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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
cHAF1Ne DISH COOKERY.
Proper setting OF the Table Il auits
- Important a. Correct Prep
aratIon OF Feed.

II the dining-room is TO be the scene
of a chainR dish feast use bare table,
with a handsome luncheon cloth or
linen centerpiece for floral decorations
10 rest on. A dolly should be at each
cover, with a plate, knife and fork and
whatever glasses are necessary. Make
the table as inviting as possible. A lit
tie smilax or greenhouse asparagus IS
inexpensive and adds to the attractive
ness Of the supper.
Authorities differ as to the mixing
of a Welsh rarebit. Each man is a law
unto himself and is quite sure that he
makes a better rarebit than his neigh
Dor. The following recipe is for six
persons: One pound of cheese, as rich
and new as possible, cut into small bits.
Place a tablespoonful Of butter in the
chafing dish. When hot add the cheese;
as this melts stir all the time. Season
with plenty of salt and cayenne pep
per and a pinch Of dry mustard. When
It is well heated through and cooking,
add about half a pint of beer. Watch
carefully and stir constantly, and when
thoroughly melted serve on thin
slices Of hot toast OF square biscuits.
Scotch woodcOck is another savory
dish. First prepare the toast, cut
ting the bread thin and tOasting an
even brown. Butter when hot, and
spread with anchovy paste, leaving
1t on a hot plate to soak into the
toast. Cut bacon in the thinnest
possible slices, Have the chatting
dish hot, and put in the slices of
bacon. AS soon as they look trans
parent turn them over, and as tie
edges curl they are done. Put
slice on each bit of toast. While
this is being prepared scrambled
eggs should have been made in an
other blazer and poured over the
anchovy toast and bacon, and the
Scotch wooicock is complete. -Four
eggs are enough for six persons.
Break them into a dish and beat I'M
til as light as possible. Add a cup
full of milk or cream and season
with salt and pepper to taste. Have
the chatting dish hot and place in
it a tablespoonful of butter. Pour
in the egg and stir constantly.-N.
Y. Herald.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10

for he thinks and speaks only in low
ing tones Of all mankind, and Of all
things on earth. bis scrap book Of
drawings, covering all Of the old land
marks of this city, Is particularly in
teresting when exhibited in his parlor'
on q winter evening, and explained BY
him in his viVacious manner. BE says:
81 have often laughed at the officers
Of the old times, who used to think
that because the navy yard was two
miles and a half from the white house
and navy department they could do as
they pleased without any Of their con-
duct or misconduct being found out
sWhen Commodore Goldsborough
was in charge of the navy yard, al
though he resided in the northwest,
he knew what was going on as well
as any modern sleuth. he went to
the quarters Of the commandant ev-
cry day to attend to official business.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
VENEZUELA IS DECAYING.
German Traveller states That MIued
Negroes and Indians Are Get
ting an Upper Hand.

DIR. Passarge, the noted traveller.
who has Just returned from Vene-
zuela, says, according to Berlin re-
port:
president Castro is a full-blooded
Indian and an energetic man without
political wisdom. He rose suddenly
from magistrate of a remote village
at the foot of the Andes to the presi-
dency, and his rapid rise made him
overconfident.
The present situation is due 20
two facts: Germany suddenly sus-
pended the pressure Of the early part
of the war, which diminished the re-
spect in which she was held by Presi-
dent Castro; secondly, the attitude
of the officials of the great Venezue-
Ian railroad toward President Cas-
tro. Germany's first principle must
be not to NEEDLE in the internal af-
fairs of Venezuela. But the railroad
officials forgot this"
DR.. Passarge describes the state as
drifting to certain decay and as fol-
lowing a steadily downward course
since Gen. BlancO's presidency. The
color question plays an important
role in political tendencies. The
mixed negroes and Indians, etc, are
getting an upper hand in society and
politics.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
WHERE DwARFs ARE MADE.
ChIIdren In Madras stunted and DIa-
tOFted for the Purpose OF Put-
ting Them Dat 20 Beg.

Some interest has Of late been
aroused in Madras by the exhibition
Of two dwarfs who are alleged to be
over so years Of age, and are brother
and sister. These beings are not only
small but distorted. It is believed
that dwarfs are manufactured" in
Indian. There is a practice extant in
the Punjab Of elongating infants
heads so as to render them out Of al,
proportion to the body. The effect OF
compression on the brain renders the
victims idiotic, says the London Ex-
press.
They are sent around to beg, and in
their peregrinations visit the Madras
and Bombay presidencies. An instinct
akin TO that of an animal, however.
still lives IN the distorted beings. and
invariably brings them back to their
masters. They are known as Ssbab
Shuja's mice" from the name Of the
temple where they are manufactured.
The children, It is stated, are vowed to
the temple By fanatical women.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
ENGLAND's GREAT BACHELORS.
Four Leading Men of the BFttsh
Kingdom Are Unmarried At
Middle Age.

