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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11

Cooked Meats: Aside from the well
known pork and beans and corn beef
of army fame, there is large variety
of canned meats little known that are
invaluable to the housewife during
warm weather If purchased from a
reliable dealer and turned out on an
earthen dish to air two or three hours
before serving, they will be found de-
sirable adjunets to the daily cuisine
One can get cooked roast beef and
mutton, chicken, turkey, beef tongue
and lamb, tripe, veal loaf and chick
en- tamale, and by removing from the
tin, placing in an earthen dish to
steam, the hot meat can be ready for
dinner by the time the vegetables are
cooked, thus doing away with the hot
fire necessary for roasting or boiling
meat. Chicken tamale is Mexican
dish greatly relished by people who
like highly seasoned food.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11
WARM WEATHER DELEGATES.

Recipes Taken From the Pilgrim for
July.
Dreamed Sweetbreads: Sweet
breads are not as generally used as
they should be, and at this season of
the year, when the appetite needs
tempting with delicate dishes, some
day try this recipe for creamed
sweetbreads, instead of the usual
roast: For a family of four, parboil
two pair of sweetbreads for fifteen
or twenty minutes and then separate
into small pieces. Smooth two table
spoonfuls of flour with the same
amount of melted mot browned) but
ter, add cupful of milk or cream,
season with salt and pepper, let it
boil, then add the sweetbreads and
serve very hot
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11
Table Covers of Japanese Napkins.

Table covers made of Japanese
napkins make a pretty effect. About
thirty napkins are required for one
cover A thin sheet of wadding is
placed between covers formed of four
napkins arranged in square, and the
table cloth is thus made reversible. A
fringe is an essential bit of decoration,
and twenty-four napkins are required
for the making. They are slashed rath-
er fine, each napkin being folded once,
and a double row utilized for the
fringe. A very pretty cover is made
by using napkins which show a de-
sign of cups and caucers or pottery
in Japanese effect. These napkins are
not as easily procured as those orna-
mented with ordinary flower patterns.
Napkins having similar designs are
preferable, all green or blue, pink or
corn color. Some dainty covers are
formed of napkins in delft coloring.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11
Wonan's World. " e ebsss aes
Z Y Specially Prepared for Readers x

vorite at home she may be pretty sure
that in listening to his love she is
choosing wisely.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11

Tomato Fritters: They are appe-
tizing made from canned tomatoes
when the season is so late fresh ones
are expensive. Strain one quart of
tomatoes, reserving the liquor as the
basis of tomato sauce for another day
Add one egg well beaten and suffi-
cient flour with which a scant tea
spoonful of soda has been sifted) to
make batter the consistency of grid
die cakes. Drop a spoonful at time
in very hot lard, and fry delicate
brown on both sides, serving imme-
diately.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11

Picnic Salad: A delicious salad for
picnic is made with equal proper
tions of chopped apples, celery and
nuts packed in paraffine paper. Just
before serving, pour over good may
onnaise dressing carried in an olive
bottle. The salad is more appetizing
if served on a lettuce leaf.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11

A booklet house is a desert, but a
house where books have not been
chosen with care, is a field of luxuri-
ant and poisonous weeds. A list of
the best one hundred books, chosen
from the Catholic point of view, ought
to be made by some professor of
books, as Emerson phrases it. No par
ent can afford to neglect the giving
of good books. The spiritual life
must be fed by the sacraments and
prayer, but there must be food for the
memory, the imagination and the
judgment. We do not want to encour-
age race of polemists, but there is
great need that the young should have
their minds stored with reasons for
the Faith they hold. A well chosen
book never grows stale or tiresome 1t
is a perpetual and good friend.-The
New Century
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11

practical symptom given as yet that
there is between it and Great Brit
ain parting of the ways" in the
matter of imperialistic grab.-Catho-
lie Standard and Times.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11

