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CHESTNUTS ARE AT HAND.

How to Buy Them and How Best to Keen
Them in Good Condition.
The rose has its thorns. Likewise 1t is with
everything in this world that Is agreeable.
Chestnuts are now just ripe. Unfortunately
they have worms Otherwise more people would
buy them.
1t is 30 discouraging to bite into one and to
come across little white grub, which is harm
less doubtless, but none the less unpleasant.
There is way to avoid this annoyance if one
only knows how. Chief Van Deman of the DO.
biological division of the Department of Agri-
culture gave some useful instructions on the
subject Yesterday to writer for The STAR
1.-The best way to buy chestnuts," said he, sis
to go to the countrymen who fetch their pro-
duce into Washington and get from them the
freshly gathered fruit Take the nuts home,
put; them in pail, and pour over them
ing water for fifteen minutes, take them out
and dry them. The great point is to render
them perfectly dry. If any moisture remains
in them they will rot. When
was boy used to have a
plan which 1 do not think can be easily inn
proved upon. l took the chestnuts out Of the
hot water and put them in a rough sack, such
as is used to hold grain. The sack was only
about one-quarter filed and let it lie on the
floor. Whenever it was convenient turned
the Dag over, and In this way the nuts became
after a while as thoroughly dried as was neces-
sary. You can easily adapt the process de-
scribe to your own use.
This method of treatment accomplishes two
purposes. In the first place it kills the little
eggs which would otherwise produce the
worms. Secondly. it prevents the meats of the
chestnuts from drying up and becoming hard,
they otherwise would do. When the nuts
are ripenmg along come beetles Of a certain
kind, which deposit inside the burrs their
eggs. These eggs are placed by the parent
insects at the point nearest The opening of
the burrs. namely, about the stems OF the ker-
nels themselves. When they are Matched the
grubs bore their way into the nuts and fatten
upon their nutritious contents. By scalding
you kill the germs and by drying the chest
nuts you prevent them from becoming moldy.
Virginia and Pennsylvania produce most of
the chestnuts which supply the markets of the
east. The crop obtained from those states is
of particularly fine quality ALSO the fruit
being exceptionally large. New England
chestnuts are smaller and redder. This
sort Of merchandise has always to be kept in a
cool place, lest it spoil. Owing to the reckless
destruction OF chestnut trees for lumber the
product of many districts which formerly pro-
duced largely has been greatly diminished of
late years"
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What's Going On in Politics.

The democratic campaign in Maryland was
opened at Woodstock, Howard county, Thurs
day. The gathering under the auspices Of
the democrats Of Carroll, Howard and Balti-
more counties. Gubernatorial Candidate
Frank Brown, Senator German and Messrs
NJ. DeK. Smith, John p. Poe and j. Frank Ford
made addresses.
The Cook county (nl republican convention
at Chicago on Thursday nominated Theodore
Brentan for judge Of the superior court, o. r..
Bright, superintendent OF schools; William
Boldenweck, jr, and b. A. Eckhart. drainage
trustees, and j. NJ. Green, president Of the
board of county commissioners.
The Massachusetts, democratic state commit
tee has sent another letter to Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge; challenging him to discuss with the
Hon. John Z. Russell the subjects of the atti-
tude Of the national democratic and republi-
can parties upon the silver question and the
Mckinley tariff bill.
The South Dakota democratic congressional
convention has nominated ]. NJ. Wood, o
wealthy cattleman OF Rapid C ity.
A democratic conference was called to order
on Thursday afternoon at Roanoke, Va, byJ. T..
Ellison, chairman Of the state committee. A
number of the members of the state central
committee and the superintendents of Nor
folk. Portsmouth, Norfolk county, Nansemond.
Isle Of Wight, Southampton. the Peninsula,
Northampton and Accomac were present
Reports were heard from the various counties,
which were In the main encouraging.
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A RACE BY TELEGRAPH.
Despair OF Pool Room Spectators WI
Backed Renzine

Despair Of Pool Room Spectators who
Backed BenzineA
From the New York World.
Observation-Disclosures
They're off at Latonia!'' the operator cries.
and the betters hearts stand still.
Which horse will it be?
A pool room in New York city IL the place
where this race is Ion tap" where by the aid
of the telegraph and an expressive ora,orical
shouter one can almost imagine himself at the
track. away down in Kentucky, many Hundreds
Of miles away.
