PROMINENT PEOPLE
NEW PRESIDENT OF CUBA
Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, the liberal Candi
da I e. who has been elected president of Cuba,
is 5?, years of age and a native of Santa Clara
province, where he has always enjoyed extraor
dinary popularity and influence. He participated
in two great revolutions, in the first of which
he reached the rank of major, and in the second
that of major-general. He was one of the com
missioners sent to Washington to advise as to a
practical method for dissolving the revolutionary
army.
Gen. Gomez was selected as governor of
Santa Clara province by the government of in
tervention, and when his term expired he was
elected governor as a republican or conserva
tive. During his term in the gubernatorial chair
he won a high reputation for abilitv and progres
sivem-ss. In May. 1905. the general was nominated for the presidency by
tiie national liberal convention, but resigned his candidacy four months later,
giving as his reason for this action that it was impossible to continue the cam
paign within the bounds of the law. and laying part of the blame on the United
Siat.-s, owing to the Platt amendment. An uprising in Cuba followed, which
ended with the deposition of President Paima and the intervention of the
United States.
In August. 1 Gen. Gomez was arrested charged with conspiracy
aaainst the administration of the late President Palma, but he denied the alle
gation and was released from custody after a month's imprisonment.
In December of the same year Gov. Magoon appointed him secretary of
a commission to revise the laws of Cuba. This included the drafting of an
electoral law, defining the organization and functions of the judiciary, a civil
s' ! vice law. and also laws on such other subjects as may be referred to by
the provisional governor.
Gen. Gomez was unanimously nominated for the presidency by the Miguel
is a convention which was held last March. The other faction of the liberal
party, the Zayistas. nominated Alfredo Zavas, but later Senor Zayas resigned
and the two factions formed a coalition, choosing Gen. Gomez as the presi
des :al nominee and Senator Zayas for the vice-presidency.
SENT MORSE TO PRISON
District Attorney Henry L. Stimson, who
prosecuted "Ice King" C. \Y. Morse and Bank
President Curtis, securing convictions in both
cases and sending the former to the penitentiary
for 15 years, is one of the real trust-busting pros
ecutors of the country. Pretty nearly the first
important work he did after his appointment by
President Roosevelt in 1906 was the prosecution
of the sugar trust, the first one begun against
rebating. He secured a judgment against the
big concern for $168,000, four times larger than
any other that has ever stood the test of an
appeal. He also worsted the New York Central
railroad in the case. Other notable cases tried
by Stimson and won early in his official career
were those against James Gordon Bennett and
the New York Herald, and the one in which E. H.
Harriman was compelled to answer after he had practically defied the law
to reach him.
Before his appointment, Stimson was for six years in the firm of which
the head was Elihu R. Root, present secretary of state. This fact may ac
count in a large measure for his selection for his present position, but there
can be no question that he has given an excellent reason for his appointment
in his official career.
Rom in New York 41 years ago. he was educated at Phillips Exeter
academy, Yale college and the Harvard Law school.
BRINGS THANKS OF CHINA
Tang Shao Yi, the high commissioner of the
Chinese empire to The T'nited States, who came
so many thousand miles to thank the United
States government for remitting part of the
Iioxer indemnity, is one of the most brilliant and
capable men of the Flowery Kingdom. In fact,
he is American in many ways, having received
his early education at Springfield, Mass. He
arrived there in 1874, when 12 years old, became
a guest of the family of E. C Gardner, but later
moved to Hartford. Conn., where he attended the
high school, preparatory to his entrance into
Columbia university at New York. He was at
tending that university, when he was recalled to
China in 18S1.
Tang Shao Yi is not only the bearer of let
ters and rare presents to President Roosevelt
and i ;her officials of the American government, as a toaen oi c nma s esteem
ami gratitude. but he is commissioned to observe ana absorb all he can con
cf : ning the financial and commercial systems of the United States, so that
upon his return his country may profit by what he has learned.
