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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

your girhs sound and tight fill your canteens take pullthroughs in the butts of your carbines and fall in at hve-thirty."
 Then he turned back and pushed his way past Brausch and his aid into the inner room. Murchson lay stretched out the lounge breathing stertorousy his side was an empty tumber, and the whisky bottle was one-third empty.
 Even when first her name was spoken Churchill had of the welremembered script all those emotions that he had buried away when he left England start life in Africa anew rushed in on him with overwhelming power. That he had been forestailed Churchill had learned when Dora Jevons refused his suit; although her heart s she had felt rrevocably bound to that other and he had attempted turn her from this concept of duty. He had gone away. "If you should meet in Africa you will befrend him for my sake," she had said that last evening and the mans name had slipped easily from Churchilrs memory, as something of importance beside the poftentous fact of Murchson's incredible good fortune Churchill had thought to meet him. In that huge subcontirent which flies the British flag two men might wander for lifetime and never meet Now fate had thrust them together in this little hole-andcorner township and to add spice to her potpourr under such amazing eirc- stances!
 He raised the drunkard from the lounge and shook him, seeking to awaken him. Marchison opened his eyes, groaned stupid, and fell back nertly furious conflict ragged in Churchirs heart he looked down despairngy upon this besotted creature His first in- tent born of the wild exultaton of reviving hope had
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

been to carry him to the girl his stupor of drunken ness and bid her choose between them Now nnanlier instincts aWoke he save Dora, if she could be saved, from that shame and humiliation, bring back some shadows of conscience this drunkard bid him live down the past for the girls sake and take her away far from the sneering voices and contemptuous looks of his old associates And then there his duty to the government The telegraphc dispatch had been suthcienty vague perhaps the runor referred to no ing more than small tumult if fighting had not yet occurred this man, by of his power among the natives, might be made instrumental in preventing bloodshed.
 He caught Murchson by the arms and dragged him from the couch, shaking and purnneing him until he was awakened. Then he marched him out through the store past the storekeeper already gathering together
 s goods for concea1nent against marauders into the street. where he marched him up and down until he had Murehson again in the possession of his faculties
 He left him seated upon stool holding his aching head while he watched his line up for the march brief inspection satisfied him that ali was in order Tours right! Walk march !" he commanded; and the tiny column of three ranks moved off along the road the supply wagon, with its six mules, creaking behind them Then he helped Murchison into the saddle of his roam pony and rode beside him in the rear of the soldiers.
 The set before the township was left behind and almost as its rim dipped behind the distant hls 1t was night and they riding under full tropic meon On either side the thick bushgroth stretched out toward the the jingle of bits and creak of harness and carbines in buckets made monotonous music. Not till he saw by his hostages 6rmer seat and new command of his that he had shaken off the nants of his stupor did the lieutenant address Murch son his petlant questions and then he forgot all his contempt in presence of that grim danger that confronted all.
 Now, Murchison, I'll answer you" said Churchill, gravely The Pondos have stopped the coach between Buehanan's and Sigwa Pass. It's probably the trance to the Pass where they trap the passengers and kill the mules If there's been fighting we've got to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

UPSIDE the general store, post-of1ce, and telegraph bureau a group of soldiers of the Pondoland Rifles were lounging, smok- ing and tossing for drinks inside Brausch, the German storekecper, was setting out his latest novelties, keeping up, meanwhile, a running fire of chaff with the Pondo girl who had come insolently tip to the counter to demand gift. He had given her frecracker and was trying to induce her to make purchase, to which end he displayed glass beads, bracelets. and ankle pieces of copper wire, cheap mirrors, blankets, and boxes of stale sweetrneats,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04
Possibilities Of
the Months Menus
Larger Proportion of Heating Foods Now Desirable
Monotony Must be Avoided by Skilful Planning
By ANNA W. MORRISON.

