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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

fathers and left Nellie a very youthful
looking widow with three children, two
nearly grown, the youngest, Rosemary,
a little girl. Whatever Nellie's private
heart griefs may have been. however
she may have longed to return to her
own land during her life in England
she wisely said nothing, nothing at all
like her father the silent man. But
when the English husband died, when
her good father-in-law, too. had been
laid to rest and she had done all her
duty by them both, our Nellie gathered
up her children and came back to
America to live. Here one of her first
acts was to apply to be reinstated in
her American citizenship. That simple
act showed where her heart had been
all the time.
The request of woman to be rein
stated in American citizenship was
without precedent, and it required a
special resolution of congress to do it.
But congress would have done that and
far more for the daughter of General
Grant. The act was passed, and Nellie
Grant Sartoris and her three children
are American citizens. Algernon, the
eldest, now some twenty-seven years
of age, is a lieutenant in the United
States army. The elder daughter,
Vivian. a handsome young woman with
the beautiful dark brows of the Kem-
bIes, was married last August to Mr..
Frederick Roosevelt Scove1. As to "our
Nellie she says of herself still:
Il am an American woman and proud
of being one LILLIAN GRAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

Ut is queer how ones notions of
Christmas can change. When I
was child Ooh, not so very. very
long ago for all that, believe meD
1 used to think that if there were
not a tree loaded down with gifts and
stockings filed and a dinner with GER
tain things, why, the day was not
Christmas; that was all. And if one
pie was substituted for another of a
different kind, why. the whole thing
was wrong.
I am afraid the spirit of the day was
a long way from me. But, then, chill
dren certainly do cling to the outward
forms of things.
But now when realize the different
kinds of Christmases there are First
and foremost the good old fashioned
Christmas we love to read about, and
that takes place in a New England
farmhouse, hspruce trees in the door
yard weighted down with snow and the
surrounding hills and mountains white
with it. There is a juggling of sleigh
bells in the air and a spicy smell of
good things floating from the tall
brick chimney, and in the pantry what
an array of dainties! Rows of mince
and punkin" pies, huge brown ball
of a pudding, not to speak Of But I
won't make your mouth water. When
a New England housewife cooks she
does it wholesale. Besides, there must
be enough and to spare for the numer-
Gus aunts and uncleS and little cousins,
for Christmas day means a great fam
lily gathering. And in the darkened
best room behold the Christmas treei
Tall, shadowy and mysterious, con-
cealing among its spicy branches queer,
knobby white packages which might
contain anything from a story book to
a train of cars and a doll. while among
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
PERFUMES THAT ARE
PREFERRED BY ROYALTY.

If, as is stated, persons character
can be told by his choice of perfumes.
then the taste in this matter of royal
personages is certainly not without in
terest.
Queen Alexandra, whose love of roses
and violets is well known, is particular
~ fond of the scents made from these
flowers. The king of Italy, like his
mother. Queen Margherita- has a pen
chant for strong scents. and his favor
Bite is said to be patchouH.
The queen mother of Spain used to
delight in the essence of a special vari-
ETY. of orchid which was only found in
the Philippines. Now, however, since
the disastrous Spanish-American war,
her majesty has lost her liking for this
scent and only uses "eau d'Espagne. "
which is made specially for her in Mad
rid.
The queen of Roumania, whose beau
tiful white hair and fresh, unwrinkled
complexion excite both admiration and
envy uses a toilet water to which she
attributes the retention of her charms
in spite of her sixty years. There is a
good deal of mystery about this water,
supposed to be made according to the
queens own recipe from flowers gath
eTSQ by CeIldlil WOlllSil, SNOA II " oCSA c
cy. in an unknown forest, while cor
don of sentinels keep away all inquisi-
tive intruders.
No royal lady is credited with so
large an expenditure on perfumes,
soaps, etc, as the czarina, who, it is
said, spends $4,000 year on these ar
ticles in Paris. Violet scent is her maj
esty's favorite, but she apparently likes
almost every sort of perfume, for she
vaporizes the royal apartments daily
with the concentrated essences of jas
mine, jonquil, lilac, tuberose and white
violets. No wonder, in rooms so heav-
lily scented, that members of her maj
esty's suit occasionally have to retire
faint, from her presence. The toilet wa
ter used by the czarina is perfumed
with violets gathered according to he1
| majesty's orders at Grasse between
and in the evening, when she consid-
| ers their perfume to be at it's best.
The queen of Holland has a great lik-
| ing for that good old fashioned scent
| eau de cologne.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

