THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 9. 1917. ) i V The Omaha Bee's Busy Little Honey-Makers-:-Their Own Page 1- WITH three happy, carefree months of vacation now in the background and nine months of school ahead, our Busy Bees once more find themselves adjusted to another phase of life. Let us think of it in that wav rather than as one lone stretch .of work., Perhaos vaca tion time was beginning to wear on you and you were more than anxious to turn your thoughts to new interests, loo much leisure time is not good for any of us, and, like the little birds, we are all of us ready for a change with the seasons. At present you are occupied adjusting yourselves to new teachers, new class rooms, new subjects of study, and, in many instances, different play mates. The first week or two is an abnormal one for both student and teacher and presents as good a time as any to show your fine thoughtfulness for others. , Most of you have been doing some form of war relief work this sum mer. You may have been helping in the food conservation work by raising a garden or helping mother with the canning. Others have spent their time knitting and making garments for the Red Cross. Several Busy Bees have told us of clever entertainments given by them for the benefit of the Red Cross. Plans are being made in many of the schools for some kind of war relief work during the winter months. , In order to discover just what you are all doing to help Uncle Sam and to give those of us who are in a quandary as to just what to do to help, we are going to have another prize contest. For the Busy Bee who writes the best letter on "What I Am Doing to Help My Country" there will be a lovely prize. Send in your letters any time before October IS and tell all your little friends about it, too. The keener the competition the more fun it will be. Uncle Sam is relying on the junior patriots of the country to do great things for him during the war. Your fathers and mothers are doing their share, but if you relieve them of the simplest tasks which you are capable of accomplishing, they will have more time free for the bigger ones. Be sure to tell us of your, new school life; those of you who have just returned from your vacation trips write us about your good times. What are your favorite pastimes after school? Perhaps some of you have novel schemes for making money. If so, tell us what they are. Above all, don't forget ourprize contest, but think at once what you are doing or planning to do this winter, and then writ' us. Pansy -Shirley wins the prize this week and Virginia Fitchett and Mar garet Hartwell, all of the Red side, win honorable mention. Little Stories By Little Folks (Prize Story.) ' Has Bad Experience. By- Pansy Bulah Shirley, Aged 10, Maxwell, Neb., Box 103. Red Side. I have not written for a long time. You honey makers may think I am dead or on a trip. No, here I am in your page. One day as we were crossing the river with a team we got stuck right in the middle of the water. The tug broke, we were sinking in the sand; we had the rack with some heavy wood and iron on. Guy got out in the river and hunted for the tug. - He found it and fixed it on the harness. The next thing that happened was when the singletree was lost We could not find it. Final ly we had to hitch the other team on. I was frightened. When we got out I was very glad. When we were coming back the hind end of the rack was going down the stream. . We have a car. Its name is Max well. . I will close. Goodby. (Honorable Mention.) Has Hen and Chicks. By Margaret Hartwell, Aged 9 Years, McClelland,1 la. Red Side. One day my brother and -1 were playing around the hog shed and I happened to see a hen inside. I went in where she was and saw some lit tle chickens looking out from under her. , 'V -; V I went to the house and got mam ma to come and see them and ye found the old hen had seven chrckens. We put them in a chicken coop and Rules for Young Writers 1. Writ plainly on one side of the paper only and number the paces. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. 8. Short and pointed article! will be riven preference. Do not us over 150 words. 