TIE SEiiwEEKLY TRIBUNE
TURKS MAKING A STUBBORN FIGHT
TETTER TDK MEff, WOMEN" AND CHILDREN THAN CASTOR (HL
8At.TS.OR rU3,A3 IT SwtETOO AND CLEANSES THE SYSTEM MO DTtCENUY AN
fe FAR MOfi riXASANT TO TAKE.
IRA L. BARB, PublUher.
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NORTH PLATTE,
NEBRASKA
BIRDS AND THEIR ENEMIE8.
A recent report of tbo United States
bureau of entomology constitutes one
of tbo strongest arguments Imagina
ble upon tbo absoluto economic folly
of exterminating America's bird life.
Tbls country, says a bureau expert,
suffers cacb year through ItiBocta a
loss aggregating 11,200,000,000; ro
dents cost us $200,000,000; weeds
moro than $400,000,000. Theso nro
ntaggerlng figures, Indeed. They need
not bo mlnutoly nccurato to point a
moral as obvious as It In Important
Every thinking person knows they
nro near enough tlio truth to make
tbo warning significant. In nature's
flno balanco of living agencloa tho
birds found their largest Utility In
keeping tho Insect pests of mankind
In subjection. Not all b)rda cat In
sects, but most do. Others destroy
rodents, and many cat tho scads at
weeds. It was a lino schomo of econ
omy nature had. Man In his cruot
blindness has upsot tho balanco. He
has mado plumage fasbtonablo for
bats and glorified bird dinners. Kvcn
pot-hunting has bcon winked at A
policy widely recognized as Indefensi
ble has bean followed for years.
Amorlcn foots tho bill for hor own In
difference, Tho first punishment Is
vlaltod upon tho farmers, but its ef
fects nro felt by every family In tho
land.
Tbo inpld transmission or nows
among Kaffirs and Hottentots Is a
mystery which oven Mr. Rider Hag
gard Is unnblo to solve. Mr. Haggard
was at Pretoria in 1870, nt tho tlmo
if tho battle of iBnndhtwana. Twelve
hours after tbo disaster an old Hot
tentot washerwoman told him that
Cetawayo had dofoatcd tho British
troops, and gavo details or the fight.
So Impressed was Mr. Haggard that
he reported the Information to bis of
ficial superior. Tbo British official
pointed out that It was Impossible for.
the news to bo truo, as Isandblwana
was 102 miles from Pretoria, and no
telegraphic or railway communication
exlstod between tho two places. On
the following day olllclnl confirmation
of tbe disaster waa brought by mount
ed messengers, who woro dispatched
immediately aftor the bottle and trav
eled at top speed all tho way. Yet
tbe natives won by twenty hours, and
the washerwoman's story was truo In
every detail.
The assertion that cats are necessary
In bakeries is supported by wldo ob
servation and by the Judgment of high
practical and scientific authorities in
all parts of tbo world. Rats are
pests, and no better antidote tor them
than eats has ever been found. Poison
will not do especially in a bakery,
where the smelt of tbe poisoned rats
coming from the boles into which
they bad retreated to die would cor
rupt the air and the bread. It is
captious criticism tbat would object to
bakers keeping cats.
Dr. Hastings, the Toronto medical
health officer, complains 'that only
about 23 per cent or tho 600 cattle
killed for consumption weekly In tbat
city are inspected, and that an aver
age of S5 diseased animals a week are
sold tor food. A Canadian govern
ment analyst asserts that tor the last
third of a century the pepper used In
Canada has been adulterated 40 per
cent Wo are doing better than Can
Ada la some things.
How interesting It would bo to stu
dents ot mechanics ns well as to stu
dents of history to see tho first steam
boat In which Pulton took passengers
on the Hudson In 1807. By preserving
In the National Museum at Washing
ton tbe first flying machine purchased
from the Wrights for the war depart
ment, tbe government 1b providing a
treat tor studento In centuries to
como.
We are informed that an eastomer
whose best girl gave him the frigid
mitt has gone insane. We have
often hoard or people who went cmy
with Joy.
Wo fall to undorntand wny some
people aro so badly stung by the avia
tion bug whon all tho dollghtB and
dangers of tho gnmo may bo export
enced on a roller coastor.
Tho poltcotnou of Lynn, Mass., are
to bo armed with clubs rando or pnpor.
