Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — Page 3

COMMUNITY STORE IDEA BROUGHT TO U. S.

What is believed to be the first community store In the United States of the type which is common in England, has been established in Washington, D. C. It is oyvned by the two or three hundred families which patronize it. Goods are sold at as near cost as possible and the profits are paid to each member of the organization in proportion to the amount of -.goods he has purchased. The picture shows the interior of the store. Edward Evans, a native of England and manager of the store, is ih the center. He was a Congregational minister in Washington for four years before establishing the corrfrhunity store.

An Ounce of Prevention

By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON

Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania.

Before the causes of disease were known or the practical application of nature’s ways of producing immunity to disease, we had to suffer an attack of sickness and then trust to drugs and nursing for cure. This was a difficult task and the death rate was sometimes enormous, both in times of peace as well as of ■war. “'”“7 ' Then the day of prevention came, gradually the laws of nature unfolded until today we know, methods of preventing diseases and antidoting the poisons generated by germs in the ~~body. It was even as late as the SpanishAmerican war that we lost more soldiers from preventable diseases than we did from bullets. This was a disgraceful thing, as sanitarians could have prevented the high death rate. From what we can learn through the newspapers and other sources, France today is short of disinfectants in her trenches. We do not see any great public excitement „over this condition, or any concerted action of our good citizens to give their mites to purchase and transport disinfectants for the French trenches so as to prevent disease. Therapeutics or drug treatment seems to continue to have a hold on the lay mind, and possibly, to some extent, on the medical mind. Both the people at home in everyday’ life and the soldiers in our army are much to blame for the sickness that exists. The medical profession’s advice is not taken when these per- • sons are well, but the moment they get good and sick they call: “Oh, doctor, do relieve me from this awful

pain,” or “Oh, doctor, save my life!” Perhaps this call conies too late. A few words of prevention from the doctor to the patient,- and those few words 'obeyed, might have prevented the slckiness and saved suffering and sorrow. Do not let us lose sight, Individually or collectively, of preventing diseases both at home and in our military camps, let them be where they may.

The Mark of Honor.

He marches down .the street With a proud and martial eye. And the people turn about To watch hlm pass them by; And his head Is held erect, In his spirit’s high command, For a baclge upon his arm. He wears the khaki band. He steps out free and firm With' a swinging to his tread, - And an eagerness to serve, From the courage In him bred By the men who went before. Who its freedom won the land; Now he's treading in their steps For he wears the khaki band. He’s the soldier of the flag, ' Ready for its sake to go Where the call of duty sounds, " " Fitlo meet And. fight the foe; We are proud, as forth he comes From the homes aH o’er the land, With high courage in his heart. On his arm the khaki band. " American.

POULTRY POINTERS

Remember, milk is meat when it comes to feeding chicks or hens. The best eggs for hatching come from flocks that have free i-ange. Watch for head lice on the ducks. It found rub top of head with a small piece of lard free from salt. It is a good plan to force egg production. but nature may be materially aided by good feed selection. The production of ducks especially should be emphasized at this time, because of the rapidity with which they grow. . •„ • A laying hen is nervous; if she is frightened or even startled much, there Is apt to be -a miscarriage of eggs.

“Keep Cheerful and Mind Your Own Business,” Is the Message of John Burroughs

John Burroughs, famous American naturalist hnd writer, and leading disciple of the simple life, is eighty years old. He has lived with nature since boyhood, and knows the birds, the squirrels and the butterflies, the woods, the fields and the mountain streams. He was the friend of Lincoln, of Emerson, of Holmes, of Whittier and of Walt Whitman. His recollections of these great friends are sufficient companions for John Burroughs in his woodland cabin. “I am very happy in my work, and I hope to write a book each year for many more years,” he says. He is at his best, despite his age, and leads an active life In the open. His message to the world is: “Keep cheerful and mind your own business.” Mr. Burroughs taught school In his youth, became a bank examiner, and had a promising career before him In financial affairs, when he discarded ambition for wealth to lead the simple life. His first book was his “Notes on Walt Whitman,” published in 1867. During the past half-century he has written constantly, and has contributed much to the nature library. He married Ursula North in 1857, and In the winter time he now makes his home with his daughter and grandchildren at West Park; N. Y.

Wise and Otherwise.

A good memory test is to remember the poor. He is a wise farmer who never harrows the feelings of his wife. Marrying one’s Ideal husband or wife is to take a mean advantage. A grass widow is a woman who succeeded in getting unmarried. You may have noticed that the road to success is shy of rapid transit facilities. Foresight consists in knowing where to borrow an umbrella when it begins to rain.

