The Omaha Sunday
Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER A, 1917.
Comb Honey
By EDWARD BLACK.
Home Life of the Leffingwells. -
"Henry Lcffingwell, what, on earth
ire you doing with those mousetraps?"
asked Mrs. Leffingwell of the man
whose name she had taken for better
or for worse
"I am adjusting those rodent snares
so that you won't be everlastingly
scolding because there are mice in
the house. Didn't you tell me to set
those traps, didn't you tell me you
couldn't set them yourself, and that
if I wouldn't do it, you would call
in the neighbors and tell them what
a shiftless helpmate I was?"
"What I want to know is, what are
you baiting the traps with?" she
added. ',. '
"I am putting bread on them. I
suppose yor would put cheese on
them, cecause all your,life you have
believed that nothing but cheese
would entice the mice. That's where
I show my ingenuity. The old order
thangeth as. they say. I am a food
conservationist Cheese, you know,
costs much more than bread, then why
feed cheese to mice when you can
serve them bread? In these days we
ideas. No more cheese for mice in
this house," continued the lyd and
master of the Leffingwell manors '
He Knows. ' . .
An Omaha mail carrier tarried a
few minutes the other dav to con
verse with a man who asked him to
si en a food conservation pledge card,
"I just want to jsay that a mail carrier
does not have to be urced to con
serve food. Our maximum pay is $100
a month and the carrier who has a
family to support does not indulge
in riotous living. I am receiving the
same pay I received 15 years ago, and
you know how living expenses have
been increased. My bank account is
dimishinjy. We are not allowed to de
mand a raise: it requires an act of
congress. . We have been waiting
three years already for a raise."
Studies in Facial Expression. -
Two women dancing together.
When two motorists collide and
then face each other.
When a woman discovers her first
gray hair.
Willie having a tooth pulled.
- Dad waiting for ma to. get ready
for the theater. , - - '
A woman viewing her neighbor's
new hat. ... '.v ; ., ': ,
A man trying to appear pleased
while waiting outside of a store for
his wife. ' ,
A girl looking at another girl who
has won her beau. ,
The Fourth Estate. ( t ( , ,
We pause a minute to say good-bye
to Faith Lee Hoel, who passed away
last week into the "great adventure."
Monroe Reeves says; "accuracy,
speed, accuracy." ' ' 'v U
Russell Phelps. believes tfce horse
racing season is over. v .y, -
A. Edwin Long; says. camouflage
makes fine breakfast food. , . :
Heard En Passant ' " ' ";""
"Say, Ruth, do; you .know-that I
fcave a new .blfth'&ffltfwT?Y'
"Drop the stickle in the box, please."
"l was reading a paper last-night
that marriage adds five years io the
life of an average man and four years
to the average woman."
Tireless Man.
The oricinal tireless man hat been
discovered. His name is F. O. Elli
son and he is known as commercial
agent for the Nebraska Telephone
company. He claims that he has never
experienced the 1 common feeling of
being tired and also claims that he
Grofe Sirfory of Omaha
Allflte Imtti ancl untruth llnafe fit lo know
. By A. R.GROH ." -,
Chapter XXXVIII Modern Omaha, i paniment of much merriment and with
laana
cexas Trained, Jfi? Comes
to 3Yead a (reeat rater-
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This monumental history has now
shown the reader and student how
Omaha developed to its present size
from nothing. Today, what do we
find? We find that there are only 32
cities in the whole country that are
larger than Omaha.
We have mnurnciable "skyscrapers
as the fellow called them. The peo
ple in the upper stories of these mam-
. . r t
motn ouuaings get pienty oi iresn air.
Each building has several elevators,
so that the people do not have to walk
up and down, which would be intoler
able, especially if one were going up
to the 17th ftory or down from the
same.
The wholesale district is filled with
largex buildings where many people
find employment. Little did the pio
neers dream of such a state of affairs.
We point with pride to our magnifi
cent public buildings, the court house,
postoffice, city hall, public library and
city jail. The last mentioned is not
so magnificent, but a new one is now
being planned which will add to the
beauty of the city and make the pris
oners more comfortable. - Also will
have wash rooms, billiard parlors,
checker games, reading room, etc.,
where our policemen can find recrea
tion in their leisure moments and cul
tivate their minds.
