Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — Page 7

SAILING UP THE NILE.

The Wonderful River of Egypt and its Living and Dead Cities. Fights Witnessed—The River’s Many Virtues—The Crystal Cradls of Moses—Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday. “Sailing Up the Nile.” Text, Ezekiel xxix., 9. He said: Aha! This is the river Nile. A brown, or yellow, or silver cord on which are hung more jewels of thrilling interest than on any river that ever twisted in the sunshine. It ripples through the Book of Ezekiel, ana flashes in the Book of Deuteronomy, and Isiah, and Zachariah, and Nahum, and on its banks stood the mighties o' many ages. It was the crystal cradle of Moses, and on its banks Mary, th" refugee, carried the infant Jesus. To find the birthplace of this river was the fascination and defeat of expeditions without number. Not many years ago Bayard Taylor, our great American traveler, wrote: “Since Columbus first looked upon San Salvador, the earth has but one emotion of triumph left for her disposal, and that she reserves for him who shall first drink from the fountains of the White Nile under the snow fields of Kilimanjaro.” But the discovery of the sources of the Nile by most people was considered an impossibility. The malarias, the wild beasts, the savages, the unclimbable steeps, the vast distances stopped all the expeditions for ages. An intelligent native said to Sir Samuel W. Bakei’ and wife as they were on their way to accomplish that in which others had failed: “Give cup'Othe mad

scheme of the Nile source. How would it be possible for a lady, young and kill the strongest man? Give it up.” But the work went on until Speke, and Grant and Baker found the two lakes which are the source of what was called the White Nile and baptized these two lakes with the names of Victoria and’ Albert. These two lakes, filled by great rainfalls and by accumulated snows from the mountains, pbur their waters, Lden with agricultural wealth such rs blesses, no other river, on down aver the cataracts, on between frowning mountains, on between cities living and cities dead, on for 4.00!) miles and through a continent. But tiie White Nile would do little for Egypt if this were all. It would keep its banks and Egypt would-re-inain a desert. But from Abyssihaia there comes what is called the Blue Nile, which, though dry of nearly flry half...the year, under tremendous rains about the middle of June rises to a greatmomentum, and this Blue Nile dashes with sudden influx into the White Nile, which in consequence rises thirty fcet. and their combined waters inundate Egypt with a rich Boil which drops on ail the fields and ■gardens-asrit is conducted by ditches find sluices and canals everywhither. The greatest damage that ever came to Egypt came by the drying up of the; river Niley ramdr the greatest blessing by its healthful and abundant flow. The famine in Joseph’s" time came from the lack of sufficient InundatioA from the Niie. Scarcity of Nile is drought; tcio much Nue is freshet and plague.

The rivers of the earth are the mothers of its prosperity. If by Borne convulsion of nature the Mis iissippi should be taken from North America, or the Amazon from South America, or the Danube from Europe, or the Yenesei from Asia, what, hemispheric calamity! Still there are other rivers that could fertilize and save these countries. Our own continent is gulched, is ribboned, is glorified by innumerable water courses. But Egypt has only one great river, and that is harnessed to draw all the prosperities of realms and acreage semi-infinite. What happens to the Nile, happens to Egypt. The nilomcter was to me very suggestive as we went up and down its damn stone steps and saw the pillar marked with notches telling just how high or low are the waters of the Nile. When the Nile is rising four criers every morning run through the city hnriouncing how many feet the river has arisen—ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet, twenty-four feet—and when the right height of water is reached the gates of the canals are flung open and the liquid and refreshing benediction is pronounced bn all the land.

