THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOSJi CHILD
"California Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.
Every mother ronllzos, after giving
her children "California Syrup of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxativo,
becauso they lovo its pleasant taste
and It thoroughly cleanses tho tender
littlo stomach, liver and bowels with'
out griping,
When cross, Irritable, foverlsh, or
breath Is bad, stomach sour, look at
tho tonguo, mothor! If coated, glvo a
tcaspoonful of this harmless "fruit
laxativo," and in a few hours all tho
' foul, constipated wasto, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of tho bow
els, and you have a well, playful child
again. When Its littlo syptom is full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, Indigestion, colic remom
ber, a good "Inside cleaning" should
always bo tho first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep "California
Syrup of Figs" handy; thoy know n
tcaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at tho storo for a f0
cent bottlo ofi "California Syrup ol
Figs," which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-up?
printed on tho bottlo. Adv.
HAM THAT M'TAVISH LIKED
One Peculiarity About It Was That
It Evidently Was Sold In a
Bottle.
Mrs. McTnvlsh mot Mrs. Drown on
n country road near n Scottish town.
Tho former was currying n queer-look-lug
parcel and Mrs. Drown Inquired
its to its nature.
"Oh, ny, It'H Jlst some hum fur Me
Tavlsh. I always buy my hum frae
Sandy, In the toon. McTnvlsh likes
his hamo better than any other."
"Indeed, so? Weel, my mon Is verm
fond o' ham. I'm thlnkln' I'll be get
ting some for him at Sandy's."
Arriving in the town she called nt
Sandy's provision establishment and
demanded a pound of ham.
"Whit kind o' ham?"
"Oh, the same kind o' ham that ye
serve Mrs. McTnvlBh wl."
"Ah recti" said the grocer, adding
In a whisper: "Whaur's yeh bottle?"
SKIN TORTURES
That Itch, Burn and Scale Quickly Re- !
Ileved by Cutlcura Trial Free. I
It takes about ten minutes to prove
that a hot bath with Cutlcura Soap
followed by gentle applications of
Cutlcura Ointment will nfforrt relief
and point to speedy healmcnt of
eczemas, Itchlngs nnd Irritations: They
uro Ideal for nil toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept. h,
Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv.
Tipping Habit Strong.
A hotel proprietor In New York who
sets out to kill off tipping bus about as
much ehanco of success as did old
King Canute when he ordered the deep
blue sea to chase Itself away from his
royal brogaiiH. Hear Copeland Town
send's wall. Ho has announced that
despite signs asking patrons not to tip
lint boys and public persists In shunt
Ing dimes the brigands' way.
Some even got sore nml wrote him
sarcastic letters Hint they could tip If
they pleased anil Intimated that tt was
none of his business, so there you are.
Kven waiters themselves have the
tipping habit. At a recent dinner a
hundred extra waiters were required
and a room was given over where they
could check their hats nnd coats.
Every one of these waiters gave a
tip. despite the notice that It was not
required. In Loudon there Is a hotel
that liiis banned tipping successfully,
but Americans want to tip and they'll
do It, b'gosh 1
"CASHETS" AGT
ON LliyOWELS
No sick hcadacho, biliousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Got a 10-cont box.
Aro you kooplng your bowoU, llvor,
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarots, or moroly forcing a
passagoway ovory few dnyB with
Salts, Cathartic PIHb, Castor Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate tho stomach, romovo tho sour
and fermontlng food and foul gases,
take tho oxcosa bllo from tho llvor
nd carry out of tho system all tho
onstlpntcd wasto matter and poisons
(a tho bowels.
A Cnscarot to-night will maku you
feel great by morning. Thoy work
while you sloop novor grlpo, slckon
or caUBO any Inconvonlonco, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions of men nnd woraon tnko a
CaBcarot now and then and novor
have Hcadacho, DIllousnosB, Coated
Tongue. Indigestion, Hour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv.
Cojor of It.
"Hu'hJii a Urown study."
"I, wonder If It's, over, a blue funk
or u black thought?"
