Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1916 — Page 2

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Parasite* Infecting the Gullete of Sheep and Cattle Caused by Swallowing Insects Sheep and cattle very frequently have threadworms In the gullet. These worms are seen in the lining of the gullet beneath the surface in a rather striking wavy pattern similar to that formed by a snake as it travels over a smooth surface. The wqrms are slender and threadlike, but as they measure from over an inch to £ Inches in length and raise up the surface of the lining of the gullet to form Blender wavy ridges, they are readily located an infested gullet is slit open and examined.. So far as known, the damage occasioned by the presence of these parasites in sheep and cattle is rather slight, though it has been determined that a closely related parasite is intimately associated with if not the casual agent of cancer in the stomach of rats. It has been shown by investigatiors and experiments in the Zoological division of the Bureau of Animal Industry that various species of dung beetles are the source from which sheep and cattle become infested with the gullet worm. These dung beetles may be found in almost any manure deposit, except during the winter in cold climates. The beetles usually crawl under the manure deposit, enter from the bottom, and feed on the inner portion of the deposit as long as it remains moist. When the beetles eat the manure they swallow the gullet worm eggs which have passed down the esophagus through the stomach and intestine and out in the manure of the infested sheep or cow. As soon as the manure becomes too dry and hard to work the dung beetles abandon it and crawl into the ground or fly to other and fresher deposits. In about a month the eggs which were eaten by the beetles have hatched and developed into an encysted stage in the body of the beetle, ready to continue thei: development when the infested beetle is swallowed by a cow or sheep. The opportunity for sheep and cattle to swallow these beetles ?omes when the beetles fly from one manure deposit to another. The flight usually ends by the beetles landing on the pasture somewhere near a manure deposit, and as they crawl about through the grass toward the manure, attracted by the odor, they are commonly swallowed by grazing animals. The beetles are no doubt eaten unconsciously as a rule, but as sheep and cattle eat large numbers of insects, since practically every plant is the permanent home or temporary resting place of a number of insects, it is perhaps a matter of more or less indifference to them if they are conscious of the presence of insects in a mouthful of food. This is especially true of cattle, since cattle are noted for eating foreign objects, such as nails, wire, bolts, knives, rubbers, etc. Among the various kinds of insects picked up by sheep and cattle during the course of a day, dung beetles are likely to be more or less numerous, and of these some are likely to harbor larval stages of the gullet worm, now ready for the next step in development. In the digestive tract of the cow or sheep the beetles undergo partial digestion, releasing the larval worms, which make their way to the gullet and burrow into its lining. Here the worms become mature and in time the female deposits eggs which pass down the gullet and out in the manure to carry on the life cycle. It was found that under experimental conditions the eggs of the gullet worm would develop to an infective larva in croton bugs as well as in dung beetles; but since croton bugs do not breed in manure and are house dwellers, it is evident that they do not play any part in the natural transmission of the parasite. It is interesting to note, however, that Danish scientists have found a worm, similar to the gullet worm of sheep and cattle which develops as a larva in croton bugs, cockroaches, and mealworm, and which occurs in nature in the gullet, mouth, tongue, and first portion of the stomach of rats. This worm is extremely interesting from the fact already mentioned that its development In the rat is followed by the appearance of cancer of the stomach, a fact of great impo tance from a scientific and medical standpoint. While there is now a general recog nition of the importance of biting insects as carriers of such diseases as malaria and yellow fever, and of such insects of the fly as carriers of the germs of typhoid- fever and other bacterial diseases, the facts cited above show that insects haye an importance not yet generally recognized as carriers of parasi.es. From §uch parasitic infection man himself ’is not immune. It has long been knowp that infestation with a certain kind of tapeworm only occurs as the result of eating the fleas or life of dogs, and the list of cases of the occurrence of this tapeworm in man, and especially in children, indicates only too well that dog fleas and llcfe are swallowed by human beings not altogether rarely. Tn the case of sheep and cattle the swallowing of insects is practically unavoidable, but man can guard himself against swallowing dog fleas and lice and its rather unpleasant as well as dangerous consequences by observing greater care in his relations with pet animals, particularly by excluding them from his household, which Is the only certain way of preventing the scattering of their external parasites - tn places from which children and evfin grown persons are liable to swalIpw them.

