The Vermillion Record from Vermillion, Kansas • 1

mi TVTIT 1 VERMI ION RECORD JUJJ VOL. V. VEKMILLION, KANSAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 181)5. NO. 20.

water and turning the upper edge over gJi- MINISTER J. I1IIE BILL () FARE. THANKSOIVINO IN THE COUNTRY. FOR HIS INSURANCE. -J -w i jti the Cover the whole pie With thick, rich pie-crust, cutting out small diamonds or circles near the middle, to allow the escape of the gas generated cooking.

Bake very slowly for an hour and three-quarters; then put a unnel In one of the openings of the crnst and pour In the liquor obtained boiling the giblets and bones. Even when the dinner is introduced raw oysters, according to modern modes, In deferring to old customs they should appear during tho feast as a hot dish. Rigid r.evivtllsts insist on their being served In the shell; or as a neater way of presenting them, stewed or steamed In butter for a few moments after belni; opened. Sometimes this Is done with great success upon a chafing-dish St the table. The oysters, which' should be large, are laid In the boiling butjer, covered and left for five minutes until the edges curl.

The light i3 then extinguished, a glass of wine, a teaspoonful of lemon Juice, pepper and salt and a spoonful of noree-radlsh added and well stirred In, and then the oysters can be laid upon halt slices buttered toast and Berved. Cranberry sauce Is an inevitable accompaniment of an orthodox Thanksgiving dinner. Every cook says she can make It, but I find few who do not spoil It. To succeed, first wash tho berries, then put Them on the fire with only a half cupful of water to two cup-fuls of berries; let them cook Blowly, crushing the berries with a wooden spoon after they grow tender. When they are done, put In Bug.ir until they are pleasantly sweet.

As soon as the sugar melts thoroughly, take them from the fire, as cooking with the sugar la them makes the berry-skins tough. Mince, pumpkin and apple pies all be long especially to Thanksgiving din ner, and there are persons who do not think the day righteously spent unless the memory of their ancestors Is perpetuated by finishing the dinner with the old-fashioned bread-cake, or "rls. lng-cake," as some call It. "Barm- cake" Is a still older name for the old colony delicacy. In the White House, Mr.

Madison always offered the cake to her guests on Thanksgiving. Her recipe was 100 years old even then, Probably It was the evolution of the precious oeed-cako of the early set tlers. In those days the sugar was rare and precious, and the raisins worth Uielr weight In gold. As handed down to the present generation, the rule for raised cake orders that a gill of yeast be stirred Into three gills of milk. Into this is slowly mixed ten ounces of butter creamed with ono pound of sugar, a pound and a half of flour and four eggs.

The correct meth od, I believe, is to work half of these Ingredients Into the milk and yeast and leave the mixture to rise all night, In the morning, if tho dough is properly lightened, work in the remainder, beat ing the batter very thoroughly. One cupful of seeded raisins and half a cupful of currants are then well floured and stirred In. For flavoring, our fore-motnera used such spices as their slender resources allowed. Some of their younger and more flippant housekeep ers, It Is to be feared, If records are to be trusted, added a small wine-glass ful of New England rum burned to give BUTTER-DISH. It a resemblunce to the brandy so fr'eoly used iu the cookery of the mother-country.

GREEDY TURKEY. HE American substitute for Christmas some travelers called Thanksgiving In far-back times, when the Pilgrim Fathers and their children set apart just one day out of the whole year upon which they might conscientiously eat, conscientiously eat, drink and be merry. Our years are starred with many holidays in the present age, but as a nation we honor and celebrate most unanimously the day of thanksgiving and praise, which of late years has been appointed by the president as a general feast-day, to be hold simultaneously in all the states. Formerly, each governor decided on a day for his state, without regard for the selection of other states. The prominent and Inevitable dish that no housekeeper omits from her menu on Thanksgiving day ib roast turk9y.

One need hardly give directions for its cooking, fop everybody knows how It is done. It was America which gave the dish to England originally, but England has taught us some very nice ways of cooking the "noble bird." From that country we have re ceived the Idea of using forcemeat to give flavoring to the stuffing; also of garnishing the dish with forcemeat balls In sufficient numbers to allow of SOUP-TUREEN, ono being Berved with every plateful of turkey. These balls, which are nearly akin to sausages, are cooked on the pan with the turkey. They are made of two parts of raw lean beef, one part of pork or veal and one part of the fat of salt pork, and bound by mixing with one-fourth their bulk of bread crumbs, chopped fine and molded Into balls. As the cooking progresses, the fat triad out from the pork is used to baste the turkey.

