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# Woman of the Century/Eva Griffith Thompson

​THOMPSON, Mrs. Eva Griffith, editor, born near Jennerville, Somerset county, Pa., 30th June, 1842. Her father, Abner Griffith, a Quaker, died at the age of seventy-two. Her mother, Eliza Cooper Griffith, Scotch-Irish, an octogenarian, still survives. Miss Griffith was married at the beginning of the Civil War, and her husband joined the Union army. EVA GRIFFITH THOMPSON. In six months she was a widow, at the age of twenty. School duties, never given up, were continued, and in 1865 she was graduated from the female seminary in Steubenville, Ohio. S. J. Craighead, county superintendent of common schools of Indiana county, Pa., appointed her deputy superintendent. That is said to be the first time such an honor was conferred upon a woman. For years she has held the office of president of the Presbyterian Home Missionary Society. The Grand Army of the Republic men claim her as a comrade, and in many of their meetings she has been called upon to make addresses. At the inauguration of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union movement in Indiana county, she was appointed organizer, a position she still holds. As State superintendent of franchise in the Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union she is doing an aggressive work. As editor and proprietor of the "News," Indiana, Pa., she wields her pen in behalf of temperance and reform. The paper indorses the People's Party. Mrs. Thompson is active and earnest in her work.
# Woman of the Century/Eva Katherine Clapp Gibson

​GIBSON, Mrs. Eva Katherine Clapp, author, born in Bradford, Ill., 10th August, 1857. EVA KATHERINE CLAPP GIBSON. Her father removed from western Massachusetts and pre-empted a section of the best farming laud in the State. There he built a log house of the frontier type, and in this his children were born. Miss Clapp's paternal grandmother was Lucy Lee, who was a direct descendant, on her father's side, from the famous Indian princess, Pocahontas. Her mother was Ann Ely, from Litchfield, Conn., a direct descendant from Lady Alice Fenwick, a romantic figure in Colonial times, of Old Lyme, Conn. Miss Clapp pissed the first eleven years of her life under her mother's watchful care, on her father's farm. After her mother's death she lived with a married sister. She attended school in Amboy, in the Dover Academy, and subsequently in the Milwaukee Female College. While her studies were pursued in a desultory manner and at irregular intervals, she learned very rapidly and easily. When about sixteen years old, she visited for a time in the large eastern cities, and subsequently taught school in western Massachusetts. She commenced to write at an early age Her first story, written when she was twenty years old, was a novel, entitled "Her Bright Future," drawn largely from life. Some thirty-thousand copies were sold. That was followed by "A Lucky Mishap" and "Mismated," which reached a sale of about ten-thousand copies. "A Woman's Triumph." and a serial first published in one of the Chicago dailies as "Tragedies of Prairie Life," and subsequently published in book form as "A Dark Secret." She has ​written many short stories and sketches, and has done Considerable editorial work. Her poems have had a wide circulation. They are to be published in book form, umler the title. "Songs of Red Rose Land." She liecame the wife of Dr. C. B. Gibson, of Chicago, in 1S92, and spent a year in Europe, where Mrs. Gibson made a special study of the literature of Germain and France.
# Woman of the Century/Evelyn Campbell

​CAMPBELL, Miss Evelyn, actor, born in Waterloo, England, in 1868. She is the daughter of Conrad and Helen Petrie. Coming to America when she was quite young, the family settled in New York City, where Evelyn entered the Lyceum School for Dramatic Expression, under the charge of L. D. Sargent. She remained there three months, after which she was with a traveling company for two years. She then became a member of Palmer's company in "Jim the Penman." EVELYN CAMPBELL. She won a success in the character of the daughter and remained with that company two years. She then joined the Boston Museum Company and is always warmly received by its patrons. Although young, she has earned a fine reputation for a conscientious and natural portrayal of the characters she represents. She is interested in all that pertains to her profession and studies painting as a recreation. She has won the commendation of the fastidious Boston critics, and her career is one that promises future progress.
# Woman of the Century/Evelyn M. De Jarnette

