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The Washington times., 1915-11-12
Wholesale Produce Market

EGGs-Nearby. fresh. 35a3sc per doz.:
Southern. 32aSSc per doz.
CHEESE-New York, new, l6c Der III
nat. lie per ID.
BUTTER-Elgin print, 33c per ib.; tub
32c per lb.: process. 26c per ID.
LIVE POULTRY-Hens. 1+c per lb
ROSTERS, lie per lb.; I've turkeys, lsa2oc per
LIVE STOCK-vsal calves. best, l0i1dlio
per h.; heavy. shdloc per lb.; fat sheep,
$hd5c per lb.; spring lambs, slsqsc per ID.
. kkEY, PRICE g. co
vEGETABLES-touots furnished by
Taylor wade)-Potatoes, s225 per barrel:
81 90 per barrel: beets. &i.bO per 100 punches.
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You poor corn-limpers. with corn
wrinkles and heart pains! Sit down
tonight and put a few drops Of Gets
It," the simplest corn remedy in the
world. on your corns. You can apply
It In just a few seconds, without fuss
or trouble. What's the use of applying
salves that make corns swell. bandages
that make t misery to walk, tape that
sticks. greasy ointment. and other con-
traptions" Got rid of corns the easy
way. quick, simple, sure. new way:
That's common sense. Try "Gets-lt
also for warts and bunions. "Gets-lt'
can't hurt-the corn loosens, and comes
| right off-clean of.
| "Gets-It" Is sold at all druggists, csc
a bottle, or sent direct by T.. Lawrence
| & Co., Chicago Sold In Washington
and recommended as the worlds best
corn remedy by O'Donnelrs Drug
stores. Peoples Drug Stores, p. g.
IAffeck.-Adyt
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French Purchasing Board
Coming Here on Monday

The French Purchasing Commission.
headed by Maurice Damour. chairman
of the house OF deputies. which Is to
tour the United states to determine
whether this country can supply the
French demand for machinery and
other goods formerly, secured from
Germany will come to Washington
Monday, according to information re-
ceived by the Department OF Commerce
today.
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w. J. Kettler Leaves Life
Interest in Estate to Wifc

A life interest in tn estate Of William
J. Kettler Is left to his widow. Eliza
beth NJ. Kettler. and at her death the
estate is to be divided equally among
their children. according to the will
lust filed for probate. Mrs. Kettler Is
named executrix without bond. 1t lie
directed that after the death OF Mrs.
Kettler. the testator's sister. Eva F.
kettler. and his brother-in-law. Walter
r. Avery. shall be trustees and exc.
cutors Of the will.
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Three Ask Incorporation
Of Undertaking Business

Charles s. Zurhorst. Charles r. Dono-
HE. and George F. Zurhorst have ap-
pIieo for articles Incorporating the
George r. Zurhorst undertaking busi-
ness at 20l East Capitol street.
The capital stock Is set at se,on and
applicants for Incorporation papers. are
named as the trustees for the first year
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Two Washington Firms
Get Equipment Contracts

Two Washington concerns were
awarded contracts today for equipment
In the $500. 900 Boston Appraisers stores
building.
The Otis Elevator Company was
awarded the contract for elevators at
their bid of S3l,279, and the Standard
Engineering Company for mechanical
equipment to cost $60.5O0.
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Escapes Jail Again.

NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 1o.-Charles
A. Stsns, held for authorities of Sing
Sing prison, from which he escaped last
December when serving sentence OF
twen.y-one years for robbery sawed his
way out OF the parish prison here.
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Talks in Schools Here.

National Scout Commissioner House.
man continued his addresses to high
and graded school pupils today. He
spoke to 500 bows and girls at the East
crn High School this morning and later
he addressed Blair and Morse schools.
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Today's Sales.

Wash. Gas b's, X1.UOulU5A.
Riggs r. Long SIS. 1.50Ca10Ois.
Cap. Traction. 6ds77s. 23aSTH.
Wash. Gas It.. 1q12h.
Mergenthaler. 2G1Si.
After call-wash. Gas SIS. s5ooa1o5s.
Graphophone COM. sd16.
Graphophone. pfd.. lOd112ls. 25d1l3. 25d
liz
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LOCAL AND N. Y. FINANCIAL NEWS
New York Stocks.

