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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12

Virginia has a very pretty berry, which
is the blue berry of the green cedar. It
also has mistletoe with white berries and
holly with red berries. A Virginia bou-
quet of Christmas greens with the three
colors of berries-red, white and blue-and
it's different shades of GREEN'S as lovely
a thing as ever graced a Christmas board.
California does not supply the market
with greens, but it raises plenty for its
own use. Its climate is however, so even
that the floral kingdom has usurped it to
the exclusion of the rugged snow trees.
Mstletoe is something that is highly
priced in some regions and greatly despis-
ed in others. The mistletoe is in England
a very much desired bit of decoration bu,
in France, where the mistletoe flourishes
most, it is a pest. 1t overruns the pop
lars and it brushes the life out of the shade
trees. It grows over the ground, scatter
ing its seed where crops should grow, and
it is the ffercest agricultural pest that the
Normandy farmers have to fight. A short
time ago the French government ordered
it stamped out, and the latest reports were
subdued.
In this country it grows in great pro-
fusion, but the berries are smaller, and
the leaves are a little paler. The mistle-
toe here is still so rare in commerce that
only enough of 1t is bought to hang from
the chandelier over the table; but this year
the mistletoe gatherers are at work, and
it win be cheaper, they say.
The novelties in Christmas decoration
and there are new greens every year-will
be the gray-green moss from the Louis
lana lowlands and the Florida everglades.
The Virginia Dismal Swamp is now being
robbed of its ever-hanging curtains for our
here by the yard strings for our own win
dows,
The blue palmetto-or, as they call it
North, "the palm"-will also be in tile
market. These consist of fan leaves,
grown from a single stock. They look
tropical, and are welcome to northern
eyes.
Cuba has always sent shiploads of vic
tory palms, but this year Cuba is weep
ing over the fall of her tropical beauty
Many of the palms come from the other
islands offs the West Indies, and we will
not lack them The wild smilax, which
grows along the lower Mississippi and in
warmer spots on the borders of the Ohio,
is also being boxedNfor market, and fo-
rists promise other novelties.
One of the most remarkable facts about
the Christmas green lies in connection
with the people who handle them. Christ
mas tree merchants do a rushing bust
ness and work steadily from October to
jan 1, after which they take a
vacation, and are the LATEST of all idlers
from January to the next October. Their
season is only three months long. but they
have got to step lively" during that time,
or their season will pass them by unre>
munerated. There is great competition
in the tree .indostEy during the Christmas
time, and the sueqessfulA merchants who
have been at it for the last thirty years
say that each year they have to work
harder and handle more greens to get the
same profit. Clarence Russell.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
The Exersree7 Of @Eristr7erstide.

The use of Xmas evergreens in the
United States is less than fifty years old
The country was too new to bother with
decorative features, and up to 1850 the hol-
ly and mistletoe, the spruce and the pine,
the hemlock and the fir were unknown.
The only people who decorated their
homes with green were the Germans, who
made long pilgrimages into the woods to
get branches of pine for their homes. They
were laughed at. but they bore their
Christmas martyrdom good-naturedly, and
made merry under the spreading green
boughs.
The English wanted mistletoe, and they
got little sprays of it from North Caro-
lima now and then, but it had to be sent
up in little paper boxes through the mail,
and it was long in coming and the berries
were Outlines shriveled.
Forty-six years ago this Christmas week
Mark Carr, woodchopper in the Catskill
Mountains, said to his wife: ''My DEAR I
am going to cut some hemlock boughs and
take them down to New York to SELL"
The good woman laughed at him and
told him that he would have "hls labor
for his pains"
But Mark Carr was a sturdy Dutchman,
set in his way, and he remembered the
Germans who had come up in the noun
tains year after year to get the greens,
and recalled their delight at the sight OF
them.
81 believe" said he "that I can sell
these green boughs to New Workers, and
1 am going to try it,"
Up to that time the Christmas tree lad
been an artificial product. 1t was made
of wood, and there were hooks on which
to hang the toys. The few real trees that
were obtained came from the country
were very expensive. To get a tree a spe-
cial messenger had to be sent to the woods
a week before to fell the tree and bring
it home. He In turn hired a woodchopper
to cut it down for him, and, all in all,
the operation of procuring a Christmas
tree was so long and so costly that only
the wealthy could afford it.
When Mark Carr appeared in Greenwich
street with his load Of Christmas trees he
was looked upon as curiosity and hailed
with delight. His truckful was sold in
side of an hour at prices ranging from 81
to 50 per tree, according to size, and when
he took the train home at night he car
ried with him the happiest heart that ever
beat beneath a woodman's jacket. The
next two days he was busy Telling trees,
and on the third day he started again for
the station with his wagon piled with the
young frs. For 81 he again secured the
corner of Greenwich and Vesey streets,
and as speedily sold his wares.
The following year. assisted by the now
willing Mrs. Carr. he took great many
more to market. but this year he found
competitors, and the prices fell. Mean
while, the Jerseymen were getting their
carts of greens into the Philadelphia mar
ket.
That was the beginning of the Christmas
gre \ industry in the United States. If
there are earlier records Of it, they have
not been found.
To-day more than $l00 900 worth of Christ
mas greens are sold in this country, for
there is no nation on the face of the earth
that goes in for them as lavishly, profuse-
" and extensively as the Americans, The
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
PRACTICAL
PRESENTS.