For this reason, the poultryman should carry on the work in the henhouse qujetly and evenly. To destroy mites and keep the flock free of their depredations, insecticide sprays and a sanitary building are necessary. Ducks qf most of the meat breeds, properly fed and managed, frequently weigh from ~ftve~to-six-pounds al ten weeks of age. If it is worth keeping poultry at all, it is worth making a good Job of it, and nothing except a good Job will a profit. A’fter the grass gets tough chicks can catch more bugs and worms and will grow better on loose soil. The cornfield furnishes ideal conditions. Be careful* that the chicks, poults, ducklings and goslings do not have any food and cannot get apythlng to eat on the range which is moldy or musty, for such stuff causes canker and digestive troubles. ■ _ The Leghorhs today are a much better breed than they were years ago. The tendency has been to breed larger birds and still retain all their characteristics as producers of a large number of eggs. With larger bodies also has come the production of -larger eggs, which Is an added merit to the breed.

Germ of Red Cross Idea.

The germ of the Red Cross idea seems to date back into the sixteenth century, when a gay young Neapolitan soldier saw the error of his ways, became a priest, and devoting himself to relieving the plague-stricken, organized the “Fathers of the Good Death,” whose members were pledged, to the same service and who wore on their breasts a red cross in memory of the sufferings of Christ. This was Camillus de Lellis, who fell a victim to the disease he combated, aind who, canonized by Benedict XIV, in 1746, became St. Camillus in the Catholic calendar of saints.

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Mother’s Cook Book.

The loyal heart is never alone. There are ever comrades real. Who will make the cause you love their own, And stand by you true as steel. —Mary Sangster. Seasonable Dishes. Bananas are fruit that should be ripe or well cooked before serving. Baked bananais may be given to the little people. Peel a half dozen bananas and place them in a baking dish with sugar, water, lemon juice and a little butter. Baste them often while baking and serve the sauce with the fruit. Corn Meal Muffins. Beat two eggs-until light, add threefourths of a cupful of sugar—or honey may be used—a fourth of a cupful of softened shortening, one cupful of sour milk, a half teaspoonful of soda, two cupfuls of flour and a cupful of corn meal with a teaspoonful of baking powder and a half teaspoonful of salt sifted with the flour. Bake in hot buttered muffin pans 25 minutes. Peach Ice Cream. Take a quart of thin cream, add a cupful of sugar, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, and two cupfuls of very ripe peaches put through a sieve. Mix and freeze. , Chicken Pie. A very good pie may be made from an old fowl. Cook it first as for fricassee, lay the pieces with pieces of pork in a buttered pudding dish, add slice of onion for flavor, season with salt and pepper, add a cupful of milk and Cover with a good crust. Just before serving add a cupful of cream which will make any chicken pie delicious, Boil the bone-of a fowl, add two or three tablespoonfuls of gelatine to thebroth with a cupful of finely minced chicken well seasoned and mold. This may be served with salad dressing on lettuce. Iced Chocolate. Make a sirup of six tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate and two cupfuls of water, simmer until dissolved, then add four cupfuls of sugar and cook seven minutes. Strain and add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract, a pinch of cinnamon if the vanilla is not liked. Put into a bottle and set in the ice chest. Use two tablespoonfuls in a half cupful of ice cold milk, topped with three tablespoonfuls of whipped cream on each glass.

The Monitor Comes Back.

British monitors are playing an important part in the Italian advance toward Trlest. The monitors have again proved themselves in this war. They appear to be the only type of craft that can carfy big guns Into shallow water and bombard coast fortifications successfully. Submarines cannot follow them Into these shallows, and they have so little freeboard that they present a difficult mark for the enemy to hit. Monitors took up the set work at the Dardanelles after the battleships had been lost or had been driven by submarines to seek protected ports. Monitors shell the Belgian coast when attacks are made on the German bases there. Now they are shelling the Austrian coast ahead of the Italians. And so far there has been no report of a single monitor lost.

SOME SMILES

"In a Crowded House.

Quick Witted. Wife (awakened by noise) —Who is there? Burglar (sweetly)—lt’s—hie—Jus’ me, dear. Wise —Oh, what Tact. “ Mrs. Blink—-They .say Iftrge feet are in favor now. Mr. Liss —Then I’m sorry for you; Mrs. Blink, for you’ll be hopelessly out of style. The Wrong Idea. ~ j’ “John, you seem ■ ~

to gain flesh every day ; the grocery business must agree with you. What did you weigh last?” < “Well, Henry, I really don’t know, but it strikes me it was a pound of butter.”

y- An Innovation. “And you saw 'Romeo and Juliet* last night?** • “Yes." “How was the balcony scene t’ “Grand,.' Romeo made love to the girl in a, hammock.”

