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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1901)
SAVIMS and DOINGS r WL 1 People rABvenl4L- Ha-Oa Our Engines Failed? The Midland Railway Company ot England ha3 adnilnlotcrcd a cold doucho to our prldo of Industrial con quest by announcing that tho Ameri can locomotives tested hy tho road havo cost from 20 to 25 per cent moro than tho British In fuel, 50 per cent more In oil, nnd CO per cent more in repairs. Against theso fatal defects aro to bo counted only tho trifling off Bets that tho American locomotives woro delivered In a few months In stead of In three years and that their price was less than that of the Brit ish by ?2,000 aplcco. It Is explained that in American railroad practice en gines are mado to bo worked to death and thrown on tho scrap heap. Eng lish locomotives aro expected to becotno holrlooms. llut thoro 13 probably oTnothlng moro than thnt behind tho Midland's figures. In nil neutral mv kts tho American machine give per fect gntlsfaction and aro crowding tho BagJIsh out. That is the case even o the state railroads of Urltlih colo nics. Before our manufacturers nd alt that their products arc failures mm RagHsfe mads they would probably Hk to &e them teted by Amorlcan esptoeers sad firemen. The "SamrocJC Countess. Tfce hoaaUful countess of Llmorlck In wll turned the titlo ot "Tho Sk&M.-o,-): Countess," for, thanks to nZort. one of the British war funis has acquired this spring a sub stantial addition to Its funds owing ta ihe sale of the "dear little shani rotSt" so cleverly organized by tho raiftrefg of Dromore castle. The young cob ntass boforo her marriage MI33 BerVc-IrwIn, the daughter of one of !g Maud's most popular sportsmen, and hrolf, both as n girl and slnco her marriage, ono of the stralghtest rid ers to hounds in tho Emerald Isle early joined tho group of those oner gttlc peeresses who do nil In their power to Improve the lot of their poor er friends nnd neighbors. Tho Hhani rool: League has succeeded beyond tho wildest dreams of its promoters, and during tho days which preceded March COUNTESS OF LIMERICK. 17 Lady Limerick nnd her friend? worked hard all day tying up tiny nosogays of Ireland's national green blossom and dispatching it to all cor ners ot tho world. The JVctv Ejcplosi)e. If tho claims mado by oflkialB of tho war department concerning the ef ficacy of n now explosive are borne out by subsequent tests, tho United Stutca may posbcss a secret which will have important bearing on the inter national politics of tho future. Warships nnd fortlllcntlons which havo heretofore been regarded linpreg itablo will be at tho morcy of Amor lean guns. It has been demonstrated that tho thickest Harvoylzcd armor will not withstand tho now projcctllo wuon mined by ono of tho great guns nnd, what Is moro important, Hint tho explosive with which tho project lb) is loaded will bo discharged Immediately tuo armor Is plorcod. Maxlmite, this now denth-donllng ex plosive, Is called after Mr. Hiram Maxim, Us Inventor. Mr. Maxim is tho luvontor of smokeless powder and has made a specialty of high explo sives. It Is announced by tho olUtlats In chargo of tho tostH which havo been tnndu on tho Sandy Hook proving grounds that tho results far surpass unythlng horotoforo nttnlnod In any country, Exports express the opinion thnt tho building ot battleahlpi Mid fortlflcntloiifl m 11 y bo revolutionized as tho result ot tho discoveries niudo by Mr. Muxlui. To the Girl Leading College. Aim for success. Do nut select n calling which Is beyond you. It la bettor to bu n good houaokoopcr thnn a poor teacher. It is bettor to bo an export stenographer than an luferlor lawyer. It Is better to bo an ofllclent nurso thnn an Inclllclcnt doctor. Per hups tho more ambitious calling will bring a slight notoriety in the begin ulug, Uut If a girl wishes to tnko a Trorthy placo In tho world situ must not follow her bout, she must cousld or whothor sho has strength for tho long, race. Templo Halloy In Woman's Homo Companion. Trcsidcnt of JVeto yorH Central Wliunni Ii. Nov. man, who hai Ju.t actively entered uron tho duties of his now post as president of tho Now York Central nnd Hudson Ulvor rail road, Is, as may easily bo Imagined, ono of tho cleverest nnd most thor oughly trained railroad men In Amer ica. Ho has worked his way up prac tically from tho bottom. It Is moro than thirty years ngo slnco he began his career In his profession as local 1 I'O"'- tmw Mm. WILLIAM H. NEWMAN. ticket agent on the Texas nnd Pacific. In three years ho hnd been promoted to the post of general freight agent, and he was next mado third vice-president. The Chicago and Northwestern offered him a similar post, which ho nt once accepted, and In 1S9G the Great Northern