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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-09-22
Where Is Haviland?

Henry Haviland, a former Boston
man, last heard from nearly twenty
five years ago in the vicinity Of New
York. Is sought by a firm Of lawyers
in Boston as the heir to an estate
left in the hands of trustees by Hav-
Hands wife when she died In 1886.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-09-22
RUNNING DUEL IN STREET.
Fugitives and Policemen Exchange
ShOts-TwO Hats Are Pierced.

A dispatch from Newport, KY,
says a running duel between fugi-
tives and a policeman created wild
excitement there a few days ago.
Detective jeff Norton called at
the hotel to arrest R. w. Leroy and
Isaac Brewer on the charge of de-
tanning fourteen-year-old Florence
Gray. The men fed after Leroy
had fired three shots from a re-
volver.
One bullet grazed the head Of De-
tective Jeff Morton. Another pierc.
ed the hats of Tony Gastright and
James Taylor, spectators. Another
clipped the ear of Chris Albert, the
city jailor.
A policeman joined in the pur-
suit, and a running battle ensued for
several blocks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-09-22
Was an Old Man.

Isaac Brock, who died in Waco,
Texas, Saturday, was said to have
| been 121 years old. Basis for this
| claim rested on a record in the old
Brock family Bible.
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by the people Of her Denver district. but
by those OF the state and by many through
out the country.
When Mrs. Lafferty began her term she
was regarded first as an easy victim by
those who wished to introduce freak legis-
lation, relates a correspondent to the Phil
adelphia North American.
Every one with a strange. freakish bill
appealed to her to introduce it. She pro-
badly received visits from more oranks
than any other member OF the legislature.
But not for long. Mrs. Lafferty issued
her first bulletin early in the session.
mo oranks need apply" she declared.
81 am here for serious business and not
as a vehicle for mental versatility"
To this declaration she chung, and al
though she became one Of the most pro-
life i%ntroducers Of bills in the legislature,
freak bills were not on her list.
Other legislators began to take notice OF
this determine looking woman. She sat
in the middle of the chamber, and her
desk nearly always bore flowers or other
indications of femininity.
Mrs. Lafferty, above all, made a reputa-
ton for two things, getting good bills
through and developing into the most ex-
pert lobbyist on the floor Of the house,
She took to lobbying as naturally as a
duck to water, and commanded one of the
most powerful Hobbies before the legisla-
ture. 1t was largely made up Of women
lobbyists. Women have made a reputa-
ton In Colorado, with their votes to use
as a club, as the most persistent fighters
that appear before the Legislature. They
have the quality Of never knowing when
they are whipped, and Mrs. Lafferty pos
sessed this quality TO its fullest extent.
When a fight was raised on one of her
bills she flooded the floor of the house or
senate, wherever It was occurring. with
her lobby, before the enemy knew she was
prepared. Through the Woman's club OF
Denver she held the threat of the female
vote Of the state against any one who
opposed her, and on nonpolitical questions
the women we're behind her, regardless of
politics.
In addition she commanded the educa-
tional lobby OF the state, for she fathered,
or, rather, mothered, about all the educa-
tlonal bills presented to the legislature.
She allied herself with Judge Ben B.. Lind
sey OF the Juvenile court Of Denver, intro
ducing all the juvenile bills that passed
and now bear the signature of the gov
ernor. Judge Lindsey, whose sensational
and successful run as an independent can
didate is still puzzling the bosses of both
parties, who considered him dead" gave
her his influence in return for her sup
port Of Juvenile bills.
But the strangest fact in Mrs. Lafferty'f
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laid in a succession of full loops and two
lightly fringed ends.
This trimming, while effective, is so
simple that even the amateur milliner
should be able to handle it, and it would
be pretty on any hat following the general
lines of this model.
The other draped crown hat OF the group
is in form more like models generally seen
than is the Romney bonnet. The crown
is larger, broader, lower, and the fold Of
velvet encircling 1t is so narrow that 1t
does not prevent the net crown drapery
from falling out over the narrow brim.
This brim is of finest leghorn, dropping
all around save in the front, where 1t rolls
slightly to show the brow of the wearer.
These curving brims more or less accen-
tuated as a blessed relief from the unbe-
coming straight lines of the early season
brims and are a feature of all the latest
straw models. Sometimes the brim turns
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Views of Progressive Women in Various Walks Of Life

