The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-26
CURRENT TOPICS.


saams that we are to have a sure
| enough shirt waist for men next summer.
"This wear says writer IN Inc
pbiladelnhja Record eve have merely
seen the man in the ordinary heshsee
shirt who had nerve enough to remove ms
coat in public. But next year we 9ll,ti
see real shirt waists Tor men "edi' d.
most similar to those worn by women.
The large shirt manufacturers are already
making them up and the statesmen Will
soon start out with their samples, solicit
ing orders for the spring trade; Tor the
ready made shirt business, like most other
large industries, must keep season
ahead. A Chestnut-Street dealer IN
mems furnishing goods said yesterday
that he understood the new garments
would be a complete innovation. They
are made with a blouse effect, the waist
band to be connected with the trousers
by buttons, just as in the garments worn
by small boys. Some have broad yokeS,
and others have pleats both in the bosom
and in the back. The manufacturers are
not taking any chances, though, SAID the
haberdasher THE sales are to be out
right. and cannot be cancelled or modified
to suit the demand, as is the case with
most staple goods. If we buy them and
can't sell them we're stuck. DO l think
they will be go?' The haberdasher
merely srugged his shoulders"
The Staunton News says that although
it has been many years since the region
about Stanton has produced a 5000
peach crop this year the crop is large, and
the News thinks that the satisfactory
prices which the farmers have received
for their fruit will probably create con-
siderable interest in peaches, and that
many thousands of trees will be planted
this fall and next spring. some people,
however" adds our contemporary, viii
never have good peaches, no matter how
fine the varieties they plant. simply be-
cause they are Indifferent after setting
out the trees, and neglect them There
are some things that are Indispensable If
good fruit is to be obtained. The trees
must never have stock turned on them
at any season Of the year, the ground
must be cultivated, no other crop should
be raised among the trees, they should be
regularly and thoroughly trimmed, and
all borers removed, and they must have
food of some sort, the best food being
wood ashes
only occasionally will a full crop
come even with these rules followed, but
when it does come, it will more than re-
pay for all the labor expended and the
time lost. When it does hit. under these
conditions, it will be the most delightful
crop that grows in this section"
Like everything else in this world, fruit
culture cannot be successfully carried on
at haphaza,rd and by shipshod methods
But we believe that if planters will devote
anything like the same attention to their
orchards that they give to their CORN
fields and their wheat-fields, they will
reap rich harvests in the long run.
r-l, lat dur
ing the present campaign as to how Mr.
Grover Cleveland will vote in the pres
idential election. The following from the
Brooklyn Eagle seems to clear up the
mystery. The Eagle says:
Grover Cleveland will probably go to
the polls on election day, but if he does.
he will vote electoral ticket. The
Eagle has known this for quite a while,
but has preferred that Mr.. Cleveland
himself should divulge it, if he chose to
do so. and that, otherwise, the matter
should be let pass. No one has a right
to use personal knowledge Of a private
citizens political intentions for publ
purposes. The proposition has as much
relation to an eX-PreSident as to an eX-
coachman. Both are equally entitled to
a respectful treatment OF their confidence,
and both have an equal right to vote or
to omit to vote, as they please. without
being interfered with by others, or i'm
pudent!y crowded by them into declara-
tons or disavowals.
Inasmuch, however, as some have in
terpreted Mr.. Cleveand.s political silence
about Bryan as favorable to Mckinley,
and his silence about Mckinley as favor
able to Bryan, the Eagle has both war
rant and leave to say that Mr.. Cleveland
VIII not vote any electoral ticket this
year People are at liberty to give to
this fact, to Mr.. Cleveand's intended
inaction, what significance they please