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FederaIs Are oesertlrg.

Hermosillo, Mexico, Dec. ll.-A nut lu> among the two thousand or more federal troops defending Guaymas Ia threatening, according to reports reaching the insurgent lines. Ii was reported today that three federal de serters arrived at the insursent base ab0ye Guaymas with news Of the exc cution of federal officers to prevent their deserton to the constitutionallSI side
 The refugees, who brought arms anu ammunition with them, said that flrs' Lieutenant Gastel and Second Lleuteh- ant Manzona were executed as an eA- ample to other federal officers. It was stated they had attempted to leave Guaymas with their command Of sixty men, taking arms and supplies.
 The federals had not been pald TOT three days, it was said, contrary to the usual custom of making small dally payments.
 \ decree was issued here today Dy the Department of Interior ot the con. stitutionalist government Warhlhs "'' mine owners in states held by lhSur' gents that taxes paid to the HueF'1 government would not be recosiil]eu by the revolutionary party.
 It is said that many American nlii'' ins men have paid taxes to MeAloO City on property located in terIl'oi , under constitutionalist control
 Federal Achievements
 Laredo, Texas, Dec. Hone tHo"1' and federal endorsements arriVeu to day for the garrison at Nuevo Lareuo thus, it is believed, preventing leDe attack on that city for the present a' least The federals who maroAeo oNei land knew nothing of the repor'eu dynamitng of troop trains hoFth VI Monterey two days ago, when lais' number of federals were said to ha'' been killed.
 Fighting has been reported Wl'nil
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Americans Safe at Tampico.

Vera Cruz, Dec. 1.-The American consul at Tampico, Clarence A. Miller. reports by wireless that no Americans or other foreigners were injured in the first days fighting there between tederals and rebels. He expresses ra- gret that no vessel is now available at Tampico for the reception of Amer ican refugees other than the warships. the British and Germans being more fortunate in having merchant vessels under their flags in port. The consul requests authority from the State De partment to charter q vessel
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WIRELESS PROMOTERS
 ON WITNESS STAND
DENY THAT DIVIDENDS WERE PAiO THROUGH THE SALE OF
 ADDITIONAL SECURITIES.

New York, Dec. 11.-Samuel F. Oar. Dy one of tine defendants ill the gov e9nments suit against the Radio Wire less Telephone Company, charged with using the mails to defraud, testified today in his own behalf. Darby tried to retute the governments allegation that the dividends paid holders of Ra. dio Company stock came in part from the sale of stock of it's subsidiary com. panies
 The first dividends, Darby said, were paid in 1907, and were declared after the sale of the apparatus to the gov ernment, which installed it on vessels of the Pacific fleet. Other dividends, the witness explained, were paid wheL subsidiary companies formed to oper- ate the apparatus commercially paid the parent company cash as part pay ment for licenses to operate.
 Dariby's counsel read letters from the bureau of eqeuipment in Wash ington protesting to the Radio Com pany because of the company's use oi the fact that wireless had been in stalled on battleships. There also were read replies to these letters, ad dressed to the Ellsworth Company, . Radio subsidiary, that was selling the parent company's stock, protesting against the Ellsworth Company using this fact in it's advertising literature The trial will be resumed tomorrow
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AGRICULTURAL REPORTS.

Washington, Dec. 1.-The Ameri- can commission which recently inves- tigated cooperative agricultural finance, production, distribution and rural life in European countries. met here today to receive reports from committees on the results of the in- quiry.
 Senator Fletcher of Florida, chair man, announced that prospects were good for special legislation in this field, especially as regards rural cred it's. The commission will continue in session the remainder of the week.
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twenty miles of Monterey and the reb. el plan is said to be starving the fed. eral garrison there by cutting off all towns in the vicinity. That this plan mas not been entirely accomplished is indicated by the fact that telegraph lines south of that city still are work ing
 Train service from this place to Monterey is completely cut off.
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RtTCHIE IS LAID UP.

