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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1909)
We Wish You A MERRY CHRISTMAS. -A Clinton, The Jeweler. r DR. 0. II. CRESSLER, Graduate Dcnlisl. Office over the McDonald State Bunk. Geo. F. Payne left last night for a visit wilh friends at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mrs. J. C. Den left yesterday for Arapahoe to visit friends for a cou ple of weeks. Miss Ruth Streitz arrived home Wednesday from Omaha to spend the holiday vacation. Frank McGovern leaves tonight for Denver, where he will spend Christmas with his parents. Judge Hoagland has been con fined to the house for a week past with an attack of lagrippe. J. A. Markce returned this week from Lisco where he sold five or Eix thousand dollars worth of land. Miss Eunice Babbitt arrived from Lincoln this week and will visit her parents during the school vacation. Mr. Green, the plumber, accom panied by Mrs. Green, left last night for Columbus, where they will visit friends for several days, Wanted A girl to learn book keep ing. Apply by letter only to North Platte Telephone Co. Chas. Fredericy, the urbane waiter at the Vienna, left last night for Holten, Kan, when he will visit relatives for a week or two. Snow began to fall again this morning and the aspects are de cidedly wintry. There teems to be no hope for the banana crop to survive the present wintry weather. Arthur McNamara went to Den ver Wednesday and from there to Oakley, Kan, to spend Christmas wun his daughter and sister-in-law. The Kirksmith Sisters entertained a goed-tized audience, at the Keith last evening with a program of vocal and instrumental music, each number of which was well received Y M. C. A. Note. Through the generosity of Dr. C. B.Miller the Y. M. C A library has an addition of fourtten volumes by Theodore Roosevelt. The interest in chess and checker is on the increase. If time seems to languish, come up and enjoy a game, and you will bo surprised how enchanted be come the hours. Our Sunday meetings seem to meet a sympathetic chord. As the onchontcd timo of tho year ap proaches, when men more than ever are thinking of gifts, do not forget that the greatest gift is one's self. Tho Y. M. C. A. sends greetings to all and wishes for all just a good enough time, not to require bleed ing. Como to tho mooting Sunday at 4 p. rn, The Boatswain's Judumant. It was somewhere In till wide, wide world. JuM whore linn slipped my mind, mid they were about to buy beef on hoof for the ships Bo the ouVor whose duty It In to make tin piuchum tools lisle re wllli lilm the ImVn. n representing tho crow, to look nvor tlx nnlmnls and ollher nhleet op not. Thc.v appronohrd tho llrst niituml "How will tbnt dor asked tho ofll cer. Tho boVn rnntlntmly approached the benst, bent down nnd gingerly rnn hi thumb nnd rnrollntior down flrM out hunk nnd then tho other until Hie wholj four shanks hud heoii oNnmlned Straightening np ho said: "He'll do nil rl"ht. Mr." Tin? oftlecr, flabbergasted, erlod: "Rut. dneh It nil, ym can't toll tic pood points of n bullock by th fdinnhsl" "Perhaps not. fW. hiii they're t. only purip we or t gciw 'r ' n tt'plj. l'lll .Mllll (1(17.0110 The North Platte Steam Laundry is presenting its patrons with a Christmas souvenir in the shape of a thermometer, on article that is useful, and has its value as an ad vertising medium. "Put your Duds in our Suds," is the advice inscrib ed, a rather catchy phrase. Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of District Supt Chamberlain, left this morn ing for Malvern, Iowa, to attend the funeral of her mother. The deceased had been visiting relatives in Mont ana and died while there. The remains were taken east this morn ing. Mrs. Chamberlain joining the funeral party at this station. Mott's Puro Annlo Cider BOe nor gallon.. - Stone Dkuq Co. The Tribune interviewed a cloth ier, a dry goods man, a jeweler and a grocer this morning as to the Christmas trade. Each reported bet ter business up to last evening than last year. The dry goods man said there was not the usual country trade, but that the trade from town residents