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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1916)
THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. GAS-MASK DRILL FOR VILLAGERS EXPORT in STIFF America Shipping More Munitions Than Ever Before. All Records Broken During 1015, Ac cording to Statistics of Port of New York Value of Ship ments Increases. War Now York. ExportB of gunpowder and other explosives reached record- breaking proportion!) during 1915 and particularly during tlio last month of tlio year, when In this period alono they oxcoeded In volurao and valuo more than trio total of tlio entire twclvo months of the- preceding year, The total shipments In 1915 wero 83, 884,703 pounds of dynamlto, according to n Htatomcnt Issued by Dow, Jones & Co. The total vnluo of 1915 shipments of gunpowder was $06,346,770, against $289,983 In 1914. Tho avorago price per pound was 79 cents in 1915, against 33 cents In tho preceding year. The greatest deliveries wero in November and Dcccmbor exports wns $20,201,180, and that of tho November exports $16, 730,384, which was nearly three times tho money valuo of tho October ship I incuts. A compilation by the foreign trado department of tho National City bank Girl In a French village near tho war front teaching her younger sister of Now York bIiowb that tho Ma.ch oxports from tho port of Now York thus far avorago about $55,000,000 per week against $38,000,000 per wook in February and $51,0,00,000 por week in Dcccmbor and January. This 1b the moro romarkablo In view of tho fact that tho difficulties of obtaining vessel spaco on tho Atlantic have led certain exporters of merchandlso to tho Orient to send tholr goods by rail across tho continent, and thenco by vessel across tho Pacific. These rail shipments, whllo Intended for export, nro no longer included in tho export statomonts of tho port of Now York. Novortholess, tho total oxports from tho port of Now York for tho llrst weok of March wero $57,500,000, and thoso of tho second weok, whllo slight ly loss, will probably bring tho aver ago for tho first half of tho month up toabout $55,000,000 por week, or fully 40 por cent moro than tho weekly av orago of February, and considerably moro than that bf December und Jan- iow to use tho gas mask when tho signal is given that poison gas is being tjsod. ADDS FREAK FOODS Responsible for Things on Menu. Queer tho chlof articlo of diet, and tho West erner, who at first finds it nauseating, comos to form a strong attachment for this drink. "In Syria, Mesopotamia and in Pal- cstino and South Africa, tlio locust often graces tho tablo In a roasted condition, and those who havo eaten it pronounco its meat full of tho most acceptable flavor." Potato Flour Bread and Artificial Pro tein Join Soup Cubes and Pudding Powder Frenchmen Are Fond of Snails. Washington. War stringencies havo called forth a number of unusual foods, among them a bread mado largely of potato Hour, artificial pro tein cakes, greon bono meal prepara tions, together with Innumerable foods manufactured in tho laboratory In tabloid form. So soup cubes, pud ding powdors, meat essences and vege table oxtracts always moro or loss promlnont In tho kitchen of tho Euro pean housowlfo havo, according to roports from tho bolllgorent countries, rccolvod a tromendouB stimulus through tho war. War may creato scarcity of tho art!- cIob ou a community's accepted menu and yet, thoro may bo plenty of food about for thoso who eat it. For ox ample, thoro may bo an abundanco of snalla and grasshoppors on hand whllo a peoplo, thoughtless of thoso dollcaclos, starvo for moat. Showing somowhat of tho rango of foodstuffs, whon wo consider tho world by and largo, a bulletin Just glvon out by tho National Geographic socioty at Wash lngton enumerates a fow of tho froak foods In other countrlos. It reads: "Thoro la no accounting for tho freaks of human appotites. Tho Rooso- volt story of how ho got tho best work out of tho mon with sharp-filed tooth by promising them tho choicest bits of raw hippopotamus and rhl iiocoroo Btoak for speed In skinning will bo recalled by many who read tho articles in tho magazines at tho timo of his African expedition. "Capt. Robort H. artlott, command qr of tho Karluk, which carrlod Stof- ansson to Arctic waters, oayB that, on