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The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
Prune Jelly.

Stew, until just tender, two pounds
of French prunes; cool and remove
pits; soak one box of graduated gela'
tine in one pint of cold water until
soft, then add three-quarters of a
quart of boiling water, one and one.
half cupfuls of sugar. juice of three
lemons set in pan of ice water and
then stir until it commences to thick
en-; cover the bottom Of deep pan
with one-half of an inch thickness of
the jelly; set it in cool place, and
when firm, lay in the prunes. and then
add the remainder Of the jelly. When
firm, dip an instant in warm water
or wipe the outside with cloth
wrung out Of boiling water; and then
place dish over the top; then invert
pan. and jelly will slip out; garnish
with whipped cream.
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MEASURES IN THE KITCHEN
Recipes Varying in Their Terms, 1.
Is Well to Know Both Weights
and Measures.

Butter-A cupful OF butter is seven
and one-half ounces if pressed quite
solid. A cupful of melted butter is
one-half ounce lighter. 1t is usually
near enough for cooking to call a cup.
full one-half pound. Butter size Of an
egg is one and one-half ounces.
Sugar-A level cupful Of graduated
sugar is seven ounces-two cupfuls is
two ounces less than a pound Al.
though sugar by the grain is heavier
than water and will sink instantly.
the air spaces between the grains
make cupful weigh less than 50
much liquid. One-half pound of gran
ulatei sugar is a cup rounded up
The powdered sugar that is known as
fine granulated weighs the same. icing
sugar or flour of sugar is lighter, a
cupful is but six ounces. All that
can be scooped up in cup out of a
barrel Of any grade weighs nine
ounces. A level cupful of brown
sugar is six ounces. Up in the noun.
tains cake recipes which people have
been used fall 1t is all because of
the sugar. So much sugar cannot be
used at great elevations as at sea
level, hence the reason for being par.
ticular about weights.
Molasses.-A cupful of thick mo.
lasses weighs - ounces-that is
three-quarters OF pound-half /;
much more as equal measure of water
and five ounces more than level cup
full of granulated sugar. Thin sirups
do not weigh quite SO much.
Flour-A level cupful of (patent
sifted) flour is four ounces. A cup
heaped up with all that can be dipped
with 1t out of barrel is seven ounces
nearly twice as much as the level.
A quart of tsifted) -four just round
ed over is one pound
Bread Crumbs-A curful of bread
is four ounces pressed in rather solid.
A pound of bread is prcssedin
quart.
Corn Meal-A cupful of corn meal
IS five ounces. three rounded cuptuli
are pound, or pound of corn meal
is a little less than level quart.
Oatmeal-A level cupful of oatmeal
is six ounces. All that can be dipped
up with cup weighs seven ounces
nearly one-half pound.
Corn Starch-A level cupful of
starch -four or cooking starch is six
ounces, the same as cOrnmeal. All
that can be heaped in a cup weighs
seven ounces.
Farina-The same as starch.
Rce-A level cupful weighs seven
hot ho in
cup weighs nine ounces.
Light Bread Dough.-A rounded
cupful is one-half pound.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
BOTHERSOME SQUIRRELS.
Little Animals Getting to Be Pest
in the Town of Evans
ton, III.

The festive Evanston squirrel has
become so rampant that appeals to
the police for protection against his
depredations are coming in thick and
fast, says the Chicago Post. Chief of
Police Frost has decided to ask the
council to repeal the ordinance making
the killing of the little animals a
fnable offense.
Added to their former pranks of
eating lead pipe and ransacking gar
rets the squirrels have taken up the
habit of robbing hens nests and
breaking up dovecotes. Angry women
daily are in consultation with the po-
lice and telling chief Frost their
troubles.
To all these complaints the chief re-
plies that everyone is entitled to pro-
tect her property, and If the complain
ant can throw stone straight the law
will not deprive her of the privilege.
THE squirrels seem to have become
more Of pest than pet" says Col.
Frost. They are gnawing into houses
all over the suburb and are commit
ting all sorts Of other dep-edations."
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CRAFTS FOR FRUIT TREES.
Hcw the Various KINDS Are Per-
formed and the Best Time to
Do the Work.

