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The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
A Few Hints in Canning and
Preserving

Miss Margaret Bevans, Turlock
In canning cherries allow five min
utes to the quart. and eight ounces of
sugar.
Raspberries-Allow six minutes TO
the quart, and eight ounces of sugar
Blackberries and strawberries-AI-
low eight minutes to the quart, and
eight ounces of sugar
Plums-Allow 10 minutes to the
quart, and eight ounces of sugar.
Peaches (whole)-Aliow Is minutes
to the quart. and six ounces OF sugar.
Sour Apples-Allow 10 minutes to
the quart. and eight ounces of sugar.
Currants-Allow six minutes TO the
quart, and 10 ounces of sugar
Grapes-Allow 10 minutes to the
quart, and eight ounces OF sugar.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Chop suey

A. C. Jochmus, 11S Eighteenth Street,
Pacific Grove
Scrape the meat from the bones of
half chicken, cut into bits and fry
brown in q little fat. Add large onion
sliced and cook for five minutes before
stirring in handful Of dried mush-
rooms which have been soaked for 10
minutes in water. Pour In enough Chi
nese sauce to cover the ingredients and
rnake them brown, add water and stew
for 15 minutes. Put in stalk Of celery
cut up. six Chinese potatoes which have
been washed and sliced. and after all
have been cooked for q few minutes
add some Toured water 10 thicken the
gravy. Cook until this is smooth. then
serve with boiled rice,
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Hints
Miss Clara Taylor, 1919
Street, Oakland

Miss Clara Taylor, 1919 Magnolia
Street, Oakland
Boil parsnips with skins on, same
as beets or carrots; skin and leave
to fry In butter at dinner time II you
will have grease in a cup melted and
dip your biscuit cutter in IL, instead OF
flour, you cut and grease at the same
time and the biscuits fall apart when
baked. When washing use a brush. as
the French do. and save your hands.
Those oval military hair brushes are
just the right size-an old one Is all
right.
Don't iron only the "toppers." as my
sister said Leave the ozone In the
towels. sheets, pillowcases. night gowns
and underwear.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Cream Chocolate CarameIs
Miss Lena Bronson. wat.onville

Mix together in a graniteware sauce
pan half pint of sugar, half a pint of
molasses half a pint OF thick cream,
one generous tablespoonful of butter
and four ounces of chocolate. Place on
the fire and stir until the mixture boils
Cook until few drops OF It will harden
if dropped into ice water. Then pour
into well buttered pans, having the
mixture about tnree-fourths OF an inch
deep. 1t will take almost an hour to
boil this in q graniteware pan. but not
half 80 long IL cooked In an iron frying
pan. When 1t Is nearly cold mark into
squares.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Soft MoIasses Cookies
Mrs. W. II. Evans. $40 south A streeE,
santa Rosa

MFDs W. "a EVln1e % 3Ou[1 A BIFeEL1
Santa Rosa
Two cupfuis molasses. one cupfuI
brown sugar, one cupful lard one cup
ful sour milk, one teaspoonful ginger,
two teaspoonsfuls soda; stir together
and mix gtin as possible. let stand
over night; roll out fairly thick spread
with sugar and cut; bake IN quick oven
When made according TO recipe they
are thick. yellow and creamy me
grained and simply delicious.
French ROlls-Thess can be easily
made. When baking bread take out
dough for making a medium sized loaf
OF bread Work a scant half cupful
OF butter or lard In the dough: also
three tablespoonsfuls sugar. Then roll
out the dough TO a quarter OF an inch
in thickness and cut with a biscuit
cutter Spread with butter and fold
over. Put in a pan an inch apart and
let rise until very light. They will
become twice the former size. They are
fine.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
ST. PRIZE
Quick Brown Bread (Graham or
Whole Wheat)

Mrs. l.. L. Clark. 2s22 Van Ness Avenue,
San Francisco
Two cups sour milk, two cups mo-
lasses, one teaspoonful soda half a
teaspoonful salt: mix together; then
add three cups graham or whole wheat
-four; at the last put in one cup white
-four and one teaspoonful baking pow
der. Gan egg may be added-if this
is done use three and a half cups gra-
ham four.) Bake in one loaf an hour
and 20 minutes, or two loaves So min
utes. This is exceptionally good and
quickly made bread.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Cucumber Boats