his return from Herald Island to northorn Siberia, hb found raw polar pear moat tasting bettor than any ploco do roslstanco ho had over oaten in tho homo country. "Tho Fronchman likes his onnlls and wondors how anyone who accopts oystors can rofuso them. "In Canton, Chlnn, rats sell for CO cents a dozen, and a dog steak brings moro por pound than a leg of mut ton. "Tho Chlneso mandarin pays $30 a pound for birds' nests from which his soup is concocted. "In parts of tho Wost Indies tho palm worm Is Btowed In fat. "Cortaln African trlbos aro as fond of caterpillars aB an American Is of rood birds on toast. "Tho TurkB aro as disgusted with oyatorB as wo aro with tho fish tho Corslcan relishes. "Bating earth, or goophagy, Is a common thing In many parts of tho world. In Bomo parts of Kuropo a butter is mado of lino clay, and in other rogionB various kinds of earth aro sold In tho open market. Tho Persians ubo somo vnrloty of soil in making tholr Bwootmoats. "In Moxlco tho oggs of certain spo clos of files aro used by tho Indians in making food paBto, which Is re garded as a great dollcacy. "Somo of tho Arctlo tribes allow tholr fish to docompose, when it bo comes to them tho samo Bavory doll cacy that llmburgor or harzar chooso 1b to ub, whllo, In point of truo fra grance, tho palm romalns to tho IIbU "Tho Arabs, and many other of tho near-eastern peoples, preparo tholr broad In shoots almost aB thin as tta nuo paper and find thoso crisp, taste less things pleasing. "In Central America, whoro croep tng things aro rogardod as clean and reasonable, tho lizard, tho Iguana, forms a cholco articlo of food. "Among tho tribes of southern Rub la marks' milk, soured Into an acrid, strong-tasting boverago, constitutes WINTER ROOTS FOR POULTRY Fowls Relish Beets and Turnips as Substitutes for Green Food Better to Feed Raw. Turnips and beets aro good green food substitutes, and fowls relish them. Thby can bo fed by cutting In half and allowing tho fowls to pick them to pieces, or they can bo ground flno In a bono cutter and fed In troughs. It Is better to feed them raw than cooked. Turnips contain 90.6 per cent water, 0.8 por cent nsh, 1.3 por cent protein, 1.2 por cent fiber, 5.9 por cent nitrogen. Sugar beets contain 26.7 per cont water, 9.2 por cen. nsh, 1.5 por cent fiber, 9.9 por cent nitrogen free ex tract, and 0.1 per cent fat. Turnip seed may bo sown either very early In spring and an early sum mer crop socurcd, or later In July and August for winter storing. For early uso plant In rows ono to ono and ono- half Inches deop and twclvo to eigh teen Inches apart In tho row. In flold culturo tho rows aro often thirty inches apart to facllltato horse cultivation. Tho seed ia sometimes sown broadcast from July 20 to Au gust 1, when a crop Is grown for stock. Two to threo pounds of seed aro required for an acre. Deots aro usually sown tho latter part of April or first part of May. About tho samo treatment in planting is given tho boot as Is given tho turnip. PLACE TO FEED THE CHICKS INDERS KEEP THEM WARM Construction Work on Pennsylvania Railroad Makes Place a Winter Resort for Hobos. Heaver Falls, Pa. Tho Pennsylvania Ratlroad company has been making a 1111 of tho Beaver river botweon Now Brighton and Itochestor with tho In tention of chanelni: Its main lino be tween tho two points to ellmlnato a im.r,' long curvo. Tho fill requlroa hun drcdB of carloads of clndors, Which aro loaded Into tHo cars whllo red hot. Whon unloaded they rotaln tholr heat for days. War matorial, foodstuffB and horses continuo tho chief articles in tho growing oxports. Tho announcement that Portugal is to bo Included 1 1 tho list of nations at war lends Interest to a statement com- Thin lina mrwln Min nlnpr, n wlntnr resort for hobos. At all hours tho Pc' byKV? 