Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1915, Page 21

Y \ ‘D THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 18, 1915 The Busy Bees UMMER sports have not teen so popular as yet this year on account | ONE of the unusually cool weather and such coplous rainfall, but the Busy Bees are having a good time at that, Many have sccompanied their parents to lake, mountain and seashore, and as many more have gone to visit on farms and in the country, but those wiio remain in What with two circuses in one other one this month, they are not complaining. the city.are having a good time, also. scant week and the prospect of an- Bvery hour of the day finds the children’s room at the public library filled with children browsing over their story books. books. The story hour, alwi has been discontinued, however, during The public library substations at Kellom schools are being opened once a week this summer for distributing | ‘The attendant from the library also reads aloud to the children, so | ye attractive to the little ones, the summer. the Train, Monmouth Park and that they find solace for the discontinued story hour. This week the prize is awarded to Henrietta Lentz of the Blue Side. Elizabeth Blankenbeckler of the Red Side and Mildred Dunham of the Blue Side win honorable mention. — Little Stories by Little Folk | (First Prize). Life of a Fisherman. | By Henrietta Lents, Aged 12 Years,| K F. D. 1, Gothenburg, Neb. Blue Side. 1 | How many of the Busy Bees bave aver thought of the life of a fisherman? | When the sea Is calm and the fish | plentiful, his life is easy, but when the | cold storms come and the little fishing | smack is half covered with ice and sleet | the fisherman has a hard life. | He must live upon the coarsest food— | no table neatly spread with linen, dainty | dishes and cut glass, but a tin cup, a| tin plate and very few or mo luxuries | at all. When the winter is severs he often | spends his time carving buttons and many | ornaments from the shells he gathers up | on the shore and so helps out a scanty income. ‘ Sometimes while he may be quite a distance out on the water, severe storms come up and the small smack perishes and all other fishermen drown that are cn board. “There might be more than one fish that some of the Busy Bees have eaten whilo the fisherman was in great danger pull- ing the nets during a heavy storm. I wish that every Busy Bee would| think of the fisherman when he eals fish. | This is the first time 1 have tten | to this happy page and 1 wish to join | the Blue Side. I expect to enter the ninth grade next fall. (Honorable Mention). The Mysterious Box. By Mildred Dunham, % Boulevard. ' Biue Side. All was in a hubbub, everybody was rushing, for today was the Fourth of July. Belle Town and her little brother, | Jack, were out in the yard shooting off firecrackers, Diana, the oook, was in the kitchen and now and then turned to the oven to look at—what do you think she looked at—a large apple-sauce cake. Suddenly an expressman came up the walk carrying & large box, which he put on the porch. Then up cume Jack and Belie's playmates and began looking at it. I wonder what is i it “Let us seo inside,” and “Open it up,” were some of the exciled remarks of the children. Finally Mr, Towne came and took it in, so that the children were disappointed. Jack and Belle went running in and said, “Oh, mother, let us sce what is In it.” Bhe just smiled and said she would see. o Belle and Jack sat down and thought and thought until Belle said, “Well, I am sure 1 can't guess it." “Nor 1" said Jack, and they didn't think anything more about it. Soon it became evening and Mr. Towne cald, “Now for the box." So they gath- ered around and saw, much to their happy surprise, pinwheels, skyrockets. firecrackers, everything children could want. After a merry evening, they went to bed, as happy children as one could | find, Hanscom (Honorable Mention.) Origin of Fourth of July. Flizabeth Blankenbecker, Tekamah, Neb,, Aged 12 Years. Red Bide. On a hot summer day the Fourth of July there was & meeting held in the town hall of Philadelphia, Pa. Gathered at that meeting were many great men, among them George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The meeting of these men was called to deélde whether the colonists should