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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1908)
isi R XI OfremeG MA ) ON Trie ai$m STOUMERS. EVE cU5TCE$ AAY AET&E AfTER, PjQE SDEMTAL ELECTOM any So Designated Aree-Gr M L W B m DY GEO. V. HODART, Dear Hunch: Still In (ho ring nt the Hpoonsbury Commercial house, nnd hero's Homo of tho dopo the near netors of tho "Unnillt'B Ilrlde Com tinny" handod nut last night. '"I toll you, Mike," the Juvenile paid, "I'm too delicate for thin one ii f li t stnnd gng. I'm going to Nuw Vork nnd build a theater." "What with?" sneered Low Comedy. "With a reporter 1 know on one of the paper," tho Juvonllo chuckled. "Say, what was the nmno of that town wo playod night before last?" 'Murphy's Landing, wasn't It?" Mlko answered. "I guoHs that'H right, because Mur phy landed on mo good nnd hard," the Juvonllo wild. "Itemctnher those nice white door-knobs we ato for breakfaHt next morning7 The wultroB "Not a Cookie In tho Lunch Basket." said they were hot biscuits, but I had to oat mine with a nut cracker. I've not It In my pantry yet, and every timo I wnlk around the knob turtiH, nnd I can hear a door open some whero." MIIio'h double chin tdiowed signs of agitation. "Stranded, here In thin Jay town!" Tho Juvonllo grabbed tho black bot tle and upset It again. "Hay, Mike, what wn need In n guardian. And while wo'ro at It IoI'h pick out ono with money ho we can wire him for u little price to help us out on oc casions llko thl. Tlio next manager that wins mo nwny from the stock yardH will havo to wear a gold-plated ovorcoat and titnnd In tho wings every night whore ho can throw ten-dollar hills at when I .nako my exit. No more filnb Impresarios for mine, with noth ing In their InBldo pockets but n date book and a hearty appetite." "Same hero!" Low Comody nodded. "Tho next mannger that picks nto out will havo to drag mo down to his bank nnd lot mo pick his coupons oft tho nliolf boforo I'll sign." "Humped, good and hard, hero In tho tnll grass," tho Juvonllo com plained ugnlu, "nnd not a cookie In thu lunch-basket. Say! It has mo wing ing, all right, nnd that'H no Idle hoot! This Is tho third troupo that blew out Hn mainspring for us this season, and I'm beginning to hollo vn wo ought to got vnccluatod. How am I going to do Hamlet In Now York this winter, I'd llko to know? Klglit weeks since wo left Chicago, threo shows to tho bad, and still n thousand mtlos from tho (Jront White Way. Sny, Mike, at this rato It'll take about G20 shows to got us to Jersey City; are you hip?" Mlko laughed. "It's tho old story, "Jabo Guffawed Loudly." my boy; wo'ro a sad bunch of plow boys on this old farm of a world when vu haven't n little snnzuma In tho veil pocket. I've got a nuw bit of a recitation spiel I cooked up last slight when I couldn't sleop. It's culled 'Knock, and tho World Knocks with You,' and I'll put you Jerry to It right now boforo It guts cold!" "Well, I'm from Texas, so you'll havo to steer mo," said thu Juvonllo. "Pipe tho ovorlnutlng truth contained horoln," tiald Mike, wheruupou he proceeded as follows: Knoek, unit tho world Knocks with you, lloout, and you bopHt ulonol Wlirn you roont roo1 anil loud You will Unit (lint Ibo crowd Hum a hammer ns bit; us your own! Iluy, nnd (ho kiuir In with you; Hindi;, nnd tho riiiiui'h ull oft, For (he Inil with (ho thirst Will hi-o you flrnt If you don'l proceed (o coukIiI tin i li'ti bin) tho push will pmlso you, Ho poor, Hint they'll pass tho lci, You'to u warm young Kuy When you start lo buy You're n slob when yoil loao tho price! He ihiBh, nnd your friends nro many, On broke, nml (hoy'l! say Tu tu! Wldln your bank account huma Von will Kct returns, Whan It's out you will cot tlio Hut Ur coy ami (ho mob will cheer you, ("HUGH M'HUGH.") They'll nhout while your wnullh en Jiirox; Hhow a tiarfnl lamp Ami you'll aw thcmi tramp Anil It'a lmk to tlio womln for yourt' Tlif-rr'n always n Minfih to IxVwtt you While nt yiMir money limy glanco. Hut you'll flfiil Umn nil gooa On thai i-nlil, Kray dawn Wluri the trUwe arrivaa on your pant' "You'vo got tho game of llfo sized to a showdown," was the Juvenile's comment. At this paint Jabo, tho Heub bar tender, pointed a freckled linger ut Mike nnd butted In with: "Say. you be the fat cuss that cut up with that thar troupo nt tho op'ry house lust night, heen't ye?" "No, I'm the