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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1912)
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WILEY FAVORS KISSING HE traveler In Ireland can generally pot plenty of Information from the policeman, who la suro to bo not far off, having In thoso (InyB llttlo to do except to Hcrutlnlzo Rtrnnuors at railway ntatlonu and utroet corners. Although often frigid and uncommunlcatlvo to natives, tho pollcomun lu froo enough with Btrangors, and his Information lu apt to bo rollablo about tho country ficnorally, for, ns ho 1b novor ltopt long nt any ono place, his local knowl. odgo Is extensive, ft Is truo that ho 1b apt to bo biased against tho peas nntry, becauso, although a peasant's Bon himself, his training and employ ment liijvo made tho pooplo hate him, for tho common people havo no use for tho "pooler," ns tho constabulary nro contemptuously called by them. Imagine tho pollcomonr tho natural protoctors of llfo and property, holng hated by tho pooplo! Thnt Is the condition In Irolaud yot, and has boon so almost from tho boglnnlng. That does not moan that the Irish do not want o hnvo llfo and property protoctod. It moans that they havo bo long soon tho policeman Identified with tho pro tection of a. particular kind of Hfo, to-wlt tho landlord's and bnlllff's, and a particular kind of property, towlt: tho landlord's" property In land that thoy overlook his othor usoful public serv ices. It Ib a most unfortunate stato of things Tho policeman has boon mndo tho buffor between tho English Government and tho Irish pooplo, and tho efficient Instrument of coercion of tho latter nnd.botwocn tho two his lot has not boon n happy ono. When homo rulo bocomos nn accomplished fact, tho Royal Irish Constabulary will bo dls banded. It will no longor bo necessary to keep nn "ISngllsh garrison" In Ireland. Tho cstrangomont botwecn tho pollco and tho peoplo Is Indeed romarkablo. In tho lawless dis tricts of which there aro still too many, tho pooplo who could glvo Information to tho ppllco will not lo so. Honco, thoro Is a good deal of unpunished crime In thoso districts. Ono of tho worst coun tlos In this roapoct Is tho county of Claro, tho historic constituency thnt first elected O'Co'nnell to Parliament. Hero tho old wounds of tho agra rlan war havo novor closed up. During my stay I flaw In ono of tho papors a pastoral lottor of tho Most Ilov. Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of Klllaloo, giv ing n blood-curdling description of outrages which continued to bo committed with impunity against llfo and property in Claro. I visited Ennls, tho capital of tho county. I was told that in ono woolc no loss than threq ohpotlng outragos hnd boon pcrpotratol on unoffending mon. Ono of tho vic tims was nn cx-soldlor, who was acting lottor carrlor, and who as Bhot in tho highway in open day. Although many peoplo passed hla wounded body on tho road, not ono would comfort or ro llovo him till tho pollco camo sovoral hours after .wardB. Those passorsby doubtlosa folt that if thoy gavo any holp to tho victim thoy might meet tho Bttrao fato as himself. So helpless has Drltlsh law bocomo in tho county of Claro. J Sauntering round tho narrow BtrootB I fell in with ah old mnn who did not object to conversa tion. IIo provod to bo an ox-pollcomnn. This man did not mlnco mattors In dotatllng his vlows nnd experiences. "Claro was tho most poacoablo counly in Ireland," said ho, "when I Joined tho forco, but tho cursed Laud Loaguo camo upon us, nnd Btnce thon things have been different. Most of tho men you moot on tho road aro Fenians or nibboumcn, and many of them nro criminals." I told him I thought this was too strong a de scription of hlB countrymen. Ho. however, stuck to his opinion, and took mo to an olovatcd spot at tho hack of tho Court llouso, from which ho pointed out tho bcciios of ns many as Bovontoen nssaBBlnatlons, n,ll mora or loss successful, but for which only ono man was over brought to jUBtjCO. It Is not alone tho malcontents and the secrot society mon that refuso to toll tho pollco what thoy know about outrages. Even tho relatives of tho Injured persons nro often known to udopt a similarly uncommunlcatlvo attitude. To glvo in formation to tbo pollco Is to bo brandod aa nn "Informer," which Is tho most offensive eplthot in tho Irishman's vocabulary, bolng worso than that of "hangman." Tho