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EASTERN POETRY RANKS HIGH Fine Order of Literature Frequently Evolved by Writers of the Orient, oys vyeii-Known Author. .Mony persons sorm tn tMntr im h. poVlc Hternturo of the Bust Is fitted .to yield only a Imrren crop of verbl age, or n tawdry muss of sentimental hxtravagance. It often has these char acteristics. It also possesses all kinds of wealth. In their most exalted de crees, and In their most wonderful profusion. The poetry of the unlmng Inatlve Chinese is noticeable for eth leal good sense a wholesome vein of homely truth. Its beat Is circum scribed In the ranges of practical ex perience, The muse of China Is a ground sparrow. With the Arabs . . . their Ideas seem to be transmuted In to sensations. Sanscrit und Illndosta nee poetry is characterized, In its most peculiar phases, by an unrivaled Idealization. Imagination often tnlces the reins from Judgment and runs riot, and language breaks Into a blossom- wilderness of mctunhor. But the richness and originality of the result are frequently grand and exhilarating. The most distinctive Persian poetry exhibits an exquisite delicacy of sense elsewhere unparalleled, a vast and ethereal play of fancy and sentiment, a fetterless Jubilancy of reason and faith, the very transcendentalism of wit. William It. Alger, in "Tho Poetry of the Orient." AUTUMN WILL COME LATER New York Judge Hands Down Deci sion That Man of Eighty-seven Is Not Too Old to Marry. Men everywhere should tnke henrt et the Important decision of the su preme court of New York to the effoct that a man of eighty-seven is a fit and proper subject for matrimony, ob serves tho Seattle PosMntclllgencor. Aa old boy of that ago recently mar ried a young woman of eighteen, and subsequently the thought occurred to hi that he was too old to marry; so htf took the doubt to the court, and asked for u decree of divorce on that pround, and the Judge wouldn't bellevo him. "Out upon such pessimism I" de clared the court, In substance, nnd forthwith declared and asseverated that he could not be released from his marriage bonds on such an ephemeral plea; henco we, have tho declaration of the court that n man of eighty seven Is not Inherently, by reason of his years, to old to wed; and what the court says goes in tills country. Thus there Is a now rainbow of hope In the sky for old gentlemen who might otherwise despair of a happy home. There are many, no doubt, who will seize their canes and hobble forth, inspired by the court with a nw am bition to be up and doing, breadwin ners for happy homes, and a part of the great, busy world around them, In stead of fireside recluses sitting by tho cooling embers of the past. Wedded on a Stump. Tt was In Mariposa county, Cali fornia, a locality noted for trees of enormous growth. The top of n red wood stump, smooth and level as the woodsman's saw had left It, and over 20 feet In diameter, was the place chosen for this wedding ceremony. Decorated with the wonderful wild flowers of the region nnd surrounded by ginnt trees, no places chosen could be more beautiful or Impressive. The bride nnd bridegroom, the min ister nnd 50 guests, ascended n few flights of steps about six feet to the top of the stump and found seats provid ed and ample room for nil. After, the ceremony sents were re moved and dancing took place, the mu sicians occupying a,, place on the stump as well ns the dancers. Losing Their Loved Ones. The strangest wedding I can remem ber was Just like a funeral. Every? body was crying. The bride was ah only child, the bridegroom nn only son. Both mothers were widows. Each wanted the young couple to live with her, so they finally consented to live six months each year with each one. All you could hear between sobs, first one mother, then the other, would say: "Oh, my, what a great loss; how can I live without herl" until no one pres ent had the heart to congratulate the young couple, and were more than glad wrien It was tlmo to go home. Exchange. Lawyer Too Eloquent. His client was being sued for di vorce by her husband and the attor ney was trying to get her ns much ali mony as possible. Right In the mldV die of the flow of oloquence the attor ney was Interrupted by the husband, who said to the court: "Your honor, I have suddenly decid ed to withdraw my suit, and if my wife is willing, I would like to have her come back to me." Pressed for explanation he said: 'Mr. Blackstone has presented her In such an attractive light that I've fallen in love with her all over again." Pittsburgh Chronicle Tclocrnim. Did Their Own Raising. I am much Interested In my garden and therefore was considerably an noyed when I saw a coop of chickens being carried into my next door neigh bor's back yard. But ns the days passed- and no chickens