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ingly pretty salad for early spring. II
should be arranged on separate plates, SO
that each person has a flower Of his own.
The dressing for this salad is made by
beating together three eggs, adding TO
them one cup of milk, two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar one-half teaspoonfui salt, Two
tabiespoonfuls of butter, TWO teaspoonfuis
mustard, mixed to n paste with two tea
spoonfuls of water, and pepper to season
Cook in a double boiler until thick, stirring
nstant1y then cool. Arrange around the
border of each plate a row of crfspy let
tuce leaves. and in their center put a ia
blespoonful of the dressing. This makes
the center of the daisy Around this put
the daisy petals, made by cutting into mar
row strips the whites of hard-boiled eggs
Take the yoikS OF these eggs and put
through a strainer. scattering over the
salad dressing In the center to give 1t u
rough appearance. 1t Will require four or
five hard-boied eggs. Mayonnatse may be
used in place of the boiled dressing, II pre-
ferred. This amount Will serve eight or
nine persons.
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furniture make themselves evident, and
furniture polish comes Ia demand. Here
are two excellent home recipes, either OF
which leaves a delightfully."- clean, bright
surface in its wake. The first Is simply
equal parts kerosene and vinegar. shaken
together In a bottle applied with a soft
cloth and wiped off with another. The sec
Ond, which is applied in the same way,
calls for two tablespoonfus of sweet oil,
one tablespoonful vinegar and half table
spoonful of turpentine.
Banana SaIad.-This should not be made
until ready to use. as banana darkens in
standing. Have the fruit very cold. Cut
into dice and mix with a dressing COM
posed of two te3spoOnfuls of olive oil. one
teaspoouful of vinegar, one teaspoOnful
lemon juice and a quarter teaspoonful eaen
salt and pepper Fiji the bahama skins.
which should be opened to look like boats.
ard set them on lettuce leaves. Sprinkle
q few halves OF English wainuts and
little minced parsley over the top Of the
salad and serve az once.
Daisy Salad.-Here is another exceed
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ARMY Of LAWMAKERS
More Than 5000 of Them in
This Country.
PROPORTION TO POPULATION
One Legislator to Every Thousand
Citizens.
CAPITALS AND CAPITOLS
Comparison of Legislative Bodies in
the United States and in Foreign
Countries-Their Cost.
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
You may never have suspected it, but
counting the population at about S0,00O.O00
1t takes one professional lawmaker in about
every thousand people of all ages sexes
and conditions in the United States and
Notwithstanding Hawaii and Porto
Rico, but leaving out Alaska and the Phil
ippnes-to formulate and pass the new
laws needed TO revise the existing ones
and to repeal the worn out ones.
Gathered in one organization they would
equal almost fourteen United States army
artillery regiments which generally con-
sist of 600 men, or sixteen of infantry
which generally consist of 500 AS the
standard United States army cavalry regi-
ment contains /, 200, however, all the legis-
lators of the country would equal only six
regiments and about two-thirds of Uncle
Sans troopers Ranged on horseback they
would make curious show, wouldn't they?
Here Is little table in which they are
divided into classes:
-Hnuse-
Upper. Lower. TIL.
Congress- the national legis-
lAtule. 81 ooo 1oo
lures .....,...........'.. / .eas 5,s57 1870
Hawaii and Porto Rico 20 80 S5
e. 81
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The Latest Style.
From Puck.

