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estimate upon this story of the au-
thor's march as a soldier to Timbuctoo.
THE CALL OF THE STARS. BY Joh1

THE CALL OF THE STARS. BY John
r. Kippax, M. D.. LII. D.. author of
Comets and Meteors," etc. Illus
trated. New York: G. p. Putnam's
Sons.
This is a popular version of the epic
story of the night sky. Designed for
the general reader whose curiosity is
reused and whose imagination is ex-
cited by the nightly pageant of the
stars, the book is a broad and simple
blend of the science of astronomy and
the wealth of poetic myth and legend
that an earlier day contributed to this
theme The writer divides the discus
sion into two parts In the first of
these he defines and describes the con-
stellations that mark the night sky of
each of the four seasons. Charts and
diagrams assist the reader here to WIS.,
ua1ize the spacious sky spaces and to
place the members of the various con-
stellations. The second part deals with
the sun and the planets, explaining
their nature and movements and inter-
dependencies. Many illustrations OBJ
jectify the text and many illusions
from 'innumerable sources indicate the
wide interest of literature in this sub
ject. The book is of a quality to meet.
full-handed, the awakened curiosity of
the nature lover, as it is admirably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22

sand pounds. The milk is allowed to
set for about two hours. Then 1t is
cut with a curd knife in small pieces
about the size of walnut. 1t is then
allowed to rest for about ten minutes,
after which it Is dipped on cloths to
drain. After about one hour it is
dipped in forms of about nineteen CEN
timeters in width and sixteen cent?
meters high.
after this the mould Is sprinkled
into the cheese, first a layer of curd
being used, then a layer of mould, and
so on. After the mould has been
added, 1t is turned over two or three
times during the course of the after
noon. Then it is allowed to drain about
six or seven days at temperature of
68 or 70 degrees Fahrenheit. After
about three days it Is sailed twice at
a temperature of so degrees Fahrenheit
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sometimes been sacrificed to cheap
construction. So many difficulties have
been experienced that cheesemakers
were led to believe that it was impos-
sible to make a good Swiss cheese ex-
cept in few localities. Some believed,
in fact, that there was no place in the
United States where the product would
equal in quality that made in Europe.
since the same methods were used on
Uncle Sam believes that his expert
ments in the manufacture of Swiss
cheese will eventually prove quite as
successful as those he has carried on
with other foreign cheeses.
The main trouble in making Swiss
cheese is known to be caused by the
development of undesirable types of
micro-organisms, some of which pro-
duce abnormal gas, causing what is
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The cheese is then pierced with a steel
rod twenty or thirty times to allow the
air to reach the mould. 1t is then
placed in a room which has a tenn
perature Of As degrees Fahrenheit and
humidity of IS degrees. 1t is left in
there for about three months, when it
is wrapped in tinfoil and placed in the
curing rooms for two months, after
which it is ready for the table,"
An interesting feature of the manu-
facture of Camembert cheese in the
dairy division is the incubation sys-
tenn. Although it is not customary for
French cheesemakers to inoculate Ca
membert cheese with mold, it has been
found very desirable here. Under the
conditions in Normandy the cheese ac-
quires its modify covering rapidly
enough by accidental incubation. Even
then undesira BILE molds often appear to
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cred molds, revealing here and there
a piece Of ivory -colored cheese dotted
over generously with greenish mold, is
enough to arouse the most dormant ap-
petite.
One of the cheesemakers connected
with the experiment station, who
proudly displayed several prize cakes
Of Rouquefort made there. was asked
to describe briefly the process of man
great an art cheesemaking is, and
what extreme care must he exercised in
order to turn out a perfect product,
after one has read his outline of pro-
cedure.
I'VE usually take about forty pounds
of milk, to which we add the starter"
he said. This is heated to about
So degrees Fahrenheit. Rennet is added
at the rate of three ounces per thou
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consin. One woman and three men are
working on soft cheese here.
The feed, pastures, climate, topog
raphy and other conditions so differ
ent from those in Switzerland, where
the present system of Swiss made
cheese manufacture was developed. nat
urally call for changes which could not
be made in the absence of a knowledge
of the causes which underlie the pro-
cesses of cheesemaking. Another con-
tributory cause of low-grade American
made cheese has been the inadaptab bill
ity of many of the cheese factories;
their fitness for cheesemaking has
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ssSTORM OF STORMS'' LAYS
WASTE TO AMERICAN SAMOA

