The Omaha Sunday Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 7, 1917.
Comb Honey
By Edwin Black. '
Snthusiasm. .
If we could get all of the enthusi
; ists and phlegmatics together and
iave them "whack up" we would have
:hings about- as v.e wish. There is
nough waste enthusiasm every year
0 harvest Nebraska's corn crop, or
0 float a Liberty bond issue. It may
e. that in the general scheme of
hings the enthusiasts were sent into
he world to hearten the clods of hu
nanity. There is something refresh-
ns now and then in a genuine en
husiast. His phosphorescent facets
;ave a fascination. It he has a steer
ng device attached to his enthusiasm,
ve are all the more drawn to him.
Enthusiasm, is one of the valuable
ssets of life, Usually it indicates
tealth. because the enthusiasm of
outh is a natural expression. En
:hasiasm held in leash is what counts
Runaway horses are enthusiastic and
.o are two bulldogs when they fly at
:ach other. An automobile engine can
tiake a lot of noise, but unless there
s co-ordination between the engine
ind the running gear, you would not
sret verv far.
Reserve enthusiasm, well-directed
rnthusiasm, restrained enthusiasm
"hat is what hits tnc mark and wins
he day.
The genuine brand of enthusiasm
Joes not attract undue attention, nor
loes it Spout like a siphon of carbon
tftd water, nor does it otherwise
orce itself upon your attention. On
1 he contrary, it irradiates a warm
llow which permeates all .within its
adius. Noise is not enthusiasm, nor
s motion enthusiasm, although each,
:arefully -compounded, may bcesscn-
joings and Comings of the LefRng-
wells.;.,:
Mr. Leffiiigwell mixes with the
nadding throng every day and, con
jequently,' negotiates the busy intersections-
'without manifestations of
nueurasthenia. His wife makes occa
sional trips to the business district and
when she does,'. she moves'with cau
tious tread through the maze of traf
fic. ' When they go downtown to
, gether, therjb ensues a conflict of men
tal processes. Leffingwell proceeds on
the theory that if one just goes ahead
in a natural way motorists will not
intervene. Mrs. Leffingwell believes
in letting her conscience be her guide,
when she observes an auto coming
she either makes a dash forward or
retraces her steps backward. This gets
her liege lord confused and leads to
domestic dismay. When he starts
across an intersection with the
has a definite plan of action in his
mind, but not infrequently lie finds
himself being checked before he i
half over, vi'hufl his mind is upset,
he gets confused and harsh words are
exchanged on the public , thorough
fare. . ' '
"If you go straight across without
noticing the automobiles you will not
be in danger. You can cross ninety
nine times out a hundred without be
ing struck or killed if you just don't
notice the automobiles at all and who
wouldn't take one chance in a hun
dred?" sharply retorts Leffingwell. , .
(Jrofe His W of Omaha
Allflie truth and untruth tlnafe fit to know
By A. R. GROH
What Is the Matter? .
We haven't seen Red Oak men
tioned pn the front page for a week.
Seven.' '; '
The numeral seven lias been oil
.to conjure with in the world's his-
Chapter XXXIV More Commerce
So important is commerce to the
growth of a city that this history,
recognizing its importance, will de
vote two chapters to this important
subject. The last chapter treated of
two pioneer stores. This shall throw
light on other early enterprises.
M. Hellman & Co. opened a cloth
itie. furnishing and tailoring business.
Mr. Hellman was an upright mar
who never used profanity.
Megcath & Co. did a big business
with the Mormons, amounting to
more than $1,000,000 a year. A large
part was in ladies' clothing. This is
not strange when we remember that
each Mormon had about a dozen
wives. It was a strange sight to see
one of the ciders come into the store
with his wives. Then would1 start the
selection of dresses. And such a
tumultl If one wife would choose a
dress all the rest would want it. Each
was afraid that the other was going
to get a finer one. , Finally the store
put in a large line of dresses that
were all alike. This made dealing sim
pler and when the. Mormon had
picked out some dress the storekeeper
would fit the whole bunch of wives
with the same thing.
J. II. Lacey and John McCormick
(not the celebrated Irish tenor)
opened a wholesale grocery in 1859.
They did a large trade in crackers,
beans, bacon, Uneeda biscuit and the
like.
Stephens & Wilcox opened a classy
6tore, catering entirely to Indian trade.