All transactions in stocks are on the
basis Of dollars and fractions thereof.
Co. msmbsrs OF New York stock Exchange.
Hibbs Buildins. -
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MONASTIR. Serbia. Nov. IL. (De-
iayed)-rhe allies are firmly established
in southern Serbia.
Monastir and Prilep were saved from
the Bulgars when the French recap
tured Veiec.
American doctors who escaped from
Uskub before the Bulgars arrived are
due at Monastir tonight.
Austria faces great difficulty In con-
trolling it's Croatian and Dalmatian
subjects, who are deserting in great
numbers to Join the Serbians.
In a telegram of congratulation sent
by the Kaiser to the Bulgars on theii
conquest of Nish, the German rulel
referred to the Serbs as "a band ol
brigands."
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PLEDGE
HELP TO SERB|ANS
CONTINUED from First PageJ

the Ribari district, twenty-five miles
northwest Of Nish.
One Austro- German body has crossed
the mountain ridge south of the west
ern Morava. forty-ive miles northwest
Of Ribari. Another Is moving from
Krusevac to the southwest through
the Razina valley.
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TOU IITHH IrV IVdTb NTO.
Senator Works said much had been
made of high assessments here. But,
he noted. these were made two years
ago. and he asked Mr.. Saunders wheth-
er he believed they were too high
then.
Yes" Mr.. Saunders said. They
were too high then and many Of them
were too high ten years ago"
"On what class OF property" asked
Senator Works.
Pretty evenly on all classes" said
Mr.. Saunders. There Is O poor market
for property here. The only sort that
is readily salable Is In a limited business
district. and that fact occasionally
makes for sales In that area that are
at ridiculously high figures"
CONGRESSMAN Gard said the conditions
here are different from thirty years
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BIG REWARD FOR INVENTIONS
British Government Is Encouraging Ideas Tending to Improve Devel-
 opment of Army Equipment

That there are handsome rewards for those who are able tO devise i'm provements in guns and machinery is shown in sums that have been paid in fees to inventors at army ordnance factories for the year ending March, 1914. No less than G4,oO0. for in- stance, was paid to Col. C. l.. Holden. late superintendent of the royal gun and carriage factories, for various in ventions and improvements connected with ordnance moantings. machine tools, etc, in addition 10 ( 500 paid on another account; while G2,S50 was paid to MT w. T. Thomson, chemist and manager. at different times, of the Royal Gunpowder factory, for improve ments in the manufacture of nitro cellulose and accompanying apparatus, in addition to a previous Gl,150.
 Smaller amounts. such as G250 to Mir w. H. Turton. manager of the Royal Gun factory, for improved ma chimes for the manufacture of ord nance; Gl0O to Mir. w Lambert for a process for testing steel bullets; G25 each to William Rogers and F.. F. Pull. lar for labor-saving and improved tools for use at the Royal Carriage department, and G20 to Assistant Foreman s. Capon, Royal Gun Factory forges, for improved muffie for use in forges. have also been paid.-Tit-Bits
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Aviators. Safety parachutes.

The energies Of practically all the inventors of parachutes for airmen have been directed towards the devel- opment of 8 device for the airman alone. the aeroplane itself being al lowed 10 drop 10 earth unhindered. Parachutes for the whole aeroplane have just been designed by French inventor. Two folded parachutes, con. tained in cone-shaped receptacles, are attached to the wings as near the ends as possible. By means of simple mechanism. operated by the movement of small hand lever, these para chutes are pushed out of the contain. CTS. after which they are claimed to open freely. no matter in what man. ner the aeropiane may be falling. All the airman has 10 do is to hang on to the aeroplane.
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as 1t was in 1872.

