The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, August 03, 1895, Page 9, Image 9
THE 6CILLNTON TBIBUNE SATUKDAY . IfOBNTNQ, AUGUST 3, 1895, Facts ;of Imterest To Women Readers. "Symposium of ' Partly Gossipy MT XJUr8 BliEEVGSl She' a phantom ot (race as ih sails In ths room, And I kmc for a glimpse of her cheek I But acstacy dies In an ebony gloom My pun are too utter to speak. If my glances can roam to the creit of her comb i Tim all th.fr fnv vl.lon neroalvefl! ' And so with a sigh I lay the hope by 1 As I sit In the shade of her sleeves. I once was a man of the average size, In a beautiful bygone day; And favor I found In my fair one's eyes, And oh, but my bosom was gayt But fashion hath changed and her heart la estranged. In sorrow my spirit now grieves; For my dream Is a wreck. And I'm shrunk to a speck As I alt In the shade of her sleeves. If I could only sport a silk hat In the house How much It would add to my height! But no; I must sit Just as meek as a mouse, 8afe hid from my dear one's sight. Why, sometimes I doubt If she knows I'm. about Life truly Is "nothing but leaves." Pleasure's lamp has gone out And hope put to rout As I sit in the shade of her sleeves. Ah, onoe I could glide to her radiant aldo And coo In the shell of her ear; With smiles and with blushes she'd listen tn pride My passionate wooing to hear. Now at night and at noon through a rust ling balloon No answer my wooing receives; Nor can my arm reach To the goal of my speech As I ait In the shads of her sleeves. AlasI as I viewed them swell up and up My spirits sank down and down. Oh, sometimes I think I must take to the cup. My horrible anguish to drown. Is it feathers or gas that hath puffed up my las i? Weird fancies delirium weaves. Whatever the stuff My fate It is rough I'm lost In the shade of her sleeves! -S. M. Peck in Judge. II II H . The New York Sun, apropos of the presence of the picnic season, drops soma timely hints calculated to delight the epicure. "When you have your nest excursion.," remarks the Sun, "go and get some Japanese napkin and wooden plates, which are light to carry and can tie thrown away when used. Pack everything you can In boxes, and have plenty of parafflne paper and wrap eaoh article up by Itself. Provide thin, dainty slices of bread, buttered before It is cut front the loaf, and then wrapped up or made Into sandwiches, of which there is an endless variety to choose from. Stuffed eggs, each one rolled In paper; some kind of salad, which can be carried In a Mason Jar, with a mouth large enough to admit a tablespoon; some toothsome little turn oven that are not filled with juice, and some small cakes or cookies that are easily packed and handled. Make your iusslan tea or lemonade and put It Into bottles. Tou will usually be able "to procure all the ice you need at the picnic grounds. A few tumblers and forks will be about all you will be bur dened with on the homeward Juorney. If you go by wagon Into the woods and can have a fire, to the other things add a coffee pot, with coffee and egg ready mixed in It, a pall for heating water, and a saucepan. Have some potatoes sliced ready for stewing, or, better yet, . nave corned-beef hash chopped and ready to put over the Are, and if you are near fishing waters you may be able to have a catch for dinner. In that case, remenrber to take some slices of salt pork to fry with the fish. Put some green corn into the bottom of the wagon, and when you arrive have a bed of coals to roast it. A picnic with such a luncheon is a bright spot in one's life and always to be remem bered." II II II A KEMALE CROESUS: "Rich," exclaimed the emancipated wo man to another; "why, she's the queen of the Stock exchange." "She's very lavish. I'm told, in her dis play." "She can afford it. She's so rich that he uses hundred-dollar bills for curl-pa-pers."-Washlngton Star. . ':. II II II The Sun also suggests few excellent '" recipe for picnic dishes: "For fluffed eggs take fresh eggs and r DOl iwemy hudui; -woku com remwyj I the shell end cut in half, lengthwise; I tsike out the yoke, and with at fork rub I It to a paste with a little melted (butter, -Vrae salt, a dash of mustard ami cuy- e pepper, and a cucumber pickle mAped very fine; fill Che hollow whites Wlih this paste and place the two halves together and roll In parafflne piper. Chopped bam can be used In place of the pickle, with a little vinegar in for wetting. "Egg salad la made with hard boiled eggs.. Cut them In pieces, not too (fine, and to threte eggs use one boiled potato cut In cubes; put the potatoes wi.Ji the gigs; mix wtth mayonnaise dressing, to which have been added some onion Jules and a few capers. "Veal toaif la made with three pounds of veal, toaif a pound of salt pork, one flnuAl .onion, and m lew sprigs of parsley. Chop together -very fine and mix wftfi one-half cup of bread crumbs and the same of stock or milk and two table spoonfuls of melted butter; season with alt, pepper, arid a very MtMe mace and two fegga well beaten; put In is buttered pan and bake In a medium oven three hours, keeping It covered the first hour. When ooM out tn thin slices. , nru raid ii JFYult Turnovers Take one cup of ns and chop fine; add one lemon. , Juice and rind,, one up of granulated - sugar; prie generous' teaspoon of flour, emd one dessert spoon of brandy; heat until the sugar is dissolved; make, a rich piecrust and rol thin and cut out rl.fc an extra large biscuit cutter; : place some of the mixture on one side, turn, .over jan4 tsress edges, tight, put In a put and.f each 1wWn , Bake In a qV rvVa, ; J ' ' . Derteiou' jombtes Take on4witf - pound X of butter and sugar and .ttlr to a cream, fbeatttiwo eggs well and .add ft Uttle nutmeg-; now stir in three quarters of a pound of flour to make a soft dough; sprinkle over your board some sugar and break it pieces of dough about the else of a wahiutb and ' roll with .the fingers in the sugared boaid; wake Into rings and lay them on i tme one tndh apart In a moderate oven. . , PJenlo Cake Take three-quarters of a sup of butlerand on and one-half oops of sugar; stir to m cream, use three i rrssv putting pas in at a time and beat 7 fee rote the Hx4ure(-addae-lajUf eup of Mlk and one andr one-half tea CMtutt ef baking powder gtftsjd Into Information, Partly Grave, and Partly Gay. two generous cups of flour; add a half cup of Barfed raisins' and a little citron cut very thin; bake In patty pans and frost when cool. A aamiwfch of brown bread makes a variety and a nice Ailing Is cream cheese tn which has been mixed finely chopped raisins. II II II PREFERRED TO ItESQN: "Mr. Lively," said the managing editor, "we'd like to have you draw something comic." "Yes, sir." "Without making reference to the New Woman." "Y-es, sir. " "Or the bicycle." The artist turned away in silent dejec tion. In a few minutes he returned, and laid a sheet of paper on the desk. "Have you done it, so soon?" "It didn't take mo long to do all I could under the circumstances." "What is it?" "I've drawn up my resignation." Wash ington Star. II II II According to the Chicago Journal, marriages, in recent years, have stead ily declined in every country In Europe except Russia, Hungary and Servla. In Great Britain the decrease has been marked. According to a report in St. James' Gazette there 'has been no de cline among the nobility 'and gentry, who have titles and estates to perpetu ate, or among the lowest and most de graded classes. In fact there has been a slight Increase of marriages in the slums of the great cities, the mining districts and the Ashing settlements on the coasts. The great decline has been among the middle classes. There has 'been a similar decline of marriages in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. This is not a country given to statistics; and In some of the states marriage is made so easy that it Is difficult to obtain the number of per sons united in the holy bonds of wed lek. But in these states observation shows that marriages are declining. One has but to glance at the names of the persons who take our marriage li censes to see that nearly all of them are newcomers. THE GOSSIP: " " " I told my love unto the dew , That vanished in the air; , I told It to the little bird That warbles everywhere. At eve I told lb to a rose, And said: "The secret keep." Quoth she: "Beware and have a care; I whisper In my sleep." An adept grown, I told my love To her whom I adore; She smiled and said: "It must be so; I've heard It thrice before." Pittsburg Post II II II Among the reasons given by our Chi cago contemporary for this decline are as follows: "So many females have taken up the occupations of men that the latter have not the means to sup port households. American females have ceased to be domestic. The old desire for the pleasures of a home, once strong, has weakened. The desire to be Independent, to shine in society and make a display In publio has taken its place. It is probably true that the average man does not appreciate the 'new woman' as well as she thinks she deserves. All these things and per haps others have caused marriages to decrease. As might be expected the decline of marriages has been accom panied by a decline of births. Deaths are more numerous than, births among the native population of France. The population of the country would de cline but for the number of Italians, Slavs and Germans who have become residents. The birth rate In England has declined during twenty years from 38 per thousand of the population to 30, while in France it has sunk from 32 to 24. Proud Massachusetts boasts that -her birth rate has Increased during the past twenty-flve years 23.6 to 25.8, but that slight Increase does not show that the number of persons of Pilgrim or Puritan stock is becoming greater. The Canadian Frenchwoman 'Is abroad' in New England and she does not propose to have her race die out." II II II RELATING TO MARRIAGE: "Be mine," he Implored. "I am a new woman," she answered, ma lignantly. "I hate all men." And so they were marled. Detroit Tri bune. Mllllcent-Oh, thatMr. Van Cool is such an Indifferent fellow; I wish I could make him miserable. Stella Er-er-why don't you marry him. my dear? Brooklyn Eagle. Boothbv What are you thinking about. Ethel? Miss Warrlnfffnrd Ahmat our wnlrllnir. I want to ask a favor of you. ' uoothby Anything, dearest. MlM Wnrrlnirfn,Wiill t rivnM ant l change my name to Mrs. Henry W. Boothby. I want you to change yours to Mr. Ethel K. Warrlngford. Harper's Basar. "There 4s one point In your future hus band's character that you ar to be con gratulated on," said Miss Cayenne. 