It had mahogany counters and the In
dians flocked in from all directions
Sioux, Pawnees, Winnebagoes and
Omahas. Red Cloud, Spotted Tail,
Red Dog, Blue Horse, Big Foot,
Young - Man - Afraid-of-His-Shadow
were well known chiefs who were
among the store's customers. . The
simple- red men of the plains spent
their money freely, and never asked
for credit, which wouldn't have done
them any good anyway,' because they
wouldn't have receivid it. Terms were
spdt cash. The installment business
had not started in those days.
The first fruit stand of which we
have any record was opened by An
tonio Petruchio, a native of "sunny
Italy." He put in .a nice line of
oranges, bananas, apples, pears,
peaches (in season), watermelons,
pineapples, etc. He also installed a
peanut roaster and provided the peo
ple of Omaha with facilities for get
ting fresh roasted peanuts which they
had not been able to do before this.
He also provided pop corn. Also a
side line of chewing gum, peanut bars
and so on. His business filled a long
felt want.
A candy store was established at an
early date by Socrates Amphophu
phopulous, a man who came from
Greece. He was skillful at making the
candies and soon built up a large
business, specializing in- peanut brit
tle, taffy of vanilla, chocolate and
ariy Customers
strawberry flavors, stick candy, hoar
hound, peppermints and "angels' de
light." He also carried , crackajack
and peppermint and blackjack and
tuttifruiti' chewing gum. He also had
a soda fountain where plain sodas
were served at 5 cents and ice cream
sodas and-sundaes at 10 cents each.
This. provided an important addition
to the .city's mercantile establishments.
. Questions on Chapter XXXIV
. 1. What were the shopping troubles
of the Mormons?
2. Name six Indian chiefs who pat
ronized Stephens & Wilcox's store.
3. Who dpened the first fruit stand?
The first can'dy store ?
HoW Omaha. G
Cork Oysiers Too
3ow for o7fu Jve
(So Jfe Came West
for 2clio?G
By A. EDWIN LONG.
He's a corker. He never denied it,
for he was born in Cork, the county
of Cork, Ireland.
Long before David Cole ever sus
pected that he would one day be sup
plying a metropolis and a common
wealth with oysters, he was picking
up oysters for the family stew along
the coast of Ireland.
He was a lad then, a lad who left
the prints of his "bare toes in the sand
at low tide every day while he picked
buckets of oysters. He cared nothing
a)iout oysters, except to gather them,
and sit close to the tabie when theO
stew was served. He knew nothing
about an oyster, except that it could
be found at low tide.
Today he cares a lot about oysters;
for selling and distributing oysters is
one of his chief lines of business.
Yesand he knows more about oys
ters than any other man in the city,
or perhaps in the state. Aside from
knowing how much they are worth,
he knows how they feed, breed, bat
tle with the elements of the deep, de
velop pearls, protect themselves from
the sting of the.fltarfish; and at last
without ,a murmur': or ' squawk yield
Everybody H,as a Hobby! What's Yours?
tory. What. does it hold in store for
Keith Neville?
Please Pass the Opala.
October it the month of opals and
hope. .
"A Pressing Need."
A baggy pair of trousers.
F. E. Sheehan, attorney, has a
hobby. It is adventuring on the wild
and woolly frontier. "Drop that gun I
gritted Cowboy Jim, as the Mexican
was on the point of firing." That's
the kind of stuff Sheehan goes in for.
This fall he was down on the Mexi
can border on a law case involving a
lot of cattle down there on a ranch.
He' rounded 'em up himself with the
assistance of some regular cowboys.
One night, one dark and stormy
night, he became ill. He and a cow
boy, or rather he and another cowboy,
came to a saloon. It was closed, but
Sheehan just had to have some
whisky and peppermint. They pound
ed on the door (presumably with the
butts of their 64-caliber pistols) and
finally a negro came to the door.
"You-all can't coma in," said, the
negro. " j we can't," said
the two cow men, and" pushed the col
ored man aside in regular "Virginian"
fashion. ' Sheehan groped around be
hind the bar and found the whisky
and the peppermint. He mixed him
self a potion, and swallowed it. Then
they left the pay with "the colored,
man and went on their way. This
drastic treatment proved a cure.
