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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD
BUFFERS USES OUTSIDE OF COM.
BiNATIoN WITH BREAD.
Should Be Freely Used az a Season.
Ing and as neutrality-suspicious.
FlaVers That May Be Added
as Desired.

The full value of butter, both as an
appetizer as nourishing article of
diet, as seasoning and as a garnish-
Ing, Is realized by very few cooks.
Butter Is really one of the most valu-
able foods In the larder. 1t is not
merely to spread chunkily on bread
although 1t is good enough there; 1t
should be made an interesting part
Of the meals at which 1t Is served.
In middle class French families the
real value of butter Is better under
stood than 1t is here. Every morning
the butter Is left at the door, just as
the milk is; and 1t is fresh, creamery
butter, too, for the most part-always
fresh instead of salt. The butter is
then chilled and shaved into wafer
like strips for breakfast, to be eaten
with the rolls that form the body Of
this meal. At luncheon butter is fire.
quently served-always daintily-with
bread and radishes, or some other
side dish, as an appetizer. Then, eat
en- slowly, its goodness can be appre-
ciated.
II the making of butter pats or
molds is a burden, try making them
only once in three days Keep them
In bowl of ice water in the refriger-
ator, and they will retain their shape
even in the warmest weather 1t does
sometimes seem troublesome for maid
or mistress to have to spend five or
ten minutes before each meal making
butter pats; but fifteen minutes once
In two or three days will be enough
for the making of many molds, since
the utensils and materials need only
be got out once, and since a certain
dizziness comes with repeated making,
and the second score of butter balls
can be made in half the time 1t took
to make the first score.
The small wooden molds are easier
to manage than paddles, and surely
prints of butter from the molds look
and taste as we'll as balls of butter
formed with the paddles. To manage
the molds, wash them in ice water,
and then stamp the butter out care
fully, taking care to push the bottom
Of the mold as far out as possible be-
fore removing the print. The butter
should be cold when it is printed.
Horseradish butter is good with
cold meats and 1t is also delicious to
use when making meat sandwiches.
To make it, cream two tablespoonful
of butter, add two of freshly grated
horseradish, tablespoonful of thick
cream and half teaspoonful of lemon
Juice. Keep 1t on the ice.
Maitre d'hotel butter is used to
spread over broiled steak or fish. To
make 1t, cream two tablespoonfuls of
butter, add slowly half teaspoonful
of salt, an eighth Of a teaspoonful of
white pepper, tablespoonful of lem
on juice and the same amount of
minced parsley.
Parsley butter can be used with
vegetables. To make 1t cream three
tablespoonfuls of butter and add a
tablespoonful of lemon Juice, the same
amount of minced parsley and half
teaspoonful of salt
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

AS will be readily understood, the
commission is able and willing to sell
food at very little above cost. Conse-
quently the housewife on the isthmus
can buy at prices that are never above
those in the states, and that nearly
always are considerably lower.
An important part of the commits.
sary plant is the industrial and ex-
perimental laboratory in Cristobal,
where all the foods are tested and
many things, such as aavoring ex-
tracts, are manufactured.
The commission conducts more than
a dozen hotels for white Americans,
where good meals are furnished for
80 cents each; score of mess halls
for European laborers, where a days
board costs forty cents, and about
twenty-five kitchens for West Indian
laborers, where board casts thirty
cents day. Something like million
meals are served each month in these
various establishments, for nearly ev-
cry employe Of the commission eats
at government table. 1t has been
said that no private contractor in
the world feeds his employees as well
as the Isthmian canal commission.
Very few of the men ever ate better
meals than they are getting on the
isthmus, and this is true of the Amer
leans as well as of the Spaniards and
West Indians.
No, you cannot avoid the use of the
superlative degree in speaking about
Colonel Wilson's commissary depart
ment
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

