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Arizona republican., 1904-11-06

morning. I fancied I was in the rooms of a MT. Fcnimore Dayton
 ''T'm Fenimore Dayton said Dayton. And then horrible thought flashed in- to his mind.
 The old mans mouth had flown open again. what" he exclaimed. "ImpOs- sible,"
 Dayton, all the blood in his body in his face, stood there, unable to speak or move. Great heavensi" he thought, what shall I do? What has Carpen- l ter been up to?"
 ! Lord FramptOn passed his hand over 1 his face. "ImpOssible!" he muttered. ''IncredibIe." And again he rubbed his face confusedly. Tell mel He look ! ed strangely at Dayton. Did you or did you not have talk with me at the Athenaeum club yesterday in the af- | ternoon?"
 Dayton opened his mouth several times before he could articulate: "I did not-that is--"
 | Then who was it? Where is he?" | Lord Frampton looked anGrily around. ''I insist upon an explanation, sir!" | Excuse me-just a few minutes-I must finish dressing-I was and I wasn't there-Iu explain Dayton withdrew to the bedroom, pulling the i portiere over the doorway.
 ] He hurried into his clothes and re- 1 turned to the sitting room. He stood | before Lord FramptOn, looking asham- l ed, repentant, honest. q am going to make a clean breast of it, sir" he said. | ''I could not keep my engagement with you yesterday. I did not wish to lose the interview. I sent a perfectly com petent man, thinking it made no diff ference to you, as you did not know me
 or care especially who did the inter | view, so long as it was done properly .''
 'But-where is he? Where is he ?'' Lord Frampton tapped his cane an
 griIy on the floor.
 TT don't know, sir. I''
 This is outrageous. 4 person rep
 resenting himself to be Fenimore
 Dayton, an American journalist. wrote
 me a note. I don't know what demon
 of ih-luck possessed mel had never
 submitted to an interview. I am a very
 old man and in poor health. ] permit
 no strangers to come near mes But
 mething-perhaps in the nOte-l
 don't know-at any rateN l consented 1 to receive this person at my club He
 -or some one representing himself tC be him-came, and we talked for abOut
 two hours. He was most agreed bIe-
 most elligent-bUt-he had beer ! came nervous about the interview Ht } promised to bring me what he hat i written last night As he did not came here this morning. l. wish to re , call the interview. I forbid the pub hcation of a word from me. I shal hold you responsible. sir! It is an out
 rage! It is scandalous! l shall protes | publicly. sir!"
 'I have no excuse to offer, sir saiC r Dayton humbly.- "I can only throv } myself on your mercy But first le me say that your interview is safe-a
 least it has not been published, anc g will not be-" Then he went on to con
 fess the whole truth, holding bacl 9 nothing-his love for young Ameri t can, the impossibtlity of Keeping bot Q engagements. and the impossibility O
 breaking either. And I suppose, sir, o he said in conclusion, "that CarpeRte l slipped away and took several drink
Arizona republican., 1904-11-06

Every young man who cleans his clothes with gasoline does not get credit for owning an automObile.-Chi- cago News
Arizona republican., 1904-11-06

"There-there! Not a word about that. I'll overlook it-'
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17
THE PARTY BAND WAGON.
One Vehicle Dear to the Heart of All
American Politicians.

Memphis Commercial-Appeal
The band wagon is a VEHICLE dear TO
the hearts of the average politician.
To get in it he would leave a cushion
seated, rubber-tired buggy. He would
abandon an automobile to chase It, He
has been known to deliberately jump
off the water wagon and chase the band
wagon four blocks.
The band wagon. the unsophisticated
should know, is the phalanx of a sue
cessful candidate. Whoever gets In
line with the winning candidate Is said
to be on the band wagon. OF course.
1t is a mere hypothesis; but all reli-
gions and all sciences are based on
hypothesis, and 1t serves its purpose.
Sometimes 1t is called a landslide
when every one unexpectedly goes for
one particular candidate.
The band wagon possessed magnet
ism that no man can wholly resist. His
passion for 1t il difficult or impossible
of psychological exigesis. In times of
political excitement men rush for 1t
with the same frantic and frenzied
haste as they would leap into a life
boat in case of a wreck at sea. They
are as quick to abandon the political
wreck; they are as exigent of getting
into the boat that will bring them to
the shore of triumph.
Those who in any way profit by poll
are in quest of the loaves and fishes,
and the loaves and fishes are in the
keeping and under control Of the sue
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

