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RECIPE FOR SAUSAGE ROLLS . I I . . i Various Kinds of Meats Can Be Used ; ' I Chop Fine , Bake Fifteen 1 \ 1i i I 1 Minutes. - J . Chop up any kind of cooked meat I Tery finely. Mix with it one table- I spoonful of flour , one teaspoonful of salt , and a little pepper. Put half a cupful of water into a saucepan , and I a tablespoonful of gravy , add the meat and flour , and stir over the fire till 'I ' I it comes to boiling heat ; when the ; flour is cooked turn it out on a plate ! to get cold. This mixture should be : made very tasty and nice , and quite a I thick paste. Sift into a basin one , pound of flour , a pinch of salt and a I teaspoonful of baking powder ; rub into them quarter pound of butter , ; make it into a stiff paste with cold j water ; roll it out lengthways and , ' quite thin. Cut the sheet of paste into I' , ! pieces five inches square ; wet the : , edge of each square and place on each I n spoonful of the meat ; turn one side of the paste over on the meat , and I overlap it with the other side ; press down with the back of a knife , and place the sausage rolls on a greased J baking tin. Brush them over witl beaten egg , and bake fifteen minute : ! in a hot oven. I I SERVING ' TABLE A GREAT HELP I Most of Them Contain Tray That Can ! Be Lifted Out and Save One , Many Steps. t - The woman who does her own work , yet wishes her table daintily served , , must either detail one of the family t as waitress or must depend upon a ; serving table close at hand. Any , , table can be used for this pur- ' : pose , but very convenient is one on wheels , that can easily be moved from kitchen to dining room , heaped with : everything needed for serving. These tables can be bought in con- venient form , some with single tray , , . others with a shelf beneath , on which can quietly be placed soiled dishes I at the end of a course. They are light , , easily handled , with a neat japanned finish , and can be either square or . triangular in shape. Most of them are finished with a re movable tfay that can be lifted to the sink and save many steps. Plain linen dollies can be made to fit the top of each tray to make it more attractive when used during a meal. Apple Roll With Lemon Sauce. ' Two cups of flour , one-half teaspoon ' 1 -of salt , four level teaspoons baking powder , two tablespoons of butter , two- thirds cup of milk , one cup chopped apple , three tablespoons sugar , one- half tablespoon cinnamon. Sift flour , salt and baking powder together and thoroughly mix in butter with tips of fingers. Add the milk , stirring it in with a knife. Roll .the dough out to one-fourth inch thick and spread with chopped apple , sugar and cinnamon. Roll like jelly roll , cut in three-fourth inch slices and place in buttered pan , flat side down. Bake 15'minutes in hot oven and serve hot with lemon sauce. Boil three-fourths cup of su- gar and one-half cup water five min utes. Add two teaspoons butter and ' one teaspoon lemon juice , dash of nut I \neg. Peaches a Angele. Freeze soft one quart of vanilla cream , then beat in one pint of fresh peach pulp and the juice of tvo or- anges ; let stand two hours. Line parfait glasses with thin slices of i peaches and fill with the cream , then I pour over all a thick , smooth , cooked strawberry sauce. Another charming way of serving plain ice cream Is to fill a mold with the frozen cream and bury it in ice and salt for three hours. Make a cold chocolate icing , rather thin , and as soon as the cream is removed from I the mold coat it thickly over the top and sides with the icing , and orna- ment with chocolate-coated almonds. Harper's Bazar. I Smothered Cucumbers. Pare three cucumbers and cut into quarters and lengthwise. Trim off the portion containing the seeds , and cut the firm flesh into half-inch pieces. In a thick-bottomed saucepan put one tablespoonful of butter , one scant half 1 of a teaspoonful of salt , one quarter of a teaspoonful of paprika and the cut cucumber. Cover closely , and set over the hot fire for live minutes . , then . draw back where they will cook siow- ; ly. They should be very tender in from 12 to 1C minutes. Chocolate cr Cocoa Pudding. One cup of milk , a scant cup of bread crumbs a tablespoonful of dry cocoa or chocolate , a tablespoonful of \ sugar mixed well with the cocoa , the , yolk of one egg. 