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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
ART OF CAKE MAKING.
Ingredients Should Be Best the Market
 Affords.

Ingredients Should Be Best the Market
 Affords.
 The ingredients. to produce fine cake, must be as good as the market will pro vide and the purse allow. It is impos- sible to make nice cake when poor cooking butter and stale eggs are used. the strongest vanilla ex- tract will not down such favors. Be- sides good butter and eggs have pastry flour. first-class baking powder good granuIated sugar and favoring that stands at the head of its class. If in- ferior baking powder is used, your cake will either be full of holes or heavy; as for poor extracts, they either evaporate altogether or your cake has a queer, unwholesome flavor, which stays in the mouth after it Is eaten. If you cannot afford good materials for cake, substi- ute wholesome gingerbread or crisp cookies.
 Before I touch on recipes want to emphasize some of the other secrets of good cake. One of them is an oven of proper temperature l am now using a gas range and light both burners ten minutes before the cake goes in. This gives the necessary heat for layer cake, which must be raised quickly and baked quickly. When baking a loaf cake or sponge cake reduce the heat, must go in the proper place in the oven, for they should bake slowly. The cake must go in the proper place In the ovne, always in the lower shelf. If you could watch cake baking you would see the tiny bubbles that have been obtained by beating the eggs and the cake mix ture, also the gas liberated by the wet ting of the baking powder, grow larger and larger. As they expand by the thousand they are gradually, as cook calls it, raising the cake. There comes a moment when they have expanded as far as it is possible, then the cake ought to begin to crust and brown. At this point the heat penetrating the mixture begins to transform the bub- bling batter into the feathery substance we call cake. The last portion to bake is in the center, because there has been greater heat around the sides of the pan. Whether cake is well baked, you may tell by pricking it with a tooth- pick in the center. If it comes out dry the cake is baked. if it is the least bit sticky it requires longer baking. An excellent rule to follow while baking cake in a gas oven is to run two burn CTS till it is fully raised, then turn out one and all of it to finish baking slow ly with one burner.LGood Housekeep- keeping.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
WAR UNITED THE RACES.

The exactions of the war possibly brought the races nearer together than they had ever been before. There had been, in times past, some hostile feeling between the negroes and the plain whites, due principally to the we'll known arrogance of a slave population. This was largely dispelled during the war, on the one side by the heroism shown by the poor whites. and on the other by the kindness shown by the ne- groes to their families while the men were in the army. When the war closed. the friendship between the races was never stronger; the relations were never more closely welded.
 One reason which may be mentioned for the goodwill that continued to ex- ist during this crisis, and has borne it's part in preserving kindly relations ever since, is that among the slave-owning class, there was hardly a child who had not been rocked in colored mammy' s arms and whose first ride had not been taken with negro at his horses head 4AOl OilC AlAO6C CiOSSHl Plcy lildlCS III youth had not been the young negroes of the plantation. The entire genera tion which grew up during and just af- ter the war, grew up with the young ne- groes, and preserved for them the feel ing and sympathy which their fathers had had before them. This feeling may hardly be explained to those who have not known it. Those who have known it will need no explanation. It possibly partakes somewhat of q feudal instinct; possibly of a clan instinct It is not mere affection; for it may exist where affection has perished and even where its object is personally detested. Whatever it is, it exists universally with those who came of the slave-hold- ing class in the south, who knew In their youth the negroes who belonged to their family, and, no matter what the provocation, they can no more divest themselves of it than they can of any other principle in their lives. Thomas Nelson Page in March McClures.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
IvALLINGFORD

