Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1915, Page 25

} Y [ , The Busy_ DAY BEE: Jl Bees ARL BABBITT of Plattsmouth has written to the Busy Bee !‘dHnl’l for information with regard are chosen to head the Busy Bee kingdom by votes of thelr sub Jects. Their dutles are to contribute letters and stories to the page | as often as possible and to e They reign for a period of four months, new rulers being announced tha first Bunday in January, May and September. There is no meaning to the Red or Blue side, except that children gen- erally favor these colors. side you choose. from the Blue side. candidates on the other side. Busy Bees may write to this page Out-of-town children are invited to send in their letters and stories as The editor will print pictures of all Busy Bees This is to ald you in knowing each other better. read a Busy Bee's contribution and seen his or her picture, you can get to freely as Omaha children. that are sent in. feel pretty well acquainted. 1Is it not This week first prize was awarded who lives in far-off Utah; second pri and honorable mention to Jane Dyger Lodge, Mont. b (First Prise.) Norma's Pet Lamb. ! Edda Mae Snyder, Aged 1 WM East Conter, v w Blue Side 1t was the first of May. A merry crowd of girie and boys had started for a nearby |grove, where they By Yéars, were to spend the day. ach was provided with a lunch basket, |and the boys carried ropes for swings. On the way Norma Clark, one of the purty, discovercd ) Le to die. Norma picked the lamb up and asked, “What shall we do with it?" The others sald, “Why, we can't do anything with it. Put it down and come along.’ But the kind little girl couldn't leave the lamb to die so she decided to return Ihome. There were tears in her eyes as she started back for she had planned for Ithis outing for weeks, and it was a |great disappointment to her not to go, |and the others called her silly for giving it up. Mr. Clark bound up the injured leg of the small animal and with the kind care of Norma it was soon well and became a great pet After all she got more happiness out of [the day than the others who thought only of their own pleasure (Second Prize.) Raises Garden. By Agnes F. Shonka, Aged 13 Years, | Schuyler, Neb,, R. F. D. No. 8, | Box 10." Red Side. | When spring came, I started on my | own garden. 1 made « square lot; enovgi ito put In radishes, beans, peas, lettuce and other vegetables. When it came up, it made a splendid garden. I took great | pride in it. I hoed it every time thers | 'were some weeds in it, and watered It | when it was needed. 1 also planted some flower seeds, which 1 most admire. I transplanted . them hater.. I.set out some of my house nqu‘ ers which I kept inside throughout the fwinter. I am having good luck with it right along. I suppose the rest of the IBusy Bees have had the same experien (Honorable Mention.) Enjoys Aunt’s Flowers. P vgert, Aged 12 Year: By Jane ree, Sont:” Red 81ds. This is the first time I have ever writ- ten to the Busy Bees. My grandma sends me The Omaha Sunday Bee and I enjoy it very much. I will answer all letters I receive. I am in the Seventh A grade. 1 am 12 years old. 1 live in Deer Lodge, Mont., end 1 like it very much here. Our school will be out next week. Last year I visited my aunt. 4\"hnuxh; 1t was my first visit, when I saw Ih\\‘ flowers about the house I knew I should like her. It was the lovellest day in all June. 1 was walting patiently for my| aunt, who had just gone over to & nenfh- | bor's nearby, for she had not exvected | me to arrive until the next day. I was| picturing her and I thought she would be like & major general, kind, but want- ing to keep children in and teach fhem how to sew and not let them run or play. Soon 1 heard the carriage come down the pike, My first impulse was to run lo the grape arbor and hide and then come n| mnd surprise her. But she had clready seen me. She came over and said, “My dear, 1 am very glad you came, altnodgh 1 was not expecting you today.” My aunt was not at all like a major general, but kind, gentle and swcet In every way. I like the flowerd and iove them very much—dearly as my aunt did, Every morning we would go out and| fter.d to the flowers. She promise me that I could come next year and make her another visit and I was very ylad Deer { il | Bird's Journey North. f o ow, Age Years, 1421 K s‘.