stances much more. Hanging in long
rows in the Icy cold rooms are the
carcasses of 400 beeves and hogs and
sheep in due proportion. In other
rooms, not 30 cold, are $50 tons OF po-
tatoes, and vast quantities of onions,
turnips, beets, carrots, cabbages,
yams, celery, tomatoes and other veg
etables. In yet other rooms are ten
tons Of poultry, and elsewhere are
boxes Of fruit without number. And
this enormous supply is daily depleted
and daily renewed.
Adjoining the cold storage plant is
the bakery, in whose immense ovens
are baked each working day about
10000 loaves Of bread, 1900 rolls and
$50 pounds Of cake. The coffee de-
partment, which roasts and sends out
about 100000 pounds of the roasted
berry each year, receives the especial
attention of Colonel Wilson, for he
is himself a great coffee drinker. He
personally makes up the formulas for
the blends, and as something of COT
fee connoisseur myself, l can testify
that he knows what he is about when
he does 1t.
The people Of the zone, white and
black alike, are very fond of Ice
cream, and to supply the demand the
commlssiary manufactures about 49,,
900 gallons a year, of three grades.
The first grade is as good ice cream
as one can get anywhere, and even
the third grade is mighty welcome
after hot day in the Culebra Cut or
the Pedro Miguel locks.
Are you tired of figures yet? If not,
please consider that the ice plant at
Cristobal makes nearly 10000 tons of
ice a year, the corned beef plant has
an annual output Of about 100000
pounds, and that almost $4,000
pounds Of butter is handled by the
butter printing plant, all of the butter
being brought from the United States.
Then we will move to the laundry. In
this spacious building, with its long
rows of washing machines and dry
ing and ironing devices, all the laun-
dry work Of the Zone, excepting that
Of the Ancon hospital, is done, and in
addition that of all the steamship lines
running to Colon except one. 1--WE are
now handling" said the manager, IAN
average of about half million pieces
a month, and in the months when the
tourists come in greatest numbers the
figures mount to about 100000"
The figures l have been giving are
approximate only, for they are chang
ing continually with changing condi-
tions. Here is list of some of the
more important importations of food
products during the last fiscal year:
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

IS rs bushels an acre.
acre, cost $4.35 to prepare, leaving a
return of $3091 after paying for the
preparation.
Land plowed July IS, seven inches
deep, produced 442s bushels per acre,
the highest yield in the experiment,
cost $4.S5 per acre for preparation.
and returned $3O,SS per acre over cost
of production.
Land plowed July 10, twelve inches
deep, with the Spalding deep tillage
implement, cost $50 per acre for
preparation and produced Al bushels
Of wheat per acre. The crop when
sold returned $211O per acre above
the cost OF preparation.
The preparation of the seed.bed is
the most important factor in growing
crop of wheat An ideal seed-bed
for wheat is firm, well-compacted
soil supplied with ample moisture
and available plant food. To prepare
firm seed.bed, to store moisture,
anu W llbSldtG pant lOOu lSHuil 70
time. 1t is not accomplished in day,
week or a month; it Is the result
of many days of settling, some good
packing rains and frequent cultiva-
ton of the soil. 1t is, therefore, only
possible to prepare an ideal seed-bed
when the preparation of the ground
Is started early in the summer. The
advantages of a firm seed-bed that
result from early blowing or listing
and frequent subsequent cultivation
cannot he overestimated. A firm seed
bed is absolutely necessary If the
subsoil water is to be utilized by the
young wheat plant. On loose, poorly
packed soil there is such poor con-
nectiOn between the soil particles that
moisture cannot be raised by capil-
larry attraction from the subsoil. I'm
der this condition the soil may be
well supplied with subsoil moisture
and the wheat fail to terminate be-
cause of the loose condition of the
soil, which prevents the rise of water
A firm seed-bed is only one of a
number of benefits that result from
the early preparation of the soil. Mois-
ture is conserved and plant-food is
made available in this way. The
conservation of moisture results from
the killing of the weeds that sap the
ground of water, and from looser
condition of the soil that more readily
absorbs rain. The cultivation of the
soil after packing rains forms an earth
mulch which prevents the loss of
moisture by evaporation.
In the drier parts of the state per-
haps the greatest benefit resulting
from an early preparation OF the soil
is the conservation of moisture.
Where moisture is more plentiful the
greatest benefit results from the lib
GRAFTON of plant-food, and especially
of the plant-food nitrogen. Plants use
nitrogen in the form OF nitrates, Nj
trates are formed as the result of bac-
terial action. The bacteria that form
nitrates work only in well-aired soils.
Thus the better the soil is aired the
more nitrates are formed. 1t is evil
dent, therefore, that the greatest de-
velopment of nitrates takes place in
soil plowed the earliest and given
the most frequent cultivation through
out the summer. Thus the firmest
seed-bed, the most plant.food, the
greatest accumulation of moisture and
usually the largest yields results from
the earliest preparation of the soil.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

