THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE LRA. L. DARE, Publlflhor. THRMS, $1.25 IN ADVANCE! NORTH PLATTE, . NEBRA8KA IDLING IN 8CHOOL. High bcIiooI studonts In Hoston nnd elBewhero aro greeting tho spring by striking ngnln6t two school scasonH. It cuts up tho day bettor to dovote tho forenoon to school and tho afternoon to elegant leisure. Much may bo said for short sessions for young children I'ut tho trouble with most students In high school and tho higher grammar grades Is that thoy do not work enough. Misread tradition Is partly to blame, says tho Now York World. Tho old district school had a long summer vacation so that tho boys could work on tho farm. A whole holiday on Saturday and easy school work gavo tlmo to "do chores." Tho city high school student has no chores. Much of tho tlmo ho saves from study Is not oven dovotcd to nthletlcs. Why should n high school student bavo a wholo holiday Satur day any moro than an offlco boy? Why should ho have two months' va cation In summer when tho avcrago worker gets two wooksf Why should" a high school girl havo ono Bcsalon a day any moro than n stenographer? It is part of tho lavish wasto of American life that It wastes tho tlmo of children In school. Every city teacher knows that tho children of Immigrants work harder than natives. High school students graduate two years behind those of Germany. Tho student who has ambled through grammar arid high school represents, when he begins professional work two yenrs lator than ho should, a grave loss to his parents and tho com munity. , Blxty or moro years ago tho wild plgconB wero hero by tho millions. They fairly covered tho sklos when they flew over In ilocko. Thoy sold In those days at flvo cents a dozen, and they were tho best eating In tho world; far superior to tho tamo pig eons wo havo now. Suddenly thoy ifsnppearcd, and In n year or two not a pigeon was to bo seen anywhere Thoy seemed to havo been driven away by cruel treatment. Thoy re sented their bloody slaughter. Thero has been a strong deslro to got them back. It was reported that a pair had been seen near Ansonla, Pa., and a reward of $5,000 wus offered to anyone who would sccuro tho pair alive, says tho Ohio Btato Journal. Thousands of peoplo spent last Sun day scouring tho woods In that vicin ity, but no ono. succeeded In' finding the pair, They aro an extinct species, not exterminated by tho ovolutlon of Nature, but by tho dovllutlon of man. Hut what a chnngo fiom flvo cents a dozen to $5,000 a pair and nono to bo had at that. Why Is sleop? Now, plcaso, don't answer thin question right off tho bat, bo to say, by remarking that it to 'an instinct or a necessity or anything llko that. For Dra. Logondro and Plodron of London, In experiments on dogs havo discovered that sleep Is duo to a toxic substanco In tho blood de veloped by long periods of wakeful ness, Thero you havo It, you boo tho longer you stay awako tho suror you will bo to sleop. And you may know of somo persons who havo ar lears of sleep duo and uncollectablo for various rea&ons, and othors who havo long overdrawn their accounts. All of which goes to show that Bloop 1b rather an unovenly distributed thing and O, well, what of It? Application has boon mado to tho municipality of Buenos Ayros for a C0-yenr concoBBlon to erect on city property tho "Torro Itlvadavla'V-a tower similar to tho Eiffel towor in Paris. It Is to bo 1,007 foot high, topped by a 100-foot statuo bearing a light of 1.QOO.0OO candlepowor, making n total height of 1,173 foot. Tho tow er 1b to be of Bteel construction and to have facilities for social gatherings, cafes, restaurants, library, billiard rooms, gymnasium, as Well aa a wlro loss telegraphic station and a me teorological observatory. It Is aUo contemplated to Install an lmtnenso electrlc'clock. A new method of conducting bond sales has been adopted In St. Paul, where a department storo haB pur chased ono hundred thousand dollars worth of city Improvement bonds and will dispose of them over Its counters. Thoy will bo sold to customers nt coat, but It Is presumed that buyers who expect to get trading stamps with their purchases will bo disappointed. Says an exchange: "Over 40 rata wero Mexlcocd," lu referring to a rat oxtinctlon