Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1910 — Page 3

RAISE FINE DATES

Palms Thrive in Sun of Southern California. Demonstrated That Condition* In Coachella Valley Ar* Favorable to Development of First-Class Fruit. Los Angeles, Cal.—The date industry In California promises to become a factor in the fruit markets of the world, for it has been proved that the conditions in the Coachella valey are more favorable to the development of the date of first quality than of any other country where the date is grown. It has also been demonstrated that a much larger percentage of first quality dates can be Produced from the seed than in the Saharan cases. » tn planting the date seed plant in rows thirty feet apart, placing the seed about eighteen inches apart in e row, thus planting about one housand seed to the acre. During the first few years any kind of crop wk be cul tivated between the rows. When the palm is three years old it begins to blossom. At this time the process of thinning begins, and the male plants can be taken up and sent to the city to be planted as ornamental trees. From this time until after the fifth year the thinning and rearranging In rows must be properly attended to and, according to best authority, growers may expect at least |°ne hundred plants of the best quality -of dates out .of the one thousand seeds planted to the acre, and as the

FINDS QUEER TRIBE

Dutch Explorer Tells of Wild Folk in New Guinea. Mysterious Mountain People Who, With Their Pigs, Live In Little Huts Raised Ten Feet From Ground. London.—Mr. H. A. Lorentz, a Dutch explorer, the first white man to penetrate into the mysterious central snow irange of New Guinea, has returned to Europe with a thrilling story of adventures. —— The explorer discovered a mysterious mountain tribe who, with their pigs, lived in little huts raised ten feet from the ground, into which both |the people and Uie animals climbed by iway of notched boards. Doctor Lorentz says: “Suddenly we came acrons a secluded valley which, to our amazeiment, we found to be thickly populated. We were walking In single file (through the twilight shade of the (great forest when we heArd mysterl'ous calls. Suddenly a small band of (savages, all armed with bows and ar>rows and stone axes, ran out from the ijungle. They approached us with hands outstretched, offering us sweet potatoes as a sign of' friendship. "On our arrival in their village the ipeople performed a curious ceremony, by which they made us blood brothers. (They sacrificed a pig and smeared each of us on the forehead with the creature's blood. This proved a somewhat awkward attention in the cases of our Mohammedan soldiers, but at my earnest request they agreed to submit, provided that we allowed them

Fire Horses “Come Back”

Animal* In Denver Department for Ten Yeara Run Away From Life of Ease on Ranch. X _ Denver.—The story of Larry and Spot, two horses which were for ten years at the fire station of Blake street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, will appeal to all lovera of horses. Both the horses were large, white animals with black spots. They were the pets of the boys at the station. For ten years they had run to every fire in their district and they had learned to answer the call of the gongs with almost as much Intelligence *8 the firemen themselves. ' They were never more delighted than when they were in the harness and making their way, full speed, down the street, their bodies quivering with the excitement and Joy of the run. But Larry and Spot were not young when they were put upon the fire wagons, and so, after ten years of hard service, they began to show their age and bad to be sold. The firemen when they saw that they must part With their old animal friends were as sad as If two of the boys were leaving them. • . A farmer living about twenty miles from Denver was the buyer of the horses, aad the night he went to the Are statioo to get the animals the heart of every fireman sank. Larry and Spot were led away with drooping heads. There** 8 many a fireman who had been around the station for years, and who had come to listen for the nicker of the creatures, who felt a bit lonesome that night Larry and Spot, however, were not ready to tf ve up the,r old friends, and the next morning at daybreak the men were swrt eDed to the of A. ’

WINNING THE RECORD FOR ALTITUDE

NEW YORK.—Among the notable feats at the international aviation meet at Belmont park was that of Ralph Johnstone, who established a new world's record for altitude. In a “baby Wright roadster" of only 35 horse power he reached a height of 9,714 feet, exceeding by 523 feet the Might attained in France on October 1 by Henry W. Wnymalon of Holland. Johnstone has been flying only since last June.

