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The National tribune., 1898-05-12
CHAPTER VIII.


JONES TAKES A DESPERATE CHANCE
THE SHIPS FASTENED TOGETHER
THE WORK OF A HAND GRENADE
BOARDING THE SERAPIS-CAP
PEARSON SURRENDERS-THE RICH
ARD SINKS.
The fight went on. Jones all the time
watching his chance, and working his
ship TO close and grapple, while Pearson
with equal vigilance, tried TO skeep away
but was badly crippled in his efforts To work
the Scraps by the tornado OF muSketry
that swept his upper decks.
Just at this moment considerable puff
of wind on the quarter filled the Richard s
sails full, all drawing, and gave her a
steering way that enabled Jones To b-oach
her sharp To on the other tack, while Pear
son tried as a last refuge from closing to
back his ship astern. Before she could
gather sternway the poop deck of the Rich
ard swung in under the SerapiS'S lib boom,
and the latter's Starboard anchor fouled
the Richards chains, the bow of the latter
swinging in toward the Serapis's stern as
soon as her mizzen-rigglng began to take
the strain of the anchor.
This at last was the chance Jones had
been waiting, watching and struggling for,
and now that il was within his grasp he
wasted no time. Calling q couple OF sea-
men to follow him and bear a hand and
others To pass down laShingS, he SpranG
into the mizzen channels and with his
own hands rove blight and hitch around
the fiuke Of the Serapis's anchor passed
the line over the Richards chains, made
fast and hove the slack inboard through
the nearest quarterback port.
AS the ships tended, Jones watched the
lashings haul taut. saw that they took
the strain well and then saw them slacken
a little as the two ships settled together in
their bloody embrace. Knowing then that
the laShings would hold, he turned To
Pierre Gerard, his favorite French sailor
and Orderly, who had followed him into
the miZZen channels, and exclaimed:
"Ah, Pierre, mon brave, tout va bieni
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LAST STAGE OF THE BATTLE.

The battle picture below is from paint
ing by Dumanoir, Paris, 1880. 1t shows the
stern of the Scraps in the foreground and
the bow of the Richard. The moment OF
scene is. taken at the fouling OF the Scraps 8
anchor in the Richards mizzen-chains,
and Just before they had completely locked
yard-arms. The picture, though spirited
is not technically truthful. 1t represents
the mainmast Of the Scraps rs falling,
which did not occur till sometime after
the moment of scene, and il also repre-
sents the Scraps as "a single -decked ship.
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Chlrre on Oyerton Hill.

Joe Lindsey. Co. G, 93d Ind, Blooming
ton, Ind, writes: In looking over The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE | see many things that
are interesting TO me. L have wanted to
write for some time, but am afraid to saw nv
regiment ever took part in any battle, for fear
some comrads will up and say it was some
other regiment. | would like to know what
regiments made the last charge on Overton
Hill, Nashville. Tenn, Dee. IS, 1864 | have
always thought they were the 10th Minn-
and 92d Ind. | am sure | went back With
quite q number of prisoners.
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The seamIes. Steel Basket.

Our readers will remember sometime ago
the advertisement in this column of a
seamless steel basket made by the Granite
State Evaporator Co., CT No. $50 Temple
Court, New York City. | viii be of interest
to anyone considering the advisabi:ity of
adopting this article to farm or commercial
uses to learn that The United States Navy
Department has ordered 500 of them. They
are to be used on our warships for hand-
li,,r
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EDITORIAL NOTE.-Dramatic events follow
ing the battle with the Scraps are told in
the next instal1ment How Jones nearly
fought a duel with Landais after trying
voyage in the battered Scraps, and how he
eluded the British feet of the Holland coast
are told most eltertainingly.
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climber ,Jim~ Living

Thomas Goodman, known Us Limber
Jim " in Andersonville prison, who has been
believed by many of the comrades TO be dead,
is still living, we are informed by his son,
Arthur Goodman, of Laclede, Ills.
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THE DEATH GRAPPLE.

