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Evening star., 1899-03-17
RENovATING TT. MYER nuILnI.as.
Being Put in Condition to Receive
Troops Again.

The army post at Fort Myer, Va, which
has been almost deserted since the out
break of the Spanish war. is being put in
condition for the reception of troops. Capt.
Jackson, recently stationed at Burlington
Vt, has come here for the purpose of sup
eiintending the remodeling of the barracks
and other buildings. These buildings. in
Guiding the riding hall, were used during
the war as hospitals, and at one time con-
tanned about 100 military patients. There
are now only about twenty patients there
and the demand for the buildings for hos
pital purposes has practically ceased. 1t is
not yet settled what troops are to be sta
TONED there but there is no doubt that the
post will shortly be restored to it's original
military basis.
Evening star., 1899-03-17
One of the Immunes Murdered.

Col. Ray, commanding the troops at
Guantanamo, tslegraphed the adjutant
general today that Private Robt. T. Tanks
ley, Company H. Sd United States Volun-
taers, died at Santa Rosa yesterday from a
gurshot wound. Col. Ray says the soldier
was murdered but gives no particulars.
Evening star., 1899-03-17
Death of Mrs, Clark.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
GLENCARLYN, Va. March 49, 1899.
Mrs Ida Jane Clark, wife of Henry Clark
of Glencarlyn, died about / o'clock this
afternoon at her residence In the Grove"
The deceased was in her thirty-eighth year.
Funeral services will be held at Bailey's
Cross Roads Episcopal Church tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock and interment will
be made at the Oak Wood cemetery, Falls
Church.
Evening star., 1899-03-17

Canada needs only 237 900 square miles to
be as large as the whole continent Of Eu-
rope; IL Is nearly thirty times al large as
Great Britain and ireland, and Is 100000
square miles larger than the United States.
Evening star., 1899-03-17

charge of housebreaking. He waived an
examination, and the case was sent TO the
grand jury. The court fixed the bond at
$1,000 in default of which he was COM
mitted to iafl.
Evening star., 1899-03-17

morning on a charge of robbing w. H.
Raubs store on New Hampshire avenue, as
published in yesterdays Star, was ar
raignsd before Judge Scott today on a
Evening star., 1899-03-17

$4,000 Worth of Furniture at
about half price at the Olsen sale at Lans-
burgh Furniture Co, l226 F 1T. n.w.-Advt.
Evening star., 1899-03-17
To Await Grand Jury,s Action.

Rody O'Meara. the alleged burglar who
was locked up by Sergt. Bryan yesterday
Evening star., 1899-03-17

All persons afflicted with Dyspepsia. DIarrhoea.
Collie and all kinda OF indigestion viii find imne-
date relief and sure cure by using ANGOSrURA
BITTT1fS. The only genuine is manufactured by
Or. J. G. b. SIegert 4 Soma.
Evening star., 1899-03-17

W. B. MOSES & SONS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
New York tuberculosis.

The tuberculosis committee of the
New York board of health recently
held public slaughter" of condemn
ed animals near Syracuse that farmers
and others interested might be given
an opportunity to learn something of
tuberculosis. The animals were an
emaciated, sickly looking lot, and had
responded to tuberculin. ABOUT 200
people were present during the slaugh-
ter. Several farmers were heard to re.
mark that the whole affair was fake
and scheme to edo" the farmers.
When these men were shown the dis
eased portions of the animal they
changed their minds and became salts
fed that there is such disease. The
only satisfactory thing about the test
was the fact that all the animals
slaughtered were such advanced cases
as a competent veterinarian would
have condemned on physical examina-
ton. 1t would have been better had
there been mixed with the lot some
animals of good exterior appearance
which tuberculin had condemned, also
some emaciated animals which did not
respond to tuberculin.
The Country Gentleman in comment.
ing on this exhibition says that if "pub-
lie slaughters" could be held in various
sections OF the state, and the farmers
induced to attend, more could be done
in the way of educating them about tu-
berculosis than would be accomplished
by the distribution of tons of literature 4;
we rarely forget things that impress
us through the eye. This plan was
tried years ago on limited scale in
Massachusetts, and proved very effica-
cious. If there had been more of it
the result would have been beneficial,
and saved lots of subsequent trouble
and understanding.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
Live Stock Market.

