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HOT MEALS AT ALL HOURS. By nrlRf.-Cen’l Henry O. Sliarpe, CoinmiHsary Kencral, IT. ». A. The Commissary Department of the Army of the United States has been brought to perfection and the Ameri¬ can soldier to-day is better fed Jtnan the man who bears arms under any other flag on earth. Veterans of the Civil War will re ■call the doggerel In which the fare •of the boys who wore the blue was designated. It was: Beans for breakfast; Tirana for dinner: Beans for supper; Beans, beans beans! The men who followed the stars •and bars were not so fortunate as to have a regular diet of even beans. They frequently subsisted for weeks at a time on a few pounds of parched corn, and they fought well under that diet, too. But for years now the best thought of the commissaries of the army has been devoted to the Im¬ provement of tho food conditions, and Brigadier-General Henry G. Sharpe, Commissary-General of the Army, has prepared the article for the Illustrated Sunday Magazine cm the food of the Army, in which he gives soma interesting data concerning the method of feeding Undo Sam’s defenders. While in garrison the enlisted man In the United States Army is entitled to draw each day twenty ounces of fre.sk beef or mutton, or twelve ounces of bacon. Should it be found Impracticable to obtain fresh meat he (has in lieu thereof sixteen ounces of canned meat, or canned fish, four tern ounces of dried fish or sixteen ounces of pickled fish.' He may, on occasion, draw from the commissary a can of beef and vegetable stew con¬ taining twenty-eight and one-half ounces. He is entitled each day to eighteen ounces of flour or its equiva¬ lent in bread, or In lieu thereof twen¬ ty ounces of corn meal. Of vegetable components he has tils choice of beans, peas, rice and hominy and a pound of potatoes, on¬ ions or canned tomatoes. Tn addition thereto he Is supplied each day with abont an ounce and a half of prunes, ■evaporated apples or peaches. An ■ounce and a third of roasted coffee or a third of an ounce of tea is given to each man as well as a little more than three ounces of sugar, and a sufficient quantity of vinegar, pepper and salt. This is the ordinary garrison ra¬ tion. vVhen located at army posts ■convenient, to city markets the mess may exchange any portion of its ra¬ tions for fresh vegetables, fruits or other delicacies which strike the fancy. TJae field ration differs in Its essen¬ tial particulars only slightly from that Issued In garrison. Jam takes Ahe place of dried fruits and with '•raaarh portion of flour is supplied bak¬ ing powder or yeast. It has been the aim of the Depart "Bient for some time past to improve the method of feeding the troops in tJif field. With this end in view a school of cookery has been estab¬ lished at Fort Riley, Kansas, with Xmanches at the Presidio of California and at the Washington Barracks, Dis itrkd of Columbia. The men at these achnols are Instructed in the art. of baking bread of various kinds and in general plain cookery, the idea being to wostjablish a corp of army cooks who *ean take the ordinary rations issued to each squad and prepare them in much manner as to tempt the appetite tot the enlisted men. The result of HMs training is that the army cooks to-day are able to prepare meals out .of the supplies furnished to each 'nwsr.s which would do credit to an •ordinary hotel. The receipts used in ttJhese •cooking schools embrace a Cozen different soups, five or six methods of preparing fish and oys¬ ters, ten or twelve sauces and gra¬ vies. besides fifty or more ways of stewing the various meats and vege itnbles which are furnished as regu 'txr rations, to say nothing of the numerous methods of making differ¬ ent kinds of breads, cakes, muffins, puddings and pies. In short the men of the army to-day, when in garrison, are better served than the men in .civil life in like conditions. The army cooking schools will re -snlt in the ultimate establishment of a corps of cooks and bakers capable of preparing appetizing meals at all ♦lines for the troops of the United States and will assure to them better and more varied food than the sol¬ diers of any other country can hope to have. Still, we are, up to the present time, behind the European armies in the matter of movable ovens. At the outbreak of the Span ish War such contrivances were prac¬ tically unknown to the Army. Our ■soldiers were compelled to depend largely upon hard tack for their bread, although the German and French armies had adopted the mov¬ able oven long before that time. And even now we have few of these very necessary adjuncts to the Commissary .Department, although it is likely that under new regulations, recently adopted, these will soon be supplied. One of tho longest steps forward in tho way of providing for men of the army on the march is now being per fected by this department. That is the construction of what is generally known as “the flreleas cooker,” a modification of the Norwegian hay oven. For two or three years past we have