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Miss Field Bars Diplomats.

Washington Telegram to Boston Herald
 Mrs Thomas Nelson Page. 1t is said does not wish to run any risks of inter- national entanglements for her debutants daughter, Miss Florence Field. Some re- cent lessons in Washington evidently have been taken to heart. and Miss Field is carefully secluded from the foreign sei here. Tonight Mir. and Mrs. Thomas Nel. son Page gave ball in honor of the young debutante. and it is remarked that not single diplomat received an invita- ton. The Pages have been prominent heretofore for sarcastic allusions to ina frivolity-of the smart set. The most pop- ular members of the diplomatic corps are always prominent in thls coterie. That they should be pointedly omitted from inc hospitality of this home is so contrary to local customs as to excite remark The function tonight was sixty-couple CO., tillon. led by Miss Field and Lieutenant Edward McCauley. Miss Florence Field is the daughter of the late Thanas Field of Chicago and her mother was married to Mir. Page several years ago,
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@ The SOuthernerS.

Brady makes MT. Peyton, Senior, say. "The South has been beaten by her sons," which is a sentence one Is quite sure he would never have uttered if it had not been for MT. Brady.
 As Admiral Farragut entered the Navy at 9 years G age. as midshipman, and at the beginning of the war had seen forty one years of service. one can readily for give him, as a Southerner, his allegiance to the flag of the Union. One does not find the same excuse or forgiveness. how ever, for Boyd Peyton and,' while the book, is we'll written throughout and note- worthy for it's impartiality, THE story of the War between the States. like the great American Novel. is yet to be writ ten. (Chas. Scribners Sons Co.,, N. Y).
 Mable Drake.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26

It Is not necessary to resort to close analysis in order to prove the fact that Frederick Remington is a great artist where he is a poor writer. But will not say with malice e-aforethought' that have read the book and enjoyed the pie lures very much. A strong sense of jus tice, which shall determine my decision, will not allow me to make sport of any thing if that anything has in 1t the least sign of merit. Of course 1t is nat ural that one admiring Remington as an artist, and believing him to be the great est of his kind. would expect something as great from his pen But here We are disappointed. He has thrown aside his sketching pencil and his easel, and the change is magical. The man has his legs cramped under a table, his pen scratches Omploringly) the ink blots. And we are forcibly reminded of that old saying that the cobbler should stick to his last. An, my friend. what plotting enemy got thee to write book? He did you foul trick
 And I resent it from the bottom of my heart. I do. You. in your heroic effort to expand" to creep, crawl all over ev- erything, have revealed a weakness. And
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done service in modern times as subjects of jokes.
 He Is particularly hard on women who use cosmetics to heighten their fading charms and who lie about their age.
 Cicero, the famous orator. on certain occasion. when he heard Fabia, promi- nent woman of fashion, say she was 30 years old, slyly remarked. That's true, for I've heard her say it for the last twenty years"
 A Greek epigram tells of an ungrounded scandal in thfs fashion: Some say, Nicylla, that you dye your hair. What nonsensel Why, it's as black as can be bought in the market"
 One of the most surprising modern touches to be found in any ancient writer IS the account given in Alciphron, a Greek writer of the second century A. D.. of a "Rube" who was taken in by a shell game played just as the modern thimble rigger plays 1t.
 poem pretty well known in this day tells of an absent minded Dutchman filled init grief und shame" because he couldn't get through his head whether he was of two twins Hans that was hv- ing or Yacob that was dead"
 This is just little change rung on the
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the dog and happened to hit his mother in-law, who was standing near. Where upon he turned to the tystanders and re- marked, Not so bad. after all" "
 Some of the slurs at physicians are characterized by an almost American eX- travagance. Here are two or three from the collection of poems known as the Greek Anthology:
 Pausanias. the Spartan general, when asked why he spoke evil of a doctor when he had never consulted, said: If I had consulted him I shouldn't now be speaking either good or evil about any body.
 Barters were equally hard hit in olden times, and their effectiveness was just as iIksOme as 1t is today.
 Horace, the Roman poet, in mentioning piece of gossip, says it was we'll known in the barber shops. and Plutareh tells of a barber who trimming the beard of certain King Arcmelaus. asked, How shall I cut it?" 'In silence" replied the king.
 Even the milkfnan and the watered milk joke has its ancient prototype in an epigram by Martial, who wrote in the first century of the Christian era. Tn fact. he hints at many ideas that have
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
William Penn--A History. " A

