Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — Page 3

KEPT THEM MOVING

English Major Has, Machine Gun Crew on the Jump. About a* Little Uncertainty In Hl* Order* a* There Are Polite Phrase* in the Language He Employed in Issuing Them. I make my way through the thick brush at Camp Upton to a machine gun range, guided by the intermittent staccato chatter of a Colt and hoping that Pm not by any chance wandering on to the-private reserve of any busy bullets, William Slavens McNutt writes in Collier’s. I come out of the woods on the rear of the gun position. Near a big campfire a dozen or more American officers are grouped around two machine guns Estening to the Instructions of an Engsh major. The English officer is a short, spare, peppery veteran with a raspy voice that he can use for the same purpose that a mule skinner uses a blacksnake. ; “Burr-wuss!” he shouts. That’s as near as I can get to it phonetically. Two captains leap to their places bjF the machine gun. The ohe who sights and operates the piece throws himself flat on his back with head cradled on the knees of the man feeding. There Is some slight delay and the English major breaks into song. "Come, come I Carry on! What are we waiting for? You should have killed a hundred by now. What Is it? What is it? My word! Not so slow. We’re not having dinner, you know; we’re killing Bodies. What the bllnk-ety-blank’s wrong now? Come, come! Carry on! Carry on 1”

The gun speaks jarringly. One side of the barrel spits a stream of yellow cartridge cases over the breast of the operator holding the trigger. Three hundred yards distant the blade of bullets slices the ground before the target and throws up a little line of dust. The major orders a fifty yard advance. The American officers dismount the piece, go forward at the double-quick and set' it up once more. The operator pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. He fusses and tugs. Still no result. The English major calms himself and heaves a deep sigh. He looks at the gun crew like a man with no insurance viewing a total loss. “Oh, my eye I" he groans sadly. “How dead you’d have been by now I All right, leave off, leave off I Never mind.” He points to the man who carried the ammunition and who is standing behind the gun curiously watching the efforts of the crew to make it shoot. “Next time don’t stand up behind the gun. You stick up there like a dummy in a shop window. A body would think you were an advertisement for something. You’re not trying to sell the gun to the Boches, you know. Standing there giving away the gun position I Next time find cover twenty paces to the right or left and try to act like a bit of mud. Yes I”

Had Been Through Hell.

Louis Raemaekers, the famous Dutch cartoonist, now in this country, whom the London Times has called “the only great genius brought out by the war,” was unheard of before the war began. On August L 1914, he was living quietly with his family, contentedly painting-the tulip fields, waterways, cattle and windmills of his native Holland. Four days later he drew the first cartoon, “Christendom After Twenty Centuries,” of a series that was to reveal him as a champion of civilization and make his name a household word in every country. Raemaekers personally investigated the Belgian horror, and though a hundred of his early cartoons bear witness to the burning impression made upon his mind, he has only once brought himself to speak publicly of ,this experience. It was at a dinner given the artist at the Savage club, London, and, pointing to the portraits of Peary, Shott, Nansen and Shackleton, Raemaekers said: “L too, have been an explorer, gentlemen. I have explored a hell, and it was terror unspeakable.” Raemaekers is in bis for-ty-eighth year.

Weekly War Story.

* From one of the training camps full of Ohio soldiers comes this absolutely veracious story: The company cook went to the commanding officer and respectfully asked when the soldiers were to be supplied •with gas masks. The officer answered that he did not know. A week later, the cook again expressed his desire for _a gas mask. This time, the officer happened to have a sample of the latest contrivance of this nature, which will probably be used by our soldiers in the trenches. He showed it to the cook, who immediately asked to borrow it Inquiry reypded that the cook’s idea was to pfit the mask on before he tackled a big job of peeling onions.

Will Boon Have Sea Mastery.

E. G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, told the 500 guests of the Allentown (Pa.) chamber of commerce at its banquet recently that the submarine destroyers which the Bethlehem corporation will build for the government are more than all of the destroyers now tn the world. Mr. Grace said he regarded the rapid construction of destroyers as the solution of the submarine menace. Bethlehem plants now employ 30,000 men as compared with 9,000 five years ago. Charles M. Schwab, who also spoke said that the pay roll of the Bethlehem plants is now 1100,000,000 a year.— Iron Age.

