UNK NOTED "FAMILIES
11 s. GRANT, THIRD, AND MISS
ROOT TO WED.
Engagement of Famous General's
Grandson to Daughter of Secretary
of State Is Announced at
4 Washington.
Washington.—The engagement of
Lieut. Ulysses S. Grant, engineer
corps U. S. A., nephew of Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer, of Chicago, now on duty
at Washington barracks, to Miss Edith
jtoot, daughter of the secretary of
state, has been announced.
Miss Root made her debut in New
York several seasons ago and ha3
twice been a cabinet girl, although
she was extremely young when her
father was secretary of war in Presi
dent McKinley's second administra
tion. She is a gifted linguist, an ac
complished musician, and is devoted
to outdoor sports. She is an expert
horsewoman, and her smart trap is
familiar in all the uptown sections of
.Washington.
Lieut. Grant has served as military
aid at the White House during the
last two seasons, acting with Capt.
Fitzhugh Lee, Jt.. and Lieut. Philip
Sheridan. His father is Maj. Gen. Fred
erick Dent Grant, now in command of
the military department'"of the east.
He is a nephew of Mrs. Potter Palmer,
of Chicago, his mother being Miss
Louise Honore, sister of Mrs. Palmer.
He is a brother of Princess Cantacu
zene of Russia, who was Miss Julia
Dent Grant, and the only child of the
Grant family born in the White House.
Lieut. Grant's early education was
obtained in Europe while his father
was minister to Austria-Hungary, and
he then spent four years in a state
military school founded by Empress
Marla Theresa. He entered Columbia
college In New York on his return to
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the United States and was graduated
in 1898, when he at once joined his
father in Porto Rico, where he had
his first experience in warfare. At
the end of a Tear he entered West
Point, graduating sixth in his class of
1902. He was ordered at once to the
Philippines, where he did good service
for three years, and, returning to the
United States, was ordered to Wash
ington barracks.
No date has been set for the wed
ding, but it is expected to take place
in the fall.
Artificial Aigrettes.
An announcement that bird lovers
will be glad to hear is that an artificial
aigrette has been produced, said to be
more beautiful than the real feather
which has brought about so many ap
peals for mercy.
The aigrette is not just now much
in demand by the milliners, but it has
usually been such a necessary adjunct
that no doubt the whirligig of fashion
will bring it into Use again. If an arti
ficial feather of equal beauty with the
genuine has been contrived, one ac
count of women with the recording an
gel ha3 been squared, but the report
that such a feat has been accom
plished has not been verified.
The natural aigrette, as most per
sons know, is taken from the mother
bird during the breeding season, so
that not only is her life sacrificed but
the lives of all her nestlings. No won
der an aigrette on a woman’s head is
a sign of reproach and that the hu
mane have striven so hard to prevent
the custom of thus robbing the birds.
NEW CARNEGIE PEACE PALACE.
Imposing Structure Which Is Being
Erected at The Hague.
The Hague.—The peace palace at
The Hague, the foundation stone of
which was laid recently, will be an
imposing structure in the style of
northern French chateaux. The de
sign is by Louis Marie Cordonnier, a
Frenchman, who was awarded the first
New Carnegie Peace Palace.
Drize of $3,000 on May 11, 1906, in a
competition that included architects
„r°m many countries and comprised
sets of designs. The palace is to
e uilt by Andrew Carnegie, who
announced the project on April
His gift for the structure is
,000, but estimates place the
thL !?Hlch higher, and it is believed
, iIr- Carnegie will meet the de
nt, t?Cy' The legislature of Holland
site* mu9' 19°5, voted *214,000 for the
, e building is to consist of
ent Ce la"s an(l a library, and the
tjb,[,anCe is to he through a grand ves
w« e of bonor’ w*th an imposing stair
jeri' ut lhe chief feature of the in
lArhift T111 be a ma8uihcent ‘'Hall of
fert.it rati°n' where future peace con
ivrences are to be held. The main
ib,.mu . lo De held. The main
ers , 'S t0 be ttanked by high tow
'vhioh ornate construction, two ol
l&cade arTh° be at e‘ther 4,11(1 of th6
aui.iro lhe entire block will be
Jloor EUlar’ wlth a corridor on twc
‘flank’s dnd justice halls occupying the
Ibp hio-1,1 lae mural decorations are tc
tin so!' y artiatlc. and the furnishings
^ S^eral are to be costly.
