WASHINGTON DRY IE Supreme Tribunal Hands Down Unanimous Decision. DOCUMENT IS LONGEST ONE EVER FILED Decision Upholds Woman Suffrage and Recall Also-Main Objec tions Fully Disposed Of. Olmypia, Wash. Washington's pro hibitlon law wag upheld unanimously by the Supreme court Friday and will become effective January 1. The decision, the longest ever filed in the history of the court, containing 19,200 words, not only validates the initiative prohibition measures, but also specifically upholds the initiative and referendum amendment to the con stitution against the latest and most weighty of the objections brought against it. The effect of the decision is to ad judicate for all time the validity of the direct legislation amendment. Since the same objection urged againBt the initiative and referendum amendment, that of insufficient publi cation, could be urged equally againBt the woman suffrage and recall amend ments, the real effect of the decision also is to uphold these additions to the constitution. The majority opinion was written by Judge Emmett N. Parker, with Chief Justice George E. Morris and Judges 0. G. Ellis, 0. R. Holcomb. John F. Main and Wallace Mount concurring. There are no dissenting opinions, but Judge S. J. Chadwick notes, in a sep arate opinion, that he does not follow the reasoning of the majority, but yields his judgment and concurs in the result "not because it is the law as I had understood it, but because it has been so declared by a competent tri bunal." Judge M. A. Fullerton notes that he does not follow the majority reason ing, but concurs in the result and will file a separate opinion later rather than postpone further the filing of the decision. Briefly, the Supreme court decides that it cannot, and will not, notice ad mitted irregularities in connection with the publication both of the ini tiative and referendum amendment and the prohibition law, which, though stipulated by counsel in the case, do not appear as part of the official state records and are not matters of common notoriety. This disposes of the main objections. The court then decides that any question of interference with inter state commerce is settled by the Webb Kenyon act of congress of 1913, di vesting intoxicating liquor of its in terstate character, and that the privil eges in regard to sale and prescription of liquor granted to pharmacists and physicians do not constitute Buch dis crimination as to invalidate the act. The one crumb of comfort left for the "wets" is that the court did not pass on any constitutional question raised from the consumers' standpoint, the court stating specifically that since this was an injunction action to pre vent enforcement of the act only ques ions involving property rights could be considered. American Rights Brings Senate Storm. Washington, D. C. The long-expected storm in congress over the ad ministration's conduct of the defense of American rights on the seas broke Saturday when Senator Hoke Smith, Democrat, demanded an investigation of Great Britain's interferences with neutral trade and Senator Lodge, Re publican, replied with a demand that any investigation include the loss of American lives. "The body of an innocent child, floating dead on the water, the victim of destruction of an unarmed vessel, iB to me a more poignant and more tragic spectacle than an unsold bale of cotton," declared the Massachusetts senator. Men Cling to Launch. South Bend, Wash. Word reached here Saturday of the heroic struggle made by Captain C. 0. Reed and Mate Cuts, of the fishing launch Airdale, of Bay Center, during a storm in which both nearly lost their lives and were rescued. They had left South Bend Tuesday night with a load of 15 metal tanks of gasoline for a fish-packing plant at Bay Center. They were a short dis tance from the fish company's wharf at Bay Center when the oil tanks were lost and the launch filled. Butter Cards Are Issued. Berlin The Federal council has au thorized municipalities to issue butter and fat cards similar to the bread cards in use for several months to regulate the consumption of these articles. The ordinance becomes effective January 1. It contains provisions for reserving the cheaper butter and fats for the poor. The commission organized to equalize distriubtion of butter is authorized to require large producers to sell part of their output, up to 16 per cent of the total, for re-sale to municipalities where shortages exist Fruit Scarcity Predicted. Kansas City Plums and cherries may become scarce in the United States as result of the European war, according to reports given here by speakers at the 26th annual conven tion of the Western Association of Nurserymen. Imports of plum and cherry seedlings, grown chiefly in Eu rope, have been cut off by the war. The association, it is