The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, June 12, 1914, Image 13
THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA. .c si.! r I Tin TnEfcruflHT 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 04HOfH040(HHOf04040TOTHOIOfO-rOiOOKiOaKfOOtO New Indian Animal Stories How the Water Spider Brought the Fire m m By JOHN M. fOiOtHOKtCHOiOTO0OfHOHOiO-rOiOtOOiO00OlO0 I Pn r" n n "r 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. M 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." A -