'PTTX nf All WTTVIHV P.t.'l.'. ITRIJI' ATfV n ioir. Their Own Page The Busy Bees SHORT though the month of February be. It furnlstaeg ample ma terial for Busy De letters. February Is the month of birthday, ever to many great men and women having been born In thla month, and atorles of their live would be most Interesting to all readers of the page, I am aure. St. Valentine's day comes this month, also; and then there Is the com petition announced last week a prlre tor the best story on "Winter Sports," written this month. All In all, the editor's desk promises to.be flooded w ith Busy Bee letters. Are there any Busy Boca who will celebrate their birthday February 28? If there are. we would be llad to know about It. Write and tell us. Those persons who have a birthday only on leap year should have an extra fine celebration, don't you think so? The prlre book this week was awarded to Katherlne Jensen of the Blue side. Vlrgln'a Campbell of Helena, Mont., who belongs to the Ued side, and rneteln Henry, also of the Red Bide, won honorable mention. Little Stories by Little Folk riUZK BTORT. i Making Bird Houiei. By Katberlnn Jensen. Aged K Years, Valley. Neb. Blu Bide. One day 1 thought I would make some bird houses. 1 asked Lawrence and Henry to help me. They said they would. Then w began to make them. We got all shapes of nulla and some old boxea. We made one almost, then Lawrenee aaid we had letter wait until spring-; so i did. The birds had gon south. Thl win laat fait. When spring comes again we ara go ing to make three of them. We are going to put one in our grove. There Is an oriole a neat in a maple tree. Law rence la g"ln climb It. We ara going to put one In the grove by the road for ' the pebes. They have quite a few nests there. The other on In the barn la for our swallowa. They are a great uaa to ma becauee they eat the files In the barn ' for me when I go out to milk tha cowa. I will close now. I had a letter from one of the Busy Bees soma time laat week. T will write soon to her. (Honorable Mention.) ' Pet Chickens. V ..i- iunrv Aaed 10 Tears, Te- "y w.h Neb. Ked Side. Early thta fall, while playing. I heard people's attention. So thev luljowed him and found the boy in hi wet clothes lying faint on the ahore. ' The.wtook him to his home, and his mother wrapped him in blankets snd put him to bed, Me loom got up before supper time o aa to have the Joy of giving hla dog a good supper. Start! Diary. Ily Kdlth Kenvnn. S2Z Cuming Ptreet, Omnlia. Men. time Hide. I went to the library today; then I bou glit a barrel te for my slater, which makea me think that I bad better tell about our family. I have a slter whoae namo la Madeline, and a brother, whoae name ia Meredith. My name ia Edith Kenyon and I am the youngeat In the family. I took violin lessons for a year, then I stopped, and am now taking piano leeeona. Many tlmea have I began writ ing a diary but have stopped, but now I hope to keep on. A deaf and dumb man ram In our store today. H wanted a needle and thread. He wrote on a piece of paper. that his wife was deaf and dumb also. He gave mo a paper which had the alphabet of the deaf and dumb, and wanted me to learn It. Yesterday I went to a birthday party, and we certainly had fun. My brother piayeq me violin, wnne another noy ac ONE OF THE LITTLE SOUTH SIDE BUSY BEES. torn chickens peeping. I wondered where COmpanled him on tha piano. I suppoaa ...... rM when I found them mere was exactly severt chickens. I told mamma and ahe said that seven chick ens wouldn't be worth keeping, but I a.M if aha didn't want to keep them I would and ahe told ma I could. There were two roosters and five pullets. This winter I aold my roosters and got. SO cents for them. I have my pullets yet but a abort time ago papa said they muat go out to the hen house with the big chickens, and now I can't hardly tell them from the rest excepting they are a in tie tamer. Thla ts a true story. J hope to win a prise some day. (Honorable Mention.) Save Money for Chriitmai R. A'lrainla Campbell. Aged Teara. M N. lavla Kt.. Helena, Mont. Ued Bide. Would the Bed Side like a new mem ber? I waa born In Omaha and have ,i v been a member of The Bee fam lv aa my oapa has always taken It. I nrwtv anlov tha Busy Dee page. I am going o tell you how I hav money ahead with which to buy my Christmas preaenta for ethers. As soon as one ihrlstma ia over I begin to save my money for the next one. I already have W cents saved. I thought others might like to follow my plan. If thla escapes the waate banket. I will write Btorlee of life In Montana. SI f I .... . Jh I i -' , ,f w my r . 