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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1919)
NOTtTTT PTjATTIO REMT V13ETLY TRIBUNE AsK for "HILL'S FIVE MILLION PEOPLE USED IT LAST YEAR HILL'S XCASGARA QUININE Standard cold remedr for 20 veara -in tablet form tale. . nn opiates breaks up a cold In 24 . noun relieves enp In 3 dav5. loner back if It fails. Tim genuine box has a Red with Mr. Hill's picture. At All Drat Stint V3 mm THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL DISEASES No organs of the humnn body nro no Important to health and long Ufa ns the kidneys. When they slow up nnd com menco to lng lu their duties, look out! Danger is in sight. Find out what tho trouble Is with out delay. Whenever you feel nervous, weak, dizzy, suffer from sleeplessness, or have palna In tho back, wako up at once. Your kidneys need help. These aro signs to warn you that your kidneys arc not performing their functions properly. They aro only half doing their work and aro allowing impurities to accumulate and be converted into uric acid and other poisons, which aro causing you distress and will de stroy you unless they aro driven from your system. von hat.; r.nnu faums in akkaxsam AM) LOUISIANA, also timber and cut-over lands. Correspondence aollclted, Uoyle & Connor, Hoylo BulUlInc, Little llock, Ark. W. N. U., OMAHA, NO. 50-1919. FOOLED BY FINE FEATHERS Eastern Potentate Evidently Unaccus tomed to Seeing Flunkys With So Much Gold Lace. The gorgeous uniforms of the digni fied English servants who always are In nttendnnce at all olllclal receptions have been the rocks upon which the pride of moro than one foreigner has been wrecked. The Initiated Is never sure ns he approaches one of these lmpnsslve-fnced functionaries whether the Intter Is a field marshal or a foot man. Witness -the discomfiture of his highness Prince Felsnl, son of the king of Hedjnz, nt tho great reception in the guildhall to England's returning hero, Field Marshal Viscount Allenby. The Arabian prince, clnd In his of ficial robes of oriental design, was one of the mnny famous men nt the guild hnll. Always punctilious In the ex treme, his highness mnde his way Into the (indent hnll, bowing to right nnd left as he met great soldiers and statesmen of the country. lie nenred ono, who, wearing won derful raiment adorned with yards of heavy gold Ince, appeared to be great er than them all. Tho prince bowed deeply to the lord mayor's flunky. A polite person Is one who doesn't tet other people know what ho thinks f them. Those who cnltlvnte diamond fields must be supcrgpntlenion farmers. laW4k i IP!! Nervous? Restless at Night? Ever Have Headaches? How about your daily cup of coffee? Suppose you try a change to This delightful cereal beverage possesses a fine coffee-like fla vor, but has none of the harm ful after-effects thru which coffee so often prevents vigor- ous, red-blooded health. Costs legs, too. Made by PostUm Cereal Company, Battle Creek, JVIichigan Sold by Grocers and General Stores. Clothes Do Mnke a Man. Pntlencc Do you know JlmsonT I'ntrlcc Do you menu Hint seedy looking Individual? "Yes. Ilo' n self-mtido mnn." "Well, I know his clothes nover mndo him." One Class. "Do you know of any ono class of men who nro nlwnys upright nud square In their business methods?" "Certainly ; piano manufacturers." Lots of marriages call for relief ex peditions from the bride's fnther Inter on. Smnrt pupils nro turned out bj teachers who wield the rod. Oct some GOLD MEDAL Ilaarlera Oil Capsules at once. They arc an old, tried preparation used all over tho world for centuries. They contain only old-fashioned, soothing oils combined with strength-giving and system-cleansing herbs, well known and used by phy sicians in their dally practice. GOLD MEDAL Ilaarlcm Oil Capsules are im ported direct from tho laboratories in Holland. They are convenient to take, and will cither givo prompt relief or your money will bo refunded. Ask for them at any drug store, but be euro to get tho original imported -GOLD MEDAL brand. Accept no substitutes. In scaled packages. Three ekes. Some engagements end hnpplly, but the majority end In ninrrlnge. Shnrp tongues nro apt to sever friendships. Wa Guarantee) ALL THE HEM voy mm Install our Oil Vapor Heater. Burns Hypo Distal, Distillate or Kerosene. For heating purposes of all kinds. Easy to install Can be operated by anyone. Write Today for Dealers' Contract Never a better opportunity than the present to make money. OXO-GAS HEATIrlG COMPANY 508Harnoy St. Omaha, Nob. Accidents in Everyday Life. Though not generally known, It is a fact that from two to three times as many fatnl accidents occur in Ameri can homes, streets nud roads each year as in tho