Cravenette Mackintoshes, Ederdown Dressing
Sacques, Baby's Crochet and Embroidered Sacques,
Afghaus, Baby Caps Bootees, Leggins Fascina-
tors, Evening Shaws, Maids and Nurses Aprons,
Pillows, Lambrequins, Irish Point Table Covers
Bouffet s9oSers and 'Shams, Hand Embroidered
Gifts, Renaissance Squares.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
Dangers of the Bicycle.

To decide wager made by an opponent
of the bicycle that the wheel causes more
casualties in one week than football
does the entire season the stakeholder
obtained the following surprising fig
ures from indisputable authorities:
Throughout the United States during a
recent month there were 818 accidents
reported to wheelmen, 33 resulting fatal
ly at the time and % finally causing
death. Collisions with other riders
caused 227 accidents, 5 fatalities and 8
probably SO. Other statistics show: Col
lisions with vehicles, 159; with street
cars, 80; dogs, 8; hogs. L; chickens, 1;
cows, 2; thrown from wheels, 1888; fell
over embankments, g.; breakage of ma
chine, 35. Overexertion injured and
killed 4. Three were disabled by holes
in the ground, and 5 were hurt by slip
ping of wheel. Miscellaneous causes in
jured IA, while 10 were hurt by un.
known agencies -Indianapolis News.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
annie uesserr.

Peel some apples and put them in a
jar with sugar to sweeten and a few
drops of water and lemon or cloves to
favor the apples slightly. Put the jar,
closely covered, in a saucepan of boiling
water. Cook till tender, when beat to a
pulp. Have ready some nicely sweeten-
ed custard and gradually stir it into the
fruit pulp, beating them together until
thoroughly amalgamated and creamy.
Serve in custard glasses. This is a nice
sweet dish for children served with
rusks, biscuits, ETC., instead of pies or
tarts. Cream or new milk can be used
instead of the custard.
Odds and Ends.
If the oven doesn't bake well ON the
bottom, clean the SCOT out from under
meath.
Very beautiful are vases, 1agons and
jugs, in lockwood pottery enriched
with silver deposit.
For patrons of luxurious tastes and
plethoric pocketbocks are openwork
bowls of silver for holding sponges.
If white mating is soiled and a bad
color, wash it over evenly with a weak
solution of soda. This will give it a
pale, creamy tint.
1t is said that strong solution of car
bolic acid and water poured upon ant
holes will kill all the ants it touches
The survivors disappear and do not re-
turn.
A piece of narrow webbing, such as
is used for holding furniture springs in
place, sewed upon the under edge of
rugs will prevent the corners from
curling
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
PRESENT ADVANTAGES

1t sometimes happens that in
dividuals and communities, in the
anxious rush for something more
and something better and something
more valuable-in the attempt to
reach and grasp an ideal of fancy
lose sight of to a great extent and
fail to appreciate properly that which
they possess and the progress they
have made.
This line OF thought follows some
very pertinent remarks made by one
of our most experienced tobacco
manufacturers, who is good farmer
as we'll. He said that Winston Salem
was situated in the very heart of
the finest tobacco raising section in
the world; that for the manufacture
of first-class chewing tobacco the
leaf raised around us was, beyond
doubt, without an equal anywhere;
that these facts and the advantages
thereof were, apparently, unknown
to great many citizens in the COM
munity-facts and advantages that
ought to be talked about among
ourselves and made known generally
to the outside world.
There is meat for the thoughtful,
public spirited citizen to chew upon
in che statements of our manufac
turer-farmer friend.
1t is all right to reach out after
that which we do not possess, but
which we need for development along
desirable lines. We would not slap
the brakes upon the spirit of progress
and ambition-upon get-up-and-get
and hustle-but, at the same time,
it is well to realize the value of what
has already been accomplished and
to use the bird in hand to help catch
the birds In the bush.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
WELCOMED

Welcome is the word with which
Winston-Salem, the Queen City of
Piedmont North Carolina, greets the
visitors to the big Tobacco Fair.
We welcome those from a distance;
we welcome those from adjacent
North Carolina and Virginia towns;
we welcome those from the surround
ing country.
We hope the number of attendants,
of all classes, viii be commensurate
with the size of the welcome that is
In waiting.
We have something to show that
10 worth seeing and we want every
body to see it.
We want them to see the big ex-
hibit of tobaccos, which will convey
some idea of the superiority of the
leaf produced in this section-leaf
without rival for the manufacture
of the superior product which has
made Winston tobacco famous far
and near.
We want them to see the exhibits
|Df manufacturers and merchants
which will impress them that
ue hare men with progressive
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
A Quaint Bit of Furniture.