WORDS OF WISE MEN

We build little walls of wisdom t« keep away the vast unknown, wherein we only drivel. ", If people are determined to live and die slaves to custom, they should, see that it la at least a good one. There Is nothing that weighs more heavily upon a right-minded man than the slow progress he makes in over* coming his faults. There Is a certain even-handed justice in Time —for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, . and In its place he brings tranquility and repose. , There Is nd sense of ease like the ease felt on those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labor of choice, and where the outer world seemed only an extension of our own personality. It cannot be a right Ideal of a business of life which does not lay upon a man the moral duty that he abstain from every' infraction of the law of truth, from every Impulse and prompting of greed, from all unworthy and mean subserviency for the sake of profit. '

IN OTHER CITIES

Woodland (Cal.) jail is empty. Los Angeles birth rate is one an hour. New York Is reconstructing city hall cuppla. - Atlanta, Ga., is campaigning for more factories. Chicago may employ boy post office clerks. Milwaukee courts in 1917 handled 15,000 civil cases. Cleveland is constructing several new school houses. Marinette, Wls., finds saloons moving in from Michigan. Bridgeport, N. J., glass factories now employ many women.

ABOUT PERSONS

Fr. W. R. Ludford of Chicago was present at the capture of Jerusalem. • ", < Hart Moynihan, seventy, retires after 43 years as court reporter in New York. Joe Costa, thirty-seven, Californian, recently visited San Francisco. First visit to any city. Isaac Miller of Myerstown, Pa., has continuously taught Sunday school for 50 years.

WORLD WORKERS

About 90 per cent of the German masons and their helpers are in the military service. Fruit growers of California have declared in favor of the importation of Chinese “and other labor.” Retail merchants in Los Angeles, CaU favor earlier closing and have organized with this object in view. Thirty women wearing khaki trousers are working,as pipefitters in a large New Jersey chemical plant. _ Membership of the Austrian trade unions has been reduced nearly 60 per cent by the effects of the war. In nearly all the shipbuilding plants in England and Scotland women are employed in large numbers. One plant alone employs over 6,000 of them.

SHOTS FROM THE MAGAZINE

It is easier to furnish brain food than the brains. Diamonds are Indispensable both to cut glass and ice. Many people think philanthropy consists in giving advice. •Don’t worry about giving the devil his due, he’ll take it. Ananias has been long dead but his line is far from extinct Blunt speech is invariably associated with sharp tongues. An ounce of hustling just now is worth a pound of oratory. The advent of the automobile has visibly lessened the supply of horse sensei Incompetent persons are generally! those holding the jobs we would like to have., There is not even enough meat left tn the country to start a canned beef scandal. The failure is generally the young man who was too stuck up to get down to honest labor. >

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. INS.

The Housewife and the War

(Special Information Service. United States Department of Agriculture.) i WHEN MEAT TAKES A HOLIDAY.

Meat and Other Foods You Can Eat for Protein—Cheese, Beans, Milk, Eggs, Bread.

OLD FOODS TAKE PLACE OF MEATS

Eat. Substitutes Occasionally and You Save Fighting Material for Army. VALUE OF COTTAGE CHEESE One-Third Cupful Equals One-Fourth Pound of Sirloin Steak in Protein —Cupful of Baked Beans Is Another Equivalent

INSTEAD OF MEAT.

Cheese. Beans. Milk. Peas. Eggs. Cereals. Nuts. Why not use them oftener? There are numerous good ways of cooking them. They give you the body-building material for which you eat meat largely—protein—and a lot of it.

