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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09

"Why women write postscripts," is
problem that has been engaging the at
tention of one of the London woman's
weeklies. The answers betray that the
sex understands itself, and does not mind
exposing it's amiable weaknesses. All are
from women, who ascribe. among others,
these reasons: Because they seek to rec
tify want of thought by an afterthought";
Because they are fond Of having the
last word Because they write before
they think. and think after they have
written"
our correspondent puts down the fem
mine p. S. to the same cause which leads
women to prolonged leave taking in ON
nibuses. namely" and rather profoundly
it appears to the casual observer. that
they lack organization of thought" An
other woman comes 10 the defense of
her sisters with the suggestion that
when women have anything special to
communicate they know that their p. S.
is equivalent to n. B." and yet another
friendly soul turns neat compliment in
her reason: Probably because woman
herself is the embodiment of the z. S.
in the scale of creation she-the indis-
pensable-was added last"
The most notable wedding that has
taken place in New York society this
wear was that of Mr.. James Abercrombie
Burden and Miss Florence Adele Sloane,
uniting two of the richest families In
America The wedding took place Thurs
day in Trinity church. Lenox, Mass. About
800 guests were under the care of Mr..
and Mrs. William Douglas Sloane, who
have taken pains that all those hidden to
the ceremony should be entertained entire
ly by the father and mother of the bride.
The bridesmaids were Misses Emily and
Lila Sloane, sisters of the bride, and Miss
Gertrude Vanderbilt. and Miss Beatrice
Bend. The maids of honor were Miss
Ruth Twombly and Miss Jessie Sloane.
Frederic Winthrop was best man. The
service was read by Rev. DR.. William
Grosvenor, rector of Trinity church, and
the blessing was given by Rev. DR.. John
Hall of New York.
Directly after the ceremony traps were
in readiness to convey the guests to Elm
Court, the Lenox country place of Mr..
and Mrs Sloane. Here the bridal break
fast was served.
The brides trousseau is simply rev.
elation. There is everything in it that was
ever thought of in connection with a
trousseau It costs, including the pearl
trimmings, about 10000 The evening
dress is of straw-colored satin, trimmed
at the bottom of the skirt with tulle edged
with satin and forming small butterfly
bows very close together. The body is
covered with tulle edged with satin and
trimmed before and behind with two tulle
braces embroidered with black spangles
and crystal pearls. On the right shout
der is a bunch of roses Of various shades.
The back part of the skirt is covered with
stra w-colored tulle cut at intervals, with
straw-colored satin, on the cross. Then
there is dress for q garden party. The
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09

Gen. Greedy of Arctic fame. says the
New York Times is as distinguished in
the sociel circles where he is known as
in the field of polar exploration. Brave
and gallant, he is a great favorite in so
ciety but II is doubtful If he has any
where a more ardent admirer than one
small maiden to whom he stands as d
knight sans reproche." liu oj j.
She was the hosts daughter at = an
afternoon reception when Gen. Gnesly
was the lion of the occasion. The bellies
of the town were directing all their vol
ley of superlative and bewitching glances
at the hero, who, however. ignored these
enticements and asked to accompany the
i2-year-old miss to the dining room. De-
lighted beyond measure at this uneXpect-
ed attention, the child accepted, and went
proudly off scarcely knowing whether the
salad he brought her was chicken or
sawdust. The browning joy came, how
ever, when, talking to her as II she had
been Mrs. Cleveland" to quote her own
words, her companion asked how many
brothers and sisters she had.
She replied, zone brother and one sis
ter the boy between" and added: Some
persons call us a sandwich, but | think
that is rather hard on us girls. because
everybody likes meat so much better than
bread"
"Ah, my dear" said the general with
a bow, not when it is so we'll bred"
Can any sneerer at puns drive from
the maids memory her exclusive pleas
ure in this one?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09

ndon World has engaged in the
'''.I task of telling Englishmen what
-..S ike they make when they marry
am heiresses. 1t points out to the
an minded, home-loving English
" NO mas wed American dollars that
.- viii prove a torment. "She has
r. Tor home life" says this oracle.
p ''7 contrary, she counts every even
mi, 90 that she spends at home, and
= "e of ennui were she condemned
10 sole society of her husband.
~ quickly he will find that her theory
oinprehends only an endless round
7l5,.ly and perpetual circle Of ex-
p 5.l, The country is only tolerable to
IA ,'lHlg the first effervescence of the
-f5i,.' elurn, when the house is filled as
! a9 as it empties. and the neighbors
# ~, N activity to welcome the bride.
il Zen the long evenings set in. and
!, longer possible to tear about all
> &C. 1i'a thelandscape assumes the gray
winter, very soon she tires of il,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22
Hoods Pills ffs ahs sarsasssIiy,.. With u,
Keeping the Farm Clear of Weeds.

