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The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
KENTUCKY CORN DODGERS
How 20 Produce a PaIatabIe Old
time Article of OIies.


From the Louisville Courier-JournaI
Now and again. when material for
discussion is scanty, the Kentucky corn
pone and the Kentuckian's affection for
it axe discussed by our Northern and
Southern neighbors. The Clarksville
(Tenn) Leaf Chronicle reaches the
conclusion that the prime cause for the
excellence of corn bread in this State
IS that meal is made from the white
flint corn, and made by processes slow
enough not to destroy the flavor Of the
grain This is the real secret Of corn
bread making, and one of the reasons,
at least for the Northerner's detesta-
tion Of the "dodger' is that he rarely
if ever, sees anything but the basest
imitation OF the dOdger. as it IS known
and loved upon its native heath.
There are many varieties Of bread
more or less palatable made from corn
meal. The two old-fashioned varieties,
dear 10 the Southern palate. are the
hoecake and the corn pone or dodger
Neither has any leavening in it when
properly made. and neither can be made
acceptably with any but white corn
meal that is not ground to the fneness
Of -four by modern machinery. The
"bolted" meal of the modern grist mill
is totally unfit for making corn dodgers
or hoecakes. 1t is so finely ground that
unleavened bread made from it is as
solid as a wedge The rare nut-like
flavor of the perfect dOdger can be
produced only when the meal is coarse
enough for minute air chambers to
exist throughout the dough as it cooks
Formerly, when watermills were in
general use throughout the South, it
was easy to procure coarse meal. The
best was that made from new corn.
and the corn dodger from the first
turn of corn taken to the mill after
corn-s. lueking time was the best Of the
year.
When baking powder or other Ieav.
ening is introduced, in an effort TO
tighten the bolted meal, an always
inferior and too often sour imitation
of the Old-fashiOned dOdger is the
result. Many kinds Of egg bread" and
batter bread" and corn cakes may be
made by using an ingredient to make
the mixture rise" but the corn dodger
and the hoecake must depend for light
ness upon the quality of the meal of
which they are made.
1t is not difficult to find restaurants
and hotels even in the North where
Kentucky corn dodgers may be or
dered. 1t is difficult even in the South
to procure the corn dodger in its ma.
tive purity and perfect quality except
in private houses where the traditions
and recipes Of antebellum days have
been preserved.
To make corn dodgers there is re-
quired meal, properly made from white
flint corn; water-Or sweet milk-salt
and a cook that is conscientious and
viii not use anything TO make the
bread rise. To make hoecakes, there
is needed the same meal the same
cook, a little water, and a little salt.
The combination has become rare even
in Kentucky.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
SAVED BY HIS GLASS EYE.
Man from Fisheries Escapes Rob
berry in Water Front saloon.
From the San Frsncs-o, can


Alec Johnson had just returned from
the Alaska fisheries and his pockets
were heavy with earnings Of the trip. It
was not strange therefore to the sophis-
ticated mind that he instantly found
three bosom friends whose devotion to
him was so great that they would not
leave him for a moment.
But Alec was not sophisticated and he
only thought. as so many Of his Tk have
thought before him, what a good old
world this is and what a lot of warm
hearted people. He felt touched when his
new friends invited him into a saloon
and treated him to all the liquor he want
ed They kept on urging him to drink.
while they We're telling him how much
they thought Of him. They did not find
1t necessary 10 give him what is techni-
cally known rs Knockout drops. because
he was already knocked out pretty well
IN the natural course of imbibing freely
OF waterfront whisky.
At last he retired to the back room of
the saloon 10 sleep of the effects, and his
friends bided their time.
Pretty soon one Of them went in TO
reconnOiter, but came back. saving that
Alec was still wide awake. This sur
prlsed them, for they had given him
enough to put three men TO sleep They
waited until they thought he must surely
be in the land Of Nod
Again one Of them pretended to have
an eTrand in the other room. glanced fur
lively at Alec and was met by his wide
open eye. The intended victim was "
ing with his face half buried In the nil
low, so that only one eye was visible.
but that one remained open every time
his friends came TO see how he was get
ting along. They did not speak To him
for fear Of rOusing him in case he should
be just on the point of dropping Off.
But Alec had a glass eye, and it is the
nature OF glass eyes to remain open while
the owner sleeps. 1t is doubtful If this
phase of their usefulness has ever been
exploited, but if any Of the vendors of
glass eyes want to incorporate 1t in their
advertising they may have for nothing
the story of how Alec's artificial eve
saved him from being robbed.
His friends wish they had known.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
HELD TO STRICT ACCOUNT.
Had Difficulty Convincing WHEY that
He Attended TO Business.
From the ChicaEo Recard- Herald