road e'ected him Its second vice-president. Three years ngo ho was elected president of tho Lake Shore, In which position ho was serv ing when called to tho presidency of tho Now York Central. His knowl edge tnkes In nil departments 01 n rnllway. Disadvantages of Co-Education For the great majority of girls over fifteen years of ago a girl's school or college Is much to bo proforrcd, in tho opinion of one person, at least. I can speak only what I think in this connection. I know that ninny of the wisest nnd best men nnd womon will not assent to my reasoning or my con clusons. it should not bo forgotten that the emotional Hfo Is growing In nnd domi nating tho Hfo of nil young creatures. Olrla can think nnd study better nwny from the society of youths of tholr own age than they enn In company with them. To got tho best results from study the mind must be kept a3 free as possible from distractions of on emotionol nature. Tho associa tions ot school Hfo should bo calm, healthful, cheerful and free from all that is exciting or premature of de velopment. The 'flirtations" of school and collego life aro confessed by ov cry one to be out of place and out of time, yet when young men nnd young women are together nothing can pro- vent such epUodes. This ono fact alone tella against "co-education," and so strongly that nothing can entire ly offset it Ada C. Sweet. All Over a Toster. Is It possible to be driven Insane by a poster? This i a question which Is being much debated at present in Kc3 Moines, la. Miss Bertha Atkinson of that city believes that she will go mad If a poster opposite her window Is not removed. So real, so vital, so appalling has becomo her horror of the painted placard that her friends have come to share In tho apprehen slon. Accordingly a protest hns been made to the municipal authorities, and THE OBJECTION ABLE POSTER. tho poster may bo romoved. Mean while Dcs Moluos Is ngltated by in- tonsil feeling, Tho contagion spreads dally. No epidemic ot diseuso, tho authorities uuy, ever spread so rap- Idly. Thoro aro eight submarine cables of over 2,000 miles In length. i.VffedS' ..if m Adamt' "Kidnapped Million' aires." Frederick Upham Adams, tho author of "John Smith, Prosldent," nnd otn- er ttorlos, has Just finished a story that is likely to provo his master olroko ns n writer of splrltod fric tion, and ono that will flrmly fix his status us an exclusively original thorn 1st. It Is onlltled "Tho Kidnapped Millionaires," and lti live hundred pngCB tell tho story of tho kidnaping of certain American millionaires by nn enterprising nowspnpor man who is a monomaniac. It Is a succession of dramatic situations from cover to cover. The charm consists In tho im prcsslvo probability of n plot which at first glanco would seem Impossible. By a natural chain of ovonts thoro Is evolved n situation splendid In tin dramatic intensity ot Its lutorcst Tho rcencs in tho New York newapnper of fice, tho Inception and execution of tho plot to kidnap six great millionaires, tho Wall street panic which followed, tho dismay ot tho magnates when they FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS, Author of "Tho Kidnapped Million aires." found themselves captives on tho high seas, the crulso of "Tho Ohark," tho lnndlng on Soclnl Island, its explor ation, and varied adventures which be fell Pnlmer J. Morton, Andrus Car- mody, John M. Rockwell, Hiram Hav en, R. J. Kent, nnd Simon Pcnco (tho six kidnaped millionaires), tho su perb detective work of tho New York Record and Mr. Bernard Soyraour, tho rcscuo of tho marooned inngnatos and tho subsequent attempt at tholr recap ture, aro but a few of tho lncldonis. Tho first edition which Is out this week Is for 25,000 copies, the largest first edition of tho year. Frightening of Children. Fear Is tho most dreaded "of human sensations, nnd children suffer from It moro keenly than others. Stupid mothers and nurses frighten llttlo chil dren with Ilea nbout bears and boglca and ghosts and pollcomen. In every concelvnblo way fright Is mado tho strongest possiblo factor in child-life. Tho child la told that ho will go to hell If ho tells lies. Ho knows that ho has told lies, and thorctoro concludes thut a horrlblo fate awaits him. Thl3 Is stupid and harmful. He is mado to fear his father by a foolish mother, who threatens whippings when tho father comes homo. Tho whippings nro not always forthcoming. Tho terror is produced none the less. Tho other day In Poughkcopslo, N. Y., 'a child Baw his playmate drown, but gavo no warn ing becauso ho was "afraid to toll. Fear had been implanted In him so thoroughly that his ono Instinct was to avoid troublo for himself. If you havo young puppies or chickens grow ing up that you caro for, you do not allow your children to frighten them. You