said, represents more than one-half of the nursery bus iness of the nation. FATHER AND SON IN CRASHING ENGINES jlEET INSTANT DEATH Stockton, Cal. Two trainmen father and son were killed and scores of passengers badly shaken up in head-on collision between the Santa Fe's westbound passenger No. 6 and a freight special, No. 498,' one mile east of Stockton shortly after 8 o'clock Sunday. . W. A. Wing, Sr., engineer of the passenger, and W. A. Wing, Jr., his son, fireman of the freight, were in stantly killed. Both engines, the mail car of the passenger, and two or three boxcars, were reduced to tangled mass of splintered wood and twisted steel. Both locomotives, stripped of cabs, smokestacks and bells, overturned on the south side of the track, the pass enger engine almost reversing its for mer position. KARL BUENZ Karl Buenz, managing director of the Hamburg-American line, convicted with other officials of the company of conspiracy to defraud the United States by false clearances and mani fests obtained by them for vessels chartered by the line for the purpose of taking supplies from American porta to German war vessels engaged In commerce destroying. Railroad men declared that they never before had heard of an engine being turned around in a wreck, al though they had seen many plunge in to the ditch at right angles to the track. The mail car, with Mail Clerk J. A, Spalding inside, turned . over on the north side of the track, tearing down a barn nearby in its plunge. Spalding crawled from under the wreckage without a scratch. , Christmas Mail Sails. New York American Christmas mail to Europe, the last of which was dispatched Monday, consisted of 8550 sacks. The sacks carried, in addition to ordinary letters, 90,500 registered articles, 84,900 parcel post packages and 284,457 money orders. The money orders represented $3,- 158,797, an increase over the Christ mas mail for 1914 of $1,467,704. The largest amount to go to any in- dividual country was $1,569,930 to Great Britain. Germany will receive $228,323. Brewery Men to Stay. Aberdeen, Wash. The decision of the State Supreme court upholding the dry law will result in the closing here January 1 of a brewery and 36 saloons, The machinery of the Aberdeen Brew- ery company, valued at $200,000, will be shipped to California. Most of the 40 employes will stay here. Several of the office men are inter ested in a clam cannery and others will become interested in a nata- torium, to be erected at a cost of $15,000. Liquor Men Get Ready. Eureka, Cal. The board of super visors has received an application from the Astor Wine company, of Horn brook, seeking a license to conduct a wholesale liquor house. Hornbrook being near the state line, the whole sale liquor houses are counting on a large business when Oregon and Wash ington become dry. The names of 380,000 tipplers in Oregon are cata logued and indexed by another mail order liquor house that is preparing to open in Hornbrook. Bankers Get Five Years. Dubuque, la. Joseph Harrigan, ex- vice president; George Homan, ex cashier, and Charles Siege, ex-teller in the Dubuque National bank, were sen tenced in the United States district court to five years each in the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. The three former bank officials pleaded guilty to charges of having made false entries on the books of the bank and misappropriating funds approximating $15,000. Three Cutters Recommended. Washington, D. C. Two cutters for work on the Pacific Coast and in Alas kan waters, one for the harbor of New York and another for San Francisco harbor are recommended in the annual report of the Coast Guard just sent to congress. The cost of all these vessels is not definitely given, but apparently would be more than $500,000. The re port favors early rebuilding of the 279 stations of the Coast Guard. U. S. SENDS PERT NOTE TO AUSTRIA Washington Communication Is Brief and to Point. ANCONA LINER CASE GETS ATTENTION Assurances of Safety to Americans In Future Is Demanded To Avoid Controversy Is Aim. Washington, D. C The United States has sent to Austria-Hungary a note asking for a disavowal of the submarine attack on the Italian liner Ancona, assurances that such an act will not be repeated, some degree of punishment for the commander of the submarine and reparation for the American lives lost. The communication was sent from the State department to Ambassador Penfield at Vienna, who was Instructed to hand it to the Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Burian. Friendly but firm terms, It Is said, characterize the document, which is understood to make a particular point of prompt assurances for the future safety of American lives. Austria- Hungary has never informed the Uni ted States whether the commanders of its Bubmarines had received instruc