The age-herald., 1901-10-25

Mrs. Alfred Newph Macfadyen, who as Miss Irene M. Ashby spent several months in Alabama last winter and spring. is now in New York on her we'd ding tour, so to speak. She was married on September 26 to MT. Macfayden, an officer in the English army who is now secretary to the prime minister of Cape Colony. who Is brother of Olive Schrin- CT, the famous novelist of South Africa.
 Mrs. Macfayden says of her wedding, in letter to a friend:
 We were married very quietly-there was no medium between an absolutely quiet wedding and a great big one-for we both have so many friends in Eng land.
 'St. Ives Huntingdonshire, where we were married, is Cromwells old home. His barn Is still standing, and the house in which the Macfadyens live is an old old home in which Cromwell Is said to have slept once. Alfred had been so i'll that it was considered necessary that he should rest there, so I went down from my home in Southamton with my sister and spent the two previous days with some frienNs. Then early in the morn ing, in lovely autumn sunlight, I, with my sister and two friends walked through the quaint little town to the registrars office. Alfred, with his brother and sister and a friend, met us and we had the civil ceremony berfore the registra.
 q put a ring on his finger when he put one on mine, and our declarations were equal-we simply declared we knew of no impeachment, and that we took each other in the presence of witnesses for lawfully welded husband and wife.
 Scene of Wedding.
 "The office in which we were married is the very one painted this year for tht | academy by the artist Sadler as the scene of the first civil marriage in England ir 1855
 | After the ceremo ony at S:45 we took the train up to London. We were anxious to look very un-weddingly. but were seen to the station by Alfreds sister and sister in-law and two friends, and at the last moment these evil conspirators pelted us with rice and roses. In London we were met by my father and stepmother and taken to the St. Palmer's hotel, where the rest of the immediate family was gathered and we had a kind of private service conducted by Alfreds father. who is a clergyman (private weddings are not legal in England), and we had the we'd ding lunch. We left at o'clock for Glas- gow, about the deadesr tired persons you ever saw. Two days after we embarked in the most hateful tub that ever crossed the ocean. He was iIl-not seasick-but i'll with the damp and cold. was sea- sick, but too happy to mind much.
 'I got Dixie telegram on my we'd ding morning-from the Misses Hurter of Montgomery, who were in Paris-and was made so glad by the sweet attention from them"
 Her Work in Alabama.
 Mrs. Macfadyen, it will be remembered, was in Alabama working in the interest tories which came up before the Legisla- ture and was defeated. This bill pro- vided that children under F years olt should not be allowed to work in tn, factories unless a widowed mother or al invalid father was dependent on tn, child for living. O! what little con sideration was asked for the child, ant yet it was not granted In Georgia. whil, a like bill was defeated in the Legisla ture, public sentiment proved too strong for the mill men and they banded to- gether and themselves agreed not to em ploy children under certain conditions.
 Not a Socialist.
 Recently a reporter in the New Yorl Journal has referred to Mrs. Macfadyer as socialist and in circular lette she has recently written to the principle dailies of the United States she disclaim it. She says:
 l It has been brought to my notice tha l an interview appeared with me in Tn, l New York Journal last Monday. the 14tl | inst, in the headlines of which I wa. described as a socialist. might say tha the interview was more i:i the nslure q notice. as I declined to give the lepoi t CT any of my 'aets or plans before l Eat been to Washington, ard it Is full of in accuracies and misconceptions. I gave him no authority to call me socialist and as 1t may give rise u serious 7nis- understanding, I shall be glad If you will insert this letter in your pape. The 1 term in America Is n t,,e minds of some identified with revolutionary measure with which have no sympathy. If to 1 desire for every man, woman and child | the fullest development of which they are | capable, and that liberty of thought and action which Is Americac proudes- bcast; if to look forward 10 the day wh.n sll will be able to serve the community in happiness and plenty is to be sncial- ist,, then I might be ca.lsd one. But the term is 50 widely m;su ds.Ti pod pnd misrepresented, that l should not au- thorize any one to use it about me in the connection in watch 1t was used in this so-called interview. Not only have they got my name wrong but, un my esk- ing the reporter not to repeat the asse-- hot I