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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1911)
TIE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE IRA li. BARS, Publisher. TERMS, $1.25 IN ADVANO10. ATLANTIC SQUADRON IN THE HUDSON. NORTH PLATTE, rj" l- NEBRASKA WOMAN'S ABILITY. Tbo lato Prcralor Stolypln's recog nition of ttao capacity, of women foi public business took a very practical form, which iu pleasing to tho women of Russia In goneral ns well ns to tho strong-minded Dowager Empress It Is displeasing to men who aro can' dldatca for official' honor, as It makes women In certain cases their success ful rivals. It Is truo that by an amendment ordered after tho original promulgation of tho order only ono in fivo of tho civil Bcrvlco staff can" be o woman; nor can n woman rlso higher than tho sovonth of tho twclvo ranks In tho sorvlec, nayB tho Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. 80 men will con tlnuo to monopolize tho covotcd title "High Excellency." and tho chance that a woman will be n cabinet minis ter Is vory remote. Ono noteworthy feature Is that women rccclvo the samo pay as men In positions of equal rating. Womnn officials aro to rccolvc full pensions, oven If they marry bo foro leaving tho service and their children will get tho samo pensions ai if they had fathers In tho service When both parenU servo, they will get almost double pensions. In nil cases, tho women nro to have ths samo salaries, lodging and traveling expenses ns tho men. This latter feature of tho Stolypln system is the ono that Is likely to niako tho deepest Impression on tho women school teachers of the United States. WHEN President Taft reviewed tho Atlantic squadron In tho Hudson river nt Now York ho saw tho greatest licet of American fighting vosooIb ever assomblcd. Our photograph shows a part of the long line and Duke, tho most popular mascot of tho llcot, reviewing tho vossols from tho deck 0'. tho Dolphin as they passed out to sea. 1 DANGER OF DISEASE Alfred Tennyson Dickons from fat away Australia plunges Ooston fern inlnlty Into gloom by observing thnt in respect to ankles "tho beefy eorl greatly outnumber tboso graceful ap pendages that linger so much longet In a man's memory," says the Boston Globe. This is ono of the effects ol the recent rainy weather, and Is not to be taken too seriously. Besides, so far as our observation goes, tho criti cism Is grossly exaggerated, not to say unfounded. Mr. Dickens must have poor vision or perhaps he spout nil his time In tho shopping district where, to bo frank, tho display of an kles la very prosaic. Our women who are striving to bo beautiful of course will feel downcast ovor the unartUtlc picture that Mr. Dickons frames. Our ladles are accustomed to rcduco their weight or Increase their avoirdupois, as the case may be, to become more Venusllke, but nobody yet has ever ad vertised an ankle-reducing emporium, nor does It seem possible that such an establishment could opbrato to advan tage. Probably this Dickons man, a perfeot Suylock on fashion, would sug gest that a pound of flesh be taken from each ankle, so that It might lin ger longer In his memory. Leprosy and Bubonic Germs Lurk in Hair Factories The thing about Parts thnt seems to have most Impressed our great fcl low American, Edison, Is that, the Champs Elysees is a twilight lane lu the country compared with tho great white way In little old Now York. It Is te be presumed that this Is the fault of Paris' ago. Being some thou sand yeara the senior of Manhattan, she is rather averse to casting too much Illumination on her features Many Children and Young Girls Ex posed, Says Dr, Charles Graham Rogers, State Medical Exam Iner of State of New York. Now York. That danger of leprosy and bubonlo plaguo lurks in "rats' and "puffs" und thnt there aro many children and young girls In this city and atnto who work In factories un der conditions almost certain to cause painful nnd even fatal diseases, woro assertions mado by Dr. Charles Rogers, medical axamlnor of tho Btnto department of labor, at tho continua tion of tho bearing of tho factory in vestigation commission. In the courso of his examination by Abrnm I. Elkus, counsel for tho com mission, Dr. Rogers was nuked about factories In which white phosphorous matches aro made. "There nre two of theso factories In this state," ho answered. "One Is In Brooklyn and tho other Is In Os wego. Beyond question thcro arc tho most dangorous factories In the state. Thoro is vory great danger to em ployes who handlo tho matches and work over tho phosphorous paste. Tho