As we start where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea we behold a wonderful fulfillment of prophecy. The Nile in very ancient times used to have seven mouths. As the great river approached the sea it entered the sea at seven different places. >lsaiah prophesied: “The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian Sea and shall smite it in the seven streams. ” The fact is they arc all destroyed but two, and Hero dot us said these two remaining are artificial. Up the Nile we shall go; part of the way by Egyptian rail train, and then by boat, and then we shall understand why the Bible gives such prominence to this river which 1 is the largest river of all the earth with one exception. But all aboard the Egyptian rail train going up the banks of the Nile! Look out of the window and see those camels kneeling for thQ.imposition of their load. And I think we might take from them a lesson, and. instead of trying to stand upright in tour own strength, become conscious

of our weakness, and need of Divine help before we take upon us the heavy duties of the year or the week or the day, and so kneel for the burden. We meet processions of men and beasts on the way from their day’s work, but alas, for the homes to which the poor inhabitants are going. For the most part hovels of mud. But there is something in the scene that thoroughly enlists us. It is the novelty of wretchedness, and a scene of picturesque rags. For thousands of years this land has been under a heavy damnation of taxes. Nothing but Christian civil ization will roll back the influences which are “spoiling the Egyptians.” There are gardens and palaces, but they belong to the rulers. This ride along the Nile is one of the most solemn and impressive rides of all my lifetime, and our emotions deepen as the curtains of the night fall upon all surroundings. But we shall not be satisfied until we can take a ship and pass right out upon these wonderous waters and between the banks crowded with the story of empires. A eeorfii n g to the lead pencil marks in my Bible it was Thanksgiving Day morning, Nov. 28, 1889, that with my family and friends we stepped aboard the steamer on the Nile. The Mohammedan call to prayers had been sounded by the priests of that religion, the Muezzins, from the 400 mosquesrof Cairo as theory went out: “God is great! I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Mohammed is the apostle of God. Come to prayers. Come to salvation. God is great. There is no other but God. Prayers are better tnan sleep.” The sky and city and palm groves and shipping were bathed in the light. It was not much of a craft that we boarded. It would not be hailed on any of our rivers with any rapture of admiration. It fortunately had but little speed, for twice we ran aground, and the sailors jumped into the water and on their shoulders pushed her out. But what yacht of gayest sportsman, what deck of swiftest ocean queen, could give such thrill of rapture as a sail on the Nile? The Pyramids in sight, the remains of cities that are now only a name, the villages thronged with population. Both banks crowded With historical deeds of forty or sixty centuries. Oh, what a Book the Bible is when read on the Nile! As we slowly move up the majestic river I see on each bank the wheels, the pumps, the buckets for irrigation and see a man with his foot on the treadle of a wheel that fetches up the water for a garden, “hnd then for the first time I understand that passage in Deuteronomy which says of the Israelites after they had got back to land whither thou goest in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye come out, vvhere thou sowedst thy seed and wateredst it with thy foot.” Then I understood how the land could be watered with the foot. How do you suppose I felt when on the deck of that steamer on the Nile I looked off upon the canals and ditches and sluices through Which the fields are irrigated by that river and then read in Isaiah: “The burden of Egypt; the river shall be wasted and dried up, and they shall turn the rivers far away and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up, and they' shall be broken in the purposes there of, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.” That thanksgiving mornmorning on the Nile I found my text of to-day. While sailing on this river or stopping at one of the villages we see people on the banks who verify the bible description, for they are now as they were in Bible times. Shoes are now taken off in reverence to sacred places. Children carried astride the mother's shoulder, as in Hagerls time. Women with profusion of jew elry as when Rebecca was affianced. Lentils shelled into the potage, as when Esau sold his birtheight to get such a dish. The same habits of salutation as when Joseph and his brethren fell on each other's necks. Courts of law held under big trees, as. in olden times. People making bricks without straw, compelled by circumstances to use stubble instead of straw. Flying over or standing on the banks, as in Scripture days, are flamingoes, ospreys, eagles, pelicans, herons,cuckoos and bullfinches. On all sides of this river sepulchers, villages of sepulchers, cities of sepulchers, nations of sepulchers, and one is tempted to call it an empire of tombs. I never saw such a place as Egypt is, for graves. And now we understand the complaining sarcasm of the Israelites when they were on the way from Egypt to Canaan, “Because there are no graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?” Down the river bank come the buffalo and the cattle or kine to drink. And it was the ancestors of these cattle that inspired Pharaoh’s dream of the lean kine and the fat kine. Here we disembark a little while for Memphis, off from the Nile to the right. Memphis, founded 'by the first King of Egypt, and for a while the capital. A.'city of marjjle and gold. Home of the Pharaohs. City nineteen miles in circumference.

