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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. FARM WORK AMIDST SHELLS STOP FOREST FIRES POULTRY 1 United States Forestry Service Seeks Public's Co-operation. GVPIIAL AITAIi) Ten "Don'to" to Be Observed In th; Woods to Prevent the Blazes Which Are Causing Big Losses In Kast. First Medicinal Drug Plant Farm in the World MnOJNAL MTS Within the Round of the big guns many French peasants are lending nn almost normal life, for farming must go on or there would he no food for the lighters. The photograph shown farm horses startled by n bursting shell. It wbb taken recently near Auber, France. Atrocities Charged to Czar's Sol diers by Germany. Affidavits to Be Used In Peace Nego tiations to Prevent Extension of Muscovite Territory In Europe Horrors Detailed. By 08WALD F. SCHUETTE. (CorrcHporulent of th Chlcueo News.) IJerlln, Germany. The Gorman gov ernment has issued an official me morial to tho civilized world setting forth a series of "atrocities committed by Russian troops upon German in habitants and German prisoners of war:' Tho memorial Is accompanlod by doc umentary evidence in the shape of 81 affidavits setting forth tho testimony on which tho charges are based. Thoy are far too horrlblo for publication. All nro to be used against Rus sia whenever peace negotiations nre begun to halt any possibility of an ex tension of the Russian government in Europe. Tho memorlnl already Iuib called forth indignant denials from London. In part the atrocity record is as fol lows: "According to official investigations, thousands of men, women and chil dren were dragged away, other thou sand murdered, about 20,000 buildings were destroyed or burned during tho llrst and second Russian invasions of Knst Prussia. During tho second In vnslon n'lono 80,000 dwellings were plundered and desolated. "The inhabitants, including women and children, were mishandled under tho moBt lllmsy pretexts or for no rea son at all. although thov did all thuv could" to satisfy tho Russian soldiers regarding quarters and supplies. This mistreatment was sometimes carried out with extreme cruelty; in one cauo the male Inhabitants of an entire vll lagc, including the district judge, were flogged and nt tho same tlmu threatened with death. Fugitives wero fired upon without any motive. But abovo all, many psaooful citizens -were murdered without any reason what over, some enduring torrlblo suffering in the presence of their relatives. In nocent young men -wore shot merely becnuso thoy were nblo to perform mllltnry service. "A hend forestor, who was in cliargo of transportation of German convicts, wns taken prisoner by tho TO INHERIT $1,000,000 William J. Smith Cary, tho Cou neetlcut youngster shown in tho Illus tration, will inherit $1,000,000 on at taining the age of twenty-one years. Hs!sshHHuJsIwSEI Bslfi(BWisBss?,fl HL GESSisssssVsfl SSSBw SSSSSSSSaslsSSSSSSB ssssS 'ssVssssssssssS , Russians and brought before General RonnenkampfT and apparently in keeping with his infamous orders to hill all German foresters was imrne- ntoly shot. Even tho aged women and children did not escape tho mur- orous frenzy of the Russian soldier. "Tho murder of a little child be tween two aud three vears of ace was particularly cruel. Investigations show now terrible was tho end of a whole family which fell victims of the Rub- Inn soldier's lust for murder: the fa ther was nailed to a table, tho child to a door and tho mother's breasts wero cut off and her body slit open. In another instance tho tongues of tho husband and wlfo wero nailed to tho table and thoy finally died. "Tho cases of attack unon vounc girls and women aro innumerable. "Information regarding tho cruel treatment of German prisoners of war by tho Russian troops will bo found In additional appendices. In numerous canes German soldiers who wero taken prisoners wero robbed, spit upon or otherwise 111 treated without any rea son. A Russian officer threatened some Gorman soldiers with death be cause they would not betray their com rades, and had ono of them actually snot. Russian troops placed German prisoners in narrow excavations before tne.tr gun positions, apparently with tho intention that thoy should bo killed by shots from Qerman guns 'Cossacks have slashed off tho heads of Gorman prisoners as they rode by, and others wero badly Injured: some wero maimed by having their limbs cut on. Ono florman prisoner was hound to a horso gin in a most cruel manner and allowed to starvo to death Threo hussars wero found in a barn hanging with their heads- down and noscB and oars cut oft, Indicating that tuey must have died In excruciating agony. "Russian soldiers have also not luml tated to murder and .barbarously maim 'wounded Gorman soldiers. Thoy hnvo romovod bandages from tho wounded that thoy might bloed to death: .others Qyes havo boon stabbed out: tonuueB oars, lingers and foot have been cut off and skulls crushed In. "In some cases thoso brutal deod havo .boou performed with fiendish cruolty. Illustrative of thin, a