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New-York tribune., 1905-07-07
4 GOOD RULE FOR PIDCRUsr

Add cup OF butter every two cups Of -four
pastry FOUR. Then chop together In a wooden
bowl with an ordinary old fashioned chopping
knife, until the mixture is broken into small bits
the size OF peas. Add half cup OF Ice water Mix
with a knifs; then beat and turn and beat and
turn until the whole Is smooth, but full OF light
ness. This pounding and turning is better II done
upon q marble board in cool sLorerOom cellar.
Never touch the pastry with spoon or the hand,
but with d knife; then put II where it viii be-
come Ice cold and hard before rolling II out
There several variations to this rule which
can do no harm If baking powder Is wanted, add
a teaspoonful to this amount of -four and butter
New-York tribune., 1905-07-07
HouSesOix,eS Excbanee.

world. TI-Nyr-TES rs sIaInloing IN this
NO 20 West 4sth-st, New-York CITY @lA1- l.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-07

Taks thv seif-denials eayfy and cheerfuly. and
let the sunshine Of thy gIadness fall dark things
and bright alike. like the sunshine Of the Almighty
thames Freeman Clarke
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for APRIL 80. 1905

day he would have snapped in a twinkling; but he
made no effort to get away He munched his fodder
and fairly beamed upon the world.
Tom was the center of an interesting romance
years ago when he had the toothache His
distraction hardly greater than that of his
keepers in their efforts to locate the of his mis-
behavior He had refused to eat ANYTHING for
nearly week, and from good-humored, playful
elephant had become a sulky and even dangerous
monster. Then morning remarkable thing
happened-an episode which has inmortalized Tom
in song and story. He had a visitor, wearing
glasses and smoking short clay pipe. Unaware
of or indifferent to his peril the strange visitor
standing close to the chained brute and whispering
some unntelligible argon to him. Gazing from his
window in the nearby arsenal building, Director
Smith expected to Tom annihilate the intruder.
But to his amazement the crazy elephant as
calm a smiling baby. Whom do you suppose the
who knew how to talk the elephant Ian
guage? Rudyard Kpling. When he and Tom
finished their conversation the great animalwriter
patted Tom his proboscis, and meeting the
menagerie director a few minutes later explained
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that Tom had the toothache and he had in
formed him how it could be cured. Sure
enough, when examination made it
found that tooth had been broken off by
a nail and the gum was badly liberated Tom
figures not only in kipling verse, but is the hero
of one of the best animal stories that kiplng
penned
Toothache and liberated gums perhaps more
common to the reptiles than to any other class of
animals in or out of captivity, said Curator Dtmars,
of The Bronx Park Geological Gardens in New York.
Probably man living has had more hairbreadth
escapes nor the gantlet of reptilian peris
than Curator Ditmars. He confided to the writer,
at the conclusion of an operation performed short
time ago cobra -de-capello with broken nose,
that snakes, no matter how venomous they are,
are the most arrant towards of any animals when
in pain. Ulcers and indigestion are ubiquitous
phantoms in the haunts of the crawling tribes.
All the repusion and fascination which the snake
has for the human family evidenced during the
serio-comic operation the Cobra-de-capello with
its strangely dislocated As a result of the
Continued on page m
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cause of its very thickness of skin this class of
animals have boil ulcer abscess
and suffer with the affection for months before the
skin is broken through A remarkable instance of
this occurred recently in the Central Park menagere
when Tom, the familiar and favorte elephant of
untold egions of children, was pronounced mad and
sentenced to be shot Tom had spent the best years
of his captivity in earning reputation for doclty.
But suddenly day last summer he eX-
hbited symptoms of violent insanity. He would
froth at the mouth and dig great trenches in the
earth with his splendid tusks in frenzed effort to
escape-from what? From the specter of pain
which for eight weeks had followed him sleePessly
and silently and remorselessly. Day after day and
night after night the distracted monster would
throw the menagere in uproar with his trumpeted
wall Sleep forsook him, while a huge ulcer in one
of his ears slowly working its way through
the tough skin on the side of his head. Madly
suffering, the giant invalid was to be shot the day
that the ulcer burst. His insane paroxysm gave
way to an ecstasy of delight when the ulcer broke
Tom led out into the yard. A single small
chain confined him-a chain that on the preceding
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preSlQeS IN the ADAMS nOuSe-dQQS Slll
another halo, it were, to this well-known shrine.
Another architectural treasure of Daughters of
the Revolution (the national president, by the way,
is Mrs. d. Phoenix Ingraham of New York; is the
MaCy-COlby House at AmeSbury, Massachusetts,,
which serves official home for the Josiah Bartlett
chapter. Away back in TO- 50 it was built by Thomas
Macy, the first town clerk, who, though he didn't