Meat is only one of the foods which furnish that body-building material, protein. Cheese, milk, eggs, beans, peas, cereals, and nuts contain it in plentiful amounts. Take cottage cheese, for example. It is richer in protein than meat. You can eat a third of a cupful of it with relish, and this third of a cupful will give you as much of the protein as a quarter, of a pound of sirloin steak —a good, generous serving. Or if you like baked beans eat a cupful to get the same amount of protein. The child to grow must have food that furnishes this kind of body-building material. You need it, too. Even if yoq are grown up you must have it to renew parts of your body used up by work and exercise. Eat meat substitutes occasionally, and you save a* fighting material. Peas, beans, peanuts, and cereals are cheaper than meats and good to eat- x They should be used, but eat some milk or cheese besides. Here are some suggestions : Kidney Bean Stew. 1% cupfuls driea z tablespoonfuls kidney or other flour. beans. 1 onion. 2 cupfuls canned 1 tablespoonful tomatoes. salt. H cupful rice. Wash the beans, put in covered kettle, and soak overnight in two quarts of cold water. ’ Cook the beans slowly in the water in which they soaked. If necessary, add more water to cover and continue the cooking until they are nearly tender, usually about two hours. Wash the rice, cut up the onion and add with the tomatoes*to the beans. Cook until rice is tender—about 80 minutes. Mix the flour with a little cold water and stir in carefully to thicken. A .small piece of salt pork cut up in cubes and added to, the beans at the beginning ot the cooking gives a pleasant flavor to the dish. This stew will make a whole meal in itself, with bread and butter and fruit for desert, to serve five or six people. Pea Souffle. 2 tables poonfuls > eggs. flour. 1 teaspoonful salt. 2tab 1e S poonfuls % teaspoonful pepfat. per. 1 cupful skim milk. Few drops of onion •1’ cupful mashed juice. cooked pdas (any kind). 1 Make a white sauce from flour, fat and milk, as in preceding recipe. Mash the cooked peas to, pulp. Beat white and yolks of eggs separately. Mix vegetable pulp, seasonings, sauce and well-beaten yolks. Fold in stiffly-beat-en whites, put in greased baking dish and bake in slow oven until firm. Lima beans, split peas, cowpeas, or fresh or canned green peas may be used. Cheese, milk, eggs, and meat give

body-building material in a little better form than the plant foods do. Creamed Peanut* and Rice. 1 cupful rice (un- 8 tables poonfuls cooked). flour. 2 cupfuls chopped 8 tables poonfuls peanuts. fat. % teaspoonful pap- S cupfuls milk rlka. (whole or skim). 2 teaspoonfuls salt. White Sauce. 801 l rice. Make white sauce by mixing flour in melted fat andjnixlng with milk. Stir over fire until it thickens. Mix rice, peanuts and seasoning with sauce, place in greased baking dish and bake for 20. minutes. Calcutta Rice. 2 cupfuls rice. % pound cheese. 2- cupfuls tomatoes. 1 tablespoonful salt. Peppers and celery or onions may be added if desired. 801 l rice. Mix It with tomatoes, grated cheese and seasonings, and pour into baking dish. Bake half an hour. If peppers or celery are (feed, cut up and boil with the rice. All of these four dishes except the pea souffle have as much building material, protein, as a pound and a quarter of solid meat. The pea souffle furnishes only about half as much protein, but is very good instead of meat at a lighter meal. Nuts are foods, too. Twenty single peanuts are about the same as the inch cube of cheese. Remember that nuts are good food. Chew them thoroughly of grind them up for a cooked dish and eat them as an important part of your meal.

More Uses for Toast

Saving stale bread by making it into toast is an , economy. In many families, toast is served only for breakfast, luncheon, or supper, but the cystom which many high-grade restaurants have adopted of serving thin, crisp, hot toast with the more substantial meals might well be followed at home. Such dishes as chopped meat with gravy, creamed chicken or fish, poach■ed eggs, melted cheese, cooked asparagus, Swiss chard, baked tomatoes, etc., are served very commonly on toast. Cream or milk toast (that is, toast with a cream sauce or milk gravy, perhaps flavored with a very little chipped beef, salt fish,'or other Savory) may be used at the main dish at breakfast, luncheon, or supper. Slices of toast may also be dipped in water or milk and beaten egg and lightly browned on a hot greased pan. It may be used at breakfast, and has the advantage of making the eggs “go further” than if used in a separate dish, or it may be served with cinnamon and sugar, sirup, or any sweet sauce for dessert. Egg Toast 6 slices bread. 1 cupful milk, skim 1 egg. milk or water. % teaspoonful salt. Beat the egg, and add the liquid and salt. Let the bread soak In the mixture until slightly soft. Then fry to a light brown on a hot well-greased pan yr griddle. More -eggs may be used if available.

