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The Omaha Sunday Bee OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING,, SEPTEMBER 23, 1917. Comb Honey By EDWARD BLACK. Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa. One would think, and naturally, that one of the last places in the world to look for humor would be at a murder trial, particularly one wherein a man is on trial for killing light persons with an ax The people of Montgomery county lave heard so much of this affair dur 1 ng a period of five years that the V iwfulness of the matter has worn off. ' They refer to the ax murder case with ts much nonchalance ar-thev would ipeak of getting a hair cut or having heir shoes halt soled. ' since lviz, when the ax crime itirred the nation. Red Oak and the tounty have gone through a series of icnsations in connection with the :rime, the result being that the peo- le are divided against themselves. It not uncommon for a husband and ivife to hold different views on the 'uhject. The husband will say, for instance: 'I know that Kelly is innicent. How tould a little man like Kelly kill eight arsons and then go to preachin : igain?" And the wife will reply: '.'I mow that Kelly is the man. Didn't e make a confession?" "Gee, I'd just like to have a photo graph of Attorney General Havner baking hands with Kelly," remarked village cut-up the other day. "Say, did you hear that Havner satd )e would make Montgomery county ay $1,000,000 in court costs before he through with this case?'! asked an other villager who wears bone rimmed glasses -and calls himself Sheriff Dunn "Bob." .... "Kelly Trial News,? 'calls small ' boy every evening. "t He sells a small ' printed bulletin which contains- an abstract of the day's proceedings. "For further .particulars see the NKelly Trial .News," remarked a pes Moines newspaper man every time somebody started an argument about the Kelly case. Speaking about ar guments, if you want, to start an ar gument just go to Red Oak. Judge Boies is averse to laughter In the court room. A "decoy duck" Incident arnineH iuriirial wrath ev- eral times, and the judge threatened . to send the crowd on about their business" if they laughe again. The "decoy ducks" were so named by At torney Mitchell of Council Bluffs. These ducks were two men of Conn- cil Bl uffs and Missouri Valley. They a r a . i rn a a!! imt n KAiiv wa r Logan to hear what he might say when he sent for Havner prior to making the signed confession. This duo was garbed in overalls and hand cuffs were placed on their wrists and Kelly thought they were automobile highwaymen,, whereas they were newspaper men. "What'sthe differ ence?" asked one of the attorneys of the case, whereupon a newspaper man rejoined by saying that if the , fitness of things had been observed two lawyers would have been selected for the task. ' . 1 , ' ' Attorneys Hess and Mitchell, on opposing sides, were in several legal tilts during the 'trial, but they left their differences at thje court house door when they crossed the street to 'the Johnson hotel. i ' - . . "My goodness, if they aren t eating it the same table 1" exclaimed a wo man. "They must have made up igain," referring to , Hess . and Mitchell v Imperturbability, ' I know a man who has been sue tessful in business and who is rt , garded as one of 'the subiUntSal citl ' tens of a progressive western city. He 'came to my mind just as I was starting these ltnes. He is a gentle man a gentle man in "every sense Df the word.' He is a member of a firm and his work requires that he. (jr oil 6 HfeW of Omaka All flte truth and untruth tliafe fit to know Chapter XXXIIArt. The subject of art has been sug gestecMo the historian as one that should be treated in a chapter of this great and comprehensive history. The individual offering the sugges tion is an artist, having gone over to Paris on a, cattle boat and having studied art in the "Quartier Latin," living in a garret and taking his breakfasts in a neighboring "laiterie," like all true artists who scorn wealth Catty Utiitt Ornate and live only for their, art. .The his torian himself 'has lived in that part of Paris, though he did npt study there.- His ability to. write history is a naturaj gift, - Small-fry histories do not give any chapter to art, but this history, be ing broad and comprehensive, will treat this subject. There was a-gopd deal of art in Omaha even in the early days. Some of it was worse than others. How ever, this is not to be wondered at Some artists have even criticized the early pioneers because they did not organize an art club till twenty years alter trie first house was built. . - How unjust such criticisms are I The early pioneers knew their busi ness. They looked out for them. selves, They built hqmes first 'and scouted around for some way to make a living and protect themselves from mingle with the patrons of his store, and with the employes as well. I have studied this man whom I, re- Sard as an exemplar of imperturba ilitv. ' J ' . . .