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THE SEil-WEEKLY TRilUHE IRA Ii. BARE, Publisher. TEJRMS, $1.26 fN ADVANCE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA POLITENESS. ! Tho'dccay of French politeness has become a subject for passing concern on (ho part of tho French themselves. It lino been frequently remarked by Jvlsltors to France, who havo allogcd a change In French manners with In ll)o period of their rccolloctlon, says tho Charleston News and Courier. The samb phenomenon Is somothing al leged of the weather In Now Eng land. Scientific meteorologista pooh pooh this, They declare' it to be all out of tho question for climate to be materially affected except by imper ceptible processes requiring ages to show results. So as to polltenoss in Franco; somo contend that the Chan go is more apparent than real. Most of thoso taking part in tho con troversy insist or admit it to be a fact. Thoso urge that tho causes bo Identified and correctives . applied. Thoro is a disposition, of course, to attribute It- to women, "especially ele gant women whoso lll-mannors have no limit," ns one oxport oubmlts. Is tho matter worth sorlouq considera tion? Or, rather, should not tho symptom bo welcomed? Is not po liteness itself a sympton of decay, Jlko tho beauty of old cathedrals, tho mellowness of long-stored vintages, or the art of tolling tho truth? Man In a natural stato is not romarkablo for good manners and will Ho cheerfully, fr'hat school which holds that the de cadence df a people may bo traced by observing its cultivation of tho habits of tolling the truth would prob ably reason that tho diffusion of po liteness 1b in the samo way signifi cant, if a lew. Important barometer of falling physical and intellectual virility. A robust entity does not bother about etiquette. Modern life Ih complicated. It is swift. We live at high tension, The sins of society people lmvo become Inured to them. Neurasthenia, one knows, is ofton tho inevitable, though tatich-to-bo-deprccated, result of going the pace, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. But what is one to think of neurasthenia la the poultry yard? Comes a publication which devotes. Itself to poultry and other topics of the farm. In it a correspondent .writes oil the symptoms of one of his hens listless, nervous, Indifference to food and society. Aud the editor replies that the symptoms are those of a nervous disease, and he declares that the only cure for the hen is tho rest cure is some quiet retreat, away from the feverish atmosphere of the poultry yard, Thjs is a withering in dictment o-f present-day civilization, A neurotic hen think of thatt A debutante of last season, no doubt, who should now be in the full feath er of glorious youth a victim ol nerves! The form of Curtlss biplane which travels on the water and land as well as in the air is winning admiration at Han Diego. The machine 1b a standard biplane equipped with bi cycle wheels and a pontoon about three feet wide by twelve, feet in length placed Immediately beneath the aviator with Us long axis at right angles to the planes. At the extremities of the lower plane are two small triangular copper tanks, whose function is to prevent the pianos from cutting too .deeply into the wa ter. Mr. Curtlss seeing to have thought of everything but a namo for his novel craft. The suggestion that It be known as the hydroterro- aeroplane shows closer acquaintance with the classics Utah with the habit of the American people to Insist upon cutting long words short. The February fire loss this year In the United . States and Canada amounted to $16;415.00Q. While a million more than the February loss last year and 80,000 In excess of the February loss in 1109 this was five millions below the aggregate for last month, and somewhat below tho average monthly loss during the twelve months last past. There is nothing alarming nor is there any thing encouraging In the Are loss fig-, urea of the first two months of the present year. On account et a heavy tecs In January, they are1 eight mil Hons in excess of the total for the first two months of 1910, but half a million below that for the correspond Ing porlod of 1909. Because a Chicago man Insisted upon being a candidate for trustee of one of the largo New York life Insurance companies, the company has been obliged to spend about $60 000 In having ballots and proxies printed In eleven different languages and walling them in sealed envelopes te all parts of the world, He is the only- candidate on the so-called policy