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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-11-18

Hard times" said financier to
me the other day, you don't know
what hard times are unless you are
trying to keep dozen chickens that
lay only one egg a week between
them"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-11-18

(First published in Abilene Weekly Re-
Hector November I, 1900
NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT DEFEND
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
THE oLD-TIME TURKEY EAT.

Gone from the Pennsylvania Noun
tains Along with the Woodsmen.
1T isn't because there is no more
material in the Blue Mountain region
of Pennsylvania to provide turkey
eat that we have had the last of those
famous festivities" said a former
dweller of the district described to a
writer in the New York Sun, "for there
are still wild turkeys a-plenty.
''The turkey eat has gone out with
the passing of the people whose homes.
traditions and manner of life made 1t
possible and with the occupation that
was once theirs.
SIN the days when the turkey eat
was the great winter festivity in the
mountain districts between the Schuyl-
kill and the Juniata watersheds the
sparse population was chiefly Of rude
and rugged woodmen and their fam
lilies. many of them descendants of pure
Pennsylvania Dutch stock. Scores of
them depended almost entirely on their
skill with gun and trap for their food
supply.
'rhe cabins of these mountaineers
were built of logs the chinks between
which We're filed in with clay. A huge
stone chimney rose at one end OF the
cabin outside. covering that entire end,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
An Honest Opinion.

Among the interesting anecdotes il
Illustrative of Mr.. Cleveland's refusal
to give pledges of any sort is that
which describes an incident of the cam
paign of 1892, and is printed in the
New York Evening Post. A literary
friend of Mr.. Cleveland brought to-
gether, as If by chance, the Democratic
nominee and prominent Irish-Ameri-
can contractor who was supposed to
have much influence with the coveted
Irish vote.
The interview was so managed that
the two men were left alone in the lit
erary mans library for an hour. At
the end of that time they We're discov-
cred swapping stories with each other
like old friends.
WELL" asked the host of the con-
tractor, after Mr.. Cleveland had left,
what do you think of him?'
Sure" replied the contractor, beam
ing all over, "he's the greatest man |
ever saw. He's foine man, grand
man. He wouldn't promise to do wan
thing l asked him."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
Saw Him First.

About the year 1907 William Penn
became heavily involved in lawsuit,
and the author of recent biography.
entitled quaker and Courtier," SAYS
that he was greatly In fear-under the
laws of the day--of being arrested.
Many noble personages were in the
same plight, but no other, 1t is believed.
resorted to Penn's expedient in meet
ing the situation.
In the door of his London house he
had peeping-hole made, through
which he could see any person who
came to him. A creditor one day sent
in his name, and having been made to
wait more than a reasonable time,
knocked for the servant, and asked
him:
"Will not your master see me?"
Friend, he has seen thee" replied
the servant, calmly, "and does not like
the looks oft thee"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

decent money, could send Carrie bit
every month" y
With silent feet he went toward the
door and opened 1t. The chill morning
air seemed to rob him of courage. Seat
| ed by the fire In the pleasant warmth,
| flight had seemed an easy matter. The
future had appeared equally simple.
| But the inhosptabIe air of the dawn
seemed to bid him go back rather than
| forward"
He mastered the impulse, and went
down the stone stairs that led to the
street. Then he walked rapidly along
Gray's Inn road toward Kings Cross.
At coffee stand he bought some food.
1t revived him. and he felt inclined to
smile rs he pictured his wife's wonder
ment and rage when he failed to come
home.
At Euston he was told that there
would not be train for an hour. He
sat down in the great booking hall. How
strange it esemed to be there. At that
hour he was usually on his way to
work. Already sense of freedom was
beginning to hold his being, lie felt
elated and surprised ut the same time.
A bookstall boy entered the booking
hall on his way to the platform. Some
thing in the Youngsters face recalled
the face of Archie, A slight pang took
hold of Iluxtable's heart. He wondered
why he had not thought about the chill.
dren before. At least he might have
contrlved to take a last look at them
previous to his leaving the house. He
felt very annoyed at his neglect
1t would be hard ON them, losing
their father he reflected, very hard.
Their mother meant little to them, but
for him they had always love and ten
derness, He remembered how he had
promised to take both boys to Battersea
park that afternoon, 1t being the Satur-
day half-hollday, And now-how now?
Well, he knew just what he was do
Ing, He was running away from them
and from his responsibilities, like
thief In the night, fleeing from justice.
Gradually his memory would slip from
their childish brains. The way would
come when the word father would con-
vey nought to them save a shadowy
recollection.
What would be their future, now that
he was gone? Surely the streets would
claim them, and the foul influences Of
the slum would bear them down into
the depths, Had not his wife said that
he alone could keep them from rack
and ruiny
He rose and paced the gloomy hall, in
a fever of doubt Already his new free
dom was beginning TO seem thing Of
mixed good. 1t certainly had its evil
side, His wife could manage well
enough without him. but the children
ah. they were different.
He was coward now. and be was
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
MAKING OF FRUIT SUGAR.
Use for Dahlia ROOt--Valuable Prop
critics of the Product.

