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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Rain water Is the best Rod purest
water for bathing delicate complexions.
A surgeon who is a specialist in di
seases of the ear says more ear trou
bles are brought about by dust in the
ar than by any other cause.
It is well to Boak underflannels that
ksve become hard from much perspira
tion in a weak solution of eoda and
water for half an hour before washing
them in the regular manner.
A soft cloth wet with milk and rub
bed over boots and shoes three or four
times a month will improve the ap
pearance of the leather and help to
keep it soft, and thus make it last
longer.
Now is the time to pickle cucumbers.
Pot the little cucumbers in vluegar,
adding some horseradish root In or
der to retain the strength of the vine
gar and to prevent Its moulding.
Horseradish leaves are good to put ou
top.
To remove paint from window glass,
take some strong vinegar and heat it
very hot. Wet a cloth in the hot liquid
and wash the glass with it and the
paint will come off quite readily. A
strong solution of oiatlc acid will al
so remove dry paint.
The white of a raw epg 13 tho most
satisfactory of pastes, and is better
than any prepared mucilage or paste
one can buy. Papers Intended to bo
put over tumblers of Jelly and Jam
will hold very securely and be air tight
it dipped in the white of an egg.
A wash that will move the oily ap
pearance of the skin consists of a tea
spoonful of tincture of benzoin added
to fifteen teaspoonfuls of soft water,
shaking thoroughly. Put this on tho
face with a small sponge or bit of old
Unen rag, and let It dry on. It leaves
a dainty fragrance much resembling
nlgnonette or heliotrope.
In making meringues for a pie, never
use less than the whites of two egga.
Take one tablespoonful of pulverized
sugar to one egg. Allow the pie to
eool, then spread the meringue, which
has been beaten as light as possible,
over it. Bo careful to spread the
meringue over the crust. Place in a
cool oven until a delicate fawn color.
6pectacles and eyeglasses should be
kept perfectly clean and clear, other
wise the eyes will be strained and In
jured. A famous optician Bays glasses
and spectacles should be placed in a
wash bowl and soaked in warm water.
Then they Bhould be washed with soap
and rubbed with a soft nail brush. Pol
ish them with tooth powder, and give
them a final rub with tissue paper. A
few drops of ammonia may be added
to the water in which the glasses aro
soaked.
Remember, fair cycling enthusiast,
that the ruddy, glowing face you will
bring home with you after a many mile
spin under a Iieartletw midsummer sun
Is not alone tho result of good, health
ful exercise. Jt Is an out-and-out sun
burn, and is not by any means a beau
tiller. Avoid it as much as possible by
rubbing well into the skin beforo go
ing awheellng a little cold cream or
some lotion that will protect the skin
from the sun's ravages. Your face
won't look greasy if you apply the stuff
properly, and you will tind it tho great
est aid in warding off an overdose of
sunburn. A cold-water facial bath be
fore hob-nobbing with sun and wind
Is fatal to complexion charms.
l'opnlar GirU.
"I would like to know why Katherlne
is eo popular," said a bright, vivacious
young woman as she stood at the win
dow looking out at one of her young
friends who was passing. "Just note
the difference between her and Emily,
who Is a regular harmony destroyer,
while the other makes peace and pleas
antness wherever she goes."
"I think," said one of her grown-up
friends, and grown-up and middle aged
frienda are exceedingly desirable as
sociates for young women; "I think
the secret of Catherine's popularity He3
tn her absolute genuineness. She nev
er makes pretenses, and being a Chris
tian girl she always has the soft ans
wer that turns away wrath.
"Half a dozen times last winter we
bad more or less disagreement In our
church guild. There were several per
sons connected with It who seemed
always ready to strike Are when they
came together. She was oil on the
troubled waters and smoothed all tho
irregularities in the moet delightful
fashion.
"And while such dispositions are
greatly to be commended they are, for
the most part, possessed by persons
who have suillcient spirit to defend
themselves and their families against
Imposition and abuse. They are long
jutlering, slow to anger and often bear
that which others would not, and for
which they are more nr less severely
criticised. But they win in the long
run. 'Blessed are the peacemakers'
axe words the sweet significance of
which did not end with the speaking.
They have come to us down through
the dim aisles of the past, with their
llvine flavor etlll clinging to them, and
ire as aplicable to the sons and daugh
ters of men as when they first fell
from the lips of the meek and lowly
Nazarene."
Woman Deputy Sheriff.
