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THE NORTH PLATTE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. fv 111 Tit . JwkB INSTRUCTIVE FOR THE BOYS .Many Pretty Things May Be Con structed by Skillful Use of Toy Steel, Just Put on Market. Toy structural stool, from which an ingenious boy may build anything that a real onglneor would make out of real steel members, la now being .-widely advertised und Is a feature of tho holiday exhibits. Somo of the things that may bo constructed in lit tlo by the skillful uso of this material are bridges, derricks, engines any thing, in fact, from a toy wagon to n miniature printing-press. A writer in the American Exporter (Now York) commonds this as a realization of the young mechanic's idea to "build some thing himself." Tho hoy with a mo chnnical mind, ho says, is seldom satisfied with whop toys. Ho would A Derrick Quilt of Toy Structural Steel, a hundred times rather take a ham mer and nails, and with what odds and ends he can find work out some Idea of his own than to possess a whole houseful of ready-made locomo tives and lire-engines, which, to his critical eye, lack many important de-, tails. The, writer goes on: "These outfits .consist of strips of Bteel varying in length and having hol6s punched at equal distances from end to end. Included in these sets are' also gears, pinions, pulleys, flanged wheels, axles, beams, etc., which give tho hoy all the parts necessary to build up almost any kind of a minia ture machine. Tho strips are hold to gether by means of small screws and nutB, and the structures that can bo built In this? way in a remarkably short space of time by any boy aro de clared to bo surprisingly real in ap pearance. The various metal strips are formed in imitation of structural steel beams, and tho young engineer in this' way acquires a knowledge of the strength of materials ai.d ele mentnry engineering practice which many weeks of study from books would probably fail to Impress upon his mind. Ilo also becomes familiar with the forms of many of tho well known works of engineering and ac quires a knowledge of the subject which cannot fail to bo of great value to him in later years, oven though he may not follow the engineering pro fession. "Each piece of. material ... Is nicely finished with smooth edges and rounded corners and nearly all tho parts aro nickel-plated. Everything which the boy would require is sup plied with the outfit, even to a quan- Ferris Wheel Made From Toy Steel Parts. tlty of good stout string for even this Is not always obtainable in tho home. A complete manual of Instruction is alho furnished with each set, which flliowa cuts of SO different models that can be built. 'Small motors, countershafts and tranafouners, also supplied, enable jlhw to to construct his own power Plant." Wrong Guecs. William was sitting disconsolately on tho front porch with n pleco of twine fastened to a looso tooth and hanging down out of his mouth. What's the matter. Willie?" asked little Annnbelle, who lives across the way ' My tooth is loose," said William. "And what Is the suing hanging out of your mouth for?" 'The string is fnatenod to tho tooth." ' "Oil," tho little Kill roturued, "I thought your tongue wass tied." f , LITTLE JIM WAS INTERESTED Not In Wonderful Deeds of Hero In 8tory Teacher Was Reading, But In Her Crooked Tooth. You could havo heard a pin drop In tho kindergarten that morning. Miss Mary was telling a story to bo true, but all was so quiet that oven Iter voico hnd taken on a subdued tone. Jlmmlo was sitting next to Miss Mary, and in nddltlon to Jlmmlo thoro wore 44 other children in tho morning circle, nil breathless over tho wonder ful horo of this story of knighthood. It might havo been an accident that Jlmmlo sat there. Again, It might havo boon a scheme worked my Miss Mary herself, for Jlmmlo nover lis tened to stories. Acrobatic performances, such as using only one leg of a chair, pinching his neighbor unawares, or tying tho plait of tho little girl next to him to tho back of her chair, wero all moro deslrnblo forms of entortalnment, ac cording to Jlmmie's idea. In the above-mentioned chnir ho at loast seemed safer, and thoro as a baro chance- that ho would listen. "Ah." thought Miss Mnry. "I havo found tho kind of stories that appeals to Jlmmie. Ho likes this bocnuso tho horo to bravely overcopics gravo dif ficulties. Tho high ideals hold up havo aroused him. I must be careful to choose this sort of story in tho fu ture." Sho grow more dramatic as sho con tinued, and tho children more tense. Sho felt