chief menace Is a rotting away of tho bones, particularly tjio Jaw bone, due to tho action of tho white phospbqr-ous. "Many women nnd children work In theso two factories nnd In ray opinion their employment should bo prohibit cd. Although our present law says that children may do nothing In such places but pack tho boxes, I am qulto sure thut they sort the matches, This exposes them to ns much dangor as threatens tho grown men." Children, ho said, should not bo nl lowed to work In calico print works, In pearl button factories, In gas man the limn feellne has been known bv a part of humanity, It Is Bald. It takes wrks. a POttcrlos or In chemical Irrepressible youth to stand the dnr Ie. of Broadway, But it Purls doesn't burn so many olectrlo lights, It has charms thut Gotham cannot match. When sun learned that her husband bad fallen heir to $1,000,000 a woman who had gone to Reno for the purpose of securing a divorce decided to with- draw her application. Now If sho can convince the gentleman that she loves him for himself alone all will be well. factories of any sort In ono pearl button factory on Long Island, he testlllcd, ha found 100 boys and girls under tho age of 1C "Every worker that 1 examined In this placo I found to bo Buffering with laryngltlB or bronchltlB," ho said In factories whero gas mantles nro made, ho wont on, bo had frequently found boys and girls In a Btnto of in toxication duo to Inhaling the alcohol fumes arising from tho collodion used In tho making of tho mantles. In some of tho places, ho said, wood al cohol was used. "Tho Inhalation of the fumes of this poison," ho snld, "causes total blindness In time, completely and permanently destroying tho optic nerves." Germ abound In tho human hair factories In this city, Dr. Rogers tos tilled, and ho had found all kinds of bacteria, Including whnt ho firmly bo llovcd to bo germs of bubonic plague. Workers In human hair, ho said, wero exposed to danger of tuberculosis, chronic gnntrltls, intestinal diseases and abscesses of tho stomnch. From 80 to 90 per cent of tho employes -in human hair factories aro growing girls, ho said. 11 a woman wiin an abrasion or a cut on her scalp wero to wear ono of theso puffs," he continued, nnd It hap pened that tho article contained any of tho gonna I have mentioned, se rious results would almost cortalnly follow. "Ono medical man recently told mo of a caso of leprosy of a young girl In a nearby city caused by wearing an infected puff or rat" Tho danger to employes In these factories, ho assorted, lay in tho fact thnt tho workers swallowed quantities of fine, small hairs. Pub producing gorms on those hairs, ho explained, caused abscosses of tho stomach If thero was an abrasion of tho stomnch lining. This evil, ho declared, could be rem edlcd at small cost by tho Installation of an exhaust ventilating system. Tho law at prosont makes it imposslblo to remedy tho condition, ho said, nnd added his bollof that children should bo prohibited from working in hair factories. Tho only other witness was William F. Tlbba, a deputy Inspector, who tes tlncd regarding a candy factory In this- city whoro tho conditions wore, in his language, "dirty," and in that of Mr. Elkus, who socmcd to be fa miliar with tho promises, "filthy." HOGS IN FIGHT FOR APPLES" Missouri Farmor la Compelled to Pen His Animals Up So They Can Sleep and Not Waste Away. St. Louis. Horo Is tho season's prize fruit Btory. It was told In Ed wardsvlllo tho other day by Rev. F. J. Buschmann, paBtor of St. Paul's Evangelical church. Circuit Judgo Louis Bernreutcr had been helping the minister to preparo caldrons of npplo butter for tho winter, and the pastor declared that tho applo crop waa exceptional. "Peaphes, too, for that matter,' continued the minister. "Why, do you know, ono of my church members living nt tho foot or tho bluffs has had to pen up h)B hogs at night so that th'jy could got some Bleep and not wnsto away. "They cat applos all day long and at night when they can no longer soe them thoy hear n big applo drop to tho ground with a whack and Immediately tho "Whole", drovo scurries to get il Their owner tells mo they woro ac tually wearing nway moro flesh in this continued pursuit than they put 011, and he therefore had to confine thorn at night' PLANNING TO CHECK BABIES Western Railroad Alms to Establish Nurseries on All Trains With All Comforts of Homo. San Francisco. Attention, mam inns and papas I If this legand, "Check Your Baby," luroB your glanco when you enter a passenger atntlon don't pinch your self to sco if you are dreaming. Just tako tho baby over