plants should be at least thirty feet apart each way when twelve or fifteen years of age, they will have fifty good plants to the acre to dispose of. but when one considers the profit to be derived from the first offshoots, which may be expected from a five-year-old plant, one will be tempted to leave the plants -fifteen feet in the row for a few years at least A conservative estimate places an average of four offshoots to the plant five years old, and an average of one offshoot to the plant a year for the next five years. The offshoot always bears fruit identical with the parent tree. In this way the parties who plant the first seedling orchard will be in line

immediately afterwards to undergo ceremonial washing. “These people lived in little huts, all of which were raised about ten feet from the ground, access being obtained by a notched pole. These little-huts we found to be divided into two, one-half being used for domestic animals—mostly pigs, which presumably, also climbed the rough ladder —and the other half by the people themselves. These natives are not dwarfs. We noticed that some of the worsen had the middle finger of the left hand cut off. “We had no means of discovering the meaning of this, although it was blear that the mutilation was made during youth. Many of the men, too, had the upper portion of one of their

Says World is Going Mad

Dr. Forbes Winslow, Lunacy Expert, Takes Pessimistic View of Future ' s —Pace Is Rapid. London.—According to Dr. Forbes Winslow, who acquired International celebrity by his sedulous Insistence on his theory that “Jack the Ripper" was a homicidal maniac, the world Is going mad. Doctor Winslow considers that the rate of progress to that consummation is shockingly rapid. In a book of reminiscences published recently this expert In criminal lunacy says: “By a simple arithmetical calculation it can be shown the exact year when there will be more Insane persons in the world than sane. We in England are gradually approaching,

hoofs outside of the firehouse. • One of the men sneaked down to the front of the station. There a strange sight confronted him. Larry and Spot were standing at the entrance with their noses over the chains, waiting to be admitted. Some of the firemen, when they were told of the incident by their comrade, ran down to the entrance and petted the horses. Larry and Spot were admitted and the firemen communicated with the farmer who had purchased the aniipals. He arrived later and took the horses back to his ranch.

OILING LANE ON ATLANTIC

With Ocean Highway Thus Smoothed Passengers May Cross Without Fear of New York.—Plans are being considered by the United States hydrographic office to keep an ocean lane between New York and Europe smooth by systematic oiling. With the Atlantic highway smoothed out in this way, passengers may cross' 1 with perfect comfort, and seasickness will be a thing of the past. It has been estimated that one quart of oil poured upon the waves every .hour by every ship in the trans-Atlantic service would keep the billows smooth in any ordinary weather. The cheapest grade of petroleum will answer the purpose, and it is estimated that an expenditure of $25 per trip will pay the expense. The ocean lane is so crowded nowadays that it is believed that the oil carried away by the ocean currents will be restored frequently enough to keep the ocean highway smooth.. The oil quickly, and a very thin covering suffices to still the water.

to reap a rich harvest- for their surplus offshoots, for the \lmported offshoots will be very expensive for several years to come, besides, after transporting the offshoots on the backs of camels across the burning sands of the Sahara desert to the* ocean liner, lying upon the docks at both ends of the line, then transported by rail to the Indicated farms, the plants will certainly be considerably weakened, and- will require a year of tender nursing. Even though the plants cost $25 each, and not more than one-half survive the rough treatment, there yet remains a fortune to the one who engages In the date business in this favored location.

ears removed. Unlike all Papuan tribes I have met they were entirely free from skin disease. None of whom wore a stitch of clothing. While the tribes on the coast never smoke, these mountain people grow tobacco, which they smoke in their pipes.

Boy Grieved for Cat.

New York.—Frank Alllghietta, ten years old, has had his first square meal in three days. A big Maltese has been his pet for years. Three days ago the cat was taken by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The lad began pining to such an extent that he could not eat His family was on the verge of summoning a doctor, when the cat turned up. How it escaped the society agents is unknown. The sight of his old companion was a tonic for the boy, who ate with his family for the first time in three days.

with the decadence of our youth, near proximity to a nation of madmen. “By comparing the lunacy statistics of 1869 with those of 1909, four decades having Intervened, by reflections are sad Indeed. A terrible but real curse is in store, and an insane world looks forward to me with certainty in the not far distant future. “In 1869, out of a population of 22,223,299, there were 53,177 registered lunatics in England and Wales, there beirig one lunatic In evAry 418 of total population, whereas in 1909, out of a population of 35,756,615, the number of registered lunatics was 128,787, making on an average one lunatic tn every 278 of population. So that In 40 years an enormous increase In lunacy is seen. Surely a dreadful future for nations still unborn to have to cope with. "These are the facts, and sad to reflect upon. They must be accepted. They cannot in any way be challenged." Doctor Winslow's phraseology Is sometimes unhappy, as when he writes, for instance: “I breathed the atmosphere of lunacy for over sixty years, and the conclusions I arrive at are pessimistic in the extreme."

