Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1918 — Page 2

Home Canners Set High Mark

Three Thousand Trained Demonstrators to Help Nation Preserve 1,500,000,000 Quarts This Year

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The home-canning drive for 1,500.000,000 quarts of “put up” foods in 1918 is on I Three thousand home-demonstration agents and leaders in boys’ and girls* club work are ready to help the nation to this goal. They have started out to teach the nation to can and to do a good job of it. In addition to this number many thousands of volunteer leaders are working with these extension forces on the summer campaign. Last year the home canners put up 850,000,000 quarts. Leaders are being trained in laboratories of the department of agriculture. This work will continue all summer and expert demonstrators will be turned, out to carry the latest canning information into the field. District meetings of home-demonstration agents have just been held in all the Southern states to plan the summer’s work and for special instruction in canning and drying. These are are being followed by thorough county and community organization and instruction. In the North and West canning schools for demonstrators are being conducted at many of the state agricultural colleges and in community centers. , , v , .. XT .. Every canning-club group among the boys’ and girls clubs in the Nortn and West is organizing a demonstration team of expert canners. These teams

A Canning Club Girl and Some of the Products She Conserved.

will be uniformed and will give demonstrations at public meetings in their communities. Overy thirty thousand boys and girls will take part in this work. Ten manufacturers of rubber rings for glass jars have raised the quality of the rings to a standard required by the department of agriculture. This will be an important factor in encouraging more canning, for the assurance of good rings will mean an increased output of canned products among the home canners. Manufacturers of glass jars, stone crockery ware, tin cans and fiber boxes are also co-operating in improving their products and in securing a sufficient supply to meet the summer’s demands. Sufficient sugar will be available this summer for home canning, according to the United States food administration. The only requirement made is for a signed statement that the amount purchased is to be used for that purpose. Local regulations governing the maximum amount of sugar for canning allowed to Individuals during the season are made by state food administrators. '

Potato Pens Prove Dismal Failure—Did Not Produce Their Seed, Christie Says

Last year people all over the country were building potato “pens.” Somebody, somewhere, it was said, had raised enough potatoes to last an ordinary family a whole year in an openwork box eight feet square. The box was filled with soil and seed potatoes in the spring, and that was all there was to it The vines grew out through the cracks all around, and the bin was full of good tubers in the fall. Fine business it was. The only trouble with this grand scheme was that it didn’t work. Professor Christie of Purdue university says that in Indiana most of these skyscraper potato gardeners didn’t get back their seed. Of 40 pens tried in Indianapolis, according to City Garden Supervisor Osborne, not one succeeded. Experiments by the United States department of agriculture were equally disappointing. In a potato pen at Washington 20 pounds of seed were planted and eight pounds of potatoes were harvested. The “barrel” plan was just as bad. The crop from two barrels weighed less than two pounds. It doesn’t pay to be a mossback, of course, but it does pay to stick to approved methods of farming.—Farm Life.

TEACH US

Father in heaven, who lovest all, O help thy children when they call; That they may build from age to age An undefiled heritage. Teach us to bear the yoke in youth With steadfastness and careful truth; That, in our time, thy grace may give The truth whereby the nations live. Teach us to rule ourselves always, ■Controlled and cleanly night and day; That we may bring, if need arise, No maimed or worthless sacrifice. Teach us to look in all our ends, On thee for* judge, and not our friends; That we, with thee, may walk uncowed By fear or favor of the crowd. Teach us the strength that cannot seek. By deed or thought, to hurt the weak; That, under thee, we may possess Man’s strength to succor man's distress. Teach us to delight In simple things. And mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done And love to all men ’neath the sun. —Rudyard Kipling.

Life of an Airplane.

The life of a well-built airplane, barring accidents, is about six hundred hours of flying. The life of a motor is at least three hundred hours of running. Allowing ah average speed of 100 miles an hour, these warplanes would be in good condition for flights totaling 60,000 miles. -—Peoole’s Home Journal.

