Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01

!. for May. The market women OF Paris
presented her with a mountain of VIC
lets on the day of her marriage to
Louis Napoleon. Miss Morris says.
| .'And those market Women--they
boiled over! They yelled and pushed
and crowded into the palace gardens.
They screeched and screamed for tne
empress. until at last q window
opened, and Eugene stepped out on
she held in her hands a great mass OF
the violets the market women had
sent her. Then suddenly one old fish
wife shrielSed out at those OF the COM
mittee Pigs! Idiots! it is the flower,
8of sorrow YOU have sent to her!,
While quick another raYed out IL is
the color Of mourning that you send.
purple violets to bride! Pigs! Idiots!
Devils! 1t Is. an o1nen-a sign of evil!
And then the fight began! Oh. mon
fDieu! They are terrible. They tear
one another like wild beasts! The
gendarmes try hard ito make order.
when q voice UP above US says out
clear and gentle. Oh, soldiers. don't
hurt them! And the idea that any
soldier on earth could hurt a dame
des Halles was 50 funny that every
body stopped fighting to laugh. And
they laugh and laugh. and wipe off
the blood. and slap the gendarmes
and say. Don't hurt us, messieurs-
don't!" And they dance and shout.
and the beautiful, empress stand now
vio1ets to the crowd and all below cry
5.Vive l'Imperatrice! And she smile
and smile, and so retire. Butithat Old
witch was right! Yes. madame.
though the Violet was the flower Of
the Bonaparte, It is the flower OF sor-
row. not iii 10 send o bride! II was
an omen. and given at the Iuileries IT.
pointed to Chiselhurst!
f;rentest The influences that affect
sTnflucnce ones life may be innumer-
In Nv life. able. The lights and shad-
ows along the pathWay{of
life affect us for the moment and leave
their lasting impressions upon the
memory. The lights inspire and ele-
vate; the shadows alarm, restrain and
protect us. In the same way our
presence and influence affect the lives
of other either for good or evil. Far
superior and transcending all other In
tluences has been the benehcient pres
ence of those true and pure spirits who
have accompanied mo on this journey
of life. a father who was the soul of
honor, whose Integrity was as sacred
as life, and who was one of the truest
patriots I have ever known. He had
the courage OF ms CONVICTIONS, 3IrtiIk
and manly in expressing his opinions
and Judgment OF men and affairs; as
brave as a lion yet as kind hearted
and tender as a child. He loathed o.
5hypocrite. Intrigue and deception We're
foreign to his nature. His ideas of
truth and duty. We're inspiring and en-T
nobling. A sainted mother whose
blessed influence from the time she
first taught me to lisp u prayer was the
true light and guide Of my life. The
tenderest affection, the gentlest admo-
milton, the deepest love, the sweet
melody Of her sacred music touched
and forever impressed the better
chords Of heart and soul, and their In
tiuence was ever present as a true IN
spiration and cherished memory. The
splendid influence Of a noble brother
who was the highest type of Ameri-
can character and citizenship; also the
refining influence Of two devoted sis
tiers who were the light and joy OF q