The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1916 Page: 3 of 6
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THE D A V
COUNTRY'S DEBT
TO WASHINGTON
Probably the Only Man Who
Could Have Won Liberty
for the People.
Difficulties Which He Had to Encoun-
ter Were Almost Insurmountable
Lack of Proper Training
Hampered Continentals in
All Their Battles.
George washington, the
commander of the American
armies, knew better than any^
one else the offensive and de-
fensive value of the forces under him;
and he has left a vivid written record
of the relative value of untrained
short-term men and of a disciplined
long-term body made of individuals of
the same class. He plainly expressed
his opinion, fully confirmed by military
men since his time, of the army need-
ed by this country when, soon after
the disaster at Camden, he wrote to
congress: "What we need is a good
army, not a large one."
Probably no war was ever ca.Tled
on where the one side was represent-
ed in the field by so great a proportion
of unorganized troops, not under a
central national control, and no great
commander, before or since, has ever
ftucceeded with so rapidly shifting a
body of badly equipped men.
Bunker Hill Analyzed.
At the battle of Bunker Hill, an
army of untrained American minute
men and militia, under the command,
however, of veteran officers like Pres-
cott, Stark, Putnam and Knowlton of
the higher rank, and among the lower
officers a sprinkling of men experi-
enced in the French and English wars,
from behind intrenehruents hastily
erected, but of value against low-pow-
er armament, successfully resisted
two attacks of well-organized and
disciplined British veterans, with a
loss to the 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
discipline, were rallied by their well-
trained officers, made a third charge,
end, although outnumbered, succeeded
in driving the Americans, at the point
of the bayonet, from their trencheB,
their supply of powder being exhaust-
ed and their muskets not having bay-
onets.
The American force was justly
proud of its resistance and of the
hoavy punishment it had inflicted, but
^ the result wus. in spite of its good
fight, a defeat to its arms—perhaps
only through failure in the quarter
master's department. The British,
however, carried the hill on account
of the better discipline of their line,
the better control of their officers, and
because their supply of ammunition
was not exhausted. And they there-
by prevented the success of the co-
lonial military plan.
Continental Weakness.
This story in various ways was
many times repeated in the war of
the revolution, always with the same
result. In spite of the brilliant gen
eralshlp of Washington, Greene,
Schuyler, Lee and others, the Ameri-
cans did not win a single victory over
the British regular troops when tne
latter were not outnumbered.
A brief examination of the powers
of the Continental Congress will show
what were the chief causes of this
weakness in our armies that led so
near to the collapse of our national
defense and caused the Intense anxiety
and distress to Washington and the
seeing, as was proved eventually, that
victory for the colonies could be won
only by the long term organized and
disciplined continentals, composing
small but good army."
Squabble Over Officers.
Congress in the winter of 1775, rec-
ognizing the necessity of raising troops
to take the place of those whose terms
expired, resolved to provide twenty-
six regiments, with power to Wash-
ington to select the officers, which re-
sulted in many perplexities for him
and his general officers, for, as Wash-
ington wrote, "Connecticut wanted no
Massachusetts man in her corps. Mas-
sachusetts could see no necessity for
having a Rhode Island man in hers
and New Hampshire says it is very
hard that her experienced officers
should be discarded because her own
regiments cannot provide for them."
November 11 he wrote: "Many of
the officers expected promotion, others
stood aloof to see what advantage they
could make for themselves. The diffi-
culty with the soldiers was greater,
if possible, thin with the officers.
They refused to enlist unless they
knew their colonel, lieutenant colonel,
major and captain."
Put Washington In Dilemma.
