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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10

Take half a pound of -four, ten
ounces of sugar, three or four entire
eggs, and little vanilla Mix and
whisk the sugar and eggs, add the -four,
cut the paste into sticks six or seven
inches long, on slab. waxed and dust
ed with flour; bake in hot oven; when
done-twist them round little stick to
give them the spiral shape.-N. Y. Mes )
curry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
Exposing Potatoes to sunlight.

Potatoes that are kept for eating
should not lie long on the surface of
the ground exposed to the sun, for if
they are greened even slightly much
of the potato must be cut with the
peel or it will be bitter. The green of
potato is poison. Though the green
tops of potatoes will sometimes be
eaten by cows, they will give the Bit
ter taste to the milk that is some
times noticed in fall. Cows will not
eat enough of them, however, to do
themselves any injury. When the
green of sunburned potatoes is cut
away it carries with it the best part of
the potato, as there is in nearly every
thing more nutrition ON the outer
surface of vegetables than in those
less near to the sunlight. For seed
potatoes the greening by sunshine is
no disadvantage. 1t dries out the po-
tato and makes the eyes push out
stronger than they would if not so
dried.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
POVERTY AND WEALTH.

| oft take walk through the city,
Where things that are strange may be
seen,
And I'll tell you what l SOW in this ditty
In a few OF the places that I've been.
l go when the theaters are closing,
And thoughtfully stroll through the
street,
'Tis the time when the rich are carousing
And the homeless in misery you meet.
Let swell in his wine be insulting,
The police will in fear pass him by,
No danger from his acts resulting
If he gives them bribe on the sly.
But let Poverty sit on the doorstep
As an emblem of hunger and woe,
They will drag them like sheep to the
slaughter,
To the crime-haunted cell they must go.
Search the gilded saloons of the wealthy
And mark well their pomp and their
pride,
They will laugh if from hunger you're
dying,
And your poverty only deride.
Though their cash was derived from their
fathers
BY the sweat from the brow OF the
poor;
They will laugh if from hunger you're
dying
And hurl you with scorn from their
door.
Not week but bank now'fs closing,
And the earnings of labor are stole,
While the victims at home are loud curs-
ing
The flends who their savings control.
But let million be grasped from the
people,
IT'S accounted no sin in this town,
But steal when you're hungry dollar,
And then they will trample you down.
Chorus:
Let the working men all pull together,
In the fight between labor and cash,
And the dark day will change to fair
weather,
When Right over Might holds the
cash.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
HOW GUNPOWER Is MADE.
The Part that Eacn Ingredient In
the Explosive Plays.

Gunpowder has steadily develoved as
mechanical skill constructed better
and better weapons in which to use it,
until today it has reached a perfection
of manufacture for various purposes
which allows its effects to be foretold
i'll any weapon, even to the time it
takes a grain to burn and to the dis
tance it will drive a shot.
Roger Bacon's gunpowder was made
of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal.
Saltpeter Is chemically called inter
and is a natural product found bedded
in the earth in different parts of the
world, chiefly in India and China.
Sulphur, too, is found in a natural
state in many volcanic countries, like
Sicily, while, as is well known, char
coal is made from wood or woody sub
stances by heating them almost to a
burning heat in an alright vessel,
thus driving off everything in them
but carbon.
Saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal are
still the only ingredients of the gun
powder in common use, although a
new gunpowder made of different
materials is undergoing successful ex-
pertinent. A mixture of saltpeter and
charcoal alone would form an ex-
plosive, and sulphur is added chiefly
to make it plastic or capable of being
pressed into cakes and shapes. All
three ingredients have to be purified
by the most careful chemical skill be-
fore they are combined. Then an ex-
act proportion of each has to be
measured out according to the kind
of powder to be made.
For the gunpowder generally used
you would find in every 100 pounds, if
you could separate the ingredients, IS
pounds of saltpeter, Is pounds of char
coal and 10 pounds of sulphur, but it
would be almost impossible to separate
the ingredients, for they are not
merely mixed together as you might
mix pepper and salt, but they are
ground and rolled and stirred and
pressed together by special machines
until they are almost sufficiently
united to form a single new substance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