Jlmmio's eyes fastened on her face, and know thnt he sat motionless as he watched her. Could it he possi ble that this was to be tho turning point of her earner with him? Up to this tirao ho had seemed a hopeless case. Sho felt eager to reach tho end, for surely she would got some Inter esting response. Nover had sho seen Jlmmie so interested, nnd sho believed ho would express himself about tho story. She had becomo so tense herself in her interest that thero was an audible sound all around tho circle as sho said tho last word. Then, oh joy, Jimmie was going to speak. What would It be? Perhaps a resolution to bo like this hero, perhaps but this is what ho really said: "Gee, Miss Mary, thnt crooked tooth of yours suro does look ugly when you talk." BUILDING BLOCKS OF SNOW German Novelty Placed on Market for Amusement of Children In Con struction of Forts. An ingenious no'volty on tho Ger man market is an adjustable wooden form, of the kind used in concrete Building Wall of Snow Blocks. molding, by means of which children can construct blocks of snow for vari ous kinds of snow structures, such as Eskimo igloos, castles, forts and tho Iljko, says the Popular Machnnics. Tho manner of using tho forms Is simply to fill them with snow and tamp it firmly. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BOYS New Haven Educator's Surprising Statement to London Times Opin ion Entitled to Weight. Georgo L. Fox of Now Haven, who has been an educator In that city for a long series of years and a student of school conditions In tho English public schools for tho last 20 years, has made tho discovery that tho aver age English schoolboy nt tho ago of nineteen years Is two years farthor ad vanced In ills studies than tho aver ago American schoolboy at tho samo ago and about tho equal of tho nver ago Gorman boy of the same ago, tho Hartford Times states. As, Mr. Fox has arrived at this conclusion after having become a veteran master In American schools and nfter having personally visited two scoro or moro English schools, his opinion Is entitled to weight, notwithstanding It Is un complimentary to tho American sys tem. In a lotter to tho London Times Mr. Fox explains tho methods by which ho made his deductions, and It is a satis' faction to note that his purposo In writing the nrticlo was not to condemn tho American system, but to glvo pralso whoro ho believes It to bo due. FACT AND FANCY. Of two evils why chooso either? A gold key will open any lock. Zanzibar Ivory is the best. Extremes moot, but they nro seldom on speaking terms. Any landscape architect can make you an echo to order. It's never too lato to mend nor to curly, either. President Wilson is fond of music, but has a poor voice. It Is not true that tho colonel in tends to change tho name of his Oys ter Hay residence to "Tho Nutsholl." Kansas has tho world's biggest ap ple orchard a 67,000 aero one. Tho breath of a scandal Is an ill wind that blows nobody nny good. HIS WOMANLY WIFE By ELIZABETH SEARS. Dorothy Marshall sunk back in tho big, cushioned, bamboo chair boforo hor driftwood flro with a sigh of con tent Sho hold a package of buslnoss papers In hor hands. Dorothy always dreaded business details. It would bo a real relief when Thurston Bhould take It all off hor lunula. Meantime tho flro snnpped and tho embers glowed seductively. Sho was tired. Positively worn ouL Thurston had upset her so that aftor noon. Ho had been ho Impetuous and sho was not used to scenes. Sho dropped the papers In her lap and clasped her hands behind her head. She loved tho fragrant smell of burn ing wood. She loved to watch the dancing, brilliant flame thnt nothing but driftwood could produce. She hold out hor dainty toes to tho heat and lazily congratulated herself, no sho admired them, that sho had never adopted tho mannish styles olther of dress or of manners that so many women did. Tom hud nover ap proved of It. Her clinging black dross hung in es sentially feminino nnd well-built lines as sho sat thero; but It wns not at all becoming. Sho did not look well In black, yet sho had worn It faithfully, even devotodly, over Blnco Tom's death. Her mother had spoken her mind plainly about it. "You look like a fright In blnck," sho had said, with the brutal frank ness which Is permissible to rela tives. "Tom himself would not wish it if he knew how unbecoming It was." was." Thurston had eaid almost the earao thing that afternoon when ho had asked hor to marry him in a month and go with him to Japan. "Tom himself would wish you to be happy," ho hud urged. Sho loved Thurston