Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1915 — Page 2

LOBERTU BELL OF THE WEST

THE great "Liberty Bell of the West’’—the bell that 137 years ago tolled out the news of American supremacy in the vast frontier territory of the Mississippi valley—now lies almost forgotten by the outside world in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the little village of New Kaskaskia, IIL, writes Dean Halliday in the Chicago Evening Post. Next to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia the “Kaskie bell,’’ as it is known hereabouts, is the most historic bell in the country. It is older than the Liberty Bell, now on its way to San Francisco; older by ten years'. Two years, almost to an hour, after the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia had proclaimed the freedom of the thirteen colonies, the great bell of Old Kaskaskia rang out with the glad tidings that a determined band of Kentucky backwoodsmen, under the leadership of George Rogers Clark, had captured Fort Gage, at the foot of the bluffs a few miles to the east, and had forced the English to haul down their flag. Rang for Claris's Triumph. With the echoes of the great bell still reverberating through the valley, the American flag was run up over the fort and the great frontier country became part of the United States of America The bell rang out again in triumph as Clark’s force marched from the fort and took over Old Kaskaskia, then the territorial capital. It is 25 years since the bell boomed out for the last time —one night in 1890. when the Mississippi, swollen to the flood point, broke through the cut-off and swept over the town. It was the warning of the bell that night that saved many lives. Several years later, when an attempt was made to have the bell sent to Chicago to be exhibited at the Columbian exposition, members of the surviving families of the old days objected. The priest in charge —Father Ferlan —was willing, but his little flock would not have it. When a committee came from Chicago to get the bell they were driven off with guns. Stolen at Night. But a week or two later, in the dead of night, the bell was stolen. Ferried across the river by men whose identity has never been revealed, it was loaded onto a train just as dawn was breaking and started on its journey to Chicago. It was In 1741 that word was carried to France that the Jesuits had penetrated far to the west in the new America and on the banks of a mighty river had established a church. To show his pleasure, the king, Louis XV, ordered a great bronze bell to be cast and shipped over the seas to the hardy priests. On it was inscribed that it was for the little church ip Illinois and “a gift of the king.” The bell arrived at the little church in Kaskaskia —Cascasquia, the Jesuits called it—in 1742. Brave, hardy folk were those early French settlers, with a few scattered English. There were the Menards, the Sauciers, the Vigos, the Lamarches, the Bonds, the Morrisons and the Edgars. Col. Pierre Menard was the grand seigneur—the “first man” of Kaskie, and his was the "big house.’’ The Menard home always was open, and'

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there the weddings, parties and balls and fetes were held, and on the “grand occasions’’ the great bronze bell, four feet in height, rang out from the tower on the old church. At that time Kaskaskia was situated on a peninsula that stretched south between the Mississippi and the Okaw rivers. The town lay on a bit of land known as Ragged island. From a French settlement the town passed into the hands of the English and then became the capital of the then mighty territory of Illinois. In turn, in 1778, it passed from the English to tho Americans, the mighty clangor of the bell proclaiming the joyful news. Kaskaskia flourished. There the assembly met, and with it the social life of the old French families became renowned. Night after night the Menard house blazed with lights, and guests danced while the Menard slaves spread the big tables in the banquet halls. Warned of Great Flood. It ■was on su»h a night—ln the spring of 1890 —that the floods came and the Mississippi broke through the cut-off to the north and a wave of water seeking a new course for the river bed swept over the town. The parish priest managed to reach the church tower and ring out a brief warning, and then the church crumbled and was partly swept away in the swirling, muddy waters. Nothing daunted the Kaskaskians. They moved some five miles to the other side of the island and started the town of New Kaskaskia. There the Church of the Immaculate Conception was rebuilt and there the bell, rescued from the hungry river, was taken. The new Kaskaskians are "renters” from the outside. To them the great bell is just 750 pounds of bronze, and so it stands, cracked and corroded, in its ill-lighted vestibule—the great “Liberty Bell of the West.”

Blasting With Liquid Oxygen.

