THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIDUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
A KLONDIKE 10 IDE
ENGINES MADE FOR RUSSIA WORK FOR U. S. A.
WASIWGTOnhi
REAL FARM!
A
United Service Club of
rarAHlITNOTON. Wuslilnclon linn n
W everything else connected with the wur nnd navy duimrtmenU), the sud
den expansion of the nntlon'8 fighting forces overtnxed this club. Ofllcers
mvnrmed to Washington too fast to he
vember three young officers put their heads together to llnd a way t6 meet
this need. They were Capt. L. II. Ellison, engineers, U. S. It.; Capt. T. II.
Messer, engineers, U. S. It., and Lieut. E. 0. Irion, infantry, N. A. Secretary
of War Baker gave them his hearty indorsement of a project they worked
out for a service club, to bo launched In Wnshlngton ,wlth auxiliaries when
ever ofllcers of tho army nnd navy nro gathered.
A historic Washington homo was lensed nnd opened ns tho headquarters
of tho parent club. This homo Is the so-called Westlnghouso mansion, 1D0Q
Twentieth street, facing Dupont circle. Jt was built by James G. Blaine,
later belonged to his son, was occupied for a brief time by Joseph Leltcr, and
passed into the hands of tho Westlnghouso family, and now Is the property
of Georgo Westlnghouso, Jr., from whom It was leased.
So populur has the club become thnt options already have been obtained
unnn nnvernl other hulldlnes In tho neighborhood, which lire under consider
ation for use as additional sleeping quarters. In the original club building
there not only aro rooms to bo had for oillcers who remain hero for u time,
hut tho fourth floor Is given over to n
of transients who desire accommodations for n night or two as their assign
ments bring them to Washington.
Some of the Freaks Found in the Patent Office
TriB man who snld that the one place in nil the United States where freaks
existed amhwoio to bo found In great abundance was tho patent olllcc at
Washington, certainly told the truth,
mind mny here be found In the various
freak inventions which go forth ench
working day of tho ofllcc. Almost dally
somo Inventive genius offers a model
of something' which will benefit the
great world at large, and perhaps with
in the same hour somo mechnnlcnl lun
atic seeks a patent on somo "rattle
brain" Idea which ho avows will cause
peoplo to llvo COO years If they but
follow "Instructions on tho perfect
system of physical culture."
A certain poultry genius hns sent
In a model of n box-trap nest for nonproductive egg hens. Tho hen sits In the
nest, tho bottom of which contnins 'a holo about three Inches In diameter.
When slio lays an egg, down It drops through the hole Into a bos prepared
with straw to lnsuro noubrenkage, and when the old hen rises no ,egg Is to
bo seen. Presto change I Sho resits, nnd thenceforth lays another shelled
heauty.
There hangs a luminous harness which has been pntented, so thnt a horso
being driven through tho country at night will look like a sheet of chained
lightening. A pocketbook conceals a pistol, and we nro assured that the hold
up men will mot come along our way
Old Bony, Slippery Street
w f mm w
K WAS. ono bony-ribbed old horso that
lco and fell. In tho wagon he was
glnghnm-apron clnss, both with tho
asphalt when tho horso began to slide
'with u convincingness that could have
Home.
Pink Nuby kept to her sack, but
other wns too wise to follow.
Tho old horso lay as rigid as a dead thing that needed burying, his eye
balls showing white and his exposed
i Just nu It seemed tho exciting moment for n pollcemnn to come along and
do things with his pistol, a good Samaritan crossed from the south side of the
avenue halted unbuckled some hnrness untangled tho reins from' tho hind
hoof boosted old bony to his feet and set him between his harness buckled
ldm in and tossed tho lines to Ear-flaps,
waved a hnnd In Jolly protest to wnrd
out of the Incident
You couldn't expect an earth earthly chap with an unregenerato air of
been nt lunch and maybo before and after thnt prohibition had not yet
'succeeded in apotheosizing out of his system to slzo up to tho outward virtue
'of that other Samaritan of tho Scripture, but the deed wns equally helpful.