party. "Moxlcood" can thereforo bo accepted as a now verb. A couple In Now Jersey havo Just been- married after a courtship of nearly fifty years. It Is well not to be too kasty about bucU an Import ant thing rs marriage, but, then, It is just as well' also cot to go to tho other extreme. MmNwGpssiP Motor Trucks Displacing WASHINGTON. "The motor truck Is bound to mark tho passing of tho army mulo, Just as It has begun to oust that animal's shorter-cured half-brother, tho horso, from tho tranB portatlon schomo of civil life," Bald an army ofllcor on IiIb return from nn ox tended European tour. "It Is only n mnttcr of n short tlmo before that picturesque and faithful adjunct of our military force Is relocated to tho much moro prosaic life of tho farm. "What has, been nnd Is being ac complished by European govern ments In tho matter of nrmy trans portation can bo accomplished In our own country. And abroad tho motor truck Is being put to every conceiv able teat na to Its fltneBB and capa bility In military mnncuvers. "Tho possibilities of the truck lu our own nrmy schemes aro made evl-' dent In tho roport recently mado by high army officials to the war depart ment. According to this report tho total weight of supplies and Impedi fZT filHouuT) William F. McCoffibs Is Very Partial to Big Men WILLIAM P. M'COMBS, the Demo cratic national chairman, has a decided penchant for tho society of men of mountainous build. Ho him Bolf does not tip tho beam at ovpn wel torwolght figures, but ho lives with men of the whlto hope- caliber when It comos to slzo and strength. When ho was nn undergradunto at Prince ton his tastes wero decidedly literary. McCombs, when It came to the club elections, took an election to tho "foot ball club," as ono of tho lend ing clubs thero is accurately de scribed, and among his Intimates In his class wero such old football stars as "Garry" Cochran, "Ad" Kelly, "Bill" Dannard and "Sport" Armstrong. When McCombs loft Princeton to en tor tho Harvard Law school none of his athlotlo friends went up to Cam bridge with him. Ho solved the prob lem by living through his three years' courso with tho man who had broken all tho strength records of Har vard. His new chum was Henry P. Coch ems, who had como to Harvard with tho roputatlon of bolng ono of the host football stars In tho west. Coch oma had played four years In tho Uni versity of Wisconsin bnckflcld, and was Ineligible, but ho would have proved a tower of strength to the Crimson. m mm """i!' mi i An Interesting Grove of IF you are Interested In lofty, broad, noblo and vencrablo oaks the writer will point you to a stately grovo. In going eastward along tho Bunker Hill road turn to tho right at the crossing of Queen's Chapel road nnd near midway between tho Bunker Hill rond nnd Rhodo Island nvcnuo you will boo on tho loft of tho way tho oak grovo indlcntcd. Under tho boughs of tho great trooo Is a frame house with flower bedB and flower-planted tubs In front nnd on tho sides. Tho writer's first Idea was that Bomo grand mansion must onco have stood In that grovo of high oaks, but this Idea, llko so many other flrBt Ideas, proved on Investigation, to bo wrong, ' Tho present hnppy tenants of that cot among tho oaks aro Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Columbus Murphy. Mr. Murphy Is seventy-one yearB old, sou Here Is a Man Who Eats Sand for All His Ills THE national capltnl boasts at least ono Band eating man. His name is Julian Emmons nnd ho Is a door keeper nt tho houso of representa tives, Emmons halls from NoblcB vllle, Ind., and came to Washington with tho Democratic regime In tho houso moro than two years ago. Ho Is slxty-flvo years of ago, halo and hearty, Emmons swallows a tcnspoonful of Band after each meal. Ho nover loaves homo in tho morning without a phial of coarso sand. Ho pays he waB troubled constantly with sour Btomnch, heartburn, Indigestion and klndrod ills until ho started the "snnd euro." Now ho assorta. .that ho is never troubled nt all, relishes his food, Bleeps llko a baby and onjoya life to tho full. Ho has , ono remedy for all Ills. It Mules in Army Service menta that must bo carried with an army division of 20,000 men is 2,883. 