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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

velopment in new gold regions. Ten
years ago the South's output of phos-
phate rock was not more than 750, 900
tons; this year it will be 1000, 900
tons. What this means in the diver
siication and improvement of agricul-
tural conditions is too broad subject
for treatment here.
Tho Forests.
Possessing one half OF the standing
timber of the United States, the South
is building up immense lumber and
woodworking interests, and through
out the entire lumber region business
is as prosperous as in the iron dis
tricts.
Cotton is still King.
Though the value of the grain now
raised in that section exceeds on the
farm the value of the cotton crop, cot
ton is still the dominant power in the
business life of the South. No other
country has such a monopoly of any
agricultural staple of such worldwide
influence as the South has of cotton.
Cotton and cotton-seed bring to South
ern farmers an average OF $500, 900,
900 year. The comparatively new
industry of cotton-seed oil making
now employs over $40,000,OOO OF
capital, and yields an annual product
of upwards of $50,00O.O0O. From
Galveston alone the foreign exports
of cotton oil and cotton seed meal are
averaging nearly 1000 tons day. OF
this industry the South has almost as
much of monopoly as it has of cot
growing, but in the manufacture
OF cotton goods this section, though
making marvellous progress, is still
only getting we'll started. There are
about 100, 900, 900 cot pn-spindles in
the world. The South furnishes the
cotton for about three-fourths of these,
or 75,000,000 spindles, but has only
100000 spindles. To consume in
its own mills its crop of 10000, 900 to
100000 bales would require the
investment of over 81, 100000 in new
mills. and long before that point could
be reached, even at the present rapid
growth, the world will annually re-
guire of this section from $4,000. 900
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

then become substantially like the
rest of us. Even from the lips of To-
ing fathers and mothers and in strict
privacy they want nothing but the
same sort of honey on which our own
souls love to feed. They wish no a..
lusion made to the fact that they are
acquiring nasal tones; that their git
is awkward; that their taste in dress
is uniformed and even bad; that they
have not good Judgment in choosing
associates, and so on. Private dis
courses upon the wiles of the world
and the weakness of youth and its
proneness to wander they wish none
of. Whatever medicine of that sort i,
to be given must be administered in
small doses, interjected with skill into
conversations upon ordinary matters.
and sugar coated, if possible, with
artful compliment thou yh it should be
always deserved. Even the best and
dearest OF our carefully brought up
young peope are likely to have their
year or more of obstinacy and ig-
heade lness, or their permanent
streaks of uureasonableness and con-
tumacy. Therefore they wonld bet.
ter receive most OF he telling strokes
that mold into shape before thry reach
the age Of IA. From that time up t,
the age of what is called discretion H.
which does not arrive with most of us
before 25 if them, the youth, in judg
ment and sense, is really not much
superior to what he was at from seven
to fifteen, but he has no suspicion OF
this fact.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
A Widow,s Mourning Veil.

A widow has never to-. be mistaken
badge in the tiny white ruche which
she alone wears in her bonnet. This
important adjunct fits closely to the
head, is made of Grape, with fold or
two on the elge, while fat bow in
front makes it more generally becom-
ing. The strings should be of black
gros- grain ribbon. A widow may also
have overstrings of white lawn, which
are hemmed and tucked, when she
dons the linen collar and cuffs. but for
three months not particle of white
shows on thoroughly correct deep
mourning garb. A widows Grape veil
is at least two yards long, with a
three inch hem at the back and from
five to seven in front. the latter hang
ing one-third longer from the top of
the head, and confined by folds TOSS
the bonnet, held by small dull jet
pins on each side. At the end of six
months the veil is worn with the long
er end hanging in in the back and the
shorter one over it, with folds over
the top of the bonnat; face veil Of
net is then worn with or without a
fold OF Grape trimming. Ladies' Home
Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
About women's Feet.

