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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. Call New ipiaemic stupor Disease Misnamed "Sleeping Sickness" Is Believed to Be Contagious. MEDICAL EXPERTS PUZZLED iHealth Authorities Declare Strange Illness Has No Relation to "Sleep Ino Sickness," Which Origi nated In Africa. Washington "Epidemic stupor". -Is the nmno tho Ifcaltli authorities have decided to give the now disease, wrongly cnllcd sleeping sickness, which sprung up n few weeks ago. It has Invndcd eighteen American cities and several nnny camps, has taken ficvernl lives and laid hundreds under ,lts spell. The sclentlflc uaine of this new mnl ndy Is lethargic encephalitis. It Is not "sleeping sickness" -and has noth ing to do with the real sleeping sick ness. It has been known for only a fow years, and Its cause and origin nro evon more mysterious than those of tlio Influenza. Tho disease, when It was first dis covered In this country, was found th .bo a form of sleeping sickness com mon In tho Interior parts of Africa, but a closer observation of the symp toms proved this bcllcfto bo unsound. Sleeping sickness ns found In the Jun gles of Africa, Is caused by the blto of n peculiar Insect, known ns the tsotso lly. , - The new disease- was first observed In Austria. Tho first case noted In England oc curred February 11, 1018, and the epi demic, which never attained large pro portions, came, at least, temporarily, to an end In June. The, medical re search committee of England became deeply Interested In the new nmlndy and Instituted cllnicnl and pathologi cal Investigations. The committee found the disease Is n general In fectious disorder, characterized by manifestations originating In the cen tral nervous system, of which the most frequent and characteristic are pro gressive lethargy or. stupor and an In volvement of tho nerve centers con trolling the eye muscles. Marked by High Temperature. Although a rise In teniperuture was not observed In nil of the 10-1 cases of the dlseaso of which notes wero ob tained, there seemed to bo little doubt that there Is always a certain amount of fever In nn early stngo. Tho fever usually lasts from two to five days, but may continue for ten or even four toon days. It may fall suddenly or gradually with oscillation. A period of subnormal temperature not Infre quently follows. Usually the first symptom Is sim "KAMERAD" GUNS A Orolx do Guerre man of the American army, one of Ohio complement, holding In his hands two "kumerud" guns which wero used effectively by Ger mans tn tholr "surrender" to American troops. Tho Gorman method wns to throw up their hands when encountering n small American force and to bring the gun from concealment and Into play when "the Yanks -approached within firing distance. SCOURGED Wholo Towns Are Wiped Out in Poland. . Pitiful Tales of Distress and Suffering Told by the Red Cross Mission. Washington. Pitiful tnlcs of tho dls tress and Buffering throughout eastern and southeastern Poland huvo been brought to Warsaw by members of tho Amnrlcnn Red Cross mission who have Just returned from nn elght-dny tour of Inspection during which they covered 1,500 miles and distributed food, clothing and medicines In 20 cit ies und numerous villages, according to cablo advices to tho Red Cross headquarters here. Everywhere they found typhus, which had practically wiped out whole towns. Smallpox and trachoma also trerc prevalent, epidemics threatening Malady ple catarrhal conjunctivitis (a mild "pink eye") or It may be tonsllltls- simple soro throat and cold In the chest. The disease may be ushered In suddenly by n fainting attack or fit. In marked cases the lethargy was ac companied by heaviness of the eye lids, pain In the eyes and blurred vi sion. Headache Is a common symp tom, find rlgldncss was characteris tic of tho early symptoms of ninny cases during the epidemic In England. After the first stnges, the symp toms of a general Infectious disease become manifest. The pntlent lies In bed on the back, often unable to mnke any voluntary movement on ac count of great muscular weakness; the face Is qulto expressionless and mnskllke, and there may be definite doublo fnclal paralysis. The patient Is In a condition of stupor, although true sleep Is often not obtained. With regard to treatment, no spe Ens: lish Will Be World L By LLOYD ALLEN. (Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor respondent.) Paris. It's beginning to look as If English will be the world language of the future with French ns a close second choice nnd with German run ning a poor third. This discussion of a "world Inn guugo" which Is occupying consider able attention around Paris, reveals among other things a strange chapter of German duplicity and trickery. It now seems certain that tho Germans, knowing the German language was In adequate ns a world tongue, tried their best to get tho world to think favora bly of certain "cooltcd-up" lnngunges made to order things as It were, In or der to