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PART TWO.
NEWSPAPERS' FUTURE.
DISCUSSED BY DISTINGUISHED
MSN IN THE PROFESSION
Col. McClure Says the Daily News
paper is Entering the Magazine
Field-Mr- Childs Does Not Kelieve
mere is Any Room for Increasing
the Circulation—Opinions of Murat
Kalstead and Chester Lord
(Copyright. 1
The contributors to the following sym
posium of the newspaper of the future are
among the master spirits as well as the most
successful business men of the profession of
journalism iu this country. The interest of
the publio In the daily newspaper, which
they have learned to regard as their friend,
adviser ami comfort, as well as their in
structor and refuge in time of oppression,
has grown with the growth of the news
paper itself, and there is no ene subject in re
gard to which the nowspaper reader knows
lei* aud feels more interest than his daily
journal. Opinions on this feature are here
inafter expressed by meu whose names are
familiar to everybody and who are recos>
nizad as having achieved professional and
financial eminence.
VIEWS or COL. ALEXANDER K. M’OLURE OF
THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES.
The daily newspaper is now the greatest
educator of the people, and it must continue
to be so. It is steadily widening in its cir
culation in the homes of tho land and its in
fluence will as steadily increase.
.lodging newspaper progress in the future
by the progress of the last decade, I expect
the next decade to develop an American
newspaper with a million daily issues, and
others reaching from a quarter to a half
million.
The news features of the modern news
paper are becoming more and more impor
tant than the editorial each j-ear. A gener
ation ago editorials were the feature and
news the incident of a newspaper. Tiie
positions are now substantially reversed
und they will so remain, but the standard
of the editorial ability must be maintained.
Ido not expect newspapers to increase in
size beyond the present standard, nor do I
look for any material departure from the
present size of page. The daily newspaper
is not likely to tend loward either the
magazine or "weekly” form. It is read very
hurriedly by tho masses, and multiplied
pages of smaller form would be inconven
ient.
Newspaper illustrations have come to
stay, and that means that they will increase
in quantity and improve in quality. They
are rapidly becoming a nows feature of
journalism, and I look for their use in that
regard to become general. The illustrations
of some of our best newspapers now nearly
or quite equal magazine illustrations in
artistic merit, but as thousands of copies
must be printed in a minute iu newspaper
establishments. they are loss elegant in ap
pearance.
Typo sotting machines will soon be in
eoiumon use and the reduced cost of com
position will be speedily exhibited in greater
expenditure on newspapers just as cheap
paper has done. Paper may be cheaper,
but it is not likely ever to be more costlv
than at present.
Cheap journalism will continue to be the
rule iu this country, and reduction in prices
will be frequent utyl increase rare. The
popular newspaper must be cheap in price
without cheapness in quality.
The dally newspaper will steadily trench
more closely on the magazine field. Our
best Sunday newspapers are now tho best
mugaziues published iu the country.
A. K. McClure.
GEOB3E W. CHILDS OF THE PHILADELPHIA
LEDGER.
Daily newspapers of the class that now
occupy part of the magazine field will
continue, for they are educating large
classes of readers who will continue to de
mand them.
Brices are not likely to change unless
standnidf of money value change. Prices
will follow the standards.
Editorial influence will continue to exist
and to grow where tor it is thoroughly, in
telligently and wisely exercised; and in pre
cise proportion as it is exercised.
News, full and accurate, must always be
e potent factor iu securing and maintaining
success for a newspaper.
Ihe quarto seems to be the favorite size,
end the folio is fast going out. There is
, likely to be any inc.ease in the number
, P“K es . ns the increase in advertising
ehttons US **^ 6 * B:ZB great Sunday
l, Tuf c ' rc '^ u, ' ori °‘ daily papers can
hardly mcrea-e much. It is not likely any
(w ! tue Journal circulation.
Uur people are different,
is morp t 0 a kindly feeling
rahl. t t mployeß - U w °uld bo impracti
feadinl w° USe ° r feed the,n - Sorne ot tb9
ployes ß P PeUßlOll old and faitbful em
are likol y to increase so long
tic-in CWE P a l' er andie. ee seoins to demand
•pfc‘ed hvtT, 111 B,wn y s b ® sacred and re-
I oil -r * e,,r< *Pectir.g papers,
an 1 other “T rank " with lfiw . medicine
I dcn ’" 1 * 1 P r ' jf ”' >ns in the equiva-
HoiKr ~nsuce> exoeiiß “ ee '
h'sehcdaccnrl* 16 Bame rewnrdj are now
JouraaW, and i ng t 0 ranl! und '-lerit.
fninbuL.o’ hoW( i ver ' cannot be taught
Iji--. . or 111 nollege classes.
