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arrival she found ga city only in
name" But the White House was
planned on grand scale, and present
ly the capable lady had her family
comfortably settled, and on New Years
day, 1901, President and Mrs. Adams
held the first of the White House New
Year receptions.
When Jefferson, long before widow
ed, took up residence at the White
House, Dolly Madison, wife of the sec
rotary of state, presided on occasions
when ladies were numbered among the
presidents guests; and presided with
grace and due dignity, not going to any
extreme of Jeffersonian simplicity.
The first marriage that took place at
the White House occurred during the
Madison occupation, in the winter of
1911; the bride, Miss Todd, relative
of Mrs. Madison; the bridegroom, Mr..
Jackson, of Virginia. "The nuptial
ceremony was very brilliant, and was
attended by nearly all the select So
ciety of the capital"
Mrs. Madison was succeeded by Mrs.
Monroe, the latter a very beautiful and
cultured woman who had lived abroad
many years and was well acquainted
with the society of various European
capitals. A Virginia lady that attend
ed levee at the White House, gives us
this picture: Mrs. Monroe's manner
is very gracious, and she is regal
looking lady. Her dress was superb
black velvet, neck and arms bare and
beautifully formed; her hair in puffs
and dressed high on the head and or
namented Will white ostrich plumes;
around her neck an elegant pearl neck
lace"
The marriage of the Monroes daugh-
ter Maria to her cousin, Samuel L. Gou-
veneur, was performed at the White
House in 1920. We to-day who read or
Alice Roosevelts coming-out gown, her
ball dresses, and now await description
of her trousseau, may care to know how
that White House girl of some 80 years
ago was arrayed on a certain occasion
after she had attained to matronly
honors, the occasion the last levee held
by the Monroes: Mrs. Gouveneur is
also very handsome, dress rich white
satin, trimmed with a great deal of
blonde lace, embroidered with silver
thread. bare neck and arms, pearl jew
elry and white plumes in her hair"
Verify, history and fashion repeat
themselves; this description might cas-
lily fit the costume of Washington
belle of 1905.
Washington society during the Mon
roe administration was marked by
brilliancy and display. Rich southern
ers made their residence there, and
were prominent both politically and So
cially. When the John Quincy Adamses
came to the front (Mrs. Adams was
from Maryland), we have period
noted for it's elegance and refinement;
are told that "society in Washington
gave tone to the whole country during
Mrs Adams enchanting and intellect
ual regime" And one hears much of
1.-The beaux and bellies and maids and
madams,
all vending their way to Mrs. Adams"
In 1926, President Adams son, John
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Washington never dwelt in the White
House, but it was our first president
who christened the home of future
presidents; named, so one with senti-
mental leanings tells us, Gin sweet
memory of the white House from
which he won and welded his bride in
1859"
When Washington and the youthful
Widow Curtis married, the couple spent
their honeymoon at the home of the
bride-White House, on the Pamunkey
river, Virginia. A proper bridegroom
looks back ever with tenderest senti-
ment on his honeymoon days, and of
course Washington, who for these hun
dred years has been held up to good
Americans all as model of propriety,
comes under this head; wherefore let
us forego diligent search after facts,
let us assume the executive mansion
was named in honor of sentiment.
Just at present, when the country is
illustrating by it's interest in the ap-
preaching wedding of the present pres
ident's daughter, that all the world
loves lover, let us delve into records
of past social life at the official resi-
dence, let us speak of courtships and
weddings associated therewith-"the
joyous nuptial ceremony, the pomp and
glitter of fetes and receptions
In the early days pomp and glitter
existed, even when Washington was
quite backwoods place. When the
first lady of the White House. Mrs. John
Adams, came to the executive man
sion, she must have looked upon it as
a lodge in the wilderness; on her drive
from Baltimore to Washington, the
way was lost in the woods; on final
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police pulled everybody, and the eve
ming performance was given up.
One of the proprietors Of the show
got a wen on his head as big as foot
ball from being struck by handle Of
q revolver, and the colonel who started
the row was knocked silly by tray of
red lemonade which the butcher
smashed him with, and the colonel
cried because the lemonade was all
water, and he was afraid it would
soak iato linn and cause him to warp.
When the lemonade butcher apollo
gized, and the usher told him it was all
q mistake his being seated with the
niggers, the colonel wept on their
necks and invited the whole crowd to
go to his distillery and help Them
selves.
When we got to the next town every
man IL. the show dad crouch and a
Katzenjammer, and their hair was so
sore it was murder and suicide com
bined to comb it.
The way pa escaped injury was
cause hc had to take the place Of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-01-05
BOYS TERRIBLE ECZEMA.
Mouth and Eyes Covered with Crusts
Hands Pinned Down-Mirac-
ulous Cure by Cuticura.

