THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. JULY 13, 1921.
SLEEPY-TIME TALES
rVTHE TALE OF
CHIRPY
CRICKET
.BY ARTHUR .SCOTT BAILEY
CIIAITF.R IV.
Too Much Music.
It was just beginning to grow
light in the cast when Chirpy Cricket
ci aw led into li is hole in the pasture,
after ins fiddling with his favorite
cousin. Having spent a good deal
of the orevious day in listening to
the humming of the musical Bumble
Bee family, who lived next door to
luni. Chirpy was more than ready to
rot.
All was auiet at that hour of the
morning, except for the creaky fid
dling of a relation of Chirpy s wo
didn't appear to knonw that it was
time to go home. But Chirpy Crick
et didn't mind that. Fiddling never
bothered him.
v He never knew whether he had
fallen asleep or not. He may have
been only day-dreaming. Anyhow,
all at once he noticed a rumbling
sound, which grew louder and loud
er as he listened.
"The're at it again 1" Chirpy Crick
et exclaimed. "The Bumble Bee
family have begun their music. I do
hope they aren't going to have
another all-day. party, for I don't
want my rest disturbed."
But he soon found that the Bum
He Bees were not tuning up for
nothing. Before long, they were
humming and buzzing away as if
they hadn't a care in the word.
"I declare," Chirpy cried, at-
"I didn't mean to hurt tjoui?
feelings, Chirpy told him.
though there was no one but him
self to hear "I declare, they're
dancing again! It can't be long
after sunrise, either. And no doubt
they won't stop till sunset."
lie began to feel very much up
set. He could understand why peo
ple should want to make music by
night, and hop about in a lively fash
ion, too. But by day ah! that was
another matter.
Being unable to rest, on account of
the uproar from the Bumble Bees'
house. Chirpy crept out of his door
end stood blinking in the pasture.
Soon lie noticed a plump person
sitting on a head of clover which
tne cows had overiooKea. v-nirpy
couldn't s?e clearly who lie was,
coming up out of the darkness as he
had. But he was glart there was
somebody to talk to, anyhow.
"Cood morning!" he greeted the
pi rsoir on the clover-top, adding in
a loww tone, "Theyy're a queer fam
ilythese Bumble Bees!"
To his great dismay, the person
to whom he had spoken began to
buzz. And leaping nearer him, in
order to see him better, Chirpy
Cricket discovered that he had been
talking to Buster Bumble Bee!
Buster was a blundcrinsr, good-natured
chap. And to Chirpy's relief,
instead-of getting angry he merely
laitfilicd. r
"I didn't mean to hurt your feel
ings." Chirpy told him. "If I'nr dis
agreeable this morning, it's because
I need a good vest. And your fam
ily's humming disturbs inc." .
"Why do you think were queer.'
Buster asked him.
"Don't you call it a bit odd hav
ing a dance, at this time of day?"
"Bless vou! They're not dancing
in tbere!" Buster Bumble Bee
cried, - "That's the workers storing
awav Uhe honey. . They're always
huzzing like that.-,. Perhaps you
didn't know that our honcymakers
can't work without being noisy. To
tell the truth, they wake me every
morniug. . And often I'd rather
sleep."
"Will they keep this racket up all
summer?" Chirpy inquired.
"On all pleasant days!" Buster
Bumble Bee said. '
"Then," said Chirpy Cricket, "I'll
have to move to a quieter neighbor
hood. This humming every day
would .soon drive me frantic."
"I don't blame you." Buster Bum
ble Bee told him. "I've often felt
that way myself."
(Copyright. Grosset & Dunlap.)
Jewel, Flower, Color
Symbols for Today
By MILDRTD MARSHALL.
The ' garnet, today's talismanic
gem. and also the natal stone of
those bom on an anniversary of this
da was believed by the ancients to
be strangely potent in aiding in the
solution of mystery or in aiding its
wearer to decide the best course to
take when in a doubtful situation.
Doubts aroused by friendship were
also solved by it. and it was looked
upon as a help in helping lovers to
straighten out their difficulties.
Today's lucky color is crimson. It
was a custom in Oriental countries
for the high priests to wear crimson
robes on this day, since they believed
that this color gave them mystic
powers.
The camelia, believed to be potent
in bestowing great beauty on women
who wear it. is today's flower.
' (Copyright, lttt, Whwler Syndicate. .Inc.)
Parents' Problems
'.How can children b taught not
to; cry when hurt?
.vLittle boys can be easily taught
iit to cry when hurt by being told
that it is not manly. Small girls are
le.ss open to argument, but they too
respond to an appeal to their brav
ery. If an increase of self-control
is met with an increase of sympathy,
the problem will be the more quickly
solved.
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More Truth
By JAMES J.
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THE BLIND COP
Funny guy, Policeman Casey, he can sec straight through a wall,
An' can spot a prowlin' sneak-thief watchin' out to make a haul.
He can look right round the corner in the middle of the night,
And get on the job like lightnin,' when a roughneck starts a fight.
He seems to be watchin when there's trouble anywhere,
But he never sees us bathin' in the fountain on the square.