Good results have been obtained at
the Hays station in using kafir for
silage. This crop outyielded corn con-
siderably as silage crop. 1t required
the kafir from % acres to fill one silo
having a capacity of $50 tons, Count
ing the rows and bundles to the row
and the average weight of bundles, it
was assumed that 200 tons of green
or nearly green kafir went into 1SO-
ton silo.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNlGYSC[1OOL.
LESSON
(By e. o. SELLERS, Director of Even-
ing Department The Moody Bible In
stitute OF Chicago.)
LESSON FOR AUGUST 3
THE PLAQUES OF EGYPT.

LESSON TEXT-Ps. 1Os:2S-Ss (cf. Elk.
7:8-11:10)
GOLDEN TExT-"whosdver shall exalt
himself shall be humbled; and whosoever
shall humble himself shall be exalted
r. V. Matt. 23:12
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
mo- Launder HandkerchIefs.

A sheet of glass large enough to
hold two handkerchiefs on each side
is convenient article to put in the
trunk. 1t can be easily exposed to
light and air and irons handkerchiefs
far better than windowpane or min
ror
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
sImpIe but Effective JeIIy stralner

A very simple improvement in the
old-time jelly bag is to be seen in the
stores. 1t is merely well-made large
bag. but it has bone ring which
comes with it. AS the ring is slipped
down, the Jelly, of course, is squeezed
out, SO much better than the old-tlme
way of dripping or squeezing with the
hands.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
THE YIELD OF WHEAT DEPENDS LARGELY
ON THE PREPARATION OF THE SEED BED
Results of Test at the State Agricultural College Show that
Yields Varied this Year from Nine and 0ne-third
to Forty-fOur and TwO-hrds
Bushels an Acre.

tBy L. E. Call, Professor Of Agron
VWYHEAT YIELDS depend largely
" upon the methods OF prepar'
ing the seed-bed Some very
striking results obtained in a three
year test Of seed.bed methods re-
Gently completed on the farm Of the
Kansas Agricultural College prove
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

my, Kansas Agricultural College.l
Land plowed August 10. seven
inches deep, gave Al bushels per
acre. from which there was left
529.37 after paying $500 for cost OF
preparation.
Land plowed July 10, three inches
deep, gave yield of A bushels per
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
Have Fine Flavor

To give potatoes a flavor add half
teaspoonful of sugar. as we'll as salt,
when boiling. This does not make
them too sweet, but gives delicious
flavor.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

Running the grader so near the
fence that posts fall down and wreck
the fence is objectionable. 1t gener-
ally results in cattle or horses in
neighbours wheat or corn field, and
that means trouble for more than one
farmer.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01
To Polish Elnora.

When stained floors become dull
rub them with mixture of equal
parts Of beeswax and turpentina.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
STEALING CREDIT
FROM AN OFFICER
Lieut., Mcclure and Men Robbed
of Glory BY Cub
Reporter.

Cn April 3 the Chicago Record
Herald published a picture which
represented, according to the print
ed accompaniment, portion of Col,
Msrlarty's Fighting Seventh filling
a bulkhead on Ohio levee at Fourth
street. The picture was alright
but 1T didn't happen to be Moriarty
or men of the Seventh. The officer
shown in the picture actually was
Lieutenant Mcclure OF Co. of the
Fourth Regiment !. N. G. and mem.
bers Ct his company from Sullivan
H., that were on the job.
The Record-Herald cub reporter
who took the picture was in Mortar
tvs regiment. saw an opportunity tc
steal glory for his commander and
grabbed It.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
Back Home Again. !
PAVING PROPOSITION WINS !.
IN ANNA ELECTION.

