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RUSSIAN RED CROSS DOGS.
The out shows h pack of trained ambulance dogs. Their mission is to
locate the wounded him! to summon the ambulance men by their barking.
They were bred and trained at the Forfamhlre village of Carnoustle, Beot
lund. These auimals are of mixed collie and man-hunting bloodhound type?*
and have been found to be admirably adapted to their purpoie. The Ruaatan
Red Cross organization has sent an order to Scot land for a supply of these
useful creatures.
BABY BROWN, TEN
TIMES A MILLIONAIRE.
If wealth can do It. John Nicholas
Brown, 4, the heir of the Rhode Island
Browns, whose wealth was founded
as shipbuilders in the Revolutionary
War, will grow to manhood in prime
condition, to enjoy the $10,000,000 be
already has, and the other millions
that he may Inherit.
Ha by Hrnwu is fatherless. Ills
father, Nicholas I'.rown, left him
$6,000,000, and an uncle $. r>.<*wVHX»
more, before he was three months old.
He was a delicate child. Ills tnothor
and grandmother are devoting their
lives and fortunes to rearing him to
JOHN NICHOLAS BBOWN, 4.
maturity. He has three residences, a
yacht, a special cook, a retinue of
nurses, a personal physician, valet and
other attendants. A pampered cow
provides him with milk, lie is kept on
Npeclally prepared food and water,
mid as for clothing—well, it would
take a column to list it. The greatest
care is taken to prevent him from
germs. Servants change their cos
tumes before golug near him. He
travels in fumigated conveyances. He
has been studiously kept aloof from
the least speck of the proverbial peck
of dirt that every one is supposed to
absorb during life.
At the age of twenty months he
was obliged to take a sea voyage to
Europe to save his life. At the pres
ent time he Is said to be as strong and
healthy as the average boy of his age.
Not long ago he was present in person
at the dedication of a $25,000 library
willed to Brown University by his
father.
TO GET ANYTHING IN NEW YORK
Average (lot ham Ue !• a Lash-Driven
Hlave -He llotiny.
"That the average New Yorker la a
lash-driven slave was never more for
cibly brought to my attention than the
other night at Ooney Island." said
Carstairs. "When a man lives In the
great and only town for a few years
he becomes so accustomed to being
bossed around by street car conduct
ors, 1/ guards, policemen, janitors,
and everybody elsp that the only way
to get him to do anything Is to howl
at him.
"As for the Illustration: I went down
to Coney with a friend of mind who
knows New Yorkers like a book. As
we got aboard the train at the bridge
there was a crowd, of course, and It
seemed Impossible for us to get
through and aboard the cars. I asked
two or three burly members of the
community who blocked our passage
particularly If they would not stand
aside and let us get a chance at the
oars, but they gave me the merry guf
faw and pushed me back a little far
ther. Here's where my friend's knowl
edge of New Yorkers came In handy.
lie Is a small man who could not stand
much show In a fight, but he has a
carrying and rasping voice. Standing
behind this bunch of bruisers he shout-
Ad:
" 'Ho, there, git out of the wny; git
out quick."
"You ought to have seen the effect.
The group incited a way as though
grape shot had been hurled into their
midst, without looking around to see
who had given the order. We got the
best seats In the cur.
"On arriving nt Coney Island we
Started In to take In I.nun Park. The
entrance was packed, and there seem
ed do chance of pelting our tickets for
an hour. Hut here again my friend
came to the rescue. He put his hand
on the shoulder of the man nearest us
and shouted:
'"'Here, you, move on, now! What
d'ye mean by blocking up this pas
sage? (Jit, now; git, I tell you, or
you'll be sorry!' •
"The man sank trembling to the
renr. and others who heard my friends
demand faded away and made a long
lane for us to pass through up to the
ticket window. There the man sell-
Ing admissions was Inclined to pay no
attention to us, as he had a hundred
or more clamoring with money In their
hands, but my friend gave him a look
and yelled:
"'Look here, you, I want to give
you a tip. I've been watching you for
a week now, and I won't stand any
more o' this business. Understand?
