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some specially choice recipes. which, test
ed and approved, I have begged for your
benefit.
New Jersey Peach Shortcake.
This has been a favorite dessert and
supper dish at well known summer
resort in the Ramapo mountains. De-
licious light baking powder biscuit are
prepared and served on individual
plates. While still piping hot, they are
surrounded by a generous border of thin
ly sliced, juicy peaches well sugared.
moistening the biscuit Sometimes bis
cult and peaches are crowned with whip
ped cream, and again pitcher of rich
cream is passed with them.
Madeline's Peach Kisses.
Pare large mellow freestone peaches.
cut in halves and remove the pits. Dust
with sugar. put into each cavity the
half of a marshmalow and cover with
whipped and sweetened cream. Chill and
serve.
Peach Custard Ice Cream.
While this is really a frozen custard
IL is an excellent substitute for Ice cream.
and few know the difference. Bring
quart of rich milk to a scald, then stir
in the yolks of four eggs. beaten light.
Stir until thickened. then beat in llghtiy
the whites OF four eggs, also whipped
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bers. fill each jar in turn with the boil
ing sirup. which should have been kept
hot on the back of the stove. Fill so
full that the scalding liquid runs over.
then put on the top and wipe and SEAL
paper out of a draught until cooled, 0hen
you can probably tighten the top still
more. This sirup does not make the
fruit very sweet. II you prefer to have
it sweeter increase the proportion of
sugar. Peaches put up this way in the
cans look better than where they are
cooked in a kettle. then dipped into the
can When the peaches are large they
must be cut in halves, but leave some or
the pits in for flavor.
Preserved Peaches.
For preserving peaches allow three
quarters of pound Of sugar and a
cup of water to every pound of fruit.
Peel the peaches. saving the skins II
the fruit is fine, to use in marmalade
or peach sirup. Cut the peaches In
halves. if large. but save the pits. II
you do not wish to put them in the pre-
serves, crack them. cover with coid
water and steep gently for about half
an hour to extract their flavor. then use
in place of the clear water in making
the sirup. Now you may pack the
peeled and halved peaches in sterilfzed
cans, as for canning, fill with the scald-
ing. rich sirup and cook in the oven
bath twenty minutes before sealing, or
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to foam. Add half cupful sugar
stir well and cool. When chilled freeze
When almost frozen, stir in as many
peaches as desired, cut in thin slices or
rubbed through puree sieve If the
fruit Is added at the beginning il forms
into Icy Jumps, unless it has been soaked
in liquor. which Is not recommended
Stir well. remove the dasher and pack
In ice and salt to ripen.
Peach Mouse
To pint of ripe peaches rubbed to
a pulp, add one cupful sugar Dissolve
a tablespoonful gelatin In three table,
spoonfuls cold water and mix thoroughly
with the fruit. Whip a pint of cream
until thick and stir into the fruit with a
few drops of bitter almond or vanilla
Pack in ice and salt and let stand four
or five hours.
Canning Peaches.
For canning peaches allow to every
eight quarts two pounds sugar and three
quarts water. Make sirup stirring until
the sugar is dissolved. AS soon as 1t
boils skim carefully Meanwhile. having
peeled the peaches. pack in steriized
glass jars, making sure before you begin
that your rubbers are new and the tops
much as possible you pack by shaking
the jar. Fill the hot Jars with the boil
ing sirup 1t will require about pint TO
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texture than the Bartletts may he
poiled or steamed first until nearly ten-
der, then the cooking finished in the
sirup. " 'Ho
Canned Pears.
Peel, halve, core and dron in cola
acidulated water. When all are peeled
place In preserving kettle and cover
with hot sirup made from three
quarts of water and two pounds sugar
allowed TO each eight pounds fruit.
When the fruit begins to boil, skim
carefully. then add little lemon Juice
or ginger TO flavor. Cook until the
fruit Is tender. then can
Preserved Peach Juice.