FOOD VERY SHORT, GERMANY ADMITS
t 1
Inquiry Shows Almost No Butter
and Sugar, With Short '
Potato Crop.
LITTLE AID FROM ROMANIA
Supply From That Country Almost
Negligible Big Cities Suffer the
Most Perfect Organization
Regulates Food Supply.
Berlin (Correspondence of Tho As
sociated Press). A summary of tho
German food situation today shows
very littlo butter with little If any
prospect that there will be more In the
Immediate future. An equally small
amount of margarine or other substi
tutes for butter. A supply of meat
that does not bid fair to Increase be
cause there Is so little feed on which
the cattle can bo nourished nnd fat
tened. A minimum amount of sugar,
Blnco less than tho usual supply of
sugar beets was raised In 1010, and a
part of tho supply has to go toward
making chemicals. An almost com
plete failure of the potato crop, so
that tho bread ration is to be
"stretched" with barley Instead of po
tato Hour, to tho consequent diminish
ing of tho beer production. An almost
negligible supply of coffee, and a very
slender amount of ten.
On the credit side of the ledger
stand the vegetables that were raised
In great quantities during the last sum
mer, and that with German thoughtful
ness nnd system hnvo been dried In
great quantities, and will be available
for the winter. Likewise there aro
great quantities of mnnnaladc, or nonr
marmalndc, which have been stored up
as n substitute for butter. The sub
stitute Is very poor, but better than
nothing.
The nverage German will Insist that
Koumniila stands on the credit side
of the ledger, too, and that It Is a
big Item. But It Is extremely probable
that tho amount of food found In llou
mnnln Is far smnller than had been
nntlclpnted. Turkey, Bulgaria, Hun
gary and Austria, all also have a claim
on whatever there mny bo. Although
Germany Is running the military situ
ation In Houmanln, Germnny Is very
far away. Her authorities have
known for weeks that there was little
to expect from Itoumanln, and hnvo
tried to break tho evil news gently.
First came the announcement that tho
slzo of the supplies captured was un
known, then the word that whatever
might bo found would not bo used but
kept as a reserve.
German Cities Suffer.
It Is, of course, the big Gorman cit
ies that are suffering, nnd that are go
ing to suiter Increasingly as the war
continues. Lack of transportation fa
cilities Is an Increasingly Important
factor.
Germany, which beforo tho war had
somewhat more than ample freight
cars for Its own needs, now hns to
mako tho samo number of cars, ap
proximately, do for all of tho Germnn
empire, nearly all of Belgium, north
em France, all Poland, nnd a big
piece or Itussla, In addition to Serbia,
Montenegro, nnd tho biggest half of
Itoumanln. Only a relatively smnll
number of ears captured In Belgium
HIS SALARY TREBLED
Wlllluni P, -Mulburn, formerly an as
Blstant secretary of tho treasury, has
left for New York to begin his duties
as chief National bunk examiner for
the Second federal reserve district of
New York, succeeding Charles Starek.
Mr. Mnlbtirn Is a son-in-law of
Senntor Thomas of Colorado. Ills
home in In Denver, where ho was au
attorney and Inter a banker. Ills now
Job pays $15,000 n yenr Instead of tho
$.1,000 lie draw an assistant secretary
of the treasury.
have been added to the German rolling
SIOCK.
As tin war has gone on the condi
tion or thin rolling stock has deterior
ated itendlly. nnd scarcely any or It
litis been replaced. A shortage of oils
Iiiim not allowed the proper enre or
"inn cars mere nre; hot boxes on both
passenger and freight cars are every
day occurrences. The engines have
now to draw such heavy loads that
they are going to pieces roster than
they used to.
Feed and rodder conditions for Ger
man live stock Improved somewhat
through last year's harvests, but only
somewhat. The cattle are still thin
and scraggly. The milch cuttle glvo
less than ever, and there Is little milk
thnt can he spared for cheese. The cat
tle, when slaughtered, give less ment
than they used to, nnd so horse meat
has had to be resorted to In a degree
that Is unprecedented.