Grating is the art of bringing to-
gether the parts OF two plants that
they will unite. Usually a portion of
the last years growth of one plant,
with length of four or five inches.
called scion, is united with another
plant, called the stock, either on the
root, at the collar, or on the trunk or
branches. Grating may be employed
for several purposes: Q To repro
duce ncn-seed-bearing varieties, or
those that do not come true from seed:
(2) to increase the vigor or hardness
of weak and tender sorts; ca to bring
slow-bearing kinds into earlier fruit
fulness; (H to change varieties.
Grating is generally performed at
the beginning of the seasons growth.
At that time dormant buds can be pro-
duced, and although the union would
take place more quickly after the sap
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graft. graft
becomes thickened, the chance of TAIL
ure will be greater at that time, owing
to the evaporation from the leaves. The
method employed depends 10 some ex-
tent upon the size and kind of tree
upon which it is to be used.
The form commonly used upon small
trees is known as the whip or tongue
graft. 1t is especially adapted for root
grating. Fig. l. The stock a. is cut
off at an angle, and a shaving OF the
bark and wood is removed from the
lower side of the end; a tongue is then
cut near the end The scion is pre-
pared by cutting off the lower end so
that the exposed surface will be about
one inch long. (2) In the middle of
this a tongue is cut. The tongues on
the stock and scion are then fitted to-
gether SO that the inner bark on one
side of the scion will be in contact
with that on the same side of the
stock. The graft should then be bound
firmly together. (3) This may be done
either with waxed twine, paper or
cloth. These are prepared by dipping
the string or cloth in melted grating
wax, and, in the case OF paper, by ap-
plying the wax with brush. The
twine answers for root crafts, but the
paper or cloth should be used where
the CRAFTS are above ground, unless
grating wax is used with the :wine.
For stem grating this method succeeds
best where the stocks are from one
fourth to One-half inch in diameter.
The scion should be about three inches
long, with bud near the end, as in
Figs. l, 9.
When used for root gratis the scIons
should be five inches in length and the
root about four inches From good
seeding, two stocks for root CRAFTS can
be obtained. These CRAFTS are made
during the winter, and are then tied
in bundles and packed in sand in a
will have formed, and a callous will
appear at the lower end of the root
from which rootlets will soon appear
after the root graft has been planted.
Although not In common use.
form known as veneer grating has
much merit for small stocks, either for
root or stem-grafting. 1t is shown in
Fig. 2, the parts being the same as in
the illustration Of whip-grapting. Its
merit comes from the fact that cam
blum surface only is exposed, which
makes it possible for a more perfect
union to take place than when the
pith is exposed, as in tongue-grafting.
Greater care is required, however. to
bring the parts into the close contact
which must be secured in order to at
tain success.
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ance with the wee sma hours, that
have no idea what down town looks
like at that unholy time. To the coun-
try folk the business hours, however,
would seem strange and rather lazy,
folks going to their Offices at Zine and
ten and coming away at four and five.
But it appears there is class 81 siren
uous as to work long, long altar these
leisurely ones, or else a class that
works at what we may call irregular
hours and for these there is to be
started new enterprise, an al'-night
bank.
The man at the head of the project
says that ii great portion of the busi-
ness of Chicago is done after three
O'Clock in the afternoon and before 10
o'clock in the morning, that a bank for
the accommodation OF this class CT
business is greatly needed; and has
confidence that one kept open for busi-
ness all day and all night, every busi-
ness day in the year, would prove a
money-making institution.
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on present tendencies as judged in the
light of the past.
Speaking of the falling off in church
going, Bishop Cheney said it was his
opinion that material prosperity haC
something to do with it; that he be-
lieved great prosperity was apt to turn
mans mind away from things spirit
ual. To-day we are experiencing d
long continued era of commercial pros
uerity, on week days men are en-
crossed in making dollars while the
good times last; on Sundays they are
tired out, feel the need of complete re-
laxatiCn.
In casting back over Chicago's :eli-
gious history, Bishop Cheney recalled
that the greatest revival the city has
ever experienced was from the Moody
revival of 1861, and in support of his
theory, called attention to the fact
that the revival came in the very heart
of IA period of most serious financial
depression, the panic following the
Jay Cooke failure. The depression
lasted from 1873 to 1879. The Moody
began, the people had been given tima
to appreciate the instability of things
earthly. The bishop thinks little dis
aster might be good for Chicagoans OF
the present day, so many having
reached the utter safety which leads
to peryersion of morals and utter dis
regard of religion"
Still another reason the bishop gives
for falling off in church going, is the
newspapers.
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let us inquire into the matter, and in
quir:- brings forth the startling fact
that the innocent looking Greek fruit
store and ice cream parlor is but a
kindergarten of vice" We have
heard much lately about there being no
place in the city for boy; no one
wants him playing ball and yelling on
the vacant lots; no one wants him
thumbing marbles across the pave
ment; no one wants his hilarity on the
stairways of the apartment house. No
one in the city seems to want him any
where. But his sister is in worse case
She is wanted, but wanted by enemies
as cruel and ruthless as raidinS kurd
or fierce Turk And it all has to do
with the Greek fruit stores, the rrsav-
ory Greek proprietors. Schoolgirls who
go there to spend their pennies are
welcomed with great cordialtty, are
given great bargains for the few pen
MES spent The girls, too, have few
places to play in in the big crowded
city, the candy and music and jollity
at the fruit store prove very aliurIng.
Statistics show that about S5 rer
cent. of the girls in the House of the
Good Shepherd and the state training
school for girls began their careers in
the ice cream parlors. There are ever
400 of these places in the city and on
the outskirts, and many of them are as
bad as the wine rooms, are of the same
character. 1t has been suggested that
Chicago deal with these resorts in the
way found successful in Denver. have
jurisdiction over them vested in the
juvenile court.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20