showed up, I Interviewed the neighbor's llttlo boy In this way: "Buddy, I hear you folks have started to raise chickens on your place." "They raised themselves," he an swered. "They flew over the fence an' got away." Chicago Tribune. A Hatless Lover By VICTOR'REDCUFFE copyright, mj. tr the Wtem Nw papsr Union.) Mnry was a common name, but na Roger Mnntell traced the letters that framed the word ho decided that there was none sweeter or more appealing In all the world. "My Dear Miss Mnry" wus the most ardent advance he hnd yet attempted. It was the mere outline of n letter, crudely de scribing his emotions, the framework, In fact, of a more polished missive to be transcribed on the typewriter later. He tore tho blue sheet froa the tab guiltily ns there was n tap at the office door, folded It hastily and thrust It under the lining of his derby, hat, which lay on the desk by his side. Enter Victor Wade, his close friend, also derby hatted. "Just dropped In on an errand from Mr. Parsons," explained Victor. "Wants to know If you have any word concerning the negotiations for that farm he Intends to buy." "Toll him not yet," replied Roger, and then the twa friends drifted Inton cursory conversation. Victor finally arose, reached out for the nearest hat, put It on his head and went his way. His way was past the.Parsons home, and he was glad of an excuso to stop there. It was tho home of Mary Par sons, and Victor would cheerfully un dertake any mission that might bring him in sight of her lovely face. She had interested him for six months. He had loved her the six succeeding, but had not yet reached tho point of con fidence and courage to tell her so. Victor was thirty, the object of his affections only three years his Junior. Both were sensible and practical, hence not inclined to rush into the dominion of love like giddy young things in their 'teens. It hnd rained all the morning and a high, blustery wind supervened. Victor had to hold his hat on as he turned sharp corners. He reached the residence of Mr. Par sons to find that gentleman mowing the lawn In front of It, delivered his message nnd flushed considerably as the straightforward, simple-minded old man remarked: "I'd ask you in, only Mary Isn't at home Just now." Victor fluttered delightedly and ex perienced n certain sense of encourage ment nnd hope, for tho words seemed to Indicate that the father of his in amorata guessed his particular Inter est In the daughter of the household. Just as Victor left the place a high gust of wind pounced down upon him. Up nnd off went his hat, over a hedge, across a pool of water and was lost among some bushes. "Hey I we'll get it, Mr. Wade," sang out Mary's brother Ned, aged ten. "Yes, we'll get It, sure!" chorused Bob Parsons, four yenrs his Junior, and soon Ned returned with the trunnt heudpiece. Victor bestowed a dime upon him, resumed the hut and start ing to clean the mud from It uttered tho startled exclamation: "Why, here's the secret of It not fitting right It Isn't my hat at all I It belongs to Mantell, for there are his in itials Inside." When he took It back to the law yer's oflice and recovered his own hat he was somewhat puzzled at the glad way In which Roger received It. The latter turned the Inside band, looked sober and troubled, and asked: "You didn't didn't notice a slip of paper Inside, did you?" "Why, no," replied Victor. "Was It anything of importance?" "Oh, no decidedly no I" flustered Mnntell. "Just a little memoranda," and thought of his Mary Llscombe Just as Victor was thinking of his Mary Pnrsons. Victor called upon his Mnry two eve nlngsjutor. There was a shy, yet warm greeting that gratified Victor whllo it perplexed him. Mary was palpably nervous. She wore an air of expectancy as they sat In tho porch hammock. Ned Parsons appeared. "Did you tell Mr. Wade, sister," babbled the little fellow, "about the paper, you know? Say, Mr. Wade, after I gave you back your hat Bob found a folded sheet of pnper blue paper, with pencil writing on it. He thought mnybo It fell out of your hat. You've got it, sister?" Mary's face was red as a rose she acted as though too embarrassed to speak. But finally she recovered a certain degree of natural calmness. She took from a pocket a folded sheet of blue paper, which, of course, Victor knew belonged to Roger Mantell. He opened It carelessly. "Oh, yes," ho said lightly, "a memo randum Mantell told mo about. You see, I wore away his hat by mistake. Why 1 " There he paused, the confused one now. In a flash he construed the sit uation. "Well, what do you think of thatl" he aspirated. "It expresses some very beautiful sentiments," murmured Mary, shrink Jng within herself. "But I didn't write It, Miss Parsons. I wouldn't venture. It would be pre sumptuous, you know, and If I