C ™ ” 1 ?' 11 probnbly Increase aud
npioveu. Papers win Ih Letter.
George W. Childs.
RAT SlriH ß r T n AD WOCLD t-TKE TO TRV AN
EIGHT page SUNDAY PAPER.
RihoJad"*. 1 ' \ e 110 erp nt charge, says Mr.
iuture-I'don’t k , 1K ‘ wa Paper of the near
Kreat chsnao f, bß **®Y 9 there will be any
low whHUiir- lk tiyt^ng * ll tbe Lear future,
sountrv win JJ• ' Jail T newspaper in this
line fleiri w obntmu e to trench on the maga
tandidly that F*bf ° 1 mav !<ay
iaj new, rfl „ llaaot like the present Sun
,n indivilnai ’ ?P®aki!ig now, of course, as
laoeous tor ■ .i*".* 00 lrir S'h too miscel
coui try ,/ c J b ke the old fashioned
stuff,. (111 , .{" tae upper story of the barn,
concede somethfJ' Gf ourse one has to
for a
Oaf. of K r ” a J‘ag matter on Sun.
caunothe(io„K.r 13 , tbe popular demand
re3w i ,j 0 : td - But as nowspaper
day-ed:tio n i. ! ke tDe P r o*ent style of Bun
to readth e \ ’A* a P® r t of my occupation
too. Ido on, a l ** newspapers every day,
might seem n .,? d uas great a burden ns it
find it only nar* am a ra P‘ reader and often
an article; K * a: wat a P a g° or.
tehindiue ih. ,i, a<la giddy capitalist
newspaie r \- lt T ! “ ldll ke to try a Sunday
the news ini- - P a ges only, with all
tare to be cut i\* coarß ~ the nows would
o tivertUi :i - o-.?’ 11 carefully, aud on great
'ages iu my * would print ten
As it is now ar i'. day ra Per. but not more,
lav their mouse if?"* ,eem 10 think they
Pretty much wiflr have a right to put in
bine. But such taey cboose > a P a ? e at a
teems to me T..iU reat Bttle newspaper it
Bl; ice, ns Hoeiiik J l9 er ‘tirely practicable,
Ca n b© printed wjr^ p,osse * uow six P*f®*
a d xly isgtip kJ 1 JO ;R tr °uble if necessary in
00 Sunday! ten as one cb .osci
would be my idea to have
@l)f Jltofninfl
system in the advertising and reduce the
practice of dumping in whole pages of an
nouncements. The very best part of the
work of journalism is to get the news
into a small spaco. Ido not mean that the
higher forms of editorial expression are not
important, if one has anything 10 say, but
two and a half columns of editorial matter
would be enough on Suod ly.
lho terror cf the New York newspaper is
its enormous staff, so big and so smart that
these great editions are a necessity in order
£ v e it play. Why, the Gorman imperial
staff is not more formidable! If I were in
contact with it I would elope or the staff
would, and I believe it would be I.
If there is any change iu the near future
in the price of the daily newspapers, it will
beau advance and not a reduction. 1 do
not tee that paper ought to be cheaper; we
are Daying now one-sixth of the price wo
paid for paper during the war, and about
one-third of what we paid in gold after the
war. There used to be some attempt to be
humorous at the exponst of .Senator Miller,
who was called "Wood-pulp Miller.” Why,
it was the greatest thing in the world for
us when they got to making paper out of
wood pulp. What makes the London penny
press possible is tho espartero grass they gee
from Algeria in whole ship loads, and out
of which they make the cheapest paper iu
tho world. This grass grows to some extent
in Florida, but not yet in available quan
tities.
As to the size and shape of the newspaper
of the future, I would say that the page of
the New York Herald is about my idea of
the oorreot thing. While it looks well to
have the advertising sheet folded outside
as the Herald does, the better way, I think,
is to make up tho strong news of the payer
on the first page, attractively headlined
and so folded as to offer on a news stand tho
impression of a bill of fare. But, after all,
most people select their newspapers without
reference to their looks. Headlining is de
cidedly overdone, and many newspapers
have entirely too much space given to it.
