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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-02
MISS M'cREApYs FUNERAL.

Naples. March Tho body OF Miss Catherine
McCready. who was found murdered IN her villa
at Caserta last week. buried to-day In the
English cemetery here in the presence OF the
American Vice-ConsuL The authorities have not
yet discovered the murdererA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-02
REVOLT SPREADS TO THE DON.
A General Strike at Rostov Probable-Police
Seize Arms.

Rostov-on-Don, March 1.-The police have
seized a quantity OF arms and gunpowder at the
houses of Persians here
The men have struck in many factories. and
attempts are being made to bring about a gen.
eral cessation OF work. There is great fear of
disturbances, and the people are buying pro-
visions, but so far everything has been quiet.
Rostov-on-Don Is a town and port twenty five
miles above the Don's entrance into the Sea of
Azov. It has mixed population OF Russians Jews
Greeks. Germans. Armenians Italians Persians
ETC. There is considerable export of corn linseed
wool, tallow and iron. and there is also an i'm
portant coast trade. The population numbers about
one hundred thousand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-02
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE 10

Take Laxative Bromo Quinlne Tablets. All druggisIs
refund II II fails u. w.
signature each box Ia
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25

fore meeting with Miss Josephine VOLTS
berger. who has pledged herself to be-
come his bride next Wednesday. London
will witness the nuptials, after which the
two will go sightseeing before reaching
California.
The sweets Of childhood days are car
ried into rounded love in the engagement
OF pretty Maylita Pease and Arthur Wat
son. Probably no condition Of romance is
more strongly appealing than the knowl-
edge that a marriage Is the outcome of
long-standing friendship
Miss Pease Is most attractive, having
height with dignity and grace and a
very delicate coloring. Her schooling was
acquired in this city and to it was added
travel. Mr.. Watson, a brother of Doug
las Sloan Watson. has always lived in
San Francisco, though much travel has
also been his portion. Both young people
have been active and enthusiastic in the
smart set and their friends on every side
are in unison with approval and congratu-
lation for the coming marriage. No date
has been stated, but many months will
not intervene.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pease will take Miss
Maylita to Portland this summer and
Mr.. Watson will join the party.
A betrothal OF continental interest is
that Of Miss Frederick Vanderbilt Webb
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25

is-alnnost a replica Of her mother.
At the Brakeman wedding. Miss Keeney,
looking very chic in a smart white frock
and large hat. was escorted by her
father.
The family has been going out but
little, owing to the death of DR.. Keeney's
stepfather, William AlvOrd.
The engagement of Miss Jessie Fill
more and Joseph E. Peters brings to-
gether two families of renown throughout
the State.
The Fillmores are identified with the
very earliest days OF California, Jerome
Fillmore having been prominently con-
nected with the primal enterprises OF the
Southern Pacific
Captain j. d. Peters, father OF the
groom-to-be. is a factor in the San Joa-
quin Valleys growth, having been en-
gagged in many commercial affairs OF
great worth. the vast buhach farm being
one of the Peters possessions
But aside from these considerations of
family and wealth. Mr.. Peters and Miss
Fillmore are temperamentally suited and
have grown up together.
October will see the wedding OF the
happy pair, the event to attract many
guests.
OF the real musicianly quality. much
exists among our society folk, though
often the light is either hid or else con-
fined to so small radius that little of it
is known beyond the EARNED circle
Few of our matrOnS or maids have cultt-
waited their musical talent to the extent
of using it either professionally or for
any public service, but occasionally
surprise emanates from the inner world
Recently much praise has been given
to Mrs. Louise Wright Mcclure. who
sings with sympathy and finish. Her
songs last week at the dedication of a
new organ in Fresno met with the un-
bounded appreciation of those who heard
her Mrs. Mcclure is a granddaughter
of Mrs. Selden s. Wright and daughter
Of Stuart s. Wright, the attorney
Holbrook Blinn, Colonel John c. Cur
rfer and Walter Scott Hale are measuring
our southern coast with Mr.. Hale's ''Sun-
ny Jim automobile. Out of State resi-
dents bring their autos from the same
feeling of necessity with which trunks are
viewed. AT the Vendome. San Jose. are
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Daniels of Denver.
possessed of two new machines and en-
joying continuously the utility Of both.
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25
and the date of that lies in uncertainty.