be free of Bngland. Around the meeting house were gath- ered men and women of the colonies of North America, waiting for the answer to this great question. Presently {here was a great shout, for they heard these great men say that “‘we shall be free and independent of Great Britain.” Near the meeting house stood a little boy waiting for the answer to this ques- tion. He gave a shout and ran to the door of the echurch, where sat an old man walting for the news with his hand on & bell. The little boy ran to him and said: “Ring, grandfather, ring,’ and soon the great bell, since called Liberty bell, was sounding glad news over the land. Since then we have celebratedl that day every year for 139 years. Foolish Jocko. By Lallilan Pokormny, Aged 10 Years, Clarkson, Neb. Red Side. Jocko was a bright monkey. It was given to George and May. Tt could do| many tric George and May were very fond of it. It could chatter in the most curions ways. It would climb the fences and go into the neighbors’ gardens. Hest of all, It liked to get ‘nto the chk‘kzu-l yard and pull the hens' feathers. 1] fron ball George's father bought an and tled it to jocko's leg by Jocke did not like the fron ball. When | it tried to climb the fence the ball would | pull it down. The chickens in ihe| chicken-yard had peace. In the yard was an old well that was not used. The children always uncov- ered the well and threw stones into the water. They liked to hear the splash Jocko liked to watch them at their piay and lked to try it itself. One day the well was left umcovered. Jocko wanted to throw the ball in the well. It eame close and leaned over. Then It rolled the ball close to the edge of the well. It gave a push. A great splash was heard and this was the sad end of Jocko. Pet Rabbit. By Susie Pinson, Aged 13 Years, R F. D. 2, Platt i Center, Neb. Biue Side. 1 will tell you about my rabbits. They are both, jackrabbits. Their names are Jack and Jill. They were small when we firet got them. We bullt a pen for them. We got Jack a while before we got Jill. RULES FOR YOUNG WRITERS 1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pen- 3. Short and pointed arti- cles will be given preference. Do not use over 260 words. 4. Original storfes or let- ters only will be used. 6. Write your name, age and address at the top of the first page. A prize consisting of a book will be given to the writer of the best contribution printed each week. Address all communications to CHILDREN'S DEPART- MENT, Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb. Jack has only three legs because he got in the trap. Jill had one leg broken because our horse, Pete, stepped on his front foot and broke it. When we would call them they would come (o the edge of the cage and jump around to see who called them. We feed them dandelions, iettuce, corn and cabbage sometimes. This spring Jill died, but we still have Jack., 1 lke to feed and water them. This is all for this time. I will write | again. Mother’s Surprise. Inez Roberts, #0L Charles St., Years Old, Blue Side. “Oh, father,” cried Ruth and Bob all in one breath, “let's have some sort of a surprise for mother on the Fourth of because you know it is her birth- By 12 “All right, children, but what shall it be?" The children and father tried and tried to thing up something nice for mother. Father soon thought of a lovely plan and after he told the children they said: “It's just the thing.' The surprise was going to be in the Iibrary. There was so much hammering and going to and fro with smiles on thelr faces that mother soon became very curfous to know what was going on in the library, mother forgetting the Fourth of July would be her birthday. “Father, what shall we give her for & birthday present?’ asked Ruth. “Well, now, how about giving her that sot of books she has been wanting?" “That's just the thing," said Bob. On the Fourth of July mother was in- vited into the library. Just as she got to the libfary door her friends Inside shouted “surprise.” Mother was led to a beautiful big chair decorated in the Fourth of July colors. Across the front was printed “Mother." After they were all seated a play was given by a lot of little boys amd girls. Then came the refreshments, served by little girls dressed up to represent fire crackers. After it was all over the mother called Bob and Ruth and the dear father to- gether and told them what & lovely time she had had and sald she would always remember it as “mother's surprise.” Two Pet Kittens. By Lyda Swanson, Aged 10 yea enburg, Neb. Blue Sid One day mamma went out in the barn to get a basket of cobs. There were two boards standing up against wall and a little tall was sticking out behind them. Mamma gotescared, so sho threw a cob at it. Behind the boards were two little bright-eyed kittens play- ing. They were about two weeks old. When mamma came in she told me. 1 was so happy 1 didn't know what to do. So 1 went out to the barn to see them. I looked behind the boards ani there were two kittens. I stayed out there and watched them a while. I Goth- OF THE BRI BUSY BEES. | Charlotte Abrahams had two covered wagons and A top | buggy. They had over twenty horses. The night that they were there It rained and they @id not get started the next day till noon. When they were about two miles away my brother, my sister and I went to see what they had et there. They were headed for Omaha. The baby could just walk. Well, T guess ! my story is long enough for the firat time. I wish to join the Red Side be- | cause red is my favorite color. Honest and Dishonest. By Edda Carneer, %10 Valley St., Omaha, Neb. Rlue 8ide. There was dlce two little girls. Thelr mother was going on a trip for two days. She sald: “The one who had the most dandelions dug could have $5." | The girls names were Myrtle and Beu- lah. When the mother came home she saw that Myrtle had the most dug. She told them to empty them on the ground. She was ashamed to ses that Myrtle had the bottom filled with dirt. Beulah won the 3. She was going down town to buy some clothes when she saw a lttle girl ory- Ing. She asked her what was the mat- ter. She replied: “My mother is sick and | (By special permission of the author, The Beo wlll} guhl!lh chapters from the History of Nebraska, by A. E. Sheldon, | trom week to week.) | First Nebraska Missionaries After the explorer and the fur trader the missionary came to Nebraska. Rev, Moses Merrill and his wife, Eliza Wil- cox, were the first to come. They were | sent out in 183 to the Otoe Indians by the Baptist Missionary union. At that time the Otoe tribe lived along the Platte las far west as the mouth of the Elk- horn. Their largest village was in Baun- ders county, about ten miles north of the place where Ashland now is. They hunted south and west along Salt creel, Weeping Water and the Nemaha. Mr. Merrill and his wife drove an ox team from Missourl 1o Bellevue. Here was an Indlan trading post, whers the Otoe, Omaha and Pawnee Indians came to trade furs and skins for white man's go0ds. At first very few Indians attended the missionary meetings, and those who came begged for corn, potatves and whisky. Mr. Merrill began to study the Otoe lan- guage in order that he might talk to the Indians without an interpreter and translate the Bible and hymns into their tongue, In this way he spent the first winter. The next spring Mr. Merrill rode on horseback, fording two rivers, to the Otoe village on the south bank of the Platte, near Ashland. He was received by Itan, the great chief of the Otoes, in one of his lodges, which was made by setting large trunks of trees in the ground, laying poles on them and cover- ing the whole with grass and dirt. This lodge of ltun was circular in form and measured 120 feet in ciroumference. itan gave Mr. Merrill a feast of boiled buffalo meat served In a wooden bowl. It was to be eaten with the fingers, the guest eating first. All the rest waited until he had finished. Itan was a great chief. He had five wives and four houses for them to live in. The town of Yutan in Saunders county is named for him. It is only three miles from where his lodge stood. On Sund the next day, Mr. Merrill a chain, | | went to the barn every day anl watohod Un them. 1 would take thema out of the ::nmv;::d:::“:;:‘.fi: Muh,‘::; barn and play with them and would|y, {ne Indians part of his translation of have the most fun. They had thelr|in, Bible. He showed the children some home in an old dish pan with a carpet|pictures and began to teach them how in it. One night papa took the carpet|i, sing the le. The children were away. Then the kittens got in a Dbig|deeply