The Washington Bee Newspaper, March 7, 1908, Page 2

OON OF JOHN BROWN CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY NEAR AKRON, O. Only Surviving Child of Famous Abolitionist Still in Vigorous Health—Fought with Father at Battle of Osawatomie. Akron, O.—Jason Brown ted his eighty-fifth birthday at his how four miles west of this Ja celebre city, the other day. He is the only surviving ot the famous John Brown who started the civil war in nearly a de cade before Fort Su fired upon, who led “free sol rs at Osawatomie, and who w hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry a_ few years later. Jason Brown was with his father in the Kansas warfare, and he carried arms at Osawatomie. He believed in his father and had faith in the cause of freedom. The hanging of his fa- ther and the slaughter of his brothers and other relatives made him some- thing of a recluse and a wanderer until a few years ago, when advanc- ing age caused him to settle down He took up his residence here on the farm conducted by his son. The birthplace of Jason Brown was in Hudson village, this county, not more than 15 miles distant from the place on which he now makes: his home. He was the eldest of 20 chil- dren, His father, John Brown, * de- scended from Puritan stock, was a stern man, and succeeded in instilling into the members of his family faith in himself and enthusiasm in behalf of the by divine appointment. After a varied experience in the vi- cinity of Akron and later in New York, where John Brown undertook the superv om of a colony of lib erated slav the Browns were at- tracted to Kansas. There a vast ter- ritory had just been opened up to set tlement, and there was fierce rivalry among the settlers as to whether it should be considered as a slave-hold- ing territory or free country. In part it was the controve that drew them, and then, in addition, there was the hope that they might prosper in the new country. So John Brown, with sons and sons-in-laws his numereas and their families sas in the early Osawatomie. Ardent abolitionists and making no concealment of their principles, they were soon singled out by proslavery neighbors for abuse and persecution. Their crops were destroyed. Their building were burned. A son, Freder- ick, was murdered on the public high way, and another member of the fami- iy was driven hopelessly insane by cruel treatment while a prisoner in the hands of their enemies. Finally, one night in May, 1856, John Brown led a little band of free soldiers against the settlement of Osawatomie. In his band were several of his chil- dren and other relatives. removed to Kan- Ss and settled near This night attack became known as the massacre of Osawatomie. Jason Brown was not in the first fight, but he bore arms under his fa ther at the battle of Osawatomie, which came as a sequel, in August of the same year. And he remembers that ke killed his man. After Osawatomie, John Brown and his family returned east. The father was determined to prepare for his later raid on Harper's Ferry, which he was convinced would mean an upris- ing that would set all the slaves free Jason did not join him, however. He had had enough sof war. The fact that his life was saved by a Kentuckian, when he had been cap- tured and was about to be hanged, had a softening effect on the heart of Ja- son Brown. He no longer hated the south. Jason Brown is still vigorous. A short time ago he made a trip to Put- in-Bay to visit the aged widow of his brother John, Jr. In the summer time he busies himself about the farm, hoes in the garden or takes long walks down the winding country roads. His dog, Wolf, was his companion for years, but Wolf died recently and the old man now has to walk alone At Jason Brown's home are many relics of the early days in Kansas and at Harper's Ferry Among them all the thing he prizes most highly is an old iron wash basin made by his father } many years ago at Meadville, Pa, Not only did his father make it with his own hands, but the old basin made the trip to Kansas and was in the bat- tle of Osawatamie, where water car- ried in it was used to bathe the wounds of the injured. It has been through three fires, and badly cracked and disfigured, that is but cause to which he felt bound | | { | | | 4 i} ‘ lif the GOOD WAY TO SERVE ORANGES. By New Method the Best Results Will Be Obtained. If you are going to have oranges cut up with other fruit, try this way of fixing them and see if it is not an im- best you can with skin and sometimes seeds in it. take a sharp knife and cut around each section, then flip the pulp out of its quarter. all the juice you have, and how nicely the orange looks in comparison to the old way. Use a rich biscuit crust for your apple turnovers; the filling should be cooked down until very uhick. Roll out the dough, cut in circles about