THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA.
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IIIQTIPP IHQPPH RIIPKER I AMAR ! S
,uuv uw- v-, --..-.. a
"stick" had he been a follower of St. Andrew. As a matter of fact, limar
has no recreations of this sort. He is one of those southern men who are
able to keep most warmly human, without doing anything that is Patently
human, such as golf, or being a baseball "fan." Ills only recreation Is com
panlonshlp with others, and scholarly pursuits.
SAYS NATIONAL GUARD
"The national guard," said Gen.
Alfred Leopold Mills, "has never been
better oqulpped or better trained or
better ofllcercd for service than It Is
today."
Which may be an important fac
tor in the piosent situation it the
states' militia should be called on for
action. General Mills' statement may
to taken as fairly representing tho
situation. In the first place, General
Hills knows. He Is tho head of tho
division of militia affairs at the war
department and as such would havo
charge of tho transfer of the militia
to tho service of tho national govern
ment. In tho second place, Mills
-wouldn't say It if it wore not true
His specialty is seeing and saying
.the truth,
Mills is the man who reformed
"Wast Point. Before his day there as
superintendent tho cadets were treat
ed like prisoners, fed upbn theory and
-clothed in uniforms that fitted like
the skin of a mushroom. If a regiment of West Point cadets had evoi
charged an enemy, tho sound of popping seams would havo been heard above
the rattle of musketry. They know a groat deal about tho manner In which
Napoleon was whipped at Waterloo, but they didn't know how Geronlmo used
to" lie behind a rock lri order to pot soldiers. Mills changed all that.
WAS BORN
fBK3yv!HnA R ji
xiso after another. In St. Louis they tell you that Lehmann is one of tho
test lawyers in tho country, and then add that his mind is more literary
than legal. Ho is also described as a largo, rectangular man. stuffed with
exact information. In his person he is large enough to afford room for
sufficient facts to qualify him as an unusually able lawyer, besides his literary
storage space. He is gonorally said to be the beat-road man in St. Louis,
and folks do read in that city. His hobby Is the collecting of rare books, and
ho has probably the best collection of Dickens' first editions In tho world.
And probably, as ho traveled to Niagara Falls, ho had a .volume of Burns in
his pocket
SENATOR LEWIS
"It is not a high typo of intelli
gence which mistakes civility for ser
vility," ThuB Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois, bored and perhaps
made n little Indignant by what ap
pears to him in his loss cheerful mo
ments to bo a persistent habit on the
part of undlscornlng persons to' sum
up his extremely useful and varied
career in a fow parrotllko comments
upon his dross nnd his appearance.
"My beard," said tho senator, "If
you will pardon my reforenco to an
Intlmato porsonnl matter, has been
described aB .v remarkablo work of
naturo, as a hlrsuto forest bristling
with sparks of Cro, and ns an ambro
sial chest protector. I havo boon
called tho Aurora Borealls of Illinois.
tho Plnk-Whlskored Prodigy, the Mnn
Who Made Whlnkore a Political Assot,
the Pink-Fringed Political Expert.
Many a homo hns been built, many n
family thrlvoB upon tho steady and
apparently rising market valuo of Jests about my clothes and my manners,
"Now, my dear fellow," concluded the senator, "I nm glad to contribute
to the prosperity of tho country by having my superflclal peculiarities fur
nish material for tho struggling efforts of tho budding geniuses of Journalism:
but I havo dono my share, and it Is tlmo that our experimental litomry cltl
tens should turn their attention t& tho gentloman who, so tho nowtpnpors
tell us, has discovered a method of breedlug blue pigs, or to tho inventor of
Jie notsoloss hammor."
Justlco Josoph Rucker Lamar,
who was recently appointed mcdlatoi
at the Niagara Falls poaco conference,
Is accepted by all who come in con
tact with the Supreme court,. or the
social llfo In Washington', ns one ol
the most delightful personalities on
the highest bench. President Taft
found him to bo the most companion
able of mon when ho was visiting in
AugUBta, Lamar's homo city. A story
soon started, and has not yet been
downed, that President Taft, who waa
suspected of being nnxloUB to form a
golf cabinet in Washington, matching
the "Tennis Cabinet" of a former era,
had known Lamar on the links in the
southern city. But the justlco denied
it, and, by way of making his asser.
tlon bolleved, capped It with the re
mark that ho had novor had a golf
stick in his hands in his life. It may
not be legal evidence, but it is strong
ly circumstantial, that the Justice
would not havo called a golf club n
IS WELL EQUIPPED
IN PRUSSIA
F. W. Lehmann. one of Uncle
Sam's mediators at the Niagara Falls
peace conference, was born In Prus
sia, and spent his boyhood days in the
fields of his father's farm in Prussia,
tending a small flock of sheep. Before
the boy was ten years of age tho fam
ily moved to this country and settlod
in Cincinnati.
