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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1910)
REBELLION IN URUGUAY IS SERIOUS rlffO.\TEVIDEO { , Uruguay. Troops are being sent into the interior almost Ivi daily by the government in the effort to quell the rebellion that threatens - ens 'o lead to serious civil war. The insurgents already have captured Nice - co ivrez , a town 125 miles north of Montevideo. The trouble originated in 71 contest between two factions for the presidency. The government's can- Is Jose Battle y Ordonez , and a large number of the inhabitants are d to him and support the pretensions of Dr. Bacchini , who recently resigned the post of foreign minister at the request of President Williman. 1Th four year term of President Williman domes to an end March 1 , 1911. Consumers7 League Finds Numerous Recruits. 'Members ' Go About Calling for Fruit and When Restaurants and Ho tels Refuse Demands Lives Made Miserable. Xe\v York. A farmer living near 'ScranIon , Pa. , disposes of his surplus appl < s. windfalls , etc. , by shipping oni to town to be distributed to the ( children of the factory district. This is a good way to dispose of cuh apples. Every one of these chil- drtii will become an apple eater and will never .get over the habit. We 'need not fear a surplus of apples in itho Inture while such an army is being trai'n d , says a writer In Rural New Torkor. Every year at this time someone , -ono monies asking what-the Apple Con- tsumers * league is. It happened that labo1a ! dozen years ago the writer j Jhad dinner at a well-known New York j Test-'iirant. lie became apple hungry , j 'bin it v-as impossible to find baked ap- .plos or apple sauce on the bill of fare. , Ho called a waiter and put up a hard coirplaint In a short time a very po lite pan : came like one who seeks to sidestep trouble and about the follow ing dialogue Avas spoken : ' ' hope there is nothing wrong with * .ho food. " Vhy. it isn't all here ! " " \Vhat Is lacking ? " " \pple ! Many of us were born in the country and brought up on apples. "We like them and want to go where they sire served. Why do you not of- ier baked apple and apple sauce ? This is a first-class restaurant why not make it complete ? " TIP manager looked around and saw -a dozen heads nod with "That's right ! " TO INSURE ALL MEN land's Contrioutory Scheme to Counteract Lack of Employment Outline of Plan. London. As the Britisn government ias already announced that it has in hand a national scheme of insur- jance against unemployment it may [ be taken for granted that Sir Hubert [ Llewellyn Smith , who is chief of the 'permanent ' staff of the board of trade , indicated semi-officially the lines on rwhich that scheme is based in the address which he delivered recently .as president of the economic science section of the British association. " 'First , " he said , "the scheme must be compulsory , otherwise the bad per sonal risks against which we must always be on our guard would be cer tain to predominate ; second , the chcme must be contributory , for only toy exacting rigorously as a necessary .qualification for benefit that a suffi cient number of weeks' contribution -.shall have been paid by each recip ient can we possibly hope to put lim its on the exceptionally bad risks. "Our analysis leads us step by step the contemplation of a national contributory scheme of insurance , within the limits of a large group of trades a group so far as possible self-contained and carefully selected as favorable for the experiment , the funds being derived from compulsory contributions from all those engaged in these trades , with a subsidy and guarantee from the state. The rules -relating to benefit should be so de vised as to discriminate effectively against unemployment which is biainly due to personal causes , while giving a substantial allowance to those whose unemployment results from industrial causes beyond the control of the individual. " Such a scheme Sir Hubert regards AS actuarily possible , at least ' for -such a group of trades as building , engineering and shipbuilding . Dogs to Carry Mail. Seattle , Wash. The government Jias closed a contract for monthly mail service by dog sledge to the Oditarod jsfed Innoko gold fields , in Alaska , dur- Ifug the winter. Mail for the new fcamps and for Fairbanks will go from ! Icprdova , on the coast , to Chitina over lhe newly completetd Copper river jrailroad , and thence "by stage 400 miles to Fairbanks over a new trail. The Valdez and Fairbanks trail has been abandoned as a winter mail poute. He was a wise man and merely said : "Well , gentlemen , I'll get them. Thank you for the suggestion. " The next day "Baked Apple and Cream" was written in red ink on the bill of fare. There was a rush for the apples that startled the restaurant managers , and several barrels are now served there every week. That sug gested the Apple Consumers' league , and we began at once to spread the work. We went about calling for ap ple , and when the restaurants and ho tels failed to offer the fruit we made it our business to make life a burden to