Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — Page 2

A Corner in Ancestors

Manning Is from an old Norse word “—manning!—meaning a brave or valiant man, and one of the first forms of the name was Mannin; another or* thography was Mannyng. One historian gives a Saxon origin for the family, which he calls "ancient and noble,” according to him. Manning was the name of a town in Saxony, and from thence the family of Great Britain sprung. Others make Mannheim, Germany, the cradle of the family, and begin its history with Ranulph, or Rudolph de Manning, Count Palatine, who, having married Elgida. aunt to King Harold I. of England, had a grant of land in Kent. His name is also written de Mannheim—Rudolph of Mannheim. His place in Kent was Downs Court,

and there the Mannings have been a power ever since. Simon de Manning, called a grandson of Ranulph, was the first of the English barons to take up the cross and go forth to the holy wars. He was a companion of Richard L, Cour de Lion,* and knighted on the battlefield; we can easily see where the cross of the coat-of-arms illustrated, comes from. At Downe Court, this arms is seen graven upon tombstones of the Mannings. By the thirteenth century the family was well represented in over a score of countries, and towns bear their names—Manningham, Yorkshire, and Mannington, Norfolk. In the "new world,” the Mannings have always been well represented. In 1634, William of Kent made a home at

The Saxon monarchs of England are responsible for the Humes, or the Homes, which is another orthography, and the more common one, centuries ago. Some one says it is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. The story is this: Go back to 1034, or thereabouts, and you find a clan whose official name was Cospatrick, corrupted to Gospatrick. The name means a father count. Comptes or count abreviated to “Co.” and Patrick, meaning father. The Copatricks or Cospatricks had large land holdings, and the Hume branch, descended from the Saxon kings—so "they say,” Representatives were at the battle of Hastings, in the Saxon ranks. One Cospatrick fled to Scotland. He was earl of Northumberland, and in Scotland became earl of Dunbar, and Baron Hume of Home, and from him descend the present line of Humes. The unreasonable person who wants more romance than this for a background would want —well, he would probably want the earth. Is it not enough to say that the Humes were at once time one of the most powerful of the Scottish nobility* As to descent from kings and the like, we must ask, before growing tco proud, were the kings noble, and is a drop or two of their blood worth having? Hume Castle, Berwickshire. Scot' land,—is one. seat of the family. For a long time the castle was held against Cromwell’s forces. The governor being summoned to surrender, replied that he knew- not Cromwell, and as for his castle-, -it was built upon a rock. It would be pleasanter to skip or ignore the sequel, that four days later the castle was surrendered. One of the greatest of historians. and most subtle pf metaphysicians, David Hume, was the son of Joseph the laird of W’.newells, Berwickshire, and nephew of a Scottish peer, earl of Hume or Horae, of the noble house of Douglas. David’s mother was daughter of Sir David Falocner. George Hume, born in Berwick, 1697, came to America in 1721 and settled in Culpepper county. Virginia. He was a surveyor, and the one who taught Washington the business G>orge Hume’s eldest brother, -i Fc-tfcis Hpme, had come over jpn v iv with Gov. Spotswood, whose -c be Ts called. George,, the pi g I j six sons. and his wife was. 1 ht»n< . tor. George. Jr., married ■ !0 ton, and they had night o .•,«

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Manning Family (Copyright by McClure Syndicate;