been experimenting with various devices submitted by manu¬ facturers with a view to the adoption of the best possible method for sup¬ plying hot meals to the troops in the field in tho quickest possible time. The tireless cooker, or hay-oven, is no now thing. It has been used in Europe for a great many years. The main idea is to partially cook a meal and then to place the food in a re¬ ceptacle which will retain the heat, with as little loss as possible, and to permit the retained heat to finish the cooking operation. Everybody knows that water bolls at two hundred and twelve degrees Fahrenheit, but very few people realize that water never gets any hotter than that and few seem to know that it is unnecessary to bring food up to even the degree , of temperature required to boil water [ provided the heat can bo retained, to insure perfect cooking. Experiments have shown that par¬ tially cooked food can be thoroughly cooked if kept at a temperature any where above 170 for a certain period of time and that is wliat is being done with the fireless cooker, which we hope to be able to perfect so as to make it available for the army. There are in the market to-day a great many such appliances, ranging from wooden boxes, packed with as¬ bestos or mineral wool, up to elab¬ orate metallic contrivances, several inches thick in the rim packed with some sort of non-cond lector of heat, such as wood fibre or asbestos. What the army wants is a contrivance of this character in which partially cooked foods may be placed which will retain the heat for many hours and to this end our experiments are being made with a fair degree of suc¬ cess thus far. Not long ago a squad of men started on a march from Fort Riley, Kansas, followed by a wagon containing a partially cooked meal, sufficient for the entire squad. After a march of six hours the fireless cooker In which this meal was con¬ tained was opened and it was found that the meat, vegetables and mac¬ aroni, contained therein, was per¬ fectly prepared and ready for dinner. The theory is a simple one. It is that heat retained by a non-conductor and prevented from escaping will complete the operation of cooking food. The hay-box of Norway has been used for a generation or more and we want to adopt the idea into the army of the United States; when this is done a squad of troops started out on a day’s march can be followed b- supply wagons with fireless cook¬ ers, that have been packed when camp is broken in the morning, and which will have a nutritious hot meal ready to serve to them immediately when camp is made again at night. Heretofore it has been found neces¬ sary in order to give our soldiers hot food on a march to carry a supply of fuel from camp to camp. And even then a great deal of time is consumed in building the fires and in cooking the meals. It will be readily under¬ stood that any method which prom¬ ises the elimination of the necessity of hauling large quantities of fuel and at the same time eliminate the loss of time will be of enormous ad¬ vantage and that the result will be highly appreciated by the men to be fed. Manufacturers have in many in stances prepared devices which are entirely satisfactory in a small way and and which which annpar appear to to be be excellent excellent for tor domestic purposes, hut up to the present time none of them has do signed a “tireless cooker” satisfactory for the needs of such a number of men as the Subsistence Department must provide for. We are looking for lightness in weight, combined with absolute stability in construe tion. We want a cooker which will stand long travel over all sorts of roads and assure the perfection of the contents at the end of the jour ney. Each receptacle containing foods must be absolutely air tight, easily cleaned and readily adjusted. We have secured, through our own 1 officers, several devices which seem I to fill the bill, and I am confident that i before long It will be possible to start I out a regiment of soldiers from camp \ - in the morning with a wagon contain ing fireless cookers supplied with a full ration of partially cooked food which will be fit to serve in the form of a palatable well-cooked meal by the time camp is reached at the end of the day.—New Orleans Picayune. A champagne bottle's toilet em¬ ploys the hands of forty-five work* [ ruei». SIGN or RETURNING CONEIDENCE » JU MMffmwmimnM Hi W ' t ?o_5jT TiM *J i I 1 i" . I In r^.vr^ 1 m % V * si 1 •i i it 1:1 f I i m ■a i 1 r \ * S i / i il l ||K Hi * a 'i 1 iwJ/M i i; / % v: I I % I l I m I ^ ups I, I Ih \\W>. wm. m ft m mff N I \ 1 m Mm i-.; 1' & 1 / ' ft I i w / i '/• iltlli &jlCT I) If; P ! 