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ones fancy compes follow in the footsteps of
When The Climbers" people identifying
the characters with this that silly people,
stand rather plumed themselves being the originals
people All nonsense 1t was like finding the likeness
of Gainsboough hats at the horse showog
Our American society," will, ch very
rich and old rch county ricf
wholly distinct hundred from the rich people
furnishing finely differentiated material Modern
culture tends making gentleman and lady much
but quite the The
subtle distinctions of and place and YOU
is English French that is American.
These clothes
being they cover, the whom the
dranast
In the making of Society plays there ads that
themselves, they be with
nish umo Societys the human
those of other human beings their degree and their
We do this done italy, for
instance where subjects of ordinary which
not alude in comedies of American life.
The trend of the drama from the older
tending toward the human real Stories will
and simply but the less powerfully and all
and convncng There will be less complication of plot There
entire absence of afce but will be less
stories need be all disagreeabe Life Why then
transcripts from life?
"Why drama of longer welcome to
American manages?' have been asked.
may be that because of aspirations after wealth,
people would rather the successful people their land
the of other lands pictured the than the
their struggles which they know only we'll 1t human like
glitter of life But make good plays
die life and they will be produced is, think good deal
matter Of the plays wrtten--I mean the good plays
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Charming Femininity in Tailor Mades

ampla of the snartness of simplicity
when made by master hand.
Now let me describe two others
that are equally charming.
One is built in the latest zibcline
cloth, whose soft gray green is flecked
with silvery white hairs, and inter
woven with irregular spots which in
troduce tinge of purple as a color
contrast. And then the novel fabric
gains further distinction by such eff
tective details as the little closely
stitched tabs which figure at either
side of the pouched coat fronts and
finish off with diamond-shaped medal
lions Of velvet in more definite
shade of green, broidered in shaded
green silks and gold thread, and
again by those other strappings deco
rated with wee green and gold but
tens, which hold in the plaits of the
gored skirt till they open out into
fan-like fullness at the hem. Then
the coat is further stamped as nov
city by the presence of little basque
which curves closely over the hips,
but opens out in those same fan-liks
plaits at the back, while bands. of the
embroidered velvet are introduced at
waist and wrist, and the quantity
shaped collar brings the velvet and
zibeline into effective contrast once
more.
Another is also an excellent exam
pie of the smartness of the new lib
cline, stitched s'trappings of pk,in
cloth being used for its trimming, and
collar and revers of black Persian
lamb giving a welcome warmth, as
well as a handsome finish to the coat,
while then, supposing that you should
not as yet have fallen a willing VIC
tim to the destinations of the blue
and green color scheme, you must
surely succumb to the smartness of
certaincostume where ribbed stripes
OF soft green alternate with blue and
black, and raised spots of white are
showered impartially over all these
colors. The skirt has its three deep
and beautifully shaped founces Dor
dered with green cloth, and is band
ed in at the waist by folded belt
OF black satin ribbon, down-dipped i'm
front, and tied high up at the back
in big bow, whose loops are drawn
through rings Of green silk before
being freed to form long sash ends.
The bolero Is cut short enough to
show all the pretty effects of this
belt, and to make the waist simmer
by contrast with its plated fullness,
while here again black satin ribbons
are threaded through the quaint
silken rings at either side of the big
sailor collar. of green cloth, which,
like the revers, is appliqued with lace
and embroidered with green and
gold, black and white, before being
finally edged with band of whir s
cloth crossed by a trcllis-wprk OF
black silk.
ELLEN osMoMpR
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Reasons WY the Chinese
Are Needed in Ha dyai
The cbpe @ M Little sapas Upon

