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    The Omaha Sunday Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1917.
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Comb Honey
By EDWARD BLACK.
Skirts.
News has been flashed from Paris
to Broadway (not Broadway, Council
Bluffs) that skirts are to be shorter
and scanter next season as "a con
servation measure. And winter com
ing on, too! What did Sherman say
about war? Whv not advocate knee
breeches for men? They were, in
rogue many years ago.
Come Into the Kitchen.
Consider the lady of the kitchen.
ihe wears no panoply of war. No
martial music heartens her to the
ask at hand. She hears Herb Hoo
.er say, "Hop to it, Lizzie, and do
your bit for your country's sake."
And she hops from sun to sun, al
ways faithful at her station, canning
foodstuffs for the nation.
Thirty Years Ago Today in Omaha.
The Missouri Pacific started to
elevate the. Belt Line tracks.
Decorations.
"Hank" Dunn, generalissimo of the
local gendarmes, wears a gold-plated
horse-shoe nail when be attends
horse races. He wore this ornament
during the week last past This nail
was one of several nails which held
i shoe on one of the front feet of Lou
Dillon when that famous trotter
broke the world's record at Mem
phis, Tenn., a decade ago. The time
was 1:S8JS.
Thought for the Day.
Ground peanut shells make a nice
breakfast food.
Transparent
It would seem that the allies could
see their way through the city of
Lens.
The Battalion of Death.
May be seenNat the bargain coun
ter. The Height of Acceleration.
Keeping up with the national can
ning brigade.
Heard En Passant. '
"Remember, Bill, this is a temper.
. n a .
ance town.
"I'd get a divorce from any man
who wore suspenders."
"My fingers are alt thumbs today.
"Get tough, now."
"I canned twelve quarts of toma
toes this morning."
"I wonder if I will ever get rich
enough to play golf."
Germans Are Stripping
Belgium of All Wire
(Correspondence of The Associated Praia.)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 30.
The Germans are requisitioning
wire, and particularly barbed-wire
all over Belgium, according to the
latest news from the frontier. The
retention of only one we is allowed,
to mark off the division of the fields.
They are likewise breaking up mo-e
and more car tracks and ljght ra.l
roads, carrying off the rails and sleep
ers, as well as cars and locomotives.
England Has Plans to
Replant Trees in Isles
(borrespondenoe of Tht Associated Preaa.)
London, July IS. It is planned to
spend between 5,000,000 and 6,
000,000 sterling within the next ten
veara for the reforestation in the
United Kingdom. The reconstruction
committee has an elaborate plan in
hand for replanting, especially in Ire.
land where the areas have been de
nuded for timber for pit props.
Did You Guess 'Em? ' They Are Leading
Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist
Congregational- Clergymen
' How they looked then. , - ;
How they
(Jrolib History of Omaha
All fine truth an J unlrufli lliate fit fo'inow
By A. R.
Chapter XXVIII Street Railways.
-Most towns in the early days had
street cars. They didn't need them,
but it was considered quite a "tony"
thing to have street cars running
along the mud holes they called
streets. It made the inhabitants
thinks they lived in a real city. Ana
it helped a lot for the army of men
selling building lots if they could say
ill. J. . i: . .L
me street car line passes mcsc imj.
Omaha was one of the first cities
to have a street car line. This was
back in 1867, when the town only had
two or three thousand people. The
streets weren't paved, but the com-
'oitsideeed quite'Totty 1
pany went ahead and laid the rails
from Ninth and Farnam up to Fif
teenth and then north by various
streets till they reached Twentieth
and Cuming streets.
4 By the time they had done this
their money was about all gone, but
they issued some more . stock and
bought a street car and a team of
mules. The car was only about eight
feet long and when it had eight pas
sengers it was crowded.
It was a proud day when the car
started from Ninth and Farnam
streets drawn by the mules. Every
body was there to see it and a dele
gation of stockholders (who rode on
passes) occupied a proud place as
passengers. .
But alas! "Pride goeth before a
fall." How true are these words of
the old proverb! . For when the car
arrived at Fifteenth and ' Farnam
amid the cheers of the inhabitants it
started to go around the curve and
stuck fast. The car wasn't built to
fit the curve. It would not go around
the curve.
The proud stockholders got out,
very much crestfallen. Some of the
citizens jeered and laughed. 'But the
spirit of the builders was not to be
defeated. This car, which had been
bought in Chicago, was sold and a
car . was bought that would fit the
curve. Then traffic started again.
