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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1913-09-12

The Sebastian, stated to be the
first Diesel motor-driven oil-tank yes
sci to be built in the United King.
dom, was recently launched at Dun
dee. 1t is a twin-screw motor vessel.
fitted with long poop bridge and fore
castle; length over all. S21 feet;
breadth tmolded), 45 feet; depth
tmoldedl, SO feet inches; gross ton.
mage. about 3,4o0. 1t has been de-
signed for the carriage OF oil in bulk.
and is divided into 2S oil-tight COM
partments by longitudinal and trans
verse bulkheads.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

The Chautauqua movement has SUI
fered to a large extent in the eastern
states because of the increasing fire.
quency with which political speakers
were secured, who have taken the op.
portunity to expound the cause they
represented, to the disgust OF at least
a part of their audience. A chautau-
qua is for all the people and must be
absolutely free from anything that
may SAVIOR of politics, vaudeville, sec
tarianism or speculation. There is a
demand for the chautauqua but the
public will not consent for a move.
ment to be commercialized. Valley
City is fortunate in having at the head
of her institution a man who is alive
to all of the pitfalls that threaten
such undertakings and will carefully
guard against anything of this nature
The 1913 meeting is going to be the
biggest thing Of the kind ever under
taken in the west and everyone may
as we'll get that fully understood
that this years is going to be a hum
mer and that the manner in which the
people respond will in large measure
decide the men behind the movement
as to what the future meetings will be
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

Barnes county ought to have an I'm.
migration league. There are various
organizations to promote better farm
ing and dairying and for the purpose
of boosting the price. of land until it
shall reach a price in proportion to
its real productive value, but so far as
we are able to learn there is no work.
ing organization to promote immigra.
ton to Barnes County. The Governor
has a plan to send representative of
the state east to secure new arrivals
to this country for this state and if
this is done or if it is not done the
county should have league to pro.
mote immigration. More farmers and
less hoboes" may be realized if a
properly organized effort is made.
Land men alone cannot do this it will
require a united effort of the agricul-
tural interests and business interests
OF the county. There are thousands of
renters in the eastern states who are
first class dairy farmers and in this
county there are many large tracts
of land which could be sold in small
parcels to reliable families on every
small payments and in most instances
without any cash payment at all, and
it only remains to get the owners of
the land and the eastern renter to get
together and Barnes county will come
into her rightful heritage as dairy
ing community. The Times-Record
would like to see this mater agitated
until some action is taken either by
a new organization or by one of the
clubs.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

The whole nation is shaken by the
disclosures which may necessitate re-
turning the prizes Won at the Olympic
games by Thorpe. the American In
dian athlete who has been the wonder
of the era. 1t seems that when this
man was a boy he played baseball
and took money for it although he did
not play for money, and this makes
him a professional in all other lines of
sport.
The whole trouble, which is one that
assails our American athletic councils
every year, is due to the un-American
and ridiculous system in vogue under
the control of the Amateur Athletic
union. 1t is system directly founded
On the English custom of defining an
amateur as one who does not have to
work for living.
The amateur" business was origi-
nally started for the purpose of keep
ing plebans out Of the athletics that
the leisure classes might not have to
come into contact with the working
classes in their sports. More and more
this view has been emphasized in AM
erica and carried to absurd lengths.
The question of amateurism in this
country does not depend on a mans
honesty, or on the fact that he indulg-
Is in sport only for love of the sport
If man ever at any time accepts a
penny or reward TO, any game in
which he participated he becomes a
professional in every line of sport he
may ever afterward care to take up.
4 football player was ruled out az
4 professional because he won a five
dollar prize at greeced-pig contest at
county fair in Wisconsin some years
back.
A country boy may play baseball
and receive remuneration for it in his
bone town. Later on he goes to col
sege. He enters college in good faith
Us bona fide student. He does moi
earn his living through athletics. He
IS not going to school for the sake Of
athletics. Yet he is barred as a pro
fessfonal because he once played base
ball for consideration.
Some of the cleanest college men ii
America are on record in favor of al
lowing students to help pay their way
through school by playing baseball
in summer, and not barring them from
college sports. The sports of a college
should be open to all students who arr
in school on the square for the pur
pose of getting an education. But thi.
system has grown and grown until &;
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
Daddy 'sBedtirne
q. The Little Acorn
DIOlV That Became
An Oak Tree