exposition at st. Louis she is to us just
Nellie Grant Sartoris.
The manner in which she accepted
the post is Enthusiastically her IA
Tiers way. He never once in his life
sought an appointment to a high or
great office, but when it was offered
unsought he accepted it without hest
tation and entered on it's duties with
out any fuss. Just so Nellie Grant be-
came active president of the board of
lady managers at st. Louis, the for
mer home town of the Grants, where,
according to some chroniclers Captain
Ulysses S. Grant used to haul in from
his farm wagon loads of wood and sell
them in the streets-back in the fifties.
that was. In 1903 they asked his only
daughter to be president of the board
Of women managers of the worlds fair.
Briefly and modestly she consented
and at once left her beautiful Wash
ington home and Jared forth to st.
Louis without any fuss. In the exposi-
ton city she modestly established her
aboee in a hotel, ready for the work
she was called to do. That work is
social mostly, planning local entertain
ments, receiving with honor and dig
nifty distinguished guests and providing
for them, particularly women guests
also showing attention and hospitality
to the home folk. our own people. But
we are a nation of well nigh so, 0O0, 00C
people; foreign folks to the number OF
over half a billion more will send rep
resentatives, distinguished and other
wise, to the st. Louis fair. A suit OF
rooms in a hotel was not to be thought
of as the residence and headquarters OF
the woman president. The hotel suit
was abandoned. Nellie Grant Sartoris
still without a bit of fuss, gave it VI
and took large house.
There she is this day, administering
the functions of Office. Her life has
especially fitted her for the social fea-
ture of the work; the administrative
features u. S. Grants daughter vii
learn with the best as she goes on. Sht
was married so young that her frs
really long trained gown was wor1
when she was presented to Queen Vic
toria at the British court. Abroad sh,
was honored and loved by all whit
knew her, honored in British societ.
without exciting any OF the Jealous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

But we can't all of US have Christ
mas in the country. Take the dweller
in town, for instance-in a city with
high brick buildings and dwelling
houses all alike in rows.
OF course it isn't so bad in a house
with children in it and stairs up which
they can scamper to bed and banisters
over which they can peep, white robed
and large eyed, when they think they
hear Santa Claus. while downstairs in
the back parlor father and mother are
trimming the Christmas tree, the former
forgetting his business troubles and
the latter her social worries. Oh,
Christmas is good for the grown folks
as we'll as for the little onesi
Then there is the apartment hotel
with it's plate glass and iron doors and
its stiff orange trees on each side of
they are in the minority, but young
couples spending their first Christmas
together and looking unutterable things
at each other as they eat at the tiny
little dining room table, with the still
timer little Christmas tree in jardi-
Mere between them.
And don't forget the studio Christ
mas, with its walls hung with holly
and mistletoe, it's shiny, waxed floors,
it's hospitable punch bowl and its fes-
tive music, and the smaller studio, with
its chatting dish and it's atmosphere of
fun and ambitious dreams.
For many. too there's the boarding
house Christmas. Did you ever? So
did 1 once. We understand then. Still
the landlady usually does her best
with turkey and cranberry sauce and
greens here and there, and, after all,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

In the labor statistics of Scotland one
woman is returned as a coachman, an
other as a dock laborer, still another
as a plasterer. There is one woman
paper hanger. a female chimney sweep
and two women builders. Two more
are on the list as money lenders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

on her makeup There is & chorus
of Merry Christmas as she passes,
and if she is popular she may find one
or two little packages on her dressing
table, and perhaps one or two more
may come in between the acts.
She rushes through the matinee and
then, as there isn't time to eat a regu-
lar dinner. hastily wipes off her make
up" ties a veil over her face to con-
ceal the traces of it and hastens out
into the gathering darkness to get
something to eat at nearby restau-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25
Spending their first Christmas together.