Just at the age when women are
particularly fond of dainty fest, Ma
ture comes calamity to the rescue and
shapes their feet smaller than they
were as growing girls. 1t is fact
noted by observing shoemakers, who
do not at all regret a circumsta
that helps to make business brisk.
Eyes, said one of Boston's swellest
bootmakers, to an inquiring news
paper man, 'girls about seventeen or
eighteen years old give us no end of
trouble. Their feet are then large
and shapeless. They often take sizes
as large as full grown women.
when they get older, however, and
the foot becomes settled, new boots
on the old last will be found too large.
and it is only when the young ladies
complain that their new shoes are too
big that we know the foot has under
gone the change j. 8 described Then
explanations have to be given, but
the bootmaker doesn't mind this so
much, for woman, as she crows old
er, likes to be told that her foot is
getting smaller.
"After forty the feet of woman go
back to the fat and fabby state, and
herein grows trouble for the bootmak-
or, who has to state, in explanation
why the last pair OF shoes do not fit,
that the cause lies in the ia, It that her
feet are getting bigger"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
EaahiOn'A Fancies.

Bolero effects of every kind and
shape are special feature of fash
ion.
Both large shoes and large gloves
are won by the smartest maids and
matrons.
Some of the black velvet lows for
the hair have pipings of white satin
stitched on one edge with very good
effect.
Very shiny are the black gauze but
terHies, spotted with chenille and
spangles, which can be purchased in
the shops for renovating last years
evening bonnet.
Marie Antoinette hats have not gone
ont any more than Gainsboroughs,
Ru ems and Toreadors. The Wagner
is hat with rather wide spreading
crown and the side tilted brims are
seen.
The most beautiful ribbons are
those that are embroidered. The but
terfiy is to be found here as every
where and is beautiful, whether it
appears in brilliant colors or in full
tones on dull ribbon.
Muff chains are very elegant this
season and are made of alternate links
of gold and enamel in varied flower
forms, with jeweled charm hanging
at one side. Another novelty is rib
bon with jeweled bugs set at inter-
walls.
A dainty necktie that can be made
at home is of a three-inch wide length
OF colored or black tatieta, hemmed by
machine on both edges, cut in points
at both ends. The newest four-in-
hand is made of raw silk, the portion
II ont the collar is tucked or corded
into Stiffness, the ends hemmed and
stitched.
The long-continued reports that ear
rings are coming into fashion again
have become more convincing as they
have increased in number and vol
nme, probably because| constant repeti-
,ion gives the appearance of unim-
peachable fact, but now they have
bobbed up again with many more
evidences of truth. Anyway. earrings
are seem oftener than they were
year ago, but most of them are of the
kind which screw into the ear.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
Fur Hats Tor winter Wear.

Fur hats are to be worn to a consid-
cradle extent. There are many mink
turbans, and the all-over grebe skin
hats, in small, round shapes, are just
coming out. particularly striking
Spanish turban has the roll of white
grebe skin and the crown of white vel
vet, on which punches of yiolets are
hand painted. A bunch of violets is
at the side Of the turban, and rhine.
stone buckle run through violet vel
vet ornaments the front of the brim.
With this is worn collarette of white
silk bordered with swansdown. The
front of the collarette depends in long
stole like ends, on which are appliqued
purple orchids. The same flowers are
used in the high silk and swnnsdown
ruff at the neck.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

were able to produce Sc iron; its cot
ton-mill owners wisely abandoned old
machinery, and, equipping their mills
with every modern improvement, drove
them to their utmost capacity night
and day, in order to double the output
on their invested capital and proper
tionately reduce the cost Of goods; it's
cotton-planters, who had kept their
corn-cribs and smoke-houses in the
West, buying in the aggregate about
500, 900. 900 worth a year of Western
corn and bacon, commenced to raise
their own food supplies, and in this
way, returning to the old ante-bellum
system, reduced the cost of raising
cotton. While these changes, all
revolutionary in their character, were
in progress, the small bankrupt rail-
road lines were brought into compact
systems, new and heavier rails laid,
rolling-stock increased and necessary
extensions made.
Iron and Coal.
Thus the South passed through the
long period of depression, standing
the great test, which came so unex-
pectedly. in way that strengthened
the worlds confidence. 1t not only
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
The South's "AlRS Well"
BY r. H. EDMONDS.