Cook skins and pulp as for jelly: strain.
then add for each quart of juice half a
pint of sugar. Boil the juice. skimming
and boiling for ten minutes Add the
sugar. stir until dissolved and cook for ten
minutes longer, skimming again. Pour
into hot sterilized jars or bottles, then set
in kettle of boiling water and cook
twenty minutes longer. Add more juice 10
the bottles il the juice i'm them has boiled
away. then seal. Peach sirup is made in
the same way. only half As much sugar as
fruit juice is used.
EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD
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built rude cabin The floor was bare
pallet on two planks. served for his
slumbers A rough table, chair and a
crucifix were the other furnishings. II
ever there was an earnest Christian 1t
was the padre To him color or condition
meant nothing. Although he preached
regularly from the pulpit of the cathedral
he worked most among the sick. the suf-
ices, no tax upon his energies found him
unwilling To the negro slave he was as
devoted as to the white master. Each
represented to him one soul.
4 X
For his own needs a crust of bread. a
drink of water and now and then bit
him was for the poor. Soon the cabin
beneath the date palm became the mecca
for rich and poor. Such religious ardor,
such fidelity to a cause as the Padre
displayed, won the hearts of all. The
seasons or the weather made no differ
ence to the monk. Winter and summer
were alike to him. The cold blasts of
the winter days or nights troubled him
no more than the blazing suns of sum-
mer days or the insect pests of summer
nights. What were the trivial stings of
the mortal self to the exaltation of the
immortal soul? Year in and year out he
administered to the ill, the dying and the
poor, and he grew to be the most beloved
priest in all that section of the world. In
the days when the Due d'Orleans, the
Due de Montpensier and the Comte de
Beaujolois, the sons Of Philippe Egalite
visited New Orleans. they knelt at his
feet in the rude cabin just as did the hum
blest of the city's lot. He who was Due
d'Orleans, later, as Louis Philippe. was
King of France.
In all the turmoil of the transfer OF
Louisiana from Spain back to France and
the sale of Louisiana by Napoleon to the
United States the Padre pursued his
course without bothering himself with po-
litical affairs. but out of the sale of the
vast territory to the United States there
developed one feature that involved him
in serious trouble. That was that church
Jurisdiction in all the Louisiana territory
passed to the Bishop Of Maryland passed
from out of the hands of a Spanish ec-
clesiast into those Of an American prelats.
The Caouchin monk, whose cabin under
the date palm tree was little less than
shrine. had not been customed to re-
ceive orders from the Spanish bishop. and
when he received some from the Balti-
more bishop he disregarded them. Pos
sib,y if the Bishop of Baltimore knew the
situation he would have overlooked
the recalcitrance Of the venerable priest
of old New Orleans, but there was blum
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herds continued such induigences. 1t
only was by the promptest measures
that the evil could be checked. Heretics
must be dealt with, Of course, sternly
and unfalteringly, so that no progress
might be made by those benighted people,
but it was just as necessary to deal with
severity with those Capuchins whose
dreadful sins could be forgiven only by
years of penance.
And was the good padre prepared to
begin his work? the governor inquired.
+
The padre was. He had but arrived,
and had hastened to pay a visit OF re-
spect to Don Estevan. From the ship
that brought him over the various instru-
ments to be used in carrying out the SEN
.tences of the inquisition were being
brought ashore. So soon as he could make
such inquiry as was necessary to inform
him fully as to the exact situation in New
Orleans. as to the degree of guilt of those
who had offended, he would be ready to
begin operations He. of course, would
act with the greatest of caution and
secrecy. and when the proper time ar
rived to make arrests and bring prison.
ers before the inquisition he would call
upon Don Estevan to furnish such SOL
diers as were required.
Don Estevan received the monks state
ment with graciOusneSs that brought a
glow of pleasure to the Capuchin's. eyes.
No one could be more courtly than Don
Estevan. and no one, the monk declared.
was more worthy to represent his royal
master.
The monk arose and left the palace.
the governor. brave in his silks. his satins.
and his gold and Iaces, holding wide the
door and bowling deferentially to the
churchman in ragged brown cassock, San
daled feet and broad-brimmed hat. His
n
with wooden crucifix.
But once the door closed behind the
ascetic, Don Estevans manner changed.
The mask of diplomacy was thrown off.