Industries of the coun try. As tho death or Incapacitation of n skilled workman has the same effect on industry whether the acci dent occurs In the shops or out of thorn, the national safety council con siders Itself almost as vitally Inter ested In public safety ns In Industrial accident prevention. Wo lost 50,150 men In the war, and In the same pe riod 120.000 persons through nccldent. Scientific American. Brought to the Te6t. "Do you think there's a chance of prohibition's being repealed, after all?" "I hope not," nnswered Uncle Bill Bottletop; "anyhow, not soon." "I thought you didn't quite npprovo of prohibition." "I don't quite. But for yenrs folks have been tnlklng about n lot of chaps that 'ud be such wonders If they didn't drink, nn' I want to see 'em get n lit tle more time to make good." Wash ington Stnr. In the Right Place. "Where wus that tongue of land sit uated you were talking nbout?" "Just at tho mouth of tho river." The Facts. "Does n summer engagement call for n diamond ring?" "Most I ever got was nn Ice cream sodn." Wnke, for tho alarm clock scatters Into flight Tho variegated nightmares of tho nlBht; Allures the Kns Into tho kitchen r'inffo And pleads for rolls and mufllns that nru light. BREAKFAST DISHES. Breakfast foods are on the market n such numbers that one might have .. a different one S&rSSRaia our)! ilnv diirlmr the year, or at least long enough to forget If one Is repeated. Rye Mush. - Take a quart of boiling water, one 'of: spoonful of salt, five heaping tnble ipoonfttls of rye meal. Sprinkle the neal Into the boiling water, stirring :onstnntly; add the suit, bring to a o!I ojice more and cook slowly In a lotible boiler one hour and a half. Servo with sugar and cream. The nd rnntnge of u long-cooked cereal Is 'lint one may reheat It nnd serve It In i very few moments. Fried Oatmeal Mu6h. Wet a bread pan in cold water and puck Into it any vftovor oatmeal. The next day turn j jut, cut In slices, dredge with Hour ind fry In hot bacon fat. Serve with bacon or with a sirup, If liked. Any 'eftover cereal which does not contain fruit may be served In this way. Velvet Mush. Molt two tablespoon CiiIh of butter In a double boiler, add Iwo cupfuls of Hour and stir until It 'eaves the sides of the dish; add five supfuls of milk, stirring constantly, and bring to n boll at each cupful. Add ' i teuspoonful of salt; mix well and serve with sugar nnd cream. I Oatmeal Jelly. Soak a cupful of , jutmenl overnight In cold water to ?over deeply. Add boiling salted wa ter in the morning nnd boll several hours, adding more water If needed. When every grain Is transparent and JcHyllke it ,!s done. This Is delicious served coyft with fruit, sugar nnd cream. Crushed Wheat With Raisins. Add i half cupful of wheat to three cupfuls 3f boiling salted water and cook un til the water bus disappeared; then nld three cupfuls of hot milk and cook until tho wheat Is soft. During the Inst hour of cooking udd a half cupful Df raisins. Itnlslns aro healthful and are an agreeable addition to almost uny cooked cereal. So It was destined: and thus ennio I here To walk tho earth and wear tho form of man. To suiter bravely as becomes my state, Ono step, one fjrado, ono cyclo nearer God. T. K. Aldrich. SUITABLE LUNCHEON MEATS. A simple, Inexpensive loaf which may bo served hot with a brown or tomato sauce or sliced cold Is the following : T like one pound each of fres?h pork and round steak chopped fine, add two tenspoonfuls of salt, one beaten egg, one cupful of strained tomato, a teuspoonful of chopped parsley and a small onion fine ly minced. Brown the onion In a little of tho pork fat, season with pepper and add all tho other Ingredients with a cupful of crumbs. Mix well nud form 'n n lonf. Bnke about ono hour, bnst Ing occasionally with the liquor from tho pan. Remove the loaf and make a iuuee with tho fat, stirring In it table spoonful or two of Hour, adding toma to Juice or water or soup stock of any kind. Ham and Noodles. Butter nn earth em linking dish, pur Into It n layer of boiled noodles, ndd u luyer of boiled ham cut In bits, then another layer of noodles and so on until the dish Is full. Beat an egg and add one cupful of milk, pour over the dish. Cover with crumbs, dot with butter nnd bake In a moderate oven. Mock Duck. This Is to be served old. Bound a pork tenderloin until tho. fibers lire broken ; spread with a smiling seasoned with poultry dress ing: mil and tie In shape; brush with melted butter; dredge with flour and roast busting with the drippings, add. lug water If necessary. Boast as us ual and when dono take out, press with a weight until cold. Mock Birds. Take thin slices of rnro roast beef, veal or lamb. Make a stalling of seasoned