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The Little Busy Bees
T
HE BUSY BKES have written bo many good stories lately about
their pet animal that the editor thlnka that It would be In
teresting to print photographs of the Busy Beet taken with
their ret dogs, cats, rats, pigs, birds and other animals. If any
of the boys and girls hare pictures of this kind, send them
with letters about tho tricks and habits of their pets'.
Now that school days ond tho warm weather are here the Busy Bees
cannot spend to moch time out of doors as they did during the summer va
cation. What have they substituted for their outdoor good times? Do the
younger girls play with dolls and mako doil clothes? Do they play house?
Do they ever dress up in their mothers' long sklfts and play "lady-go-to-see?"
Do any of the older girls belong to clubs and societies? Do the boys
do any carpenter work make chairs, tables or other pieces of furniture with
their tools? Write the other Busy Bees about It. 1
The boys and girls of Omaha and perhaps of other Nebraska towns were
probably more interested In the Ak-Sur-Ben parades than In anything- else
list week. Which parado did the Busy Bees like best? Which float of the
electrical parade did they epjoy the most, and why?
Tho first prize goes to a boy who lives on the southern California coast.
He tells about Uncle Sam's warships In San Diego bay. The second prize
goes to a girl lu Oklahoma who tells us about her white rat.
Little Stories by Little Folk
(First Trite.) '
. From a Calif ornia'r,.
$Sy Edward G. White. Apod 10 Years. 114t
Cedar Street, t-an Diego, Cal.
Last Sunday I went with my tather
and mother to visit some of Uncle am's
-warships that were In San Diego bay, We
went In a launch first to the cruiser
Colorado, then the West Virginia, then
went on board tho flagnhlp California.
When we got off the launch we went
up a stairway alongside the big- ship.
An officer told a sliilor to show us over
tho ship, and we went all. over It, saw
all the bis and little guns and many
things I never saw before. I saw three
of the sailors' mascots, two big dogs and
a little monkey. . Soma of tit sailors
were reading- books, some writing letters,
iome were talking to visitors and show
ing them the ship, some were on duty
and some were, playing checkers and
rards. There were fcO sailors oa the Cal
ifornia. "We saw some of the sailors send-
n messages : with Hags. They cariea it
wigwagging.
The three cruisers went out Monday
bout thirty miles t oot at targets,
and we can see the flashlights of the big
euns every night when they fire them.
The cruisers will be hack In the harbor
again. as soon as they set through target
practice.
We sometimes take a launch ride and
Co to Fort Rosecrans and other places on
the bay. .Everything Is different here
from what It waa in Grand Island, Neb.
But I like Jt-bere by the great big Pa
cific ocean. 'A week seems a long time
to wait for the Busy Bees' page. I am
lad a Grand Island girl . got the first
prize, for her . kitten story waa a good
pne.
(Second Prize.)
Talc of a White Rat.
J3y Rcatha Shelton, Aged 13 Years, Chl
cotali, Okl. Ked Bide.
I must tell the Busy Bees about my pet
White rat. We Just let It run loose in
the daytime and it liked my shoulder for
a resting place. It -would climb tip my
dress and mount my .shoulder and rap
Its long, cold, slick tall around my neck.
Boo! It felt like a snake, I Imagine,
mill, I never had a snake around my
neck.
It had pink eyes and pink feet and was
quite large. No common tnioe will 'stay
around where a white rat is, so we were
HU of them. It got so it would get Into
our shoes at night and Instead of coming
out as it rot in, it would gnaw a hole in
them. It was all right for mamma, be
cause It gnawed a hole right where the
Shoe rubbed her corn.
It would always run up on ber chair
when she was sewing and wanted to get
Into the machine drawer, so she gave
him full possession of one of the upper
Imu'm TT j rnrrivA ntufF In them tsf
nights, as we always left it part ope.
for blm.
He got so he would try to follow us
outdoors. One lay he sot out and a oat
crabbed him and she held to It. My
liter that I wrote to you about last
week crabbed the. broom, but the rat
eot more licks than the cat, so It -nearly
died. Mamma gave a poor little boy a
lime to finish It, ai)d that was the end
if my white rat.
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(Honorable Mention.)
Going to the State Fair.
We
Edward - Berkort, Affed 11 Years,
Waco, Neb. Bed bide.
Taps took us to the state fair,
went on tbe morning train.
The first tains' we -did wbea we eot
in Lincoln was to look for a room. We
fat the last room in the Savoy hotel
We went to the museum and saw many
curiosities from our state and also saw
tbe new First National bank building.
yvo saw the vault and the door to it
Which weighs thirteen tons. I could shut
it. We were on top of the building and
4Xuld ee all over town.