did, what would you think of me?" "I thought I thought" quavored Mary. "That It was from me? Suppose It was? See here," and he drew forth n pencil and scrawled hla name under the unfinished screed. "Expressing my sentiments what do you say?" Mary took tho pencil and wrote her wn name under his, and Victor Wade was answered. LUCK AND CHANCE OF LIFE Abundant Reasons Why Fighting Men Develop a High Degree of Fatal Istlo Reasoning. As I tour the military hospitals, says a writer In a London paper, I hear strange stories from the ward i sisters, from matron herself, and from men of all grades in the serried rows of beds. Poor M braved nil the terrors of war wounded at Mons, and gassed at La Bnssee only to bo. ignomlnlously killed by an omnibus In the city street at homo I Whole fam ilies of sous lie burled In France. Rut I know a case in which four sons and a sou-ln-law Joined up in August, 1014, and went clean through the wholo stu pendous drama, without one of the tlve getting so much as a scratch 1 I know n heroic major, who had the maddost escapes from shot and shell, and was killed at last by a falling branch of a tree whilst at home on leave. I know a chaplain V. 0. who all but broke his neck on a flight of stone steps at Salghton Towers, where he was Countess Qrosvonor's guest. I know a war correspondent, of many tierce campaigns, who met his death after all In a London air raid. And I talked with the sole survivor of a ship, who turned out to bo the only member of tho crew who couldn't swim I How shall we explain these vagaries? They made fatalists of our men; nnd one day lu the hospital, I came upon a lad who wus rending the Moslem Koran. He held up the page to mo, and pointed to tho verse: "No hap chanceth, but tho some was writ ten In tho Book of Decrees I" TOOK LIBERTY WITH FACTS Author of "The Luck of Eden Hall" Admitted That He Drew on His Imagination. The author of the poem, "The Luck of Eden Hall," was Johann Ludwlg Uhland, a German poet of the first half of the nineteenth century, who first put that romantic legend Into verse and later it was dressed In Eng lish rhyme by Longfellow. As the story goes, the young lord of the manor during a night of drunken rev elry, demanded the drinking glass called "the luck of Eden Hall." The butler "heard the words with puln," but brought the goblet which the tipsy nobleman smushed. Instantly (lames cracked the celling and the persons surrounding the festal board became dust. The straightforward American poet explains at the heading of his. translation that In spite of the tragic ending of the poem the glass U still in existence, and so It Is today. It Is six Inches high, of pale green glass, ex quisitely enameled In blue and white. Practical folk say that tt probably came originally from Spain, where It was used as a chalice In communion service, but the original story goes that It was left at St. Outhbert's well by a company of fairies. 'Twas Ever Thus. Mr. Smith, hearing music und sing ing at his neighbor's house, decided he would drop In and seo how they were. Mr. Jones welcomed him and ush ered him Into the parlor where his daughter was playing the piano and his son singing. Mr. Smith begged them to continue. They consented. The first song they selected was "Mother." They sang this very feel ingly and then father Joined in on the chorus. This wns followed by "Moth er Mnchree" and others of like senti ment on songs about mother- how true they were, how dear and how they loved to sing them. Then, as Mrs. Jones hadn't appeared yet, Mr. Smith Inquired about her state of health. "Oh," said Mr. Jones, "she's well enough. She's In the kitchen doing the dishes, but after she has finished and has taken In the wood she'll Join us." Judge. Theory and Practice. "I trust, Brother Johnson," said the presiding elder, "that you are endeav oring as far as possible to bring up your children by the rule of kindness i requesting rather than commanding, and explaining to them carefully why they should oboy your Injunctions?" "That's powerful gaudy In tho'ry, parson," returned Onp Johnson of BumpuB Ridge, "but In actual practice knocking 'em down with a neckyoke now and then is about tho only way to fetch results. I could Just about as quick get 'em to mind me by argylog with 'em as I could make a turtle gig gle by tickling his lid with a feather. -Kansas City Star. Her Sex's Falling. Delmer usually walked to school with Matte, his little neighbor next door, but nearly always had to wait tnr her. One morning he was obliged to wait an unusually long tlmo for Mntle to get her hair curled, and later he confided to his mother that he was not going to walk to school with her any more. His mother asked him why he hnd de cided tdgo without waiting for Matlo. "Well," he replied "whon I call for