Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1911 — Page 3

The Joy Of Hard Work

Eugene Thwing in c Che Christian Herald >,

n|M THE greatest fun in the ' world is work done heartijf JHTV ily and well. To every man and woman It Is given to know the joy and dignity of labor, yet thousands refuse the precious gift and blindly complain of the “grinding, crushing foil" lives,” while others, even more pltlar hie, regard labor with contempt and try to shut out the laborer from “‘good society.” We read In a contemporary that "much humbug Is drooled about the ‘dignity of labor.’ There Is a great deal more dignity in rest. People work because they have to, not because they want to. ' To be sure, some folks pretend or really think that they do like work. Such a feeling, If genuine, Is a preversion arising from habit. Not only Is there no merit In work, but the institution Itself has a disgraceful origin and springs from the crafty counsels of the serpent, more subtle than any beast of the field, from the apple and feminine curiosity and Adam’s Inexperience. As a reminder and memorial of original sin, labor and the bread eaten In the sweat of the face •re Justly painful to every sensitive soul.”

The writer who so bitterly preaches rebellion against the richest and'most blessed thing In life has not read his Bible aright. Work had no Buch origin as he describes. "In the beginning” God himself set the example of work, and when his great task was done he looked his work over “and behold it was very good.” He felt the satisfaction which comes from work well done, and he “rested on the seventh day from all his work." The vefy first gift to man, before sin came, was work. He was commanded to "replenish the earth and subdue It.” That mighty task has kept him busy irom that day until now. Christ’s word to man was, “My Father worketh hitherto and I work. . . . The works that I do shall ye do also, and greater works than these shall ye do." Thus work had the loftiest possible origin, Imparting to It a dignity and nobility beyond measure.

Wrong Vlpw of Work.

When work might be made to fill the life with glory, Isn’t It a pity that so many Insist upon making It a drudgery and regarding It with gloom and hopelessness? “Where there is no vision the people perish.” When once the eye of the soul has beheld the vision, life and all It holds is transformed. Hard work becomes exhilarating pleasure; labor becomes service; obstacles become opportunities. The difference Is in the worker rather than in the work. When the new parliament buildings of the Dominion of Canada were being reared, a visitor stopped to speak to a number of workmen who were cutting stone. The visitor asked one man what he was dolpg, and replied that he ttas earning two dollars and a half a day. He asked a second man the same question, and pointing to a chart spread before him the man said he was trying to make the stone on ■ which he wag working correspond with the chart. A third man was asked what he was doing. All, three men were, to outward appearances, engaged in precisely the same work. But the third man let his mallet rest a moment, and straightening himself up, pointed proudly to the great building, the graceful lines of which were beginning to show in the mas;sive pile above them. He thought of the glory of the completed building, and what it meant, and he replied eagerly, “I am helping to make that.” This man had a vision; he was doing eomeming worth while. The task of earning money may not be worth while; the task of blindly following a pattern may not be worth while; but to have a part in making something good—whether -It be a cathedral or a character —that is worth while. ,

Labor Should Be Matter of Love. Work must be an expression of love —some definite love which can find In no other way so satisfying an ex* presslon. That man who was enjoying his work with mallet and chisel loved his province, loved bis nation, and loved his sovereign. Their glory was his glory, and to enhance their glory was his joy. The same rule holds true In the kitchen, or the barn, qr the office. Household duties are intolerable when they are done without the light and joy of love; but the girl who would rather sweep the floor and wash the dishes In order that mother may have an hour more of rest —that girl, If you will open the door just now, you will find singing at her work. All work Is service; all worthy service may be an ‘of love, and love Is the essence of joy. The Inevitable conclusion Is that all work, to bring real joy to the worker, must take him out of himself—must In some way, directly or Indirectly, be service for others. Selfishness seeks for joy and finds It not Unselfish service finds joy without searching. Every achievement, every realisation of a blessing conferred upon another. Is an Inspiration and an Incentive to further effort The power to change the life of another man, or woman, or child. Is a wonderful responsibility. When that power Is used to bless, the |oy It brings la beyond measure.

