Navel Egg-Breaker.
A Colorado man baa invented an
cw-brtaker which reduces to a sclentu
the breaking of an egg anil niake
what was sometimes a palu
ful operation an Interesting
bit of work. This devise
consists of an apparatus
much like a pair of pfncerj",
with long wire handles and
semi-circular Jaws, each
equipped with tiny teeth at
the end. Above and below
the Jaws are conical snrlnes.
forming a receptacle the shape of an
egg. The egg Is placed In these
tprings and by gripping the handles of
the device the Jaws press upon It, cut
ting through the shell as neatly aj a
man might cut a piece of fruit with
a knife. The egg Is thus opened not
only without soiling the cloth, but
without burning the hands, which was
the Inevitable experience In the old
way.
Dainty- Potatoes.
Boll potatoes until thoroughly cook
ed, mash and stir In egg and one cup
of milk, a teaspoonful of salt and a
pinch of pepper. ' Roll potatoes Into
balls the size of a tennis ball. Mak
a cup out of a lettuce leaf twisted and
put In one ball. Arrange leaves and
balls In a flat dish with slices of hard
boiled eggs around edge and a sprlj
of parsley. Serve with roast beef.
Ess and Oysters.
Beat up three eggs, add one table
spoonful of cream and a seasoning ol
salt and pepper. Melt one tablespoon
ful of butter In a saucepan. When !1
Is hot pour In the egg mixture and stlt
over a slow Are. When it Is Just be
ginning to thicken add twelve oyBteri
and continue cooking the mixture till
it is a soft, creamy mass. Serve ai
quickly as possible on toast.
Sponge Candy.
Put together In a saucepan two cup
of granulated sugar, one cup of New
Orleans molasses, a half cup of water,
a tablespoonful of vinegar and a small
bit of butter. Boll until a little dropped
Into cold water is brittle, then taken
from the Ore. stir In a snoonful ol
baking soda and, while foaming, turn
into greased dishes to cool. Do no)
VulL
Pumpkin Bread.
Stew a good-sized pumpkin as fo.
pies, mash fine and make stiff-with
flour. Add a teaspoonful of salt. Mix
well and turn Into a greased bread
pan, and bake in a slow oven for three
hours or more. This may be eaten hot
or cold, but Is best when cold; it is
cut into thick slices and fried, theo
served with Jelly or a sweet sauce.
Stewed Beets.
Cook six medium-sized beets. When
soft peel and chop In dice. Take water
and vinegar, salt and pepper to taste,
one dessertspoonful of sugar, butter the
size of a walnut Cook all together
fifteen minutes, then thicken with flour
to the consistency of cream. Serve lo
side dish as a vegetable.
To Prepare Vegetables.
i Place all long vegetables, such as
Asparagus, carots, parsnips and salsify,
in cold water to make them crisp, then
put on board and scrape from you. A
great quantity of vegetables can be
prepared in a short space of time, be
sides leaving the hands absolutely
stainless.
How lo Use Sage.
When preparing dressing for poultr,
jage is generally used, and the stems
and leaves are found so disagreeable
in the dressing. A good way of pre
venting this Is to steep a tablespoon of
sage in half cup of boiling water. This
can be strained right Into the dresslug.
Candled Peelings.
Cut into strips after removing the
trhlte membrane. Soak In cold water
for two hours, then wipe dry. Boll two
cups sugar with one of water until
the syrup threads. Dip the strips of
peel, in this and lay on oiled paper in
the sun or warming oven to dry.
To Keep Ebbs from Bursting.
Eggs when boiling frequently burst.
This is caused by their being too full
of air, and niuy be prevented by prick
ing one end with a needle before put
ting them into the water.- This makej
n outlet for the air.
Short Suggestions.
Keep tacks in bottles. It saves
opening many boxes to find a particu
lar kind.
For the roast of cold lamb course
serve an egg sprinkled with minced
mint leaves.
