davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21
THE PLEASURES
OF MOTORING

Written for The Star By Lady Cecil Scott Montagu.
Nowadays it is hardly possible TO realize
how comparatively few years have elapsed
since Gottlieb Daimler first invented the
principle OF the modern motor--in such a
short space Of time has the car of today,
with all its wonderful mechanism and al
most needless luxury. been evolved. In
fact It IS difficult TO say how the present
engine can be improved upon, though each
maker has his own particular form OF
motor.
The public feeling at present is undoubt-
eddy rather prejudiced against motoring.
but as time goes on, this will surely mend
and every will realize that the new
form of locomotion is. I'm realty, n great
convenience in many ways. What, for ex-
ample, can be a more perfect .orm OF hoii-
day than going for a tour on car. You
may prefer your own country what more
interesting than a tour through England
from south to north. perhaps including
Scotland, and all its varied scenery
Let US imagine start 81 the dawn of
summer morning. There is, "a every one
knows who has experienced Il, an indie
scribable charm about the first hours OF the
day, when the world wakes freshly washed
by the dew OF the summer night veil
hedges are dressed in gossame- and the
birds sing,a chorus of thanksgiving for the
dawn Of another day. There 10 a stiffness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

established another experimental tea gar
den. At the Summerville station test
paintings were made of teas taken from all
parts of the world.
We Americans are drinking more tea than
a few years ago Whereas we imported at
that time only about 100000 pounds, we
are now buying from abroad 1O0,000,0OO
pounds. We are paying to the retailer
about S40,0OO.00O year for tea, s150,090,o00
for coffee and $1,000, 100000 for alcoholic
beverages. 1t is calculated that we are
drinking in year 400, 0G0, 900 gallons of tea
to 81, 100000 gallons of coffee, 1,40O o00,-
600 gallons of beer and G0,0O0,000 of spirits
and wines. Thus we are still. essentially,
a nation of coffee drinkers The average
Englishman drinks six times as much tea
as the average American.
The experiments at the government tea
gardens are showing that seed from all
moderate climates are as productive here
as in their native climes. The changes of
climate undergone by the foreign seed has,
however, changed the flavor of the tea
leaves. Our early, season tea is more deli
cate and milder than that grown from the
same seed in the native soil, but that picked
In the autumn is stronger in color and
taste and resembles the foreign teas from
more southern climates. American tea
grown at the Summerville station lacks the
puckery or astringent quality of India and
Ceyion teas, but is decidedly fragrant and
delicate in taste. The best results have
been obtained in this country from cross
ing of the Assamese Qndia) ard Chinese
resulting in a hybrid plant introduced here
about fifty years ago, and acclimated to the
coasts of the southern and gulf states. 1t
Will yield 500 pounds of dry leaf to the
acre per season and makes excellent
black tea. Two other sorts successful here
are the dwarffsh Dragons Pool" from
the first seed imported to this country and
the "Darjeeling'' from the slopes of the
Himalayas. The Dragons Pool was OBJ
tanned by the State Department from an es-
tate near Hangchow, China, whose tea out
put demands too high a local price to ad-
NIT of expectation. There 1t Yields from
ABOUT half to three-fifths the weight per
acre OF the hybrid first mentioned but is
very fragrant and delicate. The DARRELL
cellent cup qualities
X X
Inc tea pickers at the government sta
ions are all colored children. One of these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21
Entertainment for Lord Below Stairs.

From Tit-Dits.
Lord Newton Butler has been amusing
his friends by telling the following story:
1t was a musical eat home" in Belgrayia
to which he was invited and, ii being
rainy night, he wore a felt hat and long
waterproof coat over his evening dress. The
family butler opened the door to him.
looked puzzled and then asked: Name.
please?"
Lord Newton-Butler" was the reply
"Oh, Lord Newton's butler, are you? Come
along. old chap, and have drop of some
thing in the housekeepers room. They've
got a job lot upstairs tonight. and your
master amt come, If you're looking for
him"
with pleasure" said his Iordship, who
spent chatty five minutes with the butler
over a glass of Burton ale. Much obliged
to you. I'm sure; and now think I'll 60
end have a look at the Job lot in the
drawing room" And. to the buffers ho--
ror. his new acquaintance strobe up the
stairs and was soon warmly shaking the
hand of his hostess
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

