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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

make bee line for Gods land as the
prisoners called the north.
The two subjects that engrOssed the
minds of the men were exchange and es-
cape. Nearly every day the report spread
that the exchange cartel had been re-
sumed, and that the men were to be sent
north under flag Of truce within twenty
four hours On such occasions groups of
excited men would rush through the six
divisions of the dark dreary old ware
house, shouting Ironically:
Pack up! Pack up! All exchan ed!
Hurrah for Gods landr'
Constant disappointment failed to les
sen these rumors, nor did it weaken the
hopes of the men who heard them. Per-
haps Kupp was an exception for he never
got excited, was never stirred from his
stolid bearing by the cry of Pack up!'
Il have nothing to pack he would say
with a grim smile and without raising his
eyes from the bit of yellow bone he Svas
trying to carve into a crucifx with a
broken jackknife.
Plans for escape were daring and in
Vulnerable. Nearly all were impractical
yet, unknown to their comrades, twenty
five men, pledged to secrecy, were at this
time digging in the darkness the great
tunnel through which subsequently liz
men escaped.
when set good and ready I'm going
to light out"
This Kupp would say to the men I'M
folding their schemes about him, but, as
he refused to tell how he proposed getting
away, he was laughed at and left to his
bone carving.
Just before Christmas the confederate
| authorities who had refused to receive
supplies for the prisoners from the United
States government, permitted friends in
the north to send down a little food and
clothing under flag of truce. Uniforms
we hn n NJ I.a
that came through were of the citizen
style and material.
Lieut.. Kupp received a huge box. full OF
hams, sausages, preserves, cheese and
other good things from the old farm, but
neither the memory of past hunger nor
fear of the future prevented him invit.
ing the men who had no boxes to helm
themselves. OF all the things in the big
boa, the one that most delighted Kupp's
soul was a suit of butternut clothes. evil
IDENTIFY Of home manufacture. even to the
cloth.
The lieutenant soon "shucked" his blue
rags and donned the new suit. Thus al
tired he strobe up and down the up
per Potomac ROOM" a hunk Of bread in
one hand and chunk of ham in the other.
while his laughing companions demanded
10 know when he left North Caliny."
Hit don't mattah we'en l left.' re-
sponded Kupp, with an inimitable noun.
taineer drawl. 1.-THE thing that's a bother
in me now IS ween an how lie gwlne ter
git back"
As old soldiers will remember, the uni
forms OF the confederates were anything
but uniform at about this time. The clt-
izen clothing put aside at the beginning
of the war was sent to the front from
home, though a gray hat, gray trousers.
or a gray coat had been retained wnen-
| ever possible. Hundreds of confederates
in 'butternuts" passed the prison along
Carey street every day. and many OF Inc
guards about Libby and those who came
in every morning TO count the prisoners.
were dressed in the same material.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

This prison roll call at this time was
more expeditions than efficient. Every
morning, in the gray. cold dawn of that
bitterly cold winter, the yankees We're
routed from the floors on which they lay
and driven into the upper Potomac, or up
per east room-the lattsr was the name
given 1t by the confederates. Through
an opening in the wall the men were
counted into the upper Chickamauga, or
upper middle room, where they were free
to DO as they pleased, within the pre-
scribed limits. The men at the head Of
the line, and they We're usually the ones
who had something to cook, made a swift
rush to the lower middle room, where
there were four old-fashioned rusty kitten
en- stoves.
When the count was over and no yam
kee reported missing, the guards filed
down to the west ground floor room,
where Black George" the sergeant, and
the prison clerk, Little Ross reported
to Maj Turner. commandant of the
prison.
One morning, II was early in January,
1854, and about ten days after he had re-
ceived the clothing from home, ii was no
uced that Kupp, who was usually among
the first counted out, hung to the rear,
and on this occasion was the very last.
When Kupp came into the upper Chicka-
manga room, the guard was forming to go.
Selling the hand of Capt. Mas of his own
regiment, who stood near by, the lieuten-
ant whispered:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