HANDY IN EVERY FARM HOUSE

Installment of Dumb Waiter Will Save Many Steps for Mistress of the Kitchen. ;‘~-~ ” In every house where the kitchen is located over the cellar a wonderful saving of steps, to say nothing of other considerations, can be secured with a small outlay by means of a dumb waiter, -which may be placed In any convenient corner out of the way. For the ordinary family the waiter la two felt" square; shelves ohe foot apart (four of them) counting the top as one. The waiter Is framed with two sldefi open and two solid. The openings, one Into the kitchen and the other Into the dining room. The closed sides have strips, one on each side that moves In a groove in a case; these are In the center, just opposite

the*place where the cords are fastened. The case in which the waiter ascends and descends is made onefourth inch larger than the waiter to permit of Its being easy to work. The weight hangs In a case made In the frame running the entire depth of the shaft. They should correspond In weight. An extra vjelght and pulley should be arranged to be attached when the waiter is loaded to be lowered. This extra pulley Is attached to the upper joist, exactly over the center of the waiter, and is fastened to the center of the top shelf by means of a hook and staple in the top of the waiter. This extra weight should be atr tached every time the waiter Is raised, this will prevent Its being lowered too hurriedly, and will, also prevent any accident, the spilling <vlng of dishes, etc., by sudden stops at the bottom. two sides of the frame in the basement of tne cellar should be framed tight, the ouier two enclosed with fly screen wire, one side to open. There Is an opening extending below the cellar floor, five feet; this will enclose the three lower shelves, and the top shelf will answer for a top to exclude the light when the waiter Is below. Thip lower compartment does away with all Ice and ice boxes. The upper doors, those opening Into the rooms above should be hung so as to work up and down on cords and weights.— J. W. Griffin.

Peeling Peaches With Lye.

, m While there Is no way to remove the peeling from fruit except with the parer or knife, the outer or rough fuzzy covering may be removed from the peach by using lye, and this process Is often resorted to when the fruit Is used in jam. Dissolve a tablespoonful of lye in a gallon of warm water or more in the same proportion; allow the peaches to remain in this solution for five minutes, then remove to a vessel of cold water, rinse and wipe dry with a cloth. They are then ready to cut oft without further paring.

A Cool Beverage.

Take rhubarb, one pound to a little more than a gallon of water, boil until soft, wash through a colander, then boll up again with one gallon of cold water, three lemons sliced and bruised, with half pound of sugar or little more. A mixture of red currants and raspberries bruised with half a pound of sugar well strained into gallon of water will make an excellent drink and allay thirst. To Vender them more cooling a little cream of tartar or citric acid may be added.

Canned Strawberries.

For each pound of berries allow ft pound of sugar. Make a syrup by adding -1 tablespoon of water to a pound of sugar. Let it boll up a minute or two and skim; then add enough berries to cover the top, boil up once and skim off into hot jars. Repeat until all' the berries are used. Boil the syrup away until there is just enough to fill thg jure full, then seal.

Poor Man’s Stew.

Slice thin three or four pieces of salt pork, fry until brown, then quarter, several (or as few as desired) onions, plape them with pork, cut up a few carrots (or one according to size) and turnips, cover with water and bgll one hour. Place potatoes in one-half hour before the other vegetables -ere done. This is a good economy dish.

Walnut Cream Salad. '

Rob a cream cheese into a paste with a silver fork, by adding a tablespoon butter. Season with salt and red pepper. Make id. email bails and put one-half English walnut on each Side. Lay on lettuce leaves and dress with a French dressing.

APPRECIATES PLAYERS UNDER CONTRACT

Manager Fred Clarke of Pittsburg Pirates.

