4
TTIF OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 13, 1916.
Uerrish, the Blooded Animal Imported
By Ring ling Bros., for Big Spectacle
When ihe Ktnisliiiff Mros. stage
managers were holding tlu initial re
hearsals ol the mammoth lair via ml
production, 'VindercUa." they ent t'nr
the fmeM horses in all the ciicus Ia
bles. Hm. splendid as were these
thoroughbreds, not one could be found
that was thought to ho entirely suit
able tor the prince of the tale who,
as everyone knows, takes uule r
ella" to wed.
There were hundreds of steeds ad
mirably suited to the requirements of
the ladies and gentlemen of the royal
train, but it was argued that t tit
prince's horse should be the most
striking ever seen in a spectacle.
Thereupon word was cabled to the
Ringling Bros. European representa
tives to secure the finest Arabian
steed that money could buy. In re
ply came the horse Derrish. Accom
panying the beautiful animal was his
fedigrec written in Arabic. Trans
atrd, it reads:
"In the name of God, the merciful!
The cause of the present writing is
that we witness that the white horse,
i Derrish, of Mahomet lU v. is ol the
1 first breed t N'tdgdee horses, whose
mother is the while in.iie lladlia the
Fatuous and 1um- lather ts the bay
horse I '.ilirmige ol the hies ol the
'tribe Heiuhaled. We testily on our
(conscience and Imlune th.it he is the
! breed concerning whuh the prophet
: said, "The true runnci s w hen thev
run strike lire; thev grant prosperity
until the day ol judgment We testi
I fy what is known and tiod knows we
i are true witnesses." Si signatures
verity this pedigree.
I Witeu the Kmgling Bros, exhibit
'here l)erridi will be seen twice. First
j on the vast stage on which the fairy
land spectacle is produced, and again
! during the progress of the high school
and menage horse numbers. The rid
! iug acts will embrace more than fifty
i different horses, but the spectator will
probably have no ditficulty in locat
ing 1 )crrish, for he is the most su
perb animal of them all.
The circus wilt come to Omaha
Monday, August 2$,. It will be at
Twenty-first and Paul streets-
Ellis Opera Company Will Give Two
Performances Here Late in October
Arrangements have been completed
by which the next musical season in
Omaha will be opined October 2i
and 24 by two operatic performances
which are promised to be on 4 scale
of high artistic1 excellence. In plan
ning his brief season of grand opera
Mr. Ellis, the manager, recognized the
limitations placed on a company
which is to travel much and, instead
of having a large-wide-sounding rep
ertoire, he decided to concentrate his
efforts on two operas, both master
nieces, and give them with the great
est artists procurable. The operas he i
has chosen are Bizet's "Carmen" and!
Verdi's "II Trovatore."
For the four principal roles in "Car-j
men" he has engaged Geraldine Far
rar, Lucien Muratore, Helen Stanley
and Clarence Whitehall. For "fl ;
Trovatore" he has engaged Emmy
Destinn, Louise Homer and Leon
Rothier, the distinguished French I
basso.
Farrar, Destinn and Homer have
been for many years principal mem
bers of the Metropolitan Opera com
pany of New York, as has also Roth
ier. Muratore is the greatest living
French tenor, the leading tenor of
the grand opera of Paris, whose lim
ited appearances in Chicago with the
Chicago Opera company the last sea
son were nothing less than sensa
tional. Miss Stanley's operatic career
in this country has been chiefly with
the Chicago ()pera company, and as
a member of this organization her
charming personality and beautiful
voice is not known in the west. Clar
ence Whitehill is one of the great bar
itones of our time, a member both of
the Metropolitan company of New
York and the Chicago Opera com
pany. The committee in charge of the
course for the retailers is George
Rrandcis, C. C. Belden and Louis C.
Nash.