Nearly all the animals on a farm
are usually healthy when the weather
is dry and cold, but dampness is disa-
greeable to them the same as to the hui
man race. They are subject to coughs
colds, rheumatism, ETC., hence when
the weather is damp they should have
quarters that are dry and which do
not permit cold draughts to flow over
therh. Leaves or cut straw as bedding
will assist in absorbing the moisture
and also prevent loss OF warmth to a
certain extent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

$50 it does. And no man would
care to lend her books because she can
understand them without any explana-
ton. But don't you have Il good deal
of trouble?'
"Trouble? Why, | often wish that
| was the two-headed girl, or even
twins. You see, | don't care to
quarrel with Norah nowadays lest she
revenge herself by telling me the
wrong thing to say about some of the
books that i'll itself is trying, but it is
nothing compared to my other woes.
The other day l was expecting Ted
when Jack called. was in the parlor
and just had time to slip behind that
tall screen. There was mouse gnaw-
ing at the chair board just behind me,
and yet there had to stand motion
less while Norah hunted all over the
house for me. 1t took her fifteen
minutes, and | was momentarily ex-
pecting to hear Ted's ring-oh, you
need not laugh; l don't see anything
funny i'll"
"Of course not; I was only"
"Yes, but the worst time was last
Tuesday evening. Tuesday is one of
Ted's regular evenings to call, but Jack
had somehow gotten suspicious and
wrote me that he would fetch me up
book he had promised me that even
ing. / didn't know what to do, but
Ted came up i'll the afternoon to say
that his sister was in town and he
would be obliged to take her to the
theater."
"Well, you were in luck"
al should have been, but IL over
did my disappointment, and at the
last moment he got friend to act as
his sisters escort and came up to sur
prise me-"
"With the resultP"
"That had to go to bed with a sore
throat and deny myself to both of
them. All, l assure you, / have
managed very cleverly, and they are
and will remain in utter ignorance of
each others existence. wonder what
those girls who just got out were
at? Surely they-why, here
comes Nell"
"Why how are you both" cried the
girl with the huge hat. "I met Ted
Brownsmith's sister just getting off
and Jack limits cousin was with her.
/ suppose they came down town with
you. Why, Flora, what on earth is the
you look 80 queer9"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
AN ELECTRIC FARM.
EVERYTHING DONE By AGENCY
OF THE SUBTLE FLUID.
PlOwing, RaktHg, Harvesting and
Reaping all Done by the Invisi-
BILE Power - Radishes Seventeen
Inches Long and Cabbages Two
Feet Across Some of the Wonder.
ful Results.
Christian Work.

|
The idea of farming by electricity
may seem altogether visionary, and
yet such an extravagant project is ac-
tually in process of realization. An
actual electric farm is now success
fully conducted ON the coast of New
Jersey some fifty miles or so south Of
New York city. 1t is owned and con-
Quoted by Thomas Fleming, who is
conversant by practical experience
with gardening and electricity. Mr..
Flemn1ing got his first inspiration
from the more limited experience of a
Mr.. Rawson, market gardener in
Arlington, Mass. His farm embraces
tract of 100 acres, and the whole
space is Systematically laid with un-
derground wires while powerful arc
lights are placed at short distances
throughout. In addition, every imple-
ment used in the culture of the plants
and vegetables is electrical. Plows
are thus run capable of cutting six
burrows at time each, and the rakes,
harrows, moving machines, reapers,
etc, are all similarly driven. A small
plow with an automatic planter at
tached turns the light furrow and
drops the seed at regular intervals,
and the growing plants are cultivated
by these plows, the weeds being cleo
trocuted by strong currents.
There is not horse nor any other
domestic animal on the farm. Mr..
Flemming inspects his work upon
bicycle or a small motor carriage.
Narrow roads are cut across the space,
large enough to pass these vehicles,
while the heavy motor wagons have
very broad tires to prevent sinking in
the soil. Only about one-half the
usual quantity of fertilizers is required,
and this is also quickly and evenly
spread by these electric wagons.
The results of this dual stimulus
are surprising. Radishes seventeen
inches long and five and one-half in
diameter; cabbages two feet across
lettuce two feet tall and two feet
across the head; egg plants weighing
six pounds apiece; heads of wheat and
corn much larger than any ever raised
in the west. And all this in half the
ordinary time. Flowers in the green
house are strongly affected. The col
ors of tulips were made deeper and
richer for few days, but soon lost
their brilliancy upon exposure to sun
light. The color of dark red, and blue
and pink flowers soon returned to q
uniform grayish white. By reducing
the power and covering the light with
opalescent globes, the injury was
greatly lessened. To-day roses, carna-
tions, chrysanthemums and pansies
are raised, of abnormal dimensions
double the size of the finest products
OF the florist, and are far richer in
color.
This is the story told by eastern
farm journals, which are sure that the
electric farm has come to stay.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

