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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1914)
jgsjBjBjjggsjgsjisjtjejtaaji HSkriifr Wc tit 2i CE,Kt: IN M 1 ORE than four years bave flown since I steamed up these classic straits on the morrow of the most appall ing catastrophe In human history, writes Austin West, - corre spondent of the London Chronicle. In lesa than half a minute at that dull December dawn, what the world of today talks of as '.'the Messina earth quake" had shattered Into dust, no fewer, than twenty-four' towns along the Slculo-Calabrlan seaboard. The 4erastatlon caused by shocks, by tidal wave and devouring flames extended orer an area of 100 square miles. .With just one swipe of his scythe Death had mowed down nigh upon a quarter of a million members of hu manity. ' Here, banked by mountains and ly lag snug between tho fiery breasts of Etna and Vesuvius, slumbers the new twentieth century Pompeii. On approaching Its magnificent nrtckle shaped harbor suggestive of .'Messina's ancient name of Zankle one sees that the long, - stately sweep of palatial facades along the Marine, which formerly seemed to be playing a hideous Joke In belying the utter destruction hidden behind, has lately ' been In part demolished, exposing viv idly to view that vast necropolis where almost every crumbled edifice Is at once an altar and a tomb. The " harbor works, which ought to have been among the very first concerns In reconstruction, are Instead the most neglected. The government gave out 100,000 of repair work nearly a year ago, but the contrac- tors have not yet started on the Job. 1 found the port much as I had left It. Tet, so lucky Is Messina by ' virtue of Its natural position that, de ' spite all drawbacks, the world's ships creasing numbers, and Its port trade M 'greater than before the disaster. Neptune Alone Remains. Wavelets ripple over the sunken wharves, the quayside and adjacent streets remain rent asunder In mighty nps; the Parade all uphoven, smashed, and Incumbered with rub bish as when, the tidal wave, 150 feet In height, retired after Its vent of herculean asitgatlon. One object rivets attention. The giant form of " Neptune, trident In hand, surveys the scene serenely from the summit of his superb fountain. The sea has re spected Its god. Pious folk pointed me to the survival of this and like pagan memories, In contrast with the annihilation of their own sacred shrines, as proof positive that the ' quake was the handiwork of demons. Among the most artistic fanes of Old Messina was the fourteenth cen tury church of San Nlccolo. Several months before the calamity a commis sion of civil engineers reported the building to the authorities as being In an exceedingly dangerous condi tion, and an order was issued for Its Immediate closure to public worship. Ban Nlccolo Is the one solitary church which the great earthquake spared! ' The grand old Norman cathedral which bravely withstood the upheav als of 800 years presents an unfor gettable appearance. Cleared of 1U M1LS3INA mountain of debris, the interior 305 feet long and 145 feet across looks as though ' it had fallen prey to the lconoclasm of a barbarian horde. Sculptured fragmenta of Its glorious baptistery, pulpit and royal tombs are piled In the nave. Twenty-two gigan tic pillars of granite that upheld the clerestory lie smashed and tumbled about the pavement In Impressive chaos. 1 What a wonderful hlatory has been theirs I Centuries before Christ trod the earth these columns reared their heads aloft In the famous Temple of Neptune alongside Charbydla at the northern extremity of the straits. From their niches in the massive outer walls which, to an unequal height, are all that Is left standing of the holy place, mutilated statues of apostles stare around, somo in. amaze ment, some iu unconcern, or as If pointing out In muta' melancholy the havoo encompassing thorn. In a corner by the west entrance lies the great peal of quaintly Inscribed bells, lncrusted with verdigris. Several of the smaller ones are uneracked. Grass has grown thick on the ruined wall topB, over which it Is proposed to ex tend a roof of light material, and so preserve the relics as a national monument , Rich In Burled Treasure. The art treasures In this cathedral were valued at $10,000. The gem laden high altar erected In 1628 for enshrining a letter said to have been sent by the Virgin Mary to the people of Messina through St. Paul, promis ing their city everlasting protection against all calamities was,, perhaps the costliest In Christendom; for the bills recently recovered' from the burled archives show that the price paid was 3,800,000 lire, or nearly $1- 000,000. The sanctuary, with Its rem nants of gorgeous mosaic apso. has been stoutly built around. All photo graphing Is forbidden, and I was In formed that the authorities, for some unascertalnable reason, had ' bought up or sequestrated all existing pic tures. The night watchman inside told me they always had to do duty in groups, and armed with revolvers, to repel the Incursions of sacrellglous