Washington Composer
i ...
TO A WASHINGTON composer and
put Into tanglblo form tho Idea
States today with that of her allies In
tho form of a flag that Is unlquo In
both tho breadth nnd sentiment of Us
'symbolism.
Designed nnd pnlnted by Miss
!WHmuth Gary, who as composer was
awarded the medal and diploma for
' musical composition at the world's
.fair, this flag of America nnd her
shield of the allies the motto : "Liberty,
Humanity, Democracy."
Set upon a pure white ground, tho
flag Is striking in appearance with Its
jlnrgo circle of the flags of the 17 na
tions who had entered tho war against
'tlon, August, 1017. Slnco thnt tlmo
President Wilson was tho first ofllclal to seo Uio ling, and It bears tho
Btnmp of nuthorlty through the oillclnl sanction of Secretary of State Lansing,
i while tho order of lings was compiled by Second Assistant Secretary of Stato
Alvey Adce.
Beginning nt tho top of tho circle nnd rending to tho right, tho lings
represent the allies In' tho order of their entrance into tho wnr. In tho lino
the United States Is twelfth In tho list, which Is ns follows: Sorbin, Itussln,
(France, England, Montenegro, .Tnpnn, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Itoumnnla,
Greece, united states, uuon, rannma,
Within tho clrclo of flags tho
Us background of white denoting purity of purpose Is a shield, tho shield
of tho allies, crowned by tho American eagle, In which protecting tnlons is
held tho motto "Liberty, Humanity, Democracy" a sentiment particularly
fitting to tho spirit or tito nour,
There aro 17 stnrB nnd 17 stripes
a chief of dark uzore. Tho pales or stripes, caught from tho colors of thq
allied flags, havo been almost mathematically arranged oo that any three of
ithera, read successively, will wrm mo
America Proves Popular
hlstdrlc Army nnd Nnvy club. Like
nbsorbed by the existing club. Hence'
the United Service Club of America
hud Its Inception. Hut the Washing
ton problem is not the only one the
new club hopes to meet. Henceforth
ofllcers will gather In muny cities, near
the great camps and cantonments In
this country, and later behind tho
lighting lines abroad. Even greater
will bo the need In these places for
somo common meeting ground for men
who wear shoulder straps. Last No
barracks to accommodate tho overflow
The craziest offsprings of the ,human I
rrt riifiurr 4uefr what
BFCAME OF 7J1AT
If they know wo nro loaded for them,
and a Good Samaritan
couldn't skate. So he slipped on the
hitched to Bat two women of tho I
comfortable Bhapelcssncss that comeg
from hog nnd cornpone. One snt be
hind on u sack of something, shrouded
under n quilt and with her head bound
all around with a pink nuby that had
faded in tho wash. Tho woman who
drove wns topped with a fur cap with
car flaps that was lawfully Intended
for u man. Everything else wns lathes
and scantling picked up from somo
house wrecking, except for ono chicken
that craned Us head nbovo a wired box
top.
rVhn ilrl vnwvntnnn lnmhni-rwl in tlm
and tried to hold him up. But he fell
given polutB to Mother Eve and Old
helped along with advice which the
teeth hard and yellow, like winter corn,
who had lumbered bnck to her seat-
off Jubilating gratitude and bolted
Designs Flag of Allies
hi
nrtlst belongs tho distinction of having
of the unity of purposo of the United
thu great war. Tlds has been done In
nutocracy at the date of Us eomiilc-
Brazil has brought the number to 18,
sinin.
clrclo that is a symbol of otcrnltv. with
lu tho shield. Tho stnrs nro set ncnlnst
coioro or Bomo one of tho flags.
