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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-03-12
Chicken wien oxster..

Boil a chicken until tender, crumb up
your bread, pour over It the broth
from the chicken and season to taste.
Add one quart of oysters to the bread
crumbs. stir well and fill the chicken
with 1T. and put the rest around It in
the pan. Place it in the oven to bake
until crisp and brown.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-03-12
COLLARS AND CUFFS
ARE DETACHABLE.

Some Of the new model spring
suits are finished at neck and wrists
with detachable linen collars and
cuffs. The collar and revers but
ton on the wrong side, but the cuffs
are fastened to the sleeves with
sleeve links, made to match the
costume. This Is a much more con-
venient arrangement than the old
kind that has to be basted into
place.
Almost all OF the linen. suits have
narrow piping at the seams. or. II
they are white suits, the piping is
in some other color.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-03-12
Prune soufne.

Soak one-half pound Of prunes three
hours on the back Of the stove. then,
cook slowly until soft; remove from
the stove and when cool skin them:,
then take out the pits and peat the
pulp: with q fork beat the whites Of six'
eggs stiff. then add six t~ablepoonsful'
OF graduated sugar. Then add the
prune pulp: flavor with vanilla, Butter
q double boiler and put this mixture
In and steam one hour. Be careful
not to let it boil dry or the souffle VIII
De spoiled.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-03-12
Apple Snow.

NPPIe Snow.
Par and quarter six apples and cook
them with a little water until tender.
enough to beat to a pulp. Add some
lemon peel to the water while they are
cooking. Let this cool q little, while
you beat stif1y the whites of Ave eggs
Mix about Q u ounces of powdered
sugar with the apples and add the!
sgs beating until the mixture is firm.
enough to stand up itself. Cut somei
sponge cake into small rounds and heap
up the snow on the separate pieces.
II you have no suitable cake at hand,
put h snow In a glass dish or in lit,
tie glass cups or tumblers. Garnish'
with tiny pieces OF currant or apple.
jelly.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-03-12
INTERESTING RECIPES
TO VARY THE MENU.

Crumb Torte.

Take six eggs. beat until light, then
add II cup of sugar, half a pound of
dates. cut in two; hull a pound OF
English walnuts. cut in large pieces;
eight tablespoonful bread crumbs:
mix in one large tablespoonful baking,
powder. Mix all together and bake in.
a slow oven. When serving break In,
small pieces lido not cut). Place In
dish n serve with whipped cream.
On top place candied cherries, fine.
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Barbour, but when I think of great con stitutional lawyers, I think of Barbour alone"
 The two brothers, James and Philip, were as different as possible in their men, tai makeup. Both were distinguished speakers at the bar. or the stump and In Congress James was rhetorical; Philip was logical. James was ornate; Philip severely simple. James expanded; Philip condensed. John Randolph being asked one day where he had been, said; "I have been in the Senate to hear James Barbour, and in the House to hear Phil. James shot at q barn-door and missed it; Phil shot at hair and split it."
 Hon. B. Johnson Barbour, not long deceased, was a son of the governor, and was highly distinguished as a speaker, and as a writer. His acquaintance with English classical literature was accurate, extensive and profound
 His older brother. James, was one of the most skilful and successful farmers in Virginia Of his early career we have the following brief sketch: He was edu- cated as a lawyer. but his diffidence was so great as to enbarrass him intolerably whenever he arose to address court or jury. He consequently retired from the bar, and engaged in agriculture. He used to tell gleefully the following story on
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accept a United States judgeshp offered him by Mir. Madison. James Monroe was then elected, but resigned to accept the office of secretary of state in Mad isons cabinet. Governor Smith followed and perished in the burning theatre; and James Barbour followed him. fine DOT trait of the governor now hangs In the state library, and it shows him as strikingly handsome man.
