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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-08-02

f you are still afraid Of the
Devils Lake flour ask your gro
Ger for a small sack On trial. IL
iii mot good you need not pay
for ii. farmers AI III. ss.:.'25
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-08-02

We are closing out all odds
and ends of summer goods at
greatly reduced prices. F. w.
Mann & Son.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-22
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

sliced boiled potatoes and a rich,
white sauce, beginning and ending
with the sauce. Cover over with a
sprinkling of fine dried bread crumbs.
Bake about twenty minutes and serve
in the dish in which baked.
Potato salad is of special hygienic
value because of the accomplishments.
Cut into thin slices while still hot
about dozen small new potatoes,
and put into a bowl with a minced
onion. Pour over all well-blended
French salad dressing made of two
large spoonfu1s of vinegar, six Of best
olive oil, teaspoonful of salt and a
saltspoonful of black pepper. Mix all
carefully and thoroughly, and put in
a cold place for a couple of hours.
Then turn into a salad bowl
Sprinkle over with finely minced
parsley, and garnish with pickles and
beets cut into thin slices or fancy
shapes, with a border of lettuce
leaves
Potato cakes are very delicious
Add well-sifted flour to leftover
mashed potatoes until firm enough to
roll out. Cut into thin round or
diamond or heart shaped cakes, and
bake in a hot griddle until they are
brown and crisp.-Margaret Hall.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-22
Kitchen Helps.

Occasionally cream sauce or soup
suddenly curdles just after the salt
has been added This shows that the
milk was not perfectly fresh. The
safer wa, when one is uncertain of
the milk, is to add salt just before
serving the sauce or soup.
While using celery, save the
bleached leaves, the roots scraped
clean and the outside stalks, spread
these on a clean tin and set in a
warm oven. When dry they may be
used to flavor soups or sauces.
When preparing peppers for the
table or for pickles handle them care
fully, washing the hands we'll before
touching the face Women with ten
der skins have been known to blister
themselves severely from handling of
this fiery vegetable
Sometimes lamb or mutton that is
otherwise delicate and tender is
spoiled by peculiar woody flavor.
This may be removed if every morsel
of outside fat and skin is cut off the
roast or chops before cooking.
When the flavor of salt pork is dis
liked in chowder, use butter in
olNod, IL S1VNo lIIlNll lllOI uCIlSdlC
flavor
Do not cook cranberry sauce too
long and do not add too much water.
The finest sauce can be made from
one quart of cranberries with one
cupful of water Boil for ten minutes,
then add two cupfu1s Of sugar, stir
we'll and set away to cool.
When you wish fine grained cake
bring the white Of the eggs to a stiff
froth by beating with a Dover egg
beater. If something spongy, such
as angel cake or meringe is desired,
use wire egg beater, which makes
a larger and more ali inflated mass
Of white foam.
One of the most delicious accom-
parfiments to a green salad are cheese
sandwiches toasted or sauteeG
Crate the cheese, season lightly with
salt, pepper and mustard, add enough
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-22

creamed butter to transform into a
paste. Spread thin between folds OF
white bread, then toast on both sides
or saute de1icately brown in butter
Serve piping hot.
Fried oysters will have a savory
touch if few drops of Worcester,
shire sauce are put in the beaten egg
used for dipping before they are
crumbed
Very sour apples used for sauce
or in pies take on spicy flavor if a
few chopped dates are added.
Keep a wire dishc1oth to set in the
bottom of a kettle while cooking any,
thing that may stick and burn. It
will adapt itself to the shape of a
kettle better than a trivet or a pail
lid Of course it must be kept
scrupulously clean and dry.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-22

paint. or varnish spots from glass.
So will kerosene. Put enough on to
soften or dissolve the spots, then rub
we'll.
'Unlacquered brass can be cleaned
by first washing we'll with warm
soapsuds, and then polishing with
salt and vinegar, and lastly with dry
whiting.
Dry buckwheat flour, if repeatedly
applied, will entirely remove the
worst grease spots on wooden cloths,
and will take the place of French
chalk as efectual1y on silks. Try it
and see how nicely it works.
Dissolve over the fire one bar Of
common yellow laundry soap in one
quart of water. Then remove from
stove and add one cup of kerosene.
Let get cold. This is an excellent
soft soap to clean implanted wood.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-22
Useful Suggestions.

