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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH COUNTRYS DEBT ! TO WASHINGTON the Only Man Who Could Have Won Liberty Probably for the People. Which Mf Had 1 EncounWere Almost Insurmountable tack ot Proper Training Hampered Continsntala tn OlffiewHiei ter All Tbsir Battle. seeing, aa was proved eventually, that victory for the colonies could be won only by the long-terorganized and disciplined continentals, composing a small but good army. 8quabble Over Officers. Congreaa In the winter of 1775, recognizing the necessity of raising troops to take the place of those whose terms expired, resolved to provide twenty-si- x regiments, with power to Washington to select the officers, which resulted tn many perplexities for bins and his general officers, for, se Washington wrote, "Conoectlcut wanted ne Massachusetts mss tn her corps. Massachusetts could ste so necessity tor bavwg a Rhode Island man la hers a4 New Hampshire says it la very hard that her experienced officers should he discarded because her own reglmente cannot provide far (hem." November 11 Be wrote: "Many et the officers atpeetoif promotion, others stood aloof to ae whet adyaaUge they could make for themsetvee. The difficulty with the aoUJiwra wa greater, if possible, then' with the officers. They refused to enlist unless they knew their colonel, lieutenant colonel, major and captain. Put Washington In Dilemma. Up to November 19 only 968 men had enlisted. By November 28 they had reached 2,500, and they all wanted "Our furlough. Washington wrote: situation Is truly alarming, and of this General Howe Is well apprised. It being the common topic of conversation when the people left Boston last Friday." In a private letter of the same time he wrote : "Such a dearth of public spirit, such stock Jobbing and fertility In all the low arts to obtain advantages In this great change of military arrangement, I pray Goda mercy I may never see again. What will be the end of these maneuvers is beyond my scan. I tremble at th prospect We have been until this time enlist- - ONE -- low-pow- d well-traine- , 1777-178- 3. sur-vlvln- nm w h Bite of You Drink Water Saya a glass of hot water and phosphate prevents illness and keeps us fit. t hundred and fourtacn ago Way 22, 1802 WMbUuton, wife at Gsorge Washington, died afi Mount Vtnxm, at th sg o I awrautF years. Martha Custis mst Colonel Wash!, ton about a yaar after tbe death etf her husband, Daniel Park CustK wealthy planter. She was thaa nasr tag her twenty etith year, and Wesh-lngto- n waa about three months bar senior. She was the deagbter of Cot. John Dajadridge and had boea wed trains: in the arcetnpJlabaraiKf erf young vFbmea of her social station, The engagement lasted fur neari a fovYl yeas, Waehiagto be lag akee look time on a military campaign. a Breakfast Until Forty Years of Happiness Followed Union of Washington and Martha Custis. WASHINGTON, .tks the America GEOKGB knewofbetter tbaa ore else ths offensive aid defensive vain of ths forces under blm; uA be baa left a vivid written record t tbe reletive value of uutraJnsd shortterm men and of disciplined tone term body made of Individuals of tbe same class. He plainly expressed bis opinion, fully confirmed by military men since bis time, of tbe army need d by this country when, soon after the disaster at Camden, be wrote to congress: "What we need Is a good army, not a large one." Probably no war waa ever carried on where tbe one aide waa represented In the field by so great a proportion of unorganized troops, not under a central national control, and no great commander, before or since, baa ever succeeded with ao rapidly shifting a body of badly equipped men. Bunker Hill Analyzed. At the battle of Bunker Hill, an army of untrained American mlnuta men and militia, under tbe command, however, of veteran officer like Prescott, Stark, Putnam and Knowlton of tbe higher rank, and among the lower officers a sprinkling of men expert enced In the French and English wars, from behind lntrenchments hastily erected, but of value against armament, successfully resisted and two attacks of disclplibed British veterans, with a loss to tbs latter of 1,054 killed and wounded, But these same troops, by virtue not of superior Individual cour age, but of their combined valor and d discipline, were rallied by their officers, made a third charge, and, although outnumbered, succeeded Martha Washington. In driving tbe Americans, at the point from of tbe bayonet, their trenches, man of Washington himself was their supply of powder being exhaustand the wedding waa property, large ed and their muskets sot having bayone of the moat brilliant that had ever onets. been seen In a church la Virginia. Tbe American force waa Justly , Bride and bridegroom were attired in proud of Its resistance and