NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
GHOST WITNESS
IN COURT TRIAL
For Pilgrims to Belleau Wood
Horticultural
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Facts
4 SSSSS'sNrISSS'4
AFFAIRS
UPS AND DOWNS IN PEACHES-
Dead Woman Tells of Procuring
Iron With Which Husband
Killed Her.
J i 'I m i inm ! mmi
How 1922 Appropriations Are to Be Made
WASHINGTON Budget legislation.
Which failed III till' IllSt SCNSlOfl ()V.
lo the president's veto, will prob
ably Ik! ennclotl Ir the nuxt session.
A year Iiiih been lost, however, mid
i1i! budget system ciiniiot apply to tin;
appropriations for l)io fiscal year he
kIiiiiIiik .Inly 1, 1021.
In tlif meantime a new system of
, making appropriations will In- tried,
owing to n change In tho rules of the
house, which was put through In the
closing iluyH or the recent session as
supplemental to limpet legislation.
This change will canter In the Inuiils
of a single committee the work of pre
Be Careful When You
IF TIIK manufacturers of cigars and
cigarets adopt (lie suggestion of
the agricultural department their new
bill-hoard advertising tills summer will
bear fire-prevention slogans like these
In big lettering: ;
Don't drop FIHIC when you smoke In
the woods, nor throw If out along the
road. Keep the forests OHHKNI
DANG ICR! .Matches, pipes, coals, ci
gar stiilm and clgaret ends start ninny
forest tires. Help protect woods,
st reams, scenery.
BK CAHNFULI Don't start a lire In
,thn woods when you begin or end your
smoke I He sure your match, elgnrei'
or pipe It OUT.
DON'T STAItT WHAT YOU CAN'T
STOIM He careful with tire in and
near the forest.
Finn IS DANGHHOUSt He care
ful when you smoke In the woods.
LOOK OUT! When you smoke In
woods; don't start a forest lire.
YOUU CO-OI'KHATION with this
company to keep down forest tires Is
asked. HreaU your inalch In two.
Knock out your pipe ashes Into your
I bund., Don't drop a burning clgaret.
FOHKST FIRKS cost millions a
year. Don't start one.
DON'T THROW FIHIC AWAY In the
woods or along the road,
Highway to Join Twelve National Parks
TWEIVK national parks He In a
rough circle of about U.fiOO miles
between Djiivcr and the I'acllic.
Starting toward the north, the visitor
comes In Hint to Hocky Mountain
In Colorado, Yellowstone In Wyoming,
Glacier In Montana, Mount Ualnler In
Washington. Crater Lake In Oregon,
I.assJm Volcanic, Yosemlle, General
Grunt and Sequoia In California,
Grand Canyon In Arizona, 'Ann In
Utah and Mesa Verde In Colorado,
llotwcen Mesa Verde and Denver are
the Mount' ICvaus region, which Is to
be added to Hocky Mountain and the
Denver municipal mountain pilrks.
Those 4 parks are more or less con
nected hy rmids of widely-differing
quality. What Is needed and projected
. Is a national park-to-park highway
connecting with the Lincoln highway
ami other transcontinental roads. The
The Lowly Corncob
PKOHAHLY you think of a corncob
as a hapiy thing to eat green
corn from and the thing from which
the goisl old "Missouri meerschuuin"
is made. Stop, look, read I Henceforth
yon must kamv the lonely corncob as
the source of furfural and half a
dozen other things, but especially fur
lurul. The chemists of the agricultural
department have discovered that the
corncob Is a regular catch-all of good
things.
Up to this time furfural has been so
rare that It hits sold us high as $'J0
ii pound. Kvery ton of corn -cobs will
yield iibont tillrty pounds of furfural
as n by-product, and the chemists estl
.mate that IV can he manufactured In
this way for less than 20 cents a
pound. What It will sell for is another
Story. ,
Furfural Is what the chemists call a
basic Intermediary tin dyes. That
in en us that1 you may make about as
many kinds of dye out of furfural as
it gootl cook can make good things to
eat out of flour They have shown
4i least u dozen different shades of
cloth dyed with furfural. It Is
highly useful, too. In the manu
fnctun; of pulnts and lacquerH nnd
In the making of hakellte, the sub
stance used In pipe stems ami other
articles. In addition to all that, fur-.
paring appropriation hills heretofore
handled hy seven dllferent committees.