These will logically go with paper san
itary drinking cups.
Iloaton highbrows aro trying to do
tormlno whether "boon" should be
pronounced "bin" or "boon." If thoy
are patriotic Boatonlana tho bean will
win in a walk.
A woman of eighty In a Connecticut
town captured and held a burglar un
til fielp came. Hero la the first knock
out blow for tho age limit
Advice to tbe aeroplane operator:
Be careful.
7VMJtt
INFORMATION from the scat of tbe Turco Italian war, when uncensored by tho Italians, Indicates tbat tbe
Turks nro still far from being beaten. Though they lost tbo city of Tripoli, they have bad the better of sev
eral bloody encounters outside that city and In the vicinity or Uengazl. Their army has been drilled by Euro
peans and is considered highly efficient.
TWO MINDS
Wealthy Lumberman of Van
couver Had Forgotten Wife.
Woman One Had Married Agrees to
Walt While He Returns to Scot
land to See If Mrs. Scott No.
1 Was Alive,
Seattle, Wash. Curious instances
of lapses of memory covering long
porlods have como to light simultane
ously hero in tho storlos of two men
whoso minds have been cleared by
illness.
Qoorgo Scott, a rich lumberman or
Vancouvnr, supposed himself a bache
lor until 1909, when ho married. Now
he suddenly remombors tbat. twenty
six yonrs ago, ho left n wife and chil
dren in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tho other caso is that of S. Chand
ler Rogers, who was beaten so badly
In Now York fourteen years ago tbat
bo forgot his nnmo. He drifted hero
and has boen known as Ucorgo Kelly.
An operation has recalled him to him
self. in all the years that Scott was pil
ing up a fortuno bo scorned heart
proof tin! II a muuicnl comody company
visited Vancouver two years ago. Ho
tbon capitulated to Jano Patterson of
Allegheny, Pa., one or Its members.
Although their ages were far apart,
they lived happily. Scott finally met
with an accident whtch fractured bis
skull and brought on, In addition, a
sorlous Illness, through which his wife
nursed him.
Memory ot bis youthful domestic
llfo came with his rocovory. In tolling
hla wife of It ho said his natno al
ways was Qcorgo Bcott and that ho
never had a physical mishap or Ill
ness to explain a loss o! memory.
NevertheteBU his mind had been ut
terly blank as to tho wife and babies
in Scotland.
Mrs. Scott did not question his good
faith, but said bis story dictated n
plain course for her, through tho di
vorce court They talked It out thor
oughly and It was finally arranged
that uho should bring action ror di
vorce and Scott return to Scotland
and learn what had become ot his
family. Should ho find tbo first wlfo
he must make proper utnonds to her.
If she is dead bo will come back to
Vancouver and tho second "Mrs.
Scott" will marry him, again.
Rogors, or Kelly, was brought to
the Providence hospital here on Octo-
U. S. UNIVERSITIES IN LEAD
Better Than Those of Germany,
Avers Kaiser's Representative
While Visiting Chicago.
Chicago. Amorlcan universities
and Amorlcan student llfo aro hotter
than those of Germany, declares Or.
A. Ollven, commissioned by tbo Ger
man governmont to nrrango Itineraries
In tbls country for a group ot 300
scientists who will arrive horo In
September of 1012.
"Wondorfull Wonderful!" said Dr.
Ollven. "I have1 vUlted tho universi
ties ot Columbia and Pennsylvania
and tbo Rockefeller instituto. I never
dreamed of such possibilities, Stu
dents havo a bottor opportunity horo
for a genoral education. In Germany
we specialize.
"Stoudenta nro moro sobor hero. In
Gormany they fight and drink beor,
but they aro fast learning to bo son
nlblo ltko tbo Americans."
Tbo German savants nro to cross tho
Atlantic In a specially chartered
stoumor. Fivo days are to bo passed
at Washington, D. C, during tbo In
ternational congrcso for hygleno, be
sinning Sontember 22. 1912. Thoy nro
1 then to come to Chicago for two days.
A trip back through tho eastern cit
ies will concludo tho tour.
Girl Is Town Clerk.
Sydney. Tho Municipal Council ot
Byron, New South Wales, now has
tbe youngost town clerk In the world.
Her name Is Emily McShcehy, and
she Us Just 17, Miss McSheehy's fa
ther was tho last town clerk, and she
had sated as his assistant for a year,
doing so well that tho councilors un
animously elected her to the position.
