Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1912 — Page 2

CHERRY SAW LIGHT

After Clearing Up Many Folks’ Wk-1. Troubles.

By LOUISE MERRIFIELD.

"It doesn’t seem fair for me to take the money and leave you here on this old good-for-nothing farm, Cherry; hut I want to go so, you don’t know* how much I want to go. It means everything to me, you know that, don’t you, Cherry?” "Of course I do, you goose,” Cherry said happily, skimming the bubbling rosy froth off her currant jelly that was cooking away on the stove. “And you musn’t stop to worry one bit over it, pet. Take the money and go on. Climb the path of stars and win out I never wanted stars, anyway. I’d a good deal rather stay here and fuss over my own stars in the garden. Think you can start next week?” Petunia sat on the. high wood box by the west window, and swung her heel idly, hugging one knee. The summer wind, sweet with fragrance of wild clover and buckwheat, bent the tall grass In waves like the sea, with cloud shadows drifting overhead. Outside the window stood the old well, with its pretty pagodashaped roof and the wild cucumber vines over all. Around the corner of‘the old woodshed stalked Mahomet, the proud old Rhode Island red rooster.' On the hillside across the brook rambled the grazing cows, three of them, and a half-grown heifer she had raised herself. It was all mighty dear to her. Cherry and she had both sent up their first protesting cry in the little front bedroom with the cherry trees outside. Cherry had come in July. Sometimes she would laugh over their names when there was still the little fragile mother sitting on the side porch. “Seems like you Just tried to hunt up funny names for us girls, mother.” “I named you for the things I loved best, dearie. It sort of comforted me.” And that would stop argument, for the life at the farm had not been productive of romance, and Cherry felt that any littlq gleam her mother or Pet cherished should be respected. After her mother’s death had come the problem of dividing up. She was thirty-four, Pet only twenty-live. She talked it over with herself and then asked John his opinion. The girls had been asking John his oplnion for years on all weighty matters. Just half a mile down the road was John’s blacksmith shop, and across the road from it the gray house where he had lived alone for ten years. Cherry had slipped on her cape and walked down the road to ask John, and, after an hour’s talk, had returned, much encouraged. •‘The only safe way, Cherry, Is to let hre choose her own road to happiness. The mnute you try to tell any cne how to be happy, you miss fire. It’s a little path we have to find for ourselves. How much money is there?” “Atout two thousand.” “Well, the farm won’t bring any more than that I’d give Pet the cash for her share, and keep the farm for mine.” “That's what I wanted to do, John,” said Cherry, her cheek flushing. “But it seemed selfish. I do love the old place so.” “Another thing," John went on, leaving his anvil and a freshly shaped shoe cooling, while he stood beside her at the wide arching front of the shop, “when the folks were alive, I wanted to get away from here. Didn’t know that, did you? Well, I did. They knew It, too. I was about seventeen. And when I told dad he didn’t say much. He took me out In the shop here, and he trimmed me up good and plenty. That was my last whipping. Yes, I was big enough to lick him, but that was all right. So I didn’t go globe trotting Cherry, and It always left a sort of vacant place inside of me, sort of gone feeling in my heart, like you get in the pit of your stomach when dinner time. I’d let Pet go if I was you.” “I will, John, bless her. Mother'd say so, too.” : ; John glanced sideways at her tearfllled, happy gray eyes, and smiled quizzically. “I guess she would. She didn’t have any better sense than you and me, Cherry, about such things. Your father’d have something to remark, though, wouldn’t he?” Then they had both laughed, remembering Deacon Wilson and his stolid orthodoxy in even home relations. A man or woman was born In a sort of life bondage to the acres of their forefathers, he had preached; but Cherry" put the thought away from her He had been able to hold down her mother for life and choks out every little rosy flicker of romance in her, and now Cherry was conscious of a feeling of relief that he was resting peacefully over in the old burial ground on the hill and beyond the power to stop Pet’s going forth to find her rainbow’s end- . “What are you figuring to do,spedally, dearie?” she asked now, coming across to the window Pat pushed back her curly brown hair restlessly. "See things, don’t you understand, Cherry? Tin sick and tired of looking at these hills forever." - 'Too could go to Europe on two thousand and still have a lot left #*er.” “Oh, dear, there are so many things

