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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04


A simplicity which contrasts enor-
mously with this intricate beauty is
seen in some of the evening gowns,
which are frequently composed of
only two textures. For instance, if the
frock is of silk, lowered, striped or
plain, the decoration is only chiffon
or very, delicate and inexpensive
quality of lace. The chiffon is used
in Killed skirt frills, for sashes, the
ends of which are doubled and gath
cred into rosettes at the bottom, and
for bodice draperies. The lace is put
on similar materials in many ways,
but one method seen had certainly the
merit of extreme newness. 1t also
suggested facile ideas for the woman
who can make her own clothes and
who loves lovliness without great
expenditure.
A French model in ivory white gros
grain silk was the almost girlishly
simple gown which displayed this
treatment Three narrow silk fril1s
over others of chiffon trimmed the
bottom of the trained skirt, the back
OF which was covered by wide tab
bed sash of thin white lace. This was
caught to the skirt breadths, a bolero
erect in the lace on the silk and chif-
ron bodice giving a tailed-coat look
The lace employed was an inexpensive
all-over sort, but. of course, only the
French would think of using it in this
way
Any arrangement of lace which i'm
itates a jacket is popular, and the
longer the fall of the postillion, the
better. Seldom is a bodice seen with
out some drop at the back, and since
the hat tails" are predicted soon to
pass, II looks as If we were consoling
ourselves in this way.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

Negligees do not usually come I'M
der the low-neck head. but all of ones
collar bones show in some of the pres
ent house things. Long boudoir gowns
and short coffee and tea jackets are
taking to this one time immodesty,
with the result that the fair one who
receives the morning or afternoon call
er is always the better looking. For.
however charming high effects may
be, low-cut is vastly more becoming
TO nine women out of ten; and If the
tenth woman cannot bare her throat,
thin lace yokes and muslin guimpes
will simulate it to her benefit.
Fur and lace figure on many of the
handsome house clothes in combina-
ton with the most diaphanous gauzes.
A dainty little coffee jacket. cut out
at the neck. is of these three mate
rails, Canton gauZe in a deep shade of
marigold yellow composing the main
part of the garment The model is
very loose, full skirt flowing .Ender
a pointed bolero of the pure white
lace. The bolero is bordered with an
edge of sable and tied at the bust with
a fiat velvet bow. Its snug sleeves.
which are pointed at the bottom, fall
short of the elbow. below which are
long puff undersleeves of the gauze.
In such pretty frivolties and with
the throat encircled by short neck
chain or some sort, one sees tho pre-
siding hostesses of many afternoon
functions. A look Of delicate festivity
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

per made of a coarse soft wool in ivory
white. The limp skirt and puff sleeves
are side killed, and below the round
embroidered yoke hangs a deep wor-
sted fringe entirely covering the short
body. Black velvet, cut bias, forms a
girdle and side bow. the same material
in narrow ribbon tying the sleeves at
the wrist.
Nothing is more beautiful for the
house than white, and such classic
styles, even though uggesting a night
gown, lend grace to slight figures.
Mary Dean.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

making them up saves this risk. Then
again, nearly every garment had to
be ripped in the former times. Now,
if it is all wool, it may be dyed while
made up. If the Innings are of cot
ton or silk they will probably take a
Inherent color from the wool, but
barring this, there will be no trouble
about dyeing an unripped piece of
clothing.
Still there are advantages in rip
ping before dyeing. It is almost neces-
sary if gown is to be made over after
dyeing. II the article to be dyed is a
heavy cloth coat or cloak. the dye has
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

by misdirected spoonful of ice cream
or coffee, or the culver of a hand that
is passing plate of salad. And every
such one, after having cheerfully
perjured herself and declared that the
accident was nothing that could not
be remedied by a sponge and a little
water, can remember the anguish with
which half a score of detergents were
employed. We know them all-French
chalk, ammonia. alcohol. benzine. gas
oline, naphtha. chloroform. Generally
the spot stayed where II had been put.
Sometimes>it came out and left trace
OF its presence in well-detined ring,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

the low-cut neck introducing these
materials in diamonds covered by a
sequined netting. But tinsel pende-
loques finish the lower points of the
sleeves hang in the prevailing puff,
and they are finished at the wrist with
shaped fiounces Of white gauze edged
with lace, a unique bertha band about
diamonds and mingle with a lace and
gauze jabot at the front
Even more unique as to combina-
ton of material and contrast of color
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