Mix-ups do not last a minute, if they're started ori our strett,
When them tough nuts want a riot, they get off o' Casey's beat.
We don't dasst to swipe an orange off a pushcart any more,
Or get rid o' bogus1 quarters in the blind Eyetalian's store.
Casey'd grab us in a minute if we pinched a chunk o coal,
But he never sees us. stripin' to git in cAir swimmin' hole.
When the streets is like an oven in a cellar bakin' shop,
An' a feller keeps on waitin' till he thinks he's goin' to flop,
We sneak down behind the statutes, peel our rags off to the skin,
Wait until there's no one lookin,' but the sparrows, an' git in.
Casey always passes by us half a dozen times a day, , 1
But he's lookin' out for trouble thatymight start across the way.
He's a tough old bird, is Casey"; when a guy starts in a scrap
He is loaded in the wagon with an awfully messy map.
Even kids will holler murder, when he grabs 'ein by the hair
After they've been rollin' ivories underneath the school house stair.
Xothin' that his job is stoppin' ever gits away from him,
But he doesn't ever see us when we strip to take a swim.
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PROVERB.
In our jouney back to prosperity the more waste the less speed.
TOUGH.
The return of Bill Haywood to Leavenworth is going to make impris
onment there unconstitutionally "cruel and unusual" for the rest of the con
victs? A NEW ONE.
We have heard of salting gold mines, but until recent developments
in Mexico we never heard of salting oil wells.
CoDjrigM. 1921. bj The Bell BrndlcaU. lac.
Dog Hill Paragrafs
By George Bingham "
Slim Flinders says in church every
body that has their eyes shut is not
asleep every time, especially about
the time the hat is being passed
around.
The Wild Onion School Teacher,
in his usual helpful talk last Friday
afternoon, in his frank manner ad
mitted that there arc still a lot of
things that he does not know. This
statement came as a clap of thunder
out of a clear sky. .
Frisby Hancock has completed
his moonshine still on Musket Ridge
with the exception of putting up the
smokestack.
Copyright, 1921, George Matthew Adams.
Do You Know the Bible?
(Cover up the answer, read the ques
tions and see it you can answer them.
Then look at the answers to see If you
are right.)
Follow These Questions and An
swers As Arranged by
J. WILSON ROY.
1. Who is called the 'saint of the
Lord?"
2. Where is reference made to the
foreigner?
3. What mighty man of valor-was
thrust out of his father's house be
cause of his illegitimacy?
4? Who were Jannes and Jam
bres? . J ,
5. Unto whom was it promised
that his sons should be kings over
Israel until the fourth generation?
. 6. Who killed Zcchariah, king of
Israel? -
Answers.
1. Aaron. See Psalm cvi. 16. ,
2. Exodus xii. 45.
3. See Judges xi. 1-2,
4. Egyptian magicians who used
their art to deceive Pharaoh. ' See
Exodus vii. 9-13;. 2 Timothy iii. 8.
5. 2 Kings xv, 12.
6. 2 Kings xv. 10.
(Copyright, 1121. Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
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Where It Started
Sandwiches.
This popular form of refreshment
was invented by, and named after
the Earl of Sandwich, about 1871.
The earl was so fond of gambling
that he would not take time off for
his meals, ordering his servants to
give him slices of meat between two
pieces of bread so that he might eat
without leaving the card table.
Copyright, 1921, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.
Downtown Theaters.
Strand Jackie Coogan in "Peck's
Bad Boy."
Rialto Constance Talmadge
"Lessons in Love."
Moon "Wet Gold."
Empress Mary. Miles Mintcr
"All Soul's Eve."
Sun "Blind Wives."
Neighborhood Theaters.
Grand "The Qath."
' After a long term of inactivity
Monroe- Salisbury will star -himself
in a new picture to be produced by
his own company. The play will
have a Spanish setting and Salis
bury's representative is now in Mex
ico gathering data.
Marcia Manon has gone in f6r
equestrian activities. Recently her
husband presented her with a saddle
mount and last week she was one
of the honor guests at a southern
California horse show.
Filmland's latest rumor (is that
Tom loore is leaving Goldwyn to
accept another offer. For several
weeks now he has been in New
York with his wife. Rene Adoree.
and on returning to the coast he is
expected to announce his plans.
At last has David Warfield agreed
to enter the tilms. Metro, through
Marcus Loew, has secured his serv
ices for both "The Music Master"
and "The Return of Peter Grimm."
He is scheduled to work , at the
studios in Hollywood.
No longer will Ann Forrest be a
Lasky luminary. Her contract has
expired and she is joining another
producing '.firm. Her last Lasky
work was; done with James Kirk
wood in "The Great Impersonation'
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Another featured act Is the exclusive sing
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By J. J. MUNDY.
Are You Easily Discouraged?
If you are the easily discouraged
sort do not attempt any really big
undertakings, for you will make a
failure.
No matter what your line of en
deavor in the worth-while things
you are bound to meet opposition,
and discouragement, problems of
which you had not dreamed and at
first consideration they seem unsur
tnountablc. -
If you are unwilling to think
hard and long tenaciously on the
point you wish to bring about, do
not start anything big in scope, be
cause everything worth getting
comes through a lot of thought and
study.'