window the bows Of the big oak
battered to the ground
there beautiful big oak tree daddy began 1T
grew woods and it the only oak around there
lonely when fall and the little went
spring and to bs
oak trees
about carefully for
which to fall
the fall
they they do in the winter
fall in the midst Of that bank Of soft earth Then
workm the soi,' said another
that place yond said third
had something little thing that tho
HIM BY and BY when the wind
would he to fall the
which and there
would pinch him to death The
lone morning the biggest groan
There's squirrel coming the he said And the tree began
squirrel climb steal the The little
had just the limb and he grabbed the ar
the trunk with it. He the little
and popped the in But the squirrel did
back the that hard to climb
"After awhile the other began drop off, but the Pile Of leaves
another found soil that looked
SOFT pierce third rottd in the
that which
squirrel had buried in his little cellar and forgotten to dig
little shoot which became tall laplng and
oak tree, the pride of the forest"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

The farmers institute held by the
Niagara-Shawnee Agricultural club,
was well attended, about 200 people
coming each day. The speakers were
Professor Hall, Mr.. Jewett and o. d,
Center of the Better Farming associa.
ton. On Tuesday Professor Hall
gave a talk on the scientific Judging
Of horses, after which he held an out.
door session, and gave practical de-
monstration Of the work. Wednesday
o. d. Center talked on soil or Gust
dirt" The men were much interested
and were sorry that he had not more
time on the subject. After this Mr.
Jewett talked on cattle Judging and
also gave demonstrations. The fine
impersonations given by Miss Noel
meyer of Grand Forks were greatly
enjoyed by the audience.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

man who is poor cannot indulge in
amateur athletics unless he DELHI.
erately lies.
OF course, America in entering the
Olympic games, under the conditions
imposed, was obliged to honestly live
up to those conditions and does s,
honorably in the Thorpe matter.
But back of the whole trouble is
the vicious and un-american system
imposed by James E. Sullivan AMI
Casper Whitney and the self-anoint.
ed keepers of the nations athletic
conscience, which boiled down to plain
English is "No man should be allowed
to participate in athletics who is not
gentleman of leisure and money!
st. Paul Dispatch.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

North Dakota will some day be fam
Gus for its power. The state geolo
g;st. A. G. Leonard, has just issued Il
statement in which he says that the
total tonnage of workable coal in
North Dakota is estimated at 500
900, 100000 tons. Wrapped up in that
vast tonnage is supply of power
which staggers the mind, when an at
tempt is made to grasp its possibili
ties.
Those who scott at the idea that
this will some day be great manu-
featuring state fail to take into con
sideration the fact of this vast power
supply and the further fact that in
the state next to North Dakota on the
east are to be found the greatest iron
ore deposits in the world.
In the light OF the tremendous ad.
vancement that has been made in the
WtStclu pdIL VI lA6 ONt4Cu oIulSo ia
the past fifty years, who will deny
that North Dakota within the next ff-
ty years may not develop into one Of
the greatest manufacturing state in
the nation?
This Is not to say that any great
development in manufacturing will
come in the immediate future. But.
as the state and the nation grow, and
especially as the west is developed
and the population increases and con.
centrates as it has in the east, this
neglected source of unreasonable
wealth. The inventive geniuses of
the coming generations will be chal-
lenged to provide methods of extract
ing this power at little cost.
Until such a time comes, the state
and it's great agricultural resources
should lay all stress on developing
these resources.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