lings, guinea fowl, peacock, pigeon.
puIlets s0uab and turkey.
Beginning with this month"; it will be
possible to serve a larger proportion
OF such heating foods as fat meats and
cereals. Batter mixtures and hot
breads may be added to the breakfast
menu. and hot desserts can be used.
When lettuce cannot be purchased the
country housewife can serve vegetable
salads to her family by combining two
or more varieties which are in her cell
lar for winter use. II the bed of pars-
lev Is carefully covered with Snow tn
prevent freezing, this herb may be
used all winter in its fresh state for
soups and stews. It will be made use-
full by drying, and then rubbing
through sieve aud placing in paper
bag or air tight bottle. The homely
potato salad is given a new flavor by
a sprinkIing OF either the fresh parsley,
chopped fine, or the dried variety.
The inexperienced housekeeper IS
also apt to get into rut with her
meals, which can easily be varied with
careful planning. System is an abso-
lutte necessity. and waste and extrav-
agance may be avoided by careful att
tention 70 cooking and the reserva-
ton OF left-overs for meals TO follow
The latter method win be more easily
when there Is little likelihood OF foods
spelling IL properly cared for.
BY cooking more cereal than Is re-
uuired for breakfast an appetizins
luncheon dish may be secured by pack
ing what is left in a pan, rinsing with
cold water to prevent sticking. and
when cold cutting into haH-inch thick
slices and sauteing in hot shallow fat
Hominy served this way may replace
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04

/ and experience. They counted the
pieces of tableware that are ordinarily
used at breakfast. and found that no
less than sixteen separate articles had
to be handled many times for each
person at the table-for q family OF
four. sixty-four articles, to be taken
out Of their places, set upon the table
or passed IN serving. removed. washed,
rinsed, dried and put away again
and this for one meal. the first Of
the day.
The method advocated in books On
serving, and most generally followed
nowadays, is to lay the table with q
heavy silence cloth. preferably OF
specially woven, double-faced canton
aannel--the thicker the better-and to
cover that with a pure white cloth of
linen damask. It is almost needless
to remind ourselves that all table
linen should be iroued perfectly dry.
and. except where II is necessary to
raise ennbroideries or naouograns by
laying them face down upon thick,
soft pad, the iron should be used upon
the right side of the linen, because
Of the gloss resulting from this method
Ali table linen should be folded as
lightly and as little as possible, and
never deeply creased. The smaller
or small. are not folded at all, but
laid in a drawer fatty or upon paste
board rolls. Il is not a bad plan to
lay dark blue tissue paper between
each piece Of linen. and this part of
the care is usually looked after by the
mistress Of the house. to whom the
linen shelves are apt TO be even dearer
than the silver chest.
IN place OF the tablecIoth for break
fast. luncheon and supper. many use,
with excellent ERECT and charm for
these. less formal meals that no cloth
can give, small doilies under each
plate and dish. with smaller ones for
salts and tunblers. These doilies may
be either crocheted, embroidered,
scailoped, heulstitched or of drawn
work. Where doilies are used there is
generally a tray cloth laid at the end
where the tea and coffee are poured
a simpler method, one equally as
pretty and dainty, and far easier for
the person laying the table and for the
laundress, IL to use hemstifched or
sealIoped elunch square,, which may
be plain, embroidered Or Of drawn
work. Il should be large enough land
BY no means necessarily square" as
its name would imply) to come to
within two inches of the edge of the
table. No silence cloth is used. for
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04
A Sculpture Party

A HOSTESS with bright ideas in
= vited six young couples to an
evening Of sculpture, each in
vitation containing a request to please
bring a penknife" When all the COM
pany had arrived each guest was given
3 small. square package containing
something rather hard and heavy. On
the outside OF the wrapper was written
his attempt at rhyme;
A block Of pure white marble, from
Paros in the Aegean Sea.
70. be used in scuipting the bust OF
some living celebrity.
Each artist" was assigned an object
to be cut from the marble, the assign
ments being different in every instance
Living celebrities. noted men or women
Of the past famous statues and AMI
mails were among the models.
Laughter was spontaneous when. on
removing the wrappers, cakes Of hard
white soap were revealed The guests
then went in search Of their penlSnives,
and during the next half hour they cut
from their eParian marble" the subject
assigned.
When the various statues were COM
plefed they were exhibited with the
names of the artists attached and each
craftsman voted for some work OF art
not his own The prize. q dainty little
Tanagra fgurine imitation, was award
ed for the statue receiving the most
votes. Imported gingerbread figures
were awarded as consolation gifts to
those who failed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04

