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shouping and Traveline Bars

Very fiat and decidedly large are the
fashionable shopping bags with few ex-
ceptions, and travelling hand luggage is
built on similar plan. Strange to say
cap ty is not sacrificed to this general
fatdGss Of effect for bags great and small,
are built with ingeniously contrived side
cores that allow them to expand to meet
demands for extra space. Glazed feathers
are rather more liked than those with
Hbuffed" or dull finishes and this choice
is a sensible one since the glazed surfaces
shed soil and wear better than the suede
tinistlings
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THE WOMAN'S PAPER

TIE Sum is the best type OF news
paper, ,orslly and intellectually. In
additio4 the news of sne day, il pub
fishes the lest features that can be pre-
sented, such az fashion articles, and mis-
cellaneous writings from men and women
of note and prominence. II is an educa-
tor of the highest character, constantly
stimulating to noble ideals in individual
and national life.
THE Sun is published on Sunday as
well as every other day of the week.
By Mail the Daily Sun. So o year in
cluding the sunday sun, "a. The Sunday
Sun alone, 81 q year.
Address
A. 8. ABELL COMPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors,
BALTIMORE, ND
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THE FARMERS PAPER

TIE Suns market reports and COM
mercial columns are complete and re-
Liable, and put the farmer, the merchant
and the broker in touch with the markets
of Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and all other
important points in the United States
and other countries. All of which the
reader pnts for one cent.
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THE TRANSCRIPT, 81 per year.
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Senator Carter is also endeavoring to
secure an investigation in the Senate of
the so-called Bieber land scandal, whereby
one Sidney Bieber, the special protege
and friend of Speaker Cannon, secured
legislation calculated to secure to Bieber
title to about twenty acres of land on the
river front in this city, along that section
of the Anacostia River on which Congress
has already expended 100000 for i'm
provements and on which it is planned
to spend probably $3,OO0,OOO altogether.
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PEAS IN THE POD.
Old Way of Smelling Them is Alto
gether Unnecessary.

At last the season of the succulent
green pea need not be regarded with
horror by the cook. No more need
she stay out for hours and hours on
the porch Smelling them in endless
numbers, while the rest of the dinner
waits until it is almost too late to
complete it for that day. No more
need mother stay home from picnics
and other parties because the peas
must be prepared for lunch or dinner
All that is necessary is to throw
them, pods and all, into the pot Cook
them the usual length of time. When
they are done, the pods will break and
rise TO the surface, while the peas may
be found at the bottom of the kettle.
What change this will make in the
time it requires to cook a meal. What
comfort it will be to feel that no
more afternoons need be spent in
Smelling peas, and what a joy it is to
know that peas when cooked this way
are better than when hours are spent
upon their preparation.
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For Better Roads.

Many Americans who live in or near
large cities would be surprised to hear
IL stated that the United States has
the poorest roads of any civilized
country in the world. Nevertheless,
the statement is declared by all who
have had opportunity to learn by ex-
perience TO be unquestionably true,
when the roads of the whole country
are considered Lately there has been
much criticism OF the automobile as
being destructive OF good roads. The
damage is so great that in France the
government has been forced TO take
up the matter and is even now study
ing preventive plans. In the United
States, however, it may be that the
automobile will yet prove a powerful
influence in better roads. The Ameri-
can Automobile association has re-
Gently held a two days good roads
convention in Buffalo, at which pro-
vision was made for practical demon
STATIONS of the best methods of road
building and repairing, and for expert
ments looking toward the discovery of
a binding material for surfacing roads
which Will not be sucked out by the
pneumatic tires. There are signs, too,
says Youths Companion, that the old
policy OF throwing upon the towns the
burden of building the roads and keep
ing them in repair is to be superseded
by the more sensible plan OF having
the state do it. The towns will, OF
course, care for their own streets, but
the main highways should be built and
cared for by the state, as they are in
france. Germany and Switzerland.
The national government has decided
to send the director of the department
Of roads to she international good
roads convention which will open in
France in October, and at which the
problem of the automobile and the
roads will receive especial attention.
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l1EA EoR BREAKFAST ROOM.
Better to Keep Separate from the
Main Dining Chamber.

