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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

The flight Of the Chinese court as
described by Prince Su, who accom-
panied it, was a panic stricken affair
throughout The emperor swore like
the army In Flanders to Judge from
accounts, while the empress dowager
berated everybody like the termagant
she is. The feature Of the fight that
win strike everybody is the fact that
in the most hurried part OF the Jour
ney only twenty miles day were
made, And that in carts too. Nothing
better indicates how behind the times
China Is than this.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

has gone from them now, 10 leave
poignant regrets tempered by memories
IN which the sunshine created by his
presence could De obscured by death
only
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

The November number Of Success
presents on IT'S title page a Thanksgiy-
ing Scene and ell rs pages are bright
with good reading and artistic engray-
ings.-McGraw-Marden Co, New York
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

Margaret A Welch editor Of the Wo-
mems department Of Harper's Maya
zine says 1--WE do not laugh half
enough Does she insist on "the loud
laugh that speaks the vacant mlnd2"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

\ man named Snapp, confidential
agent Of a Memphis firm OF cotton
brokers. has been arrested for embez-
element Of HIS employers funds Took
snap judgement. so 20 speak.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

The Kipling home at Brattleboro, VT,
is for sale. II is doubtful II It win re-
allze az much as complete first edi-
ton set Of his works would.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

Utah counts up a population Of 49,
j65. We must be growing greater"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

In Boston servant girls sometimes
plead as an excuse for their short COM
ings kleptomnnia 1t probably results
from too much culture.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

In politics an anticipated and predict
ed landslide often turns out to be a
snowslide.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

In the wars Of the world today It is
often hard to distinguish between
reconciliation and humiliation.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

The population Of the United states
Is l6.29j2-o Hurrah for the boys Of
70 millions.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-30

Defaulter Alyord says he is clad that
he has been arrested. His victims say
the same thing.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

tess, served her guests from this table. Now used a serving table by Mrs. Will kinson, it is much prized for the remin.s- cences it bears of a day when from the stately halls of Montpellizo the ancestral home of her father, the nephew and adopt ed son of the President pr. James Madi- son, led her aunt, a fair bride, who now sleeps in the Montpelier cemetery by the side of Dolly Madison. At small luncheon recently given by Mrs. Wilkinson this historic table was set with a service more than four generations old, and as the guests recalled bits of history, much of Dolly Madison's life seemed most vividly before. them, the shining mahogany that had once mirrowed her own lovely face, glowed beneath the soft flickering of can dles.
 Perhaps Talleyrand Chateaubrand, the Bonapartes had chatted with the beautiful Mrs. Madison she entered the breakfast room at Montpelier on a summers day long gone.
 As the Widow Todd who vowed that she would not marry again, the famous Dolly was recalled, and she was pictured when walking through the most fashion, able street in Philadelphia she was seen by James Madison who, out for a promen- ade with his friend, Aaron Burr, fell a vc- tim to the charms of the beautiful Mrs. Todd It had been several years since Mad
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
High Grad Curriculum

The Wesleyan Female College, at Macon, Ga is doing work for the South that has long been needed It has raised its curriculum to the standard of really high grade college. There are only two other colleges for girls in the entire South that are doing this class of work, while in the North there are many. Our Southern wo- men deserve as good an education as the women of the North, and we congratulate the Wesleyan College on its efforts to meet this demand. The Wesleyan is the oldest female college in the world, and hasSa right therefore to stand at the top.
 The president, Dr. J. w. Roberts, will gladly furnish any information desired. Parents having daughters to send oH to college will do well to write to him. Adver- tisement elsewhere in this issue.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

its rich beauty but for its historical in- terest; and in the latter case historians have long ago made familiar the lives of the original owners whose beauty and charm made them the social leaders of nation.
 But while the fashion of their gowns and coffeures the brilliancy of their bonmots and the exact period when a particular beauty created her particular furor, have been told in pages of history, there is hap oily other tangible evidences of her career in the historical furniture and the romances that cling about it and that give it value, today, far above the intrinsic for which it was formerly prized; and while the present day designer of furniture reproduces the style of a hundred or more years ago, the originals remain in a distinctive class, and where the family silver and cut glass have been preserved a buffet adorned with the punch bowl and wine set from which bril- liant toasts were drunk in days that are gone, will be forever a page from his tory. It recalls the courtly period when homage was paid to the social sway of dominating families, and tells the story of the most famous social etiquette that this country has ever known.
 While many of the old colonial houses are going to decay, there remains, happily, many reminders of that social regime, when their owners set brilliant pace that con
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
fnUlTI WniCn , t Adorns a Colonial Dining Room in Birmingham SOME FAMOUS FURNITURE Of Colonial Days and "Reminiscences of Historical lnterest-Dfesden Set from Austrian Court in a Bir-
 mingham Drawing Room.
BY ANNIE KENDRIOK WALKER.