​EVELYN MAGRUDER DE JARNETTE DE JARNETTE, Mrs. Evelyn Magruder, author, born in Glenmore, Albemarle county, Va., 4th March, 1842. She is the third child of Benjamin Henry and Maria Minon Magruder Her father was a prominent Virginia lawyer and legislator, and in 1864 was elected to the Confederate Congress. He was a great lover of good books and had a fine library. In the education of his ten children he took a lively interest and an active part. Her mother was from one of the leading families of Piedmont, Va. Evelyn May Magruder led in early childhood a free and happy country life, until boarding schools claimed her for several terms. Then she became an accomplished young lady of "before the war days in Virginia." She was frequently, during her father's connection with the General Assembly, a visitor to Richmond, where she enjoyed to the full the pleasant social gatherings of that city. In 1864 Miss Magruder became the wife of Captain Elliott H. De Jarnette, whose ancestral home, "Pine Forest," in Spottsylvania county, became her future abode. In the home of her childhood she had ​become impressed with a recognition of the heavy responsibilities of the ownership of slaves, and she had been the regular instructor of the young negroes on the plantation. Amid the cares attendant upon the mother of a family of eight children, she began her literary career, in 1870. "Frank Leslie's Magazine," the "Century," the "Atlantic Monthly." "Youths' Companion" and various newspapers have accepted her contributions. In both prose and poetry she has given to future generations a glimpse of her country's old-time life and customs. Among these are her "Old Vote for Young Master" and "Out on A' Scurgeon."
# Woman of the Century/Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler

​ZEISLER, Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield, piano virtuoso, born in Bielitz, Austria, 16th July, 1866. Her maiden name was Fannie Bloomfield. In 1869 her parents left Austria and came to the United States, making their home in Chicago, Ill. She was a musical child, and her fondness and marked talent for piano playing led her parents to FANNIE BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER. give her a careful training in music. She studied at first with Carl Wolfsohn and came out at an early age as a juvenile musical prodigy. When she was twelve years old, she played before Madame ​Essipoff, who was in this country. That artist advised Miss Bloomfield to go to Europe and place herself in the school of Theodor Leschetizky, in Vienna. Acting on the advice, Miss Bloomfield went to Vienna, where she studied a year in the Conservatory, and then began to study with Leschetizky, remaining in his charge for four years. In 1882 she made her debut in Vienna, where she carried the musical public by storm. Although one of the youngest pianists before the public, she was at once ranked with the foremost in all the essentials that make a great piano virtuoso. After furthur study she returned to the United States, and made her debut in this country in a concert of the Chicago Beethoven Society, 11th January, 1884. There was but one verdict, and it confirmed that of Vienna, classing the young player with the most eminent of living pianists. She afterward played in Chicago, in the Milwaukee orchestral concerts, in the Peabody Conservatory concerts in Baltimore, in the Thomas concerts, in the Boston Symphony Society concerts, in the St. Louis symphony concerts, in Van der Stucken's novelty concert in New York City, making her debut in Steinway Hall, in the Mendelssohn Glee Club concert in Chickering Hall, in the New York Philharmonic concerts, in the Damrosch symphony concert, and in the Music Teachers' National Association concerts in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1884, in New York City in 1885, in Indianapolis in 1887, and in Detroit in 1892. In 1885 she became the wife of Sigmund Zeisler, a lawyer of Chicago In 1888, and again in 1892, she went to Europe and attended the Bayreuth Wagner Festivals. In 1889 she attended the convention of the Music Teachers' National Association in Detroit. Mich., where she read a valuable essay on the sphere of woman in music. She displays remarkable force and endurance in the rendition of her exaction programmes. She is a brilliant technician and even more of an artist in the best sense of the term. She is now living in Chicago.
# Woman of the Century/Eva Kinney Griffith