4. Original itoriei or letter only will be used. 5. Write your name, age and addres at the top of the first page. A price book will be given each week for the beet contribution. Address all communication to Chll dren'i Department, Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb. they are about 2 weeks old. Mamma gave them to me. They are lively little chicks. (Honorable Mention.) Buys Pony for Her. By Virginia Fitchett, Aged 9, Ham burg, la., Route 3. Red Side. Once upon a time there was a lit tle girl in the yard playing. She was a very kind little girl. She loved horses and stories. One day she asked her father if he would buy a pony for her. Her father said: "I will try to find a pony for you to morrow." That made the little girl very, very happy. When the little girl's father came home the next night he told her that he had bought a little pony. Then she was happier than ever. They named the pony Pat, because it was born on St. Patrick's day. It was a very pretty pony. It had all FORT CROOK BUSY BEE WATCHES SOLDIERS n Vera Steele"""''" Many little girls, and big girls, too, would envy little Vera Steele, only 10 years old. Vera lives on the first farm this side of Fort Crook, but in these stirring days at the post, you can well imagine she spends most of her time there watching the inter esting proceedings. Every day she hears the regimental band playing and watches the men at drill. The army children are her playmates and those who have been stationed at different posts with their officer-fathers have many new things to tell Vera. Vera celebrated her tenth birthday only Tuesday of last week, for which event her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Steele arranged a very pretty little birthday party for Vera and the chil dren of the post. white feet and a white crescent mark on one shoulder. It was black all but the white places. He was very gentle for her to ride to school. Sometimes she rode him, to town and back. When it was vaca tion she let him run on the pasture for a long time. One day her father was going to the train to get her cousin, and bring him down to the farm. When he came he saw the pony and wanted to ride him. The little girl knew the pony was frisky. When her cousin got on the pony he began to buck with him. The pony is still frisky; This is my first story to The Bee. I am always gfad when The Bee funnies come. , I like to read the Busy Bee page very much and wish the Busy Bees would write to me. Wins Prizes Often. Edward Bourbeau, Aged 14, Years, 317 North First Street, Council Bluffs, la. Red Side. I am writing to you' for the, first time. I am in the Eighth grade and I like school very much. I have written many stories in school and I often get first prize. I like to read the stories that the Busy Bees write, and next time I'll write you my first story which I hope to see in print. I would like to join the Red Side. Swimming. By Florence Seward, Aged 11 Years, 1634 Victor Avenue, Omaha, Neb. Blue Side. How many Busy Bees can swim? I can. At the beginning of the sum mer vacation every day we went down to Carter lake. The first few weeks I just paddled around in the water, for I was afraid if I got in deep water I would be carried away. I did not believe the water wings would hold me up. One day a fat woman put them on: I was watch ing her and I thought if she could stay above water surely I could. So I took the wings and jumped in deep water. I lay on my stomach and started paddling. I did not move very far, though I kicked my feet as hard as I could. Then I lay flat on my tomach and found I could move. One day I determined to try swim ming without them and I succeeded. This is how I did it. I moved around a little while in the water, took a deep breath and plunged in and started to stroke. The first time I sank, but, as I held my breath, it did not hurt me. I am not an ex pert swimmer, of course, but I in tend to be when I grow bigger. Papa says it is always best to know how to swim, in case of danger on the water. I can float, too. I am sending in my vote for Helen Crabb as the new queen. Her stories are very in teresting and she is a faithful con tributor to our page. I will close, hoping she is elected. The Three-Cent Piece. ' By Ernestein Henry, Aged 11 Years, Tekamah, Neb. Red Side. When papa was 8 years old he came to Nebraska. On the seat back of him there was a woman. Papa was so restless that thewoman told him if he would say. "Here she goes and there she goes, for five minutes she would give him a piece of money. So when the five minutes were up she gave him a piece of money. It was a 3-cent piece. He sent it to his grandmother in Michigan. When my sister was born she sent it back and papa gave it to my sister. When she got married she gave it back to papa and he gave it to me. Papa is 53 years old now. This is a true story. I hope to see my story in print and would like to win the prize some time. My Summer Vacation. By Harriet