TJp to November 19 only 966 men
had enlisted. By November 28 they
had reached 2,500, and they all wanted
furlough. Washington wrote: "Our
situation is truly alarming, and of this
General Howe is well apprised, it be-
ing the common topic of conversation
when the people left Boston last Fri-
day." In a private letter of the same
time he wrote : "Such a dearth of pub-
lic spirit, such stock jobbing and fer
tillty in all the low arts to obtain ad-
vantages in this great change of mili-
tary arrangement, I pray God's mercy
1 may never see again. What will be
the end of these maneuvers Is beyond
my scan. 1 tremble at the prospect
We have been until this time enlist-
IDEAL LOVE MATCH
Forty Years of Happiness Fol
lowed Union of Washington
and Martha Custis.
o
NE hundred and fourteen
years ago—May 22, 1802—
Martha Washington, wife of
George Washington, died at
Mount Vernon, at the age of seventy
years.
Martha Custis met Colonel Washing-
ton about a year after the death of
her husband, Daniel Parke Custis, a
wealthy planter. She was then near-
ing her twenty-sixth year, and Wash-
ington was about three months her
senior. She was the daughter of Col.
John Dandridge and had been well
trained in the accomplishments of
young women of her social station.
The engagement lasted for nearly a
year, Washington being absent for a
long time on a military campaign.
brighter scenes—he
Winter ha
boasts
Splendors beyond what gorgeous sum-
mer knows.
Or autumn with his many fruits and
woods
All flushed with many hues. Come
when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the
trees with ice.
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light. Ap-
proach !
The tncruiited surface shall upbear*
thy steps.
And the broad arching portals of the
grove
Welcome thy entering.
—Bryant.
Out of ;he bosom of the air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her gar-
ments shaken
Over the woodlands, broad and bare.
Over the harvest fields forsaken.
Silent and soft, and slow, descends the
•now.
liiSMj
Continental Artillery, 1777-1783.
Commander in Chief, Aide de Camp
and Line Officers, 1779-1783.
band of patriots about him in the army
and in congress.
The congross presented as able and
•devoted men as were ever gathered In
a single body, but they were not
;trair.od In the systematic methods of
great deliberative bodies; and above
all represented one of the very weak-
est forms of governmental power—a
more confederacy or league of several
states or colonies and without real
governmental functions.
Although it assumed both executive
and legislative powers, it tad no au-
thority to raise revenue and could only
emit bills of credit, their redemption
boing pledged by the twelve "United
A'olonieB." It Is not singular that the
states refused to surrender to this
loosely connected congress the control
of the mllltla, with officers of state
selection, gathered by sacrifice, for the
protection of lu own state, uot Core
ing about thirty five hundred men.
. . . After the last of this month our
lines will be so weakened that the
minutemen and militia must be called
in for our defense, and these, being
under no kind of government, will de-
stroy the little subordination I have
been laboring to establish and run cie
into one evil while I am endeavoring
to avoid another. But the less must
be chosen."
- After five years of experience In
command of the armies, Washington
thus expressed himself i:i a letter to
the president of the congress, dated
August 20, 1780:
"Had we forreed a permanent army
in the beginning, which, by the con-
tinuance of the same men in service,
had been capable of discipline, we
never should have had to retreat with
a handful of men across the Delaware
in 1776, trembling for the fate of Amer-
ica, which nothing but the infatuation
of the enemy could have saved; we
should not have remained all the suc-
ceeding winter at their mercy, with
sometimes scarcely a sufficient body
of men to mount the ordinary guarl.
We should not have been at Valley
Forge, destitute of everything, in a
situation neither to resist nor to re-
tire. We should not have seen the
country ravaged, our towns burned,
the inhabitants plundered, abused,
murdered, with impunity.
Army Expenses Doubled.
'The derangement of our finances is J
essentially to be ascribed to it. The |
expenses of the war and the emissions
of paper money have been greatly
multiplied by It. We have a great part
of the time had two sets of men to
feed and to pay—the discharged men
going home and the levies coming in.
"Our discipline has been much burt,
if not ruined, by such constant
changes. There is every reason to
believe that the war has been pro-
tracted on this account."
