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NOKTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. RAILWAY SPANS GREAT DESERT Road in Australia Crosses Inhos pitable and Waterless Stretch of Country. TOOK FIVE YEARS TO BUILD Darlno-and Skill of Engineers Con quers Most Desolate Waste In WorldHeat and Insects Make Life Unbearable. Melbourne When the Prince of WiiIbb decided to rnnku IiIh recent Journey from Perth to Adelnldu by mcniiH of AtiRtrnllu'n Hrm (ruiiHcontl nentnl rnllwiiy. It wuh a compllnient to the during and jilrill of the AUHtrn Hiiii eiiKlneern who conqtiered one of the world's most forraldiible dc&urtR. It whs the lute Lord Kitchener who KtiKgeHied the Hue, pointing out that for Htrateglcnl and other remsoiiH western Australia should he linked with tho other Mutes of tho common wealth by nn. Iron road. Hut the great Victorian desert lay between, a barren. Inhospitable and waterless Mrelcb of country. Not a rivulet Is to be found In the whole of thin vast region. It Is one dreury ix pniiRO of Hand and limestone rock, relieved here and there by suit-hush, which even cattle refuse to cat. Worse still nrv the Intense heat and tho blood sucking Insects which abound. Five Years Required. , The fact hicnnt u five-year battle ngnlnst terrible odds. It was only com pleted Just before the armistice. The survey work nlone occupied two years, and cost 20.000. the total expenses of the undertaking amounting to over 7.000,000. Camels had to te requisitioned to enrry tho surveyors and their stores. The chief engineer records how It wns Impossible to use Ink. as It Instantly dried on the pen and the leads dropped out of tho shriv eled pencils. To secure relief from the rays of tho midday sun they had to bury themselves In holes In tho sand, where they were uttneked by fierce Insects. , The route having been decided on. the steel rails wero laid simultaneous ly from each end across the desert. Dives of Beiii Resorts That Have Bulked Large in Traditions Will 0011 Be Only a Memory. "OWL" IS THE LATEST TO 60 New' Government of Mexico Frowns on Gambling and Other Evil Con dltlona -Along the International t- Boundary Orders Clean-Up, Mexlcall, Lowor California. One by ono tho resorts whose names have bulked large In tho traditions of the West aro meeting an end. Latest to go Is the "Owl" at Mexlcall, which Its operators and ofllchils of the Cantu regime In Lower California freely nd mlttcd had paid largu sums for per mission to operate. In tho Owl wero to bo found all the attractions that went to make up tho typical dance hall of frontier days. The building Itself was new, the "old Owl" having been destroyed by tire last February, but tho traditions of the place wero much the same and those familiar with the older estab lishment Wero at homo In tho now. A Busy Plaoe. Tho old Owl was a huge, bam-like structure. Gaming tables and some pool and billiard tables, surrounded hy high seats for spectators, occupied Its front spaces. Along one side rang ed a lengthy bar, where In busy time ten or a dozen bartenders were no un usual sight. Further hack was a stago with flimsy scenery, curtained "boxes," thut were strongly reminis OLD CHANCERY INN FOR SALE Famous London Building, Six Cen- turles Old, Will Be Offered at Auction. ' London. After six centuries the historic Clifford's Inn. oldest of the nine Inns of Chancery, Is to be offered for sale by miction. Tho first authentic record of Clif ford's dates back to 1310, when It was granted to Baron Clifford oy Edward II. It was first let to students of law In the reign of Edward III. In the quulnt old hall Sir Mathew Hale and seventeen others sat after the grout fire of London In 1000 to adjudl cnto upon claims of landlords and jeraufs of burned houses. There aro preserved In the British museum forty thick volumes recording their decisions. Belongs to the "Old School." Connersvllle. Ind. A woman called for Jury service In u magistrate's court here refused to serve. She saJd she had dishes to wash and housework to do and If forced to serve she would iut return n Just verdict. Great Air Mail Hangar at Omaha The transcontinental ulr imill iiungur at Omuhu. one of fhu stops in the New York to San .ranclsco air service. As the country was for the most part flat, and not a river or a noticeable hill