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R, CANNON AT HOME in Interview With the Speaker at Danville. IS ACTIVE ~CAREER RPRESSION OF OPINIONS ON MANY TIMELY TOPICS. ur Country at Home and Abroad Canada of the Future-Cam paign of 1904. eet,yrh :' t !.I04. by Fraenk t. ('arpenter.) Sit down with me on the big porch of iw.aker iannon's big house here in Dan ille and have a heart-to-heart talk with ni of tie really big men of the country! lit wirhd which fans our cheeks like a ."a b,reeze conies from the corn-laden Ill1 nis prairi's, rustling the forest trees at ur side with its song of prosperity and eace. WCe arn away from the factions of olitics, away from the strife of legisla lon, away from the struggling of every ay statesnanship; we are away from the ig cities, away out in God's country, where n' can look at himself and the world. It tinder such cenditions that I have had a isit with Joe 'annon, the results of which re t'mnhodied in the conversation which , llows. The titrst part of our talk was of a per ohal nature. i had asked the Speaker as o his boyh;oeid and I.' r Ilied that he could emembher as far back as when he was four 'ears old. now sixty-four year's ago. '"It was tinn.' saii he. ''that we cml rated frn North 1'anlina to Indiaa. We atme over the mnunutins in canvas-covered ;agons, slhepeing in tints. W\e crossed the ittle Ian r'her. It was as big to me then . the \lis:essippi is ne"w. I canh still see the te.et forests, the wili flowers by the road iii. and the seluirrels dar ting from tree tie ce. His Quaker Ancestors. "'hin your parents were southerners, Mr. pi aker?" "They were ltorn in North t'arolina, but ley were Quakers of the old stock that ent from MassachusetIs south and emi rated thence to different parts of the west. Iw 'y were lnatiuraI pineers. always moving rom place to pice. My father and mother ved in Guilford county, N. C. Father aught school then in a little red school ouse, of which I have a picture. lie after :ardh studied medicine and practiced it. here were about twenty families in the aravan which went to Indiana and set led at our little town on the Wabash. It -as there I got my first schooling and there lived until I was fifteen, when father was rowned and I had to go to work.'' "What did you do then, Mr. Speaker?" '"1 cierked in a country store for five .:rs, after which I went Into an office nu studied law. It took me some time to it a start as a lawyer, but I finally suc ieied, and was doing we'll when I was r,t elected to Congress, about thirty-two tars ago. With the exception of one term have been in C'ongress ever since.' The Delights of Youth. 'Th, n your boyhood was not an easy ne Mr. Speaker?" 'T'i rhl a not, in comparison with that of h i y ho's of today; but it was like that f I.e utlaor boys of the community and I heorougl,Iy enjoyed it. There is nothing k, tle pleasures of youth ard its glorious reams of the future. As we grow older are content wit I the present. I have t built an air castle for thirty years. al hough I enjoy life still. "Ard yet the pleasures of my youth ight be censide'r, d hardships now. In medays every boy rose at daybreak to nke the tire. You crept from the warm i.n is out on the cold floor to dress. rnig.t he tinit vour boets had frozen c, r night. anm how you did have to pull ttirng the-m on. Then if you had been heughtful arid lad carried in the wood ''fire b-nit ir. it was not hard to kindle it nil to put the kettle' on the crane; but If ot. you had to go eeut and split the wood . tie snow. After the fire was built came w milking, and you took two pails and eent out to the' barn. One pail held the nilk and the other served for the strip ings. You had to watch that the old nuley cow did not kick you, and it might e that she would flirt her bedraggled tall nto your still half-sleepy eyes. After milk tg you came In and had breakfast, and ow it did taste' "Snow halls then were as good as apples ow and every bit as sweet. "When I worked in the" country store I ad ton gn't up. make tia- lire. sweep out, *nt breakfast and be reaidy for business by o'clonck in thle morning, and I stayed In he store until 9t o'clock at night. Was it ardl? No! Other boys did the same, and -- had our fun. tono. Many a time we went 'ut aind danced till daybreak and got back iandy to open unp at the usual timre. We tiy hauvn yawined a lIttle durIng the day. uit tIe elixir of youth retnediedi all before ighnt."' The Education of a Speaker. I here aske'd Mr. Cannon to tell me more bout his edunnation. He Is a well-read can, and in hIs speeches uses excellent Inglish, illustrating his points from his ary and literature, ancient and modern. ir. Cannon said: "My education was con Ined to the country school, to home teach pg about the bIg log fireplce, where lther read to us at night. and to my own ~rvate study. While I was clerking I had pore onr less time whein business was slack, ~nd after I bnegain tin r. ad law I got a smat erinig of Latin" "What hoonks (d1i' oiu have?" "Very few during my boyhood. There a a little public libirary In the saddler's hop in nour town, anid its books were pass d arounnd. We hind Plutarch's Lives. esops Fahnles. Josephuisn' History of the ews, RollIns' Ancient Ilistory, Shake pear. aund tine itible. I read till these gain aind ungatn. 