Fleishman, Aged 10 Years, 307 West Sixth Street, North Platte, Neb. Blue Side. When school let out we motored down to Omaha from North Platte, pected to stay a week or so, but where I live, in our car. I only ex when mother left for home she said I could stay a little longer with my aunts. I have been having a grand time. Five parties were given for me and I am going to one Friday jiiisKsitllllilliililliisiililliillw THE FATAL RING FEATURING PEARL WHITE I Written by George B. Seitz and Fred Jackson and Produced j I by Astra Film Corporation Under Direction of Mr. Seitz f "jiiiiiiimiiiiiiNiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 4TAU TICtCi JO - EPISODE TEX. Pearl Standish Pearl White High Priestess Ruby Hoffman Richard Carslake Warner Oland Tom Carleton Henry Geell Carslake and the High Priestess, followed by the Arabs, shouted to Bill Rack to stop, and rushed forward to save Pearl. They drew back the faded coverlet and revealed a dummy. Pearl had escaped and left a' stuffed figure in her place. As Carslake abused his astounded men, however, for permitting -a girl to outwit them, the High Priestess reminded him that the diamond was all that interested her, and as he opened the secret cabinet to restore it to her, a further misfortune was made . Pair! had nrtr nnlv fffttten Known. '"- - - j 0 away. She had gotten away with the The High Priestess left Carslake in a rage ana nurnea to rean s nousc Pearl, meanwhile, had Deen explain inz to Tom and her aunt how she . . -A trrxm tV urinHnnr ann ad juiupvu iyu ..is. .. - had made her escape from Carslake's headquarters. Triumphantly, she showed them the diamond ere placing it in a case on the table. She had no sooner laid the stone aside than the butler announced the High Priest ess. The High Priestess curtly demand ed the diamond. Pearl instantly agreed to give it up and turned to the table to do so. But the stone had vanished. No one had been near the table since Pearl had laid down the diamond. No one had entered or left the room save the Priestess. But the diamond had vanished. The High Priestess suspected trick ery and despite resistance, carried off Tom as hostage. Pearl thereupon in stituted a thorough search for the diamond, lifting rugs, moving furni ture and so on, but failed to dis cover it. ' Meanwhile Tom was being carrjed of! toward Jersey in the High fries ess motor car. While the car is on- the ferry in the middle of the river an aeroplane appears overhead, attracting the at tention of the Arabs who were guard ing him, and thus giving Tom his i .L. cnance ior escape, inrowing inc guard with the gun over his head, Tom planted his feet firmly on the accelerator and the gearshift and sent the car hurtling through the ferry gate into the water. But just as the car started Tom jumped. The car sank only the High Priest ess and two Arabs escaping death. They were picked up. No sign of Tom was to be seen. But he had been laving possum and swam to shore on the Jersey side some dis tance from the pier. Phoning Pearl, he got permission to hide at her camp in the Adiron dack. - - Immediately afterward the cook at tracted Pearls attention by pursuing her white macaw for stealing her ' ( Qilihdoy $ook Six Years Old Tomorrow (Sept 10) : Name. School. Aletta, Sara , Pacific Boicourt, Kenneth Lowell Fidom, Sebastians Holy Family Fitzgerald, Ruth St. Bridget's Impey, Dorothy Helen. .Columbian McConnell, Jesse H.... Brown Park Nielsen, Betty May. Beals Straw, Ruth Central Tortell, Luella May Train Wichert, Helen Saratoga Seven Years Old Tomorrow: Anderson, Howard W........Park Mann, Isadore Cass Montgomery, Clifford Dundee Murphy, Mildred St. Mary's Peets, Ruth Miller Park Rumic, David Lake Saunders, Ruth N Lake Shawcross, Minnie. Monmouth Park Woodard, George Lothrop Zigar, Stella West Side Eight Years Old Tomorrows Othmer, Marion R... Central Park Nine Years Old Tomorrow: Antonick, Tressa. .Immaculate Con. Moraine, Darline Lake Pinkerton, Charles Druid Hill Tomasrkievicr. Stella.. St. Francis' ma's at Tabor, la., for a short stay and then we went home and got down to business. and have gone out to other places. I intend to go home soon, for school starts September 10. Well, my let ter is getting long, so I will close. A Robin's Nest. By Mildred Langhorst, Aged 9 Years, Fontenelle, Neb. Red Side. This is my first letter. I go to school and am in the Fifth grade. I would Ike to join the Red Side. One day a robin built a nest in our maple tree. It kept carrying twigs and string. In a few days it sat in the nest and laid eggs. In three weeks it had three