Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1915, Page 27

e~ The Busy Bees THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE N MAY 1 Abbott Fraser and Genene Noble retire as King and Queen of the Busy Bees and a new King and Queen are to be chosen. Each Busy Bee is privileged rulers. from the Blue Side. A good way to judge for whom to cast your vote is to think of all the kingly and queenly qualities that you ¢an imagine and then try to find someone whom the qualities fit the most. A choice may also be made from | among those whose stories you enjoy the most. All votes should be in this week Queen will be made next Sunday. Send in your votes early and be sure u the most, | The editor regrets very much to be unable to print the pictures of Pearl Green of South Omaha and Fern Peterson of Kearney. to choose the ones who will inspire yo in were small stamp pictures and &re too tiny to be reproduced. are invited to send in their pictures possible. This week first prize was awarded second prize to Rose Lipshitz of the Lucile Sonneland of the Blue Side. The King is elected from the Red Side and the Queen to send in a vote for their choice in and announcement of the King and Both plctures sent Busy Bees and these will he printed whenever| to Margaret Crosby of the Blue Side, Red 8ide and honorable mention to l APRIL 25, 1915 (First Prize.) Cheerful Bob White. By Margaret Cros! Aged 12 Years, Sutherland, Nel Blue Bide. My grandfather lfld grandmother live on a large farm. They call it “Glenburnie Fruit Farm." One day early in the summer time a young married couple came there, Mr. | and Mrs. White. As soon as they reached thers they began to explore the pllm.l trying to find good bullding site. At last they found a place where Mrs. White sald, “This hedge of beautiful yellow rowes will make shelter from the road.” They didn't ask to buy a lot, but took a claim. As they were talking the matter over-a-‘bunny ran past them. Mrs. White screamed a< she sald, “Let us move at once; T dont ke this place at all!™ Mr. White said, “Don’t be afraid while I am with yvou." But she kept it up until they had to finally hunt for another place. | Boon after they found a place in a beau- titul hoilyhock row. Mrs. White thought this was just the place, but after a while | the jaybirds came and made such a racket, they decided to move again to a strawoerry patch. One day grendmother came out to gather a few strawberies. She had only plcked a handful or two in her basket ‘when she found she was in the front yard of Mr. and Mrs, White. Mrs. White fluttered and went, “Chat, chat!” and flew out of the home, with Mr. White after her, saying, “Don't be afraid; that big thing looks to have a kind heart and will do us no harm.” Mrs. White said, “I'm awfully frightened, Bob! Just you feel my heart and see how it flutters! I am afraid it this keeps up I will como down with nervous prostration!” “Don't be afraid, dearle; come back heme with me,’ he eald cheerfully. She wouldn't come for a while, but he urged her by cooing and making little motions until at last she came, but she was still a little frighfened. Not long afterward there was a new addition to their family, Guess what it was? It was six little “Bob Whites." Mr, White was the cheerfullest Bob White of all, (Second Prize.) Spring Is Here, v Rosle Lipshitz, Aged 8 Years, South Pine Street, North Platte, Neb. Red Side. Bpring is really here. Are you not glad? Does it not seem good, little Busy Bees, tc see the green grass sprouting and the warm, soft wind blowing? Soon we will plant flowers and vegetables. T am going to plant a little flowér garden of pansies, roses, lilies and nasturtiums. I wish they were blooming now. I also like vio- lets best, but I will not plant any, for they grow all around everywhere. (Honorable Mention.) Best Time of Year. By Luclle Sonneland, Aged 12 TYears, Kearney, Neb. Blue Side. Mother Nature has spread a green car- pet over the bare earth. The robins, meadow larks and other birds have come north again. How happy they look and they sing till it seems Iike their little throats will burst. The fruit trees are budding. I will tell you a dear little story. Each winter there comes & thick white blanket called snow. It covers the trees with this blanket When epring comes they bud and then beautiful pink and white flowers bloom. The sky is & clear blue. Mr, Sun shines