Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1911 — Page 2

CAP and BELLS

STILL HE MISSED SOMETHING

Suburban Amateur Gardener Who Had Improved Small Estate Is Given Severe Jolt. He was a suburban amateur gardener. whose mission in Use was to bore all his friends by asking them down for week-ends, and sbowfng them round his three-feet-by-two estate. Just now he waa boring Jackson, from the office. He allowed him his four rose trees; he •bowed him his pocket shrubbery; ha showed him his half-inch fountain Jet, with Its little basin and pair of goldish; he showed him his summer house, which would almost admit two persons at one and the same time. "Never know what you can do with a bit of ground till you try!” cackled the host, rubbing his hands gleefully. "Quite ao—quite so!” returned Jackson, absently. "But I think you might improve It” "How?” questioned the owner, betwene gratification and wounded pride. “Well,” replied Jackson, “why don’t you take a strip off the flower bed — say, four inches wide —turf Hover, and convert it into golf links?”

Giving Away a Trade Secret.

"I want you to notice that man over there." "What's peculiar about him?” "He’s well off and he got his start as a window dresser.” “A what?" , "Don’t you understand? He fixed up displays in the front windows of stores so as to attract a crowd. I’ve seen people almost fighting for a chance to look at them.” “That takes skill.” "Skill nothing! All he did was to put pictures of prise fighters in ring costume here and there among the exhibits."

Minus the Price.

“Do you think there is any chance •f my poem appearing in your magasine?” asked the bard. "I’m without so much as a quarter in money." “Before you told me your financial situation l thought there might be some chance of your poem appearing in our magazine,” answered the hardhearted editor, “but now I see no hope. Qur advertising rates are $5 an inch.”

LOCK ’EM OUT.

Hiram Hayrick (at the country •tore) —I Bee thet this here Panama canal la goin’ to be a lock canal. Jonas Meadows—Thet’s good. Then they kin lock these domed furriners out

Just Hake.

PioaiM'ttlve Customer—What fish is thatr Fishmonger—That's ’ake, sir Prospective Customer —Oh. indeed. Toothache or headache? Illiterate Fishmonger—Neither, 6lr. It’s ’ake all over, sir.—Tit-Bits.

Fanciest Ever.

New Boarder—Haven’t you got any fancy dishes here? Rural Landlord—Sure thing! Marne, bring the gentleman that mustache cup your grandfather used to use.— Pock

His Whim.

English Waiter—Which aide of the table do you wish to ait on, air? American Guest—l prefer to sit on a chair —Tit Bits.

Physically Impossible.

*1 am told that Miss Pretty face „i_i_ »» •There is no color for the charge.”

A Worse Plight.

"Did your servant laave-you without "Tea; likewise without spoons."

PRETTY WOMAN IN TROUBLE

Severe Post Office Official Finally Yield* to Her Pleading and Glvta Letter Back. The pest office official put bn his severest manner. ~ 7 “You say you mailed the letter about an hour ago at a window in the east corridor?” he asked. T Hie beautiful woman dabbed a handkerchief in her soulful eyes and at the tip of her classic nose. "Yes, yes,” she said. “To whom waa It addressed f’ She told him. “And now you want to stop that let* ter?” he went on, with still more severity. “You want to get it back? Why?” "Because,” said the woman, with unpremeditated frankness, “I am afraid his wife, who has Just arrived in town, will get hold of it” “Oh!” said the stern official. She got the letter.

EVEN 80.

The S^tlstician —I tell you, sir, figures don’t lie. The Bank President —Maybe not, but they have a provoking way of evading the truth when manipulated by a crooked cashier.

The Herb’s Fate.

The hero had returned from the wilds of Africa. ' * “For days,” he related modestly, “I was almost'swallowed by crocodiles.” The hero|po'a eyes softened. "Gracious!” she exclaiiqed sympathetically. “And masticated by man-eating lions." “Oh. Herbert!" “And eaten by cannibals.” He paused for breath. Then what did she do? Womanlike, she devoured him with a glance.

A Doubt.

“I can’t figure out,” said Van Dusen, "whether from what Knlcker told me about the cook’s- answer at the club, when Jorkins pitched Into him about the birds always being generally cold, whether the cook gave him a stinging retort or the bird, cooked as he wanted It.” “What did Knlcker say," asked his friend. “He said. ‘When Jorkins carried oju that way, I tell you. the cook handed him a hot oije.’ ”

His New Password.

