Irwinton bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 1894-1911, September 02, 1910, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextSERVING OF FRUITS MELONS ARE BETTER SERVED WARM, SAY SOUTHERNERS. Recipes for Salad Dressings—Sweet Wine and a Small Amount of Fine Liqueurs Used —How to Prepare Currants. Fruits are so cheap and so good flow that housekeepers should provide them in one form or another for each meal. Melons are at their best, so that it has become almost a matter of course to have them every day for one meal or another. Southerners declare that people of the north spoil watermelons by too much chilling; that, like strawberries, they need the warmth of the sun in them; but the weight of opinion still seems to be on the side of the ice box. One of the most popular ways of serving watermelon is to split it in two lengths, then with a large spoon and a rotary “twist of the wrist” scoop out the luscious pink flesh in cone-shaped pieces. Arrange on a bed of green leaves or cracked ice and you will have a picture for the eye, as well as a delight to the palate. Cut in this way, which gives no waste, one ■good-sized melon will serve 15 or 20 persons, according to the size of the melon and the appetite of the diners. At a recent luncheon the first course was chilled melon, which had been prepared in this wise: All the center of the melon was scooped out, reject ing the seeds. This was broken with a silver fork into small pieces, then put into a freezer with the addition of half a pound of powdered sugar and the juice of a lemon. The freezer was packed in salt and ice and burned slowly for 15 minutes until a mush like consistency was obtained. This melon frappe was served in glasses with a teaspoonful of sherry added to each glass. No summer breakfast is complete without fruit. While most people pre fer it served au naturel, others with English predilections take more kind ly to jam or some of the many stewed or steamed fruits. Others find a salad ■of fruit dressed with a few spoonfuls .of sherry and sugar one of the best :appetizers at the beginning of the meal, while still others, loth to give up their cereals, take a combination of fruit and cereal. In serving fruits au naturel arrange ■them to please the eye as well as the palate. Nothing is prettier than .leaves for decoration. No prettier fruit for breakfast can “foe found than currants, red and white, on the stem. Put a border of the leaves about a pretty china or glass dish, and pile the fruit on them. Serve \with powdered sugar. Oranges for breakfast are easiest ■served cut in halves. They are de licious made in a compote with rice. Take the pulp out as whole as possi ble and drop into a rich boiling sirup, leaving it in just long enough to heat It through. Make a nest of rice, put the orange and pulp in it and serve - with whipped cream. Fruit salads are not nearly so well known as they should be. The dress ing of a fruit salad for the gourmet is usually of sweet wine, with just a suspicion of fine liqueurs, but for ordi mary use other combinations are pref .erable. Sweetened whipped cream, lemon juice, fruit juice, French dress ing or mayonnaise are all used with . fruit. Stuffed Tomato Salad. 'Chop fine one cupful of cooked ham and season with salt, pepper, celery seed and chopped onion. Add half a .cupful of bread crumbs and mix to .■a smooth paste with French dressing. .Stuff tomato shells and serve on let tuce with mayonnaise. Watercress salad is also good to look at and “gooder” to eat. Use the tender leaves of the cress. Let them stand iin cold water to make them crisp and then wipe dry. Sprinkle over them a teaspoonful of parsley and olives, -chopped fine. Add a few slices of sour apples and pour over it the French dressing which is made of one table spoonful of vinegar, three tablespoon- Fuls of oil, one-half teaspoonful of salt and one-quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper. The two latter ingredients should be mixed in slowly. To garnish •watercress a hard-boiled egg chopped ■fine and scattered over it is an im provement. Cocoanut Cream. Soak one-half box of gelatine in one ■cupful of milk until soft, then set in iiot water until dissolved. Add one cupful of granulated sugar, stir until dissolved and strain. When cold and ■quite thick add one teaspoonful of va nilla, two cupfuls of freshly grated .cocoanut and one pint of cream whip ped to a solid froth. Stir and mix gently until very thick, then turn into wetted molds and set aside until thor •oughly chilled and firm. The above ■proportions are sufficient for two good sized molds. Asparagus. Begin at top, break into two-inch pieces until you reach the tough part of the stalk. This you peel thinly and break. Cook in boiling sa!