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Bee ,OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, -MARCH. 10, 1918. TRt&zr-Topuh? Gollohf Drive Comb Honey By EDWARD BLACK. Home Lif of the Leffingwells. Mrs. Leffingwell might have hung a sign over her kitchen door reading "This is my busv day" without mak ing idle use of words. . After" her noonday buffet luncheon had been added to. the whirligig of. time she took counsel unto herself for a few moments, when Mrs. Whats-her-name pushed her coiffure in at the kitchen door and began to relate that she had just enjoyed a good cry and was feeling much better. Crying was not one of the indulgences of Mrs. , Lef fingwell. She was too busy to cry, and, besides, her enjoyment of sun shine and music and flowers discour aged lachrymal lapses. She cried on , one occasion, when Leffingwell threat ened to let his beard grow for a year, but generally speaking there was enough of the Spartan in her to dispel the sob-sister stuff. She knew that her neighbor who had called was 'of the type that thought a good cry now and then was just too lovely for "any use. Mrs. Whats-her-name usd ally, appeared 1 at the kitchen door after her tear-ipilling affairs and usu ally the had an inconsequential inci dent to relate and which she did re late with all of the embellishments that her nervous temperament could conjure. ' ' ' - Hat "Beautiful Cry." 'I have just had the most beautiful cry," exclaimed Mrs. Whats-her-name as. she stood in the Leffingwell kitch en' doorway, wondering whether Mrs. Leffingwell would give three cheers or the Chautauqua salute. v 1 suppose you must have had a very sad experience," was the com miserating reply. y "Ob, yes, I lust had an impulse that my husband did not love me When he went to work this morning 'he kissed me only once and after he had gone I spilled the salt ' and I just knew that something dreadful was go ing to happen, and the more I thought of it the more I was impressed with the-thought that my husband did not love me, so I just had a good cry," 1 i a it n v f ii y .vii m iiui' .m una v- iiitsAJvm - i-i wy. i v". y mrr w,mi r n i r im Aiirri vav r v k.D"3vt r- a 1 " as- i i ssseaaassaaa, si sam ssaw m. .. m .. m m m Baa sassr-. m, ; ' o) . - oar a was the caller's plaint.- "Do you sup pose" she added, "that he does not care for me as much as he used to? Maybe I don't fix up as much as I did when we were first married. Sup pose' some other woman- should look at him and he should forget abput me. I feel like having another cry." Mrs. Leffingwell waited to laugh, but thbught better of - it. She was sorry for her, neighbor,, who was a victim of a highly-developed imagina tion. V " Spoiled Her Man. t v 1 "You've been married only a year, my dear, and I presume you have spoiled that man of yours;' probably you have almost killed him with kind ness; Take my advice and don't kill him off with too much attention.. You must learn to train your husband as you would (rain an animal. If you go the right way' about it, you can train hubby to jump through a hoop, eat out of your hand, bring a stick to you, or even' believe that home is' the. best place when Ji!s work is done," was the advice of Mrs. Leffingwell. who had been. through the husband-training game and Knew whereof she gave counsel, - . ' 1 ' : " , :, Mrs. wnats-her-name s eyes opened as if she was peering into a new vista of domestic knowledge, "But don't you really ever have a good cry, now and then?" asked the neighbor as she took her leaver Henry Leffingwell was sitting in his throne chair, looking as confident as tne man wno can Horn into the front office of the boss without, sending in his card.' He observed his wife at the kitchen table, quietly enjoVing . her evening! retrospection. He sum moned the members of his family to gatner .around the seat o learning wh.hc jiq uispensea mental rations, ;. .''. Imagination Runt Riot. .1 have been ihinking thaf super- sensitiveness is one of our besetting sins," began the oracle of the house. "We are prone, to be supersensitive, to clothe fancied slights of injuries with reality and thus disturb our equanim The Weekly Bumble Bee OMAHA," SUNDAY 3 MORNING, MARCH 10, 1918 TH55 WEEKLY BTTMBLE BEX, f A. 8TINQKR, EDITOR. ' Commnnlcatloni ob nr toplo relvd. without poiui or ltntur. Mod rtturntd. NO ADS AT ANT PRIC& 4 . rxsnFEsocs.' - ist louowinc cam to 'ui tnroucK th UnlUd 8tata mail. Perhapa on reader knowt ot a worae poem. Wa la you three veraea, aparlnr you the other elrht. On aacond thought, we'll give you two veraea, apartnf yev the other Blue: . 