The committee of the board of bur- |gesses has reported in favor of a sewer Ion Cherry street, Hall avenue and Washington street to Quinnipiac street. |The estimated cost is about $6,913.50. Another report was to have a surface |water sewer from Cherry street to the flake through Silk street. The commit |tee also reported in favor of a sewer lon Washington street, from Oak street [to Ha1l avenue, the estimated cost be- ling $500 special meeting will be |called next week to take action on the llast item.
 Mrs August Burckhardt, of New Britain, has been secured to fill the po- ssition as teacher at the Whittlesey ave- snue school during the absence of Miss 9Eilen McCormac in Ottawa, Ontario Work will begin on Monday. April 4, Playing the quartered-oak floor in St. SPauls church.
 (Company K sixty-fiye were present at Ehe inspection on Tuesday evening by 5Captain Winston, U. S. A. | The Woman's exchange has been or
 ganized for the purpose of furnishing
 an opportunity for the sale of works of
 hrt, fancy articles or other handiwork
 ef women. The opening sale will take place at Mrs. Charles H. Miller's, S93
 North Main street, Saturday afternoon
 frem to 6.
 . Henry J. Nearing, of Whitlesey ave- hue, is temporarily disabled by badly |Eprained ankle, the result of fall from his doorstep.
 Mrs. M. E. Cook, who has been i'll for
 six weeks, is now able to be about
 hgain.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
ON THE PARIS CHANCE.

It may be said that seat among the Seventy (they cali it charge) costs about three million francs (six hundred thousand dollars) or sometimes two million and a half, and a charge earns from five to fifteen per cent. (net) a year, so that the annual profits are from thirty to ninety thousand dollars, or more in exceptional years. But these are usually divided among several asso- ciates, for it rarely happens that an agent is the sole owner of his seat. More often he has paid for only half of it. or a third of it, and has three or four silent partners who own the rest and who may again have sub-partners, so an eighth or sixteenth of a seat, or even thirty-second, these being sim pie investments that carry no rights or privileges on the Bourse.
 As to procuring 8 charge, the thing has none of the Stock Exchange sim plicity, where the main requirement. for getting a seat is to be able to pay for it. Here a candidate must be a French man and at least twenty-five years old. He must have served four years in cer- tain forms of business. He must be personally acceptable to the agent from whom he would purchase the seat, and often to his family, including the ladies. He must be passed upon by the Seventy with formal voting, as if he were join ing some select club, which he is. There must be no stain on his business record, and no slur on his personal character. A candidate was rejected re- gently for bad habits, and another for no fault of his own, but because his brother had been concerned in ques- tionabie transactions. With all this favorably settled, there is still needed the approval of the minister of finances and the sanction of the president. This makes it clear enough why many of the ablest dealers on the Bourse have not been members of the parquet, but of the coulisse. They could not get into the parquet.-From Cleveland Moffett's ''The Paris Bourse" in the March Gen. tury.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
RussIA.s FINANCIAL POSITION.

RUSSIA'S FINANCIAL POSITION.
 Russia's position is like that of mo- bleman who has large but utterly neg lected estate and a house thatis falling about his ears. who is deeply in debt, who pays one lender by borrowing from another, who sees his debts steadily mounting up toward the point at which ruin becomes inevitable, and who des- perately makes the most fantastic at tempts at making money, hoping to dis entangle himself. One of Russia s strange expedients for getting money was lately revealed in the Times. Ac- cording to it's extremely well informed Picking correspondent, Russia claimed after the Boxer rising from China an indemnity of seventeen million nine hundred thousand pounds, on the ground that she kept one hundred and seventy-nine thousand soldiers in Chi na, at an expense of one hundred pounds each. According to the Picking correspondent of the Times. she kept in reality only fifty thousand in China, and the Russian exchequer should thus have made net profit of at least hWtlNS IlllilOH IlIlG LuHufGu lIOuSdllu pounds out of this transaction.
 Of late years the supply of loanable money has for various reasons become scarce and dear in the various money centers of the world, and it would have been extremely difficult for Russia to provide for her ordinary peace expen- allure, as she would not easily have been able to obtain those without which she can apparently not make both ends meet. Therefore it is not easy to see how Russia will be able to raise the funds necessary for carrying on the Japanese war which will probably prove exceedingly costly. and how she will meet her current obligations, un- less she should abandon her over anbi- tious policy, which is beyond her finan- cial strength, and disband her army and navy. However. such an event seems hardly likely.
 Many of the best observers have for a long time past been of opinion that Russia is financially unable to conduct la great war However, lack of money has never prevented a nation from go- ing to war, for it may make up for it's war expenses by repudiating it's public debt. Whether Russia will meet her obligations in full remains to be seen. If she should be forced to repudiate or to compound with her foreign creditors either because of the costliness of the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24

