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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1919)
The Price of Pork CIiops aindBkton Here are reasons why the fine; fresh pork tenderloins and pork chops, or savory ham, or crinkly bacon, which you enjoy for break fast, cost much more per pound than the market quotation on live hogs which you read in the newspaper: An average hog weighs 220 pounds. Of this, only 70 per cent (154 pounds) is meat and lard. So, when we pay 15? a pound for live hogs, we are really paying more than 21 a pound for the meat which we will get from these animals, even after taking into account the value of the by-products. But people show a preference for only one-third of the wholethe pork chops, fancy bacon, and choice cuts from juicy hams. This means that when we are sell ing Premium bacon at 4312per pound wholesale and Premium hams at 30, there are other parts for which we get as low as 6 or 8 per pound. The net result is an average profit to us of less than i a pound. The choice cuts are higher because of a demand for them. Another thing: Only 35 pounds of the entire hog or about l6th is usually marketed at once. The rest must be ' pickled, cured, or smoked. This lakes months, and adds to the costs which must be met. Swift & Company, U.S.A. I Qsr a what becomes of X nS?A E AVERAGE DOLLAR I fe-j RECEIVED BY wmmmmjXX swift & company I ( v I FROM THE SALE OF MEAT ' i'.nVl 7 j Oil I AND BY PRODUCTS ! y AtC It I 6& CENTS IS PAID FOR THE 5 &ua Af UT r O I H LIVE ANIMAL u.f,rjr To Stock Ikiseri 11 96 cents for labor jf? I0CX 1 EXPENSES ANB FREIGHT I Oyfy J . 2.04 CENTS REMAINS Vt& WITH jff NN? O i O QsyF X. SWIFT &C0MPAMY J? J The Test of Time By ALVAH JORDAN GARTH NEVER LET GO OF SUITCASE Former Congressman, on Visit to France, Proved Himself Superior to Adverse Circumstances. Dudley Doollttle, who used to lie In, congress from Knnsu.s, recently re turned from Europe, where he went on a secret mission for the United States government. Wliile In France, Mr. Doollttle had the unusunl experience of roaming around several hundreds of battlefields with n seventy-slx-poiind sultcne clnspod firmly In his arms. Shortly after Doollttle landed In Paris, and Just before he started for the battle fields, the linndle broke off his suit case, which contained n number of valuable documents and papers which were almost as heavy as hardware samples. There was no porter around to help Doollttle Into his automobile, nor was there any around during the ensuing ten days of his trip. There fore, there was nothing for him to do but to clasp the suitcase firmly to his chest and get the best vlow of the bat tlefields that he could from behind the obstruction. .Doollttle says that he got so used to viewing war scenes from behind the suitcase that In order to enjoy movies of the war now he has to take' a mln lnture doghouse to the motion- picture theaters with him and hold It on bis lap throughout the nerformanciy. Assyria's Great Queen. Semlramis Is called thu "legendary" queen of Assyria, but Babylon was an old city berore Nebuchadnezzar trod Its dust. Semlramis bad been the wife of Omnes, general In the king's army. In the siege of Bactrla she herself led a forlorn boM against the walls and captured It. Enchanted by her power, King Nlnus resolved to make her his queen. Omnes committed suJclde. At the king's death, Semlramis ruled the kingdom, founded Babylon, conquered Persia nnd Kgypt, and made Incur sions Into India, where in personal combat with King Strabobates she was wounded. She died at sixty-two, builder, terror, charmer a great woman. WISDOM IN JUDGE'S CHARGE Irish Jurist Warned "Good Men and True" Against Being "Obfustl cated" by the Lawyers. Bound the library fire In the Four rv.,,..i nni.iin. Irish barristers long 'thavo gathered to spin yarns of their profession while waiting for briefs. one of these stories was of a novel charge to a jury given by a Gaelic I . - , , .u.l I... n IVI'ltlM JUUge, WHICH is ri.-i:iii.