1 , I know of a palace en tha pike naere many mortal dwell Aa, houae-fneatai (they're aa axoiueiva aet) -. Their boat I Doe Connell. ' f CORKT 8PONDENT. P. S). . Now, Mr. Stlncer, calm youreelf, in mat palace I'm not hid; I Barer aaw tha tnalde of it, But I know ot one who did. ; .;; j ; .. C. s. " ' , DECADE. C. R. Sherman, who waa In tha papers aa having been born In 1861. avara that ha waa iDtro- - duced to mundane aiialra In tit. Ba czplalna that ha haa : alwaya told hie wife that hi birth year waa 1161 and there are auodry and diver other rs. eon why he doesn't want tha vtllatere to think ha la whan ba la but it and feel tha part. ''V;- YEAR, Juit a year ago Frealdent Wllaon decided to arm AmerU can ahlpa. Much water haa run by tha. mill ainca then. Tito boUhevlkl hcfo rendered on sreat aervlc to democracy. They have ahowa that tha Oar man will take all they can get ny mia:o.t and tnat tney reeos nue no suca tnin a ntut. California aire 1.(00,099 prune tree to France. Look like aa . unfriendly act toward future Feneration of Frenchmen. Ar you a been t -minded ? Bow many time did rou atand and . watt for a ear on the far aide or U-a atreet laat week? "RuMlana to invade China," ays a newspaper headline. .'Maybe they can lick the Chi n anyway. - D you Ilka to drive ' Than help drive the third Liberty loan aver the top. ; - George Redman observed - a 4 robtn laat week. Ba is obaerv ant, is George. ' ; Y ' - " The Germans sectored Ohama. . Russia, laat week. A close call t tor Omaha REASONS WHY PRICE OF ICE HAS TO EE HIGH NEXT SUMMER Ready -Mada Alibi Ara ror Blshed la Advanee to tha ' Ice Men Without Any ". , Charge. Ice !t lnchea thick has been cut from Carter lake and other local field thla winter. The Ice housea are crammed full to the roof. All very good, you say. But topl Think of the poor Ice men. - Where ara they going to get their "alibi' next ummer when people murmur about the high coat of Icet A the friend of the oppressed. The Bumble Bee herewith prevent a Hat of good excuse for high prices of Ice, absolutely free of charge, to tha Ice men. 1. Tha loe waa o thick that It wa hard to cut. , t. Tha weather was ao cold that the men had to waste time beating their hand together to keep warm. J. Tha price ot horse feed had gone up nearly 10 percent ow ing to tha war. - 4. Tha blocks of ' lea were heavier than they would have been if they had not been ao thick, thua requiring more work in handling them. i. The price ot axle grease has advanced owing to the war, thus making it more expensive to run the ice wagons. The are but a tew augge tloaer but w trut they will prove useful to our friends, the Ic men. date. L' .: ..' "I had to leave a word ejut of otn of the long line,- said Dav Feblowlts aa ha brought us a proof of The Army of Wheat "But you ean't do that; It'll spoil the meter." w re monstrated. "Cen t help about the' meter,' said Dave. . WHATf ' Onca a beautiful hotel : wa built and hamed after a famous Indian chief. Marble and soft carpets and mahogany wood work and handsome furniture mada tha hotel a place of beauty. And in tha lobby of the hotel waa a iplendld picture ot the -Indian ohlef after whom the hotel waa named. It had a com manding place In tta rich gold frame. And then they placed at tha top and bottom of the picture soma refleotor mad of ugly, battered, unpainted' gal vanised Iron. , . ' GOPHER. ' ' ' George Wllaon came Into The Bumble 'Bee office laat Mondky and made the following aworn atatement! "I aaw a, robin, I aaw a meadow lark, and I saw a gopher digging hi hole this morning.' George is about twoj ,w uu iui si i si room atuft, but Is, w believe, the first man to see a gopher this pnng. - '.....' ' - INFLUENTIAL -Tv-' Laat Sunday The Bumble Bee announced that on the tth ot next month It will be a year lnc w entered the wr. On Tuesday Secretary MeAdoo an nounced that tha third,. Liberty loan drive will tartfon April (. (Sunday' Bumble Bee reaches Washington Tuesday morning.) ' TALK. ; ,' Sign of Spring The appear ance at Fourteenth and Douglas atreata of the fellow who aell mlraculoua corn medlctna dis covered by an old Indian or a Chinese doctor or somebolly. Not tl a bottle, not 10 cent, not IS cent, but IS cent a box, the advertising price. , ' CLEVAH f Religious Editor, Weekly Bum ble Bee: Commenting on your timely paragraph camouflaged aa an "Insurance" Item, I would aay that in my Judgment, for a married man of xg. a "straight" life la unquestionably the beat policy. LUCT RATER. ! MILITARY VAMPIRE ; MAKES FAT LIVING - DECEIVING SOLDIERS Becomes "Engaged" to Half a Doien, From All of Whom.', , .. .. She Receive Money . . ...... Regularly, .. ,.. Th Army o! Wheat 7 eiwk - . . -"" mm Ban me eoaainoa or aa iraeat crop 1 excellent, la eon sectluui ft ba ilnady besua to tbew im-Nm itHm. '' '.