A quaint bit of furniture for house
which is revival of some old style of
architecture-the colonial, for instance
is the great candlestick the like of
which was to be found in the hall of
our great grandmothers' homes. 1t is
four or five feet in height and is made
Of wood, stained in sealing wax red or
a forest green. The stick or pedestal
contains thick candle, which is light
ed every night, and near by it, at the
turn in the stairs, is shelf with mot
ley collection of small candlesticks. The
Puritan, in calling attention to this
fashion, says:
On retiring each person picks up one
Of these, and lighting it at the big can
die takes his or her way to bed. 1t is a
revival of very pretty custom, and
one that has been adopted in many
places where electric light or gas is
not to be had. Even where these modern
illuminants are available the great cam
dlestick on the landing of the stairway
is a picturesque sight, though it be but
for show
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04

either be made of the guipure, like the
revers, or of the cloth to match the skirt,
or, again, should the guipure not be
considered advisable for any especial
reason, then might velvet of harmoni-
GUS hue be used in its place Decidedly
smart is a dress in plaid of poplin tex
ture in blue and green. The skirt only is
formed of the plaid. The bodice is of the
plain blue rep, matching exactly the
check pouching over the waist at the
front and brought tightly into the waist
at the back beneath belt of dark green
leather, the yoke to the front being of
coarse white lace.
A material of which the groundwork
is silk and the pattern wool goes by no
less name in England than the Ouch
ess of York. A somewhat quilted eff
ect is gained in the groundwork, and
the design upon it has the appearance
of lace
In cheaper materials there are cloths
having the characteristics of coating and
a new check tweed with an excellent
vicunalike surface and obtainable in
various colors.
Elaborate trimmings of braid form
the basis of some of the smart cloth
suits. Skirts are moderate and conserva-
tive in style. Gowns for home wear are
trimmed deliberately, and evening gowns
are decidedly gorgeous The new Rus
sian coat leads, with all sorts of blouse
bodices following. Furs of all kinds are
to be largely employed in the trimming
of wooden dresses.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
LONG RUNS FOR WOMEN.
They Are Invitations to Suicide, Accord
ing to q New York Paper.

They Are Invitations to Suicide, Accord
ing to q New York Paper.
That bicycling is not only a delight
full recreation, but an admirable and
most healthful method of exercise, is
undoubted if used in moderation. 1t is
celebrating to the system; it develops
all the muscles of the body; it expands
the lungs; it aids, not Injuries, the ac-
ton of the heart-in short, it is an ex-
ercise and recreation combined that
can be recommended to men, women
and children if used in moderation.
1t is particularly good for women,
and, if not carried to excess, bicycling
will do more to build them up in health
and strength than any other outdoor
sport in which they can indulge.
But-and there is very big but in
connection with bicycling-there is
probably nothing that will sooner and
more utterly wreck woman's constitu-
ton than bicycle if she persists in
long distance riding There is grow
ing craze among women at present to
win and wear century" run medals,
and some of them even aspire to the
double and triple century honors.
Nothing can be worse for them than
these century runs And as for the
greater distance contests, they are SIM
ply invitations to suicide-an overtax-
ing of physical strength that no woman
can long withstand
IF clubs presumably formed to en-
courage popular interest in the wheel
do not frown ON the woman who desires
to join them in century runs" there
will be SO many wrecked constitutions
among wheelwomen that general out
cry against the wheel itself will result,
followed by a lessening Of the present
wide popularity of the bicycle--New
York Herald.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
IMPORTANCE OF THE FREEZE.
It Determines the General Effect of the
Decorations.