interested and tried hard to sound basket. They were all gray and the|the notes as the white man did. At the dearest little kittens I have ever had. lend of a week two of the children could 1 weuld take them out of the basket|sing the scale correctly and knew twenty- and take them over to the swing. There |two letters of the aelphabet. was a carpet under my swing and It| GOne day Mr. Merrill learned that fifty waa double, so I put them In between |Otoes had gone to the white trading post the carpet, They liked that very well, |with fifty beaver skins, worth $00, to but I took them out so much that the |trade for whisky. Chief Itan spoke in niother cht didn't ltke it. strong words to the missionary against the curse of the white man's strong Consbivel X water, On the very next day he and - up:n?no::?.:hx:: o |4ROthEr ohief were drunk end talked 'No» & Blue Bide. J 0% | very loud aguinst whisky, saying that it Once upon & time there lived a poor|Was bad, the Indians did not make it. newsboy and a reh girl The boy's|the White man was to blame. Mr. Merrill name was Jack and the gifl's ncme was|K®Pt on trying to teach them better, Mars reading verses from the Bible and pray- Every day Jack was seen going to the|!N# for them. Dime Savings bank and the girl was| One Indian was sick and the Otoe medi- seen going to the candy and ice cream|cine men came to cure him. The sick store. man was stretched out naked in his At last Christmas came and the rvb |lodge. The medicine men beat their girl had nothing to buy for Christmas|drums, shook their rattles and danced presents, but Jack did. Mary learnel|around him, each stopping to take & oy e mouthful of water from time to time and to spurt it on the eick man's bead. Tt is to be hoped that he survived this treatment. Then the Otoes went away for their sumumer hunt, When they came back in the fall they brought skine and began to trade them for whisky., Mr. Merrill wrote {from & trading post where whisky was sold as ollows: “This 18 not the house of God, mor the gate of heaven. Y ) ampers Near Home. By Irene Dollage. 9 Years, 'Walnut, Ia Red Bide, Once there were some campers that camped near our house. There were two men, two women and a baby girl. That evening a woman and the baby came up and got a dime's worth of milk. They (—;H:r m’m‘;’* ;A\'fi nothing (-Twu b LJ L L LJ - - - - - - . L) L] = : — - — . —— So Buelah gave|the hole, 80 1 put some sticks in the | After receiving the thin | o e ho o om Y v recelvi he things | wanted the |at home and her wish rhall come true her the 5. It always pays to be honest|can and it seemed (o be very thankful for | man gave me two nickels in change. 1, sald Helcn. and careful, but never dishoneet L] my help. ‘Llllnvd AL one of them. There, could 1 Oh, yos sajd Catherine, I believe hope to see my letter In print and still When it had enough sticks in its nest |belleve my eyes, was my long-lost | that is the only wish [ ever wanted to more to win a prize it began to put hair in it, so | put some | nickel. Well, 1 didn't care about spend-|come (rue very badly . horse ha p by its box and the bird Ing it after that, so | put it into a| When they were safc at home once Wins Egg Race. took It and lined the nest with it box with some Canadian pennies, But 1| more, they went to bed, but could not By Mildred Kmochson. Aged 10 Years It has the nest all lined and the ! certainly think the nickel had some ad-!#'eep very much, for they (hought of the Schuyler, Neb. Biwe. fide mother wren is setting now. | will' write | ventures. Don't you? eadul things that might have bap- We colebrated the Fourth of July in|l0ter and toll you how the cggs hatch | pened to them. Schuyler. We got to town about 1| AIS0, erch morning | put food near by Characters in Story. Rt yelock on & post so the bird gladdens the day | Y Riddle « i R ot [By Earl Babbitt, Plattsmouth, Neb., R .. About 4 o'clock I ran moross my uncle, | V¥ It8 merry notes F. D. No. 2 Red Side. | By Vera Bradiey, 1010 Center Strest, | cousin and aunt. My uncle bought my . Before sending any stories I wish to| Omaha. Blue Side. aln andt & Warn Enjoys Page. introduce some chara‘ters that will be !fere are a few riddles I know and I There was & race called the egg race. |y Helen Zepin, Aged 11 Years, Weat U MV storles —They are ¥ould ke to eee