THE 8EMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA.
MARINES
NO FEAR
Wounded Arc Only Anxious to Get
Back Where the Battle
Is Raging.
ONLY CONTEMPT FOR ENEMY
Bay When They Get Into Actual Fight
Ino Contact With Foe Thero
Is No Fight Left
In Him.
London. A nnvnl nttnclic who saw
nbout r0 American marines In hospltnl
Buffering from wounds or gassing In
the recent German offensive found
every one of them full of cheer regard
ing the future; every one anxious to
Ket well and lo hack In the fighting
line. And every one of them held n
poor opinion of Frit 7! as n fighting man.
They were unanimous, the attache de
clared, In mating that the Germans
were long-dlstnnce fighters only. Ah one
of them said:
"They aro not bo had when they are
60 yards nway with a machine gun, hut
nt close quarters the Gorman soldiers
are no good."
Marino after marine assorted that
when ho and his comrndes got Intrrnc
ttial fighting contact with the enemy
there was no fight left In him. Then
the Germans would throw down their
guns, and. wnvlng their hands over
their heads, cry out "ICamerad I"
Feel Contempt for Huns.
"Our men," added the nttachc, "gave
mo the Impression of looking with ut
ter contempt upon the Gorman soldiers,
who can fight only when they feel that
they havo tho protection of artillery
and gas, and surrender when It comes
to hand to hand fighting.
'Tar from feeling tho slightest dread
of tho enemy, every man expressed
eagerness to get out of hospital and
return to tho front. Every ono of them
wanted a chance of getting even with
the Germans for having been gassed
or wounded.
"Tho men wero Justly proud of tho
record that tho marines had made, and
their morale appeared to be of tho
very highest quality. The cheerful
ness of nil, Including some Infantry In
the wnrds, may bo summarized 'by tho
remark of ono recovering from gas:
'Why,' ho said, 'there's nothing In It.
When nil of us marines got going, wo
will wipe Fritz oft the map, and wo
will eat our next Christmas dinner at
homo nt that."'
A British officer who has seen much
of tho American marines nt their head
quarters In France, and seen them nt
work against tho Boche, writing' on
what ho describes as "nn Instructive
gllmpso at tho American war spirit
PRINCESS IS NURSE
This picturo of Her Itoynl Highness,
Princess Mary, only daughter of their
inojestlcs, King Goorgo and Queen
Mary, shows her In the garb Of a Bed
Cross nurse.
Her Itoynl .Highness has commenced
her duties as a Ited Cross nurse and
Is serving us a probationer at tho Hos
pltnl for Sick Children, London.
DIES AS FOE FLEES
British Aviator Killed in Triangu
lar Fight.
Salvation Army Truck Driver Figures
In Tragic Air Dattle at
the Front.
ParlH. Dying In the arms of n Sal
vation Army slipply truck driver nt
tho front In France, a British aviator
who had Just been crashed to earth
In n despernto triangular bnttlo In tho
sky had tho satisfaction of witness
ing the defeat of his Germnn antag
onist by n French plnno Just before lie
drew his Inst breath.
The struggle, urcordlng to a report
reaching hero occurred recently Jusi
behind tho allied II ties in France, and
wns witnessed by Niuisom GlfTord,
eighteen-year-old son of Col. Adam
GlfTord, head of tho Salvation Army for
New Krigland, and residing In Uoston.
HAVE
OF HUNS
and American efllclcncy in the field,"
says :
"On the raids to the front there Is
perpetual movement. Hundreds of mo
tor lorries, each one packed with
French ooltllors, pass us In quick suc
cession on their way lo another part
of tho line. Again and again we pass
bodies of American troop on tho
march, then n group of women and
children. Although the road winds
over tho face of a well tilled country
side, few birds are seen, except for an
occasional pair of ring doves. Such Is
tho Incongruity of war!
Aircraft Hum Continuous.
