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J The Omaha Sunday Bee SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER iy 17. Cow 6 owe IK is- ' if -.-s. e ."ql'JlweUiti) Sketches "N Ju . I tAe Wl lx ' fl 1 M I5k e Poucru Show L J kLJ I Everybody Has a Hobby! Can You Tell What's Yours? Some folks say (hat A. f!. Reeson 'i-t : ui'ts not nave a iioddv. 1 ney are men;. Mr. Person does have a J . l 1 111 -! hobby. Just because his hobby is dif ferent from other folks' hobbies does not make it any less a hobby, he avers with vehemence and avidity. "Wen,-tell us what is Mr. Brecon's hobby?" asks the Innocent Bystander. Rheumatism in his knee! That's his hobby. He thinks it is something of a nobby hobbv. But there is no use beating around the bush about it; Mr. Reeson has a hobby and it is rheuma tism in his knee, lie pets this hobby with as much care as Gould Diet would pet his wild animals in his roo. Rheumatism in the knee, according to j Mr. Beeson, gives one something to think about during leisure moments. ! The hobby of Major Frith of the Array building is traveling. His busi ness ...recruiting for the United, States irtny. The two combine nice ly. It is possible that Major Frith might have selected some other hob by, given his choice. But, being re cruiting officer for Nebraska and western Iowa, which means being on the job in as many different places at once as is humanly possible, there was no choice given. ' Uncle Sam j handed him his hobby and toldJiini to gO lO K. Major Frith goes, six days out of the aeven. He speeds from Des Moines to Hastings, dashes down to Lincoln "and then hies away to Al liance,, where they make soldiers out The Weekly m Bumble Bee THE WEEKLY BUMBLE BEE. A: STINGER, EDITOR. Commaniestiona en any topic received, without posts e or signature. Hons returned. NO ACS AT ANT PRICE. BOGS. Word haa gone forth that it will be impossible to adopt the food admtntatratlon'a suggestion to "keep a hog" la the bsck yard, because there la a city ordinance prohibiting the. pres. enca of "ham trees" within the city limits. This reminds one of the man who was sentenced to be shot at sunrise. Ue said that would, be impossible because he didn't (at up until t o'clock. Half doaen neighbor could easily- feed a porker on their garbage. At the present price of ham and bacon this would be a very cold mine. Pigs, es pecially when kept alone, arc not dirty arrtmals. ro.u What has beco:ne f th . Ity coal yard that started off with such a blare or trumpets: It I that. was mighty good political capi tal. If .the quality of the oa! and the delivery service had been up to standard it might hare served not only to pull hundreds' of poor people through the winter, but also to pull sev eral city commissioner- through the spring election. It'a an old proverb that "you can't get something for nothing; and mightly little) ter sixpence." TAX. Theater ticket ecllciwhad a busy time mskine ehenge htt week, but all report the public, takes the tax In Rood part, (!. fug that every little bit hi-lp. Only two' real kicks are reeis tered. Over at the Strand a customer told B. I. M. Thomas he was a grafter, and one good lady who paid for a couple of seats at. the Boyd threatened to hand Miss Baraga over to the federal authorities tor holding cut the ie per cent NATT. Work. in th Omaha shipyards ta going ahead at high spied, and. our own navy la to be largely Increased 1n preparation for. the spring drive. At least two barges and a skiff will be added. Oh. that Frank Moores : could have lived to sec this day. 1 -. .. . . PENNIES. "Telie care of the pennies and the dollars .will- -take xara of themselves."" says' tha 'proverb. But where la 'a fellow to get the pennies nowadays T They ven give yon postage stamps, for haac This of cowboys, with a little trip to Grain! T. I i .1.. -:.!- i.. 'ri...-. jsiiiiiu un uic siur, iiciwccn J imrs tl.ivs. Thursdays he visits his wife. The chief dilference between him. and the cook is that Thursday is the cook's day olf and it is Major V'rith's day in. He lias traveling reduced to a sci ence.' If be ever wishes to leave 1ie army he can ct a job as routitiK manager in any railroad oflice. He has also the largest speaking ac quaintance with Pullman porters and conductors of any Omahan. A bag always stands packed in Major 1'iith's oflice. When he gets in front a trip he blows info the of fice, grabs a handful of letters and papers sorted out by his says "hello" to his wife secretary. over the. 