Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1910 — Page 2

MUCH GOLD IS LOST

Large Amount of Last Year’s Production Disappears. More Than 1,300 Tone of Precious Metal Minced Last Year, According to British Home Office— American Miners Expert London. —More than 1,300 tons of gold were mined last year, according to the British homo office. Much of this precious metal has already vanished as completely as though it had never been taken from the ground. What becomes of all the gold is one of the perpetual mysteries which no government ever has been able to ■ solve. Enormous amounts are supposed to be hidden, or burled, In the {various countries. Iluch of the gold jturned Into jewelry is practically lost 'to general observation. The rich and ithe noble put away their most precjious gems for state occasions. They jare scarcely ever seen by the public. ;The gold used In decorating the paljaces of« the world Is virtually lost to the general view. Even the gold taimen by the banks and bankers as their coin reserves Is often hidden In vaults ‘for years. The gold mined last year Is valued at $450,000,000. The British empire supplied 60 per cent, of the output. Of ■this proportion, one-third came from the Transvaal and 15 per cent, from Australia. The United States gold .mines turned out 22 per cent, of the total production. The civilized nations of the World are now burning iip about a billion tons of coal a year, says the’ British home office. More than a million tons In addition is wasted in the operation of mining, so that the store of “black diamonds” is being used at a rate which may bring about the extinction of the visible supply in the present century. The United States is still the greatest coal produced—her mines contributing one-third of the total supply. Great Britain Is next and Germany is third. Then come, in order, the Aus-tro-Hungarian empire, France, Russia and Belgium. Almost three million (Persons are engaged in mining coal, which Is as many as are engaged in all other kinds of mining and quarrying. More than a million coal miners work in Great Britain. In iron, as In coal, the United ’States Is still ahead of all the rest of the world as a producer, with an output of 16,000,000 to 26,000,000 tons a year. The German empire stands second. Great Britain third and Spain fourth, with 4,500,000 tons. America leads, too, In the highest .proportion of loss of life from accidents In mines and quarries—3.42 a thousand persons employed. The lowest rate Is in France, 0.95 a thousand employees. It is a curious fact that while Great Britain mines only twothirds as much coal as the United States 206,000,-000 tons, as against 877,000,000 tons—there are 972.000 coal miners In Great Britain and onlv 690 000 In the United States. Turning now to wheat, the incoming crop In the North and South American continent is estimated by tDornbusch at 120,500,000 quarters; that for Europe at 242,600,000 quarters; Asia at 53,000,000 quarters; (Africa at 6,550,000 quarters, and Australia at 10,000,000 quarters—a grand

COINS BRING FANCY PRICES

■At a Recent Record-Breaking Sale In New York American Half-Eagle Brought $265. New York.—At a recent sale of coins in this city the amount realized was $20,754. This was a recordbreaker. The largest amount at such a sale before this time was $19,000, at the Parmelee sale in 1892. Two American half eagles dated 1797 were sold for $250 and $265. An 1819 half eagle brought SIBO and one of 1821 brought $l9O. The highest priced coin was an 1829 half eagle, which sold for $370. The prices for quarter eagles were $260 for a 1796 with stars on it; 1797 for $150; 1798, SSO; 1821, S4O; 1824, S4O; 1827, $43. An 1843 quarter eagle without a motto was sold for SBIO. A confederate cent was sold for S3O, while a New York continental cent with bust of Washington on it brought $265. The prices for old and rare coins are given below: Dollar (the rarest of all is that of —1804), price S4OO to SSOO, according to condition. Half dollar, that of 1796, with sixteen stars, price S2O to $27, although that of 1796, with only fifteen stars, and that of 1797, each, command nearly the same premium, S2O to $25. Quarter dollars of 1823 and 1827, each quoted at sls to $25. A dime of . 1804 is quoted at $4 to $6. A half dime of 1802 is worth $25 to S4O. A half cent of 1796 brings $5 to SB. The rarest of the cents is that of 1799, and is worth from $4 up. The 1804 cent is rare. Three to five dollars is the usual price for it. Collectors pay $1.50 to $2 for an 1856 nickel cent with the flying eagle on it. Half cents—l 796, the rarest of all, ($5 to $8; 1793, rare, $1.75 tp $2.50; ;1852, $2.50 to $3.50; those/for-1831, 1836, and from 1840 to 1849,’inclusive, •bring from $2.50 to $3.50. The 2 cent piece of 1873 is worth from 50 to 75 cents. As stated before, the half cent of J7M is extremely scarce and valuable.

WOMAN RUNNING FOR CONGRESS

sARAH M SIEWERS M.D.