T want to change my password,” said the man who had for two years rented a safety deposit box. "Very well,” replied the man In charge. "What is the old one?” "Gladys.” "And what do you wish the new one to be?" "Mabel. Gladys has gone (o Reno."

Not Room for Both.

- “Going to leave us. Brother Goodman?” asked one of the members of the little flock. "Yes,” said the pastor; "Satan Is crowding me. He's interfering with my work, and I don’t seem to be interfering in the least with his; so I am going to move away and leave him in sole possession of the town."

Can You Blame Him?

“It is said,” he remarked, "that the proportion of unmarried women In this country grows larger every year." "Well.” she replied, “it’s only natural that it should be so. seeing that the proportion of real men grows smaller in this country everyyear." Then he got his bat and wept home.

A Fare Guess.

Flub—Who originated the Idea that the longest way ’round was the shortest way home?” Dub—Some taxicab driver, I suppose.—Town Topics.

Fencing.

Bill—l'll admit that prise lighting Is brutal, but did you ever know fencing to hurt, anyone? *v •’ Jill—Why, yes; the barbed-wire kind, I have.—Yonkers Statesman.

A Classy Neighborhood.

"How do you like your neighborhood?” ' ' '• "Fine. We’ve the moat interesting people y6h ever on our party telephone line.”

Feminine Handwriting.

"Is your wife economizing?" -v "1 think SO. She now writes eight words on a page of letter paper Instead of only six”

TO FIT THE EPICURE

DIBHEB THAT WOULD HAVt PLEASED LUCULLUB HIMBELF. » Austria* Goulash Nevsr Dreamt of in Ancient Gourmand’s Philosophy, Nor East Indian Salmon and f Oriental Meat Balls.

Austrian Goulaah. —801 l a calf’s head In salted water until tender; then take the meat from the bones. Fry two fair sized onions and two white potatoes; cut in dice pieces; stir in a scant tables poo nful of flour and some of the water In which the veal head has been cooked. Let these boll up, then add the head meat, one teaspoonful of paprika, a full teaspoonful of butter and salt to taste; let all cook together 16 minutes and serve with dry boiled rice. Salmon, East India Style.—Slice one pound of boiled salmon. Then heat one ounce of butter in a stewpan; add two small onions chopped fine, one ounce of cocoanut and two hard boiled eggs chopped well. Let these eoofc a few minutes, then put in half a pint of cream, letting this boil up once. Put in the fish, one teaspoonful of curry powder, paprika end salt to taste. As curry is already hot, be careful and stir in tWo tablespoonfuls of boiled rice. Berve very hot on toast. Oriental Meat Balia. —Chop one pound of raw beef; season withjrolt, pepper, a little fresh celery, onion and parsley chopped fine. Mix in two bedten eggs, one-half cup of stale bread together. Roll into balls, sprinkle these with flour and cook in hot butter or beef dripplngß until done. Serve on a bed of boiled rice and pour over ail a highly seasoned tomato sauce.

Jewish Soup.-—This is made with dumplings which are called crebchen. Beat three eggs with two tablespoonfuls of water and a pinch of salt; add enough flour to make a stiff dough. Work: well with flour, and roll out very thin; then fold double, cut Into square pieces and fill each with cooked minced veal or chicken. Sprinkle the filling with chopped parsley and bits of butter; put In the dough squares and fold edges securely. Boil up some good soup stock and when this is ready put in the dumplings and boil till done. Serve all together.

Curried Eggs.—Cut hard boiled eggs in halves; then fry a small onion and one cooking apple, chopped, In butter; add toasted breadcrumbs, cream, curry p*wder and salt to taste. Then put in the eggs and let them get hot. Serve with fried bits of bread and a parsley garnißh. Veal Bouffle, French Btyle.—Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter and mix In two tablespoonfuls of flour,' stirring until smooth; add a cup of milk and let it boll up. Then put In minced veal, parsley, salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste. Then stir In the yolks of two eggs. Remove from fire and let cool. Beat the whites of eggs to ...* stiff froth and put them with the meat. Then put the mixture in a buttered dish and bake 20 minutes. Servfe piping hot. Italian Risotto.—Boil one cup of rice in plenty of salted water until soft. Grate Parmesan cheese and cover the rice with It. Let the dish steam In the oven five minutes, then pour over highly-seasoned tomato sauce and serve with fried veal chops.

Sago Pudding, Baked.