depredators; and that, In spite of all, large quantities of precious mosaic marbles, statuary and so forth had been plundered. Made In Germany. Jugend has heard of Miss Marie Lloyd's reception In New York, and now It publishes a picture of a woman and a man JUBt landed and standing before a window In which a brutally official head appears. There Is this di alogue: Officer Are you a slngert Are you married? Singer No; the gentleman accom panies me only on the plana Officer Got outl For Your Travellna Baa. Brown leather traveling bags, or any Other brown leather eaoAa mv be beautifully polished ' by rubbing mem witn me inside of a banana skin and then polishing with a soft dry ciom. SUGAR THE STAFF OF LIFE Tacoma Physician Comes Forward With Idea That Has Set Scientific World to Thinking. The physiologist who discovered that your' liver and your muscles manufacture sugar while you sleep has been . surpassed by the German physician who uses sugar dissolved in water as an excellent surgical dressing for all sorts of wounds. Drs. Jacques Pansot and Pierre Mathleu have Just declared that when animals eat sugar exclusively for long periods their weight at first decreases, soon begins to mend and then falls away again as the diet continues. - Dr. H. Heald of Tacoma Park, D. C, disagrees with these laboratory find ings. He says Bugar Is comparable to gasoilne. As the .latter Is the fuel of the internal combustion engine, so sugar Is the fuel of the human ma chine. Sugar, he says. Is the staff of life, and man. can produce more en ergy from sugar than from any other food. A distinguished British heart spe cialist has lately proved the efficacy of lump sugar In the treatment of a man nearly eighty years old who was dying with a' vicious disease of his heart. After all the usual remedial measures had failed one of the maids asked If there was any objection to feeding the sufferer lumD suear. The physician gave his consent and four lumps were given in a little water. These were repeated every four hours, ana m a week ho was a well man. Doctor Berzeller recommends tn one of the German medical societies the use Of powdered suear in the treatment of old, ill treated and neg lected cancers. He says the applica tion of sugar to the fetid nests leg- sens the disagreeable odor and dis- cnarges. Furthermore the ceneral condition of the patient Improves and an Hemorrhages, cease. Indeed, un less you have had a long experience with cancer patients, you are liable to be deluded into the belief that the cancer has healed. The Man With a Job. Every one has a right to the dis tinction which titles of nobility are meant to give, but It is from our work that we should get them. The grocer. the trapper, the night watchman, the cook, is a person fit to be recognized. Doth by his own timid self and by the rest of the world. In time the title of pur Job comes to stand for ub, to en large our personality and to give ua permanence. Then it supplements the standing with which is given us by our product. To "hold down a Job" gives ub a place in the world, something ap proaching the home for which in some form or other every one longs. "Have you any place for me?" we ask with eagerness, for until we find "a place" we are tramps men without a coun try. ' .. A man with a Job has, at least in embryo, the kind of recognition which we all crave. He has won member ship In a club that he wants to belong to and especially hates to be left out of. To be In it as a member In full standing gives a taste of self-respect and self-confidence. Atlantic. Bought State House. Perhaps there are some palliating circumstances about the case because the victim was a simple Italian, not long In this country; but the scheme Is so old and thin that no one who reads the papers should get caught. It was In Boston that Marc Anthony Otolo, an Italian, met two fellow countrymen, as he was admiring the state house. They offered to go Into partnership with Otolo and buy the Imposing building. - Otolo was pleased and bit He gave up his $650, which was put Into a handkerchief with the money of the other men. The hand kerchief was then entrusted to Otolo while the others sought a lawyer to draw up the deed. Otolo found it contained only some newspaper clip pings. The bunco men haven't been found. No Extradition Possible. The case of Bud Musgrove was called before the Clay county court Counsel for Bud rose, divested himself of a sigh, and addressed the court "Yo' honor," he said, "this case cahn't be tried, If It please you-alL" "These cases must be tried hand running, counsel," admonished the court. "Why cahn't Bud's be brought befo' the bar?" "If It please the co't," answered counsel, "Bud's in another state." "Justice requires that Bud be brought byeh," ruled his honor. "He must be extradited. What state Is Bud resldln" In?" "There ain't nobody who can extra dite Bud right away, yo' honah," In formed counsel. "He's in a state of Inebriety, sen." New York Evening Post Very Different "Thirty cents a word for this stuff?" exclaimed the editor. "I wouldn't think of It" "Sir, I am a famous