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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1901)
Current Topics SAYiHGS and DOINGS JFbr London9 4? 'Poor, Andrctu Cornctf c's Wife. Mrs. Andrew Carneglo, wlfo of tho groat philanthropist, lina been his ablest helpmeet In all his projects to do good to his follow mon. It was, In fnet, through his boncvolcnt work that Mr. Carncglo mot his wife. Bho was Mint, f-nuio. wiiitnnifl. dntiehtor of California's Hcdtuood Tarfo. Tho state govornmcnt of California has decided very wisely to purchaso tho redwood grove In tho big basin, Santa Crii7, county, nnd has sot asldo $250,000 for that purpose This grovo Is well located for n show placo nnd contains somo magnificent specimens John Whitfield of tho Importing Arm j of tho redwood, ono of which Is moro at wiiiffinM Powers & Co., nnu ano i man twenty reel in aianioter. North and her future apouso becamo ac quainted through n philanthropic plan In which both woro Intorcstou. Miss Whltneld was nn heiress In a small way. Oho poacssscd $00,000, ward in San Matoo county thoro aro forests of n Hlmllar character, and tho work of destruction In that region and In tho region still fnrther north beyond San Francisco Day omphaslzes tho need of Immodlato action to pro vent tho comploto obliteration of n splendid and unlquo possession which should cortalnly bo chorlshcd by tho stato. Edmund Clarence Stcdman. Edmund Clarcnco Stcdman, whom a literary paper has pronouncod tao "surest and sanest critic of poetry now beforo tho public," Is Indisputa bly tho foremost living American poet. Ho began his literary career n3 a ro- portor for tho New York Tribune. Ho had already obtained his dogreo of master from Yalo nnd Dartmouth. For his clotures during 1892 at Columbia that university con ferred upon him Its literary doctor ate, and In tho samo year ho pub lished his ublo nnd analytical work on "Tho Nature nnd Elements of Poetry." Tho lectures at Columbia had been nlready dollvorcd nt Johns Hopkins as tho Initial results of tho TurnbulJ foundation. Mr. Stcdnian's poetry was published nt various times and in various forms between tho years 18G0 nnd 1881. His public Is not so largo in America as It Is in Eng land, owing to the lack of appreciation MRS. ANDREW CARNEGIE. Which sho was using in charltnblo work. Bho had also beauty, good humor and health. Tho king of tho stcol'lndustry had known her slxtosn years boforo her marriage. After that happy event Mr. Carnogio's Immenso for tu no was nt tho disposal of his wlfo for hor benevolent nctlvltlcs, nnd tJioso, though obscured by her hus band's prodigality, havo been, novor tholCHS, usoful and oxtonBlvc. Mr. and Mrs. Carncglo Jinvo ono pretty daughter. Tramp Corporations. A revised corporation law went Into effect In West Virginia a fow days ngo. That stato still hopes to compcto with New Jcrsny In tho business of creating largo corporations for pur poses of Btato revenue. Tho now law places no limit upon tho capitaliza tion of a company, but It requires tho paymont of n llconso feo nnd nn an nual tax. each of which varies from $20 to $1,010 on corporations ranging up to $1,000,000 capitalization, with $50 extra for each ndded million. Tho most undeslrablo featuro of tho law Is found in tho fact that tho stato docs not hold tho corporations it creates to account. It creates thorn nnd turns them looso on othor states. The Baseball Season. Tho nnnunl paroly of tho basoball mnnngors has como to an end In both lenguo'a nnd within a fow dnys tho ardent patrons of tho sport will bo shlvorlngly -watching tho oponlng Hprlng games from tho bleachers. In vlow of tho situation which dovolopod Inst noason, tho oxperlonccs of tho year hIiouUI bo of unuBunl Interest ns In dicating what ia to bo tho status of lionoball in tho future. Two leagues aro again in tho field competing for players, nnd In somo ensco compotlng also for patronage, with conflicting il a ton In tho samo cities. Whother tho Interest in basobnll In theso cities Is to ,wano or lncroaso would scorn to rest largoly upon tho success with which tho managers keep tho clubs In thoHO cities near tho top of tho list Howovor much tho puhllo may hnvo como to regard any