dear, will this child ever do what I want
II to do2 Tn worn out telling youl In a
minute I'll lose patience and give you a
good whipping, and II ever a child deserved
It you do. And you'l go 10 bed and stay
there the rest Of the day."
All this with an accompaniment Of slaps
and twitchings. Some people might have
thought the scene amusing. but this woman
didn't. She said to herself:
Poor little thingl Probably that's the
way her female parent mothers her. And
II she has children Of her own by and by
she'll treat them in the same way. She
ought TO have another ideal of mother
hood before her"
And the new plan was evolved and sug-
gested to kindergarten teachers, who re-
ceived It with great favor.
The doll session is very popular with
the children" said one of the teachers in
the institution. And while they are play
ing and having a good time they are hav-
ing heaps Of things they ought to know
ingrained in their little minds. We begin
with a washing class, giving each little
girl a sponge, which she uses dry, Of
course, but which she is taught 20 pass
over the dolls face and body exactly as
. baby should be washed. Then comes
the dressing, and great rivalry there is
among the little girls to see which can
dress her child most prettily. Before we
began these lessons the dolls were a sorry
looking lot, of playthings. The life Of the
children around here isn't a life TO give
them a feeling for neatness. But now the
little girls take great pride in showing each
other the garments they have made for
their dolls, and we encourage them to
make real little petticoats. etc., such as
babies wear. The dressing done, the dolls
hair is fixed, and then they are taken for
an outing. The children are taught by
means Of the dolls the right way to carry
a baby, how to give It fresh air, how TO
shield It from drafts, how bad It is to drag
Il around by one arm, how wrong to slap
and scold, And there's nothing farcial in
all this. The little girls take it very seri-
Ously. indeed"
Worries of Woman Legislator.
Can a woman be a successful legisla-
tor?
Ons woman, at least, answers yes, be-
cause. she says, with due modesty, she has
proved II.
She Is Mrs. Alma Lafferty, who was a
member Of the recent legislature of Colo
RADIO, the only woman in a body Of sixty
course was watched with interest not only
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Curious and Romantic Capers of Cupid Among Wavering Mortals