author." "That's Juet It You are a famous author, not a famous pugilist or a suc cessful spltball pitcher,' HERE IS SECRET OF FROSTING Nothing Hard About It, and Most De licious Confection Will Be the Result She who hankers to know how It Is made, that light soft, thick frosting that la swirled on cakes so tempting ly, need no longer envy the profes sional's skill "Make ordinary boiled frosting," says the woman who has discovered the secret "and after you have beaten It stiff enough to hold its own firmly on a cake empty It into a double boil er. "Place the double boiler over a good fire that will keep the water in the lower pan at a brisk boll. Do not stir the frosting at all, but watch it until It begins to fudge around the side of the pan. "Then take It from the stove and beat It In the pan until It Is cool enough and thick enough to swirl on your cake, holding Its own in what ever Irregularities you wish to perpe trate. . "If you let It get too cool it . will harden In the pan perhaps before you have finished frosting your cake. This is specially likely If you have many little cakes, which take time to cover one by one. If It does harden a little hot water beaten in will remedy the difficulty. "It is the double boiling that gives the frosting the ;.enviable fudgy, marshmallowy consistency. "Do not use a knife to put on frost, lng when you want the frosting to have a awirly, irregular look. Use a fork handle." TO MAKE CORNSTARCH CAKE Recipe That Has Been Held of Value for Many Years Is This Given Below. Put one-half cup butter In the biscuit pan and set on back of stove. Put into your mixing bowl one-fourth cup milk, one-fourth cup cornstarch, yolks of two eggs and lemon extract to suit taste. Beat the two whites and add them. Put into your flour niftor thro. quarters cup sugar, one scant cup flour, m teaspoons baking powder. Sift these into the other things and whip together with a few strokes. Pour In the hot butter and mix It In with a few light strokes and pour into the biscuit pan which is still sitting on the stove and put into the oven to bake. If you wish It richer, leave out a bit of the flour. This keeps well and Is usually nice to eat with ice cream. Bake a good brown and frost if you wish; cut in squares. The egg, milk and extract may be put together any time and set aside in the safe to wait The same with the dry Ingredients. Then, when the tim oven Is right they may all be whipped together in such a short time that the cake making is no longer a bugbear ui we coo, xry this way of making cake Just once and you will . never again make it the old slow way. 8trawberrv Baalr Make a good sponge cake. Here Is one good reclne: Beat hn vniir a three eggs till they are very light; add a small cupful of sugar and very gradually half a cupful of boiling wa ter. Sift one teaspoonful of baking powuer witn one cupful of flour, and add this by degrees; last of all mix in the stiffly b.eaten whites of the eggs. Bake in individual tins. When cold cut a piece from the center of each. Fill this With nreservmt itr. berries and put whipped cream all arouna inem and cut strips of lemon peel to form handles. Potato 8traws. Wash and peel some potatoes, cut them Into small shreds, about the thickness of matches, wash and dry on a cloth; throw them a few at a time Into plenty of clear, boiling fat; shake the potatoes about In the fat until they are crisp and of a deep yel low color. Drain on a cloth, sprinkle slightly with salt and serve on a fold ed napkin. Rag-O-Mufflns. Thfee cups flour, four level tea spoons baking powder, one-half tea spoon salt two tablespoons sugar, about three-quarter cup milks, one half teaspoon cinnamon, one-half cuj currants or chopped ralBlns, two table spoons butter. Mix as for biscuits. Roll out to one-auarter inch fhlVno.. In a long sheet, brush with butter and sprinkle with fruit sugar and cinna mon. Roll like a Jelly roll. Cut oft pieces three-quarter inch In thickness Bake in butter tin in hot over and about 15 or 18 minutes. Cupboard Contrivance. Metal towel racks, that have flat places at each curved end to screw to a wall will almost donhu .. paclty of your closet If screwed to the Douom or me lower shelf. A dosen garment hangers may be suspended from each one. Quick Dutch Cake. One cup sugar, one tablespoon but ter, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, and three teaspoons baking powder. Dot with butter and sprinkle with cin namon and sugar. r RAISES the DOUGH ' Better than other powdc ' producing light, dainty, whole- ' soma cake and pastries f CRESCENT BAKING POWDER is nigh grade and I 'moderate in price I f 25c lb. tin at grocers. I I Crwcaat Mfg. Cob.Suttb I Everybody loves MUSIC Do you want to learn to play Piano, Organ, Violin or Guitar. For a Small sum we will teach you . AT HOME to play fourth grade musie regardless of number of lessons required. Any one who can read can learn by our method. EASIEST and most up-to-date system in exist ence. We loan you a perfect "Time beater" free. Write for particulars. 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