​GRIFFITH, Mrs. Eva Kinney, journalist and temperance worker, born in Whitewater, Wis., 8th November, 1852. She is a daughter of Francis Kinney and Sophronia Goodrich Kinney. She was educated in the Whitewater State Normal School and as graduated in the class of 1871 She entered journalism and wrote for the Detroit "Free Press," "Pomeroy's Democrat," the Educational Weekly," the Cincinnati "Saturday Night" and many other journals. Overwork broke her health in 1878, and she was not able to resume her pen to any great extent until 1883. In 1879 she went to Kansas for her health. In 1880 she became the wife of Charles E. Griffith, and they moved to St. Louis, Mo. The marriage proved a mistake. They separated, and Mrs. Griffith returned to Whitewater and entered the temperance field. She was made lecturer and organizer of the Wisconsin Woman's Christian Temperance Union for seven years. Her illustrated lectures won her the name of "Wisconsin Chalk Talker." She wrote temperance lessons and poems for the "Temperance Banner" and the "Union Signal." She has published a temperance novel, "A Woman's Evangel" (Chicago, 1892), and a volume named "Chalk Talk Hand-Book" (1887). In 1889 she published the "True Ideal," a journal devoted to social purity and faith studies. In 1891 ​she removed to Chicago, Ill., where she became a special writer for the "Daily News-Record" and afterward society editor of the Chicago "Times." She is a regular contributor to the "Union Signal," EVA KINNEY GRIFFITH. writing the semi-monthly "Queen's Garden" for that journal.
# Woman of the Century/Eva Munson Smith

​SMITH, Mrs. Eva Munson, poet and composer, born in Monkton, Vt , 12th July, 1843. She is a daughter of William Chandler Munson and Hannah Bailey Munson. Her parents came of Puritan stock. Her father was descended from Capt. Thomas Munson, who was born in England in 1612 and came to the Colonies in 1639. He settled first in Hartford, Conn., and afterwards removed to New Haven, Conn. Her mother is a direct descendant of Hannah Bailey, of Revolutionary fame, who tore up her flannel petticoat to make wadding for the guns in battle. Eva Munson received a good education in the Mary Sharp College. Winchester. Tenn. Her family removed to Rockford, Ill., where her father died in 1867. She was graduated in 1864 in the female seminary in Rockford, and, being thrown upon her own resources after his death, she made good use of her attainments. She removed to Nebraska City. ​Neb., where she had full charge of the musical department of Otoe University. She there became the wife of George Clinton Smith. Her musical and poetical gifts appeared in her childhood, and she was, while yet a girl, a proficient musician, a fine singer and a writer of meritorious verse. EVA MUNSON SMITH. At the age of five years she composed little airs, and at fourteen she wrote her musical compositions in form for publication and preservation. She united early with the church, and her musical gifts were turned into the religious channel. She sang in church choirs, and she early observed that many of the choicest musical productions are the work of women. She decided to make a collection of the sacred compositions of women, and the result is her famous compilation, "Woman in Sacred Song" (Boston, 1885). The second edition, published in 1887, contains poetry written by eight-hundred-thirty women, and one-hundred-fifty musical compositions by fifty different women. The work is now known throughout the civilized world. Mrs. Smith has composed many popular pieces Her "Joy" was published in 1868. Among her best known productions are "'Woodland Warblings," "Home Sonata," "American Rifle Team March," and "I Will Not Leave You Comfortless." Her latest is a setting to music for voice and piano of Lincoln's favorite poem, "Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" She is now living in Springfield, Ill., and her home is the resort of a large circle of temperance and religious workers, and musical, literary and patriotic persons. She is in sympathy with missionary and all moral and patriotic movements, and for two years, during 1890 and 1891, was the president of Stephenson Woman's Relief Corps, No. 17, which position she filled with untiring zeal and satisfaction to all.
# Woman of the Century/Evaleen Stein

​STEIN, Miss Evaleen, poet, was born in Lafayette, Ind., and has passed her whole life in that city. She received a liberal education and at an early age showed her poetic talents. Her father, the late John A. Stein, was a brilliant lawyer and a writer of meritorious verse and prose, and he directed her studies and reading so as to develop the talents which he discovered in her. EVALEEN STEIN. Her training included art, and she has won a reputation as an artist of exceptional merit. She has done much decorative work for Chicago and New York societies, and recently she took an art -course in the Chicago Art Institute. She began to publish poems in local papers about six years ago, and her work at once attracted attention by its finish and mastery of form, as well as by its spirit and sentiment. She has contributed prose sketches to the local press, and has been a contributor to "St. Nicholas," the Boston "Transcript," the Indianapolis "Journal" and other periodicals. Poems from her pen have appeared in various collections, but she has never published a volume of her work. In her Lafayette home she is the center of a large circle of cultured persons.
# Woman of the Century/Evelyn Magruder Jarnette