stigma descends from father to son, whllo thoro Is any of tho family left to onduro It. My ox-pollcoman friend told mo that ho himself had hoard n Claro mother, whoso Bon was shot beforo her oyes, mako tho avowal that Blio would rather see nil nor sons lying dead bo eldo hor than bocomo a hated "lnformor," Sho brought tho soewt to tho gravo with hor. I asked my friend for his opinion as to why tho forco was bo unpopular. IIo laid tho blamo un hesitatingly upon tho Engllsji Govornmont. Tho Government have employed tho pollco almost ex clusively at ovlctlons and other such unpopular tasks, when thoy might havo employed tho rogu lar soldiers or tho militia. Tho result Is that tho daily when his clients wore of tho poorer so,t IIo acquired a reputa tion as 'tho broth of a boy;' he was a willing gamester, bolng always ready, If a gamo of cards was pro possd, to conso work and reach over for the cards, which were always kept on tho top of tho bel lows, and continued playing as long as ho found company. IIo omitted no oportunlty of making himself knowu and liked, wont to every fair, dance, wnko and festival whero people congregated. In tho political llfo of tho village ho was alwayB on tho popular side in glv- lng his opinlonB, and even his mon ey. Had he continued this gait he must havo found himself In Homo public office A Poor Law Guardian, or a Justlco of tho Peace ho might have been if the plot had been allowed to develop bo far. "Of course, there wero thoso who had their suspicions of young aBrt loy. Whore did ho come from, and what wero his antecedents? When this kind of questioning got too close, he managed to turn It off In some adroit way. Beyond tho state ment that ho had had some trouble with his parents, nnd that he had resolved to cam his livelihood away from thorn, ho would confide noth ing as to his past. The old men shook their hoods, and warned tho young mon to Bhun him. One said Ifr- (i-'-r cr&jzz&zar- &4uw sic prera&M. &o?jrcr, jczlpacf-- latter forces aro popular, or at least aro treated with soma toleration, whereas tho pollco nro de tested. It may bo that recruiting reasons were back of England's policy of keeping tho army and militia out of Irish agrarian troubles. Ireland used to bo a good rocruitlng ground for theso lat ter forcos, and It Is Important to England that It should continue so. This consideration would die tato the wisdom of kooplng tho military forco neutral in Irish Internal affairs. Ono of tbo allegations mado by Nationalists is that outragos havo often been "manufactured" by pollco ngontB nt tho Instigation of tho Government Itself, in order to furnish an excuse for coerclvo lawB. I asked this pollco veteran If thero was nny truth lu this statement. "It 1b no longor truo," ho said. "But," ho added. "I can well remember when thoro wero some very quoor mothods employed by tho Dublin Cnstlo authorities to got ovldouco nbout outrages. Did you over hoar of tho Tubborcurry conspiracy?" ho Inquired. I told him I had not. IIo thereupon told mo tho atory of how a Government spy, disguised ns n blacksmith, settled In n Wostorn town, got in to tho confidence of tho peoplo, beenmo sworn iu ns a secrot socloty man, and ended by making things bo hot that nearly ono hundrod young men had to Hoo tho country "It was," Bald ho, "In tho early Land Loaguo days, when tho famous, or Infamous, Jimmy French was at tho hoad of tho detective depart ment In Dublin Castle, I was a recruit In tho constabulary depot thon. Tubborcurry Is a llttlo town In tho west, nnd many outrages wore com mitted around that Bpot, but not a man was pun ished for them, nor was any word of Information glvon to tho pollco. Secret societies ruled tho plnco. Going among tho raw recruits ono day, and questioning them, Jimmy French picked out a young man, named Morris, a blacksmith's son. who had also learned tho trado himself, and In structed him to repair to Tubborcurry, set up n blacksmith's forgo thoro, mako himself popular with tho pooplo, koep his cars nnd oyos open, and It ho got nny bit of Important Information, to tako It hlmsolf to Dublin. IIo was not to divulge his Identity to tho local police, for this would ruin his chances. Thoy woro to bo kept In tho dark as much as tho peasantry. Of courBo, Morris wnB to havo plonty of money for tho Job, but ho was to llvo poorly and dross poorly on the profits of tho forgo. "Morris carried out his Instructions