In the first index Penn is charged by Preston with Unreasonable conduct" in the amended index he is merely informed against by Preston" In the first index Penn's interview with Sydney Is ''singu- lar;" fin the amended index 1t has ceased to be singular" In the first index he returns to England and renews his ''plots;" in the amended index there Is not word about returning to England and renewing his plots. And so on. In this day of effort for true later day his tory. 1t Is well to have that of our earli- est period reconsidered and made as accu- rate as possible. There is much of in- terest to be found in the recital of the events of that early period. and especial ly in their relation to the connection which we had with England and France. New Amsterdam Book Co.,, N. Y.
 Aaron Nosirrah.
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BY W. H. DIXON.

eauley made in his indexes-the recon sideration of his text having not been &C., complished. evidently. by his death at the time that he was undergoing change of view of Penn's character and conduct. This history by Dixon tells us that Ma cauley was removed before this portion of his labor was achieved: and thus the duty comes to me again of citing dates and facts in proof that every statement made by the historian to the injury of William Penn is founded on mistakes of time. of person. and of place" The items given us from the index are interesting
 Here are a few. Tn the first index we read: Failure of his attempted mediation with the Fellows of Magdalen' in the amended index we read: Negotiates with the Fellows of Magdalen." The first in- dex denounces his falsehood:" the amended index substitutes held to bail"
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Tn very frank and manly preface MT
 Brady states that it has been a desire of long standing with him to write story of the Civil War that will give neither offense TOT bitterness to the readers of the South, nor yet be false to the princi- ples for which his father fought and which are his own. In this Mir. Brady has succeeded. He is fair as one could ask for in a man of his ayowed views. but to Mir. Brady's admirers south of Mason and Dixon's line. Bob Darrow' would have met with more approval as the hero than vacillating Boyd Peyton.
 The latter was Southerner who at the beginning of the trouble between the States, had not yet received his com mission as ensign in the United States
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To those interested in truthful history and we should all be. this new edition of the history of Penn and his time, Will be gratefully received. The author says, Tn one-twenty-years. much light has come to us from public sources, both home and foreign; and in dealing with mass Of new materials have been led to write my book afresh."
 The chief reason, we imagine. for the revision, Is to deal still further with the five offences with which Penn was charged-"touching his character as a public man"-by Macauley's History of England" In the supplementary chapter we have many disprovals of those defects in Penn's life which we have been led to attribute to an otherwise admirable char acter in our early history. Much has been cleared up by the change which Ma
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FRESH CUT LEAVES.

to hissing. will novelists insist upon hiss4 Ing remarks stripped of all sibilantsT ? When one of Mir. Townsend's heroines misses You are an unapproachaD Dle bat! we cannot but wonder how she did it.
 The story is rather a series of adrnira- ply executed photographs than work of art There are well-visualized details. but they need a fusing process to blend them into a harmonious whole We say of picture after picture. This Is very like New York" but there Is certain lack of atmosphere ia the story We see New York clearly enough. but we do not feel 1t. Good as the book Is. it is nevertheless somewhat crude and inchoate. and we ex- pect still better things of the creator of chimmie, Fadden.--tMcClure. Phillips & Co.,, N. Y.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
NO NEW JOKES GAN BE FOUND
Students Prove That "in Days of Old Rameses They Told Same Thing"

Chicago Tribune.
 Another scientist has come forward with a startling array of facts to prove to the funny men that their witticisms are older than all the hills put together.
 Not long ago some German savant dis covered some Chaldean inscriptions which. when translated. were found to be stories with which readers of the comic papers today are more or less familiar. One was of a certain wanderer for some remote province who asked a distinguish ed looking man at a great feast given by the king who a certain homely looking woman was That said the distin- guished looking man, Ifs my sister. |" 70, mo-" put in the stranger hastily and in great confusion. "I mean that hideous looking creature standing next to her." That said Chaldean. lis my wife"
 And now comes Prof. Francis H. Lee, the instructor of history in the Boys High School in Philadelphia, with long list of jokes exhumed from the dead and mouldy past and which he thinks proves oonclusively the old theory that there were only thirteen original jokes and that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-26
Putnam Place. u