-'.. -v Oh. tea tbousanj billion litUw grain, of wheat are in the ground- Put your ear down to tha ground. t)o yoa hear that growing sound? That vague, mysterious, stirring. Mother Nature'a solemn sound. : f It th Blighty whcaUa army on tha march. , Tea million men ara fighting in a land across the sea: They arc fighting that the people of tha world may 11 be free But a mightier army helps tha foe'e defeat. , : . .Tha army of the growing grains ot wheat- - Oh, the gentle rains of springtime aoon win fall, the tephyr blow; , ; Feel th warming aephyrs blow. And the grains of wheat will know . , " ' Tha God of tight ordained that they shall fight with u. they'll And th mighty wheatea army 'a on tha maieh. Th green and waving fields and then tha rolden rlwi A million clicking reapara will make kingly boastings vain. t " ,my iun our loeyi retreat. The army of tha golden grains of wheat Tha military vampire Is the fttest candidate for the . title of. "meanest woman." A few day ago a man In a hotel lobby entered " Into con venation , with the writer,- and told him of ona ot these vsm plr. "She' getting money every month from aix or eevea dif ferent, eoldiera," h aald. "Why, how doea She manage that?" we. asked. "Promised to marry 'emiwhen they come home from the war." aid our Informant, who seemed to think it altogether a hu morous and clever affair, "She met 'em, one after tha other, and made 'era fall in love with her and promised tdt marry thenr wheit they comeKback. It keepa her klnda busy answering their letter, but when she gets from SIS to ' H0 apiece from each of 'em every month she can afford do It." Wo expressed our opinion of thla woman in no . uncertain terma to our unidentified in formant. Ha aaemed aurprtied that wa could not aea tha hu mor of th situation. . Ha also declined lo divulge tha, name of the female. Facing a firing squad would be too good a fate for thla mul tiple fiancee. - . , . J " WHISKERS. -, Did Premier Clemencean ot Franc kiss our brave soldiers when he pinned the crotx de guerre on them laat week? Un doubtedly he did and undoubt edly they stood even this with unflinching courage. , ; ' ' i MISTAKE. .The house-to-house canvas to see how many Liberty bond and war savings . atampa. etoV ev erybody haa bought amacka of Pruaalanlsm, and. In Tha Bum ble Bee' humble opinion, will do ar mora harm than good. , , ' STICK.. ( . ' ' When you lick a war aavlnga stamp you ' kick . tha kaiser, throw a brick 'at Hlndenburg, make Ludendorff feel atck and help to lick Germany. TOCGH. ' ' Our aympathy geea out fa Mr. Wattle. . He, haa to atiy in Nebraska, administering 'food, while hi palatial home lit Cali fornia liea idle all winter; TERNIN8T. r Editor Bumble Bee: Please ssk Manager Long, .for. Jerry Howard, when hjs candidate will aqnounce his platform. CONSTANT READER. ' tty without reason. Mrs Whals-her- name observes Mrs. So-and-fo. and Mrs. Cut-some-ice conversing ovet tne back tence and imagines that she is -the subject of the - conversation, whereupon ensues aa estrangement. i ne L,ettingweiis cannot be maenanl mous if they .are sensitive or if they .' t e- a ' ." arc not Dig enougn to ovenooic tne trailties of others. ', - ' , "Say. dad. would it be correet to r fer to arsilver dollar as a good, round sumf.'.askea Willie, who was'more mercenary tsan aesthetic . "Sensitive folks frequently mistake a neighbors irascibility for an in tended affront. Touch-me-not dispo sitions nave no place in our com' munal. life. Sensitive people should go back to jliying hi caves and thn if neighbor Sticks his head out ot his cave the other neighbor can throw rocks just to let "folks know that somebody is at. home and the home fires are burninsr " continued the bread-winner of the Leffingwell habl tau .. . ; -way from Nag's Head. "Get away from that horse's head ' pertiy mterposea Willie. "Henry Leffingwell," said his: wife, "if I . were as sensitive as vou when you get off your feed I would crawl into oea ana pun tne covers over. my head for fear that I would see myself in the mirror. You are so sensitive tnat some ot these days vou will, bo all to pieces and there will beno help- tor you. tnthK