Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — Page 3

New Sport for French Aviators

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French aviators flying in Serbia enjoy the sport of bagging wild ducks when not engaged In bringing down the Hun airplanes.

U. S. Insurance

Tremendous Business Conducted by the Government

Ks an Insurance company the United Stites makes 3ft other concerns in th| business seem puny. tin April 6 the total amount of insurance Uncle Sam had written was ovfcr $14,000,000,000. That sum had been put on the books tn six months. in the whole year of 191 1 ? all other concerns in the United States, including fraternal organizations, mutual ■cotnpanles and the like, wrote approximately $6,000,000,000 worth of insurance. Some difference. knd Uncle Sam was still on the Job. The third week of April alone $400,000,000 worth of insurance was written. Unde Sam’s customers are soldiers and sailors. They number about 1,800,000. The average policy runs close to •$8,500. The minimum is SI,OOO and the maximum is SIO,OOO. April 12 was,the last day on which mln who iojned the .government ihllitaO or Pavflf forces before December 4, ' 1017, could secure government insiwance, but all new men joining either army or navv cM be insured and the government urges them strongly to tax# the maximum sum. 10 the meantime Uncle Sam has been paying out 4-great deal ofsajary allotments and for death and dh&billty compensation. Up to April 63,706,330 separate checks had been out for such payments for sums aS fallows: Salary allowances, $50,403,462; death and disability compensation, $60,958; government insurance payments* $177,518. Of . * s —-■

Cooks in the Army Learn How to Economize on Food

.Opportunities for the home ecoworkers of the ■United States department of agriculture are not limited to/farm and town homes. Cooks in American army carrips also haye had an opportunity to hear about conservation methods from tli® department specialists. At one of the army schools for bakers and cooks in • Mississippi demonstrations tn food sayings were much appreciated by the conks in training, .according,to a report of the officer in charge, who described the demonstrations as a “wonderful success." Tfae cooks are being taright Ways to utilize the left-over fo|< tlmmsenf ftonr substltutes, and, p<cularly, new and attractive ways of .‘‘serving cornmeal dishes. Demon-' striations 1n the honking arid use of flrealso have been coijductciftn the ambulance hospital dlvlMln. ' in ° '

Fought in France at 73.

An Ameeiw Qiall war veteran who faced the tn the. trenches for eight, i iontht’ aeftre his age. seventythree, ras discovered, and bo waS, discharge , is, J. vW. Buscher, who served Im, £h| Hfichigan vojunreehrin the Civil War.**' He enliste recently in the Canadian Railway bi ttallon. King George Wishing to see he oldest soldier in khaki, summonedJßuscher to Buckingham palace, and pralsed lMheMtUy for his corkage and determination.

Luminous Paint Is Put to Good Use in Present War, Greatly Aiding the Soldiers

Many ingenious uses have been found of late for luminous paint. Watches with dials which glow in the darkness are becoming common, and only the other day an order was given tor IQO.OOO marching-, compasses with luminous needles to he carried by soldiers at the front, says Boys’ W e - Im * mehse quantities of luminous cloth are used by the soldiers who go'over the top. It is cut into small rectangles about ten inches long and fastened to the collars of the uniforms. The soldiers can .thus recognize their own men in an indiscriminate fight in the dark.- The luminous paint is also smeared on the end of sharpened sticks which when stuck into the ground make a fairly clear beacon. Luminous tape is also used by the mile for a variety of purposes. In this way the stretcher-bearers mark the paths they are to follow’. It has been found that on a dark night the luminous paint is visible for only 60 feet. A soldier can dip his hand in the paint and signal by describing letters in the air or by wigwagging, knowing that the enemy cannot see him a hundred feet away.

Scientific Facts.

To enable photographers to make portraits with artistic backgrounds translucent shades to be- hung over windows have been patented bearing pictures of window casings and landscapes. That different classes of mankind can be distinguished by their hair is the theory of a French scientist who believes there is some relation between the hair and strength of body and mind. A form of detectaphone small enough to be worn tinder a man’s shirt front and record conversations on a cylinder , attached to his belt has been patented by a resident of Washington, D. C.