her I always find her so unready." Saw a Reeemblance. Llttlo Andrew was playing In the yard, in which there is a coop for his pigeons. All pigeons were Inside with the exception of one which was walk ing up nnd down In front of the door. Androw ran up to his mother In great excitement and said: "Mamma, is that one a collectors Whereat his mother asked him why. Then Andrew said: "Well, he can't got In." The New Is now Open While n few of our fixtures nrc still lucking wo nro nblo to tako care of tho public both as to rooms and dining room and lunch counter service. All rooms nro equipped with running hot nnd cold water and a number of tho rooms have private baths attached. AH rooms are neatly and attractively furnished, thus giving to our patrons tho mnxi mum of comfort. In our dining room nnd nt the lunch counter tho best tho market af fords is served, and throughout our servico is second to nono. Upon tho arrival and installation of the delayed fixtures wo will have a public opening and will be pleased to show tho public one of tho best appointed hotels and cafes in tho state. HUGH Y. WADA, General FOR SALE! A Few Grade Hereford Bulls. C. V. Turpie, North Platte. NOTICE! That the Electric Shop has moved to 510 Locust St. in the General Hospital Bid. The Quality Shop in everything electrical, Century Fans and Motors. My lighting fixtures have not arrived, but expect them every day. It will nay you to wait and see them. If you want good workmanship good material and a good job go to THE ELECTRIC SHOP OR PHONE 517. RES. PHONE RED 246. UNION MEN Attend Your Meetings at the NEW LABOR TEMPLE Hear what is being said and done for the next Thirty Days by the educational com mittee in behalf of union-made goods and against mail order houses. Patronize home industry and the' merchants who have co operated with the Central Labor Union. North Platte Central Labor Union. INCORPORATED 1887. Mutual Building and Loan Association, Of North Platte, Nebraska. RESOURCES OVER ONE The Association has unlimited funds at its command to assist in the building or purchase of homes for the people of North Platte. If you are interested, the officers of this Association will render every assistance and show you how easy it is to acquire your own home. T. C. PATTERSON, BESSIE F. SALISBURY, President. Secretary. Estray Notice Taken up on Section 13, Town 12, Range 29, by tho undersigned who thero resides, on or about April 15, 1919, ono roan heifer, no brands. Own er can havo tho same by proving prop erty and paying charges. PAUL SODERMAN, Route A North Platte, Nob, iUi Estray Notice Taken up .by tho underalgnod, on Section 10, Town 15, Range 29, who thero resides, on or about April 1st, Hotel Palace tor the Accommodation RICHI UGAI, Owner. Managor. W. S. MILLION DOLLARS. 1919, one two yoar old rod heifer; no brands distinguishable Owner call, prove property, pay charges and take animal away. II. B. WOODS, North Platte. Stray Calf Strayed to my farm ten miles north west of North Platte, and ono mile oast of Nichols school houso, April first, a calf. Owner can havo same by Identifying same, .paying for ad and food bill. FRANK HENBKA. and Cafe of the Public. CHENEY, Assistant BTnnnger NORTH PLATTE ..General Hospital.. (Incorporated) One Hall Block North ot Postoftice. Phone 58 A mod.rn Institution for th. loiaatific treatment of medical, aurgieal and confinement caaas. Complataly aquippad X-Ray and diagnostic laboratorlaa. Staff: -Geo. B. DentM. D. V. Lucas, fit D. J.B. Rcdfield. M. D. J. S. SIMMS, M.D. DBS. STATES & STATES Chiropractors 5, C, 7 Building & Loan Building. Offico Phono 70 Res. Phono Rod 1009 GEO. B. DENT, Phaylclan and SorgooH. Special Attention GIron to Surgery and Obstre tries. Office: Building & Loan Building Phones: Office 180, Residence 116 Office phone 241. Rea. phone 217 L. C . DROS T. Osteopathic Physician. North Platte, - - Nebraska. Knights ot Columbus Building. Office Phone 340 Res. Block 370 DR. SHAFFER, O&teopathle Physician Bolton BIdg. North Platte, Neb. Phono for Appointments. DR. RED FIELD Physician, Obstetric tan Surgeon, X-Ray Culls Promptly Answered Night or Day Phono Oflice 013 Residence 076 Phone 308 ALBERT A. LANE, Dentist Rooms 1 and 2 Belton Balldlng North Platte. Nabraaka, THE TWINEM HOSPITAL, 1008 WEST FOURTH STREET, North Platte, Nebr. For tho troatment of Medical, Surgical and Obstetrical Cases. A place whoro tho sick are cared for so as to bring about normal conditions in the easiest, most natural and sclontlflc manner. Phono 110. North Platte, Neb, DEBBIBKEBT ft FORBES, Licensed Em burners Undertakers and Funeral Director Day phone 41 Night phone Black G88 TENTS AWNINGS C0TEB8 roncn CURTAINS North Platte Tent and Awning Co. 109 West Sixth Street ' I NORTH PLATTE, NEBR. Phono 210 AUTO CURTAINS AUTO TOPS