CINCINNATI. —One of the novelties of the present political campaign is the candidacy of a woman—Dr. Sarah M. Siewers—for a seat in con- . gress. She is running against Congressman "Nick” Longworth, son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt, and is the nominee of the Susan B. Anthony club. Dr. Siewers says her campaign is being made for “righteous rule,” which, as she Interprets it, means women in the government. It is fair to assume that Dr. Siewers does not expect to be elected, but hopes that her campaign will benefit the cause of woman suffrage.

total of 432,800,000 quarters. This is 20,000,000 quarters less than the crop of the year before. The United States now grows 82,000,000 quarters, slightly more than the Russian empire, and almost twice as much as India. In the North and South American continent Argentina is second as a wheat producer, and Canada is third. In Europe, France is the second largest wheat producer, with 34,000,000 quarters; Hungary is third, and Italy fourth. Norway grows only 50,000 quarters, but there, as in all the high countries of the north, the people eat oats, rye and buckwheat. Sweden, though in Norway’s latitude, grows 830,000 quarters. Turkey in Asia grows 4,000,000 quarters, and Japan 2,750,000 quarters. Algeria (4,000,000 quarters) grows nearly three times as much wheat as Egypt. Germany, Roumanla. Bulgaria, Argentina and India all are going to have bumper wheat crops. The United States wheat crop will be 10,000,000 quarters shy of last year, it is estimated.

III Once in Ninety-Five Years.

Harrisburg, Pa. —Having just celebrated the ninety-fifth anniversary of her birth, Mrs. Esther Confer of this place says she was never ill a day in her life, save when as a child she had scarlet fever. She has lived half a century in the same house and has been blessed with eight children, six of whom survive. She has 29 grandchildren. 24 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren

The number of this coin issued amounted to 904,585, but their scarcity is attributed to a shipment to the coast of Africa by a Salem (Mass.) firm of several hundred thousand on an order from that country, where, being punched with holes, they were bartered away to the negroes, who put them on strings and used them as neck ornaments.

DOGFISH ARE GOOD TO EAT

Ocean Variety Pronounced by Fish Commission Experts to Be Nearly Equal of Salmon. Washington.—Dogfish are good to eat, just as good served as as they are labeled in cases as “ocean whitefish, sea bass’* or “Japanese halibut,” according to Dr. Irving Field of the United States fish commission. The pure food law frowns on dogfish being called by any other name, but the fish commission has been experimenting with the fish and has determined that its edibility- is excellent. Dr. Field urges, in view of present high food prices, that the public eat dogfish and not feel at all finical about the name. Dogfish is declared to be almost as good as salmon and practically indistinguishable from halibut. . „

Deer Takes to Preserve.

Allentown, Ta.—As William Jones, a Schnecksville tinsmith, was walking along the road through the territory wMteh'yol. Harry G. Trexler is inclosing as a game park, he suddenly came upon a beautiful wild deer, the first seen.in this county in almost a century. At sight of him it jumped into the bushes. The deer is believed to have come from the Erne .mountain, and it is regarded as a peculiar coincidence that it should seek a hiding place in the area which Colonel Trexler selected as ideal for a game park.

AFTER INDIAN TRIBAL SONGS

Woman Agent of Government Is No Novice in Gathering and Pre- ■■ -< serving Them. . ~

Brainerd, Minn.—As agent of the bureau of ethnology at Washington, Miss Frances Densmore passed through the city on her way to the Leech lake Indian reservation, where she will make~a special study of the music of the Chippewas, submitting her report on the Chippewas, having visited the Red Lake, Mille Lacs and other reservations. Several hundred of the tribal songs have been recorded on the pbonograph and sent to the Smithsonian Institution for preservation and reference. Miss Densmore has taken these records, transcribed them in piano score and analyzed them scientifically. She has also made a study of Filipino music, and thinks the Chippewa music is of a high grade and most excellent, occupying a higher plane than the few tones embraced in the music originating hi our island possessions. The voice of one of the leading chiefs of the northern Chippewas, Geml-Urlnac. is preserved in a -phonograph record at Washington. Of special interest to Miss Densmore will be the Indian celebration at the Leech lake agency. One of the features furnishing her with rich material for study will be the war and squaw dances of the Chippewas.