7 IH If tvh Helen Reed creek la near our house, we thought maybe aha had wandered about it and fell In. . Ho papa went up and down the creek a couple of times. Mamma went out and looked In the outdoors buildings, but could find no trace of her. Papa ran to our auto, becauee aha was always fond of being there. The car was covered over with a large canvas. He looked In f and on the one step but could not find her. He ran to the house and said aha could not be found. Bo mamma was getting more frightened. She stepped td the phone to call up our neighbors to help search for her, when papa ex- claimed. "Oh. hero she Is!" He happened to look on the auto step next to the crib, and there she was, faet asleep. This is a true story,. . If I would try to tell all that happened there wouldn't he enough paper, ao I will tell about something which happened. - Kvery Wedneaday In our school we have to write a composition, for which our principal, Mlsa Ilutchins, chooses the subject. Thla time we have to write a letter to some friend and tell about manual training. A Piece of Coal. By Walter Johnson, Aged 1J Years, J720 hprague Street, Omaha. Red Bide. I will tell you of my life and end. The flrat thing I remember. was that I was a little piece ot-e tree; there I lay a hundred year a or o. One day I heart! the tick tap of a pick axe that I afterwarda ' found out and then a man called a miner that I,' too. found cut picked me up and threw ma Into a- tittle cart with ether pieces . of coal. i then found ourselves at the too of the earth 'and men with shovels threw my Mends and I In a great car called a coal car. Then a train pulled ua to a coal yard. and one day a man came In for som hard coal. The men loaded the wagon and me In It and went to the man' house. One day a boy with a shovel put me Into a pall, and then put me Into a stove, and In a few minutes T waa im tny and ended my life forever. i Lucille Gri?fm. A Pleasant Chri.tmai. Aed 1 Tears, Bt. lilue hide. It was Chrle'mas eve and the anew was r.ui, ft. The around was covered lih Ice and anow. In the big ho ia where the little rich ilrl lives it as nice and warm. Her cousin, ouiiti. uncles and loU of other relatives had lunt gone home and she was Tensing ui her slocking. The next morning there was a lot ot nreaenta In It. They trimmed a large Little Lout Evelyn. By Alvln French. Aged 11 Tears, Te kamah. Neb. Hed Rlda. It was In tha month of May when little t-veiyn got lost. My oldeat sister and were going to town. We had Jurt started wnen mamma and papa began te wash. iney waahed Tor about an hour when they mlaae4 little Evelyn, whom they thought waa In the front room with the other children. Mother asked if baby was with them, and they aaid "No." Then they began to search. They searched mrougn tne house first and then they Aa tha Christmas tree and all of the relatives came back. When they came In thrj went outdoors to look for her, vre very cold, but they soon got warm by the bright fire. ' Then Vlrclnln. for that ae the little i irl's name, received a lot more preaenta and alio give ench one of her guests a present. 1 Tor dinner llicy had turkey, chicken, duck, pumpkin pie, mince pie, plum pud ding and lots of other things. After din ner the children played games, cracked nuts, ate candy, rcr.ped corn and did lots of other things. The Eskimos. Pv Vera Bradley, Aged It Tears. 1010 Center Street, Omaha, .Neb. Blue Bide, We all know about the Eskimos, but I am interested in them. I will write about them. Tha Ksklmos that live in the far north, in tha frigid sone, are unlike most peo ple In tha world. They are not as tall as the American' and have a brown skin. They live In ice houses, and to sjvt into them they have to crowl on their hands and knees to ret through. They live mainly by hunting the seal and fishing. They eat the meat off the seal and sell the skin to American traders who go out there especially to get the raluable seal - skin . The American traders trade flour juid sometimes money for tha seal skins.