Intervened, little grading work was necessary. It was simply a case of making an even bed on which the sleepers were quickly Inld. Then came ttie placing' of the steel rails across them by means of a track layer, and spiking and bolting them. Very trying, however, was the heat, particularly during the summer months. It was often Impossible at midday to touch the steel rails or handle a shovel without fear or blis tering the lingers. The men hnd to be provided with rubber gloves to enable them to handle their tools, and nlso to save their linger nails from splitting, and wear masks as a protection against the Insects. Life was only made pos sible hy a liberal dally supply of Ice, obtained from tho refrigerating cars attached to the construction trains which followed them. Discover Water. At Intervals of SO miles or so. water tanks wore built, the Intention being to use these In connection with the working of the trains. They were to be supplied with water pumped from the reservoirs at Kalgoorlle. But after two and n half years' work, during which the track had progressed at the West Closed cent of half a century ago. and a num ber of plain seats and heiicho for those not Inclined to the 'expensive seml-prlvncy of the "boxes." From near the theater section a pas sago led to a space surrounded by sev eral hundred small rooms, colloquially known ,us "the yard." where outcast Women lived. Much of the costly gambling para phernalia that was used In this old es tabllshpient was saved when tho build ing burned nnd wtip used later In the new "Owl," Ordered to Close. September 4. when orders came rrom Mexico City, where the now gov ernment had frowned upon the gam bling nnd other conditions nlong tho International border, to close the place, a dramatic scene was enacted. Manager Coburn read tho order, look ed for n moment over tho crowd of hundreds, representative of nearly ev ery nationality, and summoned the house police, lie gave them hasty In structions and they, starting at tho renr of the main room and shouting tho word as they went, cleared t,ho place within a minute or two of all except the dealers, lookouts and'otber employees. Many Chinese, not tinder standing the order, stampeded through the doors to the street. The dealers quickly gathered up the big plies of silver coins and tho gam bling paraphernalia. Soon tho arch of lights above the entrance, that spelled out tho name of tho place, dickered out. Tho "Owl" was closed. According to tho order from Provi sional President do In Huerta, It never Is to re-open. SEVERE ON Many Travelers Take Ships to Mar sellles or Venice to Escape Argu ments at the Frontiers. Constantinople. Nino vlsos nre re quired to carry n traveler fro Con stantinople to Paris , oil the Oriental express, and tho task Is so great most travelers take steamers to Marseilles or Venice In preference to the Jumbled rail trip across tho Jlltlkuns, which ne cessitates emlless controversies with otllclals at various frontiers. An American going to Paris by rail must start with the -Wo of the United States consulate on his passport, then go to tho Swedish legation to gel the Bulgarian vise, The Serbian stamp Is next In order. It musl be followed by threo Greek1 stamps. Then vises must he hail of, the Bal lon and thu French military 'controls. Many passports are not large enough to curry till the stamps. An English man who recently attempted to got tho collection on nn old passport ex rnto of about a mile n day. the engi neers realized that If a really elllclent service wns to be maintained the pro posed method of obtaining water would have to he modified. So they sent for a boring plant, nnd at n point I.r0 tulles from Kalgoorlle began boring for water. Everyono shook their bends, declaring there wns no water In the whole of thnt barren land. Hut at a depth of 1.300 feet water was found. This discovery of wafer not only re lieved the engineers of considerable anxiety and greatly lessened their work, but It hns changed be 'vholo aspect of the country. Sneep now graze along tho track, which a few years ago was a barren wnsto. Ex ports declare that the once formidable desert will become a great grazing country, cnrrylng nt least 3.000.000 sheep. ' Used Stolet. Money to Pay Attorney Who Freed Him John ITnrtmnn of New ork city, accused of stealing n