BEEF CATTLE.-The market at Water
town was a little stronger in tone than last
week The demand was better and the
supply of desirable stock lighter. while
prices in the west were trmer, Western
cattle fetched 81 to &c !. W., and best north
ern 5ac. For inferior grades prices ranged
al the way down to 2lc.
Prices of market beef: A few choice, 81 90
to 500; extra, So 90 to 675; first quality,
$500 to $40; second quality, $500 to 4 70 ;
third quality, So to $40.
Prices OF store cattle: Farrow cows S12 to
%; fancy cows $50 to Go; mich cows and
calves, $50 to AS; yearlngs, $40 to 20; two
year-olds, S22 TO 40; western fat swine, live,
AZ 10 4sc; northern dressed hogs, 81 TO &c
per ID.
SHEEP AND LAMBS -TAe demand was
quite equal to the absorption Of the supply,
and the market was steady to in conse-
quence.
We quote: in lots, 81 so to 800 each; ex-
ira, SO 80 to 8 So or from p TO 5Ac per ID;
lambs, to 7ac; veal calves 81 to &c.
Mich Cows.-A moderate business was
done az the range Of price which has pre-
vailed for some time. For really fancy
stock $50 was inside.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
CLEAR RIGHT OF WAY.
There was Nothing to Interfere n
He Chose to Go in and
Win wife.

When first came into the mountains
of West pirgania to look afterthe coal
interests of an eastern company,
boarded at little tavern In the county
town presided over by good-looking
woman of 40, who, as l had understood,
was u widow. She was keener-witted
and more entertaining than the average
mountain woman, and | rather enjoyed
talking to her. One evening, after had
been her guest about three weeks, l
found myself alone with her on the
porch of the house, and we chatted
along very pleasantly about men and
women and life generally.
"Ain't you married2" she asked, in
response to something l had said lead
ing up to such a question.
"Oh, no." laughed. "I'm an unhap-
Ply old bachelor"
"Well, you oughter be ashamed nv
yerself," she said, with spirit.
81 am" | assented. But how is q
man to be otherwise when the women
won't do their Lhare?"
But they will, eff they ever git the
chance" she contended.
ITS easy enough for you to say
that" said, because you felt that way
toward your husband when he asked
you"
"My husbandi" she almost shouted.
II hain't got no husband, nor never did
have"
"Why-why," stammered, II under.
stood you were a widow"
swell, | amt"
do you mean to tell me that as good
looking a woman as you are is an old
maid YETI"
She hesitated a moment before an.
swering.
"In course | am" she said, and hel
voice softened, but l hain't no objec-
tions to bein' married woman"
Goodness knows how | got out of II
and still remained star boarder;
but | did, and | didn't sit out on that
porch In the evening any more, either
Washington Star.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
HE LEFT HIM THERE.
Pat Tn ought He Had Thrown the Bull
Over the Fence and He Wouldn't
Bring Him Back.

