declares is the most salubrious
climate in the world. Wherever he
may be, he always keeps up his ex-
drcise, which is his hobby. Years ago
he resolved never to know from per-
sonal experience what it means to
be "fat and forty" ;.
when a man passes 40 there is
more reason why he should keep up
his interest in outdoor activities, for
they make him more fit for the days
work" said Mr.. Davidson.
Resurrecting old violins is the
hobby of Omaha's most talented cop,
Sergeant E. Ferris. In the last ten
years while Mr.. Ferris has been on
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Sowing the Seed.

"Dad" Weaver of the Knights OF
Ak-Sar-Ben walked over to the Office
OF Charles L. Saunders and, assuming
confidential manner, said; Say
Charley, | want you to tell me how
to plant radish seed. Ralph Hayward
said you plant the heads down and
Bob Hayes said you plant the heads
up. What do you sayp
"Why, Dad, thought that mar
of your intelligence would know that
the way to plant radish seeds is tc
lay them on their sides replied
Saunders.
That's what | thought rejoinet
"Dad."
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Gro}lss History Omaha
Althe truth and untruth that's fit ffitt to know
By A. R. GROH.
Chapter XVI-Hospitals, etc.

ShoRtSA - AAASoPte@Ass Ss~'
Public-spirited citizens at an early
day in our city's history began a
movement to build hospital.
Like all new things this met oppo-
sition. Critics said the city did not
need hospital, because there were
very few sick people,
But those who were pushing it said
this difficulty would be disposed OF,
once the hospital was erected with
nice beds all ready for the sick.
people just can't help getting sick
when they are sure Of a nice hos
pital,' they said. They also pointed
out that all large cities have hospitals.
They challenged their critics to show
them single city of Importance that
didn't have hospitals.
This was an unanswerable argu-
ment. They went ahead and built a
hospital. The carping critics looked
on and criticised. But the very day
the first hospital was finished two peo-
pie got sick. They were taken to the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

.ody and thus increases the demand
for food. Liberal takers need more
food than those who are chary OF
their words. Less talk, less food re-
quired. Silence is golden; talk is
cheap. 1t is said that people gen.
orally talk more than is necessary.
Words are wasted, effort is wasted.
BE BRIEF are the words frequently
seen in the offices of busy men. Ex-
cessive talking takes time and time
is money. The Celtic section boss
had the hunch when he sent in his re-
port of wreck to headquarters in
these few words:
"Of again, on again, gone again,
Finnegan."
weigh your words" is the time
honored advice.
By the way, did you ever meet a
person who insists on telling you the
same thing five or six times just to
make sure that his thought has per.
colated into your cerebral recesses;
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Conservation Of Conversation.

While the solons and sayants of the
state we're holding their conservation
assembly in the Auditorium during
,he week they overlooked one inpor-
tant matter: the conservation OF
words. Talking requires muscular et-
.ort which consumes the tissues of the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

Fascinating Story Of the Streets:
Conclusion of E. F. Morearty's
"reminiscences Of Farman street
begun last Sunday has been de-
ferred week.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Heard En- Passant.

"Did you call me, Agnes?'
81 told my husband ! would get
divorce if he cultivated mustache.' y
The doctors do funny things, don't
they?"
"We are going to have shorteake
!. our house today
"He dances just too lovely for any
USE"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Big City News.

John c. Wharton shook hands with
us yesterday. He is not Stacker when
it comes to holding hands.
Belle Ryan has not taken a vaca-
ton in three years. Some slayer on
the job, is Arabella.
L. ]. TePoel has been appointed
inspector of hoes in the municipal
garden department.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Information Wanted.

Omaha U girl in musical comedy"
reads a headline. Will someone please
tell US what relation U girl is to a
U-boats
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
An Inquiry:

An Inquiry:
Why do all of the women go down
town on windy dayf c. F. B.
We asked the society editor and she
replied that your question is Inmate
rial, incompetent and irrelevant"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

institution for them? Again the voice
OF criticism and pessimism was raised.
you can't get enough deaf people
to make it pay" they said.
But the boosters went right ahead.
when we get it started the deaf and
dumb will come" they said. How
we should admire the unquenchable
spirit of these peoplel Scarcely was
the agitation started when it received
encouragement. The little Callahan
girl was brought forward by her par.
ents, who resided in Omaha. The
child, being deaf and dumb, could not
be educated in the public schools.
Therefore it was the duty of the
state to educate her elsewhere. s
With this encouragement the en-
terprise swept forward. The legis-
lature finally passed an act for estab-
fishing the School for the deaf" and
today that sign is familiar to all of
us on many of the cars that run out
Cunning street and branch off from
the Benson line just this side of Krug
park. Dumb children are taught to
speak there, tor it was soon discov-
cred that they have vocal chords Just
as good as any Of us, only they don't
learn to speak because they can't
hear others speak. F..
The history Of hospitals simply
shows that the optimists are the real
builders of cities. Today our dozen
hospitals are all fourislting. No diff
ficulty is experienced in keeping them
filled. 1t is a fitting answer to those
gloomy pessimists who claimed it
wouldn't be possible to get enough
patients for even one hospital.
Questions on Chapter XVI.
|. Was there any difficulty in sup-
plying patients to the first hospital?
2. Are the hospitals of today well
patronized?
8. What does the history of hospi-
tails show? H
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
DO You Knoy

