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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
THE ROSY CRANBERRY.
In Sorting Pour Boiling Water Over
and Cook Them in Porcelain or
Granite-Lined Vessel.

Pour boiling water over the cram
berries, which will cause the good ones
TO swell, and the bad ones can thus be
more easily picked out. Cook the ber-
ries always in either porcelain or gran
ite-lined vessels, as the acid of the fruit
will dissolve metal and discolor the
fruit. They should never be cooked in
irons ttA or brass.
'efafh afr y AJelly.-Cook one quart of
cranberrfes untilsoft, then add one full
pint OF sugar and cook until the juice
thickens. We a mold in cold water and
pour the %cranberries in. When cold,
.they1Sill turn out firm and smooth.
Qrapberry Sauce.-Put one pound Of
sugar and halt a pint of water into a
poreslalA OF granite kettle, and let come
to a boil; then add one quart of cram
berrfes' that have been washed and
picEed oyer After these come to the
boiling point let them boil for fully ten
minutes, then pour into a mold which
has been dipped in cold water. Let
stand several hours, when it will turn
out Ike Jelly, and it will be sweet, yet
tart, ''.''t.
Cranberry Pie.-Pick over and wash
one pint Of .cranberries, chop, and add
to them two and a half cups of sugar,
half cupful of water and one tablespoon
of -four beaten until smooth; this
amount is sufficient for two pies. Pour
into pans lined with a bottom crust and
lay strips of paste d~iamond-wise over
the top. Bake until the crust is a rich
-rhn Enrnrnnnnr
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15

eyes, kind lady, my four years term
expires in two weeks, then when I get
out of the pen l am going to reform
and start a little cigar store. l kin
buy one for 5000. Have I friends
what'H advance the money? Nav,
don't need them fer that little sum;
kin steal that much in two nights
Lippincott's Magazine.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Sunny SIDE OF LIFE.
Suited Tor It.

"What are you going to make OF
your boy? Has he any pronounced
traits of ckaracter?'
None that | can discover, except
that he's abnormally credulous."
"Credulous. is he? All. he IA cut
out for a bank eXaminer."-Cnicago
Sun.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
a Yellow Sensation.

Manhattan - Hello! What's this?
Nine Lives Lost! Killed by Astobilt's
Automobile! Oh, rats!
Broadway-Why, what's the matter?
Manhattan (disgustedly)-Oh, that is
simply the headlines under which this
sensational paper reports the death OF
a cat,-Town Topics.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Unique Temperance Exhibit.

Rev. Charles H. Braden, a Spokane
Baptist minister, commented bitterly
in his pulpit on a pictorial display
made in the window of a prominent
saloon. The saloon keeper offered to
let Mr.. Braden put anything he liked
in the window for Christmas week,
Rev. Mr.. Braden will fill it with drunk.
en- tramps as awful examples
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
NEW YORK HERALD WEATHER
FORECAST.

In the Middle States and New Eng
land today partly cloudy TO fair
weather will prevail, with slight
temperature changes and light to
fresh variable winds, mostly norther-
ly and easterly, followed by increas-
ing cloudiness in the interior. On
Tuesday overcast weather and nearly
stationary temperature will prevail,
with fresh easterly winds, followed
by rain and on the coasts by fog.
And on Wednesday partly cloudy and
slightly colder weather, preceded by
rain or snow on the northern coasts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15

Have you never done anything that
you were ashamed Off" asked the con-
scientious statesman.
NO. answered the boss; Il have
been 50 busy making other people sor-
ry that | haven't had time to be
ashamed, Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
The Who'll Trouble.

""ou don't seem to like Miss Cable,
Mrs. Malaprop,'' remarked Mrs, AS
cum. why is it?'
Il detest her, replied Mrs. Mala-
prop, because she's nothin' but a scan
dial mongrel and everybody that knows
her will c%ollaborate that statement
Philadelphia Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Chinese in Africa.

