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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1915-2-11, Page 6we�M►�.`ono�sa.tiomE strew +►. Pot Roasts. Pot roasts have long been -known among the thrifty ,poor, for by this method of cooking the coarse; cheap cuts of meat may be rendered: tea - der and palatable. Moreover, very little fire suffices for a pot roast, and this is a great Consideration when veal is at winter prices. An ordinary roast requires a prime joint of meat, a large fire and con- eta.nt attention. A pot roast gives results almost as good with an in- ferior eut of meat, a small fire and ecarcel,; any attention. The primitive way of producing a pot roast is to use au iron saucepan. but it must be confessed that bette, result, are obtained if use is Made of a e vered pot of coarse earthen- ware, whirl: should be placed in the oven inetead of being stood over the' fire. Such a put can be bought in many different sizes. In prat roasting the meat is' placed in the pint with a. little boil- ing water; the lid is kept closely cix-ered to shut in the steam, the heat of which penetrates the meat and G9ftens the gelatine and the coarse fibres of the meat. By the time this it dune the outer part of the meat begin, to take unto itself the rich eider and flavor which are usatally a„uciated with baked or roaet meats. Even pot roasts can be modified to make thena more sav- ory than plainly cooked meat, and the directions below show how cheap and despieed foods may be wad to the best advantage. 1'ot :Roast -Beef., -.Take 6 pounds of brisket t,f beef and remove the bones and e•a'rti:age, which can be tteeed '.iter far soap making. ('oil they beef and beep it in position with skewers and erring. .Place the beef in a s aucepail with a pint of bailing water. Before putting on the .lid aever the rep t,f tb' put w:th • .u:'.r ,f Itheixe:t paper to shut in ene eteeen.Nee:. the eaueepan in a e ei-ea a -teed i- ,rvor the fire eed .. tie. :eater t.. boil rapicll,- for ae h err.ern that Elie pot does n t b..i1 dry. At the end of an hour stantl the pot on the hub or in the c° alter ,+f the kitchen range. Stand it in a teed part of the oven and in either case let the cooking con= trntte ett,wly f..r three hours. This joint may be eaten hot, but it is mere delicate if it is placed while hot uraler the pastry board with one ur tea, flatirons on top and allowed t::• remain until it is quite cold. Spired Iieef.-.-Take a piece of shin bad weighing about four pounds, br arch Ever the outside with vine- gar and dredge it lightly with pow- d ered allspice. Place the meat is the pit with a pint of boiling water and proceed as for roast of beef, bet set the slow cooking -last for two and a half hours only. This may be eaten either hot or cold. If hot serve it with well boiled carrots, turnips and onions. mashed with a little butter; if cold serve salad o•r sliced cucumber as aeeompani- mento. Breast of Mutton.—Remove the skin from a breast of mutton, roll the breast and place it in a pot with a pint of boiling water. Cover the pet well and let the cooking pro- ceed' very briskly for an hour. At the end of that time lift out the breast and spread it on a chopping board. As soon as it is cool enough to handle remove all the bones. Mince finely a large Spanish onion, add a teacupful of white bread crumbs, a small teaspoonful od' pow- dered sage and a seasoning of pep- per and salt. Spread the mixture evenly over the surface of the breast of mutton, which should then be rolled round and -secured with skewers and string. Replace the. meat in the pot and allow the slow cooking to eontinue three hours. A savory variation of this dish can be made by omitting the sage and on on stuffing; and sprinkling the meat, with a little curry ,powder be- fore rolling it. Oyster of . Veal. — Buy three pounds of the stewing part of a shculcler of veal. Remove the bone and "fill the cavity with a stuffing made of one-half pound of sausage meat mixed with a teaspoonful of chopped 'parsley and half' a tea- spoonful of sweet herbs. Place the meat in the pot with a pint of boil - mg water. , Cover the pot closely, cookthe meat fast for one hour and slowly for two. A great 'improve- ment will be found if a few rashers of bacon or thin slices of salt pork are planed in the pot whenthe slow cooking is commenced. Household ]flints.. Freshen leather by polishing