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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH BE SENT 10 FRANCE TWELVE THOUSAND The June Brid We Can Lower (too Cosies 6y 8hould have a complete equipment table silver, the kind that win for generations.. Some day moth.! will divide It among her children Weve sold thi kind for more tha BO year. Our modest prices maw. buying easy. OnimV -- . VOLUN. TEERS SOUGHT TO COMPOSE ENGINEER DIVISION. BOYD PARK . - Mt1 w Nine New Regiments of Trained Rail Workers to be Sent to the t way Front as Soon as Organiza- tlon Can be Effected. s' v 0 ' ' t. W&W f .,ws Washington. Nine new regiments of army engineers, to be composed clusively of railway men, will be the first American troops sent to France. They will go "at the earliest possible moment, the war department announced May 7for work on communication lines, but speculation as to the exact time when or to what points they will be sent Is forbidden because of the submarine menace. The new forces will be volunteers, raised at the nine great railway centers of the country. Each regiment will be commanded by an engineer colonel of the regular army, aided by an adjutant. All other officers will be 'railway engineers or officials. The expedition will have a total strength of between 11,000 and 12,000 men, each regiment being composed of two battalions of thrvjs companies each. Every branch of railway workers necessary to the building or operation of lines will be represented and the war department expects a response to the call that will insure a force already trained to the minute, an army of exports in railway operations. Recruiting will be directly under the colonel of each regiment. Recruiting machinery of the regular serviee or the national guard will be placed at their service and it is hoped the enrollment of the troops will take little time. The recruiting points will be New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, , Pittsburg,-DetroitAtlanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Officials believe the great railroad brotherhoods will throwing the strength-o- f the unions behind the recruiting efforts. The, railway' companies already are so organized under the council of national defense that their is assured. The engineers and officials of the lines who offer themselves will be selected in such manner as not to cripple the oper ating forces of any company. highly-traine- fr.' y, J 'WfcWs Ift T , I' d ys. S' ' wasted by spoilage and surplus produce tlon can be saved through work, of new rTM ,- both to consumer - . n , . two-third- V ' MO MAIM STREET 1 SALT LAKE 'V S8 CUT WASTED men and women. tlm.to learn the barber now i. sT VradeBw bera in greatdemand. Special now for 80 day. Only short time required Tool furnlehed and commiaalon paid while Call or write Holer Baber School, 18 meroial St., Salt Lake City, Utah. v in. (w FLYING ft? y this frork, and give particular attention to the drying of vegetables for household use. Th Industry was widespread and. thriving before the outbreak of the war. Indeed, it was generally recognized ' that the Germans were the masters of the art. The vegetables dried are carrots, Edibles now farmer and '?', ' - - invention-bo- on f sUl"7" V ''W- . . A ' ;t . . - ' j ".I 4 T IFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS was cast into the Atlantic the other day by officials of the New York department of health. To be specific, something like 2,000,000 overripe oranges were destroyed because they were not, fit for sale. Thus 250 tons of foodstuff from Porto Rico and Jamaica were lost after having been brought a long distance at a considerable outlay, says the New York Sun. Again, not long ago, 3,800 bags of onions were thrown into San Francisco, bay because they had deteriorated in the warehouses and could not be sold. These instances are but two among many; thousands of similar cases of market losses. They give an Inkling of the enormous wastage In produce that goes on in the United States annually, and all because green De Wesse Convicted of Murder. vegetables and fresh fruits will reSalt Lake City Guilty of murder main edible so long and no longer. in the first degree, with no mention The loss could be prevented if part of that mercy be extended, was the re- the moisture in the fruits and vegesult of a half hours deliberation of tables could be eliminated without inthe jury which for a week had been juring them. listening attentively to the evidence The average citizen does not realize in the case of Howard De Weese, the It, but his watered foodstuffs are levyconfessed burglar, charged with the toll upon him all along the line. murder of his wife, Fannie Fisher De ing It is that moisture content that inWeese, September 22 . last, at their vites deterioration and decay. rooms on Second East street. ' Trace the story a step back. The marketman has to contend with the Joffre and Viviani in