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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1919)
NORTH PLATTE SEMI WEEKLY TllIIJl NT. WEALTHY FILL SARATOGA SPAS r Cheapest Thing at the Most Fa mous of American Resorts Is Money. SOCIAL BARRIERS LOWERED Newly-Made Millionaires Strut About the Place to Display the Wealth They Acquired During the War Gambling Is Heavy. Snrntogn. N. Y. The cheapest tiling In Snrntogu Is money. Everybody bus It in abundance oft mid on and spends it with the .abandon of the drunken finllor In (lie old song. Clerks bet $1,000 on it horse at the rnc tracks. Newly made rich pile up checks and counters on curds and the elusive roulette ball. Men throw dol lars nroupd us they used to toss dimes. Women nccuslonied to glnghnniH nntS rhinostoncs gladden the eye find stimulate the sense of humor In their efforts to carry with grace silks and diamonds. The most suitable is dis carded for the most expensive. Kxtrnvugnnco and a contempt for money values Intrudes Itself at every turn on the picturesque streets of tho most famous of American resorts, and oldest of tho cures, In the corridors of tho grent barn-like hotels, nt the race truck, In the dining places and In the lake sections nnd flits by In the bewil dering parade of flashy motorenrs. Natives Reaping Harvest. (And anybody who knows the ruling passion of Snrntogu doesn't nt'ed to bo told that the prudent native Is get ting his. What escapes him falls to the ho tel keepers, the, bookmakers, the sleek and rat-faced gentry that cap for se questered resorts of chance where the green cloth, the dealing box nnd the other Implements of their crnft aro to bo found without much difficulty. Tho crowds thnt flock to the nice courses are grenter by thousands than ever before. All the old social barriers have been broken down nnd trampled under foot by tho crowd that comes from the financial mnrts of Wall street, the re sorts of upper Broadway, the bench nnd forge, nnd forest nnd mine and form, upon which the fortunes of war hnvo smiled. The number of resorts where wom en nro admitted to the gaming tnbles Is probably less thon four. In tho other smnll places where the wagers range from $5 to $50 nt roulette, hnz nrd and one or two other contrlvnnces for getting tho money women are not jidnjlttcd. It Is not considered clubby to ndvertlse tho locntlon or names of tho owners of tho gaming establish ment because It might stir the local officials to Interpret too literally the legal Inhibition against such enter prises. Thoro has already been more or less trouble for the gaming purveyors as It Is. During the first week of the rnclng season nil giimcs were closed MOST REMARKABLE The Luku Kugard, an iiueigency tleei vessel luuuiiied at Bullulo, tipped to the extraordinary angle of 78.8 degrees and In seven seconds lighted herself. A ship usually cupslzos If It tips to an angle of CO degrees. Tho Lako Kugard was launched with engines uud everything else Installed uud steam up. YAP AND Interesting Facts About the Little Pacific Island. Food, Drink and Clothes All Obtained From Trees Men Have Bachelor Clubs. Washington. Since the little Island of Ynp was mentioned tho other day ut tho Whlto IIouso conference bo tweeu the president nnd senate for eign relations committee, there bus been a general demand for Information about this former German possession, which the American navy wants for u cublo nnd wlrolesH station. According to tho Nntlonul Geograph ic society It Is the westernmost of the western Caroline Islands, Is situated about dOO miles southwest of Guam nnd 00 miles east of the Inland of Mindanao of tho Philippine group. It has a population of about 7,000. up for throe days, due to a misunder standing ns to the number thnt were to be privileged and the failure of certain other negotiations that are of Interest to politicians. Display of Gowns and Gems. The greater part of the women nre or the middle class type. The dis play of gowns nnd gems Is. If any thing, more striking than In the other days when Saratoga hud "atmosphere." Almost every woman that passes In re view seems to have prospered from the win, If diamonds he accepted as con vincing evidence. One woniun wus nbthe Union whoso maid she hnd ont had displayed great Ingenuity In finding vacant spaces on her mistresses' frock on which to pin a stupendous assortment of brilliants. Her husband made a fortune out of scrap Iron In Chicngo. Another womnn, whose costume no sum mnn would attempt to describe, seemed to run to pearls. She wore more than any two women hns uny right to possess. Tho combination of duzzllnif colors and gems provoked one of the new voters to comment, "Dress ing that woman up Is like putting gold harness on a mule." Hut for nil the vanities and Jealous ies the wopien seem to be having as gooti n time as the men nnd to he ns well