'What Is that?" asked the engaged girl, her eyes lighting with happiness. "tie is very easy to please." "How do you know?" "He Is so well satisfied with himself. Washington Star. He What would you say. darHnr. If I should tell you that you can never be mine? Sbe-I should say. pet. that I've swt a nice bundle of your letters that would help to make It expensive to you. TU BUS. Eheneser Whst tin vm frhinV ( th. best way to approach your father, dar ling, 10 asK mm tor your hand? jumenne rrom behind. Town Topics. Cobbs That was a pretty sentiment young Masher got off the other night when bidding Miss Plumpy good-night. DobDs hoi What was It? Cobbs He said he wished she was locked in his arms and the key lost Truth. ' It Is ft homely savins-, abserves. ths Household News, that "a woman can throw out with a spoon faster than a man can threw In with a shovel," yet the truth of ths old saw has never been dlaputod. Given an Intelligent, industrious, "bread winner," as It is fashionable to call ths person who earns ths funds which sup port ths home ana the thrift or want of thrift marking the caretr of the family tm depend almost entirely upon the habits of the housswjfe la relation to lit tle matters. One of the religious papers recently presented this eaaraoterisatloa of "ths thrifty housewife, and the por trait Is so terse tad tma that It ntlf hi wan be made a rule of conduct in all honvs where true prosperity Is sought: "She takes note of the kitchen Ore and closes up the dampers when she Is not using It, and makes one Are do all the work M will at once. She saves her alee 'drippings and makes them serve In cooking instead ot butter. She saves all the odds and ends of bread and meat left over from nasals and works them up Into appetising and nutritious dishes. Instead of throwing them away. Her clothing she keeps clean by the use of aprons; she haa suits ot clothes suitable for dirty work. She turns' her sheets when they grow thin In' the middle. Her worn tablecloths are cut Into napkins for everyday use. She keeps rugs spread over places In the carpet that are subjected to the hardest war. She care fully dries her tinware so It will not rust out She keeps her old brooms for roup-h use, and so prolongs the terra of service of her best broom. She uses up her worn garments in making quilts and comforts or In rugs and rag carpets, and so in a thousand ways she saves what if wasted would be pure loss, and do nobody any good." II II II WOULD TAKE ANY, THEN: "Are you fond of etchings?" asked the young man who had taken the hostess' pretty niece from the country down to supper. "As a general thing, yes, she answered, looking up Into his eyes with an engaging frankness that threatened havoo to his heart; "but," she added hastily, as he started to say something pretty, "not any tonight, thank you it is rather late. A very little sherbet la all I care for." Spare Moments. II II II ' Congressman Johnson, of North Dakota, has a wife who is a helpmeet of the proper sort to him without being a canvesser of votes, a lobbyist, a reviser of his speeches, or even one of those women who are de scribed as taking the "keenest Interest" in their husbands's careers. Mrs. John son, to be sure, may have the virtues of ill these classes, but she has won fame chiefly from the remarkably clever way in which she superintended the work on a farm of 1,800 acres, while h?r husband was at tending to the legislative affairs of the nation. - In the spring of 1893 Mr. Johnson Invested heavily In hay lands. Before the hay was ready to. cut he was called to Washington by an extra session of con gress. He tried to find a man who would attend to his hay for him during his ab sence, and, falling, allowed his wife to as sume charge of the big hay farm. ' The harvest came on and Mrs. Johnson was in the fields bright and early In her top buggy, looking after men and teams, and, when one Held was cut, selecting another and then another. All of the hay on '.he Johnson farm was mown, and then Mrs. Johnson leased the hay tracts In the vicin ity of Petersburg until the total cut amounted to almost 300 tons. Mr. John son himself says that he never had a crop looked after in a more business-like way than the hay crop of 1893. II II II HEALTH HINTS: Bicycle riding is the Very best remedy for nervousness caused by lack of ex ercise and confinement In an office at a desk all day. Wash the face night and morning In buttermilk, permitting to dry without wiping. This will make the skin white and soft. There is nothiing so "good for the complexion" as exercise In the open a'.r. A preparation of linseed oil and llmo water is a good application for sunburn. Put on the burned surface and cover with old linen or muslin; If the burnt surface Is very sore do not remove the linen, but keep It wet by pouring the mixture on. It was forcibly pointed out in one ot the papers read at the last meeting of the American Health association convened In Canada, that radical Improvement In pub lio hygiene should begin In ths public schools, and unless it Is done, we may rationally expect to see a progressive physical degeneration of our race through the pernicious Influences