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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-14
CONFIDENCE
 IN REPORTS.
Open Dealing of Car To- ward Press EaVOrably
 Received.

St. Petersburg. March i3.-The confi- dencs displayed by the Russian people in the reports of the progress on the fighting in the Far East. which is one of the most notable features in Russia war. has been largely due to an entire change of policy inaugurated by the Elm peror some time ago with the abolition of the censorship on foreign newspaper dispatches This abolition was followed. when the war broke out. by the Elm peror's decision to, mako public as fully as possible all reports regarding the war. in the belief that the loyalty of his subjects will be only strengthened by acquainting them with the truth in vic tory or defeat
 It was an appeal to the sentimental side of the Russian character which has been moro than justified by the almost instantaneous effect
 Hitherto 1t was considered unwise to give the people information freely at critical moments, and the result was that the people. being pessimistic. were often inclined to imagine things to be much worse than they really were.
 The Associated Press is assured by a high authority that all of the telegrams have always been given out accurately. so far as their sense was concerned. and in most cases textually. although occa- sionally words have been changed where the original words were subject to mis- construction. For instance, in one case the words ''The enemy was at our heels'' were altered to read .'The enemy was behind us' lest the original language should give the ignorant the impression that the Russians were flying before the Japanese.
 Even the habitual critics of the gov ernment have been astonished at the manner fin which the authorities are tax ing the people into their confidence in the war. an dthis policy of fair dealing would seem to be uniting the nation, as never before in her history.
 General Kuropatkin's opening warning to the people in his speech to the Munic- ipaf Club not to expect too much at first but to exercise patience. is an evidence of the franknees with which the people are being treated. The utterances of the General upon that occasion were conl- mended warmly " the press as much better than glittering promises which might not be redeemed. ssss <
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-14
CUT FOOD sUPPL1Es.

Russian Depredations Drive Natives
 From North Korea.
 Pekin. March I3.-Private Chinese re- ports that are being received here state that the whole of Manehuria is in utter confusion owing to the Russians having secured all food supplies and other com nissariat necessities.
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are visiting Mrs. Reynolds daughter, Mrs.
F. B. Nicely at sos North Twenty-third
street.
Mrs w L. Housman left last night for
a visit to her parents in Louisville, Ky.
DR.. John w. Perkins is spending today
in Talladega.
Misses Allie and Dee Majors have re-
turned after an eight months sojourn in
Southern California and st. Louis.
Miss Blsnch Houseman and Miss Terese
Housman left yesterday for Nashville to
attend an alumni meeting at the st. c.
ella acamedy.
Mrs Rebecca Robinson and little grand
on, Clyde Robinson Harkins, left yester-
LAY for Asheville, N. c.. where they will
stay until October. They will be the
guests of Mrs Edgar Lee Gsrvey at her
cottage.
The Aid Society of the Unversalist
church will meet with Mrs. George Err
rane, 1901 Marshal avenue, North High
lands, Tuesday afternoon at O'clock.
Mrs. A. L. Wilson will entertain at her
home Wednesday from 4 to p. m. for
benefit of library fund. The public is in
vited.
Mrs Morris Marx and daughter Enid
leave tonight for st. Louis to meet her
mothers Mrs. Ben Meyer and sister and
brother-in-law Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Rich,
who have been in California for the last
two months. The party will return about
the 2t5h of June.
Miss Marie Pinckard and Mr.. Peyton
Pinckard have returned from college. Mr..
Ryburn Pinckard will return from Cor
nell this week.
Miss Beuelle Conner has returned home
from Baltimore, where she attended the
Baltimore Woman's college the past ses-
sion.
Mrs. ]. Craig Smith is the guest for
few days of her parents Mr.. and Mrs. B.
B. Conner.
Capt. s. B. Trap, Mrs. Trap and Miss
Mary Trap, who have recently returned
to Alabama from Oklahoma, are the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Conner on
South Highlands.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Fletcher have issued
invitations to the marriage of their
daughter, Julia Odessa, to Mr.. Emmett
Eugene Hine, the wedding to take place
at the Elyton Baptist church. Wednesday
evening, June %
Miss Alabam King was the beautiful
hostess of a lucheon yesterday in COM
pliment to Miss Snow and Miss Roberts.
Mrs. John w Cook and little daughter,
Mary of Eutaw, are visiting +. F. Park,
1872 Seventh avenue.
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D. A. r. TO
OBSERVE FLAG DAY.

