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NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Amencan Aviators to Bring R-38 Across the Atlantic Horticultural Hints NATIOML CAPITAL PROPER PRUNING FOR APPLE AFFAIRS Aa Tree Gradually Becomes Older. Treatment Decreases In Severity and Changes In Kind. Tho general pruning treatment rec The American crew of the It 38, the glunt dirigible thut Is being built In vSBKBrK Kngland for the American navy, 1b here soon studying the construction of 'the WM WT mfii- airship. At the right Commnndcr Muxlleld and Lieut. It. G. Pennoycr, who will S5BbLjBB lpLj have It In charge for tho trip across the Atlantic ocean. I yjrt 'ydtt, , (y "N Woman Seeks Sunken Riches Salvages Cargoes From Vessels That Have Gdne Down In Great Lakes. DIVER GAVE HER THE IDEA t Mrs. Margaret Campbell Goodman Has Recovered Fortunes From Wrecka. on Floors of Inland , 8eaa. Cleveland. Mrs. Mnrgarct Campbell Gcpdmnn, tho only womnn .salvager In the world, has regained a fortune which went down wltll the steamer I'owahlc, in Lake Ilurpn, 55 years ago. Succeeding whoro many men hnd fail ed., Mrs, Goodman has broadened her scope of wprk until she now has con tracts to raise sunken fortunes In al most every sea. Mrs. Goodman spent her early life In Mount Pleasant, Mich., and after her school dnyd sho went to Toledo, t)., ner present home. There sue ne earno Interested In diving suits, after witnessing nn exhibition of deep-sea 'diving In which the diver went down HOI feet, remaining under water for 45 minutes. Treasure on Sea Bottom. Thin feat of deep-sea diving con vinced her that scouring the floor of the sen for sunken treasures would ho a profitable business. Remembering the loss of tho Pewnble, Mrs. Good ninn, after much discouragement, form ed aiitock company. She went to Al penn, Mich., nnd found Copt. John Per sons, who had stood with his father, keeper of tho lighthouse In Thunder Hay, and watched tho ship founder. Later, Mrs. Goodman located Georgo P. McKny, tho captain of tho Pewoblc. Captain McKay was living in Clove- land and showed Mrs. Goodman tho monlfest of the lost vessel. It showed that the Pewnblc carried In her hold tons of copper, worth $200,000 or more, nnd sevetnl hundred tons of pig lion. In tho ship's express box was .$50,000 of "shin plasters," Tho work of searching for the Pe wablc was begun In 1010, In the first senson's work, the divers took out 100 tons of copper nnd 100 tons of pig Iron. Many Interesting relics were dis covered which, when possible, were forwarded to the relatives of the sail ors who hnd lost their lives a half century ago. When the treasure chest of tho ship was brought to the surface, the "shin plasters" were found to bo watersoaked and valueless. Considerable work was done In 1017, until the needs of tho government, nt war with tho central powers, called a halt to all salvaging operations. To Salvage Cargo of Logs. Mrs. Goodrnrtn's next contract Is to salvage a schooner that sank li Lake Erie In 1804. She has n release froit the owners nnd will begin work.nbout July 1. This schooner cnrrlcd n cargo of black walnut and white oak logs, chained to the deck, nnd Mrs, Good' man expects no dltllculty lu salvaging the enrgo. . Formerly a newspaperwoman. Mrs. Goodman has made n success of a husl- news which Is ns Interesting ns It Is dangerous. She dislikes being de- scrllMd ns n woman diver, because she 1ms never gone under water' herself, and' she says she does not expect to (16 so unless for the purpose of increas ing her own scientific knowledge. ommended for npple trees is ritated briefly as follows by V. It. Gardner of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture In Circular 00: During the first few years of a tree's life In the orchard It should be pruned se verely (starting out with perhaps a 75 per cent pruning) anil this should consist In both thinning out nnd bond ing back, wth perhaps the emphasis upon the heading buck. This heavy pruning Is for the purpose of encour aging wood growth and developing the framework of the tree. As the tree becomes older pruning gradually decreases In severity until nt six or seven years when It Is reaching bear ing age and size very little pruning Is necessary; and as It gradually lessens In severity It grndunlly changes In kind, consisting less and less In bund ing back and more in thinning out. This general method of procedure serves to develop u -fruit-spur system nnd bring the tree Into bearing. After the tree is once In bearing pruning grndunlly Increases In' amount but con tinues to be mainly a thinning out; and this thinning out should consist In a removal of a few Inrge limbs. When this plan Is followed there Is some thinning of fruit spurs and the fruit crop, over-bearing Is prevented and the length of life, regularity of Waring and efficiency of Individual q iieuriiiK nun uiucirncjr ui 2.000 POLES WEEKLY TO U. S. fruit spurs Is promoted. . uramnrny pruning is none ni some Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society