Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1916 — Page 2

NEW RUSSIA BEING BORN OUT OF EUROPEAN WAR

German Arms Are Blasting the Shackles Off the Backward Empire. NEW PATRIOTISM IS AROUSED Honest Attempts of Government to Solve Problems Encourages Intellectuals to Look For Better Things—Remarkable Exploit of a Russian Soldier. Petrograd.—Out of the tears and sufferings of the great war a new Russia is being bom —a Russia of fair government, progress and economic solidity. This is the belief of many patriots. Perhaps it is all a beautiful dream. The patriots were profoundly discouraged last September when the czar prorogated the duma. But hope revived and was intensified fivefold ■when Nicholas not only called together bin congress again, but a few days ago appeared in person at the opening of this representative body and welcomed the members in the name of •victory. It is hard for western minds to comprehend just what this action of "The Little Father" meant to the Russian mujik. To the humble peasant his czar is a demigod, indeed almost an equal of the Virgin Mary and the Christ. For him to personally 1 receive the peasants’ representatives was an inspiration for the war-driven Russian. The further proceedings of the duma will therefore be watched with more Interest than ever. > The body is patriotic to the last man and the liberal block, or union of parties, has decided to forego pressing for reforms until the crisis in the nation’s history is past. The Premier, M. Stunner, has a record of conservatism which does not recommend him to the liberal elements, yet, like the czar, he now conciliates the most radical and so combines the mighty people to oppose a united front to the German. The honest attempts of the government to solve the frightful transportation problem, which has resulted in famine in one province with a super- - abundance of the needed products in another nearby province, are generally recognized, The efforts have not met with great success, however. Russian bureaucracy, unlike the German brand, is not efficient. But the spirit in which the problem has been met, like the severe measures taken to root out and punish war grafting in high places, have encouraged the intellectuals to look for better things. M. Sazonoff, the foreign minister, is another government official who, though a conservative, has gained the respect and confidence of the people. It is felt that Russia's delicate relations with her allies and with Sweden and the United States are in good hands. Even if Russia should lose this war, or it should result in a draw, great changes are to be expected. Russian reforms have grown out of conflict. When Lloyd-George, the British minister .of munitions, said that German arms are blasting the fetters off backward Russia he told the truth. ' It was the constant incursions of the Tartars which led to the consolidation of old Russia about Moscow. A reign of terror in the first half of the seventeenth century led to the formation of the house of Romanoff, under which the Russian empire has grown to its present greatness. Great Giant Awakens. A century later the war with Sweden brought the nation to a realization of itfi Jieed of western ways. Under Peter the Great the Swedish struggle resulted in the permanent alignment of Russia with the nations of the West, instead of the civilizations of the East. With the Napoleonic ’ wars Russia took several more steps out of her semi-Asiatic seclusion. The Crimean war brought a further spread of enlightened ideas and had much to do with the famous emancipation of the serfs. The feudal system received further blows at the end of the Turkish war of 1577-78. As a climax to the Russo-Japanese war came the bloody revolution of ...1905, the birth of the first duma and the seeming dawn of freedom. But it was a false dawn. There followed reaction of the most terrible sort, pogroms, wholesale arrests, the suppression of liberal ideas and great shipments of the intellectual leaders to Siberia. This era was passing away when the war began. In the spring of 1914 the duma dared to refuse to pass the budget. 11 faught the reactionary government on almost equal terms. The war caused the liberal leaders to consent to delay. Old institutions were allowed to stand unchallenged In the hour of crisis when every nerve and sinew of the nation were needed in the great trial of arms. The war itself has done much to enlighten. The ignorant young peasant, who seldom went more than fifty, miles from his little village, has traveled To the ’battle front and talked with all sorts of men he never dreamed existed. The suppression of vodka has wrought marvels. The, older peasant, instead of spending his evenings in besotting revels, how takes his place in a little group around some man or