cessful candidate, and they cluster and
crowd around him as bees cluster and
crowd around a lump of sugar. But
there are thousands who have no hope.
of political spoils and no desire for
political preferment-men who are
hard-headed. opinionated, firm in con-
viction. strong in prejudice. and they
go to an assemblage or espouse a cause
deaf to all entreaty or argument, only
to be swept away. by the rush for the
band wagon and to become scrambler
among \scramblers.
Wise people may be able 10 explain
the phenomena and tell us what it is
that influences and operates on the
minds OF men and causes them to en-
gage. all of sudden. in tumult. dis
order and confusion, like herd OF
stampeding cattle; or to follow each
other, pellmell. like sheep jumping
over a fence; but il is likely to remain
an insoluble mystery to the ordinary
layman.
We boast of our sturdy independ-
ence under Republican form of gov
eminent. but there are few of us who
are not vassals to temporary emotion
alism which makes us slaves to the
impulses that suddenly seizes us and
hurls us into the band wagon.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

The volume of "Recollections and
Letters of General Lee" by Captain Rob
er; e. Lee, recently announced. is being
sent through the press very rapidly.
The book opens with an account of
General Lees early career in the Uni
ted States army and the beginning of
the civil war. The chapters following
contain letters to his wife, daughters.
and sons; references to the army life
of Robert. Jr., the Army of Northern
Virginia. the winter of 1904. the bat
tie of Cold Harbor and succeeding en-
gagements. the surrender of the army
of Northern Virginia, General Lee as a
private citizen, as President of Wash
ington College, his interest in home
life. his opinions of the civil war fam
lily affairs and his fondness for animals
his home in Lexington, his advice ia
young men. and his last years. The
book closes with the obituary notice in
Personal "reminiscences of General
Robert e. Lee" and the account of his
death by Mrs. Lee.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

auctions of activity and motion are
splendid. the leaping horses ir THE
Water Jump and The Riding School,
and over the Jump are full of life.
The Photo Era travelling party sailed
for Antwerp on the ICELAND" Cred Star
Line) on June IS. The pictures result
of this unique trip will be awaited with
Eager interest. The Photo Era offers
prizes to readers for suggestions as to
how the magazine may be made even
more attractive and worthful.
The serial, "Kibun Daizin: or From
Shark Boy to Merchant Prince" which
begins in the July st. Nicholas, is Il
translation by a Japanese of a fellow
lcountrymans tale, which Is said to have
gone into ten editions in two years.
General Mural was once a student of
the Waseda School. founded by Count
Okuma, leader of the Progressive Par
ty in Japan. He studied English liter
ature After completing his course he
contributed to a well known Toxic pa
per His story is founded upon the life
of a japanese merchant of the eigh-
teenth century. whose pluck, wisdom,
and enterprising spirit male him one
of the most prosperous and respected
men of his time
THE Presidents Message" a greet
ing from Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, and
a biographical sketch of the new Pres
ident of the General Federation. is one
of the features of The July Club Wo-
man. These, with the Echoes of the
Biennial. The Loiterer in Clubland''
and reports of General Federation meet
ings of several States make splendid
budget of Club news that should APP
peal strongly to the women of the Club
world.
A timely article on Marriage ala
mode" by Annette John. plea for hap
pier childhood and children, the Kin
Idergarten," by Julia A. Balbach. and an
larticle on "a Successful Woman DE %
rator" Some good fiction and excel
lent poetry will give a slight idea Of
the large field this enterprising maya
zine covers. In general makeup, press
work and in the quality of its literary
contents, The Club Woman shows a
steady improvement.
The Hawthorne Centenary.
BY an odd coincidence the birthday
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