Jellied Chicken: This makes a de-
iectable lunhceon or supper dish, and
is satisfactory way to serve an old
fowl Cook until very tender, remove
skin and bones, and when cool chop
very fine. Allow the broth to cool.
skim off all fat and boil until reduced
to one pint, add one-half a box of
gelatine previously dissolved, season
with salt, white pepper and celery
seed, stir in the meat and mold in
egg shells. When ready to serve, gar
ish with cress or parsley and slices
of lemons
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11

If we had not money to burn" to
buy negro votes to pad accord
ing to the latest explanations of bar
barian savagery-we would not have
negroes to burn-at least in the home
of freedom, the enlightened east. t
is the idle and dissolute class of col
ored men who are imported into this
region to stuff the ballot box, it is
pointed out. who commit crimes that
make white men burn them alive. If
that be so. the whites who debauch
them ought to suffer the same fate
Catholic Standard and Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06
The Difficulties of Animal Training

The most difficult feat in animal
training is to make number of beasts
OF different species perform together.
In this art Mr.. Carl Hagenbecx, the fa-
nous Hamburg naturalist, is supreme.
He it was who first conceived the idea
of doing such a thing, and to him is
due the credit of having brought be-
fore the public some of the finest and
most imposing spectacles of their kind
ever witnessed. To preparing these
for the public eye he devotes infinite
pains. He has to select animals which
have not only sufficient intelligence to
perform as he wants, but a disposition
which will make any quarrelling i'm
probable. And to obtain this result
he had to do great deal of wedding
out. For one group of Is animals he
bought and trained more than 60 be-
fore he could get those he wanted.
Over as of his investment turned out
to be worthless for his special pur-
pose, and were got rid of as opportun.
ity offered. The training of the beasts
was consequently a slow process,
lasting as it did four years. During
the whole of that time three men did
nothing else but attend on the ami
mails, and very frequently one or more
actually slept in the cage with the big
creatures, so as to intervene immedi-
ately if there was any fghting-a pre-
caution which forms an important fea-
ture of Mr. Hagenbeck' system. Some
animals under training in his estab-
lishment are never left alone, attend
ants remaining with them night and
day, and as result they eventually be-
come peaceable and chummy.-Chums.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06
MORE BACHELORS THAN sPlNsTERs.
Matrimonial Possibilities of the Various
States of the Union.

matrimonial Possibilities of the various
States of the Union.
A careful reckoning of the number
of men in the various states of the
Union who are available matrimoni-
ally has just been finished by the CEN
sus office. 1t finds that in the aggre-
gate there are 6,726,779 bachelors OF
q or over, and makes record of the
remarkable fact that there are at pres
ent in the United States 100000 more
single men than single women of that
age and above.
The exact figures are 4,195, ,446 maid
ems, so that the latter are in the mi
nority 2,531,533. In other words, says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, there are
1851 1888 unattached males who could
not possibly get wives unless they fell
back upon the widows or upon girls
under 20.
New England has always been sup
posed to be overburdened with single
women, and yet the census reckoning
shows that there is not a state in
that group which has not more bache-
lors than spinsters. Even Massachu-
setts, long declared to be the chosen
iome and resort of the old maid, has
a slight overplus Of unmarried men,
the figures being 2S2,932 single males,
against 277,711 females similarly situ-
ated. Maine has 60,S7S bachelors,
against 43,790 spinsters; New Hamp-
shire 3S,713 bachelors and 30,554 spin
sters; Vermont, 29,132 bachelors and
1919 spinsters; Rhode Island, Al ,645
bachelors and 39,405 spinsters, and
Connecticut, 9415S bachelors against
74,7S1 spinsters.
1t is clear from a glance at the GEN.
sus figures, however, that the unmar-
ried women of the east ought to mi
CRATE to the great and growing west,
where the available supply of husbands
is relatively enormous. Just think Of
California, for example, where there
are 239, ,504 bachelors ard only SS,7E5
maidens Of 20 and upward!
But the opportunity in Idaho is much
more attractive, the single men num-
bering 23,421 and the spinsters only
1856. Montana is another state rich in
chances of marriage, its bachelors num-
.bering 55,457, against 1850 spnsters.
Oregon has 60,525 bachelors and 16,775
maidens, while Washington claims 90,-
Oh single men and 1913 women. But
the banner state for bachelors is Wyo-
ming, which has 2347 spinsters against
20,927 unmarried persons of the stern
er sex. 1t must be very difficult for
woman to become an old maid in Wyo-
ming.
The excess of bachelors over SPIN
sters of 20 years and upward in Mas
sachusetts is nearly 2 percent. In
Rhode Island it is percent, in Con-
necticut 25 percent, in Maine SO per-
cent, in New Hampshire 26 percent,
and in Vermont 45 percent. New
York shows a surplus of % percent,
New Jersey 29 percent, Pennsylvania
3S percent, Ohio 3S percent, Indiana
so percent, and Illinois 6S percent.
Kansas rises to an excess in bachelors
to 1OS percent, while Missouri shows
surplus of 72 percent. Michigan has
an excess of n percent of single men.
In this country the males outnum-
ber the females "a in every 1000, and
thus it is obvious that, if all of the
women do not get husbands, it is not
for lack of available material.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06