annoyance as 1t was in 1872.
 We all know of the glorious work of David Porter during the war o. 1872 in the Essex. He created a feet out of his squadron Of prizes and his sub ordinates gladly called him commo- dore and recognized his well earned right to . broad pennant Yet, to use the language of the time. Mir. Thomp- son, the secretary Of the navy, issued an order which "unshipped his stars and degraded his title" when Porter came ashore There was nothing last ing in the brevet of commodore, and the flag became a memory rather than lasting emblem of gallant service that had justified it when afoat and aface with the perils Of war.
 There was a lack of harmony in the flag rank, and this led Isaac Toucey. when secretary of the navy. to pre- scribe in 1858: Tt is hereby ordered that in lieu of the broad penrant now worn by flag officers in command of squadrons they shall wear plain blue flag of dimensions proporrionate to the different classes of vessels prescribed for the jack. Flag officers whose date of commission as captain is over twenty years shall wear it at the fore; all others at the mizzen.'
 The incorrectness of hoisting a rear admirals flag al the main instead Of at the mizZen, where the long estab- lished usage of other naval powers had placed it. sooI became apparent. and at the instance of Richard H. Dana. then in congress, the position Of the flag was made agreeable to general custom without regard to the rear admirals seniority. As a result Farragut lowered his flag from the main and raised it at the mizzen. vi ere a rear admirars flag should fly. Outwardly this seemed like a reduc- tion in his dignity.
 In 1866 a distinctive flag apart from iss position on the ship was ordered for him and then for the first time appeared the four white stars in the center forming a diamond. At the same time the vice-admiral acquired the oommodore's broad pennant vas entitled to one, the erstwhile central
 big star of days gone by when that grade displayed a whole constellation. Admiral Farragut first hoisted his ! four starred flag on the frigate Frank lin in June of 1867. and at the same time a salute of seventeen guns was fired.
 All went well in this somewhat
 touchy matter until 1869. and then trouble arose over a departmental or der. At that time the Union Jack dis
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pulp to the white of an egg and beat ing well. is a dessert usually attrac tive to children. Prepare the fruit pulp if an apple by grating or scrap ing. if a banana by rubbing through a sieve.
 Snow Puodine.-Dissolve two tea spoonfuls of gelatin in half cupful of hot water, add three tablespoon. fuls of sugar and one and half la blespoonfuls of lemon juice; stir un. til the sugar is dissolved. When it is cool enough to be well set. add a lit tie to a time to a well-beaten white of egg, beating until the whole is stiff. Turn into a wet mold and serve with cream.
 Baked Caramel Custard.-Put two tablespoonfuls of sugar in a small saucepan. place over the heat and stir constantly until the sugar is melted and light brown in color; add two thirds of a cupful of salded milk and pour the mixture over a slightly beat. en egg. stir in few drops of any favoring. add dash Of salt, strain in to a custard cup and place in a pan Of hot water to bake in slow over l until firm.
 Orange Trife.-Soften a teaspoonful Of granulated gelatin in tablespoon ful of cold water, then stand over hot water until melted; add a half cup ful of orange juice and a quarter of 3 cupful of sugar; pour the mixture or the well-beaten white of an egg and beat thoroughly; cool and beat until spongy: place in a small mold and serve with cream and sugar
 Stuff the hollow of ar apple which has been cored with dates. figs oi nuts and rsisins. and bake as usual The little people find this a most en joyable dessert. and it Is especially wholesome Serve with cream or plain A slice of bread with the crusts re
 moved, soaked in any fruit juice and served with cream and sugar is a
 quick and dainty dessert to prepare | for the little people.
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be. Try it while the season lasts.
 Stuffed Bermuda Onions.-Peel the onions. cover with boiling water and let cook a half hour. Drain, rinse in cold water and drain again. Remove the centers from the onions, reserving them to serve another day. Chop fine some cooked veal, add bread crumbs, seasoning. salt and pepper and butter. Fill the onions with this mixture. turn in half a cupful of broth and bake in a moderate oven. At the last add a little kitchen bouquet.
 Fruit Saiad.-Lay half banana on a crisp lettuce leaf, pour over 1t lit tie lemon juice then slice a few straw berries on that. Lay long thin strips o. pineapple over this, dust with pow dered sugar and place spoonful of boiled dressing and whipped cream equal parts beaten together. on top.
 A very pretty dessert is this: Peel and slice a banana in halves length wise, arrange on opposite sides of an oblong dish. now add generous ball  chopped oceans and serve with little lemon sirup poured over all.
 Cocoanut Buns.-Add a half cupful of shortening to pint of flour. one half cupful of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one egg. one-half teaspoonful e salt, and a half cupful of chopped cocosnut Rub in the short. ening. add the other ingredients and milk enough to make a dough to roll out Brush with milk after cutting and sprinkle with cocoanut and sugar.
 Fish Puddins.-A pound of uncooked Ash is required. half cupful of stale bread crumbs, the same of chopped suet, salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste. A cupful Of milk and two eggs. Mix we'll and steam or bake for an hour