Copyright, 1906. by John Elfreth watkins)
RN devising a convenience for the soldier
and sailor Uncle Sam has come upon
an article which will be of inestimable
IL value to the traveller, sportsman. engi-
neer and woodsman, well to the
housewife. At his experimental tea gar
den at Summervllle. S. c., he is turning out
tea in tabloid form. We have seen coffee
tablets hitherto. but not tea compressed
into such convenient shape.
Yesterday while I was talking with Chief
Galloway of the bureau of plant sfsfdustry
he handed 10 me little green box an inch
and half wide ~ less than two and half
long, and containing two rows of khaki
coloTed tablets, ten in a row. should have
mistaken these lozenges for some sort of
cough troches or other had not the profess
sor explained, while passing the little box:
Here. for a New Year gift are twenty
cups of tea
Each tablet is five-eighths of an inch in
diameter and one-eighth thick. The fiat
side is embossed with a letter "P, for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

only relieved by the Doctors prompt ar
rival in his motor. and in both cases death
had seemed inevitable, There was a terri
BILE railway accident not long ago near
London, and the only medical man on the
spot for some time was a doctor who pos
sessed car and the cases he relieved were
many.
What a different place London will be
when the horses are off the streets! There
will be no gruesome sights at corners dur
ing slippery weather-no worn-out bus
horses shaving and toiling along the hot
pavement; no odious and evil-smelling dust
no danger of CHAMBERS. no half-starved cab
horses. On the contrary, clean and we'll
kept thoroughfares, and rapid and effective
means of locomotion-in word, effacement
of dirt and disease.
There is one way in which motors can be
used as a fascinating means of making
money for charity, and this Is to lend car
to a charity fete for the public to drive In
at SO much head. 1t is astonishing to find
what a really good sum can be made In
short afternoon in this way, and the amount
trouble expended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

enchanting views of loch and mountain,
headland and sea, can be gained at a trt-
fling amount of trouble and expense. Think
of the freedom of II all! That perhaps is
the real and indetnable charm Freedom
from ones felow-man for a while. Free
dom from business cares-freedom from the
ties of travelling, and that eternal cry of
Times up" which rings continuously in
the travellers ears reminding him that
time and tide walt for no man. To the
lucky motorist, who can disregard all these
trs mmels with impunty, time does not ex-
list for the moment; he goes whittier, when,
and how he wishes. He need not trouble
about tickets, porters, luggage, or any of
these tiresome and indispensable draw
backs to a holiday. He has his meals, as
rule, when he is hungry. not herded with
his fellow tourists in a crowded restaurant
obliged to eat because 1t Is the fashion, and
the cooks decree. Luncheon can be. taken
halt can be called. and an al fresco meal
eaten under the pleasantest conditions.
N y
What a knowledge can be gained of our
Cathedral cities! Bath. Ely. Canterbury
Durham. Wells, 20 mention only few, are
seldom SEEN only heard of. Only too fire.
quently they are connected In ones mind
with tedious wait, and glories only a few
yards away are for the motorist to enjoy.
What can equal the beauty and solemnity
of dim Cathedral aisle or Minister church
on hot summers day. after a long, dusty
to find oneself In such a place. and the ST.
lence of 1t. 1t is almost oyerpowerins. The
writer has pleasant memories of a similar
tour-giimpses of scenery, the wonderful
perpendicular churches OF an eastern coun-
ty. peeps Of the sea from towering cliffs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