them t print: My uncle sald cousin and 1 should Point, Neb. Riue Side John Upstart, aged 10, very quiet and “* ""':": r'-:‘ gland .""" "er‘l""'l- Rty S . Met together in a shower of rai be In the race. *o we went They lald 1 enjuy reading the page every SBunday N‘;:'":\" " . [Put in a bag tied ‘round with a ring. five oggs In each of two rows. Soon, and decided 1 would join red Standstill, aged 12, very impetu-'If you tell me this riddle, I'll give you | another girl came, who was golng to| ! £0 to public school and am in e ) SO | oSy be In it. 80 thoy laid down another row 8Ixth A at school. I would like to join! George Blackatone, aged 15, hard willed Answer—A plum pudding. of oggs. There was & box & little way | the Biue as it 18 my favorite color. | bad tetper | XA adte, & riddle, a6 T suppose. i 11 wal and writo a story mnext| Lioyd Willlams, aged & quick to think, | hundred eyce, And never & nose. "\‘ # time. 1 hope to sce my letter in print with good character. . Answer—A cinder sifter. We had to take one egg at a time and CaMl Underal, aged 1A has large nose < Higgledy, plggiedy, here we lie, put 1t back In the box. 1 got first prize, I ik 16 seeint xeis. Ke nose| Ploked and plucked and put in & ple.” which was 82, and my cousin got sec- Adventures of Nickle. o e ol bk e i Answer—Currants. Sl Pelin, WHIGK WRAIL We went kway | 55 Galkieiine DAGRNIRY: ‘ARe 10 Tune] FTSTR KOOK, (oURH and ook Hghioe, | tAs. mele Sl Wk, §u"whive & M, " ze, By Catherine | Art Top, aged 10, rough and irregular, | As bitter as gall. a thick wall very happy. Afterward we had two Blue Side | Robert Turnip, aged 18, friend of Max AN & green coat covers me all” merry-go-round rides. We got home| One duy as 1 was walking to school | ooy | Answer—A walnut about 8 o'clock, 1 went to bed very|qo lady stopped me and asked: “WHl jarola Runaback, aged §, always lack-| “Then can a fisherman be generous?” tired that night, | you please go to the store for me? Iljng but ever true Answer—When he is not sel-fish. - | wasn't in & hurry 8o I went to the 8tore.| Glenn Forward, aged 15, very hot-| ~EPell dried grass with three letters.” Her First Letter. When | returned she handed me & bright | headed Answer—Hay By Bmma Pinson, Afed § Years, R, F.|now nickel. Of course I didn't want to| Max Otwell, aged 13, “slang leader. “Spell frozen water with three letters." D.2, Platte Center, Neb. Blue Side. | take it, but she insisted, so 1 took It/ Mary Little, azed 12, shy and quite ,:"':”“'"fi . y o o appy | v chool. Arriving at the | sensitive. ‘A red, a yellow and a delicate This 1s my first letter to this happy | and walked to scho ' i gl [ The king can touch it no more > Y |page. T enjoy the letters and storfes. 1]school house I found 1 was in need tunic lackstone, aged 13, hearty, | qieen; live on & farm, threo miles from the|of paper and I looked In my purse for|cheerfu ahd robust: and | The s B e a M touch it as ' X 2 on. eity. I have two sisters, but no broth the nickel. But alack, and al the _;hu: Black, aged 24 Come e} me this riddle tomorew by We have chickens, geese, pigs, horses, | nickel was nowhere to be seen. lLook-| Thelr nicknames in the order above given noon. cows, plgeons and cats. I will write A |ing closer 1 observed a small hole e Upy Uper,” “Stopy, Stoney,” | Answer—Rainbow. story soon. Goodbye. | through which the nickel had slipped ='Willle No “Stuble,” “Topy," | "A house full. & yard full, Nipy,' finice, Red Top" and “Oty. And not even a bowl full.” | quarter. | smoke house so the 11d would be in front Celebrates Fourth. Leona Walter, Wahoo, Neb. Blue Side, 1 am going to tell vou how 1 spent the ‘Fourth. 1 did not go any place, but stayed at home. 1 had just as much fun at home as I would if I had gone away. Monday afternoon we went to Colon and got some skyrockets, for they d4id not sell them in Wahoo. Mon- day night we shot them. That was the first Fourth I stayed at home. Furnishes Nest. By Helen G. MeCormick, Aged 12 Years, Silver Creek, Neb. Blue Side 1 am going to tell you how | 1ittle wren a happy home. | First ‘I took a coffee can and cut a hole in the 1d of it, just the alze of a Then 1 nalled it up on the In a few days I noticed a wren sing- ing around the smoke house and I saw it taking some sticks in the can. It would get the sticks crosswise of Stories