'phone, exchanges his old bag for the new and is off again. ..Sometimes, if a reporter has luck and is there bright and early Thursday morning, he can see the major and learn. iqv Omaha heads the list in recruiting. '' Other times he has to take Sergeant Han sen's word for it. ' So devoted has Major Frith become to his hobby that he has to tide on the street cars a large part of every Thursday to keep from being restless. He hopes that Santa Claus will bung i,jm a pai kard this vear so he eat, read and sleep on the move. R. M. Switzler is an exemplar of punctuality. Being on time is his hobby and he has found this a profit able hobby. When a small boy his father explained to him the story of OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 2, 1917. WOMEN'S CLOTHES ARE CRITICIZED BY A MAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO Omaha Urn Wlw Far lret maker' Bill Say Charming Beeolt la Wort la the FiVa. HALL AND HOLMES HURL HIDEOUS HEPITHETS IN A HUGE HYMN OF HATE State Capitol Trembles With Regular "Eld" Fight Be. twee a Dignified Men. "Don't you dare to take off those trains without our per mission." said Hall. "We'll take m off without A well-meaning but mis guided person was here a few days ago from San Franrlsco telling us that Omaha women drested too well Son" rysotis neer ""an see any farther than the firt ic nult. They wouM ndvie us to refrain from putting coal un der the boilers bivause they ue up the coal. They never would lc."k beyond and eo tho steam turning the machinery and doing necessary work. Woman la the Inspiration of man. Bhe la put here to be beautiful and attractive to man ao that man will be content with life and so on doing things. When woman become careless in drees, man's In spiration lags and his power of ccomp!t5hment is rorresond ingly Hif. Of cour. cTtravsESne" t? not to l' tolerated in v.ar time. It Is frowned upon fi'ii In peace time. VU't iMns'ia wo men ha'e ma Iwai tt'Jilty of 1 ? our darned old perulion if j we want to," retorted Holmes, j "Just try it an' sn wbat'll j happen." yelled H.ill. j ' Don't you pay Mieh thlnps to mo. Yi'U re not pik enough and 1 won't he insulted by the like! o' you." cried Holmes. "Mebby 1 ain't hip enough, hut the slate o' Nebraska Is and jour dinky little railroad Is nothln' but a conpla streaks o' rust anyway." That sounds like a spat be tween two Final! boys, doesn't it. But It was only a verbal en counter between a Nebraska etat railway commissioner and a man, formerly a district Judge nnd now attorney for the Rock lsl:ml railway. Tho pleaant little nffalr t"o pl.ice vltht'i Th' r--red wal1 of the dlgui'led slate capltol at Lincoln. Omaha women are practical In their expenditures, hut not nlgsardly. When they see a lovely crepe de chine waist that captivates their hearts we hope they will Just go and buy it And when a certain pair of ahoea la absolutely necessary to them happiness, let "em buy them by all means. We don't want - the dear creatures to be going about in ralteo waists and elnCho-per shoes. That would be lalse economy . The Omaha women. Mr. San Fvauci.-.co II ;-re doi.1 more war work than any other wo men vc knew of. Ami they do their vorK well, bcaue they have that feelinsr. Indispensable to a woman, that they are well dressed and good to look upon. MT.l.t OMK. A daughter of Nicholas Ko manoff. lately emperor of Rus sia, is said to have escaped from Siberia and to be on her way to the United States. She knows a good country to flee to. We recommend Mts Ro manoff to come to Nebraska, the best state In the beat country on earth. She might persuade her father to come over here pnd take up a fa mi. In a few yeprs the Romanoff family initrht be wealthy. OIU.IMO.V The Kcv. l.oi tt: J. Keily :i e-riting the story of hhi life and ff hli prosecution for the 'll lisea as murders. I'nless he gets It off the press within a week he Is likely to find a decided dearth of buyers. With his case disposed of. Interest In htm will disappear Ilk th morning dew. BIGHT. That was a great foot ball gam at Crelghton field yester day between the soldier teams from Camps Funston and Dodge. Our sporting editor predicted all alone and was willing to bet his moncv that I'ncla Hani's hoys world win, a ad he was right. Frisco person would do j wen to i:na Boiue tituc. utiu for his efforts. GOOD. A delegation of patrons watted en th proprietor of a Douglaa street eaf and asked as a spe cial favor that he aerv "war bread- every day. Ho had been serving whole wheat muffins on Wednesday. "Wheatless day." and the patrons found them so much better than the white bread th.