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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07
By Ellis Parker Butler
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hour I was up In his boudor trying on one of his seven dress suits"
 And how was the party?" asked Mrs. Smithers.
 "I may say it was a success said Eliph' Hewitt modestly, "as any occasion must be when Jarby's Encyclopaedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Litera- ture, Science and Art is in the home. Containing as it does all the information to make man, woman or child proficient in social customs, from the Guide to Con versation, with five hundred topics sug- gested, to the Grammar of Etiquette or Synopsis of Social Forms, it made my way easy and the party a success. The. papers said it was the best dinner party ever given on Fifth avenue, and every member of the Four Hundred wanted copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowl- edge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art as soon as they heard me speak of it, and in order that one and all might have the same advantages as the members of the Four Hundred, Jarby & Goss have brought out the volume l show you, identical In every way with the copies lying on the parlor tables of the arlstocracy of New York, but sold at the small price of five dollars, neatly bound in cloth; one dollar on delivery and one dollar a month until paid to all who believe in true culture. We aim to sell no others. I call only on those who are recommended to me as persons of exceptional refinement If you would cars to glance over the volume I should be glad to show 1t to you.'
 If you don't mind" said Mrs. Smith, CTS, politely.
 Now, this" said Eliph' Hewitt, lis the allegorical frontispiece in three col-
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. foot you have but recently stepped, had such knowledge as him into the Four 1 Hundred, and our party would be suc- l cess!'
 I When I heard that" said Eliph Hew- 1 ltt turning to the allegorical frontipiece l of his book and caressing it lovingly, T
 wriggled out from under the tubs, and stood up and bowed to Mrs. Vandergould. 1 Madam I said, my grandmother was a Van Dolsen, and though I am but a plumber, she was once millionaire in her own right, but she is now dead, and all 1 sine had to leave to her affectionate grand son was a book But I said, that book was a copy of Jarby'ss Encyclopedia of
 Knowledge and Compendium of Litera- ture, Science and Art, with information on one thousand and one subjects, twen- ty thousand references in all. from A to z. Yes, lady and gent, said, I am but an humble plumber, and I have been plumbing your wash tubs, but I have studied this noble volume, and I have learned 1t by heart from how to do tricks, sleight of hand, play five hundred parlor games, charades, games of skill, etc., to the care and study of animals, wild and educated, including monkeys, cats, pigs, horses and al lothers, I have learned from it how to provide a pleasant evening en- tertainment consisting of readings from the worlds great authors, and, In fact, everything necessary to enliven the homo circle, the church entertainment or the social event. Every subject known to man is condensed into this one volume. If can help, you, call on me-
 For minute, said Eliph Hewitt, turning the book so that the allegorical frontispiece faced Mrs. Smithers, Mrs. Vandergould was like one stunned and then her husband grasped my hand and cried out Saved and inside of half an
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AUTOMOBILE OF FUTURE

to take the entire family to the social gathering in the village at night,or to church services on Sunday morning. The farmer will use the automobile as will the butcher, the baker, and the storekeeper- when he can in no other way get the same amount of work done at so low a cost and when the business man can de- liver his goods more quickly and more economically than he can by using the horse he will do so
 There will always be motor cars de luxe for the rich, but they will be merely the fringe of the garment of a great industry. The countless millions of tons of freight now slowly and painfully drawn over country roads and through city streets by poor dumb brutes will go spinning along, the motors of the heav- fly laden trucks humming a tune of rich content. and all the thousand tongues of commerce will sing the praises of the motor car.
 Let me suggest few practical things that the tireless horse of the future will accomplish:
 1. It will solve the problem of the over-congestion of traffic in our city streets.
 9. It will free the horse from his bur dens. few years ago. in the city of New Orleans, an old darky came in from the country and for the first time saw the electric street car. which had taken the place of the mule-drawn car. The old darky threw up his hands, and look ing up to heaven, said, 'Bress de Lord, de white man freed de nigger, now he done freed de mule'
 3. The automobile will furnish relief to the tenement house districts.
 1. It will stimulate the good roads move ment throughout the United States.
 5. It will save time and space and be- come invaluable to the physician, to the fireman, and to many classes of citi- zens.
 6. It will tend to break down class dis tinction. because one touch of automo- bilsm makes the whole world kin.
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monds set in old silver and about her neck was a gold chain as big around as your little finger. Her clothes were like those that any American lady might wear when receiving afternoon callers. and were not extravagant or striking in any way
 When Ranavalona was crowned she wore a white brocaded silk robe, heavy with gold, and her train was of crimson velvet with gold embroidery. She wore a large gild crown of a peculiar design, and she fairly sparkled with jewels. She is said to still have many beautiful jewels, and wken she left the island Of Reunion, where she was first banished, the extraor- dinary statement was made in the news papers that the precious stones she took with her were worth more than two mil lion dollars.