It has been known that liquid oxygen mixed with substances like cotton wool forms a powerful explosive, but serious difficulties were encountered in its practical use. A new method has now' been discovered for handling this oxygen that makes it practical for commercial use. Bags are filled with a special form of lampblack, which are soaked in the liquid oxygen for , a few minutes just before they are required for use. If the bag is now lighted with a match it will bum quietly and very slowly, but if detonated it explodes with the force of dynamite, and the cost is much less. Much less carbon monoxide is given off than by most other explosives, and there is no danger from a misfire as the oxygen will evaporate in a short time.

• “May I ask what you are doing, Mr. Meddlesome?” • “I’m figuring on the upkeep of an automobile.” ‘Thinking about buying a car?” “No, indeed. I’m merely trying to find out how* my neighbor, Jobson, contrives to keep a car on his income.” Liquor may keep a man down, but the fellow who drinks to excess ia pretty sure to get a head.

A Neighborly Duty.

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MANY WAYS TO USE COFFEE

Wlm Housekeeper Will Not Allow Left-Over Material to Be Thrown Away. If you have coffee left over from breakfast or dinner by no means allow It to be thrown away, but see that It la saved from day to day and kept In a bottle, as it can be used in many different ways. One of the best ways of using coffee 1b in making coffee jelly. But there are other equally as nice. For instance, there la coffee souffle, the recipe for which I stumbled upon quite by accident not so long ago, and which I have used many times since, always with good success. Take a half cupful of milk, one and a half cupfuls of coffee, twothirds of a cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of gelatin, a good pinch of salt and three eggs. First, soak'the gelatin for an hour in cold water. Then, mix with the coffee, milk and half of the sugar. Heat in a double boiler. Beat the yolks of the egg slightly, add what is left of the sugar and the salt and pour slowly into the coffee mixture. Cook until the mixture becomes thick and then add the whites of the eggs, beaten stiffly, and half a teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the whole thoroughly and turn into a mold. Then there is another: Take seven lump of sugar, half a cupful of coffee, half a cupful of Santa Cruz rum. Heat the coffee, mix the rum and sugar with it and allow it to stand until cold. You have made a most delicious cordial, which may be served after dinner. —Exchange.

CHICKEN IN SPANISH STYLE

Variation From Accepted Method Which Is Familiar to the Housewives of America. It will be noticed that in Spanish cookery white onions, tomatoes and olive oil play a prominent part. Little butter is used for frying. If good olive oil is not obtainable they prefer a vegetable fat. This way of stewing a chicken is delicious and makes a pleasant variation from any American style. Put one large cooking spoonful of olive oil in a frying pan; cook in it until tender one large peeled and sliced onion and one tomato (or half a cupful of canned ones), and half a banana. Pour this boiling hot over the chicken in a stew pan. To a four-pound bird add one and a quarter quarts of boiling water, one tablespoonful of salt and an eighth of a saltspoonful of white pepper. When the meat is done stir in the thickening, cook and stir for two minutes and drop in one tablespoonful of minced parsley. You may require a little more salt and pepper; that is left to individual taste. Serve in a deep dish with the saiice poured around it. Sometimes half a cupful of rice is used (uncooked of course), then boiled in it for the last 20 minutes. In this case omit the thickening.

Two Ways to Use Up Cold Ham.

Cup Omelets. —Butter half dozen custard cupfuls and fill lightly with equal quantities of stale (soft) bread crumbs and cold ham chopped fine and seasoned well. Beat three eggs and x add one cupful milk and divide among the cups—adding more milk If necessary. Set cups in pan of hot water and bake in moderate oven until firm in center. Turn on platter and serve with w’hite sauce. These can be made w'ith cold roast meat and served with a tomato sauce and are equally as good as the others. A Good Breakfast Dish.—Take deep oatmeal dishes and put a small quantity of cold chopped ham in each, making a hollow in center. Drop an egg in each, season with salt and pepper and a small piece of butter on each. Bake in a moderate oven until whites are firm.

Meat Succotash.

Here is a recipe for succotash: Four to five pounds of lean corned beef, a small fowl, four quarts of hulled corn, one large turnip, six or seven fair-sized potatoes, one quart of white beans. Cook beans alone until they are real mushy and strain. Cook meat and fowl together and when partly done add turnips. Take meat out when cooked. Then add your potatoes as you would for a stew and when done add your strained beans and hulled corn and keep stirring. Season to taste. i

Corned Beef Hash.