"We find the marines' headniiarters
at an old farmhouse, shut In on every
side by woods. Hero the hum of air
craft Is continuous, and links up the
Intermittent crnsh of artillery (Ire. A
Hoche observation balloon hangs above
the woods to eastward, and a 'woolly
boar' shell lays a vivid black smuduc
against the limited skyline ahead. In
the nirmyurd we seem to stand In n
little world nnnrt. hut the sounds of
adjacent flghtlng aro close nbout us.
"A marine ofllcer who has had no
sleep for three nights comes In, dusty
hut cheerful, from the trenches. The
marines are doing themselves proud
out there, ho says. Thero has been
some stiff lighting in the woods, but
tho Roche will have to shift soon; that
Is the opinion of (his old campaigner,
who has fought by sea and lnnd all
over the globe. Wo leave tho farm
under tho guidance of n young lieu- I
tenant, a 'broth of a boy,' with the
faco of a Greek god.
CAN'T KEEP A .
GOOD SHIP DOWN
Half of Torpedoed Craft of Great
Britain Have Been
Salvaged.
METHODS GREATLY IMPROVED
Much Greater Weights Than Believed
Possible Are Now Being Lifted
No Hope of Ever Raising
Lualtanla.
London. Of 400 Hrltlsh ships sunk
In the last t,o and a half years at
least 50 per cent have been raised
from the bottom of the sen. The or
ganization responsible the Admiralty
Salvago department Is composed en
tirely of exports employed by n com
mercial firm which engaged In tho busi
ness before tho wu. Ships were so
cheap then, however, that often It did
not pay to raise a sunken wreck and
restore her to seagoing condition.
Things aro very different now, and
ihc result Is that invention has been
stimulated to an extraordinary oxtent.
It used to be considered that l,r00
tons was tho greatest weight that
could bo lifted from under water by
wlro ropes. A sunken government chi
ller that was obstructing a fairway
wns lifted out of tho mud recently and
carried nwny by four lifting ships, with
sixteen 0-Ihch wire ropes, unit tho
deadweight carried was calculated at
2,7l0 tons. Tho wreck wns shifted
ono mile at the first lift, nnd so was
gradually taken to the beach, patched
up and sent oft to the repairing yard.
She went back Into service and mnde
several voyages before a torpedo end
ed her career altogether.
Cannot Raise Lualtanla.
Ships sunk In deep water cannot bo
salved. It Is not expected thnt tho'
Lusltimla, for example, will ever be
lifted. Divers cannot work In more
limn 25 fathoms successfully, though
for special purposes they may some
times go down to 35 fathoms for n
brief spell of work.
Tho bulk of the ships saved have
been1' sunk In less than 20'futhoms, or
huvo been towed Inshore by rescue
lugs, and have gone aground In fairly
easy positions.
The salvage men f ace considerable
risks, not only from bad woather but
also from submarine nttack. Only one
Young Glfford was huullni: sunnlles to
hutments ulniii: the line, when sudden.
ly three big planes circled Immediately
over uls head and opened up a terrific
fight.
In n short tlmo ono plnno shot down
ward In flames and crushed to earth
less than 100 feet from Glfford's truck.
Tho young Salvationist ran to the
wreckage, and after desperate efforts
extricated thu broken und bleeding avi
ator, who was still alive. Two French
soldiers, who had been concealed nenr
by rnn up, and noting tho condition of
the aviator, raced off In different di
rections for a doctor nnd ambulance.
Voting Glfford held tho dying airman In
his arms, onnhtltfg him to lie buck, and
with fast closing eyes gnzo at tho con
flict still raging Immediately over their
heads. The From h plane put the Ger
man to rout, whereupon the English
tighter with a smile relaxed and ex
pired In tho arms of tho Salvationist.
Glfford states that for n month ho
has not had hlB shoes off, nnd thnt this
is no uncommon occurrence with tho
supply drivers. Ho spent 21 hours un
der his truck on n subsequent trip
when It ran off tho rond Into n ditch,
"A rough cart truck runs hehihd a
belt of woods, and in this vicinity tho
American artillery is stationed. Wo
approach one of the butteries, well hid
den even at close quarters. A tele
phone fixed to a tree trunk rings sharp
ly, and the captain, cnploss and with
out tunic, n megaphone in one hnnd,
answers the call.