have to tramp to war, encountered tribuatons for
daring to have religious convictions. His cul
minating offense was befriending Quakers, where
upon his brothers in the church became SO warke
that he compelled to hustle his family together,
hire open boat, and flee to Nantucket in a rain
storm
This exciting adventure is duly set forth in
Whttier's poem, The Exies" The Colby" part
of the name of this plain NewEngland house re-
fers to the family living therein for nine generations,
the Moses Colby of to-day pleased with the patriotic
doings of Daughters of the Revolution, giving them
outright his birthplace, with little blessing
thrown in.
Not far away is the Edward Devotion House,
which the Isaac Gardner Chapter of Brookline
saved from destruction. The old house
erected in 1850 by Edward Devotion, when
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Turning to the Daughters of the Revolution
in the list of societies of American women
who are preserving historic houses, one in
stantly thinks of the little old-fashioned farm-like
house at Quincy, Massachusetts, far-amed as birth
place of the second President of the United States
As chapter house for the Adams chapter it serves
for many a patriotic OCCASION: when the boys
thereabout returned from the Spanish-American
War, foot-sore and homesck, they were greeted
within these hallowed walls by Daughters of the
Revolution before they disbanded in front of the
house and separated to their own fresides. Pre-
cisely like the Adams character, the homestead is
plain and square, and within it remain many of the
family herlooms including the queer little cradle in
which baby John was put to sleep.
The surroundings of this d. R. chapter-ho
moreover to satisfy the most ardent worshiper
of John Adams. When this sturdy New-Englander
grew to manhood, he began to keep company"
with Miss Abigail Smith, daughter of the minister
at Weymouth; but the parsons flock it seems Cos
siped adversely about the match, because the
would-be benedict only the son of poor farmer
and what worse in their religious eyes, a law
yer by profession. But Cupid outwitted the church
members, and the minister with humorous SYM
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Revolution. The 1ntruderS were
in demolishing mood, and as they
staggered through the room where
hung the picture, punctured it
with their bayonets Oliver Wen
dell Holmes recounted the scene
in a poem, with such lines as
Hold the canvas full in view!"
and That was Redcoat's rapier
thrust" Another Dorothy O."
married John Hancock, and in the
house remains the wallpaper i'm
ported from Paris for the bridal
chamber, displaying profus-
ion of blue-colored Cupids, though,
as this Revolutionary love story
turns out, the couple were OBJ
liged by the first bullets of the
war to flee to Connecticut to be
wed.
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the modern suburb disdainfully designated
as that part of Boston called Muddy River -;
but enterprising citizens of to-day thought they
could put the precious lot to better use. The
city officials about to yield to their per-
suasions, when Daughters of the Revolution,
armed to the teeth with patriotic pleas on behalf
of their forefathers, put in imposing appear
ance, and the day, likewise the house The
aforesaid officials, furthermore, presented the fair
defenders of Edward Devotion House with twenty
five hundred dollars for restoration purposes.
Daughters of the Revolution aspire to possess the
Dorothy O." mansion at Quincy, Massachusetts.
This stands splendid survival of seventeenth
century architecture, and, effectively set among
great trees with a stream flowing close by indeed
would be a proud heritage for fair patriots of to-
day
The Dorothy O." after whom this home is
named was daughter of Edmund Quincy who made
elaborate additions to the original structure built
in 1896; and everybody knows the Dorothy O."
story.
The portrait of this aniable young woman was
hanging in the house when maraudng British
soldiers forced entrance in of the
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pathy for the lovers, preached
from this text the Sunday before
they were married; For John
came neither eating bread nor
drinking wine, and we say he hath
a devil" the first clause referring
to his poverty and the last to the
popular antipathy to law. So they
were married, and in the house
adjoining John Adams birthplace
the couple began their happy mar
ital career.
Here another President was born,
John Quincy Adams, and when in
the stirring days of war John
Adams was away from home look
ing after the affairs of the nation,
Abigail Adams tended the COWS
and garden and wrote love-letters
to cheer her husband, while little
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BY Bertha
DamaTi@ Mm0be

Johnny acted as post-rider between
Boston and Braintree. When near
by battles ragged, the two often
watched them from the top of a
hill, and this spot has been marked
by the Adams chapter with a cairn,
the stones collected from the battle
fields where "once the embattl'd
farmers stood" That Miss Abigail
Adams Of to-day, great-great-grand-
daughter of the second mistress
of the White House, is a member
of the Adams Chapter, and often
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
All Over the. State.