'or?,B trtt enartIDCnt nnHrn nmhnnkmnnt n mlln nr mnro f tllO National City bank Of NOW Difficult Problem on Account of Old Hens Eating Most of Feed Runs Are In Favor. It is often hard to feed littlo chicks on account of tho old hens eating most of tho feed. To prevent this I mako a feeding creep for tho special uso of tho littlo chicks, writes Owen Crlsman of Russell, Kan., in Farmers' Mall and Breezo. To mako ono of these runs tako six pieces of 2 by 2-Inch lumber, 2 foot long, and saw ono end of each to bevel. Nail two of them with tho beveled ends firmly together. Nail tho rest up in tho samo way. Whon fin ished thoy look llko threo V's upsldo down. Placo tho pieces nailed to- YOUR UNCLE HAS A LITTLE --n disun im, v: mm ,r rui In length, swarms with a hoterogo neous crowd of old and young men, who oat, drink, mako morry and sloop, On tho hot cinders tho tramps mako coffeo and cook tho fruits of for aging parties. When Bloopy thoy York on tho commerce of that country and Its trado relations with tho United States. While Portugal is compara tively a small country it has 6,000,000 peoplo, or practically as many as all of tho Now England states. It is quite scoon out a bed in tho warm nshnq. densely populated, despite Its moun and after cnrofullv romovinir tim tainous area, tho average number of Creep for Little Chicks. gethor 2 feet npart and nail lath 4 foot long on theso pieces about an Inch United States Saves Thousands by Close Buying WASHINGTON. Tho United States is paying so much less for tho things it buys than private Individuals or business houses that many people aro beginning to mquiro why the concerns furnishing tho commodities in question. cannot reduce commercial prices and still mako money. Among tho Interesting compare Bons Bhown in tho records of tho gen eral supply commlttoo, under tho con tracts of which organization g07orn mont purchasing ngentB hero mako purchases, is that of tho prlco of gas oline. Theso records show that tho. government Just before tho closo of tho last fiscal year was paying 11 cents a gallon, whllo 23 cents wbb tho nrico In tho open market. Carbon paper, which tho government buys at a contract prlco of 29 2-5 cents, 1b sell ing now in tho open market at 75 cents a hundred sheets. This means that; tho Eovornmont will effect a saving of $15,975 If it purchases 35,500 boxes, tho estimated consumption for tho current fiscal year. Typewriter ribbons aro $4.50 a dozen In open market now, ngalnBt tho contract prlco of $2.50. Tho saving hero on 60,000 ribbons, tho estimated requirement for tho year, will bo $8,300. On rubber bands tho market prlco is now $1.50 a pound. Tho contract of tho general supply committee is $1. Tho saving on 14,684 pounds will bo $7,342. Thoro will bo a saving of $5,000 on mucllago If tho government uses l,160i dozen quarts, ns estimated. If 2,142 dozen huck towels are used, tho saving! will bo $1,049. Purchases of disinfectant, if up to tho estimate of 12,027 kilos, will savo $2,456; purchases of 4,100 pounds of glycerin will moan an economy! of $1,357. Tho government buys so closely that in a purchase of 21 adding machines' nlono $1,303 vas saved, whllo $1,162 was saved In tho cost of 5,400 pounds of; gluo and $5,050 in 555 letter-sizo filing sections. Another largo Baving was $6,330 In tho prlco of 694 desks. Graphophone Puts Ginger Into Sleepy Barbers A MAN who conducts a barber shop in tho downtown section and employs, ton dusky men to attend to tho wants of his customers, recently diBcov- ored that on dark, rainy days, when business was light, his trusty razor wlold- era wero afflicted with sleeping sick ness and wero wont to sink down be- sido their chairs and snatch a wink occasionally. Ho thought of a brilliant schemo to rouso his small army from their apathy and, hastening to a music Btoro, purchasod a largo graphophone and a bunch of records. When tho machlno arrived at tho shop It was surrounded by brush wielders and hair cutters and before long tho strains of "Robert B. Lee" and other ragtime tunos emanated from tho instrument. Tho effect upon tho force was as romarkablo as it was instantaneous. Barbers rushed back and forth from chair to wash basin with lively stops, cut capers around tho barber's chair as thoy shaved customers and otherwise displayed a surplus amount of energy which had long lain dormant. Recently tho young Southerner In charge of tho bootblack department adopted a regular program for the day, beginning with "Dixie," when tho sleepy barbers arrlvo in the weo small hours of tho morning and ending with tho "Star-Spangled Banner," when tho hands of the clock denote that closing time haB arrived at night. When a man asked tho ragtime, expert what tuno ho would play If ho was tipped a quarter, that worthy placed a record on the machine and soon wero heard tho bold strains of "There'll Be a Hot Timo in tho Old Town Tonight" cllnkors burrow down in tho yiolding Parsons per square milo being 168 or apart Put tho bottom lath 3 inches Cn DaVIS Decided He Would Not Take a ChaflOe mass and sleop In comparative com fort on the coldest nights, with only their heads vislblo TO REVIVE INDIAN CUSTOM nearly four" times that of tho United States. Its foreign commerco amounts to approximately $150,000,000 per annum, having moro than doubled in tho pust twenty years, and Increased about 50 nor cont in tho last decado. Its Im ports nro considerably moro than doublo its exports, tho total Imports of 1913 having been $9C,000.000 In valuo, and its oxports but $38,000,000. Tho principal Imports nro coal, cotton, wool, raw silk, hides, wheat, BUgar and manufactures, especially of Iron and stool. Tho principal oxports aro wine, cocoa, sardines and cork. from tho ground so tho chicks can slip under to got tho feed. When through using tho runs thoy may bo set away for another season. By doing this thoy will last sovoral years. Thoy savo both timo and feed in raising chicks. HATCH CHICKENS IN WINTER WHEAT t 4,000 YEARS OLD Came From Ruins In Egypt, But Kept In Texas In Hermetically ' Sealed Jar. Dallas, Tex. Whon tho lato John Cardwoll of Austin was Unitod States consul at Cairo, Egypt, ho sent to his old friend, Col. P. P. Holland of Dal las, a small quantity of wheat that ho had taken from tho tomb of ono of tho ancient kings In nowly-oxplorcd ruins upon tho banks of tho Nile This wheat was known to bo moro than four thousand years old. Tho glass container which holds tho grain Ib hermetically scaled. To all out ward uppoaranccB tho wheat 1b Just as sound as tho day it wns flayed from tho head In tho long ago, whon tho earth was Inhabited by a civilization While Outside Weather Conditions!. Are Unfavorable Youngsters Are Brooded in Poultry House. ChickenB hatched by tho mother hen during tho winter aro brooded in a poultry house or shod whllo tho out- sldo wcathor conditions aro unfavor able After tho weather becomes settled, thoy can bo reared In brood coops out of doors. Tho coops nro mado bo that they can be closod at .night to keep out cats, rata or other animals, and enough ventilation is allowed so that tho hen and chicks will havo plenty of fresh air. r . ESSENTIALS IN DUCK RAISING Select One Breed and Stick to It- Fowls Should Be Fed Frequent lyKeep tho Coops Dry. Don't keep two or threo different kinds of ducks. Chooso ono variety and breed for quality. Don't try, by mixing It with tholr 'ILLiIS J. DAVIS, who Is tho clerk to tho house committee on interstate and foreign commerco, did somo traveling in Florida some time ago. Ho happened to bo ono of a largo party In which there was a preponderance of women. Ono of tho stops on tho tour was In a hotel far from tho beaten path. This mattor of isolation evi dently accounted for tho fact that thoro was but ono bathroom in the entire hostelry, and it was a rathor discouraged-looking bathroom at that. However, the party had traveled a long and dusty dlstanco, and every one had been looking forward to nice cool white tubs and clean towols. When this regiment of women found thcro was but one tub in tho placo they lined up, Indian filo, and prepared to tako a string of baths that would havo extended far into tho middle of next weok If someono had not speeded up. WUHb Davis looked over tho situation and decided that if ho wanted to take a bath ho would havo to lave his flno physique in tho gleaming waters of tho rivor flowing near at hand. Theroforo he gathered up his duds and wandered down to tho banks and found a pool overshadowed by a beautiful growth of semltroplc trees. Naturo reigned supremo except for the presence of ono of Florida's citizens, who appeared to havo dressed from a rag bag. He asked Willis If ho wero preparing to take a swim. "Yep," said Willis. Tho stranger sat on a log and waited. "I don't suppose thero aro alligators left in this river?" suggested Willis, "I don't know If therd Is or not. I killed twelve of tho critters in this yer pool last wook, but I don't know of any is loft or not." Whereupon Willis spoiled that stranger's fun by refusing to go in swim ming. National Museum Has Interesting Naval Relics So antagonistic to all that modern civilization menns wero tho ancient custom and loro of tho American In dians that llko tholr bollovers thoy havo fast disappeared havo almost passed out of tho memory of modorn STUDENTS HYPNOTIZE SELVES man. Some of the customs, however. A NOTHKH illtlRtrlnun Amnrlrnn fnmllv whnan onnn nrnm nfTlnnra In v. tti that Is now forgotton. Tho grains aro f00ll V forco ?ucUB t0 oat moro sm ed States navy Is now represented in tho hall of history in tho govern ment museum at wasmngton. 