aesslike way, serve their wri q and do
their unpleasant work in as ilecent
manner as possible. Then there are
The smart gentlemen, those that
avoid all simple, open, honest means:
obtain entrance to the homes by buff
knd trickery. And lastly. the openly
brutal, who browbeat and resort to
violence. This last-named class is
largely responsible for the present un-
savory reputation of the "Kunstab.."
Not long ago constable WAS shot
by woman whose home he tried to
enter by force, and was killed. On the
person Of the dead constable WIS found
a curious assortment OF tools. n regu-
lar burglars outfit; revolver, glass
cutter, mask, screwdriver, pnir Of
pliers. and probably this discovery.
which has led to probing is.to the
methods pursued by large number Of
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
A PUBLIC DUTY.
The Providing cf Good Highways Is
Responsibility the Government
Must Recognize.

In the discussion of the merits OF the
Brownlow-Latimer good roads bill be-
fore congress the very first fact to be
greatest factors of profit. comfort and
convenience ever sent to bless the peo-
pie of any land, and that they contrib
ute abundantly to enhance the national
life and TO offset the influences that
tend to concentrate population unduly
and detriment of the community al
large. Another primary fact is that
where financial ability and intelligent
zeal have striven to solve the road
question the aggregate value of prop
crty has been SO greatly increased by
good roads that it is impossible to
overestimate 1t.
Every one. from city dweller to
farm owner and farm laborer. has had
occasion to bless the era of the i'm
provement of living conditions brought
about by well-built highways. These
are strong and eloquent object lessons
to impress the truth upon the mind
We have long ago gotten away from
ground on which the contention can
rest that road-making belongs eXclu-
sively to local ambition, advantage and
growth, because the highways are of
universal use, contributing to national
profit and convenience, and they are
therefore universal in their good re-
suits. Men have ceased to think. be-
cause the expansion of our national
utilities have disDroven such conten-
tion, that the burden of road construc-
ton should rest on the local cOmmu-
nifty. That is simply tradition OF
national policy.
Road building is undoubtedly a pub
lie duty which rests upon the govern
ment in some form. The bills before
congress present a feasible way to &
solution of the long-veSed trouble, anG
it is gratifying to nc the strong sen.
timent in every part of the country
for their enactment into law. This
proposition offers policy of coopera-
tion and seeks to bring in the general
government as factor to work in con-
nection with any state or subdivision
thereof, the United States to pay one
half the cost of Improvement and the
state or subdivision to pay the other
half. There is every reason why the
people OF the country should receive
this help. 1t is not, in fact, an inno-
vaton. Government is ordained for
the common welfare
The constitution of the United States
has been found to favor appropria-
tions of public moneys to promote pri-
vate enterprise and special interests, !,
to build up the seacoast states through
river and harbor Improvements at the
expense of the inland states; and to
take of the peoples treasure to build
roadways and otherwise improve con-
ditions for. half-civilized and un-
civilized inhabitants of the islands OF
the sea. Surely that constitution can
not be summoned as a barrier against
the progress and development of the
people at home. Government aid to
building Is within reach If it's friends
continue 10 struggle. National aid to
highway improvement is national OBJ
legation because improved highways
would bring national blessings where
now exist conditions that are hurtfuI
to national life and prosperity.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
Evening Toilette,