000 pounds, or a full load for 9C1 of Buch nrmy wagons ns aro now usod. "These figures In road space nlono show that thoro Is a great wastowlth present methods. That number of wagons rcqulro a spaco of approxi mately olovon miles on a twenty-yard road, n column that Is vastly too lnrgo to bo economically handled. And, be sides, with cloven miles of wagons occupying tho roads, thero Is no spaco left, unless It 1b boforo or behind the column, for tho troops. "With mulo and wagon transporta tion the troops nro confined to' n movement of only tbout 2t miles por dny, for this Is tho limit of distance which mules or horses can cover In a day without lnju'ry. "With truck transportation this handicap Is entirely eliminated. Not only enn tho supplies bo moved with one-half to four-flfthB fewer vehicles for a motor truck will carry from two to flvo times ns large a load ns a mulo wagon thoreby working a great economy In road spaco, hut tho truck enn travel at a vastly greater speed than tho men. Whore three to flvo miles nn hour is considered good speed for n heavily laden mule wag on, tho truck can trnvel at tho rate of ten to twenty miles an hour, and enn keep It up twontyfour hours a day If necessary without tiring." After McCombs went to New York to establish himself In law he natu rally looked around for another strong man to share his apartment. Ho found him In Big BUI Edwards, now tho street commissioner of Now York, who was a freshman at Prince ton when McCombs was a Junior. Ac cording to Tom Reed's definition that no man is a gentloman who weighs over 200 pounds, that New York apart ment houBod a gentloman In the per son of McCombs. Edwards roforeed tho big football games for years with great success un til ono day, when Pennsylvania was playing the Indians, a facetious under graduate sang out: "Hey, Bill Edwards, get off tho field bo wo can boo tho game!" Next to big men, McCombs Is equal ly fond of big cigars, tho thick black ones that "Uncle Joo" Cannon made famous. Jiri imm"wViVVUUlAiJiJ Venerable Oak Trees of Thomas Murphy, was born within 300 ynrds of where ho lives today, and his life's experience has been con fined to that pretty and romantic sec tion of tho District. Mr. Murphy said that when ho wbb n llttlo boy tho laud around thero be longed to John Hoover and then to Walter Scott. Much of It later passed Into tho possession of John Brltton, who kopt a storo on Seventh Btreet, and n little lutor It paBsod to John B. Kibbs, who subdivided tho big tract Into Bmnll holdings. Tho Murphy place threo goneratloiiB ago belonged to Tc blas Talbert and tho .Murphy houso was built about CO yeara ago by a man remembered ns Knight. "All this country waB grown over with oak trees llko Uiobo," continued Mr. Murphy, "and tho grovo of 20 Is about nil that remains of tho wide forest." It Is worth a trip out thnt way to boo tho kind of timber that onco cov ered tho wooded flections of tho Dis trict of Columbln. Tho Murphys con structed a rustic bench under ono of tho big trees. It was bujlt so long ago that It Is a very old bonch now. When this reaches print It may bo that theBo old oaks will bo In leaf, nnd If you pass that way you should take a rest In tho shado of the glori ous trees. (Jff 0 ftM VERY 'X'rAl jPOND OF " ftiiWMMVifiAn.iuij THIS 5AMD1 CREAT SWF FER TH' WrtACH M' Is sand. If n dnrk brown taato Is present upon arising In tho morning, do uot fail to reach for tho sand hot tlo. Ho urgeB coarso sand, not too sharp, and forswears, tho fine white vnrloty because, ho Bays, It dissolves In tho Intestinal processes nnd Is of no valuo'ns an aid to tho functions of digestion. ft JrsVf V I G&?3 J is i&II&S&M "n - IIW :ui E&m && 3sS Confusing Voices Dy REV. J. H. RALSTON Secretary of Coimpotxlrnco Dtpulmtnl Moodjr DiUe Intlitutr, CVkujo TUXT "There ure, It mny tt so ninny UIiioh nf voices In tho not Id, nnd nono of il cm In without HlBnliUanco." I Cor, 11 10. The apostle Paul was greatly an noy5d by the gen eral confusion that characterized the Corinthian "Stm'Mk church, but this '"f&f "W&v. text seems to HUtU 111 111I11U religious meeting in which some, aro praying, somo ex horting and somo teaching. He says thero aro so many kinds of voices, nnd nono of them Is without some particular significance. Transferring tho scono to the pres ent day thero aro ninny voices con cerning