Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1896, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1896-24 PAGES. 19 MONEY IN COTTON Enormous Dividends Obtained From Southern Cotton Factories. A VISIT T0 SOME OF THE BIG MILLS Eleven Hours Constitutes a Day's Work for the Employes. USE OF THE SEED OIL _ (Copyrighted, 1896, by Frank G. “Carpenter. ovember 16, 1806. ITE THIS LET- in ene of the at cotton manu- SPARTANBURG which is te 00 is being ed just beside it. pany wi ns these two inills r facteries at Pacolet, wit! you can find in the Uni are equal to few miles of here, and when the new mili | pay roll will be about . At Pacolet they hav th ot employes. | Puliman, near Chicajso, | and is managed much the same w The | telis me that their laborers | his work! that McK enorme ein t Now ected there will in cotton mar y mills have be the hard tim. > years more ¢ din south. s of cotton goods. This than a milli south over the year, and they give employment to thou- sands of people. The Eagle and Phoenix factories there have eighteen hundred hands, and they use fifty bales of cotton every day. These mills paid good divi- dends for years, and since their organiza- tion they have doubled their capital stock. They ship tickings to Canada and other parts of the north, and they compete with the New England mills, I am told, in the different markets. It {8 said that the Swift mills of Columbus made more than 11 per cent above the dividends of 8 per cent which they declared last year, or a profit of about 19 per cent on their invest- ment. ‘These mills make cheviots, den- ims, | hickory stripes, fancy _ skirtings They make and @ther goods of like nature. wels and other fine goods. They tiful coloring, and this notwith- standing that the cotton men of New land used to claim that the south could > southern ot bleach never do fine work streams were muddy vse v i the goods en with many of the but the 5 got over this by bleaching th Coinmbus is on the Chattahooc the water of which is somethi soup. This is the water used for bleaching the goo It is clarified by running it into an enormous tank and then putting a little alum in it. The tank nO gal lons of water, and it afte noon. Into it at intervals every hout forty pounds of alu ter precipitates the dirt and makes the w Ss clear as erystal, and the cost. all told, is not more than 50 cents per w Annet gl k nier in Georgia It has twelve I stock of mor ont mo than its factory em- | Paid dividends of 6 per cent and and they are making big money today. Some of the lis make shi and diferent I > colored £0 Sonn f the Augt ‘la part of of the re Diten FOO": routput i go to England, din Hoston can make from at there are no labor ations here. ns are almos n. ‘There ' no talk of to Atl yng the line of this road there is an alm tinuous line of cotton | 1 they dot the cotton belt row | as New Orle. say t Richme na | all as far south bg cotton mili found 3 Which making AS otton goods. southern urrounded t elds, ptton is bre directly plants to th The miils and the nis steadily in fact, that times are the south. This section of our country is growing as a manufactur ing Tam told that its output of manufa x. of diff, nds amounts to more nih. A ude up of tell m. men to the cotton m to want to know re making, and they do ep other factories from teat I find it very hard to get inte ness. The rest of the Un much money t States how now m whi- 0.000. Tae + first ye : has mills made re in existen since ON) proiit tt and sine paid out more than $% ‘They started with but this has since be increase d the plus is nearly twic mount of its original capital stock. These mills eat up 2 ton ever da 3 womore tha rds of cotton cloth. I met the ‘of the Pacolet mills hers. Ht name ts Capt. John H. Montgomery. He also the president of the Spartan mil which are located in this city, and whi hav capital of & ™). He began Iife ena farm, ani his first work was as a clerk in a store, at % a month. At the end of one ye eluded that he and let him go. back to farming. tion, how his employer con- was not werth his Moatgome He soon le and started a little store. He Sold fe and took pay in cotton. About sev ars ao he kad say Velghing Cotton. enough to buy the water power which runs the Pacolet inills. He organ-zed the com- any to build these mills. It is safe to say he is now very close to being a millionaire, and his salary as president of the works I am told, greater than that of the tice of the Mnited States. He very Kindly had me shown through his mills, stipulating first that I should not ask ques- tions of the operators about wages, ete. He told me that the China trade was be- coming a great one for our cotton mills, and if our Chinese exports were entirely eut off, some of the mills would