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UMBRELLA SALADS.
Gardens in Very Queer Places-Display
at Temple Garden.

From London Answers.
Take an old umbrella and open it. Well
soak the fabric with water. and sprinkle
over it mustard and cress seed Put the
umbrella anywhere-on a coping, fiat roof
or in any position where it can get plenty
of sun-and water it well two or three
times daily In a week or two crop of ex-
cellent small salad" may be cut.
The garden on the roof of Southwark po-
lice station was brought into prominence
last summer. but there is one in an even
more remarkable position within a stones
throw of Answers office. This has been
made on stone ledge of the Thames en-
bankment on the west side of Blackfriars
bridge. 1t is the work of the men of the
fire float which is stationed there, and every
atom of soil has had to be carried, bas-
ketful by basketful. to the spot. 1t can
only be reached from dry land by means
of a ladder 50 that its position is unique
1t is very tastefully laid out and carefully
tended.
|. one would hardly expect to find garden
en- a fishing smack. yet such thing is in
existence The smack is one of the Exon"
fleet and the garden is tucked away by
the bowsprit and windlass 1t is in pots
and small boxes. and consists chiefly of
scarlet aeraniums The skipper of the
smack admits that it gives him a good deal
of trouble. as sudden sduall or dip
wipes away all traces of horticulture at
once and the flowers have to be renewed
occasionally
Canal boats. which work under more
favorable conditions than fishing smacks,
are frequently improved by small gardens
usually In boxes. on their cramped. cabin
roofs. and when carefully tended they give
the curiously shaped craft very pictur-
eSQue appearance.
Gardens are a feature OF several of the
South Wales coal mines. 1t is true the crops
are generally limited to mushrooms. but
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sugar dissolve. When lukewarm add half
cake of compressed yeast dissolved in
lukewarm water. Stir in enough sifted gra-
nam flour to make q fairly stiff batter.
Beat vigorously for five minutes or until
bubbles appear. Then add more flour until
the dough is too stis1 to stir: a good idea at
this stage is to cut and fold with a flexible
Kn1fe Tor about ten minutes, then turn the
dough into well-greased bread tins cover
and set in a warm place to rise. When
nearly double their original bulk put the
loaveS in a moderately hot oven. Graham
and whole wheat bread require a slower
oven than white bread.
Plain Coffee Cake.
Dissolve half cake of compressed yeast
in little lukewarm water, with a table
spoonful of sugar. Just warm a cup of
sweet milk and tablespoonful of butter,
the yeast and two well-beaten eggs. Stir in
Hour for thin batter, cover and set in a
warm place to raise When light stir in
Hour to make a stiff batter. When raised
roll out half an inch thick on well-houred
BOARD; the dough should be just stiff enough
TO handle; place in an iron baking PAN and
"hen IT has risen half way up brush with
a Weii-beaten egg: dredge with half CUP
OF four. then sprinkle over this half a CUB
OF aark brown sugar, with a tablespoonful
OF putter and one of cinnamon rubbed to-
sether Bake in a hot oven until when
pressed with the finger no impression re-
mains: from seven to ten minutes is sutfl-
Menus.
SUNDAY
BREAKFAST.
Iced Melons
Cereal Cream
brolIeo chicken. Baked Potatoes.
Muf1lns. Coffee.
DINNER
Tomato with Rice
Roast Mutton mt
Mashed Potatoes
Baked Egg Plant
D Sliced Cucumbers and Peppers.
Feach Cream, Cheese. Waters.
Coffee.
SUPPER
Dreamed Lobster on Toast
Toasted Mullins. Layer Cake.
Fruit. Tea
MONDAY
BREAKFAST
Fruit.
Cereal Cream
Tomato Omelet Fried Potatoes
Buttered Toast. Coffee
LUNCH.
Sliced Cold Mutton.
Hot Rolls. Peach Short Cake. Chocolate.
DINNER.
Clear Soup.
Roast Spring Chicken
Baked Sweet Potatoes.
Creamed Onions. Stuffed Tomato Salad.
Waters, Coffee
TUESDAY,
BREAKFAST
Peaches
Cereal Cream
BrOiled Bacon. Baked Potatoes.
Corn Mullins. Coffee
LUNCH.
Dreamed Shrimps.
Plain Bread and Butter
Fruit. Cake. Cocoa.
DINNER
Chicken and Rice Soup
Broiled Tenderloin, Mushroom Sauce.
Mashed Potatoes
SteWed Tomato toes
Tomato Salad, Boiled Dressing
Ice Cream. Cheese. Waters
Coffee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
AGRICULTURE OF THE SOUTH
It is More Scientific Than Many Writ.
ers Suppose.

