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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1919)
WHAT OUR DEFENDERS COST I SHORT BUT EVENTFUL LIFE ! LIVE ON ARTIFICIAL ISLAND At Home It Is $327 and Overseas $423 a Year for Each Man In the Service. Statistics have been collected by the clothing (i lid equlpnge, subsistence, conservation, reclamation nml hard ware and metals division of the quar termasters' corps, United States army, to Indicate Just what It costs a year to maintain a soldier overseas and in the United States. These, according to the Army and Navy Journal, show that the cost Is S423.-17 a year to equip and maintain a soldier overseas and $327.78 to equip and maintain one In the United States. Subsistence, figured at 09 cents a day, amounts to .?251.8.r yearly for each man overseas; figured at fl cents a day In the United States, It amounts to 5189.S0. The cost of the lnltinl equipment for the soldier the first year In the United States Is $115,150. while the cost of his additional equipment for the first year overseas Is $42.41. Thus It appears that if the soldier going overseas did not take with him n great deal of his equipment alrertdy supplied in the United States the con trast between the cost of equipping and maintaining a soldier in this coun try nml abroad would be much more marked. Not only Is the amount of equipment needed abroad greater than that needed In this country, but the statistics of the conservation and re clamation division show that equip ment and clothing overseas are subject to much harder use, wear out more quickly and are less effectively re claimed than similar material, cloth ing and equipment used In the United States. The amount of reclamation of each Individual soldier's equipment in this country Is $75.80 a year, while the amount of reclamation of similar ma terial abroad Is but $33.31. Marie Pauline Bonaparte Crowded Many Adventures Into Her Few Years of Fortune's Smiles. Mnrlc Pauline Honaparto was ono of the numerous family of brothers and sisters of the great Napoleon. She wns quite the most beautiful of le girls and the gayest In nature wo qualities that endenred her to her Illustrious brother, but that also rought her more or less Into trouble. Like the rest of them, she was bora AJaccIo and shared the rise of tho family fortunes. When she wns sev- nteen she married one of Napoleon's tnff olllcers, General Lo Clerc, and went to live at St. Domingo, lie died In 1S02 and, as a young widow, a mero glii of twenty-two, she came to enjoy tho society of Paris. She wns exceed ingly popular, had her portrait dono as Venus reclining on a couch after the artistic fashion of the times), and married the Prince Uorghese. She went to Home with him, but tired of It there and went bnck to her beloved arls. Various escapades started gos- Ip about her especially her rather offhand treatment of Mario Louise, which caused her rentovnl from court. This sobered her n bit, and she nc- ompnnlcd her brother In his first exile to Elba and begged, after his overthrow, to live, with him at St. Helena. Hut this request was denied her and she died In her favorite city, arts, of cancer. She was nbout forty-five and still young looking and xceedlngly beautiful. TRAGEDY ABOVE THE CLOUDS Individual Combats and Disasters That Test the Nerves and Wits of the Flying Fighters. Though airplane battles are tre mendously exciting for all those par tieipating In them, tt Is not always in actual contilct that the nerves and wits of flyers are tested to the utmost. Jinny adventures may be met In tamer pur suits. Every now and then conies tho ronr of a gun from below, followed by flash es of blue and red, harsh, nncry explo sions right and left, front and rear; the disappearance in flnmes sometimes of what till then had been a welcome companion on the wing, the drone of some hardy adventurer strenuously on deavorlng to climb Into the night, and now and then the awful spectacle of a machine emerging safely from smoke cloml only to go smash Into nn olher traveling In a different direction. An awful smash, a hideous explo sion, smoke, human cries, Uames and then, with volcanic Intensity, the sud den plunging Into the abyss not only of what a few moments previously were two magnificently equipped bomb throwers, but four human souls, brave, proud, youthful and adventurous. Washington Star. Blondin's Feat Recalled. In the whirligig of momentous world events it Is not strange that there should pass almost unnoticed a few days ago the fifty-eighth anni versary of Iilondln's exploit of cross ing Xingara gorge on a four-inch tight rope, n feat that still stands the acme of daring and nerve. One of the thousands of