The Maupin times., October 08, 1915, Image 5

OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From Ail Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTS1P
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
The allies are making a 'fierce fight
for the second German line in the West.
The Southern Pacific is sending 400
cars to various lumbering points in
Oregon in response to demands.
Another slide has blocked the Pana
ma canal and the opening of the ditch
will be delayed until October 10.
Nearly three score persons lost their
lives in a hurricane which also caused
immense property damage at New Or
leans. William Steele, aged 81, and Mrs.
Arleta Golden, aged 78, obtained a
marriage license and were married at
Salem, Or.
A catch of 1363 walruses is reported
by the steamer Corwin. The hides are
in great demand in Eastern ammuni
tion factories for burnishing shrapnel
cases.
Saskatchewan, Canada, farmers won
first and second prizes in competition
for the best bushel of wheat at the
International Soil Products Exposition
at Denver.
A Portland, Oregon, man, in a fit of
laughter, dislodged bis false teeth and
the artificial masticators lodged in his
throat. It required a physician to re
move the molars.
Three liners have been added to the
fleet of the Toyo KiBen Kaisha Steam
ship company and will be put into the
trans-Pacific trade between Pacific
Coast points and the Orient.
A heavy hail storm practically ruin
ed the winter apple crop in the vicin
ity of Roswell, N. M. The damage is
estimated at 200,000. Packing was
to have begun soon in the larger orch
ards.
The inclusion of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railroad, which recently
went into a receivership, makes the
mileage of railways in the United
States in the hands of receivers greater
than ever before.
A semi-official dispatch received at
Amsterdam from Berlin says all the
subscriptions to the third German war
loan, which amounted to 12,000,000,
000 marks ($3,000,000,000), represent
new money. No conversions are in
cluded. The London Morning Post's Berne
correspondent says he learns from
Munich that T. St. John Gaff ney, the
American consul general in Munich,
after conferring with Sir Roger Case
ment, has decided to resign and go on
a lecture tour in the United States on
behalf of Germany.
Coreans in Hawaii are training with
wooden guns, in the hope of being
able to free Corea from Japan, accord
ing to Miss Sadie E. Barrett, a mis
sionary to Hawaii, who addressed the
National Convention of the Women's
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist Episcopal church in Seattle.
Germany declares she sees the goal
of her ambitions.
The British admiralty has loaned a
number of submarines to the Russians.
United States sends artillery to
Mexican border to repel further raids
of bandits.
The Washington government has
made a final request that Dr. Dumba
be recalled.
By the will of John G. Watmough,
of Philadelphia, his hired girl falls
heir to $100,000.
A Walla Walla, Wash., girl takes
dose of poison for headache, in dark,
which proves fatal.
For the first time in history, Chinese
shipbuilders are competitors of the
European yards. A steamship com
pany of Drammen has ordered three
steamers to be delivered in Copen
hagen in 1916 and 1917. The placing
of this order in China is due to the
unusual pressure in the home yards.
The Munich Post, according to the
Overseas News Agency, has received a
report from Switzerland that Pope
Benedict is preparing a circular letter
to the belligerents asking for a gen
eral truce on All Souls day. The Pon
tiff asked that the truce be dedicated
to the memory of the soldiers who
have perished in the war.
Society women in Paris have en
listed in the war and are driving army
ambulances, using their own cars.
The big loan to Britain and France,
which was negotiated in this country.
has been made, however, the amount
is $500,000,000, instead of one billion.
as first stated.
John Muir'i famous clock, which, in
addtion to keeping time, aw6ke him in
the morning by tipping his bed, will
become the property of the University
of Wisconsin at the close of the Pan
ama-Pacific Exposition. Muir invent
ed the clock many years ago.
Reports from Aberdeen, Wash.,
state that much timber is being sold in
Eurone. which will be used in con
struction of aeroplanes.