Florence sackett, 11z1 Lafayette Street.
Alameda
Wash cucumbers thoroughly. cut in
halves lengthwise and scrape out CEN
ters. Soak all in cold salted water at
least 20 minutes. Cut up centers. mix
with mayonnaise dressing and fiji
boats; sprinkle finely chopped parsley
over. Place boats on lettuce leaves
and serve
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Che~1y Pudding
Florence Comstock

One tablespoonful of butter, one
tablespoonful of sugar, one egg, pinch
of salt. one large cup Of -four,
one cupful of milk. two teaspoons
OF baking powder and add one
pound Of cherries; cherries must be
weighed before stoned. Steam the pud-
ding one hour.z
SauceLCream one cupful of sugar,
with one cupful of butter and the beat
en- white Of one egg; stir into this
one cupful of crushed and strained
strawberries.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
For Coughs and Colds

NJ. B. 0ReilIy. Min Valley. Box $40
Take one pound OF brown rock candy,
one pint OF best whisky. one ounce OF
glycerine. the juice OF one lemon Put
all In one quart glass preserve Jar.
Set In a pot OF cold water after u has
come to a boil Let II remain on stove
until the contents become a thick sy-
rup. then remove. strain and bottle.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Apricot DumpIings
MIS-. F. G. FISCHER, Larkspur

ME- = o N1scHeH, A1H
Three boiled potatoes (warm). two
eggs, salt 20 washed apricots (do not
remove skin or stones), mash potatoes,
add salt and eggs and enough four 20
form stiff batter to knead; then roll out
and cover whole apricots separately
with dough and drop very carefully
into boiling water and let boil for four
or Ave minutes; then grate half q loaf
of bread and brown In frying pan; re-
move dumplings from water and roll In
crumbs and cover with sugar and serve
warm
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Milk and Egg Toast
Mrs. sfd Wright, Cherokee

Break four eggs IN a bowl. beat well.
add a pinch OF salt and some pepper,
then stir IN one and q half or two
cupfuis OF rich milk cut slices OF
stale bread and dip in the milk and
egg mixture, and fry In a well creased
frying pan When your toast Is all
fried then pour the remaining milk
and egg In the frying pan and stir un-
til thiok and spread over the slices
OF fried bread This Is a good way
to use up stale bread.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
This P@ge or i'm the Daily Call
Kiss 7 orte
Miss Babetti, 3s3 North Third Street,
San Jose

Miss HabetH, 3SS North Third Stfeet,
San Jose
Whites of six eggs, three cups gran
ulated sugar. one tablespoonful vine
gar, vanilla to taste; pan about three
inches deep. the sides of which come on
(can have one made very reasonably:
beat the whites very stiff. add sugar,
quarters Of the mixture IN the pan and
with teaspoon put the remaining mix
ture around the edge. Bake very slow
Iy about three quarters of an hour in
an oven as for angel food. This can
be baked the day before needed, but
do not remove from pan till about an
hour before wanted, as 1t is brittle and
edges break easily. Put strawberries
(not too sweet) in center and cover
with whipped cream.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Chocolate Cream Peppermints
Hester Mathews Gage 49,, 2ese Vallejo
Street, San Francisco

out stirring two cups of granulated
sugar and half a cup OF cream or milk
Remove from stove and add q tea
spoonful Of peppermint essence. Set
the pan in a dish of cold water and stir
until the cream is stiff enough to work.
Make into little balls and put on but
ter paper and let harden for an hour
or more. Melt about q fourth OF 25
cent package Of chocolate in d double
boiler and drop the creams in, one at q
time. with bonbon dipper and put on
buttered paper to dry.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Rhubarb and Pineapple Pre-
serves
MRS. e. II. Gorreli. San Mateo

Dissolve six cups of sugar in four
cups of water and boil to a syrup:
add three pounds of pineapple, pared
and cut In small pieces; cook until
tender; then put IN two pounds OF
rhubarb, also cut fine. and let boil up
few times. 1t only requires little
time to cook IT. Do not allow II to
get mushy. Have your jars ready, all
have just made some, and Ii is
really good.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Eggplant a la Bourbon
A. c. Jochmus, lis Eighteenth street,
Pacific Grove

Pour q cupfu1 OF cream into an
earthen baking dish. Upon this put
several slices of eggplant, which must
be cut very thin. Add half a
can OF tomatoes and sprinkle the top
with bits OF American cheese about the
size of an almond, and salt and pepper.
When this has been done cover with a
rather thick layer OF macaroni, broken
into pieces about two inches in length; ;
half can OF tomatoes, more cheese,
pepper and salt and finally over the
whole pour about q pint OF good stock.
Bake In steady, slow oven for about
an hour and twenty minutes.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22