From the Chicago Record Herald.
John
Yes, dear"
Did you lock the basement door,.
Yes"
Are you sure the gas is turned off in
the kitchen ranger"
'Uh-huh"
I don't believe you looked at the din
ing-room windows"
Yes, I did. Now keep quiet. I want
TO go to sleep"
1t seems to me smell gas. I'm afraid
you didn't open the damper in the fur
mace pipe"
The furnace is all right. fixed it the
last thing"
Well, have a queer feeling that some
thing IS the matter. Are you sure the
front door is bolted?"
Yes. Yes, Confound it, give me a
chance to so to sleep. I need rest"
John"
"Oomph"
John, are you asleep?''
"Oomph"
John wake up and answer me. You
forgot to lock the library window. The
girl was busting to-day and had it open. +"
~Oornph"
John, stop that pretending and get up.
l can't so 10 sleep tonight unless you go
and lock that window
"Oh, Lord, why can't you let a fellow
alone? 1 fixed all the windows. All of
them-every window in the house-kitch-
en-. dining-room, library-aIl of EN-, All
Of 'em can you understand that? The
doors are all bolted. The furnace is as
it should be. The gas is turned off in the
kitchen Now let me alone, viii you?"
John"
"OOmph"
John, wake up and listen to what I
say"
Great heavens, are you talking yet7''
John Worthington, did you water the
rubber plant?"
- s-sssl 97sss
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
HUNTED FOR FUR AND OIL.
skunk "A Source of Revenue to the
Maine Farmer Boy.
From the Kennebec journal.


Though Stunned by society and despised
by all save the hunter, the skunk is a
source Of revenue TO many persons in
Maine during the months when fur is in
| it's best condition. Skunks are easily
killed, and nearly every farmers boy
and many a farmer. too, turns over no.
a few dollars by their capture and the
sale of their fur and oil.
/ Every acre Of meadow land will have
from half a dozen 10 a dozen of skunks
roaming about through the long grass
in search Of their food, and only a
stout club is required by the expert to
! effect their death. Many are trapped, and
! the country lad who is acquainted with
I the habits of the little animals will now
/ have his traps set about the cornheld
and henyard, places the squnks are most
likely TO frequent.
/ The man Who hunts skunks for their
/ fur and oil viii postpone his hunting
until late September. Then, when the
moon is bright and the nights are get
/ ting frosty. the skanks roam about IN
! greatest numbers Then, too. the fur has
| thickened after the shedding of the old
I
/ best price. The season for skunk hunt
/ ing lasts from the middle OF September
until well into November When the
/ heavy fr0sts Of the latter month come
/ the fat skunks. which contain the val
/ liable OF, den up for the winter Others
which may not have the necessary far
/ 10 carry them through the winter In a
snug den. wander abroad all winter.
/ The prices paid for skunk skins are
regulated in large part by fashion in
/ furs. The skins which are most valuable
/ are those of the darker animals. 4
pure black skin is worth from 81 to s..
according 20 quality, striped skunk skins
1 bring from . TO 40 cents, while those
! with part stripe bring from 50 TO q
cents. Three years ago the skin OF a
I dark skunk brought from $3.50 TO g.
and there was not enough of the skins
/ 10 meet the demand. Since that time.
/ however, the muskTat has supplanted
/ the skin in popular favor and the de-
/ cline in price is the result.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
WHEN LIVING WAS CHEAP.
Days When Eggs Brought Only a
Penny a Dozen.

from Inc Mechanic.
Two cents or its equivalent would buy
a pair Of chickens-in the fourteenth cen
fury For the value of a nickel one could
acquire a goose fit for a Christmas dinner
in the fourteenth century.
A penny would purchase a dozen strict
" fresh eggs-in the fourteenth century:
while for 2 cents the brewer was com
PEELED by law to sell three gallons Of
beer. the equivalent of forty-eight glasses.
Wheat sometimes fell as low as 40 cents
a quarter, though after a great storm or
in time of grievous famine it would rise
as high as 81 or s. a quarter. Still at
these prices good many pounds Of bread
could be bought for a penny.
Pasture and arabic lands were ridic1I-
lousy cheap-2 cents an acre for the for
mer, and y cents an acre for the latter
being considered fair annual rental.
Draft horses were a drug on the market
at Y cents each, and oxen at SIS. In the
days of the Second Henry $50 would have
equipped a farm with three draft horses
half a dozen oxen. twenty cows. and 200
sheep, leaving a balance of g toward the
payment Of the rent. which would be per
haps s. a year.
The other side Of the story, so far as
the laooring man is concerned, comes in
the following figures; Three cents a day
was considered good wages for an ordi-
nary laborer- Even at harvest time 4
cents was the highest amount expected
House rent was so low that the lord
mayor of London paid only $3.50 a year
to his landlord. The chancellor had an
annual salary Of 1892 When a father
sent his son to a university, 4 cents a dav
was looked upon as a comfortable allow
ance, with margin for such luxuries as
wine at cents to y cents a gallon.
a salary of S24 a year was considered
munificent. King Edward VI gave his
daughter an allowance Of $3.50 week
with an additional S24z60 a year for the
maintenance Of her eight servants.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
Begins Life Early.

