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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
CORN EXCELLENT FOOD,
But Europeans Think it Fit Only for
Stock

Sending brigade OF cooks to Europa
TO teach the natives there TO eat corn il
only reviewing an experiment tried in
times Of peace. Corn Cake" Muruhy
aimed immortal note by his efforts
along this line. while Clark f. Carr
and later Maurice Egan did much TO
give the Europeans a notion Of the de-
lights OF corn as a comestible These
apostles of a new gastronOmy for the
people OF Europe met with the obstacle
that has so far proved nsurmountable.
Prince and peasant alike associate corn
with stock feed, and, therefore. decline
IL.
But corn is really food for the gods.
In Hutrftlve value it is but little behind
W6ote wheat flour. containing within
per cent as much carbohydrates and
within per cent as much protein.
Much OF the food value of wheat ia
sacrifced in preparation CT -four TO the
end that our dainty appetites may bs
picned by the snowy wilderness of the
bread. Thus, bulk for hulk. good corn
bread is quite as nutritious as ia tha
wheaton loaf
Many ways of cooking corn ara
known. but the simplest are the hotter
A sturdy race of pioneers throys tn
mush and milk and corn pone and hoe
cake. Civilization and luxury have lad
the children of these pioneers 10 look
with disdain on corn, and to prefer to
secure its great health-giving nronsr-
ties through other mediums. We hay>
been taking cur corn by way of rory
and beet
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
CHEAPER TO EAT CHEESE.
A Dairy Professor Suggests a Sub
stitute for Expensive Meat,
(Ohio Stste Journal.)


Eat cheese and reduce the cost OF
living"
Such Is the advice OF Prof. Robert
b. Stoltz of the dairying department OF
the college Of agriculture, Ohio State
university Prof. Stoltz strongly urges
a campaign of education throughout
the United States with the purpose in
view OF teaching the coming genera
ton to eat cheese and substitute it
for meat
Il know how hard it is" said Prof.
StOitz, for grOWn-up people to dis
card their bad habits and start good
ones. 1t is quite possible the present
generation in this country cannot give
up its habits of eating meat, but it
ought to be a comparatively easy mat
ter to teach the new generation to alb
stain from expensive meat eating and
substitute inexpensive cheese eating"
Economy In the substitution of cheese
for meat Mr. StoltZ pointed out is of
more than one sort, for it goes clear
back to comparison of the cost of
maintaining beef and dairy cattle.
Keeping cows for milking purposes, he
said, is a vastly less expensive PROPOSE
ton than breeding and feeding beef
cattle. A beef is of temporary value
Ia it's production only. while a milk
producing cow is an almost continu-
Gus producer for eight or ten years.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
MoNARcHs INVEST HERE.
European Royalty Finds Safe Field
for Their Spare Millions.
philadelphia Ledger

The Hapsburgs never win medals for
diplomatic brilliancy. but If they have
invested $4,000 900 in the United States
this year it shows that as financiers
the. size up with the late Russell Sage
Anyhow, they wouldn't be the first en-
perors and princes who found America
a snug place to plant money.
| reCounted not so long ago how the
King of SPANS grandmother had in
vested big sum In Philadelphia real
estate. Her property was subsequently
traded for stock in an unbuilt railroad.
tending to show that promoters OF that
day gunned for royal game.
1t was popular tradition that Queen
Victoria owned 1000, 900 United States
government bonds. There was no
doubt that the Bonaparte family had
large investments here.
A considerable part OF the stock Of
the first United States Bank was sold
to London, and a portion OF that--so
the legend goes-went into the royal
pocket,
In countries where republics have
succeeded monarchies royal properties
have usually suffered immense losses.
Napoleon had more actual money than
any other man in his day. but ST
Helena saw him with but a slight sal
vase left.
Kings. like everybody else. will find
the United States by far the best place
20 have money invested when this war
ends
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
pRuMMERs kiNDAEARTED.
Combine to Aid Woman Without
Letting Her Know.
pittsburgh Dispatch.)

