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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-04-10

Courthouse, Highschool. and
grammar School, souvenirs at
Wintcrmantel.s Jewlery Store.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

Cleopatra np.i and fuailo. Ik.
many Thin people ate heartily and har
guests wondered ar the mHuca of
which they partooa There was every.
thing there the aas-romony could
think of. except mutton. am exception
IN favor of the divine Nmmon with
the ramllke head Even the roast
beef and plum pudding wore not lack.
ing for these delcacics were as
popular i'm Thebes as was the broilcd
and sailed goose, with the good brown
stout and strong barley wine TO cheer
the spirits and assist the digestion.
Peter the Great loved. and most
frequently ordered for his own special
enjoyment, a soup with four cabbages
in it, Cruel, pig, with sour cream for
sauce; cold roast meat, with picked
cucumbers for salad lemons and lam
preys, salt meat, ham. and limburgor
cheese He began dinner with cab
bage water and closed the banQuent-
ing with goblets Of burgundy
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
SOME FAVORITE DISHES INFAMOUS GOURMANDS

and purer wines OF France, Spain. sy.
ria, and Greece.
Those English, said the Spanlards
who went over to England with Philip
H., have their homes made Of sticks
and dirt but they fare commonly as
we'll as the King
Forks came in with Tom Coryay i'm
the reign. of James l., but they were
not familiar until after the Restora.
ton. The laying Of napkins, as It
was called, was profession in it.
self Pepys mentions the fact that the
day before one of his dinner parties
he went home and there found one
laying of my napkins against tomor-
row, in figures of all sorts. which is
mighty pretty, and it seems 1t his
trade, and he gets much money by it. '
Pepys gives an account of a dinner
given in 1863, to which he took his
spoon and fork, as was the custom of
those days with guests invited to great
entertainments. The dish Pepys liked
most, and on which he supped heartily,
was yenison pasty, but his occasional
neXt-morning remark was like that of
Scrub, My head aches consumedly."
The dashing Duchess of Cleveland
had a passion for roast chine Of beef,
while in a succeeding reign Roger de
Coverly was content to wind up the
day with good Cheshire cheese, best
mustard, a golden pippin, and a pipe
of John Slys best"
Sheridan says of champagne: 1T
does not enter and steal your reason ;
it simply takes a runaway knock at a
mans head and there's an end ont
George l. liked fish a triGe stale He
never cared for oysters until their
shells began spontaneously to cape.
George ILL.,, on the other hand, spent
joyous evenings at Virginia Water,
supping on tea and marrow bones,
OF Dean Howell, it is said that he
grew strong by drinking ale. He was
and the first church dignitary who laid
the foundation of red noses by bring
ing bottled ale to the notice of the
clergy. There is an old tradition that
what this ale used to do for our
churchmen, cider used to effect for the
Africans.
Human nature is made up of senti-
ment and hunger, and Hoods senti-
mentilst was not unnatural with his
epicurean "reminiscences when he
said:
Twas at Christmas, think? that
| met Miss Chase,
Yes, for Norris had asked me to
dine;
And | thought l had never beheld
such a face.
Or so noble a turkey or chine
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
Historic Examples of the Exalted Place
in Mans Ruling Passions
Held by Good Living

No digest of law is like the law Of
digest" said More, many years ago in
the age Of gourmanderie That is, of
course, if gourmanderie. ever had a
particular age in which it was not at
least the second of mans ruling pas
sions.
Even the roast beef and plum pud.
ding, Wanted by the English as a
national institution were the principal
features of the bill of fare at the table
of no less an ancient celebrity than
Cleopatra Napol on, the worlds
greatest soldier, met with his first
defeat before a dish of mutton, losing
the battle of Leipsic through a fit Of
indigestion caused by a surfeit of a
succulent joint of lamb while Monte
yuma, the Magnificent, who was found
in full gal authority by the Span
iards when they landed in Mexico,
varied his bill of fare, which was
usually taken up with game and other
dainty Xiands,. with an occasional
dairyfed baby when the peculiar
delicacy happened to be in season.
Moderation and regularity formed
the text ON many discourse in the
good old days when dyspepsia pre-
vailed and physicians rode in carriages
when the gourmand would praise the
simplicity of Lying and sink to sleep
on heavy suppers and beds of down
Love of good food was a positive
obsessiOn at the end of the eighteenth
century and well into the nineteenth,
whence came many a heritage OF woe
in weak stomach. There is a story
eXtant of the journey, post haste, of
her Grace of Queensbury to Parsons
Green to tell Lady Sophia Thomas
something of Importance" which was,
Take a couple of beefsteaks, clap
them together as if they were dump
ling, and eat them with pepper and
salt. 1t is the best thing you ever
tasted could not help coming to
tell you this"
Napoleon had a penchant for roast
fowls, outlets, and smoking coffee He
ate at odd times, and only when he felt
hungry, driving his cooks to distrac-
ton because when he called for food
it had to be ready for him almost
on the instant, or at least as soon as
the table could be laid.
Beau Brummers favorite dish was
roasted capon stuffed with trufles.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