Take corned beef without gristle or skin and equal parts of hot baked potatoes (I use cold boiled), wet them up with beef stock if you have it, if not take milk, just a flavor of onion and nutmeg. After you put it in your frying pan never stir. Put milk or stock in pan first with a generous piece of butter or drippings. Now turn in hash and simmer till liquid is absorbed, brown and fold. For a change use bits of celery or pieces of bacon instead of butter. —Exchange.

Baked Beets.

Beets retain their sugary, delicate flavor to perfection if they are baked instead of boiled; turn them frequently while in the.oven, using a knife, as a fork allows the juice to run out. When done remove the skin and serve with butter, salt and pepper on the slices.

For Colored Goods.

To wash delicately colored goods so that they will not fade grate raw potatoes into the water and wash without soap

MADE VAST IMPROVEMENT IN WHITE SOX

One ball player can transform a team from a mediocre performer into a championship combination. That has been demonstrated more than once on the green diamond. Johnny Evers made the Boston Braves of last year into a team of champions, without the least doubt. This year with Evers out of the line-up a great part of the season the Braves have wallowed around hopelessly in the pennant chase. With Evers back they seem more like champions. This season we have the White Sox as an illustration of how a good player can work wonders in a club. Eddie Collins was purchased by Charley Comiskey at a price said to be $50,000. It would not be surprising if the Son owner did pay this big amount, as Collins is one of the greatest players who ever shied his castor into the baseball arena. He has been called by Manager John McGraw of the Giants “the most valuable player on the diamond,” and there is none better able to judge of a player’s ability than the manager of the Giants. Collins is credited with being a more

HIT BASEBALL POOLS

Success or failure in the efforts now being made to suppress the baseball pools is of vital importance to the professional end of the national pastime. Amateur baseball we shall always have, writes I. E. Sanborn in the Chicago Tribune. Success will mean the elimination of one of the many ills which are sapping the life out Of the game. Failure will mean eventually the elimination of professional baseball from the field of sport to the same extent as running races have been, and for much the same reasons. From small beginnings, confined to purely local fields, the baseball pool has grown to national proportions. Unchecked this cancer will attain still greater growth until its tentacles penetrate every nook and corner where baseball is spoken. At the outset when the sums involved in the pools were comparatively small, there was little danger to the game. Whenever big money begins to enter into the proposition there always is danger. The average American citizen, being perfectly certain that he himself would do almost anything if the price was big enough, naturally believes the promoters and others engaged in bhseball would do the same for a price. And it is only necessary to have the gambling side of a sport mount high enough in dollars to bring suspicion on the honesty of that sport.

SWEAT CAUSED HIS MISCUE

Drop of Perspiration on His Finger Given as Excuse by Keister for Missing Fly Ball. When Bill Murray first took up his job as manager of the Phillies, Billy Keister, a hard hitter, but a miserable fielder, was playing right garden. Murray was a manager who raved and stormed on the bench, a la Stallings, and after Keister had thrown away a game by missing an easy fly, Billy went after him hard when he returned to the bench. Imagine the surprise of Murray and the rest of the players when Keister replied: “Bill. I couldn’t help that. I had just wiped the perspiration off my forehead when the ball came to me and a drop of sweat on my finger caused the ball to slip away from me.” Keister was sent to Jersey City of the Eastern league about a week later.

Change of Meeting Place.

There is a movement on foot to change the meeting place of the National association from San Francisco *o Chicago for the coming falL

Eddie Colllne, White Box Keystone Star.

helpful player to a team than the wonderful Cobb. Ty Is the brightest individual player in baseball without a doubt, but when it comes to all-around usefulness to a team, one who inspires his team mates with his presence in the line-up, the White Sox second baseman must be awarded the palm. The Sox bear all of the earmarks of champions with Collins in the fold. They have played the fastest ball of any team in the land since the season opened. Their hitting has been wonderful, considering that they have always been looked upon as being weak with the bat. In all other departments they have shown surprising form and if they do not win the American league pennant the team that beats them will know it has been in a fight. The Boston Red Sox appear to be the only club the Sox need fear. The Tigers have given evidence of slipping back lately. If Jack Barry shows the form he displayed on the Athletics in days past the Red Sox will be worthy foemen of the White Sox.