-u ij In the Irish World, us follows: "Gentlemen of the Jury," a Judge be gan when counsel for the defense had ,.iw.iiuii(i mi eioiiueut and elaborate I address. "Gentlemen of the Jury, there nro two courses, do you observe, io oe adopted by counsel. The first Is sim ple enough. If he has a middling case he endeavors to convince the Jury. But If he has no case nt all. If the evidence Is all one way and the guilt of the prisoner Is as plain, do you see, as the nose on his face, and no one but a fool or a Juror could bo asked to have a doubt about It, then counsel endeavors to obfustlcate the jury 1 For counsel seems to think that when In telligent men come Into n Jury box they hang up their common senA' with their hats and coats on the pegs be hind them." Much Argentine Wool Bought Here. The United States Is Argentina's best customer for wool, according to the bureau of markets, United States de partment of agriculture. For the wool season of 1915-10 Argentina exported lfi2,r9S bales to this country, or fil per cent of Argentina's entire exports of wool. For 1910-17 the United States took 22.1.-107 bales, or 01 per cent. For the 1917-18 season 209,.r)28 bales, or 73 per cent, were shipped to tlds country, Tampering With Traffic. "Why are you so silent of late?" "I'm trying an economic expert ment," replied Mr. I'enwlggle, "but I'm afraid It Isn't going to work. I thought that by limiting the supply of my extremely valuable thoughts 1 might, create a more pressing demand for them." (Copyright, 1919. br th Weittrn N.wi- paper union.) Gerard Massey, the bad boy of the Village, was expiating the crime of some one who had tired an apple nt farmer Wanu-r's horse and gig, pre cipitating a runaway. Gerard was squirming In the powerfut grasp of the outraged agriculturalist and, ablaze with pain and resentment, smarted most under tho realization that half a dozen of bis comrades at n distance were witnesses of his castl gatlon. Nearer by little Kllle Warner his true friend, though a sorrowful mourner over his constant escapades, was sobbing us though her heart would breuk. The farmer had snatched up a heavy leather strap and doubled It to rain the stinging blows on Gerard's shoul ders. At length he gnve Gerard a fling und the strap after him. "There, young muni" he panted. There's more In store for you If you come meddling nbout my place again." "I could kill you I" hissed out Ger ard In a wild paroxysm of rage. "1 hate you, and I'll raise u crowd and bnng you to a tree with this very strap 1" lie seized it sis he spoke. Ger ard, gaining a grove just beyond the farmhouse, flung himself down, his mind tempest tossed with thoughts of direful revenge. "I'll keep this strap," he declared. "I'll face that man with It someffiue when the odds are equal." lie was an orphan nnd his life with n distant rel ative had few charms to hold him to Bushvllle. He was In disgrace, he had been whipped publicly I A gentler spir it came to him hs bo thought of Klile. He left Bushvllle that night. His last act was to Indite a rude pencilled scrawl to Ellle. "I shall never forget you," he wrote, "nnd you huve been kind to mo like an own sister, but I will never forgive your father, I nev er threw the apple. Think I'll give away my friends, though ! I'm going away to make my living and grow big enough to solne day make your father pay for disgracing me." Gerard's plans for the future were vague. It seemed, however, that for tune favored the homeless lad from the start. Ten miles from Bushvllle he wnn overtaken by a man driving an automobile. He looked pale and weakly as he bailed the foot traveler. "Are you going far?" he Inquired. "An vv.in re to get work," responded Gerard. "I'll hire you. I nm on n five hun dred mile trip, to Chicago and urn nn an Invalid. 1 can manage tho wheel well enough, but It exhausts mo to get out of the machine. I'll pay you well to attend to the various little chores for me yes, and maybe find you further work when we reach the city." They later went to n large hotel fop the night nnd Gerard slept on a cot In the room occupied by his, employer ready for any service required. It was just after midnight when Gerard aroused to dread alarm. Tho room wns filled with smoke, beyond the win dow was a glare, yells and screnms eclioed through the building. He ran to the door and tore It open. Beyond a roaring mass of flamei presented. "We are hedged In from below; our only chnnce Is by the window' said Gerard, but a glance there was scarce ly encouraging. Ills Invalid charge was practically helpless. Quick witted In action, however, Gerard followed out the only desperate plan In view. After he hud accomplished, this he could scarcely credit