Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1915, Page 21

THE OMAHA SUND 3—C The Busy Bees HRISTMAS stories for the special prize to be awarded Sunday, De- cember 26, for the best Yuletide tale are pouring into the Busy Bee editor’s office. They are all so well written and the stories are 8o interesting that it is going to be a hard task to plck & winner from the large list. There is still another week in which prize stories will be recelved, so if there are any more Busy Bees who would like to compete—now is the time. There is another matter to be called to the attention of the readers of this page. The quarterly election of a king and queen for the Busy Bee realm {s scheduled to take place the last of this month, the new rulers to be announced the first Sunday in January. Send in your votes early. The king is chosen from the Red Side and the queen from the Blue Side. Isldor Weiner and Margaret Brown are the reigning king and queen of Busy Beedom. Bob Reynolds, a new Busy Bee, wins the prize book this week. Mildred Johnson of the Blue Side and Henry Ohlson, jr., of the Red Side were il b i awarded honorable mention. Little Stories (Prize Story) A New Mexico Storm. By Bob Raynolds, Aged 13 Years, 104 North ~ Thirty-first Avenue, Omaha. Blue Side. The morning came, but with clouds hovering about the many stone peaks surrounding the little camp. About noon there came an unexpected flash, then a roar and the storm was on. Soon the water was rushing in torrents down the mountain side, sometimes fall- ing many hundred feet, then lighting, only to fall again into the river below. There came andfher flash, a roar and the clouds started leaving, some climb- ing the face of the cliff, others drifting e —— here and there until the sun shone on the drenched valley. (Honorable Mention.) Christmas for Birds. By Mildred Johnson, Aged 11 Years, 1724 Lake Street, Omaha. Blue Side. The birds will soon leave us and I am sure we will all miss their beautiful songs. I think every child ought to let could not shut his eyes. After a while his mother and father went to beq and when they were asleep he crept softly out of bed and sat on a chair by the fireplace Soon he heard a sound on the roof and he knew it was Santa, 8o he pretended he was asleep. When Santa came he had a horn, an automoble, & box of candy, a ball and a train. Santa was quite surprised at the sight of Tommy, but he filled the stockings and left. Then Tommy went to bed and the next day told his mother what he had seen the night before, (Honorable Mention.) Watches for Santa. Jr., wed 0 ’ BY oo Tty Nob. Hea' Side. r°"® It was Christmas eve. Tommy was sit- ting by the fireplace asking his mother it he could sit up and watch Santa Claus fill the stockings, but his mother repeated, ‘“No, Tommy, it 18 9 o'clock; you must go to bed.” So his mother un- dressed him and he went to bed, but he the birds “celebrate Christmas as well as we do. When I get through with my Christmas tree I am golng to set it out in the enow for the birds and hang bread and cookies on it. T am sure I will be a £00d friend of the birds. In the spring- time I am going to put up bird houses for the birds and hang bread by the house £0 the birds will stay with me until win- ter. Every Busy Bee should think about the birds. The Birds’ Christmas Tree. By Grace L. Moore, Agrd 13 Years, Silver Creek, Neb. lue Side. I “m a lover of birds and animals of all kinds. One cold day before Christmas I noticed how cold and desolate the little birds looked, so I thought I would sit down and fix a little Christmas tree for the birds. I went out and secured a small Christ- mas tree about two and a half feet high. Then I popped some popcorn and strung it on long strings and put three or four strings of popcorn around the little tree. (By special permission of the author, The Bee will publish chapters from the History of Nebraska, by A. B. Sheldon, from week to week.) First Installment of Two Sioux Chiefs The Sloux nation was the strongest Indlan nation in the west. Its people roamed the country from the forests and lakes of northern Minnesota across the plains of North and South Dakota to the mountains of Wyoming and south- ward over the plains of western Ne- braska as far as the Republican river. There were many tribes and bands of the Sjoux nation. Two of these tribes, the Brule and Oglala, among the most warlike of the Sioux nation, claimed western Nebraska as their hunting ground and home. They also claimed western South Dakota and eastern Wyo- ming, Bach of these tribes numbered about seven or eight thousand. In the summer they hunted buffalo in the val- leys of the Platte and the Republican rivers and in the winter