A smart evening toilet that COM
pines fashion also, is an adaptation OF
the French monarchy style. and COM
prises beautiful petticoat, over which
Is worn handsome coat. Various
IRE the possibilities of such a toilet.
which may combine mousseline and
lace in the petticoat and velvet, satin.
brocade, or more antique striped with
blossoms, In the coat. Needless to say
the coat may be worn with several
different skirts. or to one skirt there
may be provided two coats-an econo.
" that is not without effect.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
Potatoes and Cheese.

Cut some boiled potatoes into slices
and prepare sauce Of one cupful OF
milk thickened with one tablespoon.
full of flour and with two tablespoon
fuls of butter added and mix with one
cupful of grated cheese, little
cayenne, two teaspoonfuls of mustard.
Line dish with croutons arrange
around them close row of the potato
slices. and cover with the sauce; re-
peat in alternate layers, covering tho
whole with sauce: sprinkle lightly
with grated cheese and very brown
croutons, and bake in the oven for
about 20 minutes.
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fulness. Convenient trimming tools:
Narrow pruning saw; long-handled
pruning shears (handles about two
feet long); hand shears for small
twigs. Other tools, says the Home
Journal, may be added to the list, If
desired (see nursery and implement
catalogues), but the three mentioned
should prove equal to the needs of all
ordinary pruning requirements. Last,
but not least, do not forget can of
thick paint (any kind, and brush
with which to apply it to all large
wounds
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20


shed may be used for stock as run
way and place to feed roughage.
This manure shed will not only pro-
tect the manure and save the soluble
elements, but Will give good. comfort
able quarters to young stock during
the cold of winter, and will afford a
cool place in the heat of summer and
the loft will shelter quite lot of
straw. Portable feed racks can be
placed in here and there should also
be water tank and salt box. One
farmer who has such shed, says the
Ohio Farmer. has just finished haul
ing out a nice lot of manure, and We
think it IS worth five times as much
as manure hauled from an open yard,
and what is more. if 1t were in an
open yard it would have been either
frozen so it could not be hauled or too
wet to be handled.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
THE ORCHARD.

Close attention to weeds vii! keep
the plants growing.
Provide drainage for orchards. Wet
feet will produce heart disease in the
fruit tree as certainly as the miasma
OF the swamp produces ague In man;
only 1t may take little longer time.
Several trees are averse to trans
planting, and rarely do well. OF these
the walnut, hickory and chestnut are
notable examples. The nuts of these
should be planted where the trees are
wanted.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
GRAIN SMUT TREATMENT.
Method of Dakota Farmer in Han
ding the Seed Which Has Been
Treated.

J. Fl. Wilkinson, in the Dakota
Farmer, gives the following method
of handling wheat when treated Tor a
smut:
II have seen wheat treated for smut
by sprinklinS and shoveling on barn
floor; by dipping with perforated
scoop in 4 trough; by filing a barrel
with wheat, then pouring on the mix
ture, and alter soaking letting the water
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
Sure to Be Disappointed.

The orchardist who figures the pos
slble net profit from one tree" and
then multiplies that sum by the num-
ber Of trees in the orchard, is usually
storing up disappointment. Orchards,
like chickens. seldom hatch q crop ex-
acly according to rule"
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
An All-Nipht Bank.

Ju n T r y people
are apt to think
the city turns day
into night general
ly. but when they
come to live in the
city learn things
are not quite SO
abnormal as they
imagined. There's
a goodly Aumber
of real city people
that do nos. make
frequent afQuaint-
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
Ice Cream Parlors.