Whether or not there is a field in this
country for suoh a newspaper as the Petit
Journal is a grave question: I doubt it. The
i’etit Journal is a queer little sheet; it levies
upon France for all its sensations of one
kind or another and prints everyday a
story, fashioned to the French taste. ’ In
spite of its small size it gives space freely to
this. It does not go into the details of news
except in this one story, which is generally
something which ha happened in a French
city. Anything of great importance in the
world will be generally found in very brief
form. So great is tho space left free by
this method that there is room for the other
features, the feuilieton and tho political
communication. The Herald is more like a
Parisian newspaper than any other Ameri
can journal; it has the touch of the boule
vard. And yet there is a something very
taking about that catch phrase of the Sun:
“If you see it in the Nun it’s so.” As for
circulation, I should think the circulation
of the New York World about as great as
that of a paper ot that size could go. But
a first-class one-eent newspaper, well
printed, bright,newsy, attractive in all its
ways and appearance, and with abundant
capital, might, it seems to me, fly verj- far
and l ass any of then. Such a morning
newspaper, for Instance, as the Evening
Sun, which is mcrediompaot tuan most of
the penny papers would be.
1 wouldn’t like to say anything in dis
paragement ot a scheme on the part of a
newspaper proprietor to provide in any
way for his employes. My own feel'ug
is that it is best for an emplover to let hi
people alone outside of the office.
As to tha tendency of modern newspapers
to print personalities, I do not know how
far a newspaper man ought to respect the
private affairs of a scoundrel —a man whose
occupation is obviously putting the people’s
money into his pockets. There has certainly
been great progress iu invading private life
on such occasions as weddings aud the like.
This is no doubt a certain sort of oews.
Much depends on the taste, and tbe people
call for what they want and they are very
aot to get it. ft is they who control. As
for personalities pure and simple, suoh as
minute descriptions of tho snape aud color
of the rosettes worn by Mrs. Jones' coach
man, or the top boots of Mrs. Smith's foot
man, that, it seoins to me, tolerable only
wlien taken in a humorous sense.
About the rank of journalism as com
pared with other liberal professions I do
not know. "The rank is but the guiuoa’s
stamp.” The li'oaral professions are over
done as, no doubt, is Journalism also.
Illustration, I fancy, has coino to stay,
not for its own sake, but as an adjunct to
the news. It is not likely that a very much
better class of pictures, from artistic point
of view, will be printed in the daily news
papers any time soon, ion account of the
high rate of speed at which they are printed,
Artists are improving in their ability to
sketch for newspapers, and there has been a
striking advance in the quality and fitness
of their work iu the iast decade. Formerly
the pictures of people printed in tho press
were caricatures, but now they are very
ofteareal likenesses. M. Halstead.
CHESTER A. LORD OK THE NEW VOHK SON.
The newspaper of the future will adapt
itself to circumstances with tte same
promtness that tbe newspaper of to-day
grasps the things of the present. Improve
ments in the printing press by which a
thirty-two page nowspaper of the size of tbe
Times or Sun may be turned out at the rate
of 3.),0CX) an hour, have ssrvod to make the
possibilities of the newspaper praotically
limitless—for the same mechanical principle
applied will add au endless number of pages
to the pub ication. It is only a question of
money whether the quantity and quality
of a magazine be printed in a uewspaper
daily. Any nowspaper that chooses to pay
the cost can duplicate the magazine once or
seven times a week—barriug tho beauty
of illustration, for no prooess has yet been
devised to matte newspaper illustrations
lieautiful. Tbe present tendency of the
newspaper seems to be toward making its
contents more general, toward printing in
structive and interesting articles of a maga
zine nature as well as to narrate the news,
and 1 predict an expansion of this tendency.
Journalism is a growing profession, giving
employment to double the men in Now
York city that it did ten years ago and pro
ducing more than three limes tue number
of printed columns a day. It will seize
every opportunity to crowd out every other
kiDd of publication. The price of the lead
ing daily newspaper! will remain practi
cally unenanged for years to come.
The newspaper of the future will be
equally strong and infi-entlnl in its editorial
and news columns. The tendency toward
new features involves a uniform degree of
perfection in every part.