 Putnam Place" contains q number of short stories skiIlfully iinterwovsn. re- minding one forcibly of "oid Chester Tales" by Margaret Deland, Putnam Place" a suburb with all the character istics of village life, its community of interests, it's charming good fellowship. It's little reserves and ceremonies. its friendships, it's antagonisms, its mar riages. births and deaths. it's tragedies and comedies. its humor and it's pathos and crowning all. the unbroken peaceful- ness and restfulness of It's atmosphere which also finds place In the annals of Putnam Piaca."
 Its history is well written and in many instances brings home the realization that 1t is fortunate for the world at large as well as for the indwellers in so charm ed spot to have such little 'fsies os rest around which the current of tha world surges without breaking in. where the even tale of the days is told in dieni- lied repose and where the bustlinR foot steps of Progress have not yet invaded sacred preclncts.-CHarper & Bro, N. n
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supreme vil--woman; even though shd seems to be some good, when man has got her she becomes a plague"
 Socrates. who doubtless had rsason for thinking as he did, on account Of his shrewish wife, xandppe, used to say when he was asked whether 1t was better to marry or not: whichever you do. you will regret it;'' and once an being asked what act of their lives people most commonly repented of. he replied: Mar rfage."
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tical with the two Voiume eoltion hitHei
 to published at $.50 net. Nut
 taIrs text has been thoroughly revised.
 brought down to date and annotated by
 Montague Chamberlain of Harvard Uni
 versity. Love between man and woman has ever
 been the dominant theme in books. but In
 Tito" William Henry Carsons latest
 novel, the author has departed from the
 we'll worn path and it is the love between father and son that holds the readers at tention to the last page. Though Tito Is sworn to take his fathers life it is love that conquers in the end-a love that finds a responsive throb in every human heart. Tito is really a new character in roman- tic fiction.
 Harold MacGrath, author of ''The Pup pet Crown" has gone to Muldoons farm at White Plains. once famous as the
 training quarters of pugiiists. to recover his health and strength. MT. MacGratn
 has just put the finishing touches on new novel on which he has been working
 for more than a year. He writes that
 the hard training agrees with him won
 derfully we'll and that he has gained ten
 pounds Up at 6 and tossing medicine
 balls till l." he says is the program.
 then a shower bath, breakfast at s:So,
 and at 10 boots and saddle through the finest hill country in the world. Out of
 doors all day long and lights out at 9
 o'clock" He has -four weeks yet to
 sarvs' and then will return to his work.
 The wondrous splendor and power Of
 Mexico in the time of Montezuma fur
 nished the rich historical background to an absorbing romance entitled The Spells
 of Empire" which Francis Newton Thorpe has written. MT. Thorpe Is well known lawyer. lecturer and writer on historical subjects.
 Little, Brown and Co.'s spring an nouncements include ten works Of nction:
 Charles, author of Tn the Country God Forgot Love Thrives in War;" a TO- nance of the frontier in 1912, by Mary Catherine Crowley, author of a Daughter of New France" and "The Heroine of the
 musical novel. by Anna Chapin Ray, the
 well known writer of stories for older girls; "A Detached Pirate" society
 novel by Helen Milecete, a Halifax lN. West" by John H. Whitson; "A Rose of Normandy a romance of France and Canad in athe time of Louis XIV. by VII | Ham R. A. Wilson; The spols of Em- of Montezuma, by Francis Newton Thorpe, a we'll known historical writer; Sarah Tuldon," the dramatic story of an English peasant girl, by Orme Agnus, au- thor of Hove in Our Village" and Jan Oxber:' and "The Wars of Peace. stirring industrial novel by A.NF. Wilson, and A new edition of Truth Dexter" by Sidney Mccall, with a frontispiece.
 "Cymbeline" edited and annotated by Edward Dowden. the English Shakespear- can authority, is now ready. This is the seventh volume in the Dowden edition or
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possible doubtcontes in the last last chapter , of Altogether this novel neither very or very poor but will do to keep the personal columns of thespring tnc -
  definite picture either the stage He . Nn pleasing picture with de
 
 star all of guessingN Yo Hal steed
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The Siege of Youth-By Frances
 Charles.
 This is a story of the present day, and it's scene is San Francisco, the authors home It deals with art. with journal ism. and with human nature, and its love episodes are charming and true to life. The three women characters of the book are finely drawn and contrasted, there is much local color in the story. and great deal of bright and epigram- matic writing. The authors previous book. ''In the Country God Forgot" has been received with the utmost favor. The Boston Daily Advertiser says 1t dis closes a new writer of uncommon power" |" Udttle. Brown & O.. Boston,.
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Lees and Leaven-By Edward W.
 Towyfsend,