An appropriate and beautiful pro-
sramme has been arranged for Tuesday
June Il, when General Sumpter Chapter
Daughters American Revolution will OBJ
serve Flag day In accordance with the
wishes Of the national society
The exercises will be held at five o'clock
at the corner Of Twelfth street and
Eleventh avenue at which hour the
Daughters and many Of their friends will
assemble to carry out the programme
Mrs. J. Y Allen is chairman Of the
programme committee and she will be as
sisted In carrying out the programme
by the following: Mrs. J, d. Dabney, Mrs
j. G. Whitfield, Mrs. r. II. Carter. Mrs
G. j. Sharpe Mrs. A J. Riddle. Mrs
WEIGH
The occasion will be one of Impressive
beauty as no ceremonial In the world is
more interesting than the raising of the
country's flag. The programme is as fol-
lows
Reading of Ritual with response by
Daughters.
Solo Home, Sweet Home"-Miss Lena
Jackson.
Raising of Flag.
Salute to Flag
Song The Star Spangled Banner"
Oriental Poem-Mrs. A j. Riddle.
Solo, "Alabama"-Mi Lena Jackson.
Address-Mr. ]. B. Babb.
Prayer and Response from Ritual
Chorus america"
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FLIES BY THE MILLIONS.
Fly Paper to Trap Them in Western
Mines.

From the New York World.
A New York firm, dealing in hypaper,
shipped two car loads of the commodity
the other day to Butte, Mont, where it
will be used in the Anaconda, Silver Bow
Bell, Diamond Rarus and other copper
mines to catch flies, which have be-
come so numerous within the past few
seasons as to threaten mining interests.
The consignment comprised 100000
sheets and cost little over $4,000. 1t will
soon be used up. AS each sheet-they
are blanket sheets-will catch 5000 flies,
the total number trapped when the supply
Is used up will be about $500 100000 In
sects-several tons of pests.
Up to ten years ago flies were unheard
of in the mines. They seemed to dislike
the sulphur gases. and in Butte City few
were to be found. At that time horses
began to be used under ground, and with
them came the 1es-ordinary pests of the
house variety-that bothered the miners
a bit but did not bite. In few years
however, the flies began to increase with
startling rapidity and develop tendency
to bite both horses and men. Entomolo-
gists were called and these wise men
soon discovered that the insects had
changed greatly in appearance and,
moreover Idu DtCOlIlf ny ipiS toil-
finement in the dark subterranean pas
sages.
The flies were thickest near the under
ground stables. but radiated from them
to every part of the mines where horses
were used. These fly runways got to be
known as Fly levels, and it has become
almost impossible for men to live in
them Miners will take job in a drift
which the underground fire has heated
and which is known as a hot box"
rather than toll along the Fly levels. !"
When a drift boss sends miner to work
among the flies 1t is generally under
stood that his resignation has been asked
for. This is a gentle method of discharg-
ing the man.
Last year new breed of insect devel-
oped, and this threatenes to prove a worse
afflction than the biting house fly. 1t is
called a fly by the miners but in re-
ality it is a blind gnat. They infest the
Fly levels" by the billion and bite like
mosquitoes. leaving small. round spots
that itch for an hour. Men come from
their work with red, swollen faces, hands
and arms, and in some instances have
had to be carried out. The gnats, like
the files, cannot live In the pure outer
air, and die II taken from the ill-smelling
mines.
The managers OF the big mines have
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tier, she felt to be portraits, and New
York was overlooking with portrait paint
ers. Miss Heustis worked her best on
orders she got and more than one of
her results was exhibited. and gained dis
terminating criticism from competent
sources. Meanwhile she did illustrating
for fine editions of Harpers Appleton's
Dillingham; and other publishers Notably
OF these were some for Mrs. Ruth McEn-
merry Stuart's books, and for the edition
de luxe of Mrs Wilson's Saint Elmo
Then perseverance conquered, as It must
when allied with ability. The subjects
from her brush began 10 attract more
comment, partly from Importance of her
sitters. She painted the wife of Colonel
Alex Mcclure Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and
her sister, and other notable and wealthy
people. Orders multiplied and she worked
necessarily. Recently General s. NJ B.
Young sat to her for his portrait It was
an instantaneous and emphatic success,
and 1t cost her great care and labor
These mattered nothing to the ambitious
young artist, with success al stake That
achieved she has closed her studio In the
Leslie studios, for the summer and has
sailed away to combine pleasure and i'm
provement, before <reoiling her palette
next autumn She will first make a tour
of the Dutch galleries; and then after see.
Ing the new art trend of London, settle
down quietly on the prettiest section Of
the English coast for rest and sketching
The second of the sisters, Miss Mabel
Heustis, Is as gifted in music as is her
elder In the sister art. She has long been
the confessed best contralto OF Mobile in
all regards of rendition, sympathy and
Interpretation She has held always re-
sponsible choir positions there and later in
New York and Il may be said that no
ameteur performance is held to be COM
plete at her home without her voice. She
Is moreover. one of the most popular
bellies Gulf city society has ever known
a trait that seems a common heritage to
these sisters from their mother 1t was
peculiarly so in the case of the next
sister. now Mrs. George Huntington Clark
of this city. As Miss Rosalee Heustis
she was loved by young and old and was
ever active in social matters. She was
empress of the carnival in its most bril-
liant years; and the success of her Mrs
Sternhold' in charity Performance of "Still
Waters Run Deep, proved that the family
brightness had not passed her by. Misses
Patti and Rhetta Heustis were as popular
and sought in a later set of debutantes as
their sisters had been but they listened
to the voice of the charmer," almost in
their first seasons. They are now Mrs
William Pattson and Mrs. Joseph Phil
lips of Mobile. 1t is rarely that a quin-
tette of sisters have been such pride and
comfort to even the most capbable and
careful mother, and their many friends
in many states will rejoice at the sue
cess of the gifted and persevering eldest
of them
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ART EXHIBITIONS.