was very much heavier. He said people bought more expen sive goods this year than last, and thejeweler said the same. Alto gether the Christmas trade has been satisfactory to local merchants, and apparently more goods have been sold than last year for the same period. Notice. Customers whose accounts have run over tnirty days are requested to pay in full before Jnnuar 1st, 1910, if they uesire create lor ine ensuing year. E. T. Tramp. Sunday Dinner at Enterprise Bakery. Oyster Soup. Roast Turkey Oyster Dressing Roast Chicken Cranberry Jelly Roast Veal Mashed Potatoes Lobster Salad Cream Peas Olives Pickles Celery Pies Apple Mince Lemon Plum Pudding Oranges Bananas Tea Coffee Milk Big Land Sale. Dr. Geo. Roeder, of Grand Island, has sold to Geo. J. Oaken, of Hast ings, a big body of land in Nowell precinct. The tract is embraced in 'all of sections 23 and 25, the west half of section 24, and the east half of the west half of section 24, town 12, range 32, and the consideration was twenty thousand dollars. This is the land southwest of the city formerly owned by C. F. Scharmonn nnd sold by him to Dr. Roeder; Presbyterian Church. The members of the Sunday Schcol will prefent their Christmas exeiches in the basement of the church on Saturday evening at 7:30 o deck. On Sabbath there will be special music at both services. The pas tor's morning theme will bo: "The Babe of Bethlehem," evening topic, "God's Proraiso to His Saints." A cordial invitation is extended toalL Cb-Utmas Services at Catholic Church. On Christmas morning tho services nt tho Cathollo church will be at six, soven nnd ten thirty. At the first nnd third mns tho choir w II render Wihl Mntifeld's Mobs in C. Kyr'o Chorus Glritt Chorus Gratias Agimua P. T. Redmond Quonium Mrs. Joo HayB Cr"to Chorus Et in Cornntua Est " Chan. Pnos Et In Spirltum Ed Kcllhor Snnctua Chorus Benodlctus Geo. Ell nnd Chorus Agntia Dei Mrs. P. Uasmussen Dona Nobis Chorus Benediction 0 Sanitaria Misa Lorotto Murphy Tnntutn Ergo Miss II. Goodin, Mrs. F. Basmusocn. Luilnto Chorus MIb Mary Tifiho, OrgauiaU SCHILLER & CO., Prescription Druggists First Door North of Fint Nsttonsl Dank Buys Lamb Grocery. A deal wa9 consummated last evening whereby E. T. Tramp and Fred Westenfeld became the owners of the Lamb grocery store in the Third ward. An inventory of the stock will be made tomor row and the purchasers will take formal possession as soon tis the in ventory is completed, which will probably be Monday morning. Mr. Lamb disposes of the store on account of poar health, brought by too close application to business s noted in these columns a few. weeks ago, Mr. Lamb's success has been phenomenal during t ia three years he has been in busings. Mr. Tramp has been in this grocery business for ten years, nnd has made nn unqualified success. He itarted with a small stock now he occupies two rooms at hi t present location. Mr. Westenfeld. who is associated with Mr. Tram:) in the purchase, has been in the employ of the Union Pacific for twenty-six years. He will resign his position und give his attention to the busi ness, and will have associated with him as clerks his son Henry and Herbert Tramp. The new firm is a progressive one, and there is no question but that they will not only maiatain I he present volume of busings in the Third ward, but increase it along with the natural increase of the city. Mr. Lamb will remain in the city and look after his realty interests. Install Officers. The local lodge of the B. of R. T. had an installation of officers last evening, and following the cere mony gave a supper and dance at the Masonic hall to the members of the ladies' auxiliary of the same or uer. About seventy were present, and the evening proved a most en .it - . . joyaDie one. sucn anairs as tnese cement the fraternal ties, result in greater sociability among the mem bers, and are certainly to be com mended. And Again... The Tribune is compelled to issue but four pages today on account of the non-arrival of the auxiliary sheets from Omaha. The slowness of freight shipments on the Union Pacific is certainly very aggravating, so much so that it has caused The Tribune publisher to decide to make a change at an early data in the form and make-up in the paper a change that he beheve3 will be ap preciated by patrons. Stung For 15 Years by Indigestion's pangs try ng many doctors nnd $200.00 worth of medicine in vain, B. F. Ayscuo, of Inglcside, N. C, at lastused Dr. King's New Life Pills, and writes they whdly cured him. They cure Constipation, Bilious ness, Sick Headache, Stomach, Liver, Kidney 'and Bowel troubles. 