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attack on the Taylor family did not meet
the eye of their friends until after it had
deeply wounded and incensed the chill
dren and grandchildren of the heroic old
ex-president.
After setting forth that Mary Anderson
was born in Louisville, ETC., the writer
goes on thus:
The parents Of President Zachary Taylor
were Virginians but they settled near the pres
ent city of Louisville about the year 1888. II
happened that Zachary Taylor was born ID
Virginia. but was brought 70 Louisville when
he was only month or Two old, and he grew &c
manhood working on his fathers farm. Old
residents have interesting "reminiscences OF
President Taylor and his wife,
Mrs. Taylor seems to have been very do
nestle, abhorring all forms OF society. She
was almost crazed with grief when she learned
that she was TO live in the White House. AZ
ter the Inauguration she retired to one room
where she spent all of her time refusing 10 see
callers. Until shortly before her husband 5
death she lived the life Of 2 recluse, and it is
related that the poor, simple old woman sat
day after day, smoking her pipe and bemoaning
her sad fatei Many people are yet alive who
claim to have seen her calmly putting an old
clay pipe. Her oldest daughter elOped ana
married Jefferson Davis, who was then young
army officer stationed at Prairie du Chen,
Wis. General Taylor's DuryiDg place was long
neglected. Briars and brambles grew over the
grave. the fences surrounding 1t rotted down,
and the little family cemetery became q
thIcket.
1t would be hard to have written two
paragraphs, containing more errors than
these two which speak of the Taylor
family. 1t is true that General Taylor
was taken to Kentucky when very young,
and that he grew to manhood in that
state-but that he grew up working on
his father's farm is untrue. That he
would have done so with no loss of dignity
or of the esteem OF his fellow citizens is
also true. had such service been necessary
to the welfare OF his family; for, through
long life he met every emergency with
promptness, zeal and efficiency. From
this popularity came his pseudonym old
rough and ready-not because he was vul !
gar or rough inmind or manner but be-
cause he was always ready for any emer-
gency and took the rough end Of every
encounter. He was a man of great ten
derness of heart, of very gentle manner,
and SO totally devoid OF self-assertion or
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ously i'll. His mother determined that
he should be spared that knowledge,
{ n as his whole life had been happy
and bright, so should his death be. His
illness was long, developing from an at
tack of grip into rapid consumption,
but long as it was and trying it was more
than equalled by the mothers devotion
and courage. For it took courage. rare
courage, to sit beside that handsome
young fellow of sixteen, and see the
warm color of his face fade away, and the
hands grow thin, and the body waste day
by day. and yet smile and be gay through
it all and never let him suspect anything
was wrong. That is what Mrs. Burnett
did during those eight months. Her love
made her capable of playing part such
as no actress could play, the part OF a
mother watching death circling her boy
in its grasp and laughing at the grim
spectre as ii he were a welcome guest. No
one will ever know the patience and in
genuiby shown by Mrs. Burnett during
those weeks SO long and yet all too short,
to keepgLionel's mind occupied; to keep
him from worrying, from mistrustlng.
She succeeded though, and up to the end
the boy believed that he was merely laid
up with bothersome case OF grip and
nothing more.
Weeks before his death Mrs Burnett
She was determined not to break down
when it came, but to smile at her son as
she had done all along. From the begin
ming OF his illness until his death Lionel
never saw tear in his mothers eyes, nor
cloud on her face, nor change in her
expression. She knows what she suffered
when alone, but her boy knew nothing,
he was happy.
The doctors told Mrs, Burnett long
time in advance that the end would come
painlessly, Lionel would pass away as in
a sleep. 1t was possible that, at the very
last, he might have vague conscious
ness that he was dying, but even this the
mother wished to prevent. Days before
she acted over the death scene as it must
occur. preparing the very words which
she would say and training herself TO say
them calmly. 1t all happened as she had
anticipated. She played her part through
without flinching. As he was dying
Lionel raised his head with a half fright
ened look which was met by his mother's
smile.
"Does my boy feel little faint?" she
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justification in heredity or something
else by the converse method. but cannot
do it. -
''The great trouble with me is that the
top joint of my thumb is too short and
the second joint too long. This means,
as the palmist tells me, that my reasoning
powers are developed at the expense of
my powers of decision. l see on all sides
OF the question at the same time and come
to no conclusion except in general way
that everybody is right. -
These practical Illustrations show better
than any generalities could the kind of
things Mrs. Burnett says, but the ac-
compartment of her animation and in
tensity is needed to complete the charm.
The story of Mrs. Burnett's literary
success has been told too often to need
repeating. Here, at least, is writer
who bears no grudge against the race of
publishers. She has always found them
generous and courteous ever since the
time. years ago, when one of them, on
his own accord, offered to pay higher
price for her stories than she had been
getting from him. She was then young
girl of 16 and he might have had the
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ting. And then what happens?