The available supply or swine has
never recovered from the original Ger
man mistake of 10M and 1915, when
millions of pigs were slaughtered to
save the food that they devoured, only
thereby reduclnc the
a dangerous point. The Germans have
never forgiven thomselves for thnt
shortsightedness.
The samo In a measure IioIiIm trim
of sugar. There had been an oversup-
jj in iui-i, ami solemn wnrnlngs went
out not to plant so much
beets and more to grain. The peas
antry followed the advice too literally,
and Germany awoke tn timi tii.it ui!
had hardly more than enough sugar
lor purposes other than food. So the
big cities are In part llvlni: on sneHm.
rlne now, and there isn't enough
ui i nar.
Tho coffee-stretching procoss began
BRITON FIGHTS TWELVE GERMAN AIRMEN
Lieutenant in Scout Machine
Dives Into Squadron, Firing
as He Flies.
DARING STUNTS IN WEST
Teutonic and Allied Aviators In Thrill-
Ing 8hnm Falls Out of Control
Work Is Useful and
Vital.
With the British Armv In France.
The announcement thnt "improved
weatlior conditions permitted increased
nerlal activity along tho entire front"
is tho lacoulc nnd prosaic wnv In
which tho ofllclal communique dis
misses somo of tho most spectnculnr
episodes of the war.
To thoso who have once witnessed
this "Increased aerial activity" such
an announcement conjures up nt once
n picture of countless nlrplanes In tho
nlr scouting, fighting, diving, spin
ning, hovering over enemy targets and
cuimiy sending wireless slunnls
through tho fountnlns of enemy lire,
photographing tho enemy lines, bomb-
ing nis, ammunition dumps and sheds
nnd supply columns, and otherwise
"carrying on" In tho skv In n manner
wholly bewildering to the onlooker, but
lypnying in supreme decree tho Indls-
pensnblo part aviation Is playing In
mis war.
Work Is Useful and Vital.
In the uggregato tho losses in the
Hying corps nre as nothing compared
wiui tno useful nnd vital work the
"wings" nCCOIUDllsh. Without them
the big guns would have no fur-seeing
eyes io correct their shells. Without
them and the hundreds of photographs
they dally tnke tho map mukers could
hot trace each detail of the trench po
sitions. Without them the general
staff could not accurately know Just
what Is going on by day and night be
hind the enemy lines. Without them
modern war would lose Its most fas
dilating phase. .
Tho "good Hying" of n single day on
the British front nloue may represent
a day of a hundred fights, a day of
four-score nlrplanes In wing to wing
combat, a day of a thousand personal
Incidents nnd deeds or daring In tho
once strange strntn or high, thin nlr.
it might tell, for Instance, of how
Lieutenant A In a fast-llylug scout
machine encountered u squadron of 12
German Itolands. The odds were one
sided enough, hut the young Britisher
decided to tnke u chance. lie climbed
swiftly and surely until he got rar
above and to tho rear of the hostile
craft. Evidently the Germans were In
tent upon some errand which they pro
posed to carry out In force, for they
paid no heed to tho khnkl-cluil nlrman
until he deliberately dived Into them,
tiring as he came. This throw the
12 Into a panic, nnd their formation
was entirely broken up. Meanwhile
Lleutennnt A got beneath the near
est machine and fired an entire drum
or cartridges Into It at 5 yards. The
hostile machine collapsed and
"crashed."
After seeing his particular enemy
"crash" Lieutenant A drew off to
think, things over. He wns somewhat
minimi to see still more hostile ma
chines coming up In formation. But
ho dashed at the leader of tho new
comers nnd sent him In a splrnl noso
dive to a "crash." This led to still
more complications, and tho Intrepid
little pilot soon found himself engaged
with three machines. His fight with
these wns Indecisive.
