davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27


 The channel at Port Arthur has been closed many times on paper, but the ] alert Japs seem to have closed it at | last in earnest and for keeps. This 1 bottles up one fleet. -----.u--<--4---- A Chicago man has issued an injunc- tion to prevent a wife from playing the races, and possibly woman may yet be enjoined from going shopping Judge Parkers colorless record is bringing him supporters Too much l record Is oftentimes an encumbrance l For example, MT. David B. Hill
 --s.- The Dingley tariff restraints competi- l tion and enriches the few, but it Is of | course sacred and constitutional, and the barons so consider it.
 ----...- Governor Pennypacker is so unpopu- lar at home that the republicans of | Pennsylvania are trying to nominate him for vice-president
 
 The baseball reporters at Port Ar thur are turning their attention to the scores made by the shells fired from Japanese ships.
 -----~--- Prof. Langley is still hopeful, but he must hereafter pay for his own air ships. Uncle Sam is no longer easy or hopeful.
 President Roosevelt counts that day lost whose low descending sun does not i see the names of some delegates added | to his list.
 The war in the Far East is product | i've of more rumors than blood Few are killed, but many are to be.
 ------.s.----- The snowfall of Boston last winter was S3 inches, and it's people still shudder whenAthey recall it. Snow dri4ts six feet In North Dakota | are warning to Boston that its late esteemed winter may return. March is now trying to go out as | lamb-like as it came in. Give it credit | for good intentions.
 ..---- Panama has reduced it's standing army and is now down to the five com pany basis
 Society in Port Arthur is observing Lent, and watching the Japanese fire works.
 The flowers that bloom in the spring can be caught in the very act just now. MT. Bryan is no longer the boy orator. for he is A years old
 --s.----- Spring showers bring May flowers, and also March cyclones.
 
 Port Arthur will ac any rate be we'll shaken before taken.
 Port Arthur is the takingest town in the Orient at least.
 
 Port Arthur has not yet heard that it has fallen.
 Russia Is as slow as a North Pole glacier
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE
UP-TO-DATE

The Crush Tea Is Now the Thing
Though the Debutante Prefers
BaII-How the Bud Is Intro
duced, What She Is Expected
to Do, and Why 1t Is No
Longer Good Form for Her to
BE Gowned i'll White.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

At the end of the feeding period,
which lasts from thirty to forty days,
and the last melting stage has taken
place, the worms begin preparations
to spin. They quit eating, shrink in
size, and become restless as they be-
gin to throw out the silk. Then the
culturist must provide the necessary
arrangements for the spinning. Twigs
two or three feet long are placed upon
the shelves where the worms have been
feeding, and are SO arranged as to
form interlocking arches over them
The room is kept at temperature of
so degrees Fahrenheit. No sooner are
the twigs in place than the Industrious
worms climb through the branches and
commence spinning their cocoons. The
construction of a1oocoon is not sur
passed by anything in nature for del
icate and exquisite workmanship. The
tiny worm spins it's silken thread
Fround itself, and occupies two days in
building a fairy house of white gossa-
mer. Then as the worm, by an in
Scrutable transformation of nature, is
ready to burst forth as a beautiful
butterfly from it's place of voluntary
Imprisonment, man steps in and not
only deprives it of liberty, but COM
mits murder in order that the peo-
pies of the earth may wear silken raj
ment. The cocoons are collected and
placed in an oven having a tempera-
ture of 200 degrees Fahrenheit, where
they are baked for ten or twelve
hours until the worms are dead. An
other method is to place the cocoons
in tightly sealed boxes upon shelves,
and give them half hour bath of
steam to stifie the little ehrysaldies.
Then the cocoons are dried in the open
air. During the process of either bak-
ing or choking, the worms make a
humming noise and each cocoon
prison sounds like a bumblebees' nest
that has been riled by the small boy
When this noise ceases the culturist
then knows that his fiendish torture
has done it's deadly work. This UNI
pleasant feature is found necessary
owing to the fact that if the worm
should be allowed to develop into a
butterfly and ocme out, the delicate
silken threads would be broken and
the cocoon spoiled because it could not
then be unwound
Since an American engineer invent
ed a reeling machine for the unwinding
of cocoons it does not pay for a silk
raiser to unwind his cocoons, and,
therefore, he now sells them after the
worms have been choked or stifled.
Cocoons, after the worms have been
killed and dried, bring 81 per pound.
They are designated as choked CO.
coons. Fresh cocoons are tohse before
the worms are killed, and they sell for
35 to As cents per pound. The differ
ence in price is because cocoons lose
two-thirds of their weight in the bak-
ing or sitting processes.
The egg of the silk worm has much
the appearance of a turnip seed, with
many shades of color. The average
number of eggs per ounce is 10000,
and an ounce can be bought for 81. so
to $3.50. These eggs are sold under
government inspection in France and
Italy.
One ounce of eggs will produce 100
pounds of fresh cocoops, or twenty
three to thirty-fve pounds of chok-
ed cocoons. 1t takes three and two
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