81 never hear the ancient saw about
taking the buH by the horns,'" began
Buggins, briskly, as the conversation in
his corner of the clubroom began to
lag, "but what 1 am reminded of q
characteristic story about an Irishman
(the Irish are partial to bulls, you
know who rashly attempted to per-
form the feat in question-not figura-
lively, but literally-with the result
that the bull, resenting such familiar
ity, charged on his tormentor, and by a
simple toss of his head suddenly depos-
tied Patrick, or whatever his name was,
on the opposite side of sixfoot fence
some dozen or fifteen feet away.
"The Emerald-Islander was consid-
erably shaken up and bewildered by
his unexpected journey through the
air and the abrupt manner in which he
had brought up on his back in the adj
joining field, and several minutes
elapsed before he had recovered his
senses sufficiently to get up and inquire
into the affair. When he had finally
crawled painfully to his feet the first
thing that dawned on his dazed vision
was the still enraged bovine on the
other side of the high rail fence, below
ing and paving up the landscape.
ut took the puzzled son of the old
sod some time to figure out just what
had happened, but after several min
utes of hard cogitation, accompanied by
vigorous scratching of the head, he
finally solved the mystery, or thought
he did, and with true Celtic philosophy
he announced:
"'Be jabere, the bull is on t'other side
of the fence all right, an OF must've
t'rowed him there before OF become in
sinsible. But it give me a moighty
har-rd twist of it ter git him over, so it
did; an now, by the powers, the ugly
divil kin stay there till doomsday be-
fore O'll climb over an t'row him
back
"And well satisfied with his exploit,
Pat limped away."-Will S. Gidley, in
Woman's Home Companion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
Sweet Spiced Pickles.

To make sweet cucumber pickles the
small, young ones are best. Pour over
them strong, boiling hot brine and
leave until cold, heat it again and pour
over, and when cold throw them into
cold water, wash thoroughly and wipe
dry. Pack them into stone jar; make
a syrup of a quart of vinegar and four
pounds of sugar; put little cinnamon,
cloves and allspice in little cloths, tie
them up and throw them in. Boil all
together and pour while hot over the
cucumbers; let this stand till next day,
then pour it off, boil again and pour
over them. 1t may be done a third
time if the syrup seems thin. Two or
three little red peppers may be put in
the top of the jars.
To spice watermelon rind, pare off
the green skin and all the pink inside,
cut in strips, weigh, and lay in sailed
water over night. The next day make
syrup of pound and quarter of
sugar and two cups of water to each
pound of rind. Boil until free from
scum; put in the rind and simmer
gently until tender, then take out the
rind and spread on dishes in the sun to
dry. Simmer the syrup half an hour
longer with strip OF ginger root and a
sliced lemon to every pound of rind.
Pour over the rnd and let it stand
over night. The next day boil until
thick and seal in jars. The lemon
must have the thin yellow rind pared
off and added to the syrup, the thick
white part cut off and thrown away,
and the lemon thinly sliced in the syr-
up after the seeds are moved.-Farm
Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
AGRICULTURAL.
A Beef Tongue,

Beef tongue, rosy-meated, richly
glazed, highly seasoned, sliced thin and
served cold for the Sunday night sup
per. is a tender and delicious dish that
will find as hearty appreciation to-day
as half century ago, when 1t occu-
pied prominent place at every table,
says the Boston Courier'S culinary wri-
ter. Carlessly cooked, however, on
the "hit-or-miss" plan of the average
incompetent kitchen incumbent, 1t
energies either tasteless, insipid mass
of shreds and patches or an equally
tasteless but feathery compound that
brings its whole family into disrepute.
A tongue is not rich piece of meat,
per sc, and it requires longer and
slower cooking than any other piece of
meat of its size. Beef tongues are
most generally used, both the fresh
and the smoke cured. Fresh tongues
require to be praised in rich stock
with abundance of favoring herbs
and vegetables to redeem them from
utter insipidity. Boiled and served in
jelly, as frequently recommended, it is
apt to be a disappointment TO the
amateur cook. In purchasing tongue,
select the one with the smoothest skin,
as it will prove younger and tenderer
piece of meat than the rougher, harsher
ones.
The tongue should be firm and thick
with thick bunch of fat on the upper
side. Wash well, trim off any surplus
fat, draw the tip of the tongue around
to meet the roots and tie or skewer it
in place. If smoked tongue is used
and the smoked is the more savory-
soak over night in clear, cold water.
In the morning put into kettle with
boiling sailed water or well seasoned
stock enough to cover. Add a small
red pepper, few savory herbs, piece
of onion and few bits of celery, pars-
ley or any other soup vegetables on
hand. If the water boils away, add
more, 80 as to keep the tongue covered
until nearly done. Skim well when it
first comes to boil; then simmer
slowly until the tongue can be readily
pierced with fork. 1t is well to let
the tongue cool in the liquid in which
it is cooked, peeling only when 1t is
wanted When serving the tongue
whole it should be glazed and trimmed
with sprigs of parsley. When sliced,
arrange in circle around the platter,
the slices overlapping each other. Phi,
water crosses in the center, trim the
edge with the white leaves of celery or
lettuce. Skim the stock in which the
tongue was boiled, strain and use for
Oun
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
Raspberry Cream.