ono orgnnlzntlon aa roprcsentutlvo of professional baso ball, tho first consideration will bo tho garao Itself. Whother or not two leagues aro doslrahlo, now that two havo bocn formod lot tho nlm on both nld oa lio to put up tho very best kind of gatno posslblo. Rattling, closely conloslod games will accomplish mora than tho baseball magnates could hopq to achlovo by any amount of diplo matic maneuvering ueroro tho opon lng of tho osason, I l PI m Automatic Gar Ignitsr. Tho Illustration shows an Internal nnd oxtornnl view of tho automatic gas lighter rocently patontod. It Is very slmplo In Its c o nstructlonl being formod of a mlxturo of bone-ash and platinum black. It Is w o 1 1 known that platinum 1) 1 a o k oa- cludoj law quantities of Lights gas without oxygon from match tho air, nnd if a stream of hydrogen bo directed upon tho patlnum tho choral- cal combination of tho two gnsc3 takos pluco with aufllclont energy to ralso tho tompornturo of tho platinum black un til It bocomos red hot, or sufficiently hot to render Incandescent n platinum wlro placed over tho slot of tho gas burner. Formerly theso Igniters havo bocomo incfllclent In a short tlmo, on nccount of tho atoms of ono of tho In gredlent coalescing with thoso of tho othor, when tho atoms nro too closely connected to occludo oxygen at tho or dinary tomporaturo with sufficient ra pidity to heat tho platinum wlro. How- ever, this Inveutcr clnlms to hnvo dis covered a process which will ovorcomo this difficulty. To accomplish this rosult tho bono-nsh Is heated to n high tomporaturo to purify it and is then mixed with wntor nnd platinum black to form a pasto, which Is subjeted to a high degree of heat In n mold of tho required Hhnpo. It Is thon rendy for connection with tho wlro which forms tho Ignltor. EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN. In this country of that refinement of tho poetical nrt of which Mr. Stcd man is a notable exemplar. Handy "Bundle Carrier. ' Horo Is n handy arrangement for tho school children or even oldor students to and from lEchool, and it might nlso bo useful In car rylng o t h or nrtluloH bo sides books. Its principal featuro Is Its slmplo meth od of adjuo'. mont around a packago or pllo of books. Tho dovlco Is mountod on a flat strip of wood, and consists of n metallic hamllo, with a rotary wind ing spool and a long curd. Ono end of tho cord Is afllxod to tho winding spool nnd tho othor ond, after it has bcon passed around tho bundlo, Is lusortcd lu tho apornturo In tho opposlto ond of Alio baso, Tho winding spool Is loos'ly mountod on tho handlo, and Is pro- vuody with a ratchet dovlce, which will lock It whon tho cord Is wound tightly. Boforo finishing tho task tho handlo Is roloaood from tho ond opposlto tho drum, and by turning It partially around,, rowlndlng tho cord n llttlo I furthor and then returning tho hnndlo to Its sockot an extra root la taken In tho cqrd, jwhlch nffords a strong grip on tho bundlo, Was a Staunch Methodist. Rov. Dr. Arthur Edwards, a promt nont flguro In Methodism for twenty years pnat nnd editor of tho North' wosiorn unnstinn Auvocato, dlod at his homo In Chicago tho othor evening. Dr. Edwards had distinguished hlnv boU ob a clorgymnn, soldier and edi tor. Ills best yenrs wero spent ns editor of tho Northwestern Christian Advocnto, In which capacity ho wleldod n wldo and powerful Influonco in tho nffnlrs of tho Methodist Episcopal church and was a potont factor In molding Methodist policy. Ho was a (loop Btudont, and through his early training had n much more Intlmnto knowledge of tho practical nffnlrs of life than tho average clergyman. This Uhe K.aiser in a Shi-Ver, Dread of assassination has unnerved many a chief of stato, but tho fear Homo irritation now shown by tho Gor man omporor was luiriuy to uo ox poctod from a man of his horolc pro tensions. Even if tho nesault which IIP A Tlan to Starve England. A Chicago expert in statistics sets forth tho interesting theory that if England nnd Russia wero to go to war tho most Important battle would bo fought In Chicago. Ho thinks Russia would strlko nt England's weakost point by trying to starve out tho Island nation, and that this woild bo done, not by