to tho white-garbed nurso that smiles at you from tho portal of tho spotless nursery under tho alluring legend, get your chock and enjoy yourself whllo baby Is having tho ttmo of its llfo boforo train time. Or, if you aro tired, you mothers, thnt samo nurso will lead you to a comfortablo couch, Tho Idea of a Bpoclal room is now bolng tried out by tho Southern Pacific at Sacramento, if "tho ex perience proves successful tho rooms will probably bo established nt all tho larger stations. It Is tho aim of tho company to equip tho rooms with all tho comforts of a homo. AND OTflE Chies Foreigners a Problem for New York EW YORK. Perhaps no other city in the world qulto equals New York In tho groat diversity of Its pop ulation nud In tho variety of tho In terests engaging tho population's at tention. Constantinople would seem to bo tho only rlvnl. In New York pretty much every civilized nation has its representation. Thoro nro gath ered Jowb, Italians, Greeks, Polos, Ar menians, Chinese, Hungarians and so on,. Many nationalities not only havo representation, but they havo large ones. There aro today undoubt edly mnny moro Jowb In New York than ever had permanent rcBldonco in Jerusalem at nny given time. They constitute about one-sixth of the 5, 000,000 of population. So it comes about that Now Yorlt Is not a typical American city. It Is too crowded with "people who do not havo typical American conditions In their homes, who do not havo Ameri can ideals before them and who do not go about their duties with tho American spirit In brief, New York is thronged with multitudes who nro living in a different ago of tho world and who nro dominated by other Ideas of morality, duty and tho llko. Their Ideas of cleanliness nro not tb03o of tho typical American. It Is doubtful whether American institutions mean much to them. Foreign thoughts, pur poses, Ideals, business methods, man ners and customs nre swamping tho city. In splto of tbo very considerable number of high grado American peo plo who llvo and do business In Now York, they do not form a pcrcentngo sufficiently great to control conditions In nny effective way. Thoro is n tre mendous provalcnco or crime, insol ence, Incompotcnco and ignorance. As ono moves about and comes Into -contact with Now York employes he will bo fortunate indeed If ho does not suffer from their bad manners, not to sny Insolence. Probably some of . this is duo to tho conditions of a great city, and would occur oven under tho best of circumstances. However, tho presenco in the city of such enormous masses of ignorant and incompotent people, saturated with unAnlerlcan Ideate and purposes, cannot help hav ing n tremendous nnd bnd lnfluenco upon others.' Tho conditions in New York really constltuto a very great problem indeed. Nurses Find Cupid in the Sick Room INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Tho trained nurse appears to play a moro prom inent port In tho romantic news of tho day than any other professional worn nn. Hardly a day passes but tho news papers chronicle somo marriage, will, lovo affair or litigation in which a trained nurso figures. Miss Eleanor Peregrine, who nursed Walter E. Dur yea, tho Now York youth with n bro ken neck for twelvo years, Is, by agreement among tho Duryea rela tives, to receive tho $200,000 bequest left her in his will. Miss Ida Corey Murphy, who nursed Chalmers Dale, a stock exchango broker, two years, Is suing for 530,000 for her 'services; bo cause Mr. Dale didn't remember her In his will. Tho marriage of John Eller ton Lodgo, son of United States Sen ator Henry Cabot Lodgo, to Miss Car rie Catherino Connolly, a trained nurso who attended him a year, is another proof that Venus in a nurse's cap and gown Is a most enticing siren. Charles E. Halliwell, of tho Ameri can Tobacco company, married Miss Ruth Allco Cole, who had been sum moned to nurso him In Now York city nftcr n severe operation in 1000. , Tho following year ho died, leaving her n fourth of his $5,000,000 estate, Thomas Caldwell, a Pensacola, Fla., recluse, loft his $75,000 estate to Miss Annio Burkhart, who nursed htm for two years. J. B. Currier of Lowoll, Mass., left n similar fortune to Nora Hessian, who had watched by his bed side for six years. Sarah B. Harrison, sister of former Governor Harrison of Connoctlcut, left a $50,000 estate to Miss Eva R. Gllkcr, who had beenhcr faithful nurso for threo years. Tho list could be continued indefinitely. Men mnrry their nurses so frequent ly that tho Instances aro beyond all counting. A curious caso was that of Ralph J. Voorhees, nephew of a