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THE SEMI-WEI KlY TRIBUNE 'IUA U UAKI4, l'ubllflior. TI3UM8, $1.25 IN ADVANCE NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA CAR SHORTAGE EXPECTED. Hallroad men aro repeating their warning of Inst year to northwestern dealers and consumers to placo their orders for coal as early as possible in order to safeguard themselves against delays Incident to a conges tion of trafllc, with Incidental short ness In tho car supply. They had reason for their warning of last year, desplto tho fact that business for months provlous had been dlscourag ingly light, but thin year they have what amounts to almost assurance of difficulty ahead In tho fact that traf fic In all departments of tho carrying business Is Increasing rnpldly. Thoro JJ nro 2GO.O0O ldlo cars In the United States. Canada and Mexico at the pros ent tlnio, but ordors for rolling stock ! nro compelling tno utilization or. ;; theso cars so rapidly that managers nro becoming norvouB In regard to tho coal trado. Indications point to jJ nn exceptionally heavy movement In grain during tho months in which de layed orders for fuel must bo filled In order to obviato suffering during thp ilrst cold weather of winter, and those; who wish to avoid anxiety and Lrou- bio nro ndvlscd to place their orders aa soon as possible. Paul Morton's plan of keeping money In tho country by lovylng an ox port tax on American holrcssos who marry foreigners nnd go abroad is basod on patriotic fooling, but tho no tion io not now In fact it was em bodied in a bill introduced in tho re cont congress by Representative Sab- noth of Illinois. Mr. Morton is not nlono In thinking It a -pity that Amer icana should fall down and worship titles. When hla rngo Is excited by tho spcctaclo of n splendid American girl with a rich fathor throwing her- Belt away upon a docadont sprig of European nrlstocracy, ho is in the eamo Btato as thousands of other froo Americans witnessing tho same sorry fipectnelo, saya tho Milwaukee Wis- consln. If a practical romcdy for tho evil enn bo found it will bo wldoly wel comed but moro especially if it bo not Inconsistent with tho flno old American prluclplo of individual lib erty. It Jo a grncoful ndt on tho part of tho British gOYernmontvto order nn entlro squadron of crulsors to this country to take part In tho Hudson Fulton celebration this fall. Tho af fair will bo distinctly American. Nev ertheless It will havo significance for tho ontlro world. Tho discovery of tho Hudson lod ultimately to tho do velopmont of a region thnt has bo- como ono of tho most important on tho globo, and Fulton'B experiment marked tho beginning of tho era of Btcam navigation, of which tho mighty navy of Great Britain, nnxt of which will bo presont at tho commemoration, Is nn outgrowth. Ships of other nn- tinn ninn will i. m, l.nn.i n.i t . .. .... i tho grca test features of tho pageantry uu u.nj.mjr ui biuu.h vusHcia juuiGiiung mo growtu in mat uirec tion Blnco tho Clormont made her epochal trip. Tho test of lllnun Percy Maxim's nolsolcss cannon of largo boro in to bo mado at Hartford, Conn., whoro ho Is at tho present tlmo. In October ho will go to Europo 'for tho purpose of domonstrntlnc his invention. Mr. Mnxlm'B patents for nolsolesB weapons protects him In Japan aa well ns In tho countries' of Europo. Invention of denth dealing dovlcca, howovor, continues nctlvo thoro ns well ns horo. From Berlin comos roports of tho ap plication or principles of wlrolosa tolegraphy to tho sotting off of mines. An oloctrlo wnvo, transmitted from tho operating point, produces a spark in tho apparatus connectod with tho julno. Both nrmy nnd oloctrlcnl ex ports doclaro that tho lnvontlon will revolutionize modem warfnro. Tho government bullotln roports tho tivorngo condition of cotton at G3.7 per cent, of normal, nnd on this basis tho total output will bo about 10,250,- 000 bales, whereas tho yield last year was 13,800,000 bales. Tho world's con sumption of cotton is placed at 13, COO.000 baloB annually. These figures conv.oy tholr own comment as to how