to tho lottor. IIo took tho name of 'Billy Hartley.' Bart loy'B forgo soon boenmo a rondezvous for the Idlo or half Idlo youth of tho neighborhood. The kind young blacksmith would only charge a fow coppers for shoeing a horso, or mending a spado, and smaller Job ho often did for notbJxut, esDe- Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, puro food ox port and former chief of tho bureau of chemistry, department of agricul ture, Is acquiring an elaborato handla to his namo. It Is no longor Just plain "Doc" Wlloy. When you nd. dress tho Illustrious food expert now you must say "Hon. Hnrvey W. Wiley, M. D., Sc. D." He is really all of that. Only a fow days ngo ho was all of this minus threo letters. Thoso letters wero "Sc. D." They wero conferred upon tho food expert tho other day as an hon orary degreo by Lafnyctto college, at Easton, Pa. Thoso threo little let ters mean that Dr. Wlloy Is a doctor of science. Dr. Wiley returned from Easton to the national capital safely with tho new handle to his namo. Tho other night he showed, however, that ho was tho samo Dr. Wiley, regard less of tho appendago to his namo, by expressing his vIoV3 upon tho sub ject of prohibitory osculation, which Is now worrying many of tho lovers of .the Capital City. Dr. Wiley is utterly opposed to the movement on foot for tho abolition of kissing on the ground that it is a menaco to public health. J "Prohibit kissing?" queried tho food expert. "Oh, no! I'm not in favor ,of that proceduro by any means. I don't want osculation prohibited while I am living. I don't caro what thoy do when I am dead." "But do you think it Is a menaco to public health," ho was asked. "I havo known mothers," ho replied, "who were evidently of that opin ion with respect to tho kissing of their daughters. But for myself I think it 1b rather a danger to one's health to1 refrain from kissing." ho was too good to last long. Another said h might bo a Government spy who would get them all in trouble. That ho went to mass regularly was admitted, but thoro were some who "remarked that his manner of blessing himself revealed tho amateur worshiper. The conjecture that ho might bo a Govornmont spy came to Bartley's own ears, and at onco ha set about to explodo It. "Tho first thing Bartloy did was to go to a liquor seller's and got drunk. When ho waB told to got out ho bocame abusive, cursing everybody in authority, especially tho Government, tho Lord Lieutenant, nnd tho Queen. Rolling In tho guttor, ho called for threo cheers for nn Irish Republlo and a Parliament In College Groen. When tho pollco camo, Bartley become more abusive. At tho station house he assaulted two of them, and challenged any mlserablo bound that over woro tho Queen's uniform to a stand-up fight. When ho nppcared beforo tho magistrates ho was fined heavily, and, in accordance with tho part ho waa playing, would have gone to Jail instead of paying tho fine, had not a crowd of sympathizing Na tionalists in tho body of the court subscribed the nmount of tho flno botween them. After giving thiB Incontestable proof that he was a genuine Nationalist and no Government spy, Bartley's reputation was ro-establlshed "Work at tho forgo now becamo more brisk. But whereas previously the mon brought spades, shovels, and plowaharoB to mond, they now brought pikes nnd muskets. Bartloy was trusted as ho had novor boon before. Tho wook after his encounter with the pollco ho wns sworn In ns n regulnr mombor of the secrot society rendy to tnko tho field ngninst tho Govornmont when the rebellion was announced. IIo had, however, stipu lated that ho should not bo asked to loavo tbo forgo until actual war had brokon out, and his wishes woro respected. Many firearms woro mended nnd many pikes wero mado for tho mem bers of tho revolutionary socloty. Bartley knew tho name of every member; tho name of overy man who had a rlflo; the nnmo of everybody who commlttod on outrage for live yearB previously, nnd the namo of every person on whom nn out rago was intended to bo committed. Bartley mado reports of those particulars to tho ccntrnl office In Dublin. Ho was thanked and told to koop cool. When tho Govornmont thought tho not was full they drew It out, and presto! tho wholo town and district of Tubborcurry was thrown Into a state of tho wildest contusion. Summonses wero issued for nil tho names on Bnrtley's list Those who folt that their cases woro light