A johannesburg correspondent
writes as follows of the Chinese scare
prevailing in that South African city.
THE white workers in the mines carry
reVolvers; the police are armed with
ball cartridge and bayonet; campel
yonder at Auckland park is q mobile
column of mounted men, ready TO
move against an enemy at d moments
notice; the country folk on the other
side Of the swelling rise are armed to
the teeth and live at night in barri
caded and fortified houses"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Relieving Her of Blame.

ono" said the ho~usekeeper, Il have
nothing for you. | have made a vow
never to give anything to tramps."
And | wouldn't for the world have
you break your VOW" replied Harvard
Hasben, My request was a mere mat
ter of form. AS | intend to help my
self, suppose you turn your back while
I'm thgs engaged
Press.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
A Theory Proved.

Memory is by no means the high
est intellectual faculty." remarked Mr..
Dustin StaX.
Il have thought So" replied Miss
Cayenne, latter noting the facility
with which some of our most eminent
inanciers forget things on the witness
stand."-Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Danperous Knowledre

81 suppose you think your husband
knows more than any other mar
alive said the woman who sneers.
Yes" answered young Mrs. Tork.
ms; he does. But | do wish it wasn't
about race horses. Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Good of n

"Say," said the man who was begin
ming to have a bare spot On top of his
head, can you tell me what is good
for ~raldness?"
Yes replied the barber; "a cheer
full determination to make the best OF
what can't be helped'-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Tolstoi Tabooed.

In the church of Tasow, in the gov
crument of Kursk, Russia, the altar
piece is a painting of the Last Judg-
meut, the foreground being a vivid
presentation of hades. Conspicu-
Gus among the lost ones in torment
is ,Tolst.G.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15

Justice Fort evidently means bust
ness in his dealing with the slot
machines in Middlesex county. The
saloonkeepers will be wise if they
heed what he had to say.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
The Post Card Fiend.

81 fear she won't enjoy herself in
Heaven"
"Why not?"
q don't believe you can send
souvenir postal cards from there
Pittsburg Post.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
None to Hurt,

Investigators tell us
It's the little things that XIII.
Youll find no deadly microbes s.4r
on a 1000 bill. laGg1t
Chicago Tribune. 47t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Heartless.

Distressed Mother ~(traveling with a
crying baby)-Dear me! | don't know
what to do with this child!
Bachelor lin next seat)-Shall
open the window for you, madam?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
CAUGHT the Idea.

Prima Donna-The Morning Dash
says my acting is suggestive of the
timber of my voice. What does thai
mean?
Contralto (viciously)-It means you
are a stick.-N. Y. Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
No Gond.

"Pa said if I'd be good he'd get M
a new football.
did you get your f~ootball?"
Nope. They come too high for a
kid like me.''-Cleveiand Leader.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15

According to Washington dis
patches, congress is trying to make
the country believe the president is
unpopular. All Roosevelt Will have
to do is make another little tour and
the Representatives of the railroads
and trusts will have to crawl into
their holes again.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
It's Popularity.

How did you ever come into posses
sion of such a cheap-lookipg umbrella
as that?"
why, 1 got th} Is umbrella in a very Pc
culiar way bought i%t."-Judge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
A oe Habit

Mrs. Fastboy-Fancy, dear, the Japs
always take off their shoes Avfore en-.
teF Nm the ho21
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15

Hunter-Does that dog of yours bite?
Hiram Hacede-D'ye reckon he swal.
lers his vittles whole?-Chicago Jour.
nal.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
Youths ROSeate M "a
View of the
Future ny,rs sss..
of the United states supreme Court WN8ME%

Wy r is one of the weaknesses, and yet one of the comforts |
youth, that it does not wholly realize the RESPONSIBLE
II TIES OF LIVING. The young look forward on lifa|
something reaching far into the distance, rich in beauhN
periences, crowned with Joys and successes. Life has
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
MONDAY. IS.