woman who can read, and listens to. the latest news about the war or the words of wisdom from some volume purchased at the neighboring town by the joint contributions of many poor folk. Russia is moving and stirring. The world is bound to hear more of the Slavs. Backward, dirty and ignorant the vast mass is today, but it cannot be denied its place. Europe today has about 130,000,000 Slavs to 70,000,000 Germans. In Russia the rate of increase of population is 2.01 a year, while In Germany it is 1.40 and falling. This birth rate of Russia constitutes an insuperable force. Russia has natural resources greater than those of all the rest of. Europe put together. These are almost wholly undeveloped. As the Slavic conscience nnds itself and modern ideas spread, the Slavic influence in the world affairs is bound to grow. Exploit sis Russian Soldier. A Russian scout tells the following story of his successful exploit behind the enemy’s lines: "As I have a good knowledge of Polish I was sent to blow up some bridges in the Austrian rear. I changed my uniform for civilian dress and, having crossed myself, left our trenches and crawled in the-direction of the enemy’s positions. On reaching the Austrian lines I suddenly heard voices to my right, so I quickly changed my course to the left, and succeeded in crossing a trench, from which one could only hear measured snoring. "It was a dark night and very late. I ventured several steps forward, but was then unexpectedly met by a field patrol of 15 men. The commanding officer (an Austrian) seized me, and and began questioning me in Polish. He asked w ho I was, where I had come from, and how I got there at that late hour. 1 told him that I was an Aus-trian-Pole, and had run away from the Russians in Tarnopol, as they had compelled me to dig trenches without any wages. The officer appeared to believe me, and told a Magyar soldier to take me to the staff of the regiment for examination. ‘‘When the guard and I reached the depths of the enemy’s positions he asked me for a match, which I readily gave him, as I had a box in my pocket. He ordered me to stop, and I obeyed. He then leaned his rifle

SEEING WITH EARS

Science Promises Much for the Afflicted of War. Marvelous Instrument Being Perfected Which Enables the Blind to Detect Light by Means of the Ear. London. —Many brave fellows who Test this country in the pride of manhood are bound to return suffering from serious defects, but fortunately, clever devices are being perfected to render their lot easier. Hitherto we have looked upon blindness as an appalling affliction, but already discoveries have been made which will do much to improve the condition of those who do not possess natural sight. There is every hope 'for believing that science shortly will provide new eyes, or rather new means for seeing. Much progress has been made with this object in view. The retina, marvelous as it is, is merely a highly nervous, special kind of skin. There are creatures whose sense of sight consists of their whole body. Hence there is nothing improbable dn~the_view that eventually the human skin maybetrainedtpreceive impressions of light, and so to act as the organ of sight. There is being perfected a marvelous instrument which enables the blind to detect a light by means of the ear. By its aid a blind person not only can recognize light, but can locate it and even measure its intensity. The instrument is doubtless the begtnning of animportant series of in-~ ventions. So far it merely places a blind person in the position of one who is partially blind, that is, who is able to detect the presence of light. Before long, it is hoped that the existing instrument will be greatly improved, although in any form it will merely be the starting point on the road to a great victory. There is a special substance, selenium, which has its electrical reSistence altered, by light;, it is due to this substance that it is "possible to send photographs from one place to another by means of an electrical wire. In the new instrument the selenium operates a kind of telephone. A pair of these telephones are placed on the hand, and are attached to a little camera containing the selenium. Assuming this is adjusted for darkness, no sound will be heard when the individual is in darkness. Afi soon noiaef is heard which varies in loudness according to the intensity of the light, Thus moonlight. makes a distinct noise, while a considerable roaring sound is heard as.the effect of sqnlight.' ■' : ~ 7 77 In practice it has been found best

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against a tree and, taking a pipe and tobacco out of his pocket, struck a light. It was still quite dark, and, taking my chance, with the left hand I grasped the rifle, while with my right -I made -a gesture aa isl-intended la. blow my nose. With a violent swing I struck the man on th© bead with the butt end of the rifle, and “he fell down without" even uttering a cry. ‘‘Having satisfied myself that tha Magyar was dead, I took’ off his distinguished conduct medal and searched his pockets, where I found a book, from which it appeared that he had been a teacher in a Lemberg school. Dragging the body to the nearest ditch I laid it down beside the rifle, and continued my course toward the bridges which I was to blow up. Blow Up Bridges. “I wandered about for the rest of the night, and when it became too light to go on I lay down in some vegetable beds behind the ruins of a peasant’s hut. From here I was able to observe the country, and’ to find out, from the map which I carried, the places where the bridges would most probably be. Having spent the day in this position, I renewed my wanderings at the tall of darkness. I reached the first bridge, and saw the sentry with his rifle. On seeing me, the sentry called out, ‘Wer Kommt?’ "Instead of giving him an answer I ran up to the bridge and threw four hand grenades one after the other. They were well aimed, and the bridge, with the sentry, was blown into the air. The body fell into the river, and the bridge began to burn. “Not losing a moment, I ran to the next bridge; which lay half a mile distant The sentry was standing and staring at the burning bridge, without paying any attention to me. As I approached I flung a grenade at a distance of fifteen paces. It struck the man’s feet and both his legs were torn off by the explosion. Then I quickly threw the remaining four grenades, and the bridge collapsed and began burning. “My task was accomplished, and I ran away as fast as I could, and reached the destroyed hut where I had spent the previous day. Soon I heard an alarm, which had been raised to catch me. Men on horseback fired and galloped in search of me, but luckily they just missed me, and presently they disappeared in the distance— An hour after this uproar I 'crept out of my hiding-place and eventually reached the spot where I was first stopped. This time, however, I managed to slip past unnoticed, and, continuing on all fours, I soon got within our lines again. I was taken to the staff, my exploit was verified, and I received the St. George’s Cross of the third degree.’’