 As an advocate before Jury he was especially eminent. Among the traditions Illustrating his skill in this director we ahve the following story:
 He was sitting one day on the porch of the tavern at Barboursville, hamlet near his home. little dandy was strut ting on the porch showing his silk socks and his pumps. broad-backed noun taineer who sat near the famous advo- cate, said in low tones: "If he has got on store clothes, I can lick him."
 'Very good" said Barbour. You lick him. and if you are prosecuted, I'll de- fend you"
 Are you in earnest?" said the coun- tryman.
 "Certainly I am'' replied the lawyer.
 "All rightl'' and stepping in front of the strlding flop, he ripped him up, and down fell the dandy on his nose. The flop was game" and fight ensued, in
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forth to thee and thou shalt eat off the herb of the field.
 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of 1t vast thou taken, for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.
 All of us daily seek to make rnat law of the eternal God exceptional as to us, but from the plutocrat that eats of all the luxuries of all the feasts the insatiate palate of the voluptuary can imagine, to the sturdy toiler on the street crossing, who eats bacon and cabbage, that law is inexorabe, and it never yet failed to plain to the simplest mind in Shakes peare's "Troilus and Cresida-"
 But the greenback party sprang up and covered the earth as with the luxuriance of Jonah's gourd vine. I remember that I made long journey on hot July day to hear a great orator, who had never plowed a furrow, tell of the dignity of labor. l was young then, and had some pride in my personal pulchritude. Some of the ladies were even kind enough to intimate, in maidenly way, that l was handsome. and so excited did they make my vanity that on a trip to Louisville 1 had paid S6 for stovepipe hat and real ly I thought 1t became me. Well, 1 wore it to Horse Cave on that Fourth of July to hear that orator from the Blue Grass make that speech. I had seat close up, and after a while the orator pointed to my hat. and in an ectasy of eloauence exclaimed: Who paid for that hat? The farmer" Now, the fact was
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Nothngs, that was 80 envious 1t would not allow a statesman of the north to tolerate slavery, and so polite 1t would not allow a public man of the. south to question the fugitive slave law that the only know-nothing President we ever had approved.
 We'll, this know-nothing party swept nearly all the north in 1854. It was met at the Potomas in 1855 by Henry A. Wise, collared and throttled. It carried Ken lucky that year; but in Tennessee Andy Johnson did for 1t what Wise visited upon 1t in Virginia. Nevertheless, this party made Banks speaker of the Thirty fourth Congress, and it survived long enough to make Pennington speaker of the Thrty-sixth Congress.
 In 1862 the republican party, over the protest of every democrat, in Congress and out of Congress, was guilty of the constitutional atrocity and the economic monstrosity of making @ worthless piece of paper, with the stamp of the govern ment on it. a legal tender for debt It was an act of Congress that should have had for title "To make knavery patriotic and respectable" Last winter Joe Bailey made a speech on this subject that all the Senate said was unanswerable-both sides of it. Never before had I wished to be a senator as I did then, with the gift of gab of John Rhea.
 Bailey said that legal tender paper money had been emblamed in the de- cision of the supreme court making 1t constitutional. Very well. So Is it con-
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Henry Clay, the whig candidate, was a high Mason. What did they do7 They nominated for President William Wirt, who had been 12 years Attorney General of the United States, and who was him self a Mason of the Fellowcraft degree. And he got the eight votes of Vermont, too, in the electoral college. 1 can never think of Wirt without recalling that very readable novel by Mrs. Southworth. Of which, in thin veil, he was the hero, and the American boy who wants to be u lawyer is not half fit for the job unless he has read Kennedys Life of William Writ" 1t ought to be in every lawyer S office.
 The second third party was the Free Soil'' layout that had it's origin from that spirit of the Puritans that stopped bear-baiting in old England, not in benevolent consideration of the bears, but 'because 1t gave pleasure to the folks who practiced the sport. New England for "gainful pillage" had put the African slave trade into the constitution of the United States until 1SOS and African slavery was immensely popular in New England until 1t was discovered that it was not profitable in that climate. Then it became very wicked down south-but that Is an old story.
