The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 1, 1910, Page 4

FOR USE IN TRANSPLANTING Innee Receptacle in Box Lifts Out and Slides Fall Away—Handy for Gardener. A device to facilitate the trans planting of flowers and bushes ‘as been designed by a Minnesota woman tt enables the gardener—particularly the amateur gardener—to remove plants from their pots or boxes with out Injury either to the roots of the former or to the latter. The invention mentioned comprises a box with an {nner and an outer shell. The outer shell has not bottom and merely fits around the Inner receptacle to sup- port the sides which are hinged at the bottom and would otherwise fal! open. The inner shell has a bottom and the sides are adapted to be bent over at the top to engage the tops of the sides of the outer member = The whole apparatus must be together when the bush fs planted in It. When Box for Transplanting. the husk has grown to a size that makes transplanting necesary, all that need be done ts to lift the inner re- ceptacle out of that which holds it to gether and the sides fall away and leaves the plant, with the earth cling- Ing to {ts roots, ready to be installed In the ground. With the old-fashion- ed flower pot the removal of a plant often resulted In damage to the lat ter of breaking of the pot. SPHINX DOES LITTLE HARM Large Apple-Green Caterpillar Feeds on Leaves of Different Fruit Trees. The large apple-green caterpillar or apple sphinx {is easily recognized by the seven oblique whitish or yellowish stripes, margined with purplish red, and the brown vertical stripe on each side of the head. This caterpillar, Apple Sphinx. when full grown, is about two and one-half inches long, and: bears a rather conspicuous horn similar to that of the common tobacco worm at the posterior extremity of the body. says Country Gentleman. This species feeds upon the leaves of apple, pear and ash and the wax myrtle, Myrica It Is rarely abundant enough to cause any material injury. FLOWER BOXES IN WINDOWS Nothing So Softens and Beautifies Stiff-Looking House—Plants Should Be Watered Daily. (By RUTH MARSH) Nothing so softens and beautifies a ADVICE AND INFORMATION OF ALL SORTS. Humor and Wisdom Combined in a Manner That Wil! Appeal to Housewife Desirous of Be- ing Up to Date. G ather and burn the rubbish jently to hear; kindly to judge.” When a mouse gets into the home of a Turk it must have a harem scare ‘em look. A clothes tree on which to hang un- finished garments is a great conven- fence in a sewing-room. When powdered sugar gets hard, r { through the food chopper, This is an casier way of breaking the lumps than using a rolling-pin In a department store a man is apt to buy the first article shown to him— a woman the last; but it takes her a lone’ time to decide which shall be the last To thicken gravies for pot roasts or stews, put a piece of brown bread in with the meat. When you go to make the gravy rub it up for the thickening Be careful not to fill the kerosene lam” too full. The of] may be drawn up over the top and get on fire and make you trouble—maybe set the house on fire. Never leave a trunk Iid raised when there are children about. They are naturally inelined — to investigate things and leaning against the trunk to look in may bring the lid down upon them with serious consequences. Comfort in a cold country house can be getten from a small log of hard woo! which is slowly heated for some hours in the 4ook-stove oven, and then slipped into a bag of heavy cotton flannel, It has a very pleasant fra- grance that is hard!y matehed by the customary rubber hot-water bag. Those who intend to dry sweet corn will find the following device a help Take a piece of planed inch board, about six inches square; drive a six penny or elghtpenny nail through cen ter and set in pan; force cooked cob down on nall, which holds ear in place while being shaved I knew a man who thought his wife enght to look his clothes over every ht to see If the buttens were «2 tight and no holes in the peckets. And yet, | never heard that he sat up hights thinking of the little things he might do to make his wife -appier Lots of ‘em he might have thought of! Brethren, let's be ready to give as well as to take There ave candies sold in the form of cigarettes, in boxes in imitation of these the real articles are in. I do hate to see littl» five and six-year-old lads with these ix their mouths pre- tending to smoke them. Couldn't you discourage the habi of buying such candies, mothers? When the demand ceases, they will not be made. Apple butter fs made with a new un- fermented cider. Fill a preserving kettle with fresh cider and boil it down one-half. Repeat this until you | have the desired quantity. It {8 well | to do this the day before making the apple butter. To every four gallons of boiled cider allow a half-bushel of | nice, juicy apples, pared, cored and | quartered. Nearly fill a large kettle with clder and put in as many apples | as it will cover. Stir it often, and when the apples are soft stir it con- tinuously until they are a pulp. Cook and stir until the butter is dark brown and as thick as marmalade. Add boiled cider if 1t becomes too thick; and apples, {f too thin. It requires no sugar. Spices can be added If liked, but we think it better without them. When cold put in stone jars and cover; it is not necessary to seal them.