PR! MA DONNA IS REAL TRILBY.
Bessie Abbott Says She Can’t Sing
Well Unless Sister Is Present.
New York.—That she is a Trilby in
real life—drawing her inspiration
from the psychic bond existing be
tween herself and her twin sister,
Jessie, wnose presence in the audi
ence when she sings is necessary to
her success—was the assertion frank
ly made the other day by Miss Bes
sie Abbott, one of Herr Conried's
pnma donnnas.
Miss Abbott's admission was all
the more astonishing because of two
announcements she was making. One
was that rumors that she was en
gaged were true, she keeping secret
the identy of her betrothed; the other
was that as long r.s she remained on
the stage her sister must never mar
ry. This part of her statement was
made on account of recent reports
that Jessie was engaged to James G.
Blaine III.
“I will never sing again,” declared
the prima donna firmly, "if my sister
deserts me or allows her sympathies
to be directed in another channel.
"From my first appearance on the
stage Jessie always has been in the
audience. Even if I did not see her I
knew that she was there. I knew she
would help me whenever there came a
difficult passage of which I might be
the least bit afraid.”
Miss Abbott and her mother re
fused to d’scuss the report that Jessie
was engaged to Mr. Blaine.
Believed by Japs.
Tile Japanese believe in more myth
ical creatures than any other people
on the globe, civilized or savage.
Among these mythical animals are
some without any remarkable peculi
arities of conformation, but gifted with
supernatural attributes, such as a
tiger which is said to live until it has
become a thousand years old, and
then turns as white as a polar bear.
The Japanese also believe in a multi
tude of animals distinguished mainly
by their monstrous size or by the
multiplication of their members.
Among these are serpents 800 feet
long and large enough to swallow an
elephant, foxes with eight legs, mon
keys with four ears, and fishes with
ten heads attached to one body. Japs
also believe in the existence of a crane
which, after it has lived for 60C sears,
has no need of any sustenance except
water.
TO THE CHEERFUL MAN.
His Praises Sung in Cheerful Tone by
Cheerful Mr. Knozzleton.
"I like the cheerful man,” said Mr.
Knozzleton, “the man who refuses to
be cast down, but takes always a
cheerful view.
“ ‘O'you ever see such weather as
this?' says the dismal man, wearily,
shedding more sultriness all around.
“ 'Did you feel that breeze?’ says
the cheerful man, smiling, and as a
matter of fact there was the faintest
flicker of a movement in the air just
at that moment, and he caught it,
because he is receptive to all good
things; and he magnified it to all his
hearers by his breezy cheerfulness.
“The cheerful man for me every
time—he makes life worth living;
and I like especially to see him
around in hot and humid weather.
But he’s helpful at all times.
“So many people are so easily de
pressed; good people, but with only a
narrow margin of courage; so that if
any little thing goes wrong they
think that everything’s going to
pieces and the world is coming to an
end, but then—
‘‘‘Pooh!’ says the cheerful man,
‘what’s that?' and he actually laughs
at this little picayune trouble, and
just brushes it away and forgets it,
making the faint hearted to laugh
and forget it, too; and in time he
may bring the easily discouraged
man to acquire the blessed habit of
laughing at all the petty troubles
that pop out at us on the road of
life, and so driving them away, in
stead of gloomily letting them climb
on him to ride on his back. Good
man to have around is the cheerful
man.
“ 'I haven’t caught a fish to-day,’
says the disappointed man in the
fishing party, and you’d think from
his general castdownness that catch
ing fish was the main object of life,
and that if you didn't catch any, life
was a failure.
