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THE SEMI-WEEKLV TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. :$?. iwz2.3fiw '''r-m.f-r.'Jiw aKaaxt QlSDE Me"WW)of(ji "m ww -iwtjm i-"-fc jtiH i m ( j t --r. s;unj'"i -fc-wii j . iii ij, iBiii i inmiTw jr .v.t.v h:ii , .imiirtn ki m, hi im t i &ss8HififeSffiE - -v v'.i7ijjrrir.irvr.-iaitTris,wTrzi----"-j' ;w - t l. ir- -orova wwbT-n "! i.vvr. lfflffSWvV .,,. v lfflM 3-jLttAWU.JUJIim." "'.." - ' T't . i'KKQ, 'JA5i?'7Jtr . suSUflEMit SrP'1 yvr:' sSssk. I I a brochuro calling attention to us uan- . viMsSKsiitx. &te3W 5lr!SrMfl,fcB tu UST boforo the breaking of the great war a brochuro calling attention to Us dan gers to European civilization was on tho point of appearing simultaneously In all the capitals. A wealthy penco-socloty, which lias tho work In charge, counts on making Its general publication Immediately If still possible It Is entitled "Guldo to tho Itulns of Europe," and Is supposed to bo compiled In America a hundred years from now for tho uso of American, Austra lian and Oriental explorers In tho stylo of Macau ley's Now Zedlandor, desirous "to visit tho piles of ruins that wore onco proud capitals and cities blessed with art, Industry and commerce boforo tho groat war destroyed allko tho populations and their centers and left Europo a wasto, sparsely inhabited by scattered communities of survivors without strength or ambition to restoro civilization." Wo glvo herewith selections from the chapter entitled "Paris." PARIS (ruins of), ancient capital of Franco. Undor no pretext should the explorer neglect these ruins. They nro moro accesslblo than tlo ruins of Berlin or Vlonna, and hotter preserved than thoso of London. The natives still hold pathetic protonslons to constitute a city of light for the vast and desolato territory, dotted by the Ialr3 of savage shophcrds and tho strongholds of primltlvo cultivators, that strotchos from the ruins of St. Petersburg to tho ruins of Uomo and Madrid and called tho wastes of Europo. (See "Vlllo Lu mloro" In tho historical chapter.) A printing press ovea exists In tho Challlot Catacombs connected with tho anclcut subway, which Is tho winter habitation of tho bettor por tion of tho PariBlait natives. "Parls-Apres-MIdl" two pfonlgs-culr, sold In tho Bosquets of tho Opera and tho Pantheon cockpit (soo "Pantheon, ruins of") by tho slavos of Monsieur Bnlao, nn thropoplthccus of Java and ross of Challlot, Is not a newspaper, but a mero weekly program of tho so-called plcasuro of Paris. ("Pfonlg-culr," seo leather monoy and barter Bystom. "Slaves," boo hungry mouths. Tho slavory Is voluntary.) Tho fact that four books havo boon published In Paris In tho past decado discloses an Intellec tual effort uhequaled elsowhoro on tho Dark Con tinent They aro "Our Fathers' Culturo" (words of ono or two syllables), 100 reproductions of pen drawings processed in Now York and gratuitous ly distributed In all tho rosoyts of pleaBuro, by MonBlour Isaac Dlumchen, Prosldont of the Re public; "Hair GrowitiR as Good as Clothing" (brochuro )t pp.), by Monsieur Samuol Rico hondatato of Bucharest, Mlnlstor of Football; "Tho Paris Song Hook and Now Dancos," by VI comto Raoul do Sancy (now odltlon preparing); and "My Pots," by MIbs Annlo Dloomfontaln, tho .beautiful young South African dancer, who has had tho concession of the Opera slnco tho year 2001. (Explorers regularly purchase theso unlnuo works In quantity, to encourage tho natives. Soo Pfonlg-culr and Barter System. Any useful oh Joct, such as a flno-tooth comb or cako of soap, or artlclo of adornment, llko a single oyoglnss, string of boadB or pair of eight-ounce boxing glovos, will provide tho visitor with abundant sup plies of Leather Money.) Great Hunts. Mouslour von Ilundspfoto, Mln lstor of War. Marquis do Montmorroncy, Trap por and Peltor; guides, porters, dog trains. Tho Casoar-Blaup, Bobb of tho Northern Shepherds, Is a useful person to foe. Places of Interest. Tho Opera This grnndloBO monument of tho past, destroyed along with tho Church of tho Madololno and tho entire Opera Quarter (boo Avonuo do l'Opora) In tho socond bombardment by tho Germans In 1014-15, Is undor the controT of MIbs Annlo Bloomfontaln and hor Troupe of Blondes. Variety show on tho Grand Stairway ovory afternoon, from Juno to Octobor. Tho crumbling Interior, overgrown with wild vege tation, Is unsafe. (Tho Wild Dogs of tho Opera, which formorly mode It their lair, 'wore extermi nated by Roosovolt Expedition of 1903.) Mnrkot of tho Madololno. Chief placo of bartor of the natives, among tho broken columns. (Soo Bombardmont