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Essay on Housekeeping.

| Second prize essay at West Tennes-
see Fair Association, Sept. q, 1905.
Published by special request.)
Good housekeeping has never
been my fayorite study nor most
pleasant practice, although I've
been engaged in the work long
enough to learn that order, economy
and system are essential factors in
the business.
commenced in the primary eIass
manly YEARS ago, ana / We never yet
reeeized. LIZ 4i.>loEsesr .-v.-4--ss, --rssa<.
My dear -s;ataSs. .asbcse aM things
connected with this endless occupa-
MISUNDERSTANDING fail e
practice economy; warm over the
es..ssssec-, ava. sgettaanzaasH
bread. and don't ler anyone ever
say that you can throw out more
with spoon at the window than
your better bali can throw ia the
door with shovel. care not how
mucn Ny possgSSrs, Of how often
sary may say 7 fTvS MY vile as I
love my lite, they'll love their pock-
etbooks just as well.
In the language Of my mothers
daily Gliding, there is always a
right way and wrong way for
everything, and the successful
housekeeper must keep her heart
and mind on the right way. To
the inexperienced the work may
seem hard and needlessly given to
details; but as skill and experience
is acquired. like all other we'll
learned lessons, it is easy enough
just remember. ''there is no excel !
lence without labor"
The FIRST lesson in this all-impor-
tant study is to thoroughly under
stand that il requires order, pa
thence and energy. Keep plenty of
elbow grease on hand and use it
abundantlv. My advice is, CON-
mence in the kitchen and finish in
the parlos. So many girls think if
they can keep their parlor in order
that the kitchen can go topsy-turvy |
1t has been said that woman had |
power to lead man to heaven or
drive him to / think the
household good place to make the
test. When some men get hungry
they sometimes get mad, and il the
cook doesn't hurry around they'll |
Ise M0r1s that iSn I faEg6t al sa6-
pain school So have your meals
regular. Use the up.to-date recipes
or pnddings, pies anu s1Kss, and
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Sared His Life.

j. w. Davenport, Wingo, KY,
writes. June II, 1907: 81 want to tell
you believe Billiards. Snow Liniment
saved my life. / was under the treat
meut Of two doctors, and they told me
one OF my lungs was entirely gone, and
the other badly affected. also had a
lump IN my side. | don't think that
/ could have lived over two months
longer. 1 was INDUCED Dy friend 70
Try Billiards. Snow Liniment. The
first application gave me great relief;
two fifty cent bottles cured me sound
and well. 1t is wonderful HieS Il rs
and / recommend II o. suffering hui
manltyP' Csc, soc, 81. Martin-Allen
Drug Co.
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Cures chin and Fsye,.

G.. w. Writ, Nacogodohes. Texas
says: His daughter had chills and
fever for three years; he could not find
anything that would help her till he
used Herbine. His wife will not keep
house without IL, and cannot say too
much for 1t SOC. MartIn-Allen
Drug 60.
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If you have no beaux you'll find one
before you reach the home for old
maids. The model housekeeper
must be bitter enemy to bed bugs,
cobwebs, etc. Make golden butter
and snowy rolls, and polish things
to a shining brightness.
The woman behind the preserving ket-
tie Is surely deserving OF fame;
She's not like the man behind the gun,
But she's getting there just the same.
Now, In conclusion. I'll make an
earnest appeal to the. Favorable
a.ages 20 please be merciful. II /
should get that nice rug and be the
lucky one to get the Dietzel sewing
TTfacHfns I ifsTf most certain OF the
fact that il wesld ::Edss:ee ssne tiiiiss-
aasss&i' 10. las. se keep house for him,
and then Ill invite you to make us
a visit and see that / practice ar T
preach on the subject of model
housekeeping.
Come IN the evening,
Or come in the moi ming,
Come when you're looked for
Or come without warning.
A thousand welcomes
You'll find there before you,
And the oftener you come there
The more I'LL adore YOU.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-10-27

