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The Omaha Sunday Bm OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917. Comb Honey i The Good and Bad Impulses. In the human body may be found good and bad bacilli, continually v struggling for supremacy. The nat ural order of things is that the good bacilli shall, rule and thus keep the human body in a condition generally known as good health.- When the bad . bacilli are in control the individual : becomes sick. f . ' There are also good and bad im- pulses in everlasting conflict within the human breast and the rule in that there are more good than bad im- pulses, because the-e is manifestly more good than evil in the world. The will power is the dynamic force behind the good impulses. Who ever heard of anybody using will power to yield to a bad impulse? The wH is the sentinel which watches over th- good impulses, but sometimes the will grows apathetic, or gpes to sleep, and then the bad impulses creep in unawares. " . "I just drifted into' that life or into that habit without thinking.' Some impulse led me into it," are common exnressions. . Good impulses grow within the in dividual, they become strong habits and they grow strong fiy constant use and if cultivated daily they will be the dominant note of any Hit. Every time an individual yields to a 'bad impulse there is a good impulse protesting ' against its adversary. Sometimes this good impulse is re ferred to as "a still, small voice," or the conscience, or one's better self. These invisible forces are struggling within every human being just as the , physical forces are struggling. It is easy for some to be good; others find it a hard task. We may, for instance, have an im pulse to say the short and ugly word and if we yield to that impulse the first ttme.it is easier to yield the sec ond time and through the procesl of repetition the individual gradually be comes oblivious to the better im pulses. Associations and environ' ; ments swfect the impulses which reg ister themselves upon the mind. It is said that no person sinks so low that he does not have a good impulse now and then. Frequent repulsion of good im pulses tends to lessen their frequency, Frequent use of good impulses leads to good habits. , Good health is the foundation of most of our good impulses. The Commonplace. . . ' The fourth verse of Kipling's "It begins with these lines: It you on talk with crowd and keep your virtu - . Or walk with kings nor loi th common . touch. . ' ;, The little things of life are impor tant. We know that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Hu man character is built upon fidelity to the little everyday duties and tasks, to the seeming inconsequences. The anxious mother has to adjure her son to wash his, neck, and yet that same son will work until he drops over making t dog House or sled. ' ' ' Many failures are due to a Jack of ' mental poise which places a true val ue upon the commonplace affairs of the day'a work. The successful busi ness man of today has learned the value of detail. He keeps himself alert and fresh by close attention to the little things of his business". It becomes a habit. . The slovenly business man or clerk loses sight fo the main chance. Per sonal , neatness, clean windows and fixtures, courteous, attention to pa trons, truthful advertising, attractive (Jrote History of Omaha 'All the tralK and unlrulh ttiafs fit lo lenow Chapter XXXI The Postoffice. Early in the history of our city it was decided to have a postoffice. A party named Jones secured the po sition and put in a nice line of stamps and postal cards. In 1854 he started up business, selling quite a number ot stamps even on the hrst day. He put on a motor truck to bring the mail up from the union station as fast as the trains came in. Mr. Wyman was the next post master and he put the postoffice at Eleventh and Harney streets. Later he erected a brick building at Thir teenth and Douglas streets. He put the postoffice on the first floor and published the Omaha "Times" on the rScesentl?asi Office Time second floor. He put in all his spare time on this newspaper, which he published, edited and distributed. While the election of Abraham Lincoln wasi a fine thing for , this country and the country .might not have pulled throueh the terrible crisis of the civil war if it hadn't been for the fine hand of "honest Abe" at the helm of the ship of state, it was, nev ertheless, a hard brow to Mr. Wyman. The postoffice wasn't much bother to him and" he could run it in connec- in- window displays, are sure to yield crease oi business. .. Employers everywhere today' are realizing more and more the value of the commonplace. Competition in business