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THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRA8KA. LONDON WATCHING FOR ZEPPELIN RAIDERS ROADS AS CROP PRODUCERS Yw BORDEAUX MIXTURE FOR VARIOUS FRUITS JfH a -Six VVjl4Jlv I'll n triiJilrv '-MM jjl 'W sfi 'my"y " ySjmW ?&&!' yptt?j!41M8tt!MSiSK01fiw2$"-''S m.n.,!,.,, n1fin.ii.i J'J-i k 1 1 If! M v mmmmimamimmmmtmmazxrmmm&rmimmmmmmmmmiimmm:JBmKiiV,i2iy iMmmtowuurMmiBum&mum j&smmmr $ "" iifiW(i? uifi r 'I' 1 i i nA.rvfVWnrrtUwMinMuMAwiir(VoAhtrAUMrfn wAr wy.. ,trtiyivr,t,.... . . a. ..r.. Aa a precaution agnlriBt posslblo raids by Ocrraan Zoppolins, the sky above London la lllumlnnted nightly by powerful aearclillghtn. Thla photograph was taken at Charing Cross, with the houses of parliament at tho left and Cleopatra's Needle In tho foreground. F FROM FORTUNES LOST IN THE WAR Royalty in England Reduced to Penury by Vanished Funds. EVEN QUEEN FEELS PINCH King George Comes to Aid of Relative Too Poverty-Stricken to Pay His Grocery Dill Prince Arthur Has Rich Wife. London. All becauso of the war, which spares neither tho high nor tho lowly, several minor royalties resi dent In England find themselves with in hailing distance of tho poorhouso aa a result of having been deprived al together of their incomes and soveral of thorn actually would bo In want but for tho fact that King Qcorgo has como to their assistance. Mcanwhllo not only the Icing and queen them selves but several of tho othor most oxaltcd members of tho royal clrclo havo been bard hit In n financial way, and at least ono of them has been placed in a mightily embarrassing and humiliating position. Prince Christian's Income Gjne. Prince and Prlncesa Chrlatlan, for example, havo had their cntlro private Incomo which canio from Gorman gov ernment nnnuitlcn and monoy invested In German securities swept away. Tho prlnco, howovor, as tho chief ranger at Windsor, has a salary of $2,000 per annum and as such ho also occuplos Cumberland Lodge, ono of tho finest residences at Windsor In tho king's gift, rent free. It la absolutely lmpoaslblo for tho princo to keep up this catabllahmonl on a salary of only $2,000 a year, which would not bo sulllclont to pay tho servants' wages. Tho prlnco nnd his family beforo tho war had an In como of about $14,000 per annum, and this has now absolutely ceased, for It all camo from Germany. Prlnco Christian, llko many other minor royalties In England, lived up lo tho last penny of his Income, and when sudden financial pressure camo. ho had no resources of any sort to fall back on, and tradesmon about Wind tor, to many of whom tho princo was In debt, refused to deliver the usual monthly ordors without cash when 111 a prlnco could not pay. King George camo to IiIb relative's aid and arranged with tho tradespeo plo at Windsor to supply Cumberland lodgo with nocossarlos In tho way of food. Queen's Brother In Bad Way. Prlnco nnd Princess Aloxnndor of Tcck, who nro notoriously among tho most Impecunious of roynltles In Eng land, havo also lost practically all tholr prlvato means through tho war. Tho prlnco, who Is, of course, Queen Mary's brother, received an Income of about four thousand dollars per nnnum from Interest on mortgages on real estnto In North Germany, and tho prln cesa hna about two thousand dollars per annum from Gormnn government annuities. Queen Mary has had to como from time to tlmo to tho nld of her brother, but her majesty now has to support both him and tho princess nifd their family altogether. Tho prlnco wns appointed some llttlo whllo back gov ornor general of Canada, but It Is un likely that his roynl highness will go to Canada until tho war la over. Tho prlnco and princess with tholr fninlly aro now occupying a fow roonia at St. James palaco. They have but two Hervanta and are living in the .plainest and slniploiit manner. Of all roynltleu in England tho ex- P ES 1 king of Portugal and Queen Victoria, IiIb wife, havo suffered most severely In pocket by the war, and the royal residence at Twickenham has been thrown Into utter confusion. The wholo of tho Incomo of tho queen wns derived from German sources, nnd of course censed, but that did not amount to very much, not moro than n fow hundreds n year. But King Manuel, who had Inveatod very largely latoly In Russian and French securities, on tho advice of IiIb bankor In Paris, has for tho moment been de prived of nearly tho wholo of a con siderable Incomo, excepting tho Inter est on some of his holdings In British Industrial