1* S I, 9 l m m % f m wm .1 i 3m vfl ■* I 11 rnmm 1 X ; : V / / Na • - O \ :cn *3 cleveroSu cartoon by Davenport, in the New York Mail, PROSPERITY WAVE FELT IN COUNTRY’S INDUSTRIES. Railroads Pl3n Gigantic Improvements Costing Millions of Dollars—National Prosperity Association, Having No More Work to Do, Disbands. X ' The certain return of prosperity is eloquently indicated in items in the news of the past week. From all over the country have come reports of the reopening of factories after ten months of cessation. Whirring machinery tells of the employment of thousands of men and women who have had noth¬ ing to do. While only a short while ago mills were running on half time, to-day they are rushed with work and are giving employment to all who apply. Railroads are feeling the Aladdin-like touch of prosperity and are planning to expend millions of dollars upon improvements. There has been a loosening up of the money market so that funds to carry on the gigantic projects contemplated are to bo had readily. Correspondents send in glowing reports of conditions in all the manufacturing centres. In the Northwest, the South, the East— everywhere there are signs of better times. One positive evidence of the improvement in conditions is given in the disbandment of the National Prosperity Association, of St. Louis. Its chairman, E. C. Simmons, explained that now that prosperity is swiftly returning, there is no more work for the organization to do. News of a Week That Shows ■4 VI Evidence of Better Times Washington, D. C. — Reports re¬ ceived by the International Brother¬ hood of Operative Potters during the week indicated a general opening up of work everywhere in that industry. The force at the Riverside Pottery at Wheeling, W. Va., ha3 been greatly increased, and the firm is getting or¬ ders in a steady stream. The Dresden Pottery is working at full force. The Klondike Pottery will have no slack time thi3 winter, its employes having all they can do. The Sebring Pottery, at Searing, O., has had the busiest November it has known in years. It is expected that the American China Comneny, of To¬ ronto, ’ will operate steadily to the year’s end. of The Union Buffalo Cotton Mills, Union, S. C.. which is said to operate more looms than any other textile corporation in the South, i-eeeived such a rush of orders that it will be obliged to run all of its three im¬ mense plants to their fullest capacity. This sets going 17,000 spindles and S00 looms, which were idle during the summer. The mills employ 2000 men and women. The Fales & Jenks Machine Corn pany, of Pawtucket, R. I., employing five-bour-a-week 400 hands, began schedule. working on Tne a fijty- iac torv had bgen runm - ng on half time. The Easton & Burnham Machine Oompany, of Pawtucket, R. I., started jt s factory on full time, after running on short time during the summer. It em cloys 100 men. Lumbermen of Tifton. Ga., report that all the mills are booked with enough orders to keep them going full ° e !?i“ Hit in J° for r three r J " months.^ : Tobwro" . ome are ,: e ri C n company B/ pad to take seventy-five ner cent, of tne 60,000,000 pounds of tobacco C f the Burley Leaf Tobacco Society, The deal involves $10,000,000. After a shut-down of six months. Illinois of its plants bteel Company at South. reopened Chicago, four 700 men being put to work, Several additional furnaces, requiring 5 00 men. will be blown at once. Prominent railroad men, including Donald G. Reid, of the Rock Island, and E. C. Converse,- of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the United States Steel Corporation started the organization of a $2,000,000 corpora¬ of tion to manufacture steel. Most the bends have been subscribed. The works will be located near Gary. Ind. Contracts were awarded by the Crescent Steel and Wire Company to construct a new plant at New Cor nerstown. Ohio. ■ The United States Steel Corpora¬ tion decided to erect a $3,000,000 plant at Monessen, Pa., in the Mo nougahela Valley. The Schoen Steel Company, of Pittsburg, announced that it would take on 300 more men and spend $1,- 500,000 in improvements. The National Tube Works, of Mc¬ Keesport, Pa., placed its plant on full time. The WestinghouseElectric Company put all its departments on full time. The Republic Iron and Steel Com¬ pany, of Pittsburg, ordered every ons of its furnaces run to full capacity. Every spindle in the cotton mills of Midham and New London counties. Conn., has been started up, and the mills are rushed with orders. The American Woolen Company’s mills at Moosup, Conn., are prepar¬ ing to run full time, after a had pe¬ riod in which less than half time was worked. The Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, of Chicago, which suspend¬ ed because of the financial conditions, started to reorganize, and it Is expect¬ ed to resume within a few weeks. Mills of the International Paper Company, at Berlin, N. H., idle for three months, reopened with a re dU ed D° r j FarreH, of Seattle. Wash.. representative of E. H. Harriman, in the Pacific Northwest, has been called to New York. Financiers and con tractors say that railroad construe tion work on a scale heretofore un known is about to be inaugurated in the Pacific Northwest. The North Coast CWcago. Milwaukee and St. Paul and Harriman system are the three factors in the spending of mill ions for a dominant position in Pu get Sound and Northwest Coast. Officiais of the Lackawanna Rail road announced that