The Count de Impecune was in despair
The naughty American heiress would have
none of him. French counts" she in
formed him. cuttingly. ARE no longer the
smart thing in husbands. They are not
wearing them this year"
In the midst of his despair the Count de
Impecune conceived a brilliant Idea. Dis
guising himself as CASTOR Prunes he hired
out to the proud beautys father as chauf-
feur. Within fortnight the fair Hide
garde eloped with him, first settling on him
the income of 81, 100000. A reconciliation
with the family IS expected
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it's people supply themselves with law
makers To one not versed in the business
this would seem strange. but ii has a good
reason, especially in the states whose peo-
pie are spread over extensive areas.
In Wyoming, for instance, the various
settlements widely separated-so wide
ly that it would be a hardship, a rule,
for a voter in one of them were he obliged
to journey to another in order to vote. Yet
because of their very isolation. and conse-
quent individual needs, the different places
require individual representation much
more than do individual loca tons in closely
peopled states. 1t should be stated, how
ever, that Nevada, with less than 1900,
population has only forty-six lawmakers
thrty-three in the lower house and thirteen
in the upper-one in 993, proportion not
much differing from that of the entire
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California Sacramento. not San Francisco;
Louisiana Baton Rouge. not New orleans:
and on, though thee are other states
besides Massa chusetts whose capitals are
in their largest cities.
In the old world the metropolis and the
capital are. almost always The same and
this arrangement might be supposed TO
please the lawmakers better than the other
see the life of great city during The
session every year at least
The state houses of the various common
wealths-most states term them Capitols
nowadays, but not Massachusetts-differa as
much as the various states themselves.
Interesting Old Capitol.
One of the most interesting is to be seen
at Richmond. the capital OF Virginia 1t
is solid old structure built before the
middle of the last century. and used
by the confederate government during the
civil war. 1t would be hard to find build
ing of a type more dissimilar TO this fine
old structure than the vast pile which New
York has erected at Albany.
The whole country knows that the Al
bany capitol is the most costly building
in the country which serves for legiSla-
tive headquarters, vastly more so than the
Capitol at Washington, though not nearly
so impressive to the layman nor so salts
factory to the architect Next to the no
torious public building of Philadelphia,
largest and most costly single structure in
The country, and put up to accommodate
practically every department of the mu-
nicipal government the Albany capitol is
a monument to the most wasteful public
construction of the present day. sort Of
sculptured evidence of colossal graft
Most of the new state capitols, ii is a
pleasure to write, are tasteful. impressive
specimens of architecture. and also most
of them have been erected without the Sus-
picion of graft-of the Albany or Philadel-
phia grade at least. The new capitol at
St Paul, which houses some remarkable
mural paintings, and the one at Sacra-
mento are worthy examples OF the modern
state capitol.
1t is too early as yet to speak OF the
capitol now going up at Harrisburg, but
if the early promises of its projectors and
its architect are fulfilled It will give Penn
sylvania's sleepy little capital city true dis
tincticn.
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Representation Here and Abroad.

Comparison of the relative proportion of
lawmakers in different regions is likely 10
be misleading, since the conditions are of
almost infinite variety
AS a matter of fact, counting city and
town councilmen and aldermen, county
boards, supervisors, freeholders, etc.-for
local legislative bodies go by different
names in different regions-the total num-
Der of lawmakers in the country would
vastly exceed the S155 shown by the table
at the head of this article. No one has ever
toted them all up, however so far as /
know, and probably nobody ever will.
Considering the United States as a whole
that is, leaving out state legislators and
counting only the 4S0 members of the two
houses of Congress-the legislative repre-
sentation in this country is one in every
1863 $3.50 Great Britain and Ireland how
ever, with their less than q, 100000 people,
have 1,264 peers and commoners, which
makes the representation one in 33,2oo Ger
many, with population of $500 600 has
only 400 in its imperial houses of legisla-
ture so that the proportionate representa-
ton there is nearer that in the United
States. Each German state has its own
legislature, however, though most of them
have only one chamber, and the proportion
of local legislators to the total population
is smaller in the German states than in the
United States.
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Names for State Lawmakers.