From the Southern Farm Magazine
1t is amusing to see how often northern
writers will attempt to belittle the agri-
cultural interests of the south without hav-
ing any information concerning the subject
| upon which they write.
This is eXemplified by the statement of
| recent influential paper that the only plow
used in the south is a bull pillow. The same
paper says that there are no cultivators or
horse hoes or garden rakes. 1t generously
asserts that q turn pillow may occasionally
be seen.
| 1t would crafty reasonable curiosity to
know where such writer obtained his in
formation. The fact is that in the best
agricultural regions of the south there are
as many improved implements of husbandry
as are to be found in the most favored
farming regions in the north. There are
turning plows and disk plows and disk har-
rows and seed drills and tedders and self
binders and steam threshers and in fact
every implement that will multiply labor
and increase production. Rarely in the
best regions of the south are anything but
two, three and four-horse plows used for
breaking land. Such writer's should inform
themselves before speaking for the whole
south. A little settlement in the hill lands
of Alabama or Georgia, a truck patch in the
Everglades of Florida, farm on the slopes
or on the tops of the Appalachian noun
tains, district thirty miles from the rail-
road, are no more fit places to study the
agriculture of the south than the small
clearings on the Berkshire hills of Massa-
chusetts or on the Adirondacks of New
York are for the study of the agriculture
Of the north.
These writer's should visit the best por-
tons of middle Tennessee the valleys of
east Tennessee, the rich loess region of
west Tennessee, the fertile lands of the
Shenandoah valley, the blue grass regions of
Kentucky, the black lands of Alabama and
the fruit districts Of Virginia the. cotton
districts of eastern North Carolina and the
sugar growing districts of Louisiana, and
learn that there is something better than
bull tongue plows in use among the farmers
of the south
1t is sublimely ridiculous to send out such
silly statements concerning the south. The
unfairness of such representations is not
creditable to the press of the north.
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they are. none the less. gardens. The
earth is taken down in bags by the miners,
mixed with manure from the pit ponies
stables. and a mushroom bed formed, into
which broken bricks of spawn are put.
AS the level temperature is favorable to
mushroom culture. it is not long before
good results obtained. This system of
underground gardening has prevailed for
some time in Paris. for most of the cham
pignons. or button mushrooms used in that
country, as well as a good many of the
ordinary kind. are grown in the disused
subterranean stone uuarries on the left
bank of the Seine.
1t is natural to expect to see gardens at
a flower showr but hardly a greenhouse
containing collection of plants which,
house and all. could be packed up and car
rled away in an ordinary hat box. Yet
such an exhibit was one of the features of
the Royal Horticultural SOciety's exhibition
In the Temple Gardens last May. 1t was
the latest thing in miniature gardens and
consisted of a collection of about a dozen
sorts of cacti in tiny pots on tiny shelves,
and staged in a proportionately tiny green
house. The whole exhibit was very little
more than a cubic foot in size.
Folks whose acquaintance with railway
stations is chiefly confined to the terminal
and suburban establishments of our great
towns would be inclined to ridicule them as
sites for gardens, yet there are MANY
charming gardens in railway stations
Kingscote on the L. B. & 8. c. r., is one
of these the fences being smothered with
La France and Madame Lambard roses,
while many dozens of bright Towering
plants swarm in the station building itself
On some lines of railway prizes are offered
by the directors for the best garden sta
ton" and there are some notable examples
of them on the l.. & N. W.. Midland, and
G. w. railways.
The fashionable freak gardening in the
shape of Japanese fern-balls. birds and ele-
plants. which have Just been introduced
are beaten hollow in rapidity Of production
by the common horseradish A barrelful of
this commodity may be plucked in Worces-
tershire today. On it's. arrival in Covent
Garden it will be sprouting freely and in
the course of the next couple of days the
barrel will be almost covered with free
foliage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
A Jockeys Adventure.