CAVAtftr svo Movrtri OArmtr Gotto
CLEARED
bor 10, suffering from an nttack or
acute Insanity, with which ho had
been taken In bis homo in Port Berke
ley. Tbo doctors round thut u por
tion of tho skull was pressing on tho
brain, Surgery soon relieved htm and
ho bocamo perfectly normal.
Ho called for pen and papor and
wroto: "I nm In hospital and all O. K.,"
addressing tho envclopo to Miss Flor
ence Doucls, 418 West Thirty-second
street, New York. A postscript to the
letter naked that Father Doherty or
tbo Paullst society bo Bent to him.
Picking up a newspaper after ho
had finished his note and seeing tbo
dato line, "Sonttle, October 1!0. 1011,"
ho turned wondcrlngly to Dr. Milton
G. Sturgls and his nurso and Bald:
"Am I really In Seattlo?"
Then he broko down with a lit or
sobbing. Ho told bis story when he
had composed himself today. Tho hos
pital staff think it ono of tho most
romarkablo on record. For fourteen
years, ho said, he did not know whero
bo bnd bcon or what ho had been do
ing. Ho was born in Now York in
1880 and llvod with his grandmother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Douols, at 418 West
Thirty-second stroot, Now York.', Ills"
nnmo was S. Chandler Rogors.
On May 1, 1897, with a boy friend
and two girls, ho went to tho theater.
Having scon his girl to hor homo, ho
started to walk to his own. At Six
teenth street and Eighth nvenuo throe
men stopped him and asked ror a
rontch. Ho said ho was no match fac
tory, and the men pounced on him.
One struck him with a blackjack. Tho
next ho knew ho was In tho rlvor,
naked and swimming.
Ho said ho remombored clutching nt
something In tho rlvor and being
dragged out, but tbat was tho last ho
knew or hlmsoir as Rogors until ho
nwoko in tho hospital aftor tho skull
prossuro had been lirtcd from his
brain.
Dog Burled In Coffin.
Nowport. R. I.- "Missy," a French
bulldog, tbo Inseparable companion of
Mrs. James P. Kernochan for 11 years
and as familiar on tho fashionablo
drives as Mrs. Kernochan herself, Is
no moro. and Uh owner Is nnnrlv hnm-t.
broken. In a hondsomo white coffin
lined with satin, said to havo cost
several hundred dollars, "Missy" was
lowered to a gravo on tho lawn of the
Kernochnir estate. A white stone will
mark tbo spot.
ONE PERFECT
Jew York Man Pays Glowing Tribute
io wic moiner ot nis mgiu unu
dren Never Cross.
Ncy York. Alfred A. Wright, presi
dent of J. A. Coates & Co., thread Ira
porters, declares bo has a perfect wjfo
At his homo, 7 Glenwood nvenuo,
Ornugo, N. J., Mr. Coates said tho oth
er day:
"Yes, It Is absolutely truo that 1
havo a perfect wife. There Is no rea
son why tho wholo world Bhould not
know of It. ir it' Interests anyone I
saw In a paper that Judgo W. O.
Thomas of tbo circuit court at Kan
sas City, Mo., said from tbo bench:
'Thoro Is no such thing nB n perfoct
wlfo.'
"Knowing there was such a thing,
and that I had one of them ut home,
tbo norvo or that Judgo appalled mo,
and I wroto him a lcttor for his en
lightenment. That's how the matter
got out.
"I havo had ono wlfo, ns I told him,
for 30 years, and I would not change
hor In thp leaBt it I could. In nil these
years sho nan been tbo Ideal wire, has
nover called mo a liar and has been
my Inspiration, my helpmeet, my com
fort In ttino ot trouble, and 1 wouldn't
tako $10,000,000 tor hor or give ten
cents tor another.
"Ono of my tendcrcst recollections
Is of tho day before my mother died.
Sho had llvod with us for 12 years.
Wo had bolstered her up in bod, and
sho, putting her head; op my wife's
breast, std:
"'Gad bless you, Emma. I hnvo
never seen a cross look on your face.'
rro tcro
TIRES OF HIS LONESOME JOB
French Caretaker of Costly, but Unoc
cupied, Palace Loses Patience
Building Unfinished.
