Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVIiRY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. BY TIJE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limitei OFFICII: MAIS STHEET ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, I'A. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Blx Months 75 four Months 50 Two Months . .'^s The date which tho subscription is paid tu is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep tl; figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this ofllce whenever papo/ Is not received. Arrearages must be pah When subscription is discontinued. Make all money orders, checks, etc.,payable to the Tribum Printing Company, Limited. American mules are MOW va -ciliated before being sent to Houtli Africa, but the vaccination doesn't work when a Mauser bullet strikes tliein. Even far away Sweden is increasing her armament by organizing forty seven new batteries of artillery. Tho war fever is fast becoming epidemio throughout the world. Tin Chinese want to avail them selves of western knowledge and me chnuical skill without closer contact with western nations, and this is why they encourage western teaching aud endow schools conducted on American aud European principles. Under the latest decision of the su preme court of the Uuited States tea condemued as under grade can be de stroyed by the inspectors. Let the good work go on, and put all counter feit food through the same purging process. It is the only safe rule for money and food. Chancellor Von Hoheulohe, in a speech in the Reichstag the other day, quoted the Kaiser's recent saying, "Social democracy is a passing appari tion. " Replying to Hoheulohe, Herr Von Croecker, (Conservative, said: "Yes, but the French revolution was also a 'passing apparition.' " The trend of modern civilization is toward prolonging and safe guarding the existence of the individual. It is also true that there is a growing moral uprising against the wickedness of slaughter in war. Rut all this may be freely admitted without the con cession that society may never justly put the criminal to death. That is a ■ question which the niue eeutli century : will pass on along with many others, | to the twentieth, and it is sure to bo I discussed long and warmly before a J general agreement shall be reached. The agent of the department of ! agriculture sent to niuUe a study of I conditions in Puerto Rico confirms j the favorable impressions already ox- I istiug iu regard to the future possi bilities of that island and it* advan tages as a new lield for the enterprise of the American farmer. Mr. Cook, t the ageur, says that whereas but little ' tropical fruit aud other plant projects I are now exported from the island, an unlimited commercial demau I exists ; for them, aud it only needs American ' enterprise and energy to increase the j products millions of dollars annually, j Iu the mutter of co?Ve * Mr. Cook thinks i the island may be made t< supply at . least half the consumption of the I United States, for which we pay au- ! nually from *110,000,001) t0#70,000,000. | A novel and effective way of leading f children to better lines of reading is ; in operation at the public library in Cleveland, Ohio At intervals paper bookmarks are issued for the use of the children, and a i outline of the ! various subjects ti be read d;; ing the different months is made on the book marks. It is suggested, for instance, that the child read at least one book of history during one month, a book <el biography the next, another on sci ence, and so on through the months. In this sitae connection a small leaflet is given the children, and the library assistants keep a record in it of tho books read during the year. This in duces the children to read a good line of books, so that the record will show up well when they compare it, with that of their friends THt MAINSTAY OF (IV LIZATION. Tr is quite possible, though <f course not demonstrable, that the luinible chuckle barn fowl has been a larger benefactor of our race than any me chanical invention in our po>st ssion, for then- is no inhabited country on earth to-day where the barn fowl is not a mainstay of health. There arc vast regions of South America and Europe where it is the mainstay, and nowhere i> there known anything that can take its place, which i • probably more than can be said of anything in the world of mechanics Tuesday ioo Moodcd cattle arrived ;u New York on the Cevic for Kirk Ar mour, manager of the Armour Packing Company at Kansas City. Three arc from Queen Victoria's herd. LAFAYETTE AT WASHINGTON'S TOMB. In the blue of the skv, o'er the blue of the river, Like a banner of love sailed the eagle's white wing When the hero, in peace, laid his honors forever At the grave of the chief who was more thau a king. He had done with his wars; but a nation victorious Remembered his valor with grateful acclaim. And his heart was a pilgrim whore millions made glorlou9 His welcome return to the land