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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1914)
" Yfi't ISfcftO.WEEkLV TRIBUNE, NORTH LATTE, NEBRASKA S-jfcSWf-SSi jWi-JWrtT" - ---- .- I ! P i 1! '! ;; 1 H f & S, f-A GODLK5 I v & $2Plf k "T "T ' M"""V"t 3H" "W " N. Ml y v My ' "s Vjb,4BlHIF vx- y a Bl t r F fed ! j v JwVSfi-?''fifedti9l8h flBw t -j V4EnJiIRlGSi' v ,jvf$jfrttlf llggS;Sg-Ss SEsSS3'-,''-, y.Njvi'jtJvjJ - A3t BMnnaNiMM. w-ix r" . " - Tr'v'i .,.-?? . - , x. ' .& . . h. V .. " . f . a , Mf rvrtvV ... ' yi'y r 'Htei s IJU YtmrrdtffiKai "3YVS takea a long time to trickle to tho United States from central Asia. I There are fow Inhabited placed of I tho wholo earth bo far away, count ing time as distance With the coast of Asia reached, the traveler must moot many strange perils, endure many torturing modos of conveyance and spend many weary weeks and oven months bofore ho reaches tho ' wild omplro of tho oriental cowboys who once conquered tho world, tho land of Mongolia, Many wild tales have boon filtering, slowly, but Burely, from that far land In tho last three years. Narratives of butcherlngs, of wars and aggrcs Hlons, of llftlo-undorstood political turmoils and 'battllngs. Out of It nil has formed tho very real itpecter of tho Russian boar, marching with heavy,. Hiiro tread from the west, grumbling low on the road to. Pokln and Lhasa. When China lost this empire, much more than twice as largo as tho southern states which seced ed In 1861, and with a population of 4,000,000 yellow-skinned Tartars; little attontlon was at tracted. Tho czar and his grizzled ofllcors accomplished tholr first Btops by appealing to the Mongolian flense of patriotism, Now ho Is bringing about the complete subjugation of theso vast plains by corrupting a man moro than a priest, a living lluddha, one of tho throo embodiments of the ancient teacher and god. There aro throo living Incarnations of Buddha, the Dalai Lama of Lhasa, who is the supremo ruler of tho Buddhist world; tho Pnnchon Lama, and the Khutukhta of Urga, tho Mongolian capi tal and holy city. When tho English soldiers of Colonel Young husband invaded Lhasa, tho sacred capital of Tibet, in 1904, tho Dalai Lama became a holy tramp. Far and wldo, for many years, ho Iihb wandered over tho face of Asia, followed by a inotloy troupo of lesser holies, exceedingly costly to tho communities which entertained hlnv In deod, almost a curse to his hosts. To somo West erners who saw him, he was only a brutal, sen sual, stupid young man; to othors ho was myo- terlous, sanctified, the em bodiment of tho religion and philosophy of ' the East. Button. tho whole,' his Influence diminished. His strongeBt hold of the priesthood .had depended on tho fact that for nearly two hundred years a grand lama had not vis ited Peking. Whon ItusBla decided it wbb tlmo to movo tholr frontier a fow hundred miles further east there suddenly appeared a mys terious deBiro for indo pendonco on tho part of tho inhabitants of Mongo lia. Bohlnd tho scenes the Russian .emissaries pulled tho strlngB. There was rovolt from China. Tho chlefB of the wild tribes domandod autono mous government. They were to bo free, with their own government and courts oven their own army. Bitter delusion! Russia forced the necessary acquiescence at Pekln, Japan was brought to ncqulesco by an agroemont on spheres of Intorest. Tho Indignant protoBta of tho other powers w.ere somehow smoothod ovef. Pokln was having much more trouble "with tho southern provinces, tho richest of tho omplro. Thoro was no possibility of send ing tho necessary military expeditions to Urga, Mongolia became "froo," still to a dogreo under tho nominal suzerainty of China and now under tho "protection" of Russia. Tho Russians surged In. Tholr merchants fill tho market places. Tholr consular agents aro everywhere and theso agents aro very oaBlly of fended. And with each offence there Is a fur ther docreaso of Mongolian power. On the Buddhist New Year's day tho K,hutukh