! critics of the Product.
Leyulose, or fruit sugar, is little
known to the general public, according
to the Umschau. 1t is sold only by
druggists, and the cost of manufacture
ing it by the methods now in use is sc
great that the price Of levulose Is near
ly dollar a pound. This variety Of
sugar possesses properties which would
bring it into extensive use If It's cost
were not prohlbltive.
The only process by which chemical
| ly pure levuose can be produced cheap
| ly In large quantities is based on the
employment of inulin as the raw ma
| terial. Inulin Is variety OF starch
which is found in proportions of to
II per cent in the roots Of chicory and
the tubers of the dahlia. The dahlia is
native of America and was intro
duced into England In 1889 and into
Germany in 1872 1t was supposed
that the tubers would be valuable
food for cattle, but the cattle refused
to eat them, and therefore the dahlla
has been cultivated for its flowers
alone. Yet dahlias could be raised as
easily and almost as cheaply as pota-
toes. They are propagated by division
of the tubers. which with special cul-
ture may attain weight Of more than
a pound. Chicory root is well known
and is raised in immense quantities in
Germany. Austria, France and Bel
GUM for the purpose of mixing with
coffee.
The manufacture of pure levulose
from chicory or dahia tubers is simple.
In the first place the inulin is extract
ed from the tubers by boiling them
with lime water The inulin Is then
converted into levuose by the action of
diluted acids.
The field of application of levulose is
extensive. Levulose is sweeter than
ordinary sugar and it possesses other
advantages over the latter. In particu-
lar, it can be eaten with impunity and
completely assimiated by the majority
of diabetic patients. 1t is also recon-
mended in acidity of the stomach, and
in recent years several eminent physi-
clans have advocated its use as food
for eonsumptives. 1t may also be sub
stituted for milk sugar in the prepara-
tions of infants foods In the manu-
facture of bon bons, jellies, marmalades
and fruit preserves 1t possesses the ad-
vantage of neither crystallizing nor be-
coming turbid. and from 1t can be made
an initiative honey which does not
solidlfy and which is almost identical
with natural honey, OF which levuose
is the principal ingredient From inu.
lin an excellent bread for diabetes can
be made.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

afraid of the future The future seemed
dark and terrible Within its awfu
grasp there lay the destiny of those
two little ones whom he loved Con
science awoke in him, and stirred al
the fear that fingered in his blood.
A man in uniform touched him on the
shoulder.
"The booking office is open now,
mate" he said kindly. "The train goes
in fifteen minutes"
Huxtable looked up with a start.
Thanks, ole man. he said absently,
but he did not go toward the window
where one booked for the north. He
sought the street instead, and climbed
on bus going eastward. 1t deposited
him at the gates of the factory where
he worked, and he was just in time to
slip through the door and save himself
being shut out till dinner time.
In the afternoon he went home with
his wages, and with a boat which he
had bought for the children to sail on
the pond In the park. Mrs. Huxtable
greeted him in her usual acid manner.
"You never came to bed last night"
she said. "'Pon my word, | think you
must be goin' off your head. What was
you doin'?'
81 was just thinkin, that's ALL" he
replied nervously.
"Thinkin'. Much good that did you,
I expect. Thinkin' of how you could |
upset me, dare say"
Huxtable shook his head and smiled.
The two boys were standing close by,
eagerly discussing the question of navi
cation as they handled the little boat.
IF we was in the boat, and fell out,
lad would save us, wouldn't you, dad?'
nurmured Jackie, aged 6, "for you're
awful brave, know"
Huxtable laughed gently.
"Your father 'ud be too much of a |
coward for that" snarled the mother.
But he only laughed again.
Its good to be coward sometimes
le said huskily. "It's better for them
rs we love. Manchester
Chronicle.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