is keener than ever and the art salesmanship has reached the plane of a science. The adoption r l efficiency, systems reveals a desire U watch the minutest details of business. : The personal equation is becoming more and more a factor in business. We were taught at school to take care of the pennies and the dollars would take care of . themselves. We know that a stifch in time saves nine. yet we are prone to neglect the need ed Mitch and become interested only when' the rip appears in the garment. Nature is common, yet it fashions the rose every ' spring ' in matchless tints, and we are told that the Maker marks the sparrow's fall. "Inasmuch as ye did it-unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto me." Heed the message of the common things of life and thus r'be better equipped to do the big things to hold your own in the battle of life. There are sermons in stones. There is beauty and interest even in the common things of lifef. -Don't neglect the trilles. , Good Night! "Are you quite aure that thla la a genuine alligator akin?" the Inquired "Positive, madam," auoth the dealer. "I ahot the alligator myself." j "It looka rather soiled," aald the lady, "That, madam, la where It atruck the rround when It fell off the tree " Youth's Companion. - " - - By A. R. GROH. , , tion with his newspaper office and he was just getting things gcjjng good when Abraham Lincoln was elect ed. Mr. Wyman was a democrat and Abraham Lincoln was a republican. About 100 patriotic citizens believ ed that the postoffice could be ru better by a republican and they im mediately volunteered their services in this capacity to Mr. Lincoln. They were wnlinar to accept the responst bility and draw the salary. George Smith was finally selected to be post master. He immediately moved the office to Fourteenth and Farnam streets. A year or two later it was moved to the Academy of Music" building on Douglas street and Mr. Kellom be came postmaster. Then Joel T. Grif fin became postmaster and he moved the ofiice to the A. J. Simpson build ing on Fourteenth street., . Nexf, Casper E. Yost, who is to day the great telephone magnate, was appointed postmaster '.-and be moved the office to- the Creighton block . on Fifteenth street. '"-In rfhose days it was hard to keep. track of where the postoffice was. Finally the government decided to build a regu lar building for it so. that it couldn't be moved. The structure was erected at Fifteenth and Dodge streets. It was completed in 1874 and for many years was the pride of the city. but it was outgrown by. the rapid development of the city and-finally it became necessary for the present large and stately building to be erect ed. Numerous citizens' came for ward, willing to stll .their property to the government for a site, but the present site was finally selected and the building erected. It has a large tower with a clock. The clock is on a tower 1W feet high, and fre quently it shows the correct time. There are fine steps along the Six teenth street side, but nobody is al lowed to sit on the steps. If they try to do so a janitor soon appears and tells them to move on. During circus parades people are allowed to sit there, but only until the parade is past. The heating plant is in the base- raana Went to Me Circus Instead , Was r 'mam as of jD'f owning and THus c - y is f i , cJctved to Lover3 u Qwk'iftcsVM Offics mcnt andi heats the building satis factorily, so that, in the winter the corridors are filled with people who are warming their hands from the cold. There are three elevators, so that people can ' get to the upper floors conveniently, except oiif holfr days, when it is necessary to. walk? Questions orr-Chapter XXXI. 1. How many motor trucks did the first postoffice in Omaha have? 2. What 'effect did Lincoln's elec tion have on Mr. Wyman? ; 3. How many citizens offered their services to the government to suc ceed him? , : .. ; . I . .,. .-. 4. Are people allowed to sil on the postoffice steps? ' - . - ' vX; By A. EDWIN LONG. They dragged the Des Moines river for. his body once. Yes, all afternoon. a force of police, firemen and citizens seined the river, and dragged out many an innocent catfish in the search for. the body of Sam J. Leon. Sammie was only 5 years old at the time. He lived tn Des Moines. While the men were dragging the river, and while the mother and father were wringing their hands on thA shore, ittle Sammie late in the afternoon, was strolling homeward from the cir cus grounds, ravenously sucking a gum drop on a stick. A fire chief diving-along tha road, hurrying to the river to hjelp in the search for the body saw the. little rascal in the road, lifted him into the buggy) galloped off to