1 read Shakespeare be ore I was tlften,n andi every year fromi ine tint il flfte'en I hand to read the Btible birounnghn friom i-ind ton ind." "Cnyuquote mnuch from the hIl?'" lpeaker. lit theIn ible has fuinhed me nt- illulst rat in rs fonr myv speechies than iny. other bonk. It is full nof grand ph' urns. amin it has paraleis annil examples ii ist rnainig every phaise inf human life and ntIon" "Whia t part s of th Iibtlle have helped you Os t "' 1 nsk.i "'I ''t an harly eay They are all good. The l Te-'instaet aind tin. Niw nre' full of :r-at thouinghts anni striking images. Take tavbli a tnd his P'salmns, tine Proverbs of Sol mnnn anid Solomnnn's Songs. There Is noth ng lik.' the ai'ninywhere. En'ele'sianstes is a rn-nt phiilonsophinal poem, and allt Job is 'mn-try. Tink of tih' tnry oif Exodus and lie w;ninlng o,f the chosen people through hi' wildn'rni'ss for forty years. annd that rily twno nif till thteir host ever saw the >rumisend land. And then the sermon ont hc mionut annd tine life ouf Paul. The Bible aa trn-asure hiouse It huas had greiit in' miuenn'e uponn mte nall mny life.'' ''Wha.t boninks stamnd ni'xt to tine libnle in -nnur est imatinon?'" ''Sakn-spea-rn has. I suippose, tine second nlanne, but I stutdy Shnakespear'e still tand ndn It ever fr-sh and eve'r new. Plutaurch-s A-i-es I kn,nw ailmost by heart. ad their -haractn'rs tarn' very real to me. From Rol ins I got munch of mny knowledge of the freeks and Romans, aund from ShakespearE suman nature-" College Educations for Congressmen. "I here' asked the spneaker as to what he hought onf the benettits of a college educa ion, IIe replied: "I have regretted that I was not able to o to college. The lack of such an educa ion made it so that I have had to do my ife work with dull tools. Education sharp na the intellectual faculties and the man who possesses It works more surely and! pfely. I have for years been on the appro. pration committee of the House of Rep -esentatives and have signed conference re srts appropriating more than one billion lollarm. - I have had my say as to the con lents of those reports, but I would not vs itemnpaa the writin= of one for a for tune. Why? Because the reports are writ ten in a hurry and the misplacing of a sin gle comma might have cost the nation mil lions of dollars and brought me everlasting disgrace." Schools That Make Men. "But schools like yours have their ad vantages over the colleges. Mr. Speaker." said I. "It is such schools that make men." "That may be true," was the reply. "There are greater disadvantages than having to work one's way through life. Such' work brings out the man and har dens his character. Those who are doing things in the world today, are largely men schooled as I was. They come from the middle walks of life. They have had to fight their way upward and through fight ing they grew. I learned much in that coun try store. It taught me exactitude, industry and the value of the nickel. Only the few est people ever learn that twenty nickels make a dollar. In that store the accounts had to be exact. I remember we sold a calico dress for a dollar and it then took just eight yards to make a dress. We meas ured it off with the yard stick-just eight yards. not a quarter of an inch more, not a quarter of an inch less. Eight pounds of coffee were sold for a dollar and I learned to measure out just eight pounds. I think we put the paper on the scales first. An other common article we sold was tobacco I which cost forty cents a plug, but which was usually sold in five cent cuts. I learn ed to cut a plug in eighths and to put the other seven-eighths away in a glass jar for future customers. All this taught me to be exact." Cannon's Pirat Five Hundred Dollars. "It must have taught you to be econom ical as well?" "Economical!" exclaimed Mr. Cannon? "Ye gods! how economical I was then! A nickel looked bigger than a double gold eagle does now, and I am not extravagant today. I wanted to study law and get ahead, and I saved every cent. How close ly I saved you may know when I tell you that for that five years I received $1,000 in wages, an average of $4 a week, and I saved just half of that. The result was that I had $-i0 when I stopped clerking. I lived upon that while I studied law. "That saving taught me the uses and value of money," continued Mr. Cannon. "It gave me habits which enabled me to pay the debts incurred in the dull season of my law study and early practice. It caused me to invest my surplus thereafter, with the result that when I went to Con gress I had what was then considered a good income outside my salary.'' "('ould you not live upon your salary while in 'ongre ss?" I a sked. 