with. linseed oil. It helps in the kitchen to use zinc on the working table. If cauliflower is good, it is heavy and eompaet in appearance. For layer cakes the oven should be hatter than for loaf Oakes. Ceilings must be white, as they are to reflect and diffuse the light. When jelly will not set add the juice of a lemon or some white vine- gar. To prevent honey becoming "sugary" keep tightly covered and always in a, dark place. Warmed -up meat loses flavor. therefore the gravy should be very good and well seasoned, Kneading boards and such things sb.auld be kept in a cupboard or some place entirely free from dust, Keep a small box in the kitchen, and into this throw all matches. The contents of this box will be most useful for lighting fires. Children's dresses may be render- ed almost fireproof if in the last rinsing water, or in the starch in which they are stiffened, one ounce of alum or sal -ammoniac is dissolv- ed. To polish aluminum make a mix- ture ofborax, ammonia and water. Apply with a soft cloth. To waterproof boots melt to- gether two parts of beeswax with one part of mutton fat and apply to the leather at night, Soak new brooms in strong hot salt water before using; this tough- ens the bristles and makes the bruoms last longer. See that anything stored away for future use is tightly covered, other- wise it absorbs impurities or inay taint eggs, butter and milk. When making pies cut your ap- ples into irregular pieces instead of slicing them. The pieces will nc.t pack together as closely and will cook much more quickly. For those having asparagus ferns that do not seem to grow try put- ting a spoonful of easter oil around the roots and notice the change in .about six weeks. If you rub a bit of dry soap across the new spool of silk you will not be bothered by having the silk unwind too quickly when threaded int• • the machine. For home-made camphorated oil take one ounce turpentine, one ounce sweet oil, one cake of eam- phor. Cut camphor into small pieces, put into abottle with tur- pentine and sweet oil, and shake well until dissolved. It is then ready for use. Washing in hard water and neg- lecting to thoroughly drythe hands after washing are frequent causes of chaps and ehilb'lains on the hands. The most effective water softener in winter is oatmeal, though a. little trouble is entailed in preparing it foe use. When fruit for stewing is very acid, a pinch o`f borax will correct the acidity. It may not be gener- ally known that to prevent the juice of fruit soaking into pudding or piecrust, thus making it -•heavy, the crust should be brushed over with beaten white of an egg. Many persons are fond of baked fish but hesitate to have -it often because the pan is so unpleasant and difficult to clean. If you will grease your pan well and then out a piece of paper to fit the bottom of it, lay this on the greased pan and then grease the paper you will have no difficulty in cleaning the pan. The fish will come out easily and will not stick. Scalding water with a. little washing .soda will cleanse the pan quickly: and thor- oughly and leave it absolutely sweet with no lingering odor of fish. Neverblow M b ow your own horn in public—unless .you are a musician. Don't be a kicker, but if you feel that you must kick, put, your best foot forward. • D011 ,14 SPIT SNEEZE D �TNAIN Z E CUREYOURSELF! BREATHE C ATAaaaolaNEI Gives Instant Reliefs, Clears F OW Nose; Throat and all Breathing ."'Organs ' In this fielle climate, repeated colds v'e'ry easily driftinto Catarrh." The natural tendency of Catarrh:is to extend through the systerh in every direction. Exposure to cold lir dampness inten- sifies the trouble and nasal catarrh is the result. Unless a complete cure is effected, , Inflammation passes rapidly, to the throat, -bronchial tubes and then to the lungs, you can't make new lungs -hence sumptfon is practically incurable;: tit Catarrh can be cured ,exceptin ltethenal : and always fatal sage. catarrh sufferers meaning , .h tore. with ' colds, sore throats, bronchial trouble, etc., can all be cured right at home by inhaling "Catarrhoeone." In using, Catarrhozone-, you, don't take medicine into the-sltomach—you Just breathe a Healing ,piney vapor dir: ect to the lungs and air ,passages. 