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ADA MARIE PECK
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(Copyright, 1WI. by Daily Story Pub. <’o )
THERE are people who can givp a
cozy, home-like look to the most
barren apartment Ann Kent was one
of them. She could take a piece of
turkey-red calico, anfl a length of olive
cheese cloth, give it a twist and a flirt,
and evolve a drapery or a picture
background, which had more grace,
lad vu m< ;• eti titthan a bit
choice fabric in another person's
hands.
Miss Kent sat at a little table spread
with an artist's nuttit: and was paint
ing an Easter card from a bunch of
flowers
"Why don't you say something?" ran
on her sister, in a tone of slight vexa
tion. "If you think ‘silence is golden,’
why, then, continue to keep still, for
it is gold I want; heaps and heaps of
K"
Miss Kent still kept her head bent
over her work, but repeated in a low
voice:
“ ‘Whereunto is money good?
Who has it not wants hardihood.
Who has it has niu< h trouble and care.
Who once has had it has despair.”
"That is just it!” cried Ann, “ ‘w-ho
once has had it has despair.' To have
inherited expensive tastes from gen
erations of moneyed ancestors, arid
then to be loft penniless! I believe in
heredity My great-grandmother en
tailed upon me a liking for stiff bro
cades and soft laces and here my ward
robe is reduced pretty nearly to that
of a Sionx squaw a blanket and a
feather. Then, another thing, when
money goes, how- mseh goes with it—
social position, friendship, love "
"That was not love which went,”
Miss Kent softly returned.
halomi : exclaimed her sister, with
mock sternness. "Why don't you con
verse, as our landlady says, r.ot sit
there and hurl quotations at me. Talk
about the opal paling or glowing as
affection wanes or waxes It is affec
tion, Instead, that grows warm or cold
when the heap of almighty dollars
grows larger or smaller ”
There was a sad, perplexed look on
Miss K* tit's fa< e. but it did not prevent
Ann from earing:
"Do you suppose Hoyt Ournsey
would have left you without a word of
explanation if we had not lost our
money? Would he have dared do it
If father had lived?"
"The only thing to do,” returned
Mies Kent, with a note of entreaty, "is
to put yesterday out of our lives Not
worry about to-morrow, but remember
we have only to-day ”
"Will you get these cards done by
four o'clock?" asked Ann. accepting
the Intimation that the past was a
painful subject.
"Even before then. When you take
your constitutional, perhaps you will
rarry them to Morgan's for me. I hope
they wijl sell well,” she sighed.
"Sure to,” returned Ann, looking
them over "I like this better than any.
There is so much real feeling about
it—the df ad leaves and withered \ in
lets are so perfect. 1 do not see,
though, what It has to do with Easter,
•except the motto on the back.”
Then she bustled about the little
kitchen, which adjoined, and shortly
came back with flushed cheeks, and a
bla<U mark on her dimpled chin
“Made moiselle Is served," site an
nounced, with a low bow "In other
words, come out to luncheon.
"We are like the two old maid sis
ters t read about the other day,"
laughed Salome, cleaning her brushes,
"a (rack in the floor constitutes the
partition between our dining room and
kitchen.”
Miss Kent smiled at Ann's nonsense,
giving her a grateful look. "You are
all sunshine and unselfishness ”
"Now. I really am all sunshine.” she
declared, rushing into the little studio
a few hours later, breathless with ex
citement and fast walking "And you
roust go to making hav at once, for
who do you suppose has bought ever
so many of your cards? Why, Mrs
Carson. Hoyt Gurnsey's cousin, you
used to know her. Of course, she had
no idea who painted them, but just
raved over them, said they were so ar
tistic So you can go to work again,
for she sets the fashion."
As Miss Kent worked, she fell Into
a brown study, and there was a hot
rush of blood to her cheeks. She had
not thought that there was a possibili
ty of Gurnsey's—who was either
abroad or in a distant city -seeing the
cards Now, perhaps his cousin would
Fend him one: and perhaps site would
ask at Morgan's who painted them and
tell him, and he would glory in her
humiliation, especially if perverse fate
should lead Mrs. Carson to select the
very one of all others she would not
wish him to see For, had he not said
to her once, when she was in a proud,
wayward mood: “Salome one should
never tritle with love—you might up
root it and repent. Remember:
“ 'Violets plucked, the sweetest show
ers
Will ne'er make grow again.’ ”
She had the couplet so persistently
1n her mind one morning that she al
most unconsciously sketched in a
bunch of white violets—the flowers he
always brought her—with delicate pur
ple veinings and pale green leaves, and
in one of the lower corners a shadowy
group of a half-dozen withered leaves
and blossoms. Then she carefully let
tered the little sentiment, and as it
bad no especial connection with Faster,
upbraided herseft for waste of time,
finally adding a churehly motto, and
putting the card with the others.
