OREGON CITY ENTEltPKlSH, Fill DAY, Sl'TTKMHKU 2, 1105.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, ana which lirw boca
u uso lor over av years, Has homo tho Rljrnnture of
ana has been mauo uiulor Ills pcr-
W&&fy?t$tt' 8onal 8UPcrvls,ou s,nce Infancy.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and"Just-iu-good"nre but
Experiments that tritle with and endanger tho health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castorla Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms
and allays Peverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's PanaceaThe Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
The KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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HOW UNCLE SAM MAKES MONEY.
Interesting Machine Used In the Govern
ment Mints Shown at the Fair.
Portland, Or., Aug., 31. A million pen
nies a day that is the capacity of a
strange machine which Uncle Sam used
in the Philadelphia mint to count the
coin of smallest value made by the Gov
ernment. The machine, known as a
counting table, is exhibited In the Govern
ment building as a part of Uncle Sam's
$800,000 display on the Peninsula In
Guild's Lake at the Lewis and Clark Ex
position. The counting board Is about as large
as a big kneading board such as house
wives use. The surface of It is wide
enough to hold a row of forty pennies.
When the pennies are to be counted sev
eral thousand are heaped onto the board
which is placed above a hopper. Then
an operator tips the board backward and
forward, and sideways so that the pennies
slide about, and " finally settle in the
grooves made by the brass partition
strips. When the board Is full, there are
100 pennies on it. It is then dumped in
to a receptacle Just outside the hopper,
and the pennies which have slipped off
the board are caught by a box under
neath. Pennies are coined only at the
Philadelphia mint, and the Government
finds the coinage of them profitable, be
cause the- value of the metal they con
tain is only about three-fourths of a
cent
The upsetting machine is another in
teresting mechanical contrivance. It is
used for turning the edges of coins. The
coin discs, of the proper size and thick
ness, but with their edges still rough,
are put Into tubes to fit them. These
tubes are placed upright beside a round
topped revolving table. At each revolu
tion of the table, one of the discs drops
"into a groove between the table and an
outer shell, and the pressure on the edg
es of the disc makes them smooth.
Stamping the coins Is the last process,
and this Is done by means of a great
machine which weighs 15 tons and costs
115.000. There are 24 such machines in
the Philadelphia mint. The discs which
are to be coins are placed In a tube, as
in the case of the upsetting machines.
Two steel fingers take hold of the bot
tom disc, and move it over to the die.
Then the die above presses down on the
disc, so that the impression is made on
both sides. At the same time, the edges
are milled, and when the upper die rais
es, the steel fingers push the finished
coin out of the way and bring a disc into
position.
The machine at the Portland Exposi
tion, which is used In stamping twenty
dollar gold pieces, has a capacity of 90
a minute. A pressure of 180 tons is nec
essary to stamp a silver dollar, but 130
tons pressure will stamp a double eagle.
Smaller coins require less pressure.
In connection with the exhibit at the
Western World's Fair coins of this year's
make In all denominations except the
silver dollar are displayed. None of the
mints are now coining dollars, because
the Government has on hand $600,000,
000, which are being held for the purpose
of redeeming silver certificates. There
is also on exhibition at Portland the first
coining press ever used by the United
States Government, a crude machine
which was operated by hand, and was
used in 1793 for making copper pennies.
of the West Indies. If clover, timothy,
and orchard grass could see their origi
nal progenitors they would be as little
flattered as a modern aristocrat who, In
tracing his pedigree, ran against a rob
ber ancestor several generations back.
It Is well known that new varieties of
rye, wheat, barley, oats or rice may be
bred, which will produce one grain more
to the head, or a corn which would pro
duce an extra kernel to the ear, another
potato to the plant and ao on all through
the world of fruits and flowers and veg
etables. The possibilities pf such Im
provements and Increase are Illimitable
and the scientific agriculture of the future
will largely consist of Instruction along
this line. Every experiment , station Is
now operated with this view to some ex
tent and this feature of the work will
absorb more and more attention as the
necessity for Increasing production and
quality without extending area Is made
more and more apparent by the crowding
of population upon substance.
Weeds occupy the same position In the
vegetable world that is held among men
by the scum and riffraff of cities and the
hereditary paupers or proscribed class In
every community. They remain weeds
because they are Jostled, crowded, crop
ped, trampled upon, scorched by fierce
heat, starved or perhaps suffering with
cold, wet feet, tormented by Insects or
lack of nourishing food or sunshine.