" 'Very good, sir!' IIo swings 'round
to the guns.
'"On barrage I Flrel
"Through the megaphone his order
penetrates to every corner of tho wood,
nnd the gunners leap to their work In
a moment. Crash I Crash-Crash!
Crash ! The guns fling out their deaf
ening message of death almost simul
taneously, and In tho momentary si
lence between the rounds the whizz of
the shells can bo heard as they fly on
their way to the wood where the Hoche
still lingers.
"It is real team work, this gunnery,
nothing else describes Itthe work of
a team, perfectly trained, In which
keenness and elllclency produce n re
sult beyond praise. For a time salvo
follows salvo. Then comes the order
'Cease flrel' and silence descends upon
the battery."
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HERE'S GREAT CHANCE
FOR WAR PROFITEERS
Manchester. Conn. James
Velch has n hen which lays
freak eggs once a week. They J
nro usually of large size. Tho T
latest one, a dpublo egg, meas- &
tired H Inches In clrcumfer- A.
once and 7, Inches around the 1
center. In the center of the 7
larger egg was a smaller one.
the shell of which was harder
than the one outside.
salvage ship, however, has been lost
through enemy nctlon.
One of the largest oil tank, steam
ships was mined nnd cnught fire.
There was a heavy explosion and the
decks were flooded with burning oil.
The cargo consisted largely of benzlno.
Most persons would conclude thnt the.
case was hopeless. Not so. The ves
sel wns scuttled by gun fire nnd thus
tho fire was extinguished. Then divers',
plugged nil the shot holes, besides clos-i
In'g other apertures. On being pump-,
ed out tho vessel floated nnd wns
forthwith taken to n repairing port.
New Pump Is Valuable.
As showing how vnlunble Is the new
submerslblo electric motor pump, n.
recently torpedoed ship which carried
a cargo (mnlnly foodstuffs) df more,
than $15,000,000 value had a hole 40
feet long by 28 feet deep In her side.
She was taken In tow by rescue tugs,
but went down beforo tlmo had served
to bench her suitably. No ordinary
pumping power would have served the
need, but the new type pump enabled
stokehold, engine room nnd all her af
ter holds to be pumped out, so thnt
cargo could be discharged and the ves
sel taken higher up the bench. Then
the lightening proooss was continued
until the vessel wns floated and tnken,
Into dock, practically I1 her cargo be
ing saved.
The number of the ships of. the mer
cantile marine actually solved by tho
department In two yenrs from 1015 to
1017 wns 2(50. All these vessels were
of big tonnage. For the present year
the, monthly totnls of such vessels,
salved were: .January, 14; February,
41 ; March. 87 ; April, 30, nnd May, 10.
Thus tho department has saved 407
Important vessels of tho mercantile
marine. This does not Include vessels
salved outside of homo waters.
Tho larger figures of the lnttcr pe
riod wero due, not to Increased enemy
activity but to Improved snlvage meth
ods. Many risks nro -ran by the divers,
particularly from gases generated by
decomposed vegetables and ment In.
the holds of sunken ships, deaths hav
ing resulted from this cause. Grain. It
seems, develops sulphuretted hydro-,
gen, which occnslons blindness and
violent sickness.
A chemist, however, has found a
preparation which when sprayed on a
rotting cargo Immediately kills the
gases and enables meir to enrry on
their work In safety.
with shells dronnlnc nrnutid If nil .inv
alid half the night.
SLAPS WAR PROFITEER TWICE
Mother Hands Boastful Passenger
WaMop for Each of Her Sons
In Service.
Monesscn, Pn.-'Tm ranking big
money, and for my part I wish tho war
would keep up nwhtlo longer," remnrk
ed a man on u street car here, A well
dressed, motherly-looklng woman nroso
"n nmn n st,Klnff slap, with
Tako that for my son In Franco I And
take thnt for my other son who Is In
camp waiting to go to Franco I" she
snld us sho nppllod tho same trentment
to the other cheek. The man took ids
punishment without saying a word.