supplied as they with all the money necessary to pay for It. Bc- ERUPTIONS FOR THE SCIENTISTS Volcanoes in the Southwestern Part of Alaska Are Accommodating. GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY THERE Members Who Went to Study Mount Katmal and Its "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" Are Favored With Fine Performance. Juneau, Alaska. Volcanic peaks In the fur southwestern corner of Aluska are In eruption this summer, evidently for this benellt of a party of scientists sent by the National Geographic so ciety to study Mount Katmal, the greatest of Alusku's smoking moun tains, and Its "Valley of Ten Thou sand Smokes." Persons who have returned recently from the volcanic country to the west ward said Shlshaldln peak, on Unlmnk Island, In tho Aleutian chain, was In eruption recently. They also reported It was believed Mount IJuvloff on the southwestern Aluskun mainland, also hud spouted, us tho snow about the summit was coal black. When the party of scientists left Anchorage, Alaska, on their way to SHIP LAUNCHING ITS PEOPLE Yap Is strangely old and strangely up to date. Us Inhabitants are still In tho stono ago of progress. The natives are strict prohibitionists, Bachelor clubs closed to the women dot the Islands. Food nnd drink and clothes till grow on trees. In Ynp wealth Is truly n burden. A single coin of their stono money sometimes weighs hun dreds of pounds. Yup, or Uap, when translated, monn.-i the land, uud Is the only land that many .of the Islanders know. Married and unmarried men alike belong to the club, which maintains a fine fallu, or bachelor house, tho host ess of which must be secured by force or cunning from some distant tribe. There she lives under u poyundrous syr.toni where no mnn becomes Jeal ous and the wives of the village never object to their husbands' evenings at the club. Tho chief decoration of tho mule Ik ii string of pink -shells made Into a Each Beauty in Harem Demanded a Gold Tooth. Trials of n toothpuller In n harem were described by Dr. A. S. Hungerford of Teheran, Persia, who visited Toledo on his way buck to the I'aclllc coasti Fourteen yenrs as tho royal dentist for his majesty, tho Shah of Persia, who has n nifty, harem In his palace, has con vinced the dentist that life with a surplus of beautiful spouses does not have all the trudltlonul Joys. One of the doctor's first duties In the Hindi's pnluce was to pull a tooth for a member of the hnreni. When the dentist fin ished her beauty had been en hanced by u brilliantly flashing gold bicuspid. Such Jealousy did this addition to her beauty strike in the hearts of tho harem that forthwith they all went salatnlng nnd sobbing to the Shah, charging his mnjesty with parjlullty. Ills majesty got out ,if ilwi .iminnlt v liv urilorlns n gold tooth for each of them, but to even matters up ordered tltree United States molars for him- self. I cause the statement made at the be ginning of this chronicle holds good to the end. The cheapest thing In Snrntogu is money. the Katmal country, they said they be lieved there was little likelihood of an eruption this summer and declared they were certain there was absolutely no dunger attached to the Investiga tion. KutnutPs last big "hlowoff" was In .Tune, 1012. The party of twenty-six scientists Is bended by Professor Robert A. Griggs of the University of Ohio, and some nro from Carnegie Institute. They were planning to muke observations of the botunlcul, biological nnd geo loglcul effects of the 1012 eruption. In 1018 Professor Griggs headed u party of scientists to Katmal and re turned with the announcement that tho crater was the largest on the globe uud thnt near Katmul lay a great vulley whose floor was dotted with thousunds of mouths vomiting gray vapory gas and smoke. This vnlley Prof. Griggs mimed "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes." Instead of 10,000, It Is said there are literally millions of smoking vents. Congress recently set nslde "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" as national property, and It Is believed thnt some duy It will be u second Yel lowstone geyser field. Steaming springs, It Is snld, will evcntuully take the pluce of the present smoking vents. Professor Griggs nnd his party ex pected to remain In the Kntmal dis trict until the middle of September. Until they return nothing probably will bo heard from them, as there Is no direct means of communication. Mrs. Griggs nnd her children accom panied the professor to Kodlak, an Island near Kntmnl, nnd will remain there during .the summer waiting for him to return. Moving pictures of the smoking mountain and vnlley nre to be brought buck by the party. WANTED HER DOG UNWITCHED Pennsylvania Woman Asked the Fed eral District Attorney for Help, but Got None. Ilnrrisburg. "My dog Is bewitched; wliut can you do to help