improvements costing $25,000,000 will be begun soon. Plans have been drawn for the extension of the road to Chicago. The SUbUlban lmeS 18 Generally, the shipment of curren cy, gold and silver to financial Insti-1 J tutions in rural districts begins to de eline in November, in accord with the slackening of trade and the receipt of money from abroad on grain and cot ton exportations. But confidential re ports of the St. Louis reserve agents show that the shipments to all cen tres in the South and West are al¬ most as large as last month. To the growing trade and invigorating in¬ dustry is attributed the activity. Conditions in the whole South shdw .remarkable improvement. < V HK«t I'll.K W B Y V1INOH PTIOX TiUiKK KF.D CROSS P1LK A FISTULA CURE X 1 and hook by mail II i)i-*‘i>a5rt. Minneapolis REA CO.. Deyt. - 4 , . Minn. A poor lover indeed i3 that man^vho ‘is engrossed in business. nicks' Capudlne Cures Women's and Monthly Headache. Pains, It's Backache, Liquid. Effect* Nervousnes* iinmo-' diulely. results. 10c., Prescribed 25c„ by physicians 50c.. at drua with i»eot ana store* To be extiavagant at the expense of other peonio j« criminal. KEKP YOU It !>KIN HEALTHY. Tettkrixk has done wondors for suffer¬ ers from eezetna, tetter, head, ground ihaps, itch, ery sipelas, Infant sore chafes and Other forms of skin diseases. In aggravat¬ ed cases of eczema its cures have boen mar¬ velous and thousands of people sing its praises. 5oe. at druggists or by mail from J. T. Shuptbine, Dept. A, Savannah, Ga. A man isn t necessarily a fisher¬ man just because he is a liar. SEKMKl) WORSE EVERY DAY. A Dangerous Case of Kidney Trouble and How It Was Checked. Mrs. Lucy Quebeck, Mechanic St., Hope Valley, It. says: "Eight years ago I contract¬ ed severe kidney trouble and my back -- began to ache con¬ V**L. w v*- tinually. Every day it seemed vjorse. The least pressure lOav . on giy back tortured 1 sap me, and I could not Hr twinge. stoop without The kidney a bad secretions passed irregularly with pain, and I bloated badly. My head swam and spots flitted before my eyes. One doctor said I was incurable. However, I found prompt relief when I started using Doan’s Kidney Pills, and the troubles 1 have related grad¬ ually disappeared." Sold by all dealers. 50c. a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Not a Safe Place. Old Aunt Hepsy Garside never had seen a moving picture show before. She gazed in speechless wender at the magic contrivance by which mes¬ senger boys v/ere made to move with breakneck speed, barbers to shave their customers in less than a min¬ ute and heavy policemen to dash along the street at a rate never at¬ tained by a living specimen, either on or off duty. It was all real to her. She could not doubt the evidence of her senses. All those things were taking place exactly as depicted. Presently an automobile came in sight in the far background, moving directly toward the audience at the rate of at least a mile a minute. Just as a catastrophe seemed inevitable it swerved aside, passed on and dis¬ appeared. Aunt Hepsy could not stand it no longer. Hastily grasping the hand of her little niece she rose and started swiftly for the door. Come along, Minervy! »» she said. ‘‘It ain’t safe to stay here any longer! That thing didn’t miss me more than two feet! Youth’s Companion. OBLIGING. Mrs. Chinnon—“Tell Marie I want her to come up and take my hair down.” Rose (the new maid)—“Can’t 1 take it down to her, ma’am?”—Har¬ per’s Bazar. LIVING ADVERTISEMENT. Glow of Health Speaks For Postum. It requires no scientific training to Siscover whether coffee disagrees or hot. Simply stop it for a time and use Postum in place of It, then note the beneficial effects. The truth will ap¬ pear. “Six years ago I was in a very bad condition,” writes a Tenn. lady, “I suffered from indigestion, nervous¬ ness and insomnia. “I was then an inveterate coffee drinker, but it was long before I could be persuaded that it was coffee that hurt me. Finally I decided to leave it off a few days and find out the truth. “The first morning I ieft off coffee had a ra « in S headache, so I decided * niust have something to take the P la ce of coffee.” (The headache was caused by the reaction of the coffee drug—caffeine). “Having heard of Postum through a friend who used it, I bought a pack age and tried , t { did not like it at ?/ st : ! ? ut after T 1 learned , , . how to . make „, tn ^ n £ht, according to directions o I ,k S-. I would not change back to cof fe e f °r anything, “When I began to use Postum I weighed only 117 lbs. Now I weigh 170, and as I have not taken any tonic in that time I can only attribute tny recovery of good health to the use .^ > ° stam y husband * n P' aCR I coffee, a living au says am v crtisement . for Postum. 1 am glad to be the means of inducing my many friends to use Postum, too.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich Read “The Road to Wellvllle Jin ’ ’’ in nkas P § “There’s a Rea f i Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true and full of ha* man interest.