..Omaha is second to none in her
grand parades and a grand carnival
that lasts a week or ten days and
where all may enter the gutes for the
small sum of 10 cents and see all
kinds of wonders and things, includ
ing Dolleta (the smallest human
mother), the tattooed man, man with
the elastic skin, etc., and enjoy the
merry-go-round and many other
pleasures. Nothing of this sort was
dreamed of by the early pioneers, and
still less dreamed of by the noble
red men of the plains.
Omaha has higher buildings than
London and more railroads running
into it than New York City.
The next chapter will draw this
great history to a conclusion with a
rm " .
JSi U it from vs to boast. &uf-.
school system and her fine churches
Shoe-shining parlors, barber shops
and the like are plentiful ami there is
no need tor a man to go around took
insr shabby.' . ,
.:. Many conventions meet here every
year. In fact, Omaha has gained
the name of the convention city.
When they come one of the pleasing
features is that they get their name
on the "welcome arch. .
Automobiles buw everywhere, es
pecially, on s the boulevard' and on
Farnam street. The humble "flivver"
is here and the mighty 12-cylinder
cars, taking our citizens hither and
thither on pleasure bent or on basi
ness. ' i
. The-Ak-Sar-Ben must not' be for
gotten, for has it not added much to
the gayety and pleasure of the city
and all the surrounding country for
hundreds of miles when, in the glad
some fall, the new king, enters his
kingdom .of Quivers, to .the accom
has beenVcjive atl'of his life. "I never
had that tired feeling which I, hear
f muh , abou y said .Mr,?llisftn;
Food Consemtiohists. -k-U .
"T....L Cnfx Anlyl aa1 n -.T-faf
Mis wne couia eat no lean; .
So betwixt them both. '
They cleared the cloth end licked
the ptatter clean."
Do You Remember.
vThe days when firemen wore red
flannel shirts? ,
Her Master's Voice: v
. "Where are my slippers?"
6e
Ittdescrtba
few appropriate remarks by the his
torian, such as are found at the con
elusion of Gibbon's "History of the
Roman Empire and other notable
histories.
fjuestions on Chapter XXXVIII.
, In what is Omaha second to
none?
2. To what can we point with
pride?
j. Describe the welcome arcn.
C5l I W
$y A. EDWIN LONG.
Though reared in Texas, W. A.
Fraser lays no claims to having been
a cowboy. s '
Still he has seen gun play running
high, wide and handsome, and once or
twice he became dangerously near
being a party to the activity in Dallas.
"In the early days I stayed at a
little hotel in Dallas, when Dallas was
a little frontier town," said Mr. Fras
er. "Across the street from the ho-
Their Hobbies! What's Yours?
Bible study and base ball, they don't
sound like they belonged together ex
actly, and yet both are hobbies of
John Lewis. Base .ball has been dis
carded so far as attending games is
concerned,. for Lewis says he dares
not trust himself to go to a single
game throughout the summer lest the
old fever come back on him and drag
him to the games every day to the
neglect of his insurance business. The
other hobby, Bible study, however, he
is able to humor a little more, for he
can do that in the evening. He sits
up late at night studying the Bible
and the history contemporaneous with
important Biblical . events. He says
whether a fellow is intensely religious
or not, this is a tremendously interest
ing field in which to read, just for
pleasure and reflection.; ..-...(':
"How doth the little, busy bee?"
asked Jese P. Palmer, 7
l ''You 'see,, he went, on Joexplaln,
"bees are my hobby. "When"! was a
hoy I enjoyed watching he little bees
flying .hither 1 and thither, ' tarrying
honey to their hive and -1 always
looked to The bee as the exemplar of
industry and thrift. Now that I have
arrived at man's estate, I make bees
my hobby. It is a profitable and in
teresting hffbby and in these days of
sugar scarcity I feel doubly repaid
for my efforts. 1
"Did you ever stop to observe the
little busy bees in a clover patch or
in a flower garden? It not, you
should. It would inspire you to
greater deeds, because if the tiny little
bee can do so much and never com
plain, what should we do?
"Bee slackers are known as drones.
I have observed the bee workers kill
the drones. There is no place in the
economy of thinps for drones. These
drones enjoy baskinjr in the summer
sunshine and then when winter's chilly
blasts come, they expect they will
share the fruits which have been
stcred away by the bee food conser
vationists. Bees are natural food con
servationists; They make hay while
the" sun is shining.