Suffrage for women is playing some
tiueor pranks in Utah. The latest sur
prise is the appointment of Miss Clair
Kerguson to be deputy sheriff for Salt
Lake county. The young lady entered
the office of Sheriff Lewis last January
is a stenographer, and has now recolv
9d her promotion. The mother of the
young woman, Dr. Ellen 15. Ferguson,
was very prominent in State politics
during the last campaign, and she is
very proud of her daughter, who, she
ays, "takes to politics like a duck to
water."
Miss Ferguson is slender and fair,
Hut seemingly young fo hold such a re
sponsible position. The deputy is far
Irom the accepted idea of a hard-shooting
western peace ollicer, but then her
duties will not be onerous or danger
ous, the principal ones being the surv
,mg of papers and notiUcatlon of Jurors.
- Miss Ferguson was born in l'rovo
and has lived In Utah all her life, re
ceiving her education in the public
ichools and the university of the State,
tihe has lived In Salt Lake 'since tho
year after her birth, and is very pop
ular among the young people In tho
City of the SalntB.
AROUND THE FARM PLOT.
Feed the heifers plenty of bulk tot
ievelop their digestive organs.
Oats and pons are ranked by some
farmers as next to corn as a forage
crop.
If you have a thermometer to tell
the proper temperature of cream, you
will be saved many a moment of labor
in churning.
Major Alvord says he feeds more
fnsllnge from August to the middle of
September than In any other similar
period of the year.
Cow peas steeped in hot water for a
couple of hours will Increase the milk
md butter more than any other feed,
I dairyman claims.
A mixture of equal parts of fine salt
ttnd air slaked lime sprinkled on tha
:abbflge la recommended as a remedy
tor the green worms.
Experiments have proved beyond
Soubt that bisulphide of carbon will
Kill the Insects in stored grain wlth
3ut injury to the germinating power of
:he grain.
A good destroyer of bugs on squash
fines is a crop of chickens three weeks
at more old. Place the coop In which
trie hen Is confined in tho patch and
let the chicks have full sway.
Sorghum Is not grown as extensively
is formerly. It contains a large per
sentage of sugar, but Its leaves ars
hard and flinty. There la no necessity
lor growing It except for a special pur
pose, as corn Is fully as good for win
ter use.
If late cabbnges are slow in growth
Miltlvate between the rows and work
iround the plants with the hoc, so as
:o have the top soil loose. Then apply
i tablespoonful of nitrate of soda
around each plant, which will be car
ried into the soil by the first rain.
Currying the Tiorees when they have
secome dry, after their return from the
lay's work, relieves them of itching
lue to attacks of insects and open the
pores of the skin. If they are well
rubbed down and also given a brisk
brushing they will feel better and also
be in better condition for work the
next day.
Strawberry runners may be planted
in August so as to make a new bed.
tfhlle such plantB do not bear crops the
next spring yet they save time when
the season arrives for making new
beds, as Jt will only be necessary to
111 the vacancies In the spring. Potted
plants, however, transplanted In Au
gust, will bear berries next spring if
;he strong and vigorous runners are se
eded for potting. Grass, crimson clo
ser, rape and turnips can be seeded
urlng August if the weather is favor
ible. Now is tho time to select the seed
:orn for the next year by observing
ind marking the most vigorous stalks.
Later on the ears can be observed, and
when the time arrives for saving seed
t should betaken from the stalks that
ire marked, which may be done by
astenlng strips of muslin to them. Tho
telection of the ears is no more import
ant than securing vigor in the stalks.
Not only the grain, but the fodder,
ind the adaptauillty of the plants to
:he condition of growth, are essential
.n selecting feed.'
The Gj-p.jr Moth.
This menacing forager of the East
irn Hemisphere was brought over
;wenty-six years ago by a French sa
rant, in considerable numbers, to Med
!ord, a suburb of Boston, Massachu
letts. The object Is said to have been
:o cross the creature with the delicate
(ilk-worni, and so originate a robust,
dlk-producing hybrid for America; but
die statement has been gravely ques
.ioned. The scheme, whatever it was,
:ame to nothing, and the gypsy-caterpillars,
liberated from the netted en
ilosure by a gale, spread slowly over
Wedford, and then into adjoining and
nore distant towns. In nine or ten
ears from their liberation they had de
veloped into a noteworthy local nui
tance, and by 1889 they swarmed up
n Medford in irresistible hordes. Ex
.enslve tracts were swept clean.
3roves and gardens, fields, orchards,
ind tree-shadowed streets, all felt the
"fierce tooth" of the ravager. The
rides of houses, walks, and stoops
ere black; and the evil swarms, hav
ng devastated a district, marched up
jn the next, and the next.