the size of a coffee saucer, put on each a large spoonful of the sauce, wet the edges of the crust, fold over and pinch well together, that none of the sauce may ooze out. These may be either fried in deep fat or baked in a quick oven; if the latter method is chosen, try sprinkling them quickly with a mixture of cinnamon and granulated sugar. These delicacies are made by pour- ing on the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs a generous half pint of scalding hot cream, and without beating, stir in a heaping tablespoonful of powdered sugar, and a few drops of orange juice. To beat the mixture after the eggs are added would destroy the delicious | consistency of the custards. Pour at once into oranmental little souffle dishes and bake, standing in a pan of hot water, in a moderate oven un- til the custards are the dishes at pretty saucer doily, firm. Serve in bout blood heat on a resting on a lace paper accompanied by small squares of sunshine cake. CARE OF HOUSE PLANTS. Simple Directions That Are Worth Heeding and Remembering. Be careful not to overwater them. To find out if they need water rap the side of the pot with your knuckles. If it rings clear and sharp the plant needs watering. If there is a dull sound the soil is already moist enough. Let the soil get fairly wetting it again. Plants thrive much better permanently kept in jardinieres. The average living room is too hot and dry for growing things. They are best kept in a cool room and moved to hot rooms only for temporary deco- ration. The extremes of day and night in a window sill are too much for most plants. Carry them into the middie of the room at night. Keep a pan of water in the room where they are kept; give them plant food; spray them free from dust, and keep a sharp lookout for pests. In ventilating the room see that the current of cold air does not strike them directly; and remember that gas fumes are deadly to them Hollandaise Sauce. This is really warm mayonnaise, using butter instead of olive oil. It is the best sauce for serving with sa!- mon or other boiled fish if you des! it hot. It requires a quarter pound butter, half a lemon, the yolks of two eggs, a little salt and a half tea- spoonful of white pepper. The secret of its successful making to pre- serve an even temperature. The sauce should not approach the boiling point, as the eggs would cook and the sauce curdle. Put the eggs in a small saucepan and add the butter gradually, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon It will soon thicken like a mayonnaise. When the butter is all in, add salt and pepper, and lastly the lemon juice, stirring until well mixed, sauce becomes too thick add a little stock or hot water. Surround the fish with parsley and slices of lemon and serve the sauce in a bowl A few sliced cucumbers should be served with fish. dry before if not a is Banana Betty. Remove the crust from part of a loaf of stale bread. Slice it as thin as pos- sible. Place the slices in a dripping pan and brown very delicately in the oven, then spread with soft butter. Butter a baking dish and sprinkle it with buttered bread crumbs. Add a layer of the toast, then a layer of ba- nanas, peeled, scraped and cut in quar- ters lengthwise. Sprinkle with sugar, a bit of cinnamon and a few drops of lemon juice, and dot with butter. Re- peat; add a cup of boiling water, cover with buttered crumbs and bake in a moderate oven until the banana is tender. Cover until nearly done, then remove cover and brown. Serve with a lemon sauce. Celery Soup with Peas. One quart celery (use for this out- side stalks and root ends), one small onion, boiling water, four level table- spoons butter, three level tablespoons flour, one pint hot milk, one pint veal or chicken broth, one cup peas, salt and pepper to taste. Cover the celery and onion with boiling water and cook makes it only the more valuable in the eyes of its owner. slowly for two hour Strain, press- ing through all possible. Melt the butter, add the flour, and when blend- ed add the hot milk gradually, then the broth. Stir until thick and smooth and cook for five minutes. Add the celery liquid and peas. Reheat, sea- son, and serve at once. Puree of Spinach. Look over one peck of spinach and wash thoroughly. Let stand in cold water for an hour, then drai:: and cook until tender. Drain well and chop very fine. pepper and butter. platter and lay Sarnish with hard-boiled egg. Cut the orange in half, H Squeeze the skin, see © vavicvesessnesteessnisistemenmbisevanasiittasiattiinestsiisasceitctn naan siete Season with salt, Arrange on a hot the tongue on top. GIVING FINISH TO TOWELS. ‘ PER os May Be Scalloped and Worked with Solid Buttonhole Stitch. ' The ends o! the towels may be scal- loped and worked with solid button- hole stitch. There may be a design in | provement over