Keeping the Farm Clear of Weeds.
The government agricultural depart
ment is trying to impress upon the
farmers of this country the truth of
the familiar maxim, God helps those
who help themselves" The direct loss.
in crops, the damage to machinery
and stock and the decrease in the
value Of land due to weeds in this
country, is estimated at tens of mil
lions of dollars a year. This loss is
sustained almost wholly by the farm
ers. A government report urges the
cooperation of the whole agricultural
community on this question. In many
cases weeds cannot be e~xterminated,
and their reduction to a state of COM
parative harmlessness is all that can
be looked for. Land wner should be
on the watch for new plants, and
learn their character, if possible, be-
fore they become established as ag-
gressive weeds on farms. This is prac-
tically the only possible means of eX-
termination, unless public sentiment
is aroused to a more vigorous and uni
versal destruction of weeds. The OIL
cial bulletin on the subject insists that
any species can be subdued and con-
trolled within the limits of IN ordinary
farm, and unless the value of and is
low from other causes this work can
be proftably undertaken. Prevention
of seed production is cases of ANIMALS
will gradually reduce the quantity OF
weeds and prevent further spreading
This is accomplished in cultivated
fields by burning ove to destroy as
many as possible of the seeds on the
surface, and successive blowing is re
quired. Broken lands should not be
permitted to remain idle. and moving
or cutting off the main stems of weeds
is deprecated rs multiplying the stalks
They should be cut below the crown
and killed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22
A Bats Wings.

A bats wing IS. in short, a hand
with very long fingers, and with the
skin stretched between them so as to
form a flying membrane. OF course
the exaggerated length III each joint
in fingers shows how very long a time
the bat must have taken to develop
his hand into so specialized a form,
but a hand it still remains in underly-
ing structure, and it still retaius a
most hand like popularity IN the sep
arate thumb, which forms no part of
the wing, but is used by the animal in
many cases, as a look or bent finger
to hang itself up by.
A thumb, once acquired, is far too
valuable a possession to be readily
given up and the bats have stuck to
theirs with creditable persistence.
even when the rest of their hand has
been practically lost by conversion
into an expanded flying organ. One
other feature, still more s%trikingly dis
plays the underlying kinship between
the bats and ourselves in spite OF
long divergence; the female bat has
her breasts in the same position as IL
our race, which gives her, small
| rs she is, when looked full in the face
l singularly human and almost path
tic aspect.-The Cornhill Magazine.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22

Nature is a very loving and careful
mother, and it is seldom within a civ
ilized community that any accident
befalls her little ones for which her
higher creation, man, is not directly
responsible. In view of this fact, the
following little incident seems inter
esting:
A lady of New Orleans, La, relates
that some days since the first hum
ming bird of the season made it's ap-
pearance in her garden, slipping in
discriminatory from the wealth of
sweets. Late in the afternoon she OBJ
served the little fellow lowering
around. a spike of Annunciation lilies
which had shot up perfectly laden
with bells. The next morning early,
when she went out for a matutinal
stroll through the garden she heard
a futtering and faint cheeping from
the neighborhood of the lily bed. For
| some time she could see nothing to
| account for the faint sounds, but at
last was astOnished to discover that
| one of the lily bells had closed its
petals, imprisoning the humming-bird
| within it. 1t is probable that the bird
| had buried it's beak too far in and eX,
tracted so much honey as to cause the
already fading flower to collapse sud
| denly, thus holding the little fellow
| c~lose-bound all night long.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22
IN NO HURRY.
An Incident Showing How They
Bargain Down in Tennessee

