Statement from
Board of Health
Tho local Board of Health ling boon
furnished now rulings In roforonce to
quarantlno for amnll-pox and is in
structed to onforcc tlicm rigidly. Tho
minimum isolation for any cane Is
three (It) weeks. Whon tlioro is more
than onq cuso in n family the three
week period begins at tho TIME OFj
JJKEAKINO OUT OF THIS LAST
M HMD Ell OP THE FAMILY AFFECT
ED. When there is a largo family
this will mean that tho quarantlno will
probably oxtond over n poriod of four
to ten wooks, or ovon longer.
Tho disease has been found by tho
police in several homos whore no phy
sician has been called and tho con
dition not reported. One has boon con
victed and three aro awaiting triul for
violation of tho regulation, requiring
tho "hoad of a family to report any
disense which he even presumes to be
contacious." Whenever, upon inves
tigation, this department finds small
pox in a hoiiBO nnd not quarantined, a
warrant will bo Issued for tho nrrost
of tho head of tle fumily. Cases that
report thomsclvos will-not bo arrested.
Small-pox Is a dlsoaso which can bo
practically eliminated by universal
vaccination and all aro urgently re
quested to co-opornto in this. Among
somo thoro is a dread of vaccination
at the present time which is practic
ally without cause. Years ago whon
vaccination was made from tho scab of
another, serious infections were fre
quent However, tho name progress
has boon made in the preparation of
tho lymph as in nil other scientific
matters, and at presont a very sovoro
arm is uncommon According to offic
ial records the most serious results In
me recent Omnha scare were eleven'
arms which rcqutiirod dressing fori
about two wooks nnd nothing sorlous
with thorn. During this sumo period
It should bo rcmomberod, thore wore
twonty-four deaths from smnll pox in
the stnto. In tho several hundred vac
cinations done in North Platto rocontly
thoro have boon no sorlous results and
very fow cases which required any
lurther attontion. In fact, tho major
ity havo been surprised that It
amounted to so littlo after tho har
rowing tains that they had hoard.
HOARD OF HEALTH.
0".'
I'nnijjx.'ijilis About the War.
A woman OG years old lias written
tho woman . committee of tho Council
o' National Defense asking fdr war
work because, she says "My sdn Is too
too old to bo n soldier." A girl 9 years
old wants to ko to France as a niciscn
pcei In the Hod Cross sorvlco.
ltwcon .'Ugust 1 nnd Docembor 1
the railroads transported 1,500,000
.noil to trivinlnp camps nnd embark
ation points. To Insure tho safety
ol the mon in transit tho railroads
havo adopted an average spcod of 25
miles an hnur except when freight
car? needed for the transportation of
equipment . o included in tho trains.
The. spood Is than rcdurcd to 20 mllos.
Tro fue' i. liri'int ration is authority,
for the stnt.nrn. that, while tho annu-
nl output o' rwl has beon increased,
approximately ra.OOO.OOO tons, tho ln
croado In conaumptioiucnused by the
wn.- is loii.ouoyvo tons. An mstanco
cited is Pint of the Bolhlchem Steel
Company, vnl.li demands an Increased
coal supply of ppproxlmatoly 3,000,
000 tons n yepr. Tho coal domands of
public-utility piurts, particularly In
the lndustr'ii' r 'Hons, have increased
a third.
APiiroxImuitlp 20,000 employes havo
been added to tho Government's pay
roll In Washington Blnco tho war be
gan. TSutiiintis pIbcc tho Increase In
populatior of .he National Capital at
more than 40,U0P.
Tho Hed Cross his arranged to buy
material for eur'ral drosslngs, hos
pital tirmcnts and knHtod articles, to
be sold at substantial'' cost prices to
tho chapter Hi oi.hmit tho country
to b mado ui, by the women of Amer
ica. The cost a ill be $3,457,200.
To niMt condlt'ons arising from Ital
ian rovorsos the lied Cross dispatched
imniod'ntob ivu-n Paris supplies in
cluding 2,000 i .I'tt-.esres, 8,000 blan
KotR, nnd 10,J0J nalrn of Bocks.
Mon from 45 trndos have opportunity
to onlist In the ti'mv of skilled work
man b-jing formed t,o go Into Franco
with the- inti-ili-n illers, and aro
p, onilstj cxper r.'ico vr noar tho light
ing l.naa an Vii denies can be built.
