Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — Page 2

STUDY OF CRIMINALS

Bavarian State’s Attorney Writes Article on Juvenile Courts. Munich Prosecutor Finds Less Than , 500 Youthful Offenses in One Year Among More Than 600,000 People. - - 4- ■ ' ' ! New York. —States Attorney Rupprecht of Munich. Bavaria, has written an article for the Munchener Medizinische Wochenschrift on juvenile courts and the study of the juvenile delinquent as the result of his experiences as a practitioner in the children’s court in Munich, concerning which the Medical Record says: “One result of the establishment of children’s courts : hould be a more intelligent study of the juvenile delinquent The boy criminal differs radically from the girl offender. Youthful offenders differ from adults. The children also differ, as to the relative frequency of offenses, according as they dwell in agricultural, manufacturing or commercial communities. 'Tn that city (Munich) the children’s court takes cognizance of all offenders between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, inclusive. The lad or girl of healthy stock must at this period be regarded as potentially a criminal, because character and will are undeveloped, and experience has not yet had its innings. Such must not be confounded with defectives. "Munich has but a small contingent of youthful criminals. In a population of nearly 600,000 there are less than five hundred serious offenses a year committed by juveniles. Petty offenses multiply this five fold, but with these we are not concerned. "Theft is the great offense of youth. It overshadows all others so far that the latter appear almost freakish. The boy steals in an unpremeditated fashion, while the girl has a plan. Boys tend to steal ‘junk’—not to sell, but for making playthings. Girls tend to appropriate cosmetic articles. “We have heard much as to moving picture shows tempting boys to pattern after burglars and highwaymen. This theoretical position may be quite offset by the actual knowledge that in Munich boys steal to be able to visit these entertainments, which, for all we know, may be highly moral. The temptation is so strong that even a 'good’ boy may pilfer the price of the entertainment. He will do as much to get hold of a Nick Carter or Sherlock Holmes story. "The boys in Munich also steal in connection with deep laid plans for visiting the frontier anti fighting savages. But the Bavarian youth must be much more long headed than the Anglo-Saxon in this respect, for he usually steals a horse and firearms before sallying forth. He robs the family strong box for the sinews of war. “Girls sometimes steal to make a present to a favorite school teacher. One took the flowers off a grave for this purpose. "When caught in the act of a theft a boy usually confesses, repents and refuses to betray his associates. A girl lies until the last minute, and then endeavors to throw the blame on some one else. Boys almost always rob in bands; girls usually act alone“A boy seldom robs his employer, but some outsider; the reverse is the case with girls, who, since they pilfer cosmetics, adornments, etc., must almost necessarily rob their mistresses. “The chief value of Rupprecht’s study is that it deals with normal subjects, the policies advisable in dealing with whom have hitherto received comparatively little attention.”

CHINESE SAILORS FEED FISH

Crew of Steamer Chatham Throw Food Overboard for Member Lost by Drowning. Boston.—So that their drowned brother might not feel the pangs of hunger while on the spiritual highroad to the other world, 23 Chinese sailors, comprising the crew of the British steamer Chatham, which reached Boston the other day from the west coast of South America, threw rice and other foodstuffs into the sea all the way from off the coast of Brazil to Boston lightship. Li Chow was the late lamented. Chow fell overboard while engaged in boat drill when the steamer was off the coast of Brazil. The Chatham was stopped and lifeboats launched, but before the speediest of them got within twenty feet of Chow he disappeared beneath the waves. Almost Immediately after the steamer resumed her way the rest of the Chinese on board began stinting themselves and casting overboard what they saved from their own fare so that Chow might not go hungry. That the Chatham encountered severe weather in her 10,000-mile journey was amply testified to by damaged deck fittings and smashed deck houses. The steamer was very hard hit when passing through the Straits of Michigan, sustaining most of the damage a* that period. She was caught in a blizzard that kicked up waves, which in washing over her decks tore up steampipes and washed all movable objects overboard. The. steamer’s hospital was smashed in by one comber and several of the crew had to ding with all their might lest they be carried overboard by the receding water. Throughout most of the passage from Chile to Montevideo

CHICAGO'S MONUMENT TO GOETHE

CHICAGO. —Preparations for the erection of the memorial to the poet Goethe in this city are progressing, and art lovers are congratulating themselves on _ the fact that Chicago is to have a monument that is at once unique and artistic in design. The model selected was the work of Prof. Hermann Hahn of Munich. It is surmounted by an ideal figure of Youth, and bears a portrait of the poet in relief.