After his education in this country, Tang Shao \i was made manager of
the imperial railways in North China and later became ambassador to Thibet,
where he adjusted successfully a difference between England and China over
the perpetual Thibetan question. Later he was made minister to England
and then became mandarin of a Manchurian province, from which he was
promoted to the board of foreign affairs.
At present Tang Shao Yi is director general of railways of the Chinese
empire, high commissioner of customs and a member of the grand council
whit h governs the nation.
While Tang Shao Yi for a time was an ardent progressive, lie is now
identified with those whose motto is "China for the Chinese." But those who
know him best assert that this is simply diplomacy with him. that he firmly
believes in progress and occidental civilization hut he realizes that he can
hope to bring it about only by degrees.
That his visit to this country means more than the mere presentation
of a letter of thanks front the emperor, is thoroughly understood, and it is
conceded that no man in the imperial government is better fitted, not only
to master the intricacies of the American financial system hut to adapt it to
tin peculiar conditions that exist in the Flowery Kingdom.
HOLDS TICKLISH POST
lornii i-aui \\ um-ivieuei men, uerman am
bassador to the court of St. James. is a notable
member of a little group of gentlemen in various
parts of Europe at the present time whose sleep
o' nights must be decidedly fitful and uncertain.
They are the coterie of diplomats who stand be
tween Europe and war. and whose every effort
is being directed to the preservation of interna
tional peace with honor on the one hand and and
to the gentle stroking of the fur of peevish
princes.
At the present moment the position of Count
Wolff-Metternieh is particularly delicate. The
kaiser has vet" excellent reasons for believing
that France and Great Britain are upon very
amicable terms just now. He has something
more than a mere suspicion that Frame is in the
position of the boy with a chip balanced invitingly on his shoulder and his
fist doubled up. And he rather expects that once the fight starts England will
be discovered backing up Jacques Bonhomme to the limit.
Wherefore, the position of the kaiser's official representative at England's
court is a ticklish one, and the chance that the Casablanca incident mar be
the spark dropped in dangerous proximity to the open powder magazine does
no; make for the dreamless slumber of Count Metternich.
The count has been stationed at the British court since 1901. and has a
diplomatic career that has had opportunity to blossom out in half a dozen
capitals from Paris to Cairo. He is a personal friend of the war lord and has
accompanied him on many of his journeys and voyages.
How to Keep Young.
It is true that the neophobia of the
old has its cause in mental attitude
rather than in physical decay. It. is
not that the mental power is less; but
it is natural for a man to rely on the
thinking he did in his twenties and
to refuse to reopen questions he "set
tled" half a lifetime ago.
This atrophy of thought can be
avoided if the danger is foreseen, and
a man deliberately forms the habit of
breaking thought-habits. It can be es
caped if a man recognizes that he is
borne on a stream of social chance
and that, instead of trusting to the
perspective in which things appeared
in his youth, he must look and look
again.
Then there are searchers, skilled in
the advancement of knowledge, who
never conclude their education, who
become accustomed to disowning their
yesterdays and building on to-mor
rows. who remain progressive through
out life, and in their riper years, rich
in the garnered fruits of experience,
they render the greatest service to
society.—E. A. Ross, in “Social Psy
chology.''
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The constantly increasing consump
tion of nuts throughout the United
States augurs well for a better appre
ciation of their food value. The
time when nuts were considered
merely as a luxury, or as something
to be eaten out of hand at odd times,
is rapidly passing away. In earlier
days the native hickories, butternuts,
walnuts, chestnuts, pecans, and many
other nuts found in the United States
were to be had in country regions for
the gathering and were of no com
mercial importance. On the other
hand, the English walnuts (to give
them their most common name), al
monds, cocoanuts, etc., brought from
other countries, were relatively ex
pensive luxuries.
Some nuts, like the native hazelnut
and beechnut, still have practically
no commercial value and. though pal
atable. are almost never offered for
sale, doubtless because they are so
small and difficult to gather in quan
tity. The chinquapin, a small nut al
lied to the chestnut, finds a limited
sale in southern cities, but is doubt
less seldom if ever seen in other
markets. In general, however, condi
tions have changed and our principal
native nuts are now staple market
commodities and bring good prices. At
the same time, owing to changes in
market conditions, and to the growing
of foreign nuts in quantity in this
country, the price of the imported nuts
has dropped so that they are well
within the reach of the majority.