Cambridge, Mass.; about the same time we find John and Thomas at Ipswich; another John and George at Boston. In 1662 Nicholas at Salem, Mass., and 1676 Jeffrey Manning in New Jersey. The story of a forefather who "ran away” should come in right here, but details are lacking to make the story complete, and where he ran from or what he ran for must be left ■to the imagination. * Samuel of Billerica, Mass., grandson of William of Cambridge, had become founders of families in Connecticut, Vermont and New York, and his grandsons were Ohio pioneers. In 1635 Thomas and John Manning, born in England, were living in Virginia. Stephen Mannering (not Manning, although this may have been the correct spelling), in 1677 confessed with others: “W’e have bln notoriously actors in ye late horrid rebellion, set on foot by Nathaniel Bacon." We confess ourselves traitors, and will never, no never, do so again, is the sum and substance of the confession, although not exactly thus worded. In Spotsylvania county, Virginia, Andrew and James Manning were living, about 1770, and in Princess Anne county, Henry K. Manning. The family was prominent Tn South Carolina, where there is a town. Manning, in Clarendon county. Thomas Manning was one of the counihl of safety, S. C., 1775. The family had its war record, and one to be proud of. Representatives are found in all colonial wars. Benjamin, Daniel, David, Thomas and Samuel were among the number. Diah, (where did he pick up this name?) of Connecticut, was a drummer of Washington’s Life Guards. Lieut. Lawrence Manning of the continental army was father of Richard Irvine Manning, Governor of South-Carolina, where he was born at Hickory Hill, Clarendon county. Gov. Manning entertained Lafayette upon his second visit, and his wife is recorded as the wife, sister, niece, aunt and mother, and foster-mother of a governor. As scholars the Mannings have few equals, and many have been bright and shining literary lights. The first “popular”. history of England was written by Robert Manning, in the time of Edward 111., whom he calls “Edward of Inglond.” The coat-of-arms illustrated is blazoned: Gules, a cross-fiory, between four trefoils, slipped or. Crest; An eagle’s head, sable, between two ostrich feathers, Argent, issuing from a ducal coronet, or. Motto: Per Ardua Stabilis—steady in difficulties.

Hume Family

The Humes made marriages with the Sharps, Barnes, Colvins, Duncans and Crigiers. William Hume, son of George and Elizabeth, married Susan Elzephan, Miss Granville and Susan Baker. Not all at once, let this be distinctly understood, but one after the other, with appropriate Intervals between marriages. More than a score of Hume orthographies are found in the records.

For example: Hum, Heum, Hwme, Howm, Hwm, Hieum, Hieume, Hiewm, Hiewme, Hewme, iiooin, Houin. Early forms are de Houme and de Home or Hume. The name, however spelled, has been owned by these, or by many; of whom it may be aid: “A good name is better than riches, and loving favor is more than gold and silver,” and many, if not mo. t of the are cast in noble mold. Their words and actions ring clear. , The coat-of-arms Illustrated is: Vert, a lion rampant, argent. Crest: A lion's head, erased, or. Motto: True to the end. Vise a la Fine, another version, is translated. Aim at the end. The arms of the Hume Family association of America is quarterly, with the arms illustrated for first quarter. The crests are the lion and the unicorp. The supporters, lions, and the motto. True to the end. Above these a spread edgle, with the legend: Aquila Non Captat MuscaeSir Andrew flume. 1707, quartered the Hu: sos Berwick ftbe arms illue i.e Pet dies of Dungbtss; the r’olwarth. of Polwartb; and the St Clairs <• • t Lothi- n

