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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
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companion was a woman at the height
of life. She had not even reaeheh'
the point where her friends t?) would
begin - call her well preserved"
Light of carriage. very good looking.
with youthful figure. she msiht have
passed for SO. although she was prob
ably FIVE or six years older. But In
the eyes OF her obseauious young
friends her years apparently approach
ed second childhood. Judging by their
respectful attentions to her They
not only helped her carefully into the
car and into the only vacant seat. but
they anxiously inquired II she was
tired. insisted upon carrying her
ridiculously small parcel and when
the time came to get of waited In the
street and helped her of the car by
the arm.
Now II may sound merely polite and
the attention due To any woman older
than themselves. but to the observer
1t was rude, absolutely rudei Ger
tainly uncalled for.
There is a gentleman Of Sc who be
comes much inslltod when a too polite
to being thought decrepit when he
certainly is not feeble or lame.
Just some such feeling. but a
stronger one. dominates the woman
whose dressmaker first darcs to sug
gest that a certain fashion is too
youthful for her patron. IL is an un-
reasonable feeling. OF course but a
natural one too.
Now. one does not wish to discour-
age politeness and consideration from
young people to their elders-bo.h
qualities are only too rare nowadays
But don't let them rub it in too hard
on the sensitive soul of the older wo-
man that she is beyond the point Of
appreciating or enjoying life.
She will not say anything; probably
she viii assure herself tha. they are
right and that she is too old. but It is
bitter reflection TO think that one
will soon be 'on the SHELF
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
THE AGING PERIOD
UNPLEASANT FEW YEARS OF A
WoMAN's LIFE.
knowledge That One Really Is Grow
ing Old Always Comes as Some
thing OF Shoek-Polite-
ness Overdone.

There comes period In every wom-
tn's life when the fact Is forcibly
brought to her notice that she is no
longer young. The knowledge comes
as a shock and in its train comes a
thousand bitter thoughts until she
learns to grit her teeth and accept the
truth as gracefully as she may.
OF course every woman is conscious
that the years are passing. The sur.
reptitious removal of gray hair. the
gradual acquiring of the habit of Sc
ecting quieter colors and giving up
eertain youthful pastimes-all these
things are done quietly and almost un.
consciously. so that she rarely appre.
ciates the course whittier she is tend
ng until rude blow brings It sudden.
ly to her mind and she realizes that
not only does she herself know her ad-
yancing age. but that 1t is becoming
apparent TO other people as well,
This is indeed a blow. II is all very
well to say that 40 is the halcyon age
Of woman-that she is reaching the
Is. no doubt. But the years after 4C
until she reaches the age when young
girls get up to give her seat in
he car are those in which she realizes
she is aging.
Young reader, has II ever occurred
to you that in your polite effort to
show respect to your elders you some
lines overstep the mark?
The other day a charming woman
entered a crowded street car accom-
panied by two girls, evidently friends
and about 16 or is years old. TheiI
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burg cab. Prince Dolgoruki who is a
stevedorc. or 4 Princess Galatzin n
fourth-rate circus.
A Dolgoruki ancestor was once king
of Russia. and the Galatzin and Krap-
otkins families are among its most
honorable and ancient. Occasionally a
"xakhndaly kniaz" has fallen so low
that he is but a peasant. and thus
minus the title of noble that is given
to the educated subjects OF the car.
This Russian disregard of primogen-
iture observance. which does so much
to keep the English peerage up to the
standard. obtains also in Germany.
Certain immunities and privileges. be-
dence, make the English lord a
marked and envied person. Most Ger
man and Prussian mobiles are devoid Of
extra privilege, and their children all
bear the titles of their fathers.
The house of Hatzfeldt is one of the
fairly numerous exceptions. The heir
OF Prince Alfred. present head of one
branch, is Prince Francis, whose wife
was the adopted daughter of the late
Coils p Huntington. On the other
hand, the late ambassador to Germany
was only Count Hatzfeldt. His case
was particularly interesting because
hs had a genuine love affair with an
American woman, Miss Helen Moul-
ton, of Albany. He married her in
1853 and was forced to separate from
her by Prince Bismarck. who made it
a rule never to allow a German diplo-
nat to marry foreigner. The sepa-
ration lasted until Bismarck went out
o: power. when the two promptly re-
married.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Useful Sponge Bag.