of Liis fame. The band-bugles sang at his coming, and yonder From the shore, as lie bowed o'er the patriot's bed, The deep-rolling voice cf the guns' muffled thunder Gave solemn all hail to the living and dead. Unasked wero the plaudits, the homage unsought for. With the sun of Mt. Vernon above him again, He prayed at the shrine of the people ho fought for, Aud the hope of all races breathed freedom's amen. October had mellowed-the oaks at the portal, Lafayette! like the ripened renown of thy years, But fresh as thy faith in its beauty Immortal Were the laurels of Washington, wet with thy tears. And calm, ns if love Into vision bad borne her With the soul lie had cherished In friendship and trust The eagle, from heaven, watched over the mourner As ho knelt in tho chamber of Washington's dust. All a country's proud storv soared light on the pinions Of the sentinel bird, in that consummate hour, And hailed, at the door of the Mystic Dominions, A future unmeasure I in splendor and power. , O dream of the ages that died not in dreaming! The poiup and the music are jovs that have be A, Rut the sun of that day lights the world with its beaming, And the names it wrote dearest in triumph are twin. And well if tho eagle's white wing spreading wider Heralds peace, truth and freedom in covenant bloom Til! the Union's last children shall rally beside her, Sincere as the pilgrim to Washington's tomb. —Tberon Brown. *An uncontradicted tradition of the event here celebrated asserts that a large eagle followed tho course of the steamboat that bore Lafayette to Mt. Vernon, and remained, hovering in tho air over tho tomb of Washington, till the famous visitor went away. | The Captain of the Maintop. | ' "" iai Midshipman Jarvis on the Constellation. By George Gibbs. K ( > HE hero of this r*z— :V; /£/ narrative, James Jarvis, was oue izJ "young df gentlemen" oii the Constellation during the war KlfrVA with France. WMff "Young geutle men" was what •Bwflj the midshipmen * were called in the old naval service, and Jarvis was the youngest of them all, being just thir teen a-t the time of the action with the Vengeance. He was the smallest officer aboard, and. his most important duties were those of passing the word from the quarter-deck forward, and taking his station aloft in the maintop, where he was learning the mysteries of the maze of gear which went through the lubber's hole or belayed iu the top. He also stood at quarters with his diminutive sword drawn, a smaller edition of the Lieutenants who were allowed to wear one epaulet and who could make a louder noise through the speaking trumpet than Jarvis could hope to for years. Down iu the midshipmen's mess, by virtue of his diminutive stature and tender years, lie was not much inter fered with by Wederstraudt, Henry, Vandyke aud the bigger men. But he fought one or two of the young gentle men nearer his age, aud though fre quently defeated, stood up as strongly is possible for what he deemed his rights. He was a manly little reefer, uid up in the maintop, where he was stationed iu time of action, the men swore by him. Ho was sensible enough not to give any orders without the professional opinion of oue of the Did jackies, who always ventured it with a touch of the cap, a respectful ''Sir," aud perhaps a half-concealed mile which was more of interest than /.musemeut. Thirteen was rather a tender age at which to command men of fifty, but the midshipmen of those days wero not ordinary boys; they went out from their comfortable homes aboard ships where men were even rougher and less well disciplined than they ore to-day, and they hud either to sinr or swim. It was hip a r tan treatment, but a year of it made men and sailors of them. The greatest, and probably the only, regret of MidsLipmuu Jarvis' short life was that he had not joined the great frigate before she had met and defeated the £usmg°iite the year before. He wanted to be iu u great action. Nothing seemed to make him feel more of a man thau when the long eighteen-pouuders were fired in broadside at target prac tice. If he had been but a boy, in stead of an officer with a gold-laced cap and a dirk aud all the dignities pertaining to those habiliments, he would have clapped his hands and shouted for sheer joy. But the eyes of his men were upon him, and so ho stood watching the flight of the shots, biting hard on his lips to keep his composure. Captain Truxtou, ever mindful of his midshipmen, had disposed them in the different parts of the ship with regard to their size aud usefulness. The older ones had been given gun divisions, while the youngsters were placed ou the fo'castie or in tho tops, where they might he of assistance but. would more certainly be out of harm's way. Such a thought was not sug gested on tho Constellation. If it had been, little Jarvis would probably have resigned immediately, or at tho very least have burst into unmanly tears. As it was, ho felt that his post aloft was as important as any ou the ship, and