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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-10-8, Page 2tic With the Cucumber. Cucumbers will keep much longer 111 a eool place than i=, generally realized, At any rate they will keep for three months in a, reft:ig critter, even if the temperature is not kept as uniform as it might Le, and in good cold storage they will undoubtedly keep for many mouths They are sometimes freshened by putting them in a pitcher of .waiter with stem end down covered with a elaeese cloth if they - ere to stand for any time. As standing water soongrows stagnant, this is not a ;method to recom.'nend for keeping them, even for tweety-four ho`xrs, They can always 1•e freshened and cooledunder running water. Cooked oucumiber is too little known among us, particularly sit this season, when cucumbers are abundant and often inexpensive. There seems to •be a ,prejudice against it that is not altogether reasonable, especially •among those who consider vegetable marrow, which it much resembles when cook- ed, a delicacy. Probably, too, it its more digestible tht's than in any other way it is ever used, which is not saying much. Cooked cucumber keeps its char- acteristic flavor, and may be shade dealieiously savory. It may be pre- pared in any of the ways vegetable marrow is, and in some ways d its own. In France the cucumber is far more often cooked than not, and various)•- flavored and served. Cooked Cucumbers. — Peel the cucumbers carefully, removing but a thin shaving, cut in quarters, and then cut these pieces in half or dice" them, removing the seeds. Cook for fifteen to twenty minutes' in boiling salted water, to which has been added an onion or some cel- ery, or both, or some other vege- table flavor. If they are to be can- ned they should not be cooked more than fifteen minutes. Serve with butter or cook them for a little in meat stock. The French commonly cook theca in meat stock, which is thus reduced until quite ;brown and the cucumbers deliciously flavored,- .other vegetables being added for this purpose, Those who do not dike the cueumber prepared in these ways'may find it agreeable if a lit- tle vinegar is added. The cooked cucumbers may be put through a strainer and a cream ;sottp made by adding to the puree thus obtained rot milk and seasonings. Cooked Cucumber Salad. — Cu- cumber cooked as in the above re- cipe and well seasoned makes an excellent salad when cold, if serv- ed with a French dressing. Canned cooked tomatoes put into thorough- ly sterilized cans andlater steriliz- ed in can if necessary can be heated up and used as a vegetable or tak- en from the can and used as salad. The sterilization is the thing, the salted water in which the mem- bers are boiled, ateaspoon of salt to a quart of water or two, if pre- ferred, can be used. Fried Cueumbers.—Cut in thin slices the cucumber may be fried as the Italians fry any of the long green gourds, with an onion cut thin and a sliced tomato to each cucumber. The cucumber : cooks slowly in this way and the work must be done over a kw fire. Celery Salt. --Celery salt is eat- en with ,cooked eucumbers, when it is liked, and anoId recipe for mak- , 1ng it: at home .is as follows Scrape the outside off celery roots and dry them; grate the dried roots, 'nix their powder with one-fourth its quantity < f salt, and it :ri'.1 be. ready to use upon the table, Onion and Cucumber Pickle. - Probably no one in the world owes anything of health to vinegar, and some undoubtedly owe a good deal `of debility to indulgence in pickles, yet people do want them, and fre- quently ask for impossible recipes for sliced cucumber preserved so as to retain its fresh flavor. Salt and vinegar are the essentials in preserving all such things, while the addition of some pieces of horseradish root make the keeaping qualities the more' certain it is',be- lieved, Oil is sometimes added and both vinegar and oil are quite con- monly put on cold when the cucum- bers are sliced.' Here is an ancient 'recipe : Pare and slice one-half ;peck of cucumbers with one-half peck of onions, :sprinkle layers of the two with salt and let stand over night. Wash off salt the next morn- ting end pack in stone jam in lay- ers, sprinkling over each Layer of cucumber and • onion a little white 'pepper, mustard seed, and powder- ed cinnamon. • When the jer is full pour over it a "mixture ofhalf a -gallon of vinegar,, one pint of port wine, and one sup of olive oil. Stir from ilei ;bottom every' morning for two weeks. Sweet , Cuelrsnberi _- Peel full grown cnelirnbers-.yellow ones will