AH stockholders, as stated above,
rode free. Frequently the whole car
was filled with stockholders. The con
ductor was surprised when someone
got on and paid a cash fare. But the
"deadheads" seemed tc? be riding all
the time. When they had nothing else
to do they went out and rode on the
street car. It was well they did so,
for that was about all tfiey got out
of being stockholders. For the stock
didn't pay any dividends.
This is not to be wondered at, for
thty charged. 10 cents fare which was
too much, especially considering what
a rattle trap of a road it was and that
the cars weren't heated and that you
never could tell when the car would
come or when it would get you to
where you were going.
In" 1878 the sheriff sold the whole
outfit for $25,000 to a party named
Marsh, and people said he must be
crazy to pay that much. But - Mr.
Marsh added new lines, paying no
attention to people who warned him
look now.
C
GROH.
to "keep away from the squirrels." He
was wiser than they and by losy tne
property was worth $1,000,000.
It was in 1884 that the cable rail
way lines were built in Omaha. These
added to the discomfort of street car
riding for they jerked hard when
ever the car grip wculd take hold of
the cable and this added to the
bumpiness of the rails, made riding on
the street cars something to be un
dertaken only by strong men of sound
constitutions.
How different today! The big,
comfortable cars make car riding a
pleasure. We speed swiftly and com
fortably to our destination and are
always sure of getting there.
Motormen are no longer exposed
to the elements, but even in the cold
est weather are warm in their en
closed places with a stove and also a
stool to sit upon as they operate the
cars. The conductors are also com
fortable, no longer having to push
through the crowded cars getting the
Ofyderfttfoiormait Convenience
fares, and missing more perchance,
but they stay on the back platform
and everybody pays as he enters, thus
making it easier for the conductor as
well as harder for the fare dodgers.
The lines of Mark Twain s beautiful
poem are called to the mind of the
historian:
"Punch brothers, punch with care.
Punch in the presence of the passen
gair." Questions on Chapter XXVIII.
1. Who rode on the early street
cars.'
2. What happened to the first street
car at Fifteenth and Farnam?
3. Describe the comforts of motor-
men and cpnductors today.
4. Quote Mark 1 warns poem about
conductors.
Everybbdy Has
Languages constitute the hobby of
Harry O. Pa'mer.i Harry makes a
study of them. He has already mas
tered, as he puts it, "French, Swedish,
German and Profane." He is seeking
to learn still other languages.' Re
cently when he lay for a few weeks
at the Swedish Immanuel hospital
following an operation he chatted in
Swedish to some of the nurses, bab
bled in German to an attendant and
longed for a Frenchman to come in
to. give him practice. The German
he Spoke to was Frank Ehrenberg,
an attendant at the hospital, who is
a German by bfrth and still a Ger
man citizen. Ehrenberg is regis
tered as an alien enemy and govern
ment men keep a close tab on what
he does. He told Harry Palmer that
when he goes to see his girl on Sun
day evening secret service men fol-
low him to tne aoor ana men waji ai
the garden gate until he comes out to
escott him home. When Ehrenberg
stepped out of Palmer's room for the
last time the day Palmer was to leave
i
9rive Cfrittt
3?elrasJ(as 3fi7J( axJjffotiev.
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BY A. EDWIN LONG.
Before Omaha and the U. S. A.
trickled into his imagination, C. J.
Ernst picked grapes and helped run
wine presses in Prussia. Yes sir, in
the kaiser's land.Mhis chap helped to
produce the 6,000,000 gallons of wine
Prussia annually put out. He ate
flatjacks all spread over with the
delicious syrup made from the sugar
beets of the rich fields of Prussia.
He hoed cabbage, and rolled kraut
barrels, and between times stood up
in school at the schnitzelbank and
said his lessons over and over, for the
discipline of the schools of Prussia is
rigid as that of the army. t
Yes, he might be anvofficer in the
Prussian Guards today, if he had
stayed in the land where he first saw
the sun coming up out oi distant Rus
sia. But, you see, he did not stick with
the native land. Long, long years
ago, a half century ago, in fact, his
father decided that Uncle Sam was
a more pleasant-faced potentate un
der whom to toil and thrive man any
divinely-created kaiser on the planet.
waved "Auf
so me HUie iamny
a Hobby! What's Yours?
the hospital Harry in his best German
blurted out! "
"Auf vieder sehn ,
"Nein, nein, nicht so," exclaimed
the German. He explained to Palmer
that this form of adieu used to be
proper and correct, but that it is noi
longer the proper wora.
"What is it then?" asked Harry.
"Gott strafe England," said the
German with fervor.