and the date Of that lies in uncertainty.
A pretty bride will be brought to San
Francisco not many days hence from
Oregon by DR.. Frank Topping. we'll
known young physician of this city.
Miss Carrie Paine of Eugene and DR..
Topping will be married on June 2S at
the home of the bride, after which a
wedding trip will be made to Newport.
pretty resort Of Oregon. Upon arrival
in town DR.. and Mrs. Topping will re-
side in the Topping home on Vallejo
street
With Wednesday in the lead for af-
fairs bridal, the days following all show
calendar with a wedding date.
Thursday Miss Jean Montgomery Dun
can will exchange vows with William
Knowles, the ceremony to be read at the
home of the brides parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Duncan. Mr.. Knowles, with
admiration leaning toward Piedmont. is
building pretty home in that region,
where ne will take his bride.
Beautiful Coronado is destined to see
the nuptials Of pretty Nina Otis Eldred
and Philip Bancroft next Friday. Mrs.
Parker Syms. a cousin of the bride. has
announced the wedding to take place
at noon. and amid the ideal conditions of
signs attend this marriage.
With the passing Of the lune de miel
Mr.. and Mrs Bancroft will set up their
household gods at ST. Dunstan's.
A wedding of next Saturday, July 1,
unites Miss Aileen Towle Of Sacra-
mento and Lieutenant Lowe Mcclure of
the Fifteenth Infantry, U. 8. A., sta
toned at Monterey
Miss ToUlo js xuoIl Lnov,v H. xbt~ o;$~,
and environs. particularly in Oakland
where she has been residing for a time
with her mother. She is the daughter
of the late Orrin TowIe. widely known
throughout the State, and who founded
the town of Towle, near Truckee. A
brother of Miss Towle married a daugh-
ter OF Judge Prewett Of Auburn.
The wedding will take place at the
home Of the brides sister, Mrs. H. H
Stephenson. on M street, Sacramento.
The bride-to-be is strikingly hand
some woman, dark. very tall and of
fine carriage, her bearing and dignity
BETTING the wife Of an army offlcer
Lieutenant and Mrs. Mcclure will go
Immediately to Monterey Barracks.
Another Sacramento engagement of in
terest is that Of Miss Georgia Carroll
and Eugene Trefethen of Oakland
Miss Carroll belongs to the well known
Carroll family OF musicians She is i
cousin Of Mrs. Carroll Nicholson and Of
Mrs. Grace Carroll-EIliott. Miss Georgia
also having the same marked ability.
Charles HI. Lombard will entertain a
scure or more of friends to-day at his
artistic horne on Piedmont street. The
occasion is in honor of Xavier Martinez,
who win be greeted by congenials Mr..
Lombards private collection Of pictures II
one of the best in San Francisco, he beng
an art patron and an enthusiast on Cali
fornia genius and its achievements.
So the little blind god has pinioned
the heart of Lieutenant Rockwell in
Spokane. Mai6ens fair. perhaps you
were blind to your opportunities during
the gallant's station on home ground,
but. here or there, we wish him well, for
the lieutenant, debonair and courteous. is
worthy bride. fair. merry.
Samuel Hubbard Of Oakland would
a-wooing 60 and Travelled far away be-
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25
Leave. Estate to Her Maid.

BUDAPEST, June 4.-The habit OF
the late Countess Bella Bathanyi-Tarn-
oczy of masquerading as a chambermaid
has led to her will being disputed by the
family. During her last illness she was
unwilling to allow her relatives to attend
her. and impersonated her own chamber
maid, in whose name she was admitted
into private hospital, where shortly aft
erward she died. BY her will she be-
queathed the greater part Of her prop
erty, which Is of the value Of about $780,
600, to her chambermaid- The action,
which is now before the court at Buda-
pest, was instituted by Count Tarnoczy,
Prince Odescalchi. Countess O'Donnell
and several other members Of Hungarian
noble families
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25
San Rafael links.