From Parsons Weekly.
When 1 was a very little boy, writes
Sir William Gregory in his autobiog-
raphy, my grandfather. who was then
under secretary for Ireland. took me
to the chief secTetary's room in Dublin
castle and formally introduced me to
Lord Melbourne.
After I had been with him for some
little time he said:
Now my boy, is there anything here
you would like?"
Yes" I answered, pointing to a very
large stick of sealing wax
That's right said Lord Melbourne,
pressing on me a bundle of pens; be
gin life early. All those things belong
to the public, and your business must
always be to get out Of the public as
much as you can"
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
GREATEST SIREN ON EARTH.
Costs One Dollar Each Time II Blows
and Carries Ten Miles.

]
and Carries Ten Miles.
From the St Louis Post Dispatch
East St Louis now has the largest
steam whistle in the world. It is a re-
markabIe triple machine with three voices.
a three-chlme whistler, whose capacity
for the annihiIation of peace is extraor-
binary. This whistle blows a ten-mile
blast at half steam, and with favorable
wind has a disturbing power of twenty
miles. It costs a dollar every time it is
blown.
But this great whistle Is not all noise.
It is an IDEA In economy; a whistle
trust, a noise combine. Almost all the
little noises. yelps, toots. and whines Il
smaller mechanical throats In East ST.
Louis ale now dumb. The giant whistle
trust Whistles for them. The independent
whistles have to whistle of time 10 be
heard.
Within the range OF this whistle are
said to be 100000 people who tell time by
it.
This remarkable whistle has been in
stalled by the East st. Louis and Su-
burban Electric Railway Company at
the Belt powerhouse, State and Twen-
tieth streets. where the company's ma
chine shops and car barns are located.
The great modern siren comprises three
whistles. The largest is almost six feet
in height and NEARLY as large around as
a man. On each side Of the main one IS
a smaller whistle The three units COM
bine to make one noise, with which even
Babanne, miles away, across the Mis-
sissippi River, in the west end of St
Louis. is well acquainted.
This big triple whistler was also set up
at the railway cOmpany's electrical gen.
Grating station "as a feature" 1t is con-
neCted with an electric clock, which is
regulated by the government standard
time, sent out from Washington on the
dropping of ball at exactly noon each
day
The electric clock which connects with
the whistle is guaranteed not TO vary FIVE
seconds in time a year. and the clock S
record TO date Is satisfactory. Almost
every man looks at his watch when the
first blast is sounded by the large whistle
at o'clock in the morning. Almost
every housewife in East st. Louis glances
at her mantel timepiece when the siren
wOoes nOon-the second blast Of the day
The third blast is an hour later, and the
last is at in the evening
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
Christmas Adam,
From the Kansas City Journal.

tron J1e hansas Jlty Journal.
Mamma-You have addressed your let
ter Mr.. Santa Claus Adam" Why die
you put the Adam there, dear? That
isn't Santa Claus name.
Bobby-Well, who is The Christina.
.Adam then?
What Christmas Adam? I never hears
of one"
There's a Christmas Eve. and there
ought to be Christmas Adam, 1 should
think
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23
A Good Turn.