Brooklyn, N. Y., politician. Ho mar ried Adclo F. pouf ton, who nursed him through typhoid fovor nftor ho had become engaged to Miss Faith E. Moore. Lieut. J. Hammond Harding, son of Philip W. Harding, n broker, married Miss Agneo Eilvorthorne, n nlcco of Elihu Root, as soon as ho had recovered from a serious Illness In which sho played thd part of his nurse, two years ago. PRISONERS ACT AS GUARDS Jamaica has a new banana disease. "With modern methods of tracing the origin Bnd communication of disease, It should be easy to handle it If the banana tree were a Blow grower, the outlook for this Jamaica .industry would be worse. A historian declares that the "early Christian fathers protested against the wearing of false hair." But as usual, under such circumstances, they fall- fed to say anything about padded shoulders. A Gotham minister says that happi ness is tho best cosmetic This is a valuable hint to husbands who dislike their wives to wear artificial complex ions. Mart In Seattle Jail Go to Court All Alone and Return After Ad Journment la Ordered. Scatlo, Wash. Hearing of tho cut In tho appropriation for his office, as made by tho county commissioners, and realizing that ho miut continue to bo short of deputy sheriffs. Sheriff UODcn 1. nougu una auupicu uiu ux podlont of Bonding prisoners to attend court unaccompnnled by deputies nnd on their parolo to roturn. Tho other day tho sheriff sunt John W. Dalton, charged with abduction, dawn to-Justlco R. R, George's court on parolo, and ho reported his arrival at court by telephono and later asked for permission to tako dinner downtown. "No, you como to tho jail for din ner; wo'H fix you up a warm blto," Bald tho shorlff. Dalton was back in Jail in soven minutes after ho tele phoned. Only in essentials docs the spiral glide performed by an aviator differ from that of the bibulous clubman re turning home late. They tell us that this Is a busy world, but one gains a different lm preseloN by watching a crowd around 1 scoreboard. Mr, Edison's remark that aviation weeds scientific revision should glva Ue aviators pause. Jack Rabbit Is Hoodoo, Dallas, Ore. Fred Auor, a proml ncnt farmor living near Rlckorall, Polk county, accidentally shot himself whllo driving soma cattlo from Rick' era!) to Dallas. A Jack rabbit ran nc cros tho road and Auor reached for his revolver iu his hip pockot' The hammer caught on his chaps und ono shell exploded, tho bullet entering his aide. Radium Rays Deadly. Paris. Professor Bouchard's expert ments with radium havo convinced h'ttn that when projected on nerve cen ters radium produces paralysis and rapid death. MISER'S FORTUNE IS FOUND Money Discovered In M.-yiy Odd Places uitiiKcd his Relatives and Lived In Oklahoma. Carrlor, Okla. To find a fnrtuno In gold nnd currency hidden in strange nnd Improbnhlo places In hlo own homo was tho oxporlouco of Gorhart Thelllcn, a German farmor living nenr hero. This money, amounting to $11,- G00.05, had beon hoarded by C. F. Schultze, nn occontrlo recluso, who had mado his homo with Thlelen n number of years. Thlolen believed Schultzo probably was worth $1,000 or $2,000, but had no Idon of Us where abouts. Jho money was found when Schultzo died of pneumonia Boveral days ago. Schultzo formerly lived In Texas, whoro ho has rolatlvos who now havo fallen heir to his fortune. Schultzo disliked his kinsmen, and In Texas ho boardxl with Thlelcn's mother-in-law When tho Thlolous moved to Carrier, Schultzo followed and lived with them, paying them $4 a month, always In cash. Ho occupied n stnglo room, In to which ho admitted no ono. When tho boarder dtod Thlolen wont to Enid and asked how he should proceed In caring for the small per sonal estato that had been loft by tho old man. Thlolen was appointed ad ministrator. During his lifetime Schultzo had told Thlolen ho should bo his heir, but no will bo far as known evor was executed. Thlolen upon returning homo rotusod to enter nnd search tho old man's room un less accompanied by neighbors. E, M. Spado and J. P. Glgoux helped Thlelon cxploro tho room. Almost nt tbo first step gold and currency began tumbling and rattling from hidden plncca. There was money wrapped up In socks, stored In secret drnwerB, and in old clothing. Thousands of dollars In $20 and $50 gold certificates wero the core of big' bundles, of old Germnn yarn socks. In an old vest which Schultze made himself was round $5,300 In $20 bills. Tbo money had been sowed In tho lin ing of tho vest which Schultzo had worn for years. In another vest waa $1,010, and In an old blllbook wns $C0 In bills and $1.05 In silver. Tho vests