the. details. Five feet below was a Jutting section of roof. Still further below that was tho projecting cornice of an adjoining building. The strap was the only medium Gerard could adopt, first to lower his companion. But for this frail strand of life both would have per ished. Uncleared to him by his courage and daring the Invulld took up Gerard as a protege. Five years later when the former died he left Gerard largo business, nnd the emotions and Im pulses of the lutter drifted Into the mature experience of the successful business man. "Tho strap has brought me luck many a time," meditated Gerard. "But for It I would never have left home, but for It I would have lost my life at tho hotel fire. What a wild hater I was of old John Warner In those dnys, and I wonder what has become of little Ellle." One day there came to his desk a young lady. Diffidently she told that she had applied for n position to the manager subject to the approval of bis einployor. As Gerard looked up the past suddenly burst upon his as tonished vision. Then the nppllcant started and the light of recognition came Into her face. Gerard gently spoke her nnme nnd took her hand. How lovely hod Eflle grown I He encouraged her to talk, not as to a prospective employer, but to her friend. It wns a wearisome story of struggle and toll and loss that Eflle recited. "It has been bad luck for poor father," she said. "He Is all broken inw, and' we are both depend ent upon my efforts for a livelihood." "It seems flint I have bad all the luck," mused Gerard Massey, alone In his room that night. "Did It not all come from that leather strap7 And Eflle Is more sweet and lovoly than over." And he bad a vision that came true the sharing of that fuck with hlf. boyhood's dearest friend. 'ftTQUi ; 1 0:21 ?niiis:iaa3 BROUGHT STRIKERS TO TERMS African Explorer Put Hl Wits to Boar In Controversy With Obstrep erous Paddlers, Although the plan Is not capable of wide application, tho tale of a strike In central Africa, told by an exploring momber of the English Boynl Anthro pological Institute, Is pleasant reading for tho promptness with which tho matter was settled. Tho explorer wns Journeying by water and, coming to an African village where he needed a new relay of paddlors, ho found that nil the available paddlers had "struck," not for higher wages hut against any paddling whntevor. The expedition was held up, and tho men who refused to paddle stood apart and evidently considered the plight of tho explorer a matter of considerable unsympa thetic amusement. The explorer, how ever, thought ho saw a way out Ho asked some of tho women of the vil lage to come aboard his boat and sell him tpod; nnd as soon ns several of them were on hoard ho unfastened tho hawser, the bont swung out from tho shore and began to travel with tho current. Ashoro and afloat anxiety followed. Presently tho men who had refused to paddle the explorer were paddling their own llttlo canoes In pursuit and volubly demanding the return to their womenfolk. The lurger craft, and presumably the armament, of tho traveler gavo him an ndvantnge. Ho was able to Issue on ultimatum. No women, he said In efCect, without paddlers, but one wonmn for every man of tho tribe who would agree to help paddle the expedition through tho next stage. Tho men accepted tho bargain; and as there were some thirty women on tho boat the expedi tion got Its necessary complement of paddlers und the strike was over. It's Upkeep that Costs. Experts have just completed nn es timate for the high cost of maintain ing a rat. If you have a rat on your premises, be Is costing you $1.82 u year, according to these experts. They find that one pair of rats Is directly responsible for 050,000 more rats In three years, the rat being a strong be liever In the Boosevelt theory of largo families. The damage in the United States In one year caused by these ro dents Is over .