of the all the magnificence which the fashheavy punishment It had Inflicted, but ions of that period made possible. the result waa. In spite of Its good Contlnental Artillery, When she waa married to Washingfight, a defeat to Its arms perhaps g ton. Mrs. Custis had two children men. hundred five about only through failure la the quarter-maste- lng. . After thirty which had she four of of the tbe last of this month our The British, department se weakened that the been the mother. To theee two chilwill lines be on carried account hill the however, dren, Washington, who had none of of the better discipline of their line, mlnutemen and militia must be called hla own, was a devoted father. Later and our In for these, being defense, ithe better control of their officers, and In life these children died and Washdebecause their supply of ammunition nnder no kind of government will ington adopted two of Mrs. WashingI have subordination little the was not exhausted. And they there- stroy ton's grandchildren. me been laboring to establish and run by prevented the success of the co- into one Mra. Washingtons faith In the wisam I evil while endeavoring lonial military plan. to avoid another. But the less must dom and firmness of her husband's Continental Weakness. patriotic course preceding and daring ' This story In various waya waa be chosen." the Revolution never felled. In five After of experience years many times repeated In the war of She had discovered the greatness of command of the armies. Washington the revolution, always with the same her husband long before the people to a letter In himself thus expressed result In spite of the brilliant gen were ao signally to honor him that dated Greene, the president of the congress, eralshlp of Washington, bad found It out In all Ita splendid pro1780: 20, Schuyler, Lee and others, the Ameri- August , "Had we formed a permanent army portions. cans did not win a single victory over During the war Washington visited conIn the the which, by beginning, the British regular troops when the tinuance of the same men In service, Mount Vernon only twice, hut Mra. latter were not outnumbered. of discipline, we Washington was with him In New A brief examination of the powers had been capable never should have had to retreat with York and Philadelphia and Joined him of the Continental Congress will ahow a handful of men across the Delaware In camp whenever it was possible. ' In the what were the chief causes of this In years following their mar1776, trembling for the fate of Amer-lea- , so led weakness in our armies that and previous to the Revolution riage which nothing but the Infatuation near to the ccllapse of our national lived In Virginia of the enemy could have saved; we the Washingtons defense and caused the Intense anxiety of after the the English aristocstyle suchould not have remained all the and distress to Washington and the the war Mrs. but racy, throughout ceeding winter at their mercy, with wont to "aet an ax-was Washington sufficient sometimes scarcely a body of men to mount the ordinary guard. We should not have been at Valley V ' Forge, destitute of everything, In situation neither to resist nor to reU si 13 tire. We should not have seen the c I country ravaged, our towna burned, the Inhabitants plundered, abused, Imurdered, with Impunity. Army Expenses Doubled. "The derangement of our finances la i essentially to he ascribed to It The expensee of the war and the emissions of paper money hava been greatly multiplied by It We have a great part First Presidential Mansion, New York of the time bad two sets of men to feed and to pay the discharged men ample of economy to the women of the revolution" In her attire and mod going home and the levies coming In. "Our discipline has been much hurt. of living. After Independence bad been won, If not ruined, by such constant changes. There la every reason to she bore herself with great personal believe that the war has been pro- dignity as befitted her station as the wife of the first citizen. tracted on this account." A little later Washington wrote reWashington waa approaching hla year when he died. Mra, garding that defeat of General Gates sixty-eightat Camden : "Regular troopa alone are Washington accepted the separation In Aide de Commander Chief, Camp equal to the exigencies of modern war- calmly, only observing that ahe would and Lins Officers, 1779-178fare, as well for defense aa offeuao, soon Join him. She survived him two ' band of patriots about him In the army and whorover a substitute Is attempt- year and a half. ahe could have That all times a at and ruinous ed It must prove Illusory In and congress. In my Ideas of the true system of view cf his grave on the lawn, aha The congress presented as able ancl devoted men as were ever gathered In war, the object ought to be to have