concerns, which havo de clined about CO per cent In capital valuo. Tho ex-monnrch Is In far worse cir cumstances, aa a matter of fact, than ho was at tho tlmo of tho revolution In Portugal. IIo haa no resources to fall bnclc on and no ono to come to his aid. Queen Alexandra Feels Pinch. Queon Alexandra has-also felt tho results of tho war severely. Her ma jesty's oxtravaganco and carelessness about her monoy affairs aro matters that havo caused a good deal of talk In tho roynl entourage of lato. During tho last season Queen Alex andra entertained In the moat elabor ate nnd costly wny at Marlborough houso, nnd na a result piled up very considerable liabilities; to pay those It became necesBnry that sho should overdraw her banking account for a sum of ?250,000; whllo arrangements wore being made for thla overdraft tho war broko out, and her majesty's bankers would not entertain tho Idea of tho loan. 'Her majcaty for somo short time wna placed In tho most embarrassed position, for sho could not obtain even any ready monoy, a fairly plentiful supply of which Is necessary to kcop tho establishments nt Marlborough houso and Snndrlnghnin going, and thero woro certain liabilities to trades pooplo which, though thero wns no nctual legal obligation on tho part of Qucno Alexandra to pay at ouco, pay mont could not bo withheld without giving rlso to unpleasant gossip. Prlnco Arthur of Connaught has lost MODERN WAR ARMS Death Dealt by Machines Bat tles Turn to Slaughter. Wounded Officer Tells Striking Story of Horrors Attendant Upon Pres ent Manner of Killing In the Great European Conflict. Paris. In nn intorvlow a wounded ofllcor told a striking story of tho torrlblo results of war with modern .inns. "This Is not n- war of men," ho said; "It Is a war of mnchlncs. Thero Is an appalling soullcsanosa about It that Is Inhuman. Men turn handles nnd death files out In largo bundlos. That Is what this battlo has boen. It Is all really ono battlo on tho Mnrno and tho Alsno. "No ono can even concolvo whut the battlo has been who has not seen the battlefield. Men could novor kill ono another by heaps and hecatombs. They would sicken nt such wholesale slaughter. .They would cry: 'Wo nro soldlors, not butchers.' A battlefield should not bo nn abnttolr. "Only machines Ingeniously con structed to destroy men ns locusts havo to bo destroyed when they sweep ovor fertile land, only nuto mntlo denth dcnlors without heart, pity, or remorse could carpet tho earth with the dead In this frightful way." Anothor witness to tho terrific slaughter, which Is not yet gonornlly realized, Bald that tho French shells burst with terrific effect nnd tear legs pnd nmiB to pieces. If tho wound la . ,..iiiUl!" nn Income of about thrco thousand flvo hundred dollars arising out of money Invested In Germany, which was settled on him by his maternal grandfather. This was all the private means the prince had before his mar riage, but ho got, of course, an lm monso fortuno with his wife, and neither ho nor the princess havo suf fered any special lnconvenlenco by tho present financial disturbances. Tho Dliko of Saxo-Coburg and Gqtha, a first cousin of King George, who has thrown iu his lot with the German nnd Is fighting for his native country, has lost for tho moment a sum of about nlno thousand dollars which ho had banked In London and puyment of which hns been refused to tho duke's agent In London. Kaiser Sells English Securities. Before tho outbreak of the war tho kaiser was holder of a considerable block of English government stock nnd also of somo British Industrial shares and railroad stock. .Over two months ago the kaiser disposed of his holdings, which was assigned In trust for tho Gorman emperor to tho Prin cess Henry of Battenborg. Tho prin cess, by tho way, Is ono of tho wealth iest of foreign royalties In London. Shih will continue to receive tho Inter est on it until thoNend of tho war, wheu sho will pass it back to the kai ser. King George derives practically all his prlvato Incomo from money In vested either fn England or tho col onics, nnd haB not, therefore, suffered any special loss by tho war, but It has necessitated many cnllB on his purso both In tho way of helping his rela tives at home nnd In tho subscriptions ho has been called upon to glvo to tho various charitable funds for tho relief of distress. Tho most extraor dinary economics have, therefore, been mado In the management of tho royal cstnbllBhment. Porrldgo and fruit form tho regular breakfast now at Buckingham palaco, with