From available statistics it appears
that in 1905 the total quantity of al
monds. cocoanuts, Brazil nuts, filberts,
peanuts, walnuts and other nuts,
shelled and unshelled, imported into
the United States was. in round num
bers. S6.2118,000. pounds, with a value
of $6,138,000. In 1905 the total almond
crop in California reached 4.200.000
pounds and the walnut crop 12.800.000
pounds. The richest yield of peanuts
was reported from the southern states,
chiefly Virginia. Georgia and Tennes
see. and amounted to 225.000,000
pounds.
The total quantity' of home-grown
nuts, including both native and intro
duced varieties, must far exceed the
quantities imported, but in the nature
of the case no estimates of the total
quantities gathered and eaten are pro
curable. When wTe consider the con
stantly increasing demand for nuts
and the large quantity which we im
port from other countries, the possi
bilities of the industry for the Ameri
can nut grower are obvious. As the
use of nuts has increased, many per
sons have turned their attention to the
growing of native and foreign nuts on
a commercial scale. This work has
been forwarded by the department of
agriculture, through the bureau of
plant industry, and by the California,
Florida. Michigan and other agricul
tural experiment stations. With nuts,
as with other crops, it has been found
that, by selection and breeding, im
proved varieties are obtainable, of
larger size, better flavor, thinner
shells, or other desirable character
istics.
The increased demand for nuts is
due in the main to two causes, namely,
a better appreciation of their appetiz
ing qualities and the numerous ways
in which they form a palatable addi
tion to the diet of the average family,
and. secondly, to their use by the vege
tarians and persons of similar belief—
a group small in proportion to the
total population, but still fairly large
numerically—who use nuts, and more
particularly the peanut, as a substitute
for meat and other nitrogenous and
fatty foods.
Even a cursory examination of the
journals devoted to cookery and other
branches of home economics and of
the various books which are published
on the subject will show the fairly
general use of nuts for making soups,
for stuffing poultry, for nut butters,
nut salads, cakes, salted nuts, and
other dishes, and indeed several vol
umes devoted exclusively to nut cook
ery have been published.
Many special nut foods, such as
malted nuts, meat substitutes, etc.,
have been devised and extensively ad
vertised by the manufacturers for gen
eral use in the diet and for the special
needs of vegetarians and fruitarians,
l! is said that some of these American
nut products contain soy beans, but
apparently the peanut plays a very
important part in their composition. In
either case, since the peanut, like the
soy bean, is a legume, these prepara
tions might more properly be com
pared with the bean cheese and other
soy-bean products, so much used in
China, Japan and other eastern coun
tries. than with such nuts as the wal
nut. almond or cocoanut.
The edible portion of nuts, with few
exceptions, is very concentrated food,
containing little water and much fat.
in general, nuts are also rich in pro
tein Those ranking highest in this
nutrient, the pignolia, a variety of
pine nut imported from Spain, with
33.9 per cent., the peanut with 29.8 per
cent., and the butternut with 27.9 per
cent, protein, surpass most ordinary
animal or vegetable foods in this re
spect. The almond, beechnut, and pis
tachio, with 21.4 per cent.., 21.8 per
cent., and 22.6 per cent., respectively,
compare favorably with dried legumes.
The Brazil nut contains 17.4 per cent,
protein, the filbert 1G.5 per cent., the
walnut 18.2 per cent., the hickory nut
15.4 per cent., the pinenut 14.6 per
cent., the pecan 12.1 per cent., and the
dry chestnut but 10.7 per cent. The
dry acorn, fresh chestnut and cocoa
nut. with 6.4, 6.4 and 6.6 per cent., re
spectively, are not as rich in protein
as bread.
