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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1909)
a "llw,,,1''l,ll',li''MIIIIll''J,'l',wll"l"'' -- recreation. So It la cortnln Unit tho Tcdtly bear and tho toy dog of thn coming century will l)o mechanical mnrvols. Tin 'Koer" dog Hint tho Httlo hoy gets will bo llfo size. Ho will pinncc about on his four furry logs nnil lie down and roll ovov at tho bidding of his master. Perhaps the most wondorful font uro of nil In our Ghrlstman In 2000 will ho the changed mothodn In our dally life. Tho housekeeping nrrnngoments of that tlmo would soom Incomprehensible to tho wo man of to day If nlio could ploturo thorn In her ml ml Tho lack of com. ; wltaoraa) Years : Trk.i N3rA' ersS1 hHIUSTMAS n CpjjjSlCS p . hundred years x3iy'535t w f from now will lsSKflihM5wZL " tiSSsfvMFBi K ho tho samo old i!'KfSmS!Zr 1 m Christmas, no SSyfsSllmfSSflpXsf doubt, hut it PWCPS ? "cv'sfe cd under 8UCl1 535?3Kfiww5L aXfilimfc l vast,y different condltIon3 that JTBffWV rfSssyfwfl I s'l If you should go to sleep now fM-Zl?& mm''-!. 5frSlffll ittg wL&anJ am' wuko up n century later fa 'jS'Z ImzeSWmkci'tl r -i-" "" nSV i TW you would think you were in a vv hLJ JiL,,::tliSgy . i 1 1 . -T I different world. Wig V'v Sc JJJ ' mmM V Tho Christmas spirit will ho tho same. SS vkdr VX?S J C WfWfM 1$ 3 But whether it is a hundred ycarB from (ts&ih h iWi&C "SS ' A ilJk wMM t now or a thousand wo may bo sure that KtUAty jS " ' " - s'S r ITfl ''MMIh '5 when tho Christmas season comes tho world o-'C rZrys' S Vfjjjy l UUIQ ' S&wIU b0 fllH of tho ChrlstmaB spirit. Little & VffiT5 Tf P ' "V 01 ;' chlldrcn and grown men and womon still ft rfrf Mi J P -i hn S. s- ' Igjiwlll bo made happy by giving and receiving, JTt, ft ' ISJ?fW ' n lP VJ "5?i ' Vicrudges nnd grouches will be forgotten, one !( r r25fTOSVX)M w Jt P ' V- fl Pll fl &Sk y I V f2 J . 3$niie3 forgiven and good will will prevail. J L5JrtJMWA AvAttYK A n fl t 1 k SSiS ', Nothing can kill that. Tho golden JSttmWMmBlX fl " PPP .'.''!' lf k,(vki 'notto: "Peaco on earth, good MS Vcr-S P '' ILmJL J i VO V(hll 1 iit ) Ai'SJ'Xv. ribriHn.JiAV p V 02v : - it k ?w- fRikri imum j ui vi t .-a Mgncin.Tt 11 fJiW ?aw w m-ftsvi i y ssSskvh' j w L NJ fl I TAfr W V S V-4 tlZ TtAPPE INTOI IIUL r- V 1 TT I n" I M$&tit O'Leary Defends Noted Chicago Cow of tho IUCAOO "Tho real rauso Chicago llro haH never been told in print. It wuh not started by my mother's cow kicking over n lamp Tho origin of the lilazu was spontan eous combustion of 'green' hay. Put that In the pnper as coming from me, nnd I'll give odds of 1,000 to t that I can prove It." "Ulg Jim" O'ljnry, the stockyards saloonkeeper and "gambling king," made tho foregoing statement recent ly. It was In reply to a statement made by Hov. John 1). Lock In a ser mon In Whitney opera house that the O'lvoary cow kicked over n lamp In roaentnient ut three boys who wore milking the animal. Dr. Leek told a story of the great flro which In some lespects wns a new version. He declared that two hrothors, Samuel and Christopher O'Neill, nnd n companion, went to tho (VLenry barn on the night of the llro to steal milk to make whisky punch. This version of tho origin of tho fire, tho minister said, was told him by Andrew Hlrd, who In 1871 taught a Hlblo class In Maxwell Street Moth odlst Kplscopal church. The O'Neill brothers, It wns as sorted, had (old the story to Mr. Hlrd, who feared knowledge of tho facts would Injiiro tho boys, and ho kept It n secret until a few years ago. Mr. Hlrd, who Is 82 years old and lives nt tho Methodist Kplscopal Old PcopIo'h home, Foster and Southport uvonuoH, Is willing to make nllldavlt to the statements inndo him by two members of his Sunday school class. "1 don't caro what anybody elso Bays about tho fire," said O'Leary, thrusting his thumbs In tho ormholoa of his vest. "My parents aro dead and can't defend themselves ngalnst this latest fake as to tho origin of the lite, but I'll speak out. and plain ly, too. "That story about tho cow kicking over tho lamp wns tho monumental fake of the lat century. 