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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

He needs C1e as bad as the girls, I
| guess" said another.
Each one had little jibe until it was
| too lct for Charlie" Ee vent to his
room and dressed for the evening. IL
was born in him that he owed Miss
Hamilton an apology: at all events, it
made an excellent excuse.
He left the room without a word,
| While some one shouted:
Hes going to see his cousin to re-
ceiye his reward" and the chorus join
! cd in the laugh.
( As Charlie approached the h5tel he
noticed Miss Hamilton, and he quietly
cursed 20 himself when he saw her sur
roundings. Miss Harli.scn also no
ticed him, and her color deeDerod Il
was just at this moment that she began
TO hate TIE cause" If il had required
courage the first time he approached
Miss Hamilton, this second attempt
was enough to try the metal of an old
campaigner.
Il beg pardon for interrupting.' ne
said. bit ] should like 10 speak to you,
Miss Hamilton"
The entire company rose as if gov
erned by the same impulse, and depart
ed with elevated noses Miss Hamilton
and Harris had the place to them
selves.
81 have come, er-to apoIogize-er-
for a rather-er-unfOrtur event. In
fact-er-I must admit-er-that-we
that can hardly do myself the hoa-
or of having saved you and your
boat"
ION the contrary" she said, sweetIy.
Il feel that l owe you a debt of graft
tude which I can hardly repay. Pray
put yourself at ease. [ am told it is a
very dangerous spot, and it is a Won
der that we both escaped. No one
knows Of our adventure. so I beg that
you will be discreet. 1t would be very
compromising if it were known to-er-
to my friends"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
An Anecdote BY Marx Twain.

Mark Twain writes for the November
Century a tribute to his fellow-townzman,
the late james Hammond Trum5ull Mr..
Clemens relates the following arcciote:
Years ago. as / have been told. a widow
ed descendant Of the Audubon familv. in
desperate need. sold q perfect copy of
Audubon's Birds to comm zrciaIls-
minded scholar in America for $50. The
book was worth 2l.e10 IN trio market. The
scholar ComDEmentad himself uGoa his
SnreWd stroke of business TIA VAS rot
Fia-nmo1 -A~ TrUmb bulls Style. After The
war, Il 'adT in the far s0UtG wrote him
that among the wrccksee OF her better
days she had book wh.cn some one 1ad
told her was worth S1C1. and mad advised
hcr 10 offer it to him; she added "a. she
was very TOor, and that if he would buy it
at that price. it would bc = great fsvOr
to her. 1t was E.iot's indian Bible
lrumbuH answered t!-at if 1t wis q per
feet copy it had al ez.ablisaed market
value. like 2 gold coin. and was worth
81 eco: that if she would send IL 90 T.. he
would examine it. and if it ui0lrl ~ be
perfect he would sell 81 to INC British
Museum and forward the money 30 her.
IT did prove to be perfect. and she got her
81 600 without delz-. and intact
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

Another style of decoration is as follows:
Tint the darkest scrolls with carmine
shading to light at the tips of the scrolls
The next lighter scrolls ehould be shaded
with grass green, and the lightest In a
delicate tint of sky blue There are many
other harmonious combinations of color
WHICH will suggest themselves to the ar
list.
In painting the yellow narcissus design
more Skill is requisite in order to shade
the petals and cups to prevent a fat Up
pearance. One must use his own judg-
ment following the standings of the ira w
ms IS nearly as possible. The petals are
of bright yellow and mixing yellow. The
cups of the flowers are tinged with deep
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