HUME

THE USEFUL TOMATO

REALLY A "NEW” VEGETABLE AND • DISTINCTLY AMERICAN. Has Special and Great Glories of Its Own and Is Now Indispensable Adjunct of Refined Cooking—Good In Salad. The tomato is really a “new" vegetable, and it is distinctly American, entirely unknown to the famous ancient cooks. Its acceptance in good culinary home circles was long delayed because of its undesirable family connections, and it was almost cooked to death aa. a condition of its final initiation. It is not a century since the tomato was taken over and gradually promoted to the selectest of edible circles. ♦ The tomato has special and great glories of its own. Its scarlet color, first, makes it a delight and an acceptable table complement to fieutral or colorless foods. Of late the wonders of that coloring, clears unblemished, deep enough to be emotional, has been shown us in splendidly handsome hothouse varieties. The wondroufe heavy, waxy reds, so widely popular in expensive artificial berry sprays, used for decorations, are entirely outdone, even in mechanical perfectness, by these symmetrical hothouse tomatoes as evenly and harmoniously perfect in every detail as though they had been cast'in a mold and decorated by the hand of a consummate artist. The tomato is now an indispensable adjunct of refined cooking. It affords the best seasoning and the most delicate of flavoring for many a dish. And the dainty dishes of its own are among the things few housekeepers would care to get on without. Rightly manipulated, it is delicious grilled, fried, baked, scalloped or stuffed. It is the mainstay of many a salad. In combination its possibiltles are almost infinitely diverse, its number of associations so great that there might be a different one for every day in the year. There are cooks and epicures who consider it is without a rival for soups. It is used in all sorts of forcemeats, with macaroni and spaghetti, with eggs, with rice, with peppers, with filets, with flesh and fowl, chicken or salt cod, and, stewed with okra, it is to some tastes as nectar to the gods. It is even used with breakfast bacon in a sort of twin importance at the first meal of the day. The commercially canned tomatoes have perhaps proved themselves more useful than any other vegetables in tins, but the home product is inestimably more desirable. It is not safe, especially in irregular seasons, for the city housewife to wait until a specified time to do any of her canning. She is always inclined, of course, to wait for the cheap abundance of the home-grown article, which, unfortunately, does not always come as it has not this year in the case of several of the fruits. She must keep her eye on the market If she is really thrifty, and perhaps learn to scan daily the commercial sections of the newspapers. On a day a market condition, perhaps induced by certain crop conditions somewhere within the wide climatic range from which our large city markets draw, may be such as to force down prices to their lowest in either i fruit or seasonable vegetables. The frugal home canner dees not miss the ( opportunities of that day.

Almond Soup.

A very good and delicate soup for a summer dinner is cream of almonds, for which this is the method: Simmer a cup of almonds which have been blanched and chopped fine in a quart of rich milk or thin cream. Thicken with butter and flour blended in the usual way and strain while pouring it into cups or plates. A little whipped cream may be added to each portion if desired, though this is not essential to its excellence. Some day as a change from sweet potatoes baked or broiled, now that this toothsome vegetable is once more with us, try sweet potatoes grilled. Boil some rather large ones 35 minutes in slightly salted water. Oil the inside of a broiler with olive oil, arrange the pottato slices on it and broil for five minutes on each side. Roll in a teaspoonful of melted butter, removing from the. fire, and serve. This is a more digestible method of preparing them than sauteing in the frying pan, as many do.

India Punch.

Make an orange sirup, using one cupful of water and sugar, two oranges and two lemons. When very cold add one pint cold India tea and one cupful of fruit juice (use the juice from a can of fruit, such as cherries, raspberries, etc.), and then water enough to make two quarts in all. You can vary this by adding halved strawberries or cherries, or even a banana cut in thin slices.

A Pudding Garnish.

Skin of lemons or orange makes nice garnishing if carefully prepared. Cut the peel into shreds two inches long; boil until soft in one gill of water with one ounce of loaf sugar; then put on a flat plate and stand in the refrigerator to get icy cold.

Iced Cocoa.

To every two cupfuls of cocoa made in the usual manner add half a cupful of whipped cream. Beat it into the cocoa, sweeten to taste and let it stand until cold. Serve in glasses partly filled with cracked ice.

FINE COLD BEEF BOUILLON

It Is Only a Fillip for the Stomach, But la Delicious Served This Way. Put five pounds of shank beef—not too young—-in five quarts of cold water. Let it come to a. boil slowly, skim carefully and set the vessel on the stove where it simmer gently for eight hours. Strain through cheesecloth and set away to cool. The next day skim off the fat and turn the soup into a kettle, not allowing the sediment to pass in. Add one onion, one or more stalks of celery according to taste, a soup bouquet, six cloves and salt. Boil gently a half hour, strain twice through a napkin and after it is chilled set it on the ice. This should be served in little cups, without bread, for cold bouillon is only a fillip to the stomach. If the bouillon is rich and well clarified —this can be done with eggshells—it can be frozen to a jelly and given the child in this form. Chicken bouillon can be prepared In the same way, und this is most delicious served as a jelly.

