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THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. RED CROSS MEN WIN FAME FOR HEROISM ABROAD Major Murphy Tells of Deeds of Bravery by Americans on Several Battle Fronts. MANY GET SPECIAL HONORS Vast Activities of the Organization Are Described Field Service Now Has Forty Sections Actually on Duty on the French Front Pnrls. Deeds of heroic courage hy Anicrlcnn Red CrosH men on several battle fronts have Just been described liere In n statement by MuJ. Grayson P. Murphy. American Ucd Cross com missioner for Europe, lie nlso 'gives details of the vast and many-sided ac tivities the organization has been car rying on, which now are being multi plied many times. Following out Its previously an nouueed project, the commission ban already established relief and rest sta tions for the troops at points whero they must lie over while In transit from the base receiving camps to the train ing camps near the front. Owing to the demoralized condition of tho French railways, troops are often obliged to spend between 48 and 72 hours In making u Journey that could ordinarily bo accomplished In 12 bourn. The cars In which they ure trans ported are frequently small French freight cars, Into which 30, more often 10, men are crowded. The result bus been that cases of measles, mumps, diphtheria and on numerous occasions more serious diseases have broken out among the men. To provldo agaln.it such an exigency, stntlon dispensaries, each containing ten beds, n doctor and two nurses, huvo been opened. Sus pected cases or men asking for treat ment ure handled Immediately Instend of awultlng for tho arrival of tho train nt its destination. The patients are visited each day by some member of the Red Gross, who brings them tobac co, sweets or something to read, tho purchases being made from the funds which the United States has so gener ously subscribed. Another activity of thu Red Cross consists In tho bringing to Franco of about twenty Belgian police dogs, which will be trained to go out and look for wounded. The dogs have been tried out In other armies, notably tho French and Russian, and have reuched a high degree of proficiency In their work. Training the Dogs. Tho method of training Is to start in to teach tho Jg to fetch an object, usually u man's cap. Then ho Is taught to seek out the wearer of the cup, to return and lead the trainer to tho wearer, supposedly wounded. The dogs have also been used with great suc cess In detecting the presence of wounded men caught In tho enemy's wlro entanglements and unable to es cape through weakness. With the formal transfer of tho American ambuluuco to tho American , army, the ambulance ceases to exist, in name, as an auxiliary service of tho French army, although It will bo virtually continued as such until such time as the American army decides It needs it for Its own uses. Tho Amer ican nmhulauco is not, however, at tho present tlmo under tho control of tho Red Cross, although that develop ment may later occur. Two of tho most recent members of tho ambulance to receive the war cross and army citations arc Haslt K Noftcl of Larchmont, N. Y., leader of Section 17 of tho Held service, and Orn R. McMurruy of Madison, Wis., n grnduuto of tho University of Wis cousin. Noftcl has been over a year In tho service, and hns been twice wounded In the performance of his duty. Flvo other Americans huvo won hon ors for conspicuous bravery under shell tire In tho Salonlca region. All of them are members of Section 10 of tho American Held service, and for tho last nine mouths have been engaged In the Hnlknns, for tho most part be fore Monastlr, whero they faced the doublo danger of enemy shells and tho Nations at war with Germnny, How World Lines Up Against Kaiser; Germany Faces Odds of Eight to One jS A 1 M populations of the various countries, follow: 1914. Relations Broken. X Population ft Serbia, July 28 a r . ffr Italy, May 23 37,398,000 sun rviarino, Juti z... i?,uuu 1lr0. ft Portugal, March 10., , 15,208,00 7,508,000 V Roumanla, August 27.. 1917. ft United States, April 6. 113,168,000 Cuba, April z.ouu.uuu ft Pnnama, April 9 427,000 2 Greece, July 27 4,821,000 ' Slam, July 22 8,149,000 CMna, August T4...... 320,650,000 $ J- ft Total 1,313,807,000 $ j nussia, August i ifD,i3r,uuu uouvia, April io ,uyo,vjuu ft Franco, August 3 07,429,000 Costa Rica, April 26... 431,000 ft $ Belgium, August 22,571,000 Guatemala, April 28... 2,003,000 ) Great Britain, August 4 439,959,000 Liberia, May 10 1,800,000 ft ft Montenegro, August 7.. 516,000 Honduras, May 18 562,000 V Japan, August ?... . . 