"For," says tho ofllclal record, "hav-
last spring, and has continued so dill
gently that real coITeo Is an almost un
obtainable- rarity, nnd the nverage "cof
fee" that Is available Is so poor as to
be undrlnkuble for the person used
to real coffee. Substitutes such as
rhiuiry. herbs, mixtures of nil kinds,
have taken coffee's place.
Regulates Food Affairs.
The most perfect organization nnd
system In the world has stepped In nnd
so regulated food affairs that every
adult In tho empire Is pretty well as
sured of half n pound of ment a week.
But nenrly every ounce of that half
pound Is lean ment. The fat, rarely
reaches the purchaser, for It is Jealous
ly hoarded by the government.
System likewise hns provided thnt
there shall be no more butter riots, or
bread riots, or meat lines. There Is
now a so-called "customers' list,"
whereby each resident or any Inrge
city Is registered with one dairy store,
and one baker, and one butcher. The
customer hns a number, nnd on stnted
days mny purchase his or her quotn
of food by number. Government
secret-scrvico ngents hnvo been busy
ferreting out cases of extortion and
overcharging, nnd heavy' lines and Im
prisonments have been salutary In
their effect. Likewise the custom of
hoarding, which the Germans call
"liamsterlng" nftcr the animal "ham
ster" or groundhog, has been discour
aged to a great extent by tines and
other punishments.
During the final months of 1010 Ger
mans of the wealthier class helped out
their scanty lurders with butter, eggs.
cheese nnd the like which they procured
from convenient "relatives" whom
they discovered in Holland nnd Den
mnrk. Now that has been done away
with. From tho first or January on,
the German government, through Its
central purchasing company, will buy
all the food in adjoining foreign coun
tries that those countries will or mny
sell, and will distribute It equally In
Germnny.
TO PROTECT EYES f
OF OHIO RABBITS j
Columbus, O. Ilepresentntlve
Baker of Ashland hns Introduced
In tho Ohio legislature a bill
which makes It unlawful for tho
hunter to shock unsuspecting
rubblts at night with tho bright
glnre of a spotlight, and then
shoot them down.
Baby carriages are exempted
rrom the necessity of carrying
lights at night in a bill fathered
by Senntor Terrell, which re
quires lights on all vehicles, "ex
cept those drawn by hand, and
hay wagons."
Ing expended nil his ammunition, Lieu
u'liuni a set oft for home."
A few days later, It is related, he
took a running dive Into a formation
of 20 hostile mnchlnes with nil tho
self-assurance an engle might have In
tlio midst of a flock of sparrows. Be
fore he was through ho had sent three
adversaries "crashing."
"This time," says tho record, "ho re
turned to one of our aerodromes for
more nmmunltlon nnd returned to the
scene of battle, where ho engaged nnd
dispersed such enemy machines ns re
mained In the vicinity. One was seen
to crash upon a housetop."
Airmen Shamming Falls.
The Germans lately have adopted
tho ruse of "stalling" and shummlng
a fall out of control. It Is n thrilling
but not uncommon thing to see n Ger
man machine when closely pressed
turn Its tall straight up In the nlr and
dlvo toward the earth for a distance
of 2,000 or 3,000 feet, nnd Just ns tho
uninitiated onlooker would expect a
"crash" It lint tons out nnd starts pell
moll for Its own lines. One does not
always get away with this bit of aerial
strategy, however, as Is shown by tho
Itecord of Captain B . After attack
ing three hostile machines ho saw one
of them going down In n spinning noso
dive. lie suspected tho honesty of
that dive and decided to do n little div
ing "on his own." This dramatic
downward duel continued ror full 5,000
feet, until the Germnn was driven Into
a spin "and seen to crash."
EUROPEAN WAR IN PEKING
Austrian and Italian Legation Guards
Meet In Streets and Battle
Ensues.
San Francisco. The war In Buropo
has been fought over on n reduced
though bloody scale in tho streets of
Peking, according to C. A. Jauregul, a
young millionaire from the Argentlue,
arriving here with his bride after a
wedding Journey through the Orient.