A little later Washington wrote re-
garding that defeat of General Gates
at Camden: "Regular troops alone ara
equal to the exigencies of modern war-
fare, as well for defense as offense,
and whorever a substitute is attempt-
ed it must prove Illusory and ruinous
"In my ideas of the true system of
war, the object ought to be to have a
good army rather than a large one."
During the entire war the lack of
money entailed greatest suffering upon
the army, but the men of the continen
tal army, with the exception of one
or two regiments, were true to the
end through hunger, cold, sickness
poverty at home, nakedness and de-
feat. For this fidelity there were three
reasons—patriotism, training ami
George Washington.
Martha Washington.
Washington himself was a man of
large property, and the wedding was
one of the most brilliant that had ever
been seen in a church in Virginia.
Bride and bridegroom were attired In
all the magnificence which the fash-
ions of that period made possible.
When sh9 was married to Washing-
ton, Mrs. Custis had two children sur-
viving of the four of which she had
been the mother. To these two chil-
j «I. * . | v f it* to H J /111 t, til IIU11111 ^. D W CUl"
dren. Washington, who had none of ened milk: stir in four eggs beaten.
SAVORY DISHES.
A simple omelet may be made more
nourishing by adding to it Just before
it is folded two or three
tablespoonftils of fried
corn. ^scalloped corn
may be used for this re-
cipe or any left-over
corn dish.
Mexican Chili Con Car-
ne.—Take a piece of suet
the size of a cup, chop
tine and try out; remove
the cracklings and while
hot add a pound of hamburger steak;
fry brown, breaking tho meat into bits
Strain one can of tomatoes into a ket-
tle and pour the meat into it. Add a
clove of garlic, or three large onions
chopped, add one tablespoonful of salt,
a half teaspoonful of paprika and a
tablespoonful of vinegar. Cook one
and a half hours, add a pint of water
and a can of kidney beans. Heat ten
minutes and serve hot with bread or
crackers.
Apple Bumosse.—Core and peel a
half dozen apples, steam them until
tender. Make a custard of the yolks
of three eggs, a pint of milk and sugar
to taste. Whip the whites of the eggs,
add a little lemon juice and pour over
the apples. Then pour the cold yellow
custard over all and serve at once.
This is a delicious dish if the custard
and apples are cold when served.
Cream Cheese Soup.—lioii an onion
for fifteen minutes in a pint of veal
stock, then strain it and return the
stock to the fire. Heat a pint of milk
to scalding and thicken with two ta-
blespoonfuls of flour rubbed into two
tablespoonfuls of butter. Season with
salt, pepper and celery salt and add
the veal stock. Stir in slowly the beat-
en yolks of two eggs and four tnble-
spoonfuls of grated cheese.
Cocoanut and Ginger Pudding.—
Crumble a pound of stale sponge cake
with a half pound of grated cocoanut.
Pour over this a pint of boiling, sweet
his own, was a devoted father. Later
in life these children died and Wash-
ington adopted two ot Mrs. Washing
ton's grandchildren.
Mrs. Washington's faith in the wis-
dom and firmness of her husband's
Butter a pudding dish and arrange
pieces of preserved ginger around the
sides. Pour in the pudding and steum
for one and a half hours. Serve with
ginger sirup for a sauce. The sirup
. should be warmed before pouring over
patriotic course preceding and during the pudding
the Revolution never failed. _
She had discovered the greatness ot
her husband long before the people
WHAT TO EAT.
Some of the common foods may be
transformed into real delicacies by
Just a little change ot
cooking or garnishing.
Boiled Rice.—Put rice
on to cook in boiling wa-
ter using a quart of salt-
ed water to a cupful of
rice; after twenty min-
utes add a tablespoonful
of butter and place the
dish on a ring or tripod, cover with a
cheese cloth and let cook without stir-
ring until each grain will be separate
and whole. Serve in n hot vegetable
dish, with broiled steak.