of Paris In tho Historical Chapter.) Twlco a week this plcturesquo spot Is tho scono of tho greatest animation of tho Dark Contlnont, tho native women horo exchanging finery which nets tho fashion among tho slmplo populations In far distant Dorlln, Antwerp, Marseilles and Bu charest. Tho groat Fur Mart Is hold In August, tradors by dog-toam carrying hack with them tho (Parisian products. (See Artlclos-do-Parls and Recrudescence of Big Gnmo In Europo.) Avonuo do l'Opora (Tho Junglo ot Paris). Un pafo for any but armed parties of explorers, but Tlsltors can buy protection from Boss Balao, Mon sieur Salomon Uobownlkoff, Syndic of tho Bour geois Trlbos, or Miss Annlo Bloomfontaln. (Seo Tiout Fishing.) Inhabited by tho Bourgeois Trlbos and Hungry Mouths. (Seo Ethnographical JNoto.) Tho Avonuo do l'Opora Is considered tho ,moBt grand(oao example of Twontloth Century Mad&l&me Market 'jvmzZar& jvsRz&r - destruction, in which tho Gorman artillery mnrked Us zonlth. In no ono section of tho Ruins of Ber lin or Vienna aro tho ravages of French or Rus sian artillery so complete. Unter den Linden, it is to bo noted, crumbled ns a mass only after the great thaw of 1030. Eiffel Towor. Originally It stood upright. Over thrown in tho first Gorman Bombardmont of 1914. It is constructed entirely of stool, nnd contains 2,543,650 separate ploces and 9,4GG,821 rivets. Be neath It flows the Seine, with tho Trocndoro Marshea, inhabited by Ashing tribes, 60 per cent of whoso catches aro clulmod by tho Republic. (Soo Dried Fish.) Salmon began coming up tho Seino in the year 1978, shad A. D. 2003. It was feared at first that thoy might, mutually and roclprocally, extermi nate each other, but tho shoals of fish proved to be of too high an order of intelligence to oommit such a suicidal net. So run certain pages of tho chapter "Purls" of tho "Guide to tho Ruins of Europe," which was prepared to warn tho nations against tho great war. It was not issued, in time. Tho great war broko out too soon. Thp brochuro foresees a timo when gold Itself will be worthless In Europo. "All fnctoiles will bo closed," Its preface runs, "all railroads will stop, all commerce will bo par alyzed, nnd tho countrysides, ravaged by war and neglect, will no longer havo food for their. own populations. In tho cities piles of ruins decimat ed by bombardments, old mon, women and chil dren will riot in famine All provisions will bo finally with tho armleB, and tho armies will con tinue fighting to kill each other off and get pos session of tho predouB foodstuffs! Such Is tho black picture of tho brochuro. It quotes freely from "Tho War in tho Air," by II. G. Wells, published ns long ago as 1908-9. In it tho English philosopher brings America Into tho uni versal mlxup, as a result of which "tho fine ordor nnd welfare of society crumpled llko an exploded bladder, In five short years tho world and tho scope of human llfo underwent a retrogressive chango as great as that between the ago of tho Antonlnes nnd tho Europo of the ninth century." Wells remarkable book makes passionately in teresting reading at this moment. It shows how, up to tho very beginning of the great war, tho movement of the world seemed wholly bonoflclal to mankind. "Sustaining and constructive forces seemed to moro than balance the malign drift of chanco and tho natural Ignorance of prejudice, blind passion nnd wicked self-seeking of mankind. Men snid, Indeed, that moral organization was not keeping pace with physical progress, but few at tached any meaning to tne phrases. Few realized that tho accidental balnnce on tho sldo of progress was far slighter and Infinitely moro complex nnd delicate in its adjustments thnn the masses suspected. "They say their armies and navies grew larger and moro portentous; some of their Ironclads, at tho least, coat as much as their whole annual expenditure upon ad vanced education. They ac cumulated explosives and machinery of destruction; they allowed their national traditions and Jealousies to pile up; thoy , contemplated a steady enhancement of race hostility as the races drew closer together without concern or understanding, n,i thev permitted tho growth In their midst of evil spirited war propaganda and propaganda of con quest. Tho precedents of history were all ono tnlo of the collapse of civilizations aud tho dan gers of tho tlmo wero manifest." Tho swiftness of tho collapse is represented as its most terrible feature. "Tho older civilization rotted and crumbled down, but this civilization of modern Europe wa3, as It wero, blown up. Within tho space of Ave years it was altogether