-. . This man, as I said, is gentle. Most of the activities of life may be t per formed with gentleness. He exercises a gentle firmness. He is equal to crises, because he is not perturbed by small matters. He knows how to ap praise a situation at its real value. He attends to the small details of every day work with a smile and always has a reserve force for an emergency. A real crisis occurred in Ins city on an Easter Sunday four years asro. A tor nado cut a path six miles long through nis cuy, ne was one ot tne nrst men to respond when the call came for real men to guide the people through this "terrible ordeal; He was calm. His judgment was superb and his min,d maved in large measures in this hour of death and destruction. There were other men, too, who were equal to this crisis, but I mention this par ticular man as a concrete instance.' In the business world imperturba bility is a "consummation devoutly to beVished." r It behooves the em ployer, as well as the employe, to keep himself in leash at all times. We have read i- that "whom the Godl would destroy they first make mad." - , "Sand yer track, yer slipping, mis tef.'i exclaimed a newsboy the other day to a man who made a show of temper because his, hat had blown off and he missed his Street car. ; ' ,i Cultivate ait even temperament and always keep, cool.; Iti worth, real money. . By A. R. GROH. , Indians. They found they could get along without art clubs, at first Art is all right in its place. So let us not be critical of the pioneers be cause they didn't organize, an art club until 1877. This pioneer club was called the "Sketch Class," and it sketched twice a week. Let us draw a curtain over the sketches. They were not such as to compare favor ably with the old masters. One of the best sketches was that of a bas ket of fruit. Some claimed it was a basket of apples and others held that it was tomatoes. This threatened to break up the class. But the discus sion gradually died down and peace was restored. In 1879 an art loan exhibition was secured for the cityjmd a large num ber of paintings of great refinement were brought here, including a num ber of Indian relics. It was greatly enjoyed by all who 'Saw it. Admis sion was 50 cents. Children under 12 were, admitted for half price. It is pleasant to record the fact that it was a financial success. The year 1881 saw the organization of "The Social Art Club of Omaha." It engaged in social .activities and art. Twice a year the work of the members was offered for sale. Some sales were made, it is said, to public spirited citizens who wished to help the club along. In 1888 Mr. G. W. Lininger erect ed the first art gallery in Omaha. He 01) 0 Mate (30 1 1 1 'enaed to Ljtive a Circus y$anclwa?o2i iufi 7ool(. io DYereHa-Ztdzz zx iJdiitt X 1 1 t ' s - "k. I- V r - " ii pi 4 m ill at icuiuus. even uriviiiK cows was uci- 1 rrTfl ; liTn 1 , f li : - ' W- ter than this. , H II WifSSS sff Hvt is Long built it irtxonnection Avith his home at Eighteenth and Davenport streets. Mr. Lininger came from Illinois to Council Bluffs at an early age. Though a business man, he was a lover of art and, as he made money, he bought pictures until his house was full of them. Then he found it necessary to build the gallery be cause the house was so full of pictures it made it inconvenient, especially in housecleaning time. So he built the gallery at the rear of his residence. It is in the Italian renaissance style, thirty-five feet wide and seventy feet long and' cost $15,000. The historian himself has viewed the paintings there. Several depicting "beauty unadorned" have been especially commended, though some unartistic person once threw a cha I through a picture entitled "Spring." It was an allegorical pic ture, a lady taking the part of spring. We now have about three asso ciations devoted to the study and ap preciation of art. They are the Omaha Art, Guild, Society of Fine Arts, and Friends of Artr Oniaha, perhaps, may never ;fjival Paris and Rome as an art center, but it is forging right ahead and the city has plenty of art for a ydung city. Questions on Chapttr XXXII , 1. Why didn't' the pioneers organ ize art clubs as soon as the"y came to Omaha? 2. What caused the dispute in the "Sketch Class"? - 3. What was the admission price to the art loan exhibition? 