A breakfast bay breaking out from
one side is a favorite treatment for
the newer dining-rooms. These bays
have slight elevation. and heavy
curtains conceal them from the dining
room proper, making a cozy and Sc
cluded breakfast room for a family of
three or four. Mullioned windows are
attractive, and easement sashes are
good form, especially if English or
colonial designs are used in the dining
room. a side door from the bay to the
buffers pantry is most convenient,
and, II paneling is used, a concealed
door is easily arranged. A small table
the desired number of chairs, and
simple curtains admitting the sun.
light are all the furnishings a bay
should receive. When a larger family
must be accommodated. a breakfast
room is arranged conveniently oppo-
site the main dining-room. This, of
course, gives freedom of treatment of
a separate room. These separate
breakfast rooms are especially salts
factory decorated in blue. One can
here introduce pretty Dutch scheme,
when 1T might not be appropriate else
where in the house
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NO BATHTuB FOR HER.
"New-FangIed Continuance" Emphatic
ally Failed to VIA Approval.

The French adherence of the bath
la nature is shared by many people.
particularly one old woman up In an
east Tennessee town. The town had
just had a water system installed and
the natives were printing with pride"
at their bathrooms and equipment
where one could perform his ablutions
at will without waiting and longing;
for Saturday night.
This old woman was an exception to
the rule. She made her home with
her son, and his wife, according to the
mother-in-law, was ''allus a-hankerin'
after sOmepin' newfangled."
A neighbor, who had been in To in
spect the improvements in the house.
remarked to the old woman:
Well, Mrs. X, this will be a
pleasure for you-bath any time, night
or day. You will certainly enjoy it
THAT / won't" said the old woman.
tartly. Il been a member of Thu
church so year an always lived hon
est an upright. Git inter one er them
tubs? Me? Why, Sary Ellen, them
things amt decent
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The SCRAMBLE tor Wealth.

If there is a sad thing in the world
it is the spectacle of the men and
women who, in their mad scramble
for wealth, have crushed out of their
lives sentiment and the love of all
that is beautiful and sublime. The
very process by which they seek to
win the means of enjoyment kills the
faculties by which they can enjoy
When the average man wins his
wealth he finds himself without the
power of enjoyment, for the enjoying
side of his nature is dead. He finds
to his sorrow that the straining, striV.
ing life is also starving one.
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such haste to finish her task that she
wasted no time in fastening stitches
or in Strengthening straps Thus,
without the eye of the prophet. one
might see, in future weary marches,
many a poor fellows scanty rations
slipping through the gaps in this
same haversack made by fingers more
enthusiastic in effort than proficient
in accomplishment, and hear, instead
of the blessings the old lady expected
to be poured on her industrious hands
and self-sacrificing heart, the echo of
an assortment of CALCULATIONS, made
possible only by confederate whisky,
flung at the careless fingers of the
maker.
Mighty po'lookin' sojer want to
see you, Mis- Clementine," said eff
cient though ungrammatical Judy, nod
ding her turbanned head to Mrs. Pom
sonby through a diminutive opening
in the door Say, he aim horngry,
cause I dun as him dat fus' thing;
look monsus poly, do fus' sojer 1 see
in a mont O. moons whar ain horn
cry"
"On the nineteenth of May" said
the limping wearer of a ragged gray
coat, as he stood in Mrs Ponsonby's
presence, with the crown of a hat sur
rounded by a broken halo of brim in
his hand. 'our regiment held a posi-
ton on the right of the Tenth Ala
bama, the attacking force. Behind an
old house, set at just the right angle.
as it seemed to us, to hide an ambus-
cade, a party of sharpshooters was
carefully and all too accurately pick
ing OF our men. Suddenly an aim
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Mint jelly.