present war or because the internation- al money market can no longer supply Russis's unsuitable financial require ments. 1t will be an evil day for the French nation. which has lent to Rus sia more than three hundred million pounds
 Russia's financial collapse would probably mean the break up of the dual alliance. for in the first place the thrift ty Frenchman is exceedingly sensitive when his pocket is touched, and in the second place Russia would have proved herself financially unable to be an effi- cient ally to France in case of war. Ample funds are. after all, sinews of war which are as indispensable as are armies and heets.-O. Eltzbaeher in the Nineteenth Century.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
THE RrssIAN PEAsANr-

HE RUSSIAN EL<--f7<--N L.
 The truth is that the Russian peasant. one hundred million of him. is under present conditions slowly starving to death. His average earnings in the central provinces are seventeen and eighteen eopecks (eight to nine cents) per day throughout the year: during the busiest harvest time they rise to an av- craze of twenty-seven to thirty-six CO., peeks (thirteen to sixteen cents a day); during the whole winter he and his family earn nothing. His diet consists of meal. flour and grits. cabbage and potatoes; no meat. excepting three times year. His diet is insufficient, and less than in any civilized country. The hoyel he lives in is two and a half yards long and one and one-half yards high, harboring the whole family and whatever cattle he possesses. These data are. taken from official sources.
 Is it a wonder that the Russian pea/ ant has morally and physically degene- rated? That the women are immoral, dreading maternity. and given to a frightful extent to infanticide? That the mensare nomads, leaving wives and children for months, often years, trying to earn something in town or in far away districts? That the recruiting in these central provinces shows progress sively physical unfitness for the army? That the health of the women is bad, and that the rate of increase in the population in this "black-earth belt" has dropped to O.2s, against one and one-half in the whole empire Wolf von Schierbrand, Ph. D., in Harpers Weeks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
PERSONAL

Archie SeIk. the genial and efficient assistant foreman at caryrs pharmacy on State street, is, as his host of friends will be pleased to learn, conyalescing from a severe attack of the grip. It was feared at one time that Archie" would have to Ego south" where the gentle zephyrs would help to reanimate his wasted frame. but as he is hourly making appreciable gains in health and appetite it now looks as if he might very soon take his accustomed place in the store and resume his arduous du- ties.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
THE NEW PARISH HOUSE
OF DWIGHr PLACE CHURCH
 OPENED LAST EVENING.
Fly. Hundrsd Member. aud Friend. Enjoy ths Oeea.ion-Ths s2.ooo More Ns.dsa Ral..d L... Night.

Needed Raised Last Night.
 The opening of the nav parish house of the Dwight Place church last even ing proved a very happy and joyous occasion. Some five hundred members and friends of the church gathered to inspect the well equipped and elegantly appointed rooms and to take part in the task of raising the 5000 necessary to place the new addition out of debt. The various rooms presented almost a festive appearance. Lights glittered in every part, and cut flowers and potted plants in great profusion ornamented the parlor and halls. class rooms and lecture room.
 After the inspection of the rooms the people gathered in the main lecture room. where the more formal exercises were held. After songs by the audience solos were rendered by MT. Avis. Mrs. Cutler and MT. Spier. Rev. Dr. Leete. the pastor, spoke with enthusiasm Of the interest and noble spirit that had been shown in the progress of the work, having good words to say of Mir. Rob inson, the architect, and the eontrac- tors of the several parts of the build ing, and of tine energy and careful oversight of the building and society s committees.
 Samuel H. Read was then introduced as chairman of the building committee. MT. Read spoke of the desire to raise g., 900 to place the building out of debt. He kept the audience in good humor by his witticisms and words of apprecia- tion and energy. He called first for four contributions of s100 each, which were quickly forthcoming; then for $50. then $25, and so on down to $1. At 10 o'clock the announcement was made that the required sum had been raised. The result was greeted with loud cheers.
 Ice cream and cake were then served. After refreshments S. H. Read. as the schairman of the building committee, de- livered the keys of the new building to Major Dennis Blakeslee, chairman of ! the society's committee. Major Blakes- | lee responded in a happy vein. thank ling the building committee for it's faith fulness and to Dr. Leete for his energy and perseverance in pushing the work forward.
 Upon motion of Deacon Wells Camp bell a vote of thanks was extended to Dr. Leete for his efforts to further the work. with great enthusiasm. pr. Leete replied, and stated that the new / Stirling piano for the ladies parlor was the gift of MT. and Mrs. S. H. Read.
 The Dwight Place church is to be Congratulated on being possessed of the most complete and beautiful parish house in the city, and one of the finest | in New England.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
MIR. LECKY AT. COLLEGE.