We went to the penitentiary, Unlver
Ity Place and Capitol beach at night.
Tliey had the best fireworks I ever saw,
The next day we went to the fair
crouuds. We took in shows and eaw
tho herses, cows, p's, sheep, chickens
machinery ami Automobiles. We were
In the Auditorium where they Judged the
nimato.
I lilscd the statue snatle out of butter.
It looked natural.
We cot lots of boeks, badges and pus
sies. I rode on the Ferris wheel. The
cs were fine. We were very dlsap
pointed becau.ie the aeroplanes did not
fo up until after it waa time to go to
cur trcin.
I was very tired when I got home.
Want to go nest year again.
Little Italian Goldie. '
ty Dorothy Anderson, Afcod 11 Years
2171s West Third Street. Grand
Island, Neb. Itluo fide.
Little Golc'to v.ns a little Italian girl
who had been left in Italy ey her
parens when they came to America
Goldie was then nearly 1 years old.
Her Barents came to America ond lived
tii a large city.
Coldie's crandica took good care of
ber far six years, when the died, leav-
laff Goldie alono in tho world.
Kind-hearted friends then took her and
ared for her and sent her to school.
When s.ie was II years eld her papa
went to Italy and brought her back to
America with blm. Wtm they arrived
'on tho stoonwr they were met by her
Mamma, and two brothers and a sUter
whom she had never seen.
1 OoldU was glad to fee with ber mamma
again and ..glad to meet ber brothers and
sister.
Goldie Is now It years otd and Is learn
ing Kng.inh by going to school.
Before she goes to bed at night elie
prays that she may never be separated
from her papa, mamma, brothers and sis
ters again.
What I Saw at Fremont Fall Festival
By Arthur W. Manon. Kind. 1205 North
Second, Fremont, Neb. lied &lde.
It was a gala week In Fremont. The
Pohocco, the Fremont and the West
Point banai were at Fremont. There
were eix different performances. A few
of them were sleight of hand, slide for
life &d balloon men. There was a
clown band, consisting of four instru
ments and one drum.
One of the attractions was two men.
One of them was a clown. One man
could turn a somersault in tho air and
pick up a handkerchief in his teeth
without tou chirur . the carpet with .b
band.
The clown would step on the chair and
make fall backwards. Jle would then
jump In such a way as to make the
clutlr come in its former position, lie
would then sit .down. Then all of a sud
den lie would turn a somersault in the
air, taking the chair with him. Then,
without stopping, he let the chair go and
turned another somersault and then
jumped backwards as the other roan
would pull the chair from under him
and he would fall.
There were no many good attractions
that there would not be room enough
to describe them. There were floral pa
rades, civio parades, fireworks, high
school and firemen's parades, also nor
mal parades.
" "Thank You" Note.
By Bertha Shelton. Aged 13, Checotah,
Okl. Ked side.
Dear Editor: I received the book that
you gave me for the first prise some time
go and wisk you te accept my heartiest
thanks. I 'was so surprised and Dleased
that mamma said I acted as If I were
crazy for a while for she always called
me her quiet and considerate child.
Bo I ran in the bouse and sat down
to tny desk and wrote this piece of
poetry which ran as foHows:
This book was presented to me
By the editor of the Omaha Bee;
For they said I wrote the bent story
And I believe I did begorra,
I felt so proud
That I cried out loud
And ftl down on the porch and kicked
Dear mother was scared for fear the
neighbors would think I had been licked
So I ran to the right and I ran to the
left and showed it to all of the neighbors
before I saw It myself.
The Brave Drummer Boy.
By Eunice Siekkotter, Ated 9 Years,
vjretna. Neb. Blue Wide.
General Grant sent a letter of thanks
to the civil war for their progress, and
the drummer boy asked the colonel If
he could lay aside Ills drum and be
soldier, but the colonel told him to go
back to his business.
Bo he went back. But a soldier fell
near him; so be nicked up his musket
and tbe cannon fired and swept the line
he was tn and be was killed.
When they went back to the bridge
to get fresh charges they missed John
HANDS VOULD CRACK
OPEN AND BLEED
Blisters Formed, Skin Scaled Off,
and Flesh Burned and Itched
Dreadfully, Healed by less Than
One Cake cf Cuticura Soap and
One Box of Cuticura Ointment.
RULES FOR YOUNG WRITERS
1. Write plainly ea eae aide et
tb paper only and Bomber tbe
pages.
a. Vse pea and ink, not pan
el 1.