1 know what I'm talking about when 1 say that tho llfo was caused by spontaneous com bustion In the hayloft. "You see, It was like (IiIh: The old man had put In a load of 'greon' hay a few days heforo the tire. Ilolow the hay loft were tho stables whoro tho ro.va wero kept. Wo had sovcral cows and did uulto a milk business. "The popular belief has always been that my mother was milking a cow when the beast kicked over a lamp.' Nothing Is farther from tho truth than that musty old fake. ' "Tho family always retired early. If t wasn't In before eight o'clock tho old lady made me remember It with a strap. "It wns Sunday night that tho big tiro started. On (hat night wo had all gone to bed half an hour before (ho lire broko out. I hadn't gono to sleep yet and was tho first ono of tho family to hear the llreinen Hhoutlng In front of tho house. "Itoth my fnther and mother went to their graves sad at heart over tho world wide notoriety given them In tho printed accounts of tho burning of Chicago. I wish to mnko It as em phatic as possible that the O'Leary cow did not kick over a lamp" Chicago Has No Cash for Crow Hunter U,KP 'HLfrW JJ hill f' r o men," will bo just as aacred and as new to tho hearts of men as It was nineteen hundred yoars ago. Everybody will give everybody else a present but tho presents will bo differ ent. Llttlo Johnny will not covot a railroad train. Real cars on a real track, pulled by a real locomotlvo that makes smoko will not eeom a wonderful thing to him, as it docs to tho little Johnny of to-day. Tho lad of tho next century will want a model of tho latost airship in his Christmas stocking. Ho will expect n working model, too ono that will sail through tho flat llko a llvo bird, and perhaps carry hla own weight. Within tho last hundred years steam nnd elec tricity have been developed and It Is entirely rea sonable to itnagino that within tho coming century men will travel through the air as commonly ns they now trnvel ovor tho land. Tho automobile, tho trolley car, tho railroad train, and tho horso ns a draft animal all will bo gono. Mon will uso iho earth, ns tho birds do, for a resting placo for heir homes and tho principal Bourco of food bup- ply; but when they want to raovo from ono placo to another, thoy will mount Into tho other, oven as tho birds do, and flay Bwlftly and safoly to their destination. It is probable that thero will not bo a wheeled vehlclo of any kind on tho Btreets of a great city on Christmas day, in tho year 2009. Our tunnol system will havo developed until tho vast subter ranean net work of borcB, chutos and pnoumntlc tubes will carry on tho heavy traffic of tho city without nolso or contusion. Tho streets will bo given up to pedeBtrlnns to thoso who walk for pleasure or wish to travel short distances. Tho sidewalk as it is now will bo no more, but tho en tire width of tho street will bo glvon up to foot passengers. Thero will bo neither car tracks nor moving vehlcloa to annoy. Tho suburbanite who does not fly to work In 2009 will bo shot through a pneumatic tubo, trav eling tho five, ten, or fifty miles of dlstnnco In a epaco of time that mny bo only a few seconds, and certainly cannot bo moro than a fow minutes. It may bo that few pcoplo will walk anywhoro in tho year 2009. When man learna to fly ho will scorn walking as too slow a means of progress. Perhaps our great-great-grandchildren, who no doubt will llvo in immense apartment buildings towering a half mllo from tho ground, may go for weeks at a tlmo without setting foot