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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1907)
Newest Things : m press SSf There is nothing new under tlie sun. unless it is in dress, and woman—that is, fashionable woman — is constantly on the qui vive to catch the latest hints of fashion, and to accommodate them to her peculiar needs and her pocketbook. Perhaps the newest novelty for the winter season is the “Beau Brummel” tie. It was first introduced across the water, and was instantly taken into feminine and fashionable favor with an enthusiasm easily to be understood —and certain to be shared when once you see for yourself just how conveni ent and how charming it is. So as such knowledge will increase both your comfort and your smartness this win ter we show above the faithful por trait of the new tie for all to study and admire, and I may tell you that its fastening is most simply and success fully effected by the mere passing of one end through a loop of the fur, while by the same means it can be ad justed to fit the neck as closely and cosily as you will. It is indeed a won derfully protective little affair, and will be a most welcome addition to the coiiarless coats w’hich continue su preme in fashion's favor, while then according to your mood of the moment or the style of your accompanying headgear you can either let its ends be piquantiy poised at one side or ntote demurely folded in front, the charm of variety being thereby added to its account. The more "dressy’’ tailor-made coats are for the most part of half-length or to the ankles. Very few short ones are seen in cloth or serge, though there are exceptions made in fur sacques and boleros; in fact, at any minute the little sacque coats may be re vided, but for the moment let us con tent ourselves with the long graceful semi-fitting coats which are so becom ing to most of womankind. In our illustration we show one of the latest tailor-mades. As can be readily seen It is of the most graceful design of the very latest and most fashion-favored coat and skirt cos tume. It is made up in fine face cloth, which comes in all the newest shad ings. and is finished in a most effective device in broad and silky braid. Its newest treatment or STRIPED exceeding smartness is too obvious to 1 need comment, but the long, graceful lines of the coat and the full skirt will be found very becoming to most figures. In our other single column picture we show the latest treatment of the popular stripes. In this costume the striped material is cut in different ways so as to supply their own trim ming, as for instance is seen on the the skirt. Bands of plain cloth in har monizing color and a lace yoke com plete the design. The hat is of white felt with fancy plume. As for the newest things In millinery we show below two very pretty but in expensive hats. One of the twain is made in cinnamon brown satin brim, soft full crown in chine silk, finished off with the chou of cinnamon satin and the new ostrich mount. This is a hat which can be worn with any cos tume and can be made in any color desired, and made in black satin un derlined with velvet would be very striking. The second hat shown in the illus tration is of an equally dainty crea tion. It is made in a dead shade of mauve satin underlined in velvet in a darker color with a charming wreath of two shades in velvet flowers fast ened in front with a bunch of deep rich cerise silk roses. This lovely hat would go well with a rather colorless gown. It can be made in all colors, and would have a very smart effect. m.iw noDXd m ^a? SENDS FOST CARDS TO HIMSELF. Absent-Minded New Yorker Has In genious “Memory Jogger.” There is an absent-minded man in New York who keeps a stock of post cards on hand for his stenographer to send to him’. If he makes an engage ment he will ring the bell at once for the stenographer. “Miss Smith," he will say, “kindly address a po3tal to me, at my resi dence, saying, ‘Remember to call on Dobson & Dewey on your way down town this morning.' I want it to reach me at the breakfast table to-morrow, understand? If I stand it up against my tumbler, and start off with It in my hand, perhaps I’ll manage to keep that engagement in mind.” Or it may be: “Miss Smith, kindly send a postal to me at home, and get Joe to post it at once. I want it to get there in this evening’s mall. Please dont forget It's most importanL -What’s the message? Now, what was it I wanted to remind myself or. Oh. dear. yes. That just shows how Absent-minded I'm apt to be. Sajr. ‘Remember ! have bought theater tickets for to-night.’ That should reach me about seven, as we are sit ting down to dinner.” THE THIEF. A wicked sort of thieving lass Is pert and pretty Nancy. When first we mot—’twas in the spring— At once she took my fancy. I thought of her, I dreamed of her; Her image in my breast Kept me awake—I could not sleep; She robbed me of my rest. I grew unhappy If for long Fate kept us far apart; The truth I did discover soon. She robbed me of my heart. But «;hen I’d press her with my love, And ask to name the day. She’d blush and laugh and just evade, And then she'd steal away. When her owa way she wanted sore. She’d piquant be, and arch. But soon as I was off my guard. Then she would steal a march. Her father said. “Win you, then, rob ! Me of icy daughter, prayT" “Oh, no,” said I, “you promised me Tou’d give her, sir, away.” —Baltimore American. AmilKA WATER WORK'S WHERE ANTHRACITE WAS FIRST TRIED IN PHILADELPHIA /^P It Is hard to believe that people once thought that anthracite coal was tin burnable because too hard, and that it was only by the most persistent efforts of the few Investigating minds that it was finally demonstrated that the black rock had a high fuel val ue, but such is the case. It is now almost a hundred years since it was conclusively shown that anthracite would burn. This was accomplished at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and in February next at that place that event is to be suitably celebrated under the aus pices of the Wyoming Valley Histori cal society. In Philadelphia attempts to burn the “stone coal" were made before the year 1808, when Judge Jesse Fell of Wilkesbarre succeeded in burning the coal in a grate which he devised for the purpose. The introduction of an thracite as fuel should not be con fused with the successful burning of bituminous coal, which, in a limited way. had been in use in forges for nearly half a century at the time. What is known as Lehigh coal was discovered by a hunter who was gun ning in the neighborhood of the pres ent town of Mauch Chunk in 1791. From its nature it became known as “stone coal,” and those who believed it to be possible to ignite the anthra cite were numbered among the intelli gent as well as among the ignorant. Few persons at that time had faith in its value as a fuel. However, a com pany was formed in 1792 to take up the land in the immediate vicinity of the discovery. Tills corporation was called (lie Lehigh Coal Mine company, and not a little of its early difficulties were connected with the problem of transportation. A great deal of work had to be done before a pound of coal reached Philadelphia. In time—for there were difficulties with the legislature in the attempts to get a charter—some of the coal was brought to Philadelphia. When this was and wh8re the first attempt was made to burn the fuel here are mat ters still in dispute. The assertion is made that a load of anthracite was brought to Philadelphia and put under the boiler of the pumping engines in the Center Square water works about the beginning of the last century. It is told that when anthracite was tried under the boiler in the water works it actually put out the fire. The preju dice against the “stone coal” was so great that it was years before another attempt was made in the same place. John Binns, who some 50 years or more ago was a democratic politician of importance in the Quaker city, in his book of recollections claims the honor of having been the first to make the attempt to burn Lehigh coal. He fails to give the exact date, but what he says possesses interest. “When this coal was discovered, about the year 1805,” he says, “there was much speculation, and not a little anx iety, as to its quality and quantity. In the legislative session of 1810-11 an application was made for an act of aswwWv to incorporate a company to work the Lehigh coal mines. To as sist in obtaining this charter the per sons most interested induced a German mineralogist to explain to the mem bers of the legislature the nature of the coal, the probable extent of the mines and the facility with which, at a moderate expense, the cof.l could be brought to market. “Before he left the mines he sent to me to Philadelphia a wagonload of the coal, the best he had, in the hope that I would, in my newspaper, give it some celdbrity, which, in truth, I was well disposed to do. To enable me so to do I paid a stovemaker $50 for a semicircular sheetiron stove, and had it put up in my private office, in order to burn that coal. A sufficiency of charcoal, it was thought, was put into the stove and the coal, which was in pretty large lumps, was laid on the redhot charcoal. To assist ignition we drew and kept together the circu lar sheetiron doors. It was a cold morning; there were some half dozen friends watching the experiment; but, alas and alackaday! after some hours and the consumption of much char coal, the ‘stone coal’ would not burn, and all it would do was to look red like stones in a well-heated lime kiln.” Mr. Binns relates that anthracite was discovered about the year 1805, but in this he was in error, for it is on record that coal was found on the Lehigh ten years before he came to this country, in 1802. So far as the company of which he speaks is con cerned it may be said that, although it was formed in 1792, it did little to advance its business for many years, and frequently was before the legislature for the purpose of securing a charter. Witii due regard for Mr. Binns' statement, it may be said that the attempt in the water works in Center Square seems to have preceded his expensive attempt t<> burn “stone coal.” The reason that anthracite was re ceived with so much suspicion was due to the fact that those who attempt ed to burn it did not know how. Xo wonder they called it “stone coal.” It was left for Judge Fell, as men tioned, to devise a proper grate for the purpose so that the necessary draught