Gayety Season Opens Today With
"The Tourists"; Other Offerings
"Today's the Day." over at the
Gayety theater. "The Tourists" will
draw like a mustard plaster. As a
matter of fact, the Gayety managc
.ment Gould not have secured this
thoroughly excellent attraction un
less arrangements could he made to
open ' the theater two weeks earlier
than the customary date. You will
find your Ga;ety inviting and en
tirely desirable, and with arPair all
its own, withal clean, cool and com
fortable. "At the Mardi Grass" is the title
of the big two-pact merry-go-round
of song and fun, in which such prin
cipals as Donald Clark. Bert Rose,
lames Coughlin. Jess Weisj, Walter
Wolft, Willie Colini. The Berlin
Four, Margaret Lee. prima donna;
Jacquelin Tallman. May Delisle. and
"The Tourists" chorus girl prize
winners are the participants. Among
the twenty-five big original ensem
bles and musical numbers introduced
as a special feature will be Willie
Colini and a great dance carnival, as
sisted by the entire chorus in a re
view of every style of modern dances.
There is also a vaudeville olio in
cluding "The Great Deluge," the
most elaborate living picture ever
produced. Starting tomorrow there
will be a ladies' dime matinee daily.
Edward E. Rose has chosen for the
title of his newest play. "My Moth
er's Rosary," which is the opening at
traction for the new International cir
cuit at the Boyd, beginning Sunday,
September 3, with the customary cast
production and electrical effects with
which Rowland and Clifford equip
every play that goes out from their ;
headquarters.
The Neffsky troupe of Russian
singers, dancers and instrumentalists
is coming to the Empress for four
tiays, starting today, whirlwind dance
ing being the extraordinary- feature
of the offering. Harmony and good
singing is presented by the Ihrte
Brothers. The characterization of
the southern darky is offered by Lew
Ettmunds of Edmunds and La Velle,
assisted by Mary La Velle in the part
of, the comely "yeller gal." They
bill themselves as "The Tennessee
(Manfaret-Lee
At ine vaeff
I Prize Story,)
Dog's Mishaps.
Bv Muriel Steed. Aged 2 Years,
Blair. Net). Red Side.
I am h little shepherd puppv all
white except a black spot on my left
ear.
Sav. did you Busy Bees ever Juve
what you could call real bad luck?
Well. 1 have, but no one seems to
are fur "just a dog."
1 will tell you a few of the trou
drs I have had this week.
The first of the week I had a fight
with another dog jut about my sue.
I went to bite hmi and Oh, my
nose helieve 1 ttroke ft.
After the "experience with another
log" (a looking glass) I was so him-
Mv mistress set a dish ul milk on
the porch for me and I was so hun
gry i ate the bottom of the dish.
CI hat was hard to digest.)
But it wasn t enough to have my
teeth loosened by the bottom of my
mistress' favorite dish. When she
saw the dish she broke my back with
the broom handle.
But 1 think it was her fault, because
she ought to have known better than
to let me eat out of the pretty disli
when she saw how hungry 1 was.
Well. I will close now, hoping that
Mr. Wantehasket has gone to "the
border" so there will be a chance for
sympathy from the Busy Bees.
Magnolias," in "The Bright Side of
Life, and will offer htteen minutes
of song, dance and jest. This bill
is completed bv a team of corned v
magicians and illusionists, Johnston
and Arthur.
A Nli i piling Konmnre.
A rhilxri-HphiHii two innmh acrt '"I'i
' ship whi.-h nrlfftniiMy cost 25fl.non f.r :U
j 0 Th Tiw owrnr rhurtorfil It t t
OftO it month. A second Miyr kh r bonus
of IM'.tKlO nn.l reaolrt for STTS.onn, Th.
present owner hus chartfTfl It for a yar
i for 1480,000. Another shtinlnn sTol'y Is that
of the German uhlp whti h lrouRhi rumo
of nitrate to New York In Snl'n'br. 1914
The nitrate, then valued at lU&.Ono, la
being unloaded and sold for 11.000.000.
The Busy Bees
111C11 WWII I dC7
FAIRY TALES are still the most alluring reading -matter for Busy
Bres, I am sure, and that they have devoured booksful of them this
summer, I haven't a doubt. For 1 have, too.
