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| VOLXXVII. _ OA8TONIA, N. C- HRIOA
*• »• *A» «i«. Ortitdm. C. W. It VAX*. PfcWVri. A O. MtlU. Cashier.
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TBK WOMEN OF OCNMAtl.
The Streeeees New FemMe*
la the C—hr el the leyel
It might be possible for a vis*
iting foreigner to overlook tbe
woman movement in America,
for, big as it is, it costs ns
neither blood aor tears. Bat to
overlook tbe streaaons new
feminism of Denmark would be
another matter altogether.
When a Dane goes in fora thing
be goes in for it strong, facing
nothing U not downright.
Hence the woman of Denmark,
having gone in for emancipation,
take it uncommonly hard. Tbe
suffrage fever baa divided house
holds. It docs not appear that
tbe anti-suffrage Institution
exists in formal guise; but
"antis” there are, setting tbe
daughter against tbe mother,
the daughter-in-law against tbe
mother-la-law, tbe father against
alL It will be strange indeed if
among all the delegates to the
international Congress of
Women, even now holding its
sessions in Copenhagen, there
be found any sealots more ve
hement then those of tbe Danish
contingent.
Yet they are not the moat ad
vanced of the women of the
North, that is, if advancement
be measured by privileges won.
Danish women are still strug
gling for a voice in municipal
affairs, while their sisters in
Norway and Sweden already
bold every form of suffrage ex
cept the one that really connta,
and the ladies of Pinlaad are re
joicing in their newly-earned
right to ah ig' Parliament. But
then, Danish women began late.
Their National.Connell Is only
seven yean old., nay,might
have bad municipal aufirsgalor
women- taxpayers some little
tint ago; bat to accept that
concession would have bean to
alienate from the emancipation
movement tbe large and active
body of women- trader union
ists who rose in vicknt protest
against any plot to monopolise
the suffrage on tbe part of "lady
bourgeois*." ' Bence the suf
fragists as a whole rejected the
oftar, demanding a whole loaf
or mo bread.
It is odd that Denmark should
he at ell backward about grant
began to girt students aa long
ago as 1*75, granting them de
grees oa equal terms with men,
gmept fat theology, where tbe
wgakk the
’ like pw£nmf5
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•gdaat fashion. The flowing
negligees, tbe natty military
dressing gowns to be seen any
day upon the streets of Copen*
bagen belong to the dress re
formers. But individualism in
dress pervades ail ranks of
Danish womankind. An even
ing rtroll along the Longa Linte
discovers successively ladies in
filmy Summer gowns, with
square-cut 'Dutch necks," and
ladies muffled to the chin in
leathers or far. ladies in trailing
robes, ladies in abbreviated
walking dress, girls of sixteen
with their tresses primly tacked
up, sad girts of twenty with
magnificent braids hanging no
confined, ladies oi all ages riding
wheels in raffled muslins. In
tbe foyer of tbe Opera it ia the
sama. Dark cotton shirtwaists
and Pans evening gowns range
tide by side, and no two beads
in tbe house display tbe same
coiffure. In the language of the
streets, "everything goes."
For the matter of fact, no
fashion ia as good aa any fashion
for Danish women. II they are
handsome, they are invincibly
handsome, with fine eyes, an
perb masses of hair, level brows,
roc ad, firm throats, and lithe
and vigorous though broad
waisted fi cures. The mnr, im. I
possible the dress the better foil
to beauty sad carriage like that.