 As the queen was crowned the people fell upon their knees, and then burst forth into shout of applause. while the soldiers hourished their spears and the cannon fired. At the same time there were cheers from the boys and girls, and from the 200,000 natives who are said to have been present.
 The Queens Speech.
 After that the queen made a speech to her people. She mixed Bible quotations throughout her address, saving among
 
 the beginning of wisdom and Right eousness exalteth nation." She prom ised to protect her country and stand up like a man with her people against any one who might attempt to take even n hairs breadth of it. She urged her sub jects to obey the laws, and said that she expected to obey them herself, closing this statement with the words:
 "G wish no ones life to be taken. Who ever forsakes the paths of righteousness walks in the paths of darkness. Is 1t not so, oh! my peope?"
 Her Wars With the French.
 That was the way that Ranavalona started. She kept up her good work, but notwithstanding, got into trouble with the French, who had long proclaimed their right to the protection of ATadagas- car. War ensued, and at a cost of many million dollars the French were finally victorious. They kept the queen for time on the throne, but found that she could not maintain order under the changed conditions, and they took pos session of the government
 At this time they treated Ranavalona rather harshly. Instead of calling upon her the general of the French army made the queen call upon him. When she did so it was to request that he be kind to her people and to say that she knew he would treat them we'll
 Shortly after this Ranavalona was taken away from the capital and eXiled to the Island of Reunion. Here she remained until five or six years ago, when she was brought to France and then to Algiers. Upon her arriving al Marseilles she had expected to go directly to Paris. She was delighted with the idea of seeing the Partisan capital, and when she was told that she must again cross the Mediter- raneau to an exile home in Algeria she is said to have burst into a flood of tears, crying:
 ''Who is certain of tomorrow? Only yes terday I was a queen; to day l am sim ply an unhappy broken-hearted woman"
 That was in the spring of 1899 and it represents how she felt then. The woman
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From Harper's weekly

From Harper's Weekly.
 When a man takes hold of the knob of his office door he knows that, year in and year out, the knob will perform it's proper function. When the housewife sits down to her sewing machine she knows that hardly once in a thousand times will 1t fail to do It's work, and do it well. Unreliable is an indictment to which our cars must too often plead guilty. In Amer lea we have done a lot of foolish things in motor car building. but we are ap- preaching saner methods and more cor rect lines. The car of the future, either for business or pleasure, has not yet been laid down. He would be bold, perhaps . rash, prophet who would undertake any detailed description of this car. Neverthe- less, reasoning a prior. there are some features we may prognosticate. In the first place, 1t will be built of better steel than we have been accustomed to use. In the next place. the cars will become stan dardized, and when standardized they will be built by machinery In enormous quan- titles at an exceedingly low cost. The wheels will be large, built Of wood and of the artillery type. Hard rubber or some enduring substance will take the place Of the present nlgn priceu uilSdtlS- factory pneumatic tires. The car will be light, simple. strong, and easily kept in repair. MT. Edison once said the auto mobile will never be wholly practical until 1t is fool proof and the ordinary repairs can be made on the highway by darky with a money wrench. The present highly with monkey wrench. The present highly gears will be supplanted by a variable speed device. There are not wanting good judges who believe that the problem will be solved by a system of hydraulic trans mission The fuel of the future will be kerosene or grain alcohol. Thirty-five per cent of the population of America are farmers. The farmer will be the chief automobile owner and user. The maxi mum speed of his car may be only twenty miles per hour, but that is twice as fast as his present mode of travel. The car will be an invaluable adjunct to his work on the farm. The adjustment of a belt, the trun of a crank. and the auto mobile engine furnishes power to thresh his grain, cut his wood. chop his feed, and pump his water. After being In con- atant use all the day. the car is ready
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me to illustrate this book She looked 1 over the pictures and at once became in- terested, her eyes lighting up with pleas ure as she recognized her faraway island home and the types of its people
 "Ah! That Was My PaIace!v
 An, that was my palace" she said, as she held out photograph of Tananarivo, | the capital of Madagascar and pointed to building in the center, rising high over the others, upon which the French flag l was floating
 And these are Hovas," she continued as she picked up another, showing a fam fly of well-dressed colored people. ',and those Sakalavas,' as she looked at a third, group of blacks with features like negroes. Each picture brought ont some remark, and before either sbe or her aunt were aware of 1t they were talk ing quite freely In the meantime the French madame looked rather sour. and when I made a direct question as to how her majesty liked the change from Mada- gascar to Algeria, she gave a sign and the queen replied that she could not an swer that and that she would prefer to say nothing more about her own country, as the French government objected to her discussing such matters.
 She Has to Like It.