u
Decorations.
Much of the interest of the wall COW
ering centers in the frieze, as to GER
tain extent it gives the room it's charac-
ter by determining the general effect of
the decorations. 1t is hardly necessary
to say that it must be always lighter in
color than the paper or material used as
the filling; otherwise the appearance
will be heavy. Also it must be in the
same style, although quite differently
produced. The size and height of the
room should decide the depth of the
frieze, but in no case SHOULD it be less
than II inches, or the effect is paltry
and insignificant. True, a paper border
or 10 inches in depth is sometimes
employed in rooms where there is no
cornice, but this can hardly be ranked
as a frieze, besides which a frieZe
must invariably be finished by a wood
molding In large, lofty room "a
inches is not too deep for the frieze,
which should be handsome and bold in
design, of cordelova or one of the other
materials embossed in relief, such as
tynecastle canvas, anaglypta or as
bestus. ANY of these can be decorated
in colors or painted white, but undoubt-
eddy the latter treatment is best should
the room require light
Another beautiful effect may be pro-
duced by embroidered art linen or a
stenciled fabric, and again by stamped
and printed velveteens. With such
friezes the filling must be handsome and
rich in character, and ordinary wall
paper would be entirely out of place.
There are, however, many simple
friezes, such as an embossed canvas
brush washed with two colors in order
to get metallic effect, a French leather
paper and the printed paper.
The floral frieze, which is decidedly
popular, requires using with extreme
discretion; otherwise it becomes aggres-
sive. Especially is that the case when
the flowers are of some very positive
color printed upon a cream or almost
white ground The contrast between
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04
FAIR WEEK

The week towards which the eyes of
all Winston Salem have been expect
antly turned for the past two
months is upon us-the week of our
big Tobacco Fair-and the conclud
ing preparations for the great event,
which will open Wednesday morning,
are being pushed in a hustling man.
ner.
Ever since it was known that our
people were acting In admirable
unison in the enterprise there has
been a solid foundation upon which
to base expectations of success and
there is now no reason to doubt that
these expectations win materialize.
The exhibits of leaf tobacco will be
the most extensive ever shown in the
State and will be of especial interest
to all engaged in the production,
sale and manufacture of the product.
Every attraction forming part of
the big Fair is absolutely free TO
visitors and it is hoped that all will
be seen and enjoyed by large crowds.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04

fearful case of insomnia, aid whose
wife, | understand, Vas first reliev>
ed of long troubling rheumatism
bv the same remedy"
Work is necessary to a healthy
body and brain; but when it runs
through the same grooves through
tho twelve months, year in and year
out, the effect is as disastrous as q
fire in bundle of wood.
When the nervous system isfagged
out none of the organs of the body do
their duty; the purifying, excretory
organs no not thoroughly cleanse
the blood and the digestive and as
similative organs keep the nerves
badly nourished.
The tired system needs help. Here
is where Paine's celery compound
accomplishes its wonderful work.
The radical purifying of the blood
by this great remedy prevents the
development of diseases that often
Turk unrecognized in the system.
Every one who has taken Paine's
celery compound has noticed and res
marked to others its wonderful
strengthening effect upon the entire
nervous organization and its cleans
ing action on the vitiated blood. 1t
cures the body of that nervous habit
eradicates head ache cures insomnia,
and wasting diseases that cause the
aches and pains of rheumatism and
neuralgia. For building up the
body against general debility, poor
appetite and the tired lifeless feeling
that accompany low nervous tone,
Paine's celery compound is beyond
all question the surest, most respons
silbe remedy any one can use.
Any ailing habit, with frequent
bodily pains over the seat of such
vital organs as the heart, brain or
kidneys is serious and urgent. The
descent to fatal disease is easy, when
the body becomes run down."
Build up the strength and resistance
of the nervous and digestive systems
with Paine's celery compound, get
rid of unhealthy conditions of these
organs, and get out of danger.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-11-04

Charles E Osgood, of Boston, the
owner Of the largest and most sue
cessful furniture business in New
England, If not in the country, was
one of the few buyers among furni>
ture dealers during the lard times of
last year, who did a good business,
always paying cash, moving on as if
times were good, while rival con-
Germs were going to pieces right and
left all about. His credit from Mich
ously "solld" that he was one of thu
most talked of young men in cons
mercial circles.
With limited means, but we'll bred :,
full of character, straightforward,
and well educated, he started in
business only few years ago in a
very moderate way in little store
ON fremont street in Boston. The
city began to know him quickly. His
business rapidly assumed big pros
portions. A newspaper interviewed
him in the column of "Men Worth
Knowing"
''To what do you attribute your
SUGGEST" asked the interviewer.
Mr.. Osgood replied very shortly:
"When in doubt. buy the best
goods.''
Work told on Mr. Osgood's health.
With characteristic judgment he
put his reliance upon natures best
remedy to make him well again. The
best of medical treatment was at his
diiposal; there was no physician that
a man in his position could not EN-,
ploy. He got the right ADVICE and
and followed it. Today he is perfect
ly we'll, good tempered, aggressive
and energetic to the last degree.
In letter to the proprietors of
Paine's celery compound, written
Sept. %, 1897. Mr.. Osgood said:
81 have derived great benefit from
the use of Paine's celery compound,
and can unhesitatingly recommend
it for building up the system when
''run down" and tired out with work
or worry, I first used this really
great remedy on recommendation of
a friend whom it had cured of a