Last Half Hour of Day Is Most Important—Time to Review and Resolve Anew

The most Important period of all your day is the last half hour. That “home stretch,” that silent time when the eyes begin to cloud and the clock must be wound and the cat be put out doors. - For life is a business and a day is significant. Each one of our days is like unto a certain number in the one great column that makes up your life. And every figure must be added —some time. Do you ever stop to consider how great is each figure that you add daily to the great column that is to represent the sum total of what you are to be at the very end? The last half hour! What a time to think things over. To take Invoice. To review. To resolve anew. To determine—and to will. . ' ■ And what a time to dismiss all the little ripples of worry and discontent. And to bury every bitter thought, to resurrect every fine deed done and every useful effort attempted or accomplished. Start tonight to make a chain of your last half hours. And as the years roll on, a new and strange power is sure to accumulate —a sort of reserve strength—an anchor, maybe, that shall keep you from drifting as some unexpected storm sweeps its way toward your frail craft. Also, if you wisely use your last half hour, like as not you may soundly sleep as the storm spends its rage and passes on. —Exchange.

Old Garments and Shoes Are Repaired for the Soldiers

Damaged garments and worn shoes are being repaired and reused in large numbers by the army, a summary of the accomplishment pf the. quartermaster corps’ reclamation division says. Wives and mothers of men in service employed in a base repair shop at Fort Sam Houston fitted for reuse .an average of 3,000 garments a day during May, and new shops for similar work are-belng established at various places. Nearly 170,000 pairs of shoes were repaired in April. Salvaging of garbage waste and metals also has shown profitable results. Mobile laundries, to travel with troops In France, have been developed, the statement adds,- following successful operation qf stationary laundries at camps within the United States.

Nine-Tenths of World at War.

Of the 1,600,000,000 people who populate the earth only 120,000,000 — less .than one-tenth —are at peace, statistics show. The Teutonic allies have 160,000,000 people and the entente nations 1,360,000,000.

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Mother’s Cook Book

Only have enough of <he little virtues and common fidelities and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.—Henry Ward Beecher. Ways With Fresh Fruits. With the ever-bearing strawberry becoming so well known and common we do not need to liinit ourselves to a few short weeks of the delicious berry, as it ripens until frost time. Fresh solid berries, crushed and mixed with their bulk in sugar, may be put in sterile cans and kept in a cool place without any further care, as they wdll keep well until spring, or as long as one wishes to keep them. The wild raspberry is dollclous canned in the old-fashioned way. Pack the fruit into jars and fill with boiling hot sirup, then set them in the oven until the juice boils; seal at once, and the fruit will keep good in color and excellent in flavor. Fresh raspberries may be crushed and mixed with sugar in the same way the strawberries are canned, or currants; any small fruit that is thoroughly crushed will keep perfectly. Fruit juices of any kind, accented with a touch of lemon juice, sweetened to taste, and rich thin cream added, make most appetizing frozen dishes.

Blackberry Flummery.

Cook together without stirring one pint each of blackberries and water; after cooking ten minutes moisten three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with cold water and add to the boiling berries; let cook until thick and all of the starch taste has been removed. Sweeten to taste and stir in the stiffly beaten white of an egg. Pour into a mold and chill. Serve unmolded with plain cream and sugar. *

Strawberry Cocktails.

Select large, perfect berries and cut them in halves, saving all the juice. For four portions use a pint of berries and add the juice and pulp of an orange, three tablespoonfuls of honey, the juice of a lemon and four tablespoonfuls of shaved ice. Fill the glasses and garnish each with a sprig of mint.

Currant Ice Cream.

Mash a quart of currants and cook until all the juice is extracted; strain and add honey to taste; add to a quart of thin cream or rich milk and freeze as usual.

Gooseberry Fool.

