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to servants or poor relations, and even II
a woman had friend who was able to
dress 80 well, if the friend happened to be
in the same set she could not present her
with old gowns and have everybody know
it,"
what is the age Of the average gown
that you buy7"
Il should say that the evening gowns
that come to me have rarely been worn
more than twice, usually once. Tie walk
ing costumes and coats have a longer
wearing life. They may be two or three
months old and may have been worn
twenty or thirty times, and still retain
their freshness and salable quality
"Who are your customers? Do the
women who sell their gowns buy also?'
Rarely. Those women wear only i'm
ported dresses or those made by fashionable
tailors and mo1istes. No, my customers
are women OF the middle classes, who are
desirous Of making a good appearance,
but cannot spend more than thirty or forty
dollars on gown at the utmost, and average
twenty or twenty-five.
"They can for that price get an i'm
ported dress here that could not be dupli-
Gated at dressmaker's for less than
sevcnty-fve or hundred, and nobody
would ever know that 1t was secondhand
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and the stage driver has, besides, to look
out for people on the sidewalks who want
10 ride. to collect the roof fares himself
and make change when it is wanted for the
passengers inside, who drop their fares in
fare box. He has to keep to his schedule
as to time.
But the Fifth avenue stage driver is pretty
sure TO be a cool and level headed and
capable man who does all these things with
out any fuss, and keeps to his schedule
easily and finds line besides in which to
give information o passengers.
The stage had come now to the neighbor-
hood of Thirtieth street; and looking north,
there was to be seen ahead, rising to Fortieth
street or thereabouts, that half-mile stretch
of Fifth avenue up the slope OF Murray Hill,
filed from curb to curb with carriages and
automobiles and all manner OF vehicles,
a spectacle of life and motion stirring to
see. Right in the narrow foreground. at
Ihirt y-fourth street, the avenue was tenn
porarily contracted by some work being
done there, so that the current was forced
through n narrowe channel, with the result
that It became turbulent. A mounted
policeman and one or two more on foot
standing in the thick of it had all they could
do to keep things moving and prevent a
jana little extra scene. giving zest to the
picture.
q should think that more New York men
would climb up here and ride up the avenue
on the roof seats just to look at this picture, "
the passenger began again.
Il get 'em, sometimes" snid the driver.
sNew Workers that we all know, men who
may live in Fifth avenue, or who may live
OF 1t, who do just that; climb up here and
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sit down just where you are sitting, to take
look at the avenue and the life in it from
here. or maybe to bring back to themselves
the old days when the stages ran down
Broadway; and they sit here and chin along
and enjoy it all; but generally and for the
most part they ride inside
"1he strangers and visitors that ride
outside" said the passenger, "all want to
know and the driver tells EN- How
does the driver know?'
why he makes it his business to know
said the driver. There's men driving
stage on this line that know the avenue
better than some of the men that live on
It. They've been driving here for many
years, and they'v We literally seen the avenue
stretch out and fill up; and they keep track
of things
-If there's new cellar started they find
out whose house it's for, and they read the
newspapers and keep posted. They know
the newcomers and they know when any
body moves and where he moves to-
1.-The boys ever indulge in pipe dreams
about the houses and the people, TO make
things more interesting for the traveller"
NO, don't think 80. There was lady
rode down with me this morning who asked
me how much house now going up on
the avenue was going to cost when 1t was
finished and told her seven million dollars "
"'Why,' she says, the driver rode down
with Yesterday said fifteen millions
"You see, he put the cost about double
what it will really be, but maybe the driver
didn't know how much 1t cost and he wanted
to be sure to get the figure high enough
But a good many OF the strangers and
visitors that climb up on the roof to ride
and see the sights know pretty well about
the people that live here just ns we'll rs
anybody does, and you can't fool them.
They're just as much interested AZ can be
In seeing this fairyland where all these
rich folks dwell. and they want TO see the
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SIGHTSEERS ON The STAGES.
THE ROOF SEATS A GREAT At
TRACTION TO STRANGERS.
They Want to Know All About Fifth Avenue
and the Driver Has the Information
on the Tip Of His Tongne-S0mething
Extra In II for Him Occa slOnally.