'I liave not done so.'' was the reply. "I ha e livel weli. although not extravagantly. My . xIenses have been about twice as much :;s the am.unt received from the gov ernnwnPt. N'vertheless those investments mae ," in heh 'lays of my law practice, owing to tIe- rise in farm lands and other things, have iane it so that I could now leave pub lir life anl i.e comfortably off. I don't mean tha; I wouid he a rich man in the pres" nt s, nse of the word, but I would have enough for all my needs." The Prime of Life at Sixty-Eight. "You are too young a man. Mr. Speaker, to think of retiring. You seem to be in your prime. ' ''If a men is as .id as he feels.'' said Mr. Cannn. ''I am still in my prime. I am sixty-eight. but I have never felt better, physically or mentally. I work more easily and can h:undle men better than in the past. How long this will last I do not know. lut the-re are many men in public life older than I who are still doing good work. Senators F'rye and Proctor are sev enty-thre,": I'ullom. the chairman of the foreien relations committee of the Senate, is seventy-four, while Allison and Hoar are each seventy-five. All these men are more efficient than they have ever been. The length of a man's working life is largely a matter of Individual constitution. Some are older at thirty than others are at sixty. If the Lord should give me threescore or even fourscore years of working life I shall be glad. I should like to remain upon this earth as long as I can be useful to myself and my fellows, and no longer. When I begin to fail I want to retire. [ don't want to cumber the ground." Uncle Sam and His Hemisphere. The conversation here turned to public questions, and I asked Speaker Cannon his opinion as to the future of the United States. He replied: "The future of this country is the future of the world's civilization. This Is the great breeding ground for the best of the human race. It is the source of that element which does things, controls things, creates things. We have eighty million people now. With in another hundred years we shall have three hundred millions, and will have spread beyond our borders on the north and south. By the close of this century we Americans will dominate this continent and this hemisphere. We will have passed be yond Mexico, Central America and the Isthmus of Panama, and will have Inclosed all South America In the grasp of our In fluence." "By this I do not mean that we will un dertake the political government of the South American republics. I do not mean that we will hold them as we now hold our Colonies, nor even as Cuba, which is to some extent a dependency of ours. But 1 do mean that American capital and Ameri cans will have so settled themselves In our sister continent that the day of revolutions and non-progress will have passed away. In the Monroe doctrine we have estab lished the fact that no European power shall ever acquire any new territory in South America. That doctrine will always prevail. There may be European Immigra tion, but those Europeans who go to South America must become South Americans, and this, with the great overflow of our people to that country, means that they will become a part of the world dominated by our ,ideas and the spirit of our civiliza tion." The Canada of the Future. "How about Canada, Mr. Speaker?" "Canada Is already almost a part of the Untited States. It may remain still tied to England In a nominal way, but as time goes on it will become American In sym pathy and more and more American In population and industry. Canada Is one of the growing countries of this time. I look for an enormous emigration there from the United States. It is a land of vast unde veloped resources, which are to 120 opened up by our people." "I suppose that the future of the United States will be confined to this continents" said I. "Yes, to a great extent." said Mr. Can non. "but we are now a world nation and we are reaching out in every direction-and across every sea. The earth is old, but it is hardly touched as far as modern de velopment is concerned. There are vast areas oef new .:ountry in South America; A frica Is still an unknown continent, and so is almost the whole of northern Asia. The world is said to have fifteen hundred million people. There is room upon it for double that number, and many parts of it will support ten which now support one." 