An Incident Showing. How They
Bargain Down in Tennessee.
One bright forenoon last fail neal a
deserted mill in the outskirts of Chat
tanooga the following bit of Tennessee
bargaining was overheard: An aged ne
gro, driving an old, slowly Eaoving
mule hitched to a twO-wheel dump-cart
came along. He was bound for a
woodward on the banks of the Tennes-
see river near by, where that muddy
stream sweeps around the foot of Cam
erOn Hill, and begins curving a grace
full bow to bold Lookout Mountain,
which looms up before it. Just as the
outfit had crossed a rickety culvert the
negro was accosted with the custom
airy "HowdeY by a lazy looking ma
tive wearing a jeans suit and a broad.
brimmed hat.
"Howde?' grunted the negro as he
stopped his mule with a fierce jerk
which sent the front of the cart
against the beasts launches and the
shafts higher than his ears.
When the cart had come to a stand
still the young man took a portly chew
of tobacco, slowly adjusted his RICH
foot on the hub of the cart wheel, and
with slow. measured accents, asked:
"How much be We sellin' wood for!'
1.-TWO bits a load, boss"
After mature deliberation and mas
tication, the prospective purchase
dra wled out:
1.-TWO bits a load?'
Hits little huff. boss replied tn
cOlored man. "Hit leaves me only tw,
shillin' fer tn wood at TIL yard-littl
huff fer totin'."
Eyes; / reckon"
Then the languid young man picke'
up a stick and began whiting, an
the teamster sat mute in his cart 70
five minutes, breaking the silence f
nally with:
Dye reckon you'll want a jab
wood?"
That's what l lowed I would, bu
! Dunno replied the other.
There was another silence of tie
minutes. broken only by the slash O
the jack-knife through the yellow pin
stick. A horseman rode by 'totin'
a bag of meal in front of the saddle
After the usual speculation as t
whom the stranger "mout be-" tn
whiting and the Misunderstanding Pre-
cesses continued for several minutes
Finally when the stick had been a
Whitfield away, the prospective pur
chaser said:
wall, l don't 'spect I'll take an
wood to-day"
His foot fell lazily from the hub, til
wood hauler clucked to his mule an
the two men slowly went their respe
tive ways.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22
Praise Yaur Wife.

GLOW do | look?" asked a young
wife who stood before her husband
dressed to attend a party with him.
He raised his eyes from the paper
he was reading, looked at her criti-
cally and said:
"All right. You'll do"
Her heart sunk and her lips culver
ed, but he did not know it. She was
conscious of looking her best and she
wanted a word of praise or admira-
ton from her husband and she failed
to receive it.
Why was he so grudging Of his
praise? Ask the average mar who an
swers his wife in that way when she
asks his opinion as she invariably does
and he will tell you that she always
looks well-dressed in good taste and
above criticism. But why doesn't he
say that to her. OF rather why does
he not make a little lover-like speech
for such an occasion? Even the cOur-
teous remarks he would bestow on the
costume of an ordinary acquaintance
are withheld from his w wife.
There was a h~usband-he is dead
now-who used to say to his wife,
"My dear, you are looking charming
this evening"" or, 81 love you best in
that blue dress of yours" He was a
poor stick of a man in the way OF
worldly success, but his widow canon
lied him for just those loving tributes
given to her with a lovers Difference
after many years of welded life.
"Oh," said a disappointed woman
81 would like to be a man just to show
what a good husband l could be-
Detroit Free Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22
THE INQUIsITIVE CLERK.
He Finds n Customer Who Is II
Much For Him.

He Finds a Customer Who Is Too
Much For Him.
The inquisitive clerk is everywhere
and everybody has had an experience
with him, says the st. Louis Post.
One of the genus was 'called down
in a remarkably funny manner in a
west end drug store this week. A tall
solemn-looking man came in and ask
ed for Il half dozen %SiX-Ounce bottles.
"bottles?" asked the clerk.
Eyes, bottles" responded the man.
with or without corks?" asked he,
"With corks," was the response.
"Want 'em empty"
~"Certainly."
"And new"
do you suppose I want bottles you
have been keeping strychnine in%
The clerk said such an idea had new
err entered his mind and then asked:
what do you want them for!'
'T'o break" responded the impatient
customer, promptly.
The customer beckoned him to lean
over the counter and caught hold OF
the lapel of the clerks coat and WhiS'
pere:
Il wouldn't want the ~neighbors tc
get onto it but | rather like to heal
'cm crack. Just a whim of mine. It's
better than breaking windows anG
gives me just as much pleasure but
my supply has given out and | want
a few to hold me over until the mex
carload arrives"
The clerk looked at the customer
doubtfully.
"Oh, well, of course it's nothing tt
me-" he said.
"Tben what made you ask about it 2
The clerk made no reply but got the
bottles. AS he was making the chang,
however, the spirit moved him to ask
What do you do with the corkS?"
"Chew EN-" was the reply. at:
good for the digestion. Try it som
time
Then the customer walked out ant
the clerk shook his head and Tape,
his forehead but he asked no NOR,
questions.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22
~CIOver-Sick Land.