A great many housewives have had
trouble in making rich, light, moist mullins
without their falling, and to overcome this,
they have resorted to making the batter SO
stiff that when baked, the mullins are very
dry A muffin can be made almost as
light and just as palatable rs a pop-over,
but to make q light, moist muffin which is
not soggy in the center, a double-raise
baking powder such as X c must be used.
X c Baking Powder has two separate and
distinct raises: one when moisture is
added, and the other when heat is applied,
so that the raising is sustained until the
muffin is baked through, and all danger Of
falling and becoming soggy is past.
Like biscuits, the softer the dough goes
into the oven, the lighter the mullins that
come out Of it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
VALUE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA

Mr.. Bryan said recently, as an in
PRODUCTION to one of his lectures; :"
have for seventeen years been using
the Chautauqua platform as a means
of reaching the public and l &C
knowledge an increasing appreciation
of the opportunity which it afford
for presenting message. | did moi
think it presumptious to aspire to &c
from the chautauqua platform to the
White House to the Chautauqua plat
| would not have considered it a
stepping down to return from the
White House to the hautauqua plat
form. In a land like ours, where pub
Tic opinion rules, it is surely an hon
orable ambition to seek to aid in the
moulding of an opinion that will com
pei such governmental action as is
proper and restrain such government
al practices as are improper. In some
respects, a chautauQua audience is SUI
yerior to political audience. In po'
Itical audience ones auditors are
broadly speaking, divided into three
groups. In the first group are politi.
cal friends who come with predis'
position to accept what is said; in
the second group are political oppon.
ents who are predisposed to reject
what is said; in the third group are
those who come from curiosity and
who retire when their curiosity is sat
,isfed. A chautauqua audience is com
posed of those who come because
they want tc hear and who listen
that they may hear. They remember
any thing that is worth remembering
and they multiply any good seed that
may be sown. | am glad that more
and more of our public men are Civ
ing time to the chautauqua platform.
1t gives the people chance to learn
!rom public men their views on i'm
portant public questions without cam
paign coloring; it gives public men
a chance to come n touch with the
people and to feel the public pulse:
and last, but not least, it affords a
legitimate means of adding to ones
lncome-a means not to be under
estimated at this time when preda-
tory interests seek 10 allure public
men from duty by secret employment.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

The attempt of the democrats, who
are now in the majority, to hold up
the Taft appointments is calling forth
severe criticism from the friends as
well as the enemies of the party. It
has never been customary to do a
thing like that, or to attempt it, and
the democrats who are showing this
discourtesy are paving the way for fu-
ture distrust. The people elected
these men to the National Legislature
in order to be rid of trickery in those
bodies and they will not take kindly
to continuation of the same thing in
worse form. Speaking of this the
Grand Forks Herald said in part:
The hold-up of President Taft's ap-
pointments by the democratic sena-
tors would be bad enough if the party
had a majority in the senate and the
proceeding accordingly had at least
the quality of smoothness-or, as
Mayor Gaynor might put it, of "out-
ward decency." But the affair, which
would be highly discreditable at best
gets touch OF the positive scandal
lous from the fact that it is only by
resort of the methods of filibusterers
that the obstruction by the democrats
of the ordinary process of confirma-
ton Of presidential appointments can
be kept up. Obstructive tactics are
justiiiable in some situations, but
never except when SINE great princip-
pie is at stake, or it can be alleged
chat the act sought to be obstructed
would cause serious injury to the
public interests. No pretense of any
thing of the kind can be made in the
present instance; there is nothing in
the air but braZen determination to
grab, by hook or by crook, something
more of the offices by the incoming
party than would naturally fall to its
share to distribute.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

They understand the situation They
will support Wilson If he dehes the
Money Power; but they will surely
condemn him if he falters or yields.
The people have right to look upon
the presidency as their strong arm.
It may be welded vigorously in pro-
tecting the body-politic; or it may be
permitted to dangle inertly whilo
Privilege makes off with the peoples
dearest possessions. May Wilson use
it with unfagging determination to
drive the oligarchy of greed out Of
the temples of honest business and
honest government; and may it grow
in strength and efficiency in such ser.
vice.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
Some Helpful Suggestions