MRS. BURNETT's HOME AND FAMILY. +
So much for the jewel, now little
more about the setting. The Burnett
house stands on Massachusetts avenue, a
few doors from the Chinese legation and
the Blaine mansion. 1t is the home of a
cultivated woman who likes to have pretty
things about her and knows how to ar
range them effectively. The rooms on
the lower floor at the right are three
in number and open Into one another,
running the whole length of the house.
The first two are parlors, the third is a
coy music room. These rooms are fur
nished in thoroughly modern style, with
few books and a liberal number of paint
ings. 1t is these which the casual visitor
sees, but what is best in the house he
does not see.
At the left in the back is a dining room
very large and abundant in treasures of
woodwork and carving brought from
Venice. Several of the cabinets in this
room would do credit to a museum, aud
in one OF these are specimens of Venetian
glassware that could not be excelle1. On
the walls hang two full length portraits
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OF Mrs. Benefits sons, Vivian and
Lionel, one of whom has been taken from
her.
DR.. Burnett's Offices are on the other
side of the house at the front.
Passing up stairs through the square
hall with its fine woodwork, one comes to
the sleeping apartments on the second
floor, and then up another flight to Mrs.
Burnett's ''den' up at the top of the
house. Wherever she is Mrs. Burnett al
ways prefers to dc her writing where no
one can ger above her. This stden' is
full of interest, full of memories. full of
triumphs. There is the table at which
many pages of her rather seraggly hand
writing have been turned out. There are
books she has consulted, there the lounge
on which she has rested, there the photo
graphs and tasteful things about the walls
on which her eyes have fallen while seek
ing inspiration or while trying to cajole
it into good humor. And there, never
out of her sight, are the photographs Of
her two boys, a wreath of flowers around
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-04
a. Graphic Pen Portrait of the
Brilliant Novelist.
HER PERSONAL APPEARANCE
Some Specimen Nuggets of Her Bril-
liant Conversational Powers.
Home Life and Surroundings ct the
Author of ''Little Lord rauntIeroy''-
Pathetic Story of the Great Grief
of Her Life.
HERALD Correspondence

HERALD IOrresp0nuence.
WASHINGTON, May 3O.-There is moth
ing in Mrs. Burnett's home which marks
it as the abiding place Of genius. From
the outside the house is like any other
house on fashionable street. You see
in the window physicians sign telling
his Office hours-Dr. Burnett. Perhaps
you were not aware there was such per-
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but when / get them home they scratch
as badly as my own. There is a strange
psrversity about pens.
ssEver since was child have felt an
amusing sense of responsibility Tor the
universe. When my little sister was
naughty and broke her doll, it seemed to
me that was to blame. / have a vague
feeling of the same kind still when
greater things go wrong"
"Whenever l come to consider what
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THE GREAT GRIEF OF HER LIFE.