blockading English ports, but by cornorlng Amorlcan wheat and flour. Tho British get nearly ono-half thoir bread-stuffs from America, and If tho American nnd Russian supply wero suddenly cut oft it might cauao famine prices lu London. Tho statls tlclnn thinks Russia would only havo to send a few skillful agonta to Chi cago and to other grain centers to buy up tho wholo Amorlcan surplus for months nhcad. Ho admits this might run up tho prlco to $1.50 a bushel be foro tho deal could bo completed, but ho thinks Russin could afford to buy 200,000,000 bushols at that rato and to stand tho loss upon It nfter tho clo3o of tho war. Ho thlnkB lnck of food would bring England to tho point of surrender In n few months. Sanduilly an American. Scnor Julio Sangullly, who has sud denly changed front In his nttltudo to ward tho United States, and who now advises that Cuba yield to tho de mands of Congress, la nn old soldier of Cuban revolutions, and ono of tho men whom Spain persecuted most mercilessly during tho long struggle for Independence. When tho last rev olution was threatened Sangullly -was looked upon ua tho probablo lcador ol DR. ARTHUR EDWARDS. gavo htm a bond of sympathy with tho has thrgwnihlm Into ohllls nnd fovor laity, with whom ho was always rod bad benot-n most sinister and dan KOroua charactor It would havo bcon his part to maintain an nppoaranco of solf-polse nnd dignity, and consider ing the nnturo of tho incldout It should havo boon Ignored entirely. A boy ..whining over tho smart of a anow shall Is about as Impresslvo a tlguro ns tn grieved monarch lu his present ular. Becnuso of his abllltv and urasn of affalra ho was chosen to serve as a mombor of tho principal govornlng bodies of tho church. Ills knowl dgo of questions of church history wna pro found. Dr. EdwardH was born nt Nor walk, Ohio, Nov. 211. 1834. Whon ho wna 7 years old his undo, a lako cap tain, adopted him, and ho wont to lira with his fostor father In Michigan. SENOR SANC1UILLY. tho forces In Santa Clara and Matan zas. His reputation for efficiency nnd courage, won In tho formor uprising, moved tho Spanish authorities to ar rest him on tho eve of tho last out beak. He was thrown Into a dungeon nnd wna about to bo tried for treason whon Raymon O. Williams, Amorlcan consul general at Havana, Intcrvonod, and it was ouly after two years ol trial and appeal and retrial that ho was given his freedom. Intorforenco of American authorities was based on Gouornl Sangullly'u American cltlzon ship. The "Disease" of TOrunKonness, Tho Toledo police Judgo who has a sympathy for plain drunks agrees with numerous Bentlmentnllsta and psoudo eclontlsta whon ho says that they nro tho victims of n dlscaso. Dy tho Bamo token nlso It might bo added that gamblers, thlovea and thugs of all descriptions aro llkowlsj unfortunates, laboring under a sovero alcknoss, and wo bellovo that Bomo of tho senti mentalists and psoudo scientists ac cept tho conclusion. Tho art gallery, opened at Whlto- chapcl In London tho othor day, 13 tho lntest foaturo of London's efforts to uplift tho Inhabitants of tho nooror districts of tho metropolis. Wealthy englishmen subscribed $75,000 for tho erection of tho building and main tenance of tho nailery, and tho noor of London will hereafter bo ablo to vlow freo of chargo tho samo pictures exhibited at tho West End galleries. An nrt exhibition on a small scalo has been known to Whltcchnpel slnco 1881, whon tho St. Judo's schoolroom oxlilbltlon was established In tho dis trict. Each of tho exhibitions in St. Judo's was open for Boventeon days, and in lato years tho attendance reached 70,000. No poor pictures wero accepted, tho committee In chargo keeping up the academy standard. Tho St. Judo's exhibitions wero vhlted by great throngs of working men and "Russia's Internal Uroublcs. Tho mystery which cloaks tho move- menta of tho disturbing eoclal and po litical forces In Russia prevents a clear understanding of tho present situation thoro. So far as tho national censors will allow the world to know, tho students of St. Petersburg havo beon making demonstrations of hostility to tho government nro not alono lu their dissatisfaction. Thcro may bo no wide spread and