Huhtlv wounded soldier waB found secured to tho floor of .a veranda by a bayonet stuck through the mouth, tho llosh .o the lower arm was strlimed off from olbow to wrist, the fingers wero slit up to tho wrist. Another soldier who had received a skull Injury was so bound to a calf in a stablo that every time tho animal moved its mouth tho exposed brain of tho soldier rubbed. "Tho most atrocious thing of nil was the order of tho highest Russian mill tnry authority, found on a high Rus slan oillcor, which directed thnt all mnio Inhabitants over ten years of ago should, bo driven before tho attacking troops; this monstrous order, which has blackened tho nnm of the Russian commander In chief forever, was ap parontly Issued with tho Intention that German soldiers in repulHlng tho Rus shins would bo compelled to II ro on their own people." CARRIED 13 ON ONE TICKE Conductor of Train Thought Mothe Had Her Sunday School Class With Her. JiusKogoo. Okla. Mr. and M rs. I-rank Scott of Highland, Kan., nra seeking a homo with lots of land. Thoy will need It, for although thoy havo been married not quite ten years thoy havo had nineteen children, all boys, and 13 boys nro living. Thoy hold tho record for triplets, having flvo sots to their credit, and also two sets of twins. All tho 13 living boys aro under flvo years of ago. Mrs. Scott onco boarded a train with her 13 hoys and ono first class tickot. Tho conductor informed her that sho could not tako her entlro Sunday school class on ono ticket, and It was not until sho showed him tho family Ululo, with all tho birth dates record ed, that ho believed it was only her family and permitted the flvo double seats whllo payiug for ono. Washington. To obtnln tho co operation of the public In preventing forest fires, which r.ra doing a great deal of damage li tho East this spring, tho United Mates forest serv ice has prepared ten don ts to bo observed In tho woods. It Is hoped thnt these rules may have a beneficial effect during tho 'llro season, of tho southern Appalachians, which is not yet over, and that of tho North woods, which Is Just beginning, and which, from present Indications, premises to bo unusually severe. The "don'ts" follow: 1. Don't throw your match away un til you are sure it is out. 2. Don't drop cigarette or cigar butts until tho glow Is extinguished. 3. Don't knock out your pipe ashes while hot or where they will fall Into dry leaves or other inflammable ma terial. 4. Don't build n camp fire any larger than Is absolutely necessary. 5. Don't build a fire against a tree, a log, or n stump, or anywhere but on bare soil. C. Don't leave a flro until you are sure it Is out; if necessary, smother It with eartli or water. 7. Don't bum brush or refuse in or near tho woods if thoro Is any chanco that the Are may spread beyond your control, or that tho wind may carry sparks where they would start a now flro. 8. Don't be any more careless with flro In tho woods than you are with flro In your own home. 9. Don't bo Idlo when you discover a flro in tho woodB; If you can't put It out yourself, get help. Whero a forest guard, ranger or state flro war den can bo reached, call him up on tho nearest telophono you can find. 10. Don't forget that human thought- lossness -and negligence aro the causes of moro than half of tho forest fires in this country, and that the smallest spark may start a conflagration that will result in loss of llfo and destruc tion of timber and young growth valu ablo not only for lumber but for their Influenco in helping to prevent flood, erosion nnd drought. Many thousands of acres of forest nnd sulnirban woodland from Maine to Florida, and .from tho Atlantic coast as far west as Arkansas, have been burned over already this spring by flres which started for the most part from preventnblo causes. On the national forest purchase areas alone, 40 flres occurred in March, burning over Tiioro than G.500 acres, while 44 flres starting on private land nenr or within government boundaries dam aged nearly 5,500 acres. Fires in April wero oven more numerous and severe, but rains in tho latter part oi tho month helped tho situation some what. MARRIED TO SPANISH PRINCE Society Favorite Is Secretly Wedded to Distant Relative of King Alfonso. Miss llutli Wnters, widely known in society in Now York, Philadelphia Narrngansett Pier and Palm Roach, was secretly woddpd recently tc Prince Lmdovico PlgnatelH d'Aragon, a Miss Ruth Waters. Spaniard, and a distant relative of King Alfonso. Not oven the announce ment of tho engagement ever was undo, although Miss Waters an nounced n fow days previous to tho mnrrlago that there was something In tho roport that she was engaged to tho prlnco. Her parents, prominent socially In Now York, were opposed to tho match because of their daugh ter's youth. Grandmother at Twenty-Nine. Savannah, Ga. Mrs. Josophlne Da vis Hill, a former Macon woman, now residing at Mtllbrook, Ala., Is a grand mother at tho ago of twenty-nlno years. Sho was married when twelve, became a mother one year later, a widow at sixteen, was remarried at twenty-nlno nnd a grandmother at tweuty-nlne years and one day. COST OF RENEWING A FLOCK Interesting Figures Given of Results of Experiments With Old Hens at the Utah Station. Bulletin 135 of the Utah experiment station gives tho results of a study In nnnual egg production. This is based on tho records of a flock of soven-yenr-old hens and their prog eny, and figures given nre very in teresting. For example, a White Leg horn hen In her pullet, year laid 103 eggs. Under the usual system of Judging layers, this hen would havo been discarded as a drone, but the , S2v f.