Opens Branch Office In Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland. Arrangement!! have been- completed for tho transpor tation of 2,000 persons weekly from Poland to the United States by the Ifebrew Sheltering nud Immigrant Aid Society of America, which recently opened offices In Wnrsiw. The Polish authorities estimate that 250.000 per sons already have applied for pass ports, about 05 per cent of these be ing women, and children, dependents of persons now In America. time In the dormnnt season after most of the leaves are off In the full and before the buds open In the', spring. Doubtless this Is the best time of the year for most pruning. The tree Is bnre, and It Is easier for the pruner to see what he Is doing and choose more Intelligently between limbs thut should be removed nnd those Hint slinnM iu ift There t morn apt to "FATHER OF VICTORY" Deserter Lives , Long in Cave Ohio Youth F.ears Firing Squad Because of Visit to Family. This bust of Clemenceau has been nnmcd "Father of Victory" by tho sculptor, Fuller, a famous French artist GIVES UP AFTER TWO YEARS Hides In Hills, Feeds on Herbs and Wild Berries and Such Scanty Food as Hlo Wife Got to Him. Chllllcothe, 0. Stories of how a neighbor deserter from the Union army during tho Civil war hnd been brought tff'lmy In n nearby village by a United States marshal and shot, brought visions of n similar fate to Carl Amor- Ine nnd impelled him to hido lu tho hlrts almost two years rather than face a firing squad at Camp Sher man. Amurluo, drafted Into the army, left n wlfo and two-year old babe at home. In tho quiet, picturesque hills. Ho could neither read nor wrlto and tho largest village visited In. his 24 years hnd numbered less than u thou sand Inhabitants. The hustling thou sands at the camp, military restraint and customs weighed heavily on him and nn Impelling desire to see his wife and bnby boy led him to quit camp to seo them without obtaining permission. Fears Firing Squad. At home, his father, a tottering vet ernn of tho Civil war, told him he was a deserter. Visions of tho tiring squad flashed through his mind. Kissing his wlfo and bnby good-by he took to the rugged hills. There Amerlne found a cave In which he slept most of the time, ven turing forth only nt night nnd nt times during the day when thero wns little chance of being seen. Ills only fare was such sennty food as his w)fe could get to him, herbs and wild berries gnthered from the woods arid fields. and such wild game as ho could catch. The cave In which he lived Is said to bo largo enough for only one per son, nnd could have been defended against many. So closely did he wntch all approaches to his hiding place that until a few days ago he hud been seen by no one except his wife nnd a hrother-ln-lnw. Mllltury authorities hnd abandoned the search for Amerlne, Three weeks ngo nn nttorney friend of the family became Interested and Implored tho wlfo to hnve her husband return nnd give himself up. She steadfustly held that her hushnnd would bo shot If captured and refused to have him re turn. Clarence Stone of Adelphl mannged to get word to the youth last week that his wns not a case of desertion, and tlioro wns no dnnger of a firing Fqund. Amerlne cautiously left hln hiding place, and visited Stone's home, where they went over tho situation, lie agreed to glvo himself up. Amerlne again went to Stone's home. Ills wife brought his uniform, which she had preserved for him nnd had neatly1 pressed for the occasion, With Stone and an attorney, Amerlne went to Cnmp Sherman and surrendered to the adjutant. He made nn comment except to express himself as being well pleased that "It Is all over." Well-Pruned Apple Tree, Three Years Old. be time for the work thnn during the growing season. Probably It Is better to prune while the tissues of the tree are not frozen, as therp Is less apt to be mechanical Injury to them from bruising, splitting, etc. Certain specific objects may bo accomplished by sum ntcr pruning, but It is necessary that tho summer pruning bo timed Just right, and that particular cafe be tak en f those objects are to bo attnlned. At least. In case of the npple It Is be Moved that summer pruning should be nttempted only by tho professional grower who Is prepared to make a careful study of the subject. OPEN-CENTERED TREES BEST "SEE AMERICA FIRST" Conditlons in Europe Not Attrac tive to Tourists. Poor Hotel Accommodations and, , Scarcity of Food Keep Ameri cans at Home. Washington. Sponsors of "Seo America First" Ideas will find consola tion In tho stories reaching the Unit ed States of conditions In Europe (Which tend to discourage "going ,abroad" this year. Ono.of tho big ob .staclea to' tourists of foreign lands Is the lack of transportation facilities. Throughout tho continent rolling stock Is at -a premium nnd passenger fen Ico Is badly crlpplod. While conditions In France and Eng land aro not pleasant for the tourist, eastern and southern Poland and parts of Germany are even less