Here let It be sail that frequent basting is one of tho vital points of Btiecess in roasting. Another traditional dainty dedicated to the day is chicken pie. Like every other good thing, It differs in kind. Each housewife has her own way of making It. and the result is nut the iair.0 In every case, unfortunately for tho partakers.

To mako a satisfactory old-fashioned pie, take a pair of tender chickens of the current year. Upon less festlvo days, more ancient fowls may be used, but tradition domands the best for this occasion. Cut the chickens up Into convenient pieces. Then cut all the lean meat from two pounds ot breast of veal. Moll the bones of ths veal with the neck and gizzard of the chickens In three pints of water; the water should be cold when the scraps are put In, then left on the back of the stove to simmer slowly until reduced to one-half Its qur.ntlty.

The veal, cut up into small bits, is laid upon the bottom of a deep baking dish; the pieces ot chicken, being skimmed, are laid over the veul. Broken-up forcemeat balls and extremely thin slices of salt pork are put over the top. One cupful of soup stock, or cold water If there is no stock, Is poured in. Put a strip of thinly-rolled pastry all around the edge of the dish, sticking It on with cold THE FATE OF THE mm In by by or of 9J Jr. A DINNER ON THANKSGIVING DINNER No.

1. Mock Turtle Soup Chicken Pie Apple Jelly Celery Salad Potatoes Carrots Turnips Brown Bread White Bread Pickles Queen's Pudding Mock Mince Pie Black Cake Fruit Confectionery Coffee SIX LITTLE TURKEYS. Six little turkeys, all In a row! Now what they were hatched for they didn't know. Our grandma did, but she would not tell; She watered and fed them every day well. But not one of the six heard her say She was fattening them for Thanksgiv ing Day.

Six little turkeys! From morning till night They would run away and hide out of Bight. Grandma's Bunbonnet scarcely at all Found time to hang on Its peg 6n the wall; For they kept her all summer watching about The byways and hedges, calling them out. Six large, fat turlseys, and ail In a row On Thanksgiving morn! One was to go To Sam, ono to Tom, another to Lu (Dear little grandchildren, loving and true); One wna to be sent to poor Widow Gray, With six helpless children to feed that day. Our Betty cooked one for lame little Joe mother Is sick and feeble, you His know. Grandma was so happy, she didn't mind Running all summer the turkeys to find; She knew when Thanksgiving Day came round The very best place each woald be found.

mofl Advice, Don't send a Thangagiving dinner to a poor family by a messenger. Go along with it yourseir, and stay awhile. Dun't act yourself up on a pedeHtul. You and they arc of tho sumo stuff. If there Is any old or sick person who loves you, don't salve your conscience by sending a box of good things, but go and give the afflicted ono richly of your companionship.

Humor of the Hay, Old Turkey Are you trying to lay anything by this year? Young Turkey No; I shall bo. satis fied if I can only keep ahoad until aftor Thanksgiving. THE TUG 1 1 sm; 1 'si. L. PEAK.

THE KANSAS CITY MAN SENT TO SWITZERLAND. The rroniilrnt Appoint Illm to Rurreed I it id pa O. lirofKlhoud of St. LnuU A Nhort Sketch of th Now In Well Known In the West. Washington, Nov.

20, The president has appointed John L. Peak of Kansas City, United States min-ister to Switzerland, to succeed Minister J-troudheud, resigned. John li. Peak to Missouri from Kentucky in 1 1 if. Ho was born in fccoit county, Kentucky, in 1830, and f'raduated from the.

law school at ouisviile in Ho enaed in the practice of law and iu tlio insurance and real estate business with Joseph N. ttodtfers, now of Chicago, and acquired the nucleus of a fortune early In li To. Jn 1H77 Mr. Teak accepted the nomination of prosecuting1 attorney of Jackson county at the hands of his party and vim successful in election to the otllce three time. Upon his retirement from this, the only political ofiico he ever held, he engaged in the private practice of law, Mr.

l'eak has always taken an active part in the state and congressional campaigns of his party, advocating clean and honest methods in polities and countenancing1 none other. Jle Is a leading member of the Baptist church and a Sunday school worker of wide reputation iu church circles as well as one of the most distinguished members of the Missouri bar. A PLUNGE TO DEATH. A Cleveland Fleet rl Cnrrlna Seventeen J'unple Thro a Uridine. Ohio, Nov.

19. An electric car, containing seventeen pco-went through the central viaduct at o'clock Saturday evening and dropped lOl feet to the river below. It is a horror the like of which has never occurred hero before. The ill-fated motor car, containing between twenty and thirty people, approached the draw just hh a vessel was uearing it, and the bridge attendants hud closed the big iron gates and were preparing to swing the draw. As is the rule, the car stopped and the conductor went forward to release the switch in case the way was clear, lie must have been blinded by the electric lights, for on eyewitneh declares that although the gates were closed and the draw was already in motion, the conductor raised the switch handle.