he promised himself that if another Frenchman were sighted ho would stay there, whether the mast were up or down. So, tin the first day of February, 1800, just, about a year after the cap ture of the Insurgeute, while they were bow bug along under easy sail, aboilt fifteen miles off Basse-Torre, a largo sail which appeared to be a French frigate was sighted to the southward. .Tarvis weut nloft two ratlines at a tiiue, his heart bounding with joy at the piospect of the chance of a fight. On assuring himself that she was a large ship, Captain Truxton imme diately set all sail and took a course W'l OH soon brought her hull above t! horizon, and showed tho Ameri ca is beyond a doubt that she was a ship of war of heavier metal than the Constellation. Nothing daunted, Truxton bore ou his course until the gun streaks of the other vessel could be plainly seen. Instead of showing the same desire to speak, the stranger held on, pointing n little off his course, as though to avoid an encounter. But the breeze, which had beeu light, now died away altogether, and tho sea became calm. There were the two great vessels, drifted in sight of each other, all night and part of the following day awaiting the wind which would enable them to close. Jurvis was in a fever of impatience. A half dozen times he got permission from the officer of the deck, and with a telescope almost as long as himself clambered up to tho main royal to re port. There was but one opinion among the midshipmen who went aloft—it was a Frenchman; she couldn't be anything else. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon of tho next day, up to the northward, they saw tho ripple 011 the water of tho wind they had beeu waiting for. TIIO sail-loosers flew aloft and every sail was spread. Soon the Constella tion was pushing her way through the water, the iloaiu flying from the wave tops here and there. The chase had caught the breeze at about the same time, and the Ameri cans could so(s by the line of white under her bow that she was beginning to leg it at u handsome rate. But the Constellation was iu excellent con dition for a race, aud by degrees drew up on the other ship, which as they reached her was seen to lie very low :n the water, as though deep laden. They were sure to discover who she as before nightfall, Truxtou cleared for action. ,r*rvis went aloft to his top and saw the backstays lashed aud the pre venter. braces securely hooked and rove. Extra muskets were carried up into the top for the use of the jnckies aud marines when ihey should come into close quarters, for then the lire of the sharpshooters would be almost as valuable as the shots oi' the great gnus. Their woik had been over au hour and the sun had set in a clear sky be fore the Constellation drew up to gunshot distance. It was moonlight before she came within effective range. The battle lau terna were lit, and the long row of lights 011 the Frenchman showed that he, too, was prepared for tight. The sky was clear, and the moon, which was nearly at the full, made the out lines of the vessels perfectly visible to the men at the gnus. Truxton had given his men their orders. There was to ho no cheering until there was something to cheer for. They were to await the order to lire until the enemy was close abroad, and then, and not until then, was the broadside to he delivered. Soon a gun from the after battery of the Frenchman was fired. This was followed shortly by all tlie guns that would bear. Some of the shots crashed into the hull of the Constellation, and one of them killed several men. The division officers glanced appealingly at Truxton in the hope of the order to fire, but he merely held up his band. Again the broadside came, and men seemed to be falling everywhere. The strain below and aloft was terrific. J>:it the officers stood steadily with a word of encouragement here and there, and the men did not flinch. At last the CoustellaLion came abreast the after ports of the French man, and Truxton, throwing her off a little so that all his broadside would bear in a diagonal direction, loudly shouted the order to lire. The telling broadside was delivered, and the battle was on in earnest. To those aloft the crash of the long eight* eens into the enemy at every othei downward roll of the Consolation showed how well the American gunners had learned to shoot, while the short bark of the cannonades and the shrieks in the brief pauses from the decks of the Frenchman told of the terrible effects of the lire among the enemy. The guns of the Frenchman were well served and rapidly tired, but they were aiming on the upward roll oi the sea, and their shots went high. Several balls from the smaller pieces had lodged in the foremast and the mainmast, and one had struck just below the futtock band of the maintop where .Tarvis was, and sent the splin ters Hying up and about him. Yard arm to yardarm they sailed for three long, bloody hours, until the firing ol the Frenchman gradually slackened. * The