One and one-half pints of milk, three tablespoons of sago, rind of half a lemon, three ounces of sugar, four eggs, ounces of butter, grated nutmeg, good pie crust. Put the milk and lemon rind into a stewpan by the until the milk Is flavored. Strain, mix with It the sago and sugar, and simmer for IB minutes. Let the mixture cool a little, and stir into It the eggs well beaten and the butter. Line the edges of a pie dish with a good crust, pour in the pudding and bake from 45 minutes to one hour, or more, If the oven is slow. Serve with stewed prunes.

Indian Pudding.

Take three pints of milk, of which two are scaled, adding three heaping teaspoonfuls of Indian meal wet In a little of the cold milk. 801 l a minute or two before removing from fire, then add two-thirds cup molasses, two thirds cup sugar, two eggs, a little cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake slowly four or five hours. When It has been In the oven about an hour, stir In the remainder of the cold milk and one-half cup pearl tapioca, previously soaked in a little cold water. To be served with cream, either plain or whipped.

Puffed Eggs.

Have hot fat an inch or more in depth, r Carefully break required number of eggs in a bowl, season well with salt and pepper. Hold edge of bowl cloee to fat and slip in the eggs. They will puff up immediately. When brown on the bottom turn the eggs with a skimmer, and let them drain before sliding on platter. A frying basket may be used by setting it upon the bottom of the skillet and proceeding as above, except that the eggs are taken up by merely lifting the basket:

Drying Calery Tops.

Celery Is some times very scarce, and a very good plan is to save the tope of the celery this time of the year. Cat and wash the nice leaves, tie with a cord and hang up to dry. When dry put them In a paper bag and save tor seasoning soups or dressings

TO MAKE VEGETABLE JAM

Takes Place of Different Vegetables --When Added to the Soup Stock, On* bushel of ripe, peeled tomatoes, one quart of onions choped fine, six okra pod* sliced thin, It ears of corn cut from the cob, one teaspoonful of •alt. Cook okra, onions and com separately from the tomatoes, as they take longer to boll and must be thoroughly lone or the mixture will not keep well. When these are cooked add the tomatoes, boll an together for one minute and can at once, boiling hot. One can of this “jam” added to the toup stock takes the place of each one 5f the vegetables named, so you can see how much less troublesome and expensive the mixture Is. Canned tomatoes and canned corn may be used, and carrot cubes are .a nice addition. The above quantity will make about sight quarts.

MAKES DELICIOUS PEA SOUP

Simple Recipe Produces Concoction That Tastes Muoh Like Chicken Soup, Soak over night one and a half '"Slips split peas; four hours before dinner put on to cook In water (say about three pints), with quarter of a teaspoon of cooking soda. Cut up a small carrot Into small dice shape, also onion and celery, add to soup about one hour before serving; also about 15 minutes before dinner add sliced potatoes. You can add one or more of the vegetables mentioned about, the more the better. Also you can put in the bone of any rpast with little meat. Bone from roast pork is fine. Add more water as needed, to make the right thickness. If for a large family put in two cups of split peas. Last of all, cut up fat bacon into dice, fry brown, add soup and serve. Also make soup from the last of roast pork, just the same as pea soup, leav Ing out the peas. It tastes like chicken soup.

The Home

Oil stains on clothing should be covered with soap and washed with cold water before the garment is sent to the laundry. They may be removed with turpentine. To clean bronze ornaments, first brush out the dust, then apply a very little sweet oil all over the article.Polish first with a soft duster, finally with a wash leather. f Tarnished silver is easily cleaned with ptwdered whiting mixed to a paste with ammonia and water. Rub the paste os with one leather and have ancther leather to polish it off again. Ink stains on silver or plated articles may be removed with a paste made of chloride of lime and water. This should be left on for a little while and then washed off In warm water.

Fillings for Baked Apples.

As variety is the spice of life, even In baked appleß, here are a few good fillings that >may be used from time to time. Nuts are especially fine for this. Any kind may be used, but pecans, black walnuts, hickory nuts or butternuts are beat For a dozen large apples a cup and a half of the meats will be required. Chop fine and mix with sugar, allowing a dessertspoonful for each apple. Fill the cavities and bake in the usual way. A half banana sprinkled with sugar and lemon Juice makes a good filling for an apple. Figs and dates steamed, chopped and rolled In sugar; chopped nuts with strips of lomon or orange peel or honey and butter, are all appropriate and usually approved.

A Rinsing Hint.

In washing fabrics of delicate color and in washing blankets be careful to rinse In water the same temperature as that In which the garment la washed. This is particularly necessary In the case of blanketß. as careful washing is often rendered useless by too sudden change of temperature In rinsing. In neither case must the water be too hot.