Alilmujfb tji6 'all ire to rccelvo let
ter front ir.ni In the sorvlco is not
plenpaii) to native? nnd friends at
homo th DdaKi 'no news is good
nows" uo"cr mop truo than at(
p.oaont. A report of every casualty
at home or abroad is immediately wir-'
od or cabled to officials at Washing
ton, boliijf ;vla:d from thero without
lit. of time to ilit pmergoncy nddressj
of the oldlo or saljOi affected. It Is
u!u nt one.! roiei"-eil for publication In
the nowapnpors. Wo news of ensu
ii'.'.ics hia or . ill be held up.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
-: ;o:
Dr. Brock, Dentist, over Stono Drug
Store. tf
The change in temperatu.ro experi
enced Wednesday Is a good thing. No
vember, which was ao warm in fact
tho warmest November on record
that It bred microbe germs and other
things that burden the nlr, or creep or
crawl or fly, 'and which tho doctors
toll ub get into our nystcm and cause
us misery or woe, or sickness or
death. Thoreforo it is better to burn
coal than to bo Infected with tho un
seeable things that nako life a burden.
David Shoody Wt Wednesday for
Hnitwoll to visit friends.
Mrs. Fred t'.buk wn called to Fair
Hold.' Iowa, Wecino'dny by tho ill
ness of hor mol'ier.
Mrs. E. C. Contra haB been visiting
friends in tho cntral part of tho stato
fm so vera 1 dnys pnet.
Miss Elizabeth Hlnmnn, who rocontly
went to Washington to accept a posi
tion In tho interior department, writos
that sho Is well pleased with her work.
Mrs. . W. Sliilllns pleasantly en
tertained tho J i'. F club Tuesday
afternoon Mrs. Wood While and
Mrs M. II. Doug'is were successful
In winning the p zo.c
Miss M. Sicilian, Bteam baths and
Swedish Massage, ladles and gentle
men. Phono 897. Brodbeck bldg. S5L
Itecrult'ng of.'iors for the United
Stateii nrmy will be nt tho federal
building Decomber mil and 13th. This
will bn tho Just (port unity for mon
who h:ive i ot-.i. cnsciipted to enlist,
as after Dtcombcr lEth they will be
barred.
Plant poonaes and phlox now. Wo
havo them. North Platto Floral Co.
Phone 1023. 8Ctf
Frod Dick and other Union Pacific
nU'lit employe. vn'nosscd tho flight of
ar airship about c'pht Tuesday night.
Tho shin can led a searchlight and
travel d In n s-ou h: rly direction. Sev
eral wcel'B ago citizens of Hershoy
saw an a!r.;:,ift s over their town
at a height of but a fow hundred
feet.
President Plolsticker, of the Platto
Valley Bank, tolls us that he has so
cured duplicates of nearly all tho sev-cnty-llvo
chocks which were lost in
the malls a month or so ago. Tho
drawers of those checks were scat
tered all over the United States and it
has been quite a task too secure the
duplicates.
(SULTAN IS FOND OF READING
H THE (WNSTMAS FCWE
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Turkey's Ruler for Weeks at a Tlmo
Shuts Himself In Private Suite,
Surrounded With Books.
Although the sultan of Turkey Is
reputed to lie the laziest potentnto In
Europe, ho Is pnsslonntely fond of
reading. For weeks nt n time ho will
Bhut himself In hlu private suite, sur
rounded by literature of nil kinds
classical works, novels, ningnzlnes nnd
newspapers. With the exception of
his pcrsonnl nttendnnts nnd ministers
of stnte, no one is allowed In the Im
perial snnctunry during the sultan's
literary "fits."
But the sultan is nt something of n
dlsndvnntngo, says n British weekly,
because his knowlcdgo of European
languages is limited.
In order to overcome tho difficulty
he employs n translation office. Hero
thoro are officials who speak all tho
Jnngunges of Europe and. tho East
They read nil the political nnd Illus
trated nowspnpers of Importance and
translate extracts from them for the
sultan. There arc 15 superior trans-,
Intors, called dragoman secretaries, in
that office, nnd their pay Is from ten
to forty Turkish pounds monthly.
They do not limit their translations
to political publications; they trans
late novels nnd romnnces In all lan
guages for tho Sultan, nnd mnny
thousand volumes of their work hnvo
found their way into the Imperial lib
rary. They are all written on thick,
white, royal, octnvo, gllt-cdge paper,
nnd are fastened together with
green nnd red ribbons by tho transla
tors themselves.