The sice of toe newspaper pag J u more
likely to contract than to expand, for the
reason that tho modern press admits of the
printing, cutting and pasting of no tndefl
nice number of |.>®(C©B without additional
cost. The blanket sheets of the past took
their shape from motive* of economy and
from ceoossity. %
The perfected newspaper will be equally
strong aud influential in Its editorial and
news matter. Th? influence of the news
paper’s comments depends solely on the
ability with which those comments are
made/ A convincing argument always at
tracts attention, and opinions that carry
conviction mustalways be in demand. It
is cne of the functions of the editor to think
for his readers, to expound and explain
and reason for tnose who from lack of time
or from any other cause do not think for
themselves. Intelligent conclusions are ap
preciated by a vast proportion of readers
SAVANNAH, GA„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER fi. 1891.
' quite as much as any other part of the
j newspaper and they will continue to be
j sought and paid for.
I see no reas an to expect phenomenal cir
• culation. There is a tendency toward the
establishment of more newspapers and each
now newspaper draws some of its circula
tion from the others. A phenomenal circu
lation must be based on some new idea, or
must be the result of phenomenai excellence.
As things go one editor's new idea B almost
instantly seized upon by all the rest. Not
anew department is started bj’ any influ
ential daily newspnper bnt it is imitated
by the other newspapers within a few days.
The journal in which the new departure
originates reaps only a share of the good
remits. Phenomenal excellence in a news
paper depends on the lavish use of money
iu hiring the best writers-and the best
writers are available to all who oau pay for
their services.
The groat newspapers are conducted on
business principles, and I do not see why
they should take any better care of their
employes than do tho banks ortho railroads
or any other great corporations, conse
quently I do not see any advantage to the
journals thomselve* in housing or feeding
or pensioning employes.
The perfect uewspaper must be interest
ing and instructive. It will print personali
ties as long as men and women are interest
ing. It will print illustrations when they
help to describe or iuteroit.
Chester A. Lord.
D ANGEEOUa LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
Rivals fora New York Girl’s Affection
Fight tor Her in a King.
From the AVto York Sun.
Bridgeport, Sept. I.—lt is nil owing to
a New York girl’s propensity for flirting
that a bloody prize fight came off in East
Bridgeport Sunday night, the particulars
of which have just leaked out. Miss Carrie
Hayes is a bright and pretty girl
from the metropolis who came here
to spend the summer. Among the young
men who met her soon after her arrival in
June wai William Sheldon. With him it
was a oa e of love at first sight, and for
several weeks he paid the most devoted
attention to Mise Hayes. She seemed to
reciprocate the attachment. Two weoks ago
the j'oung woman went to Tarloa R ,cic, a
locul picnic resort, where Frank Richards
met her. With him also it was a case of
love at once, and all day he waited upon
her anil secured her pcru.issioit to escort her
homo fro.n the cars after the arrival of the
tram at Bridgeport.
Sheldon was waiting for her at the rail
road station, but iliss Hayes and Richards
passed by without speaking. This enraged
Sheldon, but his rage was assuaged the next
day when Miss Hayes mot him aud ex
plained that though she triod to shake Rich
nrds off she was unable to do so without
being rude. Things went on swimmingly
until Saturday evening, when Sheldon met
Richards and the girl tin Main street. Then
his auger knew no bounds, for he was con
sumed with jealousy, and his love for the
fair New Yorker turned to hato at her sup
posed duplicity. Meeting Richards on Suu
day morning he promptly slapped his suc
cessful rival’s facs, and a fight* would have
ensued on the spot had not friends inter
fered.
It was finally agreed that, the two lovers
should settlo hie i was to become the lover
of tho girl by a list fight. The place chosen
was in the rear of Sanford’s hat factory in
East Bridgeport, and the time the same
evening at 0 o’clock. There were te i friends
of e ieb triau present in addition to the sec
onds, referee, and timekeeper. A sixteen
foot ring was arranged. Sheldon led off,
bitting Richards in the neck and stagger
ing him. Richards quickly rallied, and
with a right-hander knocked Sheldon off
his feet, lie jumpsd up at once, and then
science was thrown to the winds, both
men, who were evenly matched, pummel
ling each other with all the strength
they could command. Both bled freely at
the nose, and Richard’s right eye was closed
when time was called. A minute’s rest was
allowed them to get wind,an ithey were just
gettiug into tho sec und round when a police
man appeared. An alarm was given, the
contestant grabbed their olothes and ran,
both escaping. Arrangements arc being
made for a continuation of the battle iu a
more secluded spot, probably up the Housa
tomo river, where the fight will be carried
to a finish. Miss Hayes left for New York
this morning, alarmed at the notoriety she
had obtained.