Under the new system the appro
priations committee of the house will
he made up of thlrty-!lvi iiiemhers.
There have heen twenty-one meinherr
of the committee heretofore. In tin
past the appropriations committee ha;
handled such annual supply measure,
as the legislative, executive and Judl
clal hills, the sundry civil hills aiu
the various deficiency hills.
The six other committees whosi
power In handling appropriations havt
heen transferred to the appropriation!
committee are those on military af
fairs, navnl affairs, agriculture, forelgr.
affairs, post ofllce ami Indian affairs.
These committees will henceforth han
dle general legislation relative to thclt
various Holds, hut will lose their pow
er over llscal matters.
The change In rules does not affect
the committee on rivers and harhors
which will continue t lit preparation o!
the annual rivers and harhor appro
priations hill, or the committee on pub
lic buildings and grounds, which will
handle public buildings measures.
Smoke in the Woods
HKU' 1'KKVKNT FIItKS.
Seven of the leading tobacco com
panies In this country have been asked
to give their co-operation In enlisting
smokers In u campaign against careless
use of lire In all forests. Smokers, sta
tistics show, are annually responsible
for u large number of coilllagratlons
in timbered areas, causing Immense
losses. The letter suggests that the
tobacco companies can render an In
valuahlo service In this movement by
Including In tobacco packages brief
printed legends urging smokers to take
every precaution to prevent' the spread
of tire from mutches or burning to
blicco, With millions of tourists visiting the
national forests and national parks
each summer the question of the care
less smbker Is one of national Import
ance. visitors last year to the national parks
numbered over 7fiO,HM) and more than
SO per cent of this travel was hy pri
vate automobile.
June 1 A. L. Westgard represent
ing the national park service and the
American Automobile association, left'
Washington by automobile for Deli
ver. From there he started on a
"pathllnder"' circuit of the national
parks named, seeking the best route
for the park-to-park dghway.
In August be will report at Denver.
Then a large party will go under his
guidance over his preliminary route
and make selection of a permanent
route. This party will Include Di
rector Stephen T. Mather of the na
tional park service; Gus. Holm of
Cody, Wyo president of the National
I'ark-to-Park Highway association;
various olllclals of the states of Wy
oming and Montana. and of organiza
tions Interested In the project, and an
olllclul staff. Including writers and
photographers.
The purpose; of this trip Is three
fold : To select a park-to-park route,
which Is to be Improved by state and
county organizations pending assist
ance from the federal government';
to secure data 'for maps and publicity
matter find to promote travel hy Ihu
people to the national parks.
and Its $20 Furfural
fural Is such an excellent ItiKrctlclde
thnt It has been used to a considerable
extent for that purpose, eventhough
the price was $1!0 a pound. .
About n bushel of colls Is produced
for every bushel of shell corn nnd they
have been almost a complete waste.
Coiumercljl plants are now being
equipped to inanufactMre half n dozen
products from them. One of these
products Is an adhesive of exception
ally high quulltysald to he better for
n number of Important uses than any
adhesive previously known. Another Is
cellulose, suitable for use In the man
ufacture of dynamite nnd various
othur things, l'nper bus been made
lining u pari' of the corn cob produc,
an tiller. Another product is acetate
of 1line, from which acetic acid It-made.
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NATCHJ5 OUT lf'3M ZsSwiwW
FIRE IJ DAliffffwUS WjfflM i fl
FOREST-FIRES B,1' rfOjBi
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LIKE STORY OF OLDEN TIES
Supernatural Comes Again to Play
Recognized Part In Affairs of Men
in Country Which Calls Itcelf
Civilized.