From the Houston Post.
Old Bach is terrible crouch, isn't
hep"
THE worst ever"
Il don't believe he ever did any one a
good turn in his life"
Yes, he did, once''
'Who2"
The girl be didn't marry.s
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23

Another fur coat of exceptional beauty
brought out in the past week is the
pure white garment of the Baroness
Hengelmuller. which is used for motor
ing, the favorite mode OF Iocomotion for
its handsome wearer. This, like Miss
Elkins gray coat, is long and loose
coming well below the knees, with high
storm collar that may be turned up or
down. Il is double breasted, and fas-
tenasd ., the IsFs side by ecarmous white
The Washington herald., 1906-12-23

There's one thing, though. that I hope
I shall have strength of mind enough to
resist doing. I can't think of myself
going about carrying a Teddy bear with
out shuddering. A shopkeeper tells me
that ladies prefer the bears to lapdogs-
that. however, doesn't move me. because
I would rather be seen any day with a
sandwich sign than dog, and as for
children, he assures me that he sells ten
bears to one doll this year. I have ac-
tually seen women clothed and otherwise
in their right minds carrying bears. one
woman, IN a violet gown, went along F
street the other day with a bear. and it
had bunch Of viOlets pinned 10 Il. II is
a most ineXpliCable fad Certainly no
less attractive toy was ever invented. and
as for grown women carrying them
well, dare say it is the pernicious result
OF the Beauty Hints page. After you have
, 1906-01-24
DORA THORNE" RECEIVES
VERY FLATTERING MENTION

What the Cincinnati Enquirer says
of Dora Thorne:" "A large audience
gave its seal of %applauding approval to
this bit of stage literature last night.
Judging from the applause. the produc-
tion is just what the theater- goers
want. Dora Thorne," as a story, is
too well known for comment, but it
must be admitted that the playwright
has improved upon the plot to such
an extent that the play is far more in
.~teresting than the book. Dramatic IL
cense is somewhat elastic at times, to
say the least, and in the play the most
dramatic and exciting points of the
book are brought out with decisive &C
tion and clearness. Nor is the comedy
found wanting; much humor is inter
mingled with the episodes of the
drama, making as a whole a play, nov
ell and interesting in the extreme. Seats
now on sale. Popular prices.
, 1906-01-24

Clint Nelson of Jelm Is in the city.
Robert Nielsen of Morgan is in the
city.
r. Edwards is a visitor from Cow
drey.
Trainmaster f. C. Let's went to
Cheyenne last night.
w. T. McAvoy arrived from his
home at Walden last night.
Mrs. Thomas Fitzgerald, wife of the
engineer, left today for the east, for a
visit with friends.
Mrs. Towle drove to the Jake Farr
ranch this morning, for a visit with
her sister, Mrs. Farr.
w. H. B. Jacobus, the superintend-
ent of the rolling mills, is in the city
and spent the day at the mills.
Rev. and Mrs. N. G. Sundby arrived
from Centennial last night and today
proved up ON their claim near Cen
tennial.
Miss Sitter left on the noon train
today for Cheyenne, her former home,
where she will visit with friends for a
few days.
Mrs. Ed Matthews of Cheyenne is in
the city, the guest of the family of
her sister, Mrs. NJ. F. Knadler, and will
probably return tomorrow.
Mrs. Harden left on the noon train
for Denver, after a visit of several
days with her daughter, Miss Mabel
Harden, on Tenth street.
w. ]. Ryan of Cheyenne, represent
ing the Cudahy Packing company, was
in the city this morning, looking after
the company's interests here.
A. H. Fetters and r. Rivetts of
Omaha, connected with the motive
power department of the Union Pacific,
were among the visitors to the city
this morning.
Louis Harnden of Medicine Bow,
who had been in the country looking
after a ranch deal, arrived in the city
last night and was a guest at the
Johnson hotel. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. N. Gonden of Omaha
are the guests of the family of their
son, Harry Gonden, at the Union Pa
citc. They have been at Los Angeles
and are on their way home.
County Commissioner c. H. Jones
arrived from the ranch yesterday aft
ernon and was present last night at
the formal transfer of the Carnegie
library to the county commissioners.
Joseph Watkins and Fred c. Won
Renterghem of Shirley Basin. in the
northern part of the county, were
among the visitors to the city today,
here to look after some business mat
tiers.
Mrs. Thomas Hickson and daughter
returned today from Hanna, where
they had been to attend the funeral of
MIR. Ben Buckley, at Carbon, going
with the party from Hanna to that
place yesterday.
, 1906-01-24
BRIEFLY MENTIONED.
No police court cases today.