SSSSSS{&36laGeS<s<Ss@
Ten years ago the South fought it's
first skirmish in the endless battle
that ever RACES for the worlds COM
mercial supremacy. Its pig-iron en-
tered the markets so long dominated
by Pennsylvania furnaces, and. to the
dismay of those who had affected to
despise its rivalry, won substantial
victory. Alabama iron became fac
tor in every iron-consuming centre,
and from this position it could not be
dislodged. About the same time
Southern cotton mills were forcing
their product into successful competi-
tion with the output of New England
mills. But as Pennsylvania iron and
steel people took refuge in the claim
that the South would never advance
beyond the iron-making stage, that it
could never become factor in the
higher forms of finished goods and in
steel-making, so the New England
mills lulled themselves into sense of
security on the claim that though
Southern mills might make coarse
goods, they could never acquire the
skill and the capital needed for the
finer goods. In the light of what has
been accomplished within ten years,
it seems very strange that such argu-
ments as these should have done duty
in SO many newspapers and in so
many gatherings.
Prophecy.
Judge Kelley-"Pig-Iron Kelley"
as he was familiarly known-had been
wiser than his people. Nearly twenty
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

number OF the leading mill companies
of the former section have, during the
last few years, built branch mills,
costing from $4,000 to $1,000, 900
each, in the South; and now one of
New England's greatest corporations
is spending $4,000, 900 in building
in Alabama what will be the largest
cotton mill ever constructed as sim
gle enterprise. The recent advance
in the price of cotton is bringing pros
perity to the farmers, and if it holds
for the balance of the season, will
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
The Newest Waists.

The white satin and white taffeta
silk waists will be fashionable again.
There is little fullness directly in
the front, but this is supposed to be
gathered in under the belt Almost
all the waist, have yoke effect and a
little lace edging around the front of
the waist below the yoke They have
elaborate collars OF the same material
as the waist, but behind the ears in
points so that they can be turned
over. These are edged with lace. and
lace bow is additional, but on many
of the waists there is simply bow of
the same material as the waist, the
ends of which are trimmed with lace.
All waists are tucked and corded,
and there is an infinite ,ariety in the
widths of the tucks. Some are min
some waists that show the old-fash-
ioned box plaits once gain, but these
require to be made carefully or they
will look bulky and clumsy. They
are at all times trying to stout fig
ures. A stout woman will do well, if
she has silk waist made, TO have al
ways boned and fitted lining. and,
besides, it is best to have three seams
in the backbone in the middle of the
back and one on either side. These
seams break the width. and, if suf-
fcient curve is given to the wide
seams, it really makes the figure much
more tapering than might be believed
possible.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
Fashions i'm SIiDpers,

Pretty low slippers and low shoes
that have been worn the past su" er
and fall, and will be worn in the I. ..se
and in the south this winter, are
unique, being made of yellow Russia
leather, with n dull fin Ssh, giving
them the appearance of calf. Being
made OF leather soft in itself, but
having all appearance of heavy ma
terial, they are particularly attract.
i've in fancy shoes. Some of these
slippers have a tongue going up on
the instep, with one broad strap clasp
ing over it and fastening with bow,
a little or very large buckle. Large
and elaborate buckles are to be seen
on many slippers. Many varieties OF
pretty strapped slippers have one,
two, three aud four straps. The big
buckles necessitate big bows under
them or they are across the straps of a
three or four strap slipper. Rhine
stone and cut steel buckles are the
prettiest of all, though tiny goll
buckle on the toe of a slipper with
several straps has a business like ap.
pearance that is attractive. Most of
the cut steel, as we'll as the rhinestone
buckles are imported and consequent.
ly expensive. A pretty buckle is OF
gun metal and rhinestones.
Popular slippers are of patent
leather, which always look we'll. Many
slippers have different colored heels,
and many people like them. The high
heel the woman with the pretty foot
affects, and some prominent women Of
the stage always wear extra high
heels. One well known actress never
wears heel less than two and three
fourths inches high. The ordinary
heel will measure two inches; half an
inch in a heel is considerable. The
other week several pairs of shoes and
slippers with heels four iuches high
were made in New York for Buffalo
woman. No one knows how she will
lie able to walk on them.
Slippers made to match gowns are
pretty, but they are not economical,
for the material, unless it happens to
be one of the standard satins, blue,
pink, red and yellow, or black or
white, cannot be relied upon TO wear.
When you measure your own foot
for a shoe-a dangerous practice us
ually-the shoemaker says, stand on a
piece of paper aud draw line around
the fobt, but while sitting, not while
standing New York Times.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
spIND1Es IN corroN.M,1.1.s
1899.
100000.