Wreck. same a goodly percentage Areola, Rls. Members of the Frenc? of hisconditions; stock wilts and deteriorates mission to the United States were his of the troublebecause hands tipon severely shaken up but otherwise un and what he sells breeding moisture; when train the special aboard must injured a in order price bring higher which they were returning east from fetch wholeto a The profit. general their middle western tour was derailed near here. Rene Viviani, French min- saler is confronted by,the same probto pay charges ister of justice, and head of the mis- lem, because he hascover for depreciation transportation, sion, Marshal Joffre and other memin transit, and sell at prices that will bers of the party Were dining at the insure a balance on the right side of time of the accident. his ledger. sAgaln, the farmer must ship only College Students Training. Cambridge,. Mass. Soldiers field, so the very best of his produce in order named when it was given to Harvard that his perishable wares may stand to the university as a memorial to Harvard reasonably well their journey men who served in the civil war, came markets. As a result, where his fruits into use Monday as the training field and vegetables ripen overabundantly for nearly 1000 college students uITder he must count broadly aB a loss that the direction of French and United part of his harvest which remains on his hands. He must get enough from States army officers. his sales to pay for this wastage and the ultimate., consumer sighs at the .American Help in Shipbuilding. London. Archibald S. . Hurd, the price thus made necessary. A possible remedy for this state of writer on naval subjects in an article to which the Daily Tele things lies In the process recently pergraph gives prominence, earnestly fected in this country that makes it reiterates his pleas for energetic ship practicable to dry fruits and vegetabuilding to meet the losses caused by bles without impairing their palatathe submarine war. He appeals strong bleness and their natural nutritive "values. The hard pressed Germans ly for American help. have already been doing something in Baker Expect Long War. this direction. The beet and the potato were the Cleveland, Ohio. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, who was here Mon- two vegetables that the Germans day on personal business, indicated worked with on a large 6cale originally. that the war department is making Later they took up the drying of beet war, at tops, potato tops, peas and grains for preparations for a three-yea- r least, and that he has little hope of an the feeding of domestic cattle. Before early peace. this, It was the common practice to pack away the beet tops in silos, Student Aviator Killed. s and quite of the crop N. Y. Two student was used in this Hempstead, fashion, but a good aviators who had never piloted an air part of the ensilage was commonly plane before and who were said to spoiled by fermentation. It was to have begun a flight without permis avoid this loss that the Germans resion at the government aviation school sorted to drying. The result was a at Mineola, Were killed after a fall of green, tender fodder containing a 1000 feet. starchy content of 35 per cent A ton of fresh leaves made 200 pounds of Dutch Trawlers Quit Seas. nuLondon. Special dispatches from the dried foodstuff for cattle. The was as to be found tritive value high Holland say that the persistent tora the more expensive meadow hay. pedoing of Dutch trawlprs has caused .It was only natural that the Germans the fishermen to lay up their boats. Should elaborate their factories for well-know- ',4 i POVNM9I669 MAKERS OF JEWELRY , cabbages, kale, potatoes, spinach, turnips, etc. They represent the market surplus which would otherwise rot, and which, by being dried and packed, can be kept without fear of spoiling for a long time. The dried vegetables keep simply because the better part of their moisture content has been removed. The thing sounds simple ; but the actual process presents difficulties. The process of drying vegetables referred to as having been developed in this country is the work of Waldron Williams, Woodford Brooks and Dr. F. G. Wiechmann. Mr. Williams tells the story of the work of himself and his associates. I never realized how little was known about the art of drying until my attention was attracted toit as a field of commercial effort, he said. I turned to my fellow alumni at Columbia university and hunted high and low in the technical libraries, but when it came to practical details none of these sources of information was ' of material aid. to make our own we decided Finally and like something experiments, ago we hit upon the working principles of our method. Our patents have not yet been issued, although they have been allowed, and therefore I do not feel warranted in going into particulars. Broadly, however, the process consists in utilizing air