Notes and Comment

Of Interest te Wmaea Readers

KEEP THIS IN THE GLOVE BOX Especially should footgear, headgear, gloves, veils and handkerchiefs be perfect. Have the gloves fitted when you buy them, for so much of their future appearance depends upon the way they are put on the first time. It is difficult to say which Is uglier, a glove that is too tight or one that is too large, though the former has the additional defect of being uncomfortable. In putting on gloves dust a little powder into them and be particular to have the seams straight, the lines on the backs properly 1 over the center of the hand, and the fingers on clear to the tips. In removing, pull them off carefully by turning back the tops and drawing them inside out, but be equally careful to turn them immediately ready for use again. Do not keep them rolled.

Worth Knowing. When next cooking greens of any kind, add just a small piece of butter to the water, and do not cover. The odor of the vegetable will not be perceptible through the house and the greens will be a better color. It is well after using the gas stove oven for baking, to leave the door open a little. This will heat to escape and so prevent the chance of sweating or rusting. In buying an Edam cheese it will save trouble if the top is cut out at the store. When nothing but the shell remains, cut or scrape off the outside and run the. cheese through the food chopper. It is delicious with noodles, mararoni or soup. It is annoying to have one’s straw or felt hat give way where It is pinned on. To prevent this, tack a band of ribbon or silk inside the hat where the pin comes. This will strengthen the hat enough to prevent unsightly holes. In using the paper lanterns for decorative purposes it will be well to put a little sand or a few pebbles around the candle; this will prevent swaying and so reduce the chance of the lantern taking fire.

Bananas Cheap Bananas cooked may constitute on* of the principle dishes at a luncheon and a good second at a dinner. They are so cheap that families in moderate circumstances may use them freely. For two large or three small bananas use a teaspoonful or more of butter, a half teaspoonful of lemon juice and a pinch of sugar. Cut up in small pieces and put all in a graniteware skillet, cover and cook thoroughly. May be served on toast. As dessert, bananas may be baked and served in their skins. When serving slit the skin and put in a piece of butter.

To Fit New Key if One I* Lost -When it is not convenient to take locks apart in the event of keys being missing, when you wish to fit a new key, take a lighted match or candle and smoke the new key in the flame, introduce it carefully into the keyhole, press it firmly against the opposing wards of the lock, withdraw it, and the Indentions in the smoked part of the key will ahow you exactly where to file.

Milk for Glove* A simple and effective way to clean kid gloves is to draw them on th* hands and go over them with a clean cloth dipped in skim milk. Wear them until quite dry. Or moisten a small sponge or piece of cloth in skim milk, rub it on a cake of castlle soap and with this sponge the gloves until they are quite clean. Wear until they ar* dry.

Home Made Byrup The very best substitute for maple syrup is made in' the following way: Mix together one pound of dark brown sugar, one pound of granulated sugar, one half pint of water, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Put on the fire and bring to a boil and allow to boll for two or three minutes. When cool it is ready to serve. It is very appetising and much purer and cheaper than any other imitation of maple syrup.

To Stain Wicker To stain chairs take fir* cents worth- of glue and five cents worth of brow umber. Mix the glue with one pint of boiling water and when quite dissolved put in the umber and mix well. When cool apply to the Wjcker with a soft brush. This is also a cheap and effective floor stain.

Oil Rubber*. To lengthen the life of rubber*, before wearing rqb them with vaselene, lard or sweet oil, letting it remain on for a day or The greater part will be absorbed by the rubber.

Good Scraper. When my pans and pots need scraping I save time and finger nails by th* use of jelly glass cover which is to small it can be kept In the soap dish.