not be working. He complained about the low ht rates which were awarded to the New England mills, by the ships which carry the Texas cotton from Galveston, and gave me to understand that the com- petition in making cotton goads was be- coming so great that it would hardly pay to build new miils. As he said this I looked out of thé window and saw the new $500,000 plant which he was himself constructing, nd it seemed to me that his new invest- Gent was at variance with his statement Some Georgia Mills. I have found the same condition existing in Georgia. At the town of Columbus there are five cotton mills, which make colored goods. They turn out millions of yards of shirtings, towels and other goods every the eight-hour law. The laborers work from eleven to twelve hours. They work hard, too, and they are glad to get a chance to work. “They are almost altogether white reople. The negroes are not employed in the cotton T have been told again E ain that they do well on the planta- ons and fer rough work, but they are of no value ir handling machin ee tcry Iebor of the south comés from the farms. It is largely made up of what used to be called the poor white trash, of people who are accustomed to living off of little, and who did not see a $10 bill from one year’s end to the other. It was like the millennium for these persons to get their Wages reguiarly twice a month, and they nre happy in their work, although their is much less than that of the northern vorer, Who works fewer hou tter now than they ng on their farms. They jd when wor cy ptian. been changed has you may sce by ed around every big on mill center of the south. They are, ms to me, more happy and better sit- than the factory operatives of the a 2 equally intelligent, and me that the supply of jabor is pr limited. In som! e fact employes are saving m Some of the mills have connected with them, and ess generally improved in_ the miliing centers. It will, I believe, continue to improve, and today there is no part of United States In a better finan- cial condi been n than that through which I traveling. The increase in the ney thrown into circulation by such means is enormous. In 1889 the south had, in round numbers, 0.000 invested in avturing. By 1890 ncreased to six hun- nine million dolla gain du time was thirt cent grea! in the south than in the rest of the country, and the increase in the wages paid greater than the. increase in the capit ck. In 1880 the factory hands of the south got about $76,000,000 in wages, 1 in 1890 they received more than W00,060, or just about three times as At the present time the south has in round numbers about five hundred cotton mills and the amount of money in- vested in cotton manufacturing is, I am told, in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty miilion dolars. A Visit to a Big Cotton Mill. The cotton factories of the south are flted out with the finest of machinery. are equipped with the latest inven- , and everything that will save a cent is bought without regard to cost. I went through the big mill at Spartanburg. The plant cost about $500,000, and it covers several acres of ground. It has three stories, and every bit of tt hums with ma- chinery. Much of the cotton is brought di- rectly from the gin to the mill, and in this case there is no freight to pay. Other cot- ton is shipped in from the plantations near by, and today a great part of the cotton used in the factories of this company has to be imported. Let us follow one of the cot- ton bales through the factory and see it turned from lint into cloth. The hale is first broken open, and the cotton is thrown upon an endless chain or belt, which car- ries it up through the mill, breaks it up and picks it to pieces. It is passed through machines which take out the dirt, run through great rollers, which separate the little strands of the lint, put them together again and finally leave them joined almost Into yarn, The cotton finally comes from these machines in a continuous web, which looks like cotton batting. Handle it now and you will find that it is much firer and whiter than when it was in the bale. It next goes to the card- ing machine, where it is run through wheels, or cylinders, covered with wire teeth. These teeth are so fine that there are thousands of them on a square foot of surface. They brush and comb the cot- ton as it goes through them, and it comes out finally in the shape of a seemingly end- lesa strand, or rope, of soft yarn. This rope at the beginning ts bigger around than a man’s thumb. It {fs almost an inch in thickness, but it is as soft as down. It passes from these machines on through the capital dred and fi six per other twisting machines, being gradually twisted finer and growing smaller and smaller, until