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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

most painfully tender by the protection
from childhood of stockings and shoes.
when at last l have put a pair of
feet into a thoroughly healthy state, I
insist on prescribing ju the shapa, siz
and materials OF the his and shoes that
are to be worn For fDtt that is nd r
and afflicted with cal u spots | ins st
on the use of fine, pliab wool hose and
shoes of suede Patent "a Their Is, as you
probably know. sort n superior corn
cultiva or, and in winter, when worn with
silk or Isle stockings, IL Is the cause
of a great number Of colds. A pa ent
leather wearer nearly always suffers
acutely from cold feet, because of the
rapid flow OF moi ture the heavy mater al
briggs out on the foot. and waen the
sharp change oc asio- cd IN the foo s
temperature when the alr-tight patent
leather covering is taken OFF
out of her patent leather ties | take
a patient suffering with corns, poultice
aud salve and then prune che growth with
sterilized Instruments; take her round to
the shoemaker and oblige him to meas
ure the width of her foot while the stock
inged member, supporting her whole
weight rests hat on the floor and order
the shoes made OF black ooze leather on
good, phi BILE quarter-inch thick soles.
THE result is an enlargement of her
feet by fourth or an tnch everywhere,
but after a few weeks the corns have
almost disappeared, the red and swollen
joints look white and normal, the nails
are clear and bright. and the owner
would not blush to expose them. minus
stockings, on any bathing beach next
summer, for that, hear at the quieter
watering places. is to be the fashion, and
1t is with that end in view that so many
young ladies have placed themselves I'M
der my care this winter"
Fanny Enders.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
A CHAOTIC PENAL SYSTEM.
TCn-Dny Prisoners MIXED with the
Condemned In Delaware.

Theodore Dresser in Ainelee's.
1.-THE whole penal system of Delaware
Is in q more or less chaotic condition,
however, and this, as well as the pillo-y
and whipping post. may be attributed to
lack OF public thought sor study along
corrective and charitable lines. The state
jails have the qualities of od-time colony
prisons. There is no penitentiary. There
is no system of prison labor. There Is
no reform school. For important crimes
the county Jail at New Castle Is selected
because il is tho largest and much the
strongest; for the most trivial offenses
the same prison is made to serve, Prs
oners with ten-day sentences are mixed
with those awaiting execution, and those
who have lifetime to serve. Young and
old. boys and gray-haircd men, negroes
and white, all are jumbled together, and
the discrimination made Is one which
lacks import. II is that the short-term
prisoners are allowed to do the small
labor, rock beating and the like In the
open court or jail-yard where stands the
pilory. while the long-term convlcts are
rot allowed to do anything at all This
"a considered fairly satisfactory ar
rangemeut, although more modern work
house Is sometimes talked Of"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

amazed to do more than stare for mo-
ment.
well. Mr.. Gibson, do you agree to
your wife's proposition? She is to have
half of what Mr.. Wycoff gives for the
place, and 1t is TO be settled on her ex-
clusively She is not to pay the expenses
of the household or farm"
Jared wondered If the shrewd lawyers
had an X-ray that enabled him to read
what was passing in mans mind.
She's got here; the new woman's got
to Gibson farm, an she's my wife" he
groaned "S'reny,'' he ventured in as
near affectionate accents as he was cap
able, you said at first $780, an now you
go an ask for half"
81 didn't know my own valy them" she
retorted, grimly. "Then's my terms,
Jared. I'll have a stove an q hired girl
now, an a buggy, to so to meetin'. What
do you say, Jared?'
I'm give in, but who'd thought It of
you, S'reny? You want to squander
money at your time of life. an Sis
schoolin' so high"
This would-be pathetic appeal did not
soften Serena; she was testi the sweets
of liberty. and would not abate one jot
of her demand.
"Firs' tine sot down senSe can re-
member, 'cept at work an meals" she
"S'rtny, air you gcin' to be so hard
| on me, when I've worked an saved all
| these year for Si?"
You've worked me, Jared. but you
amt saved me- she retorted, unmoVed
cooking up at the hard old face.
Lord, S're9y. you air comm it strong!
| The idee of woman xantin' to squandor
| all that money, at your time Of
"Everybodys squandered 'cept me. I
amt goin' to throw my money away
ared-but I'm goin' to have 1t. Sis
Mother amt never cost you cent, for
we earned the clothes l wear, an I've
cooked for twenty men, MIXED cows. an
lavcd al my best days. 1 guess I've
rned a rest"
There was nothin for Jared to do but
Weld. Serena gained the battle; the new
woman had come to Gibson farm, a d
| come to stay. To the surprise of Jared.
Silas. when coming home for the summer.
| upheld his mother; woman who could
| wrest her wrights from his father was to
| be respected.
| ternal only The 10y had a better heart,
and a beautiful gill had taught him wo-
men were mems equals; their superiors
in some particulars.
He had gene to college with archaic
| ideas concerning women; he had left 1t
| with more than mere book learning. The
! apprenticeship he had served in trying to
| win the professors daughter had made a
man of him in the best sense of the wHrd
For her he had studied and graduated
with distinctions
He listened without interruption, and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