Corporation Counsel William C
Lambert often laments the fact that
he is an attorney instead of a ma
chinist The city legal light spends
more time fixing up mechanical con
trivances than he does browsing
among musty law books. Since child
hood days, Mr. Lambert says he has
always had a hankering to "monkey"
with machinery.
"That old one-lung flivver of mine
has been taken apart and put togeth
er more times than 1 have hairs in
my head," he remarked to a caller
in his office recently. "I don't know
Episcopalian,
and
FMZeavztt
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from Jpussia
Jo
wiedersehn" to the kaiser's domin-9
ions, and sailed for America. Of
course Kaiser Bill, was not shaking
a world with an earthquake of gun
powder at that time. Kaiser Bill, was
just Prince Willie . Hohenzollern
then. He was a kid of 9 years, slop
ping around the royal palace in his
father's big army boots, and making
faces at the lured girl.
Neither young Ernst nor his father,
nor his younger sister nor his mother,
fancied that this kid prince would
one day be the terror of two hemis
pheres. f ..... ,
But now that he has proven sucn,
C. J. Ernst says, "to heck with him,
and stands by the allegiance he and
his father long since swore to Uncle
Sam.
The family landed at Castle Garden,
and next struck Omaha. Not recog
nizing a good city immediately, they
went down the river in a steamboat
and landed at Nebraska City. There
were friends there and C. J. got a
job the next morning. This sliver of
a boy began to wash dirty bottles in
a pop factory. Of course he had other
duties, too, for his employer ran a
why I take it apart, but I do, and I
always . manage to make the parts
fit."
- Mr. Lambert told of the first watch
his father bought him. "I wanted to
see how the thing ran so I took the
machinery apart. Well,-1 had to go
without a timepiece for a couple of
years, as my folks made it plain. to
me they weren't going to spend good
money on things for me to tinker
with." ,
Charles Salter's hobby is chicken,
or rather chickens, because he has
numerous'- feathered pets; v; White
Leghorns are his particular breed.
He is not a dilettante at the chicken
business. He' avers there is money'
in poultry, but notwithstanding that
phase of it, he finds much pleasure in
the pursuit. He makes a study of
White Leghorns and knows each bird
of his flock and each bird knows him.
The fire chief thinks more of his
chickens than he does of anything
else he possesses.. He gave Assist-
The Weekly m Bumble
- OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1917.
THE BUMBLE BEE. v
A. STINGER, EDITOR.
Communication! on any topto
received, without postar or
if nature. None returned.
NO XX8 AT ANT PRICE.
PRICES.
President Wilson ha our per
mission to go aa far as he ltkes
In the matter of fixing prices.
Supply and demand have noth
ing to do with the ease Just
now. War has put all rules and
regulations of trade and polit
ical economy on the whlzzer.
We'll wake up some day with
an awful headache, but while
we are in the game we might
aa well go the limit. Some
thing must be done to check
the tendency of everything man
needs to follow the ebullient
hog Into the tenuous medium
of interplanetary apace, where
every dlrectiqn la up and never
down.
SENATORS.
A lot of enthusiasts are chas
ing Edgar Howard around try
ing to pin a nomination for sen
ator on him. So far he haa coyly
eluded his pursuers. Try to pic
ture Bert Hitchcock leading Ed
Howard down the aisle to Intro
duce blm to Thomaa Riley Mar
shall! Ye gods!
"SAMMY.
Some of our soldiers abroad are
said to object to being called
Sammy," but they'll get used to
It. The name suggests an affec
tionate combination of tender
ness and reverence, and It Is
likely to stick.
PENNANT.
Pa Rourka la making a gal
lant fight for the second sec
tion of the Western league race.
Unfortunately for blm, there
are others.
At any rate, yon can't help
admiring the nerve of the visit
ing expert who flattered us to
our faces by suggesting a five
million dollar school building
campaign as among our . Imme
diate needs.- -
Talk about two million dol
lars to repair the paved, streets
seems to have died out. Omaha
can think of. something more
pleasant. . . " .
Our playgrounda' liave gotten
long fairly -well without the
uparvislon of an Imported ex
pert. Score one for borne tal
ent ' '
Something ; (Taa slipped some
where; a whole week passed
without any police acandaU
Best of
hand; try
attnga
always '
f
little store. When C. J. was not scrub
bing pop bottles, he was selling toys
and gum to the children, and then at
night when other boys went to bed,
C. J. had to grind an ice cream freez
er half the night to supply the de
mand in the store.
After all the young fellows had fat
tened their girls on ice cream for
the evening and had left the store, the
tired young clerk would make up his
bed on a cot in the ice cream parlor
and snooze. He was never allowed to"
sleep long, because the neighbor's
cows grazed all around the store long
before sunug in the morning, and
every cow tinkled a bell as big as a
pumpkin.