smoothed with her glacial trowel
yonder spot,
And after all these busy years, at last
Beholds the prize her laboring has
brought:
She tolls a thousand ages for a flower
That blooms and dies within the self
same hour
S. E. Kiser in The Reader.
The Photographic Magazines of July
are unusually beautiful.
Burr McIntosh's Monthly gives a
half promise of great improvement,
the resuming of some print with true
wealth of pictures. When this maya
zine of phenomenal success was start
ed there was in each number a bit of
verse or a piece of prose which added
much interest. These were discontin-
ued for a time. 1t is good news that
they are coming back. the sketches and
verses. The Burr Mcintosh Monthly
offers generous prizes for the amateur
photographers. The personages photo
graphed in July number are Mrs. G.. IL
Gilbert. Frank Gould. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Gould, Miss Clara Blood
| good, Miss Nanette ComstOck, John
Barrymore. Miss Lulu CHASER and 9th
| er celebrities of the stage, and some off
the stage The outdoor pictures are
delightful
The Photo Era is invaluable to the
student of photography. The articles
| In July to draw attention to the guild
are Shutters" Instantaneous Pho
Biography" working Up a Picture.
practical Carbon Work in Two Tones, u
SLOW Development" "a Disciple of
| Daguerre." The list of Photographic
lexhibitions and competitions will prove
useful to ambitious amateurs and pro-
lfessionals wishing to get in touch with
the most progressive and successful
me mbers of their art.
The prize pictures printed in Round
Robin Guild are. good. covering va
ried line of subjects.
Some of the fine reproductions are:
"A Revolutionary Patriot" by Clarissa
Horey; Nance O'Neil." by Will Arm
strong: The Alarm of Ere" by Mat
lthias Stratton; S. S. Lloyd's two pic
lures: Evening IN Buffalo Harbor
and Sunshine Through the Pines arc
marvels of photography. The repro
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

Baked salmon or halibut is delicious
when prepared after the following rec
fpe: Lay the fish in baking pan and
pour over 1t quart OF sliced toma-
toes, chopped onion. salt and pepper.
Cover the fish with breatcrumbs ana
plenty of butter in fine bits. Bake In
moderately hot-oEeaA
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17
MAGAZINE NOTES.

No reader of today can afford to be
without The Reader.
writers and Readers. being de-
partment of illustrated notes of au-
thors, books and the drama is like let
tiers from home, a record of the coming
and going. and doings of confreres.
The Book Reviews are worthful.
"A Talk with Placida" is one of those
cheap ways of attracting attention to
books so much in vogue at present.
Miss Carolyn Wells seems weaving the
style to excess. Flippant book notes
of this order are taking space in all
magazines.
In The Man on the Box" the horse
runs away with the girl, of course! Mr..
Howard McGrath has the grace TO say
in parenthesis "(Have you ever read
anything like this before? ] dare say.
But to Warburton and the girl, 1t never
occurred that other persons had gone
through like episodes. 1t was real
and actual, and single. and tragic to
them)" A fine idea. Writers hard UP
for episodes can use threadbare ones
over and over If only their paper peo-
pie can be brought to feel that the
worn out is "single-to them"
Claude II. Wetmores article on 10
seph W. Folk and the Force Behind His
Boom for the Presidency" is timely
Edwin Emerson. Jr.. holds his read
ers' willing captives with his THE
Making of War Correspondent"
other excellent papers are: Death
and the Drumming Wheels" by Fran
els Lynde: Israel Zanguelfs without
Pretudice;" julius Chambers's seven
stories of Journalism; Koyo Ozaki. by
Lone Noguchi.
Rewards.
being small and weak, am prone to
fret
Because my efforts bring me little
gain;
count my slender winnings with re-
greet,
And deem them poor returns for all
the pain
And all the steadfast care that they
have cost
eat my crust and sigh DER labor
LOST
The patient toiler Nature. aeons past.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

The Confessions of n Club Woman"
by Agnes Surbridge.
This is an autobiography which has
in its serial publication proved OF great
interest. It is the story of the wife of
of grocer in a Western town. The
wife tells how she first came into con-
tact with club lite. OF the growth and
spread of her social ambitions, reused
by club life. OF her husbands finan-
cial rise. OF the deadlock caused by
the conflict of her club interests and
her home life. The author is said to
be a well known club woman. writing
under a nom de plume. A great part
of the story purports TO be true expe-
rience. 1t is very readable and
most exciting story.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

man who would Bead an unsealed letter
rot for him had not far to go to lose
life's highest things. The charming
widow, with her four or was 1t hVe.
lovers In year, is quite the modern
heroine. Candid and impulsive--any-
body can be candid with lots of mil
lions to make ones candor attractive.
Susceptible, for she loved by her own
confession. two of her five lovers and
half-loved a third. As courageous and
true as charming, for she gave up mil
lions for love. What could modern
woman do more? But she had mar
ried for money once. She Is one or
those who, shame with candor. on the
good old principles IAN honest confess
sion is good for the soul"
The other heroine is beautiful and
good and deceitful--to herself and all
the world-and her reward is great.
Fate gives her Annes discarded mil
lions. and Anne's unworthy lover.
Yates Is the modern money-loving.
money making. money-spending, mon
ey- murdered man.
Fleming Is the type of the best that
the modern days can do in the way OF
a man The opening discussion of four
men in that club whose marble steps
were planned for princes and trod by
plebians" on their ideas of Paradise
is typically modern. The world is out
of the age of romance. A man.
strongest desires and motives and Ia
Dor goes not to wooing an ideal wo-
man and rearing a home. but to a ca
reer, to realizing an ambition. Even
the modern novelist Is slow to realizo
this.
OF these, four are desired: Money;
and he got it. second: Influence: 1t
was his. The third: To do good work
and have recognition therefor. The
fourth But whether these desires
granted made a Paradise to those VINO
even read the most natural and de-
Iightful book of the season to dis
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