Ofcoiire you know tirimm's ami Hans t hristian Anderson's
fairy tales am! by the same token Aesop's fabUs and the Arabian
Nights; but have you ever read Persian fairy tales?
If yoti want to burrow deeply into the most absorbingly interesting of
blood-curdling, impossible, but thriving of tales, don't fail to read -of the
adventuies nl Kustum. that mightv hero and the tragic death of his son.
Sohrah Then there is Rustum's father and his grandfather, too, great heroes
also .md valiant were the deeds thev performed for their king. Innuuieral
tunes they snatched their country from the tierce onslaughts of their Tartar
enemies, to say nothing ot breaking tiie spell that demons, wizards and sor
ceresses held over the fair land of Persia.
Several Busy Bees have written to inmiire whether those on the Blue
lde could vote for a candidate on the Red side and. vice versa in the coming
election nt king and quern. Indeed you may, The king is chosen from tlie
Red side and the queen from the Blue side, but it is not. at all necessary for
only those on the Red side, lor iterance, to vote for the king. Boys and girls
n the Blue side are expected to vote for the king. too. It is only he who
must be identified with the Red side,
Muriel Steed of the Red side won the prize book this week. Miriam
Moslier and Florence Seward, whose picture appears this week, both of the
Blue side, won honorable. irrTntion.
ONE Qi" THE BRIGHT LITTLE
BUSY BEES,
W, J. Bryan Doesn't Smoke a Corn
Cob Pipe; Other Hoosier Inquiries
Little Stories by. Little Folk
(Honoral)le Mention.)
"Safety First."
I! v Miriam Moshcr. tPJ.W I'arnam
Street, Omaha, Xel)., Aged
II Years, lilue Side.
K'vervwherc we hear ahout and see
signs nl "safety first." No rule can
aid us unless we put it into practice,
therfore if more people knew their
safety first rules there would he
fewer accidents.
Here are a few 'safety rules;
Do not cross the street without
looking to the right and left.
l'o not jump on wagons.
Do not jump off and on a moving
hide.
When netting on and off a street
car bt sure that n vehicles are coming.
1 hese are by no means au me
'safety first" rules, hut they are some
if the most important ones. I hope
every Busy Bee will live up to "saiety
first."
ing homo we saw a little rohin llial
hail fallen out of its nest, .rack pui it
back in its nest.
We are going again this summer.
1 hope Mr. Waste Flasket is nut
calling when my Idler gets there.
"A, B, C of Aanimals."
By Rose I'osvar, Ktohland, N'eli. Age
M Years. K !". I). No. I
Blue Side.
A ll for Hnt!ii..
With horn i;tnti xml Nlmrl,
To ma hunthn fnr them.
! ronaltr.il itim sjjiui.
B tf fnr 111 l.p
That viltn th" flow-rs.
Brln,lnir h.,k Uvify
Thttt poon will he ours.
0 Htnmifl for rrm'inlilc,
Thut llv,. In th., rh'r;
f. 1
1 J ' 4
! A . Yj,
S x s
f?L -a y. i
Florence Seward,
To Bf him
o in fur (lonkpy.
Th irt .r the Ikivm.
Who rtrtvf III in tn witnuii
'Mid la itK h tor and noloo.
R fur Iho l-phwril.
8pii In th iwrlt.
Wo fpptt hi in with n-anutn
I'ntll It gMa tlark.
F for tha ftiloon.
A tilrd thH( In rnrp,
Alii ubfxI In out KiiKlniid
To eat.-h llrln In th- air.
0 tm for pophr
Thnt Hvi( iinilorifrouiiii.
But liffor' r'onilnr out. '
Lookn rifrefully round.
H I for th horn,
Tou all know no wll.
W have two of thorn now
Jerry and NVH.
1 1 for IMm,
With Ioiik Ipkk and hm :
With plumage that's prtty.
And volep very nhrtll.
J 1b for jRirnar,
Up In l ho trfi,
A httautlful animal,
I'm Buro you 11 agree.
K tnd for tho lon-
legged kangaroo;
When you go to th park.
