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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23
Russians Drink Train Oil.
From What-to-Eat.

From What-to-E Eat.
Some folks In Russia will pledge their
friends in goblet of unrefined train oil.
and not so long time ago jewellers on the
American prairies esteemed a glass of buff
falos blood the richest drink on earth.
Russian peasants have a popular drink
which they call "quass.' This Is made Of
fermented cabbage water and Is said to
taste like mixture of soap suds and stale
fish. north German delicacy. known as
schnepfendrech. is known to consist prtn-
cipaliy of the excreta of the common wood
cock. In Malabar bats are considered a
toothsome dainty. while in certain parts OF
North America polecats and prairie wolves
are eaten by the natives.
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Baltimore Markets
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, September 23.-FLOUR-
341 barrels. y
WHEAT-Dull: spot contract. s3Aas31k; spot,
No red western. s4ssas4A September. s3tl as3A !;
October, WtaaS34: December, S6LaS6A; steamer
No red T5l4a75Ls: receipts 2 s6i bushels: south
err by sample 85a7ss southern on grade 7shassts.
.CoRNIepieti spot. 58ka5Sh; September, $50
sou; March 5Oa50H; steamer mixed. 56Aa56laa; re-
ceipts, 1872 bushels southern white corn, 50a6O;
southern yellow corn 60a61.
OAS-Firner: No. white, a3 sales: No. 2
mixed 3lha31s.; receipts. sO,273 bushels
RfE-StIong and higher No. western, G61s
sales; receipts. 4,243 bushels. =, -
HAY-Steady. unchanged. =
GRAIN FREIGHTS-Firmer; steam to Iiyerpool
per bushel. ID. October Cork for orders per quar-,
ter, IS. December January.
BUTTER-Steady,- fancy imitation 19a2O: fancy
creamery, 22a22la; fancy ladle, 1Sa19; store
packed, 15a16
EGGS-Steady, 81.
CHEESE-Firm; large. 12A; medium, 1915:
small. II.
$50. -
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Like Stones

From the Chicago News.
Say. Halton. what In the deuce was all
that excitement up at your house today?"
Bread riot. old chap"
Bread riot? You must be joking?'
mo. my wife gave crowd of tramps
some of those leaves she baked for me and
they began to pelt one another with them
and six went to the hospital"
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call. 70 O'Clock noon-Wa shington
42X. " -
Washington Loan and Trust ut 21O, 10 at 30
Union Trust. 10 at 139. at 139, 10 ut 139E.
Lanston Monotype, Z at 10.
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat, 10 at 3OOh.
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lo7sI per
Money. 2a2H per cent.
The rate of discount in the open market for short
bills is 3 per cent
The rate of discount in the open market for three
months bills As per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23

r. DeMarees van Ewinderen, minister OF
the Netherlands to the United States, ar
rived In New York from Rotterdam.
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New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w B. Hibbs & Co, bankers
and brokers, lab f street. members New
York stock exchange. Washington stock
exchange and Chicago board of trade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-23
Today's Government Receipts.

Ne tional bank notes received today for re-
DEN ption. $824641; government receipts
from internal revenue. $665. 2S5; customs.
$65i. 131: miscellaneous, $A, 7O1; expendi-
lures. s., 22O,OOO.
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LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

Nine transactions made up the total busi-
ness at the meeting of the local stock ex-
change today. A number Of the brokers
have left the city for weekend excursions
into the country or to neighboring cities.
and interest is at the ebb. The common
stock of the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company. the stock Of the Washington
Loan and Trust Company and that 0f the
Union Trust Company. the Lanston Mono
type Machine Company and the Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat Company were
the securities traded.
The Union Trust Company's stock con-
tinues to look better. Sales were made to-
day at an advance over the last ones, which
were at increased prices. Fifteen went at
133 and ten brought 1894
One hundred and twenty-five shares Of
the Washington Railway and Electric COM
mon. seven shares OF the Lanston and ten
of the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company stock were sold. Nothing OF spe-
cial interest developed in the prices.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
The Average Earnings of Agricul-
tural Laborers Only Ten
Dollars Year.