-it thrty asfced to have them every day. Th wer U teaching us some nitstity good lessons. MODKST. Congressmen Stephens and Ross L. Hammond, who are back frotn the European battle front, disclaim any eredlt for General Byng'a recent thrust ' at CarabraL They modestly slat that this thrust must hav bean hia own Idea. END. Tha Bolshevik! have had an ther week of It In Petrograd Fhat cut them another week nearer their end. All they need la enough rep ard they will bang themselves. the early bird apprehending the worm. He would not go quite so far as to say that he never has been late in his life, hut his record along that line is almost 100 per cent, lie went through the University of Nebraska without one tardy mark, and that refers to attendance at classes. He has car-rietr-this hobby into his daily life. He appears at his olhce on time every morning, is never late at church, train or any other engagement. "If 1 have a hobby, it is being on time. I have found it an interesting hobby and pays dividends as well. I remember winning a sled when 1 was a boy because 1 led the school in punctuality," he replied. If you want to touch the vulnerable spot of Ralph Yeoman, genial mem bership secretary of the local Young Glen's Christian association, drop into his office some afternoon 'and mention fried chicken, AVhetHyott pause'to consider it. tln'i? fad is not so surprising, for Yeoman is a big able-bodied man and declares he puts in most of his leisure time in working tip a fiendish appetite. He has learned to like food well nrenared and regards himself as something of an epicure. Yeoman will, If properly ap proached; stand for an hour discuss ing fijod and culinary processes. His favorite proposition for friendly debate is whether stewed chicken is better than fried. If you want to argue, stand by the quality of the fried variety, and the fun is on. IX OIB TOVTX. l.uclus Fryor will entertain 1,000 soldiers at his grand opera show in the Auditorium this week. Harry Falmer has made a trip to New York City lu connec tlon with business ss a master In chancery. Ha will show the metropolitan lawyers a thing or two about being a master in chancery. Ward Hurgoss has gone Into the stamp collecting business. He's selling stamps for Uncle Sam, 'thrift stamps.'' He might get a few pointers per haps from R. C. Hoyt. clerk of the federal court, who has been a stamp collector for years. Charlie Black, at the Commer cial club, auctioned off boxes for tha Podge-Funston foot ball game. Have Charlie do your auctioning. He gets results. Ourdon W. Wattles, our food dictator. Is back from Wash ington, where he went to relieve the sugar slluation. Thursday aa 'Vcath tla" nt sonic Omaha Iheat-rs for ,lhose who C3me in duiin the ruh hours. I'harglnt; tS.50 for the first year's dues. the "Industrial Workers of the World'' leaders prove that they are the cham pion "workers" of the world. Three weeks from next Tues day will be Christmas. Have; you done your Christmas shop- j ping early? Jamee C Dahlman, our genial mayor, haa returned from Ex celsior Springs (MlssourO, where lie spent a week for hts health. i Viilted p'titfs Marshal l'lynn had ehick m for dinner Thanks jpiiin? tla.. "Chicken 1; pood eiooi;li for anlMx!," s;:.