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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15

Take a basket of perfectly ripe Con-
cord grapes, six Duchess or other ap-
plies which cook quickly, and with a
little water to keep them from scorch-
Ing, cook until the juice is extracted.
Then drain and to each cupful of juice
add two cupfuls OF sugar. Stir until
every grain of sugar is dissolved and
turn into glasses. This makes a jelly
that tastes like fresh grape juice. Be
sure to try it.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Peach Butter,

Take partly ripe peaches, thinned
from the trees, or windfalls may be
used. Be careful to discard all bruised
parts. Stew the peaches until tender,
then rub through a sieve. To II pounds
of the fruit pulp add six pounds of
light brown sugar, three t~easpoonfuls
of ground cinnamon, two t~easpoonfuls
of ground allspice and one ~teaspoonful
of cloves. Cook until thick, stirring
often.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Bread crumb Pancakes.

Take a cupful of crumbs, two and a
fourth cupfuls of skim milk, sour, n
t%easpoonful of salt, a ~teaspoOnful and
a half of soda, one well-beaten egg and
q half cupful of flour. Soak the crumbs
in milk overnight. Cook as any other
griddle cakes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Grape Juice.

Wash the grapes well, just cover
with cold water and let simmer until
the Juice seems to be well extracted.
Then strain through a jelly glass and
add a cupful of sugar to each quart of
strained juice. Put on fire and bring
to the boiling point, bottle and seal in
well-sterilized receptacles, and the
juice will be perfect after a year in
the cellar.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
A Puzzle.

at is a mystery to me-"
"What isl"
"What / used to do with all the dol
lars that I've managed to give to the
various Red Cross solicitors lately,
without hurting myself at cH."-De-
troit Free Press
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Easy Payments, Toe.

Tom-Justwed claims everything In
his house is right up to the minute.
Jerry-No doubt, he bought it all on
hme.-Town Topics.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
Mothers
Cook Book

/ do not ask for wealth or style,
With all their heartless, cold demands;
But wealth of love and happy home,
Ny heart much better understands.
M. Lippincott
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-15
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDNYSOIOOL
LESSON
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 1e
THE FIERY FURNACE.

LESSON TEXT-Daniel 3.
GOLDEN TEXT-When thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be burn
ed: neither shalt the flame kindle upon
thee.-Isaiah 1872.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-12-05

"Longmont, Colo. Dec. 4.-The
school directors of Longmont have
voted to do away with the usual Sat
urday holiday, and school will be held
six days week. A government agent
recently visited Longmont and sug-
gested the plan as a means of giving
scholars of the upper grades and the
pupils of the high school an oppor-
tunity to begin work on the farms and
in the factories a month earlier than
usual and materially lessen the labor
shortage. There are q large number
of farmers sons attending the Long
mont schools and it was pointed out
that many of them would have to be
taken out of school a month before
the close of the term, in case the new
plan was not adopted.
with six days of school q week
they will be able to help out with the
work in tho spring without being COM
pellsd to miss months schooling"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-12-05
ON GUARD AT THE READING
GATE!

1t is fine thing to guard our homes
against alien soldiers of whose pur-
poses we are all aware. But is is
also very important to guard them
against other insidious foes that creep
in under the disguise of friendly en-
tertainers to plumber and destroy The
cherished ideals, the lofty standards,
the clear views that have given the
home its character.
If you will familiarize your young
people with the best reading, they
will not be likely to crave what is In
ferior and demoralizing. The Youths
Companion is powerful influence in
awakening a taste fer what is best
in reading. 1t is on guard at the
reading gate! Nothing cheap, neon,
or hateful passes its challenge. But
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-12-05

