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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-08-30
Nitrate OF Soda on Strayyberriea

In dry seasons nitrate Of soda on
.stra wbcrrics often gives surprising re.
suits, says Rural New Yorker. 1t. prob.
ably pays better to use the nitrate
alone rather than n complete fertilizer.
You can use $50 pounds per acre In
late July or August. This will force
a heavy growth before falls 1t would
be Il mistake TO use only nitrate this
summer. You will then have fine,
thrifty plants, but few fruit buds. Wo
would prefer complete fertilizer fo1
late summer Ind fall.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-08-30

CUSHIONS FOR SUMMER.-FOr cheap
covers to summer sofa cushions, says
The Southern Star, the new bandannas
"irom India" will recommend them
selves. These novel and modlsh look
ing squares Ohcy measure Il yard and
quartcr) make up very effectively.
a single square is large enough to sup
ply a cover for ushion. One cuts
right through the square the entire
length, and this piece cut out is folded
once for the cushion proper. AS you
see, it forms both the back and the
front.
/, The strips along the sides arc left
and from these the ruillc is formed.
Oriental colors in vivid or sombrc
schemes charactcrizcs these squares.
And the best Of them is that while
they are attractive they arc so cheap
that even the most frugal housckccper
will watch their ruin with cuuanimily.
And that's Il comfort III summer, when
cushions are likely to get left out in
the dew or otherwise maltrcatcd.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-08-30
WHY
DR. fla T HAWAY
CURES.
Reasons for His Marvellous Success
His New, Free Book.

DR.. Hathaway's method
Of treatment isno expert
ment. It's the result of
twenty years of expert
enco In tho most extern
Slvo practice Of any
specialist In his limo In
tho world. IIo was grad
uatcd from ono of tho
best medical colleges In
tho country and perfect
ed his medical and surgi-
cal education by oxten-
Siye hospital practice.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
Some Valuable Statistics as to Their
Power to Make or Break Stars

New York. Jan. 19.-There are a million
matinee girls in the United States, a fiend
for statistics has estimated, In the course
of theatrical season, he says, they eat as
much candy of various kinds as would
fill eighteen of the largest freight cars;
the money they spend on theater tickets
in single winter would pay the salary
of the President for one whole administra-
ton; the lines they go to form at various
times before the box office when a star is
shining in his or her orbit if all put to-
gether would reach in close penitentiary
file from Buffalo to Chicago and the tears
they weep would make a satisfactory
sprinkle in a summers drought
Having brought together all these in
valuable estimates, the statistician very
properly assumes that without the matinee
girl the Theatrical business wouldn't he
worth tuppence in this country and that
because of her We have the best lighted,
ventilated decorated, heated and admir-
ably equipped stage and the most pros
porous theatrical management in tho
world
| There is a popular impression abroad
that the women who resort to the theater
for the chiefest amusement of their dives,
/ go ~ duOFe the ledulnR man, but
Frenchman who have been travelling in
this country and publishing his impress
| sions in a Partisan daily, stands witness
/ to the fact that heroes of romance
ever received the honest, wholesale and
! practically jealous devotion that the fem
mime audiences in American shower on
Maud Adams, Julia Marlowe, Mrs Carter
or Annie Russell. For once in a way a
Frenchman drew a just conclusion from
his observa tons in our country and every
one of these actresses owes her power
to the special influence she exerts upon
those of her own sex.
Julia Marlowe does it largely with her
gifts for weeping. In and out of the pro-
fession she is recognized as the most in-
fallible tear compeller on the stage. She
forces her audiences to shed no perfume
tory brinies that when wiped stealthily
away leave not a trace, but when her
own sobs rise as a signal the women
from gallery to orchestra break into
general good hard cry that shakes POM
padours to their foundations, knocks back
combs from their moornSs and renders
! the prettiest nose in the world brother
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