certificates from physicians and recon-
mendations from acquaintances attesting
to their physical and moral fitness to
marry, justices of the peace and minis
tiers of the gospel at Occur d'Alene, Idaho,
thirty-two miles east of Spokane, and Wal
lace, in the heart of the lead-silver mining
belt in the panhandle of Idaho, are vieing
with each other to make their respective
abodes the Gretna Green of the state.
Here is a sample Of the attractive man
ner in which printers ink is used in the
advertising sections of city newspapers
to welcome the prospective June bride and
her lover:
"Be married in Wallace, where no PEN
alties, premiums or restrictions confront
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- 0AAbbtNAANA op9AANt - W N~fN
changed all that.
The lingerie hats this season may all
nave a Fundamental suggestion Of the
familiar Charlotte Corday crown and frnl'
but the milliners have given free wing to
their fancy, and the result is a delightful
collection OF hats and bonnets In lingerie
material and lace, in nets and gauzes, and
in sheer materials combined with straws.
All the crowns are large and draped,
and 1t Is In the handling of these crown
draperies that the artist milliner gives
proof OF her skill. and only the initiated
will realize how much cleverness has gone
into the achievement of some OF the airy,
gauzy trifles which look deceitfully simple.
The crown may be entirely of finest
linon, batiste or null, of net, of lace, of
chiffon, OF it may be a complicated combi-
nation OF some sheer material and lace.
One French hat has a full draped crown,
across which run lines Of delicately en-
broidered linon alternating with lines Of
Valenciennes lace.
Another is made up OF little round medal
lions OF batiste delicately hand embroidered,
and each surrounded by a tiny frin Of real
valenclennes edging. Round medallions OF
lace set into sheer batiste which was hand
embroidered in a design of little trailing
~garlands running over the plain surface
and encircling the medallions formed an
other crown
But on the whole the most adorable OF
those models are those which have the
whole crown OF net or other gossamer-like
material SO deity draped that It seems as
though a breath Of wind would play havoc
with the filmy folds. Some of the fine
dotted nets with little plain or ring dots
scattered over the surface making charm
ing crowns, and such crowns may be sup
plemented by brim frills Of the net or OF
lace, by corded and wired brims of the
net or by brims Of straws, leghorn. erin,
tuscan, or even one Of the coarse satiny
straws which are having a vogue this sea-
son.
A fold or scarf OF silk or velvet and
flowers in some form are the usual trim
ming, plumes and the more formal trim
mings seeming out OF place on the airy
trifles, although occasionally one sees a
great tuft of fine sigrette, or curving os-
prey on a French hat in net OF lace, not
OF course in connection with the lingerie
materials.
Two Of the sketches give fairly typical
versions Of the draped crown summer
hat, though there are innumerable varia-
lions upon the theme. One model was
in the finest OF lingerie material with a
draped crown a trifle higher and narrower
than the average, to harmonize with the
straight falling plated frill OF lace which
served as brim.
This frill was short enough in front not
to obscure the forehead. but dropped lower
at the sides. and in general line the hat
irrestbly recalls certain pictures by Rom
ney and Reynolds. The trimming. how
ever. though simple enough. had a French
sophistication.
A wide ribbon OF softest pink satin is
folded around the crown. the width OF this
band helping to accentuate the height OF
the crown, and IN the front is drawn
through a big buckle composed OF tiny
pink rosebuds set closely together. AZ
the left side Of this buckle the ribbon is
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heart and they were quietly married on
Tuesday evening in the parlors Of the
Junior house Of the seminary at Penning-
ton, N. j., at which place she had been
house mother for the last three years.
The president of the institution, Rev. Or.
]. Morgan Read, performed the ceremony,
which was witnessed by Mrs. J. Morgan
Read, Miss B. M. Watts and Miss S. d.
Dobbins.
The couple left for a honeymoon in Bos-
ton. They will return about the first of
August, when the bride will resume her
duties as house mother Of the junior de-
partment Of the seminary and the BRIDE
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Ign Eagle. He tells ne he Is meeting with
surprising success, especially in the large
number OF young women pupils who throng
his tank up to 1 o'clock in the afternoon,
do you find the women easy to teache"
1 asked, merely to say something and not
expecting to elicit the reply that was re-
ceived.
They would be good pupils ~ I could
only induce them to keep their fingers 20
gether and their mouths closed. They will
insist on talking in the water and"
I didn't listen any further, not deeming
the information worth hearing.
Most Of us have discovered that few
women can keep their mouths closed on
land; why should they be expected to do
so in the water?
This bathing master is an unobserving
man.
Leaves From Fashions Notebook.
Tan shoees are more worn this summer
than ever before, perhaps because they
black. For country wear they are most
suitable, and show the dust Of walking
much less than the black ones.
Ar altogether lovely evening gown Is
in white chiffon over white liberty satin.
The neck Is cut out pointed in both the
back and front, and there is a panel down
each, also, of heavy white net embroidered
I'm silver grapes and leaves, and this
panel has the V cut out of II, and the
sides extend up over the shoulders where
they lap.
A simple evening robe for a young girl
has a plated skirt OF pale green chiffon
cloth and a coat Of white net embroidered
in pale green, and a high girdle Of pale
gray satin which shows its full width
at the sides only, the coat covering II at
the rear and in the front, the top of the
coat swinging loose in bolero fashion over
Il. The coat skirts had four plaits in the
back, and these taper up to the shoulders.
II Is much better to have ones coat and
skirt simply made for daily wear. The
skirt with the high belt, with straps or
any sort of lattice work from the waist up,
is not smart. The high belt Is waist short
ening. The skirt should have its belt OF
the material and at the normal waist line,
and the coats should have no empire or
directoire cut, but be q simple, straight
coat, and If one has money to spare let II
be as smartly finished but as simple as
possible.
The rage for necklaces Of seml-precious
stones to match the pale and pretty sum
mer frocks has entirely subsidized and the
smart set are now intent on pearls and
peals alone. They have several strings.
and wear their best with their most elab-
crate costumes and so grade them down
to baroques with linen or mohair. Nat
uarlly pearls have gone up in consequence
and even when they are of small size a
plain clasp, $500 is a moderate price for a
necklace.
The new mohairs make serviceable tall
ored costumes, and the coat may be left
unlined Light weight serges with UNI
lined coats and all the other light weight
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builds Church for wedding.