'Then you do not believe In the Mal thusian theory?" "No. it will be a long time before wars or pestilences will be needed to restrict thte world's population." The Greatest Factory on Earth. "I suppose you look upon the United States as pretty well filled now?" "Not at all. We have only eighty mil lions and by intensive cultivation we could support ten times that number. It is said that Texas alone would feed the United tltates. And then our mineral resources. The country has not been'scratched and we do not know what we have under the soil. We are already the greatest manufactur ing nation of the world, producing more than Germany. France and England, our three greatest competitors. We send only 3t per cent of whait we make abroad, but that :i per cent forms 29 per cent of our expoerts, and we are now the greatest ex porting nation on earth. Indeed, we make on"-fuurth of all the factory goods made by the world.'' "The basis of our manufactures Is our home market," continued the Speaker. "I want to see this protected in every possible aay, for it is the foundation of our prosper Ity and of our enormous possibilities, There is no market like this. We have more wants than any other people, and spend rrore money to satisfy them. We consume three times as-much per capita as the peo pIe of Europe. Our eighty millions in that respect are equal to any other two hun dred nmillions. We are equal as consumers to two-thirds of all the people of IDurope. ThIs market we must keep to ourselves, and the tarift must be so adjusted that there will be no danger of losing It." Great Fortunes and Their Dangers. "I know we are rich afr. Speaker. But are we not growing too rich? Are you not alarmed at the growth of the great AmIer% can fortunes?' "No. Most of our great fortunea have come from small beginnings. They are the result of the brains and industry of the men who own them, and when their owners die they will soon disappear. I know many of the multi-millionaires of todky. "Take Marshall Field. When I flrst saw him he was a boy clerking In a store. He is worth many millions now: John Rocke feller, who started life poor, is said to be worth hundreds of millions and the same Is true of Andrew Carnegie and others. 'When those men die they cannot carry a dollar away with them. Naked came they into the world and naked shall they de part from It. That fact exists today as it did In the time of the Scriptures." "Yes," said I, "but the fortunes still re main in the families." "Not long," replied Mr. Cannon. "It is an old saying that it is just three genera tions from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves. It is Impossible to tie up fortunes so that they will remain long in the hands of one's de scendants. You may remember the case of old Thulleson, who died about two hundred years ago. That man was enormously rich for his day and he willed his fortune so that : should be kept Intact, and Invested and re-Invested for generations, and at the end divided among his heirs. His will was contested again and again, but in vain. The result of it was that the English parlia ment made a law that no man could dis pose of his property for longer' than the lives of his descendants in being, and for twenty-one years thereafter. That law has been adopted by nearly every other coun try. It is a part of the laws of every one of our states Taxes for the Rich. . "Such things, however, are, after all, in the hands of the people," continued the Speaker. "It is they who make the laws regulating the accumulation and continu ance of wealth. In many of our states there are now inheritance taxes graded according to the sine of the estates of the deceased. ,There may be no tax at all on the first $20, 000, one per cent on the second $20,000, two per cent on the third, three on the next, four on the next and five per cent on all of the estates above $100,000. The people can if they will increase the amount of taxes paid according to the bulk of the property owned by the Individual tax payer. I do not say that they should do so, but they have the power, and if at any time great fortunes become dangerous some way will be found to reduce or distribute them. "Do not misunderstand me," said Mr. Cannon, "I do not deprecate great fortunes. So far I think they have been for the good of the people. It requires great capital to do great things, and the masses are enor mously benefited by the enterprises of the rich. I am only saying that the people have the power, and that, after all, the future is in their own hands." The Government and Its Expenses. "It seems to many, both rich and poor, Mr. Speaker, that our taxes are very heavy now. Are you not alarmed at the increas ing expenditures of the government?" "No. We spent last year In round num bers something like 700 million dollars, or over two million dollars for each working day of the year. The sum is enormous, but you must remember that this is an enor mous country, doing an enormous business. Our business is growing much faster than our population. According to the postal re ceipts It has Increased 1,700 per cent since 1860, and it has doubled within the past ten years. We are also doing more in the work of human progress than any other nation on earth, and, whether willingly