From the London Globe.
An incident as. singular as it was painful,
and in at least one aspect repellant. occur
red at the races at Dieppe yesterday Camp
bell, the jockey who rode Air Current for
NJ. de Mezaubran. fell and lay apparently
lifeless. The owner, who happened to be
near the spot. leaped instantly to the sad
die. and. leaving the jockey to his fate,
came in third Campbell. who gave no sign
of life, was carried to the hospital. but re-
jected as dead and taken forward to the
morgue. Here 1T was discovered that the
heart had not ceased to beat, and the suf-
ferer was taken back to the hospital which
this time admitted him, but in a desperate
condition.
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DEPARTS FOR YORK
Troop H, Second Cavalry,
Gees to Pennsylvania Fair.
ENTRAINED AT ROSSLYN
SOLDIERS TO GIVE EXHIBIT OF
MILITARY EXERCISES.
Feats of Horsemanship and Exhibition
Drills-Two Troops to Go to
Target Range.

Troop H, I'd United States Cavalry, Capt.
Harry G.. Trout commanding, left Fort
Myer this morning for York, Pa, where the
troop will spend the week in entertaining
the people of Pennsylvania at the state
fair to be held at that place next week.
The detachment will give an exhibition each
day at the fair ground, and will go through
all the rough riding movements that have
been devised for Uncle Sans cavalry in
addition to a number of other tricks of
Craftsmanship that have been practced at
Fort Myer ,assduously for the past year or
more. The I'd Cavalry has come to occupy
prominent position among the rough rid
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Charm of the German "Cures -
Countess" in the London Outlook.

n NouuteSs III LONDON outlook.
Germany is strange and well-regulated
country. The wonder is why we as a ma
ton frequent it SO much. The proprietor
of our hotel attributes it to the fact that
re English drink too much champagne at
home; zey come to Germany to get WE'LL
Which is about the truth of the matter
Champagne for dinner and supper every
night for three months is apt to play havoc
with the constitution of the strongest. and
since most women find it impossible to
keep up the pace without it they have to
pay the penalty sooner or later. Whether
it be due to champagne or nerves or govt
or any other of the ills to which flesh liz
heir, Germany at this time of the year is
full of English and Americans doing water
cures. What with the quantity I have i'm
bibed and the quantity which descends from
the skies the world at present seems large
ly composed of water. and with contin-
uation of these conditions / should not be
surprised if we should eventually get water
on the BRAIN
The great charm of this sleepy German
watering place is its very dulness. Once
a year at least the heart of even the most
hardened society woman pines for period
of rest, when she can cease from waving
her hair and let what mind she possesses
become a blank. When the only excite
ment is a new arrival at the hotel, or the
extraordinarily simple and ones brain re-
posefully vacant. To eat and drink, sleep
and walk, take baths and go to church on
Sunday is the whole duty of woman when
going through the cure There being moth
ing else to do. we do it all assiduously.
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luis OF SOOQ mustard winch mas Deen mixed
to paste with little vinegar and salad oil.
Add salt and cayenne pepper to suit the
taste and work all together until perfectly
smooth.
Mustard Dressing for Pickles.
To three pints of vinegar allow one cupful
of sugar three-quarters of a cupful of flour
and a scant half pound Of mustard. Mix
the flour, sugar and mustard together and
wet to a thin paste with little of the vine
gar, stirring the paste until it is perfectly
smooth. Bring the remainder of the vinegar
to the boil and then stir in the paste. Cook
all five minutes stirring constantly, and add
a generous teaspoonful of salt at the last.
When the dressing is done. If properly
made, it will be like thick cream.
Tomato Mustard.
Cut one peck of tomatoes into small pieces
and boil until tender; then rub them
through sieve and boil until nearly dry;
add to this pulp twd tab4espoonfuls of salt,
one tablespoonful OF cloves, one tablespoon
full of cayenne pepper, one tablespoonful of
black pepper, two 7tableSpoonsful of mus
tard, boil a few moments after adding the
spices, when cold bottle and cork tightly.
Prepared Mustard.
Mix together three tablespoonful of
ground mustard one teaspoonful of sugar.
one teaspoenful of salt, one tablespoonful of
flour; pour on this boiling water until a
smooth paste is made; boil until thick and
when cold add two-thirds of cup of Vine
gar This is very much like French mus
tard. O. eas
Picking String Beans.
The best way to preserve these for win
ter use is to pack them down in salt like
cucumbers-first a layer of coarse salt.
then one of the beans after they are thor
oughly washed; do not remove strings.
Have each layer of salt about an inch
thick or enough to cover the beans well.
When the barrel or cask is about full place
board on top, and on this lay n large
stone or weight to press the pickles down
under the brine. When desiring to use
them wash through several clear waters
and soak over night and change the water
once or twice while cooking.
Graham Bread.
Place in your mixing bowl one pint Of
milk. one teaspoonful of salt, one table
spoonful Of sugar and tablespoonful of
shortening. Pour over all one pint of
freshly boiled water and stir until salt and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