they found shelter, fuel and game in the region of the Black Hills and Big Horn mountains. Two great chiefs, Red Cloud and Spot- ted Tall, of the Oglala and Brule tribes, stand out above all others in the his- tory of the Bioux nation. Thelr names are forever famous in the story of Ne- Lraska. Thelr lives covered the critical periods in the annals of their people, from early contact with fur traders, through the great wars to the final set- tlement of the Sioux nation in its pres- ent home. Red Cloud was born at Blue Creek in what is now Garden county, Nebraska in May, 182l. Spotted Tail was born in 1823 in Wyoming. Red Cloud's famlily belonged to the Bad Face band of the Oglala tribe. of the Brule tribe. Both began life as common warriors and became chiets through superior qualities of mind and s0dy. The history of the Oglala and Brule Sloux since they were first known to white men may be divided into three periods. The first period extends from .he earliest exploration of their countrs the white men to their first treaty United States at Fort Laramie and covers the childhood and i 2y with the in 181, vouth of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail |iived entirely by hunting, would starve.|not safe for any ome to hold that office Spotted Tall was a member | by Little Folk | Then I bought a sack of cranberries |and strung a few long strings of those. Then 1 put them around the little tree. | Then I fastened a few pleces of suet on [1t, and by the time T had it finished it |looked very pretty and tempting for the little birds Then I put it out on the porch roof and had the pleasure of watching the little | birds peck at the popcorn and suet. They | seemed to enjoy it ever so much | I don't think that I ever will spend a ! Christmas without fixing a tree for my little feathered friends. Belgians’ Christmas. By Mary F. Grevson. Aged 13 Years. West Point, Neb. Blue Side. In a little village in Belgium there lived | & peasarit woman and her six small chil- { dren. This woman had to earn her living by cutting wood for other people or small | Jobs which she could get. Her brave hus- | band had been called to war. They had | mot heard from him for about three weeks. Ehe feared he had been killed | and many a night she would sob as it her heart would break. She never sald anything about it to her children. But one day Sarah, her eldest daughter, aged 14 years, noticed her mother's sorrow. She tried to comfort her, but it was in vain. It was near Christmas and they had not heard from their father, and they had | not very much food. Her children asked her it Santa Claus would come to théir house. She would answer, “Maybe.” It was now Christmas eve and the chil- dren had hung up their stockings. The food supply was very low and they would not have anything to eat for a Christmas dinner. All had gone to bed, and while | they were sleeping thelr dear father had | arrived, and also a large basketful of food and also clothes and money. When the children and mother got up they were B0 surprised to find their dear father home again. They knelt down in prayer to thank God for bringing back the father safely and for the food and clothing. Wishes for Christmas. By Franklin Broadfie ‘Shenandoan. 1o’ Hel Ao Y T will tell you what I want. The first 1s some boxing gloves and the next s a maglc lantern, a knife, the next a pair of dumb-bells and a fountain pen, and that s all T want. I guess, dear Santa Claus, T do not expect all of those things, but 1 would like as many as you could get. | [ Santa, Take Notice! By Dorothy Broadffeld, Aged 6 Years, Shenandoah, Ia. Red Side. T want a singing book and a rocking | chatr that will last a long time, and some stdry baoks, a little lamb, doll trunk and doll bed and a tuning harp. Please be good to other little children; I will. And a blackboard and some chalk with it Peace Next Year. By Grace L. Moore, Aged 13 Years, Silver Oreek, Neb., Blue Side. Again it is Christmas and the world is still at war. How thankful we are that our country 1s not at war. Think how many poor children there will be who will spend their Christmas | Stories of Nebraska History The second period extends from the Fort Laramie treaty of 181, to the Fort Lara- mie treaty of 1868, and covers the mature manhood of each of these two great chiefs. The third perlod reaches from the r'ort Laramie treaty of 1868 to the death of Red Cloud December 10, 1909, and covers the old age of each of these noted Indians, During the first period the Oglalas and Brules were at peace with the white peo- ple, but were at war with nearly all the Indian tribes around them. The Sloux were new-comers in that beautiful re- glon, where the mountains