The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-16

On Tuesday afternoon, July z. the |
great battleship fleet started on its real
tour around the world. from San Fran |
cisco harbor. There were 16 battleships
in the line. led by Rear Admiral Sper-
rvs flagship. the Connecticut. The Ne
braska was detached and sent to Angel |
island quarantine station, because of |
an outbreak of scarlet fever aboard
ship. She is expected to join the fleet
at Honolulu. The battleships, which |
sailed on the longest voyage ever I'M
dertaken by such a powerful fleet, will
completely encircle the world from
Hampton Roads to Hampton Roads.
The fleet will reach Manila on October
1, and arrive at Ks ultimate destination
during the latter part of February,
1909.
Perhaps the greatest of all the en-
to be given the men of
the fleet in any foreign port will be
waiting their arrival at sydney, Austria
liza, where the warships will arrive on
August 20. Half million dollars Is
the sum the Government of Australia
and the people of Sydney have appro-
American sailors.
Great interest is felt in the fleets visit
to Japan. Proceeding to Yokohama
from Manila, the feet will arrive there
on October II. Elaborate functions at
court and social affairs will be held
China, the reception will doubtless be
the occasion of a great celebration
characteristic of the Chinese.
President Roosevelt sent the follow
ing message to the fleet:
Il send to you and the officers and
enlisted men under you my heartiest
good wishes on the eve of your depart
ure That the American people can
trust the skilled efficiency and devotion
to duty of its representatives on the
fleet has been abundantly shown by the
trip around South America, and l know
will be made equally manifest on the
return trip across the Pacific, Indian,
and Atlantic oceans. You have in a
peculiar sense the honor of the United
States in your keeping, and, therefore,
no body of men in the world enjoy at
this moment greater privilege or car
~ heavier responsibility.
President Roosevelt is credited with
setting an example of shirt waist sense.
in that he sat on his piazza, which is
open to the world, and entertained all
casual guests during the extremely
heated period of last week in his shirt
sleeves. Sensible President. But he
couldn't have gotten inside one of the
five-cent shows in Washington in that
rig.
|. Representative Llewellyn Powers. of
Maine, has rendered his resignation TO
the Governor as a candidate for reelec-
ton to Congress. Mr.. Powers will COM
plete his present term, which ends next
March, but will not stand for reelection
this Fall because of i'll health.
Secretary of the Interior Garfield is
back on earth again, or to speak by the
book, ne arrived in San Francisco last
week from his trip to Hawaii. He is
nightly pleased with his visit there.
He said the islands are becoming
Americanized and have the true Amer
lean spirit. The people are prosperous,
happy. and contented. He finds no
symptom of race hatred in the Islands.
From Indiana comes the word thai
the President is going to make some
speeches in the campaign. Thatcher
A. Parker, Republican County Chair
man, of Terre Haute, is author of the
statement He says that President
Roosevelt will be in Indiana for three
days making speeches in the interest OF
Mr. Taft. 1t is thought here that some
body has his information ON wrong.
Mrs. James S. Sherman is noted fol-
her thrifty ways and for the excellence
of her preserves and jellies. Her bread
is famous and many a novice in Gomes-
tic mysteries has obtained her method
of mixing from the wife of the Vice
Presidential candidate.
Tt is announced for sure that Repre-
sentative Theodore Burton, of Ohio, has
come out for the United States Senate
to succeed Senator Joseph Benson Fo-
raker.
Vice President ELECT Sherman has st
far recovered as to be able to ride out
and to be permitted to take part in po-
litical discussions with the leaders OF
the party who call upon him. 1t Is
stated at his home that he will be in
ship shape soon, and win enter into the
campaign with his accustomed vigor.
The Health Officer of Washington
DR.. William c. Woodward, after warn
ing mothers how to care for and iced
their children this hot weather, has
places for the adult boarding popula-
ton of the District. He is going tc
look after the restaurants and cafes
the boarding house and pie-foundry
Kitchens. 1t is q most righteous move
&c he will just get after the coffee pots
for instance. Coffee drinkers do moi
think much about it, but 1t is fact
that some restaurant coffee pots are not
really cleaned out from one years end
to another. Nobody can make good cof
fee who does not clean with brush
and scald with soda water, then rinse
and dry the coffee pot after every using
There IS a fine coffee dust which sticks
to the sides of the vessel in which coffee
is made, and ii cannot be gotten rid OF
with just rinsing out the vessel. 1t has
to be scrubbed off. If this dust is left
on the vessel ii taints every bit of coffee
that is made in it, and in few days
becomes an active poison. A grea
many restaurants make drip" CD COT
fee by dripping thru a cloth. Thai
cloth in two days time becomes an &C
tive agent for slowly poisoning every
person who drinks coffee "dripped" thru
it. You can taste the boiled rags" il
every mouthful of coffee you drink
Absolute cleanliness about the coffee
pot is the price of good coffee. Then
too, there is the coffee. You can't make
good coffee out of a spurious berry
Cheap coffee Is rank poison. The only
reason that people are not poisoned
sooner by the cheap decoction is be.
cause a concern or a woman who vii
use cheap coffee is stingy. and will moi
use enough of the drugged stuff to make
a good cup of the poison, praise be!
Another matter that the inspected
should have in hand is the dish rag:
and the dish towels. the aprons. the
caps and other clothing worn by those
who handle the uncooked yiands. pre-
pairing them for meals. A man viii
peel potatoes without washing hi.
/ hands or the potatoes. He handle.
radisheS cabbage peas and all sorts OF