The "Rose Of Old st. Louis" will be
reviewed shortly in The Advertiser In
"The Rose of Old st. Louis" which The
Century Company Is to publish in few
DAYS, Mrs Dillon has given verbatim
an account of the debate in Congress.
and the words of Marbois, Livingston
TalIeyrand Napoleon, and his two
brothers touching the matter OF the
Louisiana cession. This material was
taken from authentic records by the
author.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17


most of the year.
The New York that spends the spring
| at Aiken or In Florida, its early sum-
| mer at the sea. its late summer al
| the mountains, it's winters in a villa In
Florence.
That New York that is not worried
much about anybody out of its own
| class. or line of charity or trend of In
| terest.
An attractive New York, gay. care
| less disconnected.
In spite of a heroine who is mistress
of millions. who is not beautiful. but
whose lovers looking at her say: 80
much the worse for beauty" we are
inclined to find the Bishop the best
character in the book. when the rest
of the folk of the book have drifted
down the Leethean waters of fiction
hero's paradise. the Bishop will remain
with us. He is a Bishop more CONNIE
ii faut than Come who labor" kind
He possesses as every Bishop should
as much of social grace as grace of
God. who could be a Bishop without
the best of manners?" Bishop Aston s
mien and bearing suggested not so
much the Army of the Lord as His dip
lomatic service"
Bishop Aston spoke with that hest
tating Ter" which Providence bestows
on dignitaries to enable them to dehb-
crate without a full stop"
Yet he is A good doctor of souls IL
he does not kill in the curing. Il ques-
ton of which was 1t that he often had
to ask himself during his acquaintance
with Walford-a good diagnosis of
Walford's case he had at first sight ::
You have lived among your interiors.
I am not clairVoyant, but / can read
your face, and / know the town where
you live. All your spiritual nourish-
ment is drawn from books. OF men,
men as good as you morally. better
than you Intellectually. you know
nothing"
And so the Bishop set him to learn in
New York, and his lesson began thus:
New York haunted him like pas-
sion. He felt an intUxicatIon in it's
very air. and he threw himself eagerly
into each passing experience. He WIS.,
tied every picture gallery; he knew
every orchestral program by heart; he
had dined in rich mems palaces; he had
heard great orators and felt the thrill
of their speech. But after all, there
was nothing like the city streets. They
had taught him more than all the rest.
and he was accustomed to walk up and
down the great thoroughfares from
Broadway to tie Bowery, in a delight
ed absorption. studying the myriad
types of men drifting around him.
Not a year later his ardor of self-sac
rifice had cooled. his ambition for in
fuence had been Gratiffed, his marriage
for millions contaminated THE soul
of Stuart Walford went out like the
flames of a candle in the wind" But
the good Bishop cannot be blamed, the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-22
PERSONALS.

Mr.. Morgan B. Spier, of Charlotte, is a
guest at the Marlborough House.
Mr.. John D. Biggs, of WILLIAMSON, is
in the city.
Mr.. w. L. Poteat, of Wake Forest.
was here yesterday.
Mr.. Chas. D. McIver of Greensboro, is
stopping at the Marlborough House.
Mr.. w. L. Spence, of Carthage, is in the
civ
Mr.. Thos ]. Jerome, of Monroe, was
here yesterday.
Mr.. Jas. D. McIver, of Carthage, is a
visitor to Raleigh.
Mr.. B. w. Leonard, of Monroe, was in
the city yesterday.
Mr. A. NJ Stock, of Monroe, is at the
Marlborough House.
Mr.. George p. Pell. of Winstcn-Salem,
was here yesterday on business for the
State.
L. S. Commissioner John Nichols left
yesterday for Selma On legal business.
Mr.. George w. Thompson went to Ora
ham yesterday on business
Mr.. Ed Marlborough, of Duke, was in
the city yesterday on business.
Mr.. J. NJ. Meekins, of Elizabeth City,
is at the Marlborough.
Judge W. S. OBJ. Robinson. of Colds
boro, arrived in the city yesterday after
noon.
Mr. G. T. Adams returned yesterday
from New Bern.
Mr. j. W. Bailey went to Graham last
night to deliver lecture on temper
ance.
Hon. F. A. Woodland. of Wilson, is here
on legal business.
Mr.. F. NJ Hancock, of Oxford. the Sec
rotary of the State Board of Pharmacy,
is in the city.
Mr.. Alphonsus Cobb, of Durham. was a
visitor here Sunday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-22