1 can do with - two thousand that 1 Just don’t know what to do,” laughed Pet. “Why on earth is it that just as soon as you get a thing you don’t want It.” -j “'That’s just a kink In disposition,” soothed Cherry. “You’ll want it all right. Start In planning and packyou’ll forget to worry.” “Didn’t John want me to stay?” “No; he said it was the best thing for you to go if you wanted to,” Cherry said, placidly. Pet pursed her lips and started out at the rooster. “Aren’t men queer folks?” “Meaning John? Why, he’ll miss you, dear, same as I will, but ws’rS proud to have you go aftd make a name for yourself.” “Aunt Julia says they have been hewers of wood and drawers of water since the days of Adam, and she'd like to know what else the pesky things are good for." Pet spoke dismally and Cherry laughed. “That’s just like her. But that’s what makes the kettle boil. John’ll miss you.” "But he’ll never say one word to keep me from going.” “Wish he would?” The gray eyes were keen now. "Indeed not. He can do ~as be pleases." Cherry was rather thoughtful that afternoon. She cleared away the cooking dishes, and got lunch, and washed up those dishes. Then she went out and sat on the side porch where she could look down the road to the blacksmith shop. She always sat afternoons, and sewed or read, listening to John’s ringing strokes in the distance. It had become part of the dally round of happy, restful days to her. But this afternoon the world looked different. Along about sunset she left Pet to clear up the tea things, and strolled down the road. John was not in the shop. She found him out back of his own kitchen, sitting on the wide oak bench, feet upon a butter tub, reading the daily paper and eating his supper. “John, that’s no way to do,” she said, just as if she didn’t know he always did It summer evenings. “I brought you down some fresh currant jelly and some * tea biscuit. Why don’t you spread, a place for ypurself inside and eat In comfort?” “That’s what I’m doing,” John swung back heartily. “Got some cornbread here, and cold beef, and pickles.” Then Cherry said very firmly, but forcibly, “You need a wife, John.” John took one of the delicate tea biscuit and buttered it with steady fingers. “Not while I’ve got a neighbor like you to send me these.” “John,” persisted Cherry, "do yoff like Pet? Now, wait a minute. Don’t talk till I get through. Sometimes womenfolk don’t know what ails them, when all in the world’s the matter they are heart-hungry. Maybe If that, was what ailed her, Pet would settle right down here and live happy ever after.” “That ain’t what ails her. Cherry.” “How do you know?” “I know, -because I’ve watched her. She’s world hungry. Besides I'm thirty-five.” “But that isn’t old,” Cherry. “Haven't you ever been In love With Anybody, John?” “All my life almost,” > placidly. "Pine tea biscuits, Cherry.” “All your life?” repeated Cherry, blankly. “Did she die?” “Not yet, thank the Lord. She’s right here on earth, clearing up folks’ troubles and —and making tea biscuits.” Then Cherry saw light. John looked up at her, and she caught her breath at what shone In his eyes. Down the road was Pet and her dreams of conquest and wandering. He was silent, and her lashes fell lest he should read too much in her eyes. . “I’ll walk home with you, dear, and we’ll tell Pet,” said John, quietly. "I guess it’s about cherry time.” (Copyright, 1912, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) •

Official Statistics From London.

Here are some figures for persons who like to make comparisons between conditions in New York and London. They are sent by Ujiited States Consul John L. Griffiths, who notes that they are for the administrative district known as the County of London, and not for the so-called Greater London, which overlaps the county and has a population of approximately 7,250,000. The figures, which are from the county council’s report for 1911-1912, are: Population, s 4,522,961; debt, $558,583,989; ratable value, $217,023,144; weddings a year, 40,201; births, 112,795; deaths, 61,909; deaths by accident, 1,846; fires, 3,208; paupers, 140,560; police, 17,293; soldiers, 10,068; postal employees, 49,969; firemen, 1,365; motor cars, 8,318; cattle, 3,371; sheep, 2,941; pigs, 1,948; orchards, 168 acres; corn crops, 242; postoffices, 1,061; letters delivered, 805,900,000; postcards, 199,800,000; telegrams, 25,662,000.