73,007,000 Santo Domingo, June 17 710,000 $ M in0. Total 33,014,000 W NOTED ENGLISH BEAUTY Viscountess Curzon, wife of Vis count Curzon, eldest son of Earl Howe, is considered the most beautiful wom an In the English nobility. She Is the only daughter of the lato colonel, tho lion. Montagu Curzon. The beautiful viscountess has two children. Her romarknblo beauty hns mado her famous Internationally. Sho Is one of the most popular women In court circles. Viscountess Curzon since the outbreak of tho war, like many other members of the nobility and soclnl set, bus been spending n great deal of her tlmo at war relief work. Viscount Curzon Is commnnder of tho Royal Naval Volunteer reserves. Ho was aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the great English supcrdrendnuught, during the Dardanelles operations. Ho Is still aboard that vessel. virulent fevers that periodically make their nppenrnnoo In tho lowlands of Macedonia during the summer months. "For both bravery and distinguished conduct," their citations read, "an ab solute dlsregurd of the personal risks to which they exposed themselves and their spontaneous action In bringing In the wounded from the most ad vanced positions," tho War Cross has been awarded to each of tho follow ing: W. D. Swan of IJoston, James Hurley of Knoxvllle, Tenn.; Frank Fltzslmmons of Now York, Klmber ley Stuurt of Saginaw, Mich.: and John EUIston of Los Angeles, Cal. For Unusual Bravery., In nddltlon to the Croix do Guerre, or War Cross, EUIston was singled out for special distinction, being award the Cross with I'alms, which means an act of unusual bravery. During a local engagement around Monastlr In which tho French wero endeavoring to take a strongly held trench that formed tho advanced ele ment of a Bulgarian salient, the troops advanced to the attack about four In tho morning, before tho sun had made any activity almost Intoler able. Ry llvo o'clock the blue-coated pollus had swarmed over the Uulgnrlan en trenchments, bayoneting or bombing any of tho enemy who remained to offer reslstnnce. Tho enemy counter attack was slow In organizing, and tho pollus begun tho tiresome work of consolidating tho position. Almost at high noon tho violence In the en emy's shell ilro presaged tho coming counter-attack. Fifteen minutes lu tcr tho IMilgars came over tho top of their second lino of defenso and burled themselves on the small band of French. The latter held tlrm and not only succeeded In driving oft tho counter attack, but chased the enemy back to their second line, blowing, up tho dugouts and putting a number of machine guns out of nctlon. It wns during tho lntcnso heat of tho mid day and the concentrated lire of the Bulgarian heavy guns that the stretcher-hourers hod to go out In tho open and pick up tho wounded. No futilities wero at hand for their treat ment, uml an ambulance wns asked with the date of declaration anil Population V n 1 1 a II rt n. a . , inr The Germanic strengh lines up jS us follows: , Central Powers. J Austria, July 28, 1914. 49,882,000 ft Germany, Aug. 1, 1914, Turkey, Nov. 3, 1914,. Bulgaria, Oct. 4, 1915.. 80,661,000 21,274,000 4,755,000 ft V Total 156,572,000 ft Recapitulation. J At war with Germany. 1,313,807,000 C Relations .broken 33,014,000 M Antl-Germari 1,346,821,000 Germanic allies 156,572,000 $ Neutral ,vvorld 188,358,000 & World's population ...1,691,751,000 ft ft T4 for to evneunte the wounded, who were In dire straits. EUIston volunteered for the work. During the heaviest part of the bom bardment, while the enemy guns wero still showering high explosive shells on tho newly won territory, ho drove his machine over the rough,, shell-pitted ground. Instend of tho sign of the Red Cross diverting tho, Rulgnrlnn lire, It seemed rather to attract It. Shrapnel nnd tenr-com-polling shells burst nil nround the young American, but under the mo'st terrific lire he thrice made the Jour ney In safety and carried to the base hospital every dangerously wounded case. Lose 50 Ambulance Chassis. Charles M. Ashton of Philadelphia was on duty nt a relief post follow ing up tho French advance In tho Champagne and also awaiting tho cnll to drive his machine to the front. The Germans wero vigorously shell ing the entire district when n shrap nel shell burst within twenty feet of tho young man's ambulnnce. Two of the bnlls struck him, one In the ab domen, the other In the nnn, while n piece of the shell Inflicted a nasty wound on his leg. Thanks to tho prompt nctlon of the surgeons, her will recover, but will probably be Invalided out of the service. Despite the loss of fifty nmbulnnco chassis when the steamer Orleans, the' first Amerlcnn ship to run' the Ger man submarine blockade, wns tor pedoed about a month ago, the American field service succeeded In placing throe new ambulnnce section) In the Held last week and two nddl tlonnl transport sections. One of the