Extra In II for Him Occa siOnally.
Mounted policemen on the avenue now.
h'd a passenger sitting on the box seat
VIII the driver OF Fifth avenue stage.
Yes said the driver, -and it's good
.hNg Only instead Of having three from
Fourteenth to Fifty-ninth street they
ought TO have twsnty-three, one every
Two blocks, They need 'em to keep things
Straight"
Traffic on the avenue increasingly
All the time Never was so great as
how"
seems to me there's more people riding
III u" stages; certainly more on the roof
That's right. The roof travel on these
t"E"' this year has been copper cent. greater
v'ah II was last; roof seats full all through
u'c summer in pleasant weather. and they
Still are.
WY people ride up and down the avenue
W. the stages summer nights to get cool.
nS u good long breezy ride for a nickel.
ana strangers fill the roof seats on pleasant
oaY' all day long.
Inou-nnds Of visitors to the city take
"'' ride at this season, and many thousands
w 'hem count on it as one Of the things
"'y are going 10 do when they get here,
'-'a 'ney take the greatest sort OF enjoy
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| identical house that so and 80 lives in, and
all that, but they know what's what, and
all these visitors know something about
what they're looking at. They're quick
and intelligent people, or they woul4n t
be travelling, understand and they
wouldn't stand for much piping"
"Anythisng in this for you' People ever
Sometimes, but not to any alarming
extent. might pick up a. gay young
beau from the country with three or
four girls In tow and they all climb up On
the roof and ride down the avenue to see the
sights, And the young fellow. not the
worst that ever lived. puts quarter over
to me and asks me to tell him who's who
and where they live.
why, those girls think the young fellow
is big man to be able to stand right In
with tho driver like that and mako good
, with him right of the bat, and make 'em
keep on thinking that way all can: Any
thing that they want TO know toll EN- In
just as good shape a. know hsw.
Now, a quarters q quarter. Of course;
but you'd scarcely count 1t as largo
fortune, hey2 No And then plenty Of
people will sit right there and want to
know all about 1t and never give up cent,
and some Of en- never even say thank yeu '
Then again a comfortable locking man
might sit down here alongside OF me and
d'Driver, I'm a stranger here. There's
half dollar. want you to tell mo some
thing about the folks that live along here
And, Of course, do tell him as wen as
know how.
But while one man might give you
half dollar, or somebody might even give
you perhaps dollar, the bulk Of the pesple
you tive cents or a dime, or maybe cigsr.
/ should say II I rubbed up against halt q
dollars worth of velvet In the course a .
day that was hitting 1t above the Average.
But whether we get anything or not. we tell
EN- what we can
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ment in 1t. They all know about Fifth
avenue and the people living on it, the
old and the new millionaires, and the fa-
nous people generally, and they all want
to see the street and see the houses where
these people actually live.
"And they've read, many Of them have,
about those stages, and how you can see
everything from the roof seats, and how
the driver knows whore everybody lives,
and is willing to tell em about it, and so
one Of the things they don't fail to do is
to take this ride on Fifth avenue stage.
They come from all over, everywhere;
and they mostly seem to travel-you find
'em 80 here, anyway-in punches. three
or four or more in lot.
Most of the New York women that use
the stages ride inside, excepting thcse who
take the cooling roof ride on summer nights,
these riders being nc silly from out side the
dis riot through which the stages run.
They come here and take lis ride as they
might trolley ride, or a ride on a steam
boat-as sort of picnic.
Stage after stage rolls by in summer,
the roof seat 8 a regular iagnat Of women.
They may not be expert at climbing to the
high seats, but they all Chamber up and
greatly enjoy the ride ard the sensation Of
looking down from that height The
driver said he had had women weighing
POO pounds climb up to the roof ON his
stage-women who found 1t hard work
to get up, but harder work by good deal
TO get down.
The Fifth avenue 81 age driver certainly
has enough to do to occupy his mind. It's
something just to drive a pair of horses
and big stage in a crowded city street |;
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Won saw sanseer and strous would be uood
uao.;, .Uu oay vs. ~ go @ ~ ~ o,,;rant 80
rendering oi the name ol .ne einlnen' .i,I COM
poser or Wnltzes. Markyarvelee VIII be az
near as you can get to Machiavelli. but pos
siblv Won NAV he able to avoid this distin.
a,i.bed narsnnaro
su.'neu pei s .,,
st. Clark should be rendered Sinclair. and
If YOU would win a smile Of approval, pro-
noi,ro. g Iey,r so,Iinger mr. Selieper
nounee o.' Hesei ~" W
There is no need TO LOOK up bcnuchahp:
it is merely playful rendering OF the famous
maker OF pills. Duchesne has such an ave.
ins,irino anneoronco IL ia n nitv We must
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was absolutely unruffled. 1t is here"