'nue purest -balsams and tiee greatest antiseptics are thus sent to ,every spat where catarrhal trouble .exists, germs are killed, foul secretions are destroy- ed Y ed nature is given a"chance and cure conies quickly. Colds and throat ,troubles can't last if the, pure healing. vapor of. Catarrh - ozone' is • •breathed; sneezing ,_and coughing cease at once, because.irri-. -Mitten is removed. ' Usa Catarrhozone to present --use it to cure your 'wi,ntor'il1s. It's pleas ani, safe 'and guaranteed in every case. Complete outfit $100 , Smaller size 50c., at all dealers. The King, Accompanied by Lord Kitchener, Inspects 'Proops at Winchester. Soldiers liming the road heartily cheer as the Royal ear passes. Lord Kitchener is seated in the car beside the King. NEWS FR011 SUNSET COAST WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE ARE »oING.. Progress of the Great West Told in a Few Pointed Paragraphs. In the waters near Prince Rupert, B.C.' shrimp fishing has been re- sumed. - While lost in the bush near Port Alberni, BeC., Lorne Adams died from exposure. • Paul. Johnson, a Vernon, B.C., trapper, hung up a record of .65 milers in seven hours on skis. Vernon, B.C., provides afree skating rink for its 57 German and Austrian prisoners of war. Great Northern Railway officiat•c state the company's shops at Grand, Forks will re -open shortly. The profits of the Trail, B. C., smelter in 1914 were $474,012. In 1913 they totalled $999,367. Ore shipped from Itosslan•d mines in December was 6,699 tons heavier than the same month in 1913. A 24 -pound trout was caught in Okanagan Lake, near Kelowna, B.O. It was 3 feet 4 inches in length. At New Westminster; B.C., May- or Gray was elected for the second time. Last year the Standard mine at Silverton, B.C., paid a dividend of $475,000. The burning of the wharf and warehouses at Skagway caused a loss of $210,000. J. W. Patten, of Armstrong,: B.C., in good years, makes $500 an acre profit on celery. Vernon, B.C., fruit ,growerscom- plain that they paid out $150,000 to middlemen last year. Vernon, B.C.., has laid off all its civic outdoor staff but one man and one team, thus saving $540 a month., R. Glenane, a member of ::'the; Kaniloops police force, was found dead on.his beat, and foul play is suspected. `The Blue Funnel" Line, sailing from B.C. to Britain, will, on June lst, advance its rates on lumber, los. per 1,000 feet. Thomas Walker and Thomas Ma=• Kay, who. beat and robbed an olds man in Vancouver, were sent to the pen for seven years each. Wong Wing, a young Chinaman, shows the beet record for school at- tendance at Golden, B.C. His per- centage was 94.6 per cent. Lieut. Angus McAllister, former- ly one of the best :golf players in Vancouver, lost an arm in the -ware He was in the Royal Engineers. The Boy Scouts of Victoria, Troop 3; won the Lieut. -Governor's Chal- lenge Shield for 1915, getting 46 points out of a maximum of 60. Vancouver's percentage from the street railway in December, 1914, fell off $4,342 fro-tn that in the same month of 1913. One mill in British Columbia, makes 65 ;tons of pulp daily, and ships it to japan, South America' and other countries. In 1896- when John. Cleinents.died in Vancouverhis estate,waavalued at $5,000. Now it has ;reached a value of $47,000. lT ;of the` B.C. Det. "of Ag- riculture, OfficialsP t; riculture, 'say the;dairying industry making reat strides in the lower mainland of B.C.: The -Nelson "B. C , , civic relief oi;. i n' has 40 men.rat work ga,inizat o.cut- wood at -the mountain deiot tin;, p of the•Great Northern Railway. man: 'named Geor e Davi �A� s was e sent to the pen ;fo'r seven years_ for holding up and robbing the inmates of a gambling den in Vancouver. A Vancouver man dug up on his property a tin can containing $500 in gold. It had been buried by a Hindu now serving a term in the pen. The Granby smelter at Anyox, B. C., produced 2,000,000 pounds of copper in November. The finished product cost less than seven cents a pound. About 60 men have lost their lives by sno`vslides in the Slocan since that district was opened up, The first 'men were killed at the Freddie Lee mine, 22 years ago. An attempt was made to burn the C.P.R. railway bridge south of Revelstoke, B.C. A tool house was burned and the bridge itself was charred. At Revelstoke, B.C. a monster snowman 40 feet in height will be erected as an ad. for the city. It will carry an eleFtric torch and have electric bulbs for eyes. Kelowna, B.C., Farmers' Insti- tute will ask the Dominion depart- ment