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Show - PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH OKe KITCHEN CABINET 1. 1929 Western Newspanei Union.) For a good dinner and a gentle wife, you can afford to wait. From the Danish. A wife good mans best' wealth. and health are From the He- brew. TASTY FOODS Croquettes are such tasty food and may be prepared beforehand, so that they require little attention at the last, or may even be reheated in the oven If preferred. Chicken Croquettes. three cupfuls of one chopped chicken, also green pepper chopped, one cupful of bread crumbs, three beaten eggs. Add seasoning to tbe mixture Take til mustered out at the end of the war, in 1783, after personally participating in many of its most important By ELMO SCOTT WATSON FTER more than a cen- for more than three years, during which all the hardships and priva- tions of the frontier troops tury of neglect of his were shared hardy the young surgeon, by unmarked grave, tardy whose service ceased only upon the honors have " last been disbandment of the little army after to a hero paid forgotten the capture of Fort Pitt on Novemof the American Revober 25, 1758. lution, . whose services Upon his retirement from the Virwere of Inestimable valine to the cause of liberty, a man who ginia provincial service, Craik purchased an extensive plantation at Port Tvas one of George Washingtons closest personal friends and to whose lot Tobacco, in Charles county, Maryland, and erected upon it a spacious man; it fell to close the dying eyes of the sion which was described by his Father of His Country. This man was Dr. James Craik, grandson, Daniel Jenifer, in 1849 as chief physician and surgeon of the even then one of the largest, most Continental army. After Doctor Craiks comfortable and agreeable residences Here on tbe 13th of ' death in 1814, he was buried in the in the country. November, 17G0, he brought his young churchyard of. the old Presbyterian in Alexandria, Va. bride, nee Marlamne Ewell of Belle . meeting ; houseWith the passage of years the old Air, in Prince William county, Va., 1 active medical burying ground was neglected; weeds and here he passed covered it and finally all trade of Doc-to- r practice the years which elapsed until Craiks grave was lost Several he again followed his friend at his call. During this time the years ago a movement was started 49 countrys, locate the grave 'of this patriot and' Craiks arid the Washingtons never re.erect a suitable marker. This . was linquished their intimacy, and the interchange of visits between Port Todone and a small brass tablet was provided by the Alexandria Chamber of bacco and , Mount Vernon were the source of . the sincerest pleasure to r, Commerce. Through an error, '& this tablet was placed in the both. When the occurrences arose which ' wrong spot But last year the project was taken culminated in the War for Independup by the Presbyterian Meeting House ence, Doctor Craik was an active paRestoration committee of Alexandria, triot As early as 1774, Le was conand as a result an Imposing granite spicuous in a meeting of the- citizens of his county at Port Tobacco, at monument paid for by his descendants, was recently unveiled over Doc-- , which were adopted a series of resolutions in which the people pledged .tor Craiks grave themselves that if the act of parDoctor Craik had had a career even before he became liament to blockade the port of Bos.chief medical ofiicer for the patriot ton was not promptly repealed the army in the Revolution. What that inhabitants of the county woald join career was Is shown by the following with the several counties of Maryland sketch of bis life, provided by the and the principal, colonies of America to break off all commercial communirestoration committee: . Upon the organization of the Vlr-- - cation with Great Britain and the was a member of gioia Provisional regiment in 1754, West Indies. Craik Craik was appointed surgeon. The the committee of correspondence selected to carry out these resolutions. command- was at the same time tenSo valuable to the cause was the dered to MaJ. George Washington who modestly declined but accepted the presence of Craik in Maryland and so lieutenant colonelcy, the command go1 deeply were planted the rootlets of lng to Col. Joshna Fry. - The regiment bis social and professional relations was not brought together until, upon that Washington hesitated a considerthe death of Fry at Wills Creek, able time after assuming command of Washington succeeded to the leader- the American forces to ask his old ship and the headquarters Joined him friend to again place his medico-militar- y at Fort Necessity. Here was begun experience at