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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1911)
c L'SY BEES: Do you know B ing about your choice of a new king and queen for the Chil dren's page? All contributors to the page and all boys and girls who read the rtorics on the page are entitled to two votes one for the boy whose articles they have enjoyed most during the last four months; one for the girl whose letters they have liked best. The boy who receives the most votes will be your new king for the fol lowing four months. The girl who receives the most votes will be your new queen. The present queen is Mary Katherine Harrison of Omaha; the present king. John Ashby of Fremont. The results of the election will te announced September 3. All votea must be In by August 30. A The editor wishes the Busy Bees to one side of the paper, to state their age they are on Blue or Red. -4 (First Prlzs.) Nature Study. By Carmllla Edholm. Aged t Tears; 1U South Thirty-sixth Street. Omaha. . Blue Side. July 19 wf went to East Omaha, la. It was quite cool when we started, but later Carter lake was rery low at thla place, the deepest part not being over a foot and very muddy. There were many cattails where the water had aone down and I brought one home. A long boat dock stretched across the mud and water and so we walked out to the middle of that part of the lake. Besides cattails we saw reeds, white ver vain, chicory, partridge pea, sundrop. Iron weed, bristly crowfoot, water arum, yellow thistle and smartweed. The only birds we saw were sandpipers. We found a few shells In the mud and got our shoes very muddy. We ate our lunch on the boat dock and made little boats out of our sandwich pa pers and sent then out to sail. For our July 22 lesson we went to Dr. Whinnery's residence to see his great collection of Nebraska birds. He has about 900 different kinds, most of them In glass cases and he hopes to get more. W learned the principal families of birds and how to know them by their feet, tall, flight, beak and note. Dr. Whtnnery gave us each a field check list of birds published by the Nebraska Ornithologists' union. We marked these cards according to the different families of birds to help us remember. We learned that all . hawks except two are harmless, to chickens and the mother hen win always know this by the white bar across tbe tail and will hurriedly ceil her chickens under her wing. There was a mackerel sky which looked as though tt would rain, but It did not. (Second Prise.) Farm Life. By Mary Donnell, 2114 Locust Street. Omaha. Blue Side. I lived on a farm three years ago. I liked It there very well. I had a pet horse and called tt Tom. When we would hitch the horse up to the buggy he would go as slow as an old man. I had a pet hen and her name was Polly. She would come In the house and lay an egg In the bed. When we would be away she would lay the eg? on the door step. We had a team of cream-colored ponies and they were very nice. We had a team of grays and they were working horses. Their names were Dick and Bell. I had a cow and her name was Bessie. bba was a nice cow and I could milk her. (Honorable Mention.) The Disobedient Fish. By Mildred White, Aged 10 Tears, 2211 North -Twenty-eighth Avenue, Omaha. Red Bide. In a small stream nearby there dwelt a family of fishes which we shall name the trout. There were two boys and two girls, also a mother and father. The two boys were very naughty and wished to swim down the stream Into the lake below, but the mother, who knew better, said that they should stay at home for there were many dangers In the lake. But one day when everybody was out ef the way off they started. Soun they came to a largo rock which they had to swim around, when, what was their sur prise to see a large worm dangling in the air. Umber, which was the youngest, darted fdiuarU and ,o.i tli.wppvi.icu. t'uoe Poke was left behind. Now, of course, we all can guess that IJniUer was caught a foo.lflh fish on a hook and line. Slow Poke wished that he was safe at home; but his pride was too strong to go back. He swatn on Ull he met Mr. Pick erel, when he was devoured, and never heard of after that. This is the end of the disobedient fish. Bessie. By Clara Roepker, Aged 14 Tears. Grand Island, Neb. Our beautiful pet was called Bessie. She was