Tc-tic-tic-t ic-tic-tic.
"They IRE all togetherI''
The silence is oppressive, yet all ear. arc
strained for fear some news will be missed
There goes the Morse again
Observation-Disclosures.
How ominous the sound and how anxious
zine IN the leadr' Tic-tic-tic. ..Belshazzar
secondF Tic-tic. Falmouth third"
low murmur of approval breaks the silence,
for Benzine is the fayorite. and OF course car
ries the most money.
With faces pale death and beating hearts
the spectators gaze anXiously at the name OF
their horse, as II they could see the race on the
blackboard. But listen,
iic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic. "Belshazzar at
the quarter" A curse, a groan. "Benzine
second! Falmouth third
crow goes up. scowls appear upon the
aa0es ot ane alssusted spectators, for II Ben
zine is beaten at the quarter where will he be
~ .i'e ias.LNnere, indeed!
,,. ~ ~ iaisSeiaheous crowd that awaits the
ou,come OF THIS race and mostly a seedy-look-
ira ny se'. winch goes 10 show that the 'booIies
s.as Hos' VI 'ne PIE. rev, however, mostly
professionals, sport silk and diamonds" as
'he saying goes.
, AS ar ILLUSTRATION OF what a big significance
THIS race means to some, here stands a young
man who has bet his entire weeks salary on
what VIII his landlady do? Where will his
iau ui woman come In! Worst OF all, what
Iiii uis eiti tnlhk when he fails to appear with
INC promised theater tickets!
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Clay would have made, think, an equally good
general with Jackson or Cesar. Clay had re-
markable physical courage. They tell a story
OF him in Lexington during his early
law practice there. He was tall,
gaunt young fellow of twenty-one
or twenty-five years Of age when he
imagined himself insulted by a man who was
ten or nfteen years older than he was and who
was very much stronger. Clay attempted to
nght the man and the man knocked him down.
Now, 1t was the custom in those days for the
under man, when he found he could not sue
ceed against his adversary, to cry "enough,"
and the man then got off him. Clay would not
cry enough" and the crowd. thinking he
would be killed, pulled the man off. No sooner
had Clay gotten to his feet than he went at the
man again. and he was again knocked down
and pounded. The man was pulled off and
Clay again attacked him, and finally, in order
to save Clay from being killed, his friends took
his opponent into a store and kept Clay on the
outside for fear he should fight himself to
death. Clay had number of duels and he had
good military mind.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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A LECTURE ON vICHY WATER
The Audience Was q Soda Fountain Boy and
He Fled I'm Terror

The Audience Was Soda Fountain Boy ana
He Fled In Terror.
From the New York Tribune
"Wotu it be, sirl" inquired the boy at the
soda fountain in Broadway drug store. M a
thin old man with gold spectacles and white
chin whiskers wandered up to the counter.
you may draw me a glass Of vichy. INV
son" said the old man. 81 presume" he con-
tinued, watching the operation placidly over
the top of his spectacles, that YOU have no
idea of the ingredients Of the beverages Won
compound2"
I'VE use the best fruit sirups," responded
the fountain operator, confidently, made from
the genuine article, and block-tin-liped foun-
tain. all AL"
"ies, yes" responded the venerable cus-
TONER, testify, but take this vichy. Do you
know Its atomic and elemental compositioni-
The drug department is at the back o. the
store, sir, said the clerk, apprehensively.
II perceive with sorrow, young man" con-
tinued the venerable customer in chin whisk-
ers. permitting his glass of vichy to stand
you do not improve the myriad Opportunities
to acquire information which lie about Won
Take this glass of vichy, my son. The term
mineral water is applied TO all springs differ
ing chemically from ordinary water. Such
waters have been used as remedial agents
from an early period. The old Greek
physicians erected their temples to Esculapius
close TO mineral springs and had recourse
to the sulphurous thermal springs of Tiberius
(now Tabareah), which are still used by the
Syrlans. Josephus mentions the warm baths of
Cailrrhoe near the Dead sea, and We are in
debted to the Romans for the discovery of the
principal springs Of Europe. Pliny mentions
most OF them, including, believe, vichy which
at that time was largely used for bathing as the
temperature Of the yichy springs varies from6s
degrees to liz degrees Fahrenheit
1t seems SO strange TO me, young man."
