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The Omaha Sunday Bee OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1917. Comb Honey By EDWARD BLACK. The Lines of Least Resistance. I remember we were taught this line at school: "Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all." Many of us are prone to move along lines of least resistance, which usually " . results in mental and physical atro- r ... ti i. .v ,i, 1 i. u- )NV. 11IC UUIW l ll SUglHUIICU vty ill. winds which toss it to and fro. Keal strength is the reward of going to the very heart of task. The dilet tante does not blaze new trails, he pursues the old beaten paths, .regard less of the end. He does not go into .lie teeth of the gale and weather the storm. This thought may be applied to any of our everyday activities. There is nothing very new about it, but it is worth revamping now and then. The clerk, for instance, who moves along the lines of least resistance, in all probablity, will remain a clerk; and it might be said that there is not a big demand for that class of clerks. The clerk who faces with a willing disposition and a determination to win the hard places along the way is in line to be recognized when the boss has a vacancy higher op. A few days a?o a store salesman encountered an hascible patron. It neant tact and hard work to win that patron, but he was worth winning. The clerk treated a major situation in a minor way. Hr expended the minimum of effort when the maximum was necessary. It was a trying case, to be sure, but the clerk did not in- , voke any unction. The patron went ,to another stoic and met another clerk who girded his loins, figurative ly, and won the day. This clerk realized he had hard case. He was diplomatic, patient, courteous. He pa tiently displayed and explained much of the stock. The patron happened to be a retired country merchant who had come to the city to purchase sub stantial furniture for a daughter who was about to be married. His order amounted to $500 and he was pleased. He, remembered that particular store and that particular clerk. He was im pressed. His manner was brusque, but he had vulnerable points which the second clerk reached. He came to town to buy substantial furniture, but he did not buy it from the first clerk. 'ilovinjr along lines of least re sistance is suicidal; it means getting, into a rut; is not good businessdoes not yield dividends. Dont be a bromide! Be Your Own Friend. "To thine own self be true," is an old and familiar line. Being one's own friend why, it leenis almost absurd to remind one to be his own friend and yet we are not as friendly as we should be to ourselves. Sometimes we are so affected by egoism that we just think we are our own friend. We are prone to be too sure of ourselves inclined to be my opic. - Being friends of ourselves is merely bring frank with ourselves; getting1 rid of illusions and delusions and looking ourselves and each other squarely in the face. This means dis carding hypocrisy and cant. s If you are going to be a friend of vourself you must not cheat or de iude yourself, nor raise up false idols. Tell vourself that a spade is' a spade and that the law of compensation is still working at the old stand, day and light, unrelentingly. He who is a true friend unto him iclf has many friends. We have often heard the expres sion, "That man hates himself." It sounds almost paradoxical that any body could hate himself, but some people actually leave that impression. Being your own friend" means to gain a correct viewpoint of life to be tble to, locate yourself at all times, eten as the mariner knows his loca- Here's the Key to the Puzzle! Who Would Have Thought These Railroad Men Had Changed Like That? How they looked then. - ZEGODFREY (Jrofe HiW of Omaha' All ttte truth and untruth thats fit to know By A. Chapter XXVI Barber Shops. Again, in this chapter, the present history scores a victory over all other so-called histories of Omaha. You can search these books which pur port to record the history of Omaha, search them from cover to cover and you will find no chapter telling of the barber shops ol the city. et this is an important subject. The present history overlooks nothing, ft sees all, knows all. The exact location of the first bar ber shop in Omaha is a matter of con troversy. In my researches on the subject I have heard of a man who jFbor Pkkin's in iie aHy IteyS used to be here up until about twen ty years ago who. claimed to have had a haircut in this first tonsorial in stitution. Be he seems to have disap peared from human ken and the knowledge of the location of this shop has disappeared with him. The exact location is, perhaps, not a matter of great importance. We may be sure it was a crude barber shop. It was named the "Palace Barber Shop" in spite of the fact that it was located in a little bit of a frame shack that certainly didn't look like a palace. 