learned later from an intimate friend
of hers that once she lay unconscious
for five days from conclusion of the
brain, the result of a runaway accident
in England; and another time
she watched for eight months at
the bedside of her dying boy. When l
heard that story l understood the depth
of her womanly nature. Lionel died in
Paris about two years ago and up to the
very last never knew that he was seri-
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The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use the California
liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all
conditions, makes it their favorite rem
edy. To get the true and genuine article,
look for the name of the California Fig
Syrup company printed near the bottom
of the package.
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will be all right in moment
Lionel smiled and died.
The shock of that trial left Mrs. Burnett
in dreadful state. She has quite recov-
cred from it now physically and is, in
deed, in the very hey-day of her vigor of
body and mind. But. as she expresses it,
she feels as though she were separated
from the rest of the world by a gulf which
she had passed and they had not.
One strange result of her bereavement
is that she has superstitious terror of
ever going to Venice. Five times she has
started to go there and five times some
bad news has kept her from going The
last time it was a cablegram telling OF her
boys illness.
/ think she firmly believes that if she
ever set out for Venice again she would
learn that some harm had befallen her
remaining son.
That would kill her, for in this fine ma
ture there is quality stronger than the
cleverness, deeper than the intensity and
that is the motherly love.
CLEVELAND MoFFETT.
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a matter of fact she is not even abb t.
work enormously during the mornings.
In any event her afternoons and evenings
are given to other duties. to her family
for the latter. But her mornings she sets
apart, or tries to set apart, .-r her
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stories for half the amount he paid, but
he did not take advantage of her igno-
rance. Now she has far greater demands
on her pen than she can fulfill, and what
ever she chooses to write and as much as
she can possibly write bring her 10 cents
a word.
That means that earning 5000 or $500 is
an easy mornings work for her.
At that rate one wonders why she does
not work morning, noon and night. As
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people may call my virtues find myself
possessed with harrassing tendency to
reason them back to faults. Thus gen
crosby becomes weakness, industry be-
comes abnormal ambition, self denial
higher form OF self1shness and so on. /
wish / could reason my faults back to a
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magazine. A person who signs
himself G.. II. Yenowine in its December
number OF 1892, has an article on 'tLouis-
vile, - at the end of which is the follow
ing libel upon several OF General Taylor's
family, and notably upon his wife. The
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-04

Garfield Beach Trains.
Effective June 1, and until further no.
tice, trains between Salt Lake and Gar
field Beach will run as follows:
Leave Arriue Leave Asriue
Salt Lake. Garfield. Garfield. Salt Lake.
+ T: As a. M $3.50 NJ 1900 m. 12:40 p. m.
1000 a. n. 1910 am. *2:50pm. T4:00p m.
200 pm. 2:40p.m. AGO pm. 4:40 D. m.
500 pm. 3:40 pm. 500 p. m. $40 p m.
$50 pm. 7:10p.m. 9:30p-m. 10:l0p pm.
*Daily, Sundays excepted.
Bathing, Boating, Dancing. Olsen IS
orchestra in attendance every afternoon
and evening.
Fare for round trip, only so cents.
d. e. Burnley.
Genl. Agt., Passenger Dept.
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For Appointment to United States Mill
tary Academy.
Professor j. T. Kingsbury, acting
president of the University of Utah,
Lieutenant r. w. Young and DR.. j. j :.
McAchran, have kindly consented to act
as board to examine applicants for the
appointment to the cadetship in the
United States Military academy at West
Point.
A competitive examination of such
applicants will be held by said board on
the 10th day of June, 1893, beginning at
II O'Clock in the morning. at the Univer-
sity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
j. L. RAWIIyS, Delegate. :
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AFTERNOON SESSION. 2 O'CLOCK.