prevent French or English from being considered ns the legitimate world langungcs. These artificial tongues, such as Es peranto, which wns probably the best known to them, In America at least, were fnlrly numerous and each ono wns given somo sort of an odd nnme. They were called' Esperanto, Ido, Novo Latln and several other queer-sound-Ing names. Naturally enough there were a few people In nearly every country that took up theso tongues nnrt"lenrn cd them. But nt best the languages were, and are fads, and are unequal to the great task assigned them tho tnsk of becoming a world to.ngue. Pnul Mlollle, a French scholur, a Col lege professor who holds the chair of English at the Lyceo and who Is n well known promoter of International edu cation, Is authority for tho foregoing USED BY THE HUNS' BY TYPHUS because sick and well nro herded to gether In mnny homes. In many of the Isolated villages starving pensnnts lined the roadside nnd begged for food. For weeks they bad been living on nn Imitation bread nindo from potnto peelings, dirty ryo nnd tho bark of trees, but the supply of even these Ingredients hud been cxhnusted. - Woman Gets Money Back. Marinette, Wis. Seventeen yenrs ugo, nt a band concert In this city, Miss Adeline Pratt, deputy register of deeds, lost n pocketbook with several dollars und tt keepsake knife In It. Shu wns surprised recently on going to tho post ofllce to receive a packet con taining tho knife and money without any explanation. Whether she Uut the pocketbook or It was stolen from her she does not know, but efforts, to re cover ltby advertising at tho time failed. cific method has been (lolned, and tne best that ran be done Is to put tho patient to bed and provide good nurs ing. Cold sponging Is often beneficial during the enrly stages and tends to diminish the delirium. For (he pain, numbness and tingling of the limbs warmth Is the best remedy. Conctl-. pntlon Is obstinate and often dlfllctilt to overcome, except by enemas fol lowed by such drugs as liquid pnrnf fln or phenolphthnleln. No hypnotics and no morphine or other prepara tions of opium should be given. Dally cleansing of the mouth and antisep tic treatment of the nose and mouth should be carried out and respiratory complications systematically looked for. The patient should be given to understand that his convalescence will last nt least six months nfter tho beginning of the Illness. Ofliclnls of the United States pub lic health service are Investigating cases of the disease In severnl cities. They are especially anxious to keep the malady out of the army camps. The first army camp to lie invaded wns Caufp Lee, Petersburg, Vn., where one death was reported out of nlno cases. Investigation made nt tho camp showed that In each case the soldier had been 111 with Influenza. anguage remarks anent Esperanto and Ger man. Ills brochure on the sub ject of a worjd language has attracted considerable attention In France and England recently. While somo political economists nro talking about tho establishment of nn International currency that will bo worth Its face value till over tho world, and while .others nre talking- of n kind of International government that will prevent future wars, of International control of tho drug trafllc, nnd severul more "Internationalized" subjects, In cluding International welfare, the Frenchmen of learning nre discussing tho International language of the fu ture. And they admit, modestly enough, that English will probably be tho favorite as a world tongue, be cause English first of nil Is the best known nnd most widely spoken lan guage of business nnd mercantile, tran sactions In tho world today. Acknowledging that English Is bound to .be the fnvorlte tho French profes sors clnlm their own language will nat urally take second place in preference to Germnn. Possibly tjio Germans somo years ago foresaw the coming popularity of English nnd French nnd tho consequent shoving of tho Germnn language Into third place In the race, because It was before the war even that the "kultur crusndo" for popularizing Esperanto and Ido and tho other artificial lnn gunges started, nccordlng to Mlellle. Briefly, It s Mlellle's Idea and the opinion of other noted French ami English scholnrs thattho world needs two lnngunges for Its future welfaro English nnd French. While there was a lot of speculation some yenrs ago about finding n univer sal tongue, such as Esperanto, wo had as living languages In this world of ours tho two tongues thnt completely filled all requirements. There was renl ly no need for Inventing n new lan guage. Thero has been n kind of ofllclnl adoption of the Idea that English nnd French shnll bo tho world langungcs of the future In 'the fact that proceedings at the peace conference have been con ducted In theso two languages. Tho procedure has been cumbersome, It Is true, but It hns been possible for prac tically all of tho delegates to under stand everything that takes place In tho way of speech making. Tho French cltquo of