Evening star., 1897-09-25

the same time radical. lasting cure OF Dyspepsia
will be made. because the much abused stomach
will be given, to some extent much needed rest.
Your druggist will tell you that Of .he many
dies advertised to cure dyspepsia none OF them las
given complete and general satisfaction stu
arts Dyspepsia Tablets. and not least In import
ance in these hard times is the fact that they
also the cheapest and give the most good for the
least money.
A little book and Of stomach trou-
Bile sent free by addressing Stuart Co.. Marshall,
Mich. se2a 25-2t
sozzles the garment in his pail of water
and soaps il some more, and then goes
again at the job of trying to wear hole
in the deck with it. If there is wooden
chock anywhere near him he will grab IL
and pound the garment with the force and
determination of an Indian boy hammering
a prairie dog TO death. The older man-of-
wars men learned this trick of pounding
clothes clean from Japanese women, who
use stones for the purpose.
Harsh Treatment.
After rubbing and mauiing the garment
until he thinks he has punished IL sufl-
ciently. the bluejacket seizes his scrubbing
brush and with its brfstly aid he scatters
whole lot more salt water soap lather
over il, and then gives il a scrubbng that
would wear the warp and woof of il INTO
rag carpet material were not the garments
of sailormen strongly devised. After he
has treated the whole pile i'm this heroic
fashion, scowling all the while as il he had
ilerce personal grudge against the gar
inents he Is matchmaking, he throws his
pail over the side for clean water and
sozzles them all in il in bunch. Thtn he
picks them out and wrings them out dry
one by one Just why he wTings them dry
dt this time, squeezing the last droD of
water out of them in kind of frenzy of
wrath, is not to be explained: for he no
sooner has them all wrung out and laid
in 81.
bucket than he grabs the whole lot and
nres them down underneath a pump nozzle
tnat Is beleSfng out water with the force
OF 800 gallehs a minute. the bluejacket
lets thls stream play on his batch Of
clothes for while, turning the garments
over one by one SO as to give each of them
thorough rinsing, and then he goes at the
wrinsing out job again with even more
savage strength than before.
Hanging Out to Dry.
This is the finish of the washing job. But
the sailorman's anxiety over the hatch OF
Clothes is not yet over He has got TO
sec ure good places to hang the garments
en- the ridge ropes and signal lines and IL
he accompiishes this task without getting
INTO scrap with one more of his ship
mates he counts himself lucky These
scfuooed and washed clothes lines hang
locse, capable of being pulled either fore or
ait, until about half-past q in the morning,
al which time the men are supposed 10
nave tnelr WaSnlnR Jobs completed and
tEelr cleansed duds suspended on the lines
to which the clothes are fastened not hy
the familiar wooden clothes pins used
ashore, but lashed by bits of cord The
sbortness OF the time given Ia the men To
perform their washing stunts generally on
crates TO bring them all to the clothes lines
al the same minute. and there is the live
nest sort OF elbowing for places for ten
minutes or SO, the officer Of the deck stand
lnS ready 10 give the signal for the ht,isting
oil the lines. The blueja kets who manifest
disposition 10 seize a large portion of the
most accessible portions of the lines for fhc
hanging OF their things not only get them
selves dislked, hut are quite often swatted
with energy and force.
The drying clothes are usually permitted
to fiutter in the air and sun until along
about o'clock in the afternoon, by which
time. a clear day, they are generally
thoroughly dried. Then, at a signal from
the officer of the deck, the chief boat
swain's mate gives couple of long blasts
on his pipe, and follows this up with one
Of the dismalest of man-of-war howls
"Sta-a-and by scrub and wash clothes!''
The clothes lines are lowered, and there is
a scramble from all over the ship.
Ginning Their own.
AS the lines are hauled in the men pick
off their garments; they recognize them on
the lines from afar, not because eac h OF the
garments of a man-of-war's man is plainly
stenciled with the initials of his name in
large letters of black pairt but because he
kr ows just exactly the position on the
lines from which his things have been
dangling.
AT eea, or in quarantined ports in south
ern waters, officers and chief petty officers
get the apprentice boys TO do their wash
ing, and they have TO pay for ii through
the nose, for apprentices on United States
wa-ships are an independent lot, who vii.
only undertake the performance of tasks IN
any wise menial for their supporters when
they arc well paid for 1t. In port, a man
of-war is always besieged by laundrymen,
so that the officers send their stuff ashore,
and in some Of the ports, especially on the
Pacific stations, the Cinnamon do laundry
work so cheapiy that the bluejacke:s not
only send their wearing apparel ashore TO
the celestials, but save themselves an i'm
mense amount of bother by having their
hammooks and ditty-bags scrubbed by the
same people. There is hardly a more diff
cult job for the man-of-war's man Than
the scrubbing of his big canvas hammock
sufficiently clean to suit the critical inspec-
tion of the executive officer.