THE SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
New Outline Map
Of Country Made
Based on Lambert Conformal
, Projection as Used in
the War.
SHOWS ERRORS IN SCALE
'Coast and Geodetic Survey Announces
Completion of Chart Solving Old
' Problem Special Inter
est In Map.
Washington. - The United Stntes
coast and geodetic survey recently an
monnced the completion of n new out
line map of the United States on the
tLnmbert conformul conic projection,
cnlo 1-T.0(KM)00.
This map Is Intended merely as n
Ibase to which may he added any kind
-of special Information desired. The
shore line Is compiled from the most
irecent coast and geodetic survey
icharts. State names and boundaries,
(principal rivers, capitals, and the
'larger cities In the dlffornt states are
.also emhodled.
The innp Is of special Interest from
ithe fact tlmt It is based on the same
iRystom of projection as that employed
liy the armies of the allied forces In
the military operations In France. To
meet those requirements and at the
request of tlx army, special ptibllen
flons were prepared by the coast geo
detic survey.
Many methods of projection have
liecn designed to solve the dlfllcult
jtroblcm of representing n spherical
surface on a plane. As different pro
jections have unquestionable, merit as
well as equully serious defects, the
mnnouneement states, any region to be
mapped should be made the subject of
ispeclal study and that system of pro
jection adopted which will give the
liest results for the aren under consid
eration. Value of New Map.
Tim Mercntor projection, almost uni
versally used for nautical charts, Is re
sponsible for majiyj false Impressions
of the relntlve size of the countries dif
fering In latitude, according to the sur
vey statement. The polyconlc pro
jection, widely used and well adapt
ed for both topographic and hydro
graphic surveys, when used for the
whole of the United States In one map
1infc the serious defect of unduly exag
gerating the areas on its eastern nnd
western limits. Along the Pacific
const and in Maine the error In scale
ils s much as OWs per cent, while at
Kew York It reaches 44 per cent.
The vnluo of tho new outline map
on the Lambert projection can best be
realized when It Is stated that It shows
that throughout the largest and most
important part of the United States,
that Is, between latitudes .10V4 degrees
nnd -10 degrees, the maximum scale
, error Is only one-half of I per cent.
This amount of scalo error of one-half
of 1 per cent is frequently less than
the distortion due to the method of
printing anfl to changes from the hu
midity of the air. Only In southern
most Florida and Texas does this pro
jection attain Its maximum error of
12 1-U per cent. ,
The Lambert projection is well
adapted to large areas of predominat
ing east and west dimensions In the
United States where the distance
across from east to west Is 14,r times
that of the distance north anjl south.
The strength of the polyconlc projec
tion, on tho other hand! is along Its
central merldlnn. The merits and de
fects of tho two systems of projec
tion may be stated In a general way ns
being at right angle to each other.
Special Features.
Special features of the Lambert pro
jection that are not found In the poly
conlc may be stated briefly as fol
lows :
1. The Lambert projection Is con
formal that Is, all angles between In
tersecting lines or curves are, pre
served, and for any given point (or re
stricted locality) the'- ratio of the
length of a linear element on (be
earth's surface to the length of the cor
responding map elements Is constant
for all axlmuths of directions In which
the elements may be taken.
A Fire Honw Reuses
g to Be Left Behind
Philadelphia Burglar, an ex- R
trn horse of truck Company f.
No. I.'l, was left behind In the K
flrchouse on Baltimore avenue
when firemen responded to n w
lire fifteen blocks away. O
Hurglar, a big, beautiful bny, 4
pushed his way out of an In- 0
securely locked stall and with 4
l.iutli.nf ftMlillt IflMlll
horses galloped unbridled A
.. , .....ll i... 'A
lUl'OUgU mo sireem
spied the tire. He
INCREASE IN DAIRY PROFITS
of lire
unbridled
until he
whinnied
with Joy as he came up to the
Dairy Bull Associations Have Done
Good Work and Show Big In
crease In Incomes.
