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Army Bakers Sound Death Knell
of Famous Food.
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Break Their Teeth on "Cast
Iron" Bread Dreadmakera
Carry Outfit for Troops.
Vera Cruz, Mux. Modern field or
ganization htiB shattered another pic
turesque featuro of wnr. Hurdtack.
which In every campflro story swap
ping contest has figured prominently
us ono of the privations which heroes
must endure, Is not used. No longer
enn It bo the leading stago prop In
Bentlnientnl romances of tho sacrificing
comrndo who gave up his last crumb
to n famished brother, of the dutiful
son who used his last cake to write
homo to mother and wont hungry for
a week in consequence, or of profano
O'Urien, who made a new vocal record
when ho broke an eye tooth on tbo
durable nrmy ration.
Krcsh bread In big, soft rolls, as
palatable as can bo turned out by tho
most modern bakery, takes the place
of the hardtack of other campaigns. It
is all baked In tho army ovens. Twenty-four
hours after tho trooim landed
In Mexico 0,000 pounds of bread had
been baked mid was being delivered,
warm, to tho different camps. Capt.
K. S. Whcelor, who had charge of tho
field bakery, says that It is tho most
notable ndvanco which has been made
In army equipment In the last ten
years.
Formerly an army In camp lived on
hardtack for Boveral months whllo tho
quartermaster department wiib either
erecting brick ovens and u bake shop
or negotiating with somo local baker
for a bread supply. Now a real bakery
la a part of tho quartermaster's depart
ment of every division.
Tho bakery which went into opera
tion over night in Moxlco Is turning
out between 0,000 and 8,000 pounds of
bread a day, which feeds somo 10,000
soldlors and marines on shore duty.
Tho equipment can bo tripled In slzo
and Its capacity Increased to 38,000
pounds dally. Four ovens are In irso,
whllo a full equipment for 12 ovchb,
enough for nn entlro army division,
was brought on tho transports.
There Is no experimenting necessary
to got tho field bakery In working or
dor. To tho bakory crow condltlbns
hero aro tho samo as they have boon
for months In tho various army camps
In tho Btatcs. It will be tho same from
day to day, If tho nrmy Is on the move
A bakory crew consists of a captain
and G5 men, enlisted as bakers. Cap
tain Whcelor, who has chargo of tho
flold bakory at Vera Cruz Is an artil
lery captain, dotnlled for four years In
tho quartermaster's dopaHmont and
assigned to tho hnkery.
Each ovon Is tho nucleus of a nop-,
arato unit In an nrmy field bakery. Ono
or twelve enn bo sot dp, each completo
In Itself. First Is a sleeping tent for
tho crow working that particular ovon.
Next cornea tho mixing tent. In it aro
two mixing troughs, a corner for tho
sneks of flour, n bako tablo on which
aro scalos for weighing tho loavea and
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Colonel Hoosevelt and a companion photographed In tho wilds of South
America during tho remarkable exploring expedition recently ended.
nnothcr on which the pami are stacked.
Next comes tho oven. On tho other
sldo of tho oven Is the store tent. It Is
Inclosed In an outer tent of mosquito
netting nnd filled with racks of wire
and steel which will hold D.000 pounds
of bread In orderly rows.
Tho oven was deeigued In 1911 by
Capt. Luclen Holbrook nud Sergt, Pat
rick Dunn. It Is of Iron nnd steel,
fastened at tho corners and edges by
clamps. Tents, ovens and all equip
ment are collapsible and can be folded
and packed Into a single escort wngon.
Twelve wagons will carry tho bakory
for 30,000 men, or 19,000 loaves.
War has not started and tho army
Is not on tho march. Tho bakery Is
turning out whnt Is known a "issuo"
bread. It is different from "wnr"
bread. Six loaves of "Hsuu" bread are
baked at ono tltno. Fotfr of tho loaves
consequently do not have any crust on
their sides. What Is known as "war"
bread Is baked In sopnrate loaves, has
crust nil over and will keep longer.
Thero aro othor differences Inter
esting to tho houfiewlfo or baker. "Is
suo" broad has 2V4 pounds of dough to
the loaf, rlbcs flvo hours, Is baked one t
hour and weighs two pounds when
cooled. "Wai" bread weighs two
pounds when cooled, Is raised for elghl
liours, has more sugar and no lard In
tho dough, Is baked for 1 hours and
will koop for a considerable length of
time.