of the miserable hygienic surroundings to which our school children are so commonly subject ed In the common schools. A few simple rules carefully obeyed will do much to preserve the eyes In health. Light and color In rooms are Important. The walls are best finished in a single tint. Windows should open directly upon the outer air, and light Is better when they and close together, not separated by much wall space; not distributed. Light should be abundant, but not dazzling. It should never como from in front, nor sould sunlight fall upon work or the printed page. Never read or sew in the twilight, after an exhausting fever, nor before breakfast. Look up frequently when at work and fix the eyes upon some distant object. Break up the stretch of wall by pictures that have a good per spective. Those rest the eye, as does look ing out of a window. When at work on minute objects, rise occasionally, take deep inspirations with the mouth closed, stretch the body erect, throw the arms backward and forward, and step to an opon window or out Into the open air for a moment. Two desks of different heights are valuable for a student, one to stand by and the other to sit by. Plenty of open-air exercise Is essential to good eye sight. Sometimes (t is impossible to cure eye troubles while patients stay within doors In furnace-heated rooms. - Kor proper vision, printed matter should not be less than fifteen Inches from the eye. Some advice which the Phlladclp:ha Record gives to a mother who complained of the Incessant crying of her girl baby may be valuable to other readers. "Search all over the child's .clothing," says the Record, "for the cause of the crying. Clothes that bind, ptns that prick, safety-pins that ore large and clumsy may make pressure sufficient to cause pain. An Infant's clothing to be comfortablo and unlrrltatlng should be sewed on It takes very little more time to fasten each garment with thread. . Buttons should never be used; nor pins. You may cause her to suffer by too frequent feeding; once every three hours . Is quite often enough to feed a six-months-old baby. Permit no Irregularity In the feeding; feed her at no time except at the end of each three hours. Never feed her to silence her voice. Early in life digestion Is feeble, and regularity In meal hours Is of much more lmportance( than In adult life. Too frequent feeding causes colic. Indigestion and Illness. Do not feed her during the night if her last meal has been at 11 p. m. give her no more food until S or 6 a. m.. Do not rouse her from sleep to feed at any time. If she have colic give half a tea spoonful of hot "soda mint." If she does not Improve within a week take her to a physician for examination and treatment Her present ailment Is Indigestion. Feed ing produces pain and colic. Keep her chest and stomach and bowels covered with a thin layer of wool wool shirt or flannel binder night and day. Give her a teaspoonful of 'caraway water' after each feeding." II II II HOUSEHOLD HELPS: Old kid gloves make excellent pen wipers. Raisins for fruit cake are very much Improved by cooking. Let them soak out slowly, and then simmer until the skin is tender. i You should keep your fine- laces wrapped In blue paper If you don't want them to turn too yellow, yellower than Is desirable. . By rubbing with a flannel cloth dipped In whiting the brown discoloration may be taken off of cups which, have been used for baking. Among the best and moat useful arti cles for ths washing of dishes Is the soap shaker. It makes excellent suds with the least possible outlay of soap. To keep cake and sandwiches fresh sev eral days, wrap them up In a wet cloth and keep them from the air. This method will also' hold good for buns and coffee oaka - ' - The llttl sliding boxes ws get from ths druggists are lovely little receptacles for the elastic rings so much used now adays. Fasten two together with a bit of ribbon, tls ft bow on the top, and you hare ft pitas for postage stamps as well. 1 It Is not good economy to cook ths Sams things day after day. Study up some new dishes, and serve them daintily; use up all the left overs; put bits of bread, mashed potatoes, boiled hominy or rice, anything of the sort In your griddle cakes and see how it will Improve them. A dainty and delectable addition to mlladl's tea table Is known as "nutted dates." The dates are Brat stoned and then filled with whole meat of the Eng lish walnut This makes a sweetmeat both novel and acceptable, and one pe culiarly adapted to the demands ot 6 o'clock affairs. When a stain gets on the fresh dinner cloth the easiest way to remove It la Im mediately after dinner to slip a bowl di rectly under the spot, thus raising the cloth from the table, and then to pour boiling water over the stain. Let the cloth remain stretched over the bowl until the wet portion dries. Many women Imagine that a bare floor scrubbed every day or two Is the only "neat way of living," but the woman who covers her kitchen floor with a hemp rag carpet, protected In the most exposed places by neatly-bound oilcloth, saves much exhausting scrubbing, and her kitchen looks cleaner than the floor, dingy and rough from frequent washing. Al most always the freshly-washed floor Is the real cause of those mysterious