"When my little boy was six months
old, he had eczema The sores extended
so quickly over the whole body that we at
once called in the doctor. We then went
to another doctor, but he could not help
him, and in our despair we went to a
Mird one. Matters became so bad that
he had regular holes in his cheeks, large
enough to put finger into. The food
had to be given with a S, DON, for his
mouth was covered with crusts as thick
as finger, and whenever he opened the
mouth they began to bleed and suppurate,
as did also his eyes. Hands, arms, chest,
and back, in short the whole body, was
covered over and over. We had no rest
by day or night. Whenever he was laid
in his bed, we had to pin his hands down !;
otherwise he would scratch his face, and
make an open sore. / think his face must
have itched most fearfully.
'"We finally thought nothing could help,
and l had made up my mind to send my
wife with the child to Europe, hoping that
was to be put under good medical care
there. But, Lord be blessed, matters came
differently, and we soon saw a miracle. A
friend of ours spoke about Cuticura. We
made trial with Cuticura Soap, ONT
Inent, and Resolvent, and within ten days
or two weeks we noticed a decided i'm
provement. Just as quickly as the sick
ness had appeared it also began to dis.
appear, and within ten weeks the child
was absolutely well, and his skin was
smooth and white as never before. +.
Hohrath, President of the G. J.. Hohrath
Company, Manufacturers of Silk Ribbons,
to 20 Rink Alley, South Bethlehem, Pa
June 5, 1906"
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BEGINNING TO DOUBT.
Former Legislator Who Feels That
He Sold His Vote Too
Cheap.

at beats all about this political cor
ruption," said the old farmer "a he
laid aside his country paper. Every
week there is something about expos
ing some big man who was thought
to be perfectly honest. and it's getting
so you don't know whom to trust"
Were you ever in politics your.
self" Was asked.
"Once, and that's what's botherins
me now. Yes. was elected to the
legislature once. While I was serv.
ing as a member a fellow-member
came to me and said that my aunt in
Iowa had died and left me $4,000, and
he paid the money over to me. had
never heard about the aunt, and
don't know how he got the money for
me, and I am just beginning to doubt"
ITO doubt what?"
"Wall, l voted for land grab and
we carried it by only four majority.
and I'm just beginning to doubt il I
got enough for my vote. think if
had held out few days I'd have had
an uncle die, too, and got as much as
$4,000 out Of the thing.
American.
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aaong quicker, when the colonel began
to talk back, and say, who is you
talkin' too, sah?" And the usher stood
1t as long as he could, when he took
the colonel by the collar and sat him
down so quick he didn't come to for a
couple of minutes, and when the
colonel got his senses, and found that
the usher had ushered him into seat
between two gaily decorated colored
women the trouble began. The colonel
never forget that he was gentleman,
for he rose up, took off his hat to the
colored women, and said: "You must
excuse me, ladies, but shall have to
go and kill the scoundrel who sat me
down with niggers," and he got down
off the seats and struck the usher with
his cane, and the usher yelled: "Hey,
Rube!" and all the circus people made
a rush for the colonel. The colonel
said, ''Men of Kentucky to the rescue"
and before I could crawl under the
seats the air was full of baggage,
seats, tent pins and white hats, guns
were fired, and blood flowed, and the
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ing skeleton and blew him over like a
cyclone, and by that time pa was
blowing off wind in dozen places that
had punctured, and The was scared for
fear there wouldn't be anything left Of
him, and the giant saw the fat woman
slowly fading away, and the coward
had heart failure and lay down on the
platform. Somebody shouted that the
fat woman was all melting away, and
a fellow who was watering camel out
of bucket came 70 the rescue and
threw the bucket of dirty water all
over pa, and then thought better go
away in tother tent and see the fight,
but pa was taken to the dressing room
and rescued from the shrinking rub
Der balloons that were busted, and he
said he would hunt the man that pune
tured his tire to his dying day, but he
didn't know it was me.
Gee, it looks to me as though pa has
been engaged to act as the easy mark
in this show. Say, they got pa to
practice on roaring like lion, so he
could stand behind the cage when the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-01-05