Tears came to his eyes, and he threw
himself dejectedly into his chair. What
would the fools do next? he asked him.
self. The inquisition would ruin the col
ony. rob Spain of one of it's richest pos
sessions, bring the government into dis
grace and drive the people from the
church instead Of winning converts to
it. Don Estevan was good churchman n
and loyal Spaniard, and as such he
considered his duty in all its bearings.
He reviewed in his mind the conduct of
Spain in Louisiana from the ceding of
the territory nearly thirty years before
by France; how hard it had been to win
the French colonists to look with favor
on Spanish rule; how the massacres by
Don Alexandra OReilly. the Spanish cap
tam general, of five of the leading colo
nists. whose offense was their love for
France and their protest against the
transfer, had aroused spirit of hatred
against the Spanish that only years of
the most patient and kindly conduct by
Q'Reilly's successors, first Uganza. then
Galvez and next Don Estevan himself
had softened. how. the French colonists
won at last to look with complaeency
upon Spanish rule. a new and fearful
danger menaced Spain.
The American war of independence had
turned loose upon the Mississippi valley
country a vast horde or those adven-
turous men of the north, hardy, resolute
spirits who claimed possession of the
greater part of the valley of the Father
of Waters, and who were coming into
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tributaries The people of the United
States who were spreading out through
this vast territory. were of radical minds.
and. bold in the liberty they had won by
war against the greatest nation of
the earth, chafed at paying tribute to
Spain The import and export charges
were very high and honest commerce was
whitening while smuggling and illicit
trade were increasing. There were open
threats of armed invasion of Louisiana.
AS a matter of fact, the country was
defenseless and such invasion would be
successful, but he had lessened the ten
sion by moderating the restraints on river
trade and by spirit of Cancellation and
kindness. He was doing all he could to
increase Spanish immigration, but the
situation at its best was one to occasion
grave concern. He could not carry out
the kings orders regarding Padre An
tonic without danger to the kings cause
SO he disoheyed the orders, feeling sure
that the king, when he knew the facts,
would pardon the offender.
Maybe the king did, maybe he did not
At any rate, Don Estevan was not pun
ished. In few years he was permitted
to retire and Baron Francois de Caron-
delet, good-natured sort of functionary
who was not burdened with many gifts
of intelligence, but who did have the
sense to follow the course of Don Este
van, succeeded him.
But before Don Estevan retired he was
to meet again his old friend Padre An
tonic. If the Capuchin bore any ami
mostly against the governor he did not
show it. He had remained In Spain for
many weary months, expecting royal or
ders regarding the establishment of the
inquisition or the spirited letter of Don
Estevan or the procrastination of the
ministry withheld action and he had re-
turned to New Orleans as a priest of
ST. Louis Cathedral.
And then began the real life of one of
the most remarkable men in church his
tory in America. Padre Antonio had been
born in 1870, in Spain, and his hair was
gray and his beard was white when he
presented his commission some years be-
fore to Don Estevan. Now his head,
too. was white. He was of an age when
the bones began to creak. when the frame
begins TO bend and when the chill winds
of winter cut deep But the padre was
a true Capuchin. The vows he had taken
were not to be broken by him. AS a
brother of the poor he meant to live in
poverty. and poverty in his case was con-
sidered literally. not figuratively. Beneath
a date palm tree in st. Anthony's alley.
near the corner of Bourbon street, he
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turning out better and better canneo
goods each year, homemade preserves,
pickles. catsups and chiles are always
preferable for economic as well as
gastronomic reasons. Nearly every house
keeper has some special recipe for
sweets or relishes for which she or her
ancestors We're locally famous. and To
these the soul of her family cieayes.
while her neighbors and kinsfoik pine for
the secret of the concoction. Here are
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IiILE the majority
of folk s-more's S
the pity-are de-
barred the pleasure
of plucking their
fruit straight from
their own well
w 90 d e d farm
lands" the fruit
vendors and corner
grocers are doing
their best to sup
ply the deficiency.
canneries are
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n
To many of the inhabitants Pere An
toine was sanity character. AS he
went about the city, still garbed I'm only
ragged cassock, sandals and broad
brimmed hat. and with his rosary and
wooden crucifiX, all men uncovered and
women knelt. His eyes were brilliant
as ever. but his soldierly frame was be-
ginning to bend. His beard was like that
of patriarch of old. Bread and water
and now and then a bit of meat main
tanned him in rugged health. just as they
DID In earlier days, and he slept as be-
shack on pallet laid on the rough
planks.