First Man—Can we stay here all night? Second Man (helpfully) —We woii’t take up much room. I walk In my sleep.

HUGH JENNINGS WOULD PENALIZE STARS

Hugh Jennings Is one person who believes that it is a bad thing to have players like Speaker suspended unless they indulge in some extraordinarily bad action. He figures the thing from the standpoint of the club owner and the fan, but admits that the only suggestion he can make is that the player be handed a stiff fine, and that the club owner take it out of the offending player’s salary, instead of making good from his own pocket. “Take a player like Speaker out of the lineup,” says Hughie, “and you can figure that the receipts of the Cleveland series at Navin field will be lessened 25 per cent. The stars draw people, as well as win games. Cobb does It for us. Watch how much larger the crowds are when Johnson Is announced topltchfor Washington than on other days.”

RECOVERS HIS BATTING EYE

Lee Magee, $22,500 Star, Has Started Hitting Ball After Slump of Long Duration. Lee Magee has found his lost batting eye. He has started hitting the ball again after a slump that practically extended over all of the 1916 season and the first two months of the present season. No one was able to understand why this $22,500 baseball star was unable to hit. Magee could not explain it himself, but he never gave up hope. The other day Lee told the writer that he was getting “hold of ’em better.” Shortly after that he commenced hlt-

Lee Magee.

ting again, and by the time the season rolls along to July 4th, Lee should be back in the old-time stride. “I’ll never tell you what’s the matter.” said Lee, “because if I knew I wouldn’t' be sitting on the bench without trying to remedy the trouble. The pitchers haven’t any more stuff than they’ve had for years, but they’ve been throwing ’em by me. Bill Donovan thinks it’s because I needed a rest. Well, I’ve got the rest now and when I get back in there I’m going to hit ’em or know the reason why.” * Lee is hitting them.

SEYMOUR CALLED “IRON MAN”

Former New York Giant Pitcher Performed Most Remarkable Pitching Feat Back in 1896. “They called Joe McGlnnlty the ‘lron Man,’” says John J. McGraw. “Joe was a glutton for work. But the real Iron man of them all was none other than Cy Seymour. “Seymour, you know, used to be a pitcher. When I first saw Cy he was a southpaw twlrler with the Giants. I was with Baltimore then. Seymour was really a good pitcher. “He performed the most remarkable pitching feat I* ever witnessed. It was back in 1896 or 1897, when< Bill Joyce was managing the Giants. Baltimore was playing a series at the old Polo grounds. Seymour pitched the last game, and It happened that I beathim with a triple to right in the last inning, 2 to 1. “The next day the Giants were scheduled to play us a double-header in BalHmnrp. Much to everyone’s surprise, Seymour came out to pitch the first game. By a strange coincidence he worked so well that the score was against us 1 to 1 in the ninth inning. Once more it fell to my lot to beat Cy with a triple to left center. “After the usual short intermission we came out to play the second game of the double-header. The batteries were announced, and to our astonishment and that of the crowd Seymour was again the Giant pitcher. “This sounds unbelievable, but It is true. Cy started his third game against us in two days, and what is more remarkable still, he shut us out and won the game, 6 to 0. • “Joe McGlnnlty was Indeed an *iron man.* He was no more entitled to this titlfe, however, than was Cy Seymour 20 years ago, although most fans forgot that Cy ever was a pitcher.”