Fred Clarke of Pittsburg, returned after a scouting trip. Besieged by the eager correspondents the manager protested that there was nothing doing—that he had not signed any new player or that he hadn’t talked trades—and that he hadn't accomplished anything at all, at all. “What did you do on your trip?" the writer asked Clarke. “Nothing,” was the smiling rejoinder. “Did you uncover any phenoms?” “Not any, but I did learn one thing.” “What was that?”

“CHICK” FRASER IS ALL IN

Former National Leaguer Is Released Unconditionally by New Orleans Club of Southern. ✓ The New Orleans Southern league club today Announced the sale of Outfielder Barr to the Cleveland club. Bhrr will not report to Cleveland un-

"Chick” Eraser.

U 1 the end of the season. The New Orleans manager also gave Pitcher "Chick" Fraser, the former National leaguer, his unconditional release.

Dolly Gray’s Three-Bagger.

Some of the pinch hitters are like Dolly Gray of Washington. The first year Gray was In fast company. Cantlllon sent the tall pitcher up as a pinch hitter every time one was needed and Oray religiously fanned, accumulating a batting average of something like .007 in April, May and June. When a scribe asked Cantlllon oni afternoon why he persistently sent up Gray, Joe indignantly re•ponded: “Great guns, man, you ought to have seen the three-bagger that fellow hit when we were playing Galveston March 22.” • ‘ I

“Why, to appreciate more than ever the players we now have under contract. Say for me that we do appreciate these men, no matter what any person or persons say.”

Greased Bail In New York.

The visiting teams have again unearthed that old story about the balls being greased on the Polo grounds. There is a soil over in New Jersey that makes the ball feel grpasy when it is applied, and that Is what the Cardinals and Pirates are accusing McGraw of having around the pitcher’s box.

AROUND THE BASES

Tigers so far show no signs of slowing up In their pace. Too many managers seem to cause dissatisfaction in Beantown. The fighting spirit of the White Sox is always present this season. The expected slump of the “Tygers" seems indefinitely postponed. Vic Saier has Improved a hundred per cent under Chance’s tutelage. Egan shows them that the old man has not gone back so far as they thought. In the days of the slugging baseball teams five hits make It look like an air tight game. Milan, the Washington outfielder, Is considered Cobb’s only rival in hitting this year by some critics. The best way to become a great ball player seems to lie in avoiding all the advice of "inside ball” experts. The Highlanders are to get Third Baseman Dolan from the Jersey -City club at the end of the Eastern league season. Tony Smith, who was called in by Brooklyn when Dolly Stark was crippled, and BertTooley went wrong, im« been released to Toledo. Jakey Atz’s success with Providence was a flash only. "There does not seem to be any hope for the Grays,'' mourns a Providence writer. Fred Clarke of the Pirates has decided that kicking on the decisions of umpires does not pay, and has ordered his players to stop It also. President Murphy admits he made a bad play when he let Luderus slip away. He has one consolation—-there are many others In the same boat ' Roy Thomas, the veteran outfielder, Is trying hard for a base on balls every time he comes up to bat. He is making the pitchers put them over to him. Ted Sullivan Is making a tour of the east. He has been after John I. Taylor to take the Red Sox to Tioga, Texas, to train next spring. Ted is a good booster for tire Lone Star state. The combination of Irish and Germans on a ball team seems to be the right one for a winner. The Cubs have the mixture and the Phillies are also made up of the Celtic and Teuton races. Owner Grayson of Louisville protested, It Is said, because St Paul gave Catcher Spencer his unconditional release without first asking him If he wanted to buy the player. That’s a new one. The National league is staging the banner show this year. The American league has had the call on the close races for several seasons, and it to no more than right that It should he passed around. Connie Mack Is anxious to secure Jack Knight again. The Highlander shortstop started his career with the Philadelphia team, but he was a rad youth then and had not developed lntt the star that be la now.

CHANGE IN PLAYER’S WORTH

One Year He May look Like a Million Dollars to Owner and Foflowing Season Prove Failure.