of Nebraska History rather the house of satan and the gate of hell, Two kegs of whisky were car- rled from the house this morning by Indlans. They will trade their horses, their guns, und even their blankets for this polsonous drink. It was against the law then, as now, to sell liguor to Indians, but Nebreska was far out on the frontier and the white traders could make greater profit by selling whisky than in any other way. In September, 1836, Mr. Merrill moved Platte river, about elght miles west of Bellevue. Here the government bullt a log cabin and a schoolhouse, which en- abled him to carry on his mission work away from the evils of the trading post. It was a beautiful site, with an open prairie sloping to the Platte, with rich meadow for stock and gardening, and a large body of Umber close by. Half of the Otoe tribe moved there and made thejr village at the mission. The Otoes were very poor these years and became poorer. They hunted deer, eld and buffalo in the summer of 1636 and brought home very little meat. Their appetite for whisky was greater than be- fore, and the more bad luck they had the more whisky they wanted. Many were sick with fever this summer and Mr. Morrill gave them food and medicine, cared for them and tried hard to have them give up liquor and look after their croLs and familles. He urged them to keep away from the places where whisky was sold, and this stirred up the traders against him, as the whisky trade was thelr best busine For a single tin cup full of whisky the trader would often get $10 worth of furs. When the people became sick and began to die the traders told them that God was angry with the Otoes for having the missionaries among them. Two pupils in Mr. Merrill's school died in the fall and the traders sald they were killed for learning to read. As the whisky habit grew in the tribe the men became mis- erable and quarrelsome. The United States had sent a farmer and a black- emith to teach the Indians how to farmn and to make tools for them. These men and their families lived near the mission. Drunken Otoes shot at the farmer, and both he and the blacksmith moved their families back to Bellevue, leaving Mr. and Mrs. Merrill alone among the In- dians at the village. Two of Itan's wives ran away with two Otoe young men. Itan was in & very great rage and said that he would kill the young men when they came back, News was brought that these braves were in the village and Itan took his &un’/and pistol to kill them. When he passed tho mission house Mr. and Mrs. Merrill went out and begged him not to begin a bloody fight. He was wild for revenge and went on. The two young men came out to meet Chief Itan singing thelr war song. The chief fired his mus- ket at one of the young men and missed him. Then one of the chief's friends fired at the same young man and he fell. He rose, however, and shot the chief through the body. A brother of this young man then shot Itan & second time. One of Itan's friends shot the brother. A third young man shot Itan again and Was at once shot himaself. T three young men and Chief Itan dled that even- ing. Two of them were Mr. Merrill's pupils. This happened on April 25, 1887, The whole Otoe itribe was torn into fac- tions by this tragedy. Some wanted to kill the friends of the young men, others to avenge their death. The bloody feud over the fight lasted for many years. After Itan's death Melhunca, the second chief of the tribe, came to take breakfast with Mr. Merrill. He wanted presents and sald that the traders told him it w bad for the teacher to live near him and never give the Indians presents or fine clotind and sugar and coffee, as the traders did. ir. and Mrs, Merrill tried It is {to show him that they were poor and . his family to the (toe Mission on the | out S0 1 went that day without paper. | Tn the meantime let us see what was| | happening to the nickel 1t lay In the| | grass for some time before a tramp spled It and cried “HI, ho, it's a nickel. Who ever sald Friday was an unlucky duy must be crasy.” Well, it wasn't very| pleasant being in a greasy pocket and ['bellove me the nickel didn't like &. The | tramp sauntered into a clgar store and | bought & clgar. He did not pay for it at once, but the owner didn't object, | thinking he could make more money out of the tramp. The