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By EDWARD BLACK.
As Others See Us.
The other day we attended a dem
onstration of bathing an. infant cor
rectly in the pood old summer time.
Not very thrilling was the incident,
. but something happened to set us
thinking. -There were forty school
girls present the locale was in a
school house and the demonstrator
was a school ' nurse. The nurse
caused the infant to cry and the lach
rymal activities of the child aroused
the risibilities of the girls. -The an
guish of the infant was merriment for
the youthful, spectators. This is the
thought: There is something inherent
in human nature which makes one
person laugh over the plight of
another, if that plight is of other
than a real serious nature, and some
times even serious plights are turned
into occasions of mirth.
Willie laughs at his pa when the
latter strikes his thumb with a ham
mer. Pa says, "Gosh ding it!" and
Willie and ma laughs, as much at to
say, "There is more than one person
in this household who needsa little
practice in the art of using a ham
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Take the case of a fat man chasing
his straw hat along a street What
map 1 s si arYi-nmt1r in O 1 1 II a 1 1A11 Aft? A
one want than that? The fat map
"sweats and frets and just as he
reaches for his headpiece a gust of
wind comes along and takes the hat
for another twenty-yard 'dash. The
fat man is in pain - but the 'onlook
ers laugh at his misfortune. . And if
a street car or an automobile passes
over the hat, 'another outbreak, of
laughter is due from the gallery.
Y-' fihurvfA x, woman on a Street
car the other day, frustrated because
she had neglected to. advise the con
ductor of the. street where she wished
to alight She was of troubled mind
and did not attempt to conceal her
feelings. Her remarks to the conduc
tor could not have been mistaken for
s recommendation of his efficiency.
Most of the passengers laughed.
Did you ever observe a person skid
on a banana peel and land in a re
cumbent position with face toward
the azure sky,. or towards the clouds,
if there are any clouds present at
the time? Or have you observed a
woman, with worried mien, searching
through hef money , receptacle for a
jitney, while many persons are wait
ing to contribute their mite toward
the maintenance of the traction company?-
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We saw i woman upset a cup of
coffee over . her new ftock and her
distress brought forth an outburst of
cachinnations from a group of wit
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The instinctive ' predeliction of
laughing at the misfortunes of others
was appreciated by the comedians of
the old school of slap-stick comedy.
We recall that the harder one struck
the other the more we laughed. It
was an exaggerated suggestion of
someone's being hurt. Jt may be a
case of "man's inhumanity to man."
Did You Ever Meet One?
Specimen No.777 in the gallery of
human types: V ,
"This,. ladies and gentlemen, is the
male newlywed who .gets peeved
when his bride introduces a gentle
man she knew many years before she
met him. His astigmatic vision does
not permit him to appreciate that in
all probability his bride is proud to
Vintroduce the male acquaintances of
other days to her new hilsband. He
takes a lot of the joy out of life for
himself and others." .. .
With Whiskers and Without Whiskers! r
- Of Course You Remembered Their
Appearance Fifteen fa Twenty Years Ago!
How They Looked
How : They Looi Now
Gfofe Hiaw of Oinalia
Allflie truth cmi untruth thats fit to know
A. R. GROH.
CHAPTER XXII.
Police. :"
The police force has kept -pace with
the growth of Omaha. It was started
in 1866 with four men,, including the
chief. Today we have about 181 men
on the force, according to the report
of 1915, which is the latest that the
historian has at hand.
The force includes captains, chitf
of detectives (now suspended without
pay for ninety days for calling Kugel
a bad name), desk captains, lieuten
ants, sergeants, emergency officers,
traffic cops, motorcycle officers, stray
JTyJowA'e force fas grown!
animal officers (formerly designated
dog catchers), turnkeys, etc., etc.
The police force grew right from
the first- In 1868 the city, council
voted to have the policemen dressed
in uniforms so that when they went
to' arrest someone or ordered some
body , to do . something they could
First Bearer of the
x Red Cross Sign
The Red Cross is at least 320 years
old, for it was that long ago that a
soldier first wore the emblem to mark
him as one who ministered to 'the
sick and wounded. The history of
the sign is communicated in a letter
to the New York Evening Post by
Mr. .Stephen H. Horgan, who names
the first bearer of it:
"This was Camillus.de Lillis, to
whom Pope Sixius V granted per
mission to use a red cross as the dis
tinguishing mark of.the society he
was forming and which Pope Greg
dry XIV confirmed by. founding the
order, in 1541.