b
 That there was a period when old furni- ture was stored in attcs, while the mod ern was, through preference, displayed in the drawing room is an historical fact, in view of the renaissance in rosewood and mahogany that has given to many drawing rooms of today an atmosphere of richness and of quain aintness-transferred in truth from the colonial drawing rooms of long ago. Where once old chairs, tables, escri- toires with thousand memories were hid den in chadowy corners they have in re- cent years been brought to light proving conclusiveIy that age cannot wither them or custom stale their infinite variety. And indeed one would not be surprised since this reaction in favor of old furniture, to be told that the spirit of the serpent of old Nile lived again in inlaid desks and richly carved chairs that fashioned in years gone for some great beauty of the day, remain to recall the romance of her life, and the pe- riod when she dazzled the world
 Where these relics of a past that is glorious are brought to light. it Is as if the very atmosphere of some stately apartment in remote ages had found its way beside the mahogany and rosewood and 1t does not require vivid imagination to weave the romance of the departed belle from whom descended the particular piece of furniture prized by nineteenth century owner.
 There are few southern homes that do not boast of colonial furniture, and much of it is valued not alone for its antiquity,
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
In Society.

The disconsolate order of Homeless Sum- mer Widowers will have their first annual gathering at the Country Club this after noon. Consola ton and yellow leg chickens will be administered in broken doses, and the bachelor contingent will, it is hoped, make feeble effort to cheer up the gloomy group of abandoned husbands which now number some fourteen. The al fresco sup per last Sunday evening was quite up to the expectation of the large number who shared it, and has now established itself firmly as one of the institutions of the club. An enthusiastic contingent will no doubt welcome this change in the menu. Regular Country Club weather" has come to be the remark about the cool, rainy even ings which almost always seem to be set aside for happenings out there, but all that may possibly be now at an end, and as soon good weather becomes the rule the Thursday evenings entertainments will be resumed.
 Mrs. W. E. B. Davis is spending the sum- mer at Blount Springs
 Mrs. S. E. Thompson and Miss Helen Thompson left yesterday for Mentone. MT and Mrs. Richard M. Bates went to Blount Springs yesterday.
 Mrs. Buell. and Miss Flora Buell. are at Ingram Lithia Springs.
 MT Henry Howze, MT. Walter Fowlkes and MT. E. O. Fowlkes are spending today at. Blount Springs.
 Miss Margaret Benners has gone to Eureka Springs, where she will remain un- till October.
 Miss Carrie Turrentine and her nephews, Joseph and Horace Polk, will leave this week for New York.
 Mrs. G. H. Mitchell and her daughter Miss Laura Mitchell, are spending the sum- mer in Central Illinois.
 Miss Emma Kirkpatrick of Nashville who has been the guest of Mrs. Solon Jacobs, returned home yesterday
 
 Dr. and Mrs. B. L. Wyman left Friday for Tate Springs.
 
 Miss Norma Scholar and Miss Josephine Schoolar are at Blount Springs.
 MT Hubert Drennen is at Blount Springs. Miss Mamie Brown of Clarandon, Ark, who has been spending several weeks with her sister. Mrs. R. Mccullough, at 1876 South Nineteenth street, has returned home.
 The many friends of MT. Reuben Burrows MuIer will be glad to know that he is very much improved in health. He is at present at Long Branch, Ala
 Miss race Vance has returned from Knoxville.
 MT. and Mrs. John Y. Smith are stop ping with Mrs. G. W. Hughes, 2217 Sixth avenue.
 Mr. William M. Little has been called away from the city by a telegram inform ing him of the serious illness of his father at his home in North Carolina.
 Mir and Mrs. Morris Loveman and their little daughter, Lillian Adelle, leave today for New York, where they will visit East ern watering places. They will be absent until October. Miss Carrie Allen and Master Fred Allen ha ve returned from an extended trip to Old Point Comfort, New York, Philadelphia and
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

