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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

cold. Next day strain through double cheesecloth bag; measure and allow a pint of the juice for each pound of sugar. Set the kettle containing the juice over the fire and bring to a boil. Meanwhile weigh your sugar and divide Into several por- tons, putting each into a shallow pan or dish that will go easily into the oven. Set these vessels in the open ovens and heat gradually, stirring now and then to pre- vent burning Should the sugar heat too slowly. close each oven for ten minutes or so. It shouuld be so hot that you can hardly bear your hand In it. Watch the juice in the kettle and take off the scum as 1t rises
 Note the exact minute at which 1t begins to boil all over the surface, and in just twenty minutes more take 1t from the range and dump" in the hot sugar. which should hiss as 1t strikes the surface Stir until the sugar melts: cook for barely one minute and fill glasses rolled fin hot water to prevent breaking. When the jelly Is cold and firm cover with melted paraffin and fit on the tops.
 If you will put a leaf of citronaIoes in the bottom of each glass 1t will perfume the jelly more delightfully."- than the rose gera- nium leaf. although the aroma of this last is pleasant.
 The addition of lemon juice improves all kinds of apple jelly
 j; <
 To Can Mushrooms.
 Please give me through the Corner a recipe for canning mushrooms and one for making mushroom catsup.
 P. F. [Pawtucket, R. II"
 To can mushrooms. peel with care and lay In cold water for an hour. Drain. cover with cold water, and cook until they are tender Season with salt to taste. Take the mushrooms out of the liquid and pack Into cans which have been rolled in hot water
 Set them. as you fill them, up to the necks in boiling water upon the side of the range and lay the covers loosely upon them, after fitting the rubbers in place. Boil the liqula left in the kettle and skim. After 1t has boiled for three minutes. fill the cans to the brim and screw down the covers Let them get cold in the water; wipe dry and wrap in thick paper to exclude the light
 MUSHROOM CATSUP-Break the largs mushrooms into quarters and halve the smaller.
 Put layer Of the broken mushrooms into a stoneware crock and sprinkle with salt. More mushrooms and more salt until all the are used up. Cover the crock and set in cool place for three days stirring with wooden spoon three times per day. At the end of this time turn the salted mush- rooms into a kettle and set them over the fire. Stir often until they are fairly warmed through. Then mash to a pulp with potato beetle and strain through a fine sieve. getting out every drop of liquid Boil this for ten minutes and measure
 To every pint of the liquid allow heap ing teaspoonful of whole pepper corns and the same of allspice. blade of mace, two slices of onion minced fine. bay leaf and half teaspoonful of paprika. Put liquor and spices over the fro and simmer down Into a puree Strain out the spices and put the catsup into bottles rolled in hot water. Cork and seal while hot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
Coffee Bread.

Are you and readers aweary of recipes Tor coffee bread? ] hope not, for we think mine the best everl May I tell you just how I make it?
 OUR COFFEE BREAD-One pint of lukewarm milk, two cups of flour, half a tablespoonful of salt. one cake of com pressed yeast dissolved in half a teacupfu. of warm water with a teaspoonful of sugar in 1t.
 Put the flour into a bowl, add the salt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

yITHIN the last quarter century
 A there has come into fashion at w formal dinners and i'd .ln7. luneheons ho,ls
 as "Appetizers. They are served as a first course, with the express design of quickening dormant appettes and spurrng to livelier action those that never desert the owners thereof
 If their name be not legion the sufficient variety of them to make ines. dient the attempt to print even a partlal list. One hears of additions to the cata- logue daily. I know of at least five kinds of cocktails, including oyster and tomato
 We talked last week of times and methods of eating with a view to building up health. presupposing normal appetite. Today We would deal with some of the ways and means by which the right and proper en- joyment of wholesome food is marred by those who partake of the meal with us
 Nobody, nowadays. reads a book that had lively run sixty years ago. under the cap ton Of ' Georgia Scenes" I do not be- lieve there are ten people who flatter me by reading this corner wiso ever heard of 1t. But it was fine. juicy stuff, and set that generation into a healthful, hearty roar Of laughter.
 l am sure that every one of the nine-if there be so many--has a lively recollection of 1" Ned Brace" the pretended clown of the series. l refer to him to emphasize the de-appetizing effect of compromising messes g upon ones plate. Ned put an affected exquisite 10 flight by blending meat. potato, tomato. and what not into the semblaace of mottled turtle in the middle of his plate and proceeding to de- your 1t under the shocked eyes of the dandy.
 l have been reminded of the tale hun dred times as I have reluctantly beheld mountainous mass of miscellaneous na- terials dispensed successively by host and hostess from divers dishes. worked up trowelwise by the prospective feeder, until one could not tell where meat began and vegetables ended. Or help /" of pudding beaten to pulp with the accompanying sauce; or Ice cream or jelly stirred as one might mix mortar. A milder form of an- noyance to refined spectator is the prac- tice of mincing ones meat as for hash before beginning to eat 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
Gloom Another Deappetizer.