Covering the pan when fish is fry
ing Is apt to make the fish soft A
olid, firm meat, that Is at the same
time flaky, la what tip good cook
A Handicap.
"My mamma's yardstick has three feet,"
Said Willie,- cute and cunning.
"I've only two, but I can beat
My mamma's yardstick running.
Judge.
Initiative.
"That statesman lb a man of won
derful Initiative."
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum;
"there Is no doubt about bis initiative,
lie starts things that nobody on earth
could finish." Washington Star.
Making; Up for Lost Time.
Stranger (happening along) What's
all that loud wrangling about in there?
Sexton The Indies, ir, are holding an
ad'ourned meeting in the silence room.
Chicago Tribune.
Different Strata.
The irresistible high handshake chanced
to meet the immovable low handshake.
Whereupon they gave each other the
cold shake and cassed on.
Not Now.
Mrs. Chufjwater Josiab, what is the
"unwritten law?"
Mr. Chugwater There isn't any. It's
been written up in all the papers, l'vi
.old you that before.
No Limit to His Ability.
"Now here," said the salesman, "is a
cigar I can recommend."
"I know you can, young man," said
the customer. "I .tried one of them the
other day on your recommendation. What
I want is a brand you can recommend
without lying."
For Catarrh of the Throat of Two
Years' Standing.
"I was afflicted for two years with
catarrh of the throat. At first it was
very slight, but every cold I took made
it worse.
"I followed your directions and in a
very short time I began to improve. I
took one bottle and am now taking
my second. I can safely say that my
throat and head are cleared from ca
tarrh at the present time, but I still
continue to take my usual dose for a
spring tonic, and I find there is noth
ing better." Mrs. W. Pray, 260
Twelfth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
RIGID LAWS TO GOVERN AERONAUTS.
K. Leo Stevens, Instructor of U. S.
. Army Balloon Corps, Advocates
Government License and
Examinations.
Every day I am firmly convinced that
there should be government regulation
on ballooning. i have held this theory
for some time, but the exnerience nf a
certain California aeronaut a few days
ago in the bierra Mad re mountains has
brought the need home to me more
strongly than ever. The government
regulations should consist of licenses
for balloon pilots, and laws within
which the pilots should have to confine
themselves.
While I do not wish to reflect on this
aeronaut, I do wish to point out that
be is only a case in point Some peo
ple can never become successful balloon
men any more than all men can become
successes as artists or deep sea divers
It's a part of a man's makeup. There
are some men who can make 20 aacpn
sions and still be no better enuinneri na
pilots than if they were going up for
the second time. A nprsnn who is nnt
skilled in aeronautics, knowing that
a great many reckleBS people to have
tne experience ol seeing the earth slip
out from under them. Here is where
the trouble comes. I will not say that
it is not right for a man to go up in a
balloon by himself. I think that i
this man has made say nine ascensions
says, -un, rn willingly go." If we
had government teenlatinn. whom
men skilled in aircraft should make the
examinations as to whether or not the
applicant was fitted to be a pilot, this
odvious danger would be disnensed
with.
The DOnular idea is that nil nn hna
to do to make an ascension is to jump
into me Daiioon car, cut loose and when
one is ready to ascend throw overboard
the sand ballast. As a matter of fact
that much is not even the alphabet of
air riding.
When I heard that this experimenter
was to make the trip with that number
of passengers and with so small an
amount of ballast in my old "Ameri
ca," I predicted failure. He should
be thankful that the escape was so suc
cessful. There are some requirements
and some theories controlling the as
cent and descent of balloons just as
fixed as those that govern temperature
or that of gravitation. A certain sized
air ship, with so many cubic feet of
gas naturally can carry only so many
passengers exclusive of its ballast.
There is a nicety in determining just
how many it can carry successfully.
To be specific, a balloon with 80,000
cubic feet of gas should start out with
do bags of ballast and five passengers.
