Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1916, Page 20

4—C ‘The Busy Bees OTHER, I'm so warm and I want something cold to drink,” wails many a kiddie these exceedingly hot days and uncomfortable nights. Then mother gives baby a cooling bath and something cool to drink and oh, how refreshing that is! < But there are many homes where baby wails on, unrefreshed, for sometimes there is no milk, even to give the hungry, thirsty child, let ‘alone the needful ice with which to keep it cool and fresh. . It is for unfortunate babies like this that The Bee has established a free ‘milk and ice fund which is to provide these necessaries during the hot sum- mer months. Generous men, women and even children are contributing to the fund ‘cach day. The editor recollects that last year a club of Busy Bees, of which Madeline Kenyon was the president, collected the sum of $2 from some _neighborhood entertainment, I believe, which they gave and turned the pro- ceds over to The Bee's fund for milk and ice for poor babies. o the That was a noble thing indeed for the little girls to do, and I am sure are highly gratified when they think back upon the pleasure several ittle kiddies must have gotten out of their contribution, g eEd‘ithleWeil' of the Blue side won the prize book this week. Honorable mention was awarded to Elizabeth Hoischhorn and Francis Tomjack, both of ithe Red side. ' Little Stories by Little Folk (Prize Story.) Bird Field Day. By Edith Weir. Aged 11-Years. 3412 Dodge St.,, Omaha, Neb. Blue Side. May 6, 1916, was the Audubon So- ciety's field day. They went to Child's Point. § As only grown folks went, a neigh- _bor took ten girls out to Elmwood park to celebrate. One of us brought a bird book so we could identify the ‘birds we saw that we did not know _ the names of. Each girl had a piece ‘of paper and we put down the names “of the birds we saw. When we start- ‘ed home we counted the names we “had on our lists. One girl had seven- .teen and I had fourteen. I can now ‘identify over thirty birds, ¥ (Honorable Mention.) Our Pet Squirrel. 4 «gy Elizabeth Hoischhorn. Aged 14 fears. 2505 So. 8th St., Omaha, Neb. ¥ Red Side. 4 About a year ago a little squirrel came and took our walnuts that we had gathered for the winter. He came every day until he had eaten them all, Then we started to buy yeanuts and put them in a little box the back porch. We put them “there every morning, and now he is ite a friend. When he hes eaten all ‘he can he will take the others two “at a time and can;i: them away. " There are m:n{ luejays who come and try to take them away from him, but he fights as if to say, “Those are _ put here for me alone.” One day we put some nuts in the ;fiflflf and sat down to watch. He mows we would not hurt him and as as he comes he will always find ‘some peanuts to eat. (Honorable Mention.) The Chickadee. Francis Tomjack, Aged 11 Years, “Route 2, Ewing, Neb. Red Side. I have written three stories to the usy Bees' page and I thought that I would write another one. This time story is about the chickadee. *%M ou ever see a bird known as he chickadee? He is a little fellow, smaller than the sparrow. His eathers are gray and white and veliy “On his head is a black cap, while throat shows a necktie of black : rhaps if you have never seen a ee you may have heard one, this bird has a way of calling his mame very cls ick-a-dee-dee- ¢ he says, you can hear him ¥ any time, for a few stay with us ~the round. | If you should ask a chickadee what tories of Nebraska History eIl ahapiers.from the. History Nobraska, by A: \don, ‘weekc) NEBRASKA AS A STATE (Continued from last Sunday) call, as the state grew, for a new titution. The first one had been d in haste by the legislature in | E A convention met at Lincoln ne, 1871, and made a new con- jon jn forty-seven d In its t important parts in was modeled pn the Illinois constitution of 1870, /hen the people voted on the new tution the vote stood 7,986 for 8,677 t. It was defeated fly it taxed church grop' ty ant nvhe"ml;olds “(‘leii’ r'l( t-of- only while they used it for run- trxnu The Jcmnd for a new titution kept growing. In 1875 her convention met in Lincoln, ich framed another constitution much like the one of 1871, It was ted by the people in November lt{ur by a vote of 30,202 to his is our present constitu- ‘and is sometimes called the p ei; wnmmm;n" beahuu it de in a year of grasshopper ‘and hard times. ‘Great Prison Rebellion—Oh anuary 11, 1875, the convicts in the tate peniten , three miles south f Lincoln, rose in rebellion, took the irden and inside guards prisoners nd armed themselves. with guns. Led y bold and desperate men, it .was heir plan to dress themselves in citi- clothes and escape after dark. e guard! e warning. of Lincoln a States ompany of soldie om Omaha ded the prison. A number of fired. Mrs. Woodhurst, wife, persuaded the rel s to surrender and what is called |* cat rebellion in the peniten- was over, of Hard Times—Slowly the n 1873 to 1878, with their Indian wars, gra ths and great prairie 3 and better days came, bringing ops, better vfgfll and hope ts of those who had en- he likes hest of all to eat he would