Finding that his c-applc would hold,
Jones instantly adapted his tactics to the
new situation. He ordered the main bat
terry To be abandoned, LEAKING only men
enough on the gundeck to fight the fire
that was raging there and guard the
matches 10 keep down the prisoners con-
fined below.
The men made availab bic by this order
were brought to the urper deck, armed
with muskets, pixies. or pistols, ard mus
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N:;:S:5:te!!yafRulJon Jones:
IN \ w. Our FIRST NoWalHero.
<5>>sfrV$< S-9 c.HD*''.

Enfin ie lie items; Get enfant de garce
anglois Sacrer-r-re nom de Dieu, il ne peu
pas 'echapper encore,,' "Reminiscences
of Nathaniel Tanning also Memoir du
Combat by Pierre Gerard, Paris, 1852
Under ordinary circumstances Iau
Jones was OF cleanly tongue and decorous
phrase, alike in English and in French
exceptionally so for n sea Captain of those
days. His fierce expletive here may have
been intended To encourage the men
around him, uttered as il was in the
patois of his half-Frcnch foTecastle, but il
no doubt expressed some feeling OF his own
Dou btieSS a volume of pent-up agony OF
soul found vent in that savage phrase.
To close and grapplc was his last hope
because heretofore his foe had been ham
merng him to death by inches. Therefore
this incident restored hope to a hopeless
fight.
Those who indulge in the masculine
sport of the g-pit have often seen a
brave little bull-tcrrier struggle and Strug-
his strength gradually ebbing with his
blood until hardly anything was left of him
but his dead game heart. when suddenly,
whether by accident or by gereralship, he
got :; chance to throttle, and then, as the
little fellow felt his teeth sink into the
neck of his stronger foe, they have heard a
low chuckling Crowl of content oozc out of
the corners Of his mouth rs he closed his
laws, as If Ia say: 1--WE cot him at last
At this point the battle between the
Richard and the Scraps had become
fight cf bulldogs, in which the Richard
had been under-doC from the start, and
row. at last, she had her enemy by the
throat!
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THE OFFICERS.
The officers of the Bon Homme Richard
were as foil VS.:
Commissioned Captain, Paul jones.
Philadelphia; First Lieutenant, Richard
Dale, Philadelphia; Second Lieutenant,
Cutting Lunt, Boston; Third Lieutenant,
Henry LINT, Boston; Fourth l. eutenant.
Edward Stack, France: Filth Lieutenant,
Eugene Macarty, France. (S.ack and
Macarty were volunteers from Walsh's
celebrated regiment of marine artillery,
which formed Part of the Irish Legion in
the French service, and in which they
were Sub L;cutenants.) Master, Samuel
Stacey, Portsmouth, N. H.; Surgeon, Lau-
rens Brooke, Virginia; Purser, Matthew
Mease, Philadelphia; Captain of Marines
Paul de Chamilard France; First Leu
France; Second Lieutenant of Marines.
Weibert de Mez.eres. France.
Warrant-AliC shipman, JCnn May ant,
Charleston, S. c.; Thomas X. Potter. Balti-
more; Nathaniel Tanning, Salem, Mass;
Beaumont G.ubb, Philadelphia; BENJAMIN
Stubbs, Port mouth, n. H.; William
Daniel, icimond, Va. Robert Coram,
Charleston, 5. e.; John l.. White, Phila-
delphia; John West Linthwaite, Savannah,
Ga; Richard Watt, Norfolk, Va; Gilbert
Watt, Norfolk, Va. Masters Mates-I;eu-
ben Chase, Nantucket; Jonas Caswell,
Portsmouth,, N H.: Boatswain, John c.
Robinson, Philadelphia Carpenter, John
Gunnison, Boston: Sailmaker, William
Clarke, Philadelphia: Gunner, Arthur Ran
dali, Norfolk. Cat the time of the action
Il ndall was disrated or suspended by
Quarter Gunner, or Gunner's Mate, Henry
Grafton Gardner, of Nantucket, appointed
Acting Gunner in his place.
TO be ccntinted)
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~ Ger ysa,l s.a,%.~ ~scr
2 $500OQ0. e-.-ssg
Convention: Natiorai Educational assoc
citation met in Washington.
10. Spanish War: Bombardment Of Santi-
ago by the American land and naval
batteries.
Fire: The Western Starch works burned
at West Hammond. Ills: loss, $3.50. 900.
II. Fires: At Pittsburg. the Worlds the
atcr burned; loss, $4,000. At st. Jo-
seph's Mich, the Hotel ST. Joseph de-
stroyed; loss Sl30000.
Accident: At the new waterworks tun-
nel Cleveland. explosion Of gas killed
10 workmen.
Obituary: Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen,
noted officer OF the U. s. navy during
the civil war, at Baltimore; aged IS.