Equipped In that manner the pilot need
fear no storm, and have no worry. He
is just as safe as if he were sitting at
his own fireside. When a storm comes,
by throwing overboard some ballast he
can cro above it When tha ntm-m u
over, by letting out a little gas through
the escape valves he can descend safely
ALCOHOL 3 PER iiuvn
AVcgelable Prenaralion rnr As.
simi!aiin$tftcFoGtfandfogiia
imS Uie Stomachs aalBowclsof
Promotes DteestionMuI-
ness and ResLContalnsneiUm
Oputni.Morpliine nor Mineral.
INOT NARCOTIC.
IteipetfOMlkSSMIlLrnum
Pumpkin Sxdm
Mx-Smim
tt'mtSml'
CmiOrd SUpr .
hatojnm ilawr.
Anerfect Remedy for ConsRna
tion , Sour StomacJi.Dlarrhoca
Worms ,Covulsions.rcverisu
ncss andLoss of Sleep.
JVic Simile Sfonatutfof
NEW YORK.
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
to the earth. When a balloon of this
size, that is 80,000 cubic feet, has
thrown over all its ballast for one rea
son or another, except five bags, it
should drop to earth at once. To do
otherwise is to run a dangerous risk.
A law making this necesary would be
a great boon to the art and practice of
ballooning. A bag carrying between
35,000 and 40,000 cubic feet of gas
and two persons besides the pilot
should drop to earth when the pilot has
expended all the ballast save three
bags. If he does not do so he is risk
ing lives that he should not be allowed
to jeopardize.
I am in favor of government regula
tion. At the present time licenses can
be granted to pilots in this country by
the Aero club of America, There are
now 24 men holding these licenses. An
applicant must make 10 successful as
censions before he is granted the li
cense. These directions have to be
made before he is granted the license,
under the direction of other licensed
pilots, or after the applicant has made
four or five bo that he can manage a
balloon,, he must keep data of his trips.
This information has to be exact, and
be filed away. For instance, when the
applicant drops back to earth, say on a
man's farm, he has to give the man's
name and where he lives, and who
hauled him back to town. This is so
that at any future time the authorities
may satisfy themselves that the trip
was really made and that it was a suc
cessful one in every way.
France has a very creditable method
of licensing its balloon men. The li
censes are not governmental, though.
Each pilot, who is going to make an
ascent, carries in his pocket a little
book with his number and his photo
graph in it. If any one questions his
identity or his ability as a navigator
he simply shows the book with his
photo behind the isenglass.
I am in favor of government licens
ing and government regulations, rather
than that of state jurisdiction. In this
way the laws would be uniform, and
all the air sailers of something near
equal ability. An applicant would not
have to go to Washington to make an
ascent by any means. He may make
the trip at any place under the guid
ance of an accredited pilot.
Ballooning is becoming more and
more popular. It is now more than a
craze. Its possibilities are attracting
more a matter of ethics. A Derson
may walk on a railroad where there is
a third rail. He does it knowing that
ne is taking his life in his hands, but
when he persuades other people to go
along with him, he risks their lives
without enough experience to eet them
out of danger should anything happen.
wnen nve people go up in a balloon in
addition to the pilot, the unskilled
pilot is risking five lives in addition to
his own.
Throwing overboard ballast is a sci
ence. Ballast is to a balloon what
steam is to an engine. And just as
steam once gone can never be recover
ed, just so ballast thrown overboard is
lost. One man can get alone, make a
whole trip without losing more than
five bags of ballast while another
spends twenty. The latter spends all
his time in traveling up and down,
making saw teeth, while the other sails
along in a comparatively straiarht line.
The pilot who is out with the beginner
manes careiui notes and gives a full
report to the members of the Aero
club. He takes into consideration just
The Kind You Have Always
In use for over 30 years,
and has
7yyzfc, Bonal
All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing1 Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Fcverishness. 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 bleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
yj Bears the
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
TMC OENTAUS OOMPANV. TT MURRAY STRCCT. N CW VORR OIT
how much fluctuating the learner does.