San Francisco, Dec. 12.-Willie Ritchie, lightweight champion pugi list, whose fight with Harlem Tom my Murphy last night was called off is in bed tonight with an ice pac kol his face to reduce the inflammation resulting from an abscess on his nose A surgeon operated on Ritche today and ordered him to bed
 "lt is a painful case and Ritchie needs rest and treatment,' the doctor said His manager did right in no letting him fight last night"
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that ultimate relief will never come until the interstate commerce commits sion passes on the issuance of securi ties
 "There Is no question whatsoever but that the railroads would be given at once the desired raise in rates ii the government were assured that thl increased revenue would be applied properly"
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business, without injecting into it oul personal differences"

business, without injecting into it our Ipersonal differences"
 Applause from the floor followed. | Then MT. Hobson declared that the personal issue had become a national question; that the senatorial fight in
 Alabama was such that the liquor in-
 tcrests on one side and the morn. l forces on the other had made it na.
 tional question"
 Up to this time 10 attempt had been made by the chair to restrain the
 enthusiasm of the galleries, packed with delegates 10 the convention of
 the Antl-Saloon League and the Wom- l en's Christian Temperance Union. The crowds extended into long lines
 into the corridors outside and even
 those who could not see, but who could hear. joined in a demonstration
 as both Representative Mann and Un- derwood arose.
 "The rules Of this House. said Mr Mann, emphatically, always have been that there should be no applause from the galleries. Those in the ga. leries who are making these demon stratons. as good citizens, should ob- serve the rules As Representative Moon pounded fer order, MT Hobson turned to the chair 10 ask why, inasmuch as the members on the floor had made "a partisan dem onstration, the rules cannot be extend
 ed to the galleries just this once?" Quiet eventually was restored and
 MT. Underwood again spoke. q cannot sit here in silence" he
 said, and allow my colleague to as sert that am the candidate of any interest without challenging his state ment. I am not, never have been and
 don't intend to be the candidate of the liquor interests. I never have re
 ceived a dollar from the liquor inter
 ests nor do I intend to receive such
 I have asked the people of my state
 to elect me on other issues. He may 1 assert it if he wishes, but l challenge his statement that I am the candidate
 of the liquor interests"
 MT Hobson concluded his speech by toned by a majority of the American people demanding a referendum on the 1 liquor question. The fight of the peo 1 pie for this referendum was an earnest
 one, he asserted, and men in public ] life had better realize it. Referring to Mir Underwood as 8 reaetionary
 he added:
 fTf there Is man on this floor whe is afraid of danger he said. Ines bet 1 ter get to cover in the next few years. When the Alabamian had taken his seat, Representative Bartholdt of Mis- souri suggested that Mir HObson had of his adherents, and that he Gar
 tboldt) could bring two million Ger man-Americans to Washington for in inhalation, but he did not think it was healthy thing to do anything of that sort"
 He attacked Hobson's arguments and said "sobriety and temperance are not identical with prohibition" as Mr, Hobson had said but that prohibition is an attempt to make man sober by law.
 "The Creator Himself put temptation in the Garden of Eden and it's been here ever since," concluded MT. Bar tholdt, after saving that the man he
 respected was the one who could re- sist temptation.
 Abolish temptation; why, you'd have to abolish women"
 This ended the incident and the pro- hibition delegates left the galleries.
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GRANGE ENDORSES SUFFRAGE

Reading. Pa, Dec. l1.-Woman's suf- frage was endorsed by the state grange at it's annual meeting here to. day United States Senator Clapp, Clifford Pinchot. former chief forester. and Representative Clyde Kelly oS Pittsburg addressed the meeting and were guests tonight at Washington party dollar dinner.
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ONCE MORE RESUMES COMPLETE DICTATORSHIP IN MATTERS
 OF STATE IN MEXICO.
N0T WORRIED OVER TAMPICO
Now Holds Offices of President and Minister of Interior, Finance and War-Fighting Continues at Tam pieo and Other Points.