He lived the life of the frontier
while he was founding up "them
steers." Over on. the Mexican side
one night they came to a village. But
it vas so full of black-eyed desper
adoes that they wouldn't trust their
lives there in slumbet. So they went
out on" the prairie, spread their
bjankets under the blue canopy of
heaven and slept, y
Some men acquire hobbies in the
natural course of events and others
have them wished onto them. Frank
Roach of the Union Pacific Railroad
company is in the last named class
and he would give a snug sum if he
could shake his hobby. The hobby,
that unsolicited and unsought has
dropped in on Mr. Roach is the travel
hobby.
While Mr. Roach has not kept a
close tab on the miles traveled during
the last six months, he figures that
it runs up into the tens of thousands
and then some for 'good, measure. Due
to the factt hat he carries a pass that
entitles him to ride anywhere and at
any time on Union Pacific trains, Mr.
Roach pays little attention to the
miles that are reeled off,
The travel hobby alighted upon Mr.
Roach about the time that the gov
ernment selected Camp Funston as a
cantonment of the national army. He
was sent down there to note the
progress being made' in getting the
camp ready for the reception of the
soldiers.- His report to the general
passenger office was so satisfactory
that then and there the travel hobby
was wished onto him and since last
spring the advertising duties of Mr.
Roach have been nil. Practically all
the time, night and day, he has been
riding, the trains. In his new. position,
tha has not been designated by a
title, since last May he has been mak
ing Camp Funston at least once a
week and sometimes twice. 1 1 is a
thousand miles to the round trip and
between Omaha and the. camp he has
become so much of. a tripper that he
can name and locate every mile post
on the line.
When not working between Omaha
and Camp Funston, Mr. Roach , is
transferred to the runs between Den
ver any Cheyenne and the' camp. He
goes with all the trains carrying sol
diers to the camp,: and when there are
no soldiers to move he rides supply
trains,' just to see that everything is
moving along ss it should.
With Mr. Rotfch sleeping cars art
looked upon as an unnecessary luxury
and frequently he makes the round
trip between Omaha and Funston.. a
sixty-hour ride,, without going to bed,
or getting any sleep, . side from what
he can steal vwhile riding in a chair
Cftf
No,. Not on Your Life! They're Every One of 'Em
Active Omaha Life Insurance Men Who Will Be .
Easily Recognized by Their Present-Day Pictures
HOW THEY ONCE LOOKED
loiJiiiTii
up their fat bodies, to be served on
the half shell.
At seventeen, he left the Isle of
Green and landed in America. To
visit his brother; he,, went to Chicago.
Tliree years only he stayed there,
and then came west.
No, no, Omaha was not what he
had in mind when he started, but
Omarta was as far as he got.
Why?.
Broke! '
You see, young Davy Cole, like
Davy Crockett, wanted ,to go west
and fight Indians. It was with this in
view that he started west of Chicago.
Of course, he wanted to do more
than fight' Indians.-He wanted to dig
gold in. the Black Hills between
times. But he had" an idea fighting
Indians would be his principal occu
pation, ior Custer had been killed
only a few months before, and pros
pects of getting one's scalp peeled off
were still promising in the Hills.
His railway pass ran out at Omaha,
so he had to grab a job.
He stood on the platform in front
of an old produce commission house
in Omaha, wondering why someone
didn't give him a job. Truckers were
unloading tons of rotten cabbage.
The fellow the cabbage was con
signed to, was cussing the air blue
and shouting that he would not ac
cept the consignment. The commis
sion man was about to hire men to
dump it all in the river.
"Here I believe I can get you the
freight out of that cabbage," yotng
Cole volunteered, as he stepped forward.
The commission merchant looked
at him as if trying to decide whether
he was a porch climber, or plain
burglar.
He took the chance, however; and
in a few minutes Cole had. the cab
bage all piled in a big room, and
had a lot of fellows-tearing the'ont
side rotten leaves -off. A few layers
of tjiese, and there was the white,
clean, firm cabbage.
Then "Cole took carts and peddled
that cabbage over the city. He not
only got the freight out of it, but
a neat little sum besides, he turned
in to his boss.
He had earned his job, ad immedi
ately was put on the force.
In 1879 he worked for the F. C.
Morgan Wholesale Grocery house,
the predecessor of Paxton-Gallagher.
For a year he balanced up their
ledgers, and scrawled figures in their
Journals; and in 1800 he engaged
in the produce business with a part
ner under the name of Fearon & Cole,
Things moved well for him since;
that time, Omaha has Jeen good to
him, as may plainly be seen by a
view of the King-Cole company plant
and the David Cole Creamery com
pany plant. Instead of cutting the
throats cf Indians or hacking gold
nuggets out of the white quartz of
the Black Hills, he is today picking
gold nuggets out of profitable busi
ness in Omaha, and is oe of the real
boosters and public spirited fellows of
the Nebraska metropolis.
