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r. t THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEQRA9KA. KAISER WILHELM AT THE FRONT VI h iX(TC 10 6 EI 1 i r lie ft! CITY OF FAR-SEEING PEIERM GREAT Russian Capital Was Forced Into Being by Royal Edict. CZAR BARS GERMAN NAME Preaent Emperor of All the Russlas, Incensed Against Germany, Changes Ancient Title of the Great City In Fit of Racial Spleen. Petrograd. Petrograd ! In JlUHBlan, Pctor tho Great. This Is tho now namo conferred upon St. Poterflburg by tho Czar because tho old name, which tho first Peter gavo tho capital In 1703, had a German ending. Noth ing that Is German, whether It bo ending or beginning or middle, Is tol erated In Russia today. When tho news was anounced of tho edict of Czar Nicholas, which eliminated St. Petersburg every ono sat up and had something to say about tho frcc-andeaBy way Nicholas shifted good, old-fashioned nomenclature about. It didn't make any difference whether thoy were Russian or not. They fall but tho Germans, of course) wanted to have something to nay about changing euphonious St. Petersburg to guttural Potrograd. Somo were of tho opinion that the changing oftthe namo wbb a direct slur on tho memory of Peter tho Great, sponsor for both tho city and Its tlmo holiored sobriquet These wero unfa miliar with tho fact that Petrograd, ii $$!& The emperor of Germany, who Is well to tho front personally directing iho movements of hits nrmles, Is here seen conversing with members of tut aviation corps, who aro showing him photographs taken from an aeroplane wsjSKr i f STARTS EXODUS TO CAPITAL Wife of Swedish Minister to U.S. It First to Return to Washington for Winter Season. Washington. Mine. W. A. F. Eken gren, wife of the Swedish minister a Washington, is the first of the forelgr diplomatic set to return to thu capita. Czar Nicholas Planting a Tree. when translated Into American, means Potor'tho Great. Others said Potor tho Great hadn't named tho city aftor himself. "It isn't Petersburg. It's St. Pe tersburg," they pointed out, and ex plained that tho man who dlrcctod tho destiny upon which was founded mod ern Russia had named his capital not after himself but after St. Peter. Uut when it waH all over, ovon though many objected seriously, tho czar s edict stands for RusBla. St. Pe tersburg was no more. Petrograd had succeeded HI It is probablo that could old Potcr tho Orcat riBo from his vault in tho fortress of Saints Potor and Paul, ho would not glvo a well-worn Russian kopeck what thoy called his city, so long as thoy kept t open to tho son and growing and free and clear of tho Teuton throngs. As ho lies In his casket among oth ers of tho long lino of Russian rulers, under tho huge Btono elbows of Saints Potor nnd Paul, perhaps tho greatest ruler tho Muscovites ever had may gain somo chilly consolation from tho knowlcdgo that had it not boon for him thu present czar would novcr havo boon nblo to chango tho namo of St. Petersburg for thero would havo boon no St. Petersburg to change. Peter tho Great's troubles begun tho day of his birth, In 1G72, His father, Czar Alccol Mlkhuilovltch, died, Ills half-brothor wnB tho heir, and mic roedod tho father, but died without Ibhuo when Peter was ten yenrs old Ho designated Potor as his successor, dcsplto tho fact thnt ho hnd an own brother, Ivnn, who was a real heir, but. was foebjo-mludod. Peter also hud a luilf-siHtor, a bolllgorent soul, VrliYl f- 1nrn Fah -.a.-.-v-- CM. - n rfivnliitlmt. nml ii-l.u. ... ns-'..ii. i.n I crowning of her youthful half-brother. Thero was a light, and, nH a compro mise, Peter and Ivan went crowned Jointly, and Sophia, tho half-sister, bo arao rogont. Then followed trouble at homo Pe or tried to get rid of his regent bIs tor; Bho objected; another light; more bloodshed, and at laBt the sister was uhut up In a convent. Ivan then held nominal reign, but Peter hold tho helm. In 1000 Ivan died and loft Po tor, then twenty-four, head of tho Rub Blau people. At this stago of tho ganio young Pe ter utnrtod to work. Ho long had a dream. It was a gigantic vision of tho valuo