A Russian correspondent of the Lon
don Statist, vouched for by that journal
as "in a position to have the very best
information" asserts that the average
revenue of a peasant in Russia is only
$40 year, Of which sum he has to pay
$3.50 for the needs of the government. !"
AS the Statist remarks, that may well
appear incredible to the ordinary read
er." How man can live on less than
three cents day in Russia or in any
other cold climate is not capable OF
explanation. The strikers in Warsaw
the correspondent says, work SO hours
a week, and weavers there earn only
s3.06, while other workers get less
They are not allowed to form unions, a
very necessary restriction when the pay
is SO meager. Agricultural laborers re.
ceive very much less pay. But the cza,
receives $4,000 annually, with free
palaces and other things, and the grand
dukes. ETC., are paid in proportion Rus
sia will never have what may be called
a settled government under such condi.
tions.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
NOVEL CHICKEN DISHES.
An Excellent Recipe for Chicken Pud-
ding and Full Directions for Civ
ing the Meat Wild Flavor.

An improvement on old-fashioned
chicken pie, which was always rath-
er insipid dish, is chicken pudding.
Cut up two chickens, if a good-sized
pudding is wanted, and fry them in a
very hot saucepan with chopped salt
pork and a few slices Of onion. The
frying is merely to seal the outside,
and five minutes is ample time to al
low for this Fill the saucepan half
full of boiling water, season with salt
and pepper, and stew the chicken until
it is quite tender. Remove from the
liquor and place in a baking dish.
Make batter with flour, milk, a
tablespoonful Of butter and three eggs,
whites and yolks beaten separately.
Pour. this over the chicken and bake.
Boil down the liquor in which the
chicken was stewed. thicken with a
roux of -four and butter, and serve in
sauce boat with the pudding.
Chicken cooked after the following
recipe closely resembles prairie chick
en-: Large fowls are slowly steamed
until tender. In a deep skillet place
a heaping tablespoonful of butter, sew
eral slices of bacon, half a dozen pep
percorns and half dozen whole
cloves. Roll the pieces of chicken in
salted flour and fry until brown. At
the last moment add cupful of cream,
allow it to heat and serve at once
Good Housekeeping.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
Effects Of Prosperity.

- inc SIX years Of the country's
srea'est prosperity, from 1897 to 1909
=. .elase prices of breadstuEs advanced
% per cent, meats 23.1 per cent. dairy
ana garden products SOL per cent. and
c,o.nlng 41. All these were products
VI ene farmer and stockman who
pronted more than any other class Of
lne community by these advances
Inc miner benefited 42.1 per cent. by
tna1 advance in the average price Of
metals The only decrease in the
average prices of commodities in that
PERIOD was in railway freight rates
which decreased from .79s per ton.mi,e
IN 1897 to .763 in 1908, a loss of 80
per cent The report OF the Interstate
commerce Commission shows that tha
average increase in the pay of rail-
ROAD employees in that period was q
trlffe above s.5 per cent.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
GENERAL GLEANINas.

Massachusetts,, proposes to erect a
suitable memorial to the late George
Frisbie Hoar.
Ihe old Vanderbilt homestead at
New Dorp, Staten Island, has been
leased for poultry farm.
Indiana proposes to erect statue .,f
her great war governor, Oliver P.
Morton. in the state house yard at
indianapolis.
Thirty-hve thousand prisoners have
faced Judge Rufus b. Cowing. of
Greater New York, since he ascended
the bench in 1877.
The horse supply Of the world is about
$4,000 animals. In Europe there are
$4,000; in North and South America,
$4,000; in Asia, 11,00O; in Australasia,
1000, and in Africa. 1.250,00O.
The largest diamond in the world
that was recently found is not OF the
crystalline sort used as gem. If it
were its value would be fabulous, for it
Is u times larger than the famous Vic
terla diamond. the largest of modern
tnds. which vas sold for S1.5C0,0O0.
lis value depends upon the use to which
can be put when broken up. for it is
Of the amorphous kind, known tech
lically as carbon.
California, that wonderland of vege-
tation, has also produced for a nu1aber
of years, in commercial way, silk
worm eggs that find ready market in
Europe. The California experiment
station has recently taken up anew the
3 problem OF silkworm culture, with the
idea OF devising method which will
reduce the cost of producing raw silk.
The European market absorbs all the
silkworm eggs California produces, but
lhe expense OF producing silk is too
great to enable the silkworm growers
to compete with oriental or European
growers.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29