Lehmann ran away from homo
and tramped several states, specializ
ing in chores as a business, and went
to Nebraska. There he tended sheep
again, but shepherding for tho great
sheepmen of the West and watching
a flock on the Prussian farm were dif
ferent Jobs. Lehmann was not inter
ested (n his taBk, and neglected his
charges in tho Interests of reading.
Sterling Morton, father of Paul Mor
ton, took Lehmann away from sheep
and put him among books in Tabor
college, Iowa, which he quit with
honors and a degree in 1873.' Tho
rest of Lehmann's story Is Just one
CALLS A HALT
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New Indian Animal Stories
How the Water Spider Brought the Fire
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By JOHN M.
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Color the Animal
(Copyright, by McCIure Nawnpapcr Syndi
cate.) Long tlmo ago, after tho earth was
made and hung up from tho four cor
ners of tho sky to dry, tho animals
camo down from the place abovo tho
groat arch and jset the sun seven hand
breadths abovo to glvo them light.
But they found that tho world was
cold, and they needed flro.
Up aboVo, tho Thunders listened to
tho talk of tho -animals, and sent their
lightning down to put fire into tho
bottom of a hollow treo which was
growing on tho earth. Tho treo was
on a small island, and when tho ani
mals saw smoke coming out of it, they
knew that flro was thero.
"How are wo to got tho flro?" they
nsked each other, and they called a
council to decide.
Every animal that could swim said,
"I will go and got tho Are." Every
bird that could fly said, "I will go." Tho
first they sent waB tho raven, because
he waa largo and strong. u
High and far across tho water flow
tho ravon, and camo to rest on tho top
of tho burning treo. "Now what must
I do next?" the raven asked himself;
and while ho sat there wondering, tho
heat camo up and scorched him.
So, frightened, ho flew back without
tho flrei and ever slnco his feathers
havo been black.
Next, tho little screech owl said,
"You will see that I can bring tho
flro." He got to tho treo safely, but
while he was looking dbwn in a hollow
of tho tree, a hot blast camo up and
almost burned out his oyos. Ho did
manage to fly homo, but It was a long
tlmo before he could seo well, and his
eyes are red to this day.
After tho screech owl went tho
horned owl and tho hoot owl, but
PICTURE, BOOK QUITE NOVEL
One Face Can Be Shown Above Fan
tastic Variety of Forms All Pages
Have Openings.
Thero Is almost no limit to the fan
tastic variations provided by a picture
book designed by an Indiana man. On
the Inside of the book cover is a figure
of a man or woman, as the case may
be. All tho pagos havo openings cut
at tho point where they cover tho head
of tho flgure, and below these open
ings there aro all sorts of different
Novel Picture Book.
forms or clothing or pictures, A man's
head, for instance, may surmount all
sorts of clothing, either man's or wom
an's clothing. Or ho can bo shown
cavorting about In weird attitudes, or
engaged In odd pursuits. Ono vari
ation of this scheme would be to use
tho head of a friend's photograph, and
show him to himself In clothos and
attitudes that will astonish him, tak
ing care, of courso, not to glvo of
fense. Needn't Be Afraid.
It used to bo stated in tho school
books that tho condor of tho Andes
was strong onough to pick up a good
sized man and fly away with him, and
that a boy twelve years old would bo
only a feather in his grasp. Accord
ing to tho latest reports no condor can
lift into tho air a weight exceeding
20 pounds, and tho boys who have
stood In awo of him can now heave a
sigh of rollof.
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to Suit Yourself.
when they got to tho treo tho flro was
burning so fiercely that tho smoke
nearly blinded them, and tho aBbes
whirled up and made white rings
around their eyes. They did not got
tho fire, but the whlto rings around
their eyes stayed.
No. raoro birds would go for tho flro,
so tho black racer snako said, "Let mo
try it." Ho swam to tho Island,
crawled through tno grasB to'tho foot
of tho tree, and wont In by a small
holo at the bottom. But, inside, It was
too hot for him: ho twisted and dotlgod
over tho hot ashes until ho was almost
on flro, and then ho managed to find
tho holo again. Ho has boon black
ever Bince, and has kept tho trick of
dodging, darting and doubling up as if
ho wero In a hot place.
