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MULTIMILLIONAIRE OF WHOM
LITTLE IS KNOWN. ,
Could Become One of World’s Richest
Men by Forming Lumber Trust
Which He Opposes—Proud of '
His Fivs Sons.
Minneapolis, Minn.—“I have no re
spect for men whose sole object is
gain and control over other men for
their own personal aggrandizement.
Such a purpose in life is false, and
contempt is i^s just due. I shall, if
possible, make such an arrangement
as will forever prevent the lands which
I now own from passing into’the con
trol of those who might abuse them
or the people who require their prod
ucts.”
This is the remarkable utteranoe of
a man whose wealth is estimated at
at least $40,000,000, and who, though
inconspicuous, ranks among the na
tion’s richest captains of industry. By
tie single stroke o^his pen, Thomas
•arlow Walker, who owns more tim
ber land( than any other man in the
country', might stack his millions in
-equal numbers with those of John D.
Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie.
Like all men of vast wealth esti
mates of Mr. Walker’s wealth vary.
Some place it as high as $100,000,000,
but $40,000,000 is a very conservative
■estimate.
In an interview at his home, in this
city, the timber king diseussed the
great economic question of the day
and explained his own position. De
spite his enormous wealth he is little
known otftside of his immediate
i business and home circles. '
In lumber circles the unsolved ques
tion has been why a lumber trust was
not formed along the linear of other
big industrial corporations. In an in
-terview Mr. Walker gave the answer,
jfor the first time publicly. He said:
“As long as I live there will never
,be a timber trust if I can prevent it.
“I have been approached repeated
ly to head a combination that would
control practically all the lumber sup
ply of the United States and Canada.
1 have as often positively refused to
even consider the proposition.”
Mr. Walker is the largest individual
owner of timber J)eyond question.
. When asked about his five sons and
their association with his enterprises,
a great pride shone in his eyes.
“Yes, the boys run the business
now. As they returned home from
school they entered into my business
with me, and to-day they understand
it so thoroughly that I really believe
I am no longer necessary to its con
tinued success.”
Each son manages departments
that in themselves singly constitute
vast business enterprises such as
many millioned men would view with
envy.
Fletcher L. has entire management
of the great Minnesota timber tracts
and lumber mills.
Clinton has absolute charge of the
California timber tract. Very little de
velopment work has been done there
yet, and a herculean taBk confronts
him. ^
Gilbert M. spent many years on
Minnesota timber tracts and finally
assisted his father in an advantageous
sale to a competing concern.
Willis J. conducts his father’s per
sonal affairs and manages fbe finances.
Archie Dean manages the Walker
real estate interests. Millions of
dollars are invested in Minnsapolis
realty alone. Archie had no fixed
name until at six he was allowed to
choose it for himself.
“Here is my favorite corner,” he
said, as we passed through his library.
THOMAS B. WALKER.
(Timber King Who Is Strongly Op*
posea to a Lumber Trust.)
indicating a case in which the volumes
were more worn than the rest.
“What is the general theme?”
“Sociology. I love the study of po
litical, religious and industrial prob
lems the world over. I can never tell
which affords me the greatest pleasure
and interest—these old volumes or my
pictures.”
Mr. Walker opened his great gallery
to the public several years ago. There
are no closed days and no admission
was ever charged. Even‘catalogues
are furnished visitors free.
Hts home, built years ago, is sim
ple and comparatively small. Its as
sociations are dearer to him than a
gilded palace. Many comfortable
benches are placed in the edge of the
iawn, and here the people are wel
come to come and sit beneath the
shade. While his charitable and phil
anthropic work is done quietly it is ex
tensive, and he is the main supporter
1 of certain institutions in his city.
STATUE TO ENSIGN BAGLEY.
Memorial to Young Naval Lieutenant
Erected by North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C.—North Caroliha now
has raised two monuments to her sol
Ensign Bagley Monument.
dier dead in the brief war with Spain.
The first was to Lieut. William E.
Shipp, Of the Ninth cavalry, who was
shot and instantly killed by a Mauser
bullet at the storming of San Juan
hill, in Cuba.
A few days ago the state erected
another memorial to an officer who
happened by Fate's decree to be the
only one of the naval branch of the
service to meet death in that war.
