THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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youthful tramp" UIDV SIBNCpN CITY
JOURNEYS BY AUTO ldrSL "vlDBllSITS -
F00
"THE NAME OF FRANCE"
Stranded Student Motors 1,000
Miles for Just 28
"Thank You's."
Investigation by Medical Com
mission Shows It Can Be
Controlled.
NOT DEPENDENT UPON DIET
Best Way to Combat the Disease ,1s
With Efficient 8cwage System
Some Important Discoveries
Are Made.
Now York. Pellagra Is Infectious,
but it Is not caused by nn unbalanced
or luadcqunto diet, and tho most effec
tive means of combating It Is by In
stalling elllclent sewage disposal sys
tems in the communities where It Is
prevalent, nays n report Issued by tho
commission of tho Post Graduato Medi
cal School and Hospital, that has been
conducting an extensive Investigation
in South Carolina.
The Importance of these discoveries,
it was pointed out, can better bo ap
preciated when It Is recognized that
more than 100,000 persons In this coun
try uro known to ho suffering from tho
disease. There probably aro many more
victims, ns tsevcral of tho states In
which It Is prevalent are not In the
fcdorul registration urcn, and tho ex
tent of the dlset.se thus can only bo
approximated.
Tho facts disclosed by a searching
Inquiry and long continued observation
In Spartanburg county, South Carolina,
whero scores of persons huvo died from
pellagra, provo conclusively, a member
of tho commission said, that, contrary
to tho belief generally prevailing la
tho North, tho disease Is Infectious.
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TRIP COST HIM ONLY $1.55
His Longest Ride Was 125 Miles, His
Shortest 125 Feet, When Farmer,
Taking Him for Bandit, Made
Him Get Out
Now York. Tho vnluo of a good ap
pearance, polite manners and faith In
human nature has Just been demon
strated by Charles Urown, Jr., a young
Cullfornlan who Is taking u course In
magazine writing ut Now York univer
sity. Drown recently accomplished n
necessary journey from Fort Wayne,
Int to New York city, n dlstnnco of
nearly 1,000 miles over tho Lincoln
highway, riding practically tho whole
Journey In automobiles, at a total
money expense of $1.05. The trip wns
completed In Just seven days.
According to the student's story, ho
was stranded In Fort Wayuo and was
without mouey only a few days before
ho was due In New York to enter upon
his course. While he was sitting uear
a water tank contemplating tho chances
of "beating" his way on a freight, ho
saw an automobile speeding along tho
road that paralleled the tracks. Ho
watched it pass out of sight; then his
Inspiration came.
Ho counted his money and found
that ho had 54.50. Ills next act was to
visit n barber shop and get a bath, a
shave and a haircut. He' also invested
in a clean shirt, u collar, clothes brush
and a box of shoo polish. Ho had his
hnt cleaned nnd blocked and n new
FEED ROOTS TO DAIRY COWS
Where Sllnge Is Not Available Farmer
lo Warranted In Using Them
Best Winter Ration.
!By It. S. IIULS13, University of Illinois.;
There arc two general conditloni
Hint seem to warrant tho use of roots
for dairy cows. One Is whero sllagt
Is not available for winter use; and
the other Is for special feeding. We
save llolsteln cows which Juive con-
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former nnibns
sador to Holland, wltli his llttlo daugh
It snrouds throuch lnck of nroner tor, Kntrlno, nnd pet dog.
sownco facilities, nnd In tho onlnlon of Tho poem, "Tho Namo or France,
tho investigators cannot bo contracted nd reprinted from the Art World, , was , , Seeking a tailor, he
. . I tifnlHnn Itn IIh Vnn Titrlrn nnil linn inn t I "
ny persons merely occnuso tney uo sat with n blanket wrapped around him
not have n proper diet. 1 to S,J?'m whllo his clothes were being sponged
Threo Years' Investigation, aivo us a name to an tho mind. nnd pressed. All these expenditures
To provo the theory threo yours' work w,th, "hlnlnir thoughts that lead man- left him 51.05.
In Spartan Mills, nn Industrial dls- Th. ,nP; nf tPnrninr. tim tov of art. Found the Game Easy.
Suffrage Parade Is Planned for Inauguration Event
W ASHINGTON. Inaugural visitors to Washington nro to sco a monster
suffrage demonstration, eclipsing thp famous suffrage parado of March
n, 1918, according to announcement made at a meeting in Cameron House, tho
headquarters of tho Congressional
Union for Woman's Suffrngo.