Postwoman In Wyoming.
Pino llluffs, Wyo. Wyoming hns its
.Orst woman mail carrier. Miss Ellzn
both Butledgo of this placo Is n
charge of tho rural route between hero
and Galllo. Sho took tho placo of Her
bert Foulks, called In tho last draft.
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BUILD STANDARD EGG CASES
Railroad Classification Requirement!
Outlined Make Compartments
of Same Size.
(Prepared by tho United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Do you know the rnllrond classifica
tion requirements for n standard egg
inse? If not, you should; so hero they
J.re
Standard. Egg Case. 'l-IO-lnch ve
(leeri ; T-IG-Inrh ends und centers ; 7-10
by l'i-lnch cleats; 7-10-Inch center
board must bo nailed In middle of case.
W FLAT OVtH
L.-"Vtrt0 wmtof
fur cej9nria
CUSmOH on
mis not K
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I HJT PLAT O0t
tit if m KUlfhl I
tor riAt
SC StrocTf am a or
VHrORJI SHICXNCSS
rfS CUSHION F4U3T
er SMOOTH AVO OF
uniform rticitrrss
Right Way to Arrange Strawboard,
Excelsior, Cork Shavings or Cut
Straw for Fillers.
The two' compartments must be of the
same size.
Fillers. Hard calendered straw
board. Set to consist of ten trays nnd 12
flats.
Pack top of cnuo with corrugated
cushions, excelsior, cork shavings, or
cut straw.
Pack bottom of case with corrugated
cushion, -lnch cushion fillers, excel
sior, cork shavings, or cut straw.
Use flat between eggs, both top and
bottom.
Excelsior, cork shavings or cut straw
cushions must bo smooth nnd of uni
form thickness.
Fillers must weigh three pounds foi
ten trnys nnd 12 Huts.
Nails. Third cement-coated, large
head.
Fifteen nails for each side five In
each end; five in center.
Fifteen nails for bottom five . In
each end; live In center.
Eight nails for top flush cleat.
Two nails for top flrop cleat.
Two nails through cleat Into each
plcco of end.
' Nails through cleats ' must bo
clinched.
SELECTION OF POULTRY FEED
Reduce Cost by Using Low-Prlced Sub
stitute Grains Onta Are Cheap
er Than Corn.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
WhlJe farmers, ns a rule, have fed
their poultry the grain that was cheap
est on the farm, many poultry spe
cialists and most small poultry keep
ers hnve been accustomed to use their
favorite poultry feeds without consid
ering cither the quality of the sup
ply or tho possibilities of using cheap
er substitutes.
Uuder normnl conditions, corn In
nearly all parts of the United States
is tho cheapest poultry feed. At tho
present time, onts are nearly every
where cheaper than corn. When corn
goes down to $1.50 a bushel, outs
should be 70 cents nnd barley $1.20
a bushel to give the snmevnluo for
tho money fed to poultry, us corn.
Tho common characters and condi
tions of grain which roughly dotermlno
their values ns poultry feeds are eas
ily estimated by tho eye, or by weight
or bulk in measure or containers of
known capacity.
Good cracked corn Is hard, bright,
clean, free from soft nnd chaffy pnr
tlde. Corn thnt Is crushed (not
cracked), nnd shows much soft, chaffy
nnd scaly matter, should be rated pro
portionately below good cracked corn
In feeding value. Cracked "com In
which any considerable amount of
greenish discoloration appears should
bo rejected as unfit for poultry,
Outs with tho. hulls on lire at onco
soon to contain more Indigestible mat
ter than corn nnd wheat. Again, the
Indigestible hulls covering oats make
thnt grain less palatable to poultry
and Its feeding vnluo must be discount
ed Oats weighing less than tho United
States stnndnrd of 32 pounds to tho
bushel should bo discounted In price
according to the shortngo In weight,
while for weights nbove the stiindnrC
tho usual discount la price may be
reduced.