The bolero was short and straight and
cut square at the neck to show a yoke of
the bluette cloth. 1t opened at the left
under arm seam. From the bottom of the
bolero came a blouse effect of white satin
that was caught down back and front into
narrow belt of black velvet, shirred
onto bands of black elastic, so that they
slipped on easily over the sleeves. Heavy
applques of gold embroidery trimmed the
bolero back and front, and also the high
pulled sleeves.
Miss Eustis is especially fond of these
fetching garnitures, and she has d great
number of them that she especially af-
fects with her house gown. One of her
newest garnitures has yoke of old Eng
lish lace. Il is short and square at The
front and at the back it merges into a
long point that reaches to the waistband.
A bow of broad pale heliotrope taffeta
ribbon is caught at the front of the yoke
and the ends of the ribbon are continued
around under the arms and are brought
up to the back of the collar, where they
end in butterfly bows.
The edges of the ribbon are trimmed
with tiny frills of white gauze. With this
garniture Miss I1ustls wears a narrow
draped celnture of the hehotrope taffeta
ribbon, knotted at the back with ends
that reach to the bottom of her skirts.
This ribbon, too, is adorned with the tiny
gown of soft gray camers hair 1t was
wondrously dressy.
For the very severe plain taffeta shirt
waists that are worn so much now. there
are chic high stocks Of bright plaid rib
bon mounted by narrow turnover collars
of white linen that have hemsttched bor-
ders.
There are no end OF braces and belts
fashioned of bright plaid taffeta ribbons
that brighten up somber winter gowns
tremendously.
If / were a woman Of some means-not
fabulously rich-I would invest In garni-
lures as the best possible use for my
money The trouble Is that poorer purses
those that need them most-can not
quite stretch 20 meet them. II had, say
only $50 TO spend on my summer-sprlng
wardrobe / should purchase stocks, chif-
fons, vests. frills panels and cuffs, until
/ could change my appearance twenty
times a week IN the same dress.
/ should have a gold and white bOlero,
with kid embroidered cuffs and a kid pam
el at the side OF my skirt. Next day !
should be brave in heliotrope There
would be a chiffon heliotropes front In my
gown, chiffon ruilies at my wrists, hello
trope gloves on my hands, a great cascade
of heliotrope at the back Of my neck, and
parasol that would bulge with heliotrope
chiffon lining. That would be an easy
way TO manage a spring wardrobe.
II rs possible for people to make all of
these things at home, and with a few left
overs IN the house and plenty Of time on
her hands the woman with not very much
money would do well TO devote herself to
vests. boleros Louis Quinze cuffs, skirt
fronts panels and garnltures instead OF
to the regulation dressmaking. She will
get better results.
II is to be a lace summer. and the FEM
mime woman win have things all her own
way; for. except when engaged at outdoor
sports, the dress OF the 'g5 woman viii be
soft becoming, fri4ly and fun OF furbelo vs.
4 .------i-. Nina Goodwin.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

omy IL trying to do with home copy in
lieu of the genuine article.
over and over again 1 have seen the
experiment tried. One woman in a pen
sion will bring home a fetching garnlture,
for which she has paid an exorbitant
price. If one only considers the materials
and the time spent in fashioning the con-
lection. Her frugal-minded friends viii
duplicate the material and try all day
long to duplicate the garniture. But dis
NAL failures invariably follow. Instead
of having the chic air of the original they
have that "all but"-that unmistakable
home look that's hard TO get around.
There is clever western woman here
whose toilettes interest me a great deal.
She is remarkably well groomed, and yet
she frankly declares that she spends next
to nothing on her wardrobe except. of
course, a great deal of thought.
The metamorphoses of her pretty back
Amazon cloth gown are surely worth re-
cording.
One morning she appeared In 1t, rugged
for a shopping expedition. Then it was
a gown with rather a fun godet skirt lined
with black silk and the bodice, too, was
of the cloth. IL opened Just a trine to
with narrow bias folds of the cloth two
inches wide that overlapped each other.
One long broad revers of white kid eX-
tended from the collar to the belt 1t was
embroidered with tiny gold threads and
at one side there was a cascade of white
chiffon. The broad, fiaring cuffs were of
the embroidered kid, with fril.s of chiffon
falling over the hand Ribbon velvet of a
pretty bright shade of ceres was employ
ed for the high draped collar and ceinture
The same skirt served with a dressier
bodice in an attractive visiting toilette
This bodice was of black satin, covered
very full with black mousseline de soire
and appliques of deep cream lace The
ceinture and collar were of bright violet
velvet
The little western woman was surely
at her best, though in her trig walking
gown, when she took her brisk constitu-
tonals down the Champs Elysees the
quintessence OF chic. In this toilette, too,
the skirt of black Amazon cloth did SER
vice with a Jacket Of red broad-cloth.
The Jacket was the smartest military
looking affair imaginable
IL fitted In close TO the curves Of her
figure and reached just 20 the walstband.
IL fastened down the front with broad
military looking frogs Of black braid. and
each edge Of the Jacket was faced back
with tiny strip Of black astrakhan. The
neck Of the Jacket was cut In "A tiny V
10 snow high black satin stock, with
IFS turnover linen collar. The slightly
draped coat sleeves were large enough at
the wrists 20 admit the regulation linen
cuffs with link buttons.
A smart Amazon shaped hat OF black
beaver and a slip OF q walking cane COM
pletod this toilette.
Fun two months ago ] stopped before a
shop window that was attracting no end
OF attention. a brilliant display of ladies'
walking canes was The attraction ana /
went IN TO hear what the patron had to
say on the subject Of their coming pop
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