DRUNK ON SUGAR FUMifIS.
A Saccharine Jag Produced la Steve
dores Unloading Vessels.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The stevedores unloading sugar vessels at
pier 30, South wharves, have been involun
tarily indulging in what they call "sugar
drunks." It is a curious fact that the gases
arising from the sugar that has been stored
in the hold of a vessel without ventilation
will produce a state of intoxication which
might put to sbßino that produced by a jug
of Kentucky “mountain dew.” This sac
charine "jag” is caused by merely breath
ing tbe air where the sugar has been stored,
and while twenty minutes in the open air is
euflieient to work off it* offsets, it is no. o
the less a "jag.”
While the barkentine John Sivan wa3 un
loading a cargo of sugar at pier 30 it was
noticed that quite a cumber of the steve
dores Working in tho hold of tho vessel were
acting in a strange manner, as though under
the influence of liqu >r. They wore induced
to go on deck, apparently in a beastly state
of intoxication, but after a few minutes in
the open air they recovered and continued
their work.
John Duffy, one ofjthe men affected, pro
nounced the sensation to bs exaotiy similar
to effects produced by drinking whisky.
For a while he felt stimulated, then began
to grow exhilarated aud hilarious. Shortly
after that he began to get dizzy and stagger,
and finally lost all control of his mental and
physical faculties, when he was removed
to the open air and recovered shortly after
ward.
The effects of the fumes have only been
noticed eafiv in the mornings when the
hatches are first removed. Gradually the
current of air from the two hatches dissi
pates the gas, and within an hour it dis
appears entirely, leaving only a disigreo
oble and penetrating odor ana a sentiment
whio i penetrates every part of the vessel.
Henrv R. Inghan, foremen of the men
employed in the unloading of vessels for the
Harrison refinery, said yesterday that he
bad complained to hie employers with the
result that hereafter the surveyor’s watch
men will remove the hatches from the ves
sels at 6 o’clock in the morning. As the
men do aot go to work until 7 this wili
give an hour for veutilatiug the hold,
which Mr. inghan says is quite sufficient
to destroy tbe intoxicating gasses. Col
lector Cooper’s attention was called to the
state of affairs, aud be promptly issued the
order to the surveyor’s watchmen to open
the batches at 6 o'clock.
S. J. Cnandler. Richraona, Va.. writes:
"No oue can afford to be without B. B. B.
wno wishes au appetite. 1 could scarcely
eat a single biscuit for breakfast, but since
taking B. B. R. I clean the whole table, so
to speak.”—-4<i.
The only harmless cure for sick head
aches is called Quiokatop, and sells for 35
cents, at Solomons & Cos., druggists. —Ad,
GAY CARRIE CARELESS
TELLS HOW THE SUMMER MASKED
B AL'-S ARBS CONDUCTED.
S'ghta that are Soon in the Gloaming—
It la Getting too Cold Now for a
Plunge—No Hoe la to be Thrown
at the Newport Weddings—And the
Summer Girl and the Bug.
(Copyright 180 t.)
New York, Sept. s.—As the eummor
begins to draw to a close, and there is a
faint suggestion of autumn evenings, it is
becoming the popular thing to indulge in
masked balls by! way of evening amuse
ments.
These balli are by no means tho promis
cuous affairs which the name suggests.
They do not bear the most remote resem
blance to the New York French ball, nor
are they distantly related to thel armencita
and Otero balls. On the contrary, they are
very exclusive, high-toned and select affairs,
and only those are invited who aro thor
oughly ii sympathy aud touch, so to spesk,
with each other. Our set, and only our set,
receive invitations, and on no account osn
any one who is invited take even the liberty
of bringing an extra guest.
Like most everything that is socially pop
ular in this country the idea began in Eng
land. A few of the hostesses of oountry
houses would invite guests, numbering a
score or more, to dress in masquerade for
anevenlug’s frolic. The fad has come over
to Newport, and it is not au uncommon
thing at either that place, at Saratoga or at
Narragansett, to receive an invitation on
the new ahuile of delicately tinted violet
paper, requesting you to come m mask for
au evening frolic.
The hostess upon these occisions receives
without a mask, and dons one immediately
after the last guest has arrived. Uudor
such circumstances os these no one is
greatly deceived as to who wears the mask,
and no very distressing complications oc
cur. 1
You have been to tie ordinary mask
party, of course, end so jlou have an idea of
what such au affair isq But you cannot
understand tho full glory of a Newport or
a Saratoga mask partyi unless you have
really boon there to see one.