Otto Hooker, an escaped convict
from the Oregon penitentiary, and who
killed Supt. Minto, was shot to death
by a Portland policeman, while being
taken into custody at Albany.
Bids for 16 new submarines, five
of them seagoing cruisers and 11 of
the coast defense type, will be opened
at the U. S. Navy department soon.
Tha vessels were authorized by the
lout congress.
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The eleven-year-old Crown Prince
Humbert of Italy, while visiting the
king at the Isonzo front, made his way
along several miles of the Italian
trenches and sent the following tele
gram to his grandmother Queen
Margherlta: "I am on Austrian terri
tory. I assisted In an artillery engage
ment this afternoon."
"VEST POCKET" WIRELESS SET IS
MADE PRACTICAL BY NEW YORKER
Bedford Hills, N. Y. A compact
and efficient wireless receiving and
sending apparatus, invented recently
by Dr. H. Barringer Cox, of this place,
is to be lent to one of the foreign pow
ers for use in the trenches, according
to announcement of the inventor.
The device, which may be strapped
around the waist and deftly hidden by
the folds of a cloak so as to be invis
ible to an unsuspecting person, is in
reality a "vest-pocket" wireless ap
paratus, as complete as any.
The sending apparatus consists of a
box in which are five dry cells and a
viDrator. The electric pulsations are
started by tapping a telegraph key,
and the current, which the doctor says
is modified with a hidden transformer
of his own invention, sends out its
messages in waves, long and short,
The equivalent to a half watt, or one-
eightieth as much as is required for
the ordinary electric light bulb is the
amount of electricity necessary. From
the box projects a wire.
In warfare use this wire is carried
down the leg of the soldier and con
nected with a metal plate or Bpur in
the shoe. The receiving instrument
consists of a drum about which is
coil of wires. On top of this iB a fine
deflector. It has a pair of ear-pieces
such as is worn by telephone operators.
Dr. ,Uox can send and receive mes
sages by this instrument over a dis
tance of 18 miles. When he desires
to receive a message be raises his cane.
Stock Exchange Clerks Overworked.
New York So tremendous has been
the volume of trading on the stock ex
change this week that several prom
inent brokerage houses announced that
they were considering the advisability
of asking the board of governors of
the exchange to declare Monday a full
holiday, in order to give their over
worked clerks a rest. Many firms have
been obliged to work their forces day
and night. In one house two clerks
were taken away in an ambulance in
an exhausted condition.
The exchange governors, when ap
proached on the subject of closing the
exchange, maintained that they had no
right to cut off the security business
of the country on such short notice.
The promise was held out, however,
that should the great volume of trad
ing continue next week, the declara
tion of a special stock exchange holt
day would be considered.
Chicago Under Sunday Lid.
Chicago Mayor Thompson, in i
message to the city council, announced
that the owners of all saloons in Chi
cago hereafter would be forced to obey
the state law, which provides that
they remain closed on Sunday. The
mayor ordered the city collector to
notify in writing all persons holding
licenses for saloons that they must
comply with the requirements of the
state law. For many years owners of
saloons in Chicago have defied the
state law governing their operation on
Sunday.
British Casualty List.
London Casualty lists published in
clude the names of 119 officers and 3,
607 men. A list under date of Sep
tember 26 gives the names of 85 offi
cers from the Western front, of whom
20 are dead. The dead include Lieut,
Col. John R. E. Stansfeld, commander
of the Second Gordon Highlanders
Lieut. Col. Arthur Harkin, commander
of the Seventh battalion of the North
amptonshire regiment; Col. Godfrey
Morris, of the Eighth Gurkhas, and
Lieut. Browne, son of the earl
Kenmare.
of
Allies' Loan Ready to Sign.
New York The contract' for the
$500,000,000 credit loan to Great Brit-
am and France probably will be signed
Wednesday by the members of the
Anglo-French commission and J,
Morgan & Co., agents in the United
States. Lord Reading is expected to
sign for Great Britain and Ernest Mal
let probably will sign for the French
government. Preparations also will be
made to closti the underwriters books,
which will probably be done soon.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS;
L
Portland Wheat Bluestem, 90c
bushel; forty-fold, 88c; club, 85c; red
Fife, 82c; red Russian, 80c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $23.60 ton.