—Farm Journal, ~ Wedding Cake. One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, one pound of butter, one cup of molasses, one dozen eggs, one and one-half cups of sour milk, and one and onehalf teaspoon- tuls of soda, three pounds rats- ins, two pounds currants, onehalf pound chopped walnut meats, one-half E HOUSE jmay have all the assurance'of succe itired of going the old, beaten way Aunt Susan in Wallace’s Farmer ! Corn Bread: As the good man of | the house goes through the fields of }corn and comes in to talk over the prospect of a crop for another year, sometimes he will say: “Acres upon acres of corn raised in Iowa alone, and not one piece of corn bread!” Then I know he is hungry for the very thing I have learned, by con- stant experimenting, to make by a rule that is all my own, and which never fails: One pint of cornmeal, one-half teacup of white. flour, one- fourth cup of granulated sugar, one | teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of baking powder well rounded over top of spoon; put all this into the sift- er and sift three times. uring cup or an old-fashioned coffee cup and fill half full of sour cream and then fill it level full of sour milk; turn this into some vessel and stir or just enough to sweeten it; take the same cup and measure one and one-| half cups of sweet milk and stir into | the sour, one egg thoroughly beaten and turned into the milk, where it} should be well mixed; then turn this | into the bowl containing the other ingredients, and beat to a smooth, | thin batter, and turn into a well- greased pan that measures 10x8 inches and is 2 1-4 inches deep. Bake one-half hour in a quick oven. If the | oven bakes faster on the bottom, then | raise the bread from the intense heat , by means of a rack after it has been | in fifteen minutes. It should have all! of thirty minutes to reach a good bak- | ing. If no sour cream is to be spared | from the churning, then make the cup full of sour milk and use two tablespoons level full of shortening of | any sort you desire, but I prefer one) of lard and one of butter—the flavor | is better. Of course, when sour} cream is used, no shortening is beds | ed, and the bread is more elegant. | When the bread is placed for baking, | I want the heat sharp and quick enough to bake potatoes. A slow, | lukewarm heat will not give good re- sults on this bread, that is a “‘prize-} winner’? when well baked. The} young housewife or amateur cook | with this rule if she has a good oven. | Oatmeal Crackers: One —cup| of oatmeal, two cups of flour, | one-half cup sugar, one-half cup butter, two teaspoons of baking powder; mix dry oatmeal with flour, sugar, baking powder and a lit- tle salt; then rub in the butter thor- oughly; add just enough sweet milk to make it stick together; knead a long time and roll out, but only roll out a small portion of the dough ata time, and use as little flour as possi- ble in the process. Roll thin; cut in squares, and bake in hot oven. Cornmeal Mush: Ever since I was| alittle girl I have been struggling | with the task of making mush. Those who eat this valuable article of food have but small notion of the amount of labor expended by the good wife before it is ready for the table. I got that our grandmothers trod—having an iron kettle half full of boiling wa- ter and stirring dry meal into it—hav- ing it work up into balls and lumps that must be rubbed, and pressed, and beaten out, while I stand over a hot stove and burn my apron, scorch my temper and wish for another right arm to come to the rescue of beating that thickening mass into smoothness. Then I think I'll hurry} the business by increasing the heat, pound candied orange peel, two grated nutmegs, two tablespoonfuls cinnamon, one tablespoonful cloves, ground; two gills best brandy, one gill best wine. Bake four hours in moderate oven. stiff-looking house--or any other kind for that matter—as window boxes. Make a box eight inches deep and ten inches wide. Use only rich black soll to fill it. A bucket full of ferti Mzer worked into the soil will improve it. Fill the box level full and then let it stand for a week. Then stir up the soil to loosen {t and plant. Ferns should be planted in the rear of the box. Between them place ger. aniums, red or pink preferred. In the front of these plant a row of purple ageratum seed and for good measure mix in a few of candytuft. For a front row, plant sweet alys- sum, The alyssum will fall over the front of the box and form a pretty border. Give the plants plenty of room to For a large porch box, with plenty room, a few dwarf nasturtiums may Muttonettes. Cut from a leg of mutton slices about one inch thick. On each slice lay a spoonful of stuffing made of bread crumbs, beaten egg, butter, salt, sage, pepper. Roll up slices, pinning with little skewers or wood. en toothpicks to keep dressing in. Put a little butter and water in a baking pan with the muttonettes and cook in hot oven, three-quarters of an hour. Baste often, and when done thicken the gravy, pour over the meat, garnish with parsley, and serve on hot plater. Tomato Marmalade. Pare and slice four quarts of ripe tomatoes, add tonr pounds of granu- lated sugar six large lemons and one cupful of seeded raisins. in jars and cover with paraMin. This is a delicious re}. ish. dressing made of salt, pepper, vine and am rewarded