muchApotice. but climbed on the little
m85Knees and begged for pennies,
which he gave them with smiling good
nature. But when the boys had gone
to bed, and he was alone in the little
sitting room, he sat with his head in
his hands, asking himself what it all
meant.
Why were some men singled out for
such homes. as this, he wondered. whilst
others had love, happiness, and all that
made life worth living? There was Tom
Harris, for example, who worked in his
shop. Harris was anything but saint,
and drank a large part Of his wages,
but he had wife who worshiped him,
and his home was always comfortable
and c0Zy. There was Barclay. that long.
ugly fellow, who frequently BACKED his
wife's eyes, but who, nevertheless, led
a pleasant life enough when he was not
| under the influence Of drink, whilst he,
Huxtable, was bullied and badgered
from morning to night until his exist
ence was rendered almost unbearable.
AS he sat and pondered things, he re-
membered how another acquaintance of
his own had cut the Gordan knot
abruptly by clearing out and leaving
his unkind wife to her own resources.
He had gone off suddenly, and no news
had been heard Of him afterward. Some |
said he had gone to Canada, the place |
where a man who knew decent trade |
could always get good work and good
wages
OF late. Huxtable had thought
good deal about this man. Secretly, he
had envied him his pluck. and had
wished that he, too, could do likewise.
o, for glorious spell Of freedom--free-
dom from that harsh vOice-from that
most gloomy face. If only he dared.
y
An evening newspaper lay on the
table. He took it up, and strangely
enough the first thing which he noticed
was the advertisement of a steamship
that announced reduced rates
to Canadian ports Huxtable began to
tremble.
"Ive got money enough" he mur-
nured, money to take me over and
% keep me goin' till | get a job. And
when once l was settled. and earnin'
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
No Place for Robbers.

"A dangerous nelghborhood you're
living In, Colonel" said a newspaper
man to Charles Edwards, of the Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, a few nights ago, In Washing.
ton. Been four highway robberies
there in the past month. Aren't you
afraid that somebody will hold you up
and go through You some nightY
"Should say not" said the big Texan.
"Why, ah've got so few means on my
pusson at the present time that the
robber who goes through me will get
hisself In debt. Success Magazine.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
Too Much for Him.

How true that old saying is about
child asking questions that a man
cannot answer" remarked Popleigh.
whats the trouble now?" queried
his friend Singleton.
This morning replied Popleigh.
my little boy asked me why men were
sent to Congress, and couldn't tell
him. Chicago News.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

while on the inside 1t opened on {
broad fireplace across that end of Tx
room.
"The cabin was banked all around
with earth, against which hemlock an6
pine boughs were heaped Sometimes
ranks of cordwood were piled up al
most to the caves, the better to keep
out the cold, which is always intense
during the winter on these windswept
! hills.
There was rarely cabin with more
than one room. The walls were dark
and smoky, and from rafter or beam
hung plentifully strips of jerked veni-
son and chunks of smoked bear meat,
along with hams and bacon from the
family pigs fattened in the woods and
almost as wild as the bear and the
deer. But the choicest and best beloved
thing of the cabins larder was the fat
and well frozen wild turkey.
while the woodman's cabin was al
ways prepared for a turkey eat, 1t
never knew when it was coming A
turkey eat began with the making up
OF party in neighboring village or
settlement. Taking along a fiddler,
they would appear at this, that or the
other woodsman's cabin of a winter.
evening and the woodsman and his
family did the rest.
|, Instantly the brentwood pail OF
cider came forth While the cabins
guests drank cider the host prepared
and spitted the turkey over the hickory
Goals in the fireplace to roast for the
feast. When it was ready for the table
1T was placed before the guests on
big tin platter. Each one carved for
himself, the plates being squares of
birch bark.
The turkey eat was not complete,
though without liberal supply of
'paan haas and headcheese, and with
1t went the sweetest of rye bread and
butter. Paan haas is a strictly Penn
sylvania Dutch creation.
1T is made from the rich juices left
after boiling the ingredients for head
cheese, these being thickened to stiff
paste with buckwheat -four. This paste
is pressed In forms until cold and is
served in slices. 1t is a dull blue in
color, very rich and very good.
"After the feast the turkey eat was
rounded out by a night of joliity super
induced by the fiddle and maintained |
by 1t in it's music for the old-fashioned |
cotillon figures and reels, which were
danced until the gray of morning.
"But most of those old-time woods
men have passed away, and on those
who are still dwellers in the noun
tains the game laws have forced sit
uation that leaves them with their an
cient occupation gone and the hunt
being no longer source of mainten-
ance, its traditions have departed with
it. The newer generation of these peo-
pie is of other taste and association, so
while the wild turkey is yet in prox-
unity In that Blue mountain region to
supply the material for the festive tur-
key eat, the traditions and associations
that made it possible are no more and
it is gone, like the apple cut, the quilt
ing bee, the pig-killing frolic and 9th
ers of the old-time rural pastimes that
are now but a memory"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
'00oo~oooooo.