The iimn In the window looked scared
to dentil. Probably he had not been
doing anything out of the way, but he
had the regular New York guilty con
science, and Immediately handed out
two tickets and forgot to take our
money.
"As we left the grounds I heard a
fair damsel whisper to her escort:
" 'I don't quite recognize 'em, but I
think they must be Police Comnilsh
Macydoo and Mayor McOlellan.
They're so bossy.' " —-New York World.
CUREB CONSUMPTION.
French Physician Makes the Claim
thut He Has Found the Way.
Dr. Canu, of Rouen, France, makes
the positive statement that he has suc
ceeded In curing tuberculosis or con-
sumption. Ills
treatment has been
investigated by the
American consul
and the latter bears
testimony to the
efficacy of the
cures. Dr. Canu
does not rely on
sunbaths, out-door
treatment or drugs
in his system, but
effects the cure by
means of electric-
DR. CAN!'.
lty. For three years he has been car
rying on experiments and daring that
time has cured large numbers of peo
ple. His first case was received in
October, 1001, and a cure was effected
in the following December. From
four to eight months, according to the
nature of the disease, is necessary to
effect a cure. The use of alcoholic
drink during the period is entirely pro
hibited. According to Dr. Canu, there
are four classes of tuberculosis and in
all these classes the electric treatment
has been successful. His patients
have come from every grade of socie
ty, many of them being furnished by
the hospitals and by insurance compa
nies. None of them is put on a rigid
diet, although the subject of food Is
taken Into consideration. (Jood, sub
stantial, blood-producing foods are ad
vised. Dr. Canu Is satisfied that can
cer can be treated in the same way
and he offers all the knowledge he
possesses to any one who wishes to
take up the treatment of this disease
by his system of electricity.
Fisherman of Newfoundland.
The fishermen of Newfoundland pos
sess the curious faculty of being able,
as they say, to "smell Icebergs, and
thereby escape many encounters with
them. Really the approach of a berg
Is heralded by a sudden and decided
coldlng of the atmosphere.
After people pass fifty they become
philosophic. That is, they don't let
grief worry them at meal time. It's
Indigestion that worries them at meal
time.
RAILWAYS OP INDIA.
There Are Now Nearly 27,000 Mltaa
of Line There.
There are now nearly 1f7,000 miles
of railway lines In India, and before
the close of I.*>.-. the total will pass the
MO.OOO mark, says the Montreal Family
Herald. The Increase has been quite
rapid during the last nve years, owing
to the experience of the last famine,
when it was demonstrated that facili
ties for the rapid transportation of
food supplies from one part of the
country to another were an absolute
necessity. It Is usually the case that
when the inhabitants of one province
are dying of starvation those of an
other are blessed with abundant crops,
and the most effective remedy for fain
Ine is the means of distributing the
food supply where ii is needed
Before the great mutiny of 1857
there were few railroads in India, and
the lesson taught by that experience
was of Incalculable value, if re-en
forcements could have been sent hj
rail to the beleaguered garrisons, In*
stead <>r making the long marches, tint
massacres mi^ht have been prevented
and thousands of precious lives might
have been saved.
In 1880 the railway system amount
ed to less than lO.'WXi miles. In INiMi it
had been doubled; in 11)01 It Imd pass
ed the U.">,<K>O-mile mark, and now the
existing lines are being extended and
branches and feeders are being built
for military as well as famine emer
gencies. All the principal districts and
cities are connected by rail. All of the
Important strategical points and mili
tary cantonments can be reached
promptly, as necessity requires, and in
case of a rebellion troops could be
poured into any particular point from
the farthermost limits of India within
seventy or eighty hours.
India is a very big country and it re
quires a great many miles of rails to
furnish even necessary transportation
facilities. The time between Bombay
and Calcutta Is forty hours by a fast
train. From Madras, the most impor
tant city of Southern India, to Delhi,
the most Important in the north, sixty-!
two hours of travel are required. From
Peshawur. the extreme frontier post
in the north, which commands the Ky
ber pass, leading into Afghanistan, to
Tutieorin, the southern terminus of
the system, It is 3.400 miles by the reg
ular railway route, via Calcutta, and
four days and nights will be necessary
to make the journey under ordinary
circumstances. Troops could be hur
ried through more rapidly .