skeleton man with a circus," Mike nsiswerod, und tho bar tender roared with delight. "You don't look ub how you took much exercise," snickered Jubo. "Hut I do tnko exercise. Oh, sue for Hint exercise thing, good and strong!" protested Mlko. "What kind of oxurclio do you take"'' Jabo Inquired. "Well," Mlko answered, "every rooming I swing clubs for 15 tnln ii leu. then thu dumb-hulls for ten tnln utett. then I run about threo suIIob nnd then I get up und out, my break fast.'' Jabe guffawed loudly over this bit of fncetlousness. "I was nt the op'ry houso last night," Jabo Informed them, "and I 'most launhed myself sick to tho stomach at this yer fat cubs takln' off that Dutch pollcoman ha, ha, ha, ha!" Jabo looked at tho Juvenile. "You was putty good, too," ho ud snltted, "takln' off that newspaper re porter und resculu' tho girl from the burnln' structyure, hut you didn't do no funny fall und bust your gullussos like this yer fat cuss ha, ha, ha, ha!" "(let him to unhook tho laugh; Iio'h a good steady listener," whispered tho Juvenile, and Mlko started In. "Klnn town, this." Mike botinn. "All the modern Improvesnents, uh? Cows wear nickel-plated bolls, Btreota paved "The Proprietor of That Hotel." with grass and tho river has running water." "Ha, hn, ha, hat" Jabo roared. "Hemlnds sno of a place wo Htruck out In Missouri last winter," Mlko went on. "Samo stylo of public archi tecture, especially tho town pump. Hut tho hotel there was tho lilt with us. It was culled tho Declaration of Independence, because tho proprietor had suarrlod an Kngllsh womnn, and wantod to bo rovenged. At Huppor tlmo I ordered a steal;, and they brought mo a leathor bingo covorod with gravy, ho I got up to add an amendment fo tho Deelaratlou of In dependence. Tho bead waiter was an ex-pugtllst, no ho put thu boots to mo nnd covered my amondmont with bruises. Then ho made mo eat tho leather hinge, and for two weeks I felt llko a garden gnto and I usud to alum every tlmo tho wind blow." Julio's laugh shook tho building. "The proprietor of that hotel was so patriotic," Mlko continued, "that ho wouldn't number thu rooms llko any ordinary hotel. Kvory room was named In honor of n president of tho United States. That ovonlng there happened to bo a rush whllo I was standing near tho doik, and I heard tho clerk say: 'Front, show thoso gon tleiuon up to John Qulnoy Adams, and toll the portor to tnko that trunk out of the alcove In Thomas JorToriou. Front, go nnd put down that window In lluthorford 11. llayos, and, here, tnko this whisky up to Abraham Lin coln. Front, what's all that racket In James Uurhannn? Here, tnko thoso cigars to I'. S. Grant, nnd turn ofMho gai In Orovor Cleveland. ' Hut I near ly fainted when ho Bald: 'Front, run a sofa Into Junius A. (Inrllold, nnd take thcuo two ladles up to Ouurgu Washington. " "Mortal Cnosarl Ha, hn, ha, ha!" roared Jabo. "Doggone, If that ain't funny, you fat cuasl" When I quit thorn Mlko had worn finger-marks on tho side of tho black bottle, nml Jabo had signed a verbal contract to gokou tho utago as the Juvenllo's dresser. I'm for tho Ueub hotel, strong. Yours us always, . J. H. (Copyright. IMS. by O. V. nilllhshaiu Co.) The True Man. Who Is n truo man? Ho who does tho truth, nnd novor holds a principle on which ho Is not prepared In any hour to act, and In any hour to risk tho consequences of holding It. act of hannlut; out some clothes Thomas Cnrlylo. 'wusrczr j?w PllCmiWI, AGED 9 At the present time three of the United States supreme court Justices nro eligible to retirement, and within the period of tho Incumbency of the next president two more will reach the ago limit when they may retire upon pension If they so wish to do. This opens up an Interesting condition and brings within the scope of possi bility, If not probability, that the suc cessor to President Roosevelt may have tho prlvllogo of lining llvo vn canclos, which constitutes a majority of tho membership of thu highest Ju dicial body In tho United States. If such were tho privilege of tho next presldont nnd ho were Democratic In stead of Republican It would change completely tho political character of tho tribunal, and for the first time since tho civil war give tho Democrats a mujorlty. Politics Is not supposed to cut much figure In. that high tribunal, but po litical parties, nono the less, have con alderablo prldo