Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1914 — Page 2

MONHEGAN ISLAND TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY

This is one of the village streets on Monhegan island, a rocky stretch ten miles off the coast of Maine, where next August will be celebrated the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of Capt. John Smith, the first white man to set foot on the island. Monhegan has a population of about one hundred, whose living' is do rived from lobster fishing and the entertainment of summer visitors and artists.

RIVER OF WONDERS

Ship Captains Tell of Strange Experiences on Amazon. Pests Assail Travelers on 2,150-Mlle Journey to Iquitos—Ravages of Vulture Bat and Fish That Are Dangerous. Chicago.—The emergence of Colonel Roosevelt from the interior of Brazil directed public attention more than ever to a journey probably the most weird and picturesque in the world, says the New York World. It is 2,150 miles from the mouth of the Amazon to Iquitos, where the government of Peru maintains a large dockyard, barracks, iron works, machine shops, etc., and an inland navy consisting of twq gunboats. ~ If one wishes to travel from the Pacific side, of Peru to Iquitos, only five hundred miles apart, he ascends the west coast in a steamer, crosses the Isthmus of Panama/embarks at Colon for New York and transship here for Iquitos up the Amazon. Few have any idea of the tremendous volume and coloring of the Amazon current, its influence upon the Atlantic, the immense distance it carries nearly fresh water into the brine of the ocean, its serpentine windings, its overhanging vegetation, its rapids, its wild life, its pests, perils, pleasures and all Sorts of strange sights. Some of the tributaries of the Amazon are mightier than the Mississippi. Two Booth line skippers, Capt O. L. Beck and Capt. J. W. Couch (the Booths relieve their master mariners by sending them on leave to England after a certain number of trips into the South American inferior), gave a sort of duet in the narration of the wonders of the Amazon on board of their ships, their peculiar cargoes, their eligibility to fly"the American flag if they chose, and their adventures on the river of rivers. They characterized Alexander P. Rogers’ description of the country as faithful and sincere. While they were talking In the cabin of the Denis longshoremen were shoveling out of the holds 1,600 tons of Brazil nuts at the old Robert pier in Brooklyn. Only 2,600 tons of the nuts were imported during the year 1913. Captain Beck, who was just packing

Bids $500,000 for Painting

Henry C. Frick Is Reported to Have Made Offer for Velasquez’s “Pope Innocent X.” Rome. —Henry C. Frick is reported to have made an offer of $500,000, which he is said to be prepared to increase to >600,000, for Velasquez’s

Henry. C. Frick.

"Pope Innocent X,” the most famous picture in Rome. The owner. Prince Alfonso Doria-Pamphili, has refused to consider the offer.

up to catch the Cunarder for Liverpool, denied that the mosquito was a pest or peril on the Amazon. He said that for about three days in the navigation of the river it was necessary to shut up the passengers and use the mosquito ports, but this was the only stretch in the long journey out and back for nine weeks in which there was any mosquito fighting. “There 1? something worse (han the mosquito,’’ said Capt. ,Couch. “I refer to the vulture bat, which always attacks either your bald head or the soles of your feet. It always bites you in the tenderest spots and draws blood.’’ k Capt. Couch did not say how the vulture bat was circumvented. “Yes,’’ said Capt. Beck, continuing the dialogue, “there’s another pleasant little habitue of the Amazon, the ‘smell bug.' If you smell him once you never forget him. He’s brown, less than an inch long and half dead when he comes aboard on feeble wing. I’ve seen them cover the deck seven inches deep, and we had to shovel them overboard.” Everybody took a fresh swallow of claret after this story and Capt. Couch turned to again. “It’s against the rules of the company for any man to go overboard for a swim in the Amazon. One of our

Corpse and Mourners Fall

Funeral* Party Crashes Through Floor Into Cellar of House—Body Trampled Upon.