Cracker Pudding.—Roll a cupful of
crackers, ndd three tablespoonfuls of
sugar, a dash of salt and the yolks of
two eggs, and a pint of milk. Pour
into a baking dish and cook until firm.
Bent the whites of the eggs, add a
tablespoonful of powdered sugar, a
half teaspoonful each of cinnamon and
nutmeg Pile on top and brown lightly.
When fresh rhubarb is In the mar
ket a most delicious change in using
this zestful fruit Is to make it Into a
roly-poly. Roll out a rich thin pie
crust, then heap on a cupful of finely
cut rhubarb and a handful of raisins,
roll up and put into a deep granite
baking dish, cover with a cupful each
of boiling water and brown sugar, and
two tablespoonfuls of butter. Hake
one hour in a moderate oven.
When cooking onions with cheese
put a layer of cooked onions in a bak-
ing dish and over It a layer of rich
white sauce. When the dish has be-
come thoroughly hot In the oven,
sprinkle with cheese and buttered
crumbs. When the crumbs are brown,
serve the dish at once. Too long cook-
ing will toughen the cheese.
Strawberry Flummery.—To a pint
can of strawberries add two table-
spoonfuls of cornstarch and enough of
the Juice to rub smooth; cook until
thoroughly cooked, add a pinch of salt.
The berries should be put Into a sieve
and added to the Juice after It Is
thickened and cooked. Pour into a
dlsli and serve when cold with sweet-
ened whipped cream garnished with a
strawberry on top of each serving.
GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE.
This rice dish Is one not common
and which will be both appetizing and
^ ^ ittractlve:
Rice Salad.—To two
cupfuls of cold boiled
rice take one cupful of
finely diced, deep red
beets and a cupful of
SEASONABLE DISHES.
that were so signally to honor him During the cold weather heartier, I L^~
had found it out in all its splendid pro- richer dishes may be served, as one I Bte
Not a Bite of
Breakfast Until
You Drink Water
Says a glass of hot water and
phosphate prevents illness
and keeps us fit.
Just as coal, when It burns, leaves
behind a certain amount of incorn
bustlble material in the form of ashes,
so the food and drink taken day after
day leaves In the alimentary c&nal a
certain amount of indigestible mate-
rial. which If not completely eliminat-
ed from the system each day, becomes
food for the millions of bacteria which
infest the bowels. From this mass ot
left-over waste, toxins and ptomaine
like poisons are formed and sucked
Into the blood.
Men and women who can't get feel-
ing right must begin to take inside
baths Before eating breakfast each
morning drink a glass of real hot va
ter with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in It to wash out of the
thirty feot of bowels the previous day's
accumulation of poisons and toxins
and to keep the entire alimentary
canal clean, pure and fresh.
Those who are subject to sick head-
ache, colds, biliousness, constipation,
others who wake up with bad taste!
foul breath, backache, rheumatic stiff-
ness, or have a sour, gassy stomach
after meals, are urged to get a quarter
pound of limestone phosphate from
any druggist or storekeeper, 'and be-
gin practicing internal sanitation.
This will cost very little, but Is suffi-
cient to make anyone an enthusiast
on the subject.
Remember inside bathing is inorS
important than outside bathing, be-
cause 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.
Best Test.
"How was the show?"
"Great. You know it was a failure
In New York."
SAGE TEA DARKENS GRAY
HAIR TO ANY SHADE. TRY IT!
Keep Your Locks Youthful, Dark,
Glossy and Thick With Garden
Sage and Sulphur.
When you darken your hair with
Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can
tell, because it's done so naturally, so
evenly. Preparing this mixture,
though, at home is mussy and trouble-
some. For 60 cents you can buy at
any drug store tho ready-to-use tonic
called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy." You Just dampen a
sponge or soft brush with It and
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at a time. By morn-
ing all gray hair disappears, and, after
another application or two, your hair
chopped celery. Do not ] becomes beautifully darkened, glossy
portions.