1 The proprietor didn't have any of these reclining barber chairs that go up or down at a pressure of the bar ber's foot. He had only a small bit of a looking glass instead of the big tion on the trackless sea. Being your own friend means that you have a kindly consideration for others; a broad charitable disposition, mental poise and well-directed mind and body. Apply this to the little everyday affairs of life. Are you your own friend when you jump to a conclusion, or continually looking for fautts and flaws? Being your own friend yields good dividends on this earth and may se cure a desirable place in the land be yond, I ' It is very evident that if everybody would h his own true friend, then everybody would be everybody's friend and this old world would be a haven and a heaven. The man who goes down to his office in the morning with a -'grouch. is not a friend of himself, and the same might be said o the man who blames the world for his own mis takes. Being vour own friend means plac ing the be9t construction on the ac tions of others, getting into tune with the world, saying the kind word and leaving unsaid the word which stings. There is much happiness and pleas tire and profit in being your own friend. Significance of Military ' Insignia. The significance ef the Insignia of rank on tht clothing of Vntttd States army officer hai been explained ai follows: The oak leaf Is worn by a captain and the poplar leaf by a major because the poplar Brows tal!er than' the oak. The eagle signifies a colonel be cause the eagle soars above the poplar. The stars are for generals because the eagle looks toward the stars which shine over all. cJow NcLzm Eugene i f . f? rf ;)t Y How they look now. ' V . R. GROH mirrors tiiat most shops have nowa days all along the side of the room. Prices were pretty high. A haircut was 50 reifts or, as they called it then, "four bits." A shave cost 25 cents, but shaves were rare because prac tically all men wore whiskers. Look at the pictures of these hardy pio neers that have come down to us Note the Kat prevalence of whis kers, ihe whiskers covered the face completely, leaving oply the eyes and nose visible. It a man shaved on nis whiskers his own wife and children wouldn't have recognized him. The barber's art was pretty quiet in those days. Not only did men wear whiskers, but they let their hair grow long. When it got too long they just asked their wives or some friend to snip off some of it witha pair of scissors. How -different are things now! How rarely do we see a set of whiskers! Nearly alt men shave. Plenty of then! get thaved by a barber every day. The question naturally occurs to the reader, "But what of the safety razor? Has not that cut into the barber trade a good deal?" Barbers interviewed deny this. They say it has taken a little of the custom, but this has been more than compensated for bythe in creased number of times that men shave. Some of them even get shaved twice a day if they are going out to some swell affair in the evening. Various other refinements of the art have been invented. The shampoo was totally unknown in ' the early OA, Boy! Look al Us Jowif days. Men wouldn't have dreamed of getting a shampoo. So also with the hair singe. Why should a man get his hair singed when. his,, principal worry always was that it was growing too fast anyway and he always had to bother getting some of it cut off? With the gradual decline of the whisker fashion, barbers' work natur ally increased. The smooth shave came into style, bringing with it a Harvest of dimes for the barbers. At first men got shaved only on Satur day nights or Sunday mornings. It was stated that one could always tell what day of the week it was just by looking at men's whiskers. Later some of the "dandies" began shaving twice a week. Then others went them one better and . shaved tri-weekly and from this grew the 'habit of getting shaved daily, a habit which prevails to a large extent today. The manicure and shoe shining feature were both developments of a comparatively modern day. Nowa days it is a common sight to see a man reclining in a barber chair getting shaved while a lady gives him a mani cure and a colored man shines his shoes.' 1 . : ' x . This is, indeed, an age of luxury. ' Questions on Chapter XXVI. 1. Hi what way does the present history excell all others? 2. Why is the exact location of the first barbershop in Omaha unknown? 