of agriculture for a loan of $32,000 to enable ranchers to pur- ehase dairy cattle. A forest reserve of approximately 100 square miles has been set aside in East Kootenay in the vicinity of Elk River, according to the British Columbia Gazette. The B.C. Government is to fur- nish relief to miners in the Alberta towns of the Crow's Nett pass, where the mines have been idle al- most the -entire season. Princeton, B.C., rfarmers, who lost all from clrouth and grasshop- per pests, are after the government for seed wheat, oats, .barley and rye. An Okanagan, B.C., trapper re- ports furs plentiful, but is market- ing only a few on account of pre- vailing prices. The bulk of his catch he is saving for newt season's market. Never in the recollection of the most grizzly of B.C._ old timers liv- ing in the mountain districts has the winter uv to the present time been as mild or accompanied with less •snow than this year. Vancouver ;policeman found an old horse, too weak to rise, lying on the street one night. He scoured the -neighborhood for old clothes and blankets, and covered the ani- mal till daylight, when the S.P.C.A. took it away. WAS GERMANY .TUSTIFIED? A31 Her Claims for i'ler Invasion of Belgium Shown` to be Un- tenable. • By Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Col. In justification of Germany's in- vasion of Belgium -ha neutral state, whose neutrality the Kaiser' himself pledgedhis honor to maintain—we are gravely informed by German apologists that between July 24 and 4, 1 14 - August 9 the date of 'inva sion,-Belgium violated her own neutrality rights by certain hostile acts, which afforded ample reasons for Germany's action, This general statement of Ger- many's case is backed .up by a "bill of partieular.s, as the lawyers would call it,• and which we will briefly consider.' First :::It'is P alleged that'the re-. sence of 'French offieers ,and,sol cliers, who were .captu> ed: at the tak- ing of Liege; proves, that Belgium and -France were acting in unison before War was declared. ,•It;is sig- nificant,. ,in answer ,t-cy this ;claim, 'that though. Often.' demanded,• no names,'• rank, or regiment ' -,'have ever been • forthcoming, while France has unequivocably denied the assertions. -;, TheonlY proofs offered by German advocates are a few extracts from a ,private irre- sponsible letter, without authority or approval of the German Govern- men'or.its accredited officers. • But suppose French officers and soldiers were there previous to the outbreak of the war, the act could not be construed as hostile to Ger- many any more than to the other nations. Germany declared war against France late in the after- noon on August 3, and before d a.m. August 4 she invaded Belgian terri- tory, The French officers, there- fore, did not have time to return to France before invasion. Second: It is nett claimed that the Belgian Government, on July 31, ordered certain Cargoes of grain -consigned to Germany, held up. This is undoubtedly true, though not exceptional to German eonsign ments, for the Belgian Government on July 30 prohibited the exporta- tion of grains generally to all coun- tries, but upon the complaint of Germany, ordered the release of all grain intended for Germany. While the German Government at first claimed this was a hostile act, she soon .abandoned it when inform- ed that all exportations of grain kind been prohibited to all other countries as well. Third: Complain was made that Belgians permitted the flying of per- tain French .aeroplanes over the country prior to August 4, and that this was a casue belili. It is yet a mooted question just. howfar a neutral power is responsi- ble for aerial flights which it is pow- erless ow erless to prevent, and surely the Belgians are not answerable for failing to settle the question so early in the war, which in fact has not yet been settled by any recog- nized authority. Fourth: It has been charged that British military stores were allowed to be placed at Maubeuge, a French fortress near the Belgian line be- fore the outbreak of the war. This, surely, has nothing to do with Belgian neutrality, for the storage was not on Belgian soil, and therefore beyond her control. Besides all this, the British For- eign Office officially denied that any munitions of war of any kind were ever sent there, except such as were placed in that locality after the war began. Fifth: It was