King Cotton, Autocrat

King Cotton Is threatening to become the autocrat of the American table. Not satisfied with having supplanted wool in clothing, and providing the juice of his seed for olive ell, he’s the basis for fine lard, a third part of a new-fangled butter, and they’re up scores of mills to grind his seeds into flour that goes well in several delicious articles, sausage stuffing among them. When he gets into the soup tureen and the coffee pot, King /Cotton will have the nicest, tightest, biggest kingdom that ever was. And yet, only a few years ago his kingdom was largely confined to gunpowder and nightshirts. What a mighty leap to pie, butter and wiener® I—Syracuse Journal.

A Valuable Rooster.

B s O Fa Is the London Times, « cockerel owned by F. C. Fyson, which has' been sold 6,670 times ®a<t has raised £7,365 for the Bed Cross and kindled funds, was bought |n for £145 at a gift sale at Maidstone on behalf of the Red Cross and the Kent Prisoners at War Fund.. This sale, with subscriptions, realized nearly £6.000.

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WHEN LITTLE ONE SINGS

When evening comes over the gray shad- , ows fall. Softly my Little One sings; ' Coddles and coos to a little rag doll, And babbles of wonderful things. Voice like a linnet, and eyes, like a dove, Little One rocks in her ehair,. , And tenderly sings, whfle her motherly I ■I love - .. Warms to her little one there. <• Xlvaat to get down by the aide of her, ' too, . And rpck-a-by back through the years. Voyaging the Blutnberland River of blue. Untroubled by doublings or fear® .«»'/ To drift to a nest in the crook of an arm. And lie in a cuddle of dreams; Ah, Little One, sing me the wonderful a 1 charms ■> , ».... tip, up from the Lullaby streams. . And sing while the heart of you bursts in a song. —; ■Cuddle your little one so, For yours is a fleeting time, age is so long. And you, little singer, will grow. Age will lay hand on your curly, brown . F hair, fu.L •Make you a grown-up too soon; Hustla you out of your little red chair—ffiing, sing,, while your heart ls in tune. Softly gray shadows come deeping down, .Little One journey away Mothdr and Dotty to Slumberland Town. ‘Drowsy-eyed dreamers astray, Leaving me. here where a mist of her song ' 1, , Falls on my heart like a dew, And heaven, I thank you, through age is ■ so long, • Many the dreams that come true., S—Jay B. Iden in the Kansas City Star.

Mother’s Cook Book

War Foods. The new things that are being I thought out by our housewives today Will fill many recipe books and be a pource of great comfort, because they jtnean good things with no increase in the foods we must save,.for our armies. Cream Pie, Rice Crust I Cook a cupful of rice in milk or in water until tender. Line a well greased pie tin with the rice, then fill with the following cooked filling: A pint of milk, yolks of twd eggs, a teaspoonful of corn starch, a half Cupftil of honey, and a teaspoonful of vanilla; cook until smooth and coyer with a meringue made with the whites; set into the oven to brown.

Honey Custard. Cook a pint of milk, a half cupful bf honey and grating of nutmeg, two eggs, and a pinch of salt, over hot water stirring constantly, or bake setting the cups in hot water. Maple flavor may be used, for a change. Steamed Brown Bread* i . ; Take two cupfuls each of barley flour and corn meal, one and a half teaspoonfuls of soda, three-fourths cupful of molasses, two cupfuls of sour milk, a teaspoonful of salt; mix well and steam three hours. ’ ' ! ' Potato Flour Sponge Cake., . Separate the yolks and whites of four eggs, beat yolks until thick, add one cupful of sugar, beat well, add the Whites beaten Stiff, a pinch of silt, a half cupful of potato flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in a moderate over 30 minutes. . - ■ ■ MW Raisin Drop Cakes. Take a third of a cupful of shortening, a cupful of sugar, two eggs, two cupfuls of corn flour* a cupful of raisins, a teaspoonful of vanilla, a cupful of milk. Mix as usual; bake In a moderate oven. 'i— ■ Cornmeal Muffins. Take two tablespoonfuls of shortening, a half teaspoonful of salt, a half cupful of corn meal and five-eighths of a cupful of wheat flour, a teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, the white of an egg and two-thirds of a cupful of milk. Cream the shortening and sugar, add salt, then milk, alternately with the dry ingredients. Lastly fold in the white of egg beaten stiff. Bake 20 minutes. •.

