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THE NORTH PLATTE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
TWO GREAT LABOR LEADERS MEET
WASIIINCaQN CITY
Had No Use for It.
A llttlo girl camo down to dpseart
at a dlnnor party, and snt next to her
mother. This lady was much occupied
In talking to her neighbors and omit
ted to glvo tho child anything to eat.
After somo tlmo tho llttlo girl, unnblo
to bear It any longor, with sobs ris
ing In her throat, held up her plnto
and snld: "Docs anybody want a clean
plato?"
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'iirASHINGTON. Hero Is something
W that will surpriso you.
in spite of tho tromendous growth
of mechanically propelled vehicles, tho
"horseless ago" which has so often
beou heralded as just about to arrlvo
Is not In tho oiling, apparently It is
not even "on route;" today thoro are
moro horses In tho United States than
there have been slnco tho tlmo whon
tho mind of the consuB jnan runneth
not to tho contrary.
And not only this, but horses today
havo a far greater valuo than thoy Iad
n dozen or moro years ago, whon die
first workoblo "horseloss carriago"
poked Its crude noso over tho horizon
and threatened to sweep all horsedom
Into tho discard.
Furthermore, those poor relations of
tho horso tho mulce, tho assos, and
tho burros havo also Increased In
number and In valuo,
In short, all, our old-fashioned four
footed means of traction can kick their
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Washington Furnishes Prize Summer Fish Story
FISH stories may go and fish stories
may conio, but tho'plscatorlal yarn
related by Capt, Charles H, Thomp
son, a sca-bcaton mariner of Miami,
Fla., makes all others appear like a
bush league alongsldo of Ty Cobb.
Said fish was right in tho midst of
Washington for moro than five months
whllo a Wnshlngtonlan, J. S. Warm
bcth, Counted It,
As Captain Thompson, in company
with W, I. Brooks and a Norwegian
eallor, wero cruising off tho coast of
Miami, Fla., on Juno 1, 1912, thcro
hove into sight a hugo monBtcr, tho
Ilka of which man never beforo had
laid eyes upon. A mighty struggle
for supremacy ensued and man was
declared tho victor.
Flvo harpoons and 1G1 bullets wore
required to subduo tho monster, nnd it
took flvo days to kill it. Beforo it
was under control it Binashed a boat
into thousands of plecos nnd knocked
the rudder and propeller off a 31-ton
yacht. Tho crow was towed nround
tho ocean for 39 hours by tho monstor
at a speed of about 45 mtlos an hour.
Whon it wns finally brought Into shore
moro than 5,000 pooplo wore on tho
steamship ways at Miami, City of
ficials, Judges, ministers, tho chief of
police, bankers, and tho greater part
of tho population of Miami will vouch
tittut
Washington City's Only
rlTH tho Domocratlo party In full
Control thn OIllv Dnmnrrntln nnivn.
paper in Washington consists off n
Einglo shoot pasted threo timos a duy
on tho wnllB nnd windows of cigar
stores, cafes, hotol lobbies nnd othor
places whero men congrogato.
Although tho Hulletln Ib llttlo known
outsldo of Washington except among
newspaper men, It is a unlquo and
successful nowBpnper. Established In
1894, It has grown In news gathering
eirtclency and prosperity until Its pub
lishers now assert that Its COO coploB
ro read by not fewer han 75,000 per
sons. Whllo most newspaper publish
ers Bcok to Interest women, becauso
women read ndvortlsomontB as well
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Secretary of State Bryan Is an Early Riser
SECRETARY OF STATE BRYAN
Ib nn oarly rlaor. Moreover, ho not
only rises oarly, but ho goes out early
He mounts his middle horso many
mornings at six o'clock, and oven oar
Her, nnd hies himself out to tho cool
lanes and shady bypaths of Rock
Creek, Soldiers' homo and environs
for a brisk canter in tho delicious
coolness of tho day beforo tho sun
dries off tho dow and gots In its
scorching work. Punctuality bolug
ono of his virtues, tho secretary Is al
ways back for breakfast.
On his way homo, whethor alonu
or In company with somo boon com
panion, tho socrotary's faucy often
turns lightly to rndlBh whlto rnd
Uhos, not tho llttlo red variety, but tho
long, crisp whito onos. SomotimeBho
stops at ono of tho nearby markets
to got a supply of thoso favorites of
his, Moro often he pulls his horse up
beside a passing huckster wagon; In
deed, ho seldom paBses ono of those
vegetable carts without hailing tho
truck-vendor with tho query; "Any
vUHo radlBhaa this morning?"
of Horse a Motor Myth
heels for Joy nnd neigh or bray, each
after his own fashion Though horse
less carriages, horseless wagons,
horseless plows, horseless reapers,
horseless whatnots arc In our Indus
trial midst In surprising numbers, still
our old, tlmohonorod friends the
horse, tho mule, the ass, nnd the burro
loom larger than thoy ever have be
fore In our national life.