At G p. m. tho bakers start mixing
their dough. He'foro noon tho store
tents nrc stocked with fresh bread At
daylight tho next day tho regimental
comnilBHnry wagons aro loaded with
tho supply to bo taken to tho camp
It 1b very different from tho days of
hardtack, which It Ib sulci by veterans,
was an hard as tho boxes In which It
wnti shipped.
FAMOUS TRIO MEET AGAIN
Earl Grey, John Hays Hammond and
Major Burnham Greet Each
Other In San FrancUco.
San Francisco. Thero was a brief
reunion here one day recently of threo
men who hnve become famous through
out tho world. They were the Urltlsh
statesman, Earl Grey, John Hays Ham
mond, noted mining engineer, and Mnj.
Fred It. Durnham, famous scout and
soldier of fortune.
The three parted company last In
Rhodesia In 189G. Then Earl Grev
was tho administrator of Hhodesla.
Hammond was consulting engineer for
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Washington Explorer Finds Strange Cave Men
SHINGTON Caves hewn in tho solid rocks of sugarloar mountains,
sometimes to the depth of 150 feet, large enough to hold from 1.C00 to
.'ino people. Men who think nothing of running 10 and 50 miles a day
without taking a drink of wnter.
People who" never set nvos on
fruits or vegetables.
Towns of G.000 to 6,000 Inhabi
tants, In which there Is not a building,
the people living In holes In tho earth
A land of no shadows between 8
n m nnd 5 p. in
A nation In which women aro
never seen.
Theso are some of the wonders
described by Frank Edward Johnson,
tho explorer and lecturer and contrib
uting editor of the National Geographic Magazine, who nrrlvcd in Washington
after nn absence of almost two years, spent among the troglodyto tribes of
southern Tunisia. Mr Johnson gave out his first Interview since his return
to tho t'nited States, after reporting to the National Geographic society In
Washington
While In Tunisia Mr. Johnson conducted extensive researches among tho
burled Roman cities, and truced tho old Roman highways, which havo been
hidden for centuries by the shifting sands of tho Sahara. He succeeded In
following for 300 miles the route of the road that was built from Carthage
to Leptls Magna and to Alexandria nenrly two thousand years ago
"On the trip just concluded " said Mr. Johnson, "I came Into a more Inti
mate contact with the innermost lives of tho peoples of the extreme southern
Tunisia than ever before, and I had an unequaled opportunity to study them
nt closer range thnn any foreigner has ever enjoyed There aro probably
more than ono hundred thousand of these people In a section hitherto sup
posed to be almost unlnhabltuble. They are pursuing an exceedingly primi
tive life.
"All tho troglodyte strongholds are difficult of approach. Their warriors
could see tho enemy approaching for rnnny miles, unless they camo by night,
and then tho zigzag path that led up to tho great walls, worn smooth by
centurleB of hard use, with a surface like polished marble, was too danger
ous, for a stumble meant sudden death on the rocks hundreds of feet below.
It is difficult even for the mountain goats born and bred there."
By Taking Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable
Compound.
Cleveland, Ohio "My loft side
pained me so for several years that I
expected to nave to
undergo nn opera
tion, but the first
bottle I took of
Lydia E. Pinkhmn's
Vegetable Com
pound relieved meof
the pains in my side
and I continued its
use until I became
regular and free
from pains. I had
asked several doc-
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X Women in Political Murder
Members of Fair Sex Seldom Figure
as Assassins In World of Politics
Mme. Calllaux's Crime.
London. In tho history of politics
thero Is no parallel to the Paris trag
edy which has rosulted In tho denth
of M, Calmotto, who wnB shot by tho
wlfo of M. Calllaux, the mlnlator of
finance, who sought to nvengo her
husband's honor, snya London 'fit
lilts. Women, happily, flguro Httlo In po
litical murders, although about throe
years ago an attempt was mndo by a
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stirred slnco tho Ilrcton heroine,
Carlotto Corday, stabbed that mon
ster of tho revolution, Mnrat, in
his bath. Hut tho modorn history of
RiiBslan revolutionaries provides somo
oqunlly romurknblo stories of heroines
of tho pcoplo who havo taken upon
themselves tho task of killing those
whom thoy considered tho enomlos of
progress and liberty.