little birds. I fed the bird every day. One fall it flew away and I never saw it again. Visiting with Sister. By Belva Tipple, Aged 12 Years, Fre mont Hospital, Fremont, Neb. Blue Side. This is the first time I have ever written to the Busy Bees page. I read the stories one week and I liked them very much. I am going to tell you of my trip to my sister on Christ mas in 1916. . , My mother and I were at a girls boarding school at Camden Point, Mo. At Christmas time we had a va cation, so we packed our suitcases and were off for Lincoln, Neb. We started about 9:30 in the morn ing for St Joseph, Mo., and there we took the train for Lincoln. We got there about 6:30 in the evening and my two brothers, sis ter and brother-in-law were there to meet us. During a week's vacation at my sister's we had a fine visit and the following week we went to my grand- Writes Poems for Page. By Llovd Pettygrove, Aged 13 Years, Oxford, Neb. Red Side. This is the second time I have written to the Busy Bee page. I saw my poem in print last time and was very much pleased. I have here en closed another poem I have written and hope to see it in print: THE SEASONS. I (Winter). Hurrah for winter and old Jack Frost 1 The leaves and the flowers all are lost; The ground is covered with ice and snow And old North Wind his strength will show. II (Spring). But after that will come the spring; The bees and birds buzz and sing; Violets and daisies begin to. peep, Just waking up from a winter's sleep. Ill (Summer). Now comes the days of frolic and fun; We all go swimming, every one, In pond or river, stream or lane, And tend the garden with hoe and rake. IV (Autumn). Pumpkins and apples in store, In yellow heaps on the cellar floor, But this is the part of the rhyme, The turkey for Thanksgiving time. A Bad Hurt. By Fredeirek Bird, 824 D Street, Fair bury, Neb. Red Side. One day we decided to go to the Rod and Gun club. I live in Fair bury. I am visting Omaha. We were playing in the dance hall and I ran into the fence around the hall. I cut a deep gash in my eyebrow. A doctor's son took me to the doctor in his auto. He put four clips on for stitches and it got well in about a month. ' Two Visitors One Night. By Bess Sweenie, Aged 13 Years, Springfield, Neb. Red Side. One night this summer we had all gone to' bed when a car stopped in Front of our place about 11 o'clock. A soldier was m the car. He came and knocked at our front door. Mamma got up and asked him what he wanted. He had run out of gasoline and want ed to know if he could get some. It happened that there wasn't a drop in the tank. So he telephoned up to a place in Springfield to some people he knew. He asked them if they would get some one to bring some gasoline out to our place. He was after de serters in the army. He got one de serter that day and took hjm to Lin coln. , While he was waiting our chickens began to squawk. He wanted to know what was after them. We did not know either. For quite a,while be fore that something had been getting our chickens every night. He rushed out of the back door and ran up to the chicken house as fast as he could. Mamma lighted the lantern and went too. He told her to hurry and get the gun for it was a large skunk. Before he; could get the gun the skunk was gone. My brother shot the skunk afterwards in the chicken house. It had two chickens behind a box. This is a true story that happened on the Fourth of July evening. 15 No One Like Mother. By Margaret Li Crosby, Aged Years, Sutherland, Neb. Blue Side. When I was young they used to tell That I was just the worst kind; They tried to teach me how to read and spell, But they couldn't make me mind. One day mother sent me to the store, But I didn't want to go, Though I knew it was my chore, And walked along so slow, Because I didn't want to mind. Here in the pen was our old goose, Who always winked and blinked; I did not know that she was loose Nor even was she linked. But now I'm almost getting gray And no one seems to care for me. There in the grave my mother lay. If I could only be That same sweet boy of mother's. But, then, she couldn't make me mind. And now I dream of mother, When she tried to make me mind. There is no one as mother That was so dear and kind. She tried so very hard To make me what I am, And now my brain is marred With mother's kind and words. "You mustn't." But they couldn't make me mind gentle British Merchant Marine Carries Men and Munitions (Correspondence of The Associated Press ) London, Aug. 1. The British mer chant marine has carried successfully to their destination, 