CHEESE 18 A FINE MEAT SAVER.

There’s a great deal of food in a little piece of it Don’t eat it at the end of a meal when you have already had enough. You wouldn’t eat a piece of meat then. An inch cube of American cheese contains a third more protein than a piece of lean meat of the same size. Cheese is excellent food if eaten at the right time. Get from the United States Department of Agriculture the Farmers’ Bulletin on cheese, No. 487, to learn how to use it in many ways.

Citric Acid From< Cull Lemons. The production citric acid on a commercial scale from cull lemons has been solved by the United States Department of Agriculture. Citric add prepared in this way has been sold at a price several cents above the market. Orange pulp for the manufacture of marmalade has been prepared and methods for preparing citrus peel for the market, developed by the United States Bureau of Chemistry.

“THE WORLD DO MOVE"

A chronicle of achievement in th* field of science and Invention: A low truck and 1 —tractor for use about factories has a large caster wheel-in front that permits it to be turned in its own length. Stumps are converted into shavings by a new rotary cutting machine and the shavings are drawn into hags for removal by a vacuum. An automobile radiator has been placed within a fly wheel by a Roumanian Inventor, the water being cooled as it is whirled around. Simplicity features a Pennsylvania inventor’s hatpin point protector, consisting of a curved piece of metal sufficiently springy to hold itself on a pin. British East African firms wish to find markets in this country for chenilles, coffee, 'Copra, groundnuts, sesame seed, rubber, ivory and peanuts, says the New York Sun. Many railroad crossing gates in France carry red glass lenses backed by silvered reflectors to catch the return rays from automobile headlights and serve as danger signals at night. Although it costs six cents a day in India for men to wave fans to keep the air circulating In houses, they, are gradually being replaced by electric fatas as cheaper and more reliable.

AUNT VIRGINIA’S SAYINGS

It’s a wise food conservationist that knows whose advice not to take. The professional pacifist is a person who is willing to grin and bear everyone’s wrongs but his own. Just because nations are at war today is no reason why you should carry the war spirit into your home or business. The trouble with the peace-at-any-price people is that they don’t realize that sometimes the price of real peace is war. Maybe I have a mean disposition, but some of those sweaters our fair, patriotic knitters are so busily engaged on look suspiciously gay for soldiers’ W'ear. Maybe women are wasteful housewives, but I feel pretty sure that if the average home were run as extravagantly as men run governments, we’d be a nation of bankrupts. If we could only pass a law compelling everyone, uttering a fine, moral sentiment to go out and immediately put it into practice, there would be little sound heard in the land except the sawing of wood. —Farm Life.

FLASHLIGHTS

Too many people expect the will to be taken for the deed. It’s the successful office boy who eventually becomes the successful merchant. You can’t make w’ar and enjoy all the comforts and privileges 6f peace at the same time. There’s one comforting thought for next summer. They won’t have to close the factories for lack of ice. The man who is-planning to tell his. grandchildren all about the passing events of this war will have to possess some memory. What a different world it would be if there were only some way for the critics to give the benefit of their wisdom to the men in high places. Conditions may be difficult and annoying, but this Is no time to get mad. This is a time when the country needs the best judgment of everybody. One may now get his next year’s auto license in peace and comfort, but we presume'most of us will wait until the last day of the year and stand in line three hours and a half. Avoiding a rush has never been a popular American custom.

TO AVOID ACCIDENTS

Keep active when cold, or seek shelter. Do not pour kerosene oil to start the fire going. Wear rubbers when snow or ice coats the walks and pavements. Be patient, calm, cautious and you will escape many trifling accidents. Avoid alcoholic drinks —hard drinking encourages freezing more than it prevents it. Put all poisons In special containers that can be recognized in the dark by the sense of touch. You are your own enemy if you fail to apply common sense to the prbbiem of accident prevention. Do not leave candles, lamps or , lighted gas jets near filmy lingeries or quick-burning shades or curtains. v Place all drugs and medicines In a special closet. Have every bottle correctly labeled and carefully stoppered.