When he was living almost on the
bounty OF Mr. Marshall he attended a
dinner party at that gentleman's house
taking with him, according TO his most
impertinent custom one of his favorite
dogs. The Beau was helped to a wing
of roast capon, but choosing to fancy
that the wing was tough he delicately
seized the end of it with a napkin
covered finger and thumb and passed
it under the table to his dog with the
remark: Here About, try if you can
get your teeth through this, for I'll
be damned if I can"
Brand relates that on Christmas
Day, 1901, he dined at the Chaplain
table at st. James's Palace and par
took of the first thing served and eat
en- on that festival at that table, name
ly, "a tureen fun of rich, luscious
plum porridge."
But the art of cookery came into
England by way of France, which
has been celebrated through the ages
as the ideal home of the gastrono.
mists. Cookery was so much esteem.
ed by the Normans that mOnarchs
granted estates on the. sole condition
that the holder. through his cook
should prepare a certain dish at stated
periods 10 set before the King. 1t was
under the Normans in England that
the boar's head had regal hOnOrs paid
to it, and it's progress from the kitchen
to the banquet was under the escort
of a guard, and behind the deafening
salutes of puffy-cheeked trumpeteers
The crane was then, as the goose is
now, highly esteemed yet laboring
under the suspicion of being com
mon" The peacock on the other hand
was only seen, tail and all, on the
tables on the wealthy. Their bevcr.
ages were of a heavy, bilious charact
er, spicy and cOrdialed, hippocras, PIN.
ent, morat, and mead. The Norman
maxim for good living was Ito rise
at five, dine at nine, sup at five, and
bed at nine, if you'd live to hundred
all but one"
And so it went down through the
ages To have things "brenning like
wildfre" was the characteristic Of the
cookery of the regime of Richard H.
Confectionery of the richest sorts was
the lightest material of meals, which
were abundantly irrigated by hippo.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
MR.. HoWELLs ON
AMERICAN MANNERS

1t must be owned that the Ber-
mudan average have better manners
than we have if they are white, and
even if they are black they have bet
ter manners than our colored people,
who are the only Americans who
like good manners. Still, the Ber-
mudans are more like Americans than
English, in face and figure and bear
ing, and if they are better bred, it is
surely not their fault Somehow,
somewhere, we have slipped a cog, and
have fallen behind those gentle CO.
lonial or imperial English in the finer
civilization. Better people than we
are ! do not think breathe and surely
none kinder; but we are rude, form,
less, uncOuth in our angelic presence.
Perhaps we have had too much room
to grow up in, and have not learned
the art of controlling the. knees and
elbows which more restricted peoples
are forced to acquire. Perhaps our
unmannerliness is designed by Provi-
dence; if we were as polite as we are
worthy and able, we should overrun
the whole earth and engage the affec
lions of the other nations beyond re-
prieve. Doubtless it is not intended
that the world should be American.
ized.-W. d. Howells in Harpers.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