Hoyt Gurnsey, lounging in Mrs. Car
son’s luxurious morning room, had
picked up that very card and was look
ing at it with surprise and emotion.
"Where did you find this? Who
painted It?" he asked, eagerly. "It Is
unique.”
“Oh. you marplot!" exclnimed his
cousin. "The very card I meant to
send to you 1 found them all at Mor
gan's Yes. it is odd.”
"This is just the card I would pre
fer. Thank you. By the way, what
became of the Kents? I asked a half
! dozen times in my letters, but you
never answered.’”
"I really don't know.” she carelessly
returned, dropping a bit of scented wax
on a dainty envelope. "They have
J taken a room or two in some shaky
tenement on an obscure street, 1 be
j lleve ”
"Do you mean to say that they are
in this city and as poor as that?” ex
claimed Hoyt, getting up quickly and
upsetting the trav of cards, and all
else In his way.
i "People say so,” she replied, indlf
i ferently.
"Do you know what 1 think?” he
( asked, hotly. "That you are culpably
negligent and heartless. You were call
ing acquaintances and were in the
same set; why in the name of common
Christianity, even if not close friends,
shouidn' you have seen if you could
not be of service to those girls, de
prived of fortune and friends at one
Stroke?”
"Don't he quixotic, Hoyt,” returned
his cousin, shrugging he r pretty shoul
ders. "My time is full; I belong to
everything; I haven’t leisure in which
to hunt up comparative strangers
Must you go? I thought you would
stay to luncheon.”
Ournsey took in Morgan's on his
way downtown.
\\ no painted these? tie asked, as
I lie bought the remaining cards.
"The youngest Miss Kent brings
them here. One of the Broad street
Kents; her father failed in business
and died shortly after, you remember."
"If more are offered for sale, lay
them aside for me. They are so un
usually pretty that I wish to purchase
them all Then he consulted a direc
tory, and, going out, met Ann Kent.
She was full of repressed excitement
when she returned home, and for sev
e ral days after; briskly announcing the
afternoon before Raster. "Every one of
your cards are sold, and at just twice
j as much as you asked. I dared to
spend some of the money for you; I
invested in a pair of gloves at a bar
gain. See, they exactly match your
gray gown You know you said the
other day that it was one of the cardi
nal sins to wear shabby gloves, and
that yours were not fit to be seen.”
"Where is your Easter finery?"
"Here," answered Ann, promptly
putting a fingertip on each rosy cheek.
"Beauty unadorned, you know; and
here,” she added, bringing in a basket
of (lowers.
"Oh, my dear, you have been most
extravagant.”
"Not I. mademoiselle,"returnedAnn,
with a twinkle in her eyes, "but the
green grocer.”
"Who do you mean by the green gro
cer? If it is the vegetable man, I am
sure 1 hope you haven’t accepted a
c ostly basket of flowers from him."
"Then the milk man—”
"1’lease he serious,” interrupted Miss
Kent
"Then kindly remember that the age
| of Ann is that of disc ret ion. Can't I
, have a bit of se c ret all my own? All
1 ask of you is to wear thes« to-mor
j row," and she handed a bunch o* white
violets to Salome, who grew pale as
; she took them, but controlled herself
enough to say:
"They are very sweet; and it was
lovely in you to think of my favorite
flowers, but we need so many things—
the rent and coal.” she sighed, putting
j 'he violets in a little vase on the table.
In the morning Ann brought the vio
} lets to her as she was dressing for
; church.
"Do wear them.” she urged. "Now
you look like a sweet saint,” she de
clared as she fastened them in the lace
at Salome's throat, for with them a
feeling of serenity came to Miss Kent.
She even talked hopefully of their fu
ture as they walked along in the bright
sunshine.
\<m are very uplifting to-day!'* ex
] claimed Ann. *'I did feel bitter. Every
j one else in Easter finery, and we trudg
ing along in our out-of-date dresses
Hut now. I'll not grumble even if the
i sexton seats us in the farthest back
charity pew.”