POKER SKILL PROVE SANITY?

Witkess In Will Contest Case Says Aged Testator Played Very Shrewd Game of Cards. Philadelphia.—The question whether a man’s ability to play poker is proof that he is mentally able to execute a will was put up to Register of Wills David Martin the other day. .Theproceedings were brought to prevent the probate of the testament of Thomas Morgan, who died at the age of eighty years. The testator's daugh-ter-in-law, Nora Morgan, alleged that when he made a will favoring his niece, Rose Devine, he was of unsound mind. Magistrate James A. Briggs, an old friend of Morgan, was called before the register of wills. “Was Mr. Morgan, in your opinion, of unsound mind?" was asked. “His mind always seemed pretty clear to me. I bad often seen him in the office of the water bureau at night playing in a game of poker. He played the game for all it was worth, and there was nothing about the way handled the cards to indicate that his mind was in any way weak.”

Ninety-Pound Sponge.

London. —A consular report from the Bahama Islands describes what is termed "the world's biggest sponge.** It is perfectly round and is six feet in circumference and two feet in diamteter. When taken'from the water it weighed between eighty and ninety pounds.

MANY WAYS OF MAKING SALAD

Mayonnaise Without an Egg Can Be Made With th« Aid of the Following Recipe.

Mayonnaise Without Egg. —Few people know one can make a perfect looking and perfect tasting stiff mayonnaise without an egg. Place a teaspoonful of plain mustard, mixed with » few drops of cold water. In a small bowk Add oil, not necessarily drop by drop, but still rather slowly. Stir vigorously all the while. As it thickens too much to handle comfortably, thin with lemon Juice or vinegar. A little tarragon vinegar is always a great addition to any salad. After the mayonnaise is finished season according to taste and discretion. There is hardly any limit to the quantity of oil that may be used. Less or more mustard may be used, but it must be borne in mind that it is the made mustard that holds the oil together. I generally make a large quantity of mayonnaise at once, using a dessertspoonful of mustard and as much oil as I can afford—enough for several meals. It keeps most excellently in a covered Jar in a cool place. New Salad.—Cut off crusts of white bread (fresh), cut in diamond shape and toast a light brown. On one-half a piece grate the yolk of hard boiled egg, on the other half white of 'egg minced fine, and then place on the slice a sardine; on this lay three strips of sweet green peppers, crossed, putting over the whole a nice mayonnaise dressing; the bread Is then placed in a nest of crisp lettuce leaves, and a thin slice of lemon is placed on each plate. This is a most appetizing way of serving sardines. Try it Philippine Salad.—Cut tomatoes, large white onions, green and sweet red peppers, also cucumbers, in very thin slices, add a good French dressing and let the salad stand for an hour at least on ice in a cool place. Garnish with crisp lettuce leaves before serving. This pretty dish if the different vegetables used are laid in separate circles, alternately. The seeds of the peppers must be carefully removed before they are sliced and the cucumbers peeled.

Banana Puffs.

Beat three eggs until light, add three tablespoons of cold water, one cup of sugar, one-half saltspoon of salt and one cup of. flour sifted with one teaspoon of baking powder, stir in two bananas cut into pieces, fill well-buttered cups half full and steam one hour. Serve with pineapple sauce.

Pineapple sauce.—Put one cup of sugar and thred-fourths of a cup of water in a saucepan, bring to a boiling point and thicken with two teaspoons of cornstarch made smotfth in a little cold Water, remove from fire, cool a little, add one cup of grated pineapple, one tablespoon of lemon juice and one-half cup of orange juice. Stir well and serve.

Pineapple Cream.

Beat the yolks of three eggs slightly, add the juice and grated rind of one lemon, a pinch of salt and half a cupful of sugar. Let simmer on the fire slowly, stirring all the time until it thickens. Then remove and stir in a cupful of canned pineapple grated fine and one and a half tablespoonfuls of gelatine which has previously been soaked in half a cupful of cold water. When the mixture begins to jell stir in half a cupful of cream beaten to a froth and the whites of the three eggs also beaten stiff. Turn into a mold and chill thoroughly until time to serve.

Clams Deliciously Deviled.