eggn and bacon onco a weok and rish twice a week. Meat has appeared on tho royal tnblo only onco a weok slnco tho outbreak of war. Ono wny and nnother the living oxpenses at Buckingham palace have been reduced by nearly GO per cent. -- In tho head or stomach It Is all over. This soldier added: "It Is quite true, too, that many men havo neon found dead without any wound. We find thorn na wo go ovor tho fields of battlo luiooling or Bitting In tho trenches In a natural attltudo Juat as If thoy woro still alive, Just aa thoy knelt or sat when a shell burst and in an Instant suffo cated thorn -with mollnlto funics." A Bed Cress nurso, a clover, busl nossllko Fronch woman, who had ex Perlenco In tho Balkan war, said: "Germany must bo ono vnBt hospital and Franco fa beginning to bo the Bamo .- I havo Just traveled from the Atlnntlo coast through the center of Franco and saw wounded everywhere "Already hods aro becoming senn-o though fortunately there nro so manv slightly wounded, that la, cleanly In Jurod, that thoy recover quickly nnd mako room for nowconiors. But It brings homo tho Immensity or tho struggle to boo evury avalhiblo school Institution nnd public hall turned Into a hoBpltnl as wjll ns every big rail way station ami numberless private houses." War Brings People to Church. Manchester, Euglnnd. Greatly in creased attendant e nt church Korvlcea la ono of tho mi'.rked offecta of tho wur noted by Mn-ichoater clergymen. One of them In n Manchester pnpor says: "It Is surpfnlng to seo as large an nttondauco nt a wool; night sorvlco aa nt a Sunday survlco, It Is tho In stinct of thoso loft at homo to find fellowship at Bucb times. But tho out standtng factor is that tho war Is bringing us aa a nation Into tho pres ent of tho realities of llfo and death " Governmont Studies Show How the Agricultural Output of Country Depends Upon Its Highways. That an Improved road will Increase vastly tho productiveness of tho nrea through which It runs has now been satisfactorily demonstrated by stud ies conducted by tho United States department of agricultural in Vir ginia. Conditions In Spotsylvania county wero investigated with par ticular caro and tho results havo proved suprlslng. In 1909, tho coun ty voted $100,000 to improve 40 miles of rond. Two years after the com pletion of this work tho railroad took away In 12 months from Fredericks burg, tho county seat, 71,000 tons of agricultural and forest products hauled over tho highways of that town. Beforo the Improvement of tho roads this total waB only 49,000 tons, annually; In other words, tho quantity of tho county'H produce had risen moro than 45 per cent. Still moro in teresting, however, is tho lncreaso shown In tho qunntlty of tho dairy products. In 1909 these amounted to 111,815 pounds, In 1911 to 273,028 pounds, an lncreaso of practically 140 per cent in two years. In tho same time shipments of wheat had Increased 59 per cent, tobacco SI per cent, and lumber and other forest products 48 per cent. In addition to this lncreaso In quan tity the cost of hauling each ton of produce waB materially reduced. In other words, the farmers not only pro duced more, but produces more cheap ly, for tho cost of transportation to market la of course an Important fac tor In tho coBt of production. From this point of view, It Is estimated that tho $100,000 spent In Improving tho road In Spotsylvania county saved tho farmers of that county $41,000 a. year. In tho past two years tho trafilo studies of tho federal experts show that approximately an average of C5, 000 tons of outgoing productF were hauled ovor tho improved roads In tho county au average distance of eight miles, or a total of 520.000 "ton miles." Beforo tho roads wero Im proved It was estimated that the aver age cost of hauling was 20 cents a "ton-mllo;" nfter the improvement this fell to 12 cents n "ton-mile," or a suv lng of eight cents. A saving of eight conts per mile on 620,000 "ton-miles" is $41,000 a year. Because this saving, la cases of this character, does not talto tho form of cash put directly Into tho farmer's pocket, thero Is a widespread tendency to believe that It is fictitious profit, whllo as a matter of fact it Is Just as real a source of profit as an In crease In tho prlco of wheat. In Dlnwlddlo county, Virginia, for oxamplo, whoro peanuts are ono of tho staplo crops, tho average load for two mules on a main road wasnbout a thousand pounds beforo the road was improved. After its Improvement tho aver'ago load waa found to bo 2,000 