Rev. Alfred Griffin, canon of ST.
Pauls cathedral, Cincinnati, has been
elected chaplain Of Kemper Hall. Keno
sha.
Hans Frederickson, a. retired farmer,
committed suicide at Wonewoc by drink
ing carbolic acid. The cause is despon-
dency.
In Racine Mrs. William Nearman was
badly burned in the explosion of a gaso-
line stove. The house was somewhat
damaged by fire.
A youth named McCabe was seriously
shot at Elcho after hunting trip. He
laid his gun on a table, where it was
accidentally discharged. He may lose
one arm.
The Phillips Cooperative Drug Com
pany has been closed and Judge e. w.
Murray appointed trustee. The liabili~
ties are about $780, and the nominal
assets $4,000.
Henry Trips barn, two miles south
Of GAINESVILLE, burned to the ground with
a loss of $4,000, with $500 insurance.
This is the second mysterious barn burn
ing within a week.
Seven hundred cars of the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern roads are
tied up on tracks at Superior as the re-
suit of restraining order issued on com
plant of the Wisconsin grain commits
sion on the claim that the inspection
fees on the grain was not paid and ask
ing that receiver be appointed to sell
it in satisfaction of the claim,
One man armed with rife is guard
ing the right Of way of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railway south of
Kenosha to prevent the continuance of
grading. The man is James Iillar, a
well-known Kenosha real estate man,
and he declares that he has not been
paid for the right of way and will resist
with arms any attempt of the company
to continue the work until damages as
sessed by the commission are paid.
While attempting to act as peacemaker
in a saloon quarrel in Milwaukee John
Green, a laborer, was stabbed fatally.
Green identified a man who gave his
name as William Dickson as his assail-
ant.
Four men accused of burglary at the
large department store at Mason were
acquitted in the Circuit Court. They
were Gordon Ross, Peter Dufore, Pat
Ryan and John Mccall The judge gave
the jury a severe lecture and Gordon
Ross and Peter Ross, after being dis
charged, were arrested on the charge
Of robbery and assault.
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THE PURSUIT OF THE WOLF.
VOOOVOOOOOOOVG

A pupil Of one Of the schools taught
in the early days Of the Austin colony
in Texas, about 1889, describes it in
with the Makers Of Texas" The
teacher was Mr.. Dyas, an old Irish
gentleman, who had made teaching his
profession, custom not common In
those days. The session was three or
four months and the studies miscella-
neous, but the discipline was exact.
He had an assortment Of switches
set in grim array over the great open
ing where the chimney was to be
when the school house should be COM
pleted. On one side was the row for
little boys, small, straight and elastic
from kind Of tree which furnished
Indians with arrows and the school
master with switches at the same
time. remember thinking of the
feasibility Of destroying all that kind
Of timber growing near the school
house.
My terror was a little red switch In
that rank which l caught too often,
usually for the offense Of laughing.
The larger switches were graded,
partly by the size Of the boys, and
partly by the gravity Of the offense,
the gravest Of which was an imperfect
lesson. The third size OF rods was Of
hickory-tough sticks, which the mas
ter did not use on little boys, put
which he did use on the larger pupils,
without the least hesitation or reserve,
if they failed to get she appointed
lesson.
AS for the studies, we all had Web
ster's spelling book, and were classed
according to our proficiency in that
great classic.
The last few pages contained some
stories and fables, intended for read
ing lessons. They were illustrated,
the last one being a picture Of wolf,
by some accident well executed,
fact which tended to establish the
book in our estimation, because we
saw wolves every day.
1.-THE picture Of the wolf In the
spelling book" thus became the syn
onym for graduation. The expression
was long used in humorous sense as
equivalent to a diploma, and when 1t
was said Of a boy that he had studied
to 1.-THE picture of the wolf in the spell
ing book" his ability was not after
ward questioned.
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FAsHloNAeLEco COOKING SCHOOL.
Some Amusing Features Described by
an Incidental Visitor.