colonades, through which imposing processions marched. Here stood the Temple of the Sun, itself in brilliancy a sun shone on by another sun. Memphis, in power over a thousand one hundred years, or nearly ten times as long as the United States have existed. Here is a recumbent statue seventy-five feet long. Bronzed gateways. A necropolis called “the Haven of the Blest." Here Joseph was Prime Minister. Here Pharaoh received Jacob. All possible splendors were

built up into this royal city. JI osea,. Ezekiel, Jetemiah and Isaiah speak of it as something wonderful. Never did I visit a city with such exalted expectations and never d d my anticipations drop so flat. Not a j pillar stands. Not a wall is unbrok- : en. Not a fountain tosses in the ■ sun. Even the ruins have been ruined and all that remains are chips ; pf marble, small pieces of fractured sculpture and splintered human . bones. Here and there a letter of . some elaborate inscription. A toe or ear of a statue that once had stood in niche of palace wall. Ezekiel prophesied its blotting out, and the prophesy has been fulfilled. “Ride on, I said to our party, “and don’t wait for me.” And as I stood there alone the city of Memphis in the glory of past centuries returned. And I heard the rush of her chariots and i the dash of her fountains and the convivialty of her palaces and saw the drunken nobles roll on the floors I of mosaic, while in startling contrast j amid all the regalities of the place I , saw Pharaoh look up into the face of aged, rustic Jacob, the shepherd, sayi But back to the Nile and on and up till you reach Thebes, in Scripture called the City of No. Hund-red-gated Thebes. A quadrangular city four miles frum limit to limit. Four great temples, two of them Karnick and Luxor, once mountains of exquisite sculpture and gorgeous dreams solidified in stone. Statue of Rameses 11, 887 tons in weight and seventy-five feet high, but now fallen and scattered. Walls abloom with the battle-fields of centuries. The surrounding hills of rock hollowed into sepulchers, on the walls of which are chiseled in the picture and hieroglyphics the confirmation of the Bible story in regard to the treatment of the Israelites in Egypt so that, as explorations go on with the work, the walls of these sepulchers become commentaries of thellible.the Scriptures originally written upon parchment here cut into everlasting stone, Thebes mighty and dominant 500 years. But the dead cities strung along the Nile not only demolish infidelity, but thunder down the absurdity of the modern doctrine of evolution which says the world started with nothing and then rose, and human nature began with nothing but evolved into splendid manhood and womanhood of itself. Nay; the sculpture of the world was more wonderful in the days of Memphis and Thebes and Carthage than in the days of Boston and New York. Those blocks of stone weighing 300 tons high up the wall at Karnno imply machinery equal to, if not surpassing, the machinery of the nineteenth century. How was that statue of Rameses, weighing 887 tons transported from the quarries 200 miles away, and how was it lifted? Tell, modern machinists. How were those galleries of rock, still standing at Thebes, filled with paintings surpassed by no artist's pencil of the present day? Tell us, artists of the nineteenth century. The dead cities of Egypt, so far as they have left enough pillars or statues or sepulchers or temple ruins to tells the story—Memphis, Migdel, Hierapolis, Zoan, Thebes. Goshen, Carthage—all of them developing downward instead.of upwards They haveevoluted from magnificence into destruction. The Gospel of JesusChrist is the only elevator of individual and social and national character. Let all th? living cities know that pomp and opulence and temporal prosperity are no'seeuntyrThowe--ancient cities lacked nothing but good morals. Dissipation and sin slew them, and unless dissipation and sin are halted they will some day slay our modern cities and leave, our palaces of merchandise and our galleries of art and our City Hall as fiat in the dust as wc found Memphis on the afternoon of that Thanksgiving Day. And if the cities go down the Nation will go down. “Oh.” you say, “that is, impossible; we have stood so long —yea. over a hundred years as a Nation.” Why, what of that? Thebes stood five hundred years; Memphis stood a thousand years. God does not forget. One day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Rum an debauchery and bad politics are more rapidly working s,he destruction of our American cities than sin of any kind and all kinds worked for the destruction of the cities of Afiicvoneeso mighty and now so prostrate. But their gods were idols, and could do nothing except for debasement. Om- God made the heavens, and sent his son to redeem the nations. And our cities will not go down, and our nations will not perish, because the Gospel is going to triumph. Forward, all schools and colleges and churches! Forward, all reformatory and missionary organizations! Forward, all the influences, marshaled to bless the world! Let “our modern European and American cities listen to the voice of those ancient cities resurrected, and by hammer and c hisel and crow-bar compelled to speak. “The best bill collector,” writes a Georgia editor, “is a shotgun. We have the gun, and if we could afford to buy the shot with a small sprinkling of powder we would have $6 before sundown. ” —Atlanta Constitution.