definitely formed nihilistic plot, but public sentiment has been stirred and tho actual attempt on tho life of Constantino Pobyodonostsev, chief curator of tho holy synod, shows tho longths to which the real conspir ators aro willing to go. Baron Eugono Do Hauplck, tho rep resentative of tho czar, who Is Investi gating the oil fields of America and tho Amerlcnn methods of refining crude petroleum, with tho vlow to applying tho Information to tho development of tho Russian fields, In nn Interview in tho Chicago Record says that England is supplying the money with whlcii tno uprising among tho students and worklngmcn is Incited. Ho said: 'Itusslnn correspondents of American and Europenn papers in writing of tho outbreaks aak, 'Whero does tho monoy with which tho leaders of tho riots aro supplied como from?' That question Is not hard to answer. It comes irom London. Tho loaders aro In Englnnd's pay. Sho hna no army to send to China and Is Btlrrlng up trouble In Russia with tho view to tying Russia's hands In tho far east. It la not dim- cult to nlso a disturbance of this kind In Europenn cnpltala If thoso who aro benefited aro willing to pay tho ex pense. England has worked this game more than onco, nnd, with St. Potors- burg In an uproar, sho thinks tho Rus sians will bo unablo to carry out their plans In tho east." women, particularly on ovcnlngs and Sundays, tho Jow3 of tho neighborhood being most strongly represented, and tho popularity of tho gallery encour aged the committee to Btart tho fund for a now building and exhibitions on n larger scale. Tho new building stands on tho main road between tho public library and a public house. In tho academy four Presidents of tho Royal Academy aro represented Reynolds, lelghton, Mll lals, and Poynter and thoro nro somo excellent pictures from the Paris ex hibition. Among theso aro pictures by Constable, Turner, Hogarth, Rnoburn, RubenB, Rossettl, Burne-Jor.os, Alma Tadomn. nnd Watts. Ford Madox Brown Ib represented by about forty pictures and sketches, and all of tho leading English artists nro represented by ono or more pictures. From tho London News. deods from which tho llesh-eating European generally refrains. Professor Hueppo also shows that man has neither tho teeth nor tho dl geatlvc tract of a horbivorous animal.. When ho confines himself to a vegeta ble diet ho is like an overheated boiler. in dangor of explosion from using tho wrong kind of fuel. It Ib practically against Spain eligible to tho presidency was inserted through tho Influonco of the friends of General Gomez. It is nlso well known that leaders who play ed a not very conspicuous part In tiro wnr havo bcrti plotting, for nearly two years, against their old commandcr-ln-chlef. During the war of 1S9G nnd 1807 Go mez was tho real leader of tho Cuban revolutionists. Ho vaa from first to laat tho central flguro in tho campaign agnlnst tho Spaniards. It wns thou bo llovcd that ho wan tho most poplar of Cuban leaders, but at tho closo of tho war, or after tho occupation of tho la land by tho Americans early In 1899, many of tho officers of tho Cuban army orgunlzcd against him. Thoy carried their hostility to such oxtromea that ho threatened to leavo tho Island and roturn to San Domingo. Thon thcro wns a reaction In hla favor, and ho cnterod actively Into tho cam paign that resulted In tho oloctlon of radicals to tho constitutional conven tion. Thoro was bitter opposition to tho clauso making him ollglblo to tho presidency, but his frlonds or support ers carried tho meaauo by a majority of ono. Now General Gomez nayn that tho Insertion of thla clauso or tho discus sion of it was a mistake; that tho adoption of tho clauso leaves Cuba open to a condition of things audi aa prevailed In Mexico in tho days ot Maximilian. Ho followed this by tho declaration that ho does not deslro tho presidency, and will not accept tho office This may ollralnnto Gonoral Gomez from tho presidential contest, but it leaves opon tho door to foreign era moro dangcroua to Cuba than la General Gomez. Tho warning of tho old commaudor-ln-chlef of tho Cuban army la testi mony to tho wisdom ot tho Cuban pol icy formulated by congress, claims the Chicago Inter-Ocean. If