We're gone over with care and placed in
order for the patrons that would APP
pear later in the day. The carriage folk
got one pile, fellow countrymen, the
poor of all nationalities, the other.
While in Hawaii heard of only one,
Chinaman that was wife-beater. To
be sure, Chinese wives are not very
common, and one cannot beat what one
does not possess. But the Chinese
women | was acquainted with We're
placid, contented, plump, and showed
no outwari signs of abuse. had read,
in the Sunday school books about Chi
namen, chat they We're very angry
when daughters were born to them,
that II !: desired infants had to be hid
den ffom their unnatural fathers.
This is not reliable view of my
Hawaiian-C Chinese friends. They seem
devotedly attached to their tiny girls,
carry them in their Arms, play games
with them, caress them; often have l
smiled upon seeing the grim, stoical
face of Chinese father soften almost
to Stiffness, at the sight of his little
daughter coming to meet him. 1t is
true that scarcity enhances the value
of femininity.
How hard he works! He takes
swamp that the white man scorns;
turns it into a duck-pond; or clears it
out, fills it in some, and soon has long
mounds of lettuce, onions and rad
ishes, which he will gather very early
in the morning and himself carry to
market, in two big baskets suspended
from pole over his shoulder. They
say the cotton blouses hide many sore
shoulders.
He tolls in the rice patches and taro-
patches, up to his knees in water. No
wonder he drinks the fiery samshu
(rice whisky; it is medicine, food and
drink to him. Early and late his thin
legs are hurrying along, his narrow
back is bent under burden of wood.
clothes, or bananas. But once a year
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E-SH-l HEY are an invaluable pOr-
.G$A ton of the population, and
Y d& v if they We're altogether
&WNX shut out of the country it
-s&S&Se would indeed go hard with
little Hawaii. The commits
sion sent to investigate the needs of
Hawaii has returned to. "the States
and after tirst-hand study of conditions
in the islands reports favorably on the
admittance into them of the Chinese
for work in the cane-felds.
Those who are really ignorant of
conditions in Hawaii talk about the
evils of Chinese labor in general, the
harm done to the white man in the en-
ployment of people whose standard
of living is SO low they can work for
a very small wage; wage the white
man is not able to compete with.
That argument may be all right in Il
land where the white man abounds,
but is not pertinent to matters in
Hawaii. In the first place the white
man is not on the ground, and in the
second place has not shown much dis
position to emigrate to the islands.
Farm life and plantation life are very
different; the former an independent
life in temperate cline, we'll suited
to the Anglo-Saxon; the latter field
labor in the continuous warmth of
the semi-tropics, which seems natural
ly to agree better with the darker
skinned faces.
In Hawaii, the Chinaman is the agri-
culturist, the wealth producer of the
land. The white man is the head of
Hawaii, the Chinaman the hands. And,
SO far as am able to Judge, the head
and the hands have in the past on the
whole worked together admirably, the
one supplementing and helping out the
other.
The Japs are tickle and cocky, can
not be counted on as can the Chinese.
They are supposed to be more pro-
gressive, but in a six-years' study of
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them and the Cinnamon I have come
to the conclusion that employers pre-
fer the latter for faithful work. The
Japs are always going on a strike for
some reason or other, and marching
n droves to make complaint for fan
e!ed wrongs. The Hawaiians, as rule,
work when they feel like it; work well,
but they are unsteady. John pegs
away from dawn to dark, and pretty
soon we find this poorly paid laborer
gentleman of means. His clothes,
SO patched he looks like perambulat-
ing bedquilt, bespeak the fact that his
raiment costs him little. His hut,
when he has served his plantation
contract and started out for himself,
he makes out of discarded oiltins,
which, like his clothes, tells the way
John not only contrives to live on his
income but also to save. We do not
at all assert that his life in Hawaii is
an ideal existence or that he is the
ideal citizen, but speak comparatively;
people who know affirm he is better
off than in his own country, and we
know he is frugal, peaceable, and
bears well-earned reputation for
tireless industry. We know that Ha-
waii is very dependent on him.
The Chinese not only are great aid
in the cultivation of sugar-cane, but
they seem the right-hand men in MANY
other important fields of industry
They are the cultivators of the rice
and the taro (the Hawaians' chief
food). They raise the vegetables and
market them. They work for the men
that are beginning the expectation of
native fruits. They do most of the
laundry work. They. and the Japs, are
the house servants and the yard
men, In fact, they are the whole
thing.
This is our friend industrially per-
haps rather than socially. Socially !
think John not so black as he is gem
orally painted. That he is given to the
use of opium we cannot contradict. but
we know no race noted for freedom
from intoxicants.
Dirty he certainly is. So are the I'M
washed to be found in all lands.
Whether slyer than the average / am
not prepared to say, but that he is a
little tricky will acknowledge. The
few times l have been through the
Chinese quarter of Honolulu at five
o'clock in the morning, have seen
many amusing scenes, amusing for one
that did not have marketing to do for
household. / have seen joint do
not approve of this nickname for All
Oi, All Lee, All Anybody, but use it be-
cause it is generally understood
separating his goods to suit his Gus
toners; eggs were carefully inspected,
marked with a pencil, and arranged in
two piles. You may draw your own
conclusions. Vegetables, fruit, fish, all
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tions for winter, which in
clude the winter coat. For anyone
who would get out of doors the win
ter coat is a necessity. For those who
cannot afford them furs may be left
out of the winters consideration.
They are not among the. abso-
Lutte necessities of life. The mother
with little daughters must think
also of not only her own coat
but for like warm garment. for
her daughters. Health, if nothing
else, demands that the children be out
of doors in the keen winter air, but
they must be warmly clad, and it is
their desire also to be prettily clad.
Both considerations are easily met
this winter for tho woman who
neither desires nor can afford any Law
ish expenditure for clothes. In fact
it would seem that the designers of
our fashions for children had special
ly in mind the great middle class when
they were at work upon the winter
modes. A few dollars will buy both a
serviceable and dainty coat of which
no girl need feel ashamed.
The straight coat, coming down to
the shoe tops, and made with single,
double and triple capes, are the popu-
lar modes. In fact they are. about the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-12
Heat in 1ncnn d e.cent LIGHT.

