Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — Page 3

LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK

By BISHOP WILLIAM A. QUAYLE

Montreal. Canada

-vT* 1 ,* 1 In everything give thanks; for tms is the will of God In Jesus Christ concerning you.—These. 6:18. Have we not set the song of the Christian life to much to the tune of difficulty, danger and sorrow? “In everything give thanks.” I am pretty certain, will, in the multitude of instances, be translated as meaning that whatever difficulty or distress enters your life, be of grateful mood. Do not murmur. Be glad through whatever roughness the water wear as we voyage across their uncertain billows. 1 am certain of two things in this matter. First, that this is hdw this Scripture is pretty generally viewed, and second, this is not what it does actually mean. It does mean that, but it means indefinitely more. A farm Is on a landscape; and he who confounds farm and landscape is not seeing things as they are. Difficulties are to be encountered and sorrows are to be met and they are to be met with the mood of manly and womanly resignation to the wide-working will of God. But that we are to be grateful for the clouds rather than the sunrise and the noon and the blessed open sky is to me absurd and a listless interpretation of the good God our Heavenly Father. To be glad on a holiday is as devout as to be sad on a funeral day. We shall not need to reset our estimates of God and his will concerning us before we are In harmony with his mood. He is the glad God of out-of-doors and the happy z singing things whether they be birds or children or women or strong men. This anaemic notion of religion Is unwholesome because it is untrue. God gives no assent. A good man and great said this: “In everything give thanks.” Nobody but a good and great man could have said It. The sentiment is like Mount Lycabettus from whose top all of hlstorled Greece lies under the eyes withe t straining an eyeball. All life lies at the base of a mount of vision and of praise like this: “In everything give thanks.” The fact which is meant to be lifted into light at this moment Is that there is a devotional element in all things whatsoever. We say grace before meals, except we be heathen. We often say grace before

labors and battles without or within and reading of books and taking of Journeys and husking corn or going to picnics or a stroll through sunburnt fields for the sheer love of the crisp grass under foot and the hot sky overhead. We do narrow beyond the permission of God this thought of devotion or we must be at church or prayer meeting or at family prayer to be devotional. Those places and occupations are greatly good, but they do not monopolize the moods of devotion. The devotional frame is the deep consideration. Are we open to devotion for all things as Paul was? It is meet to give thanks for the bird voices, and a good way to give such thanks is by listening to the voices. —— That Is worth weighing. To love things enough to give things heed is a mood of gratitude, whereas not to care enough for things to notice them is a first-class specimen of ingratitude toward God and his doings. The cricket’s chirp is a species of poetry which may well set the heart singing after its fashion, too. Such a little warmth makes the cricket set his heart to song. Were we as good at the voicing of our gratitude as the cricket of the hearth, what a shout of chorusing would the great God hear from men. The religious nature is wiser and wider than many religious folk are given to supposing. Christianity Is generosity. “Thank God!" How often have I found my own given to that gust of gratitude—“thank God!" And I am not slew to believe God hears such prayer and smiles with gladness to hear it. Why should we not give thanks for the finding of a wild flower or the striking gracefulness of a child at play, or the toss of apple branches lit with bloom, or the blue jay’s note with its musical unmusicality. No, secularlties are just theme for praise and prayer. We have no call to ask for things for which we have not call to answer to God in spontaneous words of thanks. “I thank you” Is a phrase which the debonair use frequently. Courtesy is a good habit for a body’s own sake. To begenteel Is a soul-instinct of fineness, and if a man or a woman lived alone and broke bread Mth himself, (although such a way of living is not necessary or to be desired. If one is alone and has no relatives, then should such a one borrow some child, or, better, some homeless body, somebody human, not feline nor canine, to keep alive the humaneness in one’s own soul), he would do well to say: •■t thank you" when h® passes food to himself, for so would the method of good manners be kept alive and the social impulse would be hearkened to “Father, I thank thee,” says the Christ; and “In everything glee thanks,” says his brainiest follower. And for one I will take this advice and will find provision for devotion in everything, books, folks, church, labor, song, tears and cares. And for the least and largest to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will make my adoration for the Christ, my Saviour and my King.