nlmoBt all subjects social, political, commercial and religious, but wo confine our thought to the last. Of tho manv voices on relleton thnt might bo considered, thero la not one but has some signification. Thero Is not a religious error of tho day but contains somo truth. There Is some vnluablo Bonification In It, and from It the religious nnd orthodox can oftentimes learn useful lessons, Prob- obly never in the history of tho world nave tno voices touclilnc rolielon been so confusing as now, and largely be cause tno most dangerous of them ?arry eome badge of adherence to tho word of God and traditional reli gion of the best. kind. Thero is noth ing that Bhould so concern n man as religion his relationship no God in volving his own weal or woo for eter nity and ho wants to know Just what tho truth is. With a goo'dly number the voice or reason is esteemed nB safe, and as the Christian religion is a religion of ra tionality that voice hnB strong sup port. That the power of reasoning is highly important 1b conceded, or God would not ubIc man to reason together with Him. But reason Is given n place beyond Its right, and tho result" Is most unsatisfactory, am with many thero Is a fanaticism and unreason, of which Paris worshipping a harlot Is a BUggestlve result. Men trusting rea son will either become thorouch an- archlsts, or adopt somo religion which V, jjA is tno very antithesis of rationality. With some the voico of tho Inner spirit Is supreme, and by Introspection they aro seeking to know what God la saying. This voice Is so variable that no reliance can be placed on It, every man becoming a law unto himself. Tho most grotesque experiences nro at this point engendered, and the way is open for-the incoming of all kinds of religious fallacies such as Christian Science, Bplrltuallsm, occultism, and n brood of other evils. With many the voice of tho church as such, 1b supreme, and when the church, considered In the light of Us history, Is fairly treated ltB voico Is worthy-of the highest respect. It Is nover wise, to neglect the great his toric creeds, nor the church as speak ing through representative ministers, but If the church as such Is depended on exclusively It becomes ultimately tho voice of a Blnglo person, and wo have tho hundreds of millions of tho human rnco dominated by one person. It has been found that tho church, whether speaking through ltB popes or councils has certainly often been wrong, and It cannot therefore Im pllcltly bo depended upon. But with somo the church speaking at tho last moment Is to bo heeded. It Is contended that tho church today does not bollevo as It onco did, and that becauso It Is moro Intelligent its voice is to bo heeded rather than the church of two or three centuries ago, or oven tho church in tho flrBt centu ries of the Christian era. This Is evi denced by tho tendency to tho revi sion of church creeds, and the argu ment for such revision is that the church docs not bcllevo as It formerly bollevcd and should chango Its creed. Tho teachings of tho great divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centu ries, when theological thought woe at Its zenith, aro thought to bo outgrown, and that tho teachings of tho men of today, regardless of their loyalty to tho Bible, aro to bo heeded. It Is clnlmod that tho Christian teachers of tho cnrllor conturloB did not know the truth. The German dis tinguished npologeto Lepsius makes tho modern theologian say, "Christian lty haB for nearly two thousand years forgotten what tho Master originally taught, and perhaps neither Paul, nor John, nor Augustine, nor Luther, nor Calvin ever understood who Jesus was and what Ho wanted. Tho entire church from tho beginning of tho apostolic ago to tho present genera tion has been ono great misunder standing and blunder." Thero Is another voico nnd that Is God speaking through tho Bible. By tho special provldenco of God thnt book has been prcsorved 'through many centuries substantially as It wus given to tho holy men of old, and the reader of today can go to his English Blblo with Just aB much confldenco In Its snfo guidance as thoso who handled-tho original manuscripts. "It- PREPARE BED FOR ASPARAGUS Perennial Will Grow and Be Pro ductive for 15 or 20 Years With Proper