certain person who sits cross-leggea
and offers mischief for Idle hands
watching for his opportunity-for tina
part Of the meal in which they are
most interested to be brought in. The
table can be made just as attractive
for such an arrangement; the fruit can
form the centerpiece and there are
many fruits for which finger bowls
need not be used; even when 1t is not
Of that variety fruit can be cut up OUT
side. the apparently additional work
being less than the washing and care
of delicate finger bowls and doilies.
There need be no service plates. for
the plate set under the cereal dish can
perfectly well be used for the later
course, where one is taken. This man
ner Of serving is admirable where
there are several grown-ups in the
family who depart at different hours
or where there are guests: II the maid
is not called upon to serve the break
fast no one has the uneasy conscious
ness Of incommoding the household ar
rangements by coming down late.
Coffee is now percolafed and can stand
for g time If necessary, cereal in a COW
cred dish keeps warm an astonishingly
long time, and can readily be heated
by an electrical appliance or can be
brought to the table in a chahng dish
and warmed by the alcohol lamp in a
minute. Toast can be made upon the
table, also, where there IS electricity;
but where there is not no one need
despise cold. crisp toast. Where the
family Is very large a side table set
with the things that would crowd the
larger one should be placed within
reach of the mother; and if guests or
grown persons have come down after
the mother is finished Il is not likely
seriously to injure anyone to help
themselves.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04

ing powder; then add the milk, salt
and beaten yolks. Beat the whites OF
eggs very stir; then add last to the
batter; fit twelve creased mufln pans
two-thirds full and bake in a hot oven
for twenty minutes.
Annle and Ounce Sherscake-one
pint of -four sifted with two rounding
teaspoonfuIs of baking powder and
half a teaspoonful OF saits rub into this
two rounded tablespoonfuls Of butter
or lard, aid when thoroughly mixed
stir in sufficient sweet milk to make a
soft dough easily patted out to At a
pie dish. Butter the latter and I'LL with
cooked ounces and uncooked, tender
tart apples cut into thin pieces. Add
water enough to Just cover the bottom
OF the dish, lay on the dough and bake
III d moderate oven until the apples are
cooked and the dough thoroughly done
and delicately Drowned on top. Place
a warm plate or platter over the top
and invert the pie dish so that the
fruit VIII be on top ana biscuit crust
on the bottom as illustrated. Cover
with granulated sugar, and serve hot
with cream or rich milk.
Cranberry Muffins-These may be
served for breakfast or used for oes-
sert course, accompanied by sweet or
egg sauce. Use the whole-wheat muf-
I'm recipe, substituting white -four FOR
the entire-wheat and stirring in the
last thing. one cupful Of cranberries
cut In halves.
Hominy Griddle caEess-Thin hom-
my mush left from breakfast with
enough hot milk to make one pirst. Do
this while the mush Is warm ard set
in cool place until needed. TheN add
sufficient -four TO make q 'runny" bat
ter, a rounding teaspoonful Of baking
powder. one-fourth level teaspoonful Of
salt. and one egg. beaten unseparated.
Pour by spoonfuls on a creased hot
gr.ddle, and when one side IS Drowned
turn carefully with a cake-paddle. Sour
milk or huttermilk may be substituted
for the sSs@et milk. The cakes. when
baked, shouls. not be thicker than an
eighth OF an incss II too thick, thin
with milk or cold rates II too thin,
add more flour.
Dreamed Eggs on Toapt-Cut the
bread ir.to inch-thick slices end set
into the hot oven for a few tnutes to
dry out; then arrange on tn toasIcT
over clear Goals or the gas mans TO
brown delicately. In this way the bread
Will be cooked through and the outside
crisp and delicate. While the bread is
toasting place a tablespoonful Of but
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04