TWO FINE PICKLES

PROPERLY PUT UP, WILL KEEP • INDEFINITELY. Cucumbers and Walnuts Are About as Generally Popular as Any That the Housewife Can Put Up for Winter. Cousin Ruth’s Cucumber Pickles.— The pickles take about a week in the making, allowing ten minutes a day, but they will keep indefinitely and are crisp and delicious to the end. Take half a bushel of small cucumbers, wash them, and let them He In a Jar of very cold water for 24 hours. At the expiration of this time, pour off the water and replace it with a hot brine, composed of one quart of coarse salt and sufficient water to cover. After another 24 hours have elapsed, pour off the brine, wash in cold water, and, Instead of the brine, put on hot alum water, using one-quarter of a pound of alum with the requisite quantity of water. Let the cucumbers stand in this for 12 hours, then wash them, and let them He in cold water for the next 12 hours. At this point scald equal parts of vinegar and water and pour it over the cucumbers. The next morning remove the mixture, reheat, and pour it back again. Do this two more mornings—four in all. On the fourth morning take sufficient vinegar—fresh cider vinegar if possible—to cover the cucumbers. Add five pounds of brown sugar, and a quarter of a pound of cassia buds. Heat all together; pour over the cucumbers, and set the pickles away. Some "small red peppers may be placed on top, if that flavor is desired. Mrs. Hogan’s Pickled Walnuts. — Gather the nuts when good size, but still tender enough to be pierced with a coarse needle. Prick several places with the needle and put in a stone jar. Cover with a strong brine and let remain three days. Drain and put in a sufficient brine to remain three days longer. Drain again and spread on a platter for several hours. Put one gallon of vinegar in a porcelain-lined kettle and add to it one tablespoonful each of whole cloves, allspice and ginger root; two tablespoonfuls whole pepper-corns and one dozen blades of mace. Put the kettle over the fire and when the liquor boils, cook ten minutes. Place the nuts in a jar and strain the boiling liquid over them. Cover tightly.

Birds’ Nests.

Four hard-boiled eggs, one-half pound of sausage meat, one egg, onequarter pound crushed vermicelli, watercress. Put the eggs into boiling water and let the water cover them; then boil them gently for 20 minutes. Take them -out and place them tji a basin of cold water, when cold shell them. Divide the sausage meat into four portions, and cover, each egg Entirely with sausage meat, flatten each end and get them cork shape, roll them in a little flour, touch them all over with a well-beaten egg, cover with vermicelli and fry a golden brown in boiling fat. The fat must cover them. Drain on paper, cut them in halves with a sharp knife and dish on watercress.

Care of Linen.

One of the most important departments in the management of a household is that which embraces a care of linen. Accordingly when this is well dried and put away in the closet the next duty is to secure it from the effects of damp and insects. These intruders are often destructive, but they may be prevented from doing injury by making the bags and filling with lavender, cedar shavings or a strong perfume and placing among the linen. In ill cases It will be found that the linen as well as all the other washable articles will be economised by being examined and where necessary carefully repaired previous to'sending to the laundry.

Bryn Mawr Corn Cake.

; Add to one pint grated corn one-half cupful flour, one-quarter cupful milk, two eggs, whites and yolks beaten irately, and a dessert spoonful melted butter. Add the yolks to the corn, then the milk, flour and a teaspoonful of salt. Beat well, then fold in lightly the stiffly whipped whites of the two eggs and bake on a hot and well greased griddle.

Gravy Soup.

One pound of beef, one pound of bones, two ounces of butter, three pints of cold water, one cavroL onions, turnip, pepper and salt, one ounce flour, one mushroom. Cut the meat in small pieces, break the bones, cut up the vegetables finely. Put the butter in stewpan, when hot put in the meat bones and vegetables and brown them well, then stir in flour, add seasoning and the cold water, let all simmer gently for three hours; strain and serve. Remove scum as it rises.

Tapioca Custard.

For a tapioca custard use four cupfuls of milk, two of melted tapioca, the yolks of two eggs, four tablespoonfuls of sugar and one teaspoonful of salt Stir all thoroughly together and flavor as desired. Bake in a pudding dish.

Fish Omelet.

When you have any fish left over chop It up ahd season with salt and pepper. Warm It In a little milk or butter. Make a plain omelet and when ready to fold spread on the hot fish. Roll up and serve.