and low on the other. A girdle of satin
to match the skirt forms a belt, while
noticeably pretty feature are the lace
edged scarfs of point esprit falling
over bust and either hip from puffs of
net on the shoulders. This is one of
the latest methods OF disposing the
still popular sashes that are by no
hind.
FLORAL TRIMMINGS.
Now for a word about lace and flow
ers. They are both lavishly used in the
establishment of ball dresses Not a
few model gowns, seen from Paris, are
SO yelled in lace, both black and white
as TO promise q return of the entire
lace dress to popular use. On skirts,
deep round fiounces are employed, and
on the counters are admirable imita-
tons of cantilly and guipure, mechlin
ana maltese, at amazingly tempting
prices. In the cream laces none is
more worn than the make known as
lier, that has all the charm of a costly
applique and yet is not dear at all.
some OF the very richest ranging in
price good deal below 81 a yard
Concerning the flowers, it is safe to
say that every beauty of field and gar
den is being worn in wreaths especially
and in some quaint designs for dress
decoration never seen before. One of
the dressmaker's pretty devices is to
decorate a white gown with foliage on
" and simple white muslin, fairly
wreathed in artificial smilax was one OF
the most successful gowns that ever
opened a season.
A gay little frock of Her lace, draped
over a skirt of figured bengaline, il
sketched this week, chiefly to show the
scheme Of flower decoration so typical
of the new designs. A wreath of pink
dog roses falls over one hip and holds
a tiny white floral basket, filed with
the same blossoms. A similar inexpen-
slve bit of snow-white wicker work
rests on the shoulder and trails of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
CHINA PAINTING.
Good Designs Tor Amate.,r

Within the past few years the art of
china decoration has been a most popular
pastlme and a profitable business TO
The mode of coloring is slmnlified and
much improved with the advance in this
work and the demand is for a better class
fore the public, they being for the most
part decidedly crude and inartistic.
Here is a conventional design for deco
soup, dinner, dessert or fruit plates. and
a design for decorating tea caddy, bis
cut jar rose or even a tray. The design
for plates can be easily painted by an in
experienced person, as it requires simply
tinting and the shading of the cut viii
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
a Fiddle On Wheels.

What ] admire in a man more than
anything else she said, as they rode
along side by side on their wheels. is
the delicate respect, the prncG,;ous and
lofty reverence VITA which q tr.i7 ge1-
tleman always looks upon O ladv Tcs
Sir Galahad is. above al others, my
ideal of manhood"
Presently a swirl Of wind Huttered her
skirt, and as she quickly Mastered to
smooth it down over her bicycle hose
she cast q quick glance at him.
He had, with true delicacy of feel
ing, turned his head and was g0ne in
the opposite direction.
''HypOcriteH she murmured con-
tenptuously to herself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

Then followed a long conversation,
and at the departure Miss Hamilton
found to her surprise that she had ac-
tually accepted an invitation to visit
Sankoty light the next day.
When the two departed next MORN
ing there was a wave of dismay in the
camp of the woman suffragists.
1T is most disSraeeful proceeding,
and she is no longer respectable" de-
clared the leader of the crowd, and her
opinion was regarded as final
Miss Hamilton was no longer trou-
bled by their society. Strangely
enough, she was no longer concerned
over the degraded condition of woman
she became the OutcaSt of the women
OF the colony. and rose whenever she
approached and departed with a ma
jestic air of offended Gecency. The
three weeks wore on, and Miss Hamil-
ton departed. Charlie" Harris was
as much of an outeast in his set, and
was moved to depart on urgent bust
ness the next day after Miss Hamilton
returned TO Boston.
Il never supposed that Charlie Har-
ris was such cad, said Reggie
ROwles, and I move that we don't
have him here next year"
1t was a unanimous vote.
6 @ o
When Miss Leila Hamilton returned
~ ti4v OIu oiitCe vIl oeet-e street Sl9 was
discovered 10 be as charming and girl-
ism as ever. and it was also noticed that
certain callers, whom she had been
W0ns to receive. came no more. Ii was
further chronicIed that there were 9TH
er 9hings about Miss Hamilton which
were new and strange. she was subject
to moods Of deep distraction, when the
color on her face daepened. and she
turned her head away. When the post
master came AID a letter was handed
to her-an ever- of tbr-a or four ines
a week.-Mrs. Hamilton would turn a
little pale, and quickly aid it In her
waist.
mclth later these events had tceir
explanation when Miss Hamilton came
70 TIE Office. with a sparkling bjsc- on
her ersasement nnge~. ana she veaeTd-
ole senior partner received her rSs!r ia
ton, 20 tax effect in November.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

his sex; at the same time she forgot her
prevailing opinion of his kind Her
heart swelled with gratitude as he took
the oars. But Charlie" Harris was
unable to cone with that tide. and the
boat and it's two occupants went sweep
I ing along faster and faster, until it was
among the heavy breakers of the sea.
The pair were badly frightened; in
fact, Charlie later acknowledged that
he was the more ratified of the two.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