pounds, and the tlmo consumed In hauling tho larger load to market was much reduced. IDEAS ON ROAD IMPROVEMENT Speedways, Joy-Ride Trails or High ways for Pleasure Traffic Not Wanted by Farmer. - Sanity has overtaken the advo cates of bettor rural highways. In tho qld days tho good road advocate dreamed of nothing less than macad am, and his vlslonlngs ran often to brick-paved paths and concroto coun try lanes. All tho rural world rolled smoothly by over traffic ways that would cost anywhero from $5,000. to $15,000 per mile. That waa before tho farmer had really entered Into tho movement and beforo tho smnll town morchnnt, tho rural banker, and tho county seat cities hnd begun to think about good roads In terms of dollars and contH. Twenty years of agitation has brought us faco to facOj with tho fact that tho taxpayer does not want speedways, Joy-rider trails or roads for pleasure trnlllc, says St. Louis Re public. The man on tho farm wnnts a good firm, well drained highway that ho can uso nt any nnd nil soasons of tho year, and he does not wnnt to bo bankrupted or driven to tho poor houso iu getting it. Laying Pullets. Pullets very often nro Blow at start ing to lny owing to becoming too fat. In growing pullets thero should bo moro nitrogenous and less carbo naceous food given them. Importance of Movement. Of tho 2,000,000 miles of public roads In tho United States only about two hundred thousnnd miles havo boon given a hard surface. This shows tho Importanoo of tho good roads movement. Poor Highways. .Poor highways lesaen tho profit of labor, lncreaso the cost of living, bur don tho enterprise of the people, dull tho morality of our citizenship and hold down tho cducutlonnl advance ment of tho country. irl, -j rr- potash s " "'Ut- 'lib V .i , ' - i Bordeaux Mixing Equipment. Bordeaux mixturo la made of cop per sulphate, lime and water. Theso threo substances aro com bined In vnrlous proportions, depend ing upon tho kind of plant to bo treat ed. For apples, pears, cherries and plums (excopt Jnpaneso varieties) the preparation is usually four pounds of cjpper sulphate, with about tlsamo -amount of lime, to 50 gallons of wa ter. Poison is added as needed. Tho copper sulphate will readily dissolve In two gallons of hot water, to which should be added enough water to mako 25 gallons or one-half barrel. Do not ubo nn iron or tin vessel to dlssolvo this In, as tho copper sulphate will de stroy it, and besides tho lrou will spoil tho bordeaux. A wooden pall is good. Slake tho lime into a thin pasto and add water to make 25 gallons. Pour, or let theso run together "into a third barrel, and tho bordeaux Is made. When It is emptied Into the spray barrel or tank, It should bo strained through a brass wire strainer to catch any of tho coarso particles or foreign substances. Whenever it is necessary to use a quantity of the mixture, It is desira ble to havo the lime and copper sul phato in "stock solutions." A quan tity of limo Is slaked to a paste and hold so by being covered. with water. Tho copper sulphate, say 50 pounds, is RAVAGES OF THE STRAWBERRY GRUB Pest in Newly-Set Fields Cause Much Greater Damage Than Is Realized. (By N. M. EDGEItTON.) Tho working of the white grub In uowly set strawberry fields annually causes much loss, much moro, per haps, than is commonly realized. Va cancies here and thero amount to quite a little sometimes when taken In the nggregato. The moro intensive tho culture and higher tho prices prevailing, the great or tho loss in money. Tho grub begins his work na soon as tho plants are sot and continues bis operations throughout the life of the plantation. As this strawberry pest works on tho roots of tho plants only, thero Is no chance to reach his case with arse altes. Tho only thing to do is to hunt him out and kill him. If a plant appears to bo wilting or out of condition, not keeping up with Its fellows, nlno chances in ten a grub ivlll bo feeding on Ha root8. It is not often that his presence can bo detected in time to save tho plant In n condition that will warrant Its re tention In tho row of plants. How ever, by destroying the grub other plants in tho row may bo saved. As theso grubs havo ferocloua appetltca, & single specimen may be responsible for a largo vacancy. By having a pleco of ground under cultivation two or threo years pre vious to setting to strawberry plants thero will bo comparatively small loss from thla eourco, but wo never yot had .a plantation that was perfectly free from thla pest. Wo annually save