Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — Page 2

Back of all the tragedy of Failure there Is always the tragic truth of Negligence and Slight- -edges left ragged and incomplete.

There is a satisfaction and a feeling of latent Strength in the breast of - a man who Starts a thing—and Finishes it. You will find this true if you do it. The most important task is always the task at hand. Complete it. Make it stand square and clean when you leave it. Look it over and be sure no Ragged Edges remain. Finish up as you Go. Make Thoroughness one of your Masters. Searchingly note the trifles. Get them together and know them. For out of them comes — Perfection. Finish up as you Go.

AN OUNCE OF MEAT

“Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle."

An ounce of edible meat—lean meat, fat and lean, suet or fat trimmed from steak, chops, or roast —seems hardly worth saving. Many households take just this view of the matter —do not trouble to put such an insignificant scrap into the Ucebox or soup pot —do not bother to save for cookery a spoonful or two of drippings or a tiny bit of suet or fat. Yet if every one of the 20,000,000 American families on the average wastes each day only one ounce of edible meat or fat, it means a daily waste of 1,250,000 pounds of animal food —456,000,000 pounds of valuable animal food a year, according to statisticians of the United States department of agriculture. At average dressed weights, it would take the gross weight of over 875,000,QOO steers, or over 3,000,000 hogs—bones and all—to provide This weight of meat or fat for each garbage pail or kitchen sink. If the bones and butcher’s waste are eliminated, these figures would be Increased to 1,150,000 cattle and 3,700,000 hogs. Or, again, if the waste were distributed according to the per capita consumption of the various meats (excluding bones), it would use up a combined herd of over 538,000 beef animals, 291,000 calves, over 625,000 sheep and lamfys, and over 2,132,000 hogs. j Millions of tons of feed and hay, the grass from vast pastures and the labor of armies of cattlemen and butchers also would be scrapped by this meat-waste route. Waste of meat or fat is Inexcusable, say the government experts. Every bit of lean meat can be used in soups, stews, or in combination with cereals; every spoonful of fat can be employed in cookery; every bit of drippings and gravy can be saved so easily and used to add flavor and nourishment to other dishes.

FAVORITE OF FILMDOM.

J. Warren Kerrigan.

Widely known actor who has won popularity in the portrayal of .romantic roles in the screen drama;

Censorship.

You’ve sot to have a censor when your angry feeiln’s rise, And a state, of indignation sort o’ takes you by surprise. You’ve got to find a monitor to help you keep in hand The facta and the impressions that so suddenly expand. "When your mind Is overcrowded by a grievance or a grouch. And your wounded egotism wants to rise an' holler, "Ouch!" You’ve got to find a censor who will help you check your pride. An' not turn loose your facts which; maybe, can't be verified. ■Whim the future Is uncertain an’ there's trouble In the air, . An’ the luck seems handin’ out more botheration than your share. You must guard your store of language which grows suddenly Immense, An’ ther ain't no better censor than just plain o.d Common Sense. —Washington Evening Star.

RAGGED EDGES.

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS.

Finish up as you Go. A few’ years ago a young man in a Western college got restless and discouraged. He wanted to leave his course unfinished. He sought the advice of a successful man and this was the advice: “Stick it out. Finish Something. There are too many men now wdth Ragged Edges crowding the ranks." The young man Finished his College course with honors. Today he is a Leader and a Success. Finish up as you Go. Many a man stops work with the clock. He leaves his day’s work with Ragged Edges. He is the man who starts his days with Ragged Edges. , Finish up as you Go.

Facts in Figures.

Edinburgh, Scotland, has 66 moving picture theaters. Denmark’s crops for 1916 were only 85 per cent of 1915 production. Greece last year sent 69,837 tons of magnesite ore to the United States. Madagascar’s 1916 import trade w'as valued at $19,154,462; export, $16,248,81fk Denmark last year produced 19,126,383 bushels of potatoes and 4,242,425 bushels of carrots. Moncton, N. 8., in the first quarter of 1917 shipped 16,253 bushels of potatoes, valued at $27,150, to the United States.

Australia at Arras.

