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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1901)
THE END OF WINTER l m . I 1 1 j Sad was the story; now fhe book we close To hear fhe blue-bird in the garden eing: 5oon shall TFie heart for- - ef Ihe winters pro5e, L-o$f in the lyric poetry of spring 3ons of fhe Ieave6 thai ruotle on the tree Of fragrant buds, of H05- 50105,53, and flowers: How rich the Sift of mirth and melody -ThevoiGe of April gladdening the hours! APRIL. LJLAAJLJL 14 15 j67 16 J9 20 2 22 23 24 25 26 27 26 29 30 The Taking of Senator Tlaif For so long n tlruc was Thomas Col lier Piatt a power without Influential opponltlon In the counsels of his party In New York city and state that for tnnny years past ho has heon ncceptcd by all savo n few Independents, at Mr. Piatt was a delegate In that con vention, In which It was for n day un decided on which side- tho majority was, but so skillful was his manage ment that he brought the majority over to him and was himself made tho chairman of the convention. Coukllug was Indorsed, the organization 'per petuated In his and I'latt's hands, and g "Russia's War Minister & Rciorts which reach tho United States through Iondon, Berlin and other European capitals nro to tho ef fect that the Russian government Is In a state of panic, nud that the whole administrative machinery has been put In the hands of General Kuropatkln, the nevt winter the legislature re- i the minister of war. The departments elected Conkllng to the senate. In ( of Justice and the Interior, Including 1881 I'latt's election to the senate was dictated by his friend nd partner In politics. Hut then nroHe the auirrel between them nnd President Garfield over the patronage, and, being worst ed In that quarrel, they both resigned from the senate. The partnership between the two men ended when they failed In their endeavors at Albany to be returned to the scats they had haughtily vacated. Mr. Conkllng thenceforward es chewed politics, but Mr. Piatt contin ued to play the game, in 1897 ho hnd Dr. Amtnt "Replies. Tho Rov. Dr. W. 8. Ament of the American board mission at Pekln has furnished to the newspaper correspond ents in the Chinese capital a long In terview embodying his Interpretation of the nets of missionaries before and after the siege of tht legations. Tho statement Is virtually a brief for the defease, bo prominently has the namo of Dr. Ament appeared In the charges of missionary responsibility for tho Boxer outbreak, missionary looting af ter the legations were relieved and missionary demands for revenge upon the guilty Boxers. His account of affairs from the mis sionary's point of view is exceedingly interesting, and although not all of the unpleasant charges are eatlsfuctorily cleared up It must bo admitted that Dr. Ament scores more than once against his critics. He declares that such writers as Henry Norman, Lord Curzon and tho newspaper correspond ents who have generalized In condem nation of missionaries In China have not sought Information from mission ary circles, but rather have sought it in those places most antagonistic to missionaries. The occupancy of houses of Boxer leaders by missionaries nud tho sale of looted goods ho declares was In most Instances with the direct sanction of Minister Conger or Minis ter Macdonald, and tho proceeds wcrf. used for tho support of tho destitute whoso homes and possessions had been destroyed. He denies that extravagant demands for punishment have been made by the missionaries, and argma that such recommendations have been calculated to make for peaco and the future safety of all the people. Rasia,94 JVa-Vy Japan's JVa-Vy. Of all the sea powers Japan Is the weakest, and that, too, after almost every other naval factor Is taken Into account, so that tho number of ves sels, their ago, displacement and arma ment nro Included. Sho ranks seventh whllo Russia ranks third, coming af ter Great Britain and Franco, and pre ceding, besides Japan, tho United States, Germany and Italy. The latest and most exhaustive tables for a general comparison wcro furnlshod last July and August by F. Holt Schooling. They Include, all ves- sols built, building and projected at the tlmo, and omit only ono clement lu tho calculation, namoly, speed. This tho author explained was bocauso of "tho cesontlally different conditions In which the speed trials aro made In various navies." Taking now tho fig uroa for Russia and Japan, wo find tons for Russia nnd 211,000 tons for Japan. Agnln, In considering the class es of boats, It should bo remembered that the large new battleships far out rank all others. Of those Russia has 11 and Japan 6, built or projocted since 1895. pan 314. A table of the quick-firing guns reads: Russia. Japan 8.0-inch 30 0.0-Inch 29G 184 4.7-tnch 08 117 12-noundcr 57 12 flPPBilli n(r-cwj'"oyij:3M' 'rvji' SENATOR THOMAS C. PLATT. ("Dethroned Leader" of the Republi can Party In New York.) the leader of tho party during the re mainder of his natural life. The In dependents have once or twice started a revolt ngalnst his dominance, but without other result than to draw upon themselves still larger measures of his scorn and hatred. They have been constant In bitter censure of hlni and have held hi in up to rldlculo as one of small Intellect nnd narrow In- telllgence, performing political antics before the country and high heaven. Hut all this censure and this rldlculo has been uniformly until now drowned In the louder chorus of adula tion by the faithful. As fi budding politician It was In his favor that his home was In Oswego - In