was absolutely unruffled. 1t is here"
Madame took a box from a Ipile and
showed creation-there is no other word
for it-of fllmy lace and chiffon. rose colored.
1t looked as If 1t were fresh from the sales
rooms and bore the name Of world
famed Parisian couturiers mark on the
skirt.
Madame assented to the only possible
remark.
4Yes, he must have been brute-a man
who wouldn't like that dress. l believe
the truth was that he was Jealous Of her.
She was the most beautiful creature in that
gown you ever saw
Does sentiment often enter into this
business?"
Doesn't it enter into every kind'' said
madam, sagely. And here very often.
at Is no uncommon thing for woman
to sell me gown she has worn only once
or twice because her husband or sweet
heart didn't think it becoming. And then,
even my best customers will not sell me the
gowns of any one of the family whom they
have lost by death.
.They don't seem to think anything about
the fact that some one else is wearing their
clothes, generally spesa ing, but the thought
of the clothes of dead sister or mother
used by strangers is too much for them.
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any way, 80 they are usually bought BY
measurement
Madam knows her customers well. She
has remarkable memory for detail She
interrupted her conversation to help a
little German woman who was surrounded
by brilliant silks and voileA, trying to make
a selection. The contrast between the
Ill fitting costume that she wore and the
gown that she was bargaining for was
striking enough to attract attention.
Madam whispered the explanation.
-She belongs to q matrimonial agency,
and is getting gown to wear at ore Of their
parties. You wouldn't think it, but she has
really great deal Of money. Ysu know
the foreigners here arc the usual patro ns
Of those agencies and I sell great many
dresses to the aspirsnts for matrimonial
| honors.
-Brides2 Oh. yes. indeed. sell COM
plete outfits to brides-bridal gown, travel
ling, morning and homo, as well a. recep-
| tion dresses.
1T very often happens, too, that when
| young girl Is going to bs married her
mother sells me all her wardrobe. There
is a kind OF sentiment in having everything
entirely new at that time. just bought
twenty gowns from coming BRIDE
Before long cheval glass young man
stood looking admiringly at an opera cloak
which was being tried on by stately blonde,
who turned her eyes to his occasionally
for approval.
II don't know whether they are man and
wife or Just sweethearts, but they ceme
often, and always take the purchases away
with them. Funny, isn't it?' madam
remarked.
The girl and the man had decided on the
white satin opera cloak, and an attendant
took 1t and began to fold 1t up as madam
| spoke.
Before another glass young woman
was wriggling in the hands OF an attendant.
4I don't know as l dare take my waist
off, she murmured. as the girl held up
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keeps its many helpers busy enough with
out depending upon chance custom.
The place has been in existence In the
came hands for twenty-five years. and has
grown from small room on the first floor
until it has absorbed the entire building.
But Of this you get no inkling as you
step from the street into what seems a
badly lighted place. hung with nonde-
script garments, most Of them walking
costumes and coats of a period rapidly
becoming bygone. At the back of the room
g quartet OF girls, gowned in severe
black with white aprons, are waiting upon
en- equal number OF customers.
Trade to an unobservant eye would seem
to be dull. 1t Is in reality one Of the busy
days, but 1t Is not until one has visited
tie remote parts Of the big building that
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In the most crowded part Of one of the
most frequented avenues Of the city are
two unpretendng show windo Wa, with a
sign that informs the passerby that there
are ready made clothes within. The pro-
pretor of the place is modestly described
H. the directory as a dressmaker.
The casual passerby would not be at
tracied by the window display to give up
an en sagement for the matinee or a o'clock
tea at the Waldorf, but 1t might repay her
Il she were. The shop has clientele that
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29
TRY FOR THEN.