WALTER JOHNSON

DIAMOND NOTES

Eddie Plank says he may keep right on pitching until he Is fifty years old. • * * Neither is George Slsler hitting as he was booked before the season began. With Hank Gowdy gone to be a soldier, the Braves will be weaker than ever. • * * Art Fromme, after being out for a month, looks like a winning pitcher again. • * * In St. Louis they still refer to the Cardinals as “prospective pennant winners.” »» ♦ ■ To make room for Stuffy Stewart the Denver club gave Tom Shanley his release. ♦ * * Jack Murray, lately a Giant, is playing with an Independent team in Patterson, N,J. * * * Jack Coombs, Brooklyn pitcher, has beaten the New York Giants 11 times in succession. • * • Wilbur Davis, pitcher-outfielder, sent to Memphis, Is only a loan to help out a crippled team. . • * ♦ In Walter Johnson another of the great ones may pass along without the glory of a world-series game. •• ♦ - Hans Wagner, a Pittsburgh institution, Is the only ball player owning stock in a major league club. * ♦ • * The great pitching of Carmen Hill has been a leading factor in the advance of the Birmingham Barons. ♦ * • ——— Cleveland is accusing Walter Johnson of using the “shine ball.” Cleveland always has to find an excuse for losing. • • * -If the Senators could get up another notch, it might be well to publish the likeness of Walter Johnson under the same heading. •• ♦ * Billy Rafter, the Syracuse university player released by the New* York Yankees to Utica, is the son of the old-time catcher. Umpire Gentle has been released by the Southern league. How could a guy with that kind of a name expect to get by as an umpire? * * * Quite a load has been lifted from the minds of American leaguers. The Red Sox have failed to make a runaway race for the pennant. * • • Judging from the way Little Dick Kerr is pitching for the Milwaukee Brewers, he might be of some help to theSt-Eoulsßrowns these days. Jack Lelivelt has been doing some tremendous hitting for the Kansas City team, but he is so slow that in a pinch a runner is sent in for him. * • • Ty Cobb is hitting again in his old form. From now until next October it will be Cobb’s great ambition to outbat Tris Speaker every day he plays. • ♦ ♦ The wonderfur record made by Eddie Collins for playing. In consecutive games is one reason why the White Sox are out in front in the fast race. • • » Roger Bresnahan’s “Iron Meh” have justified their name and sunk to the bottom. Iron men are all right in a way, but they weigh too much. • • « i Tris Speaker is indignant because some innocent scribe recently said that he was thirty-six years old. Speaker is twenty-nine and has registered for the draft.

ORIGIN OF BASEBALL

Real Home of Our National Game Is Hoboken, New Jersey. Knickerbockers Defeated New York Cities in Four-Inning Contest, June 14, 1846—-First to Formulate Playing Rules. Several cities have claimed the honor as the birthplace of baseball. Boston says that a game called “New England” was the forerunner of the game as it is known today. Philadelphia says no, “towp ball” is the parent of baseball. Tiie latter game, it is said, was played by an organized club, :the Olympics, as far back as 1833. The erfriy game of “rounders” was an earlier phase of the same game. The real home of baseball, when all is said and done, is—hold On a minute —Hoboken, N. J. * It was there that, 71 years ago, the first bona fide baseball game between clubs was played. The contenders were the Knickerbockers and the New York Cities, and the game was played on the Elysian fields, near Jersey City. That was on June 14, 1846. The Elysian fields are now the site of Hoboken. The Knickerbockers were organized in New York In September, 1845. They were the first to formulate playing rules. The New Yorks organized a little later and adopted the same code. Both of those clubs played several games with scrub teams picked from among the spectators before they faced each other on that June day in 1846. Under the rules that obtained at that time, the first team to make 21 runs was the victor. The gdme lasted four innings, the Knickerbockers win- . Ing, but history does not record the score of their opponents. The Knickerbockers found their first real rivals in the Gothams, organized in 1850, and the Greenpoint Eckfords and the Morrisania Unions, organized in 1855. The Olympics of Philadelphia early adopted the New York game, and the Athletics, Keystones and Quaker Cltys later fought for supremacy, while in Boston the Olympics were organized in 1854, and a little later the Elm Trees disputed honors with the pioneers. But heavens! Just think of it! Twenty-one runs in four innings.

DEVORE RETIRES FROM GAME

Veteran New York Giant Outfielder Now Running Milk Route in Chillicothe, O. Josh Devore, former Giant and well known as a player on the National league circuit, has retired from baseball and Is running a milk route at his home town. Chillicothe, O. Josh played oh two Giant pennant winners and made a catch In the 1912 world’s series which put thousands of dollars into the New York and Boston treasuries. But lor a catch by Devore in the third game Boston would have won the series in four) games, one of them being a tie. As it was the series stretched Into eight games, and after the fourth game all goes to the cluba Devore, Ames and Groh were sent to Cincinnati in the Fromme deal in 1912,

Josh Devore.

but after being released to Philadelphia Devore landed with the Boston Braves in time to get a $4,000 slice, which went to the individual Braves for beating the Athletics in the world’s series of 1914.

BASEBALL DURING WAR TIME

Suggested to American People That Game Is Likely to Be an incongruity Next Season. ...... For the present it may bs all right that baseball continue, At least it ls not mandatory that it cease, and that the healthy bodies on the field and the healthy bodies in the stands and bleachers go about some other business, but it may be just as well to suggest to the American people that professional baseball is likely to be an Incongruity next year. An American newspaper will sacrifice a great deal of self-respect If It has to print, or does print, box scores and casualty lists In the same issue, says Chicago Tribune. Baseball already Is getting on the nerves of a great many people who know that catastrophic times are ahead or who fear that they may be ahead. It is fiddling while Rmpa la bummfr