currents at relatively low temperature, which serve to draw out and carry off the moisture in the cut-u- p vegetables while leaving them unimpaired in flavor and nutritive value. Please observe that the vegetables are raw and not parboiled or in any way cooked at the time they are subjected to the moisture extracting process. We are able to control the volume of the air currents and their temperature to a nicety. The time required to dry the products depends essentially upon the fruits and vegetables dealt with. The period of treatment ranges between two hours and . something short of five hours. This can be appreciated if one will stop to think how the watery content of various vegetables differs. "For Instance, fresh beets contain 87 per cent of water, cabbages 91.5 per cent, onions 87.9 per cent, potatoes 78 per cent,' and tomatoes as much as 94.3 per cent. The larger the volume of water the longer the drying operation must be maintained in order to reduce $ie moisture content to the desired minimum. By our system we kept the percentage of moisture well Inside of 12 per cent. This prevents the development of the microorganisms that promote fermentation and therefore the chemical actions are checked or avoided which would start deterioration and possibly lead to - two-yeat- s de-ca- y. "Before our plants were working for the market at Middle River, Cal., Bound Brook, N. J., and .Webster, N. Y., it occurred to me that it might be well to visit Germany for the purpose of seeing how our products compared with those turned out by. the factories there. I was fortified with letters of Introduction to the foremost of those establishments, and logically I chose to make my first call upon director of the most noted of the -vegetable drying companies. "He received me in a very handsomely appointed office, bearing all the hallmarks of commercial success, and courteously asked me to explain the object of my visit. I did this briefly. At once Herr Direktor waved his hand deprecatlngly and expressed his sincere regret that I should have come so far to lay before him anything that 1 pertained to the art of drying. could have saved you the trip, Mr. Williams, because we know all there is to know about drying and improve - i ment and to show us something new is quite impossible,' he said. Naturally I was not disposed to linger, neither was I inclined to display my samples, .but the alert Herr Direktor had seen that I had some, and more out of politeness than any1 thing else expressed a desire to see them. It was plain that he was at once Interested, and before long he had six or seven of his technical associates summoned to the office, and they too were Impressed. The Herr Direktor dismissed them, and when the room was cleared, turned to me eagerly and said : Mr. Williams, name your price, I did not believe vegetables could ever be dried to look like your samples.. As our patents were then pending-i- n the German patent office I was not prepared to come to terms, but I left that establishment satisfied that we Yankees had forged a long way ahead in a very difficult art and I realized that we had the solution of a .vexing economic problem the utilization and the preservation for subsequent consumption of millions of tons of vegetables and fruits that would otherwise go to waste. How well we have succeeded in retaining the natural flavor of fresh vegetables is evidenced by the testimony of a New York housekeeper, a friend of mine. Merely to satisfy her curiosity I sent her a package of our dried spinach. The next time I saw her she said : Why, Mr. Williams, that spinach was actually fresher than the green stuff that I buy at my grocers. Naturally, because that spinach was dried inside of eight hours from the time it was picked, while the provision stored was selling spinach anywhere from a week to ten days old. We .treated the vegetable when it was succulent and fresh .and full flavored. The store article had been deteriorating for days., before it was cooked. Upon this subject we read something from a government report: Only those that have been accustomed to eating green vegetables fresh from the garden realize in what poor condition are many of the vegetables sold to the city buyer. Some varieties, as green peas, are so delicate in flavor that even a few hours removal from the vines brings about a change, Indeed, the market gardener has been obliged to develop the keeping quail ties of vegetables and fruits at .the expense of flavor. If lightly packed and transported only a short distance the deterioration in most vegetables is hot noticeable, but if closely packed for any length of time changes due to the actioh of enzymes or ferments normally present in the living tissue takes place, with a consequent loss of' . flavor.' ; JOB OF YOUNG MEN) Not Everyone of Proper Age Is PHys.! Ically Fitted for Wprk Airmen Face Many Peril. v From leakage of petrol spray the pilot may