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The pioneer express., 1912-02-02
BABY's HAIR ALL CAME OUT

when my first baby was six months
old he broke out on his head with little
bumps. They would dry up and leave
a scale. Then it would break out
again and it spread all over his head.
All the hair came out and his head
was scaly all over. Then his face
broke out all over in red bumps and
It kept spreading until it was on his
hands and arms. bought several
boxes of ointment, gave him blood
medicine, and had two doctors to treat
him, but he got worse all the time.
He had 1t about six months when e
friend told me about Cuticura. sent
and got bottle of Cuticura Resolvent,
cake of Cuticura Soap and a box Of
Cuticura Ointment. In three days
after using them he began to Inn
prove. He began to take long maps
and to stop scratching his head After
taking two bottles of Resolvent, two
boxes of Ointment and three cakes of
Soap he was sound and WELL and never
had any breaking out of any kind. His
hair came out in little curls all over
his head. I don't think anything else
would have cured him except Cuti-
cura.
Il have bought Cuticura Ointment
and Cuticura Soap several times since
to use for cuts and sores and have
never known them to fail to cure what
put them on. Cuticura Soap is tho
best that I have ever used for toilet
purposes" (Signed) Mrs. F. e. Har.
mon, R. F. D. 2, Atoka, Tenn. Sept.
10, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold everywhere, sam
pie of each, with 32-page book, will
be mailed free on application to "Cuti-
cura," Dept L, Boston. :
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Coming I, n i! to
Perllb||'ina |
Associated
Doctors.
MCtNee Of Expedition Said 70 b
Purely sclentifio-No Elements Of
commerolailsm Entering into
Ultimate Object.

Jerusalem.-An expedition, the pur-
pose Of which is thoroughly to explore
the Dead sea and It's environs under
the leadership Of Dr. Bruhl of the Uni.
versity Of Berlin, has just arrived
from Europe and continued to the
scene Of its future operations.
The motives Of the expedition, so 1t
is emphatically averred by DR.. Bruhl,
are purely scientific, with absolutely
no elements of commercialism enter
ing into its ultimate object.
The work of exploration will con-
sist In the major part of sounding the
depth OF verious sections of the lake
as we'll as analyzing the complex
composition Of its waters, studying its
shores, investigating the nature of the
different minerals that are said to
abound in that region, exploring, as
far as Is possible, the channels of the
many rivers and hot water streams,
apart from the Jordan, which flow
into the sea, from both the eastern
and western mountain ranges that
hem its shores, examining and classify
ing the varieties of fish that exist in
large numbers only in the extreme
southeastern section Of the lake.
which consists mainly of shadows and
marshes.
1t must be remembered in this con-
nection that it has always been firm
ly maintained by those who visited
the Dead sea and wrote treatises
about 1t long ago that no fish of any
kind can make their habitat in any
part of 1t, and this long established
belief was disproved only recently ~
pleasure party of Americans, long
resident in the country, who visited
the southern end Of the lake and dis.
covered fish.
So it remains for the members Of
the German expedition to arrive at
the causes, which undoubtedly must
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be due to varying conditions of chem
ical composition of the water that
make it possible for fish to live in
certain sections of the lake and not
in others; and, in short, to find out
everything about this strange body of
water from scientific standpoints that
is worth knowing.
What ultimate political or CONNER
cfal motives, If any, underlie the sur.
face of the enterprise time only can.
show.
This is by no means the first at
tempt made to explore the Dead sea;
region. Lieut.. w. F. Lynch of the,
American navy. as early as the year
1S48 spent considerable time in re-.
search and exploration of that region;
at the expense Of the American govl
ernment and at great risk to his per-
son.
Despite the hardships, Lieutenant
Lynch was fairly successful in taking.
measurements as we'll as soundings
of different parts Of the lake. Accord.
ing to the neutenant's narrative, the.
lake measures some 46 miles from
north to south and from 6 to IL miles;
east and west. It's total surface area
was therefore computed to be $50
square miles. It's greatest depth was,
1900 feet at its northern end, and its:
shallowest part being at it's southern,
extremity, varies from 8 to Is feet
only.
The lakes depression below the sea,
level is 1872 feet and tropical
climate makes its temperature almost
unbearable during certain seasons of
the year.
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BY Nicholas soyer, cI