Some Amusing Features Described by
an Incidental Visitor.
~ special courtesy / visited cook
Ing class one morning which was COM
posed of young housekeepers, says a
writer in the Atlantic. They sat around
a table, each armed with a cook book,
from which the teacher read the les
son and explained the chemistry Of
the compounds. For instance, in MAX
Ing Scotch broth, the meat was to be
put into boiling water and then al
lowed to simmer gently for an hour
and a half, so that it should still re-
tain some Of its juices.
L always put mine on in cold wa
ter" said one.
L took anything that came handy,
not or cold," from another.
L just told the girl to put it on and
cook it," third remarked to me, sotto-
voce.
Different tasks were assigned to
each, and we went to the kitchen; the
whole mechanism Of the stove was ex-
planned, fire was lighted, and it's
care given to one Of the class. Her
look Of dire dismay was amusing.
But don't know how"
You'll learn" responded the
teacher.
Then there was hurrying to and
fro." The fre-lady vibrated tremu-
lousy between the icebox and the fire
box, banging the lids impartially. Seven
women were taking hold of one lunch
con. The dressing had to be remade;
the fire was q roaring success; but ths
center Of attraction was the pastry.
Each woman had a finger in the pie
and folded and rolled and patted and
cut in turn. The luncheon was excel
lent. But this Is what I kept think
ing: Zone pair Of hands is ordinarily
expected to do all this work, one pair
OF feet to do all this running, one head
to keep all these things In mind. Ger
tainly this training will help these
women to practically appreciate the
fact that these things take time Sure
enough. just then little lady said to
me: II never thought things took SO
long,"
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The D,shton "Writing Rock"

At Dighton, Mass, lying well out
In the tidewater Of Taunton River,
is rock of great antiquarian inter-
est. 1t is a granite bowlder about
eleven feet long and five feet in great
est height and is known throughout
New England as the "Dighton writ
ing rock" One side Of the bowlder
is almost perfectly smooth, as though
worn by glacial action. On this fat
surface in clear cut outlines are dozens
Of characters, hieroglyphics and pic
lures, chiseled by some prehistoric en-
graver. The archaeologists have never
been able to decipher these characters,
but they are of undoubted antiquity.
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rounds At ironcla&s at close quar-
ters," using 100 lbs. of hexagonal or
cubical powder and a solid shot weigh
ing $50 pounds. Under these condi-
lions the respectable muzzle velocity
OF 1900 foot-seconds was obtained,
with corresponding muzzle energy
of 1897 foot-tons.
Now, compare these results with
the most powerful gun in our navy to-
day, namely, the 12-inch 45-caliber
rifle, which weighs 53.4 tons, has a
total length Of As feet, and with a
charge of $50 pounds of smokeless
powder fires an $50 pound shell with
muzzle velocity Of $500 foot-seccu Is
and muzzle energy of 1926 foot
tons. The true basis of comparison OF
the relative efficiencies of the two
guns is the amount of energy de-
veloped per ton of the weight of the
gun, and on this basis we find that
The 15-inch smooth bore gun when
fired with 100 pounds of powder, de-
veloped APT foot-tons Of energy per
ton of gun, as against S72 foOt-tons
of energy per ton developed by the
modern 12-inch gun,
If we take account of the durability
of a gun, the advantage will be strong
ly on the side of the modern piece,
for whereas the 15-inch smooth bore
was limited to twenty rounds under
the given conditions, the modern II
inch rifles, judging from the small
amount of erosion developed with
nitro-cellulose powders, should have
useful life of at least half a thou
sand rounds. Moreover, it must be
remembered that the modern elon-
gated shell will hold its velocity much
longer than the old spherical she'll OF
the smooth bore, and consequently the
respective muZZle velOcities ana
energies are not an exact criterion OF
efficiency.
The gun of 1862 that answers to the
modern secondary battery 6-inch rifle
is the Parrot muzzle loading rifle,
cast iron gun which was strengthened
at the breech over the powder cham
Der by shrinking thereon an iron hoop.
The bore of the gun was GA inches. 1t
weighed 4.35 tons, was IL feet
inches in length and with charge OF
10 pounds of powder it fired 100
pound shell with an initial velocity OF
1880 foot seconds and muzzle energy
of SO foot-tons.
Compare this with the modern g.
inch rife which weighs S.5 tons, is rs
feet in length, and with charge of 40
pounds of smokeless powder fires a
100-pound shell with an initial velocity
of 1900 feet per second and an initial
energy of 1888 foot tons. Compared
on the basis of energy per ton of gun,
we find that the 100-pounder Parrott
muzzle loader developed 1876 foot tons
of energy per ton of gun, whereas the
modern 6-inch breech-loading rifle de-
velops 7S41a foot tons of energy per
ton of Scientific American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
Together.