havo brains enough to know that fright 13 bad for young puppies and young chickens. Why haven't you brains enough to know that It Is bad for your own children? Ex. Uo Tie "RooscVclt's Guest. Among tho guests who will assem ble In Colorado Springs this month for the annual reunion of Roosovolt's Rough Riders will be Miss Dorothy Flynn, tho dashing western girl, whoso father, D. T. Flynn, represents Oklahoma In congress. "Tho Honor- ablo Dot," as sho Is called by her friends and her admirers among those who followed Roosevelt to Cuba, Is sponsor for the Rough Rldors, nnd at tho rounlon many dlnnors nnd dances will bo given for her. Tho vlce-prc3l:lent nnd tho sponsor of his DOROTHY FLYNN. regiment are gitnt frlonds. Recently nt hur Oklahoma homo MUa Flynn, who Is an expert with tho lariat, roped a wolf and sent It to (Oyutor uay. Secretary of tho Interior Hitchcock lins requested Secretary of War Root to send Into the Kiowa, Comnncho nnd Apncho reservations, In tho Indian Territory, n body of United Statc3 troops to clear theso reservations, which aro soon to bo thrown open for settlement of squnttors, or "soonors," ns they aro known on tho frontier. Moro than 1,000 of theso "soonors" havo entered tho Wichita mountains and taken up mineral claims. Tho dis trict, which Is to bo divided Into homesteads of 1G0 acres each, Is In tho Oklahoma country, and Is regarded as tho most dcslrablo farming land In tho southwest. Tho department Is determined that thcro shall be no Injustlco done to tho settlers of this now reservation, and It does not propose that the scenes enact CA.RJEGIB'S CASTLE. Andrew Carnegie Is continuing In Scotland tho munificent generosity to the aid of education ns ho began in tho United States. Wo were told recently of his donation of $500,000 to establish branch libraries In Glasgow upon tho saino plan for which ho gave ?3,000, 000 to Greater Now York. Last week came the iiowb of his gift of $10,000, 000 to establish freo scholarships In tho historic Scotch universities for poor young Scotchmen. Of course, this Is a materialistic ago, nnd no ono, on this Bldo of tho At lantic nt least, pays any attention to superstltltlons. But thero aro folks in Scotland (no Insinuation i3 meant against tho Scotch, but their old le gends havo greater Influence thnn In this now country, especially among tho folk on tho country side) who bellcvo that by theso donations, Andrew Car negie will lift tho curse from Sklbo Castle, tho old cstato which ho has purchased as his homo in tho High lands. Every one north of tho Tweed Is cognizant of tho fact that n blood curdling curso rest3 upon Sklbo Castle, nnd tho Scots nro asking whether this curso will work against tho American owner In the samo way that the curso pronounced against tho third Lord Byron (who mado a drinking cup of tho Bkull of ono of tho old Abbots of Newstead Abbey), continued to blight not only nil tho subsequent owners and occupants of Newstead Abbey, includ ing tho poet Lord Byron, until tho Into Colonel Webb a few years aco found tho long lost drinking cup In an old curiosity shop In London, nnd by re storing It to the Abbot's tomb at Now- Btcad put an end to tho curso that rested on tho placo. Tho ban resting upon Sklbo Castle dates from the early part of tho eight eenth century, when by some foul wrong, tho Grays, who had owned tho enstio for sovernl hundred years, woro deprived ot their ancestral possessions Many-Tongued telephone. Ono of tho most striking inventions recently mado is tho tolegraphono, which mny bo dcscrlbod as a combin ation of telcphono nnd phonograph. It was dovlsed by Mr. Poulsen of Co penhagen, Denmark. Tho telegraphon- Ic distributor, as tho Instrument Is called, enables any ono to send a mcs- Bago to a number of destinations by speaking once. Tho Instrument de pends for Its action upon tho fnct that tho variations of tho magnetic field of nn olcctro-magnot nro so accurately represented by the magnotlzntlon of a steel wlro which Is drnwn through It, that if tho wlro bo again passed through tho Held, currents exactly similar to thoso which reproduced tho magnetization of the wlro nro repro rcpe&rioq M&qntta. mtntUAtnn tcr (it wi by ricrivinq rrqnua, MR. POULSEN'S TELEPHONIC DISTRIBUTOR. ed when Oklahoma wan thrown open tn settlement shall ho repeated. A plan has been devised whoroby ench claimant' will hnvo nn equal chanco with every olhor clnlmnnt, although only a small pcrccntngo of thoso filing claims will secure homesteads, Already tho applications nn fllo exceed by many thousands tho mimbor of trncts of 1(50 acres oach which aro to bo dis posed of to claimants. Tho town of Duncan, 0kln has mado a protest ngnlnst tho location of 20, 000 acres of grazing land directly op posite and adjoining tho military for est