Tho most recent enso was' that of
Kinnlda Konopllnnnlkova, a Russian
school mlBtrosB, who on August 13,
1906, shot dend Major Genernl Mln,
commandor of tho famous regiment of
tho Somonoff guards, at I'otorhof rail
way station. Sho was arrested on tho
spot and ultimately condemned to
death by hanging, this boing tho first
death sentence passed on a woman
slnco tho execution of Sophlo Porov
sltaya, who was practically tho chief
organizer of tho nihilist conspiracy
which resulted in Cznr Alexander II
being blown to pieces on his way to
tho military riding school In St. Pe
tersburg on Mnrch 1, 1SSI.
This female nssnssln wns only twen-
ty-soven years of ago at tho tlmo of
her execution, but oven sho was six
years older than Mario Splrldonovn.
who. fired with the wrongB of tho Rus
sian peasant, shot tho brutnl Governor
Dujenoevsky Horrible tortures wore
Inflicted upon her In order to force
her to confoss the nnmes -of her ac
complices nnd ultimately sho was
tried by court-martial bohlnd closed
doors and sent to Slborln a physical
wreck
John Hays Hammond.
Cecil Rhodes and the Goldfleld Consol
tdatod Mines of South America, Major
liuriilmm was a scout for Lord Rob
erts and ho had Just killed tho noted
Matabelo outlaw, M'Llmo, frustrating
a piojected massacro of tho British
settlors.
Major nurnhnm, hearing thnt Earl
Grey was In San Francisco, camo to
tho city from Three Forks to meet
him. lie brought a little gold nugget
that ho has carried as a. talisman
through all his adventures in differ
ent parts of tho world, and tho treas
ured letter Lord Roberts wrote to him
when ho was invalided homo. Tho
roport by Ilurnhnin to Earl Grey, tho
administrator, of the killing of
M'Llmo Is a noteworthy page In Brit
ish history.
Tho threo talked nffectlonatoly of
tho stirring South African, times for
half an hour.
Capital Folk Scramble for Rent-Free Houses
THERE'S a scramble on among several hundred Washlngtonlans for rent
free houses during the bummer months In the city's most exclusive resi
dential districts. Few peoplo outside tho capital realize that thero are In
this city ifcores of beautiful and costly
homes which aro turned over to care
takers, sometimes without rent, and
with coal, gas and electric light bills
paid On some occasions, even, care
takers aro paid a nominal sum to llvo
In the houses.
Now Is tho season when theso
caretnkers are the busiest Those who
hae had these positions In the past
aro the most activo and thoy besiege
almost dally tho various real estate
offices In tho city. For this business
is one of tho hardest for real estnto men to look after In the first place
they must be nblo to judge chnracter "on tho jump" and be able to pick men
and women who would bo capable and honest. Then after selecting the
names of applicants tho ngents havo to Investigate their standing and trust
worthiness. In the selection of the tenants widows almost always havo first
choice. A good widow with children Is always regarded as tho best care
taker While the occupation of caretaker grew up originally when Washing
toninns left tho c,ity for the summer It has extended to another branch now
that of furnished houses for salo or rent. For Instance, If a public official
who has lived hero seveial years suddenly becomes a "lame duck" and moves
"back to tho farm" his Washington homo Is for sale Often It Is difficult to
sell tho place immediately or even to rent it. As a result n caretaker is
selected. This party Is ghon possession of tho house, but is required to keep
It in tip-top condition and to show it to prospective buyers.
tors if thero was anything 1 could
take to help me and they said thero
was nothing that they knew of. I nm
thankful for such a good medicine and
will always give it the highest praise."
Mrs. C. II. Gmr-TITH, 7305 Madison
Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Hanover, Pa. "I suffered from fe
male trouble and the paitu were so bad
nt times that I could not sit down. The
doctor advised a severe operation but
my husbnnd got me Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and I experienced
great relief in a short time. Now 1 feel
like a new person and can do a hard
day's work and not mind it. What joy
and happiness it is to be well onco more.
1 am always ready and willing to speak
a good word for the Comround. " Mrs.
Ada Wilt, 19G Stock St., Hanover, Pa.