it at last is of about the size of a fishing line. Feel it now. It is still soft. Another strand of the same size, which has been reduced from another rope, is united with it, and the two are twisted and retwisted by machinery until they are of the size of the finest cotton thread. The rope of an inch in thickness is now so small that it would thread a needle. ‘The fibers have been doubled several hun- dred times, and they are now down to the Strength and size needed for the making of cloth. As they come from the machine they are rolled upon spindles or long spools and are ready for the weaving room. An- other set of threads are wound upon roll- ers of the width of the cloth. These are to make the long threads of the cloth. The spindles are to move in and out between the long threads and make the short threads which go across the piece of cloth. In the weaving room there are thousands on thousands of these spindles flying to and fro, back and forth, through the cloth. Each loom is attended by a girl or man, and a great factory-like din fills the room. ‘Thread by thread the great rolls of cloth are turned out, but the spindles work so fast that thousands of yards are woven every day, and the shuttle files from one side of the loom to the other about one hundred and fifty times every minute. The cloth has to be cleaned and smoothed up after it is finished. It is then packed up in bales, much like cotton bales, and is shipped to South America and Asia, and even to Europe. Shipping Cotton. It is hnportant in preparing cotton for the foreign market that it be put in certain kinds of packages. Some of that which Sves to South America has to be shipped so that it can be carried over the moun- ins en the backs of mules, and the fac: tories find that each country has its own cial kinds of cloth and sp2cial bundles. We study the foreign markets less than any other ration, and I am told that our gaw cotton goes to Europe in worse shape than that of any other country. The cover- ing of the bates is so coarse that the cot- ton often comes in full of dust, and a per- tage hus often to be deducted for The Indian cotton ts shipped in well- ed bales, and Egypt sends its product out beautiful shape. Our consul at sent to the State De: tures of the different cotton ge to the markets of Germany y that the American cotton 1s acked of all. Cotton Seed O11, ‘There are cotton seed oil mills now to be found in all parts of the south. There is here ie at Spartanburg run in connec- tien with a large cotton gin. Until a few years ago the cotton seed went to waste, It was burnt up or thrown away as usele Now it is one of th most valuable products of — the untry, and it is estimated that the pro- worth more than one hundred mil- @ year. Much of it is used in The seeds are ground up and out of them. After this it , and is used for all sorts of manu- s. Some of it goes into soap. A rge amount is used in making oleomar- arine and different kinds of patent but- rs, and a large part of the salad oil which sold under the name of olive oil is in reality made from cotton seeds, Experts lestifled before the tariff commission in ISSt_ that 90 per cent of the oil sold in the United States was really cotton seed oil, nc the use of such oil for salads and cook- ing is increasing every It is said to be better than Jard for cooking, and, when properly made, it is hard to distinguish it from the best olive oil. The oil mills are often run by companies with a large capi- tal, and there is already, I am told, a cot- ton seed oi] trust. At first the oil was ship- n barrels, but now there are tank cars, which carry it from one part of the country, to another, and not a bit of it is allowed to go to waste oMars making oil. the « gallon, while the crude oil is worth only about 20 cents. Iam told that who use this cil like it the people as well as the olive oil and that the rs who are employed in the oil mills srow fat upon it. They no longer bring meat with them for their dinners, but put their dry bread under the oil press, where the sweet, warm fresh oil {s trickling out, a relish. Cotton seed oil s only about half as much as Olive oil d it is cheaper than lard or bacon. After the oil is pressed out of the seeds the ground refuse, or cotton seed meal, is d into cakes, to be used for fecding "k, and the hulls of the seed are of value for manure. Today the south is getting more out of its cotton crop than ever before. Inventors are now working on machines which will take the cotton stalks and grind them up into fibers to he used in the making of coarse cloth, and the day will soon come when every atom of a cotton plant, from the bark to the seed, will be turned into money. FRANK G. CARPENTER. —— THE NEWS OF LINCOLN'S DEATH. and eat it with cos