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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-04
st. Louis Produce

ST. Louis, August 3.-Flour, steady. Hay
firm: timothy, s12Q17: prairie. ssa12 So
Whisky, 81 40. Iron cotton ties, sac. Bag
ging. 10 1-1Gc. Hemp Irvine, TIC. Pork
higher; jobbing. $3.50 Lard higher; prime,
$40 20d13.00. Dry salt meats unchanged:
boxed extra short, 10s4c; clear ribs. 10%c;
short clears lie. Bacon unchanged; boxed
extra short, 11Ac; clear ribs, 1lsc short
clears, 12c. Receipts: Flour, 1900; wheat.
425,000; corn, 1900; oats. $4,000. Shipments
Flour. 1000; wheat. $4,000 corn, 1900;
oats, $1,000.
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Creamery Products

Country butter, Is q 20c: fresh cream
cry bntter, 291sc; process butter, 27c;
daisy cheese. IKE; imported Swiss
cheese, see; German brick cheese, zoe.
limburger cheese.t19c; imported roque-
fort SIC; Neufchatel cheese. per dozen,
45c; Pimento cheese. per dozen, $1.4O.
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Dry Goods

New York, August 3.-Cotton goods
markets rule firm with the demand
broadening. Fruit of the loom 4x4
bleached goods was advanced to sac
after selling at value. Jobbers report
more active trade I'm cotton goods and
dress goods. Mems wear and dress
goods in first hands are in good re-
quest
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Local Cotton
Meat

Lard, 127sc; compound. 95sc: d. s. short
ribs, 1235c; rib bellies, l294c; ham butts,
13c; Boston butts. 13izc; pork loins, 16c;
spare ribs, 101sc; breakfast bacon, 1870
23c; smoked bacon, 1ic;' regular ham,
16c; skinned ham, 18c.
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Fish and Sea Foods

Red snapper, nc in Dbl lots; loo in
small lots; groupers. 6hc; Spanish
mackerel. 15e; sea trout. 12Hc; carp
roughs, &c; white perch. s910c; specIe-
led perch 7c; mullet. &c; sun perch or
Dream, 1oc: pompano, zoe; mixed fish.
&c In Dbl. lots; &c in small lots; crock
ers. &c.
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HUBBARD BROS. & co.

Co1eeW Mercharts, HaIfover Square, Y.
kan0e: New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
New York Produce Exchange. Asso-
ciafe Members Liverpool Cotton Asso-
chase and sale Of Cotton and Cotton
seed OIL for future delivery. Special at
signments Of spot cotton for delivery.
Gorrespondence invited
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Fruits and Produce

Apples, new, per hamper. 81 50q2;
peaches, selected, per crate. s1a1 80;
plums. per crate. 81; California oranges,
per box, g SOFA; lemons, imported, per
box. 5.On6; cabbage. per pound, &c;
onions. per pound, 21zc; Spanish onions,
per crate. sl.75: Irish potatoes, per BUSH
ell. 81 10d1 20; cantaloupes. per crate, & so
gas watermelons, 15d25c; lines, per
hundred, 75c@sl; bananas, per bunch, 81 rs
al .50 sweet potatoes, per bushel, 81 rs;
grapes, per crate, s1.25@1 80: pears, per
barrel, 50.
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Poultry and Eggs

Hens, 354 soc; live. per pound. 12c:
large fryers, 1Sc; medium flyers, 1sc:
small fryers, 1Sc; ducks. 30040c gum
cas-, Csc; ROSTERS, zoe; geese, 400 soc:
live turkeys. 15@ &c. eggs, fresh. case
candled. 17Q1s; extra graded candled
eggs. 2lG 2ac.
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st. Louis Grain

red. s1.o3; No. hard. s3q95c. Corn. No.
2, 73c: No white. SOC. Oats. No. 2, 300
331sc; No 2 white, 37ikc. Wheat: Close,
September, 92hc; December. 937sc Corn.
September, s71zd67ssc; December, $40
sac. Oats, September. 3Ossc; December,
&c.
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Metal Market

New York. August 3.-Metals were dull
and unchanged. Lake copper, INC.
Electrolytic, TN c. Casting, 17ls Q17A.
Iron, quiet unchanged.
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Weeks Exports