closoly tho supply will approxlmnto tho demand. Certainly thoro Booms to bo no need of restricting cotton growing next year in order to avert tho accumulation of an ombnrrasslug surplus. Tho Fluasur is a flyer. Tho Flussor is a llttlo torpedo boat Just built for Undo Sam's navy, nnd In tho stan dardization trial mndo 33.7 knots an hour, which is threo knots bottor than any otlior American warship has dono. Tho Flussor must bo about as spoody ns the torpodoes thoniBolvos. Tho roportcd uprising of tho Sera lnolo Indians Is proved basoloss. The "Somlnolo Doflnnco" romnins as a fact merely between tho covcra of tho pop ular readors and recitation mnnunls. Queens? "Has any queen a greater chance to make her Individuality felt than we, each In her home?" Mre. Edith McCormlck, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, in tho pride of motherhood, put tho question In a recent expression of her opinion as to the dignity of motherhood and the often-quoted sacri fice maternity entails. With It sho touched nearly upon another question, and one which has dono as much In the swaying of the empires as all the states men and politicians of the past have been ablo to accomplish with the prestige of monarchs and the forco of mighty armies: Who are the real queens of the world? Does It, Indeed, lie. In any power, except those of birth and pre rogative, to Invest a woman with tho essential attributes of a queen, omitting only the title and tho crown? T HERB ia much to bo Bald for tho contention of tho daugh ter of tho world's most famous millionaire, that overy worthy mother In n queen among women ovory thing, except this: That sho Isn't. For to bo a queen, a woman must rulo, by whatever means sho enn com mand, over n wholo people, not ovor a family or a fow Individuals merely; nnd ovor hor pcoplo her Bwny must on duro undisputed. Such pro-omlnonco nnd Btich rulo, while it docs climlnnto tho slmplo ma triarch, remains far from dcbnrrlng from admission many n woman who enn nover woar a crown. And it docs Bhut out not a fow who wenr crowns to-day. For thoro aro quoens who nro ob vious nonentities on their august thrones, oven ns there aro untitled womon whoso Bway is ns potent, and aB roaa ns uiat ovor wieucu uy tno m8t tyrannous of kings ovor tho most "ubBorvlent of peoples. in uiu nisi H'LH'l' allium a iiumuur of tho rolgnlng majostlos of tho pros ent, foremost among them tho quoon of tho most stnblo kingdom and tho empress of tho most oxtonslvo omplre tho world now knows and In nil Its history has contained Aloxnndra of Great Dritaln. In Praise of Alexandra. Sho la famed for ovory att'flbuto of boautlful and admirable motherhood; Bho comos of tho most widely on- thronod roynl race; sho Is all that la lovely and oxcollont nnd gracious Yet hor power, hor real powor, as a rulor remains practically nil. Hor bus band, nttor a caroor which British loyalty, romlutscont of bin prlnceshlp of Wtties. finds it imnosslblo to forcet. and under a constitutional era that ties such monnrcha to tho Innocuous nesa of automata, has proved himself a king in tho full reality of tho cun nliB nnd nbllity in which Cnrlylo dls ?,ove!;f tUo orlgln nml sflcnnco of 4 It is a Btrango anomaly; n son, sue ceodlng n mother whoso dominant Bprlt kopt , grny beard ftlmoBt R mockery of lits destiny to power, and instantly exorcising moro potent In fluence upon tho affairs of tho world than any of IiIb predecessors for n hundred years, whllo ho 1b hampered with restrictions of growing democ racy such as they would havo spurned with contempt In tholr haughty, royal rolgns. -s On Three Great Thrones. And, besldo him, a consort succeed- Ing Victoria and lacking tho powor to banish from hor offondod Bight a worn an whoso rolntlous with Edward would havo mndo that nil-powerful old lady almost exllo both 111 m and hts fair protcgeo from England Itsolf. It must ho often n cniol bitterness that ur.d'.vIlcB th" ttr.vi-M-s amllo ' ' ' ' with which n consort llko Aloxnndra hoars tho flattering tltlo "quoon." Far worso tho caco of tho czarina of Russia, whoso wholo oxlstcnco is ono