Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1915 — Page 2

HOMD of ADAM AND SINDBAD

WHEN the British forces captured Basra, Just below the mouths of the Tigris and the Euphrates, they secured control of a most interesting piece of country. This is the spot where God is popularly supposed to hare created Adam, and moreover, Basra is the city from which Slndbad the Sailor set forth on the wonderful voyages that are related in the Arabian Nights. Prom a political point of view Basra In important because the Germans intended to end their Bagdad railroad there. It is the center of the world’s date trade. Basra is on the Shatt-Ul-Arab, an estuary formed of the combined waters of the Tigris, Euphrates and Karan rivers. The Shatt empties Into the Persian golf. The British already controlled Fao. a cable station on the gulf. From here the expedition proceeded up the western or Turkish bank of the Shatt. Beautiful date palms line the waterway. Wan ' Garden of Eden. The bank on the eastern side forms one edge of Adagan island, traditionally the site of the Garden of Eden, but now boasting principally the refineries of the Anglo-Perslan Oil company. The oQ runs down 150 miles from the Bakhtiari mountains of Persia, where crude petroleum gushes from the ground in abundance. Another site on the way to Basra la the home of the powerful sheikh of Moham mera. The British steamers always fire a salute when passing, because the sheikh once came to the rescue of a British boat attacked by pirates near his home. Basra itself is on the southern side of the river. It is entirely modern, the old city of Basra from which Sindhad the Sailor made his seven voyages

being now a good four miles inland. Old Basra, now called Zotbelr, was in those days—for Sindbad is not an entirely fictitious character —on the sea or, at least, on the salt tide that ebbed and flowed along the Khor Abdulla, then the chief mouth of the Euphrates. The most conspicuous buildings in Basra are the British consulate, a sturdy, verandaed house, that, properly sandbagged, could give a good account of Itself against mere rifle-fire. mml the Lynch offices, almost next door. A little farther upstream is the Ashar, a creek that extends for some distance southward from the river. It is crowded with boats of all sizes, from canoes to bungalows, and on the southeastern side is a kind of promenade between the creek and a row of tumble-down houses which represent the Piccadilly of Basra. Where Adam Was Created. Away in old Basra there is not much to see except the minaret of Bash-Ayyan, which is. perhaps, 850 years old, and has a picturesque courtyard. Nothing, unfortunately, recalls the Basra of Sindbad any more than modern Bagdad represents the Bagdad of the good Caliph Harun-al-Ras-chid, except the direction of the streets and one lump of hard brickwork, Which is, alas, fast dropping into ithe Tigris. But the date gardens between Old and New Basra hare a apeidal Interest of their own. for it was jftem between the roots of a date palm 0t Basra that Jehovah gathered the day with which he fashioned In the Garden of Eden. Fbr this reason the devout Mohammedan wiQ never abase his date trees, however much they fail him, for ths com- —- »1 M a y t«aen wnna* i( T7 fnA 'XXJJxfMp let tut) ZVv/i ttu I Uuß >

SITE OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN

WHERE SINDBAD THE SAILOR LIVED

Gibbon mentioned “The Christiana of St. John of Basra.” These are the Sebacans, a strange race that live in the Euphrates’ bed, and, besides dairy farming, earn a livelihood by making the one remaining mystery of metal work in the world. They execute beautiful Niello designs in silver, gold and black, and would die rather than surrender the secret of the workmanship. They are a quiet folk, if only because thev believe that St. John the Baptist was the real Messiah, and worship only him —and the Pole Star. They keep their doctrine as much a secret as their metallurgy, but certain tenets are admitted by them which link them not only with Christianity and Gnosticism, but with Islam and Zoroastrianism. o

FIRST SESSION OF ASSEMBLY

America’s Premier Legislative Body v Met at Jamestown, Va n In July, 1619. The first representative legislative assembly . ever held in America convened at Jamestown, in July, 1619, a year before the Pilgrim landed at Plymouth and a deoade before the Massachusetts Bay colony was begun. It consisted of the governor. Sir George Yeardley, his council,- two burgesses elected by each of the 11 incorporated plantations. The, assembly sat in the chancel of the little church, where five years before Pocahontas had been married to John Bolfe. John Twine, the clerk of the assembly, says in his report: “The most convenient place we coulde finde to sltt in was the Quire of the Church, where Sir George Yeardley, the Governour, being sett down in his accustomed plaoe, those

of the Counsel of Estate sate nexte him on both handes, excepte onely the Secretary, then appointed Speaker, who sate right before him. John Twine, clerke of the General Assembly, being placed nexte Speaker, and Thomas Pierse, the Sergeant, standing at the barre, to be ready for any service the Assembly should requl»a But forasmuch aa men’s affairs doe little prosper-where God’s service is neglected, all the Burgesses took their places in the Quire till a prayer was said by Mr. Bucke, the minister, that it would please God to guide and sanctify all our proceedings to nis owne glory and the goode of this Plantation.”

Car Pushed Him Into River.

