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NORTH PLATTE fVRMTAVEETCTV TRIBUNE. 50 WON FOR GOTHAM DOCKS New York Plans Gigantic Im provement on the Hudson River Water f ront TAKE TEN YEARS TO BUILD New System It to Consist of Wide Piers, Slips and Marginal Streets, With Warehouses and Tracks Where Available In Rear. Now York. The greatest water front Improvement here In W years, InvolvhiK the removal of 32 nntltinleil piers along the Hudson river and the I erection In their Mend of 18 now and vastly larger piers of latest design I has been planned by Murray Hulbert, commissioner of docks, and npproved by the sinking f Til commission. The Improvement will cost $.r0.O0O. (MM), and will require ten years to com plete. Work Is expected to bo started next spring. This, with the proposed vehicular tunnel to New Jersey, Is expected to solve New York's West side dock prob lem. The new waler front system Is to consist of wide piers, slips and marginal streets, with warehouses and tracks where available In the rear. 'Will Pay Out in Four Years." "The cost of construction Is expect ed to pay for Itself within four years' time," said Deputy Pock Commission er Michael Cosgrove. "A permanent sea wall has been built along the en tire stretch, no rock will las encoun tered to a depth of -10 feet, and most of the real estate Is owned by the city. - "These new, piers will Increase the H. C. L. Is Not New Problem 1,600 Years Ago Citizens .of Rome Were Tormented by Same Plague. DEFIED THEIR MIGHTY RULER Diocletian's Edicts Have Familiar Ring His Edicts and Curses Do ing No Good, He Advised Resort to Boycott. Home. Let those who can draw comfort . from the fact know that 11. (.'. I.., Is no newer than many other plagues which poor humanity suffers from. In fact, the citizens of Home, now tormented with further leaps and hounds In prices, are trying to console themselves with the discovery, made by those who read ancient books, that this city was bothered with tho prof iteer 1,110(1 years ago. Ruler Fixed Prices. In the reign of Diocletian, who nourished In 3(X) A. P.. the emperor was so disturbed by his subjects, who suffered from the II. C. that he llxed t lu; prices of foodstuffs and drew Wife So Jealous She Barrod Checker Game .San Francisco. Ills wife was so Jealous she would not even penult him to play checkers with his brother, Shirley Hur llngame told Superior Judge John J. Van Nostrand. lie said Mrs. lMnu H. Hurllngnnte broko ' up the game In their home be cause she, thought her husbnm wasn't paying enough attention to her. lie showed the Judgrt scars cm his face, Indicted by his wife eight years ago, he said, when she stopped the game of cneckers. "Lucky you weren't playing penny ante." observed the Judge, "or she might have killed you." He granted tho di vorce. o PASTOR IS GORED BY BULL Head of Orphan Home In Iowa Is Killed In the Presence of Children. Muscatine, la. While trying to ad Just a halter on a young hull Uev. Julius Poden, acting superintendent of the German Lutheran Orphans' home, south of this city, was fatally Hored. lie died 15 minutes after the acci dent, which was witnessed ley a score of children and employees, who were powerless to give aid. Hev. Mr. Poden wits for 27 years pastor of the Lutheran church at Wil ton, prior to which he was teacher In the Muscatine parochial school. 'Wireless Courtship Ends In Marriage. Pittsburgh. After a courtship and proposal conducted solely by wireless telegraphy, Hurton P, Williams and Miss Marian Carson of Sprlngdale. Pa., were married at Pittsburgh. Mr. and Jvlrw. WlillnniB both hold operators' II censes I Met) as llrst class hy the fed eral government. Underwater Scene A scene for a moving picture, made under the water by the use of a pho tographic divine lcll. pler-slornge area M) per cent If they are made only one story." continued Mr. Cosgrove, "Hut because of the high value of this water Trout It will be uneconomical to stop even at two stories. They, will have the most mod ern appliances for rapid handling of freight, Including electric cranes, helpers and hoists of all kinds. "The present lower North river wa ter front Is Just what It was In 171. Its slips are 'so narrow there Is not room In them at once for two bl: steamships. To nfTord relief I ho war department has three times permitted the filer headlines to extend further outshore. The more these narrow a schedule for workmen's wages. To read his proclamation Is to read the many long-winded documents which food controllers, mayors ami other public functionaries have perpetrated In the past three or four years. The condemning of the profiteer, "moved by a greed for protlt which Is out of all proportion to the real value of the goods he sells," ami the Imperial wish that ids "llxed prices should be re spected throughout the empire," have a familiar ring which makes glad the hearts of historians who want to make history popular. Hut relief, comfort and Joy do stop there- For It Is enough to read a lit tle further to discover that the good emperor's laws ami curses against newly rich and prollleers were as use less Id centuries ago as they are to day. And. lu despair, the good old Itoman tyrant Implores ids "honest r.:id patriotic subjects" to resort to the one ami qnly remedy, boycott of high-priced goods. With this ruler's history fresh In their minds, tho modern citizens or an cient Home are now being Informed that the following goods are to go up: Aluminum goods, 500 per cent : nickel, copper goods ami utensils. 