Wellington, L). P. A man Is nc-
citsed of heating his wife to ilonth, ,
and li brought beore n high tribunal
for trial. Judge and Jurors and audi
ence sit and listen In respectful si
lence while the ghost of the dead wom
an testifies that she herself procured
the Iron bar with which sliu was killed,
that she had Intended to kill her bus
liund with it, and that he had great
provocation to 1:111 her.
This sounds like a story of olden
times. It might have happened In any
of the great ages of superstition
when men believed In the superiiaturhl
even more, than they did in the nat
ural. Civilization is supposed to have freed
man from these ancient fears, hut It
Give
Equal Chance
Placed on Same Footing as See
ing as Result of Doctor
Wheeler's Observations.
NO LONGER AN EXPERIMENT
Blind Are Taught to Wind Electric
Cells Effect of Being Self-Supporting
Keeps Them Healthy
and in Good Spirits.
Nw York. So many of the war
blinded have found work In the elec
trlcuj manufacturing plant' a means of
supporting themselves, rendering them
Imteiivndcnt of any charity or.phllan
throplc assistance, that special;. iten
tlon Is being directed to the work of
Dr. Hchuyler Skaats Wheeler, who
made possible this new Held of gain
fill or-Mipatlou for the sightless.
The"e Is nothing new In the 011
denvof to enable the blind to work or
evMi h the effort made to find a ready
nifU'kct for their product, but In the
Crocker-Wheeler company's factory
the unseeing- work on an exact par
with the seeing, their "goods," there
fore, being placed In the open market.
Doctor Wheeler's Interest In thb
problem of the blind, stinting some
years ago, became lntenslled when the
war brought their numbers, both here
anil abroad, to n highly Increased
total. In going through the various
departments of the company's elcetrle
nl nnuinfncturlng plant at Ampere N.
.7., of which he Is president, he noted
the fact thnt girls skilled In winding
wire colls performed their work with
out watching the movements of their
hands, as n touch typist or a piano
player Ignores her fingers. The coll
winding girls chatted and laughed
among themselves as they worked, and
their vork wns satisfactory. Doctor
Whet-hr then blindfolded himself and
nttemiMed to wind a coll. He proved
to bis own satisfaction that here was
work- which, with little practice, tin;
sightless could do on a par with rior
um! workers.
Proves a Success.
The Double Duty Finger Guild wns
the direct result. That Is the name
given to tho department, employing
only men and women without sight.
j This department has been in success-
I ful operation for three years in the
Crocker-Wheeler fnctory, and it has
censed to be considered an experiment
or men an Innovation.
At first special Ibstructors were en
gaged and a small group of blind worn
set to work at winding the wire colls.
Meeting
o Inn
VT' Tll'T "f i T TTrr firTnT'TMflr 1 ' ITi Tit . "5 KS . IIn' - ' T Jf'llV ir..' t WCfarT &
This Is the Y. V. ('. A. rest house maintained at lltlloau Wood. France,
for the benefit of pilgrims to that scene of one of the great exploits of Amer
ican soldlers'ln the war. It Is at the edge of the American cemetery.
hns not done so. The fear Is still
latent in us, waiting for a chance to
express Itself. For example, the In
cident related above happened, not In
the middle ages or In a fairy tale, but
in the Supreme court of the District
of Columbia a few days ago. The dead
woman's mother testified that she had
gone to several mediums, had con
versed with the ghost of her daughter
and had so gotten the daughter's
story of what happened. Still morn
htless
The members of this first group were
paid during their apprenticeship 15
cents an hour, and. after four weeks'
Instruction, were given places hi the
shops. Later the hourly rate of pay
for trained workers was changed to a
piecework plan and this proved more
Interesting and stimulating to the
worker. At the factory it was said
that a skilled blind worker earned
from S.'t to $4 a day at piecework.
More startling than the Work In the
cn!l-vlndlng rooms is the handling of
various 'kinds of machinery by the
sightless. At the notching machines
they put In metal plates and stamp
them with the desired notches. Hllnd
men also stack these plates, or "puneh
higs." anil weigh them.