Put canton flannel bag over your
broom Curry side out) and wipe off
your walls with it.
Woodwork can be nicely cleaned
with an equal mixture of turpentine
and linseed Cor old sweet oiD. Shake
well, apply with flannel rag, and rub
we'll. Don't use too much of it.
To clean your carpet, lay it face
down on grass and whip with rattan
switches. Then sweep thoroughly on
both sides, and 1ast1 Y go over the
right side with cloth wrung out of
ammonia water
Turpentine will remove. putty
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-22

of the space. I added to the book
from time to time until I have now
a fine and varied collection of tried
and well-tested recipes between it's
covers.
1t is divided into departments-one
for cake, one for pickles, etc.-and in
the back is medical appendix which
contains the prescriptions for some of
the very best cough syrups, liniments
and ointments to be found
[ found it great help in the early
days of my housekeeping and it is
now standard, not only in our
household, but in the neighborhood.
E. d. F., Ohio.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-22
Tried Recipes.

Date Pudding-One cup of suet,
chopped fine, pound dates, cut up
and stoned, I cup mo1asses, one tea
spoon of cinnamon, one-half teaspoon
nutmeg; mix these and add one tea
spoon soda in tablespoon of hot
water, mixed in one cup milk Beat
two eggs and add three and one
fourth cups -four. Steam five hours
'Sauce-Cream one-ha1f cup butter,
add slowly one cup powdered sugar,
one teaspoon vanilla, and very slowly
one-ha1f cup cream.-Mrs. Jake
Brown.
Creamed Egg with Cheese-Melt
one tablespoonful of butter in a fry
ing pan, and add teacupful of rich
cream; when hot break six eggs, one
at time, and drop into the cream
Cook as poached eggs. When done
place on hot platter, garnish with
cress and sprinkle on each a. table
spoonful of grated cheese, a pinch of
salt and little paprika.
Picked Eggs in Spinach Nest
Boil the eggs hard, about week be-
fore ready to use. Drop them into
the vinegar with beet pickle. Cook
the spinach in the usual way, drain,
season with salt, pepper and lemon
juice; place on flat dish and arrange
the eggs on it-Ju1iet Hite Gal1aher
Stuffed Potatoes-Cut portion
across from the top of hot, we'll
baked potatoes. Scoop out with a
teaspoon all the interior, put into a
hot bowl, add butter, hot milk and
seasoning Of salt and pepper, as di-
rected for mashed potatoes. Refill
the skins lightly piling up the mixture
quite little above the opening in a
fluffy mass. Brush the top lightly
with butter and place back in the
oven until we'll Drowned on top
Serve standing.
Dreamed Potatoes-Use cold left
over boiled or baked potatoes Put
into a frying pan a tablespoonful Of
butter. When this me1ts thoroughly
(but it must not brown) add scant
cupful of milk, let all come to the
bubbling point, and then put in about
a pint of the cold potatoes cut into
dice Cover the pan and place where
all will cook very slowly until the
milk is we'll absorbed Then add .
couple of tablespoonful of rich
cream, or one of unsweetened con-
densed milk, and allow to simmer
very gently for five minutes. Add
salt and pepper and serve.
Scolloped Potatoes Place in a
baking dish in alternate layers cold
Evening star., 1907-11-02
The OLD Curiosity SHOP.

claim last night. well, Thomas is a man
and Frenchman,'
When he proceeded to tell .alr'-price
of loyal police silence as to the beloved
yet another story loomed up, formidable
Here was no longer an isolated Ratties
bursIing on speculation but an occult
connection of high-placed business men
taxing American millionaires' orders for
| speclied priceless antiques and getting
thtm through confidential, unsuspect bic
specially formed operators like this An
tome Ihomas-nO common burglars but
men of position
baking orders for American million
aires! Thomas explained it:
Americans made ideal customers, first
because there is no end to their money:
second. because they ardently desire to
form collections of the best, and, thirdly,
because they live afar off, in land de-
| spislng formalities. They are easily made
| 10 believe that unique relics-imposs bbe
10 sell in Europe without papers-come
from noble French families ashamed to
sell openly. They even have hazy ideas
as to the separation, imag gining that coun-
try cures have a moral right at least, to
make their churches realize on historic
objects before the French government
could seize them
Indeed" he continued the first idea
proposed to me was to approach the
cures 1t was thirty months ago. The
| first separa ton inventories showed ines
| timable values. not yet verified by ex-
] perts. A great Paris dealer said to me
Evening star., 1907-11-02