Of the nuts here included the rich
est in fat is the pecan, with an average
of 70.7 per cent., but seven other va
rieties—the Brazil nut, butternut, can
dlenut, filbert, hickory nut, pinenut
and walnut—contain upward of 60 per
cent. The almond, cocoanut and
pistachio yield between 50 and 60 per
cent, of this nutrient. The beechnut,
peanut, and pignolia contain about 50
per cent. In other words, in 13 of the
varieties of nuts appearing in the fore
going table, half or more of the edible
portion is fat or oil.
Only a few of the commonly used
nuts yield any notable amounts of
total carbohydrate matter, the dry
chestnut, with 73 per cent., rating
highest. Beechnuts, pinenuts and pea
nuts have about 18 per cent. The
quantity of starch found is, with some
exceptions, quite small, ranging from
three per cent, in the beechnut to 27
per cent, in the chestnut.
CHANCE FOR PLAIN GIRLS
Business Men Put Ability Away Ahead
of Good Looks.
“It is a great mistake to suppose
that beauty cuts a big figure in the
employment of stenographers." said a
business ntr.n of large experience;
"the pretty typewriter' is a stock
phrase of the funny man and the
comic papers of the present day, just
as the 'pretty governess' was in the
40s and the 'pretty milliner' in the 00s.
but as a matter of fact good looks
are rather a detriment to a woman
when applying for a position in an
office, than otherwise. No one is like
ly to excel in more than one profes
sion, and since being pretty is a pro
fession in itself, the general feeling
is that if a woman has succeeded in
that she won't be good for much else.
The chances are that her brain will
be occupied with her pompadour and
her highly polished nails, to the exclu
sion of more important things. An
other reason why the pretty stenog
rapher is at a discount is that most of
'he large business houses employ a
'Roman as head stenographer, and
women are even more apt to look
askance at a pretty face than men
are. They are in the secret. They
know how much—or how little—is apt
to be behind it St), all things con
sidered. the girl with red hair and
Heckles stands a better chance than
the beauty when it comes to seeking
employment in a business office."
The Flagstaff Menace.
Boston electrical engineering ex
perts have issued a warning against
the placing of flagstaffs on skyscrapers
and other tall structures. They de
clare that the danger from lightning is
great and that ail flagstaffs must be
removed from high buildings. If not
there will be a catastrophe in the near
future which will be appalling. They
also insist on all high smokestacks
and chimneys being equipped with
■'spiders," a new form of lightning
conductor.—New York Tribune.
llWlfies {or
Wtfltmtnuts
Blotting Pad with Fancy Corners.
Some sheets of white blotting paper
laid on a piece of heavy cardboard cov
ered with bright-colored wall paper
or cretonne, make a pretty blotter.
Corners of the double paper or cre
tonne keep the blotting paper in place.
Paper Owls.
Comical paper owls are made of
plain brown tissue paper, crinkled by
passing through the hands a number
of times. Stuff with wadding, and tie
at each end. Cut one end in a point
for the tail. Leave the other end wide
and square for the head. Sew shoe
buttons on circles of yellow cloth out
lined with black, for eyes. Attach
the owls to a twig. Made in three
sizes, the birds look like a little fam
ily. An effect of plumage is gained
by using dark water colors, marking
all over the body.
Jewel Cabinet.
An ingenious little article is a jewel
basket, made of a square box. fitted
with pill box drawers, each having a
passe partout ring for a handle. It is
covered with pink or blue silk and is a
dainty accessory for a dressing table.
Snap-Shot Album.
This is made of heavy gray paper,
with covers of gray cardboard or of
SNA P
SHOTS
soft leather. It may be ornamented
with any suitable quotation.
Box for Ball of Twine.
Twine holders are circular boxes
covered with leather or linen, in deep
colors. Little match boxes that are
very charming for men’s tables are
made of the ordinary match boxes that
come by the dozen, with a piece of
stiffened velvet and a little gold paint
along the edges, folded about it and
glued in place to represent a little
velvet book.
SPOILED BY A COOK
CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE IN A
WOMEN’S BOARDING HOUSE.
How a Famished Tableful Had to Wait
for Their Turkey Until the Bel
ligerent Female Could Be
Coaxed from the Room.