>»d water; it will ail be equally tender. Season with butter, pepper, and cream or thickened milk. Swiss Cheese Sandwiches. Cut rye bread very thin and spread ' lightly with soft butter. Between the ■slices lay thin slices of Swiss cheese spread with lightly seasoned mus tard. WAY TO MAKE ANGEL FOOD Flavor With Almond and Rub Icing Smooth With Boiling Water—Dif ference in Sugar Used. This is an original recipe, and if all directions in regard to quantity, and combining of material, as well as di rections for baking are followed, sue-, cess is assure^ (use ungreased tube mold, medium size, and a graded measuring cup); all measurements are level; do not pack down flour when, measuring, just fill cup lightly and level off top with knife. Ingredients —One cupful of whites of eggs, three fourths cupfuls each of granulated and powdered sugar; one and one-fourth cupful of finest pastry flour; one tea spoonful each of cream of tartar, va nilla and almond extract; a pinch of salt. Method—Sift sugar and flour five times separately before measuring, then combine and sift two more times, then let stand in sifter until needed. Put whites of eggs in round bowl large enough to allow for expansion in whipping; add the saM, then with a flat egg whip begin with light, even strokes; when they begin to froth add the cream of tartar, whip until so stiff that if a portion is taken up on whip and reversed they will stand up in a point; then add the flavoring, whip, in lightly, then sift sugar and flour over evenly and with a light dipping motion fold in until all ingredients are well mixed. Fill carefully into the mold, seeing that mixture reaches the sides, then place in a moderately hot oven and watch carefully; the cake should rise to top of mold and rise smooth and slightly rounded, without showing more than a golden tinge; if at any time the oven becomes too hot open the oven door and let the hot air escape; this may be done at any time without danger of the cake falling, but never move the cake or jar stove when opening the door, or place a kettle of cold water on stove while baking. When the cake has been in about 20 minutes the heat may be slightly increased; when done the cake will shrink slightly, and to test press with fingers; if cake rebounds without mak ing a .hissing sound it is done; it should then be a delicate golden brown color; take from oven and invert can until cake is cold. (This process of in verting pan insures a light cake, as it cannot sog while cooling, and when ready to ice remove the slides on sides of pan, dip a long, flexible knife in cold water and cut cake from mold. Invert cake on a plate, rub off any loose furry particles that are on sides and bottom, then ice with a liberal coating of con fectioners’ sugar, flavored with almond and rubbed smooth with boiling water (note the difference; use powdered sugar for cake, but confectioners’ sugar for icing.) A small quantity of vinegar boiled on the range will counteract the odor of boiled cabbage or other vegetables. In darning curtains if the rent is large, take a piece of an old curtain and patch the hole with it and the damage will scarcely be noticed. A crust of bread is best to clean a sticky bread or cake pan. Never use a knife or anything that will scratch the surface and invite more .sticking thereafter. To mend a crack on the inside of a range, use a filling made of equal parts of wood ashes and common salt moistened with water. This will prove hard and lasting. The best way to extract the juice from an onion, when needed for flavor ing, is to cut a slice from the root end of the onion, remove the outer skin and press onion on a coarse grater using a rotary motion. When the boiled mutton has served its purpose as a dinner meat in one family it invariably returns at luncheon or supper as a salad, and always with sandwiches filled with mayonnaise mixed with chopped capers. Afternoon .Tea Cakes. As a dainty to serve at teas make some little raisin cakes. Rub one half cup of butter to a cream with one cup of fine granulated sugar, add one cup of milk, two cups of flour sifted twice with two level teaspoons of baking powder, one-half cup of chopped raisins, one-half teaspoon of flavoring. Put a spoonful of butter in little tins, buttered and floured. Have the pans but half full and when baked ice the tops and sides and put a whole raisin on each cake. Use the patty pans with straight sides. Maple Sugar Fudge. One pound of maple sugar, one pint of cream, a few drops of vanilla, a small lump of butter. Break the sugar into small pieces, add cream and let it cook until it forms a soft ball in water, or sugars on the edges of a pan. Stir constant ly. Pour thickly into buttered tins, after beating lightly on removal from stove. This is nice with nuts added. But ternuts or chopped cream nuts give t delicious flavor. ASiT APPEARED TO HER Mrs. Oelrichs Evidently Didn’t Think Much of Mr. Blank’s Earning Capacity. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, the best dressed woman in Newport, criticized very pertinently, at a recent dinner, the new dinner gowns of Paquin and Callot. These clinging and filmy gowns are chiefly remarkable for the V-shaped back that they possess. The V —it is Incredible, but It is true —opens all the Divining Rod 2CO Years Old. Winslow W. Fifield of Medford, Mass., owns a metallic divining rod brought from England more than two hundred years ago by one of his an cestors. The rod, says Mr. Fifield, has been used successfully all oyer New England and in the western mining districts. It is attached to whalebone handles 12 Inches long and weighs two ounces. The handles have inscriptions bn them which are almost obliterated by age. The person who brought the rod to America was Isaac Greenleaf, who set tled in Massachusetts. The rod became famous as a finder of water. After marking the place of many springs the rod was used in California, Colorado and North Carolina for locating by men in quest of gold mines and other met als. One person who used it with par- Hoodwinking Clergymen \Vhen a small clique of men put up a scheme to harness the clergy of America and induce the ministers to, in turn "hitch up” the members of the churches, we should all take notice. They couldn’t harness the preachers in a bad cause except by deceiving them. Ministers of the gospel are essen tially and fundamentally honest but, like all men who work for the public good, they are at times mislead by false statements. Trust them when they have exact truth to speak from. Now for the story which should In terest every one for we are all either receivers of wages or we pay to wage earners and the freedom of each in dividual is at issue. In various papers the following statement has been printed. Read it carefully at least twice. “Interest In Labor Sunday. "Labor Sunday—the Sunday preced ing Labor day—will be observed gen erally this year and in future years throughout the United States. This because of the American Federation of Labor declaration for the observ ance of that day. The numerous let ters recently received at American Federation of Labor headquarters from ministers is an assurance that Interest in the idea of giving special attention to the cause of labor from the pulpit one day In the twelve months is widespread. Our readers are urged to try to bring about an un derstanding in their respective dis tricts with representatives of the church so that ministers will make addresses that may attract trade union ists to the churches in large numbers for the day. Ministers should say what they think on the occasion in order that their trade union hearers may put the right estimate as to where the church stands on the question of the organization of labor. The more the subject is discussed the better will it be for labor. Union ethics are sound. —American Federationist.” Observe that “Labor Union” men "are urged” to Induce ministers to make addresses that will attract trade unionists to the churches “for the day.” "Ministers should say,” etc., and winds up with "Union ethics are sound;” observe the hidden threat. This’ Is clipped' from the American Federationist the organ of Sam Gom pers, et al. This clipping has been sent to pa pers throughout the country and the Typographical Union men in the news paper offices instructed to "urge” that It be printed. That is one of the ways of the “ma chine.” It looks harmless so the papers print it. But! Let’s lift the cover and look under. The hidden motive is as dangerous to the peace and liberty of the citi zens as a colled rattlesnake in the grass. Organization by workmen to peace fully and successfully present their side is necessary and most commend able. “There are such organizations now rapidly winning their way to public confidence without strikes, dynamite or killing fellow workmen. (Some facts on this matter a little further along in this article.) We see here a demand on the min isters of God, that they endorse and help build up the strike-producing, boycotting and violent American Fed eration of Labor. Think of the man of God who teaches brotherly love being covertly ordered to praise and help get new members for an organization with a record for violence, crime and murder done by ifs members the like of which the world has never seen. Think of the thousands of women made widows and the increasing thou sands of children left fatherless by the pistol, club, dynamite and boot heel of members of this Labor Trust. Any one who recalls the countless murders done In the multitude of strikes in the past few years will agree this is no exaggeration. Take just one as an illustration: There were some thirty men mur dered and over 5000 bruised and maimed tn the Chicago teamster's strike. — way down to the waist Une. At a gala performance in Paris given by the Metropolitan Opera company of New York —the most successful perform ance Paris ever saw, and one whereat ?40,000 was gained for the Pluvlose victims —many of the beautiful Ameri cans in the ?40 orchestra seats