lion has a sore throat and roar, and
scare folks, and pa has been going
around behind the cages, every eve
ming, when the menagerie is closed,
and the crowd in the main tent, max
ing noises that have made the animals
look at each other Us much as to say,
well, what do you think of that?"
The rhinoceros YVES so disguised at
Paducah that he reached out his nose
and took pa on his horn and held him
up to the scorn of the other animals
until pas pants gave way and he was
sight, and he was so scared that he
got out of the tent and made a run for
our train, chased ny the police, who
thought he was a burglar that had
been eat by house dog.
The worst thing we have had on pa
was at Louisville, wherc we stayed
over Sunday. Another fellow and !
got system on slot machines, and one
day we beat the machines out of a
shotbag full of nickels, and when we
showed up at the tent all the fellows
wanted to know how we did it. and pa
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These the headlines of the New York
Herald the day following:
WHITE HOUSE NUPTIALS.
Wedding of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr..
Sartoris.
"a Brilliant Assem'blage in the East
Room.
The wedding ceremony was per-
formed at IL o'clock, the groom sup
ported by Col. Fred Grant, the eight
bridesmaids, the Misses Conkl'E, Pre-
linghuysen, Porter, Sherman, Drexel,
Dent, Fish and 9arnes--names surely
of prominence. Mr.. Sartoris carried a
bouquet of orange blossoms and tube
roses with a center of pink buds From
this center arose silver Flagstaff on
which fioated silken banner and on it
in silver letters the word Love-" The
marine band played Il Think of Thee"
the marriage certificate was an ''artis-
tic piece of penmanship, covering two
pages of parchment" smart shower
of delicate slippers descended about
the bridal carriage as it drove away;
but, alas! Nellie Grant did not live
happy ever after"
Grover Cleveland was the second
bachelor president, but about year
after entering upon the duties of execu-
tive he merited another title-first
president to be married in the White
House. A brilliant wedding took place
at the executive mansion June 2, 1886,
and Mrs. Cleveland became the toast
of the town and of the country. Now
Miss Alice Roosevelt may be said to
monopolize national enthusiasm, ere
long we shall all be reading about the
wedding festivities of this White House
maiden.
KATHERINE POPE
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fat woman on the platform with the
freaks, as the fat woman was over
come with the heat and had to stay in
the car.
The way they fixed pa up to resem-
BILE the fat woman was scandalous.
They have some rubber things in the
wardrobe tent that you can blow up
and make big arm. and big leg,
and a big stummick, SO anybody
couldn't tell the difference, and they
fixed pa up with bowed up clothes OF
flesh colored rubber, and but for his
chin whiskers you couldn't tell him
from the fat woman. He said he
wouldn't cut of his whiskers for any
body's circus, so they fixed a veil to
cover part of his face and put the fat
woman's dress on ga. and put him up
beside the skeleton, the midget and
the giant
Pa said he didn't want to do 1t.
cause it seemed too much like fraud,
but they told him the fate Of the show
depended on our all being willing to
take any part assigned to us, and so
pa sat down and began to fan himself,
and tried to look 1irty like woman.
The other freaks never noticed but
what it was the fat woman until the
show was half over. 1t was too much
for me. and l just laffed at pa. got
up behind him and told him in whis-
per that l wanted dollar to play the
slot machine, and he told me to go to
thunder, and get out Of there. I
couldn't stand it to be insulted by my
own father, so l took a hat pin out of
the hat of the bearded lacy and
punched it into pas blowed up rubber
shirt, and pa began to sis, like soda
fountain, and the wind struck the liv-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-01-05
GAINING ON THE FAIR SEX
According to This Report Men Will
Soon Outnumber the
Women.