Not very decorative is the ordinary
sponge bag in a plain or checkered
waterproof material. so many house
keepers have ornamental outer COW
erings made. These should be of
washable materials, either linen or
crash, and can be worked with the
words Sponge Bag" done in plain
black or in old English, with a little
scroll effect underneath.
This lettering can be done either in
a double outline, filled in with fine
seeding, or cross stitch can be substi-
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

around waist and hips it appears to be
all blue. and upon the front of the
skirt the box plaits are stitched down
so far that the whole skirt front effect
is light blue At the sides, however,
below the hips the plaits flare to chow
the broad white stripes, The decol-
lette bodice is similarly treated ar to
stripes and there is square yoke ar
rangement OF openwork batiste EN-
broidery, edged top and bottom with
narrow white valenciennes lace. Short
pulled sleeves are finished with double
rnfiles OF the rnaterial.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

tuted. Use mercerized cotton in red
or old blue.
Make the bag from one long.
straight piece, doubled and sewed to
within three or four inches from the
top. Turn over in deep hem on each
side. held by two rows of stitching for
casing, and run through it cotton
cord and tassel OF the same color as
the embroidery.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
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dozen alliances with Russian princes.
papal princes and such.
There are half a dozen kinds of
dukes, spelled according to the genius
of their geographical situation. There
are dukes in England who are real
aristocrats. When, therefore, an
American girl. Miss Zimmerman of
Cincinnati, captured the heart of his
grace of Manchester, she got titular
matrimonial prize.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

and just as true. even to the second
generation.
The Princess Royal. for instance.
who Is married to the duke of File, has
two daughters. While the princess is
her royal highness. her daughters are
only their highnesses. but are, never
theless. princesses. When they grow
up and marry. their children will not
be princes or princesses unless they
marry royalty.
The blood of England's royal family
carries with 1t the title of prince only
to the second generation. That is
worlds away, 10 point of dignity. from
cab-driving Russians or princely Ger
mans. whose dignity rests on the
chance that they are heads of families.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Embroidery combination.

Handwork embroidery is, as il al
ways is, at a premium. and me ezees-
sive vogue il has attained is responsi-
BILE for number Of odd combinations
OF totally different classes of stitches
and of some wonderfully clever com
binations Of lace braiding, and hand
embroidery.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

evening frocks. and the stripe idea is
in evidence throughout the whole
range of materials. though the Pekin
stripes are less popular than they
were last season. and the preference
Is given to one-tone stripings. Here
is an especially successful model in
toiie de sole, which shows alternating
three-inch stripes of white and light
blue. The skirt is so plated that
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Prince Own. Gambling House.


The prince of Monaco. who runs
Monte Carlo, was married to Alice
Heine, of New Orleans. and the pres
ent heir to the gambling receipts is
her stepson. Prince Reched Bey
Czaykowski is a Turkish diplomat, but
not very important as a Turk. Miss
Edith Collins. of New York, was the
princess maiden name.
Boston is not wonderfully well rep
resented among the titled Americans
abroad. Foremost. perhaps. among
Boston girls of this description is the
countess of Edla, WHO. on June 10.
1869. married the late king consort OF
Portugal, Ferdinand. She was Miss
Elsie Hensler. and received the NOR
ganatic dignity of Countess Edia.
which she still bears.
Then there is Lady Playfair. nee
Miss Edith Russell. who visits Boston
annually, and Nine. Jusserand, wife of
the French ambassador at Washing
ton. who was the daughter of George
Richards, of Boston, who founded the
banking firm of Monroe e. Co, Paris.
Lady Gilbert Carter. wife OF the gov.
ernor of Barbados. was Miss Gertrude
Parker, Of Boston.
The curiosities that have grown up
around the matter OF nobility would
fill volume. In England, where the
heraldry office is more than 1t is else
where, the technicalities are best OBJ
served.
There is the matter of the courtesy
title. for instance. There is Baron VII
loughby d'Eresby, who is married to
Miss Elroise Breese. of New York. and
who isn't a baron at all. He is sim
ply eldest son of the earl of Ancaster
who has more than one extra title tina,
Is inferior to his own of earl. His IA
ther has virtually loaned that of his
barony TO his eldest son until he shall
succeed. So the eldest son of the
duchess of Marlborough, who is known
as the marquis of Blanford by the
same courtesy.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
French DucaI System.