to tho earth. With tho passing of tho Chrlstmaa sleigh thero will ho no longer nny need for reindeers fpr Santa Claus. He, too, will travel by airship, nnd whllo tho old Santa Claus will bo a myth, tho now Santa Claus will bo as real ns tho bowhlskored and bo furred boys who now entertain tho children In tho department stores. It Is not hard to Imnglno thnt tho big stores will dovelop tho Santa ClauB idea to tho point that Christmas purchases will bo dolivored on Christ mas ovo by au airship drive mado up to impor- V3JTJNG GXAHDflA CHRISTMAS MORNING AT HR HOME 245 37URES ABOVE THT GROUND ME-CHAWCAL TOYS Or 2QOQWLL BE J1ARVEUS OF PERFECTON sonute Santa Claus. A hun dred yonrs from now, if you want to avoid tho rush and do your Christ mas shopping in your own apartments, tho scientists probably will havo provided for you a combina tion of tolescopo and moving plcturo machine by menns of which you can connect your room with tho toy department nnd see tho display by wire or perhaps by wireless and nt tho snme tlmo you got prices nnd loavo your order with tho clork by telephone. But porhaps tho wemnn of 200D will enjoy the mad rush of the shops as much ns she docs to day during tho holiday season, and then she will go to tho big store nnd older her toya nnd pres ents. Tho storo could deliver them through tho pneumatic pnekago tubes which wtll go to all parts of the city, but It will ho moro poetic to havo them delivered by Santa Claus. Christmas ovo a score or a hundred Santa Clauses will Bet out from tho various shops with their airships laden with Chrlstmns gifts to bo de livered nt the various addrossos. It will no longer he necessary to "doliver all goodB in tho rear" of the big apartment building, but whether you llvo on tho twentieth or two hundred and twentieth story of Iho big houso you will hnvo your own private airship landing, and whllo tho family is gathered nt tho door to receive Santn Claus tho airship will settle on tho landing and tho cheerful "Merry Chrlstmns" of tho neronaut will groot you as ho hands In tho packages, Tho Chrlfetmns trco of u hundred years from now will bo nn electrical marvel. Festoons and wreaths of rainbow colored lights nnd "chasorB" will scintillate from its. green brnnchoa. But tho presents that b.?.ntr i It will bo oven moro won derful. Thoro will bo dolls as large ns the 'mVa. fiti6 who will recclvo thorn. Thero will ho dolls that can walk and with tho Improved phonographic ar rangements of another century thero will bo dolls that can talk and others that can sing beautiful songs. Rorao of thorn, no doubt, will bo nblo to danco gracefully nnd to do tricks thnt would seom miraculous if performed by an nutomnton to-day. Tho mechanical toya of 2009 will bo marvola of perfection. Tho moat imaginative man cannot possibly conceive of tho now things that will ho invented in tho way of machinery, but It 1b snfo to nssumo that tho wlroloss transmission of power will bo porfocted. Wheols will spin without any visiblo motivo power. Power mny bo takon from tho sun's raye or wirolcsa power stations may bo operated by tho waves, tho waterfalls, or oven tho winds. Before tho coal supply is exhausted tho need for conl, either for warmth or powor, will have passed away. And wuatovcr trlnniDas mca siaVn iu tho in dustrial world thoy impart to ihttr eamca ami forts nnd the Inconvenience of llfo In a cottngo, It Ib possible will drlvo most of tho city dwellers into tho npnrtment buildings, which will grow bigger nnd tnllcr as tho years pass un til thoy will he literally "skyscrapers" within a con turj. In one of these big bnlldlngs, whllo tho machin ery will bo out of Bight, domestic nffnlra will bo so mechanical, even nutomatlc, thnt you can get al most anything tho fnmlly needs simply by turning on a switch or pressing a button. Tho flat dweller of that distant day will not bo bothered with servants or tho Borvnnt problom. By pressing a button tho Christmas dinner will como up noiseless!