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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-06
WIN Re Onened Dec. AZ.

CHRIsTIANIA, Dec. 5.-The railroad
between Christiania and Gjovik will
be opened Dec. H. The line is 1875 kilos
long and is at an altitude of LOO feet
above the sea.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-06

ST. BRIEUC, France, Dec. 5.-The
English steamer Rossgull, which has
been lost off the Island of Jersey, was
engaged In the service between England
and the Channel islands and st. Brieuc.
She foundered in gale at II O'Clock
last night.
According to the report which has
reached here, only II persons out of the
40 people on board of her have been
saved.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-06

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We bought goods very literally in all lines this
season anticipating the advance in price, which has
since materialized, and although we have had very
GOOD business this season lin fact, much better than
last fall yet sales have not been up to our expecta-
tions and in consequence we have too many goods.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-06
STEAMER ROSSGULL
GOES DOWN; 29 LOST
Only II Out of 40 People ON
Board Saved.
SHE FOUNDERED IN A GALE

Heavy Storms Sweeping the British
Coast Causing Great Damage to
Shipping-Presi nt's Message Criti-
cised-Other Toreign News.
LONDON, Dec. s. storms have been
sweeping over the British coast and the
ships in the channel have had rough ex-
periences. Several minor wrecks have
been reported.
The steamer Rossgull of Plymouth
foundered off the Island of Jersey. Her
passengers were saved, but boat con-
tanning nine of her crew is missing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-06
Death of William Henry.

RICHMOND, Dec. 5. - Hon. William
Writ Henry, grandson of Patrick Henry,
and distinguished member of the Vir-
ginia bar, died here today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-06

Price of Sugar Advanced.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-The Arbuckles
have advanced the price of refined sugar
+ roiuts
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-12-06
Nosv IS 0he Dime
% Purchase a. SrqphQ0AOnoJ
At THE COUNTRY HOME

Graphophones are particularly adapted
to out-of-door use, and are, therefore,
specially available for lawn parties and
all out door gatherings at the summer
home. Wien the atmosphere is sitting
indoors and the energy is lacking with
which to entertain family and friends,
the Graphophone stands ready and
willing to delight and cheer with its
melody, story and song. It will be the
ioIIiestsmember of the jolliest party,
sing rag-time coon songs IN inimltable
fashion, tell the most clever and side
splitting hay-seed stories, or entertain
with the latest march or familiar oper-
attic selection. A big stock of GRAPHIC
phones and Graphophone records kept
in stock to select from.
We are headquarters for Bicycles and
Bicycle Sundries. Kodaks and Kodak
supplies. Talking Machines and sup
plies.
Repairs made on Bicycles, Kodaks
and Talking Machines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
A TRAILING SKIRT.
1t Grows No Shorter AS It's Reign
Grows Longer.

1t is all very well to declare that
you will not wear the fashionably long
dress skirt; to put yourself on record
as "agin it." and to preach to your
dressmaker and tailor about their Grim
inality in encouraging such thing un-
til he or she show signs of dropping off
to sleep.
But what are you going to do when,
in spite of all your preaching, both
dressmaker and tailor prove to you
that your gown, if short, will look
hopelessly behind the times; when you
Yourself see that present modes de-
mand a sweeping skirt to carry out
their artistic intent, and when you re-
alize that a refusal to conform to the
general rule will make you an unfash-
ionable exception?
It is a courageous woman who, fash
ion or no fashion, has the strength to
take a determined stand and keep her
walking gowns clear from the pave
ment.
The curious thing about the present
fashionable gown is its length all
around. It doesn't just trail in the
back. 1t sweeps the ground for an ap-
parently unlimited number Of inches
in front and at the sides, as well as in
the rear.
To put on one of these ultra fashion
able long skirts for the first time is
like trying on a ready-made dress
skirt, warranted to fit the Australian
Giantess if need be, and relying upon
surgical operations TO adapt it to the
one hundred and seventeen pound fig
ure. five feet four inches tall.
The fact is, to wear the long skirt
gracefully is an art; to learn to walk
in it is like learning to walk all over
again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01