New Orleans, August 3--Receipts. Ro-
sin. $3.50; turpentine, &c. No exports.
New Orleans. August 3.-No exports
for the week Weeks arrivals: $500 sacks
coffee from Brazil.
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Berlin, August 3.-.Exchange on London
20 marks. 40 pigs. for checks; money, !
per cent.
Private discount rate sss per cent.
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Grain Receipts and Shipments

Kansas City, August 3.-Reeeipts.
Wheat, $4,000: corn, 5000 oats, Il. 0O0
Shipments: Wheat, $4,000; corn, 1000;
oats, 1000.
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London Stock. Market

OF the basic facts existing that business
will tend to improve from now on.
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Coffee and Sueal,

Cofee-Arbuckles. 1896 per hun
bred pounds; Luzanne, &c per pound;
Sugar. standard granulated. SIC per
pound.
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LOCAL SECURITIES

Total sales for the day, ls4,IVI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-01

honey cakes were invented at the court
of Burgundy for the Christmas OF 1851 -
| am sure she was right We took off
our hats in the marvellous old kitchens.
unique in the world, the only remains OF
their kinds. These hcarths. chimneys and
spits We're already old when America
was discovered,
Destructive fires in two centuries have
left nothing of the antique palace of the
dukes but an isolated four-storied tower
(de Barr. very beautiful, built into the
present palace-museum: a rude. high
thirteenth century belfry; splendid
hail and these kitchens beneath IL.
Twelve oxen could be roasted. entire.
al the same time in ,lem.
They look like a church crypt, ON. so
ancient, Not Vet even Gothic. almost
Merovingian, Not a single i:d0w. yet
quite light. FlooSs, walls. roof. all stone.
Very low round the sides, the lantern
rises three stories in the center, sus-
tanned by great curved stone ribs I'D to
d circular light aperture, designed sne-
cially up-drauSht to carry off the smoke
The court of Burgundy led the cookery
of the world. outside Constantinople.
then still called ByZantium. still ruled
over by the emperor, successor OF Gaze
dukes got their sauce cooks from BY
Zantium.
\ hundred gentlemen We're invited
daily to the palace dinner. Half as many
noble strangers and the court proper
trebled the number. says contemporary
Chaste,lain. In To-. two Dion poultry
dealers sold Aubin Cousin, the duke :
butcher a single bill of 1000 chickens.
POO geese, 600 eggs and 40 great
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"JACQUEMART,"


finally necessary for him to call in police
assistance to accomplish his duty.
There are degrees even of potter's field.
1t is divided into sections, and there is a
separate burying ground for those who
have died of contagious diseases. This
lies down on the river bank. where the
ground is low and swampy. There is no
record kept of these lowly graves, and
there is no way of securing the privilege
of exhuming the bodies. The very spot
where they are buried is being slowly
filled in by the dirt and trash that accu-
mulates there. and the principal object
desired is that the place become covered
up and lost to sight. The poor pariahs
that sleep there are sent to their last
resting place i'm a special wagon provided
by the smallpox hospital. They are sunk
lower in caste even than their fellow
DauDerS
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by an decorate OF h % wiz