probably reply, Eggs. Not birds' eggs. Oh, no. A civilized chickadee would never think of such a thing. Not birds’ eggs, but insects’' eggs, are a feast for these little fellows. It is fun to see the chickadees hunting for food. You know insects almost al- ways lay, their eggs in carefully hid- den places, such as the under side of a curled up leaf or beneath the rough bark of a tree. The chickadee knows just where to look for these tucked away morsels, but sometimes he finds it hard work to obtain them and con- sequently screws himself into strange ositions that he ma ge! at his prey. Yn spite of the laughable things that the chickadees do in order to get a ood meal, one should not forget what elpful little birds they are. For by eating the ein of certain harmful in- sects they keep many baby insects from being born. These baby insects, if allowed tq live, would grow up to be plagues, like their parents, and would eat up our vegetables, fruit and flowers. So you see the chickadee in this way does a great service, The ht{er and mother chickadee like to make their home in a hollow tree or in a last year's nest of a wood- pecker. Sometimes as many as eight or nine baby chickadees live in the nest. You can imagine how busy the father and mother have to be in order to feed all the hungry -mouths, But soon the baby chickadees learn to fly and then they leave the home nest and fly away to get food for them- selves. So you sée the chickadee is a very good bird, Fourth of July. By Rosella Lipchitz, Aged 9, 315 South Pine Street, North Platte, Neb. Red Side. One day as I was ph?n'n: doll I looked at the calenda was July 3. 1 told my brother, Ralph, and we were very glad, for the next day was the Fourth of July. The next morning I woke up and dressed in a hurry and brought the milk for breakfast and after while I ate my breakfast and then I went up town. All the girls that were in drill had red, white and blue es. Then there was a lon; parade and then we Lx-fi] our United States of America rill. + In the afternoon the people went to the city park and everybody had some watermelon, Hogs in Orc By Alvin French, Asged 11 Red Side, with m, r, and ;‘: hard, , Blair, Neb, My Fourth of July this year was very nice. When I woke up in the braska, full of hope and energy started to settle the western half o the state, which at that time was nearly all wild land. The Burlington built its line up the Republican val- ley and across the plains to Denver. e Northwestern, then called the Fremonf, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- ley, started its long extension up the ilkhorn river and across the sand- hill region to the Black Hills, The ouri Pacific came into the state from the southeast and before the next ten years were ended the Rock Island pushed its line across Nebraska to the Roc! mountains. All was again activity, ng lines of white covered wagons were again on the road for the grassy valleys among the sand- bills and the smouth plains of the great tableland beyond. New towns were etarted. The population of the state more than doubled between 15880 and 1890, During these years the northwest and southwest corners of Nebraska and also the smooth high plains in the western part were being settled. The sandhill region was the only part of Nebraska remaining unsettled, and even there the valleys at the heads of the rivers and around the sandhill lakes were 'dotted with houses. The Great Missouri Flood—The Knr 1881 was the year of, the great igh water in the hfi,ucmri river, An i:e gorge formed at a bend in the river in Dixon county, damming the waters and making a great lake which drove hundreds of farmers from their homes and completely flooded the town of Niobrara. hen the flood finally passed away, the people of Niobrara moved their town to a,new site above high water, from its old location. There it is to- day. his year is known along the Missouri river as the year of the at flood.” The Omaha Strike and the State Militia—On February 27, 1882, several hundred laborers engaged in moving dirt at Omaha went on a strike. Riots followed, and on March 12 the gover- nor called out the state militia, which camped in Omaha eral _weeks. Their camr was called “Camp Dump.” In a scuffle between the soldiers and strikers one striker was killed. An extra session of the legislature was called to vote money for paying the soldiers. Governor James W. Dawes--In 1882 James W. Dawes, republicanof rete was elected governor and re- lected in 1884. His term was marked by the final struggle between home- ders and cattlemen in western Ne- How to handle the state school lands became a prominent %:gwan during this period and con- tinued to be for a_number The Free Land Period— three miles of years, The great o | WEGS o AR I R THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 16, 1916. BUSY BEE WHO WAS HONOR GUEST AT PLEASANT PARTY—Madeline Kenyon, in the center, was given a party by her classmates after graduating from the Eighth grade at Franklin school. morning it was raining. We went over to the other farm after it had stopped raining, to do the chores. When we got over there two of the hogs ‘were