Nebraska Newspapers

    towns and dates for hold.
^ ING THE FALL SHOWS
»URGE VETERINARY CLASS
Items of General Interest Gathered
from Reliable Sources Around
the Stats House.
Wp‘"rn x™spaper Union News Service.
Following is a list of the dates and
towns as arranged for holding the
county fairs in the .various localities I
over the state this fall:
R^n»PeA.^’eUsh- September 12-13
Koone. Albion. September id-22
i , A“ance. September 19*21.
Butte. September 13-1.5
Brown. Ainsworth. No fair 'iaia
Uuff.r- !i’-lV'd L'ity. September ID-22
b.uff.4l«. Kearney. September 21-22
* hase. Imperial. September 20-22.
, .[i^'enne. Sidney. September 14-is.
lj. < ..iy t enter. September 12-13.
I* -* * r- J^oken Bow. September 12-13.
i’-twes. t hadron. September 12-13
Lawson Lexington. September 12-13
* n.xon. Dixun. September 12-14
Scribner. September 13-13.
* '.Hlge. Hooper. September 1S-20
Liouglas. Benson.
r>undy, Benkelman. Septernbtr 20-23.
r llim- re, Geneva. September 13-1.5.
franklin, Franklin. September 12-15.
rrontier. Stockville, September 26-29.
r urnas. Beaver City. September 26 -29.
Gage. Beatrice. Sept^mu^r 25-30
Greeley. Greeley. September 12-16.
Hall. Grand Island. September 12-15.
Hamilton. Aurora. August 29-5>eptem
Nber 1.
Harlan, Alma. September 19-22.
Hayes. Hayes Center, September 25-30.
Hitchcock. Culbertson, September 21-23.
Holt. Chambers. September 20-23
Holt. O’Neil. September 20-23.
Howard. St Paui. October 3-5.
^ Jefferson. Fairburv, October 11-14.
A Johnson. Tecumseh.
■ Kearney. Minden
N Keith. Ogallala. October 3-4
Kimball. Kimball.
Knox. Creighton.
Lancaster. Lincoln. September 4-5
Lincoln. North Platte. September 26-23.
Madison. Madison, September 26-29.
Merrick. Clarks. September 13-15
Morrill. Bridgeport. September 7-9.
Nemaha. Auburn.
Nuckolls. Nelson. September 19-22.
Otoe. Nebraska City.
Pawnee. Pawnee City. October 3-6.
Pierce. Pierce, Septemb er 26-2 c
Platte. Columbus. September 12-15.
Polk. Osceola. August 23-September 1.
Red Willow. Indianola. October 3-6.
Saunders. Wahoo. No fair. 1916.
Scotts bluff. Mitchell. September 13-1 .
Seward. Seward. September 19-21.
Sheridan. Gordon. September 5-S.
Sherman, Loup City. September 2»>-22 j
Stanton, Stanton. August 20-Scptem- j
ber 1.
Thayer. Deshler. August 29-Scptem
ber 1.
Thurston. Walthill. October 4-6.
Valley. < »rd. August 29-25.
Webster. Bladen
District Fair.
Frontier, Maywood, September 11-16.
Big Class in Veterinary Surgery.
Governor Morehead. State Auditor
tv. H. Smith and Secretary of State
Charles W. Pool, members of the state
veterinary board, appeared before
forty young men who were taking an
examination for license to practice
veterinary surgery and medicine. Gov
ernor Morehead made a short talk to
the applicants on the importance 'of
the profession which they seek to
enter. The state officers reappointed
State Veterinarian J. S. Anderson of
> Seward a member of the examining
hoard. The other examiners are Dr.
J. C. Bowman of Tecumseh and Dr.
G. R. Young of Omaha.
'\Tbe advaiwe in the price of steel
an^^tferete has been so great in the
past months that the university
regent^ have discovered that they
could nol let the contract for the agri
cultural VKineering building within
the appropriation of $140,000. The
board has referred the building plans
to the property committee for revision
of the proposed cost of the structure.
Binder Twine Prices Advancing.
Nebraska farmers will find the
process of harvesting their winter ;
wheat crop a decidedly more expen-!
sive one this spring that it was a year
ego. In addition to the increased cost
of harvesting machinery, binder twine
prices have advanced materially and
will add a neat sum to the general
harvesting expense. Prices on twine
have been announced by the large
manufacturers at 9% cents per pound,
base price on 10,000 pound lots f. o. b.