spectators that lined the river hank was the prlnci of Wall's, late King Edward. This was the first time anyone had crossed NT agara gorge on a rope. Itloudfu ear rled a man on his shoulders on one trip, wheeled a wheelbarrow over on n second trip, and on a third trip ear rled a stove on his balancing rod and fixing it on the rope, cook"d calces and threw them to people in small boats below on the river. Blondln was after ward killed In Paris. lie made a test In 1S.7J, and in the following year successfully car ried out his feat, October 10, 1SG0, The Thirsty Ssilor. Here's one they are telling about a British sailor nttil a civilian host : The civilian brought out a bottle of bourbon and took a drink, neglecting to offer 'one to the sailor. He did tills about three times and then thought that the sailor might Ilk to "wet his whistle. "Are you thirsty?" he asked th wdlor. "Yes, muchly so," answered the tar, Whereupon the civilian went out and got him a glass of water. "I said I was thirsty," said the sail or, "not dirty." SETTLED QUESTION OF VOTE Decision of English Registrar Almost Worthy to Rank With That Mado Famous by Srlomon. Not since tho dnys of Solomon, per haps, hns a more perplexing problem confronted a judge than that recently presented to an election registrar In England. A certain voter possessed i house which stood half In one parish raid half In another. The question consequently nroso as to In which par- tsh, or whether not, Indeed, In both, tho householder was entitled to vote. After some discussion a ray of light as vouchsafed to Solomon. In which larlsh, be demanded, was the ninn's bedroom? Unfortunntel.v, In both. Then was It that Solomon stood fully evealcd; tho Infant, of mature years, sltould be cut In twain. The parish In which the head of tho bed stood hould havo tho honor of tho vote Which Is all very well, except that there are many voters whose feet tako them to the polling booth, but whoso heads are no good when they get there Does not tho Italian proverb say, "If n man has not a head he .should havo fect." Christian Science Monitor. Salt Water Natives Who Wage An Al. most Constant War on Solomon Head Hunters. Unlit up artificially on reefs or sandy pits, numbers of miniature Is lands dot the tranquil waters of shel tered coves among tho Solomon Is lands, Oertrude Emerson writes In Asia Magazine. Here live, separate from the head hunters who Inhabit tho unhealthful mangrove swamps and un dulating grasslands of tho Interior or tho lofty spurs running down to tho sea, a salt-water people more or less nt enmity with the bushmeti. Yet these salt water people are as fond of their fruits and vegetables, for which thero Is no room on their narrow, frowned Island, as the junglefolk nro of their llsh. Truce Is declared on regular bi weekly market days and on neutral territory nlong the coast the women of both peoples meet and do their bar gaining. Tho dwellers on the artificial Islands nrc skillful In all things per taining to the sea, especially In tho building and handling of canoes. For upon this slender thread their exist ence hangs. Tho elnborately carved, crescent-shaped canoes may always bo seen plying busily among tho Is lands. Frequently they are tho only sign of human habitation In a world of otherwise empty sen and rooted palms, When the Interminable circle of tho horizon softens and disappears and tho fever-laden evening mists creep In, when the pale waters reflect as In a jnlrror the burnt-out sky of day, tho canoes, silhouetted against the lumin ous water, slide swiftly to tho method ical beating of paddles, accompanied by tho low barbaric chanting of dark tklnncd men. FROM MINDS' SECRET PLACES King Vlctlm-of His Own Jest. Probably tho greatest admirer of perfumes nmong tho old Asiatic mon nrchs seems to have been Antlbchus Epipiianes the Illustrious, king of Sy rla, according to Don Martin, who has gone Into this perfumery question for tho Los Angeles Times. At all An tiocbus' feasts, games and processions perfumes held tho premier place. The king was once bathing In tho public baths, when some private per son attracted by the fragrant odor which he shed around, necosted him saying: "You are a happy man, O king, you smell In a most costly man ner." Antlochus, being much pleased with the remark, replied: "I will give you as much as you desire of this per fume." The king then ordered a largo ewer of thick unguent to be poured on tho flatterer's head and a multitude of poor people soon collected around to gather what was spilled. This caused the king Infinite amusement but It made the place so greasy that ho slip ped and fell on his bnck In a most -n dignified manner, which put an end to his merriment. Come