when he was already 200 years old. He
Is Jacquemart.
Previous to the year 1883 he sat on the
tower of the town hall of Courtrai. Bel
GUM. He. raised his arm, and with a
graceful flourish struck the hour, as
Froissart says. the most beautiful mech
anism of the low countries. or beyond the
seas Philip, the bold Duke of Burgundy,
having a claim on these free cities, ask
ed for Jacquemart and was refused. He
went to war-over a mechanical clock
RACED the walls, hanged their nOtables.
decimated a rich population and brought
Jacquemart in triumph to his capital of
Dillon.
Today it is the same Jacquemart. A
hundred years before America was dis
covered he was placed where he still sits,
on top a tower of Notre Dame de Dijon,
and hammered the hours. In 1854 they
gave him wife-she rings the half
hours. In 1714 they gave him a child
1895 the Dijonnais, who never tire OF
Jacquemart, added second child. naked
and wooden like a jointed doll, but real
~ bigger than man, who can ring the
minutes.
This youngest child, whose name is
Aristide, can ring the minutes-but he
don't. Tourists always hope to hear him.
The machinery is all there Also it is a
tradition that he should ring the hour of
his birth, at least. every Sunday at fifty
seven minutes after the noon hour.
Dong. dong! old Jacquemart pounds his
hammer twelve times. Dang! the lady
hits one clip. Ding. the elder son rings
the third quarter. Then silence, regular
ly silence. Little Aristide refuses to
function" even on Sunday! He is all
ready. but they do not want him to wear
out his works" Aristide is like the
French army.
And Jacquemart. as 1 told you, is like
Dijon. and all France. In the past they
may have been mixed up in some pillage,
but now vested interests cry for the
status quo. Jacquemart is prosperous
piker. dong! dong! DIXON also.
Take the mustard trade.
1t seems a small thing. but it is big
the high-class gourmet mustard trade of
half the world. The great houses, in
dignified leaflets, merely describe thc.r
products for the world to order by mail;
they have no travelling statesmen.
THE strong mustard of Dijon. natural.
without additions, without vinegar. mixed
in Burgundy verjus. Very piquant, it
tickles the nose without burning the
esophagus; contains neither acids, fla
vors, coloring or thickening.
Aromatic sweet mustard, mixed in
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effective TRIMMINGS
FOR SMART GOWNS