by a big, hot blub- ber flirting itself into my face, or flattening its intense heat upon my bare arm. When smooth, then it must be- removed to back of range and allowed to simmer for an hour— all the time cooking to the bottom of the kettle, making a miserable job of cleaning and scraping and scouring after it has soaked over night. So much for the old way our mothers traveled, and their mothers before them. Now for the new rule: Four old-fashioned coffee cups of boiling water placed over the fire, with two teaspoons of salt added; into a pan put one and one-half cups of corn- meal and stir into it one tablespoon- ful of sugar; to this add one extra cup of cold water and stir until all the meal is moistened; add this to boiling water, a spoonful at a time, and stir should be boiling, and kept at that point while adding the meal. Tone cown the heat now by putting a lid under the vessel, or an abestos mat, Take a meas- | into ita scant half teaspoonful of soda, | est item. Watch Inspector MISSOURI l Christmas is Just Around the Corner Getting ready has kept us pretty busy for the last while back. Weare going to be able to show you people our best-yet Christ- mas display this year. It is going to be larger than before, and better selected. It is going to be more attractive, too, and in every way more worthy of your very best interest. This ad is just to acquaint you in advance with our intentions. In a week or so we will print the word “READY,” which will mean that everything is ready for you, down to the small- If you will save your wants in our line for us, we will promise to let you do your choosing from a stock that will represent the latest thoughts in Holiday Jewelry. DON'T FORGET TO WAIT—AND DON'T FORGET TO CALL. Repairing and Engraving Promptly Done. N. B. Jeter, THE WEST | oatmeal is cooked in, that is the per- |fect vessel for this cooking. After the fifteen minutes’ boiling, put it in- {to the “‘fireless cooker’’ for several {hours, when it is ready to eat with , milk or turn into a pan and get cold, to be fried for breakfast. The reason for putting the sugar in is to improve | the flavor and cause it to brown easily when fried. If anyone is not so fortunate As to possess a fireless cooker, then it must remain in double boiler over a slow fire for an hour, and it must be stirred occasionally. As we are all studying economy these days, a sack of cornmeal yields more food value than almost any other grain. Democratic Party on Test. Washington, D. C., Nov. 27.— Former Senator James Smith of New Jersey, who aspires to fill the seat in the Senate now occupied by John | Kean. spent the day here. He talked policies but not politics. In the course of his observations, he said: “The Democratic party has oppor- unity now not equaled in a genera- tion to earn lasting honor. The peo- ple are awakened. They are taking an interest in public affairs to-day unthought of in the past. They have come to realize their power, and they will yield it hereafter on the side of those who serve them best. “The Democratic party is about: to be put to the test. I am hopeful of the outcome, but I would suggest that we approach the task in a spirit of general fairness. The people are protesting against burdens which are not uniformly borne. They complain of the high cost of living, of public extravagance, and of the tariff. “The tariff should receive early attention. The present law is gen- erally considered as evidence of a party’s breach of faith. A revision downward is expected, especially with reference to the necessities of life. To my mind, that is the most solemn duty of the Democratic party at this moment.’” Banks on Sure Thing Now. ‘T’ll never be without Dr. King’s New Life Pills again,’ writes A. Schingeck, 647 Elm St., Buffalo, N. Y. “They cured me of chronic con- stipation when all others failed.’ Unequaled for biliousness, jaundice, indigestion, headache, chills, malaria and debility. 25c at F. T. Clay’s. Strike Breakers Unloaded. Sedalia, Mo., Nov. 28.—Twenty- two non-union machinists, boiler makers and blacksmits from Chicago and other cities in the East arrived this afternoon under guard to take strikers’ places at the Missouri Pac- ific Railway sbops. The men were unloaded at the shop grounds east of town, and were not permitted to come into contact with the strikers. Company officials said today the strike situation over the system is better than it has been since the trouble began on May 2 last. ' Including today’s consignment and allowing for the vacancies of the past fortnight, 80 per cent of the strikers’ places are filled with non-union labor. Many of. the strike-breakers, who have been boarding at the shop grounds, are now moving into the residence districts and are bringing their families here to locate perma- nently. The Law and Order League, organ- ized to prosecute assailants of strike- " beet. |and let it boil three or five minutes] breakers, have afforded the non-un- CHURCH TOWER FALLS Big Sixty-foot Tower of the Bap- tist Church Crashes to the Ground in Ruins. The big sixty-foot tower at the southwest corner of the Baptist church in this city collapsed and fell to the earth in an indescribable mass of ruins Saturday morning at about 11:30 o'clock. The high board fences surrounding the J. M. Sallee coal yards were crushed by the falling | mass of brick and timber and