TN EVASTATION has claimed Ameri-
II u can Samoa for its own. 1t came
~ on the typhoon wings of the
great-grandfather of all the storms
which swirled down over the little
South Pacific naval station of the Unit
ed States last January, sweeping the
little island clear of vegetation, WHIP
ing out villages with a single breath.
sponging all traces of agriculture SO
cleanly from the face of the land that
1t is now difficult to discover their
previous locations, and threatening the
2,100 Inhabitants with starvation.
Details of the storm of storms" has
just reached the Navy Department
from Surgeon Edward G. Parker of the
United States Navy. transmitted
through Gov. ]. NJ. Poyer of the Ameri-
Surgeon Parker was an eyewitness of
the devastation wrought by storm
the gigantic forces of which can hardly
be realized by jewellers in temperate
ATTITUDES. To his own experiences he
has added information given him by
the natives. many of whom have had
to be removed from the Manua Islands
of the group SO that what little re-
mains of natural resources in the ter
ritory might sustain the lives of those
who still inhabit 1t.
According to Surgeon Parker no ty-
phoon or tidal wave in the history of
the Pacific islands has, equaled the til
tanic battle of wind and wave unless
it might be the typhoon of January,
1889, in which the German man-of-war
Nipsic and several ships accompanying
wind Of terrific velocity, sand-laden
and accompanied by earthquake shocks,
thunder and lightning, created such
havoc In the island that 1t is regarded
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known as "nissler~ or "pressler" cheese
These undesirable organisms cause a
lack of uniformity in the formation of
the eyes In some cases no eyes what
ever are developed.
The experimental dairy or cheese
making laboratory, while limited in
space, is equipped with the very newest
machinery. The dairy room and the
curing rooms are kept spotlessly clean.
The appetiZing odor of newly made
cheese and the sight of the tinfoil-cov
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the Experimental Manufacture Swiss Camenbet
Animal
Kinds of Cheese
Problem
Condiio
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the results have been decidedly sue
cessful. The announcement that an ad-
ditional squad Of cheesemakers is de-
sired by the government to fill vacan-
cies in the dairy division. bureau of
animal industry, Department of Agrf-
culture, shows that more extensive eff
forts will be made in future to initiate
foreign cheeses. The European war.
shutting off the supply from abroad.
makes this new move Of Uncle Sam
almost imperative.
While 1t has been successfully proved
that many varieties of foreign cheese
can be made here, there are still new
experiments to be made on others. The
Investigations conducted at the Storrs
agricultural experiment station, in
Connecticut. and in the experiment sta
lions, dairy division, Department OF
Agriculture, have shown that cheese Of
the Camembert type, equal in every
way to the imported article, may be
produced in the United States. The re-
suits obtained make 1t practically GER
tain that cheese of the nature OF Rogue
fort or Stilton can likewise be pro-
duced in this country.
Recently cheese buyer for large
concern in Chicago visited the experl,
mental dairy in the bureau OF animal
industry here, and tasted the Roquetort
cheese. This expert. whose palate has
come in contact with hundreds OF dill
ferent varieties of foreign cheese, de-
clared that he could scarcely note the
fort and the experimental variety. and
that. If anything, he preferred the
flavor of the latter. This proved high
ly flattering. for those experimenting
with Roquefort, the famous French
cheese. have necessarily worked under
handicaps.
In southern France, where, for hum
dreds of years. this delicacy has been
made exclusively, artificial ripening is
not necessary, as is the case in this
country 1t is placed in caves and
rocks, and reaches maturity in a nat
ural fashion Here it Is necessary to
use special apparatus and force the
Temperature in curing. Then, too, in
France Sleeps milk is used entirely
in the manufacture of Roquefort. The
cheese being made in this country is
from cows milk.
The least successful of all the ex-
periments made with foreign cheeses
so far has been that with Swiss cheese.
These experiments have been going on
for several years. At the present time
q number of chemists, psychologists
and cheesemakers have been co-operat-
ing to determine why the Swiss cheese
made here Is not as good as that made
abroad. However, a much better va
riety OF Swiss cheese has been turned
out in the experiment dairy station
than in the American factories At
present five cheesemakers are workins
on Swiss cheese in the experimental
station. while one is acquiring val
| liable knowledge in q model Swiss
cheese factory located In southern Wis.
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BOOK REVIEWS