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PEACH SCAB IS DESTRUCTIVE
Disease May Be Successfully Combat
ed by Applications of Self.
Boiled Lime Sulphur.
(Prepnred by the United Stntes Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Peach scab, next In Importance
economically to the destructive brown
rot among peach diseases In the Unit
ed Slates, may be successfully con
trolled nt small cost by the use of
sprays of self-bolled lime sulphur or
sulphur paste. Before such control
measures were mnde use of by com
mercial peach growers It appeared
that tho disease would Inflict heavy
losses by making Impossible the cul
tivation of certain varieties of peaches
In many of the Importnnt peach-grow-Ing
regions east of the Rocky moun
tains. Pench scab attacks fruit leaves and
twigs, manifesting Itself on the fruit
In serious spotting and cracking. It
brings ubout only superficial Injuries
to the twigs and leaves. When tho
spots are fully developed on the fruit,
they are fulrly well defined, circular,
greenish to black areas. The spots
may be more or less uniformly scat
tered over the upper surface of the
fruit or may become so abundant as to
form largo patchoe.
Though the spraying schedule might
be somewhat different If scab only
was to bo guarded against, the follow
ing spraying plan should be followed
for combating this disease and also
browu rot and the plum curcullo.
Early Varieties. The early varie
ties, such as the Greensboro, Carman,
HI ley, nnd those with similar ripening
periods should be" sprayed ns follows:
(1) With arsenate of lead and lime
about ten days nfter the petals fall,
This application may be omitted In
sections where the curcullo is not a
serious factor.
(2) With arscrtnte of lend and self
bolled lime-sulphur or finely divided
wettablc sulphur about n month after
the petals fall. If the latter type of
fungicide Is used, the addition of lime,
ns lu the first trentmpnt, may be a
desirable precaution ngalnst 'arsenical
Injury.
(3) With finely divided wettnblo sul
phur or self-bolled lime-sulphur three
to four weeks before the fruit ripens,
but nof less than four weeks before
harvest If self-bolled lime-sulphur Is
used.
Mldsenson Varieties. The treat
ment recommended for early peaches
Is applicable, likewise, to mldseasou
vnrletles, such us tho Iteeves, Belle,
Early Crawford, Elberta, Late Craw
ford, and Fox. For such varletlea
however, the third application Is very
I
9 JHK I HI' III V TT i TTTttiTfaT-rT" ' BTlir f-ifyT
1 1 wm i i1 mil mi tviwTMXi-A rmm-4sruiZ
Peach Tree With Strong, Well-Supported
Limbs.
essential and should not be omttted
where brown-rot or scab Injury Is se
rious. Late Varieties. Tho Snlwny, Heath,
IMlyeu, and varieties with similar rip
ening periods should bo fronted as
mldsenson varieties, with the addition
of tin application of the fungicide
alone about a month nfter the second
treatment.
The following concentrations of
spray preparations are recommended
Arsenate of lead pnstc, li4 pounds
(powder, three-fourths pound) In 50
gallons; stone lime, 2 to .1 pounds In
50 gnllons; self-bolled lime-sulphur, 8
pounds of lime and 8 pounds of flour
of sulphur In 50 gallons; nnd finely
divided wettable sulphur, fi pounds In
50 gallons In tho case of tho paste
(approximately 50 per cent sulphur),
used In tho foregoing experiments.
Where curcullo Infestation Is not
severe, finely ground sulphur and pow
dered arsenate of lend applied as n
dust mixture may -be substituted for
the liquid spray In the second appli
cation. Tho finely ground sulphur
without the arsenical may be substi
tuted In the third application. Sul
phur of such fineness that It will pass
through n 200-mesh screen, when ap
plied as a dust, Is nn efficient remedy
for scab. It Is n promising remedy for
the control of brown-rot but Its effi
ciency Is the control of severe enses
Is ns yet uncertain. The nrsennto of
lead-sulphur dust 1b composed of 10
pounds of tho former to 00 pounds of
Iho latter.