There ere some people in
Denmark who think that ad
vanced ideas have been carried
too far and that the ease with
which tbe matrimonial yoke is
now^ shuffled off is a menace to
the future of Denisb society. If
a wile can contrive to live for
three yean apart from her hus
band she is practically ante of
getting her legal freedom at the
end of tbe period. Divorce is
not regarded as heinous, bat,
curioawy enough, the breaking
of an engagement is)
There was a woman’s dub in
Copenhagen which apeaks load
»T of • better sort of advance
meat than this. It is a reading
club with a membership of 3,
000 and a library of 33,000 vol
oases. Tbe books are not for
ornament, either. The news
paper room, periodical room,
end new book room are ell lib
erally patronised, and them is
always a little group of aerioua
feoed woman—anthon. cdlton,
journalism, and students—busy
m a atriea of small studies set
apart for real work. The dub
Nhe avrrytbiar else «n
of stain, but tba arts and crafts
furnishings would bear Compar
ison, with any woman's club in
America. The ahoWroem, fitted
o» throughout in -the Danish
style of the fifteenth century,
show bow completely woman (n
Denmark has come to collective
consciousness, HnUag bgnelf
hock into tbe womanhood of tbe
a fireplace rooa
of colored ter
ra fi by a member,
of tbe
feminity
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STIKI LIFTS A SNAKE.
Explanation oi the Paw or la tkn
Iwwfi Strong Elastic Silk
Tcatk't Cows—Ion.
Dr. Phin describes, among
other strange things, bow a
a spider contrived to lift from
the ground a snake that was, of
course, many times heavier
than itself. The story is of in*
tereat chiefly for the scientific
explanation which is given of
tfc* wmy in which the thTot was
done.
Some years ago in a small
village in New York State a
spider entangled s milk snake
In her threads and actually
raised it some distance from the
ground, in spite of the straggles
°i th« reptile, which was alive.
®P what process of engi*
-wring did the comparatively
•mall and feeble insect succeed
in lifting the snake by mechani
cal meant? The solution is
easy enough if one only gives
the question a little thought.
The spider is furnished with
one of the most efficient
mechanical implements known
to engineers, namely, a strong
clastic thread. There are few
substances that will support a
greater strain than the silk of
toe spider. Careful experiment
has shown that for equal sixes
the strength of these fibres ex
ceeds that of common iron; but
notwithstanding its strength the
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1*U aa a mechanical power if it
were not for its elasticity.
Tbe spider has no blocks or
pulleys and therefore cannot
cause the thread to divide up
and run in different sections, but
tbe elasticity of tbe thread more
than makes up for this and
renders possible tbe lifting of
an animal much heavier than a
snake.
Let us suppose that a child
can lift a six pound weight one
foot bigfa and can do it twenty
times a minute. Furnish him
with 350 rubber bauds, each
capable of pulling six pounds
through one foot when stretched
Let these bands be attached to
s wooden platform on -which
stands a pair of horses weighing
2,100 pounds, or rather more
than a ton.
If, now the child go to work
and stretch these rubber hsnds
singly, hooking each one up as
it is stretched, in lets than
twenty minutes he will have
raised the pair of horses one
foot.
The elasticity of the rubber
bands enables the child'to di
vide the freight of the horses in
to 350 pieces of six pounds each,
and at tbe rate of a little leas
than one every three seconds, be
lifts all these several pieces one
foot, so that the child easily
lifts this enormous weight.
Bach spider’s thread acts like
one of tke clastic rubber bands.
The spider would have to coo
neet tbe snake with the point
from which it was to be sus
pended by s sufficient number
of threads. By palling succes
sively os each thread and short
•ning It a little, tbe snake
might be. raised to any height
within tke capacity of tbe
building in which the work was
done.
tort Bfctea in August
tawtaNkUm.
One of the most amazing ex
periences that has ever befallen
an Eastern man in Colorado be
fell C. H Graham, |of Chicago,
Sondey. op the top of the conti
nental divide on the Moflat road,
•ken bn had. bis fact frost bitten
after having spent two and a
half hours walking around on
the hnge drifts of perpetual
■now. i
Mr. Graham and a friend.
Dongles Budd, ■ passenger con
doctor ranning out of Dea
Motoa la.; meat to tha crest of
the divide on tha morn fog train
and stopped 08 at Corona, where
there Is se ihtermisaioa of two
and a half hours before the
train bach to Denver arrives.
The two mca were greatly ia
terested in the snow at the top
•f the divide and spent the en
tice lime shoveling ft about to
aseetuin the depth of the drift.