Miss Edna Virginia King, daughter OF
Charles G. King, jr, Of Cleveland, was
married Monday to Morton A. Howard OF
Yonkers, N. Y, in a church built expressly
for the ceremony. The church had Just
been completed.
The KIM residence, topping the high
bank which overlooks the boulevard and
Csntaur lake. in Wade park, is surrounded
by extensive lawns and is shaded by giant
maple trees. On the lawn the church has
been constructed.
1t is built Of oak stained TO an antique
effect. and Is forty-elght feet in depth and
~twenty-four feet in width. The style of
its architecture is Gothic, The beams and
rafters OF the roof are exposed in the in
terror.
In front an arched doorway leads TO the
altar erected at the end OF the chapel.
Behind the altar a cathedral window has
been constructed. Arched windows have
been framed in the side walls. The Rev.
Euclid b, Rodgers. pastor OF the Central
Baptist church. Springfield. H.. a rela-
tive of the bride. performed the cere-
mony.
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eAN SING
as a diamond salesman.
Exercising Woman's Privilege.
Men are by no means ideal creatures, as
anyone who has seen them in their shirt
sleeves and slippers can well believe. Very
few of them are angels In disguise, and
their shoulders do not naturally sprout
wings. But, somehow or other, every
woman seems to think she ought to have
one around the house, even II it is only
to scare off burglars and show the neigh
bors.
Woman does not love man for his fatal
beauty, nor yet for his gentleness. She
herself has all that she needs OF that or
those. She knows that he is no st. Good
ness and no Apollo B. Adonis. But still she
loves him and follows him and marries
him.
AS Tor the women who remain single
did you ever know one that really, way
down In her heart, hated men? Many of
them pretend to hate them; many Of them
denounce men as brutes and barbarians:
they even quote the remark Of the sour old
Singleton that she had a monkey which
could smoke and a parrot which could
swear, and she didn't need any man at all.
But how does a woman ever get along
with nobody to kiss her, caress her, scold
her or wipe away her tears; with nobody
to care for, nobody to fuss with, nobody to
blame everything on? It's no use to throw
things at the cat, and you couldn't per-
suade a dog with all the tears in the house.
Let no man be deceived by any single
woman who announces that she positively
hates men-the brutes." His only safety
is in swift and silent flight. II he stops
to argue the question and undertakes to
convince her that men are not as bad as
they are denounced, before he knows It he
may land at the altar with a marriage
license in his hand or in court with a
breach of promise suit. When she tells you
she hates you and all your tribe don't be-
lieye her. Beware Beware! She Is de-
ceiving hee.-Baltimore Sun.
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The Mechanical Age.

To illustrate the twentieth century chiid's
ignorance Of oldtime methods and to show
that, as she designated it, there is nothing
new or wonderful in the electric ~ight-Gu-
tomobile-phonograph era for the youagster
OF today, a mother told this story: A
plano tuner was busy putting our instru-
ment into condition, when our little 5-year-
old son rushed into my room, with won
der stamped on his face, and exclaimed
Mother! think of It! there is a man in the
rarlor playing on tina piano with his
hands The youngster had oeen accus-
toned all his life to mechanical music
makers.
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up frankly and I'M
reservedly at one
side, but a majority
of the shapes as yet
content themselves
with a becoming,
yet not too pro-
nounced roll or lift
at the side or the
left front and droop
around the rest Of
the brim.
Returning to The
net crowned hat, one
beautiful large rose
thrust carelessly
through the velvet
band is the sole
trimming. and this
Is Often the case
with such mod
els. though a cluster
OF flowers may be
used or a wreath OF
small flowers may
nestle around the
crown, half yelled in
It's folds, or prim
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About Women.