This mixing process is called tritu-
ration and the powder is thus made
into the form of big fiat cakes, called
press cakes, and then broken up and
screened into grains Of special sizes, or
ground to the fine powder used for
shotguns and revolvers. The large
grained powders are still further
stirred together until the grains be-
come highly glazed, and these are
called cannon powders. A lighted
match may be held to a grain of cam
non powder and it will he found al
most impossible to set it on fire, but
once ignited it flashes off very sud
denly and violently.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
IT IS "NATURE.'
The Woes. OF tho Girl With Two
Admirers.

AQm1rer0s
"You dear thing, haven't seen
you for an age," cried the girl in the
velvet jacket, as she dropped into a
seat in the car. "But what have you
been doing2 You look quite pale"
"trying to keep two young men
unconscious of each others existence"
replied the girl in the short cape.
" You see, / like them equally; they
are both lovely to me, and the only
fault either of them has is jealousy"
"Oh, pshaw!" said the girl in the
velvet, the man who is not jealous is
SO much in love with himself that he
has no affection left for anybody else. "
"Well, perhaps so. Now, Ted
Brownsmith, that is one of them, likes
to see me wear blue, while Jack-you
know Jack limit, don't you?-always
wants me to wear pink. l try to
please them both, but it requires a
varied wardrobe, and that does not
please pa. Then Ted admires the new
woman, and likes to talk politics, while
Jack wants to see me do fancy work
and would be shocked if he thought
knew a ballot from IA corkscrew.
They both bring me books to read.
Ted's are on political enconomy and
Jacks are chiefly poetry. The worst
OF it is that haven't time to read the
half of them, and don't know what
I'd do but for Norah; She"
81 know; girl whose dearest friend
could not call her anything but
scrawny has no choice, she must be
intellectual"
"Yes. Well, she reads them all
and tells me what is in them. She
says it saves her the cost of SUBJ
scription to some library"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
WILL BE GOVERNOR.
LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR
Election APPOINTMENTS.
The Scope of the ding
COmmitteeso only Advisory for
state AppOin Selections
will be Made til the Legislature
EnnVaces

ED. MORNING UNION: The sOllow-
ing in large type has been sent me, the
'Nr..er stating that it was taken from
the Spokane Repiew:
OLYMPIA, Eov. 2O-Governorelect Rogers has
decided that in making his appointments he
will abide by the decision oJ the Peoples Party
recommending committees of the different
counties, the committees to consist of three rep
resentatives from each of the three parties to
the fus on. The Governor will only be called
upon to decide i'll case committees fail TO agree
upon candidates..
am ut loss to know where the
writer of this obtained his authority
for these very positive statements. !
did see something like this in the Ore
gOnidn, but supposed that no Peoples
Party man, or paper, would for mo-
ment credit anything relating to our
party emanating from that source
However it seems | have been mista-
ken.
The findings of committee as is
here spoken of would be useful in
showing that the applicant had reason
ably good standing in his own county,
and yet in spite of this he might be en-
tirely unfit for the Office he seeks and
only gifted with good rustling" quail
tiles. The otlice-seekers and newspa-
pers, together, seem determined to
carve out policy for the new State
administration. This may be very
natural, but it certainly is very unwise,
for in this way these people are confus-
ing one another in an entirely unnec-
essary way.
No appointments have been made
and none will be until after the meet
ing of the State legislature. Then
plenty of time will be taken in each
case in order that good men may bc
obtained for the positions to be filled.
The legislature will be asked to alb
bolish quite a number of the "fat
jobs" which have attracted the atten-
tion of the people throughout the
State, and as it is yet uncertain what
action will be taken in these matters
by the legislature the position to be
filled and the selection of the men to
fill them must be left for another
time.
One sad thing in all this demand for
price is this: Not more than one in
a hundred of the applicants for good
positions can be gratifed; ninety nine
must be disappointed. Good men are
in some instances, quite long
journeys which they can i'll afford,
hoping to obtain assurance of employ
ment. 1t is very sad, for all, without
must be disappointed.
Nothing in this line can be settled be-
fore the middle of January next.
JOHN r. Ro GERS.
Puyallup, November q, 1896.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
MARK HANNA'S BANQUET.