Towgfsend.
 In Lees and Leaven' the lees rather predominate. One does not gain pleas ant impression of New York from It's pages. The greed of gain. the tricks and manners of yellow journalism, the life of the vaudeville artiste, the careers of wealthy criminal young man and of a stage struck girl are more obvious than the leaven of the fewer wholesome char acters-some of these, however, notably the Bannister family, are very healthful and refreshing. The influence of Dick ems Is distinctly traceable in Mir. Town sends work. He loves strongly accen- tuated specimens of humanity. The Bannisters bring the Micawbers to mind, and Smiling Harry is just such a freak as Dickens would have seized upon with joy. Mir. Townsend's revelation of the Great Unknown who celebates baby foods arouses as much enthusiasm as a similar revelation fin the inimitable "Babi Bal lads We should like to quote copiously from this eccentric and delightful genius.
 Why. by the bye. when the English tongue lends itself only too readily
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A comparison as to the number of novels issued this spring with that of last spring shows a decided falling on in the number Not that the novels pub lished last year. did not make for their nublishers Roodly sums, but because of the fact that the better writers are talk ing 1903 as an of year. In discussing this phase of the subject with well known Southern writer a few days ago, he re- marked:
 T shall be greatly surprised if the number and quality of the fiction publish cd in 1903 is not materially lower than that of 1902. have had no less than eight leading writers tell me that they intended to rest on their oars this year preparing for strong effort during the year 1904. Another fact which desire you to note is that the hastily written novel is distinctly under the man this season. Last year it seems as though 1t was quite the faddy' thing to do to write book in great haste with a hap hazard plot; thrusting the same upon the helpless public with the name Of some able author attached But this is very much drowned upon this season."
 A New Department.
 Early in the future there will be begun upon this page series of articles relat- ing to the great celebrities in Southern literature. The field of the South from its early stages up to the present time will be carefully gone over. and the buiid- CTS of Southern literature-the men and women who are the pillars of the Souths literary structure-will Dc handled in an appreciative and instructive manner What the South has accomplished in the world of literature is a marvel to it's friends and foes; for regardless of many untoward circumstances her literature ranks in quality at the very top of Amer ican literature.
 Another interesting fact about South ern literature is that more unique char acters and geniuses of peculiar traits. have been found in its ranks than in al- most any other section or place in the whole world. A study of these typical and unusual personages is fascinating In the extreme. -
 Current Topics.
 There will shortly be issued a collection , off eligious and philosophical poems en- titled .'wreaths of Song" by the Rev. T. J. OMahony, D. D., All Hallows Col lege, Dublin, Irsland. The book Is like ly to have a large sale among the Alumni of that college. The author gives every i. evidence of the poetic genius which made his uncle, Father Prout. famous wherever the English laniuage Is spoken.
 A new edition of that authority on orni- thoIogy--"Nuttalls Birds"-is announced. The conspicuous feature of this popular handbook of birds of the United States and Canada is the illustrations which in- ciude 172 beautifully engraved figures, in- ciuding drawings made especially for the work by Ernest E. Thompson, and a colored plates containing 110 full-length figures of the most important land and water birds. The contents of this new single volume edition of Nutall are iden-
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"Cymbeline," edited and annotated oy Edward Dowden, the English Shakespear- can authority, is now ready. This Is the seventh volume in the Dowden edition Of Shakespeare and follows "Othello." which was issued In March.
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TREND OF THOUGHT
 ALONG PATHS LITERARY

ticai with the two volume edition hither- to published at S.50 net. Nut talrs text has been thoroughly revised. brought down to date and annotated by Montague Chamberlain of Harvard Uni versity.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-10
PROBATE NOTICES.

To all persons interested IN either Of the estates
hereinafter named:
At a Probate Court held at Paris. in and
for the County of oxford. on the third Tuesday
of Feb in the year of our Lord enc thousand nine
hundred and three, the following matter having
been presented for the action thereupon herein
after indicated, 1t Is hereby ORDERED:
That notice thereof be given to all persons In
lere sted, by causing a copy of this order to be
published three weeks successiveiy In the OK
ford Democrat, newspaper publlshed nj South
Paris, In said County, that they may appear at a
Probate Court TO be held az said Paris, on the
third Tuesday OF Starch, a. ID. lsO3 at nine Of the
clock in the forenoon, ana ne heard thereon II
they see cause:
LEMUEL GURNEY, late Of Hebron, de:
ceased. VIII and petition for probate thereof
presented by Livonia j. Quincy, the executriN
therein named.
HARRISON FUTILE, late of Ruckfeld, de:
ceased. VIII and petition for probate thereof
and for thu appointment OF Nesta u. futile as
ADMINISTRATIVE with the will annexed, presented
by said Vesta q. Tuttle, widow.
CLARINDA NJ HOOPER, late of Buckfeld
deceased. Petition for order to distribute bal
ance remaining In his hands and final account
presented for allowance by Virgil Z. DeCoster
executor.
LIVONIk KNIGHT. late OF Paris. deceased
Petition for Il, termination If collateral inherit
ance tax presented by Hudson knight, admins
traitor and heir.
LORANA KEEEE, late Of Buck1eld, de
ceased. Final account presented for allowance
By Alfred Cole, executor.
LEONARD HARDY. late of Paris, deceased
Final account presented for allowance, also peti
tlton for determination Of collateral Inheritance
| tax presented by James S. Wright, adminlstra
tor.
HORACE KNIGHT, late of Paris, deceased
| Petition for determination OF collateral inherit
ance tax presented by Hudson Knight. admin
istratOr.
JOHN NJ. STEVENS. tc of Canton, deceased
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=. Swasey, administrator
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