When the impulse of transformation
Irove these creatures in July to shelter,
:hey huddled under whatever offered
Jiem protection about and even In the
louses they had beleaguered. Here,
sastlng their hairy coats, they soon
shanged into pupae; these about Au
gust evolved into moths, which dying,
is their nature is, soon after birth,
.eft behind them myriads of eggs.
The egg clutches thus deposited em
bossed their shelters with spongy ochre
lodules, close huddled as the globules
n fish spawn. The householders scrap
d them off by the peck. Additionally,
sight brimming cart-loads were re
xioved by a small oltlclal force. Each
jypsy egg cluster contains on an av
;rage about COO eggs. During six
iveeks of 1891, 760,000 of these clusters,
within a restricted local district were
.iy official means destroyed.
But this wholesale destruction did
aot even liberate the territory lrnmo
liately threatened.
The careful reckoning of science has
lemonstrated that the unrestricted cat
erpillar increase of a single pair of
sypey-moths would suffice In eight
years to devour the entire vegetation
Df the United States. From "A State
in Arms against a Caterpillar," by
Fletcher Osgood, in Harper's Maga
cine. Striking Cutting.
There are many plants which will
jonie on better for winter ubo if the
cuttings are struck soon, than if the
matter be delayed till fall. It la quite
true that the majority of plants root
more readily and strongly In a cool
:emperature. But if one wait until fall
to strike cuttings, plants will seldom
be of much value before spring. Ono
may take advantage of a cool spell,
which is almost certain to come some
;lme during August, and get the "slips"
.n then. Geraniums, if wanted for win
:er bloom, need to be put in thus early,
md Alternantheras are difficult to start
.n winter, on account of the low tem
perature. They are best carried over
Jroin the present season, being rooted
in August
A GOOD STORY.
The Native Sccmril Itmncrnt, Hut lie Tn
Knowing,
I was sitting on a keg of nails i a
West Virginia mountain store watch
ing a native dickering with the mer
chant over a trade of a basket of eggs
for a calico dress. After some time
a bargain was closed, the native walk
ed out with the dress in a bundle un
der his arm and I followed him'.
"It Isn't any business of mine," I
said, "but I was watching that trade,
and was surprised to see you let the
eggs go for tho dress."
"What fer?" he asked, In astonish
ment, as he mounted his horse.
"How many eggs did you have!"
"Basket full."
, "How many dozen?"
"Dunno. Can't count."
"That's where you miss tho advant
ages of education. With knowledge
you might have got two dresses for
those egira."
"But 1 didn't want two dresses, mis
ter," he argued.
"Perhaps not, but that was no rea
Bon why you should have paid two
prices for on. The merchant got tho
advantage of you because of his edu
cation. He knew what he was about."
He looked at me for a minute, as If
he felt real sorry for me. Then ha
grinned and pulled his horso over close
to me.
"1 reckon," he half whispered, cast
ing furtive glances toward the store,
"his cddlratlon ain't so much niore'n
mine ez you think It Is. He don't know
how many uv thorn nigs Is spiled, an'
I do," and he rode away before I could
argue further. Boston Herald. '
lOrlrHHou'a Kxnctncsfi.
John Ericsson had not only genius,
biK the "Immense capacity for taking
pains," which sometimes accompanies
it. All his work was so exactly done
that he could demand from workmen
the most rigid observance of details
in the drawings furnished for their
guidance without fear that they might
go astray.
When the steamer Columbia was
built. Its engines were put in accord
ing to his designs. It was customary
at that time to get the length of the
piston rod from the engine ttself, and
a man was one day engaged in measur
ing It with a long baton.
Captain Ericsbon chanced to go on
board at that moment, and, going up
to the workman, i.e called:
"What are you doing there, sir?"
"Getting the length of the piston
rod, sir."
"Is It not oa the drawing?" :
"Yes, sir."
"Then why do you come here with
sticks? Go and get the length from
the drawing, nlr. I do not want yoi
to bring sticks when tho drawing gives
the size."
At another time a workman was en
deavoring to put In the engines of a
steamship, and found freat difllculty
with a small connection which is de
scribed as being "crooked as a dog's
hind leg." Finally, he went to Erics
son and informed him that the rod
could not be put in place.
"Is it right by tho drawing?" was his
query.
"Yes, sir." ... .
"Then It will go in."
And, on another trial, it did. The
master brain had left nothing to be
supplied by the ingenuity of olhera.
Ililaabull by Frojry.
A small boy managed to secure ad
mission to the ball game on Monday
and stood on the top row of the bleacher-stand,
where he could watch tho
game, and at the same time talk to a
couple of small friends of his who were
on the sidewalk below.
