THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS
MOTHER’S FRUIT CAKE.
Jtt Wat at Big One, But the Giprcai
Charge* Were u Little
Bit Bigger.
The woman who was telling the story
was the best gowned of all the women
in the cafe. It seemed to amuse the
company around her table and some at
near-by seats couldn’t help listening to
it, relates the New York Sun.
*'I never see a piece of fruit or pound
cake that I don’t think of my poor dear
mother out in Kansas," she was saying.
“Did I ever tell you about the cake she
sent me? Well, it was the first Christ
mas I was in New York.
“From my chill little bedroom in a
rooming house half way up town I used
to write to her the rosiest letters of my
progress and expectations. It used to
cheer my gloomiest hours to see what
lies I could put down on paper for the
gratification and comfort of the little
old lady. One night when I hadn't had
any dinner, I remember sending her a
long letter about plans I was making
to bring my little sister east and give
her the education she ought to have.
“A few days before Christmas I got a
letter In mother’s own labored writing.
She said she knew I hankered for a
taste of the fruit cake we always had
at home at Christmas time and she had
made a whole big one for me and had
shipped it by express,
“T nromlspd mvsplf that with one of
mother’s nourishing fruit cakes at hand
I would be able to sustain myself on the
off days, and I sat in expectancy next
day when the bell rang and the maid
came toiling up the two flights to tell
me that there was a package for me.
“The expressman climbed up with a
round parcel almost as big as a wash- !
tub. He held up the book for me to
sign and remarked, incidentally, |
‘charges are $6.45 ma’am.’ Mother had
Bent it collect, all the way from the lit
tle Kansas town.
“Six forty-five! The fruit cake was as
far beyond my reach as a Tiffany tia-ra.
So the expressman bore it away while I
muttered something about dropping
Into his office with the money as soon as
I had been to the bank. Then I wrote
a strictly private note to my little sis
ter telling her to tear up any notice
that might be sent to mother by the
company telling her the parcel was un
delivered. I have an idea they have
Borne such system. Haven’t they?
“Then I sat down and wrote a fresh
letter to mother telling her how much
I had enjoyed the cake, and describing
all the fictitious persons who had shared
it with me, and who sent their con
gratulations to her on her skill as a
cakemaker. I ran out and mailed the
letter and went back and cried myself
to sleep.”
“And that was the end of the cake?”
asked one of the women at the table.
“Oh, no," continued the narrator.
"Three months later I went to the auc
tion sale of unclaimed express packages
and bid it in for 45 cents. Mother’s
fruit cake is so wholesome and solid that
it will keep for a year. If you’ll all
come up to the house now, each of you
shall have a small piece.”
“What!” exclaimed one of the men.
“Was this event as recent as that?”
The story-teller smiled bewitchingly.
“You know,” she said, turning her look
to the fat and apoplectic person who
was presumptively the husband, “it was
a case of love at first sight with Mr.
X-and me.”
“Yes,” assented the fat one, "and
we’ve just shipped to mother a fruit
cake that’s so crammed with $20 gold |
pieces that there’s no room for raisins.”
Sweet Potato WnfBe*.
Mix well together two heaping tea
fpoonfuls of mashed sweet potatoes,
one of melted butter, one of sugar, a
pint of sweet milk, a half-pint of
flour, a toaspoonful of baking powder,
a half saltspoonful of salt and the
whites of two eggs, beaten stiff. Oil
the waffle iron well and bake to a del
icate brown. Do not fill the iron too
full. Serve with maple syrup or honey
cream, which is made by heating one
cupful of comb honey cut into small
bits into a pint of whipped cream.—
Boston Budget
Fanner** Fruit Cake.
One-half pound fat pork chopped
fine; one pint boiling water poured
over it When eool, add one-half cup
ful molasses, one and one-half cupfuls
sugar, brown or granulated, one scant
teaspoonful soda, one cupful chopped
hickory nut meats, one cupful raisins,
one teaspoonful each of cloves, all
spice and cinnamon, and four or four
and a half oupfuls flour. Make the
dough a little thicker than for cake
with no moi asses.—Ohio Farmer.
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IS LACKING IN SYMPATHY.
Charge Made Against the New Worn
an—Considerations That Might
Lead Her to Admit It.
One of the charges that are
made against the “new woman” is
that she is less sympathetic than
is her sister who abides closely in
what is called “woman’s sphere,”
says the Portland Oregonian.
But in the light of the above ar
raignment of sympathy as the vice
that it not infrequently is, may
not the “new woman” confess
judgment upon this charge and
strengthen her case and her posi
tion by so doing? Woman has
been called a ministering angel,
but would not a more practical
name better befit the women of
the twentieth century? Will
not the services of women to the
world be greater and of more en
during effect if they cast aside un
reasonable sympathy as a worn
out garment that discloses rather
than conceals the moral naked
ness of those about wrhom it is
cast, and substitute therefor the
armor of personal responsibility?