- 1 The Eskimos wear clothes made of seal skins. First tha mother takes a piece of skin and put It on the child, fur sida dowiv. ijiia-thtn aews it on.- Than aha takes another pleoe of skin and saws It fur side up. Then the child has its clothes. A Bad Old Doe. By Leo Thenn, Aged 10 Years, Cedar itapida, Net. Blue iue. We have an old dog. 13 years old. His name is Poodle. We once had company and we played "drop the handkerchief," and a boy ran after my sister. The dog ran after and bit him and tore a seam In Ma new pants. One mother went to Albion in a carriage. I aat in the back sear, to noio me aog. wntn we were a few mllee from, Albion he Jumped out. Ho followed us for a way and then we lost traok of him, - And' when wo got horns from our visit we thought thla ia the time we got rid of him. About two weeks after that my brother had to do some work In the night He came run, sing to tell that our old dog was her. He was all akin and bones, for he bad had nothing to eat for a long time. When t saw him he cams up to me, and licked my hands and face, ire is very srram of lightning snd thunder, boca'isc he was shot twice. Ht 111 he la a g'md old dog. My mother wants to shoot Mm, but I will not let her. He Is too good dog to be shot. But one day my sister saw lilm run after a chlckrn and k'll It. When t heard it 1 wanted him to be shot. But one cold night be went down to the grove and died. So that waa the end of Mr. Poodle. Lost in the Forest. tiy William T.amrmnnn. d ! Yesre. 4T Mouth PeventM-ntl' 8ret. South Kl.le, Onislia. Red Side. Hans and (Irethel livwl In Germany near a forest called the nisrfc Forest. One day their mother told them to t;o Into the fnrret and pick some strswbrr rlcs for supper. Ho they look a basket .and started. Boon they were at the strawberry patch. They began plcklne; "'he brrlea All of a audden a bear spratiaT out from the bushes st them. Tliey rsn as fast as they could go through thi forest. At la: they looked back and raw that the bear waa not chasing them, but waa eat ing the strawbfrrlea out of the basket they had forgotten In their hurry, Tliey kept wsndcrhig through -the forest until Hans said, ."Wliere .are we?" and Grethel said. Wa sre lost." Then they began to run about trying to fine? their way out of the foreet. All cf a sudden an- owl ssid. "Hoot, hoot." Oretehel did not know what It waa and became afraid. Aa It was growing dark, Hans began to look for a cava to sleep In. He soon spied one and he and GfVthel went In and lay down to sleepA About midnight they were awakened by bearing volcea in the cave. Ixxklng around Hans saw a ring of dwarfs dancing and singing a song. Listening, he understood what they were'slnglng. This la what they were singing. . .' ; ' "O. we have a secret, oh we hsve a secret to guide. lost people home. Three yards from here is a tree. Pluck a leaf and blow It In tha air and follow it. It will guide you home. . Hans said. '''Now Grethel we can find our way home." So they fan out of the cave and meaatired the three yards the best they could and sure enough there wss the tree. Bu the rimbs were too high and Hans could not reach them. Looking around, he saw a leaf growing out of the trunk. Just within reaching distance. Hans plucked it and blew It in the air. When It was sis feet In the air It began going southward. They followed It and it led them to a path. It went down the path and they followed It. It took them until noon before they reached the end ot tha forest and there they saw their house. They ran around to tha back door and knocked. Their mother opened tt and they ran in and told her about the bear jrtd le.if and the dwarfa. When they iiad finished their mother said. "Your fa' her has g'.me out to hunt for you. Will you go and find him and tell him that you are home?" They aaid they would and started. They soon returned with their father and they lived happily ecr after. Te- President of Kensington. By Merle ltevennev, A red Years cuinsch, Ne'j. Blue Side. I have read the Busy Bee page althJ Interest and enjoy the stories very much. I am not a Busy Bee, but would like to Join the Blue Side, i am In the fifth grade at school. My teacher's name Is M Isa Hendricks. A few of my friends have a kenslngton.f meet every two weeks-en Saturday. I am the president. I hope Mr. Wastebasket Is full and there ia no room for thla one. I