pock etbook containing $10 from the home of Hose Avey, near Bry ant. Ind.. wns acquitted when ( fried before Justice of tho Pence 'Whltoman of Bryant. As soon ns the decision wns reached Hartmnn produced a pocketbook nnd took $2 fromMt to pay Wis nttorney, Urban Bonl fns. a young mnn recently ad mitted to the bar. "Why, that Is my pocketbook," Mr. Avey said, when he saw Hartman produce It nnd the , money. He wns right, hut Hart mnn could not be placed In Jeop ardy twice for the same of fense, and he left town $8 to the good. 1,300-FT. SERPENT AS MOUND Left by Ancient Peoples In Ohio as a Symbol of Religion Built of Earth and Stone. West Union,- Ohio. A great' sqrient 1,300 feet long, built of earth nnd stone, a symbol or the religion of undent peoples, stands n few' miles from here as the most Interesting and Important earthwork, left by the mound builders of Ohio. Situated In n rather secluded spot, supposedly selected by tho mound builders for privacy In performing their ancient rites, the mnsslve reptile winds gracefully back from n glen to higher land. Tho serpent's head rests on n rock platform which presents a precipitous face to the descending sun and Is nbout 100 feet high. The Jaws of the mouth nre widely extended In tho act of swallowing on egg, repre sented hy nn aval rldgo of earth. Tribute to Former Foemen. Knoxvllle. Tenn. Hector W. Church, Union veteran, resident of Oxford. N. Y has left his estate to tho United Daughters of the Confederacy, pro viding that the Income be used to per petuate the fame of Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert K, Lee, Gen. John B. Gor don and Gen. Jufml Karly. TOURISTS hausted all the blank spaco In four calls. His Qinbassy would not permit him to attach a blanlc sheet to his passport. Consequently he hud to have a new ono Issued nnd started over again on tho round. Since the Polish disaster, bolshevik agitation hns become so ucufo In Tnr l',v that travelers are watched more carefully than ever before by the al. lied olllclals. On n recent pnssengor ship from Butviui, a so-called Hussion colonel, whoso conversation with British otll clals showed n decided Ignorance of military nlfalrs, was arrested. Ho had live passports In his trunks, with great quantities of soviet literature In many Innguages. Tho bogus colonel was sent to General Wrangel in the Crimea. The rear sight of a new sporting rifle can bo adjusted In tho dark, as overj' turn of the thumb screw makes a clicking sound. "WASHINGTON E SIDELIGHTS IMi Our Allies to Owe WASHINGTON.? The allied govern ments will owe the United Stntes nearly ?12,000,000,000 for loans made to them during the war by the time they are scheduled to resume In terest payments In 1022. Negotiations ore still In progress between Great Britain, France nnd the other allies on the one hand nnd the United Stntes treasury on the other In regard to placing the loans on a new basis with Interest due, but unpnld, Included In the principal. By virtue of the accounts repaid, the total outstanding prlncipnl of the loans Is now !MVlfin.-101,ri28. Cuba Is paying ts interest regularly. Utissla paid Interest up to Nov. 15, 1017. Tho America Is a Nation TIN People of the world annunlly consumed more thnn two nnd one half billion pounds of coffee In pre war days enough to load a train of cars reaching from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, says a communication to the Nntlonal Geographic society, Is sued as the third of n .series of bul letins on "Where Our imports Come From." This consumption now perhaps Is nenrcr 3,000,000.000 pounds, nnd, In the United Stntes nlone 42 per cent more coffee was drunk during the fis cal year 1019-1020 than in the preced ing 12 months. Three-fourths of the world's coffee Is grown in Brazil, a country thnt has become rich from Its coffee Industry alone. Europe and North America bear approximately the same relation to the consumption of coffee thnt 'Bra zil does to Its production, these two continents using nearly four-fifths of all the coffee the world produces. Holland' Is the greatest coffee drink ing nation on the glohe. It uses 15 pounds per capita annually, while we use 13 pounds, Germany 5 pounds, Austria-Hungary two and two-fifths pounds, and the United Kingdom two-, thirds of n pound. On the other hand, ve use less