The water board is now enjoying
the luxury of two clerks, n for the
Hoard itself. and n for the super
intendent, both of these being
paid by the taxpayers. According to
The last published financial report,
the engineer of the board received
over $4,000 for his years services.
The next thing in order should be a
private secretary for each commits
sioner and a suite of private Offices
somewhere convenient for all hands,
OF course the Hillery tax law and the
necessity of cutting down municipal
expenses makes no difference.
In cutting down city expenses in
order to come within the Hillery tax
law, it is to be hoped the aldermen
will not come too heavy on the street
appropriation. Remember, it is the
streets that make the first impress
sion, it is the streets the people use
the most and it is the streets that
really tell of the prosperity of a town.
Give us well paved, clean streets and
the rest will come much easier. The
street department has done good
work during the past year. The city
cannot afford to have this stopped.
Every member of the Perth Amboy
$4,000 League will not miss an OPP
~portunity to talk Perth Amboy. The
$4,000 population is possible in 1910
if all will work for it,. If they will
not, it will fall far short. If other
cities had the natural advantages of
Perth Amboy they would have one of
the strongest organizations that ever
existed working on these arguments
and building up the place. Perth
Amboy's future is in the hands of her
citizens.
According to Washington dis
patches, congress is trying to make
the country believe the president is
unnonular All ROogevclt will have
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
EDITORIAL COMM TENT.

Elizabeth Journal:
AmA the reaomuIfdatip1s II
The ..f co/nor Stoke
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15

Totally ignoring Everett Colby
will not tend to increase the public's
respect for the senate or for the re-
publican machine of the state which
employs this method to kill the indie
pendent movement. Colby's good
work will be remembered when the
henchmen of the party in the senate
will have passed into Oblivion.
Amador ledger., 1906-01-19
MOOSE In NATIVE WILDS.
KING OF AMERICAN
FOREST ABOUNDS IN REMOTE
NORTHWEST REGIONS

Senses Developed to Remarkable
Degree-Feed Partly Under Water
in Summer-Many Bulls Killed in
Fratracida1 Battles.
Few people have any conception of
the astuteness of the moose, said a sue.
cessful hunter who is exceptionally
well acquainted with the habits of this
splendid game animal, in speaking OF
recent trip. They possess a keenness
of scent and hearing that is almost be.
yond belief, and an intelligence that is
seldom credited to them by any one
except those who have devoted consid
erable time to studying them and
their ways.
In the section of the country where
we were the larger part of our stay
moose were exceedingly plentiful, and
we had the finest opportunity to OBJ
serve their actions. We followed them
from one place to another. endeavor
ing not to frighten them and all the
while noticing them very closely.
In the mating season, which com
mences around September 20 and ends
about the middle of October, the bulls
are exceedingly vicious, while the COWS
are timid and seek the deepest forests,
being easily frightened. It is my
opinion that the males kill many of
their mates at this time.
The cows soon betake themselves to
some island. in order that they NAV not
be disturbed by wolves or other wild
animals. The moose calves are about
as homely and unsightly as anything
have ever seen. Their heads are
nearly as long as their bodies. and
when they are three or four weeks old
they weigh about 100 pounds.
Amador ledger., 1906-01-19

death cup. The former has been used
in Europe for hundreds of years as a
fly poison, and in Asia it was formerly
used as an intoxicant. Cattle are pois-
oned by this species as well as men,
and it is supposed that the flesh of live
stock so poisoned is rendered unwhole-
some. The death cup is not quite so
large as the fly amanita and is not so
attractive in appearance to the mex
perienced and experimenting epicure.
A large number of cases of poisoning
have been attributed to this fungus; in
most of them it was supposed to be edi-
BILE, and in few instances the mere
handling of the plant caused serious
trouble.
The bulletin above mentioned goes
on to describe the common poisonous
weeds and plants of the country, some
of which are thriving in abundance in
the East, West, North and South, and
it is believed covers the weeds which
bring harm to the farmer of every Sec
tion. The following is the list of
plants described in the bulletin:-
Fly amanita mushroom, death cup
mushroom, false hellebore, pokeweed,
corn cookie, dwarf larkspur Wyoming
larkspur, purple larkspur, choke cherry,
wolly loco weed, stemless loco weed, rat
tlebox, caper spurge, snow on the noun
tain, poison Ivy, poison oak, poison su-
mac, red buckeye, water hemlock, Oregon
water hemlock, poison hemlock, broad
leaf laurel, narrow-leaf laurel, great
laurel, staggerbush, branch ivy, jimson
weed, black nightshade, bittersweet,
sneezeweed.
Amador ledger., 1906-01-19