Slghtlesi typists and stenographers
also, are .employed by the company. In
the Jobroom a special system of indi
vidual records keeps track of more
than l!,(MMi Jobs In process. Here a
blind stenographer handles the jilione
calls coming In at spaced plugs down
the length of the room, using a sim
ple chair and typewriter "tantl on
rollers. In which she travels up and
down tlie line. , ,
A Blind Secretary.
Miss .lessle Lewis, secretary to Mrs.
Ida H. Gilford, director of the Double
Duty Finger Guild, handles the steno
graphic work anil tiling In the guild's
ofllce. She Is a graduate of the Per
kins Institute for the Hllnd. Mls
Lewis is the creator of the American
Hralllo .shorthand system. All her
curds and records are marked in
lirallle, anil she turns to a desired pu
ller with the ease and promptness of
a skilled sighted worker.
Most of the successful blind, appli
cants for positions In the fnctory
come from Independent sources rather
than Institutions. Tin- age limit Is
supposed to be forty-five, although
older men from the state of New Jer
sey have been accepted. Two persons
must guarantee one month's hoard ami
return enrfare, In case the applicant
does not "ninko gootl."
The worker stands absolutely on his
own merit nnd soon learns to take
pride In bringing his work up to the
standard required by the fnctory In
spectors. Marked Independence Is shown by
the sightless employees In handling
their work nnd In moving about the
factory and grounds. The effect upon
them of being self-supporting nnd en
gaged In work which Is the same as
that done by normal persons ami
which must pass the same tests of in
spection, works wonders in keeping
them up to a healthy standard of
gootl spirits anil courage.
the Housing Problem
,t o.ite v.. 4 J ti.e
astonishing, she testified,, that an as
sistant United States attorney hail' ail.
vised her to consult mediums. When
you take this in connection with the
fact that the Supreme court evidently
listened to the ghost conversation as
part or the testimony, you ennnot blink
at the conclusion thnt a ghost has been
admitted to a court of justice In the
United States. The supernatural has
come again to play a formal and rec
ognized part In the affairs of men In a
country which calls itself civilized.
Spiritualism Involved.
Of course, N.tho whole question of
spiritualism Is. here Involved. There
are many Intelligent nnd sincere peo
ple who believe that the existence of
ghosts' who can communicate with us
has been proved.
Out In the West there is a certain
placer iTeposlt.of gold which has been
the grave of many fortunes. One man
after another has trlctl to get thin
gold, 'and all have failed. Finally,
along came an Inventor with a most
ingenious and expensive plan for get
ting the gold. He hail absolute faith
In II. It appeared that he was In com
munication with the ghost of his dent!
sister, and that she had Imparted this
plan to him. anil bud told him It was
sure to succeed. Jlo spent every cent
he owned ami could borrow on tin
plan and lost It all. The ghost, was
wrong.
Here Is another example of a med
dlesome ghost who sought to make
trouble. A young and attractive widow
was Invited by an older woman who
lived In the same boarding house to
join her In some oiiija board excur
sions to the land of the dead. They
immediately got Into communication
with the spirit' of the young woman's
dent! husband. He proceeded to crit
icize her going anil comings at great
length. He objected to the man she
went with. He told her that such anil
such a man was Immoral, that an
other ate cocaine, that a third had a
wife living in Australia. He n'vseil
her to give up all frivolities and stay
at home nights.
Widow Is Troubled.
The young wltlow was considerably
troubled n't first. Hut she had strong
common sense. She rellectetl that
even if spiritism was a true revelation,
there were fake mediums, and her el
derly friend might lit; one of them.
She also rellectetl that her biisbautl in
life had heen u Jealous fellow, inclined
to lie about all possible rivals, and she
saw no reason to believe that death
hail reformed lilin. . She was able to
prove that some of the messages which
had been sent her from "The Heyontl"
were not In accord with the facts.
When the next ou.'Ja hoard session
came olT, there was a struggle. Hub
ble tried to get in some more advice,
but the j outig widow had strong hands.