8,000,000 men and 10,000,000 tons of war material, said Commander Dion Calthorp re cently, describing the work done by the navy. In six months of last year only one in a thousand ships passing through Dover patrol had been sunk or damaged. . v Up to January of this year not a life had been lost in the1 transport of men from this country to France. In the course of the war 1,000,000 sick and wounded men had been trans ported to this country, more than 1, 000,000 horses and mules, 50,000,000 gallons of petrol, 100,000,000 hundred weights of wheat and 7,000,000 tons of iron ore. Referring to submarines he said there were a great many German widows and orphans who doubted the success of the U-boat. There were many women in Germany whose hus bands did not come back. Nuxated Iron to Make New Age of Beautiful3.;Wdmen and Vigorous Iron Men Say Physicians Quickly Puts Roses Into the Cheeks of Women and Most Astonishing Youthful Vitality Into the Veins of MenIt Often Increases the Strength and Endurance of Delicate, Nervous "Run-Down" Folks 100 Per Cent in Two Weeks' Time. y Opinions of Dr. Schuyler. C. Jaques, Visiting Surgeon of St. Elisabeth's Hospital, New York City; Dr. James Louis Beyea, for fifteen years Adjunct Professor in the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and Wm. R. Kerr, Former Health Commissioner, City of Chicago. . spectacles. At Pearl s suggestion the bird was allowed to hide the glasses, whereupon the hiding place was searched and the violet diamond found. The bird had carried it off, as birds of that sort will carry off any thing that shines. Pearl's maid, Nora, turned traitor and reported to Carslake Tom's whereabouts and the fact that Pearl had recovered the diamond. Carslake obtained entrance and after a fierce strujfele got the stone away from Pearl again and escaped with jt. The "Spider" now prevented a pur suit of Carslake by reporting that the High Priestess knew where iom was and was on his trail. " Pearl and the "Spider" arrived shortly afterward and in striving to save the cabin were trapped by the Arabs. 1 Before they could leave the house some keronese and gunpowder stored in it were ignited and the whole place was blown to smithereensl NEW YORK, N. Y. Sinct the remarkabl discovery of organlo Iron, Nuxattd Iron or "Far Nuxata," a th French eall it hie taken the eountry by storm, it is conserv atively estimated that over three million people annually are taking it in thla eountry alone. Most astonishing result are reported from its us by both physician and laymen. So mnch so that doctors predict that we hall soon have a new age of far more beau tiful, rosy-cheeked women and vigorous iron men. Dr. Ferdinand King, a New York Physician and Medical Author, when Interviewed on this subject, said: "There can be no vigor ous iron men without iron. Pallor mean anaemia. Anaemia means iron deficiency. The kin of anaemic men and women is pale; the flesh flabby. . The muscles lack tone; the brain fag and the memory fail and often they become weak, nervous, irritable, despondent and melancholy. When 1he iron goes from t4 blood of women, the rose go from their cheeks. "In the most common food of America, the starches, lugar, table syrups, candies, polished rice, white bread, ao.ia crackers, biscuits, macaroni, spaghetti, tapioca, sago, farina, degerminated commeal, no longer ia iron to be found. Refining processes have removed the iron of Mother Earth from these impoverished foods and silly method of home cookery, by throwing down the waste pip the water -In which our vege table are cooked, are responsible for an other grave iron loss. "Therefore, if you wish to preserve your youthful vim and vigor to a rip old age, you must supply the iron deficiency in your food by using some form or organte iron, just a you would us salt when your food has not enough salt" Former ' Health Commissioner Wm. R. Kerr, of the City of Chicago, say I "I have taken Nuxated Iron myself and experienced It health giving, strength-building effect and In the interest of the public welfare I feel It my duty to make known the results of its use. I am well past three acor year and want to say that I believe my own great physical activity is largely due today to my personal nse of Nuxated Iron. From my own experience with Nuxated Iron, I feel It is such a valuable remedy that it ought to be used in every hospital and prescribed by every physician in this eountry." Dr. K. Sauer. a Boston physician who has studied both in thl country and in great European medical institution, saldi "A I have laid a hundred