“My most unpleasant and yet most
comical experience of Christmas-keep
ing,” said the concert singer, “dates
back to the time when I lived for
economy's sake in a home for working
women. The cook we had was a good
one, and so, when Christmas day came,
we all felt assured that at one o'clock
we should have our orthodox turkey
and-plum-pudding dinner.
“Rut one bottle of whisky, smug- ;
gled into a Christian kitchen, will up
set the expectations of 30 hungry
boarders. Just how many drinks the
cook had that morning. I cannot say,
but when dinner time came she was
belligerently drunk. The turkey w-as
as well roasted as though she had
been sober, but what was that to the
boarders in general, when she stood
over it, carving-knife in hand, declar
ing that not a soul in that dining-room
should have a mouthful of it but
mamma and myself?
“Vainly did the matron threaten and
entreat. The determined cook was not ,
to be disarmed. Mamma and I were
bountifully helped, but the others sat
and waited, wondering what would be
the outcome of the trouble. Finally,
the defeated matron came out of the
kitchen, and with tears in her voice,
said to me:
“ ‘I can do nothing with her. Will
you go in and see what you can do?'
“And so I went in, and in my most
affable manner invited intoxicated
Bridget to sit down and have a friend
ly cup of tea with myself. She com
plied, though with an eye still on the
turkey. After we had had our tea, by
exerting all of my arts and wiles I per
suaded her to go up stairs and to bed.
It was not until she was safely out of
the kitchen that dinner was served to
the other boarders.
“Of course the next day there was a
bad quarter of an hour for that cook,
one that ended with her ‘getting her
duds together and skipping.' Many,
in fact, all of us, were ready to plead
for her, knowing that she could not
easily be replaced: but the matron
was adamant, protesting that in her
experience with the creature she had
already forgiven her until seventy
times seven, and she wasn't going to
forgive her again. And I heard after
ward that it was really a year or
more before the woman was taken
back again into that kitchen.
“Naturally, it was easier for the
other boarders, who, you may be sure,
resented that ‘inwasion of their wlt
tles,’ to forgive the cook than to make
friends with mamma and me, and from
that time on we were the most unpop
ular persons in the house. We had
been ruined by a cook's favor. It
would not have mattered so much
about the boarders, but the defection
of her kitchen head was too much for
the matron's magnanimity, and as she
managed the lady managers of that
institution, it was not very long before
we too, in our culinary friend's lan
guage, had to ‘get our duds together
and skip.' ”
CHRISTMAS
TREE
Cut out of a piece of cardboard the
form of a five-pointed star five inches
long. Cover with gold leaf or silver
leaf. For the rays of light take about
STAR
FOR THE
15 broom straws, dip them in gold or
silver paint and paste them back of
the star in bunches of three. Take a
piece of writing paper, roll it into a
stiff roll, fasten one end to a twig
and paste the other end at the back of
the star. The star may then be ar
ranged at the top of the tree.
Doing Up the Gifts.
A new way of doing up gifts which
will please all, and particularly de
light the children, is to use white tis
sue paper for wrappers, and, instead
of tying with ribbon, fasten the paper
in place by using small seals over the
edges where they are folded down.
The seals come specially for the pur
pose and are decorated with tiny
sprays of holly. If you are sending
off a Christmas box put a layer of
white tissue paper or white cotton on
top of the packages and over this
sprigs of holly or mistletoe.
WAS VERY FULLY OCCUPIED.
Situation in Which Bibulous Irishman
Had His Hands Full.
Some one asked George B. CorteF
vou. secretary of the treasury, if he in
tended becoming a candidate for gov
ernor of New York. Now, Mr. Cortel
you had an especial aversion for lead
ing questions, so he answered by tell
ing the following story:
Two Irishmen celebrated St. Pat
rick's day and started home together
but became separated. Finally they
discovered themselves hugging lamp
posts on opposite sides of the street.
“How are yez. Pat?” called Mike.
“Fair,” says Pat, “how are yez?”
“I dunno," says Mike; “come over
and see."
“I can't come." says Pat.