wore these daring gowns, and now at New port thecate often to be seen. Mrs. Oelrichs stared at one with as tounded eyes at a dinner, and her neighbor said: . > "Isn’t that new gown 'of Mrs. Blank’s a dream? Old Mr. Blank is so de- ticular success was a blind man. In whose hands the rod is said to have done marvels. A Strong Preacher. The minister’s eight-year-old daugh ter was returning with her parents from church, where the district super intendent had that morning occupied the pulpit. “Oh, father,” asked the little girl, her face alive with enthusiasm, “don’t you think Brother C. is a very strong preacher? I do.” Gratified by this evidence of un usual Intelligence on the part of his offspring, the minister eagerly in quired imo her reasons for her state ment. “Oh,” replied the little miss, artless ly, "didn't you see bow the dust rose when he stamped his feet?"—Judge. There Is seldom a day passes but somewhere in our country from one to a score of our fellow men are assault ed or murdered by members of this band. Then remember the homes blown up or burned. The families hounded, the rioting, burning of street cars, wrecking of trains and attempted or successful killing of passengers. The general disturbance of Industry and the thousands of dollars forced from tax payers to pay extra police, sheriffs and militia to protect, even In a feeble way, the citizens from the mobs of members of the American Federation of Labor. Then you will realize why the great peace-loving majority of over 80 mil lion Americans protest against the growth of this crime-tainted organiza tion comprising perhaps one and one half million men, of which it is esti mated at least seven-tenths are peace loving citizens and are members by coercion and are not In sympathy with the three-tenths who have gained con trol and force their methods. We find that a few designing men have seized control of the American Federation of Labor, just as som.e shrewd capitalists have secured con trol of some railroads and other in terests and are now twisting and turn ing them Into machines for personal profit and fame. These men cunningly plan to force workmen to join and pay 25 to 75 cents a month in fees. Various methods are used to “in duce” workmen to join. First, they talk of the "tyranny of capital” making slaves of workmen. Then they work up enthusiasm about the "brotherhood of man” and other talk which experience has shown excites the emotions of work men and they are Induced to join and pay fees to the leaders. The 5000 workmen in Battle Creek are, as a rule, free from the dictates of the great Labor Trust and still get the highest wages in Michigan. If they had yielded to the smooth talk ■of the agents of the trust and joined, they would pay in fees from $1250.00 to $2000,00 a month to the big trust and be subject to strike orders any time. Now they save that and put the money Into homes and 1 family com forts But the managers of the American Federation of Labor have worked hard and long to harness them. The trust has sent small bales of money and last winter 18 “organizers” to tie up Battle Creek. They hired halls, gave picture shows, smokers, etc., as an Investment, looking to rich returns when they succeeded in hav ing them tied hand and foot. But they failed and the last of these “organizers” left Battle Creek on May Ist saying "it’s no use.” The workmen knew the record of this great trust and formed their own association to protect their rights and also to protect them from the big Labor Trust. In Philadelphia some 4000 indepen dent street car men, who mainly had families, had their own union and re fused to join the big trust, preferring to be free to work or not as they pleased. But the trust planned to force them into the fee-paying ranks, so a strike was ordered to compel the traction company to kick out these men and hire only Labor Trust members. It was not a question of wages or hours but to push the free men out of their positions where they were earn ing good money to support their fami lies. The strike was ordered, not to raise wages or reduce hours, remem ber, but solely to throw out members of an independent union and make places only for Labor Trust members,’ and thus show the independent men they could not earn a living unless they first paid fees to the trust man agers. Incidentally the people of Philadel phia must submit to no car service, rioting and bloodshed with millions in losses while these fee-hunting, noto riety seeking trust leaders were teach ing the world that industry cannot be carried on except by workmen who first bend the knee, bow the head and pay fees. How these men as strike leaders love to see their names in the papers voted. They say that everything he makes goes on his wife’s back.” Mrs. Oelrichs, her eye fixed on the gowr’s terrible V, said with a smile: “Well, he must be making very lit tle, then." Practical Matching. 