u is 10 the nobility aud other dts
'iuguished persons Zoo the me of
France that gastronomy owes many 20
dish whose very name botrava an
ecstacy.
The famous French gasrouomIst
the Marquis de Cussy was orthodox I'M
his gastronomy, for he fed well. but
needed the church. Ills favorita soun
in Lent was an onion soup. composed
Of a score of small bulbs, we'll clean.
sed. sliced and put i'm stcwpan with
a lump Of fresh butter and a little
sugar They were turned over the fire
until they became a fine golden color.
when they we're moistened with broth.
and the necessary quantity of bread
added. Before the soup was served
its excellence was perfected by the
addition of two small glasses of very
old cognac brandy This Lent fare.
however. was only the preface to sal.
mon and asparagus with which the
arthodox epicure and mortified his
appetite
The Marquis de Cussy was fond of
cartridges. one Of which he ate
on the day of his death, after six
months Illness. 1t was his last act.
and in gastronomic annals II Is rec
orded with the same wonder. love and
awe as Nelson's calling for sealing
wax amid the thunders of Copenhagen
is noticed by the biographers of naval
heroes.
Cardinal Fasch loved blackbirds and
his dinners at Lyons were reverencei
for the excellence and variety of these
dishes. The birds were sent him
weekly from Corsica They We're sery-
ell with great form, and none who
dined off them forgot the flavor.
(which melted along his palate" The
Cardinal used to say It was like swal.
lowing paradise, and that the smell
of his cooked blackbirds alone was
enough to revivify half the iefunct in
MS ulOCeSe.
Monseigneur Coutrois de Quincy,
Bishop of Belley. was exceedingly
fond of the stalks of asparagus, and
on being informed that head of
asparagus had just PIERCED the soil
the Cardinal and his convives rose
from the table, visited the spot and
were lost in admiration at what they
saw. Day by day the Bishop watched
the growth of the delicious giant His
mouth watered when he looked at it,
and happy was the day when he took
it from the ground with his own hands.
When he did so, however, he found
to his disappointment that he held
wooden counterfeit admirably
turned and painted by Canon Rosset,
who was famous for his artistic abii-
ties and his practical jokes The joke
on this occasion was taken in good
part, and the counterfeit asparagus
was admitted TO the honor of lying on
the Bishops table.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
RoosEvELr m NAV LIeHr.

DETROIT, Mich, November 2l.-
United States Senator Coe |. Craw-
ford last night declared former ProSi-
dent Roosevelt is in sympathy with
thep rogressiye plans of Senator Rob
ert NJ LaFollette and predicted that
the Republicans of the United States
are ready TO vote for a Socialist or
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

and Senator LaFollette as a presiden-
tial candidate. Senator Crawford is
scheduled to speak at Hillsdale, Mich,
today.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

to show their dissatis-
faction over present conditions. SEN
ator Crawford was speaking in the
interest of the progressive movement
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
HARD WORK MEANS SUCCESS
To Hatch and Brood Chickens Artift
ciaIIy One Must Stay With Work
Night and Day.

A great many people buy ~incubators
and brooders and expect them to u
themselves. There would be just as
much sense in the hen leaving her
eggs for the wind and sun to hatch in
stead of setting on hem and guarding
them, night and day. for 81 days.
lnanimate things won't run them
selves; they must be run. Machines
are all right, but they haven't brains;
men must supply the intelligence.
Now, 1T has been proved by thou
sands Of people in different parts of
the world that artificial incubation
and %brooding of poultry is an assured
success. But to make this success re-
quires close personal attention from
start to finish. The work cannot be
%intrusted to any Tom or Dick or Har-
~. Tom and Dick and Harry hired to
10 the work may set the machine
going, but they won't keep them
going. They lack the personal equa-
ton. They would just as soon see you
make a failure as they would see you
make a success of the chicken bust
ness.
To hatch and brood chickens artifi-
cially one must stay right with the
work, day and night. This does not
near that you have to sit up with and
nurse the machines and baby birds,
but that you just about know exactly
what they are doing every hour of the
twenty-four.
Many people fail to keep the infant
chicks dry. warm and well supplied
with fresh air in the brooder. This
is a simple matter, but an essential. A
herd of goats will get along in a re-
mote brushy pasture for weeks at a
time with nothing but bushes and
fence rails to feed upon. Not so with
baby chicks; they must be fed at
least five times each day.
The neglect of simple sanitation in
the brooder is responsible for heavy
mortality among young ~feathered
stock. Fifty or a hundred or more
young birds in one close room will
soon make foul conditions, which in
turn will soon lead to disease and
death If the f%oulness is not removed.
Those who are very careful to keep
the brooder scrupulously clean usually
have good success with brooder
chicks, and those who allow them to
become filthy meet with inevitable
loss.
Failures, then, In Matching and
brooding poultry by artificial means
are due to the use of infertile eggs, al
lowing temperatures in the machine
to run too high and O low, lack of
good ventilation. failure to keep the
brooder clean and the young birds
supplied with direct sunlight, and ir-
regular feeding. These may all be
summed up in one phrase-lack OF
close attention to details.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
PRODUCE MORE CORN
Is ADVICE GIVEN BY BROWN
COUNTY OLD SETTLER.
Should Rotate Crops and Also Raise
More Cattle, Hogs and
Horses.