Jews in Kaiserland Unite for Protection of Rights

German newspapers recently received iba ifittidb* ropws mus? Amalgamation of all the Jewlsh associations of the empire for the protection of the “legal rights of German Jews.” The program adopted Is described as their “Irreducible minimum.’* ’ The president is ilames Simbn, a Berlin merchant prince 7 contemptuously known in Junker circles as the “Court Jew” because of the kaiser’s professed personal friendship for him. The main demands of the new organization, as set forth lh the Vossische Zeltuxig. are “legal and genuine” equality of rights and opportunities' with other citizens “in all states,” including the unrestricted right of emigration info' the Turkish empire, especially Palestine. Similar centralization of Jewish associations. It is stated; is Imminent In Austria-Hungary, Turkey add Bulgaria. vlMli

Restricting Walnut Exports.

The authorization of of<walnutsfrpm the French Tunis and Morocfci to Amertcart and Silled countries has been eotd&ff' tifeiT hral Thackara in Paris. Special license must now be obtained and from the mother country* ‘ds weBJ I Siurftori action was taken regarding exports of

HOW CORN IS UTILIZED

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| Infoodproduction per acre, corn excels all other staple crops/ In pounds of protein' produced per acre A Is exceeded only by soy beans and beans, says the United States department of agriculture. The great stock feeding and dairy industries of the country are based largely upon the corn crop, as are also important manufacturing industries, such as starch, glucose, corn oil, and related products, various food products, and alcoholic beverages. Corn Is the great feed crop of the nation. Fed with legumes and grasses it jis unequal* ' as an economical raw material for the production of meat, aitf butter. Because its high starch and oil content makes it primarily a fattroducin feed, corn is of almost inestimable value in finishing stock for mhr.-.et. The remarkable development of the pork Industry in this country his b en due to the high feed value and abundant yields of the corn crop. Of all types of stock feeding, the pork industry is associated most closely with the com crop. -■■■•*' 1 ; Of the 85 per cent of the crop consumed on the farm, all except a small/ percentage milled for human food is used for stock feeding. The extent of the dependence of the feeding Industry upon the com yields is indicated by the fairly consistent relationship maintained between com and live-stock prices. By far the greater part of the corn used in feeding is fed as ear cbm, with the dry stalks and blades used aS roughage, either as pasturage in the field or as cut stover. To a less extent the grain is fed in the form or Shelled com, milled products, and various manufactured feedstuffs. Another form in which com is largely fed is silage. Silage, at present, is of more Importance to the dairy Industry than to the stock-feeding industry, but its use in fattening steers is increasing* rapidly. Its most extensive use is found in the sections where dairying is a leading type of farming. While the silo has become a more or less familiar sight to almost every section where com is grown, it is used most extensively in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, jfew York, and New England. It is used also largely in other states of the cbm belt and In the central Eastern states. Among the common cornmeal dishes eaten in the South are hoe-cake, a mixture of cornmeal and water with or without salt, cooked in a frying pan or griddle.; corn bread or pone, made with the addition of baking powder or its equivalent and baked in the oven; griddle cakes, prepared from a thin batter with the addition of a leavening agent; egg or spoon bread, differing „ifkom ordinary corn bread in that eggs are used; and com dumplings, usually cooked with either meat or vegetables. Cornmeal is used in puddings, waffles, poultry dressing, meat, and fish dishes. In the North, where corn products are consumed to a less extent, the preference is usual!., given to meal made from yellow com, although the socalled hominy (grits) made from white com Is a common breakfast cereal. f Hasty puddin. (corn mush) and Johnny cake (corresponding to the hoecake of the South) have been made in New England households since colonial days. . Indian pudding, a popular dessert prepared from cornmeal, milk, and eggs, has long been regarded as one of the necessary adjuncts to the New England Thanksgivin dinner. . Other'forms in which corn is consumed are grits, consisting of the hard portions of the kernels, but not milled so finely as meal, eaten as a breakfast ■' cereal orbs a side dish with meats; hominy, the same as grits but milled more coarsely ; and lye hominy, or hulled corn, prepared from the whole giain after removal of the hull with caustic soda. The latter products are usually eaten as, dinner dishes and serve largely to replace vegetables. Aside from its direct uses for stock food and for human food, corn is the raw material from which numerous products are manufactured. These products include articles both suitable and not suitable for food purposes. J 2 1 1

