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.
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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.
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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.