500 per cent : goods ror household use. such as knives, forks and spoons, 500 per cent; iron goods of all kinds, (100 pur cent ; locks ami bolts. 700 per cent ; earthenware and china, from 100 to (MM) per cent. All these Increases are on present prices, which are from 300 to 1,000 per cent above pre-war prices. Home After Twenty Years. Fulton, Mo. A family reunion held at Hoonvlllo one week recently was unique lu that Will J. Mack of Ited Wing, Minn., was back In his old home town for the tlrst time In 20 years. Tho reunion was held In tho old home where Mr. Hack was born and reared and he slept In the same bed that once was his when he was a youth. Other Interesting mementos of his youth are still lu the home, which Is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Hack. Mr. Hack left Hoouevllle In 1881 ntid this week's visit Is his second since that year. A number of Missouri relatives were present at the reunion. YANK DREGS IN PARIS Drifters of American Army Stay in the Gay City. Former American Soldiers Soon Drop Into the Foulness and Darkness of the Parisian Apache Life, Paris. Two thousand forijter Amer ican soldiers are adrift, lu Paris. Most of them aro utterly Jobless, while a few work Just enough to keep them In food and clothes. The majority gain their living hy questionable means, following the races, touting dance halls and worse places, while a large number are living lu absolute degrada tion In the Apache quarters of Paris, as thieves, accomplices' of feminine crooks and In other criminal pursuits. Olllcers of tho Paris post of tho American Legion declare nothing less tJiau a regiment of military police can clean this situation up. The French police nppear to be powerless before the superior vigor and Initiative of the for the Movies "hileiH were brought out, the worse tho slips became, because boats have been continually growing bigger." La Guardia Lauds Project. "The new plan," said President F. II. La Ouardin of the board of alder men, "means that New York Is going to have 18 piers from ! to l,02.r feet In length, in place of the 35 dilapi dated structures which ere a dlsgrnco to the city. Hotwecn each pier then will be a maximum dockage space of 300 feet and a minimum of 27" feet. Two of the new plers'will be 100 feet wide, seven lfiO feet and nine 125 feet." Along New York's water front the dock commission already has under way other projects under contract amounting to $20,000,000. DAN DALY QUITS MARINES Famous War Hero Who Won Two -Medals Will Go Into Business. New York. First Sorgt. Da'u Pnlv. undoubtedly the best known man in all the services with the exception of Sergt. York of Argonne fame, has been placed on the Inactive list of the Ma- i rlne Corps reserve. Paly won two medals' of honor for value In the Hover rebellion and In the capture of Fort Hlvlere In Haiti, and Is said to be the only man In atl the services who holds two medal of honor. In the world war his feats of ex ceptlonal bravery won for Jdm the me dallle mllltalre and the crotx du gucrc from France, and the distinguished service cross from (Jen. Pershing. Ills passing from the actlve'llst to go Into business removes from the marines i their most picturesque of the old school soldiers. DIG UP RUM 100 YEARS OLD Workmen Demolishing Graves In New York Make Very Interest, ing Fjnd. Rochester. N. Y. -interest anions the wockmen engaged lu removing bodies from the ancient l'ultney street cemetery, In 'Geneva, was greatlv eii latticed when a grave was encoun tered that apparently resisted pene tration. After much hard work the men ills closed what proved to be a large stone Jug of peculiar shape. -ItVrts secure ly sealed, hut after It had been care fully cleaned of the accumulation of more than KM) years the . following wnrds'wore revealed on Its side: "New Hertford Hum, 171)0." The wording had beeit blown Into the stone by the potter. About two gallons of lluld were found in the Jug, which may have originally held ten gallons. Killed Rattlesnake Family. I'oncopog, Mass. A family of 13 small rattlers ami their mother was slain by a visitor to the Blue llllln reservation near here. The motliel snake fought for her young to tie; last. After she was killed it was mi easy matter to dispose of the lit tie ones. This Is considered an unusual ly large rattlesnake fauiJJy. farmer Yank soldiers. The Paris post of the Legion, numbering only about IMH), can do nothing against them. The situation grows worse from da. to day. These men, left-overs, are part of the tragedy of the war the lotus-eat Ing sediment of the Amerli"tu army Some of them stayed when the Amer lean army went home, others went back to the states but drifted again to Paris. Purlng the war most of the A. 15. F. got a taste of Paris, the uniform being an Introduction to any circle The highest paid army In Kurope. the Yanks had everything their own wnv Now-things have changed and the for mer heroes have sunk to the lowest depths of degradation. Men are con stoutly drifting hack to Paris where they still llml some looseness and the same license, but the life they knew before has passed and they soon drop Into the darkness of a life i-f crime until the prison doors open for them POULTRY CACKLES CARE FOR LITTLE CHICKENS When First Put Into a Drobder They Should Be Protected by Beard or Wire Frame. When chickens are first put Into ft brooder they should be confined under or around the