"Frum what I've heerd you tell seems
like 1 can't be made to sign that there
paper" she said, addressing the law
yer.
Certainly not, Madame"
'Then l won't. Therew
She fired off this defiance with the Same
logged spirit her ancestors had fired at
the British.
"Sreny!"
IT won't, Jared never in all my life
had a cent of my own. Me an mother
shaved for father an the boys, an Its
jes been the same thing sence l married
YOU Jared / amt even lowed the chick
en- and egg money, an I'm goin to have
one decent dress an bunnit. l jes won't
sign. 'thout Jared gives me some of that
money"
GOOD Lord! sreny. air you tryin' to
be a new woman
81 want some of tibet money" she re-
iterated.
wait, s'reny, If you'll sign III give
YOU them last two rows of currant
bushes"
She broke in hercely. you know they
won't bear for two years or more. l
want-two dollars an half!'
AS she named the pitiful little sum Mr..
Wycoff whistled, and the lawyer was
dumbfounded.
what can you do with all that money!"
oueried Jared with a beaten air.
IT can get a new dress an bunnit, an
go an see the keers; I've never seen
'em, though they air jes ten mile from
here"
Mr.. Thornton had recovered the use of
his tongue and determined to use 1t in
| behalf of Serena.
Mrs. Gibson, while you are asserting
your rights, demand more than $3.50. Your
husband. without your help, would not
have been able to accumulate a large for
tune. You should have half, and I adj
wise you to make that the provso of your
signing"
A sparkle lighted the faded eyes, and
the bent shoulders Strengthened. This ed-
vice was. acceptable. once she resolved
to declare her independence, she was pre-
pared to go farther
you hear Jared? won't sign with
out I'm 40 have half. I've worked thirty
yeaAs for you for nothin' l want back
wages" with a dry humor that made
wycoff and Thornton cough to disguise a
| laugh.
Jared Gibson would not have been more
surprised II one of his velvet-eyed Jer-
seys had risen and walked upright and
demanded an extra feed lie was too
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

night so that she might get such a val
liable comb, too. So on the next night she
sent her own daughter to the church
with task of fax.
The daughter hadn't been long sitting
at her work, when the wild big ghost
came IN and sat down beside her and
asked her TO wash his feet and comb his
hair. for 1t hadn't been done for 700 years
before.
But she told him that she was no SOUL
lion to wash his feet or comb his hair.
and that she would be very sorry to do
it. And the ghost struck her down with
his hand, and she was dead.
When the mother came before day had
dawned in the morning to find if she had
done her work and got the golden comb,
the ghost was there wal ing for her. and
struck her down with his hand, and left
her dead beside her daughter.
But the good girl. who had been kind
to him, thrived and prospered from that
day, and 1t wasn't long till she married
a handsome and beautiful young prince,
and lived happily ever after.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

and his hair combed, for they hadn't
been washed, or it hadn't been combed,
for seven hundred years.
70, then, poor fellow" she says, I'm
sorry for you, and I'll surely help you
all can"
So she laid her fax aside, and she
washed his feet and combed his hair
very, very nicely indeed.
And when she had finished the ghost
said: In seven hundred years I've, never
met as good a girl as you. Can 1 do
anything for you?"
Well" said she, eve a stepmother
who isn't good to me, and has put before
me this night q task that fifty women
couldn't do, but 1 don't know whether
or not you could help me. I've all that
flax you see there 90 work, and have
woven into cloth before morning"
Sit down al your ease there says
the ghost, says he, land I'll soon do this
task for you"
So he took braker that was seven
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

taking his mothers work-worn hand in
his, said:
you were right. mother; wish you
had acted so twenty years ago Father,
why do you not build a new house? You
are able to do so. This one is small and
uncomfortable"
Air you goin' to be married? Air you
goin to marry one of them new women?
It's bad enough when an old one turns
into one, but one them bran new wo-
man! Why, she'll run the farm and you,
too"
Silas smiled at his fathers perturba
ton. "She is one Of the noblest women
know and I shall not bring her here.
| My wife is not to be a wageless SER
want. Mother, when we marry In the fall,
Honoria and i will be glad to have you
! with us. She is a Doctor, and we shall
live i'm Boston,"
1t was out at last. Jared nearly fell
from his chair and gasped:
coed Lord! She's newer than
thought A Doctor! What is the world
a-comin' tor"
His stUpefaction was so great he did
| rot notice Serena and Silas had left the
gallery. Serena had wished to see the
picture Of the girl her boy was to marry.
and was well satisfied.
Dear me, SUI, she don't look like a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
THE TASK OF FLAX.
BY seumas MacManus.
.,,.hor of I'm Chimney Corners"
Through the Thrf-Smoke," etc.