"But speaking about hobbies, there
is none to compare with the hobby of
bee-keeping. It has a fascination all
its own." "
Charles E. Black, "Charlie Black"
for short, has a hobby. But he.doesn't
ride it. The point with Charlie is to
avoid tiding if possible. "Say! That
fellow drove me ; from ; Desmoins,
Ioway,' in four flat, and right there is
where .1 quit,?says' Charlie. "We
went sixty-five miles per hour most
of the way. Never, a-gain Hereafter
I. tell these speed fiends, 'Wait a min
ute. ' Here's., where, I get but and
walk.'"'Thus run Charlie's sentiments
on the' subject of taking a speedy'ride
in a maniacal friend's suicide machine.
His hobby. Is throwing. coldt water on
speed fiends anil putting the wet blan
ket on' the fellows who "burn up the
road.H He claims that, contrary to
general expectations, he is not as
mad as the proverbial hatter, but just
the reverse, and indeed a very sane
and sensible man, if not the only one
among his auto-driving acquaintances.
Did You Smoke Out, These Faces? They Are
All Well -Known Omaha Retail Cigar Men
HOW ' THEY ONCE LOOKED
HOW THEY LOOK NOW
tel was a saloon and gambling housep
known as the MosS Rose,' and be
lieve me if we didn't hear a shooting
across the way there at night we
couldn't go to sleep, so regular was
the occurrence." ,
Fraser butted into a political argu
ment on the streets there one day to
defend a friend and was challenged
to a duel. .
"Go get your medicine ready, and
I'll mee,t you op the next corner," said
Fraser. 7 . ..
At Fraser's back stood one Jack
Duncan, ah outlaw,, paroled from the
penitentiary. Duncan had a ilver
tube protruding from his throat,; just
above the collar, where a bullet had
entered when he was captured years
before. When the outlaw wanted to
talk he had to put his thumb on the
opening in the silver tube to shut off
his breathing there, in order that he
might force his breath through his
mouth and talk.
When Fraser called the bluff of the
bad men, Duncan edged close to
Fraser's-back, and, pressing his thumb
to the silver tube at his throat, he
said: "Stay "with 'em, Fraser; I'm
right with you " '
This aave Fraser new courage and
he walked across the street to meet
the gun men at the appointed spot.
Duncan followed leisurely several
paces' behind.
Soon the toughs appeared a half
block away and paused a moment in
the street.
Fraser cautiously stepped to one
side to wake sure that Duncan might
have a clean sweep if the artillery
should open. .'
At the-same iime i he glanced
furtively at Duncan to see if the old
outlaw was, prepared. To his: dis
tress he 'noticed Duncan with f the
most "amazing unconcern, scratching
his left shoulder under his coat.
But the bad men, after a short con
ference, turned and went away with
out opening the fight.
You are certainly a tour-Husher,
said Fraser to Duncan, after they had
gone. "Here you were standing just
waiting: to see me shot,-and you
staring around at the buildings and
scratching your shoulder." ' j.-
Duncan put his thumb t the stiver
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tube in his throat and spoke huskily.
"Scratching my shoulder, h 1," and
he turned back the left breast of his
coat to reveal a big six-shooter
strapped under his armpit.
Ever since Fraser was born in
Aberdeen, Scotland, his father had
an ambition to make a lawyer of him.
But when the lad was 5 years old the
family crossed the sea, and settled in
La Mar county, Texas.
The boy tramped a mile and a half
to country school and at 18 went to
commercial college in Dallas. He
worked at stenography a short time
in a general commission house in Dal
las, then read law a few years in a
law office, but quit that for the study
of electrical engineering.
He went into the Dallas Electrical
Supply and Construction, company
and after a time became manager
and part owner.
Nextjie was made electrical super
intendient of the city of Dallas,
Next he sat in the city council, right
under, the muzzle of a big rifle-which
one of the councilmen carried to all.
meetings. Some bad man had sworn
to kill old Councilman Kendall, so
the old man carried his rifle with him
on the streetSj to the postoffice and
even 'to council meetings.
Once Frazer's business took him
out for a long horseback ride "across
a ldnesome sandy irail, Two frontiers
men leaped from the sagebrush on
either side of the road and; halted
him with big pistols. Up went his
hands. When 'he identified himself,
they explained he was not their man.
They were rangers looking for an out
law whom they were sent to arrest
They had been lying 36 hours in the
sand and sagebrush. -' Fraser fra
ternized with them freely after they
had lowered their pistols, and to
gether the three took some target
practice for a few moments, compar
ing guns, and making life wretched
for the prairie flogs.
It was in 1897 he first became in
terested in the Woodmen of the
World. He was soon elected -state
secretary in Texas. Four years later
he was made head counsel for Texas.