The motorniun applied tnu current and the cur shot forward and struck the gates with a ciash. Tliero was only a moment's pause and then the car ground its way through the wreckage ami plunged fiver the brink into ihe black abyss amid the Rereums and ra nt ie si run -gl es of tin paiseu- pens, who, at the first intimation (if danger, rushed to the rear door. The car struck the what with a great splash, and then there wiib silence. Ali the- bodies of the seventeen victims have been recovered. NEGROES PUT TO DEATH.

l'lve cif Them Jliinifpil ly 1'urt lliirrlo. ItHllrimil CoiitrnrtnrM. Pout Haiuhoh, Nov. Five negroes were found hanging six miles from town. Thoy were being some of tho negroes lately arrived here to work on the railroad construction, but who became di.

satisfied and lied. An in-vesligntson was made, but nothing? resulted except that il was learned that tin; negroes caino from Louisiana, it was given out that they must hnvu been murdered by robbers, but it Is believed that tliey were pursued by the eonli-aetory and lulled mi as not to allow them to escape. The life of tho American negroes at work here is terrible. Many liuve been beaten to death, forgery 111. ItiiHilleftfl.

Aiiuansm City, Nov. 21), Charles Uavel, alias Lewis, wiio was arrested iu this city for utteniptlng to cash forged cheeks at the Farmers' National bank, has been taken to Win-field mid lodged in jail, llis arrest was a lucky strike for Ihe olllccrs, for It tins been ascertained that lie has been going about tne country and sy temnticiilly forging checks and getting money. 1'Htiicr Uiicuer'n Trtiil. Sr. Josiim, '2(.

Fx-Priest Dominick Wagner announced that lie wan ready triii'. Mlneo getting possession of the church books he 1ms orked incessantly on his According to the prosecution, should Wagner bu found guilty of embezzle ment, the charges of ussault. kidnaping and concuhinagu will be dismissed. Now Itnlldlnff ftir Kuli.Hit t'nlvrilty. Lawiiknck, Nov.

20. Tho handsome new Physics building will bo formally dedicated November 2J, ut .1 o'clock. Tlio dedicatory exercises Will take place iu University hall. The principle address will be delivered by Professor Albert A. professor of physicH in thu University of Chicago.

Crushed tu Dentil I niter Hi, ml'. iNDKruNiiKNun, Nov. t). William Modest, tho la-ycur-old son of .1. S.

Modest of Cherry vale, was killed yesterday by a horse. Young Modest, with another boy. was racing when the horsu. stumbled and fell. The boy fidl underneath aud was crushed to death.

An Old Man Murdered hy hli MlfitrvM Wlrliltii. Wichita, Nov. 10. John Car" ter, a driver, win lives on South Lawrence avenue, found in the alley in the rear the dead body of Henry N. Leonard, a second hand goods dealer, aged i(0 years, lying in a pool of blood.

There were many wounds on the head, made apparently with some blunt, heavy instrument, and a knife wound on the buck. The coroner and detectives were notified and traced the path where the body had been dragged until it led to the house where Leonard had been living, through the stable and up to the kitchen door. The oflicers found Leonard and her son, Orviliu Williamson, mopping up the blood which was spattered over the floor and furniture. lioUi were arrested and lodged in jail. Several months ago lieonaru nrst wife secured a divorce from him, and within about two months lie married Mrs, Williamson.

Frank M. Williamson, former hus band of Mrs. Leonard, was arrested later. It is said that the two had never been divorced. Williamson has proved a strong alibi, but is still kept in jail for a hearing, ihe authorities, without exception, believe that Mrs.

Williamson and lier son killed Jueon ard for 000 insurance which she induced him to have made payable to her about three weeks ago, at which time ho also wanted to marry her but could not do so legally, as she had not been divorced long enough. BIG FIRE AT PURCELL, Thirty-Two ItulMlnlia llurneil With Loss of HI ilO.OOO. Ind. Nov. 20.

Fire broko out in the Star store, iu the middle of the. principal business block on the north side of Main street. A heavy wind wus blowing1 from the north, nnd the flames spread with frightful rapidity, soon sweeping tho entire side of the street, which was made up of frnine buildings, and iho Chickasaw National Hank building on the north side of tho block. The fire is supposed to huve been of incendiary origin, nnd A. Frougli of the Star store, dry goods and is now lodged in jail, charged with arson.