me?" pleuded u womnn at the district attorney's olllce. "Its nume Is Lndy. The woniun Unit dlil It Is a witch. My poor dog didn't ent for two weeks. Whenever 1 go away from homo Lady keeps house for me, but this woman be witched It, and I want the dog to get well uguln." No ono In the district attorney's office knew of uny magic word Unit could unwltch tho dog. necklace, and since no Hutu s rich enough to own such n treasure the best onos are loaned out for such a porlotUs tho wearer may choose to be dressed In the height of fashion. As there nro no button holes, the man may wear two bouquets In each ear, a sort of corsage bunch In n large hole In tho lower lobe nnd a small houton nlero In n smaller hole In the enr higher up. Shell cuffs mnde of smells ndd the finishing touch to the correct attire. Yup women do not weur the veil. Their only dress Is u voluminous skirt made of leaves of fiber und composed of four or five thicknesses. Although one month Is tho average llfi. 0f a woman's dress, the style do.. not change. Preacher Weds at Nlnety-Four. New York. Uev. Moses Alkn, itin erant prenchor, npplylng for n inur Huge license, gave his ago us ninety foui. "I am In the goloon season of life. It Is not good that man should be iilone," he said. Ills hiido-to-bu la only half his nge. The Value of Prayer By REV. D. B. SUTCLIFFE Extension Department, Moody Blblo Institute, Chicago TEXT Continue In prayer. Col. 4:2. Time spent In prnyer seems to some to be wasted. They nre unaware that time so spent pnys tho highest dividends. First, prnyer brings dcllver nnce from danger. When Peter was sinking beneath the son he cried, "Lord, save me," and Immediately he wus rescued. When Jonah! came to himself In the belly of the great fish he certainly wus in danger, but he prayed and came forth from thnt prison-house which to human rea son was his tomb. The promise Is found In Psnr f0:ifi, "Cull upon me In the day of trouble und I will deliver you." - Second, prayer gives protection from temptation. When the people under Joshua mnde the mlstnke of ac cepting the Glbeonltes, It wus because they "asked not counsel ut the mouth of tho Lord." Josh. 0:14. What ap peared the reasonable thing to do was like a snare cleverly disguised and unseen to sight. Rut no disguise or hiding could veil the sight of the Lord. Inquiry of Illm would have given them to see tho unseen nnd pro tected them from this temptation. Little wonder we are told to "watch and prny lest j'o enter Into temptn tlon." Luke 22:40. Third, prayer brings wisdom In per plexity, now often perplexing prob lems nrlse which must be solved and how often the solution we come to proves to be wrong. We frequently come to where decisions on Important matters must be made quickly. Of what untold value then it is to have divine wisdom. When Nehetnlnh found himself In such case the un recorded prnyer went up and wisdom enme to him ns he snys In Neh. 2:4, "I prayed to tho God of nenven nnd said to the king" the right word. It Is still true thnt "If any mnn lnck wisdom let him nsk of God who glv cth to nil and It shall be given him." Jns. 1:5. Fourth, prayer brings provision for every need. Luke 11 :0, 10 rends, "Ask and ye shall receive for every ono that uskoth recelveth." We know from experience how this promise Is overlooked nnd we get into the stuto of perturbation described In Jus. 4:2, "Ye lust und have not; ye envy and desire to have, and ennnot obtnln; ye fight and war, yet ye have not." The passage goes on to declare that thu reason we "hnvo not" Is "because wo ; ask not." How much futile struggling and fighting would be saved us If we would believe Christ's promise and ask, "Ask und ye shall receive." Fifth, prayer brings revelations of hidden things us the marginal reading of Jer. 83:8 points out:' "Call upon mo and I will answer thee, and show thee greut und hidden things which thou knowest not." Muny who are confused by the book of Dnnlel would find confusion giving pluce to order If they but studied It on their knees. Dnnlel himself Is nn Illustration of this, for ho dcclnres, "I prayed unto the Lord my God, and whilst I was speaking und praying, yen whilst I was speaking In prnyer, even the man Gabriel said, 'Oh Daniel, I am now come to give thee understanding,' " Dan. 0:4, 20, 21. It was while Daniel wns In prayer that the deep and hid den things were niudofknown to him. Sixth, prayer enables us to help others. When Peter was locked up in the prison there wns little that his friends could do for him except pray for him. But they could pray nnd did pray ns recorded In Acts 12 :5, "prayer wus made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." The con sequence wns Unit what they could not do personally, they did do by way of the throne from whence an angel camo and brought Peter forth to them. Paul knew of the help In prayer when he wroto In I Thess., 5:25, "pray for us." 