hope to win the prize. Read i Busy Bee Stories. Besle Beroun. Aged IS Tears. Box 174. Schuyler, Neb. Blue Side. I am a slrl 13 years old. We take your paper and see the Busy Bee page. I've read so many of the stories, an! I thought they were very Interesting. So I thoutht I would Join th Mud side, for I like blue better than red. I am In the seventh grade and my teacher's name-.la Xtss Grogan. I think ahe is a -ery nice teacher. I hope to se this letter .In print. Another Adventure of Trix That Gave His Mistress Much Worry Plays With Old Cat By Martin Lane, Aged Years. Genoa, .Neb. Blue Side. One day Helen went out to play. She hunted up the old cat and she was play ing with him around the tool box. Then we never thought any more about It And papa found him tonight. This Is a true story. My sister is writing a story, too. Her name Is Vera Lane. New Buiy Bee. By Doris Howard, Aaed Years, Loup City, Neb. Blue Side. I would liko to Join the Blue Side. This la my flrat letter to the Busy Bees. I am In the hlrd grade at school. ' Swimming; and Fishing. By Anna Sulc, Aged 10 Years. Box S3, Schuyler. Neb. Blue Side. On bright summer's day the birds were flying and singing, the lower looked brighter than ever. While last week it was ralnlnng ga hard aa it could. My friends and I had planned to go swimming. When the day came we could hardly wait to get - there. We took our lunch because we did not want to go home. Whan we got there we each took turns going in tha bath house to put on ' our bathing suit and went TtlX got away from the reserva tion again. Gone from home ten days snd given up for lost or dead. He is the white fox terrier dog we told you about a few months ago. He is the a-inie dog and yet he la not the same dog. Before his recent trip he was a regular runabout, had no regard for meal times, would come home at all tlmea of the evening and Jjst seemed to think he did not have to be a good dog. He's changed ro olnto he waa away ten days and re turned to his home. Yes. Trlx came bne'e. 'Twaa at S o'clock the other evening, when he whined at the kitchen door, hla head hung low and hia white hair all dirty Just aa if he had been In some coal bin for a week. He was hungry and tired, too; and ao meek you never saw euch a meek dog before. You Just never saw a dog gladder to get back to his nice warm home, with an old coat under the kitchen tablo at night time and lots of bones and meat to chew on. Trlx has had experlenca and he eeerns to believe there Is no place like home. A few weeks ago it was on wash day TjHx struck out to make the round of the neighborhood. Bains a fox terrier, you know, he waa given to roaming whenever ho felt like It. Pcrhapa when he left home he thought lie would get out of the way becauao It was wash day. and ho never did like wash day. anyway. He Just went and kept on "wenting," for ha did not return that night. There waa no scratching on the kitchen door that night to let a little dog in. Next morning came and no dog. Mrs. B., his mistress, cried, because she had learned to like Trix very much. "Oh, don't cry, he'll come back. Tou can't lose a fox terrier," kindly aaid Mr. B. to hla wife. "Well, If he is only a dog I can't help crying. He waa so cunning and faithful. Didn't he watch the house at night times, and one night when t herd a strange noise at the window Trix barked and I Just know he scared the burglars away. How many burglars have you frightened away?" asked Mrs. B. of her huaband. Mr. B. did not want to start any family awlmmlng. All of ua did not swim. Two glrla stayed on shore to serve lunch. When they had It ready they called us. After we were through eating we saw a fisherman. We asked him if we could uae hla nets. Heaaid yes. We caught eomo fish snd gathered some flowers, When we came home we gave the fish and flowera to our mammas. row, ao he Just sympathised with his wife, said he would have the boys of the neigh borhood look around, would put an ad In the newspapers, and he felt sure Trtx would come back. The accond and third day went by and no Trix. At evening time, when tha family were gathered around the reading lamp. Mrs. B. would think of Trix. "I believe sfcmebody has tied him up, or perhaps he was killed by a Ford or a street car," remarked Mrs. B. "I tell you he will get home. Olve him time," said the hutband, aa he tried to comfort Mrs. B. Then the cold siisp came with 22 below tero. That made Mis. B. think again of Trlx. "Suppose he Is out In this cold weather with nothing to eat." she sobbed. Then Arthur, the boy of the house, sug gested that his cousin, Frank, get hH pony Dandy out snd do a little scouting of the neighborhood for Trlx. Frank won Dandy it Christmas time from a downtown store and the boy was anxious to rldo the animal. Dandy was driven all around Hanscom park, but nothing could be seen of Trix. Ten days we.