The Australians in the fighting round Arras maintained the reputation for desperate bravery they wdn on the Gallipoli peninsula. They seem to fear shells no more than summer rain, and they have a habit of clinging to- positions they have taken as long as there is breath in their bodies. Action is meat and drink to the pien of the Antipodes, and they chafe in idleness, says the -Philadelphia Public Ledger. Their temperament Is not that of many of those w’ith whom they fight. They pity the “Tommy” because they think he is “bullied.” They believe themselves every w’hit as good as their officers, and they loathe the “Bull Ring” (their name for the drill ground). This restless independence is the natural result of a lifetime largely spent in ranging the unfenced spaces in a lonely self-reliance. But the Hindenburg line has learned that when these “bear-cats” are turned loose they are not to be stopped until they are slain.

Canning Hints.

Can only products that cannot be kept otherwise.» Dry fruits and sweet cornandsuch other vegetables as may be preserved in this way. Concentrate products so that each jar or can will hold as much food and as little water as possible. There is a shortage of containers. Don’t let one be wasted In your home. Empty spices and similar materials from jars and fill them *with food. Reserve regular tight-sealing containers for perishable vegetables, meat and fish. Use wide-necked bottles with paraffin seals fob putting up fruit and preserves ; use glasses or crocks for jellies and jams; use bottles and jugs corked and sealed with paraffin for fruit juices, catsups and other liquid prod-" ucts.

Mother’s Cook Book.

Mushrooms. The amateur may learn a few of the common edible kinds of mushrooms, and staying by them will be perfectly safe. spoon or other such test should be relied upon. Tjiie puffball, which is so often found in woodsy places and grows to a large size, is a kind which need never be feared. Peel the bait and slice It in thin slices. Often one puffball will weigh several pounds and will furnish food for Severn! families. *' y » Broiled Mushrooms. Peel the mushroom and take out the stem, if it is the kind with gills. Butter the broiler and lay In the caps, gills , upward. Drop a bit of butter into each cap, sprinkle with salt and pepper and broil delicately until the butter has melted into the flesh of the mushroom. Serve immediately on hot buttered toast. ’ - A few mushrooms fried in a little butter added to creamed chickeh makes a most dainty morsel. Mushrooms also are an aditlcn to sweetbreads and, cooked and chilled, may be added to salad with good results. Mushroom Soup. Wash and dry a pound and a half of mushrooms. Melt two tablespoonfuls

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Value of Corn Meal in the Diet Underestimated, Says Expert in Home Economics

Include corn meal in the diet and learn to like it. The qualities of corn meal have been underestimated, in the opinion of Mrs. Mary P. Van Zlle, dean of the division of home economics in the Kansas Statp Agricultural college. Bolted corn meal is now cheap, as compared with other cereals. It costs about half as much as wheat flour, only a third as mucty as rolled oats, and a fourth as muph as rolled wheat. Corn meal has a high food value, says Mrs. Van Zile. Although the bolted meal does not supply so much tis-sue-building material as wheat flour, it does supply more starch and fat. The ‘unbolted corn meal, which is of good flavor and is preferred by many, has more tissue-building material, as well as more starch and fat, than the wheat flour:" For a long time pellagra was supposed to be contracted through eating corn meal. Scientific investigation has proved that this is false and there is no danger from eating ordinary quantities. Corn meal can be used successfully in a variety of ways. A» a breakfast oereaT r fruifTnUsh. corn brftad, or as corn griddle cakes it is a success from a nutritive as well as an economic standpoint. A satisfactory bread may be made by using one-half wheat flout and one-half com meal. ■

Half of the Women Will Be Supporting Themselves in 1940, Pastor’s Prediction

= Rev. Dr. Waldo Amos of Hoboken, N. Y., predicts that by 1940 half the women in the country will be self-sup-porting, and that marriages will gradually decrease in number. “It is a startling fact that young women are not marrying today," he said, according to the New York Evening Journal. “Hundreds of thousands are going into business. The supreme mission of women in life should be to become mothers and to make homes. The objection that many have to being married Is that they become dependents.” Doctor Amos said that all through New England there are many villages which are know’n as “she villages.” The men have left for the large cities in the hope of gaining wealth. “Men are largely responsible for the failure of women to marry,” he said. “Many men are too bus y making money to marry, or to marry on small salaries. This/has forced women into business. j “Statistics show that fin 1900 one out of every five women was self-sup-porting. By 1925 onei out of every three,and by 1940, oneLoqtAqf every two will be self-support!»|K J>

Some Observations.