to arrange the apparatus so that the brightest light produces silence, but the less intense the light the greater the noise. Thus a blind person fitted with this apparatus can easily tell when he passes into a shadow. If in a room, he can tell when he is passing a window or doorway. Moreover, the passage of anybody between the light and the blind person will greatly affect the instrument. Many wonderful effects have been obtained. At present all the instrument does .is to inform the blind person whether he is in light or darkness, and the degree or either. This, however, is a long stride towards the solution of the problem of seeing without eyes. Fortunately it is possible to afford aid more easily in the case of those who are deafened as a result of explosions and so on. Science has already done much to cope with deafness by providing artificial ear drums. Very delicate microphones can now be obtained which greatly magnify sounds, rendering them within the Rapacity of persons who normally hear with difficulty. There are instruments in use to convey sounds by way of the mouth instead of through the ears. .... Hearing is merely the result of vibrations of sound beating upon the drum of the ear, this being communicated to the brain by a series of nerves. Deafness is a defect in this means of communication. Now, a person can hear distinctly by means of his teeth; this can easily be proved by placing one end of a pocket knife in the mouth and the other end on a piano. In a similar way, one may communicate sound waves to the brain through any other bony substance, even the skull itself. Starting from these facts an apparatus has been devised which when attached to the head will act as an artificial ear. The fact is that we do not see with our eyes, hear with our ears, smell with our nose, taste with our tongue, or feel with our skin. It is the brain which acts in every case, and the very useful organs mentioned only act as suitable apparatus for the collection and transmission. \ . In each case certain sorts of vibration are set up, those passing by means of the nerves to the brain. It is very interesting in this respect to notice how persons suffering from some physical .disability frequently “feel’’ sensations in parts that have been amputated, the explanation being Somewhat allied fact is that a blow over the head will give a sensation of light, vibrations being set up and means of the nerves to the brain.

He is indeed lost who is lost to shame.

HAS DISTINCT FLAVOR

CAULIFLOWER ONE OF THE BEST OF VEGETABLESCareful Preparation Needed to Bring Out Its Really Fine Qualities In Some Dishes That Have Indorsement of Experts. Cauliflower has a distinctive flavor, suggesting cabbage somewhat, but more delicate. Whatever the method of preparing it for the table, care should be taken to preserve and develop its flavor and to keep the creamy white color which is so attractive. This means that it must be cooked just long enough to Insure tenderness and no longer. If overcooked, the white portion turns dark and the flavor becomes strong and finally rank. Some persons insist that overcooked cauliflower and overcooked cabbage may be the cause of digestive disturbance which Is not noticed when these vegetables are properly cooked. The following recipes are worth trying: Boiled Cauliflower With Drawn Butter. —Place the cauliflower, head up, in boiling water to which salt has been added (one teaspoonful to a quart of water) and cook until just tender, which should require for a medium.sized cauliflower about one-half hour. Then remove whole to a hot dish and serve with melted butter. Sometimes the head is wrapped in cheesecloth before being cooked to make sure that the delicate flowerets are not broken, off. If ttje leaf stalks are cooked with the head, serve in such a way that each person receives a portion of both head and leaf. Creamed Cauliflower. —The cauliflower cooked as above may be served with a cream sauce, and the dish looks particularly well when the head is left whole and the sauce is poured over it. If more convenient, however, it may be broken up into small portions, which should be arranged neatly in the dish and then covered with the sauce. Cream Sauce. —This kind of sauce (so often served with vegetables) should be made rather thick for Cauliflower, as follows: One cupful rniTk,~ two tablespoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls flour, one-half teaspoonful salt and one-fourth teaspoonful pepper. Heat the milk over boiling water; beat the butter and flour to a cream and stir into the hot milk. Cook five minutes, then add salt and pepper. In this and the other dishes referred to salt and pepper can be added as desired. Cauliflower Baked With Cheese (Cauliflower au Gratin). —Break into pieces- a -well-drained headof plaih