the. Materials for Dreams Which Sometimes One Finds So Hard to Explain. You read n book and forget every word of It. Years later a scene from the same book, will come Into your mind as n dream ; you will not recog nize It and will marvel where It came from. Or you will see a person casual ly on the street and be perfectly uiv conscious of It. Hut every experience Is registered In the mind somewhere, nnd some day you may see that sanio person In a dream. Perhaps some of the great store of Impressions bidden away In your unconscious mind will come to tho surface In a dream In such a way that you will feel that there Is something mysterious about It. An old lady onco told the writer of n dream she had, citing It as a com plete Justification of her belief In spirits. While on n shopping tour she mislaid n valuublc umbrella, and for tho life of her could not remember what she had done with It. It worried her considerably, and that night she had a dream In which she saw herself go Into a restaurant, hang up the um brella, and after eating her lunch go away, forgetting It. New York World. The Tomato In History. Edward Albes of the Pan-American union, In discussing the matter of tho tomato, said a number of yenrs ago that the word "tomato" seems to bo ol Aztec origin, and given as "tomntl" by some authorities and as "Ixtomate" bj others. Tho word still persists In some of tho older Mexlcnn town names, as, for examples, "Tomatlnn" and "Tomntepec." The weight of opinion nmong historical botanists ts that the plant and culture for edlhlo purposes began In Peru, whence It spread to other parts of tropical America. It Is known that It wns cul tivated for Its fruit In the wnrm cli mates of America centuries before tho coming of Columbus to this continent. Monarch's Costly Whim. King Alfonso's ruined palace of Sn Ildefonso nt La Granja Is one of the freaks nnd one of the glories of Spain. It was a Bourbon monarch who Invent ed It at the beginning of the eigh teenth century. Philip V was out hunt ing one day and rested at a sunny farm called the Grange, occupied by monks. The monks had humored tho moun tain upon whoso slopes the farmhouse was built and had made their beautiful gardens conform to the ways of the giant. Hut the king compelled tho moun tain to obey him. Ho blasted smooth places on precipitous slopes, carry ing away thousands of tons of earth and stones, and from tho valley be low ho brought up miles of fertile earth to form new fields and gardens, Hy the time he had finished creating a new landscape and filling tho new Versailles with the beat pictures his tasto suggested, Philip was ready to die In debt to the tune of 45,000,000 pesetas. For that Is the sum which the monarch spent on San Ildefonso. T. JUDY & SONS FIRST Bred Stock Bale If you don't sloop well nt night from nervousness, Indigestion or urin ary troubles, you need Prickly Ash Dlttor8. It purifies tho systom and ro- llevoft tho kldnoys nnd blnddor. Prlco $1.25 por bottlo. Gummoro-Dont Drug Co., Special Agonts. OF 1919. Kearney, Nek., March 4th, At our sale barn end pnvillion just outside of east city limits, near the Burlington railroad tracks consisting"of Percheron French Draft 5 Shire Stallions A CHOICELY BRED LOT OF Duroc Jersey and Poland China Sows Bred to our excellent herd boars. Some choice sows and gilts among these. A GOOD LOT OF Polled Durham Bulls Cows and Heifers The cows and heifers are bred to our "Shaver Creek Lord," Jr., champion Iowa State Fair 1915. A good useful lot. w.i JIK7 ..... rw it v" - awn'" T rLEClRlCITY til This stock is in excellent breeding condition and they should prove profitable to the purchaser. Do not fail to attend this sale. Come early as it is a large sale and we should start soon after noon. We expect to give you a free lunch at early noon, so be sure to get here on time to be with us. Parties attending from a distance will find en tertainment at the Union Pacific Hotel. Send for catalogue to W. T. Judy. Now thnt tho usual Now Ycnr'8 resolutions nro mado and broken 5lnko ono worth wlillo Ono you'll keep I Itesolvo right now that from this on, you'll mnko Electricity do all tho hard part of your housoworlc. Mnko It light your home next to sunlight. Malto It wash, Iron, cook, clean llko up othor servant can bo mado to do llko ovon you, yoursolf, enn't do. Then you'll onjoy real house keeping gonulno homo-makfiig. Thoro's a world of sug gostlonn In Our Shop. All of us aro thorough Elec trical mon rondy to help you plan nnd Bolect. .Make (lie Itosnlutlon You'll liccp It! NORTH PLATTE LIGHT AND POWER CO. ' Ostentatious Words. Why cannot scientific persons who undertake to he Informing to the pub lie learn to display their learning