with every fiber of her bo Ing, but he was a man and could not understand her feelings about It. Tom would wish her to be happy. That was just It. if he had been a bruto or anything of that sort, it would bo different. lie had been moro than good to her, always. Sho remembered, with a choko In her throat, all his affectionate little ways. Thurston was not always qulto reasonable. He had shown more than a trace of a horrid temper. Ho had heeu unneqossnrily severe when ho had denounced her reasons for dolay as absurd, quixotic, unreasonable. Surely It was not unreasonable to wish to show proper respect to one's husband. Thurston, too, had reminded her of the fact that she had been a widow moro than n year; that sho had mourned her husband faithfully and with sincere grief. Sho felt a thrill of conscious virtue nt the thought. Not many women would have worn black so constantly and so long when it wns so unbecom ing. She had really been very fond of Tom. Not, of course, as she loved Thurston; no ono could expect it. They wero so different. Sho could not help but love Tom. Ho had been so good to her. Ho had loved her so com pletely. "I had his every thought," she mur mured. She remembered the day he had brought her homo tho very chair she sat In, especially for her comfort. And even when he hnd gone to Japan that time ho had been so worried about leaving her. Sho had wanted to go. She hnd always longed to see Japan, but Tom had been so tied down with that tiresome business ho had thought the trip might not be pleasant for her. Dut he had promised to go again just to take hor, the dear boy. Tho Grantleys had gono In tho samo steamer. Mrs. Grantley had told her how worried and bUBy poor Tom had been. If sho had knovn the Grantleys wero going at thattlmo sho would havo gono too. She would havo en joyed the trip with them even if Tom had beon too busy and occupied to take hor about. Dear Tom. Ho had never encouraged hor Intimacy with Holon Grantley. Sho was not his stylo of woman, though she was undeniably handsome and brilliant in a Cleopatra sort of way. Sho was so popular with most men. Hut Tom could never bear any woman who made hersolf notice able In any way. "No woman over suited him so well as his brown-eyed, womanly wife." How often ho had said that. Tom had nover dropped his loving ways. True, they had been married but two years, but she had known men who had beon positively coarse to their wives in far les tlmo than that. It was so odd thnt Thurston would not undorstiind tho way she felt. It would bo so mean, so disloyal to poor Tom to forgot him so soon. No not to forget him, exactly; sho would nover do thut but to live and bo happy and bo loved whllo he no, docldedly, Thurston must wait. Men wero so selfish, tho beat of them. "If you love mo," Thurston had said, "do not allow a mistaken Im pulse of couselcnco to keep us apart." Conscience! It was but a simplo act of justice to tho dead. Tom would havo been Inconsolablo if it had been sho who had died. Ho hnd so often told her she had filled his life so com pletely, How angry Thurston had looked when she had refused to marry him so soon. Still sho had never admired him qulto eo much iu hen he had gono away with that i,...ck frown on his hnndt'Omu face. Ho hud slammed tho door, too, One only slam a door as a last rorrL How fortunnto sho was to be lovod by two good mon. It was so puz zling to know Just how to docldo. Of course if Thurston lnBlstod ho might shorten tho wnlUng six montlis A cinder snapped and flow out on hor knee. Sho roused herself to n realizing senso or her surroundings. Slio shivered and sho listened to tho mufllcd fall of tho Bnow against tho window and seomed suddenly cold. A mysterious, hardly defined senso ns of some overwhelming emotion, exhilarating nnd yet depressing. Burgod through hor. Sho half roso as tho feeling be came strougor, moro tense. Sho seemed, wnltlng waiting for a docl olve blow to fall. Tom Thurston Japan. All wero revolving through her nnd about hor In a raging Hood of sensntlon. Tho papers dropped from her nerveless hands. "I havo been half nsleop, mooning over the (lie," sho said, nervously, rising and trying to shako off tho strange Influence that possessed her. "1 am all unstrung. I will not look at these papers tonight." She crossed the room to her desk. It wns Tom's desk, and sho loved to uso It because of that. Sho drew out a drawer in it sharply. It was ono sho Boldom used. A little bun dle dropped from a recess behind It. "My picture," sho said, wonUering Jy. as sho bent to tnko It out. "Dear Tom, ho