but at the same time intensely painful to
the men watching Kupp from the prison,
but not daring to raise their voices in
warning.
At length, to the great relief of ALL the
lieutenant rose, stretched himself, and
yawned. Raising his slouched hat, he
shouted: "Good-by, yanks; hope ter see yo
agin." Then, with long slouching stride,
he passed out of sight toNthe east.
The next flag of true boat brought
through a letter from Kupp. Five days
after leaving Libby he fell in with But
ler's troopers from Fortress Monroe, and
at the time of writing was about to take
passage for Gods land.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28
I1urp WAS A COOL ONE.
He walked Ont of libby Prison
without Culver.
From the New York sun,

From the New York sun.
Lieut.. Kupp Of the Eighty-eighth Penn
sylvania Volunteers was captured. with
many Of his regiment, at Gettysburg. lie
was known as a Pennsylvania Dutchman
and he came from Berks county, in that
state. where German colonists settled
nearly two centuries ago and where their
descendants cling to the old customs and
the mother tongue even unto this day.
As it was summer at the time of Gettys-
burg. the men captured in that battle were
in light attire, and the long march down
to Richmond and the wear and tear on
their thin blouses reduced them to rags,
and this Pennsylvania lieutenant seemed
to be the most ragged of all.
Hupp was considerably over six feet in
hight. lank, long limbed, and inclined to be
round shouldered. He was about a years
old. and the gray eyes, long, dark hair,
and fuzz-covered face gave him the ap-
pearance Of a North Carolina mountain
eer. His comrades jokngly called him
the tar heel" but he took 1t good nat
uredly. The resemblance was much in his
favor when he made up his mind to leave
Libby, and. to use his own language,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28
The POSSIBILITIES OF AN OLD GOWN
How a Clever Woman Electrified Paris by
Her Management of An Old Black Dress
Make VISIT ToIc nitary Coats nd


ularity. He had a great deal that he was
more than willing TO say on the subject
and be prophesied that In less than two
weeks every smart woman In Paris would
carry a cane.
It is now TWO months since this proph-
ecy was made and ! haven't seen a hun
bred well-dressed women with canes
though I have been on the constant look
out for them. Yet some insist on classidg
canes among the prerequisites Of chic
walking toilette.
Some OF the greatest garnitures take
the form Of the popular boleros. They
are made of wide sash ribbons, Of en-
bossed satin. Of heavy English lace and
velvet. The newest bolero 1 have seen
was fashioned of black velvet and white
satin and looked very fetching over a
gown of buette ladys cloth,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

Paris. March 16-The shop windows
now are decked out in a thousand and one
bewitching garnitures for Frightening up
winter gowns during their last week Of
service.
The French modistes are adopts al fash
ioning these garnitures Of bits Of ribbon,
bits Of lace and other things that sug-
gest TO a frugal mind '1eft-oyers" well
employed.
One has only 10 price these dainty little
CONNECTIONS to be convinced that they are
not TO be classed among the minor de-
tails OF ones toilette. For the simplest
OF draped ribbon collars the modiste asks
great round price, but there is no econ
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

Postmaster General Gary is the fatheS
Of eight daughters OF marriageable age.
"A hundred original sketches of Forians
caricaturist were sold at auction In Pars
recently for $36O0.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

-Paderewski, who has been taking
long rest, is expected in London nexo
month. where he will take the solo part "
a new Scottish fantasia for plano ana OF
chestra by Sir Alexander c. Mackenzie
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

king Oscar. Of Sweden. has sent an au-
tograph letter to Bethany college az
Lindsborg, Kan, In which he promises 90
send a copy Of his great orations 70 ",
student who wins the coming ofatorleN
contest -
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-08-19
A HOTEL IN TWO TOWNS.
II One Town Goes Dry the Bar Can
BE Moved Into the Other Town.