-c gone since Trlx left homo and his absence made Mrs. B. be lieve she never would ree him again. The other . evening abcut S o'clock ahe was reading a newspaper when she heard a scratch and a fntnt bark: on the kitchen door. It was r.ot like the bark of Trlx,' and yet she thought there was something of the familiar sound. 6he went to the door and. shivering in the cold, there was Trlx. She picked the dog up in her arms and Trlx wagged his short little tall and licked her hand, Juat aa if he wanted to aay he wss mighty glad to get back home again. Trix we U under tha kitchen table to see If his old coat was still there ami he looked througn the house and then acted as if he wanted something to eat and drink. Did he eat and drink? Well, he Juat ate Wil he could hardly walk. After a good feed Mrs. B. gave Trlx a warm bath and fixed a bed near one of the hot-air registers. Trix curled up and snooxed all night. "I Just wonder whether somebody took Trlx in and thought he waa a stray dog., or whether he got lost. That's what I would like to know," remarked Mrs. B. "Well, I told you Trtx would come back, didn't I? You'll .have gome confi dence in your husband after this, per haps," replied Mrs. B.'s husband. Trlx has decided that the best place to stay is near home. He likes washday now and has given up trying to see the whole world. HPH. 1 joyful "Winter Stories of Nebraska History ay a. a. xaz.soir Huikrat Trapping-. By Harlan P-lon Aed Years. Lyons, Nib. Iled ride. Thla fall ojr neighbor buy and I thought e would trap muskrala. The first on we caught waa at their creek. And then we went to another creek a little fuither away. One morning we went down to look at our traps before Sunday achucl. e caught one. Another cold day we caught another. We caught another one later. We cauchl eight altogether. W li etched the aklna. We hung them in a dog bouac. One night after school we took them ff the boards. We aold them to a Llnco'n fur company. And they aent ua a letter back and said they wete poorly handled. . We got cents for them all. Earn from Poultry. ily Kisukllii BrnadfU-ld. Aged til V !. Mienandoah, la. Bed Side. 1 think that the Busy Boca will be In- trcated In something about poultry be caune they ran earn money that way. Like my aiater and myself. We teed the chukena and rlen the chicken houso every Saturday. The chickens are worth W cnt' to 11 apiece, too. We are going to raisa a lot more thla year. My sister Dorothy and I get credit on our hool report cards for working at borne aa well as at school. Mamma and papa think that a fine Idea. Don't you. too A Faithful Dog;. By Mildred Kwwaon. lrtll North Thirty. iniro i i reel, umana. ned bide. There waa a boy aoout 12 years old who had a very faithlul dog. Tha boy's nam waa Malcom, and bis dog'a name was Nero. One day as they were out n the river near their home, the boat bit something in the muter that made it I p over, and Mblcom fell out Into the liter and was about to diown when he felt a Pulling ou his walat. When he t rallied wnere tie waa he knew It was hi dog, who had saved hla life many other limes. The dug got Mnlcom to the hot safelv. then went further on, Intc the city, and barked so loud that It drew (By special Dermlamlon nf Im uihn, Tha Bee will publish chapters from the History of Nebraska, by A, JtJ. tihetdon, from week to week.) Story of the Poncas When tha first white men came up the Missouri rtver thay found a little tribe of Indians living In that IwauUful part of Nebraska by the mouth of the Nio brara, which is now Knox and Boyd counties. They found clear flowing alrnama, wooded hills, graaay valleys and back of them the buffalo prairies. There were less then a thousand people in the little tribe. They wera tall and fine looking, and from the first were friendly to the white men