3. Short and pointed artlolea
will b giTea preference. Do aot
use ever 850 words.
4. Original stories or letter
only wui be need.
B. Write your mum, are and
address at the toy of the first
pa-e.
rtrst and second prises of book
will be riven for the beet two con
tributions to this page each week.
Address all communications to
cmrxDmsiTB bxpaxtmsxtt,
Omaha Bee. Omaha, Neb.
Some one said: "lie lies close to the
enemy s breastworks and If he stay
there we ehali never get him."
So some cie went arrows the battle
field and carried him over to where the
others were. As he got there he sniil
that If they saw those men climb those
breastworks- they should tell him and
when he Saw them ho was glad that he
had given his life for his country.
School Flays.
By Mildred White. Aro1 10 Yenrs. 2211
iNOi'th Tweniy-riKMtn Avenue,
Omaha. Red bide.
Behoof started a few weeks ago and we
are alt hard at work at our studies
again. I am in the fifth B bikI go to Long
school. We have deiartmental system and
we like it very much, in the morning we
study grammar until the gong sounds
when we recite geography. We then go
to the spelling teacher's room for spell
Ing; after that we go to the next room
to study geography until the gong sounds
when we go to the reading teacher's
room.
By that time it is time to study music
We then go back to tho room we went
to first. By that time it is noon.
In the afternoon we go to the first
teacher's room, the arithmetic teacher's
room and the grammar teacher's room,
and then It Is tlmo te go home.
When We Were Out Camping.
By liuth Mapc. Aged 10 Years. Fergus
. Falls, Minn.
My home Is In Aitkin county, Minne
sota, but we are just staying here at
Fergus. This Is my first story so I will
write a story of camping out lant sum
mer.
We all went out camping on the shores
of Hound lake in Aitkin county. We
Btarted Saturday afternoon. We took
some bricks along and made a little stove
and cooked on It. Sunday afternoon wo
had a lot of company and we had some
music on the shore of the lake and then
we went home on a big hay rack.
Letter from the King.
FREAiuNT, Neb., Oct. 1. Dear Editor:
want to thank you for the book you
sent me dome time ago. Y'our HuSy Mee,
ARTHUR MASON.
FREMONT, Neb., Oct. l.-Dear Busy
Bees: Keep eh writing good stories and
we will win. You can write good stories
when you try. Your King,
ARTHUR MASON
The Worst One.
'Was Moses a good man?" asked MIrs
Beacon, the teacher of the infant class.
Little Eddie Machesney answered
promptly. "No, teacher," he blurted out;
'he was the worst one of the hull ca
boodle.' He was tbe only feller that ever
broke aU the oomman'roente at oneet."
Their Own Page
The BEE'S Junior Bipfhday Book
This Is ha
Day We
October 8, 1911.
Xante and Adlrets
J.T.OYD A. CAHN,
107 Corby Street.
School.
Year.
Angle Adams, 4 S 1 9 North T went) -seventh St Saratoga ........1897
Alice L. Allen, 3314 South Twentieth Ave Vinton 1897
Ronald Barrows, 025 South Twenty-sixth St Farnam 1S9S
Bert Brown, 814 North Seventeenth St Casa ".19di
Baron Butts, 801 Worth! ngton riace . ...... Lincoln 190a
Lloyd A. Cahn, 3107 Corby St Howard Kennedy. . 1 901
Charles A. Carton, 2467 South Seventeenth St, . .'. St. Patrick .1895
Harvey Comstock, 113 Corby St Lake .1900
Loula Dreicr, 1543 South Twenty-fifth St 1m. Conception ... 1903
Georgle Kasley, 2823 Crown Point Ave Miller Park 1903
Frances J. Finch, 1437 South Fourteenth St Comenlus 1905
Edna L. Gibbs, 3009 South Twentieth St Hlfih 1S4
Ida Ruth Graham, 3319 South Twenty-fourth St. . . High 1895
Ludwlg Grecnbager, 2943 Martha St Dupont . 1900
Marian B. Guild, 1335 South Thirty-fifth Ave Park 1903
Aldrlch Hanricke, 2320 South Thirty-second Ave. .Windsor 1904
Dorothy Hansen, 1923 North Eleventh St.. Lake ......1904
John T. Ilanen, 2520 Fort St High ,....1896
Arthur II. Hornig, 2737 South Ninth St Bancroft 1905
Ervin Jellnek, 2503 South Thirteenth St Bancroft 1904
Meta Johnson, 3348 South Nineteenth St Vinton ........ .1S9C
Sam Kalman, 1017 Center St M Lincoln 1905
Earl R. Kingston, 4020 Miami St Clifton Hill ...... 1901
Ellen Krek, 504 South Twenty-firth Ave Farnam ...1903
Clarabel Krug, 2504 Krug Ave ..Vinton .1901
Gertrude Larson, 260$ Reea St Macon
Lilllam Mcllvane, 4220 Harney St .. Columbian ......1896
Agnes Mathanaen, 2525 South Twelfth St Bancroft 1899
Joseph Menows, 1427 South Fourteenth St.. Lincoln 1900
Beatrice L. Montgomery, 3421 Lafayette Ave. .... .Franklin 1900
Evelyn Ncole, 2826 Charles St Hih , . .1894
Glen Paxton, 2535 Hamilton St High 1896
Norman Rann, 2719 Wirt St ....Lothrop .........1898
Emma Schmidt. 4310 Emmet St .Cliftbn Hill. , "'. . .1B?