These men and women-for every state
which has granted the suffrage to the wo-
men sends some of them TO the legislatures
give a very large part of their time to
lawmaking jobs. Only a small percentage
however, are required to meet once year,
most of the states holding biennial legislative
sessions though the United States Congress
meets every year: Georgia. Massachusetts,
New jersey, New York and Rhode Island.
Each of these was one of the original thir-
teen; perhaps their people are In greater
need of laws than those whose legislatures
meet only once in two years.
On that basis the people of Alabama
must need very few laws, for In that state
the legislature meets once in four years
1t may be that the laws passed by the leg
iSlature of Alabama are enough more Strin-
gent to make UP for the time between ses-
sions; certainly there are no more laws
passed, on the average. at each Of its
quadrennial sessions than at each of New
Yorks annual sessions.
There is a curious difference in the titles
given TO their lawmaking bodies by the diff
ferent states. Legislature, the most obVl-
osu title, leads, being used in twenty-five
states; general assembly comes next. in
twenty-one; legislative assembly next. IN
FIVE, and general court last, in two-Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire
There IS much less diversity in the titles
of the upper and lower houses, all the upper
houses but five being "senates," like the ma
tional upper house, and all but ten of the
lower ones DelnB houses OI representa-
tives." as in Congress. The five exceptions
to the rule among the upper houses are
called councils and they are all terri
toral; among the lower houses there are
five Assemblies, four houses of dele
gates and one general assembly,
Wyoming's Big Legislature.
The national legislature, Congress, has
more members than any of the states but
one there being ninety senators and 800
representatives-4S0 in all. The Wyoming
legislature beats Congress in number, how
ever, by forty-three members. having 500
representatives and twenty-three senators.
To the mind of the mere man the sQg"
gestion that there is some relation between
the number OF the Wyoming lawmakers
and the fact that some of them are women
has some force. AS Wyoming has a popu-
| lation of only about 93, 500. it will be seen
| that the state needs one 'awmaker to every
| 17S people, much higher ratio than is re-
| quired by the country at large Rhode
| Island. smallest state in the Union, with a
population of about 10000, has lS9 legis-
| lators. or one for every 3S53 Delaware,
next smallest, population $4,000, has ZIG
in its legislature, or one in 81. Texas.
| with 100 legislators and little more than
| 10000 people, has one lawIRaker in every
| 1887 people New York, the most popu-
| lous state-about 7,3o0G00-has 200 leg:sla-
| tors. or one for every &c, SEQ
| 1t Is a general rule that the smaller and
| sparser the population the more literally
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-21
To Live lOnu

1t is well known that the average length
OF human life has been considerably pro-
longed In the last century owing 10 a
better understanding and better fulfil
ment Of private and public hygienic con-
ditions. Few, however, attain old age
especially that of 100 years or more, and
among these very few enjoy all their
physical and mental powers Prof Metch-
nicoff OF the Pasteur Institute OF Paris
shows the causes OF deceptltude OF pre-
mature weakening. He demonstrates that
certain cells constituting the human or
ganism become mutinous and devour the
nobler cells OF the body. He points out
a special danger. the intestinal germs and
the poisons OF toxine elaborated thereby
which penetrate the system and cause the
hardening and degeneration OF tissues
The professor goes further and says that
man can educate and improve these intes-
tinal germs and their toxins. The most
practical and easy way is. said he, to
drink beverage which contains the
germs OF Tactic acid fermentation, whose
antagonism to the bad germs he has dem
onstrated
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-21
Revenge