Baked Apples With Meat.

Wash-and core tart apples, then fill with equal parts Frumbs and mushrooms. Season with catsup or fine herbs as preferred. Put a bit of butter on top of each apple. Add a little water to the baking pan and bake until tender. '

Soup Stock.

combine fish and meat, beef and lamb, chicken and beef. Sometimes a little bacon or pork bones can be added to soup stock tor richer flavoring.

IS GRAVE OF DEAD HOPES

Patent Office, That Inventlohal Chamber of Horror*, Soon to Receive Millionth Patent. In July the United States patent office. will at the present rate issue the one-mlllionth patent. July 31, 1790, the first patent was Issued to Samuel Hopkins for a device for making pearl and pot ashes. Since then one patent has been issued for about every 160 adult American men and women who have lived or are now liivng. The patent office is an inventional chamber of horrors. It is a grave of dead hopes. It is tragedy and comedy; it stores and guards the valuable ideas of men whose brain ohildren have been stolen by ruthless capital, and the crasy concepts of cranks. It

Is no place for an optimist. Patents are largely indicative of local temperament; the “inventive Yankee" is not himself an invention. South Carolina in 1908 took out 65 patents; with a smaller population; Connecticut, the home of the wooden nutmeg, called for 785. Texas, with many more people than Massachusetts, gives the patent office only a quarter as much work. Kansas, teeming with ideas, gets less than enetenth as many of them patented as New York. But Oklahoma nearly equals Virginia. Western and southern inventors turn rather to social and political than to' mechanical inventions.

It is cheap and easy to get a patent, but often difficult and expensive to fight infringement suits. That is one reason wny inventors so often yield valuable ideas to mere capitalists, and, after benefiting the world, die miserably in garrets. It has been claimed that the ease of obtaining patents has worked to the advantage of the United States as compared with Europe, where the process is much less easy, but the system is not ideal.

Every patent is privilege. The more valuable the patent the greater the monopoly; nor does it die with the expiry of the 17 year term. All the basic patents of the telephone monopoly are now free to any one, but the monopoly endures. The basic steel-mak-ing patents are common property, but capital protects Itself and absorbs new Improvements in manufacture. Instead of a monopoly creating patent it is sometimes suggested that every device should be open to any user who will pay the inventor a small royalty. Probably no such change could prevent monopoly so long as the laws which forbid monopolistic combinations. are negligently enforced. —New York World.

Growth of Jewelry Industry.

The phenomenal growth of the jewelry industry, as well as that of 41a-mond-cutting and setting, is shown in recent figures of the year’s importations in these lines. In round figures, during 1910 there were imported into this country diamonds and other precious stones to the value of $48,000,000. Under this general group diamonds formed a very large proportion of the total, a part of them coming in in the natural form, to be cut and set in the United States, another part cut, but not set, the porportion set before being sent to the United States being extremely small and included under the general head “jewelry.” The value of uncut diamonds entering the country in 1910 was $10,250,000; of diamonds cut, but not set, $29,500,000; of other precious stones, cut but not set, $7,750,000, and of jewelry and other manufactures of gold and silver, $3,250,000. Taking the entire group of diamonds and other precious stones the total fur 1910 is $47,750,000, against $42,500,000 in 1907 and $14,600,000 in 1900.

Modern Marriages.

Modern conditions and modern ideas and in particular the lntenser and subtler perceptions of modern life —pross more and more heavily upon a marriage tie whose fashion comes from an earlier and less discriminating time. When the wife was her husband’s subordinate, meeting him simply and uncritically for simple ends, when marriage was a purely domestic relationship, leaving thought and the vivid things of life almost entirely to the unincumbered man, mental and temper*mental incompatibilities, mattered comparatively little. But now the wife and particularly the childless wife, makes unpremeditatedly a relentless demand for a complete association, and the husband exacts unthought of delicacies of understanding and cooperation. People not only think more fully and elaborately about life than they over did before, but marriage obliges us to make that evermore accidented progress a threelegged race of carelessly assorted couples.—H. G. Wells in the Forum.

Sugar From Dahlias.

Although the dahlia is grown solely for its beautiful flowers it is not impossible that one day it may be cultivated for the production of sugar. In its tubers, and also in the roots of chicory, there is from 8 to 11 per cent, of the stareh called inulln, the only raw material from which levulose, the little known fruit sugar, can be- produced economically in considerable quantities. At present the cost of production la so great that levuloae sells for a dollar a pound. Levulose is not only sweeter than ordinary sugar, but it is safe food for diabetics. Am a matter of fact it was as food product that the dahlia flrst was brought out of Mexico. It was thought that cattle would eat the tubers, but they refused point blank. So the dahlia sot Into the flower garden.