out. They wouldn't go in their pen at all. Thesv, ran up in the orchard. We got them out of there and then they ran into the cornfield. When we were running around in there I fell down and got my face in some mud. We finally got them out of there, but when I got out I was wringing wet, and muddy. We put them in where they belong and then we came over for dinner. That afternoon we shot off firecrack- ers and had some ice cream. So I didn't have such a bad Fourth after all. A true story. Afire. By Margaret Thorton, Aged 7 Years, Nebraska City. Blue Side. Mamma heard the 'phone ring and I was writing, Mamma told some one our neigh- bor's barn was on fire. Papa was picking pansies. I went out to the gar- den fence, told papa Meadville’s (our neighbor) barn is on fire. They wanted him, As papa came in the house he dropped some pansies. Papa ran to the first crossing. The water wouldn’t, just wouldn’t work at all so the barn was not saved. Qur neighbors had gone to a fu- neral, 1 would like to join the Blue Side. This is a true story. Horse Eats Everything. By Cecelia Thielfoldt, Aged 11 Years, Gretna, Neb. Blue Side. We used to live out in Kearney, Neb. And a little town about three and one-half miles from there named Amherst, Neb. We had ten horses, eight cows and we had a horse 3 years old. Her name was Daisy. She would eat everything we gave her. She would eat pumpkins, but not peelings, We gave her bread and pancakes every morning. We always gave her cow's milk and every time when we would milk she always wanted some milk. Every time when papa was in the yard she had to have a chew of tobacco and she would reach in his pocket to get it. She o By A. E. Sheldon o == movement of settlers west was helped by the changes in the land laws. A settler in Nebraska in 1854 could take 160 acres and after living on it six months buy it from the United States for $1.25 an acre. This was called a pre-emption. In 1863 the homestead law went into effect. Under this a settler could fake 160 acres and have it free by living upon it five years. In 1873 the timber claim act was passed. Under it one could get 160 acres by planting tenacres of it to trees and taking care of them for eight years. All three of these laws were in force from 1873 to 1891 and under them a settler could in a few years get 480 acres of land. The Struggle Between the Grangers and the Cattlemen—There were con- flicts between the cattlemen, whose great herds fed on free pasture, and the grlnzeu, as the settlers were called, who came to farm. Cattlemen began to go into western Nebraska between 1865 and 1875. Their ranches were many miles apart. All the cat- tle were turned loose summer and winter and allowed to find feed and water where it best suited them. The cattle of different ranches ran to- gether on the ranges. Each ranch- man knew his own cattle because they were marked with his brand. Once a year all the cattlemen in a district drove the cattle together and branded each calf with the brand of the cow which it followed. This was called the roundup. The grass on the plains died on its roots in the late summer of each year so that the frost did riot kill it. Thus the country in the fall and winter was one great free hay- stack and a very cheap and easy place to raise cattle. When the grangers first began to settle on the cattle ranges of west- ern Nebraska, the cattlemen told them that it was too dry there to farm, that they had been there for year: d that the country dried up every summer and was fit only for cattle-ranges. The grangers did not believe them. They saw the beautiful, smooth prairie free for homesteads to all who would take them and they kept on coming in. Two things combined to help the homesteaders their struggle for western Nebraska during the period between 1880 and 1890. Frist the hard winters of 1880-81 and 1883-84. Deep snow fell on the cattle-ranges; pro- longed cold weather. fallom’.e ou- sands of cattle died and many cattle- men were ruined. Then came several ears of abundant summer rainfall, he grangers grew splendid crops of all kinds on the high plains where the cattlemen told them no rain ever fell after the 4th of July. So the whole of western Nebraska was quick- ly settled with farmers. (Continued Next Sunday) TSI W R AT - AR P e e — would east plums and spit the stones out. Once my sister was sick and had the doctor and another Dr, Heart and Mr. Reynolds of Amherst, Neb. They came with a car and had a cigar lay- ing on the car. The horse got out and went to the car to get the cigar and ate it up. She could open every barn door. We had to have some snaps for the barn door. I like the busy Bee page very well. This story of Daisy 1s real true. I would like to see the story print, and hope to get a prize. in Animal Rhymes, By Stella Rogert, Aged 11 Years, Herman, Neb. Blue Side. A is the ape, who is dressed very well, Though he is not so wise, as most people can tell. B is for the bat, so smart is he But they all cannot see. C is the cat, looking 'round very sly, So as to see who is passing by. D is the dog, steadfast, honest and true, I hope he'll get married to pussy, don’t you? E is the