Then tho groat black snake, "tho
Climber," went for tho flro, but ho, too,
fell Into tho blazo when ho put his
head over tho top of tho burning troo
and was scorched a dull black.
After tho anlnialB had 'hcd another
council, it was found that air wero
afraid to go all bu tho little water
spider. She -said, "I can either go over
tho water or under It, and I am suro
that I can get the Are."
"But how can you bring It back?"
tho animals asked.
"I can attend to that," said she. And
sho spun a thread from her body and
wove it Into tho shape of a tiny bowl.
This bowl sho fastened on her back,
and thon crossed over to the Island.
Sho came to tho foot of tho burning
treo, raked out one Uttlo coal and put
it In tho tiny baskot on her back. Then
she skipped across tho water and do
llvored the fire. It has been burning
over since, and, ever since, tho little
water spider has kept her bowl on her
back.
DOG'S MISTAKE WAS COSTLY
Mistook Basket Running on Wires
Overhead for Bird and Gave Chase
Left Ruin Behind.
Nick heard a sudden, snapping clang
and then he saw something fly along
over his head. Nick is a dog and his
business In llfo is hunting birds with
his master. Nick saw tho somothlng
abovo his head and quite naturally
thought it was a bird. So he set off
to cn,tch tho bird. He did not stop to
remember that ho was In a drug storo
with his master and that a drug storo
Is not a proper place to hunt in. Ho
was thinking only of tho bird. Ovor
counters and displays ho wont, scat
tering bottles and packages that drug
stores usually havo set out for peoplo
to buy, and ho ended tho chaso at tho
cashier's desk. Thero tho bird had
stopped, and as his master and tho
storo proprietor camo running through
tho ruins Nick had mado, Nick under
stood. It was not a bird, but only a
basket that runs on wires from tho
sales counter to tho cashier's desk
and back again.
' A Dog and a Button.
A boy ton years old, living In a
certain eastern town, held a button
in his mouth whllo playing with tho
cat, nnd some movement of his Bent
it Into his gullet. Ho could do noth
ing to rellovo himself and, choking and
gasping, ho ran along tho street to
And a doctor. Seeing him running, a
dog took after him and bit him in tho
log, and the yell tho boy gave sent
tho button flying out of his mouth and.
ton feet away. It Is cheaper to bo
bitten by a dog than to pay tho doc
tors. He Didn't Care.
"Seo how fair and white your sis
ter's complexion is, Robbie," said
tho mothor.
"Well, I suppose my face would be
tho sarao way If I kept washing it
every day llko slstor does!" waa tho
youngster's roply.
OSKISON
KOIOIOW-COIOIOIO
SAVING THE BONDS
By MONTAGUE GLASS.
It was a beautiful morning. A soft
broczo from tho river stolo through
Mr. Goodol's ofllco window nnd eddied
so gently around his bald hend that,
instead of sneezing, ho sighed. Thenco
it ambled into tho outer ofllco and
tugged nt overy button In tho gar
ments of Jlmmlo Brennan, tho ofllco
boy.
"At Fulton Market dock," it whis
pered, "there's good swimming."
"U'wan, what yor tryln' ter do kid
mo?" Jlmmlo's subconsciousness
Jeered, white its owner Industriously
continued to Index tho letter-book,
"lt'd treczo do lusldes out'n yor!"
So back It flew to Mr. Goodcl.
"I ask you in all seriousness," it nl
moBt hissed, "shall commercial paper
nnd investment securities provall ovor
golf?"
And Mr. Goodel. being of weaker
stuff than Jlmmlo, closed his roll-top
desk with a bnng and Belzed his hat
and enne.
"I'm going up-town ou a very Im
portant tnattor," ho said!
Jlmmlo looked at hltn mournfully.
This cutting business an hour before
noon was becoming too frequent of
late.
"What will" I toll Mr. Luddlngton?"
ho asked.
For a man of flfty-Avo Mr, Goodel
blushed rather easily. Tho operation,
however, might bo termed painting
tho Illy, for normally this gentleman's
face was of a huo to pale tho flamin
go's wing.
"Why, tell him I've gono up-town
on a very lmportnnt matter, of courso,"
ho declared.
Jlmmlo glanced at Mr. Goodel and,
dropping his oyes, Bnortod eloquently.