This is the age of bachelors in Eng
land. The women are discussing with
keen interest the fact that four Of their
great men are unmarried. Arthur Bal
four is a bachelor, and indeed the trsi
bachelor to become premier since The
time of William Pitt.
Lord Kitchener. England's most not
able soldier, and Lord Miner, her most
prominent administrator, are both IN
married.
Completing the notable four Is the
bishop Of London, who is not far from
being the most prominent man in the
church.
The men on the other side, says the
Philadelphia North American, are de-
elaring that France "has lOrg been
cursed with petticOat influence in poll
tics, and England has had some e.
perience of the plague Of women BE-
hind the scenes at the war oriee.
They believe that "the triumph Of the
four great bachelors points to qulel
and effective revolt of man."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
COMMERCIAL PROFESSIONS.
Men OF Money who Labor TO Turn
Their Business Into Installations
of Uaefulneas.

The truth is, we hear too much
about the commercialism of the pro-
LESSONS. There are men who vulgar
ize them all, no doubt, and who sell
their craft-right for a mess Of mil
Hons, for there have always been such
men, says Worlds Work. But there
b another tendency of our time that
is far stronger than the tendency
to get wealth; il Is the ten
dency to establish, to build, and
to maintain MISUNDERSTANDING
tions of any useful and honorable
kind. Men give themselves in the
most unselfish way to build up colleges
and universities, hospitals, museums,
clubs, associations for the advance
ment of trades and professions, libra
ries-there is no end of the list. Men
labor to turn their business into insti-
buttons. Many founders Of great COM
mercial houses work for their honor
able perpetuity.
Many manufacturers plan their fac
tories so as to give them an institu-
tional character and value. The
naturally conservative tendency of an
active people is toward institution
building. Strong men in almost every
department of work show such ten
dency, often as a dominant trait of
character, and this is a stronger mo-
tive than the mere wish to be rich.
The rich man who stands alone, who
has not established something, who
is not identified with some great in
stitution, commercial or public, is not
envied. He is more likely to be pitied.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10

if having to undergo q medical exami-
nation had not forced her to admit
that she was a girl Her captain
brought her back as a cabin passenger
to England, where she fell into the
hands of the police, as having no Wis
ible means of support" and has just
been released.
Esther ran away from home because
her half-sister, with whom she used
to live, treated her unkindly. Her par
ents were dead. Big, strong and
healthy, she had been working in the
fields up to the time when the book
about the sailor lass fell into her
hands. Then she decided to cut loose.
2 First she went to a barber and with
out a tremor told him to take of her
long black hair. She had him crop it
close to her head. Then she got a
suit Of boys clothes and left the
little village, Wishaw, where she was
living, for Glasgow. She got into an
empty compartment" and changed
her clothes between stations.
Soon after she had reached Glas-
gov she postponed her plan of going
to sea for awhile. Instead she worked
as a boy in a cOlliery. Wandering
about the streets one night in her male
get-up, somebody offered her chance
in the mines. She took it, and for
three months worked in her shirt
sleeves beside the men and earned six
dollars a week. One day, however,
part of the colliery roof underneath
which she worked fell in, just missing
the girl and killing the man next to
her. This scared Esther so badly that
she quit the coal business. Her first
plan of going to sea came back to her,
and leaving Glasgow for Ayr on the
seacoast, she prepared to carry it out.
Esther didn't find much difficulty in
getting a berth" on board ship. She
signed as cabin boy on a vessel called
the Discovery, and it was on this craft
that she took her trip around the
Scottish coast. She called herself Al
Ian Gordon. She was paid OF at New
port, England, and promptly found
place as cabin boy on a ship bound for
South America. After this voyage was
over she found herself in Cardiff with
about S13 in her pocket. The ship
in which she set of for Alexandria
was named The Gem, and the girl
worked as a steward aboard Of her.
When at the eastern city the word was
passed round that a doctor was COM
ing to examine the entire ships COM
pany, she went TO her captain and con-
fided in him. Fortunately for her he
proved to be kindhearted and immedi-
ately told her that he would take her
home and see that she didn't suffer en-
the way. "He treated me like faith
err" Esther said.
OF course it got out that there was
a girl on board dressed as q boy-for
the sailor-lass had not been able to get
any other elothes-and when the ship
reached port a policeman heard some
of the men talking about Esther and
forthwith made Il his business to ar
rest her. The girl was released after
a day OF two, one Of her sisters having
turned up and claimed her.
Esther says she doesn't like the sea
At all, and that she didn't have q good
time on. ship-board, for the men'sways
displeased her. OF course, she didn't
care for their ADJUSTMENTS, either, and
they thought her mopiSh and a bad
feliow."-LOndon Letter In Detroit
Free Press.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
PERns OF THE TRAPPERs.
How the Famous scott and Many 9th
eFs Went to Their Deaths on
the Platte River.