do, Halve thern down the middle, scoop . outthe seeds, cut them into s ;any fanciful pieces, cover `-with good. "vinegar, and let them stand twenty- lour hours; then pour off the vine- garr pints agar and to three p pts of this put half a pound of sugar (brown iar gene ally preferred), u cluttrter of. an ounee of stink cinnamon, a dram Of cloves, half a`draux of grated nutmeg (call ib to smell portion if. you choose), and an ounce oaf a whole ginger. Boil 'the pickle ten minutes. Lay in the cucumbers, give them one boil up, and take them out be - fere they soften in the least. Lae them in jars and pour the pickle hot .over them, In a week or two boil thevinegar over gain and pour it, when cold, over the °ileum-. 'hers, ---German recipe. Household Iiinls. Shoes will last much longer if rubbed with vaseline when they are new. Eggs when scrambled should be stirred constantly. There is no finer polish for tin were than wood ashes. A. sweet red pepper should always hang in the canary's cage. ,Always 'turn saltfish 'skin side 'up' when 'soaking it to freshen. A flannel dipped in turpentine will clean a: porcelain tub 'excel- lently. A pan of eater .set in the open will keep pie's and •cakes from ;biirn ing while .baking, If you ;spill milk on your clothes' wash out the sapot at once with white soap .and warm water. Add a few crumbs of bread to scrambled eggs, This will improve the dish and make the eggs gb: fur- ther. To give silk that, is, being wash- ed the sheen of new silk, add just. a little methylated spirits -to the rinsing water. The short end of candles melted and mixed with equal parts of tur- pentine make a fine polish far hard- wood floors. A cupful of vinegar added to the water in which colored clothes are washed will often. prevent the color from running. Cheese is a. nice addition to cream soups of any kind. When the soup is ready for the table, sprinkle grated cheese over the, top. When packing away rugs or ear - pet for any length of time always fold in powdered alum and a few moth ;balls when rolling up. A few drops ,of pure glycerine put on the edges of your jars before screwing on the lid will prevent moldfrom forming on the fruit. To remove chocdlate stains from white dresses or table linen, sprinkle the stain thickly with bor- ax, place a saucer beneath- it and pour on just enough,wat-er to moist- en. Leave for several hours and then wash. To economize on stove polish and also, to save labor in :polishing the stove, mix the polishing paste with dry steep powder. Any sort of soap powder answers the purpose, and the shine obtained is far better than when the polish alone is used. GERMAN LOSS OF TRADE. Big Engineering Conte/lets Whieh Go to British Firms. The trade war on Germany is proving a great success. The cosi- tract from the meanest penny top to a first-olass locomotive originally placed with German companies are being rapidly transferred to Bri- tish companies. In few trades has there been keener competition from the Gerana,ns than inthe railway locomotive and rolling stock indus- try. Before the ..declaration of war, important orders for British and overseas:'rail:ways „were in the hands of leading German companies. One of the most important con tracts, comprising a ]large number of passenger carriages for new elec- trified services around Buenos Ayres of the Central Argentine Railvaray Company originally placed in Hano- ver has now been awarded to the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage Company of Birmingham. South Africa and New Zealand had large orders for locomotives in the Maffic Company of Munich. The Hanover Company were also build- ing 34 passenger carriages for the Union of South Africa Railways. Kerskel of Eased had orders foe 18 heavy main : line engines for South India, and some of Argentine railways. The Hanover machine factory of London, was • building locomotives for the Bengal railway and Taff Vale Railway, and the Ho- henzollern works, Dusseldorf, were building six powerful shunting loco- motives for the Port of London au= thorities. All these eontu:acts have now been cancelled and will, sehortly be divided amongst British; and American engineers Thoughts for 'Women. "Love never knocks at the door of a woman's heart; he goes in, drives philosophy out, shows wis- dom the door, and rules supreme," "To go without—and look as if you Iiked it—is ' one of the first things to .be learned in this world,",, -"A man never falls in love with the woman who studies him." "There are two kinds of women in the world—the one who loves to marts age, and the one who loves to be managed—and all one has " to do is to find oat which is which." 