attend ed court and were lot off with n flno. Bartloy took tho first trnln for Dublin ns soon ns ho hoard that tho flrs,t summons was Issued. Had ho remained a few hours later, he would havo been assuredly assassinated." HEIRESS FINDS A REAL MAN Miss Lilla B. Gilbert, heiress to tho $15,000,000 estate left by her father, II. Brandhall Gilbert, has found her Ideal man and her engagement to Howard Price Renshaw, son of a mil lionaire manufacturer of Troy, has been announced. Miss Gilbert, who is one of the most beautiful and popular young women of New York society, has been wooed by many men, but none of thorn was accepted becauso ho did not meet the specifications of a perfect husband, as laid down by Miss Gilbert herself. "How much better It would bo," Miss Gilbert Is reported to have said, "If every girl would carefully formu late her Ideal and then paste it up prominently whero tho right man could come along'and seo it. What a lot of trouble and disappointment would bo saved." Hero Is tho typo Miss Gilbert In sisted upon: Ho must bo 6 feet tall, a brunette nnd fond of athletics, a good rider and fond of animals; clean shaken, with a Arm jaw and ears close to his head; a Republican and a money maker. He must have" thick curly hair not red over his left enr, a straight nose, largo and Intelligent eyes, but not soulful ones. Ho must havo decided Ideas on the raising of poultry and pigs. Ho must like lemon with his tea and eat ice cream with a fork, like Robert Chambers' stories; dance the turkey trot and wear his clothes llko John Drew does; swear llko a gentleman and b'o gentlemanly oven inr his cups. Ho must not wenr pink neckties or jewelry, or over havo been really In love. MISS IDE'S WEDDING GIFTS Society, both In this country and abroad, was greatly Interested In the marrlago recently of Miss Mnrjorlo Ue, daughter of Henry C. Ide, Amer ican minister to Spain, to Shane Los He, son of Col. and Mrs. John Lesllo of New York, and grandson of Sir John and Lady Constance Lesllo of Castlo Leslie, Glaslough, Ireland. The ceremony was performed at the coun try homo of tho brother-in-law and sister of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. W. Bourke Cockrnn, Sands Point, L. I. Not In years has any bride, outsldo royal circles, received so romarkablo a collection of gifts as that presented Miss Ide. From King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain camo auto graphed photographs and an old Spanish fan, a pleco from tho Royal museum. Tho President and Mrs. Taft sent a largo silver basket and Miss Helen Taft n sliver tea caddy. Mr. Ide's presents aro a diamond necklace and stocks and bonds. From Colonel and Mrs. Leslie thero la a corsogo ornament of diamonds and pearls, Mr. and Mrs. Cockran gav a Ptrlng of largo pearls. Gifts from Sir John and Loly Constanco Lesllo are connecting links bo tween tho historic past and th.) present. Sir John gavo an old diamond and ' ,by bracelet that had been given to Mrs. Fltzberbert by King Georgo IV. of England. Tho gift from Lady Constanco is a miniature by Cocway, which was also presented to Mrs. Fltzherbcrt by King George. vv9C ' fc SCOTT DID REACH THE POLE Tho latest news In regard to Cap tain Scott's South Polo expedition baa beon brought by Herbert G. Pont- lng, tho first member of tbo expedition to roturn to London. Ponting is a widely known traveler. Ho accom panied Captain Scott'a party as a pho tographer. Ho says ho accompanied Captain Scott for sorao miles Into tho great barrier tho night tho explorer stnrted on his march toward the polo whon he left him. Mr. Ponting took cinematograph pictures of tho party ns thoy disappeared In tho distanco In tho vast desert of Ice. Captain Scott, ho says, was then about sevon hun dred miles from tho pole. Ponting says thero la llttlo doubt that Scott reached tho polo about Jan uary IB, becauso whon Lleutonnnt Evans left him January 4 ho was enly 145 miles from tho polo with nmplo food supplies nnd nil other neces saries. Ho waa then travollng about fifteen miles a day and should havo reached tho polo ton days later. Ponting continues: "Captain Scott was duo back whero wo wore waiting for him with tho Terra Nova Mnrch 15, or cnrller, but the sea froze up rapidly nnd March 15 wo believed It unwiso to remain any longer. No nows can now bo recolved of Captain Scott until tho Terra Nova roturns from Its next trip south. In March, 1913. V r v