25c at Stone Drug Co. Simplified Debate. "Are you going to attempt to m. awor nil tho charges madu ncralne you?" "Certainly." replied Scm tor Snr Rlium. "Answering charges lhosedny So easy. All you've put to do In to say 'You're another.' " Washington Star A Dffnltlon. "What Is the difference between pre forml nnd common stock?" "Well. If yott buy the common yon lose your money right off. but If you buy preferred there Is n lltilo longor delay nbout It." Judge. Bello Jiouo wiO fbo FipUUny Poreon, MIGRANT IDCIG Dy GWENDOLEN ADAMS. Copyrlsht, 1809, by American Press Asso ciatlon.) At the port of New York there Is what Is called the barge otbee. It Is connected with the transit of goods and people from abroad luto the Unit cd Suites. It Is u place apparently as bare of romance iih uu ash heap. Hut wherever the human heart boats there Is romance. Painters and poets like to picture It us far us they can from the business world, especially eschewing localities where people are hurrying with their strapped and roped chattels rrom the odoriferous steerage of a ship to the smoke and dust of a rail way train. Nevertheless there are count loss ro i nn ni-os among Immigrants entering the United States. "Is this the place whore they keep tho Immigrant girls'" asked a black eyed ymiiiK Armenian who came hur riedly Into the .Now York barge otlico. But the until s English was not lutein. glide, so lie received no reply till alter his iiatlouallty was learned and an In terpreter had boon ended. The Inter preter told him that be bad struck the place bo was looking for. lie at once herkntiotl In the direction of tbo door, and several dark cnmplcxloticd fellows ml vii need. "Those are my witnesses." Raid the young man. "This Is tho clerk, and this Is the priest. (51 vo me my girl, and I will marry her at once, so that you need uot ho afraid that the gov ernment will have to lake care of her." "What sort of nonsense are you giv ing ine?" said I ho Interpreter. "I am an Armenian. Tosbkowhl Is an Armenian too. Why do you keep me waiting'; Didn't I tell you that 1 am ready to marry horV" "See hero, you crack brained luna tic. 1 am employed to Interpret what you say from Armenian luto English! Talk In your native tongue and stop the long roll In r"x." - "Huh: 1 not speak English. 1 been In this country throe years." Then ho commenced again In his adopted tongue and rattled his r's and bounced his b's. An otllcer cried. "Call tbo madam." The "mother of Immigrants" made her appearance, and to her the young man told bis story. Women are more keenly sensitive to romance than men. and It was uot long before the matrou scented a love affair under the rat tling r'a and bouuelug b't. It wus this: ' Three years before the young as pirant for honors lu the English tongue bad oouie to America from Ar menia. Ills inline was Vnhl (Crlhorian. lie had loft at homo a pretty sweet heart, thou seventeen years old. mimed Tosbkowhl (iohedlau. It seemed sin gular to the Investigators that a man with such a mime able to tipenk en dearingly to a girl with such a name should after throe years lu America have made so little headway lu Eng lish. The upshot of the mat tor was that Tosbkowhl had come over to Join Vii 1 1 1, who was abundantly able to take care of her. and proposed to relieve the government from nil responsibility cou corning her by marrying her. Then the matron took the oftlcer to tho girl. She was a small, slender creature, with large black eyes and hair equally black plastered down over her temples and colled up behind lu small braids. She was very bashful and ready to blush at the slightest provocation through her olive complex Ion. The clerk questioned