FAR MB R S OF THE SOU TH.
Improved Methods of Cultivation An
Rewarding the Husbandman.
The truth begins to dawn uj»on th«
minds of the agricultural writers of
the North that the Southern farmer is
not such a thriftless fellow as he has
heretofore been represented to be,
says the Southern Farm magazine.
The tendency to an improved agri
culture among Southern farmers is be
coming very marked within recent
yenrs. The fact is admitted that n
greater yield of crops with less labor
is the proper direction In which to
work. I^ss land Is being abandoned
tind more manure employed. Im
proved agricultural Implements are be
ing Introduced everywhere. On many
farms where fifteen or twenty hands
were formerly employed the force has
been reduced to five or six. and this,
too, without reducing the profits of the
farm.
Indeed, this change has, with prop
er fertilization, increased the profit*
and bettered the condition of the soil.
The soils which were formerly under
slave labor put In cultivation every
year are now rotated, rested, clovered
and made to do duty once in two or
three years instead of every year. It
is not to be disguised, however, that
all over the South are many gullied
tields that will require years of pa
tient labor to restore to their original
productiveness, but every effort is
pointing in the right direction. Less
land in cultivation and a greater yield,
less lalM>r and more labor saving ma
chines employed, less clearing forests
and more manorial applications, less
attention to large crops and more to
the profits of the farm, better stock
and l>etter attention to them—these
are the channels Into which the best
agricultural thought of the South la
drifting, and a continuance In this di
rection will work marvels of success
Kiid prosperity.
A Man) st«J.-«l Problem.
Modern education, with all Its suc
cesses, sometimes breeds a condltiou
of mental uncertainty. The old max
im, "Be sure you are right, then go
ahead." Is complicated, says Tit-Bits,
by the difficulty of being quite sure
whether one is absolutely right or not.
"Jane!" called a young mother.
"Yes-sum?"
"When the baby has finished his
bottle, lay him in the cradle on his
right side. After eating, a child should
always lie on the right side. That re
lieves the pressure on the heart. Still."
she added, reflectively, "the liver is
on the right side. Perhaps, after all,
you'd better lay him on the left side.
No, I'm sure the book said, "right
side.' On the whole, Jane, you may
lay the baby on his back till 1 have
looked up the matter more thorough
ly."
Raked Indian P'iddin K .
801 l one quart of milk, keeping out
•ne. small cupful; mix this with five
even tablespoonfuls of Indian meal,
stir it into the milk, and boll for ten
minute*. Take the kettle from the fire
and melt Into the nuish two ounces of
butter —or a quarter of a pound, if you
like it rich— stirring it well in. Then
j stir in one teacupfnl of brown sugar,
one teacupful of molasses, half a nut
met;, grated, one tablespoonful of
ground cinnamon, half a teaspoonful
of ground cloves and four eggs, beat
en very light. Bake two hours, and
if the top browns too quickly cover
it. with letter paper until the time is
nearly up. Fruit—either currants or
raisins, or both- improves this pud
ding very much. It should be eaten
when just cold, and If made the day
before it is wanted should be "fresh*
ened" in the oven and allowed to cool
again.
Tickled Cucumber.
Pick the cucumbers, wash and pack
in a Jar. To a gallon throw in a
handful of salt and pour on enough
boiling water to cover. Let stand
twenty-four hours, drain off water and
repeat the process four or five morn
ings, or until the cucumbers taste
"salty." Then drain ofT the water. In
a kettle put three pints of vinegar (or
if very strong cider vinegar, use one
third water), and a little bag of mus
lin containing a tablespoon of mixed
spices. Let come to a boil and pour
over the pickles. Repeat two or three
times twenty-four hours apart. Pack
in glass jars or open jars and heat
vinegar and pour over.
Preserves.
Pare and quarter one peck of sweet
apples, place a layer in the preserv
ing kettle; pare, core and cut in
eighth* fifteen large quinces; place a
layer of quinces over the apples, then
a layer of sugar; alternate the layers
as above until the fruit and five pounds
of sugar have been used. Add two
cupfuls of water and let stand over
night. In the morning cook until fruit
is tender, remove fruit witli perforat
ed skimmer, place in a jar, cook syrup
until thick, pour over the fruit, tie
thick paper over and set in a cool, dry
place. Use parings and cores of
quinces to make jelly.