3. What can you say regarding whiskers? Why? 4. How often do some Omahans get shaved nowadays? If oval Charles Lane HoW Omaha Goi'Him $ktm Zife m Canada of(tm ljongiiw Unit tne west Co By A. EDWIN LONG. J. J. Cameron, who serves 700 mer chants in Omaha with credit reports on 94,000 customers, and who holds the secretaryship of the Omaha Re tail Grocers' association besides, has not spent all his life filing away Icredit reports on card systems. hope; he rode his fathers colts in Cornwall, Canada, when he was 6 years old, got tossed off, and had the pleasure of having a big horse lie on him so long one day that his parents were preparing to send for the under take!, when the animal rose, shook himself, and left little Johnnie all flat tened out and clawing at the air for breath. , Later he was in tlie front rank of all mischief in Minneapolis, for his father moved there with the family when Johnnie was 6. ftext he went to the farm, for his father bought a farm and decided to put the lad to work. Here the youth- iui Canadian s suspenders dangled with, squirrels' scalps and his hat band was spangled with rattlesnakes rat tles, for he was ever on the warpath, his face painted with blue mud. with a cudgel in one hand and a steel trap in the other. At 9. though, Dad Cameron made Johnnie do a man's work. Self-binders had not yet been born. Reapers were in vogue. Johnni had to fol- TheirHobbies! To have every convenience on his car for touring", camping and going on fishing trips is the hobby of J. Stew art White. White has tinkered away with flits' and that patent arid home made invention for his car until that vehicle is in reality the sure-enough flivver-de-luxe when White- starts on a tour of a fishing expedition. He has it equipped with folding table boards, so that when he stops for lunch he need not go into camp, but merely turns a button, draws out and unfolds a board which makes him. a table directly off the level of his el bow from the seat There he eats his chrese and sausage and drinks his coffee from a thermos bottle. The running board is equipped with com missary boxes which carry great loads of goodies, and cooking equip ment. By a dexterous twist of nim ble hand, the cushions can be con verted into a bed. Everything is ar ranged with ,a view to conserving space and gaining efficiency. To such lengths has this been, carried that White scoured the hemisphere for the Qeo. W.locmts Urn m A'.; - :v,: . -Z- 1 sUh.,...V J low the reaper day after day, binding hllnrllptt nf crrain a harKliral-inir ! task that would make even a modern boy scout howl with anguisji. ' Now there was only one day in the week left for mischief. There was no grain binding on Sundays. So John nie rose early Sunday mornings to have a big flay of fun. A spanking fine team of bay horses came driving up the lane on a Sun day. The top buggy fairly dazzled the eyes as it glistened in the sun. The driver's white cuffs protruded a half foot from the end of his coat sleeves. He was a young fellow from town who had" driven up to court Johnnie's sister. The family was away. Only John nie and his sister were at home. Of course Johnnie was not wanted, in the, parlor, while the beau was there. What could he do but get into mis chief? What is the natural thing' for a boy What's Yours? most efficacious raincoat that would take up the least room. He got it,' and it is raid when he takes it off he rolls it up and crams it into his vest pocket. ' John Campbell, of tlie Midland Title Guarantee and Abstract company, is. a confirmed "mdvie" fan and when ever the opportunity affors he wends his way to a cushioned seat to watch the screen heroes, and this is one of Mn Campbell's ideas of a well spent evening. ' When the hero is doing, his alloted part on the screen. Mr. Campbell edges to the end of his seat and fol lows every action with keen interest And he seldom, if ever, goes with, out the "Mrs." . Recently when two particular pic tures were scheduled' to appear on the. same day, Mr. Campbell found it necessary to leave his office a bit earlier than usual, in order to take in both events. The Weekly & Bumble Bee THE BIMRLE BEE. , A. J3TINGER. EDItOR. Communications' on any Jbpic received, B-tthout postage or, signature.' None returned. NO ADS AT ANT PRICE. CHARTKR. . UuUe a little talk Has come out of the story the. t a move is Quietly being pushed to change the form of city government by withdrawal from the commission plan. SuVh action would neces sarily mean a return to the con ilition that agisted before the commission was adopted. Buff question that Is not what puzzles the promoters; The question upper most in their minds is whether the process would get the Ins out and the outs iu. When that question is ansijered, the form of government will be sat isfactoryto the ins. lar with the DOCTOR. The toouflaa County Medloal society has under consideration the case of a member who was awakened from his beauty sleep by a neighbor, who came in to use the telephone to call a doctor "to atteitU a member of the neighbor's family, ,taken sick during the night. APrREL The society editor says one of her clients is not entirely certain if it Is a camisole or a casserole she is wearing. Horm Schontteld eaja mavbc it is a camera-roll. - tt'hlln it matte him sick and alo ad dicted him to the weed. He thinks that If he had help on to the toothache and hadn't learned to chew tobatjeo he would now be at least ST in stead of nly 77. SLACKER. ' The Humble Bee agreed not to dlNcuss the war, and will keep the agreement This is not affected in any way by re flections on the case of the young man who had his