Gowns are especially made for tho occa
sion. They are usually ot the light and deli
cate India silk, which is such a summer
favorit i. and they are provided with hoods
with peaked crowns, whioh extend ovor the
head and forehead in a way which suggest
the witches of old.
The mask —and here is the funny thing
about it—does not conceal the features ba
yond recognition—it is juassutficieatlly large
to extend m a strip across tho fac>, covering
the nose, tho temples and half of the fore
head. Holes for the oyes are made so large
that glances can t>o shot from tbs inside of
a mask with quite as telling an eff.-ct as
though that article were not worn. Tho
mask is of the same material as tha gown,
and if the wearer is a woman " taste she
will tako care to select a hue that is becom
ing to hor.
If she has a red skin she will not wear a
blue mask. lustcad of t.iat she will select
possibly a black one, or a very delicate yel
low, or oven that shade of pink that goes
weil with red. Brown looks ever so pretty
upon a very blonde skin, aid than there
aro all the shad sof grae : which re so bo
coming to the fairest hlondos. O. it is very
simple, it one has any tssle at all, to soleot
a shade of silk that is becoming to the skin.
It is getting too oold now te piungo right
in tho water, and it is likewise too cold for
wading, if a woman has proper regard for
hor health. But then, you kno w that a
woman never does oonsiiiar health until It
is too lata, and there are all sorts of dread
ful bow-wows to pay.
It is really pitiful to see so many pretty
girls go wading when the water is ever so
far below the tomparaturo which it ought
to be for a woman to put her feet In it.
Next year the girl who has indulged iu that
favored little pastime this year will have
lost some of her buoyancy of manner and
elasticity of step. But now sho looks very
pretty as she steps from stone to stono witu
a masculine e oort to keep her from falling,
and ventures, little by little, iu the water,
and it comes over her white feet, and cov
ers her delicate ankles. Waling has beef!
popular all summer, and now it is even
more so.
It is said that the tnfazeat people at any
ct tbe summer resorls are to be found at Bar
Harbor. Probably these people, if they
we: e elsewhore, would not be mean at all.
But Bar Hurber affords suoh a facility for u
certain kind of meanness, that those who
develop the trait are uot us repreho. sible ai
they would be elsewhere. You .see at Bar
Harbor tbero is a tow path, and a lovely,
seductive place it is. Everybody goes to
walk upon the tow path; ana in the gloam
ing, ob, huw many couples are sson stroll
ing along without a single thought beyond
tho fact that they aro with each other.
They have reached the safe ground of flirta
tion, and they are delirious with joy.
“ But where does the meanness come in f"
you ask. Why, just here. A few wretches
with an abnormal development for making
other people unhappy, delight to stroll
along the tow path m such a manner that
they meet all these loving couples face to
face, and then, with aid added touoh of
meanness, they seize the opportunity as
each one is passing to stop loug enough to
light a cigarette, tie a shoe snug, or gaze
upon the scenery. Of course, :t tnruws the
loving couple dreadfully out at tho time,
and it takes fully four minutes before tho
is reached at which thez were stop
ping at the time ofjthe interruption. Now,
don’t you think it is really moan of tow
path terrors to do this sort of tiiiug?
No rice has been or is to be thrown at tho
Newport weddings. Someone bas discov
ered that way back in the middle ugeo,
among the savages, it was tfco custom to
throw things upon the wedding couple* as
they were departing. It was the bride who
usually received the greatest share of these
attentions, and tbe most suo’essful wed
dings were those in whioh tbe bride was so
showered by sticks and stones and sharp
missiles of ail kinds that she sank exhaust
ed upon the ground in her effort to escape
them, and eo was taken captive by the pur
suing bridegroom,
benighted times, rice was thrown, and the
custom has come down in a much milder
form to us at the present day.
It was decided, as soon as tbi9 became
known thut it was not the proper thing to
thus cherish a relic of barbarism and so
rice throwing has fallen into desuetude.
To make a wedding a little more inter
esting than the perfectly sober ceremony
warrants, and also to carry cut the frolic
some idea which widely pervades every one
at a wedding oeretnoniol. the more playful
spirits are letting their fancy run riot by
upholstering the bridal trunks in white
satin, and sending them upon their way
"unbeknownst” to tho owners, who find out
tbe little game when tbe trunks aro brought
in the bridal apartments at tho first stop
ping place.