(Prepared by tht) United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Scrub dnlry bulls nre doomed. The
bull association sound their death
knell, but It replaces them with bulls
engine which was Industriously of ,)uttcr j)rp0(nR. ln jun0t uio.
jjj pumping.
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2. The meridians are straight lines,
and the parallels are concentric cir
cles. .'I. It has two nxes of strength In
stead of one. tho standard parallels of
the map of the United .Stntes being lat
itudes XI degrees nnd -15 degrees, and
upon these parallels the scale Is abso
lutely free. The scale for any otluvr
part fif the map, or for any parallel,
can be obtained from special publica
tion No. r2, page 'M, United Stntes
coast and geodetic survey. Ily
means of these tables the very smnli
settle errors which exist In this pro
jection can he entirely eliminated. -
The map mensures 25 Inches by 82
Inches and will be sold by the govern
ment at i!fi cents.
there were 44 dnlry bull associations
and several have been organized since
then. They are doing excellent work.
Without exception they show an In
creased income without an Increased
cost.
The New Windsor (Mnryland) Hull
association litis furnished production
records of dams and duughters for
three successive years. Hitch year the
daughters have produced more milk
ind butter fat than their dams, which
Praise for Italian
Army in Albania
New York. Brig. Gen. George P.
Scrlven, formerly chief of the signal
corps of, the United States army, who
was for several months attached as
American mllltnry observer to the
Italian vorces In the field, and who
recently returned from Home, speaks
enthusiastically of what bo saw In
Valona, or Avlona, as It Is sometimes
called, the chief port of Albania, which
the secret treaty of London, ln April,
1015, allotted to Italy. Valona. he said,
Is regarded by the Italians as one of
the keys to the Adriatic, anil their oc
cupation since December, 1014, when
troops were landed because of Internal
disorder, has transformed It from a
n(mlld fishing village to a seaport that
Is on Its way to attain an Importance
It has not enjoyed since the days of
the Komnti Umpire. Docks hnve been
built, buildings hnve been erected, and
military rouds, unsurpassed anywhere,
have been constructed from Valona
throughout Albania by Itiillim engl
ncers. he snld.
The general described how the
Prince of Wled, placed on the Albanian
throne by the powers, was overthrown,
and a republic set up with ICssnd
Pasha ns president. He, too, was
forced out, and the little country was
left a prey to Austrian Intrigue from
BIG CONCRETE DRY DOCK AT BALBOA
A 0,000-ton M'u-golng sicaiuei undergoing repairs in the concrete dry
I dock at Dnlboa, the Pacific entrance to the Panama canal. This Is the" largest
i dry dock In the world.
the north and the machinations of the
pro-(!ermat. King Constantlne of
Greece from the south. On ChrlBtmas
day, 1014, the Italian government, fear
ing possible developments ln Albania,
sent the 10th regiment of bersagllerl
to occupy the little fishing hamlet of
Valnnn.
Saved Albania for Allies.
"By so doing," said General Scrlven,
"Jtnly saved at least the greater part
of southern Albanln from the horrors
of Austrian and probably Bulgar occu
pation, and, in addition, became the
deciding factor In the great ultimate
success of the Balkan campaign, which
now appears to have been the loose
stone In the nrch that upheld the Ger
man power.
"By this peaceful occupation n mili
tary position was secured that later be
came nn Important naval station for
the allies, as well ns a strategic anil
tactical base of such Importance that
had It fallen Into the hands of the
enemy, the great military romance of
tho Balkans, If played at all, wnald
have occupied a far more narrow
stage, and the whole of western Al
bania would have been thrown open to
the Germans.