Mexico City, Dee. 1.-The chamber of deputies tonight approved the granting of the special power asked by President Huerta over the depart ments of the interior, war and finance.
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Il MORE SHOPPING DAYS

Before Christmas. It is to the mer- chants interest, the clerks interest and your own interest tha. you shop today The gift you want may not be in stock tomorrow-+buy it today.
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THE WAR WITH HOT WEATHER PESTS

chance. They are more easily caught more
readily slaughtered than flies, and al
though science has recently proved what
many of us have long suspected, that the
mosquito has a longer life than tradition
gives it--and does not die at the end OF
a day or so of existence, yet there is pos
sbility of killing those that come into the
house and with careful screening ana
proper vigilance you have a fair chance OF
keeping them out. l do not forget homes
that l have visited in the summer where
double screens were necessary and where
a light was never taken into the bedrooms
for fear of showing the marauders the
way thither recollect well the brushing
the family and guests received on the steps
before they were permitted to enter the
screened porch, and the bottle of citronella
that was considered a necessary addition
to every dressing table. Yet l hope that
these are exceptional cases and that even
in the country by diligence in keeping pools
near the house we'll drained or glazed with
kerosene and burning dead leaves and
damp grass in which the plaques could
breed you may with the aid of plenty Of
screens lead a toerably peaceful life
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Provide Yourself NTH Swattcrs.

say In a measure" No matter how
thoroughly screened your home may be.
the pests will make their way in by hook
or crook, on the clothing of some one, or
by door or window inadvertently left open
for few minutes. And when the fly is in
he has come to stay unless you drive him
out. Not of his own accord will he leave
your dwelling. He is not called " musca
domestica " for nothing!
So provide yourself with swatters as
well as screens, with fly traps or fly poison
as well as with netting. Don't give him a
chance to multiply by neglecting him for
even a day. Kill him wherever you see
him; blow the air OF your kitchen full of
insect powder at night, and sweep up the
stupefied flies in the morning before they
have a chance to be revived, and burn them
at once. With all your precautions, all
your heroic measures. you won't be able
TO rid yourself entirely of his pernicoL :
presence. Like the poor he will never
cease out Of the land. am afraid. bat will
abide with us to contan.inate our food as
well as to annoy us beyond endurance.
With mosquitoes you have a better
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Perscperc NTH Remedies.

One OF the troubles in the way of keeping
flies under is that SO many persons fail to
appreciate the danger or their presence
and to exert themselves to exclude and TO
kill them. For so long We have taken flies
for granted that 1t Is difficult now to con-
vince us that they are so harmful as scen-
lists would have us believe. Even If We
accept the theories in their disfavor we are
careless about them and let the insects
creep in through our heedlessness.
Other vermin we look upon with less pa
tience-roaches and water bugs, for exam
pie. Yet these 90 far less harm than flies,
for although it is not pleasant to find them
running over the food in the pantry or to
discover that our linen has been gnawed
by them. the fly is much more dangerous a s
a housemate.
Even If your kitchen has been altogether
or comparatively free from bugs and ants
during the winter they, too, feel the ap-
proach of spring and present themselves
with cheerful promptness. Unless you wish
to be overrun by them don't let them get
a fair foothold in the house. Mix borax and
sugar and strew it in the corners of the
kitchen, by the sink, on the pantry shelves
wherever the pests are likely to gather.
Don't be discouraged If few applications
have poor results, but persevere, and If
the remedies l have just given do not sue
ceed within a fair length of time, 20 to
your grocer or your druggist and get some
proprietary article which may have a
more speedy effect. Still. have faith in
the borax and sugar If you don't get weary
in well doing, and II you head off the crea-
lures by starving them out.
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From q Grateful HeLner.

inclose little slip from a correspond
ent whose address cannot make out. she
sent me nice little package of scraps some
time ago and l would like to thank her for
them. m most grateful to her and [
want to thank you for your great kindness.
1t has brought to me so man pleasures
and real benefits. One friend has sent me
TWO fun sets of Bible studies when | had
out one and it might have been years before
could get more. Some one else sent me
most beautiful box of books. scraps of
ribbons and yarn. all lovely
Other friends have sent boxes OF pieces
from one had box containing a warm
wrapper, knit jacket and ulster. and a
dress skirt. with pieces of trimming. and
nearly every month l receive lovely
large package Of nice new magazines. All
reading matter / send into the ne for he
soldiers. where there is great call for 1t,
especially for ma agazines.
A New Englander who sent me books
last year has sent some more his year
and while on her travels last summer
mailed me many lovely cards. can
barely recollect all l have had in the way
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Il Stem and a Dessert.

