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Every Clear Brook Serves Its Pur
pose as a Washtub.
A Country In KPhlch Every Dn.y
Monday Ctennllncim Wlthowt
Modern Convenience Tlie
Contft Clean Linen,
iTho Mexlcam housewife 1ms Trotfcrou
Wcsome laiuulry question to vex her
jrtneid soul. The day of stationary
ttubs, patervt wringers and omnipo
ttent washing iluids has not yet
dawned upon the luvudcro of 3Soute
zumn's people.
Every day Is Monday in Alexico;
when there Is clothing to be washed
that d:vy it Is done, whethnr it be
Monday or Sunday, to-day or a
month Srom now.
The mieans that served ur fore
fathers are the ones in use to-day,
and mi tu re furnishes -all Alio appli
ances. Throughout -the 'country the
mctlmll of the -washerwoman is the
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WASHING IN A CLEAR BROOK.
same though in the larger towns
the authorities are attempting to es
tablish a more sanitary condition.
Every river, ditch or pond is u
washtub, and the rubbing is alone
upon the flat stones that 'lie .about
tlj brink.
AVhen the women arc .at then: w.or,k
thvsy stand in the shallow water or
kneel upon the bank. The clothes
aru first dipped into the stream, then
thrown upon the stone; each piece
is patted and pounded, nibbed with
a sort of soap-bark or fibre, -wet "with
lumdfuls of water scooped up in a
cup or in the hand, then for 31 final
riningiit is trailed and beaten 3 11 the
stream.
One might doubt the efficacy of
tlim treatment did he not -see the
snowy whiteness of the linen bleach
ing in the sun
Among ifhe natives the term "fam
ily "washing" is certainly used in its
most literal sense, for the family
anil the clothes have one common
washing .Uay. After the gnnneiitr.
have be-in spread to dry the babies
nre net mpon the washing stone and
hnndfiils of water poured over them
till the little brown bodies shine like
satin. JAt 'lo-st the mother has her
turn and, -standing or sitting in the
stream, she slips out of one garment
and into :imothur as the bath pro
ceeds. In the .cities there is more of a
system tiaod. A woman will come to
the house or 'hotel and take the
washing; this she delivers to the
overseer of 21 ,crovd of regular wash
erwomen tvIhj -work all day at the
public washing ground.
This open laundry is a plot of
ground set apart by the town for
the convenience and .assistance of
these women; here is a long row of
washing etotirx rudely cut and
placed about two feet apart over a
cemented ditch r trough, through
which clear wntr runs from some
oienrby spring or water course. The
regular charge for this luxury is one
penny n day.
The method of washing Is about
ihe same as at the river,
Here these poor creatures kneel,
hour after hour, under the rays of a
tropical sun, and their daily wage
amounts to about 30 cents of our
money.
As 'it. is the custom to wait until
nearly everything is soiled before a
regular washing is dons, it some
times happens that n few articles
must be done up at home; then is
used n shallow stone basin, oblong
in shape and resting with one end
propped it little higher than the
other. With a jar of water and a
cup to pour on a little at a time, the
accoutrement is complete.
An American woman living in the
City of Mexico bought a wooden tub
nnd n washboard, showing her Mex
ican servant how. to use them; imag
ine her surprise some days later at
feeing the washboard covered with
charcoal crosses nnd the maid kneel
itig at the tub, which was placed on
the floor, using the old water cup
nrul rubbing the clotheH on the bot
tom of the tub.
W, CLARK.
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS
The Turf.
At the groat American Derby, re
cently run at the Washington park
track, nt Chicago,
Thev Ticket, who
won the event,
performed a feat
that is remark
able. The colt is
of Kentucky
breed, owned by
M 1 d d 1 e t o n &
Jungbluth, of
Louisville, and up
to the finish of
the great Derby
had never pushed
its nose under
the wire n win
ner. As n two-
Jockey Hehtewn. ycnr.0hl the colt
made 13 starts without winning a
race, finishing second four times,
third twice, and being unplaced seven
times. The only start of The Picket
tvs n three-year-old was in the M.
Lewis Clark stakes, when he fin
iished third to Savable and Bernays.
.Although second in value to the fu
turity race for two-year-olds, which
iis run nnnunlly at the Sheepshead
Uay track in New York, the Amu ican
derby is in reality the premier turf
event in America. It draws greater
crowds by many thousands than ever
'hnve been seen on a New York race
track, and in 'spectacular features of
crowd ond grounds at the time of the
race none of the big metropolitan fea
tures is to be compared with it. The
attendance at the Grand Prix at Paris
recently was said to be close to 200,000.