-- Tom. BLANKET. Nebraska wheat fields have been put to bed for the winter under a blanket of 'now. The trouble with them last year was that they slept through the winter without a blanket and froae their toes. They won't do that this winter. OrEB.4. The c rowers and csrklsrs and quackera which have been hold ing sway iu the Auditorium for a week give way to tltu so pranos and tenors and basso pro fundus. TROTSKY. There once was a Russian named Trotsky Who thought he was a sure hot ahouky. ,i But - Lenin and he And the Bolshevik! Soon learned they wer only a blotakr I ctcs of a 'ce sie HOW OMAHA I GOXm-- HIM . Wff' : Lai By A. EDWIN LONG. He was cutting the back ciiclc, do ing the figure "8," and demonstrating the rollicking Dutch roll, all in one moment of mad enthusiasm on his skates, when he struck an air bub ble in the ice. The ice boomed like a distant can non, the thin crust over the bubble splintered and crashed like window panes shivered by the cannon, and young A. 1". Stryker went out of sight. "Ker-diun," went the suir! tit wa ter and kc and sk.ites, as the cur rent of the mighty Mississippi closed oyer his head. That was at Galena, 111., and some decades ago. There was business right then and there for the other boys on the river. And the business was not. that of running home to tell ma. The busi ness was to get a pole and fish out a comrade. These boys never heard of li.idcn Powell. They never heard of service medals of the Boy Scouts, l hey never made dad buy them a 5 scout hat and a scout statl; but they fished Stryker out of the foaming water with a common cottonwood pole. No one celebrated their heroism. No one splashed their . chests with medals. Yet these nameless river lads saved a future executive of one of Omaha's biggest industries. Then they thumped his shoulders all the way home, and boxed his ears soundly to keep him from falling asleep and "rcezing to death in his icy clothing. Stryker's father was alentist and wanted A. F. to be one. He would have him become a dentist or a doctor. But A. F. said "nix." He wanted to be - a merchant The Galena high school and a college at Galena gave him what schooling he has. His heart pounded with vieimine delight when he began to. roll salt barrels and sort prunes in a grocery store at 16. He was a real merchant now, he thought. Father Stryker's heart sank about that time, for he saw his pet ambition to make a doctor of the lad go sham bling aimlessly off into no man's land. The boy thought he was taking a step forward when he went to Sioux Falls, S. D., to work in a grocery store. That was cutting loose from home ties entirely and depending on the monthly pay envelope of the gro- ; Who knewd but lie might still be in j Sioiis F.tlK had he nut known Judge ! Kawcett, later of the supreme bench. I Fawcett was then in Omaha. He was ! a former Galena bov. and knew the trykers well. He wrote young Stryk er that Omaha, and Omaha alone, was the place for him, and ordered him to come at once. It was Thanksgiving day, 1888, that he arrived. He fell into the grocery line again, and worked for the D. M. Steele Wholesale Grocery company two years. In July. 18'D, be appeared in ibe stcck yards in South Omaha. He wore patched uvctalls, whippet! the hogs dp and down the alley,xjuggled bales of hay, tarried baskets of corn, hauled crippled hogs to slaughter, clerked in the offices and at last was picked up by the Illinois Central Rail way Tompany as its live stock agent. He held this job from 1900 until 1906 and became secretary of the South Omaha -Live Stock exchange at that time. The exchange has had a live one from that day. Stryker is one of the real boosters for the Omaha market and when the merits of this live stuck market are called into question, whether in hotel lobby or on the par liamentary tloor, Stryker is ready to tight a duel, not with a six-shooter, but with a bushel of ripe eggs at seven paces. xt In Tills Series How Omaha Cot W, L Bi V Hosford Happiest When Actiiig Host It is the hobby of Willard D. Hos ford to make the implement men who attend the implement convention in Omaha, feel at home in the John Deeie riowvconipttny plant, in which plant, incidentally, Mr. Hosford oc cupies a swivel chair. Hosford invites the implement men to wander all over the huge show room or sample floor of the plant, and stay as long as they like. Then, besides, this year he engaged a ca terer to serve luncheons free of charge to the implement dealers, their wives and sons and daughters, so they did not even have1 to go out into the cold when noon arrived. Plows, grass mowers, seeders and coin planters were pushed aside and a space' was cleared. Here -0 