moths, or butterflies, appear. After six
hours population the female begins to
deposit the eggs. The silk culturist
wraps these eggs in cloth or paper, and
keeps them in a cool place until the
next season. when the white mulberry
trees get in leaves to furnish the only
food upon which the silk worm thrives
Then the eggs are put in a place of 70
degrees temperature, where they hatch
in about six days. The space required
for each ounce of worms is about 500
square feet. 1t is then these tiny
worms perform wonders. When but an
hour old they begin eating the mulber-
ry leaves; displaying a voracious APP
petite, and growing as if by magic.
While they are devouring the leaves
there is a munching sound heard, as
when a druggist uses the pestle in
mortar. Food must be given as soon as
the last feeding is consumed. At least
from four to five feeds are given each
day. During the last stage six and
seven meals must be provided daily.
The silk worms pass through five ages
lasting as follows: First age is five or
six days; second age four or five days;
third age, five or six days; fourth age,
five to seven days: fifth age, eight or
ten days. During this period of feed
ing the worms fast" three different
times, twelve hours each. when they
eat nothing. Soon as fast" is over,
they again devour the mulberry leaves
with renewed nervousness.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
SILK WORM TO SILK
Interesting Working Exhibit at the st. Louis
Exposition.
By A. c. CANTLEY.

st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. S.-FrOm the
worm to the woven silk-from the CO.
coon to the cloth-that will be the
process, complete, shown in a silk mill
as star exhibit in the textile sec
ton of the great Palace of Manufac-
lures at the Louisiana Purchase Elk
position, the process from the cocoon
to the point when the silk is ready
for the loom will also be shown in an
exhibit in the Palace of Agriculture.
Cocoons are to be brought from New
York for the purpose of this display,
and also the worms will be seen feed
ing on mulberry leaves taken from
trees imported from Italy. Thus, not
only silk culture will be demonstrate
ed, but the silk mill will show the
process of manufacture from the raw
silk to the finished product. Machin-
cry in operation may then take the
silk and turn out hosiery, handker-
chiefs and ribbons.
In adjacent space will be grouped
the wonderful displays of finished
products of all kinds made from silk.
In this manner the underlying princi-
pie of the entire exposition will be
carried out-that is, showing the pro-
cess of making alongside the tlnlshed
product.
Silk culture was an industry which
the Europeon kings attempted to fos-
ter in their colonies in America, but
it failed to thrive. With the excep-
ton of a few unsuccessful attempts
at revival, the industry has always
amounted to nothing in this country.
Sporadic attempts have recently been
made to revive it in California, Kan
sas, Georgia Utah, and experiments are
now also being made on Staten Island,
N. Y. But in this day and generation
the masses are unfamiliar with the
practical details of silk culture, and,
therefore, this star silk exhibit at the
Worlds Fair of 1904 will be quite in
teresting alike to the man who wears
silken pajamas and the lady of fashion
who delights in the rustic of silken
lingerie.
This exhibit may also be beneficial
in demonstrating to the public the
great financial possibilities of silk Gull
ture in this country for under the tre-
mendous growth of silk manufacture
in the last ten years the United States
to-day consumes more raw SILK tnan
any nation in the world.
silk culture is a charming industry
for the reason that man here works
tremendously with some of the most
intricate and beautiful processes of ma
ture. The production of silk begins
with the egg, and these eggs are sold
in the open markets of Japan, China,
italy and France. Especially in Japan,
China and Italy there are large num-
bers of people who devote their time in
looking after the production OF SILK
worm eggs for the market. Not only IS
great care required in feeding the
worms. but after the silk worms spin
their cocoons, it is necessary to keep a
close watch until the chrysalld de-
velops into the butterfly. Fltteeh Gays
sfter the worm spins the cocoon the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
ALLEN BROS.
wedding SPECIALISTS HOueurnshers hos ST. W.