rant. Then comes the evening per-
Torrance. She must hurry back for
that, and when the long, long day is
over she is so tired that she is glad to
get home and go to sleep in warmth
and comfort. But on the following day
on the Sunday after watch her cele-
brate Christmas! What matters if it
is not the day? Stage people have inn
aginations. There is the regulation lit
tie dinner, with presents, friends and
a merry time.
So to all of us. high and low, talented
or stupid, happy or sorrOwful, Christi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

The queerest Christmas of all, how
ever, is on the stage. Holidays are no
holidays at all to the player folk In
fact, they mean a double amount of
work, for there is the extra matinee
which must precede the Christmas per-
Torrance. So after the long morning
sleep on Christmas day the actress
goes to the theater with perhaps a
sprig of holly pinned to her coat to re-
mind her that it is Christmas and
dashes into her dressing room to put
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

z T is significant of the esteem in which
the American people held General
Grants daughter that even while
- her husband was living they new
er mentioned her as Mrs. Alger-
non Sartoris, but ever as Nellie Grant
Sartoris. Away back in 1869, when her
father was inaugurated president the
first time. his little daughter on the
platform at the east front of the cap
itOl broke from her mothers OBTAINING
arm during the august ceremony
crept to her fathers side as he read
his address and took hold of his hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

mas comes once a year to wake us
from the monotony of our lives and
our eternal strivings and hopes and to
put a bit of idealism in our hearts
And all of us, from the tramp on the
roadside and the humblest servant in
the kitchen to the happy and the pros
porous. are the better for this rever-
sion to childhood this bowling down to
the shirt of Christnastide
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

the glittering,
tin s ell woven
branches repose
the pink, green
and yellow can
dies which are
to be lighted
that ever min G
after the long
drive home from
church and the
late afternoon
dinner.
All. well, that
is the right sort
of Christmas, to
be sure! One
alw avs fe els
nearer to Santa
Claus in the
country, where
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

1t ism [ where
you are; it's
whom you are
with.
But there are
some who are
alone. Oh, I am
sorry for them!
Victims of am
bition far away
fro m t h e i T
homes and their
people, with a
sprig of holly
tied to the soli-
tary gas jet and
the latest home
let ter spread
out on the ia
BILE, suspiciously
bury in spots
And there are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

The general did not
remove the small fin
gers, but clasped his
own strong ones
around them and
thus read on 70 the
end of the dignifed
state paper. The
child was Nellie
Grant. This hap
pened a generation
ago, yet the little
lady is "our Nellie"
still. Even in as
Stunning the RESPONSE
BILE duties of presi-
dent of the board of
lady managers of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

lives lie behind them and who are still
alone, without youth, without hope.
without ambitions, and I am sorriest of
all for them. The saddest thing in the
world at a holiday time is not to be able
to look forward to brighter things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-25

of room for him to scamper around
with his reindeer and the chimneys are
wide enough to admit his rotundity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-15
Proposed vagrancy Law.

1--WE hope" says the Pine Belt News,
to see the vagrancy law as proposed
by the legislature go through unan-
imously. We have entirely too many
loafing negroes around the town and
throughout the state. Georgia has Just
passed such a law and as a conse.
quence Alabama is the dumping
ground for their worthless class of peo-
pie who come here to escape punish
ment."
Ii such a bill is to be passed it
should contain safeguards against op.
preston of the poor by justices of the
peace, before whom most of the cases
would be tried. The opportunities of
Justices of the peace are now too
great, and vagrancy law would
double them.
In Georgia the Calvin vagrancy law
Is considered of doubtful constitution
ality, and its validity is to be tested
both in the State Supreme court and
in the United States Supreme court.
Many lawyers in Georgia think the law
will be pronounced unconstitutional.
The power to pronounce man a
criminal simply because he does not
work, is a dangerous power, and the
legislature will do we'll to provide
against its abuse if it proposes to pass
the pending vagrancy bill. In Geor-
gia vagrant VINO can furnish a bond
goes scot free, and If he leaves the
community the bondsman loses moth
ing. If the vagrant be out of the
state, the bond cannot be forfeited,
because in his new home he may not
be a vagrant.
The justices of the peace will GER
tainly abuse the law If it be not full
of safeguards. Migrants are not de-
sirable, but they are better than whole
sale oppression of the poor and I'M
fortunate under the cover of vagrancy.
Before the subject is acted on in the
legislature, 1t should receive careful
attention, and there should be no color
line in it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-15
The very Ice Of chastity is in them.
AS You Like 1t.
Biz Coal Traffic Fiuht.