6 What the little girl with the 15 cents in pennies wanted was some red rib bon of a particular shade for her moth er. She knew the shade, but she couldn’t explain it and all she could say was, It wasn’t that, no, nor that; It was deeper than that, and not so The Counterfeit Southerner. Os course, there are many counter feits. A most amusing imitation is one that often passes for the typical southerner in Now York. This satchel mouthed braggart Infests the cases and demands attention by his abusing the waiter for offending his delicate sense of honor. “I hate a nigger, sub,” he loudly proclaims, which is a senti ment that one. never hears from those to the manner born. He haunts the theaters and parades the streets, since it is poor fun to practise his gentility in private. He wears a wide black hat, mounts the table and yells whenever the band plays a southern melody. Such a pre tentious caricature would be harmless enough, but for the ridicule he brings ppon the south. Unfortunately, popu lar authors seem to accept him at face each morning! It’s meat and bread to their souls. Then think of the lordly power, and don’t forget the steady flow of money squeezed from the workman’s hard earned pay enevelope. But when these leaders "tie up” any industry no man can hold a job who refuses to pay fines even on trumped up charges, and steadily pay fees whatever they are. The workman Is absolutely at the mercy of this band of men who have secured and hold cdntrol. Many and many an honest workman has raised his voice and appealed to his fellows to rise and throw off the yoke of Gompers, et al. But, as one writes, “At every convention of the American Federation of Labor, strong opposition comes up but at the crit ical moment the impassioned orator appears and most dramatically puts the spot light on the leader and covers him with a mawkish film of ‘martyr dom’ and the emotional delegates yell in delight, forgetting the instructions of the peaceful workingmen at home who desire to free themselves from the odium of membership under the great advocates of strike, boycott, vio lence and hate.” So we see the unequalled insolence with which these trust leaders pro pose to “induce” ministers to pull their chestnuts from the fire by preaching modern aggressive and vio lent labor trust methods. There is a better way to secure jus tice for workers, as will appear furth er along. Just a little diversion here. I am charged with having first brought to the attention of the public some years ago, the name “Labor Trust.” A trust is a combination of men or organizations for the purpose of sell ing their product at a profit and re stricting production to effect It. We will say a large Oil Company gathers in smaller ones and thus con trols production. The Labor Trust “gathers in” local trade organizations and thus has pow er to say how much work each man shall do. The Oil Company then fixes prices. The Labor Trust does likewise. The Oil Company may “use meth ods” to force an unwilling dealer to join. The Labor Trust men go further and slug the independent man if he tries to sell his labor without paying fees hnd “obeying orders.” They are both exactly alike in purpose, which, in both cases is entirely selfish to gain power and money for the leaders. Certain Labor Trust members do not hesitate to use violence, dyna miting of property, burning homes of independent men and even murder to force obedience. Thp Oil Company doesn’t go so far. Both are extremely dangerous to the welfare of people and communi ties, for power placed in the hands of a few men either representing Cap ital or Labor is almost always abused and the public suffers. Remember, reader, that your safety lies in strenuous opposition to all trusts which try to ride over and dic tate to the people. Only by opposing their growth can you retain your personal liberty. . Row to ministers. ' The average congregation is made up of about 90 per cent, of free citi zens and much less than 10 per cent, of members of the Labor Trust. The free citizen wants to hear words defending the rights and independence of the common man, free from the ar bitrary dictates of any self-seeking organization either of Capital or La bor. The merchant lawyer, school teach er, doctor, clerk, farmer and work man rebels against any forcible stop ping of trains, boats, street cars, or factories, for the prosperity of the community Js entirely dependent on steady continuance of these things. Men don’t like strikes, boycotts, in jured workmen or burned cars and factories. A famous divine says: "These men may hate capitalists but their hate for other laboring men burns like a flame, eats like nitric acid, is malignant be yond all description.” Then we remember cases of acid throwing, eyes gouged out, children pursued, women stripped, homes de-' deep as that, and so on. The mission was looking hopeless when suddenly she darted from the shop and seized a passing gentleman by the hand. “Will you please come Into this shop with me?” she asked innocently. “Certainly, my chickabiddy,” he re plied, “if I can be of any use. What is it?” ' The little girl replied not, but led the wondering stranger to the counter; “There, miss!” she said, triumphant ly. “Mother wants some ribbon thal color of this gentleman’s nose.” value and exploit him in novels or, plays where a "southerner” is a nec essary part of the stage machinery.