the old way of peel- | eyelet and French embroidery above ing the orange and cutting it up as | the scallop on one end and the scal- Jee with the initials on the other end. Letters from four to six inches high ,can be used on the towels. They {should be padded First, take short running stitches, just inside the stamped outlines, fill jthe space between the running stitch- es with a layer of outline stitches set | close fate even; into this layer of out- line stiteh work another layer, tak- ing the stitches of the second layer into the stitches of the first layer and not into the material. Work a third layer into the stitches of the second layer in the same manner. Work across this padding close stitch, setting the needle for the of the letter; these never be covered stitches. SAVE THE BREAD CRUSTS. outlines should with the padding | Dried and Run Through Meat Chopper They Will Be Found Useful. Take the bread crusts and place in a pan in the oven, dry them thoroughly and run through the meat chopper. After they are finely ground sieve as you would ordinary meal and put into; jars for future use. What a neat shelf a woman can have in the pantry with jar foods! First there are the bread crumbs, the jar of navy beans, lima beans, dried corn, spices, crumbled parsley, which has been dried and crushed, sage, hominy, ete. A large gallon crock is splendid for holding salt, another for sugar, and by buying large quantities of sugar one gets more for the money. The pantry should be the pride of the kitchen and all neatly arranged. Noth- ing makes a better bread bin than a large tard can or a large stone jar. The latter will prevent bread or cakes from freezing in a cold room if they are wrapped in a tablecloth and care- fully covered. KEEP THE FLOOR POLISHED. Simple Method That Takes Place of Continual Work. Hard wood floors are beginning to look a little the worse for the win- ter's wear. It's always a problem to keep them looking well without a con- tinual polishing performance, summer or winter. A treatment which has stood the test of experience is this: First wash the floor well and let it dry. Then go over it with a cloth dipped from time to time in kerosene oil, which both cleanses and pene- trates the floor so that less of the boiled oil is required. The boiled oil finish should then be prepared. To make this, take two quarts of boiled linseed oil, put beeswax the size of half an egg and boil together until melted and thoroughly mixed. Care should be taken in doing this, are inflammable. While the oil is still warm apply with a wide paint brush. It is much easier than keeping up a wax polish Raisin and Coffee Bread. Add to one cup scalded milk one- third cupful shortening, a cupful sugar and a half teaspoonful salt. Cool to lukewarm, then beat in a yeast cake dissolved in a quarter cup lukewarm milk and enough sifted flour to make a stiff batter. Cover and place where it will keep warm over night. In the morning blend a beaten egg with the dough, add one-half cupful seeded rais- ins and roll out the mixture in a sheet three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Put in a buttered dripping pan or a deep pie plate, having in its center a muffin ring piece of stiff paper pinned together to make a ring. Cover and let rise until it doubles its orig- inal bulk. Brush with melted butter, sprinkle with powdered sugar and cin- namon and bake in a moderate oven about half an hour. Eat hot with cof- fee. or Koumiss. Dissolve a third of a yeast cake in a gill of warm milk and add two teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar. Have ready scalded a beer bottle with a-patent fastener or if you have not this use an ordinary bottle and cork, soaking the cork well for some hours and wiring it on the bottle. Fill the bottle three-quarters full of fresh, blood-warm milk, or fresh milk heated to blood warmth, and pour in the yeast mixture. Shake hard for several minutes, then put in the cork and fasten it down securely. Set in a warm place until the contents are working and foamy, then lay in the ice chest until wanted. One yeast cake makes three bottles of koumiss, so it is well to make several bottles at one time. earner RE Protect. Clothes. To prevent the universally liked Gretchen apron from becoming soiled and wet so quickly by coming in con- tact with sink and washboard, stitch a casing on wrong side at waist line, insert tape, draw snugly and tie. Tack tape securely in center of front to keep it from slipping out when untied. Stuffed ‘Chicken Baked with Ham. Order two two-pound chickens. Clean and stuff in the usual way. Rub with salt and place one-half pound ham cut in thin slices on the breasts and tie it in place with a string. Place in a baking pan and bake in a moder- ate oven until tender. Baste often with butter and hot water mixed. When