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personal trust conferred by Congress
on the directors which they cannot
delegate 70 subordinate agents, and II
not, then how can an interstate com
merco commission revise, directly and
without agents, rates for every station
OF every railway In our whole landY
II seems 10 be incumbent on Senator
NEWLANDs, az a railway expert and
member Of the Senate committee, 70
extract from each competent witness
a clear and concise exhibition OF the
process by which rates arc now decided
and published by the railway he repre-
sents, and then TO demonstrate in what
particulars the plan proposed by Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT, which the Senator
Is said to favor, will be better.
Precisely what, under present railway
usage, do railway directors decide
regarding income from trainer Can
Senator NEwLANDs now declare ofihand
and accurately which functions Of their
office, II any. railway directors can now
lawfully delegate 10 their subordinatesi
Can shareowners interfere in rate fixing
excepting by selecting directoBi Is a
director in that relation an agent Of the
shareowners or an officer Of the State that
gave a charter to the railway Whose
agent will the Interstate Commerce Com
sion be II Congress shall empower it's
members 20 AZ ratesH
Senator NRwLANDs has shown himself
so filled with the details Of the railway
problem that he should not have dihi-
Guilty In oross-eXaminlng witnesses before
the committee In a way TO exhibit the
present relation Of directors 10 rates, and
TO show why he claims, II he does claim,
that putting an interstate commerce
commission in the place Of directors
will be an improvement.
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Truateea and Truata.

To TIE EDITOR or THE sUN-Sir' RefSrrin e
10 your editorial on the duties Of those en- i
trusted with the duties Of director In trusts.
let me give you an instance Of how II works
when a man tries to do his duty.
prominent citizen Of Chicago was asked
70 Join the board Of directors In a famous
bank. He set himself to discharge what he
considered 70 be his duty by Investigating tn
securities held by the bank. and among hem
he found certain parcels OF real estate on
which amounts had been advanced far be-
yond their true value. when he brought the
matter 70 the HttentI Of his fellow directors
he found that the one who was respons Bile
for the loans was big man In the banks
Affairs, and that the loans had been made on
bis recommendation to friend Of his.
The newly elected director protested. and
stated that II the matter were not set right
ct once he would resign. Not only did he
resign but he found he had made enemies Of
all his former associates. many Of whom were
on the board. These men not only gave him
the cold shoulder but they seriously injured
his private business
That IL about the amount Of encoura Re-
ment honest men get In such matters tn
days. r. p. Y.
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FitahuFh Lee.

The life Of FITzHUoH LEE, now ended,
extended through the stormiest, the
most critical, the most anxious period
Of American history, and the period
also in which the national development
was greatest.
In 1895, when he was born in Virginia,
the forces which divided the Union into
warning sections in his early manhood
were already working ominously to that
end; yet at his death on Friday in his
SEVENTEEN year that Union had been
firmly cemented together for the first
tins since tho federation Of thirteen
American States Of diverse and con-
hicting interests.
Gen. FITzHUaH LEE typihed in his
life and character that period Of struggle
and Of final reconciliation. He came
from long line Of illustrious Virginians,
and he shared by inheritance in their
State pride and their theories Of State
sovereignty. Accordingly, his adhesion
to the South In the movement for secession
from the Union which followed the
election Of LINCOLN was both consistent
and inevitable. When a question which
had been disputed from the time Of the
adoption Of the Constitution was sub
mitted to the decision Of war, of course
FITzHUoH Ike was found on the side
taken by his State.
When, however, that decision was
rendered against him and his fellows Of
the South, he accepted it without re-
servo as final and conclusive, and when,
thereafter, the restored Union became
engaged in q war with q foreign Power,
he proudly resumed the uniform Of an
officer Of the United States ksmy which
he had put OF thirty-seven years before
to serve the cause Of secession and dis
ruption.
FTTzHUoH LEE dies therefore a hero
Of the whole American people. The
illustrious name he bore, typical Of the
highest and pureSt American citizen
ship, IL a proud national possession.
1t il a name almost oanonized at the
South. and at the North it u scarcely
less honored.
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AMSTERDAM. y. Y. April 20.


To rHu EproR OF TEE SUN-SE; There IL a
min, julep belt u not a mint juiep trust, and all
Americans will be glad 20 know that the promise
for mint juep" month. which IL Nay, Is good In
Virginia. the home and the center Of popularity
Of this inviEorAting beverage.
The mint Is sprouting well. The leaves are green:
the stems arc strong, the aroma Il refreshing. The
mint used and required for the ventAbls the all
American juiep the promoter Of cordially, the
yestorer OF harmony and the drink OF the roadside
lodge or homestead porch, Il not the plebeiAn mint
which rrovs wild and unkept moist waste places.
That Il the Meaiha Urdu OF the botAnist, not the
true mint OF tho VirginiAn oonnoisseur OF summer
beverages The real, genuine authentic Southern
Garden mint hourishes In the mint bed under the
south wall. where the white ringers OF Southern
maids or matrons each day In Nay pluck a few
snrnys OF the aromatic leaves 10 build the foundation
for A iulsp for the statesman In black hroadcloth
Who ats 10 the shady corner OF the verandA with bis
feet on the rail and his glAss on the ledge the rail
or by he side
she stirs sugar with two tabiospoonfuls Of uprinF
Vater packs crushed Zoe 70 the top OF the heavy
Foblet, pouu In the whisky and crowns the work
With some mint sprays over the orevices.
IL "a an old tradition. CONTEMPORARY rejected
In virginia that brandy should be used IN the max
inf Of mint juleps and that whlsky Il not q fair
substltute. In Georgia peach brandy IL used, but
virginia not George Il the juep State. whisky and
mint come from the same regions, from the same
districts, almost from the SAME nsids. A iulep
OF brandy may be recognised - q standard drink,
but Il lacks the psiHtabie features OF the whisky
ju,sp and especially the Virginia gloW which no
deoootion Of brandy can replace. n.
NEW YoRE, April ~
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CIubwomsn and Mr.. Cleveland.