, gets in her work. The tulle is cut bias
and sewed together to form folds, or it
is tucked and sewed together TO form
ruches or plumes Some of the hats
are made of plateaus OF maine ap-
pliqued with narrow ribbon, or Of ma
line or chiffon appliqued with broad
bands Of straw, or of a lOOse-meshed
fabric composed entirely of the straw.
The dip" toque which is worn down
over the forehead, and the pompadour
toque, which is worn back of the pom
padour, are both much in evidence.
a modification of the rough rider hat
is among the new shapes. One Of these
hats is in fine white Milan straw. 1t
has a deep permanent dent down the
middle Of the crown, and broad brim,
turned up at the right side. Long
plumes of yellow and white chiffon,
and a jetted plume over the side, with
"a drapery of lace over the brim. form
the trimming.
There is but little change in the col
Ors used, said this miIliner Pastel
shades are shown, and are gracefully
combined on some Of the hats. But
in the majority Of them the tendency
seems to be toward the use Of one color
only. Occasionally an effective con-
trast is produced by the use of flowers.
a picturesque Gainsborough hat has a
crown of jet and Tuscan straw over
HraT r IriC
point lace forms the brim, and big
bunch of pastel pink peoples, mixed
with aigrettes, forms the trimming
This GainsbOrOugh hat is one of the
few that can boast of aigrettes. Wheth-
er the Audubonites have accomplished
this or whether the fashion has died
out is not known.
The ribbon that appears on the hats
there is very little of it used, by the
way-is of very soft finished taffeta A
large Spanish turban of the dip variety
shows an effective combination of tur-
quoise tan and pink taffeta in the
rosettes with which it is trimmed A
pompadour toque of Tuscan net is
simply IIIuueu WIN large SOU
rosette of pale yellow tulle and fold
or two of black velvet ribbon-but the
simplicity is in effect only-there
are % yards of tulle in that simple
rosette.
Another simple hat is of the Spanish
turban variety. 1t is made of closely
overlapping folds of black maine, and
is finished at the side with a rosette of
the same material. This hat will sell
at retail for about $50
Among the ''ready-to-wear" hats are
several notifications of the rough
rider hat. 1t is also rumored that the
trig little sailor hat is to come back
into popularity next summer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01

Americans never go hunting for heir
esses. In fact, they would scorn to
marry a woman for her money. Cul-
turc and civilization. il is well known,
destro.- this 'inordinate affection for
the precious metal" England, which
is one of the leaders of civilization, as
sures the world that her attack on the
Transvaal is not Influenced in the
slightest degree by the fact that there
is large quantity Of this precious
metal in Uncle Krueer's territory. but
wholly by noble and generous desire
to Vindicate and uphold the rights of
man just as we are killing the savage
Fflipinos for the advancement Of relig-
ion and virtue, without any thought
OF commercial gain.
But the boer woman is not only ig-
norant and Unlocking. but she is so
lacking in proper spirit and inteIli-
gence as Ito accept her fate, when
welded with much OF the stoicism
characteristic OF the Indian squaw.'' She
actually has so little idea of the true
mission of a married woman as to
cook and sew, and does not hesitate
to help her husband in Out-of-door du-
ties, too If she had any idea of CIV
lllzatIon and culture. she would rebel
against sewing and cooking and insist
either on going to balls in decollete
costumes, on taking the lecture
platform and instructing the world on
the rights of women. But she stupid
ly and savagely stands by her husband
IN war as well as in peace. During
the innumerable fights between the
beers and the natives. -" says Mrs. Dew
ereuX, the boer women frequently
stood behind the wagons supplying
their husbands and sons with ammuni-
ton and provender, and during the
present hostilities their presence has
more than once been detected in or
near the field of battle" Among civil
lied women such courage and devotion
would be called heroic, but in the
beers it is sign of shocking lack of
culture and good breeding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01

with sentence Of penal servitude.
This is peculiarly Japanese. No
English judge would have found any
redeeming feature in the doing to
death of these unfortunate women.
But one Of them happened to have
been living with the murderer as his
mistress. and had afterward deserted
him, and that, in Japanese eyes, is
some justification for blooshed.
II is remnant OF the feeling of old
Japan. Forty years ago a man was not
exposed TO any great censure if he
killed woman who had been false,
and the old sentiment is still strong
enough TO sway the minds of three
judges Of enlightened views, well
versed in the legal system of the west
Yokohama Correspondence London
Mail
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
LOOKS LIKE GAUZE, BUT ISN'T.