 In 1S44 the Free Soil" party served to defeat Henry Clay for President by talk ing enough votes from the whig ticket in New York to give the state to Polk. Four years later through the manipula- tions of Thurlow Weed the Free Soil' party elected Zachary Taylor, a slave holder of Louisiana, President of the
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stitutional to satisfy debt with dis charge in bankruptcy; but a man with such discharge for debts exceeding a million could not buy a beefsteak with 1t of the butcher. But what l itched to ask Bailey was this: You say the ad- judication of the supreme bench has made holy greenbackism, and that It Is too sacred to be touched by the vulgar hands of Congress-now tell me, sir, If the supreme court has not dealt in the exact same way with the protective feature of the tariff, and are not pro- lection in the tariff and fiat in the currency twin?"
 And so If the gigantic intellect and the luminous. analytical mind of Joe Bailey could be clouded by such non sense as legal tender paper money, 1t IS small wonder that there had arisen for two-score years earlier the greenback party, whose basic principle was that every citizen as he got out of bed In the morning might hold out his har and the government would put in 1t all the money to pay his debts and buy what he needed for that day In hls household, or other expenses. It was all very simple, because mankind, for all the centuries, has been devising schemes to nullify and render void this fiat of God that may be found by the diligent searcher of the scriptures:
 Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
 Tn orns and missiles shall 1t bring
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The history we have blurrs over or omits the true attitude of the two Con- federacies, at the beginning of their sep arate existence, towards the question of war. Into this real attitude stepped Pres fdent Lincoln. a far-seeing disturber, a fire brand. We shall recur presently to his motive, but beyond all doubt the war was his. In the limited space here, facts only have room. The approaches to facts through a chain of events, however fas- cnating to the sensitive understanding, must be ignored.
 Two days before the Provisional Con- gress assembled at Montgomery, MT. Ed ward Everett, whose name was as a household word fin all parts of the south, standing for all that is high in the ideal of self-consecration, delivered set speech in Faneuil Hall. He used this im- pressive utterance: ITO expect to hold 15 states in the Union by force is prepos- terous. If our sister states must leave us in the name of Heaven let them go In peace" This was the sentiment, spe- cially delivered in the hour of crisis, by the statesman for whom Thomas H.. Watts, Charles c. Langdon, Benajah s. Bbb, Joseph W. Taylor and large num- Der of the eminent sons of Alabama had voted for vice president some 90 days be- fore. Morse says in his book, p. 270: By the end of May 1861, MT. Lincoln looked forth on a spectacle as depressing as ever greeted the eye of great ruler. Eleven states with an area and popula- ton and resources for constituting pow erful nation. their people in entire unity of feeling, and two-thirds of the north s people in sympathy with their secession V
 The sympathy of the north was with the south. The new President saw it and trembled. Col A. K. Mcclure, whom we of Alabama all know in profound re- spect wrote of these events: Even in Philadelphia nearly the whole of the
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E OR something like a century the
 Barbour family has been distin- 4 guished in Virginia. and even in the country at large. James Barbour of Orange county was governor of Virginia, United States senator, minister to Eng land, and secretary of war under John Quincy Adams, who said: T have known few wiser men, and no better man than James Barbour That John Quincy Adams should have paid such a tribute to a southerner and a large slave owner is a remarkable circumstance Barbour county, in this state, is said to have been named for Governor Barbour.
 This has always seemed to me to be an example of the irony of fate; for An drew Jackson conquered this region from the Indians, who called 1t 'the Eufaula Towns; and Philip P. Barbour. the governors brother, was a powerful sup porter of Jackson, while the governor was one of his ablest and most deter mined opponents.
 Philip P. Barbour was speaker of the House of Representatives and a justice of the supreme court of the United States. Old Thomas Ritchie, the famous editor of the "Richmond Enquirer" used to say: "When I think of pure men, I think of Nathaniel Macon and Philip
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which he of the "store clothes" was bad ly damaged. He sued the mountaineer for assault and battery, was defended by MT. Barbour, who got him off with one cent damages.