twenty-fifth of the space which would be
occupied by the same amount Of tea, in
ordinary commercial form, sufficient to
make one cup. In making the lozenges, the
tea, after being picked, is dried and rolled.
then put through a boiling process, after
which it is placed in the small molds-a;bout
the size of your waistcoat buuon-where 1t
Is compressed with such great force that
the heat generated in the mold by the pres
sure alone starts the gummy fannie acid
molecules, which cement the tablets in
shape. So expeditions is the method of
manufacture that leaves can be freshly
picked at noon and then prepared in tablet
form in good time for use at the supper
table the same day.
These are the first tea tablets which we
have ever seen in the new world, but COM
pressed tea in the form OF slabs was intro
duced in Russia century ago. AS a con-
venience, Russian officials and their wives
have long carried on their numerous Jour-
neys high-grade compressed tea nodded In
the form of tiling or cakes. In the late
war with Japan Russian soldiers were sup
piled with these slabs, very like our cakes
of chocolate and grooved SO that pieces of
standard size could be snapped off in the
fingers. We all know the bulk occupied by
a quantity of loose tea, to which has to be
added to the commissariat of an army on the
march the canisters holding the dried leaves
These canisters continue to occupy as much
space as originally, in spite of the dwind-
ling of the tea therein, and are, in fact as
bulky when empty as when full. Now the
Russian soldier can slip three pounds of
compressed tea into his coat pocket where
as to carry under his arm the same weight
OF loose tea would Inconvenience him great
ly, even on short journey. During long
sleightng trips over the Russian and Siber-
ian expanSes, where IL iS impra cticable to
halt and boil water, a traveller often places
one of his tea tablets in his mouth. with a
morsel of loaf sugar letting both softly
dissolve. 1t is said that half hour after
thus taking three or four of his tea tablets
he commences to feel a cheering, e1hilarat-
ing effect. The Russians call this indulg
ence dry cup of tea" and 1t is claimed by
them that not the slightest harm results
from the consumption of three or four tab
let's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

But the greatest freak in this line Is the
cup nodded of compressed tea by firm
of Mockba, central Russia These vessels
after a course of drying become as hard
as granite and allow of boiling water being
poured into them until 1t dissolves. each
time, just enough OF the tea from the bot
tom and sides of the cup TO give suffi-
GENTLY strong infusion. One of these cups
very like the medicinal "quassa' cups
Of our grandparents-will continue for six
months to brew as much tea as one drinker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

More recently the bureau of plant indus
try has been cooperating with DIR. Shepard
in maintaining the experimental garden,
where the tea tablets described above are
being manufactured. The station now en-
braces about 80 acres of tea plants and pro-
duces nearly 10000 pounds of dry tea an
nually. On the grounds is also operated
the first tea factory ever built on American
soil. At Mackay, Tex. the bureau has just
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

years before William the Conqueror con-
quered England.
The Stantons have a coat of arms consist
ing of shield with silver background. with
two black chevrons and a black border.
There is a helmet crest with a fox stand
ing. The coat of arms has two notices.
one EN- Dieu Ma Foy," or I'm God Ny
Faith" and the other. 'Moderata Durant,"
or Moderate ACQUISITIONS Are Lasting"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

over all, and everything, save nature,
sleeps; the hum of the car, as she spins
along the road, is the only sign of human
life. More can be learned from road trav-
cling than by the dillgent study of 4 map.
One makes the acquaintance too, of many
ioned inn, which since the good old coach
ing days of long ago, had, alasi till the
advent of the motor, fallen upon hard
times. Charming and out-of-the world
spots there are unvisited and unseen by
the ordinary traveller. A few days spent IN
one of these usually comfortable old inns,
and one is led to regret the modern haste
and hustle of travelling, and to welcome the
motor, which makes such restful ease pos
sible.
Happy memories OF days spent in these
cut-of-the-way country places are stored
up during a lifetime, and it is really won
derful how many sympathetic and pleasant
people are to be met with. 1t happens that
q lifelong friendship or even a tenderer tie
is formed by few days companionship in
this fashion. True nowadays there are no
Dick Turpins to be feared but there are
either incidents. hardly less exciting than
hlghwaymen, who demand your money
maybe, but not your life. The uniforms
may be different. IL is true. but the excite
ment Is the same, and the warning of the
passing car. who exclaims, Go easyr' Is
not TO be despised. Alas! the IMAM In blue'
Is not in these prosaic times to be appeased
like Claude Duval. by vision of loneliness
kings highway. courteous and frank adj
mission of misdemeanor. II deserved, Is a
surer way of touching hts heart
IL Scotland IL included In the tour what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21
Ancestry in Kansas.
, tha pittsburg Headlight.