or not, as we ourselves are concerned, our sphere Is con stantly widening. We have become a world power and we must accept the responsibili ties of a world power. We must have a strong army and navy, not to wage war but to insure peace and to be ready for emergencies if they should come. I don't I believe the people object to heavy expendi tures if such expenditures are needed and 1 the money is properly handled." "But Is It so handled, Mr. Speaker? Some people think that a great part of it goes into the hands of the officials?" "That Is not true," was the reply. "There I may be and doubtless are public officials here and there who forfeit their trust, but they are very few. The majority of the men in the service of the government c are earnest, honest and more economical 1 as to government expenses than they are as to their own expenses. I believe that the standard of official morality Is higher every year. I have no sympathy with the idea that the country Is going to the a devil. Our people are better, purer and E stronger than in the past, and the trend of public and private life is upward." The Campaign of 1904. s The conversation here turned to the a presidential race, and I asked Mr. Can non if he thought the republicans would c have a "walk over." t "There are no 'walk overs' in our presi dential contests," said the Speaker of the House of Representatives. "Parties are E too evenly divided. Indeed, a change of 2 per cent in the vote will almost always - throw the election to one party or the c other. I think that the republicans will E win both the presidency and the House a of Representatives, but they will not do it on the walk. They will have to fight r steadily from now until the election. The c democrats have a permanent asset in the solid south, and this gives them the odds at the start." a "Why would you not consent to be a candidate for the vice presidential nomi nation, Mr. Cannon?" I asked. "Why should I wish to be?" replied the Speaker. "I am a member of the House of Representatives, and In my opinion the weakest and least effcient member of that body has a more desirable place than has the Vice President of the United< States. "The representative can do things; he can vote and have an effect on legislation. The Vice President is merely a figurehead. whose possIbilIties are all in the dread fu ture of the death of the President. He is the presiding offcer of the Senate; but the Senate has so hedged itself about withi rules that the Vice President has no power whatever. - He has only the appointment of< a private secretary, a messenger and a page, that Is all." Xr. Cannon and the Speakership. "How do you regard the speakership?" "It is a very Important offce and one of great power and influence. It ranks next the presidency among the public offces, for the Speaker Is the head of the House oft Representatives, which is the chief origin-1 ating, creating and working branch of our national legislature." "Do wou like the place?" "Yes. I feel honored by the confidence expressed by electing me to it." "But does it not worry you? The pres sure of public business must be enormous." "Yes there Is plenty to do," replied the< Speaker. "but I have always been a busy I man and I think I was more busy at the1 head of the appropriations committee than I am now as Speaker. As to worry I do not worry about anything. What is the use of that? I do the thing that is before me as well as I can, and then take up what comes next." The Presidential Bee. "I should like to ask you, Mr. Speaker, if you have any' ambition to go higher. Would you not be glad to be President of the United States?" "Glad to be President of the United States!" said Mr. Cannon. "Of course I should be glad to be President if the people wanted me and thought' me fit for the election. There is no American capable of illing that place who would not be glad to have it. The President of our people ranks higher in my mind than any monarch who sIts a throne, and as things go today he has more power than any ruler on earth. Any one would be glad to be President!" "I do not mean by this that I am tor mented with such an ambition, I thank God that the presidential bee has never hummed about my head. Its poisonous sting has never inocculated my veins and I hope It never will. I have known many politicians who have been so stung. Some are dead and some are living still. None, how ever, ever recovered. The blood of the man so attacked becomes contaminated, and he carries the attendant ambitions, anxieties and disappointments with him to hIs grave." FRANK G. CARPENTER. Had to 3e. Fromh Life. Witherby-"That chap I'm going to bring out is very fussy about where be sleeps. He likes to be comfortable," Mrs. Witherby-"Well, I can't help It. There is no other place for him but the guest chamber." "She's really not cultured at all. She says she can't understand Browning at all." "But one may he cultured and yet not understand Browning." "Of course; one may not understand It, but one should never admit lt."