tables were arranged for these luncheons. The caterer. brought no less than IS colored waiters to do the serving. And there, surrounded by shining I new implements of agriculture, from oUO to 400 implement people lunched and chatted while they toyed with the great palms that bent over the t.ibles to give the place an appear ance of a first class hotel dining room. And Hosford was happy as he mingled with these whole-hearted fel lows from out in the state, chatted about the virtue of a certain corn planter, or pointed out the merits of a given landside on yonder plow. Yes, his hobby is to make these peo ple feel at home, and he makes good at it. Who would not feel at home after a roast beef dinner, with coffee, cream and lots of butter, in these days of butter famines and all this topped off with mince pie and cigars with red bands around them? Rooster Beats Cats At Their Own Game All the commission houses in the Pratt street vicinity find it necessary to keep a cat or two to keep down the mice which are brought up from the country in the produce shipments. Down at .the Rappahannock exchange i they have found a substitute in a big Plymouth Rock rooster, which the employes of "the exchange are w illing to pit against any cat in the city as a mouser. Dick, as the rooster is called, has the freedom of the exchange and holds a record of 19 mice killed in one hour. Not only does Dick kill the mice, but he swallows them head first. Dick's mousing abilities were dis covered accidentally. lie tame up from the Rappahannock river in a shipment of chicken? about a year ago and as he seemed to have weath ered the trip baMly was t..kc:i Out ot lhe coop and thrown into a corner to get we'd or die. A day or two later one o! the employee was surprised to set- Dick hopping madly across the lloor in the wake of a sctidilUng mouse. Just before a pile of old crates and safety was reached Dick caught up with Mr. Mouse, gave it several shakes in order to squeeze out all the life and then gulped it down. This was the beginning and every time a mouse was cornered thereafter Dick was thrown on the trail. A year of petting has made Dick t)Uite tame. When he came up from tlie country a ear ago he weighed only three pounds. Now he tips the beam at nine. Not only does Dick cat all mice that are pointed out to him, but he stalks them just like any cat. He has been known to stand patiently for half an hour at a spot until a wary mouse po'..J out its head. Then there was a snap and one less mouse in the world. Baltimore News. AN INNOCENT MISTAKE A sergeant iras drilling n awkward fcQuail. 'CoiiiPdiy! Attrition, cominv; lift ujp jcur J. ft ! lo,' I V. :ra4,t .'Ut in f;c!it vt oui" Ore of the f.iuail li M in1 lnr t uN; by mlsta!u. Tills brought his right-tutu companion's left Iff and his own right Ifg close together. The officer, acting thts. exclaimed angrily: "And who ) that blooming galoot over there holding up both UgiT" Chicago News. By EDWARD BLACK. Home Life of the Lettingwells. The t rttitigvvell Indue ua-i sellln down t"i- the evening. I'"1' lady i i the house had disposed of the usual details following the supper .epail, and had dropped the dish ih-lh wit!, a rcinaik that somebody was coininK when her attention vva attracted t" htr liege-lord, holding a swagger tiek in bis hand. Mr.". l eHingweH's flower oi articulation at lirst rrluerd to (o-ordiiiale with her ineiil.il processes. She stared and glared in statu (jinf until the object ! hn scrutiny vi-italizcd icicles hanging from'the ceiling like stalactites in a cave. He felt as if these pendants ; his imagery were ominous instrument hanging over linn as tile swhhI litm,; over 1 Jannnlt s of old. Willie negotiated a Hohctiidlni. retreat to the baseimnt to repair hi bicyclc, while Mary maintained a discreet silence in irr study-comet Mrs. LcfiingweH regained articular powers v,hieh she exercised in tin manner: "Henrv I.efTmgwcll. vou pictru! k be the chart and compass of tin I ship. Youtcall youiself the taptao i "f the shifi and yu point to vonrse': as the great stone face lo wlinh v. shall turn, tor in-,pifa;io:i and sou' nourishment. And you stand lit: with a swagger stick in your hand, a if you were standing at Armageddon or addressing an Industrial