Many people imagine that the in
candescent electric light gives out
little or no heat, but it is found that
of the energy consumed, only six per
cent. is converted into light, while
IS per cent. goes into heat. A lamp
immersed in water will bring the
water to boil, and many cases
OF fire have been caused by careless
ness in letting infiammable sub.
stances rest in contact with the
lamps
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he drops work, puts on unsupported
finery, and has a Happy New Year.
While he is indulging in this annual
frolic, many kitchen in Hawaii is
minus its cook, many mistress is
herself preparing the food. Well, she
appreciates All all the more when he
returns.
They say elephants never forget
favors shown them, and think this is
equally true of Chinese. OF all faith.
fui. devoted creatures, commend me to
a Chinaman.
KATHERINE POPE
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HEY are an invaluable por-
ton of the population, and
if they were altogether
shut out of the country it
would indeed go hard with
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~ probably be found in the
fact that they are more
feminine. Say what you WILL the
great majority of women prefer the
distinctly feminine garment. The
fad of the moment sometimes carries
them away from this mode, but they
are sure to return to it after short
time, more enthusiastic over its
charms than ever before. So it has
been with the tailor-made, the fur
ther it got away from the feminine
the less it's popularity, and SO soon as
its feminine features began returning
its old-time popularity began to be in
evidence. The tabernacle gown of
the winter is a strictly feminine gar
ment. 1t has lost both the stiffness
and plainness that tended to make it
masculine.
The illustration shows fair sam
pie of the tailor mode of the winter
season. 1t is a coat and skirt cos
tune of nut-brown cloth, with pip
ings and facings of velvet and novel
trimming of fancy silk braid, repre-
sents the latest achievement of these
favorite and fashionable tailors of
London and Paris, and by it's absolute
originality of design imparts a new
charm to the coat and skirt costume.
For the coat, while cut without
collar at the neck, introduces a
species of cape-collar to give be-
coming width to the shoulders, and an
exceedingly smart effect is secured
by the introduction of the braid with
gold tags to finish off the ends. the
same pretty idea being repeated in
the waistband, which, after pursuing
Its decorative career, above the seal
loFed basque passes beneath the
longer fronts. The gracefully hang
ing skirt also introduces the com
bined trimming of velvet and braid,
and the whole costume is perfect ex-
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His Exclamation.