Americans had suffered less on the decks than aloft, and Jar vis* top men were employed most of the tim# in splicing and re-reeving gear. Tin discharge of the Constellation's guns did not diminish for a moment, and so fast was the firing that many of the guns became overheated, and the men had to crawl out of the exposed ports to draw up buckets of water ta cool them. At about midnight Truxton man- j aged to draw ahead of his adversary | in the smoke, and, taking a raking position, sent in such a broadside that the Frenchman was silenced completely. Jar vis aud the meu in the maintop had little time to use their muskets. Several long shots struck the mast, aud almost every shroud and backstay had been car ried away. As the Coustollatiou bore down upon her adversary to deal her the death-blow, the mast began to sway frightfully. There was a cry from the men at Jar vis* side, and the marines aud topmen began drop ping through the Uubber's hole, swinging themselves down the sides of the swaying mast, by whatever gears they could lay their hands to. Jarvis did not move. One of the older seaman took him by the shoul der and urged him to go below. The j mast was going, he said, aud it meant ■ certain death to stay aloft. Little Jarvis smiled at him. "This ' is my post of duty," he replied, "and I I am goiug to stay here until ordered below." At this moment a terrific! crackling was heard aud the old man- i of-wur's man went over the edge of, the top. All of the strain was on one , or two of the shrouds, and just as ho reached the deck, with a tremendous crash the groat mast went over the 1 side. Jarvis had kept his promise to' stay by bis mast whether it was up or down. "The Frenchman, not so badly in jured aloft, took advantage of the con dition of the Constellation, and slowly making sail before the wreck was cleared away, faded into the night. 11 was afterward discovered that she was ' the Vengeance, of fifty-two guns. She succeeded in reaching Curacao iu a sinking condition. When the newsol the fight reached home, Congress gave Truxton a medal and a sword, aud prize-money to the officers and crew. l For little Jarvis, the midshipman who preferred to .die at his post, Con- j gress pasted a special resolution prais 1 ing liifu warmly. History does not show an instance of nobler self-sacri fice, and no such honor as this spec-! cial act of Congress was received by a boy before or since.—Saturday Ever;- j ing Post. ii w is Heartbreaking. It was in a Georgetown car. An automobile whisked by up the j avenue. "I don't like automobiles," said the lady with the picture hat. "Neither do I," uns vered the lady with a mole on her cheek. "Whose make do you use?" "Make?—use? Oh, why, John I hasn't bought one—yet. We don't own one. Which do you like?" "Who? I? Why—that is, you see Peter hasn't made up his mind whetliei , to buy an electric or a gasoliue ma chine." "That's the way with them ail," re- 1 marked a sour-looking man in thol corner, sotto voce, "talking about! 'lilting' things which they have never I ridden in, much less owned! If their' hubbies had automobiles at home, au ox-chain and a derrick would not keep 1 them out of 'em every five minutes of the day!"— Washington Star. Foollmll in tl Philippine*. Among the very few games the Ma- | lays play football is held in high favor. ! However, it is football with u differ- j ence. In the first place, the ball is ; not the leather cased bladder or rub-' her ball so familiar to little folk in America, but is made wholly of wicker- ; work—hollow, of course. Instead of passing and dribbling down the field \ toward each other's goal posts, there ! are no goals at all, the players stand*! ing in a big circle. The object of the ; game is to keep the ball from touching the ground, the ball beiug kicked into the air from player to player. Lofty kicking is thus as much of a line art, ; on a Malay football ground as it is on : the playing fields of Boston or San j Francisco. liner Famine. | A goodly number of the poorer j Boers will be in a sad plight when the 1 present war is over. While they are : lighting against the British troops \ their farms are becoming ruined through lack of attention. Most of the Boers have had to let their crops go to waste and sell what few cattle they possessed in order to make pro vision for their wives ami families while they were fighting. DISCOVERED CAPE NOME. AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY FOUND THE NEW COLD FIELDS. 