Who Made the First Doll?

History fails to tell the inventor of the doll, which has been such a boon to mankind, not only in quieting the rowdy youngster, but in stimulating a healthy .imagination and affection. Five hundred years before Christ little girls had dolls; there is sure evidence of it, and Edward Lovett, an enthusiastic collector, has a doll from, those dim ages. It is little more than a battered stick now, but is unmistakably a doll. No one could name a fair value for such a pjixe, which stands out as a proof that the child of today is singularly like her little sister of some 2,500 years ago.

GOOD FOR BREAKFAST

VARIOUS DELICACIES TO APPEAL TO MORNING APPETITE. Enjoyment of First Meal Means Starting the Day Well and These May Help to Accomplish That Desired End. Beaten Biscuit —Sift cne tablespoonful of salt with one quart of flour. Add one tablespoonful of lard. Use equal quantities of milk and Ice water to make a stiff dough. Beat and work until it is of a velvety smoothness and beginning to Blister, at least a half hour. Roll to one-half Inch thickness. Cut with small cutt,er. Bake in moderately quick oven. Prick well with fork before baking. •Rice Cooked With Egg—One cup of rice. Wash in warm water, then hot water to get the flour ouV Turn four cups of boiling water onto the rice and a teaspoon of butter (heaping). Cook in double boiler. When done salt and add an egg and stir briskly. Eat with sugar and milk. It is nice without the egg. Aunt Rice Cakes —Boil rice until it is soft, and while warm make into cakes or flat balls. Dip the balls Into beaten egg and then into Indian meal till thoroughly coated. This done, fry them in lard, which is better than butter for this purpose, Serve them with sauce or butter, or with cream and sugar. Breakfast Coffee —Break an egg into a glass'Jar. A bacon jar is best, as it is fitted a cover. Add as much cold water as there is egg, and beat together. Use a tablespoonful of this, mixing it with theAdry coffee and cold water. It will last several days if kept in a cold place. Breakfast Dish —Take one cup of finely minced tongue, veal or lamb, and to it add three tablespoons of grated bread and sufficient cold milk to moisten; season, butter muffin rings or gem pans and half fill with the mixture, packing it in closely. Break a fresh egg on each; sprinkle with salt, pepper and a few cracker crumbs, and put a small lump of butter on each. Bake until egg has set.

Tomato Soy.

Pare four quarts of ripe tomatoes, cut up, boil four hours with eight cups of vinegar, one cup of salt, one tablespoon each of ground cloves, mustard, ginger, allspice, one teaspoon of cayenne. Add one pound of sugar, onequarter pound of mustard seed. Have as thick as catchup. Bottle. Twenty-five large, ripe tomatoes, chop fine, five onions, six green peppers, one cup of BUgar, two small tablespoons of mustard seed, the same of celery seed, salt to taste, one quart of vinegar; boil two hours; bottle while hot. E. C.JR. W.

Walnut Lettuce Triangles.

Use a head of crisp lettuse, onequarter of a pound of walnut meats, a bowl of mayonnaise dressing and a loaf of oatmeal or graham bread. Butter the bread and cut it Into* small triangles, cover them with the lettuce, shredded finely, then add a spoonful and h sprinkling of chopped nuts before pressing oft the top. Garnish each triangle with a whole walnut meat and serve at once on a bed of lettuce leaves.

Molasses Pie.

One whole egg and yolks of three, one-half cup of sugar, one-fourth of butter, two tablespoons of flour, one cup of molasses, one cup of sweet milk, a tiny pinch of soda and one teaspoon of vanila. Mix till smooth. Line twd plates with good crust. Pour In mixture.■ Bake till golden brown. Beat whites of three eggs with onehalf cup sugar. Spread on pies and brown.

Pepper Relish.

One-half peck of green tomatoes, four peppers, four onions chopped, two and one-half cups of salt, one-half cup of sugar; put in a bag one-half ounce each white mustard seed, clove, cinnamon, allspice; boil these in one quart of vinegar 15 minutes, then turn It over the whole, and without cooking put in jars and seal up.

Ironing Tablecloths.

