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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1913)
IS THE NORTH PLATTg SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. V &, - if' k V -ri- A V 4 HERMAN OELRICHS, Young Oclrlchs, son cf the millionaire steamship man and a student at Columbia, was freed from an unpleasant situation when Miss Singleton ad mitted that her charges that he stabbed her while they wero riding in his automobile wero false. DUTCH IN Language Problem Will Be Solved by Immigration. High Dutch Is the One Used In Writ ing by Preachers and Parliamen tarians But Has No Popular ity With the People. London. The Boars have always boon one of tho most conservative of people. Good colonists, they bullied and enslaved the natives with ruth less harshness, and then at the ap proach of the British rather than mix with them thoy sullenly trekked back ward Into the hinterland. It is this dourness which, now that the two nations are Inevitably and un deniably joint proprietors of tho coun try, in alliance with the flash and parish patriotism of the Hertzog school, stands strongly agalnBt the supremacy of tho English languago in British South Africa. Botha is a far seeing and a tolerant .man. Whllo ho speaks Dutch In par liament and in elections, ho can and does speak fluently In tho English tongue, and Is nover averse to carry on a conversation through that mo ''drum. Hertzog, on the contrary, never loses an opportunity to stir up en thusiasm for the Dutch tonguo. All official documents, likewise all menu cards and programs, aro printed in both languages. But tho general In finitely prefers a document written In bad Dutch than one penned In per fect English. , It Is among the "back veldters," or tho old farming classes of tho plains, that tho Dutch language holds chief sway, and it is there that Hertzog Is most in favor. In tho big towns Eng lish has a clear preponderance, and Britishers In Johannesburg would re pudiate with scorn the suggestion that tho Dutch languago was advancing toward supremacy. While It has to be noted that tho Dutch spoken among tho lower classes la not tho written language, tho language of church and state, but what Is called "Natal," a sort of corruption, it must bo remem bered as n significant fact that while tho top dressing of socloty adheres proudly to tho English language, tho backbone is every whit as enthusias tic, and in more dogged fashion, for tho Dutch. High Dutch Is the written language, tho preacher's languago, tho parlia mentary languago, but It has no popu larity whatsoever among tho people. In school British children aro now being taught a serviceable mixture of high and low. One generation may speak one tonguo, tho next both and the next again will be able to con verse only In one. You will meet among tho govern ment officials a Mr. MacCallum, ofivi; ously of Scottish descent, and even suggesting It in his physiognomy, who will convorso pleasantly with you In Dutch, but soon become corifused and fuddled if you greet him In English. Then, again thero is tfio phenomenon of Mr. Davles, say, who will speak Dutch to a Boer even although ho is perfectly well aware that tho Boer would speak English. This may be complimentary to tho EngNsh tonguo, ""but It is scarcely likely to prove so serviceable to It aa Ocnoral Hartzog's fervid admiration JEor Dutch does to that ongue. It is woll known In what contempt the IJafilrs aro held by Boers and Brit ishIt fa a matter which Ambrose Pr"att omphasizes very strongly in. hl rocent work on 'The Ileal South frj ca." And hero thero Is another tlgnlfi- cant fact to be noted English is nev-i er spoken to tho Kaffirs. Thero Is an interesting analogy to this problem In , our own history. When the Normans conquered tho Saxons and settled in England it might havo been expected that the French languago and not the Anglo-Saxon JR., IN HIS CAR .Xi'Ssi TTmni i 1 imii ii iiirniMiil AFRICA - would survive. The Saxons wero thor oughly conquered and ground down. Tho Boers aro certainly not; for their Robin Hood kept up national senti ment and nurses covert distrust and hato not under tho greenwood tree, but under the rooftree of government, and their Herowards lurked tu no fens, but came and went about the veldts teaching an empire many lessons. The Saxons, It is true, wero in n great ma jority, but opposite those pensions paid to the Boers oven injured in the war wo must wrlto tho harrying of Yorkshire. Norman-French at once beenmo the languago