Frank A, Sherod, 1321 South Twenty-sixth St.... Park ...1900
Glenn Smith, 1821 Park Ave High 1895
Harold V. Smith, 1546 South Twenty-seventh St. . . Park ......... . .1900
George Bpelic, 1307 Phsrce 6t St. Joaeph .".19M
Margaret Spraktes, 1231 South Eleventh St Pacific 1900
George E. Stride, 614 North Eighteenth St Cass 1903
Lloyd Stull, 4742 North Fourteenth St Sherman ...1902
Alice N. Talbot, 4123 Farnam St....... Saunders .......1901
Henry Thell, 619 South Thirty-fifth St .Columbian' .... . .1905
Stanley Walter, 112 Brlggs St Pacific 1902
REFORMERS TO MEET HERE!
Society for Friendless Holds Con
vention in Omaha This Week.
THEY STUDY CRIMINOLOGY
traanUafn tterotre tt 1temi!i
In Iteformlaa t rlmlnaU end Thnp
Who An Host and Hot In
Life's atrnaale.
Philanthropist who help the "down and
out." mlntotrrs who assist them spirit
ually and -men prominent In prison re
form movements throughout the land will
come to Omaha October 12 when the Na
tional Soelety tor the Friendless Mart Its
three-day convention. The so-lrly Is an
organization . similar to the American
rrl son conaxe, wlilrh holds Its conven
tion here en tk-tober l. tt and 17. .
The National Society for the Friendless
was organised ten years ago I" Topekn
by Hev. Edward A. FrrdcrhaRen and
wife, who oiwned their home to the
"down nd outers" and In this wey
lrd ef the conditions which make
criminals and paupers. . Ity hard work
lr. t'redet tutfien succeeded In forming
such a strona emanisattoa from a nucleus
of a few volunteers that now the society
has reached proportions of a national organisation.-
. Representatives work pi in--l
pally la Kansaa, Missouri. New Mexico,
Kentucky. Iowa. Nebraska, MluMOsot.
North Dakota, Montana, Washington and
Idaho. Nebraeka was recently added to
the territory ut the .society when Hev.
J. A. Iieavrtt eeneimced his Intention of
taklnR up the work and co-operatlnR with
the other slates. Dr. I-eavltt .was for
nearly twenty-one yenrs president of the
EwlnSt coHeire 1n Kwlnir. 111., but re limed
te enter the work of reformation of crim
inals and fallen humanity.
The Nebraska division 4s beaded by r.
Leavitt. superintendent; Judge Howard
Kennedy, president; Judge Lee l'tclle.
vice president, and J. J. Mahoney, treas
urer. The convention hero Is to bo held
In the Young Men's Christian association
build Inn, and Judge Kennedy will preside
at all of the meetings. On tho laxt two
days of the meeting the entire attention
of the convention will be Riven to the
study of prevention and cure of crime
and the reclamation of criminals. On the
last afternoon of the mertlnR the Juvenile
Sudors et Nebraska will meet here and
dlacusa their various experience with
child criminals and suKRest remedies to
oure the criminal Instincts of the
XMtaCHtera.
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a (fit? a
Easier to Remove
Than Conceal Wrinkles
lNatlnn.il HyRlenlo Kevlcw.)
"When, you try to rnccl your wrln-.
klea with iaste made from beans, you
deceive yourself, tint nie. l,et a defect,
which Is pomtbly but small, appear un
disguised. A fault cunceHled Is pre
sumed to he great."