White Clothe*. A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will greatly aid in the whitening process.

THB EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Merely Fate

“Excuse me,” said the young man, making a profound bow, as he met the extremely pretty girl in a deserted part of the avenue. The pretty girl flushed and regarded him coldly. “What for?’’ she demanded flatly. The young man gazed at her apologetically. “Why,” he told her, “when I departed from your jjouse last even-ing-somewhat hastily, I own, due to my emotion —you ordered me never to come near you again. 1 merely wished to point out that the present occasion is due to no fault of mine. Thought 1 beg pardon for approaching you, the fact is it was entirely unintentional!” “Well,” said the pretty girl, chin in the air, “I don’t see why meeting me should cause you suificient agony to draw forth all this explanation! I’m sorry the sight of me affects you so disagreeably!’’ “It does,” agreed tht young man, instantly. "Always when I see you the most unaccountable thrill pervades me —and anything unaccountable is disagreeable in a way,* I suppose, isn’t it? I want to make sure, though, before we part, that it is quite clear to you that fate alone led to this meeting. 1 wouldn’t for the world have you think—” “Oh don’t worry,” interrupted the young woman, frigidly. "Nothing would make me fancy you would go out of your way one foot for the pleasure of meeting me—after the things you said last’night! I am sure no wish to detain you.” "My time is yours,” insisted the young man, politely. “Misunderstandings are such miserable affairs and when people will have no future chance to clear them up, as in our case, it is well to do so Instantly. I am glad that you understand about my simply chancing to pass along this way, not dreaming you had chosen the same street.” —“I understand[ perfectly,” Insisted the pretty girl.- “It would be quite beyond you to put yourself out in lire least to me!” The young man regarded her mournfully. He sighed. “I hope I’m a gentleman,” he said. “After being told by a lady never to look at her again, wouldn’t it be positively rude to do otherwise, no matter what my feelings were? Of course, I might be dying to see her—and again I might not. That would make no difference in the face of her orders. Naturally, I couldn't go against them!” The pretty girl bit her lip and frowned. "Of course, it’s nothing to me,” she said, “but just as a matter of personal furiosity I’d like to know whether you don’t think that if a man cared enough for a girl he—he’d pay ho attention to orders or anything else?” The young man looked shocked. “Why, Marie —pardon—Miss Jellicks —you don’t grasp the first principle of | devotion and —er all that!” His not tc question why, his but to do or die—in other words, he wouldn’t stop to think w hat he wanted at all —he would just do as the girl told him. Of course, I mean in a situation like this one, ■where everything is over between us.” “Well!’’ she flashed, “I must say I don’t think much of such a regular jellyfish affection!” "Do you mean?” began the young man, in great surprise, “that you didn’t mean what you said last night—’’ “Certainly not!” tht young woman. “Of course I meant it! How dare you assume I ever wanted to see you again? I am in a terrible hurry. Goodby!" "Goodby,” echoed the young man, conversationally. “Well, that’s just what I thought. No, I said to myself, I couldn’t dream of doing such a thing. Marie distinctly said she hated men, and I wasn’t to approach her again, "Then you did think of walking in this direction on the chance of meeting me!” triumphantly cried the pretty girl. “I knew it.’’ “Why shouldn’t I have dared?” protested the young man, earnestly. “Well, didn’t you?” she asked a bit doubtfully. The young man coughed and turned around facing the direction in which she was going. "This question really must be cleared up,’* he murmured. "It may take some time, so I’d better walk along with you. “Oh, my goodness,”,,said the pretty girl, “come along! I knew that’s what you’d come for when I met you.”

Optimistic. Among the passengers on a train on r one-track road in the middle West was a talkative jewelry drummer. .. Presently the train stopped to take on water and the conductor neglected to send back a flagman. An express came along, and, before it could be stopped, bumped the rear end of the first train. The drummer was lifted from his seat and pitched head first into the seat ahead. His silk hat was Jammed clear down over his ears. He picked himself up and settled back in his seat. No bones had been broken. He drew a long breath, straightened up, and said: “Well, they didn’t get by us, anyway.”