Tho meeting was n war council of
the suffrage leaders to Inaugurate tho
"big drive" on congress In behalf of
tho federal amendment to enfranchise
women. Suffrage leuders from tho
campaign centers on the western front,
who went through tho presidential
and congressional campaigns, were
speakers.
The big suffrage parade hero Is
Intended to outclass any demonstra
tion ever held by the "voies-for-woman" ndvocates in this country. It Is to
epitomize tho demands of the voting women of tho West that their sisters in
the East be granted tho privilege of the ballot.
It is planned to make it n concrcto picture of the power of tho women of
tho United States, not only to Impress congress, but to make tho people of
tho entire country gathered here for tho Inaugural ceremonies recognize this
force to be reckoned with in politics ns well ns homcmukers.
It wns announced that a tentative permit has been issued for this suffrage
demonstration on March 3, 1017, with tho restriction thnt It must not con
flict in any way with any plans for the Inaugural ceremonies.
Already tho women are organizing their marching clubs nnd planning
features of tho pageant in a number of the Western states. It Is expected
thnt this will be the largest gathering of suffrage advocates ever assembled
in this country.
Problem of Perpetual Motion Once More Is Solved
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I .!... t . I A - . 1 . . .11 T .1 r .1 .
Just been completed. An elllclent sew- ln tne on& '"ns i nna 1,10 Biron"""" highway to tho outskirts of Fort Wuyno pounds dally would be about tho
After walking along the Lincoln
Splendid Dairy Type.
sumed about 100 pounds of roots dally
In uddition to other feeds. For or
dinary uso in the winter ration 30
4 Mil 1.
uKu Banjul wuh uum. AiiuruuKU rut- 0f tho hmnan rnco to wl itB way
ords Of all CUBes wcro kept. Thnt com- From the nnclont darkness Into the day
munlty, consisting of 2,000 persons, was Of freedom, brotherhood, equal right
regarded as ono of the worst pellagra A namo Jlk? J,?'"' llB,,t,
foci in South Curollnn. Scores of
persons thero until recently were at- Olvo us ri. name to stTV the blood
tn,.lroil iiv nm ,1 uon onnii vonr wuii a warmer Blow nnu a BWI1
.....w..,, J . . . ,,,,, . ,, ,,,,,,
nlty Is that although numerous old a namo ltlco tho cnll of a trumpet, clear
mis Htlll wnro iiroRont 1i1m vnnr. no 1 And Btlvur-swuot and iron-stronir,
ono living within tho sowered district "b?"B
The foo who threatens that namo with
wrontr
A namo that rings like a battle-song.
I fflvo you Vrancol
contracted tho dlscdso In tho last 12
months, with a single exception.
Tho only now victim was a woman
on tho extreme edgo of the community,
Just ncross tho street from a houso aivo us a namo to movo tho heart.
with surface drulnugo in which a
chronic pellagra sufferer lived. From
tho worst typo of pellagra focus the
Iirown saw his first chance coming
down tho road. At tho steering wheel
wns a huge bulk of a man with tor
toise shell spectacles and coarse black
whiskers. As it turned out, he wns a
physician answering nn emergency
With a warmer glow and a swifter flood cnH of u pntiont Brown threw up his
arm and signaled tho doctor to stop.
"May I rldo with you until you turn
off?" ho asked.
"Whero aro you going,"
"New York city."
The physician, with a look of amaze
ment, threw open tho door and Brown
got iu. Then tho student told his bene
factor that he expected to reach tho
metropolis in u very short time by rid
ing In different automobiles. Tho doc
tor became so Interested ln the young
amount to figure on.
In this section it costs considerably
more to produce nutrients in tho form
of roots than ln the form of com si-
Inge, and feeding trials indicnto that
the dry ma'tter in silago is fully ns
valuable for milk production.
GRAIN MIXTURE FOR CALVES
With tho strength that noblo Briefs Im
part
A namo that speaks of the blood out-
pourod
district has been changed to a commu- Vo savo mankind from tho sway of tho man's story that ho ran teu miles be-
nlty ln which tho dlscuso no longer
spreads.
Tito reduction ln tho number of
cases of tho disease ln Spartan Mills
yond his patient.
Thnt night Brown slept ln a barn.
The next morning, after he had
groomed, two horses, n farmhand
Experience Teaches That Two Parts
of Corn and One Part of Oats
Is Satisfactory.