Senator Clay declares that two
of the things which Georgia most
needs are good schools aud good
roads. This the writer believes to
be true and that it is Incumbent
upon the people of this common
wealth to put forth their best eff
forts to obtain them.
Several yearsago the Honorable
Henry w. Blair, then represent
ing New Hampshire in the United
States senate, introduced, a bill
in that body providing for the as
sistance by the federal government
of the cause of education in the
several states by appropriations
from the federal treasury for this
object, the amounts to be received
by each slate being in proportion
to its illiteracy. This excellent
measure was defeated by the Dem
ocratic party principally through
Southern votes) on the grounds of
its alleged repugnancy to the con-
stitution of the United States.
The writer believes that no law
ever enacted by congress has been
better justified by the spirit if not
the letter of the constitution
For, the last amendment to that
instrument makes citizens and
voters of class Of people who pre-
viously had no political rights.
The federal government having
declared these persons to be citi-
zens and suffNRgists, it was incum-
bent nnon it YaasHBanfv tham for
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rights of citizenship including
suffrage. The supreme court has
frequently decided that where
power is granted the means to
carry it into effect are also grant
ed.
1t is now a principle Of very
general application throughout
the United States and which is
recognized i'll many state consti-
buttons, that education is neces-
sary to fit one for the duties of
citizenship and for the rights of
the elective franchise. 1t would
be no objection to the law that
the white people also would have
the benefits of it's provisions, for
the general government takes no
cognizances of the races and the
conditions affected by it's minis
trations. Under the Blair bill
Georgia would probably have re-
ceived three million dollars per
annum, enough to have given am
pie educational facilities to every
child, white and colored, in the
state Neither did the Blair bill
attempt to deprive the states OF
their exclusive control of their
educational matters. The funds
were to be delivered to the state in
the same way that agricultural
colleges are now assisted by the
general government. No discrim-
nations against colored schools
would be allowed. Will not cur
Georgia senators and representa-
tives support such a bill if it
should be introduced again?
The proposition to improve the
roads of the state, half of the ex-
pense to be borne by the general
government, is warranted by the
letter OF the constitution under
the provision relating to the es-
Enlistment of postoffices and post
roods. Under the operation of
the rural free delivery system the
roads of Georgia and of the other
states are now post roads, enabling
congress to take them in hand and
grade, macadamize and otherwise
improve them. Let's try to have
this bill passed by urging ouE sem
ators and representatives to vote
for it. r. Victor.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

A scheme in regard to the hand
ling of coal by the dealers of Cen
trail Illinois was detected when it
was found that grain cars have
been loaded with soft coal and
billed as wheat. This coal was
then stored in out of the way sid
ings and held for higher prices,
while the need of fuel is great and
people are actually suffering for
want of it. In Columbus, o.. the
charters of six coal companies
have been revoked because of their
conspiracy to raise prices and linn
it the output of coal.
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CHUCK ANDERSON, Proprietor

THE best of Vehicles, the safest of dri
vers and the fastest of horses are always
ready, night and day for hire. No man
or woman or child ever has givenme a
call in the past, who has been, nor shall
any ever in the future be dissatisfied
with my teams or the men in my employ.
Everything and every body about me are
a number one.
l have sheapened my charges proper
tionate to the stringency of the times.
For references as to the truth IF what
say, as to the turnouts and charges, gs
to my friends, which means the people
generally.
Parties hiring are strictly responsible
for the safety of themselves, vehicles and
horsaS
ia. G. ANDERSON.
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4 MHANGE Of LIVE TOPICS
Penned for Journal Readers
by a Local Scribe.
A GuEsSwORK .'sCIENCE."

