THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
WEIGHING PRIZE WINNERS IN BOSTON BABY SHOW
ASHANTI CHIEFS SWEARING LOYALTY TO BRITISH FLAG
Aittyor Peters of Boston weighing two of the perfect tots entered in u baby show recently hold In that city,
NEW INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE IN .SESSION IN WASHINGTON
Scene tit Coomnssle, West Africa, when the chiefs of the Ashnntt were swearing loyalty to tne nag or ureut
Britain. Under each umbrella Is n chief, and the larger the umbrella, the greater the chief.
FRENCH ARMY SELLS HORSES TO THE FARMERS
The opening session of the industrial conference m Washington. Lett to right, seated. Julius Uosenwuld.
Henry C. Stuart, Samuel W. McCull, Thomas V. Gregory, Stanley King, and William 11. Wilson. Standing: Hen
ry J. Waters, Martin II. Glynn, IUcUnrd Hooker (above) Herbert Hoover, W. O. Thompson, Oscar Straus, George
V. Wlckersham, Henry M. Robinson, I'rof. Frank W. Taussig and Owen D. Young.
CZECHS RAZE AUSTRIAN MONUMENT
PRESENTS A NOVEL IDEA
This photograph shows what happened to tho monument which had been
erected by Austria on the square where In 1020 many Bohemians wero killed
when the Czecho-Slovaks again became supreme In their country.
NO SIGNS OF "DRYNESS" IN HUNGARY
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Big horso sale In the principal street of a town In southern France. The French government Is now dis
posing of n great number of army horses, thus eliminating a big Item of expense and nt the same time providing the
farmers with animals to aid In the reconstruction.
dug up ancient Eskimos i JQOK RED CROSS SEALS TO WHITE HOUSE
A really novel and com nendable
I Iden Is at present being fostered by
Mine. Grace I'orterlleld Polk, eminent
composer, who tuts established In the
! sninll city of Greenwood, Ind., the
i "Greenwood Community House" where
tho struggling unknown composers
may occasionally meet and exchange
Ideas with tho veterans and success
ful members of the profession, Iu
Ibis manner Mine. Polk hopes to cre
ate n center for composers, nnd there
by to foster and help the composition
of masterpieces exprewdng the Ideas
i mm lucius oi uu; puopio oi many, aim
to mnko America a real "Land of
Song" by means of yearly conventions.
.Siu li a thing as prohibition Is quite unknown In Hungary, and one of the
fiiu'T industries in Unit country Is the cultivation of the grape for wine. The
iNK.-raph shows n grower selling grapes by the tubful to n merchant for
i V l.llltvlllg.
Why Worry7
Multitudes of people seriously mar
their lives by continually dwelling
upon disagreeable possibilities, antici
pating unhappy experiences, most of
which are never realized: nmnv umm
I to he so made up that they are the
. victims of worry, Just as some people
tiro uttulo up to be gullible, says New
t Success. Thoy catch overy excuse that
comes along ror indulging their worry
'ng propensities.
A colored woman reminded her easy
i going husband that the rent had to bo
paid in six days.
"Then we sure don't have to worry
about it ror tne next live days," ho
replied. "It's 'nough to worry on the
doy It Is due. when It must bo paid."
Some people might learn a lesson
from this philosophical IiusIiiuk' nr
not worry until they have to
William B. Valln, famed explorer
nnd head of the John Wanamaker ex
pedition to the arctic, who returned
to the United States recently after two
years spent in the frigid regions of ,
the North. The explorer while dig- j
ging some dlstanco from one of the Es
kimo villages visited discovered a uiun-
her of Igloos entirely covered with lee.
Excavating, he found bodies clad In .
reindeer skin, duck skln, etc. Iudien-1
tlons were that the bodies had been i
frozen In the Ice for hundreds of j
years. lie snipped a nuniner or the
skeletons home, but the covering gar
ments fell to pieces as soon as ex-
nosed to the air. Tho collection will i
be placed In the museum of the Unl
verslty of Pennsylvania.
Master Jack Baker, (son of Secretary of War Baker). "Knight Banneret,"
and Miss Adrlenne Mayer, the "Littlest Knight Banneret," who presented
Bed Cross seals at the White House. Little Miss Mayer has good reasons to
be proud of her order, for General Perbhlng himself pinned It on her tiny coat
and kissed her.
Caesar's Slow Rise to Fame.
No one has so deeply Influenced
the course of history as Julius Caesar,
for It Is to him that we owe the Ho-
man empire and all that that empire I
has meant to western civilization, In
cluding all our Inheritance from the .
old world. He was one of the world's i
greatest men. But until he was forty
years of age his name was oversbad-1
owed by thut of Pompey, and he was j
a politician rather than n soldier, It (
was not tilt lie was roriy-two that he
became a general nnd wn given the
commnnd of the armies In Onul, by
which he Is best known.
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES
Now York has a moving picture the
ater with a seating cnpirelty of 5.300.
Cnptnln Fryntt's steamship Brussels
has been offered by the Belgian gov
ernment to the British government.
The germ theory of the transmission
of disease was entertained as long ago
as 1057. when Home was ravaged by
the plague.
M. Plou, deputy, nnd Mine. Plou were
attacked by burglars in their mansion
at Cadlras. Glronde, both being serl
miwlv In lined.
Orders for the construction of new
passenger airships of the Bodensee
type have been placed by the German
Aerial company.
To quickly clean a rifle n European
Inventor bus patented a brush that
can be mounted In place of a bullet
on a cartridge and tired from It.
A new bathroom accessory hold' a
nimbler lit nn lnerted position to
drain quickly nnd ' '- serves te
ntllated shield for notb brushes.
An electric pen hns been Invented
by n native of India that carbonizes
paper over which It passes.
Guatemala's first plant for the man
ufacture of Portland cement has been
started by Amerlcnn Interests.
A new pocket case for personal or
business cards ejects n card part of
Its length ns n lever Is pressed.
Tho Italian government has decided
to electrify 0,000 kilometers of rail
roads with power obtained from wa
terfalls. More than 00 per cent of tho nlco
hol and alcoholic drinks mnde In the
Philippines are derived from palm tree
Juices.
The speaker of tho British house of
commons Is obliged by custom to give
seven olllclnl dinners ench season to
tbp members of parliament.
Every widow In the village of Econ
omy, Ind. there nro .13 has received
a bushel of Colorado potatoes, tho
gift of Woyno Mncey, a Colorado
farmer, who formerly lived in Kmn-or.iy.