On the night of the national election
there assembled in Mark Hanna's
room in New York City to receive the
returns and finally to rejoice, eat
drink and be merry with Mr.. Hanna, a
most remarkable gathering of finan-
cially great men in the United States.
These gentlemen were twenty-fOur in
number, and their aggregate wealth
equalcd $25S,O0O,OOO. The names OF
these, gentlemen were:
j. Pierpont Morgan, bond promoter
and banker, worth $100,0O0,OOO.
Coils P. Huntington, railway pro-
moter, worth $40,OO0,OOO.
Andrew Carnegie, manufacturer of
iron and steel, worth $40,OOO,O0O.
George Bliss, lawyer, politician and
one of the most prominent leaders of
the Catholic church in New York City,
worth $5,OOO,OO0.
Isadore Wormser, leading banker,
$5,OOO,OOO.
]. Edward Simmons, President
Fourth National Bank, worth $2,OO0,-
600.
Augustus D. Juilliard, great dry
goods merchant, worth $5,OOO,OOO.
Charles Stewart Smith, banker and
political reformer, worth $3,OOO,OOO.
Cornelius N. Bliss, great dry goods
merchant, worth $lO,OOO,OOO.
Darius Ogden Mills, railway pro-
moter, worth $5,OOO,OOO.
c.. Shayne, importer, of furs, worth
100000.
NJ. c. D. Borden, leading importer,
$1O,OOO,OOO.
H. w. Cannon, President Chase Ma
tional Bank, worth $3,OOO,OOO.
William L. Strong, dry goods
merchant, worth $15,OOO,OOO.
r. T. Wilson, banker and father-in-
law of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., worth
$5,OOO,OO0; and nine other gentlemen
whose wealth ran individually from
100000 to $S,OOO,OOO.
And these are the gentlemen who
were first to extend "the glad hand"
to William McKinley's manager over
the outcome of the political contest !!
Among the names enumerated above
are some of the most desperate swind-
lers this country ever knew. Morgan
was the head of a syndicate that
beat the government out of ten mil
lions of dollars in single bond issue
all of which the taxpayers will have to
stand.
According to Gov. Patterson of Penn
sylvania, who was member of a
commission of investigation, Coils P.
Huntington and Darius Ogden Mills
were two of party of five who robbed
the government of the United States
of $24S, 100000. And more than one
half of the balance are men who have
become rich through the profits ob.
tanned by trusts, or monopolies which
have been created under the high tariff
policy of the Republican party in the
last twenty-five years.
What spectacle for an oppressed
and over-burdened people! How pros.
perity must come to the masses in the
United States under the "liberal
hands" of such magnificent "philan'
thropists" as are enumerated above!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