The effect of a lovely linen tablecloth is often spoiled by the network of creases caused by folding it. In the future - when ironing the cloth fold it once, through the middle, roll and tie with a piece of tape.* In this manner there will be bftt the one crease and the tablecloth will lie fiat and smooth upon the table.

Old-Fashioned Peach Preserve.

Pare the peaches, stone and halve them; take a deep dish, put a layer of peaches, then a layer of sugar and, so on until you have the desired quantity, sugar on top; let stand over night, then put on in the mooting and cook until well done; if there is not juice enough to cook peaches in, add a little water. Pack in stone jars.

Hot Fricassee.

Cut into small pieces the remains of a roast, either beef, lamb or veal, put into a frying pan, thickly with flour. Season with salt and pepper, cover with cold water and cook gently. Serve very hot wjth mashed potatoes. At this time of the year potatoes are nicer mashed or scalloped than boiled. They go farther, also.

Bardine Bandwiches.

Take as many sardines as required, chop up fine and squeeze a few drops of lemon juice into them; spread between battered bread os cold biscuit.

MIXING THE GRIDDLE CAKES

Whole Secret of Success Probably Is In Preparation of the Delectable Mixture. When you wish to try a recipe for griddle cakes which reads “add flour until the right consistency,” the following suggestions will help you to determine how much Bhould be used; If a spoonful of the batter can be dropped into the howl containing the mixture and it lies on the surface in a smooth heap and only gradually sinks, the mixture is of the right consistency. If it lies in a heap but has stiff, ragged edges, it needs more wetting. Measure the flour (sifted) by the cupful, put it in carefully, and when you have the right quantity write the exact measure in your recipe and thenceforward you will not need to experiment. Let griddle cake batter stand five minutes before frying cakes. Sour milk is best for griddle cakes. Bread flour is preferable to use in recipes calling for yeast; pastry flour is recommended for combination with baking powder. Muffins and griddle cakes should he made light and tender by thorough beating and the use of butter or cream', not by a number of eggs, which toughen the batter. Grease the griddle by rubbing over it a piece of salt pork when hot, then quickly pour on the batter.

LAUNDRY HINTS OF VALUE

For Best Results and the Lightening of Labor These May Be Recommended. When washing cream wool or cotton goods, instead of using bluing, try putting the water in which a few onion skins have been boiled in the last rinsing water, and you will be insured of a clear, bright cream. Mildew stains can very often be removed quite successfully In the following way; Mix a small quantity of Soft soap with the same proportion of powdered starch and salt and the juice of a lemon. Apply thlß mixture to both sides of the stain with a small brush, and, if possible, let the article lie on the grass all day and night until the stains have quite disappeared. Then wash it in the usual way. Soiled lingerie parasols will respond to a good scrubbing of soap and water with a soft brush. Rinse thoroughly after they have been scrubbed clean. A good way to .bleach handkerchiefs, when it is not convenient to hang them out of doors, is to wash them and let them soak over night in water in which a little cream of tarter has been dissolved.

Helpful Home Hints.

A brisk application of hot acid vinegar will remove paint from glass. The problem of rust stains has been solved by holding the damaged fabric in boiling rhubarb water.* Bent whalebones can be straightened by soaking them in boiling water for a few moments and then Ironing them straight. An ordinary small table on wheels, made with two shelves, Is a convenient serving table, carrying dlßhes as well as food back and forth between kitchen and dining rooift.

Mrashmallow Fudge.

Heat two cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cup of rich milk; add two squares of chocolate and boil until it hardens in cold water. Just before it is done add a small piece of butter, and then begin to stir in marshallows, crushing and beating them with a spoon. Continue to stir in marshmallows after the fudge has been taken from the fire until a pound has been stirred into the fudge. Cool In sheets three-fourths of an inch thick and cut into cubes.

New Canner.

A shelf full of preserves is -the joy of the good housekeeper, and, therefore, most interesting at thiß season is a patent canner and sterilizer for preserving fruits. These are in tin cans, so made that fruit, instead of being cooked from the bottom up, which reduces it to a pulp, Is steamed from the top down. This keeps both the color and flavor of the fruit, and preserving may be accomplished without sugar.

Macaroni and Corn.