‘;.li?. ?531'3..:\;\.2_‘51»3" Blue Side. 1 am the same robin that wrote of its journey south a short time ago. Now I} will tell you of my journey north. | One warm day I happened to think| Ihat it was time to fly north. There were | many birds going so I soon got a com-| panion. We flew a mile or so without having any trouble. But all at once my Tt'end sald, *'O 1did not see | anything, so T asked her what waa the| metter. But before she could answer I} felt & sudden shock and I—1 was lying on the ground unconscious. I lay there n long time. By and by some girls came and one said, “Oh! I bet John and Joe Hia this. They had out their guns. Tet| us take it home.” So they took me home nnd bandaged up my wing. By this time 1 feit better and in a short time I was Nying home. I soon reached my old| home, the north, and did not forget my | two friends. H | By ! look out! Likes to Live in Country. By Agnita Kent, Aged 10 Years, Walnut, | Ia. Blue Side, l I would like to joln your happy page| and T would like to join the Blue Side. I fead the Busy Bee Page every Sunday § am a Mttle country lass. I live elght fuiles north of Walnut. Ia. Thero is a| large woods on the west side of our| farm. About a quarter of a mile west of that there is & large river. It is a lt- llo branch »f the Botney. The Botney | runs through Harlan. I like to live in Ihe country, for in the summertime you | jan go to the woods and pick flowers, In our grove there are many diffcrent flowers. There are honevsuckle, Dutch- You have the privilége of joining whh-he\'e'l Since the boys generally choose the Red side and | girls the Blue side, the king is selected from the Red side and the queen | Members of each side have the privilege of voting for | Little Stories by Little F |wid a snatch basket.” | and waited till evening, | fled into to the kingdom. A king and queen) ncourage their friends to do likewise. the up until their fifteenth birthday. Having 80? to Eddna Mae Snyder of the Blue Side, ze to Agnes Shonka of the Red side, t of the Red slde. Jane lives in Deer — ] olk] ONE OF THE BRIGHT LITTLE BUSY BEES. ‘The first meet of the Bohemian Young | Women's Gymnastic club, *“Tyrs,” will| ibe held this afternoon at 2:15 at Mets | | hall, Thirteenth street and Poppleton |avenue. This class of young women | started in August, 1914, after the national {tournament of Tel Jed Sokols, held in | Omaha, July, 1914, from which they re. | ecived the inspiration. This organization get its name “Tyrs™ |from Dr. Miroslav Tyrs, founder of NEXt i the first Bohemlan gymnastic soclety, lalso a great author, genius philoso- | Pher, scientist and free thinker. He was |chief instructor in Prague in 1862. He Rirrs, BrGSSMW | was born In 1832 at Decin, Bohemia, and Side. 1 died August 8 1984, at Oetz, Austria. On the outskirts of a small village | HMyrtle Cain man's breeches and four kinds of \-inlelml 1 guess 1 have written enough now. time I will write a story Visit 01d Man. By Esther Neb. Blue From left to right, lower row: Lillian Vancura, Bessie Pribyl, Caroline Vanek Second row: Josephine Vanecek, Jose- phine Prchal, Anna Vanek, Mamie Ky sela, Helen Vancura,. Third row: Blanche | Vancura, Marie Vietor, Antoinette Brasda, Emily Swoboda, Marie Satorie. Top row: Agnes Satraps, Irma Vancura, Gustie Mikulasek, Mabel Vancura, Bila Crosby, Viasts Pribyl. The lecal Tyrs has about sixty mem- bers In the gymmastie club, of which twenty-six -turn regularly and the rest | are soclal members. six small girls, who will take part in this meet. It will be assisted at this meet there lived an old man. He loved chil- | dren and was always very kind to every- one. He was a negro with curly, white | grandfather. halr. “But Loraine has a kind heart.” It was the first day of May and the | gave the necklace to her as a reward. sald Loulse. did,” answered the children of the village decided to g0 | She would cook dinners for the sick, cheer over to Mr. Jomes' and have him tell | the poor, and bring flowers to the hospi- them a story. They went to the post- | tal. I wish with all my heart that you office first. Then they went to Mr. | had as kind a heart as Loraine.' Jonee', but when they got there he was | Loulse was touched. She decided to not there. They sat down on the' side- | secretly do kind things every day. walk till he returned. When her grandfather was caring for He sald: “Hello dere chil'ens. You [the poor she would be too. comed fore I was 'spectin’ you. Did you | One day she took her money and bought chil'ens know I had 'vited you down to |a basket of food for a certain poor family. my house, when I did gone and just [8he knew of thelr sick baby and she was comed from yer houses?