II A03 w Vim hJOAS@-NNLs
If the rivers of the earth are Of
such great antiquity, and if they
cut the deep canyons through
which they flow III the western
states how comes it that there are
many of these canyons through
which no water flows at the pres
ent time? The writer has trav-
eled through-them in Colorado.
They are very narrow, but are of
great depth, and their bottoms
are now used as roads. 1t is
claimed that these gorges were
made dy rivers that are now ex-
tinct. Those that the writer ex-
plored were about three hundred
feet deep as against $3.50 feet of
depth Of those of the Colorado
river, which Prof FiskA endeav-
ored to show were cut by that
river Is it likely that rivers
flowing through the same kind of
geological formations would dry
up after cutting trench three
hundred feet deep while others are
still flowing after cutting to
depth of $3.50 feet? Is it not far
more probable that these riffs in
the esrth's surface were made by
earthquakes, and that water cour-
ses afterwards took the beds thus
made, as they naturally seek low
lands? Suppose the strata of the
earth through which the canyons
extend we're soft, as they must
have been one million years ago,
the erosion then would have been
much greater than one-tenth of an
inch per annum, the present ero-
sion of the strata by the water.
1t may have been three or four
feet in that time-that Ii. if the
river did i'll fact cut the canyons.
1t does seem to the writer that
there are not sufficient grounds for
Prof. Fiske's assertion that the
canyons, were made by the river
and that it required one million
years to finish the task, thus af-
fording an indication of the
earth's vast antiquity which is
necessary to support the Darwin
ian theory of evolution.
The kangaroo and the dodo of
Australia are fast becoming ex-
tinct. In century they will
probable be entirely SO. Five
thousand years hence (if the the
DRY of evolution and the world
last that long) very likely some
specialized professor of biology
will point to the bones of these
creatures as those of some of the
brute ancestors of man. Because
no modern organisms have been
found in stratas in which very an
cient and extinct forms have been
discovered is no sign that modern
and extinct forms did not exist
contemporqneously 1t is almost
certain that nearly all of the fos-
sils which have been found were
preserved in the earth by the
forms which they represent hav-
ing been caught in cataclysps and
buried from light, feat and air.
Many species, modernas we'll as
extinct, may never have been thus
caught, but dying upon the surface
of the earth every Dprt of them
went to decay. Horses, COWS and
sheep may have existed from the
first. The supposed great heat of
the earth alleged to be indicated
by the vegetation of certain ep-
ochs may not have been such in
fact. Favorable conditions other
than heat may have produced the
the giant ferns, etc. The doctrine
of evolution is guess-work from
beginning to end
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

The President of the United
States Steel Corporation is paid
100000 year and there are II
men with salaries of 500, 900 year
or over; so who receive from $1O,-
600 to $4,000; 200 whose salaries
range from $1,000 to 700, and
more than 1000 who receive from
81, 800 to 5000.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

The Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones,
of Chicago, declares: "The girl
who reaches the age of twenty-five
and can't cook a cake, or pie OF
can't make shirt waist or trim a
hat is not true woman. She is
a sham and her parents are re-
sponsible and ought to be punished
for misdemeanor -"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

Congress has voted to create
new cabinet office-the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor
Cedartown Standard.
As the South has no representa-
tive in the cabinet, President
Roosevelt should appoint Booker
Washington to the place That
would be the eternal fitness of
things.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

Fulton county has over 900 state
pensioners who draw over $53, 900
annually. Georgia pays this year
to her pensioners $50, 900, and if
the list continues to increase it
will reach the million dollar mark
in another two years.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

The Crown-Princsss Of Saxony
is over forty years old; the man
with whom she eloped is twenty
three. Guess how it will end.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

On January LIST. there was in
the treasury vaults at Washington
ST., 100000, 200 which included a
stock of gold in excess of $780,
100000. Uncle Sam is quite rich.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

William R. Hearst has given
away to the poor of New York,
100000 gallons of coffee with an
sppetizing lunch to each cup of
coffee, during the cold season.
Mr.. Carnegie has given away as
many books. Which system of
charity if the more sensible?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

The New York World says that
the insane of New York would
make city with a population
equal to macon in Georgia OF
Meridian in Connecticut or King
ston on the Hudson" New York
ers either die or go crazy after a
certain period.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1903-01-29

The latest big gun manufactured
for Uncle Sans service is warran-
ted to shoot q projectile a distance
of twenty-oae miles. Il is not as
pured that the gun will hit any
thing at this distance.