Many persons dislike anything of a
God variety containing gelatine, and
he usual meat jellies contain such,
'ut splendid jelly to serve with cold
IT warm meat is a mint jelly, the bulk
made with apples. Cook the apples
he same as for apple jelly, strain the
uice and add a handful of crushed
mint. Boil until the flavor is ex-
;racted, strain twice, and add the
'ame amount of sugar and boil until
thick jelly is formed. Grape juice
;an be favored in the same manner,
and also cranberry juice, which is
'eally delicious when favored with
fresh mint.
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Binding Pies.

How many housewives feel like
shedding tears when they see their
nice juicy pies leaking all over the
oven. To prevent this calamity and
produce a presentable exhibit of culin
airy art take a strip of bleached do
nestle, little longer than the circum
ference of the pie and from one and a
half to two inches wide, depending on
the thickness Of the crust; moisten
well with water and fold neatly over
the edge of the pie. See that it ad
heres snugly. After the pie is baked
the binding can be peeled off and 10!
your Juice is where you want it.
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That readiness in an emergency
which made the New Englanders the
wonder of the world has not been en-
tirely lost in these latter days. A
Connecticut farmer has recently ex-
hibited it. The man found four boys
stealing his early apples, and gave
chase to them. He was handicapped,
however, by the loss of leg-he left
II on the battlefield at Antietam-and
had to get along with wooden sub
stitute. When he was about to reach
out and seize one of the running boys
by the shoulder his wooden leg went
down hole in the ground and broke
In two. The boys stopped to jeer
him; but he took a string from his
pocket and spliced the broken leg so
quickly that he was up again and at
them before they realized what had
happened. He caught the boy he was
after, and the others surrendered
There are several morals to this tale,
but the most obvious one is that men
with wooden legs ought always to
carry string in their pockets to be
provided against accidents.
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The smoke still fingered over the
smoldering chimneys of Richmond
when Judy, ignorant of the interstate
episode in her mistress love affairs,
entered one morning to announce
visitor.
tGemmen in de parlor, Mis- Liz
beth, an clar to goodness, you'll hev'
to- 'scuse me- but he mos sholy do
look powerful like one o. dem Yankees
whar cum in wild de union"
And after the end at Appomattox,
when the guns were stacked for all
time by the tired hands of the starved
men who wept as they laid them aside,
Surgeon Vansittart and Elizabeth
But what need to go over the old
story? Patriotic fervor gave place to
cosmopolitan love-was it ever other
wise? Cupid is blind, so gray and blue
are alike to him. And ought we not
to dwell together in love and peace?"
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PASSING the Time.

From an eastern city comes a sad
story of a pawnbroker. He was en-
joying a beauty sleep when a furious
knocking at the street door brought
him to the window with a jerk.
What's the matter?" he shouted
Come down." demanded the knock
er.
But
Come downi"
The man of many nephews fastened
downstairs and peeped around the
door.
Now. sir?" he demanded, "I vanish
know the time" said the reveler.
do you mean to say you knocked
me up for that? How dare you?"
The midnight visitor looked injured
Well, you've got my watch" he said.
-Arogonaut.
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Liaht in the Dark Continent.