Apple Chutney.-A simple apple chutney
is made by cooking together in a quart and
a half of cider vinegar fourteen large, sour
apples, ten large onions and two cloves OF
garlic. When soft rub through a sieve,
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ing regiments of the army of the United
States. 1t is one of the best differed and
best equipped regiments in the service, and
has seen as hard service as any regiment
on Uncle Sam : rolls.
Its detail for duty in Cuba in 1898 brought
the regiment east of the Mississippi river for
the first time in almost forty years. Only
portion of the command went to Cuba
during the war, but the remaining troops
We're sent over there soon after the Ameri-
can occupation, and remained there until
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Cholly-"Percy boasts that common peo-
pie never sit near him in the street cars"
Reggy-"How does he manage it?"
Choly-"IIe just smokes a perfumed
Turkish cigarette. Chicago News.
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As Seen In the Shop.

A number of beautiful new gowns are
being turned out by the modistes for the
midwinter season.
A leading modiste In one of the most
fashionable shops in Birmingham has re-
Gently finished some of the handsomtst
gowns and evening wraps that have been
seen here this season. In point OF ele-
gance and beauty they would rival many
of the costumes exhibited by the import
ers In the east
There were two evening coats seen yes
terday that are to be worn by two of
Birmingham's most fashionable women.
One OF the coats was of fastel grey
cloth, lined with yellow and hello silk.
The roll front was of brocade, showing a
design of violets and yellow roses in nat
ural eolors. 1t was loose fitting, without
any collar, the decoration being a white
hussar.
Another coat was of white matalesse,
the exquisite lining of apricot shades of
pink and yellow and introducing a hand
embroidery In gold on a foundation OF
white satin
'iA'Hs Bo"h 6ioWH ny tnlS same
firm. was of grey crepe Egyptia, the
skirt having an insertion of cream lace
about fifteen inches in width and the
seams showing the silk faggoting. The
bodice had trimming OF white cloth
seeded In Persian colors. and opened
over narrow vest laced with a grey
mousseline scarf, this being caught
through crescent eyelets of white silk. The
sleeves were finished with four tncks
above the elbow, the bishop effect and
the tight fitting cuff of white cloth over
laid with lace being extremely effective.
There was girdle of panne.
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N0fcs and Personals.

Miss Annie Clisby will arrive this week
to be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Samuel
VIII John.
Mrs. John A. Campbell OF North Caro-
lima and Miss Litchfield of Virginia are
the guests Of Mrs. Edward K Campbell
meeting of the Council of Jewish
Women will be held this afternoon at 3: 40
O'Clock In the vestry room of Temple
Emanuel.
Mrs. James Weisel has returned from
Decatur.
Miss Mary Moore of Georgia is spending
the winter with her sister, Mrs. Peter B.
McKensie.
Mrs. D. T. Downs of Montgomery is
the guest of Mrs. Michael Clifford.
Miss Alice Moore returned last night
from Mobile.
Mrs. Leslie Fulenwider has returned
home.
Mrs Ferguson of Virginia was the
guest yesterday Of Judge and Mrs. A. A.
Coleman.
Mrs Charles Caldwell returned to her
home in cambridge a few days ago.
The annual meeting of the board of
managers of the Womans Exchange will
be held at the exchange rooms this morn
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MECHANICAL READERS
Fail to Apply to Themselves the Facts
They Read.