If being favorite in a race counted for anything there would be no use in running the race. You can do a lot of good in thin world by just making sure that other people won’t have to knock off work to come over and help you out of trouble that you’ve foolishly got into. A woman may be said to be blase when a new hat no longer means anything to her. __ The easiest man in the world to fool is the man who is sure he is too wise to be fooled. A man’s life is like his garden—its success all depends upon the amount of work he puts into it. What a howl there would go up through the land if someone should start a dollar hat store for women. Some husbands must be mighty pool company. At least their wives seem to prefer to spend their evenings at the moving picture shows. Knowing how is worth more money to an employer than fine theories. You can’t keep a good man down, or a bad one up. No man can be happy all the time, but we can all be happier more than we really are.

of butter in a saucepan; add one sliced onion and the mushrooms. Pry for five minutes; take out 12 of the smallest mushrooms and set aside. Add three pints of water to the contents of the saucepan, one blade of mace and salt and pepper to season. Let cook slowly until the mushrooms are tender, then rub them through a 'Sieve and return to the saucepair; add the small reserved mushrooms, together with two teaspoonfuls of mushroom catsup. Mix a tablespoonful of flour with one of milk and let cook gently for five minutes. Warm a cupful of cream, put in the soup tureen and add the soup Serve very hot Efcaloped Mushrooms. Put mushrooms in a buttered baking dish with alternate layers Of buttered crumbs, seasoning each layer plentifully with butter, salt and pepper and a gill of cream. Bake 20 minutes, keeping covered while in the oven. Baked Mushrooms. Prepare the mushrooms as for broiling. Spread slices of bread with butter; then cover each slice with mushrooms. Put the baking pan into a hot oven for five draw out and season each mflshroora with butter, pepper and salt. Push the pan back and bake the mushrooms are tender. Serve on the bread, which should be delicately browned. litJLUc 7>W»roßt

PREVENTING EROSION OF FARM LANDS

CHEAP IMPLEMENT FOR THROWING UP TERRACE.

(Prepared by the United States Depart—ment of Agriculture.) All types of terraces are constructed originally in the same way. The work of construction should begin invariably with the highest terrace in the field and each terrace should be completed before work is started on the one next below. The late fall and early winter is the best time to lay out and build terraces. If one has not time to terrace his whole field well it is better to construct well the first few terraces near the upper,side of the field than to terrace the whole field poorly, for a break In a terrace near the upper side of .the field is followed by breaks in all below. The terrace embankment can be built up wholly with an ordinary turning plow. ,A large 16-lnch plow with an extra large wing attached to the moldboard for elevating the dirt, is an effective implement for throwing up a high terrace bank. For broad terraces furrows are thrown toward the center line from each side for a strip 15 to 20 feet in width. Then, commencing at the center again, the strip is plowed in the same manner as before. This procedure is repeated until the terrace has reached the desired height. Many farmers allow the loose earth to be settled by a rain between plowings so that the dirt will turrf better. However, it is safer to build the terrace to the desired height at the start for, if a heavy rain, sufficient to overtop the terrace, comes between plowings, much of the original work is undone and considerable damage occurs from erosion. A disk plow can be used successfullyto throw up loose dirt, and the ordinary road grader is employed often and is adapted especially to such work.

The most commonly used and cheapest Implement for throwing up a terrace is a wooden, V-shaped drag. After the first three or four furrows have been plowed on each side of the center line of the terrace, .the drag is used to push the loose earth toward the center and thus build the terrace higher. The plowing is resumed and the drag used again, and this is done repeatedly until the terrace has attained the desired width. If the terrace is not built sufficiently high the first time, the work Is started again at the center and the plowing and dragging are repeated. The longer side of the drag is hinged so that for the first few furrows the hinged portion is allowed to swing loose. As the terrace Increases in wiflth, and It is desired to move the loose earth a greater distance, the removable brace is set in position and the hinged portion is brought into use. The short side of the drag is made to follow the

HOUSE CLEANING IN BARN IS ESSENTIAL

Just as Important for Farmer to Have Periodical Bout With Dirt as for Housewife. (By GEORGE H. GLOVER, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) Every housekeeper, who deserves the name, has a general housecleaning at least twice a year. The carpets come up and the curtains down, and everything from the roof to the floor in the furnace room is either dusted, scrubbed, varnished or painted. With the farmer’s wife, spring and fall housecleaning is looked upon as a duty that is almost sacred and is kept inviolate. But who ever heard of a farmer haying even an annual barn cleaning? True the manure is hauled out, usually in the springtime, in order to make it possible tp get the horses in and out the door, but that is all. If farmers would ma’ke it a regular job to clean the premises once or twice every year, infectious diseases among farm animals could be controlled, and the mortality of 6 to 10 per cent from calf scours, hog cholera, blackleg, contagious abortion and other diseases might be reduced to the minimum.