could be obtained. Some years afterward he told the story of his success in Stillman’s Journal, now known as the Journal of the Franklin Institute. In this account he says: “From observation I had conceived the idea that if a body of this coal was ignited and confined together it would burn as fuel. To try the experiment in the month of February, 1808, I had a grate constructed for the purpose, eight inches in depth and eight inches in height, with feet eight inches high and about 22 inches long (the length is immaterial, as that may be regulat ed to suit its use or convenience), and the coal, after being ignited in it, burned beyond the most sanguine ex pectations. A more beautiful fire could not be imagined, it being clear and without smoke. This was the first instance of success in burning this coal in a grate in a common fire place of which I have any knowledge, and this experiment first brought our coal into use for winter fires (without any patent right).” Just 50 years after Judge Fell's suc cess four young men were riding to gether in a coach which was traveling toward Wilkes-Barre. One of the four was a grandson of Judge Fell. He had that day been reading an account in an old copy of a well known Ma sonic book of the experiment made by his grandsire, and w-hen he mentioned it, one of the members of the party happened to recall that the date of this event was just 50 years previous. The young men were struck by the co incidence, and determined that some thing should be done. When they arrived in Wilkes-Barre they set about stirring up interest, and called a public meeting, to be held that evening in the same old tavern in which Judge Fell had car ried on his experiment. The four young men were James Plater Dennis, grandson of Judge Fell; Henry Mar tyn Hoyt, later governor of Pennsyl vania; John Butler Conyngham and Stanley Woodward, the latter after ward one of the leading jurists of the state. These four became the found ers of the Wyoming Historical and Geological society, formed as a result of that night’s meeting. It is this or ganization that now purposes to cele brate the 100th anniversary of this experiment of Judge Fell and the 50th anniversary of its own founding at the same time. ANYTHING FOR "SIR WALTER." Instance of the Popularity of Great Scottish Author. There is testimony to Sir Walter Scott's popularity with all classes In the “Burford Papers,” a chronicle of former days and doings In England and Scotland. In 1831 Scott was invited to a break fast at an Edinburgh house. He was so pleased with the Yarmouth bloat ers that were served piping hot, that one of the feminine guests went to the market the next day to order some for him, to be sent to Sussex place, where he was staying. “I don’t send so far,” said the fish monger. “I am sorry,” said the lady. “The order was for Sir Walter Scott” The rough fishmonger started back, then pushed forward to the lady through his piles of fish. “For Sir Walter Scott, did you say, madam? Sir Walter Scott? Bless my soul, he shall have them directly if I have to carry them myself! Sir Wal ter Scott! They shall be with him to-night;” then pausing, “no, not to night; for to-morrow morning a fresh cafgo comes in, and he shall have them for his breakfast. Sir Walter Scott!"—Youth’s Companion. From the Atimonial Point of View. He—So your marriage was a fail ure? She—Oh, I don't know-. He—Why, I thought you had se cured a divorce? She—I did. He—Well, don't you call that a com plete failure? She—Hardly. You see, my partner made an assignment and I received a very neat sum as a preferred creditor. He—Oh—um—er—I beg your par don!—Judge. Profit and Loss. “Goodness, child, don't eat so many sweets!” “But, ma, you said I could have some sweets for taking that medicine.” “Of course, but so much will make you ill again.” “Well, ma, then I can take some more medicine and have some more sweets, can’t I?”—Royal Magazine. AT THE FIRST MEAL PROPER DISHES FOR A SUBSTAN TIAL BREAKFAST. Leftovers of Meat Can Be Served in Appetizing Fashion—Recipe for the Making of Popovers or ‘‘Tortonis.’’ A substantial breakfast should con sist of one fundamental dish, fruit in season, one or more dishes of a light er description for those whose appe tites require an extra relish, according to Elizabeth Pyewell. Patotoes are the best to add, as there are many ways of cooking them. Leftover of meat should always be kept for the next day's breakfast and be served hot. Popovers, or “tortonis,” as they are railed abroad, are excellent. They should be hollow in the inside and brought to table the instant they leave the oven, else the crust is apt to be tough. Friday is the best day to select for fish as it comes in greater quantity and the risk of buying those kept over is less. A good-sized rock fish may be boiled for Friday's dinner. What is left will serve as the basis of a dish for break fast on the following day. To one pound of cold boiled fish al low a half pint of white sauce, three cold white potatoes, three hard boiled eggs sliced, a spoonful or two of rich milk or cream and milk mixed half and half and chopped parsley. This can be prepared over night and set aside in a cool place. A few min utes will be sufficient to simmer the fish. Take the