If only he would not be so superior!" complained one young daughter. He re. minds me all the time of Mrs. Jellybv looking at poor Carry with her love story as if she were a steeple in the distancer
 have In mind a household of which the inmates are upon presumably affectionate terms. where not a word is spoken at table except what is connected with the conduct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

recipe should have come from a dear old farm mistress in "t the Berkshires," who Is grandmother to everybody who knows her Could yours have come from the same, and has she patent upon "falry toast?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

comes home in the evening. Now and then q wish it were not so frequentlyD he brings business worries to the table with him. If he have the custom of talking these out he lowers the spirit level of the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

of the meal. Husband and wife are inteili-
 gent beyond the average of educated Amer jeans. The children are bright and when away from the domestic circle represented by the family board. are vivacious. They
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
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Table Talk Should Not Offend.

Which brings me to the consideration of another and not rare deappetizer Table talk should be kept clear of subjects that might offend the diaphragm of sensi- tive listener. I shall never forget the ef- feet produced upon company of men and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

The rule is not so reasonless as " the man of simple ideas " is ready to think. It dates back to the time when knifeblades were almost invariably made of steel, The acid of the salad acting upon the metal, would impart a slightly unpleasant taste to the delicate edible, as It does to the finer kinds of cooked fish. Hence the unwritten law that the knife be used as little as pos sble in eating both.
 'Absurdly fastidious." do you say? The oriental. sitting cross legged upon his mat and dipping his fingers Into the common bowl of leben and fishing up lentils Qtsaus 8 red pottage) with an mprovised ladle of unleavened bread torn off from big round loaf baked on the coals, would say the same of your table and everyday ap- pontments. Grant that your nelghoor Is what you would consider ultra-refined in such trifles--is it not kinder and In better taste for you to avoid annoying him by a breach of so much as a bylaw?
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hold by prophecies of bankruptcy and beg gary.
 He may be hungry enough and conscious enough of the fallacy of his predictions to be able to make a full meal while he
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II have not the habit of being agreeable over their plates!" So plain spoken rela- ative explained 1t. |" I never take a meal there if I can help it. My food chokes mel"
 John is yet more deappetizing when he
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women invited to dinner given in honor of a famous traveller. by his graphic de- scription of the plague In Constantinople. and scenes of which he was there an eye witness.
 He had Journeyed in so many lands and seen so many odd and fearsome things that his perceptions were blunted. As citi- zen of the world he would have regarded us as provincial purists or pronounced type had he surmised the loathings thai stirred souls and stomachs at the recital
 Comfortable digestion, conducted In a normal manner, should be assisted. not outraged, by table talk To this end the mother of the flock to whom should be- long the office of directing the trend of conversation, should steer clear of excit- ing themes. Take some other time for relating tales of misadventure and mis- behavior.
 It may be her duty. painful though 1t be, to inform Tommys father that the boy was kept in after school today and, In addition to the imposition, brought home a note from the teacher warning her of the danger of suspension unless the boy mended his ways It is violence done to natural laws and to humanity when
 
 the appetite " of her offspring by alluding to the punishment and the threat over what should be nourishing food.
 It is nothing better when she allows the children to picker apout matters that should be settled elsewhere. or takes ad- vantage of having them under her hand where they cannot conveniently slip away, to reckon up their shortcomings and hold up the prospect of what will certainly be. fall them if they do not alter their giddy ways.
 I am Johns friend and we'll wisher. Oft ener than like, have to be his apologist. l cannot cloak the fact that he is sadly prone to serving deappetizers at home meals homely ol6 rhyme reminds us that
 :" The face you wear, the word you speak. A heart may heal or break
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
Busiess Worries Spoil Meal.