Instead of hubby, it was the defunct
aunt of Iter elderly friend who got tho
door. This departed lady Informed tho
elderly friend thnt she was In danger
of serious financial reverses, that shn
was apt to die a violent death, proba
bly by falling down stairs, thnt thti
rubber company In which she had
bought three shares of stock was a
swindle, and that If she did not drink
less tea she would get cirrhosis of thti
liver. All of this threw the gootl woim
an Into u sweat of apprehension: tho
onlja board readings were discontin
ued, and thti tleatl hustiaml lost bis
only iik'iius of coiumuulcutloii with the
world of the living, to the great re
lief of Ids whlow. Frederic .1. Ilaskln
In Chicago News.
in Berlin
Berlin authorities to meet the shortage
Prospective Crop Estimated to Be
About 77 Per Cent of Normal
' Acreage Decreased.
It Is said fhat the Inw of compensa
tion works both ways If the rich man.
gets his Ice In the summer, the poor
man gets his share In the winter. Av
erages of peach production appear to
follow the flame rule, according to the
i tlmates just published by the bureau:
of crop estimates, United States de
railment of agriculture.
Hurriug the possibilities of further
tlisaster, the commercial pench or
chards of Georgia and North anil
South Carolina will product; fairly
heavy crops. California Is scheduled
lor a bumper crop, ami several other
states will not be fur below their 11110
average In car lot shipments of pench
t s. but these gootl prospects are more
than offset by the frost damage In
flicted niton the orchards in other
smtes. Texas has been badly Hurt,
.mil so, also, have the Arkansas. Okla
homa. Missouri, nnd Tennessee, or
t hards. The New England crop is re
ported ruined, and Washington, Utah,
end Idaho report severe winter kill
ing. TO some extent the prospective-
r
If IP
Distributing Peaches By Machinery..
ciop Is stilt further diminished by the
decrease In acreage devoted to coui
ticrclnl peach orchards.
Altogether the bureau of crop esti
mates llgures the conditions on April
1. 11120, to be about 77 per cent of
l.onnal. There Is a slight decrease
from this ligure during the growing
ritason. usually (about 10 per cent,,
which will presumably reduce this enr
lv estimate to 07 per cent when the
crop is harvested and the final count
taken. Last year the April estimate
was given as 84 per cent, and the de
crease was 0 per cent during the grow
ing season. In terms of bushels the
crop last year figured 20.240.000 bush
els of fruit. Allowing for the normal
"Ml per cent decrease In 1020. the crtq.
this full will be short of last year'
production by about .'I.OOO.DOO bushels,
riving a total of 20.401,000 bushels for
the coming harvest.
REMOVE ALL VARIETY TAGS
If Wire Is Permitted to Remain It
Slowly Girdles Tree,. Eventually
Causing Death.
In setting out young fruit trees tin
variety tag is often left tied to the
tree so that the tree may he Identified
by Its variety name In later years.
This, however, generally causes mure
i rouble and injury to the tree thaiii
the knowledge in knowing what par
ticular variety the tree represents.
Frequently a young tree two or three
years oltl will be seen with the wins
ami tag around the main limb, hut
this wire Inibeildetl in the growth of
tlie tree to sut'li an extent that when
it Is removed the toji of the tree may
tlie or if the wire Is left on the tree
It is simply a Mow girdling process
until the entire top of the tree Is.
dead.
Horticultural
NOTE'S
Berries are fruits that most people
relish. This Is especially true ofr
strawberries.
The best soil for apple trees Ir n
nietllum-heavy clay loam soli anil welt
drained. A gootl many soils are not
suitable for an apple orchard.
l'each trees can be pruned to In
crease lgor In the late fall as soon as
most of the leaves are loose upon the
twigs and beginning to fall freely.
Those who have given thought tt
peach growing knbw that as soon as
the fertility of the ill begins to fail
the crop Is uncertain and of poor
quality.
Prune grlipe vines enough to give
plenty of room for each vine so that
light anil air may get In around them.
Most varieties are Inclined to produce
too much wood.