 It is saind that Barbour. in his plea be- fore the jury of plain farmers and me- chanics. held that idle fops who strut about in fine clothes ought to be thrashed now and then for the general good of so- ciety.
 Old John S. Barbour of Culpeper was the father of the late United States sen- ator of the same name. He was greatly distinguished as orator. lawyer and statesman, and served for some ten years in the House of Representatives. He was widely known as one of the hand somest men and most polished speakers of his day. Here is little sketch of the style of the man:
 His power in the way of satire was especially remarkable, and the following story illustrates 1t: A certain lawyer, who seems not to have known the difference between "notoriety" and reputation" determined to distinguish himself by mak- ing a personal attack upon MT. Barbour The two were employed on opposite sides of the same case in court. After the at tack was delivered, MT Barbour made his argument before the court, and, in
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United States The very next Congress that party made Howell Cobb, a Georgia shareholder. speaker, because Robert c. Winthrop refused to be an abolitionist Thad Stevens did it when he coined the word ''doughface." stabbed the great Webster, and paid tribute to the then south. The then" south-that Is now dead, and from It's stump there came no sprout What beggarly, what mis- erable, part was the south's at Denver the other day!
 It is Samson in a wig. What Philistne fears It? What Philistlne can it hurt?
 More than 50 years ago, when a boy of less than 16 years, I began the read ing of history, and in all those years 1t has been my favorite study-what has man done? But what is history-eveu that most splendid of all it's chapters. Robertsons introduction to that most splendid of historical biographies, the Life of Charles V? What has man done ?
 Here's what he has done-he has been opposing envy against conscience. Now, that scrap would not last one-quarter of a second If envy did not appear in the ring in the garb of conscience, and that is where all this devilment gets in its work Envy was ever the consummate te gambler conscience ever the reckless gambler. Envy rings in loaded die; conscience stands the hazard of the die 1t knows Is loaded-for conscience stands for a hereafter, and envy is an atheist.
 And hence the abolitionist movement. Hence that party, called the Know
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himself: In his first attempt to address the court, he said: Please the court. arise," and then sat down. overwhelmed with confusion. His second effort ended in the same way. In his third case he wrote out his argument and carried the manuscript in his pocket, determined to read 1t, if he could not speak 1t without the use of his paper. After uttering the words. Please the court, I arise,' he found himself unable to proceed; so he drew out his paper and attempted to read 1t. His confusion, however, was so great that he found himself unable to read his own writing. He determined then and there to abandon the bar and said: Please the court, sit down, never to rise again.
 Diffident as he was in public, he was a man of fine native ability large infor- nation and excellent conversational pow CTS To distinguish him from his Gull peper relative of the same name, he was usually called James Barbour of Or ange'
 Governor Barbour was the first gov ernor to occupy the present gubernatorial mansion in Richmond. This was in the year 1s11 He was the fourth governor Virginia had within few months. John Tyler. father of the President, had been elected governor, but resigned in order to
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counted on the fingers of one hand. He had been accepted by the heterogeneous elements that composed his young party. That was all that could be said for selec- tion of him over the logical candidate, Senator Seward When he took the oath of office the United States treasury was empty; all the banks were private banks and the currency of few was at par on Wall street. When the office left him national banking system f1ourished and currency was so sound and so abundant throughout his country that prosperity never before attained to spread its benef1- cence over the land. When he took the oath of office the army of the United States was about 12,00O effectives about one-third of the officers, the flower of the body joined the Confederacy, but the army rose under him to more than 2,000,- 900 strong, requiring more money every month to support 1t than the total reve- nues of the government the year he was elected. He found the national navy all most nothing; in the third year of his administration the battle of Mobile bay was fought, and there Farragut com manded the most powerful fleet that had ever gone into battle in the worlds an- nals Lincoln overran the Confederate States and destroyed the greatest aggre- gate of productive wealth In the world, meantime compelling England and France to suspend without protest their solemn treaty rights in American ports and their most cherished rights under the law of nations.