bright and happy. The sky every evening is full of dencing stars and Lady Moon gives her brightest r: I think this is the best time of the year, don't you? If any of the Busy Bees are sad this glorious time of the year, please go out in the sun- light and you will soon be happy again. Sewing Society. And 11 Years, Cedar Neb., R. D. No. 1 X 30, Bius Side. I go to the country school, district No. 8. I am in the fifth grade, but I like reading and arithmetic best. My teach- er's name is Hilda Torbert. There are thirty-two scholars in this school. The girls in this school have organized & Busy Bee Bewing soclety. The teacher is the president of our socfety, as she took a course in dressmaking. We have been unable to meet during the cold weather, but are going to commence to again as the weather gets We met last fall every two weeks Blu!?x nice. and would take turns in serving refresh- ments. We made aprons and each made an auto cap. I think it is very mice of the teacher to teach us how to sew. I like to sew very well We are making & hammock for our dolls now. When the weather is nice we play outdoors. We play dare base and new realms. The Little Soldier. By Verda Silkbotter, Aged § Years, Gret- na, Neb., Blue Side. fam was about 4 years old. He wanted to be very brave. He sald: “I'm going to be & soldier and not a coward,” so he took & knapsack on his back and a gun on his arm. Then he went out in the yard. Says he: “I'll fight the foe and rot run.” Soon some turkeys came ng and he walked up to them very bravely, but when the old gobbler saw his erimson belt he hunched his back and flopped his wings, cried aloud, th straightway on to Sammy he flew. The poor fellow lost his bravery and oried: “Oh, help; oh, my; come help me out; oh, mamma, come! I don't know what to do.” Jis mamma came, and with & broom chased the turkeys away, and lit- Ue Sammy looked very sorry and said: “‘Mamma, I am not as brave as I thought 1 was. 1 cannot be & soldier untll I am a man.'” | Forest Fire. By B 1ld Reegber . an""ova!fln. g "Iub Nde Letty, Marion, Dl\ld, Fred and Carl were going to have a pienie. They had been walking for & while when they came to a nice shady place. “Let's stop here,” sald Carl. “All right,” the others answered, and 80 they stopped there and began to play some games. Soon they heard a noise, and it became louder and louder. “What can that be?' asked David. “ONh, look!" shouted Fred, pointing to- wards the horigon: and there they saw sparks of fire and great volumes of smoke. “A forest fire!"” shouted Letty, Then they all started to run towards home. It seem€d as If they would never reach home and that the flames were nearly upon them. At last they came in sight of their home and then they ran Years, still faster. Thelr mother saw them coming. “What s the matter, chlldren?" she asked, “Fire!” gasped Letty. “Forest fire!" cried Fred. Then the mother called their father and they warned the other farmers. They soon checked the fire and every one was safe. Story of Motor Trip. n 3 ) g Neb., Red Side. One day last summer when we were visiting in Kansas my uncle took us for an auto ride. We took our dinner with us. We went a long way, then we came to a bridge over the Solomon river. By that time it was noon, so we ate our dinner under the bridge. While we were eating some wagons went over the bridge. We children ran out to see what it was and found it wagone loaded with a merry-go-round. We said “Hello" and they answered back. Then we waded in the water, and my uncle took our piotures in the water. ‘We passed an old mill dam. There were 1ot of people there fishing and swim- ming. We passed wheat flelds where they were harvesting. When we were coming back we stopped at a small town and got some ice cream. Then we went on and came to another town and saw where my cousin lived when a little boy. We went 100 miles that day. Trip to Fairy Land. By Mary Fischer, Aged 10 Years, Latayetts Avenue, Omahs, Red Willlam was very tired and wanted to &0 to bed. When he was in bed he dreamt that he took a trip to “Fairy Land” on a seagull's. back. He Areamed he flew up in the clouds over seas and oceans. He saw many fairies, but best of all was @ beautiful little palace just big-enough for a fairy to live In, but only the queen and some servants lived in that palace. Willlam went in the queen's palace and her servants served him with so many | goodies that