In the United States the free hunt
ers approach the mountains by three
main routes. It was coming down the
Platte that poor ScOtt's canoe was
overturned, his powder lost and his
rife rendered useless, relates Outing.
Game had retreated to the mountains
with springs advance. Berries were
not ripe by the time traPpers were
descending with their winters hunt.
Scott and his furnishing men could
not find edible roots. Each day Scott
weakened. There was no food. Final
IL Scott had strength to go no further.
His men had found tracks of some
other hunting party far to the fore.
They thought that in any case he
could not live. What ought they to
do? Hang back and starve with him,
OF hasten forward while they had
strength to the party whose tracks
they had esPied. On pretense Of seek
ing roots, they deserted the helpless
man. The next spring when these
same hunters went up the Platte they
found the skeleton of poor Scott go
miles from the place where they had
left him. The terror that spurred the
emaciated man to drag himself all this
weary distance can barely be con-
ceived; but such were the fearful odds
taken by every free traPper who went
up the Platte, across the parched
plains or to the headwaters Of the
Missouri.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10

fenced in when the city was laid out,
and the commissioners planned to
leave It undisturbed.
Tens Of Thousands of visitors to the
national capital view the navy yard,
are guided through the great gun fac
tory by officials, and have the public
places explained to them, but very few
ever have the opportunity TO talk to
''the oldest inhabitant;" the man who
knew all about It almost a century ago,
1t q time when the navy yard was e
thing Of the imaginary future, as was
also the capital city. And, for that
natter, in those days the success Of
the republic itself was problematical.
william Birth, e5 years Of age, deaf
Is q post, who can learn nothing Of
modern things except through his eyes,
& an interesting cOnversationalist.
he says: 81 used Epeetaeles from the
time Twas 50 until was almost 20
years old; and then my eyesight came
back to me. For more than 20 years ]
have used no spectaclea. Ny eyesight
Sc e good as that Of any yOung man
on woman on earth. / was Dragging
that Twas growing young again, when
my hearing began 70 fail. Gradually
an power Of discerning sounds left me,
and am thus isolated from the world;
hut I read an Of the daily papers, and
know q thing OF two anyway"
Thit wonderful old man Is e. Iowa
~ as another Saint John, the Agsdi
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
GIRL SAILED AS BOY.
FIReen-Near-OId Esther MeEWen
Makes Three Voyages DIsEuised
In Male Attire

Esther McEwen, the 15-year-old
Scotch girl who has just got back
home after making her third sea Voy-
age, dressed as a boy, says she was IN
spired to become a sailor by reading
4 novel about a girl who did so. Is
Their says the story was an exciting
one, but it is doubtful il its heroine
had a more eventful experience than
that which befeI her fiesh-and-blood
emulator.
The girl first made a trip all around
the Scotch cast. Then she shipped
for a long cruise to Valparaiso. After
that she signed" for voyage to the
east, visiting France and Spain and
finally brought up at Alexandria. She
would have continued her wanderings
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persons would quickly find Judgment

in jail.
Should republicanism fail in
France, however, the duchess of Or
leans, whose latest picture is herewith
presented, might become a French
queen. Her recent return with her
husband to England was potable be-
cause 1t was the first time that the
couple had been allowed to land in that
country since the duke wrote to a
French artist, compHmenting him on
caricatures Of the late Queen Victoria.
The duchess, before her marriage in
1896, was Maria DOrothea Amelia,
daughter of Archduke Joseph, of Aus
tria. The duke Is the great-grandson
Of the last of the French kings, Louis
Philippe, who abdicated the throne in
1s4s in favor of his grandson, the
count of Paris. French royslists, as
many as could be gathered, were pres
emit at the wedding.
Duke Robert was born IN 1859, and
succeeded his father, the late count
Of Paris, in 1894, as the head Of the
royal family of France. His mother,
who is still living, was the Spanish in
fanta Louise, of Montpensier. He has
one brother and four sisters, the ED
est Of the latter being the charming
queen Of Portugal, and the second,
Helena, Is married to the duke of
Aosts, the heir-presumptive to the
throne Of Italy.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
RED, BLACK OR BLOEDp
Oark-Haired Children H.v.n
Imagination, But Red-H.,S..
Get the Good Murk,