Marked with tho lnslgnln of the government railways, engines made for Itussia, which have not been shipped bo-
cause of tho uncertainty of tho situation there, nro doing duty "somewhere In New Jersey" hnullng long lines of coal
enrs toiplaces where the fuel Is greatly needed. Tho tender Is marked U. S. A., and the engine is one of the many now
owned by the government and being used to relievo the coal situation.
Take Up Study
Revival of Seagoing Spirit
Arouses Widespread Inter
est in the Subject.
OPLinffl 0 TFflPH THF RIFMRF
uUIIUULO IL.HUII I 111. UUILI1UI.
Classes In Navigation Being Conducted
by Recruiting Service of united
Statca Shipping Board 12,000
New Officers Needed.
Washington. One of Uio interesting
features of the present great revival In
seagoing spirit throughout the coun
try is the widespread popularity of the
study of navigation.
Itenorts reaching the UnlteU btntes
shipping board Indicate lively Interest
nil over tho country in the study of
this ancient science, which helped
make tho nation great In its earliest
years of Independence.
Classes In navigation, conducted uy
tho recruiting service of tho board, to
train ofllcers for the ships of tho new
merchant marine, are being conducted
on both coasts and on tho Great Lakes.
Candidates for admission como from
every section of tho Union.
The cause of this nauou-wlde inter
est in navigation is to be found in tho
glgnntlc development of tho country's
merchant marine. It Is anticipated
that not less than -12,000 new ofllcers
will be required to handle the Ameri
can cnrgo-carrylng vessels now under
construction, nnd not less than 85,000
men will bo. wanted for the crews.
A merchnnt olllccr today has many
ndvttutuges in studying navigation thnt
were not known to his seagoing ances
tors. There was never a time when
tho, aids to navigation were so numer
ous ns now, or so well developed.
While the manner in which a navi
gator determines his ship's position on
the vnst face of tho deep must always
bo something of a mystery to the lands
man, It docs not long remain so to tno
earnest student of navigation. Somo
of tho students nt shipping board
schools havo been able, nfter three
weeks' study, tp determine by obser
vation the position of a ship nt sea
within three miles, which Is considered
a creditable performance. Tho best
navigators, on largo, ships, when able
to check up their observations by tho
work of morcithan ono observer, some
times do no better.
Early Navigation. ,
In tho early days of ocean naviga
tion tho navigator never knew his po
sition nt sen within mnny leagues. It
was customary for ships on the voy-
ago from Europo to America to sail
westerly until a landfall was made,
then const to their destination.
Columbus followed this method, for
want of anything better.
Given sextant and chronometer, tho
navigator today reduces tho Job of
,1 . . ' ... i L ( . 1
unuing ins poHiiiuii iu uuu ui uuuun
figuring. Latitude Is found by obser
vation of the height, or altitude, of tho
sun nt noon.
Longltndo is quite another thing, it
being the distance between two plnces
on tho earth s surface, expressed lu
degrees. It Is based ou the rotation
of tho earth on Us axis every 24 hours,
causing merldlnns 15 degrees apart a
meridian being n lino between the
TELLS GHASTLY TALE
Inhuman Germans Described by
Holy City Refugees.
Great Suffering Among Population of
Jerusalem Afte Germans
Took Control.
Denver, Colo. Stories of tho fright
ful experiences suffered by residents
of Jerusalem previous to tho enpturo
of tho Holy City by British forces un
der General Allenby wero told hero
by Miss Celln Molnestcn, who, with
her mother, fled from the torturo In
flicted by Turkish soldiers and Ger
man ofllcers there several months ago.
Miss Molnestca and her mother
were among 300 refugees who escaped
from Jerusalem whllo thousands wore
starving within tho gates of tho nn
dent city.
"Thgro wns . ngonlzlng" suffering
among tho civil population of Jeru
salem after the Germuus took control
of Navigation
equator and the poles to pass under
n certidn fixed point In the heavens at
one-hour intervals.