he could neither eat nor count them. Just then he heard a strange noise and he grew afraid, but the fairies only eaid, ““That Is just a bell for us to Ko dancing." “Do I have to go home now?' asked William, ““You can dance with us,” but the fairy didn’'t get time to finlsh for Willlam awoke, 8606 Pick Flowers in Woods. Hi h _Lot Aged BY Hor " sumner, Nebn "Rea Bide One day ‘Mrs. Jones said to Mary and Paul: “If you do all the work today you may g0 into the woods tomorrow.” “Allright,” said both children, as they went to work with seal. When all the work was done that evening both were tired. In the morning they were both up with the sun. As the day before Mrs. Jones had made some plum jelly, Paul slipped into the pantry and took a jarfull and put it into the lunch basket. When they got to the woods, which were south of the house, it w noon. “Let's eat here under this shady tree; it is so cool ™ After dinner they picked flowers, but they soon got tired of that so they went back home. Years, Spring Poetry. By Hannah Lorenzen, Aged 12 Years, Summer, Neb., Side Spring comes but once the year. With the flowers gay, The sun shining ltke xold Upon valleys of gold and blue, In the fields the grain rolls Like waves in a gale; The birds singing in the trees to the flowers. The flowers sfving their fragrance to the bees, The bees bussing out among the flowers, The farmer plowing in the fields, turn. ing the soll so fertile. Has lotd "lllck Beauty.” Berth, mann, Aged § Years, Alhllnd Neh Blue Side There was a little girl who wrote to the Busy Bees not very long ago, named Alice Elvira Crandell. She wrote a story about Black Beauty and Ginger, and By | Alice asked i any of the Busy Bees had { it loose. But the welght on my other foot Ruth and [eona Pollack. read the story. My teacher read the book ‘“Black Beauty” to all the pupils in school, and 1 ltked it very well. I am in the third grade and like to go to school. I like my teacher. Her name is Miss Rose McCarthy. Shetland Pony for Pet. B y b v SO o, "Nen SB.0 T Hert We have a little Shotland pony, called Babe, Wo think a great deal of her be- cause she helps us have such good times. One day last week one of my lttle girl friend invited my little brother and I down for dinner. We hitched up the pony and went. They have three children. After dinner we changed coats and caps and went over to her grandma's. We did not have the pony hitched up very good. On our way home, after we got about half way, the shaft dropped down on the ground. Babe went on, but I managed to get her stopped. Then we had to harness up in the middle of the road. When we got back to my little friend home we had lunch. Then it was time for us to go home. Brave St. Bernard. Bhlo.enhlml Drapler. Aged 8 Years, m ncoln Boulevard, Omaha, Red Bid One night a St. Bernard dog was lut In a severe snowstorm in the mountatns. He wandered about for & long time look- ing for a way out of the storm. Buddenly he heard a volce. He stopped and ils- tened, but could not find In what direo- tion it came from. He kept on wander- ing. In a few minutes he heard the same voice again. He stopped again and lstened more closely, and this time ran to the place from which he heard the wolce. He found a little boy all covered with enow. He dragged him for miles in his teeth to a place where they both found sheiter, and the dog was rewarded. The Clock. By Margaret Green, Aged 8 Years, 1221 South Elovenl;l fizeet. Omaha. o 4 I am an old, old clock. good and clean. tock."” 1 wake the people up to get breakfast, I keep my face I keep saying “tick, up. At 7:80 breakfast is called, and at half past eight the children go to school and say good-by and throw a Kkiss to mother. The Wicked Queen. By Mabel Amick, Aged 12 Yoars, Mynard, Neb. Blue Sige There once lived a beautiful Princess Marie who was very kind to everything. Marfe had a very cruel and wicked stop- mother who hated and planned to get rid of her. One day the wicked queen went to a wicked wizard. She told him that she wanted to get rid of Marie. So he gave her some green medicine and told her to put it in Princess Marie's bath tub, He said that when she got in the bath tub she would be turned green. 