Many people have wondered why
spring-set trees, with which much care
had been taken, should live and thrive
the first season apparently as the best,
and the next season should fail to put
forth a leaf or after a scanty growth
should drop their leaves and die, and
yet the solution is very natural. The
growth of wood and foliage the first
season is from the food that was stored
up in the roots, but the tree does not
put out such a growth another season.
If limbs and foliage are reduced the
first year more energy will be given
to the root growth, as there will be
less loss of moisture through the
Transportation of the leaves, and the
second year the tree may be permit
ted to make some new wood and to pro-
1uce more foliage. While this is more
true of some of the hardwood shade
trees than of the fruit trees, it is to
some extent true of the latter, and we
prefer fall to spring 1ettings, other
things being equal, because We can in
duce a good root growth the next
spring. This is not to be done by the
application of nitrogenous manures, or
stable manure especially, nor by ho-
eral watering after they are set. Both
defeat the desired results by stimulat-
ing growth of wood and foliage, the
wood often being so rank in. growth
and so tender as to be winter killed.
but is best done by having the soil
mellow and moderately rich with the
manure used for previous crops, 10
tempt the roots out beyond the
branches, and the keeping of the wood
supernuous branches and heading in
the others.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06

A curiosity of great antiquity is still
to be seen within st. Andrews church
at Willoughton, near Gainsborough.
This is a quaint speaking trumpet,
with an obscure early history dating
back to the times of the Knights Tenn
plar. In shape it resembles French
horn, and is more han than five feet
long, having a bell at the end of the
graduated tube. 1t was formerly six
feet in length, but is now telescoped
at the joints, where the metal has ap-
parently decayed. Tradition declares
it was formerly sounded from the tow
cr to summon aid in case of need, as
when blown at a height the weird,
deep notes the trumpet produced could
be heard a great distance away in by
gone days. 1t is believed that this Gu
rious instrument has often been used
to call together the villagers thus dis
pensing with the usual bell. and to
give additional power and strength to
the choir, being probably used by the
chief singer, as the trumpet intensifies
vocal sound to marked degree.-St.
James Gazette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06

the past, ana prevents improvement
of the breeds. 1t is fact well known
that there are farmers who have per-
sistently refused to grade up their
flocks by the use of males Of the
large breeds, because it lessons the
foraging capacity and activity of men,
bers of the fock; and if improvement
was made at any time, in order to
avoid too close inbreeding, only the
Merino or Southdown was resorted
to, they being the smallest Of the i'm
proved breeds. With the attention Civ
en- principally to the growing of wool
the farmers have failed to take ad
vantage of the profits that can be de-
rived from mutton. Those that have
not inspected the mutton breeds can
not realize the great Improvement
that has been made in the size of sucn
sheep, and also in the quality of the
meat therefrom. No animal has been
brought to higher point of excel
lence than the sheep. Highly fed
lambs have been made to weigh 100
pounds Give weight) when three
months old. In the face of these facts
it is but surprising that those who
fail to improve with the Oxfords,
Shropshires or Hampshires find it i'm
possible to derive a profit. The large
breeds of sheep cannot be turned out
on an inferior pasture to be compelled
to find their food. They must, like the
steer, be made to produce as much as
possible in the shortest period of time.
They will not grow rapidly and fatten
readily if they are to forage over the
whole farm and be forced TO work for
all they get The foraging system will
answer for the Merino, but the heavy
breeds do not thrive SO well in large
numbers. Only the best of pastures,
the fiocks divided, and mess of grain
at night, will force them. True, it re-
Quires more labor and care, but it
pays, and as the matter of sheep rails
ing is one for profit, the labor will al
ways be paid for before the estimate
of profit can be made. If more money
can be made on one good sheep than
from three inferior ones it is a waste
of time and pasture to keep the ma
tives. The greatest profit is derived
from the mutton breeds, and the best
pastures on the farm can be given up
to them with proft.-PLiladelph
Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06
PORTO RIcAN CHOCOLATE.
How the Bon-Bons of Mayaguez Differ
from Those of Other Countries.