CAREER OF HOWARD CAMNITZ

First Professional Engagement Was In Cotton States League—Now With Federal League. Howard Camnitz, one of the stars of the Pittsburgh Federal league pitching staff, was born in Covington, Ky., August 22, 1881, is 5 feet 8 inches in height, and weighs in playing condition, about 168 pounds. His first professional engagement was with Greenville, Miss., in the Cot-

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ton States league in 1902. The following year he was with Vicksburg, and in 1904 Pittsburgh secured him and turned him over to the Springfield club of the Three Eyes league. He was placed in Toledo, in the American association, for further development in 1905-’O6, was then adjudged ripe for fast company, and brought back to Pittsburgh.

Record for Continuous Hits.

Jack Ness, the Oakland first baseman, who has just broken the record for continuous hits by connecting in 49 games, should get a bid from some of the big league clubs this fall. Prices are not high enough this summer, though, to tempt very many of the minor league stars.

Praise for Baird.

Manager Rowland of the Sox Is strong in his praise of Douglass Baird, the third-sacker of the Pittsburgh Pi* rates. Baird is one of Rowland’s old pupils, and he has shown some real class since he has been with the Pit rates.

JOHN MILLER IS STAR

Cardinals’ Second Baseman Is Equally Good at Initial Sack. St. Louis Player Is Lauded as Peer of Vic Saier and Jake Daubert at First Base —He Was Coached by Hans Wagner. Miller Huggins has on the St. Louis Cardinal team a ball player who is really one of the stars of the National league, but whose ability is not appreciated by the fans. The player referred to Is John Miller, who is now playing second base, but who has also been at first and short, at which positions he delivered as brilliant a brand of ball as he is now giving his club at second base, writes Oscar C. Reichow In Chicago News. Miller is so great an infielder that Manager Bresnahan of the Cubs would rather obtain him than any other athlete in the league unless it be Art Fletcher of the Giants or Buck Herzog of Cincinnati. Miller first gained prominence,when he joined the Pittsburgh team and played second base alongside of Hans Wagner. On enrolling with the Pirates he was crude in his actions and had only a fair knowledge of the game, but close association with the game’s greatest shortstop improved him immensely, made him a star at the keystone sack, and an asset to the club. For a long time he was one of Fred Clarke’s most timely hitters and was Invaluable because of his aggressiveness and hustling qualities. When Clarke needed a first baseman he took Miller off second and placed him there. He did as well at

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one position as at the other. There was trouble in the ranks and Miller was one of the men who resented their treatment by the officials of the club. What was more he thought his services w'ere worth more to the team, but Barney Dreyfuss did not agree with him. As a result a trade was made with the Cardinals. Since joining that team Miller has played as great a game as any infielder in the National league. Huggins declares he would not part with him for any trade or sum of money that a club might offer.

MALL NOUS

Lee Meadows is pitching winning ball for the Cardinals. * * * Fielder Jones says the Whales will be the team to beat for the pennant. • • * Jack Fournier talks like an honest fellow. He admitß he likes his base hits. • * * Stovall is being talked of as the next manager of the Cleveland Indians. • • • Lajoie is still hitting the ball as hard as ever, but has slowed up in his fielding. * * * The hoodoo that troubled the White Sox in former seasons on ladies' day has been vanquished this year. * • • It is said to be Christy Mathewson’s hope to last as long in baseball as Pap Geers in light harness racing. * * * Charley O’Leary, the former Tiger, but now with the St. Paul team, haa won a host of friends in the Saintly city. • * • New Orleans has released Jack Frost, pitcher, to Fort Worth, Tex. Frost in Texas, and at this time of the year. Gee whiz! i • • • Admirers of Russ Ford are wonder-, ing whit will become of the emery ball expert now that he has been re-» leased by the Buf-feds. * • * Jimmy Sheckard is back in the game, having failed to land a job of scout or umpire. He is playing with ah independent team in Pennsylvania. • ' - *