Governor McMillin of Tennessee got
into difficulties the other day trying
to describe a costume belonging to his
wife while away on a visit in ST. Louis.
The day of Mrs. Branch's buffet
luncheon, given in honor of the dis
tinguished Tennessee ladies, Mrs. Nc
Millin appeared in a handsome toilet
of gray broadcloth, gray chiffon, rose
velvet and point lace, and a large
black velvet picture hat, with black
velvet ribbons looped under the chin.
The costume was what is described in
the fashion notes as a "confection,' -
with all sorts of Frenchy little touches
about it,
That same morning, an hour or two
before the Tennessee ladies wendell
their way out to the Branch residence.
Governor McMillin was approached in
the lobby of the southern hotel and
asked to give a description of Mrs
McMillin's costume for the afternoon
He Obligingly went upstairs to get the
necessary details and returned to the
lobby, where he was buttonholed by a
CCI uIdl cA 1C41DCSSCCdu lOl d lew HILL
utes. Then he was ready to talk ia
shions
Mrs McMillin's gown-now, let me
see. 1t is made of-what do you call
that thin stuff that looks like gauze-
and isn't gauze? Has French name
you know what l mean. Mousseline
de sole! That's it,
What color?" looking thoughtful.
We'll, Mrs. McMillin told me, but,
somehow, for the life OF me I can't
seem to remember. Just let me think
a minute and perhaps it'll come to
me-" The governor lapsed into a semi
,somnambulant state for about two sec
onds, rumpling his hair and fixing
his eyes on nothingness. Then a smile
dawned on his features. His eyes
beamed mile greeni" he exclaimed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
WOULD GLADLY TAKE THE DCSH.
One Instance in Which Two Persons
of Opposite Tastes Agreed.

4 story told me the other day-cer-
tainly told for new, but good enough to
be old:
On one of the recent warm days
sour-yisaged, middle-aged, fussy old
lady got on one of the smoking seats
on an open car in the subway. Next
her sat a man who was smoking a ci-
gar. More than that, the lady, smiling,
easily made out that the man had been
eating onions. Still more than that,
she had the strongest kind Of suspicion
that he had been drinking beer. The
lady fused and wriggled, and grew an
grier, and looked at the man scorn-
fully. Presently she could endure it no
longer. She looked squarely at him
and said:
IF you were my husband, sir, I'd
give you a dose Of poison!"
The man looked at her. eff l were
your husband he said, I'D take it,
Transcript.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01

That's the thing Knew it would
come 10 mind If I thought long
enough. That's one Of the fashionable
colors, isn't it," just a shade of hest
fancy creeping into his voice
On being assured that Nile green
was indeed. an eminently fashionable
tint Of the day the governor proceeded
with growing confidence.
'How's it trimmed? Well, now l
suppose with the usual furbelows-
what do they put on women's dresses
nowadays? Ruffies? Possibly.
"Plaitings? Hm-can's say for sure,
but reckon that's right. Do all dresses
have plaits?"
'Lace?" The governor fairly radi-
ated with intelligence.
4 should think so. Why. lt's-it's
got lace train"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
OLD WEATHER SIGNS.
Sayings in Which Sailors, Travellers
and Farmers Have Believed