frencn Oucal system.
There are dues in France, but their
only value is as contributors to the
governments income, by the sarcas-
tcally graded scale that puts more of
a price on them the farther up
they go. One exception may be made
to this general rule. for the royalists
still hold levees, and to them a title
iy instinct with meaning and dignity
The fourth Due de Dino, who unsuc-
cessfully indulged his predilecsion
for American wives on two occaslons,
would be entitled to enter this society,"
and either she who was born Eiiza-
beth Curtis of New York or the pre-
~iously divorced wife of Frederick
". Livingston could have accompan-
led him during their reigns over a
heart whose unhappiness became
rather well known at divorce court.
The royalist society constitutes the
worth of French title, but only two
per cent. Of all titles of La Belle
Paris and elsewhere in France are
legitimate. The others are jokes.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
STRIPES in WIDE RANGE.
All Kinds Of Materials Show the Pre-
vailing Fashion.

One tone striped material in satin
and gauze, crepe de chine and chif-
ION, silk moussellne and marquisette
md other combinations make modish
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

and ne married Miss Virginia Lowery
OF washington, when he was in the
latter city.
A curious feature of the Spanish no
biiity is the manner of inheriting IL
The dignities descend from father to
son, but II there is no son the daugh
ter takes the title, and 1t is conferred
on her husband what time she mar
ries-
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Many Times a Duchess.

There is one American woman who
is a duchess on four commonplace
counts. This is the Duchesse de Dino,
who is the same of Talleyrand-Peri
CORD and of Valencay in France, and
Prussian duchess of Sagan.
Titles in Italy date back long time.
and had their origin in the times when
there were free cities, each of which
had its own collection of nobility. The
title of prince there is not awe-inspir-
ing, and the others of lower grade fall
far short of honor. The Italian equiv
alent of Burke's Peerage will look up
your ancestry. determine your heraldic
bearings and include history of your
igin in its next edition for a nominal
s5m.
The vatican grants titles. The par
venus work so hard getting titles unto
themselves that really respectable no
bility have got out of the habit of
using their legitimate ones. Prince
Ferdinand Colonna married Miss Eva
Bryant Mackay. but in that family the
title is disregarded. They consider II
really more aristocratic to call each
other simply Don" and Donna" The
Rospigliosi and Ruspolin families.
which together number nearly a dozen
American women among their wives,
are as aristocratic and as particular.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

Married life Is usually one grand
sweet song, with the husband playing
the accompaniment
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
His Turkish Title.

In all except the mediatized fami-
lies-formerly royal German families
there are women to represent the
greatest country without a nobility
Even at Constantinople, where you
can buy the order of Osmanieh and
the lower grades dirt cheap, there is
one of our women. She has had the
wings of her dignity clipped. but she
is still Margaret Fehim Pasha.
Her husband was, till few months
ago, chief of the Yildiz secret police.
likewise a distant relative of the
sultan. The German ambassador OBJ
jected to little pleasantly of his,
and Fehim is now in real exile. But
his wife, who was circus rider, mar
ried week after rencontre, is still
the wife of pasha. That dignity
isn't worth much, and in the matter
of value of titles Turkey. for once,
agrees with the rest of Europe.
A Russian prince is a travesty on
language. actually and literally. Prop
erly, he isn't prince at all, according
to respectable English standards, but
the Almanach de Gotha mistranslated
the word "kniaz' that way, and the
mistake of significance has persisted
like the Almanach. Its correct Eng
lish synonym is lord. The incident
that led to the present English trans
lation occurred at Paris, where a pre-
sumptuous one of these squireens ap-
peared at Louis XIV's court ETY.
mologically, however, prince" is the
proper rendering.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Russian Princes Plentiful.