Tehama County, Cal
One pint OF milk. 10 tablespoonfuls
bread crumbs. five tablespoonfuls graf
ed chocolate, one cup OF sugar, four
eggs and a piece OF butter the size OF
an egg Mix the chocolate and bread
crumbs with a little milk, add the
beaten yolks OF the eggs and the sugar.
Have the pint scalding in a double
boiler and when IL reaches the boflfn <
point add the mixture with the but
ter and stir until II thickens. Pour
into a buttered pudding mold, put in
the oven for a few minutes. Beat
the whites OF eggs stih with three
tablespoonfuls sugar and spread on the
pudding and brown. This is delicious.
Serve with whipped cream
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Spice Cake
Henrietta nj. Schuur, "a Girard Street.
San Francisco

butter and two cups of sugar: then
add Ave eggs. one teaspoonful ground
cinnamon, one teaspoonful ground
cloves and half q teaspoonfu1 bicar-
Donate OF soda dissolved in a little
water Mix well. then sift in three
cups Of -four to which pinch of salt
has been added. Pour in gradually
cup of milk and stir well. Bake In q
good oven two hours.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Prune Spongecake
Mrs. H. n. Maxwell, Chico, General De-
livery

One cup prunes, stewed tender,
pressed through colander: one cup
granulated sugar. one small teaspoonful
butter. four eggs, beaten separately.
four tablespoonfuls milk, one teaspoon
teaspoon cloves. one cup -four; may be
baked In loaf or layer.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-22
Chocolate Pudding

Magnolia Mrs. c. E. Henderson, Box IS, Win
Tehama County, Cal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-12
PATIENT WITH VENEZUELA
DELAY IN NEGOTIATION NOT
WORRYING DEPARTMENT.
Satisfactory Progress Reported by
Commissioner Buchanan - Claims
May Be Settled Out of Court.

contradictory TO a very general belief
that the delay in concluding negotiations
between the United States and Venezuela
Is simply for the purpose of giving Pres
ident Gomez an opportunity to save his
face. State Department officials deny
that fear that prompt acquiescence on
Gomez's part might be misconstrued by
Venezuelans. is blocking settlement.
Satisfactory progress is reported by
Special Commissioner Buchanan, who is At
La Guaira and he is expected to conclude
his mission there shortly.
Mr.. Buchanan's instructions are very
broad and perhaps it is because of the
latitude given him in dealing with the
subject that the delay has occurred
What the administration has been driy-
ing at is to have the claims arbitrated.
but at the same time they may be settled
out OF court, provided the method Of set
Element is satisfactory to this government.
For a considerable period there was a
difference over the question of referring
to The Hague for decision the correctness
OF the DEGREES of the Venezuelan courts,
which Gomez advocated, but which Mr..
Buchanan. acting under Instructions of
the State Department. steadfastly objected
to. Presumably this difference still exists.
The State Department is manifesting pa
thence in dealing with the question and
is disposed to make all allowances for
the tedious methods of Latin-American
Recent reports. indicating that the New
York and Bermudez Asphalt Company,
one of the five American claimants
against Venezuela, was attempting to ef-
feet a private settlement, may, it Is sug-
gested. be an elemant which is figuring In
the delay In the signing of a protocol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-12
The Peabody Fund.

The oldest of these foundations and the
second largest i'll amount is known as the
Peabody fund. The late George Peabody
came from an old Salem family which
settled in New England in las and when
he was sixteen years old became a clerk
i'll drygoods store at Newburyport
Then he came to Georgetown D. c.
which was the commercial center in those
days. and at nineteen entered into ia TT
nership with Elisha Riggs in the banking
business
Mr.. Riggs furnished the capital and
Young Peabody the experience. The firm
prospered, established branch houses in
Baltimore. Philadelphia and New York
and then in London. where Mr. Peabody
took up his residence in 1887. Among
strangers, in a foreign land. without ad-
vantages of birth. or inheritance. or edu-
cation, or public position. he rose to re-
spect and distinction, and established a
credit and q reputation for business abil-
ity and integrity that were never sur
passed by any man.
Although he spent the remainder of his
life i'll London. Mr.. Peabody never lost
his Americanism, and bestowed munif-
cent gifts upon the American people He
founded the Peabody Institute of Balti-
more. which includes a library. an art
gallery, a lecture and music school, and
gave large sums to other institutions for
education, science and charity.
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tellectual, moral and industrial education
among the young In the more destitute
portions of the southern and southwestern
states of our Union: my purpose being
that the benefits intended shall be dis
tributed among the entire population with
out other distinction than their needs and
the opportunities Of usefulness to them"
He further provided that lin case two
thirds of the trustees shall at any time,
after the lapse of thirty years, deem it
expedient to close this trust and of the
fund, which at that time shall be in the
hands of yourselves and your successors.
to distribute not less than two-thrds
among such educational or literary insti
buttons, or for such educational purposes
as they may determine in the states for
whose benefit the income is now appointed
to be used The remainder may be dis
tributed by the trustees for educational
or literary purposes wherever they may
deem il expedient''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-12
DRUGGIST SAYS COOPER
WOKE UP RECENTLY
Westerner Claims Everybo Will Have To
Take His Medicine Eventually.