Philadelphia.—tragedy by fire was capped with gruesome horror when the body of Mrs. Yetta Siegal, of 1312 South Seventh street, who was burned to death last week, was precipitated with 50 of her mourners into the cellar of her home by the collapse of the floor. While only minor injuries were suffered among the funeral party, the body of the dead woman was thrown from the coffin and trampled upon by the panic-stricken men and women. With the assistance of the police and the undertaker, the corpse was replaced in the coffin and taken to the cemetery. Several houses have collapsed in

OLD PLATE FOR MRS. WILSON

Part of Buchanan’s Service Presented to President's Wife at White House. Washington. —Another addition has been made to the White House collection of presidential ware in the form of a handsome Sevres dinner plate from a set which belonged to President Buchanan. The gift has just been received by Mrs. Wilson from James Buchanan Henry of Annapolis. Md„ a nephew and ward of President Buchanan, who served as bis private secretary during Mr. Buchanan’s occupancy of the White House. The plate has an interesting history. It belonged to an exquisite set of pink banded Sevres, each piece of which was elaborately decorated, which Mr. Buchanan purchased at the sale of household belongings of the French minister at Washington during the “time Mr. Buchanan was serving as secretary of state under President Polk in 1845-49. Mr. Buchanan prized the china highly and it was used by him in the White House and subsequently in his home at Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pa. Upon his death the china came into Mr. Henry’s.possession.

253 Marriage Licenses In One Day. Chicago.—Two hundred and fifty-, I tltree marriage licenses were issued [ here on lune 1, fourteen less than a vear ago

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men disobeyed , this rule once, ant was never seen after he dropped ovei the side. We lay at anchor at th? time.” _____ - . “It was probably a small fish that got him,” remarked Capt. Beck. “A small fish in the Amazon, about six or seven inches long, attends school In thousands. They dart at a man un der the surface and bite him in hun dreds of places and he never rises.” “A ’bacu’ got him, I think,” rejoined Capt. Couch. “A bacu is a' b’.ack fish, about six or seven feet long, with no teeth, but with rows of suckers In each long jaw. The bacu scoffs men alive." The talk turned to natural phenOur ena, and Capt. Beck said the differ ence between high and low water at Manaos was about 42 feet. There Is an old story about a crew that was dying of thirst when its ship anchored in the mouth of the Amazon and the skipper didn’t know It, and another captain, anchored near by, bellowed through his trumpet, “Let down your buckets; you’re in the mouth of the Amazon.” “Is that story true?” Capt. Couch was asked. - “It is,” he replied. "I learned at school that the Amazon carried fresh water seaward, and I put it to the test once. I was 167 miles from the mouth of the Amazon. I noticed that the water was discolored around the ship. I dipped some tip and tested it in the hydrometer. That water dipped from the ocean was three-fourths fresh.”

the neighborhood recently, amj the funeral party became panic-stricken in the belief that they werfe about to be buried under tons of brick and plaster. Their terror was increased by a flow of gas which was liberated by the falling floor. The policeman and the barber called to the struggling men and women that the danger was over, and helped them to climb out. When nearly all the mourners had been lifted from the cellar, Katie Siegal was found stretched upon the body of her mother in a faint The girl w’as carried to the yard and revived, while the undertaker lifted the body back into the coffin.

YOUNGEST MEXICAN AT MEET

Master Manuel del Campo Most Youthful Attendant at Niagara Falls Peace Conference. * Niagara Falls. Ont., Canada. —The youngest member of the Mexican group of envoys and their secretaries sent here by Huerta as representatives

Master Manuel del Campe.

of Mexico at the “A. B. C” conference being held at the Clifton house, is happy little Manuel del Campo, the slx-moath-old young son of Martinez del Campo, an attache of the delegation. That he is a defiant little Mexican is seen by the lovable pose of the little fellow when his photo was mads i