l492-Columbus cast anchor in the sba,
of st. Thomas.
I63-Destruction of cargo of taxed tea
In Boston harbor by citizens disguis-
ed as Indians, known as the Boston
Tea Party"
Ii15-British under Lord Dunmore de-
feated by the Americans at Norfolk,
Va.
l776-The seat of the United States gov.
ernment was removed to Baltimore.
lI17-North Carolina adopted constitu.
| ton.
l77S-Four hundred persons perished in
the burning of a theater in Sara
gossa, Spain.
l7S7-New Jersey ratified the Federal
constitution.
l1o9-The first circulating library was
established in Salem, Mass.
l790-The Russians took the fortress Is.
mael from the Turks.
lI92-First provincial Parliament Of
lower Canada met at Quebec.
1799-Burial of Gen. Washington.
lSoEThomas Jefferson and George Clin-
ton were unanimously chosen Presi-
dent and Vice President of the Unit
ed States.
1807-First Roman Catholic orphan asy-
lum in America Incorporated in Phil
adelphia.
lS12-Town Of Derby VT, attacked by
the British.
1S35-Great fire in New York; $20,OOO,-
600 property loss.
1S45-Sir Hugh Cough defeated the
Sikhs in battle of Moodlsee.
lo46-Ihe first regiment to fight against
Mexico was organized in Pittsburg.
1S52-Sacramento, CAL, was flooded by
the breaking of levee.
1S55-Joel Abbott, commanding ths
American squadron in the East In
dies, died at Hongkong.
18o0-South Carolina seeded from the
Union. Gov. Hicks of Maryland
refused to receive the Mississippi
commissioners.
1S62-The Confederates recaptured Holly
Springs, Miss
Lincoln called for 3OO,-
600 volunteers. Gen. Dix issued an
order for reprisals on Canadians be-
cause of the st. Adams raid; order
annulled later by President Lincoln.
.976-Destructive fire at Little Rock,
Ark.
lSS0-Paul Kruger elected president Of
the South African republic.
1S91-Drexel Institute of Art Science
and Industry dedicated in Philadel- Il
phia.. Sir Oliver Mowat, Liberal
prime minister of Ontario, issued an
address declaring vigorously against
American assimilation.
lS93-A provincial plebiscite in Prince
Edward Island supported prohibition
of the liquor traffic by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
lS94-E. v. Debs- sentenced to SIX
months imprisonment for contempt
of court during the great railroad
strike in Chicago.
lS09-The Broadway National Bank Of
Boston closed its doors. :. Lord Rob-
erts appointed commander-in-chief Of
the British forces in South Africa.
l902-George Moorman, adjutant general
of the United Confederate Veterans,
died at New Orleans.
I905-Gov. La Toilette of Wisconsin re-
signed and was succeeded by Lieut..
Gov. Dagiidssn. Abraham III. Hum
mel, New York lawyer, was convicted
of c,nspiracy and sentenced to im-
prisonment for one year.
90T-The American battleship fleet de-
parted from Hampton Roads for the
Pacific coast
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
FACTS FoR FARMERS