1 Did.Y By fc. EDWIN LONG. I counting eggs, putting them into? Any boy knows that driving a long ctes and juggling, boxes. This was string of stylish horses in a circus parade is more interesting than shoul dering the responsibilities of a big dry goods concern in Omaha. Years, ago there was a boy named "Willie"' at Ashland, Neb., ho I thought so, too. . . , I No, he didn't evet make the com-j ' jjanson, tor "dry goodsmg ' never oc- "urred to hira at that time. That was i . r . at long Detorc ne oecame known as William F. Baxter. He was then just "Willie, Baxter," or as the "fellers" called him, "Bill." ' So when Omaha got William F. Baxter, Barnum & Bailey and Ring ling Brothers lost the prospect , of (a first-class parade driver.v- For some years, while he barefoot ed it around Ashland and vicinity, this chap had circus ambitions. He had a pony and a job. The job was to drive a number of town cows out to the green slopes every day and bring them,back to be milked in the even ing. ..." ' i " ' ' " The cowboy ambition never gripped him, even with this splendid start to prompt him. No, it was the circus parade that struck ten with him. It was dull business, too, driving out the mere cows, for what he really Jonged to drive was horses. . He pictured himself with a multi tude of reins in his'hand and a long line of plunied horses , caravaning ahead of him, and himself perched either on a high seat, or on a mag nificent black chacger. Being very certain this day of circus life was coming, Willie had t play hookey from school many a day to see the circus parade, and to curry the zebra for a ticket. Certainly, every grtat man had to start learning early." So why should ie suffer -dull hours in school un tangling compound fractions when down ijie street there wjfisso much to learn about his future profession? Willie's father had other plans for the boy. The senior gentleman was in the general merchandise business up town. On Saturdays and in the evening after school he kept Willie ou Guess Any of 'Em Right? They're One v and All '"Leading Real Estate Men, as You See How They Once Looked ' ' ' Sometimes the lad eot awav. rolled up his trousers, and splashed around in Salt creek ' in search of "craw dabs" and other aquatic wonders of the submerged slime. " The greatest feat of his aquatic ad ventures was the spearing of a big catfish in the mud of that creek The fish had mistaken Baxter's bis: toe for a piece of salt pork, and was mak ing unrequited advances upqn this member, when the, lad, who had a pitchfork with him, plunged it hard and true through the fleshj part ot the tail and pitched the slippery en pounder on the bank ' It was on a farm near Warren, R. I., that the light of-day first saw William F. Baxter, There he roamed all over the immense area of the ten-acre plot, which was a good-sized farm for that locality. There he played in his sand pile, made foot balls of the neighbor Y girls' dolls and cried his troubles into his mother s lap until his father went into the merchandise business in Woonsocket. . " Then the son was years old.- He was old enough to do the business some good, so Willie was sent out to peddle "Yankee notions;" .namely, needles,, pins, thread and a lot of little trinkets of that kind. Soon after that the parents brought theboy to Ashland, Neb., where the circus am bition developed. ' The Tootle-Maul company, of dry goods wholesalers in Omaha gave this lad a job when he had all but outgrown the circus ambition. This compaliy let him sweep the floor, scrub the stairways and unpack boxes. He had his first regular job. He hurled some of the boxes around so hard that he shook the plastering I oft . the walls of the old bunding. Every day a patch of plastering would fall. A big patch fell right at the head of the stairs and lay there for four days. Baxter was too busy to sweep it up. He worked as fast and as hard as he could from morning till night handling boxes, and then, when lie was so tired that he could have slept upon a bed of spikes, Mr. Maul came up and administered a rebuke. "Mr. Maul Avas a' tall, dignified man," says Baxter. "He came up and saw that plastering. He told me he would bet if he had been in my place he would haye swept up that plaster ing if it had taken him all night. That hurt my feelings severely, for I felt that I had been working exceptionally; hard for many days." .y ; The company was succeeded in 1887 by Kilpatrick-Koch company. Bax ter remained. But Baxter had an ambition to do more than unpack boxes and sweep up , broken plastering. When the buyer of the house went to lunch Baxter bored into his desk and studied the price lists. The buyer would have taken both his ears off if he had known this, but Baxter knew it could do no harm and he wanted to know the prices of things. No one in the house knew that he ws learning this list ; Then suddenly the buyer quit his job and left town. There .wasn't a man in the house that knew what these goods cost or what they should cost. f Soon young Baxter began to talk prices and the boss found this lad knew even more about the price lists than the former buyer himself. -'' Rieht there he auit sweeping and began( to do the firm's buying. In stead of coming down in the morning to look up his brooms, he came down to look: big eastern salesmen in the I A A t ' A I , 1 ' ,1' eye ana oatue wiin. mem oyer tne price of goods. ' When in 1895 this became the Thomas Ifilpatrick company William F. Baxter was made secretary. " He has been, identified, with many public movements here.'