the managers. The apple army grew like magic and ere long thousands of travelers took up the refrain. Up to that time the dish of fruit on hotel tables contained bananas and oranges. We filled up these dishes with apples , and made baked apple a fair partner with sliced oranges. There can be no doubt that this simple organization has increased the consumption of ap ples by 20 per cent. Some amusing things have grown out of it The Pennsylvania Horticul- tural society met at Gettysburg one year. This is the heart of the famous York Imperial section , yet there was not even the smell of an apple about the hotel. Some 50 or more guests be gan to call for apples , and kept it up at supper until the proprietor sent out and bought some Ben Davis , which he served raw. For breakfast the baked fruit came on piping hot. When the New York fruit growers met at Penn Yan there was served at dinner an apple pie "like mother used to make. " The writer found that the hotel cook was a woman and he sug gested that she ought to be made an honorary member of the association as a woman , who "could take a handful of flour , a lump of butter and sugar and even a Ben Davis apple and make a pie that would induce a man to buy a ; | Hftv W w m rii- } i L . I 3s. ' . - - E2-4J.-V- . s J .Vfs3 r.'vi5 - { H i y i&Xft/ sealskin coat for his mother-in-law. " At the next meal at the hotel there was such a call for apple pie as nearly to bankrupt the kitchen. REVIVING HIS OLD ORCHARD Wonderful Results of Proper Handlinj of Aged Apple Trees in Mas sachusetts. Boston. J. Stearns Wyman has had an experience in orcharding which will interest growers of fruits. Mr. Wymau's home is in Winchester , and apple trees , some of them half a hundred years old , have bloomed and fruited on his grounds without atten tion until last year , when he got busy , with a view in mind of trying to make the old trees grow bigger and better fruit. Large apples were produced by a tree which the owner believed to be the most wretched-looking one in Winchester. It was a down-and-out growth , very old , hopelessly decrepit , and all in as a producer when Mr. Wyman began revival work on it. He cleaned out the hollow trunk , filled the void with cement , removed all loose bark on trunk and limbs , cut away dead branches and covered the cut places with a preparation to keep out the weather. He did some very close pruning , but that was what the old tree needed , and very early last spring it bloomed in a glory of gladness that surprised some of the neighbors who were quite sure thai Mr. Wyman had been too severe in his revival work. No fertilizers were used. As the weeks rolled their courses the old apple tree seemed to get into the gayety of the sunshine and the breezes. Bees and humming birds quested sweetness in the hearts of its blossoms , robins and finches and bluebirds flittered through its foliage , and early in the summer first baby apples as big as horse chestnuts fore told to Mr. Wyman the autumn com ing of big fruit. Canal Will Require Ninety-Two of Them. Giant Portals to Be as High as Six- Story House , 65 Feet Wide , 7 Feet Thick The Cost Will Be $5,500,000. Pittsburg. Boys dreaming of gates they will seize as Halloween trophies would not in the wildest nightmare imagine such enormous gates as are being made in Pittsburg for the Pan ama Canal. They will be the largest gates in the world. Any one of the 92 of them for there are to be 46 pairs in all will be about as high as a six-story build ing , as wide (65 feet ) as many city buildings , and' 7 feet thick. The structural steel that will go to make them will weigh 60,000 tons , or over eight times as much as was used to build the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The mighty portals , designed to ad mit a world's commerce from one ocean to another , must withstand a tide of criticism as well as a tremendous deus pressure of water and possible convulsions of the earth. For years the controversy over gates or negates gates , locks or sea level , has been the dividing issue of the canal problem. In the face of fear in some quarters that the foundations on the -Isthmus are not sure enough for locks , that earthquakes or water pressure would dislodge them , and that an enemy's mines or accidental explosions might easily destroy them , the government has begun to build the gates. The cost of the gates will be $5,000- 000. Of the 60,000 tons of steel re quired the heaviest single pieces will weigh about 18 tons. These will be the base girders , which are seven feet long and which will be placed much like the first floor girders of a sky scraper. The series of girders above them will range from 3.8 feet apart near the bottom to 5 feet apart at the top , and over the skeleton structure thus formed a sheathing of water tight armor plate will be bolted much after the fashion of clapboards on a house. The thickness of the plates will range from an inch at the base to seven-sixteenths of an inch at the top. The weight of a single gate will be about 600 tons and the dimensions are 77 to 82 feet high , 60 to 65 feet wide and 7 feet thick. The