Millfeed Spot prices : Bran, $25
ton; shorts, $26; rolled barley, $27.60
28.60.
Corn Whole, $37.50 ton; cracked,
$38.50.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15
16ton; valley timothy, $1213; al
falfa, $12.5013.50; cheat, $910;
oats and vetch, $1112.
Vegetables Cucumbers, Oregon, 15
20c dozen; artichokes, 90c; toma
toes, 3540c box; cabbage, lc pound;
beans, 2i4e; green corn, 1016c
dozen; garlic, 15c pound; peppers, 4
5c; eggplant, 45c; sprouts, 8c;
horseradish, 12Jc; cauliflower, 76c
$1.25.
Green Fruits Cantaloupes, 86c
$1.85 crate; peaches, 65 65c box;
watermelons, 11 Jc pound; new ap
ples, 75c $1.50 box; pears, 90c
$1.25; grapes, 50c$1.50 crate; huck
leberries, 5c pound; casabas, ljc;
quinces, $1 1.25 box; .cranberries,
$9.50 barrel.
Potatoes New, 7085c sack.
Onions Walla Walla, 76c Back ;
Oregon, $1.
Eggs Oregon ranch, buying prices ;
No. 1, 32c dozen; No. 2, 25c; No. 8,
19c. Jobbing prices : No. 1, 34c doz.
Poultry Hens, 11 13c pound;
springs, 15 16c; turkeys, nominal;
ducks, white, 1214c; colored, 810c;
geese; 810c.
Butter City creamery cubes, ex
tras, 31Jc; firsts, 29c; prints and car
tons, extra. Prices paid to producers :
Country creamery, 2229c; butterfat,
premium quality, 33c; No. 1, average
quality, 31c; No. 2, 29c.
Veal Fancy, 11c pound.
Pork Block, 8c pound.
Dried Fruits Apples, 8c pound; ap
ricots, 1315c; peaches, 8c; prunes,
Italians, 89c; raisins, loose Musca
tels, 89c; unbleached Sultanas, 7Jc;
seeded, 9c; dates, Persian, 10c; Fard,
$1.65 box; currants, 8J12c.
Hops 1915 crop, 10c pound.
Hides Salted hides, 15c; salted kip,
15c; salted calf, 18c; green hides,
13 Jc; green kip, 15c; green calf, 18c;
dry hides, 25c; dry calf, 27c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 18 28c
pound; valley, 27 28c; fall lambs'
wool, 24 25c; mohair, Oregon, 27
30c.
Cascara bark Old and new,' 3J4c
pound.
Pelts Dry long-wooled pelts, 161c;
dry short-wooled pelts, Hie; dry
shearlings, 1015ceach; salted shear
lings, 1525c; dry goat, longhair,
13c; dry goat shearlings, 10 20c;
salted long-wooled pelts, September,
75c$1.25.
Cattle Choice steers, $6.506.80;
good, $6 6.25; medium, $5.75 6
choice cows, $5.25 5.75; good, $5 (c
5.25; medium, $4.505; heifers, $5
5.85; bulls, $4.505; stags, $5.506,
Hogs Light, $6.40 6.45; heavy,
$5.405.45.
Sheep Wethers, $4.75 6; ewes,
$45.60; lambs, $5.5Q7.
Third Alfalfa Crop Put In.
Portland Following is a Bummary
of the crop conditions in Oregon for
the week, as reported to the local office
of the weather bureau by special cor
respondents throughout the state :
Although showers fell in the West
ern counties on the 23d, 24th and in
some limited areas of North Central
Oregon on the 24th, which benefited
pastures and gardens to some extent,
there is still need for rain in all por
tions of the state.