Ann. ILL.,. April 15.---In the city
election here today, Mayor Ernest
s. Alden, Democratic city improve
ment candidate for reelection. de-
feated James Norris, Republican. by
a majority of i56 votes For city
clerk, R. J.. Shannon, Democrat de-
feated w. Davie Wiley, Republican,
by a majority of 36 votes. For city
attorney, Fl H. Kroh, Democrat. re-
ceiyed 459 votes without opposition.
The following aldermen, all of
whom favor paving the District No;
q, were elected: First Ward, A. M.
Finch, Republican, defeated James
McFadden, Democrat, by two votes;
Second Ward, w. L. Virgins. Dem.
ocrat, defeated VIM. Prime. Depub-
liean, by. .1s votes3 Third Ward,
Harry A.. Cover. Republican, de-
feated Dobert L. Coleman. Demo-
|crat by 2y votes; Fourth. Ward
John l. Rooney, Democrat, defeated
James L. RAIDER. Republican by 25
Votes. : 8s8
The election today was practically
for sor against the paving Of the bus.
iness section and Main street OF
TAuna, Every candidate favorIng
the paving proposition was elected
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
FILE A PROTEST
RELATIVE TO THE
CORPO|RAII0NTA
Democratic Representatives Are Z
seiged By Insurance Men Who
Object to Intrusion.
TO NO AVAIL H0wEvI
House Leaders State That Corpt
-.atioAs. HAVE Already Been Given
Personal Consideration.
TO NO AVAIL HowEvI

Washington. April l5.- Demo
cratic representatives are being be-
seiged in letter and by representa-
tives OF insurance companies pro-
testing against their intrusion as
corporations OF the corporate tax d;
the tariff bill now under consider
alton by the House Democratic
caucus.
Representative Hull of Tennes-
see, author Of the income tax fea-
ture said today that his desk was
piled with matter from insurance
companies protesting that they arc
not profit making organizations. The
matter may be brought up in the
caucus, but the Democratic leaders
decided that these organizations
were given personal consideration
when the law was made and that
protests now would not be to any
avail.
No changes were made in the bill
as result of a days discussion. ad-
vocates of Increased duties on whea.
as well as those favoring free list
ing being voted down,
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
'TRAFF|C|Nc IN
INFANTS IS THE
DISCOVERY MADE
Illinois House Of Representatives i'll
Conducting Investigation Make
Startling Disclosure.
MUST STOP SAYS M'KINLEy
Speaker Appoints Commission to
Fhoroughly Probe Affais~iA
Interest Of Mothers.

Chicago, April Is. Traffic in In
fants was discovered today by the
commission of the Illinois House of
Representatives investigating the
care Of children at charitable insti.
tutions
The representatives visited sew
eral maternity homes prior to a
session of Friday, when superin-
tendents Of these places will testi-
fy.s They win be asked about the
alleged contracts which mothers arc
required to sign in order to obtain
medical treatment. In terms OF
the contract mothers are said to
sign away rights to babies before
biftifsa N
Speaker Mckinley. who appointed
the committee, asserted today that
the "barteiing of children in IlH-
nois must stop"
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
RETURNS FROM
many ELECTIONS
COMING IN SLOW
Wet and Dry Proposition Principal
Issue in Scores Of Cities
and Towns.
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
Share Honors in Number Of Mayor
aalty Campaigns Citizens gsn---
didate Generally Popular.

East st. Louis. April 49, Scat
tering returns from today's munich
pal elections in central and SOUTH
ern Illinois indicate that the "drys"
generally won where liquor was the
principal Issue.
Notable exceptions were Ltch-
field, where David Davis, Jr., Re,
publican, was elected mayor over his
Democratic opponent by 833 votes,
although the town voted wet" by i
majority Of only G3. DuQuoin,
where Mayor Ernest E. Jacobs AMI
the Peoples ticket was elected by
500; Dietzrich went wet by IS
votes and pocahontas, which voted
wet by majority of Ii.
Greenville elected an anti-saloon
ticket and chose A. NJ. Keith fer
mayor
n At many other places. citizen Is
candidates, generally representing q
dry faction, were successful.
At Salem. r. d. Wyatt. citizens 5
candidate for mayor, was elected
over d. Burns. Socialist, by 2i2
votes.
The successful citizens candidate
for mayor in Mt. Sterling was c. +.
Croxton. ~
Effngham elected an entire DEM
ocratic administration. headed by
John Schea.
I'd At Murphysboro, which held its
first election under the commission
form. II. H. Davis was elected
mayor.
Fred Pullen, Democrat. was elect
ed mayor OF Centralia over DR.. w.
d. Richardson, Republican. by 9
majority of 400.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
ILLINOIS G.. "A. r. HELPS
4 IN RELIEVING DISTRESS
Cairo Woman's Delief Corps Given
Sum Of Money.