"The real origin of the badge of
the Red Cross came from a dream
which Camilla Coinpelia de Lillis,
mother of Caniillust had just before
he was born. In this dream she saw J
a child with a red cross on his breast
followed by other children with
similar emblems.
"CamUlus de Lillis by his work' as
a nurse and the reforms he brought
about in caring for the sick, both in
hospitals and on the battlefield, was
eventually canonized a saint, and
Pope Leo XIII, on June 22, 1886, an
nounced that St . Camillus de Lillis
would be the patron of nurses,
whether they wore , a Red Cross
badge or not." '
Dogs Invaluable in War.
: Dog 'Jiav proved invaluable 6 the pree
nt war,' Day and night, through the, many
month of fighting, the cajilne heroea have
aoqultted thtmaelves nobly a acout and
aeniriee, In the rapid movement of light
tana, and in lerking out the wounded over
look! hy ambulance men. . 1
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show their uniforms and prove that
they were policemen.
The first uniforms were dark blue,
single-breasted coats and pants, or
trousers. ' They had dark-colored but
tons. They also wore caps with
brass plates on the front marked
b'City Tolice." ' It was a proud day
in the city's history when" the police
men first appeared dressed in their
nice uniforms. t . ' '
Such, a good appearance did they
make that the force was increased to
eighteen men, including a captain and
a lieutenant
As time went on the police force
grew until 1887, when there were
forty-two men on the force. At this
time an unfortunate dispute arose
over paying the salaries of Chief
Seavey and fourteen of the policemen.
This was fought for months, the men
serving and not receiving any pay,
Thexactiomof the grocers and butch
ers during this time was very com
mendable in extending-credit to these
irien for provisions. Their faith was
vindicated when the courts approved
paying the salaries to these police
men and they were paid by the city,
not, a dollar being lost by any of the
grocers and butchers who had so
nobly stood by the officers of the law.
It is interesting to compare the po
lice statistics of 1891 with those of
1915, the latest report which the his
torian has at hand. In 1891 there were
6,386 males arrested and in 1915 there
were 12,250. In 1891 there were 895
women arrested and in-1915 there
were 2,007. In 1891 there were 181
accidents reported and in 1915 there
were 508. ' -.-'
Not a single automobile accident
was reported in 1891. In 1915 there
were 178' automobile - accidents - re
ported. . In 1891 there were thirteen
suicidesi reported and in -1915 there
were fifiy-tour. All this shows very'
gratifying progress,
The .humane department is a de
p'artment that has been organized
since 1891. Hans Nielsen is in charge
look ii up in the statistic
and his report shows the important
work he did in 1915. He shot six
stray cats and took up five stray
horses on the streets. Barns inspected
and ordered fixed up, eight
The stray animal officers, two col
ored men, are'now provided with a
handsome Ford car in which are two
compartments for the stray dogs to
ride in. Thestray animal officers are
provided with wire loops with-which
they are very skillful in catching the
stray dogs.
Questions on Chapter XXII
1. Describe early uniforms of
Omaha policemen.
2. How many men were arrested in
1891? In 1915? "' :
3. How do the stray animal officers
catch dogs? s
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Led Jfiiti to LeaVe Cleveland
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By A. EDWIN LONG.
He might nave been a lawyer. Also
he might have been an. athlete, for
he loved to wrestle and pull fingers
with the biggest chaps that ever came
lumbering out pf the back woods.
That was C C. Belden. The legal
ambition began, in Mesopotamia, O.,
where he was born in 1849. He
watched the prosperous lawyers with
their gold-headed canes on the streets
and he wanted to be one of them.
