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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1923)
BURGESS BEDTIME STORIES By THORNTON W. BURGESS. The Keal Gopher. "We don’t, know how long we are going to stay here.” replied Danny Meadow Mouse, in a squeaky voice to Mr. Worker's friend. Salamander, whose acquaintance he and Nanny had just made. “It seems like a very pleasant place down here in the Sun ny South,” he added politely. T£hen curiosity pot the best of him and he had to ask a question: "Is your name really Salamander?" he in quired. "Because I'm all mixed up.” re plied Danny "Ves, sir, I'm all mixed up. I have henrd about some one just like you in every way. but lie v/a* called Grubby Gopher the pocket Gopher. Pp where I come from 1 know mime one called Salamander, hut he looks like a member of the Lizard family. Then when I pet down here the first person I meet Ik one who looks llk« a n\eniher of the Turtle family, and I find he is called Gopher. So how am I Kointt to know who is who and what is what?" THE NEBBS— DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY. Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol Hess 'look at that bunch OfY PEOPLE 1 VT LOOKS L\KE ^ THEV WERE DOING THEIR CHRISTMAS OHOPPvmG EARLS „ TW\S HEAR ,_ 1.—S /2-/Q Vjell i guess thavs the svstem _\ make a usr aho Go out and Do A UTTLE INTELLIGENT SHOPPING _ iNOT GOING TO WANT UNTIL THE LAST NUNUTE AND THEN \ioV A LOT OT THINGS I DON'T WANT’ r !*•>«. hr Th* llr 11 Starflral* / j (\x\_ MAKE UP A UST RGMT NOW 'X of tme different people tmat in goings TO SEND PRESENTS TO - I'LL SUN nw MOTHER-IN-LAW A RADIO AND [ FATMERtN-LAW A SmOKvnG JACKET AND , A PA\R OF SUPPERS -TMEN MAVBE TmEVLL STAV MOME and WOtNr SPEND/ \THL MOURNS UJ\TM US TMlS NEAR y—' /AND ru. SEND THE PRESENTS Out oX FEW OOVS BEFORE C HR VST M OS SO \ I luonY EchBoRROSS OWOUL -vt \ BUST (HvGht BEThot SON-.EOF THOSE ’ Birds home overlooked n\e ond / THEM UJOULD FEEL TERRIBLE IF THEM ) D'DN'T HOME TIN\E TO Go OUT / Bum somethvng &nd get \t to / Y^vL BM ChRvSTMAS • - CO A 0>.Q.U Barney Google and Spark Plug Barney’s Got Another Race in Mind Now. Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Billy DeBeck fCopyrlKht. 1921 > y MR <iooG.lt ■ I AM MA30R MUFT from Kansas City - i'M here, for The purpose of inducing You To 3oim Inith The other onjners vnho uaJe THEIR ENTRIES IN T«e CROSS- / Continental race To sujinG ' To KANSAS PITY AND CONTINUE UOESTuJARD FROM THERE - Theyve ali agreed * ncuj IT'S UP To YOU !■—~ * , i NOTHIMCi ■ DOINCt!! H^AND THE extra iqoo y Towns people hame pledged \ 7b The FIBST HOBSE ARRIVING MA;> \ NO ATTRACTION — WELL .WELL , T M AFRAID MY TRIP UP To C“MIOAGO PJAS a wild Goose chase after all « 1 N xll catch The very next \ TRAIN BACK To KANSAS CITY - ') 5 20 NOW 1 JUST HA\J£ V ABOUT EIGHTEEN MINUTES \ __ \nho*se picture IS that in the BACK OF YOUR j \ 'WATCH l / That'S my twenty tear OLD NIECE - IN SPITS OF \ HER YOUTH SHE S A GREAT STUDENT OF HUMAN NATURE. AND SHE LOIES THOROuGhQRE' HOROES • EVERYONE CALLS HER ’ VNEENIE * * _ YMEEN'E » ' SHE'S VAJOMDERtut! \NONDERFui U)EEN\E" I WAIT MERE A \ ctW MIMViTES ) \ MA30H_ T'VE CHANGED MY MIND , M AOCQ LET $ d<^ f AM US U)6NT5 Me To TAKE SPAUK KLUO To kAM<>Y OTV , Ais by mapse<.e y \ ?»?•" Copyright. by King Features Syndicate Inc 4?-A5 BRINGING UP FATHER— SEE JIGG5 AND MAGGIE IN FULL PAGE OF COLORS IN THE SUNDAY BEE Drawn for The Omaha Bee by McManus <C*t>yrlchl. 