SAVORY DISH FOR BREAKFAST

Craigle Toast Can Be Made Quickly and Will Commend Itself to the Housewife. Craigie toast will commend itself to those who wish for a quickly made savory for breakfast. Allow one egg and one tomato for each person. The following would be sufficient for four: Beat up four eggs and add to them the same number of tomatoes, free from skin and seed and finely chopped; also a small teaspoonful of chopped green chill, gherkin or capers, half a cupfql of milx and a little salt Melt one and a half tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, mix all the other ingredients together, pour into the pan and stir over the fire till thoroughly hot. It may then be served at once on the toast, or may be allowed to cook gently by the side of the fire for five or ten minutes as preferred. Serve very hot The above mixture might also be baked in the oven for twenty minutes and then garnished with small pieces of toast.

Fish Cream.

A dainty which may be substituted for the meat course with benefit to the digestion on these dog days is fish cream. Pick the cold cooked fish free ol skin and bones and pass it through the meat chopper. To two cups ol this add one cup of milk which haa been poured while boiling hot over one cup of bread crumbs and allowed to stand 15 minutes. Season with hall a teaspoonful of minced chives oi parsley. Add two tablespoonfuls oi melted butter and two beaten eggs. Pour the mixture into a greased mold and steam for 30 minutes. Serve on a hot platter. Or the family might be tempted with a delicate chicken loaf made from leftover portions from a cold cooked fowl. Chop the meat and to a pint of it add a cup of thick white sauce, seasoning to taste. Line a mold with boiled rice, and while the rice is still hot put in the chicken. Press well, spread rice over the top and bake in a pan of water half an hour. Unmold and serve with cream or tomato sauce or surround with chicken gravy thickened.

Chocolate Pudding.

Put a pint of milk to scald in a double boiler. Grate two heaping tablespoonfuls of chocolate and put on top of milk, but do not stir through until the chocolate is thoroughly melted. When milk is scalding hot, stir chocolate through it until all is mixed and chocolate is dissolved. Beat the yolk of one egg with two tablespoonfuls of sugar, add enough hot milk to egg to dissolve and warm it before putting it in .hot chocolate mixture or it will cook in strings. ' Next moisten a tablespoonful of cornstarch tn a little milk and thicken chocolate to a creamy consistency. Remove from the stove. When beginning to cool flavor with vanilla. Serve pudding ice cold. It may be eaten with rich milk, but for extra occasions whipped cream makes it a most delieious dessert.

Raw Vegetable Sandwiches.

These are very highly relished by persons who dislike the usual sweet accompaniments of women's teas, and if there happens to be a man In the crowd he is certain to be pleased. Cut rye, gluten and graham bread in the manner described, leaving them without butter. Put between slices of rye a layer of Spanish onion cut very thin and sprinkled lightly with salt Put between the buttered gluten slices a delicate leaf of lettuce covered with a dab of mayonnaise, or sour cream beaten up thickly. Put between the graham slices thin flakes of crisp cucumber or a thick slice of tomato seasoned with salt and lemon juice. Wrap the sandwiches in oiled paper and serve them in that way.

Apple Sauce as Dessert

Prepared in the German way, apple sauce becomes a dinner dessert rather than as with us, a breakfast or luncheon relish. One would not care for the Teutonic version as a perpetual thing to the exclusion of opr own excellent Yankee dish, but once in a while it is extremely tasty, especially when no other idea tor the family dessert presents itself. After preparing the sauce as usual sprinkle with cinnamon, decorate with halves of blanched almonds and serve with cream-