AMUSING PIECE OF “NERVE"

• . ~ WAffijpgdM How Cool Impudence of Young BritWf Naval Officer* Relieved Tan* •ion of Situation. In "Facing the Hindenburg Line.” by Burris A. Jenk’ns, may be found Sb number of incidents in which naval men prove their coolness and heroism. Nobody knows all the stories of coolness and heroism among the naval men, says the author. We shall not learn them till the war is over, but here is one that perhaps the censor* will allow to go by. It was told by • < medical officer who was aboard the Franconia when she was sunk acting as a transport | "We had five or six naval officer* aboard. They were sitting in the smoking room—remember the smoking lounge in the old Franconia? It was very long, as long as this dining room and twice as broad. They had just ordered whisky sodas. Suddenly there was an explosion and the steel floor of the smoking room just buckled up and burst apart in the middle of the ship. One of those officers Called the steward and said: “ ‘I ask you to witness, steward, that we have paid for these whisky sodas and have not had time to drink them.* "Then the rascals went below, got on their lifebelts, came back again, asked the steward for a big sheet of foolscap, wrote out a long, ‘we, the undersigned,’ setting forth that they had ordered six whisky sodas, loir which’ they had nine shillings, with a sixpence tip, and had not been allowed to drink them. Thereupon they entered a claim against the British government for the nine shillings and sixpence, with accrued interest from date. Then they walked in a body up to the bridge and handed it to the skipper. The old man told me afterward he never was so grateful to anybody as to these cool young devils for the steadying and bucking up influence of their impudence.”

The Ex-Czarina.

T rub my eyes when I read that th® czarina is a deeply scheming, intriguante who had ambiguous relations with Rasputin and aimed at the success of Germany over the country she had adopted by marriage as her own. ft is only necessary to cast my memory back to the time when I was just entering womanhood and Princess Alexandra Alix was a girl some ten years my junior. Certainly I knew the shy, reserved simple child well enough to realize that she had not the mental development for any form of Intrigue. Residence at Buckingham palace ’ under the keen critical eye of an august grandmother, an eye that nothing could possibly escape, did not make for striking individuality, nor did the" quiet simplicity of the German home, and the princess grew up beneath the double burden of surveillance and etiquette sharing the quiet Intellectual life of an adored mother. Yet she had a certain measure of high spirits, loved tennis and dancing, and having tuned her life to play its small part in the great household dbchestra, seemed happy enough.—The Bookman. |

Tommies Surprise Italy.

Whole battalions of Thomas Atkinses, now , that the long-expected snowfall has buried the Austro-Ger-mans in deep Alpine drifts, have been paying visits to the Milan opera house and receiving immense ovations. By way of acknowledgment Tommy gave the laurel-crowned “Tipperary,** and created a sensation,, as well he might, In that sacred mecca of Italian of>era. Flowers were showered upon him in most embarrassing fashion. The reason of this delicate attention may be the kilts, at which the people gaze in undisguised amazement. One veteran peasant exclaimed : “Fancy, women as well as men go to war in that country, and yet they look as though they would make mincemeat of the Germans.” Little wonder that some of these kilted “ladies” received not only flowers, but equally embarrassing kisses. —Christian Science Monitor.

Japanese Tiger Hunters.

Tadasaburo Yamamoto, one of Japan’s most wealthy men, who has immense shipping interests, returned recently from a tiger hunt in the Korean mountains. Mr. Yamamoto had with him 200 friends and professional sportsmen who are experts with the rifle. They left Tokyo on November 15 and established headquarters at Gensang, a small port on the northern coast of the Sea of Japan. The experienced sportsmen were distributed among the amateurs in the party, so that everybody was given an opportunity to bag what game was encountered. X Mr. Yamamoto and his party returned recently from the hunt after several successful weeks in the Korean mom»tein*and has been feasting his friends on tiger steaks and other dishes from the game brought home.—New York Herald.

Easy Solution of Difficulty.

A pompous old gentleman upon reaching his home one evening found the street blockaded and a heap of earth piled against his doorstep. Observing a workman wielding his shovel In a nearby ditch, he accosted a passing policeman and complained that the laborer was trespassing upon private property. “What do yes mean by throwing dirt on th* gintleman’s steps’!** demanded the officer. “There’s no other place t’ throw it!** replied the workman indifferently. “Well, thin, In that case, yea had better dig another hole an' throw M in there ’.**