holders' ticket, although 38 trustees are to be elected. It was a wise law which made provision for policy-hold er' tickets, but in this Instance it has set been advantageous from financial viewpoint, at least 5 HERE 10 STAY Control and Publicity for Public Service Corporations. VERDICT OF PROMINENT MAN Theodore N, Vail, President of West' ern Union and Telephone Compa nies, Recognizes. Rights ef the American Public. Public regulation of public service corporations has come to stay. It ought to havo como and it ought to stay. That is the flat and unequivocal assertion of Thcodoro N, Vail, presi dent of both the American Telephone and Telegraph company and tho West, em Union Telegraph company, It camo In tho form of his annual re port to tho seventy thousand stock holders of tho two great corporations. Although Mr. Vall's ndvocacy of full publicity in connection with the affairs of such concerns was well understood, nobody In financial circles had antici pated so frank an avowal of full pub lic rights in tho shaping of their gen eral conduct It camo consequently as a surprise, not only because of its novelty and squareness, but also on sccount of tho,. unqualified acquies cence of a boardot-dlrccfqrfl compris ing such eminent and consorvativo financiers as Robert Wlhson, of Kid dor, Poflbody & Co., and Henry L. Illgglnson of Boston, Honry P. Davi son of J. P. Morgan' & Co.; Senator W. Murray Crano, Oeorgo F. Baer, T, Jofforson Coolldge, Jr., Normnn W. Harris, John I.,Waterbury and others. President Vall's declaration Is her alded as tho first recognition by thoso in high corporate authority of tho Jus tice of tho domand that tho publlo be regarded as virtual partners in all matters that pertain to tho com mon welfare. Ho goes directly to the point "Public control or regulation of pub llo service corporations by permanont commissions," ho says, "has come and como to stay. Control or regulation, to be effect! vo, means publicity; It means semi-public discussion and consideration before action; it moans everything which is tho oppo site of nnd Inconsistent with effective competition. Competition aggressive, effectlvo competition means .strife, industrial warfare; it means conten tion; it oftentimes moans taking ad vantage of or resorting to any means that the conscience of the contestants or the degree of tho enforcement of the laws will permit "Aggressive competition moans du plication of plant and investment Tho ultimate object of such competition in tho possession of the field wholly or partially; therefore it means cith er ultimate combination on such basis and with such prices ns will cover past losses, or It meanB loss of return on investment, and eventual loss of capital. However it results, all costs of aggressive, uncontrolled competition are eventually borne, directly or Indirectly, by tho public. Competition which is, not aggressive, presupposes co-oporallvo action, under standings, agreements, which result in general uniformity or harmony of action, -which, in fact, Is not competi tion but is combination, unstablo, but for the time Bffectlvo, When thor oughly understood It will bo found that 'control' will give more of tho benefits and publlo advantage's, which Mo expected to bo obtained through Buch ownership, and will obtain thorn without the public burden of either the publlo office-holder or pub llo debt or operating deficit "Whon through a wlso and Judicious state control and regulation all the advantages without any of tho dlsad vantages of state ownership arg se cured, stato ownership is doomed." "If Mr. Vail Ih right," enys Harper's" Weekly. In a concise suiri mlng-up, "then It seems pretty plain mat. we are enierea upon a now era m both economics and politics,' And It Is high time we did If ovolution Is to supplant revolution as an efficient force in the development of civiliza tion." Fighting Mn. It is man's nature to fight It Is his merit to fight for what ho believes to bo right Courage and bravery are not achieved by hiring a lawyer. A man who Is not willing to fight to tha death for the right or for hs own is not as good or complete a man bb one who Is Is willing. But opinions about this are not so Important as the fact that It is man's nature to fight, and that neither resolu" nor legislation nor provision to get over all kind's ot trouble in any other way than fighting will avail. Ellwood Hendricks. In At lanta, More to the Purpose. "Are you in favor ot a ten-hour day?" "I don't care anything about the days,", replied young Roundorley, "but It would be a Jolly good thing It we eould