My. Budd decided after spend
ing an hour on the snow that he
waa getting cold feet and went
to the station, hqt Mr. Qraknm
persevered in the work of in
vestigation. He wort low shoes,
over the snow Us feet and lower
limbs wen thoroughly chilled.
After.he got on the train he
wan attached with excruciating
P*tos to kb Mgs, and on arriv
th* Copper block, who pro
nounced hia case one of frort
bite and applied the enstomary
re m m i#i,
•abacrlba foe Tn Qurm,
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TOO FEW F1VE-DOLLAI EfUS.
Inc« tha Treasury WUI Mast
Bemuds With Odm and
Tm
WhUhim MmaMfc. MO.
Secretary Shaw to day made
public the following atateaeat:
• The Secretary oft be Treasury
baa instructed the Treasurer that
when unable to meet all detnaada
for snail bills to send ones sad
twos in preference to fives. The
Secretary takes the position that
when the department b unable
to meet all demands upon it, it
may exercise a discretion as to
the demands to which it will
give preference.
•There b no source from
which the demand for money
in denominations leas than five
dollar* can be supplied other
than silver and sliver certifi
cates. There is, however, a
source of supply for currency
of the denomination of five
dollars, namely. National bank
notes.
•Since the Secretary’s circular
to banka urging them to increase
their notes of the denomination
of fivt dollars, practically thirty
millions in fives have been or
dered and nearly nine millions
have been delivered. Moat of
the remainder will go out In the
next .thirty days.
"The Secretary in this author
ised statement calls attention to
the fact koown to all, hot over
looked by many, that diver cer
tificates cannot be issued except
for silver actually in the Treas
ury. Gold can be deposited in
tbs Trassary and gold certifi
cates demanded, and gold car
uocttei are reoeemaDK in goto
on demand. Silver can be de
posited io tbe Treasury and sil
ver certificate* demanded, and
these certificates in tarn are re
deemable in silver on demand.
"Gold and silver certificates
are exactly what they profess to
be. They are receipts which
tbe Government Isaacs for an
actual deposit of the kind of
coin designated in tbe certifi
cate. Most of tbe silver now in
circulation is in tbe form of cer
tificates.
" If tbe banks will return silver
certificates of (be higher denom
inations and ask either tbe coin
or silver certificates in denomi
nations 0( one and two dollars
there will be no scarcity of small
money. Their place will be
promptly supplied by tbe small
bills authorised by tbe banks.
Congress has not an wisely
planned - for the needs of the
country. It rests with t)ie
banks to conform their opera
tion* to meet these needs.*
A.Orata 6iri. -
Mias Jeanette L. Gilder, the
editor of the Critic, tells an odd
story of a green serving-maid:
"The maid had just come
over from Ireland, and s Brook
lyn woman engaged her. A
bell hong in the girl’s room,
and the morning after her
arrival her mistress rang this
bell to get her np.
"But the maid did not get np,
though tbe bell rang ana rang.
Finally, therefore, the mistress
herself rose, and slipping on a
dressing-gown she hastened to
tbs new servant’s room.
"There, wide awake, the maid
lay, laughing at tbe top of her
Inngs,
" What on aarth are yon
laughing at, North?’ said tbe
mistress.
"Faitb, mum,' North an
swered. 'Oi’xn langhin’ at that
bell. As share as Oi liva Oi
haven’t touched it. an’—|est ace
—it’s waggin* yit.1"
Ctarlatt* Cfcjwlcta.