Cook a quart of gooseberries with a pint of water until tender. Press through a colander; add a tablespoonful of butter, three yolks of eggs, and honey to sweeten. Beat with the eggbeater five minutes and pour into a glass dish. Chill and serve with the beaten whites sweetened with three tablespoonfuls of honey and cooked over hot water. Holm.

“Khaki” Means Mud, or Muddy, and Said to Be a Hindu Word

The British soldiers in India used to wear white uniforms. It was a lot of trouble to /keep clean, and the snipers were always picking off men who exposed themselves. One day a of soldiers who proposed to sneak up on a nest of Hindus who were picking them off,, went down to the muddy banks of a stream and daubed their white uniforms with the yellow mud—and marched away. From that day to this, the mud-colored uniform has been popular with the British in India —and it isn’t necessary to state that it is popular with the soldiers of the United States. “Khaki” means mud, or muddy, and is a Hindu word. But it is going to mean something more in the days to come. It is going to mean exactly what the blue used to mean—victory. It is going to stand for courage, and patriotism, and sacrifice, and no greater tribute can be paid to men in the future than to say they wore the khaki.—Columbus Dispatch.

Around the World

German Interned aliens are doing farm work in Arkansas. United States may have barmaids, English style, presently. Texas now has and is rigidly enforcing a drastic disloyalty law in addition to United States statutes. War demands for glycerin may produce soap shortage in the United States. Los Angeles man is suing a doctor for burning him seriously with radium.

To Distinguish Iron From Steel.

The repairer of machinery often has to select pieces of metal from the scrap heap to make repairs on various machines, and Is at a loss to know, whether the metal he has selected is iron or steel. By using the following methods, wrought iron, cast iron and mild steel are easily distinguished from one another. File a bright spot on the metal and place a drop of nitric acid on the metal and leave it for a few minutes. The spot will appear ash-gray on wrought iron, brownish black on mild steel and a deep black on cast iron.—Popular Science Monthly.

War Expenses Taking $50,000,000 Each Day

Report for the Fiscal Year Shows Cost Near Fourteen Biffion Mark

The government recently closed its books for the fiscal year-—the first fiscal in the war—and has opened new annual records. Cabinet members and other heads of departments will make reports to President Wilson covering their stewardship of funds and responsibilities for the year just closed. In government financial history the year will go down as a period of expense hardly dreamed of a decade ago. More than $12,600,000,000 is the actual outlay sinje July 1, 1917, to meet the multitude of big bills run up for the army, the navy, the shipbuilding program, airplane construction, coast defense requirements, other government activities, and the needs of the allies for American loans to finance purchases of war materials in this country. In peace times the government spent less than $1,000,000,000 annually. With the addition of the $1,200,000,000 which the government spent in the three months of war preceding this fiscal year the war’s cost in money to date has been $13,800,000,000. War activities are now draining about $50,000,000 a day from the nation’s public treasury, and in June the running expenses were greater than ever before,.though loans to allies dropped to less than in any month since April, 1917, when the United States became a belligerent.

"Steamer” Demaree’s Return To Form Has Proved a LifeSaver for New York Giants

The sud'den return to form of Al “Steamer” Demaree has been a life saver for the New York Giants. When John McGraw’s pitching staff was on the verge of collapse Demaree came to life and with his effective twirling averted a rout by the opposing clubs. One of his best exhibitions, a surpris-

Al Demaree.

Ing one, was given against the Cubs in New York. In that game he blanked the league leaders with four hits. He was unusually fast' in that game and won it easily. He recently defeated the Boston Braves with four hits and caused Dick Rudolph to lose his initial battle of the year. Demaree has made it possible for the Giants to keep up their confidence and also to stay within reaching distance of first place.