continued the aged customer, growing every
moment more yoluble and emphatic. while the
fountain boy listened half stupefied. .that Won
can have all these beautiful and instrucfive
facts about you and yet remain SO densely ig-
norant Why, take the soap which lies in the
case at your left Soap Is supposed to have
originated in France; it first became known
during the conquest of Gaul by the Romans
ana Is distinctly mentioned by Pliny. The
modern soap is formed by heating fixed fatty
bodies with an alkali, resulting in a process
called saponification, from which a transparent
homogeneous mass"
Hi. Finnegan," called the fountain bow
huskiiy to clerk at the rear of the store.
come and tend de fountain: I've Quit Tell
de boss / m sick" and. with glance of horror
at the voluble customer with spectacles and
chlp whiskers. he rushed into the street. over
turning the sponge rack in his flight.
Strange" commented the old man, picking
up his untasted vichy, II have ever found
huma nifty averse TO knowledge"
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at Washington. he was then very anxious to
be President and he showed me a paper he had
written in which he announced he was for the
Union. slave free. That killed him with
me and then decided l would have nothing
to do with his candidacy. He knew that
went against him, and he became my enemy
and we were enemies till the day of his
death. He was Secretary Of State while 1 was
in Russia and he heaped many petty insults
upon me. i first met Lincoln before he was
elected to Congress. 1t was during lecture
that gave at Springfield and Lincoln was sit
ting whiting in the back part of the crowd.
became well acquainted with him later on,
and when he was nominated l was leading can
didate for Vice President. but / did not go to
the convention nor make any effort to have my
friends nominate me, and Hamlin was chosen.
President Lincoln wrote me shortly after this
that he intended to appoint me Secretary Of
War. l had served in the Mexican war and
had some military training. l would have &C.
cepted the position, and / remained in Ken
lucky at my home here waiting for Lincoln to
fulfill his promise. At last one dayI received
a letter telling me had been made minister to
Spain i did not want the Spanish mission and
started at once to Washington to see about it.
HOW A RUSSIAN MINISTER WAS APPOINTED.
Il went to the White House as soon as l got
to Washington" continued Gen. Clay, land 1
found the President in the library. He received
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back to Kentucky and retire to private life
Lincoln. who had been rather reserved up to-
this time, here got up and put his hand on my
shoulder and said: 4 don't want you to go
home, Mr.. Clay. / want to do something for
you, but l am so hedged around here that
can't do just what 1 will. Isn't there some
place you will takeY Well said 1, you have
made up your cabinet. How about the mis-
sions to France and EnglandY President
Lincoln then said that these had been
promised to Adams and DAYTON, and
that he didn't see how he could.
let me have either of them. Well, said I;
that settles it. There is no other place want.
l will go back to Kentucky President Lin
coin again urged me not to go. He said, Stay
a few days, Mr.. Clay, and will see what can
be done This was in the morning. That
evening dined with Sanford, who had Just
been made minister to Belgium. While we
were at dinner the waiter came to me and told
me that Senator Baker Of Oregon wanted me
to step out into the hall for moment. had
known Baker very well in the Mexican war He
was noble fellow, i left the table and went
out. He said, The President has sent me to
see you. He has been considering your case
and he wants to do something to please you.
He wants to know if something else except
London or Paris will not be acceptable to you.
Why don't you take the Russian ministry?
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the election Of vestry as there were some
doubts as to the legality of the election of those
in service, to be held on Easter Monday, March
80. In the church on New Jersey avenue. This
resulted in the election Of Comm odore Tingey,
VIM. Prout, John Dempsie. G. Coombs, David
Slater, Butler Cooke, Peter Miller and Henry In
gle On. May Rev. Mr. Mccormick was elected rec
tor and the church being completed sufficiently
to hold service therein it was opened on
August 8. 1907. The name of Christ, not Christ 9
Church Gas the church on New Jersey avenue
had been called). was adopted. Square 1926 on
between 18th and 14th streets northeast, had
been purchased for q burial ground,
but proving too low for such
purpose itS use was abandoned,
and in March, 1903, square Ills, between E, G..