For a very delicious dish of deviled clams prepare a cupful of chopped clams and season them with cayenne, salt and juice of lemon. Mix them to a soft, batter-like consistency with the yolks of two eggs and some powdered crackers. Put the mixture into little ramekins, broad-scalloped shells, or into tiny cups, spread the surface with soft butter and bake until well browned. For a change the mixture may be spread over crisp crackers and then browned in the oven.

Molasses Muffins.

Quarter cupful of molasses, three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, three eggs, one-half a cupful of milk, one cupful of flour and three-fourths cupful of rye meal. Mix and sift dry ingredients and remaining ingredients', beat well. Drop from a spoon into smoking hot fat to a golden color. Drain and serve.

Raisin Fudge.

Three cups brown sugar, threefourths cup milk, one-fourth cup cocoa. Stir constantly till it will form a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Add a tiny bit of butter, onehalf teaspoon vanilla and one-third cup of raisins, seeded and torn in two.

To Revive Serge.

If a serge suit becomes a little shiny, try sponging it with warm vinegar, diluted with water, if the vinegar is very stronig. This is not a permanent relief, but certainly will im prove the apeparance'of the garment for a time.

Apple Pancake.

One cup flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one-quarter teaspoon'salt, two eggs. I’4 cups finely chopped apples, milk to make a thin batter. Servr with powdered sugar.

CARE OF THE BROOM

MAKER TELLS HOW TO PROLONG ITS LIFE. It Should Be Swung Back and Forth From a Point Back of Sweeper to -a Place at an Equal Distance In Front. "It makes me sad," said a broom maker, “to see the way people use brooms. The life of a broom could be twice prolonged by proper usage, and used properly it would be vastly easier to use.

“You’ve seen people sweeping ahead of them, pushing stuff with a broom? Why, the best and most perfectly seasoned broomcorn stock that ever was put into a broom wouldn’t stand such treatment as that “With such handling splints will break off. The splints remaining, Jagged and uneven, bear unevenly on the surface. You never can sweep clean with it after that “Then you know the majority of sweepers always sweep with the same side of the broom to the front, and in this way they soon get the broom lopsided, so that they can't use it any other way. There couldn't be a worse way. “Used in this manner the points of the splints get bent all one way and then they meet together at their ends. They don’t bite, they don’t take hold of dust, as they are meant to do, they don’t sweep clean, and when a broom has come to this condition the sweeper is less careful of it, for then It is not so good a broom. Such a broom the sweeper feels that he may push ahead of him; and when he does this with it the broom is finally and irretrievably ruined. “Of course the correct way to use a broom is with the hA-ndle, in its initial position, held vertically, so that all the splints in the face of the broom will take hold at the same time and evenly. In sweeping the broom should be swung back and forth from a point back of the sweeper to a point at an equal distance in front That is the proper way to use a broom, and then every day the sweeper should turn the broom around, so as to sweep with a different side daily. Used in this manner and turned daily the broom wears down evenly. “I have seen —a delight to the professional eye and a comfort to everybody who likes to see any implement used to the best advantage, thoughtfully and considerately—l have seen brooms that had been so used that they had worn down almost to the binding threads, but that still bit beautifully. I am perfectly well aware that brooms' carelessly used, as commonly they are, wear out faster, with a corresponding benefit to broom manufacturers; but still I do really hate to see anybody misuse a broom.**

Cheap Ginger Bread.

One cup sugar, one cup syrup, one cup sour milk, three tablespoons melted lard or butter, four cups sifted flour, one scant teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon cinnamon, pinch cloves, one cup chopped raisins, one scant teaspoon soda. In the flour put ginger, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves. Have sugar in mixing bowl, turn on the syrup, put soda in sour milk, put into sugar and syrup, then the melted butter or lard, flour the raisins, turn in, and beat thoroughly. Bake until successfully tried with a straw.

Plum Butter.

Wash the plums well, drain and cook without water, until soft; use an equal amount of sugar to the amount of plum. Cook very slowly on the back of the stove until thick and rich. Many object to plum butter on account of its being too strong, but to remedy that one-third apple sauce, which has been put through a sieve, may be added tc two-thirds plum, thus making the plums go farther and also getting rid of that sharp taste. 801 l the plums til! the skins crack in water with a spoonful of soda, to remove the tang.

Chutney Sauce.