Chicago or St. Louis, with an addi
tional 14 cent per pound for delivery
at Omaha or other Missouri river
points.
Forty-two delegates and school gar
den enthusiasts from all over Nebraska
met in Lincoln last week for the first
garden workers’ conference ever held |
In co-operation with a college of agri- \
culture. The extension service gave j
a two days’ course taking up both
technical work in gardening and the (
administration of school garden clubs, j
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Uphold Fort Crook Law.
The supreme court has sustained the
/ law of 1907. prohibiting the licensing \
■ of a saloon within two and one-half
t miles of a military post. The opinion j
of the court was written by Judge Rose
and concurred in by the entire court.
A test case was instituted, entitled
Gear Rushhart vs. Homer Crippen et
al. The case was tried in Sarpv county
where Fort Crook is stiuated. The dis
trict court sustained the provisions of
the law and the supreme court has af
firmed that judgment.
Seals of the secretary of state and
auditor will be attached to $50,000
worth of North Platte school bonds
at the dictation of the board there,
although the law now exempts the
former official from the duty. The
cost, because the attachment of
the seals, is a source of revenue, will
be $50. The amount has been paid by I
the North Platte board and the step j
will be taken. If Secretary Pool per- |
formed the service without charging |
for it he would be subject to the pay- j
ntf-nt of the money himself, in the
opinion of legal authorities at the cap
ttol.
Plans for holding the fourth annual
conference of the middle western col
legiate association for women's self
Eovemment, which will be held at the
University of Nebraska May 4, 5 and
f are being pushed rapidly ahead by
the local girls’ club. Delegates are ex
pected to the convention from the uni- i
ttersities of Wisconsin, Iowa, Washing- ;
ton, Missouri. Illinois, Grinnell. Ohio, j
/— Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas. North- j
Western and Cornell. In addition to
•^legates from these schools a number
of visiting delegates from colleges out- j
fine of the conference are expected to I
attend.
A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY
The Nebraska Hog a Gold Mine for
the Farmers
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adopted to meet general conditions in
agricultural areas of the state than
any other branch of live stock farm
ing.
During the year 1915 Nebraska stock
raisers marketed 750,000,000 pounds of
pork. At an average price of 6L, cents
a pound this represents a valuation of
$■58.150,000. In the same vear the state
produced 228.000.000 bushels of corn,
valued at $114,000,000 and 4.000,000
tons of alfalfa. Feeding evidence indi
cates that where hogs are being fed
for the market four and a half pounds
of corn and a half pound alfalfa will
produce one pound of pork. Had all
of the corn produced in Nebraska dur
ing 1915 been fed to pigs on the basis
figured above 2,S15,000,000 pounds of
pork would have been produced worth
$185,975,000. Deducting $7,000,000 as
the value of the alfalfa used, pricing it
at $10 per ton, this leaves an increase
of $61,000,000 over the elevator price
of corn. This would mean an average
increased»• profit of $450 for every
farmer in the state.
Preparing for Irrigation Case.
Attorney General Reed has received
word that surveys are now being made
in the North Platte and South Platte
river valleys, under the direction of
State Engineer Johnson, in order to
obtain necessary evidence for protect
ing the rights of Nebraska water us
ers in this state's intervention pro
ceeding in the suit beiween the states
of Colorado and Wyoming over the
right to use the headwaters of both
streams, irrespective of priorities in
Nebraska. Mr. Reed is expecting to
appear as counsel for the Nebraska
water users in this suit, and will en
deavor to obtain a judgment upholding
their right as against conflicting claim
ants in Wyoming and Colorado.
To Keep Tab on Autos.
County assessors have been asked
by Secretary Bernecker of the state
board of assessment to keep a look
out for automobiles. They are asked
to obtain from the county treasurer a
list of licensed automobiles and if
the number of machines found by per
cinct assessors April 1 does not cor^>
spond with the number licensed at
that date the assessors will have to
hunt for any that are missing from
the tax rolls. Last year assessors
listed 44.261 automobiles for assess
ment. It was believed that there were
over 50.000 automobiles in the state.
The secretary of state who also
handles licenses has licensed 67.000
automobiles this year and the total
may reach 80.000 before the end of
the year. Butler county has reported
1.186 autos in the license list April 1.
