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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1901)
Across In my neighbor's window, With Us folds of satin and lace, I se, with Its crown of ringlets, A baby's Innocent face. Tho throng In the treet looks upward, And everyone, crave or Bay, Has a nod nnd a smile for tho baby, In tho mansion over the way. Just hero In my cottage window. Ills chin In his dimpled hands. And a natch on his faded apron. The child that J live for stands. Ho has kept my heart from breaking For ninny a weary day; And his face Is ns ptiro nnd handsome As tho baby's over tho way. Sometimes, when we sit together. My sravo little man of three Sore vexes me with tho question, "Does God up In Heaven like me?" And 1 say: "Yes, yes, my darling," Though I almost answer "Nay," As I see tho nursery candles In the mansion over the way. And oft wken I draw tho stocking From his Ilttlo tired feet, And loosen tho clumsy garments From his limbs bo round and Bweet, I Brow too bitter for singing, My heart too heavy to pray. As I think of tho dainty raiment Of tho baby over tho way. Oh. Qod In Heaven forgive mo For all I have thought and said I My envious heart Is humbled: My neighbor's baby Is dead I I saw tho little white collln As they carried It out today. And the heart of a mother Is breaking In the mansion over the way. Tho light Is fair In my window, Tho (lowers bloom at my door; My boy Is chasing tho sunbeams That danco on tho cottago lloor, Tho roses of health nro crowning My darling's forehead today; But tho baby Is gone from tho window Of tho mansion over tho way! The Events of a Day. DY THOMAS P. MONTFORT. (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) "By George! but I wish I had. a chance to know hor! Sho's about tho prettiest girl I ever saw." Joe Martin ended with a sigh, for, although ho was not aware ot It, he had already taken tho first step to ward falling desperately In love with Susan Meade. Ho had seen her for tho ffrst time In his llfo while walking slowly along n trail that led across tho cattlo rango of western Texas. Hearing a woman's screams, ho had turned off to tho east a few yards whero ho had found Miss Meado In great distress. In reaching out over a Ilttlo slough, trying to get a choloo water Illy, sho had lost her balance and tumbled Into the water. Bhb had quickly regained her footing, but tho bank was so high and steep that she could not ascend It. 60, drenched from head to foot, and standing In water waist deep, she was compelled to wilt for some ono to come to her rescue When two long hours had passed, and alio had called, time and again, without attracting notice, she lost hopo and began to wonder it sho would have to spend the rilght there, or whether It was not posslblo that she might remain thero until sho died of starvation. Just as she had suc ceeded In conjuring up tho very gloom- Joe Appeared on tho Dank. lest of prospects, and was having a hard strugglo to keep back her tear3, Joo Martin appeared on tho bank abovo her. She looked up at him with mingled fellnge ot Joy, shame and anger. It was Joyful to know that a rescuer was at hand, but she was too womanly to forget for an Instant tho Bad spectacle she presented In her drenched condi tion, und the faint trace of a smllo uno saw on his lips angered her. Reaching down toward her he com manded her to give him her hands, and she hesitatingly obeyed, and tho next moment he drew her up to his own level, "I hope you are not hurt," bo said, looking at her anxiously. L I At-. ' . II nltn Anllor1 not ill me iuubi, ou bxlnklng before his gaze. "I am very S- JNU noTTi ft&d n.Md not trouble you further. I am very grateful to you for your kindness." "Which means," he said, "that I may go as soon as I like" "Don't feel that I am ungrateful and unappreclatlve," sho answered. "Hut you " "I know," ho said. "It Is your ap pearance. I am not cruel enough to take any notice of that. Isn't thero some other service I could render you? Can't I coo you to your homo?" "I thank you, but I prefor to go alono." "Then I'll bid you good day." "Good ifhy." As Joo continued on his way ho re called her features, and tho moro he thought of her the noro eagerly ho wished that ho might know her. She, too, thought of