IGNORANCE OF LAWS

Much Money Lost Through Carelessness in Using Coins. Jewelers Guilty Every Day of Committing Criminal Offense in Filing One Side of Coin Smooth— Other Offenses. Chicago.—Thousands of dollars are lost yearly by big firms through ignorance or carelessness in observing the federal laws governing abuse of coins. Just lately in Chicago a piano company came to grief in this way. Had they asked the proper authorities (the information would have been furnished gratis) or had they looked up the law they would have found in Section 165, public act No. 350, these words: "Whoever fraudulently, by any art, way or means shall deface, mutilate, impair, diminish, falsify or lighten . . the gold or silver coins Which have been or which may hereafter be coined in the mint of the United States . . . shall be fined not more than $2,000 and imprisonment of not more than five years." Much trouble and expense would have been saved the firm and the government had the law only been read. It all happened in this way : Some clever advertiser conceived the idea of an “ad” of metal just the size of a dime, with the wording and printing placed in such a way that at first glance it would appear as a dime.

the steamer was covered with ice and snow, winter weather prevailing. - The Chatham started from Junin, Chile, on August 22, and called at five ports while en route. At Antofagasta she took on 3,010 tons of silver ore, valued at $500,000, and thus her cargo was one of the most valuable ever brought to Boston from South America.

COWS IN HILARIOUS FROLIC

Make Bacchanalian Raid on Cider Milt, Easily Accumulating Joyous Old Jag. Rocksburg, N. J.—When the workers at the Warren county cider mill, near here, went home the other day at noon they left the trough of apple mash uncovered, with the result that a herd of ten cows from an adjoining farm, wandering in from the inclosure, ate most of it. Farmhands were attracted to the place a short time later. The cows were frisking about, kicking into the air and assuming attitudes that in a human being would have been described as hilarious. Puzzled at these antics, the farmers became worried when one after another of the cows sank to the ground. Believing the prevalent epidemic of hog cholera had reached the supposed immune cows, they summoned a veterinarian, whose diagnosis relieved the anxiety of the situation. y “Just a Jersey cider jag of untoward proportions,” was his verdict The cows’ heads were bathed in ice water and tn a short time they recovered, since which time they have refused all food, subsisting on copious draughts from the pasture spring.

The idea was cleverly executed. A fair imitation of the head of Liberty was on one side and the advertisement on the other. The number was placed where the date on a dime is and the first glance certainly impressed one as the real coin. The other side had a sheaf of wheat and in the center the words. “On Time." The firm had no desire to defraud the public. But unscrupulous people who had access to them did. Several waiters at a summer park lost money by accepting the advertisement for real money, chewing gum machines were filled with them and at last the secret service learned how matters were and began an investigation. There were 150,000 of the metals confiscated. Some stray ones, however, were in circulation and it took almost a year to "hunt them down." Jewelers are guilty every day of committing a criminal offense. Every day some one of them lays himself liable to the law. According to the ordinance quoted above, to mutilate money is an offense in the eyes of the law. Jewelers file one side of a coin smooth and monogram it. - The other side is perfectly good. Pins, bracelets, lockets and numerous other things are made. The owner never means to use the article for money. But some one gets hold of the pin or locket. He thinks ’the money would be more useful and so passes the coin with the pin or ring pulled off and the good side up. To “change the complexion” of a coin also is an offense. That means to dip silver in gold. Only a few days ago a “lot” of shirt sets were confiscated and sent to Washington. The sets were made of Panama halfpennies gilded. Carelessness of the law again. The only kind of coin that can be worn is that so completely mutilated that there can be no chance at all of passing it; for example, the fillgreed dimes that the Mexicans make.

SILK FARM STARTED IN U. S.