of them. or perhaps about colony of
them.
when ] was in Southern Colorado there
was a box of tallow candles in the rough
cabin where the men slept. We got up one
morning and the box was empty, not
candle in sight anywhere, but in the box
was a pile of sticks and rubbish of all
sorts. 1T is the rats said the miners,
as soon as they saw that rubbish, for they
claim that one of these rats never steals
anything without leaving something in the
place of the stolen article. OF course, We
of the camp never expected to see the
Candles again, but two days later. l give
you my word there was the whole box
full of candles back again. The miners say
that the rats brought them back, and l
suppose II must be true At another time
the rats made raid on sack of potatoes
In the cookhouse and brought them all
into the nut used for sleeping quarters.
We found them in the morning. all piled
up much after the fashion that one used
to see those pyramidal piles of cannon
balls in the navy yards in the days of the
old-fashoned round ammunition. a noun
tain rat will steal nails, scraps of iron
and even the iron ske werlike caudlesticks
the miners use. and when they are stolen
a fellow can't tell If the rats did 1t. for II
they did there were always the tell-tale
markers they had eH behind in place OF
the stolen articles"
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them in good condition, but a few warm
days would knock things ont badly.
1t is astonishing to one not accus-
toned to such things how much a team
can haul over these roads. A thousand
feet of logs weighs roughly about three
tons. l had a letter the other day stat
ing that they were now averaging about
5000 to the load, which means fifteen tons,
but they expect TO do better. / was talk
ing with a lumberman on the train, who
told me that in some of the camps they
had adopted system known as trailing,
hitching three sieds one behind the other,
and were pulling them all with the same
horse power, loaded with 5000 feet each.
This means 2000 feet, or seventy-two tons
to the trip.
81 remembep an instance two or three
years ago when Judge Collins was visiting
in one of my camps. whenN2O,0O0, OF sixty
TONS was loaded on one sled. They tell a
story of a man who was hauling with two
of his own teams and three hired teams.
One morning when they came out to hitch
on to the five loaded sleds the drivers of
the hired teams struck for higher wages
and refused to make the trip to the land
ing One of the other drivers suggested
that one of the extra sleds be hitched on
behind the one with which he started, and
the horses pulled il off without any trou-
BILE Then the other driver said he would
try the three remaining loads and he got
away with them without difficulty. The
hired teams were allowed to go, and the
work was continued with the owners two
teams.
"The logs are loaded on sleds with a
bunk" or bed fourteen feet wide and
piled up as high in the air. They were
secured by chains around the whole mass
The outside bottom log on one side is fas-
tened to the sled with short chain at
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
The Stocking Drama.

From the New York Press
If David Belasco had written his stock
ing play in the beginning of the sixteenth
century Miss Bates could not have worn
more than one pair at time, and they
would have been made roughly of cloth
sewed up at the back. Women talked bad
in those days, but were careful about con-
cealing their lingerie, probably because
the latter was less beautiful than that of
to-day. Queen Bess never wore knit
stocking until 1850. Henry IL of France
wore a pair OF silk ones in 1547. 1t is
rather odd that man should have worn
stockings before woman. And il also is
odd that SO many nice young men of this
day should cling to the stockings of their
ancestors
Many of the young swells of Boston
wear silk stockings of ceruean blue, sup
ported by the circular garter Their sus-
penders are worn on their trousers. The
stockings are blue because they (tne sWeus)
are 'bluestockings. after old Ben Stillns-
feet and the beautiful Mrs. birmingham
VINO wore that color at the converZaiones
of Mrs Montagu. Boys of Boston wear
knickerbockers until IA, while those of
New York discard them al H. r converse,
the youth of the Hub is blase at l6, while
his New York cousin knows nothing un-
Ill he is 80 Il am not talking about what
boy thinks he knowsD one who has
worn stockings for fourteen years, two
thirds of his minority. cannot lightly put
them off, so the Boston boy continues them
even after he has donned pants not so
much for show, but TO keep his shanks
warm.
Beau Brumme was rare genius for
clothes and epigram, sarcasm and bor
row, but l question il he approached
Count Won Bruhl. prime minister TO Au-
gustus III, of Poland, in magnficence of
dress. The Dresden library is a monu-
ment 10 this unprincpled Statesman"
with its collection of 5000 volumes, and
that citys splendid gallery, his work, has
not its equal north of the Alps. The Bruhl
palace is one of the show places of the
capital of Saxony. Bruhl had the finest
collection of clothes, watches, lace, boots,
shoes ana slippers ever the property of
one man. Like Miss Anna Held, he in
duIged in external applications of milk
to improve his complexion. Perhaps Flo
REM 9siegfeld got the idea of his wifes
milk baths from him. In clothes he sur
passed Berry Wall when our King of III
Dudes was in perhelion, for his wardrobe
cntained no less than 400 suits. Why
even Robert Garrett. when president Of
the Baltimore and Ohio, had not so many
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
BODICES OF ODDS AND ENDS.
HOW TO COMPOSE FETCHING
WAISTS OUT OF SCRAPS.