The cures and vestries are persuaded that
their churches: and they tremble lest
separation leave them without support
Let approach them as tourists offer
them good price for their objects and
replace them with modern copies good
enough to answer to the first inventor
ies?'"
Thomas pretends that this subs titution
scheme succeeded during fifteen months.
until the cures got over their scare: but
the fact that he Immediately took up
burglary as a fine art would rather In
dlcate him as the principal substitutor.
In any case his Paris principals soon pro-
posed to him to get the valuables, no
matter how.
They wanted a gold statuette of St.
Baudine In the Church of St. Nectaire and
the Crown of ST. Michael from the famous
old fortress monastery of Mount St.
Michel. for an American who would be in
London within thirty days. There was no
time for dickering that might well end
In failure.
I'm each case my Paris principal came
with his young wife and the English In
te-mediary, as so many tourists. in an
automobile. They picked me up in a
| nearby town. They had the imitation OBJ
| 1ect with them. When we would reach
| the spot they would carefully keep out
of harms way while 1 operated the sub
stitution alone"
| Now that all France is aroused over
these revelations 1t Is found that hazy
Evening star., 1907-11-02

must expect to spend ten or fifteen dol
lars n day. the cost increasing as he goes
up the river. My trip from Shellal to
khartoum and back by rail and steamer.
not very much longer than from
New York to Chicago, will be $115. or
about q cents per mile and | shall doubt
less have to pay at Khartoum a hotel rate
of at least s. per day. sAlmost every good
hotel in Egypt charges that much. and
the extras are proportionately high.
If one attempts to travel economically
he must expect many discomforts- On
this boat tirSt-class passengers only are
carried. We have some second and third
class pa sSengcrs. but they live not on the
steamer. bat on a low barge, which We
tow along by our side. This barge has a
flat deck Of rough boards. covered by a
roof. The peope upon 1t carry their own
bedding and lay it down on the boards.
They must supply their own food, and,
as the servants Of the frst-class paSsen-
gers and natives. who are none too clean,
go in that way. the company is not overly
desirable. Besides it Is very cold after dark
and those who sleep on the decks have
the desert breezes blowing over them all
night long. 1t is cooler here than in
Egypt. although we are nearer the equa-
tor. I have q woolen blanket my bed,
and on top Of that a heavy travelling
rug, and still am none too warm. In the
on deck. although at noon It is so hot
out of the breeze that ] would fain take
off my flesh and sit in my bones.
The Plague of the Flies.
Sailing up the Nub.an Nile we are al
most free from flies, such as are found by
the millions in Egypt. but Nubia has a
little fly of It's own which is almost IN
bearable. This Is known as the Nimetta
a small midge, which appears IN count
less myriads during the winter season
It's BIKE causes a slight fever and the
natives sometimes wear punches OF
smo'derinG grass twisted about their
heads to keep it away.
AS to the flies of Egypt, they are prob
ably the descendants of those which the
Lord sent III to aifiict Pharoah when he
would not let the children of Israel go
They look not unlike the common fly of
our country, but are more bold and hun
cry. Their feet stick to one as though
they were glued, and they will not move
Evening star., 1907-11-02
The Captain IS a GERr1AN
WHO SPEAKS F''RENCHy
ENGLISH. AND. ARABIC )