Home cleansing is practiced by
many women with varying degrees of
success. There are women who make
habit of washing their light waists
and frocks in gasoline, or of washing
in flower" white articles that they do
not think il worth while to send to
professional cleaner. Sometimes
they have good results, sometimes
not. They are pretty sure to spoil a
few things before they learn how not
to do it.
The Art OF Dyeing.
The art Of dyeing is much older
than that Of cleansing. in this country
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

in no city of the world, says Le
Monde Illustre. do we find such hope
less misery as in London; men not
only homeless, but despairing, mere un-
numbered beasts that roam the streets,
hungry, pitiful and CHASTITY. Some
efforts, however, are made toward the
regeneration of this class, efforts which
although they may not be for the pur-
pose of raising these unfortunates
from their distressing condition, at least
are for the purpose of permitting them
to subsist and exc out their miserable
livelihood
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

nervous irritable mother often the of mysteries,
unfit children chlds disposition
herself The trouble between children and their mothers
often due to the fact that the mother has
weakness and she is entirely unfit bear the strain
that governing child involves impossible anything
calmly She help it. her condition due suffering
shattered caused by arrangement the uterine
with backache headache and all kinds of pain and she the
OF prosraion.
When mother finds that calm and quiet
children that condition attention.
not better than to take Lydia E. Pfnhams Vegetable Compound
This will build strengthen
enable The
children will realize the difference and seeing their mother
will themselves become quiet
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

The disastrous effects of the drought
in New South Wales may be judged
from the fact that a meat-preserving
company at Albany has purchased
100000 sheep at from pence to /
shilling per head.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04
MODERN METHODS OF
CLEANING AND DYEING

Nowadays Even My Lady's Befred Pussy and Fluffy
Evening Gown Can Be Made to Look Like New by the
Wonderful Magician Who Is Found in the Shop Of the
CleanserThere Is Nothing in Clothes for Both Woman
and Man That Cannot Be Cleaned to Look Like II Was
Fresh from Store.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

and, with a white bodice of any sort,
white cloth skirt is considered the
last notch of elegance.
AS to the waists themselves, low
ness of cut and picturesqueness of eff
feet are their salient features. Their
sleeves are deliberately graceful in line,
always fitting the top-arm very tightly
and dropping i'm great puffs at the
wrist, or flowing in fiounces at the
elbow. With these limitations as to
length-for few really short sleeves
are seen-the models, take to unnum-
bered kinks for variety
Three charming bodices, recently
turned out by a fashionable dress
maker for dinner use. display effective
details.
Nile green gauze, spangled with Sc
quins, in a metallic shade of blue,
composes one. The long, transparent
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

of white embroidered with black, and
jabot ornamented with lace ovaIs
Below the black jacket all the bodice
is pure white.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04
Winter Eczema
OR letter Ms s9s vs sf ss:

menting disease called Eczema. 1t slum-
bers through the summer and breaks
out in winter. The head, feet and hands
are the parts most often attacked, though
it sometimes appears on other parts of the
body, the skin hardens, cracks open and
bleeds, while the itching and burning is
at times almost unbearable. Scratching
only makes it worse, sores and scabs
forming where the skin is broken.
In this form of Eczema brownish white
crusts sometimes
form which scale of. SKIN CRACKS
in fine PARTICLES,
leavingth the skin raw AND BlEEDS
and inhamed. 1t is
especially painful and severe when con-
fined to the hands, which often become SO
badly affected that the sufferer is unable
to perform the lightest work. This, like
all other types of Eczema, is due to acid
poisons III the blood and not to local
causes. The trouble is more than skin
deep, and washes, soaps, powders and
salves nor anything else applied to the
surface can possibly do more than soothe
the burning and itching or relieve tempo
rarily the inflammation and pain.
1t is the acids thrown off by the blood
and which are forcing their way through
the pores that cause the skin to harden,
crack and bleed, and produce the irrita-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04
FASHIONS FOR MIDWINTER
ARE LESS PRONOUNCED