San Rafael links.
Quite the biggest thing ahead of US
is the reception to be given Secretary
Taft and his encourage by Mrs. Eleanor
Martin on July Ia distinct honor to
the hostess, since the much-sought-after
official has been lodging invitations
right and left.
He wired his acceptance on Tuesday
night, at the same time declining an
avalanche Of others.
That Mrs. Martin will do the thing
up brown goes without saying. She al
ways does. She will be assisted by her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Walter Martin,
by Mrs. Downey Harvey and Miss Anita
Harvey. besides a long line of friends
who will make brilliant showing.
San Francisco society will be gauged
by the Washingtonians by this one
function-therefore is all San Francisco
watching.
If there has been prettier wedding
this summer than the Mcmillan Blake
man affair l haven't seen it.
''Too bad it wasn't night affair."" said
an army officer"
why, no." said a guest with an ar
tistic eye; ''the most beautiful feature
of the setting was the splendid light that
poured in from the stained windows"
And so it was. As the bridal party ap-
preached the altar with its masses of
ferns, Bermuda lilies and a flicker OF
candles, shafts Of ruby and topaz lights
from the west windows fell full upon it.
Spectacular? No! The solemnity of the
sanctuary lifted it above that. 1t was
only beautiful.
Did ever a bride, leaving the church on
the arm of the man she loved, look hap
pier-or lovelier?
The gowning of the matrons of honor
in Directoire costumes was stunningly ef-
fective, and nightly becoming to both
Mrs. Robert Greer and Mrs. Silas Palmer
Especially were the hats attractive, with
saucy little up-tilt. coaxed into being
| becoming by a buEch of mauve, pale
green and pink tips. The fluffy white lace
skirts and the pompadour silk coats with
paniers were quite the sensation of the
June weddings.
What a happy chap the soldier groom
must be, winning promotion and a win
/ some bride all In one week
No wonder the soldiers are picking off
our maids just as sharpshooters do their
quarry. Never shall l wonder again, after
the Mcmillan Brakeman wedding. Those
soldier-men did look stunning. To be
sure, all the brother officers of the
groom came in full dress, and they did
look brave and fine And it wasn't all
uniform, either. They were manly look
ing chaps, every one.
The Croker Steiner wedding at Del
Monte drew out all the ''tabbies" who
; inhabit the porches. hoping for a peep at
the maid whose charm brought Mr.
Crocker's round-the-world trip to an abb
rupt termination--for a time, at least
Later he will make another start, but
this time with his bride.
The honeymoon will be spent at Tahoe
Those who have seen the bride pro-
nounce her a good-looking young woman.
I intelligent, and Of good style.
! On her return, Mr.. Crocker will intro
duce his bride to San Francisco.
After a two months. visit at the st
Dunstan's, Miss Mary Scribner of Bakers
field left for home on Thursday, accom-
panied by her father. w. H. Scribner,
! the Bakersfield capitalist, who had been
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25
lying seriously i'll at the McNutt Hos

lying seriously i'll at the McNutt Hos
pital.
After the convalescence of her father,
Miss Scribner had merry time renewing
friendships formed while a student at
Miss West's-being a member of the
class to which most of the debutantes OF
last winter belonged.
Miss Scribner is a maid of good style
anu strong personality, with a fine fond
ness for out-of-door sports, driving and
riding from her babyhood and unlike
most girls of her age, takes an intelligent
interest in the business affairs of her IA
ther, showing an astonishing comprehen-
sion of commercial matters-an acquire
ment scarcely looked for in SO young a
girl. Nor does this quality interfere in
the least with her love for the ordinary
things that the smart maid goes In for,
enjoying the dances she attends. and all
the other good fun that makes up a girls
life.
After a brief stay at her Bakersfield
home. Miss Scribner will accompany Mr..
and Mrs. Scribner and her two younger
sisters to Southern California, where they
will spend the summer.
Miss Laura Farnsworth looking very
smart these summer days in a French
blue frock, was hostess last week at a
tea.
The Upham-Gordon wedding was the
biggest evening function of the week. st.
Pauls looked its best in its dress of
ferns and foliage, with its masses of lilies.
A stately bride was this soldiers daugh-
ter, who has announced her willingness
to become a good Californian by wedding
one of her cleverest sons.
What a colony of brides Piedmont is
coming to be!
Another Eastern bride is soon to grace
our shore, though only a momentary
glimpse OF her is vouchsafed u.s. She will
be Mrs. Charles Trumbull Boyd, who
but yesterday. as Miss Carlotta Klemm of
st. Louis, welded Captain Boyd in
Christ Church Cathedral, after which a
reception was held at the home Of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Schroers, 1870 Missouri avenue, St. Louis.
Captain Boyd has many friends here
about. having been stationed for some
time at the Preside. He and his bride
pines.
Wednesday Of this week will carry it's
full quota of weddings. seemingly to be
the preferred day of the seven for obei-
sance to Hymen.
At noon in Trinity Church, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Baldwin Parrot will give
their daughter Marie Louise into the
keeping of Francis McComas and for
these nuptials many of the wayfarers
will concentrate. the prominence and po-
sition of the bride and groom making
this wedding of supreme Importance
An elaborate wedding breakfast will fol-
low at the Hotel Richelieu.
The wedding of DR.. Richard FoIlis and
Miss Louisa Riggs of Baltimore will take
place in Washington also on Wednesday.
This marriage is emanating from con-
ditions intensely romantic. DR.. Follis
having been a medical student at Johns
Hopkins, while Miss Riggs was mem
Der of the auxiliary profession of nurs-
ing. The allied work brought the two
into sympathy and affection which will
culminate in Wednesdays wedding
DIR. Follis being established in the
East, nothing more than q brief visit
may be expected from him and his bride
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25