Lot us consider theso facts which
havo boon oxtractod from a recent
number of tho Crop Reporter, that
publication of much oEotorlc Interest,
Issuod "by authority of tho secretary
of agriculture:" On January 1, 1913,
tho total number of horsos on farms
and rangos In the United States was
20,GG7,000, valued at $110,77 per head,
with nn aggregate valuo of $2,278,222,
000. Compared with January 1, 1JU2,
horsos had Increased fi8,000; mules
Increased 24,000; milch cows decreased
202,000; othor cattlo decreased 1,230,
000; shoop decreased 880,000; swine
decreased 4,232,000,
Without pausing hero to discuss
what bearing this decreaso during tho
year .1912, In the numbers of cattle,
shoop, and swine, may havo on tho
futuro of these useful quadrupeds, wo
will Just say that so far as is Indicated
by those Impartial records tho Unit
ed 8tatos consus reportB neither tho
hbrso, tho mule, tho ass, nor tho burro
has over suffered any such setback.
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for tho story, according to tho cap
tain. Attempts to classify it havo been
mado In tho Smithsonian institution,
but bo far all have proved futile. It
weighs 30,000 pounds, Is 45 feet long,
23 feet 9 Inches In circumference, 8
feot 3 Inches in diameter; has a mouth
38 Inches wido nnd 43 inches deep, and
a tonguo 40 Inches long. It has sov
oral thousand teeth. An nnlmnl weigh
ing 1,500 pounds was taken from Its
stomach. Its liver tipped tho beam at
1,700 pounds.
Tho monster had all tho characteris
tics of both Abu and animal, contrary
to all laws of natural history. Its
tall moasurcs 10 feot from tip to Up.
A pectorial fin Is 8 foot lonfe nnd 3
foot wide, and a dorsal fin 3 feot long
nnd 2 feet 9 Inches wide. Its hldo Is
3 InchoB thick and hns no scales, ro
sombllng that of an elephants coat
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Democratic Newspaper
as news, theao publishers address
themselves nlmost exclusively to tho
Interests of men.
Mr. Dwyor, tho editor, dreamed of
tho Hullotln 20 years ago when ho saw
hlB copy blue penciled by tho preBS
associations. Ho yearned for an un
trammelled medium for tho expression
of his vlows without tho intervention
of copy rcadors or editors. Tho ro
Bull was tho Bulletin, a slnglo sh6et
nowspapor. 22x25 inches in size, print
ed threo times a day at noon, at
threo o'clock In tho afternoon, and at
sovon o'clock in tho evening. Bi
cycle messengers dlstrlbuto It to tho
subscribers.
You can 300 it in almost any public
plnco. The pugo is flllod with about
800 words of news. This Is Vfrlngcd"
with a prosperous array of advertise
ments, mostly of nmusomouts, liquors,
clgarB, men's wear nnd resortB, Tho
evening edition cnrrles n Btory of the
local baseball game and tho major
league results. Tho noon and aftor
noon editions carry no baseball nowB
oxcept tho standing of tho American
Icaguo clubs.
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UHE RADISHES
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Fono OF
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If there happen to bo radishes on
that particular woEon. tho nremlor
of tho nation loses no tlmo In ar
gument, but speedily effects a pur
chnso, Recently ono of tho political sages
of tho capital city happoned along
whllo Mr. Bryan was Investing In this
llttlo nppetlzor, nnd ho has Blnco been
buBy evolving a theory ob to tho part
tho humble llttlo vegetable has played
In tho career of tho groat commoner,
Whllo ho is not rendy to give his so
lution to tho public, ho says that a
fondness for rndUhcs may not bo an
Indication at political success and
preferment.
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Tom Mann (left) and "Big Byi" Haywood (right), two of tho most powerful labor leaders in tho world, met
when Mann camo over from England to study tho conditions In American factories and mines. Tho English
man was onco called by tljo queen "our respected and well-beloved Tom Mann."
NAME TELLS STORY
Pennsylvania Towns and
Streams Indicate Origin.
Welsh Colony Left Its Impress Upon
Territory Near Philadelphia
Along the Delaware River
Upper and Lower Dublin.
Philadelphia. Fow states havo such
pocullar names ,as Pennsylvania, and
tho vicinity of this city contributes a
complement of them, besides telling as
correctly as hlBtory Itself of tho na
tionality of early settlors and tho
places whence thoy camo.