The other day the Headlight had some
thing to say about the Lanyon family of
this city tracing its ancestry back to the
time of William the Conqueror In England
The canyons will have to take back
seat. c. w. Stanton of 105 West Washing
ton avenue, the well-known cigar man, re-
ports that his family has been traced back
l.400 years. 70 the year 500 A. D.. or 800
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

When I opened the little box a slip of
paper fell out. 1t bore the following d.
rections:
Drop one tablet in tea pot for each cup
of tea desired. Pour in freshly boiled wat
er and after standing four minutes Uhe tea
not the brewer stir gently strain and
serve. II made ia the cup, use one tablet
and after standing four minutes, stir gently
Tea will immedia tely settle to the bottom
of the cup then strain liquor into another
cup, add sugar and cream as desired"
One of these tablets takes up only one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

peaceful streams through fertile valleys,
glorious stretches of purple moor. and
again, rolling expanse of south country
DOWNS with the sharp contrast of the Scot
fish Highlands these will never fade. They
are as pearls on chain, whose connecting
links are incidents. some amusing, some
pathetic, but all serving as a reminder of
happy days spent on a car.
Some people will say, But the dust! How
could you stand that?" Well, somehow, one
does; and a little discomfort is a necessary
adjunct to most pleasures. When the pub
lie realizes that very little expense would
make the high-roads absolutely dust-proof.
will be removed.
In late years q great amount of interest
has heen taken by a portion of the public
In motor-car racing in several forms. The
blue ribbon" of motor racing has OF course
ter several years of international competi-
ton, bids fair to fall through. But there
Is no doubt that It has occasioned several
interesting and exciting contests and
great gathering of supporters and keenly
Interested spectators has always been
found. The eliminating trials, so called,
have ELECTED many competitors in the diff
ferent countries, who have raced against
each other various firms competing for the
hcrors of representing their respective
countries In the great race. There Is no
led to the production of fine type of tour
lag car; but there are many now who think
that their phase of usefulness is over and
that motor racing, qua racing, should be
thing of the past. But no one who has
seen Q Gordon Bennett contest can ever
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

There are. of course, other forms of rae
Ing, when amateurs compete for cups and
various prizes, interesting to the competi-
tors and their friends; and those afford
certain amount of interest, but one won
ders-have they had their day2 and is such
a form of amusement likely to continue?
Rcad-racing or even track-racing at high
speeds, has its limits, and one doubts If the
motor car will not soon be merely used as
a pleasant and very useful means of tram
sit; for that car Is useful. nobody can
deny remember. one occasion. last sum
mer, when an unfortunate bicyclist was
discovered sitting By the side of the road,
with her head bandaged. after serious ac-
cident. while her distracted husband vainly
scanned the horizon for help. This arrived
in the most timely fashion In the shape of
a car, whose occupants Immediately stop
ped. and conveyed the lady to the nearest
station This is only one of many in
stances In which the sometimes unpopular
car has proved of invaluable assistance to
those in adversely. What boon many
doctors find their cars and not only the
medical men. but their patients. know
of two cases where acute hemorrhags was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

forget It. The dense concourse of specta-
tors crowding together at the starting
polnt-the long line of numerous looking
cars awaiting their turn to start, the deaf
ening noise of their exhaust, the almost
solemn silence of the throng the pale
keeniy anxious faces of the drivers set
hard in a determination to do or die. and
then-the wait, intense with expectation.
not unmixed with fear, for the advent of
the first car, which thunders past at a ter
quite like 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

''Pinehurst," the name of the tea garden
where manufactured. The Khaki color was
not selected for purposes Of military strategy
and Uncle Sam was not afraid that tea tab
let of a brighter hue might offer a good tar
get TO the enemy. These special lozenges
being compressed from green tea leaves, the
natural color was impaired to the finished
article. The government tea garden III just
commencing to stamp out also tablets of
American breakfast, black and Oolong teas,
varying, in hue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