OF HUMAN BONDAGE. BY w. so.ner-
set Vaughan. author of THE Land
of Promise etc. New YORK:
George H. Doran Company.
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calculated also, to serve as a stimu-
lating introduction to the further pur-
suit of the science of the stars.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-05
NAMES WISHARD AS
IOWA COMMISSIONER

Bloomfield, Aug. S.-Harry A. Wish.
ard, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Wish.
ard of this city and member of the
California legislature, received notice
Of his appointment as an Iowa COM
missioner for the state Of California,
upon his arrival at Los Angeles a
short time ago after visit In Iowa.
The Los Angeles Evening Herald, un.
der q recent date, has the following.
Harry A. Wishard, asemblyman
from the sixty-hrst district, returned
today with Mrs. Wishard from trip
to their former home In Iowa. Mr..
Wishard has been appointed by Gov
ernor Clarke of Iowa as commissioner
for that state In California. Inasmuch
as so many Iowans make Los Angeles
their temporary or permaneyt home,
Governor Clarke decided commits
sioner should be appointed. Mr.. Wish
ard henceforth will be associated with
Herbert Cutler Brown, prominent
attorney, in suite Of Offices in the
Baked Detweiler building on Sixth
street. Wishard was known as tho
"boy orator" of the last assembly. He
was chairman of the committee on re-
vision Of criminal procedure and .
member Of the Judiciary committee.
He was the author OF tho mothers
pension bill"
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The necessity for the United States
to prepare itself to defend itself, Is
becoming more apparent every day.
Chinas weakness has been for years
a menace to the peace Of the world;
If the Chinese nation was able ana
equipped to take its place as nrst
class military power, there would be
no thought OF any apportioning OF It's
territory among other nations: ana
no other nation would decide that It's
interests compelled it to step IN ana
carve out part Of China for purposes
of colonization or exploitation.
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DESTROYING CIVILIZATION.

DESTROYING CIVILIZATION.
AT the beginning Of the present war
a prominent Japanese statesman pro
phesied that western civilization
would be wiped out. His words spok-
an then are receiving more serious
consideration now. :, !,
All Europe Is fast losing all loea ol
the value of human life as factor lor
ANYTHING but force and might.
Mexico and Haiti are engaged IN q
struggle of the survival of the attest
attest for what?-for war. Almost al
Europe and big part Of Asia ana
Africa are in the same condition. me
majority of the people on the eartn,s
surface are today engaged IN trying 70
kill each other.
What has come over the worlds
population? ...,on !,
No one can foresee the condition OF
the world at the end of the next
twelve months. How much OF the
worlds credit will be destroyed? HOW
MANY nations will be destroyed? what
will be the condition Of the nations
after twelve months more IN the
trenches?
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Let us refresh ourselves with lit
tie reinsurance. We have formed a
habit Of late of permitting ourselves
, to be severely scolded because of our
unpreparedness for war, and we are
in the way of becoming very much
ashamed of ourselves.
Our chief scold at the moment Is
Colonel Roosevelt. Usually he scolds
us for not having done something
which he alone has just discovered
that we should have done some time
before. But now, he is scolding us for
having failed to do something which
he, If anyone, should have discovered
the need of doing long time ago, and
should have told us about at that
time.
"The highest duty Of this nation is
to prepare itself against war" he told
us at San Francisco. I'VE have been
culpably, well-nigh criminally, remiss
as a nation in not preparing our.
selves"
Well, IL so, what was he doing dur
ing our well-nigh criminal career!
Nothing at all, except serving as
New York state assemblyman, New
York police commissioner, assistant
secretary of the navy, governor of
New York, vice president of the Uni
ted States, and the president of the
United States for nearly eight years.
What one man in the country Is there
who is more responsible than he for
our present culpable unpreparedness?
If he did not then advocate prepared
ness, was he not culpably negligent as
a guardian of the public interests? II
he did advocate it, was he not, when
judged by his present utterances, pitt
fully ineffective in his failure to
arouse us to the appreciation OF our
dangers and duty?
Let us, at the same time, ask our
selves if we deserve his seedlings. He
asks us to bow ourselves down with
self-reproach and humiliation and ad-
monishes us to relieve ourselves Of
the Irritation Of sackcloth by substi-
tuting the soothing suit of khaki. But
need we?
1t is undeniable that we are unready
for war on the present European scale
of warfare. Nobody has attempted to
contend that we are prepared to that
extent But why should we be CEN
sured for IT? What European countries
were ready, except Germany and Aus
tria- Hungary? What country, barring
these has ever protested to be ready
for such holocaust? England was
ready at sea, but certainly not on land.
italy took nine months to prepare. In
the matter of munitions, England
France and Russia evidently are not
ready yet.
Are we blameworthy in our own
sight for failure to be ready on this
Copyright, 1915, by Nat
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Lots Of water is hne thing II 1t is
kept in the proper place. II the wa
ter that has fallen this month could
only have been put into comprehen-
sive system of canals covering Iowa,
transportation would be very cheap in
deed. But the canals do not exist yet,
SO it is up to the state to improve its
present waterways and establish term
inal facilities. Europe would be par
alyzed now If it were not for the wa
terways that make commercial traffic
possible while the railroads are being
used for military purposes.
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AVE cry.