Mullins would be served on many moro
breakfast tables if this meal were not
prepared so hurricdly that there is not tim,
enough to stir up mullins and bake them.
With X c double-raise baking powder, tho
batter may be stirred up the night before
land if set in cool place, it will remain
lin partially lcavencd condition all night,
land the raising will be completed when put
lin the oven in the morning. No difference
will be noticed between mullins mixed tho
night before and those mixed Immediately
before baking. This should not be
attempted however, with any Of the old
fashioned single-actilS baking powders.
The old fashioned way was to bake
mullins in a hot oven, bat this makes q
thick heavy crust and soggy center,
which is unpalatable and hard to digest.
The proper and healthful way to bake
mullins is to start the oven at q low
temperature, just as for baking cakes.
When the mullins come up to the top Of the
pan, the heat should be raised, and they
should be baked until crisp crust is
formed. This crust will be thin, and tho
centers will be found light and fluffy. but
thoroughly baked.
Always sift the -four and baking powder
together at least three times, no matter
what kind Of pastry is to be made. This
will insure its rising evenly and the -four
is lightened by having air sifted into it.
Either water or milk may be used for
mullins. Milk will make the richer muffin
and brown better, but water will answer
the purpose very nicely when milk is not
TO be had.
A most excellent spread" for mullins,
hot biscuits and hot cakes is made by
Dreaming together about equal paRts Of
butter and honey either strsined Of in the
comb. II the butter IL solid 1t win work up
to about the consistency Of hard sauce and
it is simply delicious.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
A GROWING DANGER.

Commenting ON the present trend
Of American literature the Youths
Companion sounds very timely warn
ing to American parents.
Not long ago there was time
when parents could leave any Amer.
can periodical upon the sitting-room
table without misgiving. That time
has passed. The periodicals that you
do not need to examine with some
care before you put them where
your girls may see them are now few.
Under one specious pretext or anoth.
er, those who control them are print.
ing stories and articles that are far
from paying that Difference to mod.
esty and decency upon which our lit.
erature used justly to pride itself.
This is matter for very great re-
gret. Periodicals intended for gen
eral reading seek to enter the home
on the plea always that they bring
wholesome recreation if not more
solid benefits. Thus they rest under
a peculiar obligation to be careful
what they print. That obligation they
are now disregarding, to the injury of
our youth.
Now it is the right and the duty,
and it should be the peculiar care of
parents wisely to pick the counselors
Of their daughters in all that relates
to love and marriage. This right and
duty The Companion does not be.
lieve they wish to delegate to any edi.
tor,-especia1ly of the commercial
type,-or to any story-writer,-espec-
tally the story-teller Of meager talent
who must spice his wares if he would
sell them. In respect Of these mat.
tiers, there is right time and a
wrong in which to impart the new
knowledge; there IS right mood and
a wrong in which to receive it. Only
they who are intimately acquainted
with the individual girls to be guided
can hope to escape making tragic
blunders. Our daughters should not
be left to the mercy of the casual
If the new standards of the periodi-
Gals are to persist, the difficulty of
the problem of bringing up our young
people in sweetness and wholesome
ness Of mind is greatly increased. !
Their reading must be much more
strictly supervised their taste for
what is good and pure and wholesome
in literature must be more sedulously
cultivated; and their characters must
be nodded to new strength to resist in
a world no longer tender of them.
But must the new standards per-
sist? Cannot the periodicals of gen.
eral circulation be forced by public |
opinion to abandon their new license?
Certainly We do not need to buy and
read them and bring them to our |
homes; and if We do not buy them, !
they will not long offend.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
Corn Meal Mullins

II CUP butter a cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten cup milk or water
~ cups corn meal ~ cups -four
n teaspoonful salt
level teaspoonfuls K G Baking Powder
Cream the butter; add the sugar and eggs.
Silt together, three times, the meal, -four,
salt and baking powder. Add this to the
first mixture alternately with the milk.
Bake about twenty-five minutes. baking q
little slowly to start. then increase heat to
bake brown.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
One>Egs Mullins