Here are two recipes | can recommend:
"A CHEAP SrEW.-Take the amount
of round steak needed for your family, cut
It into inch squares. roll in flour, and brown
In dripping or in lard. as desired. Season
TO taste with salt and pepper add an onion
chopped fine and sufficient water to cover
the meat well. Simmer very slowly. and as
it cooks down the sravy will thicken.
MARSHMALLOW DESSERT. = Cut
marshmallows in small pieces and add to
them half as large quantity of English
walnuts broken in pieces. Mix them to-
gether with whipped cream and serve in
glasses. very cold.
L have some embroidery patterns for
towels and pillow cases and il any one will
send postage | will gladly forward the pat
terms. Mrs. j. Ii. c."
Thank you for the recipes and for the
offered patterns. have no doubt some one
will gladly send postage for them. hold
your address and will be happy to send IL
to any one who writes for it and incioses
stamp.
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things as we can possible do without, but
the girls feel it is hard they can't have
ribbons like other girls. We are poor rem
ters and my husband is the only one to
work, except during hoeing and cotton pick
ing time. and then the girls help all they
can. AHG,
l have had to make 1t an almost in
variable rule not to ask for clothing in this
column. If l did I would be overrun and
have no space for anything else. But tell
myself that ribbons are not quite the same
as clothing and l have a twinge of heart
for those little girls down in Texas who
long to have ribbons like other girls -
Can't some of our readers with little girls
of their own help out, il it is only by wash
ing and pressing discarded ribbons Of their
own small daughters, and brighten the
lives Of these other children? At that age
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of silk scraps and fancy work and patterns
and spools of silk for embroidery. Don't
YOU think l ought to have a glad. warm
heart? 1 must not forget the fine box OF
holly -hock seeds. of which l am proud,
out OF the pieces sent me have finished
my silk quilt and make a slumber robe
A box OF nice ties, only partially worn.
came from one of my unknown friends and
gave them to the soldiers. some to Span
ish boys, as L did with the cards received
from some one else. 1 have made eight
hats for women and children from the
pieces sent me. A correspondent secured
through your column supplies me with Sab
bath reading; the papers and books go on
from me to the men in the home
Not less than twenty people have had
pleasure and hope through your corner.
always tell them 1t is through the other
friends that | receive the articles to pass
on. / know l am of some use In the world
while l can work at something and read.
hope your years may be many with every
blessing you can desire. MRS. NJ A. c."
Thank you for your good wishes and also
FOR the list Of those who have helped YOU
and whom you have helped. 1 have used
a good deal Of your letter because think
1t illustrates suggestively the amount OF
comfort and happiness that may be be-
slowed by those who take the time and
thought to send the little or much they can
to those who desire that which they can
supply.
Sometimes 1t seems such trihe to pack
up and post a little parcel of silk scraps
that 1t is hardly worth while, but the pleas
ure of the person who receives it Is almost
always much in excess of the trouble 1t has
cost TO send 1t and when these good things
are passed on. as they are by this cor
respondent there is practically no limit TO
the ever widening circle of happiness
caused by the first gift.
All these tokens Of consideration / take
as bestowed on me personally and thank
you all from full heart, fervently! Your
thanks have gone to your first mentioned
friend, for the scrapes
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TO encourage them In making your house
their home.
Absolute cleanliness, unrem..ting care TO
keep food securely closed in tn boxes or
glass jars with closely htting tops, alert
ness to employ poison or punishment to
every one that dares show itsslt-these are
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Will feed and you may enjoy fair measure
of peace of mind.
Mice, moths mosquitoes. fies. reaches.
ants-what are they all compared With the
real great plague of the housekeeper-the
bedbug? We may try to speak lightly OF
him. we may call him the :" red rover"
the crimson rambler" and a host of less
pleasing names, but after all he is veritably
the pestience that walketh in darkness
and l don't believe there is a housekeeper
alive who would not rather have any or all
of the other vermin have mentioned start
a colony in her establishment than know
there vas even one bedbug housed under
her roof
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and cannot for any lengt h of time spare YOU
the bother Of the insects. determination is
the only real remedy!
When hot weather comes and some of
your neighbors go away and leave the bugs
and the mice to starve is the time when
the vermin come TO you in larger numbers.
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Crush Them Out at the Start.