Ed Delashmutt and family Of Buxton
spent Sunday with relatives at Avery.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. War; and daugh-
ter Winfred Of Hiteman visited rela-
tives at Avery Sunday.
p. H. Hynes, wife and daughter Wis
tied at Des Moines Sunday
Mrs. Sarah Moore, Mrs. w. 0. Apple
man and daughter Leona visited at the
A. J. War; home at Hiteman a few
days last week.
Mrs. Surfer Of Kansas City. Mo-. is
here for an extended visit with her
daughter Mrs. Roy Bomhoff.
Mrs. Herman Bilterman was an Abba
visitor Thursday.
J. w. Richter was an Ottumwa Wis.
itor Monday.
Mrs. Mae Appleton entertained the
Ladies' Birthday club Friday afternoon
with nearly all members present. Mrs.
in the watch contest, Mrs. F. Allen the
BOBBY prize.
Quite a number Of families are NOV
ing to Hiteman this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Munsell departed for
San Francisco this week to attend the
fair.
J. w. Richter was in Kirksville, Mo-,
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. H. Hynes and
daughter Delta departed for Excelsior
Springs, Mo.
Miss Leta worrall Of Eddyville who
spent few days last week with her
grandmother has returend to her home.
Mrs. Geo. Cook from Minnesota is
here for visit with her daughter Mrs.
Vance Thompson and relatives.
Word has been received Of the mar
riage Of Miss Vera Crabill and young
man from Minneapolis.
Mrs. Thos. Cosgrove and baby have
returned from a two weeks visit with
friends at Ottumwa.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Moore departed
Tuesday for an extended visit with
their sons Ernest and George Of
Omaha.
Mr.. and Mrs. j w. Richter and son
Harold, daughter Isabella departed on
Tuesday for two weeks visit at
Omaha
Quite large crowd went to Abba to
hear Mother" Jones'
The Avery Epworth league consisting
Of Rev. Nye, Ethel Smith, Winnie
Evans, Hazel Fuller, joined the Abba
leaguers for week at the convention
at Clear Lake.
Martin Hardsocg and wife were here
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the needle is pleasurable, and anoros
great endowment to the afflicted. II
the swelling of the skin is consider
able, or If the LESSONS are not rece sar
search will prove in vain: one "a
then only hope for an early teIin
ton of their activities, this usuaily 70
curing from five to seven days.
Several extremely usefui prepala.
tons are prescribed by physicians not
only to kill the mites but 70 reuuco
the irritation. Bathing directiy alter
exposure is advisable IN order 70
drown the parasites 49,
From which may be drawn the sclen'
tific information that there are tunes,
these summer days, when q man may
enjoy having a steel needle aigglns
under the surface OF MS afAn
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Buffalo Bill is Coming
To Town Soon