Last y°ar 771 were found by the as
sessors of 'that county. Cuming
county last year assessed 716 auto
mobiles. This year, on April 1, 1.615
were on the license register in that
county. The average assessed value
of automobiles in Nebraska last year
was $73 each, or $365 each, actual
value.
Will Call for New Bids.
At the last regular meeting of the
board of regents of the state univer
sity. it was decided to reject ail bids
for the proposed agricultural engi
neering building and to call for new
ones. This action was taken because
of amended specifications, wherein
reinforced concrete is called for in
stead of structural steel as originally
planned. Prof. Grummann made a
report regarding the introduction of
music into the ourrric-ulum of the uni
versity. but action was deferred un
til the next meeting.
Demands for teachers for the vari
ous high schools of the state and from
points in other states have flooded
the department of high school inspec
tion at the state university. Dean
Fordyce of the teachers’ college has
announced that 200 teachers will be
graduated this year, and the demand
far exceeds the supply. Latin and
German teachers are scarce.
A dispute between C. E. Snyder,
owner of a small telephone exchange
at Bignell. and G. L. Swancutt, who
runs a competing exchange at Brady,
has been settled by the state rail
way commission in Snyder's favor.
The latter has been authorized to
charge at a rate of $1 per month and
include in that charge free service to
North Platte.
Women the Better Students.
Sorority women were better stu
dents at the University of Nebraska
than the men of the fraternities during
the first semester of the present school
year, according to the scholarship
figures made public by Dean Carl Eng
berg. Acacia, the Masonic fraternity,
leads all the mens fraternities, while
Delta Delta Delta tops the list of the
sororities. The fraternity average for
scholarship, with deductions for delin
quencies, is 147.7 points, while the
solority average is 249.9 points.
Want Music for Nebraska Poem
The committee having in charge the
state-wide celebration of the semi-cen
tennial celebration of the admission of
Nebraska into the union of states has
announced that John D. Haskell of
Wakefield has offered a prize of $100
for the best music composition suited
to the Nebraska poem recently select
ed. The music should be for mixed
voices. All such compositions sub
mitted in this contest are to be sent to
State Superintendent A. O. Thomas,
Lincoln not later than July 1. Copy
of poem will be sent on application.
Under a new rule adopted for the
purpose of limiting the number of
banks to the needs of communities
the state banking board has refused
to issue a charter to the Creston State
bank, recently organized. In the aD
sence of a law authorizing—the legis
lature. in fact, having refused to pass
a law—the board seeks to limit the
number of banks by adopting rules
for the regulation of banks. Several
vears ago it was decided that the state
board could not refuse to charter a
state bank organized by reliable per
snn a
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♦STATE NEWS*
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May 2 — Omaha-Lincoin-Denver Good
Roads association convention at
Lincoln.
May 13—East Central Nebraska High
School track meet at Fremont.
May 14—Proclaimed “Mothers’ Day”
in Nebraska.
May 16 to IS—State G. A. R. Encamp- j
ment at Lexington.
May 15-1S—State Dental Society an
nual convention at Lincoln.
May 17—Nebraska Bankers’ conven
tion, Group One, at Beatrice.
May 23-24-25—State Harness and Sad
dle Makers’ association meeting at
Columbus.
May 24-25—State Association of Com
mercial Clubs' Convention at Omaha.
June 5 and 6—Pageant of Lincaln,
presenting “The Gate City.”
June 5-6—Spanish War Veterans’
State Convention at North Platte.
June 12 to 15—Trans-Mississippi Bak
ers’ Ass’n convention at Omaha.
June 13-14-15—Annual convention of
Nebraska Elks at Omaha.
June 13 to 16—State P. E. O. Conven
tion at Alliance.
June 13-14-15—Great Western Handi
cap Tournament at Omaha.
June 19-20-21-22—American Union of
Swedish Singers, West. Div.. con
certs and convention at Omaha.
June 20 to 24—State Stockmen’s con
vention at Alliance.
June 21 to 23—Fraternal Order of
Eagles, state meeting at Lincoln.
In a gun duel which lasted several
minutes. Officer Lon Trude of the
Beatrice police force shot and fatally
wounded Xels Smith. Smith had been
previously arrested for being disor
derly and had been released on prom
ise of good behavior. As soon as he
gained his freedom, however, he ob
tained a gun and began threatening
the police. He died some minutes
after being shot.
Miss Hazel Parks, representing
Hastings college, won the state prohi
bition oratorical contest at Bellevue,
taking a $50 cash prize. Simon E.