probably the SWEETEST Garments seen this
season. Prices $4,000, $4,000 $50
..........OO. $4,000 and 500 90
WOMEN'S SILK AND WASH WAISTS.
The new seasons first showing of these
is certainly fine, and the prices very mod
est.
We place on sale lot of plain black
and white China Silk Waists. Faggot,
Hemstitched and Lace trimmed ........
:. :. .. $3.50, $3.50 and "a. so.
Most complete showing of Madras, Per-
cal, Lawn and Linen Waists at all prices
from :. =. =. ...5Oc. to $500
We control the celebrated "Marquise
Waists for this market. These are high
grade, first class in every respect
CHIL.DREN'S WASH SUITS.
Just received line of young ladies,
Misses. and Childrens Cotton Cheviots,
Percal Duck, Crash and Linen, two piece
suits . =. $125. zoo and SO. so UP.
Children's Lawn and Percal dresses. E.
=. :. :. :. :. so, Use and 81 90
THE EASTER SALE OF KID GLOVES.
The kid glove importations are all in.
Qualities right, colors right, size range
COHIplcle, ana prices eiS usual 'tDoolutCiy
fair and Just.
Antonio Crispi "Clementina" Kid Gloves,
especially for fine retail trade in the fash
ionable Spring shades, black and white
:. =. $1.OU
System Iaye Success and Remover
Kid Gloves. black. white and the leading
colors :. :. e. :. :. =. =. :. E. 81 SO
Extra fine Lisle Gloves-two clasps
black and white only ...............25c.
Finest Milanese Snede Isle Gloves with
Pearl Clasps. and two Button Silk Gloves
kid Gloves styles, stitched back. New
est for Spring :. .. =. =. :. :. SOC.
Lucille Silk Gloves, double tipped
plain, white and black E. :. e. Use.
THE EASTER SALE OF NECK FIX
INGS.
Easter has its dress demands for men
as well as women. What man 'of taste
is there but likes to prink up a bit for
Easter Sunday The prinking can be
done with great economy by the ladies
also.
Beautiful conceits of Fashion, latest
fancies in Easter Neckwear for young
men at prices that demonstrate There s
no place like Higgs' for values" Made
from the best dollar silks. armures and
satins for =. . >. =. =. % and SOC.
New Spring Stocks for young ladies'
combination applique and embroidered
linen, plain or Persian colorings
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-22
LAUNDRY AND ICHkIRS.
AsheyiIIe and WaIkertown Enterprises
Were Incorporated Yesterday.

The Asheville Steam Laundry Company
of Asheville, the purpose of which is to
do steam laundry business and to sell
water from well on its own premises. The
capital stock is $4,000, with privilege to
increase to $4,000. The corporation is to
begin business with $4,000, the ineorpor-
taors being j. A. Nichols, South McAles-
ter /. T., j. w. Morton, Paris, KY, and
the following from Asheville: Charles L.
Minor, Philip r. Moale, A. E. Rankin,
r. H. Reeves, j. NJ. Chiles, w. ]. Cowley,
P. H. Branch F. d. Miller, C. V Rey-
nolds, Paul Paquin r ]. Tighe, r S.
Rowland, James Nichols, J. w. Brunson,
Jr The stock is divided into $4,000 COM
mon stock and $4,000 preferred stock.
The common stock may be increased to
$4,000 and the preferred to $25, 600. The
holders of preferred stock are John r.
Nichols, OF South McAlester, l. T.: Har-
mon A. Miller, Charles L. Minor, Philip
r. Moale and Theo. F. Davidson, all of
Asheville.
The Walkertown Chair Company of
Walkertown, Forsyth county, the purpose
of which is to manufacture chairs, was in
corporated yesterday. The capital stock
is to be not less than $4,000. nor more
than $4,000. The incorporators are w.
P. Dick, J. w. Marshall, D. c. MoirsJ. c.
Hammock, T. A. Crews, j. ]. Leight, E.
M. Light, all of Walkertown.