-)' from tho kitchen on tho mechanical waiter or porhaps In n pncumatlo tube. After your Christmas dinner 1b over tho dlsheB will disappear as silently nnd swiftly as you could widh. Some sort of mechanical dish washer in tho kitchen will take caro of them or, what Is moro likely, they will bo mado of a cheap composition nnd will bo destroyed by burning after thoy are used once. Tho antiseptic precautions of the mod ern surgeon will bo common to tho kitchens of tho next century nnd hygleno will bo a real science. When you havo eaten your Christmas dinner, If you wnnt to go out for tho evening you can press a button and nn norocnb will come to tho landing at your door. Or, if you prefer it, you may drop down tho pneumatic elovntor to somo point HO or 100 foot below tho surface of tho earth nnd bo whirled through tho pneumatic subway nt n dizzy rato of speed to your destination. Only tho speed will not mnko you dizzy. You will not bo nblo to feel it. You mny sit In your cushioned car, well lighted and warmed and ventilated by somo process yet to bo discovered, nnd beforo you realize it tho miles will Bpecd away and you stop out (o the operu or tho play. If you nrofor to remain at your apartments tho telautoscope attached to your telephono mny be connected to nny theater you dcslro, and you enn sit In your easy chair nnd smoko whllo you soo tho play projected on tho wall llko tho most perfect moving picture. All tho Btngo settings will bo thero to mnko tho play Boem real, and tho improved tele phono will bring every Bhndo and subtle Inflection of tho actor's volco to your ear. It sooniB certain that this tolautoscope arrange niont tho exact word to describe it will bo colnod after tho process Ib discovered will bo ono of the triumphs of tho coming contury. It will onnblo you to soo tho person you aro talking to over a tolo phono. l'he JlteM. cf tho coming nlrship probably will bo so rapid that tho business man nnd oven tho sal nrlcd workor, if ho Iovcb tho country, can hnvo a villa or a cottngo at n great distance from tho city and go to work In his own ulrshlp nt slight cost. On Christmas day in tho good century to como this flight In tho nlr will bo tho means of many fnmlly reunions thnt nro Impossible now. A fow hours will tnko ono to tho most distant part of tho country, nnd tho prncticai cessation of business during tho holiday wcok will leavo all freo to fore gather with tho loved ones and pay deferred visits. r- HICAGO. Tho following V against tho County of Cook therat ens to share the sad fato of tho claim of ono of Mark Twain's heroes for a barrel of beef captured and eaten by tho Indians whllo his grandfather was trying to deliver It to ono of tho tinny posts on tho plains: To killing four crown at 10c $ .40 To destroying 73 crows' eggs at 5c 3.0ii Total .' $1.05 Tho present claimant ngalnst Cook county Is Bernard Swensen, who lives in tho township of Orlaiul in tho re mote southwestern corner of tho county. Somewhere In tho mazes of tho statute books of the Btato Is a law which provides for a bounty on crows ut tho prices named In Swensen's claim. It also provided that the toads of tho crows and tho eggs shall be turned over to tho town clerk for de struction; nlso thnt ho shall mnko a certlllcate to the effect that such de struction has taken placo; and, fur ther, thnt upon presentation of such fncts to the county clork the latter shall provide the neccssnry creden tials upon tho county treasurer for tho payment of the bounty. Proceeding along thoso lines, Swen sen appeared beforo Town Clerk B. F. Slppel, who, having convinced hlmsell that the claim was proper,' proceeded with due