RIGHT CULTIVATION WILL HELP ALFALFA

Benefit to Crops Comes in Variety of Ways, but Greatest is Destruction of Weeds. Practical alfalfa growers have long known that alfalfa in the corn belt greatly appreciates cultivation. Many a pioneer grower has delighted to tell the story of how be disked his alfalfa until the neighbors thought he had completely ruined It, and then how the field greened up* in a few days and

open furrow; this holds the drag In the proper position. The piece to which the hitch is made should be set at a vertical angle with the shorter side, and also at a horizontal angle. The former tends to keep the short side parallel with the bottom of the furrow and the latter keeps the point pressing slightly against the edge of the furrow and prevents a tendency of the drag to jump out. Graded terraces commonly are built with a plow and drag scraper. Ar strip is plowed, as heretofore described, and loose earth on the upper half of the strip is scraped up and deposited on the lower half. By this method a channel Is constructed for the flow of the vrater, and the earth used to build up the embankment. Maintenance and Cultivation. A newly built teigrace Is susceptible to failure until it becomes thoroughly settled. For this reason it is not advisable to cultivate the terrace the first year. It should be sown to some sort of cover crop. Breaks In terraces in the first year tend to discourage a novice in the use of terraces, but unless the embankment is built to an abnormally large size breaks occur often in newly made terraces. After the terrace has been established permanently, the soil should be thrown toward the center at each plowing of the field, at least once a year. This will increase the breadth and maintain the height, of the terrace and the field eventually will assume an appearance of a succession of prominent waves, all of which may be cultivated easily. In cultivating a terrace as much of the soil as possible should be thrown toward its center. The best results are obtained where the rows are run parallel with the terraces. At first, usually one row is planted on the top, but as the terrace grows broader several rows are planted. These rows invariably produce a greater yield than do those on the land between the terraces. Where large machinery is used, and it Is difficult to follow the terrace line, the rows may be run at an angle across the terraces, where the land is not very steep. To do this, the terraces must be broad and must be thrown up at least once a year to maintain their height. Where the rows between two adjacent terraces are to be laid out parallel with the terraces, the same number of rows should be run parallel with each terrace. Owing to the variation in distance between terraces it then will be necessary to fill in with short rows, generally known as “point rows.” These rows are run in pairs so as to facilitate the work of cultivation.

produced a wonderful crop in spite of drought. Both the spike-tooth and the spring-tooth harrow also have been used with, splendid results. The benefit to the alfalfa comes in a variety of ways, but in the majority of the cases the greatest benefit is the destruction of weeds, and especially of blue grass. Alfalfa, with its long tap root, can withstand almost any kind of harrowing or disking, but the ordinary grass or weed may easily be damaged by this kind of treatment. The lowa experiment station at Ames recently received reports from nearly a thousand alfalfa growers, concerning the effect of cultivation on yield. The 234 men who reported disking secured an average yield of 3.1 tons; the 44 who reported harrowing secured an average yield of 3.8 tons, while the 653 who gave no cultivation to their alfalfa, reported an average yield of 3.4 tons. A few years ago certain people objected to the cultivation of alfalfa on the ground that the crowns would be split thereby, and become dangerously diseased, thus eventunlly weakening the stand. Investigations made a year or so ago by the agronomy department of the lowa experiment station indicate that there is absolutely nothing to this fear, that the cultivated alfalfa is Just as healthy in every way as that which has not been cultivated.

EASY CURE FOR SOREHEAD

Disease Is Highly Infectious and Spreads Rapidly—lndividual Treatment Required. Yellow spots on comb and wattles Is a skin disease, commonly called “sorehead.” "it Is highly Infectious and spreads rapidly. However, It is easily cured, but requires individual treatment. By immersing the head twice daily In tiie following solution an effeatlve cure may be brought about in a week’s time: Forty per cent alcohol, 15 per cent glycerin, 5 per cent boracic acid ancf 3 per cent water. Another satisfactory method of treating this disease is by the use of tincture of lodine. This Is applied by touching the spots with a little of the solution twice dally. Lysol applied In a similar manner, also works welL

MAIL IS MIXED

By MAUD MULLER.