of westorn civilization. IIo planned to unlto RuBBia and wnatorn civilization. Hut ho needed u seaport to do It. Standing in tho iiitriBt of a dOBolato ItUBalun wasto, with a Rus sian galo roaring nbout him, tho young ruler looked for a window i tho son, as Bomo historian ably puta It. Ho went to Prussia; ho went to Hanover; ho went to Holland. At Amsterdam ho got a Job. It wns work ing In a shipyard as n common ship wright. Ho caulked nnd planed and Bcraped and painted. And ho learned how to make a ship and how to sail one. All that remained to know was how to fight one. Experlenco would teach him this. When he left for homo ho took with him 500 engineers, surgeons, ship builders and artisans. Ho stopped off, in Vienna and Inspected the Aus trian army. When ho got home ho had to stop a mutiny in his army, but ho did It with his characteristic punch, and set about putting ginger into his pcoplo along educational lines. Ho reformed the calendar, adopted western systems of enumeration, encourtged commerce, and abolishod much at the Mongol stylo of dress and manner which had always been Russia's. All tho whilo ho was looking around I for another sea window. Ho found It on tho Baltic. IIo started his army against the Swedes, who then con ti oiled the Baltic coast. He was de feated at Narva by Charles XII. His troops wore raw, but Pctor kept his norve. Ho annexed part of Ingerman land, at tho head of the Gulf of Kin- land. Tho Swedes wore too busy else ' whero to take It back. And whilo j Potor kept them busy ho started tho ' beginnings of what later becamo St. , Petersburg, and later atill Petrograd. Tho first tiling Poter did after cap turing tho sito of St. Petersburg was to build tho fortress of SaintB Peter and Paul, which ever since has been tho nucleus about which tho city has been built. Tho completion of this fort marked a revolution It? Russian history. Inasmuch ns It established that country as ono of tho Baltic jiow-1 'or the winter season ors. nml characterized Its nntranco ! w8 established for Into the politics of tho western world. With bis usual directness, Potcr di vided tho Job of building tho city be tween his lieutenants and himself, keeping tho hardest tasks for himself, as was his way. Tho capital of Rus sia had been Moscow. By 1712 suffi cient ndvanco nt St. Petersburg hod been made to permit tho tranaferral of tho royal family to that point. St. Petersburg had become a hobby with Peter. lie Issued an edict order ing peasants from all parts of tho country to appear at tho now capital. Ho lovlod a special tax to stand tho "'xiw P iy Js m m &- -.. . C .TTJTaj -..Um TsmtnMtfiM JLTtMifi --w asg. i fiWIfff Rflf"-V v" Wf" 'TSSa'WS .fry s ; r stair mm mn t rs. "" nmn jjjjjjjrlu4JSlLM. 'juupr ilTYi .ni.ru i . .. ggsffi kooo.000 wswuji Jkm 'fiBlSBi 9 mmwFmgxSsSBmwMmlSTBmmrmwmvy Mine. W. A. F. Horses Are Still Available for Army Purposes WASHINGTON. At the tlmo of sending troops into Mexico for the holding of Vera Cruz, the cavalry branch of the army of tho United States com prised 15 regiments, with a total of officers and euHsted men reaching nearly fifteen thousand men Every one of these men. of course, has to bo mount ed A large number of Infantry offi cers also require horses. And the horses needed for the artillery serv ice foot up to a big figure. Tho total enlisted strength prior to tho occupa tion of Vera Cruz was about eighty live thousand men, and for all branches of the service", Including the hospital attendants, It Is likely that at leant twent thousand horses were regular ly required. - Now, with 20,000 horses, the mortality percentage must be constantly reckoned with. In fact. It is more certain than the mortality of the soldier himself., A horse cannot be buoyed up by enthusiasm, and when It's feed time a promise is of no value to him. So when the Mexico cloud came up one of the busy clerks of the war department was at once the horse arith metician. I Uncle Sam's last census gave approximately as the horso population t the United States 20.SG7.000. The army arithmetician Juggling with percent ages sees that In time of