Colonel Jams* Smith, who ia
known as the farmers’ candidate!
tor Governor of Georgia, ia said
to be one of the richest man in
the whole Sooth and made hi*
money on the farm. Referring
to this, The Charleston News
and Courier eeys that "tha a am
ber of farmer* growing rice in
South Carolina u greater than
the number of persons in any
other coining. Scattered through
out the State ate cotton planter*,
who have for the leal font or
fee year* enjoyed princely in
come*. We do not inlead to
•ay that their incomes compare
with tho** of a New York
•pcctable anywhere." The asm*
condition* prevail In North
Carolina. It ia a mistake to
•appoee that all wealth ip rep
resented la the cities. U fog
common thing fora city man,
when ha Bods M necessary to
borrow* aaat of moaey. to get
Us collaterals in shape sod
make a call on bis friendin the
country. Thera Ora aome mm
ia Mecklenburg county whose
wealth would make the (tending
oMhe^ayerege city rich men
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Bcctsnm ctmncr
htMt (a Mnim Tarn fa
baal Said the Right Vaa Bach
aai Ha WUa Cwltrt Saa.
hat the Vaathar NaaSaMffia
Haag Vaa PUL
w*mtaeMsrwt,
The weather area 1ms other
duties than forecasting, and oaa
of the most interesting of these
b in legal proceed tags. His
popularity as a tcetlirr has
arowa so rapidly that It If Ig
ured that in the last tua yean
he bss appeared ia court ao lass
tbsa 4,000 daws.
la the ftrst part of the amoth
the Federal court ia St. Paal,
after baarlag the stataanat of
the weather clerk, decided that
a stone in the city two years
previously was a cyclone and
awarded a verdict of $29,*25 ia
a salt lor insurance, the aoatca
Bob being based on thb prop*
ositioa.
Is damage salts, ia ctiadaal
trials, inclading those of arar*
derm, ia the coaatractluu of
with, aad ia nearly every other
Ions oI law battle tbs weather
■an b summoned to testify. Aa
effort to ascertain the aanber of
daw* that observers of the
weather bureau have appeared
b court with the records of thair
offices withia a period of tea
yean resulted ia the cmapflatioa
of these figures, adatitedly in
complete: New York city, $02;
Chicago, 255; Bsflrio, 167; Phil
•as City, 153*: Baltimore,' IS;
Albany. M; CWvalaod, 58;
Louisville, S3; Ciocianatti, a,
and a number of other
ranging down from SO to 30.
Ordinarily the frequency with
which records are produced
should be expected to depend
noon the size of the cities in
which the nation* are located.
But Professor Cox, who has
made a study of the subject,
•ays that the geographical loca*
turn is important, snow, ice and
freezing weather figuring largely
in the matter. There is a greater
demand for weather data in
courts la Northern t h a a fas
Southern States.
For many yams the United
States courts have held that n
record of the weather kept by an
observer was competent evidence
in a court of law and since that
time similar decisions have been
made by the judietarv bodies of
various stares. Within a few
years the Supreme Coot of the
State of Missouri hat decided
that press copies of meteorology
real forms are admissible as cv
idencc.
The civil cases in which op
pert weather testimony is intro*
dated are generally those far
personal injuria*, damage to
perishable goods or toes by fin
or stum.
CUUOCICAH.
An observer mioace called
upon to teitUr in a writ im which
It was alleged that tbe
had been iojaredtkr
pitched through the
a car. It was set forth,
account of the raw, cold weather
the plaintiff, a woman, endeav
ored to done a window and that
0« account of a sudden rounding
of«a enrre ft that particular mo
STof theconveyaaenTcoaif
•el for tbe. railway nnmrani re*
plied ‘ to the testimony oT the
other tide by producing the
weather records far the day in
question which showed that the
weather was warm, satiny and
yicPMui.
in maim notable murder canes
the weather man has baas sum
mooed to produce records lot
| one vide or the other. In one
the idenity of fhc scorned hiug
Sin&aftnbCe
Sr.,^d.x,hh7„r.rs,'^
cape. The records ihowed that
&&>«3£srtts
thm that the Aataoce the wit
nemea wars from the maa who
committed the crime it was a
cSsatsafTSs
acqoittad.
. In another murder trial an ef»
■aonth* rfmr^tiT^crf0" ** *
anno* had tenths wnw3
aadtikenup his abode ini7EZ
tact city three weak* before the
body was fonad and the defease
tried to shew that the kttMajr
meat have oocurrad after the SO
cased had dwagad kla place of
residence, and that be, there
fore. wee *
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