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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19
Soft Icing.

Allow to one cup granulated sugar "a half
cup milk. Boil until the syrup strings,
pour into a bowl. add a teaspoonful flour,
beat a few moments, and let stand in q
cool place until thickened enough to
spread
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19
For Table Use.

Rub smooth a quarter cupful mustard
with a teaspoonful olive oil and a tea
spoonful each onion juice, sugar and pap
rika. When well blended add vinegar to
make consistency required then bottle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19

In the favorite avenues OF NE Bots velvet
is still worn for walking costumes. WIDE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19
The balance remaining for food Is 90 CEN
times per day. This is dispensed as fol-

! Barring accidents this worker realized a
! surplus of fifty confines Gen cents per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-19

For afternoon dresses of an elaborate
sort the latest idea is a coarse make of
canvas decorated on the skirt, bodice or
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
IMPROVED GAS MANTLEs.
New Methods of Manufacture, Insur.
ina Strength.

Ing Strength.
A number of announcements have
been made In the lost yOar which re-
late to the production of inCandescent
gas nantes. These are composed OF
thorium and cerium, SO percent of the
one and 1 percent of the other New
sources of the first mentioned metal
have been discovered, and its price has
been lowered in consequence. Hence,
mantles can now be made more cheaply
than ever before. The most important
gains, though, are those being made in
cate objects.
In the process of manufacture it has
always been customary to prepare nj
trates of the two metals, make a solu-
ton of them, immense in the fluid a
model woven out of cotton or ram.e
thread, and finally to burn out the
vegetable fibre. The remaining shell,
which is nothing but fabric Of ashes,
is then coated temporarily with wax
or some other material to keep 1t in
shape until it is used. When the buyer
has placed it on his gas fixture he burns
this covering off with a match, and
has nothing left but the fragile shell.
Not long ago a man named Boehm,
living in Berlin, proposed to. stiffen the
incombustible part of the mantle by
using fabric woven from certain salts
Of copper, and not from cotton or
ramie. 1t is asserted that the substitu-
ton left the mantle twenty or thirty
times as strong as the ordinary one is.
Besides the increase in toughness, a
gain in light giving power was also
claimed for Boehm's invention. An
Englishman, John H. Laid, has also
attacked the problem, but in different
way. He employs a web of cotton or
ramie to start with, but makes special
additions to the solution of~nitrate
of thorium and cerium. He does not
tell what the new ingredient is, but
when the vegetable foundation has
been burned out the remaining ash
shows remarkable firmness, it is said.
To illustrate this quality correspon-
dent of the London Times" Engineer
ing Supplement mentions that one of
Mr.. Ladd's nantes, which had been
burning for upward of two thousand
hours, was laid up on its side and was
found to be capable of supporting two
bronze pennies. Nantes of this kind
which have been tested by public au-
thorities have been found uninjured
after burning for upward of $500
hours, and Mr.. Ladd claims for his or
binary mantles a life Of at least two
thousand hours.
The color of the light emitted has
p faint suggestion of violet, but is
really a very pure white. Finally, it
is claimed that the English mantle
will not warp or shrink. Every one
who has used cheap mantles knows
what this means.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
PHILIPPINE SURPRISES.
Lovely, Cool Plateaus--Also Marvels
of Scenery.

1t seems to me, says Hamilton
Wright, in Leslie's Weekly, that the
least appreciated feature of the Phil
ippines is the diversity of climate.
Though the Philippines are all in the
tropics, yet frequently within days
travel one will come upon strong eli
matte contrasts.
Whether you go to the lovely, cool
mountain plateaus or down to the
warmer cities of the sea level you
will find that though there are
changes of the seasons, still the eli
mate from day to day varies little.
By dressing properly one does not
feel the heat so much.
Manila, the hottest place in the
Philippines, is often intensely warm
in March, April and May. Yet pros
trations never come as they do in
New York in midsummer, and above
all there are cool nights everywhere.
Perhaps no country in the world
possesses so many scenic marvels as
the Philippines; regions which were
they known would attract tourists
the world over. There is the wonder
full Taol volcano, rising from the mid
die of lake; there are the vast Cor.
dilleras, not surpassed in beauty and
grandeur by any ranges in the world;
there are the wonderful mountain
plateaus and valleys covered with
seas of rich and waving grass and
bordered by forested hogbacks which
project into them as capes project
into the ocean.
Here wild deer and boar roam
in great abundance, while occasional
herds of wild carabao move clumsily
over the ground. Perhaps for days
in these regions one may not see a
native. The Island of Luzon alone
is over 700 miles long; most all the
population live along the seacoast;
but were it's wonderful resouces de-
veloped, many times it's present popu.
lation might dwell there in great
prosperity.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Unsuitable Ships.