Then father spoiled it all by -moving
the family into the deep dark
backwoods of Wisconsin, where the
elder Belden was one of the pioneer
lumbermen. C C. was only 10 years
old at that time, and for one year
he chased panthers and wild cats,
picked huckleberries, and bounced
on the knees of the heavily-booted
lumberjacks. 1
Back to Mesopotamia went the
whole family then, and at thirteen
C. . C. got his first real job. It was
a real job, all right, for it consisted
of sweeping out a general store in
Mesopotamia, measuring, out jugs of
molasses, unpacking butter and count
ing eggs. Of course there were many
other little duties, such as cutting
kindling, carrying out ashes, selling
husking mittens to the farmers, and
sicking the store dog onto the store
cat when the cat took liberties with
the cheese.
Here it was that young Belden
nearly developed into a professional
athlete. His kid hobby was pulling
fingers.' When a customer came in
while the boss was out, young Belden
did not concern himself at once with
filling the customer's order. He first
challenged Khim to a finger pulling
contest. The two would whip their
fingers together with a sharp whack,
lock them, and then lean back ana
pull. One was no man, if he wasn't
lowtL, -
game to pull fingers with anyone who
challenged him. . Yes, and one was
rated a real man in that neck of the
timber if he could pull young C. C
Belden. So it was that many a time
young . Belden and a farmer across
the counter, braced their heavy shoes
against the top of the counter, leaned
back and tugged at one another's
fingers, until the counter creaked and
wailed under the strain their heels
put upon it. .
Not because he pulled fingers like
a demon, but because lie sold silk
carefully and swept the store' neatly,
he was made a partner in a little store
in Garrettsville, O. He i;ext jumped
to Cleveland.where he and Mr.
Thompson, his present partner in
Omaha, formed a - partnership and
put out a line of stores at Cleveland,
Youngstown, and Fremont, O. ;
His attention was drawn to Omaha
principally by the word of two men.
They were an uncle, D. D. Belden, an
Omaha-pioneer, ,who was the fourth
mayor of Omaha, and-by the late
Everybody Has
W. M. Nash would rather snap a
kodak during: his leisure hours than
anything else in the world. He bought
a high-priced camera recently which
cost so much that he is '.almost
ashamed to tell his friends what it did
cost.' Yet he will not sell a picture.
When he takes pidtures he develops
them and gives them away. A f,w
years ago when an eastern specialist
told him that for the benefit of his
health he must give his nerves a rest
and must- take up some hobby like
riding horses, studying birds, or some
equally restful pastime, Mr.' Nash im
mediately bought a costly camera and
began taking pictures. His friends say
it is wonderful the amount of pleasure
he gets from the camera, and wonder
ful, too, the way it has benefited his
nerves. .
Clarke Powell's hobby is known
only to his little son. It is to grow
or buy some hair for his head. Re
cently Mr. Powell brought his. little
son to the Commercial chjb for lunch
eon. Thexchild was playing around
the lobby after luncheon, while his
father was -talking auto supplies to
some one in the corner. The genial
girls at the club asked the youngster:
"Say, little boy, when you grow up
are you going to have as much hair as
your father?" i
Promptly came the reply:'
"Oh, daddy's going to get some."
Harry Shields, local ticket agent of
the Wabasb. is said to have a hobby
which he has' never practiced. He has
tried all his life to practice this hobby
and has never been ableito'do it.lt
is a hobby with him just tne same, for
it constitutes the ambition of his life.
It is to make a lead pencil stick back
of .'his j ear. Harry's ears are of. a
peculiar cut, and pencils refuse to
stick. ,
Miss Minerva Quinby, employe of
the Federal Farm Loan bank. of Oma
ha, loves flowers. She loves to plant
them, and then get someone else to
tend them, the rest of the summer.
With her father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. Laurie J. Quinby, she is at present
living in an apartment. She scratched
the dirt a little on the sunny side of
the apartment house and planted some
flowers. ' ".
x She asked the old Irish janitor and
lawn keeper to water the flowers. He
promised. Two or three weeks later
snc iouna inenowers , loaning uau,
and apparently suffering from want
of water.
"Pat," sTie.said to ; the janitor, "I
thought you said you would . water
these flowers."