This little epigram of Martial's siir
jrests the present day tondency to avoid
ti tine of coametlca which can only
conceal or hide facial defects, and to
adopt Instead rational manna of remov
ing the same. For the removal of wrin
kles, saggy cheekn and bunny chins, the
aerolite prescription, which goes to tho
foundation of these troubles, seems to
have come Into general use since Its
virtues became knswn but a short time
ago. One sumw of aaxoille, procurable
at any drug etore, I dissolved tn a half
pint witch hazel. I'sed as a wash lotion
this tightens the skin Immediately, ef
fectually smoothliiR out wrinkles and
"drawing in" hanging skin or folds. Adv.
66
nines
werftow" Plaiffi Sale iii
Saturday's Sales Caused a Positive Furore
ood sightly-exquisite toned--equal-to-
a m m m sia a . as m .
new 'Hand played upright pianos are being
traded in to us dally towards "Club" Player Pi
anos. Such traded in Instruments take up the
floor space we MUST have for our ever increasing stock
of player pianos. Such traded in pianos tie up a lot of
money for us unless we force them out immediately!
Do you want a hand played piano
at a positive "song" of a price?
L-4
"About two snontha are my hands started
to crack apen and .bleed, the akia would
scale eff, acd the good flesh would burn and
lUhareadruJiy. wnenray
heads flnt atarted to get
ore, tli re were seull
blisters like water bUsfcs
which farmed. They
Itched dreadfully, it hut
seemed as though 1 could
tear tbe skin all off. I
weald scratch thea aed
the skin would peel eff,
and tin flash weuld tie
J I red and crack enea
and bleed. It worried me
eery much, as I bad never had anything the
mat tor with my skin. I Was so afraid I would
tare lo give up my employment.
"I consulted roy doctor, and be said he
didn't thick it would amount to anything,
lit It kept sntfcng won. One day I saw
a piece 'te ena of tfca papers about a lady who
bad the same trouble with her haodi. Bhe
had used Cutk-uie Boep and Ointment and
was cured. 1 derided lo try them, and my
haeds were ail heaJed brtore I bad used ons
ca4e of Cut lev ra gesp and ose bos erf Cttdcura
Ointment. I am truly thankful for tbe gocd
results fro as the Cuticura Soap aod Oinlosenl,
for thanks to them I waa cured, and did net
bave to lote a day from work. I have had
bo return of the akin trouble." (Signed) Mrs,
Mary E. Brebj. 2AZ3 Brow a Street, Phila
delphia, fa Jan. 13, 1911.
Cutfouia Soap and Olntmeat are for aalo
awerrwhere. but those who with lo try them
wttlaout ebarge assy do oo by eeadiag to
Fetter Drug a Chera. Corp., Dept. 6 A., Bostoa,
for a liberal asm pie of each, poet-free, togethal
waa i-9. bv a the aUa and eoaip. .
m
"The
Did
Club
It"
BEHR BROS. PIANO, ebonized case, large,
size, cost $375 when new and will serve'
as well as any new piano you ft tZ
know of. At only Vu
KINGSBURY PIANO, lare size, walnut
case, cost $275 new, bnt was traded in to
wards a Player Piano and goes M c
at only $1.6 u
HOWARD PIANO, oak case, almost new,
cost $250 when purchased but is practi
cally a new instrument and M A A
is offered at only iplU
MUELLER PIANO, case finished in ma
hogany, 3 pedals, large sized, cost $225
new, traded in and goes C11
now, at only yllu
SCHMOLLER & MUELLER piano, wal
nut finish, 3 pedals, medium size, cost
$225, new traded in and goes M1C
in this sale at vllw
LUDWIO PIANO, mahogany case, carved
, pedals, very attractive, cost $400 new, yet
offered in this sensational M 4
selling at $lit)
KROEGER PIANO, mahogany case, full
grand top, used but one year, cost $425
new, and is a find for some- A
one at only yLvO
ERELL FRENCH PIANO, walnut case,
large size, finished with brass trim
mings, cost $350 new, shows fl A t
very little usage, now VoVfiU
MERRIFIELD, upright in ebonized case,
cost $350 new, a startling piano value
at this trifling price. C 0 fi
Goes at
HALLET & DAVIS PIANO, exquisite
dark mahogany; cost $450 new; traded in
on a Kurtzman player; came J n C
from a swell home; goes at V O
WEAVER PIANO, mahogany, large size,
grand top, "brass trimmings of late design,
$350 when new, ridiculously A A
low at only t?fIU
STARR PIANO, large size, 3 pedals, $425
when purchased, looks, sounds and will
serve as well as a brand new M O C
piano, at ?10i)
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