After service she hastened home,
making some trivial excuse, leaving
Salome to come leisurely, her heart full
of the precious promises of the preach
er, the sweet cadences of the closing
hymn, and the peace of the benedic
tion
The trials of the past year seemed to
fade away, and when in this softened
mood she entered their little sitting
room and found herself face* to face
with Uurnsey, it was as If they again
stood in her father's drawing room,
and neither time nor sorrow had come
; between them.
"Do not think." he eagerly said, hold
I ing her delicate hand in a firm clasp,
and bending his fine eyes tcn.'.eriy upon
her flushed face, "that indifference has
kept me from you. My letters came
back; my inquiries were in vain."
"Then you did not know of our re
verses.” said Salome, with a deep sigh
of relief.
"Do you think I would have re
mained away, had 1 known?” he re
proachfully exclaimed "Dearest, give
me the right to care for you. Let all
the bitterness and doubts; the losses
anti griefs disappear with the Lenten
shadows, and our real lives begin to
day.”
“Do say ‘ves!’ ” cried Ann. coming
in. between smiles and tears. "I beg
your humble pardon, but I couldn't
keep out another moment. I am dying
to say: ‘Bless you, my children.' ”
Then she made a little gesture of
mock solemnity, and disappeared
while the lovers sat in the glad still
ness of the Easter afternoon, and be
gan the new life, as old as the world
1 itself.
i FARMER AND PLANTER.
THEIR1SH POTATO.
4n ImporlHUl I rop For llie Soutli,
Aw If < it n He (irown Hi AI
tnowf %t»> Time.
This imjiortant crop can be grown
ilmoM any time in the south. The sea
son for planting the spring crop be
gins in January and lasts until the first
at June. The fall (rop may be planted
iiorn July to September.
This wide range of planting is pos
sible becau:*e the Irish potato grows in
almost all climates. It seems equally
it home In Florida and in Maine, in
Virginia and in Califronia. in Texas
tnd in Wisconsin. This crop knows
uo north, no eat-;, no south, no west.
Wherever a hungry man is found, this
best of food plants is found. It is a
great < rop for the farmer, the market
gardener and for the field.
But Its value is Le.-t understood when
we remember that It is. or should be.
found in every household or kitchen
garden in the land. Every man that
awns or uses a s*pot of earth should
plant Irish potatoes A square rod may
lie made very profitable if made into
i lazy bed. A large farm may lie cul
tivated in them almost a.; easily as in
any other (rop. When we consider the
length of time needed to grow and
gather them, we find that it costs less
to cultivate a crop of Irish potatoes
than it does a crop of cotton.
Fur field culture, prepare the soil
very deep, and make it very line. These
are important points If this Is done
well, the rest is easy. Then spread
about a thousand pounds of fertilizer
broadcast and harrow it in. This fer
tilizer should be properly balanced,
with the potaoh preferably in the form
of sulphate. Seven to eight per cent,
phosphoric acid, ten to twelve per cent,
of postash and three per cent of nitro
gen makes a good formula. Then lay
off rows three feet apart and drop po
tatoes 12 to 16 Inches, and put on
about .'bin pounds of the fertilizer in
this furrow, and cover with one fur
row. throwing on about four inches of
soil. This will do for the south; in
the north they should be covered deep
er. When they are beginning to come
up. plow out the middles and run a
weeder over; repeat this about every
ten (leys. Remember to be careful not
to disturb the young-tubers when they
bc-aiti to form
But we wish to emphasize the Impor
tance to every family of having a small
patch of Irish potatoes. The soil should
lie made good, not very highly ma
nured Make it fine and then open a
deep furrow and drop in the potatoes.
Put on four to six hundred pounds of
fertilizer as mentioned above. Put
some rotting straw or leaves, or yard
scraping or lot rakings, two or three
inches deep, in this furrow on the po
tatoes. and then cover.
I)o not let any crust remain upon
this patch. Run over with weeder or
light harrow or hand rake often enough
to keep the surface line and destroy the
weeds and grass. As soon as they are
well up, spray or sprinkle with Paris
green. If tin* leave tire eaten tlie i>o
tatoes will not grow. It is too late
to wait to kill the bugs after they have
eaten the leaves. They should find the
poison on the vine when they hatch
and die before they grow. In this case
"an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure" We have seen the
bugs sitting on the clods waiting for
the potatoes to come up. Kill them
before they eat the young leaves.