1#.S » t>EC. THE hew e>URCLAE> PROOT LOCK I HA.O POT ON* THE DOOR? JOVT bTEPOOTbiDE ^ ILL •bHOW TOO how -= n ,T ^/9RK^ r£w*m>\ SORE. HOV-TR'f TO OOEM 'T-CAN YOU HEAR ~| ME.7 THE LOA.FER • CONE’ \ WANNA out a hat; YE“b “biR: I2--IQ JERRY ON THE JOB SAFETY FIRST. Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hobari • Topr rtf !. 11: J » 1 Caktt seewm'iuwY ScJT/4 oooaOvi'nvrr J a* HtSttE A'W'r / wo oouew \*i S i. s^cf Pooay NWEW WAS* / HC«W Wm ) SOBS' OW'tVB'N B060ES*J ' '-[fci? Ea\lUOAO 1 U'KTT OO'VVJ At*! \ I moa? Busier? 1 [ -0»AM A 'TiKi M. i QOOCPi \M /dki ^ ■S IViOlAM NliLLASE ' IMS G<3T "To GOTO A ' SU1UD1G \U‘KiSJl MOfiiA* 'TOM'GVlT -1 VJOWPSR. \* MXl 'PlGSSV VSUA. GwS, - i we / Pass ? »—L VBETttfi. . Buy. / / =BliT IM A* TjwPlWW. 1 C£-vtUiC OAV'JBQAO AmTJJIM v BKftfTVEO 'T’O A ’POCE > ^-<---- P/4J*. ) / 1 -ilt \ >iSOirT '~Acr* But / M ACMICt rrAso Buv -4 ( f 012. <l0U / \WOUT GET P/A\0 OW ( Satucqav. }f) T<p< fcf'oct, \n: Winter Rules By Briggs i NJO * now listen here You nut! i have to have this argymemt with you every] dar'kj year and they hain’t no use coaxin' Thls year! ncw ive been purty decent to Y'OO So FAR--BUT You DON’T SEEM To 'PRECIATE IT—ALWAYS WANTIN’ To ARGY'! Go HUM To THE Little wife and kiddies -- Do Your Christmas shown’ and git ready to play SANtY CLAUS- - You’ve had this UNniv: all spring, summer in fall -- now it's (s/\Y innim’ ' Get me r im goiu' To JvRKJ CIO The DIRTV VAJORK AND IT AlN’.T GOWO’ To LCOK LIKE THE -SAME Ot’ place kid--NOW beat it For Hum! 1 -. G WAN ) y OLD MISTER Vs/INTERS ' Ah * h-h j Just one j more roumCh chief ' J NO 1 1 : 330 Yds. ; ' < wiiM. INJ * V U... I*. hu '7 \ice ) ABIE THE AGENT- _Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hershfield .All's \\>ll Tlul Ends Well. oh . mv ninftv> Collar com is QOHt - SOME^Oty STOLEN MV' HURRY. UP A BERkme - REPORT IP QU*Ck Pt> . M^EQtR', HIS ninety Dollar OLJFRPOAY STDLEVi. LIKE AS IP tY ulAS NCYHuog - AND iM A HIGH Cli&S. ^ Place like this. / •K>.. Too UOCIA. iw MANAGER ' GAVE ME TME NINETY Collars, abev y SHM-L 1 Tb * STORE oorro voo' NES* NOW I'M "TO (^E*l *. NXNETy \bOLLAR COA1 V/ 1 A., ■ I —«r* * ~ v »*««»- r ~ri Cv? - __.A , A Salamander grinned. "Sometimes I think there isn't much sense to names," said h». "My family name la Gopher. Yes, Mih. my family name la Gopher. Hut It is so long since I heard It that I have almost forgotten It. Gopher the Tortoise has no right to the name Gopher at all. I am the only real Gopher around here. I don’t know why folks call ma Sala niander. I am a Pocket Gopher, as every one should know by these big pockets In my cheeks." "Then," spoke up N'anny Meadow Mouse, "you must be own cousin to Grubby Gopher, whom Old Man Coyote knew when he was young and lived in the Far West.” "Very likely. Very likely," replied .Salamander. "I belong to a big fam ily and J don’t doubt I have cousins In the Far West you speak of. But down here I’m Salamander, and I guess 1 always will be. And that slow moving member of the Turtle family Js Gopher, and I guess he always 'tvill be. Sometimes I think names don’t amount to much, any way." "If you please," ventured Danny, • what do you use those big pockets "My family name is Gopher. Yes, sub, My family name is Gopher.” for. Do you use them to bring out the sand from your tunnels?" "No. suhl” replied Salamander promptly. "No, suh. I use those pock ets for collecting food, and for noth ing else. That reminds me that I'm hungry. If you’ll excuse me I’ll get a little fresh food to take down un derground.” •». He started over toward some grass and then Dannv- and Nanny saw a funny thing. His big front claws were