raphcr, $25; fireman, $50; clerk, $2,-
600; stenographer, 5000; reporter, $3,-
600.
Fish OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
$1,000; three deputies, at $3.50.
Eastern Washington Hospital for
lnsane-Superintendent, SlS3.33 per
month; assistant. 1925; steward, 500;
warden, $54.16; matron, $5416; engi-
neer, $S3;33; cook, $40; baker, $50
assistant engineers, $50 each; laundry
man, $50; carpenter, $50; assistant
cook, $40; farmer, $45; gardener, $40
two tiremen, $40 each; attendant, $40;
hoStlcr, $33.33; scamstrcss, $40; two
mattresses, 500 each; two laundrcsscs,
$25; 90 attendants, $3.50 each, aver
age.
State Observation-Disclosures, $50;
deputy, 800; clerk, 800; physician,
$75; steward, 1888; engineer, 1925;
warden's clerk, $50; three turnkeys,
one $6G.G6, two $5j each; three watch
men, one $50, two $50 each; gate
keeper, $i5; night gatekeepcr, $55;
storekeeper, $50; fifteen guards, $40
and $50; labor overseer, $55; superin-
tendent brickyard, $65; superintend-
ent jute mill warehouse, $50; night
watchman, $55; two overseers, $75
each; superintendent jute mill, 500.
The following boards and commits
sions receive per diem and expenses,
except where otherwise stated, and are
appointed by the Governor:
Trustees Soldiers Home, five men,
bers; State Fair Commissian, five menu
bers; Trustees Reform School, three
members; Board of Medical Exami-
ners, five members, fees; State Board
of Pharmacy, five members, fees; Trus-
tees Ellensburg State Normal School,
three members; Pilot Commissioners
for Columbia river, three members
State Board of Horticulture, seven
members, Secretary $40; Board of
Dental Examiners, FIVE members;
Board Health Collection District, Pu.
get Sound, three members, nothing;
Trustees School for Defective Youth,
five members; Bureau of Vital Statis-
tics, five members, Secretary 81 200
per annum; Trustees Normal School
at Cheney, three members; Directors
of Penitentiary. three members Board
of Education, four members; Regents
Agricultural College, six members;
Western Washington Hospital for In
sane, three members; Eastern Wash
ington Hospital for Insane, three
members; Capitol Commission, three
members, Governor and Auditor of
State ex-Officio additional; Regents
State University, eight members, re-
ceiving nothing; Board State Land
Commissioners, two appointed, $1,000
per annum; Land Commissioner, ex-
officio member; Lumber and Shingle
Weavers, two, fees; Pilot Commits
sioners, Straits of Fuca and Sound,
three members, receiving nothing;
Coal Mine Inspectors, two members;
ST SEQ each; Trustees Whatcom State
Normal School, three members; State
Road Commission, three members;
seven Lumber Inspectors, receiving
fees; the Game Warden receives moth
ing; Port Warden, fees; State Land
Cruiser, $1,000 per annum; Dairy
Commissioner, $1,000 per annum;
State Geologist, receives nothing;
State Grain Commission, $50 for each
not to exceed four meetings
per year; Chief Grain Inspector, ST.
500 per amnum; three deputies, ST.
200; one clerk, ST 600; Commissioner
of Arid Lands, $4,000 per annum.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

The city council of Tacoma has
fixed the amount of the tax levy for
next year at IL mills, divided as fol-
lows: Interest, 5.35 mills; salaries,
4.1O mills; general expense, l mill.
Receipts from the light and water
plant and from fines and licenses will
add materially to the sum raised by
the levy, which is the same as last
year. The levy is expected to net
$4,000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
FEDERAL PIE COUNTER.

While the Republicans of Washing
ton have lost the State patronage they
have gained much more in the Federal
patronage for this State. The only
trouble will be that the division of the
offices is likely to be on different lines
than the distribution of the State
patronage, and some who are now
holding comfortable jobs will be left
out in the cold.
Following are the Federal offices in
Washington, and the salaries thereof
that may be filled by the incoming re-
publican national administration
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

RUMoRs of the diphtheria epidemic
at Ellensburg still continue. The
schools are yet closed with the excep-
tion of the normal, and new cases are
reported daily. The fever seems to be
at the highest pitch near Roslyn.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
WHOLE NUMBER 1916.

Washington. OF these 80 are presi-
Dental offices. Included in them are
the Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane Of
fees, paying respectively SO 800, 200
and $1,000 per annum.
In the custom service many of the
employees have been placed under the
civil service.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
Last week, at Colfax, fire was dis

Last week, at Colfax, a fire was dis
covered in rickety house across the
river, west of Leppitt's store. The
house was the property of the city, be-
ing condemned and seized by the city,
ON the grounds of being built in a
street. The fire, having good head
way, and being hard to get at, the
building was entirely destroyed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04

This IL Your Opportunity.
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
q generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon.
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren St., New York City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I
can emphasize his statement, 1T is posi-
tive cure for catarrh if used as directed" -
Rev. Francis w. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
- Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price. so cents.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-04
Business (ar'ls.
You win De Satisfied 49,.

BY giving us just one trial, that 10
better Is cent meal can be had in
the State of Washington than is
served at {.