 A moment later, for some reason, Ma dame Depret was called out and the queens aunt said that no conversation could go on until she returned. I inter- preted this to mean political conversa- tion, and said word or two about the weather. then asked her majesty how she liked the climate of Algeria. To this she replied:
 Tt does not much matter I have to like 1t. Nevertheless, 1t is very good climate
 A little later she spoke of Paris, and mentioned the pleasures she had in the life there. l suggested that she extend her travels to the other side of the At lantic and visit America, and she thought that she would like to do so, but doubted if that would be allowed
 l had brought copy of my Geographi- cal Reader on Africa with me, and I made the queen a present of it, suggesting that its simple language might aid her in her study of English. She took the book and looked over the pictures, comparing the natives there represented with her own people, on that great island not far away from the African coast. She told me she found the English language much more difficult to learn than the French. Her majesty is good French scholar and speaks, writes and reads that language well. Our conversation was carried on in French and the queen never hestated for a word or a phrase to express her meaning.
 At the close of the audience told her majesty that I would consider it a great favor If she would allow me to make a photograph of her, as I would like to have a picture made by myself to show to the American people. At first she said that she did not think it would be permitted, but that she would ask Madame Depret, and that if she had no objections she would go outside and pose for the cam era.
 At this moment her French guardian came in and the question was submitted to her. The madame replied that it was all in the hands of her majesty and she would be permitted to do as she pleased.
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~ NCE the ruler of the third largest
 island of the world, country big 0 ger than France, twice as large IS Italy and three times as big as New Eng land. the beloved queen of more than four million people, with all the money she could spend, an army of her own, court the most brilliant of that of any monarch south of the equator, and all that she could wish for in the way of luxury, pomp and power Today, deposed from her throne, a pensioner on the bounty or the French government, an exile in the hands of her conquerors, watched always by spies and guarded by muscular French woman, who controls her conver- eaton and actions. Such Is the present condition of Ranavalona IT, the famed queen of Madagascar, py whom l was granted the honor of an audience today.
 The Story of Queen.
 Before I describe my interview, or rather my audience, for her majesty was not permitted to talk let me give you a few words of her history. Her name is Ranavalona, an imperial cognomen which means "The Granddaughter of God She comes of the royal family which ruled Madagascar for many years. She is a descendant of RadamaI. who became king of all Madagascar in 1s10 He was chief of the Hovas, one of the largest and most civilized tribes of the island, who, after conquering many of the other tribes, formed a union with the Sakala- vas by marrying Rosalimo, Sakalava princess.
 King Radama was the first to introduce our civilization into Madagascar. He welcomed the missionaries, and as far back as 1920 introduced Protestant Chris tianity among the Hovas. During his reign s ools were established churches were built, the Bible was printed in Nal agasy language, and the people were largely converted. And after his death. one of his wives, Ranavalona l, assumed the throne. She opposed the missionaries, but her son, Radama II, again gave the people full liberty as regards religion, and in 1868 Queen Ranavalona II, the aunt of this queen, carried on the good work. She died in 1883, and was succeeded by the woman talked with today who was then just 21 years of age. She is now 40, although she looks ten years younger. I think she Is a widow, for, according to custom. when she took the throne, she married the prime minister, who was then 70 years old, and he must have died long ago.
 RanavaIona's Coronation.
 When Ranavalona was crowned she made a change in the coronation cere- monies of the country. Other monarchs had always been attended by soldiers. She made school children her chief guard of honor. She had picked out ooo boys and 400 girls from the chief schools or Tananarivo and all the schools with their teachers, had excellent places Tor witnessing the ceremony. The day before the school boys drilled and went through their spear and shield exercises in her presence, and at the time of the corona lion she was attended by regiments or boys in uniform and troops Of girls dressed in white.
 Then queen, when I met her today, wore a. plain black silk skirt with shirt waist of white silk beautifully emprold- cred. She had at her throat star or dia-
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than curly, and she puts it up in a great knot on the top of her head. I have all ready described her dress consisting of simple Paris-made white silk waist and black skirt, and have referred to the plainness of her ornaments, Her man. ners were as simple as her dress and en- tirely free from ostentation of any kind in fact. her every act was that of a we'll bred society lady, and her soft low voice. during my stay, that of the drawing room. She motoned me to chair and sat down on another near by.
 I opened the conversation by telling her that I had written a book for the American school children about the "Is- lands of the Seas" in which I had de- scribed Madagascar, and that I would take pleasure in sending her a copy of the same at some future time. I then showed her some photographs which the governor general of Madagascar had sent
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tered my interpreter performed the intro ductlon and I presented my request for an interview. The madame replied that l could have an audience with her majes- ty, although it was contrary to her cus- tom to receive newspaper correspondents She gave me to understand that the queen would not talk about politics and her own country, and from the way she uttered the words I saw that she meant them.
 The madame then led the way into the parlor. large room floored with blue tiles and containing many sofas and chairs upholstered in fine white satin.