have 24-hour nights." Misguided Energy. "I am bound to make & noise In the rrorld," said the determined youth, "But be careful how you go about ft," replied Mr. Osage Spouter, "An imnteur with a bass drum can spoil the finest symphony ever written." Joyous Economist. Tou don't mind high prices?" "No," replied the resolute philoso pher, "When prices are high, think how much more you save every time feu decide to get along without boss- thing." CAM0RRA fiMJtjrrstr Of PILOTED BY Big Bird From Cebu Held Twenty-Fathom Line. by Captured by American Naturalist After Two Weeks of Arduous Mountain Climbing and Watch fulness Goes to Zoo. Now York. Piloted up the bay by an lramcnso American eagie, uio tcamohlp Pathan closed n two months' trip from Cobu, in tho Philip pine Islands. The eagle has a double claim to tho tltlo American. Its na tive oyrle In the mountains ot Cebu Is under tho American flag, and tho bird itself will make its porraunont homo horeaftor In thq Bronx Zoo. After nearly two weeks of arduous mountain climbing nnd untiring watchfulnoss, tho bird was trailed to Us nest high upon tho faco of a pre- lpltous cliff by Professor Klngcome, an American naturalist, wno nna a thrilling adventure making It captlvo. Accompanied by throo Filipinos, ho climbed tho mountain by a roundabout trail, coming out on the cliff some 40 feot above tho eaglo's nest, at an ele vation of 9,000 foot above tho sea. Tho faco of tho cliff waB sheer and presented no foothold by which the bird hunter could descend. Making n ropo fast under his arms, and taking a turn with it around a treo, ho instructed thta littlo brown men how to lower him by slacking away easily. Tho descent was raado all right, and the eaglo, found asleep, was easily captured by means of a heavy net. Getting back to tho top of the cliff was another proposition. Tho Filipinos are not noted for big mus cles, and Jho profoBflor, with tho add ed weight of the eaglo, proved too much for their strongth. For more than an hour they tugged and pullod nt tho ropo, only to glvo out entirely TRAINING GIRL FOR MOTHER Woman Dean Says College Should Be Preliminary to Knowledge of How to Care for Dables, Cambridge, Mbbb. Believing that hor four college years are moroly pre liminary to a gtrl'B training, in which studicB should servo to mako, first of all, a competent wife and mother, Sarah Louise Arnold, dean of Sim mons collcgo, declares herself an ad vocnto of "homo education." Dean Arnold says that, although the girl usually goes to collcgo on tho ad vice of her mother, her fathor Is most anxious to establish hor an a com petent householder, and, If necessary, wago earn or. "A girl should havo opportunity to train herself for marrlod llfo," says Dean Arnold. "She noeds to learn how to take care of homo nnd children and how to earn her living if thrown on hor own resources. "When tho daughtor goes to collogo the father does not often appear ox copt In tho signatures tb checks. When a fathor does accompany a girl, or when ho conducts a correspond ence, n different conception ot a girl's needs la generally apparent In the 'conferences with fathers ono may dis cern no less sollcltudo for tho daugh ter's welfare, but ottoner a clearer vision ot the paths open betoro her. "It 1b, a pity that tho .wisdom ot home and school should not be more fittingly associated, "College Is at fault, for It substi tutes Intolloctual accomplishments tor the kind ot heart learning which has mado tho greatest womon most help ful and most Influential." TRIAL EXCITES ALL AN EAGLE with tho naturalist and his captive dangling in midair some 15 feet below tho first foothold on tho cliff. For a time Professor Klngcome thought his aids had. deserted him, as they raado no roply to his shouted or ders. Finally ho made thom pay at tention, and, under his Instructions a bight of tho line was lowered over tho face of tho cliff. This ho mado fast to tho oaglo, and leaving tho bird swinging there, the, professor climbed hand over hand to tho top of tho rock. After that It waB a simplo matter to haul up his prizo. Throughout tho trip, tho big bird was at liberty dally at tho end of a 20-fathom lino, nnd led tho ship for hours at a time. Tho lino, mado fast to a shacklo on the eagle's log. work ing in a swivol to prevent Jamming, did not seqm to worry tho captlvo Whon liberated It would dart up Into tno air to tho full length of tho line; then, as It felt the restraint, would gradually Bettle down to about tho lovol of tho ship's dock, and with its wingB full spread would maintain a HEN HAS MONKEY'S