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on purchase Of five cents you are saving not only cent but 20 per cent. which seems to make the saving more worth while. When using a dozen eggs. as it does happen in some fami- lies often and in others on occasions. try scraping out the egg shells with spoon. This will give you the amount o' an egg and is well worth saving, especially when eggs are two cents apiece Now that eggs are cheap, they should be put down for winter. Packed in water glass, they are just as good for any form ot bak. ing and will keep a year if carefully done.
 A quart Of water glass added to ,s quarts of boiled and cooled water. put into large stone crooks after the eggs are placed, will keep them perfectly. The eggs should. of course. be perfect. iy fresh and great care taken not to crack them. Cover the jar and keep in a cool place.
 One of the common wastes in mos; hSAhNE 10 AhC AnstiapSu pbW Spatulas may now be bought on the ten-cent counter and a few turns of the wrist with a spatula will scrape out the dish, often saving the amount of an individual cake or gem or bis. cult If round-bottomed mixing bowls are used for dough mixtures. the scrap. ing process will be much shortened, as the spa;ula. being flexible, will take up every bit of the dough. When apples are used. if the parings are saved and boiled with a little wa. ter. then the water added 70 equal quantities of sugar and boiled. glass of jelly or two which will be fresh and inviting will be ready for your table.
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played at the mainmast truck was declared the ofncial emblem of the secretary of the navy. Having thus taken the union out of the ensign. apparently in a spirit of sentimental economy. it was further ordered that the remaining stripes or field of Old Glory should do duty as . symbol of flag rank
 Accordingly. the admirafs flag be- came a rectilinear affair of thirteen horizontal stripes. alternate red and white. to be worn at the main. The vice admiral was to carry the same flag flown at the fore. while the rear admiral was to have this badge car ried al the mizzen. Farragut was bit terly opposed to the change and. is fact, never consented to It.
 When David Dixon Porter upon the death of Farragut became admiral Of the navy he inherited the striped flag which his predecessor had repudiated, and for six years 1t was displayed upon various occasions, but the symbol was not permanently estab- iished, because in 1876 there was change For various reasons, among them past usage and service and for the convenience of distinguishing the order of seniority of officers of the sar& grade. the secretary of the navy rectored the blue emblem of flag rank
 Porter died early in 1891. and for triie more than eight years the Ameri- can navy was withou: an officer Of the rank of full admiral It was revived in March of 1899 as reward for George Dewey's services in the memo rable battle of Manila Bay, and as his old master in the art of war, Farra- gut. loved the blue flag with its four stars so this token of pre-eminent rank in the naval service was chosen by Dewey
 Agreeably to the last naval ap- propriation bill, Secretary Daniels designated as the three fleet com manders who will share with Admiral Dewey the right to fly the admirals pennant Frank Friday Fletcher. com manding the Atlantic fleet: Thomas H Howard. commanding the Pacific feet. and Walter C. Cowles, command ing the Asiatic fleet.
 Should any one of them be afoat in the presence of Admiral Dewey. then the newly made admiral would carry a red flag with four stars. Ad- miral Dewey retaining his flag of blue should by any chance the Atlantic and Pacific fleets be assembled on either of our coasts and Admiral Dewey review them the latter would show his blue flag and his juniors the red and the white flag with four stars, seniority determining the color.
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ing line. Many medical students from England are also in the fighting line
 Doctors are not only wanted to look after the wounded; they can do a great deal to prevent sickness. It is their business to watch the sanitation Of the camps. to prevent the contamina- ton of the water supply-in short, to do all they can to prevent disease. which. in all previous wars. has been a more deadly enemy than the bullets of opponents Happily up to the pres ent we have no news of epidemic sick ness. and 1t Is certain that the advance
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tasty dish.
 When there is a portion Of meat left which will slice in trim good looking slices, that is one way of serving it which is generally well liked; but usu- ally the pieces are scrappy and un. slightly and the best way is to cut them in uniform pieces and serve them in some kind of a sauce. The meat should be simply relocated in the gravy. as high temperature toughens it.
 Small pieces may be used for meat pie or shepherds pie. For the meat pie. put the sliced or diced meat into a baking dish and cover with a thin gravy prepared from meat stock. or 8 thin white sauce may be used, a few carrots and a bit of grated onion is often added and then over the tor spread a layer of biscuit dough rolled thin. Bake in a hot oven. For the shepherds pie layer of seasoned mashed potato is placed over the tor instead of the biscuit dough.
 Meat which is too messy for dicins or slicing may be put through the meat chopper and if mixed with potatoes well seasoned and cooked makes 8 most tasty hash. Do not stir while cooking as that makes the hash pasty
 Croauettes of various kinds. oi meats are another attractive method of serving leftover meats.
 Another meat pie which is well liked is prepared as follows: Roll out bis cult dough quite thin, cut out a large biscuit. place some minced meat and gravy in the center. pinch the edges together and bake fifteen minutes in . hot oven. Serve with gravy poured over them. If there is but little meat peas. chopped cooked carrots cr other vegetables may be added to piece it out.
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HANDS LIKE VELVET
Kept So by Daily Use Of cutieura
 Soap and Ointment Trial Free.