Past Commander Schmidt Of the
illinois, G, A. B.. of Peoria, is the
donor Of q. neat sum of money which
has been turned over to the Cairo
Woman's Relief Corps by Comrade
Former Congressman N. B. Thistle
wood
This money is 10 be used solely
in. relieving any old soldier or the
widows of old soldiers. or children,
who are sufferers by reason of the
recent GOOD conditions,
Mrs. Samuel Shoemaker Is the
treasurer of the Cairo Woman's Re-
lief Corps, and in connection with
Mrs. Louis zanone and Mrs. Adelaide
Comings. will have charge OF the
distribution OF the fund in the ellie.
Walton of distress.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
Drown

HI 1870 fsssss ~ ~
TaanFats estimsfe upon the amount
'of damage cairo's reputation has
suffered In the financial and conl-
mercial world. but to place 1t at
several hundred thousand dollars
probably would be a conservative
figure.
While IT is true that Cairo was
saved from inundafion only after )
fierce battle In which eevry able
bodied citizen took an active part
not single dollars worth of prop
erty has been damaged by an over
flow of the Ohio or Mississippi rivers.
nor at any time during the high
stage was there single street un-
der water. AS a matter of fact. the
streets of Cairo suffered more from
lack of sprinkling than anything
else, even when the river had at-
tanned the highest stage in the his
tory Of the United States weather
bureau. which was SAT feet,
"Cairo's troubles begafT when the
first contingent Of newspaper corr
respondents arrived from Chicago
From that day until the date of
their departure. week later, the
correspondents crowded the teIe-
graph offices with copy. 80 per cent
Of which was based on imagination
and the remainder on fact. In their
fertile minds. the correspondents
conceived. disaster after disaster un-
til the outside world could not help
but picture Cairo as being COM
pletely submerged, something that
never has and never will occur so
long as the men of Cairo can pre-
vent It.
Newspapers containing exag-
gerated accounts of conditions in
Cairo have been received from all
points OF the compass. An extra
edition of a St. Louis publication
contains an account OF the breaking
of the leyee at Fourteenth street
and the consequent flooding of the
entire city. Another pub icatlon.
the Chicago Record-Herald, contains
reproductions of two photographs
each inches in depth and col
umns in width, and labeled Scenes
lin Cairo" One picture shows the
outskirts of some city, the identity
OF which could not be ascerfained in.
Carlo. submerged to the depth of
from 10 to Is feet. with men. wom-
en- and children marooned on house
tops. The other shows a scene, in
a business section of some other
city, with the water not less than
6 feet in depth and every store in.
sight filled with water How can
the management of the RecordHer-
laid explain such blunder--or was
|it a bInnder? How can the Record
Herald efface the damage the pubii-
|cation of the pictures has done?
"The Chicago Tribune. during
lthe course of the fight. gaye space
| to a statement that Commercial
avenue. one OF the retail store dis
---.-..s
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16
I. W. W. SEIZE FDEIaHT TRAIN

Colorado Springs, Col. April Is,
- Communicating freight train,
that left Pueblo last night 102 In
dustrial Workers of the World, re-
GENTLY ordered out of Grand juno
tion. Col, obtains transportation to
this city, where they were met and
escorted out Of town by the entire
police force. They are bound for
Denver. They seized the freight
train last night by building fire on
the tracks.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-16

Zion City, H., April 15.-The
zianlst church party triumphed in
the city election here today, electing
the mayor and two aldermen and
five other positions and obtaining
control of the Zion City council.
which has been in the hands of tho
Independents.
The Independents have three al
dermcn and the Zionists now have
three. the Mayor having the decid-
ing vote and the successors of John
Alexander Dowle once more have
the upper hand in Zion City.