NhHN ABOUT me
Mrs. Josephine Sullivan is the first po-
icewoman OF Chicago. h was sworn in
the other day and invested with all the
authority and privileges given to special
policemen OF that city. She was assigned
to detecting thieves and piokpockets in the
department stores.
Two sisters, Harriet s. and Pauline F,
Devereaux, upon the completion OF their
course at Mount Holyoke college in the
class OF 1900, established the Devereaux
company as a copartnership and started In
the coal and wool trade at Castine, Me.
Gertrude Z. Curtis, a oolored girl OF
Bradford, Pa, who graduated from the
high school in that town nine years ago,
delphia Record says that she is believed
to be the first colored girl TO become q
dentist in the east.
Mrs. Frank MacVeagh, wife OF the sec
rotary of the treasury, is a collector OF
antiques. The MacVeagh home in Chicago
has excited the admiration of artists from
all parts Of the world. 1t was decorated
throughout at the direction of Mrs. Mac.
Egypt and these were brought to Americs
IN q sailing ship around Cape Horn. Ir
India she found rare woods and wonderful.
examples Of wood carving.
Helen McGraw Longyear is the daughter
Of a man in B~rookline, Mass, whose
wealth Is estimated at something like $50.
10000. But Miss Longyear says the joN
OF living Is the JOY OF work, and henc,
nv hNS JAeN NahtH a utkI6G at lne MASSA
ohusetts Institute of Technology and has
a practical knowledge Of architecture tina
would make 1t possible for her to earn hei
own living II necessary. Her sister, ABBY
Beeoher Longyear, has a finished educa.
ton in music and could make II thc
vehicle for earning her W living. Miss
Helen is president of the woman's society
OF the Tech" and the art editor OF the
year book.
One of New Tork's wealthiest women,
VINO has much beautiful bric-a-brac, which,
TO her sorrow, goes the way Of all china
In the hands of a careless maid, has
everything possible mended, and at nc
small cost, and then sent down to her
country place for her own den, where II
Is placed on a shelf built high all around
the room for the purpose. Her den, too,
she calls her room of reflection" FOR
here she plans out all her pet schemes and
lays plans for matchmaking, for which
she Is famous. And II any of these last
dear efforts come to naught she confesses
that a glance at her mended orockery re-
minds her that hearts, too, can be mended
ana that the young people that have
loves. 0"'i
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True to His Promise.

True to His Promise.
True to his promise, made at the DEATH
bed of his wife in New York several years
ago, that Should he, W. F. Skillman OF
Trenton, want another companion during
the remainder Of life he would ask Mrs,
Charles A. Bullock's hand in marriage
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Cupid. Come to the Samuel's hotel, where
a bridal apartment is maintained. Judge
L. l.. Leighty, the marrying Justice will
tie your knots with speed and dexterity."
Twelve licenses were issued In Spokane
the first day the new code was in opera
ton and It is believed that the total for
the month will make a new record in this
county,
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Lingerie Hats in Great Variety of Shapes

little nosegays may be tucked In at in
tervals. Water lilies with their long
stems are used on some of the drAped
crown hats and various other flow
ers have their place, but the rose is the
first favorite. One very pretty model in
lingerie and lace and punches of prim-
roses for trimming, with pale mauve rib
bon.
In straw hats appropriate for wear with
lingerie and other light summer frocks
there is a wealth OF choice. Leghorns,
flower and ribbon trimmed, seem prettier
than ever before, and erin and chip and
tuscan and rough straws wonderfully light
and attractive are fashioned into shade
hats with wide dropping brims, pictur-
esque poke bonnets, hats OF all shapes
and sizes appropriate for midsummer days.
The genuine pokes, with strings tied
closely under the wearer's chin, are rather
too radical for the average woman, but
there are charming wide brimmed shapes,
q little shorter of brlm in the back than
in the front and dropping just slightly at
the sides, where velvet or satin strings
run out over the brim and fall to be
knotted loosely under the chin. These
hats are picturesque without being ex-
[ treme and the milliners trim them de-
lightfully.
One in rough, soft white straws had a
wreath OF little pink roses and foliage
crossing over the top Of the low rounded
crown from side to side and finishing
where it reached the brim with choux
OF black velvet ribbon, from which
strings ran out over the wide, dropping
brim.
An,thar vnnaaT In ffna hVanIr ,A4A Hna
a frill of fine black lace falling from the
edge of the brim, a wreath of yellow and
white and black daisies and black velvet
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