It has been said that there is a
woman behind the door of every
man’s success. “If there is,” says
the writer, “rest assured that she
isn’t a sympathetic woman whin
ing through the keyhole: ‘Give it
up if it’s hard,’ but a woman of
nerve and backbone who, like the
Spartan woman of old, is crying
out: ‘Gome home with your
shield, or on it.’ ”
MOLLIFIED THE GRIZZLY.
Chief of Southern Utes Had an In
terview with a Bear at Close
Quarters.
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“The most interesting story I
ever heard came from the lips of
old ‘Buckskin Charley,’ chief of
the southern Utes,” said Mr. J. P.
Altberger, of Philadelphia, to a
Washington Post reporter.
“As told by a white man the
narrative is tame, indeed, lacking
the dramatic action and eloquence
of the red warrior. It was about a
meeting with a big grizzly bear in
the mountains of Colorado.
Charley was out looking for deer.
He was equipped with an old-fash
ioned, single-barrel, muzzle-load
ing rille, which put him at a terri
ble disadvantage, when he was
suddenly confronted by one of the
biggest specimens of the grizzly
tribe he ever saw.
“ ‘I jumped behind big tree very
quick,’ he said, ‘and Mr. Bear came
close, rearing up on his hind legs.
I was scared to shoot, only hav
ing one barrel. Then I com
menced to talk. I said: “Mr. Bear,
I am your friend- I come out after
deer. I hope you go way and so I
kill deer and leave big piece of
meat for you.” Then the bear
seemed to get friendly, and he
dropped on his legs to the ground,
much as to say he’d like a piece
of deer, and then he run off into
the mountains.’ ”
METHOD IN COOKING EGGS.
Aunt Dinah Sings Two Verses of
Hymn for Soft Boiled and
Three for Hard.
Crooks are often accused of
want of method, but the Aunt
Dinah in Howard Paul’s new egg
story is not open to any such re
proach, says London Truth. In
variably when she put the eggs in
the saucepan she began singing
“Rock of Ages,” and sang through
two verses. “Aunt Dinah,” asked
Mr. Paul, “are there not three
verses in that hymn?” “Dar is,
massa, but 1 sings only two
when I wants ’em soft and three'
when I wants ’em hard.”
His other egg story is good, too.
He was traveling on a Pennsyl
vania railway, and when his
breakfast was brought the eggs
were underdone. “What time art*
we making on this train?” lie,
asked the waiter. “A mile a min
ute, sir.” “Then boil the eggs
another mile and they’ll be quite
right.”
How Steel Is Replacing Wood.
Steel is taking the place of wood
in construction. Many freight
;ars are now built entirely of
steel. Steel hopper coal cars are
in use on most of the coal roads—
huge things larger than the old
box cars, holding 50 tons of coal
ind capable of being rapidly un
loaded by means of the hoppers in
:he bottoms.—World’s Work.
Beauties.
Nature doesn’t use self-made,
>eauties for patterns.
WHO GETS MOCHA COFFEE ?
Most of It Taken by Sheiks and Gov
ernors of Arabia—Little Is
Ever Exported.
“I don’t believe there is a
pound of genuine Mocha coffee on
this continent,” Mr. C. T. Hilli
glas, a coffee merchant, informs
me, says a writer in the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, “or that 200 peo
ple in this country have ever tast
ed it, unless they have at some
time visited Arabia and drunk it
at the table of some sheik or gov
ernor.
“The true Mocha is the finest
coffee grown; it has a delicious fla
vor that makes it as superior to
the very best of other brands as
silk is superior to cotton, but the
crop is extremely limited, and
hardly ever more than satisfies
purely local demands. Some
Arabian coffee may find its way to
this country; it may even be called
Mocha, but it is not the real arti- j
cle, I am sure, and none of us has j
ever had it here, though we get the j
best of other brands that are
grown in Ceylon and Java, and
that means some mighty fine cof-!
fee. It is not Mocha, however, for J
the whole of the true Mocha crop
each year wouldn’t supply the cof
fee demands of one ward in St.
Louis alone for a period of six
months. The best and plumpest |
berries of the Mocha growth, j
those with the most exquisite1
flavor, are eagerly taken by
the governors and sheiks in the |
vicinity, and they have to get their !
orders in in advance, so that they
may be sure of their annual sup
ply. The second-grade berries go
to the wealthier citizens, not of
the governing class, and the third,
or poorest, grade of berries, which
are not much superior to the best
Java coffee, are sold to the people,
and the demand invariably ex
ceeds the supply.
“Sometimes a few pounds of
this cheapest grade of Mocha finds
its way to Constantinople, but it
is very, very seldom, and I don’t
believe an ounce of it has ever got
any further "west than that. I pre
sume that if, by some hook or
crook, a pound of the real plump
berried Mocha were landed in this
country it would sell for a price
that even a Rockefeller might hes
itate to pay. We sret the best cof
fee grown, apart from the Mocha,
but the local conditions which pre
vail where that coffee is raised
prevent us from obtaining any,
and I hardly think the real thing
will ever be found in our markets.”