GOOD ONE ON DOCK WHITTLE

First Sight of Railway Train Made Him Run Away With Hie Wagon. "Lemme tell you a good one on Dock Whittle," said the waggish mountaineer at the crossroads store. “Last week Dock hitched up the old mare, piled bls old woman an’ the kids into the wagon, an’ took ’em over acrost the mounting to vfrhere the new railroad’s been built, jest to see the kyars. “None of ’em had ever seen a railroad train. Dock, ner the old woman an’ the kids, ner the old mare, either; so Dock he feels sorto uneasy. Thinkin’ he’d be on the safe side, he onhitched the mar? an ’tied her to" a saplin’;" then he went back where the old woman an’ the kids was a-settin‘ in the wagon in the middle of the road. Dock thinks he’ll pull ’em down the road a piece so they kin see better, so he takes hold of the shafts an’ but jest then ‘Hoot! Toot!’ come that train of kyars, an’ jumpin’ Jerushy! Dock run away with the wagon, the old woman an’ the kids began to scream an’ holler, an’ away they went down the side of the mounting, an’ to a-busted ever'think to pieces. “Dock says the old mare was the only one that wasn’t skeered plemb to death, an’ next time he’s goin’ to leave her alone, an’ tfe Jiisself to a saplln’.” —Mack’s National Monthly.

Value of Vivisection.

Success in nerve surgery has led to a desire to accomplish similar results with the blood vessel?. Until recently no one attempted to do more than cut diseased or injured blood vessels out of the general circulation; even this required a vast amount of preliminary work on animals, especially with regard to the testing of ligature material, such as catgut and silk, for strength, absorbability and capacity for being rendered absolutely sterile, the last being exceedingly difficult of determination. The effect of these operations on the local blood supply also required investigation, for the cutting out of a very large blood vessel might Involve the death of an entire limb. Vqry recent work on dogs seems to promise that the cutting out of blood vessels may be largely replaced by splicing and grafting, it is evident that, with the aid of such new methods, the last-mentioned risk may be avoided, and many a limb saved from gangrene and amputation. Most marvelous of all, our surgeons are now venturing to attack the heart Itself; wounds of that most important of all organs have been sutured, hitherto, to be sure, with only partial success; however, we may justly expect to perfect this operation by giving it a thorough trial on the lower animals.—Atlantic Monthly.

Useful Crocodile Fish.

In the rivers and lakes of the Mexiican state of Tabasco there swims a fish known as the “crocodile fish,” which according to word received at the department of commerce and labor is most useful to man. The skin of the crocodfie fish if properly cured, may be utilized for any of the purposes for which the lighter weights of leather are employed. The oil of the crocodile fish is a perfect lubricant, and also used for softening leather. In addition to its qualities as a lubricant and emolient, the oil possesses medicinal qualities for which a superiority to the finest of Norwegian cod liver is claimed. The flesh of the crocodile fish is extensively used by the natives as food and highly relished by them as one of the delicacies of the country. Crocodile fish range in length from ten inches to four feet, and when dried assume an ashen hue, with lighter shadings of a bluish tint.—New Orleans TimesDemocrat.

Must Have it All.

Richard Parr, the discoverer of the sugar trust frauds, was talking in New York about the generous reward granted him by the government? “Some folks thought I was going to get a reward of a couple of millions or so,” said Mr. Parr. “They put me in the lawyer class.” "The lawyer class?” said the reportr er puzzled. “Yes,” said Mr. Parr, “the lawyer class. The junior and senior partner of a law firm, you know, once put their heads together to draft a clients bill. “ ‘We’ve won the will contest- for him,’ said the junior partner, rubbing hie hands. ‘Suppose we. charge him two hundred thousand ?’ “But the senior partner frowned. “ ‘Go on!’ he said. ‘He’s worth more than that.’ ”

Dramatists Usually Childless.

According to an observer writers of plays are generally childless. He says: “It seems that the successful dramatist is at the end of a series, and never leaves a successor. Look down the list of them, from Gilbert to Shaw, aud you will find never a child. Further search brings up Thomas Hardy, Barrie, Maeterlinck,' Pinero, Cefiti Raleigh, Maugham, Locke, Granville Barker, Frederick Fenn, Louis NapoleoiT Parkqr, and only Henry Arthur Jones and Hall Caine are dramatists with children.

Since She Asked.

Sue—Don’t you know, George kissed pae at ths door last night twice before I could stop him! Mae—Gracious! What cheek! Sue—Both.—Smart Bet.