next claimed by Germany that Belgium, while-pro- testing hile•pro-testing against invasion, had actu- ally entered into, an agreement with France that French troops might_ freely enter Belgium, and that it was subsequent to this that 'Ger- many ordered the invasion of Bel- gian territory. This statement has received the official sanction of Prince von Bile low, and several distinguished per- sons in Germany, and on any other matter their word would be accept_ ed as a verity, but their zeal •for the Fatherland makes their statements open to.'suspicion, especially when flatly negatived by certain dates. On August 1 .the French. Govern- ment notified England and the ; Bel- guns that at would not enter 'Bel- gian teriritory so long as its ad -ver saraes kept out, and on August 3 the French Minister to Belgium ,offered the"aid of France (w=high was at first declined) and ,before any further steps could be taken •Germany en- tered Belgium (August 4) with her army. - In this short interval there was absolutely not sufficient time to consunnate the alleged agreeneeit of which Germany complained. Sixth: The lastexcuse exuse :given by the friends def Germany for its breadh of the neutrality treaty, -is the •indeflfnite claim 'that German officers found in the ,archives` of the Belgian Foreign Office documents which• showed that England in 1911 was determined to -throw troops in to Belgium without the assent of the Bedgian Government, if war had then broken out, as was threat- ened. These so-called documents have never been pulli'slhed, ;and at best we only have a German inter- pretation of their contents. Their exsstenee de denied by England and Belgium, • The net results of an examination of these claims and excuses is that there is scarcely one which. official Germany has dared to back up with any degree of certainty or persis- tency, and they znay all be dismiss- ed as the idle vnporings of German. zealots who have scoured the shades of fiction in herculean efforts to find some excuse for precipitat- ing this terrible holocaust that is deluging European soil with the best blood of all the land. Lastly : It has been disreputably attempted to minim) out of respon- sibility by claiming that the present German empire is not bound by treaties entered into by Prussia, or even by the North German ('on - federation, but this is clearly un- tenable, because if this were true, Germany would be deprived of Many advantages derived from these treaties which slie has for many years appropriated did enjoyed, in - eluding the one with the United States. Besides, Bismarck, in 1t170, fully recognized that his country -was bound by this same treaty of 1839, and the German nation con. firmed hire in that interpretation, though the treaty was signed by Prussia alone on that side. Nor can it be shown that these early treaties have been super- seded or repealed by the general convention of.the Hague in 1907, for unless expressly abrogated by its terms, they are still in force and effect, and no one to far has ever claimed a repealing clause therein. The nearest approach to the doc- trine that treaties are made to be broken, or cease to have force when inconvenient or in the way, is what was contained in Imperial Chancel- lor Hollweg's speech. in the Reich- stag, in which he said: "We are in a state of legitimate defense : ne- cessity knows no law." But independent of any and all treaties, every nation has the in- herent and God-given right to re- main neutral whenever desired, and neither the treaty of 1839 nor that of the Hague Conference added anything to the right of Belgium to remain neutral. We merely cite these agreeMents between . the- nal tions to show the perfidy of- the. Kaiser, and his utter disregard for his own promises and pledges when, he thinks he earl: secure an adv:a+n- tage by so doing. The demonstra•• tions of Euclid,therefore, are not' more .mathematically complete that. the rationative certainty that the whole .• argument of Germany' apologists is as false as God is true. What right then have our German. savants to give themselves insolent airs of philosophical assurance .and superiority when they stand upon, each untenable ground OHA.S. M. ;BICE.. Denver, Col.,, Jan. 29, 191,5. •A GUARANTEED MEDICINE FOR LITTLE ONES Baby's Own Tablets are a good medicine for little' ones. 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