So many crimes are committed in the
name Of vengeance that II gives one
pause and turns one back 10 the meaning
that lies beneath the word Once. evi,
IDENTIFY, men killed at need, and snatched
at greed. and each mans Idea OF per-
sonal enlargement was 70 De IL torinlus, ,n,ory
and death TO all who encroached. lvlll,
zation is a slow but sure progress toward
the idea that all enlargement Is by sym
pathy and service. by tolerance ana Kind
ness.
To return wrong by another wrong
has never by any mathematical compu-
the world; they have never produced a
right any more than ten persimmons can
produce an apple. To imagine that a
man can enrich himself by robbery is
sheer intellectual qualification. What
ever a man takes from another 10 the
others loss and detriment. becomes the
impoverishment OF the robber. paradox
cal as II may sound. and anothers sur
fering can never be our gain. We have
but 10 look at the spiritual pauperism OF
the unrighteously rich TO know this.
The whole lesson OF revenge was
taught OF old. There came to live and
10 teach in the world wisdom and love
incarnate. and men seeing the power and
the beauty and desiring all power and
torture and kill" and this they did. And
Wisdom and Love incarnate spoke and
said. They know not what they do" and
passed on. The revenge is that since then
Wisdom and Love supreme are without
bodily form in the world. and men who
desire IL go searching. and lose them
selves in mists and thickets and swamps,
they stumble and fall and rise again, and
hope and despair. and cry out, but for no
yearning, and no prayers. and no stretch
ing out OF arms through the centuries
does the visible form become alive again.
This Is the great revenge, TO hide In
the shelter OF the silence and the mys-
terry; acts entail further acts and we be-
come drawn into the mesh of human in
tricacies and partialities. But in the far
quiet there Is peace for the slain. while
the slayer wraps about himself the gray
isolation of his acts. and out OF his err
rors come the sufferings which are the
birth-throes OF new consciousness.
This Is the wisdom OF ages that there
Is no big and no little and betrayal and
fulhlment of destiny are one and the
same; men do what Is In them TO do;
they act according 10 the ideas that have
already shaped the brute world. But In
the future. the least and the lowest of
men will know that there Is but one re-
venge and that is pardon.-Harper' S
Weekly.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-21

The opinion that Theodore Roosevelt
will never be invited to become president
OF Harvard college is not held with unar-
unity In Cambridge There are those who
consider that he would make Harvard
the Coney Island Of the educational
world, but there is also strong and
numerous Harvard company that wants
him. and believes that he would be an ex-
ceedingly valuable president for the uni
versity.
II the question really comes up. the
division is likely 10 be between conserva-
tive minds that are solicitous that Har-
ward shall retain It's old time flavor and
traditions. and more ambitious spirits
who wish 10 extend the influence OF the
university. especially throughout the
west. For the latter purpose Mr. Roose-
welt would be incomparably the best man
in sight. The young are for him. They
think he Is the man best qualified TO get
football out Of the pillory and make
plea SAINT sport out Of IT, To be sure, Mr..
Roosevelt will continue TO be In politics
as long as ne is alivo. but college presi-
dent can be In politics and might even
be n member OF the United States senate.
i nese. OF course are presumptuous fore
castings. but excusable II II almost as
interesting 10 speculate on what Col.
Roosevelt will do nezt as on who Will be
his successor I'm the White House That
never happened before. did it?-fiarpers
Weekly.
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The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-21

has written the stories concerning his
transfer does not know Gillen. and has
not attempted 10 see him. recognizing
that any statements In relation TO the
matter should come from headquarters.
from the chief OF police or from the chair
man OF the board.
IL Is not even known whether
any further statement has been
made to the board regarding
the transfer: but Chairman Luz
ther has promised TO look into the case
on the strength OF statements made ia
him by Chief Matthews at the time OF
the transfer and those that have since
been made by Glen and his friends.
IL is recognized that the chief OF police
is as dependent upon his subordinates and
the reports they make 10 him as the
chairman OF the police board is depend
ent upon the chief for reports and rec
ommendation and that the chief may not
in all cases fully understand the motives
behind a transfer at the time IL Is made
things perhaps being withheld from him
as they have OTTER been withheld from
others.
II Gillen was wrongly used. II isn't nec-
essary TO show that the chief was a guilty
party 10 II; but somebody must have been
at fault. and only an inquiry will deter
mine who that party was.
This inquiry is now going on; and II
Gillen's friends, who are said TO be loyal
and strong, stand by him. there may be
sensational revelations If n hearing is
held.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-21
The Forest Fires