Spanish War: Bombardment at Santa
go concluded. last gun Of the cam
paign fired.
L. Explosion Al the Lafln-Rand Pow
der works. Pompton. N. j.. II work.
men killed.
II. Spanish War: Santiago. with 1900
troops. surrendered to Gen. Shafter.
Obituary: Gen. John s. Williams, veter-
an of the Mexican and civil wars. at
Mt. Sterling. Ky.
l& Fire: At Sunderland. England: loss.
g. 100000.
10. Accident: killed and injured by
lightning near Boonton, N. J.
90 Conventions: The United Confederate
Veteran association met in annual
session at Atlanta.
2. Spanish War: Gen. Miles forces land
ed In Porto Rico Gen. Merritt arrived
at Manila.
n. Explosion: At Point Pinole, Cal,
workmen killed and many injured In
the Hercules Powder works.
%. Obituary: DR.. William Pepper. noted
educator at the head Of the Universi-
ty Of Pennsylvania. at Peasanton.
Cal; aged IS.
80. Obituary: Bismarck. ex-chancellor OF
the German empire. at Friedrichsruh;
aged IS.
81. Spanish War: Attack on American
lines at Malate, near Manila. repulsed.
AUGUST.
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loss OF S225 200 at the burning Of toy
store.
70. Spanish War: First u s. officer killed
Ensign Bagley. on the torpedo boat
Winslow at Cardenas. San Juan. Por-
TO Rico. bombarded by Sampson's war
ships.
Fire: In Chicago grain elevator and
other property burned; loss, s., 1000
10. Spanish War: Cerveras squadron
reached Martinique. in the West In
dies.
H. Accident: workmen killed and IL
severely injured by the collapse of
walls In a building in New York city.
Shipwreck IL sailors drowned Off the
coast of Wales by the wreck Of the
British steamer Benholm.
Is Fire: At Muncie, Ind. loss, S2S5. 900.
Obituary: Edouard Remenyi. the noted
violnlst in San Francisco: aged 6s.
l6 Fire Disaster: At La Providence. Can.
ada. st. Hyacinthe Auxiliary hospital
burned: many lives lost.
II. Accident: In Boston an elevator fell,
killing workmen.
Ia Fire: At Attleboro, Mass. the business
section destroyed; loss, over 100000.
Cyclone: Illinois. Michigan and Wiscon'
sin visited; 81 deaths.
49, Obituary: Gladstone. at Castle Hawar
den: aged SO.
q Obituary: Edward Bellamy, author O.
Looking backward" Equality" etc,
at Chicopee Falls. Mass: aged IS.
Shpwreck: "a passengers drowned by
the sinking OF the Alaska schooner
Jane Grey of Cape Flattery.
g. Spanish War; Second call for volun.
teers; 5000 asked for.
Shipwreck: British steamer Mecca sank
off Calcutta So lives lost.
Sporting: Jeddah won the English Derby.
g. Spanish War: Largest secret expedi.
tion OF the war landed on Cuban soil
by the steamer Florida.
2S Obituary. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren,
well known writer. widow OF Admiral
John A. Dahlgren, in Washington.
Sporting: Ornament won hesaBrooklyn
Handicap.
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The powerful young republic Of the
western world torn by what some Of her
leading men regard as the relentless
grasp CT destiny from her policy of inter
national isolation, the political relapse Of
one Of the ancient kingdoms OF the orient
and the dismem berment by forco of
monarchy dating from tho middle ages
are three events of 1898 the results Of
which upon the progress Of civilization
cannot be so much rs coniectured or
minor Importance, yet Of fnrreachng and
stili unknown significance, came the
Dreyfus agitation in France and tho An
go- French imL4o1io IN west Africa. All
OF these movements were accelerated by
tho developments OF the opening months
Of the year.
In January the Maine was ordered to
Havana, a step followed by the Infamous
Do LONE letter and the explosion In Ha-
vana harbor, two incidents nrousing tho
American people to II degree which carried
tho nation beyond the control Of her con
servative statesmen. In January, also the
prosecution Of lola for libel In the defense
OF Dreyfus opened esk. endless chain Of
startling denouoIM. sk hich bid fair to
unsettlc tho dolsS teace OF France.
The year ushered E5<snsational rumors
OF the partition OF China, and In the first
weeks tho powers seized each II fragment,
Great Britain declaring that her interests
would be defended as against Russia
Franco and Germany 'lat the cost Of
war" u peessary,
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A YEAR Of -
GREAT EVENTS.
The Record of 1898 a
Memorable One.
WARS and DISASTERS.
Diary Of The Conflict
With Spain.
DEATHS HEAVY ROLL.
DEATHS HEAVY ROLL.