Frau Gnauck- Kuehne is one of the
greatest German authorities on the mod
ern feminist movement, and after mature
study and the collection of statistics she
has come to the conclusion that the
superiority of women in so many European
countries is fact which in the first place
is in no sense an evil, and in the second
place is rapidly disappearing
In another twenty years, she believes,
the tide will begin to turn the other way
and the men will be in the majority even
in such countries as England and Ger
many, where at the present time women
immensely predominant. Some of her
statistics are most interesting In Lux
embourg, for example, in 1890 there were
LOOP women for every 1000 men. There
are now only 500. In Australia the pro-
portion has been reduced in the same time
from i.044 to l,035, in Hungary from LOIS
to 900, in Switzerland from ,057 to ,O35,
in Sweden from ,065 to l,049, in Germany
from i,040 to l,032, in England from ,O55
to LOAF. She does not believe that any
European nation except Russia will long
continue to increase rapidly in proportion.
England has begun to follow the example
of France and Germany will certainly fol-
low England's footsteps.
In all advanced European states the
birth rate is either becoming stationary,
or begins to show backward tendency.
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tory as one of the most charming wom-
en- that have reigned at the "Presi-
dents Palace" OF her it was said:
Miss Harriet Lane, made the White
House more nearly like a republican
court than it had been since the an
cient regime" 1t was while she was
mistress, the prince of Wales was en-
tertained there. Society in her day was
very brilliant, though, danced on the
edge of a Volcano
The Grants restored much of the old
gayety that the dar.. days of war had
put to rout. On May 81, 1874, Nellie
Grant was married at the White House.
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Knew Her Grammar.

The judges little daughter, although she
had talked several times through the
telephone to her father, had never gone
through the formalities necessary in call
ing him up. The first time she tried it
she took the receiver off the hook, as she
had seen others do, placed her lips to the
transmitter and said:
Hello! l want to talk to papa"
Number, please" said Central.
Singular" she answered, surprised at
the question, but proud that she knew
something of the rudiments of grammar.
Youths Companion.
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a # er day don't
worry. Doan's Kid
ney Pills have cured
thousands of women
in the same condition.
Mrs. A. Holman of
Saltwater, M i n n.
says: G. But for Doan's
Kidney Pills 1 would
not be living now.
They cured me in 1899
and I've been well
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since. used to have such pain in my
back that once 1 tainted. The kidney
secretions were much disordered, and 1
was so far gone that 1 was thought to
be at deaths door. Since Doan's Kid
ney Pills cured me feel as if 1 had
been pulled back from the tomb
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Just Wonderful.

Vestry, Miss, Jan. LIST Especially The
case of Mrs. G. w. Pearson, who resides
here, is particularly interesting one.
Here is the story told by Mr.. Pearson,
says
'tMy wife's health was bad for long
time. Last July she was taken terrible
bad with spasms. I sent for the doctor,
and after making thorough examination
of her, he said undoubtedly the cause
of her trouble was a disordered state of
the Kidneys. His medicine didn't seem
to DE doing her much good, so as 1 heard
about Dodd's Kidney Pills, I got her
box just to give them trial. Well, the
effect was just wonderful. I saw that
they were the right medicine and I got
two more boxes. When she had taken
these she was so much better that she
had increased thirty pounds in weight.
She is now quite we'll. and we owe it all
to Dodd's Kidney Pills."
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Previous Apology.

$50 sorry not to have heard your lecture
last light" said the loquacious lady. Il
know | missed a treat; everybody says 1t
was great!'
How did they find out?" asked Mr..
Frockcoat. THE lecture, you know, was
postponed Detroit Free Press.
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Possible Explanation.