hover by placing a board or wire frame a few Inches outside (this would not apply to the small outdoor colony brooders). The fence or guard should he moved gradually farther away from the hover and dis carded entirely when the chickens are three or four dnys old, or when they have learned to return" to the sourco of heat, poultry specialists In tha I'nlted Slates department of agricul ture say. Young chickens should bo closely watched to see that they do not huddle together or get chilled. They should he allowed to run on the ground whenever the weather Is favonlble, as they do much, better than when kept continuously on cement or hoard tloors. Weak chickens should usunlly be killed as soon as noticed, as they nirely make good stock, while they may become carriers of disease. Hrooders should be disinfected at least once a year, ami more frequently If the chickens brooded In them have bad any disease. FOR SUCCESS WITH POULTRY Good Stock Is First Fundamental for Best Results on Farm Dual Purpose Breeds Best, The tlrst fundamental of successful farm poultry keeping Is good stock, of course, It Is well known that fnrm ers may at times get fairly good re sults from ordinary stock, hut at the same time' it must be remembered that with the same care and attention better results will be obtained 'from good stock. Hy good stock Is not necessarily meant stock which has been bred for exhibition purposes. It means standardbred stock, which by virtue of its pure breeding has been systematically developed and which Is better lltted therefore to give the re sults expected of It nnd to yield a more uniform- and more desirable product. on tile average farm the poultry tlock Is exnected to furnish eggs and Plymouth Rock Is Good for Eggs and Table. poultry for the farmer's table as well as to produce a surplus for sale. For that reason the sii-c!illel general-purpose breeds, such sis tiu Plymouth Itock, Wyandotte, and Klioile Island Hod, which are good layers and at the same time make excellent carcasses for the table, are recommended by poultry specialists of the United States department of agriculture as best suited to lit? farm needs. A further advantage of good stock Is the fad that the owner will lake a pride In such a llock which he will not feel in a thick of mongrels, and as a result In.' will give the hens better care. CULL UNPROFITABLE LAYERS It Will Help Increase Profits for Breeder to Dispose of All Hens In Poor Condition. While some hens will prove to he profitable, others are kept at a loss and are a drag on the profitable, hens lu the tlock. It Is Important, there fore, to cull out the unprofitable pro ducers, as this will Increase the profit realized from the Hock as a whole. Any hens found to be sickly or lu poor condition shouliP be culled as soon as discovered. INJURIOUS LITTLE RED MITE Insects Sap Vitality of Hen by-Suck-ing Her Blood and as a Conse quence She Won't Lay. The little red mite saps the vitality of the lien by sucking her blood. Hens have actually been killed, virtually eaten alive, by mites. Hens cannot lay except when their vitality Is main tained. Vitality and tulles cannot ex ist In the same henhouse. FEEDS FOR YOUNG CHICKENS Little Fellows Should Be Given Just Enough to Satisfy Appetite and . Keep Them Busy. Young chickens should be fed not more than barely enough to satisfy their appetites and to keep them ex ercising, except at the evening or Inst taeal, when they should bo given all WAM1TK Payne Will Push Reclamation Projects 0 fL WASHINGTON. It Is the belief of the sectetarj of the interior thnt with nn appropriation of $12,000,000, broadly speaking, 100,000 acres of land could be oiened for entry under the reclamation act, and he stnted that there would be an opening of farms within two months for n few thousnnd acres In the Shoshone (Wyoming) project. Secretary Payne has returned to Washington from a trip of Inspec tion of two of the government's great Irrigation projects at Yakima, Wash., and Shoshone, Wyo. "There never was a time In our his tory," said the secretary, "when the hunger for laml was greater than It Is at present. It now rests with con gress, which has the power to develop this Immense amount of Jund, to make See That Your Records 'Are Clear, Boys NATION-WIDE "drive" to round up draft deserters will be In augurated by the war department In the next few weeks with tjie publica tion of a slacker list containing, ac cording to the present records, 17.'),011 names. AlthnugirYvery effort has been made to reach every mnn classified as a draft deserter In order to give him an 'opportunity to show thnt ho did not willfully evade his duty, notice of the Impending "drive" Is given, nnd every man in doubt as to ids draft record Is urged by the adjutant gen eral of the army to write to him with in the next two weeks so as to afford sufficient time for his case to be set tled before the slacker list Is made public. "The war department Is most anx ious not to place upon any "man who served his country honorably the hu miliation of having his name np pear as a slacker, and for that reason Is seeking the widest publicity of the fnct that a list of deserters will be published, anil that the men whose names appear on that list will be ar rested and brought to trial before a military court." according to a state ment Issued by the adjutant general. "Any man. therefore, who Is not pos itive that his record with his local board was complete In every detail slmuld