-PhttlaI I? You will You was four tir You use c ours. You prepa * beer in touches Then we white a Yet youri ned to Then==for bottle a olr our l Do you nnallfy? The Beer That f OUSE= OLD LINTS There is "cold victual and cold victual." ome to honor and some to dishonor. A ontinuous diet of cold foods evein In Au ust weather, is not to be cominended, as he digestion, weakened by the prolonged eat, ofttimes requires the stimulus of omething warm to assist the processes f digestion. But while all agree that pouring too irge quantities of ice cold liquids and rozen dishes into the stomach where the emperature is about blood heat produces ongestion and is contrary to all physio )gical principles, it is equally true that a reponderance of cold dishes in the heat d term is desirable. Cereals cooked a long time until almost jelly-like consistency, then molded in mall cups and turned out in pretty indi idual bowls, will often be eaten for reakfast or luncheon with cream or tewed fruit when one could not look a owl of hot mush in the face without version. Many kinds of fish are quite as good old as hot, and, in the case of salmon, etter. Cold fowl or meat served with condi ents to assist in digestion are excel ent, as also cold boiled eggs sliced or tuffed; while among vegetables, that erved cold need no apology, are string eans, peas, aspaiagus, beets, spinach or ther greens molded while hot, then turn d out in forms; tomatoes, artichokes nd potatoes served as a salad. As for desserts, plain or ornate, their ame is legion, but here are a few that an be relied upon. Farina Mold With Sliced Peaches.-Into cup and a half of boiling milk sprinkle heaping tablespoonful of farina, stirring ll the time. Add a scant salt spoon of alt, cook five minutes over the fire, then et in the lower part of a double bailer or aucepan containing boiling water and ook, covered, twenty minutes. Flavor with almond or vanilla, and pour into cups vet with cold water. Set in the cellar or ce box until needed. Turn out in low lishes and around the base of each white riound arrange a symmetrical row of sliced eaches or berries and serve with sweet ned cream. This is also an approved reakfast dish, omnitting the sugar if de ired. Princess Cream.--"Dining well on small neans is an art only to be acquired by ong experience, and the object of these hapters is to give the result of labor and tudy so that the way may be made easier or others just taking upon themselv& the luties of a housewife." Soak for half an our one rounded tablespoonful of gelatine nd a pinch of salt in four tablespoonfuls if rich milk. Beat the yolk of one egg ith two tablespoonfuls of granulated su ar and a tiny pinch of salt until creamy, .nd add one cupful of boiling mu lig Set his in another saucepan containing noiling ,ater, and boil and stir four minutes. Cow add the gelatine. stirring for one min te; take from the fire and whip in the white of the egg which has been beaten to stiff froth. Flavor with three-fourths of teaspoonful of vanilla, or, if preferred, a litle sherry. Pour into a glass dish and erve ice-cold with cakes or wafers. Prin ess cream should be made the day before is to be used in summer, and kept on ice intil wanted. Spread sea foam cream over he top, delicately flavored with caramel. vine or coffee, and serve with caramel ream sauce. Sea Foam Cream.-Whip to a stiff froth 'our tablespoonfuls of cream, add two tea Fioonfuls of confectioners' sugar and a few trains of salt. Soak one leve.1 teaspoonful f gelatine in four teaspoonfuls of cold v.ater ten minutes; then melt over the tea ~ett'le or in the oven. When a little cool eihip with a wire spoon six or seven min ites: it should be well frothed at the end >f this time. Add immnediately to the whip. ed cream and beat well for a minute or wo. Flavor with vanilla, wine, coffee .or :aramel, according to taste. Caramel Cream Sauce.-Caramel may be mrchased at any first-cl'ass grocer's, or :an be made much cheaper at home. As it teeps well, a pint or more can be rmade at Stime, if preferred, and bottled. TQ make lust enough for your princess crea'jn. put n the cool Dart of the stove ,to melt four leaping tablespoon'fuls of grartilated sugar with two tablespoonfuls of water, and let t cook gently half an hour. covered. At this time it should be a bright, coffee orown sirup, clear as amnber. Be careful mot to have the fire too hot or the caramel will be burned and have a bitter taste. It nust not be stirred, as this wig grain the sugar; but the saucepan can be shifta~d !rom side to side carefully if necessary. Now add to the sirup six tables-poonfuls of oiling water, one spoonful at a time, pour ing it directly into the middle of the mass, Let this boil gently for two minutes with ut stirring, then mix with a spoon, cook ng and stirring for another minute. There should be just a half cupful of .Lp, per tectly clear and free from lum .