Next In This Series "How Omaha Gi.
IS. V. fairish."
The Weekly m
Bumble Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1917.
"QW THEY LOOK NOW ' - ' - - ', " ''"
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J THE BUMBLE BEE.
A. STINOBR, EDITOR. -
Communications on any topte
received,- wlthout. pottage or
fig-nature. Noho, returned. .
'JIp ADS AT ANT PRIC-eI .
' . .ACTION..' ' .-.
Celerity with which the
"muny' coal yard got under
way, once It was set In motion,
must have surprised some folks.
It shows what can be done when
a movement is backed by a
healthy publto sentiment. Also,
It gives an Intimation as to the
value of some statements re
cently made that no coal can
"be secured at the mines.
KING. (
King h'i Is a whale, all right,
and everybody loves him; but
his representative who gets
crowned At the ball each year
is of about as much Importance
as a' groom at a-wedding. It
couldn't go on without him, but
nobody pays any attention to
him. .
RECORD. .
The Omaha ambulance com
pany Is to take . a typewriter
along to war. Johnny Maher
did that back in 18. It Is not
recorded, however, that Oeneral
Grant went where Johnny told
him he might over that same
typewriter.
WELL?
Omaha has the headquarters
of the Union Pacific, but when
the big tlve-mllllon-dollar sub
scription to- the . Liberty . bond
fund Is made) the credit goes
to Vail street.. ..
V . , rLYING,
An aviator is flying . across
Iowa in behalf of prohibition,,
The whole, state has been up In.
the air over that question for
the last fifty years.
COLONEL.
Governor' Neville stood It' as
long as he could, and now Ed
Howard Just has to be governor.
And, gee, bow he 'hates it!'
Bre'r Ernst says he would like
to bear some expression of opin
ion on the school bond Issue, but
he mey be disappointed. Two
million dollars doesn't Interest
the neighbors. . v . ,
That druggist with only 600
gallons -of alcohol In his cellar
was. taking a, long chance on
having to borrow from a neigh
bor. The Commercial club and the
Auto ciub know where they
stand with the county board,
anyhow: -
fa:;cy prices pu
plain grub cause
one l0 d 0utr0ar
Hotel, Dweller Thinks Landlord
Has Ho Notion of What -'-'?
- Vegetables Are; ....
" - Worth. v, ,
A friend q The Bumble ;Bee
(yes,, dear,: we hava .. some
friends) hailed us the other' day
to Inquire If by any process of
reason a ratio could be estab
lished between Hoover -prices
and the figures on a fashionable
hotel's menu card.'
, "I see. potatoes advertised at
45 cents a peck," he explained,
"but last night for dinner I
asked for a baked potato, and
got one about as big as my fist
and cold as charity. The charge
on the bill Was 20 cents.
"Tomatoes are advertised at
25 cents a basket, and I've seen
some fine looking ones offered
by grocers for as low as IS cents
a basket, At thts same meal I
asked for siloed tomatoes, and
got four slices. I piled . the
four together, and they made a
little, over half of one good
tomato, but the item i was set
down on the bill as 26 cents.
"What Is it robbery, piracy,
or Just a plain case of doing- up
a lot of suckers.'
Sadly we referred him to Food
Administrator Wattles.
EQUITATION. . '
Ta gotta give It to Mike
Dempney he certainly knows
how to sit on a horse. Some
of the boys say Mike has that
horse planted on a farm, and
the day before the parade he Is
worked tljl-he drops and then
fed till hercan't hold any more.
But Mike surely sits like a
centaur. , '
rV'Tl'RE.
. Judged b$ .their. present ma
neuvers, quite a number of our
statesmen are taking thought
for the morrow. If Indications
nean anything, the city. primary
ticket next spring will be about
a mile long.
" : SECRET. , . - '
i! Judge Smyth told some stories
'of his life at the farewell -'dinner,
here, hut. nobody heard -lilrn
say anything about the time, he
Introduced Bryan to - the -'-supreme
court of the. ..Catted
States. ' '; i, . " . '
Ther next Installment of the
big bw will be staged at
Alliance. Curtain will ring up
shortly. In the meantime.' tile
Omaha actors are all- practicing
noiseless breathing.