he brings to table and what he says-or what he does not say-as equivalent in con sequence to the tithe upon mint, anlse and cummin. The weightier matters of the law are, to his apprehension, making money downtown for the hungry brood at home. We talked of the breakfast grouch " last winter, and have had sundry letters hark- ing pack to it since, which prove the need of the talk. It Is not decided grouch of which We treat now, so much as the chill ing silence and palpable indifference to all that interests his family and draws out their small talk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
Tnbappie Preserves.

513 Will you kindly publish recipe for
 Hing crabapple preserves and how they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

- EITHIN the last quarter century A there has come into fashion at wv formal dinners and luncheons
 what are set down in cook books
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
PARIS TORRID, BUT GAY
City Sizzles as Throngs Celebrate
National Holiday.
tBy Cable TO The Tribune. J

Paris, July 13-The hot wave from
America has struck Paris with a yen-
geance, 81 degrees in the shade prevail
sidewalks, the wooden pavements and
the gray stones OF the city fairly Slz-
zled, and Frances guests for to-mcr-
rows military review, Queen RanayOla
of Madagascar and the Bey OF Tunis, re-
joiced at finding themselves IN their own
tropical temperature.
Parisians and fashionable foreign resi-
dents are leaving the city for the sea-
side, for the watering cures" or for the
mountains, while three hundred thou
sand visitors from the country are flock
ing into Paris on the occasion Of the nd-
tional holiday, commemorating the taxi
ing OF the Bastile, July II, 1888, the
celebration of which began to-day AID
will continue until Tuesday. All ne
subventioned theatres are open gratis 10
the public. the bouIevards. the pubic
squares and the gardens are festoored
with patriotic decorations and rows u
eIecTIC lamps anu lne HdlIoA"I N''O'S
are flying from Venetian masts.
Frenchmen celebrate their national
holiday in gay yet sensible fashion.
There are scarcely any noisy nre-
crackers or petards. all the saluting be-
ing left to professional artillerymen.
Dancing has already begun, and the
streets swarm with couples Waiting
slowly in good old fashioned time to ,he
music OF viClins and military bands.
Three dirigible balloons and an occa-
SIGNAL aeroplane hover in the sky like
stray birds. Frolic and gayety at Mont
martre and in the Latin Quarter are un-
to an extent never before
known.
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
THF TRIBUNE'S FOREICN NEWS
now partner in and managing director
of Thomas Cook, Son & Co, of st. Pauis
Churchyard.
PARIS ADOPTS EMO SYSTEM
Americans Traffic Scheme To Be
Operated There.
icy Cable TO The Tribune.l

Paris. July 13,-M. Lepine, Prefect OF
Police, to-day adopted new regulations
for street traffic drawn up for Paris by
William Phelps Emo, who is here. Mr..
Eno's system has been Thoroughly
studied, and is urgently recommended Dy
the three great syndcal associations OF
Paris traffic and transport-the National
Federation of Urban Transportation, the
Syndical Chamber of Drivers and Chau1-
feurs of the Department Of the Seine ana
the Syndical Union Of Cart ana truck
Transportation.
The three associations comprise over
one hundred and fifty thousand acuVe
working members, and the fact thae
these cabmen, chauffeurs and truckmen
have unanimously and enthusiastically
demanded the immediate adoption or
system of traffic regulations created py
a foreigner is unique in the history OF
Paris. besides being remarkable tesu-
monial TO the efficacy of Mr.. Enos sys-
tenn.
These three syndical associations also
demand the appointment of permanent
city traac commission in conformity
with suggestions made by Mr.. Emo and
NJ. Lepine, the Prefect Of Police, prom
ises that the demand will be carried out
by the French authorities.
NJ. Joltrln, head of the Street Traffic
Department, expresses the opinion that
the Emo system, especially with its lat
est development of rotary application,
solves the intricate and difficult traffic
problem Of Paris.
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
ALLIES MEET GERMAN MOVE
France and Russia to Make
Army Changes on Frontiers.
TBy Gable TO The Tribune.