Five steamboats, are being built for
Kiel shipping company which are
said to be wholly unsuitable A recent
trial of one of the boats was carried
out An the presence OF representatives
of the Imperial navy and many ship
ping firms. The vessel was fully laden
to represent 200 passengers and it was
assumed that, in consequence of leak
caused by a collision the entire engine
room division, into which water was
pumped, had filed while hole was
made to the exterior to admit wafer
freely. The ship accordingly sank.
but when It was full of water it had
still about a foot of free board above
the surface, thus satisfying the condi-
lions imposed-U. S. Consular Reports.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
MarHels of q Watch.

The lifetime of a good watch is
fifty years. In its daily duties the
balance vibrates $4,000 times every
hour, 100000 times day, or 1877
100000 times a year. The hairspring
makes a similar number of vibrations
and an equal number of ticks from
the escapement. If 1t is a really
good watch, multiply 157 $4,000 by
fifty, which gives 1884, 100000 pull
sations for fifty years. The chances
are that the watch may even then
be in serviceable condition. This Is
a marvellous record, considering the
small quantity of food that has been
consumed by its constant action. We
say food because whatever labors
must be fed, and the watch lives"
on about sixteen inches of main
spring every twenty-four hours,
which furnishes the power.-Balti-
more American.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02

The notorious argument that peo
pie who live in towns must put up
with the necessary incidents of town
life is a very dangerous one. Its cog
ency depends entirely upon what is
or is not held to be necessary" We
have held that it is not necessary for
the ownE of furnace to pollute the
atmosphere and annoy his neighbors
by discharging volumes of black
smoke from his chiHQeys and we
have placed, for the public interest,
many other restrictions upon what
used to be considered necessary Incl
dents of town life. There is not the
slightest reason why we should not
take similar measures to protect the
Quietude of purely residential streets.
On the contrary, nothing is more
necessary in the best interests of the
whole munity.-London Truth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
FARM AND HOME.
Mango in Cattle.

Mango in cattle is a contagious
skin disease caused by parasites.
Three forms of mango occur in cat
tie, viz; Sarcoptes, Psorosperm and
Symbrotic. These forms are named
after the variety of parasites which
is the usual agent. Sacroptes mango
In cattle is uncommon, the other two
being the most prevalent forms and
these frequently exist together in the
same animal. Cows are the most
often attacked.
Symptoms-The most common
sites OF mango are the roots OF the
tail and the neck, especially the for
mer. The psoroptic form may spread
all over the body, il treatment 10 me-
elected, but this is unusual. The
biting of the parasite gives rise to
an Itchy condition of the skin, which
causes the animal to rub itself
against fixed objects, with the result
that the hair over the affected parts
gets rubbed off. On examining the
skin a considerable amount of scurf
may be seen, red and yellow blood
scabs appear on the surface and
there may be even abrasions, If the
animal has been rubbing against
rough objects. If the psoroptic form
should spread over the body, the
patient may waste away and become
greatly reduced in condition.
In cases of this kind, however, it
will often be found that the wasting
is due to some serious internal
trouble such as tuberculosis, which
reduces the animals natural power
of resistance to the less serious dis
ease.
1t has not infrequently been OBJ
served that cows appear to become
cured spontaneously when tupnad
out to grass in the spring. This
usually means, however, that under
open-air conditions the parasites do
not increase at the same rate, hence
the active symptoms are merely less
marked. In the fall, when the ami
mails are again stabbed, the parasites
which has persisted resume their
activity and this may lead to the
erroneous belief that re-infection
has taken place.
Prevention-The affected parts on
the animals skin should be softened
by washing with soap and warm
water. After this has been done, the
parts should be dressed with one of
the common mango dressings, such
as spirit of tar oil and sulphur. The
dressings should be applied twice or
even three times at intervals of ten
days. For the serious and rebellious
cases above mentioned veterinary adj
vice should be sought The litter
from an infected animal should be
removed each time after dressing
and the flooring and wood or other
fittings should be sprayed with a five
per cent. solution of carbolic acid in
water.-W. r. Gilbert, Alberta, Can.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02