crush hem Out at the Start.
1t is SO easy TO get them IN. nard to get
them out. one may be brought in on
basket of laundry or picked up in public
conveyance and before you know it your
house is peopled. Your heart turns to
water within you at the mere thought OF
trying to get them out.
Yet 1t can be done but not by halfway
methods. First so all over your beds. The
day has gone by when we believed bugs
could tnd no lodgment in iron beds. While
not SO dangerous as wooden bedsteads, they
are not secure against the plaques. Take
your bed apart. thrust the ends of the side
pieces into boiling water aud leave them
there for some minutes. Stand the wooden
metal ends OF the pedspring In boiling
water in your tub for quarter OF an hour.
Examine your mattress and pillows around
the binding and tufting. Excavate crew
ices with a hatpin and tnen varnish them
over. Paint the framework of your bed
with a mixture of gasoline and corrosive
sublmate. This of course, you know, is
deadly poison and should be kept entirely
away from children. Repeat tails treat
ment every few days until you are sure you
have routed the enemy from the beds a
least.
Scrutinlze the cracks In the moor. Rip
down the picture molding-unless you have
been wise enough to dispense altogether
with picture molding in your sleeping
rooms. Look to the curtain poles and
hangings. Danish a valance from your
bed until the hot weather goes. 1 have
found we'll nlled nests of bedbugs in the
folds of bed valances and curtains. See
II there are cracks in the wall paper which
would serve as an asylum for tie plaques.
Said one friend to whom 1 commended
the poisonous mixture, gasoline and corro-
siye subllmate: :" Yes, fill the cracks with
it, then take the bedstead into the back
yard and set fire to it..
sometimes / have felt she had discovered
the only prophylactic. Yet l do believe
that with constant care ana toll you may
drive out the bugs unless they are actually
in the walls and floors. In that case. move
out.
After all. the best rule Is not TO let this
creatures get a foothold No matter how
well persuaded you that your house and
your family are both immaculate, keep on
the lookout for bugs as warm weather
comes and crush them at the very start
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provision barrels and boxes and canisters.
see that there is no crack in the woodwork
Oh your refrigerator, that its door is never
ie1t open FOR moment. 1t is astonishing
through how narrow a crevice he pests can
make their way. | know few experiences
more annoying than toopen a cake or bread
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not keep so well and for this reason It Is
better to put it up in small bottles that Will
not take long to use a The manufacture
add a small quantity of benzoate of soda
to their productions, but the catsup make
in my own home has no chemicals with 1t
and | have never had II show an, tendency
to spoil.
TOMATO CATSUP.-Slice a peck OF un-
peeled tomatoes and six good sized white
onions and COOK them together until they
are soft enough TO rub through a colander
or put through a vegetable press. After
straining them return to the kettle with
tablespoon each of ground mace, cloves
pepper the same amount each of sugar
salt. and celery seed-this Ia st tied up in A
small bag-half teaspoonful of paprika. and
three bay leaves Boil for nearly six hours
over a slow fire. taking care it does not
scorch and stirring frequently Take out
the bag or celery seed. put in pint of good
vinegar. boil up again. take from the fire
let 1t cool little, but while still warm put IL
into bottles with stout corks, tie these
down and seal with sealing wax
\. =.
Did Spoon 'Drap Poison"
Our grocer has a white iron spoon In
i4S o'Steis uaS aiter uay ana most or the
granite Is chfpped off. We ate some of
the oysters bought from him and the next
day several Of our family became Ill.
thought it might be from this dipper. a s
most of the granite had Clipped off from
it, and when he showed it to me I noticed
that part of the spoon had rusted. Could
you tell me II 1t is possible for the spoon
to draw poison as there is hardly any
granite left on It? s. w O.
shall have to ask some of our trained
chemists if it is possible for the oyster
liquor 10 have had any effect upon the ma :
terial of the spoon. but l can say unhes,-
tatingly that the spoon could not have
drawn poison " from the oysters. If ia
quite likely that you were all made IN nv
eating the oysters. however-especiaIly IL
they were uncooked