During the war Washington visited
Mount Vernon only twice, but Mrs.
Washington was with him in New
York and Philadelphia and joined him
ia camp whenever it was possible.
In the years following their mar-
riage and previous to the Revolution
the Washingtons lived in Virginia
is supposed to be out in
the exhilarating air and
have a better appetite.
Bacon Canapes.—Cut
bread in circles of two
and a half inches In di-
ameter, saute in bacon
fat on both sides until
well browned, then drain
Sought Brotherhood of Man.
My first wish is to see the whole
world at peace, and the inhabitants
ot it as one band of brothers, striving
which should most contribute to the
happiness of mankind.—George Wash-
ington.
after the style of the English aristoc on brown paper to absorb the excess
racy, but throughout the war Mrs. of fat. Spread with creamed butter
Washington was wont to "set an ex-| mixed with a very little mustard.
Have ready short slices of very thin
bacon rolled and skewered with a
toothpick and fried crisp. Set one oil
each round of toast. Press Into the
space around the bacon, chopped
pimentos or stuffed olives.
Another most tasty canape is pre-
pared as above, (as to the bread),
then cooked bacon, chopped olives, a
dash of mustard with butter is spread
on each after being pounded with a
pestle; decorate with a slice of hard-
cooked egg
Corn Soup.—Scald five cupfuls of
milk with a stalk of celery and an
onion cut in halves. Remove the
onion and celery after 20 minutes and
add one and a half cupfuls of corn
pulp. Melt one-fourth of a cupful of
butter and when bubbling hot add the
same amount of flour, a half teaspoon-
ful ot pepper and a teaspoonful and
a halt of salt; add two cupfuls of well-
&3&CZE&
First Presidential Mansion, New York
ample of economy to the women of
the revolution" in her attire and mode
of living.
After independence had been won,
s'ie bore herself with great personal
dignity as befitted her station as the
Witt, of the first citizen.
Washington was approaching his
sixty-eighth year when he died. Mrs.
Washington accepted the separation
calmly, only observing that she would
soon Join him. She survived him two
years and a half.
That she could have at all times a
and luxuriant. You will also dis-
cover dandruff is gone and hair has
stopped falling.
Gray, faded hair, though no dis-
grace, Is a sign of old age, and as we
all desire a youthful and attractive ap-
pearance, get busy at once with Wy-
eth's Sage and Sulphur and look years
younger.—Adv.
mix until time for serv-
ing, then combine with
French dressing on
head lettuce leaves.
Potato Soup With Stock.—Pare and
slice six potatoes. In a frying pan
melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and
In it slowly saute the potatoes, one
sliced onion, and half a cupful of
celery. When they begin to look yel-
low add two cloves and a quart of The Practice of combing the long
chicken or veal broth. Salt and pep- j ,la'r over the bald spot never fooled
per to taste and Bimmer until soft. j ai|ybody.
Rub through a sieve and return to the u/uru
fire. Add moro broth If too thick. Beat "'■tN KILJl\J 11 S ACT BAD
together the yolks of two eggs, add TAKE GLASS OF SALTS
three tablespoonfuls of cream, Just as
It goes to the table. Garnish with Eat Less Meat If Kidneys Hurt or Yon
chopped parsley. Have Backache or Bladder Misery
English Beef Soup. — Take two —Meat Forms Uric Acid.
pounds and a half of lean beef, cut i
oft and lay aside a quarter of a pound i No man or woman who eats m**at
and puss the remainder through the regularly can make a mistake by flush-
meat chopper. Pour over it three pints 1 Ing the kidney^ occasionally, say* a
of cold water, let stand for half an well-known authority. Meat forms
hour, then heat to. the simmering uric acid which clogs the kidney potes
point; Simmer three hours, then strain, so they sluggishly filter or strain only
Boll separately until tender two table- ! part of the wa«te and poisons from
spoonfuls of fine barley and half a | the blood, then you get sick. Newly
cupful of diced carrot. Cut the re- ■ all rheumatism, headaches, liver t*ou
served meat in small pieces, add a ble, nervousness, constipation, dtzzl-
thinly sliced onion and fry In hot fut; , ness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders
add a cup of finely cut celery and a ] come from sluggish kidneys
cupful of boiling water, simmer for an
hour. Stir in two tablespoonfuls of
flour, mix with cold water, add gradu-
ally to the meat, stirring until smooth.