The game had been in progress u
ehort time, when one of the boys on
the walk called up:
"Say, Jimmie, kin you see Socks?"
"Yep."
"What 's he dolu'?"
"NothinV
; Another pause.
"Jimmie, what's he doln' now?"
"Muffin" a fly."
"Gee!"
Another long pause.
"Jimmie, kin you see Socks now?"
"Yep."
; "What's he doln'?"
"Muffin' another fly." - 'w
"Gee!"
A Bhorter pause.
"Jimmie, kin you see Socks now?"
"Nop." '
"Why not?"
" 'Cause they've took him out o' tho
game an' put another duffer in his
place."
"Hully gee!!!"
And two broken hearted small boys
6taggered away from the fence and sat
down on tho curb, Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
1IU Comment.
"I always dislike men who have no
ear for music," said one girl, "and
now I dislike thetn more than ever.
Charley Nairgo called to see me yes
terday evening. At 11 o'clock I went
to the piano."
"And played 'Home, Sweet Home?"
said the other girl.
"Yes. First I played It as a ballad.
He didn't move. Then I played it xa
a waltz and next as a twostep and
then as a Jig."
"And what did he do?"
"He said: 'Gracious, Miss Jones,
what a jolly lot of tunes you know!
And all of them 60 different?' "
.Washington Star.
The Hiidal Tour.
"I want to go abroad the worst way,"
exclaimed the young thing.
"Then you should marry. I know
of no worse thing."
Saying which, the older thing smiled
Imrshly, and without a chaser.
Itullirr rmntUructorj'.
"Councilman Stuffer says he was of
fered a bribe."
"Has he got tha proof?"
"No,"
"Has he got the bribe?"
"Blessed if I know."
Luwt and the Weather.
"Well," said Senator Sorghum, as i8
wiped his brow, "I know of but ono
thing that is likely to delay thf iarift
till much longer."
"What is that?" ' .- '
"A cold wave." t,hv"S
INDIAN DANCES CONDEMNED.
Capt. Nordntrom lllmnr Them for Out
rage. Committed by Zunl..
Captain Charles E. Nordstrom of the
Tenth United Slates Cavalry, acting in
dlan agent at the Puoblo und Jlcarllla
agency In New Mexico, has written an
Interesting letter to the commissioner
of Indian affairs with regard to the In
dian dances. The letter treats of the
subject In a manner novel In official
communications and throws new light
on a matter that has long given great
concern to everybody Interested In the
Indian question. Thte letter Is dated
June 26. Cnpt. Nordstrom says:
"During my recent inspection of the
day schools attached to and lying south
of this agency tuany of the teachers
complained that on the occasion of a
'dance' In the pueblo they were either
locked tn their rooms and compelled to
remain there until the festivities were
over or driven out of the village entire
ly and ordered not to come back un
der a given time tho teacher at San
Felipe being ejected and driven across
toe Kio uranae. 'ins luautns preiena
that It would be sacrilege to admtt an
outsider to a participation in them, or
even to be present as a spectator, but
this is only a protext, an excuse to al
low them to assert their perogatlve,
the traders at Jemoz and Zunl Inform
lng me that neither of them Is molest
ed when the dances are going on, and
that they hare both been Invited to and
have witnessed even the most secret of
them. If these dances, like the camp
meeting revivals of the southern negro,
resulted only In a harmless enthusiasm
In religious fervor, no exception could
be taken to them, but they are often
the origin of great outrages. The trader
at Zunl related the circumstances of
one case which took place In that vil
lage not long ago which does not speak
very well for the advancement of those
engaged tn It: A young man, Just from
Carlisle, was ordered to dance and de
clined, representing that he had gradu
ated at school, had learned a trade, and
was now an merloan, and Americans
didn't dance that way. Thereupon the
governor arrested him, tied him up to
a tree, and ordered him beaten, and
beaten he was nearly to death. He
danced after tbat. Zunl, it will be re
railed, was the scene of the recent
hanging of a poor old creature as a
v Itch. While I was thor. Miss Dlssette,
the e'.lraablo principal of the school,
sent for the decrepit victim of this re
vival of the days when our New Eng
land forefathers plostiiy devoted their
neighbors- to the stake and bared her
poor, old arms, to my Inspection, which
I. 'd lo difficulty tn discerning the scars
r.ii-t!c by tho cruel cords, which had cut
the fleFh through to the bone. This pior
aid woman la at Kast 7b or SO years old.