thousands of individual pieces , numbered and fitted to go together as easily as children's blocks , will be shipped by steamer via Baltimore and with them will go over 400 skilled structural steel builders to set them up. The advance guard of experts leaves here in December and the first work will , probably begin early in 1911. It will take three years to com plete the job. The location of the 46 pairs of gates will be : Twenty at the Gatun dam on the Pacific side , 12 at Pedro Migiuel and 14 at Mirafiores , near the Atlantic entrance. The gates are designed to hold back water 47.4 feet deep in a channel 110 feet wide , which means a pressure of a million pounds. Engineers assert that even if a tre mendous explosion or earthquake should damage or destroy one or more sets of gates , no great disaster would ensue , for all locks are to be made in duplicate to accommodate traffic in both directions at once , and the wreckage of one set of locks would only necessitate the diversion of com merce into another set. But really violent earthquakes have not occurred in the Panama region for more than two centuries , and it would require a mighty siege for an enemy to destroy the locks. Each lock will be ample for a ship 50 per cent , larger than any vessel now afloat , and it has been estimated that as many as 100 ocean ships may be handled in a single day. Giant of Seventy in Fox Chase. Barre , Mass. W. S. Walker of Point Lick , Ky. , grandson of the man who bred the first Walker hounds , now seventy , weighing 235 pounds and six feet four .inches tall , was , one of a large number of men and women who fol lowed 24 hounds in a fox chase. The occasion was the twenty-second an nual field trials of the Brunswick Fox Hounds. Though conditions appar ently were good they were unable to start a fox. Later those who took part in the hunt gave a dog show and exhibition of fancy riding for the entertainment of the residents of Barre and sur rounding towns. Makes Oyster Harmless. Paris. A fortnight in filtered wa ter , according to French scientists , will cleanse live oysters of the most virulent typhoid germs and make them harmless without lessoning their gastronomic qualities. MEN i BELIEVE that economy does not mean spending a small amount , but in getting the largest returns for the money expended. The Winter Berry. The rosy winter berry is now in abundance in our markets. There are many attractive ways of serving them. For the plain stewed cranberry , wash them and cut once in half , adding a pint of water to a quart of berries. When about half cooked add two cupfuls - fuls of sugar and finish cooking. Spiced cranberries are nice served with game , and are prepared as any fruit for spicing. Wash a quart of the berries and a half cup of water. In a small bag tie a dozen cloves , 12 allspice , two sticks of cinnamon and several blades of mace. Put the bag into the cranberries and water and stew all together until the fruit is well broken Remove the spice bag , run the berries through a colander , add two cups of sugar ( brown ) , stir until dis solved and set away to get cold. Cranberry Pudding. Pour boiling water on one pint of bread crumbs ; melt one tablespoonful of butter and add to the crumbs. Add two well-beat en eggs , one pint of stewed cranber ries and sweeten to taste. Bake in a buttered dish until firm. Serve with an egg sauce , which is made by beat ing one egg until light. Add a half cup of sugar and' a cup of hot milk ; flavor with lemon or vanilla. Cranberry and Apple Pie. Peel , core and slice five large cooking apples , put a layer in the bottom of the pie pla e , sprinkle with sugar and put in a layer of cranberries , then more apples and berries until the dish is full , " "loisten with water , cover with a rich crust , brush over with the beaten white of an egg. Bake the pie for an hour in a moderate oven. Cranberry Dumplings. Bake a paste of half a pound of chopped suet rubbed into a pound of flour ; add a teaspoonful of salt , two teaspoonfuls of baking powder , a teaspoonful of sugar and sufficient water to make paste to roll out. Line a buttered baking dish with it , fill with uncooked cranberries well sweetened , cover wit ha crust , cover with buttered pa per and steam gently for two hours. Cranberry Tart. To one quart of berries add a pint of sugar and a pint of water ; simmer gently until soft Put through a colander and turn out to become cold. Line a pie plate with puff paste , fill with the cranberries and lay strips of paste across the top. Bake in a hot oven. HAT ever the weather may be , says he What ever the weather may be , It's the songs ye sing , and the smiles ye wear , That's .1 makin' the sun shine every- where. - Ways of Serving Game. A prairie chicken is especially good roasted with a dusting of sage besides the salt and pepper. Ducks are sometimes stuffed with apples pared and cored and cut in quarters. Others like three small onions used for stuffing. Neither of these are to be served with the ducks , but are removed before serving. An other favorite stuffing is a bunch of celery. Bake 20 minutes in a very hot oven , basting every five minutes with the fat in the pan. Remove the string and skewers before taking to the table. Serve with orange or olive sauce. Currant jelly should accom pany a duck course. Tough ducks are steamed an hour and then braised. To braise , try out two slices of fat salt pork , remove the scraps and add to the fat five slices of carrot cut in cubes , one-half of a sliced onion , two sprigs of parsley , one bay leaf , then cook ten minutes ; add two tablespoonfuls of butter , and fry the duck , turning often until the surface is well browned. Place on a trivet in a pan , pour over the fat and add two cups of boiling water or soup or stock. Cover and bake in slow oven until tender , basting often and adding more water if needed. To broil a quail , allow ten minutes for cooking. Serve on slices of lemon. Currant jelly should accompany this course. Larded Grouse. Clean and , if tough , remove the skin covering the breast Lard the breast with slices of salt pork and insert two lardoons in each leg. Lay on a trivet in a shallow pan , rub with . salt and melted butter , dredge with flour and surround with the trimmings of the fat. Bake twen ty to thirty minutes in a hot oven , basting three times. Arrange on a platter and pour around bread sauce , sprinkle the bird and sauce with coarse bread crumbs. Garnish with parsley. Bread Sauce. Cook two cups of milk with half a cup of fine bread crumbs and an onion stuck with six cloves , 30 minutes. Remove the onion , add a half teaspoonful of salt , a few grains of cayenne and two tablespoonfuls spoonfuls of butter. Use a tablespoon ful of butter on the crumbs that have been browned and are sprinkled over the grouse. Roast quail are baked the same as larded grouse. Plover is broiled or roasted the same as quail. FOR ROAST . LAMB DINNER Hero's a Menu That Ought to Satisfy the Moat Voracious Appetite or. Earth. A readeracked what goes with roast lamb. Mint sauce , turnips and peas also. Try the creamed turnips. Cut r/hite turnip Into dice and soah an hour In cold v/ater. Boll about 1-1-2 hours , until soft ; melt one tablespoon butter and one tablespoon flour to gether , add one cup cold milk , and stir until smooth ; salt and pepper to taste. Add the cooked turnip and serve hot. Think you will like It. I made a dessert today entirely orig inal. I made some gelatins jelly from one of those quick jellies rasp berry , as I wan ted , the color poured it into small glasses ( those small glasses smaller at the bottom than top , a finger long ) . I made some blanc-mange from Irish moss , poured the blanc-mange Into small cups and put the jelly tumbler Into the cup of blanc-mange and set it on the ice to harden. I added some cocoanut to iny blanc-mange for a change. When cold and ready to serve , I took the glass out of the cup and put a hot cloth around it and slipped the jelly out and also slipped the blanc-mange into a saucer with the hole right side up and dropped the jelly into It Serve with cream flavored with vanilla. It Is cheap and nourishing. We never have anything to drink but tea and , coffee. I made a dessert Sunday from ice cream like one I had eaten in Bos ton the week before. It was called "banana royale. " Peel a banana and ) cut it lengthwise. Cut the half again at the center , and put the pieces in a saucer. Over that a slice or table spoon of ice cream , over that some chocolate sauce , then some chopped walnuts and on top two preserved cherries , and if you can digest all that I will come again. Boston Globe. HOT OR COLD LUNCH BOX lecently Patented Receptacle Over comes to Great Extent Limita tions of Lunch Box. The limitations of the lunch box have been overcome to a great extent by a 11 " receptacle recently patent ed. It is a very ingenious adaptation of the vacuum Insulated bottle by which articles of food are maintained at an almost unvarying temperature , Hot or Cold Lunch Box. either hot or cold , for a considerable length of time. In fact , it is possible to pack up a luncheon embracing , in addition to more substantial things , ice cream and hot coffee and to have them each at the desired tempera ture at the time of consumption. The box in shape and appearance resem bles the case in which a pair of field glasses might be carried and contains three compartments. There are two bottles to fit into two of these sec tions and a box slMes into the third. Soup , coffee or hot beverages put into the bottles will remain hot for twen ty-four hours , and cold things will be kept cool for three days. The box is for sandwiches and such things. Sliced Beef. Boll five pounds of beef ( any of tha cheap cuts will do ) , and when it is nearly tender let the water boll down to two cupfuls. Take the meat out and chop it fine , or run it through the grinder. To the v/ater in the kettle add a slice of onion chopped fine , half 3. teaspoon each of salt , cloves , all spice and a dash of cinnamon and pep per , stir in a tablespoon of flour and boil until the mixture is thick. Then mix it well into the beef and press the Veef into an earthen mold , cover with a plate weighted down , to press into