If lucre aro any complications you
do not understand vrrlto to Lydia K.
rinkhnm Mrdicino Co. (confidential)
Lynn,3Inss. Your letters ill lie opened,
read and answered by a woman and.
held In strict confidence.
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS.
Purely vegetable
act surely ana
gently on the
liver. Cure
Biliousness,
Headache,
M Dizzi
ness, and Indigestion. They do their duty;
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
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MAN CALLS THIS FISHING
Mme. Calllaux.
woman of Lob Augelos, Cnl., to shoot
u congressman who sho considered
had Insulted hor husband, who was
HI, by making disparaging lemarks
nbout him In public. Fortunately, the
wound Inflicted proved but a slight
ono and tho woman oscnped with a
ehort term of Imprisonment.
Franco, perhaps, haB not beou so
$2,000 Wallet Returned.
Now York A wallet containing
$2,000. lost by n Colorado minor, wns
returned Intact to its owner aftor
dancers In a' Coney Island "tango pal
ace" had klckod It around for an
hour
Take Fifty Needles From Girl's Body.
Iloston. Dr. Harry II. Germain re
moved B0 needles from tho body of
Miss Marlon lilbbs, twenty, who de
clared sho bw allowed them to produce
suffering. Her mental condition Is
being Investigated.
Nevada Ranch Owner Drains a Ditch
and Catches Mountain Trout
With His Hands.
San Francisco. W. II. Davenport
of tho Western Pacific railway says:
"I was back In Novnda recently, and
a friend of mlno who owns what ho
calls 'Just a Httlo ranch' of 9,000 acres
asked mo If I would llko to fish for
mountain trout. I said I would; it's
my favorite sport.
" 'Como on." said ho, and ho took mo
to a stream acioss which ho has built
a dam for tho purposo of Irrigating
his alfalfa.
"Instead of producing fish poles he
suddenly turned on tho water and let
It run full force through tho Irrigating
ditches for Just a half minute. Then
ho turned it off. nnd, beckoning to mo,
led me to the Irrigating ditch.
"Hy this time tho water which he
had let In had run out Into tho fields,
nnd on the bottom of tho ditch wore
nbout p hundred mountain trout left
high and dry and flapping about at a
groat rato.
"My friend gathered about twenty
Into a basket apd threw tho rest back
allvo Into the stream. Wo had tho
ones ho caught for supper, and they
wore delicious."
Uncle Sam Needs Rifle Ranges for Civilians
WITH the probability that citizen soldiery may be called to national serv
ice, tho national board for promotion of rlflo practise of tho war depart
ment has issued a statement explaining tho need of rifle ranges for prnctise,
which has been mado possible by tho
present cohgress In providing for tho
freo distribution of rifles and ammu
nition to civilian rifle clubs and school
cadets
"Again wo are faced with the pos
sibility of sending untrained youths
from their homes to the battlefield,"
tho statement says. "Recruits can be
taught to march, drill, and tako care
of themselves in tho field In a com
paratively short period, but such Is
not tho enso with tho care and effec
tive uso of the service arm. A long step In iho right direction was taken by
tho present congress when it enncted a law, through a paragraph in the army
appropriation bill, authority for the war department to Issuo rllles nnd ammu
nition freo to certain Chilians
"It is a fundamental principle of national defense thnt citizens should bo
trained In the use of the service arm. Rlflo Instruction Is tho keynote of
national defenso of Switzerland. If we wero to train rfiur citizens In tho
same pioportlon as that small republic, we would havo about 3,000,000 trained
civilian expert rlllemon
"A seilous handicap to the proper development of this movement Is tho
lack of rillo ranges With the growth of cities nnd tho Increasing value of
land generally rlflo ranges have been swept nway. Therefore, unless tho
Issuo of rltles and ammunition is followed by tho construction of ranges
whore civilians can practise such Issuo will not accomplish the results de
sired by tho government"
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PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
A tntlct tireparatloa of nurlt.
Help' tocradltaleilandruir.
For Restoring Color and (
Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair,
60c and SI W at lruirctsts.
Unlnfluentlal Quantity.
' Do ou approve of taking tho word.
'obey' out of tho marriage ceremony?"
' No," replied Miss Cayenne. "Let
it remain. Nobody is going to keep
bringing up a marriage ceremony and.
quoting from it as if it were a party
platform. "
Shot Self to Avoid Golnn to School.