Fixing the Responsibility. "My husband tells me that he was out late last night with your busband. ’ ' "That isn’t so. I want you to understand that my husband was out with your husband.**

Notes and Comment

Of Interest to Women Readers

Cheese Good Substitute for Meat Housewives who choose to with draw meat from the table a part of the time need not, if they exercise discretion in the selection of substitutes injure the health or annoy the palate of the family. A wise use of cheese according to members of the department of home economics' of the University of Washington, will prove both healthful and economical. "Cheese is apt to be used on our table as an appetizer," said one mem bar of the faculty, “whereas its value as a muscle building and energy sup plying food makes it one of the most economical substitutes for meat. "A given amount of money spent foi American cheese will buy about twice aa much food value as if spent for meat. • "The general belief that cheese Is difficult to digest is due largely, perhaps, to the unsuitable way in which it is eaten—at the end of an already sufficient meal for example—and to its careless preparation. “In making a menu with cheese as a central dish, the cheese should replace foods of similar composition, as meat, eggs and fish. “As cheese is a conc ntrated food, some green vegetables such as stewed ce’ery, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower or lettuce should be included in the menu, as well as bread, potatoes and other starchy substances, to give a balanced meal with the proper bulk- ’ Recipes which will serve the household manager during season are given below. In cooking the cheese low temperature should be used, so as no' to toughen it. Cheese Croquettes —Thicken 1 cup milk with 1-4 cup flour or farina; cook thoroughly. Add 2 egg yolks; then melt in the sauce 1-4 pound of cheese chopped fine or grated. Season with salt, pepper and a little mustard. Spread in a shallow pan and cool. Shape, roll crumbs, egg and crumbs again, and fry in deep fat. Cheese Fondue —One cup scalded milk; 1 cup soft, stale bread crumbs; 1-4 pound milk cheese, diced; 1 tablespoon butter; 3 eggs; seasoning.Mix first your ingredients and add well beaten yolks of eggs. Cut and fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs, lour in buttered baking dish and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Cheese Souffle—Two tablespoons butter; 3 tablespoons flour; 1-2 cup scalded milk; seasoning; 1-4 cup grated cheese; 3 eggs. Melt butter and add flour, add gradually milk. Season. Remove from fire and add yolks of eggs beaten until lemon colored. Cool mixture, and cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake twenty minutes In a slow oven. Serve at once. Bar-le-duc and Cream Cheese Sand wiches or salad—Mash to a paste one cup fresh cream cheese, add 2 tablespoons bar-le-duc (currant) jelly, 3 tablespoons olive oil, 1 cup chopped peacan nuts. Season with salt, paprika and chopped parsley. Mix well and spread between thin slices of buttere.i whole wheat bread. This filling may be served in form of canapes, by spreading on slices of hot toast and garnishing the tops with slices of stuffed olives. Or the filling may be made and pressed into small balls ana served on lettuce leaves. Cream may be used in place of olive oil, and sweet pickles sliced finely and walnuts Instead of jelly alnd peacans.

Household Notes. To clean a light pompadour, rub magnesia through it, or wash it in gasoline. Fresh buttermilk diluted with water is excellent for washing linoleum and leaves a polish. If it is necessary to water flowers from a well or pump water, pump enough in the morning and allow it to get warm in the sun. It kills flowers or retards their growth if watered with the cold well water. Lemonade is enrichened with the juice of raspberries. A quick icing for the dinner cake Is made by stirring pulverized sugar into berry juice or sweetened cream, applying it to the cake before it hardens.

To Butter Crackers. To butter crackers it is necessary to have the proper proportion of butter and crackers, otherwise the ' crumbs will be butter soaked. Melt one fourth cup of butter, for one cup of crumbs. Pour it evenly over the crumbs and stir until the butter is well distribut ed over all the crumbs. Pour them into a pan to cool and sprinkle lightly over prepared food before baking. When cheese is added to a food that is covered with cracker crumbs, it is grated and added just long enough before the food is removed from the fire to melt into the crumbs.