* golng there to care for it. more I will have more than 250 words. My story will follow soon. An Automobile Rid By Agnes Randolph, Aged 11 Years, Ful- lerton, Neb. ~Blue Side. On Saturday night it rained. The next morning we started to church in the car. We did not have the chains. We came to a big hill, but we got over that all right. It rained some more before we got started home, Wo could not get home in the car. We left the car in town and rode out with one of the neigi- bors in a buggy. 1 do mot want to rile “We didn't know it, Mr. Jones, sald | After she had been there a little while Edith Newton, “‘we Just came over to |some one knocked. The mother of the seo 30 baby hurried to the door, thinking it was “Well, neva de les I's gwine keep yo' [the doctor Louise had sent for. fo' a suppa and fo' a great time dis| O Mr. Albert!" “I'm glad you came, evenin’, and den maybe yo' will all go { my baby is real sick. “I'm very sorry,” sald Loulse's grand- They had had a nice time and it was | father. “I cannot stay long, my niece getting late. “It's done gone an be 9 | I8 waiting for me at home, Loulse,” ex- o'clock and T's gwine took yo' chi'ens |clalmed her grandfather. “What are you home, al] of yo'. 1 done gone thinkin' | doing here?’ we's all had & good time today.” “I am trying hard to be some use to the P poor,” Louise answered. ! “Why I never knew you came every Saved by Pumpkins. day to care for the poor,” sald Mr. Albert. By Esther Klpgql“,bA!l‘d 12 Years, Colum- o v “Darling,” clasping her in his arms. bus, Blue Side. “You have more than earned the neck- was a family that lived in Obio |yq0, There when it was very thinly settled, named Place. Mr. Place was very kind to the Indians. Once Mr. and Mrs. Place and| A Hunter and a Quail, the younger children went on a visit and t IB)- Albert Sudman, Aged 10 Years, Sar- left the two twin girls 'to keep house. | ben, Neb. Blue Side, | The two had been busy one afternoon! Once a hunter went hunting. He saw | cutting hideous faces out of the pump-| a quafl which had young ones, but he kins they had gathered. One of lhe:dld not see the young ones, So he thought girls went to get the cows, whem she!he woula shoot the quall. { came upon three Indians polnting to| She told her bables to go to the nm[ | their house and making all kinds of mo-| Then the quail acted as if she was lame. tions. She ran home without allowing|The hunter dropped his gun and he began | herself to be seen and told her sister. | to run after her for he thought he could he frightened girls did not know what | catch her. When he was about thirty to do. Then one of the girls thought that | Yards from his gun the quall began to fly. perhaps if they would show the hideous| She flew to her bables in her nest. | faces of the Juck o'lanterns it might| The quall fooled the hunter so he ('oulfl‘ frighten the Indians away., So they| DOt find her nest. On his way home he crawled into a pit covered with brush, "% & rabbit which he shot at and miased. | At last the In-| YWhen he got home his father and mother | dians came and were looking for them |2#ked what he had. He sald he had | In the garden. The girls at once 1it the | "OthINE, but he saw a quail and a rabbit, | candles in the Jack o'lanterns. The In-| Our Pet Squirrels. dians waited for only one glance and| the woods, thinking they had | ot M By Marjorle Dickson, Aged 10 Years, seen devils | O'Nelll, Neb. Blue Side. Soon after the girls’ parents returned,: wre neq two pet squirrels. They would | run up the trees. We would throw feed and they told them of thelr adventure | with the Indlans. The Indians never ab-out on the grass and they would sat it in a car agaln when it is muddy. Escape from Tramp. By Allene Averill, Aged 9 Years, 914 West Adalr Street, Creston, la. Red Side. One day I saw some friends of mine passing our house and 1 asked them where they were going. They sald they were going out by the creek to pick flowers. “Walt a minute and 1 will go, too, it mamma will let me,” T sald Mother gave her consent and so I went with them. When we got there we found lots of lilies, violets, for-get-me-nots and wild roses. We got as many as we could carry and started for home. And what do you think happened? A mean old tramp jumped out of some bushes and chased us. and ran. He caught me and my but I was scared. He pinched my arm when I yelled and it hurt. The other girls It also has twenty- | We all dropped our flowers | Group of Bohemian Girl Athletes by the turning girls and turners from South Omaha, the turning girls and turners of Omaha and the Tyrs turners. The program for the afternoon will be: Medloy of Bohemian airs, Prachensky's orchestra. Grand murch of all participants. Address by president of ‘Tyrs soclety, Mrs. R. A Libal. Address by Mayor James . Dahlman. Bar bell drill, Tyrs young wom~n. Drill, Omaha’ small girls. March, South Omaha young women. Wooden ring drill, Tyrs small girls. Wand drill, Omaha voung women, Tableaus and drill, Tyrs turners, Drill “und " dance, “South Omaha’ small | eirls. Flag drill dumbbell, |, Apparatus, | Tyrs turner: Tyrs small boys. 