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Observation-Disclosures.

The marriage of Miss Marie Antoinette
kendrick, daughter of DIR. William T.
kendrick of Montgomery, and Mr.. Joseph
{. Duckworth of South Carolina which
TOOK place Thursday evening was a beau
tlful event in Montgomery society. The
Court Street Methodist church was elab-
orately decorated with wild smilax and
palms, while in the center was suspended
large. white Tyre, studded with mean
descent lights. Extending from the Tyre
70 Tour bronze electricals, were garlands
OF smilax. in which sparkied innumerable
electric lights. As the bridal party APP
preached the chancel the lights grew
more dazzling until the scene about the
altar was one of scintillant beauty
MISS kendrick, who Is a brilliant bru-
nette beauty, was gowned in white MORE
chiffon and real lace, with the veil and
orange bluossoms worn by her grand
mother on her wedding day. There was a
charming wedding party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duckworth are now in
Wilhamston, S. c., the guests of Mr.
Duckworth's parents who have enter
tanned in their honor.
They will extend their wedding Journey
10 Washington and New York. Mr.. Duck
worth is brilliant lawyer, and is a mem
Der OF an old South Carolina family. He
Is graduate of Clemson.
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the deer with its gentle eye, ana the
moose with his fierce one, and large, pow
erful antlers, make a collection which
have already attracted good deal OF at
tention. The work of this young and
talented artist is so beautiful and so &C
curate at the same time that he has been
called upon to do a great deal OF work
for the government, portraying game and
fish.
1t will be of interest to all Alabamians
to know that the artist father OF this
artist son was stationed at one time dur
ing the civil war at Huntsville, Alabama,
and as the Federal troops were quarter
ed in the girls schools there he occupied
a great deal of his leisure time by work
ing in the studio of the school. and was
also assisted by some Huntsville artists
The father, Seth W. Steward, has made
quite reputation as landscape palmer,
and the son has a national reputation as
a painter or fish and game.
The latter will have an elaborate ex-
hibit at the st. Louis exhibition this year,
of which the exhibit in Birmingham is
but an indication.
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TIIiman-DngaS Wedding
At Historic "EdgeW00d. "

1t is matter of regret that
Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin Ryan Tillman
Jr of South Carolina did not visit Bring
ham the past week. Colonel and Mrs.
Samuel Win John expected to entertain
them for short visit, as 1t was their
original intention to spend few days IN
Birmingham on their way north.
The marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Tillman
on Tuesday evening at 'Edgewood.'
Edgeheld s. c., was of International IN
terest. The bride, Miss Lucy Frances
Picxens Dugas, is a granddaughter of
the late Governor Pickens of South Car
DINA. whose wife was the famous beauty,
Lucy Holcombe. The mother of Mrs.
Tillman, the lovely Douschka Pickens,
was born in the palace at st Peters
burg. at the time that her father was
United States ambassador to the Russian
court There are few stories more ro-
mantle than was the career of this Amer
lean girl to whom the czar and czarlha
Of Russia stood godfather and god-moth-
err The wedding of her daughter was
therefore of wide interest.
Sitting at tea with Mrs. John, at Rose
mont" the past week. one of the guests
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Davenport and the Sultan.

From the New York Press.
Homer Calvin Davenport, who is 60
ing upon the lecture platform, nour,
ished the idea that he was too poor to
own a two-minute Cor thereabouts)
trott r, and having high admiration
of the sultan of Morocco, sent the ami
NAL as present to the Moorish tyrant.
"One less mouth to feed" he cried.
Now my goats and ducks may get
enough to eat" Alas for human hopes,
The other day Homer received a cable
dispatch from the American consul at
Tangier advising him that the sultan,
Muley Abdul Aziz, had instructed his
grand vizier, Sid Emfadi, Gharnit, to
forward Immediately to his ranch in
New Jersey herd of seventeen cam
els, six Barbary sheep, hen and chick
ems from the Tell and vast quantity
of rugs, carpets and ostrich feathers.
Davenport is in despair.
Davenport is bound to make sue
cess of lecturing. He is quite as orig
inal as was Artemus Ward One night
he gave hint of his powers in Major
Ponds home in Jersey City. Mark
Twain wasin the audience and Daven-
port nad him crying like baby one
minute and laughing like hyena the
next. Don't try to learn how to be a
lecturer" said Clemens. start in just
as you are. Let your hands stay where
they are-in your breeches pockets.
When Gable and l went on the lecture
stage we thought it was necessary to
make graceful genufections to drive
in our points; so we hired teacher OF
elocution at S25 a day to show us how
to work our arms and hands effectively.
got so l could make beautiful ges.
lures, but was so busy thinking about
them that l forgot what wanted TO
say" Davenport has been jockey,
fireman on an engine and clown in a
circus. He is positively uneducated
and ungrammatical. He will be as en-
tertaining as sam Jones.
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A Mincafurc Bethlehem.