- ''-V White Leghorn Cockerel. next year she came back with 197 and repeated with 108. In her fourth year she fell down to 72, yet in her sixth year she laid as many as she had when a pullet. It is a question wheth er It paid to keep this hen after her third year, but such records are nec essary In order to learn definitely about such things. The cost of renewing tho flock is considered ono of the greatest draw backs to the pqultry industry, the authors estimating the (cost of a pul let probably up to laying age at from 50 to CO cents. The average pro ductive life of hens cannot bo .esti mated at this stage of their work, but for tho strain used in their studies was thought to be about four years. The range of individual egg produc tion in their flocks was found to be from 100 to 1C0 In the first year, from 105 to 140 In the second year and from 100 to 130 in the third year. After the third year tho production re mained fairly constant at about 90, with a variation of not moro than 10 or 15 eggs per year. SERVICEABLE POULTRY HOUSE Portable Colony Structure Shown in Illustration Will Accommodate Ten to Fifteen Fowls. Hero is a poultry house that will ac commodate from 10 to 15 fowls, ac cording to the amount of yard room, breed, etc. It is known as a colony house and Is portable, so that It can bo moved from ono part of tho field to unother, says a writer in Western Farmer. The building Is 9 feet long and 7 feet wldo and about G feet high at the center and 18 inches at tho eaves. Tho door is covered with fine wire netting, so as to provide light and ventilation. If desired tho door Portable Colony House. can bo covered with a muBlin curtain which can he swung open during the day and on warm nights. The chief recommendntlon for z bouse of this shape Is tho economy of labor and ma terial needed to build it. Many poul trymen find uao for colony houses Tho house shown In tho cut herewith given Is easily constructed nnd at a low cost. INFERTILE EGGS FOR CHICKS Feed Made by Mixing With Rico and Flour and Baking Into Cake Wards Off Bowel Troubles. Keep the Infertile eggs taken from tho Incubator to feed tho coming chicks. An infertile egg will not rot if kopt In a clean place. After months you will And thnt It has merely dried down to something not much larger than a bean. Mix the eggs with rice and flour and bake In a cake, which you can crumble to chicks, poults and ducks. Tho rice wards off bowel trouble. As they get older mix tho eggs with sifted corn meal and bako up for them. Start In Chicken Business. Whllo It is desirable it is not al ways necessary to start in the chicken business with a flock of purebreds' lluy tho beat hent you can afford and then spend as much moro as you can afford for a r-"ibred cock. ASHINOTON. A medicinal drug plant farm on a largo scale a thing' unique in the annals of horticulture in this country nnd abroad, has been established by American scientists on ton farm, owned by the department just across the Potomac river. The new drug plant farm is established on. the property of John H. Henderson, Jr.. who has taken a scientific Interest in the matter and has turned over his land to those In charge for a long period, of years. At the drug farm in Virginia about forty-five acres ot land are being planted with drug plants this year, and It is planned to very much increase.' this acreage next year. Already enough selected belladonna plants for five ncres have been brought up under glass. Hig beds containing 100,000 glnsong. roots havo been set out In tho woodlands. Other plants which are being: grown include cannnbls, larkspur, golden seal or hydrastls, Japanese pepper mint, senega, colchium and sprigclla. Uncle Sam Might Have NE fine summer day little seven-year-old Marian CoggeBhall was playing, with her dolly at her home at Cape Cottage, Me. At intervals the great. guns at Fort Williams, near Cape Elizabeth, boomed terribly and shook the house. Finally Marian put her doll on a chair and crept Into a corner, frightened. Then came nn extra loud boom and dolly lost her balance and foil to tho floor, broken into many bits. Marian was broken hearted, for nlthough the dolly was not very big, it was tho little girl's pet, and she had grown to love it very much. A grown-up admirer of tho Httlo Klrl listened to her tearful tale and then told her that sho had a just claim against tho government and ex plained to her exactly how such claims were attended to, little thinking that Marian