him nnd wished sho might know him. "But it can novor be," ho said to himself, "for tomorrow I leave for my home, back East." "Perhaps I shall meet him again," sho sold to herself, "for ono can nevor tell what may happen." Sho was right. Ono can never toll what may happen. Joo discovered tho trnth of thoso words sooner than might havo boen expocted. And ho dTscovered it in a way not to bo read ily forgotten. Ho had gone but a short distnnco when ho met a man on horseback. Tho man bad been riding hard, for his horse was wet with sweat and was well blown. "Aro you going to town, stranger?" ho called eagerly, bringing his borso to a stop. "I am," Joe replied. "Why?" "I thought you might bo willing to do mo a favor," tho other answered quickly. "Certainly. What is it?" "My brother has Just been severely hurt and must havo tho attentions of a doctor at once. Thero is no ono with him and I hato to leavo him alone, so I thought If you would Just tako my horso and rido to town you could send tho doctor ort." It all seemed reasonable enough to Joo, so ho consented to tho arrange ment. "Just leavo tho horse at a stable there," the man added, "ami toll tho doctor that It's at Hi Dlenklns he's wanted." "All right," Joe replied, swinging himself Into the saddle, as soon as tho other had vacated It. "And remember that there's no time to waste," tho man said, "for It Is a matter of llfo and death." It was a matter of llfo and death, but in a different way to that which Joo suspected. He understood some thing of this, however, when ten min utes later ho rode full tilt into a gang of cowboys nnd found himBelf stopped with a dozen pistols pointed at his head. While ho sat staring amazedly at the cowboys, wondering what their con duct meant, ono of their number re marked dryly: "Pow'ful 'commodatin' of you to como right to ua, young feller, 'stead 0' havln' us chase you all over tho prairie. Saves us a heap o' trouble. Don't 'pear lack It shows much good Judgment on yo' part, tnougn. "What do you mean?" Martin man aged to gasp. "What aro you talking about?" "Oh, notntn' partlo'lar. You Jest go 'long tip to tho ranch with us and wo'Il explain matters there." "Dut I can't go io tho ranch. I'm In a great hurry. I am going to get a doctor for a man who's badly hurt" Tho cowboy grinned dryly. "Oh, tho man ain't hurt ylt," ho said, but he will bo pretty soon, and when ho la, ho won't need no doctor. DoctorB ain't no uso to hoss thieves whn once wc git our hands on 'cm." "Horso thieves! What aro you why you are mad!" "Talkin 'bout you. That happens to bo our horse you are riding, and ns you didn't buy him It stands to rea son you stole hltn." "But I did nothing of tho kind. It's n lie." And then Martin I old how ho came to havo tho horso In Ins possession, but the cowboys only shook their heads and smiled Incredulously. "You can tell thnt to tho boss when wo get to tho ranch," ono of them said. "Mobby ho'll believe It. Mebby so." Joo perforco aceompanlcd tho cow boys to the ranch. Thero they wore met by the ownor, n young man of good appearance, and to him Joo told his story, hoping It would ho believed. However, when ho had finished, the other slowly shook his head and re plied: "You tell a very plnuslblo story, but I am a Ilttlo afraid to belicvo It. I am fearful I can't do anything for you, but I will think It over. In tho mcantltno wo will hold you. Go Into that room there." Martin went Into tho room Indicat ed and sat down In a dejected attitude. It was bad enough for a young man of Irreproachable character to bo sus pected of such a crime ns horso-stonl-Ing, but thnt was nothing compared to tho prospect of being hung to tho near est tree. Ho had not been In Texas long, being only there for an outing, but ho knew that a horse thief, and sometimes thoso who wore merely suspected of the crlmo, were summar ily dealt with there. He had been sitting so for a long timo when suddenly a woman's volco broke n deathlike Btillncss, aud ho raised his head to listen. "Oh, Rob," she crlod, "I havo Just had tho greatest .experience! It would havo been porfectly lovely under other circumstances." "It must havo been lovely anyway, Judging by your appearance. You look as though you u ucen wallowing in a pond." "I have. Not wallowing, exactly. but