THAT the drummer is the right sort
OF chan was demonstrated to me to-
day" said a Pittsburgher. Coming In
on the train was a widow woman with
three kids, From the amount of her
drapery she had on | guess her hus-
band had just died and left her gum
tree. You could tell she had seen
good, easy times. but maybe there was
some neglect about insurance. What
with the kids and other reasons you
could see she was nervous about this
travelling Anyhow. we hadn't gone far
before the conductor found out that she
was on the wrong train. Then she
broke down, but she was as proud as
a we'll bred woman could be. 1t didn' {
take the drummers--there were six of
them-long to find out that she was so
badly fixed that she had spent her last
dollars on the tickets and was like 70
be- stranded with the kids in a place
where she didn't want to land. The
drummers wanted to help her. but they
didn't know how to so about 1t; she
was so darned reserved that no one
had the nerve 10 offer to pull her out.
But finally they got In the smoke room
and figured out the thing on a time
table They all Clipped in and then
called in the conductor. He was the
right sort of fellow. The way he
done il was fine, He walked hack to
the lady with a thoughtful air and
said he had tslegraphed to New York
and had had the tickets changed. To
see that woman's face would have done
you good"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29

ment firm, the Krupps of Japan, which
had been insistent that the govern
ment purchase war supplies, has prac
tlcaIly been put out Of business. The
Japanese. instead Of yielding to the
demands Of militarigrn, turned their
attention to domestic questions. which
urgently called for drastic solution.
The lower Glasses Of the japanese
are suffering from poverty that can
not be duplicated in Europe. An Osa-
ka newspaper, after describig the how
els in which the poor live. declares
that the food they eat consists of the
refuse thrown away by garrisons.
steamships and restaurants "All this
misery" says Prof. Isoo of Tokyo, lis
the result OF mIlitarism and the taxa
ton consequent upon militarism.''
With it's revenues pledged to meet
the interest of existing loans and with
direst poverty affecting its people.
Japan has reason to fear the awful
after effects Of another war. Its par
ticipation may be rewarded with mill
tary and naval Victories but the in
teiligent japanese Is looking beyond TO
industrial defeats and the pangs Of
general poverty during the succeeding
years.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
THRIFTY ARE HAPPlEsT.
And 10 Society Really to Blame for
Poverty Of Thriftiess7

Dennis Tierney WAS a ranch hand all
his life. When he recently died he left
$4,000. William Wayne Belvin Inherit
ed 5000 and has just been sentenced
to one day in jail as a vagrant. The
one saved his money the other squan-
dered 1t.
They are typical There is a continu-
Gus procession Of the thrifty upward
into the ranks of the we'll to do or rich
alongside of a similar procession down
ward into the poorhouses and iails.
There Is a cult which despises thrift,
holds that vagrancy and crime are a
necessary result of our civilization,
that q man Is q fool to save, because
since society is responsible for his con-
dition society owes him a living.
The same cult, and it is larger than
many suppose, says that charity Is a
despicable humbug, since it yields up
for the benefit Of the unfortunate but a
tritle Of the possessions which in fact
all belong to the miserable who need 1t.
And yet 1t is self-evident to those who
think, and ought to be self-evident to
all, that If society is responsible for
the condition of Belvin, who Is in jail,
II was equally responsible for that OF
Tterney. who died and left $40, 900. The
two were under the same social in
tiuences, and one cannot In reason say
that the same social influences can
produce opposite results.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
AMERICAN CLOTHES ENVIED.
Englishmen In Hot Weather LONG
to Dress Like Their Cousins.
tKsnsas city Jearnal

thAN5as Alty JNltnal,D
Englands hot spell has started an
agitation for reform In mems summer
dress, but so far none have had cOur~
age to follow the American fashion of
appearing In the street in shirt and
belt,
| An Englishman never dispenses with
the coat except when playing tennis
aud cricket and boating on the river.
TO appear without a coat on the links
lis quite as objectionable In England
as to so coatless In the street.
My long suffering brothers" asks
one writer In daily paper. why not
! defy the women. take Off our coats and
waistcoats and be coolr They do these
things in America, where woman Is a
very independent creature. Why can't
we do them here Haven't we the
pluck
II wac moved to these remarks" he
man. presumably from the states.
sauntering down shoe lane. He looked
radiantly cool and serenely happy
And for the first time IN my mortal
career l envted an American
AS a fact, he also looked smart.
His straw was neat: his soft collar
and horizontal tie were dressy; the
awkward transition from gauge "a
tweed was masked In a baconling silk
band, He did not look at all feminine,
on the contrary. he looked far more
male than the poor fellows In bales
OF tweed and homespun slouchng
,around him"
The writer ends with the confession
1--WE do not like our muGgy dress; we
do not hug our letters, we suffer
though with tears. for the sake OF the
ladies. The ladies like "a see us look
smart Smart! Good graciousi And
we are not even allowed TO powder our
Igreasy compilations"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
UPLIFTING THE PIG.