and plains meet, and were driving out the earlier inhabitants, the Crows, the Snakes, the Utes and the Pawnees. In these early wars with their Indlan neighbors Red Cloud and Spotted Tail became leaders. At the age of 16 Red Cloud went on his first war party and came back victorious, During the next ten years both young men made names for themselves not only for daring, but for good luck, which | counts for much more In an Indlan camp. Two events of this period e Red Cloud fame in the camps of the Sioux. | The first was in 1549, when he crossed the Rocky mountains, as Caesar and Na~ poleon orossed the Alps, leading a war party into the heart of the Shoshon! country and bringing back many scalps and ponles. The other was in 150, when an old quarrel broke out anew in the Bad Face band and Red Cloud, who was a leader of the younger men, shot and illed Bull Bear, then the most noted | chief in the band. At this time a new and strange experi- came into the lives of the Bryle and Oglala Sioux, overshadowing all their | future and filling the minds of their wis- | est chiefs with anxious concern. This great migration over the Ore- gon trall to Oregon, California and Utah. | At first there were only occasional trains | of few wagons each After the dis-| covery of gold in California the trail | | became crowded with thousands of | | wagons, and with men, women and chil- ence was the a dren. These emigrants shot the buffalo |and other game without asking leave of | the Indians. It was evident that if the white men kept coming, the game after & time would be gone and the Sioux, who Minnie 'weross, Charles Snell, Edna Kdwards, Lauretta Boroff, Carrie Shawcross. Middle réw: Willtam. Silver, Robert | Kyle. Crystal Balser, Gladys Weeks, | His father was a blacksmith | the $50.000 from fifty years to ten years. Monmouth Park kiddles stage splendid holiday festival. Lower row, I to right: Dorothy Conley, Laurence Snyder. Top row: Fritzs Palmquist, Bertha An- derson, George Hrandon, Helen Farr, Donald Mudgett. in.a cold and unheated room. Probably some will epend their Chr'stmas on the streets of large cities and in many other poor places. Would it not be nice for each little Busy Bee to help or give some nice and | helpful present to some poor chiliren or | familles? I live out here in Silver Creek on & large ranch and 1 am going to try and make & happy Christmas for some poor children who go to my school, and | { have sent clothing to some of the poor shildren of Omaha. I would be more than glad to do some little helpful deed for. every poor child in America it I only could reach them all. T have al- Ways spent a happy Christmas here at home and wish that 1 could share my | happiness with some other poor little boys and girls. It will be an unthoughtless household | which does not pray on Christmas day that in the new year to come all the nations abroad will be in peace. The First Santa Claus. By Rosella Lepshetz, Aged 9 Years, North Platte, Neb. Red Side. I am going to tell about Santa Claus. Once upon a time uhere was a little boy whose father and mother were poor. When the little Claus went to the blacksmith he| wuold ask his father for a plece of wood and he would make toys. Clause kept on making toys and he gave them to good little boys and girls. When Claus became a big boy he got married and he still kept making toys, He made dolls and other things for poor boys and girls. One day he ordered some people to Indians at Miller Park school, l&ft to | right: BEdith McCurdy, Dean Lowe, Ger- | trude Thiem, Everett Joseph, Helen | Gregg, who appeared Friday afternoon | In Indian costumes in the Christmas program Miller Park school. connection with glven at the | It was one of the | g0 to the wocds and get some wild | beasts. He did not like any of them, so | ey got him six reindeer.. So Claus started to pack the toys and his wife | helped him. After they were all right he got In the sleigh and gave his presents to good little boys and girls. This iswall I know about Santa Claus. By A. E. Sheldon To prevent trouble with the Oglalas, Brules and other plains tribes was held on Horse Creek near the first council | By Lucile Sonneland, Axed 12 Years, Box , Kearney, Neb. Blue Side. In & very small town in Nebraska lived a very poor widow known as Mrs., Brown. She had three children and sat up very late every night. 