eon-Cream of corn soup, hot crackers,
egg sandwiches, chocolate cakes,
grapes. Dinner-Corned beef, kohlrabi
with cream sauce, plain boiled pota-
toes celery and lettuce salad, squash
pie, cheese.
Wednesday. fredericksburg rice
and figs, corned beef hash, baked with
cheese top; plain wheat mullins, coffee.
Luncheon--Sauted egg plant, fresh
bread or biscuits, yellow sponge cake,
macedoine Of fruits, grape juice. Din
ner-Roast duck, flashed fried pota-
toes, creamed cabbage. picked beets.
green tomato pie.
Thursday. Breakfast-Baked APP
pies and cream, fried cereal mush,
maple syrup, coffee. Dinner-Soup
made from remnants of chicken and
duck, broiled sirloin steak and mush-
rooms, French fried potatoes, cauli-
flower with hot vinegar, lemon pie, cof-
fee Supper-Succotash. toast, orange
blanc mango with cream sauce. fresh
cocoanut cake.
Friday. Breakfast-Creamed eggs on
toast, baked pears, coffee. Luncheon
Clam fritters or oyster croQuettes,
stewed plums. nut cakes. Dinner
Baked fish with clam sauce, baked
potatoes, stewed lima beans with green
peppers, apple dumpiings.
Saturday Breadast-Dates, cereal
and cream, fish cakes made from left
over from Fridays dinner. raised graz
ham gems, coffee. Dinner-Hot meat
loaf. with tomato sauce lyonnaise POI
tatoes, tomato pickle, cocoanut custard
pie. Supper-Caulidower baked with
cheese. salt risings bread, jelly sponge
roll
Baked Tomatoes with Swiss chard-
Strip the leaves from the stalk and boil
a generous quart of the former in
sailed water for half an hour, drain,
and press IN colander to get as dry
as possible; then chop the chard very
fine and return to the kettle with one
egg yolk beaten with q little pepper.
a quarter OF & teaspoonful of salt. two
tablespoonfuIs of hard butter, and stir
until thoroughly blended. Cut the
stem-end from six firm tomatoes, re-
move the seeds and save for q tomato
sauce I'LL the shells with the chard
sprinkle with fne bread or cracker
crumbs mixed with butter and set in
q creased dish in a hot oven for twen-
ty minutes.
EscaiIcped Corn and Green Peppers
Split the peppers, remove the seeds
and tough white membrane and cut
into thin strips. Cut the corn from
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04

the cob and, If very large kernels, chop.
Spread a layer of fine cracker-crumbs
over the bottom of a buttered dish,
then lay in some corn, peppers and sea-
sonings until the dish is full, having
the top layer Of crumbs dotted with
butter. Pour in sweet milk enough to
come just through the top crumbs;
bake in a moderate oven for twenty
minutes or until the top is crisp, brown
and puffy; serve Immediately in or out
Of the dish. as illustrated, or it will
fall and become soggy.
Cheese SheII---If the shell is not at
hand the vegetable may be baked in a
buttered dish. the top layer being
mixed with grated or sliced American
cheese. Either a. pineapple or Edam
shell may be used. Scrub the satisfy
plant, then cook in sailed boiling water
until tender, scrape of the skin and
cut into pieces about an eighth Of an
inch thick and then crosswise. IL the
plant is large. Place two tablespoon
fuls Of butter In a hot pan. and when It
melts stir in two tablespoonfuls Of
-four, stirring Until blended: then stir
in a pint of hot milk, season with salt
and pepper; cook until smooth Place
two spoonfuls in the shell, then some
fine bread-crumbs, then layer of sal
sify. and repeat this until the shell is
filled. Have the last layer of crumbs
dotted with butter II the cheese shell is
used, or with grated cheese IL q dish IS
used If preferred. cold milk may be
used to naoisten the crumbs instead Of
the cream sauce, which makes a richer
dish.
sauted Egg PIant-Rinse OF the
plant, cut away the Stem-end and cut
the remainder into half-inch slices Do
not pare Lay the slices on the brsac-
board and cover with another clotE :
then roll with the roIlingpin to ex-
tract as much of the natural moisture
as possible. Dust with salt and pep
per, dip into beaten egg diluted with
tablespoonful of milk. coat with fine
stale bread-crunabs and cook in shall
low hot fat until brown on both sides
and perfectly tender. Serve with or
without a brown sauce made BY adding
cream 70 the sediment IN the fryer
after cooking the plant
Whole Wheat Muffins-Half pint
sweet milk, one and one-haf cupfus
entire-wheat -four. sifted; two eggs. half
teaspoonfuI salt, one rounding teaspoon
fuI baking powder, one tablespoonful
hard butter. Melt the butter and mix
with the -four. in which sift the bak-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04
Silnphfication Is
Up-to-date Method
Difficult Question is WhaS to Eliminate Reducing the
Number Of Motions Scientifically.