You'll see one or two.
'day. iiKP.ly. I would like to be on
the HIuc side.
Enjoys Carnival.
i Ity I.cila M. Benedict, Aged 8
I Years, l;raiiklin. 'eb. Blue Side.
! The carnival is here this week. They
! have a Ferris wheel, and I rode four
I or tive times on the merry-go-round
i We went to the doir show. It was
pretty ood. When the dogs took '
their places on the plauorm one.
jumped in a box and the others on
little stools;
The cranival lias a museum and
some other hhows. At the glass blow
ers we saw a man making a boat and
Well, hoys and girls, where do you
think I went on my vacation? Went
down to Indiana, where the Hoosier--come
from. You know, when a kid
Lgoes away from home to another ity
or town he always thinks everything
is so different and so much better
than in his home town. And. when
lie gels back home he sort of changes
'"ii". mind and thinks the old home
fmvii is the best after all. Anyway, a
fellow takes more in it ice of things
when he is away from home.
I went down to I. a Porte countv.
Indiana, or I suppose it is "up to l.a
orte countv. because it is up near
Lake Michigan. A friend t "ok nie out
in hi.aiitomobile aad he said: "Wliat
can I show you?"
' Anything of interest. What have
on got to show?"I asked.
Then he drove nearly a mile from
the town of l.a Porte, the county seat,
and he stopped in front of a neglected
farm. "This is the old (luiness farm."
lie said. 1 told him I had heard
about the old place, but I did not
tell him I thought it was nothing to
be very proud of. He told me the
story of Belle Uuiness, who advertised
tor husbands who had money, and
when the men who would be her
husband brought their money tn her
house, the husbands disappeared. She
had seventeen victims. I felt queer
like when 1 looked at the place, which
is spooky and deserted.
I- visited at a small place known as
anatah. In the general merchan
dise store I looked at some corncob
pipes and told tlie man that ome
people back in Nebraska smoke corn
cob pipes,
"Does V. J. Bryan smoke a corncob
pipe?" the country merchant asked. 1
told him Mr. Pi van dots not smoke
.i-. anybody know.-. abut at least he
.has not been een in put.' lie with a
i eurneob pipe.
"Why. 1 aluas thought he smoked
, a cor lioib pipe," he replied.
Thev hafe smiie tine .sweet corn in
j La Porte (.ounty. I ia eating some
t corn in a re-taur.mt at Westville and
another man was diuug the same. The
', otner tellou him com! !n't get enough,
' it seemed. Atirr a while Ins wife said
to him: "Kph. 1 think it would have
heen much lira-n'i ii yon had gone
to ; livrt y I n u fur your dinner, "
1 'I hat made Kph sort of mad-like. "I
j Mippoe it you had your way about
I it you would feed and w ater me at
the livery with the horses,' said the
, husband to his w n't .
Speaking about Westville (that's in
1 a Porte ctumty, tool, if you ask tho
, folks about ftynething of interest,
they will say: "Well, you know l.oic
Puller was horn here." Miss Fuller
i became famous a a dancer.
If you want to make a Hoodie"
mad. but of course y.Mt wouldn't, nor
would 1 or anybody t lsc. just sav :
"Lots of smart 1 1 1 k -i come from In
diana and the siuarier they are the
quicker they come." Of course, that's
' just in fun.
Marve and Kr-ginald were riding
. along in an automobile near I 'num
i M ills. We saw 1 u o large hawk-j,
hovering over a chicken yard. Down
the road a few n.di we met the man
; who owned the chickens, so we told
him about the hawks. And you bet
, lie hurried home and got oui hi shot
gun. When we met hint he was
j a-sauntering along as if there were no
j hawks in the world, hut when we told
I him the news he hurried faster than
1 the Deutschland.
a wine glass and spin glass. We got
glass ink pens that write as wcl! as
others do. There was a man that
went under water and did several
things.
Well, I will close, hoping to win a
prize.
man when he is full and a sack when
it is full.
This is all for this time, so good bv,
Busy Bees.
Sound Vermin Sense.