MADE INTO DINNER DESSERT

Apple Sauce Prepared In German Fashion a Richer Dish Than American Prototype. . 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 Tdutonlc version as a perpetual thing to the exclusion of our own excellent Yankee dish, but once in a while it is extremely tasty, especially when no other idea for the family dessert presents itself. After preparing the sauce as usual, sprinkle with cinnamon*, decorate with halves of blanched almonds and serve with cream. For another dessert, simple and yet good, make a quart of soft custard and stiffen it while yet warm with a halfbox of gelatin dissolved in a Httle cold water. Smooth and cool it at the same time by slow stirring. Now beat stiff the whites of the eggs used, fold them in, flavor according to preference and set them in a mold. Serve with cream or with preserves around it in the form of a ring. A dainty which may be substituted for the meat course with' benefit to the digestion on dog days is fish cream. Pick the cold cooked fish free of skin and bones and pass it through the meat chopper. To two cups of this add one cup of/ milk which has been poured while boiling hot over one cup of bread crumbs and allowed to a tend 15 minutes, Season with half a teaspoonful of minced chives of parsley. Add two tablespoonfuls of 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 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.

Almond Soup.

A very good and delicate soup for a summer dinner is cream of almonds, for which this is the method; Sinjmer 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 thirtyfive minutes in slightly salted water. Oil the inside of a broiler with olive oil, arrange the potato slices on it and broil for five minutes on each side. Roll in a teaspoonful of melted butter, removing from the fire, and serve.

Deviled Chicken or Turkey.

Two heaping tablespoonfulA of butter, one tablespoonful chopped parsley, quarter pint of hot stock, dust 6f red pepper, half a teaspoonful of made mustard, one tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup, salt, pepper, flour, Joints and wings of cooked chicken, one tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce, half a tablespoonful of chill sauce, few drops of tabasco, and grate of hutmeg. Melt the butter in a chafing dish, add chill sauce, Worcestershire sauce, mushroom ketchup, mustard and red pepper. Cut gashes in each piece of chicken. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and nutmeg, dredge with flour and cook In the hot butter until well browned. Pour in the stock, simmer for ten minutes and sprinkle the chopped parsley.

Washing Silk.

Silk handkerchiefs are ruined by careless washing, such as they are likely to get if put into the general wash. It is better to do them up by themselves. They should be washed in lukewarm water and rinsed two or three times in clear, cold water, without blue. Wring them out, fold and roll them tightly in a cloth, but do not let them get dry before ironing, or they will never look smooth. Colored silk handkerchiefs should be washed with fine white soap, never with Strong yellow soap.

Brownie.

Three-fourths cupful granulated sugar, one-third cupful butter; cream together, as for cake. Two eggs beaten light, one-half cupful flour, two squares bitter chocolate melted, one cupful chopped nut meats—English walnuts preferred. Bake in a square tin one-half hour in a slow oven. Mark in squares when cool. These are a delicious accompaniment to a luncheon 'or tea, and may be served with whipped cream for a dessert also.

Black Chocolate Icing.

For a black chocolate icing that is very good for layer cake use one and a half squares of chocolate, five tablespoonfuls of sugar and three of boiling water. Stir the mixture over a hot fire until smothered glossy. Then spread it over the layers of cake. This makes a rich icing and filling.

Potato Ribbons.

Cut the potatoes In rounds, one-half an Inch thick, then cut into ribbons and fry tn boiling fat. Drain and serve , .

SALT LAKE CITY’S NEW DEPOT

_ .J”*. N ®? Denver 4 Ri ° Grande-Western Pacific Passenger Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, Opened August 15, 1910.

ADOPT NEW SYSTEM

MAP THAT SIMPLIFIES SWITCHING IN RAILWAY TERMINALS. Method That Prevents Accidents and Places the Science of Railway Signaling at the Zenith of Perfection. A new and Improved system for the handling of trains in the large termi-