The Best Of the Early Season Styles Are Retained and
Those Found Wanting Are Thrown Out-Tas for
Bodices Instead Of Hats-Dnner Bodces Of Many
FabricS-Lace Jacket Effects in the Lead
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

and does 1t promptly and effectually.
S: S. S. purifes and invigorates the thin
acid blood, and builds up the entire sys-
tenn; then the unsightly eruption and sores
heal, the skin becomes smooth and soft,
and all signs of the Eczema disappear
Our special book on Skin Diseases Fl ee,
The Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

is achieved by the barred neck, and II
the jacket is all of lace, as 1t frequent
ly is, and the skirt of velvet, the get
up sometimes seems splendid
A beautiful lace used on elaborate
evening waists and these semi-dress
things as well, is made of a vast,
round cord. As soft in effect as che
mile, this cord weaves always a very
open pattern, through which several
layers of chiffon over silk provides
rich background.
Whole bodices made in this way are
seen in black and white over white and
deep cream over color, but the best re-
suits show a more discreet use of the
lace The body of the waist may be
covered with it. the woven piece falling
short of the collar line to display chif-
fon and gauze Jokes exquisitely needle
worked. With this the sleeves may be
entirely of the chiffon or gauze, with
perhaps one rich application of the cord
lace, or deep shoulder caps on it.
Negligees, strictly speaking, the loose
garments in which fair woman takes
the best of her home comforts, are both
semi-decolette and very high at the
throat. Many a wrapper of fine cash
mere or novelty wool displays marvels
in hand stitchery, delicate ribbon trim
mings, and harmonious combinations of
color.
Checked ribbon, in apple green and
black, decked one smart gown of pale
pink novelty wool. The ribbon was
manipulated to form pointed bands,
Joined with fagotting, and shaped an
entire bolero which set upon the wide
sleeved garment as If 1t were a sepa-
rate detail.
Powered, striped and spotted rib
bons, the last sort in, black and white,
are also pretty furnishings for wool
wrappers, whose deep sailor collars
may also show a touch of lace. Silk
balls and tassels, in the same shade as
the hibbon, disposed at the bottom of
the bolero or ending tie-strings, are
frequently seen.
But pretty as it is, all this flummery
loses its charm before certain severely
plain house styles, worn here and
there by women of elegant pretension.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04
SKIN CRACKS
AND BLEEDS

ton and sorcnc SIS.
S. S. S. neutralizes
these acid poisons
and cleauses the blood
of all irritating sub
stances and humors
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04

By CHRISTINE TERHUNE HERRICK.
Copyright, 1903, by Christine Terhune Herrick.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24
CASTLE HAYNES CONVICT CAMP.

AS our readers know there has been
a good deal of talk of late about the
condition of the county convict camp
at Castle Haynes because of two re-
cent grand jury reports as to it's I'M
clearly condition. The last of these
reports was extremely sensational and
caused quite a stir among the people
generally and the county officials. This
report was made on April 18th n was
published in The Messenger of the 18th.
This report, made by a committee Of
the grand jury and signed by it's fore
man. was of such a nature that we
thought editorial comment upon it nee
essary and it was discussed in the
next issue of The Messenger. On Sun
day last The Messenger published
statements from county officials and
leading physicians of this city giving
the other side of the case. The two
statements in many essentials are
fatty contradictory. 1t is true the
certificate of the visiting physicians
states that the conditions therein set
forth were found to exist two days
previous to the appearance of the ad-
verse criticism of the grand jury" but
the statement of Mr.. Hocut, foreman
Of the inmates Of the convict camp
and the statement of the county super
intendent of health would show that
the conditions these physicians found
had existed for months previous. Still
the members Of the grand jury state
that they found vermin in the quarters |
and actually got them on themselves
by going into the sleeping wards. The
men making the statements On boil
sides of this matter are known to the
people of New Hanover county to be
all men of honesty. integrity and ION
or. The people ave heard both sides. |
They must decide for themselves. They
are the jury and they must make up
the verdict. The Messenger published
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24