~ Cool before using, To make te cream sauce for the princess cream, stir into a cupful of cold cream two tablespoonfuls of the caramel. Serve in a pretty bowl, to be passed to each guest. Snow Jelly.-This is an easily preparedi iessert whose attractive name Ata its ap searance. Wash carefully four tablespoon fuls of rice and cover with two quarts of boiling salted wa.ter. Cook Slowly without stirring until the rice is tender, 4ain in a 5olander and shake until each herel 1s Isaaat aG ndisatinct et - asid nt Compare realize then why S Ii a cooking uten. ries, by machinery, ity water. We bo sire food in the air c pilate=glass room, It. filter the beer by vood pulp. methods are cleanI3 extremes. fear of a touch of .fter it is sealed. " brewing to give yoc yonder that we se Ask for the brev Meanwhile have soakieg a quarter box 0 gelatine in a half cup of .water. Twent: minutes for this part of the program b, good, more is better. Pour over the soake< gelatine one cup of boiling water and add one cup of sugar. Set in a dish of ho water until dissolved, then mix with th< cooked rice. Whip a pint of cream unti light and dry and stir in lightly with th< rice. Flavor with sherry or Marasch!ne and pour into a mold that has been we with cold water. Set in a cold place unti thoroughly chilled and set, turn out on a flat dish and pour round it preserved ber ries or Maraschino cherries. Coffee Bavarian Cream. - Bavarian creams are among the most delicious o cold summer desserts and are besides. es pecially nutritious. Soak two scant table spoonfuls of gelatine for a couple of hours in a half cup of water. Add a pint of boil ing hot strong Mocha coffee that has just been freshly made, strain and sweeten t< taste. Cool a little and while cooling beat a pint of thick cream to a stiff froth. Pour in gradually the coffee and gelatine, con tinuing the beating until the whole mix ture is thickened. Pour into a mould and set in a pan of cracked ice, cover and stand in the cellar or ice box until needed Serve with an abundance of whipped cream Many people who cannot drink coffee with out inconvenience find that coffee served in a cream or jelly agrees with them rer. fectly. Cafe Parfait.-To one quart of th'l cream add one-half cupful of very strong Mocha coffee and half a cup of powd red sugar. Whip with a cream whip or egg beater, skimming off the froth as it uises and laying it on a hair sieve to drain. Pour the liquid cream that drains from it baci into the bowl and continue to whip and skim until no more froth will rise. Turr the froth into a bowl mould, cover and bind the edges with a buttered cloth, and bury in ice and salt-a half less salt than is used in freezing-and set away for three hours. Peach Foam.-This is a delicate and timely dessert that tastes as pretty as il looks. Pare and cut some sweet dead-ripe peaches fine and mash to a smooth pulp. Whip half a pint of cream to a stiff foam. add slowly one cup of fine sugar and whisk in half a pint of peach pulp. Whip lightly, add a few drops of almond ex tract, and set on the ice to chill. Serve ir thin glass cups, strewing a few almonds chopped fine over the top, or a few frest or candled pink rose leaves. Serve witt delicate wafers. Peach Puree.-Peel and press mellowi peaches through a sieve. To each pint 01 pulp allow one pint of water, half a tea. spoonful of bitter almond, and the juice of a lemon. BrIng to the boiling point, aff one teaspoonful of arrowroot, moistened In a half cup of cold water, and stir until the mixture boils again and thickens. Sei aside to cool. When ready to serve poum in sherbet glasses, stand in small bowlt packed with ice, and send to the table. This makes a dainty first course in a sum mer luncheon. Peach Sherbet.-Add to a quart of peach: pulp pressed through a sieve one cup eacli of orange and lemon juice and a cup and a half of sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved and freeze. Lemon Shierbet.-A summer dessert t'hat never loses its power to charm is just a simiple lemon sherbet.. Less cloying than a cream, far lees expensive and so quickly and easily prepared where one has a freezer it may well appear on the table or for the refreshment of the evening porch party several times a week. Unlike cream. it does not require to stand in order to ripen, but is preferably served as soon as frozen. Twenty minutes is quite sufficien-t for the freezing, one hundred revolutions of the crank with a five minutes' rest be tween hundreds completing the business. Put a scant two quarts of water and one pint of sugar to boll In a clean basin. Boil until clear, skimming if necessary. Mean while squeeze the juice from six lemons and grate a little of the yellow peel into the juice. Dissolve one tablespoonful of gelatine in a little cdid water and melt over the teakettle. When the syrup is clear, pour into the lemon juice, add the gelatine, cool, then freeze. The beaten white of an egg may be sub stituted for the gelatine to give the neces sary body. Lemon Ginger Sherbet.