A "lazy bed" Is made by planting
the potatoes one foot apart in the fur
row and covering with another furrow,
planting potatoes in that furrow, and
so on, so as to have them one foot
apart eac h way Then cover one foot
deep with s.;raw Repeat this covering
every six months. To get the potatoes,
simply run the hand under the straw.
This will furnish potatoes all the time
arid last for many years .las. Hunni
cutt, in Farmers’ Home Journal.
GARDEN NOTES.
The “\ll < ottoii < Should Mot
lirli'Kiitv flit* I'tirin (itirileii
to the Heatr.
We are kept so busy now. writing in
the soil, that we may soon see our pro
duction, growing, written in “living
green.” we can scarcely stop to use
pen and ink A man who makes ids
living by the “sweat of his brow’’ does
not generally become a very great ex
pert with the “sweat of his pen."
We hear no talk of anything except
cotton, but we are not going to be
led astray by the "all cotton craze;”
and are glad to see so much advice
of warning given to the farmers in
the Cultivator and othern southern pa
pers. We have the best prospect for
grain we have ever had; and expect to
make more vegetables than we have
ever grown. Our start is a little later
than usual, but so far everything
sec ms promising.
We have 2.000 cabbage plants
growing nicely We had them shipped
down on the South Carolina coast, and
we have yet to find a dead one. If you
can get plants sent you that have the
proper age' on them, there is little risk
in getting them from a distance, and
we find it cheaper than having glass
pits for our early planting.
We have worked out our onions nice
ly. and our strawberries; and planted
many thousand seed in the last two
weeks. Second crop of English peas
and radishes, spinach and beets, a few
rows of early beans, ami our beds for
tomato plants and celery
We find our main comfort in the
fact that now we are beginning to
! reap the reward of former preparation
of our garden lauds. The removing of
j stumps and rocks, clearing of Bermuda
| grass, etc . now enables us to prepare
and plant our truck in less than half
■ the time, and with half the expense
of former yearn
It is hard to teach the average
southern farmer that he can not spend
better time and money tha> in judi
cious improvement of his land. They
will work among rocks all their lives,
and stumps until they naturally rot out
of the way. But the worst feature to
us* is to sep land washing and leaching
so badly for want of proper care. We
feel a regretful sorrow every time we
see a place going to waste, and a gen
uine pride and pleasure wherever there
are signs of improvement and upbuild
ing. We know to our cost what it
means to reclaim worn-out lands.—G.
F. Hunnicutt. in Dixie Farmer.
SOUTHERN FORAGE PLANTS.
I iii|>«»rtn lit Ilis 11 «• 11 ci ItDMicd Hi tlie
< :i tiftirn k «* l ! \ |t« ri in <■ n t Ma
tion in \ laltii nm.
The Cane brake experiment station,
located at I'niontown. Ala . has just
issued an important bulletin on forage
plants for the south. It would Le well
for farmers who are interested in ques
tions relating to forage plants* to write
to l’rof I M. Richeson, at I'niontown,
or to Pro!. J F. Duggar, at Auburn,
Ala., director of the experiment station,
for a copy of this bulletin.
The exponent lit station at I'niontown
is located on upland prairie soil, known
as the Canebake On this land alfalfa
sown March 2o gave three cuttings of
hay the same season, and would have
made a fourth cutting had it not been
for an untimely drought in the tall of
tlie year. Both Amber and Orange
“orghum made enormous yields of fod
der, and furnished two cuttings each.
The Orange sorghum grew larger and
made more fodder, but the -•mailer
sterns of the Amber sorghum made it
more desirable than the other for for
age. Sorghum led all the forage crops
in yield. Kaffir corn was not success
ful as a fodder crop. The s.ur.e is true
of Pc url millet and teosinte. German
millet did well, and is recommended for
sowing with late-sown cow peas, there
by making the hay easier to c ure.
One very important result of these
experiments at Uniontown ! • the high
vield of soy beans as compared with
eowpeas. The writer has often sug
gested the advisability of giving the
soy bean a trial in the southern state-,
for the reason that when varieties of
it are secured that are adapted to lo
cal conditions it is a very large yleld
er, making at the Uniontown station
'.‘A bushels of seed per ac re. and it
stands up so as to tie easily harvested
The seed eat) also be saved at much
less expense than is the case with eow
peas, and they are said to make good
feed for cattle and hogs*, though on
account of their richness In nitrogen
they should be mixed with such car
bonaceous feeds as corn, Kafiir seed
etc. Upland rice would also be a good
thing to mix with the seed of soy
bean.