tions similar to those which the Ger man government gave to its comman ders after the Lusitania tragedy. It is understood that the note re ferred particularly to the charge that Bhells from a submarine killed or wounded some passengers on the An cona after she had halted, and asked for an explanation on that point. In discussing dispatching the note Secretary Lansing acted with the ap proval of President Wilson. It is said authoritatively that the document, which is described as being compara tively brief and decidedly vigorous in tone, was so drafted as to attempt a settlement of the controversy at once without bringing on a series of com munications, such as followed the sinking of the Lusitania. High officials are said to be of the opinion that the situation is one which callB for grave consideration, the state of affairs having become more com plicated since the note was dispatched by reports of attacks on American oil- carrying vessels in the Mediterranean, presumably by Austrian submarines. Half Ton of Pork Condemned By Portland food Inspectors Portland Eleven hundred and ninety-five pounds of diseased pork were condemned Thursday by an in spector from the city health office, upon the ground that the meat showed traces of cholera. The pork was ship ped to Constantino's market from a farmer by the name of A. Blatt, living in Clackamas county, it is reported. When the pork arrived at the mar ket Mr. ConBtantine did not like the looks of the meat and called up the city health officer before he would ac cept the shipment. An inspector was sent to the market and declared the pork to be diseased, so the meat was condemned. A report will be made to the state food and dairy commissioner, Blatt living outside the jurisdiction of the city. Because of the frequency of trichi nosis among Portland residents and four fatalities from the disease, the condemnation of the city health officer may lead to an extensive investigation in the line of pork shipments into the city. The state food and dairy com missioner will investigate the Blatt case. All In City To Get Cheer. Pendleton, Or. Pendleton will have two municipal Christmas trees, with presents for -every child in the city. A large choir of mixed voices is practic ing to sing ChriBtmas carols Christmas eve, in a grand spectacle on Main street. One tree will be placed at the corner of Main and Court streets and the other at the corner of Main and Alta streets. A program will be given and the streets will be lined with ever greens and red, white and blue cluBter lights. Two dinners are being ar ranged for the poor. Fixed Term in Disfavor. Washington, D. C. Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of Sing Sing prison, in an address before the Washington branch of the Woman's department of the National Civic Federation, advo cated the indeterminate sentence as the only effectual means of dealing with criminality. "There is just aa much sense," Mr. Osborne said, "in imposing a fixed term of imprisonment on a criminal as in sending a smallpox patient to a hospital for a fixed period. In both cases the patient should not be discharged until cured. 853,888 Left by Beachey. San Francisco Lincoln Beachey, the young aviator who met a spectacu lar death in the bay off the exposition grounds early in the exposition period, left an estate valued at $53,886.44, according to an appraisement filed in the probate department of the Supe rior court Thursday. All of the estate is bequeathed to his mother and father. The mother, Mrs. Amy Beachey, ia administratrix of the estate. Tanker's Loss Confirmed. Rome The Giornale d'ltalia says the Egyptian authorities confirm the torpedoing of the American oil tank steamer Communipaw. The subma rine which sent her to the bottom is said to have been a German of a large type. First report of the torpedoing of the American tank steamer, says the Giornale d'ltalia, was a radio message from an Italian steamer which bad picked up a wireless call for help from the Communipaw. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; liLNtKAL IW lUNDIUUNS Portland Wheat Bluestem, 98e bushel; forty-fold, 97c; club, 94c; red t ire, Bl jc; red Russian, 91)0. Mlllfeed Spot prices: Bran, $23 ton; shorts, $24; rolled barley, $304f 81. Corn White, $36 ton; cracked, $36. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 16; valley timothy, $12tfi)13; alfalfa, $13.6014.50; cheat, $'J(tf!l0;- oats and vetch, $1112. Vegetables Artichokes, $1 dozen; tomatoes, California, $1.251.50; cab bage, 90c cwt; garlic, 16c pound; peppers, 58c; eggplant, 10c; sprouts, 9c; horseradish, 8Jc; cauliflower, 75c $1.25 dozen; celery, 6066c; beans, 121 a 15c pound; lettuce, $2 2.76 crate; peas, 12J16c pound. Green Fruits Apples, 76c(3)2.25 box; pears, $1.251.76; grapes, $1.35 1.50 crate: cranberries, $1011.60 barrel. Potatoes Oregon, $1(0)1.15 sack; Yakimas, $1.101.26; sweets, $2.60 cwt." Onions Oregon, buying price, $1 f. b. shipping point. Eggs Oregon ranch, buying prices: No. 1, 42c dozen; No. 2, 80c; No. 8, 20c. ' Jobbing prices: No. 1, 42S)44c dozen; Oregon storage, 2628c. Poultry Hens, 11 18c pound; springs, ll12c; turkeys, 17c; tur keys, dressed, 2022c; ducks, 12 16c; geese, 89c. Butter City creamery, cubes, ex tras, selling at 81Jc; firsts, 29c; prints, and cartons, extra. Prices paid to producers: Country creamery, 2428c; butterfat, premium quality, 33c; No. 1, average quality, 81c; No. 2, 29c. Veal Fancy, 9c pound. . Pork Block, 77Jc pound. Hops 1916 crop, 1012c pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, 18 25c pound; valley, 2626c; fall lambs wool, 25c; mohair, Oregon, 28c. Cascara bark Old and new, 8J4c pound. Cattle Choice steers, $7 7.25; good, $6.757; medium, $6.606.75; choice cows, $5.266.75; good, $5 6.25; medium, $4.605; heifers, $3.60 6; bulls, $35; Btags, $4.605.25. Hogs Light, $5.956.05; heavy, $4.905. Sheep Wethers, $4.756.50; ewes, $46; lambs, $67.50. Hog Raiser Raps Prices. Spokane Packera in the northwest have virtually cornered the pork mar ket and are holding down prices, with the result that farmers who produce hogs are going to be forced to pass up northwestern markets and sell in the east, according to I. H. Jorgens, presi dent of the Union State bank of Nez Perce, and a hog raiser. Mr. Jorgens says hog raising is becoming an im portant industry in the Nez Perce country. Our section ships three to five cars of hogB every Tuesday from Nez Perce, and they go mostly to Seattle and Spo kane," said Mr. Jorgens. "Packers now are paying only five cents pound, which we regard as much too low, the present high priceB of grain considered. We must have $5.75 to $6 a hundred to make the business profitable. "The packers seem to think they nave a corner on the market and are taking advantage of it. Our hog raisers will be forced to sell in the east if northwestern prices do not im prove, or they must go out of business. We have shipped hogs east from Nez Perce before and have realized more than in northwestern markets and we may be forced to do bo again." Flour Goes Soaring. All local grades of flour is advanced 20 cents a barrel. This put the whole Bale price of patents at $5. There is a similar advance in the Puget Sound market. The rise occasioned by the strength and higher price of wheat. A year ago the patent flour market stood at $6. Influenced by the war flights of the wheat market, flour prices climbed rapidly Until February 6, 1916, when they touched $7.20, the record quotation for the Portland mar ket. The extreme price was not hela long and the market began to fall steadily until September 21, when it reached $4.80, which price has been maintained up to this time. Help Reaches Minnesota. San Francisco The wrecking steamer Iaqua and the tug Dauntless, sent from here last 'Friday to the assistance of the Minnesota, reached the disabled steamer at 8 o'clock Wed nesday morning and took her in tow, according to a radio message from the Iaqua received here by C. W. Wiley, marine superintendent of the Great Northern Setamship company. The message, Wiley said, came from the Iaqua, and, although he expected word from the Minnesota, he had heard nothing at a late hour Wednesday. Republicans Win in Bay State Boston Republicans were success ful where national party lines were drawn In the elections in 14 Massa chusetts cities Tuesday. In Marlboro and Waltham Democratic mayors were defeated for re-election by Republican opponents. Republicans won in Brock ton, Northampton, Pittsfield and Quincy. In Fall River, Springfield and Haverhill no mayors were elected. but the republicans secured a major ity in the city government in the two former cities. Haverhill has a non partisan government. Trenches Bad as Roundup. Pendleton, Or. William Darby, a former Pendleton boy, now a soldier in the English army, has written to friends here from Kent. Darby, who was recently wounded in three places, baa fully recovered from his wounds and is ready for the trenches again, He says that he is happy as can be and that every man faces death much as does a man getting on the famous Roundup bucking horse, Long Tom. Darby Intends to return to Pendleton. WILLING fOR PEACE, BUT GERMANY Will NOT TAKE fIRST STEP Berlin So long'as uncontrolled ha tred of Germany and the belief that Germany Is approaching a collapse continues to be the dominant Idea of her foes, It would be folly for Germany to take the initiative in proposing torms of peace. Germany, however, Is ready at any time to consider a peace suggestion from the countries with which she Is at war, does not wish a continuation of the war and disassociates herself under