at once avail himself of this World to Have New ? Q? M CONTUOL of cable telegraph sys tems, now largely In the hands of (rent Hrltaln, may be entirely revolu tionized, and the way opened for a eater degree of American activity lu this field, as a result of tho Interna tional conference on wireless and cable communication to be held In Wash ington next month. The Hrltlsh es tablished their control of the avenues of cable communication by pioneer en terprise In laying cables under long term concessions granted by a num ber of countries, which concessions ox chide competition. The aim of the In ternational conference is to establish an international agreement removing the restraints on competition, defin ing property rights In cables, and "The Boy Stood on W 11 F.N Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, was attending school down at Wilson. N. ('.. it was custom ary every Friday afternoon for one section of the school to give declama tions from the platform. One Friday a dozen of the boys, comprising all who were to speak thnt day, got their heads together and conceived the merry prank of giving the same piece, one after another. The piece they were to give was one that starts: "On Linden when the sun was low. All bloodless lay the untrodden snow." Hy the time eight or nine of the jocular youngsters had given these Im perishable lines the schoolmaster was aroused to a considerable state of Ire anil dignity. He sat through one lir two more, and then when the twelfth boy was about to speak, promulgated this : - "if another one of you dares give that same piece he will remain after school, and I shall give him some thing that will set him thinking." Josephus Daniels was ihe next boy. He and his companions had entered Into a solemn compact all to gie that same little piece, come appropriations that will provide Uih territory. "The second hlgheot dant In the United States hns been built at Sho shone. They have made the dam on. both branches of tho Shoshone river nnd the wnter above Is six miles wldt and extends a distance of ten miles. This body of water will Irrigate 220, 000 acres of land. Sixty-six thousand acres are now available If congress will provide money enough to build canals to tho various lands. "In round numbers 220.000 acres i the quantity which the dam will pro vide wnter for. Hy furnishing $12, 000,000 more 100,000 acres could bo opened in small farms, say from IK to 25 acres. The land Is so fertile that a farm of 15 acres seems to sat isfy them. In Ynklmn, Wash., they raise from COO to 000 bushels of po tatoes on an acre of this ground. "Since tlie primary purpose of this, reclamation law was to create homes. It . has Justified all Its exponent claimed for It; for on the government project lands are -10,000 families In Independent homes. The government reservoirs are supplying 2,780,000 acres nnd on these reclaimed acres there are 100.000 people profitably employeed." 'rjKAFTl riFSFrc-rt.i 3.7K zxK opportunity to clear his record and avoid the probable publication of his name as a deserter. Once the list of deserters Is posted, every means at the disposal of the army will bo brought Into play to bring about tho arrest and trial of the guilty. "The tremendous public sentiment against slnckers will cause the where abouts of most of them to be re vealed, and it Is not expected thar any guilty man will escape." The payment of $T0 for each draft deserter apprehended nnd turned over to the military authorities law been temporarily suspended by the war department because of the tre mendous expense Involved. It Is the belief that the public spirit of state and local olliclals. patriotic societies and other agencies will cause them to co-operate In searching for of fenders. Deal in Ocean Cables enunciating the principles of national and International regulation of cable nnrt wireless communication. Pending the deliberations of this conference the United States refused to Issue a permit to the Western I'nion company to land at Miami. Fltu the American end of a new cable the Western Telegraph company, a Hrlt lsh concern, proposes to lay be tween the United States and the Har bado'es. a Hrltlsh possession In the West Indies. To prevent tin landing of the cable without a permit Secretary of .the Navy Daniels rushed five destroyers to Miami to Intercept n Hrltlsh cable laying ship. The destroyers reached the scene of action and with due cere mony the American commander went aboard the Hrltlsh cable layer anil communicated the warning of the American government to commit no Invnsion of American soil with the end of the submarine telegraph wire. Hut the coble layer already had received a wireless message from Sir Krie (ediles, Hrltlsh ambassador to the United States, Instructing him to take himself hence pending a settlement or the ipicstlon. the Burning Deck" what might. As lie ascended tin platform and gazed at the eager young faces of his accomplices .! sephus greatly disliked to be untrue to Ids pledge. And yet a glance at the grim countenance of tho school master suggested to him that pledges were made to be broken when un foreseen circumstances warranted. It 'was a trying situation. For some, moments lie stood there wavering, dis cretion yanking at tho anchor of duty. And lo. duty held I Manfully the hruvr little chap began: "On Linden when the sun was" Hut ho got no further. The teacher laid hands on him. Josephus had been brave but foolish. they care to eat.