» “I have the greatest mind,” Elinor began, pausing to look reflectively out the window. “To say *yes,’ of course,” Millard broke in peevishly. “What else can you say—being a well-brought-up young person?” “Why, no, goosey—only I’m not sure I want to say it. Not absolutely.” Elinor returned judiciously. Millard smothered an imprecation. “We know what the end is—when a woman listens,” he said bitterly. Elinor laughed softly. “In the end she changes her mind sometimes,” she said. “Don’t be a simpleton, Johnny Millard. We may be counting chicks that are never to be hatched.” “What! With that letter?” Millard cried. Again Elinor laughed. “You overlook the date —April 1,” she said. “Suppose somebody—never mind who —were playing a prank to embarrass me?” “Somebody whose name is Anne McGraw! I see!” Millard cried, his face wonderfully-- brighter. “Don’t call names—it isn’t safe,” Elinor entreated. “Anne would give her back hair to have you say ‘No’,” Millard giggled. Elinor looked at him reproachfully. “When it cost thirty dollars! You can’t get such a switch for even that, now,” she said; “which is why I’m so thankful not to need one—if I did need it!” “You know you need be nothing but yourself,” the enamored Millard said softly. Again she shook her head. “Wrong—as usual,” she saldT Mature was before you. Be satisfied with her work,” Millard said fondly. V “flow can I? If you think I’m already perfect you won’t slave to improve me,” Elinor said proyqkingly. “My great mind is to send this”—touching the letter she held—“on to Anne. My name does not appear in it —it begins, as you'see: ‘Enchantress of my heart!’ You’ll help me, won’t yt'u, address it in a disguised but mas--euMne hand?” ~r “Wlmt will be the upshot?” Millard questioned. Elinor shrugged. “Wedding bells, of course, stupid,” she said. “Trust Anne _ for that —even if she knew.” “I demand a bribe for forgery," Millard said, putting his hands behind him. She looked at him reproachfully. “Wilt not the consciousness of a good deed suffice?” she asked. “I call it a work both of charity and necessity to help Anne to a husband. Eldest Of six McGraws —all girls and the rest sinfully ugly.” “Here goes. I prove me Adam’s son . —as you are Eve’s daughter, temptress.” Millard laughed, writing tha name with many flourishes. When the letter was sealed and stamped Elinor said, her eyes dancing: . “Now run away and mail it —and don’t you dare Come again until there are developments.” ________ She bad not long to wait. The very next morning came a wail by" phone— Wesley Martin, esquire, was certain he had mixed up his mail. He had written to her and to Anne —Miss McGraw, you know, at the same time. Anne had jil*t called up to say—oh, well, that she had got the wrong note an<i couldn’t wait to write. Had Elinor got the epistle meant for Anne? It is a pity wires can carry only sounds —Elinor’s headshake was so splendidly emphatic. Her assurances made Wesley moan harder than ever. When shemade light of the mistake—it could be only a trifle —he positively groaned,, ending with a half-blubbered, “I’m coming over right away. I’ll have a fit if I can’t get things straightened.” He came, spoke, but did not get: things straightened. Elinor met him with both hands held out, crying r “Greetings! Felicitations! So you did do it, in spite of your shyness!” “I—l—er—don’t quite understand, r Wesley faltered. “Oh, ho! You forget other people can call me up—Anne McGraw did the minute you were through talking. And she told me—well, good news. She’ll make you a splendid wife—” “But—hut—l don’t want her. I want you. She must have mixed up things —sent the proposal to herself!” Wesley cried in confusion. “I didn’t write her—that was just —just—a way tQ- 2 - let her out easy.” “Tell me, did you think of it? The plan, I mean?” Elinor asked, a Stately touch creeping into her voice. Wesley nodded, but said eagerly: “I never would have done it—too much afraid, you know. But when I told Anne she k said she’d help me, and then, whether yoii said ‘yes’ or ‘no, ’ L’dbave the whip hand—” _ “You could buy me a solitaire or cry April fool—eh?” Elinor said, sparks 3hooting from her eyes. Wesley cow;red. “You —you know which I’d have lone,” he stammered. “Don’t be anrry” Elinor’s eyes suddenly softened. ‘Listen, Wesley,” she said. “Anne played you false. I sent on your proposal to her —don’t be angry that she ias taken you at your word. Be a nan. Marry her.” “°As I shall marry Elinor,” Millard raid, coming in from the hall and an-,. Jaciously taking her in his arms. 'Copyright, • 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Scarcity.

“Are dancing men scarce this seaon?* “I haven't observed,” replied Mlsa Cayenne. “But with all this demand or soldiers and farmers, I fancy they'd tester make themselves so."