so rapidly that she had been unable
to do as she wished.
But you are safe now, my darl-
ing, and little Willie, too. You
saved his life, Mike!"
"Oh, MOI" cried Mike, flushing all
over.
Yes" she returned; III you mad
not carried him in your arms he
would have dropped to the ground
through fright, and been dashed to
pieces, and you risked your life by
carrying him, too. Every one says
So"
But Mike would not have it.
There was nothing else to do" he
answered simply, and said the same
when he was grown up and a fire.
man, with more than one medal from
the Royal Humane Society for saw
ing lives at the risk of his own
Cassell's Little Folks.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
PHILIPPINE "DOBIE ITCH"
Itching Pimples Covered Body-Dis
charged For Disability-Found
Cure in Cuticura Remedies.

II enlisted in the Corps of Engineers as
a telegraph OPERATOR and, while stationed
in the Philippines, l became subject to the
Dobie Itch, as the natives call it. In
this disease small, white, itching pimples
form under the skin, generally between the
toes, on the limbs, between the fingers
and under the arms. l never knew of a
case originating outside the Philippine
Islands, but have known of many cases
where it has returned in this country and
invariably at the same time of the year
as the original attack. The cause, so far
as could learn, was some tropical parasite
or germ peculiar TO that region.
Il got so bad that l was confined to my
quarters a week at a time The Army
Surgeons applied some carbolic solution,
and it would disappear for time, when it
would break out again. l was discharged
from the Engineers BY reason of disability
contracted in line Of duty, and when
had the trouble again, my druggist, Mr..
Z, of Brooklyn, recommended Cuticura
Remedies. The immediate relief was mani.
fest with my first purchase, and the
malady quickly yielded to the Cutieura
Remedies. 1t has never required or both.
cred me since l began to use and continued
TO use the Cutioura Remedies. You may
quote me as a believer in Cuticura Rem.
Giles from personal experience. John S.
Woods, 22l Sands St., Brooklyn, N. Y,
Oct. q and %, 1906"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Recipes.

Cheese Rice-Boil one cup of rice
in two quarts of water until tender;
drain, shake hard, stand at back Of
range ten minutes to dry. Add one
tablespoon of butter, four table
spoons of grated or cream cheese and
tiny dish of cayenne pepper. Stir
well and serve hot.
Celery and Apple Salad - Select
tart, rich-favored apples and cut
them into thin small slices; add an
equal amount of crisp white celery
cut in thin slices, and moisten with a
mayonnaise dressing. Serve in hand
some red pepper cups on crisp
blanched lettuce leaves.
German Cream Waters - Warm
three tablespoonfuls OF butter and
stir in five eggs, one at time. Mix
in one quart sifted flour and one tea
spoonful each of banana and vanilla
extracts. When it is a smooth paste,
spread into hot oiled dripping pan
and bake in hot oven till delicate
brown. Cut into squares, pick with
a fork and dip into powdered sugar.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02

At Tarrant, Wis, Justice of the
Peace entertained a charge against
a rural resident who failed to appear
for a hearing. Straightway the
Court called up the alleged offender
on the phone and the following dia.
logue ensued:
Hello, john" said the Court. 81
wish you would come down to-day"
What for?"
1.-THE Town Marshal has sworn out
a warrant against you for beating
him up Election Day. 1 want to try
you"
Cant do it, Judge. I'm too
busy"
"I'll have to send constable after
you"
But I'm busy huskin' corn and
buildin' a fence around my east
forty. Why don't you try me now?"
"All right. Are you guilty2"
yep"
Five dollars"
"All, right, Judge. 1 will send 1t
down by the rural mail carrier.
Goodbye. philadelphia Ledger.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Insect Pests Easily Killed.