remains of the fish free from skin and bones, break this into flakes. Put the white sauce into a saucepan with the flaked fish, three cold potatoes sliced and three hard boiled eggs also sliced. If too thick add a little hot milk. Simmer for about five minutes; place on a hot dish, and sprinkle chopped parsley on the surface. For popovers or tortonis have half a cupful of flour, two scant cupfuls of sweet milk, yolks of two eggs and whites of three. Beat the whites of the eggs; when light add these to the yolks and beat together. Add three-quarters of a teaspoonful of salt, next the milk, after this one and a half cupfuls of flour (sifted). Stir quickly until free from lumps. Heat the cups in the oven, grease 'Veil, pour in the mixture and bake in a quick oven. N'o breakfast is complete without a cereal; those which require cooking are considered the most wholesome. Fruit in season should be eaten first, followed by a cereal. Cleaning Portieres. The dusty portieres you wish to clean should be thoroughly shaken and ! placed in a washing machine in the ; yard and covered, not just dampened, j entirely with gasoline. Throw some thing over the machine to keep in the fumes and leave for at least half an hour. Do not attempt to rub or squeeze out the dirt, but gently lift out the curtains, place evenly .on the line and allow to drip and dry. When dry beat lightly with a rattan carpet beater. The gasoline loosens dust and dirt and the gentle beating throws It off the same as dust. You will find they are perfectly clean. Leave as long as possible in the hot sun, since heat kills the disagreeable odor. What They Will Make. Left-over cold meat—Salads and scallops Cold fish or fowl—Salads. Stale bread—Bread crumbs for roll ing. Cheese—Rarebits, crackers, maca roni. Gravies, bones, etc.—A stock pot for soups. Stewed tomatoes—Scallops and soup flavorings. Mashed potaoes—Breakfast balls, luncheon puffs or souffles, purees, crust for meat pie. Beets or onions—Salad. Vegetables—Soup. Sour milk—Gingerbread, biscuits, cheese. Morning Glories. Morning glories can be raised in the house during the winter. Planted in pots they will bloom in about seven weeks. Put three or four seeds in each pot and place near a window, and put tumblers over them until they begin to sprout. Let them run on a basket or piece of featherbone, and when it is nearly covered bend it over and stick the other end in the pot and there will be a circle of blossoms. Nasturtiums may be grown in the same way. Indian Apple Pudding. Peel and core a dozen tart apples. Scald a quart of milk, then add a cup of Indian meal, mixing and cooking i carefully for several moments. Add a teaspoonful salt, a cupful each mo lasses. and finely chopped suet; then pour over the apples, arranged in a buttered dish. Bake a couple of hours. This is a southern dish, ccca mcnly known as apple pone. Apple Float. Cook tart apples with skins on; mash them through a colander with out the juice; sweeten and season; beat the whites of tw-o or three eggs very stifT, adding the apple a little at a time, stirring it in lightly with a fork. Do not put enough apple in to make it heavy. Serve with a thin custard. Delmonico Potatoes. Delicious with cold meat and easily prepared. Chop cold boiled potatoes quite fine. To each cup of potato add three-fourths cup of white sauce. Sea son well with salt and pepper. Pour into a buttered baking dish, cover the top with buttered bread crumbs, and bake for 20 minutes in a hot oven. Pineapple and Peach Cocktail. This is a sweet course for the be ginning of & dinner. The fruit ia cut into small pieces, marrons are added, and sherry or lemon juice poured over. Add a little powdered sugar, mix, make very co>4 and serve in cocktail glasses. "iV- » •-* ''i-.- \ f&i'J' ,"VJ • ■: :--A •24 -.35ri'i.1,-. - u-=» ' AN EtfyH GROWERS <5UCCE<M • The Grower. American fruit growers will be Ira terested in the success of an Englisii orchardist, John Lee, of Higher Bel1 ington, in Cheshire, who has won con siderable distinction by the superio. grade of apples which he grows. A: most of the provincial fruit and flowei shows this year where he has exhib ited his fruit he has won the bulk ol the premiums. The curiosity of a representative ol Country Life being aroused^ he paid a visit to Mr. Lee's place. It is situ ated about three miles from Liverpool in a district of yellow sandstone, cov ered with a few feet of rich soil. Un der the shelter of a strip of w-oods Mr Lee's orchards are located, an idea site with a gentle rail, just enougn to insure perfect drainage, sufficient sur face soil for his purpose and under- ^ neath the sandstone which enables him to keep the roots of his trees well under control. To those who associate the size of a plant with that of its fruit, Mr. tee's trees would come as a surprise, there being few over six feet high, land many of them considerably lets. They are planted just sufficiently far apart to allow free movement between diem. Accustomed to seek our apples towards the top of the tree, we find, ander Mr. Lee’s guidance, the process considerably reversed, branches bend ing beneath their burden of fruit only two feet from the ground. Anothe Surprise experienced was the very drastic way the knife