sorloB of terrors for tho Bafoty of hor husband and her children; and no moro queenly, although much happlor, Jb tho station of tho empress of Ger many, relegated practically to tho of- flco of hausfrau, n basis on which every other German wife and mother is fully hor equal. Theso aro tho thrco most mighty thrones in tho world to-day, and theso tho womon who nro, In reality, least among queens. For tho real queens, enthroned In tho possession of real power tho queBt must turn to tho fes ser kingdoms, whoro tho head that wears the crown need but nod to compel obcdlcnco. Such n real queen In Wllholmlnn of Holland, tho only woman living to-day whoso maternity earns hor tho roynl rank Mrs. McCormlck hna so futllely claimed for all her lovely box. Upon tho ability for moth irhood In Wll hclmlna, tho Dutch roallzed. tholr na tional exlstonco depended; and to her they glvo, with tho f.cc'ialm of rejoic ing independence, tho stanch loyalty which Implies nlj tho powor a modern queon can covet. Pprtugal'8 Unfortunate Queen. So, too, docu llttlo Portugal own a queen, Amollo, whoso courago crowned, amid the tragedy that mado her dow agor Quoon, tho forco of character with which Bho long combated tho weaknesses of hor husband, Carlos. Portugal, for nil its ferocious social istic plotters, realizes that it has a genuine queen; amid Its sullen growls It whimpers under her remnants of power. And Italy, nftor n period of distrust, acccptod Queon Helena amid tho chnos Bho so devotedly faced In tho ruins of Messina. But thoro ends tho brlof listing of tho real queens whoso crowns aro moro than gowgaws; for tho greatest, most genulno of them nil, tho modorn Somlrnmls of power, who mndo nil plotting China bend beforo her will nnd wielded tho Bceptor of her lrro Blatlblo might whllo sho gasped in tho agonies of death, has vanished, with only n towering placo In history to toll how vory posslblo It hna boon for nt poor and pretty slnvo girl to govorn 400,000,000 pcoplo by hor own unaided brain. What, then Is tho roallty of tho queenly olllco, as it is enjoyed upon 1 tho modorn thrones, when compared with tho powor of tho uncrowned queon3 whoso sway is acknowledged In many lands to-day? If It bo a question of tho actuality of power, exercised ovor numerous and Influential subjects, only that famous downgor omprcBS of China now dead and dono for, could hnv prcnumed to rival tho silent, impcr turhablo sway which goca with tho millions of Hetty Green as sho alts in her decont black dress in her mod ost office In tho Chemical National bank. The Real Monarchs. Every fltntosman In lCuropc, nnd every monarch confesses that tho ac tual kings, with power to mako and forbid wars, aro tho Rothschilds, whoso Immense wealth controls the treasuries that nro wnr'B vltnl Bin evs. If, by somo ttnbcllovnble turn of fate such a one, for lnstnnce, as be fell Samson of old Hetty Green wcro moved to nbandon all her alliances, call all her loans, nnd try hor strength, Just onco, tho wholo United Stntcs would feel that a giant's strength was shaking tho pillars of Us finance. No queen, that silent old woman who was onco New England's toasted belle; but no queen, except her con temporary In distant China, has, in tho century past nnd present, so mndo men bend beforo her in trlbuto to her rulo. Whllo riches are powor and tho powor most sensibly felt abroad aa well as here they do not afford tho sole domain that Is open to the lead ers of mankind. Both tho Intellect and tho emotions serve ns foundations for nlleglnnco often moro stanch nnd moro oxtonslvo than can bo won by tho anointed queens. Disraeli's Course. If, beforo n Jury expert In weighing of ovldenco, tho relative powers, of practical cfilctcnBy, pertaining to Queen Aloxnndra and Mrs. Humphry Ward could bo submitted for trial, nothing but tho notorious lip loyalty of tho Englishman could glvo tho ver dict In favor of tho reigning queen. With Victoria, of course, tho dlsputo would havo been too unequal, for sho was nn imperious young lady nnd old lndy; nnd nil tho literary lights of her era except, porhaps, Thackeray