The conflict was staged, said Jauregul,
who obtained his Information from the
Spnnlsh nmbassador at Peking, when
the legation guards of the Austrian
nnd Italian legations, marching
through the streets met.
Tho commands enmo to nn abrupt
halt, and then, beforo their ofllcers
could stop tho men, u battle occurred
In which lilies, swords and bayonets
were used. Tho combatants wore fin
ally parted by their olllcers nfter
many had been wounded.
As a result of tho bnttle, tho em
hassles agreed to set apart certain
days of the week on which tho troops
of ono of tho belligerents may go out
Into tho streets, while tho other sldo
stays within the embassy walls.
GOOD ends sm
WlAm INDIGESTION, GAS
DOUBLE LOAD ON GOOD ROAD
Farmers Haul Two Wagons Hitched
Together to End of Improved High
way Single on Poor Road.
(From tho United States Department ol
Agriculture.)
To see what really happens nt the
end of the good road, a public road
?peclall8t of the department recently
had observations made In different sec
tions of the country. The observers
noted many country-bound teamsters
who drove two loaded wagons, hitched
ono behind the other, to the end of
the good rond, nnd then found it nec
essary to leave ono wagon by the road
side to bo returned for later, whllo all
the power of their teams wns devoted
to hauling n single wagon over the un
.mproved rond.
Farmers bound for tho market fre
quently were seen to haul wood and
stmllnr products to tho beginning of
the good rond, there dumping litem,
and returning for u second load. When
this arrived, the two loads were con
solidated and easily hauled by u single
team tho remaining distance to market
over tlio improved highway.
In one section of tho country where
oxen are still used teamsters were ob-ser'-ci
io bring their loads over the
dirt ronds with two or three yokes of
oxen. When the beginning of the good
roads wns reached, the teamsters
would unhitch the extra animals and
finish their journey with n single yoke.
EXCESS WATER HURTS ROADS
Cold Weather Does Not Cause Injury,
No Matter Whether Road Is
Earth, Gravel of Macadam.
Water, not cold, Is the cnuse of tho
deterioration of ronds in winter. Cold
weather does not in itself injure roads
no matter whether they are earth,
grnvel or macadam. In fact an earth
road will stand more trnillc when It is
solidly frozen thnn at any other time.
Excess water, however, Is always de
trimental to a highway. When cold
weather turns this water into ice, tho
damage that It does is greatly In
creased. Ice occupies considerably
more space than the water from which
it Is formed, and every person who
has lived In a cold climate Is familiar
with tho powerful bursting effect of
water when left to freeze In a con
fined vessel. The same action takes
place when a wet road freezes to any
considerable depth. It simply bursts
or, as wo generally term It in road
parlance, tho road heaves. Lnter.-when
tho frost leaves, tho road Is dlslntcr
grated nnd ruts badly. If this process
Is repeated a number of times during
tho winter, n gravel or macadam road
may bo practically destroyed while an
earth road muy become entirely Im
passable. A dry road will not heave. Bock,
gravel, sand and even clay when per
fectly dry contract slightly on freez-
Well-Drained Road.
Ing. In order to expand on freezing,
these mnterlnls must contain or bo
mixed with wnter, and the more water
they contain the greater the expan
sion which takes place. But so long
ns tho road remnlns frozen, tho dam
ago docs not become apparent. Hence
the frequeut and erroneous Idea that It
Is the thaw which Injures the road.
Tho Injury was done when tho water
In the road froze and the particles of
tho rood surface broken stone, sand,
still lino particles of tmrth or clay
wero pushed apurt by the expanding
power of tho freezing water. The
thaw merely allows the Ico to melt nud
nssume Its original volume ns wate,
Tho remedy is self-evident. Kcp
tho water out of the road. The time
to begin preventive measures Is before
the rains begin. If the road goes Into
tho winter thoroughly dry with the sur
fnco nnd drninagc In good condition,
tho chances nre extremely favorable
that It will come out all right the fol
lowing spring.
KEEPING UP DIRT HIGHWAYS
Farmers Can Have Good Roads by
Grading to Drain Off Rainfall and
Keep Surface Smooth.