NEW BISCUIT DAINTIES

RECOMMENDED AS VARIATION FROM STANDARD RECIPES. •» —■ Appetizing With "Filling” cf Stiff Orange Marmalade—Nut-,Drcp Confections Popular With Everybody—Clover Biscuits. Light, flaky, biscuits, temptingly browned, always receive a smiling welcome at the table. But have you ever tried any variations of your standard recipe? I have experimented and have concocted seme goodies that disappear like cake, writesa contributor to the Woman's World. They are de.licious not only for the home meal but for lunches. And the ho us ekeeper finds them ‘just the thing to serve with chocolate as light appetizing refreshments to guests. Orange two-story biscuits are my own idea. To make them, sift together two cupfuls of bread flour, two teaspoonfuls -baking powder, half a teaspoonful salt and a tablesponful of sugar. Beat ohe entire egg and add two-thirds of a cupful of sweet milk for wetting the dough. No shortening is used. .Knead the dough lightly and roll thinner than biscuits are usually made. Cut the roupds with a cookie cutter or the open end of a pound baking powder can. From half of the rounds remove the .centers with a smaller cutter. Spread the whole rounds with melted butter, lay one of the dcugh rings on each and fill the centers with stiff orange marmalade before baking. Nut-drop biscuits were my next successful trial at making “goodies.’.’ For them, sift together a pint of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt and twojteav spoonfuls of baking powder. Rub in a generous tablespoonful of butter and stir to the consistency of a thick batter, using sweet milk to moisten. Add half a cupful of chopped nuts and drop the dough with a spoon upon a greased baking sheet, leaving an inch between “drops” for swelling. Sandwich biscuits require four cupfuls of flour, four tablespoonfuls .of baking powder, a teasponful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of meat drippings, half a cupful of milk, and water to complete the wetting to the, ordinary biscuit consistency. Roll the dough thin, like pie crust, cut, spread half the rounds with butter, add a filling of seasoned, finely ground, cooked ham, then lay on the covers and bake. Clover biscuits are dainty mouthfuls. Use any standard recipe for regular biscuit dough. Cut into rounds an inch in diameter. (I use the center of my round loaf cake pan, inverted, as a cutter.) Placethe tiny rounds in threes in greased gem cake pans and glaze the tops with egg yolk mixed with a little water. When baked, the group of three from each mold will come out in trefoil shape. They are nice to serve with cheese.

Hot-cross biscuits taste good at any season of the year. Their ingredients consist of: One quart flour, one teaspoonful salt, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, half a cupful of butter, half a teaspoonful each of ground cinnamon and nutmeg, one tablespoonful finely chopped citron dr candied orange peel, half a cupful of Currants, one egg, and sweet milk to make a firm dough. Some brands of flour absorb more moisture than others, so the amount of milk or water used for biscuits is not absolute. Roll an inch thick, cut in large rounds, cut two gashes at right angles across the top of each, and moisten the tops with milk before baking. Some cooks like to fill the cross cuts with sugar.

Poached Eggs in Muffin Rings.

When frying or poaching eggs for breakfast, slip into the pan a muffin ring for egg, break the egg into it, and when it has set as much as desired, lift.it out with a cake lifter, ring and all, then remove the ring. The white of the egg is in a nice circle, and nJ? only looks better and is tenderer because it Is thicker, but it is easier to serve. The washing of the muffin rings is not as much trouble as trying to “slide” a broken egg to a plate from a hot frying/pan.

Mixed Fruit Ice.

Three oranges, three lemons, three bananas, one cupful dried apricots soaked several hours and cooked, three cupfuls of sugar, three cupfuls of water. Squeeze the juice from the oranges and lemons. Put the banan&t and apricots through a sieve. Cook the sugar and water together to make a thin sirup (ten minutes). Add the juice, pulp, and freeze. Very inexpensive and good.

Prune Ice Cream.

Prepare cream same as for vanilla ice cream. Drain and seed carefully cooked prunes. Rub through the puree sieve of a colander, or they may be even chopped very fine. For every quart of sweet cream use one pint of the prunes, unsweetened, and one tablespocnful of lemon juice. Freeze, pack and let ripen for one hour.

What to Do With the Covers.

Save the covers of cocoa or mustard boxes to use for cleaning frying pans and saucepans. Hammer down sharp side. Scrape with the sharp lower edge. The rounding corners of the covers fit in the roAnd pans much better than anything you can buy for the purpose.

When Making Potato Salad.

If potatoes are being cooked fur salad boil them with the skins on. They will be less soggy.