​JARNETTE, Mrs. Evelyn Magruder, see De Jarnette, Mrs. Evelyn Magruder.
# Who's Who in the Far East/COSGRAVE, William Nassau

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​ COSGRAVE, William Nassau (BATAXG PADANG), F.M.S. Civil Service; b. July 2, 1867. Apprenticed to Public Works Department headquarters, Perak, 1891; acting Clerk of Works, Larut, Dec., 1892; acting District Engineer, Kuala Kangsar, Aug., 1893; acting assistant Engineer, Headquarters Staff, Oct., 1894; assistant Engineer on Irrigation Work, Jan., 1895; assistant Engineer, Kinta, Oct., 1895; acting assistant Engineer, Krian, April, 1897; assistant Engineer, Kuala Pilah, Nov., 1898; acting Superintendent Public Works Department, ​Negri Sembilau, Sept. 1899; executive Engineer, Kuala Pilah, Jan., 1901; executive Engineer, Srd grade, Jan., 1902; acting State Engineer, 1902; executive Engineer, Crd grade, Tapali, 1904; executive Engineer, Batang, Padang. Address: Batang Padang, Perak, Federated Malay States.
# Who's Who in the Far East/COUVREUR, Rev. Nicholas Justin

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​ COUVREUR, Rev. Nicholas Justin (SINGAPORE), Procurator of Missions Etraugeres; b. 1855 at Grancysur-Ource (C6te d'Or) France. Educ.: Ecclesiastical Colleges of Langres and Paris. Vice-Procurator of Mission Etrangere.sjat Hongkong 1878-80; since 1880 Procurator at Singapore; one of chief social and financial figures in Straits, where controls vast interests in real property, etc., on behalf of Society of Missions Etrangeres; though French citizen was selected by Government as Assessor, sitting with Chief Justice, Sir Lionel Cox, in case of expropriation of certain property belonging to the P. and O. Co., and Jardine, Matheson and Co., for Singapore Railway in 1904; Considered one of ablest experts on real estate and business interests in Far East. Address: Singapore, Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CORMAC, Charles Richard

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​ CORMAC, Charles Richard (KUALA LUMPUR), A.M.I.E.E.; F.M.S. Civil Service; b. Aug. 14, 1887. Chief Inspector of Posts and Telegraphs, Selangor, Sept., 1891; acting Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, Selangor, May, 1893; assistant Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, Selangor, Jan., 1897; acting Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, Selangor, Aug., 1899; acting Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, Negri Sembilan, Jan., 1902; Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, Pahang, and acting Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs, Negri Sembilan, July, 1932; assistant Accountant of Posts and Telegraphs for F.M.S. since 19:-5. Address: Ku\la Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States.
# Who's Who in the Far East/COWEN, John

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​ COWEN, John (TIENTSIN), Journalist; b. Sept, 6, 1867, 2nd s. of late John Richard Cowen, Assistant Editor, " Yorkshire Post;" m. Marion, d. of Benjamin Wright, of Manchester. Educ.: Leeds Grammar School. Has served upon editorial staffs of newspapers at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leeds, Hull, Preston and London; sub-editor of " The Times," 1895-7; private Secretary to Editor of " The Times," 1897-1900; arrived in China as special correspondent in connection with the Boxer lisiug in 1900; founded at Peking, on Jan. 21, 1901, the " China Times," the first foreign daily newspaper published in the Chinese capital; transferred it in April same year to Tientsin, where it is now published; also founded the first evening newspaper in the district the "Evening Express"; sentenced in 1903 to imprisonment and deportation to the United Kingdom under the China, and Corea Order in Council, for ​certain comments in connection with Russo-Japanese war; sentence afterwards quashed and new Order in Council issued in 1904 in which objectionable clause, under which action was taken, was modified. Address:" China Times," Tientsin, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/COWEN, William Charles Barker