sweetbread MsckenzIe.-Blanch and
trim a good-sized sweetbread. make
a little mirepoir of vegetables. paying
attention to the color of the vege-
tables, and seeing that they do not
brown. Cut the sweetbread across
the center, but do not halve it. Pound
one ounce of pistachios and lay them
in the slit of the sweetbread. Cover
the sweetbread with the prepared
vegetables and place in well-but-
tered bag. Cook in a slow oven for
thirty minutes. Dish the sweetbread,
place the other ingredients in fine
sieve and lightly press the gravy
through, on to the sweetbread.
Chicken QueneIles. Take the
breast Of one fowl. add pint of white
sauce, and piece of butter the size
of walnut. Pound well. mix in one
egg, pass through q hair sieve. Place
in q basin, add quarter pint Of
cream and stir well. Form into small
.Quenelles with spoon, place in a
'buttered bag, lay carefully on the
broiler, and cook for six minutes in
q hot oven. 5sg
Chicken and Rice Chop up
half q raw chicken, wash tablespoon
full of rice In cold water, and mix with
the chicken, Wash q teaspoonfr,,5 Of
pearl barley, and add with, quarter
pint Of cold water. Put all together
into . small paper bag, and cook for
ty to- forty-five minutes in q slow
The pioneer express., 1912-02-02
GETS THE GOOD OUT OF FOOD.

Eating serves double purpose
the giving of pleasure, the keeping
up of strength. 1ll-cooked food re-
duces both to minimum-hence the
proverb: God sends meat and the
devil sends cooks" Possibly his
satanic majesty now and again mods.
It must have been in such a somno-
lent interval that he let M. Soyer's
system of paper bag cooking get by
him. For unquestionably it is in the
way of reducing ill-cooking at least
one-half. Thereby 1t will help to feed
fat all the nations of the earth.
The use of cooking is to change
the nature Of food substances, max.
ing them at once better tasting and
more digestible. Heat works by de-
veloping iavors and Transforming sub
stances. Its most important Office is,
however, to break down fiber. animal
and vegetable, to such degree as to
render it easily digestible. If 1t is
to do this it must be properly applied.
That is to say. gently. regularly.
Simple food. well cooked, is the
foundation of happiness-and paper
bag cooking means good cooking.
1t follows naturally that the paper
bag is especially useful in preparing
food for delicate persons, and grow.
ing children. Here follow some
dishes that have helped build up
weak and wasted people. That they
will be likewise good for children,
especially delicate ones. admits Of
no loubt.
Pigeon Roast.-Take a cquab, q
squab-chicken as small as possible,
or quail, dress it whole, stuff light.
ly with toasted bread crumbs. adding
raisin or two, or shreds of tart
apple. Season very lightly inside be-
fore stufing. Rub a little more salt
outside, but only little. Rub also
with. soft butter, not melted. and
dredge very lightly with -four. Then
wrap in bacon. sliced as thin as pos.
sible. and put into buttered bag
with half teaspoonful of water. Seal
and cook in hot oven twenty to
thirty minutes, depending on the size.
The squab-chicken may require thir.
ty.five minutes.
Shredded Wheat and Tomatoec.-
Pour upon each shredded wheat bis.
cult required teaspoonful of melted
butter. Lay the buttered biscuit in
a well-buttered bag and pile upon
them thick slices of peeled toma-
toes, well seasoned with suga.. salt,
black and red pepper. Seal and cook
for ten minutes. Serve on hot plates.
A pleasing variant for children is to
use instead of tomatoes, bananas
peeled, cut n cubes. covered with
sugar and lemon juice, and cooked
for eight minutes. This can be served
with cream.
Copyright, 1911. by the Associated
Literary Press.)
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lNsuREs ECONOMY OF FUEL.
BY Martha mcculIoeh Williams.