If Mr.. Roosevelt does not hasten his
return to Washington he will find af-
fairs in a terrible fix when he loes>get
back. The courts are about to enforce
the antitrust laws. Assistant Postmas-
ter General Bristow has taken him at
his word and is unearthing frauds and
scandal in the p~oStoffice department.
The grand jury in Porto Rico is trying
to show up smuggling con~spiracies
among officers in the army and navy.
There is a rumor that r is going
to resign the Charleston customs colIec-
torship so that this fight will have to
be gone all over again, and what is
the worst feature about this matter is
that it is said Crum's object in resign
ing is to relieve the president of the
embarrassing position in which his
nomination has placed the latter. On
top of all these things to annoy the
president comes the astounding news
from Washington that General Corbin.
the adjutant general of the army. the
pet of the war department and of the
administration. has been blackballe6
by the Metropolitan Club. Of Washing
ton City. This club has been described
as the upper chamber Of swelldon, to
which all thoroughbred highrollers in
| Washington must belong if they are to
stay thoroughbreds and highrollers.'
What is the country coming to when
an ex-paymaster in the volunteer ser
vice is powerful enough to take such
revenge against the adjutant general
of the army and the cock of the mill
tary walk in Washington because the
latter prevented his being transferred
to the regular service when the volun-
teers were mustered out at the close
! of the Spanish war? 1t is said one Mer-
Ger. formerly in the paymasterS de-
partment, is the man who engineered
the generals defeat. Mr.. Roosevelt
had better quit his h~obnobbing with
! mountain lions and ~cavorting AROUND
with cinnamon bears in the Yellow
stone park and return to Washington
if he does not want his own fences
looking like a cyclone had passed
through his individual political pre-
| serves and his party smashed to
smithereens.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24

tempered with respect. The world is
full of weaklings who command com
passion. Merrick's was a strong and
vivid personality.
He died at the very zenith of his
powers, having achieved q perfectly
C position, and opene for him.
self a prospect which n Journalist
might IVY Just past forty years of
age, established in the esteem of his
associates and the reading public, sure
of domestic happiness and public on
or and renown Merrick'S future
seemed to be illumined by every gra-
ciouS auspice and guaranteed by every
excellent security. We may not Ques-
ton, but surely we may deplore, the
dispensation of Providence which has
removed from the world a man so full
of promise at the high tide of his use
fulneSS. OF the Posts loss we can
not speak with moderation. OF the
pity of the death Of such a man at
such a stage of his career nothing at
all adequate can be put in words. A
fount of kindly humor and of gentle
raillery. a spirit of high thought and
purpose, hating hypocrisy, scorning
impudent pretense, yet always honor
ing true worth and celebrating true
achievement, Harry Merrick had at
tanned the proportions of a power at
once unique and definite, in the eQua-
ton of the day. We pay to his emf
nent deserts the tribute of our I'M
feigned admiration. We give to his
untimely taking off the testimony of
our tears"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24

The Springfield Republican says that
President Roosevelt is ambitious to sue
coed DR.. Eliot as president of Harvard
University, when he has finished the
second term in the White house, which
he expects the American people are to
secure for him." So far as known DR..
Eliot has not declared his intention to
retire from the presidency of Harvard:
but hat is not material-the point to
be considered is that Mr.. Roosevelt
would like to lave the job. If the
change is to be made, however, why not
make it now? Why wait until 1902
News and Courier.
If President Eliot will not create the
desired vacancy for Mr.. Roosevelt per-
haps Booker T. Washington nay be
found to be more accommodating. We
should think Mr.. Roosevelt would as
lief be president of Tuskegee as of
Harvard. There is certainly more OPP
portunity for holding open the door of
hope to political and social preferment
for the colored brother and sister in this
position than in that of president of
the northern university.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24
MIR. ROOSEVELT'S HEDGES.