NO ponce court cases today.
February Magazines in, Bookstore
An Oldsmobile touring car for sale
1915, at Loyejoy's.
The bank barometer is still going up
this morning recording 23.4i.
Charlie Knadler, who has been laid
up for the past week with an attack
of rheumatism, is better today.
The Presbyterian Missionary society
will be entertained by Mrs. Hogbin al
3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Janu
airy IS.
The officers for the German Evan
|gelical church for 1905 are Jacob Der
ner. Charles T%roederup, w. Koch, w
Melcher and Aug. Roeseler.
Frank Rice, the barber, is suffering
from a wound on the face, sustained
by slipping on an icy pavement and
falling against a picket fence.
Mrs. James Atkinson, who has been
i'll with la grippe for several days, is
able to be out and was taking a short
walk in the balmy air this afternoon.
Fish Commissioner S. H. Campbell
is in from the hatchery this afternoon,
here to receive a shipment of 200, 000
eggs from ~hatcheries in the New Eng
land states.
An opera company of fifty-fve PEG.
pie passed through the city this after.
noon, en- route west. Many of the mem.
bers of the company dined at the I'm,
ion Pacific hote,.
, 1906-01-24

the mattera lab the proposed plant
is a practical certainty. l am in posi-
ton to know something Of the inner
workings of the scheme, and do not
hesitate t. say that only the one thing
remains to be determined-the quality
of the shale at the shallow depth. The
money is at hand, some of the earnest
money has been handed to the owners
OF the land and another owner is on
the point of giving the required option.
He is in the city today, and should
not be surprised to know that he has
Itelegraphed his acceptance of the
terms. The meadows along the river
banks are not included, only the sec
ond level being affected. This, it Is
true, is good irrigation land. but the
owners are willing to part with it."
, 1906-01-24

1t is now almost assured that a
Portland cement works will be erected
at or near Laramie within the next
few months. Only the quality of the
shale, vast beds of which have been
secured by eastern parties, remains to
be demonstrated to the satisfaction of
the experts SEN here to Investigate.
That the shale is of sufficient quality
to warrant the erection of the plant
is beyond dispute, taking that found
at considerable depth into account,
but the effort Of the experts has been
to find shale near the surface suitable
for the work contemplated, to avoid
the necessity Of deep Stripping to
expose the beds.
A gentleman from Colorado, in no
wise connected with the experts who
were here recently working through
the Offices of the state chemist and
state g%eologlst at the university, but
representing what is confidently be-
lieved. to be a great moneyed institu-
ton, has gone so far in his investiga-
tons as to secure options on a consid-
cradle tract of land, or, rather, tracts,
as at least three owners have been of
fered their own prices for their hold
ings, and the earnest money paid in
two cases, the funds coming to a local
bank by telegraphic orders from Den
yer.
These tracts lie along the Laramie
river for a distance of twelve or ff-
teen miles, on what is known as the
second level, above the natural mead
ows that line the river. The owners
have given options for the sale of the
mineral or plaster rights, reserving
outlets from the river and giving road
ways to the river from the tracts.
The money has actually been paid.
From a gentleman conversant with
the deals, The Republican is convinced
that a Portland cement plant will be
erected near this city during the sum-
mer, representing an outlay of per-
haps a quarter of a million dollars.
The money is said to be Immediately
available, dependent upon the deter
mination of the quality of the shale
and the opening of spring for the be-
ginning of work.
Added to this is the announcement
that a contract for rates has been
actually entered into with the Union
Pacific Railroad company for the out
put of the plant, the company having
agreed to build a spur fifteen miles
in length to reach the beds of shale,
II that much track is found to be nee
the company agreeing to fur
nish the new all the rail facil-
tiles needed in the development of the
property and the handling If the pro-
A contract has been made with
the George quarries for the limestone
needed in the calcining process. The
expert sent here has returned to Den
yer, his report being in course of pre-
paration.
1t is known that he has uncovered
all the shale he can possibly hope to
need. That near the surface is yet to
be tested with that degree of certainty
demanded before further progress is
made toward the erection of the plant,
The beds lying at some depth are al
ready known to be of good and sufic-
lent quality, but the company to oper-
ate the plant wants to reach a bed
nearer the surface of the ground.
You a safely say" said a Lara
ME gentleman with some interest in
, 1906-01-24
GUS SUN MINSTRELs
CONSIST OF ARTISTS

The Gus Sun American MINISTRIES,
one of the cleverest black cork organ.
izations on the road, was the attraction
at the Auditorium last night and was a
pleasant surprise to those who were
fortunate enough to attend the per.
formonce. The company, while not SO
p%retentious as some of the minstrel
organizations, is first-class in every
particular. The vocalists are all good
and the specialties among the best ev.
.er seen here with a minstrel company,
Birmingham, Ala.
AT the Opera House tomorrow night,
January %.
You can't live but once on this earth.
What is the use of living il you deny
yourself every innocent amusement?
By so doing you are old before your
time. Take a night off and see the Sun
minstrels, which will appear in this
city soon. 1t win do you good to hear
the music and see the fun.
Seats now on sale. Popular prices.
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