At thii Imminent risk of her life, and
the medtaiue men, Miss Dlssette went
lo the old woman's house, and by nurs
ing her night aild day revived the flick
cring flame of life which haj so nearly
been extinguished. As this lady, her
voice trembling with indignant emo
tion, described the circumstances of
this ur;poakablo horror, my own cheek
blushed that thirty-six years of my life
had been spent in the service of a gov
ernment under which such things could
be done. The traxlor's cook, an Indian
youth about twenty, unfortunately in
curring the diBpteagure of the medi
cine men, was arrested as a witch, and,
but for the firmness of tola employer,
would have been put to death, and even
now he dares not venture outside the
premiums after dark, for fear of being
kidnapped by the emissaries of these
fiends in human shape, who will never
rest satisfied until he le immolated up
on the altar of thoir beastly supersti
tion. It may be asked, 'What has all
this got to do with dances?' Every
thing, because al! the outrages commit
ted originate In a dance. Is rain want
ed? they dance. Is there a flood? they
dance; and should the doctors have
made a mistake in their estimate of
the amount of humidity the clouds con
tain, and preclpatloa fall to ensue; or,
If the rain continues and the floods fail
to subside, they immediately cast about
them for a scapegoat, who is arrested;
and they invariably hit up
on some poor old woman who has nei
ther money nor friends, or other poor
devil (no profanity Intended), without
and treated as a wltoh, for making
connections or Influence, whom they
devote to torture, often death, and thus
save thoir reputations as augurs and
soothsayers. This whole question, in
all its damnable ramifications, will, ol
necessity, have to be settled sooner oi
later; the government cannot go on
appropriating millions year after yeai
for the civilization of the Indian while
these plague spots exist and thrive on
its bounty. But this letter la principal
ly concerned for the protection of the
teachers. What shall I do to secure
them from Insult In the future? I re
spectfully ask tor Instructions. It la
no use to turn the matter over to the
territorial authorities. The general
government has got to take hold of it,
through the strong arm of its arblrary
power. Force, by which these people
govern themselves, Is the only argu
uient which appeals to their obedience,
and the slate of things I have described
will continue to go on until, by a show
of force, they become convinced t1"
government Is in eurne3t."
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North und South.
The travellor wno Journeys south
ward through William Poun's "low
counties" finds himself on this line oi
domaikation betwteu "tho North" and
"tho South." Philadelphia, the last of
tho "Northern cities," lies behind him,
and when Bultimore la reached the
traveller begins to feel that he has
passed into a different atmosphore. A
certain unmistakable difference invoice
and speech and a softer manner are,
more than auythlng else, the firs!
Southern charactorlmlcs to strike the
stranger, notes Apple-tons' Populai
Science Monthly. The colored folk be
come more plentiful, and plckunninles
it the doorsof whltowathod cabins fo.m
a not unfamiliar foreground touch in
the landscape south of the city of Penn.
From a car window one sees little
of the change that comes over the fac
of Nature in passing from one region
to another. But to him who fares by
the way, with a keen Instinct for things
afield, comes the knowleUgo of Just
where the subtle change takes place.
For It is by tho range of country that a
bird Inhabits or where sonio particular
tree or wild flower grows that Nature
uap3 out the boundary liaos or regions, 1
"A rfrf?ct tvl of th llpl"''f ori'r nf In mannfnctnrf
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Hostility.
One hundred and thirty delegates
representing 100,000 men in the big
brotherhoods and composing the State
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Representatives Bliss and Kerke
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Fanners Are Wrought Up!
Great Excitement Over tho State's Claims
Against Lands.
The farmers of Eastern Pennsyl
vania are in an unusual state of ex
citement caused by notices just re
ceived from the agents of the State
requiring them to report to various
attorneys and pay over certain sums
of money still owing to the State on
lands originally purchased from the
Commonwealth.
These are unpatented lands and
some of these claims extend back to
I73S- The act of May 26, 1897.
provides for the settlement of all
these accounts. Isaac P. Brown,
deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs,
is in charge of the collection. James
P. Long is claim agent for Berks.
The original purchasers in Berb
county numbered 1427. These lands
are now owned by at least 5000 peo
ple. This state of aflairs exists m
many sections of Pennsylvania.
County surveyors are actively at work
running lines to see who must pay
these backstanding claims. All the
happiness of dollar wheat has received
a damper.
Attorney Long says : "These
claims are for all townships in Berks,
60 in number, excepting one, Anwy
township. Part of the purchase
money is owing on between 70,000
and 80,000 acres, about one-sixth of
the county. In some townships money
is owing on several thousand acres.
"The claims amount to over
$50,000 in Berks County alone.
There are also claims on property m,
Reading. There are about io,oo
individual claims from $10 to $9-
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