Do You Know ~
How many bones in the human
bodya
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-27
KAlJLUWELA MEET
PROVES big HIT
Lions Win Out in Most Sue
cesSful Track Meet Ever
Held at This Club

The most successful indoor track
meet ever held at Kauiuwela was
staged last night in which three teams
OF the Midget division took part,
namely the Kauiuwela Tigers, the
Kauluwela Lions and the Kauluwela
Invincibles. The Midget division In
cIuded all boys under 20 pounds, and
the boys entered were decorated with
miniature sized pennants with the
letters for Inyincibles, T for Tigers
and L for LIONS, and when s. w. Rob
ley took them down to Palama TO
weigh them up for the coming mid.
summer indoor baseball series today
they were still wearing their teams
letter, some pinned on their sleeves
and others sewed. The result: Lions
80, Inyincibles q, Tigers 10.
The first event Of the evening was
the so yds. and You Tuck Of the Lions
was first, with Alexander q close
second and New poor third. VOC
Tuck again took the hundred, with
Alexander second and All Chow just
inches behind Alexander. Josephs In
the standing broad jump was big
disappointment and was not even
placed, while All Chow took first with
SIS In, some distance for ~ pound
youngster. You Tuck was second
with 81, and Eugene Zap third with
so inches. --.,...-.. ~
The half mile relay, men five laps
each, was close ana interesting, with
the Tigers leading for the first quar-
ter, then the Inyincibles took the lead
and held Il up to within 80 yards OF
the tape, when Tuck made Q final
sprint. and nosed out Josephs by =
few feet. r. ~. =...-
The hop-step-snd- jump went to Chow
OF the Invincibles, 10 It., / IN, with
Tuck second, Is ft, d1h IN, and Al.
exandet q poor third, II f., 5 In.
The go yds. was won by Alexander
Of the Tigers. with Chow second and
e. zap third. The shot put went to
tie for first between Chow, the cap-
tain Of the Invincible, and Tuck, the
captain OF the Lions, at 10 It., s In.
and at their request backed up By
their team mates, they went at It
again and Chow won out by beating
Tuck one inch. During this event the
judges and those In charge had their
hands full keeping the floor spaca
open. ...--:
The half mile was a shoulder to
shoulder affair up to the seventeenth
lap, when Alexander started to sprint.
and the surprising part Of II 10 that
he did not blow up, but kept it right
ND to the finish and was under the
tape almost full lap ahead of Chow.
who finished just ahead Of Yap.
The last event was q tug of war
and the way those kids fought Il out
speaks well for the future defenders
81 our country, for the last set be-
tween the Lions and InyincibIes, al.
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though lost by the Lions, was most
certainly not lost because they faile1
to do their best, for they were still
pulling and struggling long after they
had been dragged over the line OF
defeat.
Starter and clerk OF the floor. S
w. Robley; judges, F. Luke, Ned VIII
liams, @. Yau and L. Akana; timer,
r. wilkens.
The two high point boys Of the
meet were You Tuck and All Chow,
with % points each. with Alexander
third with -,
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interest of the event does not lie in
the one who finishes first, but the
number of swimmers who are able to
do this distance in five months.
Stubby Kruger says it can be done
in less than a week-but then Stub
by is Stubby, and there are not many
like him. The contest Is promoted
for the rank and file Of swimmers
to encourage long distance and prac'
teal swimming.
The contest opens at noon on next
Wednesday and as an suspicious open
ing of the contest number Of start
ers will swim their first distance on
that day. A formal start will be made
promptly at noon from the edge Of
the pool. Henry McKeague, the pool
attendant, is the official scorer and
mathematician "A bulletin board will
keep every, one informed of the Dro-
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One OF the largest crowds which
has ever gathered at Moiliili field -
expected to be present on Sunday
afternoon when the big Red Cross
benefit doubleheader is, staged. The
managers Of the league have been
working on the plan for some time.
and inasmuch as this will be the first
baseball event staged for the RED
Cross, the fans are expected to turn
out IN numbers.
Two good cards have been sche-
duIed for that day. In the feature
game. the All-Stars will meet the
Ruger Giants. A hard game 10 ex'
pected, as in the last contest the
Giants barely edged the All-Stars out
IN an thinning battle. Crumpler and
Kelly will perhaps be the choice to
nurl for GhiIlingworth's team, while
Cummings, who has not yet been de-
feated, win be the choice for Kruger.
Cummings. has a deceiving delivery.
and the Stars were unable to IND
him for many hits IN the last contest
Given Big Boost
Army officials and civilians are In
terested In the first baseball move
ment for the Red Cross, and the
doubleheader was given q boost at the
BIG registration luncheon today at the
Alexander Young hotel. The golf
players have done their share for the
Red Cross, and the baseball players
have planned o number Of stunts
which win 90 to the benefit OF this
organization.
An effort 10 being made to secure
d local speaker who will address the
fans on Sunday, urging all to get
out on registration day. Those play.
ers In the Pacific League which are
over n win be asked to register. Each
manager Of the team will see to II
that his players do their duty on Mon
day. -s<s-.
Braves W. HaWaiIs
In the first game Of the day the
Braves Will meet the Hawaiis. This