Mr. CLEvELAND's courage has been
shown again and again in his political
and public career; but he must admit
that he took his life in his hands, 80 to
speak, and crossed the boundary between
valor and rashness when he wrote the
other day Of the danger Of self-delu-
sion on the part Of the clubs belonging
TO the National Federation Of Women
Clubs, and Of 'the vast number Of aSso-
Citations less completely organized, but
not less eXacting Of time and attention,
whose professed purposes are in many
instances the intellectual improvement
or entertainment Of the women COM
posing their membership
With the courage or hardihood Of
mistaken root, he walked right up 10 the
women's suffrage clubs and told them
that 1T is a thousand pities that all the
wives found in such company cannot
sufficiently open their minds TO see the
complete fitness Of the homely dehni-
ton which describes a good wife as a
woman who loves her husband and her
country, with no desire to run either
These are excellent conservative SEN
timents, which a prudent man keeps
locked in his own bosom, The utter
ance Of them is sure TO bring stings and
arrows and outrageous fortune and
bricks by the thousands upon the deaf
and desperate head, as Mr.. SwINBURNB
would say, Of the utterers.
Already the storm bowls along the
sky. From Sleepy Eye TO Deaf Smith
county, from Toad Hill 70 DEVILS Lake,
from Chugnabugnamug to Cicero, from
awful shasta's 10y shrine to Three Shoat
Creek, the 'clubwomen' are bristling
like quilts upon the fretful porpentine.
Chicago, first in war, jabs and stabs Mr..
CLEVELAND. 'Clubwomen gathered in
groups In the rooms OF the Chicago
Womans Club all vigorously defended
the club against what they characterized
az Presidential libel
Mrs. JAMES FRAKE, president Of the
Illinois Federation Of Women's Clubs,
says that Mr.. CLEVELAND should be
excused on the ground Of his ignorance
Of the subject Mrs. FREDERICK X.
BowEs Is sure that Mr.. CLEVELAND
doesn't intend to run for President
again or he would not be 30 reckless
about the friendship Of the clubwomen,
Mrs. ELwooD MACGREw asserts that 'he
has got the serious minded ohbwoman
confused with the bridge whist devo-
tee Mrs, GEORGE BENEDICT CAR
PESTHR wipes out Mr.. CLEVELAND and
all the schools and colleges in one grand
blow:
-es vOuhat e'ub b ne FrSasos, sduosaOF !
nOu.-
ThlrgthsusAnd elubwemsn IN Ohisaao
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COlored CRaAra.