200 to 225 feet at cost of $3.50 guar
anteed. Perpetual water right is pro-
vided for this land Of one share for
each acre. The water is brought into
the valley from substantially built
reservoir in the mountains which af-
fords an abundance of water.
This article is written from impress
sions gained on the ground and thru
a personal visit and are conservative.
1t is not an advertisement nor written
by the request of any one. 1t is just
as we saw it.
tSigned) LEWIS C. EVANS,
6O3 West First.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-12-05

neither does the Grabbed and dull and
austere. CHEEKY idealism is The Com
panion's countersign. Put it on guard
at your reading gate!
The Companion is $500 a year. If
you do not know it, by all means send
for sample copies giving forecast of
what the next volume will bring. BY
adding 25 cents you can also get Nc
Calls Magazine, the best fashion: au-
thority for women and girls-both
publications for s2.25.
Our two-at-one-pricc offer includes:
l. The Youths Companion-52 issues
of 1918.
2. All the remaining issues of 1917.
3. The Companion Home Calendar for
1918.
4. McCal's Magazine - l2 fashion
All for only s225.
numbers of 1918.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION
Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Mass.
New subscriptions received at this
Office,
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-12-05
HEARD AT THE NATIONAL CAP.
ITAL
Claude Kitchination

Actuarial research shows the ineq-
ualities of the new revenue law. Given
four instances-one of an individual,
one of o-partnership, one of an old
corporation, and one of new corpor-
ation-accountants have presented re-
suits to show what each would pay,
the Hypothetical capital in each case
being 100000 and the hypothetical
profits being S25O,OOO The individ-
ual would pay $l23,952; the co-part-
nership would pay S105,6S3; the old
corporation would pay S52,224; the
new corporation would pay $62,424
These hypothetical figures will resolv-
themselves into realities next Jun
unless the present session of Congre =
does something to change the crudities
and the determinations of the law,
Pay Waving Flag Waivers
Congressman John R. X. Scott of
Pennsylvania has pending before the
Committee on Military Affairs of the
House a bill introduced by him at tha
last session which gives an opportun-
ity for the many men of wealth IL
our military service to show THEN
patriotism by waving their pay or
other compensation. The waiver is to
be signed when such person enters the
military service, but it may be with
drawn at any time thereafter, AID
the payments resumed. Hundreds OF
men are in the army to whom the $50
per month paid the private soldier
means practically nothing, and they
are expected to avail themselves Of
the Legislation If 1t is enacted into
law.
The Long Way Around
From debates in the English parlia
ment the American people were able
to learn of thir Presidents attitude
toward the policy of unified control
of war activities as proposed by Lloyd
George. Through an after dinner
speech made in New York by re-
tired general of the army, now recall
ed to active service, they learned that
it was the Sixth Field Artillery which
fired the first shot in our war against
Germany. From various other unof-
fetal sources they have learned other
things which the administration has
hidden behind the veil of mystery.
Members of Congress now returning
to Washington can tell whether their
their constituents like this state of
affairs.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-12-05
Loveland Man Says Land of oppor'
tunity" Lies in Utah

(From the Loveland Daily Herald)
Editor the Herald,
Dear Sir:
/. was the pleasure of the writer,
in company with two others, to visit
Delta, southwestern Utah, few days
ago where we found a large area Of
desert land placed under irrigation and
made to blossom as the rose.
Delta is located in the Pahvant val
ley, 1874 miles southwest of Salt Lake
City on the San Pedro, Los Angeles
and Salt Lake railroad and, although
a new town, has a population of 1000
and is improving rapidly. This land
is virgin soil and it was an agreeable
surprise to us to find how fertile the
soil where no crop would grow with
out the application of water.
The project was promoted six years
ago and there are now over $4,000
acres under cultivation in farms of
from forty to 100 acres each and the
farmers are generally prosperous and
happy.
All crops are grown there that sue
coed in northern Colorado with the
added advantage of alfalfa seed grow
ing which is the most profitable crop
in the valley, owing to the dryncss of
the climate. One farmer secured n
yield of twenty-one bushels per acre
the past season which with one crop
of hay was worth nearly 5000 an acre.
Phenomenal yields of all kinds of
grains are obtained but alfalfa and
sugar beets are leaders, as bects were
grown this season that yielded as high
as 81 tons per acre and over 10000
tons were grown in the valley the past
season as an initial crop. This business
however is in its infancy as yet.
An up-to-date sugar factory has
been completed by the Stearns-Roger
Co. of Denver at an outlay of $780,
900 and it is beauty and complete in
all its appointments.
Thos. B. Stearns (our state food
cntrollcr) is president of the Delta
Beet Sugar Corporation.
At Delta we were welcomed by the
efficient manager of the project, Mr..
w. T. Moody, who showed us every
courtesy and took us all over the land.
We interviewed farmers and were
shown one forty-acre farm in alfalfa.
This yielded 240 tons of hay the past
season and represented an income Of
over twenty per cent on the valuation
of 5000 per acre. Many others did
as we'll.
We were shown one tract Of 5000
acres ready to farm. This was clear
cd, plowed and complete system Of
drainage installed to care for the seep-
age water All the bitches and later
ais were in and planted to Turkey Red
wheat--nothing more to do until har-
vest season next year, except irrigat-
ing next spring. The wheat here is
up nicely. This land may be had for
500 to s125 per acre. Fifty dollars
down and terms on the balance at six
per cent interest
An abundance Of pure soft nrtcsian
water may be had at depth Of from
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-12-05