I've doubtless served her apple
raw and presented It to Adam
FL her hand, but ! am very GER
tain that she smiled: and she has be-
queathed that gift to all Of her daugh-
fers-to offer things to eat as charm
ingly. e. attractively. as femptingly
as possible.
How best to do so has been a sub
ject Of absorbing interest to all women
Of all centuries Fashions IN vlands
have always influenced fashions IN
presenting them In the days when
feastinG was heavy It was not un-
seemly to deck the table with cloths
ornament them with stuffed peacockss
with tails spread or bears heads gar
nished with apples. or whole carp. or
wonderful ships Of silver and gold.
But To-day we know better. Knowl-
edge isI offered as at clubs and lectures.
in every magazine, every newspaper
can recall breakfast table that in-
Of preserved fruits or jams or Jellies.
and il more than one family II local.
ity famous for its hospitality and good
eating there used to. be served at least
four kinds Of bread, often seven. az
q meal. But to-day we should regard
that sort Of providing as almost crin1-
inal The scientific combination OF
foodstlIfEs and their proper cooking
and serving are coming, to be common
knowledge. The meal Of to-day is an
apparently simple one, and this APP
parent simplicity has very naturally
extended to table decorations. The
simplicity, however, Isl only apparent:
properly balanced meal costs more
ii thought mot infrequentIy more also
II asort-fhan the old-fashioned one
that perhaps offered pea soup. white
and sweet potatoes. lima beans and
bread pudding at the same time. And
the table decoration Of to-day. which
includes the proper setting and the use
OF proper utensils, is simple only In
appearance. There was never g time
when more thought was given to it,
nor when more money could be spent
upon It unostentatiously and taste
fully.
And yek there was never time when
We knew how to serve our families
with food 80 well selected and prop-
eriy prepared, with So little compares
tive expense 80 also can the woman
Of To-day set her table exquisitely.
with but little cost IN money. and no
more cost Of time and care than
everyone Of Us loves to give.
The problem that faces most Of us
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-04

Vegetables Jerusalem artichokes,
late tomatoes and evergreen corn VIM
ter squash. pumpkins spinach, sorreL
nhaltobs. watercress, parsley, lettuce,
ascarolle ehicory. celery. horseradisn.
late Taelishes, Canadian, ruta oaEa tur-
nips and white turnips, neefSs carrots.
white and sweet potatoes. RED ana
green peppers. oyster plant caopass;
beans, eggplant. onions. cultivated and
deld mushrooms caun1oWeh sa1aae'
lsel<z. Olra, Swiss chart
Fruika--Apples. bananas. Spanish or
anges, barbarries. late peaches. pears,
. gs.5nres. oocoenuts. ginger. citron,
grapes. late melons, grape frults pine
anp1es. peruiuanons, wintergreen Der
ries. cranberries.
Msats-Beef. yearling lamb mutton
pig pork, veal.
Game - Venison, hare pertridsss:
pheasant. pigeon. squirrel. turkey Wild
sessa. duck
sh-.Blueash. blackflsh. oonifo. cod
- -. eels founders, nukess pae e.s
aaIe1t. fresh herring. kfnghsn. span
Sd aaa common mackerel. muscal-
pnst. perch pike. red snapper, 81
Elon. Eneepshead. srnelts spoInsn'
sS1rBeoas Eeaikfsh. bullheads.
Sneu tl1h-Hard and soft sneLi
Grams. lonS<ez, crawf1sh. hard ana son
Sans. oysteEs scsliops, oyster craps'
Salt Fish-Anchovies, dried Goldfish,
herring pickerel salmon.
Smoked and Canned E;sh-F4addock,
hafbut, herring mackerel, salmon,
shad, sturgeon, sardines cells, crabs,
shrimps, clans, oysters
ksultrs'-Cnicken duck. geese, gos-