1t has been noticed that it is almost
impossible to grow red clover year af-
ter year upon ordinary farm soil. Old
fields of clover become thin and yield
little, and are then said to be clover
sick. The experiments at the Roth
amsted farm have shown that when
land is in this condition none of the
usual manures or fertilizers can be re-
lied upon to secure q crop of clover,
and the only means of insuring a good
stand and yield is to allow some years
to elapse before repeating the crop
upon the same land. The general re-
suit of the trials on field soil was that
neither organic matter rich in carbon
Las well as other elements, o am
monium salts, nor nitrate of soda, nor
mixed complete fertilizers, awaited to
g restore the full clover-yielding capa-
bilities of the soil. However where
some of these were applied in large
quantity, and at considerable depths,
the results were better than where
they were used in only moderate guam
titles and applied only on the surface.
On q rich garden soil, however, red
clover has grown luXurialtly every
year for forty years, so that the pri-
mary III of failure is neither fungus
nor insect diseases, nor nOXious eXcre-
tions, nor shade of grain crops, but is
probably due to the exhaustion of min
eral fertilizers, or .ayaila bic combined
nitrogen, or nitrifying microbes with.
in range of the roots. Rotation, how.
v cures clover sickness.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22

A box in this country brings SIPS and
after duty and shipment have been
paid it is a wonder any profit is made
at all.
The two proprietors of this estab-
lishment, which, by the way, is call
ed the "yat shing' showed me into the
O where the designer of labels sat
at work. He was an old man, with
bamboo-bound spectacles, and sat at a
desk drawing flowers, gnomes and
dragons in all the grotesqueness of
Chinese art. l had some of the char
acters on one of the labels translated.
There were three large characters in
the center, and they conveyed b use
full information of Thousand, blazing,
hall" What does it mean? 1t is a
word picture and endeavOrs to convey
the idea that their goods are of such
a superior quality that they are liken-
ed unto a large hall or palace blazing
with sp1endor. This Is as good an eX-
PLANTATION as can be given. If you can
catch the idea you have the principle
of the Chinese language, but until you
do you will never be able to earn the
language of the celestial empire.
After the designer and engIavers
have done their work the blocks go to
the printing room, where they are
printed with hand presses, but such
presses. If you would take old Ben
Franklin's press. break it to pieces
and prop it up with rope and bamboo,
you would have a fair sample of a
Chinese press. They are clumsy, rick
e~ty-looking things, and look as If n
breath of air would blow them over,
yet it is wonderful what an amount
nf u,oyE nnn ho 1nnn with thaIn In n
day; besides tie Chinese do not want
machinery. Human labor is cheap
for there is SO much of it, therefore
anything that will lessen labor is
curse to the country. A mandarin wht
introduced a silk machine in Amo!
by doing so starved to death four hun
dred families. We can better under
stand the large population of this
country when we learn that the prov
ince of Nganhwui in China contains
"a, 1853, 200, while Kiang Su contains 81,
S43, 800, altogether making 72,O11, 700
Just think of it, two states in China
contain over 100000 more people
than the whole United States.
AS paper forms such an importan
part of the firecracker you can imag
ing the making of it must be a larg'
industry in Canton, and so it is. How
ever, the paper mills are anything bu
imposing structures. They are low
square buildings, with dirty, white
washed sides, the only pretty thin;
= about them being the large, double
! tiled roofs with turned-up corners
, There are not more than 100 workmel
1 in each mill, for paper being mad
] more easily than .irecrackers it doe
: not need as many laborers. They ar
. also men born to the profession, me
whose children will grow up to b
paper makers after them. Ever
morning during their lives they wax
t up with the one endless routine befor
them and they eat and sleep, too.
> the great paper mill. The paper
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22