A Righteous Strike.— * “But,” said the hotel keeper to the striking waiters, you get precisely the same fcod we servo to the guests.” “Yes.” replied the leader, “that’s what we are kicking about."-Hew York Sun,

WASHINGTON.

There is plenty of important business to occupy Mr. Blaine as soon as he takes hold of the affairs at the State Department. Undoubtedly, the first thing will be to consider the treaty of reciprocity with Venezuela. A treaty was agreed to by the Venezuelan minister here, bat wag rejected by the home government. Minister Scruggs, our representative in Venezuela, arrived here on the 22nd with a draft of a new treaty in his pocket, which he knows will be acceptable to Venezuela, as ft was informally approved by the leading officials of that' country before he left there. Other reciprocity treaties with southern countries are pending, and wifi now be brought to an issue. It is probable thjgt the one wftlj Colombia will be among the first to have attention after that of Venenzuela. Our Chinese relations are somewhat precarious, and it is expected that Mr. Blaine will at once take a hand in solving the question which that country is haying with the United States, Great Britain and Germany, over ill-treatment of citizens of these countries residing in China. The Chilian com-

plication is out of the way so far as diplomacy is concerned, although it yet remains to give a formal recognition to the new government. Minister Egan is regarded as quite secure in his position, as he has the personal friendship of Mr. Blaine. There is talk of another conference with the Canadians over reciprocity with our nortnern neighbors, but ft Is not believed that Mr. Blaine will be anxious to expedite this subject, as it is said that he and the President have no desire to treat with the present Tory government of the Dominion. Our trouble with Spain over indignities offered to American citizens in the Caroline and Philipine islands is about ready to be settled, as much correspondence has been going on within the last few weeks. Another im portant question which awaits Mr. Blaine is that of adjusting the 54,000,0000 f claims which American citizens have made against the United States of Colombia for the destruction of their property when the revolutionists sacked and burned the city of Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama In 1885 The Behring Sea snarls have been adjusted for the present during Mr* Blaine’s absence. The trouble with Italy over the New Orleans lynching dropped when Mr. Blaine went away, and has remained in an unsettled and unsatisfactory condition ever since.