-This is made the same as the lemon ice, with the addItion of four ounces of candled ginger cut in fine bits and added to the syrup with the grated rind of a half lemon, Boil until clear, then add the lemon juice and a lie more of the grated rind and proceed as with the other ice. Pistachio Cream Meringues-This is one of the prettiest ways of serv ing cream when one wants a new dessert for a little dinner or lawn fete. The pistache nuts can always be bought in the Syrian quarters of a large city or of high grade grocers. Blanch two ounges of the little nuts as you do almonds, pour scald ing water over them. Remove the skins and pound the nuts to a smooth, paste fla voring with a little orange flower watec. Make a vanilla cream with or without eggs as you prefer. add the nut paste and freeze. The meringues are better bought of the confectioner, as it Is not worth while to spend the time on anything so difficult to get just right. Press a spoonful of the cream between the shells and serve on small plates. The green' cream pressed be tween the white shells looks moat attrac tive, especially on a hot day. "Yea," staid the young man, "the girl I ma engaged to is an angel." "Oh, sure," sneered the scanty-haired man who had been up against the matri mnonial game for many years. "That's what they all may." "But she 1.,. all right," continued the smitten youth. "Even mther says she is tan gned for me."-chiosge New. Ms bottle -ock for Schlitz ir that hrough ss car e every ry cost ;e pure. 'els an wing Co., ington, D. C. ..t. How much do you save when you buy "cheap" spices instead of Colburn's Spices and get only one half the goodness out of your milk, and butter, sad eggs, and flour? Sc and lOc at your grocer's, and yoer money back if you don't like them. Mstard tOc. The A Colburn Co PI.u.aas C) Does COCOA spol ADVERTISED LETTERS. [eahy, Dennis Bleyes, John Ae, F 1. Biebelledi, G eMate Dr A Smth A n eslie. James Smnith, Charlie .usby, H C Smith, J B Icane, Calvin Smnittb, Milton !cD)evitt, Jas BS Snow, Frank Iceguire, Rev M J Sommer, J P deCaugtey. A J Sprague, Jno H idlson Fountain Sai. le r aasall, J J 8teead, Tho. hiartin, Frank B Steiner. Dr N F tatber, Olyde Stephens, Chaa hiatthew., Eddie Stewart, Sami datthews, Freddie litoddard, Clinton dayo, Crosby Soddard, Jne L kiltchel, J Stone. Harry Itilton, Hi btoner, J D) doore, Robert Thomas, A P loris, F M 'Thomas. Wm H lduteragaugh, S Thoumon, D U Parka, Abraham Tooke. A S 'ar, Oscar L Trasier. Henry Patterson, U Rt Trnnell, A Priek, Francist2 Va h, A F Phillips, Chas 3 Villwork, (baa Phillips, H Ward, Fred G Planter, Harry Ware, Rt L. 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P lates MrsO0P Hest, MrsW krakine. Augusta L Jones, W W d,O la Yong, Mei. elephones Help to Catch Rores rem the Milwaukee Uentie. "Telephones a.re eaoming in handy to i,tch horse thieves," said George 0, 'rench. "They have not been used s auch in Milwaukee as in the smaller eites fthis and other states. There, When the sbbery of a horse is reported, the shoei ,lephong to the farlners 0n every reea, ad so many farsners have phones noW, sat this Is practicable, After every taran has .been given a description of the telen horse it is pretty dimeult er the lief to escape, far nust pas o the ty over some country road, and msang iptures have bean mnade In this way." .Oid Mrs. Grums hasa't been in such se maith In years.* "Why, I sever heard her samia meOreI's wTrerna Netl S UMe MrW."-UU Cur iketh chlitz beer is pure. ;il once. We wash before we fill it. re down 1400 feet to i f the room. We cool ; and filter all the ! machinery-=filter it t r. Ours are cleanlinn impurity==we sterili2 Ve double the necess I a healthful bevera 0i over a mUllion ban 'ery bottling. 'Phone Main 480, Jos. Schlitz Br< 615-621 D St. S.W., Vasi kee Famos. ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following is a list of advertised letters re maining in the Washington (D. C.) Post-oftice Sat urday, August 13, 1904. To obtain any of these letters the applicant ahould call for "Advertised Letters." If not called for within two (2) weeks they will be sent to the Dead-Letter Office. LADIES' LIST. Aavario, Mrs Ella Kreig, Mrs K M Anderson. Mrs Ida B Jones. Mra Edwin C Atkins, Mrs J L luneater, Mrs Mary Alexander. Mrs Fannie Larc.mb, Miss Virginia Alland. Mrs Hester Lee. Miss Annie Allen. Mary Le, Miss Bessle Aslton, Mrs Addle Lo el. Mrs Mary Balden, Mrs F loarenz, Mrs Raymond Barber. Miss Mamile Leonherger. Miss B Bayne, Miss Annie lewis, Miss Bertia Bell, Miss Blanche Las, Miss Ulla Belle. Mrs Annie A Lyles, Mrs Wt Belt. Mrs Mary McConnell. Mrs Bene. 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