Nine out of ten people who have called toda,
nave been sent here by others. Sooner or later
every tired. half-sick man and woman in New
York is going to try my medicine. The, can |
help it, After leave New York I shall take two
months rest and then go to London to introduc.
Ceepers New Discovery 10 England"
Among New Workers who have recently become
enthusiasts on the subject Of Coopers medicine
who said Monday Afternoon: 1t is hard 70
realize that any medicine will dc all that Is
claimed for it,
Il have taken all kinds OF medicine for Ten
years and this is the nrst have ever found that
WAS worth two cents. ! have had rheumatism
constantly for ten years and have spent quar-
ter OF what made for doctors and medicines
might have taken so much rain water for ell the
good they did me. Before had taken this Coop
er's New Discovery a week l realized it WAS
worth something. I have taken II a month and
am well as ever was in my life. have No
rheumatism and eat like horse. feel like do
ing something now, where a month ago I hated
to walk block. When I first bought II thought
it was another fake, but l know better All
the other stun ! have taken was worth nothing
this is worth ten, yes. twenty times what they
ask for it."
Coopers New Discovery is now ON sale at lead
ing druggists the country over. We will sepd
booklet in which Mr.. Cooper tells the reason for
most i'll health. to any one upon request. The
Cooper Medicine Co.. Dayton, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-12
ORGANIZED in Washington.

The Peabody board was organized in
February. 1867. at Washington, with a
fund of two million dollars. 1t was after
ward increased by gift of $l.44.0O0 in
bonds of the southern states, which were
afterward repudiated. The income, which
amounts to about $4,000 a year, is ex-
clusively used for the education of teach
ers in the south, both white and colored.
The Peabody Normal College at Nash
Vile, which occupies the buildings that
formerly belonged to the University of
Nashville, have been put in order and are
now occupied by the school. The legs-
appropriated so 1000 year, and has Of
fcred to appropriate $25, 600 year or the
condition that the college remain there
permanently.
In 1907 the trustees. who are Chief JUS
tice Fuller, j. Pierpont Morgan. Bishop
Doane OF Albany, Bishop Lawrence of
Massachusetts. Richard Olney Of Boston,
Senator Wetmore OF Rhode Island and
several others, voted to endow the Pea
body School for Teachers at Nashville
with a million dollars from the fund upon
certain conditions. which, however. have
not been accepted by the state. There
fore the matter hangs fire.
The Peabody Normal College at Nash
Vile has 6O7 white students, $40 womsn
and 232 men. About one-half of them
come from Tennessee, the remainder from
the surrounding states. A recent cata-
losue shows that the parents Of As per
cent are farmers. ID per cent merchants
l6 per cent physicians. 4 per cent lawyers
4 per cent ministers and per cent
teachers.
The remainder of the Peabody fund,
nually. has been distributed to normal
schools in the other states as follows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-12