the disposal of his country. But in April, 1777, in a most that lifelong intimacy between Washington and Craik, so much treasured cordial letter he tendered to him his choice between the positions of seby both. nior physician and surgeon of the officer of bis medical as regiCraik, ment, was present at the battle of hospital with pay of $4 and six raGreat Meadows In 1754 and rendered tions per day and forage for one surgical aid to the wounded in that horse and assistant director general, action. His ' service extended also with pay of $3 and six rations per day and two horses and traveling exover the period of the expepenses found in the middle departdition of Braddock toward Fort ment and he participated in tbe batThe latter position the doctor actle of the Monongahela, where he dressed the wounds of the comander cepted and soon entered upon his duu of the British forces and many otb ties. On the arrival of Count and bis forces Craik was orers of the injured upon that bloody dered to Join them at Newport, R. L, Held. Here he witnessed the singular impunity which attended his youth- and to organize their hospital departful chief as be performed his duties ment, a task which Le accomplished first as aide and later as commander with the- - most complete success. On the reorganization of the medi.of the disheartened remnants of tbe British troops. cal department, October 6, 1780, Doctor Craik was appointed the senior of When, then, on August 14, 1755, some six weeks after the operations the four chief, hospital physicians on the Monongahela, Washington was and surgeons, being tbe third officer appointed to the command of the Vir- In rAnk in tbe Medical corps, and upginia provincial army and assigned to on the resignation .of Director Genthe duty of protecting the Virginia eral Shlppen and the promotion of Dr. and Maryland frontier from the John Cochran, "chief physician and French and Indians, IVctor Craik still surgeon of the army, he was adremained as his chle? medical officer. vanced to the second place under the The operations thus Aegun continued latter title. This position he held un bow--eve- . . dlstin-"guishe- d e, Roch-ambea- , Another Tong War was walking his beat In a residential district when a badly salesman battered, rushed np to him. he panted, pointing Say, officer, iceman, who had Just to a I wnnt that climbed on his wagon, man arrested. Just look what he did to me!" Stalking majestically into the street, to the policeman waved the A poneemntt house-to-hou- red-head- halt, and demanded of Its driver. Did . you hit this man? 01 did," was the shameless reply. What for? Alienation ov affections," replied He sold Bridget Nolans the Iceman. missus wan av thlm electric ." Crocodiles Dinner-Ca- ll In Njungo, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda, an African by the nse of a peculiar call can sumcrocodile from the mons 0 ot events. Including the capitulation at Torktown. At the close of the war, he returned to his home at Port Tobacco, but shortly after, at the earnest solicitation of his late chief, he removed to Alexandria, near Mount Vernon, where Le continued In agreeable association with the Washingtons until his death. In 1798, when wa t with France seemed inevitable and Washington was again summoned to lead the army, he made the appointment of Craik at the head of the medical department one of the conditions of his own acceptance of the command, remarking, I have already been applied to by a gentleman to recommend him for director of the hospital, which I have refused, as well on general grounds as because 1 should prefer my old friend. Doctor Craik, who, from forty years experience, is better qualified than a dozen of them together. Craik was accordingly . commissioned physician general of thd army, July 19, 1798, with the pay and emolu ments of lieutenant colonel, but withe out rank. With the proverbial of military legislation, the act organizing the provincial army provided only for regimental surgeons and surgeons mates. Fortunately, Lowever, James McHenry, the secretary of war, had himself served as a medical officer during the Revolution and In him Craik found a strong support in developing a properly organ ized medical establishment, an act for the materialization of which was passed by congress, March 2, 1799. The determined attitude of the United States, her prompt resort to arms and the reappearance of her Illustrious soldier at the head of tbe army, however, was sufficient to repress the warlike ardor of France, and, peace speedily prevailing between the two nations, the army was disbanded, physician General Craiks services officially terminating on June negli-'genc- 15, 1800. before the latter