Little Willie-Say, pa, why do the men,
bers Of a trolley party loot horns?
Pa-They probably inherited the habit
Chicago Daily News.
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Seep

"Why do you call him worldly man."
"What is the most striking feature OF
the world?"
'It is round; but what of that?"
cit isn't square, is it?"-Kansas City
Times
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Barber shop reform is rampant in Ger
MANY, one of the severe regulations be-
ing that barber must wash his hands
before attending to a customer, instead
&C waiting, as is usual, for shampoo
Puck.
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Don't be mischief maker said Uncle
Eben. de mos good you kin do in dis
world aim much, but de mos hahn you
kin do is a heap. Washington Star,
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10 Cure a Cold in One Day

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E.W. GROVES signature is on each box. 25c
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DON'T DESPAIR.
Read the Experience of a Minnesota
Woman and Take Heart.

If your back aches, and you feel
sick, languid, weak and miserable day
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A Guaranteed Cs-,e for Piles.
Itching Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles:
Druggists are authorized to refund money II
PAzo fails to cure inf to 14days. SOC
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Pa Takes the Place Of the Fat Woman
with Disastrous Results-A Ken
lucky Colonel Causes a Row-Pa
Tries to Roar Like a Lion and the
Rhinoceros Objects-Pa Plays the
Slot-Machine and Gets the Worst
of It.
This has been an eventful week with
the show. We have had heat prostra-
tions in Kentucky, nearly the whole
show got drunk on l6-year-old whisky,
and If it hadn't been for the animals
keeping sober this show would have
been pulled for disorderly conduct.
Nobody knows how the row started,
but pa says every man in Kentucky
carries blue gun and q bottle of red
ticker, and they wear white hats, so
the red, white and blue business is all
right, only it is a combination that is
death on a circus. I think one of the
ushers, at the afternoon performance
told an old colonel that he must move
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am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos'
Robbins. Norwich. n. Y. Feb. II, 1900.
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| PECK'S BAD /
BOY WITH
THE CIRCUS |
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Author Of 'Peeks Bad Boy Abroad" Etc.
"a 81
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK

Copyright by J. B. Bowles.)
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KATHERINE POPE
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08

wanted at Forth Worth, Texas, South
Bend, ILL.,, Hot Springs, Ark, East st.
Louis, ILL.,. and Denver, Col, besides
This state, North Carolina and Louis
lama. In all of these places it is
claimed he is wanted for the same
marry him and then deserting them and
robbing them while on the wedding
trip. -. s-
.-> Poses as Lord.
In this state Cavendish made a
Lord Reginald Douglas, the son of the
Marquis of Queensbnry, peer of Eng
land who had sought to carve out his
own fortune in the new world, with the
usual reference to extensive plantations
across the line in the Mexican country.
beautiful Miss Elizabeth Hobbs of
Lambert s Point. He deserted the
girl, of course, and the papers were
full Of the story, when she, heartbroken
and footsore, mad her way back to her
friends in the state of her nativity.
Unavailing efforts were made at the
time to apprehend Cavendish. The Vir-
accredited to him until he came into
! the life Of the North Carolina girl.
! Cavendish himselfgis not handsome
| man. His features are rather common
place, and he has an. ugly cast in one of
his eyes. He is rather a cadaverous-
looking Individual, affects a derby hat
and dark clothes and carries his shoul
ders with the stoop of student. But
those who have known the man and
talked to him say that he is most fas
cinatlng. He is said to be well-in
formed, converses freely on almost any
subject, and is at home in any place il
any company. He always has the righ'
thing to say at the right time and il
a most pleasant fellow socially. Hi
strong suit, Of course, is the fascina
tion of women, and this he has mad
his speciality. He has always found il
the wives he has chosen beauty as vel
as some wealth. The wealth is what h
is after, of course, but he Away
chooses the handsomest girl who hap
pens to be possessed Of it. Women seer
utterly unable to resist the man. It i
always the old story of the moth an
the fame, and the girl is yet to b
found who has looked into his eye
without becoming fascinated.
It was at one time reported that Mis-
Hood was in California, whittier she ha
made her way from the Mexican border
A letter from a California woman to
friend in Asheville said that a Virgini