New York has never before witnessed such
spectacle as may be seen every day at Broadway
and eth street. says the New York World, June
10, 1905. 1t is here that l.. T. Cooper, the west
ern stomacholosist, who claims that stomach
trouble is at the bottom Of all chronic i'll health
Is meeting the public.
1t would be difBcult to estimate Just how
many people call to talk with Cooper during q
single day. The store where he is holding forth
seems 10 have become the Mecca for ailng PEG
pie in New York, and the amount Of medicine he
be sells himself. druggists generally througbou.
New York are handing his preparations out in
unlimited quantities.
A leading druggist said recently: THE public
seems to have lost its mind over this man Coop
Personally. don't know anything about his
medicine We had nothing to do with his coming
to New York and he has until recently sold bis
suppose he thought New York was like one of
his western towns and everybody could be sup
piled from a corner drug store. He woke UP
about week ago and put it on sale everywhere.
Since then We have been selling 1t. l don't know
how long this demand will last. but have never
before seen anything like it,
IN an interview Monday afternoon Cooper said:
II am not making any wild claims for my med
icine. All it does is to stimulate the gastric
Juices and regulate the digestive organs. but
people do not realize how splendid their health
would be II only their stomachs were not Ian
guild and enfeebled by years Of abuse.
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has FULL POWER OF RULER
PRIVILEGES DEFINED OF
CHINA'S PRINCE REGENT.
Rescript Gives Him Control Over
Military and All Civil Branches
of the Government.

Powers and privileges of the Prince
Regent Of China who is to represent the
emperor during the latter's minority, are
defined in an imperial rescript issued in
December which has reached the State
Department. He is to have full power
over the military and civil branches and
the appointment and dismissal of Off
Gals That the authorities have full faith
in the proposed establishment of q parlia-
ment is demonstrated by specific direc-
tons requiring him to attend its inau-
guration. Some of the interesting para
graphs detailing the prince regents duties
and movements are given as follows:
When d parliament has been established
the prince regent shall attend the same
in place of the emperor. He need not
attend the ordinary sessions, however.
When the constitutional commission
meets the prince regent shall likewise rep
| resent the emperor there.
Foreign relations.
The prince regent shall have full au-
thority in negotiating treaties and in APP
pointing representatives abroad. The
board of foreign affairs shall report and
formulate upon such matters as the man.
ner of receiving autograph letters from
foreign rulers and the audiences Of for
eign representatives in China.
The prince regent shall enter and leave
his chair at the Ch'ien Ching gate. The
yamens whose duty it is shall draw up
and report on regulations. modelled on
the precedent established by Prince Jul
chung regarding the eQuipage. escort
and general preparations for movements
Of the prince regent outside the palace.
Every year the board of finance shall
transfer to the department OF the i'm
perial household the sum of 10000 taeH
for disbursement.
When the emperor comes of age, his
studies being completed and his marriage
tolxo the official hA6V Sholl ia
in asking his majesty to assume personal
direction of the government.
If it shall be necessary to add to the
above regulations or abridge them or to
alter them such changes shall be made
only by the prince regent. No one else
shall presume to do so.
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Secondary Education.

In addition TO this, professors of sec
ondary education have been appointed In
the state universities of Alabama, Florida
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina
South Carolina. Tennessee and Virginia
and in the department of education in
Louisiana. Cooperative experimental |
farm work has been undertaken in six
southern states in connection with thirty
four local agricultural institutions. for
which the sum OF $3.50 was appro-
priated last year.
The Rockefeller fund is also used .'to
build. improve. enlarge, equip or to aid
others to do the same. buildings for eIe-
mentary or primary schools, industrial
technical schools. normal schools, train
ing schools for teachers. or schools of any
grade or purpose. and large sums are
being expended in that way
The officers of the board are Frederick r
Gates. chairman: George Foster Peabody.
treasurer, and Wallace Buttrick, secre-
tary.
There is a close system of cooperation
between all of these boards. Mr. Pea
body is treasurer. and several of the same
men are trustees OF two or more. so that
there shall be no waste Of labor or
money.
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Totals NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s57 900

Most of the interest on the Slater fund
has been used in promoting industrial
and agricultural education, and has been
eminently useful in training carpenters,
masons, blacksmiths, printers, tailors, and
other artisans, and making of them use
full citizens. In future letter I will
give some statistics as to the occupations
which are now followed by colored peo-
pie who have received assistance from
the Slater fund.
Last year about this time. Miss Anna
T. Jeanes a Quaker lady of Philadelphia.
left a large sum to a board of trustees
for the improvement of rural schools for
negroes / will have to postpone further
reference TO that benefaction for another
letter
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Mrs. Thaw to Replace Church.

r1TTSBURG, February 12.-Mrs. Will
liam Thaw. mother OF Harry X Thaw,
yesterday awarded the contract for the
erection of the Manor Memorial Presby-
terrain Church at Manor. Pa, near here.
to replace the former church which she
had built in honor of her father, Josiah
Copley. and which was destroyed by
lightning last fall. 1t Is stated that the
new edifice will be finer one than that
destroyed.