her before she was brought forth to her lover. "Have you got any money V" he asked. "No. sir. I have n sweet heart." "H'iiiI" said the clerk. "A bird In the bund In worth two in the hush. How do you kuow he'll marry youV" "llci'iiuse Cod would strike him dead If he did not keep his promise." "Aud he would deserve It. Come this way." Ho led her to where her lover was with his witnesses aud the priest. As soon ax Vn hi saw Her stur.dlng de murely among the others ho rati to her and, putting his arms around her. was about to kiss her when she drew back. Her cheeks (locked like two roses be hind dark lace. "What do you mean. ToHhkowhlV" asked the lover, terrlllod. "Have you changed? JJou'l you want uie after tho loug voyage across the ocean V" "Yes, Viih I. but there are so many princes looking nt us. am ashamed." "Well, well! Thou wo will bo mar ried at ouco. 1 told those geutleuien that tho president need uot fear hav lug to tifke cure of you: that 1 urn earning gtxxi wages and will do that myself. Soe. here are the witnesses, und there Is the prkwt. Como, lot us Imj married." Tho custodian of the government's luterests would uot permit the mar riage wlthlu the barge otUco. no tho parly adjourned just without the walls. Tho cjerk. In order to make mire that tho girl did not cscae unmarried nnd call upon the president for a liv ing, kept her In sight till the ceremony was torfoniied. After It was over the "ptluces" wept back to their dally avocations, couslstlug chiutly of terri fying lmmlgruutH with fcur tuoy vlll haw to bo tunicd Uit'k to ouduro another trip lu the Htoerngn to bud themselves again at the end of tho voyage In the despotic latids from which they have vainly tried to es cape. Utile Tosbkowhl found herself free to go "out Into A merlon." So the sentimental part of this ro nianco ended. Perhaps It is well that It did. It must have boon dllll ult oven before marriage for the lover to keep whHporlng repeatedly "Dearest Tosb kowhl, do you love inoV" and hoar lu reply. "Yen, 1 lore you, Vuhl Krlbo JiaV . . ... . 11 NEW YfcAH GIFT, By BEVERLY WORTHINGTON. ICopyrlcht. 1009, by Amorlcan Press Asso ciation. "Mr. Blckford." said the president, "you are nware. 1 suppose, that this business Is solely for making money. What pays goes; what doesn't pay does uot go. Besides, my stockholders keep ine up to milking dividends. If I duu't pay dividends my head goes off We can get your work done for half of the salary we pay you. We shall not need your services ufter tho 1st ot Jnuunry." "But. Mr. Tlnkbam, I'vo been with you sixteen years. I'm now thirty-six. Places are being tilled by younger meu. I fear I may not get another." "That Is your misfortune." "1 don't know what 1 shall" "I have no time to listen to what your future may be. 1 havo other mat ters to attend to." Blckford fretted over his discharge till It made him 111. One day a chum suld to him: "Blckford. 1 tell you what you do. You've got $1.lKK). I kuow. Spend half of It having a good time. Resign your position aud go off whero you'll tlnd something to distract your attention from thin bugbear. When you feel strong come back aud go to work nt anything you can get to do. If you stay here you'll go under." Blckford took the advice. He went to riorlda. putting up at a hotel where he paid $" a day for his board, and stayed there a month. Instead of get ting matters luto u better be got them Into a worse tlx. tie fell desperately in love. The object of Blckford's affection was .Miss Malda Tlbbetts, a young girl who was staying at one of the less pre tentious hotels. It was more ipilct aud comfortable I ban the caravansary whore Blckford was staying, aud Miss Tlbbetts' mother, an Invalid, was with her, and the house was better titled for Kuch u person. Nevertheless from appearances there was no money lu the Tlbbetts family. Blckford felt that be wan play lug a contemptible part -lu making It appear by the amount that be dally expended for board that be was opulent when In reality he was without any Income whatever. But lu his affair with Miss Tlbbetts he found at least a temporary mental relief from his troubles nnd bud no