attractive, Typhoid fever and spotted fever hnvo come over the borders of Soviet Run sla Into Poland, ami the food sltuii turn adds to the distress there. Tourists to Europe this summer will find that they did not leave high prices nt home, for tho European have boosted the prices of nearly ev erything which Is to be sold to Ameri can tourists. This Is most noticeable In Germany, where the practice of dis criminating ngalnst Amerlcnns Is ram pant. Much of the samo discrimination exists In England and France, al though the governments, are doing ev erything to check It. For many months Europe hns suf fered from the effects of the unfavor able rate of foreign exchange In en deavoring to buy commodities In the United States, nud the American tour 1st Is now paying some of that deficit r j Well, He or the Hen Deserves a Medal I.os Angeles. Edward Sehnf fer of Broadway, Venice, has ouo hen In his flock of eight that has distinguished herself. She Is a Plymouth Itock, 2 years old. During the past two weeks she has laid fourteen eggs, not ouo of which weighed less than six ounces nor measured less than eight and" three-quarter Inches around. Schaffer says there Is no doubt that It has been the same hen In each In stance, for each egg bears a trademark which consists of two pronounced elevated rings around one end of the egg. Possess Advantage of Exposing Leaf Surface to Sunlight Weaker Than Leader Type. The open-centered tree, theoretical ly at lenst. possesses the advantage of exposing Its lenf surfoce, spur sys tern and fruits more fully to, sunlight and of facilitating certnlnrchard op erations, such as pruning, spraying, thinning, and poking. On the other .. . -f . . hand It is meennnieaiiy weauer limn the leader type of tree, In that there are fewer and larger scaffold limbs that are more apt to split down nt the crotches when hen,vlly londed and subjugated to high winds. Congress Passes a Most Surprising Bill WASHINGTON. Congress has pass ed a bill (II. It. 0914) which ap pears to have raised n commotion nil along the line from the linrd-bolled post office Inspector who sized up the property to the vice president In the senate who said, "passed with thanks." You see, the bill was to give some thing to the government, Instead of to get something out of the treasury. So, naturally, everyone In both houses wns suspicious of It until It was read sub stantially ns follows: no It enacted, etc., Thnt the Secre tary of the Treasury be. and ho Is hereby, authorized nnd directed to nc cept on behalf of the United States the donation by Sedgwick Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic, of lt memorlnl hall property In Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, for Federal build Ing purposes. Thnt the Secretary of the Treasury Is authorized to permit said post nnd tho Sedgwick Post Women's Relief Corps, No. 82, to continue to occupy the second lloor of snld building until? such time ns said post dissolves; such occupancy to bo without charge for rent, water, heat, or light, which are to be Included In such free use. And thnt n suitable bronze tablet conimemorntlve of this gift shall bo furnished nnd placed on the exterior of said building nt the expense of the United Sfntes.. In the house nn eloquent little tribute to the old soldiers by Mnnn of Illinois: wns received with applause, nnd the members decided to show that the vote was nnnnlmous. In the senate It was pronounced wonderful bill for the same reason" that had Impressed the house. It was: passed by unanimous consent. It nppears that the post Is well-to-do; that the property Is valuable niuti thnt tho present rental from the ground floor Is considerable. Once Sedgwick Post, No. 10. G. A R hnd about 500 members. Now Its; membership has dwindled to 2r). Soon, the post will have no more need for Its hnlj. The last roll will be colled with none to answer "Uere." HTICULTURAL i Tho nso of springs Is done nwny with In n new cord operated dovlco for opening and closing trnnsoms, win dows or shutters. More Power to the Tractor. Danville. Ky. What the tractor ha done for transportation was shown hero when 40,000 shingles wore ImuloJ nwny In one load. It was probably tho largest load of shingles ever shipped except by .boat or train. There Is n time In the career of all Insects nnd fungus diseases when spraying Is most effective. It pays to prune tho orchard and berry patch. Do It now. Spray also and clean marketable fruit will result It Is especially desirable when spraying up under the trees whore the foliage Is thick and It Is necessary to cover every portion thoroughly. Don't take chances with San Jose scale. Give your apple trees at least one application of full strength lime- sulphur. Make this application be fore any -of tho buds commence to swell. U. S. Army Field Kitchens That Paid Duty EXCERPTS from thef house debnte on the bill (H. R. 6171) on the unanimous consent calendar of the house to authorize the refund of duties collected on field kitchens Imported during during