shape. Let it remain until the beef is cold , when it may be sliced and served. Apple Suet PurJdlng. Chop finely one cupful of suet and dust it with one-quarter cupful of flour Peel , core and slice three or four good cooking apples and dust with one-quar ter cupful of sugar. Mix these together well , adding one-half cupful more flour and one-quarter teaspoon salt Beat one egg , add one-half cupful of milk and stir into dry mixture , then add mother half cupful of flour and one spoon of baking powder. Steam covered mold at least two hours and serve with whipped cream or hard sauce. Cream Cheese and Olive Sandwiches Cream or Neufchatel cheese beater until creamy with the addition of a little more cream , then mixed with finely minced ripe or green olives , makes a delicious sandwich filling. So also does cream cheese mixed with finely minced green peppers or sweet red peppers that have been canned. Cottly Talent. "You are sure that airships make war so expensive as to be utter ly impracticable ? " said one military expert "Quite sure , " replied the other. "The flying machines won't cost so much , but we won't be able to pay the sums required by aviators for go ing up in them. " A Height Unreached. Byron was writing "Roll on , thou dark blue ocean , roll ! " "Why not make it a steam roller ? " we asked. Pleading ignorance of politics , ho stuck to the shallower subject. TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY for Red , Weak , Weary , Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. M urine Doesn't Smart Soothes Eye Pain. Druggists Sell Murine Eye Remedy , Liquid , 25c , 50c , $1.00. Murine Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes. 25c , $1.00. Eye Books and Eye Advice Free by Mail. Murine Eye Remedy Co. , Chicago. The Lawyers Won. Askit Old Skinnerd left quite a large estate did he not ? Noitt Yes ; but some of his rela tives contested his will. Askitt Was there much left after it got through the courts ? Noitt Nothing but the heirs. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti pation. Constipation is the en use of many diseases. Cure I he cause and j'ou cure the disease. Easy to take. At sixteen a girl thinks about roses and poetry ; at twenty-six her thoughts run to cabbages and money. BABY'S SCALP CRUSTED "Our little daughter , when three months old , began to break out on the head and we had the best doctors to treat her , but they did not do her any good. They said she had eczema. Her scalp was a solid scale all over. The burning and itching was so severe that she could not rest , day or night We had about given up all hopes when we read of the Cutlcura Remedies. We at once gota cake of Cuticura Soapa box of Cutlcura Ointment and one bottle tle of Ctiticura Resolvent , and fol lowed directions carefully. After the first dose of the Cutlcura Resolvent , we used the Cuticura Soap freely and applied the Cuticura Ointment Then she began to improve rapidly and in two weeks the scale came off her head and new hair began to grow. . In a very short time she was well. She is now sixteen years of age and a pic ture of health. We used the Cutl cura Remedies about five weeks , reg ularly , and then we could not tell she had been affected by the disease. Wo used no other treatment after we found out what the Cutlcura Remedies would do for her. J. Fish and Ella M. Fish , Mt Vernon. Ky. , Oct. 12 , 1909. " TOUGH LUCK , INDEED. Nurse Hivins ! The baby swal lowed a bottle of ink an' not a bit of blotting paper in th' house ! NEWSPAPERS TAKING IT UP Metropolitan Dailies Giving Advice How to Check Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble. This is a simple home recipe now being made known in all the larger cities through the newspapers. It is intended to check the many cases of Rheumatism and dread kidney trouble which have made so many cripples , Invalids and weaklings of some of our brightest and strongest people. The druggists everywhere , even in the smallest communities , have been notified to supply themselves with the ingredients , and the sufferer will have no trouble to obtain them. The pre scription is as follows : Fluid Extract Dandelion , one-half ounce ; Compound Kargon , one ounce , and Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla , three ounces. Mix by shaking well in a bottle. The dose is one teaspooaful after each , meal and at bedtime. Recent experiments in hospital cases prove this simple mixture ef fective in Rheumatism. Because of its positive action upon the eliminative - . tive tissues of the Moneys , it compels these most vital organs to filter from the b-ood and system the waste im purities and uric acid which arc the cause of rheumatism. * It cleanses the kidneys , strengthens them and re moves quickly such symptoms as backache , blocd disorders , bladder weakness , frequent urination , painful scalding and discoloi d urine. It acts as a gentle , thorough regulator to the entire kidney structure. Those who suffer ? nd are accus tomed to purchase a bottle of medi cine should not let a litfe incon venience interfere wih TnaVins : this up , or have your druggist do itforyou.