these cir cumstances from any responsibility for its prolongation. This is the substance of the German Imperial Chancellor's reply in the Reichstag to the Socialist interpella tion on peace, In which he painted a picture'of Germany triumphant on all sides and supplied with everythlrg, even If not in abundance, necessary to THEODORE E. BURTON fc -r un-in . jiifi The candidacy of former Senator fheodore E. Burton of Ohio, for the Republican nomination for the presi dency, received a considerable Impetus by the formal withdrawal of Governor Willis of Ohio from the race, and his announcement that he would throw his support to Mr. Burton, the continuation of the war. The interpellation was introduced by Dr. Schneidemann, In the following terms : "Is the Imperial Chancellor ready to give information as to the conditions under which he would be willing to enter into peace negotiations?" 'If our enemies make proposals compatible with Germany's dignity and safety," said Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, "then we shall always be ready to discuss them. So long as in the countries of our enemies the guilt and ignorance of statesmen are en tangled with confusion of public opin ion, it would be folly for Germany to make peace proposals, which would not shorten, but would lengthen the war. First'the masks must be torn from theirfaces." Only two Socialists spoke on the in terpellation, all the non-Socialist par ties uniting in a Bhort declaration op posing discussion at this moment. The tone of the debate was dignified and patriotic and the Imperial Chancellor was followed attentively and respect fully except for occasional interrup tions and outbursts of laughter from the Socialist, Dr. Liebknecht, who has not been in accord with his party since the beginning of the war, and who re ceived no sympathy. The Imperial Chancellor in his first speech, lasting half an hour, explained the military situation on all the front and declared emphatically that Ger many could not be starved out. The country had enough food, if properly distributed. Germany's enemies, he said, were suffering more than the Germans, and paying higher prices for food. Movable Coast Guns Likely, Washington, D. C Gigantic guns mounted on motor trucks or railway cars probably will be added to the country's coast defense system as a result of experiments now being made by army ordnance experts. It is learned that a scheme is being worked out for establishing mobile batteries to protect stretches of coast line not commanded by fortifications. The European war has demonstrated that high-power guns can be used as mobile weapons, Ger many's 42-centimeter howitzer having revolutionized land warfare. One Man Maul's Students, Russellville, Ark. Following the second strike within ten months of the students of the Second District State Agricultural college, the strikers way laid President Scott at night and at tempted to chastize him with a razor strap. President Scott said he was overpowered by overwhelming num bers, but that he administered vastly more punishment than he received. He is of powerful physique, and the black eyes and bruised and swollen features of some of the students corroborated the president's assertion. British Vote Hits Liquor, London A rebuke to the liquor in terests was seen in the re-election Sat urday to the house of commons of Postmaster General Herbert Samuel over Henry Knight, a printer of Leeds. In a bye-election in the Cleveland di vision of North Riding, Yorkshire, he poled 17312 votes as against Knights 1453. Mr. Knight opposed recent en actments restricting liquor sales, de claring he represented the concensus of opinion among the laboring classes. TO MAKE WITH CHESTNUTS Variety of Good Things That Will B Appreciated by Those Fond of the Edible. Chestnuts aie liked by almost every- hody, although they are sometimes found Indigestible. If they are boiled, they are easily digested, This Is a good way to boll them: Cut each chestnut with a cross on the stem end, and tie them In a ploce of cheesecloth or put them In a cheesecloth bag. Boll thorn until tender in salted water. Tbon serve them with butter and salt, as they are, or propare them more elaborately. Chestnut custard Is a delicious des sert, and can be made either from roast or boiled chestnuts. Remove the shells and skins from the cooked chostnuts a pound and a halt of them. Rub them through a sieve and mix with a cupful of butter, to a paste. Add the yolks of six eggs beat en creamy, throe-quarters of a cup ful of powdered sugar and half a cup ful of cream, whipped stiff. Then fold In lightly the whites of the eggs, beat en stiff, and heat In a double boiler until It thickens. Do not boll. Chill thoroughly before serving. For chestnut salad, boll 10 chest nuts, as directed above, and drop