II am a proof reader and have come
into almost daily contact with your adyer-
tisements Of Postum Food Coffee since
they first appeared" writes Mr.. w. H.
Stanley of Louisville, KY, but never
paid any attention to them until about
eighteen months ago when my daughter,
who was a great sufferer from gastritio
indigestion and its natural results stop
ped coffee and used Postum She had
been growing thin and weak daily.
After few weeks trial of Postum,
she regained her health and strength and
now Is completely restored to her former
self Noting the effect of changing from
coffee to Postum in her case, concluded
to try 1t myself. My habits are sedentary,
sitting and reading from six to eight
hours each day. l had been subject for
twenty-five years to sick headaches and
indigestion and lost on an average of one
day each week from my work 1 was
weak and weighed only 140 pound and
was losing strength and energy all the
time. dropped coffee and had the Pos
tum made strictly according to directions
II liked the change from the start and
have kept up the use of Postum with the
result that / have not had headache In
over a year and have not lost day on
account of sickness in that time; have
gained strength steadily and now weigh
160 pounds.
Before I commenced Postum. I was
a good customer for the adjacent drug
store for headache powders and dyspep-
STA remedies, but have used neither for
over q year and can now eat anything
without Ill effects.
IF every one could have my experience
of the last few years. cultivation of the
coffee bean would soon become a lost
art, for no one ever suffered more from
coffee than / have and / can heartily
give all the credit to Postum for my
health and strength.
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ing at 1890 o'clock. Election of officers
will be the business before the meeting.
Mr.. Harry Sinnege has returned from
Memphis.
Mrs. John White has returned from
Decatur.
Mrs. c. R. Johnston has returned home.
-
Col. w. w. Quarles has returned to
Selma.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. w. Barrett will enter
tain tomorrow evening at the Hillman in
compliment to Mrs. Brooke.
Mr.. william Minor will spend the re-
mainder of the winter In Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Gaines have re-
turned from Prattville
Mrs. A. N. Ballard has returned home.
meeting of Pelham Chapter, Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, will be held to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock at the
residence of Mrs. Edmund Taylor ITALIA
ferro.
Mrs. ]. M. Mclean has returned from
Decatur.
Miss Sarah weakley of Nashville is
visiting her sister, Mrs. ]. v. Allen.
Eleventh avenue and Twelfth street.
South.
Miss Annie Ray Rowan OF Meridian,
Miss, is visiting Mrs. G. II. Colvin on
Sixtieth street, Woodlawn.
Mrs f. " Evans of Meridian, Miss, Is
visiting relatives in Birmingham.
Mrs. T. u. Walker will entertain the
Highland Euchre club this AFTERNOON at
her home on Fourteenth avenue.
The Presbyterian Social Union will
meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the
First Presbyterian church. Fourth avenue
and Twenty-first street. to consider the
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MRS. C. B. SPENCER'S WORK
IN CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE

announcement In the Courier-Journal:
Tt is Miss Ellen c. Semple's book.
Geographic Influences in American His
for the past year at the request Of the
publishers. Houghton, Muffin & Co., Bos-
ton
Miss semple was asked to write the
book by the publishers upon the sug-
gestion and advise of Prof. Richard
Dodge. who has the chair of geography
at Columbia University, New York.
1t is a work of 500 pages, and is the
authors first book, most of her other
writing being confined to articles on the
same subject published in the Bulletin
of the American Geographical society Of
New York and the Journal of the Royal
British Geographical society. in London.
The book deals with the influence Of
geographic conditions, such as mountain
systems, rivers, plains, deserts and sea-
coasts upon our material development. 1t
also considers the geographic distribution
of immigration, of cities and industries,
and the evolution of American railroad
systems as influenced by geographic con-
ditions. 1t follows large features of Amer
lean history and concludes with the Uni
ted States as q Pacific ocean power.
In general 1t represents the principles
of the new science of anthropogeography
as applied to the United States. showing
the relation of environment and develop
ment here.
The book will be abundantly illus
trated by maps showing the topography
of the country and the spread of popula-
ton at different periods, in relation to the
natural features of the country.
While 1t Is designed for the general pub
lie 1t will be used largely ror collateral
reading In colleges and universities.
Louisville will look forward with great
interest to the appearance of this book
so different In character from anything
that has hitherto been published by local
writer's.
Its author is a brilliant woman, and a
work of exceptional merit can therefore
be expected from her