Danvlllo, 111. Dalo Dolanoy, twelve,
shot hlmsolf In tho log with a revolver
to keep from going to school.
"Movies" Make Church People Gasp.
Chlcngo Members of the Joyce
Methodist church gasped when
"movies" showing murders and other
acts of vlolonco with no connecting
link wero exhlbltud. Aldermnn Pretzel
later explained tho pictures wore tho
"cutouts" mndo by tho cotiBors, but ho
had forgotten to nunounco to tho audi
ence what tho films wore.
Varied Lot of Plants Grown by the Government
IN CONNKCTION with its investigations, the Smithsonian Institution under
took borne years ago tho collecting of a series of cactuses. Not only
herbarium specimens, but many onmples of living plants were secured
The problem of tho caro of theso
living plants while under observation
was soHed through tho co-operation
of tho department of agriculture, which
assigned special greenhouso No 7, at
Fourteenth and H streets northwest,
for housing them Today a vorltablo
deport nourishes In it, filled with all
kinds of strange dosort plants, espe
cially cactuses froni North and South
America, of which thero aro perhaps
In tho neighborhood of flvo thousand
specimens
Tho collection hns much to attract the ordinary visitor No such collec
tion in F.uropo has so many uniquo and rare species Kach pot contains n
label which gives the key nuinbor to record books giving tho history of each
plant. Tho collection contains about twcnty-flvo species of tho night-blooming
cereus, sovernl plants of tho so-called bishop's cap, and somo striking
specimens of Tuik's bend enctus.
Tho photographer of the National musoum makes photographs of the
flowering plants whon any speclnl features nro to bo noted, thousands of
those cuttings being distributed by tho department to tho various botanical
Institutions throughout the world.
The collection Is directly under the charge of E, M. Byrnes, superintend
ent of gardens and grounds.
important to Mothers
Kxamino carefully every bottlo ot
CASTORlA.asafoandsuro remedy for
Infants and children, and seo that it
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Signature ot uSzYA&&.
In Uso For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
A girl may work hard to obtain ai
husband, but that doesn't necessarily
indicate that she will take In wash
ing and scrubbing in order to support
him.
SHAKE INTO YOUR SIIOKS
Allen's Foul-Base, tuo Antlspptlopowdor for Tired,
Tender, swollen, nervous feet. (Jlvrs rest and
comfort. MiikesdanclnnadollKht. Soldovcrj-wliore,
26c. Don't uccrpt ov luhndfulr rr FIIKM sim
ple, address Allen H. Olaisied, Lo Buy, K. Y, Adr.
Contrary Discipline.
"Whew, that was a roast you got
this morning from the boss!"
"Yes, what I call a raw deal."
Don't bo inMert. Ask for Red Crosi"
Rail lHnc. Males beautiful white clothes.
At all good Kroccis Adv.
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It's easii-r to induce a man to nc-
cept a favor than tako a Joko
& fin
The Source of Uric Acid
r.atintf tou much Uncommon linblt Hint
does u luluf httiin. Meut, especially, forms
urlu no Id n ml the cunstnnt tlltoi lug uf acld
liulen blood weakens tho Ulltie s. uriouuld
causes rheumatic mul ncrsoug trouble,
weakens tbo eyeb, forms gravel nnd leads
to dropsy ami UrlKht's dimise. Kidney
weakness ghes tally warnings, however,
such as backache nnd urinary disorders
nud caa bo slopped by piompt treatment.
I'fo Doan's Kidney l'llls, tho best rec
ommended and moH widely used kidney
remedy.
A INrbruskh Cose.
"For flvo yurs
my hmlih was all
run liwwn and I
ilmppi d an to a
in, ri shod ' saa
Mrs Martha ""ds,
of 7u3 T nt rt M .
Aurora, Nib I
was awfully wak
and had ti riltilo
pains throughout my
bod Mornings I
ftlt all tlrnl out nnd
m nukles nnd f t
smiled My bind
dir wis Inflamed
and I was laid up In
brd for fcurn a
w teles Four or ne boxes of Donn s Kld-
n.y Tills iur,d ni" and for llvo tais I
haven t had ono sign of tho old trouble."
Cat Doan's at Any Store, COc a Doz
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