'yra young women, South Omaha, Omaha and tried to push him down. They did and then we all ran. We got home all right, but I certainly was frightened. So were the other girls. A Birthday Party. Leona Rohwer, Aged Omaha. Blue Side, On my twelfth birthday T had a birth- |day party. I Invited twelve of my best schoolmates. They all came at 2 o'clock, By 12 Years, First we played all kinds of gnmes. At 4 o'clock mamma called us in for lunch, which was potato salad, chicken, fice cream and cake. went home and they had a very nice time Wants to Join, Lilllan Pokorny, Aged 10 Years, Clarkson, Neb, Red Side. When T read all the stories written by the Iittle folk, T get quite interested. I thought T would write a little story, too. I think I will write a story next time. 1 have a little sister, Helen, I live about two blocks from town. I #o to the public school. My teacher's name is Miss Dertha Bukacek. She 18 very gond to me. I em in the sixth grade. 1 will join the Red Side as red is my favorite color. My sister likes blue the best. She said she likes blue because it means loyalty My father is & business man in farm machinery. My birthday comes Septem- | ber 14 Our schoo! closed May 21 At 6 o'clock they all id that they had ny Stories of Nebraska History ———————"—"—"— By A.E (By_special permission of the author, The Bee will publish chapters from the History of Nebraska, by A. E. Sheldon, trom week to week. Major Long's Expedition In 1819 the United States government sent an expedition under Major Stephen H. Long to explore the Platte river and the mountain region beyond. This ex- pedition s famous because it brought the ‘first steamboat to the Nebruska shores and placed the great American Desert on the map. The steamboat was named the Western Pngincer, and left Pittsburgh, Pa., May 5, 1819, for the long journey down the Ohfo, then up the Mississipp! to St. Louts, and thence up proached the Place family house agaln. | One morning there was four squirrels,|th® Missouri river to the old Council Sp— two big ones and two little ones. There | PIU(( of Lewis and Clark. The Western Aids the Needy. were some bluejays and they had a nest | ENSineer was well caloulated to strike By Genevieve Harris, Aged 10 Years, 428 UP In the trees. They used to fight with | ter7or Into the hearts of the western In- SBeward Street, Omaha, Neb, the little squirrels. One day the cat 31808 who had never seen a steamboat. Blue’ Side killed one and since that they would mot | The bow of the boat rome in the form Louise's grandfather was very rich eat on the ground any more. So we | nailed a box up on the tree and put in | food for them. T am & new Busy Bee | and I would Mke to join the Blue Bide. | His special work and the kind he liked best was caring for the poor. Louise's mother and father were both | dead and she lived with her grandfather. | “May I have,” Louise continued. *A necklace like the one you gave to Omaha Bee Good Paper. Loraine?™ “Do you never think of the|By Irene Lorkosky, Aged 11 Years, Sar- poor Louise” “Some may be starving, | gent, Neb. Hed Mder that necklace could buy clothes or medi-| I woald live to be & Busy Bee very eine for sick, or food.” “Poor! They're | much, 1 like red, and I think I will be none of my business and I don't care|on the Red side. My papa is the editor whether they starve or not” *1 konow | of the Sargent Leader We get the the poor are none of your business, but | Omaha Daily Bee every day and I am they should be,” sald her grand l(htr;ulun)- over there to read It. 1 think ll: sternly. |is & good paper'and I would tell every- | “But you gave a necklace to lnr.lnr“'i(fiv to take that paper. If T write any | of a huge, black, scaly serpent with open mouth. from which poured smoke and steam when the boat was under way The lodians who saw the boat sald, “White man, bad man, keep Great Spirit chained, build fire under him to make him paddle the boat.” This serpent steamboat arrived at Fort Lisa, ten