a moved to an attlo room that overa single body, but they were not good army rather than a large one." looked the spot, which she occupied During the entire war the lack of until her own death. For the easier trained In tbe systematic methods ct coming and going of a favorite cat a great deliberative bodies; and above money entailed greatest suffering upon hole waa cut near the bottom of the men of continen the but the the weakone army, of the all represented very door of this apartment one of the with tal exception army, est forms of governmental power a Before she died Mra. Washington mere confederacy or league of several or two regiments, were true to the tatea or colonlea and without real end through hunger, cold, sickness, destroyed her entire correspondence for she poverty at home, nakedness and de- with General Washington, governmental functions. Although it assumed both executive feat For this fidelity there were three would not permit that the confidence and legislative powers, It had no au- reason training and they had shared together should be patriotism, made public." thority to raise revenue and could only Gocrge Washington. The marriage of George Washington emit bills of credit, their redemption and Martha Cuatla was an example of Brotherhood of twelve "United Msn. being pledged by the 8ought It Is not singular that the Colonlea. My first wish Is to see the whole the Ideal love match, and waa followed states refused to surrender to this world at peace, and the inhabitants by forty years of genuine happlnese. loosely connected congress the control of It as one band of brothers, striving 8tlck to Your Friends. of the militia, with officers of state which should most contribute to the If you have a friend, stick to him election, gathered by sacrifice, for the hspplness of mankind. George 1 and always try to do hla food only, protection of Its own state, not fore- - up Not IDEAL LOVE MATCH W in V .iS ffowxtfl In 'O r' i Ws Miuutl it,a 1I flu! hy tma nms ftwis Who I. ia fit .. ' 4Prute. tji i rnl hlS tb whU9 hnjr blew. worm, and pWrca llw, it a vkf tor rhtuj) tl i fllrs, alow tlxbt, anil hide the gl.M.Kijr kkteo. Crab .Work DISHES, need to count the For thos most appetising and pennies meat dish may be miHff ot hamburger A '$& stesk. Hay a pound of mext, having It fluff ( hopped freak pajjf Jpl cupfxl hl beet; add a cwre-al, of any cookod liKg cream of wheat, oatmeal or bread crumbs, a little milk, salt and pepper to season, with a of dash nutmeg and a pinch o' cloves. Roll into a long loaf, place in the oven and baste with butter and water while baking. This little roast will serve five people abundantly and la most economical as well as appetizing. One may add a little onion Juice, a clove or garlic or other seasonings like kitchen bouquet to the basting i Through ill !' SEASONABLE Nroai runt wlM Howl throuxb liquor. ff FURNACe COOKINd There are maay dishes which ar most arpetirhig cooked lu the furnace. A pot of beans placed, on the ledge of the furnace door Just innUU will bale well all day, need lng no attention. tVwre should be taken that the right klad ot utensils for cooking are used, aa even solid crockery may produce a crack and away go your beans on the cellar floor, if nothing All temmore disastrous happens. safe to are dishes earthenware pered use In the furnace, aluminum If not used at too great a length of time and, of course, iron kettles and frying pans are perfectly safe. For further protection one could slip a roaster with tbe baking dish Inside or put a sheet Of sheet Iron between the dish Rub tough mutton chops with lemon and tbe fire. or a little vinegar, let them stand twt A delicious steak may be served by hours In a cold place, then cook, and over the coals. Use a broiling more much fiber you will find the cornpopper or put a long tender. on the wire broiler used for handle 8alad. Cheese Balls to Serve With that purpose. Have a dish set on the Ix f cupful each of grated ledge to catch the gravy aa you turn and American cheese, roquefort, tbe steak. bread crumbs together, add a half Apples baked In a atone dish after sauce Worcestershire teaspoonful of peeled and quartered are much being and one egg. Mix well and roll into more delicious thah the ordinary apple nut, a of small balls tbe size hickory sauce. Casserole dishes of various dip In beaten egg, then in crumbs, kinds are easily taken care of In the brown. until In then fry deep fat furnace. A dish which one ia at all Serve fresh with a lettuce salad. A doubtful of endurance, should be covadded be little cayenne pepper may ered with asbestos before putting In for seasoning If liked. sheet-iroshield. Beans are beat the Sauce-Break Tomato Spaghetti With in at when the fire is put night a fourth of a pound of spa aa they need such long, slow banked, Into Inch pieces, drop ghettl Into. Stews