HIGH COURT AT WORK

DECISION OF SUPREME JUSTICES CAREFULLY GUARDED. Last Few Lines Bet by Foreman In Government Printing Office So That Compositor May Not Know What Decision Is. On Saturday evening each justice! receives from the chief justice an en-| velope containing the names of thej cases the chief justice hSs decided toj allow the justice to write the opinion*! in, and the chief justice also notifies! the justices of the hour of the con-i ference on Monday morning. The con-} ferencea are usually held in the con-j fereuce room under locked doors. Thej chief Justice presides, and cases are! taken up or postponed according to the wishes ‘of ‘ the justices or theirj readiness to consider them. Each jus-, tice is furnished with a lock book, inj which he may enter the details of aj case, the record of the vote on con-j ference and the final disposition. On a case being assigned by the chief! Justice to a Justice to write the opin-, ion of the court the opinion when written must be agreeable to the ju*; tices. If not, the dissatisfied Justice; will promptly write a dissenting ion. In some instances four of thej justices have each written a dissent-! ing opinion, but the usual custom is for one to write it and announce that the others concur. | Before a case is reached for argument the Justices familiarize themselves with its records and briefs, and when one is directed to write the opinion Jie makes a study of the case; long or short, as its gravity demands. This may take a few days or -months. The opinion is dictated, and after being typewritten it is corrected, boiled down and revised; another copy is then made, further revised and Bent positors who set the type may not know the decision of the case the foreman sets up the last few lines of the opinion, locks them in a safe, and after the opinion is set up he adds them to it, takes two proofs and forwards them under lock and key to the tice. It is again read and revised, and sometimes completely altered and returned to the prtater.'corrected by the latter and nine feyises sent to the justice. If the opinion is now satisfactory to the justice a copy is mailed to each member of the court. These are returned to the justice, and the opinion is revised or—changed, if need be, to conform to their views. If there be a dissenting opinion the justice writing the majority opinion bolds it until the dissent is completed. Then on some Monday, the court being in session, the Justice announces an opinion in the case, giving its number and title, and then proceeds to read it at length to the dozen people who may be present. If there be a dissenting opinion the justice writing the dissent reads it and announces the names of the justices who concur with' him. Afterward the. official reporter of the court sends a verified copy of the opinion to the publishers of the United £tates supreme court reports,, and the case finally becomes one of the thousands in the law libraries to be read and reread if of moment or to! be forgotten if mere detail. —The Independent

Rockefeller Enjoys This.

When he was motoring Mr. Rockefeller was a random story-teller and joker. He once told me that if he could not tell stories and could not: joke he would have been dead years ago. To illustrate his taste in' stories and fun, let me recall a few.' Here is one Mr. Rockefeller credited' to one of his New York lawyers: A farmer was driving a team of horses with a heavy load up a steep! hill. Down the hill came a man in a! a little buggy and cried out; “If, you do not turn out for me I will servei you the same as I did another man I! passed back yonder.”. At this the farmer with the heavyj load tbrned out. When the other mam had passed the farmer stopped his* horses and called after him: “Hey, what did you do to the other fellow 1 back there?” “Oh,’’ was the answer, “I turned out| for him.” This story of a successful! bluff.seemed to tickle Mr. Rockefeller 1 hugely.—American Magazine.

Prehistoric Hairpins.

Eve probably caught up her tresses, when engaged .in housekeeping with long thorns, easily obtainable from the bushes and trees in her front yard. Thornlike pins carved from boxwood, ivory and horn have been found in excavations dating back to the time of the Caesars; and also queer, clumsy combs made of the same materials. In the days of the Caesars, Roman! maids wore their hair In exceedingly, simple fashion, but styles for matrons exceeded In ornateness anything seen! In our day. The Roman lady about, the house wore her hair caught up under a reticulum or heavy net of col-' ored cords; but for great occasions! her locks were dressed by a professional' handler of the curling irons, and not only were bangs, braids and, rats in high favor, bat false hair was much used, captive German maids being denuded of their flaxen braids tori the enhancement of Raman charms

A Coveted Privilege.

“What would women do If they came Into political power?" *1 don’t know,” replied the man who! works In a box offlce. “But I suspect) each would try to pass a law giving) her the right to step in at the front at a line of ticket purchaser*.” ">