How Jefferson Davis Received John- ston's Dispatch Announcing It. Frem t New York Sun. About April 18, 1865, I was sent under a = of truce te Charlotte, >. Entering the town with E. M. Clark, a member oi my compan. an scort, we were con- ducted to h rters, a large upper room, evidently a school room, where the guard pointed out Gen. Echois, a portly, fine-look- Remov- I advanced to where Gen. at one end of a long table, and yatches on the table. Echols, I presume. patches are from Gen. Gillam. tor an ans Said “Ple be seated,” the general said. lancing around the room, I saw sixteen or eighteen gentlemen, all, with one or two exceptions, in military uniform. Col. Cal Morgan, who had been our prisoner a few months before, came to where I was sit- ting, and shaking hands said, “I believe you and I are not altogether strangers. While we chatted, a gentleman in a civil- ian suit turned to address Gen. Echols ‘The cold stare of a glass eye caught my at- tention, and the features were not un- familiar. “Oh! Jeff Davis: and you here, pressed to the wall,” was my first thought. I saw, however, a much pleasanter-faced man than our northern papers had pictured. A. soul of kindly impulses beamed from every, feature. A dispatch was handed to Gen. Echols, who read and reread it, with an anxious earnest look upon his face. Half rising, he passed the paper to Mr. Davis. Gen. Echols sat at one end of the table, with two gen- tlemen between him and, Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis read it slowly, and, handing it back, ing man, commander of the post. ing my hat, Echols These dis- Shall I wait remarked, ‘Well, we have lost a generous enemy.” I paid little attention to what Mr. Davis said, supposing one of our northern generals had been killed or died. The dispatch went the rounds, finishing in Col. Morgan’s hands, who asked Gen. Ech- ols, if consistent, to allow me to read it. ‘Oh, yes; give it to him,” he said. I read: GREENSBORO’, April —. Lincoln was assassinated the night of the 14th in Ford's Theater. Seward was as- sassinated about the same time in his own house. Grant has marched his army back to Washington to declare himself military dictator. J. E. JOHNSTON. 1 cannot recall the exact date of the dis- patch. But it necessarily traveled slowly, as we had cut all telegraph wires, burned bridges, torn up railroads, and impeded travel 2ll we couid. In laying down the dispatch in front of Gen. Echols, I remarked, casually, “Pretty good pill, general, but too thickly coated.” I presumed it was a doctored dispatch in- tended to encourage their men and dis- hearten ours, It was not long until Mr. Davis left the room, and several others followed. Gen. Echols asked: “Mr. Thomson, where is Burbridge and his niggers?” “Just back of Lincolnton,” I said. I was somewhat in- censed, and retaliated with, “I see. you have President Davis with you, general.” Looking around the room the general said, “No, Mr. Davis is not here.” “But,” said I, “he was here a few min- utes ago.” “Mr. Thomsen, I am surprised at your isking any such question while here under @ flag of truce,” said the general. “Oh, I beg pardon, general, you broke down that bar by asking about Burbridge ane his niggers.” Gen. Echols, smiling, said: “Yes, President Davis is with us.” Soon after we partook of a party repast furnished by Mrs. Echols, and took our de- parture for our post. A. H. THOMSON, Late Lieutenant E Co., 12th Ohio Cavalry. —+o++____ Not Implicated, From Puck. Friend—“Don’t the police know anything about the burglary?” The Victim—“I don’t think so. E don't suspect the police.” BACK OF THE STAGE How Fregoli Manages to Effect His Lightning Changes of Costume, ASSISTANTS NOT SEEN FROM FRONT Over a Dozen Clever People Re- quired to Aid the Performer. SYSTEM IN THEIR WORK There is a rather slangy phrase which speaks of a man as “being a whole show in himself.” This certainly applies to Leo- poldo Fregoli better than to any other man allve. Fregoli is the young Italian actor who has been surprising American audi- ences for several months by his remarkable versatility. He appeared at the Lafayette Square Opera House Monday evening and made a deciled nit. : He had not been on the stage more than five minutes when he had his audience with him, and from then until the end of the performance the amazement of the spec- tators increased steadily. During the course of the evening he impersonated at least fifty different characters,ranging from a young school girl to a doddering old man. He did a serpentine dance that was a vision of beauty, hen he appeared as John Philip Sou ad the orchestra, the au- dience cheered him as if he had been that popular leader him: For the better part of two hours Vregoli had the stage all to himself. His