Some More Riddles.
By Vera Lundberg, Aged 13 Years,
Wakefield, Neb. Blue Side.
This is the second time I have writ
ten, so I thought I would write some
riddles for the Busy Bees to answer.
Why is a young mule like au egg?
What is the difference between a
hiM
fnNTtaininjr a
from f.,ool.
tohl liow thu
h day a motto
motto today, dear?
While her
Miller, llttlu Killill
luriiiK the titlk th"
teach'. r was giving th
to reniembi-r.
"And what was th'
aslt. d !h.H caller
' 'SiiMt; Adiitn f-.rt'ers Susie Adam.
quoted Kdna roiitid. tiln .
Hull wiiineii y,.rv niurh mvsttfled
(liis siURular uielin, -1 .ii t they finally
me ,u .oni'lijelori ih.it what the rhlld
me mt was "Km husicsn, begtl enthusi
asm." Boston Tr;inrn,t
Stories of Nebraska History
( Honorable Mention.)
Make Others Happy.
Hv Florence Seward. Age 10 Years,
1WH Corhy Stn-et, Omaha, Neb.
liluc Side.
I am iinine to till vou about our
little i-lub, but (irst will answer those
riddles I put in. The answers are:
A pit. an ("Kg and the moon.
"ur Sunday school class has formed
a lirtlr club. Kvery Tuesday we meet
at our teacher's house. There we work
at doll dressing?" and scrap books.
Mv. it was so much fun. Ve were
making all these things for the poor
little children in the hospital wno
were sick and could not walk very
well.
lust about a week before Christmas
we took the things to the hospital.
The lady who waited on us said the
things were very prettv, and nail us
put our names down in a book. Then
we were taken all around the hospital.
through the dmmg room, parlor and
kitchen. M'ter a while we went home.
1 almost pictured the babies happy
faces when they saw their things.
Lives in Wyoming Now.
By Dorothy Young, Age 8 Years,
Sorrel, Yyo. Ked Side .
I moved out here from Nebraska
in June. We live in the Big Horn
Basin and are surrounded by moun
tains. The scenery is very pretty.
Ye enjoy the Omaha Bee every day.
I like "Bringing l'p Father" and the
Busy Bee page. YVe do not get the
Sunday paper until Monday after
noon. I wrote you a letter while we
lived in Nebraska. 1 like Nebraska.
Father Carries Letters.
Roberta Hunter, Age 10, Utica, N'eb.
Blue Side.
My lather is a mail man at I tica.
Neb. He has twenty-six miles to go.
He drives one horse when the roads
are good, but when it rains very hard
and in the winter he drives two
horses. When the roads are good he
drives one horse then the other horse.
The horses' names are Kitty and
Queen. Kitty is a sorrel horse and
Quee.ii is a black horse. Papa has
Route No. 2. Mr. Wikkelson has
Route No. 1. Are any of the Busy
Bees' fathers mail carriers? 1 would
like to get the prize. And if any Busy
Bee would like to get acquainted
with me by writing letters I will
answer their letters promptly, for I
like" to write letters, and would be
glad to get acquainted. I hope to get
the prize. Would like to join the
Blue side. Blue is my favorite color.
Going Camping.
By Mary Boyle. Aged 9 Years, Fre
mont, Xcb . Route 2. Blue Side.
"May we go camping today?" asked
Ruth of her mother.
"You may if lack will go along.'
"Oh. goody, goody. 1 will go ask
him. You can be fixing the lunch,
mamma."
Jack said he would. We got to the
river about sundown. We stayed all
night and all the next day. We went
home at 4 o'clock. We both said we
had a good time. While we were go-
( Bv snoi li'l tin-mission of tlt ntithnr
The Hp,' will yabllsh vhiiptTs from the Hla-
tury of NnhrH-Hka, liy A. K. Sheldon, from
week lo week.)