There is a new ray of light for
Africa. Belgium has decided to take
under national control the region of
the Congo. Not since the days when
Great Britain was aroused to a white
heat by Armenian massacres has there
been so much international indigna-
ton as in recent years over reported
atrocities in the valley of the Congo.
To be sure. there have been pro and
con, and the controversy has been
general, says the Boston Herald, that
the exploitation G, the resources of
the Congo has given much more atten-
ton to the size of the product than to
the life and happiness of the natives.
Perhaps the fittest and most hopeful
comment is the fact that Belgium. it.
self has taken this African dependen-
cy from the personal control of the
sovereign. King Leopold, and has
made national the government and
the responsibility therefor.
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Are foreign-born American citizens
more patriotic than the native-born?
An ex-mayor of Detroit thinks that
some Of them, at least, are. In speak
ing of the matter to a friend recently,
he recalled visit from a delegation
OF Poles a few days before December
IA, 1889. They asked what program
the city had arranged for the day. The
mayor told them that he had heard of
none, and asked why they supposed
there would be any. Why" said the
spokesman. have you forgotten that
1t is the centennial OF the death of
Washington" The mayor had for
gotten, but he attended the meeting
which the Poles themselves held, and
listened to an intelligent and deeply
reverential address ON the life of
Washington.
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of
in
the
inst uctors
Dr. Jackson who
he
abishing
which he has
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War opened, hostile armies con-
fronted each other between Richmond
and the Potomac; Mason and Dixons
line was accumulated by fixed bayo-
nets and enforced by the booming
cannon; sword thrusts gave point to
geographical boundaries, while the
long roll of the drum warned off all
intruders.
Letters flew north from the blue
uniforms on the Potomac, and travelled
south from the gay coats at Manassas,
but never crossed, save by flag or
truce, the sharp wall made by picket
ed muskets. Terrible orders from
irascible old generals, who had out
grown romance and outlived senti-
ment, sternly directed all letters to be
read before passing under the white.
folds of these same peaceful banners.
So every word was weighed, and die
tionaries became the popular litera-
ture of the day to those that wrote to
the other side," in order that
phrase might be found capable of ex-.
pressing everything to some particu-
lar person, but betraying nothing to
the misunderstanding depart
ment. No one must suspect that the
loving inquiries about Aunt James
neuralgia, or the intense anxiety con-
corning Uncle Johns rheumatism
meant an altogether different query to
those that wrote so guardedly. So
personals in the leading newspapers,
north and south, were resorted to,
and many a line held bleeding heart,
while a single word often carried joy
to an entire household, or that most
awful of all personals, initials and a
date, followed by the one word
killed." embodied too frequently the
history of a broken life. But no such
tragic announcements were for Eliza
beth. A calm, dignified, eminently
proper personal in the H
SCHUYLER hopes little sisters fever
S abating. Grandpa sends love. Rich
nond E please copy.
was all. Back by rapid transit trav-
aled the answer Che could almost see
the nervous fingers fly over the pa
per-:
ELIZABETH no better. Grandma
aeveI liked blue. H please copy.
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Would Sell caiiIeo,s letters.

The rumor that a Roman prince in
sends to sell abroad a quantity OF Gall
ieo's letters has raised storm of pro-
est in the scientific world and in the
local press, says Rome. correspond
emit of the London Globe The CORE
spondence in question Is Of great in
terest, both historically and from a
scientific aspect. for in these letters
the celebrated astronomer informed
his friends Of his work and its results
in the way Of discovery In fact, the
Italians regard these letters as ma
tionaI treasure. and It Is hoped that
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The residents Of town in Massa-
chusetts whose water has been bad
were stunned by the knowledge i'm
parted to them OF the reason thereof
by the state board of. health. They
were informed that the cause was due
to "Aphanizomenon. one OF the cyano-
phyceae." To this was added the
simple advice: Get rid of them"
Such water as that is certainly
enough to drive any brain not under
the direct intellectual influence OF
Boston to drink
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A Dash of MoIasses.

Whenever it comes to pies, New
England must take the credit This
is natural, where a certain dish be
comes a three-times-a-day meal. They
ought to make it good when they eat
it for breakfast
Summer boarders along the New
England coast have often wondered
why the blackberry and hucllleberry
pies were better there than anywhere
else.
The secret is out-the dash of mo.
lasses is put in.
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Cream Cheese.

Allow pinch of salt and a teaspoon
of unfiavored rennet to every quart
of milk and when you have a solid
curd turn into a bag and let it drip.
1t may have to hang for a day before
the whey ceases to drip from it, but
when this stage is reached take the
curd out, chop it fine, put into a cheese
box and press two hours Wrap in
tissue paper or in tinfoil. Change bag
at end of u hours should the curd
take that length of time to drip.
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TESTING PAINT.

Property owners should know how
to prove the purity and quality OF
white lead, the most important paint
ingredient, before paying for 1t. To,
ali who write. National Lead Co., the
largest manufacturers of pure white
lead, send a free outfit with which to.
make a simple and sure test OF white
lead, and also free book about paint
Their address is Woodbridge Bldg.,,
New York City.
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Olive un Culture.