tNAttNotr News
The Baltimore a. t,hlo railroad has
established a new rule; hogs must ht
showered. II declares. II II had been
In force far enough back, Moses the
law-giver, might not have given the
hog a black eye which II has taken
thousands Of years to recufy.
TWO South Carolina boys have had
much TO do with obtaining for the hogs
a helated square deal Also they have
dealt a blow at the high cost of living
and the high cost OF hogs ham, bacon
PORK chops, hard and sausage. Jerry
Moore raised sass. bushels OF corn from
one acre of land Terry ntn. 1s-
year~oid Csreenville county boy. at a
cost OF SIS cents pound, raised Sos
pound pig, Terry says he keeps the
pig absolutely clean. and that the ami
NAL "keenly relishes the daily atten-
ton" which he gives him,
Terry's pig was not the heaviest pig
raised but the boy, on the basis ot
cost, won out over hls nearest rival
whose pts was heavier. but was raised
at Il cost OF So cents a pound Terry
weaned the pig himself, built the pen
sheltered ii from the north wind and
got all the sunlight that was possible
He ''manicured@ the pig daily and kept
a daily record OF everything that hap.
pened. The pig liked the manicurlns
immensely and demonstrated the theo.
ny OF the Harvard professor that ev-
cry pig would be gentleman IL he had
a chance, The pig caught cold and be.
came hoarse, and Terry swahbed out
his throat with kerosene and grease;
the pig registered ninety pound gain
In one month.
The Baltimore a Ohio railroad and
the Harvard professor have done much
To give the pig square deal. but 1,
al. a
|onstrate that the pig Is worthy OF the
"upliit."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
OLD MEN AS OFFICE BOYS.
Business Man Finds Them More
Satisfactory Than Youths.
New York Sun.


A Broadway business man was talk
ink to friend who was looking for
a good Office boy.
Cut out the boys" he said with
confidence, and get an old man who
is willing to work for less than a
mans wages ! began it about a year
ago, and / never did a better thing.
Il got the suggestion from a man
not in business, but a physician, He
had ordered some article or other
which had not come promptly, and he
came in person to see about it. told
him, which was true, that | had been
bothered SO by changing my office
boys that ] couldn't get it to him.
Then he blew out at me and asked
me why | didn't get an old man to do
office boy work. and | wouldn't have
any more bother.
1T looked so different at first that /
laughed at him. but he insisted so that
1t was the only cure, that l concluded
would try it. / knew of an old chap,
honest and living with his son, doing
small jobs and helping all he could
for his keep, and / asked him how he
would like to be office bov for me. He
laughed just as | did at first but
insisted on his trying it, and he agreed
to come and do the best he could, but
wouldn't guarantee that he would be
satisfactory.
He came the next day, and though
he was a bit slow a first, he was al
ways ready and willing, and in a week
or SO | was so we'll satisfied with him
that / wouldn't have traded him fol-
all the boys | had been bothered with
for five years. He isn't perfect. nor Is
anybody, for that matter, but he Is
reliable and honest, never soldiers or
me- doesn't smoke cigarettes or reac
dime novels. isn't fresh around the
store is always polite, and is always
on time.
Il pay him 81 week. and he Is glad
enough to get it, and he isn't so ole
! but that he Is good for at least ter
years of duty which will also be ter
Years of comfort for me and the en-.
! tire store I don't say that any ole
man will be as satisfactory as thi:
one. but | do say that nine-tenths O.
the old fellows will make better Once
boys than the average we have K
put up with.
Try an old man for an office boy
and see IL you can do any worse thar
YOU have been doing. Several OF m,
! friends are doing 1t, and so far the.
are all pleased with the change.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
Mr.. BOoz. DiSTlLLER.
PhiIadelph ians Claim He Gave SLANG
Name to Stuff That inebriates.
New York World.l