could be cooked this salted, boiling water In which there ia cooking. also as well asfbereala and soups. way back of on onion. the Cook small a Cheap cuts of meat, Irish stews, and the stove for an hour; remove tbe onion and sprinkle with grated many dishes may be well cooked in cheese after It has been well drained, this manner. By a few experiments and serve with the following sauce: the housewife will discover many To a half can of tomato add a little dishes which she can prepare and leave to the furnace to finish. parsley, a Btalk of celery, three or Heavy padded holders and somefour cloves, two bay leaves, salt, red the coal shovel will be needed times ot two sugar tableepoonfuls pepper, to remove the dishes withcarefully and a tablespoonful of onion Juice. Cook for halt an hour, then strain. out burns. Where gas la the only fuel Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter, for cooking, this furnace method la then add the same amount of flour: highly economical. when smooth add the tomato liquid DELICIOUS DISHES. and cook until emooth and thick. long-handle- one-hal- n This la not new, but Is not well enough known. Serve pumpkin pie Fruit soups of various kinds, cold with whipped cream genIn summer and hot in winter, are great erously sprinkled with favorites. Here ia a good grated cheese. hot one of chocolate: Pumpkin pie should Chocolate Soup. Heat not be too sweet Use a cupful of pumpkin, two gradually one quart of milk. Soften In a little eggs and a pint of milk, of the milk, five a quarter of a teaspoon-fu- l shaved of of salt, a teaspoonful chocolate; simmer eight of ginger, a grating of minutes and sweeten to nutmeg, a little lemon taste. Heat tbe yolks of four eggs, rind and a dash of cinnamon. If tbe add a little of the milk, then add it to pumpkin la the sweet kind, a quarter the hot milk, but do not boil Beat of a cupful of sugar will be ample. the whites of the eggs, add two Bake this pie at least an hour, putting of sugar and drop by It into a hot oven at first to bake the Into the hot soup. Cover the crust, then l;wer the heat to finish pot so that the egg whites will cook. the baking. Serve either hot or very cold. Tomato Ice Cook a quart of toma Kartoftel Kloese. Mash six medium toes, seasoned with grated nutmeg, sized potatoes, add two well beaten sugar, paprika, salt and a little grated eggs, two slices of bread, aoaked In lemon peel. Strain through a sieve water and flour to make a dough. Roll and freeze. Use an Ice cream dipper In balls the size of an egg, drop Into to serve it, putting a cone on a nest salted water, fast boiling, and cook of head lettuce. Cover with mayonat a hard boll for twenty minutes. naise and serve with toasted cheese Drain, aprlnkle with browned, fried crackers. onions and crumbs and serve with Apple-FiRoly-Pol- y An unusual apple sauce. dessert and moat appetizing, may Liver Balls rarboil and chop made by rolling out a rich biscuit enough liver to make a cupful, mix dough, then spread It with figs that with It an equal quantity of bread have been cooked in a double boiler crumbs, soaked In milk; also add a with enough water to soften. Then tablespoonful of softened butter, salt, beat until smooth, add a little grated cloves, and chopped parsley with lemon peel and enough Juice to flavor three beaten eggs. Cook slowly until well. Spread this on the dough with thick; make Into balls; drop Into a a cupful of chopped apple, roll up and kettle of boiling water and cook for pinch the ends; place In a deep dish half an hour; drain and serve with and cover with a cupful of boiling waparsley garnish. ter, a half cupful of brown sugar, Remove three tablespoonfuls of butter and two Cabbage With 8auaage the outer leaves of a cabbage, take a of lemon Juice. Bako one hour. The good slice off the top and remove with eauce in which It Is baked will a sharp knife as much fit the heart as sufficient to serve with it. possible. Fill the cavity with sausage, Brown Onion Soup. Cut fine four replace the top, tie up and drop Into large onions. Melt In a saucepan boiling water. Cook until the cabbage tablespoonfuls of butter, add is tender. Serve In slices hot or cold onions, cover and cook slowly, stirSauer Braten. Cover a piece of ring until they are a pale yellow. beef stew with vinegar and let stand Dredge vltta two tablespoonfuls of forty-eigh- t hours. Drain and lard It, flour cotk a few minutes until the sprinkle with spices and fry In drip- flour Is well blended with the fat. pings. When brown, add a lemon rind, then stir in a quart of hot milk. Serve two sliced carrots and onions and with small squares of fried bread. boiling water. Simmer three hours Thicken the gravy and add lemon Juice to make it tart MORE GERMAN DISHES. table-spoonfu- ls table-apoonfu- g TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES The Continental hotel In Philadelphia, a famous hostelry In Civil war days where the prince of Wales once stopped, to say nothing of many American celebrities, has been sold for tl, 121. 