Destroying the winter homes is a
most important detail in the control
Of our worst insect pests, many OF
which are easily attacked then,
whereas in the active season they are
hard to reach.
All insects pass through three or
four stages in their development
from the egg to maturity, and differ
ent insects pass the winter in differ
ent stages of existence; the grass
hopper in the egg, the cutworm as
larVa, the corn ear-worm as a
pupa, and the white grub as a partly
hardened May beetle. Late fall
sDading or blowing is the best meth
cd of controlling all these, though it
may not be advisable for other rea-
sons, yet where these four pests are
very troublesome, it will usually be
found the best method of extermi-
mating them.
The eggs of the grasshoppers are
laid just under the surface of the
SOIL and get so deeply buried that
they either fail to hatch, or the
young are unable to emerge the next
spring.
In the fall the cutworms enter the
SOIL to the depth of three or four
inches, where they hollow out small
oval cells, and in which they remain
until the next spring. BY breaking
up these cells and throwing out the
worms to the influence Of the change
able weather conditions after thew
have commenced alternating, many
OF them are destroyed.
In the same way the corn ear
worms, which are such nuisances
upon the tips of the ears of sugar
corn, enter the soil in the fall, and
form cells similar to those of the cut
worms, in which they transform to
the pupa stage. The pupae are
easily killed by exposure to the
weather, which is brought about by
breaking up the cells in the dig
ging.
The white grub is a pest of almost
every garden crop, and very difficult
to handle when it's depredations are
at their worst. The grub requires at
least two seasons to become full
grown, when it transforms to a pupa,
and later to beetle, the well-known
May beetle or June bug, which flies
in the lights and buzzes around the
ceilings of rooms during the warm
evenings Of May and June. The bee
ties do not emerge from the soil un-
til the following spring, existing dur
ing the winter in the earthen cells in
partially hardened condition, and
without the brown color which ex-
posture to daylight soon gives them.
In this condition they are peculiarly
helpless, and If disturbed in late fall
are readily killed.
Wireworns, which are so bother
some by eating into seed corn, and
necesitating replanting may be at
tackled similarly.
Burying, as a result of fall spad-
ing, will destroy many other pests
which pass the winter safely shell
tered under rubbish, leaves, stalks
and such like, which are to be found
scattered over most gardens. -India-
napolis News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
THE LAST ROAD

j.
Across the silence of the hills
70 distant hills Of DREAMY
The Piper's magic music shrills
And ripples like stream.
Beyond the moor, beyond the fen,
Thin, tremulous, and silver clear,
IL pierces to the souls of men,
1t calls-and they must hear.
The voice Of all the crowded town
70 voice of tears and laughter)
The Piper's charmed note shall drown,
They turn and follow after.
BY its wild lure their feet are drawn
TO walk way they do not know,
Whatever heart be left to mourn,
1t calls and they must go.
III.
They leave their hearts desire behind,
20 witching tune the Piper pays!l
None know what they may hope to find
What waits beyond the tracliess ways;
No grief can hold, no love can keep,
No wild regret their eyes can dim;
Whatever heart be left to weep.
The Piper calls--they follow him.
Ursula Twenty, in the Pail Mall Mag
azine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Alligator Joe's Collection.

Alligator Joe, the well-known alli-
gator trainer, has just come off a
hunt in the Everglades, where he
captured seventeen monster alliga-
tors and crocodiles, and added them
to his great collection of these rep
tiles, numbering now over seven
thousand.
Joe has the distinction of being
the only living man who captures
and handles with ease the largest of
alligators and crocodiles. The act
is easy. He jumps on their backs
and has them in his control in very
few seconds. His alligator and croco-
die farm is situated a mile up the
river, and a new rock road which
has been built, making it pleasant
ride by conveyance.
The farm has been greatly en-
larged since last season, and people
who have never seen Joe perform,
will find a novel treat in store for
them this winter.-Miami (Fla.)
Metropolis.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Masoanni Won Hls sult.