"With the entrance of the Italians
Into the war, military activity ln tho
Balkans Increased. Additional forces
were sent to Valona, from which as a I
base Italian controj was extended
over all southern Albania. The Italian
troops, without violence, and, Indeed,
at the request of the Inhabitants them
selves, occupied the Interior, towns, or
the rtllns, as some of them then were,
of Tepelenl, Arglro-Custro. Prematl,
Llascnvlkt, Santa Quarantn, and Porto
Palermo.
Made Modern City of Hamlet.
"When the Italians landed, Valona
offered only the picture of a fishing
village lying asleep In tilth on the
picturesque shores of what is a really
beautiful bay. v
"With the arrival of the Italians the
town uwoku'as If by magic. Italy went
to work to make Valona not only habi
table but prosperous. Government
buildings rose almost In the night.
Docks were constructed, electric lights
were Instnlled. Sanitation was nut
neglected,
"To my mind the greatest acrom
pllshment of the Italians In Valium,
and elsewhere In Albania, lies In the
splendid mllltnry roads they have con
structed.
General Scrlven hns Just been In
formed by the Italian F.mbnssy at
Washington that for his service with
he Italian armies the Grand Cross .r
the Crown of Italy has been conferred
upon him."
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A Good Holsteln Bull.
demonstrates that the bulls were well
selected. Of the 21 daughters of as
sociation bulls for which the 1018 rec
ords are available, 10 excelled their
lams In butter-fat production, and 1ft
excelled their dams In production of
mill milk and butter fat.
Tho average yearly production of
Jio dams was C.tiOO pounds of milk
ind 210 poundB of butter fat. The
tvge yearly production of the 21
Inughters was fl,f23 pounds of milk
nd 203 pounds of butter fat. In milk
nroductlon the daughters excelled
their dams by 003 pounds or 17 per
:ent, and In buttcr-fnt production by
44 pounds, or 20 per cent. These nre
not ns large gulns as some other bull
associations hnve given, but are well
worth while.
Because of co-operatlvo ownership
the hulls cost the fnririera no more
than would have been paid for scrubs ;
It costs no more to feed tho daugh
ters thnn to feed the dams, and It
costs much less to feed the bulls be-
cause there were not so many of them.
The Increased production, therefore,
was all net profit.
GROWS GARDEN TO BUY CALF
A pood deal of tho trouble of this
world arises from the fnet that some
folks like to Imvo Burdens, while oth
ers prefer to keep hens. Nixon Water
man. THREE MEALS A DAY.
To plan meals three times a day for
n family, trying to serve the food that
s pleasing, keep
ing one's bills
within the limit
nnd providing a
variety, and hav
ing the day's food
well balanced, Is
tho task of 20.
000,000 cooks In
this land of ours;
task which takes real training and
practice to be successful.
Cream Peach Cake. Bake a layer
cake and for the filling add a cupful
of very ripe peaches put through a
rlcer to sweetened whipped cream that
Is flavored with almond. .
Coffee Junket. For u dessert which
Is wholesome and easy to prepare as
well as dainty to serve, Junket stands
at the head. Take one Junket tablet,
crush and dissolve In a tnblespoonful
of water, then add to a quart of luke
warm milk. Ileserve half a cupful of
the milk and pour boiling hot over two
tablespoonfuls of coffee, let stand until
well Infused, then strain and cool be
fore adding to the milk. If the milk Is
heated too hot the junket will not
thicken the milk. Serve with whipped
cream on the top of the glass.
Supper Dish. Brown n slice of flno
y minced onlop in a little butter, then
add hnlf n cupful of cooked rice nnd
when seasoned stir ln three eggs,
sprinkle with n slice of minced boiled
ham nnd serve hot with toast.
Lamb Cutlets. Cook eight lamb
chops on one side until well browned ;
turn und on the cooked side place a
teaspoonful of seasoned cooked maca
roni. Cover with buttered crumbs and
let cook In the oven about eight min
utes. Creamed peas served in a thick
white sauce may be used Instead of
the macaroni, which will make a most
tnsty dish.