that part of New York state whero ltoscoe Conkllng needed n trusty friend and ally. He was elected in 1S72 and re-elected In 1874 to congress. Mr. Conkllng wns then serving his first term In the senate. In Washington the two men formed an alliance, of fensive and defensive, according to tho teeret terms of which they wcro to endeavor to control the federal pat ronage. All things went smoothly with them till about 1S79, when their enemies made an attempt to take con trol of the republican state convention and set up a new order of proceeding. Charlotte M. yonge Is "Dead. ChMiotto M. Yonge, the noted novel ist, died last week, aged 78. Her ueatn took place at Eldorncld, Otteruonrno. her homo in Winchester. In which she tpent almost all of her lite. Her first success In lettors, which Immediately established her reputation, was '"The Heir of Redclyffc." Miss Yonge's life was quite unevent ful. She was the daughter of a country tho doctrines of what Is caled the high magistrate of Hampshire and her edu cation wns conducted altogether by her parents, her father bolng her principal tutor. She was a most religious wo man and all of her works which are principally In Actional form were the secret police nnd the regular force of gendarmes, mnke reports every hour to the war olllce nnd all measure looking to the snfety of the czaY nnd tho suppression of the conspiracy against the throne nro In the hands of Kuropatkln. Kuropatkln has been min ister of wnr and commnnder of a train ed army of 5,000,000 men since Janu nry 1, 1898. More than thirty years before he first saw active servlco In the nrmy of the czar, and ho was al most continually fighting until ho camo to tlin rhli-f pnmmnnil nt St. Petersburg. himself elected to the United fataics Krom the flrflt hU carcer wufi brilliant, senate. Since that time he has been , Ho wns lonorc,i i,y successive czars, a terror nnd a burden to Mr. MCKinicy and his administration. And now tho supposed Imposslblo has suddenly come to pass. Mr. Piatt Is defied at both Washington and Al bany, and the wholo country resounds with all tho decorations nnd "golden swords" In their gift, and he did great work for the empire In extending Hh boundaries to the cast. He Is now In his 51st year, a man of great physi cal strength and Iron determination ot that when number nnd class alono nro considered tho rating is ns follows: Russia Japan, Battleships 24 Armored cruisers 23 Unprotected cruisers 20 Torpedo' vessols 53 Torpedo boats 180 7 23 13 13 68 Total 300 111 Tho displacement for tho wholo number ot vcsbcIh 1b 512,000 tons fur Russia and 239,000 for Japan, but Rub hIii has a relatlvoly larger number ot old ships, and after allowanco Is mndo for ago nnd deterioration tho JAPANESE WARSHIPS AND SAILO RS. of armament Russia ; Bmall q..f. and machine guns 2.1GS lu tho matter has a dlstlnctton not only over Japan but over all tho other powers. Her ships are tho most numerously armed, but It Is to bo noted also that the ap parent superiority conies from tho ex cessive employment of very small, light, quick-firing nnd machlno guns, Of brcach-loadora Russia has 393, J a 8! flglltlng weight la udjusted to 397,000 ( pan 110; torpedo tubes, Riusln 025, Jn- Totnl 2,589 1.1CS 1 ho total armnmcnt tor tho two nil vies Is: Russia, 3,007; Japan, 1,592 on tho mere presentment of theso figures Russia's advantages seem to be overwhelming, yet tho Japs are great sea fighters and might win out. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. written to enforce, by tho lesson of tho plot, and in n plain and sober manner, tho doctrines of what. Is called tho high church school ot opinion. Many of her books have gone through several edi tions nnd have been reprinted In cheap forms. It was said that out of tho pJrofUs sho received from tho publication of her "Daisy Chain" sho gavo $10,000 for tho establishment of a missionary college at Auckland. New Zealand. She likewise- dovotcd a large portion o tho proceeds of "Tho Heir of Redely ffc" to fitting out tho missionary schooner, Southern Cross, for the use of Bishop Solwyn. Ono of her most Interesting hooks Is a "History of Christian Names and Their Derivation," which was published In 18G3. GOV. R. P. ODELL. (Who Has Overthrown Senator Piatt In New York State.) with tho announcement that tho rule ot "Boss" Piatt Is ended. resents the czar. The church In Rus sia as In England, is part of the state In a sense dlfllcult for Americans to realize, and the spiritual power even more than the sccnlnr Is committed to the Pan-Slavic Idea We arc apt to think of Pan-Slavism as merely a political movement as an attempt to bring under Russian rule the Slavic lands outside the empire Really It Is n great deal more. It is a revolt against the attempt to graft foreign forms of civilization upon Rus sia. It is summed up In Aksakoff'a ramoua, words: "It Is tlmo to go homtf" What Aksakoff meant was tlut It was time for the Slavs to give up trying to imitate foreign Ideas, go back to tho point from which Poter the Great started, and develop a clvlll zatlon strictly and purely Russian. Of course this does not Involve tho dls carding ot foreign Inventions In war and Industry, but It docs mean their adaptation to Russian ways, and not the changing of Russian social Ideas to fit the foreign model To accomplish this dream of Slavic unity it was necessary to repress re ligious dissent, nnd to this work Poble donostseff hns devoted himself. Begin nlng with the exiling of Pashkoff In 1882 for holding Bible meetings among the fashionable people of St. Peters burg, he proceeded, as his