wafer and carries to the top a few quarts
In som places men raise the water In
DdSfe's or huSk"IS, anu IA ~ ot4eis ,,.., ~
rat.bes ,u;a,,+y or tbirtv feet vide
where the river slopes at such an angle
that this can be done. Every low place
in the river IS used. and. as the Nile
falls the sand banks and is!asds are
planted.
Wherever thera Is a strip OF cultivated
land a Village of hu+s made of mud and
stonas has rroyyn mn and such villages
sr,nt tha hanks fnr hundreds oF miles
At tirnas tlare viii ha no green exceDt
hat,raan tTan, md tbo riv9r and orc
Iuonaars bnTr mon can ha borp and i've
srd Al +blra Ho,,nr.t,sl.se ,bara ar
,nn-a tb,, 100 ooo ,,aI,1, ,.In,,, tbis
ra,ion is Tho ,a,,.or 90 ~ g5r+h
rndareta'rd tLa+ +fis Tiro et,iy, T. ,,ar,,
fertile Tha e,nvarrnant otfiriaIs Ten me
that II raisns nvcoliznt .ot+o,, anI that
a movement is nnder wav to omen nm cot
ton pla1tatiors wherever there is a big
enough block of land for the nl1rDosn Al
present the chief crons are wheat bar
lev and rilIat and tne chief frI,it Is
dates. The date trees thriyes, and the
fruit is sweeter and larger than that
grown farther down the Nile valley. One
sees date palms almost everywhere alona
the banks The government looks upon
them as a source of revenue. and taxes
Evening star., 1907-11-02
OUR PILOT, A DADK-FACED. SHoRT-BEAEDRp
NUBlAN. IN TURBAN AND GOWN.

until brushed off. Their favOrite feeding
place seems to be on ones eyes. and the
Egyptian peasants have become 50 used
to them that they let them feed at will.
This is especially 50 Of the children, Il
common sight being a child with its eyes
fringed with flies that it seems to have
double eyelashes. The flies cover the
meat in the markets, they roost on the
huffalnes. camels and donkeys. and they
attack the tourist to such an extent that
the selling of fly brushes has become an
Egyptian industry The brushes are
tassel-like affairs with long strings simi-
lar to the hairs of a horses tail
Every one knows that flies carry dis
ease. and many of the troubles of the
Egyptians of today are due to them. This
is especially so of opthalma. There are
blind people everywhere, and one-eyed
men and women are common. Diseases of
the eye are SO universal that one Of the
charitable features Of Lower Egypt is a
company of travelling eye doctors. These
men are supported by rich Englishman.
who has given a fund for the purpose.
The doctors go from village to village.
carrying their tents with them. AS tuey
enter a town the word goes out that the
poor will be treated without charge. and
crowds come to their tents to have their
eyes examined and cured They remain
in one town for a month or 50. and during
this time the poor are attended to with
out money and without price. l am told
the institution does great good.
Will Philae Be Drowned
The port of Shellal, where l took the
steamer for Wady HaIfa, is just opposite
the Island of Philae. and during my stay
there / roWed over and took photographs
of the ruined temples as they have been
more or less affected by the backing UP
of the water from the ASsouan dam.
Now that the dam Is to be built fifteen
feet higher. the most of the temples will
be drowned when the reservoir is full
and the probability Is that they will soon
pass away.
When the dam was first proposed a great
OutCry came from the savaEts and ar
choologists of the world on account Of the
injury that it would do to Philae. but the
material results have en- valuable to
Egypt that the dam is to be raised re-
gardlesS of the preservation of these an
cent ruins. Something like 100000 was
spent in fortifyng the old structures dur
ing the building of the dam. and it IS
probable that twice this amount would
suffice to take up the temples which are
now there and carry them to the main
land, or even transport them 10 Cairo.
whore all the world might see.
The Island of Philae is situated on the
edge of lower Nubia, in the center of the
Nile, just above the first cataract, and it
Evening star., 1907-11-02