Some ancient Yankees recall vaguely,
or have heard from their elders, that
niger lection day used TO be on the
New England calendar. In the Journal
Of Americon Folklore Mr.. HUBERT H.
8. AnGEs Of Connecticut studies African
institutions In America and gives a clear
picture Of a forgotten custom. In 1850
there were some 5000 slaves in New
England, New York and Pennsylvania.
In New England they enjoyed consid-
cradle liberty and had certain HOLIDAYS.
one Of which was election day, a general
holiday. On these days they dressed
up fantastlcally, had parade on horse
back or on foot, accompanied by hid
sous music, followed their Governor
through the streets, and Rfterward had
a dance and dinner
What was this "Governor'7 Some say
that he was the representative Of the
African kings; some, that the negroes
being without political rights, initiated
the elections Of their masters; some, that
the Governor had a sort Of jurisdiction
over all the negroes in the State. II ap-
pears, however, that his Jurisdiction was
local. The late Senator PLATT thought
that the election parade Of the whites
did not begin in Connecticut till about
1880. Mr.. AIMKs does not ATTEMPT 10
decide whether the negroes had such in
augural parades before the whites. He
argues that the blacks had elective kings
or chiefs In Africa and many practices
Of a judicial and social nature which
bear a strong resemblance to those
found among them in America These
vera modified until the annual meetinRr
became simply a good time In the
United States these practises seem "a
have begun about the middle Of the
eighteenth century and TO have ceased
about the middle Of the nineteenth.
A gravestOne in Norwich bore the
inscription:
10 meporY Of BosroN TaowrAov. oov.rpo,
Of the African Tribe In this town. Who died i'm
sged e. ....
In i77S a Hartford Governor resigned
In these words:
l. Governor cur OF the nieGro't IN the provino,
Of Connecticut, do resign my EovvmmeutshIps V
JoHN ANDEEsoN, nlegor man 10 governor sEn,ru
AID I hope INA, you will obey him a. you Aav,
done me for this ten ySGn past. when ooIons
Wills nisGot dSyed vas the nsEt But bsln,
weak and uhnt for that once DO resign the SAX
rovepmentships 10 JOEN ANpHEsoN.-
Cur was the slave Of a British ofioel
onparole, and the negroes wouldn't hav,
Tory Governor. JONI ANDERSON
however, said that be promised the ne
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A Methods, en- PrOvlslOu fer Disabled Minl'-

TO Tm EDITOR or TIE SUE-SE: One Of the
most vital questions IN all religious denominations
u the care Of the retired minister. In TIE Roman
Catholic Church no aged priest. n faithful. Il ever
IN need. The Methodist Episcopal Church does
better By her aged minister than any other Prot
estant denomination. The following fAoA show
what this Church does In the three metropolitan
Conferences the Newark, New York and New York
Bast.
In the Newark Conference four aged minister
received for the year from 500 V 500; ten. from
500 70 $500 from $500 TO $500 800 Fivs
widows Of deceased minister received for the
year les than 800 twenty seven, from 500 TO $500
twenty one, from 400 70 $500.
In the New York Conference seventeen retired
Minister received for the year from 100 10 $500:
twenty from 500 10 500, four widows OF deceased
minister received for the year less than 500 twenty
ave, from 500 10 800; twenty nine, from 500 70
$500
In the New York East Conference 1--WE retired
ministers received for the year from 500 10 500.
nneen. from 500 20 $500: seventeen, from $500 20
Eleven widows, les than 500: thirty, from 500 TO
800
In total metropolitan Methodism nine retired
ministers received for the year from 500 TO 5000
iory-tvo, from 500 70 $50; nifty -four, from tSoo
70 500 thirteen, from 500 70 $500 two. $500 and
over. Twenty widows OF deceased ministers re-
oeved for the year iess than $780, eighty two from
500 20 t7OO nfty, from 500 10 $50. The average
for the ministers was tSOi; for the widows, SleS.
In the Newark Conference, of the total receipts
Of Nt.pil for this cause, slim members and pro.
bationers contributed $1,000. or less than 20 cent?
each. In the New York Conference, OF a total OF
t7i.et0 obtained. B76So members and probtuoneu
contributed titz7, or less than 20 cents each. In
the New York East Conference. OF total OF t2S-SiO
received. 6sIo7o members and probationers con.
tnbuted Sit,7So, OF less than "a cens each.
II the Methodists Of these three Conferences had
contributed 70 thls cause but cent each a week
the allowance for these ministers and widows
could have been nearly doubled. Spiritually,
these saints doubtless In fat pastures In their
green old are, Materially, they must have had
close picking unless their friends sked out the Dit.
lance bestowed By the Church.
jar BENSON HAMILTON.
BAooxL1N, April -.
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Tn. Virtue of Japanese Ordnance.

The attempt TO forecast the outcome
Of the impending naval battle in the Far
East would be seriously complicated II
there were reason TO believe that Admiral
To0os battleships might, At q critical
conjuncture, be disabled for aggressive
purposes through the blowing of Of the
muEzles OF their guns after a limited
number Of rounds had been fired. We
might have to assume that such disable
ment Is not unlikely TO OCCUR II We could
accept az we'll founded the charge made
by the London Daily Graphic that the
armament Of many British battleships h
defective, because many, II not all, jap
anose battleShips and Srmored cruisers
are known TO be equipped with British
built gunb.
What the London Daily Graphic as
serted on Wednesday, April 70, was that
the thirty-flve cahber i7-inch guns in
stalled In British battleships Of the Ma
iestio class are useless for more than
hfty fun rounds and that the any oalibE
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DR.. Parkhurst's Plan.