The warm weather has been favor
able for the maturing of fruit and gar
den truck. The picking and drying of
prunes has been about completed and
the harvesting of apples and pears has
begun. In the Eastern Oregon valleys
the peach crop was very heavy and the
quality excellent, but owing to an
over-supplied market many tons of the
choicest fruit is going to waste.
Threshing has been practically com
pleted, and the farmers are preparing
the soil for seeding, but little wheat
will be sown until the fall rains have
commenced.
While waiting for the rain, ranchers
are hauling their wood and winter sup
plies. Irrigated crops of alfalfa are very
good, and the third crop is being put
up in some sections.
Tomatoes are plentiful and of excel
lent quality. Seasonable fruits and
vegetables are in the local markets in
abundance, and the quality is very
good.
Cranberries Are Popular.
Tacoma Cranberries are proving
unusually popular with the trade and
the supply on the local produce market
is good. As a substitute for black
berries, dealers say, cranberries are
what is wanted. The berries are roll
ing in from Cape Cod and are of fine
size and color and hold up unusually
well in shipment. They are quoted
wholesale at $9.6010 per barrel. This
week saw the first appearance this
season of grapefruit from the Isle of
Pines. The first receipts are a trifle
green and are bringing 15 cents each.
Egg Prices Go Up.
Tacoma Some dealers Bent prices
on fresh ranch eggs soaring and whole
Bale quotations now are from 36 to 38
cents a dozen. Cold storage eggs re
main steady at 27(a28 cents a dozen.
The rise in the fresh product is at
tributed to a scarcity and an advance
of the ruling market of Puget Sound.
Butter and cheese are unchanged. Fa
vorable weather conditions have pro
longed the tomato season and the best
ones to be had are offered at 4550c a
box. Cantaloupes, grapes and apples
are among the leading sellers.
Commission House Case Dismissed.
Seattle That the law providing for
the licensingjand bonding of commis
sion merchants, enacted by the last
legislature, contains joker which
makes it inopers!ve against all but
the smallest commission merchants was
discovered here when Superior Judge
Gilliam dismissed the suit against J.
B. Powles & Co. The bill, as Intro
duced in the legislature, was aimed at
commission merchant by the shipping
and growers'Jassociationa.
HUNDREDS ARE LOST
ALONG GULP COAST
Many Marooned in Trees and
Housetops in flood Zone.
PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED 12 MILLION
Several Towns Are Completely Wiped
Out Packet Upsets and Eight
Passengers Are Drowned.
New Orleans The number of known
dead, reported dead and persons miss
ing in Louisiana and Mississippi as a
result of Wednesday night's tropical
hurricane was put at 549 in a total
compiled here Saturday from reportB
that came in from many points on the
Gulf coast and in the interior.
Many more are missing
Hundreds of persons along the Mis
sissippi and interior points are ma
rooned in flooded sections.
The property damage was estimated
at approximately $12,000,000.
The known dead in Louisiana includ
ed:
New Orleans and environs, 24 ; Rig-
olets, 21; Lake Catherine, 23; near
Frenier, 25; eight drowned in sinking
packet near Grand Isle.
Reported dead and mission :
Shell Beach, St. Bernard parish, 16;
Island de la Croix, 22; Yoloski, 15 ne
groes.
SIR ROBERT L BORDEN
Sir Robert L. Borden, premier of
Canada, recently visited Great Brit
ain and France for the purpose of dis
cussing with the authorities the co
operation of the Dominion In the war,
Couriers by boat and train as well as
mail advices brought in reports of tre
mendous property loss and rumors of
many drowned along both Bides of the
Mississippi river south of here.
Boat passengers arriving from Em
pire, near Doulloth canal, about 50
miles down the Mississippi, reported
that only four large houses still Btood
at Empire and that about 200 persons
were marooned in them. The state
conservation commission here started
a rescue vessel for that point.