'mo United States National museum has lust received a collection of naval relics plump and largo. "1 havo boon told that tho grains would probably germinate If planted, but I havo novor tried any of thom," Colonel Holland said. are so beautiful that at Infrequent in tervals thoy aro rovlvod und ono such resurrection of tho loro of tho dead paBt bids fulr to become n society fad in tho near futuro. was an ancient tribal custom among certain of tho American aborigines that all maidens should wear a single feather of tho eaglo as a part of tholr headdress. A Boya of University of Missouri Do It by Gazing Steadily at Bright Object. Columbia, Mo. A demonstration of hypnotism by Prof. Max Myor, head of tlio psychology dopartmont at tho Unl. vorslty of Missouri, rccontly showed that hypnosis can bo induced without than thoy want. Don't bo afraid of overfeeding. Ducks should bo fed four or flvo times dally. Don't omit fresh vegetables and green Btuff from their diet. Don't lot tholr coop's got damp and filthy. Don't forgot plenty of clean, fresh water, and give thorn a chanco to rest In tho shado. very Imprcsslvo ceremony at tho timo tho Intluonco of a hypnotist. Profes- ot a girl's marriage was tho break ing and scattering to tho four winds of this symbol of (jlrlhood, Tho pic turo shows MIbb Alarguorlto Hawks- worth, ropuled to have Indian blood In her voins, tho daughter of a former promlnont railroad president and cor poration attorney of Now Vnrk, wear- sor Myor hypnotized studonts by hav ing thom gazo steadily at a bright ob ject with no sound to distract atten tion. Lator ho suggested that tho hypno tized student was an artist painting a plcturo, a wounded soldier homo from tho trenches or an intoxicated diner pertaining to tho services rendered by 'Capt. Edward Tronchard, and Rear Admiral Stephen Decatur Tronchard, between tho years 1800 and 1880. An offlcor's sword, a dirk, two commissions, a map, and a manuscript Journal relate to tho career of Edward Tronchard. Ho wa? born in Salem, N. J in 1784, and entered tho United Statos navy as midshipman on April 30, 1800. His first cruise was on tho sloop of war Adams, under tho valiant Stephen Decatur. The Adams was engaged In tho Mediterranean in the war with Tripoli from 1801-03 Trcnchard became a lieutenant in 1807, and tho commission Issued to him at that timo, bearing tho slgnaturo of Thomas Jefferson, Is exhibited in tho case. A littlo lator, after serving on tho Constellation and tho Constitu tion, he was made oxecutlvo olllcer In tho New York navy yard. During tho war of 1812-14 ho was in command of tho Oneldn and tho Madison in several engagements. Capt. Edward Trenchard's son, who was named Stephen Decatur Trench- A-well-cared-for Hock of hons will ard, after tho captain's friend, had oven a moro Interesting career than IiIb Plsoase Becomes Epidemic. A dlscuso that is transmitted through ono generation of chickens to another Is apt to becomo opldemic. Weaklings Most Susceptible. Roup Is Infectious and tho weak lings aro tho oiios to first becomo in fected. Hens Pay Biggest Dividend. , , ' - r-" mo ironcnua or uu iiuusicuiuu inner mg tno cagios foathor after., tho an- L h aturtnnta nntnil Htntr nnra u.uuv i.,um liunuu, n iau tl.-ut Mils t, c Ka,l of Hamilton. Mo., wnu Hjon """" . 'u,u'' n now writ s tho ..8tnr Bbjoct" in Professor My . c w . i . . . 1. ...... pay a bigger dividend than anythlnff on tho farm. for a Prevent Waste of Feed. Prevent wasto and make ovory pound of feed bring tho best result father, who died at tho age of forty years, after 24 years' service Stephen Decatur Tronchard was born In Brooklyu, N. Y., in 1818. Ho was appointed midshipman in 1834. With tho opening of tho Civil war Trcnchard was put in command of the Keystono State. Ho voh retired lc 1880, and died in Now York city in 1883. UUmOIlMUUlllUI Ul imuiioui possible