work covered a wide field that the people in the audience natu ally wondered how he ever could do it. sings soprano, alto, tenor and bass, and 4 equally well. Such an exhibition of tireless effort, of nervous energy, of startling changes, has probably never been seen on local se. He toils as few actors are e compelled to do, and it is small wonder U wh the curtain goes down Fregoli is practically in a state of collapse. The strain must be something tremendous. performance is interesting to th degree, as seen from the front of the house. Buck of the Str As seen from the stage, where one has the opportunity to see how he does it, it Is even more interesting. Through the court- esy of Mr. Alfred Bradley, the manager for Hayden and Greenwall, a Star reporter spent the evening back of the scenes. Fregoli on the stage is Fregoll all by him- self. Back of the scenes he is Fregoll as. sisted by more than a dozen cl reople, all Italians, each of whom has his own par- ticular work to Jo in order that Fregoll may make his lightening changes. In the tear of the big stage were a score of tables, vpon which were laid out with math matical precision the innumerable articles that Fregoli uses during the course of the evening. One can readily understand how much trouble would result if one or two should be misplaced. Fregoli has four men who are needed to dress him. They are not ordinary valets, but skilled artists in their line. Fregoli is elegant in his tastes, and his assistants, none of whom appear upon the stage, are attired in immaculate evening dress, and there is as much style and courtesy in evidence as there would be at an evening reception in high societ His four dressers wear satin knickerbock: and black silk stockings, and a broad ex- panse of white shirt bosom shows above each crimson slik waistcoat. It was about 9 o'clock when a slender, handsome young man tripped down the stairs which lead from the dressing rooms to the stage. said he to the stage mana “Bien, M’sieu.”” A Ja a Youth, It was Fregoll, made up for his first ap- pearance. He was a Janus-faced youth, for with his own features he represented a fair young maid, while his back was made up as a gay cavaller, so that he was all prepared to sing a baritone and soprano duét with himself. the applause broke forth showing that he had completed his first number Fregoli stepped quickly back through the door of the flat or back scene Into the maze of ropes, scenery and stage proper- ties, which is out of sight of the audience, Instantly his four attendants pounced upon him. One removed his hat, another his shoes, -off came his c and in less time than it takes to teli it Fregoli was back upon the stage, dressed as an Italian hall singer. ‘Camaleonte™ is Fregoli’s masterpiece. It is a tragic and dramatic comedy, involving a number of characters, all of whom are impersonated by Fregoll. It is literally ‘Comment ce va” an all-star cast. Fregoli takes the parts of the unsuspecting husband, the unfaithful wife, the fond lover and the old servant. As the first he comes on as a middle-aged, sperous: ooking man, who Is starting off A plano is heard from the ad- joining music room, where the wife has just bidden him farewell. The husband steps off to the left and quick as a wink in comes the young wife. it would seem as if he hardly had time to run from one door to the other, but in point of fact he had stopped midway between the two doors, where the four assistants pounce down upon him, and instantly he was transformed into a blonde-haired young woman, ‘The most remarkable thing about it was that all five did their work a though there was no hurry at all. It was simply method and system carrie] to th last degree. Each had his own share in the work, and there was no confusion and that none waste. Remarka Ventri After picking up the note which her lover ssed through the open window Fre- in the center of the stage, in- tently listening with lips motionle: while Fregoli the lover outside serenades Fre- soll the mistress. inside. The wife Is facing the audience, and the voice cvmes from beneath the balcony. As Fregoli. the mistrt throws open the window: the voice of Fregoll, the lover, can be heard much more plainly. It is ventriloquism of the very best. As the young woman stands by the window sill the deft hands of the assistants reach in beneath the scene and remove the star's shoes, Fregoli standing on one foot at a time. -Eva retires to the music room, and the sound of the piano is again heard. Of course, some one else is playing the piano, for four men are transforming Eva into Zeferino, her admir- er. The lover climbs through the bal- cony. It is Fregoli, but from hat to shocs there is not a single garment that Achille, the husband, or Eva, his