fell across the sidewalk in front, Although a number of people who were passing the church at the time of the accident had narrow escapes, fortunately no one was hurt. Two teams in the Sallee coal yard narrowly escaped being crushed by the falling brick which alighted within a few feet of them. : The church was built in 1871, and for a time the room at the base of the tower was used asa Sunday school class room. After a few years the tower was heightened and a cupola was built on top. The foundation and walls have | been cracking for some time, but in | spite of this the utter collapse of the _ tower was unexpected. The church proper is in an excel- lent state of repair and seems not to | have been affected by the collapse of | the tower. | Phelps for Senate, Cry of Prohibition Minister. Carthrge, Mo., Nov. 27.—‘‘We are going to make more of Missouri dry _this winter, and we are going to send Colonel W. H. Phelps to the United | States Senate to succeed William J. Stone,’” said Doctor Hill, pastor of |the M. E. Church, South, of this city to-day. Doctor Hill is a close student | of political events. “As a Democrat and aside from the moral question involved, I am against the legalized liquor traffic. The jliquor business is one of the most | gigantic trusts in America, perhaps | the largest, next to Standard Oil. |The Democratic party is against all | trusts, and its principles are“ opposed | to the enactment of any law that gives rise to or fosters any trust. | “The high-license system of deal- ‘ing with the liquor traffic is the ap- | plication of the Republican principle | of high tariff to that business. The | Democratic party cannot and will not stultify itself and betray its principles by any alignment with the business. | “The experience of Colonel Phelps, his signal ability and the confidence that his neighbors and friends have in his honesty and personal worth, as evidenced by the large vote that they gave him at the recent election, all point him out as the Missourian who at this time is best qualified to lead Democracy in her battles for supremacy.” Official Vote for State Officers. The following are the official totals of the vote for the various state offi- cers: Judge Supreme Court, Long Term. James B. Gantt, Dem...-.... 319,909 John O. Brown, Rep...... . 323,074 Judge Supreme Court, Unex. Term. Henry C. Timmonds, Dem... 318,503 John Kennish, Rep...... ....823,860 State Supt. Schools, (owing to your fire), then set the ves-| ion men assurance they will not be| Howard A Gass, Dem........ 322,226 sel containing the mush in a pan of | molested, and for the first time since | Wm. P. Evans, Rep....... hot water over a blazing fire and let the strike began the non-union men R.R. & W. H. Com. it boil hard for fifteen minutes. If|are now seen mingling with citizens | Thomas M. Bradbury, Dem. . .820,733 one has a “double boiler,” such as/ generally on the downtown streets. | Frank A. Wightman, Rep .. ..926,162 SIDE JEWELER. | Amsterdam Items. , From the Eaterpise, W. W. Huntsmann sold his farm last Thursday to Amos F. Shesler of South Dakota. Mrs. L. S. Hewitt has return from Rogers, Arkansas, where she ‘has been visiting relatives and friends | for sometime past. E. J. Cook, of Gentry, Arkansas, | shipped a fine stallion and jack from here to his home Tuesday. The jack was purchased of R. G. Pinkard and | the horse near Louisburg. | Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Finley arrived here last Thursday from Ranchester, Wyoming, and will again make Am- | Sterdam their home. | J.C. and J. O, Graham made a {business trip to Kansas City last | Thursday. The latter purchased a | car load of cows while there and ex- | pects to establish a dairy on the farm | in the near future. John Francis, who has been in Grainfield, Kansas, for several years, returned here Monday bag and bag- gage and will once more be a citizen of Old Bates. Huge Missouri Wolf Caught. Caruthersville, Mo., Nov. 27,—The largest wolf ever captured in this country was caught to-day in a trap by Lee Hickerson near Wardell, twelve miles west of here. The wolf was a large gray one, known as a ‘‘cypress wolf.” The trap wasa very large one and was dragged a mile into the jungles, where the:chain was entangled so the animal could not escape. It required a dozen shots to dispatch the creature. The pelt will be placed on exhibi- tion, as it is a very rare specimen. And They Shucked 30 Acres of Corn. Half a hundred members of the Rich Hill camp of Modern Woodmen, augmented by a number of outsiders and nearly a score of teams, turned out Thursday to shuck corn for Jas. McElfish (who was recently commit- ted to the asylum) on his farm near Carbon Center. The result of the day’s work was gratifying to the members of that order, between 500 and 600 bushels of corn being shucked and cribbed.—Review. Pat’s Apt Description. Circus Man (hunting for a stray ele- phant)—Have you seen o strange ani- mal around here. Irishman—Begorra, Oi hev that. There was an injun rubber bull around here pulling carrots wid his tail.—Tid-Bits. : The Ycung Fellows Dressy men and particu- lar men ask for 5A. Plush Robes. Their artistic de- | signs and beautiful combi |} nations of colors are pleas- — all eyes. hen, they will not shed; hey wre vann ond long of wear, | Ask fora5A Plush Robe. | We Sell Them McFarland &» Sons Butler, Mo. ‘ ‘