Owing to the strict government in
spection, practically all Italian export
olive oil is pure on leaving Italy. For
home consumption there is hardly a
sufieiency. from year to year. necessi-
tating large imports of cotton-seed oil
from America; and this has induced
the government to take special action
toward the improvement Of olive cni-
ture.
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Hon George w. Honey, National
Chaplain q. v. O., ex-Chaplain Fourth
Wisconsin Cavalry, ex-Treasurer State
of Wisconsin, and ex-Quartermaster
General State of Texas G.. A. R., writes
from 100 First St., N. E., Washington,
D. c., as follows:
81 cannot too highly recommend ycrr
preparation for the relief of catarrhal
troubles I'm their various forms. Some
members of my own family have used
it with most gratifying results. When
other remedies failed, Pernna proved
most eH7cacfOns and cheerfully certi-
fy to its curative excellence"
Mr.. Fred L. Hebard, for nine years q
leading photographer of Kansas City.
Mo-, located at the northeast corner of
18th and Grand AYES, cheerfully gives
the following testimony: 'sItis proven
fact that Peruna will cure cafarrEs ard
Ia grippe, and as tonic IL Has no equal
Druggists have tried to make me take
something else Just as good but Peru
ma Is good enough for me-
Pe-ru-aa IN Tablet Form.
For two years DIR. Hartman and his
assistants have necessarily Iab0red to
create Peruna IN tablet form, and their
strenuous labors have Just been crowned
with success People who object 10
liquid medicines can now secure Peru
IA tablets. which represent the solid
medicinal Ingredients Of P@-1na.
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Crisp Wames.

One scant teacup lard and butter. A
little sugar and a pinch of salt, two
eggs, one teaspoon baking powder.
one pint milk and little water. Mix
lard, butter, sugar. salt, yolk of egg
and add -four and baking powder.
Make as stiff as for cake dough. Never
grease waffle irons except when new
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Lady Finuers.

Six eggs, their weight in sugar and
nalf their weight in flour. Beat the
yolks light. whip in sugar. half the
grated peel and all the juice of
lemon, the flour and last the whites
Turn into the little molds that come
for lady fingers; bake steadily, cover.
ing them with paper until they arc
CiSen
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Nine years of this ran me down to q
state of continual weakness and |
thought never would be better until
l began using Doan's Kidney Pills
The improvement was rapid, and since
using four boxes l am cured and have
never had any return of the trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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fashion
in
of
s a college, Cambi
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a
Among the diplomatic positions held Cen skes those of
to
leo but declined
and
alliance
of
Sckes
taking
that eloquent
a a
she went back her
her husband all in his
Athens Greece Cen Sickles will n
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Second Thouohts.

And now the season of the year
has come when the small boy unraqeIs
the ancient stocking to secure vim
with which to make a cricket tall.
And when he has the ball made, he
cuts the top on one Of his fathers
boots to make a cover; and when the
parent discovers the liberties ia zen
with his boot, the small boy wiaIles
he had used it as lining for his
trousers.-Roxal Maeaziaa
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ney disease attacked
me. The pain in nay
back was so agoniz
ing 1 finally had To
give up work. Then
came terrible attacks
of gravel with acute
pain and passages. OF
blood In all I passed
25 stones, some as
large as a bean
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What good news. An alarm bell for
motors which rings automatically
when speed is raised beyond the law
full limit. has been invented. But stay.
won't the noise crusaders object to
this increase of nerve-tearing sounds?
Nearly every automobile will then go
ringing, as well as whizzing.,
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Tomato catsup.

Cut tomatoes, boil tender. put
through sieve, cook as thick as de-
sired Use about the same ingredi-
ant as for chilli sauce Be careful
about spice. as it destroys the tomato
color. Air tight When done add one
gill OF brandy.
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divinity Eudae."

Two cups granulated sugar. half cup
corn syrup. half cup water. Boil until
brittle when dropped in cold water
and beat slowly into the frosted
whites of two eggs. Add one cup nut
meats and pour on plate to harden.