Thunder on Sunday is considered by
the weather-wise the sign of the deatn
Of a great man; on Monday, the death
OF woman: on Tuesday, if IN early
summer, it foretells an abundance of
grain: on Wednesday, warfare is
threatened on Thursday, an album
dance of sheep and corn the farmer
may reckon upon; on Friday, some
great man will be murdered; on Sat
urday, a general pestilence and great
mortality
Fridays weather shows what may
be expected on the following Sunday:
that is, if it rains on Friday noon, then
it will rain on Sunday, but If Friday be
clear, then Sunday will be fine as well.
The twelve days Immediately follow
ing Christmas denote the weather for
the coming twelve months one day for
month. Inc day of the month the
first snow storm appears indicates the
number of snow storms the winter viii
bring. For example, the first snow
storm comes on November 29-look
out, then, for twenty-nine snow
storms.
There is an old saying-which orig
mated, perhaps, for the benefit OF
school children-that there is only one
Saturday in the year without sun dur
ing some portion of the day.
A gale, moderating at sunset, viii
increase before midnight but if it mod
crates after midnight the weather will
improve
No weather is i'll
If the wind be still
If the moon shall rise red, expect
wind
The sharper the blast the sooner it
is past.
A light yellow sky at sunset presages
wind
When you see the northern lights
you may expect cold weather.
Hazy weather is thought to prOgnos-
ticate frost in winter, snow in spring,
fair weather in summer and rain in
autumn.
Storms that clear in the night will be
followed by rain storm.
Three foggy mornings will surely be
followed by rain storm.
If the ice on the tree melts and runs
Off, rain will come next; while if the
wind cracks the ice, snow will follow.
When leaves of trees show their un-
der side there will be rain.
odor of fruit is unusually noticed rain
may be expected
When the sky is full of stars expect
rain.
If a cat washes herself calmly ana
smoothly the weather. will be fair. N
she washes against the grain" take
your macintosh with you If she lies
with her back to the fire there will he
q squall
Cats with their tails up and their
hair apparently electrified indctae ar-
preaching wind.
If pigs are restless there will be
windy weather. Pigs can see the
wind.
The direction in which loon flies in
| the morning will be the direction OF
the wind the next day.
Magpies flying three or four together
and uttering harsh cries predict windy
weather
Flocks of crows signify a cold sun
mer.
When the owl nests look out for a
storm.
! When the swallow flies low rain wiz
! fine weather.
If a rooster crows at night he WI
get up with a wet head"
| Six weeks from the time the first
katydid is heard there will be frost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01

Another milliner frankly declared
that there will be two things about the
spring hat to inspire respect-first, the
amount of material and needlework
that can be put on a hat; second, the
price of the hat.
Fulle, maline. chiffon, silk net and
other soft fiimsy stuffs are used on
these hats by the piece-a yard or two
doesn't suffice; dozen yards hardly
makes any showing At least twice
that quantity of material goes into
some of the pOmpoms and rosettes
which ornament these hats. Tuscan
braid or Tuscan net seems to be the
favorite foundation upon which the
eyer-present rosette is placed. Under
meath the Tuscan braid, of course. is
the substructure-the little French
frame
Sometimes the Tuscan braid is used
alone; sometimes the hat is built of
alternate layers of tulle, and the straw
and when this happens the miiliner
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01

Commander Wainwright is embar-
raised by the honor thrust upon him
in Secretary Longs tender to him OF
the SUPPLEMENTARY of the naval
academy. The hero of the Gloucester
may injure his chances if he declines,
and yet if he accepts his income will
be less than it probably would be were
he to decline, and az he is a man Of
family this is important
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
ATCHISON'S GREAT PROBLEM

There are many literary societies in
Atchison, but no one knows the use OF
ali the articles in a toilet case.-Atehi-
son Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
WESTPHALIA EPILEPTICS.

Bielefeld, in Westphalia, has q
special institution for epileptics.
founded in 1868, which now has about
800 patients.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
HATS FOR THE FAIR
SPRING TOQUES NOW TAKING The
ATTENTION OF MILLINERS.
STRAW IN STRONG VOGUE

Anu, Luckily for the BIRDS, Few
AigreJtes Are 70 be Worn-Peacock
Feathers in Fayor-Flimsy Stuh6
sed by the Yard Tor Decorative
purposes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-17

FULL PARTICULARS AND PRICES
CAN BE HAD BY CALLING AT
rHEIR OFFICE ON QUEEN
STREET.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-17
MILKMAN
GOES SCOT FREE
Evidence Did not Prove He
Sold the Imitation Cow
Product.

In yesterdays police court the case
against Louis AXE, charged with selling
adulterated milk, was dismissed Judge
Wilcox ruled that AXE had not sold the
milk but merely delivered it.
j. Silva, arrested for needless driving,
was discharged.
Mrs. j. Perry threw a brick bat at
Jap named Morishigi. The evidence
went to show that the recipient of the
building material was amply entitled
to it on account of an expression applied
by him to the power behind the brick.
Mrs. Perry was accordingly reprimand-
ed and discharged.
j. Chamberlain called two pretty girls
naughty names and his honors dis
pleasure took the substantial form of
a $10-and-costs fine.
Pokina, Keoni and Peter were assess
ed 81 and costs for drunkenness.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-17