Many inhabitants of the flooded sec
tions on both sides or the river were
reported marooned and some were said
to be clinging to tree tops. Relief
vessels were sent to rescue them.
Bay St. Louis, Miss., on the Gulf
cost, reported one dead and property
loss will run into millions.
Removes Bar to Wireless.
New York The invention of a de
vice with which it is hoped to prevent
static interference with wireless com
munication is announced by Professor
Michael I. Pupin, of Columbia Univer
sity. Professor Pupin said his inven
tion eliminates entirely Mie difficulty
constantly interfering with the wire
less messages over a long distance,
The application of his device, Prof,
Pupin said, also will make it possible
to transmit the human voice on unlim
ited distance without the slightest in
terference from unfavorable conditions,
Talcum Powder Is Taxed.
Trenton, N. J. Federal Judge Rell
stab has decided that talcum powder
used for toilet purposes is a cosmetic
and taxable, and the seizure of a quan
tity of the article by the government
was rightfully made. The seizure was
on the property of E. R. Squibb & Son,
of New York, to determine whether
under Schedule B of the emergency
stamp tax act of October 22, 1914, tsl
cum powder Bhould bear the stamp tax
as on a cosmetic. U. S. District Attor
ney Davis said at least $500,000 in rev
enue was involved in the test suit.
Part of Deckload Lost.
Raymond, Wash. While crossing
Willapa Harbor bar at 4 :30 Saturday
afternoon the steamer Avalon was
struck by a heavy breaker, which
threw the vessel on her beam ends,
causing her to strike heavily on the
bar. The lashings broke, and 200.000
feet of lumber cargo went overboard,
The vessel was brought back to this
place badly damaged and leaking. Ex
tent of the damage will not be known
for some time.
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WITH THE GOOSEBERRY
RECIPES FOR PRESERVES
OTHER DISHES.
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Made Up Into Jam It Will Be Appre
ciated In the Winter Method
of Serving Them In
Batter.
Gooseberry Jam. Seven pounds
green gooseberries, eight pounds
sugar.
Method. Top and tall the goose
berries and place them In a preserv
ing pan. Add the sugar and slowly
bring to boiling point and boll for 40
minutes. If the Jam jellies quickly
when a sample is placed on a saucer
it Is quite ready and must be bottled
at once.
To Bottle Gooseberries. Gather to
gether some bottled with wide necks.
See that they are perfectly clean and
dry. Fill them with gooseberries and
place In the oven until thoroughly hot
through without breaking the skins.
Remove from the oven, add two table
Bpoonfuls sugar to each bottle, and
fill up with boiling water. Seal with
paraffin and store.
Gooseberries In Batter. Four table-
spoonfuls flour, two eggs, pinch salt,
half pint milk, half pint gooseberries,
one tablespoonful sugar, ten ounces
dripping or butter.
Method. Prepare the batter by mix
ing the flour and salt with a little
milk and the eggs beaten to froth.
Beat this thoroughly until smooth and
the surface free of bubbles. Stir In
gently the remainder of the milk.
Heat the fat until smoking hot In a
baking tin and pour In the batter and
gooseberries. Bake In a hot oven for
half to three-quarters of an hour. Cut
Into sections and sprinkle freely with
pulverized sugar.
Gooseberry Souffle. One pint stewed
gooseberries, quarter pound sugar, two
ounces butter, 1 ounces flour, two
teaBpoonfuls corn flour, three eggs,
one teacupful milk.
Method. Prepare a sauce with the
flour, corn flour, milk and butter.
Stir In the gooseberry pulp and the
yolks of eggs, also the sugar. Beat
the whites to a stiff froth and fold
these carefully Into the mixture. Pre
pare a souffle mold by tying a greased
paper round the top. Place the mix
ture In the tin and steam for an hour.
Turn out very carefully and serve at
once.
Gooseberry Jelly. Seven pounds
green gooseberries, two quaita water,
one pound sugar to each pint liquid.