and switching where perfect system is everything. A great illuminated map showing a wilderness of railroad tracks will hang in an enclosed room in the new Grand Central station. It will be seen by few and the tens of thousands of people Who hurry in and out of the station every day will know of it, if at all, only by hearsay; yet upon it their safety will depend. Far removed from the tracks, shut off from the sound of the thundering trains, the chief dispatcher will be guided by it unerringly. Upon it the position and movement of every train will be recorded, and all the tracks that conflict with the course of a train will stand out glittering on the face of this map. And more than that, if, in defiance of the warnings it flashes, a negligent leverman should attempt to seqd a train into danger upon one of these conflicting tracks, he will find the lever locked against him, so that he cannot throw the switch. The moment the train has passed from danger the map will record that fact and the switch will be unlocked and ready for use. Simultaneously with the passing of the lights and shades on the map, the whole mechanism below will be put into action. Constantly crossing the face of the map, as if casting their shadows, the trains will flash from one forbidden area to the next in a rapid staccato manner that will be puzzling at first, but it will take only a few minutes’ study to show the regularity of the movements. As soon as a train enters the terminal, a warning will show on the map and the dispatcher, in charge of the signal room, will plan out its course. Between the time it enters and its arrival at the dozen trains may cross its course, but it will not be in danger from one of them. As it enters one division, the one ahead will be barred to all other trains with signals set against any intrusion upon its right of way. Then, as it passes on, the track behind it will again become open for use. At any one time it will have for its exclusive use only a few hundred yards of track, but within that space it will travel in perfect safety. To the dispatcher i.t will be as if he were pulling the trains by so many strings without worrying about the danger of conflict. The system takes care of all the details. From the tower by means of a large machine consisting of many small handles, which are put into operation at the slightest touch, the whole system of switches and signals In the terminal below is operated. In the case of the new Grand Central the system is entirely electric and these little handles which work so easily on the machine start a current of electricity working upon a series of compressed air valves which throw the switch. This is system reduced to the last possible stage. To go further and remove the human element is no more feasible than a business system that would provide for automatons to do the work of the office staff. But, in any business system, negligence can cause mistakes. In a railroad terminal It merely blocks the traffic.

Big Railway Bridge.

Rail connection between Mexico and Guatemala Is about to be established by the building of a bridge 800 feet long over the Suchlate river.

nals will be inaugurated at the new Grand Central in New York. It is a system that is the perfected re r suit of over half a century of railroading and by its use all accidents which formerly were liable to occur In an overcrowded terminal will be rendered impossible. It is a system that represents the last word in the science of signaling

AN APOLOGY FOR A RAILROAD

This One Has Ail the Advantages of a Trolley and Is More Dignified. What if the train on the Morristown and Erie railroad does stop between stations to let off and pick up passengers who otherwise might have to walk? To President R. W. McEwan of the road this custom is no subject for levity. He points to it as one of the valuable privileges of living along the railroad which connects the towns of Caldwell and Essex Falls, N. J„ with the Erie railroad at Morristown. In a statement Mr. McEwan says the McEwan family promoted 'the road. “Its right of way has all been paid for in cash,” he declares. ‘lt has not been sold, out by the sheriff; no security holder has been squeezed out nor has the public subscribed or donated anything to it I do not want the outside public to think that I run It like the Morris canal.” Mr. McEwan says that the one small locomotive used by the road is as fine a piece of machinery as runs on rails. It burns furnace size anthracite coal, carries 180 pounds of steam and starts and stops as quickly as an electric car, he says. The road’s one passenger coach, the butt of many jokes, s is defended by President McEwan, it was built before the Civil war, but Mr. McEwan says it is safe, strong and clean and is inspected regularly by state officers. , In reference to the stops between stations Mr. McEwan says: “On many trips we make stops between stations to accommodate those having long walks to the train. This causes little or no delay with the small, light engine and car and would be impossible with a long, heavy train.”

Three Years Late.

A train of a railway system in the southwest once arrived at its destination nearly three years late. The circumstances were these: The train left Bolivar, just across Galveston bay from Galveston, on September 8, 1900, and was caught in the great storm that so nearly destroyed the Texan city. Bolivar is 75 miles from Beaumont, which was the point of the train’s destination. Before the train had traveled far on its journey it was caught in the storm. Thirty miles of the track were washed away, and the train was left stranded on a sandy wasfe. Many persons who lived on Bolivar peninsula were saved from death by taking refuge in the train. After the storm subsided they walked to Bolivar with the passengers; but the abandoned train was left on the prairie. The storm bankrupted the railway, and no effort to rescue the engine and cars was made until 1903. Had not the road suffered so seriously in that storm the property would have proved of great value a few months later, when oil was struck pt Beaumont. In 1903, however, the road underwent repairs, when the train was drawn into Beaumont, where it was greeted by a cheering crowd.

Flora of Railroad Yards.