lan guid, lame sensations from which delicate women suffer. . To prevent accidents with lamps the first point, according to the London queen, is to use good oil. to always have lamps with metal oil containers, and wick tubes of sufficient length to nearly reach the bottom of the containers, and always to place the lamps In safe positions; while some really good brand of oil, having a close test flash point of 70 degrees or over, should be invariably used. Great care should be taken to keep every part of the lamp clean, end the gause of the burners should receive particular attention, be cause should this become obstructed by dust, the lamps will smell most offensive ly, while the light will be considerably lessened; moreover, there is also the risk of tiring back, and thus destroying the burners. Petroleum when properly burned In clean lamps should be free from smell, giving a white light. Where petroleum or other mineral oil is used for illuminating purposes, half a dosen buckets of fine dry sand should be kept in a readily accessible place tn case of conflagration, as this Is far better than water as an extinguishing medium. In the event of santi not being available, ashes, dry earth, or similar material wll smother out an oil fire, but water, unless applied in overwhelming quantities, only causes It to spread. It Is, however, better to prevent the danger by having good metal lamps In secure posi tions, and this should be the first care of every housekeeper. Like everything else, mineral oil is safe enough when properly used, and no fear of explosion need exist; while so long as properly constructed lamps are used, there Is little to fear when lumps are overturned. II II II ONE DRAWBACK: "It must be delightful," said the ordi nary married woman, "to be earning your own living and more, too." "It has its drawbacks," said the busi ness woman. "Every time I go to ft bar gain sale and save 75 or SO cents on pur chases, I lose two or three dollars' worth ot time." Indianapolis Journal. II II II SELECTED RECIPES: Green Corn Pudding. Two coffee-cups of the pulp of green corn, one quart of new milk, three eggs, two heaping tablespoons of butter. Pour one pint of the milk over the corn and set on the fire until scalding hot. Heat the yolks of the eggs and add the pint of cold milk and half a cup of sugar. Put the butter in the corn over the Are and then add the milk and yolks of eggs and a little salt. Put In a greased pudding dish and bako slowly. Beat the whites and add three spoonfuls of fine sugar and put over the top when the pud ding Is done. Set in the oven to brown. Green Corn In the Husks. Some think the corn sweeter if cooked with husks on. Remove the outsldo layer, take out the silk and tie the remaining husks over the end. Cook In a kettle of boiling water wth a little salt In It. The husks can be removed before sending It to tho table, but some prefer to leave the husks on so as to keep it hot. Escalloped Corn. Take fresh-picked corn, cut it from the cob; grease a pudding dish, put In a luyer, sprlnklo a little salt over it and bits of butter, then put on a layer of cracker crumbs', pour over a little milk and fill dish with alternate layers of corn and cracker crumbs, with cracker for top layer and plenty of milk over the whole. Cover closely and bake one hour. Peach Short-Cake. Use canned peaches and prepared flour for this dish. Chop quarter of a pound of butter Into a quart of prepared flour, quickly stir Into It enough sweet milk to make a soft dough; put this Into two round cakes upon but tered tin pie-plates, and bake them In a hot oven. Meantime open a can of peaches, reserve the finest for the two top layers and cut the rest In small quarters. When the short-cakes In the oven are done and cool enough to handle, tear them open with the eld of a fork, butter the in side, divide the out peaches upon the two bottom layers, and arrange the finer ones on the others; thickly dust all with sifted powdered sugar, lay the tops upon both under pieces and serve the short-cakes with more sifted sugar and sweet cream. The Juice of the canned peaches, well sweetened with powdered sugar, can be used Instead of cream. Dutch Apple Cake. One pint of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of salt, large tablespoonful of butter rubbed in flour, one egg, three fourths cupful of milk. Beat well and place In a shallow pan. Pare six apples, cut in eighths, lay In rows on the cake, points down. Sprlnklo three tablespoon fuls of sugar over ths cake, and bake. Boiled Cherry Pudding. Beat together the yolks and whites of three eggs, then stir In two cupfuls of milk, and from three to four cupfuls of flour enough to make a smooth batter. A tabtesponful of melted butter or drippings is then added, with a slight sprinkling of salt and two heap ing tablespoonfuls of baking powder. Take a pint of stoned cherries, drain off the Juice, dredge them with flour, and stir thoroughly 'into the batter. Then turn at once Into a buttered pudding mould, and cook for three hours In a kettle of boiling water. The water must not stop boiling. Serve with the pudding sauce above. Gooseberry Fool. Stew one quart of green gooseberries in Just as little water os it Is possible to use. When soft, rub through a sieve to remove the skins; rub them back and forth with a wooden spoon, so that nothing will be left in the sieve but the tough skins. To every pint of pulp add one pint of milk, and plenty of sugar. In mixing the gooseberrrles and milk add the milk very slowly. Serve in small dishes, with cakes. This, although a very old-fashioned dish, is, wtien well made, very delicious, and, If properly sweetened, a very suitable preparation for children. To Fricassee Tlgeons. Cut two pigeons Into pieces, wash and dean them well, and put them Into a saucepan with a pint of water and the same of claret. 