AS a part of the children's entertain
ment at st. Marys, there has been pro-
duced in the Sunday schol hall a minia-
ture OF the scene in Bethlehem, on the
night of the birth of our Lord, Every
child who sees it carried with him a clear
er idea of the first Christmas night than
can be had from picture or story At the
same time, so quaint and beautiful is the
production that grown people are delight
ed as well as children
On the messy banks of the little lol<e.
in the center, the cattle are peacefully
grazing, while above and beyond on an
overhanging cliff, stands the angel pro-
claiming the glad tidings of joy and peace
to the astonished shepherds below In
the foreground, one shepherd has already
risen from his knees and is hurrying to-
ward the spot where the infant Saviour
lies. In the stable, surrounded by the
cows and oxen, Is the Manager with the
little babe in swaddling clothes; while on
either side are the kneeling figures of
Mary and Joseph.
AT the other end of the scene, the wise
men, with their caravan of camels and
elephants, are winding down a mountain
pass, eagerly following the guiding star
that now rest above the lowly stable.
Above all these, the goats are PLAYING
on the cliffs; nestled in the shrubbery
are little birds nests the watch dogs in
the valley have ceased for an instant
their vigilance over the flock to gaze in
mute wonder at the angels above them.
The setting of this beautiful little
scene. with its wooded mountains rising
high in the background. the fern banks
and the lake, the pasture and the winding
road leading to the stable, has been built
with rare artistic skill. The figures used
were brought from Germany fifty years
ago by the father of the owner, who has
reproduced the scene
II will be allowed to remain in place for
few days. during which time it will be
on exhibition from to 5 and to O'clock
In the evening. 1t is especially beautiful
at night when illuminated from above.
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PARIS Letter
BY PIERR E ROSTER.