held its own during this period, but
it's iron-makers entered foreign mar
kets. and. demonstrated that the South
could dictate the price of iron for the
world. Alabama iron set the price in
England and on the Continent, as we'll
as in Japan, and even from Jerusalem
came an order for it. This marked
revolution in the worlds iron and
steel interests. Henceforth the world
was the market for Southern iron.
When this point had been reached,
the next step was to build steel-works
commensurate with what has been ac-
complished in iron-making; and to-day
two gigantic plants-one to make steel
billets, and the other to make finished
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

mean $75, 200, 900 more to them than
they received for last years crop.
In diversified interests the same
story of progress and prosperity runs.
The Newport News Ship Yard, with
over $10,000,000 of work under con.
tract, including two steamers of about
II, 900 tons each for the Pacific trade,
the largest ever built in America, is
said to be employing more hands than
even the Cramps; the Richmond Lo-
comotive Works are competing with
the Baldwins in exporting locomo.
tives; the Maryland Steel Company
has been furnishing steel rails for
Russia's Siberian Railroad. for Aus
tralia and other distant regions; Ala
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
!: FOR WOMAN'S BENEFIT.
Royalty Practices calesthenics.

Fencing and calisthenics have al
ways been a regular part of the daily
physical exercises of the Princess of
Wales daue Even when on the
royal yacht they never omit the exer-
else that has contributed to their
graceful carriage and excellent health.
The rapid, gliding walk, the erect
carriage without Stiffness and the
we'll poised head of the Princess of
Wales are attributed to her thorough
practice of calisthen;cs.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
Admnnishinr CHILDREN.

''The universal frailty OF our hu-
man nature, which dislikes to be told
of faults must be taken into consider
alton when we con, erse with our
grown up children" writes Kate Up
son Clark in the Woman's Home Com
panion. after they pass the age of
IA or Is they usually betray a greater
sensitiveness than before to even rea.
sonable fault finding. By the time
they reach IL or 20 this tendency has
become marked trait. They have
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

ing before them after the darkness of
thirty years of war and reconstruction
trials, there came the worldwide
financial panic following the Barring
failure. The South, suddenly brought
down from its dizzy speculative
height, had to face new conditions.
The business world recognized that
the supreme test of the South's in
herent advantages and possibilities
had come. 1t faced the situation-its
iron masters steadily reduced the cost
of iron-making until furnaces which
had been turning out So and 50 iron
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
The Phosphate Industry.

Will plOhu thaO u1dhCS Rldu IuG
stockholders.
The Phosphate Industry.
Turning from iron and coal, with
the almost fabulous profits which
they are yielding, to other industries.
phosphate-mining looms into promi-
nence. Up to ten years ago South
Carolina was the only American source
of phosphate rock, and our fertilizer
factories, as we'll as those of Europe,
had to depend upon the few hundred
thousand tons which that State an
nually produced. Then it was dis
covered that Florida had vast phos-
phate beds, aud soon that State sur
passed South Carolina in this indus
try. Two or three years later similar
discoveries were made in Tennessee,
and the mining activity which has fol-
lowed reminds one Of the tales of de-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
The south,s Story in statIstIcs.
Cassava, the New Crop.

The Spanish war seems to have
given promise of benefit in direction
entirely unexpected in stimulating the
study of tropical products. A plant
has been discovered" that promises
to become to the Gulf states what
wheat is to the North. For years this
plant, which resembles a gigantic
beet, has been a staple product of
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
COTTON cRop-RA1Es.

to 30.0to.0O0 bales. In 1880 thu
South started on its cotton mill de-
velopment with basis of 667, 900
spindles. representing a capital of
$21, 100000. By 1890 it had $751;
100000 capital in this industry and
100000 spindles. To-day it has
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
Remains of an old-Timer.