Into cold water to harden. Then peel and cut Into pieces the size of the chest nut quarters. Serve with French dressing on crisp leaves of lettuce. Chestnut soultte calls for a pint it cooked chestnut? rubbed through a sieve. Thicken six tablespoonfuls of hot milk with four level tablespoon fuls of flour rubbed smooth with two ot butter. Add the yolks of three eggs beaten, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and stir In lightly the stiff whites of four eggs. Bake 20 min utes. For chestnut udding boll a pound and a half of chestnuts and work them to a paste. Cream half a cupful of butter with half a cupful of sugar and add the beaten yolks ot six eggs stiff and fold them In lightly. Pour In a buttered mold and steam for an hour and serve with a sweet pud' ding sauce. - Stewed Shoulder of Mutton. Choose a small shoulder of mutton as lean as possible, have all the bones removed and broken up, and roll up the shoulder very tightly; put In a saucepan one or two sliced carrots, two medium-sized onlonB with two cloves In one of them, 1 pints of stock made from the bones, a bunch of herbs and a rind ot bacon; put In the shoulder, cover down, and place the pan over a good fire, bring it to the boil, then draw the pan to one side and let the contents simmer very gently for three to four hours; when half cooked turn the shoulder, when cooked lift it out and keep It hot Skim the gravy, strain It, put It back In the pan with the shoulder, and let them simmer for another ten minutes or, If there is too much liquid, let the simmering continue for a short time longer. The vegetables should be care fully saved, for If thev are nasf through a sieve they make an excel lent soup with the addition ot a little Btock, so that nothing need be wasted, Green Peppers In Oil. Sweet green peppers, breadcrumbs, good olive oil. Cut the peppers down one side and remove the seeds, pith and stem. Fill them with stale bread crumbs, slightly salted and peppered If the green peppers are not hot. Tie up each pepper with a bit of clean cord or coarse thread and fry them In the oil when It is boiling hot, keep ing the lid on the chafing dish all the while. Cheap Pudding, Here Is a cheap pudding If any of the sisters would like It. Use one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder to one cupful of flour, pinch ot salt and wet with milk to make stiff bat ter.. Butter a dish and place layer ot dough and drop Jelly thickly over this, another layer of dough and Jelly and so on. Steam. It doesn't take so very long to cook, serve who liquid sauce quite sweet. Kentucky Scalloped Potatoes. Slice potatoes and lay In the water half an Lour. Place a layer ot pota toes In a well-buttered baking dish, sprlnk'e with pepper, salt and pieces of buttar; repeat the process until there le sufficient quantity. Pour over this enough milk to cover and bake an hout and a halt or until the pota toes aro thoroughly cooked. If onions are liked with the potatoes, alternate layers may be used. Dutch Stew. Use two pounds of stew beef, cut up raw Into small pieces, one-half can tomatoes, one can ot peas, one onion cut up fine, one small carrot cut fine, four whole cloves, one-fourth cup ful tapioca, one-fourth cupful ot bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste. Put all In a bean pot or deep casserole, cover with water and bake (covered) tor four hours. A delicious and con venient dish when one Is to be busy or away from home till meal time. Cranberry Punch, Seed one-fourth cupful raisins, cover with two cupfuls boiling water and simmer one half hour. Wash three cupfuls cranberries and add to drained liquor; boll ten minutes; force through a sieve. Add one and one-half cupfuls sugar, three tablespoonfuls lemon Juice and a pinch of salt. Freeze to a mush. Woman's Home Companion, Grape Conserve. Seven pounds grapes, four pounds sugar, one pound walnut meat, two pounds raisins, five or six medium- sized apples. Pulp the grapes and boll with the apples until soft. Press through a sieve and add to the chopped skins and walnut meat. Add the sugar and raisins (cut tine) and boll until It Is thick enough. Rhubarb conserve may be made the same way. To Clean 8weeper. Remove the brush and after rubbing off all the hairs and lint, rub with ker osene. Let the brush stand In the air until all the odor has evaporated. The sweeper will do much better work after this treatment WITH SWEET POTATOES METHODS OF COOKING TO ACHIEVE THE BEST RESULTS. In the Form of Craauettea Thtv Arm Delicious Baked In Dish , la a Popular Way With Many Candled or 8eallopd. Croquettes. Sweet potatoes are al most always Improved by a second cooking, especially It tbey are wa tery, One way Is to make them Into croquettes. A good recipe calls for six potatoes boiled and put through a vegetable