Baseball "Aces” Magnets When En Route and Help to Keep Turnstile Spinning

The ball club shat has to worry along without a playing “ace” is a back number as a drawing card on the road. ; The outstanding stars are the “ages” in the big show, for their names’are kept before the public, and the fans go out to see them perform. Without them in the lineups of big league clubs

Tyrus Raymond Cobb.

many and many thousands of dollars would wander away from the turnstiles, .'"'x - ‘ The “gees” are the bfggest assets the magnates can boast ofj and if you will lamp the rosters of the sixteen major league clubs.-yen will find atieast one player on 'riearTy every rbster who figures- as the real drawing card of the team on the road. I Turds' Haymond Cobb is the greatest drawing card in the business. He Is worth mere to Detroit on the road than ail the rest of her players put together, for the fans ip rival towns go out largely to see Cobh, Unless the Tigers are up there fighting'for a pennapt,_gnd the rablds- In small town^.within easyriding distance of the big league cities fiever miss a chance to be on the job. when Cobb Is billed to cavort at the ball park. So Cobb alone is worth thousands of dollars to Detroit at the turnstiles in the course of a season.

Laundrymen and War Conditions.

Now it is the laundrymen’s turn to fee! the pinch of war conditions. They formerly used caustic potash 4n Bjjatidn with soap .for bleaching I But t-hftt potash is Mlunobtainable, aj iood substitute e<»me necessary, j ; The increase in the price of soap has made the need acute. And now comes a satisfactory domestic bleach. Three pounds of trisodium phosphate to 25 pounds of soap is the formula. —Popular Science ■OlvTlwß*y« -

FOR THE POULTRY GROWER

(By the United Staten Department of Agriculture.) Owners of back yards in cities and towns are asked to do everything in their power to help the meat and egg supply by raising small flocks of poultry in back yards. Farmers are requested greatly to Increase their farm flocks of hens so that 100 on every farm will be the average for the nation. The following statement regarding the poultry needs is taken from the official agricultural program for 1918 issued recently by the United States department of agriculture: "Poultry production should be increased greatly, especially in back yards and on farms, where waste material is available and the purchase of expensive grains and other material is. not required. “Increased poultry production may be attained most economically by early hatching; by confining mother hens at least ten' days after the chicks are hatched; by' reducing losses on account of fats, weasels and thieves, aiid from cold, damp conditions; by thorough sanitation; by discouraging the marketing of early-hatched pullets as broilers; by eliminating non-producing hens and keeping good layers through at least two laying seasons; and by the poujtryman raising his own feed as far as possible.”

Foch’s Name Not Teutonic; Almost Rhymes With "Hush”

Numerous inquiries have been received regarding the correct pronunciation of the name of the new generalissimo of the allied armies. On paper Foch seems Tetrtonic, says the Chicago Herald, and suggests throaty gutturals of the kind that are no longer popular in the civilized world. But the name is pronounced as If it were spelled Fosh, with a short “o,” like “uh,’’ and almost rhymes with “hush.” This is on the authority of Le Courier des Etats Unis, a French dally newspaper published in New York. General Foch is a Basque from the Pyrenees, not an Alsatian. All Basque names_-termlnatlng In “ch” have the ''ggft “sh” souncT'instead of the Germanic guttural.