The calf and its mother remain to-
gether for about nine months, the
mother, of course, providing food and
shelter for the younger animal. But
after that length of time has elapsed
she will try to get away. In order to
do this she will often travel miles up
stream, so as to leave no scent, and,
as a rule, she succeeds in accomplish
ing her purpose.
The bulls have peculiar grunting
sound by which they call to the cows.
A man can initiate the call after long
practice, but not so perfectly as to de-
ce1ve them. The only way in which this
ruse can be successfully carried out
is to make your call at the same time
that the moose make their noise. In
this manner 1 have called them under
the branches of the tree in which l
have been sitting from distances as
great as mile or more.
The males also have an odd habit of
striking their antlers against trees,
making a sound that rings clear as a
bell, after which they below long and
loud. On quiet night they can be
heard miles away. This appears to be
their mode of expressing defiance and
CQallenSlnS rival TO contest.
AntIers No Handicap.
It is astonishing to see them go
through the woods while bearing their
immense branching antlers. They cal.
culate the distance between two trees
to a nicely and hardly ever strike a
branch. But perhaps the strangest
part of this performance is that this
does not seem to retard their speed
in the slightest.
In the summer they seek the water,
where they will not be pestered by
flies, and stay there during most of the
warm weather. AS they are not built
to reach the grass with their jaws, be.
ing very high in the forequarters, they
feed on lily pads, roots, watercress and
moose maple during the summer The
watercress grows chiefly in deep
water, and to reach it the moose dive
in water from ten to fifteen feet in
depth, leaving only their heels visible
They stay under from a minute to
minute and half, and usually do their
diving at night. When they have filled
their large jaws they proceed to sort
out such parts as they want and eat
them leisurely.
When autumn approaches they take
to the rocks and high places, where
they live on yellow birch and white
willow tops. They stand on their hind
legs to reach the top of birch tree
fifteen feet above the ground, snap it
off, and then pull off the young shoots.
In the winter they sustain themselves
on lichens, ground hemlock and white
cedar.
When the snow becomes deep and
the temperature is far below zero, they
herd together in some dense cedar
swamp and trample down the snow
Often as many as sixty gather at one
time in this way.
Amador ledger., 1906-01-19
TrODicaI Fruits.

There is something fascinating in the
development of tropical fruits, those
things which we can not grow in the
.emperate and colder climates, where
Jack Frost is sure to reap his annual
harvest. There is the mango, for in
stance, which the Department of Ag-
riculture is growing in Porto Rico, and
the alligator pear, a most delicious
tropical vegetable-fruit, the pepino, and
score of others which will stand little
or no frost. To most persons there is
a glamor and a fascination about the
tropics and its products. We have in
the United States no tropical section.
Frosts or chills of atmosphere are
likely to visit us at all points. In
Porto Rico and the Philippines, how
ever, are found the genuine tropical
conditions where nothing worse occurs
than the hurricane which sweeps away
every vestige of vegetation, house and
occupants; but there is no frost.
While we have taken control Of
Porto Rico and the Philippines. never
theless, it is the constant endeayor of
the home government to cross and hy-
brldlze tropical with hardy fruits so
that they will stand the cold and
frost of northern climes. The artifi-
cial evolution of the hardy orange is
an example of this.
BY selection and cross breeding.
plants can become wonderfully well
accllmated and as result the northern
varieties and species are gradually in
vadlng the southern fields, while the
northern orchards are constantly being
augmented by new species hitherto
exclusively southern in temperament.
Amador ledger., 1906-01-19