Hawaiian Island Has More Than 43 Feet of Rainfall

The reputation 'of being the rainiest place in the world has long been ■ enjoyed by the hill station Cherrapunji, on the slope of the Himllaya, in Assam. The latest official value, based on a 40-year ’record at the Cherrapunji station, is 426 Inches per annum. Blanford, the well-known authority on Indian meteorology, thought, that the mean in some places at Cherrapunji exceeded 500 Inches, but nowhere amounted to 600 inches. So far as actual records go the rainfall on the Indian station is surpassed by that recently reported by D. H. Campbell of Stanford university, at Walaleale, in the island of Kauai, Hawaii. During the years 1912-16, inclusive, the Hawaiian station, which is 5.075 feet above sea level, recorded the astonishing mean annual rainfall of 518 Inches, or more than 43 feet.

French Inventor Provides Way to Get Coffee Extract

Under a recent French patent an integral coffee extract is obtained in the following manner: Powdered coffee is heated in a series of closed-ves-sels to a heat lying near the roasting point, and It is traversed by a current of cold air or inert gas. Such air charged with aromatic particles is sent direct into another set of chambers holding a dry powder or extract of coffee, this latter having been prepared from previously treated coffee, which has been deprived of aromatic substances. Such dry extract is obtained by Infusion, concentration, then evaporation and transforming to a dry powder. In this extract the aromatic substances are added.

How Whittling Saved Food.

Demonstrations of food drying spread last year over Kentucky as a part of the national food saving work, according to the U. S. department of a’gpfculture, and in that state 1,800 homemade driers were constructed. Here Is one reason: The home demonstration agents preached the nee<J fordrying so earnestly that many men who had been whittling on street corners to while away the time became interested. They whittled for a purpose and made homemade driers. In Kentucky alone 306,000 pounds of dried products were saved last year.

Eat More Chicken

Utilize Part of the Poultry Increase to Supply Meat for the Home Table

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) As a matter of business foresight and economy, as-well as of patriotism, farmers who Increase their production of poultry and eggs this year should plan to use a considerable-part of the increase on their own tables. Much of the benefit of increasing the supply of products capable of very rapid increase, but perishable and bulky, will be lost if producers adopt the policy of marketing all the increase. In that case there would be no substitution on the farm of poultry products for the cured and compact meats which it Is desired to reserve as Jar as possible for military use and shipment to the allies. ' .

Many farm families could easily use several times as much ’poultry as is now consumed on the average farm. Analysis of the figures of the last census shows a very light consumption of poultry and eggs on the average farm. For the whole country the average yearly consumption of eggs per farm is only 137.5 dozen —2.6 dozen per week;, of poultry, 60 head—or one bird every six days. The highest average consumption of in any state is 211.2 dozen —four dozen a week. The highest average consumption of poultry in a state is 124.6 head-one bird in 2.9 days. Such averages indicate that farmers who use poultry and eggs freely on their own tables use from six tor ten dozen eggs and four to six head of poultry weekly. . In view of the extent to which large flocks can be made self-sustaining during the greater part of the year on most farms, this liberal scale of consumption of poultry products would seem practical generally. The consumption of eggs on farms may be greatly Increased and farmers still receive the benefit of good prices for fresh eggs in the season of scant production aind give consumers the benefit of a larger supply and more moderate prices, if all farmers who can do so will preserve as many eggs when eggs are cheap as they can use at home when eggs are dear. The average farm price of eggs in the United States in April, May and June, 1917, was 29 cents a dozen; in October, November and December, 38.7 cents. In 1916 the average difference in farm prices in the periods compared was 12.3 cents a dozen. There is a period of from five to six months In every year when the average price of fresh eggs on the farm is about ten cents a dozen more than the average price during the season of heavy production. Inasmuch as eggs can be preserved In water glass, or In lime water, and kept In perfect condition for from six to nine months, and usable for a year or more, a farmer who preserves eggs when they are cheap for his own use can use eggs freely the year round and still have eggs to sell all through the season of high prices.