The agitation of the labor question
must be somewhat annoying to Presi-
lent Roosevelt H must steer a mid
die course between the opposing forces
of combined capital and organized Ia
Dor. This he, no doubt, finds a difficult
task. The public must not be surpris-
ed, then, to find him hedging OCCASION
ally-first On one side of the fence,
then on the other. We have just had
an instance of this. Since starting on
his western tour he has been asked by
certain labor organizations not to travel
over the Union Pacific railroad because
Of a strike on that line growing out CT
differences between the railway au-
thorities and their employees. The pres
ident declined the request; but, that the
labor organizations making it might not
be angered by the refusal, he gives as
the reason therefor hat it would dis
appoint so many people if his itinary
were changed at this late day, imply
ing by such language that he would ac-
cede to the request of the strikers were
it not for the reason set forth. But
the president and his immediate asso-
ciates seem to fear that his refusal,
notwithstanding the apparent good
reason assigned, may give offense to
a large class of laboring people. They
hasten to propitiate these people by
making arrangements for him to be-
come the guest of the labor unions of
Butte, Mon, on his return from the
Yellowstone park. So anxious were the
Roosevelt party that he should ac-
cept this invitation that Private Sec
rotary Loeb, on it's receipt, drove ten
miles into the Wilds of the park to lay
it before the president in order that he
might lave IN anSWer ready for the
representative of the labor organiza-
tons when the latter appeared at Gin
nabar. The invitation was readily &C
cepted and the labor unions of Butte
informed that the president would be
their guest. From now until that i'm
portant day the country will be Won
dering what sort of a speech Mr..
Roosevelt will make on that occasion.
There is no telling what tack he will
1t will be a. speech, of course,
suited to the views Of his entertainers
we suppose a regular trust-buster,
anti-monopoly affair, n that will take
all the bad taste out of the mouths OF
his hearers because of his insistanca on
the union Pacific railroads.
1t will be such a speech as would not
suit the Union League Club of New
York or the Manufacturers Associa-
ton of Boston. He will talk to suit
the western laboring men and send
a wink across the continent to the cast
trust magnates hat will allay any
uneasiness on their part at his words.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24

The Mann liquor law, which has pass
ed both houses of the Virginia legisla-
ture is much more stringent as to the
sale Of liquor than the Watts bill Of this
state. 1t practically establishes prohi-
bition in the country and in towns of
less than five hundred inhabitants. It
requires the applicant for license to sell
liquor in such localities to have his
petition endorsed by a majority of the
terial district. The license tax is great
ly increased and the sale of liquor on
Sunday or to a minor works a forfeiture
of the license.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24
NAVAL SV3HEA

NAVAL SVk3HEA
SPIRITS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
doing.
ROSIN-S1.sO and s1.S5.
TAR-Firm at s1.65.
CRUDE TURPBNTINE-Ffrm; hard
$500; dip $3.50; virgin S3.75.
Prices same day last ~year-Spirits
turpentine firm at 45c; ros!n S1.10
and s1.15: tar s1.2O: crude turpentine
81. 35 and $3.50.
Receipts today-24 casks spirits tur-
pentine, 13S barrels rosin, 1874 barrels
tar. 10 barrels crude ~turpentine.
Receipts same day last years casks
spirits turpentine, So barrels rosin, 101
barrels tar, 5 barrels crude ~turpentine.
coUAER PRODUcA
SALT-Prices car load loteao0 lbs
coarse 79c; $50 lbs coarse lac; 100 Tbs
C F 4oc; 200 Rs c F soc; 200 lbs F F
$3.50.
DRY SALTED SDES-1ec.
BUTTBR-3S to 81.
CoFFEE+7 to 1ec.
FLOUR-Straights 1878 to $3.50; 24e
yatents $3.50 to $500; full $40 to $4.ss.
MOLASSDS-S. House IA; New Or
leans Brights % to Is: Porto Rico 80:
Cuba %
SUGAR-Granulated $3.50; W. c. x.
No. 5, $3.50; Ne. Z $4.40: No. 3 S4.3o; No.
Ii, $4.20.
LARD-CTieree Basis) Pure 11!ac.
Compound 8 to SIC.
COUNTRY PRODUCT.
PEANUTS-North Carolina IS to 2E;
Virginia so to 60; Spanish IS to 20.
BEESWAX-Ac.
CORN-65 to 81.
CORN MEAL-58@60.
EGGS-14c.
TURKEYS-16 to Is 2-3c Der pound.
CHICKENS-Hens 20 to 40: roosters
20 to 20.
PORK-15c per pound.
N. G. BACON-Hams (old) IA to 15c;
hams (new) 15c; shoulders II to 12c;
sides IA to 15c.
SHINGLES-Per 1000, 5-inch saps
$500; 5-inch hearts. $3.50: 6-inch saps
$500; 6-inch hearts $500.
TIMBER
Per NJ feet-EXtra milling. .s7.50@S. so
Mill prime 0oT5 50
MILL lSlf .9f.ovQo.o
Common 81 COCA so
Inferior to ..s3.5e@4.00