A rabbit hunt, in which twenty mel.
and boys participated, and which resulted
In the slaughter of 278 rabbits. ushered
in the first heavy fall of snow in the Vi
cinity Of Albion, Iowa. Metealf and
Fraley, two members of one team. killed
eighty-eight cotton tails in one slough. !.
Paper is to be manufactured from cot
ton stalks, according to a report of the
bureau of manufactures. A company
capitalized at S500,O00 has been organized
at Atlanta, Ca, for the purpose. II is
claimed that paper can be made from
cotton stalks at cost of about SIS a
ton.
The Minnesota Cooperative Diaries
Association, which began in May to hold
Minnesota dairy products Independently
Of eastern commission houses, has handled
100000 pounds of butter since that
time. The creameries are satisfied with
the results, and the business of the con.
Germ is growing. The business this month
is considerably larger than it was last
month.
North Dakotans have been holding q
good roads conference at Grand Forks.
and number Of changes in the present
road system viii be recommended.
Special orders have been issued by the
British board Of agriculture giving the
proper official full power to deal with the
cargoes Of three steamers that left New
York, and four others that cleared from
phila delphia after the board issued its
order s9roh'h''' Ing In Great
Britain from the
States . York and
New j. outbreak oe
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
Hopeless Case.

DILL lost my silk umbrella yestel
day at the club.
Plckles-Too bad But you'll get 1t
back. won't you? Aren't your initials
on itf
Dill-Well, come to think of II, there
are some initials on 1t, but they aren't
mine.-Yale Record
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05
4}RPST9RiFFa 9RiFFaaE'ss ssfRAFEss.

I've ,neyer sMastedl apy times sIc
A4ehdsing -eftefg ffehes-t bMG
As if | didn't know the voice
That maddens and bewitches.
II amt that must answer for
The sin Of money-getting,
And yet it's something just as bad
o Lord, I'm always fretting!
ExDSnsive clothes | never yet
Was guilty of possessing
! always had to do the work,
While others did the dressing.
But common clothes are good enough.
For that | amt regretting-
It's only this I'm asking for:
Deliver me from fretting.
do the work that comes to me
They never called me lazy;
My thoughts concerning right an wrong
Are far from being hazy;
! try to do my level best
A good example setting
But somehow, Lord, always fail.
And yield myself to fretting.
OF course that amt my only fault
| make no vain pretensions,
For all my other failings are
OF none too small dimens' 'ons.
But that, of all my worldly sins,
Is much the most besettng,
And so, o Lord, humbly pray
That | may keep from frettng.
Youths Companion.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

When bad man dies, his neighbors
say: well. at the funeral the minis
ter viii have to talk about the living
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

What splendid thing Is would be ii
people who lose their teinpers were un-
able to find them again,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

When mans house burns down,
seven men out of ten believe he set 1t
on IRE.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-03-05

One cuff ON the wrist is worth ..sg.
en- on the ear
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-18
MANY NEW PATENTS ARE
GRANTED TO NEWARKERS,

Patents that were issued to Jersey
men December IA, 1909. reported for
the Newark EVENING STAR by
Drake & Co., solicitors of foreign and
American patents, 500 Broad street.
Newark, N. j.:
Buckle, G. B.. Adams, I~rvington; step
joint for rails. j. II. Allen, East Or
ange; combination-wrench. L. v. Aron-
son. Newark; making stel. l., NJ. Atha.
Newark; method of and apparatus for
repeating telephone-currents. p. A.
Campbell. Bloomfield: alloy for ~electri-
cal resistance, w. b. Driver, East Or
ange; c%ushioning device for truss
frames and the like, ]. S. L. Freel.
Newark; apparatus for making can-ice,
G.. ID. Havenstrite, Newark; telephone
transmitters, J. A. Jameson, Harrison;
belt, W. #. Lott. Newark; bag-fastener,
c. j. Lysaght, Newark; saw-blade. r.
Z. Martin, Newark; galloway, r. S.
screen. P. ORANGE, Newark; fertilizer,
b. Reichelt. Newark; nipple flange, j.
A. Smith, Arlington; vegetable pairing
machine. IL. Robinson, Newark; toy.
j. G. Sinclair, East Orange; skirt
measuring device, c. w. Smith, New
ark; test indicator. r. L.. Smith, Or
ange trademarks. remedy for ma
laria. chills. fever, etc, Pomeran
Chemical Company, Newark, patent
and enameled leather. ]. I. Smith
Newark.