8eason It with pepper and salt, a blade of mace, one onion, a bouquet of sweet herbs and one and one-half ounces of-butter rolled m flour. Cover the saucepan closely and let tehm stew till there Is Just enough for the sauce. Then remove the onion and herbs and place the pieces of pigeon on dish and keep them hot Beat the yolks of three eggs and stir them In the gravy until it Is thick and Smooth, then put in the pigeon and shake It all together over the fire. Put the pieces of pigeon In a dish .and pour the sauce over them. Scatter a few fried oysters over the top. Escalloped Onions. Remove the skins and put them Into boiling salted Water. Boll them twenty minutes and pour off the water entirely, then put -In equal parts of hot water and snHk and boll them twenty minutes longer. Whsn dona drain, cut In slices, put Into a shallow dish, cover with whits sauce sad buttered crumbs, and bak till the crumbs are brown. v.' "r ', - . .. : :, In 'the Wonderland Of North America. fit. Paul, July IS. Why any American cltixen should go abroad without first beholding the stupenduous grandeur of America the greatest country ever given to man I cannot understand. Desiring to known more of our own native land we propose to take another trans-continental tour. After the adieux were said on July 9, we stepped aboard the observation car of our far famed Oavlty railroad leading out of Honesdale for a trip to the "Won derlands" of America and thus cele brate our twenty-fifth wedding anni versary, not on foreign shores but In our own beloved America. In 1893 the writer, his wife and Mrs. Swoyer left the same station the same month, the same day of the month, with the same conductor for a tour of 9.700 miles, from Hell Gate to Gold Gate and Pactflo Northwest, 'Montery and Seattle then being the western ter minus. Now the extreme northwest ern terminus of our present trip will be Bltka, Alaska, the land of the midnight sun. Going westward we shall traverse the entire line of tho Northern Paciflo railway from Duluth to Portland and Tacoma, .stopping off In Yellowstone Park for ten days. From Puget Sound we shall follow the inland passage of the Pacific to the Ice fields of Alaska. Returning to Vancouver, It. C, we shall cross the continent eastward from ocean to ocean by the iplcturesque Can adian Pacific railway, through the Can adian National Park and over the Sel kirk Mountains, the glory of the Queen's Dominions, a tour of 12,000 miles, the greatest and grandest the American continent can offer. In our series of "travel letters," of which this Is the Introductory one, we design to give to our readers a brief description of' the- country . traversed, the important places of interest as seen with "American eyes," and. Impressions received daily en route. No systematic order of arrangement will be expected, as much will be written on flying trains and therefore must necessarily be frag mentary and inadequate descriptions, which a generous reading publio will excuse. We shall attempt' no "fine writing;" we shall avoid all fanciful embellishments, but give only the plain, naked truth In the most concise man ner. We Invite our readers to Journey with us in our travels "from the rising to the setting sun," and thus catch a glimpse, at least, of the marvelous scenes to be found on this continent. Later on our letters will be Illustrated with photographic, views take en route by the writer, with the "Lundellus Camera," the latest improved pattern in the market Leaving Honesdale. As our party of three ascended the gravity plane leading out of the beauti ful Maple City, overlooking the valley of the liockaiwaxen, never did the sun's rays tlhilne down more brightly upon the beautiful town quietly resting In the valley below, and our pleasant home on Central Park, shaded by maples and elms, never seemed' to us more sacred than on this very morning. Even the numerous churches, with their spires pointing heavenward like the "finger of God," seemed more hallowed than ever before. The noble Lackawaxen and Dyberry rivers which surround the town, forming a confluence under the shadows of Irving Cliff, never seemed S3 clear and sparkling, while the bold over-hanging rock, which towers over 300 feet above as If to guard the city se curely from the hostile invasion of the elements, never appeared so majestic and defiant. The verdant hills which encircle Honesdale and the landscape generally seemed more and more at tractive from the observation car as we sped around the "Horse Shoe curve," while Honesdale receded from our sight. Many are the pleasant memo ries that cling and cluster around this, our childhood home this lovely dale we