Bring to the boiling point, add tho
cooked carrot and barley and a half
The moment you feel a dull ache In
the kidneys or your back hurts, or If
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sedtment, irregular of passage or at-
tended by a sensation of scalding, get
about four ounces of Jad Salts from
seasoned chicken stock and stir until teaspoonful >f Worcestershire sane* I lour ounces '
boiling hot. then add the milk. Serve „r an.y. rella,)lB Pharmacy and take a
boiling hot, then add the milk. Serve
in soup plates with a few kernels of
freBhly-popperl corn on each.
Chopped ham with bread and sea
sonings makes a delicious stuffing tor
view of his grave on the lawn, she onions. Parboil the onions, remove
moved to an attic room that over the center, chop them and mix with
locked the Bpot, which she occupied the ham and seasonings, then pour I cold
and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer
ten minutes, then serve.
The secret of a dainty salad Is crisp
fresh vegetables, well chilled, and If
French drcBBing Is used that should
be mixed with all the ingredients very
around the onions, chicken Btock or I
butter and water or cream and bake !
until thoroughly tender.
GATHERED FACTS
until her own death. For the easier
coming and going of a favorite eat a
hole was cut near the bottom of the
door cf this apartment.
Before she died Mrs. Washington
destroyed her entire correspondence
with General Washington, "for she
would not permit that the confidence °ne f*Htornla company founl It-
they had shared together should be s<>lf wlth 1000 ,0"s of Peach 8eeds 011
made public." Its hands last year. They were cracked
The marriage of George Washington a1"' rm'a,s 8ent t° Germany,
and Martha Custis was an example of J";fe raade Pl^alc
the Ideal love match, and was followed ' I '' "" ' '
vcdlQ_
by forty years of genuine happiness.
Stick to Your Friends.
If you have a friend, stick to hlni
and always try to do blm good only.
add. The shells were sold for fuel
In one important Industrial town In
New Kngland, among the adult male
workers 16 In 100 get less than $.106
yearly, M in 100 get less than $450.
91 In 100 get less than $760, and only
3 in 100 get more than $750.
^r:^U.L°f..l?!n"t0 T.a,ChUp i tablespoonful in a glass of water be-
; fore breakfast for a few days and your
j kidneys wiil then act fine This fa
| mous salts 1b made from the acid of
grapes and leuion Juice, combined with
| llthia and has been used for genera
tions to flush clogged kidneys and
stimulate them to activity, also to neu-
tralize the acids in urine so it no
longer causes irritation, thus ending
bladder disorders.
' Jad 8alts is Inexpensive and cannot
MaJ. George W. Kvans, who has Injure; makes a delightful tffffff
been disbursing officer ot the depart cent llthia water drink which all reg
ment of the interior at Washington ular moat eaters should take now and
for more than 32 yearB, has paid out J then to keep the kidneys clean and
for I'ncle Sam approximately $400,- the blood pure, thereby avoiding se
000,000 without error or loss to tho
United States or to himself.
The rolling stock of the Italian state
railways at the close of the fiscal year
1912. included 4,971 Bteam locomo
tlves, BO electric locomotives, 10,037
passenger coaches, 92,927 freight curs,
3,371 baggage and postal carB and
2.93S work and repair cars.
rlouB kidney complications.—Adv.
When a man swallows his pride ■*
Is very apt to impair his digestion.
For calks use
Adv.
Hanford's Balsam.
A woman may have a poor memory,
but she never forget* a compliment.
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