18th and 10Th streets southeast was purchased
for goo by the vestry in trust for the congre-
CATION and called Warrington parish burial
ground" According to the original rules mo
person Of color" nor one ''kuown to deny be-
lief in tho Christian religion" are allowed to be
inferred therein. In 1916 the vestry set apart
100 grave sites for members Of Congress and
subsequently 800 were added and the privilege
extended to heads of departments and their
families and families Of members.
st. JOINS PARISH SET OFT.
st. Johns parish was set OF from Warrington
parish in 1915, and in 1894 that parish sug-
gssted that The boundaries between The we b
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE BUSINESS OF TRAVEL: A Fifty Years
record OF Progress By w. FRASER RAE, au
thor of austrian Health Resorts" etc. Is41-
Leicester to LOughbOrough az miles): 1S9l-Al
over the Globe London: Thomas Cook 4 Son
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.: A Collection Of Pas
sages, Phrases and Proverbs, traced to theil
sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. BY
JOHN BARTLETT. Ninth Edition. Boston
Little, Brown Co. Washington: Brentano's.
AT ANCHOR and HONORED IN THE BREACH
Two Novels. BY JULIA MAGRUDER, author o.
ACROSS the Chasm, pa Magnificent Plebean,
etc. Philadelphia: j. b. Lippincott Co. Wash
ington: Brentanos.
THE BUSINESS OF LIFE. A Book for Every
one. By the author Of show to be Happy
though Married" etc, etc. New York: Charles
THE RAILWAY MAN AND HIS CHILDREN
BY Mrs OLIPHANT. author Of Agnes" "Lady
Jane" etc. New York: John ". Lowell Co
Washington: Brentano's.
PHILLIDA. By MAUD HOWE, author Of "a New
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New York. United States Book Co. Wash
ingt0n: BrentanoS
A GOLDEN DREAM. By GEORGE MANyILLI
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ITY, and POLIKUSHKA. By COUNT Leo
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IN TWO MOODS. BY srEPNAIk and WIN. WEST
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ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. By AMELIE RrvRs
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York John w. Lowell Co. Washington: Bren
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THE SABBATH IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND
BY ALICE MORSE EARLE. New York: Charlie,
Scribner's Sons. Washington: BrentanO's.
NEW YORK FOREST COMMISSION: Annual Re
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A FAMILY FAILING. By HAwLEY SMART, au
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MY LAND OF BEULAH. By Mrs. LEITH ADAMS
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A WOMAN IN THE CASE; or, DEBTOR TO TIL
DEVIL New York: j. S. Ogyie.
BEFORE HE WAS BORN; or The SCARLET Arm
By DR.. L. L. MACOMB BRISTOL
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IMPALED AND YET ALIVE.
Curious Story Of the Breast Bone Of . Bran
That Was Shot in Alaska.

Curious Story of the Breast Bone Of . Brant
That Was Shot in Alaska.
A VERY SURPRISING CURIOSITY HAS
"A been placed in the hands Of Prof. Otis T.
Mason at the National Museum. 1t is the breast
bone of wild brant transfxed by an arrow.
The bird, which weighed about fifteen pounds,
was shot in the Kankakee marshes, Indiana,
with gun and subsequently eaten, but the
part of its anatomy mentioned was preserved.
Once upon a time-it must have been some
years before, SO STAR reporter was told-this
particular brant was summering in Alaska, where
others OF its species gather every year for the
purpose Of mating. An Indian shot at the
bird with an arrow, which had for its point
piece of deer's rib seven inches long. His aim
was SO true that the weapon went clear through
the 'keer' Of the fowls breast bone and stuck
there, the shaft falling to the ground. 1t is in
this way that the natives Of those parts make
their arrows, in order that the shafts may not
be lost. The latter fall when the game is
struck and are picked up again.
Though transfxed in this fashion the brant
was too sturdy bird to yield its life so readily
no vital organ having been touched, and it
calmly flew away, doubtless to the disgust of the
hunter. After a while the wound healed and the
FOWL managed to get along very comfortably
with the deers rib through its breast. Years
aiterwaru IL was slain with more sure leaden
shot In Indiana, and now its breast bone has
been deposited at the National Museum by Mr..