1."A woman may not be able to reeall just when her husband ;proposed;. but .she ,can .always remember what dress she had on et the time." '. Two Irish Sisters Recruiting for Lord Kitehener's .New. Army. :Two sisters, Miss Winnifred and Miss Ivy Mulroney, who are working :hard on behalf of' Lord Kitchen- er's arequest 411 young mento join Ithe British army. appeal for recruits, ride in Hyde Park, and•personally 'Very- few -of the men can resist them. ENGLAND DID NOT SUSPECT KAISER'S> EXPERT VISITED JEER _GUN FACTORIES. Head of Krupp Firm Reported His Findings to the ' Kaiser. Before our senses are .numbed by the clash anddin of Titanic killings on land and sea—before we lose the faculty of remembering the past in the staggering attempt to grasp the present—I would like to take Eng- lishmen back to an event which happened in their unsespecting midst exactly.. two Months ago, writes Frederic William Wile in the London Daily Mail. A most sinis- ter event, in .the light of what has happened since, and one 'designed as hardly another could be to per- suade the most sceptical aan:bong us that the War Kaiser's pl,ane,for the sacking of Europe were deep -laid, deliberate, and stealthy. It re- duces to criminal absurdity the German contention that- •tfrtbaged- don was kindled at Sarajevo. I refer to the strange visit paid by Herr Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach, the head ofKrupp's, be- tween June 14 and 23, to Birken- head, Barrow-in-Furness, Glasgow, Newcastle -on -Tyne, and Sheffield. His charming wife, the Cannan Queen and,proprietr:ess of-Krupp's, accompanied him: That bolstered up the fiction that the visit was "private • and unofficial:" But in order that the inspection of the Firth, Laird, Vickers, Brown, Arm- strong -Whitworth, Carmen, Laird and other establishments should not be strictly informal Herr Krupp von .Bohlen brought with him his chief technical expert,. Dr. Ehrens- berger, of Essen. There was` a fourth member of this party—Herr von -Bulow, •.a kinsman of the form- er Chancellor, who until recently-. perhaps yet, for all T know—repre- sented the- Krupps in London. Herr Krupp von Bohlen's pre- vious visits to England have ' been. undoubtedly private in , character. Both he and his wife were fond of London andliked to come to us in- formally, to live quietly like well- born people of means, at a fashion- able Piccadilly hotel. In recent times they .cane primarily to sit for the . -late Sir Hubert Herkomer. Never until the visit of June' did they ever come accompanied . by their experts. They same this' time, in other words, strictly for busi- ness. And it is not a comforting re- flection to think that they accom- plished their business thoroughly, Instigated Visit. There can be no manner of doubt that Herr Krupp von Bohlen's last sojourn in these isles was at the di - reel; instigation of somebody higher up.personn There is but one . i Germiany, who could send him on such a mission: And that someone is the Kaiser. Herr Krupp von _ Bohlen is not in the habit of . "traveling" on behalf °of his .giganeic firm, The tour of England, as a matter of fact, was the first of the kind he ever xnade. He undertook it because the neces- sity of spying out the armament se- crets of. Great Britain had 'sudden- ly become a matter of vital signific- ance to Germany ; and he came sit the behest, of the ;Krupp's greab family friend, the i'!imperor, who, as we now knew, pie,ached peace while plotting• war, The genesis of the Krupp invest/. gation of the ;state of prepai.'edeess of our facilities kr manufacturing land and sea a;rniaments is no less reniarka,ble than the investigatron. itself. lilarly in Cay certain of the firms above mentioned received a delightfully courteous letter frofn the Master of Essen anrroup'Oing hie intention to • visit England. during the season: Frankness incarnate, the letter suggested that en inspec- tion of establishments making ar- tides of war similar to those nano facbured by Krupp's would natural- ly be of the greatest .interest, The recipients of Herr Krupp' von Bohlen's lettersforthwith com- municated with our -naval and niali- tary authorities. It ..;was agreed that, subject to the elementary pre- cautions advisable in such circum- stances, there could be no harm in extending to the Essen visitors the hospitality for which, I fear, we are sometimes all too famous. They came and they saw. Whether they conquered remainsto be seen. Doors, at any rate, were flung wide open to them. There was even some speechmaking. The