Ice Cream In Case. Bake an nngel
cake ln n round deep tin nnd when
cold, cut out the center leaving a thick
shell to hold vanllln Ice cream and
sorve at once.
Cherry Ice Cream. This Is both
good to look at and better to cat. Use
a cupful of rich cherry Juice and a pint
of cream with a few drops of almond
extract. Sweeten to tnste and freeze
ns usual. Serve In sherbet cups and
garnish with a cherry or n spoonful of
minced cherries with some of the
sirup.
A whipped crenm filling with n half
cupful of chopped preserved pineap
ple, makes a fine filling for a cake to
serve at once.
A meal should bo regarded ns an Im
portant end In itself. It should ho
taken at leisure, body and mlwd being
for tho time hefnB Rlvun up to It, and
to agreeable, social Intercourse. ,
THE DELICIOUS PEACH.
No more delicious dish for dessert
can be served than one of sliced!
pouches wit hi
crenm nnd sugar
When Reaches aro
plentiful one likes
to vary the serv
ing. A most ap
petizing pie may
I) e in a d e b y
baking a rich
crust nnd when
cold fill It with sliced peaches well
sugared nnd covered with sweetened
cream. To make It still more beauti
ful sprinkle with finely minced pis
tachio nuts or with shredded blanched:
almonds.
A bird's nest pudding Is another
form of dessert well liked. Slice n
pie pan half full of peaches and cover
with a baking powder biscuit dough
Bake nnd turn over on n plate, spread:
with butter and sprinkle sugar and m
little nutmeg If liked over the peaches
Peach Puddlnjj. Pour a cupful or
hot milk over a cupful of dry bread)
crumbs and let stand five minutes;
add a half cupful of sugar, the well
beaten yolks of three eggs nnd the
stlllly beaten white of one. Mix wolt
and bake In n moderate oven until'
llrm. Heap thinly sliced peaches well
sweetened over tho top and cover with,
a meringue made of the two egg
whites nnd three tablespoonfuls of
sugar. Cover the pudding with the
meringue nnd bake until a delicate
brown. Cnkc crumbs make u more de
licious pudding.
Rice. With Peaches. Cook due cup
ful of rice until tender, adding milk at
the last of the cooking; season wit hi
butter and add sugar to sweeten, then,
pour Into a hollow mold. When ready
to serve unmold nnd fill the center
with sweetened sliced peaches and
servo with cream and sugur.
Japanese Rice and Peaches. Put n.
layer of cold rice custard ln a dish, n
layer of sliced peaches, another layer
of rice nnd a luyer of peaches; set
awny to cnlll. Jus,t before serving
heap sweetened cream over the top.
Use almond tlavorlug.
Peach Chutney. Prepare three-
poundrf of peaches after peeling. Put
their, into u saucepan with u pint of
mild vinegar; cook until tender.
Pound ln a' mortar four ounces of
onion and two ounces of garlic, live
ounces of fresh ginger root; add the-
peaches with six ounces of raisins, un
ouuee each of white mustard seed and1
chili peppers and six ounces of sugur,
simmer ten minute and njld more vin
egar ir ijeeueu. uoine lor winter use-
It
German Mine Field in
China Sea Discovered
SeattleGerman charts re
cently surrendered disclosed a
large mine Held In the China
Sea, over which American ships,
Ignorant of Us existence, passed
safely many times, Captain J. 13.
Guptll of the steamer Senator
said on arrlvnl from the Orient.
Tho German raider Wolff In Sep
tember, 1017, laid the mines In
a field sixty miles long by two
miles wide, but set them too
deep. Chinese trawlers, com
manded by British olllcers. are
removing the mines. One mine
floated ashore and killed sixteen
Mnlny Islanders, who started to
break It up.
Operates With Razor
.
American Red Cross Nurse Equal
to Emergency.
Doesn't Need Alarm Clock.