This was Ensign Worth Bagley, to
whom death came in the Bay of
Cardenas, Cuba. The monument to
Shipp is at Charlotte. That to Bagley
adorns the Capitol square at Raleigh,
his native city.
Ensign Bagley was born in Raleigh,
April 7, 1874, his father, who had been
a major in the confederate service, be
ing at that time grand master of the
North Carolina Odd Fellows. His
mother was a granddaughter of Gov.
Jonathan Worth. Os both aides the
families are thoroughly representa
tive, and have so been from the
colonial days. On June 30, 1889, he
was appointed to the United States
Naval academy after a competitive
examination. He was made tin ensign
July 1, 1897. He served on the
cruiser Montgomery, on the battle
ship Texas and then on the Maine.
When Lieut. Bernadu took com
mand of the torpedo boat Wisslow he
chose Bagley as his lieutenant, the
latter having been repommonded by
many officers for fitness. He began
his duties on the Winslow December
28, 1897.
O’BRIEN TO BE TRANSFERRED.
Minister to Denmark Will Succeed
Ambassador Wright,
Washington.—The state department
has formally announced that Thomas
J. O’Brien of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
United States minister to Copenhagen,
will become ambassador to Japan in
September, on the retirement of Luke
E. Wright of Tennessee, who has
given notice to the department that
he wishes to leave the service at that
time.
Mr. O’Brien is 65 years old and a
native of Jackson, Mich. At one time
he had the reputation of being the
ablest lawyer in Michigan, outside of
Detroit. For years he was chief coun
sel of the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad, and a director in the road
as well. He was never a candidate
for office except in 1883, when he was
nominated for supreme court justice
and went down to defeat with the
whole Republican ticket in the land
slide of that year. He led his ticket,
however, with a handsome vote. He
was a delegate to the national con
vention of 1896 that nominated Mc
Kinley and was a member of the com
mittee that officially notified McKin
ley of his nomination.
Columbus Memorial Chapel, Havana.
WEARIED SOLOMON
SLEPT PEACEFULLY QN? WHILE
COUNSEL QUARRELED.
Both Defendant and Plaintiff Were
Afraid to Waken Him Be
cause of Possible
Effect.
There is a law office on Wall street
which is most luxuriously fitted up,
even to velvet divans, sofa cushions
and other things calculated to produce
a rich and restful effect. I’he occu
pant of this office is an elderly man,
and because of his long practice and
high standing as a lawyer he is fre
quently appointed referee in those
cases which, because of the over
crowded court calendar, are tried out
of court.
He had one case before him one
afternoon which was very dry,' unin
teresting and technical, and in which
the opposing lawyers made long and
windy arguments. At the beginning
of the argument the referee, knowing
that it was apt to be a lengthy one,
stretched himself out in a semi-reclin
ing position on the velvet couch and
nodded his head occasionally when ar
guments seemed to be especially ad
dressed to him.
When the attorney for the plaintiff
had finished, the attorney for the de
fendant arose and began to speak. His
argument was of such a bitter and’
caustic character that his opponent
was qurckly on his feet answering
back. Finally they got themselves
Into such a tangle that nothing but a
decision of the referee could straight
en them out.
“Your honor.” began the attorney
for the plaintiff, “I ask for an adjourn
ment, on the ground that—”
"Gr-r-r-r-r-h,” gurgled through the
referee’s mouth and nose, while the
astonished attorney sat down and dis
creetly coughed.
The attorney for the defendant
smiled. “His honor is resting himself;
he is an old man,” he said.
“Er-hem!” coughed the plaintiff’s
attorney again, but the unmistakable
"Gr-r-r-r-r-h,” Gurgled Through the
Referee’* Mouth and Nose.
sounds of snoring gurgled, rumbled
and exploded from the velvet couch,
while the eyelids of the referee rested
peacefully on his tired eyes.,
“You wake him up,” suggested the
plaintiff’s attorney to the defendant’s
attorney.
“Not much. I don’t know how he is
when he wakes up. If he is cross and
realizes that it was I who awakened
him he may decide against me. You
wake him up.”
But the attorney for the plaintiff
also declined the task, as the same
ftamage obviously would threaten him.
'There was nothing for them to do
but wait for the referee to wake up.
And they waited. An hour passed.
Everybody grew more and more rest
less, remembered other engagements
and stole out to the telephone to
break them.