had been stuffed nway In bureau draw ers barred by Intricate combination locks. In tho fnlso bottom of a chest mado by Schultze wub $4,2G0 In $20 gold pieces. Elsowhero In odd places was $2,000 In notes. Thlelen deposited tho fortune in a bank nt Carrlor and will hold It for the lawful heirs, Work 47 Years on Same Street Cars mm i. 0 .11 CHICAGO. Chicago has the oldest street car conductor and tho old est street car raotorraan in tho world, both in ago and point of service. Thoy nro Michael Moran, sixty-six years old, conductor, nnd Patrick Brady, slxty-flvo years old, motorman. Thoy Btnrted driving tho snmo car in 18G4 and nro still working together on West Sixty-third street, from Central Park avenuo to Fifty-Blxth avenuo. Their first car was an old bus mounted on trucks and hauled by horses. That was soon after Chicago adopted "street cars." Within a few years from then the first regular horso cars wero operated in Chicago, and the old buses were abandoned. Then Moran and Grady got a regular run on State street. Moran and Grady havo worked on all of tho old routes, and, with tho ex ception of short periods, never havo been separated slnco they started. For a year nftor tho Are of 1871 they wero separated, and after Grady took his first electric car on Went worth avenuo world's fair year tho two ngaln were on different cars for about two years und a half. Since tnen they havo boon on tho samo car and for thrco years continuously. Neither has missed more than an nverago of thrco days n year because of sickness slnco 18G4. Counting holi days nnd all, they say they havo not missed moro than an nverago of eight days a year. This does not includo regular days off. For thlrty-nino years on a horso cai they averaged forty miles a day, or 669,400 miles up until tho tlmo thoy took their first electric car. Their average dally fares amounted to $35, or 700 nickels. During tho thirty-nine years they took in approximately 9, 574,500 nickels. In the eight years they havo been running electric cars thoy havo trav eled an nverago of 100 miles a day, 36,500 miles a year, making a total of 292,000 miles. Their electric car has avorftjged $200 a day, or 4,000 nickols- New Rule at Northwestern. Chicago. A now "slow down" sign waa erected tho other day along the speedway of love at Northwestern uni versity, In segregated chapel Miss Mary Potter, tho now doan of tho co eda, announced thnt hereafter men callers at Wlllard dormitory will have to provide themselves with two cards ono for tho calleo and the other for herself, If the dean approves of the visitor ho will bo admitted; otherwlso and Miss Potter made tho situation qulto cloar ho will stay outsldo. In dignation over tho new ruling la great among the co-eds and tho men stu-, dentB affected. 1 W UVE MITH A MArt UiuT YOU YOU neve CAVr TO TAtK AT Women Said to Be Real Home Wreckers KANSAS CITY, Mo. Woman, not man, is tho real homo-wrecker, ac cording to statistics that aro being compiled from tho dlvorco court rec ords of tho atato of Kansas. So far as tho statistics show, 80 per cent, of tho dlvorco Bulls now ponding nro brought by wives, whllo virtually tho snmo pcrcentngo of tho buUs aro brought on so-called trivial charges, such as incompatibility of tempor, quar rols and othor allegations which do not charge infractions of tho moral or civil laws. Previous statistics show thnt in Jackson county, in which Kansas City Is, thoro wero threo suits for dlvorco filed for every five marrlago Hconses issued, and this startllngly high per centage prompted an investigation in to dlvorco statistics. It was found that whllo 80 per cent, of tho plnlntilTs, were women and 80 per cent, of their BultB woro brought on trivial charges, that less than 10 per cent, of tho suits filed by tho men wero bused on tho trivial charges, whllo 90 per cent, woro baaed on the moro sorlous charges of desertion, Immoral conduct or neglect of tho homo through a preforenqo for working. Women, too, tho statistics show, havo apparently less regard for tho future of their children. Whereas, when men aro plaintiffs In dlvorco suits, tho avcrago is only 6no child to a family, 300 suits taken consecutive ly from tho docket, In which women nro plaintiffs, show nearly 1,000 chil dren, or an average of a little moro than thrco to tho family. Incidentally, tho statistics on a sldo Investigation show that mother-ln-Iaw is a very much maligned person, and thnt cases in which mother-in-law has taken tho son-in-law's part against her daughter or vice versa aro Just as numerous as whero mother-in-law bas aider In with her own child.