It has been noticed that many plants not natives of the locality are to be found growing in the neighborhood of great railroad yards. Sometimes the seeds of these plants have been brought thousands of miles from their natural habitat. Often they flourish amid their now surroundings and gradually spread over the surrounding country. Thus trains carry unsuspected emigrants, which travel to and from every point of the compass. In the Mississippi valley are to be found plants which within a few years past have thus been brought together; some from the Atlantic seaboard, some from the gulf region, and some from the other side of the Rocky mountains.—Harper’s Weekly.

Germany's Miniature Railway.

Germany possess a miniature but most useful railway, of which the chief peculiarity Is that its trains have no drivers. It is used for carrying salt from the salt mines at Strassfurt. The train consists of 30 trucks, each carrying half a ton of salt. The engines are electric, of 24 horsepower each. As the train approaches a station, of which, there are five along the line, It automatically rings a bell, and the station attendant turns a switch to receive It. He Is ble to stop It at any moment.

The ONLOOKER WILBUR D.NESBIT Father Starts Again

Pack my trunk, Miranda, fer my eyes is* gettin’ red An’ I got all th’ symptoms of a bad coldl In my head. ’Taint no use o’ sayin’ I been settln’ in a* draft— Arguin’ about it only helps to drive me daft. Drat them cussed ragweeds! Got a sniff o’ them Just then. An’—hish-ty—whlsh-ty— whoosh-ty-chooil ===liay Fever’s come again! Who brought in these flowers? Don’t you know they’re bad for me? Lord! Mj? eyes are burnln’ Uli it seems* like I can’t see. Huh? It’s all an’ I bring it on; myself? Nope, you needn’t vex me with them* cures there on the shelf. Been a-foolin’ with them every year sencat dear-knows-when— Hish-ty! Whis-ty-whoosh-ty-choo! H knowed ’twould come again. What? You heard that Perkins had a splendid cure this year? Humph! He’s always cured-up till hayi ( fever time is here. Ain’t I tried his sure cures, by the bottle; an’ the box All th’ time a-sneezln* till I nearly stop- 1 ped th’ clocks? Listen! Perkins’s sneezin’!—An’ he sneezes* like a hen— Hish-ty—whoosh- ty—whlsh-ty-whoo! It’s startin’ in again. Pack my trunk, Miranda—an’ don’t sympathize with me. - Nothin’ sets me sneezin’ like a lot o’ sympathy. Yes, I’ve got blue glasses, an’ some powdered stuff, an’ salve— An’ that ragweed starts me into showin” what I have! Nose as red as blazes an’ swelled up as* big as ten— Hoosh-ty—whoosh-ty - hish-ty - CHOO!! Hay fever’s come again.

The Hat.

The custom of men wearing hats originated in the days when they wore helmets. These helmets were usually made of iron or brass or some other durable material and were intended to prevent the head of the man being whacked off by some enemy.' It was a great deal like our presentday method of builamg navies. Some one would invent a helmet that could) not be carved with a sword and then, some one would invent a sword or battle ax that could send the helmet to the scrap pile. Finally the iron hats became so heavy and hot that genuemen refused to wear them, and, when an enemy approached they called the police. So today we have the derby hat, thei silk hat and the straw. Also the folding or collapsible opera hat, which was invented for the use of vaudevlllei comedians. A man in ordinary Hf o may snap his opera hat all he likes, and never get a smile, but let hlmi go on the stage and do it and he is, encored four times and paid |SOO « week. The silk hat is worn by politicians! and physicians. However, any politician south of Missouri and west of! Mississippi wearing anything but at black slouch hat is sent to congress! to get him out of the country. The straw hat is so deftly constructed that it is easily blown from* the head, thus enabling us to scatter* gladness throughout life as we rush in pursuit of the hat. Hats are removed when ladles are present This is for a display of manners, and not to exhibit the contour of! the cranium.

Willing to Oblige.

“Give me the city hall, please,” saldl the lady to the conductor of th* street car. “I should be glad to.jdo so, madam,** replied the conductor, who was a neW man, and had been greatly impressed? by the rules of the company, whisht insisted upon employees being corns teous and obliging. "I should Indeedj be glad to do so, but the lady over there with the green feather in hen hat asked me for the city hall before you got on the car. Is there any other building that would suit you! just as Well?”

Up-to-Date Procedure.

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