Another dear little caper is a variation of
tho old act ot throwing a slipper. This time
mucilage is thickly smeared all over the sole
ot tbe slipper, and jus* as tha happy couple
are driven away, amid the deers ot the
guests, the beet man slyly and quietly slips
around to the back of the carriage and
atands tbe slipper boldly on top of it, giving
it a gcntlo pressureso that the mucilage will
get tn its fine work. The loving couple in
side are prepared to have people look pleas- j
nntly at them, but they do not understand
why every one who passes the carriage in j
its triumphant drive to the station should
li>ok so particularly good-temperod and I
pleased over something.
Trust the summer girl for making eapiial
out of her admirers. She is too well bred
to take scarf plus from them unless she is
very well acquainted, and the day has gone
by when she will “taoklo” them fora mono
gram upon a gold dollar. But the little
wretch has another way of robbing the
summer young inau, and that is through his
neckties. Let a young man make his ap
pearance with a particularly pretty tie of
gorgeous hue, and the young woman to
whom he is giving the most assiduous at
tentions will say, sweetly:
“Dear Mr. Foiderai, when you have fin
ished with that necktie may I not have it
for my rug lam making the most beauti
ful silk rug. It is done on tho old style rag
carpet fashion, just as my great grand
mother used to make her carpets long be
fore my day. I cue the ties in strips half
an inch wide and sew them together. And
then I wind the strips in dear little balls
that weigh one pound each, and when I
have ei.ough of them I get a nice rug
woven.”
"Ah then, Miss Prettyfiugers, you have
completed your rug?”
“No indeed, dear Mr. Folderol, it Is not
yet completed—not quite. I Deed Just a few
more pieces of silk. And I am sure tho tie
you have on, with tho white silk one you
were wearing last evening and the blue one
you wore this morning with your tennis
suit, and possibly the striped one that you
wore with your bicycle suit, would be
enough to complete it. You know it is those
lovely luug four-in-hands that I want I
do not caro for miserable little silk cravats
or bow knots. Dear Mr. Folderol, you will
surely let mo have just oue tie—the one you
have on, at least.”
Then, if she is very well acquainted with
Mr. Folderol, she reaches forward ever
no delicately, and ever so daiutlly catches
hold of one end of the tie aud gives a little
mouso-like pull. Of course, Mr. Folderol,
uiilots he is a very hard-hearted young man
aud has airoady promised his tio3 to an
other one of bis bast girls, weakens, takes it
off aud bands over the article to tbe young
woman, who pockets her spoils and waits
for the next opportunity. If Mr. Folderol
is very much "gone" ho at once makes a
proffer of ail bis ties and gels the good out
of them ass ion as ever he can, knowing
that their hour is at hand.
Such a simple amusement as watching
the sunset is one of the summer diversions.
Every woman who has been away in tho
country for the summer knows all about
this, it is a curious thing that a good view
of the sunset can uever b> obtained from
the hotel. There must always be a long
walk to some cherished spot, and then,
underneath a spreading tree, or upon a
friendly rock.there is a 1 <vely scat, whioh is
sure to tie just the right size for the sun et
group, and which is to desirable iu every
wav that evening after ovening the little
party must meunder forth to toe the
golden ball go down.
Coming home it is so different. It i9 cool
then, and the autumii days are so (hart that
before the sun is well out of sight tho long
evening comes on, and tho stars are out all
a glitter before the hotel is reached.
Going forth like this to see the sunset
gives one a peculiar idea of life and things
in general. It is so queer to see tho world
change so suddenly. One hour it is fairly
a {low with light and heat, and the next
hour it is dark and cold und still, lighted
only by sparks here and there.
it makes one think that all the world is a
stage and that comio opera is on tho boards
with a Kiralfy spectacle for a steady at
traction. Carrie. C akklehs.
THE HUCK.s:E..S' UARVfISr.
The Tricks They Play to Increase Their
Profits and Fleece Their Patrons.
From the St. Louie Star-Sayinor.
A huckster wu;ou passed along through
the alley between Pine and Olive streets.
The driver was calling his wares with all
his might. There was a sharp click, fol
lowed by tho rattling of a latch chain. A
high gate swung opon and a woman with a
market basket on her arm stepped out and
baited the vegetable peddler, lie stopped,
arid with a calm, innocent sort of a smile
upon his eigar-store.lailian countenance
asked what she wanted.