Gcnoral Go mez, soldier of fortuuo nud revolution ist as ho is, can ace danger to Cuba In tho constitution framed by tho con vention, tho United States la fully war ranted In tho measures that havo been taken to protect tho Cubans from themselves. -President McK'nlcy's Tour. In about four weeks President Mc Klnlcy will leavo Washington to beglu tho most extensive tour ot tho United StatC3 ovor mado by a president. His plan Is to go first to New Orloana, t nnnrn throuch gulf coast cities west ward to San Francisco, whero ho will Inlfn nfirf in launching tho battleship Ohio. Thon ho will visit Pacific coast cities in Oregon nnd Washington, re turning through Montana, making a trip into tho Yellowstone Park, and go ing to Donvcr and other Rocky moun tain cities. Tho final fltago of tho journey may bo by boat from Duluth to Buffalo, whero tho Pan-American ex position will bo tho attraction. For nearly two months tho executive head . of tho government will bo on tho go, far removed from Washington, yet In con- y stnnt touch with affairs at tho na tional capital. President Washington thought It advlsnble that ho should ac quaint himself as far as posslblo -with tho different sections of tho infant republic. Ono of his trips took up ns much timo ns tho ono President McKlnloy Is going to make, and yet It Thomas Cahlll, who was 90 years old a fow days ago, Is tho oldest mem ber of tho Ancient and Honorable Ar tillery company of Boston. King Alexander, of Servla, Is tho only reigning Eu ropean sovereign without a living heir to the throne. Ho Is tho Inst of tho Obrenovltches nnd has not even n distant cousin to succeed him. Somo Boston mlnistors allow that It wouldn't bo wrong to go to church on Sunday morning and play golf on Sunday af ternoon. This looks liko a radical stop In tho wny of establishing links botween piety and pleasure. Ex. A Mixed Diet th Hcsi Tho vegetarlnns contond that flesh eating is a relic of barbarism, Thoy ndjuro men to conquer their inherited savagery by abstaining from animal food. Thoy arguo for a vcgetablo diet on grounds of economy. Thoy point to j pnrents tho Hindoo sago and tho Chlncso coollo ns proofs that tho highest Intellectual acutcness and the greatest physical on durnnco may exist without flesh food. Yet tho mosses of mankind, unless constrained by povorty, cling to their flesh-pots. Professor Ferdinand Huoppo of Ber llu, ono ot tho most eminent ot living phyelologlBts, In n rocent papur d nU exhaustively with tho vegetarian argu ment. Ho shows that a vegetable dlot docs not necessarily produce a mild and gentlo spirit. Tho rhinoceros nud buffalo nro as ferocious as tho Hon and tiger. Tho rlco-eatlng Chinese nnd tho nbstomlous Hindoo nro guilty of tho most revolting cruelties, especially to- 1rard tho woak. Without scrupo or pity they torture women and children An o p 1 1m i s 1 1 c English physician Bays that modern life ia easier, safer nnd smoother than lifo 100 years ago; that young people aro h o a 1 1 h 1 o r, strongor nnd bet ter grown thnn their great-grand- and that Our Soldier in China. tho complaints of Increasing neurotic GENERAL CHAFFEE, whoso good Judgment and Boldlerly conduct havo won tho ndmlrntlon of tho world. It Is said at Washington thnt tendencies arc, President McKlnloy Intends to bestow hlghor honors In wholly unfounded. tho very near tuturo. Impossible for the vegetarian to both mentally and physically active. If ho uses his muscles in hard work his dl gestlvo system has to deal with such a bulk of food that no energy for moutal exertion Is left. If ho cnts sparingly to keep his brain clear ho has no physi cal strength. Comer and the Cuban Consti tution. It Is woll known thut tho clauso in the Cuban constitution making for eigners who had served In tho war covered only a small part of New Eng land. Washington had to depond On Aorses and his progress was painfully slow. Nothing more strikingly Illus trates tho marvelous changes ot tho Intervening century than a comparison of tho tours of President Washington nnd President McKlnloy. BlinksLucky man. tim Jones. Wlnks-I don't eeo how you make It. Blinks-Why, he took out a life lusuranco policy for $5,000 and died six days beforo the company