Cover half box of gelatin with cold
water, and let soak half an hour; then
stand over boiling water until dis
solved. Mix pint of red raspberry
juice with half cup of sugar, strain
into tin pan, add the gelatin, set on
ice and stir until it begins to thicken;
add pint of whipped cream, mix care
fully, and set on ice to harden. Serve
with thick cream and white cake.
Strawberry cream may be made in the
same way, using a quart of juice and
cupful of sugar.-Housewife.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
An Avalanche of Hail.

One of the most violent hailstorms of
which we have any record burst over
Madrid on June 8 toward six o'clock in
the evening, lasting for 20 minutes.
Trees were stripped Of their foliage,
window panes were broken by thou
sands, and outhouses were demolished.
The hailstones which fell are said to
have been as large as nuts. On one of
the principal avenues-Paseo de la Cas-
tellana-ths hail descended In an ava
lanche, and in melting formed perfect
river.--N. Y. Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06

Watts-Why should a fellow bother
himself about getting lot Of money
and honors, when he is on earth only a
few short years?
Potts-That is the main reason he
wants to get all he can.-Indianapolis
Journal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
HOw's This 7

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by HALLS Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, O,
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years,
and believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions and fnan-
cially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Drug
gists. Toledo. Ohio.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Whoesa D-ug j. Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system .
Price, seventy-five cents per bottle
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
RETAIL DEALERS PRIcEs.
Boston Produce Market.

TS-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained py receivers Tor xAoesas los mot ,oo6ing
priee,J uniess otnerw so indicated. intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
Hone.

There is no hope for any young man
who rs willingto unlearn what he thinks
he knows.-Chicago Daily News
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06

Quickly cure constipation and rebuild and
invigorate the entire system-never grippe
or nauseate-DeWitt's Little Early Risers
W. r. TKRRILL & Co.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06

DEWITT > WuCn Hazel SaiVe
Cures Piles. ScaIds. Burns.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06

Get your Job Printing done at the WATCH
MAN Office.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-25

Cook county has a tree ALMOST with
In the limits of Chicago that Is trying
ia a modest way to keep pace with the
city in growth. 1t rears its majestic
height in a field on the farm of Charles
Kotz, two miles and a half west of
Crosse Point.
1t is the biggest known tree in the
United States. the great seQuoias Of
California alone being excepted. Three
feet from the ground its girth is Il
feet. The diameter Is l3 feet 6 inches.
The height is 1870 feet.
Yet this marvel. which hundreds OF
years ago may have been worshipped
by a savage race, has gone on year by
year producing its foliage ana in the
order or nature casting it off, all I'M
noticed by Chicago About its only ad-
mirer has been the 0WRrr. Charles
Kotz. He guards it as jealDHsiy as be
does his own children.
Aside from the great height and girth
Of the trunk is remarkable hollow
or room at its foot This hOllow is 26
feet in circumference, S15 feet in diam
eter and 20 feet in height natural
doorway feet high and ! feet wide at
the Droadest part. horse and its
rider eap easily pass through to the
interior. Three horses can easily he
sheltered inside the RammOtb trunk
The hollow is big enough to permit L
dining table to be spread in its boundS,
and there is room enough to spare for
chairs about the table.
The height to the first limb is 20
feet. A man of average size MUST take
"a PAGES TO complete the circuit OF the
big trunk.
A competent authoyiiy on forestry
has estimated that the tree, .Y.,ich by
the way, is of the cottonwood family,
is no less than see years old In the
days Of King Jehn end Magma Charta
this tree was fouriShing, when Co
lumbus discovered America if was az
large as its companions in the forest,
It is known that even half a century
ago it was as big Gud majestic as it is
to-day.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-25
a Few moments for Liverpool. Grace
sends love.
RICHARD DANA.
Music and the Puritans.