disintegrated and de stroyed. Up to tho very eve of the explosion ono sees a spacious spectacle of Incessant advance, a world-wide security, enormous areas of highly organized Industry and settled populations, gigan tic cities spreading gigantically, tho seas and oceans dottoC with shipping, tho land netted with rails and open ways. Then, suddenly, the German cannons aro henid and wo are in tho beginning of tho end! "Already tho financial fabric staggered with thoso first sounds. With the destruction of the American fleet in the North Atlantic and tho smashing conflict which ended tho naval existence of Germany in tho North sea, with the burning nnd wreckage of billions of pounds worth of prop erty In tho four cardinal cities of Europo, tho hopeless costliness of war came home for tho first tlmo to the consclpusness of mankind. Credit went down In a whirl of selling. Money vanished, and, at Its disappearance, trade and Industry camo to an end. Tho economic world fell dead. "Wherever thoro wore great populations, great masses found themselves without work, without monoy and unnble to get food. Famine was in ovory working class quarter within three weeks of the beginning of the war. Within a month thoro was not a city in which ordinary law and social procoduro had not been replaced by somo form of emergency control. And, swiftly, tho famine sprend to tho rich." "Tho great nations and empires becamo but names." NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. TURKISH ARMY RANKS NINETEENTH Turkey's army and navy aro both ranked nine teenth among tho armies and navies of tho world, tho Boston Globo remarks. While her army Is fnlrly well organized nnd has, a war strength of 700,000, which Is only 30,000 behind that of Gieat Britain, her floet Is practically non-existent. In fact, until 1010 tho sultan had systematically dis mantled tho navy, for fear that It would turn against him as it had turned against Uts predeces sor, Abd-ul-Azlz. , Tho ponco strength of Turkoy's army Is 100,000 men She Is ablo to draw upon 300,000 reserves, bilnglng her war strength up to 700,000. Tho population of Turkoy Is a llttlo moro than 25,000, 000. and of this number fully 2,000,000 could bo drawn In enso of necessity. Boforo tho new regime was Inaugurated In 1910, nillltniy sorvlco had been obligatory on all Mus sulmans, Christians being excluded, but undor obligations to pay a military exoneration tax of $2G0 for uory 135 males botween tho ages of fifteen nnd se onty-flvo. Under tho now regime, howovor. nil "Ottomans" are subject to military service, although under certnln conditions exemp tion is purchasable Actho Borvico In tho Turkish army lasts nine years. Of this tho soldiers are threo or four yearB with tho colors and the rest of tho tlmo thoy are rosorves. In cases of necessity nil males up to tho ago of seventy can bo called upon to Join tho colors. Tho navy has boon on tho decline over Blnco tho cntastropho of SInopo In 1853, when a Rus sian fleet practically annihilated tho Turkish woodon vessels. Tho sultan, Abd-ul-Azlz, with the aid of British officers, succeeded in creating nn imposing fleet of ironclads constructed in Eng llsh and French yards, but his successor, Abd-ul-Uamld, pursued a settled policy of reducing the fleet to Impotency. Most of the ships that woie ndded wero built In Amorlcan, British or Kalian yards. In 1010 it was voted to spend $15,000,000 In rehabilitating tho navy. Tho result Is that Tur key now has two modern battleships of the first class, tho Roshnd-I-Hamlss and the RcBhnd V, both with a 23,000-ton displacement. Besides theso sho alBO has ono battleship of tho cruiser type and threo battleships of tho older typo. She has two flrst-clnss cruisers, two second-class cruls ers and ono third-class crulsor. Tho rest of tho llcot is mndo up by two gunboats, two monitors, ton destroyers nnd eight torpedo boats. Tho personnel of tho navy was formerly drawn from tho army, from 2,000 to 3,000 Joining tho navy each year. But under tho present regime, during tho reorganization nnd reconstruction ot the navy, tho draft of mon Is mndo direct. Brit ish officers woro engaged to train tho men and to assist in tho reorganization. Tho naval forco numbers, officers nnd mon. about thirty thousand. Whllo tho navy Is small, Its potency Is grently increased by tho strategic position ot Turkey's naval base, Constantinople, Lincoln banks will send $50,000 In gold to New York. Tho Hessian fly Is damaging whoat crop In Richardson county. Tho First Presbytorlan church ot Sownrd has boon rcdcdlcated. A suffrago parade was a feature of tho full