When Soutaching a Dress. When doing this work at home buy the patterns that transfer to the material when pressed with a hot iron. The designs come in the bolt, two dis ferent patterns on one strip of paper four yards long. Press it on the, wrong side of the goods.

White Clothes. A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will greatly aid in the whitening process.

At the Telephon*. When telephoning do not get into the habit of holding long conversations. People who do this lose all perceptions of the times when they may be annoying or disturbing others. Particularly in the case of party wires is there call for consideration. Some one else may urgently desire to use this same telephone over which you are gossiping. Do not use the telephone of the woman upon whom you are calling unless it is absolutely necessary. Thoughtless women often make a convenience of their friends in this respect. Your hostess may not wish to take you into the part of the house in whidh the telephone is situated, or, when frequently done, it may prove a considerable expense to her. Do not call upon men in business hours if you can possibly help it. If it is necessary to do so be as brief as posible. Do not tell things which you do not wish known over the telephone. Conversations are often audible to all the persons in the room with the person to whom you are talking. If it is a business conversation it is well to think what you are going to say beforehand. Orders or requests are frequently misunderstood thru the hesitation and ctoangeableness of the person giving them. Finally, temper justice with mercy in your treatment of the young woman operators who answer your calls. Their business is a tedious and wearing one, and it is almost impossible to be always eagerly attentive.

Recipes. Remnants of ham with asparagus— Take equal quantities of cooked as paragus cut into bits and cold cooked ham chopped into small pieces. Cut the asparagus by hand before cooking. For each cup of material make a sauce of two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, a cup of the liquid gn which the asparagus was cooked and a teaspoonful of lemon juice with salt and nutmeg to taste. Add two beaten eggs, also the ham and asparagus. Turn into individual casseroles, or cups, buttered; cover the tops with buttered cracker crumbs and bake in oven to a golden brown. Serve in the casserole as a luncheondish or as an entree. Welch Rabbit—Two cups of grated cheese, one half cup of milk, yolks of two eggs, salt and pepper, cayenne to taste; toast carefully square slices of bread with crust removed; while hot butter them, plunge into a bowl of hot water, place in a heated dish, and stand in the oven to keep warm while you make the rarebit; put the milk in a granite saucepan, stand it over a moderate fire; when boiling hot add the cheese, stir constantly until the cheese is melted, add salt, pepper and yolks of eggs, and pour over the toasted bread; If the rarebit is stnngy and tough, it is the fault of cheese not being rich enough to melt.

Unique Dust Cloth. The next time you are invited to a novelty shower in honor of a bride to be or a bachelor girl who is getting ready for a two room apartment, have ready a two in one gift. By this is meant a duster and glove combinedBuy a piece of cheesecloth measuring twelve inches square and then get an other piece about eight inches square. Featherstitch the smaller to the larger piece, allowing one side to remain unattached. Trace the outline of some one’s right hand on the little piece of cheesecloth and stitch along the lines directly thru the two pieces. By slipping the hand in the fingers thus formed the neat little housekeeper can dust her furniture and protect her band with the one article. Should this gift seem insignificant, you might make a bag of dark green calico. Make it fifteen inches long and Jnine inches wide. Finish it with casing and run green tape thru it. Across the front of it outline the word "Duster” with yellow cotton. < Such a gift may seem worthless to you, but ask any bride to be whether she has provided herself with dusters and place to keep them in, and you are sure to receive a negative answer. Such a state of affairs then surely warrants the carrying out of the above suggestions.

Health Notes. Castor oil becomes tasteless if beaten thoroughly mixed with the white of an egg. Tincture of myrrh is a good thing in the water used to rinse after brushing your teeth. Apply glycerin to a scald directly after the accident occurs and cover It up with strips of rag soaked in glycerin. The juice of a femon in hot water on awakening in the morning is an excellent liver corrective, and for stout women is said to be a flesh reducer.