For determining longitude all chro
nometers used on American and Brit
ish ships nro set on the time of the
meridian of Greenwich observatory,
near London. French ships figure
from tho meridian of Paris.
Knowing by his chronometer tho
time nt Greenwich, and by observation
of the sun at 8 a. m. or 4 p. in. his own
time, tho mariner, by tho aid of tnbles,
has only to find the difference in theso
two times, to find his distance In de
grees from Greenwich. This found,
tho distance Is ensliy expressed In
miles, and mnrks his position on his
chart.
"Dead Reckoning."
Prior to the perfection of the chro
nometer, the common method of deter
mining longitude was by "dead reckon
ing," that is, estimating n ship's run
day by day. by means of the log, a de
vice for telling her speed by means of
the rate at which kndts In a line, paid
Aviator Dodges
Lieut. Pat. O'Brien of Illinois
Tells of Wild Adventures in
Germany.
JUMPS FROM MOVING TRAIN
American Strategy Triumphs Over
German Efficiency Ono of His
Hardest Stunts Was Swimming
River Mouse.
Chicago. Pat O'Brien of Momence,
111., Is back from the fighting front.
In the British flying corps tho young
man from Momenco Is known ns Lieut.
Patrick Alva O'Brien. Ho Is famous
for several reasons. His real story be
gan when ho mndo a descent of nenrly
two miles In his airplane after a Ger
man bullet In tho face had rendered
him unconscious. Tho fall cost him n
bump on the head.
lie Jumped" out of the window of n
moving train on his way to a Germnn
prison camp, and escaped. Then ho
spent 72 days In getting to Holland, a
distance of 250 miles us tho alrplnno
flies. And the story ends with ono of
the longest interviews with a king on
record 52 minutes by tho royal stop
watch. Many times during those 72 nights of
travel through Germany, Luxemburg,
nnd occupied Belgium, American
strategy triumphed over German efll
ciency. "Usually," snld Lleutcnnnt O'Brien,
"when n bunch of fellows got together,
they tnlk about women. But In our'
first prison, in Klnnders, we talked
only about escape and food, nnd got
very little of cither. There were eight
ofllcers going to nn Interior prison
camp, and a guard with a rifle for ev
ery two prisoners.
Leaps From Train.
"We rode all day and all night.
Twice I put up the window to Jump
nnd lost my nerve. It looked too much
like sudden death. As I put It up
again, nbout four in tho morning, the
guard gave mo nn ugly look. I know
It wns then or never and dove out.
GOING OVER TOP IS X
BETTER THAN FOOTBALL
Annlston, Aln. Tom McClure,
former Auburn football star, de
clares that going over the top in
Franco beats charging into an
opposing eleven. In u letter re
ceived here McCluro tells of go
ing "over tho top" with tho
United States engineers four
times. He wns In the thick of
tho recent hostilities thnt result
ed In. several American casual
tics, but declares the game in
Franco bents football at that.
of that city," said tho youthful refu
gee. "Hundreds died of starvation
when food, Imported for the Inhabit
nuts of tho stricken city, was solzed
by mllttnry nuthorltles and diverted
to rt.0 soldiers. Our friends fell dend
about us Uko fleas. Scores of young
girls sold their souls to the German
soldiers In return for food."
It took five mouths for Miss Molues
out nstern, with a wooden "log" nt the
end, slipped over the rail In n given
number of seconds. This wns uncer
tain, and unfiling winds nnd foul
weather mnde It entirely unreliable.
Many fatal shipwrecks resulted from
inlstnkcs In estimating n ship's position
by dend reckoning. Knglnnd lost sev
eral of her best ships of war In tho
eighteenth century by their losing
their bearings nnd crashing upon a
rocky shore. One of Its bravest ad
mirals, Sir Cloudesley Shovel, lost his
llfo In n wreck caused In this way.