 A Pen Picture of Her Majesty
 We had hardly taken our seats before the queen entered. Her aunt was with her. and she also remained during the audience. I arose as her majesty came in and Madame Depret performed the in-
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to Paris for a month every summer and she is one of the social figures of this fashionable colony.
 It was through a card of introduction from the American consul that I met Queen Ranavalona l took an interpreter with me and by means of a carriage climbed the winding ways which lead from the sea to the villas of Mustapha Superieur, situated on the hill 500 feet above the harbor. Here surrounded by great hotels and magnificent hon1es the former queen lives with her aunt and niece, with French woman who is called her companion, but who is really a guard. Nominally she goes where she pleases, but really she is closely watched by the government and her every motion and every word Is reported. When I first pre- sented my letter the servant came back with the statement that her majesty could not receive me as Madame Depret
 was not present and the queen was no
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troduction Her majesty shook my hand, looked me straight in the eyes as she bade me welcome. She has very small hand and her eyes are large and beauti- full. She is fine-looking woman and ap- pears much younger than she actually is. She has high and rather full forehead, a long, somewhat thin face, and rather full lips although by no means as thick as those of negro. Her complexion Is of chocolate brown, and it seems to me that her features are largely Malay. Her
 hair Is jet black. It is straight rather
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allowed to hold any conversation with strangers in her absence She also sent word that she would be glad to see me at 10 o'clock this morning.
 Her Majesty at Home.
 When I called I first met Madame De- pret. l was admitted to the villa by a maid servant and waited for a while in the reception room at the right of the en- trance, where two Paris hats and two parasols of lavender and rose pink which hung on the rack showed that the ladies were home. When Madame Depret en-
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l saw today bore no marks of sorrow, and she has, judge, become reeonciled to her situation. She may be captive, but she has a gilded cage and enough money to satisfy all her wants. The French supply her with one of the finest villas of Alglers; she has horses and carriages and she gives receptions and dinners and holds a little court of her own. I am not sure wether her allowance is five hundred or one thousand dollars month, but she has enough on which to live comfortably. She is now allowed to go
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The caImness of Despair.

From the Baltimore American.
 Soubrette-Good heavens, We can't stay overnight in this hotel.
 Comedian-What's the matter with it? Soubrette-The bellboy says it's haunt ed.
 Comedian-That settles it. We stay. It is our only chance this season of ever seeing the ghost walk.
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such man in the world except Billy Brad leaf, who has the measles. It is because his head is a real encyclopedia of knowl- edge and compendium of literature,
 science and art that he is one of the Four Hundred, even though he was but an agent for Doolittle's waterproof sausage.
 Oh, would that some man, even though he was but this humble plumber. on whose
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one subjects with the educated pig and horse? Where can I find such store house of helpful hints and novelties for all occasions of mirth. pleasure and re- laxation?
 Well, man." said Eliph' Hewitt, slow ly unwrapping the book he held, "when Mrs Vandergould heard this she turned on him. .Reginaldo., she says. .there Is no
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oh where, can I find a man that knows
 everything from how to care for mon-
 keys in the drawing room to how to play bean bag? Where can ] find man who can quote the prose and poetical gems
 of all ages, the lives of all the great men from Adam to Roosevelt, with the dying words of them that is dead, as well as converse on one thousand and
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-03
Missionary 1eeting.

The fourth division Of the Woman's S
Missionary Society of the Barnwell
association held its quarterly meet
ing in the Baptist church of Bam-
berg on September 27.
Nearly all of the churches were
represented and the reports were
very encouraging. The women Of
this association have already given
more than the amount asked for by
the State convention.
Mrs. E. A. Sojourner is vice-presi-
dent of this association, and much
credit is due her for the success of
the work. She has indeed proven
herself to be great leader among
the women.
Mrs. w. D. Rice, Jr., of Denmark,
was the presiding officer. Many in
teresting talks were made on the
subject of missions. Rev. E. M.
Lightfoot, of Orangeburg, made a
stirring address on "Woman's part
in the work of missions.
This was a helpful and interesting
meeting and the women determined
to put forth a greater effort in the
work for the Master.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-03
Shoe Factory in Sumter.

Bultman Brothers, of Sumter, the
Oldest shoe house in that part OF
South Carolina, established in 1865,
have established a shoe manufactur;-
ing department in connection with
their wholesale and retail establish
ments. Twenty-Five up-to-date shoe
making machines have been pur-
chased and are being installed by an
expert. Electricity will be used 9 as
the motive power. There will be
manufactured to begin with 300
pairs per day, and this firm hopes to
employ at least so hands in a short
while. Bultmann Brothers have
had a man on the road selling whole
sale for some time, and have for
over 40 years been the leading ex-
elusive shoe dealers of eastern Caro-
lima in the retail line.