I fell in, and tho handsomest, sweotest young man camo along and pulled mo out. Oh, dear! I wish I could know him." Rob was silent and thoughtful for a Ilttlo while, then ho said: "Would you know tho man, Bister, If you were to seo him ngaln?" "Ot course. But I shall never seo him. Moro'a tho pity." "Did he havo a horso?" "Not then. But I saw a man glvo him one, or sell It to him, or some thing, directly nftor ho left me. But why do you ask that?" Robert Meado, tho ownor of tho ranch, took his sister to Martin, and, of course, sho recognized him nt a glance. Then Meado understood tho whole situation. Tho horso thief, find ing himself too hard pressed by tho cowboys, put Martin In possession of tho horso to throw tho suspicion on him. Martin not only established his ln nocenso nnd regained his liberty, but "What Do Yea Mean?" ho becamo n guest at the ranch, and finally bought an interest in tho busi ness and stopped permanently. Ho nevor forgot his experience of that day, and ho never regretted it, cither, for otherwlso ho would likely never havo won Susan for his wife. Won Itaco with Tornado. Tho cnglneor on a Burlington freight train from Junlatta to Hastings, Neb,, had an exciting raco with n small tor nado tho other day and won. Tho wind picked up a largo barn and car ried it straight toward tho train for a dlstanco ot n hundred yards. The engineer saw his peril, put on full steam and an exciting raco followed, but tho wind changed Its course beforo reaching the track. Nurn Inherit 8300.000. Mrs. Ethel Castello, a nurso In tho family of J. H. Bostwlck of Kalama zoo, Mich., has received a letter bear ing the news that by tho death of her late husband's uncle she will recclvo a legacy of 1300,000. Tho undo was Martinez del Pino Castello, a wealthy diamond merchant of Honduras. He had also given 200,000 to charitable Institutions. A Huge Wltlto Affair. An odd hat Just turned out by an artistic milliner was a huge whlto af fair, with a very slight Indication of a crown, bordered with a wreath of blue ribbon loops, and having hydran geas, a pet flower of fashion, under the brim.,. Jg) MONTE CARLO J3g The object of this nrtlclo is to show tho demoralizing effect of gambling. Tho crnvmg to get something without honest, hnrd work can novcr bo tho true foundation on which to build a successful career. Gaming la seen In Its most vivid phase nt Monto Carlo. No thinking man can witness the play thero. without realizing tho utter emptiness nnd folly of It. Even mathe matical statistics show that every player must sooner or later loso IiIb all If ho continues to gamble, nnd with his losings his self-respect also goes. Ed. Five million dollars per nnnum, or nearly so, have been realized during the past few years from tho gambling tnblcs nt Monto Carlo. Let It be stat ed briefly how tho gambling tables were taken there. Francois Blnnc waB father to the schemes which havo com pletely transformed this natural beauty spot of tho Riviera Into an earthly paradise, and centralized In tho picturesque Ilttlo principality nil tho luxuries and comforts, ns well ns nil tho vices thnt belong to mankind at the beginning of the twentieth cen tury. But thero wcro gambling tables at Monto Carlo long before Pore Blnnc arrived. As far back us 1853 tho Into Tim Casing Prlnco Churlcs granted a thirty years' concession to n company with a capital of $500,000 to carry on tho gambling business. Pero Blnnc, who wnH a man ot tho French bourgeois typo, simple In his habits, but clover and strong-headed In finance, died on July 27th, 1S77, leaving a fortune of nearly f35.000.000; nnd this notwithstanding tho lmmonso Bums that wcro spent during his re markable career upon his sovernl gambling establishments. Tho Casino wnB cnrrlcd on for tho Blanc family by Count Bertora (who nsplred to marry tho old man's widow) until tho orlglnnl concession expired, In 1883. In October of that year ho was successful In concluding another thirty years' contract with Prlnco Charles for a consideration of $250,000 per annum from tho profits of tho gambling and 5,000 shares in tho new company which It was then decided to form. Tho statutes of thlB tho existing compnny aro dated Decomber 14, 1882; they wore approved and signed by Prlnco Charles on March 15, 