- "&Vsua "SS0u0SO WUuO3U1s
Paper bag cooking economies
fuel-the fact is demonstrable. be-
yond doubt. Particularly If the
fuel IL gas. The figures to follow are
given for gas. but are easy Of trans
lation into coal heat or even oil.
The oven Of gas range turned on
full. burns twenty feet Of gas an
hour for each dame-bar. Commonly
there are two bars-thus, the hourly
consumption at full head is forty feet.
The giant burner on top likewise,
at full head, consumes twenty feet an
hour. the small burners, each ten
feet. Thus q stove in full commits.
sion for pot and pan cooking consumes
ninety feet an hour.
Now. for paper bag cooking the
oven must be lighted and turned on
full for eight minutes before any.
thing goes into t; It must also burn
full strength forseven minutes longer.
Thus. it consumes ten feet Of gas at
the outset. Turning out one burner to
reduce the heat one-half at the end
of the seven minute period reduces
consumption to fifteen feet for the
rest of the hour, making a total of
twenty-five feet against forty. But
roasting does not demand that bur.
ner goes full-turning it down might
save five feet in the hour. Thus the
net hour-saving of gas on the oven
account is ten feet.
But there are other accounts. By
help Of paper bags, you can not mere.
ly roast in the oven, but cook at the
same time couple of vegetables and
bake pie or pudding. With a small
roast you may even cook three veg.
etables. thereby leaving unlighted
three upper jets. which would mean
a saving of thirty feet of gas an hour.
Cooking thus solely in the oven
means saving of fifty feet of gas
an hour.
Nor is this even all the story. Mys.
teriously, things cook more quickly
In bags than out of them. The say.
ing in time is one-fifth to one-sixth,
Putting this at the lowest, and esti.
mating the whole range. consumption
of gas at ninety feet, there is a sav.
ing of fifteen feet. Add them to the
City feet already in credit, and the
sum is aattering, indeed. to the paper
bag.
A Little story Of Ple Baking.
had baked a pie la Soyer and
found 1t good. Notwithstanding, re.
solved to show myself exactly the
worth of the bag-cooking.
I made up puff paste enough for
three pies. rolled out the crusts and
filled a pan, using cooked fresh
peaches for filling. put it on to
cook. in it's naked majesty. noting the
time accurately. It took ten min
utes to roll crusts, lfll, and put in a
creased bag the second pie. The
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sAvoRIEs FOR SUPPER.

Fish Roe Ia soyer.-Place hall
the roe on top Of piece of buttered
toast, put peeled mushroom on top
add salt and pepper to taste, and a
little piece Of butter. Place the other
halt of the roe on top Of the mush
room. add a little cayenne pepper, q
pinch Of grated cheese (Parmesan
or any other kind). few bread
crumbs and another piece OF butter,
Place in buttered bag, seal up and
place on broiler. Allow ten minutes
in hot oven.
savory Of Lobster. Cut small
lobster from head to tail. Cut the
flesh into small dice. Put in small
stewpan with one tablespoonful Of
white sauce. one tablespoonful OF
cream; add salt and cayenne or othe.
pepper. to taste, and one teaspoenful
OF grated Parmesan. Mix up well,
and place In the cavity Of the shells.
Put q little grated Parmesan on top,
and q little bread crumb and butter.
Put In q paper bag. Place o. broiler.
Allow ten minutes in hot oven.
savory oyssers.-Take two table.
sp0onfuls OF white sauce, one tea
.spoo oonful OF grated cheese. one table.
spoonful of cream, the liquor from
the oysters and seasoning to. taste.
Take half dozen deep oyster shells,
Put . little of the above mixture at
the bottnm; then put tho raw Dreaded
oyster n the middle Add little
The pioneer express., 1912-02-02

The surest sign that chicken cholera
is present is the green, frothy appear
ance of the droppings.
The pioneer express., 1912-02-02

The man who uses system is the
man who accomplishes the most work
with the least effort.
The pioneer express., 1912-02-02