the river and deposited him at the feet "of his anx ious mother. The seine was hauled in. and the dragging of the riven discon tinued. , . Y.V". Sam J. Xeon was not always-the popular Omaha hatter. He was once a great leap-frog artist of Des Moines. He was a kid - wrestler, a kid base ball player and a kid foot ball star. In fact, the Leon foot ball team was a 'famous kid team in Des "Moines. When Sam and his brother, Mark, were only 11 ana 12 years old, they organized a foot ball team, captained it and tore up every line they charged. They had uniforms that were a mix ture of knickerbocker overalls and mangled sweaters picked . up some where, but the uniforms answered very well foMhe boys. - , Sana was bitten by the law bug. At a time in his life) he thought he. just? 1 'j " 0 - .. ' "" ssssirs, I . ' v.,::;. ,..,,V . v, - niy must be a lawyer. He attended Drake university law college at Des Moines, made a hobby of debating and was on the Drake team that out-debated Ames oneear. He pictured himself, a smart lawyer with a white vest, buttoned over a snug rotundity of body, Wringing tears from the jury in the greatest murder trial of the ages, but, alas, he had to work his way through school. That situation led him into a hat store in Des Moines, . where ' after noons and Saturdays he brushed hats v . 1 . . .. EMrffiodyfHqs d Hob by! W h at's Yo urs ? A. L. Green, advertising manager tor ine curgess-msn company iiKes to tell abotft his cross-country trips in his big, numerous-cylindered car. Assiduous as he is about attending to the, advertising for the big store, you can always get a rise out of him by mentioning his car, and he, will lean back in his chair and, with his pleasant smile, will tell you about his latest trip. .-- ? ' "Yes air," says "A, L." "we left Oshkosh at 7 o'clock in the"morning and M 12 we pulled into Kalamazoo. Part of the time I was doing";sixty miles an hour. We ade thejwhole trip right straight through to Omaha, 792 miles in a little more than eight hours."- - . . (These figures may not be exaitly correct, y'understand, but that is the general trend of the conversation). It's a gol durnedgood thing for Eddie Rickenbacker and Ralph De Palma and all that crowd that A. L. Green's genius led him into the ad vertising field rather than into the racing field. They wouldn't have a look in if A. L. Green were there, driving a 500-horsepower, forty-cyl-indered, Elitzedes. ' " , , - - . W .G. Shriver, real estate man and former county assessor, plays golf. That is, his hobby. You ought to see him, togged out in his knickerbockers and getting ready for a big drive on the links. He just took up the sport this summer, but he is already a dyed-in-the-wool, won't rip-at-the-heefsi yard-wide golf fiend, and1 talks the golf language with hardly a trace of accent. .- ., - .-. It is said that somebody asked him, early in his golf career, "What do you go around in?" and Mr. Shriver replied genially, "Oh, just in knicker bockers and shirt. On . cold days I wear a sweater." .So the inquirer never, learned whether- Mr. Shriver goes around the nine-hole course in 72 or 172. ;.. . . . u . But his leisure. time is all givCn over to golf now and his flivver" is neglectetfas last year's bird nest ex cept as it serves for a means of con veying him and his clubs to and from yie golf course.- Joe Frenzer's hobby is casting for muskelunge in the northefh lakes. Catching mere bass, or pickerel, is Frenzer's idea of "small-town sport." He must have muskies. Every sum mer he makes his vacation trip to the northern'lakes.: Before he goes, how ever,, he gets his casting arm into practice. A month before he goes he gets out' the tackle, adjusts his weights, and then from his front porch practices casting, by hurling the sinker far, out on the pavement, or whipping the maple leaves off teh neighbors' trees with the lead. When, he finds that1 he is sufficiently in trairi ing to knock a fly off the curb stone across the street in the second or ! third cast, he packs his grip andiStarts for the north. The results of his practice ate well known to his friends who annually get a'nicelmess of fish, sent them while Frenzer is away. with his elbow and sold them tci big lawyers of the city. . : j He envied, the dignified lawy','rlk', he saw them walk Out of theJuegtSt with new hats. on, but'all cjti t slyly fate turned his ambitvtrlr,1,.'iom law to "lids.'; ...... V One day he discovered that fie knew nearly everything about hats, and upon taking an inventory of his gray matter found that he knew less than half of everything about law. He found, too, that selling hats and polishing them with his" ejbow was more interesting than studying law. Next he jumped