educators pro mising the plan of ranking English nnd French tho common international tongues wnnt tho penco conference, or tho league of nations, to perpetuate J tho procedure of tho peace conference j nnd mnke both tongues the official bin- gunges for conducting tho business of ' tho league of nations. Semiofficial communications have been addressed to the various govern ments thnt wero lined up ngulnst Ger many, nnd to many ofllclals of nil theso governments recommending the plan. Numerous senators and deputies hnvu gone on record ns favoring the scheme. SIGNS 20 CHECKS AT A TIME Mechanical Device' Aids War Risk Bureau In Handling Immense Business. Washington. Tho war risk burenu now Is Issuing checks for allotments, allowances, Insurance and compensa tion In tho snmo months that they full duo. ' Announcement wtis mnde thnt 1,002,. riOO checks wero mailed In March, rep presentlng n total of $30,148,323.05. Since the bureau's establishment, near ly $410,000,000 has been paid out. A luechanlcal device by which 20 checks are signed with tin nctunl pen signature at one time lias been In stalled to assist In handling the enormous volume of business trans acted by tho bureau. In Hard Luck. Swurtswood, N. J. Jepha Stoll, farm hand, couldn't eat breakfast un til ho'd driven six miles to buy a match to start a tiro to thaw his false teeth out of the water glass. i If you ilon't know say so. It's a slffn of strength to acknowledge your weakness. You may havo brains, but can you prove U7 FOOD FOR THE CONVALESCENT. Food for the Invalid Is of vital Im portance, ns often tho restoration of the health depends en tirely upon tho food tnk en to repair waste tissue. The physician's orders In regard to food should be carefully followed, as the nature of the disease from which tho patient Is recovering modifies th- feeding greatly. In cases of extremo nausea, when m'li. In nny other form can neither be kep: In the stomach nor digested, the partly digested drink, koumiss, Is n m .t valuable food to know how to prepare. Its sparkling efTervescence miil.rs It especially appetizing nnd griit'ful to n starving pntlent. Koumiss. -Dissolve hnlf a yeast cake In a half-cupful of warm wntcr not lmt, or the yenat plant will be killed. Mi v with It one quart of fresh milk or If the animal heat Is gone, warm It tn hikewarm temperature; add ti tn- 'hlo-poonful of sugar. Stir until well inivwl wltji the yenst and the sugar l 'onipletely dissolved. Put Into bot tl. tie down the corks, unless using pin iiit bottles with cork fasteners, nnd let stand In n warm place for twelve hours, for tho yeast to grow. Put tho liotiles upside down ; they nre not so apt to throw out the corks. After tvi'lve hours place the bottles on Ice, nn') they will be ready to use after a day or two. Use care when opening Hip bottles to put the neck Into the glass, or much of the milk will be wasted by Its effervescence. A little practice will enable one to handle the milk with no waste. Quick Beef Tea. Broil n slice of thlrk stenk for a minute on each side In a broiler or Very hot frying pnn. Srnro It with a sharp knife at right angles, and press with n fork or in n fruit press to squeeze out the Juice. Season with n bit of salt and serve at once. The meat from young. animals, such as veal, should not bo given to Inva lids. Young chicken' may be served nA. broth or creamed, and In various wuys. Chicken custard Is especially good. Use half n cupful of chicken broth, well seasoned,-ndd an egg, nnd cook In hot water In two small cups. When the egg Is Just beginning to set remove from the oven nnd from the hot wnter. ' Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With tho wonderful water about you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your broast-- World you are beautifully dressed! 'The wonderful air Is over me, And the wonderful wind Is shaking the tree, It walks on the wator and whirls the mills. And talks to Itself on the tops of tho hills. SEASONABLE DISHES. For tho thrifty housewife who has canned chard, spinach, or beet tops tho following wholesome dish will be enjoyed : Take a small can of greens of nny ' preferred kind or string beans and asparagus nwi good served In this way. Make a thick white sauce, using three tablespoonfuls each of flour and but ter cooked together, then add a cup ful of milk, salt and pepper to tnste; ndd four cupfuls of boiled rice, one can of chopped spinach, two cupfuls of 'white sauce, and one red pepper chopped fine. Form Into a long loaf r.nd bake twenty to thirty minutes. Vegetable .Chowder. This mixed vegetable chowder makes a nice sub stantial dish. Cut four potatoes and throe carrots In small pieces, add enough wntcr to cover and cook until tender, Brown ono chopped onion In two tnblespoonfuls of fnt and cook for five minutes. Add thin and one pint of tomatoes to the undriunod vegetables. Heat to the boiling point and add two cupfuls of skimmed milk, "thicken with three tablespoonfuls of flour, season with two teaspoonfuls of salt and