Parisian women Are Threatening
Some Startling ReVoIutionar!
Changes in COrsets and Skirts-De-
scriptfons of the New sleeves That
Is Always Transparent when Aft
ernoOn Functions observation-disclosures
Are Following the Move of Smart
women in AbjurinE Jewels-De-
scriptions of several Charming
New Toilets.
New York, Jan. 19-"Do you know,
said Mrs. Van Knickerbocker soiemny
as lun fen upon the conversation
about the luncheon table. Il think we
are on the eve of a great revolution in
dress. Women coming home from Paris
tell me the strangest tales about the cor
set of the future that the Partisan ele-
gantes are already wearing. The leading
modistes advocate them and l have seen
some gowns lately, worn by women of IN
questioned authority in the matter OF
clothes, that have their upper widths
gathered across the back and hips with
all the fulness the goods will allow"
Il am sorry TO hear that" twittered
Maisie from her end of the table where
she sat picking daintily all the bis Of
mushroom from her pate of chicken.
1.-THE present fashions suit me entirely,
and TO my eyes the modern skirt does
more to make stout women appear slen-
der. to transform angular women into
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
MOUNTAIN RATS OF COLORADO.
They Are Regarded with Affection
by the Miners of the Region.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times
Speaking about animals" said Angus
tus Thomas, playwright, the queerest
ones ever came across are the noun
tain rats one sees at the mines in Colo
RADIO They are about as big as a wharf
rat, but they have a bushy tail like a
squirrel, and are pets of the miners.
Whenever the luncheon hour comes you
will see the fellows come from their holes
or nests or wherein they live in the In
tervals between meals. squat on their
launches and sit there until one of the
miners shares his dinner pail meal with
them. Whatever they get of the scraps
of the meal they sit up and eat just as
a squirrel does The miner doesn't exist
that would not share mis- meal with them.
The rats are intelligent and mischiSvous
as they can be, and to me they always
seemed imbued with a sense of humor that
/ never saw in any other animal. They
are thieves by nature. but their thievery
is peculiar. Now, here's yarn about one
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

gracious sylphs and to give hight to the
short and dignity to the tan. Added to
all these virtues, there never was a time
like the present for utilizing odds and
ends, pretty bits of left over silk ana
trifies of fur and embroidery in the make
up of really attractive and useful little
waists.
You would all, I am sure, open your
eyes" she continued, IF you learned for
how little and from what mere scraps
some of my most fetching waists are
made. Last week, for example, l was
billed to read a paper before our every
other Wednesday morning with Shakes
peare. It's a club, you know, and we are
profoundly studying the tragedies this
winter. Now 1t is easy enough I find
to write paper on the political condition
of Rome in the day of Brutus, but ID is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
BIG LOAD OF LOGS.
what Teams Draw on ArtifcinlIy
Constructed Ice Roads.