Paris, December 26.-The exhibition of
French pre-Renassance paintings at the
Champs Elysees Palace affords an OPP
portunty such as the public have not
enjoyed since the 1900 exhibition for
studying the developments of French art
from its infancy. Organized by M.
Henri Bouchot, the Conservator of En-
cravings at the National Library, under
government patronage, it has been en-
riched with loans from provincial muse
ums and private collections. One of Nj.
Bouchots objects has been to show that
French art throughout centuries, not
withstanding the influence of foreign
schools retains-even when it strives
most at initiating other models-an in
dividuality which stamps it as growth
of the soil.
1t is still the fashion to speak of the
French as Latin race. This view. how
ever, is less blindly accepted than some
years ago In the sixties, for instance,
1t would have been considered a heresy
to oppose it, All our national traits, love
of military glory especially. are certain
ly inherited from our Gallo ancestors.
The Romans cared nothing for glory.
They conquered to have slaves and
gorge themselves With luxurious food.
Retrospect exhibitions like the present
one, even IL they served no other pur-
pose but to correct errors of perspective
and quantity derived from school book
history, are worthy of encouragement.
The growing study of philology has
taught Englishmen, by inquirng into the
history of old words, that the countrys
history does not begin with the Norman
conquest nor even with the Saxon or
the Roman conquest The old pictures
at the Champs Elysees shatter the Ecole
des Beaux Arts doctrine anent the origin
of French painting and sculpture. These
arts, according to the time-honored view,
were brought into this country by Flem-
ish and afterwards by Italian masters,
and the models of ancient Greece and
Rome did the rest.
II is true enough that France owes
much as every country must owe, to
foreign influence, but whatever came
from abroad was assimilated. Twice
only was the national tradition inter-
rupted-under Louis XIV. and under Ma
poleon l. Yet Ingres and David, spoilt
as they were by limitations of foreign
ideals, return to their latent ancestral
traditions in their portraits. from which,
as NJ. Bouchot observes. a grain of sly
French gaity is never absent One of
the far-back ancestors of French paint
ing who lived towards the close of the
Gothic period, is Jean Fouquet, whose
place at the root of the family tree is
row undisputed; and he was a disciple
of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and psalter-
illuminators of the thirteenth and four
tenth centuries. You cannot look at
those portraits by Fouquet and other
French ''primitives.' such as Jean d.
Orleans, Clouet or Girard dOrleans
without noticing that they are French
all over That astonishingy realistic
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asked her to recall some of the incidents
in the lives of Mrs. Tillman's family, Mrs.
John having been a friend OF the brides
mother and grandmother.
This wedding. to me, awakens many
sweet memories of grlhood and young
ladyhood,' said Mrs. John. when Wis
iting Edgefield, South Carolina, twenty
nine years ago, 1 met Douschka Pickens,
the mother of Lucy Frances Pickens Du-
gas when we were both girls of the
same age. "Edgewood," the Pickens an
cestral home, being only three miles from
Edgefield, was the seat of endless enter
tanning. Well do / remember Mrs. Flick
ems regal beauty. impressing me as
perfect picture of Queen Mary of Scot
land. Her exquisite figure. superb auburn
hair, high brow and clear-cut features
combined with wonderful charm and
grace of manner, made her verify the
queen Of southern society that she was
"Douschka, her only child. was born in
the palace of st. Petersburg, when her
father was ambassador to that court
Her birth was announced to the world
by the same salute as proclaimed the
birth of a royal princess. The czar.
Alexander II, and the czarina stood as
her godfather and god-mother; the ear
ina naming her for herself but calling
her 'Douschka," the Russian for darling.
The American babe made princess royad'
on foreign soil. grew to womanhood at
Edgewood, loved by every man, woman
and child. II was there that she mar
ried DR.. Dugas. and received gorgeous
gifts from the Russian court, Alexander
III having remembered the love and adj
miration his father bore for the beauti-
full American.
Il could tell of priceless jewels, por-
traits. busts, silver, all in the Pickens
historical home. from the great-hearted
monarch. When Mrs. Pickens' death call
ed this honored woman. to the great un-
known court. cablegrams of coincidence
came from His majesty the present car
to the widowed and heart-broken mother
Now, time has matured Douschka's lit
tie daughter has become the bride Of
Senator Tillman's SON."
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Departures.

Mr.. George p. Jackson has returned to
Chicago to re-enter the university
Miss Lottie Wren Warner will return to
Belmont college on Monday.
Miss Genevine Jackson has returned to
New Orleans to re-enter the Tulane uni
versity.
Mr.. David Roberts, Jr., returned yes
terday to Harvard university.
Mrs Fannie Arnold DeBardeleben will
leave Monday for Warm Springs, Ca,
where she will join a house party which
Mr.. Charles Davis will entertain during
the week. Mrs. DeBardeleben will go later
to Jacksonville, Fla, where she will spend
the remainder of January with her sister,
Mrs. L. A. Shipman.
Mr.. and Mrs John B. Knox and Miss
Mcclure of Admission. who were in town
to attend the bachelors ball, have re-
turned home.
Miss Annie Roberts is in Savannah.
Mrs Phares Coleman returned to Mont
gomery.
Mr.. Brooks Clark, who was among the
out-of-town guests at the Badham- Ran
dolph masquerade. returned to Cincinnati
on Friday.
Mrs. Henry T. Dean Is the guest of
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Shelby,
in Ellsville. Miss.
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Has Birmingham
A Harry Lehr?