absolute peace the army needs only one horse in every 1,000 in the country. Hut as every one of the horses listed Is not tho sort of horse for army purposes, nothing positive can bo set down. Some army men have estimated that the total available horse population for army purposes can be set at about two million animals. This would make the draft on tho number for use in time of peace, or as tho army was before tho occuafctlon of Vera Cruz, one horso In every 100. Tho army arithmetician also, finds that the approximate value of the horses of the United States Is $2,278,222,000, or about $m a horse. The 20, 000 needed for the army would thus cost Uncle Sam about $200,000. Tho army flgurers also go Into the cost per diem for the keep of these horses. iSCHlIS Eaked Witi You nercr tasted daintier, lighter, fluffi biscuits than tbos baked with Calumet They're always good delicious. For Calumet in sures perfect baking. RECEIVED HIGHEST AWARDS l'; World' Pura Food Exposition, ChlcasOt lUioob. Pwi Expmitlon, FrXnce, Mutli, 1812. Ail s .Jems, 4 What the "Major Generals" Thought of a War Map SHORTLY aflr a war map was put up by a local newspaper a couple of elderly darkles ambled by. They squinted at the map for a minute or more, fvxing their eyc3 on the red and black disks that represent the allies and the Germans. &"" J! DtT ffi tsi mm SUTTEHLf MftB WCH COLORS OBEP. QE(K Ekengren. Tho legation tho summer at Rar Harbor, Me., but It has now been closed and the minister and Mme. Ekengren, together with tho legation staff, havo returned to Washington. 111 - f5 IS f llZjm lifii wiiifTTi m"1 i w ' 1 1 SsWmSmm W&MMM' at work building homes for IiIb Im ported peasants. Next, ho ordered all proprietors of more than COO serfs to appear at the capital, build lioineB there, and llvo In thorn for tho win ter season. Thus ho populated his pet city with both the rich and tho poorer classes. It was a radical pro cedure, but It was successful. St. Petersburg prospered. Today Its. population is moro than 1,500,000. Tho enforced city has become ono of tho commercial nnd uuruly ono of tho linancial giants of Europe. "What Is dat?" Inquired the first brother after a survey of the map. "Dat," replied the second, "Is "Yourope." "Lawd!" said the first, "you don't say so." IIo paused a moment reflectively. Then ho summed up his thoughts. "Alfred," he said to his compan ion, "dey certainly does have rich colors over thar, don't dey?" Red disks (the allies) were pinned In a circle around Paris to Indicate tho army of defense there. Ono of those tacticians with whom Washington is so plentifully blessed drifted up to the map and his attention becamo Instantly riveted on this circle. Clearly he was thinking, deeply and earnestly, for, like all of tho city's major generals, he hated to sea the loaders of the armies make mistakes. Finally his voice rose, complalnlngly, as ho addressed the world at large. "No wonder they're getting beat," ho said, "If they'd quit playing ring-a-round-a-rosy and go out and fight they'd git somewhere." There are realists in the crowd. One of them stood for about two hours In front of the map, working out tho problems of war with all tho Intensity of a field marshal. He had just marched across tho Mons river and was get ting along finely when one of the black disks attached to tho map fell to tho Hl.lnnfnllr rFlisi rnnllot Inilrrnl nn In Homiest "Good night," said the realist. "There goes another army corps." t Then he walked away. ; COWS LEARN MILITARY DRILL Dairyman Has Squad That Can "Hay Foot" and "Straw Foot" Like Real Soldiers. Connors vllle, Ind. Korost Ilaldwoll, who lives near hore, has taught a hord of 10 Jersey cowb to do squad right, squad left, and other movements In military drill. Entering tho lot at milking time, tho i young man wil. shout "Attention!" nnd tho browsing bovlnes, becoming alort, stampedo for a cortaln spot In tho lot and 'Ino up tn doublo ranks like a company of soldiers. When tho trainer cnlls Bquad right, tho cows swing into linos of four abreast and : .arch to the ptable, turn ing to tho right or to tho left as tho drlllmnster