1883; nsul in them nro embodied all tho con ditions of tho original concession, cer tain modifications being mado to meet tho requirements demanded by tho new management. A Ulo Corporation with 00.000,000 Cupltal. Tho capital ot tho concern was fixed at $0,000,000, divided into GO.OOO shnres of $100 each, to bear a llxcd interest nt tho rate of 5 per cent, or $5 per an num, payablo nftor tho half-yearly meeting In Novembor and a dividend upon tho profits of tho gambling of tho year tho amount to bo divided by tho directors at tho annual meeting in April. A clause was Inserted In the statutes to tho effect that, In order to bo ablo to tako part In these meetings, a shareholder mimt own nt least 200 of tho shares, or $20,000 worth of tho Casino stock; and, when tho allotment was made, good caro was tnken that only members and friends of tho B'anc family should be permitted to tnko up this numbor, so thnt tho control of tho concern should remain In tho hands of their Ilttlo coterie. Somo years ago, however, all that was changod; and the paternal Blanc-Bertorn administration gave place to anothor of a vory differ ent churnctor, with two Paris bankers at Its hend. Five thousand shntcs wore, as al ready stated, given to the Prlnco of Monaco; Prlnco Radzlwlll took 4,800; Prlnco Roland Bonaparte, 4,000; M. Ed mond Blanc, 4,200; M, Camlllo Blnno, 4,000; Count Bertora, 2,000; tho Wag atba family, related to tho Blaucs, 2,000. Then tho bank In Nice, which had always flnnnced tho Casino, got a large number, nnd several politicians nnd Paris Journalists who helped to assist the affair wero favored with the paper. Altogether about half tho shares wcro distributed In this way, tho rest were offered to tho public. A lUinbl'uz Knterrrlin That ltuloi n rrlnclimllty. As Pero Blnnc remarked: "Ho who breaks tho bank to-day will be broken by tho bnnk to-morrow." The winner nt Monte Carlo returns to mako n Ilttlo moro; tho loser returns to try to get his money back ngaln, And so, In the end, tho bank wins. Ict us now proceed to tho debit side ot tho Casino account. To tnko the IteniB ot expenditure In tho order given upon tho linlnnco-sheet, of n recent year, wo nolo llrst tho $250,000 paid annually to tho Prince of Monaco, un der tho contract, for tho concession to carry on the gnmbltng buRlnoss In the principality. When Prince Albert "enmo to tho throne" In 1889. ho was credited with n dcslro to closo the Casino, nnd thus, by wiping out the stnln which his father had laid upon It, restoro tho prestlgo of tho ancient Houso of Grlmnldl. Tho Princess (who was tho Duchess of Richelieu, nco Mile. Hclno) was nlso nnxlous to range her self among the crowned heads of Europe. But Prlnco Albert looked from his pnlaco across tho Bay of Horculoj toward tho glided minarets of tho Ca sino, nnd found himself powerless. Theoretically Prince Albort Is ns ab solute a monarch ns tho Czar; prac tically ho Is as Impotent ns tho de posed African king, and Is held Just no much In bondage. Tho Principality Tim Lakok Oamhi.inu of Monaco Is entirely governed nnd controlled by tho bank, nnd If Prlnco Albort wero to attempt to break tho contrnct It "might cost him his crown!" Financially Biich n stop would bo much ngnlnst his Interests, seeing thnt, In addition to tho $250,000 which ho rccolves from tho concession, ho gets revenue upon 5,000 shnreB, nnd on this his nvcrago profit amount a to $200,000 por nnnum. Altogether tho in come of the Prlnco of Monaco ennnot ho less thnn tho comfortnblo revenuo of $750,000 n yenr. round (lulncnt to I.okh TI111111. Ono of tho most cruel stories thnt wo havo read for a long whllo is that of tho remarkable find of guineas, somo GO lu numbor, by two Ilttlo girls at play In a garden of tho vlllngo of Lud dlngton, near Goplo, In Lincolnshire It Is it flno mnrahy country that con ceals excellently well any Bccret com mitted to Its keeping. Hero theso Ilt tlo girls found ono of tho guineas lying on tho grass and called their mother. Tho soil was dug up, wbon about fifty wero dlscovored. At this very plens ant point In tho story, tho inevitable mnrplot of all children's host dovlcos swoops down In the shnpo of tho pollco and tho law, claiming tho guineas as "treasure trovo" for tho crown. Tho guineas wero In n lino stato of