The first annual exhibition of Miss
Alice E. Rumph's art pupils opened Mon
day afternoon and was enjoyed by many
friends and admirers of the class and the
artist
The display consisted of the winters
work of some sixteen students, comprising
drawings from the plaster casts, still
life. and life, and paintings both in water
colors and oils
Various heads In the life class showed
surprising progress in this line OF study
and gave promise of future portrait paint
ers for Birmingham. On the caste drawing
wall were displayed examples of hard
study In the ground work of art. Especial
~ noticeable here was the work of sew
eral young girls, among them Misses
Emily Graham, Mary kirkpatrick, Carrie
Foster and Cary Johnson.
Naturally the paintings made the most
noticeable part of the display. Water
colors were most numerous among these
but some especially promising studies in
oil paintings were shown by Miss Clara
GoclSel. Still life and flowers made up
most of the subjects, a few heads OF good
coloring being displayed, and some out
door sketches from East Lake and Avon
dale, charming bits that show what ar
fists can find about this smoky city of
ours.
Last but not least, came the work of
the primary class, where were to be seen
important beginnings in the study of art.
Drawings of cables and simple forms,
intermixed with objects familiar and not
too diffleult--for the novice-books. Jars
and casts of hands, feet and separate fea-
lures of the face. The youngest pupil
of Miss Rumph's class is little Miss Nir-
ginia Stone, daughter of Mr.. Minis B..
Stone. This young artist of eight years
gives promise of talent beyond her years.
AS a whole the exhibit was highly
creditable to both pupils and instructor,
and the class is to be congratulated upon
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FLEMINo-WooLY.

The marriage of Miss Gertrude Woolley
and Mr.. DIN Butler Fleming on We'd
nesday evening at the First Methodist
church will be a beautiful event-the
color scheme to be pink and white The
church will be beautifully decorated for
the occasion and Miss Wooley will make
one of the prettlest of brides The we'd
ding party will include four matrons of
honor, Mrs ii. f. Wooley, Mrs. Frank X
Mitchell, Mrs. G. M. Miner and Mrs
Charles w. Clark. The bridesmaids are
to be Miss Mary George Fleming of La
Grange, Ga, sister of the groom Miss
Elizabeth Sawyer, Of Orangeburg S. c..
Miss Lillian Lyde of this city, and Miss
Annie Lou Wood of East Lake. The
maid Of honor will be Miss Pansy Steele.
The best man Is to be Mr.. Edward Pow
elland the ushers Mr.. Thomas Bowron,
Mr.. Frank Hammond, Mr.. Wyatt Hehin
and DR.. Oscar Hayes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-12
ANNOUNCEMENT OF COUNCIL
OF WoMEN'S CLUBS.