xnny plaiits by keeping an eyo open for Blgns of his workings. EXCELLENT PLAN FOR HORSE-RADISH Improved Variety May Be Se cured From Seedsmen Mali ner Is Recommended. Horseradish Is grown from cuttings of tho sldo shoots about the size of a lead pencil, cut about four or five Inches long and dropped Into holea mado with a dlbblo or crow-bar. It la a common practlco East to plant tho cuttlnga botwoen early cabhngea and then to cultlvato tho horseradish aftor tho cabbages aro removed, as the horseradish is not sold till lato fall and winter. If you havo a patch you can lift the roots and trim the cuttings off. Tho best plan la to cut them square across at tho top and sloping nt tho bottom so that you can distinguish botwoen top nnd bottom. You can get an im proved variety from tho seedsmen. The Mallner Js good. placed in a clean gunny sack and sub pended In a barrel (ono with wood hoops la much to be preferred) coa talnlng 25 gallona of water. This will dlasolvo In about a day. Ono gnlloi of thla "stock solution" is equal to two pounds of copper sulphate. A good quick way to combine thest threo substances is ns follows: Pui the.amount of tho "stock solution" ol copper sulphate required in a barrel and add, enough water to mako 25 gal lons, or one-half barrel. Put abour seven pounds of the limo paste in s barrel and add 25 gallons of water making a thin whitewash. Pour, oi let theso two run together Into a third barrel, or directly Into tho spray bar rel or tank, being sure to strain. When partly run In, test with ferro-cyanlda of potash to make Bure enough lime has been used. If parls green, arse nate of lead or any other poison Is to bo used, mako It Into a thin paste with a llttlo water and add It to thq bordeaux mixture, which Is ready now to bo used. Copper sulphate solution is copper sulphate dissolved In water. It is used by somo growers to Bpray peach trees to prevent the leaf curl where a spray Ing for scale Insects Is not required. Two pounds of copper sulphate to 5a gallons of water la strong enough for this purpose. DODDER SEERIS TO THRIVE BY THEFT Tiny Suckers Drive Themselves Into Stem of Whatever It Captures for Its Food. Many of our climbing plants chokt young trees in growing by twining about them too closely, but dodder has an entirely "original way of getting; good things, and seems to thrive by poaching. Tho pestlferouB plant has not a 8ln glo rootnor any leaner but a llttlo green leaf. It is a yellow, thread-like twining stem, carrying here and there small round clusters of little flowers,, something like convulvulus. Whenever dodder attacks anything, It puts out tiny suckers that drive themselves into the stem of what it captures and take from tho stem all tho sustaining food needed. When pretty thoroughly developed and In the" right condition they start out great masses or tangles of wonderfully entwined yellowish threads, which are' liable to run and cover bushes, whole crops, and destroying anything; that Is near, as farmera well know. Tho mlnuto dodder seedling stays patiently waiting for nearly a month, Then It 8ets Into growing rapidly; Ub tip piorces tho ground nnd then all of tho little seedlings get to curving round nnd round and the work goes on and on, driving in innumerable oth er suckers until everything is ruined in tho disastrous tangle. Somo meager looking flowers en deavor to do their blossoming duty from which, Inter on, lots of tiny seeds' scatter. Picked Up In the Orchard. It Is poor policy to top your crate of apples or potatoes with big speci mens nnd then let the rest be nil "hit or miss." You will find that It will be mostly "miss" when tho folks that buy begin to claw your stuff over, as they will bo sure to do. Better havo all such things well graded. Both sort- will sell better. The best ones will sell for enough or moro to make up for any deduction you may havo ti mako In tho prico of smaller frultt and vegetables. Pays to Kep Bees. Tho sheep fanner Isr at a loss to know why moro farmers do not keet aheep. The beo keeper ia In tho same boat na to the farmer who does nol keep bees. A few colonies can so eas lly bo kopt that the profit and pleas uro coming from this source aro worth taking Into account. Tho man who habitually eats honey will novor havo troublo with kidney disorders, as honey la both n food aud medicine. Value of Liquid Manure. Farmers In this country do not an preclato the valuo of liquid manuro It la ono of tho greatest fertlllzlna .w..w.,.M .wvi iu wiu yrucucai farm er. 1 .Vik,