and concern In seeing men of their own faith wearing the ermine, and tho close decisions In a number of great legnl and constitu tional questions within tho Inst de cade mako tho personnel of the court a matter of concern for thu future. Threo of tho nlno snonibcrs of tho court aro now Democrats Chief Jus tice Fuller, appointed during Mr. Cleveland's first term; Justlco White ami Justlco Pockham, both appointed during IiIb second term. Five of the Justices will bo eligible for retirement boforo March , 10 LI, when tho next presidential administration will have come to an end. All hut two of these Justices Fuller and Peckham were appointed as Republicans. Thoro Is a doublo qualification essen tial for rotlroniont, Involving not only 70 years of ago, but ten years of serv ice on tho tribunal. Chief Justice Fuller Is 7C, and has been eligible for retirement hIiico February 11, 1003. but, being devoted to his high otllce, ho has never Indicated any intention of relinquishing tho honor. Justice Harlan, the ranking associ ate, who has been a member of the court over 150 years and has Just passod his seventy-llfth milestone, has been eligible for retirement since June 1, 19011 more than llvo years. Justlco Hrowor has been eligible n year, hav ing passed his seventieth birthday on Juno 20, 1007. Justlco Peckham has now served on the court 13 years, and will ho 70 on November S. 100S, so that on the Sunday Immediately following tho comluR presidential oloctlon thoro will bo four mombors of the tribunal who may allow either president Rooso volt or his Hiicuessor to designate their nuccessors. Tho fifth member of the court who will bo eligible for retirement under tho president to bo chosen In Novem ber Is Justlco HolmuH. Although he Is ono of tho nowor members of the court, being President Roosevelt's tlrst appointee, ho will be 70 on March S. 1011. nnd will have rounded out his tenth year on the tribunal on Decem ber I, 101'J. Ho will therufore possess tho right of retiring Just three mouths boforo tho end of the next president's term. As a rulo, members of the supreme court aro not prono to retire tho mo mosit t hoy hnvo a chaneo. Most of tho Justices havo died In harness. Since tho civil war only seven Justices have taken advantage of the retire ment claimo. although there have been 20 appointees. There tiro now only two living In retirement Juellcos Drown and Shlrns. When eligible for retirement each member or tho court becomes a law unto himself, a no table Instance was that of (he late Jus tlco Flold, who spent 31 years on the supremo bench. Ho could have re tired any tlmo after the middle of Cleveland's first tortn, but waited until thu first session of tho court aftqr tho Inauguration of President McKlnley, In JVJTICZO.W. 107. and then gave way for tho ap pointment of Attorney General Mc Kenna. This was Mr. McKlnloy's only selection to 1111 a vacancy In tho court, and It placed a Republican Jurist In u Democratic seat on tho bonch. Justlco Flold wns a noted Democrat, who had soveral times been spoken of as a posslblo candidate for tho presi dency, and tho statement that ho did not want a Democratic presldont to 1111 his plnco by appointment may seem strange. Nevertheless, Justlco Field, Just boforo his retirement, gavo his friends to undestand that ho did not purposo to allow Presldont Clovo lund to hnvo tho pleasure of appoint ing his successor on tho bonch if ho could help It. Justice Field and his friends believed that ho was badly treated by President Clovoland when Chief Justlco Wulto died. Potltlona camo from all parts of tho land and many legal organizations passed reso lutions asking that Justlco Flold bo mado Chief Justlco Walto's successor, but President Clovoland passed over him and chose tho present chief Jus tice. Hxcopt for this Justlco Field would undoubtedly havo resigned to ward the end of Cleveland's second term, and thero would now ho four In stend of threo Domocrats on tho bu psoino bench. Justlco Strong, who wns nppolntcd by Presldont Grant In 1870, though eligible for retirement In 1883, retained his plnco on tho bonch nlno years longer, until his death, In lS'Ja. Tho Important bearlngB of this yenr's presidential election upon tho personnel of tho court revives tho fact that there was a somowhat similar condition during tho last national cam paign. Chief Justlco Fullor