2 Guns flour tcaspoonfu1 salt
2 slightly rounded teaspoonfuls X c Baking
Powder u cup sugar
u cup melted lard or butter
egg cup water or milk
Slit dry Ingredients together three times.
Add to this the unbeaten egg, melted Short
ening and water or milk. Then beat all
together until perfectly smooth. Oil muffin
or gem pans and have oven slow until the
mullins come. to the top of the pan, then
mullins. This recipe makes IL large mullins.
Raisins or currants may be added if desired.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
Graham Muffin,

/ cup graham -four cup pastry -four
2 level teaspoonfuls X C Baking Powder
l to 2 level tablespoonful sugar
y teaspoonful salt egg
~ cups milk or water
2 to Tablespoonful melted butter
Mix and bake as One-Egg Mullins.
Graham batter should always be quite soft
to insure ightness and moist muffin.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

AoH VAOssS 0kAQV0A0 " W IA ~ as
pathy with President-elect Wilson and
in recent issue Of his paper unbur
dened his mind as follows.
Newspapers report that Privileged
Business, disturbed by Mr.. Wilson's
insistence upon calling spade a
spade, is now holding solemn confer
ences with itself as to the advisability
of throwing scare" into Wilson.
The recent utterances of the Presi-
dent-elect indicate that he is not to be
easily frightened by the growls of
Wall Street. But were he inclined to
lose his nerve at the threat of an
other financial panic, let him remem-
Der that the people this wide over are
now wise to the game of the specula-
tive bankers and the gambling pro-
moters. They will not be STAN Jeded.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

Editor J. H. Nagel of the Forbes Re.
publican, we'll known in Valley City
is laid up with an attack of appendi.
citis which confined him to his room.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13
Dale MuGns

u cup butter u cup sugar
* cup milk or water egg
335eups, pastry flour y 4 teaspooqful ;s:S
Scant a pound dates
Cream the butter, add the sugar and TIA
egg, beaten light. Sift together three times.
the -four, baking powder and salt: add these
to the first mixture, alternately with tt.o
milk; beat thoroughly and add the da.cs.
stoned and cut in pieces Bake rather
slowly to start. increasing heat to brown.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

Rev. A. H. Beer of Cooperstown.
was visiting with friends here Wednes-
day.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

Next Thursdays Lesson; PUDDlNGa
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-13

outside window where the bows OF the Dig OAK
Now then battered to the ground
there beautiful big oak tree" daddy began II"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-17
LARGE SUM REALIZED sY
TAG DAY FOR ISLAND PARE

Tag Day, Saturday Vas Instituted
for the benefit Of Island PARK by the
CITY Island Park aad Library asso-
CATION and proFed very successful
$40 being realized for The imuroTe-
ment fund
Members OF the Cries department;
Of the Palmetto club we're Il charse
q The mOSenezt and they we're a.
sisted b numbers OF roung ladies'
Eho we're provided Eith tags bear.
ing the words. Tag, Benefit Island
PARK. which they offered to persons
throughout The city during the aav
accepting for them any sun rendered
The tickets or tags we're printed n
different colOss and persons xho
purchased IRON several yoang ladies
displayed Al the colors OF The
Rainbow IN their decorations Which
were attached to their persons for
the remainder o. the day.
The tags we're 10 be seen attached
TO automobiles and other vehicles and
even horses. dogs and cats we're tick.
eted with the bright oo.ored pieees
OF cardboard which. meant improve
meut Of the city island.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-17
RENDERED 4 RECEPTION
At SE4BREEzE

One q the mosr pleasant social
Greats q the season Vas tha ~
ceptzo1 rendered 10 friends Saturday
eTenlng BY Ar. and Mrs. Thomas 2.
Cords a tAelr home n Seahreeze.
Ar- and Mrs- Cords received the
guests On their arrival Al the AZ
trac<zve residence. he various
roomes Of which were beautifully dec.
grated with baskets o. roses and
gree1egy.
The p0rehes we're screened in
with vines 80 serve As : smoking
room FOR the gentlemen and here
many Of them enjoyed cigars and CT
gareEtes- DegiciCss punch vas served
in ths library and the refreshments
serFed IN the dining room we're more
than usually elaborate