Inc tea pickers at the government sta
tons are all colored children One of these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

The government experts attached to the
experimental gardens are improving the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-08-31
Will Stockslaser Resisnl

In order to keep the judiciary as
clean as possible from any and all
influences which might defeat JUS.
tice, judges are expected to keep
out of active politics. Judge
Stockslager of the supreme bench
has been nominated for governor
on the Democratic ticket, and can
not well 60 out campaigning IN
less he resigns his position on the
bench. He is the strongest can
didate on the Democratic state
ticket, and without his influence
they can not hope to win. The
platform OH which he was nomi-
mated has a plank urging the
necessity for absolute separation
of all influences from the judicia
ry Stockslager will resign Or
deal bis ticket a blow.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-08-31
The CLARK Cup

The daily papers all over the
state have had considerable to say
about Utah liorticulturists going
after the Clark cup, etc, and 50
on until we were about to believe
that the Clark cup was really in
competition and we could almost
see it in the office of the Deseret
Farmers a matter OF fact the
Clark emp won by Idaho horti-
culturists at the time of the I.riga-
ton convention in Ogden is not
at this writing in competition and
can in nowise be brought to Utah.
There are cups to be competed
for but not the famous Clark cup.
We look TO see Utah cover herself
with glory and credit brought to
all the state BY the efforts being
made by our State Board Of Hor-
ticulture and aids but there is no
need Of any self deception. The
Deseret Farmer.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-08-31
Are Trying it Now

There is a great deal Of talk
about direct primary law By
which The nominations Of officers
ls brought nearer the people. IN.
der this law the candidates an
nounce themselves for the offices
they wish, and the people have
ample time 70 consider, and en-
dorse anyone they are interested
Sin. 4 il being tried pretty liber-
ally already 70 give people q
chance 70 test its merits, and
those seeking political preferment
are announcing their candidacy in
the local papers, leaving out that
halderdash, $50 many Of my
friends have urged mefsEc
Its honorable to serve the peo-
pIe 10 apublic office, and II aman'
]kants j place. LIZ him epea { Al Il,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-08-31
TO REPUBLICANS:

We are anxious to have every
Republican in close touch, arj work
ing in harmony with tie Republican
National Congressional Committee in
favor Of the election Of d Republican
Congress.
The. Congressional campaign must
be based on the administrative and
Legislative record of the party, and,
that being 50, Theodore Roosevet's
personality must bc 4 central figure
and his achievements a central
thought in tlns campaign.
We desire to maintain the work Of
this campaign With popular. snbscrip-
tons Of One Dollar each from Rcpub-
licans. TO each subscriber we will
send the Republican National Cam
aaign Text Book and all documents
issued by the Committee.
Help US achieve q great victory
JAMES S. sHEsNAN, Chairman
P O. Box 2oo3, New Yors
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-08-31
Another Opportunity Lost.

Blackfoot should have acted
thru its commercial club or Bust
ness Mems Association or some
other organization to see that the
Irrigation Excursion came this
way next week and made a stoT
at. Blackfoot. "A nice exhibit
should have been gathered to show
this distinguished and much in
terested body Of men, and all the
country round about should have
brought in their carriages to take
them for a drive thru some Of oni
orchards and gardens close Il
town. This would be a good free
advertisement. and wonld bring
more gold here for investment in
the investment in the next few
years than anything else we could
do.
Tie Republican has been agi-
tating this move for the past four
months, Hon. John McMillen
came over from Boise to try to
interest US in the matter, we have
tried to get public meeting to act
on the matter, but indifference
prevails. 1t will serve us right if
the excursion is pulled of Or taken
thru herein the night. Blackfoot
has no rights In the matter be.
cause it has done nothing towards
carrying the burden. Bingham
County IL entitled to something
because the commissioners APP
propriated 500 to the fund used
by the board OF control. A little
money subscribed, d lot Of activity
in organizing to extend the little
courtesies which would not cost
Us money, and we coule ''stand
Up and be counted" among the
good localities worthy Of further
investigation.