Here is the way one historian speaks
of the temple of the date palm at that
time:
Ladies thronged it during the hours
of audience. Betrothals, marriages, ill
favored daughters and ill-moraled sons
contumacious slaves and light husbands,
baptlsms. funerals and first communions
nigations about property and dissensions
about gossip; all the res disjectae of
family affairs were brought there to him
by white and black. and by counsel he
held and directed all with conscious
ness of the infallibility attributed to
him."
Year after year this continued. year
after year the patriarch's cabin became
more venerated spot, and then, one
day in 1929. when the man who came
to America TO establish the inquisition
and who lived TO become one of the most
beloved priests the country ever has had.
Pere Antbine, died. Nine and ninety
years he had lived, and his funeral was
the greatest New Orleans ever has known
Even the Freemasons had a place i'm
the parade, the members of the organj-
Zation attending by special order OF the
Grand Lodge of the state. Long wears
after the funeral there were found in the
basement of the calaboose and the ar
senai the instruments of the inuuisition
he had brought to America.
And as If the long life of the Cauuchin
was not enough. the date palm tree under
which he: lived so long. withstood the
blasts of winter and the heats of summer
in its old age just did Pere Antoine i'm
the evening of his life. Year after wear
il continued TO bloom. year after wear it
iourshed until ii was the patriarch of its
kind through all the country round and
until the superstitious had ascribed to il
all sorts of wonderful powers Not until
lSSh, when IL had been the subject OF
many romances, did il die
Strange man and strange tree Per-
maps the man would have been canon
lZed. but alas, when inquiry was made
INTO the early life of the man of poverty
there came to light a story of a love
dHd1r and duel, after which Antonio
OF Sedilla gave his life to the service OF
God. -
Copyright 1909. by Richard spilIanc,
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each quart jar. Adjust the glass top
on the rubber. Set the jars in the oven
in shallow pans half filled with boiling
water. Close the oven door land the
oven should be only moderately warm)
and cook the fruit fifteen minutes Take
from the oven. having adjusted the rub
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and poverty. He had just arrived 1roih
Spain, where a great change OF poilcy,
one that was to hasten the crumbling OF
a once mighty empire, had taken place
Carlos III, wise, tolerant and enlightened.
was dead. and Carlos w. fool and bigot.
reigned in his stead. The monk was
Padre Antonio de Sedilla, better known in
later days as Pere Antoine, and he
brought from Madrid commission from
the new king authorizing him to establish
in New Orleans the holy Office of the in
QUESTION.
In all Spanish America at that time
there probably was not a more kindly, a
more Just, a more intelligent or a Drawer
man than Don Estevan Miro. the Gov
ernor of Louisiana. He read the royal
commission with the care and the keen
scrutiny he always gave to papers of i'm
portance and then he turned with smiling
face and sympathetic eyes to study the
features of his caller. The monk, despite
his wretched garb. was a noble figure.
Years of humble living, days of fasting
and all the privations to which he had
subjected himself had not impaired his
health. He was gaunt. but it was the
gauntness of the soldier, the man of iron
nerves and tremendous energy. His eyes
were deep set and brilliant. Don Estevan
was fascinated by those eyes. AS he
searched their depths to read the soul of
inS man DeIOrc MIN ne was DeW1lOored.
He saw exaltation. religious enthusiasm
amounting to monomania, Zealotry ap-
preaching madness. but no evidence of
cruelty could he discover. Don Estevan
wondered if those eyes really mirrored
the soul of the monk.