cents an hour. This result is compli-
Gated by some considerations as to
tireproofing that are a concession 10
employers. Nine thousand men will
profit by this record rate of $3.50 for
an eight hour day, $3.50 for the NOM
tnal halliday" on Saturday, and extra
for overtime. These are not New York
rates in general. They are the rates
for Manhattan alone. Just across the
river in Brooklyn or Queens or Jersey
wages are slightly lower, and rightly
SO. It costs less to live in these quar-
tiers. and if a man from Brooklyn
works in Manhattan there is the car
fare.
Ny favorite story to astonish visit
ing foreigners is Of the mason who
earned SIS a week 1t is perfectly
straight. There was the regular rate.
There was the extra rate for going
90 miles out of town (he was at work
upon q great country house in Green
wich). There was extra for overtime,
for the man who wanted the house
was in great hurry-as every New
worker who wants anything is apt to
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
MEDICAL MENTION.

Ten beats of a healthy pulse are
equal to nine seconds.
Color blindness is, curious1y enough,
found mainly among the educated
classes, of whom no fewer than four
per cent. have this defect.
According to doctor the voices of
singers and actors can be much better
preserved if used in theaters lighted
by electricity rather than by gas.
In 1877 only six per cent. of British
children were unyaccinated. Now the
proportion of abstension from infantile
vaccination has risen to 81 per cent
in towns and rs per cent. in country
districts.
DR. William Henry, an English ply
sician, states as a result of expert
ments that in all forms of animal life,
insects included exists the taste for
alcohol He says that fishes are the
only real "teetotalers" in creation.
.The statistics of last year" de-
clared Dr. Edward Martin. director of
the department of public health and
charities of Philadelphia, showed
3.O52 deaths from tuberculosis, and
3.191 deaths from pneumonia. They
show also while tuberculosis is de-
creasing, pneumonia is increasing. It
ia Of the utmost Importance that the
public becomes aroused to realiza-
tion of the gravity of the situation and
that it be advised how to protect It.
SELF
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
ON SWEEPING A ROOM.
Hardwood Floors Infinitely Prefer.
able to Carpets, But Where Latter
Are Used Clean Strenuously.

| It treQuires skill and patience to sweep
room properly. The chief mistake
made by the novice is in taking long,
heavy strokes. Short, light strokes
which are firm do the work as it should
be done. It is always best to sweep
heavy Brussels carpet or one of similar
make once with the grain and then
across it, going over each three or four
yards in this way until the entire carpet
| is swept. When carpet is old and worn
evenly this is not necessary, but if it is
new or has perceptible ridges in the
weaving this method should be followed.
After going over a room thoroughly,
allow the dust to settle, and in ten or
fifteen minutes give it the final brushing
sweeping once again rather lightly.
This can be done with carpet sweeper
or dampened broom. Tea leaves scat
tered over the carpet, however, are bet
ter than either. They should be wrung
out and loosely sprinkled over the car
pet just before this final sweeping.
1t is good plan to add cupful Of salt
to every two cupfuls of tea leaves used.
The salt seems to brighten the colors Of
faded carpet, as well as to aid in the
removal of dust When this second
sweeping is over use whisk broom
around the corners and at the edges of
the carpet
After the walls are busted and the car.
pet is thoroughly swept, some house,
keepers wipe off the carpets surface
with cloth dipped in salt and water
and then thoroughly wrung out. This
will remove every atom of dust A cloth
used for this purpose must be frequently
rinsed out in fresh water, and then
dipped again into salt and water, wiring
ing thoroughly. Other housekeepers rub
the carpet with cloth wrung out as dry
as possible from water to which two
tablespoonfuls of ammonia have been
added for every gollon. This will also
brighten faded colors.
1t is needless to say that in sweeping
as thoroughly as this everything in the
room should either be removed or COW
cred carefully with dusting sheets.
Housekeepers who are buying heavy
pieces of furniture should select only
those that can be set on casters, so that
they can be pushed out and the dust un-
der them removed.
It is great mistake to neglect sweep.
Ing as thoroughly as this once week.
Dust that becomes ground into carpet
wears it out more than anything else.
Fortunately, many houses of to-day are
built with hardwood floors, so that this
burden OF sweeping is materially les
sened. Wood floors are easily swept with
hair brushes or rubbed with crude Pc
troleum or simply polished with wax
ing brush.-N. Y. Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29