Brother Williams, did you eye- sell
vote?"
NO, sub; but | hez many a time
found dollar whar de wise cander-
dates lost it!"-Atlante Constitution.
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call your country thought
the soul of each of her citizens
emotions.
Though those Puritans judged have been pre
diced their Christianity grant they buded we'll Today
that old zeal steadfastness needed public
each citizen lies plainly before him. The country of the
aid that rgtnnded intelligent citizen give
CHRISTIAN MEN AND WOMEN SHOULD GET TOGETH-
ER AND SHOULD ORGANIZE FOR THE FURTHERING OF
RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENTS In each labored
band OF workers bent the
national eventually would become
community such of workers needed will be
as there fight long the drink exists
immortality fauns ITSELF long god egns
hearts.
So long devastates you your place the ranks
OF those that stand for So long upon
streets hides behind saloon DOORS afford dead
with the habit almost hard break ntempance you
must not be dead to the wod long purity assaled
cannot be cowardy be dad the long
dishonesty and ncompency hold public
affairs, YOU MUST AWAKE AND DO YOUR DUTY AS CIT
ZEN.
Pny the writing the emperor concerning
Christians described them people
paid the That bad ideal There pay
their but neglect the hymns and appeal
then there singers of hymns that neglect
also fail examples This happy combinaion-TO SING
HYMNS AND -
''' TAXES Dz11~@<zwkz=:
PAY TAXES. l.. -
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The Making Of Society Play
By CLYDE FITCH,
Noted American Dram atist.

l never caricature particular society people in
my comedies. 1t would be bad art as we'll as "a
wel-rather vulgar thing to do. AS art it ties one
to some or two marked traits or mannerisms,
and if you have smiled at them once they bore you
after. No, society resolves itself into individ-
uals, and the best do is to make your society
individuals in play typical of the time and place.
l draw types of the people as 1 find them. If
have any success in modern" plays it is because
seek to set forth what see and know in New York,
Newport Lenox, London, shipboard or wherever
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HIC tailor-m,ade gowns are
more popular this winter
than for several past sea-
sons. The reason may
probably be found in the
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The Christian Citizen
BY REV. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN.
Northfie1d Exten

Whatever of Christian energy man may pos
sess the world still stands in need Of To the man
that says: 81 take no interest in civic life, l am
dead to the world" my reply is: eff you are dead
to the world then you would better be buried"
We want dead-to- the-world Christians. We
want real, live, earnest, active believers in and fol-
lowers of the principles of Christianity Those old
Purtans, who saved England and made you carried
their religion into their daily lives, and they estab
lished a firm foundation the state that TODAY
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-28
Red Springs Literary Trent.

Editor Messenger: On Friday. 1st
instant, the citizens OF Red Springs en-
joyed a rare intellectual treat. The
long continued bad weather had its de-
pressing effect. but a ray OF sunshine
dispelled the respondent feeling when
the handbills announcing the coming
Of Henry Blount. He lectures to .
large audience in the auditorium Of
the seminary giving US in his best
style Rip Van Wrinkle and Scion shin
gle. The rendition of Rip Van Wrinkle
was certainly very fine and fully ap-
preciated by the audience. but In the
farce comedy of Scion Single the leo
turer excelled anything OF the kind We
have ever seen. Every word and gea-
ture was appropriate and the audience
was almost continuously conyulseA
with laughter.
The impersonation Of Scion Shingle
was superb. Acting two characters Is
a feat OF difficult performance. but In
this instance IL was a decided success.
The whole performance convinced us
that Henry Blount a few peers
and no superior on his chosen profess
sion. H. Nc. a.
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GOSIP.