AFTERNOON SESSION. 2 O'CLOCK.
Opening hymn, Now let US rejoice etc.
Prayer --.--..----.------.---.-
Singing an original hymn.
Miscellaneous business
Historical subject from The Guide, The
Book of Mormon -......--. Clara 5. Carlyle
talk on the Temple------D Maggie @. Ship
Quartette, by young ladies from Seventh
ward association .--.....----..-...-
Subject in theology from Tho Guide, sSec-
ond Coming OF Christi Edith ampsome
Remarks ....-.--.
Closing hymn, 'The Doxology" ............
EVENING SESSION. 7:3O.
Singing, Chow firm a foundation ......
InVOc2tlon--
Hymn, 30, my Father, thou that dwell
1st, with solo by Maggie +. BaSSett
Mis- cellaneous business
Lesson from The Guide, 1.-The Human
Body" Hannah Olsen, Second ward asso-
Biography, "Confucius," vickie Clayton,
seventeenth ward association.
Song, Sophia Holmes, Twenty second ward
Snject, Fasting and Prayer Emma
Goddard, Twenty-frst ward association.
Brief address. ..............----------..
Closing hymn. 1.-The Spirit of God like a
fire Is burning" OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
beneolcblOn ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .-...-..
A cordial invitation is extended to the
public and to all interested to attend.
Please bring hymn books and join in sing
ing MARY A. FREEZE Stake President
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NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.

Free delivery of goods to any part of the
city at the Chicago Liquor House.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-04
ZACH TAYLOR ANDHIS WIFE
Mrs. Jefferson Davis Corrects
Some Recent Measurements
GEN. TAYL0R's BOYHooD.
Interesting Pictures Of Old-Time PeO-
pie and Their Ways.
Instead of s'simpie Old Woman smok-
ing Her Pipe and Bemoaning Her
Fate,' Mrs. Taylor Was Refined
and Elegant Lady.


HE liberty OF the
press Is one of the
sacred rights of free
men, but liberty
trenches on license
when such an article
as the following is
uttered by a conser-
vative and dignified
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Y. L. NJ. I. A. Quarterly Conferences.

Programme for the Y. L. M. A. quar-
terly conference of Salt Lake stake, to be
held in the Assembly hall, Tuesday, June
e 1909.
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DR.. o. B. Hewett & Son, the leading
dentists. Dooly Up. o. building.
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No charge for jugs with any family or
der at Chicago Liquor House.
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said. taking his hand. ssDon't worry, it
will be all right in moment"
lion oil cr1,ilad and died
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Closing hymn, 1.-The Doxology" ............
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01
BABY KNEW HER.
Aud Inevitably Gave Assurance of
Woman's Truthfuiness.

Aud Inevitably Gave Assurance of =
woman's Truthfuinsss.
From the Chicago Tribune.
She had lost the little brass check
given her at the day nursery in the fair
grounds in exchange for her baby, and
she was in dreadful state of mind. To
make matters worse the matron would
not surrender the babe in the absence
of the check. because childless
mothers had been known to attempt to
steal children from similar institutions,
claiming pretty youngsters and pretend
ing to have lost their checks.
In this case the woman WAS 30 homely
and 80 plainly dressed and the baby Of
two years 80 pretty and 30 richly attired
that the matrons suspicious were
aroused
mo check, no baby" WAS the concise
summary of her decision. The mother
pleaded in vain and her tears flowed in
torrents, so awful WAS the predicamen,
in which she, stranger alone in the
city, WAS placed.
Let the baby decide" she implored
Matron Hall consented to the trial
Twenty youngsters of about the same
age were ranged in row in the nursery
and the nearly crazed mother was ad
mitted under promise that she would no
speak or otherwise attract the attention
OF the toddlers. The trial was brief AM
satisfactory One cherub had no soone
laid it's eyes upon the fearful woman
than it fairly howled: Mamma
Mamma" and ran to her as fast as pos
sible. The mother caught the little ont
to her breast, smothered it with kisse
and wept more copiously than ever. Tn
baby's evidence was accepted as con
elusive proof
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01

metals house considerably under the in
fiuence of liquor and soon shots were
heard Nothing WAS thought Of it until
a pedler raped at the door, and receiv-
ing noreply, but hearing groans, he went
inside. Lying around the room amid
horrible confusion OF broken and scat
tered furniture, lay Mrs. Tha, shot
through the mouth; Tametta with bull
let n his breast, and Mrs. Tametta with
frightful cash in her forehead inflicted
with an ak. all still in death. In the
woodshed Tina lay gasping for breath, a
bullet through his head. In the midst
Of all this bloody horror, Mis-. Tametta' g
two children we're playing. The sheriff
and coroner were Immediately notified,
and in few moments a crowd collected.
Tha only lived few hours and the
others undoubtedly were killed instantly.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01
BURNED To DEATH.
Dragged and Robbed by a Notorious Wo-
man, who Set the House on Fire.