'ery one wondered why Mrs. Brown sat up so late every night. The reason was, Mrs. Brown was trying to think of something to get for her children and it | would soon be Chi | She had made three rag dolls and was trying to think of something she could | afford. Mrs. Brown had to stuff her windows full of old rags to keep out the cold. She Fort Laramle in 1851, A treaty was made by which the United States confirmed to each tribe the land occupled by it. All the tribes agreed to the division of the land made by this treaty, so that for the first time in the:history of the | plains Indians all the great hunting ground between the Missouri river and the Rocky mountains was divided among them. All the Indians agreed that “The Great Road” along the Platte and across the mountains should be free and open most striking features ever presented at this school by the children. These young- sters were in a playlet written on the “Courtship of Miles Standish.” Ger- trude Thiem's costume was received by her parents from Celomel Jordan of the Rosebud agency and was the “enuine article.” shoes by the fireplace and Santa filled his shoes full and the fireplace, too, His aunt was surprised and so was he with such a nice Christmas. Measles in Tilden. By Frances McDonald, Aged 13 Years, Tilden, Neb. Bilue Side. T am going to tell the Busy Bees about the measles in Tliden. Week before last we learned that measles were In town, and the next Monday the teachers were to send the children home who had the measles then or had them in the family, That following Monday the children were sent home, but there were not many that had to go. Some stayed home. The next week, school belng out on Wednesday that week on account of Thanksgiving, than ever, 1 was boasting how glad 1 was that I had had them, so I could go on to school. Thanksglving ‘day I was lying down all | day because I did not feel good, and I Was to be a worse one for the white people, and the United | States agreed to pay to the Indians $50,000 in goods each year for fifty years | for the use of this road through their | country. The Indians agreed not ta_rob| Now, the rest of the people in the town | or attack the whito people upon this [were rich. They knew how poor Mrs. | road, and the United States sgreed to|Brown was and thought it would be nice | keep the white people from going else-|to *chip in” and send a box of food, | where In the Indlan country without per- | clothes and toys to poor Mrs. Brown. mission of the Indians. When the treaty | So, atter “chipping in" they found they | was sent to Washington the United had exactly $500 and & box as large as o States senate changed the payments of | trunk full of toys, food and clothing One night, as Mrs. Brown was eating The Indlans never agreed to the change. |her supper a knock was heard at the | The white people continued to use the door, She answered it and found a great road and the United States sent |man who told her he had a Christmas out each year the 330,000 in goods to pay [box for her children and for her to put the Indlans for the use of it. Neither |them to bed. Red Cloud nor Spotted Tall signed this| So Mrs. Brown put her children to bed tirst treaty with the Oglalas and Brules. |and when the man brought in a Christ- They had not yet become chiefs, | mas tres and a big box her joy knew no The first goods to pay for the use of | Pounds. the Oregon trail under this treaty ar-| In the morning when the children woke | rived near Fort Laramie in the summer |UP. What & sight their eyes beheld. A of 1854 All the plains Sioux assembled | Elittering tree full of new clothes, toys to recelve their portion. Before the|And everything imaginable. Mrs. Brown agent came from St. Louls to distribute | then told her children that Santa Claus the goods, peace between the White peo- | Nad left them the tree and her $i0. ple and the Bloux was broken by the | }er children were so happy and glee affair of the Mormon cow and the kill- [fUl there in the dawn of morning they g of Lieutenant Grattan and party, |®!! thanked God for his blessings the story of which is told elsewhere in i worked out by the day while her ohil- dren were at school, but after buying | her food, clothes and paying the rent | she had nothing left. this book. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Santa Remembers Little Boy. were in the great Sioux camp at that(By Blanche Tinnel Foruteenth Strec time and shared in the general feeling ahd Twe "l'(‘m‘r;"““"mAu:‘"k';'l"'h“ oun of Indignation among the Oglalas and | Onoe upon & time there was a littie Brules at the killing of their &reat pov' i father and mother died. so chief, The Bear, by Lieutenant Grattan. |pe went to live with his sunt 1iis aunt In lader years Red Cloud often referred |gway very mean to him and she told him to this incident, saying that the white |that he would mot get anything for men made The Bear chief of all the | Christmas. His aunt said that Sants | Bioux and then kilied him, henco it was | Claus would nat give him