fall to show so prohounccd an IrapresBlon as she made on tho manners and mor als of her times, whllo India became her empire because DIsraoll, as her prlmo minister, comprehended how much sho longed for tho title, nlbelt Great Britain already enjoyed tho sub stance Yet that very tttlo, manufac tured from thin air to add nnothcr crown, hns In tho end served to rivet tho chains of ownership upon half a continent In Asia. But, as things go soberly at presont, tho odds of powor nil IIq with tho woman novelist, whoso Influence all England admits frcoly. As things go, too, In Franco, tho drama gives to tho world another queen, whoso dominance no ono dares deny. Snra Bernhardt can Btlll lny hor slendor hands upon tho Inmost souls of men nnd hnlo them forth until their owners nro hor humble slaves nnd this by no wiles of beau ty and no ravishment of form. Her Position Won. Sho won her distinguished position through such mazes of rivalries and cabals as fow queens, excepting thoso of tho seventeenth nnd eighteenth centuries, havo encountered deeply laid schemes of astuto schemors, whoso hntrcda cld not flinch at tho most detcstablo attacks. Sho has en durcd, nnd Is now moro prized by hor republican compatriots thau nro tho queens of Europo by tholr nominally loynl subjects. Italy has Its stago queen ns well ns Franco, n woman whose wholo llfo has boon a romnnce, hor rlso to great ness having been mnrked by ns 1m presslvo a discrepancy ns that which attended tho beggar maid whom King Cophotua loved. Until tho titular queen of Italy bold ly conquored tho affections of her subjects by braving death and sustain Ing Injury aftor tho terrible Sicilian earthquake, thoro was small doubt as to tho woman to whom tho bulk of Itnly's nlleglnnco was passionately given, nnd that In splto of tho equally passlonato manner In which tho fam ous actress, Duso, had for somo yonrs been repelling hor compatriots' dovo tlon for tho sako of her affection for tho ingrato d'AnnunzIo. It Is rnroly, very raroly, thnt tho stagq queen onjoys, llko Bernhardt, a llfo tonuro of office. Usually hor sub jects fnll away with tho decadonco of hor boauty. But sometimes, among tho chnrming dolls of tho theater, there appears tho woman of gonitis, llko Bernhnrdt nnd Duso, tho inspira tion of wIiobo divine tlamo compols loyalty to tho Inst. That has been tho endowment of some fow of tho on- thronod queens, and history has glam oured them with romanco in every tint with which it limns their carcos. Duso, for the Bako of ono trencher ous devotee, noglected her audiences nnd dragged her suhllmo talents into tho oblivion of his dull stagecraft. Sho survives to-day, a possibility of tho future, but, for tho present, a queon In abdication who gavo her all for lovo. The Regal Melba. Tho Irrcsistiblo sway over tho emo tions, which constitutes on tho stago a moro potently roynl power thnn all but a fow of thoso who wear tho crown can cxerclso, extends to music. Every ago brings Its queen of song, somo wondrously gifted creature on whoso parted lips tho thousands hang entranced. Llko tho actress, no origin fs too low, no birthplace too dlstnnt, to keep her from destiny. Australia gavo to tho world tho regal Melba; but multitudes tho world over havo testified to her powor ovor tho senses nnd the emotions of tho peoples. With tho ono exception of Wllhcl mlna of Holland in which hor peoplo'3 grntltudo for their rescued independ ence remains still wnrm, thoro lives probably not n queen whoso pnsslng from her throno would bo movo to nnxlety or mourning tho very subjects who protest nlleglnnco as would tho loss of ono of tho uncrowned quoens of this modern day. That Is because this modern day ac- 4 v n i i copts Its kings very much on toler- nnco, its queens only as inovltablo at tachments, nnd Its real loadors in thought and art as raro possessions It cannot afford to lose. What Austria Celebrates. Every nation In tho civilized world apparently can find In tho record of 1809 something to "centennlnllzo" this year. Even Austria, which In 1809 underwent terrible humiliation at tho hands