bought. but not built upon, a fine plot
at the lower end of Central park, just
five miles from the Journal of Com
merce. That is Fifty-ninth street. At
Forty second is the new building of
the Times, or what has been renamed
Times Square," Facing this square
was the boarding house l used when
came to the city to live. Now it is
the center of Broadways Great White
Way of electric lights At Thirty
fourth street is the Herald; and then
long jump down to the other daily
papers about old Printing House
square-the World, Sun and Tribune
all in row, the Journal as a tenant
of the Tribune, the Press in beau
tiful new building just around the
corner
The Evening Post in 1O4 years has
moved uptown just 1860 feet, or say
Is feet a year. It's present building
on the corner of Fulton street and
Broadway is now the center OF the
real estate quarter. The Post goes
across Broadway to the Astor house
side, where land is much cheaper, and
no doubt makes enough money by the
move to erect it's new building, for
the old site is just right for a great
new sky-scraper. Yet the old building
is not old; and it is eight stories tall;
and William Cullen Bryant in his later
years, when his beard and hair were
white as SNOW nSpd fO fEmh aVprv
one of the stairs by way of exercise,
scorning the elevator; and used to
offer to beat the young editors at
gymnastic stunts when he got to the
ton.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29

ence. The record price on Wall street
itself-that IS to say, for the world
was set years ago, at the corner OF
Wall and Broad-the Office of J. P
Morgan, in fact-at SIC. .297 500 an acre.
But that corner is worth much more
now; perhaps twice as much. A short
block away, at the corner of Broadway
and Wall street, is tiny drug store.
The old man who owned it, and who
per square foot for it, SS.12 per square
inch. $19,592 900 per acre. He refused.
You'll have to cover that plot with
gold dollars if you want it, he said
to the broker. The broker went away
and figured a while; he thought he
came back 'I'll cover that plot with
gold dollars" he said, laying down a
handful of them to Illustrate.
Nonsense said the old man testify.
"Put your gold dollars on edge, mani"
There was no sale.
Wall street land is going to become
a political issue. The old custom house
on Wall street covers $1,000 feet of
land. Seven years ago it was sold
(if it was really sold; that is disputed,
by the government to the Standard Oil
National bank for something over
$3,OOO,O00 the government has paid
rent on it ever since, and tie bank
has lodged taxes by not taking title.
Congressman Sulzer says the plot is
worth $1o00O,O00 and judged by values
in the neighborhood this seems likely;
only it isn't everybody who can use
SO large a piece of $4,000, ,000-a -an-acre
retary Gage and Assistant Secretary
Vanderlip in Mr.. McKinley's time
Vanderlip is now an officer of the
bank and Gage the president of a
Standard Oil trust company. And il
right there isn't the material for a
pretty political fight have no knowl-
edge of such matters.
There doesn't seem to be any neces-
sity of dragging Mr.. McKinley's name
into the row, either. He wasn't an
expert upon land values in New York
and he had other things to attend to.
But if New York had had congress
men who were worth their salt the
scandal could never have arisen. For
congress had to pass upon the sale.
Why New York doesn't have such
congressman is an old puzzle. Can
you guess the. answer?
OWEN TANCnnN
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
"DoN'Ts" FOR GIRLS.
Girls should not

Girls should not
Look upon matrimony as devoid OF
seriousness and responsibility.
Take up the time of others with
stories which overflow with incrim-
nations.
Think they have the right to say
what they please to man.
Be too ready to accept favors from
men of their own sphere.
Make great display of jewelry in
places not in keeping Herewith.
Go too far in the way of practical
joking with young chaps.
Show a wish to figure in affairs
which are above their finances.
Imagine that spontaneous admira-
ton is genuine affection.
Discuss subjects with men which be-
long entirely to women.
Fall into the habit of talking about
the failure Of others.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29