and were never at war with them. Their land lay between (ho ttloux country on th west and tha I'awnee and Omaha country on th south and cs.it. The language they spoke was rvluted to the Btoux iarguag. but more like that of the Omahaa. They were often at war with the Bloux. but gener ally at peec with th Omahaa. so much so that a great many of their young men and women wera intermarried with Ih Omahaa. ' Although auth a llttl trlb. they had their own name, Tunka or I'onca; their own traditions; and they bad lived so long In that part of Ne braska where the first white men found them that they had no other horn, only stories of a far-off Mm when their fath ers had come up th Mlaaourl and set tied at th mouth of th Niobrara. After a time white aettlera began to come Into Lie i'onca country, to tak land and kill off the game. In lsC4 th I'nltrd states mado a treaty with th Pence by th terms of which the I'micas gav up all their land except that part between th Niobrara river and I'onca creek. Th richest of their land below the mouth of th Niobrara was opened to th whit aettlera. Th part which th I'onca were to keep was on th border of th Bloux. their old enemies' country, but the United Hate promised In the treaty to , protect tha Poncas, to pay them money every )ar. to build tttem house and to give them schools for their children. Two yeara after thla treaty the Bloux made a raid en the Tone and ami mora than half of their horses. Th Ponea hunting ground, where they used to kill buffalo, was covered with Bloux hunting parties and th I'onca could not gel their winter supply of meat. routh cam on th land and their patchea of corn were a failure Even th wild plums dried on th trees and th Poncaa hunted over, th plains for wild turnip and at cornstalk 'to keep from starving. Then a party of. Toncas went to vlalt their friend, the Omahaa. Ther were four men, six women, three boy and two girls. Some drunken white soldier killed three women and en girt, burned their tent and drov away thalr atz ponies. Still th Poncas remained at peac with the white people. . In 1&3 the I'nlted mates mad a great treaty with the Sioux Indians at Fort Laramie. In that treaty by some niistak all of th Ponca land was given to th bloux. tli bitter and lifelong enemies of th poness. Thla waa don without th consent or knowledge of th Poncsaa. It took away from Uiem their home, their garden and the graves ot their fathers, which they had defended against th Bloux for huudrads of years, and made a present of them to their deadly toes, th Bloux. Nothing so cruel and unjust was ver done by th United States to another trlb of Indians. And this was don to a trlb which waa al ways th friend of th whit man. Un- eral 8hnnan. one of the commiaaloncr who mad the treaty at Fort Laramie, aaid he did not know that tids had ben dona until long afterward. Th Poncaa did not know that it had been don until tt floux warrior raided tharo and tauntingly ahouted. "This land balond to us. Ut off." Th Poncas had no place to go and remained upon thalr old re serve, ven though In dally danger from th Bloux. During th two eara, 1M and 1170, they built sixty log cabins and put out crops. Than th Missouri river rose and whed away thalr vlllag alt. Thay had to tear down their cabin and carry them back half a mil to mat a naw village. Th next yar after thla th trlb put 900 acres Into crop. Tha grass hoppers ram that year and th swat and at th crops. Th year Vi'i wa a year oi great x rltament on th Nebraaka border. Oold bad been found In the Black llllla and the white men wanted to go there after tt. The Flout were fighting to keep th white men out. Co as ting (Continued Next Sunday.) :SOf t 'J : But Why the Short Turn? A Street Car Ahead! A Word to Parents, Teachers and Others Having the Care of Children: Warn them repeatedly of the danger of coasting on streets where cars are operated or on hills which are crossed by street cars. Boys and girls and even men and women have lost their lives or have been seriously injured by dashing into street cars on their sleds and travelers. Don't jeopardize your lives by coasting on dangerous hills. There are many places in this city where this sport may be indulged in with safety. Ve Try To Prevent Accidents-Will You Help? Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company v i