time over, organle iron Is the greatest of all strength buiMers. "Not long aaro a man earn to me who was nearly half a century old and aked me to give him a preliminary examination for life Insurance. I was astonished to find him with the blood pressure of a boy of twenty and as full of rigor, vim and vitality as a young man: In faftt. a young man he really was, notwithstanding his age. The secret, he said, was taking Iron Nuxated Iron had filled him with renewed life. At SO he was in bad health: at 46 he wa earrwom and nearly all in. Now at B0 after taking Nuxated Iron, a miracle of vitality and his face beaming with the buoyancy of youth. Iron I absolutely necessary to en able your blood to change food into living tissue. Without it, no matter how much or what you eat, your food merely passee through you without doing you any good. You don't act the strength out of it and a a consequence yon become weak. Dale and ii- in ii i j. .mfmimmmmrmmmmmmmwi iiminiw mmma ' s V? 1. M II J. 'it f yLfi rt - I i ..e&fisr..; "ism.i . . jsv,.-.. - - 3 r Ay mm . not strong or well, yon owe It to yourself to make the following test: See how long yon can work or how far you can walk without becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of ordinary nuxated iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Then test your strength again and see how much you have gained. I haw seen doxen of nerv ous, run-dn-vn people who were ailing all the while double their strength and endurance and entirely rid themselves of all symptom of iypepfiia, liver and other trouble in from ten to fourteen day time (imply by taking iron in the proper form. And this, after they had In eome ease been doctoring for months without obtaining any benefit" Dr. Schuyler C. Jaque, Visiting Surgeon of St Elisabeth' Hospital, New York City, aid: "I hav never before given out any medical information or advice for publication, as I ordinarily do not believe in it But in the ease of Nuxated Iron I feel I would be remiss in my duty not to mention it I have taken it myself and given it to my patient with most surprising and satisfactory re sult. And those who wish to increase their strength, power and endurance will find it a most TemaVkabl and wonderfully effective remedy." Dr. James Louis Beyea. for 15 year Ad junct Professor in the New York Homeopath ic Medical College, says t "A a physician I hav alway been opposed to prescribing ad vertised remedies, and for fifteen yeara, while Adjunct Professor in the New York-Homeo-pathie Medical College, I taught my medical student that such remedies were generally valueless, but in the ease of Nuxated Iron vr tuts' mida en mvself and numerou iekly looking. Just 11V a plant' trying to patient hav absolutely eon vineed me that grow in a oU deficient in iron. If you areia a remedy of most extraordinary merit and one which should be generally prescribed by ill physicians. Notwithstanding the fact that I am nearing my 80th birthday, a short course of Nuxated Iron has made me fed like a new man. Friends ay, 'What have you been doing to yourself, you look so well and full of life?' In my opinion there ia nothing like organle iron Nuxated . Iron to put youthful itrength and power into the vein of the weak, run-down, infirm or aged. But beware of the old form of metallic iron which often do more harm than good. To be absolutely sure that my patient get real or ganle iron and not some form of metallie va riety, I alway prescribe Nuxated Iron in it original package." NOTE: Nuxated Iron, which is prescribed . and recommended above by physicians hi such - great variety of cases, ia not a patent medicine nor secret remedy, but on which U well known to druggist and who iron constituents are widely prescribed by eminent' physician, both in Europe and in America. Unlike the older inorganic iron product it is easily assimilated, doe not injure the teeth, male them black, nor up set the stomach: on th contrary, it is a most potent remedy in nearly all form of indigestion a well as for nervous, run-down condition. Th manufacturers have audi great confidence in nuxated. iron that they offer to forfeit $100 to any charitable in stitution if they cannot take any man ol woman under CO who lacks iron and inerea. their strength 100 per cent or ever in four week' time, provided they hav no aeriou organic trouble. They also offer to refund your money if it doe not at least double your itrength and endurance in ten day' time. It Is dispensed in this eity b Sherman ' k McConnell Drug Store and all good drag gists. Advertisement '3