MADE $433 FROM 20 CENTS

Peach Trees Planted by Pennsylvania Man in Idle Moment Prove Big Bonanza. Siegersville, Pa.—An idle moment and 20 cents have just brought SIOO to the pockets of Oscar Wotring, superintendent of the Lehigh Portland Cement company. Several years ago he planted 20 peach trees in his front yard at a cost of a cent each. He wanted to see whether, if they were sprayed, they would die as all the peach orchards of the neighborhood then were under the ravages of the San Jose scale. The trees this year bore their second big crop. Wotring picked 284 baskets of choice fruit, which he has sold at an average of $1.06 a basket, or a total of $293.16. Last year, when the peaches were scarce and netted more than double this year’s prices. Wotring got $l4O for his crop, and the man who bought them picked 222 basket.

Novel Hat Pin Suit.

Milwaukee, Wis—Mrs. Laura Clas, wife of A. C. Clas, one of the best known architects in the northwest, and designer of the new Milwaukee Socialistic $20,000,000 .civic center, has started suit against the Soo railroad for $5,000 damages because of an in jury by a hatpin while she was traveling in Minnesota. Mrs. Clas says that she boarded a train fort Bemidji from Brooks, Minn., and Is started so suddenly that she was thrown to the floor of the car and badly scratched and bruisied. The chief injuries were due to the pin in her hat. she avers.

Coin Found in Cabbage Head.

Winsted, Conn.—While setting cabbage plants in the -early summer, Clifford Crossman, son of G. H. Crossman, superintendent of the water works, lost a quarter. A few days ago, Mrs. Crossman got 3 good sized head out of the cabbage patch and when she cut into it the knife struck something hard which proved to be her husband’s lost cniw

BAKING THE APPLE

RIGHT METHOD KEEPS JUICE IN THE FRUIT.

Should Be Basted With Very Sweet Water—Some Excellent Recipes for Preparing This Reliable Dessert.

The baked apple Is one of the most convenient, reliablte, and agreeable of our easy and highly excellent desserts or side dishes, but there are baked apples and bakes apples. Some have little or no virtue in them ’because the taste has been cooked out instead of in. To baste the apple with a liquid that is largely sugar, flavored with apple juice, is one of the ways of keeping taste in. To cook the apple in considerable water, basting or not basting, is likely to cook considerable taste out.

This time of year the sweet apple may be obtained for baking and it is an excellent luncheon or even breakfast dish eaten in milk, plenty of it — apples and milk instead of bread and milk. If an apple is not sweet it should be genuinely sour and crisp, or it is not good, for baking. Baked Apples with Butter and Sugar Sirup.—Four medium sized apples, one-half pound of sugar, one ounce of butter. core from apples and place in’ a pie tin; fill opening with sugar and butter and bake slowly until done. Take them out carefully and place them on a platter. Place tin of juice on stove and add the remainder of sugar and butter and boll, stirring constantly until it becomes , light brown. Add boiling water to make it the consistency of thin jelly and pour over apples. Serve warm. Baked Apples, Creole Style.—Pare and core six tart apples; fill the cavities with sugar, lemon juice, and water. Bake until tender, but not broken. Remove to a serving dish, fill the centers with jelly or marmalade, and pour any liquid left in the baking dish over them. Beat the whites of two eggs until dry, then gradually beat in two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, then cut and fold in two tablespoonsfuls more, adding one-half teaspoon of vanila extract and onefourth teaspoon of lemon extract. Press the meringue on the tops of the apples, using a forcing bag and star tube; let stand in oven moderately heated eight minutes. Serve warm. Stuffed Baked Apples.—Core apples, fill center with sugar, place in a pan with a little water, and bake until tender. Place a toasted marshmallow with a few chopped English walnut meats in the center of each and serve cold with whipped cream. Baked Apples.—Core but do not peel apples and place in covered dish containing water. On each apple put sugar and a little butter. These are practically steamed, apples and delicious, the skin not being so hard as when baked. Keep covered until ready to serve. There should be a nice amount of liquid for each one. Jellied Apples.—Wash and quarter apples, put in a crock with a half cup of water and two-thirds cup of sugar. Bake in a slow oven, pushing top layer down often. Let cook till jellied.

Tomato Jelly.

Strain the juice from a number of stewed tomatoes and cook over the fire for a quarter of an hour with a bay leaf and a sliced onion. To a pint of the juice add a tablespoonful of gelatine previously softened in a little cold water. Stir the juice until the) gelatine is dissolved, take from the fire and strain after seasoning well with salt, cayenne and a dash of celery salt. Pour into a mould and put in a cbld place until the jelly is firm. This may be served on lettuce with mayonnaise, or it may be used as a garnish for cold meats, in which latter case the jelly need not be poured into a mould but into a large shallow dish.

Devil’s Food.