of church nnd state; Eng lish, we may say, is neither today in South Africa. Again we seo tho back bone of society, "loyal to the voice of tho land," and tho brilliant top dress ing proudly maintaining tho tongue of their fathers. But; then, in those feudal days of no board schools, and with as blg a gulf botween conqueror and conquered almost as between white man and Kaffir, there could bo little question of an advanced coales cence or of the .blllnguallsm so appar ent today in the educated strata of South African society. RETURN OF BIG TIP BAD FORM "Gates Couldn't Have Such an Experi ence In New York," Is Unani mous Opinion. New York. It couldn't happen In Now York. That is tho unanimous belief of Now York waiters, discuss ing tho return to Charles O. Gatea of a ?900 Up a waiter In Minneapolis re ceived from him. Such a course, local waiters assart, amounts to conduct unbecoming a waiter. "Now York waiters are entitled to everything a diner leaves behind," ksald a waiter in a Broadway hotel. Charles G. Gates. ''If a diner paya his check with a $1,000 bill and forgets tho ctiango it is not tho waiter's business to remind him. "The waiter la omployed to induce dlnera to como to hla table, suggest the most expensive, refuse to servo one portion for two and to thrown! lent contumely on a man who orders domestic wines. This Is enough to keep any waiter busy, ana he earns all he gets, no matter how much it Is." Diaphanous Gown Restores "Sight." Lima. O. With a "please holp tho blind" sign pinned upon hla coat aud darkened glasses over his oyeB, Thomas Kern, a "blind" beggar, sat at i tho depot here, an object of pity, until a woman wearing a diaphanous gown passed. Kern, snatched away hla. glasses, took a long, "peep"' and then started to resume his pose, when a po liceman arrested him. Kern'o eyes will bo teste!!. BABY SAVES GIRL'S LIFE Little FIve-Year-Old Hero Is Youngest Applicant for Carnegie Medal. New York. Perhaps tho youngest applicant for n Carnegie hero medal is little Freddie Smith, tho fivc-year-old son of Sorgt. F. 8. Smith of th Columbus corps of tho Salvation Army. Ho is credited with having saved his playmate, Tenia Dally, a fow months younger than hlniBelf, from drowning. Tho rescue, accord ing to eyowltncBBes, was dramatic. Col. J. E. Margotts, chlof secretary for tho children's Salvation Army work In tho United States, Is 60 Im pressed with tho story that when he started for Pittsburgh ho carrlod n quantity of evldcnco which ho will submit to tho Carnegie Hero Fund commission on behalf of the little fel low. Tenia was playing on tho bank ol tho Scioto river on Juno 4 when she lost hor footing nnd fell In. Freddlo, who was a block away, heard hor screams and ran to tho river bank ns Toula was sinking. Although ho could not swim, ho Jumped Into tho water without hesitation. Ho was up to his neck about threo foot from whero tho littlo girl was struggling. Fortunately her long fialr floated on tho water toward him. Ho graBpcd It between his liny fingers and dragged her to tho shoro. $10,000 GIFT TO CZARINA HJT "Qlllle," Playing With Prince John, on Balmoral Lawn, Drove Ball Through Window. London. A "gillie," named Barnes, while playing cricket on tho western lawn at Balmoral with Prlnco John, hit a cricket ball through tho window room In tho castle whore valuablo old china, which Queen Mary is taking care of for tho dowager empress ol Russia, is stored. " Tho ball smashed a Drcsdon flguro worth $10,000, which was given to tho empress by tho late King Edward. Curiously enough a replica was broken at Windsor two days boforo King Ed ward's death. BEES STING A FERRY CROWD Considerable Action When Box Hold ing Hives Splits Open and 2,000 Are Released. Philadelphia. Two thousand bUBy littlo bees raised much turmoil and excitement at tho Market street ferry. A large packing box containing two hives with 4,000 bees was being shipped to Paulsboro, N. J. When tho drayman reached tho forryhouso tho box slipped off and fell to tho street and burst open. The enraged boos at onco mixed with a crowd of 4,000 commuters and then action began. Lieutenant Buehlcr on a spirited horse rodo Into tho Tray. His steed wnB stung and tried to stampede Into tho crowd. Finally the crato was pulled on the ferry boat Camden and when sho left hor Blip tho 2,000 beeB flew after it, making llfo uncomfortable for everybody on tho boat. Had the queens left elthor of the hives It Is estimated that traffic at tho forry would havo been suspended for tho