Syrian Is Raising Worms and Will Erect Looms In Louisiana—First In South. New Orleans.—An experiment in silk culture which is watched with interest by the United States department of agriculture as well as the silk Industry at large has been started by a Syrian, Kalil Joseph, near Picar yune. La., about 92 miles from New Orleans. r Mr. Joseph has raised many thousands of silk worms from eggs hatched on a farm two miles from Picayune. He says Picayune is an ideal .section for silk culture on account of the numbers of wild mulberry trees there. The silk made from the cocoons is as fine a quality as any made in Syria, which is famous for its silk worm farms. Mr. Joseph -has formed a company capitalized at SIOO,OOO, and will erect looms and handle the silk in much the same way as it is manufactured in the great silk centers. The officers of the company are: Kalil Joseph, president; Elias Salk, vice-president; W. A. Stockstill, secretary, and Charles Marcelle, treasurer. The Kalil plant will be the first bonafide silk farm inthe southland the factory will be the "first In* the country where the raw silk is tratißformed into the finished product at the same place where the silk is a’jun from the cocoons.

BAKES APPLES WITH NUTS

Method of Preparing Fruit Furnishes Agreeable Change for Appetites That Are Palled. Black walnuts, butternuts or hickory nuts are best for this. For a halfdozen large apples a cupful and * 'half of nutmeats will be required, with a. tablespoonful of sugar allowed for each apple. Chop the nutmeats fine and add to the sugar. Core large, fine apples and fill the cavities with the sugar and nuts. Place them in a dripping pan, not too close; pour a cup of boiling water into the pan and bake in a quick oven until the apples are tender, but not broken. Take up carefully into a glass dish, pour the juice in the pan over them, and, by the way, the baking should not be done in tin, which darkens both apples and juice. Whip the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, add three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, flavor with lemon or vanilla and garnish the apples with this. A preserved cherry set on the center of each meringue makes a pretty color effect

BOX FOR SUNNING ARTICLES

This is a box having panes of glass set In as seen in the picture. It is made any size, and the top is opened by three hinges (a, b, c), and knob at d. The bottom is slightly slanted for draining, which runs at (e). All the articles get a good tunning and are kept from gathering dust or any floating matter. About nine panes of glass makes a good size.

Baked Calves’ Head.

Wash the head and place in a large earthen dish, on large iron skewers, laid across the top of the dish; cover it with breadcrumbs, grated nutmeg, chopped sweet herbs, a little fine-cut lemon and flour; thick pieces of butter in the eyes and all over the head, then flour it again; put in the dish a piece of beef, cut small; herbs, an onion, pepper, mace, cloves, a pint of water and -bake the head a fine brown. Boil the brains with sage, separately. When the head is done enough take it out and set by the fire to keep warm, then stir all in the dish together and boil in a stew pan; strain it off, put it in the saucepan again with a piece of butter rolled in flour, the brains and sage chopped*fine, a spoonful of catsup and two spoons of wine. Beat well together and serve in the dish with the head. Leave the tongue in the head.

Peach Dumpling.

One and one-half cupfuls of flour, one and one-half level teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful butter, one-half cupful milk and three peaches. Sift together the flour and baking powder; work in the butter with fingers, add milk, roll about onehalf inch thick. Peel the peaches, cut in halves and remove stones; cut the dough into rounds large enough to inclose the peach halves; place in a buttered steamer and cook over boiling water 20 minutes. Serve with cream sauce. Sauce—One egg, one cupful sugar, one-half cupful thin cream, one-third cupful milk, one-half teaspoonful vanilla; beat the white of egg until stiff; add the yolk; beat in sugar gradually. Dilute the cream with milk; beat until stiff and add the vanilla; add to first mixture. This is delicious;

Ideal Apple Pie.

Pare seven medium-sized apples and core and set them round in a saucepan with one cup of sugar and a teaspoon of lemon juice in water to cover them. Cover and cook slowly until the apples are so soft that they can be pierbed with a fine skewer. They must not be soft enough to break. Take up carefully with a wire spoon or skimmer and put into a deep pie tin lined with rich paste rolled thin. Fill the centers with peach or quince marmalade and put narrow strips of paste across the top, crossing them, to make diamonds. Bake in a quick open, and when barely cool serve with whipped cream.

Marshmallow Fudge.