Method. Crush the gooseberries
with the rolling-pin or potato masher.
Place these In a pan with the water
and cook until soft and tender. Strain
the mixture very carefully, without
squeezing, through a coarse cloth,
Add a pound of sugar to each pint of
liquid and boll tor halt an hour to
three-quarters.
Baked Pears.
Pare and core, without dividing, as
many pears as you wish; place them
in a pan and fill centers of pears with
brown sugar. Add a little water and
let them bake until perfectly tender.
Serve with sweet cream or boiled cus
tard.
An old-fashioned way Is to place
pears in a covered baking dish, with
out paring. Add one very small cup
ful of molasses to every two quarts
of pears; but little water Is necessary,
Bake about two hours. If you wish
you may pare and core them, using
one small cupful of sugar Instead of
molasses.
Ideal Soup Kettle.
One of the woeful aspects of soup-
making in the pre-enamel-ware
days was the cleansing of the heavy
iron kettle; for washing a kettle big
enough to hold a shlnbone of beef
with trimmings was no Joke. To
day, however, one can have the trim
enameled kettle In any size, light, yet
strong, and all It needs Is hot suds
and a good rinsing to make it beauti
fully clean and sanitary. If, In addi
tion, there is a colander of enamel
ware for straining of the soup into
pan to match, the equipment Is ideal
tor cleanliness, quickness and results,
Plums In Rice Border.
Cook the rice In milk until tender
and quite dry, adding a pinch of salt
when It Is half done. Make It rather
sweet with powdered sugar and pour
into a border mold to set. When ready
to serve, turn It out carefully and fill
the center with very rich stewed
plums, pour a little of the sirup over
the rice and heap whipped cream over
the plums. Tbe stones should be re
moved from the fruit and the kernels
simmered ten minutes In a little thin
ilrup and then mix with the fruit.
Watermelon Salad.
While a dead ripe watermelon
Is
far too good to have its natural flavor
subtracted from or added to, a disap
pointing melon, insipid and tasteless,
may still serve a useful purpose as
a salad. Break up the pink portion
lightly with a silver fork, pile on heart
leaves of lettuce and dress with may
onnaise.
Pineapple Pie.
(irate a wnoie pineapple arter re
moving every tiny eye. Beat two
eggs.. Mix three tablespoonfuls of
flour with two cupfuls of sugar, one
cupful cold water, good pinch salt
Line plate, All, cover and brush top
crust with milk and bake. Makes
two plea, and they are delicious.
Apple Merlnguv
Peel and core tart apples and boll
put through a colander and then
sweeten the mash. To one pint
this pulp, stir up lightly the whipped
whites of three eggs flavored with
lemon. 8et tbe dish In the stove,
brown lightly and serve cold with
iream.
Tea Rolls.
One pint of bread flour, two heap
ing teaspoonfuls baking powtfir, two
of sugar, one of salt Sift all together,
Break one egg In one-hai; cupful of
cream or rich milk. Then take two
cupfuls or enough to make a thick
batter when poured on the flour. Bake
in roll tins until a light brown.
MAKES A SPLENDID DESSERT
French Way of Serving Peart Will Be
Found About the Best That Hal
Been Devised.
A French Pear Dessert. Every
Frenchwoman knows the value of com
bining cooked fruit with cereal for the
family dessert. Here is her favorite
way of serving pears: Peel, core and
cut in halves half a dozen firm pears.
Cook them slowly for an hour in a
sirup of two cupfuls of water and one
of sugar. Meantime boil in a double
boiler for about an hour a half cupful
of rice in two cupfuls of milk, with a
small piece of butter and sugar and
vanilla to taste. When the rice Is
cooked turn It into a mold. The French
cook keeps the rice warm while It is
setting in the mold, but it would prob
ably suit the American taste better to
place the mold on ice. When ready to
serve turn tbe rice out on a round dish
and arrange the pears neatly in a bor
der. Pour over them the sirup in
which they have been cooked, flavored,
if desired, with a little rum.