rest of tho day. TRAPPED IN BURNING TREE ChaEcd by Bull, Farmer Has to Beat Out Flames In Topmost Branches. Muskogon, Mich. Attacked by a bull and forced to tako refuge In n tree, which later caught fire from burning brush, was the thrilling ex perience of It. T. Lane, nn Egglestou township fanner living near hero. Lano managed to beat out tho fire in tho tree. He hud his oyebrows burned off and his clothing scorched. He climbed 60 feet Into the trco bo- fore he was able to check tho flames that spread through tho branches. Tho bull kept In tho neighborhood of the tree and Lano was unablo to mako his escape for several hours. Finally a line of fire forced tho bull away from tho troo and Lano wbb able to descend. Ho fled through the hot embers of tho brush flro and had one foot burned. "Cobweb Gown" Has Arrived, Philadelphia. Tho "cobweb gown," made of plna cloth, brought from tho Philippines is on view at the commer cial museum hore. Sovcral local stores havo ordered largo consign ments ot tho fabric, which is more diaphanous than voile and more cling ing that crepo do chine. Czarina of Russia. F3SS Jl4f2 9?"-. gSffftift' V13, to tlio IcavenlnB, but hero's vot In tho word horo- uiu kneading, tho making of tho tho heating of tho oven, nnd tho cnUe baking. Nny, you must stay tho cooling, loo, or you may clmnco to burn your mouth. SIiukeapoa.ro. A WORD ON CAKE8. Most oxpert housowlvoa havo somo all-'round good cako which they uso as a foundation for nny number ot kinds. For oxamplo, a simple cake with vanilla flavoring may havo a chocolate frosttng if bakod In a squaro loaf or if baked In layers tho rilling may bo varied indefinitely. Spice may bo added or chocolato, making a splco cako or ono layor may bo spiced with fruit and ono layor plain with any desired filling. A slight depression In the centor of the cako when filling the pans will ulwaya result lu a lovol cake. Just n word to those who aro yet un experienced In the art of cako mak ing: First of all, havo your materi als and utensils all ready boforo you begin, or In tho midst you will find that you aro Just lacking some Impor tant Ingredient. A. circle of pnper, oven in deep layor pans, will help to romovo them In shape, and In a squaro tin tho papers are Indispensa ble Grcaso tho paper well, nnd lino tho tin smoothly. Tho tlmo wns when much creaming of butter and stirring of the sugar nnd buttor together waB thought tho only way to mako a good cako; but times have changed, and with tho rush ot other things, cake making must keep pace. All tho lngrcdlentB, If well blended and given a good boating to mako a flno grained cako, answers nil purposes for overy day occasions. A fair cake, good enough for any ono if n frosting or filling Is ndded, is made of threo level tnblespoonfuls ot buttor, a cup of sugar, half a cup of milk or water, two eggs, two tbaspoonfuls of baking powder and a cup nnd three quarters of sifted flour. The flour may vary as tho thickening power of flour is often slightly variable, but a cup and a half td three-quarters Is usuully sufficient. Add flavoring and bake In a hot oven. A cako to bo tender and light must bo Woll beaten before put ting into tho tins. Another thing worth remembering in cake making la that tho thinner tho consistency, if baked without falling, tho more delicate it is. Test a cako with a frosh wooden toothpick. It seoms neater than using a hroom straw. If you notice that tho cuko ticks or cracklea when taken from tho oven, do not remove It, but lot It bako a littlo longer. Upon what meat doth this our Cnosar feed that ho hath grown bo great. Shakespeare. ' - Half tho Joy of llfo Is In little things taken on tho run. Who has no Inward beauty, none per ceives, though all around Is beautiful. Dana. LATE PRESERVES AND PICKLES. After all tho fall canning Is done ono Amis a few of tho late fruits nnd vegetables just coining Into market. Malaga grapes at ten cents a pound aro not too oxponslvo for a fow pre serves for variety. Wash tho grapes and seed them by cutting an icislon with scissors, and remove tho seeds with a bodkin or darning needle. Fill cans' with tho grapca and pour boil ing hot pineapple sirup over them. Tho next morning drain and boll down tho sirup until thick. Pour ngaln ovor tho fruit and let stnnd again ovor night In tho morning drain again, boll up tho sirup, ndd tho grapes, and when boiling hot senl. This Is deli cious used in fruit salads, gelatfnua, desserts and punches. Red Pepper Jelly. Crush and mash ripe red