wife, had worn upon the stage, and yet to the audience it seemed as though no time elapsed hetween the disappearance of the lady and the en- trance of the lover. The hushand had a heavy baritone voice; Achille, a dapper little itaiian dude, spoke with a clear musical tenor. Achille stands in the center of the stage enraptured, lis- tening to the voice of Fregoli, the wife, singing in a clear, high soprano a love song from the adjoining room. It ts ven- triloquism again. Achille steals into the of the sort of haste makes music room. Just then the husband, who has forgotten something, returns through the opposite door. He picks up the ncte and his suspicions are aroused. He rushes into the music. room; again the four at- tendants perform the change upon him, and the frightened lover runs out. Fregoli as the husband pursues Fregoll pe wife and Fregoli as the lover around bewildering rapidity and ends by shooting the two. The old servant ap} Fre- goli has been transformed into a doddering old domestic, who thinks that his dull cars have heard a sound. He looks around, but finding no one returns to bed again, and the play is over. It is all very clever, but apart from the genius involved in the planning it is hard work of the bitterest and severest sort. For nearly two hours the man fs doing a half dozen things at a time. ‘fo keep it all straight and to avoid all mistakes would be enough, one would think, to drive a man crazy. To wield a pick and shovel twelve hours a day would seem a small task in comparison. 3 In “El Dorado, a Music Hall,” the actors have all gone on a strike, and Fregoli, the manager, agrees to give the whole show himself. He assumes fully thirty different parts and proves hitnself far above the average along many different dramatic lines. His Official Family. Fregoli is a young Roman, twenty-eight years of age. Sitting in an upper box last evening was a beautiful Itatian lady, handsomely costumed and wearing beavti- ful jewels. It was Mrs. Fregoll. She was the only person in the theater who id not look interested. Fregoli has fifteen pecple in his official family. There is one woman who works all day long repairing -he ccs- tumes which Fregoli tears or soils during the evening. The pianist, who ‘urnishes the music from behind the scenes, is a well-known Roman music teacher. Mregoli even has with him a young Italian journal- ist who keeps the home newspapers ac- quainted with his suce n this side of the Atlantic. They all seem passionately devoted to the young actor, and almost all of them have been associated with him for a number of years. They speak of themselves as members of his family, and the best of feeling prevails behind the Their constant fear is that their ideal will break down under the tremend- ous strain to which he is jovted. As one ot them to The Star man last evening end is alrewly in a bad way. not eat, he does not sleep. He is getting very ‘thin, 1 for two months he has been In a fever. All day long he works about the theater fixing up electrical devices of his own inventron. Why, some it costs us as much es $50 to supply Mr. Fregoli with his toys. Ah, Dut how can any man sing with four voices forever? How can any man do so much work as that and keep it up for long? it too bad. He is the most lovely man that ever lived. He is grea. He is a wenius, From the Philaddphia If you are the owner of a mocking bird or a gold fish or a chameleon, which you wear chained to your manly or womanly, but erratic, bosom, much te the consterna- Uon of your nerve-racked friends, you have probably had occasion to cal! on J. H. Wehrmann, “the oid bird man,” on Sonth Gth street, for the purpose of buying food for your pet. When you got there he probably offered you your choice of either dried flies or ants’ eggs, in quantities to suit the size of your purse or the stomachic capacity of the said pet. You may have been startled the first time at these offers, but if you were cu- rious enough to inquire you learned that both are very common artictes of diet for imprisoned birds and reptiles, and that they are imported to this country by the barrel. The flies are obtained from Mexico. They live in the swamps in various sections of the country and the individual insect is called the moscos. It is small and dell- cate—much more delicate than that omniy- orous scavenger, the common house fly— and its whole body has the appearance of having been gilded. In life it must_be beautiful. It is perfectly harmless. Th flies swarm by the thousands and millions and are captured in silken nets by men who make it thgir busine: Great quanti- tles of them are “cured” or dried in the City of Mexico and other towns further east. Most of them that are shipped to the United States come through Laredo, Texas. They