Paris. July 13-The French Parlia-
ment, after a frantic rush Of small bills
in the Senate and in the Chamber OF
Deputies, closed at midnight yesterday,
and, like schoolboys, Senators and Depu-
ties are joyfully taking their respite until
October. The session closed leaving the
Poincare Cabinet more strongly in power
than ever the Crowning government
triumph being the splendid victory in the
chamber on the proportional representa-
ton measure, which Premier Poincare
made a ministerial issue.
The Russian military and naval chiefs
Of staff, General Gilinsky and Admiral
Lieven, have been in consultation night
and day with their French colleagues,
and among the results Of the conferences
are important changes in and redistribu-
ton Of the army corps of Russia and
France on their respective German from
tiers, made necessary by the recent addi-
tion Of two army corps to the German
military establishment.
General Gilinsky and Admiral LieveD,
who express the greatest satisfaction at
the superb condition of the French army,
intend returning to Russia next week
They will carry many important conf
Dental reports Of their mission. which.
forthwith, will be submitted 10 the Car.
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
ATROCITIES IN PERU
Limbs of Indians Deliberately
Broken-Some Burned to Death.

London. July l3-The disclosures as to
the state OF affairs In the rubber industry
I'm Peru published in the Blue Book just
issued by the Foreign ONCE as the result
of Sir Roger Easements Investigations are
attracting a great amount OF attention and
have caused comparisons to be drawn be-
tween these wholesale atrocities and those
at one time reported from the Congo Free
State.
The British Consul General at Rio de
Janeiro fully confirms the charges brought
against the native agents OF the Peruvian
Amazon Company, British concern for
merly engaged In rubber collection In the
Putumayo district.
The grewsome story was first published
in the United States and was brought TO
the attention OF the British Foreign Office
by the Washington State Department
Sir Roger Easement was sent out to Peru
n year ago and found overwhelming evil
dence OF the murder and torture of de-
fenceless Indians. He discovered that
kerosene had been poured over men,
women and children who had been tied to
stakes, and were then set on fire. The
brains OF children had been dashed out,
the limbs OF Indians had been cut off or
broken and they had been left to die.
The Foreign Office says that after many
months OF futile attempts to get the
Peruvian government to take measures to
prevent the recurrence OF such horrors
and to punish the guilty persons 1t had
decided, with the cordial acquiescence OF
the United States government. that the
only course to take was TO publish the
facts In full
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
SEEK BURIED MILLIONS
Women in a Hunt for Treasure
on Island in Pacific.
SAY s100,O0O,O00 IS THERE
Rival Steamers, One from Eng.
land, to Go in Quest Of
Pirate Hoard. 4,
lRy Cable 70 The Tribune.

London, July 13.-Two women are TAX.
ing a leading part in an expedition now
being fitted out under the direction Of H.
Whitsworth Of st. Martins Court, Char.
ing Cross, to recover private treasure
supposed to be valued at SlOO,VO,OOO
and said to have been hidden many years
ago on Cocos, a. lonely island $50 miles
southwest Of Panama.
1t is more than a century since vast
store of gold and Jewels was seized by
buccaneers from treasure ships and
from the Jesuits when the latter were
expelled from Peru. The stolen hoard
was deposited on Cocos Island, and its
hiding place is now said to be definitely
fixed.
The steamer Melmor has been pur-
chased for the voyage, and is now at
Plymouth. After taking on coal it will
start on its long Journey through the
Strait of Magellan and UP the Pacific
coast.
Miss Barry Till and Miss Davies, who
are among the principals in the expedi-
tion. were on Cocos Island last year,
when. it is declared, they succeeded in
locating the cave where the treasure was
concealed by the pirates. They are now
on their way to Panama, and will join
the Melmor when it arrives there. Nov
ing picture men will accompany the ex-
petition.
A second expedition is fitting out with
the object of recovering the same treas
ure. 1t has elaborate maps showing the
location of the cave and is being financed
by a syndicate, which also has furnished
a steamer for the trip. This expedition
will leave Pacific port for Cocos ISL
and and thus will have the advantage Of
time over it's rival.
Eight years ago Earl Fitzwilliam, Ad-
miral Pallzer, Colonel Gordon Carter
and others unsuccessfully sought the
treasure of Of Cocos Island, and there
are vague stories Of the taking away w
several explorers Of small portions of
the hidden hoard.
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
MARKSMANSHIP RECORD
Canadian Makes 73 Out of Posi-
BILE rs Points at / 200 Yards.
IBy Gable TO The Tribune