tramp finished the cigar and looked for ‘the nickel. Poor tramp. His dirty face became Dll.: I made a|and he tried to explain, but the OWNer| ghe asked her mother if she might. He | wouldn't listen and the tramp was pulled | [to the police station, and all this on/ account of a poor little nickel which lay, on the sidewalk. A boy eame and found ;n and bought marbles for it. The next| | day 1 was sitting dreaming over & book | of Longfellow's poems when I heard mother calling me. She wanted me to g0 to the store and gave me & quarter, « By A. E. Sheldon bed no means of making great profits, | as the traders bad selling whisky. They urged him to keep away from liquor. He soon became angry and sald he was golng at once to the trading post to trade horses for whisky. On the next day the school children, who were given bread for lunch every day, began to complain loudly and said that they would not read any more unle: they were given & full dinner every day. In August, 185, a band of fifty loway Indlans came over from the Woeping Water to trade with the Otoes. They brought fifteen kegs of whisky. Mr. Mer- rill held a great temparance meeting that day. The next day the whole Otoe vil- lage was drinking whisky. One Otoe had his ears out off and another was stabbed and died. The loways left, taking with them six Otoe ponies, pald for in whisky, ip 1838 Mr. Merrill went with the Otoes on their buffalo hunt. By this time he had learned to speak their language and had translated portions of the Bible and several hymns into Otoe. The Otoe hymns hed been printed in a book with, the name: Wdtwhtl Wdwdklha Eva Wdhonefl | and was the first Nebraska book ever made, In spite of all Mr. Merrill could do the Otoe men cared more for whisky and | for good things every year. They no- longer . loved their old-time games and exercises. They longed for the white man's flre-water and the visions that danced before their brains when they drank it more than for all the gospel messages and Christian hymns brought by the missionary. All they could get was spent for liquor and food was begged from the mission. The young men be- came impudent and pretended to be Bloux in order to frighten the missionary family. It was six years since Mr. Merrill and his wife came to give their lives in teaching and saving one tribe of Ne- braska Indiens. A baby boy, Samuel Pearce, had been born to them in 183, He became a Baptist minister and is today the second oldest white person born In Nebraska, the oldest being Major Willlam Clark Kennerly of St. Louls, Mo, who was born at Fort Atkinson, ovember 2, 18, Mr. Merrill lives at Squirrel island, Maine. They had built a large log mission house with a great stone chimney, which could be seen for many miles. In this they held school on week days for the Otoe children and here they held their SBunday servioe. A new and deadly enemy to the mi: wslon appeared. Mr. Merrill became the vietim of consumption. Exposure, over- The girls have no nicknames. Catherine's Wish. By Mary J. Doll, Aged 12 Years, Walnut, Ia. Red Side. Catherine was a little girl who was always wanting to do somethingk. She most always had her way as she was the only child One day Catherine was thinking about the good times o could have If she lived in the country. She knew that they could not move, for her father could not farm. Then she thought that she could go camping with her father and mother. mother sald, “You cannot go just now, &8s 1 am not very well and your father Is busy Just now and could not get away, Perhaps we can go after I am well, If you father can get away then.' “1 don’t wee why [ can't go alone I was just thinking that [ could have lots of good times if we llved in the coun- try," sald Catherine. Why, Catherine,” “would you want dark, thick woods, be wild beasts?" “Oh, 1 could sleep near some house and It I was in trouble the people could help me out,” said Catherin tier mother was greatly surprised at this answer, for Catherine was very much afrald in the dark. Howev she thought she would let her go and get one of her little friends to go with her. That night Mrs. Woods told Mr. Woods about Cath- erine’s wish and he sald, “That will be a good plan, Maybe that will teach her @ good lesson and then she will not be s0 foollsh. Mr. Woods took Catherine and her