Yes, neighbor, the old folks is gone.
Strange, want 1t, goin' the same
day?
AS well, perhaps. 'Twould be forIorn
If one of 'em had had to stay.
Jake was a stern, onbendin' man.
And Prue as prickly as a bur,
Yet always havin' smiles &r him:
He always had smile for her.
known EN- for years, yet never knew
The day when Prue's sharp, worn old
face
Didn't light up when she see Jake;
Her grin was just like an embrace.
And as for him, he'd kinder chuck,
Gittin' his wrinkles all astir.
She always had smile for him;
He always had a smile for her.
Not overnice to other folks,
A-strugglin' on to make life pay,
They had their little stock Of jokes,
And loved each other, anyway.
SO affirm twas sorter sweet
To see 'em smilin' side by side,
Jest as I've often seen 'em met
They smiled together when they
died.
Youths Companion.
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MIRROR TO EXCHANGE SIGNALS.
IngeniousIy Used by Man and Woman
In a City Prison.

IngeniousIy Used by Man and Woman
In City Prison.
Ingenious are the methods adopted
by William Sampson, alias Allis, who
is locked up in the felony department
of the city prison, to get into COM
munication with his wife and baby,
who are under lock and key in the
women's department under the charge
Of the matron. These people, with
their little baby, Charlie, 2 years OF
age, are suspected of being highway
robbers who have worked with a horse
and buggy in Golden Gate Park.
Every night about 7.3O o'clock
party of women folks call at the prison
to see Mrs. Sampson and Baby
Charles, who are held awaiting the
outcome of the charge against the hus-
band and father of attempted rob-
berry some weeks ago.
Mrs. Simpsons visitors are as regu-
lar as clockwork, especially since the
police have ordered that she must be
kept strictly away from her husband.
They were there as usual last night
and sat to the left of the booking SER
geant's desk, facing the big wall clock,
The entire party watched the clock
closely as they played with the little
baby, who was armed with toy bal
loon, a present from man who had
been arrested for peddling without
license.
Sharp at 8 o'clock Mrs Sampson
moved over to the end bench, right up
against the misdemeanor portion OF
the prison, and this placed her ON a
direct line with the door leading TO
the felony ward. Policeman Maloney
saw that she was smiling and waving
signals toward the place where men
charged with serious crimes are kept.
He investigated. He found that the
pair had perfect code of signals ana
a mirror through which the husband
and father might see and understand.
Sampson was up against the door OF
his cell, with his right arm barred 10
the shoulder and squeezed through the
narrow bars. His arms was stretched
as far out as possible and in his hand
he held a large sized mirror. In THIS
he could see his wife's image and read
the signals she waved to him. On &C.
count of his bad left arm-the bullet
that hit him had passed through MS
left shoulder-he was unable to wave
his signals back to her. This function
was performed for him by his cell
mate, who was none other than Will
liam Rode, the pseudo electrician who
robbed a score or more of Oriental
stores of fine silks and valuable trim
kets about two months ago.
When Policeman Maloney discover
ed the system of the pair he Informed
the matron, Mrs. Ryan, of what was
going on, and she will endeavor to
sweat out of her prisoner the exact
meaning of the signals.
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CHANGES IN NAVAL ORDNANCE

Comparison Between Guns Used in the
Civil War and To-day.
Naval ordnance has made greater
strides in the forty years that have
interviewed since the Civil War than
in several centuries preceding.
The heaviest piece carried in the
Civil War was the 15-inch smooth
bore. This gun weighed $4,000
pounds; it's length over all was Is
feet 1 inch; its maximum diameter at
the breech was 4 feet, and with an
ordinary charge of thirty-five pounds
of black cannon powder, 1t fired a
spherical shell weighing $50 pounds.
According to the ordnance regula-
lions, under extraordinary conditions,
these guns might be fired twenty