a oollie. Her fur was soft and brown and she was very sensiulo. She heard very word we said to her and seemed to have many thought of her own besides. One day we sent off some of her pretty puppies on the train. She went with us as we went to the train and secme'd very lone some. A few days after we miasud her. We soon found out that iho had gone to take care, of her puppies. One evening Beaste came to us in great aaony. She lay at our feet and rained her brown eyes as If asking for help. We lid everything for our pet. A cruel ntau had given her poison. She suffered for three days the greatest pain and then tied. We buried her as a great friend. We decorated her rave with greens and Dowers, My Sparrow. By Thetma TtJderlckJ. Ased U years, 322 East tilth Street, liranu island. Neb. I like birds and think It la very wrong to kill them. One day as I was going along a building I saw a Utile sparrow that could not fly and It was aut of the aesC So I tried to catch tt and after a walla I did, I took it mm that It is time for you to begin think remember to write their letter on but and address and to name which side RULES FOE YOUNG WRITERS 1. Write plainly oa one side of the paper only and number the pages. a. T7e pea and Ink, not pencil. 8. Bbort and pointed articles will b given preferences Do net use over 850 words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be nseo. 8j Write your name, age and address at the top of the first page. rirst and second prises of books will be given for the best twe con tributions to thla page each week. Address all 'miiratltrns to CKXX.DBSVS OEPAJtTaEEMT Omaha Bee, Omaha, Kebj home with me and took care of It It grew very tame and would come and take crumbs off the table. It got so It flew to every place In the house. But one day as my grandma was going along tbe floor she stepped on soirve thing and then she heard a little cry and she looked down and there was my spar row dead. 8 he did not mean to hurt it, but I was very sorry about It and so was grandma and then we burled It. This is a true story. Nature Study. By Camille Edholm." Aged I Tears. 118 South Thirty-sixth Street, Omaha. ' Blue Side. la my first letter I made a mistake about tbe rose-breasted grosbeak singing seven months .of the year. 1 thould have said seven weeks Instead. July 12 and 15 the nature study class went to Florence, both days being very warm, with cirrus, nimbus and cumulus clouds In the sky. We saw thirteen new plants, but only one new bird a kingbird. In order to study the rocks of the rip rap on the river bank for fossils we car ried hammers to break them. We found brachiopod, rice grain, crlra ond or stone lily, flint, fool's gold, coral. Iron-stained limestone, water crystal and Pennsylvania limestone fossils, some of which have the queer names of finger nail and walking stick. After we ate our lunch Mis Wood showed -us the water works, called Mlnne Lusa. pumping station, and we went down two flights of stairs until -we came to the water. Minne-Luna means clear water. It was only a few Inches deep, but it was very muddy. There was 'a little sidewalk all around the room, and we walked around on It several times. It was so much fun to walk on a little sidewalk entirely sur rounded by water. On the outside steps of the building we saw a number of dead bees and we found out that they were drones who had been stung to death by the worker bees, which have a hive In the tower of the building. The workers had thrown the drones out because they would not work. On a Picnic. By Orlando Smith, Aged 7 Tears, S307 South Thirty-second Avenue, Omaha. While I was at my grandma's we went for a picnic. We went down town and g.ot some bread and sour pickles. Then we came back home and got mamma. A woman took us to Flint creek in a big buggy. There was mamma, grandma, my two sisters, a little boy and I. When we were going through the ford the woman was going to give her horse a drink. The horse's check rein was tied too short and she got on the horse to looeen the rein, ard the horse got scared and jumped. Then the woman Jumped off In the ford and got all wet. She caught the rein as she went down. That kept the horse from running away. Then the woman drove out of the water and drove on to the other side of the creek. We all got out of the buggy. Then we put on our bathing suits and brgan to bathe. Then we got out and went to eat our lunch. After that we staved a little while. Then we went and bathed some tnore. We came bacL. then and got a cool drink of spring water. After that we all went home. On our way home there was a windstorm and then It began to rain. The Flicker. By Ruth Ioolse Redfleld. 