is used. Though no believer in summer pruning, he Cjoes it sufficiently early in the au kumn to allow the sap on its way back, fis he naively expresses it, to visit ami jtrengtnen ine uuu-uuuo ui ** * ,-ear; so during September, while still rearing, all the new wood is cut back ,o within two or three eyes of the parent branch, reminding one some what of the plants in a tomato house Ivhen fruiting is well advanced. Mr. Lee is essentially a modest man, and ilaims no particular skill for his Brobdingnagian apples—they grow, ind he gathers them, ju3t as he would bis potatoes or cabbages; but one notices a twinkle in the corner of his sye which belies the childlike sim plicity of his countenance as he makes he statement. Of course, be is not >oing to give his secrets away, but he fdmits that he believes in plenty of !ich top-dressing and during the dry eason a plentiful and frequent water ag with manure water. SWAMP-DRAINAGE BY BORE-HOLES The application to swamp drainag> of a method sometimes used for draw ing off surface w'ater by opening u holes to a lower water-bearing statun is proposed by B. G. Cope in a cot. tribution to The Manufacturers’ Re ord, and will prove interesting to tt> famer. “The method employed is to bo® holes of large diameter through tie overlying plastic stratum, stoppiig the holes in sand or. gravel be», where the water may have easy accas Bore Hole for Swamp Drainage. to the lower stratum. For drainirg swamps or low ground, where an optn ditch or sewer line would be ex pensive, the bore holes are the most practical solution. "The usual method of procedure i to select the lowest point on th ground to be drained, and drive in six or eight-inch wrought iron pipes down to the sand, gravel or rock formation, sink a pit about three feet square, and fill with stone and gravel to filter the water when going down the hole, so as to prevent sticks, leaves, etc., from entering the pipe. A gravel bed eight to ten feet thick will take care of a stream of water in many instances to the full capacity of the drive-pipe." NURSE CROPS INJURE ALFALFA By Prof. V. A. Clark, Arizona Agricultural College.. Although nurse crops, particularly wheat, barley and oats, are quite gen erally sown with alfalfa, this practice is in recent years losing ground. It has been found that the young alfalfa does not usually need the protection afforded by a nurse crop and that it j does not profit by dividing space, ! either above ground or below, with other plants. In the fall of 1905, with a view to ascertaining the effects of nurse crops upon alfalfa, under southwestern con* j I flitions. the writer planted successive plats of alfalfa in pure culture, and jWith wheat, rye, barley and oat3 as purse crops. Conditions of irrigation were identical, observations being made in March following, upon the well grown plants about three weeks before bloooming. Effect on Height of Plants and Stooling: At this time the height of the plants in the pure culture was from 15 to 17 Inches. In the nurse crop, the alfalfa varied from 12 inches down, being generally not morn than six or eight inches high. Near the edge of the pure culture plat the plants at this stage had generally two or three full grown stems, de creasing to as few as one or two in the middle of the plat. Y*rith the nurse crops, however, the alfalfa plants had but one stem. The alfalfa pla.nt also stools or throws out shoots from the crown, which in turn become other Btems. The more vigorous the plant the more numerous are the offshoots. The root development was also aTected disadvantageous!)-. Where the alfalfa was sown by itself its roots at a cer tain time had reached a depth of over two feet, while the roots of alfalfa planted with oats had reached a depth of only six inches. The plats planted with nurse crops came on slowly, a fair cutting was not obtained until fall and a normal cutting not until the next season. In v the meantime, during the drought the 7 shallow-rooted plants had suffered more than the deep rooted plants and save for prompt work in cutting, the stand would have been lost In conclusion, it appears from the above observations: 1. That the nurse crops hinder the development of tops and roots of al falfa. especially when by reason of a thick stand or rank growth shading effects are excessive. 2. After the removal of the nurse ! crop the weakened and undeveloped | alfalfa plants are poorly fitted to withstand drought and the stand may be lost. 3. In the average instance the loss in yield of alfalfa due to a nurse crop probably more than offsets extra re turn from the nurse crop Itself.. Milk Sugar.—Milk sugar, recognized late in the seventeenth century, it found only in milk, where it exists in a state of perfect solution. It is not as easily soluble in water as cane su gar, and possesses flnly a slightly sweetish taste. The quantity in nor mal cows’ milk varies from three ic six per cent., with a probable average of 4.80 per cent. The sugar can be separated from the milk and brought into a solid form, resembling pow ^ dered white sugar. It is used more oi less by druggists and in infant food preparations. The commercial demand for it is limited and does not warrant I Its manufacture In large quanti ties. ^' X I