Star ball players are certainly a mighty risky commodity. One year a player may show’ to advantage, look like a million dollars, cause his owner to turn down all kinds of fabulous offers for his services, and the following year, proves a big failure. While every club owner is In the baseball business to get the money, still it’s the one ambition of every owner and manager to win pennants, otherwise there would be much more trading and selling of players among the various clubs of, the majors and minors. Civic pride often keeps an owner from selling 6ne of his stars for a big sum, V;;: Four years ago George Stone of the St Louis club led the American league In batting. Stone and his big stick was feared by every pitcher in the Johnsonian circuit. Every club owner would have been delighted to buy Stone at most any old price, while the St. Louis fans simply Idolized their batting king. All kinds of offers were made Owner Hedges, but he turned a deaf ear to them. Stone was expected to be the big noise the following year, but he proved a rank disappointment Trouble over salary caused him to get a late start Injuries set hint back several times just as be was getting Into his stride and all in all he had a bad year. One of the injuries to his ankle slowed him up considerably and since then a number of hits that be used to beat out go in the putout column. Three years ago Stone would have brought down something like SIO,OOO. A few years ago Manager McGraw of the New York Giants offered the St. Louis Nationals SIO,OOO for Pitcher Karger and was willing to throjr in a couple of young pitchers to boot. Owner Robinson of the Cardinals wanted to give the fans a winner and turned down the offer without even hesitating. Karger failed to show the next year, was traded to Cincinnati and then turned loose to a minor league club- He is now with the Boston Americans, but Is nothing like the pitcher he was a few years ago. Not so many years ago Elmer Flick, Jack Powell, Lou Criger, Terry Turner, Herman Schaefer, Lee Tannehlll, Bill Bradley, Bill Donovan and a host of other stars would have brought fancy prices were they placed on the auction block of baseball. While quite a few of the boys are still valuable to have around, there wouldn’t be any riot should they be offered for sale, and they wouldn't bring one-fifth the price they would have commanded five years ago. Good players are players who take long chances. Players who take unusual risks are, of course, very liable to injury, and slight injuries often ruin star players. Yes, indeed, star ball players are more delicate than the daintiest bits of bric-a-brac.

CALLAHAN IS BIG SURPRISE

Former White Box Manager and Player Is Proving Bensation of Beason In American League. Jimmy Callahan, one of the veterans of the diamond, is the surprise of the baseball season. Jimmy was manager of the Chicago White Sox several years ago and left the club to manage a semi-professional team In the Windy city. Now he la back with the Sox again and apparently playing as good ball as he ever did. Speaking of his come back Jimmy says: “I’ll tell you one thing; It’s not old age' that stops most ball players, It’s the knee. That’s what put out Hamilton, McGraw, Bill Lange, Jack Doyle and Emmet Heldrick. That knee cap will stop any of them. But that’s not my case. I quit when I was managing the Sox. I was having too good a time. But I haven’t beeA really out of It. I was playing ball all the time In Chicago. At one time I had Mike Donlln, Tom Hughes, Jake Stahl, Barry McCormick and myself on my team. That’s pretty nearly a ball club. "As to the reasons for my coming back there are four or five of them.

Jimmy Callahan.

In the first place, 1 needed the money aiid semi-pro hall didn’t look so good to me, for the party I rented from raised the rent on me from SI,OOO to $5,000 a year. Besides, the American association has just Invested $82,000 In real estate in Chicago and you know what they would do to the semipros. When 1 started they had two other clubs. Now there are 11 semipro dubs in Chicago. One day 1 was pro clubs In Chicago. One day I met Commy and be said he’d like to have me with him again. I was ineligible at the time, so 1 said to him: 'You release me.* He did and they reinstated me and here I am.”