become dizzy, and the exhaust gases from the engine carbon! monoxide and dioxide may cansej headache, drowsiness and malaise says a writer in the Lancet, discussing diseases familiar to airmen. The rare fled air at great elevations may the symptoms well known in balloonists, and Wells refers to acasej of frostbite Jn an airman who had; been exposed to 84 degrees of frost ati an elevation of 15,000 feet. Psychae! thenlc symptoms namely, loss of self-- j confidence and the resulting mental' worry (aerosthenia) are not uncom-- i mon, and prove that the victim has' mistaken his sphere of activity. Flying Is undoubtedly the job of a. young man under thirty years of age, and, not every young man Is temperamentally or physically fitted to carry! It through. Perfect eyesight is necessary to Insure safe landing, correction, with 'glasses being not without it . dangers ; perfect hearing Is essential to detect the first. Indications of engine - defect, and free movement of the joints of the lower limbs to control the steering gear. Fits and tendency to faint absolutely deter the aspirant from, the air service. In one remarkable instance at Haslar an airman who fainted, with the result that the airplane dived nose downward J.200 feet Into a plowed field, escaped' with such minor injuries that he wa at first extremely loath to give up this' ? branch' of the service. "V ; Appreciation of Authors. That Americans are not without ap--, predation of their great authors after the great authors are dead was. demonstrated at a sale In New York city, where a collection of 33 holograph letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with engraved portraits, brought $2,000 from W. H. James. In the collection were letters to Hawthorne and his family from Emerson, Whittier, Bret Harte, Browning, Eugene Field and Irving. Two thousand dollars Is a good, round price to pay for a few old letters, even If they were written by or lo an author of the repute of Hawthorne. IU is easy to Imagine what Hawthorne would have thought on the subject if he could have foreseen this transaction when he was writing juvenile classics like the Tanglewood Tales and Grandfathers Chair for S.. G. Goodrich, and receiving in remuneration sometlmes.no more than $50 ' , g volume. " ! Bacon as Balt We find baiting our mouse trap with bacon Is a great advantage over using cheese, advises a woman known Not only as ft good housekeeper. does the cheese become dry In a few days, but aftgr a mouse has once been secaught with a piece of .it you can ldom use it a second time, for it seems Further, the same report calls at to retain the mouse scent and scare tention to a very common spectacle in the rest of them away. and about our markets : The huckster Bacon, on the other hand, remains in his off hours may often be . seen savory and enticing to the end. Nevtrimming off the wilted outside leaves er has our mouse trap been so popuof celery, cabbage and lettuce, and lar. Since we first baited ours with we have giving a fresh surface to the stem, and bacon, about two months ago, sure In am ' sometimes rinsing er sprinkling the not Changed it once, and I lettuce with water not infrequently that time more than twenty mice have far from clean. The beets which are been caught in the trap. left over, after losing little by little New York Traffic Immenee. their tops, are sold by measure to who1 ever will buy. Statistics compiled by the publlcj The department of agriculture is (service commission show that the i the authority for the statement that crease in New York city traffic in the not less than 50 per cent of the fruits jlast 10 years equals the combined trail and vegetables grown in the United jfikTof all Bteam railfoads In the Unltea States, never reach the consumer. Of istatea in one year. The citys transit Wi course, a large part of this is wast- lines carried 840,000,000 persons ed or thrown away or destroyed be- (1900 and 1,898,000,000 in 1910.' T9; cause the price does not warrant the (number of persons carried on tne steam railroads last year was lA farmer in shipping 'them ' . 000. POO, so these shouldnt be Why products conserved that they would keep InTrouble Galore. definitely and be welcome upon any She married a diamond in table? It Is possible by our drying ' ay? process to preserve these fruits ancl rough, you and shes having a Prei"'! Oh, yes, vegetables in forms that are bound to hard time with according to him, be a boon to the housewife and a comfort to the family purse. Our dried fashionable friends. Any particulars?" poproducts, for Instance, can be sold at Well, for one thing, he isnt yetwon a lower price than the normal retail lished he to such an extent that market price for green stuffs, and we create a disturbance when he comes should only find fresh vegetables for- home and finds her smoking perfum midable competitors when there is nn - ; r cigarettes. overabundance." .. . , in-- - . |