Cozad of Nebraska Wesleyan univer
sity was second Third place went to
Earl A. Everett of Grand Island col
lege. The winner will represent Ne
braska in the interstate contest at St.
Paul, Minn.. July 21.
Edward. 10-year-old son of Joseph
McMichail, living east erf Wellfleet. a
small town near North Platte, was in
'antly killed when lightning struck
'lie bell at the school house and ran
I down a wire rope, burning his face and
i right side to a crisp Other children
! standing nearby were rendered uncon*
, seious by the shock, but none were
■ permanently injured.
A special train loaded with 300 men
and women frcci Lincoln and Otnaha
I left Omaha just recently for the sugar
i beet fields of Minnesota. They will be
distributed in the territory around
1 Mankato. Eagle Lake and Cliaska. The
• party was made up largely of Rus
sians and most of tl*om worked in the
Minnesota sugar heet fields last sta
| son.
Fremont poultrymen say that tile
I Drescnt scarcity of poultry and the
high price prevailing for poultry meat
is due solely to the fact that eggs are
bringing IS and 2(5 cents a dozen, an
unusually high price for this time of
year. Farmers are hanging onto
their hens to get the eggs, they say.
The Platte county attorney wants
the county to own some bloodhounds
to smell out and run down criminals.
He will urge the purchase of dogs at
the next meeting of the county board.
A state bowling league, with a reg
ular schedule of matches and a loving
cup as a prize instead of a pennant, is
a movement that Omaha bowling lead
ers are now discussing.
When First street paving in Fre
mont is laid it will make a total of
twenty-nine blocks, or nearly two
miles of paving through Fremont on
the Lincoln highway.
During a five days’ campaign a
financial committee of the Bair li
brary collected $1,200. the amour;*
necessary to purchase the site for the
new Carnegie library.
With a new six-story hotel and a
$100,000 court house, besides many
other buildings. Fremont expects to
put in one of the busiest building sea
sons in its history.
Ground has been broken for Broken
Bow's new Burlington d*>pot. The
structure will be thirty by eighty feet
in size and ci?st $25,000. The city
council has passed an ordinance va
cating certain streets, in order that
the depot shall have an adequate loca
tion.
An evangelistic campaign, under the
direction of Rev. James Rayburn, is
being conducted in Broken Bow. A
tabernacle with a seating capacity of
1,200 has been erected for the meet
ings.
The pulp drying process is one of
the important features which will
mark the improved facilities of the
new Gering sugar factory, which is
now under construction.
More than $13,000 in cash prizes will
be hung up for the national swine
show, which will be held in South
Omaha October 2 to 7.
The Ccmstock Telephone company
has been authorized to discontinue a
$1 flat rate fcr service to Arcadia.
The village of Ewing will construct
a new school building in the near fu
ture to cost $35,000.
The finance committee of the Fre
mont Commercial club has decided to
raise $16,000 for publicity work in
Fremont tills year. East year the
club raised a similar amount and the
system proved so successful that it
will be employed again.
The Alliance lodge of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles Is contemplating the
construction of a new home in that
city.
Hastings Commercial club has
promised to aid company G, Nebras
ka National Guard company of that
place. 1
Frank M. Coffey, ^cate labor com
missioner, in Omaha recently, an
nounced A. Caminetti, United States
commissioner of immigration, will
send a federal representative to Ne
braska to conduct a freee labor bu
reau. and to be in charge of an immi
gration station here. "The office will
be in Omaha.” said Coffey. "The la
bor office will direct the migratory and
seasonal laborers. The former come
and go without regard to conditions.
Seasonal laborers, such as harvesters,
fruit pickers and others, want to fol
low the seasons. Tiie immigration
branch of the work probably will
bring more immigrants to Nebraska.”
Coffey said. "Some may be routed
directly to Omaha.”
The Fairbury city council has re
fused to grant pool hall licenses to
several applicants in the city. The
o.uestion was not voted on at the
spring election, it being understood
there would be no opposition to the
granting of the licenses. The senti
ment against the pool halls sprang up
when proprietors started a movement
to reduce license fees.
Definite plans have been made by
the historical and patriotic societies
of the state to mark the old historic
California trail. The second monu
ment to be erected within the next
few months will be at Florence at
the starting point of the trail in Ne
braska. the first being already erect
ed at Fremont by Lewis & Clarke
Chapter, D. A. R.