Paris. Tho French government
erected a building nt a cost of $1,000,
000 nine years ago and after install
ing a caretaker took no futtber steps
to utllizo It on the ground that it was
"not quite finished."
In the year 1902 tho governmont de
cided to crcato a special audit depart
ment and a list of nominations to tho
various posts was drawn up. An aged
Reservist, whose services to tho coun
try entitled him to ,fltting Towards, was
appointed caretaker of a now bulKU
Ing which wns being erected for tho'
department of tbo Ruo Cambon. Tbe
conclcrgo was told to take charge at
once. Tho building was not quite fin
ished, but within a month or two
everything would bo In order, and the,
members of the ministry would tako
up their dutios there.
Proudly tho Reservist took up bis
quarters In tbo vast but unfinished pal
ace. For days ho walked through the
Immense building without seeing an
other humun being, but at last tbe dis
pirited man began to beguile his
tjmo by learning a now variation of hlB
favorlto gamo of patience
Fortunately for Uho conclorgo ho
had taken the precaution to bring with
him in tho empty building a kitten and
a ennary. For two years ho saw no
one and heard nothing' although ho re
ceived his monthly salary with mili
tary punctuality. In 1905 tbo archi
tect rushed In and breathlessly re
marked that a little furnituro would bo
brought Into tho building and It would,
tbon Immediately became a busy blvo.
The llttlo kitten bnd outgrown its
mischievous nonagp and becamo a
gray haired and tired looking cat
whon, in 1905, tho concierge, wearied
by tho strain of waiting, complained to
tho department hoads. He was sooth-!
ed by a promlso that everything would
soon bo right. !
Finally even tbo patlonco of tbo
long-suffering conclcrgo camo to an.
end, for ho recontly resigned his po
sition. The empty palace In tho Ruo
Cambon, which was erected at-a cost
of $1,000,000, Is still awaiting one or
two slight alterations.
Stepping Stone on Grave.
WInstod, Conn. A stepping stone
which for yours had beon at tho door,
ot his ancestral homo, has been placed'
at tho head of Edward Dcnslow'B
grave. His family woro among the
curliest EottlorB horo.
WIFE IS FOUND
it
"Some or tho reasons why our llfo
has been happy is that Emma la a
good cook and loves hor homo and
children. Wo novor troublo each oth
er with Individual troubles unless ono
Is euro tho other can glvo.holp or ad
vice. Tho man who carrlos hU busi
ness troubles homo to his family whon
the family cannot help him Is a
coward."
$50,000 FOR NOT SMOKING
Man of 25 Keeps Agreement With Mil
lionaire Father and Receives
Substantial Reward.
Lob Angeles. Cal.
not smoke before reaching tho ago of
iwcuijfuve won uatea, son zi A. H.
GatcB, a mllllonalro of South Pasa
dena, tho other day received $50,000
as a present from bis parent.
Fifteen years ago tbo cider Gates,
head of tho Gates Lumbor company,
of Arkansas, entered Into a solemn
agreement with hla three sons
Charles, tho oldest, was seventeen;
Don was ton, nnd Fred, now a stu
dent of Stanford university, wao only
fivo yeara of ago. Tholr father agreed
to give each a certain porccntago of
his business It thoy refrained from
smoking uutil tholr twenty-fifth birth
day waa reached.
Charles renched tbe required ago
scyon years ago, after denying him
self tobacco in all forms, and he re
ceived hla share on bis twenty-fifth
birthday, Two years ago ho smoked
for the first time.
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EVEN IN THE DEEP.
Mr. Sunfl8ta I hear that Mr. Black
BasB couldn't get on tho pollco force.
Mr. Eel No, they drew tho color
lino on him.
Explanations.
Miss FullbBoul (of a poetical turn)
Which nre you of opinion ono should
Bay, professor: "Summer flies" or
"Summer flees?"
Absent-Minded Professor (great on
entomology) Thp two species, my
dear young lady, aro entirely distinct.
Now, the common houso fly Then
he wondered why she suddenly open
ed a conversation with tho young man
on her right London Sphere.
- "A wife," ficys tho sage brush sago,
"has to have n lot more patience to
let tho cat In and out than she has
for her husband, because If sho didn't
the cat would leave."
Ariculture.
Mother Yes, Johnny, tho queen beo
Is boss.
Johnny How about tho presidential
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