Theso, In many Instances, show the
philology of tho language to which
they belong; others havo boon trans
planted from boyond tho seas, and
some, such as thoso of Indian origin,
designate tho topography of tho lo
calities they name.
Early Wolsh settlers left their Im
press on territory contiguous to Phila
delphia by naming their settlements
aftor towns, hills nnd valleys In their
nativo Gwalla. Bryn Mawr, Is ono of
tho plnces thoy named. Bryn meaps
hill and Mawr is great or big, and
Poncoyd is tho Wolsh for head of tho
woods. Pen meanB head and coyd la
woods.
Bala, across tho Schuylkill from
Manayunk, In tho WoUh Is town. It
wns nnmod after tho birthplaco of tho
lato Gcorgo B. RobortB, ono tlmo presi
dent of tho Pennsylvania Railroad
company. Bala Is also tho Gaelic of
town, and Is ono of tho evidences of
tho similarity between tho tongues.
Glndwyno, which was Included In tho
old Wolsh tract on tho west side of
tho Schuylkill, means whlto or clean
section, whllo Bothryn means broad or
opon place, and Uchlyn Is tho uppor
lake. Uch Is uppor and lynn Is lake.
Somo say that Upper Dublin nnd
Lower Dublin, both suburban places,
wero not named by Irish settlors but
by Welsh colonlstB, and tho reason
claimed for this Is that tho namo Dub
lin Ib Wolsh as well as Irish. Tho
Welsh for Dublin Is dark pool or pwll
Du, whllo tho Irish for Dublin Is
Dubh Lin, or black pool. Dubh Lin
wns originally that part of tho River
Llffoy on which tho city of Dublin now
Btands, Our Dublin may bo Irish, but,
like tho Welsh names, It was trans
planted and hns no bearing whatovor
upon tho topography of tho northern
tier of this city.
Thoro aro North Wales and Gwy
neld, on tho North Penn branch of tho
Philadelphia & Reading railway. Thoy
aro on n tract of land "bought by
JameB Penn" and transferred to tho
Welsh colony, which named It Gwy
nedd. The land wns divided later and
each of tho two eots of colonists want
ed tho namo Gwynodd retnlned, but
both wnntod It for tholr respective
section. Thoro was a compromise on
tho northern part being named North
Walos and tho lower part was permit
ted to bo Gwynedd, which means white
land, or northland, In old Wolsh. To
live in Walos was an aspiration of
thoso sturdy colonists.
In the snmo territory as Uppor Dub
lin is tho hamlet of Klncora. Kin Is
tho Gaelic or old Coltic for head and
corn Is swoot scented. Thcro Is noth
ing In tho locality which calls for such
a cognomon; no knolls, hills of flowers
or ferns scent it nt any period of tho
year.
Cornwell Is from tho old Celtic namo
corn wall, which means horned cliffs,
such ns aro on tho coast of Cornwall,
and from whoro It got Its namo in tho
early ages of tho British IbIob.
Tullytown Ib half Celtic also, but
when you reach Tacony and hoar tho
conductor shout "Tack-oo-noo," then
you should know ho Is giving you a
touch of tho Indian dialect of the
DolawareB trlbo. Tho Dolawares aro
credited with doing tho christening In
tholr tongue aftor a swamp near tho
river. Thoro nro many Indinn names
along tho Dolawaro nil tho way up to
Pocono, big hills, and Manunka Chunk,
highest mountain spot.
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Crossing over to Carbon county
through the' Pennsylvania highlands,
you meot scores of Indian names that
bespeak tho topography of the coun
try. Some of them are Mauch Chunk,
Bear mountain and Towamencln, tho
wilderness, a name though Indian, was
given tho forest north of tho Blue
mountains by tho Jesuit fathers, the
first Shenowackes, or palo faces, to In
vade It. Nesquehonlng, black lick wa
ters. Lick was the Indian namo for
coal and Nesquehonlng 1b stream from
tho glen. Nescopeco, now Nescopeck,
coal washed by waters, Indicates that
tho Indians wero tho original discov
erers of coal and knew what It was,
for, according to Roschll, historian of
tho United Brethren, thoy worked it
Into plpoheads and built pit flre3 with
It on which they cooked food In pots
mado from the trunks of the gumberry
tree.
CZAR FERDINAND TJ0 ABDICATE
Bulgarian Ruler May Retire and
Prince Boris, It Is Said, Will
Rule Country.