2004 Binney Street. Omaha. I am in the fifth grade in the pubHo school snd as the flicker is the bird for to f.f r - 'Mad. I will tell you something about him. Besides being called the flicker he Is called the yellowhammer and golden winged woodpecker. In length he Is from twelve to thirteen Inches, or about one-fourth again as large as the robin. His head and neck are bluish gray with a red crescent across the buck of bin neck and a black creaien: on his breast. The male has black check patches that are wanting on the female. He Is golden brown, shading Into brownish gray and barred with black above. Underneath he Is whitish tinged with light chocolate and thickly spotted with black. The wings, linings, shafts of wings and tall quills are a bright yellow. Above the tall la white, coni-plcuous only when the bird fl ea. Tbe flicker is usually a resident of the United Statu east at the Rocky moun In the tains, also found In Alaska and British 'America and occasionally found on the Pacific slope. The flicker Is commonly seen from April to October. Jack's Disobedience. By Dewey Sherer, Aged 13 Yrsars. Wood ; River. Neb. Route 3, Boi 7. Blue Side. Original. "Shall I go?" No. Yes. This was' the question that had been puzzling Jack for the last week; or you might say, for the last year. But now as he was sitting on the edge of his bed, the thought was at Its highest degree. Jack had gone to bed that night to think, not to sleep; and he had been thinking for many hours (for now it was far past midnight) merely on the one subject and that was, "Shall I leave home?" Jack had lived with his stepfather alone for the last four years, his mother having died and left poor Jack alone with his cruel stepfather who did not care then for the 6-year-old boy. They had lived In the new country about five years, coming there when settlers were few and far apart and many a tree sent far Its roots In the soil which would be tilled some day. But going back to Jack's troubles. We find It about S o'clock In the morning, and In the Realm of the Wooden Mites N THE beginning, there did not exist any such people or fairies as the Wooden Mites. But once upon a time an Italian carver of wood made some very fine little figures, men and omen. These he would set up on a shelf outside his shop door for sale. One day along came a little boy, and he stopped to admire the pretty little wooden figures. But he felt too poor to buy one, for he was a peasant boy, and lived with a cross old vine grower on the mountain side. His father and mother had been killed dur ing an earthquake, their bouse having fallen In on them. The little boy, by name Ferugi. was a mere baby at the time and was playing in the vineyard, beneath the shade of the vines. Ills father and mother had just left the vlnyard to go Into the house to prepare somo dinner, and had left their little one out In the open where he delighted to be. And the earthquake came so suddenly that they were not warned, and it was of such severity that It threw down tbe heavy stone walla of their house and crushed them to death. Little Ferugi was found that samo day, crying and call ing for his mamma, standing beside the demolished house, endeavoring to creep Into it. Being an orphan, Ferugi was taken In charge by a man and his wife who lived near to Peru si's father's home. And this TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST Realm of Childhood THE FAIRY THAT LIVED IN THE Jack out of bed before the old clock on the shelf had sounded the third peal which rang out with a clear tone. Jack noiselessly dressed, himself and fix ing a lunch, he slipped out the back door into the night's cool August air. Jack hesitated for one moment to listen to see If everything was quiet. Hearing no , noise he went round the house and down the side path to the road. There was no moon, but the stars were shining brightly to see some distance. His heart was beating rapidly ty the time he had reached the road and was walking briskly