Boil one cup bitter chocolate, one cup sour milk, one cup brown sugar, set aside until cool. Beat to a cream one cup granulated sugar, one Scant cup butter, add three eggs, well beaten, one cup sour milk. After this has been beaten add your cold chocolate, one teaspoonful vanilla, two and one-half cups of flour, sifted with teaspoonful baking soda. Be sure and use baking soda and not baking powder. Then beat all together. Bake in layers in a hot oven.

Sour Cream Pie.

One cupful of chopped apple, one cupful of seeded raisins, one cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of sour cream, one-half eupful of sour milk, one-quarter teaspoonful each of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, one-half teaspoonful of salt. Peel apples and chop with raisins. Mix all together and bake in pie with cover.

To Clean Kettles.

„ New iron kettles may be cleaned by boiling in them a good-sized handful of hay. Let boil one hour, then scour with soap and sand. Fill again with clear water and allow it to boil. After this treatment they will not discolor anything cooked in them.

Cocoa Frosting.

One cup of pulverized sugar, two tablespoonfuls of dry cocoa, a small piece of butter, a scant gill of hot coffee. Cook all together and spread on the cake. *• / .

PRESERVING SELECT GRAPES

Groat Caro Must Be Used With Choice Fruit—lnferior Grade Good for Pickimg?

For preserving select grapes of fine flavor wash them and free them from skins and seeds, lay the skins carefully aside for use later, and put the grapes into a preserving kettle. Cook them , until the seeds become loosened from the pulp and press them through a sieve that will exclude the seeds. Then weigh the fruit, after adding the skins. For every pound allow a pound of sugar and let the ‘whole simmer for half an hour or longer. Inferior grapes that will not make a good preserve cai\ often be advantageously used In a pickle. In fact, it is an extravagance to use grapes of fine flavor for pickling, as the spices and vinegar hide the flavor. But, of course, the grapes should be in good condition. Press the pulp from'the skins, after washing and removing the stems. Put a little water into a porcelain lined kettle. Add the grapes and then let them cook slowly for half an hour on the back of the stove, where there is no danger of burning. Press the whole through a sieve that excludes the seeds. Add to every quart of grapes one pint of sugar, and half a pint of vinegar, with cloves and cinnamon to suit the taste. It is well to use only half as much cloves as you have of cinnamon, the former being so much stronger in flavor. Boil the whole till the skins are soft, when it will be ready to set away.

The LAUNDRY

Heavy Articles.—Make enough warm—not hot —soapsuds to cover what you want to wash. Take your washboard, lay part of the article flat on it, and scrub with your scrubbing brush until air is scrubbed. When all is clean, rinse in several clean waters. Do not wring, but lift out of water on to line. You will be more than pleased with this easy way. To Wash Blankets.—All that is necessary is abundance of soft water and soap without resin in it. Resin hardens the fibers of wool and should never be used in washing any kind of finannel goods. Blankets treated as above will always come out soft and clean. A little bluing may be used in washing white blankets. They should be shaken and snapped until almost'dry; it will require two persons to handle them. Woolen shawls and all woolen articles, especially men’s wear, are much improved by being pressed with a hot iron nnder damp muslin.

Tomatoes au 'Gratin.

This is an appetizing recipe and offered at breakfast takes the place of meat. Select small, firm, ripe, and even sized tomatoes. Remove the stems, cut off the top of each, and scoop out the centers. Fry two or three shallots in a little hot butter, add half a cupful of chopped cooked tongue or ham, a few chopped mushrooms, and moisten with brown sauce. Add a high seasoning of salt and pepper and two tablespoonfuls or more of bread crumbs. Divide mixture into eight or ten tomatoes, sprinkle over the top of each a few bread crumbs, and grated cheese. Bake in a hot oven for ten or fifteen minutes until nicely done. Serve at once.

Coffee Cream Pie.

Heat one cup coffee and one cup milk in double boiler. Mix half a cup of sugar, seven level tablespoonfuls sifted pastry flour, quarter teaspoonful salt, little milk (reserved from the cup), and the yolks of two eggs. Add to hot coffee and cook till thick, stirring constantly, then add walnut of butter and let it cool (covered) while making frosting of whites i>f two eggs beaten stiff, then add ofle heaping tablespoon of confectioner’s sugar. Put cream in baked shell, frost and brown lightly.

Plunkets.

Cream together a cup each of butter and sugar, and the well-beaten yolks of six eggs, then the stiffened whites, sift together one-sixth teaspoonful of corn starch, four tablespoonfuls of flour and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Add this mixture gradually to the other ingredignts, stir in a tablespconful of vanilla and bake for 15

Cheese Fondu.