festival at Falls City. Mrs. Arabel McCullough, past (JO, of Stella, has made 3,300 rose beads this year. Miss Sarah Urquahardt was struck by an automobile In Hastings and in stantly killed. Tho attendance at tho Ak-Sar-Ben at Omaha has surpassed all records ot previous years. As a result of a fight at Walthlll, J H. McCauley received Injuries from which he died. Beatrice poultrymen havo complet ed arrangements for the poultry show to bo held In Decomber. Rev. C. W. Hoady has preached his farewell sermon at the Tecumseh Baptist church. Judgo Barr of Ainsworth has receiv ed word of tho death of his aged fath er at Boise, Idaho. Wllltnm Stanley, a farmer living near Hickman, was seriously injured when thrown from his wagon. Tho city of Fremont has contracted to supply North Bend with electricity for lighting purposes for ten years. Tho jewelry storo of August Myor & Son of Grand Island was robbed and about $150 in goods was taken. Prof. J. H. Smith has been re-engaged as physical director of tho par ish house gymnasium at Ainsworth. Pastures in Johnson county aro in. good condition nnd many farmers havo cut the fourth crop of alfalfa. Tho largo barn on tho farm of Goorgo Sunkln near Soward was de stroyed by fire. Tho loss is estimated at $2,000. Tho water situation at Tecumseh has been improved although changes in location of sowers havo not yet been made Tho llttlo daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Diotrich Slefken of Columbus was killed in somo manner unknown to her parents. C. F. Schafer of Alliance was slightly injured when an automobile which he was driving turned over near Scottsbulff. Tho Custer County Republican, owned by D. M. Amsberry for twenty five years, has been sold to C. E. Shea of Brainerd. Fifteen waifs from New York are at Tecumseh, and homes will bo found for th echildren by a local com mittee of fivo mon. City Superintendent of Schools Pate of Alliance and a number of ministers aro endeavoring to organize council of boy scouts. Earl Templar, 14 years old, son of G. Templar, a farmer living near Bro ken Bow, was killed by being kicked over tho heart by a horse. William Hartman, 70, was attacked by two burglars at his homo in Beat rice and received a broken jaw and several bad cuts on the Wad. Edmond Simmons of Scotts Bluff Sugar company says that sugar beat growers will receive more for their product this year than in 1913. A coroner's inquest hold in connec tion' with tho death of J. H. McAuley of Walthlll,' found that ho camo to his death through accidental injury The now United Brethren church at Julian has been dedicated. Dr. Car ter of Chattanooga, Tenn., delivered the final dedicatory address. Gage county and state republican candidates will tour Gage county this week. The Beatrice military band will accompany the candidates. Robert I. Elliott, depty state super intendent, was elected to tho head of tho mathematics department of tho Kearney Normal school, taking the place of "Mr, Snodgrass. Ellsort Nutter, 12 years old, of Kearney, died as a result of a kick by a horse a few days ago. Hemor rhage of tho stomach caused death No effects of tho Injury wero felt un. til two hours before death. "Echo Crimson Wonder," champion boar and first prize winner $t tho last state fair, died at Tecumsoh two days beforo a salo at which he was expoct od to bring $1,500. Moro than $1,000 had been offered for the hog at tho fair. Timothy Sullivan suffered a dislo caed hip when his automobile skidded and turned over two miles south of Friend. Mrs. Clark and M. J. Camp bell who wero in tho car, escaped in Jury. Fire destroyed the variety storo conducted by C. II. Trlmborn at Dodge. Firemen worked heroically and saved tho adjoining implement houso of J. B. Miller. The loss Is al most total and no insurance was car ried. At tho end of eight months' exist ence, tho Havolock Y. M. C. A. has a membership of 165, with the num ber increasing almost daily. Tno as sociation is prospering in every way, and thero is llttlo doubt now felt Uut that it will contlnuo to grow. Farmers in tho vicinity of Blair havo organized a society of Equity with a charter membership of about fifty. Tho object of this society is for the farmers to control the marketing of farm products. Georgo Schleicher, bai tender In Goorgo Gibson's saloon at Grand Is land, died as a result of a blow on tho head, myBterloiiBly given. It is bs lloved ho was slugged In tile saloon whllo doing work preparatory to open ing. Two mon named Kalr and Thomas, tho former a plumber and tho latter employed at another bur, are bolng hold for investigation. LAND VALUE