chiffon is woven in rainbow colors. and
stamped with Japanese designs and
flowers, fiocks Of birds and even shad-
owy landscapes.
These are gorgeous effects that the
economical woman merely stops to adj
mire, and without very deep pangs of
covetousness for little less lovely and q
far better investment is the liberty 81 k,
that plays some part in nearly every
e-eninE toilet now made. This beau
tiful gauZy goods shares popularity
with the art for robing and draping
over bright light silk. It can be bought
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

guide one in shading the colors from dark
to light
out by painting the darkest scrolls in deep
purple. The next lighter in carnation, No.
l. and the lig.htest scrolls in silver yellow.
The scrolls should be all shaded, starting
from the center of the design with the
darkest shade, and gradually fading out
to a pale shade at the top Of the SCROLLS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

yellow, and should be shaded at the
green.
The foliage of this plant is naturally
stiff and is of a rich green tone. Use grass
Painting this. 1t is always we'll to use a
combination of greens rather than a sin
gle shade, as in. nature one finds that
leaves are quite varied on the same plant.
The effect of work thus executed is much
more professional in appearance, a point
All china painters aim to attain.
N B. STNMONDS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
SKIRTS AND RODTCFS.

hoNIIA1 AN ~ IOIJlOILEo
It's chief adoption for the ball room
is III making skirts for wear with con-
trasting bodices. The skirt is in some
wise decorated and the bodice is either
made all Of shirred liberty silk or of a
charming evening bengaline that de-
serves special mention because it gives
all the effect of a rioi brocaded silk at
one-fourth the ordinary price.
Instead CT really wearing brocaded
or even fatty interviewer figures. this
silk in pearl, ping or ivory white is
stamped over with bouquets of roses,
knots Of pink and white geraniums, or
scarlet verbena. Such a lowered ben
galine bodice, Worn with skirt of lib
erty satin is among the illustrations
given this week.
Tbs plain skirt is garnished with
marrow rufiies Of cream white point
esprit, and the bodice, bright with a
crimson geranium pattern on a cream
ground, is draDed after a new French
fashion, folded high on one shoulder
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

means of every woman who caters
shrewdly for her wardrobe. More than
this, it is one of the satins very young
girls as well as their mother can wear
with equal prnnria.Y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10
GAMBETTA.

from Lecture of Prof. Belloc of Oxford
1.-The main interest of Gam BETA which
1 shall attempt to make predominant
in this lecture is not one of personality,
but one of results, and I am about to
speak Of the main one dependent upon
his work, or rather upon the work OF
that group of whom he was the first.
The construction of the third empire
has been a matter often discovered to
be puzzling to the minds of foreigners
who contemplate European politics.
Gambetta and all his school found plen-
ty of motives, and one may even say
regarded their Work as not a little sue
cessful- The motive lay, of course, in
that idealiSm with regard to politics
against which the empire had been the
most materialist opponent
LAS I said in my last lecture, the eff
feet of the great wars which had ush-
cred in the Republican sentiment was
to produce a breach of continuity in the
republic, which the whole of our cen
efforts CBOurbon, Orleanist, etc-), the
attempt of Napoleon the Third was the
most directly anti-national- He was to
capture through the use of large
army destined for other purposes, by
the deliberate forfeiture of personal
oath, nation intensely republican, and
to capture it by a band of men without
birth, breeding, wealth, and, in many
cases, even education, and well de-
scribed by one of its later opponents as
the only successful conspiracy of Cati-
line in history, While it furnished the
motive for the men who desired to re-
place such a government by a republic.
1.-THE question was whether the re-
public, in spite of the ideals which the
French had held consOnant with them,
should be a passive or an active repub-
lie. That question was not settled until
1877. The Commune and the fact that
after such a war the military element
was predominant naturally caused an
intensely fractional sentiment The
one man to whom is due the breaking
down of that sentiment is Gambetta.
He enjoyed his success for a bare five
years, a success not so much personal
as the fruition of his ideas. Since his
death, in 1882, no reaction has been OBJ
servable, and if no such has appeared
it has been due to his agency more than
that of anV other man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10