Those of us who remember with
keenest pleasure the visit of Mascagni
to America in 1903 will want to con-
graduate him that he has won his suit
for damages against the Rossini Ly.
ceum at Pesaro for that institutions
dismissal of him as director because OF
his absence in this country. His stay
with us, while being delight to all
musicians, was for him filed with triali
of various sorts, but he bore them
bravely, and continued to play for us
his own compositions as they never be-
fore had been presented to us, accord
ing to his concert or opera schedule
We regretted sincerely at the time the
troubles that beset him, those of us
who loved his music, and had he lost
this legal suit which meant so much to
him, it would have seemed the most
deplorable of all the unpleasant results
of his tour.-New York Evening Post
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
be Mas an old Aoqualntance.

1t was the first meeting of the
Shakespeare reading club for work
ing girls, and the serious minded
young English woman VINO had dealt
out copies of Hamlet" to the mem.
bers awaited comments. The first
came from a girl belonging to that
immense army of book folders" SO
familiar to all frequenters of working
girls clubs. "Oh, l know this well, y
she said, in a superior tone.
"Really?" said the pleased teacher.
as it your favorite play?"
The girl looked at her pityingly.
"Lor', l amt read it," she chuck
led. I'VE stock 'em at our place. I've
'ad 'undreds through my 'ands. Am
let? I'm sick to death of 'im!"-
London News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Remarkable Railway.

An uphill railway, perhaps the
most remarkable in the world, is the
Oroyo, in Peru. 1t runs from Callao
to the gold fields of Cerro de Pasco.
From Callao 1t ascends the narrow
valley of the Rimac, rising nearly
5000 feet in the first ffty-six miles.
Thence it goes through the intricate
gorges of the Sierras till it tunnels
the Andes at an altitude of 1856
feet, the highest point in the world
where a piston rod is moved by steam.
The wonder is increased by remem-
berlng that this elevation is reached
in seventy-eight miles.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02

There is more CPtarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few wears was sup.
posed to be incurable. For great many
years doctors pronounced it local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
Catarrh TO be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f J.
Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Oslo. is the only con.
stitutional cure on the market. 1t is takenin'
telnally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon
full 1t acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system They offer one hun.
bred dollars for any case it fails TO cure. Send
for circularsand testimonials. Address FL.
CHENEY & Co.. toledo, y.
Sold by Druggists. 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Egypt Less Dark.

Railway rates, both freight and pas
senger, are much lower in New Zealand
than In the United States. At least
that is the assertion of Sir Joseph G.
Ward, the new prime minister of the
colony.
On the same day when Sir Joseph
gives us this information Joseph B.
Mcnamara, of Cairo, Egypt, chief cleo
trical engineer of the Egyptian Rail
ways Company, announces that Amer
leans pay three times as much for their
electric lighting as is charged in Egypt.
That good old familiar phrase, Dark
est Egypt" seems to have outlived its
MISUNDERSTANDING Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Victorian Art.

The depression in the market for
pictures of the so-called "mid-Vic,
torian" period continues to be very
severe. At Chrstie's a work by Sir
A. w. Calcott, which cost go guineas
in 1884, now realized only 105 guineas.
A landscape by w. Muller, purchased
in 1891 for Clio guineas, now went for
$50 guineas. Two works by j. Brett
fell from 100 guienas in 1891 to As
guineas. A large work by T. S. Coop
er, exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1880, went for only 65 guineas,
which was not 1.-THE of the price
originally paid for it.-London Truth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-02-02
Truit Kept IS Years For wedding.


This jar of ruit will never be
opened until the first member of our
family is married" More than eight
cen years ago a well-known woman
of the South Side, while putting up
fruit, sealed one of the jars and
placed it to one side, with the above
remark For eighteen years and
more it has stood in one part of the
cupboard awaiting the appointed
time Hundreds of other jars Of
fruit have been put up and opened
again, but the one jar has never
been touched from then till now.
The time for the opening of the
jar is near at hand, however In
fact, it will likely be opened within
the next week, for the gath OF the
present month is the date which is
said to have been selected for the
marriage of the eldest son.-Latrobe
Bulletin.