and Jus tice Harlan wore both ellglhlo for re tirement In 1904, and It wns then evi dent that before the und of President Roosevelt's present term threo other members of tho court Justices llrow er, Hrown nnd Peckhnm would llko wlso possess that right. Ono of these live ellglblos Justice Hrown did re tire, inuklng wny for Mr. Moody's ap pointment, hut tho four othora havo remained. WANTED TO BE A MASCOT. Small Doy Sent on a Three Weeks' Tramp by Illinois Humorist. Whon 11-yenr-old William Sanders arrived In St. Ixmls tho other ovon lng the soles were worn from his shoes ami his feet woio bloody. Ho had been on tho road threo weeks and he had come nil the way from Rockport, III. Somo inendnclous person had told William (hat tho Drowns would pay tho right kind of a hoy $1,000 to bo their mascot, and ho camo over to apply for tho Job. It romalnod for tho man In chnrgo of tho houso of detention lo disillusionize, him. Hut llu' point Is, William got horo. In our opinion, William has enough grit and pertinacity to got there ut any thing he undortnkea. He has several things to learn, but one or thoso days, with a llttlo Judg inesit, he will select the road ho wants to travel, and thon travel It to tho end. Ho will mako up his niiud what he wants to he, and then bo It, Tho qualltlos that brought William all tho way to St. Louis with his bare root on tho ground nnd bloody are (he qualltlos that carry men furthest on i he road to success a single pur pose with everlasting pluck bolng be hind It. Thoso will not, it is true, carry a mnn to the pot of gold at tho end of the rainbow; but only a very llttlo Judgment Is required to select ono of tho mnny roads to sub stantial success. Tho main thing Is to Btay with It. St, Louis Post-Dls-patch. 1 believe that III a gnmo of hearts a girl shpuld bo willln' to lot a young man hold her hand. 4' ' A "grade" horse, strictly speaking, Is ono that was sired by a pure bred stallion. Always the sire must be puro-brc-d, If tho progeny Is to be en titled to tho name of "grade." Whero n puro-hred mare Is bred to a grade stallion her progeny Is not a "grade." Such breeding Is de-grading a stop backward and downward ond, the progeny which has not been graded up, hut degraded down, Is of mongrel breeding. Whon a pure-bred stallion Is mated with n natlvo or mongrel-bred mare the product of this first mating Is n "ono-top-cross" grade, the offspring being one-half pure blood and one-half Impure blood. If the first progeny Is a fomnlo nnd In turn Is bred to a pure bred stallion, of tho breed used for tho original top-cross, her progeny will bo a "two-top-crpsB" grade, or three quarters pure-bred. When flvo top crosses of the samo kind of blood havo been put on, the Inst resultant off spring is practically pure-bred, and If tho work of further top-crossing Is per sistently carried on, without a slnglo turning asldo to a sire of somo other breed, tho blood of tho offspring bo comes purer all the while and purity of blood, whon fully established, pro duces In Its possessors decided heredi tary power (prepotency) to stamp upon their progeny tho fixed charac teristics of tho breed employed In the gradlng-up or top-crossing process. When a grade stallion Is mated with a natlvo or grade maro tho resultnnt progeny is of mixed breeding. It Is not a grade, strictly speaking, for thoro hns been no grading up In tho breeding process und no advanco can possibly bo mado so long as a grado slro Is used In place of n pure-bred stallion. This applies to tho stallion that Is still a grado, by reason of too fow top-crosses to make him practical ly pure-breed. Whore five or snore top-ciossos of puro blood havo been employed in tho gradlng-up process tho final product no longer is an ordinary grade, but Is practically pure-bred, and bolng such lias gathured some of tho prepotency of tho puro blood of tho one predomi nant breed and so may bo enabled to stamp, with a fair degro of lldollty, tho characters of tUit breed upon tho progeny of all classes of mntos. Such horses, howovor, are not ellglblo to record in a majority of the govern ment recognized stud books, henco their retention for breeding purposus Is Inndvlnablo when legitimately ro- cordod puro-hred stallions may bo had In their place. Tho pure breeds of horses havo beon bred In one lino for so many yoars without an admixture of alien blood