Here is a fine rule for chutney sauce: One pound sour apples chopped very fine, one-quarter pound ground ginger, one pound raisins stoned and chopped, onehalf ounce cayenne pepper, one pound brown sugar, one-quarter pound salt, four large onions chopped; mix well, moisten with vinegar and cook slowly until like Jam; after It is cooked add jelly cut in inch pieces, put into jars. It is not necessary to keep airtight /■ .

A Dressmaking Hint.

In stitching the work drops over the machine and often is dragged into the wheel. A plain cretonne curtain, tacked just under the shelf or table of the machine, helps wonderfully with this trouble. Tacks must hot be left out to cat*h on the work.

Sardines and Anchovy Sauce.

Spread slices of fried bread with an efiovy paste, lay a split sardine on each piece. Fill out the edge with chopped olives and pickles, sprinkle with lemon juice and serve either hot or cold.

Coats of All Lengths.

Considerable variety is shown in the new suit coats. The shorter length is receiving the greater attea* ticn, but it is likely that the coats of half and three-quarter lengths will reappear later on

WAR REMINISCENCES

VILLAGE KILLED .IN BATTLE Scene of Many Stirring Events In Early Days of War Marked by Bullet-Pitted Walls. A In the heroic age of the republic, and that means the period of 1381-35, Centerville, Va., was what its name declares. The Civil war threw such a glare upon the haiplet that the eyeof the world was drawn to IL Centerville was a name that was sometimes uttered with a shout, but most times with a sob. . Great legions of the Union and at first great armies and later gaunt armies of the Confederacy grappled around this town, charging, counter-charging; reeling, mangling and winning arid losing as the gods willed or as the heaviest battalions compelled. CenterviHe was a war-racked village over which one army and then another rolled. It was now blue, now gray, changing color in a breath. Mars held red revels here. Four signboards posted at the crossroads where the village stands tell the way. One reads: “To Bull Run, 3 Miles.” The legend on another is: “To Chantilly, 4 Miles.” A third is inscribed: “To Aldle, 12 miles,” The fourth points the way to Fairfax Court House, seven miles away. These signboards, roughly lettered on rough oak boards, are seared and warped by rain and sun. Centerville is not a stirring place. It does not feel' a single busy throb. If ever a village was killed in battle it was Centerville. Today it bears wounds and scars. Bullet-pitted walls and shot-riven trees, sunken graves and vine-veiled redoubts may be seen there. A dozen houses compose the village. Half of them cling tp the roadside as though to feed their lean and leaning sides on such excitement as the visitation of a stranger brings. These wan houses seem to sniff the yellow dust whirled up by slowly passing teams as though it were exhilarating snuff. They bear a feeble and listless look. If they were sentient things it is likely they would say: “Centerville is a little slow Just now, but if ybu’d been here a few years ago, back in the you wouldn’t laugh at us for being a little shaky and out of Joint now.” Rusty cannon ball and shell, harvested from the old camps and the battle blasted fields around, are heaped at tree trunks and in some fence corners, though many of these relic piles have been sold for old iron and

Centerville Today.

tons of the war metal have been converted into implements of peace—per* haps literally into plowshares. There are no houses in Centerville in which gun battels, shattered gun stocks, broken swords, distorted bayonets, tarnished belt buckles and dented canteens are pot used as ornaments.' Shrapnel and canister rest on tall mantelpieces over cavernous fireplaces. Perhaps' there was no regiment in the Union army of Virginia, the army* of the Potomac and the army of northern Virginia that did not march and fight along this highway. The old road, still deep-rutted from the supply* and artillery trains, Is little traveled pow. One may walk miles without meeting a man, but if one ha ve the power to talk with ghosts he should not lack company. The mystic or the medium might see phantom armies traveling the road and the fields abutting it. The stones In this highway were worn by the feet of the hosts of McDowell, Pope, Burnside, Meade, Kearney and Porter, Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, Longstreet, Stuart and hundreds of other soldiers of renown. When McDowell moved to the attack of Beauregard, behind Bull Run it was from hts canjps at Centerville. It was at Centerville he made final effort to rally bls beaten forces. When Jackson dashed upon Pope's rear and burned the Federal stores at Manasgas, he re tiffed to Centerville? It was from Centerville that he moved to SudlejLand Groveton for the second fight. When Pope yielded the field to Jackson and Longstreet he retreated to Centerville. When the troops from the South pressed forward to Chantilly they swarmed through Center ville.