Aberdeen.-J. C. Simmons, one of
the large LAND owners of Brown coun-
ty, and a pioneer farmer and banker
of the county, aroused considerable
interest among farmers and business
men by reading a paper before the
Aberdeen Commercial club in which
he urged South Dakota farmers to put
In at least half their farming lane
every year to corn, to rotate their
crops, and to raise more cattle, hogs
and horses. He presented statistics
to show that by rotating crops, SOW
ing wheat or other small grain on
ground on which corn had been raised
the previous year, would result in add
ing three or four bushels to the acre
of the yield of small grain n to the
objection raised to the extra work
necessary in harvesting the corn crop,
as compared to small grain, he sug-
gested hat the hogs be turned into the
corr field to do the harvesting, fertil-
izing the fields and adding to the value
of the land at the same time. With
cattle and hogs and orn as side is
sues Mr.. Simmons commended no South
Dakota farmer need seriously feel the
effects of one or two dry years in sue.
"ession.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
QOUErRX,1
FATTEN FOWLS FOR MARKET
Food Should Be Given at Regular
Hours and Then Only What the
Birds Nil Eat Up Clean.

Chickens for broiling or frying
should be fed extra for two or three
weeks to get them fat, with plenty OF
good, solid meat on breast and thighs.
Range poultry is never classed as
first-class market poultry.
Put six to eigh. chickens In a clean,
roomy coop; place coop In shed.
which should be kept quiet and mod
erately dark. Give first morning feed
Of cornmeal mixed with milk; just
what they will eat with a relish. AT
nine o'clock give a second meal OF
baked bread mixed with boiled veg
tables. At noon give cracked corr
mixed with a little wheat. At 8 p. m.
give cornmeal mixed with milk, They
should be fed at regular hours and
given only what they eat up with a
relish at each meal. No food should
be allowed to lie in the coop as they
lose their appetite when food Is le1t
In the coop to turn sour.
Sour food Is not fit to feed.
Wash out the coop every morning
This Is necessary and should not De
neglected. Give a little gravel or
charcoal about twice a week. Give
milk instead of water. By this metn-
cd chickens may be fattened In Two
weeks time. Chickens thus fed WILL
make prime market poultry n VIII
command an extra price.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
"A Ditch Was Started"

We could get no farther n stayed
there until night, when we retreated,
one by one, under cover Of he dark
ness.
Then we were set to work to dig
a tunnel. A ditch was started at some
distance from the fort and advanced
up the hill under the protection OF
some cotton bales that were pushed on
ahead. In the protection of this trench
the men could approach the fort and
they also carried up a wooden mortar
that tossed shells into the fort with
out needing a large charge of powder.
Our tunnel was begun and driven un-
der the walls Of the fort. The defend
ers of the place sank a counter tunnel,
but they did not come near US. At
last, when all was ready gunpowder
vas carried to the end of the hole I'M
der the fort and there 1t was shot OF.
The explosion tore a breach in the
wall, but we were not able to rush 1t.
Three men were thrown into the air
and fell on the outside of the wall,
and SO we carried them back to the
lines. Two were mortally hurt, but
the other, a slave boy, was not
"One of the men asked him: What
were you doing in there fighting us?'
1.-THE boy was sitting rolling his eyes.
warn't fighting YOU he said.
What were you doing, then?'
"'Toting grub for the colonel
"' What colonel is that?
"'Colonel ub de Louisiana Tigers.
What were you working for him
for?
"'Colonel told me not to quit till
I'd toted him grub. 1 set down his
dinner an den I felt myself a-growin'
wings an arising up in de air, an
went up about TO- miles an started
to come down agin. an on de way
down l met de colonel a-goin' up
There were shells fired at US and
at the rebels from every direction.
Fort Hill was throwing shells oward
Logan's camp and our boats in the
river were Smelling the city. re-
member seeing eight shells in the air
at one time. At night each shell Is a
ball of blue fire, turning over and over
and rising up and up until it seems to
stand still, and then whirling down on
the curve toward the earth. The shells
from the fort came within 200 yards
OF Logan's camp. l was sitting there
writing the sergeant-major's report one
day when a shell came along and
clipped of the branch of the tree above
me. At another time l was sitting In
a house writing the report when a
shot came through the wall. The 9th
er men did not seem worried about it
and l inquired why. One man pointed
out to me that all the holes made by
shot were in the upper part of the
room. The guns of the fort on the hill
could not be depressed far enough to
send the shot lower and SO the only
harm done was to the plaster near the
ceiling"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
FAT GENERAL is DANGEROUS
Banker Asserts Delay on Account OF
Obese Companion Necessitated
Dash to Cedar Creek.