Through the 1ufL-SmOkes etc.
..,,ovright, 1901, by Seumas MacManus.)
mere was, once mother who had a
gerry ugly and bad daughter of her own
t,af she was very fond of, and very
,...Yfiful and good stepdaughter that she
.srsd and wanted to get rid of, but she
,t5,.r know how in the world she could
80, I'D of her. so she went and asked the
bsr-wifes advice.
Tho nen-wife says: -I'll tell you how
49,, can get rid of her. There's an old
l,,r,h below, and no one ever yet spent
49,. ,irht in it and came out of it alive.
W, order your stepdaughter to go and
80 nm in it all night, working flax. and
Ie.1 surely be dead in the morning. Z"
horne the mother went, and she or
= ,e3 her stepdaughter to get ready and
-, off that night to work a task of fax
:, tbs Old church. And for fear that she
--..-t escape whatever should happen to
&c.. in the church during the night, she
,.+ a very great task of fax before her
ina 81 women couldn't do in one night,
.-5 threatened to have her life in the
morning if she wouldn't have it done.
r,7s Door girl took her wheel and all
win her chat night. and went off to the
,arrch. and sat down and began her
work.
RIt she wasn't long sitting at her work
v.su she heard a great noise, and in
more comes a great, Withholding ghost,
ann he sat down ON the seat beside her.
and said that he wanted his feet washed
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

coop in comparison.
Thornton, this is a case of the beast
faring better than the man. That house!
l believe / like this place better than the
one l am to buy"
ut has a prosperous air, certainly"
answered the lawyer, as they walked
up the path to the house. The yard was
bare of flowers; Jared considered them
useless trumpery.
A thin visaged woman, prematurely old
from grinding toll, opened the door at
their knock. Her calico dress was thread
bare, though spotlessly clean, and care
fully patched. She wiped her thin, knot
ted hands with a checked apron; they
were dripping with suds.
What mought be your business?" she
inquired half suspiciously. In her eyes
all men were tyrants, more or less; we
are apt to judge by personal experiences.
I'VE wish to see Mr.. Gibson" replied
the lawyer courteously, but as he would
address a servant, as he considered the
woman.
She motioned them into cherries
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
A TEXAS WONDER
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
THE NEW WOMAN AT GIBSON FARM
How Serena Asserted Her Independ-
ence After Thirty Years of slavery.
BY Olive Winston-Gag

BY Olive Winston-Gage
Ballard Wycoff, with his lawyer, Ell
mer Thornton, drove out to the Gibson
farm, Wycoff going to have the papers
signed about the place he wished to buy
from Jared Gibson. AS their driver stop
ped at the gate of the Gibson farm, both
gentlemen glanced at the commodious
ing house, which looked like chicken
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
~ Inerc are
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03
CURING SICK FEET.

when the Twentieth Century Girl
Faints II Is Her Shoestrings IN
stead of Her Stay Laces That Are
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-15
A NEW PROBLEM FOR
The ALlM0NY CLUB,

Active and honorary members Of the
| Alimony club are agitated over one OF
| the most complex questions ever pre-
| sented that that labor-loving body
whether a groom's concealment Of his
divorced wife's existence entities tn.
bride to an annulment Of the second mar
riage, supplementary in view of the fact
that union with one who has been sepa-
| rated legally is contrary to the second
| wfe's religion.
Josephine Breuer wishes again to be
come Josephine Milang on the ground
that Charles Breuer. who commits the
| indiscretion Of living at Great Neck, l..
l., told her his first spouse was dead,
and that subsequently she learned her
predecessor was aggressively healthy.
She declares she never would have we'd
ded Bruer had she known the divorccc
was alive.
Mrs. Breuer No. 2 is a Roman Cath
Ollie. Her family, which is we'll to- do,
! lives at Bayside. Though she had many
other suitors-What woman has not IN
the telling?-her relatives favored thu
grass widoWer on account of his wealth.
1t does not appear they then knew h /.
had been through the divorce court.
His new inamorata objected to him
on the ground that the canons Of her
church forbade marriage with a divorced
man. She quoted the ecclesiastical law
to Breuer when he proposed matrimory,
bupt he declined to review the rejection
as final. He renewed his proposal later,
telling Miss Milang, she says in her
complaint, the insuperable obstacle had
been removed by the death of his wife.
Accepting his assertion, she relates,
she finally yielded, STIMULATING, however,
for civil as well as religious cere>
mony and for utter absence of display.
The betrothed, accompanied by a few
friends, came to this borough on June
%. 1900, says the plaintiff, and We're m ar
ried in the city hall by Alderman Roth
man.
While they We're returning to Grea,
Neck, Breuer, it is told, apparently be-
lieving the bride was his irrevocably
admitted Mrs. Breuer No. l was not
dead, and that he tad misled the youns
woman simply to win her consent to
their union.
The complaint recites that the secon:
Mrs. Breuer. Mortified by the discovery,
left her husband on the spot, and ewes
after declined to live with him. Emanuel
NJ. Friend, her attorney, served the
papers on the defendant in the Long
Island village yesterday. Bruer's answer
is looked for in 20 days. Meanwhile all
the members of the Alimony club spec
ulate anxiously as to the probable adj
judication.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-15
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The car will be sent to Indianapolis
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It is go feet long, is painted olive green
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1t is equipped with an electric brake.
The interior contains two apartments
one known as the red ROOM" and is
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The other is the "green room,' which,
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{ Aside from the magnihcence Of the
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It is designed to attain speed of &C
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The tracks of the Union Traction COM
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The price is probably the largest ever
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