Secretary Blafne entered upon his duties again on the 26th. Taking their cue from the onslaught being made upon the Pension Bureau* and the changes which have been made in the administrations of it during the past few months and those anticipated, some eu. thusiastic service-pension advocates in Congress announce their intention to make an effort, at the approaching session of Congress, to pass a universal pension bill. They are fortifying themselves withan argument that is interesting to every reader, be he friend or foe of the proposition. It is contended now that it would cost the government less in the long run, and help nearly twice as many deserving claimants to adopt a universal or servic pension law, treat every soldier, his widdependent heir alike* and put a stop to pension litigation. To begin with, it is estimated by theCommissionerof Pensions that the pensions and expenses of running the business willcost the government the next fiscal year, beginning with July. 1892, about $135,000,000. It costs for pensions alone just now in round figures $120,000,000 a year. There are about 1,208,707 soldiers of the Union now living. O, these in round figures 550,000 are on the pension rolls already, and the others, ar going upon the rolls at the fate of some thing like 125,000 a year. Each year there are dropped from the rolls, by death or unnatural causes, about 20,000 names. At 88 a month a universal pension law would cost the government, it' is estimated, in round numbers, $160,0)0,000 a year, provided every man who served long enough asked for the pension, but it is. not believed that more than 85 per cent, of those entitled would ask or receive a pension, and therefore the annual payments might be cut down to something like $160,000,000. One of the strongest arguments being used for the service or universal pension law is the delays befalling honest claimants and the expenses attached to the pension machinery. If there are allowed 125,000 pensions a year the fees amount to - $250,000 under the law. Most of the claimants pay from four to six times that amount in notary and other fees in getting up the testimony. This would ruu up the extraneous expenses to the claimants alone to over $1,000,000 a year, not to speak of the time given by claimants in hunting up testimony. It costs the government for pension examining boards at the various cities over $1,200,000 a year; and for special examiners about $325,000 a year, and for running the various agencies and the Pension Office here probably 83,500,0 X) annually. It will thus be seen that the direct expenses to the claimants and the government for the pension business is something like 4 per cent, of the payments. It is said that 15 per cent, of the claim ants die before their pensions are allowed and 50 per cent, of the payments ar ß avoided by the government by the delaye in reaching and adjusting claims. This cannot be helped. The business is pushed with all possible vigor, and twice as many claims are allowed every day as were passed upon only five years ago. It is held that under a service or universal bill all claimants would have their cases passed upon within six months at most, and only a little skeleton of the Pension Bureau would be necessary; that 80 per cent of the expense in running the business at present be dispensed with and only a few rooms in the War Department would be necessary in which to run the entire pension j business, as a muster-in or muster-out paper would sufficiently prove or disprove a case. It would all be record testimony, and It is all on file at the War Department " „ The mere fact that those who are as

much entitled to pensions as any one cannot get their dues because their papers cannot be reached, and the honest must suffer with the dishonest claim ant, is proving a telling argument, and also the statement that after six months there would be little expense attached to the pension beyond the payments, and so many more would receive assistance under a universal bill, cause men in Congress to stop and think. Whether anything will come of the movement or not, it is getting much serious agitation among Congressmen since the recent visit to Washington of Governor Bovey, of Indiana,is at the head of the Service Pension Association of the United States. The Governor still thinks his fight for universal pensions will win.

AN ALLIANCE DEAL.

The Kansas Farmers’ Alliance Forms an Important Union. They Will Become a Part of the Union Company of New York. ' I The Kansas Farmers’ Alliance will become a part of the National Union Company, of New York, which has a capital stock of 820,000,000, and is organized for the purpose of monopolizing everything in| sight. The committee appointed to inves-j tigate and report upon the scheme re- : ported unfavorably, but the report was not accepted by the convention. ’ It was adopted by an overwhelming vote on the 23d. The insurance features were taken up, and in this, too, co-operation was decided upon. All the branches of insurance will be confirmed and an insurance commission will be elected by the ox-; ecutive council. r G. W. Sandusky, secretary of the Alliance Exchange Company, which does five million dollars’ worth of business a year in this State, says it will be an easy thing to throw all this business into the new organization. In addition to this the Alliance is in a position to control absolutely the grain business of the State. The plan is to make Mr. Sandusky general manager of all the co-operative stores in the State. Kansas City will be the distributing point aud all goods will be purchased direct from the manufacturers. In every county w’here the Alliance will pledge Its support to a store a manager will be appointed and goods supplied by the National Union Company for a share in the profits. The National Union Company is an outgrowth of the Ocala convention. The scheme was sprung then and approved by President Polk. Three months later a meeting of capitalists was held in New York city,and the company was formed, and 83,000,000 of capital stock was subscribed. It is probable that the work of appointing agents will begin immediately,and the first stores will be established the Ist of next January. Everything was fixed In caucus before the convention proceeded to the election of officers. The various candidates and leaders met at noon to arrange a slate. President McGrath stated that he desired an indorsement of his official acts and acquittal of the various charges of corruption which had been made at the time of the Kansas Senatorial election, and whieh arose out of the letter received by him, and alleged to have been written by Congressman Turner, proposing the latter’s election, to succeed Mr. Ingalls. He gave the caucus to understand that he had enough delegates in the convention to vote for an indorsement and vindication and secure ids election. He did not wish, however, to be the cause, of discord in the parhe would withdraw in favor of W. H. Utley, State lecturer. The other candidates agreed te this compromise. When the caucus adjourned and went into the convention it was supposed that all the convention would have to do would be to cast its vote for the slate. The program miscarried, however, as far as the election of the president was concerned. Spme member who had not been admitted to the caucus proposed that no nominating speeches be made, and that an informal ballotbe taken. The motion prevailed, and it was found that Utley, W.H, Biddle and P. B. Maxon led. while seven others received a few votes. Each candidate was required to address the convention and to swear to support the Cincinnati platform, the sub-treasury and the co-operative schemes. Voting was then renewed, and after several ballots the contest narrowed down to Biddle, Utley and Maxon. Then McGrath gave the word for Maxon to withdraw in Utley’s favor, but all of the Maxon men did not or would not understand the order, and enough of them cast their votes for Biddle to elect him aud l defeat Utley. The result was a great surprise, especially to McGrath, who could not see iu it any indorsement or vindica tion. Dr, McLalHn, of Topeka, however, smoothed things over by proposing a resolution expressing unqualified confidence in the retiring president. The resolution was unanimously adopted. President Biddle is forty-five years old, was a soldier in the Union army, and is now a stock raiser from Butler county. He is practically unknown in the politics of the State. Mrs. Fannie K. Vickery was chosen to succeed herself as Vice President, and J B. French was elected secretary,

