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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.
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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.