Nevertheless there Is not a weed alive
which will not sooner or later, respond
liberally to good cultivation and persist
ent selection. If Luther liurbank should
devote the same labor and pains to
weeds that he has bestodwed upon fruits
and flowers there Is no doubt that In
time he would produce wonders equal to
the white blackberry, the stoneless
prunes, the thornless cactus, the plum
cot and the crimson poppy. How long
It would take to convert the farm abom
ination called the ragweed into a useful
flower or vegetable Is, of course, beyond
the ken of man, but none can doubt that
In time the feat would be accomplished.
Perhaps, after all, the Ideal world we
hear so much about Is to be given to us
through Improved agriculture. When the
noxious weeds bear fruits or flowers,
when the grains are so prolific that but
a modicum of land will be necessary to
produce the needed supply, when a way
shall be found to get rid of all sorts of
pests, In short, when everything shall
be made to subserve a sueful or orna
mental purpose, something like the hop
ed-for millennium will be at hand. Ala!
even after all this is done, man himself
will still remain the perplexing problem,
for It has been shown to be easier to
improve all the other animals and vege
tables than the veritable lord of the
universe, The reformer still remains un
iformed, and neglected human weeds,
Jostled, crowded and trampled on, defy
the utmost efforts of civilization. They,
however, must be reached If It is to be
rendered Impossible for any future Byron
to speak of a land where
The maidens are lovely as the roses they
twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, Is divine.
The American Farmer.
EVOLUTION AS APPLIED TO WEEDS.
If there Is anything regarded by the
farmer or gardener as utterly worthless,
If not pernicious nuisances, it Is weeds.
Thi-y are the torment of his life, the
perslHtent enemy of his crops, the one
thing to be exterminated on sigh: with
out any questions except what is the
best method of getting them out of the
way. Yet, unless all science Is at fault,
there is a possiblity of reform, a poten
tiality of good in every weed. There is
not one that grows, whether on the way
side or between the rows of corn and
vegetables, that is not susceptible of
Improvement to the point of usefulneHs
provided some one is willing to take the
time and trouble to bring about the
transformation. In fact, many of the
useful greases and vegetables were once
mere weeds'. The potato, now such a
favorite article of diet, was nothing but
a stringy root when first discovered on
the plateaus of Peru and in the islands
HOW TO KNOW MUSHROOMS.
POPULAR AND PICTURESQUE.
The only thing necessary to make the
Denver and Rio Grande the most popular,
as It has ever been known the most pleas
ant and most picturesque way to cross
the continent has come about. This Is
the establishment of through sleeping
car service.
In connection with the O. R. & N. a
through Pullman Standard Sleeper Is now
run from Portland to Denver, leaving
Portland at 8:15 p. m., arriving at Salt
Lake at 8:40 a. m., the second morning,
leaving Salt Lake at 3:60 p. m. and ar
riving at Denver 4:20 p. m. the following
day. This schedule gives passengers
seven hours stop-over in Salt Lake, af
fording an opportunity to visit the Mor
mon Capital as well aa a day light ride
through the grandest scenery In the
world.
For reservations in this car and for Il
lustrated booklets picturing the scenery
contiguous to the Denver & Rio Grande,
proving It to be the "Scenic Line of the
World," write to W, C. McBrlde, General
Agent, 124 Third Street, Portland.
In urging upon tho render of Tho
American Former a closer iicqiinlntntico
wllth nature than oven country resi
dents usunlly enjoy, I want to begin
with one meant to this end which will,
I think, the- more readily awaken an In
terest In Nature Study, because It may
at the same time be miuto to add a de
lightful dish to the iMe and also be
come a source of Income. For this Is
one food article, which Is never a glut on
the market and for which there Is al
ways a demand. There would bo snuill
dungvr of overproduction, Indeed should
every farmer's family learn to contribute
to tho supply.
One condition common to the growth
of all mushrooms Is dampness. W'e must
tlma our hunt therefore, to comply with
this essential of success, and choose a
day after a shower or several of them.
It would be Impossible In one mushroom
ing trip, of this brief account of It, to
attempt to become familiar with more
than a very sllttht proportion of the
thirty-live thousand species of fungi
known to botanists; so we will look only
for those kinds that are most desirable
among the edible varieties' and readily
distinguish from non-edible kinds.
On our way to the woods, ns we cross
fields, meadows, nnd pastures, or even
by tho oradslde, we are apt to find spec
imens of the Lycopexdnles or puffballs
which you have probably known also as
amokeballs," or "devil's snuffboxes,"
and have very likely often pressed with
foot or stick to see the "smoke" fly out.