A fat general is a dangerous impedt-
ment in war. President John Ward
Of the City National bank of Evanston,
ILL.,, who for years has been %lecturing
to Chicago school children on the Civil
war, tells this one on General Sheri-
dan-the reason for his famous TWEEN
ty mile ride:
After the defeat of Early's army at
Winchester and Fishers Hill, Va,
General Sheridan had been called to
Washington for a conference regard
ing the future movements of the army
of the Potomac.
Leaving Washington, his move
ments were delayed on account of his
companion, who is not named, but
who was exceedingly fat and unable
to ride a horse. The fat general had
to use an ambulance instead, and COM
PEELED General Sheridan to put up at
Winchester on the night of the 18th,
instead of pushing on to Cedar creek,
as he was compelled to do in a hurry
early the next morning, to take part
In the battle there.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21

0llYUl{E1NlfESQ
Industrious fowls are the

Industrious fowls are the kind to
keep.
Feeding the turkeys too often is an
injurious practice.
Don't expect to get winter eggs
from late Matched chicks.
Every farmer should go into the
pure bred poultry class.
Get rid of some of the ROSTERS that
are now worrying the hens to no good
purpose,
The Indian Runner duck is not in
clined to fatten so readily as other
varieties.
Hunt up private customers and
agree to sell them strictly fresh eggs
then do it
The quickest way to break up q
setting hen is to shut her up a day
with a rooster.
The comb is as ure an indicator of
the health of the bird as the tongue
is OF the person
Teach the turkeys to have a regu-
lar feeding ground apart from the
other fowls of the farm.
The very best kind of a pen for
ducklings is one that can be easily
moved from n part of the yard to
another
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
A SPOON SHAKER.
STRAIGHT From Coffeedom.

0offee can marshall a good squadron
Of enemies and some very hare ones to
overcome. A lady in Florida writes:
IT have always been very fond Of
good coffee. and for years drank it at
least three times a day. At last, how
ever, 1 found that it was fnjuring me.
IT became bilious, subject to fire.
quent and violent headaches, and SO
very nervous, that I could not lift q
spoon to my mouth without spilling q
part of its contents.
my heart got 'rickety' and beat SO
fast and so hard hat l could scarcely
breathe, while my skin got thick and
dingy, with yellow blotches on my face,
caused by the condition of my liver
and blood.
IT made up my mind that all these
afnictions came from the coffee, and I
determined to experiment and see.
$50 I quit coffee and got a package
Of Postum which furnished my hot
morning beverage. After a little time
I was rewarded by a complete restora-
ton Of my health in every respect.
IT do not suffer from biliousness any
more, my headaches have disappeared,
my nerves are as steady as could be
desired, my heart beats regularly and
my complexion has cleared up beautt-
fully-the blotches have been wiped out
and 1t is such a pleasure to be well
again" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
We11vfIleo I'm pEqS. a a reason"
Ever read the nbovc letter? A new
one appears from time to time. they
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
Tho Summer Toast.

In all her business life the bit Of
work she is now completing has been
most pleasant, says the free lance
Photographer.
II have been typewrit1ng toasts on
paper Napkins" she said. "A society
Of club women who have planned to
DO a lot of outdoor entertaining this
summer expect to use thousands of
PAPER napkins, and l have had tho
fob Of typewriting a toast on each
napkin. It is a pretty idea, and I tried
10 meet the charming sentiment of
the ladies half way by using a good
%non-copying ink, but in spite of that
precaution I am afraid that many q
guest will leave the lunch table with
. purple ink smudge on her face"