constructed Ice Roads.
From the ST Paul (Minn) Pioneer Press.
I'VE are getting along fairly well in
the woods by making ice roads, said Sem
ator Buckman, but we would really like
a little snow just as a sort of guarantee
that we are really going to have some
winter" The Senator is cutting some
thing like 100000 feet of logs in the
Swan river district this winter. He has
upward of 500 men at work in his camps
As his operations involve an expenditure
of about $3.50 a day, it may readily be
seen that the question of the weather
from day TO day is one in which Senator
Buchanan has more than a passing inter-
est.
in the twelve camps where my men are
now at work" continued the Senator, II
am using about 100 horses in hauling water
day and night to keep the roads in condl-
ton. The water Is hauled in eighty-bar-
rel tanks mounted on sleds, and an ar
rangement of pipes directs the flow of
water in front of the runners. OF course
there was a great deal of preparatory work
required. The roads were laid out and
graded up smooth in the fall, and wherever
there was a brook or a pond convenient
to the roads a pool was dug so that the
water might be loaded by the barrel full.
A tank is run up 10 one of these pools, and
an incline arranged so that a barrel rig
ged like huge bucket may be raised and
lowered into the water, the lead team of
horses furnishing the power In this way
it doesn't take long to fill a tank.
LAS the ice forms the road is gradually
raised and we have a rut-cutting machine
which cuts out the ice where the runners
of the log sleds run, and throws 1t out at
the sides. The roads do not average more
than four miles in length to the landing
places, and we have been able to keep
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

to a beet in size and color. An interesting
development of late in the matinee girl
is that she is not ashamed to cry over
her heroine, and come away bearing
traces of the conflict with her feelings
just as this winter she has developed the
habit of going out between the acts to
snatch a sustaining snack of something
at the nearest confectioner's. Maccaroons
washed down with boiling hot chocolate
into cup of which great lump of va
nilla ice cream is dropped is the favorite
between the acts bracer. 1t is technically
Known as a CONSIDER and has been
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

found of infinite value to the women who
stand in lines hours at a time in order
to purchase those seats most envied of
the matinee girl, the front row chairs in
the gallery or balcony. These places are
more coveted than anything short of the
first row in the orchestra, for from them
and them alone a complete view of the
stage can be commanded and with her
elbows on the rail her chin in her hands
and her eyes fascinated by the tableau
the whole soued admirer of the leading
man can drink in the love scenes without
interruption. M. A.
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each corner which goes around with the
log and is caught with a grab hook
When the landing is reached these hooks
are knocked out with an ak, and this
brings down the whole pile.
Labor is higher than usual this winter,
and it will be a good season for the lum-
bermen If the weather holds right. Com
mon labor is getting about $26 a month,
which is from 10 to 10 per cent. higher than
the prevailing rate for a number of years"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

by three groups of triple jet chains sus-
pended between rhinestone buttons AMI
three let chains drop over the tops of my
long close fitting lace sleeves. With a
dark trained skirt l can readily wear this
afternoons at tea time and the whole thing
costs a quite infinitesimal sum-
Mary Dean.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

of darkly blue brocade upon it. Mine is
done over from an old bali dress and Is
white lace upon lilac silk Innings while
my coat is of the deepest rose color bro
caded in white The coat fronts do not
meet over the bust, but are held together
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

1t Is reported that in Austria the Gus
tom of boxing The ears of soldiers and re-
cruts has been so common and so vio-
lent that thousands of them have suffer-
ed such impairment of hearing as partly
to unfit them for service. The minister OF
war has recently issued a prohibitory or
der.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

French government officials are re-
ported to be discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of
expelling some of the foreign newspaper
correspondents. Max Nordau may be the
first 10 go, but the movement. If entered
into at all, Is likely to be extensive, al
though I'm view of the waning importance
of French news such action seems hard
ly necessary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
-NoLwIthsLanding RussIa,s

Notwithstanding Russias enormous
expenditures for the construction of the
Trans Siberian Railway and for increas-
ing the strength of her army and navy,
her ordinary revenues during the past
twelve years have exceeded her dlsburse-
ments by 790OOO,OOO rubles
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

quite another matter to stand reading for
twenty minutes before crowd of perfect
by frocked and awfully critically women
in some old costume you've already worn
q dozen times this season. one must
wear something that will at once hold the
attention of the audience, and command
their respect.
Wei, bent my whole energies TO the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