Fatal Explosions and Shipwrecks.
Many Noted Names In
the Obituary List-PersOnal, Mis-
cellaneous and Sporting Events-A
Chronological Summary From JAM
uary to December.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. c., FR
| Fire. AT Rock Hill. $. c.. is buildings

1 Fire: AT Rock Hill, 8. c., IL buildings
burned. causing a loss of 100000
Convention: American Association For
the Advancement of Science met In
Boston.
1 Disasters: About 30 lives lost by the
breaking OF levee at Shawneetown,
u Ills.
Opera House and other property burn
ed; loss, $l25,OOO.
Shipwreck: British ship Marlborough
lost in midocean; Is sailors drowned.
l. Spanish War: Representatives OF Great
Britain. France. Germany. Russia and
Italy presented q joint note to the
president.
Obituary: Margaret Mather, the actress
at Charlestown. w. Va: aged 80.
D. Obituary: Gen. James Ronald ;Ghal-
mers. a noted leader In Forests Con-
federate cavalry corps, at Memphis;
aged 6s. ~
H. Spanish War: The presidents mes
sage asking power to intervene in Gu
ba submitted to congress. Gen. Lee
testified before the senate committee
on foreign relations.
II. Fire: At Charlestown, Mass; dust ex-
poson started flames In a grain ele-
vator: loss s1,0OO000.
Gen. Joaquin Crespo, ex-president Of
Venezuela. killed In battle
10. obituary: Prof. Jules Marcou, fa-
nous geologst. at Cambridge Mass:
aged a.. George Parsons Lathrop, au-
thor. In New York city.
Spanish War: The Cuban Intervention
resolutions passed congress: ultima
tum sent to Spain.
20. Spanish War: Senior Bernabe. the
Spanish minister. took his passports
and left Washington for Canada.
''Fire: spurgeon's tabernacle In London
destroyed.
n. Spanish War: U. s. Minister Wood
ford given his passports at Madrid.
SIMPSONS squadron blockaded Cuba.
First marine capture of the war. the
Spanish ship Buena Ventura, In the
gulf OF Mexico.
Obituary: Gen. E. c. Walthnll, noted
ex-Confederate and U. S. senator from
Mississippi. In Washington: aged 81.
q Obituary: Richard Smith, prominent
western newspaper man. in Cincinnati;
aged n.
q. Convention: American Society of Re-
lgious Education met in Baltimore.
n Spanish War: The president called for
12s. 900 troops
Is. Spanish War: Declaration by the Unit
ed States that war began April q.
Fire: In Glasgow, st. Andrews Catholic
cathedral destroyed; loss, s750.000
@. Spanish War: Spanish steamer Pan
ANA captured of Havana by the U. s.
lighthouse tender Mangrove. England
proclaimed neutrality and declared
that the war began April q.
Is. Spanish War: At Matanzas Admiral |
Sampson's vessels bombarded Spanish |
forts. Spanish steamer Guido: from |
Spain with sinews OF war for Cuba. +,
captured by the U. s. monitor Terror. |
f9. Spanish War;: Cerveras squadron |
sailed westward from the Cape Verde |
Islands.
MAY.
l. Spanish War: Commodore Dewey with |
the Asiatic fleet. defeated the Span |
iards In Manila harbor. Phillppine Is |
lands.
Fire: At Augusta Ga: loss, 500. 900, by |
the burning Of an elevator and waie- |
house.
i Spanish War: French steamer Lafa-
yette captured by the blookading fleet |
on Havana.
g. Convention: Southern Baptist conven- |
tIon opened at Norfolk.
& Hundreds Of Italians shot down by the |
troops during bread riot In Milan.
q Fire; The EIms hotel Exoelaior>
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=
ROLL a STRING
Of candle or ten-pins in
STRINGER'S BOWLING ALLEY;
or PLAY POOL for amusement and reere-
alton. Everything first-class. Nothing OBJ
jectionable allowed BARBER SHOP
IN connection.
WEDNESDAY is LADIES' DAY.
S. STRINGER.
SOUTHERN PINES LAUNDRY,
H. S. RIGHT TMRE, Prop'r.
Strictly HIGH GRADE of work at all
times. High Gloss or Domestic Finish.
Goods called for and delivered.
ras- Cleaning and Pressing Of Clothing
promptly attened to.
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Peanut Molasses Candy.