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​ COWEN, William Charles Barker (TIENTSIN), Journalist; b. May 3, 1865, at Hull, e. s. of late John Richard Cowen, Assistant Editor, " Yorkshire Post;" m. May 16, 1891, o. d. of Charles Bartram, The Causey, Maxley Hill, Co. Durham. Educ.: Leeds Grammar School. Assistant Sub-editor, " Eastern Morning News" (Hull), 1883; Assistant Sub-editor," Newcastle Daily Chronicle," Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1884; Chief Sub-editor, "Newcastle Daily Chronicle," 1891; Assistant editor, " Newcastle Daily Chronicle," 1896; Editor, "Lancashire Daily Post," and " Preston Guardian," Preston, 1900; editor, "China Times," Tientsin, 1905. Publications:" Road Book of Northumberland and Durham," "History of the Motor Car." Address:" China Times," Tientsin, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/CORNABY, Rev. William Arthur

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​ CORNABY, Rev. William Arthur (SHANGHAI), Wesleyan Minister, engaged in C.L.S. (formerly called S.D.K.) editorial and literary work; b. Sydenham, London, June 19, 1860. Educ.: Sydenham Grammar School; South Kensington School of Mines; Wesleyan College, Richmond. Assistant teacher of Chemistry at Clifton College, Bristol, 1881-1883; with Prof. A. Shenstone engaged in research work for Royal Society," The Alkaloids of Nux Vomica Root,' etc.; was then a member of the Chemical Society of Berlin; arrived in China in 1885; Wesleyan Mission, Hankow and Hanyang, for eighteen years; editor of " Chinese Christian Review," from 1889; editor of " Chinese Weekly" also in Shanghai from 1904. Publications: "A String of Chinese Peach Stories," 1893; "China under the Searchlight," 1901; "In Touch with Reality," 1935. Address: 44, Boone Road, Shanghai, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/COUSLAND, Dr. Philip Brunelleschi

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​ COUSLAND, Dr. Philip Brunelleschi (CHAOCHOU-FU), M.B., C.M., Edin.; Medical Missionary. Educ.: George Watson's School, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University; formerly secretary of the Shanghai Committee on Medical Nomenclature. Publications: Handbook of Physiology (Chinese). Address: Ch'aochou-fu, via Swatow, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/COURTEAUD, Leonard G. H.

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​ COURTEAUD, Leonard G. H. (HANOI), Chef de Service de 1'Enregistrement, des Domaines et du Timbre; b. March, 1851. Entered Civil Service of Indo-China, May 9, 1883; appointed to present post, March 21, 19CO. Address: Hanoi, Tonkin, In do-China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/COREA, Bishop of

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​ COREA, Bishop of (see: TURNER, RT. REV. ARTHUR BERESFORD).
# Who's Who in the Far East/COULSON, John Bliss

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​ COULSON, John Bliss (YOKOHAMA), Merchant; b. Jan. 8, 1850; m. April 17, 1901, at Hongkong. Educ.: Clevedon College, Northampton, England. Director of Lane, Crawford and Co., Ltd., Yokohama. Address: 253, Bluff, Yokohama; and 59, Yokohama, Japan.
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 1/The Garden of Evil

THE GARDEN OF EVIL
BY CLARK ASHTON SMITH
Thy soul is like a secret garden-close, Where the cleft roots of mandragores enwreathe; Where lilies and where fumitories breathe, And ivy winds its flower with the rose.
The lolling weeds of Lethe, green or wan, Exhale their fatal languors on the light; From out infernal grails of aconite, Poisons and dews are proffered to the dawn.
There, when the moon's phantasmal fingers grope To find the marbles of a hidden tomb, In cypress-covert sings the nightingale;
And all the silver-bellied serpents pale Their ruby eyes among the blossoms ope, To lift and listen in the ghostly gloom.
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# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 1/Monte Carlo Casino Yields Huge Annual Profit

Monte Carlo Casino Yields Huge Annual Profit
DESPITE the fact that, each year, thousands of people journey to the gambling casino at Monte Carlo with carefully thought out "systems" calculated to break the bank, the ivory balls on the flashing roulette wheels netted that institution 65,860,170 francs ($4,530,000) last season.
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.
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