bread crumbs, egg and melted butter. But u spoonful nn eneh piece of meat ; roll nnd skewer with tooth picks; dip In limited butter and bnke In a moderate oven. Sprinkle with buttered crumbs and brown Just beforo serving. Liver With Onion Sauce. Dredgo thin slices of liver with Hour and fry brown In pork fat. I'lnce the cooked liver on a platter nnd fry chopped on ions In tho fnt. When light brown udd a tnblefcTioonful of vinegar to n cupful of chopped onions and pour the onions and sauce over tho liver. Our days so tense, oft mako mo think I know 'twill mako you smile I'd like to bo an nborlK. Kor Just a llttlo while SWEETBREADS. A few cupfuls of raised dough saved from tho bread making, may form n busts for many kinds of cakes and sweet breads. For u sweet loaf, which Is easily mnde, tnke fwo cupfuls of light raised bread dough. To this adtl one beaten egg, ndd a half cupful of shortening, the sume of sugar, chopped fruit or nuts, or boih with spices to tnsto. Cut In tho shortening nnd other Ingredients, using two knives as In milking pastry, then pour Into ii well-greused angel food pun or bread pun nnd let rise until light. Sprinkle with sugar mixed with elnnninon and bake In it moderuto oven, flour will lie needed to bundle the dough, us it should not bo sticky. This mixture makes a good coffee enke. with Hour added, and plnced In nn oblong pan spread with butter, sprinkle with cinnamon mixed with sugar nnd when light bnke In a hot oven. Apples cut In eighths plnced in rows on top of n coffee cake before It bus risen and sprinkled with sugar nnd clininmon give variety. Cinnamon Rolls. Take two cupfuls of light bread dough, add a half cup ful of sugar nnd four tublespoonftils of shortening, cut Into the mixture un til well blended. Boll out, adding flour to bundle, then spread with butter, sprinkle with brown sugar and cinna mon, roll up nnd cut In small rings. Place to rise on n baking sheet, brush with white of egg nnd dust with sugur Just before linking. Raised Doughnuts. To three cup fuh of bread dough ndd one well-bent-en egg, three-fourths cupful of sugar, four tnblespoonfuls of shortening, one tenspoonful of grated nutmeg or n mixture of nutmeg and elnnninon. Cut in with two knives until thoroughly mixed; ndd Hour to roll. Boll to one fourth Inch In thickness, cut In shapes nnd let rise until light. Fry In fat which will brown a cube of bread In 00 seconds. For filled doughnuts cut the enkes with a cooky cutter, plnoo a teuspoonful of Jam In the center and moisten the edges with water, fold over and press the edges together. Let rb;e until light nnd fry as usual. Place two tublespoonftils of powdered sugar lu n bug nnd dust them ono nt a time beforo serving. After nil Is said and done there are still things which might bo said and dono If we said less. WHAT TO EAT. When one has u small amount ot meat a good dish may be prepared combining It with cggH such as: Meat and Egg Toast. Cut rounds of bread and fry them. Mlnco fine any meat or put It through the grinder. Beat two eggs, take two table spoonfuls of butter, half a cupful of tomato suttee, two tublespoonftils of milk, salt nnd pepper. When tho eggs begin to thick en add the tomato and chopped incut Stir until thick, then pour over the toast and serve. Ham En Casserole. Cover nn Inch slice of hirtn, shaped to fit u casserole, with sliced potatoes which have been parboiled five minutes, add two cui fuls of milk, a few dashes of poppet and cook uncovered for nn hour. Cover and cook slowly for another hour. Use two nnd one-hulf clipfuls of potatoes for this dish. Serve from the cas serole. Another good dish quite similar Is prepared by putting u layer of pota toes In u casserole, sprinkle with onions and cover with four to six pork chops. Add enough witter to keep them moist until the potatoes nro nearly done. Cook covered at first, season well with salt and pepper. Bemove tho cover and brown the chops. Coconut Pudding. Soak half u cup ful of bread crumbs in one cupful of milk, cream one tablespooiiful of but ter with half a cupful of sugar, add two well-beaten eggs, the snaked bread crumbs and one grated coconut. Oronse u linking dish with butler, put In tho mixture, set the dish In a pan of hot water and bake until a silver knife conies out clean. Let cool grad ually and serve cold. Eggs Sur Le Plat. Beat the white of eggs until stlfT, spread on u but tered plotter atul make hollows In tho egg with n spoon. Drop carefully the unbroken yolks In these hollows and sprinkle with salt, pepper and dot with bits of butter. Bake until the eggs are set. Perfumes Without Grease. A. Verley. n chemist of Islo-Kulnt-Denis. Frnncp. has patented a process of extract lng perfume from llowers by using