down It. He had gone for a little way when he heard foot steps close behind' him and he soon understood that his stepfather was following. He knew that there was no use to try to escape so he turned briskly around and there standing looking Into his face was his stepfather. He asked Jack why he wished to run away from home and Jack said that he was too cruel to him. Jack's stepfather understood the case for he knew . that he had been very cruel to his boy. Ha then took Jack by the hand and they both walked down the road very quietly until they reached home. Then walking silently In, Jack told his man was the' cross old vine grower we spoke about Just above. And this same Vine grower got possession of the land and vineyard left by Perugi's father, and cheated tbe little orphan out of his rights. Well, when Ferugi stopped to look long ingly towards the little wooden figures, the wood carver, who was standing in his shop door, recognized him. He had known Perugi's father, and had loved him as a good, honest man. And many a basket of fine grapes had he been Invited to gather from Perugi's father's vineyard. And he, the wood carver, did not forget his old friend, nor his old friend's little son. "Choose one, and you are welcome to It. son," said the wood carver, nodding his head to Ferugi. "Take the finest one there." And he pointed towards the wooden figures on the shelf. "But I have no money to buy," smllea Per us 1. "I give tt you," said the wood carver. And he took from the shelf the finest bit of carving and handed It to Perugi. The little chap's face lighted up wondrously, snd he was profuse in his thanks for the lovely gift- Fut his eyes sought another figure one of a woman and he pointed to It: 'That looks like my mother's picture. Does It look like my mother when she was living "Ah, so it does, for your mother was a very lovely woman," declared the wood 6, 1911. BOOK. stepfather how he had plained to run away. Then his stepfather told him that If he would stay, at home with him he would try and be more kind to him. Then they both went quietly off to bed . and Jack never tried to runaway from home again. How I Spent My Life. By Marie C. Iversen. Aged 13 Tears, Flor ence, Neb. Route No. 2. Red. As this Is the first story I have ever written for the Busy Bees, I will write a story of my life. The first three years of my life I lived In South Omaha. Then my papa died and then we (mamma, my sister and I) went to Denmark. We then stayed with grandma and grandpa a year and a half. And then we went back to North Amer ica and went to live on a farm. It Is eight years ago since we started to live on a farm and we are still living on a farm to this day. We have a riding horse which I can ride on. I tide on him after the cows. His name Is Prince. Where we are liv ing now we have three milk cows and three calves. carver. "You shall have that one. too. That will give you a pair of 'em a lady and a gentleman. I call that man Image Prince Nono, and the lady Image the one that I now give you Princess MlmL So you have a prince and princess. Then customers coming, Perugi hastened away, fully intending to return the fol lowing day. If his master would permit him to do so, and thank the good wood carver many more times. His heart swelled with gratitude over the good shopkeeper's gen erosity. He felt that be had shown him a great and loving kindness. Which he had. On his way home Perugi stopped several times to sit by the roadside and play with the Prince and Princess. They were the most wonderful bits of carving he had ever seen, looked so lifelike that Perugi would not have wondered In the least had they spoken to him. "Ah." he said, "it grows late. I've been Idling too long. Old Nanl will beat me. I must hasten." And Just then as he was rising from a mossy bank, the little Prin cess Mlml spoke. It seemed to be the most natural thing in the world tor her to do so. "My son." said she. "why re turn to a place where you are so cruelly treated? Why not go into somo beautiful AH." HE CRIED. "CANNOT I MOVE LIKE A HLMAN BEING?" place with us and dwell In happiness?" Perugi listened and smiled. "That would be very nice," he declared. "But you are little wooden mites, and couldn't walk of yourselves. Bo I would be alone, except for you as dolls. And dolls cannot earn The BEES Junior t t.t " - ft . - , . 