The Gould interests are preparing
to push the Wabash railroad into Pitts
burg, and thence to Baltimore, and the
Pennsylvania railroad has begun its
defensive measures. The latter has
purchased a control of the Pittsburg
Coal company, the chief railroad coal
organization in Pennsylvania, and the
Pittsburg Coal company has purchased
a controlling interest of the Monon-
gahela River company, which is the
river coal combination of that state.
The combined output of the two coal
companies is about twenty-five mil
lion tons a year. The combined capi-
talization is $1S2,000,000, and the two
coal companies will no doubt be able
to supply the Pennsylvania railroad
with all the coal tonnage 1t will be apt
10 desire.
The Goulds propose to meet the new
movement by large purchases of coal
lands both in the Pittsburg district,
and in southwestern Pennsylvania, and
the fight for traffic will be both big
and stubborn. The entrance of the
Wabash to Pittsburg has long been re-
sisted, but it is now seen to be in
evitable.
The Monongahela company has
large interests in Walker county,
where it mines coal for the New Or
leans market, sending its product for
ward on barges from Greenville, Miss.
Those interests will not of course be
affected by the change in control al
though it is possible that the new con-
troll will increase the production of its
Alabama mines, which are but four
hundred miles from New Orleans,
whereas its mines in Pennsylvania are
two thousand miles away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-15
Mr.. Cornwell Versus Mr.. Smith.

In the legislature which sat two
years ago Mr.. Cornwell was an active
and determined opponent of the prop
osition to examine state and private
banks. He is known to have sent let
tiers to all parts of the state, and he
worked up an opposition to the then
pending bill that defeated it.
This year President T. o. Smith OF
the bankers association is openly sup.
porting the bill of the senate recess
committee, looking to a close super.
vision by the state of all state and
private banks, in which over eleven
million dollars are deposited. The
bankers association is lined up behind
Mr. Smith.
Put these two facts together, and
you have the whole case. The bankers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-15
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
THE periodical wrangle In the news
(O papers over the question whether
men In an elevator should remove
their hats when women enter must be at
tributable to the hot weather or some
other condition that breeds mild manias.
1t certainly has not It's foundation in
common sense.
The whole hat code is mere web of
conventions. Conventions differ from
morals in the sense that they involve no
element of right and wrong, but rest on
custom, the trained expectation of others,
locality, time, environment and so forth.
People get into the way of doing certain
things In certain circumstances, and for
getting the origin of the impulse, look to
every one else to do the same. But why?
The Quaker sits through the weekly meet
ing in his house of prayer with his hat
on; the Presbyterian, no more devout in
his own way, considers the covered head
in worship dissertation. The congress-
man who should keep his hat on his head
during the daily legislative session would
be esteemed a boor; the member of the
British parliament who should take his
off would be considered verdant. The
civilian usually raises his hat to his supe-
riors in rank; the soldier merely touches
his visor, and the late General Scott was
SO strict a disciplinarian on that point
that he once rebuked militiaman who
raised his helmet with the remark:
young man, never part company with
your cap on duty unless your head goes
with it.
So 1t must be plain that no general rule
can be laid down to meet even the COM
monest situations. In the presence of
ladies all the sterner sex feel an instinc-
tive desire to uncover as a sign of respect,
but that is merely because uncovering
has come to have an artificial significance
with us, like beating the breast and lay
ing the forehead on the ground among
some Oriental peoples; and certainly no
one but strainer at gnats and swallower
of camels would approve of a mans 60
ing always bareheaded through the streets
because he is liable to meet so many
women there.
Neither can 1t be laid down as a prin-
ciple that a roof over ones head makes
hat-wearing illogical. In the corridors of
public buildings, for instance, no one, not
even the most finical, would insist on
the uncovered head; why then, as a mat
ter of course, in an elevator, which is
only a movable section of a corridor with
a cage around it for safety's sake? Or.
if in an elevator. why not in a trolley
car?
Did the masculine reader ever meet a
bevy of fair friends in the street when
his arms were full of bundles or his
hands OF luggage? If So what did he do?
Drop all his load in order OF get at his
hat? Or bow smile and pass on, trusting
to the good sense Of the ladies to realize
that his customary act of difference was
out of the question? Did any reader ever
enter room where a half dozen younger
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-15
Piq Iron In August.