man, who Set the House ON Fire.
The most horrible sight that has been
seen in Spokane for long time was seen
Saturday night A colored man by the
name of George Fields was burned to
death. He lay in heap OF Goals and
ashes when the firemen pulled him out,
and he died before he was dragged off
the smouldering wreck of small frame
dwelling house. The building caught
afire about eight O'Clock and before the
tiremen reached there the roof had fallen
in and no one supposed there was hu'
man being contained within the flaming
ruins. Just as the water was turned on
the side of the building fell in and the
sight revealed to the eyes of the bystand-
ers caused a mighty cry OF horror to &c
up.
They saw a man fall into the Goals.
There is considerable excitement over
tie affair. The police have discovered
that the man had been working on the
Great Northern road and came in with
considerable money from where he haC
been employed. They believe that he
had been engaged in drinking heavily
and was taken by notorious woman Of
the town, robbed and the shack set OF
fire to conceal the crime. The police
claim that the man must have beer
drugged and left in the burning building
to die, and OF course he must have dice
horrible death.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01
A Robbers' Retreat Discovered.

There is cave three and half miles
from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which
had never been explored to any great
extent till Sunday, when party Of
young people thought they would pene-
trate it's deeper recesses. 1t was found
to contain a mum Der Of large rooms, and
in one OF these rooms was found a box
containing several gold and silver
watches, two diamond rings, a lot of ear
rings and several pistols. In another
room we're found five skeletons, thought
to he those OF persons who had been
robbed and then murdered. In this
same room was a lot OF cooking vessels,
which were probably used by the rob-
beers. Two of the watches bear the
initials, 80. c. A." and rs. j. Nick"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01
Palmistry Points.
From the Boston Home journal.

From the Boston Home journal.
Square or spatulated fingers, in the
science Of palmistry, denote the philo.
sophical and practical temperament, and
very pointed digits are sure sign OF the
dreamy, psychical nature. Much is
learned by the general quality and con-
tiguration OF the hand and palm as well
as by the lines which cross the latter.
The life line running around the base Of
the thumb denotes long or short life,
good or i'll health or otherwise. The
"heart line," running across the palm
nearest the base Of the fingers, signifies
the quality of the possessor's emotional
nature, also the kind OF love she will
give and receive.
This will be enduringor temporary, &C.
cording to whether the line be long and
clear, forked or crossed and chained.
Below this is the head line, which indi-
Gates the mental and modern qualities
and achievements and deficiencies.
The line OF fate runs perpendicularly
across the middle Of the palm and is 9
very important factor in the happiness
or unhappiness OF its owner 1t shout
be clear and narrow, unclaimed and un
crossed by the fine wrinkles which score
many palms, and it should never COME
TO an end on the line OF the heart, since
this signifies disappointment in love. 4
cross on the Mount of Mercuro, which il
lust at the base of the fore or index
finger, is an unfailing sign OF happ,
marriage.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-12-01
The Banks of the south.

The financial stringency has not been
go severe upon the banks of the South as
many would have supposed. On the
contrary, both national and state banks
south of Mason and Dixon's line have
stood up remarkably we'll under the cur
rent troubles. OF Florida's ninety-four
banks, only four are closed. Alabama
has better record in that out OF total OF
l2O banks but two have closed perma-
nently. Georgia is credited with but six
permanent closures out of go banks.
Maryland and Louisiana emerge from
the panic without failure. North Car
DINA, South Carolina and Mississippi
are charged with one failure each. OF q
total number of 1876 in Virginia but five
are closed, and Texas and the Other
Southern states show corresponding ex-
cellent record.