ta dared to plead Indisposition and stay awa"y from paying his respects to tho Russian diplo matic roprosentatlvo. As a result ho wbb forced v " ....j i C -''V.T-0'5 '. j O ,VA . " -i. .'lA'Ky, v 1 vSt A "CiA. i J . -A SVZiZlHISr 2ZMPJ&- to appear In the most obsequious fashion, with as much kowtow ing as ever given to the Dowager Empress Tsl An. The Russians are ub Jng Yuan Shlh Kal to discipline the Khutukh ta. Yuen, "president" of China, has known how to use religion to further hls own pur poses, He has re-established the state religion of China over the pro tests of tfie Christians and tho European pow ers. Now he writes to the Khutukhta inform ing him that In the opinion of the Tibetan clergy, his manner of living Is. open to grave objection on account of profanity, and that un less he mends his ways ho Is likely to be re pudiated by tho Bud dhUt church. Tho messaga goes on to enumerate some of the Irregularities committed by the Khu tukhta, making special mention of his wife and children as a worldly possession in compatible with monas tic life. But he might havo gone further. A phono graph and an automo bile are among the frivolities of the ruler of Mongolia, and ho Is -very fond of betting on athletic contests. As one of the heads of the Buddhist church, GIRL STEEPLEJACK MAKES DARING CLIMB r- mml limn ill -- p nnnn.n. mrw.i-'i. ,mn i i f-il U I" ' 1 1- 1 ', ' I X "Hi I ; I Y ' & l : 4 IP ri J ill I HteJ 1 W 'HHT flH i1r9irPI tH i? fjwr''i W-W f yflm-x si fAmdpW .'Jai9HB &. 'v I i JMM:Kk4ll . r . ' , iJJ .IffjP1 i T-BtMttMK-i Hiiwud i nw in i nil in 1 sciapers watched tho daring girl with fear and trembling, expecting at any moment to see her go tumbling through spaco and mussing up tho sidewalk below. Miss Bcnuett Is too much of n lady to bo tho perpetrator of such a hdrrlble sceno, so her audi once was disappointed. Tho etructuro on the loft Is the tower of Now York's loftiost skyscraper, tho Singer building. Fight Stories' High Prices. Paris already poeseses an organiza tion bn tho linos ol tho Wives' union It Is proposed to establish in London In order to control the cost of living. I Tho baker oxtracts 18 cents from thorn for a four-pound loaf of household bread, and as much as 20 cents in somo districts, while bettor quality bread Is never sold at less than six centa a pound. Other necessities of life aro equally dear In proportion. In a manifesto issued when the League of Parisian Consumers was formed to light those high prices it is stated that the dcarness of food is not due solely to high tariffs and octroi duties. Tho averago Parisian shopkeeper Wants to retire from business at the ago of forty or thereabouts, nnd bleeds his customers atr much as possible. If tradesmen could be persuaded to koop In harness a little longer they would, It Is thought, bo content with smaller profits iiflpil By DONALD ALLEN. Constance 1), Bennett, falr-halrod and good-looking, la a mero slip of u girl not yot twenty years old. To see her In a street costume oun would .toevor bellove that so charming a girl would undertake feats at which many a so-called stout-hearted man would qurIK It takea considerable nervo to climb an 85-foot pole, 420 feet above tho Btreot lovol, yot this Is tho particu lar Btuut Miss Bonnett is seen accom plishing in thB plcturo. Jt shows her shinning Blowly up tho flagpolo atop the Equitablo Trust building, In' Wall street, Now York city. Thousand of spectators In tho surrounding sky- India's Qay White Way. Many East ludlan theaters keep their performances going until four or flvo in the morning. Theso dramatic orgies aro not, says tho Times of In dia, however, duo to tho length of tho plays, as In Chlnoso theators, but to tho fact that the tramcars do not bo gin running until 11 vo o'clock. As the spectators gather from distant vil lages and have strong objections to paying gharry hlro, thoy expect to bo entertained until tho traiua Urt, the Khutukhta has no right to marry; yet no sooner did he become independent (as he thought) than he not only took to himself a wife, but actually proclaimed her to be tho reincarna tion of tho goddess Chagandara! To be anybody in Mongolia you must be tho relncaration of oomebody. This takes the place of Norman blood. For three years ho has been allowed to main tain this standing scandal at his monastery nt Urga, tho Russians encouraging him. But now the Russians, using Yuan and the Dalai lama as catspaws, aro about to put Jho Khutukhta to tho question through the last-named worthy. There will be little sympathy wasted on tho Khutukhta himself. He is certainly a most un worthy representative of the Buddhist church. The Khutukhtas of Urga originated at tho be ginning of the seventeenth century, when tho Dalai Lama, after a long period of real, If not nominal captivity, at tho capital of Mongolln, re turned to Lhasa. The question arose: How would the Mongols contlnuo to live without a living : Buddha in tholr midst? Tho Dalai Lama then discovered that the son Just born into tho house of Tushetu Khan, tho most powerful of tho Mon golian princes, a direct descendant of tho great conqueror of Genghis Khan, was hiinsolf a reincarnation of Buddha. Tho marvelous boy was taken to Lhasa, there brought up and after ward sent home as tho first Khutukh ta (grand abbot) of Urga. It whb from this great appointment that tho present Khutukhta, the eighth in tho order of succession, has de scendedthough not In tho flesh. For the Khutukhtas have no business to marry nnd to establish a dynasty, but nio selected each tlmo on tho death of tho last holder of tho office from among tho babies born at that very moment. None of tho previous seven Khu tukhtas was allowed to live too long. It Is n sign of decadence of tho old Pekln authority that tho eighth Khu tukhta, who was born In 1871, has suc ceeded In asserting his right to live so long- as this. But his life has been a worthless one. He has n great predilection for strong liquors, ho Is very fond of cards, he likes the yellow, glittering motnl more than anything else In the world, and, ho far from passing his time in pious devotions, he rides In a motor car, plays the piano, listens to the phonograph, and has surrounded himself with a little harom. It Is those worldly qualities which havo made him accessible to Russian influences, but it would not aurnrlsa the Mongolian world to learn that they also have brought upon htm his ruin. For when it really proves true that Russia has withdrawn from him nor protection nothing will snvo him from the Dalai Lama's excommunication and then a now- baby promptly will bo found to preside as Jebsun Damba Khutukhta over tho Mongolian church. "I'd give $100 to soe him." "You aro n little gooso!" "Ho must be handsome and gal lant." "Ilo's a low-browed criminal." "I hope they won't catch him." "I'd llko to bo tho ono to shoot him down!" "If thoy arrest him, I'll help him to escape!" "Look hero, young lady, you don't want to make an Idiot of yourself over this thing! You can climb ropo lad dors, play ghost and scaro tho cook into fits, but you stop there. There won't be anything In being nrrostcd.'" "It's for father to talk to me." "It's for me. and I am talking." Thore was Mr. Dalzelle, widower; thero wan his son, Bob, twenty years old; thero was Aunt Phyllis at tho head of tho house; thero was Kitty, aged eighteen, and thoro was tho cook, Brother and sister wero having breakfast together when tho above conversation took placo. As a rule, brothers pay Uttlo attention to their sisters, but Bob had taken it upon himself to begin to boss when ho was seven years old. Another country Raffles had broken loose, and was plundering the county residences for miles around, Ho had not reached tho Dalzelle place yet, but In tlmo he must,' and Bob bought a revolver and carefully loaded It and placed It under his pillow and then slept bo soundly that Mr Raffles or any other gentlemanly burglar could have stolon the chimneys off the house. Tho cook moved her bed and