The secrets Of the Committee Of Nine
have been we'll guarded, but from
GEORGE McANKEY tho public has been
allowed to learn one OF the incidents
which enlivened its sessions. The Rev
CHARLES H. PARKHUBsT, q reformer Of
no mean fame, was one OF the gentlemen
who enlightened the Nine With sugges-
tons for the improvement Of the police
force Of the city. His plan was simple in
the extreme. At the head Of the depart
ment no would have a man from the
army, from another State, or from an
other country. The Nine objected that
tho Constitution Of the State might inter
fere With the adoption OF DR.. PARK
HURsT'b plan:
ION. we'll said Dr. PAAEHURsI, don't know
anything sbou, the details. You are livysn and
you can Sstus them
DR.. PARKHUBsT's proposal for the
separation Of the good men from the
bad in the department was charming in
lie ingenuity. A member Of the commit
tee asked how the vicious might be dis
tinRuished from the virtuous. DR..
PARKHURsT was quick TO answer:
why. that's not hard he said; YOu can tell
them By the looks on their faces h..
Nothing could be easier. To be sure,
some philanthropists wear the faces Of
murderous thugs, and many an innocent
spectator in a court room has gazed in
fear and trembling on the victim Of ras-
cality while mentally appraising the
scoundrel at the bar as a benevolent
soclologist. Dr. PARKHURsr's eye is
incapable Of such errors.
The members Of the National Munich
pal League laughed when Mr.. McANENI
told them about Dr. PABKHURsT's sug-
gestions. Thereby they displayed their
ignorance Of the real plan he had in
mind. DR.. PARKHURsT would enlist his
infallible eyes in the service Of the munio-
ipality. His intuitive knowledge Of
human character would be employed
where clumsy civil service rules and
tedious court proceedings now prevail
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IN. R.,. Of IN. ohrl.t,,n n.llrion

To TIE EDrroR or TIE SUN-Sfr: I observe
that topios interest q greater number OF lnteln-
gent persons, n may Judge from the number OF
published communications whenever they ARE
under discussion In your columns. than the future
life and the religion Of Jesus.
The occasional brief communications that you
have published from Mr.. Goodwin Smith have been
more widely read and appreciated than many Of
his more formal writings and have served 70 Intro.
duoe him 10 a vastly wider public than he has known
heretofore
In his letter which you published last Sunday
he says that criticism OF the Gospels has spared
only the character and teachings OF Jesus. But n
We have jhese len We have m ample basis for a
Christian religion.
IL II not time for new reforma alton which shan
deliver the character and teachings OF Jesus from
the dogmatioAl and theological dungeon 10 which
they have been 20 long immurdt Who shall de.
liver Jesus from the obsourty OF the systems that
have hidden him and place him where his light may
illumine the Woridi L.
SARATodA SFHngoa. April ~
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Don't Change tho system.

Assemblyman JOHN G. HAcKErr, the
Tammany statesman who represents
the Thirteenth Assembly district, has
introduced a bill in the Legislature pro-
viding for the erection Of 70O-bed public
hospital on the West Side OF New York
city, between Twentieth and Forty
second streets. OF the necessity for
such an institution in this territory
there may we'll be considerable doubt.
Leaving this question aside, however,
Mr.. HACKETT's bill must be condemned
because Of its third section, which pro-
vides that the hospital, when completed,
shall be under the control and super
vision Of the Commissioner Of Public
Charities.
Since 1902 the city has been trying the
experiment Of having it's public and
emergency hospitals under the direction
Of board Of managers styled the Trus-
tees Of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals. The
results Of the experiment 90 far have
been thoroughly satisfactory. 1t Ia the
judgment Of those who are competent
W otSCp@h oAA NAlO ohbJOCl WIN ehAhOAANy
that the institutions managed by these
trustees are performing their functions
with more credit to the municipality
than ever before in their history. The
hospitals so controlled are Bellevue,
Fordham, Harlem and Gouverneur and
the Emergency Hospital in East Twenty
sixth street. The Commissioner Of Pub
lie Charities is e1 of1cio one Of the
trustees, and thus has a voice in the
hospital management
II 1t is necessary to build a new emer-
gency hospital in New York county, it
certainly should be done under the d.
reotion Of the body which now directs
the other city hospitals in the same terri
tory, and on its completion II should be
under the control OF the same body. To
provide otherwise would be to introduce
a new and discordant element into a
situation which is already sufficiently
complicated.