complished by hand, and they are,
therefore, called by the English resi-
dents of that country "firecracker go
downs"
On approaching the building one is
not greeted with the usual rOa of fur
naces and the many and II noises
that go to make up the din of a fac
tory. but it is anything but a quiet
place. At a distance it sounded like
the riot of a furious mob compared
| with the quiet about Canton, though
Canton seemed noisy enough.
For a mile around the factory the
thousands of inhabitants are all en-
ployed in making frecrackers. AS
soon as the children are old enough to
be anything but babies they begin to
work, and as Don as their mothers
have finished the Homework they turn
their hands to making tirecrackerS,
but there is no confusion. for no one
knows how to do but a very small part
of the immense amount of work re-
Quired in turning out millions of these
little explosives. One man, for in
stances, makes fuses, another cuts
them in length and another. sorts them
in sizes; n man makes the paper, an
other rolls the cracker. while his
ncighhor fills the ends with clay. Toe
paper man would not do the clay
mans work, any more than the fuse
maker would do the s~Orter's work, and
every little firecracker before it
reaches America has in its construc-
ton passed through over sixty differ
cnt pairs of hands. The go-down is
divided into a dozen long sheds, with
blue tiled roofs; the laborers sit on lit,
tie stools at long bench-like tables
AS soon as one man finishes his part
of the work he passes it on to his
reighbor, the latter following his eX
amUle when he has done his share
I'd thus it starts at one end of the
allie as a little paper and a fuse and
comes out at the other end a finished
iirecracker.
The e room | visited was devot
ed to hraiding and wrapping the
crackers. and the next to packing then
for shipment. They are packed il
boxes much resembling the common
tea box and contain thirty packages
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22
The Firecracker God

delight of other small boys and the
terror of their mothers centuries be-
fore Columbus discovered America?
Does he ever think of the little Chin
ese lads, with funny little pigtails and
shiny brown eyes, who played with
them two or three hundred years be
fore Christ was born? Yet so it it
was. Niter, the principal ingredient of
gunpowder, has always been found in
great quantities in China, and the an
cient records of that country prove
that gunpowder was there manufac-
tured at a time when Europe was
a bowling wilderness, except in the
little corner where Rome sat on her
seven lfills ere she had become the
mighty empress of the world. Fire
works We're the earliest form i'll which
gunpowder was used, as, oddly
enough, it's entertaining qualities were
discovered before its destructive pow
ers. The showers of sparks that fall
from rockets have sparkled in Chinese
skies from time immemOrial. The fire
cracker is said to be the earliest form
of explosive, and was not so much in
tended for boys to use in sport as for
an article of heather worship.
In the mountains of western China
there is supposed to be a giant devil
| of a brilliant red, at the sight of whom
men grow faint with fear. A man
VINO lived about 5000 years ago by
| the name of Leedicn found that tho
banging of firecrackers would brighten
him away, hence Leedien is the got!
| of t~irecrackers. All the red tirecrack-
ers are intended to be used to brighten
away the red devil, while the green
and yellow ones are offerings to Lee
dien. From the simple little tirecrack-
err was gradually evolved the destrdc'
tive cannon which was used by the
Chinese in their war with the MongolS
in A. d. 1882. 1t was introduced into
Europe about 1910. Thus we w tC
the Chinese the invention of the most
useful article of warfare in the world
The most interesting sights of Can
ton are the tea factories and the fire
cracker factories, and the most inter
esting of the two are the t~irecrackel
factories. These establishments cal
hardly be called factories, if We us'
the word in the senSe of making m!
machinery, for all of the work is ac
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-08-22

Some little time ago a benevolent
lady read in the papers a paragraph
to the effect that, in an effort to save
his cat from being crushed by the
wheels of a passing omnibus, a small
boy bad been knocked down and SER
iously injured by the vehicle, and had
been obliged to be taken to a South
London hospital.
The lady. who probably kept cats
herself. greatly admired the boys de-
votion to the poor dumb animal" and
wrote to the hospital. enclosing a
handsome sum ''for the brave and hui
name little sufferer"
BY return of post came a letter
from the matron acknowledging the
receipt of the money. but, alas! eX-
planning that the cat which had been
the cause of all the woe was an ever
dumber thing than the lady had i'm
agined.
1t was, in fact, that dangerous and
abominable toy, a tip-cat!