In the city there has been formed re-
GENTLY an organization to be known as
the Council of Womens clubs. The OBJ
feet Of this association is to afford to
Individual clubs, or other organizations
holding membership In 1t, the means by
which cooperation in furthering some en-
terprise germane to its regular work may
be effected.
All bodies of women, whether clubs,
philanthropic or educational or other or
Plantations interested In the educational
and literary progress of the community,
Rre cordially invited to apply at once for
membership.
While 1t is called a Birmingham organ
ixation, Greater Birmingham is meant,
and il is hoped that all suburban clubs
and organizations will become members
of the council.
1t is not the intention of the council
to lay upon any organization an extra
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burden of work but by united effort 1t
hopes to make possible some lines OF edu-
cational and literary advancement not
possible to individual organizations.
1t is hoped by this union of effort there
may be secured lectures for the coming
winter which will be of great value to
the community at a merely normal cost.
The clubs and organizations that have
already Joined the council are:
The Cadmean circle, Clionian club, The
Pollock Stephens, Misses Allen school,
Highland Book club. Amaranth club,
Nineteenth Century club Quest club,
Shakespeare club, Twentieth Century
club, Edgewood club, Woman's club,
Chatauqua circle Taylor school, Y. w. C.
association, Public School teachers, Coun-
ell of Jewish women, Free Kindergarten
association,
The officers of the council are Miss
Willie Allen, president Mrs. w. l..
Murdoch, secretary and treasurer
Application for membership or for fur
Their information may be made to either
officer. MRS. MURDOCH,
Secretary Woman's Council.
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yoyareursH birds of Passage), Wachs.
Miss Louise Hail. Miss Lucy Hall, Mr..
r. G. Bailey "Gypsey Roudo from trio
In G., J. Haydn
Miss Edith STEPHENS Miss Agnes Burns,
La Chasse Au Lion" c. Rolling.
Miss Louise Hall, Mr.. r. G.. Bailey, So
natina," Diabelli,
Mrs C. A. Balm Misses Agnes Burns
ton will be given to children's classes in
vocal training, reading and recitation. A
catalogue of the school is just out, which
does credit to this new institution.
1t is a sixteen-page booklet in primrose
and purple the school colors, having a
figure on the cover page representing all
the arts.
The catalogue is attractive interesting
and instructive, and will not fail to meet
the approval of thinking people interested
In the advancement of the spoken word.
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MISS LOUISE HEUSTIS THE YOUNG ARTIST WHOSE
PORTRAIT WORK HAS ATTRACTED WIDE ATTENTION

Among those listed for sailing from New
York last Saturday. was Miss Louise L.
Heustis, voting artist in whom Ala
bama and the south should take great
pride.
Miss Heustis is another Alabama girl
who has taken a bold dive into the whirl-
pool of New York opposition. and has
brought up the pearl of success. And
il is all the more to her credit that she
has done this when It was a matter of
talent and artistic ambition. rather than
of necessity She is a Mobilian by birth
and early education. but has resided for
several years in New York where she
has a studio.
Veterans of the war. in both eastern and
western armies recall a noted war belle
of Columbia, South Carolina. Miss Rachel
Lyons Coming from a state then noted
for brilliant women. her personal beauty
and attraetiveness were enhanced by a
mind exceptional for its quickness and
cultivation; and by conversational gifts
that made her a center of attraction
in Richmond, and later in the far south
Called to the former city by the serious
wounding of gallant brother before its
gates, she conquered the men in gray as
Mcclellan had failed to do Afterwards.
her mentality attracted the then rising
young novelist, Miss Augusta Evans, and
warm and lasting friendship sprang up
between the brilliant women. Miss Lyons
went to Mobile to visit the new world
known author. There she captured, ran
SOM or no ransom" Dr.. James Fontaine
Heustis a dashing young medical diree-
tor of Braggs army. He had resigned
from the United States navy after his
first cruise. or two, to cast his fortunes
with his native state. The war had
scarcely closed when they We're married
and made their home in Mobile. Their
married life was a long and happy one,
Or. Heustis becoming one of the most
noted and successful surgeons of his city.
and section.
At his death which was universally re-
GREETED he left TO the care of their de-
voted mother a family of five girls and
one son. The last is now a banker at
Colon. The daughters all inherited the
the personal gifts and the mental attri-
butes of their gifted mother; no less than
social grace and tact, which made her
girlhood charming. The eldest, whose de-
parture suggests this sketch, early de-
veloped decided taste in art On her grad
uation from school she devoted herself to
her profession with patience and industry
Then she studied at the Life School In
Philadelphia, and later at the Art League
In New York. FINAL she went abroad
and passed several years in the famous
galleries and atellers Of the continent,
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Society.
BY ANNIE KENDRlcK WALKER.
Mr.. AND MRS. ToMLlNSoN
TO GO ABROAD.