To the man, or the woman, who
has a big object in life,, a' good ob
jective, a plan for the future with
motive sufficiently high, the most
delightful occupation is constructive
thought and action toward carrying
out the idea to a finish.
Success is a hard road to travel,
but if if is where you want to go,
you won't find it so hard unless you
are easily discouraged.
If you count your discourage
ments, your sacrifices, your self-de
nial as such, you won't make a suc
cess either, for. it takes the attitude
of joy in effort to go over the top
where success is.
Copyright, 1921, International Feature
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WHY
Do QuicksanSs Draw Objects Down?
Everyone who has been to the
seashore is familiar with the sensa
tion which follows when one stands
for some little time on the wet
sand, particularly that portion of it
which is not tightly packed. At first
the foot makes only a slight impres
sion on the sand. Then, as the water
commences to collect, the person,
sinks down little by little, until the
ftet are covered as far as the ankles
and it takes a conscious effort to
withdraw them from the casing of
v;et sand which surrounds them.
Practically the same thing occurs
in what we call "quicksands," al
though here the action is Jar more
rapid because the sand is more
loosely packed and the weight of the
water and the sand combine to pro
duce a sucking effect upon anything
which presses down upon them. A
person who blunders into one of the
sands a sort of natural trap for the
unwary involuntarily presses down
upon the sand under his feet in order
to secure a purchase or a leverage,
but the wet sand opens under him;
almost with the rapidity of water,
and he sinks lurthai and further,
apparently sucked in by the sands,
but really falling through them by
reason of his'own weight. Probably
the most dangerous sands of this
kind in the world are the famous
Goodwin Shoals, off the coast of
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teturn to the open water.
(Copyright, 1921, 'Wheeisr Syndicate, Inc.)
Romance in Origin
Of Superstitions
By H. I. KING.
Snakeskins.
To the. ancients an eel was merely
a water-snake. In fact philologists
derive the word eel primarily from a
Sanskrit word meaning snake. Thus
in superstitions, and' folk-lore eels
and snakes are one.
Here are a few popular supersti
tions regarding snakeskins (or eel
skins,) the localities from which they
are gathered ranging; from Maine to
Virginia and 'Kansas:. An eelskin
worn around the waist will cure or
prevent, cramp and rheumatism.- For
sprains wear such a skin around the
waist. For rheumatism wear one
around the leg. Snakeskins worn
around the wrist or the leg will cure
rheumatism. The -skin of a snake
worn around the waist prevents
backache.- When.you go in swimming-wear
a snakeskin around your
ankle and you "will not have cramps.
A dried snakeskin - stuffed.' into the
ear will cure toothache.
These superstitions are- merely
survivals from the serpentsorship of
our far-off ancestors, a cult which
persists among civilized man today
in the form of these and many ether
current superstitions. The idea of
the curative properties of a snake
skin is inherited directly, it would ap
pear, from the connection of the
snake with Aesculapius, the Greek
god of medicine.
The survival of serpent worship in
the form of popular superstitions
recalls the words of Frazer regard
ing such survivals. He says they
show "the existence of a solid layer
of savagery beneath the surface oi
society, unaffected by the superficial
changes of religion and culture,"
which he regards as "a standing
menace tS civilization," adding . "Ws
seem to' move on athin crust which
may, at any moment, be rent by the
subterranean forces slumbering be
low." , -
Copyright, 1921. hy The McClure News
paper Syndicate.
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Stir Caused by. Prospects
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David City, Neb., July 12. (Spe
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vails in the east part of Butler coun
ty near Abie over the prospects of
striking oil. Parties, who have been
looking over the ground, are satisfied
that oil is there and have been leas
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Farmers near Abie say well water
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the water could not be used, stock
refusing to drink it. In several
cases gas has issued from holes in
the ground and could be ignited. It
is proposed to form a company and
probably put down a test well.
Fire Destroys Garage
Beatrice, Neb., July 12. (Special
Telegram.)i Fire of unknown origin
destroyed the garage of Clarence
Warren of this city, together with
two automobiles. The loss is cov
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Girl Says Mexican
Held Her 2 Weeks
Declares Man Seized Her on
Street and Kept Her in
Darkened Room
Declaring she had been held pris
oner two weeks by Raymond Rol
aro, Mexicas, 2115 North Thirteenth
street, at that address, Anna Avrcla
escaped and caused the arrest of the
man bv a ruse yesterday. -
The "girl was seized by Robaro as
she left work at 114 North Eight
eenth street two weeks ago and
taken to the Mexican's home, where
he kept her in confinement in a
darkend room under the belief that
she had some money, the girl told
police. Shortly before noon yester
day Anna told Robaro she could get
$4 owed her for work at the place
where she says she was kidnaped.
The girl, under threats oi death, she
claims, was permmca oy Kooora to
go to the house, with instructions to
get the money and meet him at the
postoffice. She met him, but with
her was Policeman James Crawford.
When arrested a revolver and
knife were found on Robaro. Craw
ford filed charges against Robaro
and will seek his deportaton to
Mexico.
According to suicide statistics in
the United States the day on which
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