always kept my pictures and my lottors." Her oyes glowed with tender tears. "If I loved Thurston twlco as much I would still bear your nnuio a llttlo longer, dear, after this," sho mur mured, softly, holding tho bundlo to her cheek. A moment later sho stood as If carved from pulsatiHg wax. Sho had seen tho face in tho picture. It was not her face. Staring boldly back Into her startled oyes was tho laugh ing face of Helen Grantley. She opened the letters. Ah! what they ro vealed. A surging wavo of fierce, uncon trolled anger swayed through her. It was the anger which comes to a woman whon sho first learns that sho hns been deceived whero alio has loved and trusted. Sho crushed and bent the smiling llns In tho nlcturo as her clenched hand boat impotent ly at tho empty air. Tho flames in tho dying fire flashed up once, twice, as they greedily wrapped about tho food sho flung them. Sho looked at tho calendar on the desk and made a rnpld cal culation. Then sho v.roto a note. "Hut not to Japan," sho thought, bitterly, as sho sealed and addressed It. "Nover there." rCopyrlglit, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) MURDER TRIALS IN HOLLAND In Many Respects Dutch System of Jurisprudence Has an Advan- tage Over Ours. A learned nnd cnpablo jurist has as serted that tho French method of legal procedure, which, contrary to our own, presumes an indicted per son guilty until ho Is proven innocent, comes nearer dispensing actual jus tlco than our own system. Dut in Holland tho courts havo, In Bomo re spects, a better system than that of tho French. Tho accused In every case hns tho benefit of tho doubt, nnd circumstantial ovldcnco as tho only foundation for a pica of conviction Is In disfavor. Tho Dutch do not hnvo juries, nnd there is no battlo of wits among coun sel. All questions, whether by tho prosecution or thonttornoy for tho accused, aro put to tho witness through tho judgo nftor ho has weighed tho jiiBtlco of tho inter: oga tion. This featuro of their system has some pronounced advantages over our own. It eliminates tho practice of confusing tho witness or tho accuso.l by misleading questions. It renders Impossible tho abominable practice in our courts known as tho "browbeat ing" of witnesses, which unfortunatoly is permitted to an extent that cause's tho intelligent observer's blood to boll at times becauso of Its unfairness nnd cruelty. It makes tho solemn busl nosB of dispensing justlco a common trado Instead of a heavenly vocation. Tried to Stay Good. Sho was angry, and her faco re vealed tho fact. "What Is tho matter, dear?" said her husband, ns ho entered the kitch en. "You soe that?" sho replied vehe mently, as sho raised a mixing bowl in which sho had just broken an egg. "That Is tho second bad egg I havo found today. I believe Jim Fletcher keops all tho bad ones ho gets In his old store for mo!" "Well, you shouldn't got angry about It, Nellie," said her husband soberly. "You ought to havo moro sympathy." "Sympathy!" she echoed. "What do you mean? Sympathy for Jim Fletcher?" "No, for tho eggs," ho replied "Think how long they must have boon tryln' to bo good." Llpplncott's Magazine. New York 300 Years Old. It Is just threo hundred years since tho llrst houses, or rather huts, wero built by whlto mon on Manhattan Is land. A llttlo later tho llrst vessel ever built by whlto men on this continent was successfully launched. Arrango ments aro bolng mado by tho Hol land Society of Now York to celobrato this torcontonnry. Tho first houses Btood whoro now Is tho Hamburg American Lino Iluildlng No. 45 Hroad way, and the llrst shipyard wns near by. Tho first vessel was called the Onrust or Restless. It was 44 feet 0 Inches In length. KOIM SAYS TEUTONS FRIENDS OF UNCLE SAM tOTf )" ' 5? American Interests clash, nor In tho future do I soo any point whoro tho lliids of our development should cross each other In an Inimical way. "In the United States Uvo nbout 12,000,000 Germans. Among theso Is a crowing efTort since tho foundation of tho Gormnn-Amerlcan National Union in 1001, whllo remaining loyal to their now Fatherland, to k,eep up tholr rela tlons with their old homo nnd to strengthen them. So long an politics horo mil In tho United States aro In cnlm hands, and overdone oxprcsslons of friendship us well ns nervous feelings In connection with occasional frictions tro avoided nnd thoso things happen now nnd then In economical matters wo need not havo nny fears as to our relations with tho United States. PACIFIER OF Hero aro some interesting facts re garding Hugh L. Scott, who porsuad od