Why would this not be a good policy
to adopt not only by the school board
of Lamar but for all the schools of
Prowers county?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
WORK OF CONGRESS.
An Official Resume of It's Greatest Ac-
complishment

| Washington, Oct l3.-An official re
sumo of the activities of Congress during
the past session was issued at the cap.
ital yesterday. Compiled by W. Ray
LOOMS, assistant superintendent of the
House document room, it gives not only
the status of all war legislation but
deals also with miscellaneous enactments,
lists all laws of this Congress bearing
on the international situation and pro-
vides for the first time ready govern
ment guide to the legislative situation
up to the beginning of the December SEES
sion of Congress.
Under the head of notable dates, the
resume begins with President Wilson's
proclamation of March 81, calling Con-
gress into extraordinary session and con
cludes with the House reception to the
japanese war mission on Sept. 5. Re
cording the bill signed by the president
on June Is, appropriating S3,2Sl ,O9i,-
54l for the military and naval establish
ments as "the largest appropriation act
known to this or any other country up
to that time" including S4O5,OOO,O 900 for
an emergency shipping fund with which
to begin construction of the greatest
merchant fleet the world has ever seen,
it says that the deficiency bill Oct. 6, bv
the president, appropriating S. $50 $685.
0l6 and more than S2,000,OO0,00O author
lied SIS the largest appropriation act
passed by this or any other country"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
Soldiers Should Come First.

So acute has become the shortage in
wool that hundreds of women workers in
canteens and other organizations where
garments are knitted for the soldiers and
seamen are forced to sit idle their hands
tied by the lack of material with which
to help men in France resist the cold
winds of winter.
In an effort to combat this condition
and obtain sufficient wool to permit the
knitting of garments for the soldiers, a
number of women members of the WON
ans League for National Service and va
rious Red Cross organizations have
formed committee to interest other
women in this problem and effect a re-
form.
The reason for the scarcity of wool,
members of this committee state, lies in
the great demand which women through.
out the country are now making for col
ored woods with which to make them
selves and their families sweaters, re-
CARELESS of the greater need of the sol
diers. These women have been dubbed
pink patriots" by the war relief work.
ers, and a campaign to curtail their use
of woods for private purposes has been
started.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
COURT OF IMPEACHMENT
To Try Former Prime Ministers, Etc, in
Greece.

Athens, Oct. l0.--A high court of i'm
parchment to try former prime minis
tiers, ministers and army chifes of for
mer King Constantine is expected to be
in operation at an early date 1t will be
notable series of trials of those who
have taken chief part in the affairs of
the Balkans during the war.
The presentation to Parliament of
white book showing that former minis
tiers had negotiated for the surrender of
the Greek fort Rupel to the Bulgarians,
is preliminary to this high court, as
the charge before the court will be that
Greek interests were sacrificed by the
former ministries to one of the enemies
in the war
1t is very rare that high court to try
ministries is thus constituted. Provision
for it is made by the constitution, which
provides the court shall be made up of
II judges drawn from the supreme and
appellate courts, together with members
of the Chamber of Deputies. A demand
for the court is first formulated by writ
ten petition from certain number of
members of Parliament, and it remains
for Parliament to order the impeachment
trials The petition is ready to be pre-
scented, as there is a strong sentiment in
Parliament in favor of dealing rigorous
" with the old ministries, and there APP
pears to be little doubt the court will be
ordered and the trials under way at an
early day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
Topics of the
Home and
Household.