friend out to a nice camping place about three and one-half miles out of town. He set up the tent and got things ready. He knew that they would scon be tired of it 80 he went to a place a little ways off, set up a small tent for him- welf and put on a mask so they would not know him. That night he came up to their tent and wanted to give them & scare. He sald, “I want some money and some- thing to eat.” They were very much afrald end gave him some food and all of the money they had After he got his food eaten he pocketed the money and went to listen to what the girls would say. Catherine sald, “I am awful fright- ened. I wish I was safe at home in my own room.” ‘‘So do 1, sald Hel “I will never go camping again, unless mamma and papa are along." Mr. Woods then took his mask off and took them home. He told them that he just wanted to see what they would do. “Catherine wished that she was safe said her mother, to sleep alone in & where there might Answer—8moke ©'As 1 went over Lincoln bridge, 1 met Mr. Rusticap, Pins and necdies on his back, A-going to Thornyfalr. Answer—A hedgehol The Doves. { By Alice Tlvira Crandell, Aged 11 Years, Chapman, Neb. Hlue Side. As T was walking down the road, One summer afternoon, 1 was looking for some birds, And T saw one very soon. T walted, waited till it flew And tien ¥ heara he “Peen, peen, peen, en I hea e b X5 from o Hidle dove. When mother birdie flew T then climbed \lr the tree, And came upon a little nest, And then what did 1 see? Three little hun dovelings, As amall r could be, Tay snugly in the tiny nest In the great ash tree 1 auickly led down the And when 1 touched the grow T dug until T found a worm, Very smooth and plump and round. away, ree, Then [ climbed up the tree again, And gave it to %lo loves, When 1 heard a fluttering That came from up above, I looked and there sat mother bird. A ffln‘cmu could be, And then lv hurried down From that grent ash tree. PRETTY BIRD AROUSES FEAR IN SWITZERLAND (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) GENBVA, July 14.~The Swiss papers report that a beautiful bird, strange to Ewitzerland, which has appeared In lim- fted numbers in the Engadine, has caused folk, bird visited Switseriand in 167 when there was & famine, In 1574 when there was ] WA o S & T & S SR 0~._'m Tractor Plowi DEMONSTRATION . The world’s greatest exhibit of power farming machinery INCLUDI 80 Tractors 2nd 80 Plows | | work and grief hastened its ravages. He was deeply discouraged and wrote in his dairy at this tin “Formerly Mrs. Mer- rill felt perfectly safe day and night, but it is not so now. The Otoes trample upon my property and rights unreproved They occupy my pasture with their cat- tle and hores when It suits their con- venlence, often leaving the fence thrown down. They steal my potatoes, pumpkine and corn by night. As we are alone it would not be prudent to resist the thefts, How long we shall be able to live quietly in our own habitation is un. certaln. Inleed we are disturbed often now. My family fear these vagrant Otoes. These Indians do not feel friendly toward white people. They are ungrate- ful for favors recetved.” Mr. Merrill grew worse rapidly. He died on February 6, 180, and was buried on the east bank of the Missouri river, oppo- site Bellovue. The Otoes called him “The-One-W ho - Always - Speaks - The - Trith." On a Nebraska farm in Sarpy county, sloping gently to the Platte river, is a grove of glant cottonwoods over % years old. In their midst stands an old build- ling with a great stone chimney. This is the monument and witness today of ‘llw life and labors of the first mission- arles to Nebrasks WILL BE HELD AT Fremont, Neb., August 9-14 Under the Auspices of the Twentieth Oentury Farmer, Omaha, and Fremont Commercial Olub, 1,000 Acres of Stubble Located just west of Fremont on the Lincoln Highway will be plowed, harrowed, disced, ete,, at the rate of two acres each minute. . This is the most important agricultural event in the state outside of the State Fair. ¢ A very valuable tractor short course will be com- ducted free each morning at headquarters, In lectures Accessory exhibits. Public plowing demonstra- tions each afternoon. Redpath chautanqua in city of Fre- mont each morning and evening. Many other features. Watch Later Announcement for Special Days.