110 i Working a Claim For Hi* Chnvrii Which i* legalizing Ilumlnomely—The Itusli For the New FMorudo in As touiidliia—Gold in the Sands. "T~ IEUTENANT JABVIB of the h revenue marine service, who J[ has been in command of the Bear in the arctics for several years, and whose heroic rescue of the ice-bound whalers in Bering sea two years ago gained so much fame, for him, says that N. O. Hultberg, of Chicago, a missionary of the Swedish Evangelical Missionary Society, which has churches in Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa and Minnesota, was the actual discoverer of gold at Cape Nome, where the miners-are all flocking now. Mr. Hultberg is now in Chicago, where he will remain until spring, and then re sume work at his mission on Golovin Bay, sixty miles from Cape Nome, where no has been located for three or four years. Mr. Hultberg is about thirty years of age, a native of Sweden and a man of great endurance and zeal. He is very popular with the natives and miners and has been quite successful in his missionary work. Under his direction the missionaries took up a mine at Capo Nome last summer, and during the ninety days when it was possible to work took out about $75,000, which lias not only paid ail the debt# of the society but has paid for substantial buildings for the mission station and left a surplus to (purchase improved machinery and other facilities for working the mines, which promise to pay as well in the future as in the past. It is rather un usual for a missionary society to pay its expenses by running a mine. Mr. Hultberg also took up a claim on bis own account, and iu addition to bis work on the mission mine made about $30,000 for himself last summer. "During the summer of 1807," said Lieutenant Jarvis, "a party of Swed ish prospectors went to Golovin Bay, where l)r. Sheldon Jackson has a mission, and worked all around that locality. I saw them several times when I was up there. They went with Hultberg on his missionary tours and examined several valuable discoveries he had made iu the Cape Nome re j gion. Hultberg was much impressed by them, and in the spring of 1898 | fitted them out at bis own expense for the purpose of exploring Snake Kiver. I These fellow-countrymen of his were a man named Brintenson, who had ! worked in copper mines in the States ! fend had been up in the Klondike j country; Liudbloom, a runaway sailor, ; hud Lindeberg, who came over from 1 [Lapland in .charge of the reindeer ! jvhich Dr. Jackson imported from that pone try. They struck it rich on An ! rvil Creek and in Snow Gulch and ptuked out claims. They made their !vay back to Golovin Bay and told heir story. They found there a mixi ng expert from California, of the tiame of Price, whom they took back ♦with them to Cape Nome, and also a Dr. Kittleson, from Stoughton, Wis. They panned out §I7OO the first four days, organized a mining district, elected Dr. Kittleson recorder, and staked out claims for themselves and for Hultberg. Then, feeling secure, in November, 1898, they went down I to St. Michaels with their gold to spend the winter and get au outfit j and supplies for early work in the 1 spring. The stories they told, of course, set everybody wild, and when they left St. Michaels for their claims they were followed by 1000 people. "By the opening of navigation in ! 1899 the news reached California and I the Klondike country, and there was I intense excitement. The original discoveries were made iu the gulches i between the bills about three or four miles back from the beach, and be- I tween them aud the ocean i 3 a level ' plain of sand called tundra. Along in August Inst a newspaper man of | the name of Logan disappeared from 1 camp one day aud was gone for nearly a week. When he came back bo ) brought about SSOO worth of gold dust which he said he had cashed out of the sand on the shore. At first 1 people did not believe him, but when I they tried for themselves tliey rocked | out such fabulous sums that the v/holo camp in the gulches was deserted and ! everybody went down on the bench, ' j making from §lO to SSOO a day. From I August to November they look out $1,000,000, and the three Swedes, ( j Lindeberg, Brintensen and Lind bloom, made about $200,000 each. i The total amount of gold gathered at ! Port Nome during the short seasou : was about $3,500,000, and I think 1 the product will be anywhere from ' $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 this year. It depends simply upon the number ( of people that can get up there. There . will bo a tremendous rush as soon as , navigation opens. Every vessel that . ! can be had or the Pacific coast has f already been chartered to carry miners I aim supplies, and every berth has al- , 1 ready been sold on every steamer. . j The exodus will simply bo limited to ,! the carrying capacity of the vessels." - J "How did the gold come there?" I I ! asked. r | "Of course Ido not know," replied ; j Lieutenant Jarvis. "But the geol ogists say Jtlie rocks in the foothills i were crushed by glacial pressure aud that the particles were washed down into the sands. The tundra between the foothills and the ocean is as rich in gold as the sand on the beach, ) although the nearer you go to the 5 water the easinr it is to work it." 1 "How is the climate?" Ji "It is not so good as it is at Daw- I sou. In the latter place it is very 1 | hot iu summer and very cold iu 1 . winter, but the air is dry and ex " | hilaratiug and there is no wind. On 1 j the beach at Cape Nome it