500, a million of which must be used to meet a mortgage. A generator Is built In connection with a new automobile radiator tan o that, whllo the motor la running, current la produced for lights, battery charging, Ignition or other purposes. A new form holder for concrete work can bo left in the concrete to reenforce It and to provide a socket for attachments or future concrete construction. It Is officially announced In reking that tho Hank of China Is to Increase Its capital by 120,000.000. One-halof this Is to be obtained from the sale of government property, and the remainder from popular subscription. The Increase will make the bank om of the most Important and largest in f capital In the far East , Just M coal, when K bums, leave a certsla amount of loco, material in tha form of ashe so tha food and drink taken day aftr day leaves lg the alimentary canal certain amoftkt of Indigestible mat, rial, which if not completely eUmio ed from tho system each day, become food tor tho millions of bacteria which Infest the bowels. From this mass of waste, toxins and ptomaine-likpoison era formed and sucked into tha btaod. Men and women who cant get feel. Inf right must begin to take inside baths. Before eattug breakfast eaeh morning drink a glass of real hot aster with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate In it to wash out of the thirty feet of bowels the previous days accumulation of poisons and toxins and to keep tho entire alimentary canal clean, pure and fresh. Those who are subject to sick headache, colds, biliousness, constipation, others who wake up with bad taste, foul breath, backache, rheumatic stiffness, or have a sour, gassy stomach after meals, are urged to get a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from any druggist or storekeeper, and begin practicing Internal sanitation. This will cost very little, but Is to make anyone an enthusiast behind busilbl left-ove- r e suffl-cie- nt on the subject Remember Inside bathing is more Important than outside bathing, because the skin pores do not absorb Impurities into the blood, causing poor health, while the bowel pores do. Just as soap and hot water cleanses, sweetens and freshens the skin, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the stomach, liver kidneys and bowels. Adv. Shortly after the wedding march many a man discovers April fool. that hes an Mother! If tongue it coated, give California Syrup of Figs. Children love this "fruit laxative," and nothing elss cleanses the tender Look, btomach, liver and bowels so nicely. A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result Is they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sours, then your little one becomes feverish, dont eat, cross, half-sicsleep or act naturally, breath la bad, system full of cold, has sore throat, atomach-ach- e or diarrhoea. Listen, Mother! See if tongue Is coated, then give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs, and In a few hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the system, and you have a well child again. Millions of mothers give "California Syrup of Figs because It ia perfectly harmless; children love it, and it never fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. bottle Ask at the store for a of "California Syrup of Figs, which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-up- s plainly, printed on the bottle. Adv. 50-ce- la When a man swallows his pride It very apt to Impair hla digestion. WHEN KIDNEYS ACT BAD TAKE GLASS OF SALTS Eat Lest Meat If Kidneys Hurt or You Have Backache or Bladder Misery Meat Forms Uric Acid. No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says s authority. Meat form uric acid which clogs the kidney pores so they sluggishly filter or strain only part of the waste and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts, or If the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, Irregular of passage or attended by a sensation of scalding, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take e tablespoonful in a glass ot water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. Tbls famous salts la made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with ltthla and has been UBed for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to neutralize the acids In urine so It no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts Is Inexpensive and cannot Injure; makes a delightful effervesr cent drink which all tet ular meat eaters Bhould take now snd then to keep the kidneys clean sod the blood pure, thereby avoiding rlous kidney complications. Adv. well-know- llthla-wate- Many a man who seeks fame finds |