you need some sas safras." -... -:J "Hooverrze on "the argument." suar- gested Mary as she deftly moved her hands over the piano keyboard 'and the' strains of "Mother. Machree". in spirited the Leffingwell disp1 utints, Ruling Passion h Strong in Youth. Health commissioner Connell had occasion to explain to a-group of school children that they had to be vaccinated or . remain - home for 121 days. A; little colored boy looked up into the doctor s face and seriously remarked: "I'll be derned if -1- will stay at home 21 days if there' is a circus in town." . . ' L : ... Mystified "ilfcc" ; . " Wonders ; What It , : ' , - Is All About T. T, McGuire. who was a darn srood newspaper reporter before he went into thc-law business "and became a really efficient prosecutor, has-been wondering considerable of late "over an outburst of animosity on the part of a former companion-in-arms. . i The other newspaperman? has been v taking a lot ot comtort out of slam ming "Mac" in public print, most of the comment being caustic and some of it seemingly unwarranted-' Tv J. finally concluded he would try tofind out what it was all about ind -so hunttd up his former friend'and fel low worker .: and asked . him - point blank. . -f v. . ;.;,' I "Well, ain't you axandidate for city commissioner?" asked the offender.. "No, 'm not," answered MsGuireJ "but what it l was what has that got to do with it?" v. .; "Oh," replied the writer, "thaVs dif ferent. I thought yofl were , and wanted to help you along," And now the man who is siaking himself a terror to bootleggers puts in part of his time each day trying -to divine the cryptic meaning of the alibi. He has almost reached the conclusion that every knock ' is - a Jtoost .";6heU Shock,:' , r'--- "Why did your Iriend , claim im munity for prostration from war serv ice, when all-he haa been doing is to shuck oysters?" , . ? -..' ' "That's rie-ht. Taii.im. Tn ill'n'i dream there would be so much work 1 the first two weeks of school He worn in that job, and ao he's suffering from both fights, vihey were tough ones, shell shock.' Baltimore American. I and he wondered what would happen By A, EDJVIN LONG. Guy Liggett might have been a doc tor ; instead ;of the boss of the Pan- toqum in Omaha. . That is what his father tried to make of him. No- use. Liggett' s ' father .was a doctor, sand .Guy used ; to bit chased out' of. a warm bed at midnight to hitch up the ponies for the "old nt" when he had a midnight call. mat settled it. Guy set' his foot down and said it was bad enough to have to handle the team all nicht when a kid without planning to make a lifetime business of it. ; He studied the habits. of the oro- iessions and decided lawyers had no teams' to hitch up at night. He would be-a lawyer. . All .these ambitions were chasing inemseives tnrougn nis iiead back on the farm near Conwav. Ia..-where he was born. There he swam all theinud creeks in the neighbonhbod, raced horses' on 'Sundays and made life a burden to the jack rabbits in the win ter, v-. , Once. his racintc nearly out an elfd to all his ambitions.' The pony ran away, ' tie saddle turned, his foot caught in the stirrup and for a dis tance .of more than a block, bourujing through- the street, the jockey was looking up at the horses's belly while, the "flying .hoofs werebatterinsr his skull. r v; - . , : Then his boot nulled off and saved his life. v;V' ;... . - At the Conway oublic schools he learned his A, B C's. At.the Creston, la., High school he. learned that the. square ot the: hypotenuse" of a right angle triangle is equal td the sum of the squares of the other two sides and also traced the course of Caesar and his Roman toughs through .the bar rooms of uaul. t v ? . -I Into Ames'1 State college he then sailed with bis 'legal ambition looming like a volcano of gold before him. Before the ; year was finished the youngster was called home to help his brother in thehardware store, while the brother set up Self rbinderSy for the farmer trade. " ., v . . . v- : Ready money looked good to the young man in the fall,, when he learned that he might teach a school. He took the examination and sur prised himself by passing. V v y With the aid" of the County superin tendent he got the ,t .Highest school in a far down Missouri county. No oth er teacher would take it and there is a lurking suspicion that this iswhy the superintendent issued a certificate to Liggett at all. j- The directors pulled this 18-year-old teacher into a corner and told him that the . tw6 previous teachers had bean beaten up iy )hc big boys and run completely out. of the district They told him of the bullyf the school; and ibCgged him to have no trouble with that boy. "v . We had two fights with big boys if the bully was any tougher -than, the two-he had just handled. , , M -: The third week came. : . '" - . 