celery, green pepper or pars Icy for flavor. Parsnip Fritters. Mash and season well cooked parsnips, enough to make two cupfuls, lien sift together two cupfuls of Jlour, one teaspoonful of salt nnd two teaspoonfuls of lurking powder. Mix with two well benten eggs and two cupfuls of milk. Add the parsnips, vdx thoroughly and drop by spoonfuls Into not fat. This recipe may be divided If the quantity Is tfio lnrge. Pea Soup. Scald one pint of milk, adding n halr-teaspoonful each of salt nnd sugar. Melt five tablespootifuls of butter and ndd the same amount of flour, cook nnd ndd the milk; when thick ndd a can of- pens which have been mixed with a quart of boiling wntcr nnd mashed to n pulp. Cook In u double holler fifteen minutes. Noble deeds arc held In honor; Hut the wide world sadly needs Hearts of patlenco to unravel The worth of common deeds. SALAD DRESSINGS NISHES. AND GAR For the unfortunate mortal who will not like olive oil It will be neces sary to- serve some other salad dressing. A tasty salad fs prepared by using sliced plnenpplc ; covet with sour cream, a pinch of salt, mustard, sugnr nnd n few finely minced meats of mixed nuts. Sour Cream Dressing. Cook to gether two tabb'spoonfuls of ITUtter und two of flour; when smbth ndd a cupful of sweet crenm. Let it boll, stirring nil the while; remove in flvo minutes and ndd half a cupful of souf cream, the Juice of half a lemon, salt und sugar to taste. When perfectly cold, pour over sliced apples and ba nanas and set on Ice before serving. Mayonnaise Dressing. Mix together half a tonspoonful each of powdered "sugar and salt, a dash of cayenne, n tablespoouful each of vinegar nnd lem on juice and the yolk of nn egg. Beat until smooth nnd thick, then ndd n little olive oil until u cupful hns been used. If the dressing seems too thick beat In n teaspoonful or two 'of cold water. When ready to sqrve use n little whipped cream to soften and en rich the dressing. Mayonnaise Tartare. Add chopped pickles, capers, or olives to a niayon nalse dressing. Use one-qjinrter of n cupful of the chopped mixture to n cupful of tho dressing. Muyonnnlso may bo colored with tlio coral of lob ster or with splnnch green. Spinach or parsley pounded ami the Juice used gives a very wholesome color. Garnishes. Edible garnishes nre the only ones to be recommended. The custom of tying dp food with ribbon Is not to be encouraged., A wedding enke might bo nn exception but milli nery Is not In place on a dining tnble. Fruit skins, such as bananas, or anges, lemons and apple cups, make desirable receptacles for salads. A variety ofcolors are to be avoided In garnishing. The world Is not a playground, It Is a schoolroom. Life Is not a holiday, but an educatIo"h. Henry Drummond. TRY THESE. The warm weather will soon be with us. Let us try this year to grow In our nack-yaril gardens a few new vegetables; new to us. The pleasure of watching them grow and showing them to our friends will amply repay us for the time and ex pense. Every housewife should have n small licit) bed where she can grow Jjpr own herbs ami Ifjow that they are fresh. One can grow a lutgs variety in u spot two yards square. Frozen Figs With Cheese. Af.ial two good-sized cream cheeses and beat with half a cupful of whipped cream, sweeten to taste nnd bury In Ice and salt. When rendy to serve, cut In slices, then in rounds with a snmll bls cult cutter. Mnke a small depression h the center and till with a preserved llg4 stem end up. Eggless Prune Cake. Take twe tnblespooirluls of butter, one cupful of brown sugar, ono cupful of scur milk, one teaspoonful of sodn, onc-hnlf tciv spoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth tea spoonful of cloves nnd one cupful ot chopped prunes. Sift two" cupfuls ot flour with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; stir nnd mix nil together; bent well and bake In a lonf. Cover with boiled frosting. Date Cake. Crenm one cupful ot sweet fat, add one and one-half cup fuls of sugar, two eggs, ono cupful of sour milk, one cupful of seeded npd chopped dates, mixed with .one-fourth of a cupful of flour, two cupfuls of flour sifted with half a teaspoon ful of soda and the same of snU; add ono tcnspoQiiful of vanilla and l?nt nil together. Buke In a sheet nnd cover with boiled frosting with chopped dates. Cream Prune Pie. Put a cupful of stoned and stewed prunes through n sieve, add a cupful of rich milk, ono egg, n tnbl"sponnful of flour, a third of a cupful of sugar. Mix and pour Into a lined pie plnte. Cover with n merln gue when baked. . Afghan Origin. Afglinn historians date their people's beginnings to King Saul and refer to them ns Children of Israel, a theory that may havo gained populnr nccept nnco because of tho Afghan's Semitic appearance, but It Is not generally credited by ethnologists. Afghan lir erature Is rich In poetry, mostly wn epics and love lyrics. All but the nviuntnln knlirs are Mohnmmednn and they cling to n pagan belief Tn which are blended fslnt sisgestums of old mythologies