. 1 8Bli8.-- "'''
Nebraska sand hill spuds are
COmlnff to market nffnln - Tint
j. year the single potato is big
enousn to mane a meal for a
family, -v.
OMAHA COPS MAKE
FINE RECORD WITH
CARNIVAL CROWDS
Tea Days of Unwonted Toll and
, ITnasaal Worry Makes '
Them Look like '
Real Heroes.
' . The Bumble Bea wants to
plant a .llttlft praise where praise
1a due, -The
Omaha' policeman-went
.to..bedlastnight suoh of him,
as. was not on "te night shift
or held' for the dog watch dead
tired, and glad that Ak-Sar-Ben
was; over for another year.
For ten days the little Omaha
police force has been doing dou
ble duty, working night and day,
handling the biggest traffic that
ever Jammed . the city streets,
looking after the strangers who
thronged to' the carnival doings,
and keeping the .best of order
with -the least of friction, under
the most trying of circum
stances. And he did it well.
The Omaha policeman ' de
serves a lot of credit fur his
work.
TROUBLE.
One local coal man sas's the
worst part about It Is that to
comply with Dr. Garfield's order
he has to go back to January 1,
1815, and find out his average
cost of coal for the whole year.
And he bought so many cars at
so many , different prices he
doesn't- know Just when he will
get the Job finished.
REMEDY.
- Many a boy and girl were
raised to useful manhood and
womanhood without the inter
vention ,o the. Juvenile court.
The. old fashioned remedy was
hickory or" strap" oil. pronorly
applied, and it usually nr'ai ef4
fectlve. . ;
WORK.
With" the corn crop saved aad
the soldiers well started to War,
and the carnival ended, it looks
like we Will have nothing to
distract our attention for a
while, and so we can all go to
work again and try to catch up.
" - LOSS.
.' John Cutwright Is going to
Wyoming, what for the Lord
nnltf V nyM- Hi i f V. ta .....
! J ' " B Will
leave a gap in Nebraska Jour
nalism, as an eoitor John was
thit hnt iiiHA Af lit. u.i
. . ..." .ciua Ui
j two pair we ever met.
. ,
SPECTACLE.
Sam Morris In his blue uni
form and' white vest, trying to
look dignified and keep the
crowd on Douglas street mov
ing' at the same time.
TnmhAr lu a rtt..v.-. - t
- .........ic u.me
ior a Doouegger. rronouccs 1
yourseii.
IN OUR TOWN.
"Doc" Crummer took In the
dance Friday night.
G. W. Watties 'is home from
Washington for- a epejl.
George West says the partA
was the best Qua ever built. T
Mayor Jltn was the. cynosure
of all eyes Wednesday p. m.
Ben' Baker Is talking of a
visit to Box Butte county soon.
Giff Pinchot stopped off here
last week. He's Interested in
pigs now Instead of the bull
moose.
Norn Mack of Buffalo gave
us the glad hand of greeting last
week. Norm says Omaha cer
tainly does look good.
Charley Lobeek slipped In to
see the folks during the carni
val, and rest up for another lone
pull tt his Washington Job.
, . ODOR,
Just as the scent of tuo rosea
lingers around the shattered
vase, m does the- odor of ths
il of Joy cling to its receptacle
Therefore a surreptitious sales
ma ii got arrested because he
neglected to carefully rinse the
glawss in which he doled out
the portions of the forbidden
fluid. Our sleuths are certalnlj
getting snoopy.
SIBMERGLD.
Gus Renze will now disappear,
and hibernate for a period We
have no definite information as
,m-3.hS. T. 6 vhe wi" g0 t0 hole
up this time, hut tn the past he
haa sought San Francisco, Of
cW lhe-6 ther places
SAD,
About the saddest sight noted.
,, . .? vras on "hibltlou
for ai,l!- on Tl ur,df.y forenoon.
A lone horse was parked In ths
middle of a block-long string
of autos on Seventeenth. He
showed tis corruw plainly.
NKXT.
ih mi show comes ceu
month. Nebraska Teachers' as
sociation, you know, and nothing
beats the srhooima'am '"as tjhe
real thing.
ORtiAMZE,
A Society of Kx-ftings might
be a nifty attie adjunct to Ak-Sar-neu.
Enough of them pres- '
ent to form a quorum.
AGAIN.
'he Hlrld Whlrld has pob-
wouldn't have printed a year
eo ct any price.
t'NANIMOCS. I
All in favor of the weather
raaa say "aye."