may direct At tho Btablo door tho catt! mark tlmo until tho trainer kIvoh tho signal for them to paso Into tho harr Sceno In Principal Thoroughfare of Petrograd. oxpeiiBOB. Then ho collected all tho masouH In the land. Thoro was great difficulty at first In getting them. Pe ter Issued nnothor edict saying that punlshmout would bo visited on any Recalls Middle Initial and Guesses the Rest DAN CUPID'S contempt for obstacles, little or big, was exemplified tho other day when Richard n. Sutherland, twenty-four years old, of Tampa, Fla., obtained a marriage license after confessing that for the life of him ho could not recall tho first name of his sweet heart. He appeared not to bo nervous, and was In full possession of his fao ultles, but tho namo refused to come into his mind despite long and serious cogitation. Tho acting marriage license clerk, Mr. Dertzbaugh, was astonished when In response to his Inquiry for the name of tho bride-to-be for tho record Mr. Sutherland hnd no answer. "Cannot you think of tho name?' asked the clerk. The nnnlicant had to confess that ho could not stimulate his memory to that extent. "I am sure her middle Initial is E," he said, "and I think tho first name Is Mary." Since the applicant was willing to take a license to marry "Mary" E. iindor and run tho risk of returning for a correction of tho record, Mr. Dertz baugh niado out the necessnry paper, reciting tho ago of "Mary" as twenty one yours ami giving her rosidenco as Tampa, Fla. Tho clerk is awaiting with interest the return of tin? officiating clergy mau to see what was the real name of tho bride. In tho meantime Cupid smiles and reroute another victory MARRjAcr ucErsg.agfe (iKAln'TJESl PEACE LEAGUES ARE URGED Christian Endeavor Society Would Have One In Every Nation In the World. Boston. Establishment of a Chris tian Endoavor Heaco league in every country Is planned by tho trustees of tho United Society Christlun En deavor. Through their prouldont, Francis E. Clark, tho trustees have Indorsed Pres ident Wilson's proclamation of a day of prayor for peace, October !. in a lottor to tho presldont Mr. Clark snyo that tho G0.000 Christian Endeavor so cletles of Amorlcn, most of which will lunn u-lin nnilllnvful n tiinnnn nnvwlinrn but In St. Potorsburg. Tho masons i hold regular prayer mootlngs Octobet hnd to havo work, bo they all flocked to tho capital. Then Poter sot them 4, havo boon urged to comply with President Wilson's request. Is Doing Some Representing in Congress Himself To 'I HE lRjman who think that congrous Is a little cotorle of intimato soals who dally meet In the close union of a soolal club the following ex perience of Representative Allan U. Walsh of New Jersey will be Interesting: "I wan taking luncheon with somo friends in tho houuo restaurant tho other day." said he, "when at a table nciosH the room l noted a young man, accompanied by a young woman, who, from tho innnnor In which he looked over toward me. and finally bowed with a smile, evidently knew me. i returned tho salutntion, of cuurse, and, as his face was familiar, 1 aroso and made my way to his table, thlnklug that he was probably a con stituent of mine on a visit to tho e-.iplt.il Pardon mo,' l said, as wo shook hands warmly, 'but, although your face is very familiar, I cannot pluco you just now. I am Representative Walsh from Now Jersey, nnd If you aro from my district I shnll bo charmed to fehow you and our wife any attention in my power while you are In Watmlngton.' " 'What district do you represent?' queried the man with a quizzical smile, while tho oyos of his wifo danced merrily. "'The Fourth district of Now Jersey,' I replied. M,I hurdly think I'm from your district,' returned tho man, whimsically. You see my name's Fred Britten nnd I do somo representing In congress uiysolf--tho Ninth district of Illinois!"' K-7rH d' cr.u!vl '. mm BfMrm rm 'if i wlmk m Si ;i kM ,41 MmLtiP mm AteV t MlVuMnW M wri&mltir 'I SJj IPi r ir BVTuf D Ton don't mtc one? wltn Ton toy ctup or big-ua I B fcklnx powdtr. Don't b milled. Bar Caluntt. 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