The referee's partner had gone for
the day. No one else dared waken
him, the stenographer informed the
attorneys. A peace and quiet like
that of a country churchyard settled
down upon that section of Wall street
on that particular day. No one was
moving a safe, no newsboy wandered
up and down the street shouting
“Wuxtra!” All the working men on
the building being erected next door
seemed to have quit. No sound, in
fact, disturbed the general and un
wonted calm until the attorney for the
plaintiff, looking at his watch and
then glancing at the clock to verify
his watch, exclaimed:
“Good heavens! Five o’clock.”
There was a cessation of the gur
gling sounds from the couch and the
referee sat up. His face was flushed
and he looked about the room in some
confusion. Then his gaze encountered
the clock. Instantly he frowned.
“Come, come, gentlemen,” he said.
“I told you we couldn’t go on after
4:30 to-day. It is now five. This case
is adjourned until a week from to-day,
same time and place.”
Memory Bells.
Memory bells are toys given by the
Japanese youths to their sweethearts.
They are constructed of slips of giara
so delicately poised that the least vi
bration sets them jingling. Tbd deli
cate tinkling serves to remind the
owner of the giver; hence the pretty,
fanciful name.
Hidden Treasure of Cromwell’s Time.
The ruins of Bradley Old H^U, near
Ashbourne, are to be thoroughly ex
plored with a view to finding hidden
treasure.
The Btory goes that a quantity of
treasure was concealed in the cellars
when the hall was destroyed in the
time of Cromwell, and that the fact
was made known to Prince Charles
Edward when he was in Derbyshire
in 1745 by a Scottish minister who
was then in charge of Bradley church.
A detachment of Highlanders came
from Derby to secure the booty, but
the Bradley folks have ala-ays main
tained that all the valuables were not
removed. The hhll was fSmerly the
residence of the Meynells.—London
Standard.
Insult to Injury.
Dentist—You know that more than
three months ago I supplied Baron
von HallBtein with a full set of teeth?
Well, I went the other day to collect
the money which he owed me for
them, and not only did he refuse to
pay me, but he had the effrqptery to
gnash at me—with nsjj' teeth.—
Fliegende Blatter.
W- ' .-IL . ■ \ It
>«MK VI'
BIDDENDON OAKES.
They Aire Given to the Poop on Easter
Morning.
Long years ago, nearly a thousand,
If the chroniclers speak the truth,
there lived In Biddendon, England,
twin sinters with charitable hearts,
who left in their wills a sum of money
to be used for buying bread to give to
the poor on Easter morning. For sev
eral hundred years plain loaves were
distributed. At laBt, the exact date
cannot be given, some one devised the
Biddendon cake, which was made after
tl)e design of the illustration given. In
this the sisters were joined somewhat
after the fashion of the Siamese twins.
By this time they had earned rays
about the head, and would have been
canonised had they been Romanists.
The date 1100 and their age, 34 years,
were stamped on the cakes, which
were distributed from the church
steeple by the rector. Of late years
this strange proceeding drew so m%ny
curiosity seekers that the present rec
tor gave up the practice.
A Grewsome Package.
An extraordinary stony comas from
Tomsk, Siberia. A peasant from the
country appeared in the police station
carrying a bundle which he carefully
deposited on the table before the
chief.
"I am a poor man,” he said, ‘‘and
when I come to Tomsk I beg for my
food. To-night I went to vespers and
when I left the church I began to beg
Two men whom I did not know ap
proached, and asked if I would not
have some meat as alms. I was most
grateful and accepted this bundle. In
the dark I thought it was a sheep's
head. When I got home to the place
where I lodge I gave it to my land
lady to cook for us. It makes splendid
soup, sheep’s head does. When she
undid the bundle she started hack
with a Shriek. And now I’ll show you
■ what she saw.”
The beggar went forward to the ta
ble, undid the handkerchief round the
bundle and a man’s head, cut off close
to the shoulders, appeared. It was
the head of a policeman who had been
missing some‘time and who was sup
posed to have been murdered by the
native Kirghiz.
MALAY EAR ORNAMENTS.
The ear ornaments which Malay
women wear are made of massive sil
ver, and are 12* centimeters long. They
weigh at least one and one-half
pounds, and sometimes two pounds.