'The cxhortntlon of Jus. fi:10 W, "Pray for one another." Finally, prayer brings peace In nil clrcuinstnnces. Dnnlel seems to have found this so when the lions' den was opening to receive him. Ho went to that den with u quiet confidence and deep pcuco of henrt and mind which was wholly lncklng In the king whose law was sending him there. Tho se cret Is found in Dun. 0:10: "Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, ho went into his house nnd kneeled upon his knees three times a dny nnd prayed nnd gave thanks before his God us he did nforc tlmc." This Is a striking fulfillment of the promise found In Phil. 4:0, 7: "Bo anxious for nothing, but In every thing, by prayer nnd supplication with thanksgiving, lot your request bo mnde known unto God, nnd tho peace of God which passcth nil un derstanding shall keep your hearts und minds through Christ Jesus." Not by Our Flaws. And not by our flaws shall God judge us; his love keeps our noblest in sight. Lucy Lnrcoin. I i ' ' The KiTcnm Leftcnd tolls us of a mnn who was promised porfect hnpplness when he could chnnKo shirts with tho first happy man he mot, but when ho met tho happy man. Iio did not have u shirt. DELECTABLE DINNERS. A beginning for u company dinner which Is beautiful 'to sou and ns good to ent, besides being easy to prepare, Is ' Fruit Cocktail. Cu t small balls from the heart of fine colored wa termelon, till stemmed glasses and pour over n sirup of sugar and wnter boiled to u honey-like consistency und flavored with orance or lemon Juice and rind. Let stand until well chilled, servo garnished with n sprig of mint. Crown Roast of Lamb. Have the crown roast prepared at the market, having It large enough to hold, when serving, plenty of buttered peas for the number to be served. Wrap the bones carefully while roasting so that they will not be burned, with bits of .salt pork ; remove when ready to serve. When chestnuts nre In s -on fill with u puree of chestnuts. New potntoes. small, even sized ones, cooked until tender, rolled In melted butter and sprinkled with parsley nre nice to serve with the roust, or potntoes shredded with a vegetable slicer Into shoe strings and fried In deep fat may be put around the roust ns n garnish. Head Lettuce with Sherry's Dress ing. Wnsli the lettuce, drain on n cloth nnd see thnt It Is perfectly free from water before serving. Tho dress ing should never be placet on lettuce until Just ready to serve, as It wilts the crisp salad vegetables. To pre pare the dressing chop one smnll Spanish onion, ndd two tablespoon fuls each of green nnd red pepper, chopped; one tnblespoonful of salt, one tnblespoonful ench of powdered sugar und chopped parsley, a few dashes of cayenne, one quarter cup of vinegar and three-fourths of n cup of olive oil. Put Into n Mnson jur nnd shnke for five minutes until well blended. Let stnnd one hour before using, then shnke nguln Just ns It Is ready to serve. Ginger Ice Cream. To prepare this Ice cream use the usual vanilla cream recipe, taking one tnblespoonful of vanilla, one-half cup of Cnnton ginger cut in smnll pieces, three tnblespoon fuls of the sirup and freeze us usunl. Use a sauce of the ginger sirup with chopped ginger If desired or the cream may be plain with the ginger sauce. There are few of us, who If wo really Klvo our minds to It, cannot find time In which to live rlRhtly and by ltvlns rlfihtly we live longer and Rain In creased happiness for ourselves and our fellow-tnen. Olive Green. MEAT EXTENDERS AND GOOD THINGS. OTHER A small portion of meat which fla vors n dish will be satisfying, whole some and tTconomlcnl. Ragout of Lamb. Measure the following ingredients : One-h a 1 f cupful of dried peas, one pound from the tlnnk of lamb, one quart of cold wnter, two sliced onions, one teuspoonful of suit, three cupfuls of potuto cubes, one cupful of car rot dice, tltree tablespoonfuls of flour, two tenspoonfuls of Worcestershire snuce. two tenspoonfuls of catsup, two tuispoonfuls of lemon Juice, two tenspoonfuls of chopped parsley, pep per nnd paprika to taste. Pick over the peas and souk over night In cold wnter to cover. Wipe the meat, re move bones, cut the meat In small pieces and brown in a frying pan with sliced onions. Cover the bones with one quart of cold water, add the sonked pens, bring to boiling point nnd ndd the meat. Cook until the meat nnd pens nre almost tender; ndd suit, potuto cubes nnd enrrot dice, cook un til tho vegetables nre soft. Mix the flour with one-third of n cupful of cold water ndd to the mixture, stirring carefully, and cook five minutes. Add Worcestershire snuce. lemon Juice, parsley and salt und pepper, with pa prika to tnste. Serve nt once. Spanish Rice. Cook n half cupful of rice until tender. Brown In a table spoonful of butter one thinly sliced onion: when cooked ndd a cupful of uncooked meat anil stir until well mixed with the onion. Put u layer of rlc Into a well greased baking dish, ndd a layer of the seasoned meat, salt und pepper, and pour over enough to matoes to moisten well. Bake ,ln n moderate oven until the tomatoes are well absorbed. Roast Beef, Mexican Sauce. Benefit rnre roast beef cut In thin slices In Mexican saico. Cook one onion, fine ly chopped, In two tablespoonfuls of butter five minutes. Add one red pep per, one green pepper nnd one cloye of gurllc, ench finely chopped, und two tomatoes peeled and cut In pieces. Cook 15 minutes, ndd ono teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, one-fourth tenspoonful of celery salt and suit to tuste. 