teeth extracted that he might escape the draft. Such fellows as he have nothing whatever to do with war. They would be in the way as much as a babe in arms, ajid would require atten tions such as are only given to helpless infants, I..XIE1. Several of our fellow cltiiens re telling of .the circumstances by reason of which they came to rome to Omaha. The Bumble Bee knows of one good cltli"n who settled here because he couldn't get any farther. Jle was broke then and is atill broke. n.NKS. The m.ln who doesn't own an auto is In no danger of being fined for violating traffic regulations. PEACE. Paul Sutton persists in dis turbing the peace by bringing more charges against Vnger. This doesn't have the appear ance of helping justice, but looks like getting even. , Old King Corn had quite a scare, but came through the trouble in good condition, and will show the world what a real state can do when 1 sets about to raise foodstuff. ' Bayarfl Transcript: Welt, did you hear the new fire whis tle? If you didn't you will, for It is some whistle. The last few. days have sug gested to several householders that the fuel question is ejom lng to the front again. Somebody ' ts getting it: that Is proven by unmistakable evi dence; the pussle is, where does It come from? Tates are going up1 in Omaha.. Our aUng are guaranteed.. QtVes i - i -r -r- -v to do when his name is Johnnie and his sister has a beau? He must vin dicate traditio'n. He untied the liitchstrap. climbed into the buRgy. and decided to take a dandy buggy ride. Well, there was no speedometer at tachment to" the buggy, so his time is not on record. He struck several se vere bumps, mowed the railings off a few bridges, smashed down a few rows of corn in a neighbor's field,. and then struck a stout corner post he could not smash. ; There the team left the buggy. The harness went into, shreds, the double tree snapped, and" the team in a fly ing tangle of mane, mangled harness and splinters, snorted and thundered over the distant hill, while the bugefy with two. wheels spinning idly in the sun, hung on the 'corner post, with Johnnie clinging desperately at what was left of. the top." v Not long after that Johnnie became a postmaster.. Of course, it was not because Ue.'ran away with the team that he became a postmaster. But his father moved to the frontier of Kan sas, founded ,tlc town of Clayton, be came a postmaster; and. made. Johnnie assistant, frdhi whiclj placeyhe soon succeeded' to the yiostmastership it self. ' 1 ' . When the lad , became of age he was a member, of the school board. Netft he waslwrth:his uncle, in a bank in Kifwin, Kan. Then; for eleven years he was with Gay Brothers, pubi lishers, of . New York, in the Kansas City office, and for a time was their Kansas City manager. In 1898 he wanted to. see the Omaha OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST Wherein It Appears Lef tenant Governor K Howard Would Rattier ' Remain in His Present Condition than Make a Promise Our good, friend, Leftenant Governor. Edgar Ifoward has just passed a most serious crisis in his life, lie haa shown him self a hero, at least so far as abnegation and the mortifica tion of ambition is eoncemt'J. It does not come to many men to have the opportunity of ris ing to the high and honorable position of governor of a great and growing commonwealth through the easy means of promising to appoint one's prede cessor to a place for which ville as colonel of the Elxth Nebraska. Br'er Howard con sidered the proposition, and after mature reflection and due de liberation he put aside his as pirations to serve the people In any higher political position and declined to enter the compact. His own ambition is to continue in his present status as leading citizen of Platte county, to take his ease at euch times as he may among the home folks, and 4o be free from the many ar,U complicated perplexities and dif ficulties that beset the path of the governor, in the mefuime emitting from time to time thoBO gems of wisdom, phil osophy and poesy that ftdorn hi hebdomedal publication. He will gltw with tender light and grateful ardor in his sanctum, and let another wear the crown. That he is an editor is enough of an answer to the allegation that he Is too lazy to take the place Perish the thought! he is qualified, and the mak ing of which appointment would bring credit) to both parties to the transaction and without would be quite popu constituents of both. Such a temptation, however, has crossed the path of our good friend the leftenant governor, who might have been governor, hadl he agreed In advance, to commission Governor Keith Ne ACE. Shorty Uanset says he would go to war If it wasn't for his age. lie is It. but lays that onto a bad habit he acquired when in Grant's army before Vicksburg. lie was confined to his tent, suffering from an ulcerated tooth, when his kind hearted captain came along, nd gave him a bit of chewing tobacco. It was the first Shorty had ever tasted, and. EROXT EM) VHILOSOPHV. "Well, I just had a little run in with the straw boss." said the philosophical inotor man. "No, I didn't get much the best ot it, either. Any time you put anything over on one of these road foremen you don't. This fellow wanted to know what is the matter with my watch. I told him nothin' ex cept It was slipping' a little, and he said for me to sand the track. "Puts' me In mind of the lime when Jimmio Falconer hopped the front end (it Far nam street and bounced the boy there. "Here." says Jimmie, 'what's wrong? You've got three minutes to get to Dodge.' 