.Itwoyvllle, III. It doesn't require
nn alarm clock to wake ir-'rnneis
Graves bin watch did It last ulghr
Jiurglnra had dropped It on the floor.
Performs Llfe-or-Death Amputation
With Improvised Instruments
and Succeeds.
Drnimi. Macedonia, With a razor, a
spool of cotton thread and a small
portion of ether nnd cMoroform Miss
Murln P. Kouroycn, an American Bed
Gross nurse, perform! a llfo-or-deuth
operation hero as the result of which
and her other errands of mercy she
has come to be known as "the Amer
ican angel" by the homeless and starv
ing Greek fugees.
Born of Greek parents, Mlt.s Kou
roycn Is a graduate nurse of the Mas
sachusetts General hospital In Boston.
Because of her knowledge of Greek
the American Bed Cross sent her in
Macedonia, where typhus, .miiuII,
and cholera tread on each other
heels, and where tht refugees burv
their dead beneath nio dlrft floors of
their shell-shattered Mmcks so that the
bread cards of the di.ad member nf
their family shall no' tie taken up.
A Greek soldier, oue of whose leg
had been crushed, was hronpht to the
box car on a railroad siding In whl. h
Miss Konroyen was living. Soniethlnu
hud to bo done for him at once. Bor
rowing n razor, Miss ICouroyen an
esthetlzed her patient with her small
supply of ether, and performed an am
putation, using cotton thread to "tie
oft" the arteries and veins.
Despite the prophecy of a local dor
tor that the aged patient would not
live through tho night Miss Kouroyen
some time later received a visit from
her patient. Ho had an American
nrMtlclal limb mnde for him In tho
American Bed Cross nrtltlclal leg fnc
ivv fnr (IruuU umr mntlles In Athens.
Washington Boy Raises Prize-Winning
Vegetables and Buys Jersey
Heifer With Money.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)
Alfred Olson of Klickitat county.
Wash., Is a member of ono of tho calf
clubs organized by the United Stntes
department of agriculture and the state
college of Washington. With his pure
bred Jersey heifer calf, Area's Babe,
ho-won the state championship prize
Inst year: BM017 Alfred became In
terested In tho calf club work, but n
purebred calf costs money, nnd ho did
not have funds to buy that requisite
for membership. To enroll In a gar
den club ns the first step toward en
tering the calf club may seem unusual,
but that was what the Klickitat county
boy did, and ho reached the desired
goal. Tho weeds in his club garden
kept him busy all summer, but he gnvo
It such faithful caro that his vege
tables wero prize winners. lie exhibit
ed a collection of them at the- state
fair and took $00 worth of prize's.
Meanwhile he had been writing to
Jersey breeders for prices and descrip
tions of calves. lie decided on Jer
seys becnuso that was the breed his
father had. With $40 of his garden
prize money he bought a month-old
Jersey hclfcr calf In October. lie kept
her In the barn nil winter, but ln the
spring she was turned out on tho
range. When brought ln In September
to bo made ready for exhibition pur
poses she was larger at eleven months
thnn his father's grade calves of fif
teen months. At the state fair Al
fred's Jersey was nwarded the stato
championship prize ln the boys nnd
girls' club class and was valued nt
SIM).
SMALL-TOP MILK PAIL BEST
Prevents Entrance of Dust or Dirt and
Greatly Reduces Number of
Bacteria In Mllk.
In modern dairies where clenn milk
Is produced the smnll-top milk pall
Is a necessity, as It presents only a
small opening Into which dust nnd dirt
may fall from the air or from tho
cow's body. It hns been found by
experience that the use of n pall of
this kind greatly reduces the number
of bacteria ln milk from dairies whore
It is used. Many types of milk palls
nre for sale, but uny tinner by tho ad
dition of a hood can convert an ordi
nary pull Into a small-top pall.
A clear soup, a bit of llsh, a couple
of entrees ' nnd a nice little roast.
That's my kind of a dinner. Thack
eray. WARM WEATHER FOODS.