The fight between Topeka and Leav-
enworth has broken out again. A year
ago the towns almost came to blows in
their fight to secure the state G. A. r.
reunion. Topeka won, and LeaVenWOrth
has been sore all winter. The Apple Car
nivaI committee of LeavenwOrth and
the Topeka Fall Festival committee of
Topeka have started the fight again
Atchison Globe.
Mr.. Howe should aid his neighbor in
this enterprise. LeavenwOrth is in every
way deserving of success in the G. A r.
reunion undertaking. Topeka should
not be swinish all the time.-Leaven-
worth Standard.
Mr.. Howe has a friendly feeling for
Topeka because Topeka has a friendly
feeling for Mr.. Howe. The Atchison
Globe says complimentary things about
Topeka's Fall Festival and Topeka re-
ciprocates in kind, besides sending sew
eraI hundred visitors to Atchison's Corn
Carnival. Topeka people like Atchison
and they would like Leavenworth bet
ter if a more friendly feeling were dis
played there. We are not fighting Leav-
enworth on the soldiers reunion, but we
certainly have as much right to invite
the old soldiers as any other city has.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10
WHAT MRS. BEsANT SHOWS.


1F'rom the Chicago Record
BY the use of a stereoptican Mrs.
Besant has shown a New York audi
ence what a thought looks like and has
explained the whole system of think
ing THE astral matter" she averred,
lis the particular kind of matter which
responds to all vibration. When vibra-
lions are set up in the human body
thoughts are the result After which
she presented some pictures of thoughts
which had been Jared out of some peo-
pie. She did not enter into a full ex-
PLANTATION Of the process of shaking up
which had caused these thoughts to
break from cover and go ske1tering
across the sunlit end of the photograph
ic gallery, but contented herself with
showing the visible results of her press
ing of the button. Love, as caught by
her camera, turned out to be red
shapeless thing like a sunset cloud or
section of gauZe mosquito netting, while
jealousy was revealed as a dark blue
dingbat apprOximating a sofa pillow in
general appearance.
An Oval-shaped object, coIored at
one end, was said to be a portrait of a
moving thought. We did not know be-
fore that thoughts, like hOusekeepers,
remember the first day of May to keep
it holy, but there is nobody who will
dare declare that Mrs. Besant is incor-
rect in her diagnosis. and that the pic
ture, instead of being that of a thought
with all its furniture loaded on a furn-
iture van, is really a true representa-
ton OF an evil and repulsiye egg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10
CRITIc1sM WORTHLESS.
Daird Cristie Murray.)


Criticism in the lump is hopeless1y
incompetent or incurably dishonest.
The fact that there are many most ca
pable and most hOnOrab BILE men and wo-
men engaged in criticism is fully pres
ent to my mind.
But when these are weighed against
the venal the incapable, the hysteric,
and the feeble Overfriendly, they kick
the beam. There are journals whose
sole raison d etre is that they offer
fragrant and shameless advertisement to
the wares of their proprietOrs. They
carry weight with the public, and their
judgment has made regulations The
shame of criticism used to be in the stu
pidity of cruelty. It derided Wordsworth
and Keats and TennysOn. 1t declared
when the Christmas CAROL was print
ed that Mr.. Dickens would not increase
his reputation by this fiimsy little vol
ume.
1t did many monumental things in
that line. Nowadays the pendulum
has taken its swing, and if we are in
search of "men of genius" why, every
weekday, day-brings forth a new
one"
Five living gentlemen have ''rivalled
or surpassed Sir Walter and uncOunt-
ed masterpieces perish miserably lin
spite of Iaudatory hOwlings) in a year.
Perhaps a score of journals offer a real
aid to judgment. Hundreds more are
quite outside the sphere of sordid in
f1uences, but are manned by people who
follow the lead of the critics whose bust
ness it is to make false coin pass for
true
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10
CIRCULATION GROWTH.