bureau against her door every night, and slept with her mouth open and ready to scream. Aunt Phyllis had four extra bolts put on her door, and nover neglected her prayers. Mr. Dalzelle hid the sugar tongs in a vase and went to bed feeling that it -waB rather mean to servo Raffles such a trick. It was Miss Kitty who made a hero of the despoller, and tho newspapers were a good deal to blame for that. They said ho must be a gentleman and a college graduate; they said ho was handsome and debonair; thoy said ie carofully avoided houses where thero waB Illness, for, humanity's sake. The girl was appealed to. It was romantic. It wasn't butter at 45 cents a pound, and short weight at that, but It was a young man of birth and breeding driven to burglary to get food for his starving mother, or something of tho sort. Miss Kitty sympathized with him and admired him. It Raffles would only Call during tho daytime and relate his sad story she would cheerfully givo him all tho change In her savings bank and try and get him a clerkship In a grocery in tho nearest village. She sat for hours on tho veranda, but ho didn't appear. She" lay awako half tho night, but ho had business elsewhere. On the night preceding tho conver sation at the breakfast table, Mr. Raf fles had plundered a houso half a mile away, and In a -most charming way had begged an old maid's pardon for having found her asleep with her hair In curl papers. This was tho cap Bheaf of romance. If MIbb Kitty were to go down and Bit on the brldgo would tho knightly robber appear? If she were to saunter Into tho woods would her Robin Hood bo there? "I donjt care a snap what Bob Bays!" she exclaimed at her other self In her mirror. "If there la any way I can help Mr. Raffles tb escape the police and then reform and be good. I'm going to dd it." Half on hour later tho cook told her that as many aB twenty officers had .Raffles surrounded In an old barn about a mllo away, and tho fellow was suro to bo captured. "He needs help and he shall have It!" said tho girl to herself; and ten minutes later Bho was speeding away n her runabout. Thoro wero halt a dozen men around an old barn, but there was no Raf fles there. If he had boon thero he had vanUhed. When Miss Kitty was told this her f,ace lighted up with such relief that after shcr had passed on one of tho officers asked: "And who in the dovll is that?" "The Dalzelle girl," was answered. "Is aho related to Raffles?" "Don't think so." "But she seems mighty well pleased that he has outwitted us again." "Oh. that'B the girl of It." MIbb Kitty aped on rejoicing. Raf fles -was still freo. They might have run him bo far that he wouldn't re turn, and tho thought brought dlsap polntment. Ono can't ruminate very well In driving an auto or a runabout, and after going three miles Bho turned in to an old and abandoned house to sit on tho broken steps and ponder and wonder. Poor Raffles! Ho had tried to burgle as gently as ho could, and whori an Inmate of the houso awoke and shouted to know what ho was doing thero, he had gone right away without stopping to arguo tho matter. It was true that ho took monoy and Jewels, but It was also trui that It ho found tho baby about to fall out of bed In Its sleep ho tenderly re placed It In a safe position. A Bound llko a snooze In tho old houso. Tho girl whirled and glancod over her shoulder. Thero was yawning va cancy whoro tho door had onco hung, but there was nothing sho coutd aeo In tho room. Her fathor was an Insurance man and omployod clorka. Why not give Raffles a position thero untiljio could bettor hlmsolf. Sho would apeak to him that very ovonlng. Mr. Raffles would havo to chango his name and atop running out nlghtB, but thero was no doubt that ho'd cheerfully mako tho sacrifice. A yawn from tho old houso! "Mercy, what waa that!" Tho girl aroso and started. to movo off, but bethought her of tramps and Bat down again. Sho had no fear of tho wayfarers by daylight. Ono of them had turned In thoro tho night be fore, but