elephant, and ver Are 8o learned, so big an enly, too. F is the fox, who, sharp as a knife, Looks out for Miss Goose, he's in want of a wife, G is the goose, who is proud to be seen In her very best frock and her new crinoline, H is the herring, a soldier just made, I hope when in battle he'll not be afraid, I is the ibis, with banjo to play He will sing you his “nigger songs every day. is the jackdaw, who looks very sly, hen I trust him, I hope there will be nobody nigh. X is the kangaroo, ragged and poor, Will you give her a crust when she knocks at your door? L is the lion, just put on half-pay, He fought for his country full many a day. few so slov- eye, You would know her much more if she were not so shy. N is the nightingale, singing a song, T am sure I could listen for ever so long. O is the owl, who's as wise as he looks, With his spectacles round, and a cou- ple of books. P is the parrot, a prosy old men, You'll be glad to get rid of as soon as you can. Q is the quail, who is running home quick, For his schoolmates have threatened to give him a stick. R is the rabbit, stupid and mild, I'm afraid he's a silly, spoilt child. 8 is the shark, if he had not been fed, He'd be likely_to turn around and . snap off your head. T is the turkey, I'm sure from his age, That the best he does is to get in a rage. U the unicorn is, with his candle- sticks two, Walking backward to usher queen passing through. V is the vulture, fierce, wicked and the old, { He'll do anything vile that will bring him in gold. W is the wolf, hungry, ragged and grim, If you take my advice, you will not go near him, Xis tl;)edextin:t, he thinks everything ad, That was not invented when he was a lad. Y for yellowhammer, a gold beater's name, He -hammered the gold leaf that gilded papa’s frame. Z is the zebra, a zainy and clown, Now we've got to the end, so let the curtain down, A Day of Surprises. By Opal Rogers, Aged 10, Kearney, Neb. Red Side. June 28 was my birthday. I was 10 years old. In the morning mamma came in and gave me a birthday spanking while I was in bed. I got up and came downstairs. Then we had breakfast. About the middle of the forenoon mamma gave me two birthday cards. One was from M is the mouse, see her lustrous black | J grandma and the other was from my little friend, Johanna Paitz. She said that she was coming down. We went to town that afternoon in the auto. Johanna went with us. I did not know that she was going with us. { Mamma took us down and treated us to ice cream and had our pictures taken. Mamma brought ice cream and angel food cake and fruit and other things home with her. The cake had ten birthday candles on it. Johanna ate supper with us before she went home. We rode her pony a while, and then she went home. As my story is long, I will have to cloge. I may write again . Riddles. By Florence Sward, Aged 10 Years, 1908 Corby Street, Omaha, Neb. Blue Side. 1 am sending in some riddles for all of you to try to guess: “A riddle, a riddle so deep: you never could see the bottom of it. So if you guess this riddle I'll give you a fiddle.” Can you guess it? “A palace so round; and a wall so thin; you could break it if you tried. Inside there is a layer of marble; in- side of that a great lump of % 1d, yet the walls are so thin the robbers get in and steal the gold.” - That's easy, isn't it? “A beautiful thing, which at night flings out her beautiful silvery light. Yet with all the drivings it would take in night. You couldn’t drive her out of sight.” That's easy enough to guess, I think, don’t you? Receives Prize Book. By Maxine Ieuter, Streator, IIl. Blue Side. I received the prize book entitled, “Trul{ Stories from the Surely Bible,” and am much delighted with it. I think I will read a story a day. {1 think the book is beautiful, and the stories are fine. I am still in Streator, I1l, on my vacation. I am se?ding a story about the Fourth of uly. Five Hours of Sleep For the Indian Poet (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Tokio, July 2.—Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet, who has ar- ‘rived in Japan to study the physchol- ' ogy of the people, will probably leave for the United States by the end of July. He will deliver a series of lec- |tures in the United States, expound- ing his ideas on literature and art. It is likely that he will spend the winter there, and in the spring if the war i3 over, cross to England. In Tokio the poet seeks to adhere as closely as possible to his normal life. He rises seldom later than 3 o'clock in the morning and passes !four hours in meditation. He be- lieves that if by reflection and repose one can still the surface of thought, the deeper sub-concious ideas come to their owner. At 7 o'clock he takes tea and after tea he works till 11, when he bathes and has a meal. He tries to sleep a little in the afternoon, and he retires at ten. He is content normally with five hours sleep. Further Restriction Placed On Liquor Trade in England (Corroxpondanes of The Associated Press.) London, June 30.