and Ralph Pulitzer
A maid of high degree is Miss Webb,
while in the alliance of the two houses,
ancestry, blood, intellect, wealth all COM
bine. Mrs. w. H. Vanderbilt was Miss
Webb's grandmother. and the groom-to-
be Is the son of Joseph Pulitzer of the
New York World and Is associated with
his father.
DR.. Seward Webb came to California a
few months ago and toured through the
State in his private car with party of
distinguished Fasteners and was with
the Whitelaw Reid party also for few
days.
The wedding day is not announced
Mrs. Short (Amy Furlong) is a recent
bride, and her wedding at San Rafael
was one Of the rare. al freseo type.
In this lovely outdoor country Of ours,
1t seems strange that more advantage is
not taken OF the mildness and beauty Of
external surroundings.
The home of Mrs Shorts parents. Mr..
and Mrs Furlong. has fine grounds and
is quite adaptable TO all affairs needing
shrubbery and flowers for setting.
Among the very young girls who will
probably come out next winter Is Miss
Mary Keeney. daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
James Ward Keeney. A pretty maid she
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25
Prince.. Re-enter. societz.

PARIS, June 24--Princess Edmond de
Polignac, formerly Miss Wilma Retta
Singer, who for a long time scarcely
went anywhere. is showing a tendency
to re-enter the social whirl She still
prefers French society to that OF her
own compatriots, and American salons
know her less than perhaps Is the case
with any other of the transatlantic no.
bility. She concerns herself greatly
with charitable societies. so 1t was said
she had been converted from Princess
into a sister OF charity
The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25

Samuel Hubbard Of Oakland would
a-wooing go and Travelled far away be-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-30
BOLIVAR BROWN ON "SUNDAY
SCHOOL,

Sundie schulz are the plase where
boys haz tn go an sing "Bringin' In
the Sleeves" an lerne tn set still. 1t
haz ten commanders, not army GIN
erals, but the kynd what is writ in a
buk. Sundie schule classes are tot bi
yung wimen that are stuck on the
preecher er sum othir NV the men what
is runnin' the church. 1 go tn Sundie
schule evrie tyne 1 can't get out Nv it.
You git a littel kard fer evrie tyne
you cum, an when you git enuff you
git a prare buk. Soc fur we have
maniged tu let Archie Jones git all the
prare buks. Thay pas the plate Ground
in Sundie schule fer monte. 1 git my
teechin' free except when my fathir
passes the plate. Then I hav to poney
up mi fl cents. Eff 1 evir git tu bee
cheef Nv polyce 1 won't low no Sun
die schules tn kepe open an then all
the kids will say, "What a fyne man
Cheefe Brown is."-Kansas City Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-30