Canned Pears. Bartlett pears are
considered by many housekeepers the
beBt for canning. If not perfectly ripe
they can be easily mellowed by wrap
ping them up in a woolen blanket, but
they must be a little under rather than
over-ripe for canning. To every quart
jar allow seven or eight medium-sized
pears, a pint of water and one-fourth
pound of sugar. Cut the fruit In halves,
pare, core and throw at once Into cold
water to prevent discoloration. Put the
sugar and water first into a preserv
ing kettle and let heat slowly; when
the scum appears remove it carefully.
and as soon as the sirup bolls hard add
the fruit and boil all together from
three to ten minutes.
Put a cloth wet in cold water around
the jar when putting In the hot fruit,
in order to prevent breakage, and fur
ther make sure against this by putting
In a couple of pears and a little juice
at a time. When the jar is full run a
silver knife down the sides of it to let
out the air bubbles, and seal tightly
while the fruit is still hot. Canned
pears should be kept In a cool, dark
place.
Seckel pears, which may be canned
In the same way, are best when picked
directly from the tree and canned at
once. If too hard both they and the
Bartletts may be boiled for ten min
utes or less before putting them In the
sirup.
TO PREPARE SPICED PLUMS
Should Be Put Up With 8ugar and
vinegar and Condiments of
Various Kindt.
Select seven pounds of damson
plums; wipe them with a napkin, then
prick each plum several times with a
needle and put them into Btone Jars.
Place a kettle with three and a half
pounds of sugar and one pint of vin
egar over the fire. Break one ounce of
cinnamon Into small pieces, add one
tablespoonful of whole cloves, four
blades of mace and one tablespoonful
of whole allspice. Sew these up In
muslin or cheesecloth bags and drop
them into the vinegar. Boll five mlu
utes, then pour the boiling hot sirup
over the plums. Cover and let stand
until the next day, then drain oil the
sirup and place it with the Bplce bags
In a kettle over the fire. Boll ten mlu
utes and pour It again over the fruit
Repeat this once more the day follow
ing, then lay the spice bags on top
of the fruit, close the Jar and lay a
piece of paper over the top. Although
they will keep in Jars, yet they will
keep their color better If sealed In
cans. Grapes can be spiced In the
same manner. Mother's Magazine.
Orange Filling.
Boll three-fourths cupful milk with
a pinch salt, three tablespoonfuls sug
ar and one-half tablespoonful butter
mix one tablespoonful flour with one-
fourth cupful milk and stir Into boil
ing milk. Continue the boiling for
few minutes, and remove from fire
add the Juice and grated rind of one
orange and juice of half a lemon and
yolks of three eggs. When cold,
spread between the two cake layers,
and dust tbe top of the cake with pow
dered sugar.
Baked Batter Pudding.
Four eggs, yolks and whites beaten
separately, one pint of sweet milk
and two cupfuls of flour with salt to
taste sifted with It. Mix the egg yolks
with the flour, pour In the milk slowly
and then turn In the beaten whites of
the eggs. Bake 45 minutes and serve
with a hard buttor and sugar sauce
seasoned with nutmeg or lumon or
vanilla.
Sirup of Lemon.
Dissolve three pounds of sugar In
three pints of boiling water, add four
ounces of citric acid and one ounce
of soluble essence of lemon not ordl
nary essence. Bottle, and use as re
quired. To serve, place one table
spoonful of the Blrup In a tumblerful
of water, or, if an aerated drink be
preferred, use soda water.
Pear Sponge.
Cook some small pears, peeled
halved and cored, In a vanilla sirup
till quite tender and till sirup is thick,
Arrange In a glass dish some lady
fingers, wet with a little sherry, lay In
the pears; set away to get very cold
and when ready to serve heap whipped
cream, sweetened and flavored witb
vanilla, on the dish.
Cooking 8teak.