reserve, becauso It raises a wall against tho town in communicating with tho new reservation when settled. It 1b claimed that tho land Is too vnlu oblo for pasturage and could be easily settled with a prosperous population, by tho family of Doul. Mlsfortuno overtook tho latter, and slnco thnt tlmo tho curso has been fulfilled In this that no family has possessed -Sklbo for moro than ono generation. It hnB passed through many hands, Including tho Mackays, the Gordons, tho Dempsters and tho Chlmsldes, ill luck pursuing them nil, until tho placo was acquired by Andrew Carnegie, who appnrently Is not superstitious, ns ho assured his tenants nnd neighbors tho other day that ho intended Sklbo to bo tho homo of his family "for many generations." Ho is very popular in tho district by reason of tho money ho has brought Into the country, nnd Is known thcro nn "Sklbo," In the same way as most other territorial magnates aro known SKIBO CASTLE ANDREW duced In tho colls of the magnet. A steel wlro Is wound In spiral grooves, on a rovolvlng non-mngnotlc drum. Upon this wlro rests two poles of an olectro-magnet connected with a mlc rophono transmitter. Any sounds such ns vocal speech, or Instrumental music, actuating tho dlnphram of tho trans mitter, are transferred ns magnet Im pulses to tho olectro-mngnot, which, when tho drum Is sot In motion, at onco communlcntos thorn to tho ro volvlng wlro. Tho two polos of tho magnet gripping tho sides ot tho wlro nro carried along a sliding rod later ally, until tho cud of tho colled wlro is reached. Thereupon a device shunts tho carrier 1. 0., tho traveling electro-magnet on to another median- r. iv n ri Fig. ptrnUnenr ty3ft. which would do business at Duncan. On the other hand n protest has como from Texns becauso tho location of tho lrintn pasture of -100,000 acres on tho Texan boundary Interferes with freo Iiitorcourso of Texas pcoplo with tho now sottkmcnt nnd likewise rears a wall against the pcoplo of that stato. Secrotnry Root has directed that a troop of cavalry from Fort Sill, I. T., bo sent Into the reservation to clear them of tho lawless element that has entered. Tho soldiers will probably bo kept thcro until the day tho lands aro thrown open to settlement. In the meantime tho Kiowa Indiana havo sent n representative to Wash ington asking that tho opening day bo postponed until Congress can oxamlno tho treaty under which tho net was passed. by tho namo of tholr land, rather than by their patronymic. Arbitration for China. If tho intcrnatlonnl trlbunnl estab lished by tho conferenco at Tho Haguo has any practical usefulness tho dis pute among tho powers at Pokln af fords an opportunity to piu it to tho test. Tho suggestion of tho United States to refer tho question of In demnity to this tribunal is worthy of a civilized nation. Its adoption is scarcely probable unless tho powers should And It Impossible to reach an agreement In any other way. Tho Island of Chios, In tho Aegean sea, has nn oak the age of which is believed to bo twenty-two centuries. CARNE GIE'S SCOTTISH SEAT. ically revolving spiral, which quickly takes tho carrlor back to its original position. Tho Instrument is now ready to rcproduco nil that tho wire has re ceived. Connect tho magnetic-carrier to an ordinary telephone receiver, and, traveling ovor tho samo ground as be foro, tho poles will be actuated this tlmo by tho magnetized wlro, and will retransmit to tho receiver what they had previously Imparted to tho wire. Tho result i3 that tho tolephono re ceiver now speaks everything thnt had been spoken Into tho mlcrophono transmitter. In tho distributor n num ber of electro-magnets take tho placo of tho second (re-trnnsimlttlng) mag net. Attaays Utoo Sides. Many seem to think that thcro is but a single side to tho question of olcctlng senators by direct vote of tho pcoplo. Tho National Civic Federa tion recently undertook to get nn ex pression of tho popular sonso on this subject. Thoy held a kind of refer endum and, In reply to tholr inquiries, rccolvcd a great many roplles. Thero nro two sldea to ovcry question and they ascertained that thero wero two aleo to this. Mrs. Ilanna Omeger of New York city, according to Law Notes, recently rccovored 57C0 damnges for Injuries sustulncd by an Iclclo falling from n tank on top of tho defendant's build ing through tho skylight of her houso and Btrlklng tho good dnmo on tho crown ot hor head. Sho was not ouly knocked senseless, but was Interrupted In tho midst of hor dlnnor, which, wlion sho recovered, had grown cold. For all of theso things sho asked ?15, 000 damages. Professors Gcorgo F. Jewett of Youngstown, O., who recently resigned as principal of tho Raven High school, Iiub accopted tho presidency of La Salla Hm1narv for Young Women In Boston. 1 r r