Last year forest fires I'm this country
burned over an area OF 10000 acres This
area Is great, yet IL Is less than half OF
that which was swept by fire the year
before. one reason for the difference IL
the Increased efficiency OF the FIRE patrol
under the United states forest service
Its jurisdiction is limited 10 national res
ervations. but the influence OF the forest
~ service extends 20 many private wood
ed tracts. The professional foresters are
teaching the people how TO care for the
trees. One simple rule. which the owner
OF a few trees can easily follow and the
owner OF many trees cannot AFFORD TO
neglect. is TO keep the underbrush clear
ed Most forest fires start In brush. A
wood clear OF brush has. 80 TO speak, no
kindlng I'm which fire can start.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-21
BRISTOL
Business Disposed Of at Rsgu.
lar Session Of the Probate
Court.

A regular session OF the probate court
Was held yesterday Judge Frank II
Hammlll presiding. A petition for the
appointment ;Ia,or IN n. Of Philo " Cady admins
Murray. was granted. bonds being fixed
at 5000. Herbert f. Bennett, Lyman Il.
Bosworth and George II. Peck were
The petition OF Annie NJ. Kirkwood TO
be appointed administrative of the estate
OF her husband. Robert Kirkwood was
surety in the sum of 5000. and James
Young, Charles PAUL and Charles Liv-
ingston were appointed appraisers.
A petition for the appointment of Henry
C. Dubois and Augustus p Duffy as adj
illustrators OF the estate of Auguste s.
De Freitas, was granted. Bonds were
fixed at $500. and DR.. John Lake. Francis
Azevedo, and Frank Francis were APP
pointed appraisers.
Sheriff Philo V. Cady served two writs
OF OF summons summons yesterday on John W. Eddy
brought by Mary Ryan in an action OF
respass for 5000, and the other I'm the
case brought by her husband. Dennis
Ryan for $50 0on a contract. The writs
are returnable TO the superior court in
Providence Sept. 20.
In the case OF Giuseppe Christphore VS..
Domenico Fracelli OF harrington the at
torney for the plaintiff asked the fifth
district court yesterday for a continuance
for one week, owing 10 Ambrose Papa.
being unable TO appear. Attorney w. T.
O'Donnel, who appeared for the defend
ant, said he had gone to great trouble
and expense in securing witnesses for the
trial as he was led 10 believe the trial
would be held Chief Bowden of Barring
ton said he did not know whether or not
Papa would be able 10 apear i'm court on
Monday next and Judge Bosworth decided
that IL Papa is not I'm condition on next
Fri hi !.
used as evidence at the trial OF the case.
Attorney w. 7. ODonnell then petitioned
the court 10 have the bail reduced from
$3.50 TO $1,000 the court however refused 70
do this
In the case OF Maria Cunha vs. Sebas-
tian Peiras for trespass and e1ectment
decision was rendered for the plaintiff.
In the case of John w Eddy VS. Dennis
Ryan trespass and eJectment, judgment
for costs and possession was rendered for
the plaintiff.
The funeral OF John A. Dunbar was
held yesterday afternoon at his late res
idence on Burton street. The funeral SER
vices were conducted by Rev. William r.
Trotter, rector OF Trinity church. The
bearers were Frederick L. Dunbar, Ches-
ter III. Dunbar. John Dunbar and Leroy
Dunbar all sons OF the deceased. Burial
was at the North cemetery.
Judge O. L. Bosworth and John p
Reynolds. superintendent Of public
schools for Bristol county, left yesterday
for a trolley trip of a week in Massa-
chusetts. Vermont ana New Hampshire.
Roswell Colt son OF Col. s. p. Colt
left today for a trip TO Europe. He will
return the latter part OF September.
A postponed meeting OF the school
committee will be held tomorrow evening
Mrs. John Morrell Of Philadelphia is
here on a visit 10 her brother, Hugh
Young, of Bristol Neck.