leave behind us and our hearts are thankful In the enjoyment of so pleas ant a home, where the educational, church and social features are rthe very beft. We pass in quick succession the thriv ing villages of Blandln, Seeleyville and Prompton to Waymart through sec tions of fine meadow, pasture and roll ing uplands, which He outspread with groves and miniature forests at inter vals, the foot hills climbing almost within the shadows of the Mooeic range, the northern extremity of the Alleghenle. Alt an elevation of 1,415 feet we ascend two planes, one of which is over a half mile In lengthto be exact, 2,630 feet when the summit of FUrvIew is reached at an elevation of 2,345 feet albove sea level, the climax for northeastern Pennsylvania. The valley below, with Its series of open plains dotted with lakes which, form a grand Interval between the gently ris ing hillsides and long-drawn-out moun tain range of the OatskNIs, forty miles distant, never presented so beautiful and fascinating a picture as on this very morning. A 10-mlle run around Shepherd's Crook, the most picturesque point on the line of the Delaware and Hudson, brings us to Carbondale, the Pioneer Ctty of ithe anthracite coal basin. 'Reaching Scranton, we take the noted Pennsylvania route over the Al logenics for Chicago, stopping oft daily, first at Harrlsburg, then at Pitts burg, the Smoky City, where a two days' sojourn satisfied us that the place was appropriately named and that the smoke and cinders from the shafts find chimneys of Scranton and vicinity were far mere preferable to Pittsburg's soot and tmoke. Brief Glimpse st Pittsburg. Still the cfty has very many attrac tions whldh were of Interest o us and to those of our readers who have never seen them. Atrlef mention may be of Interest. Aside from its great iron works, steel plants, fine churches, public (building?, school buildings, elegant residence etc., Pittsburg has a series of bold cliffs,, public parks, lakes, (boulevards, fine drives, which the visitor may en Joy, but the moat novel feature to us was the Incline planes and) terrace drives. When seen at night from either shore, with the noble rivers, Mononga hela and Allegheny, flowing between, or from the adjoining helghtsthe elec tric display was truly magnificent Pibtsburg's system of Inclines, when compared with the Delaware and Hud son, are of wide guage (twelve feet) and wlbn one exception longer planes and steeper grades. The Mt Oliver plane la L640 feet long, has a 12 -fool; guage and rises 400 feet (1 foot in 4). Castle Shannon Is 1,776 feet long, same guage, wMfh a 4tKWoot rise. Oft Wash Ington plane Is ths steepest grade, toe tag. 1 foot In SH. The pasMhftr cars used on thtm Are First of a Series of Travel Treating Of the Great Northwest. so constructed as to remain in a horl sontal position In both ascent and de scent The cars are divided into two apartments, one for passengers, the oth er for vehicles. They - are capable of carrying fifty to 100 passengers, with two loaded electric cars or two heavily loaded teams. The ears are 44 feet long by 20 wide and about 20 feet high. The wire rope used la three Inches In dia meter. The Knoxville Inclines) use 19, 320 feet of rope. Another day of railroad travel brings us to the "Windy City." After a night's rest a daylight run of 410 miles brings us to the Hotel Ryan, St Paul, the Pioneer City of the great north west Our inext letter , will give a glimpse of 'the twin cities, St Paul and Minneapolis. - John E. Richmond, WELSH ECHOES The following are gleanings from the Drych and other Welsh sources. They are of especial Interest to the Welsh peo pie of Scranton and vicinity. The follow' Ing letter, which .Is very Interesting to Welshmen, Inasmuch as there are quite a number of Crimean veterans In Lacka wanna county, will explain Itself: "In. qulrles have been made if there were any Welshmen in the Balaklava charge. There is no Welsh cavalry regiment; there Is but one from Scotland, the famous Scotch Greys or Second Light Dragoons, while Ireland has four regiments of cavalry, In the "000" who were tn the charge, there must have been several Welshmen, but I know of but two Lord Tredegar, of Trede gar rark, Newport Monmouth, and his brother, Godfrey Morgan, son of Charles Morgan, who was afterward made Lord Tredegar, a very ancient Welsh family, There used to be an annual dinner at the Crystal Palace, London, gotten up by sub scription for the heroes ot Balaklava, There used to pe a well-to-do Inn-keeper at Sheffield who Interested himself being one of the heroes himself In the annual meet inghe Is dead now and I think the din ner has fallen through. "As to the number of Welshmen In the Crimean war, it is a broad question, There are but four regiments of Infantry called Welsh the Twenty-third RoVal Welsh Fusiliers, the Twenty-fourth Welsh Borderers, the old Forty-first and the Bixty-fourth. The Twenty-third has upon Ks colors twenty-four honors or battles. among these are Alma, Inkerman and Sevastopol. They earned in the Crimea four Victoria crosses. The names of those who received them were: Corporal Rob ert Shields, of Merthyr Tydvll; Sergeant Luke O'Connor, of Roscommon, in Ire land, who Joined the regiment as a private, but left it as its lieutenant-colonel, and