Wanted to know the figure

Fortune Hunter’s Mother Was Not Dealing in Uncertainties, if She Could Help It.

Miss Jeannette Gilder, The brilliant critic, toyed with a pink and gold mustache cup at the mustache cup tea concluding the Bad Taste exhibition in New York. “The mustache cup,” said Miss Gilder, “holds its own even better than the hand-painted cuspidor. But, after all, there is spiritual as well as material bad taste, and a spiritual bad taste exhibition is now in order. “In the forefront of it I’d put the fortune hunter. Not all our fortune hunters come from across the water, f -tteard of one the otber day who belongs to the oldest family in America. “Blit his family Is very poor, and •so he and hir mother have decided ’.hat he must -marry for money. They were discussing recently, the pair of them, a western girl. “ ‘Her fortune is large but vague/ said the mother. ‘Besides, she is gauche. Her feet are broad and flat. She has a gold front tooth: Her French is execrable. She —’ " ‘Oh, I could make something .out of her,’ the young fortune hunter asserted confidently. A ' ‘"Yes, but how much —that’s the question,’ said his mother.”

RECOGNIZED WORK OF ARTIST

Negro Quick to Hand Out What Might Be Called Important Piece of Misinformation.

Charles R. Knight, the artist, whose reproductions' of dinosaurs and creatures of long aso are known the world over, preterit, however, to be known as a painter and sculptor of modern animals. He has worked from the living model as much as possible, and this has taken him to the zoos in mSny cities. . He was telling his experiences at the zoo in Washington.' “One afternoon an Important looking negro came along with his best girl,” he said. “They stopped for a minute and looked at the sketch I was making of a deer. " *' ‘Yer know what he am ddin’, don't yer?” asked the negro of his companion. “ ‘Mebbe,’ answered the woman. ‘Does yoh?’ ** ‘Shoh. He's making a landscape ob one er dem habitats. Dere’s moh habitats In dis zoo than anywhere /else In der United States.’ ”

ERUPTION DISFIGURED FACE

Lock Box 35, Maurice, la.-—“lff th® spring of 1911 our little daughter, age five years, had a breaking out on her lip and part of her cheek that we took for ringworm. It resembled a large ringworm, only it differed to that It was covered with watery blisters that itched and burned terribly, made worse by her scratching it. Then the blisters would break through and let out a watery substance. She was very cross and fretful while she had it and had very little rest at night When the eruption was at its worst the teacher of the school sent her home and would not allow her to attend until the disfigurement of her face was gone. “I wrote and received a sample of Cutlcura Soap and Ointment, which we used according to directions, and they gave instant relief, so we bought some more. It gradually grew better. We kept on using Cutlcura Soap and Ointment and In three or four months the child was entirely cured." (Signed) Mr. Henry Prins, Oct. 22, 1912. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard “Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston.” —Adv.

For Johnny.

Mrs. Briggs is so good-looking that Mr. Briggs seldom finds it in his heart to be angry with her, but he was really cross when she returned from Florida, /"I understand,” he said, “that you passed yourself off as a widow while you were away. How about it?” She admitted it. “You ought to| be ashamed of yourself,” said Briggs, “but I suppose you are not” “Of course, I am not.” said Mrs. Briggs serenely. “I only did it Johnny’s account. 1 wanted him to have a good time, and he did. You have no idea how kind all the gentlemen were to him.”

The Reason.

"Why is it that young Rbunder is such a slow pay?” "Because he is so fast." _Wonna expelled promptly from the human system with Dr. Peery's Vermifuge “Deed Shot.’* Adr. . . , ... —r- - Probably the original bone of contention was jawbone.

Don’t Poison Baby. YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs' will produce I bleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAGING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, laudanum and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists ' are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of “narcotic” is; “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poiaonous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and, death.” The taste and smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names of “ Drops,” “ Cordials," “ Soothing Syrups * etc. Yon should not pennitany medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know of what it h composed. CABTORIA DOES NOT > CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bean the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. , /Z. Genaine Castoria always bears the signature

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