House The famous Barbour County in Ala bama, that has given to the country many of her most distinguished sons. was named for his brother. Governor James Barbour who served as Secretary of War and a1-o became minister to England under John Quincy Adams administra ton. In 1S6} when Mrs. Wilkinson's father Dr. J. c. Hiden, carried his young bride to Montpel- Her, Judge Philip Barbour's widow was a member of the family, and though eighty years old, she was perfectly erect and her mental faculties retained their youthful briliancy. General Louis T. Wigfull, the famous Confederate general, declared that she was the most brilliant woman that he had ever known, and that he believed she could teach the Confederate Congress. On one occasion the guests were amusing themselves with conundrums, and diff ficult mathematical problem was given the young and beautiful Miss Wigfull, who had just graduated from pr. Ponds Institute in Richmond, and when she candidly ad- mitted she could not solve it, some one sug- gested that the youthful beauty take it to Mrs Barbour and she would work out tse problem.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

at o'clock at the Baptist church for the purpose of organizing Woodlawn union to assist in the work of preparing the home at the Industrial Farm for the reception of the boys All ladies who are interested in behalf of these poor little homeless, mis- guided children are urged to be present and assist in the pressing needs of this most important work.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
DiYersitY

From Philadelphia North American.
 He-It was on this spot that 1 proposed to you a year ago.
 She-Yes. But If you are going to propose again let's move to another spot and vary the monotony.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
Meeting of HilIman Chapter
 Of Temple Emanuel

A meeting of the Hillman Chapter of Temple Emanuel will be held at the resi- dence of Mrs. Ben Meyer 1712 Sixth avenue Monday at p. m. All members are urged to attend, as business of importance will be transacted
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
Meeting of Baptist Women 2
 Tuesday Afternoon

There will be q meeting of the Baptist women of the city and suburbs Tuesday af- ternoon at o'clock at the First Baptist church for the purpose of promoting the work that has been undertaken for the Hillman hospital The Baptist women of the various city and suburban churches are cordially invited and urged to be present.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
All the Same

From the Detroit Free Press.
 He-I don't know whether to make a fool of myself, playing golf, or sit on the hotel piazza and make love to some girl all the afternoon.
 She-What's the difference?
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
THE ARAG0N

Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga., under new management American and European plans cafe of rare excellence, recommends itself for the notable character of its guests. Free coaches. Scoville Bros.
 7-l-3m-Sun.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

tinued a century and half, and while there are still a number of the old manor houses that boast of its historical furni- the modern drawing-rom, or to the colon- ial hall and dining-room that are repro duced today.
 Where in many cases the richly lowered satins and laces worn by a bejeweled beau- ty have been handed down, a nineteenth century maiden might array herself and respond to toast drunk from an historical bumper. It is at least her duty to sit for a portrait
 In many Birmingham homes are found the rarest and most beautiful heirlooms, and there are quantities of old silver and cut glass with long histories. To glance in inlaid cases reveals, too, exquisite jew els that once adorned beauty whose bon homie and wit had made her famous, while bits of lace, yellowed with age, whisper their own story of a soft white throat ca ressed in other days.
 Among historic furniture in Brming ham homes is a beautiful old table owned by Mrs. Edward Wilkinson.
 This colonial table of rich old mahogany was breakfast table of President James Madison at his beautiful country seat, Montpelier, in Orange County, Va. There he lived before and retired after the eight years spent in the White House, and there tion's idol, Dolly Madison, gracious hos
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

Washington They bring with them Miss Corinne Allen of Atlanta, Ga, who will be their guest for several days.
 Mrs Arthur Adams has returned from Nashville
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

Among the handsomest pieces of furniture in Birmingham, and one of historical interest, is a sidebcard owned
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
of WoodIaWn Women
 Wednesday Afternoon

There will be called meeting Of the ladies of Woodawn Wednesday afternoon
The age-herald., 1900-07-22
A Gentleman's Smoke Texie Cigars! Texie Cigars!

Miss Martha Scruggs with the Elite Opera Co, LakevieW.
The age-herald., 1900-07-22

Favorite-Moerlein Beer.
The Democratic advocate., 1900-05-05
A Large Steamship.

Progress in the Cunard Line steamers
was shown at New York, Wednesday, in
the arrival of the new twin screw Ivernia,
one of the largest steamers afoat. She is
exactly three times the length of the first
Cunard steamer, the Britannia, of 1910;
of double the speed, and will carry ten
times the number of passengers and eight
times the amount of cargo Her dimen-
sions are Length, 600 feet; breadth, "a
feet inches; depth to shelter deck, 49
feet inches; gross tonnage, l3, 900 tons,
and displacement, 25, 900 tons. She has
four complete steel decks-lower, main,
upper and shelter-a steel or lop deck ex-
tending from the boiler room forward to the
stem, and bridge deck, 2S0 feet long,
above the shelter deck. She brought 1917
passengers in ALL OF these 1874 came in
the third class, the largest number that
ever left Ireland in one ship. She can
carry 100 first cabin and 200 second cabin.
As transport the ship has room for $50
officers, 80 second class, 1000 troops, 800
horses, coal for 40 days at Is knots an
hour, or sufficient to carry her from Sandy
Hook to Durham, South Africa, and back
to the English Channel without recoaling,
and in addition would have room for II,
900 tons of freight. The ship is schooner
rugged, with four masts, and has funnel
of II feet diameter
The Democratic advocate., 1900-05-05
Maryland Affairs.