had any intention of placing the matter before the authorities at Washington. Marian said nothing, but she went to her Httlo writing desk, and penned the following letter: "Dear Mr. Adjutant General: , "When the big guns were fired last week It shook tho house so badly that my Precious dolly fell onto the floor and was broken to Pieces. May 1 ask the Government for another dolly. She was not very big, but She was. my Pet and I loved her very much. Yours truly, "MARIAN COGGESHALL, "Seven years old." The letter was received by the adjutant general and given the official? designation ot document No. 1949121. The matter was referred to tho quar termaster general for Investigation. Then it went to the commanding general of the eastern division of the army, Maj. Gen. William II. Barry, stationed at Now York. Finally tho matter reached Col. Gcorgo T. Bartlett, who com mantled the artillery division at Fort Williams. Colonel Dartlett called Mrs. Coggeshall on tho telephone and told hor of' the official document. Marian's mother was greatly surprised, for she knew nothing of her daughter's action, and she assured tho officer that Mr. Coggeshall would relieve the government of Marian's claim and buy the new doll himself. So Marian's father bought hero the doll and the matter ended right there. Hut Marinn had a perfect right to ask tho government to replace her doll, and if her mother had permitted it, her clajm probably would have been granted. Her letter still is on file at the war department here, and Is regarded as1 one of the most novel documents ever received by tho adjutant general. News Digests Prepared HE average high official of tho United States government has little or no" T f Til n f n r- nnivcnnnfll- rnndlnn- 11 li lma t r Viava lilu nmnim . . f . him, with the result that subordinate publications from tho largo cities which reach V ashington by a fast mail in time to bo delivered before break rtist. During the day, tho president's secretary is kept informed as to what is going on In the outside world by tho newspaper correspondents who calli regularly at tho White House. Tho White House also takes a large number of representative newspapers, and these aro carefully read by an employee assigned to tho job. who clips out everything relating to the president, tho White House, tho administration and politics in general. ' When Mr. Tumulty goes homo at night ho takes this mass of newspaper clippings homo with him, and no matter at what hour ho may go to bed ho never fails to look these clippings through before retiring. Anything ho finds therein which ho believes is of sufficient importance to call tho attention of tho president Is carefully marked. Tho next morning tho president may find on his desk ono of theso clippings with n note attached as follows: "Dear Governor: I think you ought to read this. TUMULTY" In this way, tho president Is kept posted. Geographic Society Admits a Dog to Membership' T HAT a do:; has been elected a fellow of tho National Geographic society Jl is an announcement that will surprise most persons but this is no ordinary canine. Iironto is Its name-Uronto McCormlck. n'ronte was elected to membership in tho society on March 1!9, 1915, according to a highly ornato certificate of membership Bigneir by O P. Austin, secretary ot tho society, and decorated with the Bochity's official seal. Uronto has amused, entertained, Instructed nnd mystified thousands upon thousands of school children, having already given moro than two thousand entertainments in public schools. College professors aud scientists have marveled at her won derful feats of mind reading. There is no trick, nothing to deceive. Hot work is purely mental work nnd it Is, presumably, because of hor brain power that sho has achieved tho distinction of being elected to membership In a society that is supposed to embraco only human savants. Bronte is a Scotch collie of the finest type. Sho was born July 29, 1903, In the famous collie kennelo at Center Moriches, Long Island. Sho can count money, sho can count people and tell how many there aro lu tho ro m and l w many hare glasses oa. tho Virginin hills just opposite the national capital. It is contended by those in charge of the farm that it will go far toward revolutionizing" the trade In medicinal drug plnuts and the channels of supply of these plants. Tho whole operation has been undertaken nftcr conference with the experts of tho department of agricul ture, who lor some years have con ducted experiments in the cultivation' oi medicinal drug plants at the Arling Replaced Marian's Dolly for Our High Officials ollicials or employees of his department aro assigned to go over the newspa pers dally, and to prepare for him a digest of the news of the day, with reference to his particular field of ac tivity. At his right hand President Wil son has in Secretary Tumulty a per son keen for the contents of a news, paper. Tumulty usually has read hall a dozen or moro newspapers before coming to the White House In the morning. These papers are easterni 1 N