London. July 13.-A new worlds record
was made to-day at the fifty-third an
nual imperial shooting tournament of the
National Rife Association. which is be-
ing held at Bisley.
Corporal Mortimer. a Canadian marks
man. shooting at the l,2O0-yard range,
made - points out Of a possible -, with
his fifteen shots.
+. w. Henry. of Ulster. Ireland. tied
Mortimer's sensational score. but in the
shoot off the Canadian beat the Irish
man by IA points to with his three
shots.
Corporal Mortimer has already taken
four irsts.
A number Of Ohioan marksmen who
are on the way TO Biarritz took hand
in the contest. The scores Of the Ohioan
team were as follows Captain Eddy, GI;
Captain Richard, 81; Captain Simpson.
"a: Captain Andrews, Ga; Lieutenant
Clewholm. So and Major Roll. 81.
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
NEW OPERATIC SOPRANO
ANNOUNCED FROM PARIS
Mle Lubin, at Twenty-Five Years Od Obtains First Pr'ze
from the French National Conservaoire by
Jury's Unanimous Vote

graduates. OF this number the jury
selected at the public concours yester-
day twenty-one as worthy Of receiving
awards. Five first prizes and six Sec
ond prizes were given, the other AWARDS
being "accessits," or honorable men
tions.
The success Of one Of the graduates,
Mile. Lubin, the only one who obtained
the unanimous vote Of the jury, was SO
marked that this young woman, VINO mas
just attained her twenty-second year,
has at once been engaged at the Opera,
and the best judges, such as NJ. d'Estour-
nelles de Constant, M. Aderer and other
competent authorities, predict for Mile
Lubin an exceedingly brilliant career in
France and abroad. Mile. Lubin has an
ample, powerful, pathetic soprano voice.
She sang at the public competition the
difficult part of Rein in "Oberon" with
true sentiment and emotion.
She is Of rather large physique, ad-
mirably suited for the opera, and pos
sesses stage magnetism" as we'll as
striking talent as an actress. She is ex-
tremely attractive in appearance, being
blond, tall and willowy, with grayish
blue eyes. Her voice is of very wide
range, with every quality Of eclat and
richness. The weak point IS, perhaps
the medium, but the young cantatrice
can easily remedy this. Mile. Lubin Is
by birth a Partisan, and her family is Of
the modest, industrious, bourgeois class
that so often in France produces tall
ented artists. {. |. Is.
New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
BOYCOTT VILLAGE CHURCH
Parishioners Leave Rector to
Officiate to Empty Pews.
IPy Cable 10 Tho Tribune !

London, July 13.-An extraordinary
condition of affairs exists in Holton, a
Somerset village, where the church is
being boycotted. The Rev. Joseph Sor-
rel, the rector, who is eighty years old,
came TO the village eleven years ago,
but the churchgoers developed dislike
for him and ceased TO come 10 the
church, and now for some months not
a soul has attended the services. The
consequence is that there are no funds
for upkeep, the wooden gate Of the
churchyard is rotting and held closed
by piece Of rope, the grass has been
oyergrown by weeds, the graveyard Is
neglected and the tombstones are al
most hidden by rank vegetation.
There are twenty-one services each
week, which the aged rector scrupulous-
~ keeps. At least twice a day he rings
the church bell himself, as no one else
will do it, and whether Or not any one
comes the services are held. Sometimes
a stranger in the village goes to church.
and then, though the congregation Is
composed of only one person, the rector
delivers a sermon as though the church
were crowded. AS there is no organist
he starts the hymns himself.
The rector lives in the rectory abso-
lutely alone.