heart to break with her till he was obliged to. When his $300 was spent, except enough for his rallwuy ticket home, be found himself In a po sition to make nu explanation. Ue told the girl the facts. Probably she would have blamed him for what he bad done had It not been for her repugnance to the treat ment he hnu received. "These modern ways of dolug busi ness." she said, "are execrable. As soon us ti moan mau has established a successful business he capitalizes It. This gives him a board of directors, to whom be pretends to be responsible. This in turn gives him nu ostensible excuse to run the busluess, without a soul. Then he gits rid of those who have helped him build it up und re places them by cheaper men. mere cogwheels lu the great macblno ho has been constructing." The question between Blckford nnd Miss Tlbbetts was what should thc, do. They loved, and Blckford could :ot support a wife. Miss Tlbbetts was an ardetit believer lu love us a basis of matrimony, with or without money. She said that when she got back to the north she thought she could (ind something among her rela tives for itlckroid to do. He hud $100 lu brtuk at home, which, with some funds of hers, would last them for sev eral mouths. Hlckford saw that she favored the plan of belug married then and there, and. with many mis glvlugs, he consented. He hud come away without any Income with which to support even himself. He went back with a wife requlring-so bo con sidered It a far greater Income thuu for one. Mrs. Blckford after the marriage In sisted on remaining u mouth longer In Florida. Her mother needed to stuy there aud would stand the additional oxim'Uso. Tbo young wife did u groat deal of writing und received a number of letters, with tho contents of which her husband was not made acquainted. When the extra tuouth hud iHtssod they all packed their trunks aud wont back north. They arrived In tbo city In the morn ing of Jau. 1, Miss Blckford Hunt her mother home lu a ourriage. while Kho aud her husband rotuuluod lu the bush noss district, whore they breakfasted. After breakfast tho young wife told her hushaud that she had a iMxdtlou for blm aud would make the tinal ur rangemeuts before going home. She led the way und stopiK-d'at the build lug where be had boou employed. "Whatdoea this meanV'nskcd BlcU. ford. "Take mo to the presidents ofUco." "nut this Is New Year's JxnorulUR. He will uot be here." "I tblult he will." Blckford led her to .Mr. TlnUbam's private oQlce. Truo enough, the presi dent was there, evidently waiting for eomethlug lu n mystified condition. Mr. Tlukbnm." said the wife, "yon -have twin untitled, J bellpvo, that the irurcuaser or ncertntu 'ujuck or hujck, recently giving the purchaser the iron trol of this edrporntlou wished to sev you this morning at your office. 1 am that purchaser. I desire to put the concern In tther bands for the ensu ing year. I would llko your resigna tion." "And whom do you propose to put In my place?" cried ;the astonished ' man. . "1 shall give It as n New Year's nKfl. -t''V audJheii they laughed ovr tbu but to my iMiabaadi Mn Bkkfortloai Uhro Incldoun A CHRISM ceo By F. TOWNSEND SMITH. , tCoprrlffht, 1909, by American Press Asso ciation. Peter Young nud Frederick Ayres were playmutes lu childhood, intended the suuie school nud left the same col lege In the sprlug of 1S01 to enlist In the same regiment lu the Unlou army. They cnmiutigued together aud ufter each light immediately sought each other to learn of their mutual safety. On one occasion Young shot n Con federate who Was about to run a bay onet luto his friend's breast. Uu an other Ayres curried Young, who hud been wounded, fur tulles uu a retreat, saving him from a southern prison nnd perhaps death. Their devotion to each other was well known lu tho army lu which they served, and they were referred to as furnishing an ex ample of a typical friendship. lu the fourth and last year of their, service they quarreled. Both had bo come subaltern otllcers and were tent mntes. One day Young entered their tent and, looking under bis cot, missed a chip he kept there us n rest for his soap. "What's become