To Extract Onion Juice To extract onion juice, instead of grating the onion in the usual manner move it in a rotary motion over the flat grater and do not allow the pulp to get into the juice. Take up all the pulp, place it in a little muslin square and squeeze out all remaining juice. Many prefer adding extract to pieces of onion in salads.

Bath Room Hint A piece of flannel dampened with spirits of camphor will remove stains from the mirrors and window glass. Stains on marble may be removed by covering them with a paste made of fuller’s earth and water. It should stand some time. Remove and polish

INDIANA VOTERS WILL NOT FORGET

Taxpayers Sea Through Taggart's Eleventh-Hour Economy Conversion, HIS RECORD IS TOO PLAIN » Never Heard to Object to Democratic Extravagance In Conduct of Indiana’s Affairs. At the moment considerable noise is being made by faithful, but unthinking agents of Tom Taggart, over the fact that the sage of French Lick has suddenly been converted to ths notion that the present Democratic congress has wasted public money with a prodigality and recklessness that has never been known in the political history, of the country.- In a speech recently in the senate Taggart, in an attack on the "pork barrel bill,” sanctioned everything that the Republican opposition had been saying regarding the waste of public funds by the Democratic congressional associates, among whom was John Adair, who is on the ticket with Taggart in Indiana. Adair voted for the bills that Taggart criticized. Somehow- or other this assumption of the role of "watchdog of the treasury” by “Oily Tom” calls to mind the old couplet: "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil was well, a devil of a monk was he.” Taggart for economy in the handling of taxpayers’ money! Can you beat it? Did anyone in Indiana ever hear of Taggart raising his voice against adding hundreds of needless employes to the Indiana payroll? No man has had more power in the Indiana Democratic organization in re. cent years than this same Taggart. If he had been opposed to such reckless expenditure of public funds as has characterized the present Democratic administration all he would have to do to stop it would have been quietly to have let out a hint. Did he do it? If he did, no one ever heard of it. Did anyone ever hear Taggart raise a protest against the decision of the 1913 state legislature to boost the state tax levy to a new high record? Did anyone ever hear Taggart protest against the creation, for the benefit of “deserving Democrats” of Innumerable boards and commissions to further burden the taxpayers of Indiana? It is said that Taggart intends to make his fight against extravagance in the conduct of public affairs the basis of his fight for election to the senate. Tom is now a candidate and possibly the matter may look a little different to him from what it formerly did but the observation is inevitable, after a careful study of his course in politics, that he has never at any time possessed a wide reputation for having preached and assisted in practicing public economy. “His eleventhhour conversion is liable to force the conclusion that he is practicing something in Washington that he never preached, let alone practiced in Indiana, Taggart needs votes, hut his record in Indiana is so plain and so directly opposed to his recent public statements that Indiana taxpayers properly have his “number.” His agonized cry for economy in the expenditure of public money will attract support to himself only when Indiana taxpayers are able to forget the reckless extravagance of the Taggart organization in Indiana. There is not much of a chance that they will ever forget —the record is too plain. Until that time comes, Mr. Taggart and his associates very fittingly will find the taxpaying voters withholding their support with the observation “Actions speak louder than words.”

PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE

“There are commissions on every conceivable subject and commissioners and deputy commissioners are running up and down the state too numerous to mention. Every trustee has two guardians and every county commissioner has five guardians, and if this thing keeps up much longer every man in Indiana will be the guardian of every other man.” —Thomas R. Marshall at Terre Haute, September 9, 1908. Mr. Marshall was elected governor of Indiana in 1908, and the Democratic party has been In power in Indiana continuously since that date. Since 1908 the Democratic party has added to the state’s payroll enough "deserving Democrats” to require the payment of $275,000 annually more than was required in 1908, the last year of the last Republican administration.