$100,000,000. Over 315, 000,000 in property losses Is occasion ed each your from fires suirtcd by rats gnawing the electric wires and gas pipes. The rat also Is accused of spreading disease. An Intensive cam paign to demobilize the rat army Is now In urocross. PROUD OF HER FAMOUS SONS Massachusetts Has Sent Out Many Who Have .Done Great Things In the World. Not to be too Insistent and greedy, Massachusetts and her "Old Colony" should always file their claims to the honor of producing men that are do ing the new work of the world, as well as celebrating forever the Pil grim Fathers, writes The Listener In the Boston Transcript. It Is no acci dent, 110 mere coincidence, that both the pioneers of transatlantic air trans portation should be Massachusetts men; tho first man to navigate an airship from Amerlcn to England was Commander Bead, whose boyhood's home was South llnnson, Mass., nnd the first engineer to carry the big street traffic of New York city under the Hudson river Is CHlTord M. Hoi hind, born at Somerset, Bristol county, thlrty-ix years ago. Both upper air nnd subterranean problems have brought laurels to boys of tho Old Col ony public schools. To be sure. Com minuter Head's education was com pleted nt Annnpolls Naval academy, and Mr. Holland's at Harvard univer sity, where he graduated In 1000. But there must be something In the stock nnd something In the system which brings It to pass so often that when great things have been done, or grent things nro to be accomplished, nnd the doer Is necessnrlly forced Into the spot light of the press, nnd his antecedents are eagerly examine!, the little old significant abbreviation, "Mass.," Is apt to appear In collection with some little town us his birthplace. I) US. STATES & STATES ' Chiropractors ft, 0, 7 Building & Lonn Building. Oftlco Phono 70. Res. Phono 1242 Supply Gas Deficiency. It Is expected that In the near fu ture artificial gas for heating purposes will he substituted laruely for natural gas la the Pittsburgh nnd other dis tricts, where a considerable shortago In the supply of natural gas has de veloped. This was the prediction made at a conference held recently un der the auspices of the Public Service Commission In Pittsburgh. The Phil adelphia company, which has been a largo supplier of nutural gas for many years, If Is stated, Is, now prepared td supply 7,000,000 cubic feet of artificial gas a day, and expects In the near fu ture to be able to supply JIO.OOO.OOO cubic feet of artificial gas a day. "He discovered the seedless raisin." "That's nothing. A bigger discov ery than that was made by the mun who found what u kick the rvilalu would put in soft drink." - DAYTON, MIAME, HUDSON, RAICYCLE AND EXCEL SIOR BICYCLES. JOHN H. NULL. 3 null and n t h, i-m I Wonderful Oeuutlficr $2 , Briny. I., ij y$54 af htaliliiul (bib, t.tlty til I . JsSTltes. r mnk t on, r JtvWKUV Uli'n.'Iiii.V'.'fc $kifji Plr. Ir.. itu frnm Knur li.lit en'-Lft t IM n 'nrniw! IfM ihe BrCHtSt health- Rivlri; ap.cni y l.no.n ! Sdmre VUlU' t HY r&wnfully effective, yt ofilhinp .in'l Rrnr'- In a 'lion t'cnt'Ul ( Irnr.iii'Joi.i oltag. ol .Iclri, jiy ,'jsorli' l In' 0 . Iiurn.-n Imdy without the ilitJit i. ., me culir ron'.ra. '1 in 01 a n t nny kindi plraMtit ami ufcclly oalc t8awiB.8& Violet Ray 'rlsgjh FiregMfcracy venerator l; 1 . i). I m! i-i.f 1 In p"iy!i ian . ami lauly it.lalit; aturatc. l! n to'., v h b-.tiliinu, 1 iv 1 -ur iwi'i.f .k ray, .r.i!unrg New (i,',l'.."r at il lii ' :v . 1 "' '" I'm M'l Krjm .ml bring, tha 1 .hi ,n to 1 ir't K'ju I. rc a 1 a a 1 I nl ! up. rrllrvi thcr f yinptuiiM while .land ily fMo.iriK tin- cau, tf 104104 tufc nornial condiU9n. I 'injldtiiv II' , (In. ' '...It, 1 V ll in - tt tri nlr Kl.i inr nrauil 1 . ... ...1 r. m . i i. n.l n rtire all -hilt treat! -rtfV. ,uh ..'.j'.y a wide -rfaSSff r : .! "I . Mil fHJiM I $ssxeS$f5iy Hhturaatiim Nturitii Lumbago Cbeit rain Citarib Hudacbe Ear Distaio llardiiww of Altaic. Wrinkle, Skin IKsMitt Fulling Hair Etc. Elc. Treatment Chart furnl.htd .huwlntr we (or over iui Ailments. Tint 1. II.' tow... priLnl, nnt ig telly. It .tnifit.nl 01 11. kind In the wofM. urnLd. fri"! M low tll no fMblr . 