Luddlngton was Goodol'B brother-in-law,
and the rosoato huo of Goodol's
countenance whs largely due to his ex
ample and encouragement. Despite
Luddlngton's convivial habitB, how
ovor, Jfmmio know that ho held a
business engagement sacred; and on
the previous day ho had distinctly
heard Goodol make an appointment
with his brother-In-lnw for tho pur
chase of somo bonds. Tho securities
were to bd dellvored In porson by
'Luddlngton at a quartor to ono
o'clock that aftomoon.
"How nbout dom bonds, Mr.
Goodel?" ho said.
"Oh, yes about thoso bondB,"
Goodel replied. "When Mr. Luddlng
ton brings them bore, put thom In
tho small safe."
After a tlmo Luddlngton entered.
,7H'i6, Jlmmteruo erl6dlu- his
usual Jovial fashion. "Where's tho
boss?"
"Now he's gono up-town, Mr. Lud
dlngton," Jlmmlo replied, "on an im
portant matter."
0 Luddlngton chucklod impatiently.
"That's too bad," ho said. "I have
some bonds for him."
"I know ut," Jlmmlo answered. "Ho
Bays tor you to leave 'em -vvlt mo."
"Oh, he did, did ho?" Luddlngton
cried testily. "Why, there aro ton of
thom, at u thousand nploco, with tho
coupons attached."
Jlmmlo's faco fell as ho proffered
Luddlngton an nssurnnco ho didn't
feel.
For thorest of tho afternoon Jlmmlo
sat In front of the safe fruitlessly re
volving the knob, resting herself at
intervals by reading a thrilling dime
novol. At tour o'clock he locked up
tho ofllco and wanderod disconsolately'
down-stairs. Thero the sunny autumn
afternoon propelled him to tho river
front, and, unconsciously, his footsteps
shaped themselves toward Fulton Mar
ket dock.
Ho picked his way through the
empty Ashbarrels to tho strlng-ploce,
where stood Ignatius Ryan, tho same
they call Whltnoy. Ignatius was
garbed in a scapular and not much
more, and his teeth chattered In
cessantly as tho cold wind Btnoto bis
naked shins.
"Why don't you Jump in?" snld Jlm
mlo, seating himself on tho edgo of
tho wharf. '
Whitney struggled with a temporary
ataxia of speech.
"Aw,' w-w-w-hy d-d-tl-on't y-y-y-cr J-J-J-ump
in y-y-y-yers-B-s-s-olf?" ho barely
managed to enunciate.
By way of reply Jemmle emitted a
succession of Jeering guffaws which
soemed to lnfurlato the shivering
Whitnoy. Ignatius mado a dash for his
nrmnntor. and a moment Inter tho
two of thom wero struggling In a
strong flood tide.
When Jlmmlo rose to tho surface,
half a dozen ropes were wunin easy
reach. iIc was speedily hauled back
Upon tho dock, shrieking lurid throats
nt Ignatius, whoso repartee, revived
by tho sudden plunge, grow no loss
profane.
"Walt till I get yer wanstl" Jlmmlo
shouted. "I'll lift do face off yer, dafs
nil!" And there followed a wealth of
bltisr anathema tha might havo en
riched tho vocabulary of a truckman.
Jlmmlo proceeded up tho wharf and
along South street, dripping a track 1
of muddy water behind mm. A salt
stroam ran down lila faco from his
hair and rnlnglod with tho tears which
camo with a realization of hlB predica
ment. His, cap was lost and his only
suit of, clothes was dirty beyond do
'Bcrlptlon. In tho excitement of the pnst half
hour ho hud ontlroly forgotten tho
bonds. At tho romombranco of thom
his hand sought his breast-pocket.
With shaking lingers he removed tho
pin and drew out a bundlo of paporn
Whoso stained and soggy condition
boro no flomblaiico whatever to tho
crisp beauty of Mr. Luddlngton's
bonds.
All that evening ho sat In a flannel
nightgown, busily plying a rubber
orasor, but without avnll, for ns fast as
ho removed tho spots his falling team
stained tho wrinkled paper nnow. Ills
mother, meanwhile, stood at tho wash
tub and renovated his muddy clothing
with a vigor that testified eloquently
to the thoroughness of his chastise
ment. Thero was little sleep for Jlmmlo
that night, nnd next morning, as he
trudged, hollow-eyed, to his work,
ho turned over in his mind overy Justi
Mention ho might proffer Mr. Goodel
for his dlsobcdlonco. Ho arrived down
town without having formulated any .
excuse, and a quarter of nn hour lata
to boot. So preoccupied was ho, as
ho mounted tho stops, that ho failod
to obsorvo two policemen who blocked
tho doorway, nnd plunged blindly Into
them.