Persons testify to having seen hiin leave his building just as the flames burst out. P. Glucksman, man-agor of the Chickasaw Mercantile Com-puny, is also iu jail on the snme charge. Witnesses claim to have seen him during tho progress of the tire enter his store, which was thought at the time to be out of danger, and pour coal oil around. he feeling was very strong against both men.

and for a time a lynching seemed certain, but it now seems that the danger of that has passed, though a force of deputy marshals is guarding the jail. Ktorh holder-. Must l'ay. Ohio, Nov. la Judge Hicks of the 1' nilcd States circuit court ut Toledo, has rendered a decision of importance to stockholders In national banks.

Tho receiver of the Columbia National bank of Chicago, which failed on May 11, bewail suit against two of tho stockholders to recover on their stock their assessment of a levied by the comptroller of the currency. Tho a unt involved wu 81,1, ik0, but tho. ease was a test suit to determine, the liability of nil the stockholders, Kicks in his decision held that the comptroller can make the assessment and that it can be recovered by a suit at law. (jt'iKdrnl Mcrrltt'A Kt'iiurt. Wasiiinoton, Nov.

As General Wesley Morritt lias been in command of the department of the Missouri for six months only, his annual report, made public to-day, is limited in its references to bis personal participation of ihe transactions of tiie department. Concerning the troops under his command, (ieueral Mcrritt says that ullhough he has not personally inspected them, ho feels justified in saying that generally tho discipline and ins" ruction are sucliusthe government should expect. Want lluty on Flour. WAmiJNiiToN, Nov. 'JO.

The Danish millers have petitioned tlio govern ment to impose an experimental duty on imported Hour. I lie movement is ostensibly directed against (ierinau competition, but as much of the flour entering Iienuiark is from tho I'nited States, imported through Knglaud or i.erniBiiy, tho American millers will be directly interested. Miilior Hud PltKMtimnouft. Yohk, Nov. U0.

A light be tween Peter Maher and Hob Fit.sim- mons for the heavyweight championship of the world now seems assured. Dan Stuart's offer of a SID.OUO purse for a contest between tho big fellows, to take place in Juarez, January 1H, lias been accepted by Cjuiuu on be. half of Maher. I rittUol Alive? Nov. It).

MoNeary conductor on the Si.ty-third street electric line, has sprung a new scusa tion in tlio Holmes case by stating that lieiiianiin 1. PicUul is alive, uud that he recently talked with him on liis car. UutiKu Buuft of llnriuun. Nov. So.

Tho grand lodge of the Sons of Herman of Kan sas are assembled here. The attendance is largo, every lodge in the State being represented. THE FARM. THANKSGIVING DINNER No. 2 Vegetable Oyster Soup Roast Turkey Currant Soy Pressed Pork Indian Pudding Onions Cabbage Sweet Pickles Beets Pumpkin Pie White Cake Nuts Confectionery Coffee THANKSGIVING PICTURE.

What If the gold of the corn lands Is faded. to sombre gray? And what if the down of tho thistle Is ripened and scattered away? There's gold in the gathered harvest; There's homely and heartsome cheer; And so we will be full joyous The day of thanksgiving Is here. A sigh for the vanished splendor Of the autumn's purple and red For the golden-rod that is whitened, For the gentlnn bloom that Is dead; Then turn to the hearthstone cheery; Behold, 'tis the time of year To count our blessings and mercies The day of thanksgiving Is here. Bare and brown In the shndows, The meadowland meets the gaze, Where the bold, blithe bee went seck-' ing Its sweets In the summer days. Tho honey Is stored in plenty So what V.

the winter is near? The timo Is not one for repining 'The day of thanksgiving is hero. The fruit has matured in its season, The sunshine has ripened the seed. Then sing to tho Lord of the harvest A song of thanksgiving Indeed. The morn and the noon have passed by us; 'Tis the sweet afternoon ot the year; So let not your tribute be lacking The day ot thanksgiving is here. The TliAiikNglvliig Turkry.

Oh! Turkey with cranberry Jelly! Oh! Doughnuts and pudding ami pie! If there is ever a time when we want our turkey to be tender and Juicy, it is for the Thanksgiving dinner. It la not every housekeeper who knows how to select a good turkey, though It Is not a dllflcult matter. Tho best turkeys havo smooth, black legs with soft, loose spurs, and are short and plump. Tho emj of tho brenxt-bono should bo sou and flexible. The breasts are full, and tlio flesh plump and while.

The cooking is fully as Important as the selection, and tlio preparation for It should be carefully attended to. A turkey Is greatly Improved by drawing the sinews from the legs. This converts the otherwise coarse and tough flesh of the drumstick Into delicate meat. If you prefer to stuff your turkey, place enough in. slit of neck to fill tho cavity made by removing the crop; fill tho breast with the remulnder and sew firmly.

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