FOUR TASTY DISHES

APPROPRIATE AND DAINTY FOR TABLE IN SUMMER’ ■ ■■■—■■ i . v . r German Potato Pancakes Excellent ft Properly Made—Jam Cake . and Banana Pie Equally Good, for the Dessert. German Potato akrr about six or eight large potatoes, peel and grate, pour over this half a cup of boiling milk or hot cream; beat Into it three or four eggs, a teaspoon - of salt and a cup of bread or cracker crumbs. If you like a little grated onion, do not use so many eggs. Bake like hot cakes. Spread the mixture rather thin. Excellent if made right. Jam Cake —Two eggs, one cup sugar, butter the'slze of a walnut, half a cup of Jam (blackberry or strawberry>. two cups of flour, one scant teaspoon of soda; one cup of baking powder, two tablespoons of sour milk «r one tablespoon of sweet milk, spices If liked, a fourth of a teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Bake in layers and put together with whipped cream or soft frosting. If made right the dough will look rather stiff, otherwise it will fall. Tastes like honeycomb. Banana Pie —Line a deep tin with nice rich pie crust, fill it with sliced bananas, pour over this the juice of half a lemon and half a cup of sugar,, set In the hot oven and after 10 minuates pour over this egg, a. cup filled up with milk and a speck of salt. Beat the white of one or two eggs and spread on top after the piela baked and brown slightly. Or leave out the eggs and after the bananas are baked pour over some whipped cream. To Bave Dishes When Making * Cake—Take the same cup you measure the sugar in for the flour (after you have turned the same Into the cakedish), the measure the butter and lastly the milk. Take the same spoon for measuring salt, baking powder and flavoring. After the flour is measured turn It into the sieve vrith the baking powder and sift it onto a newspaper or other paper; when ready with the Ingredients pour the flour back:. Into the sieve and sift It Into the rest.

FOR THE UNEXPECTED GUEST

Dainty Club Bteak About as Good, a Dish as Can Be Prepared in a Hurry. Prepare vegetables as follows: Potatoes mashed and beaten with a little cream until light and smooth, button mushrooms fried In butter, creamed cauliflower, French peas and some button onions stewed until tender, then fried in butter. Broil a large porterhouse steak under a clear flame and put on a hot platter. At the two ends and middle of the sides make four large potato roses by squeezing the mashed potatoes through a pastry bag or paper cone. Then arrange the caulifloker, mushrooms and onionsin little piles, leaving places for four turnip cups filled with the French, peas. These are made by cooking: thick slices of white until tender. Then with a small vegetable knife scoop them out and shape the bottom by removing some of the turnip until it is in the shape of a shallow cup. The peas, which have been cooked with a little cream and butter, are piled in these cups, and add with a few sprigs of parsley the finishing touches. Nothing ’ could be more acceptable than this steak when the man of the house brings home company to dinner. Cleaning Worn Cloth. To revive the appearance of a suit that is becoming so worn as to be shiny in certain spots, a bit of distilled white vinegar, diluted in water, rubbed on with a white woolen cloth will raise the nap and give it a lock of newness that will make the suit of good service for some weeks more. This is a good hint to take advantage of, for it can save one additional expense, especially when wanting totide over into the next season, when a heavier or lighter cloth is more appropriate. ' . Codfish 8a lad. Tear into narrow strips a pound of old-fashioned salt codfish, soak over night; next morning squeeze out the water, put in a saucepan well covered with cold water; after this steams up boil 20 minutes; drain and squeeze out the water, separate the pieces, put them in a salad-bowl with an equ?l quantity of boiled potato, one hardboiled egg, a few anchovies if you have them, a chopped pickle with or without lettuce and piask with mayonnaise dressing. ' Fruit Bandwlches. Fruit sandwiches to serve with lemonade —Cut large raisins in two lengthwise, remove seeds and lay close together between thin slices of buttered bread. Or slice bananas sod large strawberries and lay them between bread in the same manmr. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Thebread may be spread with thick cream Instead of butter. - 1 - Laundering Hint. In laundering skirts made of piqu* cotton goods or of woolen material. It is better to pin them to the l.oe by the waistband so that they will hang straight down, Instead of by the hem. If pinned at the .top tiiey will shrink evenly all around instead * sagging as they too oltvh Co by the Jther method. A PT Ij.' t