the guests and to make themselves
generally useful and agreeable, and
not to stand around like so many
Psyches and Galateas in a museum.
Zone genuine society leader with
tact and experience" as the late Ward
McAllister was fond of saying, sis of
more value to a hostess than a bat
talon of young damsels in gauze and
flowers and smiles
There is much to be said, however,
in favor of having a flower garden of
girls to assist, provided each is inn
pressed with the fact that the hostess.
like a famous admiral, expects each
and all to do their duty.
The refreshments resemble those of
an ordinary o'clock tea, although
somewhat more elaborate. The table,
set in the dining-room is made at
tractive with flowers and lights, and
three or four walters are in attendance
to serve sandwiches salads, cakes,
bonbons and ices. Bouillon at one end
of the table is served from an urn, and
tea and chocolate at the other.
If it is not possible to procure the
services of walters, the table is pre-
sided over by three or four of the
young ladies, who add to the attrac-
tiveness of the supper room, sparkling
out as visions in adorable gowns, and
press youth and chivalry, represent
ed by the young men, into the
service. %
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

Recitations and musical efforts by
amateurs or professionals may enliven
or depress the entertainment OF
course, the music is very heavy and
classical, since everyone is so edu-
Gated now that she does not enjoy
harmony she can comprehend.
The only real kindly and humane
way to entertain people on such occa-
sions is with palm-hidden band, to
which no one needs make feintg of
listening, but whose bright, popular
melodies unconsciously inspire rather
Ethan depress the assemblage. So
The infallible way to promotes con-
verSation is to provide music, "How
did you make her listen to your" a
friend asked a. man who had a wife
possessed of the gift of tongue.
Il proposed at musicale" was the
reply.
The chief element of success for a
coming-out function is a really fresh
! debutante. The average society girl
has had almost three years in so-
J ciety, in a small way, before her mother
| freshens up her gowns and her charms
and pronuonces her. a bud, with
great flourish of trumpets. The result
is that she possesses little interest
in the social world, and is aquite
without the charm of naivette. and
the freshness and nervousness that
render her fascinating despite her
crudity and lack of self-possession.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

third pounds of choked cocoons to
make one pound of silk thread. The
worms of one ounce of eggs consume
1000 pounds of leaves during the feed
ing period. One mulberry tree from
ten to twenty years old will furnish
that supply of leaves, but it will take
from twenty to fifty trees that are
five years old to give that supply.
The cocoon production of one ounce
of seed brings on an average of $40
in the market.
The only investment necessary in
the business is the purchase of a few
twigs of the imported white mulber-
ry, which two years after planting be-
gin to bear leaves, and then spend
few dollars for an ounce or two of
silk worm eggs, and silk culture can
be tried as an experiment. AS each
worm spins 1,200 yards of silk, a child
of ordinary intelligence can soon be-
come proficient in the care of the
worms and earn from $50 to $50 in
the six weeks of silk-producing period
each year. The worms are no more
trouble than a hen setting. on a nest
Of eggs. If a farmer should carry
on the business on a large scale he
could live in just as fine a house and
drive as fine a horse as the neighbor
who raises corn, wheat or cotton,
opening for great profits for the
American farmer. especially in the
South, where the soil and climate are
well adapted for silk culture. The
total worlds crop of raw silk in 1900,
according to the census report, was
100000 pounds, which was produced
in China, Japan, Italy and France, and
of this amount the United States pur-
chased 100000 pounds, which was
consumed in her silk factories. New
York city is the greatest raw silk
market in the world to-day, with the
single exception of Shanghai, China
AS buyer of raw silk, the United
States stands first, for France has now
taken second place in her annual con-
sumption of but 5000, 900 pounds In
weight, the imported manufactured
silks in the states amounted to 7.0O0.-
600 pounds in 1900. This, together with
the 100000 pounds of raw silk i'm
ported, shows that this country alone
requires 100000 pounds of raw silk
which is almost one-half of the worlds
entire production. And still, this coun-
try produces no raw silk. Perhaps
the tiny worms spinning their silken
threads in the silk exhibit in the
Manufacturers Palace will be an OBJ
ject lesson, showing the possibilities
of great home market for a dead
industry that should be revived. 1t
may be said that any one can start
silk culture successfully by following
the instructions sent out by the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washing
ton. Under existing conditions, this
country sends to foreign countries each
year S75,OOO,OOO that ought to be kept
at home.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