CAN’T PLAY “CATTY"

POLICE ORDER MAKES BOYS OF BALTIMORE WAIL. Description of the Game That la Barred From the Streets Because Now and Then Some Pedestrian Is Injured. > " The Composite Kid of Baltimore has a kick —a real, genuine, heartthrobbing kick, says the Baltimore Evening Sun. Marshal Farnan has issued orders that boys must cease playing catty on the streets. The marshal told all the assembled captains of districts that Chief Engineer Samuel Dukehart of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s association had been struck in the face by one of the flying cattles. And the marshal said that this thing of playing catty on the streets must stop. Here is the way you play catty: Take a two or three inch piece of pine, round it off and whittle both ends to a point; lay the catty on the ground, hit one end with a stick and as it flops up in the air smash it as you would bat a ball. Then you tell the other kid to get it in so many jumps, and if he can’t do it he gets a whack across the pocket handkerchief with the bat. That’s the game Marshal Farnan is stopping, because, now and then, an indiscreet batter lands the catty in a pedestrian’s eye, or spreads consternation in a group of front step sitters in an otherwise eminently quiet neighborhood. The Composite Kid was standing outside the courthouse this morning while Marshal Farnan was Issuing his orders. He was freckled and snubnosed and had a string tied around his right great toe. In one hahd he carried a dead sparrow and in the other a cigarette. “What do you think of that?" he exclaimed in disgust. “Say, mister, what chance’s a boy got nowadays, anyhow? Why, first thing you know they’ll be passing laws to keep kids from growing. I was raised in Anne Arundel county, but my dad sold the farm and bought some ground rents up on Lexington street, so we moved to town to board. Soon’s I came here I found out there wasn t a swimming hole nearen’n Gwynn falls or the public baths over in Patterson park, where you have to wear bathing suits, and darn bathing suits for kids, that’s what I say. I saw a lot of kids crawling through a sewer pipe to swim in Jones falls up by the candy factory, but that’s too dirty for me. And we had the darndest time trying to get a place to live. The agent wanted to know how many children there was, and asked if the boys were rough on wall paper."

Teaching Right Living.

This is an age when the necessity of education is strongly emphasized. The whole foundation of preventive medicine, •of the anti-tuberculosis work, of the social service departments of the hospital, is the education of the public in regard to the laws of health. There can be little doubt that : not money, nor even the lack of money, is the root of all evil, but the lack of knowledge of right living in the broadest sense of the words. Ignorance of physical right living is the cause of most of the illness and bodily misery in the world, while Ignorance, of moral right living Is largely to blame for the wickedness of the world. Bad physical condition, however, and the ignorance that causes it, have more to do with poverty and crime than most people realize.- Squalid surroundings, due largely to lack of knowledge of proper living conditions, and accompanied most likely by decreased vitality or outright ill health, arfeprobably often the primary cause of the drunkenness that brings ruin upon so many families. The great problem of today is to teach the masses how to lire a healthful life in the circumstances in which they find -themselves.—Dietetic Gazette.

“Natural Life."

“Imprisonment for the rest of your natural life” is the form of the penalty next in dread to the death sentence. This phrase “natural life” puzzles some people who wonder if the law recognizes any “unnatural life.” It does not, but the old common law did recognize an unnatural death, as well as a natural one. When a man or woman takes the monastic vow people still speak of it as “leaving the world." In medieval times that was considered a form of death, and the phrase “natural life” came into use to describe an existence terminated by the grave, not by the convent or the abbey.—London Globe.

Cranial Enlargement.

“My boy Josh asked me to stop an’ get him a straw hat,” said. Farmer Corntossel as he stepped Into the shop. “You are just in time,” replied the salesman. “All our straw hats have just been reduced.” “I’m afraid they Won’t do for Josh. Not since he’s been to the city. He’ll want something that's been expanded.” %

Need More Be Said?

“What is your idea of Heinminway? I mean to say, what kind of a chap is he?” “He’s one of those people who -tell an old story and then when you fall to laugh, repeats the point to It so that you will be sure to get it” .