peppera and place them In a double boiler cot In cold water. Put over tho heat, and as tho water be comes hot, tho Julco will gradually ho extracted. Let it cook until no moro juice can bo squeezed out. Meaauro the Julco and add equal measures of sugar. Mix and boll until it threads. Turn Into glasses and cover wjth para fine. This Jelly may bo used aa ono docs fresh peppera in salads and made dishes. Cranberry Catsup. Press four quarts of stewed cranborrlos through a slevo; add to threo quarts threo pounds of sugar, n pint of vinegar and a tablespoonful each of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and popper. Boll twen ty minutes and seal. Spiced Beets. To seven pounds of Bllced boiled beets tako four pounds of brown sugar, a pint of vinegar, Dog Adopts Rabbits. Unwonted affection between nnl mals of different species Is evldonced near Gortln county, Tyrono, Ireland. A local farmer named Fleming, has a female fox terrlor which was deprived of her two pupa when they wero four weeks old. Two weeks ago sho was out hunting nnd came on a rabbit burrow In which wero bunnies two or threo days old. Three of those tho dog carried carefully to hor kennel, nnd hlnco thnn she has been rearing them. M mmsmiWAi ;A4fl f'raBifJ 8C "yffli twolvo cloves, a largo stick of cinna mon. Mako tho Blrup nnd add tho bcotB. Cook ten mluutcs, then fill tho cans nnd pour over tho sirup. Cako In to the nppotlto what mirth Is to tho melancholy. A clear soup, a bit of fish, a couplo of entrees nnd n nlco littlo roast. That's my kind of a dinner. ThaoUory MORE GOOD EATS. Mako a rich biscuit dough, roll It out in a thin Blieot and cover thickly with chopped apples; roll up and cut In slices about two Inches thick. Plnco In a well greased pan and pour ovor tho following sauco: Mix a table spoonful of flour with a cup of sugar, add a cup of boiling water, a table spoonful of butter and a grating ot nutmeg; stir until It thickens, then pour over tho dumplings. Bako In a hot oven. Serve with cream nnd sugar. Banana Omelet. Put two tnblo spoonfuls of sugar 1po nn omelet pan, Bhako it about so that It covers tho cntlro bottom. Cut a banana In slices and lay on tho sugar, heat gently to melt tho sugar nnd fry tho banana. Turn tho 6llces nnd heap In tho con tor of tho pan so that thoy will form a layor on tho outside of tho omelet Put In a halt tablespoonful of butter, then tho boaten yolks, lotting it cook a bit boforo adding tho whlto 6f two eggs. Aa soon aa the whites aro addod fold tho omolot nnd servo. Corn Bread, Southern Style. Ono pint of sifted corn meal, ono pint of thick buttermilk, two eggs, two tea spoonfuls of melted lard, ono tea spoonful of salt, ono of soda. Mix all together and boat well before adding tho soda; then add tho soda dissolved In a tablespoonful of hot water. Stir woll nnd pour into n"hot buttered bak ing pan. Silver Cake. This may bo ono we will enjoy reading ovor; but not many will feol they can afford to mako it: Tako a pound of sifted flour and ndd it a littlo at a tlmo to three-fourths of a pound of creamed butter; add a pound of sugar to tho whltos of six teen well beaten whltos, then add to tho buttor and flour, four teaspoon fula of baking powdor Is added to tho flour. Stir with tho hand until all aro woll mixed. Add n tcaspoonful each of lomon and vanilla or any flavor do sired. Bake In a paper lined pan in a slow oven until well baked. Ice with boiled frosting. This cako ia worthy tho name of wedding cako. Tho ornaments of a houao are the friends who frequent It. Back ot tho loaf Is tho snowy flour, And back of tho Hour Is tho mill; And back of tho mill aro tho wheat and tho shower -And tho sun and tho Father's will. SOME GOOD DISHE8. 'Fruit Layer Cake. This Is a rich cake, but la most delicious and may bo used on company occasions when something especially nlco la desired. Cream a cupful of butter, add two cups of sugar and six well beaten eggs, two and n half cups of flour, a cup ot milk, a teaspoon of vanilla and threo tea spoonfuls of baking powdor. Doat well and bako In throe layers. Filling. Uoll two cupfuls of sugar until It threads; pour ovor tho woll beaten whites of threo eggs. Beat well aud add half a cup of citron shredded flno, half a cup of finely shredded Ilgs, ono cup of chopped rnlB lns, ono pound of blanched almonds chopped. Spread betweon tho lnyora and on tho top of the cako. Spanish Bernado. Wash, skin and cut Into small pieces two pounds ot basB; havo ready flvo potatoes peeled and sliced, two onions sliced, half a can of tomatoes nnd a quarter of a cup of catsup. Arrnngo lu a dcop baking dish, first tho Hah, then tho po tatoes, then the onions, and last the tomatoes. Pour ovor tho catsup and cut two tnblespoonfuls of buttor Into blta and Bprlnklo over tho top. Snlt well, and ndd a few dashes ot rod pep per. Bako three hours, well covered. 