of Napoleon, is no exception, for if its rcgulnr armies .were defeat ed, Its Irregular patriots, tho Tyroleso under Andreas Hofer, won such vic tories over tho Franco-Bavarians that It was only diplomacy that ruined them. Tho Tyroleso, who had In 1805 been mndo Bavarians against tholr will, endeavored, on tho renewal of tho war between Franco and Austria four years later, to rejoin tholr coun try to Austria. Even nfter Austria had been compollod to yield thoy kopt on fighting. Undor tho leadership of Hofor and his associates, who had had no other oxperlenco in war than what fell to their lot as militia officers, thoy Inflicted crushing defeats on French mnrshnls nnd were finally ovorcomo only by forco of numbers. Ilofcr, who was captured, was shot by Napoleon's order after a perfunctory trial. His name is still great in Tyroleso song and story and history justifies Its greatness. Tho events of 1809 nro bo Ing commemorated at Innesbruck this .week In tho presence of Franz Joseph Work to Suppress White Plague, During tho year ending September 31. 1909. 37 out of 0 legislatures in session considered measures rolatln to tuberculosis. Tho enormous sum of nearly $3,1500,000 was appropriated for tho suppression of tho white plague. Flfty-slx laws pertaining to tho prevention of consumption wore passed. Eight new stato sanntorla woro provided for; bIx states passed laws permitting the erection of coun ty tuberculosis hospitals, and eight states adopted laws roqulrlng tho enroful reporting and registration of tuberculosis. In addition to theso provisions mado by tho various states, the federal government granted near ly $1000,000 for tho maintenance of its tuberculosis hospitals In Fort Bayard and Fort Stanton, N. M., and Las An! mns, Cal. j Saw Husband's Apparition. A remarkablo caso attributed to telepathy Is reported from Capua, Italy. A woman woko up ono night recently In a state of delirium. Call Ing togethor hor friends and nolgh bors sho told thorn that Bho had just seen an nppnrltlon of her husband who for two yoars past had been ab sent In Now York. Hp nppenred to her to ho lying In a hospital with ono hnnd covering his breast, and ho told her that ho had boen gravely wound ed. Tho day aftor sho recelvod cablegram from America Informing hor that her husband was dying, hav ing been stabbed by nn emissary of tho Black Hand. SWEETLY PUT. 11 DM V a IUJr- Myrtle And yon nover tiro of push ing my board walk chair? Jerome No, Indeed. On tho con trary, I feel llko I am carrying every thing beforo mo. Myrtle Why, I am not everything. Jerome But you nro everything to mo. HUMOR BURNED AND ITCHED. Eczema on Hand, Arms, Legs and Face It Was Something Terrible. Completo Curo by Cutlcura. "About fifteen or eighteen ycaro ago eczema dovelopcd on top of my hand. It burned and itched so much that I was compelled to show it to n doctor. Ho pronounced it ringworm. After trying his different remedies tho dlscaso increased nnd wont up my arms and to my legs and finally on my face. Tho burning wa3 something terrible. I went to nnothcr doctor who had tho reputation of being tho best in town. Ho told mo It was eczema. His mcdlclno checked tho advance of tho .disease, but no further. I finally concluded to try tho Cutlcura Reme dies and found relief In tho first trlnl. continued until I wa3 completely cured from tho dlscaso, nnd I havo not been troubled since. C. Burkhart, 23G W. Market St., Chambcr3burg,'Pa., Sept. 19, 1908." rotter Drug & Chctn. Corp., Solo Props., Boston. Mars the Next Field. Thoro nro many who will part from tho north polo with regret. All their lives it has seemed tho ono unconquer- ablo salient of nnturo's fortress, tho vory synonym of tho lmposslblo goal of human endeavor. With tho polo Itself succumbing, tho world Is no longer tho samo, and everything seems within tho realm of mortal achieve ment. Wo must now think of talk ing with Mars with moro respect. Tho professor's mirrors may prove any day a reality. Shake Into Your Shoes Allon'a Foot-Easo, tho antiseptic powder. 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