'iThe bully opened the third .weeji by lighting, his corncob pipe' in the rear seat in the morning, and calmly blowing rings at the cobwebs, on the ceiling. ' ., r-iv ? v. . f. H defied the teacher. w,hen asked to quit. '.. '.'"..'t' Liggett saw trouble ! ahead, - and found it convenient to lay t hands on the stove poker. He pretended to be busy with the fire, . "Wat're you gotn'to do with that poker?" shouted' the bully, as he laid down-thepipe. s i : . ' - "I'm going to use it .on your head if i it's ; necessary,.' Liggett snapped back. .7 ' - ' .. The bully leaped out of his seat and hurled himself at the Jeacher ", First Liggett made a false motion with tt poker,- expecting ;to.-. scare this tough . backwoodsman. In - an swer the teacher got a right hook under the left ear. - . r . i. ; Tnn,he swung the, poker in earnest and; slashed the bully's head, open for a Space of seven inches.' t . ' 1 It had no more effect on him than if might-have had on a yearling bull.. Liggett dropped the poker and re membered that he had been feather weight champion at Ames in his short college course. He began to use his fists. Round and round the .room went . the two. They fought upNone aisle and 'down the other. Blood spurted on the walls from'the faces of both.- A half dozen 'times the bigger boys parted the two and always one or the "other would leap over a row of seats and plunge into the rumpus afresh.v .;. All the girls and small' children ran horned There were 4S pupils in school when the fight started, and only six remained when the draw was-called' an hour later. . It was a full hoy they fought, and when the eyes of both were o Swollen that they could not find one another they had to stop. Liggett does not claim a real vic tory over this boy. but he' contends -that while he appeared ready to teach next .morning, the bully did not come. Later in the week he appeared again, and the two glowered at each other through swollen, eye sockets. The directors offered: to expel the bully, but' Liggett saidf - "Let him stay; but I will rnn this sohool if I have to run it with a, stove pokeri' For four years he taught in other schools and clerked in a bank inter mittently. ' ' In the bank he got so friendly with the, banker's daughter that he lost his job: : . A L. ' ' ' During the winter of 1897 his hear ing became affected. It .was March 10, 1898, that -he came to Omaha for treatment.,20 ysars ago tpday. To make expenses while taking treatments in Omaha he became a col lector for 'the Pantorium j at $6 a week. 1 '- The doctors told him his hearing might grow worse 'instead of. better,, Everybody B& aHobby! Tell , VhaVs.Y . ' Solves Pussies.' i-S" "Dick" Stewart, the automobik. guy, whose name is not Dick '-at all, ' but rather John T. Stewart, is a crarilc for-puzzles; riddles and rebuses.-This fellow would almost rather, work on a picture puzzle than sell automobile supplies. though.' or : Course. ;-he . will wait on customers who. insist on buying-an inner tube, a spark- plugor a steering wheel. But you just can t trip "Dick" up with, puzzles vWhy, he'll ttell you in a minute how. 'the farmer rowed that fpx.; goose N and bushel -of corn across the J"ier, one at a time, so as to keep the corn out of the goose's gizzard,' and the geose out ' of the fox's ; stomach. H will arrange numbers in lines so as - to produce a square the sumof whose lines will foot alike in any direction. He will arrange words, letters - and pictures-in such a way as to write s history ; on a pin-head. In fact, he could write the. rise andvfall of. the German empire on" dime if it weren't against the law to deface coin. v '.f t Raises Vegetables. 