Today with markets teeming with
nil kinds of fruit and vegetables and
housewives elll
dent In canning
greens from their
gardens, one may
expect to ne as
healthy in the
spring as at any
other time of tht!
y ear, r o r our
blood tonics are taken In the form of
fruit and vegetables.
However, when the warm days of
summer come, they bring n muscular
relaxation which reacts upon the di
gestive tract as well us upon the
whole body nnd It- needs to have Its
task lightened, so wo lessen the
amount of food or serve the lighter
forms of food. Foods rich In fat such
as pastries, cakes and various sauces,
should be partAken Of In moderation.
Protein foods which furnish the
heat should be cut down and more of
the succulent fruits nnd vegetables
form the main bulk of the food.
In the wnrtn weather the housewife
must plan more accurately not to have
much leftover food, for spoilage wilt
occur In n few hours lnprotelu food,
mnklng It "unfit to serte.
When very warm a cold drink In
the fonh of a plain soda pr phosphate
Is much less harmful than a soda or
n sundae.
Ice creams and sundaes taken 'at the
end 'of a meal will not chill the stom
ach unduly.
In planning food for hot days It Is
wise, because of the habit, to serve
one hot dish, even n. drink, as a too
radical change In meals cannot al
ways be borne.
If one's dinner Is eaten at noon the
supper should have at least one hot
dish, slmplo but wholesome a cream
ed ment on buttered tonst, milk toast,
macaroni and cheese, or bread ami
cheese custard mnde by spreading
slices of bread with butter, putting
them Into a baking dish nnd cover
ing with one egg to each cup of milk,
the unimint depending upon the num
ber to be served. Over each slice of
bread as It is placed, put a generous
layer of rich finely diced cheese. Bake
In n moderate oven until the custard
la let
This world Is a pretty good sort of u
world
Taking It all together;
In splto of the grief and sorrow we
meet,
In spite of the gloomy weather.
Thero are friends to love nnd hopes to
cheer, Aud plenty of compensation
For every ache, for those who make
Thebest of thj situation.
CAKES AND FROSTINGS.
A tender, fine grnlned, well-baked'
anil goodly cake Is a work of art.
Old Fashioned Poundl
Cake. Cream one cup
ful of butter and add
gradually one nnd two
thirds cupfuls of granu
lated sugar, beating con
stantly; then add five
eggs, one at n time
benting vigorously be
tween the addition of
w ..-uu each. When the mixture
Is creamy fold In two cupfuls of pas
try Hour sifted once. Bnke hi a slow
over for one hour.
Six Months' Cake. Mix one-half cup
of butter and lard until creamy,
then add one cup of sugur gradually,
beating constantly, two eggs well beat
en and one-half cupful of molasses.
Mix and sift two and one-half cupfuls
of Hour, one teaspoonful of cream of
tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda,,
one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one
fourth teaspoonful of cloves, and the
same of mace. Add alternately with
one-half cup of milk to the first mix
ture and beat vigorously; then add.
one cupful of rulsins seeded and cut
In ttmall pieces and dredged with two
tablespoonfuls of flour. Turn Into two
bread pans and bnke In a moderate
oven forty-live minutes.
White Fruit Cake. Cream two
thirds of a cup of butter until creamy
and add gradually, beating constantly,
seven-eighths of a cupful of pastry
Hour sifted with one-fourth of a tea
spoonful of soda, then ndd one-hnlf
tubk'spoonful of lemon Juice. Bent the
whites of six eggs until stiff, using an
egg whip, ndd gradunlly one und one
fourth cupfuls of powdered sugar.
Combine mixtures and when well
blended ndd two-thirds of n cupful of
candled cherries anil one-third of a
cupful of blanched and shredded al
monds, one-half cup of citron nnd one
tcnHpoonful of almond extract. Turn
Into a cake pan and bnke In a moder?
nto oven one hour.