folded back so that he walked on the backs of them. When he reached (he grass he cut it into short lengths and stuffed it into those big lockets in h!s cheeks. I d"n t come out in daytime very often, so while I am about it I may as well get all I can,” he mumbled as he continued to stuff grass into those pockets. My. what a lot they did hold: By the time they were filled i.ls h'-od looked as if it had become swollen about three times as big as It ought to be. T" eer thlnrs bctrr 'eft unsaid. The cur.oas are eften ted —*t;<1 W - '.her Nature Copyright. 1923. Th» next story: "Mr. Mocker G.ves Warning " No Gold in Streets in Heaven, Says Dr. Smith Ijr Frank G. Smith's lecture at First Centra] Congregational church lust night tv.is on "Heaven and Hell; What Are They and Where Are Thet. Who's Going Where and Whir s rhe Price of Admission?" Dr. Smith said be did not believe hell » s a .ike i- fire and brimstone »r that heaven was a city with gold paved -treets and jeweled walls; he •lid believe that hell both here and hereafter a the condition and place of abode ■ f the wicked, the unnght •- .us. the selfish and the unloving and unre| entant and that heaven both here and hereafter is the condition end pin -' if al«i!e of the righteous, the unseltish. the brotherly and the i epentant. People are not put in hell and Wept there eternally for something wrong they did here on earth, people are in hell now and they stay there for something they keep on doing; the same is true of heaven. There are people right here in Omaha who are in hell now suffering the beginning; miseries and torture* of the damned: wlu don't they get out? Because Habit bound they lack the power to turn " All inen are either struggling up In ! oledienie to the vivine urge within, th.-m or they are drifting dow n under j ihu f ' nation of the luat of the flesh, those who are struggling up in oliodienee to all the light they have' are in the beginning* of heaven now and hereafter will realize lta fullness, those who are drifting down ara In the beginnings i f h*-ll and finally will realize the fullness of Its anguish and torment. There is no eer-ape. no neutral territory, no middle ground /a every man Is on the rood to heaven or hell; what road have you rhosen; have your f»et taken hold of the way of life or the Way of death? Every man answers this question for him self; we may do our he*t to help him, but the ultimate choice remains with each Individual. Black Hills Train Threatens to Quit Deadwood f. D.. Deo 9.—Consider able conternation is felt here and In Lead City over the threat of the Chi cago St Northwestern railway to dis continue service between these place*. The trains run on hourly schedule* and are a great convenience to the people of Deadwood. Lead, Central City and Gayville. If train service Is discontinued the people of the two latter places will have no way of getting out of the gulch except by walking three miles to Deadwood or two to Lead. Fear Is expressed that the Burling ton trolley will also discontinue ser« vice. It is claimed that these road* have made no profit during the last two years. This fall a bus line on regular schedule was established between Deadwood and Lead which so cut down passenger traffic on the rail roads that they are operating at a loss. The threat to discontinue ser vice follows the announcement of an other bus company organization to make scheduled runs on the same line. Need for It. Joan (sent to bed for mlsbehaviorl — Mummy. 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