This race, however, is run on Sunday,
so that the comparisons are hardly fair
in the matter of public interest in the
race. England is the great race loving
nation. I,ts Epson derby Is the great
est race of the world, nnd in many par
ticulars the most spectacular. Aus
tralia, for its population, is the great
est thoroughbred racing proinee in
the world. Crowds of 150,000 turn out
to see the Melbourne cup. which is con
tested on magnificently equipped
grounds, and under the auspices of a
jockey club composed of wealthy men
of social and political importance. The
American derby seems to be keeping
pace with the growth of interest in
racing in this country, although it is
the one race whjeh draws patronage
largely from a class which seldom pays
attention to any other race of the
year.
Jockey Arthur Ilelgescn, who rodo
The Pickett to victory, is but 17 years
old, and has been riding about two
years. He is a model young man, as he
neither smokes, drinks or keeps late
hours.
For the first time in its history the
"Brooklyn suburban handicap was won
by a three-year-old, when the game
Africander, giving weight to mot of
the field, captured the event. Fuller,
the New Orleans jockey, piloted tho
colt to victory.
Lou Dillon, owned by C. I. Hillings,
recently made a- new world's record
to -wagon for the mile, of 2:00. break
ing the record of 2:07, held by Lucille.
THE FARMER DAIRYMAN.
If lie Ilnlne llli Ovrn Fcetl He Cap
Mnke Ilin Co luy n Hand
no me l'ront.
ItuMolinll.
The following story of Ed Dele
hnnty, at the present time playing
right field for the
Washington club,
in the American
league, is by com
mon consent tho
most remarkable
thing that ever
hnppened on a
ball field. Tt is no
doubt familiar to
many readers, and
is of the great
batting streak he
displayed In a
game against the
Chicngos when he
Ed Delehait. wns covering left
field for the Philadelphia in the na
tional league in '07. The game was
played nt Chicago, and "Adonis Hill"
Terry was pitching for Chicago. Al
together the Philudelphias made just
eight hits on" Terry, and of the eight
Delehanty made no less than five out
of five times at bat.
The first time up Delehonfy lines out
a home run to the left field bleachers.
The second he hit for four bases to
right field. On his third effort he sent
a sizzling liner out to Dahluu, who
was pluylng shortstop. Dahlcn got
under it ur.d stuck up his hands, but
the ball was going so fast that it al
most amputated both of his hands.
Delehanty got to first on it. Tho
fourth time to bat IJeJelianty sent one
-ight straight for center and cantered
clear around to home without trouble.
When he walked to the plate for the
fifth time the fans wein all crazy with
excitement. "Another home run,
Del!" they shouted. Delehanty hit the
first ball that was pitched. It went
sailing out Into left, hit the roof of
the clubhouse on that side and bound
ed olT on the roof of the other. Mean
while, "Del" walked leisurely around
the bases and scored his fourth home
run. Hut in spite of Delchanty's
marvelous record of our home inns
and n single out of five times at but
his team loit tJ:o T.me by a tcore of
eight to fix.
Perhaps nine-tenths of the dairy
products of this country are pro
duced from farms where dairying is
but one of several branches of agri
culture carried on, and it is best thnt
this should be so, for mixed farming
is the most profitable system, and
dairying in connection with ihe
growing of field crops and other
stock is best for the land us well as
for the man who owns it, says Dairy
and Creamery.
There are forms in this country
which have actually been impover
ished and very much reduced in value
because for a long series of years
cows have been kept on" them and
the milk from them sold to cities or
condensing factories or taken ofE the
farm for some other purpose.
There is a vast difference between
selling the butter fat to a creamery
and returning the skim-milk to tho
farm and selling the whole milk.
But very little fertility is taken on
the farm when butter alone is sold.
The butter is produced from sun and
nir, the elements being tnken up by
growing plants and transformed into
feed for the cows and then returned
in the way of butter fat.
The mineral elements in the milk
and the nitrogen in it in the shape
of protein are the things we want to
keep on the farm, and but a trifling
quantity of these is carried away
when butter fat alone is sold.
The fnrmer who keeps a few cows
and raises his own feed is the one
who gets the best price for his feed
and the most money from his cows,
providing he sells only the butter fat.
This being true, It follows that
every such dairy farm should phi 11
to produce on his own farm as largo
a quanti3' of the best feed he can,
and theenpucity of the farm will in
crease in the course of years in ex
actly the same ratio that the farmer
takes advantage of the means at his
command to make his farm more fer
tile and his crops greater.
We have not' yet reached that,
looked for period when we can keep
a cow on ever' acre of land, but it
is entirely within the limits of possi
bility to do this.