Work ! ers of the World convention. I sup pose you intend to demand ihat yoin wife and children sl.all carry -d ger sticks. I tell you, Captain Henry i l.ettingw ell. you are rocking the bo.n The next thing yuti will he doinw : will be to march up ami down tin street with that stitk just to fan more neighborhood .gossip." ; "Ma, don't hiM up the parade.' : shouted Willie from llie ha-einent. : adding this for the bcnelit of his da'C "Saw I a, here's an old suitcase y can strap to your back." Lcflingwell braced himself for tic occasion. "Yu told me, Madai i l.effingwell, to stop placing un hands in my pockets, because itdid not add dignity to our tamily tret So I have used this swagger sink I add erit du corps to our home and tireside," he began, with a feeling that he was making a Listing im pression. "This swagger stick," he continued, "is merely a symbol cf a great principle; it stands ti.r what we arc going to do in this house. I am going to lead the way to make our home safe for democracy. are going to speed up. We are goinu to have an improved morale in thts home." "My recommendation to you, h" fore you start your new social and domestic program, would be to buy a new carving set. We haven t got a sharp knife iu this house. T in last time we had fowl for dinner you had to get Willie's saw troni the basement. My idea of a domestn program is to have the inateri.il necessities and build from the bot tom up. The trouble with you Ilcury, is that vou try to build frop the top down,'5 retorted -Mrs. Lei ingwell. "I want you to understand that i have a visjoif'as to what should he done in this home and I intend ! see that there are no slackers in ti f Leffingwell domain.'' added the m' with the swagger stick. Mary broke the silence in ti e par. lor by coughing rather sus.uciou .d . the full meaning of which was tin mitted as a cryptic message to lur mother. "Henry Leffiogwrll, I think it wul' improve the morale of this home " you would discontinue snoring in your sleep. You don't know how ii annoys me. 1 really believe we vd. have twin beds in this home il yu don't stop your snoring. It's getting worse. The neighbors a:e talking about it. Mrs. Whatshernanie asked me who was sawing wood over her at 2 o'clock a. m. I can tell you how to improve the morale of this home. You are not the only one who has a vision," concluded Mrs. Letting we H, and Mary coughed again over the top of her book, as if to say. "That wa a knockout, mother: give him another in the same place." Henry Leffingwcll muttered some thing about the limitations of feminine comprehension and then subsided. Did You Ever Return to your home at eventide of a cold day, with your dinner pail swinging at your side, with an appr j tal question mark as 'to what will tite ot tcrocious intensity at-n a men spread upon the lamily board.' And as you open the portals ot the lioiii' nest the face of your wife he .mi. bk'' a welcome arch. Yoii ti.ss t!c ,!m rer pail in a lorner and olt.u tor organs respond to flie redolent e corned beef and cabbage, whereupon your wife says: "Guess what we have for snppd!' High Life. ' " She I have been reading some in teresting information about our avia tors, the eyes of the army. It must be thrilling to soar thousand, of ief above the earth. t He It is a wakeful p-jr-uo, to the least. Hie What kind o! ..,... ns aviators 'usr.' He My dear, tin v list air iidr- Fares to the Fair. .She fl read that women are to i employed as street car conductors.' He "Do you think they woub. misconduct themselves?" She "I should say not They would be fair collectors." He "Probably they would be fa collectors." Objection Sustained. A conscientious objector i. a i" son who objects to eatuik meat Tuesday ami wheat on dne-'l.i (lhursday should be fhirst-day. Dr. Oscar Putt Says: "A lot of loose change will go far ther than a Jot of loose talk in win ning the war." A Riot of Color. A Chinaman, an Indian and a neuo. in a triangular tisric encounter. t. ; boy!) Get This One. Chief Salter says it is all ti!, , keep the home tin-, burning, !! speaking for bini-eli. lie intends 1 continue at the old stand, ctin:i:: i ing the home tire.. Dr. Oscar Putt Remarks: "Some folks with leaping mind br neve tney couia go tntr the to;,." X t -i