If your marshmallows get a little stale before using try maty ng marshmallow fudge. Put twb cups granulated sugar and one cup milk In a saucepan and let the mixture come to a boil. Add one square and a half chocolate, grated, and two tablespoonfuls butter. Cook about ten minutes, then remove from the fire and beat until the fudge gets rather stiff, but not so stiff that it will not pour easily. Break marshmallows into several pieces, place in the bottom of a dish and pour the fudge over them.

Orange Omelet.

Half the rind of an orange grated finely and three tabtespoonfuls of orange juice. Beat separately the yolks and whites of three eggs. Sweeten with three tablespo»nfuls of powdered sugar. Add the sugar, and rind and juice to the eggs. Stir In the whites and turn onto a hot buttered omelet pan. When a golden brown, fold and serve on a hot dish,

TASTY DINNER DISHES

MAKING AN ELABORATE SPREAD 18 SERIOUS ERROR. Select Dishes That Can Be Easily and Quickly Made by Home Cook and Rob Dinner Giving of Terrors. - Dinner giving—that desirable form of entertainment —need not be considered a difficulty even by a woman who has but jme servant if dishes which can be easily and quickly made by the home cook are selected. The idea that to invite more than one person to dinner necessitates an elaborate spread is a serious error, for such an entertainment means previous work on the part of the hostess, and if coupled with certainty that the maid cannot serve the meal properly tends to prevent enjoyment and brings a general feeling, of relief when the meal Is over. Moreover, unless all dtetails can be executed and are in accord with one’s usual way of living an elaborate dinner becomes ostentatious, than which nothing is worse form. The art of entertaining is to give enjoyment by having persons within One’s home, and unless they are made comfortable and at ease the purpose fails completely. A dinner for six or eight persons will fill all the requirements of formal entertaining if the menu consists of soup, an entree or fish; a roast with vegetables, a salad, followed by a dessert. Coffee may bs served after Ward in the sitting room. Such a menu is not beyond the power of a simple cook, for soups may be bought ready made, fish or a tempting but not elaborate entree may be prepared previously by the hostess, if a dish that can be warmed over at the required time of serving is chosen. A roast and vegetables should offer no difficulties, and if the' cook cannot compass a salad it, like the entree, may be prepared "previously by the hostess and put on plates ready for the dressing, which the cook can pour over when wanted. Nothing is simpler than to buy dessert, and coffee any one can make. There is never any reason, because a woman does her own cooking, that the serving of food shall not be attractive. It takes little if any longer to decorate a dish with a few leaves of parsley or to drop a flower into each finger bowl, if the housekeeper is so fortunate as to have a garden. Pretty dishes cost no more than plain ones, and it is not a waste of time, but refining, to make a dinner or lunch table decorative.

The home

Cook prunes by pouring hot water over them and letting them stand on the back of the stove a few hours. Gruels are more tempting to the sick if whipped to a froth with an egg-beater, and served in a pretty, dainty cup. When your stocking feet are past mending, cut off the legs for bags to put over the broom when wiping walls or floors. If the neck of a sweater becomes stretched too loose from wearing, shrink it by dipping it in clear, warm water, then drying. Some jars of nicely canned fruit, or glasses of jelly or pickles, make a Christmas present that is always acceptable to the recipient. To prevent woven carpet from unraveling, it is a good plan to unravel about two inches and tie together the ends of warp. When you make doughnuts, remember that it isn’t the hole that fills’ up a hungry boys’ appetite. Put in some doughnut, as well as a great big hole. If the kitchen window is kept open at the top while cooking such foods as cabbage, onions, etc., the unpleasant odor will go out of the window instead of spreading all over the house.

Meat Timbales.

Mix together one and a half pintSfOf chopped soup meat, one teaspoon each of chopped parsley and salt, onehalf cup of grated bread crumbs. Heat a scant cup of atock and melt in it two tablespoons of grease skimmed from soup stock. Add this and two well beaten eggs to the meat. Mix well and pack in pan of warm water and cover with greased paper. Cook in moderate oven one hour for single loaf or 30 minutes for amall molds. Turn out on hot platter and surround with brown sauce.

Almond Horseradish Sauce.

Blanch and chop very fine 24 Jordan almonds. Press the vinegar from four tablespoonfuls of horseradish and add to it the beaten yolk of one egg half a teaspoonful of salt, and, the chopped almonds. Mix these thoroughly, and then stir in one. cupful of whipped cream.—Harper’s Bazar.