Election boards in every precinct
in Hastings stood pat at tbe recent
election on the ruling of the attorney
general and refused ballots to all vot
ers who failed to state their party
affiliations when registering at the
city clerk's office last month. There
were about 159 voters in Hastings dis
franchised as the result.
a do ut seventy-nve delegates are ex
pected to attend the 191t> convention
of the English association of the Au
gustana Synod, which will be held in
Omaha next October. Exact dates
for the annual gathering have not yet
been set, although it will probably be
held about the middle of the month.
Both the road grading and road
paving bonds of Douglas county, to
taling $1,700,000, carried at the recent
primary. These were divided into twc
propositions: The one for $200,001
bonds for grading the roads in Doug
las county, and the other for bonds
in the sum of $1,500,000 for paving
certain Douglas county roads.
Woodrow Wilson was defeated in
the recent primary election in one
precinct in Seward county by Robert
G. Ross, proprietor of a livery stable.
The precinct is German-American. and
the vote was 29 to 28. Ross filed him
self as a candidate for both the demo
cratic and republican presidential
nominations at the primaries.
The question of building a jail at
Martinsburg, an inland town near Al
len, has been the bone of contention
there for some time and in order tc
dispose of the question the village
board placed the issue on the ballot
at election. The majority favored a
jail and it will be built at once.
Pa Rourke, manager of the Omaha
Western league baseball team, has
signed a new second baseman named
Priest, from Rochester. N. Y.. and he
has joined the team. He will pliy
second until the recovery of Irelan.
v. ho had a log broken at Beatrice dur
ing the practice season there.
Revival of the old-style country
spelling bees will be undertaken in
schools of several counties of the
state this year and it is hoped by
those interested that p xt year enough
cf the countie" veil have taken up the
work to asset ■ a state-wide spelling
contest.
John Zook, for years city marshal
and drayman at T cumseh. has sud
denly become rich by inventing a
church ntc-del and selling the patent
to a Kansas City firm for $25,000. He
continues at his position, although th
windfall means much to him.
The pupils of the Beatrice schools
are looking forward with eagerness to
the annual May festival, which proba
bly will be held on May 12th. It will
be held in Atheletic park, a spot of
marvelous beauty on the Blue, and
the pride of Beatrice.
The eleventh annual convention cf
the Thirtieth district of Rebekahs will
be held at Ponca May 11. The district
is composed of six lodges, Wynot,
Newcastle, Ponca, South Sioux City,
Allen and Emerson.
Lincoln’s chances for an incinerator
within the next year went into the
discard when the city commissioners
rejected ail bids.
Committees have raised $3,100 to
ward the purchase of a site for an
auditorium at Holdrege; another com
mittee has raised $8,000 toward the
construction of the building. Another
$5,000 is required.
Tecumseh has a military band and
a local picture house turned its facil
ities over to the organization one re
cent night to help it financially.
The farmers in the neighborhood
of Osceola will open a union store
where they will receive and dispose
of goods in quantity lots.
Bids for water, sewer and paring
jobs were given out by the city coun
cil of Sidney recently. W. J. Creedon
was given the contract for $20,000
worth of concrete paving and the Nor
folk Bridge and Construction Co. wen
!-•? bid for $20,000 worth of sewer and
water extensions.
Toddling Kidney, 3, son of Mr. and
>Irs. Howard Kidney, Universitv
Place, winner of the grand prize in
the 1914 state fair better babies con
test, was instantly killed at the Kid
ney home when a cellar door fell,
striking him on the head.
Two Omaha boys are among eight
een freshmen members of fraternities
of the University of Nebraska dropped
because cf the failure to carry twelve
hours of university work.
Peter E. O’Sullivan, veteran editor
and newspaper man of pioneer days,
died at his home in West Point. H9
died Just two days after the burial
of his wife.
Guy E. Livermore, who is superin
tendent of the Comstock schools, has
purchased the Sargent Leader and
the Sargent News and consolidated
them.
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
i
April 24. 1915.
In furious battle north of Ypres
allies gained some ground.
French repulsed attacks at Les
Eparges and elsewhere.
Germans gained in forest of Le
P ret re.
Finnish and Norwegian vessels
sunk by German submarines.
French aviator bombarded Emyr- |
na fort.
_
April 25. 1915.
Germans gained more ground at
Ypres and began terrific drive
near La Bassec.