boiled cauliflower and fill a dish with layers (two or at most three) of cauliflower lightly sprinkled with grated cheese. Pour over all a cupful of cream sauce; sprinkle the top with buttered bread crumbs, and, if a decided cheese flavor is liked, with a little grated cheese also. Bake in a moderately hot oven until the top is a delicate brown. Cream of Cauliflower Soup.—Cream soups can be made by adding the pulp of a vegetable (enough to insure good flavor) to a thin cream sauce. A good proportion is one cupful of vegetable pulp (in this case cauliflower broken into very small pieces or put through a rather coarse sieve) to a quart of sauce.

Creamed Celery.

Celery two cupfuls, white sauce one cupful. x , Method: Select the tender parts of tho celery and serve as a relish. The tougher, undesirable parts, .break into inch pieces and cook until tender in enough boiling salted water to covet (30 to 60 minutes). Make a white sauce by melting one tablespoonful of butter and adding one tablespoonful of flour and stirring until smooth, gradually pouring on the one-fourth cupful of milk and stirring until smooth. Add the cooking water.

Fruit Pudding.

Take one egg, beaten slightly; onehalf cupful butter and lard mixed, one cupful milk, scant one-half teaspoonful cloves, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, one-half teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonfill soda, three cupfuls flour, one cupful seeded raisins, one-half cupful citron, one cupful walnut meats, ground. Steam three and one-half hours. Servewithcreamor wineorbrandy sauce. This makes an excellent dessert and will keep a long time.

Creole Balls.

Add to one cupful of milk butter the size of an egg and let it come to a boll. After the milk boUs add three cupfuls light brown sugar, getting the mixture to the boiling point as quickly as possible to avoid curdling. Stir continually. When a soft ball will form in the water it is done. Remove from the stove and beat, add one teaspoonful vanilla, one cupful nut meats. When it creams form in small bell shapes or mounds.

Veal Balls.

Eight ounces of cold cooked veal, three ounces of. bacon fried, two tablespoonfuls of cream, three ounces of grated roll, one tablespoonful of chopped parsiey, Pepper and salt. Pass the meat and bacon twice through the mincing machine. Stir grated roll into cream, add egg, salt, pepper and parsley and lastly the meat, mixing Form into balls ttys size of a nut, boil for five minutes in soup and serve hot. •

CALIFORNIA'S CYPRESS GROVE

THERE is a lone tree in Lombardy that accomplished what a million men suffered and slaved to do. It stood in the path of the great Simplon road, and at the sight of its stately grace Napoleon turned the road from a straight line, that its beauty might remain man’s heritage. It is the cypress of Somma, and stands as a monument to the greatness of one man and a lesson to those who would sacrifice beauty to the god of gain, says Mark Daniels, former superintendent of national parks, in American Forestry. That Napoleons are scarce we know, but are there so few who have not even enough of his vision to see and appreciate the glory of a magnificent forest or the eternal miracle of a. waterfall that they 2ffiUcom tinue to squander these birthrights by Indiscriminately hewing down the forests and damming up the streams? There stands not one cypress, but a grove of them, of surpassing beauty, on our western coast. True, they are not of that tall, stately variety, with formal, architectural lines; they are, on the contrary, the exact or complete reverse, for they are gnarled and twisted; but they are beautiful in their setting as anything that the eyes of man. may rest .upon. There is but a comparatively small area 'where they still grow, and they are as distinct among the other conifers of their re<ion as are the Sequoia Gigantea amongst the conifers of the Sierra Nevada. In fact, in many respects they remind one of the “big trees, as they are called; for they have a most distinct individuality which makes them stand out alone.

They are to be found only in a certain locality, and their age is much disputed. I have heard this estimated to be from 100 to 7,000 years, and there seems to be no reconciling the various contestants. ’ However, the question whether they have seen one or twenty generations of time would seem to be of small moment, in the light of the fact that they are struggling through the last few years of one generation of American tourists. But they seem to stand the storm of “oh’s” and “ah’s” with the same fortitude with which they resist the gales and blasts of that beloved seacoast on the very edge of which they spread their spiraled roots. Growing down to the actual verge of the sea, with bare branches stretched out like arms toward the land of the setting sun, the question of whether they are the vanguard of an ancient western growth or the stragglers of the great eastern forests that were cut off by the Pacific is almost always the first subject of conjecture on the part of the tourist. Picturesque Shore Line.