Vienna. It Is reported from Sofia
that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria prob
ably will adblcato In favor of Crown
Prlnco Boris. Tho king himself re
peatedly expressed this Intention, np-
Czar Ferdinand,
parently convinced It Ib the only
means to avoid a revolution. Tho In
ternal situation of Bulgaria is very
serious.
Prlnco Boris Is nineteen years old,
and Bovoral times it has been reported
that tho Grand Duchess Olga was
betrothed to him.
AGED BABES IN THE WOODS
Irtdlarv and His Wife, Centenarians,
Lost for Three Days in Oregon
Forest.
Nowport, Ore. Tho two oldest In
dlaus on SUetz reservation, Dr. John
son, nged 104, and his common law
wlfo, Susannah Jack, aged 100, who
were lost threo days and nights In
SUetz forest, havo Juat found tholr
way back to Abo tribe. They wero
picking berries and lost their wny on
nccount of poor sight.
Tho lndlnns wero In a critical condi
tion on reaching their wigwam, as
thoy had cnten nothing but berries
and roots for threo days.
Pet Cat Kills Master.
Paris. Whllo shaving In. his bed
room here tho other morning Edmond
Hury's pot cat Jumped on his shoulder
as was Its habit. Tho animal knocked
Hury's arm, with tho rosult that a
gash was cut In his throat and ho bfd
to death beforo assistance could be
summoned.
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BY PEST
Kansas Tells of Scourge That
Hurt Region in Seventies.
Story of a Big Grasshopper Time
Graphic Description of Swarm
That Came Like a Cloud and
Devasted the Fields.
Kansas City. Grasshoppers in Kan
sas, eh? It's been a long time slnco
wo heard that cry, and a sorrowful
enough ono it Is, too grasshoppers in
Kansas. They came the first time,
Tom, in '74, when your father was
Just a weo bit of a youngster. Ho
says ho can still remember how he
used to hate to step out tho back
door, becauso the hoppers flew up all
around him and above his head and
whirred in his face.
. You hear a lot of foollBh talk, runs
an old timer's story In the Kansas
City Times, every year about tho
seventeen year locust, but tho Rocky
mountain grasshoppers of the '70s
camo a heap nearer being tho bible
kind of locusts the kind Moses
brought down upon tho land of Egypt
to "eat up every green thing." That's
what these miserable pests did all
right
It was late summer most of tho.
small grain had been harvested when
thoy appeared first. I'd gone to town,
and your Undo Tom, that you're
named after a little bit of a shaver
ho wab then, about ten was riding
herd on a llttlo bunch of cattlo. Every
body had somo work to do In those
early days In Kansas, even tho young
sters. He had a little old pony, gentle
It was, and It was his Job to see that
our cattlo didn't stray off there
weren't any fenceB to speak of in a
good part of Kansas in '74.
Well, sir, it's tho samo story that
every ono'U tell you that saw tho
hoppers they camo llko a cloud be
fore tho sun. Way, way up in the air
they flow, two, three hundred feot
abovo tho earth ,aud when you looked
up you could see their wings glittering
in the sunlight llko little flakes or
silver or llko anow, somo folks said.
Wo'd heard about 'em beforo, but it
seems llko you can never quite realize
a thing of that sort till you see 1L
And then they began to drop down
all around, and It seemed llko they
hardly got to earth beforo thoy com
menced to cat
They weren't particular what they
ate, either, Just bo 'twas green. You
could watch them start on a field of
corn first tho tassels and tho silk and
tho new tender shoots and then tho
edges of tho big, broad leaves, and
finally the stalks themselves. I drovo
homo pretty quick, but when 1 got
there thoro wasn't a sign of your
Undo Tom or of tho cattlo. They'd
Just taken ouf for Nebraska, It looked
like. I got on a horso and rodo along
tholr trail It was broad enough so a
green Now Englander couldn't havo
lost It, and In about threo hours or
so I found 'em. The cattlo had
Btampeded when tho hoppers catne
they settled on 'om thick, on their
oyes, tholr noses, nil over 'em and
they put down their heads and
plunged off for tho north, sullen and
stubborn Tom said for a good whllo
ho didn't know whether they meant to
stop any short of Nebraska. But the
llttlo fellow kept along after them and
finally thoy wero plumb played out,
I wonder It you can lmaglno what
it looks like to seo trees stripped naked
In tho middle of summer Just stand
ing thoro with tho baro branches and
no hint of groen. Tnat was what
happened when tho grasshoppers
came, and tho fields, too, baro and
brown, as if you'd peeled tho crops
right off them.
Thoy ato tho very grass and dis
carded wheat straw was hoarded that
year wo used it to focd the cattlo
during tho winter. As tho grasshop
pers ate tho country baro and went
on, or died, thoy left their eggs behind.