The Surprise of the Spiritual

By REV. HUGH T. KERR

TEXT—The kingdom of heaven lg i llce unto treasure hid in a field, the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all th at he hath and knoweth that field.— Matthew XIII. 44. • The discovery of hidden treasures was one of the expectant surprises of the past, said the Rev. Mr. Kerr. The secrecy of the soil was once the safest security. Nero became the laughing stock of his people because he was induced to investigate a marvelous treasure-trove in a distant part of his dominions said to be waiting for a finder. Men of our day, too, have become the laughing stock of their fellows by selling their al) to invest in mountains of rock said to contain acres of gold and stratas of shale and' to secrete rivers of oil. But this man of the parable was no laughing stock, but the wonder of his age and the envy of many men. Without searching for it, he discovered a treasure. The glittering gold shone before his very eyes. According to the law ’of the land it was his. His heart danced for very joy and in his joy he parted with everything he had and possessed himself of that miracle-working field. . God is better far than mountains of gold, said Jesus. To find God, to possess him, is wortfi the sacrifice of every other thing. God is the greatest discovery a man can make. Job cried out for God. Philip asked after the father. Tennyson said the greatest desire of his life was to have a new vision of God. Let us follow the path of this unnamed discoverer and, if we can, learn his secret. He was surprised into his discovery. It was all no unexpected and so amazing and so wonderful that he could not believe his eyes when the glittering gold and the shining silver lay spread out in a heap at' his feet. So does God sometimes surprise the souls of men. We would not be seeking him had we not already been found of him. Our search for God has been so long and so patient as has his search for us. Sometimes he discovers himself to us and ere we know it we are in his presence. Like Livingstone in the African wilderness suddenly facing his discoverer, so does God discover us. Nicodemus may search for God in tne secrecy of the night, but in the broad daylight Jesus reveals himself to the surprised. Samaritan woman. Zacchaeus may climb the tree to see the Christ, but Jesus unexpectedly calls Matthew from his customary place. So do men stumble upon God in life. Men are surprised into the spiritual by the very act of the eternal spirit they are not looking for God, they are found of him. Paul went with slaughter in his heart to Damascus and lo! he found not the Christians but the Christians’ God. Verily, said the prophet, thou art a God that hidest thyself. The spiritual life from beginning to end is one long series of discovery. The hidden treasure of God’s all-pervasive presence is ever revealing new wonders to our souls. He was surprised into a new mental temperament. The very grammar dances with joy. The words as they fell from the lips of Jesus are bubbling over with a new found delight. The man walks as it were on air and lives his life in gladness of a present possession. So rejoiced is he in his new found treasure that he again hides it away as something too precious to exploit, and holds his secret for a little while at least, in selfish monopoly. The spiritual life must ever surprise men into a very intoxication of delight. The early church was one great merry making community. The people of that age did not understand the abounding joy and the overwhelming gladness that possessed the Christians who sang in the midst of defeat and who rejoiced In tribulation. When Gods surprises the soul there is abounding light-heartedness and a burst of melody. Every revival of _true religion has been accompanied with- a burst of song. The miners of Wales went down into the dariipess with gospel songs upon their lips. In the prison-house of Phillippi Paul and Silas sang songs of joy until the very prison was smitten as with an earthquake. God, pity us for our dry-as-dust religion! There is no gospel in the religion of many of our people, and the missing note in our modern Christianity is the note of abounding joy and spiritual cheerfulness. Our missionary meetings are too often places ,of tears and tragedies. Our prater services are too often a followers. x Awake, awßEeT'put on thy beautiful garments. Our Christ is a conqueror and our treasure is pure gold. He was surprised into a new interpretation of sacrifice. In his joy he goeth and selleth all that he has. and buyeth that field. There is nothing to weep over in that transaction. There is no use to shed tears over that sacrifice. Indeed; there is no sacrifice. Men talk about sacrifices, said the Immortal Livingstone; God knows I never made a sacrifice. This from the man who wore his life out to heal the open sore of the world, ancj we, with out petty self-denials talk about sacrifice! If we wish the priceless treasure we must oay the price.