Place in good-sized kettle one quart
OF good molasses, one cup of sugar and
one-fourth of cup of butter, according
to writer in What to Eat. Boil rap
idly, stirring constantly until it snaps
sharply in ice water, then add level
teaspoon of baking soda, and stir a
moment. Have ready one quart of
shelled peanuts, i. e., have them shellcd,
skinned and broken apart into halves.
Add them to the candy, and stir rapidly
and just enough to mix well, and pour
at once into fat, square, CREASED pans.
When partly cold mark into blocks and
cut through. If wrapped neatly in
waxed paper and kept in a dry place,
this will keep nicely for weeks.
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A CURE FOR FOOLISHNEsS.
How Buffon's Family Got Him to He
sign from the Buckers and
Kickers.

Button is rich and proud. He comes of a
good old family and is recognized society
leader of Detroit. He, with some of his
swell bachelor friends, organized the Buck
ers and Kickers," of which he was made
grand high contortionist. The order had no
object but fun, yet it maintained show of
mysticism and announced its meetings in
a way to arouse general curiosity.
Button went east for rest and change.
His immediate family and friends did not
like his belonging to fraternity with such
a name and such doubtful aims. They saw
an opening and proceeded to get even. The
first day at New York hotel he received a
dozen letters, and on the envelope of each,
in big type, was his name and his title as
grand high contortionist, followed by the adj
dress to which the letter was to be returned
ii not called for. The clerk noticed it, and
others who were getting their mail could
not but see what was as plain as a hand bill:
He was indignant at this use OF his official
envelope, and indignation became explosive
called on him, asked if he belonged to the
"perfesh," and if he were open to engage
ments.
Button fired hot letter home bearing an
immediate delivery stamp. He informed the
folks that it was in the worst taste to send
private correspondence in a business en-.
veope. He wanted no more of it. 1t had
cost him great annoyance and he was going
to change his hotel at once. But that grand
high contortionst" pursued him like an
avenger until he returned home, raked all
his relatives over the Goals, resigned from
the Buckers and Kirkers and made bon
fire of the stationery which he held as grand
high tortionist.-Detroit Free Press.
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Serving Celery.