A heavy stone paperweight will be
found very handy in the sewing-room
where material drags upon the machine
needle while stitching or pulls from the
cutting table.
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter
of President Wilson, is singing through
the South and West for the benefit of
the Red Cross, On Oct. % she appears
in Montreal, and she will divide the pro-
ceeds there with the Canadian Red Cross.
Perfect Potato Salad-To make this
salad use four cupfuls of sliced boiled
potatoes, juice of one lemon, one tea
spoonful of salt, e-eighth teaspoonful
of pepper, three tablespoonfuls of olive
oil, four stalks of celery, two slices of
bacon, chopped, one tablespoonful of
minced parsley, one small onion, chopped.
Slice potatoes, while still warm, into a
mixing bowl. Add salt, pepper, olive oil,
celery, bacon and lemon juice, as named
then add the parsley. Arrange in salad
bowl garnshed with lettuce, and garnish
with hard-b boiled eggs.--Farm and Fire.
side.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
CANNOT STARvE BRITAIN.
Former Premier Asquith Declared to War
Aims Meeting.

London Oct. l3--Addressing a wal
aims meeting at Liverpool last night, FL
II. Asquith, former premier, referred to
recent declarations by German states
men and writers and said that his pre-
viously expressed skepticism regard ne the
Reichstag's peace resolution was justified
by the event, for the German parties had
been squabbling ever since with infinite
acrimony concerning its orthodox inter
probation, and confusion had become
worse COMPOUNDED with the publication
of the chancellor's reply to the papl
note.
Concluding with an allusion to the
general situation, Mr.. Asquith said;
IF it is to be a contest of endurance
we have no reason to lose heart or hope
During the last fortnight our uncon-
querable troops have been doing great
things both in Flanders and Mesopota-
mia. There is still need of economy and
good organization in the consumption
of necessary commodities, but not The
slightest danger of our being starved into
submission.
"Take the allies as a whole, including
America, whose contribution to the COM
mon stock becomes every month factor
in the growing quietude-survey the rela-
tive powers of endurance of the two sides
measure them by any standpoint, ma
val, military or economic, and after you
have made allowance for every dubious
or hazardous contingency even for the
temporary paralysis of Russia as an az
gressive force, can there be doubt that
the material, no less than the moral,
rests manifestly and in
without cause?''
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
ENGLISH TROOPS
ARE NOT SAVED
Denial Is Made That British Leaders
Are Forcing Troops From the
British Dominions to
Bear the Brunt

London, Oct. Is Correspondence OF the
Associated Press Reports said to bt
prevalent in America and elsewhere that
troops from the British dominions are
used more freely on the western front
than are those from the United Kingdom
are denied in authoritative statement,
published by Reuters.
"The proportion of casualties on the
western front is actually higher among
the troops from the United Kingdom
than among those of the dominions,
says the statement. Figures showing
the property OF divisions from the do
minons and from the United Kingdom
employed in the battles on the Somme,
around Arras, and Ypres and at Mes
sines, are given to show that troops from
the 'motherland" exceeded those from
the colonies in the ratio of from two to
one to five to one.
1.-The casualties also are compared,
showing, according to the statement,
that those of the United Kingdom troops
have been higher than those of the troops
from the dominions.
CLEARLY there can be no question that
the 'motherland' troops have been spared
at the expense of the colonials," adds the
statement ION the contrary, the evil
dence points to the fighting having been
shared very equally between the avail
able troops irrespective OF the part of
the British empire from which they
came"
Assertions that large numbers of
trained soldiers fit for service are re-
tanned in idleness in the United Kingdom
also are denied
In all the actual theatres of war, the
of troops from the mother
land as compared with those of the do
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
LARGE COAL
SHIPMENTS
Much Anthracite Is Being
Forwarded to New
England
THIS IS THE FUEL
BOARDS ASSERTION
How the Miners Demands
Hamper Coal Pro-
duction