less ostentatiously anil to convey their meaning more Intelligibly? One health authority tells us profoundly that "an- j the world's service. What would wo Borneo Not Yet Civilized. Although civilization has mado ex t'cllent progress In some pnrts of tho East Indies, barbarous practices by the natives on tho Island of Borneo still continue, according tb O. K. Iloey, a merchant of Bntuvla," Jnvn. lie said that traders who visit Isolated sections of Borneo found It neccssnry to re main constantly alert In order to guard against attacks by Dyaks, who, how ever, are gradually being driven farth er Inland. "On the Islnnd of Ball tho men still lond themselves up with mnny Jewels nnd henvy chains as ornaments," ho declared. "The natives mnko good In comes from their rlco fields nnd traf fic In pearls, but until a Phort time W. T. JUDY & SONS, COLS. JOE SHAVER, CHARLES OLSON AND PARK CRUS1NBERRY, Auctioneers DOCTOR D. T. QI7IGLKY. Practice Llmltod to Surgery and Jludium Therapy '2S City National Itank Building. 0 in ana, Nebraska. KIERIG PUBLIC SALE! H Having eold my lease en my ranch, I will ofTor at Public Auction 2 miles i north and 1 mile east of North Platte, on tho old George Patterson 5 Dairy Ranch, on Thursday, February 27, 1919, Commencing at 12 o'clock, tho following described property: The Mule. To our mind tho one breathing thing cymaHgncd the No more j ' iiiuu-wui limn liuuiiiiu ttuiin mi. earth ; none with n more faithful past record; none now moro In demand In orexla" also Is present with Spanish Influenzn. We take this, from the dic tionary, to menu loss of appetite, which really would not be n bad thing these days; hut unless it Is assumed that nobody but medical men are to hove the disease, It might be well to give the miscellaneous lay public a chance to kno.v what may all It. Very UU ly. "The political and military situation this month will he In one respect like thefnmlly one.'1 "now so?" "There will -be a carving up of Tur key about Thanksgiving." do In this war without tho mule? What can we do without him after the war li over? Still he Is despised and kick d around worse than though ho were u hound dog. It Is a shame. In tho readjustment of things, let us right this wrong nnd, If wo hnve anything to flay to the mule, let us say It to his face, which Is wiser than saying It to bin beds. Los Angeles Times. A Drawback. An nutomobilo has n big advantage over a horse, as it never gets fatigued." "Perhaps not, but Us wheels are olways. tlrod," Waging War on the Rabbit. i Australia has spent millions In fight ing n pest of rabbits, for which a mnn who turned loose threo pairs of rob I bits In New South Wales, In 1850, Is ' responsible, nnd which hns made nec essary a woven-wlre fence 1,200 miles i long, shutting off the fertile ngrlcul ' tural regions from tho central and eastern semi-desert nrens, where rab- bits most abound. We have n few rabbits In our own country west of the Itockles. According to the biological survey of the department of agricul ture, fully 200,000,000 wild rabbits nre annually killed In this country, yet men touring across the continent In variably speak of tho numbor of rab bits seen. 65 Head of Cattle. Nine good milch cows, some fresh soon;0 two-ycnr-old heifers, fresh soon; 12 yearling heifers, 10 coming yearling heifers, 3 thrue-yar-old steers, 10 two-year old steers, 10 yearling steers, 4 suckling chIvcs, 1 two-year-old White Fnco bull. 3 Horses 1 Mule, 1 sorrel gelding six yenrs old wt. 1100, nnd broke; 1 blnck saddle mare six years old wt. 1000, 1 black colt coming two yenrs old, 1 dnrk brown mule five years old wt. 1300. Farm Machinery. 1 Deering mower in good condition, stacker, sweep, hny rnkc, good disc, John Deere riding lister nearly new, C, B. & O. corn planter with bur openors nearly new, 3-bottom disc gang plow. 2 sets ot work harness in good repair, good single harness, good saddle wt. 3.r lbs, Bell (-ream Separator, FREE LUNCH AT 11:30 O'CLOCK. TERMS All sums under $20 cash, above that sum 8 months time will bo eivn at 10 per cent interest. r"KillGr"oJBR. RAY C. LANG FORD, Clerk, HOWARD RASOR, Auctioneer. i.t i.t i.t i.t i.t t.t 1:1 j.t :.: t.t :.: t.t t.t t.t s.t t.t t.t t.t i.t t.t t.t i.t i.t t.t t.t i.t . :.: i.t i.t t.t t.t t.t it t.t t.t i.t t.t t.t t.t i.t i.t t.t t.t t.t t.t i.t t.t tt tit i.t t.t t.t :.t :.t Notlco of Petition. Estate No. 1G28 ot Dora Wostonfold, doconsod In tho County Court ot Lin coln County, Nobraska. Tho Stnto of Nobraska, To all per sons Interested in said Eotato tako notlco that a petition has boon filed for tho probato of an Instrument pur porting to ho tho last Will and Tost nmont of Dora Wostonfold, deceased, and for tho appolntmont of Ilonry