evolution of a feature for wear. not only
when / am hostess for the club. but when
Obliged TO look my best on days ar home,
at the theater and even at the opera wne1
q decOHete frock is not necessary. The
foundation of my achievement is
any one of my simple skirts
ranging from a white silk one to
pretty cloth thing in the popular shade
of turquoise blue. My waist is made of
cloth, cream white aud fitted in 10 the
figure, not by darts. but the new French
fashion OF drawing down and stitching
far, in tiny tucks converging to the belt,
an the funess about the waist line at
front ana back.
Back from the shoulders" Maisie chat
tered on, fan double cape revers faced
with red silk and edged with gilt cord,
ana these revers expose the Collar and
shoulders covered win piece of Persian
patterned embroidery in which gilt and
red are the prevailing motifs. A four-in-
hand of red velvet runs about the base Of
the collar knots under the chin and its
tong ends pass down 10 the waist line I'M
der a series of five little white cloth
straps that fasten over the bust with GLIB
buttons. Now. for the remarkable mex
pensivenoss of this charming waist L real
~ deserve no credit, for my dressmaker
did it all out of bits left over from other
gowns and | must confess my papers on
Rome went off beautifully"
DIR. MurrHy's smart Gown.
"Maisie, you are a genius" sighed Mrs.
Van Knickerbocker with sincerity. You
strong minded women so often are. and
will say it for The advanced woman that
some Of them can dress with amazing
taste, Now, there is Or. Grace Peckham
Murray. In spite of the fact that she has
an office fun of patients every day when
her afternoon at home was to be ceie-
brated last week she stood up to the so
cial exactions of life IN charming cream
Liberty satin gown that was a just cause
for envy Her skirt was simple, had
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
Very Correct Sleeves.
The Absence of Jewels.

Her first act gown was dream. n
dream in pure zinc gray satin faced crepe
de chine covered with embroidery in zinc
gray beads. Her train was all fluffy be-
meath with gray chiffon and many strings
OF beads formed her shoulder straps.
see she is an actress open TO IMPRESSIONS
for throughout the play she wore not n
jewel She has been observing our snart
women lately who have temporarily AT
least ab1ured strings of pearls and precious
stones TO let their goods looks shine bv
the radiance of their own bright eyes"
still there is plenty of bejeweling done
TO ones garments nowadays" but in Mrs
Van knickerbocker "and when it's done
well it is the prettiest decoration in the
world I've just achieved out Of my in
ner consciousness and with the help of nv
sewing woman an little copy of a tea
Jacket that enchanted my attention and
admiration when worn bylMrs. Whitelaw
Reid the other morning Hers was made
Of creamy lace over rosy Liberty tissue
long sleeyed blouse with Louis XVI coat
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mere relieving fold about the bottom and
the waist laid in the most curious and
Interesting series of pleats, showed be-
meath each peat a merely suggested lire
of turquoise blue
charming" murmured the hostess. "Sim-
phcity is with many women the order of
the day now, and in spite of every temp
tation to stray after other idols dear old
turquoise blue keeps it strong hold, |,
too have been to a tea recently and the
two smartly got up women who received
together wore both the most faultessly
demure little costume possible. one adopt
ed a cloth skirt in gray with not so much
as decorative tuck on it and the back
was laid in two broad box pleats stitched
down on their folded edges for twenty
five or thirty inches beyond the wais,
band. A fun soft blouse of gray Lib
neck band, elbow sleeve cuffs and belt
made of white satin ribbon overlaid with
cream colored lace and edged with mere
pipings of brown fur. A perfect Quaker
gown and not jewel in evidence.
= Pale Green Papfin.
THE other young matron by the door
displayed her lissom figure to exquisite
advantage i'm pale green poplin skirt
having a top of heavy ecru lace through
the mesh of which the green showed well.
OneIhalf of the waist was made of lace
over green popiin, while the yoke and
sleeves were of polish tan chiffon a
moss green velvet belt and big knot of
the same in the hollow of the right Shout
der variegated the colors well and then
there We're three wee folds of green vel
vet holding the last fronts together over
the bust with tiny rhinestone buttons.
Very Correct sleeves.
I've been nosing about lately in the
realms Of good dressing and I've come
to see that the smart sleeve has a cap
of goods that fits over the arm half'wa
to the elbow and from under this comes
out the transparent arm case that goes
to the elbow and ends without cuff.
AT the theater last week ] observed Hilda
Spong i'm the new play wear a particular
~ fetching gown of Lex lace with lace
caps, as | have mentioned, coming half
way from shoulder to elbow and then
shirred tan chiffon covered her arms to
the wrists