tho Navnjoes not to go on the war path rccontly. Molo Tequop, tho man who talks with his hands, rodo into tho nrmed Micnmpment of tho warllko Navajoos on Uoautlful mountain, Colorado. Ilo fodo alono except for ono old Navajo scout who had gone out to moot him 40 miles nway from United States sol diers who had beon sent out after tho two-wifo men hud jumped tho Ship rock agency, two weeks before. Thoro was considerable concern about thoso Indlnns, not only in tho country where they wero, but at Wash ington. Tho Nnvajoes are good fight ers. Thoso men wero woll nrmed nnd their hearts were bitter because some body had tried to break up their polyg amous habits. They had said they wero ready to fight until they were killed, and Just at this tlmo troops along tho southern rdgo or tho United States aro moro Interested in other things thnn mnking good Indians out or bad Indlnns. Molo Tequop rodo Into this camp nlono. as has been said, and tho chlofa called for a powwow. Hours lator ho rodo out or camp, this tlmo with an cs Vort of old men. That night tho Navajoos began to straggle back to tho ugoncy to surrender, satisfied with what tholr visitor had told them and rely ing upon his udvico. Molo Tequop Is the Indian namo for Hrlgndier General Hugh L. Scott, com mnnding tho Second brigade of cavalry of the southern department. General Scott is a Kentucklan and was graduated from West Point In 1S7C 4 CLARK REELS If nsi.mwl t.n ,... .n.l.nHn nn,..r.na Bamo Bubjoct, unknown, of courso, to each othor. Theso speeches wero not delivered In tho house, but wero given In full In the Congressional Record un der tho prlvilego or leave to print. Each was a lino, convincing array or fucts. "Hut," added Spenkor Clark, "tho only troublo was that tho bureau had sent tho same speech to both mon." HQBSON'S BRIDEGROOM STORY Representative Richmond P. Hob son clnlmed. In an Interview, that tho words "bitter attack," which wero used to describe his recent debate In tho house, woro an oxuggerutlon "I'll admit," ho said, "that this dis cussion was rathor heated, and I'll ad mit that noithor my opponent nor my self paid each other many compll monts. Hut political controversies sel dom yield components " Tho horo of the Morrlmuc smiled "It is in situations llko tho young Alabama bridegrooms," ho continued, "thnt wo must look for the perfect compliment, and bore It Is: "A young A'nbania bridegroom asked tho clergyman who had just married him what tho feo would bo. " 'Oh, well,' said tho other, not knowing tho young man's circum stances, 'you can pay mo whatever you think It's worth.' "Turning, tho young fellow looked his brldo ovor from head to foot, and then, rolling his oyos, ho ronUod, mournfully: " 'Why, yah, you has ruined mo for llfo, you has for suro." M Prlnco von Ruolow's references to tho relations of tho United States and Gormnny in ono of tho chapters of tho hook on "Gormnny Under tho Itolgn of William II.," In which ho donls with German policy, show how much tho former Imperial chancellor valued tho friendship of the Amorlcan govern ment nnd people. Ho says, In pnrt: "During tho Spnnlsh-Amorlcun war a portion of German public opinion displayed strong sympathy for Spain, nnd this wns not ngreeablo to tho United States, Tho manner In which incidents that occurred between tho Gormnn nnd American fleets nt Manila wore made tho most of In a portion of tho English nnd American press nlio cast a cloud ovor the rolatlons of G r many and tho United States. "From tho point of vlow of sensible policy thero is no reason why Gor mnny and tho United States should not bo on tho best of torms. I do not boo nny point whoro Gorman and THE NAVAJOES OFF A YARN In tho house clonkroom nt Wash ington tho othor day boiho ono heard Speaker Clark telling a good story about two momborB. It scorns that thero flourished hero in town a fow years ago a literary bureau which furnished spoakors with facts or oven whole sermons nnd spoochos. Tho lino of "dopo" was guaranteed to fit nnytbing from a Chlneso wedding to a Masonic funornl. Somo or tho congressmen availed themselves or this chanco to drink of tho waters or learning without tho troublo of oven getting a dippor, and tho bureau flourished, turning out productions of nil kinds and sorts nt will. Tho samo bureau omployo would wrlto a violent attack on tho tariff bill, and then, In a fow hours, ho would train his guns on his lato friends. Llko tho Hessians, tho writer worked for pay not glory. Hut ono day ho mot his Wnterloo. ja w,.w wj ,u MlUb ilto trULUMUU. li n .1 rYlnrnrl onnAnlinn ft, nvnntl,, ,u