soloinnlty to tho stipulated work or destruction by burning the heads of tho crown and smashing tho eggs. Then ho made nllldavlt to tho whole transaction, furnishing nnmes, dates and detulls, and afllxcd to the document tho great seal of the Town ship of Orlaiul. Thus fortllled, tho claimant boarded n Wahnsh train nnd In tlmo appeared nt the olllco of tho county clerk, where with becoming modesty ho pre sented his credentials. The chief deputy got Into communl cntlon with President Busso nnd wns informed that tho claim was perfectly legal, but that thero was no appro prlatlon out of which to pay for the killing of crowBj nnd that under the clrcumstnncos It would ho useless to mnke out n voucher, becnuso tho couu ty treasurer would hnvo no fund out of which to pay tho bill. "Foxy Grandpa," in Mask, Causes Scare D BTBOIT, Mich. Louis Voss Is Bomowhat of a cut-up. Ho Is ono or thoso Indulgent fathers who llkeB to play Jokes on tho boys. Besldo him, old man Pock and Foxy Orandpa nro wenk porformers. It started because tho llttlo Vosbcb were careslcss enough to leave a lot of Hallo w'en masks lying around tho house Charley Voss, ono or tho most precocious or the younger Voss con tingent, was entertaining Max Dolleu In tho barn back of tho Voss homo nt 1201 Monroo nvonuo. Chnrley and Max wero punching tho bag. Charley excused himself for a few minutes nnd left tho future Jim Jeffries banging nwny nt tho inflnted leather. About this tlmo tno older Voss happened upon tho masks. So ho disguised himself as a der vish, or Bomo other person equally devllsh. Then he made trtickB for tho hum. If Max ever had any aspirations in tho direction of prize-light honors, ho forgot them when his affrighted oyes confronted tho faco Infernal. Max passed Voss and went down the barn stairs In just one Jump. At tho samo lnstnnt ho yelled for Dave Har ris, this being the name of a near relative who dwells In tho vicinity. Davo heard tho cry of dlstrosB and he and Mrs. Harris, with nil tho llttlo Hnrrlscs, piled out Into tho night. Davo hit upon Voss, Sr first. It was no tlmo for explanations and Voss had no ehnuco to offer one. Davo grappled with him. Tho two swayed back nnd forth in tho alloy. Bavo'a wlfo caught ono glimpse of Voss's fnlso faco In tho moonlight, concluded thnt hor husband wns strug gling with a fiend, nnd fainted. Tho uproar brought nil tho neigh bors out nnd it wns somo minutes be foro affairs could bo adjusted. Dogs Eat at Tables with Banqueters NKW YOIIK. An old-fashioned Eng lish hunt dinner with hounds oc cupying seata nt tho table marked tho ending In Smlthtown or ono or tho largest drag hunts over held on Long Island. Thoso who partook of tho feast, which was glvon In tho Head Hlver inn, represented ovory hunt club of socinl promlnenco iu nnd nround New York nnd from as great n distance as Philadelphia. Among the guests wero noted riders in tho Uocknway, Westchester, Mead owbrook, Smlthtown nnd Staton Is land clubs. Many Quaker City hunt ers wero present. Tho bill of rare wns gamy rrom start to finish, hut tho most charac teristic of all wero tho costumos of tho diners. Tho women wore in oven Ing dress. Many of them had brought with them tholr full nrray of dia monds nnd pearls for tho occasion. As for tho hounds, thoy wero treat ed In tho old-time hunt dinner wny aa If thoy not only woro human bolngs. but tho near companions of the club members and tho fair richly-gowned guests. Bogs walked up and down among tho members of tho festlvo company, nat at tho table when courses woro served, and nto nnd drank to their heart's content. Then, unllko tho human bolngs present, thoy lay down nnd slept whllo tho company closed tho fenst with toasts, songs and other ancient formulitles used on such occasions. 6'$ IVloul.lo hn ;i rrelnil j-llt "' n - - jipwu.i: iji jr-