After clrculntlng through the harem
they nro preserved In the library. Tho
sultan's favorite reading is criminal
romances. He subscribes to all nows
pnpers thnt contnln reports of tho
proceedings In the lnw courts, nnd
there Is no fnmous writer of stories
of crime In nny lnngunge whoso works
have not been translated for him.
POLLY'S INTRUSION!
By ELIAS KILLIAN. J
HOW TO USE COAL PROPERLY
HouscShould Not Be AMowcd to Be
come So Warm That Doors and
Windows Are Opened.
If you want to save coal never al
low tho house to get so hot that you
have to throw open the windows and
doors. Thermostats nro cheap these
days. They automatically slow down
tho fire when the temperature Is ris
ing to the uncomfortnble point.
To get the most out of the heat In
coal, the house nlr should be changed
once an hour. Arrangements for such
n chnnge should hnve been made when
the house wns built. But If that was
overlooked when the house was built
you can get the chnnge of nlr in sev
eral ways, says n writer In the Ameri
can Mngnzlne. I do not believe In get
ting this result by having loose win
dows, as wc used to do on the farm.
I prefer tight windows, carefully
weather-stripped. If that has not been
nrranged for, or If the cost Is too
great, I And that storm windows nre
relatively cheap. Then, nlr slots which
let In nlr when you want it are good.
An Actor's Wish.
George Ado, on Ills return from a
visit to Camp Mills nt Mineoln, brought
a story back home, says the Indianapo
lis News. While In New York city Mr.
Ade dropped In nt the Lnmbs club,
where n lot of nctors past war age
were sitting around talking about the
trenches. Everybody wns anxious to
fight, but nil said they were, too old.
One of tho company said he regretted
greatly that lfe was not eligible, but
he hoped thnt he might do his bit In
somo way on this side. lie snid: "I
would even be willing to go to Franco
on tho next transport If I could get
tho kind of war job I have In mind."
"Whnt's that?" asked nnother actor.
"Well," replied the would-be warrior,
"I should like to go to the front as tho
chauffeur for a general with a yellow
Btreak."
Frlendc In Need.
Gov. Thomas E. Campbell, in nn
nrgument in favor of un excess profit
tux, snid in Phoenix:
"These fellows nro great friends
of the government, but when It conies
to being taxed, why, then then
they're like Murphy.
'"Cheer up, maul' said Murphy to
Dooloy. 'Yoz look as if yez didn't
have n friend in tho whole wurrld.'
'"Ol haven't, nnythcr,' Dooloy,
groaned.
'"G'wnnl' cried Murphy heartily.
'If it ain't money yez want to borry,'
O'ni as good a f rind as over yez had.' "
Bullet.Proof Tires.
Experiments made nt tho North
western Mllltnry nnd Naval academy
apparently show thnt our host pneu
matic nutomobllo tires are fairly Im
mune from Injury from rifle bullets,'
and It would bo interesting to know
how much trouble has been experl-'
enced from this cause on tho Euro
pean front, says the Scientific Amerl-J
can. It is nrobnble. however, that thls
la the least of tho causes of trouble,
nnd that punctures resulting from
running' over rough ground, nnd tho!
debris of battlo wrecked villages nro'
far moro serious. ;
j
Sixty Miles an Hour Cllmblno Speed. '
A in fill or n nlmtnnn wnlrilnr n & wtntVi
oa a small touring car without nny!
passengers can climb nt tho rato of CO;
miles nn hour. The hvlntnr would nnv
thnt his machine's rato of ascension Is!
Kw ieci u minute, sjuqn nn airplano
old have nri engine of a bruko horse-
&Wer of 180. Tho airplane climbing
ai uu miies nn uout ascends a gradient
of 1 tn 3ft to 1 In 4. Popular Science
Monthly i
As Penrson snt on the littlo porch
nnd sent circles of blue smoko Into thoj
fcoft night, snatches of gny talk, of
laughter nnd of music enmo to him j
Jolly wns nt the old homo onco more.
The littlo Polly who used to spring
ncross the barbed wire fence that di
vided them nnd drop on tho top step
iif the side porch, brenthtess; the littlo
nudnclous Polly who plucked her shortj
skirt full of his violets without even
ti "by your leave," and climbed his
cherry trees to toss his own cherries
down to him.
Polly hnd wintered nt n fnslilonnblo,
pchool in New York, hnd summered
abroad, and, crossing ngnln, hnd mndol
her smiling entrance into n world that
seemed vastly interested in her.