7 John W.'Battin has- trirl wst hobbies andhe avers-, that the snost satisfying of them all is h6me-Mrden- ing. He cultivates a tract 75x125 feet " next to his home and adjoining the home of Judge Troup. , Last season Mr. Battin raised sweet corn, .toma toes, cucumbers, beans and, other foods from the soil. ' Aside from the food, conservation feature of my hohby. there is a cut-""' tural side which appeals strongly to me." said Mr. I Battin. ' "I niAvri many hours of the earlySnorning and -the evening in my garden last season. The work afforded needed exercise and I learned much in connection with gardening. I found it to be reallv interestinfr.' We made im f this ground in a practical wav-and the yield was worth while. I intend to start in this spnnir amn it mv hobby. And you wtmTd .be surprised how much one can raise on a tract 75x125." -. Some Singer. Frank G." Odell. " secretarv "tf trhe ' Federal Land bank of Omaha, beirte duly identified and fsworn, deposed that hishobby is singinsr. " OdeH'is not only a singer in his own right,..but he is a musical leader af public gath erings where , national . and , patriotic numbers are sung in concert He never expects to be a McCormack or. a Lauder, "but does like to sing. The ' other night, at a patriotic meeting; ; his clarion voice was heard abovf the multitude in the rendition of "Amer- ica."' -yy -r ' . ' . i Vi ' i ! : "Singing, he. says, "stimulates :di- ' gestion and patriotism. I would rather sing than go to a circus or to . '" a picnic: and I like both of those ac- . : . t a 1 t . 1 . iviiics. juci me ieaa tne singing 01 he nation and I care not who olavs the organ. - Singing is better than crying. A nation of singers will never be defeated. -Tells Stories. : D. ; C. Patterson is'.developing as a story teller. Telling stories is his hobby and he is proud of 5. He has been doing some four-minute sneak ing and always manages' to work in a few of his stories. 'K. One "ot nis 'stories ' about a cheese "knocks them .out of theirseats," as the stage folks would express it . uk r.11 - . . .. ; ''''."i m just yot iu nave some-kind- oi'z hobby and I suppose my hobby is story telling. , I -don't claim to be the best in the world; but I am -doing imy' bestiandI enjoy it," Mr., Patterson said. - ; - , : . , Some of hi.S friends were rather, sur prised when he launched ' forth' as a ranconteur,iabut;rD.-C. says - he will . disarrn all v criticism ,t before ; he is ; through.- ; - . .. . : ., One of his favorite, varns is"about i arkey- who entered military service. :v.:'"J ttsso Exjpert.--.'- 7;'' . Andy Hansen, soecial flcpnt in tlir federal bureaij ,of .investigation,' has t hobby of fancx lasso -twirling.He can take the rope and toss the looo around ' the foot of a man running 40 feet away from him as easily as rolling off a log ' 1 U t !.. . . r t . c van lorm it into- V loop fcv reet In diameter and keep it twirling in, beau tiful circles for almost any length of time. " " l ' , ' V Andy ought to know how to twirl the; ropej for ' he'was 'a cowpuncher tor iZ5 years of his life on the M-Bar-M ranch , in South 'Dakota and othet ranches. He wore a big sombrero and chaps ahd.a'red handkerchief'' around his neck and all -that sort of : thing. ' And he rode after "them' steers" on ; the wide range and' rescued maidens, from-the savages, probably likethey do in the movies. , ' ' ' Wears Hat' ' . i ' Sheriff Clark's . hohbv. Is his hat' After 'that, "nothin doin'." Clark and his hat' are constant companions. His office force report 4hat he al- '! ways keeps it on his head. No tin to Clark's haf He wears it level on his Read and keeps his head level under . according to the latest reports. , It is an irishman s hatrrather than -sheriff's' hat. - A sheriff's hat ought to have a crease in it-and a wide rim s sloping ;down over one eye. Mike's hat is sott felt, narrow rimmed, black to match his, mustache, . and round topped like a derby,' with no dents in, the crovvn, said to be the only hat of its kind in, "captivity."", .; ' 1 " The. only time Mike ever took his . hat, off was when he threw it into the ring against Sheriff - McShane and again -when he took it "off in Court room. No. 5. out of deference to the court ' so he gave up all thought of the law. He bought an interest in thePanto- -rium and, of course, managtd to get his wages raised. The doctors, guessed correctly as , to his hearing. r it grew wotre and, as Liggett says, "Today I" ant entirely deaf, but can still talk and laugh at a good joke, even if it ion me." iBestof all, the' banker's daughter for whom he lost his job inahe bank became Mrs. Liggett and the banker, T has long since been reconciled. , Liggett Is a golf fiend and a "play ball, fiend and loves to fish, hunt and camp. out. - He is a . Mason, JCnight Templar,. Shriner. flic member of the Chamber of Commerce,- Athletic dub, Happy Hollow and Prettiest Mile. And he sheds no tears at his failure to land in the legal profession. .. v ' Next ia Thla Berlea Hsw- Onaha Cat - Will. H. Clarke . . . . . , ' v i ,1 -V. " - v