FRIGHTFUL LEAP OF A WOMAN.

Jumped from the Top of the Washington' Monument at Baltimore, ISS Feet. The mangled remains of a young woman were found at the base of the. Washington monument, on Mount Veriion place, Bal timore Tuesday afternoon. She had thrown herself from the top of the shaft, which towered 155 . feet alxne her dead body. It was presumed that the woman went to the top of the monument with the deliberate intention of committing suicide. A gentleman who was on the monument while sho was there noticed her agitation, and asked her if she felt HI. She made some vague reply and was soon left alonv She then made the awful leap to the stone flagging below. 2he woman had evidentmeditated suicide. She made .a visit to the top of the monument last Saturday, when it Is believed her courage failed her The remains, which indicated refinement and genteel poverty, were for a long time unidentified. Tuesday evening they wen recognized as those of Mias Alic H.olu -

IS ALUM POISONOUS?

Hall’s Journal at Health. This question has caused a good deal of discussion. Alum is used by many bakers to whiten their bread, enabling them to use an inferior flour. It-is most extensively employed as • cheap substitute for cream of tartaz in the manufacture of baking powders. It has not been considered immediately dangerous, although if continued it induces dyspepsia aud obstinate constipation. But the fact that many cases of poisoning hav< occurred from the use of alum, puts the question in a more serious aspect, and prudent people will exercise cau- « tion in the selection of baking pow< ; ders.” , - j “Under what conditions, then, j does this substance —formerly used ; only for mechanical or medicinal purposes—become poisonous? They are certainly obscure, and at present we can only surmise what they may be., We suspect that the cause exists in the individual poisoned; some peculiarity of the constitution producing a fnorbid change in the secretions of •the stomach, with which the alum com bines and forms an active poison; or the secretions may be healthy but in unusual proportions, and that these less or greater proportions in combination with the alum constitute a poison." For example, two parts of mercury and two parts of chlorine form calo-’ mel, which is not poisonous, but change the proportions to one part mercury and two parts of chlorine,’ and we get corrosive sublimate, which is a deadly poison. “Then again’we know nothing ol the constitutional peculiarities. Why is it that one person can eat all kinds of green fruits and vegetables with impunity, while the same course might cost another individual his life? One person can handle poison ivy and sumac without being in the least affected; another is poisoned if he approaches to within ten feet oi them. Out of a family residing in a malarial district, some of the mem’ bers will suffer half the year with fever and ague, while the others will enjoy excellent health during the entire year. Foods that are whole-; some to some persons are actually poisonous to others. This is especially true of some kinds of fish. There is no safety in taking alum into the stomach, as it is shown to be always injurious, and often dangerous.’’