the practice of submerging an inno-
cent oyster in a red bath of tomato
catsup.
'This gave rise to the question one
day by one of a party of four to an
other: What sort of oysters do you
usually eat with your catsup"
"Olive oil has become a fad with
some in oyster service. Requests for
oysters fried in olive oil or olive oil
in stew and roast are frequent. The
several condiments have named are
used extensively in fancy stews and
roasts.
"a lawyer whose name for many
years was most celebrated in the list
of criminal lawyers at the local bar
used to have his oysters brought to
him in pan, so that he might prepare
a sauce of horesradish. Worcester
shire, tabasco and mustard, in which
the bivalves were stewed. Another,
also jurist of note, insisted upon a
generous addition of sugar to every
stew. The color of an oyster and even
the appearance of it's shell are made
points of preference. One insists that
each oyster shell shall be scrubbed
and all seaweeds and dark sea growth
removed; another insists upon those
bearing the most barnacles.
"A peculiar fallacy is the matter of
color OF the oyster itself. NOW, an OyS-
ter takes it's color from it's shell. If
the shell be dark, so is the oyster, and
if light the same rule holds good. Few
persons know that if the darkest oys-
ter is rubbed gently with piece Of
linen it soon becomes white and
clear. There is absolutely no differ
ence, as far as taste and wholesome
ness are concerned, between a light
and a dark oyster popular opinion to
the contrary Notwithstanding
when you depart from the realm of
oysters raw you enter into problems of
plain milk, Boston and box stews,
shell roasts, roasts on toast, broils on
toast, Baltimore broils and many 9TH
ers clear to the line of oyster cock
tails and oyster omelets. / find the
real oyster lover, however, the con-
nosseur takes his oysters more or
less straight, and principally in two
styles. The first is raw, with the til
NEST dash of lemon juice or horse
radish, and the second, and to my
mind the very best of all, the shell
roast, with a little melted butter and
a little salt and pepper.
zone who has fondness for oysters
to begin with never tires of the savory
delights of a shell roast. With inn
punity and without a fear of ever
growing stated and tired, one can eat
oysters raw or oysters roasted in the
full 1855 days out of every year, with
the added day in Leap Year."
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
MEASLES IN THE PALACE.
The EVIL That Foreign Machinery
Inflicted Upon the Imperial FAM
lily of China.
From the New York Sun.