“How much do you want for roasting
ears *"
"Twenty cents a dozen, ma'am."
“O, pshaw. I can beat that down town.
Your c iru isn’t anything extra.”
The woman had tumbled tho corn over
rapidly, like a pig hinting for a nubbin,
and Lad smelled of every ear, separately
and individually. The huckster didn’t say
a word.
"Give me 10 cents’ worth.”
The corn was counted out and placed tn
the basket.
“What are these tomatoes worth?” The
good housewife was burrowing Into fhom at
a lively rate.
"Five cents a small measure."
"Don’t want them. CaD beat y our prices
down town.”
"That’3all right.”
"How much ure cabbages?”
"Five or 10 oouts."
“Mercy on me. You fellows aiu’t afraid
I to charge.”
“ That’s part of our business.” was the
indifferent answer.
1‘ What are potatoes worth?”
"Thirty cents a peck.”
“Worse yet. Cau’t you come down?"
"No.”
Then followed a haggle over the price of
potatoes that made the women iu th%nigh
borhood stick their heads out of the win
dows in great haste to see what had bap
pened. At length tbe exclaimed
testily:
"Well, take them for 20 cents.”
Toe goods were measured out and the
prioe was paid.
Tho good woman went into the house con
fident that she had swindled the huckster
man, while the huckster shook bauds with
himself because he had swindled the woman.
When persons propose to down a pro
fessional huckster they havo undertaken a
contraot that would be almost too large for
any individual or combination of individuals
to accomplish. They won’t down worth a
cent. A huckster start* cut in the morning
d-liberate intention of cheating
every person who has anything to do with
him, and he will work as bard to swindle a
poor woman out of 5 cents as if it was $5.
At tho same time he will look as pious as a
Methodist preacher.
The Sunday Morning News .
Will be found regularly on wie at the fol
lowing places:
Estill's News Depot.
Conner’s News Htaud.
Tbe Marshall, Broughton street.
E. J Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryne St Co.’* Drug Store, Wait
Broad and W aldburg streets.
St. J. K. Yonge's Drug Store, corner
Whitaker and Duffy stroeta
McCauley & Co.'s Drug Store, corner
New Houston and Drayton streets.
W A. Bishop’s Drug Store, corner Hall
and Prtce streets. —Adu.
Old newspapers—2oo for 25 cents—at
business office. Moasixo News. —Ad.
DRV GOODS.
ECKSTEIN’S
Tie “BMef Sale Mis.
$8 BLANKETS FOR $5.
$6 BLANKETS AT $3 65.
$3 BLANKETS FOR $2.
fill sell on Huly, Sipismte 7IS, aM
Alier, Use Beiifnl
PRINTED SERGES at 18cts
Now ou Exhibition in Show Windows, Congress and Whit
aker Streets. Black Grounds, Elegant Patterns,
h’ast Colors, Price .'too., Sold at 18c,
KID GLOVES for Ladies and Misses Just Opened.
Now Open at “Eckstein’s”
Imported Fall Dress Goods!
Imported Novelties in Robes!
NEW BEDFORD CORDS, FOI'LES, SERGES!
While and Colored Embroidered Flannels
INFANTS’ CRIB AND CARRIAGE BLANKETS!
A NOVELTY IN LADIES’SHOPPING BAGS!
Wifi Sell MONDAY, SEPT. 7, Heavy
CANTON FLANNEL 9 cts.
Just Opened an Exquisite Lot of
Satin Marseilles Spreads.
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN k Cfl.
. .1, '■■■'■!■ ■ J H ■ M l I !■■■ I I FIW HI. ll.———,—
MILMNERY GOODS.
HR Cot 1111
SALE FOR THE SUMMER
Opens Juno 1 and will continue during the summer months.
Tho largo stock of Straw Goods. Flowers and Trimmed
Hats will bo sold at summer prices, and the complete line
in shapes and all kinds of Millinery will be kept up to its
usual excellency. Novelties will be added continually.
Our complete lines of Ribbons will offer the usual attractions.
The Ribbon Sale will continue as heretofore. Milliners
supplied upstairs at Now York prices and torraa
RROUSKOFFS
MAMMOTH MILLINERY.
FURNITURE. FTC.
WE ARE IN IT,
* • ■
And propose to make the public aware of the fact that we
have the largest and most complete stock of
FURNITURE, ETC.,
In the South. We invite inspection of styles and prices.
M BOLEY & SON,
186, 188, 190 Broughton Street, r.
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