Break one-quarter package of macaroni into inch pieces, boil in salted water until tender, drain, add a can of corn seasoned with salt and pepper, one and one-half cups milk, one good tablespoon flour, small tablespoon sugar, two tablespoons butter; bake in oven. Try It if you like corn and macaroni.

Leap-Year Cake.

One-half cup butter, one-half cup sugar creamed together; whites of three eggs beaten stiff; one-half cap milk, one teaspoon cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda, one teaspoon vanilla, one and one-third cups flour. Bake in layers with chocolate filling.

How to Clean White Belts.

Make a paste of cream of tartar and cold water; rub well with the paste, then rub with a mixture of alum and fullers earth in equal parts; leave until the following day and brush al) the powder out. If very much soiled repeat the process. -

Brown-Bread Gems.

One-half «up rye, one-half cup flour, one cup Indian meal, one teaspoon soda, one-half teaspoon salt, scant onehalf cap molasses, one cup milk, ons cup cold water.

RICH SOCIETY GIRL TO GO OUT “BARNSTORMING”

Miss Natalie Siddons Randolph, debutante of wealth, has determined up-

of this sort of girl have sought the stage as the easiest way to fame and fortune. So be it with the others, but not Misß Natalie Siddons Randolph. As was intimated, she is not an ordinary girl. As proof of this, here are some o£ the things she will have to give up when she begins “careering” as a barnstormer: The social prerogatives of a debutante of last season. An income of $25,000 a year. Her friends. Her beautiful home. Her maid and the personal services to which she has been accustomed all her life. Her automobiles and horses. And the thousand and one things the feminine mind craves —not overlooking the “creations” of a French chef. What Miss Randolph gains for her sacrifice certainly has all the appearances of a mess of pottage, or in the language of the United States —a lemon. The greatest promise so far held out to her is that If Bhe succeeds as a “barnstormer” she will be given a “prominent” part in one of the Broadway productions. If she succeeds? Even If she does in a large way, will it recompense her for the toilsome path she first must climb? What she gives up as a debutante will he replaced by this: Association with a company of “talent,” probably of the most mediocre sort. Work —and work of the hardest kind. Long “jumps” at night, and often in an ill smelling day coach, at that. hotels. Still more Impossible food. Rebukes from stage managers who have long since forgettea the gentle manners of the ball room. And what will probably be hardest of all —“cuts” and sneers, the latter not always veiled, either, from those who are constantly her companions on the stage, and for the most part off the "boards” as well. Now, can any one doubt that Miss Randolph heard the "call of the stage?” Miss Randolph is an exceptionally pretty girl—her friends Insist that she was the “fairest bud of all the debutantes” of last season. She is the ward of Baron Henri Natalie, one of the few really wealthy nobles of France: her family name is one of the proudest either in Europe or America. With an income of $25,000 a year, and all the luxuries that such an income can command, she seemed to be one of the happiest young persons in the world. Suitors for her hand in marriages are said to have been numbered by the score. But she was not happy. She longed for a “career.”

DAUGHTER OF VIRGINIA SENATOR CHRISTENS SHIP

With all the ceremony with which Uncle Sam is accustomed to sur-

Martin of Virginia. The christening of the Proteus, the twenty-second collier in the navy, was marked by even more than the usual formality attendant upon the completion of vessels of this class because of Secretary Meyer’s recently announced decision to perfect “this branch of t;he sea service and the importance with which naval officers generally are beginning to .surround the despised supply ships of the fleet. Upon the colliers, unarmed and unarmored, depends the efficiency of the big gray fighting ships which get the credit tor victories and, realizing this, the navy department is endeavoring to bring the coaling vessels to the highest possible state of perfection. The vessel upon the bow of which Miss Martin broke the traditional bottle of champagne, is made of steel and is equipped with the finest reciprocating engines in addition to two masts for use in case of emergency. She, is 522 feet in length, 62 is breadth, has a hold 36 feet 9 inches deep, a draft of 27 feet 9 Inches and a dianlfirpmAnt fit Id OCA fnna Qhp can carry 10,500 tons of coal la addition to 2,000 tons lot her own use. Her contract pnoe was $990,000.

on a stage “career.” And she will start the aforesaid career as a “barnstormer.” Now, all this would arouse but little comment if Miss Randolph wer& an ordinary girl, endowed with but a modicum ofgood looks, less money, and an every day desire to “get on” |n the world. Hundreds

round the official birth of his fighting ships, the collier Proteus, latest and most modem of the auxiliaries of the navy, slipped from the stays at Newport News, Va., the other day into the waters of Hampton Roads, sponsored by Miss Lucy Fay Martin, daughter of Senator Thomas S.