ho might not oven wako up. If brother Bob know that sho had como out hoping to aid Raffles what a row thore would bo! But how was ho to know? And If ho did find out alio would stand right up nnd Bass back and lot him know that his days ot bossing her wero over with forever. A sneezo and a. cough! Miss Kitty Jumped to her feet and faced tho doorway. The next moment she waa facing a man of thirty who waa cursing under his breath. Ho looked tough. Ho looked wicked. "Who tho blank aro you?" ho de manded as he looked from hor to her runabout and back. - "I I am Miss Dalzelle," she stam mered. "What aro you doing horo?" "I came out to to " "You camo out to play tho spy for tho offlcera!" "No, sir. I thought thought " "What In blank do I caro what yoa thought? Raffles Isn't caught yet, and Isn't likely to bo. Much obliged for the runabout?" "Here! Here!" sho cried as he started from tho vehicle. "No tlmo to talkl" "But you can't ako that!" "But I have! Give my love to all the bone-head officers who aro trying to find my tracks In tho mud!" Ho had gone! It was Raffles of tho romance! Mlsa Kitty Dalzelle Bat down and wept Sho had Indulged In a charm ing Illusion for days, and It had been knocked skyhigh In about alxty aec onds. It waa a hard blow, and tho maid wbb still weeping when an auto halted and some ono touched her arm and gently aaked: "Can I bo of any assistance to you?" It was a young man of pleasant face and voice, and he had no chauffeur with him. "A a man has run away with my runabout!" waa gasped. "It was youra, oh? Ho passed mo two miles back, and I am afraid ho won't atop for 30 miles. Ho looked to bo a hard case." "That was Chevalier Raffles." "You don't say!" "Ho was hiding in this old house." "I declare!" "Do you know my brother, Bob?" - "I'm afraid not, though I can tell better aftor hearing your name. Mlno Is Duke Wlnwood." "And I am Kitty Dalzelle, and I havo a brother, Bob. You won't tell him. will you?" "Never In this world! Now that your machine Is gone, I am ready to convey you homo In my auto." "But what explanation can I give regarding tho loss of tho runabout?" waB the Innocent query. "We'll talk It over as we go." It was talked over. Raffles made good his escape. The runabout waa never recovered. "Something mighty funny about all this!" said Bob after Mr. Wlnwood's seventh or eighth call. Sis lets go of one hero and picks up another In less than an hour, and is getting too chesty for anything." When the engagement la announced Bob will got full explanations. Copyrlgfht. 1914, by tho McClura Newspa per Syndicate.) Flying Postman. The ministry of posts and tele graphs of France recently made plana to create an aerial postal service to carry lato letters from Paris to tho mall ateamors for tho West Indies and South America, which leave Franco only twice a month. Two hundred pounda'or more of lottera for South America arrive In Parla during tho evening and night preceding tho de parture of the steamer from Poulllac. To reach that port in tlmo to go aboard tho 'steamer tho mall must leavo PariB by train at 6 p. m. A, aucceasful trial ot tho proposed aux iliary postal service waa made. Lleut Ronln left Paris In tho morning with, ten kilograms of letters, and arrived' at Paulllac In good season. Tho gov ernment plans to make other Blmilar trials, probably between Parla and tho Mediterranean porta. It tho "experi ments succeed, a regular aerial postal, service will probably bo established- Youth'a Companion. Musical Experts Fooled. Some musical oxports came out badly lu a tost which was tried on them recently In a Parla studio. A number of viollnB of all ages and values, Including a Stradlvarlus that had boen sold for $15,000, wero plnyod on, In a darkened room, to an au dience that Included many people of sound musical Judgment. Tho Instru ment which they thought the finest turned out to be a Belgian violin mado this year, tho socond placo went to a French Instrument of 1911 and tho Stradlvarlus came third. .--.' ' 17 'vfet.