Once put on they are never taken off
during the wearer’s lifetime.
The Tallest Tree.
The highest tree in the world, so
far as has been ascertained, is an Aus
tralian gum tree of the species Euca
lyptus regnans, which stands in the
Cape Otway range. It is no less than
415 feet high. Gum-trees grow very
fast. There is one in Florida which
shot lip 40 feet in four years, and an
other in Guatemala which grew 120
feet in 12 years. This corresponds to
a rise of ten feet in a year, or nearly
one foot per month.
Curious Bible Class.
Probably the most curious Bible
class in the west of England is that
of deaf-mutes which meets near Chal
ford, Gloucestershire. All the mem
bers are deprived of their senses of
hearing and speech and have to com
municate and "talk” to each other
by means of the deaf-mute alphabet.
J. Q. Adams’ Cradle.
The cradle bed ef John Quincy
Adams has historic interest for all
Americans. It is preserved In the
museum in Boston and is of the type
common at the time Adams was born.
It has a wooden box, with rockers
and hood-of the same material, guilt
less of decoration of any sort. Speaking
of cradles, one is reminded that it is
said that Francis D’Assisi invented
the cradle for the purpose of making
plain to the people of his time who
could not read the picture of the Na
tivity. The -mangerlike cradle used
then containing the Christ child gave
the ignorant folk an excellent idea of
the conditions in Bethlehem on that
wonderful Christmas night.
The Demon of Unrest.
We are haring the gospel of rest
preached to us on every hand, we are
told that we are galloping to destruc
tion at our present rate, and yet we
constantly accelerate the pace. It is
usfcleas to warn, useless to preach,
uselees to struggle against the tend
ency of the agd. We are possessed
for the time being by the demon of
It has us in it* power.—Lady
"THEY GOT THEIR DUE
TWO GOOD 8T0RIES OF JUST
RETRIBUTION.
Chauffeur of Senator Lost Hie Job
and the Merchant Found the De
epieed Clerk Got Back at Him.
A distinguished senator recently
had an experience with the chauffeur
which resulted in the man finding an
other place and caused the senator to
take a reef in his regulations regard
ing the control of his automobile. The
senator left town with his family, and
during his absence his secretary alone
was to have use of the auto.
He was not away long before the
secretary wanted to use the machine,
but he was told that for sundry rea
sons it could not be taken out. The
auto developed various acute troubles,
which arose without a moment’s no
tice. and when one difficulty was over
come another appeared. He seldom
was able to marke any use of the ma
chine, which was one of the big fel
lows that no one except an experi
enced chauffeur ever runs. The weeks
passed by, and as, according to re
port, the machine was out of order,
he practically gave up all attempts
to go out in it.
Then a revelation came to him. He
WQ0 in the habit of taking hi% lunch
eon at once df the leading hotels, in
front of which there is always a long
liife of autos for hire. He had never
poticed them particularly, but there
one day he saw the familiar face of
the chauffeur as he steered the ma
chine to the curb with a party of five
tourists whom he afterward learned
had hired the auto at five, dollars an
hour. Mhking an investigation, he
discovered that it had been the man’s
practice to go to the hotel daily and
bold the machine for hire by the hour.
In that way it was an easy matter for
the chauffeur to make from $10 to $25
a day. His thriving business was
brought to a close, and now the sen
ator’s auto is driven by another man.
He was a government clerk about
six or seven years ago, and in those
days of salary chasing and watching
the clock he once betook himself into
the establishment of a man who caters
in hi# line to the “best people” of
Washington. According to the story
he told to a number of his friends the
other evening, the owner of the es
tablishment came in about the time
he was examining some goods, and
with a toss of his head let him know
that he was not a “big enough man”
. to deal at his store. The clerk left
the place rather warm, and the pro
prietor behind the counter felt some
what elated to think that he had in
formed a government clerk that the
time he was taking up was much more
valuable than any purchase he might
be able to make. Fortune smiled
upon the employe of the government,
and about two years ago he found
himself with a large income and an
ideal abode. He had become affiliated
with two of the well-known clubs of
the city. One afternoon he happened
to be at one of the clubs and saw the
name of the merchant proposed for
membership. In his own words, “I
said something choice.” Then he
gathered himself together and “be
gan lining ’em up.” The former clerk
gained “converts” so fast that the
man who proposed the merchant
hastened away and told that gentle
man in a few words that if his name
went in for confirmation it would
surely be blackballed. When he asked
who was making the fight he was in
formed that it was the former clerk.