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Not the least of the advantages of Tucson as a center for the activities of the government desert laboratory is the broad-minded comprehension of the importance of the ' purposes of the institution evinced by the citizens , ac companied by an earnest desire to co operate in its estab- lishment. This ap- preciation was ex pressed in the prac- tical form of subsi- dies of land for the site of the building and to serve as a preserve for desert vegetation , the installation and construction of telephone , light and power connections , and of a road to the site of the lab- oratory , about two miles from Tucson. This spirit of hearty co-operation has animated every organization in the city , and has enabled the lab- oratory to gain control of a domain of 860 acres , of the greatest usefulness for general experimen- tal work. , Extending northward for nearly 100 miles from El Paso is the noted Jornada del Muerta ( Journey Of Death ) , which has a width of 30 to 40 miles. It formed a portion of the route connecting the earliest settlements along the Rio Grande , and here the traveler was compelled to leave the stream far to the westward , in its deeply cut , Inaccessible canyon , and toil for two or three days in the burning heat without water , except such as might be carried. It was for three centuries one of the most menacing and hazard ous overland journeys to be encountered in the American desert. Recent investigations , however , have shown that the region traversed is In real- ity a basin , and that water is to be found , as in many other deserts , within a reasonable distance of the surface. Beyond lies an equally remarkable desert , the Otero basin , which Is the bed of an ancient lake , and is noted for a great salt and soda flat , a salt lake , and most striking of all , the "White Sands , " an area of about 300 square miles covered with dunes of gypsum sand rising to a maximum height of 60 feet. The surface of the dunes is sparkling white , due to the dry condition of the gypsum powder , but a few inches beneath it Is of a yellowish or buff : color and is distinctly moist and cool to the touch , even when tho air Is extremely hot. The most characteristic plant of the dunes is the three-leaf sumac ( Rhus trllobata ) , which oc- cure in the form of single hemispherical bushes four to eight feet high , the lower branches hug- ging the sand. The plant grows vigorously , the trunk at or beneath the surface often reaching a diameter of three Inches. The binding and pro- tecting effect of this t bush Is often shown in a striking manner when in tho cutting down of an older dune by the wind a column of sand may be left protected above from the sun by the close covering of the branches nntl leaves , nail the sand in the column Itself bound together by the long , penetrating roots. One of these courans was about 15 feet high from its base to te summit of the protecting bsh and about S fast in ! diam eter at the base. A marked ! peculiarity of the Wbita ! ! Ssnds : is that a cottonwood is occasionally found in the lower dunes , reaching a feet In diameter , but sel dom more than 15 feet in height ; yet ai tie t same time not a mescuite w.is ee : l. The raesqulte : is a tree requiring : less moisture than tie collon- . 1'1' . "J . l . wood. Apparently the presence of an excess of gypsum is prejudicial to the growth of the mes- quite. quite.The The bottoms among the dunes have a dense vegetation as compared with that of the dunes themselves. It is characterized especially by the presence of a grama grass ( Bouteloua ) , forming almost a turf , and by frequent clumps of Ephedra of a grayish purple color at this season and with three-scaled nodes. These bottoms usually show no sign of moisture , but In two places we found water holes , the water so alkaline that the horses I , : % { : rs } > . Y : . , , , , /x > * * c I a 4 , , 4 : . ocacl , .w , . fin Cdr zw K would not drink it at the end of their first day's drive. Probably the most extraordinary product of the Sonora desert , west of Torres , l\I\x , ' : C : : ? ' " , ! " ' . . . . 'j . . ' " " : " . A2' . . ; . : : ; . . . . ' . > . . Sj.e < , . . . " ' - - .l . . : r' . 11 : _ . _ H. . . . . . . . I' . .1.j .y , ; ; t , : . . . .J . ia. J , . . " , : . . . . " . tN . . . . . . . . . .t . . . . ; ? # . , . . . ' , < ; \ , " , . . . ' . , ; . . r. ; : . . . " . . . . . . , .J.J.-4 : : ; : : . i. .N. . ' . ' , : . : : . b. , , . . . . . . ; u ; ; _ . . - . . . .ii ; . : ' . ' ' . < , , ' Fr / , syN . : Yr. Yx .y w.V w Q/y , , . } W , . ' ' ' : rwfj ) : : : ' : k i . t .w : .w ; , . . : . . . : , ; ' : . , .v 6 , tI { , : } ! ' : . 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Of course all of the cacti exhibit this feature In a very marked degree , and a single plant of Pllo- cereus fulviceps may retain several hundred gal- lons of water. The large stems of Yucca , which is a prominent member of the flora of the slopes , t'W . . : ; : . : : , y.M. ; ; . .i .I. D a' " ro'W _ : ' : * " . , . . 