The State Journal has been under the
present management for over eleven
years and its daily circulation in that
time has increased from 500 to over IL, 600
or an average growth of one thousand a
year.
The State Journal receives the full day
member of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association, has four nnotypes,
fast Web Perfecting press. etc.
The State Journal has larger circula-
ton than any other daily paper published
in the great state of Kansas. It requires
forty-three (43) carriers exclusive of
newsboys) to circulate the paper in To-
pelSa and suburbs.
Don't advertise in the State Journal I'M
less you feel confident that its daily cir
culatiOn exceeds II, 900. Any evidence ap-
parently to contrary will be cheerfuIly re-
ceived and proof produced to convince
the most Skeptical that do not claim
anything about our circulation for which
We cannot vOuch.
exclusive use as a permanent home. a
handsome double front pressed brick
building of three floors. The lOca ton IS
one of the most eligible business sites in
avenue and Eighth street. The building
Is one of the most complete newspaper
structures in the west and has many uni
que featueres-among these are construc-
ton and arrangement by which the four
1DOtypeS are seen in operation behind
plate glass facing Kansas avenue and
also through a large glass window from
The fast Web Perfecting printing press
is placed at the middle of the north
ground floor. behind Is feet of plate glass
complete view from the sidewalk OF the
wonderful printing machine, turning out
complete eight page papers, printed, fold
ed and counted at the rate of between two
cony offers a similar view from the in
aide Of the building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10
SUIT FOR LIFE INSURANCE.
Mrs. Ida n. Bevier Sues to Recover
Policy for $4,000.

Some time ago a suit was filed in
the district court by Ida M. Bevier
against the Northwestern Mutual Life
against the Northwestern Mutual Life
on the policy of Samuel A. Bevier, who
died in this city last fall The answer
of the assurance association to Mrs.
Bevier's petition was filed in the dis
trict court late yesterday afternoon,
and in this answer the company states
that it is perfectly willing to pay the
claim, but that there is a question as
to whom the claim is due.
Ida M. BeYier was divorced from
Samuel A. Bevier on March %, 1896,
and the answer of the assurance COM
pany sets forth that the claim would
have been paid before the action by
Mrs. Bevier was commenced had it not
been that information was received
that the claims to the policy of Be
vier's two minor children would be
urged on the ground that Mrs. Bevier
was not legally entitled to the money
because of her divorce. These minor
children are Patience Bevier, the daugh-
ter of Ida NJ. Bevier. and Nina Bevier
of Colby, Wis, the child of former
wife.
The company asks that the children
be made defendants to the suit, and
the rights of the several claimants liti-
gated and determined in court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10
OLD WRITER'S IN YOUNG EYES

F'rom the Philadelphia American)
The Atlantic is trying to find and to
bring forward a group of the best equip
ped young students of literature, who
will take up from the point of view of
the present our old writer's, and say
just how their literature impresses
them, and how much of it gives inspi-
ration TO the present generation.
I'VE have gone on for 80 or 40 years,
writes one who is interested in this ser
les, practically accepting the estimate
of our greatest literary men which was
made of them by their contemporaries.
1t has seemed worth while to find out
whether this estimate now needs re-
vision.
The views of literature and of life
that these young critics hold will doubt
less turn out to be exceedingly sugges-
tive.
''They will give an interesting meas
ure of the distance we have Travelled
in some respects in our intellectual out
look during the last 80 years. The first
of these papers is the study of Emerson,
by Mr.. John J. Chapman, which is no
table for its frankness and holiness,
not simply as a literary study. but as
an expression of modern New England
on the Nwe England prior to the war"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-10
OWN ALTON.


CFrOm April Lippincott's)
cannot recall ever having seen in
my school days any matrimonial divin-
ing tests save one. It was this. A key
was placed in the Bible at the second
chapter of SOlOmon's Songs, verses 16
and II, and the book tied firmly to-
gether, with the handle of the key left
beyond the edges of the leaves. The
tips of the little fingers of the charm
tester and of a friend were placed under
the side of the key, and then they tried
the alphabet with the verses above
named: that is. they began thus: "A
My beloved is mine, and 1 am his. He
feedeth among the lilies Until the day
break and the shadows fall away, turn
my beloved" etc. At the word turn"
the Bible was supposed to turn around
if A were the first letter OF the lover
name. Thus could the entire name be
spelt out. I am sure I was not more
than. eight years old when 1 saw this
charm tried, but l distinctly recall the
uncanny chill 1 felt when the Bible
slowly turned and fell from the fingers
of the girls who were trying the al
phabet"
I have since learned that when we
thus turned the Bible we were prac-
ticing theomancy-One of the fifty three
varieties of necTOmantic art enumerat-
ed in an old book-two others being
PREGNANCY, charms through the use of
fire, and bOtOnomancy, through the
use Of herbs and flowers.