department.; the first, lasting several
months, is period of hallucination
with defective eyesight, during which
the animal may cut all sorts of capers.
Once acquiring a taste for the loco
plant the stock refuse every other kind
Of food until the second stage is ush-
cred in. This second stage is linger-
ing period of emaciation characterized
by sunken eye-balls, lusterless hair and
feeble movements. The animal dies,
as if from starvation, in periods rang
ing from a few months to one or two
years.
Various States have attempted to
adopt measures for the eradication of
the loco weed, but so far these at
tempts have not met with much sue
cess. Colorado, a number of years
ago, offered a reward of so much per
ton for quantities of the loco weed
brought in for determination. The
Mexican greasers, with great thrift,
started in to farm and raise loco
weeds. One of the prime reasons for
failure to eradicate this weed ty State
action has been the inability to prop
erly identify the loco plant. In some
States it has been one weed which
has caused the poison, and in others
an entirely different species has re-
suited in live stock destruction.
Experiments in Poisoning.
However, the Department of Agricul-
ture is now making experiments with
various poisonous plants of the West,
injecting the subtle poisons into sheep,
cattle and guinea pigs, and studying
every symptom, until it is hoped that
some measures may be adopted by
stockmen to prevent loss through eat
ing of the loco.
But it is not only the West that is
complaining to the Department of Agri.
culture on account of the presence of
poisonous plants, for there is no Sec
tion of the country which does not
abound with some form of plant life
which is either of an irritant or poison.
ous character. New Jersey recently
reported few cases where children
were poisoned by water hemlock. Ore.
gon loses cattle every year through one
species of cicuta. Familiar to us all
is the action of poison ivy. While it is
irritable to human beings, it has no
apparent effect upon animals, horses,
mules and goats eating it's leaves with
impunity. A number of people are i'm
mune to its action, but some lose their
resistant power in middle life; others
have been known to attain immunity
only through considerable exposure to
the poison ivy.
Deadly Mushrooms.
The meadows and pastures of many
Amador ledger., 1906-01-19

of the business. When a hen moults
she stops laying eggs and no amount OF
persuasion can induce her to again
commence doing business until she is
ready. The California Experiment
Station has been making tests with the
object of shortening the moulting sea-
son Of laying fowls. Hens usually
commence moultlng in the early fall
and the plan of the California Station
is to hasten this time into early sum-
lner. This is accomplished by method
of light feeding, followed with heavy
feeding. The egg-laying is stopped
and moulting is brought on by a one
half reduction of the supply of nitro
genous food, meat, middlings, and the
like. The hens, under this plan, stop
egg-laying and go to moulting. In
about month, it is claimed, the moult-
ing process is all finished and then the
ordinary feeding is resumed; the hen
then begins to lay eggs early in the
fall. The experiments of the station
have not been concluded, so that it is
still unsafe to say whether or not the
new method will prove practically sue
cessful.
Amador ledger., 1906-01-19
Breeding g Sturdy Lettuce.

Through the process of forcing"
owners of Greenhouses are able to
produce crops, weeks and months
before they could arrive at maturity
through natural courses. In addition
the crop is made to develop far more
rapidly and to attain proportions
such as nature could not accomplish.
From $2,5OO,OOO to 100000 worth
Of lettuce alone is ''forced" in the
United States each winter. Green
house gardeners in an iendeavor to
"get rich quick have failed to note
that this forcing was weakening
their stock until now the weak let
tuce often becomes so diseased in the
hothouse that it is by no means rare
for gardener to lose an entire crop
Of greenhouse lettuce by a disease to
which these overstrained plants are
particularly liable.
DR.. B. T. Galloway, chief of the
Bureau of Plant Industry, in order to
correct this evil, has been working for
two seasons ON this subject and has
at last succeeded in obtaining a crop
Of winter lettuce plants immune to
the lettuce disease. At the same time
the plants are of large size and capa-
BILE of developing as early as the most
specialized Of winter lettuce. This
work has involved much time and the
sarifice of thousands of plants. Seed
Of healthy winter lettuce was planted,
and at the proper time
the plants were crossed with
wild lettuce-a species free from
disease. Millions of seeds of these
cross-bred plants were sown in beds
a thousand in each-and out of each
thousand two or three of the largest
and best were taken, while the rest
were destroyed. From these extra