“ ‘Well, I haven’t caught any,
either,’ says the cheerful man, ‘but
I’ve had a darned good time and I've
caught an appetite like a team of
horses, and what I want now is to
get back to where they cook those
blueflsh the way they cook ’em here,
and if I don’t eat 17 of 'em I miss my
guess.’ Does the cheerful man perk
up the whole party? Why, sure; and
when they've got a few of'those blue
flsh inside of them they all think
they've had a great time.”
While You Wait.
"Yes," said a florist, “I can work
miracles in my business. For in
stance, I can grow you lettuce while
you wait—sweet, crisp lettuce that
you may eat for your dinner with the
broiled spring chicken.
“I do it in this way; I take a hand
ful of lettuce seeds that have been
soaked over night in alcohol, and I
plant them in a box containing three
inches of loam and quicklime. I water
this soil, and in ten minutes the seeds
burst.
"They burst, and in 20 minutes two
tiny leaves push through the earth.
The leaves grow and multiply. In half
an hour they are as big as a halS dol
lar. Then you may pluck and eat
them. They are delicious—a fairy
salad.
“Somtime3, when I give a dinner
party. 1 have one of these little pre
pared lettuce beds in the center of
the table. The guests see the lettuce
grow, and when the time comes for
the salad course there is their salad
blooming before them, all ready for
them to pluck.”
Autographs and Holographs.
“An autograph,” said an antiquary,
“is worth nothing, while a holograph
may be worth $1,000 or more. An au
tograph of a man is his simple signa
ture. His holograph is one of his
signed letters, and its value depends
on its Interest.
“Some men are such fools that they
think autographs valuable and holo
graphs worthless.
“I know a man who found in his
grandfather's chest a lot of important
letters of Franklin, Washington. Aaron
Burr, Hamilton, Andre and Jefferson.
He read these letters; then he burnt
them, first cutting out the signatures.
“For the signatures he got 50 cents
apiece or thereabouts. For the letters
in their entirety he would have gotten
from $100 to $500 apiece.
“By this loss of about $24,000 the
man learned the difference between an
autograph and a holograph.”
His Daring Bluff.
“Who was Jupiter Pluvius, dear?”
“Eh? Why you know who Jupiter
was?”
"Yes, dear, but who was Pluvius?”
“Pluvius? Why, Pluvius is a family
name. .1. Pluvius, see? Jupiter was a
Pluvius on his father's side.”
“But I thought it had something to
do with rains?”
“Eh? Oh, that’s different. That's
another Pluvius. He was an early
Roman emperor. They always called
him Pluvy for short. He named him
self Jupiter because he was a good
deal struck with his job as emperor."
"Did he have anything to do with
rains?"
"Of course he did. His reign was
one of the longest on the Roman cal
endar."
"Thank you, dear."
Cured.
“I thought that prisoner was reported
in a dying condition,” said the visitor,
pointing to a husky specimen.
"He was," replied the warden, “but
when he found the public didn’t care
whether he died or not, he seemed to
lose Interest in the plan.”
CHILDREN IN FLATS
ONE REASON WHY THEY ARE
NOT MORE WELCOME.
Hard to Make Them Understand the
Necessity for Quiet Tone of
Voice—One Woman’s Hu
morous Experience.
“I, for one, can understand why chil
dren are not more welcome as flat
dwellers!” sighed a weary W'orking
woman. “A boy of five or thereabouts
will more than fill a six-room apart
ment. I once occupied a room, rented
from a widow, who, beside myself, had
for lodgers a widower and his little
son. The oldest daughter of the wid
ow, a girl of 20, was the boy’s pros
pective stepmother, and so upon her
devolved the duty of putting him in
his little bed at night in a room ad
joining mine. Now, it was quite use
less to try to impress it upon this
youngster that he should lower his
voice on account of the thinness of the
wall between him and his neighbor;
and as it was only natural that his
future mamma in the course of argu
ment should raise her voice in propor
tion to his, I innocently eavesdropped.
For instance: “Oh, don't make such a
noise, child, with your yelps and
groans! You will disturb the lady in
the next room.”
“Huh! If she had the stomach ache
that I've got, she'd holler too.”