Lecky gained his chief distinction speeches at the Historical Debating So- ciety. The unbroken flow of Irish speakers cannot fail to astonsh and be- wilder those who are accustomed only to English methods of oratory, and who may have listened, with some anxiety as to the result, while even a Cabinet Minister huns and haws" and pauses for the words he requires to express his ideas. There were. several men in the Historical at that time who possessed this remarkable gift of fiuency, but none of them ever approached Lecky in the rapid, unbroken flow of words. There was here no apprehension of any breakdowr-the only apprehension was that the torrent might never cease. There was something, too, in the long sweep of the arms and the upturned pose of the head that suggested a nat ural inspiration as if the words were bubbing up spontaneously and the speaker himself was poWerless to stop the flow. Yet the speeches were always carefully prepared during long walks on the West Pier at Kingston, though they were not committed to memory. A few notes on slip of paper about two in ches long and about one wide, crumpled up in the waistcoat pocket, were all he carried to remind him of the points in the subject. The language was always admirable. rising at times to high pitch of eloquence, perhaps occasion ally little too ornate but producing distinct thrill through the audience. It was said sometimes that the matter was more emotional than argumenta- tive. but those who had to reply found the task by no means an easy one.- The National
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
- GREAT BRITAIN's THIN CRUST.
Hidden Beneath the Earth-surface
 Many Dangers Lurk.

Many Dangers Lurk.
 How many of the millions of inhabit- ants of this tight little island realize that danger turks hidden and unsus- neeted beneath many an apparently firm and rigid city pavement. beneath many a smiling green field and even beneath the back gardens which they cultivate with so much assiduity and pride?
 That may, perhaps, appear to be a somewhat alarinist way of putting it; but it is, nevertheless, justified by hard fact.
 Britain is honeycombed in many dis triets to an extent which places the lives of large sections of the population i'll jeopardy.
 Centuries of delving for coal and salt in the bowels of the earth have, in parts of South Yorkshire, Lancashire, the Midlands Cheshire and South Wales, left nothing but diminish crust be- tween the vault of heaven and the cav ernous depths below.
 This has led to subsidences of the earth. which have so recently as the
 
 loss of life and damage to property in the shape of collapsing houses and sinking, undulating streets.
 Another source of danger is to be found in the numberless disused wells that have become covered up with a slight caking of soil and treacherous growth Of weeds. and which from time to time claim unsusrecting victims.
 But it is in cengested towns and cit- ies that new danger is confronting us. The rapid growth of population and the necessity for obtaining means of raoid transit have driven man to |employ ingenuity in devising methods oe lecomotion in the air above and in the earth beneath
 London, to take the supreme example, Is being burrowed from end to end with tubes" and underground rail- ways. It may be contended that these tubes are constructed at depth so great as to preclude all possibility of danger: but already we have seen in the case of the Central London Rail- way bitter complaints of vibration and damage to property on the part of peo- pie living in houses immediately above the tube"
 This cause os complaint and other troubles still to be revealed will be null tiplied as tubes" increase in number.
 A coal mining expert informed an Express representative yesterday that some 150O0O, ,000000 tons of coal remain to be extracted from the earth in Great Britain, and that as the enormous year ly attractions continue earth cavities will have to be made to such huge dimensions that an extensive system of undermining must be resorted to in or der to make the surface even tolerably safe for the people.
 A correspondent who occupies a cot taGe in Kent writes to the Express a letter which relates a remarkable story
 He says that he and his wife and children were returning from ramble in the country when they noticed a circular depression in the vegetable patch close to the cottage. The earth suddenly began to move, and the moth CT. in deep anxiety, snatched her chill dren away just in time to see the earth sink and reveal a disused well, which. when measured showed a depth of 80 feet.-From the London Express.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
, BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL.
9r. Eli Ives Recovering-operation on