"Wather," shotted Pat "Phwatare
ye tajkin about? Sure and I'll be
after seem if they grow first before I
be wastin' any; wather on them." ;
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'Vho is this 'man .with the long
brown pencil in his mouth? That is
not a pencil, comrades. It is a Pitts
burgh stogie. And. the man in whose
mouth" it is burning itself away , is
Colonel C W. McCune, collector of
customs and custodian of the federal
building. The Pittsburgh stogie is
Colonel McCune's hobby: "
How did he fair into thishabit?
vou renisr. Well, one dark' and stormy
night when Brother1 McCune was a
night editci- en our hated contempo
rary he hlied his pipe witn tobacco.
It was some sort of tobacco that had
not been treated- by a patented pro
cess and that had not been aged for
two years. Therefore, what could you
extect? It bit his tongue, of, course
Night1 Editor McCune, forgettingJ
his usual calmness, seized the unot
fending Dine and hurled it against.the
wall, .wher it broke into a thousand
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Thomas Kilpatrick. - D.. D.. Belden,
even after he left Omaha and- was
living in Denver, saw possibilities in
the Nebraska metropolis and he wrote
to his nephew C. C. in Ohio, telling
him of the importance of this growing
town in Nebraska. '
A little later Mr. Belden happened
to go to Cleveland, where he met the
late Thomas Kilpatrick, when the lat
ter had just returned from a trip to
the coast, during which trip he had
stopped off in Omaha. y
"C. C," said Kilpatrick, "why don't
you settle in Omaha, Neb.?"
C. CV Belden took him at his word,
and came to Omaha so fast that he
beat Kilpatrick himself . here by a
a Hobby! What's- Yours?
pieces. Nobody counted the pieces,
but that is the number that things al
ways break into when they hit against
a wall. s ..
Well, a few weeks later he took a
trip to West Virginia. While there
he made the acquaintance of some
Pittsburgh stogies. And he was well
pleased with them. Since then he
has been a devoteee of the stogie.
He can stow more stogie smoke
than ''most any man.T He buys 'em
by the box, importing them,, direct
from the smfcky city. They cost him
2Yj cents apiece, f. o. b. Pittsburgh.
Once in a while he inadvertently
leaves the box on his desk and' the
newspaper reporters get one or two
of them. But usually he keeps them
under lock and key in a. drawer of his.
desk. . , - '-. - , ' , .
Hughie Mills, Uncle Sam'ssecreb
service sleuth, has a ' hobby. It is
"feeding his face." There is nothing
wrong with Hugh's digestion or ap
petite. . " ' . ' "
At breakfast he generally starts off
with a stack of pancakes and honey.
Next he takes a stack of pancakes and
Here's an Indian Yarn that : '
Will Be Vouched For if Needed
Here's a yarn a true one concern
ing Frank Dewey, county clerk, coun
ty comptroller and holder of a couple
of other official county- titles : . ,The
time of this tale 'was 'maqy, many
years ago, long before Mr. Dewey ever
even dreamed of serving the taxpayers
of Douglas,county. He likes to tell
it, as it is the one incident in his boy
hood that will remain firmly imprinted
in his memory as long as he lives.
Years ago in the. seventies to be
exact the then youngUewey was a
"news butcher" on the Northwestern,
his "run" being west from Chicago.
He was iust a shaver of a boy the
youngest news agent in the service
and every trip brought' forth some
new adventure. . .. -
After the Custer massacre, when the
government called a conference of.
the big Indian chiefs in an attempt to
settle the troubles in the west, Frank
Dewey was news agent qn. the train
that carried the befeathered redskins
on their way to Washington These
chiefs, including bitting tsull, Spottea
Tail and a lot of other famous Sioux
leaders, occuoied two special cars.
They were attired in their rrfost gaudy
regalia and were, in the eyes ot young
Dewey, a "dangerous looking bunch."
The youthful news agent didn't ven
ture into the. cars occupied by -the
chieftains for quite a while. Finally,
however, the interpreter who was with
them convinced the lad thaUhe pos
sibly could sell his wares io the red?
skins for it was known several ot
them' had the fatal malady "sweet
tooth." So he timidly, ventured. into
the Indians' cars. He didn't sell much
fruit but the old warriors boughthis
candy; in fact, they ' "cleaned. his
travs." - .. -.