Prince Michael Cantacuzene, who
married Miss Julia Dent Grant, is one
of these. but he has escaped the ad-
ditional title, 'thinned-out prince"
Every member of the family of a Rus
sian kniaz is kniaz. male or female.
Count up a generation or two in
mathematical terms, and it will not be
surprising that there is a bona fide
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

the ends together. and in this manner
the papers can then be pulled away
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

Boston.-"Some titles are bad and
some titles are worse. but there are
no good titles a sarcastic American
father is said to have exclaimed
apropos of the marriage of a relative
to foreign nobleman.
He was not altogether right, nor
was he altogether wrong. The Old
World is flooded with titles, good, bad
and Indifferent. The bad and the in
different greatly outnumber the good.
American girls have some of the good,
possibly more of the bad, and, per
haps, still more of the Indifferent.
There is a heraldry Office in London
that spends all it's time Strengthening
out the kinks in the peerage. With
some 500 American women married to
foreigners, duly handled as to their
names, some of the freaks of aristoc-
racy's rating are apropos.
In America it is self-evident-
though some children disprove it
that parent is superior to the child.
Yet an American woman is on record
to disprove the fact The late widow
of Isaac M. Singer married a sol
disant Due de Camposelice and later
M. Paul Sohege. plain Frenchman.
But her daughter is Duchesse Decazes
among the French aristocracy, and
Duchesse de Gluecksburg in the high
lights of Denmark. If it isn't a case
of daughter out-distancing the moth
er, 1t is the nearest approach to the
condition.
Some of these daughters have be-
come duchesses of England, prin-
cesses of Russia. duchesses of France,
principessae of Italy, duquesas of
Spain or Portugal, and still others
have obtained titles of the Holy
Roman Empire and papal titles by
marriage. There are said to be about
500 of them all told, but how do they
rank among each other? Where in
the scale of high-sounding handles to
matrimonially acquired surnames doth
rank Lady Tennessee Clafin Cook,
who is the widow of an English baro-
net, and who, through him, is Wis
countess Montserratin in the peerage
of Portugal? And why does not she
employ the higher Portuguese title in
stead of the inferior English one?
HeCulIdrlticS OF fcerdges.
The truth is that peerages are now
worthy of but half respect. Only two
of them are really to be very serious
ly taken. the English and the dignities
confined to the mediatized Teutonic
families. And the latter of these is
not open to American ambitions. as
Miss Mary Wister Wheeler of Phila-
delphia discovered in 1890. when she
was married to Count Macmillan Pap
penheim. of that ilk and learned,
when Berlin heard of the event, that
she could never be more than a NOR
ganatic wife.
Recently it transpired that English
titles are not always exactly what
they seem. 1t came out that one peer
age was obtained by the typically
American practice of contributing to
a political campaign fund. 1t took
$1,250,000 in that case to make
baron of the United Kingdom. and at
the same time s150,OO0 was required
to secure a knlghthood that labors
under the disadvantage of not being
heritable. Scandal aside, however,
the British peerage is the best of its
kind An American girl looking for
foreign honors can better realize her
ambition in marrying a mere English
baronet than by contracting half a
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06
Long String of Honors.