rlcer, seasoned with a tablespoonful of melted butter and pepper and salt to taste. Add a beat en egg, mix well and shape Into lit. tie balls. Roll in crumbs, beaten egg and crumbs again and brown quickly In hoot deep fat. Baked In Dish. Another good way Is to slice lengthwise boiled sweet po tatoes; put them In a baking dish, pour melted butter over them and brown them In the oven. Still another way Is to remove the Insldes from baked potatoes, season them well with melt ed butter, paprika, salt and mace, and return to the skins to brown. Candled. For candled sweet pota toes cut parboiled sweet potatoes Into lengthwise slices and put them In a buttered pan. Cook for tw minutes three-quarters of a cupful ot sugar, a quarter of a cupful of water, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Brush the potatoes with this and bake them. Baste them with the sirup as they cook until they are well candled. 8cal loped. Scalloped sweet pota toes are made by slicing parboiled potatoes Into a buttered baking dish and covering them with a well sea soned white sauce. On top ot the sauce put some melted butter and crumbs and bake for about twenty minutes. HOW TO MAKE GOOD NOODLES 8lmple Instructions That, If Properly Followed, Cannot Fall to Make Them a Success. Any number of eggs may be used In making noodle dough, according to the quantity of noodles desired at once, the only requirement being to work In sufficient flour. When using more than one egg at a time, divide the dough Into as many parts as you have eggs, for the sheets when rolled out will be easier to handle than If larger quantities are taken. To make a quantity of noodles suffi cient for four persons, break one egg into a bowl, and beat until light. Add as much flour as can be worked In, flour the breadboard and roll this dough out Into as thin a sheet as pos sible. Lay aside on a clean cloth or paper until dry enough so as to be rolled up like a paper lamp lighter. The layerB must not adhere to each other. Take a very sharp knife, and beginning at the end of the roll, cut the dough off In as fine slices as pos sible. Toss lightly In the bands and the slices will fall apart In long, yel low threads. Spread thin on cloth or paper, and let dry thoroughly. Then they may be used at once, or packed In tight paper bags or boxes and placed in a dry place. They can be kept for months. In this way quite a quantity may be made during the sea son when eggs are plentiful and stored for future use, making an lnex pensive as well as palatable food. Manhattan Pudding. Mix together the Juice of threi oranges, a lemon and a half cupful ol sugar; let stand several hours. Whip a cupful ot heavy cream, add a halt cupful of powdered sugar and a cup ful ot chopped nuts or candled fruit. Rub a mold sparingly with olive oil, pour In the fruit Juices, spread with the whipped cream mixture and cover with paraffin paper; put on the lid and bury in Ice and salt for three hours. Serve garnished with sections of orange which have stood overnight In a thick sirup ot sugar and water. Duck With Peas. Put the duck In a deep stewpan with a piece of butter (singe It first), flour It and turn It two or three times, then pour out all the fat. Put the duck In a pint of good gravy, the same of peas, two lettuces cut small, sweet herbs, pepper and salt; cover close and stew half an hour. When well done thicken with a little butter and flour, shake all together three or four min utes and serve In a dish, the duck with the sauce poured over It. Luncheon Eggs. Boll hard five eggs and chop them fine. Put a layer of egg In baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and then add another layer of egg, and so on until all are used. Pour over this a white sauce, made by thickening one cupful of milk with one tablespoonful of flour, add butter, salt and pepper, to taste. Sprinkle buttered crumbs on top and brown a delicate brown. This makes quite a hearty dish. Lemon Shortcake. While baking put In saucepan oni and one-fourth cupfuls water, one and one-halt cupfuls sugar, Juice, pulp and as much grated rind as you wish from two lemons. Boll, add small pieces of butter and three crackers rolled fine. Split the hot shortcake, butter, then spread thick with lemon mixture and place one layer over the other, Serve hot Baked Peas. WaBh a pint of split peas and put them in a bean pot with a tablespoon ful of molasses, a small strip of salt pork and" salt to taste. Cover with hot water and bake like beans, till ing the pot with water as It cooks up. About three hours ot baking ts nece sary. Egg Sauce. Egg sauce made in this way ts de licious. Beat the whites of three eggs stiff. Beat the yolks until creamy and sweeten with three tablespoon fuls ot powdered sugar. Just before serving fold In the stiff whites and serve Immediately.