Several more cases of smallpox have been
found in Baltimore.
Margaret, wife of DR.. John II. lamar,
of E'kton, died at her home in that place
Sunday after lingering illness, of cancer.
Gen. Allen Rutherford, clerk of the
Maryland Court of Appeals, died at his
home in Washington, D. c., last Saturday.
John L. Rodgers, grain merchant, Bal
timore, has applied for proceedings in bank
ruptcy. Liabilities s34, 337. 81; assets
S770 The Sinclair -Farber Publishing
Company has asked for a receiver
Mr. Burton West, a prosperous farmer,
living near Snow Hill, Worcester county,
was found dead beside the county road a
mile and a-half from that town Sunday.
Two colored men are held, suspected Of
having murdered and robbed him.
Fire in the mountain in the neighborhood
of Pen-M Mar and the Blue Mountain House
was extinguished Sunday by employees Of
the Western Maryland Railroad and resi-
ucits vi Iuc Niciiltt ditcI d Idiu NJ M.
The fire begun on Friday of last week, and
600 acres of valuable timber lands wert
burned.
Miss Leah NJ Andrews, of Baltimore
on Sunday succeeded in capturing and es
cortng to the Western Police Station ;
brawny colored youth, whom she accused
of the theft of newspapers. Despite the
struggles of her capture and rough treat
ment, she held on and saw him safely be
hind bars
Reports from the forest fires in Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, New York, and othe
States say that they are the most destruc
tive for years. Railroad men say they cal
scarcely run their trains and many hav
been detained several hours on account o
the density of the smoke.
The Democratic advocate., 1900-05-05
Rules by Which to Rise
From Success.


Necessity is the priceless spur.
The world always listens to man with
will in him.
The man with an idea has ever changed
the face of the world.
The lucky man is the man who sees and
grasps his opportunity.
Find a way or make one. Everything is
either pusher or pushed.
What is put into the first of life is put
into the whole of life. Start right.
The first thing you do, if you have not
done it, is to fall in love with your work.
A great opportunity will only make you
ridiculous unless you are prepared for it.
Don't wait for the extraordinary op-
portunities; seize common occasions and
make them great.
Give youth resolution and the alphabet,
and who shall place limits to his career :?
Don't brood over the past or dream of
the future; but seize the instant and get
your lesson from the hour.
There is nothing small in world where
mud-creek swells to an Amazon, and the
stealing of penny may end on the scaffold.
The Democratic advocate., 1900-05-05
Monkeys Pick Cotton.

The tangled forests of darkest Africa,
which, in the early days Of the nation,
supplied the southern planter with slaves
to cultivate his cotton fields and to gather
his crops, have again been drawn upon by
the farmers of the south.
Prof. Garner, Of Washington, discov-
cred that the monkey can pick cotton as
well as the southern negro. He per-
suaded Mr.. w. w. Mangum, of Vicks-
burg, to attept the experiment, and the
latter has just made his report to Prof.
Garner
Mr.. Mangum says he has found it profit
able On his place, near Smedes, this
winter he had so trained monkeys at
work.
The males weigh about 10 pounds and
the females average 80 pounds each in
weight. Bags were made for each mon
key that would hold 25 pounds of cotton
and the bag placed over each monkey s
shoulder 1t was surprising, Mr.. Mangum
says, how the monkeys learned to pick cot
ton. Baskets to hold the cotton were
placed at each end of the rows, and one
man besides the monkeys trainer was
necessary to take the cotton out of the bags
and put it into the baskets provided. Cot
ton planters throughout the south have
watched the experiment with great deal
of interest. Many have visited the plan
tation near Smedes to see the monkeys at
their work.
Mr.. Mangum is enthusiastic over the
success of his experiment.
''The introduction of monkeys as cotton
pickers means more to the south" said
he, ethan cotton picking machine, for
the monkeys are success as pickers, while
the machines, so far, have been failures.
The monkeys are in every way superior to
the negro as pickers, and the cost of picking
is about one-third.
~ believe this discovery is the greatest
that has been made for the cotton planter
since Whitney discovered the cotton gin. "
Next fall Mr. Mangum intends to i'm
port l, 900 more monkeys from Africa,
and he desires others to join with him in
importing lot more to be scattered
throughout the south.