ambulance sections, No. J10, Is composed entirely of Harvard men, with Ralph R. Richmond of Milton, Mass., ns section commnnder. Transport section No. 242 hns nlso u number of nnrvord men In Its ranks, Its commander being n Harvard boy, Thomas n. Dougherty of Philadel phia. Transport section L Is com manded by George O. Struby of Den ver, Colo., n Yale graduate, who hns already won glory and tho war cross for bravery In nctloH, while the other two ambulance sections. No. 00 nnd No. 70, ure commnndod by Chnrles A. Butler of New York, a gradunto of Columbia, and Arthur J. Putnnm of Deposit, N. Y a Cornell man, re spectively. Altogether, the field service now hns forty sections actually In service at various parts of tho French front, of which twenty-nine nre nmbulnnco sections, for transporting tbo wound ed', nnd eleven transport sections, for tho handling of munitions nnd sup plies. This represents u personnel of close to 2,500 volunteers, for the most part young Americans from tho best families In tho United States. Amerlcnn nvlntors flying with the French forces enmo In for their share of mishaps during tho pnst week. Lnwrenco Scnnlon of Cednrhurst, L. I., otherwise known ns "Red" Scan Ion, had one of tho nnrrowest escapes on record when his machine, getting out of control, fell from a height of .100 feet and crashed onto the roof of nn army bakery nt Avord, the French training camp for aviators. Scnnlon wns making a trlnl flight In u Nleuport nnd had circled around In the most approved professional manner, and had started to descend. Of n sudden his motor stopped. Never before having had experience with a "panne do motour," the young nvin tor decided the best course was to get to the earth with the least possible loss of time. He aimed for the avia tion field, but nn error In Judgment or n stray gust of wind .drove hint too far, and ho enme down upon the bakery roof with n force that drove tho nose of tho Nleuport clear through. Unhurt, but slightly stunned, Scnn lon scrambled out of the debris nnd climbed down off tho roof by means of n ladder that had been left propped against the wall. Just ns he started off to report the captain of the enmp came rushing up, and seeing Scnnlon going nway from tho scene of tho ac cident, ordered him back to nsslst In tho removnl of the supposedly dead man, or to go cull a doctor If It wns discovered ho was seriously wounded. Scnnlon snluted the captain, suylng: "He's all right, captain." "How do you know? Who was It that fell?" demanded the captain. '"Twiib I, captain," replied the young American, saluting again. "Well, you have hud tho most re markable escape I huvo ever wit nessed," declared tho cnptaln. "Young man, you wero never mado to bo In jured by n full from an airplane.'" The speed with which It fell wn such that tho noso wns completely burled Inside tbo bakery, leaving only six feet of the tall protruding through tho outside of tho roof. JILTED MAN WILLED $5,000 Girl's Father Leaves Bequest as Balm for Young Man's Wounded Feelings. Guthrie, Okla. Mrs. Mary A. Thompson and Florence Hrooks of Rip ley, have filed an action In tho county court here contesting tho will of Wal ter .7. Thompson, husband anil fntho-, respectively, of the contestants, who loft them little of his estnte of $50,000. Ono of tbo clauses which they par ticularly attack gives $f,000 to Amos Yates, n young ninn studying for tho priesthood of tho Mormon church, tlw money being willed him as bnlm for his ' feelings because of bis having been refused In mnrrlugo by the daugh ter who 1b contesting the. w'U HOW TO AVOID BITTER MILK Use of Laxative Feeds Is Recommend ed as Preventive Churning Difficulties Relieved. Roth the qunllty nnd qunntlty of a herd's milk production depend on the physical fitness of tho cows as well ns on the nutrients In tho feed. Rlttcr milk nnd milk with n strong odor both Indicate that something In the cow's digestive system Is out of order. A few doses of Epsom suits nre frequent ly of benefit, but n better method Is to choose the feed that disorders will not occur. Among dairy feeds that nre in clined to be constipating nnd a cnuse of bitter milk are corn fodder, corn stover, timothy hay (and most hays ex 'cept those from leguminous crops like clover nnd alfalfa), nil straws, cotton seed inenl. Among the feeds thnt are lnxntive In their effect on the system are lin seed meal, wheat bran, silage, hay from the legumes, roots, tubers and fruits, all fresh green feeds. Tho use of feeds lu the second list will in u lurge measure prevent bit ter milk and also the dlfllcultles of churning cream skimmed from such milk. CALF PRECAUTIONS . Feed regularly. . Feed at proper tempcra- e (100 degrees Farenhelt). . Feed Individually. . Do not overfeed. . Make