Not many people know that bunch
of celery in the hands of a good house
keeper is one of the few things about
which there is absolutely no waste.
From an ordinary bunch of celery of
five stalks pick off the large leaves,
wash them, and place in quart of
water, letting the quantity boil down to
about half pint; when cold bottle this
liquid and keep in cool place to be
used for flavoring gravies and soups.
Next, the fine roots; wash and boil the
same as potatoes, trying them with a
fork to tell when done. Cut them into
thin slices, add finely cut onion. and
make into a salad the same as the or
binary potato salad. The large and
coarser stalks of celery cut into inch
lengths, boil, cover with cream sauce,
and serve as a vegetable. The delicate
stalks use as ordinarily for a relish,
and the pretty yellow leaves will be
found to make pretty trimming for
the meat dish. This uses every scrap
of the celery itself. But the careful
housekeeper will not even discard the
string which ties the stalks together,
but # it is long enough will roll it ND
for future use.-N. Y. Tribune.
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WOMAN AND HOME.
THREE DAILY MEALS.
Mrs. Rorer Prescribes Foods That Ar
Easy to Digest.

Mrs. Rorer Prescribes Foods That Are
Easy to Digest.
THE average person may take for
breakfast sub-acid fruit, such as raw,
baked, steamed or stewed apple, ripe
peach, a bunch of grapes or very
soft pear writes Mrs. s. T. Rorer, ON
what Indigestion Really Means" in
the Ladies' Home Journal. This may
be followed by bowl of well-cooked
cereal with a little milk, slice of
whole wheat bread, and, if he has been
accustomed to it, cup of clear cof-
fee, one-half heated milk. No other
food is actually necessary-in fact, one
might be better off with even lighter
meal. The heavy breakfast, quickly
and carelessly eaten by the average
family, brings about such diseases as
come to the observation-disclosures
govt, uric acid conditions and Bright's
disease.
1.-THE MONDAY meal should be light,
unless two hours rest can be taken.
1t may consist of cream soup, two or
three slices of whole wheat bread and
butter, any little light minced meat,
and again fruit. This meal may be
closed with rice pudding, cup Gus
tard or some simple dessert made
principally from eggs and milk, rice
and milk, or whipped cream. The
night meal, after the days work is
over, should for it's first course have
a perfectly clear soup, either plain
consomme or a bouillon made entirely
from vegetable matter, or clear, light
tomato soup; the idea is to warm and
stimulate the stomach without giving
nourishment. Follow this with a red
meat, either beef or mutton, broiled,
roasted or boiled; one starchy veg
etable, as rice, macaroni, potato, or in
the winter, boiled chestnuts; one green
vegetable, as carefully cooked cabbage,
caulihower, spinach, asparagus, green
peas or beans, stewed cucumbers or
squash, according to the season of the
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should be about one and three-quarter
inches deep and one and one-quarter
inches wide, not including the small
piece of stalk of gold thread.
The first thing to do in making the
belt is to cut out the required number of
leaves in rough tailor's linen, then paint
one side of each leaf over with strong,
clear gum, which will stiffen the linen
and prevent it fraying untidily at the
edges. When the gum has quite dried
gum the other side also; and while it is
still wet press each leaf down upon the
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wrong side of the piece of satin bought
to cover the leaves. AS the linen and
satin dry together cut out the satin to
the shape of the leaf, which should
present very neat appearance If too
much gum has not been used, and if the
satin is cut out with sharp pair of
scissors.
Each leaf being thus covered with
satin, the needle-worker would proceed
to the decoration. A rather thick gold
cord, perhaps three times the thickness
of No. "a sewing cotton, is required to
outline the shape of the leaf, and this is
bound over and over to secure it to the
leaf by means of stitches of silk; this
silk may either be gold-colored to
match the cord or emerald green to
match the gems. The gems selected
must not be too large or clumsy, for the
larger these mock stones are the less
effective are they.
Having studded the emeralds round
the edge and down the center vein of
the leaf, nothing more will be required
to finish it beyond a veining of gold bull
hon, which, as most fancy workers
know, is sewn down in pieces threaded
upon silk. - r
When the due number of leaves have
been made to fit the waist of the person
intending to wear the belt, they should
be attached to the velvet band by means
of long stitches concealed under the
veining and jeweling; at the center of
the back two leaves are placed point to
point to allow of them appearing in
front, as the sketch misunderstanding
delphia Record.