The skeleton of a prehistoric sea
monster resembling shark was un-
earthed recently at the quarry of J..
II. Davis, who lives ten miles south of
Bonham, Texas. It's jaws were about
four feet in length, and, though buried
several feet in solid limestone, were in
a good state of preservation, the
enamel being plainly visible on the
teeth.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

5000, 900 spindles and about $685..
0OO,0 of capital invested in cotton
mills, while mills under construction
represent about $25, 900, 900 more.
The most significant sign of the times
in this industry is that New England
mill-owners, recoe izing that the
South is bound to win, are transfer
ring large capital to Southern mills. A
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
Had 1t in Various AssortInents.

1t was in one of the big department
stores.
''What do you wish to-day,
MADAME" asked the courteous floor
walker.
Nothing. l."
Sixteenth floor. Take the ele.
vator. We have nothing there in
large and varied assortments. James,
ring the bell for the lady. "-Harper's
Bazaar.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

was winning these first skirmishes,
and when its people were dazzled by
the new opportunities of employment
and wealth creation which were open
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07
steel products-are nearing COM
pletion at Birmingham. They have
cost about 50, 100000. They have

already booked heavy orders for steel
billets for shipment to Pittsburg. A
number of furnaces built during the
boom of 18S9-9O, and which have been
idle ever since, have lately been
bought by strong companies, and are
now being put into blast. With every
furnace crowded to its utmost capac-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

in building coke-ovens; for ready
demand meets every ton produced,
with profit that makes glad the
stockholders.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

bama coke has gone to Japan, and the
export of both coke aud iron is only
limited by the fact that the home de-
mand now exceeds the supply.
The south's Story in Statistics.
Statistics are often uninteresting,
but the story of the South's progress
cannot be told more clearly than in
the comparative illustrations scattered
through this article, in which reliable
estimates are given where exact fig
ures are not obtainable.
Surveying the whole Southern situ-
alton, what has been done and what is
under way, it can be truly said that
Calls well. ."-Harpers Weekly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-07

ity, which will soon be the case, the
output of Southern iron in 1900 prom
ises to be nearly fifty per cent. larger
than ever before. The demand for
coal exceeds the production. though
that is now at the rate of 10000, 900
tons year. There is almost feverish
activity in enlarging the output of
old mines, in opening new ones, and
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-02
NO WINNING SLATE.
Ohio Republicans Preach Harmony
Buf show Much bitterness.

COLUMBUS. O.. June 1.-Qute 1000
persons were crowded into the Auditorium
this evening. when Chairman huyiinS
called 10 order at 1925 the Republican
State Convention. Beyond the appoint
ment Of committees. and the selection OF
a state Central Committee, no business
was transacted at to-days session.
Beide the speech of Mr.. huynng ana
the conventions temporary chairman.
Hon w. Kerr BRIEF speeches were made
by Senator Hanna. Senator Foraker and
Governor Bushnell All the speakers
pleaded for harmony and the affair seem
ed "a political love feast. While harmony
was the keynote OF an the speeches at
the convention. some Of the addresses de-
liyered at the hottest sounded notes OF
bitterness and defiance. Tonight the
leaders spent their time In conferences
and contests that We're not harmonious.
This has been "a Daughiery day as much
as Yesterday WAS L. Nash day Ihefe Is
as vet no winning slate, and there are
those who believe that no winning com
bnatlon can bee formed until after the
test of balOung.
While H. W. Daughtery has apparently
had the best of it all day, M the CON
ferenccs in the morning. I'm the selection
of committeeman in the afternoon in inc
demonstrations at the convention, and
the proceedings of the committee tonight
vet he is having odds only AS the leading
candidate. and not yet ass winner. Nash
will ho A close second. and Lieutenant
Governor A " Jones a much closer
third than has been anticipated up until
tonight