- as the chief feature of the Sells.
Floto Circus and Buffalo Bills
Original Wild West, which Is to be
here Wednesday, August H. And
with Buffalo Bill will come also many
Ia good story of the older days in the
west
And II anyone should know those
days, COL William Frederick Cody
buffalo Bill should know them. He
lived them long enough. Scout, plains
man, pony express rider, brigadier
general - he served in every possible
office there was in the younger days,
even to the position of justice of the
peace and the third man in more
than one marriage.
"Marriages?" he asked recently, in
a storytelling vein. "Of course Why
not? I've shot Injuns and guided
troops and blazed trails. Don't see
why I shouldn't perform marriage
ceremonies. But I'll not forget the
first one. was justice of the peace
then, with hardly anything to do but
look out for boss stealers and boot
leggers on the reservation. One day a
man and a woman came in and said
they wanted to get married. 1t flab-
bergasted me, but had to 60 through
with it. Looked all around the place
and couldn't find any bible. Found an
old third reader, though, and so l
picked it up and opened 1t to where
it said something about the birds
twittering in the springtime or some
thing like that. Didn't make much diff
ference though. wasn't going to read
1t any.
"'Jim' l said, do you take this
woman for your welded wife,
Fletcher neck he said.
maggie / asked, do you want
Jim to carry in the cordwood and
hustle vittles for you as long as yon
live?
"'Yessir, Jedge Cody said Maggie.
""Then kiss her, Jim. She's, your
wife. Whom God and Buffalo Bill
hath joined together let no man put
asunder. Two dollars, and invite the
ledge to the wedding supper"
"And guess it worked lot better
than lot of these new tangled wed.
dings,' the Colonel laughed. They
were still happy the last time ! saw
them - and it had been thirty years
since the wedding"
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TO LET CONTRACT
FOR $4,000 WORK

Webster City, Aug. S.-The board of
supervisors Of Hamilton county will
meet this week to open bids for above
$4,000 worth of work-the largest let
ting that has been held in this city in
some time.
The largest part Of the work to be
let is the cleaning out of the big Cast
ner Williams drainage ditch in Liber-
ty and harrisburg townships and the
laying of large tile in two Of its
branches. the toal estimate on which
runs up to $4,000. The original cost
of this drain was but $4,000. 1t is es-
timated that to clean out the open
ditch will cost $4,000 and the laying
of big tile in the branches will total
$4,000.
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DROWN THE PARASITES.


Now comes the United States public
health service with warning against
the terrors of harvest disease" due
this month.
.provn the parasites" says the
service. It prescribes bathing directly
after exposure to the attacks Of the
s.tixxers' or harvest mites, as means
Of securing this relief. It advises,
however, that the best treatment con-
sists in Avoidance OF the haunts OF
the tormentors."
The young of the jigger, or chigger,
which cause all the mischief, are
taIched in July and August, and ap-
near nom the eggs as minute orange
colored larvae. For some strange rea-
son they forsake the open fields and
the woods, where the adult jiggers
live. and attach themselves to the skin
az human beings whenever possible.
they burrow under the skin, cause an
intanse irritation, and finally swelling
and inflammation. Nobody knows
what advantage the larvae get by dig
pinr between the layers of the human
akin hut the victim finds himself suf
fering tortures which cause him to
scratch the spots red and raw After
q few DAYS the pests die inside the
wound, and they harm no more.
A visitation of this pest Is called by
I.ae doctors trombidiosis.
IF the condition is recognized at its
onset" says the health service, the
sufferer can almost invariably point
with exactness to the burrowing sites,
and a needle, sterilized by boiling,
NAV no used to MUCK the invaders
4 rom their dermal intrenchments.
Il ,ven IL the search proves unsuccess-
Sl. the counter-irritation produced by
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Henry Peggy, Mrs. Caroline Schier-
brock and Miss Ellen Haas spent last
Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. George
Schaeffer at Burlington.
Rev Father Jacoby started workmen
Monday on the rcmodeling of the
Kempker building which is to be used
for school purposes. The lower floor
will be fitted up in time for the COM
mencement of school in September
Leo Peterschrnidt aged 10 had the
misfortune to fracture his right arm
He was working in the hay NOV and
in some way fell out.
Miss Alice Keifer has retErend FROM
n visit at Fort Madison.