powdered wood charcoal Instead of grease us nn uhKorliont ami then washing the elmrcoiil In alcohol. AUTO IT' F5 UTi 7TP Our big F jtiMilL this ad, Name. Town Address 2432, Lincoln Auto VASSAR GIRLS DRESS DOLLS Students at Famous College Revive Old Custom for the Benefit of Neighborhood Children. People who hnvo been brought up to bellovc that collego girls nro In evitably of masculine type might bo Interested to know that tho students nt Vnssnr collego nro nt present In tho midst of a doll-drossing contest. Nor Is this contest n now ovent at Vnssnr. Every year shortly before Thanksgiv ing GOO dolls nro bought by the Chris tian association and distributed among the students, to be dressed In time for Christmas for the children of the surrounding neighborhood. At nn appointed tlmo the dolls are assem bled by their respective owners unil plnced row o . row for Inspection. Tho best-dressed doll Is selected and her owner rewarded with u prize. This custom has been observed at Vassar for tunny years. For tho last two years, however, It has been omit ted, owing to tho exigencies of war work. But now that those services nro not needed tho work has been taken up again with nn added Inter est nnd enthusiasm. New York Lo6t Population. Now York state has sustnlned a po tential loss of 1)0,000 In population dur ing tho last 20 months, due to a re mnrknbly low birth rate nnd the ruv nges of Influenza last year, uccordlng to Dr. llermnn M. Biggs, stato comr 's sloner of health. Tho death ruto has declined steadily slnco the epidemic, und tho present rate, 10.4, Is the lowest recorded for many yenrs. Tho birth rate, at tho Biime time, Is the lowest ever recorded, the rates for July und August having been 18.7 and 18.8 a thousand popula tion, or nbout 12!) per cent lower than for tlio corresponding months of 1018. Could See Improvement. Having had a severe Illness I was looking thin nnd tired, but during my summer outing grow fnt and rosy. On my return home I met n small girl friend of mlno who looked nt mo In nn admiring manner nnd then said: "My, but your face must hnvo hud a ulco vacation." Kxchnnge. Creosoted P'no posts cost twice as much but last four times as long. There's something really fascinating abojiit,the nut like flavor of Grape Nuts The strength and nutrition gleaned from this wheat and malted barley food make it a most sensible breakfast cereal, while its low cost adds true economy. I AM IN LOVE with my work and would not trade my job for any other job in the world. All I know about this business I learned at the Lincoln Auto and Tractor School. You can step into a BIG PAYING POSITION after taking training in this school. LEARN IN EIGHT WEEKS Complete course in & TRACTOR MECHANICS illustrated book. Cut out sign and MAIL TODAY. State & Tractor Scfiool, Lincoln, Neb. MUST BE MELTED IN TOWER Only Way City of St. Louis Can Uet Rid of Bell Which Renders Structure Unsafe. The two-ton bell which hnngs In the tower of tho city hnll litis mndo tho tower unsnfe, but tho hell Is so Inrgo It would bo dangerous to try to tnko It down, so it Is to bo melted right where It Is with acetylene blow torches, such as are commonly seen In uso by workmen repairing car trucks, says the St. Louis Post Dis patch. Building Commissioner McICelvcy pronounced the tower unsnfe as long ns the hnll remains, because tho steel supports hnvo becomo corroded. More over, ho said, an attempt to lower tho bell would bo very dangerous, there fore the decision to tuke it down a bucketful nt a time. Tho only time In recent yenrs that the bell hns been rung wns the day' of tho nrmlstlce celebration. It wus rung when tho building was constructed la 1001. The bell cost nbout $2,000. Tho expense of removing It will bo nbout 51,500. It Is six feet high and four feet In diameter nt tho busc. Logs Set Afire by Friction. Tho curious spectacle of great logs sot uflro by friction of their rapid de scent In n long chute wns witnessed recently In tho mountains of Washing ton state. Logs of exceptional length were needed for special water-front piling, nnd could be found only nt a great height. Tho chute down which the cut timbers were slid wus over u mile long, and tho big sticks attained a tremendous velocity. Ono that "Jumped the track" on the way, shat tered a 2-1-ln. oak tree In Its course, without material damage to Itself. Popular Mechanics Mnga.lne. Overheard on a Car. "Aren't prices simply awful?" "It's them profiteers. Truly, thoy'ro worso than the Forty Thieves you read about In tho Bible." Boston Tran script. Happy Thought Butcher "Do you wuut this ple'i bend, nin'uinV" Lady "No; give mo tho friendly looking ono." What's become of the old-fashioned keyhole thnt used to skid at 2 a. m.?