fact that the utmost possible care was -exercised that the lynx -eyed Dr. Ehrens- berger and Herr von. Bulow did not see too much does not alter the un- derlying'grevity o€ the•visit itself. Report to the Kaiser. Herr Krupp von Bohlen lost no time in reporting to the Kaiser the wonders he had been privileged to inspect in England and Scotland. By prearrangement undoubtedly, lie came -directly from them to • Kiel, where William II. was extending a hearty welcome • to Vice -Admiral Sir George `VWarrender's battleship and dight cruiser' ,squadron The Kaiser always demands prompt ie - ports from special. emissaries. Grand Admiral von Ph -pita was at. Kiel, too,, to hear. what -the Master of Essen • had gleaned in guileless AIbion. And while the . issue of peace or war with Englandhung in the balance at Berlin, Herr Krupp von Bohlen hurried up from Essen to take part in the momentous councils of the Kaiser with his military and naval chieftains. Can we doubt that what be learned in this country in lune was his prin- cipal contribution to the delibera- tions 2 Guileless, too, I remember now that I sought an .interview with Herr Krupp variBohlen art Kiel. It was the day before Sarajevo. 1 knew of the true British hospitality which had been showered upon him. I thought perhaps he might be in- clined to indulge in some' glittering generalities for publication. I know now :why he. despatched .a polite young secretary tb my hotel with the message that the "nature of Herr Krupp von Boillen's visit to England made it quite inappro- priate for him to discuss it in 'pub lic." BAGPIPES GO TO THE FRONT. The British War. Ofiiee Hiss Per- mitted Then;. - The Scotch regiments won't give up their kilts. They have reluctant- ly permitted the War Departn nt to take away from them their p1atds and their brightly, eodaored ban- ners and to substitute khaki foe Highland' hues, but they've got to be khaki kilts, nob khaki :trousers. In these days of high-poivered• 'guns and scientific warfare when all the' old-.fa,ngled fashions in fighting. have been thrown awayand not even a band or .as fife end drum cOrps can get onto a battlefield, the Scotch regiments ortill hang to 'their bagpipers, or at least theie 'bag- pipers hang to them No English regiments will fight to mush; in the war, but the EngliishWar ,Clues didn't count 'the bagpipe as as nittsieal instrument, much to the de. light' of the Scotch fighting hien, iv 6 'Anyway, the pes,sirnist is thank- ful that he wasn't' born a,n optimise The' successful farmer lute to be sharp as ;a, raiser. During the to-uetship a •girl is often unable, to eipffain. her thoughts, ;bu t,she• ++cakes up for lost time .after marriage. MOST DREADED : ANARCHIST MALATES'TA LIVES 'OBSCUIt'E- LY IN LONDON. He Is a "lied Terror" in Almost Every Country on the Earth. • Almost obscure in the burly - burly of life are five and a half feet of gentle, •polite, 'reticent man, smiling but unspeaki'ng; thoughtful but approachable, at whose neane the enthroned ones shudder and at whose .appearance the police -forces of the 'nations gather themselves for supreme efforts. The doors of ,the countries are closed to • him; the law hunts or shuns him,; kings listen to his ut- terances and feel the; structures tremble, and stagger And the. quiet man slinks here and there, planning, plotting, exhorting. Wherever he goes he leaves his footprint of blood and violence and ruin. He has done no specific crime, this little man; yet he has spent years in prison and in exile. He has been accusedcountless times. Wherever he ;has been assassination and rebellions have sprouted:, but never has he. personally been in- criminated. Ile works in the dark and •escapes in the'claek back to his little mechanical" shop in Soho, London, while one government af- ter another reels from his unseen blows. In 'Trouble- Again. • His name is ;Malatesta, and -he has just again eluded the Italian police after stirring up the bloody Ancona, strikes which forced the calling out of Italy's naval and military forces.. The monarchs on their thrones are doomed to more, quakin Wheng- the Italian navy, arrived in too 'great 'strength for. the Ancona strikers, it is said: that.,Malatesta, disguised as a workman, .left his rooms in .great haste and escaped into Switzerland.' In: searching his house the police say they found letters and • money orders from American anarchists, and notes ad- vising Malatesta to 'assassinate the Italian king. More than likely the last is a bit of police information given out• for the effect. The quiet little ' Soho mechanician does not kill. "Kill