Then at the following national con
vention he was made a, member of the
board of , managers, sovereign camp,
which is the camp with, headquarters
at Omaha. Next he - was made
sovereign advisor, or vice president,
and soon succeeded tothe presidency,
or position of sovereign commander,
at the death of J. C. Root a few; years
ago.
Thus Omaha took him from Dallas,
or rather from the exclusive resi
dential suburb known as Highland
Park, of which suburb he was mayor,
and brought him here to be head of
a fraternal insurance organization of
1,000,000 members, said to the largest
fraternal insurance concern in the
world.
Omaha dragged him away from his
palatial residence in beautiful High
land Park, and all the beauty and
prosperity left behind, this Texan is
not sorry he ljas been boosted to Ne
braska's chief 'city.' - ' .
Next la Thli Serie How Omaha Got B.
C. Howe. -y -
The Weekly
m Bumble Bee
OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1917.
, THE BUMBLE BEE.
A STINGER, EDITOR.
. Communications on any toplo
received, without pottage v or
signature. None returned.
NO ADS AT ANT PRICE.
WARNING.
- We want to warn a certain
limb ot the law who has long
posed as an upltfter, a bull
mooter, and a ripsnorter when It
came to reform that it we catch
him again trying to swindle a
poor, hard-working cigar dealer
out of hie profts by shaking dice,
we're going to name him right
out In meetin'. In this ease he
lost, so he's punished enough; It
cost him a nickel. ,
WHY?
Why Is It farmers within a
few miles of Omaha give away
good apples, while farmers In
-Washington, Idaho and Oregon
can find ready sale here for
their product at fsncn wlces?
And this when penologists all
admit that the Nebraska apple
'is the peer of any raised, and
-that our Jonathan excels any
In the world. Some hokum
about this skookum thing.
V SAFE.
For fear they might ftverlook
the date.. Omaha tobacconlsis
jus(beat the government to It,
and began collecting the tax two
days ahead of time Just to get
their hand In. maybe. Uncle
Sam ought to figure out a way
to make them come across.
'V.. BCN. '
Now they're talking of Hank
Dunn running for commissioner.
All right, but Hank doesn't run
for anything or anybody. ' He
might sing his way into office,
but he'd never run for It.
How sorry do you feel for a
fellow who loses his roll betting
on what he thinks la a sure
thing? ; Wa thought so.
John O. Telser hasn't declared
himself yet. But he's a resident
of Omaha now, and always can
. be depended upon,
Come Across With Your War Tax;
U nele Sam Enlists Even Pennies;
Kick In Order Wherever You Go
' Kick In! . ,
Nope, this Isn't the play that
run all week at the Brandels,
although that got considerable
attention. , -
It Is Uncle Sam's Invitation to
his nephews and nieces, and the
whale caboodle of those who
dwell under his indly sway. It
means come across, for the dear
old fellow needs the money now,
just like the man In Texas need
ed the. gun.
He Is mild enough about it,
too. For most of us he propose
.to take It In little dribs, a dime
here, a panny there, and on such
stuff as we well ran afford to
stand a little taxation. Luxuries
and extras of various kinds are
serving to camouflage the im
post, and most of the contribu
tion is extracted from the ulti
mate consumer so painlessly he
doesn't know It.
The one cause for complaint Is
that some of .the patriotic per
sons who peddle little stuff have
found it necessary to add the
tax and a little bit more to the
price .of the articles, so that
the buyer not only does his bit
by Uncle Sam, but also adds to
the accumulation of the retailer.
We have Herb Hoover's word for
It, reiterated by Messrs. Wattles
and Kennedy, who are his local
agents, that . the profiteers are
to be attended to In good season.
The average cltisen doesn't at
all mind paying his share of the
war bill , on tho contrary, most
of them are proud to chip In and
help the government In its need,
feeling that anything that will
aid . in licking the kaiser Is
money well spent. But It would
not make them f.el any worse If
they could see a few profiteers
playing checkers, with their
noses while the licking Is in
progress.
:
- III NGRY.
Omaha, Oct. SI. To the Ed
itor of The Bumble Bee: Any
body can sea from the published
photographs of Herbert Hoover
that he is not observing meat
less and heatlesg days.-In other
words, that he does not practice
what he preaches.
My advice is that you begin
to run some cadaverous-looking
photographs over the name Her
bert Hoover. Mr. Wattles, the
food controller, looks a good deal
more as though he practiced
what he preaches. A good face
to run would be Frank Judson'a.