A little white-clad flguro enmo
through the odorous dnrkness nnd
leaned on the barbed wire, a llttloi
plnlntlvo voice called "IIcllo" softlyJ
Pearson took refuge in silence.
With n flash nnd flutter of feminine
flounces sho was over.
"That's still a barbed wire," Pearson
called.
"Oh I" sho clnrlonetted, "n bnrbed
wire?" She sped across tho space that
Intervened to drop on his top step
In brenthless scorn. "Wns It thnt?"
she demanded. "I've been homo n
whole dny."
"No," snid Penrson calmly, "I don't
menn to come. You've so many danc
ing nbout you that I'll never be missed.
And, nnywny, Polly, I hear such out
rageous things about you. Is It a habit
of yours to whistle up your dog and
stalk from the room In tho midst of
nil tho proposals?"
"It's because they niiiko such u blun
der of It," snid Polly. "I know how
It should be done."
"You're not so pretty," said Peur
son, disapprovingly.
"Not" plaintively.
"You're little and you're brown."
"Yes," more plaintively.
"Then why why " irritably, "does
everything in man's shape go down
before you?"
"I don't know; but" sorrowfully
"they do. I I" she sighed heavily
"fell tho bearded men nt u breath, and
tho youths thnt grow between. But
perhaps you aren't fnmllinr with Long
fellow?" Polly was gone, nnd her low,
mocking lnugh drifted back to Pear
eon. Pearson hnd closed tho door to his
heart and rolled a big stone ngulnst
it, telling himself he wns done with
womankind forever, as far back as
Polly's pinafore days.
, Polly came to the barbed wire some
times, but she made no attempt to leap
over It. Always she was very, very
gay, and after her going Pearson
counted up his birthdays, ran his fin
gers through his hnlr turning gray on
his temples, and called himself an old,
old fool.
The twilight hour that Polly leaned
over tho wire to pin a rose that had
burned In the colls of her golden hair
on Pearson's cont sho sang something
tender and foolish nbout the rose be
ing her henrt.
"Your heart," Pearson chlded. "It's
asleep, little child."
"It's his heart that sleeps," said
Polly. "The little white guest cham
ber that Is mine has Its door njar, but
he won't come In, ever."
Afterward ho crept up to his room
to drop his arm on his desk and his
hend on his arms, nnd sat there, while
night gathered deeper nnd deeper into
the room.
Pearson stumbled down tho stairs
that echoed to his footsteps, tho empty,
.lonely stnlrwny over which no wom
an's soft draperies over trailed, nnd
;out on the porch, there to find Polly
on the top step.
He sank down beside her. "What
becomes of men who hnng around tho
side entrance of heaven, straining
their ears to catch the music, when,
they know It la never possible for them,
to slip In; whnt becomes of middle
nged Terls, Polly?"
"I don't know," said Polly, "but I
know what should become of them,"
scornfully. "Why doesn't your Perl
go around to the front? Perhaps she
hasn't nny spirit, either, his" herolno;
perhaps sho sits on tho doorstep and
wnlts, perhaps "
"Polly I"
"He's he's n wooden Indian," snid
Polly. "He lets the girl sit thero on
his steps nnd pretend that she's look
ing at tho stars. He doesn't care. IIo
thinks she's n doll-bnby stuffed with
sawdust; thnt sho cares for oil tho
empty, gny, frivolous things that she
hates; he thinks she likes to bo for
ever surrounded by n lot of pink
cheeked, light-headed boys that boro
Jier 60. And all tho time sho knows
I'm suro I don't know how, for ho acta
po queer that ho loves her, nnd that
h little question of arithmetic troubles
him. It doesn't really troublo her.
Tito arithmetic of tho heart isn't
counted by yenrs. no's lonely nnd end,
nnd sho can put into his life nil that'
jt has missed, but not unasked, nmi
tsomettmea she's wild thinking things'
over." Tolly'a voice trailed off Into
fllence, nnd sho struggled with a sob.
The sob acted na an accolado on:
Penrson. It raised him Into n knight
errant, bewildered, it's true, but ready
find eager to go to the very ends of
ho world, If need be, after this dero
(ct who hac) stolen bis little chum's
inpplnnss from her. "" '
IIo put out hl8 iian4 nnd If fell on
folly's bent head. "Polly," ho snlilj
"Polly" helplessly "If ho were hero
beside yon "
"lie Is," sobbed Polly.
(Copyright. 117, VfeiternNwppaprynloa.)
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