French repulsed in the Argonne
and the Meuse hills.
Austro-Germans took by storm
Ostry mountain in the Carpathians,
commanding Orava valley.
Russians repelled Germans In
Prussian Poland.
Russian Black Sea fleet bom
barded Bosporus forts.
April 26, 1915.
Allies rallied at Ypres and
checked Germans.
Germans took summit of Hart
mannsweilcrkopf from French.
Austrians again defeated P.us
sians in Carpathians.
General land and sea attack on
the Dardanelles.
French cruiser Leon Gambetta
torpedoed by Austrian submarine;
552 lost.
German cruiser Kronprinz Wil
helm interned at Newport News.
Zeppelin dropped large bombs on
Calais.
April 27, 1915.
Allies repulsed German attacks
near Ypres and Dixmude and cap
tured several towns.
German attacks at Les Eparges
failed.
Russians began another offensive
around Uzsok pass.
British battleships Majestic and
Triumph badly damaged in Darda
nelles attack.
Allied airmen bombarded a dozen
towns.
International Women’s Peace
congress opened at The Hague.
April 28, 1915.
Terrible battle at Ypres contin
ued, with varying fortune.
Heavy fighting continued in
Uzsck pass and Stryj regions.
Allies established line across tip
of Gallipoli peninsula.
French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc dis
abled at Dardanelles.
German aeroplane dropped
bembs on American tanker Cush
ing in North sea.
Aviators of all armies made
many raids.
Secretary Bryan answered unfa
vorably Germany's note on sinking
of the Frye.
April 29, 1915.
Germans won victories at Ypres,
in Champagne and along the Meuse.
Germans began an offensive
along entire East Prussian front.
Russians beaten baak in Carpa
thians.
Allies landed many more men on
Gallipoli, but at Gaba Tepeh were
driven back by Turks, who sank
12 sloops carrying troops.
German aeroplanes bombarded
Belfort and Epernay.
Kurds massacred Christians in
Armenia.
April 30, 1915.
French and Belgians gained in
Belgium.
German gun shelled Dunkirk
from position 22 miles away.
Germans repulsed French at Le
Mesuiil and Flirey.
Russians checked Germans on
left bank of Vistula and near Golo
vetzko and Nadvorna.
Turkish trcop ship sunk in Dar
danelles.
Zeebrugge bombarded from the
sea.
Zeppelin dropped bombs on Suf
folk towns.
POSTSCRIPTS
The Russian senate has been in ex
istence since 1711.
An average of one ton of solid and
liquid nourishment is consumed every
year by a healthy man.
Australia’s last census revealed the
presence of 52,951 naturalized British
subjects.
An expedition of Norwegian scien
tists is studying the natives, flora and
fauna of almost unknown regions of
northern and central Asia.
One of the queerest requests on rec
ord has been received at San Antonio,
Tex., from Dr. Guy A. K. Marshall of
the royal bureau of entomology. Lou
don. It is for a certain flea, which
lives in the eye of a bat, and San An
tonio, the only town in the world
with a municipal bat roost, is about
the proper place to go for it.
Using radioactive phenomena for
tho basis of their calculations, two
British scientists believe that the world
is at least 711,000,000 years old.
Do Things Worth While.
Spend not your time in that which
profits not; for your labor and your
health, your time and your studies, are
very valuable; and it is a thousand
pities to see a diligent and hopeful
person speed himself in gathering
cockle-shells and little pebbles, in tell
ing sands upon the shores, and mak
ing garlands of useless daisies.—Jer
emy Taylor.
MIXING THE BUTTER CAKES
Breakfast and Luncheon Delicacy
Worth All the Ti.ne That Can Be
Bestowed on It.
An earthen howl should always be
used for mixing cake, and a wooden
cake spoon with slits lightens the la
bor. Measure dry ingredients, and
mix and sift baking powder and
spices, if used, with flour. Count out j
number of eggs required, breaking i
each separately that there may be nc !
ioss should a stale egg chance to be j
found in the number, separating yolks (
from whites if rule so specifies. Meas- ;
ura butter, then liquid. Having every- ;
thing in readiness, the mixing may be
quickly accomplished.