is neither so hot in tlie summer nor so cold in the winter, but tho capo is frequently covered with a heavy damp fog, and high winds blow almost incessantly, so as to make it very dieagreeable.and the country around is a barren, life less plain. At Dawson the miners J find timber for houses and fuel, but j at Cape Nome there is uo timber and j the miners will have to import their • lumber and coal and all of their sup- | plies from the coast States." "How much gold was taken out ol Alaska last year?" "About $20,000,000 altogether, 1 | should say," said Lieutenant .Tarvis. "The official figures show a product ol I over $10,000,000 from the Klondike alone, and I thini: that is considerably 1 below the truth, because the miners j have to pay a tax on their product I aud they would naturally make their reports as low as possible." WISE WORDS. Tt is a great pity that the knowledge and experience gained by years and opportunities, by intelligent observa tion and thoughtful reflection, is uol more fully utilized for the benefit ol those who are lacking in some or all of those advantages. So many mis takes might thus bo avoided, so much useless labor saved, so much le3S time wasted, so mauy false steps prevented, so many disappointments, failures and sorrows escaped, that it is matter for deep regret that really wise and good advice is so seldom craved, secured and followed. We mortals sometimes cut a pitia ble figure in our attempts at display. We may be sure of our own merits, yet fatally ignorant of the point of view from which we are regarded by our neighbor. Our fine patterns in tattooing may be far from throwing him into a swoon of admiration, though we turn ourselves all around to show them. Every man will have the power he earns, and the powet* that he has will tell, not because people like it or him, but because it is power, and as such power can keep itself erect without having a cricket put under its feet, and keep itself dry without having an umbrella spread over its head. A mind in the grasp of a terrible anxiety is not credulous of easy solo tious. The one stay that bears up our hopes is sure to appear frail, aud if looked at long will seem to totter. Bravery may be cultivated. Show iug a spirit of courage in the minor affairs of life trains us to be stroug in the great cri3is. It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor pcereth in in the meanest habit. Happiness may resemble either a mountain or a molehill. It depends on the distance you are from it. You need not pack up auy worries. You can anywhere as you go along. A judicious sileuco is always bettor tbau truth spoken without charity. As au omeu of success, industry is hotter than a four-leafed clover. Suppression of honest iuvestigatioa meaus retrogression. Tornctlo limit Destroyer*. The demands upou the officers and ; men of the torpedo boat destroyer are enormous. Comfort as it is under i stood in a big ship is quite unkuowu Evou iu what is known as moderate weather cooking is almost au impossi bility, though this is less to bo re gretted, for the dura ilia of the most inured seafarer often given way, aud ho feels a certain distaste for food when, besides the extremely lively motion given by the waves, the whole structure vibrates and trembles un ler the strokes of the engines and tht kick of the propellers. The duties which torpedo boat destroyers would be called upon to undertake iu war time are desperate in their risks. The little ships are the enfuuts per dus of the fieet. Even if they can carry their dread assault to a success ful issue, it will only bo by the greatest chance that thoy themselves escapo destruction. The torpedo boat destroyer officers look coolly upon death us their more than probable Halo iu action, but each thinks that everything—himself, his ship and crew—will bo well lost if he can only plant one deadly stroke which sends a battleship to the bottom. It is n comparision between u few thousand pounds' worth of structure, its arma ment, and a crew of less than fifty all told, against a floating castle which represents more than a million of money aud carries 700 or 800 of au enemy's seamen.—Blackwood. Dowi*leH For Four Girl*. A rather pretty custom is observed in a number of towns in France, where prominent citizens have left a sum of money so as to provide every year a small dowry, to be given to the young girl considered most deserving from the point of view of geueral ex cellence. kindness to her parents, brothers and sisters, industry and so on. The town of St. Denis has been specially favored in this respect, aud to-day as many as fourteen young girls to whom the municipality and private citizens have awarded dowries W3re married at the same time, and the town was en fete on account of the joys of these little "rosieres." Itlogrupliles of Women. A statistician in looking up some data relative to famous women has learned that ono hundred biographies have boon written about Mario An toinette, .loan of Arc and