Gustave Rein berg, a manufacturer, will now buy a new motor car, but it will be a self-starter. He had ono which coat $4,000 and seemed to be a reliable and docile car until the other day. Mr. Retnberg believes now that it had long nursed a secret grudge against him. While he was cranking it on a West Shore ferry boat. It started up, pushed him Into the river and jumped In after him. They picked Ms. Reinberg off an ice cake, but the car has not been recovered. Mr. Reinberg is of the opinion that it ran about as fair aa Albany on the river bottom. And he had the best opportunity to notice which way and how briskly it was moving.—New Tork Letter to the Cincinnati Timee-Star.

Her Boy at the Front.

To provide her son with wans underclothing. the flfty-'yearold mother of a young Austrian soldier tramped tn the rain for three days from her hone in Hungary to field hasdqnartsra.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, INP.

BASEBALL

Dave Bancroft, the coast recruit for the Phillies, can throw equally well with the right or left hand. • • • Bob Wicker is to manage the Spokane team. • • • Speed with brains Is what Clarence Rowland wants on his club. • • • Jack Dalton is a most singular young man. He Jumped to the Feds and so far hasn't Jumped back again. = ■ ==?= Hank Gowdy has declined an offer of $30,000 to Jump to the Feds, says report from Indianapolis. • • • Bill Donovan says poker has ruined more ball clubs than boose, women or cigarettes. • • • The veteran catcher, Jack Warner, has been retained as coach of the Fordbam college baseball team. i '* * • . » One of the popular sports of the day is to Jump to The Feds and then Jump back again. • * • One must hand it to Connie Mask for his ability to hit in pinches. • * • If you heard Johnny Evers exchanging words with Heinle Zimmerman, you wouldn’t believe baseball was a trust. * * • Hughey Jennings says 18 men are plenty for a ball club, and last year he had 18 pitchers and was yelling for more. • • • The Braves in their new park figure on dodging the sun. Fielding averages should go up.

GOLF

It Is estimated there are 5,000 golf courses in the United States and Canada, with half a million players. • • • Frank L. Woodward, new president Of the U. S. G. A., says that the present definition of the golf amateur is satisfactory enough, but that it is the methods of evading Its application which must receive the attention of the men who have the best Interests of the sport at heart. • • • The holding of the next woman’s national golf tournament at Onwentsia will be a direct snub of the eastern golfers, who frankly asserted that they would not go so far West to compete. • • • There is a brilliant possibility that the next American open championship may number a big lot of English pros, as the English event may be called off on account of war conditions. • • * The tTnlted States Golf association is composed of 391 clubs.

HORSE RACING

Ed Geers, the veteran track driver, lg already planning for the June meet at San Francisco, where he will drive. • • • The European war is having its good effect on the American, stud. The get of many European stallions shipped here while the war prevails is entered in the 1917 futurity. • * • Grand circuit for 1915 is about aa good a line as they have had in years. • • • Frank Bogash, Jr., went lame after his great showing at the Michigan state fair, but he is said to be all right and if so few can head him. • • • Twinkling Dan. 2:06%* has had a lot of use made of him, but he is to try It again, this time in the stable of Charley De Ryder. The horse starts In the big stake at San Francisco.

FOOTBALL

Dick Harley is to coach Georgetown university in football. • • • Walter Camp has taken another step pursuing his desire to sever all connection with Yale’s athletics. He has resigned as faculty member of the athletic council. • * ♦ C. Brickley*s appendicitis operation not only deprived him of his last chance to figure on the football field, but also bars him from the Crimson track team. • • • Bob Zuppke is to coach Harvard’s football team in the spring.

TENNIS

More and mere, the movement grown to transfer the all-comers' tennis tournament from Newport to the West Side club of Forest Hills, L. L A round robin signed by 100 of the Boost prominent players in the country urges thin movement upon the committee. • • • If there is any international tennis next spring and summer, it will be staged on the banks of the Aisne. There is hardly a single big tennis figure of England. France. Germany and Auatmlaaia not already -serving the colors. 1 • e 9 Dee Moines. lowa, tennis players have organised winter league and win stage tournament in Coliseum.

COMMERCIALISM IN OUR COLLEGE ATHLETICS

▲ new era for .college athletes was heralded in a recent issue of the Daily Maroon, the University of Chicago student paper. Pay for athletes, specifically football players, is the slogan of an editorial which set campus athletes by the ears. College editors, college debaters, college players get compensation for their efforts. Why not college athletes? "Judged by the Bame standards, why not pay our athletes —particularly members of the football team?” demands the Maroon. “They work hard for the university organization known as the football team, which is a money making enterprise, the receipts from football being something like $20,000 more than expenditures for the sport. Why not give the players a share in the profits accruing from their hard and faithful labors?" Athletes and former athletes disagreed radically with the Maroon platform when questioned about it. “Commercialism would ruin the whole spirit of college athletics. Men would go to college simply to take part in sports,” declared Paul Des Jardlen, all-American 'center and University of Chicago idol. "The man's crazy if he’s serious,” said Walter E, McCornack, attorney, and formerly quarter back of the Dartmouth college eleven. “A man plays football Mr love of his college and for

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Paul Des Jardien, All-American Center.

glory. To put it on a salary baste would make it purely professional.” “Our colleges would be crowded with professionals if we paid our athletes,” said H. O. (“Pat”) Page, acting director of athletics at the University of Chicago. “The present system is perfectly satisfactory. We don't want college students exposed to the influence of professional athletics.” “It would simply make college sport professional. College debaters and editors may be paid, bpt their work is on a different basis,” said Walter O. Steffen, assistant district attorney and once a Midway gridiron star.