W. w. Cheshire of this city. It's tragic history
Is known thus in detail because the arrow head
itself told it all. Each Indian tribe in Alaska
makes its weapons after pattern peculiar to
itself. and Prof. Mason has thus been enabled
to determine that the brant was struck with
the arrow on the Yukon river, and nowhere
else Furthermore, he knows positively at
what part of the Yukon the thing occurred and
he can even locate the spot with certainty
within two or three miles. 1t is an affair quite
unique that bird should be thus impaled and
vet carry the instrument of death 30 long and
In such manner. Besides, the story has ad-
ditional interest in the bearing it has upon the
study OF this birds migration.
The arrow head is stuck through the keel Of
the breast bone precisely at right angles with
the latter, projecting on either side about an
equal distance. To protect the birds flesh
against its irritation bony material has been
deposited around the weapon for half an inch
each way. The piece of deers rib was
Strengthened by the maker of the arrow with a
sort OF wrench in the process Of manufacture
after which it was shaved down and polished
to fine point Near the butt end Of it is a
single barb; for the instrument is Of the char
acter known as a ranking weapon-that is to
say, after entering the flesh Of the victim it
works Its way into the vitals, eventually caus-
ing death. An Indian thinks nothing of follow
ing deer thus wounded for many days, in the
expectation Of securing the prey finally.
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TO the right Of the halls are the parlors. Their
ceiling, like that Of the hail. at least twenty
feet high and they are luxuriously furnished
and have MANY beautiful paintings. To the left
OF the hall is the generals library. consisting
of two large rooms, and back of this
Is of the same generous dimensions
and my bed room had ceilings fifteen feet high
and 10 was. judge, twenty-five feet square
Shortly after was shown TO my room a plate
of the most luscious grapes was sent up. and
Gen Clay has, perhaps, the finest fruit in
Kentucky He is famed for his watermelons
and on the inside Of the hall near the door
noted at least a score Of great melons. some Of
which were four feet long and about eighteen
inches in diameter / found them as sweet as
they looked and Gen. Clay discussed the fruit
o. We ate them together. During our meals
We ate as . rule alone. for the general keeps
bachelors hall-he discussed gastronomy
and the laws Of health and told
me that he attributed his longevity
70 temperance in eating. and that he always got
up from the table hungry. He preferred vege-
tables 70 meats. and though the table was
loaded down with good things he took but lit
tie. He proudly said that everything on his
table, with the exception Of the pepper the
salt and the coffee, had been raised by him on
his farm, and that he felt happy in being indie
pendent
LINCOLN AND SEWARD.
One evening during my stay / asked Mr..
Clay who Was the greatest man he had ever
known He replied: II believe that Abraham
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CASSIUS NJ. CLAY.
A Visit to the Southern Abolitionist
in His Kentucky Home.
A CHAT ABOUT GREAT MEN
How the Modern Cincinnafus Lives on His
Fsrm-Stories of Lincoln and Seward-How
Clay Got the Russian Mission and How He
Gave Us Alaska
Special corrsspondence Of The Evening Star


RICHMOND, KY. Oct /. 1891.
WITHIN SIX MILES OF THIS TOWN, IN
w the richest of the famed blue grass region
Of Kentucky, lives one of the most interesting
characters in American history. Gen. Cassius
N. Clay, the first abolitionist Of the slave
holders Of the south, prominent candidate for
Vice President at the time that Hamlin was
nominated, our minister to Russia during the
administration Of Abraham Lincoln, and for
the past fifty years one Of the leading thinkers
Of the country. is today, at eighty-two, al
most a. strong intellectually and physically as
he was when he made his FIRST abolition speech
ss . student in Yale College nearly sixty
years ago. His fourscore years have not dimin-
ished his courage, and his arm is as ready to
strike in his own defense today as it has been
in the many deadly encounters of his past,
wherein in self-defense he has used the pistol
and the knife in the support Of his doctrines
and has fought to the death. There is no
Drawer man in the UpIted States than Cassius
NJ Clay, and doubt whether there is gen.
ter or more cultured one. i have spent sew
sral days with HIM on his estate, known as
White Hail. and have had hours OF chatty con-
versation with him about the great men he has
known and as to some OF the most stirring In
ndents of his eventful life.
GEN. CLAY AT WHITE HALL
Cassius NJ. Clay was perhaps the richest
}oung man in the south. His father had vast
tracts of land. and he left him Z, 200 acres Of