the law school, and was in the hat business before he couldxvote. .:. As a boy he had passed through Omaha an-'d had become impressed with the cfty. Now he took Brother Mark by .the arm and to Omaha they came seven years ago. When they had made a success or their first hat store on South Fifteenth street, they, moved, opened fwo hat stores and a-shoe store in Omaha. They how have Leon's 1, Leon's 2, and the Star Shoe company, all going under the general Leon management. "The fellow J used to work for in Des Moines had a chain- of hat stores in several states' said " sSam, "but .Qmaha looked s& good to us that we established a . chain of stores right here- in one town." Next In Thla Serlea: "How Omaha Got William . Baxter." ' A Watch Here Right ; Along for, Omaha's Best Local Feature Page : : : : : : Hello Again! Did You Recognize These' Well Known Men? They Are all General" Of ficers of the Nebraska Telephone Company Grouped Together With the President in' Center How They Once Looked , v' . . , . ' J 1 i ,. .t . How They Look Now ' '-N.' " yi ' 1 ' - " ,, . ' . : ; " . - . -' r i ; : : OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917. THE BUMBLE BEfi.. JL STINGER, EDITOR. Communications on any topic received.- without- poataga or algnatu,ra. " None returned. NO ADS AT ANT PRICE. JUSTICE. . . A Rood .way to deal with the reckless motorists would be to take their cars from them. They know the law and the rulea of the road as well aa anybody, and they . deliberately violate them. Careful drivers are as much In danger as pedestrians from the uncontrolled antlca of, mesa seixisn persons, wno enow no consideration for anybody. Unavoidable accidents are suffi ciently numerous, and those that can -bs prevented ought to be. Fining- a foolish driver a dollar for deliberately breaking the law and Jeopardizing the safety of everybody who has to use the streets be Infests la joke. Take his machine from him, and then ha will be safe. SIMMERING. Many daya intervene before the date for . primaries next spring and lots of water can run undef the bridge between now and then, but if we may judge by the actions of certain of our leading citlieiis, the pot Is already' simmering. . Maneuv. erlng for position la the opening play In any game, and a lot at self-Immolated ellgtblea are slipping tround trying to get Into a spot where lightning will surely strike, y NCISANCE.. "x -Which is the greater nuisance the s.iphead who atatlons himself in the narrow passage leading Into the afreet car, and atands there for other passen gers te stumble over, , or the conductor who permits him to thus obstruct traffic T . -, ; It's going to be a hard winter tor aame mora folks. - George Parks says his fund la ex hausted, and he'll have to have more money or auspend opera tions. Looks Ilka somebody will have ta go to work, , . Ed Howard must have got what he was looking for when he went after Herb Gooch. 'Anyway, It waa a pretty fight while rt lasted. , , - - Plory waits the man who will dtwtse soma way of squelching the speed maniacs who tear up and down west Farnam after dark. ; . v Another week .passed wUhout a scandal in the police force; what'a wrong? Dried your summer crop yet? Get busy Traitor Located by Bumble Bee; v Prominent Citizen Found Out; Ample Evidence of His Treason Great excitement! The. Bumble Bee hates to do this, but It will not shrink from performing a. patriotic duty. Wa promised our readers at the start we would stick to politics and keep off the war, but our fellow sufferers have mixed things up in Nebraska until nobody can tell the dif ference. And : this . brings as (o .the point. Why should the liberties of our fellow men, the rights of citizens, and the safety of our democratic Institutions, free government and the hope of humanity, be left longer at the mercy of a man who lacks those elements that put his loyalty above suspicion? -' Why? ; We pause for answer. Don't all speak at once. We know a man who holds a high position of public trust, whose name la familiar to ev erybody in our community, and who has been looked upon as a model of propriety, and as being wholly devoted to the sa cred fane of liberty, his loy alty never doubted and his fealty , to freedom' holy cause neveo challenged. -What did he do i ..... . Oh, horrors! . ; ! ' What did he not do? ' We shudder to think of It much leas to set it down In cold type. We really ought to have some hot type to tell this, or a red Ink presa to print it on. - He used to go down to a place he called a ' gasthaus," and there addressing the servitor as 'Kellner," for his luncheon would order "Starksuppe, Weln erbachuhn, . kartof fei salad bandknse und schwartzbrod, mlt Culmbacher." , ; That's what he did. , And today he walks the streets of Omaha a free man, those he meets little dreaming what a teeming fountain of disloyalty he la. Oh, -the waited sepul- cher!