Forty Yearo In Style.
City Cousin But, Cousin Eben, youi
can't go to tho party in thoso clothes.
Your grandfather woro thoso at least
40 years ago.
Country Cousin That's all right. You.
don't supposo there'll be anybody at
tho party who saw him in them, do
you?
WATERY BLISTERS ON FACE
Smltuvllle, Ind. "Six months ago
our Daoy girl, one year old, had a few
red mmples como on her face which
gradually spread causing her face to
become very irritated and a fiery reel
color. Tho pimples on tho child's face
wero ut first small watery blisters, JUBt
a small blotch on the skin. Sho kept
scratching nt this until in a few days
her wnolo cheeks were fiery red color
nnd instead of tho llttlo blisters tho
skin was cracked and scaly looking
and seemed to Itch and burn very
much.
"We used a number of remedies
whlcn seemed to glvo relief for a short
tlmo then leave her face worse than
over. Finally wo got a cako of Cutl
cura Soap and a box of Cutlcura Olnt
menr. I washed tho child's face with
very warm water and Cutlcura Soap
then applied the Cutlcura Ointment
very lightly. After doing this about
three times a day the itching and
burning seemed entirely gone in two
days' tlmo. Inside of two weeks' time
lier face seemed well. That was eight
months ago and there has been no re
turn of the trouble." (Signed) MrB.
A. K, Wooden, Nov. 4, 1912.
CuMcura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout tho world. Sample of each
free.with 32-p. Skin Book. Addrebb post
card "Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston." Adv.
Looney Season Begins.
"Golf? Why, man, you're crazier
than a loon. Tho Idea of a fellow on
a hot day llko this going out and club
bing around a llttlo whlto pill in the
sun I"
"What aro you going to do?"
"Who, me? I'm going to get a row
boat and pull over tho lake and try
to get somo flah."
"Fish? Tho last fish was caught
out of that lake threo years ago."
"Well, I know that. Supposo I don't
got any fish, l'vo had a tiptop boat
ride, haven't I?"
Be thrifty on llttlo things llko blulnpr. Don't
accept wator for bluing. Ask for Kcd Cross
Hull Bluu, the extra good valuo blue. Adv.
Hard Luck, Indeed! '
"How's your son, tho lawyer, who
went to Texas, getting on?"
"Badly, poor fellow. Ho's In Jail."
"How's that?"
"Ho was retained by a horse thief
to defend him, and ho mado such a
good plea that the Judgo held him as
accessory." Lippincott's.
In Some Demand.
"My brand of cigarettes is selling
very well."
"Candor, however, compels me to
tell you that you could improve It,
old man."
"I don't want to Improve It. That
brand is bo bad that people are using
It to break off on." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Never Touched Him.
"Want to go to the theater tonight?"
"I have nothing to wear," said his
wife peevishly. N
"That won't matter. I only meant
ono of thoso moving picture theaters,
whero it's dark." Louisville Courier
Journal. His Recipe,
"My hair Is falling out," admitted
tho timid man in a drug store. "Can
you recommend something to keep
it in?"
"Certainly," replied tho obliging
clerk. "Get a box."
Lovd doesn't make the world go
round as often as It makes tho lover
go broke.
Many a man puts Ills foot In It when
ho attompts to stand on his dignity.
THE DOCTOR'S GIFT
Food Worth Its Weight in Gold.
Wo usually oxpect tho doctor to put
us on. somo kind of penance and give
us bitter medicines.
A Penn. doctor brought a patient
something entirely different and the
results are truly Interesting.
"Two years ago," writes this pa
tlont, "I was a frequent victim of acuto
indigestion and biliousness, being al
lowed to eat very few things. Ono day
our family doctor brought mo a small
package, saying ho had found some
thing for mo to eat.
"Ho said It was a food called Grape
Nuts and even as Its golden coior
might suggest It was worth its weight
In gold. I was sick and tired, trying
ono thing after another to no avail, but
consented to try this now food.
"Well! It BiirpaBsed my doctor's
fondest anticipation and every day
since then I havo blessed the good
doctor and tho Inventor of Grapo
Nuts. "I noticed improvement at onco and
In a month's time my former spoils of
Indigestion had disappeared. In two
months I felt llko a new man. My
mind was much clearer and keenor,
my body took on tho vitality of youth,
and this condition has continued."
"There's a Reason." Namo given by
Postum Co., Bnttlo Creek, Mich. Read
"Tho Road to Wellvlllo," In pkgs.
Ever rend Hie iiuote letter f A new
one npnenrn from time to (line, Tliey
nre irruulue, true, and full of human,
lntcreat.
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