“In other words,” said the relator, “I
just gave him all that was coming to
him, and a little bit more for good
measure.”
What Bryce Would Reform.
Mr. James Bryce, the new ambas
sador to tlie United States from Great
Britain, is not a reformer, but he says
that should he at any time be in
clined to embark upon a reform move
ment it would be in the direction of
a revision of names for American and
Canadian cities. He especially ab
hors duplications for the reason that
they lead to confusion in the mails and
telegraph. As an illustration he said
that while in Canada recently he had
occasion to write a number of dis
patches to his governn^nt, and ad
dressed them “London.” The dis
patches went to London, Ontario, Can
ada. Now he is convinced that there
should be but one London in the
world. Likewise he believes there
should be but one Washington, and he
was surprised to learn that there are
a dozen states in this country that
have Washingtons. A lover of In
dian names, the ambassador is of the
opinion that there is no occasion for
duplication in the United States and
Canada, for the Indians have provided
an unlimited supply of rippling mu
sical names that may be given to cit
ies, rivers and other geographical
points. The wisest thing the people
of Tpronto, Canada, ever did, said Mr.
Bryce, was to adopt the present name
of the city of York, by which the set
tlement was first called.
Many Washington Smiths.
There are 13 pages of "Smiths” In
the city directory, and Mr. William
R. Smith, the genial superintendent
of the government botanhf gardens,
in looking over that volume ^cov
ered that there are just eight men
who wear the cognomen of “William
R. Smith.” This sometimes results in
a mixup of the mails and other things,
but Mr. Smith of botanical fame main
tains that the name “Smith” is an
eminently respectable one. He says
it frequently happens that men when
placed under arrest by the police and
taken to the station house give the
fictitious name of Smith instead of
giving their real “handle.”
“They'd© this," added Superintend
ent Smith of the botanic gardens,
“to gain a respectability they did not
possess before, for mind you the
name of Smith is an honorable one.”
Poor Fellow!
Tea time at the club. “My hus
band,” said a little thing with golden
postiches—postiches are those new
sausage-shaped curls—“my husband is
a self-made man." “Mine—” And the
speaker’s grim lips relaxed in a smile,
“—mine was made to order.” Above
tne tinkle of the tea things sounded
the heartiest applause*
BURNING ASHES.
Official of Geological Survey Makes
Some Pertinent Comments.
“There has been a lot of nonsense
written about this scheme of a Penn
sylvania cobbler to bum ashes for
fuel," said one of the fuel experts of
the geological survey the other day to
a Washington reporter. “The scheme -
is not even a new one.' It has been ex
ploited at different times and always
has come down to the same ultimate
conclusion—impracticable. Of course,
anything will burn if you give it oxy
gen enough. You can bum even cast
iron under those conditions. But the
difference between laboratory experi
ments and practical application is con
siderable. It is true that there is
usually some coal left in so-called
ashes. There is possibly five per cdnt.
of the coal that is never burned. Most
of this could be recovered by careful
screening, but in big manufacturing
plants and places of that sort, the la
bor and trouble of thi3 sort of ash
sifting costs more than it comes to.
The actual ashes are slate, and you
know that will not burn. All of the
schemes for burning ashes that have
ever been put forward depended on
mixing some sort of chemicals with
the ashes and burning the resulting,
gas. I do npt know exactly what the
cobbler’s formula was, but you can
depend on it that when you figure up
the cost of the chemicals and the la
bor Involved in using them it will come
to a good deal more than the price of
coal. Take, for instance, a combina
tion of chemicals that will give off
acetylene gas—and I understand this
was what the cobbler produced—you
could mix them with the ashes and
still make it bum. But your chemi
cals would cost you more than the
coal, and you might just as well burn
the acetylene direct, which you prob
ably could get cheaper from calcium
carbide than you could from any other
source. But every one knows that cal
cium carbide costs more than coal.”
STATUE GIVEN A SHAVE.
Experience of Monument to Author
of Famous Song Is Unique.