d LIMESTONE trimmings are prominent
~ for evening wear, especially in the
simple outlining form suitable for edg-
ing tunics, necks, sleeves and edging
elaborate scarfs of chiffon or mousseline.
Rhnestones i'm combination with jet are
formed into handsome floral and scroll
effects. Rhinestone and pearl slides and
ornaments are used for catching up
draperies.
Narrow chiffon pink rosebud trimmings
continue to be fashionable. Fur bands In
skunk, mole, fox ermine and sable con-
tinue to be much used for trimmings. Fur
is often used IN combination with metal
with excellent effect. An elaborate even
ing wrap or gown may be trimmed with
lightweight metal band outlined with .
narrow strip of fur.
Afternoon and evening dresses are much
trimmed with maribou in the natual
or oolored variety, and is used for edg-
ing tunics. outlining panels and for nm
fishing sleeves and bodices Mar.bou is
a pretty but inexpensive substitute for
the fashionable fur trimming.
Loof S and ornaments OF braids in metal
effects, especially the dainty, iattice-like
metal braids; are used to advantage In
the decoration of evening dresses.
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cheeses Another receipted bill IL for
$3.50 breads. Olivier de la Marche tells
of a ducal provision hunt that brought
back II deer 80 wild ducks. ~ Wild
geese GSa pigeons bears and 275 quail
and ringdoves In another place the
ducai snares caught so rabbits and Ia
great hares
We stood i'm the grandiose kitchens
Between each pillar. round the wall.
we could look up into a chimney. Eight
cen chimneys. obviously most were for
casting at the spit. At the courts OF
France and England they were living on
roast meats and boiled vegetables But
here at Dion Oliver de Ia Marche tells
that all were served with sauces and
racoutS. richly spiced. down to the rank
OF S1uires likewise served on fete days
And there remain here. absolutely unique
in the world, parts OF two middle age
sauce furnaces. each with twelve lids. and
a stone heating table covered with terra
Gotta suuares-the first range and sub
outside Constantinople Here the I'M
ported chef concocted Byzantine deli
caces whose very condiments came
straight from the antique capital OF ele-
eance-not yet captured and sacked by
the uuspeakahle Turk.
! made a note.
Here they invented (honey) gingerbread
in 1851.
made another note.
Now YOU understand why NJ. Poincare
is struggling day and night to prevent
a general European war.
STERLING HELLO.
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Burgundy wine vinegar. five fiavors;
anchovy. capers, estragon. fines-herbes
and ravigotte.'
All date back before the American
revolution: Yet scarce a Dijon mustard
house has changed it's dosage recipe
for mixing in verjus, sort of white wine
too. green" in quality to be drinkable
produced by grapes and methods of the
DIXON region.
So with the vinegar. both for their own
sweet mustard mixing and for sale in
bottles and casks. While using Pasteur's
discoveries, they stick to the old Dion
methods of acetification-which actually
give these best Burgundy vinegars quail
ties similar to the wine types of the
Cote-d'Or. velvetiness, frankness. fresh
taste, vivacity, fruity flavor. suave and
subtle bouquet. They age in bottle and
cask, because vinegar from a bouquet
wine like eaux-de-vie and the crus them
selves gain enormously with age"
Did you ever taste lettuce salad mixed
with the right oil and vinegar? 1t is
marvel. l had one at the Cloche Hotel.
In Paris it is practically impossible
know the addresses and order the in
gradients. Common people just tell the
grocer's boy-and pay for tasteless substi-
tutions. Paris Also makes vinegar
and. heaven help us. oil!
l wanted to move to DIXON. Snug little
CITY, where everybody. 1 honestly be-
lieve, including artisans and labOrers,
eats and drinks luXuriously.
Is gingerbread bakery a factory? In
DIXON. no. Dion has no factories. The
railway porter. carrying my valise.
boosted: This is bourgeois city!' The
hotel clerk repeated 1T: 1--WE have no fac
tory population" Yet a single ginger
bread bakery employs 800 men and
women: and there are a dozen scarcely
less important. DijOn gingerbread goes
to Belgium, Germany. the United States.
Great Britain. Switzerland, Egypt and
South America.
1t is not really gingerbread.
Mix pure rye fiour-from which it takes
refreshing properties-with lots of honey
and trife of molasses; add the aro-
mates. anise. badiane. grated orange
peel and mere suggestion of ginger.
often omitted. and you have the simple
dough of Dijon.
1t bakes light, as full of air holes as a
sponge; yet in great slabs. called paving
stones it is almost weighty. Baked in
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war in the air, the famine and the purple
DEATH
Wells terrific book is being much re-
read: 1t gives one the shivers to think
what general ruin might proceed from
the great mjx-up.
But. no. the mustard of Dijon," 1
said will save all"
| spoke in parallels, but when the gold
boarding nation of Europe yearns for
ing chance.
"Hurrah for Chambertin. the king of
Wines" / said, land Romance Cont, his
queen
Quite tranquil. we went out to
"Jacquemart'' and his family strike 2:45
pm. on the tower of Notre Dame
X x
This is the story of a rich and sleepy
French city, where there is really luxury
for ali, and they would hate to lose or
risk it. OF course the French dread a
general European war. Jacquemart rep
resents their vested interests and honest
piking. Tourists don't know it, but all
the same. they hurry, the first thing, in
Dijon, to see Jacquemart.
1t is the Oldest mechanical clock in
the world, vast dome of ornamental iron
work holding great and lesser bells. and
much ancient machinery. Seated by 1t is
a seeming Hfe-SiZe figure of man--in
truth. glant-in strange old gay clothes,
felt hat and cocarde, smoking IL long pipe
put into his mouth on Easter. 1857,
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What 1t Comes To.