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Is the seed corn safe?
Dairying is science.
Be cautious in buying land
Prevent stray hogs from coming to
your place.
The comfortable hen is the one that
lays in winter.
There is a good demand for beef OF
the better grades.
A scrub flock never culled gets
worse all the time.
bitches may be dug in swamps in
the coolest weather.
The boar should be we'll fed, but not
allowed to get too fat.
The colts should have ration OF
oats, oilmeal and wheat bran.
Judge not hen by her beauty, but
by the way she does her duty.
There are 79S species of roses
known, and AS of chrysanthemums.
In killing and dressing pigeons
handle them gently to- avoid bruis
ing.
Shredded corn fodder is good for
the farm horses in place of timothy
hay.
There are 1864 farms in this
country of more than 1000 acres
each.
Select land carefully. If you are not
a Judge of land, pay someone who
knows.
A hog that can be fattened while
young will be the most profitable
one to breed.
Allow one male of the large breeds
to twelve hens, and one to fifteen o.
the smaller breeds.
No - :, .t----.> .suu -riuIcule OF
trston and Philadelphia. both of
I nfch boasted of their clean streets.
that long period the city left the
,osal of its refuse almost wholly to
is opeeh6 pe6 y Mh|cee good s time I'M to make prepa
tons for next springs hotbed.
More farm machinery of all kinds
is put out of condition each year by
neglect than is injured by work.
Alfalfa meal and bran are much
alike in composition and accomplish
the same object when fed to milk
cows.
The size and strength of the lambs
at birth will be governed .hv ,tbe.feef
anhe leading citizens. decreed that
terarmy of roaming hogs should be
ured and reduced to pork and
1 assigned to remove the refuse
reg the streets.
Walt eventhen tharA.ye fneha1 some
tair.
One Of the European companies
manufacturing harvesters for years
has employed an American technical
manager.
No fowl can stand constant ex
posure to inclement weather, and the
more we protect them the better will
be the results.
Chopped alfalfa hay or alfalfa meal
solves the green feed problem in win
ter as we'll, or better, than anything
else we know of.
Many dealers object to eggs with
pale yolks. When you find yours are
getting that way, put a little more
corn In the ration.
By actual test it has been found
that COW averaging 96 pounds Of
milk per day drank an average of 200
pounds Of water per day.
Cabbage is one Of the very best
vegetables to feed to poultry. as 1t
keeps green q long time and the
chickens enjoy picking at it.
Mighty easy. to feed new corn to the
hogs. stalks and all, but you win find
that Il the corn Is first run through
the shredder the animals viii eat 1t
up clean.
II your fowls have the range of the
fields and orchards, and can pick up
number of small insects and worms
( daily. you will not need to hothar
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Dishes for Inyalids and Children

OF Brooks Club, London.
taste, and serve at once in hot cup.
For chicken tea, cut up half fresh
fowl, break the bones with a chopper,
put In bag with two tablespoonful
cold water. seal and cook forty.five
minutes in slow oven. Strain into
q hot cup. season and serve.
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Keep the chickens dry.
Spread the manure at once.
Shelter the manure spreader.
The dairy industry is becoming .
science.

The dairy industry is becoming .
science.
Careful dressing of market fowls al.
ways pays well.
Sugar beets are just the thing for
feeding to poultry.
A little milk goes long ways to.
wards making hogs.
Be careful with corn for the colts
and don't feed much.
Sunshine and good air in the barn
means better cow health.
It is when the duck is not laying
that she readily takes on fat.
The Japanese process of dwarfing
a pine tree lasts about ten years.
Select medium-sized, well-formed
eggs from healthy hens for setting.
Frozen cream loses its flavor and
will be found hard to churn after
ward.
The peach and plum are short lived
trees. The pear and apple are long
lived.
Give the stock plenty of salt, and
be sure they drink an abundance of
water.
Too close confinement makes COWS
more susceptible to the weather
changes.
prune apples much can be done in
mild winters.
No land is so rich that the owner
can afford to waste the manure de-
rived from it.
The surest cure for cornstalk dis
ease is the silo. 1t cures by remov-
ing the cause.
Hogs like company. Don't keep one
in pen alone; but see that the two
are good friends.
The man who uses system is the
man who accomplishes the most work
with the least effort.
The surest sign that chicken cholera
is present is the green, frothy appear
ance of the droppings.
The advent of silos and silage into
dairying has revolutionized the meth
cd of feeding dairy cows.
On third of an acre of land Mis-
aftIuri boy raised in one season a crop
rau sweet peas that sold for $500.
da1 The most economical way to save
hinhnure from the stables is to have
concrete stable floors and cutters.
Keep close watch of your stock. Re-
member the old proverb that "the eye
of the master fattens his cattle
A thimble carrying knife blade
on the end has been patented by a
California man to aid in picking fruit.
Almost every wrong act of the horse
is caused by fear, excitement or
mismanagement. said, great horse
man.
oughI
JFlover or alfalfa hay, with light
III lon of wheat bran and linseed meal
wagq roots, is the IDEAL ration for the
hit a As.
Bv
The individuality of each horse
should be studied, and the feeds sup
piled to meet individual require.
ments.
If there is any one thing, in the way
of feed, that will bring winter eggs,
more than another, it is a little green
cut bone.
It takes a lot of water to satisfy a
cow, even in winter, and it's only
when the chill is taken of that she
will drink enough.
A reader says she has broken the
egg eating habit in hens by putting
tablespoonful of vinegar in each gallon
Of drinking water.
Putting ground feed in the calves
milk is not the best way. A little box
with dry feed kept before them all the
time is the better plan.
When hens lay soft-shelled eggs it
is good indication that you are
feeding too much corn. Change the
ration and feed more green food, such
as beets and cabbage.
There is no better germ slayer than
The pioneer express., 1912-02-02