2J MART ETLEEN EDWARDS, 4319 Ersklne StreeC Name and Address. Bernlce Adler, 3229 Harney St I ' " Frank W. Anderson, 2401 South Thirty Raymond Bieker, 605 North Twentieth Lester Burgeson, 3328 Bedford Ave.... Ruth Bernstein, 1925 South Sixteenth St John Bosenec, 1413 South Fourteenth St Hollis Baright, 2430 Spalding St Evelyn E. Backstrom, 2606 South Thirty-first St. Myrtle E. Burkman, 918 North John Bauer st- Joseph.. . 190 5 Gladys Crume. 2201 North Twenty-first St. ...... Lake ...... ...... 1903 Augustine Crane, 218 Park Ave.... Farnam ..1898 Delmore Cheney, Jr., 2303 Dewey Ave .Central ...1903 Howard V. Canan, 1922 South Thirty-fifth Ave.... High .......1894 Hazel Carpenter, 2412 South Fifteenth Margaret Csogo, 1202 South Second St Cornelius G. Collins, 4218 Nicholas St.. Thomas De Boyd, 2513 South Twelfth St... Mary E. Edwards, 4319 Ersklne St...... Leo Fox, 2922 Leavenworth St , ... Dale Fratt. 2606 Emmet St..... Edith O. Flynn, 4029 Miami St. Glen Harvey, 2132 North Twenty-eeventh St Marguerite Hutyfleld, 1920 Castellar St.... Louisa Huster, 4007 North Twenty-sixth St. ...... Saratoga ......1904 Harte Jenks, 2548 Capitol Ave..., Mary R. Johnson, 3423 North Thirtieth Charles Kellog, 2 410 Grant St Louis Kavan, 2709 South Nineteenth St Grace King, 3718 Meredith Ave Thorwald . Lauritaen, 911 North Twenty Hans T. Lorentzen, 1412 Evans St Lothrop ...1896 Alfhild Llnd, 2501 Templeton St .....Saratoga ......1903 Elsie Morris, 3510 North Twenty-eighth Ave Howard Kennedy.. 1898 Hazel McVey, 1571 Leavenworth St..... Leavenworth ....1900 John Marletto, 612 Pierce St Pacific ...1895 Marie Murphy, 2040 North Twenty-first St. Sacred Heart. ..1895 Raymond Neweil, Thirteenth and Grace Sts Lake Gladys Nicholson, 2810 Seward St... ...Long ...... Z Florence E. Olsen, 2109 South Tsinth St High ....!.Z Louis O. Ophland, 3001 South Tenth St Pacific ..7!LZ Alma M. Pedersen, 2017 North Twenty-first St Lake William Putcamp, No. 5 The Dunsany, 10th and Piere. Pacific ........1897 John Riley, 2315 South. Twenty-ninth St. Dupont -!1904 John Richardson. 3008 Lake St.... Howard" Kene'nd7.!l897 Alvin Slusser, 2 801 Davenport St Farnam ..1897 Joaselyn Stone, 924 South Thirty-eighth St Columbian V """ 1898 aiuurea acuommer, 3U8 Ersklne St. Clifton Hill Bohuml Sehera, 411 Woolworth Ave Train Williard C. Slabaugh, 104 North Fortieth St High Agnes Undeland, 4151 Cuming St '.High Susie P. Whiting, 2301 South Twenty-ninth St Dupont' ""lilt William Worrall. 2012 Bancroft St Castellar lflh! Anna Wirtz, 1604 South Twenty-siith St... Howard Kennedy" 189 7 Ramon Weigel. 2022 Webster St ; Kellom 1902 Caroline Weinfurtner, 2916 South Sevententh St St. Joseph. is7 . . w 11a M. Zeluff, 1402 North Twenty-fifth food nor do any kind of labor. I should have to look about for employment, and perhaps I should starve." "Ah, my son," said Prince Nono, coming to the Princess' aid, "I can explain per haps better than my princess about what we are capable'of doing. Now, watch me." And the little fellow ran off up the moun tainside just like a miniature man, his wooden legs lifting and stepping ' In the most natural way. And his bead went nodding from side to side. "Ah," he cried, looking back - toward Perugi, "cannot I move like a human being?" Before Perugi could reply, so astonished he was, the Princess Miml trotted off after the prince. "Walt for me, Nono." she called out. Then they Joined hands and danced a pretty little quickstep. Then they came back to Perugi's side, all out of breath and laughing. "How do you like us, now?' asked the prince. "You're wonderful." And Perugi sat down to think It all over. As he sat there, the prince tapped a stone nearby and from beneath it came a team of tiny white horses, bitched to a tiny white chariot. A little wooden man held the lines, guiding the horses. "Have a ride, my friends?" he asked, drowing rein at the side of the princess. "Ah, will you come with us?" asked the prince, speaking to Perugi. "We'll take you to a f a r land v. here you may live in happiness and be beaten no more by the wicked old woman." "Yes, I'll come," replied Perugi. Then he remembered his Own giant size as com- , pared with the little wooden figures. "But," he said, "I can't get Into the chariot. I'm too large." "You're Just my height." And the prince stood bes'dc