To one cupful of rolled cracker crumbs add a half a pint of milk, a small cupful of grated cheese, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and the whites beaten to a stiff froth. Mix gently and bake twenty minutes in a quick oven.

Iced Cocoa.

Mix one-half cup cocoa, threefourths cup of sugar, and one cup of water and boil until -it forms a thick sirup. Cool and pour into a jar or bottle and place on ice. Add one tablespoonful to each glass of cold milk for a service. '

Paint on Wash Goods.

Soak the parts in kerosene and rub generously with a wool soap. Let stand for a few hours and paint will easily rub off when the garment Is washed.

SHELTERING MANHOOD

By REV. W. D. BRADFIELD

Pastor Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Dallas, Texas

Text—Behold a king shall reign ial righteousness and princes rule in Judgment. And a man shall be a hiding place* from the wind, a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place;! as the shadow of a great rock in a weary; land.—lsaiah 82:1, 2. The text is Isaiah’s dream of a just government “A king shall reign in righteousness and princes rule in judgment” It is remarkable that,lsaiah’s loftiest conception of the Messianic reign is a just government A king his Messiah should be who reigns in righteousness. Isaiah’s dream is the dream of the ages. History is little more than a record of a struggle for just government A government allowing equal opportunities for *ll, giving every man a square deal,; has been the desire of all peoples. Men want justice here and now. More than benevolence or charity meh demand simple justice. It is too late now to seek to compensate men for injustice here by the promise of justice after they are dead. Shelterless people here are no longer comforted by the promise nf manslons in the skies. Hungry people are no longer compensated for hunger here by the promise of eating bread in the kingdom of God. Men demand justice here, and the dream of millions of hearts is for the just government which Isaiah foresaw.

The text gives us Isaiah’s conception of the fountain force of society: “A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind”;—a man. Society is composed of an aggrgeation of individuals and no scheme for social betterment is worth while which has a goal other than the improvement of the character of individual men. The fountain force of government and sqciety is th® individual. “A man shall be as an ' hiding place from the wind” —a man. The word “masses” was not in the vocabulary of the Christ. He did not seek to reach men en masse. He aimed at the personal character of individual men and women.

His ministry was much to individuals, now to a ruined woman weary of her sin, now to a confused seeker by night The sum total of his three years’ work was the training of a half dozen or more individual men. The fountain force of society is the individual man or woman. Disseminate learning, distribute wealth, do what you will, but you have done nothing permanent for society until you have reached the bettered, the personal character of individual men and women. Exactly this is the fountain force of society as Isaiah saw it. “A man shall be”—a man.

The text is Isaiah’s portrait of ■ sheltering manhood. "A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, a cover from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” Isaiah looked east of Palestine and beheld running north and south great cliffs of rock. East of these cliffs he beheld the drifting sands of the Arabian desert. The great cliffs he had seen rise in their majesty and say to the burning, drifting sand: “Thus far and no farther." The drift was arrested and to the leeward of the great rocks he beheld oases blossom as the rose. Here he had seen flocks and herds roam. Then in his vision he said: “The time is coming—the good time is coming—• when a man shall repeat the ministry of the rocks. Under his sheltering manhood the weak shall be protected and the fainting inspired. A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind ... as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” It is admitted by all that Isaiah’s iwords are a luminous description of the inspiring and sheltering ministry of Jesus Christ. But they are more than that. They are Isaiah’s ideal of what every life may be. "A man”— any man, every man—may repeat the ministry of the sheltering rocks. Life, it has been said, has aspects very desert-like. It is swept by drifts, now of cruel government, now of social impurity, now of commercial dishonesty. The arresting force has always been a man. The drift of Persian cruelty and social corruption was arrested by Milltlades at Marathon. The drift of Mohammedan superstition was arrested by Charles Martel at Tours. The drift of mediaevalecclesiasticism was arrested by Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms. Great outstanding characters who have repeated the ministry of the rocks which Isaiah saw have made history. The achievements of history are at bottom of the work of these men. What Jesus Christ did and what the great outstanding characters of history have done you and I are called upon in ous lesser spheres to do. The manhood paclTyis to be a sheltering manhpgd? Thets/ekk are to be protected, the fainting by the shadow of our lives. Only this spirit can - solve our problems. Souls must be given to our great corporations and under the shelter of their benevolence the weak are to be proected. * ■ ' Unselfish service is to be. rendered by every employee and under the shelter of his fidelity corporate Interests are to be safeguarded. Hemamber, it is “a man,” any man, every man, who is required to repeat the inspiring and sheltering ministry of thu eternal rocks which Isaiah saw. '