Tho world owes much In navigation
to the Portuguese, ns It wns Prlnco
Etenry tho Navigator of that nation,
who collated all tho ancient lore pn
tho subject, In fhe fifteenth century,
nnd pointed tho way to better means
of determining latitude than by the an
cient astrolnbe and cross staff.
Tho sextant nnd chronometer wero
both of English origin, however, and
wero brought out within five years of
each other, tho sextant In 1731 nnd tho
chronometer an improved clock In
1735. Modern navigation, such ns so
many Americans are studying today,
mny be said to date from tho perfec
tion of theso two instruments.
Huns 72 Days
"For nearly a month nftenvard I
thought my left eye was gone. Tho
scars aro there yet. By the tlmo tho
train stopped, n half-mile on, or more,
I was up nnd stumbled to n hiding
place. Those Germnns looked every
where on tho side of the tracks to
ward the border. I wns In the oppo
site direction.
"It wns n month before I got rid of
my English uniform. I. stole n pair of
overalls ono night. I got n enp the
next and n shirt Inter. A Belgian gavo
mo a scarf. That, was all the help I
got."
As an appetizer Lleutennnt O'Brien
ate turnip. The entree wns sugar beet,
and the meal closed with a cabbage
stump that even the Germnns scorned.
"And I never did like vcgetnbles,"
he snld. "I hope I never have to eat
another."
Ono night n German soldier saw. him
swimming a river, and raised the
alarm.
"I felt sure they would bo on top of
mo In n few minutes," he said, "so 1
ran upstream nnd swnm back to the
other side. I knew tho ways of the
nun pretty well by then. They looked
everywhere on the other side, but not a
Germnn camo near me.
"Ono of the hardest things I did
wns to swim the Meuso river. I had
all my clothes on, to my boots, nnd
tho river was half a mile across. It
nenrly got mo twenty-five feet from
shore. I was choking, nnd I admit
praying.
"When I got up tho bank I fainted
It wns tho only tlmo I ever fainted."
Lleutennnt O'Brien could not speak
German. As a boy, n Momence linker
of Teuton origin tnught him n phrnfe
of Germnn, but ho did not know what
it meant. It was somo "ten lifetimes"
after swimming tho Mouse ho found
tho nine-foot denth fence of tho Hoi
land frontier. Death all but got him
then, as his Improvised ladder dropped
him on the chnrged wires.
"A fow minutes later," he snld; "I
could hnve tripped tho gunrd with my
lndder. After he had gone I dug dug
ns I nover dug before In my life. My
buck wns half an Inch from denth when
I crawled under nnd Into Hollnnd."
ten and her mother to reach Denver
after leaving Jerusalem.
"We witnessed the most heart-rend
ing scenes while traveling through
Austria," the girl declared, "where
roads wero filled with cripples and,
food wns so scarce that the peasants
refused to sell oven small portions nt
fabulous prices offered by tho trav
elers." War Aids Bicycle Trade.
Chicago. War has given new life to
the bicycle, nccordlng to wheel man
ufacturers here, and they nro busy
making bicycles for the American and
nllled armies, which aro used bnck of
the trenches by soldiers. Moiiy more
wheels nro being sold In ttils country,
too, it ts snld.
Pigs Stay In City Limits.
Piedmont, W. Vn. "Pigs Is pigs,"
and ns such they will be pormltted to
thrlvo within tho borough limits. Tho
momentous question wns dccldud al n
'hot special election recently, when tho
hog supporters won out by a majority
of 89.
A Western Canada Crop Estimat
ed at $12,000, Makes
$19,000.