The capacity of the furnaces in the
country was increased In August,
rising to 370S33 tons a week at the end
of the month, as against 361,097 tons
one month before. Production is thus
going on at the rate of about 19,000,000
tons a year.
This is leading to moderate in
crease In furnace stocks. These stood
on September 1 at 400,089 tons, which
is not after all much more than a
weeks production, and such stocks
would have been regarded in Inc in
active years as remarkably light.
Consumption is still running on al
most even lines witt production, and
il buyers and producers could agree
on terms perhaps all surplus stocks
would be closely drawn upon. There
is not at any rate material evidence
of -lessened consumption in any direc-
ton, and until there is it is plain
there will be opposition to any further
reductions in the prices of pig iron.
Buyers are, however, holding off, "
hoping no doubt to secure concessions,
and this state of things brings uncer-
tainty and apprehension into the pig
iron market. Confidence in the future
course of prices is lacking, and this
operates to prevent the placing of large
orders, especially by the agricultural
implement makers, and the steel trust,
and other large meters. For the first
time in five years pig iron is a hest
tating article, and the outlook for the
next few months, and especially for
1904, is problematical to say the least.
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that are conservative are in favor of
the senate recess bill; those that do
not obey the rules of sound banking
have formed a ring to defeat cne bill.
The present legislature has shown
itself to be legislature of high cour-
age. 1t has faced other problems res
olutely, regardless of all selfish ana
unworthy influences. Shall the hold
~ headed ~ Chairman Glover of the
banking committee of the house be
permitted to formulate the will of the
legislature on this important subject,
or will the two houses rise to the oc.
casion by giving the people the safe
guards that Bessemer and Montgom-
cry did not have? This is the entire
case. The banks that do legitimate
banking desire the passage of the re-
cess bill; those that do not do bank
ing in that way desire it's defeat. The
people, and particularly the depos tors,
are behind the former, and there is no
one behind the latter. The facts are
as plain as the nose on a mans face.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-15

part in defending the peonage cases from
Coosa during the late term of the United
States court.
e. Wilson Frye of Nashville was a late
arrival at the Hillman last night.
H. H. Mcconnell. captain of the Annis-
ton Rifles. and a proninet broker of
Admission. is in the city.
]. C. Darlington of Ashville is stopping
at the Metropolitan.
w. f. Dent a popular travelling man
of Montgomery, is at the Metropolitan.
A. r. Walker of Greensboro is at the
Metropolitan.
Lee Ferguson, financial secretary of the
Admission Trades Council, is stopping at
the Metropolitan.
William B. Bankhead of Huntsville is
at the Metropolitan.
F. FL. Manning of Tal1adega. superin-
tendent of the Blind, Deaf and Dumb In
stitute, is stopping at the Metropolitan.
Lee Cook of Mobile is at the Metro
politan.
Henry Fits, a prominent lawyer of
Tuscaloosa, is registered at the Morris.
w. t. Edmondson, Jr, of Admission is
in the city.