The hairy vetch proved a valuable
plant for winter pasture. The Dwarf
Essex rape was another plant which
succeeded very well, and is recom
mended for hog pasture.—\V .) Spill
man, U. H Department of Agriculture
Agrostologist.
HreeilrrN ami Sn<*tf*e*N.
The requirements of pure-hred poul
try are constantly growing more and
more imperative, owing to the demand
by the people generally- the farmer as
well air the fancier. The tendency ol
competition certainly demonstrates
this to be an age of necessity Rewards
are not to be accorded to the amount
of noise we make, but to the quality
of the exhibits; and certainly the more
spiritive the competition, the better
J must he the systems adopted, the* ad
j ministrative ability of the fancier being
j put to the test. Surely everyone will
agree that the profits in any business
are greater or smaller, according to the
management of that business, and we
ought therefore to train ourselves tc
avoid all the mistakes and calamities
that have proved disadvantageous tc
success.—Farm and Fireside.
HERE AND THERE,
— The actual cost of feed, added to
the service fee. represents the amount
which horses and mules you raise stand
you. \\ hat they are worth above this
is profit.
—Don't let dogs eat swine that have
died of cholera or other germ diseases.
Dogs thus fed roam over the neighbor
hood, and, by means of their droppings,
may infec t every herd whose grounds
they visit.
-Head plenty of good agricultural
Papers, study the best methods of farm
ing. arrange all work systematically
before you begin it. profit by your past
mistakes, do things right or not at
all, save the dimes.
—Farming without system, living
without an ideal, working without a
purpose, being careless with little
things about the farm. Is a sure road
to want and poverty.
—Very many important discoveries
have been purely accidental. It is said
that the origtn of the sulphur-lime
and-salt spray is attributed to th6
throwing upon some scale-infested
fruit trees as a cure for scab some of
the mixture used when dipping sheep.
—Scurvey legs, or scabby legs.will now
appear more so than than later in the
year, but the difficulty is easily cured
and prevented. Fowls with scabby legs
are very unsightly, and should be treat
ed at once. Simply apply a mixture of
melted lard and sulphur on the legs
once a week for four or five weeks,
and the scab will disappear.
—It Is difficult to raise young tur
keys. but if they are kept dry and
warm, and confined for a few davs after
being hatched, until they become
strong enough to be allowed out of the
co«P. ’here will be fewer losses in the
brood Dampness is more fatal with
them than cold, but the greatest draw
back to the young turkey is the lar^o
louse on the head and body.
w A prominent club woman, 1
Mrs. Danforth, of St. Joseph,
Mich., tells how she was cured
of falling of the womb and its
accompanying pains and misery
by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— Life looks
dark indeed when a woman feels that
her strength is fading away and she has
no hopes of ever being restored. Such
was my feeling a few months ago when
I was advised that my poor health was
caused by prolapsus or falling of tho
Womb. The words sounded like a
knell to me, I felt that my sun had set;
but Lydia II. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound came to me as an
elixir of life ; it restored the lost forces
and built me up until mv good health
returned to me. For four months I
took the medicine daily, and each dose
added health and strength. I am so
thankful for the help I obtained through
its use."—Mrs. Florence Danforth,
1007 Miles Ave.. St. Joseph, Mich.—
— S5000 forfeit If original of above tetter proving !
genuineness cannot be product-1.
“FREE MEDICAL ADVICE
TO WOMEN.”
Women would save time and
much sickness if they would
\\ rite to M rs. IMnkham foradvice
as soon as any distressing symp
toms appear. It is free, and has
put thousands of women uu the
right road to recovery.
Tin* \al»»«* of llie Ju |»a \ en.
When the public reads that 1*)0,000,
000 yen has provisionally been set
apart by Japan for war purposes it may
perhaps put an exaggerated estimate
on that amount. Although Japan has
a gold standard, the yen is of silver
currency, and fluctuates with the price
of silver, so that the moment lou.uoO,
OOo of them means scarcely more than
£lojioo.ooo. Hut even this is an im
mense amount in a country in which
the wages of a skillful artisan are
often not more than 3 yen a week. The
Japanese currency system is decimal.
Thus the yen, or dollar, is divided into
100 sen or cents, the sen into 10 rin,
the rin into 10 mo, the mo into It)
shu, the shu, finally, into 10 kotsu.