Last Sunday in Atlanta Rev. l. C.
Broughton. M. D. talked to his crowd
on the Governors election and state
politics. S~ensationalism is dreadful.
The wit of the United States house
is Champ Clark. Of Missouri. But he
is able. knows history and is a clever
speaker. He referred in his last speech
in the horse to he democratic success
In electing Mr.. Cleveland as 9Th great
est calamity that his befallen the hui
man race since the fall of Adam" He
is classed as a democrat.
On the 18th instant France will cele-
brate in great style the centennial an
nlversary OF the birth of Victor Hugo.
its greatest lyric poet. one of its great
est novelists. and a man Of splendid
genius. His statue will cost $50. 900.
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OF the trial and the verdict. But 50
long as wrong and guilt and
prevail II is hard to withhold the hand.
fair and rnagnamimous and open In all
he prolonged controversy. in its last
issue we have seen. puts the president
down in the cellar and leaves him In
the deepest darkness. Let Us copy
from IL for the point Is really too good
to be avoided or omitted. IT says:
o course 1t is generally understood
that the president takes issue with Ad-
miral Dewey and declares that Schley
was not in command on the 3rd OF July,
1898 Indeed, he says so very emphati-
cally In one part OF his memorandum"
Yet In another part OF that same doc
ument We find the following remarkable
proposition:
"Tf Admiral Schley was guilty Of
reprehensible conduct Of a kind which
called for such notice from Admiral
Sampson. then Admiral Sampson ought
not to have left him as senior officer Of
the blockading squadron IN the Ard Of
July. when he (Sampson) steamed
away on his proper errand of commu-
nication with General Shafter"
"Just how the president after declar-
Ing that Sampson steamed away and
left Schley as senior officer or the
blockading SQUADRON a positively as
sert hat Sampson. not Schley, was in
command. is a conundrum We do not
undertake to solve"
Did you ever? Here he says that
Schley was left senior officer OF the
squadron On 3rd July, the day Of the
battle. And yet the partisan Is 50
blind that he stumbles and contradicts
himself when he declares hat neither
Sampson not Schley was in command.
Miraile dictui We close with a bit
of fine information If you please. from
Sam Smalrs wit in the Atlanta Consti-
tuition:
"CaptainLemly is engaged upon a
thrilling historical novel entitled The
Damnation of Schley." Introduction by
Edgar Stanton Maclay, ex-prevarica-
tor, U. S. N"
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HOME FOLKS.

In 1900 North Carolina had 1874. GIG, 6s3
in manufactured products, against $40
375. $50 in 1890. This grand old state is
forging ahead. The average rate Of in
crease in the value of products in all
the south was 1913 per cent. North Car
olina stood at the head with 1875 per
cent increase. That is something to
think over.
DR.. j. w. Meadows died recently.
He was born in Granville, and was
born in 1910. He was a faithful confed-
crate. We read in a newspaper the fol-
lowing concerning him:
"At the battle of Gettysburg in 1864.
he was with Pickett in his famous
charge up Cemetery Ridge, and gave
his right hand for the cause Of his be-
loved Southland. A brother OF DR..
Meadows was killed in the same battle"
Was he in . Virginia regiment? If
not he could not have been with Pick
EFT in his famous charge" In fact
Pickett himself was not in it. But did
not DR.. Meadows. whom we knew per-
sonally. belong to a North Carolina reg
iment?
.s - i. -
We some how overlooked the fact
that Captain Samuel A. Ashe, Of Ra-
leigh. has been chosen to deliver on
Memorial day an address. His subject
will be THE Life Of James Iredell Wad-
DELL" Captain Of the privateer Shenan-
doah. Captain Waddell was a superior
naval commander. and an interesting.
impressive address may be looked for.
There is a fine portrait in oil in the
state library of this gallant son of
North Carolina
:. -
Governor Aycock appointed an init
mate friend to the office of s~uperinten-
dent Of public Observation-Disclosures J.
Y. Joyner. He has long known him and
he is ar efficient teacher. worthy citi-
zen. and scholarly gentleman. We
would say 1t is a good selection, one OF
the best that could have been made.
We believe that Professor Joyner is of
the Pitt county section of the state. but
we 90 not know the particu-
lar county. From the number Of appli-
cants it looks as IL a desire for Office
was not limited to lawyers or politi-
clans. We learn from The Raleigh Post
that Professor Joyner was graduated
from the University Of North Carolina
In 1852. For some time thereafter he
taught school at Lagrange and read
law at the same time. He received his
license to practice n located in Colds
6oro for the practice OF his profession.
However. he was such a decided SUCCESS
as a school MAJ that he was not to be
long identified with the legal profession.
although he was quite an able young
lawyer also. The commissioners Of the
Goidsboro graded schools prevailed
upon him to accept the superintendency