| Two whisky bottles into which was
blown the name of T.. c. Boox. Phil
adelphia distiller of about 1910. We're
sold last night for SOS and $50. in the
Merwin galleries, No. l6 East Fortieth
street from the curio collection OF Har-
Try T. Harmer Of Philadelphia,
The tradition attached to Roo2 Is
that his brand of liquor was so popu-
lar that 1t introduced booze" into the
vernacular and that II accounts to
this day for the phrase. "I'u have some
booze" which all harkeepers under
stand to mean whisky. The old Eng
fish word blouse" meant the same
thing, and Sheridan used "hoo2ed'' in
THE School for Scandal" hut Phila =
delphians say their Boos revivif1ed the
word,
Booz was active in the presidential
campaign Of William Henry Harrison
and had his bottles made in the form
of log cabin. the Harrison symbol.
The bottles were eight inches high and
supposed to hold q quart There are
no memories OF Booz except his en-
during name
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
WHAT IS THE MIDDLE GLASS;?
In This Country No Opprobrium At
taches to the Term.
New York Evening NAL

New York Evening MALI
There lis always--or so II seems to an
Americana bit of snobbery in the
Englishman, even when he is a Social
list and a leader We find little bits of
snobbery, for instance quite plentifully
scattered through the pages of the
novels OF III. 6. Wells; and they are to
be found even in his account of his
early life, which conceals nothing.
Wells is careful to say that he came
from the middle class" And then he
explains that his mother was the
daughter of an innkeeper in a small
town in the country, who supplied post
horses to the coaches, and was herself
g. Iady's maid: while his father was the
head gardener at Penhurst castle in
Kent. His father nearly all his life
kept Il small shop in suburb OF Lon
don, and played, some professional
cricket. Perhaps it was the shopkeep-
ing which promoted the Wells family
from the lower to the middle classes.
No American could honor Fl. G,
Wells, the real giant of English litera-
ture today. any the less for the hum
bleness Of his origin. We really honor
him the more for it. But one must
smile, for all that, at his middle
class" rating. In this country. where
the poor boy" Is the real aristocrat,
we don't in the least mind a lower
class origin.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
HOW MEN SMOKE CIGARS.
Different Ways Of Allowing Ash &
Stay on Tobacco.
cleveland Plain Dealer.i


Young men, very young men, In their
earlier smoking days like to keep the
ash ON a cigar as long as II will stay
Somebody has told them that II IL a
mark of a good cigar for II to have an
ash that does not crumble and fall OFF |.
1t Is at least true that long ash
marks the cigar as one made with n
long tlller.
The young man smoker who likes TO
zee the ash grow and hang on handles
his cigar with great care. so as not to
joggle Il on and II he smokes up the
whole cigar without dropping the ash
he thinks that he has been smoking a
good cigar and that he Is good smok-
er.
As ne grows older the young man
colnes to be smoker OF another sort
He fftcks the ash of his cigar tauntily.
Then as he grows older stlll he may
come to he careless about the ash, or
he may be engroSsed about other
things. and that as he smokes he let's
the ash accumulate, to drop maybe on
his garments and cover them with ash
es
Stlll later in his life the grown. ma
ture man Is likely to knock the ash
off his cigar at frequent intervals, 10
keen II down short. He smokes in a
businessliks way, he doesn't want the
ashes scattered over him. But as he
grows Older Vet, when he comes to be
an oldsh man. he may come again as
he smokes to keep the ash on the cigar
as long as he can,
You may see the old man smoking a
cigar thus, holding il carefully and
smoking 1t slowly and contempiattVely.
looking at the ash occasionally and
clearly interested in seeing II grow just
as he did when he was young, Why
he does this now is uncertain, but per
hans IL is because II brings back mem
cries Of his youth.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29

and independent country. The glory
Of the rich, red blood of health. The
sheen Of Wilderness which lends luster
to the petals of a flower. 1t is, more
over, a blue which brings out the best
in any complexion. Need more be- said
to send every woman to looking at 1t.
to trying it's silken folds against the
velvet Of her own particular cheek?
Once begin to study color as means
of bringing out your feminine charms
and you will never cease. And / be-
Iieve this new American blue Is des-
tined to assist many woman OF fine
appearance, for 1t comes in many FAD
rics. each having its own particular
tOnal quantity.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
ROOT DEFEATED SELF
FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Was Offered Support by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, but Turned
Down Invitation.
TAFT THEN AGREED ON
Secretary OF Treasury Shaw Believes
He Could Have Saved G. o. p.
From Disruption.
(Gfrard In Philadelphia Ledgerl