all changes grndu- r. . Give access to fresh water I salt. r. Keep nil utensils clean. '. Provide clean pens with nty of light and sunshine. . Provide plenty of bedding. FEED CALVES SKIMMED MILK Richer In Protein Than Whole Milk, but Lower in Carbohydrates Uso Clean Vessels. Skimmed milk is a little richer In protein thnn whole milk, but lower in carbohydrates. Since most of tho fat bus been removed In the crenin tho skimmed milk will need carbohydrates to tnnke it a balanced ration for calves. A good plan la to replace a portion of tho whole milk with skimmed milk, grndunlly increase tho skimmed milk with some form of enrbohydrates till all of the whole milk is replaced by skimmed milk. Fine ground meal Is ono of the best carbohydrate supple- Skim Milk Ago (One to Six Months.) ments to be fed with skimmed milk. Some feeders cook tho mcnl, stir It In the skimmed milk nnd feed It to tho cnlf. After tho calf Is two weeks old It will eut fine ground inenl nnd if fed smnll quantities will assimilate it Linseed meal is nlso used. Care should be taken In feeding cnlves. They should be taught to drink from tho pall ns soon as pos sible. Nothing but clean vessels should bo used nnd the milk should be clean and warm. GIVE CALF PAK.S ATTENTION During Warjn Weather Especial At tention Should Be Given to Uten sils Keep Them Clean. Tho farmer who uses tho swill pall for feeding cnlves or who hangs the pall on n post between feedings with out wnshlng It will soon bo looking for a cure for cnlf scours. The dirty cnlf pnll Is one of tho chief cuuscs of scours, according to L. "W. wing, Jr., of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture. With tho fly senson nnd warm weather nt hand extra pre cautions must be taken In caring foi tho calf palls. They should bo wnshec thoroughly nftcr each feed nnd steri lised either with steam or hot water After tho palls hnve been sterilized they should bo Inverted In n clean protected place until tlmo to use them again. UNDESIRABLE HABIT OF COW Usually Acquired When Animals Art Young Hard to Break When When Onco Established. It is disappointing to glvo a cow good cure, und feed her well, and then have her suck herself. This un doslrnblo habit Is ono thnt cows get Into usunlly whllo they nre young, After the habit Is onco established they never quit It, nnd It Is not nn ensy mntter to break thera of it per Just How One Washingtonian "Landed" Army Job WASHINGTON. The news columns enrry the story or uiu uenruen going to France to bo Pershing's secretary; and thereat probably thousands of' young men wondered what manner of to get the Job. Hnre Is the story: Bill has ocen sot-rotary to Uepre- sentntlve Samuel E. Wlnslow of Mus- sachusetts ever clnce Wlnslow came to congress. In addition to doing his con gressional work thoroughly and well, looking out for constituents by tho dozen, nnswcrlng letters, lnndlng Jobs for Mnssuchusctts college men, und nil that, he hns been quietly writing n lot of interesting mngazlno stuff. So you see Pershing's new secretary Isn't n loafer. When the war broke out. Bill found himself getting Massachusetts turned up. He had little trouble In medlntlng for them nnd they went In. Well, after Bill hnd shoved scores of men Into the nrmy, he sat down and took stock of himself. He found he wns n bit over age and n bit over weight, but that his disposition wns just right. Ho wnnted to find a nook for himself In that big military machine, and set about finding It. The first thing that turned up wns the nrmy need for field clerks. That's; where Bill thought he would shine. He didn't wait to find out what It paid, or whether It paid nnythlng. He Just took n car to the war department and handed In his card: "I nm Representative WInslow's secretary. I am familiar with all olllce work. My chief pays me such nnd such a sum over and above the regular allowance for congressional secretary work." "Stop Inside," said the offleer. That night I met Bill downtown, in the worst fitting nnd benvlest nrmy uniform ever made, I do believe. But BUI was sntlsfled. He hud found tho right niche. And Inter, when the nrmy renlly found -out that Bill Dearden has n. record of unbroken excellence nt the bouse ofllce building It sent him to General Pershing as the best thing yet discovered In tin. nrmy Held clerk line. And so it wns that BUI Dearden, who had been working polltlcnl und' depnrtmentnl pull for everybody that asked him for It. fell Into n remnrkiibly good nrmy job himself, without the slightest kind of Influence. Surely There Is a Destiny That Rules Our Ends THERE hnve nlwnys been women and for this instunce, is a plnin soul, ns souls you see going around nlone etlll, she ought to have peaches. And nn old, old woman who was carrying women will. Also, old