Stuffed Green Peppers.
.Mix together a cupful of cold-boiled
and minced chicken and three table
spoonfuls of minced ham, and moisten
with a tablespoonful of melted butter.
Cut the stems from green peppers s»
that they stand on end. Cut off the
tops, remove the seeds and membrane
with a small knife; lay in salt and
water for an hour, then drain and stuff
with the prepared meat. Stand on
end in a baking pan, pour about them
a cup of chicken stock and bake until
tender all through. Transfer to a hot
dish, thicken and season the gravy left
in the pan and pour about the base of
the peppers.
Apple Jam.
Sound, tart baking apples are the
proper ones to use. Part the apples
thin, cut them in quarters, core care
fully and slice rather thick; to every
pound allow one pound of good brown
sugar, and to every tive pounds of
apples allow the thinly cut rinds and
Juice of four lemons, and, according to
taste, either a quarter or half a pound
of young whole ginger, and one OUQCS
of cloves. I,et all lie together in a
bowl till next day, when they should
be boiled until perfectly clear and un
til the apples are a rich amber color.
Stuffed Peachen.
Select medium-sized peaches, wash
and take out tin; stone; cover with
salt water and let them staud over
night. In the morning nil the center
with grated horseradish, mixed with a
little celery seed and a small piece of
ginger root. Tie each peach with
string and pack in Jars. Turn over
them heated vinegar, with sugar and
spices to taste. Seal jars, and at
Thanksgiving you will have delicious
peaches to eat with turkey.
~Pie~ ~
Line a pie tin with rich crust; till
with a sweet sauce prepared as for
"puffs," minus the eggs and milk.
■ Cover wit hi a top crust and bake a half
hour —or bake without a top crust and
cover with the frothed, sweetened
whites of eggs, two to each pie.
Baked Halibut.
Wash and dry one pound of halibut,
rub all over with flour and lay in a
buttered pie dish. Sprinkle over a
| little salt and pepper, and then add
one well-beaten egg in a small tea
' cupful of milk. Bake in a slow oven
for half an hour.
Walnut Cake.
Walnut cake is a layer cake spread
first with Icing, then with chopped
j walnut meats. Ice the top and sprin
■ kle with nuts also.
Trade Report.
Bradatreet's says: Popular estt
nates of leading crop yields continue
o enlarge. Corn has passed out of
ianger of serious frost damage in the
west, and distribution both at whole
sale and retail points expands as cool
er weather approaches. Additional fa
vorable features are the continuance
of good trade in pig iron, freer buying
by railways of material and rolling
stock and heavy general crop move
ments are helping collections north
and south. While the buying of dry
goods, hardware, groceries, shoes and
clothing continues in good volume,
particularly at the west, conservative
influences find reflection in small but
foequeni orders calculated to meet ne
cessities. The transportation move
ment is heavy. Most activity in cur
rent distribution, whether of dry goods,
shoes, clothing, lumber, hardware or
building material exists in the west
and northwest.
Wheat, including flour, exports for
the week ended October 6, aggregate
1,091,825 bushels, against 1,182.293 last
week and 2,378,7^,3 last year.
From July 1 to date the exports ag
gregate 18,548,741 bushels, against 42,
--61G,086 last year. Failures in the Unit
ed States for the week ended October
6 were 195, against 179 last week and
197 last year. In Canada failures for
the week number 19.
Spokane Retail Markets.
Vegetables—Potatoes, iy z c lb; tur
nips, 3@4c bunch; rutabagas, 3c lb;
dry onions, 4@sc lb; cabbage, 3@4c
lb; celery, 2 bunches sc; parsley, 3@
5c bunch; cucumbers, s@loc each;
green onions, 10@15c doz; new beets,
3 bunches 10c; watercress, 5c bunch;
fresh carrots, 2 bunches sc; mint, 5c
bunch; tomatoes, s@6c lb; parsnips, 2
bunches sc; cantaloups, B@loc each;
cauliflower, 10@15c bunch; green pep
pers, 18@23c lb; watermelons, 25@40c
each; summer squash, s@loc each;
egg plant, 10@15c each; sweet pota
toes, 4@sc lb; pickling cucumbers, 25c
100.