NEBRASKA A& A STATE
(ContiniuMl Neit Sunday)
The Nebraska Indians Today
There have been great changes in the
Indian triries which-once called Ne
braska their home. The Pawnees,
reduced in number to 653, live on
their reservation in Oklahoma. Next
to the Pawnees on the west is the
reserve of the Utoes and Missouris,
living together as one tribe now
numbering only 411. They have a
beautiful rich prairie bordered with
timber tor their home. Joining the
Otoe reserve on the north is the land
of the Poncas. Here live the part
i of the Poncas, 583 in number, who
I did not return to Nebraska. Thus
J side by side in the heart of Okla
i homa live three tribes of Nebraska
' Indians. They visit each other and
'keep alive the memory of the land in
the north where they once lived,
i They still think of Nebraskaas their
'old home and their children grow up
' hearing, from the lips of the older
I men and women, many wonderful
(stories of the old times. The former
Nebraska Sioux, who number about
12,000 people, live on their great res
ervation in South Dakota. They are
often seen in the Nebraska towns
along the border. Part of the Chey
ennes and Araphoes who once
roamed western Nebraska are now in
Oklahoma and number about 2,000.
The remainder are in Wyoming.
There are at the present time 3,784
Indians in Nebraska. Of these the
Omaha and Ponca are the only na
tive Nebraska tribes. The Omaha
number l,27o and live in Thurston
county. The Nebraska band of the
Poncas has about 290 members and
lives at its old home near the mouth
of the Niobrara river. The Indians
now living in Nebraska who were
moved here bv the luiited States are
as follows: The Winnebagos, 1,063
j in number. live neighbors to the
; Omahas. Their former home was in
; Wisconsin and Minnesota. They
! came to Nebraska in 18o5. The San
I tee Sioux were moved from Minne
sota in 1K(4 and settled in Knox
i county along the Missouri river.
There are 1,155 of them. The Sauk
and Fox Indians. of Missouri were
located in 18ol on a'Teserve in south
east Nebraska and northeast Kansas.
, They number about 100.
j Rights of Indians All the Indians
! now living in Nebraska arc citizens
j and have the same right to vote and
to hold oltice that white people have.
Thev own some of the verv best land
I thought 1 would send you 5 few in the state, much of it rented to
riddles and sec if you could guess 'white farmers. Some of these In
them: j dians work bard and are learning the
What did the salt shaker? white man's way of living, while nth-
What is the difference between a ers cling to the old life and love to
schoolmaster and an engine driver? spend their time visiting each other
L tn for th lobHter.
That lives tn Ihe bph.
Which, after bMng boll-d.
it.i tin red an ran be.
XI is for ninnkeyn
You oe In thf stno;
They Imitate people.
An.t entertain you.
N li for th nnrwhal,
That looks like a whale.
Eirepttng the horn.
Which ia found on the male,
O Ii for ontrlrh.
With pluman1 no rare.
Which on their hats
Most women wear,
P utamls for parrot,
With color Bay;
It trlfd to mock
Kvery thing you day.
Q Ih for quail.
Which la generally found
On tha edge of wood.
Hiding uloae to the ground,
R at and s for rabbits.
With earn long tfnd slender;
They eat carrota, lttuc
And cabbage, that's tcntftr.
I
S ta for the snail.
That travelB so slow
It rarrlpa Its houae
That'a the reason, you know.
T la for tiger.
That tn India lives,
Which, If attacked,
A good battle gives.
U la for uniber.
9o called from lis color.
Which is cinnamon brown.
Or. possibly, duller.
V atand for vulture.
A larg bird of prey.
So strong that it carries off
Lambs, so they aay.
W Is for walrus.
With large Ivory tusks;
It feeda upon neaweed,
And also mollusk.
X for the samtho.
A sort of a crab:
If caught, with Its pinchers
Tour hand It will urab.
Y Is for yak.
Thnt bin loads can pull.
And resembles, aomewhat,
Our own native bull.
'. In for aebra. .
Tfiat trots o'er the moor.
When he hwars. with dismay.
A most terrible roar. .
By
A Bunch of Riddles.
Laura Newhall, Aged U Years,
I'nadilla, Neb. Red Side.
What is the difterence between
lover and his rival?