of my soap dish?" he nsked his friend. "What soap dish?" "That chip I had here." "Oh. that dirty thing! I threw It out." "What did you do that for?" ougrily. "Because I propose to have the tent I live in respectable." "And I prosise to have something to put my soap on. nud I won't ullow auy man to Interfere with It." It Is not essential to give the steps by which those two bosom friends be came more and more angry and dually alienated. Tho contemptible cause wus a chip which Its owner considered a soap dish and his friend as not suf .lcietitly uosthotle to grace their vau vus habitation. They did not speak to Meli other during that campaign and i ofore number Ayres had boon trans- erred to tbo staff and assigned to luty with a different corps. In 1SIL" Young und Ayres wore both again In civil life. On Christmas "morning of the next year on going to tho postotllco for his mull Ayres was Unnded uu envelope addressed to blm In the familiar handwriting of his friend. Opening It. be drew forth a card on which wus a picture of a dove with uu olive branch In its mouth. Nothing wus written on the curd, nor did auy lettor accompany It but the recipient knew tbut bis friend bad remembered bis blrthduy aud sent a peace offering. Ue wus not u de monstrative inaii nor was Young, for that matter so he put the curd In bis pocket, saying nothing to auy oue about It, but thinking ou It u great deal. The next Christmas morning Young's wife, whom ho bud Just married, band ed hlnr un envelope the superscription on which wiih lu Ayres handwriting. It contained the Christmas card bo had sent Ayres on his twenty-third birthday. Mrs. Young asked her bus baud what It all meant. irV prevurl cated. He was ashamed to tell her the story llrstly, on account of the Inslgultlcunt cause that had separated him from bis friend; secondly, because he blushed at this missive pusslug bo tweon them, worthy rather of two schoolgirls than two veterans of a great war. For forty years the card continued to pass at Christmas time between tho two friend-euemles. Picture processes improved, und the little dove of 18U5 was a sorry looking bird beside the dovo of the twentieth century. Be sides, the card was worn and soiled. Possibly had the two friends been near each other they would havo re turned to a closer relationship. But la all these years they never met. Ayres never married, aud Mrs. Young, who meunwbile had como luto posses sion of the story of their quarrel, said facetiously tbut she believed be loved her husband too well to marry a wo man. A Christmas came rouud when Peter Young was In uo mood to remember to send the curd with tho dovo and olive branch, A crisis had come lu his af fairs, uud what bo bad bceu for years building fell with u crush. The crown of bis aud his wife's sorrow was tbut bis heultb broke down uuder the strain. Had be not after these many years como to tread in u nit bo would havo written to learn the cause of his uot receiving his token. But ho had never written a lino or spoken a word to the man with whom he bad quarreled In his youth, nud It seemed too lute for him to boglu. The result was that be rofralnod from writing uud worried. One duy-lt was shortly before Cbrlstmas-Mra. Young, rummughig In her husband's desk, fottud the old card. It occurred to her ut ouce that lu her busluiud'B preoccupation aud dlstrwn he bud for the tirst time for gottou If. She bad saved a paragraph taken from a newspaper mentioning her husband's failure In business and nuother Rtatlng that ho wns suffering from norvous 'prostration. Placing these Items with the curd lu an en velope, sbx Bent It to AyreH. Christmas morning lirougbt it letter frotn Ayrca -lncloMug bin check for Aln AAM . a I. .a. ' 610.000 nnd a uo'te stating that It was Bent hi' the hope, that If Would place ms menu again ou bis rctn. The Christmas, card he would thoi'eafter keep In his possession.. That was the oud of tho partial estrangement. Mrs. Young tplograph cd Ayres urging him to Join them that evening at a Christmas dinner. Ayres took the tint train aud reached the house of his old friend t; llnd him nud bis wife waltlnir for hlin. Ami