done remove to a hot platter, surround with the ham and pour over a gravy. yoo satin stitch on the stamped outlines | as both materials ; THE COMING ELECTION. ' How the District Will Be Divided. The District of Columbia will be di- vided into twenty-two districts, as fol- lows: First District—All that part of the conuty of Washington, outside the lim- its of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, lying east of Lincoln ave- nue and Bunker Hill road. Second District—All that part of the| county of Washington, outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown, lying west of Lincoln avenue and Bunker Hill road. Third District—All that part of the city of Georgetown lying west of High street. Fourth District—All the part of the city of Georgetown lying east of High street. Fifth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying west of twen- ty-first street west. Sixth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying south of K street north, between Fifteenth street west and Twenty-first street west. Seventh District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between K street north and N street north, and Fi~ teenth street west and Twenty-first street west, and north of N, between Four- teenth street west and Twenty-first street west. Eighth District—AlM that part of the city of Washington fying north of N street north, between Seventh street west and Fourteenth street west. | Ninth District—All that part of the of Washington lying between G street north and N street north, and be- tween Eleventh street west and Fif- teenth street west. Tenth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between G street north and the canal, and between Eleventh and Fifteenth streets west. Eleventh District—All that part of the city of Washington south of canal and east of Eighth street west, Twelfth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between Sev- enth street west and Eleventh street west and between G street north and the ca- nal. Thirteenth District—Al] that part of the city of Washington lying between Seventh street west and Eleventh street west, and between G street north and N street north. Fourteenth District—All that part of K street nortm, between North Capitol street and Seventh street west. Fifteenth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying between D street north and K street north, and be- tween North Capitol street and Seventh street west. Sixteenth District — All that part of the city of Washington lying between North and South Capitol streets and Seventh street west, and between D street north and the canal. Seventeenth District—Al! that part of the city of Washington lying between G street south and the canal, and between South Capitol and Eighth streets west. Eighteenth District—Alj that part of the city of Washington lying south of G street and Eighth street west. Nineteenth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying north of E street north, between North Capitol street and Fifteenth street east. Twentieth District—All that part of the city of Washington south of E street north, between North and South Capitol streets and Fourth street east. Twenty-first District—All that part of the city of Washington lying east of Fourth street east, and between E street north and E street south. Twenty-second District—Al! that part of the city of Washington lying south of E street south and east of Fourth street east. city Hickory Nut Souffle. Grate one and one-half cupfuls of stale cake (the sponge variety is ex- cellent for this purpose) and pour in slowly, stirring constantly, a small cupful of scalding cream, a pinch of salt, the well-beaten yolks of four eggs and a teaspoonful of orange juice; cook over hot water until well thickened, stirring constantly. Let the souffie stand until quite cold and then fold in the stiffly whipped whites cof the eggs and half a pound of chopped and shelled hickory nuts. Turn at once into a deep souffle dish and bake in a rather quick oven for 25 minutes, serving immediately, ac- companied by a hot maple sirup sauce. White ‘Sioa Salad. One pound of white grapes, two eggs, two cups of wine, one dessertspoon powdered sugar, one-half teaspoon salt, pinch of mustard. Stew and skin the grapes, halve them and remove the seeds. Then set on ice Beat the egss very light and add slowly the wine. Cook in doubte boiler till thick, stirring constanily. Remove from fire and add powdered sugar, salt and mustard. Set immediately in a cool place. Serve the grapes on lettuce leaves, with the dressing added at the last moment. Corn Chowder. Nice for supper when t he wind blows cold: One-half pound salt fat pork cut fine. Fry in kettle with three large onions cut fine and pint of potatoes cut in cubes. 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