, and telling stories of the days before
the white men came. 1 heir children
Why is a new born baby like a gale go to school and learn the English lan-
of wind? : guage. although the Indian languages
When is a man thinner than a lath? i arc still spoken in their homes.
What is the best way to keep aj Passing of the Old Life In a few
man's love? j years the old languages and the old
What color is grass when covered Indian wavs will be gone forever and
with snow
What is the oldest piece of furni
ture? Why do black sheep eat less than
white ones?
Well, this Is all the riddles I call
think of just now. Hope to see the
riddles in print.
nothing will remain of Indian life in
Nebraska but its story.
Shipping Nebraska Grain In re
cent years a great change has come in
the route over which Nebraska grain
is' shipped to market. In the early
years nearly all Nebraska products
were shipped east over the railroads
to Chicago and the Atlantic ocean.
Boosts Home Town ".,tn tnc nuil(l,,1K north and south
By HarrietteFlieshman.Aged9 Years. mount sta.s over ".i' WC9lcrn
22 West Second Stret. Nor:h Mines of road.
Tlatte. Neb. Blue Side. 1 Free Libraries About 18r'9 there
I like to read the Busy Bee page. ! began in Nebraska a movement to
I am a little girt who lives in North secure free public libraries and read
Platte, Neb. North Platte is not a ing rooms. In a few of our towns
big town nor a little town. It is just j and cities these had been established
right. I will write to you some other ior many yearr. The new effort was
to make at least one strong library
in each county, this movement is
still going on and acts of the leg
islature of 1911 are expected to bring
good libraries well cared for within
reach of every cltzen.
The Women's Clubs In the period
between 1890 and 1H) the woman's
club movement in Nebraska took an
active form. A number of clubs had
been organized in earlier years. In
1894 these were brought together in
a state federation, new clubs were or
ganized and state conventions held
with great interest and enthusiasm.
These women's clubs aim to inspire
and promote the interests of women
and to bring their influence to bear
for better schools, better books, bet
ter home-making, better government
and a happier and more beautiful
state.
Retrospect This story of Nebras
ka as a state closes with the year
1912. It is 101 years since the Asto
rians and Manuel Lisa ran their fa
mous boat race for 1.000 miles up
the Missouri river past our shores.
It is fifty-two years since the out
break of the great civil war between
the north and the south, starting from
the contest between slavery and free
dom in the Nebraska country. The
story of our state extends backward
and reaches forward and in either
direction a child of Nebraska finds it
filled with interest and inspiration.
Nebraska a Century Ago Wonder
tul is the story ot the world m these
last 100 year and nowhere more won
derful than here in Nebraska. A
hundred years ago our state was an
unknown wilderness called a desert,
Upon it roamed 40,000 Indians and
millions of buffalo, elk and deer. Wild
geese, swans, ducks and other water
fowl made their nests undisturbed.
The wild griss grew everywhere, the
sod unbroken by the plow. The waters
"of its streams ran unchecked to the
sea.
The mind and hand of man have
transforriied Nebraska in the last fif
ty years. A million and a quarter
of wdiite people live in a land which
supported onlv one-thirtieth as many
Indians. Nearly 10.000.000 domestic
animals find their food where once
were herds of buffalo, elk and deer.
Nebraska Today If a boy should
spend one day only of his-lifc in vis
iting each Nebraska farm, he would
need to live more than 500 years be
fore he had seen them all. A thou
sand cities and villages in our own
state are fed from these farms, and
the surplus food which we ship to the
people of other states and countries
every year would fill 1,000.000 farm
wagons or make a railroad train of
freight cars long enough to reach
from Chicago to Denver.
Nebraska Herds Our herds of
horses, cattle, sheep and swine, if
driven as fast as a man can walk
across a bridge over the Platte river,
would make a column 10.000 miles
long and be four months in crossing
the bridge without stopping to feed
or water.