=
As Don Estevan was studying the
Capuchin father the monk was laying
bare his hopes and plans to the gov
ernor. Never did follower Of the cross
have more serious mission, said the
monk. The winning of souls was greater
than the winning of empires. and in
America the field was illmitable. What
sorrowed him and grfeved his royal mas
ter however. was that throughout New
Spain the clergy had become lax to a
degree that pTesaged the most direful
consequences Reports had been received
regarding conditions at New Orleans that
bled the PADRES heart. What could be
expected of the laity when some of the
Capuchin fathers, uDmindful of their duty
TO their order and to their conSciences,
wore shoes and stockings and breeches
and shirts, had furniture In their rooms
and ate duck on fast days. because ducks,
beins able to swim. might be considered
FISH? The habits Of luxury and ease were
spreading among the churchmen of Louis
lana so much, he understood. that wood
on spoons no longer SIfficed Most of the
priests had spoons of silver some even
went 10 the length of wearing jewels. and
TWO were said to have attended dinner
party and played cards, However much
the people were religiously disposed, their
faith and piety must suffer il their shep-
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BUSY WITH SEASON YEAF

When Nature has delivered II (the peach) to
us in its perfection forget all the lesser
fruits and IL not found by the river of life m
earth born spirit might be forgiven for missing
ito. w. Holmes.
But now TO my well wooded farm land. where
are rich whey ards and orchards of pear and
ample is and olive trees.-0dy
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New Orleans in larger and larger num-
bers, and who were proclaming openly
that the river should be open to COM
merce. These men paid the Spanish
tariff charges and the Spanish taxes
with Ill grace. Some refused to pay
and bloodshed had resulted several times
when the officers of Spain sought to
carry out the laws Thomas Jefferson,
a prominent statesman of the new nation
known as the United States of America.
was declaring that Louisiana the
only place on the continent the possessor
of which was q natural enemy of the
United States. Only by the most careful
of handling of the multitude of questions
that were arising, and were sure to de-
velop later on. Don Estervan knew. could
Spain maintain it's hold on Louisiana or
could avoid war with the United States.
And the royal fool in Madrid had sent
religious fanatic to establish the hatred
inquisition in land where freedom al
ready had taken root!
Don Estevan. like Padre Antonio, acted
with fair amount of secrecy and eau
ton. One night, soon after the monk s
visit to the palace. a file of soldiers
raped with their muskets on the door of
the cell in which the good father was
sleeping.
1T is very kind of Don Estevan." said
the monk when he opened the door. but
tell his excellency I am not ready to
begin. You may return with the blessing
you are needed"
Padre Antonio was astounded when in
formed that he was under arrest.
What" he exclaimed, you dare to
arrest a commissioner to the inquisi-
tion?"
The captain in charge of the soldiers
knew only one authority, Don Estevan
and without any further parley the Capu-
chin was taken out, put into boat
taken aboard a ship about to sail for
Cadiz and when the sun arose was on
his way to Spain. The same ship that
carried Padre Antonio back to Spain
took letter from Don Estevan Miro to
his royal master such as Spanish gov
ernOr probably never wrote to Spanish
king before since.
when l read the communication of
that Capuchn.'' said the governor in his
letter, II shuddered. The very name of
the inquisition uttered in New Orleans
would be sufficient not only to check i'm
migration, but would be capable of driv-
ing away those who have recently come
here. And l even fear that. in spite Of
my having sent Father Sedilla out of the
country. the most fatal consequences may
arise from the mere suspicion of the
cause of his visit"
Then he went into details regarding the
critical situation growing out of the Mis-
issfppi valley trade. The river, he
pointed out. was the natural and only
outlet for the harvests of the great ter
r1tory drained by the Mississippi and its
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NTO the governors

NTO the governors
palace in New Or
leans one day late
in the year 1883
there came a Cap
uchin monk famed
for his piety. his
zeal in the cause of
the church and the
a I'm o S t fanatical
fervor with which
he lived up to his
vows of austerity
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The American war of independence had
turned loose upon the Mississippi valley
country vast horde OF those adven-
turous men of the north. hardy. resolute
spirits who claimed possession of the
greater part of the valley of the Father
of Waters, and who were coming into
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dering. hot-headed vicar general serving
under the Baltimore bishop. and he sus-
pended Padre Antonio from exercising his
priestly functions.
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Old Santa visits on Dec
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is certainly to be made a
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patrons, but particularly SO
do we urge them to visit our
quarters during the remain
ing days from now until
Christmas, for we have gifts