RISE OF FERDINAND, TSAR OF BULGARIA

King Ferdinand arrived at Sofia at a moment when the future of the

Bulgarian history—played the allimportant part. It was to the national assembly, which met under the auspices of this regency, and which aeted in strict contravention of the wishes of the Tsar Alexander HI. of Russia, that King Ferdinand owes his crown. Thus, when the yonng prince—then only twenty-six years of age—accepted the rulership of Bulgaria, it seemed as if he was to be encountered by difficulties which only one of the cleverest among men could have surmounted; Throughout the twenty-five years of his reign the qualities which were deficient in Prince Alexander, and which caused his downfall, have consolidated the position of King Ferdinand. His majesty, by his tact, ambition, able statesmanship and diplomatic knowledge, has carried everything before him. Internally and Internationally the reign of King Ferdinand has Tieen what might be compared with a series of stepping-stones from difficulty to success. If his majesty has made use of the various political parties in Bulgaria in order to further his own ends, he has newer lost sight of the ultimate interests of his subjects in so doing. King Ferdinand may occasionally have appointed or procured the retirement of cabinets by somewhat unorthodox means, but while he has always been his own foreign minister, he has at all times placed his entire confidence for all internal affairs In the government actually in power. Perhaps the secret of his success has been that from the first he grasped the fact that the Bulgarians must be ably led by clever diplomacy in order that they should be secured the position of importance among the European nationalities which they so well deserve. During the first period of his reign, which may be said to have lasted from 1887 to 1891 or 1892, the prince, who for the moment wisely contented himself with consolidating his internal position under the guidance of Stambuloff, was practically a figure-head, who merely sanctioned the decisions of the government, led by his all-im-portant adviser. Subsequently, by cleverly and secretly identifying himself with the rising discontent against Stam buloff, the prince was able not only to rid himself of the paramount power of his first prime minister, bat also to secure the goodwill of the population by bringing about the resignation of a man whose regime had grown to be considered as almost tyrannical by Bulgarian public opinion. Thence followed what may be called the second successful period of the reign, during which Ferdinand’s International position was secured.

NEW EMPEROR OF JAPAN HAS MODERN EDUCATION

The accompanying cut is a reproduction of a recent portrait of the new

ing manhood and attaining the title of Crown Prince he ceased not to avail himself of every opportunity for becoming familiar with his country and people. He has journeyed at various times to different parts of the empire, and even to Korea, so that there is not a corner of his dominions that he has not seen and explored. During his trips inland he ever pcgved himself an excellent pedestrian and mountain climber, often outspeeding his companions and appearing unannounced among the rustic villages. The writer, who has more than once had the honor of taking luncheon in the same room with his majesty when he was crown prince, noticed how genial he was in manner and how modest in mien, following in these respects the exampEq of his great father, whom he even to reverence. It is said that once, when the late emperor and crown prince were in conversation* tim great emperor said to his son* In the past those in high estate have shown themselves lamentably igno* rant of those below them, and are often, haughty and arrogant I pray let ft not be so with you, but at all times he ready to help yourself.’ This wise counsel the prince has always been careful to observe."

Pat's Hint.

“How did the drink go, Pat?" "FWn, sort, but faith It do be cal*, in' for company.’’—Boston Transcriofc

country seemed far from certain. At that time the departure of Prince Alexander of Battenberg was stlH fresh In the memory of every Bulgarian. The abdication of this popular hero had been followed by a regency, in which Stambuloff —p erh ap s the most powerful man in modern

emperor of Japan, which has just reached this country from a com? spondent at Tokio. “The new emperor," writes the correspondent “h a s had the advantage of a thoroughly modern education at the publlo school, mixing from day to day with companions select and worthy, and after reach-