The la ml should be drained. Tho
farmer who has a well-drained farm
is, to a large extent, independent
of abnormal weather conditions,
whether it be too wet or to dry.
Well-drained land produces a better
crop in any kind of a year than doea
land not drained.
ADIRONDACK FIRES
Ucthods Used in Fighting These
Destroyers of Forests.
tlovr They Were Started A l'ecullar
Story Told by Stnte Fire Warden
KniinoiiB Hcrolnm DlHplnycd
by the Worker.
.The great Adirondack fires, which
have just 'been extinguished by the
aid of a timely rulu which came after
el public meeting at New comb, N. Y.,
in which the people united their, pray
crit for rain, have furnished an endless
amount of thrilling incidentsnets of
heroism and methods of fighting the
fires. Some of the finest virgin forest
preserves were burned over. Ten thou
sand acres of the estate of W. Seward
Webb, around Nahasane, was swept
over by the flames; llockefeller's 00,000
acres was two-thirds burned over; and
property owned by the "brother of
Mayor Low, of New York, William
C. Whitney, the St. Kegis, Intel-nation-
UNIQUE YANKEE NOTION.
Thrifty Connecticut Fnrmer Million
Automobile Do Service an u
Farm I'umii.
That the typical "down east" yan
kee is a hard man to down has long
been generally understood, but. was
perhaps never better demonstrated
than by the manner in which Andrew
"wmSMs,
AUTO DOING DUTY AS PUMP.
Waters, of Hartford, Conn., turned
his auto into a pump.
Mr. Waters' stationary engine at
tached to the water supply was
broken mysteriously just at u time
of day when a large quantity of wa
ter was required to satisfy t tie thirst
of his eettle. To repair the engino
would take several days, and Mr. Wa
ters needed a substitute at once.
In his emergency he backed his au
tomobile up to tilts well-house, ele
vated the rear wheels clear of the
ground, afllxcd a belt, and applied tho
juice.
Answer: Plenty of water, satisfied
cattle, and a contented farmer.
And yet some people think an auto
has no good use. Chicago Journal.
Mine n m nn Inxcctlcldc.
Lime is in general use as a fertilizer,
and to a limited extent, also, as an in
secticide. Testimony as to its value is
conflicting, and this is due to its con
dition when applied. Lime as an in
secticide (tught to be in the form of a
dry hydrate. To shell lime or lime
stone just enough water is to he added
to slake; then sift through a mod
erately fine siee and dust on the in
sects when they ure wet. Only soft
bodied insects can he reached by this
substance, and the application must
be made so that the caustic proper! lea
of the lime may have a chance. Tho
larvae of the potato beetle and as
paragus beetle are good subjects, and
the testimony of its effectiveness 00
the cabbage worm i not wnntintr
LOOKING INTO THE FIRE.
nl nnd other pulp companies buffered
extensively. .
There are varying stories as to now
these fires started, sonic openly charg
ing that many of the fires were delib
erately se by Adirondack squatters,
who had real or fancied grievances
against the owners. Chief State Fire
Warden U S. Emmons Is authority for
the story that the first of the fires was
caused by an empty beer bottle
through whose convex bottom the hot
rays of the May sun were concen
trated as in a burning glass. The long
drought had dried the leaves until
they were like tinder, and readily burst
into flame. It was a herculean task
which soon confronted the lite fight
ers, and the silent deeds of personal
heroism wrought by them, far from
the stimulus of public applause, must
be for the greater part forever un
known. During calm weal her a forest fire
is dispiriting rather than terrifying.
Contrary to the common idea, the
trees are the last' to burn. All that
can be seen is a thin line of insignifi
cant flame, advancing lazily among
the dry underbrush. Occasionally a
young balsam, the only tree that burns
readily, will catch fire from the heat
below and flare up into a huge torch
for a minute or two, hut, on the whole,
the flames seem amazingly feeble and
easy to control. That is because the
real fire is far down out of sight. The
soil of these virgin forests for several
feet down is composed of decayed
leaves, which has taken on the con
sistency of peat, and which once ig
nited, burns deeply and creeps stead
ily on, and on, and on, waiting for
the rushing wlnd'to fan it Into aronr
ing sea of flames, sweeping every
thing before it.
It is a comparatively easy task to
extinguish the fire in the timber nnd
underbrush, but when this peatlike
soil gets to burning it is a different
matter. It will slowly eat its wny
for months into the green forest lying
ahead, and leave behind a path marked
by the layer of white ashes covering
the ground and dead trees standing
ns ghastly reminders of the fire which
has been gnawing at its roots.