With an -eye to business Dewey
suddenly remembered a supply Jof.
prize-package candy which he had in
the trunk in the front end of -the
'train and which he had had on hand
for several months, having been un
able to dispose of it to anyone.-" -
They were "50-cent -packages," each
containing some "prize" in the .shape
of cheap, gaudy- jewelry long brass
chains, showy rings ' mounted ; with
pop-bottle settings and whatnot. Th
candy was kind of old and probably
wouldn't pass inspection by the pure
food inspectors "of today.- But it-was
candy to the. Indian chieftans just
like anvthing in the old days with
alcohol ia it used to the whisky Jo
year or two. That was in 1886. The
first store of the company was located
where the Woodmen of the World
building now stands. Then they
moved to Sixteenth Shd Douglas,
where the Young Men's Christian as
sociation formerly was located. The
next move brought Thompson & Bel
den to the Sixteenth and Howard lo
cation where the establishment now
thrives. v .
Though Belden has quit pulling
fingers, he is still a base ball fan, an
enthusiastic golfer, fond of horse
races, and a member of the Univer
sity club, Commercial club and Happy
Hollow club. . . ' . '
(Nets la Thli Series How Omaha ot
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bacon gravy. Then, with the edge off
his appetite, he begins on the bacon,
and after that come a few farm sau
sages and three or four fresh laid '
eggs f rom' his next-door neighbor's
hens. No, no, no, please do not mis
understand us. Hugh buys the eggs,
buys them at so much a dozen. You
ought to know he wouldn't colllect
them at night, not even if he is a
sleuth and wears rubber heels. He
isn't that kind of a man. Far from it.
He also has some fried potatoes
for breakfast, and, of course, two or
three cups of coffee and half a dozen
slices Of bread. C
His favorite 1 evening dish is pot
.roast with all the "trimmings." Of
course, he has lots of things to go
with it The pot roast is merely the
piece de resistance, as it were. "
Prob'ly Food Coffserver Hoover
will (prepare special bulletins to be
sent to Hugh. . '
It agrees with Brother Mills, too.
He's as fat and round as a butter ball.
He lives on Fontenelle boulevard,
where, he says, he "gets the first shot
at the truck wagons coming in from
the country."
them lemon extract for instant, and
otner tnings. -
Armed with several dozen packages
of the candy young Dewey marched
to "the front end of the train and
told'the interpreter that he had some
thing .new to show the old hucks.
After an exchange of Sioux with .the
Indians, which to young Dewey
sounded like an angry debate in un
intelligible jargon, the news agent
was permitted to pass down the aisle
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witn nis DasKeis oi canay.
The old chieftans had plenty of
money with them and a few bought
packages at 50 cents each. Dewey had
returned to the front of the car and
wjis, standing - watching Spotted Tail
and his fellow chiefs munch the candy,
when-suddenly one. of them let out
a war- whoop. ". . " 1 v
Mr." Dewey -sayst to this .day that
Jiis Viatr sfnod' straight tin for a mo-.
ment, for he was under the impression
that bis wares had been found un-'
satisfactory and he believed the red
skins were preparing to scalp him.'
He stood rooted to tfie car floorwaa
the old Indians made a rush for him..
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ine mosi ingnicncu uujr in iuc,woim,
he thought his last day had come. .
But here's what really hapened. '
One of the chiefs had found his,prize
in the package a long, brass chain .
with a hricht-colored charm on the
end of it and the other redskins had
Seen it' The cheap jewelry struck their
fancies and they, didn't want Dewey
to get away before he had sold them
ajl-the-candy packages in his trays.
They grabbed the packages of candy
and , fairly threw 50-cent pieces at
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When the candy was exhausted
Dewey had. his pockets filled with
silver and the old Indians were danc
ing up and down the aisles of, the
car whooping and showing each other
their "finds." "I could have sold $1,000
worth of that truck if I'd had it " re
miniscented Mr. Dewey in telling the
story, "but, believe me, it was several
days before I got over my fright I
sure thought my hour was at hand:?
The Indians got off the train at
Chicago -wearing the news agent's
brass chains and rings, as proud of
them as if they were solid gold affairs
studded with diamonds. It is said
that they kept them on . during the
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cuiuctcntc ai v-ttuiugiun aim aurr
wards took them back with them
when they returned to their respec
tive tribes . .,