1FW3 . _ : : : . ; . : . , _ 5'iW' may : : : ? } K . OAJIJ of PAIMS J TTJ/E Mourn of A C.u/YUN Ca2o4QADa : ZJ.L1SJRT . I I J f ; i- J r'S" y Yk ; , - - - - - - - - - - /MPAO./Jyp.PJ.1 . ( j .FROM' CACZ7/.f shrub. These tuberous formations may be seen during the dry season lying about wholly unan- chored , as the slender roots dry up with the close of the vegetative season , which lasts but a lew weeks. In February , 1902 , some of these tubers were taken to the New York Botanical garden , and a large specimen not treated in any way was placed in a museum case , where it has since re- mained. Annually , at a time fairly coincident with the natural vegetative season in its native habitat , the major vegetative points awaken and send up a few thin shoots , which reach a length of about two feet only , since they do not obtain sunlight. After a period of a few weeks they lie down again and the material in them retreats to the tuber to await another season. Seven periods of activity have thus been displayed by this speci- men with no apparent change in its structure or size. It does not seem unreasonable to suppose , therefore , that the guarequi is a storage structure of such great efficiency that water and other ma- terial sufficient to meet the needs of the plant for a quarter of a century are held In reserve in its reservoirs. The morning-glory ( Iphomoea arborescens ) is here a tree 20 to 30 feet high , with smooth , chalky gray trunk and branches. During Febru ary it is leafless throughout , while its large white flowers open one by one on the ends of the naked branches. From its white bark the tree is some- times known as palo bianco , and from the gum or resin , which exudes from incisions made In it for the purpose and which Is used as incense in religious ceremonies , it Is also called palo santo. One of the striking features of the Tehuacan desert of southern Mexico is the extreme locali- zation 6r strictness of colonization exhibited by many species which ! are found to cover an area of a few square yards , the face of a slope , the crest of a cliff or the floor of a barranca , with no outliers and with the nearest colony perhaps many miles away. The Cactaceae are more abundant here than in any other part of the world yet visited , sev- eral of the species being massive forms. Cephalocereus . macrocephalus is . a tall species of the massiveness of the saguaro , and like it having a central shaft bearing numbers of branches which are ' more closely appressed. It was seen only along the cliff near the Rancho Gan Diego ! , along the eastern edge of the yalley. Pilocereus fulviceps , of more general distribu- tion on slopes has a series of branches , in many instances 40 or 50 iu number , densely clustered and arising from a short trunk , which barely rises from the ground before It branches. < - . . " . . . . _ - ti I - \ function to this pur pose to some extent , while the flesh leaves of Agave marmorata and oth er species and oi Hectia , are essen tially storage or- gans for reserve . food and surplus water. Here is also a Euphorbia and a Pedilanthus , with thick upright cylin- drical stems , in which the storage function is made more effective by the possession of a thick milk juice. As one proceeds to the ancient ruins of Mitla , : 36 miles to the southeast- ward of Oaxaca , the aridity increases until in the vicinity of the ha cienda of that name extreme desert conditions are found. The ancient structures here are in- dicative of a type of civilization characteristic of the desert , in which co-operation or communism was carried to as great lengths as it must have been In the pueblos of the northern deserts in America. One of the most difficult problems to solve is that of transportation in the desert , and there are extensive areas in American deserts that have not yet been systematically explored by reason of this condition. A comprehension of the part that water plays in existence and travel in the desert is to be gained only by experience. Some of the native animals , such as mice and other small rodents , have been known to live on hard seeds without green food for periods of several months , or even as long as two or three years , and nothing In their behavior indicated that they ever took liquid in any form. Deer and peccary are abundant In deserts in Sonora in which the only available supply of open water is to be found in the cacti. Man and his most constant companion on the desert of America , the horse , are comparatively poo-'v equipped against the rigors of the desert. A' /seman may go/ from the morning of one day until some hour of the next in midsummer and neither he nor his horse will incur serious dan- ! ger ; experiences of this kind are numerous. If the traveler is afoot , abstinence from water from sunrise to sunset Is a serious inconvenience to him , and if he continues his journey , the follow ing morning his sufferings may so disturb his mental balance that he may be unable to follow a trail , and by the evening of that day , if he has not come to something drinkable he may not rec- ognize the friendly stream in his way. Instances are not unknown in which sufferers from thirst have forded streams waist deep to wander out on the dry plain to grisly death. Scouting Indians have long used the bisnaga. and a drink may be obtained in this manner by a skilled operator in five to ten minltes. Some trav- elers are inclined to look with much disfavor on the liquid so obtained , but it has been used with- out discomfort by members of expeditions from the desert laboratory. That it is often preferred by Indians to , fair water is evidenced by the fact that the Whipple expedition found the Mohaves near the mouth of the Bill Williams river , in 1853 , cooking ducks and other birds In the juice of these plants by means of heated stones dropped into the cavity containing the pulp. " . - . - . - - - . . . . . : : . . . _ . . ' . . - ' - - - - . . . . . - . : : ' - - , " " ! : y ; : fI- ? . , " . - . - I " ' _ A , / - \IT ' :11 = - . : . . ; . : - ) _ . . . . . ' -fOO 7 . . m : Court Martial to Sit November 15. General order No. ° _ O. covering the national guard court martial which will sit November 1 : > , has been Issued from the office of the adjutant enerai. All privates and officers who ) eCt ] Ft. Riley during camp or who left the train en route or who were absent from the guard without leave will be cited to appear. The order follows : 1. A general court' martial is ap pointed to meet at Lincoln , Nebraska I at 10 o'clock a. m. . on the 15th day of November 1910 ! , or as soon thereafter as practicable , for the trial of such persons as may properly be brought before it. The court martial will consist of : Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Storch. Colonel F. J. Mack , Second regi- ment. Colonel G. A. Eberly , First regiment. Lt. Col. J. M. Birkner , Medical : de- I partment. Major H. J. Paul Second regiment. Major G. H. Holdeman , First regi- ment. ' ' Captain L. H. Gage , signal corps. Captain C. L. Brewster , First regi- ment , judge advocate. II. The court will set without re gard to hours. By order of the governor. JOHN C. HARTIGAN , Adjutant General. Will Go to Washington. Attorney General W. T. Thompson will leave Washington about Oc tober 1 and later return to Lincoln. He will go Washington to accept the appointment of solicitor of the United States treasury. While in Washington he will represent the state in the United States supreme court in an effort to get the Nebraska bank guaranty suit consolidated with the Oklahoma suit of the same nature and submitted to the court. He will also filo a brief in the Missouri : rate case now in the supreme court. He will endeavor to combat the railroad com- pany's theory of division of revenues between state and interstate traffic , this question being an issue in Ne braska rate cases. Wants Universal License. Dan Geilus , game warden , believes that the game laws of Nebraska can be much better enforced if a slight change is made in the present system of handling them. He proposes a uni- versal hunting license-a license that every hunter must purchase unless he hunts on his own land. The present annual revenue from hunting licenses is about $9,000 a year. : Mr. Geilus be- lieves that the revenue would be trebled or doubled. Having provided for funds he would then have deputy : game wardens appointed in every county at a salary of $ : :00 : a year. This salary , which would actually cover about six months of work , would bo sufficient to bring in many applicants from whom probably . good men might be selected. Scottish Rite Reunion. An extra session of Scottish Rite Mas.ons : for initiation of candidates will be held in Lincoln on four days this fall , November 15 to 18. It has been the custom to hold a session of this organization every spring , but as there are sufficient applications in sight new the decision was made to convene specially for a second initia- tion during the present year. The Shriners are also to conduct another ceremonial here , during the first week in December. Court Reports Up to May. The Nebraska supreme court re ports ar < ? now said to be nearer up to date than the reports of any state court in the country. Volume 86 of the court reports has been printed and delivered to Clerk Harry C. Lindsay for distribution. It contains decisions of the ccurt up to and including the sitting ! of May 20 of this year. The Nebraska ; : court reports are edited and compiled by Henry P. Stoddard , dep- uty : court reporter. The latest innovation relative to the religious and social life of the uni- versity is the plan to be inaugurated ' this year by the First Congregational ; church in the establishment of a guild I hall. The pastor is sponsor for this movement. He has notified : the pas- iors : c f his churches throughout the ' . : e.tate : of ihc i nature and aim of this : newest feature in student life as ; directed by the church. - , i Adjutant General Hartigan has de j cided : net to send any of the Nebras- \ k v national guard organization to par- i 1 1 tifi-pate in festivities at Omaha. The Omala people have no money to pay the eXC:1 : es of the guard and neither lias die state. Ely Declines : : Nomination. William : ! M. Ely , the republican ( nominee for representative in the i Fif ty-frst district : , has informed the secretary of state that he declines the nOI1Lll < : ticn. Mr. Ely's nomination pa- [ ) ? rs : \vcre reused at the office of the I c-creary cf state en account of being "led too late. His rrame was written in on the ballot and he obtained a rrjority ! of the republican votes in I hat way. He now , declines to accept I :1:0 ! nomination and asks ; : that the poper cr remittee : be informed so that it may T. ' : the vacancy F , .