POPE A GREAT FAVORITE.
Has Been a Pulpit Orator of Renown
from Very Owtset of His
Priestly Career.
One recalls, writes William J.
D. Croke, in Century, those mov
ing speeches which, as car
dinal, he delivered weeping in the
conclave, setting forth all his im
perfections (his sins, even), and
the disadvantages of his career
fnnm horofrifttoH vh nnrl lin hnt
which really secured him the
throne, and the stories of him
which every one knows in Lom
bardy and Venetia. For no eccle
siastic can hate been more widely
known than he. A pulpit orator
of renown from the very outset
of his priestly career, the sought
after panegyrist of great occa
sions when bishop and patriarch,
no wonder that he was hailed by a
voice in Home when he took pos
session of his title as cardinal:
“No one has spoken so well as this
cardinal!” As country assistant,
then parish priest, then professor
in the seminary of Treviso, canon,
chancellor of the diocese, great
hierarch of Mantua, the successor
of St. Mark, everyone seems to
know him, and no one has any
memory that is not pleasant.
Developed by Nature.
When the petals of the great
laurel magnolia are touched,
however lightly, the result is a
brown spot, which develops in a
few hours. The fact is taken ad
vantage of by the South Ameri
can lover, who pulls a magnolia
flower, and on one of its pure
white petals writes a motto or
message with a sharp-pointed pen
cil. Then he sends the flower, the
young lady puts it in a vase of wa- j
ter, and in three or four hours the |
message written on the leaf be-1
comes perfectly visible, and re |
mains so.
Charity.
Tt#re is too much charity in this
worli —for worthless people.— j
ChicJ o pAily News.
DIVORCE LAWS ABROAD.
la Prance the Innocent Party May He*
cover All the Presents He or
She Has Given.
“There are many curious and inter
esting facts regarding the marriage
and divorce laws of foreign countries,"
said R. J. Brown, who, reports the In
dianapolis News, recently returned
from a trip abroad, where he made a
study of the question.
“Breaches of promise are averted In
Hungary by an express declaration of
the civil marriage act (1895) that the
relations created by a betrothal do not
give the right to command the con
clusion of a marriage, but if either
party withdraws from an engagement
without just reasons he or she i3
bound to grant compensation- to the
extent of the outlay incurred. Divorce
in the English sense does not exist,
but the courts can decree the personal
separation of a married couple with
out dissolving the bonds of matrimony.
“A curious law prevailing in France
provides that, before being married,
children of a family, although over
age, shall seek In respectful and formal
terms the advice of their father and
mother. It makes no difference, how
ever, whether the consent of parents is
given, for the couple can be married a
month after under any circumstances.
This is also the case in the Nether
lands.
“A divorce further entitles the In
nocent party to recover all the pres
ents he or she may have made.
“According to the constitution of the
Netherlands, the civil marriage must
always precede the religious ceremony.
The latter, indeed, is left entirely to
the conscience of the parties concerned.
There Is also a law providing that no
man or woman under 30 can marry
without the consent of parents. If the
consent be refused the couple have to
appear before a judge, whr advise*
them as he thinks best
“Many countries have now abolished
all marriage fees. This Is the case in
Norway, while in the Netherlands cer
tain days in the week are set apart
when person* may ha married without
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Military Hants,
Emperor William has lately reviewed
a feathered veteran of the German
army. One of his regiments has a pet
magpie, which Is full of militarism and
very proud of ite parade step. Wben
the kaiser visited the regimental quar
ters recently he asked for this accom
plished bird. A French illustrated pa
per publishes a picture of the incident
There is the kaiser sitting sternly In
the saddle and there is the magpie with
its martial 6trlde and there are the
officers of the regiment with mingled
anxiety and pride plainly marked on all
their faces.
Horsea That Rotate.
The novel house of Eugene Petit a
French architect, turns to the sun at
the will of its occupants. It Is mount
ed on a steel plaftform, which is rotated
on ball bearings by a pinion geared in
a circular set of teeth. An ordinary
three-story dwelling can be turned by
two men. Water, gas and electricity are
brought In through a central passage
md eewage finds its exit In a similar
way. Houses of this kind, costing not
more than ten per cent above thd or
dinary, are required for the patients
of Dr. Pellegrtn, the advocate of heli
otherapy.
Cp Ag*lnit It.
“Sir, I don't think I quite catch the
drift of your remarks," said the haughty
maid who seemed to have suddenly de
veloped a case of refrigerator heart.
“Well, I seem to catch your drift, all
right, all right," rejoined the young man
who had been trying tp frame up a pro
posal. "It seems to be something on the
order of a snowdrift.”—Chicago Daily
News.
The Old Tbinp Won't Go.
Hewitt—First be sure you're right,
then go ahead.
Jewett—You mag be sore you’re right
and not be able to go ahead, if you are
Lb an automobile.—Brooklyn UXe.
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