The Scientific American published in a recent number a list of alum and ammonia baking powders, which is of great value at this time. Following is the list compiled from official, reports. Powders marked with a star seem to have a general sale, as they are mentioned in at least two of the official reports. •ATLANTIC 4 PACIFIC. *ROYAL. COOKS’S FAVORITE. SCIOTO. CROWN. SILVER SPOON. CRYSTAL. SILVER STAR. DAISY. *SNOWDRIFT. *DAVIB’ O. K, SOVEREIGN. DRY YEAST. STAR. GEM. STATE. GLOBE. STANDARD. *KENTON. SUNFLOWER. DEARSON’s. WASHINGTON. PERFECTION. WINDSOR. PEERLESS. ZXPP’S GRAPE. PURITY. CRYSTAL. There are, in addition to the foregoing list from the Scientific American, a number of such powders sold, in the western that were not found in the eastern stores. Fallowing is the list to date: CALUMET - - 1 „ Contains Alam. (Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago.) FOREST CITY - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Vouwie Bros., Cleveland.) CHICAGO YEAST. - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Clapman Smith Co.>

Chicago.) BON BON - • Contains Alum. HOTEL - - Contains Ammonia Alum. (J. C. Grant Bakiug Powder Co.. Chicago.) UNRIVALED - - Contains Alum. (Spragues, Warner <fc Griswold, Chicago.) ONE SPOON, TAYLOR’S - Ammonia Alum. (Tavlor Mfg. Co., St Louis.? YARNALL’S *. - Contains Alum. (Yamall Mfg. Co,, St. Louis.) SHAW’S SNOW PUFF - Contains! Alum. (Mercantile Mfg. Association, SL Louis.) DODSON & HLL’S - Contains Alum. (Dodson ic Hil’s. St. Louis.) SHEPARD’S - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Wm. H. Shephard, St. Louis.) BAIN’S - Contains Alum. (Meyer-Bain Mfg. Co., St. Louis.) MONARCH - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Reid, Murdoch Jt Co., Chicago.) SNOW BALL - Contains Alum. (Bengal Coffee & Spice Mil is, Chicago.) GIANT - - • Contains Alum. MILK - - - Contains Alum. (W. F. McLaughlin &Co., Chicago.) ECHO ... Contains Alum. (Spencer Blueing Paddle Co., Chicago.) KALBFELL’S PURITY Con taint Alum. (Kjalbfell Mfg. Co., Chicago.) RISING SUN - Contains Ammonia. (Phoenix Chemical Works, Chicago.) WHITE ROSE - Contains Ammonia Alum. (Globe Cotfoe & Spice Mills, Minneapolis.) WOOD’S ACME - Contains Ammonia. (Thos. Wood & Co., Philadelphia.) ANDREWS’ PEARL - Contains Ammonia. (C. E. Andrews & Co., Milwaukee.) HARRIES’ FAVORITE Contains Alum, (H. H. Harries, Minneapolis.) FIDELITY - - Contains Alum. SOLAR --- Contains Alum. (Sherman Bros., Chicago.) PUTNAM’S BEST - Contains Alum. (Wells, Putnam <t Co.. Chicago.) CHINA ’T” HOUSE - Contains Alum. (Noah McDowell, SL Pau), Minn.) TWIN CITY - - Contains Alum. » (J. K. Ferguson, Minneapolis, Minn.) HERCULES - Contains Ammonia. (Hercules Baking Powder Co., San Francisco.) CLIMAX - Contains Ammonia, (Climax Baking Powder Co., Indianapolis.)

There are pure cream tarter bakng powders on the market. All authorities report Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder as free from Alum, Ammonia, Lime or any other adulterant. The purity of this brand baa never been questioned. ,i Put fresh fish in salted water for half an hour* before cooking it. It hardens the fish and improves the flavor. '• v Never boil vinegar; it tends to weaken it. -