8o the wicked queen dld as the wizard told her to do. When the princess got into the bath tub her skin did not turn green, because she wore a gold ring that a good fairy had given her. A Reward. By Marfon Emmons, Aged 11 Years, 424 t Street, Omaha. Red Side. Mury and her mother were invalids, bui Mary’s brother, Frank, was very kind to them. He went out every morning and earned some money for their break- fast. But one morning he could not find anything to do and he sat down and began to cry. When he got up, he saw something shining and it made him happy. He picked it up and it was a dollar. He ran home and told his mother. Bhe sald for him to take care of it, and look In the paper the next morning to see if he could find to whors it belonged. So he did, and he found the owner. The owner gave him §I reward for bringing it back. A Cross Little Girl, By Janet B(‘hlnl!l Aged § Years, Hast- , Neb. Blue Side. Once upon - time there was a little £irl named Jane, and she was cross. One day some girls and boys came down the road and sald, “Come away, come and play." “No, T will not do 1t," she replied, so they all ran away and left her. Pretty soon she began to cry. Then a fairy appeared and asked, “What is the matter?" and then they call their children to get Bhe told the fairy and the fairy sad, N6 one 1ovea cross little girls. You must ba aweet and cheetful”” So she ran on 1o play with the girla and boys and they All played happy together One-Legged Robin, Josephine Jack, Aged 11 Years Reatrice, Neb Blue Side One spring a little robin came here and | sang very prettily: and as it was bulid [1ng 1ta nest 1t got one of its legs caught In some string in & tree. get its leg loose, but she could not ahe had to cut off its leg It hopped around all summer and when the leaves Degan to turn red she flew to the south with her friends. The next Ry "o | epring our one-legged robin came back and had her little birdies, and she and ner happy little family flew to the south As we moved that winter, we did not sen whether it came back or not, but 1 think 1t aid Rides Horseback. Reed, Awed § Yoars, Riair Neb Blue Side. I am in the third grade. 1 attend the Sutherland school. My teacher's name in Miss Nellle Grover. 1 think she is very kind. 1 am very fond of horseback rid- Ing. My sister and 1 had a pony. Our pony Was very gentle. 1 am & new Busy Ree, Wants to Join. Margaret Gillen, ,\(m! 10 Years. North Thirty-ninth Avenue, South Omaha, Blue Side This i the firet time I ever wrate. T | would like to join the Blus Side. I am in the fifth grade and I am 10 years old 1 1ive nine blocks Ny Ray By u2 [1 g0 6 school everyday. ! trom school. Begley. 1 like her very four sisters and one brother. [ana write a story next week. | Is Given a Collie. By Kthel Alberts Anderaon, Aged § Tears, Colon, Neb. Blue Side. One evening T went out for a walk with my grandpa and my little slster. We met & man with something in his arms. He asked me It I wanted it It was & dear little white puppy. T took her home and fed her some milk. We named her Flosste. She has grown to be a big dog now. Bhe is a collle and drives the cows home, well. 1 have 1 will try Scrambles for Paper. By Myrtie Nielaen, Axed 13 Yeare. N Vinton Streot, Omaha, Red Side Fvery Bunday morning when I hear the pADer boy step upon the porch T scramble out of hed to get it. T read the funny paper first and then I read the children's page. Next Sunday I am going to write & storw, My sister 18 also Jolning the Busy Bee's page. She 1s going to write a story, too. 1 have five brothers and two sisters. Reoceives Gift of Pony. 9 3 e e NI One day my papa asked me what I would like for a present, I told him a pony, 86 he bought me one. Her name is Babe. I ride her to school every day. She was broke to ride when I got her and I broke her to drive on my coaster wagon. She Is only thirty-nine Inches high. I enjoy reading the Busy Bee's page every Sunday. — Dyes Easter Eggs. By Pauline Wisdom. Aged 7 Years, m North Twenty-second Street, Omaha. Red Side. This is my first letter to the Busy Bees' page. 1 have two brothers. Bvery Easter mamma dyes eggs. Last Easter wa dyed twenty-four Easter eggs. Every Easter we have our pretty baskets with our rabbits, candy Baster eggs and little chickens. W¢ have such a good time with them, Favorite Color. By Luefe f‘lulnfl' . Nel Aged 18 Years, Te- Red Side. 1 read mo l!u-y Bee page every Sunday and like it very much. I wish to join the Red Bide, it Is my favorite color be- tween blue and red. As my letter is got- ting long I must stop. Onoe Lived in West. By Muriel Btoed, Aged ll