Messrs. Harris, formerly of Audu
bon, Iowa, wrote the "Audubon Advo
cate," expressing their satisfaction of
things In Western Canada. They lo
cated at Makepeace, Alberta.. They
say there nro those who make good,
and thoso who fall. Tho former nro
those that land ngents refer to when
advertising their land. "But," contin
ues tho letter, "A great many of tho
farmers In this vicinity pay for their
land with their first crop. A man
nenr hero bought a section of land in
tho yenr 1015 for $23 per ncre. Ho
broke 800 ncrcs of tho land during tho
summer of 1015. In tho fall of 1010
ho threshed 10,000 bushels of wheat,
which paid for his land, all expenses
nnd hnd n balance of $4,000. In tho
fall of 1917 he threshed nearly as
much off tho other half of the section.
At the present tlmo lie would not take
$50 per acre for his lnnd.
"Wo havo had five crops In Alberta.
Tho two dry years (1914-1017) our
wheat made 20 and 30 bushels to tho
aero respectively. In 1910 wo raised
50 bushels of wheat to tho aero on
summer fallow. Tho best results are
obtained by plowing or breaking In
the summer, working It down In the
fnll bo that it will retain tho moisture.
Thus farming one-half your ground
ench year.
"PersonB owning lnnd here and still
living in the Stntes should, if they
don't feel themselves able to come up
hero and flnnnco themselves until they
could get their first crop, get somo of
their land broken nnd worked down
In tho fall before they come. Tho
next spring they could' come and put
In the crop, fence nnd put up their
buildings. This way they have to
wait only one summer for their first
crop.
"It is not advisable for a person to
como hero in the spring, break out
land and put It in crop tho first yenr,
because tho moisture is not in the
ground and a failure Is almost cer
tain unless It Is an exceptionally wet
year.
"One of the boys from that locality,
Mr. Pcder M. Jensen came to Alberta
last spring. Ho bought a 80-60 Rum
ely Oil-Pull engine on the 8th day of
June, 1917. After that date ho broka
1,100 acres of prairie sod for which t
ho received nn averago of $5.00 per
acre. .
"Mr. Hansen from your community,
was up here last fall with several
prospective land buyers from that
neighborhood. At that tlmo ho In
quired tho value of the crop on the
section wo were farming. We told
him that It would probably make In
tho neighborhood of $12,000. This
samo crop when sold brought nearlj
$19,000. The most of It being sold
when prices wero low for tho year,"
Advertisement''
Sounded Like Lying.
The kid came homo from school and
said : "Hazel Smith is an awful liar oi
else her brother Jlmmlo is."
"Why, Robert," exclaimed the moth
er, "you mustn't talk thnt way. Wha(
do you mean?"
"Well, I ast Jlmmle how mnny sis
tcrs he had, an he said two. An' thet
I ast Hazel the same thing, an' sh
said she had only one sister, nn' Jin;
mie stuck to It thnt he had two sisters
So ono of 'cin's n llnr 1"
"Cold In the Head"
! an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Per.
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in tho head" will nnd that the use ol
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Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh maj
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Might Have to Say Them Twice.
Whilo snowbound nt his aunt's house
my son Hnrold was put to bed tcmpiv
rnrlly, waiting for the storm to eensu
Aunt Edith snld to him: "Harold, whj
don't you say your prayers?" and h
sweetly answered: "I don't know If 1
should say my prayers because I don't
know If I'm going to sleep here ti
alght." Chlcngo Tribune.
To Dyspeptics: Others have found i
tend j courso of Garfield Tea a pleasant
means of regaining health. Why not you!
Adv.
Afraid of Churches.
"You seldom go to churh.",
"No. I wns married In one." De
troit Free Press.
Tho Difference.
"Thnt young nctress, I see, Is Just
nooning nlong."
"I thought she wns starring."
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pollots nre tlia
iriglnnl little liver pills put up 40 years
vgo. They regulato liver and bowels. A d.
It is sometimes difficult to convince
ho world thnt you havo brains unless
ion havo monoy.
Wash day is smile day if you uee Bed
h-oss Ball Blue, American made, therefor
the beat made. Adv.
A finllo Is spiritual sunlight but it
ins Somo rough clouds to chaso off of
ionic mighty rough faces.