are Bright's disease and heart disease,
the speciality Of the man about town. .
Consumption kills fewer people now
in New York than pneumonia. Peo-
pie have learned to sleep with their
windows open; they haven't learned
to avoid the pace that kills. And the
'tpace" causes heart disease and
apt to hit man and more apt to kill
when it does hit.
Partly the pace and partly climate
kills about $4,000 more in a year than
would die in st. Paul. And partly it
is that bad risks" morally and
physically, grayitate to the city. The
folly that one sees in the all night
resorts; the messes swallowed in res
taurants; the anxious faces in Wall
street; the unsmiling mien of the
Broadway throng; the meaningles
gayety of the theaters! 1t is a fact
perhaps not strange, that in some Of
the poorest parts of the town the ten
ement dwellers, especially the Jews,
protected by their dietary rules, aud
those of the Lent-keeping churches
have a lower death rate than in the
"brown stone wards" Because IN
these wards much red liquor is swal-
lowed. much gormandizing INDUCED in,
much gambling done. have seen a
man and woman, both fat, pasty and
unwholesome in complexion, sit over
a long course dinner, during which
they consumed four quarts of wine
Rude Of me to notice it, perhaps, but
Pitt drank two quarts of wine every
night, and he died at 46-"of over
work."
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
Prune Pudding.

NIince cooked prunes-To make one
cup soften one-half package of gelatin
in one-quarter cup of water, add to it one
cup of hot strained juice from the
prunes, one cup sugar, one-half cup
mixed lemon and orange juice. Cool
and add one pint of whipped cream.
Put in mold wet in cold water or use
for charlotte or cake filing, with
whipped cream favored with almond.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
RESTORED HIS HAIR.
Scalp Humour Cured by Cuticura
Soap and Ointment After All
Else Had Failed.

''I was troubled with a severe scalp
humor and loss Of hair that gave me q
great deal of annoyance and inconyen-
lence After unsuccessful efforts with
many remedies and so-caned hair tonics,
friend induced me to try Cuticura Soap
and Ointment The humor was cured in
short time, my hair was restored as
healthy as ever, and l can gladly say l
have since been entirely free from any
further annoyance. I shall always use
Cuticura Soap and / keep the Ointment
cn hand to use as a dressing for the nair
and scalp. (signed) Fredk Busche, 2l3
East 57th ST., New York City"
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29


the old city of $4,000 Inhabitants
and a lord mayor; the metropolitan
district of six millions and half; the
county of London, with over 4,000.-
600 inhabitants, leading New York by
but few hundred thousands. The
latter London, of course, is meant
Anyone would suppose that London
with its perpetual rain would be a
deadly town. but the climate is milGer
than ours in winter, cooler in sum
mer. 1t is the extremes that kill peo-
pie in New York; these and one other
thing which I shall come to. Double
the amount of snow has fallen the
past winter than we usually see; and
while it was fresh upon the ground
disease was slight. Now that it has
melted into unfathomable oceans OF
mud, neglected by the city, disease is
common.
The lowest death rate New York
ever had came in the last year of the
best government it ever had, that OF
Mayor Low and the fusionists. Then
it was Is ana fraction, nearly down
to the London level The coming into
pswer of Tammany Hall was signalled
by an immediate rise in the number
of people de.d. Politics instead of
business in the health, the street clean
ing, the tenement departments, had
something to do with it. And the peo-
pie are paying pretty dearly for their
political whistle. The addition of
point and half to the death rate
under Tammany means an additional
death list of 5000 souls. small city
in itself Put that number of unneces-
sary dead in a procession, tours front
and the usual spaces, and it would
reach a mile; a pathetic column, men,
women and children. Just the addi-
tional point" and a half alone means
that!
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
Chance for Another Guess.

A guest who went to pay his bill not
long since at a fashionable Florida hotel,
was given a statement which showed him
indebted to the house to the extent of
SlA. As he had been there only four
days, and had had few extras, he thought
It little steep, but he never finched.
Opening up fat roll he extended huge
bunch of bills to- the cashier, with the
remark: Guess again Pve got more
money than that. Washington Post.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-29
Molasses Cookies.

Take one cupful of sugar and one
cupful of butter or good shortening.
Cream them and add two cups of mo-
lasses and two eggs. Dissolve two
good-sized' teaspoonfuls of soda in a
little hot water, and fill up the cup
it is in with cold water. Add it to the
other mixture and stir enough fou.
to make a soft dough, but one that
can be rolled out and cut into cookies.
Spice to suit the taste.-Boston Budget.