-'.He was chajrman of the public affairs com mittee of the Commercial club two years ago, arid in that capacity man aged a splendid program, pf noted speeches for the club .members. He is now chairman of . the governing committee of the bureau of publicity, the organization which advertises Omaha on two hemispheres, and the organization which has positively made Omaha a real convention city. Next In This Sertai: "How Omaha Cot a Certain WeU-Known Peraon." His Hobby! ' W x?8 Yours? . )i David 'Cole hasi a hobby: He en joys playing billiards or 'pool.'" He can play Kelly pool or any kind .'of pool.. He believes it is all right to play golf if one likes golf, but for skill he commends the ivory spheoids and the green cloth. - For the tired -business man, he contends, there is, nothing quite so soothing as a game of billiards or pool. He avers tha this indoor' sport quiets the nerves'and, fives' one a keen vision, as well as a steady hand. "Walking fourteen miles over hill And dale may be all right, but not for me. ' Just give me a cue and a piece Of chalk and I won't say a wordhe said. ' ' The Weekly & Bumble Bee OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1917.. . . V How They Look Now li : V 1 .( . THE BUMBLE BEE. A. STINQER. EDITOR. Communication! on any topic received, without postage or signature. None returned. NO ADS AT ANT PRICE. i 1 , FOOD. Asserting"- that enough food to teed Belgium Is wasted In Nebraska each year sounds a terrific Indictment It has some basis In fact, too, more's the pity. Economy In use of food Is not so much the remedy as car In 4ts preservation. Econo my has een enforced by high prices, which also should stimu late conservation. Food Is too valuable now to permit any that can be saved, to go to wast for want ot care. SILENCE. Our school board announces an Intention t ask for an Issue of $2,000,(100 bonds and the tazpayeu take It, as- Villa would say, "segura que ni" What's the matter? Have oW folks gotten so accustomed to talking in billions that they cannot even think of millions T, Somebody wiU have to pay tha lntereat on those bonds, you know. 1 - , COAL. No1'-' consumer'- Is going to complain, especially as to what sign la n the wagon that brings the .fuel to his bin, so long V' the price Is set right. IP the dealers cannot do It, let the ty go ahead. . , COMMENCING. Now thiSt a special granal jury is to be called to look Into al leged Jury tampering ly the bootleggers, the campaign for enforcement may be said to be lalrlyf started. , Local booie bounds are be coming quite adept in ferreting out the hiding placea ot the Rum Demon. Somebody, wilt hav to dope out a new sys tem, or the town really will ge dry. ; Sorry for. those poor council men who find the cobblestpnes hard an their feet. They should stick to the city machines and avoid corns. Tet of endurance: Which ean hold back the longer, the coal man or the man who has to burn It T Umpire: Jack Frost. We'll wager that the squir rels will not run out of food a long aa some folks w know ar left Almost Urn to bear folks bragging about their spuds. Wild Life in Omaha Stirs Some ' Villagers to Protest; Birds and Beasts Get Warm Support YLen Some little controversy has been engendered during the last few days over the "relative value of squirrels, English sparrows, and the like.- One very earnest gent is emphatic In his demands that they be spurlos versenkt and without delay, while another takes his pen In hand to uphold the right 'of those things to live, and the battle is warm. The - Bumble Bee thinks the Ancient Mariner had right In the message he gave the Wed ding .Guest: '"He worketh best who loveth. best all things, both great and 'small." The squirrels may eat the nuts off the cher ished tree, but that is their na tural provender; and the spar rows may chatter and disturb somebody's hours ot meditation', but . they are . only following nature's dictate. We know how exasperating 'It is to have a covey of these excitable little scamps set up a discussion about the day's work JUBt before, sun up In the morning, right out side the window of the room In which we are trying to get a little much-needed sleep. But it Is not a bit more bothersome than It Is to have a fiend In human form come galloping wouldn't have them labeled law. ful prey for boys with slingshots. On the contrary. It is quite comforting to listen to the spar rows, when their long day's work is over, shattering about their experiences, telling one an other how they dodged cats and boys and the. like all day long, how they visited wrens and robins i and woodpeckers and blue Jays, and got scolded for doing so, and what luck they had In finding something to eat, and all the multitude of things that go to make up a busy bird's dally