preser vation. Their date Is 1774 nnd later, and no doubt they must havo belonged to somo former owner of tho houso, pulled down last year, which stood In tho garden whero tho Ilttlo girls found tho guineas of which tho hard law de spoiled thorn. Country Llfo. Hldrpatht for IllnrrU. Tho Now York stntutes authorizing tho construction nnd maintenance of side pnths for tho use of bicycles along public roads and streets and for use of such paths by persons riding bicy cles have been declared constitutional by the supremo court, appellato dlvl- slon, In tho enso of Ryan vs. Preston, and held not to Imposo an additional burden on tho highway, nnd not to bo n use of tho highway for which tho nbnttlng owner Is entitled to compen sation. The court said that tho regu lation confining tho bicycles to tho uso of such paths no moro Imposed nu ndditlonnl burden upon tho uso of tho highway, ns affecting tho right of nn abutting owner, thnn would a stntuto requiring all vehicles going In cither direction to keep to tho right. It wan objected that tho bleyclo paths would Interfere with tho custom of hltchlnK horses, but the court said that no enso had been cited establishing tho abso lute right of obstructing trnvel upon a highway by hitching horses. Agreeable Friends. I hnve friends whoso society Is ex tremely agrccablo to me; they nro of nil ages nnd of every country. They hnve distinguished themselves both In tho cabinet nnd In tho Held, and ob tained high honors for their knowl edges of tho sciences. It Is easy to gain access to them, for they nro nl ways nt my servlco, and' I admit them to my compny, and dismiss them from It whenover I please. They nro never troublcEomo, but Immediately nnswor every question I nsk them. Somo rolnto to mo tho events ot tho past ngco, whllo others reveal to mo tho secrets of nature. Somo tench mo how to llvo, anil others how to die. Some, by their vivacity, drive away my cares nnd cx hllnrnte my spirits, whllo others glvo fortitude to my mind, nnd tench mo tho Important lesson how to restrnln my desires, and to depend wholly 011 mysolf. They open to me, In short, tho various nvenucs ot all tho arts nnd sciences and upon their Information I safely rely In all emergencies. Pe trarch. I Hook a I.evrllem. In tho best books, groat men talk to ub, with us, and glvo us their most precious thoughts. Books nro tho voices of tho dlstnnt and tho dead. Books nro tho true lovollcrs. Thoy glvo to all who will faithfully uso them, tho society nnd tho prcsenco ot tho best nnd grentest of our rnco.. No mnttor how poor I urn; no matter though tho prosperous of my own Koom in thu Casino tlmo will not enter my obBcuro dwell ing, if learned men nnd poets will en ter and tako up their nbodo undor my roof If Milton will cross my thresh hold to f,lng to mo of Pnradlso, nnd Shakespeare opon to mo tho wo-'d ot Imagination and tho workings of tho human heart; nnd Frnnklln enrich mo with his practical wisdom I shall not plno for wnnt of Intellectual compan ionship, and I mny become a cultivated mnn, though excluded from whnt Is called tho best Boelety In tho placo where I live. . . Nothing can sup ply the place of books. Thoy nro cheering nnd Boothlng companions In Bolltudo, Illness or nflllction. Tho wealth of both continents could not compensate for tho good thoy Impart Channlng. King's "8tantlnl!liilinrsji." Tho prediction that tho king would follow tho oxamplo of ffis nncestor, Henry V., dnlly finds fresh confirma tion. Slnco his accession ho has devel oped n "staudoinuhness' townrdB hla old Intimates, which Is little short ot startling. Intlmntlons that ho will not In tho futuro dlno or sup with a sub ject havo cnuBod endless heartburn ings. "Favorite" 1h to bu nn unknown word In IiIb court, according to present calculation. London cnblo. l'nlrlarrliul lawmakers. Senntors Hoar, Stewart, Pettus and Morgan nro 11 pntrlnrchnl group in tho upper houso nt Washington, but thoy aro overtopped In nga by tho dean of tho British houso of lords. Lord Gwy dyr has Just completed his ninety-first year. Ho took his degree at Cam bridge In 1831. Miss Lucy C, Coolldge recently roi eclved tho largest vote over cast for ono person In Portland, Me, She was on all tickets as a candldato for th school board and got 8,413 votes.