DAIRY
GET LARGE-PRODUCING COWS;
Purebred Bull and Only Best Heifers-.
From Best Cows Should Be Chosen
for the Dairy Herd.
(Prepared by the United States Depart,-
ment of Agriculture.)
Breeding furnishes the most econom
ical way to obtain lnrge-produclng:
cows. The purebred bull, with genera
tions of high-producing ancestors back:
of him, must be used for breeding, and.
only the liest heifers from the best
cows should bo chosen to be tho dams
of the next generation. Pure breed
ing nlone does not muko a good sire
Tho purebred sire should como from n
long line of high-producing ancestors
If nn old bull Is selected he should lmvo-high-produclng
daughters. Two courses
ure open to the dnlryman when buy
ing u herd bull; ho can purchase a.
young bull from n good, milk-producing
stock, or ho can purchase an old nnd
tried bull. In either case the bull
should be healthy and from a herd;
free from disease; he should have n
good constitution nnd be of good con
formation. In selecting n young bull
The Tried and Proven Bull Is the Best
Investment.
the buyer should choose ono whose fe
male ancestors lyive uniformly high
records of production, slnco this indi
cates that high production Is a fixed
characteristic of the family. CarefuL
attention should be given to the record:
of the young bull's dam, and after that
to the daughters of his sire. The rec
ords of closely related animals nro
of far more Importance than the fact
that the pedigree may Include, three or
four generations back some excep
tionally high-priced animals.
The tried nnd proven bull Is tho best
Investment. ' When n bull's daugh
ters lire larger producers than their
dams, he has Improved the herd. Many
good bulls, however, nre sacrificed be
fore their worth oan be determined,
which means the continual use of
young bulls whose real vnluo Is not
known. Tho sire should be kept un
til his daughters hnve shown his worth,
nnd If he Is n herd Improver he should
be kept In the community as long as
he Is useful.
The owner of n largo herd of cowa
can well afford to own a flrst-clnss
bull, nnd the bull association has now
made It possible for the owner of a
small herd to own n share In a good,
well-bre'i bull. A co-operative bull as
sociation Is a farmers' organization,
whose chief purpose Is the Joint own
ership, use and exchange of hlgh-clnss,
pure-bred bulls. If skillfully man
aged these associations shovVlbe event
ually the grentest single fnapr In tho
upbulldlng of our dairy 'hc'roM Tho
typical co-operative bull association is;
composed of from 15 to 30 farmers.
It Jointly owns five bulls, nnd divides.
Its territory Into five breeding blocks,
to each of which one bull Is assigned.
As mnny ns 50 or 00 cows may belong
to the farmers In each block, and the
bull should be kept nt some farm con
veniently situated. The blocks are
numbered from one to five nnd to pre
vent Inbreeding ench bull Is moved to
the next block every two years. If all
the bulls live and If nil nre kept un
til ench hns made one complete circuit,
no new bulls need be purchnsed for
ten years. In that way, paying only
a flmall part of the purchase price of
one bull, each member of the associa
tion has the use of good, purebred bulls
for many years. In one association
having more thnn 100 members the
original cost to each was only $23. In
another association of 50 members the
average Investment wns $25. It !
posslblo for each association to con
tinue for ten years or moro without
other additional cost than the main
tenance of the bulls.
Most of tho milk In the United.
Stntes is produced In small herds con
taining four or five cows. Purebred
bulls nro comparatively few In num
ber, and expensive. It Is, therefore,.
Impossible for each dairyman with a
small herd-to own a purebred bull. Be
cause of tho expense It would also be
Impracticable to buy such a bull for a.
small herd. It would further be un
economical to limit tho uso of a good
bull to n few cows, when his use could
be extended to a grenter number of
cows. If purebred bulls could be used.
In nil the grade herds, In a single gen
eration all the offspring would ba ut
least half purebred and would show
Immense Improvement. By means of
tho bull associations It is possible for
small herds to hnve the advuntngo of
good purebrod bulla at tho minimum ofi
cost.