Thirty-five Persons Lynched in U. S. First Half of Year

Thirty-five persons were lynched 'in the United States in the first six months of this year, according to announcement by the division of records and research of Tuskegee institute at Tuskegee, Ala. The total exceeds by 21 the lynchings for the first six months of 1917 and by ten the number during a similar period in 1916. Thirty-four of the 35 persons lynched were negroes. Three negro women were Included. Eight lynchings occurred in each Of' the states of Georgia and Louisiana, seven in Texas, four in Tennessee, two in Mississippi and one each In the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and South Carolina.

To Measure Day.

The length of the day and night at any time of the year may be easily ascertained by doubling the time ot the sun’s setting for the length of the day and doubling the time of its rising for that of the night.

U. S. War Industries Board Restricts Clothing Styles to Save Wool and Leather

Necessity for wartime conservation of wool and leather will be further reflected in civilian footwear and men's clothing for next spring trade. Restrictions upon manufacturers an-" nounced by the war Industries boardl are expected to , effect a substantial! saving of leather and cloth so necessary for the nation’s ever increasing fighting force. Both quantity and styles will be affected. The height of women’s shoes is to be reduced to a maximum of eight" inches from heel to top, with the same maximum for overgaiters or “spatfe.” All shoes, both leather and fabric, will be restricted to black, white and two cloors of tan. Patent leather will be black only. Shoe manufacturers may not, for the next six months, introduce, purchase or use any new style lasts. Manufacturers are especially urged to encourage the sale of low-cut and low-effects in shoes; to reduce the number of boot samples for women and to co-operate with retailers and wholesalers to restrict the return of merchandise. Marked changes are prescribed for men’s clothing. Sack coats will be Shorter, with a minimum of 30 Inches for 36 sizes and 1% inches added for “longs.” Double-breasted overcoats Will be eliminated, and the length of topcoats will be a minimum of 43 Inches for 36 sizes and two inches to be added for “longs." Only three outside pockets will be allowed in sack coats and facings will not exceed 4% inches. Side and back straps and flaps of trousers are to be eliminated, and no re-enforcement of trousers can be made with wool cloth. Not more than ten models of’sack suits are to be put out. The maximum length of rain coats is fixed at 48 inches, while the maidmum width of collars will be 3% inches. All double coats with detachable linings for civilian use are to be eliminated.

IT IS TO SMILE

Supply and Demand.

Most Unusual. "Who Is the pompous gentleman T* “A self-appointed investigator of conditions who has just returned from the front.” “With a ‘message,’ of course?” “No. Strange to say, he didn’t bring bac£ a ‘message.’” s Both Ways. "Do you think If we save on this performance by cutting out the calcium, {he public will look on it as a breach of faith?” “I think it will tend to put the show in a very bad; light.”

Desperate Chance.

“Why did Smith marry his typewriter?” “I suppose he thought it was his only chance of being the family dictator.” a t

Aid to Caution. The. Driver^—Yes, I married my old girl through sympathy, like. Yes see, I knocked ’er down wiv me old taxi. The Misogynist—They wouldn’t be so many blinkin, accidents then. The Reason. “How quietly that automobile- came along.” “Yes; I suppose the wheels are so quiet because they’re all tired.”

Bomb Shells

In the good old days a girl blushed. Nowadays, according to the novelist, a wave of color suffuses her cheeks. With ' their natural propensity for devising substitutes maybe the Germans will yet find one for, the kaiser. Many a man who gives the head waiter a big 'tip just because people were looking would enjoy catching him out in a boat and giving him a bigger one—when people weren’t looking. Food for thought is never predigested.

Pure Water for Troops.

To provide pure drinking water for American soldiers In the trenches and at other places where permanent waterworks have not .been established, mobile water trains have been constructed and are operating in France under the jurisdiction of the army medical department. A statement by the surgeon general Says each train is a miniature water filtration plant and carries an expert chemist, bacteriologist and pumpman. 1

Peddler Any tins, ma’am? H o u s e k eeper (indignantly) , Those tins you sold me last week have all gone to pieces. Peddler —Yes’m. I knew you’d want some more by this time.