that each stallion ropresentlnt: a puro breed Is possessed of the power to transmit at least the designating urou characteristics or his kind. Somo pure bred stulllons -havo more power than others m this way and tho degree of power (prepotency) may he said to depend largely upon the degree of pro- poioncy possess ny each individual ancestor and the length of time those nncestors of the individual horso havo boon bred pure In u direct lino. Some times tho pure-bred sialllon may not bo so Individually excellent as wo could wish, but almost Inevitably, if ho is well bred and of a good family, ho will transmli sueeissfully ttte cha'rac- torlsdcs ot his breed and in many In 8(ances some ot the superior qualities of his ancestors. Always a puro-broil stallion must he employed, If the breeding operation Is to be a truogrnd Ing up process, and the bettor bred and more perfect the Individual stub Hou Is the more quickly will hlw grado progeny attain the typo, character, quality and valuable attrlbutOK or the puro breed. This gradlng-up process everywhere should bo patiently and persistently followed lu practice, tho males being each time castrated for tho work- l horso market and tho fenialos re j talnod for the furtherance of tho lm- proved horsohreedlng operations. Tho grado stallion may be, and sometimes Is, a "good looker" and pos Bosaed of supurlor vigor, by reason of hard work iu harness, but thero Is lit tie If any breed prepotency buck of his good looks. His pleasing nppearnnco often Is like the thin layer of silver that gives a plated arllcle Its look of reality, but merely covers base metal; and as the base material predominates in tho makeup of both, so In tho scruh and low-grado horse the prepotency conies from tho predominant elements which wore derived from scrub ances tors and merely gives the owner tho power of transmitting llko undesirable elements. He may bo stronger than many a pampered puro-hred, so far as begetting numerous rugged offspring Is concerned, hut ho stamps all of them Indelibly with tho seal of the scrub. There Is much need of making some of our pampered pure-bred stnl lions more vigorous and vlrllo by work, exercise and sensiblo feeding, that their colts may bo more numerous and robust, but tho unnecessary weakness of somo pure-bred stallions Is an Insuf llclent argument for the general uso of grades throughout the state. Water cannot rise nbovo Its level; neither can the grado or scrub stallion, however muscular nnd hardy, ralso tho "blood lovel" of his progeny above that of his own veins In qunllty. The use of such sires, therefore, usually means no progress, no gradlng-up and . on, but mere maintenance of a dead level with a possibility of retrogres sion where unsound, unfit horses are employed. DR. A. S. AI.BXANDHH, Vuterlnnrlnn, Wisconsin. MANURE SHED FOR OLD BARN Ily Jonoph E. WltiSi Tho Idea of a covered place whero manure may bo spread and kept, trod don down under tho feet of animals, Is an excellent ono. Almost any sort of shed will serve, but It Is really nearly as cheap to mako an upper story under the ono roof, whero straw may bo stored for bedding, nnd oven hay may bo placed. Tho shed proper should ho high enough to permit ready driving undor, even with a depth of two to OLD DARM 40'e0' H- u u i o a t HEW HANunt JMCD ' o o c tt v ir n ' n IT , Diagram of the Manure Shed. threo feot of manure. Therefore we design tho shed proper to bo 10 feet lr tho clear. If manure is to bo storeC for long poiiods It should bo 12 feot I should mako the shod without anj pormnnont furniture, but with mova ble feed racks that can bo set any where. The dimensions may bo 30x3(5 feet, as In the Illustration, or If spneos aro snndo 14 foet It snny bo as a whole 12x12 feot, or any desired dimension Hreedors' Gazette. Wastes. Two things caimo expense In the poultry business. Tho first Is loss or waste; tho second feed. Pre vent wasto and mako a pound of feed produco tho greatest posslblo gains and you havo solved tho mystory of prof Its lu tho poultry business. Cleanli ness Is snoro than half tho batUo In preventing loss. Keep tho lots, tho yards and tho housos as clean na you can and you will find that tho lossos of last year will bo reduced CO per cent. Hens and Grasshoppers. Drop off (ho moat rations In grasshopper time. Save that for cold weather, vhen tho hens aro shut lu.