Attention. It requires a good deal of an artist to properly propafo a bed for aspara gus. Asparagus is a peronnlal which will grow" and bo productive for 15 or 20 yenrs, and greatest care, thereforo, should bo given to the selection of the soil and preparation of tho ground previous to planting. Tho asparagus does best In n deep, rich, 'moist soli with plenty of humus In It. It should bo on a warm exposure, preferably to the Bouth or west. If tho land Is coarso, It should bo prepared ono or two yoars In advuiico of planting time. ThlB fein bo done by growing Bomo root crops that rcqulro deep cultlvn tlon. The- plnnls are put out in rows nt least four feet apart. Tho old moth od of growing asparagus was In beds, but better resultB aro obtnlned whon they nro planted In long rows, nB It la easier to Irrigate the crop and keop the soil In good condition. Tho plants Bhould stand threo feet In tho row. Tho plants nro sot In furrowB from six to ten Inches deep and the crowns covered with loose earth or compost to a depth of two or threo IncheB. As tho plants- grow tho trenches nre gradually filled In with the cultivator or by hand hoes and then Irrigation Is applied every week or ten days to stlmulato tho growth the first year Tho tops aro usually mowed down In tho fall, although somo growers allow a reservoir to hold and storo molaturo If tho ground Is plowed ten Inches deep and put In good condition it will nbsorb nnd hold moro ruin or Irriga tion at one time than Innd plowed hall that depth would hold, and tho deep plowing will retain It much longer Doep plowing Is usually good plowing, for it grinds up and pulverizes the Boil. Ground should bo plowed in the fall then let stand until spring bo as to catch the winter anows. WATER LIFT FOR IRRIGATING Montana Man Perfects Invention Adapted for Elevating Water and for Other Useful Purposes. The Scientific American in describ ing a water lift, Invented by B. P. Strango of Victor, Mont., says: ."Tho Invention Is especially adapted for elevating water to the uplands for ir rigation and other useful purposes. It provides a mechanism for lifting wa ter continuously from a lower level to ahlgher one especially adapted for Water Lift. use In irilgatlon. The llumo or ditch may bo of any desired construction, the size and length depending on the country In which tho outfit Is used. The operation of the car and tho push er may be continued f6r any desired length of time, and as many cars may be employed as can bo taken care of, the operation affording a continuous supply of water to the upper level. The engraving shows a sectional Bide view of the water source and means of elevation to distribution points." CARINGFOR A MANURE PILE Large Percentage of Value of Fertil izer Is Wasted by Not Keeping in Compact Heap. Did you ever drop a small coin when you were paying for something that you had purchased at the store? Picked it up, didn't you? You'Vet. Then why don't you save thoso scores or nickels and dimes that are being washed away from that heap of ma nure down behind tho stablo? says tho Pennsylvania Farmer. Every rain wnshes away a largo per cent, of the valuo of manure that Is piled out In tho open. Manuro contains certain fertilizing elements that would bo returned to tho fields from which they aro taken. Of course, you can recruit the soil by plowing under a crop. But that is very wasteful whon compared with tho plan of foedlng tho crop Jo tho stock and then hauling tho manure out to tho field. Use plenty of bedding to nbsorb tho liquids, as a largo per cent, of tho total value Is therein, Don't lot tho manuro pllo spread all around, but keep It piled as compact as possible, and always have tho pile In the shel ter. By all means snvo every bit of manuro you can, and apply it to the Jlelds whore It will produce dividends in tho way of Increased crops. Millet In an Emergency. Common millet is nn excellent emergency forngo crop. It grows well In 'most conditions of tho fnrm and matures for liny in from fifty to olghty days from the date of tho sow ing. Live stock enn bo farmed on It a month after seeding. One-half to throo-fourths of a bushel of seed may bo held to bo right for an aero. Millet seed Is liked by poultry, hogs and young cattle. Roller Is Great