Society has been so brilliantly gay the
past week that there still remains
great deal that could be said about the
weeks events The entertainments of the
week have surpassed in their elaborate
features any preceding functions, and the
details have been more like those dis
tinguishing the events in the larger cities
With all the elaborate features in decora-
lions there have been worn by the ladies
gracing the different occasions many of
the handsomest toilettes ever seen in Bir-
mingham.
Society is like a spoiled beauty, and
now that 1t has enjoyed series of elab-
crate entertaining, it looks forward to
events that are not "ordinare." 1t is
clamoring for more costume dances and
bal Mosques, and events where, as on
the occasion of the bachelors ball, the
cotillon was danced in an Arabian Nights
interior.
The present frame of mind leads to the
inquiry what next? Who will come for
ward with originality and give society
something that may be talked about for
weeks, or will society settle down to af-
ternoon tea and bridge whist? Then
again the present condition may demand
a Harry Lehr.
1t was recently deplored by a clever
writer that from so many clever wom~n
] it seemed strange that society was with
out leader.
Is there, however, a Harry Lehr?
Only recently the Louisville papers an
nounced that society in that charming
=. city had its Harry Lehr who prevented
ennui, wore stays and met all the re-
uuirements. 1t may be quite the proper
thing for Birmingham to evolve from its
present excitement a Harry Lehr who will
prevent a relaxation towards afternoon
tea and things "ordinaire."
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made to Milan. to beautiful Campo santo.
to Venice and to Genoa. Some time will
be passed on the beautifully curving
coast, which has the maritime Alps for a
background anG the blue Mediterranean
FOR lrontispiece. and known as the Ri
Viera, between Monte Carlo and Nice, ex-
tends the finest coast drive in the world
From Nice, the party will go to Marseilles
and from there to Spain. They will visit
Madrid and Cordova, the old Moorish
capital of Spain, and the party is looking
forward with special interest to the visit
to the Alhamhra. From Spain, the party
will return to France.
Mrs. Smith has, also arranged a tour
CT three months covering many popular
points of summer travel. In this tour.
she Is assisted by the Rev. Frederick r.
Graves of CORTLAND, Ala.
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Arrivals in Town.

| Miss Estelle Shook and Miss Eliza
beth Thomas will arrive Tuesday froni
Nashville to be the guests of Mrs. James
Warner Shook. who will entertain infor-
mally during the week.
Miss Adelne Thornton of California
will arrive Tuesday from New York to
be the guest of Mrs. Rebecca Anderson
and Miss Anderson. Miss Thornton will
be charmingly remembered in society,
having spent a season here winter or
two ago.
Mrs. McCune of Oakville- Pa, is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. iruner Weak
ley.
Miss Annie Searcy of Tuscaloosa is the
guest of Mrs, Robert Jemison.
Miss Elizabeth Brady, one of the beau
ties of North Carolina arrived last night
and Is the guest of her aunt Mrs. Dam
gerfield, on Sycamore street Miss
Brady spent the season in town two
winters ago.
Miss Margaret Coghil and her young
er sister are in town for a few days, the
guests of their brother. Mr.. w. w. Cog
hill.
Mr.. F. s. Laseter, Mr.. w. T. Laivell
and Mr.. c. G. Reeves have returned from
Brooks, Ga, where they have been at
tending house party given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Stark Hand
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Mrs. FAC Smith win
Chaperon Party to Land
OF the Midnight Sun.

| Mrs. FAC Smith has arranged a most
extensive European tour for the coming
summer and will take a party of twelve,
which will include several people who
have gone with her on previous tours
While Mrs. Smiths tours in foreign
lands are always comprehensive and de-
lightful the one of 1904 will surpass any
preceding tours, this to be one of ninety
seven days. 1t will be a Scenic tour
including the best in the following coun-
tries England, Norway Sweden. Dem
| mark Germany Austria, Switzerland
| Italy. Spain and France. Several Br-
| mingham people will make the journey
to the Land of the Midnight Sun" while
there are others who contemplate joining
| this party.
| Mrs. Smith, who spends few months
every year in Europe. knows her London
and Paris as Americans pride themselves
on knowing New York There are few
of the European capitals with which she
is not familiar and she has been abroad
so frequently that she is entirely CONVEX
SAINT with the national life of many Oh
the European countries. Their literature.
their art galleries. their ruins. every part
of the Old World have claimed her atten-
ton for years. until she has gained a
wide and. varied knowledge which emil
nently fits her for her work
She possesses to an unusual degree all
the REQUESTS of a European ehaperone and
she Is enabled through prominent connec-
tions in several European capitals to give
social side, to her tours in foreign lands.
Mrs Smith and her party will go direct
from London to Troudlijens. sailing from
Hull Their first glimpse of the Nor
wegian coast will be in passing Stavan-
ger, where the. sun still stands high above
the horizon long after 1t has set in the
south of England. They will make the
the Inner channel" where the sea is per-
fectly smooth, and where natural
breakwater is found by thousands of is
lands, rocks and skerres.
The party will embark at Bergen. which
/, has been described as crescent around a
magnificent bay.
Then to visit Trudligen. where lived the
old Norwegian kings will be of great in
terest The town can boast of a contin-
uous existence for a thousand years.
From here the party will take a cruise
| to the North Cage The cruise is a
most picturesque TRIP. The steamer glides
! into labyrinth of channels and an end
less series of glorious lakes along the
coast of Nordlanf. feature of the trip
will be the week CT charming travel across
| country. from Il rgen to Christiana. from
| which point the party will go to Stock
holm, and the SECOND week in August will
| find them in Copenhagen. Later. they
will go to Berlin. Dresden. Nuremberg
/, nd Munich. A \short time will be sp.nt
in the Austrian Tyrol.
Mrs. Smith has Arranged her itnery. In
order that her parry may spend late Au-
gust on the Italian, lakes. Visits will he
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Mr. xHardinQ's Luncheon.