Macaulay wrote as II the whole body
of Puritans thought it sin to touch
Tplayl the virginals." The Puritans
did indeed, forbid all amusement on
the Sabbath. re-enact Queen Eliza
heth's statute against the disreputable
street MINISTRIES. and object to the use
Of the organ in worship; but they did
not object to everything pleasant, says
Notes and Queries. The organ was
in those days used not in the same
way as now, either in England or
abroad. Thomas Mace of Cambridge,
who was in York during the siege,
Q644) says in "Musick's Monument"
that In York Minister the congregation
sang a psalm tune accompanied by the
organ. a custom which he had heard
of nowhere else That custom is now
universal; but the ordinary use of the
organ in the seventeenth century was
70 add brilliancy TO the vocal music
sung by the choir and all possible en-
Enlistment by iorid runs seems 10
have been employed.
The Puri;anS objected 10 that style
# sacred music; and SO should We OBJ
Jet II it were heard now. The result
was a blind rage which lei &c tie de-
StructioR Of several cathedral organs,
and 20 law that al organs ShcGld
be removed from churches; and IS ms
is popular know,etSe, i has gradually
developed .eseGS hat The Pusi;&ns
objected to all music and ira. tie ar
was prohibited during The Common
wealth. Several musical historians
have stated or implied So much, but j;
is an absolute and unqualified false
hood
The practice Of secular music was IN
no way interfered with: and not only
Cromwell, Milton. Whitelocke. but al
so Hutchinson and others OF the Lead
ing PuTitans were among the best
amateurs of the day. And they were
not exceptions. Milton in "Areopagi.
tica," (164Aj writing in Puritan Lon
don. says that lutes. yiOlins. and gui-
tars were to be found tn srery
house." Only the Quakers objected TO
music in itself and the art was flour
ishing during the Comm nwealth.
when more music was published than
during the whole reign Gf Charles |.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-25
FaptS CONCERNING Copra.

Copra, which is one of the chief pro-
ducts OF the Philippine islands, is the
dried meat Of the cocoanut. The in
dustry, while comparatively young,
presents some unique features, and the
production of it is the outgrowth Of
attempts made few years ago to find
some convenient method of exporting
the surplus quantity Of cocoanut oil
produced in the islands. The earthen
jars in which the oil arrived at Manila
were too easily broken to be trans
ported with any degree of safety. The
only available alternative was a crude
form Of barrel made in China for the
purpose, but these leaked so profusely
that they gave very poor results.
These difficulties led to a search for
more convenient form in which to ex-
port the product. 1t was for the pur-
pose OF supplying this need that NJ.
Eduard Vidal taught the natives how
to. prepare the cocoanut in a dry form
such as is known on the market as
copra, basing his process upon some ex-
periments which he, together with
some planters In the province ct
Misamia had carried on with consider
able success In the year 1882.
The method of preparing the copra
IL a comparatively simple one. When
the nut is perfectly ripe it is cut into
halves and placed in the sun without
further preparation. In a few hours
the meat OF the nut is contracted by
the effect of the hoat and becomes de-
tached from the shell. The morseis
OF nut kernel are then collected and
exposed to the sun for several days,
so that all the water which they con-
tain may be evaporated, care being ex-
ercsed to guard against moisture and
dew, which would soften the material.
When the substance becomes brittle,
i is considered ready for the market.
In ordinary times it Is claimed that
a thousand cocoanuts Will give, in the
province OF Visayss, about 500 to 700
pounds Of cOpra, but actual expert
ence hardly bears out these claims
the average being from 400 to 400
pounds per 1000 eocoanuts. The copra
industry during it's comparatively
short history Of fourteen years In the
Philippines has attained considerable
| dimensions.