'Sea Foam. DIbboIvo two cups of sugar In half a cup of water, then add a half cup of table alt up and boil un til a littlo dropped Into wator" will harden. Pour the hot sirup slowly over tho well beaten whites of two eggs, beating until it will hold Its shapo when dropped from tho spoon. Add nuts and vanilla and -pour out Into a greased pan or drop by spoon fuls on a buttered sheet. Raisin Pie. Fill a pastry lined platfl with tho following! Ono cup of soed ed raisins, two eggs well beaten, half a cup of sugar, tlio rind and Julco ot half a lomon and a cUp of wator. Cov or with n crust and bako a half hour Like American Music. American music is popular In Rou balx, northern Franco, whero tho win dows in Bovornl stores handling shoo! music aro devoted to tho display ol popular dnnces, Including glides nnd one-steps. They'ro Called "Help" by Courtesy. "This Ib a largo houao you have," aald Mrs. Pozozzlo to Mrs. Puzuzzlns. "Do you havo to keep much help?" "I keop two," cooed Mrs. Puzuzzlns, "but they'ro not much help," MRS. MANGES ESCAPES OPERATION How Sho Was Saved From Surgeon's Knife by Lydia E. Pinkh&m's Vegeta ble Compound. Mogadoro, Ohio. 'The first two yeara I was married I suffered so much from femalo troubles and bearing down pains that 1 could not stand on my foot long enough to do my work. Tho doctor said I would havo to undorgo an opera tion.but my husband wanted mo to try Lydla E. Plnkham'a Vogotablo Com pound first I took three bottles and it mada mo well and strong nnd I avoided a dreadful opera tion. I now havo two flno healthy chil dren, and I cannot say too much about whatLydiaE.Plnkhnm'aVcgotabloCom' pound lias dono for mo." Mrs. Lcn Manoes, R. P. D. 10, Mogadoro, Ohio. Why will women tako chances with an operation or drag out a elckly, half hearted cxl3tcnco,mioslng threo-fourtha of tho joy of living, when they can find health in Lydla Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ? For thirty years it has been the stand ard remedy for femalo ills, nnd has re stored tho health of thousands of women who havo been troubled with such ail ments aa displacements, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irregularities, etc If you want special advice write to Lydla E. lMnkliam Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will bo opened, read and answered by a woman and bold In strict confidence. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation ot merit. Jlalpa to eradlcat dandruff. Baautr to Grar or FadaJ HaJr. m una i w ftt urunuu. How Famous Hymn Was Written. As Tennyson's nurso was sitting ono day at his bodslde, sharing to a do groo tho gonoral anxloty about the patlont, sho sold to him suddonly: "You havo written a great many pooms, sir, but I havo nover hoard anybody say that thero is a hymn among thorn all. I wish, sir, you would wrlto a hymn whllo you are ly ing on your sick bod. It might help and comfort many a poor sufferer." Tho next morning, wuon tho nurso 'had taken hor quiet placo at tho bod oldo, the poot handded hor a scrap of paper, saying: "Hore la tho hymn you wlBhed mo to wrlto." Sho took Is from his hands with ex pressions ot grateful thanks. It proved to bo "Crossing tho Bar," tho poom that was sung in WcBtmlnstor abbey at Tonnyson's funeral, and which has touched so many hearts. Tho Reason. "' ' "Pop, why do secret socloty candi dates havo to rldo tho goat?" "That's tho way thoy havo to butt In." Which? "I understand our visitor la a hus bandman." "Farmor or matrimonial bureau bureau agent?" Great Times. "September la tho finest time ot year." "You hot; oystors nnd watermelon both on the bill of faro." Came Natural. "What did thoso Nowcomors do who leaped so suddenly Into socloty?" ' "Thoy raised hops." Breakfast ' Sunshine Post Toasties and Cream There's a delicious smack in these crisp, appetizing bits of toasted corn that brings brightness and good cheer to many and many a breakfast table. Toasties are untouched by hand in making; and come in tightly sealed packages clean nnd sweet ready to eat with cream and sugar. Wholesome Nourishing Easy to Serve Sold by grocers everywhere. JM! UN II I III fill2!) W v.. .ii n