TAR. HARVEY w. WILEY told In an
- address in Washington a story
apropos of food adulteration.
There was a man." he said, who
manufactured so-called silver spoons. A
dealer bought largely from him, but was
always clamoring for a lower price.
but / can't lower the price, the
manufacturer would say, unless put In
more lead.'
".All right-more lead. by all means
Thus the dealer would reply.
The other week the dealer wired that
he would take an enormous consignment
of spoons III the price were cut fur
Their 10 per cent
L can't cut the price another penny.
the manufacturer wired back.
Put in more lead wired the dealer.
Impossible, was the manufacturers
reply. Last lot shipped you We're al
Lead"
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distinguished appearance came to the
asylum and made inquiries regarding re-
cent burials. He was shown articles of
clothing kept to identify the bodies, and
quickly recognized the shoe of the
drowned man as having been worn by
his son, who was missing The body was
exhumed, and proved that the old mans
search had ended.
But it was a pitiful case. The son had
been graduate of one of the leading
universities of the country, had travelled
extensively abroad, and spoke a number
of foreign tongues fluently. At his death
he had been at the commencement of
what promised to prove a most brilliant
career. 1t was never learned whether he
had met death through accident or had
committed suicide.
For many years this District has buried
on an average at least two paupers day.
So many, indeed, are those whom the city
must bury that a few years ago the old
potter'S field was found to be too small,
and an addition was made. This lies next
to the Districts workhouse for females.
1t was opened about five years ago, and
now that too, is nearly filled with graves.
The numbers of burials is constantly
changing, of course. There are more in
extremely cold and extremely hot weather
than during the more moderate seasons.
The greatest number of burialS in any
single month at potterS field was during
the blizzard i'm Washington in 1898, when
eighty-five interments were made through
the asylum
The office of the permit clerk of the
health department, where the permits for
burials in potter's field are issued, shares
the experiences of the driver of the dead
wagon.
Relatives of the dead come to the per-
y,1tf lark md toto hAr in IN
them. and request the assistance of the
District. And that request is never re-
fused. There is no need to conduct an
investigation of the truth of the claim.
Human nature is such that no one who
can possibly help it ever applies to some
one else to bury his dead. Ii is a duty
that is regarded as sacred. So when such
a request comes in, the dead wagon is
promptly sent 10 the address gwen.
Sometimes. however. for all the willing
ness of the District, there are compl.ca-
tions. There have been cases where,
after the mother or father of a dead child
has asked the District to bury ii, the
wagon going to the house, has been met
by persons who refused to give the body
up Sometimes. it is explained, friends
have ''chipped in and enabled the family
to hire an undertaken. Again, the rea-
sons are inadequate, in which case the
driver has been known to accomplish his
work by force.
This happened in a negro family re-
Gently. When the wagon arrived at the
house, the mother of the dead child
made no objection to its removal. There
were. however eighteen other negro wom-
en- living at the same place. and the en-
tire household was exceedingly drunk.
Two of the women, in no way related to
the dead child, opposed the driver when
he started out with the coffin. The
driver attempted to force them aside. and
this proved the signal for a general at
tack on him by all the women. 1t was
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it, often, are sliced candied fruits, little
pears shine garnet red, along the edges.
plums a violent olive green, cherries like
rubies, cool aquamarine and pearl of
sliced citron and melon. ah me, the fas-
cination! Round top and sides they stick
almonds and pistache nuts, ivory white
and jade green
Joy of children, and tranquility of par
ents.
The gingerbread houses expose small
wooden packing cases loaded with assert
ed pasteboard boxes. gay with gilt and
spangles. of assorted specialties to send
by express to boarding schools. The child
must have his or her box Uncles and
aunts send them to the nursery on birth
days. Families keep shelves loaded with
plain health" paving stones. There are
sixteen varieties Of nonnettes. or little
nuns" small rounds like soda biscuits cut
in half, iced. orange or vanilla. with
fruits, iced chocolate, pistache or rum,
with pineapple, with apricot, with man.
darines, with cherries, extra fines, wrap
ped in a rich chrome. iced duchesses in
gold paper, and elegant DijO canoneSSeS
in STpangles.
Shapes and sizes. Perfumes and decora-
tons! Flavors and extras. There are
boxes of gingerbread dolls. horses goats,
kline. lions, elephants. There are squares
wrapped in notices and verses, pralnee-
ed. with fruit jellies; assorted f1avors.
kirsch, maraschino, mandarine or citron.
There are ''pavings," reinforced with
''rammed'' with soft gumdrops, there are
crowns and crescents, the glory of DIXON
and the demi-glory. They put them up
in imitation travelling rugs rolled in their
straps, in vast stylograph pens. spangled
paper cylinders, drums. cannon balls, SOL
der caps for boys and pasteboard dolls
houses for girls, what do 1 know? a de-
bauch of gay surprises, gold and glitter.
hOneyed sweets, the health of the body,
the tranquility of families.
DIXON is too busy selling its wines not
to dread war Confidential buyers for pri-
vate gentlemen of the United States, Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Russia,
Austria-wherever in the world rich men
are gourmets-fock to Dijon, Beaune and
Macon to the great annual sales of vine
yard products. and, all the year, they hunt
close round Dijon to pick up dozen bot
ties here and a quarteau of fifty-seven
litres there, of some great wine of the
cote dor of a valued year! Not to men
ton the wine merchants. restaurant and
hotel men of the first class, the world
over.
There are cultured men who will call