Some curious statistics rsl,..-
hair have been collected bv tb..s .
authorities at Lille. It is foD1s 100 =,
suburn-haired boys are gensr.r 'aAl
the head of the recitation cIas..-! Z
blonde girls come out highest a, "a. 20
meticians. But in composition ~
are nowhere, says the LoDdo, ~
press. Il
The dark-haired children Of l.,
sexes have the quality Of imarin,t;.'
and in their compositions kDov ~
not to fatigue the attention. ana !
compared to the auburn and blo1s.'
are born stylists.
/ dare say the auburn boys -,
blond lasses in the Lille clemens
schools are of Flemish-that is to,
phlegmatic-race. Their brain, q
not grow at once cOngested when H.
stand up to recite, and for that res,,s
they keep the mastery of the vocal,
gans. In short, they continue TO INA,
what they are about. The dark rAa
dren are probably Of Celtic-thati,,,
say, Gallic-origin. The blood com,
with a rush to their brains. and The,
grow confused, splutter and brs,i
down. If they could only be .augbts
remain silent for a few moments The,
would be all the better for this rp,i
as the confusion would have passed
away, leaving only stimulated mental
organs.
Finally, on the subject of hair, say,
a writer in Truth. I am sorry to a,
that the red-headed boys and girls n
the Lille schools are at the bottom il
everything, save in good conduc
marks. Nor are they remarkable fo
good health. The dark boys behsv
better than the auburn or the fair, an
are more sensitive to praise or blan,
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
CAMEL A CURIOSITY.
one with Two Humps Creates a Sen
AatiOn Among the People Of
Cairo, Egypt.

One would hardly expect to hear Of
a camel being an object of public at.
traction in Egypt. That such is the
case. however, is vOuched for by the
Egyptian Gazette. THE ship Of the
desert" or the one-humped drome
Diary, is very common in the streets Of
Cairo and other parts of the Nile
country, but when the geological gar.
den at Ghizeh secured a specimen Of
the two-humped Bactrian camel there
was indeed a sensation.
The dOuble-decked ship of the des-
ert was the most interesting animal
in the menagerie to the native Egyp-
tian who had been familiar all his life
with the one-humped variety
Strange as it may seem, this particu-
lar specimen was bred and secured
from the Rotterdam geological gar
dens, where the well-knOwn Swiss nat
uralist, DIR. BHettikOfer, is rearing the
species with success.
What the dromedary is to Sahara's
Parched sands, says the Philadelphia
Record, the Bactrian camel is to the
dreary stretches of Asia. As the
dromedary may be likened to the swift
and safe passenger ship, so may the
patient Bactrian beast be referred to
as the slower but az the more impOr-
tant deeply laden merchantmen, for
centuries on centuries, generation
after generation, these patient crea-
lures have been transporting the
wealth of China, farther India and the
orient generally to Russia and thence
throughout the occident.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
DUCHESS OF ORLEANS.
Should Republication FaGI I'm France
Her HusBand's Rank Might
Make Her q Queen.

It is a common saying in Europe
that one can never tell what will hap
pen tomorrow in Paris. OF late the
royslists have been very active, and
the faithful followers of the house of
Orleans are shouting for the duke of
Orleans-in the secrecy of their pal
aces on the Faubourg Saint German,
of course. Should they attempt to
shout on the streets their aristocratic
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
ERYptIan PapyrI.

The National museum at Washing
ton helps with funds to support t.
explorations in Egypt which DR.. FINN
ders Petrie, the great Psychologist Is
making. As its share Of this years
finds it has just received ten PaPyrus
manuscripts, dating from about tns
birth Of Christ. They are mostly bills
Of lading for camel trains, receipts ior
goods. etc
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10

The problem Of the conveyance o.
electrical power is no barrier to pns
California electrician. San Jose mas
Just been equipped with a system 2, o
electric lighting the current for WIZ" .,
is carried for q distance Of 17s mics
from q point in the heart Of the SlefI'
EaVada mountains.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10

Col. R. H. Pratt, head Of the govern
ment Indian school at Carlisle "a
reports that the enrolment OF InolaI
students there this year has reaensu
the high-Water mark Of 1913. The STU
dents are encouraged to earn money
by hiring out during vacation an
they made nearly S32,OO that way ias'
wear.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10

For fine lavender water use two
ounces Of finest oil Of lavender, one
ounce essence Of musk, one-haif ounce
essence Of ambergris, One-half ounce
oil Of bergamot and one-half gallon Of
rectifed spirits. Nix the ingredients,
keep in q ,demijohn for several days,
shaking occasionally. Then filter and
bottle.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1903-01-10
Nor.atr IN Zee rraE..

The newest and prettiest tea trays
are oblong, with brass or wooden han
dies and a glass bottom which may be
removed to admit a piece Of burnt
leather or rich fabric, racing print, or
other decoration.
Evening capital., 1903-08-08
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