Years, Neb. Red Bid Tam a girl 10 years old lnfl T am in the sixth grade. My papa i1s a farmer. We have some land in Cherty county, near Valentine. Wae lived out there four years, While we were there I learned to ride Blair, The Exploits of Elaine stop. We must follow the road on the chance that he had taken it. But which way? Kennedy chose the most likely direction, for the trall had been’at an angle to the road end Long Sin was not likely to double hack. We had not gone many rods before Kennedy paused a minute and looked about in the moonlight. “It's right, Walter," he cried. “Do you recognize 17" I looked about. Then it flashed over me. This was the back road that led past the entrance to the treasure vault at Aunt Tabby's. We went on now more quickly, listen~ ing carefully to catch any sounds, but heard mothing. At last Kennedy stopped, then plunged among the rocks and bus beside the road. We were at the cave. “You go in this way, Walter,” he di- rected. “I'll go around and down where it caved in" | 1 groped my way along through the | darkness. 1 had gone only a yard or two when it eecmed as though something had grasped my foot, With & great wrench I managed to pull had imbedded it deeper in something: I struggled to froe this foot and got the other foot caught. My revolver, which I had drawn, was jarred from my hand | and in the effort to recover it, I lost my | balance. Unable to move a foot in time | to catch myself, I fell forward. My hands | were now covered by the siimy, sticky | lowed the retreating Chinamen. Buf they | stuff, and the more I struggled, the worse I scemed to get entangled. { Wu and Long Sin paused only a minute | in astonishment. Then they literally fell | upon the wealth that lay before them, gloating over the gold, stuffing their | hands into the jewels, lifting them up and letting the priceless gems run through their fingers. Suddenly they paused, There was the shight tinkle of & Chinese bell Kennedy had reached Aunt leby-“ Continued from e Page Ten arden outside the roof of the subter-,more sincerely tham I 4id as, finally, 1 ranean chamber, where it had given way, had gone down carefully over the earth and rock, and in doing so had broken a string stretched across the passageway. The tinkle of & bell attached to it aroused his attention and he stopped short, second, to look about, Wu Ting had arranged a primitive alarm. Quickly, Wu and Long Sin blew out their lanterns while Wu gave the rock a push. Slowly as it had opened, it now closed and they stood there listening. I was still struggling in the bLird iime, getting myrelf more and more covered with it, when the reverberation of re- volver shots reached me. Wu d Long 8in had opened on Ken- nedy, and Kennedy was replying in kind In the cavern it sounded like & veritable bombardment. As they retreated, they came nearer and nearer to me and I could see the revolvers spitting fire in the darkness. So intent were they on Kennedy that they forgot me. T watched them fearfully as they hopped deftly from one stone to another to avold the lime—and were gone. “Cralg! Craig!” 1 managed to ery feebly. “Be careful. Keep to the stone He strained his eyes toward the ground in the darkness, at the sound of my volce. Then he struck a match and instantly took in the situation which, to me, under any other circumstances, would have been ludriero Stepping from stone to stone, he fol. had already reached the mouth of the cave and were making their way rapidly | down the road to a bend, in the opposite direction from which we had céme. There Wu's automoblle was waiting. They | leaped into it and the driver, without a | word, shot the car off into the darkness of early dawn. A moment later Kenngdy appeared, but they had made their getaway. Baffled, he turned and retraced his stepe to the | cave. 1 don't think that I ever welcomed him crawled slowly out from the bird-lime, exhausted by the effort that I had made to free myself from the sticky mess. “They got away, Walter,” he said, lighting a lantern they had dropped. "By George,” he added. I think you are a little vexed that I had not been able to intercept them, ““you are & wighi He was about to laugh, when I fainted I can remember nothing until I woke up over by the wall of the chamber Where he dragged me. Kennedy had been working hard to re- vive me, and, as I opened my eyes, he straightened up. His eye suddenly caught