II One Town Goes Dry the Bar Can
BE Moved Into the Other Town.
In selecting the site for the Grand
hotel in the Catskills, on the top Of
Pine Hill mountain, the owners evil
IDENTITY had in mind the vagaries of the
excise vote. 1t is not generally known
that the Grand hotel stands on the boup-
Diary line of Ulster and Delaware coun-
ties. the boundary line passing almost
through the middle of the hotel build
ing. The hotel therefore is In the town
ship of Shandaken, Ulster county, and
in the township of Middletown, Della
ware county. Should Shandaken go
dry, the hotel bar could foe moved to
Middletown, and vice versa. Advantage
has been taken Of this fact by the ho-
tel owners to keep down the assess
ment, says the New York Sun.
The assessors of Shandaken placed a
valuation on the property of $4,000,
but agreed to assess it for only $4,000
if the hotel would remain in that town
ship. This year ts.ey have raised the
hotel assessment to $4,000, and the
owners have notified them that they in
tend to remove the hotel to Delaware
county, where the assessment will be
made much lower by the town of Mid
dletown. The assessors of Shandaken
township are going to try to have a bill
passed by the next legislature Great
ing this hotel property into special
district. and giving to the stockholders
the privilege of voting as to where they
shall be assessed or whether they shall
be assessed at all
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-08-19
USE FOR THE METRIC SYSTEM
We Would Gain Little by Adopting
Continental EurOpe,s Measurca

We Would Gain Little by Adopting
Continental EurOpe's Measures.
Why should we change these units TIC
adopt one which agrees with neither Of
them, and which, at best, was originally
the visionary scheme of congress of
philosophers? We have little to learn
or gain by adopting the measures of
continental Europe, says Casters Mag
azlne. Three-quarterS, or nearly so, of
the commerce and traffic of the world
is carried on by some form of appliance,
whether moved by wind, water or steam,
which has been built from English
measures by some English-speaking
people, and the proportion is all the
time increasing.
Why adopt another and more incon-
Henient system when will render all
systems of screw threads, gear teeth,
foundry patterns, shop drawings, etc.
obsolete as well as shelving the most
valuable collection of mechanical liter.
ature in the world and requiring all its
tables to be translated into a foreign
measure, merely to obtain the ;ldvan-
tages of decimal system which, as ]
have shown, we already have to all in
tents and purposes in far more con-
venient form than we should obtain
from the introduction of the meter and
its derivatives? Besides, these two
unit measures-the inch and the root
we also use the cubic yard in civil en-
gineering for excavations and earth
work, but for mechanical purposes we
could get along very well with no other
unit but the inch.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-08-19
Mr., BIFFLEBY GOES YACHTING.
IN inexpensive Trip, the Only Actual
Outlay HeinG for Bottle of Tar.

"A life on the ocean wave,
And a home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave
And the winds their vigil keep
Il don't know that have the quota
ton exactly right" said Mr.. Bif1ieby,
recording to the New York Sun, but
it will serve as an introduction to what
want to say.
Il am very fond of yachting, but
,lou't go as much as l would like to,
III account of the expense. But | am
not without the enjoyments of yacht
ing; for when the desire for water
zones over me, as it does every sum
mer, | manage to go yachting at home
Every spring | buy about a pound
If tar, which keep in a bottle tightly
,'orl>ed. When it comes along som,
drowsy summer day, and l feel thai
would like to be lying on decE baking
in the sun, with the yacht noddine
along lazily in the summer breeze thel
take a trip at home.
That night | eat fish for dinner
IT clam chowder. and | go to bed early
Before going to bed | start the water
running in the Bathroom; the sount
Of it makes the waves, tapping against
the bow of the boat. | clew up the
awnings only partly; the starting o.
the awnings when the wind gets in
their folds does for tie swaying sails.
bring out the bottle of tar and I'M
cork it, and set it on chair up by
the head of the bed. | douse the glim
and tumble into bed, Rocked in the
cradle of the deep"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-08-19
SUBMARINE RIVERS.
That Strangely Break Through the
Oceans BOTTOM.