If butter is very hard, by allowing
it to stand a short time in a warm
room it is measured and creamed
much easier. If time cannot be al
lowed for this to be done, warm bowl
by pouring in some hot water, letting
stand one minute, then emptying and
wiping dry. Avoid overheating the
bowl, as butter will become oily rather
than creamy. Put butter in bowl and
cream by working with a wooden
spoon until soft and of a creamy con
sistency, then add sugar gradually and
continue beating. All yolks of eggs
or whole eggs beaten until light,
liquid and flour mixed and sifted with
baking powder; or liquid and flour
may be added alternately. When
yolks and whites are beaten separate
ly whites are usually added at the
last, as in the case when whites of
eggs alone are used.
A cake can. be made fine grained
only by long beating, although light
and delicate with a small amount of
beating.
Never stir cake after the final beat
ing, remembering that beating motion
should always be the last used.
Fruit, when added to cake, is usual
ly floured, to prevent its settling to
the bottom. This is not necessary' if
it is added directly after the sugar,
which is desirable In all Lark cakes. If
a light fruit cake is made, fruit added
in this way discolors the loaf. Citron
Is cut first in thin slices, then in strips,
floured, and put in between layers ol
cake mixture. Raisins are seeded and
cut. rather than chopped. Washed
currants, put up in packages, are
quite free from stems and foreign sub
stances. and need only picking over
and rolling in flour.
Stewed Beef With Dried Green Peas.
Wash (after picking over) one pint
of dried green peas. Put in kettle
with enough water and let come to a
boil (water should coven, and while
boiling add about one-half teaspoon
ful of baking soda (saleratus). Con
tinue boiling for about five or ten min
utes. then remove from fire and strain
and wash the peas to free from taste
of soda. Prepare about one-half pound
of lean beef (stew beef) by rinsing
and cutting lip In not too small pieces.
Put the meat and prepared peas again
in kettle and stew until meat is ten
der. Keep covered with water while
meat is cooking. Season with salt,
pepper and a small lump of butter (the
butter may be omitted, but I prefer to j
add it).
Mock Fish.
Cut some scraped salsify into inch
lengths, dropping them as done into
water acidulated either with vinegar
or lemon juice, and. soaking them in it
for an hour: drain carefully, barely
cover with boiling salted water, cook
gently until soft, and strain.
Having made a thick, white sauce
with the liquor mingled with an equal
quantity of scalded milk, thickened
with butter and flour in the usual pro
portions and seasoned agreeably with
salt, pepper and lemon juice, put the
salsify into fireproof shells, mask with
the sauce, strew lightly with bread
crumbs and a few knobs of butter, and
brown in a quick oven. Or. if pre
ferred, serve in cases of puff paste.
Vegetarian Risscles.
Rub three ounces of butter into one
half pound of whole-meal bread
crumbs, adding one tablespoonful of
finely chopped parsley, one teaspoon
ful each of shredded onion and of
minced herbs, a grate of nutmeg and
lemon peel and seasoning to taste;
mix this with an egg beaten up in one
teacupful of milk, or, better still it
available, of white sauce; mold into
balls or torpedoes, fry in hot fat and
serve garnished with daintily fried
slices of hard-boiled egg, handing
brown sauce and red currant jelly at
the same time.
Irish Iceberg.
Put four cupful3 of water and two
cupfuls of sugar in saucepan, bring
to the boiling point and let boil 20 min
utes. Cool, add three-fourths cupful of
lemon juice. Color green and strain.
Freeze, using three parts of finely
crushed ice to one part of rock salt.
Serve in tall dessert glasses and pour
over each portion one teaspoonful of
creme de menthe. Sprinkle with
chopped nuts, using Jordan almonds,
English walnuts, and pecans in equal
proportions.—Woman's Home Com
panion.
Pommes a la Creme.
Having smoothly blended one table
spoonful each of butter and flour, stir
them Into one breakfast cupful of hot
milk, continue stirring over the fire
until thick, season well, and add two
breakfast cupfuls of sliced cooked po
tatoes and a little chopped parsley,
heating thoroughly and serving,
browned or not in the oven, in a deep
dish.
Veal Salad.
This is nice when you have finished
with a roast of veal. Cut up veal in
dice, also bunch of celery diced, place
on bed of lettuce leaves. Pour over
dressing, place few olives, stuffed ones
with red peppers look attractive and
add a delicate flavor, too, by chopping
in a few with the salad.
Bacon and Apples.
Core and peel the apples and cut
into one-half inch slices. Cut the same
amount of bacon into very thin slices.