IS reached by ferry boat from Shelial or
from Assouan and the dam. The island
is about 500 feet long and 800 feet wide;
It is almost covered with temples built by
the Ptolemies and others two or three
centuries before Christ.
The chief deity of Phiae was the god
dess. Isis; but Osiris, Hathcr and the gods
of the CataraCts We're also worship q
there. Under the Roman emperors the
temples Were enlarged, but when Egypt
was converted to Christianity the her
mits and other fanatics mad their way
into Nubia and took possession of it.
They turned some of the temples into
Christian churches and their mutila tions
of the splendid carvings put up in the
honor of the gods of Old Egypt can be
plainly seen.
The ruins today are well worth visit.
Some of the structures have forest Of
columns about them. and the Kiosk.
which is known as PharaOh's bed. IS one
of the most beautiful Of the Egyptian
temples. The stones of which Philae is
built are Of great siZt- They probably
came from the Assouan quarries. or il
may be from the granite rocks in the
desert about. That region is almost all
granite | rode for about thirty miles on
donkey-back over it. making my way
through the desert in and out of granite
boulders. worn smooth by the sandstorms
of thousands of years. The rocks are OF
all shapes and are so piled up, one on an
Otner. as 10 make one tI1lk Iildt lLlC BOuS,
had used them as building material. Her
one stands high over those surrounding j.
as though on a pedestal: there others are
massed like fortifications and again they
rise in towers.
In the Assouan Quarries.
During my stay there I visited the As
souan quarries, the great ston, yards
from which the obelisks were taken and
from which came the mighty statues of
Rameses and the stone blocks of the
greatest of the Theban temples. The
quarTies today are much the same as they
were when the Egyptians left them two
or three thousand years ago. one can
see the marks of their wedges on the
rocks and the markings of the old stone
cutters are plain. In one place there is
an obelisk half finished lying on its side,
just as the masCnS of the Pharaohs left
it ages ago When the stones Were got
ten out for the Assouan dam the Italian
workmen used many of the blocks which
the ancient Egyptian mechanics mad be
gun to cut; and indeed that great granite
structure was made in partnership by two
sets of mechanics who were born thou
sands of years apart.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening star., 1907-11-02

decks On the lower one are thirty cabins
and the dining room, where our meals
are served table d hote. over the upper
an awning is stretched, so that we can sit
out and watch the scenery we go up
the river.
Our party consists Of several CONNER
ciai travellers. who are bound for the
Soudan and Central Africa to sell or buy
goods. two missionaries who are going
up the Sobat river; a capitalist largely
interested in land development enter
prises about khartoum. and of people who
are on their way to the Blue Nile to hunt
big game. Among the latter are a Ger
man baron and his wife and several Brit
ish army officers from India who are
spending their leave in this way. Most
of our party appears in evening clothes
at dinner, although We are far away in
the Wilds Of Nubia. with nothing but
desert on each side. Our meals are served
in courses. with a half dozen changes of
plates, knives and forks. and we have
napkins.
Suffering In the Desert.
Indeed 1t may interest you to know
just how one suffers out here In the Des-
ert of Nubia. 1 will give you the bill Of
fare for one day. At this morning,
while l was yet in bed, my black boy ap-
peared and handed me a cup of hot tea
with two sweet crackers on each side of
the saucer. At o'clock the bell rang
for breakfast in the dining room The
meal was as follows: Fried fish. fresh
from the Nile: bacon and eggs, bread and
butter and jam, with tea or coffee to
order. At l O'Clock came luncheon. CON
stSt!Hg of rice, giblets, chicken, mutton
chops and fruit. with bread and butter
and cheese. Coffee, of course vt s
O'Clock We had dinner. and the menu was
as follows: First, an excellent soup, then
a boiled fish Just ont of the Nile followed
Evening star., 1907-11-02

clues conceSning tourist automobiles crop
up In number of church robberies Thus
after tn" alabast Knight Templar iaw-
eied and valued at 800 600 francs diSap-
peared from tie Church of Laguenne it
was remenba red hat an auto with a
lady and two gentlemen had stopped a
while in front of the church porch. So
also for the priceless lite statuette of
st. Barbe at Romilly-sur-A Andelle. for
which a simple plaster of paris cast was
substituted.
Who Wanted -Reliauary.
Was the 600, cOO-franc Raliquary OF
Ambazac stolen on the innocent order OF
a particular American?
Or did the great London deaIer-''in the
neighborhood of tie fish markat," slys
Antoine Thomas-covet It to show to buy
ing Americans? The cure Of the church
has curious testimony on this point.
Two years ago" he says Il received
the visit of a foreigner who wanted to
buy the reliquary. 1t did not surpr Sc me.
because l had been often asked to sell it
true, by known persons. This was an
unknown: and l was more circumspect
/ said that the bargain was imposs sible
He offered 100000 francs
To put such a price I sad, you
must be rich, or else you expect to traf-
fic? If l offer you lO0OO francs, he
replied. 1t 10 that l am sure to sell 1t for
100000 francs to an Anne rican collector