Elihu Root defeated himself Tor
President of the United States.
That was the meat of Leslie M.
Shaw's opinion, as he gave it to me
one day as he sat in his Philadelphia
office. Mr.. Shaw was describing for
me a notable conference held at the
White House not long before W. IL
Taft was made the administration
candidate for President in 1908.
There were present at that confer
ence President Roosevelt, Elihu Root
who was then Secretary of State. Les
lie M. Shaw. Secretary of the Treas
ury, and w H. Taft. Secretary OF
War. The President wished to know
who would be the strongest Republic
an candidate to succeed himself,
Mr.. Roots opinion was first sought,
and Colonel Roosevelt asked him what
objections could be made to him as a
Republican flag carrier. 1t was at that
moment that Mr.. Root defeated HIM
self for President of the United States.
because the man whom Roosevelt in
dorsed was sure to win
But Secretary Root very frankly said
that he didn't think he would be the
strongest candidate. He mentioned the
use which might be made in a cam
paign Of the fact that, as an attorney,
he had frequently represented large
corporate interests.
Root Condemns Self.
Mr.. Root put the case against HIM
self in that clear logical and power
full way of which he has a copyright.
And when Mr.. Root argues, very few
men of this or any other day could
successfully combat him.
| Anyhow, as Mr.. Shaw related the
! facts to me, after Root had given his
own opinion and the others were ask
| ed to discuss him as a candidate, Mr..
Shaw's own candidacy was canvassed
! in the same way. Arguments for and
against him were marshaled.
! Then It was the turn of Secretary
Taft. 1t was the final consensus Of
i opinion-in which President Roosevelt
/ ioined-that Mr.. Taft would be the
strongest all-around vote-getter.
That decision at that little meeting
in the White House made Mr.. Taft
President Of the United States.
| r. r. Wanted Root.
Ex-secretary Shaw left me clearly
under the impression that, if Secretary
Root had asked for it. the President
would have Endorsed him instead OF
Taft, even if the latter was considered,
all things weighed. more available.
! And Mr.. shaw said further that, II
he himself had been selected. there
would have been no such disruption in
the Republican party four years later,
In 1912. as he knew the temper of the
West to be Progressive.
! So that small meeting not only kept
Root out of the White House and put
Taft in the White House. but. as Mr..
Shaw said, it later put Woodrow Will
son there through the big Republican
split which followed Tafts election.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
INDEPENDENCE BLUE.
New Color. Blended From Red. White
and Blue Has Greater Sensation.

los Angeles TiuIesl
While In that shop ! was shown the
new Independence blue, which has
created such IA furore in the East
The story Of the creating OF this new
color, one of the foremost events in
The making OF made-in- America modes,
s told by the manufacturer. who says
that he took the three colors OF the
American flag, the red in the stripes,
the blue IN the field o. stars and the
white i'm the stars and stripess-each m
its own proportion mixed them to-
gether in the dye~~and behold indie
pendence blue! And woaaroas blue
it Is. 1t has the strength Of a free
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
WAR DANGERS FOR JAPAN,
Flowery Kingdom Has Reason to
Fear Effects Of Another Conflict.
tCTasiastSti Times StarA

ttTneinUNN TIMES StarN
If Japan decides to enter the pres
ent European war the effect upon its
Internal affairs viii he deplorah BILE. The
Eiowery Kingdom has lately been go
ing through n REIMBURSEMENT which
has meant a change Of national Ideals
The Ssmurai the warrior class. has
been dealt lasting blow. Because OF
the relevatfon OF the naval scandals,
Admiral Matsunnote has been sent TO
prison for three years and Captain
Saw ask for one year, In neither tn-
stance did the convicted naval officer
offer to commit hari~kiri and seek the
sanctuary formerly SO dear to the pa
triotic japanese. The Mitsui arma-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
washington Star. }

Prohibition has become pretty we'll
established in Crimson Gulch?"
Yes" replied Bronco Bob. Me an
Taree- Fingered Sam was prime NOV
ers."
'.You surprise met
We'll. there amt 10 doubt that al
cohol dalls a mans Judgment an re-
duces his efficiency: We got tired OF
havin' enc or two parties sittin' into
a poker game an staying cold sober,
to the disadvantage Of the rest of the
performers"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
AmpiiHed Designation.
lWMshinEton Star.

"Blggins prides himself on calling a
spade spade,
Yes. But he puts in few adjectives
when he gets out In the garden and
tries 10 manage one