'Well,' says this guy, 'I guess 1 can make it.' And Jliumle fell off the car." cure,! bin tnolhn1, It I B007.E. Mike Clark, who H high . sheriff of the county and there Xoro In the best position to know, says his stock of seques trated essence of joy is growing" Instead, of diminishing. To ex plain, he tells nf how Mlterm Clayton some foxy suspected that a coup was being planned by some trusties, and so he exe cuted1 one himself. As a result of the search the store of con traband was augmented by one case of gin, two bottles of rock and rye and oh part bottle of gin, of wtrtch no former record was had. Clayton simply took charge of the lot and is waiting for somAiody else to lay in a supply. ' ' AX E8. ' That's one promt the drys made that didn't come true. We still bnve a little use for both our jail and eur tax collector.. Transmiiisissipui exposition. --He liked "the city so well that he stayed two weeks, visiting the. exposition, and just looking over the city generally. He liked Omaha so well that, he de cided to sell out his interest in Gay Brothers in Kansas City and come to Omaha. For eight years "lie manufactured ladies' apparel in Omaha and sold to M. E. Smith company the first skirts they put in their establishment. He sold this business and became) manager of the old "Blue Book" o credit ratings. Here he found his field. He decided to open a credit bureau of his own. He traveled in thirty-one cities to get information on credit systems. He began selling; credit service to individual merchants until the merchants made him a prop osition to become secretary of the grocer's association, and handle the credit bureau 'in connection with it. ' For three years he has managed this combinecj business, and today, no matter how humble or how mighty you are, the files , of J. J. Cameron will give you information about. your self which will startle you. You did not knpw that anyone beside yourself knew how much salary you are getting. But Cameron knows and he has it on a little card! On the little card is also recorded the fact tb you'pay, or do not pay, all your bifli promptly, and if you want to see yourself as others see you, ask Cam eron to see the card .he has with youf record on it. Next in Thla Series How Omaha (fcet Charley Beaton. 12, '1917. -1 IN OUR TOWN, General Cowln looks re nifty In his summer rutt. . Fred Rogers was up t Fre mont during the week. He saw several things to talk about. Ike Miner says he i thinking of taking a fishing trip oon. That's as far as it is likely to Efit. E. L. Jdhnson ts expected home presently to stir up tha darkness and dispel the gloom of many weeks. Ben Baker wants to go on his vacation trip, but can't get the court to adjourn long enough to let him. Howard Baldrige spent some time last week looking after some soldiers who wore passing; through the . village. . AW A. Rssyke - has returned' home' after a business trip to Colorado and Kansas points. lie says he found things lively wherever he went, especially at Joplln. ' i- - , i RADIX,. Bugcne - Field Once suid the distinguishing . feature of Ga lena was its being the only town In that world that Is uphill botli ways. Omaha was in about the same class when the whits men flrat came here; now look at trie darned thing. Hills have been lowered and hollow filled till the original settler would no longer know the townajfc, and the end is yet far off. Growth and improvement re quire change, and that is com lug in, good plenty. It may wever -be that tho town will l level, but those declivities that were the despair of the earlv day mule skinners and bu-. whackers surely have melted away before, the grader. - . KTOUV. Our , garden sass item la week reminded another friend of The Bumble Bee of another similar Incident . up. thai Elk horn. A traveling mun from York state was- malting his first visit to the section and to get belter acquainted he inada piost of the towns by driving. At last he finished up at Nor folk nnd there exploded. - "Blankest blank Vountry I was ever In." he said. "Ont bunch of fat pigs after another, and I haven't seen a fried cak since I loft Rochester." . TROVinEST PRINTER, Clint Miller is a printer. IT realised that there's a long dry spell ahead. So he laid In fif teen cases. Provident . printer. Police caught him on his way from his cache to his shark. Sup ply confiscated. Imprudent print er. Moral: Don't let 'em se you with it. ( V