Wostonfold nnd E. T. Tramp ob Ex ecutors ot said Will, which has boon sol for hearing heroin on March 11, 1.019, at 10 o'clock n. m. Dated Fobr. 13, 1919. Wm. II. C. WOODIIURST, FlS-3w County Judge. I-Jstniy Notlco. Taken up on tho Kolth ranch on or about Soptouibor 1, 1918, a White Faco coming two-year-old bull. No brands. Owner call, provo property, pay chargos and tako animal away. II. SCIIUIEVER. Maxwoll, Nob. Intension (o Road No. 130. To whom It may concern: Notlco Is. horcby glvon that tho Spccinl Commissioner nppolnhod to locate a road as follows: Commencing ono qunrtor of a mllo north from tho south-west corner of soctlon 35 nnd southeast cornor of soctlon 34, township 13, rango 29, nnd running thenco north on soctlon lino I between sections 34 and 35, township j 13, rnngo 29, throo quarters of a mllo land connoct with County Road No. j:io, said road to bo forty (40) feet In width, has roportcd ln favor thoro of, all claims for dnmagos or objec tions thereto must bo filed ln tho of fico of tho County Clork on or boforo 12 o'clock noon of tho 24th day of I April, 1919, or said road will ho allow , cd without roforonco thoroto. I Dated at North Platto, Nob., this il7th day of February, 1919. j flS-4w A. S. ALLEN, County Clork I NOTICIJ OF 1IKARINO .To all Persons Interested in the Ks i lato of Woodward It. Yohe, I Deceased. ..... Would We Hesitate. To mnny, perhaps, to most of us, -nvlng In these times of high prices Is 'MIlruR, and to get the money for a I ind may mean some deprivation. So It Is when some dear member of the family Is sick unto death and the ex pense of medical advice and Mirgleal -UIII and care Is mounting t figures that It seems as If we coin' never n'cet. Do we hesitate? No ; we pledge Hie last dollar and nre glad to do It. Mow should we feel five years from ' ow If we were to have locked In our lieiirts the knowledge that our mother M.untry perished because we withheld the things that would have sustained l:er strength when she was lighting the powers of death and darkness? Youth's Companion. LKGAl, NOTICIJ Chance for Daddy. Richard watched hN mother knitting xocUr for some time, then ho looked up at Ills father, who vn rending near by and asked: "Daddy, don't you ulsh you were n soldier?" Ills father replied: "Yes. -Why?" and Teddy -ald; "Cans den you could get all dose socks inoJhcr knits for othot mans," Julia Thayer, If nlivo and If do ceased, her dovlsees, legatees or per sonal rcprcsontntlvos, nnd all other persons Interested In tho cstnto of said Julia A. Thayer and all porsons who havo, or claim to havo, any In terest, right, title, estate or lien In, to, or upon tlio Northeast. Qunrtor (NE Vi) of Section 11, In Township 9, Rango 34, In Lincoln county, Nobras ka, defendants, will tako notlco thnt on the 21st day of February, 1919, Waltor A. Chamberuln, plaintiff horo In, filed his petition in tho district court of Lincoln county, Nebraska, against snid defendants, tho object and prayer of which aro to obtain a decreo of said court against onch and all of said defendants quieting the tl tlo In plaintiff in and to the North east Qunrtor (NE'4) of Soctlon 11, TowiiBhlp 9, Rango 34, In Lincoln county, Nebraska, and to remove all clouds of record against such title. Tho dofondants aro required to ans wer said petition on or before the 14th day of Opril, 1919. WALTER A. CHAMBERLAIN. Plaintiff. By Hongland & Honglond, Ills Attornoy. f2C-ml4 You nro hereby notified that on tho 17th day of February, 1919. J. E. Hall fllod his petition in tho district court of Lincoln county, Nobraska, tho object and prayor of which nro to obtain a decreo authorizing nnd dl- I rcctlng Nettlo R. Yoho, executrix of said ostato, to oxecuto and dollvor to him a doed containing full convoy nnco of wurrauty to tlio following de ' scribed real estnto, to-wlt: Tho I Northeast ono-fourth nnd tho North ono hundred acros of tho Northwest , ono-fourth In Section Thlrty-llvo, Township Nino, North, of Rnngo iThlrty-ono, west ot the Oth P. M.. Lincoln county, Nobraska. In pur suance with tho tonus of a certain 1 written contract between said Wood ward R. Yoho, now deceased, and J. E. Hall, said petition will bo heard at Chambers at the court house In the City of North Platto. Nobraska, on tho 5th day of April, 1919, at tho hour of 10 o'clock a. m. ' It Is further ordered that notlco of tho pondoncy of this potltlon and of tho tlnio and place fixed for tho hoar- Ing thereon bo given by publication for six successlvo weoks In tho North ' Platto Semi-Weekly Trlbuno, a legal nowspnpor published twlco a week at North Platto, In Lincoln county, In tho Btnto of Nebraska. i Datod this 17th day of February, 1919. II. M. GRIMES. fl8-al District Judgo.