How the Bon Bons of Mayaguez Differ
from Those of Other Countries.
The new territory, Porto Rico, is
beginning to put itself in evidence
here and there in the big American
cities. Its fruits, cigars, cigarettes,
sugar and coffee are now familiar
sights, and in the past three months
the chocolates and bon bons of Maya
guez have appeared at one or two
stores in the Broadway district.
The proprietor Of one of these, q
bright-eyed and swarthy West Indian,
said: ut will take some time for
Americans to appreciate the Porto Ri
co chocolate, for the simple reason
that it is the very best in the world.
For 200 years it has been cultivated
in Mayaguez and the surrounding dis
trict, where the manufacture has been
developed into fine art, as well as an
industry. For more tnan century the
bon bons and confections of MayagEea
have been standard luXuries among
the wealthy classes of Cuba, Spain and
southern France. So large has been
the demand that at times the supply OF
the bean ran short and the Portori-
quensen manufacturer has been Obliged
to import from Venezuela. They are
so proud of their goods that when this
happens they label the wares second
quality, or else give it no label at all.
The finished chocolate differs in many
respects from that in general use in
the American cities. More care is be-
slowed in selecting the beans and III
the preliminary treatment. There are
no quick systems such as the Dutch
method or the acid method or the
treatment by alkalies. The finished
chocolate is purer and contains almost
no sugar. 1t never is diluted or blend
ed with starch, arrowroot, tapioca, or
other amylaceous materials, much less
with burnt umDer, burnt sienna and
other clays which are SO common an
adulterant in Europe and America.
when made into bon bons the prac-
tice runs more along Partisan than
New York lines. Every ingredient en-
ployed is ground and bolted until it is
a powder as fine as flour, while soft
substances are rolled or milled until
they are as smooth as cream. They
manufacturers give a greater variety
in combination favors. In this city
the average chocolate is favored with
vanilla and the cheap qualities with
tonKa bean. In Mayaguez there are
many standard flavors, and, in addi-
ton, any patron can have confectiors
favored according to his own formula
or taste."-New York Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06
Snakelike Lizard.

A case in the reptile house of the
Geological Gardens of London, which
contains several curious sand skinks,
has just become the home OF curious
relative of these queer, four-footed liz
ards. Living specimens of this spe-
cies are rarely brought to the temper
ate zone. 1t is native of Australia
and Tasmania, and is called the limb
less or scale footed lizard (pygopus
lepidopodus). 1t is about 90 inches
long, with shining scale OF sober brok-
en- colOrs; but the under surface is
pa'e, with a few dark dots and longi-
tGdinal bars near the head. The rudi-
ments of the limbs are entirely hidden
under the skin, so that this serpentl-
form lizard is as easily mistaken for
srake as its English cousin, the blind
worm; but its mild expressioned head
is furnished with well formed eyelids,
and the tongue is short and thick, and
capable OF a very slight extension.
The lizard owes its name to the fact
that where the body merges into the
tail is a lair of narrow scoly flaps,
pressed tightly to the sides when the
reptile is at rest, but used to propel it
when in motion, These flaps cover
rudimentary toe bones.-Philadelph
Ledger.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06