Deficit at Hamilton.

The Hamilton club of the Canadian league announced to its stockholders that there was a deficit of over two thousand dollars during the past season. The board of directors were reelected, with Frank Cloxe and Alexander BaHantyne added. President Garthwaite was re-elected also, with Controller Copper, vice-president; Ed Frid, secretary, and A. M. Ewing, treasurer.

Cornell Leads In Two Sports.

Cornell university has won fourteen out of sixteen eastern intercollegiate cross-country championship races and twelve out of twenty Poughkeepsie regattas.

PROCESS OF STEWING

REGULATION HEAT IS THE MAIN CONSIDERATION. <V / On That Account It Is Best to Use Gas, When Possible—Glared Earth* enware Jar Bhould Be Receptacle Ernployed. Stewing is a method of food preparation that approaches the soup-making process. It is to some extent a pro ceeding that occupies a middle position between boiling and baking; the latter is often called roasting. In stewing, the cook’s endeavor should be to extract from the meat its nutritive juices, and then to employ those juices, suitably treated, to finish cooking the remainder of the meat. For successful stewing, the most important point is the power of regulating the heat at which the operation is conducted. In order to stew successfully the heat must be absolutely under the cook’s control. The up-to-date cook, therefore, prefers gas for stewing purposes on account of the perfect control that can be exercised over the temperature. For successful stewing, meat should be divided into small portions for the easy extraction of the juices. Where bones exist, these should be broken into small pieces, and form an under layer in the stewing vessel. The meat and bones ought always to be placed in cold water and the water should cover everything in the pan or Jar. The lid or cover should be carefully 'secured, and the temperature must be gradually raised to a steady heat, which must, of course, be below boiling. The extraction of the meat juices then proceeds, and when vegetables are to be added to the stew they are placed in the vessel at a later stage. Boiling and stewing are by no means the same process. The proper temperature for stewing is about 180 degrees Fahr. As almost everybody knows, the boiling point is 212 Fahr. A glazed earthenware jar with a tight-fitting cover is most useful for stewing meat, or for making soups. If it has no cover, one should be constructed by fitting a plate or saucer on. top of the jar and brown paper should then be tied over it A jar with a cover saves this trouble, and is, therefore, worth the extra expense. Earthenware or stone jars are very easily kept clean, and food does not spoil when left in them, as it may do if left in a metal pan. They can bo placed on the top of the stove or in the oven when it is necessary to reheat the food contained in them, or if placed in a pan of boiling water the contents of the jar will cook slowly without attention from the cook. A' meat stew can be served in the jar in which it has been cooked, if it is neither too large nor too high. It must of course, be wiped dry and a napkin may be .neatly folded around it. By this process the great advantage of a very hot dinner may be obtained, in the coldest weather, even when the whole family does not reach the home at exactly the same hour, as a stone or earthenware jar, having been thoroughly heated, will retain the heat for some time.—American Cookery.

Lobster Cutlets.

Melt one teaspoonful of butter. Add two tablespoonfuls of flour and cook thoroughly. Add one cupful of boll* ing water and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add two capfuls of: chopped lobster meat. Season with; salt, paprika, lemon juice and mipced parsley. Take from the fire, add the beaten yolk of an egg and cool. Shape into cutlets, dip Into egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Stick a lobster claw into the small end of each cutlet- -;,-

Bean Pot Roast.

Take one pound of beef, a cheap eat Is just as good if it is free from reins. Cut in pieces about an inch square. Put in all the fat, too. Put in a bean pot, just cover with water and put in the oven. As water boils away add a little more. When about half done add a little salt. When ready to serve take from oven and put it in the spider. Thicken with a little flour mixed with water. The gravy is a rich brown. •

Creamed Sardines.

Remove skin and bones from two boxes of sardines, then add four finely chopped hard-boiled eggs, five tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one and one-fourth cupfuls of milk, one-half saltspoonful of salt, big dash of *red pepper. Heat this mixture to a boiling point, then pour it over four slices of buttered toast

Fried Cabbage.

Shave very thin enough cabbage to fill a quart measure. Put in granite atewpan, sprinkle with salt and pour on two pupfuls boiling water. Cook rapidly until water has evaporated. Then add two tahlespoonfuls milk, one of butter, a dash of pepper and fry brown.

Raw Carrots.

Take nice, fresh, crisp carrots, scrape and put through a food chopper, using the coarse knife. To each pint of carrots add two tablespoonfuls melted batter, one teaspoonful sugar and salt to taste. Serve on lettuco leaves. ' ■

When Washing Overalls.

All the paint marts can be removed from overalls by lotting th«pi soak for (