power grew, to repression of dlssqnters of all kinds To the southern European and American mind Pobledonostseff ap Dears a Torauemadn, whose work may prove destructive to Russia. Then agnln It may prove Russia's greatest aid In dominating the affairs of the eastern hemisphere. GENERAL KUROPATKIN. will. By descent he is a great noble, but ho hns won his way to tho front by individual merit. "Pan-Slat) ism. l,ngowski, tho provincial official who roceutly attempted to shoot M. Pob ledonostBcff, procurator general of the holy synod of the Russian church, says ho wlBhcd to avonge the excommuul cation of Count Tolstoi. Whether tho would-bo assassin tells the truth or not, ouch attempts as his may bu ex pected whenever tho Russian public mind Is in any way disturbed. For Pobledonostseff Is the embodiment of Russian conservatism on tho religious sldo and h:a policy has mndo him ono of tho most feared men In Russia. M. Pobledonostseff Is a lenrned law ycr nnd was ono of tho late czar's tutors. Ho Is pious, according to tho primitive Idua ot Christianity, and In personal habits Is an ascetic. His taatca led him luto tho ecclesiastical administration of the Into czar mndo him virtually tho oxecutlvo head of tho Christian church In Russia. Slnco tho tlmo of Peter tUa Great tho govern ment ot the Ruastnu orthodox church has been practically vested In n com mission, ou which tho pr curator rep Sanitary Folding "Bed. The ordinary folding bed has proved Itself bo great an attraction to the bed bugs that It Is with difficulty they can be kent out of It, largely because In this class of beds thero are hldlni places which easily escape notice, where the hugs can dwell In safety und from which they can sally forth at night In search of prey. This hns al ways been n good argu ment In favor of tho ordi nary enamol- cd and brass beds ns sup- planters o t tho old wood en kind, and It will apply equally as well to the metallic fold lug bed Illus trated in the cut. Tho bed dlfTci'3 slight ly from tho enameled and brass beds now In use, the Improvement being In the manner of connecting tho side rails nt the head and foot and In the Joints at tho center of the sides, which allow tho bed to be closed Into small com pass. When It Is desired to phut tho bed up tho center Is lifted ut either sldo to a sufllclent height to break tho Joints, when the head and foot aro grasped In tho hands and drawn to gether, ns shown, When the foot has been drawn up to tho head the curtain is drawn around on tho overhead roil and tho bed Is hidden from vlow, To open It again tho foot section Is pulled out a short distance, after tho curtain has been drawn, and tho weight of tho nldou nud mattress will force It luto Its normal position, Consolidating Country Schools. An Interesting experiment Is bolng made in tho country schools ot Iowa. tho rcoult of which will be looked for anxiously by other communities. What the educators hope to accomplish is the abolition of the little white school houses which dot the hills ot that flourishing state. The Idea Is one ot economy, and it would seem that the plan if carried out successfully would result in n great saving to tho tax payers. It has been found that in Iowa ns elsewhere there nr In the country districts too many school buildings nnd teachers for the popu lation and that In many places the cost of educating the pupils was much greater than it should be. As a trial a central school has been built in each of about fifty townships, and all tho little- district schools done away with. Transportation is fur nished for pupils jiving at remote dis tances and the teachers, in reduced numbers, are gathered in the , main school. The cost of transportation Is said to be only $30 a month for each township, which seems a ridiculously small sum, aud the plan has proved so far as the experiment goes a great success. -i1TF Woman -Suffrage Opposers. A bill is before tho legislature of New York giving suffrage to women property owners In towns of tho third class. A deputation ot well-known wonlen from various parts of the stato recently appeared at Albany to protest against it. Among the protesters were Mrs. Richard Watson Glider, Mrs. Ros sltcr Johnson, Mrs. C. G. La Fargo, Mrs. William Putnam. The memorial submitted alleges that the bill wns not asked for by those for whom It is ap parently Intended, but was only an ex pression of the woman suffrage asso ciation, whoso repeated efforts had al ways failed to nrouso much interest among women. A blniilnr bill wns de feated two years ago. Among the facts stated against tht. bill was tho persistent refusal of women to accept municipal suffrage. i Street-Cleaning Cart. In removing tho dirt from asphalt pavement tho laborer walks further to gather tho dirt Into piles than to shov el It from tho street, and much valua ble tlmo Is lost In this way which could bo saved If tho man who collects the rttrt were provided with tho apparatus Illustrated be low. Willi this cart tho laborer never com pelled to re trace his steps to emp ty his shovel, having n res ervoir always at hand In which to dump tho cleanings. Tho shovel portion of the apparatus Is mounted In tilting frames, -with a handle attachod to ono aide. When tho front of tho shovel becomes filled with dirt the handle Is lifted, throwing tho shovel over tho cart and at tho samo tlmo tilting It in tho opposlto direc tion nnd causing the dirt to bo thrown Into tho cart. Tho receiver Is prefor ablu disconnected from tho cart frame and provision Is mndo for removing It to dump tho contents into a collect ing wagon at Intervals. S -a