miles above the present site of Omaha, on September 17. The party under Major Long at once began to pre- pare cabins for winter quarters. The #pot they chose, with plenty of wood and stone near at hand for bullding and for fuel, may st!ll be found between the bigh bluff and the Missouri river There were twenty people in Major | Long's party, some of them engineers, |#ome scientists in botany and geology, and one artist. The fall and winter were wpent in the study of animals, plants and rocks, in holding councils with the Indlans, hearing thelr language and ou toms, and In keeping record of the weather. There were Indians, and speechos made. dred Oto loways | many meetings with many very interesting On October 4 one hun seventy Missourias and sixty ¢ 4 dance. On October 9 On Oct Omahas assembled ga seventy Puwnees did the same, ber 14 four hundred and a great speech was made by their | ehlef, Big Klk, who said, among other things “Here I am, my Father; all thess young people you see around hers are yours; although they are poor and lttle, yet they ure your children. Al my na- tion loves the whites and always have loved them. Some think, my Father, that you have brought all these soldiers here to take our land from us, but I do not belleve it. For although I am a poor simple ludian, | know that this land will not suit you farmers, If I even thought your hearts bad enough to take this land, I would not fear it, as I know there is not wood enough on it for the uso of the whites." White Cow, another Omaha chief, said: “Look st me, my Father, look at my bhands. I am a wild man born on the pruirfe. Look at me and see if there Is |any blood of your people upon me. Some whose hands are red with bliod, try to wash it off, but it still remains."” the | e — — 17 the councll with the Pawnees, [tle band. Major Long Secured as guides #pecches were made by Long Hair, Knife [two French trappers who were lving Chief, FookRobes-Son, Petalesharw. This with the Pawnees, and pushed on last one was father of the famous chlef | june 21 the fLdng expedition arrived © samo name. He spoke thus Father, 1 am not afrald of these people, theso 'awnees you soe here. 1 have seen | at the junction of the North Platte and South Platte. Crossing both streams the party continued for several days up the peaple travel in blood, I have traveled | .outh bank of the South Platte, making In blood myself, but it was the blood of |11y jast stop on what is now Nebraska ;—:;‘[;‘llnn. dn': u'h'rrs Father 1 have no |, june %, near the corner of Deuel and ra Ire for war, I desire to eat | ;aitn connties. The expedition marched In peace. [ am glad to sce you write |, where the South Platte tssued from dow ) » Sewn ‘:n ‘n(uu has been said. When & (10 canyon in the Rocky mountains, then nan dies his actions are forgotten: but |iyined south and returned to the: Miv- when they are written down It I not |, ippi valley by way of the Arkansas. "o When 1 have seen u person poor and | 1, were two principal results from | T undergo a chang T am now an Amer- oSy L M yogroe d“‘l(‘flml"" o foan and you shall hear that this fn | oot end Indisn itfe as they existed et * | among the Omahas, Otoes and Pawnees | & hundred years ago. This sories of | On June " Major Long with twen- | storfes of Indian life covers several hun- ty-one men mounted on horses left the | dred pages of his report. They were ob- winter quarters and the banks of the | tained through Indian traders and inter- Missouri for the head of the Platte river. [ proters who had spent their lives with | They followal the Indian trall across | these trihes, and are today one of the the prairie to Papilion ereck, where they | hest sources of Information upon them. made their firet camy Keeping on the The other result of Major Long's ex- north aide of the Flatte, the party erossed peditfon was that the Elkhorn river, Shell ereck and Beaver |of the Missour) oreek, arriving on June 11 at the Pawnes villagos on the Loup. all the country west river got a bad name, which stuck to it for fifty years. Upon the map prepared for Major Long ap- | pears the words “Great Desert,” stretoh- fng from the Platte valley to the Red river In ‘Texas. In Ms report upon the |country, Major Long said: “It s al- most wholly unfit for cultivation and of The villages strotched along the Loup |for a distance of ten miles and held | about 6,000 Pawnees. Fight thousand In {dian ponfes fed on the grass of the Loup valley about the villages. 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