Poultry—Dressed chickens, young
chickens, 18c lb; hens, 18c lb; old roos
ters, 14@l«c lb; spring ducks, 18c lb;
goslings, 18c lb; spring chickens, 20c
lb.
Dairy Products—Butter, best cream
ery, 30@35c lb; common creamery, 20
025 c lb; best country, 20c lb; com
mon country, 12^6 @16c lb; imported
Swiss cheese, 40c lb; American Swiss
cheese, 25c lb; cream brick cheese,
18@25c lb; New York cheese, 20c lb;
Wisconsin cheese, 15c lb.
Flour—Eastern fancy patents, $1.65
@ 1.75 sack; local patents, $1.30 sack;
standard, |1.20 sack; lowest, $1.10 sk;
Washington wheat, $4.30@5.35 bbl;
buckwheat, 40@50c 10 lb sack.
Grain and Feed—Timothy, 85@90c
cwt; alfalfa, Ss@9oc cwt; oats, $1.40
cwt; grain hay, 85@90c cwt; bran, 85
@90c cwt; bran and shorts, 95c@$l
cwt; shorts, $1.25 cwt; wheat, $1.40
cwt; chopped barley, $1.35@1.45 cwt;
oil meal, 2%c lb; seed oats, $1.50 cwt;
Seed —Red clover, $17 cwt; alsike
clover, $16 cwt; alfalfa, $18 cwt; tim
othy, $6 cwt; best redtop, $12 cwt;
Kentucky bluegrass, $15 cwt; orchard
grass. $15 cwt; brome grass, $9 cwt;
rye, $2.25 cwt.
City hay market —Loose timothy hay
$14 ton; oat hay, $13; wheat hay, $14.
Wholesale Produce Prices.
New potatoes, $1.20 cwt; peaches,
50©76 c box; tomatoes, 40@50c box;
onions, $1.75 cwt; cabbage, $2 cwt; ap
ples, 50@75c box; plums, 50®60c per
crate; peppers, 60c box; pears, $1®
1.50 box; crabapples, $1 box; Rocky
Ford cantaioups, $1.25@1.50 crate;
Concords, 30@35c basket; Tokay, $1.50
crate: Muscats, $1 crate; Hubbard
squash, $1 dozen.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, $19 ton; bran and shorts, $20
ton; oats, $1.35 cwt; wheat, $1.35 cwt;
chopped corn, $1.60 cwt; whole corn,
$1.50 cwt; timothy hay, $17 ton; al
falfa hay, $13.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Vegetables and Fruits —Root vege
tables, 75c cwt; potatoes, 75c cwt; ap
ples, 50(ft)60c box; pears, 75c@$l box;
onions, $1.25 cwt; cabbage, $1.25 cwt.
Poultry and Eggs—Chickens, roost
ers, 13c lb; hens, 12@13c live wtight;
young chickens, $3@4 dozen; geese
and ducks, lie lb; eggs, $7@B case.
Live Stock—Steers, $2.50@3 cwt;
wethers, $2.50 cwt; hogs, $5.50 cwt;
veal, $5@7 cwt.
Hay—Timothy, $16 ton; alfalfa, $12
ton; oats, $1.10@1.20 cwt.
Creamery Products, f. o. b. Spokane
—First grade creamery butter fat, per
lb., 24% c.
Northwestern Wheat
Portland.—Wheat for export: Walla
Walla, 82c; bluestem, 85c; valley, 85c.
For eastern markets: Walla Walla,
83c; bluestem, 86c.
Tacoma, Wash.—Wheat—One cent
lower; bluestem, 86c; club, 82c.
San Francisco may claim to have
the most capacious harbor and also
the safest. Port Philip bay, the chief
harbor of Victoria, Australia, is larger
than the bay of San Francisco, but its
very breadth leaves it exposed to
storms from certain quarters.