Mr.. and Mrs. John ". Tomlinson will
sail about the middle of July for Europe
on the Cedric of the White Star Line.
They will go first to England and later
to Scotland, and will join Mrs Fac
Smiths party in Germany. With this de-
lightful party they will take the Engadine
coaching trip, one Of the famous Swiss
passes, and will visit San ST. Marty pos
sibly the most celebrated Spa of Europe
They will pass the early autumn on the
Italian lakes and will visit Monte Carlo
and the Riviera, and will coach along
the Corniche road. Mr., and Mrs. Tom
linson expect to return the first week In
October. They will be accompanied
abroad by their little daughter, Miss Joy
Tomlinson.
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Big Japanese Noses.

From the Baltimore Herald
In Japan the nose is the only feature
which attracts attention. The nose de-
termines the beauty or ugliness OF the
face. according as 1t is big or small. This
is probably due to the fact that difference
In noses constitutes about the only dis
tinction between one Japanese face and
another
The eyes are invariably black. the
cheekbones high and the chin receding.
In Japan a woman who has a huge
proboscis is always a great beauty and
reigning belle. There are few large
noses among the natives, and lucky is
he or she who possesses one.
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the completion of its first year which
ends the last of June.

the completion of its first year which
ends the last of June.
Next year Miss Rumph will carry on
her classes under the same management
as heretofore, but will open her studio
the last week in September in the new
Allen school building on the South High
lands Most of her pupils came from
this part of the city this term, so she
makes this change of location simply for
convenience of the students and for bet
ter and larger accommodations.
The studio win consist Of two apart
ments next year-a pupils room and Miss
Rumph's private studio, where her paint
ing and portrait work may go on sep
arate and undisturbed by the teaching
department.
All the pupils of this term are looking
forward with renewed zeal to work IN
their new studio next year, and there will
doubtless be many new Corners.
In addition to her art pupils proper
Miss Rumph will have charge of the
manual drawing in the different classes of
the Misses Aliens school.
The art reception given by the pupils of
Miss Lucille Douglass on Friday after
noon was attended by several hundred
guests and was a pronounced success. The
rated with nasturtiums and an orchestra
played throughout the afternoon. The ex-
hibitlon was one of the largest ever given
In Birmingham, and represented only the
work of Miss Douglass pupils
Among those whose poreclains attract
ed most attention were Mrs. Bedford For
rest Tyler, Miss Mcmillan and Miss
Roblna Hopper. while the water color ex-
hiblt included beautiful work by Miss
Tersa Husman Mrs. b. NJ. Starks, Mrs
Carter Mrs. Webb Crawford, Mrs. ]. j.
Rogers, Mrs. William Snyder, Miss Argus
Hill.
The exhibit was a most creditable one
and the pupils and Miss Douglass We're
showered with congratulations by their
many friends.
Miss Douglass class will continue It's
work until August, when she will leave
for Chicago and the east. In Chicago Miss
Douglass will again study with Aulich
and Miss Estabrooks She will reopen her
studio In the autumn. but after next
winter she intends going abroad to study
for a year.