kings 1" he .said on one oc- casion. "Too' foolish: I should rather kill, chickens. They are good to eat, but whet' could one do with a king l". Of an Old Family. The. Malatesta,s were counts of the Holy Roman. Empire. Their line dates, from the thirteenth cen- tury, when. Malatesta de Verru chi set himself as Lord. of Rimini and handed down as fief which his .descendants held for more than three 'centuries. - "The Malatestas are of the first families of 'Italy, and the old nasus .of Rimini,, in whose shade the lovely Franoesoa listened to the tender: pleadings of May her Paolo, ay still be seem, though. �tinre has stripped it of . its' gen:kits: and glories and converted it into a macaroni factory. This is the line of the little man who makes kings. tremble, Count Enrico Malatesta.+, he hest the right to tall himself, but that he has ne- ver done, His father ` and uncles were highcommanders in the forces of Crown Prince Humbert when Viet or le11manu'el drove the Aus- trians out of .Ltally, He himself has been openly accused cif ;having in- stigated the assassination of that saFn7e Humbert, Malatesta: is now sixty-one yearns old," About forty years ago, when he' "was a modteal 1.a Lucent in Na - pies', he threw Doff; the 'rank and a station to which she was born, and 44741041.411( OPfniN¢+1.4« o,u.GKi4N5,Y314(a. \,,VLLTOR co oANYUMlITe� assistedin the fomenting :of a Rcu- manian uprising against Turkey. ThePortehunted him out, and he returned to Italy. Saved From Death. In 1899, having been successively expelled' • from Italy, Turkey, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, and proscribed in every European coun- try save England,, he came to the United States at the call of Pater- son - and Reading radicals to be - some editor of La Question Sociale. in Paterson. First, however, he had to be rescued from a small is- land off the Tunisian coast, whither. Italy had exiled hunt. Malatesta lectured for a. .time in America, was shot ' in the thigh at one of the Anarchist meetings and saved from death by Gaetano Bres- ci, who ingratiated himself with the Red leaderby the rescue and soon became an intimate. In 1900 Malatesta went to Lon- don and established himself in Soho and Islington. A little later Bresci sailed for Italy with two compan- ions. And then came the news -off the assassination of King Humbert. The police havenot yet been con- vinced that the plot to kill the King was not hatched in Paterson by. ' Y' Malatesta. But a little later Malatesta ap- peared in Paris. Almost immedi- ately there were two attempts on the life of the Persian. Shah, then visiting. the French capital.. A shot at the French President followed. In Switzerland and Belgium riots attended the visits of Malatesta. In Germany, it was said, his in- fluence brought about an attempt on the Kaiser. That is•, the record of this quiet, urbane little Italian, Yet Malates- ta is neither a bomb thrower nor a maker of bombs, though his ap- pearance would • suggest that char- acter to the popular mind. He is rather heavily built, swarthy, bearded and intense, with glitter- ing black eyes and nervous, peace - less fingers. England His ;Haven. '66-6161, ,1.i i9 In an interval between his early European activities and his visit to America hie made a trip to South America, where once more violence and bloodshed- followed in his path, with the result that he is banned from all the Latin republics. The immigration laws now debar him from entrance into America. "Eng- land alone furnishes him asylum in exile. Yet never . have the authorities been .able to fasten direct responsi- bility on the man. He has been in jail and prison in half of the coun- tries of Europe, has been twiee ban- ished to small. Mediterranean is- lands by Italy, and has ' escaped both times. In every case his of- fence has been. inciting rebellion, making seditious utterances, re- sisting the police, . or something of the kind: . His. real crimes, if such there are, have never been proved:. Once Malatesta was -sent to ,,prison for commending the assassination of President McKinley, again for accusing a countryman of being a spy; again for • advising . Italian strikers to fire' .at the troops. • Can Yet► Beat Its -• f; Father -in -law --•Look here, ynoung man, don't you Think it's about time you were going to work, er do you expect me to stipporb you the. rest Of your life/ �Sorr-in-last*--xt would be no more than fair, fust after what I have clone ;for you. (`X d ]Eke to' know what you've evor done forme." r' ' a. t ke . daugb . o hy, dreln t l a your tet: off your hoards i" i'.