the year 1010: Mr. Rrltten: The kitchens cost some $2,000 nplcce. They were fur nished to the National Guard and tak en to the Mexican border nt a time when the war department had not sufficient equipment to take care of the troops. A duty was .charged when a rolling kitchen was brought over the" line from Canada. .This bill seeks to refund the duty. It Is a small Item. Mr. Cannon: What Is the difference between donntlons of dollars, dona tions of clothing, and the hundreds of millions I was going to say billions of dollars that were donated by the patriotic people? Now, here comes a bill to establish a piecedent to pay back something to somebody who pa triotically donated Held kitchens, on which you say they paid a duty when the kitchens were 'Imported. If you should carry out that same principle, you would have It on nil Imported ar ticles. I do not know how much Is Involved In this Rrltten : Probably n few hun dred dolnrs. Mr. Cannon : A few hundred "dnl- larsl Many millions of dollars will be Involved In It If you enter upon this policy. f shallT x- f o Mr. Britten : To say that ti refund of duties pnld on rolling field kitchens which, contributed to the army, would be establishing a dangerous precedent. Is beyond my comprehension. Tho failure of the house to pass this bill will menu direct taxation on public spirit, direct taxation on patriotism direct taxation on humanity. It Is a suggestion thnt tho natlonnl treasury Itself should benefit In real hard mon ey, because the war department was not In a position to provide the sim ple necessities of an unimportant cam paign. Mr. Cannon: There was a duty oa wool. God knows how the women knit. God knows how they bought and pnld for the wool to knit. This establishes a precedent that we ought not to establish, and therefore I ob ject to the consideration of the bill. The Speaker: Objection Is made. The clerk will report the next bill. Congress Is to Give Us Pretty New Coins IF THERE Is anything thnt the direc tor of the United Stntes mint Just nnturally despises, It's new coins. Therefore he's pessimistic these days. For congress has told him to mint three special half-dollars commemor ating the tercentenary of the Pilgrims and the centennry of the states of Alabama and Maine. Moreover congress Is considering or dering n 2-cent or 2-cent coin bear ing n medallion of Theodore Roose velt, ns urged by the Women's Roose velt Memorlnl association. Then there's Senator Frellnghuysen's bill proposing the coinage of 7-cent nnd 8 cent pieces. The United States has never been Stropg for new coins. In 1792 congress-, authorized the following coins for cir culation: tho eagle ($10), hnlf eagle (5), quarter caglo ($2.50), tho dollar the "dl8ine" (old spelling for dime) hnlf dlsme (5 cents), the cent and the hnlf cent. ' Double eagles came Into being in 1840, tho year of the gold rush to Cal Ifornlrf. In 1801 a new coin, the 3-cent piece, three-qunrter silver, anl one quurter copper, was Introduced, and two years later tho three-dollnr gold! piece came Into being. In 1857 the half cent was dropped, but another piece, the two-cent coin, was mlntedf In 1804, The nickel came Into being In 18C0. Congress In 1870 overhauled the entire coinage system and decided upon tho following coins: all the gold coins as they now stand, dollar, half dol ltirv quurter and dime In silver and the minor coins. Including tho five, three nnd one-cent pieces. Since that time the three-cent piece hns been dis carded. y The 40 "Saddest Words of Tongue or Pen IT WASN'T because he was seventy live yenrs old that he was exclud ed, for Miss Madeline Gauff, a gradu ate nurse many yenrs his Junior, lind come nil the wily from Taunton, Mass.. to say that Frederic Stone would make her his, wife If the Immigration olll tinls at Ellis Isinnd would admit the gray-haired Englishman to this coun try.. It wasn't becnuse ho was liable to ever become a public charge, for Mr. Stone displayed a roll of $0-,000, and said with an air of nonchalance, "There's more where this came from, that I Jolly well know," It was the literacy test that halted Mr. Stone nt Uncle Sam's throslQd and sent his hrlde-elect uwny bowed with disappointment. Mr. Stone can not reud the English language. "Qnn you read forty words of any other language?" asked the Inspector. "Certainly not," replied Mr. Stone. Miss Knuff, who hnd come to meet her betrothed, was sorely disappoint ed nt his exclusion. She explained -Mint she had been In this country only a few yeurs nnd thut she had been In love with Mr. Stone for several years prior to her coming. When he retired ns a farmer ana wrote her thnt his loneliness wns un endurable she consented to become his wife If ho would come to America. She had not reckbned on tho literacy test. Miss Knuff took an appeal from the exclusion verdict of the board of spe cial Inquiry nnd anxiously awaits n final decision from the heads of the labor department nt Washington. The saddest words that ere were snld The forty words that couldn't read. be