Not knowing, perhaps. Hint you wero
passing by a delicacy "fit to set before a
king." Of course at that stage It Is not
good to eat, having, us we commonly
express It. "gone to seed;" and the hreak-
Ing of the outer rind, by nature's pro
vision or by your assistance. Is scatter
ing the spores or seeds to grow Into new
plants. At an earlier atnge the balls
have a fleshy Interior, cheesy and white
at first at which time only they should
be used later turning yelowlsh or pink
ish, gradually darkening and drying to
the dust-like spores.
Of the four edible genera of tha puff-
ball, the Lycoperdon. Calvatla, Ilovlstel-
la and Bovlsta,, the most common are
the small pear shnped variety, Lycoper
don pyrforma. These are found every
where throughout the world. They are
only three-fourths to one and a fourth
Inches In diameter and one half Inch In
height but grow In groups sometimes
several feet across so that enough may
easily be gathered at one time for use.
The Calvatlaa are puffballs of large
slae. The brain-shaped, (Calvatla cran
Iforms) and the Giant (Calvatla maxima)
are very large. Of the latter "It la as
serted on good authority" says Marshall
In his "Mushroom Rook." that the giant
puffball has been found with a diameter
of three feet and a weight of forty-seven
pounds. It Is considered a choice article
of food when the flesh Is white. It Is
said that If the flesh of a growing puff
ball la cut or Injured the wounds will
fill up with new tissue. It will be Inter
esting for someone to try this experi
ment. In the days before matches came
Into use, the dry spongy threads were
used as tinder to catch the sparks which
flew from the flint stone when It was
struck for fire, and the spore dust was
used to stanch the flow nf blood."
' To prepare puffballs. Clean, peel, trim
off the base and cut the small ones In
halves and the large ones In slices a
half inch thick, dip In beaten egg, salt
and pepper and fry In butter a golden
brown or In boiling fat five or six min
utes.
Another mushroom to be found at this
time of year July to September with
which the novice may safely experiment
is the Clavaria. These are fleshy fungi
of upright growth which unlike the puff
ball, have their sporehtarlng surface ex
posed. They grow in branching forms,
resembling coral In shape and color, ex
quisite shades of pink, violet, yellow or
white. Except In color you will think It
looks somewhat like the Ireland, or "Ir
ish" Moss which you may have seen
used to boll In milk to thicken It for
blanc mange. Of these the Pale yellow,
golden, red-tipped and crested are all
edible and grow In thin woods and open
places, the last named especially In cool,
shady, moist yplaces, while a specimen of
the Clavaria formosa. golden to pink In
color, grows on a fallen tree In dense
mixed woods.
To prepare Clavarlas. Cleanse, throw
Into scalding water for a moment, and
then put Into cold water made acid with
lemon or vinegar. Divide the large ones
and tie the small ones Into bunches.
Place In a stew pan with bits of butter
laid on them. Cover the pan and expose
to heat enough to melt the butter. Leave
for ten minutes and rain. To cook, put
In a hot stewpan with butter, salt, pep
per nnd lemon Juice. Cover closely and
stew for half an hour. Cook until tender
then thicken with cream and flour.
Clavarlas may also be cooked by re
ceipts found In all complete cookbooks,
for cooking the common mushroom, Ag-
arieus campestrls, which Is the mush
room ordinarily seen In the markets,
and seems to be used exclusively by can
neries. I do not wonder that many peo
ple who have never tasted any other
variety think they do not care for mush
rooms. Even this common kind few
people feel safe In gathering because they
cannot tell thew from "toadstools." They
have some characteristics in common:
They are shaped like a parasol, the handle
Is the stem or stipe, the open top is tho
cap or plleus, under the cap radiating
from its edge to the stem are the gills
or lamellae. The gills are not visible in
theh buttons the name given to nil young
mushrooms for they are eovored with a
thin sheet of threads called the veil. As
the button grows this veil stretches and
finally breaks leaving a ragged edge to
the cap and a ring or annulua of veil
around the stem.
In the Agarlcus the gills are not fas
tened to the stem but nre rounded off at
the end near the stem; they are a dell
eat pink, later a dark brown In color. Tho
skin of the cap Is separable, the margin
extending beyond the gills. The stem is
white, smooth, stuffed, that Is softer
within than without, and shorter than
the diameter of the cap. The ring or n
nulus Is delicate, often disappearing
with age. The flesh Is whole nnd this
mushroom Is to tie found In late sum
mer and autumn, In pastures, lawns, and
open places. Surely here are points of
distinction sufficient to help In this di
rection. The American Farmer,
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PORTLAND, OREGON
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