is now major-general, retired; Surgeon W, H. T. Sylvester and E. W. D. Bell, Its colonel at the time. The Twenty-fourth was not In the Crimean war. It has nine teen honors on Its colors, and has four teen Victoria crosses to Its credit The Forty-first and Sixty-ninth were at the Crimean wnr. They have sixteen honors on their colors, among them being Alma, Inkerman and Sevastopol, The motto of this combined regiment is "Gwell angen na chywllydd" "Death better than shame." A monument has been erected in Carmarthen town in memory of those who were killed at the Crimean war. It Is a mammoth affair. It has a list of them ail engraved upon it There are four Russian 18-pounder guns taken at Sevastopol pluced around the monument One of the guns shows a remarkable effect of a shot fired by the allied army; it very nearly en' tered the muzzle and tore out one side of the gun. The Twenty-third used to be. long to Carmarthen, but about twenty years ago the army was reorganized and it Is now stationed at Wrexham. The Twenty' fourth Is at Brecon, and what is known as the combined Welsh regiment is sta tioned at Cardiff. The best books on the Crimean war are Kinglake's history and the letters of Russel, the Times' war cor respondent." The Russel mentioned here was the Times' correspondent of the Amer ican war of rebellion. He is the greatest war correspondent ot the age. He was re cently knighted by Queen Victoria of Eng. land. Early Learning. The following communication will be very interesting to the early Welsh set tiers of Carbondale. The communication has reference to the late Rev. Lewis Will iams, of Carbondale, a noted Welsh divine. Mr. Williams was not a learned man, neither was h a great divine, but his re ligious sincerity and originality of ex presslon made him a noted character in his day. He died about ten years ago, and the Rev. E. R. Lewis, of this city, wrote an elaborate biography of the noble old char acter, which appeared in the Drych a few months ago: "In looking over some old papers of late, I came across a copy of the old Columbia, and in it I found an interesting account ot William K. Powell's boyhood days, when he used to go to school. He relates how cruel his teachers were In using the rod and ruler; but it seems that It had a good effect on him, for he has turned out to be a man of high rank and Is held in high es teem by his own countrymen as well as other nationalities. He must have gone to scnooi in later years than I did, else he would not have been half the man he is now. My father, Robert Foulkes, and Da vid Jones, carpenter, as he was called, were the first two Welshmen that come to Carbondale, Pa.; they lived there a year among the Irish and Americana, before any other Welsh families came there. "With the second immigration of Welsh came Lewis Williams, who belonged to the Congregatlonalists. They hired htm for a school 'teacher and he was the first teacher I ever went to school to. He had more power in his arms than he had wit In his head. When he would speak to the chil dren It was like the roar of a lion amongst the wild beasts of the forest; every one was wide awake, and if the speaking wouldn't do, the next thong would be the ruler, and If we didn't hold out our hands long enough to suit him, the next thing would be the rod. I was somewhere be tween 6 and 8 years old when I went to school to him. He was one of the most un reasonable teachers I ever knew. If the great apostle in Scranton that wrote that long epistle about his good qualities as a preacher had been to school to him In early days, he would have had a different opinion of him. If he did not have more Influence over a congregation In preaching to them than he had In teaching us chil dren, he did not convert a great many. He pretended-to teach us In English, but it was about half Welsh and half English mixed. I don't pretend to say but that he did his best as far as he knew how. The good books says many are called but few chosen; and I don't think Lewis Williams was ever called to be a school teacher. Well, he Is dead and gone, where he will get his reward, and I suppose I will not be long after him. - "I am now In my fifty-ninth year and living In South Dakota.. We lived In Car bondale three years, and In the Beech Woods nine years; moved to Wisconsin In 1841: went to California In 1850; came bark to Wisconsin In lfc"2; moved to Iowa in 1R7S, and from Iowa to South Dakota In 1881, whore I now live. I suppose that my old playmates that used to live In Carbondale and in the Beech Woods.are all gon from there, and that most of them are dead. If any of them are living I would like to hear from them. Tours truly. Henry Foulkes, Canova, South Dakota" . Hwf a Mon Honored. "Charles Ashton, the great Welsh es sayist. Is not ths only Welshman that was favored and honored by Premier Lord Rosebery, of England, on his retirement from office. Hwfa Mon, on ths recom mendation of Sir Os bourne Morgan, re oetvad not) from the royal treasury." Hwfa Moa. Is ths Area Druid of ths I- ' v., -....,,',. ,.i ;..V.I. '' ..',.. , Welsh Bardic fraternity of the world. . Hs Is also a noted divine and an' orator ot great force. He visited the United States to 1883. 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