"Where aro you bound for?" ono of
them asked.
"Aw, lot mo gol" Bald Jlmmlo. "I
wolk hero."
"Oh, you do, do you?" tho policeman
ojaculntcd, and grabbod him by tho
shoulder. "What's yor name?"
"Jlmmlo Brennnn," tho boy replied.
"Como on, you," IiIb captor said,
and dragged the struggling Jlmmlo up
stairs. '
Luddlngton and Goodol stood in the
outer ofllco as Jlmmlo and tho police
man entered. Qoodel's ruddy com
ploxton hnd faded to a dingy shado
of purplo, and tho corners of Luddlng
ton's mouth turned downward In a
most unaccustomed fashion.
"Hero ho is!" tho officer announced.
"Well, don't strangle him," said Lud
dlngton, with his hand on tho door
knob of Goodol's ofllco. He turned
to Jlmmle. "Do you know anything
about this?" ho usked, nnd throw wide
tho door.
Jlmmlo gasped In convincing aston
lshmont. Tho Uttlo safe stood doorless
on its sldo, In tho mlddlo of tho room,
Burrounded by n pllo of torn and scat
tered paper. Its iron door rested on
Goodol's dosk, whllo tho doors of tho
big safe In tho corner swung ajar,
ono of thom supported by only tho
bottom hlngo.
"Ho doosn't know," Goodel mut
tered. "What tlmo did you loavo hero yos
tcrday?" Luddlngton asked.
"Four o'clock," Jlmmlo murmured in
tear-choked accents.
Horo tho pollcoman took a hand.
"What tlmo did you got homo?" ho
persisted.
Jlmmlo Bobbod convulsively.
"Six o'clock," ho croaked.
"And whero was you between
times?" his Inquisitor bellowed.
This waB too much for Jlmmlo, He
sank down with his hend on tho desk
and wept unaffectedly.
"Now look hero," Goodol protested,
"I won't havo tho little chap bullied
any more" Ho laid a comforting hand
on Jlmmlo's shoulder, "it's all my
fault, Luddlngton," ho continued. "It
I hadn't been an ass nnd gono off to
play golf I might havo put tho bonds
In my safo-doposit box Instead of tho
safo, and thoy wouldn't havo been
stolen."
Jlmmlo lifted his head from tho
desk.
"Doy wuzn't In do safo," ho said, k
"What?" gasped Luddlngton, Goodel,
and the policeman In concert
" 'N ,lt ain't up tor mo, nelder," he
sobbed. "Whitney pushed me In."
"What d'yo mean?" Luddlngton
shrieked.
For answer Jlmmlo unpinned his
pocket and handed tho soiled bonds
to Goodel. Thoy were as limp as Jap
anese napkins.
"I cleaned 'em as good as I could,"
Jlmmlo continued.
Then, plecomeal they drew from him
a disconnected but comprehensive ac
count of the day's adventures. It
omitted nothing, not even the dlmo
novol.
"Jlmmle, you young dog," said
Goodel, after he had regained his com
posure. "I forbade you ovor to read
dlmo" novels In this office, and no
sooner was my back turned (nun you
did."
Jlmmlo hung his head.
"That's all right, Goodell" Luddlng
ton broke in. "Vou told him to put
the bonds in tho safe and he didn't.
I guess that makes it square, and
you'd bettor forgive him."
A broad grin spread itself over
Goodel'B faco.
"He gotB ono moro chance," he said,
pressing a bill Into tho boy's flst, "and
$20 to buy u now suit of clothes with.
Now got out of hero, Jlmmle you
smell llko a Ash-market!"
(Copyright, by tlie Frank A. Mutmey Co.)
New Whale.
Forost and Stream describes a now
kind of whalebono whalo that has to
cently been discovered in tho South
Atlantic, it is nearly as largo as tho
finback, tho moro fnmlliar whalo of
thoso waters; but instead of subsist
ing on mlnuto crustaceans, it feeds on
Binnll schooling "llshos, such as young
herring and mackorel. The frayed
ends of Its baleen, or whalebone, aro
not curled Into a woolly fringe, llko
thoso of tho finback, which needs u
fVingo in order to entrap its mlnuto
food, hut aro straight and combllko.
Tho now species has quite as much
commercial vnluo as its better-known
relative.
Their Place.
"Pop, I know whero all tho troos'
green leaves go in winter,"
"Whero do they go, son?"
"Thoy'ro packed away in tho trees'
trunks."
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