“Why can't yez?” says Mike.
“I've got me hands full slitayin’
where I am,” says Pat.—N. Y. Herald.
BAD ITCHING HUMOR.
Limbs Below the Knees Were Raw
Feet Swollen—Sleep Broken—
Cured in 2 Days by Cuticura.
“Some two months ago I had a hu
mor break out on my limbs below mv
knees. They came to look like raw
beefsteak, all red, and no one knows
how they itched and burned. They
were so swollen that I could not get
my shoes on for a week or more. I
used live or six different remedies and
got no help, only when applying them
the Darning was worse and the itching
less. For two or three weeks the suf
fering was intense and during that
time r did not sleep an hour at a time.
Then one morning I tried a bit of
Cuticura. From the moment it touched
me the itching was gone and I have
not telt a bit of it since. The swelling
went down and in two days I had my
shoes on and was about as usual.
George B. Farley, 50 South State SL,
Concord, N. H., May 14, 1907.”
The Criminal Face.
In an address to the Ethnological
society of England on the right
method of dealing with crime and
criminals. Sir Robert Anderson, late
chief of the criminal investigation de
partment at Scotland Yard, referring
to the so-called criminal type of face,
said that on one occasion when Max
Nordau visited him he put before him
two photographs which were so
covered that only the faces were vis
ible. One was that of Dr. Temple,
then archbishop of Canterbury, and
the other that of Raymond, the prince
of criminals of his time. The arch
bishop's face, said Sir Robert, when in
repose had an expression which might
almost be termed sinister. Raymond
had a remarkably kindly, intelligent
face. Max Nordau, who was told that
ont* of the two photographs was that
of a prominent English public man.
would not express any opinion as to
the types.
AFFECTING SIGHT.
Cook (to her friend)—The proposal
that the widower made me was really
very moving. He brought his four
children with him, and they all knelt
before me.
Diversion in the Country.
“I visited E. R. Thomas and found
him doing well after his motor acci
dent,” said a member of the Automo
bile Club of America. “Thomas, as
usual, railed against our bad roads.
“He said that a friend who lived In
the country had been to see him.
“ ‘The country is all right in the
summer,’ Thomas admitted, ‘but in
the fall and winter don’t you find it
dull?'
“'Dull?- said the other. ‘No, in
deed. Why, out our way some motor
car or other gets stuck in the mud
every night.’ ”
Prefer Cash to Checks.
The bank check has taken small
hold as yet upon the citizens of Mexi
co, especially when amounts of less
than $1,000 are concerned. They con
sider it much easier to pay spot cash
than to give a check for amounts of
$50 and $100 and maintain with some
amount of reason that a business deal
can be put through with better advan
tage when the cash is in sight.
LIVING ADVERTISEMENT
Glow of Health Speaks for Postum.
It requires no scientific training to
discover whether coffee disagrees or
not.
Simply stop it for a time and use
Postum in place of it, then note the
beneficial effects. The truth will appear.
“Six years ago I w’as in a very bad
condition,” writes a Tenn. lady, “I suf
fered from indigestion, nervousness
and insomnia.
“I was then an inveterate coffee
drinker, but it was long before I could
be persuaded that it was coffee that
hurt me. Finally 1 decided to leave it
off a few’ days and find out the truth.
“The first morning I left off coffee I
had a raging headache, so I decided I
must have something to take the place
of coffee." (The headache was caused
by the reaction of the coffee drug—
caffeine.)
“Having heard cf Postum through a
friend who used it, I bought a package
and tried it. I did not like it at first
i but after I learned how to make it
j right, according to directions on pkg.,
; I would not change back to coffee for
i anything.
“When I began to use Postum I
weighed only 117 lbs. Now’ I weigh
170 and as I have not taken any tonic
in that time I can only attribute my
recovery of good health to the use of
Postum in place of coffee.
“My husband says I am a living ad
vertisement for Postum. I am glad to
be the means of inducing my many
friends to use Postum, too.”
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well
I ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from lime to time, Thrv
are eennine, true, and full of human
> Interest.