Near the entrance of beautiful Oak
Hill cemetery, Georgetown, where re
poses the dust of James G. Blaine, Ed
ward M. Stanton and other great
Americans, stands a fine statute of
John Howard Payne, author of “Home,
Sweet Home.” The bringing home of
the remains of this famous American,
who died at his post in Africa gen
erations ago, when he was serving
there as United States consul, was the
occasion of a great national function
more than 20 years ago.
The late William Corcoran, the
Washington banker and philanthrop
ist, defrayed all of the expenses and
also paid for the monument and statue
of Payne which marked his resting
place in Oak Hill, gays Washington
Herald. The sculptor who executed
the life-size statue had palmed off on
him as a picture of John Howard
Payne the photograph of a man
whose face was completely covered
with a luxuriant growth of whiskers.
Accordingly he faithfully reproduced
the whiskers in marble. Soon after
the statue was set up in Oak Hill it
was discovered that John Howard
Payne had never worn a beard.
The sculptor, enraged and undaunt
ed, proceeded forthwith to chisel the
whiskers off of the marble image of
the immortal author of “Home, Sweet
Home,” so that to-day the visitor to
Georgetown’s historic old cemetery
beholds the classic face in marble of
John Howard Payne sans whiskers,
except for a mustache.
Junkers Part of the Year.
This is the time of the ye^ar when
numbers of down-river residents who
during the winter dredge for oysters,
turn “junkers," and if anything make
more money in that business than
they do in the oyster, and they cer
tainly do not have to work half as
hard to earn it. In small flatties or
canoes the junkers cruise along the
creeks tributary to the Potomac and
exchange with the good housewives
good money for rags, bones and old
iron, and hardly a day passes but
that two or three of these junk
laden vessels arrive at Alexandria
and dispose of their cargoes. Recent
ly the flattie Hattie arrived at Alex
andria with an assorted cargo of odd
objects gathered from farms along
the whole length of the Potomac. The
most prominent thing on deck was the
skeleton of a cow, complete except
for the head, and bones of other ani
mals could be found. In the iron
were parts of farming implements, old
bicycles, sewing machines, wagon
tires, stove parts, in fact almost any
thing made of iron was on the boat,
and will soon find its way into a
foundry furnace, to be made into new
and useful things.
One on the Grocer.
“The late Thomas Beecham,” said
an advertising agent, “spent over half
a million a year on ads. He wrote, up
to the age of 75, his best ads. himself.
He was a witty old gentleman. They
tell a story about him and a grocer.
“The grocer was guilty of some rath
er sharp practice on Mr. Beecham one
day, and the latter stamped out of
the shop roaring:
“ ‘You’re a swindler, and I’ll never
enter your doors again.’
“Next day, though, he came back
and bought five pounds of sugar.
“ ‘Dear me,’ said the grocer, smil
ing in a forgiving way, '} thought you
.were never going to enter my doors
again.’
“ ‘Well, I didn’t mean to,’ skid Mr.
Becham, ‘but yours is the only shop
in the place where I can get what I
want. You see, I am going to pot
some bulbs, and I need sand.’ ”
Why This Druggist Sells for Cash.
"I remember,” said* the negro drug
gist, interviewed in Atlanta, “the* last
time we got into trouble. We needed
|400 to pay our bills. I picked out
some of our best customers and gaye
them a heart to heart talk and told
them what trouble we were in. Thej
all promised to pay; but on the day
we set for payment, out of $l,68t
which they owed us we collected bul
$8.25. After that experience we came
dswn to a cash basis. We trust nc
one and since then we have been do
ing well”—Ray Stan card Baker, ir
American Magazine.
WINE OF DANDELION
one: op the best of all known/
TONICS.
With «r_ Without Alcohol It It ai
Pleasant and Healthful Drink
Some Different Ways of Pre
paring It for Use.
The bright golden dandelion blos-i
soms, not the roots, make an excel-!
lent tonic wine or cordial. Choose
them from a clean piece of grass,,
rinse quickly to expel any insects*;
then cover with boiling water. Leti
this stand in a warm place, but not;
to cook fast, for about five minutes, to j
insure a strong infusion. Now press [
hard to extract all the juices. When
strained and measured you must'
sweeten to taste—it will take quite a)
good deal of sugar—and add brandy. 1
Allow one pint of brandy to every'
four gallons of the dandelion sirup.;
Put it in glass jars or bottles until'
fermentation ceases, then rebottle and1
seal. Wines are usually kept filled upj
as they “work,” so that the ferment-;
ing material on the top can fall out-:
side. When it has ceased working;
bottle it freshly and seal it.