men. Nuturnlly, nnturnl, the old woman was only too voicing her wall. She had taken home the clenn wnsh, all tucked under oilcloth to keep It dry, nnd the lady said she couldn't break a bill tonight, and being ns It was eo far to come, she had better take the soiled clothes back with her and sho would pay for both washes next week. "She always does me thnt wny and I told her my daughter wns 111 In her bed and that I had to buy milk for her baby. But she wouldn't give me my money. And I said my bends nil the wny going, nnd the Blessed Mother she didn't help mo either " It tukes very little to tide over needs scnled to the income of a wash basket, so that was all there was to that, but As the plain soul went back to where sho belonged almost forgetting to go to the stund nround the corner to buy four peaches for ten cents she snld to herself: "I wonder if I wns sent out to help? "I wonder who sent me?" Women Workers in Big Demand at Washington THERE'S ns much hustle nnd bustle hero when the departments quit work as there Is In an Industrial city when the six o'clock whistle blows. Only it doesn't happen at six o'clock here, but an hour and a half sooner. And a. good many of tho thousands of clerks who moke their way homewards at that time nro required to come back after supper beg pardon, after din ner. For Uncle Sam Is working them hnrd these days. In spite of the addi tions, there is yet too much work to go around. There's another thing that hns been In evidence ever since the boom began. Of the residence contingent, men are beginning to disappear from their usual haunts. Private employ ment of more lucrative character than the government afforded them has suddenly been thrown open to them. Men hnve been going Into the nrmy, Into tho reserve cumps, Into the nnvy, Into other occupations directly related to wnr nctlvltles. Their plnces must be filled. The civil service examina tions have been tnken by hosts of American women here und elsewhere, by many women who never cared to bo called into service, nt least by very many who never expected to bo cnlled Into competition with the best tulent In their respective cities. But now the call is no longer only for the best. The demnnd for clerks, typewriters nnd stenographers Is so great that those who puss with n fair average arc certain to be Invited to tnke positions no longer nt ?G00 or $700 a year entrance salary, but at $1,000. Where formerly tho bureuu chiefs would uccept only those who passed with something over 00, they are satisfied with those who go to 80, nnd they ure not adamant In that particular, either. Goats Calmly Browse on Streets of the Capital GOATS still graze In Washington, nnd for many days this summer two. species of the fnmlly Capra hlrous that being the highly proper fnmlly name for plain goat have been eajoylng tho herbage on n green plot on upper - ' - - -..v. j rnvo nun usvu lu m; made about the Mnrlem goats nnd their strange uppetlt-s hnve passed nway. The goats on Sli teenth street hnve tnken possession of ihe lurge piece of va cant laud on the west side of Sixteenth street between Fuller street and Colum bia street. They browse calmly and deliberately across the street from the great house In which Balfiur and other members of the British commission to the Unltei! States hull neudquarters, nnd quite nenr the French erabnssy, the Spanish embassy, be marble house of Mrs. Mcrshnll Field and the new bulld ntr that is lining erected as tbo Cuban lugntion. , ;nnn BUI Dearden Is nnd how he came- men Into the nrmy ns fast ns they women. There nlwnys will be.' One, like as n match to all the other plain. not being the sort of mntches thnt are mndo In henven. Still, the cheapest blue hend cnrrles Its hidden soul of fire, which compensntes. The other evening, for one time,, she hnd come out of an all-day storm Into the friendliness of a lamp that she lighting, with every sense of be ing in for the night, when it suddenly occurred to her that she hnd forgotten, to buy peaches for her breakfast and must go out nt once nnd get thorn. Notsafter a while. Now. She didn't want to go back In all that weather as she turned a corner she bumped into n basket nnd tnlklng to herself, ns old- the plain soul apologized, and, equnlly thnnkful to be Jostled for the sake of sixteenth street. Mnny comments hnve been mnde on the presence of these goats, but they have browsed on without Interruption, nppnrently un conscious of or unconcerned nt the at tention they nttrnct. Onco upon n time goats were more numerous In the city thun they nro now, nnd thwe thnt still dwell among us nro usually seen In the outlylnu parts of the cfty. The gout seems to hnve lost favor as a domestic animal, nnd ovon thn (Mmo .1.... ,....i . 1,,.. manently.