Brief and Breezy.

It is usually the bottom dollar ■ that counts. . Strong butter is a poor apoL- ■ ogy for weak coffee. Happiness is often the price :. of being commonplace. . To do right is easy when sin : ceases to be pleasure. Love is a word of four letters : except In a breach of promise : suit Without decision of character : no man or woman ever amounts : to much.

Sudden Retreat of an Army Is Often Reduced to Chaos And the Resultant Disorder

“Moving a great army is an affair j of time-tables. There is room for only: f a certain amount of men and matejfl rial on the roads and railways at one time, and every man and every' wagon above that maximum becomw-f a factor of confusion and retards ths , movement of the whole mass to dangerous degree,” ♦rites G. Ward Price in the Century. “The sudden retreat of an army is often reduced to chaos, first, because a thoroughly worked out plan of general retirement exists but rarely in the of any general staff, and, secondly, because In the absence of a time-table drawn up in detail and strictly en|l forced, the elementary principle of self-preservation leads every unit of the army to put Itself on the road < just as quickly as it can get transportation. This is not to say that confusion is an invariable Indication of personal panic; but it is very nat-. ural, and even very proper, that every’ battery commander, the director of every military store and depot, and the leader, of every body of troops which is not definitely ordered to remain, should have the individual determination that his particular com* mand shall not fall into the hands of the enemy. “The artillery officer firmly resolves thqt he will save his guns at ail costs; the heads of the supply depart-; meats are in charge of valuable stores which their army needs for its very existence and which would be of great aid to the enemy if captured, and the troop leader naturally argues that it would be futile to allow his men to be cut off when a general retreat has been ordered. So if the organization of withdrawal is left to the discretion of the people involved in it, as it has to be when the whole thing has not been deliberately arranged beforehand, confusion is almost inevitable.”

Take Tip From Old Mother Nature When in Doubt About Time to Plant Your Garden

(From the United States Department of 1 Agriculture.) By watching the processes of mother nature and taking a tip from her, the home gardener who is not certain when he should plant his seeds may get some valuable information. Garden specialists divide vegetables *nto two . classes “warm temperature" and “cold temperature" vegetables. When peach and plum trees are in blossom, they say, it is time to sow in the open ground such seeds as lettuce, radish, parsley, beets, turnips, cabbage, carrots, peas, and onions. The wrinkled peas should not be planted until later, as they are more likely to rot in cool ground than are the smooth varieties. When the apple blossoms fan it is time to plant the heat-loving vegetables, such as cucumbers, beans, sweet corn, pumpkin, and squash. This is said to be an old but excellent rule. s

FOR A LAUGH

Twenty-One Meals, However. Her Dad—Why, hang it, girl, the fellow only earns fifteen a week. Herself—l know, papa, but a week passes so quickly when you’re fond of each other. A Practical Orator.

Critics? Opinion. “How did the critics treat you, dear?” asked the wife of the man who had just had a play produced. “Treat me? They didn’t I treated them.” “What did you do, dear?” “I took ’em out between each of the acts and blew ’em to drinks and cigars.” “That’s good. And what did they say then?” “That my piece should have been divided up into more acts.” Nonsense to Her.

'She failed to laugh at one of his alleged jokes. “My dear, I fear you have no sense of humor.” “There’s no sense to It” declared his wife.

Expecting Too Much. Rankin—ls I ever have to fight in the trenches I hope I can have a periscope. Phyle—Yes, the things are mighty handy to look through and see If the enemy is near. “Are they only to look through?” “Yes. What did you think they were for?’ “Gee! I thought you could stay safely out of sight and shoot through the things.”

“That last speech of yours was a classic." “I’m afraid sq,” replied Senator Sorghum. “You don’t seem gratified.” “I feel complimented, but apprehensive. As a rule a classic is something that people admire but don’t understand."