HIGHER ASSESSMENTS ARE MUCH MORE THAN LAST YEAR. PERSONAL PROPERTY IS LESS Total Assessments of Nebraska Show 1914 Ahead of Previous Year. Lincoln. Tho land assessments foi 1914, as shown in tho office of Secre tary Seymour of tho slato board of assessment, show that the valuation of improved and unimproved lands in Nebraska has increased, over the 1913 assessment by $1,581,426. Tho valua tion on unimproved lands has fallen off considerably. Tho total Bhowing on the threo items, however, is as fol lows: In 1913 the valuation was given as $251,211,310, whilo this year It was shown as $252,825,772. Tho val uation of all personal property, In 1913, is'givon nt $118,038,227, whilo the 1014 assessment shows a lesser value, tho figures being $115,959,044. All property in 1914 is assessed at $471, 933,972, as against $170,690,411 in 19ia Want Insurance Liability Cut. Representatives of two insurance companies appeared beforo Governor Morehead and Attorney General Mar tin of the insurance board on nn ap plication which affects every country merchant In Nebraska. Thoy asked the board to allow insurance com panies to limit liability on policies covering merchandise stocks in coun try towns to three-fourths of tho faco value. Tho companies want poli cies to specify that In case of loss, they will not pay to exceed 75 por cent of the amount. Commissioner Brian has refused to sanction the pro posal. The Insurance companies as sert that they intend to apply the three-fourths rider only in towns and villages where thero is no fire protec tion. The caluse refers to "country stores." Law Blocks Irrigation Project. Physical, financial and legal difficul ties stand in the way of the proposed irrigation project for Kearney, Gos per and Pholps counties, according to a report formulated by Engineers Walters and Pease of tho federal re clamation service and revealed unoffi cially to state engineers. It was in tended to take the water for the pro ject from the Platte river and storo It for use when no rain fell to help out growing crops. Tho experts pay stress on the following features which work against the plant Tho water supply at present 13 not sufficient to. meet the demands, hence there could be no added drain. Cancellation, of a multitude of water rights would havo to be undertaken and this would in volvo long and expensive litigation and possiblo defeat in the courts. New Building for Peru. Notwithstanding the building fund for normal schools is running low, tho State Normal board has let the contract for tho erection of a new building at the Peru Norma which will bo christened the "Majors" building in honor of the Junior member of tho board, Thomas J Majors The con tract for the erection of the building was let for $83,508, which does not in clude anything but the building itself, and thoro is no monoy for the furnish ings and only about enough for tho heating and plumbing. It is expected that the next legislature will not al low the building to stand Idle and will appropriate funds to get it in shape. It will cost in the aggregate about $93,000. Veterinarians to Confer. State Veterinarian L. C. Kigln is Bending out letters to members of state veterinarian associations in tho different states and those who aro not connected with state associations and also to veterinarians in states which havo no associations or boards, ask ing that thoy attend a conference of veterinarians which will moot In Omaha on Thursday, October 29, for the purpose of devising somo uniform method for tho shipment of cattle from ono state to another and for tho regulation of the same The meeting wilj be held In the Live Stock Ex change building. Auditor to Sue Counties. Stato Auditor Howard has decided to illo civil suits against five counties of tho stato of Nebraska to compel them to collect taxes to pay monoy duo to tho state under nn oldlaw pro viding for the caro of tho insano at stato hospitals. Some years ago coun ties of tho stato owed $90,000 to tho Btato under tho law, but all but seven or olght counties have mado tho pay ments or have mado levies to pay what they owo under this law. No Depot Phones for Public. Tho Burlington railroad objects to furnibhlng phones for the public. Tho protest camo up In connection with an application by tho people of Sene ca for n phone in tho depot there. Bryon Claik, counsel for tho company, said tho road was perfectly willing to Install phones in its dopots, but ho wanted tho commission to attach a provision that the phones would bo used only on railway business and tho public bo oxcluded from ualnj them except for this purpose I j4l