To cook steak, have a nice red Are,
not too hot, or it will scorch meat.
In a few minutes remove broiler, an
It steak has changed color turn other
side, then change again. Have sharp
knife and cut a little piece; If center
Is bright red and no sign of raw meat.
remove and put piece of buttor on it
and eat, the sooner the better.
Butternut Fruit Cakt.
Two eggs, one cupful brown sugar,
one cupful tour cream, two table
spoonfuls molasses, one-fourth cupful
butter, one cupful chopped raisins, one
cupful chopped butternuts, one-half
pound citron, cut very fine, 2 Mi cup
fuls flour, one toaspoonful soda, one
teaspoonful each clunamon, clove
and nutmeg.
CAP
DEPTH OF MAUD'S AFFECTION
Hypnotism Drew Forth Secrets Which
Frightened Edgar She Wanted
Diamonds and Oysters.
Now, Maud," said Edgar, with a
complacent smile, "I am ready to try
that little experiment I am sure I
can bring you under the hypnotic In
fluence if you will agree not to resist.
Just put your mind In a passive con
dition. Try to think of nothing at all.
Fix your eye on that light now and
don't forget to keep you mind a blank.
In the meantime I will count 60 sec
onds by my watch."
The girl followed directions literal
ly. In 20 seconds her eyelids blinked;
In 40 they closed.
"Ah, I knew I would succeed!" ex
claimed Edgar, highly elated. "Now,
Maud, I command you to tell me the
secrets of your heart. Whom do you
love? Tell me, I command you!"
A momentary expression of resist
ance crossed the girl's face; then she
spoke In a monotone:
"I love Edgar Popham, and"
"Yes, yes!" cried Edgar, trembling
with delight. "Go on. Tell me all the
secrets of your heart."
"I love Edgar Popham," continued
the girl in the same tone, "and I
would love him more it he were riot
so stingy. I want to go to a theater
twice a week, and he takes me only
once In three months. I want dia
mond rings, and he gives me rings
with cheap stones in them. When I
go out with him and get hungry he
never thinks of oysters. When I"
"Enough," cried the young man.
Awake! I command you!" And he
fled without waiting to see the result
of his command. New York Evening
Journal.
Doing Hie Best.
Judge You say that this lady's dog
bit you. Will you relate to the court
Just what you were doing when that
event took place? , -v-
Book Agent Your honor. I was cov.
erlng territory'. Pennsylvania Punch
Bowl.
Unhappy Result.
"Do you subscribe to the old adase
that reading maketh a full man?"
"Yes, even In the case of 'best tell
ers. "
'I don't see how you can say that"
"Why not, when they fill me with
infinite weariness?"
Went to Smash,
First Idiot Terrible accident in the
victrola factory.
Part of the Second Part How'f
that?
First Idiot This year's Bales broke
all records. Harvard Lampoon.
Hit Trouble.
"How are you getting on with your
golf 7"
"Not very wall."
"What's the trouble?"
"I'm not able to get off often enough
to get on."
Origin of an Old Excuse.
Merry King Art Now, just what
are your reasons for wishing to re
sign from the Round Table?
Sir Lionel My wife objects to this
kulght work. Pelican.
PRACTICAL LOOKOUT.
MIbs Flihigh You must enjoy na
ture, for you're eagerly scanning the
countryside.
The Aeronaut Yes; I'd enjoy a
haystack this minute; the gas-bag it
busted!
Fixing the Glame.
The Parson To whom am t indebt
ed for this visit?
The Bridegroom To Mamie's moth
er; she thought I'd been courting her
long enough and she said so.
A Mean 81am.
"This scientific article states that
10,000,000 terms can collect on a pin
head. Wife, what do you think ot
that?"
"In that case you had better keep
your hat on, my dear."
Stiff Labor.
"When tbe paste was upset, our
maid worked for an hour before It
was cleaned up to her satisfaction."
"Well, It was natural la a case like
that to stick to the Job."