-' Unless a certain resignation Is handed : In v e ty shortly, The Bumble Bee will come right out In the open and name this wretch. - .. Just now it AT all we can do to contain, ourselves, but we will wait .. ' ; FOOD,.,, .-' If just canning things and ore. serving them and drying and dessicatlng and the like la rolnsr to win the war, lt'a over now, for Omaha's women folka have put up enough stuff since strawber ries and rhubarb-came on the market to last through mora thsn one war, and tomatoea and command other late thinga are yet to be fully disposed of. : j"' ' PAID.' ' '.' " , Sheriff Mike Clsrk has won part ot the first round with the Board ot County Commission ers, and has soma of the money comlngtD him for boarding the jailbirds, '-we'll wager Hike geta all that ls-hls'n before the end of the bout 7. .COAL. . v., V One -of our greatly' admired co-workers in the uplift hymns Wa hymn to the sound of the an thracite going down the chute Into the cellar, a noble subject but hardly, aa Interesting aa the sound of the coin clinking in the coal 'man's pockets after the chute la out of commission. - CAUTIOUS, Onr county attorney never takes any undue risks. He'll not even try a case far fear he'll get his docket clear and not have anything to do. SPEED. One. thing the women did ' on registration day that well may be imitated by the men. They got the returns in and tabulated promptly, MENTIONED, Eddie Lawler had the Joy of seeing hla name in print In something - other than a base ball score table. That helps some. . SPORT. Several plana have been doned out whereby to make wrestlers wrestle. Why should - they ? TMy gat tk money easier. .. PENNANT. .,3 i Pa Eourke will have to strug gle through another winter with no championship to boast of, but he knows he has the more or lesa loyal aupport of the best bal town on the map. PIONEER. v . The Bee said Architect Fltf--Patrick drew plans for the first steel-framed skyscraper ln 1864, and Fits says it's so: if this Isn't the record.somebody speak up. v AUCTION. Charlie Fanning had quite a nice auction down at his postof fice laatfWeek, but he didn't of fer any of thoae nice new 3-cent stamps to the highest bidder for cash In hand. - ', ' DRY. " ? Tha Bootleggers' union doesn't get a great deal of consolation out of the fact that the police force is back on the job. '." COLONEL. The Bumble Bee still thinks that Governor Neville would hava made a good colonel "';.v' BUSY. ' -Artie Mullen certainly Is tha busy little fixer these daya. IN OUR TOWN. , "Andy." Somers picture fooled them all. , , . ; , ' Tv J. McGulre Is -building up quite a law practice. V "W' Ike Zlmman's new job Is man- ' aized, but watch Ike eat 'em up. Gov. Neville was up 'In town -Wednesday. Come up often, gov., It will do you goodv- ' '' VBilly" Fraser made a hurried trip to Washington . to give the government tip on the life In surance business. Joe Oberf elder stopped In on his way home " front the state fair. Joe says Cheyenne county has 'em all licked thla year. " Clark Perkins was a visitor to the metropolis, finding out what they want an editor to do on the food board. Most editors are busy enough getting something to eat for themselves to let other folks alone. , JAIL.;' Omaha has Just sold a nice little bundle of bonds, from tha proceeds of which a brand new. city Jail is to be erected. We can't understand this; this time . last year we were told that tha jail was to follow the groggery, . and when we beeama dry we :" . would have no further need for " a calaboza. What Is the an swer? v - ' SPRY. ' ' That aged person who signed' Br'er Johnson's nama to ninety, one checks for various amounts in different parts of the coun try, spending the proceed, thereof In riotous living, alde 2 and encouraged by chorus Hk ladles, is surely a rebuke tor Doo Osier. He U really spry enough to enter thi draft army. ; . , TELESCOPED. One of our most warmly hated contemporaries tol$ of the tak- . Ing of a man from the "Chicago, Rock Island A Quincy" to be . ' president of the St. Paul rail road. That's mixing 'em pp. EFFICIENCY. Arrangements for the trial of , the tittle Italian boy on a --4 charge of murder look like good team ' work . on part of somebody. Has the appearance ; r of putting tha county attorney on both aides of tha case. . ' ..' SUCCESS. ' Bill Stoecker may now die happy. He has aucceeded In getting Val Peter to pay a little attention to him. - ; : toem. Fletcherlse, Hooverlxe, Save the precious grub; Only way to beat the gam Do not be a dub . V IV