] ny VI ChAh0s
From the New York Sun.
China has just degraded Chang vi,
one of the officials, for transferring the
Kaiping coal mines to British control.
The unfortunate man has also been in
formed that he will be further punish
ed unless he brings the Kaiping mines
under Chinese control again within two
months.
This calls to mind the time when the
Pekin government was in state of
panic over the Kaiping mines, fearing
that they might involve the reigning
dynasty of the empire in terrible evil.
1t was in the sos, and China was
very suspicious of everything foreign.
The government had become convinced
that some kind of machinery used in
European coal mining was worth i'm
porting for the Kaiping mines. The
machinery was introduced. Europeans
were hired to run 1t, and the coal out
put was greatly increased. Five thou
sand tons had been raised for shipment
when suddenly an order came from the
PelSin authorities to close the mines at
once.
This precipitate action was taken to
nip an evil influence Whlch had de-
veloped in the Emperor's palace, whose
inmates were in great dismay. The
public censor had brought about this
unpleasant situation by a memorial
which he had presented to the throne.
He said it was his melancholy duty
to report that the galleries which had
been opened in the Kaipng mines by
the foreigners. and the smoke and noise
of the foreign machinery, had disturb
ed the repose of the earth dragon. In
venting his displeasure the dragon, i'm
turn, had vexed the spirit of the EN-
press who had died some months earli-
er and had been buried about 100 miles
away from the mines.
The spirit of the departed Princess
was justifiably angry and had taken
prompt vengeance by affecting several
members of the imperial household
with the measles. There was no doubt
that this caieruissy -ras distinctly trace
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
TASTE AS TO OYSTERS.
Ways in Which BivaIves Are
Abused by Consumers.
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star
The oyster season is now open and
the luscious bivalyes are on the mar
ket in good numbers. How to eat oy-
sters is problem that has been the
lifetime study of the proprietor of an
avenue hosiery. Nowhere in this city
is this burning problem more fully
threshed out than in this oyster head
quarters, where have gathered earn
est Worshippers at the shrine oysteri-
cal for so long a time that mems repu-
tations as connoisseurs are proved only
by years. When they die and are
forgotten in other walks of life you
can still hear them spoken of admir-
ingly If their ability was established
and deprecatingly, IL their oyster
choices were not worthy Of the quiet,
constant patrons of the place.
Strange" said the host the other
day. for he is more the host than the
proprietor, the difference in taste
shown by lovers of oysters in the mat
ter of serving their favorite bivalves.
My patrons-I might almost say clients
show especial difference in the mat
ter of the raw oyster.
Don't be surprised when 1 tell you
that horseradish, tabasco, Worcester
shire, vinegar, catsup, celery, salt,
melted butter, sugar and even olive
oil are used individually and in a won
derful variety Of combinations as con-
diments of raw oysters.
"Horseradish and lemon have sup
planted the old-fashioned vinegar, salt
and pepper combination, and / might
say fully rs per cent of oyster low
ers use them, and them alone, to give
zest TO their oysters. But imagine a
preparation of powdered sugar and
sweet oil on a raw oyster. have seen
II scores of times Worse than that,
mixture of French mustard and toma-
to catsup or melted mutter and sugar,
with a sprinkling of cayenne. These
are no more unusual with those who
eat oysters six days In a week than Is
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
PeninSular and Occidental Steamship Company.
UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTE
For Key West, Cuba and the West Indies,
Via Port Tampa and Miami Fla.
Via Port Tampa and Miami, Fla.
MIAMH-HAvANA (DIRECT) Ii

Proposed sang individual
MIAMIHAVANA (DIRECD
holding
Tuesdays, Fridays 500 PM
Thursdays, 500
call
MYERS, Jacksonville
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

the sale valuable
be
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

in effect "a, 1903 subject change and individual
postponement without notice.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

|Ire
Err
Ind
|0rls
|zet
s
eZet
rea
BILE
| rfu
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

M Conducted as such sales are Conducte
V --in the Large Cities--====
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
JOHN C. BUTLER
Sash, Blinds, Doors,
Paints, Oils, Glass,
Lime, Cements, Plaster,
Congress Street, West.

able to the wicked proceedings at the
coal mines.
Coal mining was, therefore, suspend
ed and it was not until the measles
disappeared from the imperial house,
hold that calmness again prevailed and
the reopening of the mines was author
ized. But years elapsed before ma
chinery was again employed.
Only half a generation has passed,
but things have been moving, though
slowly, in China. The government that
once closed the mines is now DESTROYS
TO keep them, machinery and all, I'M
der its control.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

1t is said that that Congressman
Brownlow OF the Knoxville, Tenn,
district. whose denomination was
thought to be hopeless a few weeks
ago, has succeeded in getting control
of the party machinery and made his
calling, but not his election, sure. The
Democrats believe that on account OF
Mr.. Brownlow's unpopularity In his
own party they may succeed in elect
ing a candidate Of their own political
faith.