line behind her, but not too close to
her. They were called the Tail.
With Pussy leading them, all stopped
in half crouching attitude, and with
eager eyes followed her slow lead
about the rooms, as if they were hunt
ing for prey. Quite frequently the
leader would call out Pussy wants to
catch a mouse!" and the others would
respond "Cree-e-py, creepy Pussy!"
When Pussy thought the others off
their guard she would turn and jump
upon them, seeking to catch some one
to take her place. Whenever she did
this there was, of course, grand rush
to escape her.
The game was varied at times, for
the child caught did not always take
Pussy's place at once, but stood one
side waiting for the rest of the line
to meet a like fate. There was less
fun all around, however, when the play
was carried on in this way.
Some of the children played xii
kenny cats" 1t is a game for two,
but as there were several pairs of cats
arranged, it served to amuse a number
of children. For each set of players
a ribbon had been stretched between
two chair backs, and over it hung two
paper cats, tied by their tails. The
latter were of tape, while the bodies
were of water-colored paper, painted
in posterlke effect. The legs of the
creatures were merely stripes of COL
cred paper about the weight of news
paper. The children, sitting one on
each side of the ribbon-which rep
resented the historic clothesline-held
palm leaf fans in their hands. These
they waved by turns in efforts to
make the paws of the cat on their side
of the line cuff the opponents feline
Whichever did this oftenest in five
tries won the game. When the small
est of the guests played with the cats,
it was fun enough for them merely to
fan the legs about.
In order to make the latter swing
successfully, they were attached to the
bodies of a short pin that had been
pushed through only part way, and
bent down on the other side. A tiny
wad Of the paper pasted to the under
side of the paws weighted them suf-
ficiently to insure better aim when
flaming.
When the dining room was opened
for the spread and the children saw the
table there were eXclamations on all
sides, for there at each plate, holding
a napkin in it's mouth, was a little
furry stuffed black kitten. In a mo-
ment kittens, and napkins too. were
in the arms of the guests, who could
not keep their hands from the summing
little creatures.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-30
The Superior CIeVerneSS
Ofa Very Clever Little Boy

n NCE upon a time there was lit
~ tie boy who fondly fancied that
he possessed those rare qualities
which cause the owner to be regarded
as more than ordinarily cute. And it
was owing to the fact that he was
we'll aware of his superior cleverness
that he remarked one day to a num-
Der of his little friends, Just wait
until you see me play a joke on
Towser."
Towser was the family bowwow,
and he seemed highly elated, not to
say transported, when he observed his
small master in the act of lifting the
lid of the cake box. The poor quad
ruped fairly leaped a couple of feet off
the floor, so full was he of the joys of
anticipation, and he walked upon his
hinder members with a friskiness that
only a prospective mouthful Of fruit
cake could inspire. Then the small
tyrant peppered the cake on every side,
while his anticipations of joy fairly
rivalled those of the now almost in
sane canine.
IF I hand it to him politely he may
see through the game and retire with
sneeze after smelling it, so 1 will
toss it to him" Having said which he
projected the piece of cake on the
parabola, and the anxious bowwow
gagged it as it descended with the
nicely of a professional left fielder and
captured it on the fly and landed 1t
into his mouth at a single gulp. He
then stood upon his hinder members
as before, eagerly awaiting with bulg
ing eyes, another mouthful of the
coveted cake, as If the pepper on the
first had but warmed him up and re-
moved the chill he had caught while !
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-30
MY CAT
BY Helen Harting-class B-Twelve
Years

BY Helen Harting-class B-Twelve
Years
Last summer my mother and father
decided to leave our home in Alabama
and come to California to live. OF
course 1 dsliked to leave my little
friends but what hurt me most was
the fact that 1 must leave my cat,
which was a very beautiful tiger cat
that l had had for six years.
l really think. though, that some
good fairy must have known of my sor-
row, for lovely kitten insisted on fol-
lowing us home one night. He has
proved to be a very good and valuable
cat, for he keeps the gophers from ruin
ing our lawn. He will patiently sit and
watch until he catches them. We call
him the new improved gopher trap be-
cause he has proved to be a successful
catcher.
One night 1 was sitting in the easy
chair when he came in and jumped
upon my lap and then upon the back
of the chair. He sat there for a min
ute and then l felt his sharp little
claws on either side of my head. When
1 moved he began to play with my hair
and bite my ribbon. He has many
tricks, but it would make my story
too long to tell them all.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-30

eating some ice cream short time
before.
The dogs small master was nom
plussed and speechless, until his play
mates set up long, loud, health pro-
noting laugh.
What's the matter?" he asked.
Nothing" they replied. "Only lit
tie while ago you said Just wait until
you see me play joke on Towser.'
Now how long do you want us to
waltz"
There is no joke on Towser." re-
piled the small boy, as If at a loss TO
know what to say.
I'VE know there Is not" they re-
piled with another loud laugh, "but
there is a great big joke on you, and
the dog is just so much cake to the
everlasting good"
The moral of this little fable teaches
us that we should never perpetrate q
joke on an inoffensive beast unless we
are certain that the joke cannot pos
sibly boomerang and land the laugh
on us. 1t also teaches us that If we
would triumph over a dog, as little
Reginald did not, we should refrain
from peppering the cake, but instead
insert within its golden depths a good,
substantial disk of laundry soap.