FACE New Jersey Fowl, Marked In Its Egg- hood Days, Is Hatched Out a Real Nature' Freak. Now York. Morltz Adler has a country homo and farm near Deal, N. J, Ho also has a Plymouth Rock chicken. Ho gave hor a placo In tho back yard oftho homo, with a dry goods box for a coop. Though perfectly normal in every other way, Rose that's her namo has tho shrewd face of a monkey. Sho drinks soup from a spoon held in the hand of her nurse. Having no beak, sho docs not peck at meat scraps, aftor tho manner of fowl, but picks them up daintily with her strawberry hued Hps. Tho facial expression ot Roso Is piquant She has a rather set ex pression nt tho comer of hor mouth, Indicating firmness ot character. Hor nose is well defined. Rising from her rathor broad forehead 1b a pompadour of feathers in tho Btylo that young girls affected with their hair a year ago, whon Roso was a smooth white egg instead ot a remarkable chicken. Tho general contour of hor faco Is Bomewhat llkp that of Susie, tho fun ny littlo orang-outang from Borneo who delights children nt tho Bronx zoo. Hor snappy black eyes light up wonderfully whon she sees cracked corn or oatmeal mush. She was born A year ago," said Adler. "I know her mothor well. Sho was. a flno old fussy nymouin ocn hett, who Btuck steadily to tho bus!- noss ot scratching gravel and produc ing ogga. She wasn't qulto as pro- gresslvo as some of -the more flashy Brown Leghorn and Indiana game young ladles of tho barnyard. Sho didn't take kindly to new-fangled Ideas ltko women's rlghtB. Nothing made her bo mad aa to see some other hen strutting around and clucking about wanting a vote. "An Italian organ grinder passed the farm one day with a tunny littlo South American monkey. Ho gnvo old Mrs. Plymouth Rock qulto a fright. The old lady disappeared, and three weeks afterward I found hor nest un der tho haymow. Twelvo littlo yollow chicks had Just hatched out The re maining egg was cracked, and some thing Inside was peeping sadly. All the other chicks had pecked tholr way out with their bills, but this ono was trying to got out and couldn't. "I broko tho shell, and then I Baw why It didn't have any beak. And ITALY VlTERBO, ITALY. Few events In recent years havo so stirred Italy ns has tho trial of members ot tho Ca morra now going on hero. Dramatic scones aro ot dally occurrence, and only tho other day tho courtwas com pelled to ndjourn becauBO of'tho NVlld demonotratlons of tho 41 defendants la their cage nnd of their friends in the court room. Tho trial 1b expected to last for about a year, and will bo one of tho most romarkablo In history. position ahead of tho ship for hours, keeping tho lino as taut as tho hawser of a tug. -When tired of playing, tho bird would como aboard and make no resistance to being tlod up with a shorter line on deck. When tho Pathan leaves hero for Baltimore thoro will bo a vacancy In tho berth of ono serang. Husoln Ben All, bo's'n and serang of tho Malay crow, was attacked with appendicitis and taken to tho Long Island Collcgo hospital, whoro the surgeons operated on him. Tho bo's'n has boon with tho ship for three years, nnd is an Im portant man on board from his author ity over tho crow. Tho Malays will chooso one of their own number to net as serang until tho ship reaches Llyorpool, whore Huseln Ben All will rojbln her if all goos well. This Is not tho only surgical case entered on tho ship's log since leav ing Cobu. While at sea,, ncarlng Singapore, Chief Officer Walker was superintending tho breaking out of some cargo to get at a eparo anchor, when tho tacklo slipped and one of. the big grappling hookB struck him on the cheek, fracturing tho Jaw". Wheth er tho eagle's prcsenco was respons ible for thoso casualties on board tho ship's company docs not say. - that's tho way Roso camo Into the world. Because sho was a freak tho head farmor'a wife 'took an Interest In her and educatod her, till now Bho Ib a lady all through. Sho talks all tho tlmo hor mouth Is never still and that's what makes mo think sho was marked pronatally by tho suf fragettes of tho barnyard. But thcro'B no way to tell," FARMERETTES TO TILL SOIL Mrs. O. H. Pi Belmont Opens First Clasa In Agriculture for Young Women of New .York. Now York. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont opened her first class In farming for girls tho other day. Twonty you'ng womon "farmerettes," sho calls thom, garbed In blue bloomers, broad-brimmed hats and boys' shoes, are com fortably ensconsed tonight In tho farm houno at "Brockholt," Mrs. Bel mont'a 1,000-acro estate on Long Island. Tho young womon were selected from COO applicants from Now Yprk factories. Thoy will first bo Instruct ed thoroughly In household duties upon a farm, and' with tho arrival ot "planting tlmo" In tho spring will take up plowing, planting and poultry raising. Not a mnn will bo on tho prcmlBos, oven to chop wood or tend tho horses. Tho girls will receive $4 a week during their two-months' courso of Instruction, and thoroafter may purchase small farms from tholr benefactress, t thoy wish to do so, upon agreement to till tno soil thorn selves. Takes Wrong Suit Case. r-m 1.1 llt-.l. . . ccuiue, vubu, a comeuy or er rors which probably will result In pro fuse apologies on tho part of A. Wal ters of 1413 Charles street occurred In an exchange ot suitcases on a Boa con hill street car. wauers ooarucu a uoacon mil car on his way homo from downtown. Ho Bat bosldo a woman who also had a suit case Whon Walters reached home ho opened tho caso and discov ered ho had taken tho woman's. "Thoso aren't mine," explained Wal tors to tho desk sergeant at police hcadquarterr. "I can't wear those;" as he drew forth a handful of lingerie nnd begged the pollco to oss,iBt him in locating tne woman who now has a case of men's clothing. FREE A trial package of Munyon's Taw Paw ills will bo sent frco to anyone on ro quest. Address Professor Munyon, 63d & Jefferson Sts.. Philadelphia, Pa. If you are in need, of medical advice, do hot fail to write Pfofewor Munyon. Your communis cation will bo treated In strict confidence, nnd yoar case will bo diagnosed ns care fully as though you had a personal inter- lew. Munyon's Paw Taw Pills ore unlike alt other laxatives or cathartics. They coax tho liver into activity by gentle methods. They fto not scour, they do not ttrlpe, thoy do not weaken, but they do start all tho secretions of tha liver nnd stomach in a wny that Boon puts there organs in a healthy condition nnd corrects constipation. In my opinion constipation is responsible for moat nil- incnU. There are 20 feet of human bowels, which is really a newer pipe. When this pipo becomes clogged the whole system become poisoned, caus ing biliousness, indigestion nnd impure blood, which often produce rheumatism nnd kidney ailments. No woman who suffers with constipation or , any liver ailment can expect to have a clear complexion or enjoy good health. If I had my way I would prohibit .the sale of nine-tenths of the cathartics that are now being sold for the reason that they soon destroy tho lining of the' stomach, setting up serious forms of indigestion, and to paralyze tha bowels that they re fuse to net unless forced by strong purgatives. Munyon's Paw Paw Pills aro a tonio to the stomach, liver and nerves. They invigorate instead of weaken; they en rich the blood instead of , impoverish it; they enable the stomach to get all the nourishment from food that is put into it. These pills contain no calomel, no dope; they arc Boothing, healing -and stimulating. They, school tho bowels to net without physic. Regular sizo bottle, containing 45 pills, m cents. lUunyon a .Laboratory, wu a Jefferson Sts.. Philadelphia. MADE HIS ESCAPE IN TIME. Metaphors of Millionaire Found No Response In tho Breast of tho Farmer. Tho millionaire accepted tho farm er's cordial invitation to rldo, and with much scrambling gained a seat on top of tho hay. "My good man," said tho millionaire, patronizingly, "this swaying, rolling, Bweet-scentcd divan is a couch upon which I could win slumber and bo ir rcslntlblo to the arms of Morpheus whenever I courted sweet sleep." Tho farmer stiffened. "I'll hear no. moro of your talk; I'm a respectable married man, an' I'll ask you where you're goin' so I can avoid tho place." Dreamily tho millionaire emiled. "I'm getting back to Mother Nature, who has been outraged and abused by me for years; I am a broken man, and sho will forglvo mo and bring me back to health." Tho farmer stopped tho team and pulled a throc-tlned pitchfork from the braco socket but his passenger was gone. Success Magazine. Badly Scared, you born with "Wore that stam- mor?" "No; I acquired it In trying to pro pose, to a rich girl." Washington Her ald. v Good breeding is bcnovolcnce in trifles, or t,ho preference of others to ourselves in tho littlo daily occur rences of life. Chatham. It Does The 'Heart Good To see how the little folks enjoy Post Toasties with crisp bits of corn, rolled cream pearly and Sweet, white toasted brown. to an appetizing "The Memory Lingers" TOSTUM CEREAL CO.. Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. rj