and ancient relig ions. National Geographic Society DAIRY PROFITS BIO Splendid Returns From Farms In. Western Canada., Production of Butter and Cheese, Com manding Highest Prices, Increases Steadily Llve-Stock Raisers at Height of Prosperity. Dairying Is rapidly approaching ons- of the first positions-In Western Can ada agriculture. This docs not apply particularly to any one of the three- Western Canada provinces, as they oil- participate In the distinction. A report recently published by the Alberta Department of Agriculture shows thnt In 1018, In spite of adverse conditions of labor nnd the high cost of feed there wns no decllue In the Industry. It will be Interesting to know that the average number of mllcrr cows per farm Is CO. The total pro duction of creamery butter In tho provinces In 1018 was 9,100,000. ns ogalnst 8,044.000 pounds In 1017. No better evidence of the growth ot Western Canada can be given than by the fact that In ten years the produc tion of butter hns Increased from ,500,000 pounds und of cheeso fron 88,570 pounds to 050.000 pounds. When- ft Is known that lu tlio production of" grain so much energy was plnced, and- through which bnnk deposits were Incrensed, homes made comfortnble, farms carefully tilled, It will be real ized that the Increase In dairy produc tion has been remnrkable. During the past four years the price to the pro ducer Incrensed 75 per cent Further evidence of tho great Inter est taken In the dairy nnd livestock. Industries Is found In recent bull sales. At Edmonton the average price of 141 was 5231.00; nt Calgary 78-1 heud were sold, bringing nn average' price of $209.13; while at Lacombe 170 bulls brought nn average of $101.34. Sales Iri Manitoba a few days ago gave fully as good an average, or better. The sales were attended by farmers from nil parts of the country. The high prices paid show that good stock was required, and, no matter the price, the farmer hnd the money to pny for 1L As evidence of this we find that nt a. snle recently held nt Carman, Mani toba, buyers were present from all parts of the province, besides some' from Sakatchqwan points. Five heads of Herefords brought $590 each. A Shorthorn bull wns sold for $700 and registered Shorthorn cows brought , $500 each. The establishment of creameries and cheese factories throughout the entire West Is on the Increase, and It, will only be within the period of a Yery few years before Western Can uda will occupy a position In tho first ranks In the dairy production of the continent. " There Is complete government su pervision over creameries nnd cheese factories. Tho government takes care of the sales, looks after the manufac turer nnd employs as heads of the in stitutions highly paid and efficient managers. It may well be said that the dairy Industry In Western Canada Is rapidly- coming Into its own. At present it Is- hut an adjunct to the parent or fore most Industry of the country the growing of grain, but while an adjunct, it Is a highly Important one. Tho price of farm' lands Is gradually Increasing, but not In the rapid proportion that has been shown In other countries. This rise In price does not materially Increase the cost of production, nor lessen the profits that muy be derived from an acre of wheat, oats or barley. Tho advance In the prices of these- gralns has more than doubled ; the use of tractors has lessened the cost. The reports from government source are that the present year will show a great Increase in Immigration over the past four or five years. The man whe lms made a tour of Inspection of the country will glvo you the reason. lie will speak of the fertile soil, of the good crops, of the nttractlve climate, of compliance with the law, the splen did school system, the almost perfect social conditions that prevail. He wlll havo visited settlements composed al most solely of Americans, who have built up their homes and villages, who havo brought, and are applying, to day, their experience In economic land culture ns applied to largo tracts with tho result that he obtains yields on $30 an acre land equal to that former ly produced on land that ho bad sold for $200 an acre. The Btory of his success he has sent back to his friends In his home state. They In turn follow him, and so It goes on, and Immigra tion Jio Western Cuuada increases. Advertisement What Happened. First Autolst Did your new auto mobile go fast? Second Autolst No; it stuck fast To Have a Clear 8weet Skin. Touch pimples, redness, roughness or itching, if any, with Cutlcura Oint ment, then bntbo with Cutlcura Soap and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and dust on a little Cutlcura Talcum to leave a fascinating fragrance on skin. Everywhere 25c each. Adv. Explaining It "This letter from your son is very short" "So Is he. That's why he wrote it." There Is nothing more satisfactory nfter a day of hard work than a lint full of snowy white clothes. For suck results use Red Cross Ball Blue. Want of tact Is an Incurable Infirmity.