something on the rock beside him. There was & little slot carved in it, and above | the slot was & pecullar inscription. ! For several minutes Kennedy puszled | over it as Wu had dome. Then he die- | | | covered the little cup near the ground. ‘“The ring!” he suddenly ecried out. 1 was too muddied to appreciate at once what he meant, but I saw him reach into his fob pocket and draw forth the | trinket which had caused so much ais- | | aster, as if 1t had been cursed by lhoi [ Clutching Hand himself. He dropped it | | into the slot. [ Struggling to my feet, 1 saw across from me the very rock itselt moving. | Was it a halluetnation, born of my nerv- | ous condition? i “Look, Craig!™ | polnting | He turned.. No, it was not a vision. Tt | actually moved. Together we watched Slowly the rock turned on & pivot. There were disclosed to our astonished eyes the | | hidden millions of the Clutching Hand. | 1 looked from the gold and jewels to | Kennedy, In speechiess Amasement. 1 ‘ “We have beaten them, anyhow,” I | ertea | | Slowly Craig shook his head sadly. “No,” he murmured, “‘we have found the Clutching Hand's millions, but we | have lost Elaine. (To Be Continued.) 1 eried, involuntarily My teacher's name s Miss | | ; Stories of Nebraska History ld_._______ [ oy A lady tried to| special permission of the author The Ree will publish chapters from the History -( \nlvlnnkn by A. E. Sheldon, Lewis and Clark In the year 183 Nebraska was sold by '\1||r\|m\|\ Bonaparte, emperor of France, fto T Jefferson, president of the United States It was sold as part of | the great country between the Missise | sippt river and the Rocky mountal all of which was then called Louisiana and owned by France. The price pald was $15,000,000, which was about 3 cents an | As soon as the United States had | | bought this country, | sent Captain Meriwether Lewis and Cap- |tain William Clark with forty-five other | men to explore it. They were golng to Ko up the Missourl river as far as they could, then cross the Rocky mountains | and reach the Pacitic ocean. They were President Jefferson to make maps, bring back reports of the {1and and make friends with the tribea with which they came in tontact. It was a wild land of which white men knew very little. Indians and wild animals had their homes there. No one knew the way across the mountaing to the Pacific Lowis and Clark started from \he mouth of the Missouri May 14, 1504, They had one large boat with a sall and twenty oars, and two smaller boats with oars only. They had powder, lead, tools and trinkets to trade with the Indians. {They had two horses for their hunters to ride In order to help them carry the game which they killed for the party, nd Clark party made about a day up the Missouri river, time they used the sail and time the oars, and a great time they pulled the boats Part of the part of the part of the with long ropes which the men held while they walked along the shore. It was two months before they reached Nebraska, at the mouth of the Nemaha river, not far from the village of Rulo, in Richard- won county. Here they found Indlans, wild plums, cherries and grapes. On July 16 they were at the mouth of the Little Nemaha river, and on July % they were at the mouth of the Weeping Water in Cass county, where they killed a large yellow wolf. The next day they reached the mouth of the Platte river and camped a little way above it. They sent out runners to the village of the Otoes neay the place where the Elkhorn flows into the Platte. After resting and repalring thelr boats they went on past the site of Omaha, and on July 30 reached a high bluff near the present town of Fort Calhoun in Wash. ington county. Here they camped. The hunters brought In deer, wild turkeys and geese. Catflsh were caught in the river and the men tamed & beaver. Here on August 8 they held the first council ever held by the United States with the Nebraska Indians. Fourteen Otoe and Missouri Indlans came to the council, The principml ohlefs were Little Thief, Big Horse and White Horse. They proms ised to keep peace with the United States and® were given medals and presents of paint, powder and cloth. They gave the white men presents of watermelons. The place where the councll was held was named Council Bluff and Is now a part of the town of Fort Calhoun. A hundred years after this a large rock was placed on the schol house grounds in