On retiring soak hands in hot Cuti. cura soapsuds, dry and rub the Oint. ment into the hands some minutes. Wear bandage or old gloves during night. This is a "one night treat. ment for red, rough, chapped and sore hands" It works wonders.
 Sample each free by mail with 32-p. Skin Book. Address Cuticura. Dept. KY, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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Hill RE0. .IUV IulI Idnh or aU1ii dA NDkxSl4y and the dignity of Vol6@lo.l that branch Of the
 national defense will rise accordingly in the eyes of for eagners. In the past history of the navy the grade of admiral has Figured but three times in living rep resentatives and each time but sin gle officer has enjoyed the rank First there was Farragut, then Porter. and after a lapse of more than seven years following the latter's death George Dewey won the honor.
 But while David Glasgow Farragut was the first man in the United States navy to win by virtue Of congress the legal title of admiral, the rank as . brevet and by right of appropriation WAS ninety-one years old in the an- nals of the service. This may be news 10 the public generally. but neverthe- less ft is a matter of indisputable rec ord.
 In foreign service some centuries back 1t was the custom to call the ranking officer of the fleet admiral Therefore when the American navy was established there was reason why our senior officer should assume the designation accorded his position in other countries. Our first president was Of this opinion On the 22d of December, i775, the Continental con- gress commissioned Esek Hopkins, an old and experienced seaman. com mander in chief of the navy. and Gen George Washington officially ad- dressed him as Admiral Hopkins"
 Admiral Hopkins put to sea from Philadelphia in 1776. He had a squad ron of seven vessels and his flagship. the Alfred. carried his flag. which was . square of yellow silk bearing in its center pine tree, rattlesnske in the act of striking and the motto Don't Tread on Me" John Paul Jones, then a lieutenant aboard the Alfred. sent that flag aloft with his own hands.
 When commanding squadrons our ranking captains were called by cour- tesy commodore. These men per formed the functions of our later rear admirals. At the main truck of their ships these brevet commodores dis played a blue triangular fag-not rightly the commodores swallowtail or broad pennant of European navIes with a single big wk:te star encir- cied by a ring of twelve smaller stars. These stars signified the thirteen orig inal states. This was the pennant which John Paul Jones few on the Bon Homme Richard when he fought the Serapis September B. 177s.
 It was not until 1857 that the title flag oficer was legally warranted in the American service. congress then directing that captains in comma of squadrons should be styled flag oficers. And the late Rear AdIairal George Henry Preble. U. s. N, in his well known book says: "Oficers so appointed for want of regulation oa the subject, continued to wear the broad pernant of a commodore or hoisted the square flag of an admiral. as they deemed proper" However. the feeting honor of this title and the right to display the flag but tenn porarily was even then as much of an
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New Electric Bell.

An original electric bell combination Is in use at Paris which is designed to get rid of all trouble caused by the question of batteries. for these are now lodged within the apparatus itself. The usual box bell shape is retained. but the arrangement of the parts is different in this case. All the magnet parts are now lodged under the gong itself, while the box, being now left free. serves to contain a set Of three dry battery cells which will last for several years. In this way there are
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The Height o' At-ocity.

"i see the Germans are using gas instead of shot and shell" said Harx. away. Could anything be more atro- cious?''
 "Oh, yes" said Dingleberry. Tt would be more atrocious if after us. ing the gas they should fire a voiley of gas bills at their victims labeled Please remit"
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NarYino Estimatex.

'T put my reliance in the wisdom of the plain people" said Senator Sor. ghum.
 But suppose the plain people do not happen 10 agree with you?"
 Then I refuse to be influenced by the thoughtless crowd"