Government accounts do not take ac
counts of any value smaller than a rin,
but estimates by private tradesmen
c!ten descend to mo and shu, winch
are incredibly minute fractions of a
farthing. No coin exists, however, to
r< present these lilliputian sums Lon
don Chronicle.
< lmu«*4‘N hi l.if«* and Dentil.
Only t*uo persons in every million die
from old age.
Ot the 42,500 cases of smallpox re
ported by 44 states in 1903, 1,642 were
latai.
Europe loses 86,392 lives a year by
at eideuts.
Fifty-nine per cent, of the deaths
from consumption are between the
ages of 43 and 60 years, while only 12
I" r cent, of such deaths are of persons
over *10 years of age.
Anti-toxin treatment for diphtheria
has reduced the death rate of that dis
ease from 35 to 7 per cent.
In the t nited States the annua! mor
tality for railroads is one person
killed for every l.n,52 employes; coal
miners, one person in every 744 em
ployes; seamen in merchant vessels,
one person in every 133.—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
If in reed of work, don't coiup to
the World's fair looking for it." sav
the fair officials. Every berth is taken.
IN AN OLD TRUNK.
Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid
and Drinks It.
While the mother was unpacking an
old trunk a little IS months o.d baby
got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid
while playing on the floor and his stom
ach was so badly burned it was feared
he would not live for he could not eat
ordinary foods. The mother sais in
telling of the case:
It was all two doctors could do to
save nim as it burnt his throat and
stomach so bad that for two months
a.ter he took the poison nothing would
lay on his stomach. Finally I took him
into the country and tried new milk
and that was no Letter for him. His
Granuma finally suggested Grape-Nuts,
and I am thankful l adopted the food
for he commenced to get better right
a'\a> and would not eat anything else
He commenced to get fleshy and his
ch'-eks like red roses and now he is en
tirely well.
1 took him to Matamoras on a visit
am. every p;ace we went -to stay to cat
he called for Grape-Nuts and I would
have to explain how he came to call for
it as it was his main food.
The names of the physicians who at
tended the baby are Dr. Eddy of this
town and Dr. Geo. Gale of Newport, O.,
and anyone can write to me or to them
and learn what Grape-Nuts food will do
for children and grown-ups too.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
tle book. "The Road to Wellvllle,”
FOOD WARMED WITH LIME.
New Invention for Preparing Soldiers’
Nations with the Applica
tion of Water.
The tnited States government
while exercising great care in equin-'
ping her army, has been equally as
considerate in supplying the most mod
ern foodstuffs for its consumption
The serious problem to te conten lei
with is the furnishing of materia s
that have large nutritive constituent
and at the same time can be conven
ientiy carried. Commissary General
Weston, according to a Washington re
port, a few days ago said that one of
the best concentrated rations vet
found is a mixture of fresh beef ar,1
fresh vegetables; a food that is hea'h
fill and palatable, and which can V
supplied to the troops wherever t> ■ y
go. This preparation is put up in her
metically sealed cans, which preserves
its freshness for an indefinite periol
Only the best parts of the animal are
used, and the vegetables compounded
are onions and potatoes. Experiments
are now being made with this new
food, and so far it has been found very
satisfactory.
The war department has recently
been making some experiments with
self heated canne l goods which are a
new invention. They come in loubie- .
Jacket cans, the space between the *wo '
jackets being occupied by unslacked
Ume. All that has to be done to heat
these is to punch a hole in the bottom
at the proper place and pour in a lit
tle water. An intense heat is gener
ated immediately, and within a few
moments the contents are ready to
serve. This process is especially
adaptable for heating coffee. Can iy
is another material not supplied a- a
regular ration, but is furnished to the
soldiers at cost. Certain things are
found not to bo absolutely requires
as necessaries, but nevertheless are
deemed essential for the comfort of
the men
Another difficulty encountered bv
this department ha* been the supply
ing of ration satisfactory for emer
gency purposes, for the use of soldi' r?
who have been detached from their
commands. Under such circumstance?
they are obliged to carry with them :n
their haversacks their supply of food.
A ration which has been finally decided
upon for this purpose has the form of
a sort of cartridge packed in boxes atii
weighing a trifle over a pound. Each
one of these boxes con'ains enough
food for a day, which is divided up in
oiled paper These packets oon’ain a
yellowish meal like stuff which can be
converted into soup This preparation
is composed of two parts parch.' 1
w heat and one third evaporate 1 beef.
Eggs concentrated bv evaporation are
also now being used in enormous quan
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