thnn one pound of tea per capita, while the United Kingdom uses nearly seven pounds. Cnnodu Is about two-thirds English nnd one-third American In Its use of coffee nnd tea ; Three of Uncle Sam's Battle Cruisers KEELS of three United States bnt tlo cruisers were laid In one day recently. Secretary of the Navy Dan iels snld that It wns an event believed to be unprecedented in tho history of shipbuilding when within the space of n few hours the keels of three battle cruisers were laid. One of these ves sels, battle cruiser No. 3, the Sara toga, Is being built by the New York Shipbuilding corporation at Camden, N. J.; the other two, bnttle cruiser No. 5, the Constitution,, and No. 0, tho United Stntes, are being built side by side nt the Philadelphia navy yard. Tho keel of another vessel of this clnss, the Constellntlon, was laid In August 18 nt the yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock com- Farmers Must Be Given Immediate Help AN OFFICIAL statement by the American Fnrm Burenu federa tion, summarizing Its Investigation Into business, Industrial and agricultural conditions, declares thnt America "Is facing nn agricultural economic con dition which, If not Intelligently dealt with, will lead to consequences so grave as to affect all Industry to tho point of Imperiling the social order." The statement says fanners must he given Immedlntc help In transporta tion, flnanco and labor, and recom mends the following as remedial ef forts which would go a long way to ward solving agricultural difficulties: Preferential treatment In transpor tation to all farm produce held for shipment nnd to nil goods consigned to farmers which aro necessary to con duct the business of forming. More profits for farmers, better dis tribution systems which would tend to ellmlnnte middlemen nnd stabilize prices. Ample finance, with rural bnnks as suming the obligation of financing the farmer with long and priority credits. Protection from "wildcat" Invest ments, which nre said to be taking millions of dollars from farms annu ally. Equalization of agricultural nnd In Us Twelve Billions other debtors paid Interest In full up to the spring of 1010, when they censed to pay on account of tho un settled exchange situation nnd sought a three-years' suspension of interest payments; now the subject of the ne gotiations with the treasury depart ment. Tho debtor nations undertake to pny In full eventunlly both the prln-clpal-and tho interest In arrears, com pounded seml-nnnually; The Interest accruing between April, 1010, nnd May, 1020, totnlled $1G3,21C, 015. The United Staffs loaned n total of $0,534,022,043 to nations at war with Germany, distributed ns follows: t Debtor. Lonned. Repaid. Great Brltaln.$4,277,000,000 $04,101,007 Ernncc 2,007,477,800 12,147,000 Itnly 1,031,338.080 Belgium 338,745,000 10,000 Uussia 187,720,750 Czecho-Slov. . 00,524,041 Serbia 20,780,405 005,000 Itoumanla ... 25,000,000 1,704,180 Cuba 10,000,000 500,000 Greece 10,000,000 Liberia 20,000 ...v of Coffee-Drinkers It shows a decided preference for the tea, but drinks less of It than the mother country, making up the differ ence with coffee. The Germans and the Austro-IIungarlans use only n negligible quanlty of tea. The coffee plant Is a shrub which, under cultivation, grows from four to six feet high. In Its wild state It grows three or four times as high as In Its cultivated state. ' The dwarf ing of the plant Increases the crop and facilitates picking. The leaves are ot a fresh green color; the flowers nre white and hnve nn odor strongly re sembling jasmine., The green coffee berry of com merce Is nothing more nor less than the seed of the coffee "cherry." These "cherries" turn crimson on ripening. They nre then picked, the pulp Is taken off by machinery, nnd the two husks which lie between the pulp nnd the seeds themselves are removed. pnny, nt which yard preliminary work Is going nhend on n sister vessel, the Ranger. Similar preliminary work Is also be ing done In the sixth of the class, be ing built by the Bethlehem Shipbuild ing corporation at Its Fore III ver plnnt, whore the keel of the Lexington will be laid very soon. "These are tho largest and fastest battle cruisers In the world," snld Sec retnry Dnnlels. "They were origlnnl ly authorized In 1&1C as n part of the three-year building