Nebraska Crops Men and women
are still living in Nebraska who have
seen all these ' changes. They have
seen all the counties, cities, villages
and farms of Nebraska created. They
have seen the number of bushels of
wheat grown in this state increase
from 147,000 in 1859, when we shipped
our first surplus, to 55.000,000 in 1910,
and the number of bushels of corn
from about 1,000.000 in 1859 to over
200.000,000 in 1910. Nebraska today
could give every man, woman and
child in the t'nited States two bushels
of corn and one-half bushel of wheat
and still have enough for bread and
seed for the people within our state
The Old Way of Travel and the
NewInstead of the Indian squaw
leading a ponpr over a dim trail across
the sunbakec. plains 100 years ago,
with the poles of her tepee dragging
at the pony's side; instead of the
slowly crawling freight wagon with
By A. E. Sheldon
its twelve yoke of oxen of fiftv veavs
ago, we now crave! daily in Nebraska
.L!!!,Cans of U")0 Passe"Ser trains,
.W.UUU automobiles and. still unsatis
fied, are just learning to spread our
wings and fly through the air faster
than ettn automobile or express train
cai travel.
The TelrnbnnV t,.
. . .. ..v. i uui lauiers,
the moneers c . 1 1 T H iL.. . .
I . 11 . -...v.. sanies, o
talk tive minutes with the nearest
neighbor meant sometimes a day's
drive With lb,- frwl..c. . .
their children and grandchildren sit .
m their homes and talk with their
friends far anav bv the lakes or the
shore of either great ocean, knowing
their voices and even feeling their
presence. t
Nebraska Schools The schools of
Nebraska are famed around the world
for our state has had for many years'
the largest percentage of anv state
in the union of its people able to read
and write, and is thus the most intel
ligent state of the most intelligent
nation in the world.
Most of the progress in the e.
braska schools has been made in thi'
last forty years. In ihat lime ,
number of schoolhouse.s i the state
has grown from about .!()() to 7.000 ami
the number of children in school from
ii.inni io .vhj.uiai. ihe rough logs
and sod walls of the schoolhouscs nf
torty years ago have nearly all been
replaced by neat wooden and brick
buildings. Instead of the split log
eais oi me earnest schoolhouses with
their home-made desks there are con
venient desks of polished wood and
metal. In place of tlx; few school
books of many different kinds bought
by the parents in manv different
states and brought to .Nebraska, each
child in the Nebraska schools today
has free books furnished by the dis
trict in which he lives, with maps and
charts and apparatus for making ex
periments never deamed of by those
other children who attended the' Ne
braska schools in the early days.
Besides these great improvements
in the common schools, our state has
resolved that the people shall, in the
titture, excel even more than in the
past. For their training in all the
arts and trades of life it has added
free normal schools for training the
teachers, and a free university and
agricultural college where a boy or
girl may study and practice the "best
that may be lirued for the life of
a farmer or engineer or mechanic or
any of the callings bv which men anjL
women may hope to earn their liv"
ing and make themselves useful to
the state in which they dwell.
How Nebraska Shall Be Prosper
ous and Free -Nebraska is a rich
great and beautiful stale. It cannot
stop where it now is. It is ,,t. aw
ot hie that states must grow stronger
and wiser and better, -or they must
decay. It is the people who make a
state, and the children today make the '
people of tomorrow. Our fathers first
of all made this state free. Then they
made it prosperous. T1U( made it
thus with labor of nuis.-i,.
brain. They did thc rough work, they
built the bridges. il1Ui llH. C.H ail,i
broke the sod. The did m ask an
easy tune. If t lie v had. Nebraska
would never have been buih. For us
is left to do the finer work, to u-e
the improved ways, to develop the
better knowledge. This requires great
er skill and finer trai ling and per
sistent labor.
Hard work and neighborly kind
ness made life happj (or our fathers
even in the sodbousc and dugouts
of the early days. As ihev crew
strong, the state grew strong witll
them because every man earned hil
living. Their children will make a
richer and better and ri eater Nebras
ka by practice of the two chief vir.
Hies which have made the Nebraska
oi louay nonest labor and
borly kindness.
. (The EnAh
nctE.V.
V
1
: ,: ' ----