Mary Stu art. Other women who have furnished material for many books are Maria Theresa, Queen Elizabeth, Catherine 11. of Russia, Mario de Medici, Mine. Do Maiuteuou, Christina of Sweden, Mrue. De Stahl aud Queen Louise of Prussia. tfoinel)osc( Bartholomew HOW TO CLEAN RIBBONS. IITO Method* That Should Appeal to tlx 15nS3' Housewife. Now that ribbons are so extensively worn it is quite worth while to know how to clean them successfully and easily. The two methods here given have been put to tho practical tost many times over, so there need he no hesi tancy about trying either one through fear of failure or of unsatisfactory re* B lilts. The first method is exceedingly simple and answers the purpose for all except white ribbous or those that are very badly mussed. Fill a glass fruit jar about half full of gasoline— moro or less, according to the amount of ribbon to be cleaned. Place thj soiled ribbous in it—all colors, lengths aud kinds may go in at once —and screw tho cover ou tightly. Shako the bottle occasionally and leave it closed for from two to six hours, or over night. Then take out the ribbous, shake each oue well and hang it to dry in tho opeu air. Tho ribbous will be clean, and the dirt will be found in the bottom of the jar. Of course the ribbous need a thorough airing and snu hath to remove tho odor of the gasoline, but that is all. No pressing is required, as the gaso liuo does not cfi'ect them as water would. The cl sar gasohuo should be poured off without disturbing that at tho hot* lorn; theu the dirt which has settled at the bottom should bo emptied out aud the clear gasoline put back, ready for use another time. Keep it tightly covered, aud, of course, never use it near a tire, because of the danger of its igniting. The gasoline will turn white rib bons yellow, fio this method is not ad visable for them. It also leaves the ribbons in the same eouditiou that it found them as regards their being mussed or crumpled, so those that are badly creased should be giveu tho treatment that is accorded the white ribbous. Prepare a suds of soft water aud any pure soap, wash the ribbon in this, just as you would wash a fine handkerchief; rinse aud let it par tially dry. Take it down while still damp iu all parts and roll it smoothly over a wide card or piece of paste board, rolling a piece of clean whitd muslin with it. Wrap tho muslin around last, so that the ribbon shall be covered, and place the whole un der a heavy weight. A letter press is an excellent place iu which to press it. Leave it until it shall have had time to dry. The muslin will absorb the moisture. The rf.bbou will come out looking fresh and clean aud will havo lost none of its "life," as is the case with ribbons which are pressed with an iron. If a good soap is used the colors will uot run, and this process take* out the creases as well as removes tlx dirt. • lllnt * For tho Housewife. Rico should be washed in hot water, not cold, A quick morning bath is a good substitute for the strong cofiee most folk drink. Ordinary headaches almost always yield to the simultaneous application of hot water to the l'eet and back of the neck. If you want to ruin silver-back brushes wash them. If you don't,clean the bristles by rubbing them thor oughly with flour. If at any time there is not enough batter to fill all tho muffin pans, put a little hot water in the empty pans be fore setting in the oven. Kitchen tables may be made "white as snow" if washed with soap and wood-ashes. Floors l:;ok best scrubbed with cold water, soap and wood-ashes. To prevent rugs from curling at tlx corners bind them ou the under side with a piece of narrow webbing like that used to hold furniture springs ic place. Silk may bo restored by sponging, and while quite damp it should be rolled on a broomstick and left until quite dry. Silk should never be ironed. Tho brai worker needs compara tively little A carbohydrates—that is, starches and /nts; much less, iudeed, than one employed at manual laboi requires. j A saddle' of veusion is the best for , roasting. Lard it with strips of firm, fat pork, salt aud pepper and dredge j with flour. Roast iu a hot oven, bast ing frequently. I A serviceable loop for haugiug up heavy garments is made by cutting a I strip of kid from an old glove, rolling | "t into a string, and sewing the edges ! together. This loop will stand any | amouut of pulling. j Au oraugo frosting can be quickly made by mixing together the yolk of | one egg, a tablespoonfnl orange juice. I a half teaspoonful orange extract and enough sifted confectioner's sugar to make it thick enough to spread. Before going out upou a very cob, or windy day rub into the face just a little cold cream thoroughly, afterward a dust of rice flour. It is almost im possible under this treatment to ac quire a chapped face. Wear a veil in extreme weather. Serpents are s > tenacious of lifa that they will Jive six mouths or longer without fvod.
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