Fry the bacon in its own good fat un
til crisp and put it on a hot dish. Fry
the apples in the bacon fat until light
brown; arrange around the bacon.
Serve very hot
; Get the Habit of
| Drinking Hot Water
Before Breakfast
Says we can't look or feel right
with the system full
of poisons.
Millions of folks bathe internally
now instead of loading their system
with drugs. "What's an inside bath?"
you say. Well, it is guaranteed to per
form miracles if you could believe
these hot water enthusiasts.
There are vast numbers of men and
women who, immediately upon arising
in the morning, drink a glass of real
hot water with a teaspoonful of lime
stone phosphate in it. This is a very
excellent health measure. It is in
tended to flush the stomach, liver, kid
neys and the thirty feet of intestines
of the previous day's waste, sour bile
and indigestible material left over In
the body which, if net eliminated every
day, become food for the millions of
bacteria which infest the bowels, tho
quick result is poisons and toxins
which are then absorbed into tho
blood causing headache, bilious at
tacks, foul breath, bad taste, colds,
stomach trouble, kidney misery, sleep
lessness, impure blood and all sorts
of ailments.
People who feel good one day and
badly the next, but who simply can
not get feeling right are urged to ob
tain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from any druggist or store
keeper. Thi3 will cost very little but
is sufficient to make anyone a real
crank on the subject of internal sani
tation.
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, so limestone phosphate
and hot water act on the stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowels. It is vast
ly more important to bathe on the in
side than on the outside, because the
skin pores do not absorb impurities in
to the blood, while the bowel pore3 do.
—Adv.
MUST TAKE TIME TO REST
Development of Beauty Depends a
Great Deal on That and on One’s
Environment.
• It cannot be impressed upon us too
often that harmony of surroundings
is absolutely necessary to the devel
opment of beauty. It depends on the
soul quality for its inspiration and
growth. The soul quality dies unless
nurtured by such surroundings as are
pleasing.
Each personality must ehos'1 the col
ors and shades that are most soothing.
Every woman cannot have her home
decorated just as she wishes. But ev
ery woman can have some one corner
that is her own that is decorated in
the colors and with the things (they
may be very simple and inexpensive)
that appeal to her. When she is tired
let her go to this corner and find rest
there, reading her favorite authors,
looking at her favorite pictures, sew
ing. crocheting or sitting and thinking.
If it is impossible for such a corner
to be had. surely there is some spot
of the town or city, some library, mu
seum. church, park, some place where
she can find rest in the picture that
surrounds her.
Luxury, when you think of it, is not
of necessity attractive. So often it is
in bad taste that the joy comes often
in being able not to have to indulge
in it.
Most women are much more attrac
tive at home. This is because in the
setting of the things they love, which
are part of their personalities, they
arc in repose. The woman who is
beautiful under the glare of the sun
in all sorts of places is indeed fortu
nate !
"Haste makes waste," despite the
fact that one has to hustle in order
to keep up with the wagon.
Don't count your chickens before
they are big enough to bluff the cat.
GOOD REPORT
Doctor Proved Value of Postum.
Physicians know that good food and
drink, properly selected, are of the ut
most Importance, not only for the re
lief of disease hut to maintain health
even when one is well.
A doctor writes, “I count it a pleas
ure to say a good word for Postum
with which I have been enabled to re
| lieve so many sufferers, and which I
count, with its valued companion
Grape-Nuts, one of the daily blessings.
“Coff-ee was banished from my own
table some time ago and Postum used
regularly in its place.” (Coffee is in
jurious to many persons, because it
contains the subtle, poisonous drug,
caffeine.)
“I frequently find it necessary to in
struct patients when they take Pos
tum for the first time to be quite sure
that it is properly made according to
directions, then it has a clear, seal
brow-n color and a rich, snappy taste,
as well as health giving qualities.
The above letter, received over ten
years ago, Is fully confirmed by a re
cent letter from the doctor, in which
he says:
"It is a pleasure to render a good
j report covering a product of which I
am so enthusiastic a friend.
‘‘I am using in my home your Pos
tum Cereal in both Its forms. And,
, what is more, I an having It used in
i the families of several patients in
; which there are children, and all unite
In endorsing the fine qualities of your
: admirable product.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
! Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum Cereal—the original form
—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c
Pkgs.
Instant Postum—a soluble powder—
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage Instantly. 30c
and 50c tins.
Both forms are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
‘There’s a Reason” for Postum.
—sold by Grocers.