Calves are usually fed whole milk
for two or threo weeks, then gradual
ly changed to skim milk. About tho
time of changing, begin to feed a little
grain, but do not think that it is nec
essary to uso oil meal or any other
hlgh-prlccd feed, high lh protein, or fat,
or both. Experience shows that a mix
ture of two parts of corn nnd ono part
F COURSE I must turn it now with my hand, but when I get a larger
dynamo, a larger motor, and ball-bearing gears It Is bound to run Itself."
Jacob lines, a stocky, square-faced Belgian, wns explaining an apparatus, ,
which he calls a "spring motor," ln tho
basement of his home nt 1100 Six
teenth street northwest. The arrange
ment, he says, will some day run all
the automobiles, heat all the houses,
and furnish power to turn all the
wheels of industry.
"Then nil the coal mines can bo
closed up," he explained. "Working
but a few hours each day, people will
be able to produce easily everything
the country needs."
Baes device consists of a largo
spring, wound up by menus of a worm drive. Severn! cog gears drive a small
dynamo at suftlclcnt speed to generate enough electricity to drive a still
smaller motor, which turns several wheels connected by cord belts.
For demonstrating purposes the Inventor winds up tho spring and
rclenscs the brake. The dynamo runs, power is generated, and the motor
runs. Baes winds the spring as fast as It runs down.
"You see," lie says, "when we eliminate this unnecessary friction and get
n large enough apparatus, we will hook tho motor up with this crank and let
It wind up the spring, nnd as tho spring runs-down It 'will 'turn the dynamo,
which will make the electricity, which will run tho motor, which will continue
to wind the spring."
"But where will you get thtf power for use?"
"That is ensy. You see this extra cog wheel on this side? Well.-tsfw.
will Just connect an extra dynamo on there when It gets to running and use
tho electricity it generates."
sword
A namo that calls tho world to sharo
Tho burden of sucrlflclal strlfo
Whero tho cnuso at stako Is tho world's
has Imnressed V 2 ow erof nno 1 er tho rule of tho people everywhere froo,f, 'rsos; , mhnuU of oats by wolght( B,vcs a3 good .
ma impressed tho owners of another A namo Uko n V0Wi a liamoJto a prayer- brought him a pinto of fried ham and Bult3 ns oll menlind ready-mixed calf
uib m luuuty, w..u iiuyu i BiVo you Francoi potatoes, uy six o ciocu no was nil- menis-0ften purchased at much hlghci
uvuuu uu hvuyu iiKnt uu wiu uiiiuuuiiu ME OI1 tl 111 K trUL'K. At II no O'C OCK T., It, ,.0r,tnll ,,1
In linl inmttlinlt Kf ltmtnlllti flit nf. I mm (ma. aMMaBi I . t v "
L Z II KltS KUHtAN LtrnUbY UUKt ninco agent invueo mm to r.uc tho young calf bccuUso it is too laxa
llclcnt dlsposnl system, ju xs car lIntu noon. In tho nftcr- fi
Tho commission has not discovered , u. ni n nt,. noon ho rode with a schoolteacher
tho cuuso of pellagra, but asserts that . 1 tain Humnn Fesn t0 Cljrc whoso mnchlno lo had cranked. When
until scientific research reveals what ' nic.n,n It grew too dark to travel he stopped
produces tho disease, which caused nt a farmhouso and paid for his
nioro deaths In South Carolina In tho c , t.- i..iir.,in nt i. night's lodging by helping to husk
tho Korean superstition that tho cat
tlve.
The grain mixture should bo fed Im
mediately after tho milk nnd neither
should bo fed too liberally or scours
may result.
first half of 3010 than any other mal
ady, tho most advlsablo course to take
in to sower towns whoro it provails,
and thus savo tho health and lives of
many person? who otherwise might
contract It.
Maize Not Responolblo.
Early'in its investigation the cjommls
corn.
Walked Only a Few Miles.
The longest rldo ho had ln ono nuto-
mnbllc wns 125 miles. The shortest
I rldo was less than 125 feet. This was
o
a
a
GLASS EYE EXPLODES
AS HE LOOKS AT PIE
lng of huinnn llcsh Is n euro for lep
rosy, a Korean leper named Sin
Yungsyun has confessed to tho inup
der of n flvo-year-old boy, whoso mutil
utcd body was discovered In n field in in tho Pennsylvania mountains, when
South Cholla province. According to an old fanner and his wlfo, learning
tho police, tho nccused also admitted thut their passenger was going to Now
nlon decided that tho uso of maize as that with another leper he killed n York city, feared ho might bo a high-
u rood could not bo regarded ns tho girl in tho mountains on September 15, wnyraan, nnd made him get out.