To fill Jn his spare time when he
could get away from the store he had
to help his father yoke the oxeii, for
that' was back in 1868, and oxen were
much'more popular than farm tractors
or flivvers.
He was a wildcat for work, though,
ant Chief Simpson some of his fine
eggs last Christmas for a present.
Assistant Chief Crager of the fire
department has quite a different hob
by, which is seeing Douglas county
from the seat of his automobile with
his daughters. He knows every road
in the county and is learning the
roads of Sarpy and Washington coun
ties. Mr. Crager has traveled 60,000
miles in. these three counties with his
flivver. , ......
Settled.' - . "
"Walter," said the- diner, "It says here
on the menu 'green blueflsh.' "
"Tea. elr. That mean fresh right from
the, water, elr." , '
"Nonsense!" laid the diner. "You know
well enough they do not take blueflsh at
thla. Beaaon." .
The waiter came and looked' at the dis
puted Item. .
"Oh. that, sir," he Bald with an air , of
enlightenment, "that am hothouse blucflkh.
sir." Boston Transcript. .
RUTH CHATTERTON GIVES GOOD
MITATION'OF PRESTIDIGITATOR
We wers present at the open
ing performance of the aeason
at the Brandela theater, along
with a lot of other polite per
sons, who were somewhat
amused and occasionally bored,
but never aurprlsed . by what
"Came Out of the Kitchen."
Miss 'Chatterton, however. Is
entitled to a lot of credit for
a portion of her performance.
In olden days we used to shriek
with delight when the prestidig
itator took a rabbit from a
tall hat. This act was Improved
upon until the stelght-of-hand
artists got so they could take
out of a small and apparently
empty receptacle enough atuff
to alnk a ship. Miss Chatterton
reverses thla order, and 'puts
Into a small oven sufficient ma
terial to feed a regiment, and
never takes anything out More
over, and thla Is also a pertinent
note on cookery, she had half a
dozen meases of one or another
kind cooking on top of the same
stove, while her mixing bowls
were at no time idle, and she
kept right on taking spoons out
of the drawer In the kitchen
table. Of course, it waa all in
the play,, but we submit to
those who were there that the
unconscious comedy of the situ
ation surpassed Miss Chatter
ton's own best efforts at being
humorous.
Another feature of that
abends unterhaltlng was the
disappointment of some of our
ultra-fashionable folks. These
are accustomed to arrive from
fifteen to twenty minutes after
tljj fliht curtain has risen, and
thus emphasize their attendance
by disturbing a lot of people
who , have seated themselves
early. On this occasion the ar
rival of the Important person
ages was duly timed, but they
had overlooked a possibility that
actually Intervened to kill their
entp-ance, as the stage folks
have It. The curtain was de
laved for over half an hour, and
so the late-comers for once dis
turbed nobody. This may not
happen again, however, and will
not be considered as setting a
precedent fop the people who
like to be conspicuous.
COAL.
"Do you recall the big an
thracite coal strike of 1902?"
asked a well known householder
of ye editor. "Well, you may
remomber also -that from July
of that year until along tn April
or May of the next an absolute
embargo waa laid on anthra
cite coal shipments, ao far as
Omaha waa concerned. Not a
pound of the stuff was shipped
In here for almost a year. Tou
may also recall that the local
dealers had no trouble In filling
their ordors, and that when the
blowoff came tn the spring they
still had plenty of anthracite
left In stock. But that isn't
what I wanted to remind you of.
"The point of this story Is that
as soon as the strike got under
headway the retail price began
to go up, and It Jumped In a
ahort time from around tl to
$1S a ton. Tou didn't hear any
talk then of bankruptcy among
the coal barons. That was when
the consumer waa paying the
freight The coal waa bought
to sell around S9 or tit) a ton,
and went out te . the home
owner at $15. Why Isn't It Just
to allow the rule to work the
other way for a little , while?"
EXEMPTION.
One stalwart youth with a
broad streak of yellow showing
where only red blood ought to be
Importuned an exemption board
for dismissal. He laid claim to
about everything that would ex
cuse a man, but failed to Impress
the Inquisitors as to his disquali
fications. Finally one of them
said:
"I think you have cold feet."
"Tou bet I have," responded
the youth with alacrity, "and I
ought to be at home in bed right
now.'"
He'll get a. chance to warm
them up drilling over the sands
of New Mexico.
POLITICS.