3 8 The world Is mine oystor which I witli sword will open. HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS. Polling the molasses to be used Irr cookies or cake makes them tnste . richer und cut smoother. Add a table- spoonful of vine gar to n fish while boiling: It Improves the fla vor nnd mnkes it more llnky. Never smooth mashed potato in the serving dish. It makes It heavy and compact. Heap It lightly into the disli nnd dot with bits of butter. Let puddings nnd pies cool slightly before putting on the meringue; If not, the meringue will be dotted with drops of liquid. Overcooking will curdle milk us well us cooking milk thnt has been salted. It Is best to ndd salt 'after tho milk hns been removed from the bent. If n custurd hns overcooked, pour it Into a cold bowl and beat with an egg beater; If this will not muke It smooth, strain und use It us n custard sauce. To decorate cakes for children, frost them, then dip n smnll brush Into melt ed chocolnte or benten egg yolk, und put on the de.slgn or name desired. Any coloring may be' used by adding n bit of color to confectioner's sugur nnd wnter or milk. Use stnle bread for French toast. Beat one egg, ndd a half cup of milk or more,, one teuspoonful of salt nnd a pinch of sugur. Cut the bread In nnr row strips nnd dip in the egg on both sides. Fry In n little hot fat. Codfish Supper Dish. Pick up a cupful of soaked codfish Into flakes. Mix a pint of mashed potato with two eggs and a pint of milk with a tnblespoonful of melted butter, salt and pepper. Put Into a buttered bak ing dish and bake a half hour. Serve hot from the baking dish. When washing splnnch, put salt In the first water; It will snve several washings. When creaming butter for a cake, If In u hurry, add a tablespoon or two of hot water to It; the cake will mix much quicker nnd Is fully as line grained. Not nil on books their criticism waste, Tho genius of a dish, some Justly tasto. And eat their way to fatno. MORE ABOUT OYSTERS. The oyster Is so well liked by the mnjorlty of people nnd Is served so c o m in only ns stem's, cocktails a n d escalloped dishes that a few other methods of preparing n n il serving the well llked shell fish may be welcome. Oysters With Scrambled Eggs. This dish Is one so appetizing thnt It should be reserved for the best of friend". Bent six eggs in n deep plnte. Cut twelve oysters Into smnll pieces. In a chafing dish, the bottom of which Is coveicd with a thin layer of anchovy paste, melt a tnblespoonful of butter; as soon ns It Is piping hot stir in the eggs. Just before these nro done add the oysters, stirring, until they nre well cooked. When creamy through out, pour over buttered toast that hns been covered with anchovy paste. Providence Oysters. Plnce the oys ter liquor In n sauce pan und when boiling drop In n plnt of oysters; when the edges curl, remove nnd ndd but ter, suit nnd enough erneker crumbs to, absorb the liquor; now stir in a benten egg. nili' the oysters and serve nt once. A layer of chopped celery added to osculloped oysters Is n most tnsty flavor which raises the quality of the dish to tho unusunl. Oysters a la Fawcett. Place two dozen oysters In a chafing dish with no liquor, add a tnblespoonful of but ter, n teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and n hnlf cup of tipple or orange juice. In another dish cook it quarter of n cup of mushroom liquor with hnlf a cupful each of mushrooms und truffles; cook live minutes, then udd the benten yolks of four eggs nnd u pint of rich cream. When this Is boiling, pour over the oysters which have been cooke I Just long enough to curl the edges. Oyster Loaf. Cut n box-shaped piece from u large loaf, hollow It out to hold the oysters and brush It well with butter nnd brown In the oven. Prepare fried or crenmed oysters nnd serve in the shell. Baked Oysters on Toast. Butter squares of toast and pluce on a plat ter which will stnnd the bent of tho oven. Lay drained oysters on tho toast. Season tho liquor nnl bring It to the boiling point. Pour It over the toast and oysters nnd jjut Into n hot oven. Bnke until the edges, of tho oysters ruffle. pa