essential cuuso of pellngru, nor could and that both had eaten of her llcsh
nny particular element or tho diet bo Loners In Korea hitherto led a mis-
designated logically as tho cause. Crnblo life. With tho exception of
Tills conclusion upset tho belief that those cared for by missionaries in n
persons suusisung cnieliy on uinlso small hospital near Fusan, they huvo
contracted tho dlseaso as a result of i,0cn left to roam nt will and eko out
uio preponuoruueo or Hint rood in their their own living. Tho superstition ns
uier, a tneory which nns ueen popular to cannlbnl euro is very general.
in itaiy, mm to winch tho American Count Terauchl, until recently gov-
puane hub emus tenaciously. 0Pnor COnernl. took un tho lonor nrob
It inaugurated a hyglenlc-dletetle lorn vluorouslv last year and us a re-
treutmcnt of many patients. Tho suf- suit nn Island called Sorok. off tho
lorors wcro urougut to tho Post Uradu- southern coast of Korea, lias been so
nto hospital, whero they wero treated lected as tho sent of a lonor asvluiu
by rest, careful nursing and a proper It Is proposed to take ln at first somo
uier. -xno results ortius regime proved hundreds of loners selected from the
excellent, ano patients simply got 13 provinces ln nronortlon to tho mini-
well. There was no medication. Thd bor In each. During their stay on the
treatment was similar to that given island tho lepurs will bo taught mod
to tuocrcuious patients. cm farming
To its own satisfaction, nt least, tho
SAVES MUCH OF COW'S FEED
11 Fastened Around Animal's Neck
by Means of Strap Prevents Slob
bering or Scattering.
In feeding n cow from a pall more
ar less Is lost. By fastening tho 'pall
to tho cow, on tho order that a nose
bag is put onto horses, sho cannot
?et her head from tho pall It can-
commission disproved early tho theory rct 1 nnnnnn in QAivAfsc
iut tho dlscuso Is duo to tho blto of UC ' UUU,UUU IN SALVAUfc
tho
buffalo gnat, moro commonly
known us tho bluck lly, mid tho by
pothesls thnt It is caused by tho pros
enco of certain minerals In drinking
water.
"Our studies," ono of tho lnvestlgn
tors said, "have proved pellngru Is in
Chicago. Just as ho wns gaz
ing with Interest nt n piece of
pie, F. K. Cosgrovo's glass eye
exploded and ho fell from ids
chair to tho Uoor of a restaurant.
Ho wns soon rovlved.
Cosgrovo Is n farmer who lives
near North Vernon and went to
Hammond, Ind., on business.
While thero ho nto in a restau
rant, and a waitress wns Just
bringing n pleco of plo when his
eyo burst.
Tho eyo had only been ob
tained n day or two before, and
replnced his own eye, which was
recently dcntroycd by an explo
sion of dynamite.
Georgetown Cats Are Too Smart for Householders
ABE nil cats as stupid and incapable of understanding ns most pepple think?
Or, is there feline genius, which like tho flower of the poet, "was born to
blush unseen," and which humanity has not yet recognized? These questions
are being asked by a number of
Georgetown residents, nnd some there
aro who declare cats, or nt least tho
Georgetown cats, are among the most
Intelligent of animals.
These people point out thnt their
garbage palls are being raided nightly
by cats who show nothing less than
genius ln tho way they remove tho
covers. Tho cans which are being
robbed are the regulation galvanized
metal containers, with close-fitting
tops of the same material, designed
especially to keep out cats, and until comparatively recently served this pur
pose admirably. s
Today they are next to useless. The Georgetown cats apparently have
made n study of them and remove the covers as readily nnd as noiselessly
as it could be dono by a human. Nightly banquets are being held on tho back
porches of Georgetown residents, and since these invariably are followed by
concerts from the buck fences, tho problem hns become a serlotis one. Whether
it will bo necessary to put the garbage cans under lock and key, and thus
eliminate tho vagrant cat by cutting off his food supply Is a question which is
being seriously considered by many.
Agricultural Department Library and Its Keeper
HOW many of tho millions of furmers in the United States rcallzo that tho
most extensive and tho most important agricultural library ln tho world
,1s the library of tho department of ugrlculturo at Washington? And how
many of them are awnro that this
Srv Mi in ,., , '"1! .CnS,S Bticccssfully floated, Is the news
2X of n! iv.J ,,m ,1clllnt0 VJ" "received from Capt. It. ltldloy. skip
clnity of u pre-existing pellagra suf- nop of tho nrit8. Columbia ulvniio
German Freighter Scsostrlo, Ashore In
Guatemala, lo Successfully
Floated.