—It has been de- creed by the board of control that after Juf;' 1 no spirits, with the excep- tion of those proved to have been bot- tled before June 1 of this year, are to be sold unless 25 degrees under proof. At $1.25 per bottle, compared with the pre-war price of 87 ‘cents, the whisky drinker will receive 94 cents worth of whisky and pay 31 cents for about half a pint of water that he will be compelled to drink with it. Despite the earlier efforts of the board of control to restrict the con- sumption of spirits, the consumption increased in a year 3,000,000 gallons. Apparently the whisky drinker finds that the more whisky is diluted the more whisky he has to drink to ob- tain the saine results. And he does it in about half the time it used to take him when public houses were open all day and whisky was much cheaper. Bee want”Ads produce best results. CHave. ou JPHOTOS RETOUCHE They will maKe beiter . _Pholo-Engraved Plales Bee Engravi Phone - Tyler | Building w Dept. - 20% | ha,Nebr. Easy Plan to Rid the House of Ants; One Way to Tell if Juice Will Jell » Lincoln, July 15.—The Nebraska callege of agriculture gives out the follnwinf information: In fighting household ants no one measure can be recommended that will afford satisfactory relief from these pests in all cases, as the pro- cedure must be adapted largely to the individual case. The following for- mula, recommended by the depart- ment of entomology of the College of Agriculture, has, however, proved to be effective in many instances: Dissolve five pounds of sugar in one and one-half pints of water in a dou- ble boiler and heat gently. Add one- fourth ounce of sodium arsenite dis- solved in a little hot water to the syrup. Moisten a sponge in this syrup and place in a pint screw-top glass jar with the porcelain cap broken out and four large holes punched in the lid with a twenty- penny nail. The sponge should about fill the interior o? the jar. Prepare anywhere from one to six of such jars and place them where the ants are foraging. The worker ants will forage greedily on this for some hours, after which they often will not touch it un- less it is moved a few feet or placed in another spot. The poisoned sweet is carried into the nest and a large proportion of the colony will die of slow poisoning. The sodium arsenite, it must be re- membered, is poisonous and proper care should be taken to keep it away from children and the food supply. In addition to this remedy, proper measures should be taken to remove so far as possible all food upon which the ants are foraging. Many housewives insist that the making of a good jelly depends upon Tuck, but any housewife may always have a perfect jelly if she knows the principles of jelly and follows a few general rules, g | The essential part of fruit juice that makes jelly set is a chemical sub- stance called pectin. It is found in abundance in apples, currants, grapes, quince, and the white rinds of oranges and lemons. Small quangtities are found in cherries, raspberries, black- berries and pears. Since pectin is essential, the housewife should de- termine whether the fruit juice she ex- pects to use contains any before she starts the jelly making process. To determine whether pectin is present, add two tablespoonfuls of grain al- cohol to two tablespoonfuls of hot fruit juice. Cool, and if pectin is present, a lump of jelly will have formed. The size of the lump will indicate the amount of pectin present. Fruit juice should also contain acid. By tasting it one can easily determine whether or not acid is present. If lacking, enough lemon juice or tar- taric acid may be added to give the fruit a tart taste. 7 French Deputies Killed in Battle (Correspondet ce of The Assoclated Press.) Paris, July 2—Two more deaths | have brought the number of vacant seats in the Chamber of Deputies to thirty-four, including two seats de- clared vacant for election irregulari- ties. The chamber is now composed of 566 instead of 600 deputies. . There are thirty-two seats vacant in the senate through death of mem- bers since the elections of 1914. Since no elections will be held during the war, one department, the Hautes Alps, whose two senators have died, will be unrepresented in the senate until after peace has been declared. Of the thirty-two deputies who have died, séven were killed on the battlefield, while one senator, the aviator Emile Reymond, died in ser- vice. | Australia Floats Another War Loan (Correnpondence of The Assoclated Press.) Melbourne, Australia, July 2.—A third federal loan for war is to be floated before August 1, though it is not proposed this time to ask for any fixed amount. On the occasion of the first loan, the government asked for $25,000,000 and it received $65,000,000; and on the second occasion $50,000,- 000 was asked for and the response was $105,000,000. y 3 Parliament has authorized the rais- ing of $250,000,000 and it is expectgd the people of the commonwealth will as before respond liberally. The gov- ernment: will take as much up to that amount as the public cares to lend it. The rate of interest will be 4% per cent, the price of issue will be at par and the loan will run until 1925. be found BEE BUILDING (The Building That Is Known to All.) 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