He assists the new man, but watches
him carefully to find out how much grip
he has on the science.
The dilettante in search of new sen
sation is as dangerous as an automobil
ist with the Bpeed mania. I hesitate
to make a trip with a beginner who
says the danger is nothing, with the
man who says "Oh, I'm not afraid.
I've got the nerve." As a matter of
fact when good sense is used, there iB
no more danger than there is in an au
tomobile trip. But thpre is much po
tential danger. I am willing to make
the trip with a beginner who says
"Now I'm new at this, and want you
to take the rudder. I don't know it
all."
Another thing, balloons and all air
crafts will soon be equipped with wire
less telephone. An air craft in dis
tress can send a C. Q. D. message to
earth just like a vessel at sea. It
should be compulsory that equipment
for communications with the earth or
airships be installed. A balloon in
trouble would simply telephone its lo
cation or general direction and rescue
balloons or automobiles could be sent
to the rescue.
The U. S. army corps with which I
have been connected has successfully
experimented with a DeForest instru
ment, weighing less than 100 pounds,
However, there is a new sparkless and
wireless telephone of the radio variety
which weighs only 10 pounds and which
any balloonist can safely carry. The
radio sparkless attachment does away
with the danger of setting the gas bag
on hre. Ihe weight of the telephone
is so small that when the balloon lands
out in the country the operator can put
it under his arm and take it with him.
An old fashioned wireless telegraph is
impractical for the reason that it makes
a spark that may ignite the gas bag.
Ballooning has advanced so far now
that it is no longer experimental, but
is a science. The throwing out of bal
last is a science. It takes a long time
to learn to handle a balloon properly.
Why, in the fitness of things, should a
beginner, one who has nothing to urge
him on except curiosity and daredevil
try, be allowed to risk other lives?
I think the license to beginners
should be' made reasonably hard to ob
tain. And further, the laws regulat
ing tlie ballooning should be severs.
Ballooning is a matter of public con
cern, and when licenses are first issued
I hope that they will not be given so
promiscuously as licenses were given
at first to auto drivers.
Letting an outsider take up a bal
loon is exactly like running a railroad
engine. A railroad train is half way
fRESCENT
Will DO All
THAT ANT
HKiHrMCED
rOWDEK WILL
CM AND
A FULL
do J Kirn
HH
2X2
Bought, and which lias teen
has borne the signature of
been made under his per-
supervision since Its Infancy.
Signature of
between stations when its engineer
dies. The train is stopped. Some
body asks, "Can anybody here run an
engine?" A young man steps up and
says: "Yes, I can." He takes the
engine and may draw the train ten
miles without an accident and he may
get it safely into the station. But is
he a worthy engineer? No. On tha
following day this same young man
might wreck the train before he got
out of the switch yards.
C0FFEEC
TEA SPICES
BAKING POWDER,
EXTRACTS
"JUST RIGHT
CLOSSETADEVERS
PORTLAND. 0RE.J
WE HAVE INQUIRIES
For Farms in the Northwest
from people who are on the way
from the East and Middle West
and can place you in touch with
buyers with money.
I et us hear what you have for sale
ATLAS LAND COMPANY
420 Lumber Exchange Building
PORTLAND OREGON
'Avt sk"i
TherlpAnptt llnhtoct
and most comfortable
POMMEL
SLICKER
At the same time
cneapest In the
end because It
wears longest
J30 Everywhere
Every garment.
waterproof Cataloa
TOWFW CANAQIN CO ItMiTCO TOBONTO f N
A I Vr-,r- n ....
PNU
No. 1709
W
II KW writing to advertiser pleaa
id en i inn inn paper.
Egg-Phosphate
urn
1 vfv iirv
free J J I
I T l
BAKING POWflFR
POUND 25c.
Get It from
your Grocer