took the case from the jury and or
dered a verdict of not guilty TO be rem
dered by the jury without leaving the
box. Deputy Attorney General Catn-
cart prosecuted the case, and Antoine
was defended by C. c. Biting and j. l..
Kaulukou.
DEGREES OF PARTITION.
Two DEGREES has been signed by
Judge Humphreys in the matter of the
Dowsett Estate. The first Is In the
suit of Genevieve Dowsett VS..
Elizabeth Parker ct al, and by its
terms it is ordered that a commission
issue to c. P. Grimwood authorizing
him to divide a quantity of real estate
living at PuuId, Kapalama, Honolulu,
and at Kuwili, Honolulu, and at
Moanalua, Honolulu, and at Kuamau-
napopo Molokai.
A like order was made in the case of
Genevieve Dowsett VS.. Marion C. Dow
sett ct al. The land in this case is the
Dowsett homestead in Palama.
RECEIVER APPOINTED.
George Clark of Kailua, Hawaii, has
been appointed by Judge Humphreys
Jas receiver for c. Aka, c. Ako and c.
K. All, under bond of $4,000. A re-
ceiver was asked by H. Hackfeld &. Co,
in the case brought against the three
named defendants some little time ago
MIR. DREIER NOW AN AMERICAN
August Dreier, the well known sugar
planter and millionaire of Kauai was
naturalized yesterday by Judge Estee
Mr.. Dreier is one of the oldest and
best known German residents of the
Islands. He has large interests at Ko-
loa and Eleele, Kauai, and is likewise
interested in many of Honolulu's most
important enterprises. He was mem
Der of the House of Mobiles in 1892.
END OF ROSS DIVORCE CASE.
The divorce suit instituted in Septem.
Der last by Carrie Mary Ross agains
George Cummings Ross clerk in the
office of the superintendent Of Public
Works, has been discontinued.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-17

NEGLIGENT?
Electric Light Company
Endangers Many
Lives.

The Electric Light Company has CIV
en- the police department considerable
work of late looking after it's fallen
wires and watching others which were
a menace to passersby. Ever since the
severe storm in the fall of 1898 when
a volunteer soldier and a horse were
electrocuted in front of DR.. Burgess
house on King street. the police de-
partment has had to perform duty as
electricians each time a storm knocked
down the wires.
On the night when the New England
bakery employee was killed by an ex-
posed live wire, Deputy Sheriff Chill
lingworth responded to the call for as
sistance. Not being an electrician, he
asked for assistance from the electric
light station. There was on duty in
the dynamo room only an engineer and
a japanese assistant The engineer
said his life was not worth two cents
at that time. His lights and fuses had
burned out, there was electricity liter
ally flying through the air, the plugs
were all out, and he was working like
: beaver to set things Alright. Yet he
had but one man, an Asiatic, to assist
him.
The deputy sheriff asked if he had
any men he could send out to repair
the wires. There was none there.
Where could one be procured? He did
not know. Where was the manager
That he did not lhow. The deputy
sheriff actually had to hire an cleo
trician to attend to the pilikia which
had been responsible for the death OF
one man that night.
On Wednesday night when the lights
suddenly went out in the business Sec
ton, the police department. was in.
formed of several streets where cleo
trio lights had made them dangerous
to traffic. A police officer was station
ed at the corner of Nuuanu and Kuku
street, one at Nuuanu and Pauoa road
and another at Waikiki. In each of the
three places the wires were sputterins
away in a dangerous manner and
threatened to burn asunder and droI
into the street. On Fort street in front
of the Boston block, meter wires i'm
properly put in, set fire to the pole and
burnt a hole in it. A police officer was
stationed there all night. The deputy
sheriff tried to get the company tC
send out gang of men to take charge
of its affairs. He could not get a soul
A policeman sent out to find Manager
Gartley could not find him.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-17
HOW TO TREAT A TROUBLESOME
CORN.

To remove a troublesome corn or
bunion: First soak the corn or bunion
in warm water to soften it, then pare
it down as closely as possible without
drawing blood and apply Chamberlain's
Pain Balm twice daily; rubbing vigor-
ously for five minutes at each applica-
ton. A corn plaster should be worn
for few days, to protect it from the
shoe AS a general linfment for sprains,
bruises, lameness and rheumatism,
Pain Balm is unequaled. For sale by
Benson, Smith & Co., Ltd, wholesale
agents.