Mendall's law is an illustration of
of the strange neglect of discovery
by the official scientists when it is
made by a layman and not published
in the regular way, says American
Medicine. In this instance the 'lay
man" was priest-a German monk
who published his excellent scientific
thesis in an obscure German village
in 1865. Within the last two years t.le
law has been rediscovered, practical
ly independently and simultaneously
by four biologic Investigators, one of
whom, Correns, of Germany, discov-
cred Mendall's thesis. Briefly stated.
the law is that a first cross will result
in offspring resembling one or the 9TH
er parent, but possessing in an unde
veloped form, termed by German
scientists "recessive,' the attributes
of the other. The second cross will re-
suit in fixed types possessing, respec-
lively, the characteristics of one pa
rent, of both parents, and of both pa
rents i'll varying degrees. If true, the
law, it will be seen, will have tro.
mendous effect upon the hybridization
of plants and the breeding of animals.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06
What to Do with Unripe sauashes.

The question which confronts the
farmer is, what to do with the unripe
specimens. Shall he feeu them to his
cows or store them. Though COWS
like them at any stage of growth, there
can be but little food value either for
milk or beef making in a half-grown
squash, though l have always fed SUCH
rather than throw them on the manure
pile. The squashes which are full
grown, but not yet ripe, make another
class, which for best economy should
neither be left in the field at the mercy
of frosts, thrown on the manure pile
nor fed to the COWS. Under proper
treatment these can be ripened with a
loss of but small percent of their
number, and keeping well after ripen-
ing, can be put on the market late in
the season, when they often bring q
higher price than the field-ripened ones
known by the gathering in of the stem
where it joins the flesh. When fully
ripe the stem shrinks and divides, as
suming woody appearance. When
not full grown both the outside and
the stem have shiny, vanished look
When full grown they lose this ap-
pearance and become dull in color
Now if these full grown ones are treat
ed as the ripe ones. piled in with them
In the bins of the squash house. they
will rot soon after the low tempera-
ture without compels the closing of
the windows.
If, instead, they are carried into the
upper story of the building and stored
in the warmest place, especially just
over where the funnel of the stove
runs, my experience mas been that they
keep well there and gradually matur
Though there may not be sound seed
among them when gathered. such a
change toward maturity takes place
that the seed of nearly all of them
will grow plump out and fully mature
with as good vitality as is possessed
with seed taken from squashes that
fully matured in the field-American
Agriculturist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06

Though no longer a centre for the
hiring of domestic and agricultural la
Dor, says the London Graphic, the fair
at Stratford-on-Avon is an immense
attraction to the neighb, rhood, and de-
serves to rank with the famous fair
on the Tombland at Norwich. Four
roundabouts, shooting galleries innu-
meroble and several streets of stalls
to say nothing of booths, circuses and
nenageries, aCsform the quiet town
INTO a veritable pandemonium, which
would have delighted the heart of
Shakespeare, however much it may
annoy his cultured readers and stu.
dents. Quite early in the afternoon
the carcasses of the eight oxen were
reduced TO skeletons, while the many
hot sausage stalls did roaring trade.
and no one went away without a largo
stick of genuine Stratford-on-Ayon
rock"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1903-05-06
Effect of Feed Upon Reef.

That the feed has its effects upon
the beef is well illustrated by the COM
munication of an Illinois feeder to the
Indiana Farmer. He said that when
at the Chicago stock yards with load
of steers he met another man who had
also carload that looked as fine as
his. They both sold to packers the
same morning. The writer sold his ut
SS per hurdredwcisht, and the other
received only $3.50. Both lots were
grade Shorthorns, a little more than
2 years old. He had fed his on corn,
stover, clover hay, cowpea hay and
wheat bran. The other had fed only
corn and stover. The expert buyer said
the other mans cattle were very good,
but they were deficient in the thick
loin beef which his had, which made
bis beef more valuable. In this case
it was not half in the breed and half
in the feed" but ali in the feed. The
cowpea hay, clover and wheat bran
were richer in protein than corn and
stover.-The Cultivator.