|Br. Eli Ives Recovering Operation on Dr. Bean Yesterday. Dr. Eli Ives and Dr. William H. Bean, beth of New Haven, and both members |of the medical staff of the Bridgeport hospital have been seriously i'll. Dr., lives is sconvalesoent after a five weeks Sickness from articular rheumatism and fs at his home in this city for a day or two.
 Dr. Bean, whose home is on Pleasant
 Btreet, this city, is at Dr. Skinner's san- ttarium in this city, where he was op- |erated upon. His difficulty is blood poisoning His early recovery is confi- |dently expected. Another physician of the Bridgeport hospital has been quite i'll in the past New weeks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
DEATH OF SAMUEL KANTROWITz
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DEATH OF. SAMUEL KANTROWITz. Samuel Kantrowitz, the well known barber of State street, died yesterday Afternoon at o'clock at his late resi- Hence, 718 State street. He was the
 husband of the late Mrs. Etta Kantro- |witz, who died four months ago, and |who was very popular in Jewish circles
 He leaves one daughter, Miss Caroline L. Kantrowitz, aged ten years. Mr. #Santrowitz was a member of the Mish-
 kan Israel temple on Orange street, and 'hlso of Moses Mendelssohn lodge, order 'bf K. s., and Pyramid lodge, A. o. U
 w. The funeral will be held from Mish-
 kan Israel temple on Orange street Fri Hay morning at 10 o'clock. He leaves five brothers and three sisters Joseph, Ralph and Emil of this city, pr. A., and
 Marks of New York city, and Mrs. Ga- fewski of New York city. Mrs. Henry Rogowski of this city, and Mrs. Lena |Citron of Los Angeles, Cal
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
RAILROAD AFTER MORE PROP
 ERTY.

Wills E. Miler is Again Chosen as Arr
 bitrator
 The satisfaction given by Willis F.. Miller as arbitrator on the price of Ar tizan street property is evidenced by the fact that he has been chosen to act in the same capacity on still another piece of property wanted by the rail- road
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LAKEWOOD. N. T.

Should you care for information nbout Lakewood, New Jersey, and it's famous hotels, Laurel House and I.aurel-in-thn. Pines, write for free copy of the beautIflll- y Illustrated souvenir magazine, Laurel Leaves from Lakewood" Issued monthlg. Address D. 5. Plumer. Lakewood. N. J.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
SEASIDE HOUSE

Atlantic City, N. J. Occan Fro7,t
 Every comfort, including sea water baths. elevator, sun parlors, golf, etc. N. P' COOK & Son, formerly of the Hotel Senate. f6 52t
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THE WILTSHIRE

Virginia Avenue and Beach. Open all the year. American and Europ- can plans. Delft cafe. Music. Long dts tance phones in all rooms. American plan S2.o0 per day up; European plan $1 90 per day up. s.s. PHoEBUs. Proprietor.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24

Miss Kate S. Chittenden, organist of
 Calvary Baptist church, New York, was in town for the Boston symphony con bert.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Hotel ISleswortI

Directly on the Beach, Atlantic City. N. American and European pians Hot and cold salt water in every bath Long distance telephone service in bedrooms. Sun parlor. Write for booklet
 OSBORNE & PAINTER
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e A. GS T e REA. Bears the n1hs Kind You Have Always Bought signature ss N1N2A1Z0
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In Order to Get to Weigh, He mu.s
 Abstain Prem Liquids for the Las
 Few Dayf Of TratnisE-Bsnny Yan- ger aud Young corbett Notable Ex-