We nil want good roads and when
we find out what Is the roally perma
nent highway we will want that also
In line with the modern idea of build
ing for keeps.
In the meantime farmers can have
good dirt roads by grading to drain
off the rainfall, and by dragging to
keep the surface smooth nnd hard.
The Road Scraper.
Wliero Is your road scraper? Havo
It ready to uso on the roads after
every rain. Persuade your neighbor
to do tho same.
Increase School Attendance.
Figures show thnt school attendance
Increases importantly wherever coun
try ronds nro improved.
Expenses for 1914.
In 1014 the United Stntes expended
for rond work a quarter of a billion
dollars.
"Pape's Diapepsin" cures sick,
sour stomachs in five minutes
Time Itl
"Iteally does" put bad Btomachs in
order "roally does" overcome indiges
tion, dyspopsla, gas, heartburn and
sourness in flvo minutes that JuBt
that makes Papo's Diapepsin tho lar
gest Belling stomach regulator In th
world. If what you eat ferments into
stubborn lumps, you belch gaB and
eructato sour, undigested food and
acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath
foul; tonguo coated; your InBidos filled
with bile and indigestible wasto, re
member tho moment "Papo's Diapep
sin" comes in contact with tho stomach
all such distress vanishes. It's truly
astonishing almost marvelous, and
tho joy is its harmlessness.
A largo flfty-cont enso of Papo'n Dia
pepsin will glvo you a hundred dollars
worth of satisfaction.
It's worth Its weight in gold to mon
and women who can't get their stom
achs regulated. It belongs tn your
homo should always ho kept handy
In case of sick, Bour, upset stomach
during tho dny or at night. It's tho
quickest, surest and most harmless
stomach doctor in tho world. Adv.
WIND IN REPENTANT MOOD
After Its Prank, Emissary of Boreas
Obligingly Came to the Rescue
of Fair Damsel.
She was walking up Fourth avenue,
In the publishing district, apparently
getting enjoyment from the antics of
the Janunry gale, relates the New
York Evening Post. Sauntering along
tinder her green ynrasol (that was a
green umbrella, too), she smiled as
though she walked under n canopy of
June blue instead of January rcaden
May.
Suddenly, however, her smile changed
to nn expression of dismay almost of
distress. For a particularly playful
one of Boreas' emissaries hurled him
self ncross a side street and turned tho
green pnrasol completely inside out
rather downside up, for not a rib was
bent or broken. The umbrella might
hnve been a toadstool that ltfted Its
edges to the sun.
And its owner held on for dear life.
If It hud been n black umbrella In
stead of a green parasol, she might
have relinquished her grnsp and aban
doned the idiotic-looking thing t the
wind that had so whimsically played a
prank upon It. Her one Idea was to
reach a repair shop and have It right
ed. So she strolled along, holding It
with both hands nnd feeling ridiculous
ly conspicuous and nmusing to tho
pnssers-by who for some reason were
too absorbed In the storm to even
waste a glance upon her or her predic
ament. Only the friendly wind took note.
As she crossed the next side street a
great gust whirled across, seized the
gay parasol at the edges and turned It
back as neatly and as completely as
any repnlr shop could possibly have
done.
He Brightened Up.
A newsy wns standing In a imorwny
In Nnshvllle, Tenn., sobbing plteously.
In expectntion of getting rid of his
papers to some " charitably inclined
person unused to his stereotyped tnle
of a sick mother and nothing to eat
In the house. '
Tho editor of the big dally he car
ried, unknown to tho boy, happened
along.
"Get out In the street und cry out
what's in the paper, Instead of whim
pering there In that corner I" he ealled
out.
"Huh!" answered the boy, "there's
nautln' In It!"
SPEED
combined with
good judgment
counts in business
now-a-days.
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
supplies balanced
nourishment for
sturdy muscles
and active brains.
"There's a Reason"
.AT change in price, qualify
or ji-e of pacKfxjfe.