experience.. The city dweller surely would miss these sessions. Then tne squirrel are sociable little fellows, too.1 We. never heard df their tearing down a man's house to get. at his winter store of nuts, but we do know a lot of people who. continually keep on bend nuts to feed them, and who provide them with wa ter And ail sorts of accommoda-. tions, feeling amply repaid when they get on such terms t( famil'arlty with their furry guests that the latter will com close enough to eat from he hand or to sit on the knee and feed. ' Ard some of these sim ple minded folks even tolerate aio:.g on ni motorcycie wun ine , u,,, ,quirrei,i coming Into the muffler cutout open, or t have 0ome some unregenerate cuss select n a lot more can be sua o.. this nearby spot for the purpose of subject but we'll bet If the rehearsing his carburetor. Either of these Is disconcerting to a man who Is seeking slum ber, but foe all that . we 'i , 1 FIXED. Percy came back from ' his vacation with a smile on hia face and went about softly humming to himself. Asked for the reason, he replied: "I've got twenty-two bushels of potatoes In my cellar, all dug out ot my own patch. They are In fine condition, and I'm sure of plenty to eat. no mat ter what else happens tbts com ing winter." And Percy I only one of a good many thousands who felt the urge last spring and acted on It BEADY. Ak-Sar-Ben will start his big doings this week and everything Is ready, except that Dad Weaver is still tied down with his broken bones. It the king can stand this blow, nothing can top him. . ' ' NOTE. While thousands of young men have gone from Omaha to war wlthla the last six months, pot a pool hall nor a dance hall has been closed on this account -CAMOUFLAGE. , 8aw Matt Gerlng at the Boyd Thursday nla-ht In dlsc-iils. He look almost human. ; RUSH. Present activity In the build ing line, whld. haa reached the Cury of a rush in some places, reminds Tbe Bumble Bee that several weeks of precious weather were wasted early In the summer in a futile dispute between employers and em ployed over . points that might hav very easily been adjusted In conferences. These disputes, where neither side hss anything to, arbitrate, are the ones that cost most In the long run. IN OUR TOWN. I Harry O'Neill is going to work for the government lor 1 while. Lee Spratlen- was Aver from Chi. last ' week.,, lookinr llk ready, money. , - -Ran' Brown . Is making ap k rangments for a. big danc to b r, held next month. .Art Mullen would save a lot ol railroad fare If the state house were moved to Omaha. "Tom" Byrne expects to take a hand la a bond sal shortly. He is looking the ground over now. LU Wakeley also walks up and down Farnam street In preference to riding these fins days. ' Jim Da-hlman made a trip to tbe cow .counties last week. Just to see If It is sny thing Ilk .what he used to know. Louis Nash wants to take Ak-San-Ben to France; says It would., stop , the war quicker than anythln" he knows. Cadet Taylor is back from California for a short stay. He reports the orange grova going finely, but la more interested in a grandson. OMITTED. A convention of landlords and hirria mnA ihm amilrrATa warm gone, the man who now says L'andjord's agents met In Oraa- he hLtes them would wish them back.: ,. , - PRACTICE. : When you see a group ot doc tors with their heads together, don't imagine they are talking war. - Ten to one they afe try ing to depe out' how Arthur Byron got onto so many of the secrets of the profession. ANOTHER. Add street car nuisances: The chump who crosses his legs when he - sits down and sticks on hoof out Into the aisle to he wiped off by the clothes ot his suffering fellow "passengers. yvr. On thing haa been established beyond peradventure of a doubt by tbe trial over at Red Oak, and that Is - the mental caliber of the defendant. y - ha last week and snent much time debating how to get mor out-' of. the tenants. In fact they ga, so busy on this they forgot to say a word as to how-they should go about to do a little something for th m.n , whoss money they take for rent. . OMINOl'S. The holy calm that broods over the rtty hall is too good to be true. Somewhere under A that disguise note w didn't say- "camouflage" there ? smoulders a rumpus of some -kind. It isn't natural for Jo . Hummel and Dan Butler to keep the peace so long. ROAD8. Still the mystery surrounding the paving of the country roads in Douglas county is not cleared up. Some folks ar mean enough to thlnlTth Impregna tion system was not alone ap plied to the Lincoln Highway. However, Judge Redlcks de-1 clsion helped some. NAVY. Omaha's navy still Is safe. Be. yond this we can not go without in a sense violating the volun tary censorship; but we can as- rt,?r redr that the Julius T. 81lber la still doing business Somewhere In Nebraska." , m ENOUGH. In favor ot the school board, it may be .aid that It asktd for enough th Trt Urn. . t