are packed and sold by the barrel. Mr. Wehrmann usually buys them in ten- barrel lots and retails them in small quan- tities. You can get a large envelope about half full for 10 cents, and from this you can judge that a barrelful of them must cost a pretty penny. “The ‘ants’ tges are brought from Ger- many, mainly from a point near Ham- burg. In the Black Forest lives a monster ant, and the eggs are deposited in the ground in such numbers that when a nest is uncovered it is just like digging into a wheat bin where the egg hunters com- mence work with their shovels. After being dried they are packed in bar- rels and shipped to the different parts of the world by the firms engaged in the busi- ness. The supply for this country is dis- tributed through New York. Now, if somebody will only start a flea- catching industry or a bed bug brigade we will not only be wiser, but happier. An Orange Party for the Children, From the New York ‘Times, Mary of you will be naking plans already for the Thanksgiv- ing and Christmas holidays, when a few Gays out of school will give you a chance for some good times. If you are plauning a little party for your young friends and playmates an orange party is a pretty form for it to take. This is managed very easily. The room should be decorated in orange color, a few yards of cheese cloth, cotton crepe, or any of the inexpensive fabrics arswering for the purpose. Festoons should be draped over the decors, windows and and on chandeliers and wherever to be needed, the object being to give the room a decided orange setting if an orange tree can ve provided, and if it is near Christmas time a Christmas tree can be had for the purpose—a very pretty feature will be secured. It should be hung with oranges—the real ones if you like, or the mcck ones, easily made from balls of cottcn covered with oraize silk. The In- vitations should be sent out on orange paper, or, if that is not easily got, with a little orange and branch painted in one corner of a white sheet. ‘he guests should be esked to wear an orange bow on their white dresses in the case of girls, or on the coats of boys, unless It is wished to have all appear in orange frocks, which will add to the correctness of the scheme. The boys in this case may wear sashes of orange cheese cloth or crepe. The refreshments should be orange jelly, orange baskets filled with candics, oranges, orange ice and any other orange goodies that you may wish to provide. thinking of and oe A Cautious Woman. From the Chicago Record. “Mrs. Tiptilt is extremely exclusive.” “Well, of course she doesn’t wish to meet anybody who remembers when her father drove a dray.” From Life. ‘Leary, the arctic explorer, intends living in a steam-heated flat this winter.” “Ant! training for another polar trip NEW PUBLICATIONS. HISTORICAL BRIEFS. By James Schouler. a New York: Dodd, Mead Ws Brentano’: This volume is a collection of some of the best of Prof. Schouler’s historical arti- cles and lectures, and is, therefore, a valu- able addition to the literature of Ameri- can politics and policies. The author is first vice president of the American His- torical Association, and in 191 received the honoryry degree of LL.D. from the National University of this city. He is widely recognized as an authority on Amer- ican history and his lectures at Johns Hopkins, the National University Law School of Washington, Yale University and the Boston University Law School hav been generally regarded as masterpivc= of clearness and logical presentation. H has published several works on legal topic: Among the subjects treated in the vol- ume just from the press are the following: Francis Parkman, Spirit of Research, His- torical Industries, Historical Testimony, Monroe and the Rhea Letter, Presiden' Polk's Administration and Reform in Presi dential Elec With & Co. f Opportanit "1 3 Sons, Wash: entuno’s. Mr. Cowles is urging two main propo- sitions in this work; first, he argues th raiiway rates should be determined by the cost and not by the value of the service rendered; second, the whole business of public trarsportation should be pooled un- der the control of the post office. I knowledges this to be the “Penny scheme of Sir Rowland Hill, advar 1837 and adopted as English law in Is. But Mr. Cowles expands the project to cover the general business of transporta- tion instead of merely the carrying of uv mails. THE ¥, ern Japan KEES OF THE EAST. Miustriated, In two vo! urtis, Amerié New Yor Woodward & Lots & Kimball: Top. Mr. Curtis went to China and Japan the spring of 1895 for the Chicago R. to write a series of letters on the comm al and indusirial opportunities offered to American capital and labor 2 coun- tries. 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