 Who was Lincoln? Moses, as we know, was a favored child of fortune; man of profund learning, a teacher of his peo- pie in science and statecraft before he set out to lead them to the promised land; Caesar was patrician among patri- clans before he turned democrat; Crom- well was one of the proudest blood of England; Peter the Great and Frederick
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EnoIish Interest In Politics.

Edward Porritt, in the August Atlantic.
 Widespread popular interest in politics in England can be dated at least as far back as the American Revolution. For more than a century this interest was intensified by each new agitation for parliamentary reform, and with each ex- tension of the parliamentary and muni- cipal franchise. These extensions of the franchise of necessity, involved the ere ation of some machinery for parliamenta- ry and municipal elections. But the ma chinery has not become so intricate or so elaborate as to overshadow the elec- tions, and the questions and principles at issue In parliamentary or municipal contests.
 There has not grown up in England, as has long existed in this country, one small and interested class exclusively in- tent on working the electoral machinery. and another and enormously larger class, much more loosely held together, which does little more than march to the polls to vote for the men whom the smaller and more interested class-really the governing class-has nominated for elec- tion. Hence the wholly different mean ing of the word politician in this country and in England. In this country my un- derstanding of the word politician is 8 man who is closely, continuously and ac- lively concerned in the working of tho machine, or who holds an office. or is a perpetual candidate either for elective or appointive office. The word has no such narrow significance in England. It implies a man or woman who is interest ed in political questions and principles; who is a student of politics in this wider sense.
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MT. President. now that the Confed- eracy is irretrievably lost, what will the conqueror do with our people? What is to be the fate of our political leaders and our general officers?"
 T will pardon Jeff Davis himself if he asks for it. Not hair of any man s head shall be hurt among your people if I can help It." was the prompt reply.
 How will it be with the slaves? Are they free?"
 There Is an amendment now before the states abolishing slavery. If it is ratified the slaves are all free. AS far as I am concerned, would be willing to see the government pay for them"
 Did your emancipation proclamation free all the slaves?"
 "No. I had no right to free slaves out side of army lines, and no power to do so. The proclamation related only to those slaves who came under the war power of the government"
 What will be the relation of the south ern states hereafter to the government"
 'They will resume where they left off if the matter is left to me. There was a suspension of the proper relations Of some of the southern states to the gov ernment, but now all they have to do is call their legislatures together and pro vide for election of representatives and senators in Congress"
 Do you mean the present state legis- latures may proceed that way?'
 "Yes, of course There are no legis- latures in those states except the bodies already elected"
 The President next wrote, with his own hand, pass for Mir. Bibb back to Mont gomery and an order protecting all his property from molestaton by the troops Blob reached his plantation just in time to see the smouldering ruins of the shed, where he had $1O0,o00 of cotton stored, burned by the United States cavalry.
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ing to witnesses for three days, never taking a note, but trusting entirely to his memory: and when in arguing the case he would make some statement as to the testimony. his opponent would say: My notes say so and so, MT Barbour would reply: Your notes are wrong, sir. My notes touching his forehead with his finger) say that the witness testified as l have stated. MT. Clerk recall the wit ness The witness was recalled, and In every instance Mir Barbour was con- firmed."
 On one occasion he quoted in a speech "a locker on here in Vienna" Tt Is Ven- ice, not Vienna" said his antagonist. You are about S75 miles out of the way" said Barbour; "and that is as near rgit 9s you commonly get"
 How "Venice" ever got itself substitut- ed for vienna in this very popular quotation, is one of the many literary mysteries that have hopelessly puzzled me. "Veuice" can not stand for mo- ment. The quotation is from Shake speare's play, Measure for Measure The Duke, who uttered the language, never leaves Vienna during the action Of the play: and the whole plot depends upon his remaining in Vienna, which is the scene of the play.