Oceans Rottom.
A break in the cable laid between the
Senegal coast of Africa and Pernam-
buco in Brazil, five years ago, has led
to an extraordinary discovery, related
recently by Mr.. Benest to the lns'itu-
ton of Electrical Engineers. The cable
was as fine one as modern methods
could devise, yet after three months ii
broke about $50 miles from the African
coast; it was repaired and broke again.
1t was then found that at the place
where the break occurred there was a
great deal of vegetable growth resem-
bling river weed; that the color of the
sea was a dirty brownish green, indicat-
ing the presence of fresh water, and
birds feathers, pieces of orange peel
scraps of carpet and bits of driftwood
were taken from the bottom of the ocean
The phenomenon was purely local, as
the nearest river was IS miles away
and discharged its waters in different
direction. 1t was surmised that il
meant the sudden breaking through OF
a submarine river, and the cable was
moved to a distance; after two years
it broke again, and was moved once
more, and engineers are waiting to see
what will happen. Submarine rivers
are known to exist in other parts OF
the ocean, off the mouth of the Congo
and in the Gulf of Carpentaria, for in
stance. This explanation, however, does
not account for the carpet and orange
peel.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-08-19
QUEER EIRD NOW EXTINCT.

Discovered and Studied Only by Its
Oddly Constructed Skeleton.
A naturalist has lately brought to Eng
land the bones of an extinct bird new TIC
science, which has received the name OF
Genyornis. He exhibited these very in
teresting specimens at the last meet
ing of the Geological society, and made
few remarks concerning the findin:
of them in Lake Callanbolla, formerly
known as Lake Mulligan, in South Aus
traIia, says the Westminster Gazette.
He explained that the lakes which one
sees so abundantly marked in the NAB
are nothing more or less than dry clay
and salt pans, evidently very uncom-
Portable to camp near. The bones OF
this extinct species are found there in
great numbers, but owing to the ac-
ton of salt and water, which is found
a very little way below the surface.
the remains are very brittle and diff
cult TO deal with The circumstance
of so many being found in this one
lake bed is probably due to the BIRDS
having been driven there en- masse III
a time of great drought in search OF
water, for on the surface there could
pe traced the outlines of skeletons ly-
ing as they died, probably begged and
too weak to struggle further in search
of water. The feature that strikes the
ornithologist in these bones is the
shortness of the phalanges, clearly
showing that the suggestion which
l.. Ia
ing a marsh bird is untenable, for such
heavy bird would have needed very
long toes to tread on marshy ground.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1897-08-19
CALF WRECKED THE BICYCLE.
wheelmnn-Frrmer'. Disastrous. Ex-

Wheelnnn-FRr mer's DISASTROUS Tx
perience ON Pneumatic Tires.
Grant Adams, farmer who lives not
far from Kingston, n. Y. wears golf
stockings and rides bicycle. There is
a story. too, that he has bicycle pillow.
He drives COWS to pasture mounted Oh
his wheel. and the other day he started
to lead calf to an adjoining farm.
The calf, says the New York Herald,
was of the good oldfashioned kind
which resent new-fanged ideas. He
came of race which had been led around
by bare-footed boys. with tattered trou-
sers and many freckles.
The calf looked at the two runaway
wagon wheels in front of him and grew
rebellious. He pulled at the rope, which
was tied around Adams waist. Then
he determined upon plan of action
That calf put his best feet foremost.
and moment later he was running
down Hill, with bicycle coasting be
hind.
Adam had no brake. and back ped-
aled with all his might. The calf drew
the machine and rider after him. Tn,
animal made quick detour to IL" right.
Adams. in trying TO avoid the calf. ran
into a rock.
There was Il confused tumble of bent
spoles and punctured tires. Adams
chung to his bicycle, and the cal
dragged bicyclist and the almost disin,
tegrated machine over the rough coun-
try road.
a farmer saw this,trio approach and
headed them off. The machine anG
Adams were a wreck, and the calf wa
triumphant.