anything. But | when Christmas night came he put his kept on acting thus until Sunday neon I | broke out some and began to cough quite | & bit. Monday evening in the hight I| broke out as thick as [ could stiek. | Mamma says I was as red as & plece of raw beefsteak. Tuesday we had the doc- tor, and he said I would feel better Wednesday, and, sure enough, I did. I am broken out a little yet, but will not give It T learned that many of my girl friends | had it too. My teacher telephoned up | Monday and told me not to worry as they | were not golng to have anything new be- cause S0 many were absent, so I rested beiter. It is now Sunday and I am feel- ing fine and hope to be at school again tomorrow, Poor Woman's Christmas. By Kermit Sonneland, ed 10 Years, Box 6, Kearney, llue Side, Once upon & time there lived & very poor woman. She had five children. Her husband was & drunkard and spent all her earnings for drink. His poor wife Age b, F could hardly earn enough money to keep her children from starving. It 'was the day before Christmas evening and the children were writing to Sunta us tell- 108 him what to bring them The mother could hardly keep the tears back. There were the chil n telling Santa Claus what they wanted, and she without @ penny to her name. Some rich boys lived in the same vil- lage. They had noticed the poorly elad | children and knew they were too poor to afford nice Christmas presents. So they asked their fathers it they could not get some nice presents and give to these poor people. The fathers told their sons how unselfish they were. The boys got some Miller Park lads dress themselves up as Uncle Same, Lower row, left to right: Maxwell Knoedler, Marshall Farley, Leonard Hamrick, Howard Denton, Mil- ton Reynolds Middle row: Harry Melborn, Thomas Bouvle, Otto Jacobsen, Walter Lindmier, Howard Vanlergenghan. Top row: John Hamehnesk, Jack Gard- ner, Robert Smith, Judson Patrick, Wal- ter Nordquist, Walter Barnett. [OrENs — dld not which to thank—the kind boys or her dear Lord, from whom all bless- ings flow. You miay be sure there were wild shouts of joy from all the children next morn- ing. and after the presents had been looked at they all thanked God, New Busy Bee. By Katherine Zeplin, Aged 10 Years, West Peint, Neb, Blue Side, 1 enjoy reading the Bee very much and I wish to join the Blue Side. I expect ta send a story soon. “Santa Is Coming.” By Martha Boysen, Box 3065, Plainview, Neb. Tted Ride. This I8 my first letter to your page, I would like to join the Red Side. I am sending a little poem and I hope it ar- rives when Mr. Wastepaper Basket hi gone calling: Santa 18 coming over the snow, His reindeer draw him—so fast they go! | He covers the ground as fast as a bird, And never & sound from him 1s heard, He enters the room as quiet as & mouse, When all are asleep and still in the house; He fills the stockings with pretty toys, For all the good girls and all the good boys. | And f money| from their fathers and filled a large box full of nice clothes, toys and all kinds of delicacles and sent them to y 1 e or the bad children, too, the poor woman and her children | fsnd, for the be m{ et g The poor woman was 20 gratified she | Then out of the chimney he glides. e Merry Christmas LITTLE RUESY 8EES We are going to give you FIVE DOLLS THIS WEEK, because it is Christmas, and we want you all to have a chance to win one. LILLIAN is the biggest and prettiest and is for the little girl that sends us the most pictures. EDNA is second, IDA third, HELEN fourth and “BOBBY" is fifth (““Bobby’’ is a girl, but they ecall her “‘Bobby,”” because she plays with the boys all the time). You just ought to see her run and jump and play pump-pump- pull-away and all the rest of the outdoor games. That’s what puts that sparkle in her eyes and the roses on her cheeks. I just love her myself, best of them all, because she has such winning ways—dear little ‘‘ Bobby.’’ T wonder what little girl will get her. If I was a little girl, wouldn’t I try, though! Remember, you must send your pictures in ONE DAY EARLIER this week, because Saturday is Christ- mas, so the CONTEST WILL CLOSE 4 P, M, FRIDAY, fnstead of Saturday. These dolls will be given free to the little girls under 12 years of age, who bring or mail us the largest number of dolls’ pictures cut out of The Daily and Sunday Bee before 4 p. m., Friday, De- cember 24, This pleture of three of the dolls will be in The Bee every day this week. Cut them out and ask your friends to save the pictures jn their paper for you, too, See how many pictures you can get, and be sure to turn them in to The Bee office before 4 p. m., Friday, De- cember 24. You Can See the Dolls at The Bee Office