Perugi, shoulder to shoulder and head to head. Pc-ruffl had shrunken to the else of the little Images, and had not felt the change It was all very strange. "Perhaps I shan't like being so tiny," he said, feeling for the moment that he would rather return to his farmer size. But the prince reassured him. "You'll be very glad that you are so small, after, you have learned the advantsees of It. As ycu are, you can ride through the i r, Juct a littlo way stove the earth, and people will think you only a bird. And you will find It great fun to sit on a high bough of a trea and swing In the wind. Just as though you were a bird. And you'll go from place to place with great swiftness, for you will be like a fairy. We are the Wooden Mites, and there are hundreds of us away up on a great white cloud." Then Perugi began to feel happy. He wished to leave the place where be was treated so unkindly, and beaten for the slightest thing. Turning - the prince be asked: "How do you know of the Wooden Mites? Yea only became alive a tittle while ago. 3 Birthday Book This is fhe Day We (elebraie August 6, 1911. School. Year. Columbian 1901 - second St. . High ..1893 St. Cass ..187 Howatd Kenendy..l900 Comenius ........ 1903 Comenius. . . . .1904 Lothrop ..1900 Windsor 1905 J7t Forty-seventh Ave.. Walnut Hill . .1903 St .... . . Caatellar .......1901 .Pacific 1902 .Walnut Hill..... 1901 .Bancroft .......1898 .Clifton Hill... .1893 .Farnam ........1903 .Lothrop '..1900 .Franklin ...... .1899 . Kellom ........1897 .Castellar ......1905 High 1892 ....Sacred Heart.. .. 1901 ...Lake .....1896 St. Castellar ..... 1903 .....High .1894 - fifth Ave... Kellom ..1896 .1902 .1901 .1896 .1896 1900 ...1897 -.1900 M . .1891 .. .1895 u Ave. . . . rllgh i sac St. Long ...19Q2 Still, you talk as though you had been la another world up in the clouds." "Ah, we used to go every evening, whila we were In the shop, and return every morning before our master arrived to place us on display on the shelf outside the shop door. During many hours we flew about visiting other Wooden Mites, and we prom ised to come some day and live with them. So now we shall go-lf you will accompany us. We don't like going without you. tor you would be so lonely were we to leave you now." "I shall go along." declared Perugi. Ha knew that he owed nothing to the hard hearted old couple with whom he lived. They used him as a little drudge, imposing heavy labor upon hlra. And they would not grieve over his disappearance, for tt would mean one less mouth to feed. Pretty soon Perugi was seated In the white chariot, which was drawn by white horses, with Prince Nono and Princess Miml beside him. The little wooden man ald. "Get up. Perry and Merry." And away flew the horses, going right through the air. AH that day they rode through the air. Just over the mountainsides. They passed directly above the vineyards where Perugi had worked so ceaselessly. And Perugi could make out the figure of his old master bending above the vines, pruning knife In hand. Little did . the wicked old fellqw know of things above the very soil. At nightfall the chariot stopped In the center of a vast white cloud, and there PeruRl caw many of the Wooden Mltea. They were fine little folk, and chatted and danced about him, giving him warm wel come. Pretty soon Perugi discovered that all worked In the same capacity In that beau tiful little realm, and none looked down upon another, nor did one stand higher than his fellows. All were equal, and. oh! so happy. Supper was spread upon a small cloud which kept quite still while the Wooden Mites ate. Then away the cloud sailed, going off to unite with a great rain cloud. Perugi slept rolled up In another tiny white cloud that night, and in the morning he awoke refreshed and happy. There was no old master to drag him from bis bed while sleep still hung over his eyes, and bid him to work. There was no wicked old womsn to fall' upon and beat him It he failed to perform all the tasks set to him. Ah, he had found happiness and kind friends at last here In the Realm of the Wooden Mites. And Just to think that it had been due to the kindness of the wood carver that Perugi had been rescued from a very un happy lot! Even though happy, Perugi would never forget the wood carver, aad decided to drop to earth soma time and call upon him.