program, but their construction wns suspended during the wnr. Since thnt time their designs hnve been redrawn to tnke full ndvnn tage of the lessons learned from wnr experience, with the result thnt the vessels nre materially lnrger and more powerful than nt first contemplated." Famous nhmes In United Stntes naval history are some of these, and most famous Is that of the Constitu tion. In defeating tho Guerrlere In the Wnr of 1812 the Constitution won the victory thnt mndp the United Stntes navy. The original Constitu tion lies at the Boston nnvy ynrd, though launched In 1707. It was pro posed to dismantle her In 1828, but Holmes' poem, "Old Ironsides," saved her. dustrial labor wages, which tho state ment declares can ho accomplished only by lowering industrial wages or Increasing farm wages. Encouragement of Immigration. The statement, In nsklng encourage ment of Immigration, declares that this Is necessary to supply labor, and adds that "the inero fact thnt u man cannot sponk American does not mean ho' will not be a good citizen." The stntenn-nt closes with a plea that the farm and farm life bo adver tised to overcome tho tendency of farmer boys to flock to cities. "Tho homo life on the fnrm must be given ndded attractions," It says. "There must he more amusement, more recreation and assets to overcome the lure of the city, which temporarily In toxlcutes the farm hoy's brain." GOLD IN JUST A FEW HOURS "Pape't Cold Compound" Instantly re lieves stuffiness and distress Don't stay stuffed-upt Quit hlowlng and snuffling t A dose of "Pope's Coldi Compound" taken every two hours un til threo doses are taken usually breaks, up a severe cold and ends all grippe misery. The very first dose opens yonr clogged-up nosfrlls nnd the hip pass ages of the head; stops nose running; relieves the hendnche, dullness, fever Ishness, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. "Pape's Cold Compound" Is thw quickest, surest relief known nnd costo only a few cents at drug stores. It? acts without assistance, tastes nice, contains no quinine Insist npoo Pape's I Adv. A Wise Owl. At thnt, he who hesitates Is a wise old owl compared to tho fellow who Jumps at n get-rlch-qulck scheme. GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER A Marvelous Remedy for Indigestion. Those who suffer from nervous dys pepsia, constipation, Indigestion, tor pid liver, dizziness, headaches, com ing up of food, wind on stomach, pal pitation nnd other Indications of dis order In the digestive tract will nnd Green's August Flower a most effec tive and efficient assistant In the res toration of nature's functions and & return to health and happiness. There could be no better testimony of the value of this remedy for these troubles than the fact that Its use for the last fifty-four years has extended Into many thousands of households all over the civilized world and no Indication of any failure has been obtained In all that time. Very desirable as a gentle laxative. Sold everywhere. Adv. The Kind. "Why are they sending out circulars' about this business?" "To show It Is on the square." Cutlcura Soothes Itching Scalp On retiring gently, rub spots of dan druff and Itching with Cutlcura Oint ment. Next morning shampoo with Cutlcura Soap and hot water. Mnke them your every-day toilet preparations; and have a clear skin and soft, white hands. Adv. There doesn't live a man who. ob jects to having nice things said about him. Nebraska Directory When Prints Aro Ordered Prints 3 Wx3W, 3 cents ; 2H4W. 4 centsg postal card size, 0 cents, postpaid. Beaton Photo Supply Co, 15th & Frnm Sit. Omaha, Nobu Stove Repairs For All Stoves, Furnaces, Heaters, Etc. LiHCOLH STOVE REPAIR COMPANY LINCOLN. NEB BE A NURSE Exceptional opportunity at the present time for young women over nineteen years of ages who have had at least two Years in high school! to take Nurses' Training In general hospital. Our graduates are lu great demand. Address. Supt. of Nurses, Lincoln Sanitarium Lincoln. Nebraska THE SOLAR SANITARIUM Masonic Temple iildg. 19ib and Douglas St., Omahb Solar Baths. FOR RHEUMATISM Write for booklet. BAILEY the DENTIST A specialist in each department of dentistry Makes Dentistry Easy for You 704-714 City Na.fl Bank OMAHA LEE W. EDWARDS M.D..D.C. 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