San Diego, Cal. That tho former
("Jormim fntlclitoi KiHftitrtM. iiRlutnt nt
r' l M. , . i j M-i . r- I
Ocos, Guatemala, for IB years, has rnymcan. urucrcu uv u,.BH"
it tor ny ncason nupcu vich-
USE OF HEHuIN 5-S BARRED
Pail Saves Much Feed.
not bo upset, nor can tho feed bo scat
tered or slobbered. Bore a hole in
each sldo of tho pall aud fasten tho
halter In such o way as to prevent nc-
cldent.
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mi
WATER OF BIG IMPORTANCE
eral Practitioners Will Act4
ferer. For tho first tlmo tho signifi
cance of thoso fr.cts in respect to tho
way Iu which pellagra spreads has
been pointed out."
tug Pilot.
Threo hydraulic pumps and 150 nn-
Cows Must Have Access to It In Win
ter So They Can Drink All That
They May Desire.
Water is fully as important to tho
Wnshlngton. To aid In counteract
ing an increasing uso of heroin
tlves werp used to reniovo the great throughout tho country, an pnjsiciaus dnl cowg U8 fced dur,ng tho wmter
lumlfo nf Kimil frnm nrnnnil tln i.lmit Of tllO federal pUbUC health Service ,., i,,, nnuo If o l,nt
fPI... l....l . .. " ' " " . . ..... a i.. .1, ,1... LiluJ .u,v ivr
s uu vU.uM..o,uu, which uegnn its freighter, which la said to bo as sea- "vo ueen oruurau noi to uiN!iu mu lh cau drlnk all thoy WMtf whetner
.u --, , nuereaieu several worthy as upon tho day sho wont urug nommer iur ..uj j.mi.usu " Uicy imvo it n automatic water basins,
uruuuiva ui uiu ivuurui governmotit in ushoro. t return immeuuuuiy m iuu iit-nunum- Qr In tho yur(1 t(mka. Cows giving
,vuu juvL-auBuuon oi mis aisense, and For many yenrs tho Sosostrls was tor oi tno service ncr uuj iuuun nb d t nuuntiucg 0f water.
iiiauumuniui in outumiug con- used ns u coffee warehouse, whllo her or it tney nnvo on mum. m uuhouhc- Curcful cxperlments havo proved that
Krcsslonnl action to support tho uulto ilvnnmo nlnnt wns utilized to supply lng the step public health olllclals ex- lf
Bctnrnte and independent Bpeclnl work electricity to the residents of Ocos.- pressed hope that tho exnmplo set by Lvatcr for overy poun(i of mnk pro.
ui mo puonc jicuiui service ou this I Tho salvagers will clear more than tno servico wmnu imv wmu uu jucea by tho cow.
iitvuiL'iu, iSl.000.000 ou the r venture. enco niuoug nuiiumi i'fnvuuuwa.
llbrnry, which has been growing and
developing ln Wnshlngton for tho Inst
48 years, is managed by a woman?
A slender, quiet-mannered woman
is Miss Clnrlbel It. Burnett, who slnco
early womanhood, and after her gradu
ation from the University of Michi
gan nnd her course ut tho New York
State Library school has worked hero.
Nowhere else under tho sun is
there such a force of scientists work
ing for ono object ns Is employed by
tho United States department of agriculture. Three thousand strong, theso
mon of microscope and test tubo are producing the most ndvanced results of
study, observation, research and experiment.
This army of scientists depend upon tho library for the written lore which
must bo consulted again mid again ero it gives 'to tho world tho results which
concern tho welfuro of millions.
Some day. when tho great structure which Is to houso the department of
agriculture is completed, the library will find its place ln the administration
building, which will form the center of the magnificent group. At present the
183,000 books and pamphlets comprising this storehouse of printed knowledge
ure conveniently placed ln ono of tho new rented buildings which are tem
porarily serving tho department of agrlcultuic.
It is tho aim of the library to contain tho Important, especially tho olll
clnl, agricultural publications of every civilized country. Even Chinoso and
.Japanese agricultural books nnd periodicals can bo found hore.
Tho library comes to tho furmor mainly through tho bulletins of tho
department. In tho preparation of tho bulletins nnd other publications of the
department, especially thoso of direct Interest to tho farming community, tin
collection lp tho library assists by giving printed opinions nud the roaulta of
the oxperloncn of pnst investigations all over tho world.