Aid. Tho uso of tho roller la of very great aid In securing a catch of clover by Increasing tho rate at which mois ture is brought to tho Beed from tho jubsoll. Honesty In Packing. Good looking fruit on top of tho Daskot will get you now customers, Lut only honest quality lower down will keep them. - ' : - qod 1 . -. , "; - i COUNTRY ROAD IS ACCURSED Automoblllst and Farmer Take Turns in Swearing at Poor Construction of Thoroughfares. Everybody takes n whack at tho country road. The automoblllsts that trundle their machines over It curao Its makers. Tho farmer that hauls his load to market over It swears a bluo streak over Its blimps and chuck holes nnd wonders why somebody does not know enough to fix It so It will stay fixed. The legislator lounges it. tho leather chairs In the stato caplfol and delivers profound dis courses on It and 11b uses nnd abuses, and the best way to fix It and keep It fixed. Tho board of supervisors meet and look wlso and talk their heads off about the way It should be taken care of, and ho'w tho carc-taklng ex penses should be met And still tho county road slumbers on and never gots much abovo the mud except in dry summers or very cold winters, when the traffic can skat along on tho Ice, says tho Northwestern Stockman and farmer. The country road Is an or phan and usually a friendless orphan. Like tho Arkansas house, it can't bo fixed while It is raining, and when It doesn't rain there is no need for fix ing It It Is a public domain whero poll taxes may be worked at lelsuro, and with the least possible efforts by the party that Is segregating himself from bo much of his valuable tlmo for tho good of the commorivvealth. Its surface is marred hero by a hole dug by an unruly plow there by seven scraperfuls of dirt dumped In the mid dle of It Just prior to quitting time. Thero are useless trees bordering It that shut out the sunlight and keep off the wind bo that its surface shall remain the consistency of putty tho longest possible time. It is a bono of contention for neighborhood rows over who shall be "road-boss" and how tho poll taxes shall be "worked." I am not trying to solve the country road problem.'but I am endeavoring to call attention to it. The country road problem is too deep .and complicated for one man to solve. It will require tho best and most conservative brains In the stato to settle upon some plan that will" mako the country road what It waB intended for a highway for raffle with' the least possible resistance. Agitate good roads brethcrn. Keep the matter before tho public. Don't let up until something definite and proper is done to give the stato of Montana goqd permanent highways at a minimum cost. FIELD DRAG IS VERY USEFUL Abide From' Leveling Ground Imple ment Can Be. Used for Transport ing Stones and Stumps. I find a field drag a useful tool. As ide from leveling tho ground It can bo used for carrying stumps and stones, writes C C. Marshall of Bethel Springs, Tenn., In the Missouri Valley Construction of Drag. Parmer. In winter It can bo utilized to shelter potatoes or other vegeta bles that have been hauled up and when set up slanting It forms a pro tection for the bed of a brood bow. To rnako the drag take a section of log 5 or 6 feet long and split until the sections aro 2 or 2& inches wide. Lay thes6 sections side by side and on top of either end nail a 2 by G Inch runner. Construct Market Roaes. Ohio 1b about to embark on tho con struction of what it calls a system of market roads which is to cover the-' entire state. It figures that by tho ex. pendlturo of $3,000,000 to $3,500,000 a year for ten years It will bo able to brlrig the system to completion. If It does bo, It will have to bo luckier or wiser than Now York state has been. General Rond Work. Tho stato stotuto on roads reads that all general road work should bo dono between the first of April and tho first of October. Weeds interfere. Tho split-log drag will never mako good roads while overgrown with, weeds In tho fence corner. Problem Solved, Tho earth road will doubtless bo asod In rural communities for many years, because of Its low firnt cost. Tho over-recurring problem of upkeep. on Buch a road can bo solved very largely by the use of the split-Jog- 2.x 6 16 -I '(Cv' - t i" i - -'C -