He looks as though he had not
had enough to eat for a long
time. v ' UX.
f.
PUD.
. Contraband booze goes to the
army, showing the soldiers are
of soma service.
The coal man seems to be able
to stand all the regulation - so
far. - -
V - ' v - ' i
Mayor Jim hasn't said a word
about that army Job.
Red Croasara are soma yarners
a well as knitters. , ,..v
- This will be Vie Parrtsh'a busy
. week. '
record:
Leo Stevens has hung up an
other record. He Is the only
living white man In captivity,
who ran -a foot rare with a va
grant balloon and brought it
back to' earth and reason.
They're pulling some great stuff
at Fort j)maha these days. -
. 4 CINCH.;" y'",',
. The visitor who comes to
town and fills his ' hide with
home-made hootch need not be
surprised when - he wakes up
with a headache and a void
where ho had planted his bank
roll. Ifi a- cinch. -'
' i' " MYStERT. "'
- That hunch over at t court
house manages to stay under a
long time. They must have
soma secret 1 means of getting
aHrv . ..-'
v v - source,
- The Woodmen circle feea ena
bled -several - lawyers tft buy
goodly bunches of Liberty bonds.
Who win furnish the money for
the next drive? '. -i
BIDE. , v
Iletary club suggestion to au
tomobilists. that they give the
soldier boys a ride when they
get a chance is a good one. We
know a man who has made a
practice of .this for monthg.
Millard Robertson has played
host to many a lad In khaki on
a Joy ride, and still Is doing It.
Let a lot of good follows like
him join In this service and
the soldiers will always have a
warm place in their hraru for
Omaha.
SEATS.
"B-r-r-r."
"Is this the Boyd?"
"Yes."
"What have you In the way of
seats?"
"Posts."
And Harry Ceckerill went
bnak to figuring up his schedule
of war taxes, while Agnrs Sav
age laughed her silvery laugh.1 -
KI BE. , .
. "f don't" try .my cases In' the
newspapers." said our old friend
Ben Baker, when asked what he
might do about an embarrassing
development. Ot course he
doesnt. nor does any other
lawyer when It doesn't suit his
purpose! - ' -r
iti OUR. TOWN.
Colonel Luesaler had the .fires
started in the street cars Mon
day, ,
Vic Parrtsh was out of his of.
fice nearly all the time last
week.
Colonel Arthur C. Smith la
still going around on one flat
wheel.
Colonel "BUI" Fraser expects
to send a lot of extra copies of
The Bumble Bee to Texaa today.
Colonel Wayland Magee dots
pot care much If the corn is
husked or not. It was another
girl, but he's mighty proud of It.
Colonel "Tom" Byrne reports
himself all ready for the next
bond drive. Some -of his aides
haven t recovered from the last
one.
Colonel "Bill" Green ia back
from a visit to the homo folks
in Indiana : having hurried
hither to be present at the open,
lng of the Improvement club
season.
Charley Wlthnell is home front
his hunting trip, asserting he
took a shot at a bunch of "lame
ducks" out near Sutherland.
He'll have a lot to practice oa
after next April. -
: WELCOME.
(Contributed.)
. Several thousand state teach
era will tx among us thift week.
If we had 1,600 tongues, wa
wou'.d sing, the praise of the
Nebraska school ma'am; if wa
had 1,00(1 hands, we would ex
tend them all to greet the guid
ing geniui of our young; ideas.
( ASSISTANCE.
Not knocking any knocks on
anybody, we may be permitted
to suy It is no disadvantage to
have a family connection with a
high-up democratic leader whea
it com .'a to getting a commis
sion iu the service.
. sri'cs.
Ther spuga are coming out ot
retirement again, but they'll be
a - lonesome lot' this season.
Christmas giving is going to the
boys in camp and trench, and
that cannot be called useless.
SCGGESTIOX.
- Why doesn't somebody get up
a tag day for Omaha?
V ' HFRRY.
Only six months now till city
election. -Hurry Uj,
It's all right for Hank Dunn
to come home and tell About
Gus Renze shooting at a flying
mallard and hitting a muskrat,
but Just wait till you hear Ous
tell the story. That'll be dif
ferent, already. .
80XO.
She sews a bit. ;
And knitu a bit,
And grieves a little, too.
And bakes a bit, .
And gives a bit.
- To show her heart la true.
She weeps a bit.
And smiles a bit.
Her boy Is there (rand.
Her heart Is brave:
Her all she gave,
Thla mother of th laaaV