1 MII"4 u. tt wllivul ll ..i.l 1,4 nuc huiktot "IlKhli" ItUiM 1 .I Lit lb. wonderful uvty u Ua. Viol. I H.y - ' '" LOWEST PRICE lJMm& At Home Get Book "Health" FREE u 1 ii i 1 1 j t n c 1! w 1 fi ii .1' van I Free Demonstration In Your Home TENTS AWNINGS C0VEH8 I'OKCII CUJtTAINS North Platte Tent and Awning Co. 100 West Sixth Street NOItTH PLATTE, NEBR. Phono 210 AUTO CURTAINS AUTO TOPS Big Price for Furs, Don"t sell your Furs before see ing me. Furs are high and I am ollbring the top prices. L. LIPSHITZ. W. T. 1'JirrciIAUl), Graduate Veterinarian Ex-aovornmont Veterinarian and ox nsslatant deputy State Veterinarian Hospital 815 South Ylno Street. HoBpltal Phono Black 633 Houso Phono Black 633 NOTICE. To Stephen Plrkoy nnd Mrs. Stoph en Plrkoy, his wlfo, M&t and roa.1 linnio unknown, their heirs, dovlsecs, logatooB, porsonal roprosontatlvos, nnd nil persons interested la tho oa-i tatea of tho Bald Stephen Plrkoy, and Mrs. Stephen Plrkoy, his wlfo, or eith er of them; James B. Tumor and Mrs. .Tamos B. Turner, his wlfo, II rat and real nnmo unknown, their holrs, dovl secs, logatcos, porsonal roprosonta tlvos, and all othor porsons Inter ested In tho estates of tho said James B. Turner nnd Mrs. Jnmos B. Tumor, his wlfo, or either of thorn, and tho Northeast Quartor (NB4) of Section Ton (10), nnd the Northwost Quarter (NW14) of Soctlon Eleven (11), all In TowiiHhlp Elovon (11) North, Itango Thlrty-throo (33), west of tho Gth P. M., Lincoln county, Nohrnaka, and all porsons claiming nny Inter est of any kind in snld real estate or any part thereof, dofondants: You and each of you and said nhovo dopcrlhed real estnto aro horohy noti fied that Benjamin B. Simmons, plaintiff, filed his petition in tho dis trict court In and for Lincoln county, NchraBka, against you and each of you 'and ngnlnst said real ostato on tho 28th day of Novomhor, 1019; nlnt.i.irr .i1t.w.n t.. 1.1.. w.titiH . 1. l Iii.iiii.iil tmuftun 111 urn iiuuiiuu mm no is 1110 ice simpio owner of said uo scrlbod real ostato; that Stephen Plrkoy and Mrs. Stephen Plrkoy, Ills wife, claim sonio right, title or ostato In and to tho South Half (SVj) of tho Northwost Quartor (NW) of Section Elovon (11), and tho Northeast Quar tor (NE4) of Soctlon Ton (10), all In Township Elovon (11) North, Ilango Thlrty-threo (33) wost of tho Gth P M., Lincoln county, Nohrnaka, by rea son of a certain niortgago executed by John I. OrrIs6n and wlfo, AHco G. Orrlson, which appears of rocord In tho office of tho county, clerk of Lin coln county, Nebraska, and recorded In Book "40" of mortgages, nt pago 59G, but plaintiff allegos that said dobt for which said mortgage was given has boon paid, but no rolcaso has ever boon vou, and that tho said Stephen Plrkoy and tho Bald Mrs. Stephen Plrkoy, his wlfo, thqlr holrs. dovlsecs, logatcos, porsonal roproson tatlvos and all othor pqrsons Inter ested In their estates, 6r cither of them, hnvo no right, title or Interost In and to aaid doscrlbed real estate and Haiti niortgago should ho re leased. Plaintiff furthor alleges that ho is tho ownor In feo simpio and in possession of tho said Northwest Quartor (NV&) of Soctlon Eleven (11), in Township Elovon (11) North, Itango Thlrty-threo (33), west of tho Gth P. M., Lincoln county, Nebraska, and that plaintiff and his grantors hnvo boon in tho open, continuous nnd advorso possession of tho snmo as against tho dofondants and as against all porsons claiming by or through tlio defendants and each of thorn and against tho whole world for moro than ton years last past, and that by reason thereof, nny claims of tho do fondants nnd each of them nro bnrrcd by tho statuto of limitations, ,iuid tho dofondants nnd each of them havo no right, title or Interest in and to said renl ostato. Tho object and prayer of plaintiff's petition is to quiot title in and to all of said' described real estate, and to exclude oach and all of the dofondants from nny right, title, interest In nnd to said lands and for such othor rellof as may bo just and equitable ou and oach of you nro horoby no tified that you must nnswer said peti tion on or bofore tho 12th day of Jan uary, 1920, or decreo and Judgment will bo taken and ontored ngalnst you. BENJAMIN B. SIMMONS, d2-d2G Plaintiff By Geo, N. Glbbs, His Attorney. REPRESENTATIVES AND DEALERS WANTED, RENULIFE ELECTRIC CO. 3rd Floor Patterson Block, Omaha, Nebr. Notice to Creditors Estate No. 1G7G of James C. Ponnlng ton, docensod, in tho County Court of Lincoln County, Nobraska, Tho Stato of Nobraska, bs". Credit ors of said ostato will take notico that tho tlmo limited for presentation nnd filing of claims against said ostato is April 9th, 1920, and for Bottloment of said ostato Is Novomhor 1st, 1920, that I will sit nt tho county court room In said county on January 9th, 1920, nt 9 o'clock a. m., nnd on April 9th, 1920, at 9 o'clock n. m to rocolyo, examine hoar, allow, or ndjust nil claims and objections duly filed. (SEAL) WM. II. C. WOODIIURST, d9J2 County Judge