date, howhad returned to his beautiful home, where in December, fell to his lot to close with hand the dying eyes of his faithful and famous friend, General Washington. Of that solemn hour, Craik himself wrote: I, who was bred amid scenes of human calamity, who had so often witnessed death In its direst and most awful forms, believed that Its terrors were too familiar to my eye to shake my fortitude; but when I saw this great man die it seemed as If the bonds of my nature were rent asunder, and that the pillar of my countrys happiness had fatten to the ground." Washingtons own testimony to the relations between them was witnessed by the clause of his will which specified that: "To my compatriot In arms, and old and Intimlte friend. Doctor Craik, I give my bureau (or as the cabinet makers call It, tambour secretary) and the circular chair, an appendage of my study.". Doctor Craik survived this event 15 years, the latter portion of the time In honored retirement, being remembered by his grandson at this period as a stout, hale, cheery old man. perfectly erect, fond of company and of children and amusing himself with light work tn the garden." - He remained vigorous to the last and passed away February 6, 1814, at tl.e ' age of sixty-fouLong ever, he Virginia 1799, It his own r. depths of the lake and make it eat fish- from his hand ! On Saturdays and Sundays, when hundreds of natives arrive at the little village from the surrounding territory, the African ex erclses his peculiar power, making the crocodile eat scores of . fish supplied by the admiring crowd. This sale of fish Is making the na tlve a rich man, and so strange is the sight that motor buses Rre now mak ing special runs to Njnngo. Trust not him that seems a saint and form into balls. Roll In egg, dip into crumbs and fry in deep fat Tongue Bouchees. Tbe usual foundation for bouchees is a small slice ot bread fried in butter, and as they are served cold they may be prepared hours before serving. After frying the bread cut into rounds or oblongs, lay on soft paper to absorb the fat Cover tbe bread with a star ol tongue. Lay on top of tbe star thinly sliced dill pickle in tog cabin fashion and crown with a sprig of watercress. Baked Lamb Cutlets. Mince three chicken livers and cooked chicken breast to make one cupful, add one cupful of crumbs, five tablespoonfms of cream, teaspoouful ot salt and a little pepper. Spread over the cutlets, place a MiId slice of bacon on each, roll lip and tie. Sprinkle with buttered crumbs and bake, basting frequently. Sweetbread Salad. Cook one pair of sweetbreads, cut Into half-inc- h cubes and add the same amount of cubes of boiled tongue. Add a little aspic jelly and place on Ice. Masb two bard cooked egg yolks, add salt, pepper, mustard, one teaspoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of olive oil. two tnblespounfuls of vinegar and four tablespoonfuls of thick cream. Serve over the meat on lettuce. Lamb Patties. Grind two pounds of shoulder of lamb. Form Into cakes, wrap a strip of bacon around each and fasten with a toothpick. Fry In a hot pan, season when well seared and serve with pan gravy. ' Honey Doughnuts. Take two eggs. , (wo; tablespoonfuls of butter, one and f cupfuls of honey,.' one cupful of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, three cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar. Mix and chill before rolling. Doughnuts made with honey are light, soft and do. not dry out as do those made with sugar. Opportune Dishes. As chestnuts are so well liked, one always welcomes something different oue-fourt- b one-hal- chestnut in dishes. Chestnut Salad. Boil three en doz- large chest nuts for twenty m i n a t e 8, then . plunge into cold water and re- move the thin brown skins. Cut Into quarters, add salt and a dasb of cayenne, fc.ur tart apples cut Into dice, a little dark meat of a turkey or duck, two tablespoonfuls of chopped pickle and heap on lettuce. Serve with French dressing. Chestnut Patties. Beat one egg, add one cupful of confectioners sugar and one cupful of ground chestnuts, five tablespoonfuls of flour and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat and drop by spoonfuls on baking sheets. Dust with sugar and cinnamon and bake in a hot oven. 'Chestnut Pudding. Cook In boiling water one pint of shelled chestnuts; when tender, drain, chill and remove the brown skins. Masb and put Beat through a sieve. pound of sugar and four tablespoon-tulof butter. Add four beaten egg yolks,, pound of bread crumbs and the chestnut puree, one cupful of milk, the juice and grated rind of a lemon. Beat fifteen minutes. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites, turn Into a bartered mold and stenni forty-fivServe with cream minutes. and sugar. Pennsylvania Spice Qake. Beat to a cream one-hacupful of butter and one. cupful each of brown and white f eggs, sugar, add three cupful of sour milk with one teaspoouful of salt, the same of cloves and allspice, two cupfuls of seeded, chopped raisins. Drop by teaspoon fuls on a buttered baking sheet and bake In a moderate oven. French Salad. Take one can of drained peas, add one pint of finely eul celery, one cupful of blanched walnuts, one cupful of tart oranges Toss lightly and garnish with celery Serve with mayonnaise. leaves one-haCreamSugar . Cookies. cupful of shortening and one cupful of sugar. Beat one egg until light and add cupful of milk Add this to the sugar mixture with one-lmSif' tenspoonful of vnniila. two cupfuls cf flour with , one tea f spoonful of snlt and two teaspoon hnking powder. Add more flour I reeded. ' Roll 'Into rolls and place 01 one-four- s oue-fourt- b e lf well-beate- n one-hal- - lf one-fourt- h lf fut-o- ice. - The Thames the River Thames FOLLOWING 75 miles we3t to that great metropolis, leads the traveler through a countryside full of history and tradition, and still retaining, in spite of Its nearness to the throbbing port and streets of London, the atmosphere of centuries. by-go- t Pangbourne. There is the view from Carfax down (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) At Crlcklade tbe river is little more than a rivulet in fact, the local people ail refer to it as the Brook. The first 11 miles to Lechlade is not really navigable water, and for most of the distance one must walk In the bed of the stream, guiding his canoe over the shallows, which occur every few yards. Where there is sufficient depth of water progress is Impeded by the heavy weeds. At Lechlade the river becomes navigable, though from here to Oxford traffic Is scanty, and it Is rare to see anything larger than a rowboat. The river winds its narrow, tortuous course between long, level meadows or rushy banks. Black and dun cattle wading in the shallows; an old bridge or a comfortable riverside Inn St. Aldates to the tower of Christ church, where Great Tom still strikes, at 9 p. m., his 101 strokes, the number of undergraduates, as ordained by the founder of the original college, Cardinal Wolsey. Or climb the Radcliffe Camera and look at the city lying outspread, with the noble tower of Magdalen away In the distance. Every college has some peculiar attraction and tradition of Its own the library at Merton, with its chained books; the old city walls in New College garden ; the chapel of Christ church, which is also a cathedral a at unique distinction ; the sun-diOriel. ... j From Oxford the river runs to a little village two miles below. This stretch Is the scene of the college bumping races thg fgrpids In the Lent term and the Eights in ther summer term. Both are eight-oare- d races, extending over a week, the formaboats starting in a tion, 150 feet apart In both sets of races the principle is that each boat endeavors to overtake and touch the one in front and if successful takes its place on the succeeding day. Few haunted by anglers, for the river here are more beautiful than this Is full of fish; a heron winging his sights the crowd of undergraduates running slow way home these are the most on the the long string of exciting scenes in a days paddle. But racing boats and the line of boats though this country is not on the and barges crowded with bright blazgrand scale. It has a quiet beauty ail ers and pretty dresses. . its own, which Is remembered when most Iffley mill Is probably more spectacular places are forgotten. on tlielf sanies ; place photographed Lechlade is a Cotswoid town, built and, with its mellow red roor guarded round the wide and .sunny marketby the tall poplars, it Is worth picplace, from one side of which rises j turing. the Sixteenth century church, with Its Charm and History. Through Paddling so loved Shelley.-Ththe e by spire poet Two miles below is Saudford, where houses are of stone, brick being a rarity in the Cotswolds, and have from time immemorial tiie Kings an air of mingled spaciousness and Arms has been the goal of underOnce parties. boating graduate dignity which is most attractive. hrough Sandford lock, one paddle? on Newbridge and Its Old Inn. to Abingdon past tbe Nunebain woods, A steady, uneventful paddle of ft which in places here come down to miles brings one to Newbridge, which, the waters edge. Unfortunately, for like New College at Oxford and the most of the distance the banks are New Forest, is of great antiquity, betoo high for a small boat to command ing In fact the oldest bridge on the an 1 extensive view. river. from Its high