A dandelion wine that has no spirit/
added and is not fermented makes a)
very pleasant and healthful drink.)
This recipe was obtained' from a wom-i
an who makes it for customers in thei
suburbs. It is an old English recipe.;
She also makes fine English plum pud-'
ding, and these little sales add to her;
small income obtained from keeping!
a tollhouse.
Hake two heaping quarts of dande
lion flowers, add four quarts of boiling
water. Let stand for 24 fiours. Strain
and add three pounds of sugar and two;
lemons sliced thin. Boil all for 15!
minutes and bottle. If not desired;
very sirupy, then scant the sugar al-'
lowaace. An orange could replace the!
lemon if desired.
Tbls is the easiest of the several! *
recipes given.
A dandelion wine that has yeast add
ed to it to start fermentation, also ob
tained in Pennsylvania, is made from1
three quarts of dandelion blossoms,
three pounds of white sugar and one
gallon of water and two oranges and'
two lemons.
Place the blossoms in an earthen
jar or deep bowl. Pour the water
over boiling hot. Let them stand un
covered. Itfext morning strain and1
add the sugar and boil this sirup for
half an hour. Pare the lemons and
oranges very thin, rejecting all the in
ner white portion. Bruise the par
ings thoroughly and add to the above
ingredients.
"When cooled until about lukewarm,
add one-fourth of a yeast cake. Let
all stand a week or ten days to fer
ment. Strain and then bottle. Do not
cork it tight until it has done work
ing.
The color is light amber.
Easily Made Skirts.
Half the time may be saved and a!
much smoother fit be secured by first,
plaiting each gore according to direc-,
tions before sewing seams together.!
All plqits may be machine stitched!
excepting hip gore, where all the fit
ting should be done by simply lapping!
plait on that seam. Paste gores onlyi
as far as hip length until fitting is!
done. Then sew seams on under side)
from hip down to do not press open,,
but press in the plait that comes oni
that seam. There will be no puckersi
at seams and a full plait skirt may!
be made in half the time it takes!
when first sewing the gores together,
and then plaiting in the old way.
Spots on Books.
Ink spots or writing may be re-i
moved from a book by applying spir-j
its of salts diluted with five or six!
times their bulk of water, which may)
be washed off in two or three min-'
utes with clear water. A solution of.
oxalic, citric, or tartaric acid will an
swer the same purpose, as none of|
them will affect the printing. Grease,
spots may be removed by laying pow
dered pipe clay on both sides of the
paper and applying an iron as hot
as may be without scotching the pa
per. This will also take grease spots
from colored leather bindings.
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Protect Rugs.
If one has not a room set apart for
sewing and must use either dining or
some other room which has a rug.
take a sheet and spread on the floor
under the machine and around the
corner where sewing (a few tacks will!
hold in place nicely) to catch all the
threads and pieces which cannot help
falling. This easily can be lifted up!
in the evening, and your rug is as,
fresh and clean as when the sewingj
was commenced.
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Boil Gravy.
In warm weather any gravies or;
soujjs that are left from the preceding,
day should be boiled up and poured
into clean pans. This is particularly!
necessary where vegetables have been,
added to the preparation, as it sooni
turns sour. In cooler weather every,
other day will be often enough to!
warm up these things.
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New Metric Chart.
A new metric chart representing
geographically measures of the Inter
national metric system of weights and
measures has been prepared by the
bureau of standards of the department)
of commerce and labor, and will be.
furnished free to any school teaching!
the system.
Elevator* of Pioneer Days.
“Bragley claims to have built the,
first passenger elevators ever used in.,
this country.”
“Nonsense. The Mississippi steam
boats were running and blowing upl
regularly long before he was born.”--*
Philadelphia Press. »
Prom Bottom to Top.
A. A. Robinson, president of the
Mexican Central railroad, began his
career as an axman in an engineering
corps of the St. Joseph & Denver City,
railroad.
What Kills.
Hunger and thirst scarcely kill any,
but gluttony and drink kill a great!
many. !
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