— Everybody’s Magazine. Wasted Sarcasm. 1 The Philadelphia milk dealers who recently raised the price of their product to nine cents a quart and then lowered it again to eight appear to have been the subjects of a great deal of unjust censure. They announced at the time of the raise that milk could not be sold at eight cents with out loss. Finding that the consumers would not pay the new price, however, they are continuing to sell at the old, thereby qualifying as genuine philan thropists. Every purchaser of milk at eight cents a quart will doubtless* hereafter feel that he is an object ofi charity. stroyed, men murdered and the longj long list of atrocities practised - ^ Labor Trust members on other human! beings who cannot agree with the) trust methods. Now for the better way. Workingmen are now organizing in the old fashioned trades union or “guild” way, affiliated with the Na tional Trades and Workers Associa tion whose constitution provides ar bitration of differences with agree ment for no strikes, boycott, picket ing or hateful coercion of any kind. This Trade Association has evolved] from the experience of the past and 1 is the highest order of Trades Union- 1 ism at the present day. Under its laws it is not possible for the Hod Carriers Union or the Street 1 Sweepers Union to order the school) teachers or locomotive engineers to ' quit work in a “sympathetic strike.” If any craft finds“Tnjustice, the case is presented to properly selected arbi trators, testimony taken and the case presented to the public through the press. Thereupon public opinion, that! greatest of all powers, makes Itself! felt and curiously enough a fair settle ment is generally the result. | There is no strike, no loss of wages.i no loss to the community and yet the faithful workers get their just treat-' ment There are many details which have been worked out by .men skilled in labor matters. It will recompense any interested man to know these details which can be secured by a postal request for, constitution and by-laws written to the National Trades and Workers As sociation, Kingman Block, Battle Creek, Mich. Reader, look carefully into this great question of the relations of Cap ital and Labor and its successful so lution. The new plan works and brings results for the members. r~became so favorably impressed with the trustworthiness and practic ability of the leaders of this new la bor movement that I gave the Associ ation a sanitorium at Battle'., Creek worth about $400,000 and with about 300 rooms, to be used as a home for their old members and the helpless babies, sometimes made fatherless by the pistol, club or boot heel of some member of the violent “Labor Trust.” Suppose you attend church Labor Sunday and hear what your minister has to say in defense of the safety and rights of the common, everyday man. Let me ask you to read again a por tion of one of my public articles print-, ed a few years ago. “The people of the world have giv-i en me money enough to spend in' these talks through the papers in try •ing to make better and safer condi tions for the common people, whether the Postum business runs or not Scores of letters have come to me from work-people and others, some from union men recounting their suf ferings from union domination and urging that their cases be laid before the public. It will not answer for us to onlyi sympathize with the poor, the op pressed, those who haven’t power enough to drive off tyrants and re sent oppression, we must help them tie the hands of the oppressors. Amer, leans must act. Some of my forebears in New Eng land left comfortable homes, took with them the old flint locks, slept on the ground in rain and frost; hungry, footsore, and half clothed they grimly pushed on where the Eternal God of Human Liberty urged them. They wove for me and for you a mantle of freedom, woven in a loom where the. shuttles were cannon balls and bul lets and where swords were used to pick out the tangles in the yarn. These old, sturdy grandads of ours 1 stood by that loom until the mantle was finished, then, stained with their life blood it was handed down to us. Shall I refuse to bear it on my shoul ders because the wearing costs me a few'dollars, and are you cowards! enough to hide yours because some foreign labor union anarchist orders you to strip it off? I have faith that the blood of 1776 still coursing in your veins will tingle : and call until you waken. Then! Americans will Act.” “There’s aTeaJ son^ — q. p O ST.