Long string OF Honors.
Yet even persons with the plain
name of John Smith will very likely
admit that Don Francesca Rospigliosi
is quite come-down from Prince Giu-
seppe francesca Maria Filippo di Ros-
pigliosi-Gioeni, duca di Zagario. prin-
cipe di Castiglione, marchese di Giu-
Llama. conte di Chiusa, Barone di Val
corrente, Barone della Miraglia, Signor
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-06-06

During the seven years 189a1os5
the deaths In India numbered 4.05s 400.
Williams news., 1907-11-09
Wholesale Murder Planned

Bakersfield, Cal, Oct. 29 A das tardly attempt to wreck the Cali fOrnia Limited, the Santa Fe fast train between San Francisco and Chicago. was brought to light today Last night, while travelling down the Tehachapi mountain, but a short time before the fast train. an engine crew on work train dis covered an obstruction on the track and investigated it. It proved to be railroad tie securely fastened over two rails hv heavy spikes such as are used in railroad construction
 Shortly after the tie had been re- moved and the work train gained the siding the Limited came thun- dering over the track and passed on in safety over the spot where certain death would have awaited the crew anl passengers had not the discovery cen made. Rail road detectives have teen detailed on the case, but the absence of all clews has prevented prrgress.
Williams news., 1907-11-09
If you are kicker and see th

If you are kicker and see the shadow of failure in everything that is proposed to help|the town for heavens sake go into some secluded canyon and kick your own shadow on the clay bank and thus give men who are work. ing to build up a town a chance One long faced. hollow eyed, whin. ing kicker can do more to keeI away business and capital from a town than all drouths, short crops chinch bugs. cyclones and blizzards combined.
Williams news., 1907-11-09

The Mesa Free Press comment, on the fact that after November Is, hornesteaders on the public lands are required to prove actual resi- dence for fourteen months, insteac of eight msnths, which was the re cent requirement., The purpose 0 the extension is to confne lanC patents more closely to actual set tiers and to prevent entries b, specula tors.
Williams news., 1907-11-09
Two hundred and ten

Two hundred and ten loaded freight cars is the train which a locomotive. lately built for the Erie railroad. will haul upon a level track. The locomotive weighs more than two hundred tons and is supported upon sixteen driving wheels on each side A train a mile and a half long. which is the length of 200 cars, would have as tonished railroad men of the las, generation, but engineers today are looking forward to longer trains if they have not already made them up.-Ex
Williams news., 1907-11-09

Mrs K. w. Williams, president Mrs. Dermont, Mrs. Teepe, dele gates; Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Curs ton, alternates. are some of the ladies chosen to represent Willia ms at the sixth annual convention o' the Federation of Women's Cluhs in Arizona which meets in Douglas
Williams news., 1907-11-09
A Ton of Gold

The old question of the value of ton of gold. and whether there waa such A thing IF a ton of gold. was the subject of conversation last night at the Hotel Casey. and four we'll known mining men of tn. camp had different views on the subject. One cnntended that there was no such thing as a ton of gold as the Troy system of weighing metals does not advance above the pound weight. Another stoutlv as
 serted that there was ton of gold and said that it was worth $780, 900. figuring the gold at $2O an ounce, and reasoning from the standpoint that 12 ounces was a pound, Troy weight, and that the 24.OOO ounces were worth the gum he named. A third member of the party said that there were 32,OOO ounces in ton, and that there was such a thing as a ton of gold and that it was worth $64O.OOO 6gurinR gold at $2O an ounce. The fourth man was inclined to think that the only way ore could talk sensibly bout gold was in ounces
 After several little bets had been made between the frier ds a II agreed to leave it to the Goldfeld Tribune to settle, and this is the decision There is such a thing as a ton of gold It contains 29 166 Troy ounces of metal and if chemica l V pure, the ton is worth $6O2 S21 22, figuring the gold at $2O67 all ounce. the price paid ny the govern ment.-Tribune. Goldfield, New.
 It costs some men a lot of think
Williams news., 1907-11-09
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER g. 1907.
JUST A WORD

Having purchased the plant of tn WILLIAMS NEWS, and assumed contro of the paper, few words concerning th' future policy is opportune at th.s time.
 The policy of the NEWS will remain d in the past---an independent newspaper. l will be published in the interest and for ths progress oi Williams and Coconino county. We solicit the same liberal support iron the patrons of the NEWS as was accorded my predecessor.
 FRANK L. MOORE.