memory of this first council held with the Indlans west of tWe Mississippl river, On August 11 the party reached Blacks bird Hill in Thursten county, where it found the grave of the great Omaha chief who died of smallpox about four years before. On August 16 the party was at the mouth of Omaha creek In Dakota county. Here the men made a net of wil. lows and with 1t pulled out over 1,100 fish from a beaver pond In the creek. Borgeant Charles Moyd, member of the party, died on August 20 and was buried on a high bluff on the Iowa side of the river near Sioux City. This is called Floyd's Bluff to this day. It is & landmark which may be seen for many miles across the Missouri valley in Nee braska. On August 28 they camped at Calumet Bluff in Cedar county, where they held @ great ocouncll with the Sioux Indlans e —— _————— horseback. My brother and I had an Indian pony. We liked her very much. When we moved to Blair we sold her. New Busy Bee, By Eleanor O'Halloran, Aged 8 Years, 2217 Maple Street, Omaha. Blue Md.:.' 1 am going to join the Blue Side. This is my first letter. I am in the third &rade and I like my teacher very well. 1 will close now, By A. 5. ERELDONW punder a large oak tree. First the pipe of peacq was smoked. Then Ohief Shake Hand sald: “1 see before me my father's two sons. You see me and the rest of our We are very poor. We have no nor ball nor kinves and our | women and children at the village have | no clothes. I went formerly to the Eng- lish and they gave me a medal and some lothes. When 1 went to the Spanish |they gave me a medal, but nothing to | keep it from my skin; but now you give {me a medal and clothes. Still we are | poor and 1 wish, brothers, you would give us something for our squaws.” Then | White Crane and Struck-by-the-Pawnee #poke, approving what the the old chief had sald, and asked for some of the great father's milk, which was their name for whisky, Presents were given these Sloux and peace was made between them and the United States. On Heptember 4 Lewis and Clark camped just above the mouth of the Nio- brara river. Here for the first time they met the Poneca Indiane, who had long made their home in this part of Ne- braska. A little beyond, they saw great herds of buffaio and also elk, deer and villages of prairie dogs. Soon after they crossed the Nebraska line into South Dukota. Two years later, in September, 1908, lewls and Clark came back from the Pacific ocean to Nebraska. They had suffored great hardships on the journey. Many times they had nearly lost their lives from hunger and thiret, from. war- like Indians and wild ' animals, from rocks in the rivers and from pathless woods and mountains. But they had' lived through them all and carried the flag of the United States for the firet time across mountalps and plains to the great honor and “glary, for they had found a way to the Paeclfic ocean and they had written the gtory of their trav- «ls In & book which.they kept every day, telling all about the tribes of -Indians they had seen and the rivers and moun- tains and the land they had ocrossed. They made a path for white men Inta the great west, and after them came hunters, trappers, traders and emigrants until the wost was explored and settled: Captain Clark for many years lived at St. Louls and was governor of the great west which he explored. He was_ tall, very strongly bullt, with plercing gray eyea and red hair. His appearance made A deep impression on the Indlans, who had never before seen & red-headed wan, The Omaha Indlans to this day call St. Loufs the town of red-haired men. Hers the Indians came to hold coumell with him. Here he met the traders, trappers and carly emigrants, and here he died in September, 153, beloved by all who knew him. Captain Lawis lived only three years after the return of the expedition, dying in Nashville, Tenn., in 1800 The names of Lowis and Clark are fore over linked together in the history of the ‘west. chiefs, | vowder ADDED BEALT! BROS & C0. {858 SYWATCHES ON CREDIT Tue most appreciuted wedding, grad- uation or birthday gift is a fine, gen- uine Diamond ring. It is just as easy ||l to obtain a Diamond on our liberal | credit teri ms, as some trifling gift and pay cash. Loftis Perfection Diamond Ring 659.Ladles’ Ring, 14k aglid | gold, " Lofils “Pertection ing, brilliant Diamond. .. .. $1.35 & Week. 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