About 125 miles down the coast from San Francisco lies the Bay of Monterey, at the southern extremity of which the first cypress trees are to be found. These trees possess more the character of the cedar of Lebanon than they do of any variety of cypress, p ml are known to those who burden their minds with etymological detail as the cupressus marcrocarpa. From this point, which is known as the Del Monte peninsula, and which forms the southern shores of this wonderful sapphire bay, picturesque groves and occasional isolated specimens are dotted along the coast for some twenty-odd miles to Lobos point. Here, again, the old adage, “It never rains but it pours,” is borne out by Ihe rtot of exquisite beauty which confronts the observer on every side. Nature seems to have, concentrated on this locality in the development of extremes of picturesqueness and intensity of color. The shore line is broken and, jagged, with here and there a ■ stretch of itrory-colored sand beach, terminated and broken by precipitous cliffs, Against which the indigo sea hurls its pearls and sheets of water that are a pale fade green against the lemon-colored horizon and the setting sun. A motor trip along the coast line gives one the effect of a kaleidoscopic change of coloring, the rapid succession of which should ( ,vary with the speed of the motor were ft not for the unholy combination of the modern six-cylinder machine with the freedom granted the tourist by the owu-

THE FOREST OF CYPRESS

ers of the property. As it is, however, conditions would appear to be reversed; for, with the average driver, the speed along these wonderful drives is such that the constant prayer of the tourist is that some accident may happen which will allow him sufficient time to fix upon his retina one permanent picture of the exquisite color harmonies of the sapphire bay, the ivory-colored beach line, the sil-ver-gray trunks of the trees, and the deep blue and bright yellow-green of their tops. Seventeen-Mile Drive. From the hotel at Del Monte a wonderful drive, known as the SeventeenMile drive, follows the coast line past the historic old buildings of Monterey, skirting a mission wall and along the sandy beach past homes of innumera* ble sea fowl, and plunges into a forest of pines that forms the background to the first grove of cypress trees. From there the road winds in and out amongst the spectral trunks, giving a glimpse here and there of the blue horizon and jagged points of promontories, burying itself now and then in the dark and gloomy shade where the growth is dense. About fouF miles beyond the first grove of cypress trees is the famous Midway point, which, until the advent of a fleeting exposition, was the-most photographed tourist lure on the Pacific coast. It comprises a rock promontory that projects out into the sea, with its toes lapped by the gentle waves of the Pacific, whose ardor has been tempered by the reefs and submerged rocks farther out at sea, upon whose treacherous points the coastwise traffic of this district is frequently wrecked. Upon the summit of thjs point, as if placed there by the playful hand of an imaginative painter, grows a lone cypress tree, the roots of which are almost entirely exposed to the air. The top of this tree, however, is brilliant green, and when sllhouetted against the sky of the setting sun Is indeed a sight to behold. Farther along the coast the drive widens along the shores of Pebble beach, past the homes of men whose millions are in the banks and others whose fortunes are still in their heads, to Arrowhead point, and beyond to the famous mission that marks the mouth of the Carmel valley. Beyond the point where the Carmel river empties into the sea is Lobos point, and the quaintest and most curious on this coast. At the latter-named point of interest they preserve the toothsome abalone, a sea product that is peculiarly indigenous to this locality.

“It’s a real joy after all—this up-to-date apartment-house living,” said the bride of a year or two to the friend who was paying a duty call. “The sherbet you’re eating is a month old.” The visitor unconsciously delayed an ascending spoonful. “Don’t be worried,” smiled the bride, “the ice is all right. I’ve kept them longer than that. You see, my last afternoon ‘at-hbme’ came on a rafny day, and I had a distressing number of ices left over. Now, if that had happened in a house witty only an ice-chest, all of the refreshments would have gone to waste. The caterdf wouldn’t- have taken’ any of them back. But, you see, every apartment in this house has a refrigerating plant. You can keep things to eat as Inng as a cold storage warehouse. It’s very nice.’’ “Yes, it is,” said the bride’s caller. “It’s very nice sherbet, indeed.”

“My nephew, Elbert Petty, puts in the most pf his time at worrying about what does not greatly concern him,” confessed Gaunt N. Grimm. “Just new he is considerably” exercised oven the religious beliefs of Christopher Columbus. This is foolishness, in my opinion, for there is nothing he can dd aboufit, even if he convicts Columbus of being entirely in error. And it is especially futile when right here in his midst, so to say,,is the question of world disarmament, about which he can do fully as much anybody else.”— Kansas City Star.

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Useless Fretting.