A man named (iallagher was the
first to evolve a scientific plan for the
fighting of this soil fire. In advance
of the firefighters lie would blaze a
wide trail along the front of the fire.
Men with axes came behind and felled
every tree and bush on the fire side.
Then came men with shovels, who dug
deep, getting below the pent bed and
throwing the dirt as a rampart against
the flames. This method never failed
to cheek, except when the great wind
swept through the forest and fanned
the fires into a seething furnace.
The Yale summer school of forestry
which opens soon nt Mllford, Pn.,
where ways and means of preventing
floods and fires will be4considered, will
find a fund of acts and information
in these fires, which have, made (he
Adirondacks one of the hottest places
this side of the accredited confines of
his satanlc majesty's royal domains.
K. U RILEY.
IVIm They Menu.
Sweet Girl What do the papers
mean when they in Ik about a woman
ly woman?
Father They mean one who" known
how to make pumpkin pies. N. Y.
Weekly.
EVANGELISTIC TOUR
That of Rev. R. A. Torrey Has
Been a Record Breaker.
Una I'renehert the Annuel Arnanil tin
World ivllh Wonderful flucccnn
Clniiaed nn n New Kvan-
KcllNlle Lender.
Not since the days of St. Paul, the
apostle, whose fervid missionary
spirit drew him to every part of the
world, as known nt that time, to prench
the (hnpel, has the world witnessed
such an evangelistic tour ns that which
Hev. 1. A. Torrey and Mr. Charles Al
exander have just completed. Thero
have been great revivals under Luther,
Knox, Wesley, and many others down
to the great revival wave which swept
over America and England under the
preaching and singing of Moody and
Sankey, but none have been marked
by the remarkable characteristics of
the Torrcy-Alexander meetings, which
have extended pretty much around the
world. The work of other evangel
ists has been confined to one or two
countries at most, and while vast in
the number of people readied and con
verts won, still they have not been
on as broad a Fcope as the tour just
ended by the return to Chicago of
Messrs. Torrey and Alexander.
After preaching in Hawaii, spending
a month in ,rnpau, and preaching 74
times nt difi'erent places, after spend
ing three weeks in China, six months
in Australia, Tasmania and New Zea
land, where meetings of tremendous
size and power were held, and. thou
sands upon thousands of converts won,
after passing through Ceylon antlMn
dia, and preaching the Wold and sing
ing the (iospcl in those places, after
meetings in London and a greal re
vival work throughout Scotland, Mr.
Torrey comes back with these words
upon his lips: "We are on the dawn
of a world-wide revival." Surely the
mantle of .Mr. Moody and a double
portion of his spirit lias fallen upon
the ninn whom Mr. Moody, K! years ago,
sought out and placed over the Bible:
Institute at Chicago, whfch stands to
day as one of the greatest monuments
to the tuicred memory of the great
evangelist.
We dare not attempt to estimate the
miles traveled, number of meetings
held, multitudes of people preached
to, and number of converts won, for
fear if we came near to the actual fig
ures we should be accused of gross ex
aggeration or for fear we gave sta
tistics which would be considered rea
sonable, we would fall so very far
below the true figures as to miserably
fail to do credit to the great evangel-
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REV. R. A. TORREY.
istic tour. Mr. Torrey left Chicago,
December JiU, 1901, nnd returned on
June 17 of this year, being gone near
ly a year and six months. During this
time the globe has been circled with
the simple Gospel by preaching and
singing. The methods of conducting
the meetings were not unlike those
which proved so effective in the Moody
meetings of years ago. A great deal
was made of the singing, and Mr. Al
exander captured tho people of Austra
lia, witli his singing and successful!
leadership of large choruses, organ
ized in the places where the meetings,
were held. At Melbourne, where the
greatest success was realized, he had
1,200 in the chorus, and with the 7,00ft
people who crowded nightly into the
vast, exposition building to help the
singing of the Gospel songs, the ef
fect was simply marvelous. The
"Glory" song has flooded Australia,
and the common greeting there of
Christian workers now is II. Tim. 2:15.
Mr. Torrey's tour wns the out
growth of an urgent cnll In 1809 from
religious workers of all denominations
of Australia to Mr. Moody to come nnd
undertake an extensive campaign
t'lere. Circumstances prevented Mn.
Moody from responding, and the mat
ter was dropped. Later Mr. Torrey
came to the attention of the Evangeli
zation Society of Australasia, which
had previously sent the cnll to Mr.
Moody, and he wns Invited to visit
the island. Out of this grew the world
wide tour which has been so success
fully completed.
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