Abingdon has fallen On the bank Is the old inn bearing estate. In bygone .days the abbots of the quaint sign of The Rose Redisvived. Its signboard was painted Abingdon dominated the whole at but vanished their monastery trict; Hamo Sir by Thorneycroft, and represents a rose in a glass of beer, in the Reformation, and not even the site of it is now known. which liquid it appears to be flourishBelow on a backwater lies the little is Over the ing greatly. signboard of Sutton Courtenay, consistvillage a small penthouse to act as a defense ing of a long row of old English cotagainst the weather. aveFour miles below is the ferry where tages, a village green, and a fine nue of trees a perfect specimen of y Scholar-GipsMatthew Arnold saw the the small hamlets which sleep by the crossing the stripling Thames of Father Thames. at Bublockhythe, and about a mile on banks A mile below Is Clifton Hampden the right the village of Cumnor, where and Barley Mow, an old thatched was enacted, the tragedy of Amy Rob-saron the river. described by Sir Walter Scott in inn, one of the quaintest Its roof, beamed walls, Kenilworth. latticed windows give it a really At this point one comes In sight of and book appearance, and inside the Oxford, but as the river describes a story of unreality Is Intensified. Impression some It time is horseshoe curve, great Below Clifton Hampden Dorchester before he approaches the outskirts of mile away on the left, another the city. The sordid nature of the lies, a In the last two miles, covered with railways, Instance of fallen greatness. was scene of the It Seventh century warehouses, and gasometers, Is only the baptism of Cynegil, the first West equaled by the memory of its departSaxon king to become a Christian, ed glories. In the Tenth century it was the and Is cemea On the left, where now see of an enormous diocese which tery, stood the great Abbey of Osney, In later stretched to the Humber. and just below-thold keep of Oxford castle rears Its hoary head from years the Austin friars built a great of .which the abbey church among the hideous litter and lumber priory here, of a and a railway; yet it remains as one of the chief glories of the river. Dorchester has vanished was the scene of one of the most ro800 years, but it remantic adventures of the Middle Ages. from history for mains a village of singular peace and In the year 1142 King. Stephen was charm. besieging the castle. In which was his The next few miles are somewhat rival, Matilda. A frost set in, folIn Interest. One paddles lowed by a heavy snowstorm, and the lacking through Shillingford ; Wallingford, a case of the garrison was desperate. great strategic point In the Middle But Matilda was a true Plantagenet. Ages, but now a sleepy nnd uninterestWith four chosen knights, dressed all ing town; under the Great Western In white, she stole out of a little railway bridge at Moulsford, and then darkpostern gate, and under cover of e reach on down a ' straight ness fled across the frozen river and which the Oxford university trinls are over the snows to Abingdon, seven rowed before the eight to row against long miles away, where help awaited are selected. Cambridge her. Halfway down the reach Is the A little farther on the river divides Beetle and Wedge Inn. an old hostelry and passes under the old Grand Pont, rebuilt about fifteen years ago and or Folly bridge, the center of Oxfords having Its unusual sign prominently life. aquatic displayed. Beauties cf Oxford. A mile below are the twin villages Oxford is ne t f those towns, which of Goring and Strentley. They occupy few a and others, like Rome. Prague what was the most beautiful spot on are really the property of the wot Id. the Thames, but now. alas, are crowdrather than of a single nation. It Is ed with the houses of the newly rich; to an article so in short impossible and what was a paradise Is now an at give more than a cursory glance Inferno ; of money and nioUr cars. its many beauties, ft should be reThe country round Is still nnspoiil and membered that, with Cambridge. It Is the' reaches down to Pangbourne full the only example remaining of a uni of beauty. of communal vprsily with living in colleges, independent of the World Mainly Good .mlversity organization, which goes I have an honest con.viction that hack hundreds of years. those who occupy the worlds best The city Is a living link with what earn them honestly, and that vor is or has been best In English lfe through the ages, and forms In politeness, and nearly always rnora than the usual honesty, follow distinc(self an epitome of English social tion. S. W. Howes Mrothly. and national history. Iff-le- y, line-ahea- d tow-pat- ft t, d e gas-wor- two-mil- |