While other eminent demo
crats are getting themselvea
named tin connection with nom
inations for various high of
fices. Hank Richmond, Bill
Maupln and Dick Metcalfe are
clinging to the pay roll with
tenacity that . suggests the
value of their early training.
GANGWAY.
A Bostonese going through
complains that Bout' Farnam is
clogged with autos. So It Is,
but it doesn't become any Bean,
eater to kick about Omaha
streets net bing wide enough.
PUNISHMENT.
A policeman arrested a driver
who was carrying five passen
gers In a flivver built for two.
Unnecessary. They were being
punished as It was. "
HABIT.
The man who sits cross-legged
In a street car has taken the
place of the end-seat hog about
whom so much fuss used to be
mad '
FIGHTING. .
One of the "hard bolled' reg
ulars waa . talking to some
rookies about what may be ex
pected tn France.
"It's bltther flghtln'.'V he
said. "It's bastes you'll be fight
in' against It's the nastiest,
dirtiest flghtln' the worruld ever
aw.' And he reflected a minute
and finished. "But It's betther
than no. flghtln at alt"
WAR.
"Jlmmle" 811k will say Sher
Du was right Alia Barnum.
so he managed to find a few minutes
a day to spell out the words in the
Nebraska City News, edited by J.
Sterling Morton. He was determined
to learn English, and he did.
When the groceryman quit business
a book mai picked the boy up and
made him sell books for a few years.
Here he spelled out some more words
and used the dictionary freely. Next
Ernst became a bank clerk in Ne
braska City, and got the stunning
sum of $400 a year.
When the bank cages seemed too
small for him the ambitious lad, now
able to read and write English per
fectly, took a position with the Bur
lington railway. That was in 1875 and
he has stuck to the company to this
very Sunday. That was forty-one
years ago.
, He was particularly useful in hand
ling foreign immigration work for
the Burlington, and in this work the
company used him in. Lincoln for a
number of years.
Though he stuck scrupulously away
from political conventions and poli
tics, .Lincoln twenty years ago boosted
him into the Board of Education; and
next the state reached out and made
him a. regent of the university almost
before he had-forgotten his experi
ences washing pop bottles.
Similarly, after the Burlington had
moved him to Omaha, the people here
did not allow him to lurk m obscurity
many years before a school - board
shakeup '.led them to look for new
blood on the, board, and they;fairly
conscripted Ernst into the place.
Thus, though C. J. Ernst has' sought
to dodge, public life, the conclusion
of this year will mark twelve years of
public and absolutely gratuitous serv
ice he has given to his fellow citi
zens. - ,
Next in Thla Series How Omaha Go
General George H. Harriet. i
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IN OUR TOWN.
Judge Woodrough Is . holdlnf
court In Omaha again.
Frank Judson entertained vis
ltors from the state last week
Dave O'Brien has been seej
on our streets several times oi
late. Tou can't keep Dave away
Charley Loblngier was In tqwo
during the week, having rut
over from Shanghai to see thl
boys.
Brig. Gen. Harries pulled his
freight for New Mex. Geo.
knows well what camp life is
like.
"Jake" Rlne slipped np to Fre
mont and got married last week.
Congrats, "Jake," but how are
you going to square yourself
down at the clubf
Charles Otto Lobeck of Wash
ington. D. C, was in Omaha of
late, calling on folks he used
to know when he lived in Oma
ha. He saya he thinks of mak
ing his home with na again after
next year.
Colonel Arthur C. Smith Is suf
fering from a flat wheel. He
got In front of a work horse out
on his Wyoming ranch, and
had a real nice time during his
vacation, lying in bed while
some torn ligaments mended.
LAWYERS.
Recent occurrences In Omaha
suggest that the ambulance
chaser and contingent fee lawyer
haa not been entirely eliminated.
His presence is a constant and
"rtorlferoua reproach to the seri
ous disciples of an honorable
profession.
MIXED.
At least one of those horse
races reminded us of of the time
Buck Keith umpired the ball
game. If you really want to
hear the story, go out to Rourke
park this afternoon and get
Bill to tell you.
LIGHT.
Auto drivers who range all
the way from no light at all
to the glare that blinds the
approaching eye, will do well to
remember that the law pro
vides for a happy medium be
tween the two, and also a place
to put the recalcitrant
SAND.. '
Nuevo Mejlcano will seem tike
home to thi i Nebraska veterans
of Llano Grande, but Pity the
poor rookies.
They have lot
to learn!
POEM.
The near beer has the same eld
look
As It comes up with the Innch.
It foams and bubbles In the
lass- .
But. tosh! It lacks thepuaoW
L