Washington, Oct. l3.-"Large ship.
ments of anthracite are being made at
present in New England" according to a
Icheerful announcement of the fuel ad-
ministration yesterday. According ia
this remarkable document, "there is al.
ready full supply of bituminous in
Washington" and the production of
anthracite for the whole country during
the past nine months has been 1000 900
tons in excess of the tonnage of last
year during the same period Assurance
is given also that "there will be no suffer
ing for lack of anthracite in Washington
during the present cold snap" albeit
three out of five dealers solicited de-
clared they had no coal at all and the
two others promised only one ton of pea
coal.
Efforts to obtain details of coal ship
ments to New England are met at the
bureau of fuel administration with the
statement that all information regarding
the coal supply for that section must
come from James j. Storrow of Boston,
the official fuel administrator. Mr.. Stor-
row, it is explained, is the headquarters
for all acquisitions, which he forwards
to Washington and which the fuel adj
ministration fills to the best of his abil
ity.
One of the greatest difficulties with
which both anthracite and btuminous
coal producers have to contend, it is de-
clared by men representing them, is the
high wages they have been compelled
to pay through the continually increasing
demands of the miners unions. Said
the owner of large West Virginia mine
to your correspondent in a statement
which may be regarded as more or less
typical of conditions throughout the
mining regions: "The unions have kept
hammering at us until now we are pay
ing our men $4.25 day. The only re
suit has been to decrease our production
materially The men do not care TO make
much over SIS week and when they
have earned that sum they quit work |
As consequence the majority of our
miners can be persuaded to work only !
three or four days week, and they |
spend the remainder of the time in idle
ness, which is good for neither them,
the mines nor the country"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-13
HUGE LABOR COMPLETE.
New York's s14o,ooo,ooo Aqueduct Cover
ing 100 Miles Is Ready.

New York, Oct. IA drinking foun
tain which has cost Sl40.000,000 in mon.
ey and eight years of labor will come
into the possession of the city to-day
1t extends from the Catskill mountains
l20 miles away, and is known as the
Catskill Aqueduct. In celebration of its
official acceptance as municipal sys-
tenn which will supply waters to millions
of persons, a three day festival is
planned which is expected to rival the
Hudson Fulton iubilation exercises here
in 1909.
Because of the engineering problems
which had to be overcome in enabling
the city to draw water from the Ashokan
dam, 6l0 feet above tide level, the con-
struction of the system has been de-
scribed as n feat surprising in accom-
plishment the building of the Panama
canal. 1t is one of the few great under
takings which have been completed both
within contract time and without being
attended by any labor disturbances.
A citizens committee appointed by
Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, with George
McAneny as chairman, has arranged
program in which national state and city
persons of note will participate George
B. Mcclellan, former mayor and now
professor of economic history at Prince
ton university, will be the guest of honor.
1t was during his administration that
the project was begun.
The labor organizations which supplied
the workers and the board of water sup
ply which directed the task, together
with leading civic bodies, will be repre-
scented. Charles Strauss, president of the
board of water supply, will notify Mayor
Mitchell of the completion of the Aque-
duct. Each night the city will be il
Illuminated.
More than $4,000 public school children
will take part in pageant called "The
Good Gift of Water" This will be held
to-day in Central park
The city has conducted an extensive
to acquaint children with the !
Importance of the aqueduct A million |
have been distributed, and
pictures connected with the construction
of the system are on exhibit at the /
schools Medals will be awarded to the
two children in each school who submit /
the ablest compositions dealing with the
Importance of water and methods of OBJ
tanning it for the city.
The Catskille Apueduet creates four
axes in its course from the mountains
10 the city. II burrows under valleys,
through high land. dives under
-ivers until it reaches a depth of Lila
'eet below sea level, and bores through
he solid rock of Manhattan island 1t
5 twice as long as the most famous
water system of the days of Rome and
$ three times the length of the Panama
anal. The aqueduct will be capable of
five billion gallons of water a
Law.