A good conscience makes an easy
couch.-Jackson Wray.,a .aa t,s,7
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-10-17
The Beaked Whale.

Some time ago specimen of Lay
ards beaked whale was found strand
ed on the beach near Port Elizabeth
South Africa. This and was of great
Importance to zoology. because hither.
10 very little has been accurately
known concerning this strange inhab-
liant Of the ocean. The specimen
found near Port Elizab beth and since
mounted in the museum there is a
male nineteen feet two. inches long.
From the lower jaw project upward
two tusks with two sharp enameled
teeth. The creature could open its
beak only four or five inches at the
outer end. and its gullet was so mar
row that II is evident that the animal
devoured only very small fish and sea
weed The beaked whale is said 10
furnish oil OF an exceptionally fine
quality. -Harper's.
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courtina Death on Railroads.

II is n mistake to believe that tramps
constitute the majority Of those who
suffer from railroad accidents. Ont Of
10000 persons killed on the railroads
OF the United States last year more
than half were trespassing on railroad
property, and SO per cent of these
were reported as struck by engine or
car" while walking or standing on the
tracks. About 800 were killed I'm get
ting on or of cars and engines 1.04S
were injured while on trains and 1l6
from other causes The majority Of
the killed were reported as self sup
porting Intoxication. OF course. con-
tributed to a large extent to the num-
her OF deaths.-Leslie's.
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A Personal Application.

When one of the large henefactors Of
Harvard college library was business
man in Lawrence customer of his
firm contracted debt which ran along
for year or more without any signs
of settlement. Several letters. says
the Boston Herald. failed to bring
about liquidation.
One day, while glancing over the re
hgious notices in a local paper. Har
Yards benefactor saw something which
gave him an inspiration. and he went
to his desk and wrote the folIown.
note to the debtor:
Mr.. -:
Ny Dear Sir-I see In the local press
that you are to deliver an address on Fri
day evening before the Y. NJ c. A. on
THE Sinners Balanced Account" ! In
close yours. as yet unbalanced. and trust
that ] may have the pleasure OF attending
your lecture. Yours truly. -
A check came by the next mail.
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Saves Leg Of Boy.

1T seemed that my 14-year old boy
would have to lose his leg, on account
OF an ugly ulcer. caused by a bad
bruise," wrote d. f. Howard, Aquone,
N c. All remedies and doctors treat
ment failed till we tried Bucklen's
Arnica Salve and cured him with one
box" Cures burns, boils. skin erup-
lions. piles. Csc at Coles Pharmacy.
adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-10-17

Advice From Her Lawyer.

Timothy Coffin. who was prominent
at the Bristol county bar in the last
century, once secured the acqulttal Of
an old woman accused of stealing a
piece Of pork. As she was leaving the
courtroom she put her hand to her
mouth and in audible whisper said:
mr. Car6n. what'l do with the
por-rukT"
Quickly came the retort: Eat II, you
fool! The judge says you didn't steal
it."-Boston Herald.
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A Very Grateful Man.

Frank koetsch. a laborer. was put
on trial at Graz. 10 Syria, Austria
Hungary. for his action in saving the
life Of a would be suicide. He had
found a man dangling from a tree aud
had promptly cut him down and taken
him TO a hospital. The man recovered
from the effects Of the hanging. but
complained " scalp wound he had
received when falling to the ground.
and he brought charge OF personal
injury by ra,.leSSnrS> against the man
who hid s'v'-i mis- lie Koetsch was
acquitted lr-i ~ JARED he would take
care nrvrr 3" ~ TN good Samaritan
aRain.