One Of the handsomest events of the
week was the buffet luncheon on Friday
at which Mr.. w. p. G. Harding enter
tained in compliment to the officials and
the employees of the First National bank,
4he luncheon assembling fifty guests. MFR.
Harding's house which has recently been
completed sstypically colonial and is one
of the handsomest residences in Glen Iris
commanding beautiful view of the park
The decorations for the luncheon were in
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Mrs. Freeman'S COfiIIOn.

The dance given by Mrs Freeman
Thursday night in compliment to her
dancing class was ATTENDED by over fifty
guests and was delightful occasion. The
cotillon was gracefully led by Mr. White
Matthews and Miss Mary Ruth McLester
and was danced in the assembly hall of
the Pollock Stephens Institute Mrs. Free
man will give a second cotillon Friday
evening.
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Young Highianders Dance.

A charming holiday dance was that
given Wednesday evening by the Young
Highlanders' club at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. S. d. Weakley. The club
includes a membership of fifteen, and
there were about seventy-five guests.
The drawing rooms and nall were used
for dancing and ices We're served during
the evening.
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Chatting Dish Party.

Miss Lucille Douglas gave chatting
dish supper Monday evening in compli-
ment to Mrs. Carrie Watson Morgan and
Mr. George p. Jackson, the occasion as
semDling informally congenial party of
friends in Miss Douglas studio In com
pliment to Mr. johnson the decorations
were in his fraternity coors, and the oc-
casion was among the small and delight
full events of the week
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red carnations. these being used in the
dining room, the library and the hall.
The drawing room was decorated in white
roses. After the luncheon the guests gave
an informal musicale in the billiard room,
the orchestra that played delightfully."- dur
ing the luncheon assisting in the musicale.
Mr.. Harding was assisted in receiving
by Mrs. Harding. Mrs. Sydenham Moore
and Mrs. Webb Crawford.
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Art Exhibit.

Lovers of angling and hunting and low
ers of the unusual and artistic will be in
terested in the exhibit of a Maine artist,
Mr. Walter l.. Stewart People from Bir-
mingham who have seen the New York
sportsmans show will recognize the SUBJ
jects as we'll as the artists name
The "speckled beauties the black bass.
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Gard Parties.

Receiving with Mrs. Felix Drennen to-
morrow afternoon will be Mrs. Runyon,
Mrs. Ebersole, Mrs. John M. Caldwell
Mrs. Robert Rucker, Mrs. Pete Basil
Clarke, Mrs Robert Jemison. Jr Mrs
p. G. Bowman. Mrs Matte Royster
Mrs N. L. Miller. Mrs. I. f. Young Miss
Louise Walker, Miss Bessie Jemison Miss
Daisy Moody, Miss Annie Jemison Miss
Lillian Roden, Miss Lille Bremen. Miss
Edna Hume, of Cincinnati, Miss Marga-
ret Nixon and Miss Annie Walker
Mrs. Benson Cain will entertain at cards
"Wednesday afternoon at the residence OF
her mother, Mrs A. o. Lane. in compli-
ment to Miss Lane, Miss Phillips Miss
Tyson and Miss Watkins.
& Miss Lane will entertain informally at
cards Wednesday evening in compliment
TO Miss Tyson and Miss Phillips.