OlN 1 l. 1 SO III
n o C e n t, simply
suggestive of the
great American
dish, of sof t
drinks and innoc-
uous sociability.
And what is this
the superintendent
of compulsory ed
uc a t ion call S
them? Cradles OF
crime!
Strong language,
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
Prosperity and Religion.

uSI the other day
Bishop Cheney of
t h G X e + O + Il! e d
Episcopal churc h
celebrated the tor
ty-siXth annivers-
ary of the begin
ming of his rector
a e of c hri S I
church. The coed
bishop. in looking
back on his life in
G h i c Il & o, " a S
moved to morali>e
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
PEACH TREE PRUNED.
An Example of the Best Style of
Trimming Of This Variety
of Fruit Tree.

Here's picture of properly-pruned
young peach tree, set two years pre-
vious to the taking of the photograph.
This tree has been cut back, thinned
out and nicely shaped for future use
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20

two feet six inches at back and two feet
in front. The crosspieces are two feet
six inches long and the upper one is
nailed on one inch below the top. A
1x7-inch board is set in and nailed to the
uprights. The bottom is made tight.
The rack part is built as shown. The
open space is seven inches wide, which
permits pulling out the hay. My sheep
racks are same style, only lower. have
used these racks for three years and
for feed savers never saw their equal,
says an Ohio correspondent of the Farm
and Home If more feed is given than Is
eaten, that which remains in the rack
Is as fresh as if 1t had just been given.
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Chicago Constables.

HE constable evil
has been talked
about a good deal
of late, ard inves-
tigation made into
the methods in
vogue.
1t seems cOnsta-
b,es may be divid-
ed into three
classes. The rep
utable ones, who
go about. their
work in a busi-
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
FROM CHICAGO TOWN
SOME RECENT EVENTS IN THE
WNOY CITY.
ANTI OUTRAGE PROTEST.
Chatter Convention Receives Lengthy
PAIL h!et-A Summary of Reasons
Why Women Should Lose Rish,
Two Grave Evils.

4 | CAGO. - There
sroweth aplCe So
cieties with for
miGabie length of
name, and now
comes to the lore
the fol!owing-the
Illinois Associa-
ton Opposed to
the Extension of
Suffrage to Wo-
men.
Ii was but re-
Gently we wee
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A MANURE SHED.
How '. Nov Pc pu'it - End cf parn
and Made to Provide Straw Stor-
age and Cattle Shelter.

A straw and manure shed can be
built on one side of the barn; the
straw to be put in the building over
the shed with a wind stacker. The
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20
SELF-FEEDlNG CATTLE RACK
Arrangement Which One Farmer Has
Tested and Finds Great Sav-
ing of Fodder.

This rack can be used both inside or
out and built in any length to suit. For
The Grit-advocate., 1906-04-20

the uprights use
2x2 inch stuff, all
the rest one-inch
lumber. The up
rights ara n,ada
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22
INDIANS WANT TO LEARN,
Those of Alaska Call for Schools t.
Make Them Like White
Man.

The craving Of the Alaskan Indians
for education is almost pitiabIe, says
the Southern Workman. Ask them
what they need, and the answer is the
same:
Schools for the children, so that
they may become smart like the white
man"
They are very affectiOnate people to
their children; every benefit IS for the
child. The older people fully realize
the fact that they represent the past.
They have always been producers, and
their faith in themselves is half of
the struggle that lies before them. To
this end they should be provided with
day schools in all Of the villages of a
hundred or more adults.
In some sections where the families
are distributed over a large area of
country and in the case of the children
OF parents unable to provide for their
support, and again where orphans may
be ensIaved by distant relatives, board
ing schools or homes are equally neces-
sary.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-06-22
BITE OF THE RATTLESNAKE.
When Once Suffered Instils a Last
ing Horror Into the
Victim.

Twice in my lite,' said E. P. orion,
of New Orleans, according to the
Washington Post, Il had the misfor-
tune Of being bitten by a rattleSnake.
The first experience was when | was a
child and the bite of the reptile came
near killing me. The second time, |
suffered intense pain, but owing to the
prompt application of remedies my
life was not endangered.
Now, as | have had more than my
fair quota of contact with snakes, no
longer have any dread of a third ex-
perience, but to this day, whenever I
encounter one by accident, say in a
circus or in zoo, the mere sight of
it occasions me a feeling that is al
most indescribable-a sensation of
acute pain throughout my entire be-
ing and shock to my nerves that re-
mains with me long while. No sort
of bride could get me to voluntarily
look at snake"