When the child was free from aches
and pains he was none the more in
clined to go quietly to sleep. No mat
ter how he might have been stretching
and yawning in the parlor, where his
papa and his papa’s fiancee had been
playing bezique, once in bed. he was
Inclined to be wakeful and argu
mentative, especially when rebuked.
“I hope,” remarked his guardian one
night, “that before you go to sleep
you will think of what a bad boy you
are. It grieves your father, I can tell
you. He said to me to-day that the
thought of it fairly took away his ap
petite. After ordering his breakfast
at a restaurant this morning, he began
thinking about the way you behave,
and, when the food was brought, he
found himself unable to eat.”
“And what did he do then?” asked
the bad boy with some interest.
“Paid for it and went out."
“Well," remarked Frank, “ I think
he was pretty foolish to go and order
a breakfast and pay for it when he
couldn’t eat. I don't believe it was
me that took away his appetite. I
know that sometimes I have been just
as sorry as I could be about some
thing, and I could eat lots—and men
are just like boys, only-bigger.”
“Oh, stop your talk! The lady in
the next room will hear you,” remon
strated the mamma (to be).
“Is she married?”
“No.”
“Why isn't she married?”
"Can't find anyone good enough for
her, I suppose."
“Do you think she will ever get mar
ried?”
This was too much for feminine f a
tience. The gas was turned out.
Remedies for Afflictions.
Dissipation of mind and length of
time are remedies to which the great
est part of mankind trust in their af
flictions. Hut the first of these works
a temporary, the second a slow, effect
and such are unworthy of a wise man.
Are we to fly from ourselves that we
may fly from our misfortunes, and
only to imagine that the disease is
cured because we find means to get
some moments of respite from pain?
Or shall we expect from time, the
physician of brutes, a lingering and
uncertain deliverance? Shall we wait
to be happy till we can forget that
we are miserable, and owe to the
weakness of our faculties a tranquilli
ty which ought to be the effect of
their strength? Far otherwise. Let
us set all our past and present afflic
tions at once before our eyes. Let
us resolve to overcome them, instead
of flying from them, or wearing out
the sense of them by long and igno
minious patience. Instead of palliat
ing remedies, let us use the incisive
knife and the caustic, search the
wound to the bottom, and work an
immediate and radical cure.—Lord
Boliugbroke (1678-1751).
A Near-Professional.
The Ingenue—So our sterling young
leading man. Mr. llogstage, is going
to wed a non-professional, eh?
The Comedian—Not exactly. I hear
that the prominent young society wo
man, who will soon bear his name,
has been divorced twice, lost her jew
els more than once, been reported en
gaged to four different titles, owns a
French bulldog, has written a tooth
powder testimonial, and is devoted to
a simple home life and her books! —
Puck.
Keeping Husband at Home.
Mrs. Jones—I wish I could think of
something to keep my husband at
home in the evenings.
Mrs. Smithson—Buy him a motor
car, dear.
Mrs. Jones—He’d be out more than
over if I did that.
Mrs. Smithson—No, indeed! My
husband bought ode last week, and
the doctor says he won't be out for
six weeks.
An Expensive Compliment.
“Excuse me, sir, but this is the sixth
time that you have gone away without
paying.”
“Oh, my dear young lady, when a
man sees you he forgets everything
else."—Translated for Transatlantic
Tales from Fliegende Blatter.
He Was Not to Biame.
Little Bartholomew’s mother over
heard him swearing like a mule
driver, says the Cleveland Leader. He
displayed a fluency that overwhelmed
her. She took him to task, explaining
t;.e wickedness of profanity as well
as its vulgarity. Slr> asked him where
he had learned all those dreadful
words. Bartholomew announced that
Cavert, one of his playmates, had
taught him. Cavert’s mother was
straightway informed and Cavert was
brought to book. He vigorously de
nied having instructed Bartholomew,
and neither threats nor tears could
make his confess. At last he burst
out: "I didn't tell Bartholomew any
cuss words. Why should I know how
to cuss any better than he does?
Hasn’t his father got an automobile,
too ?”
The Entire Family.
Grand Pop used it for Rheumatism.
Dad for Cuts, Sprains and Bruises.
Mamy for Burns, Scalds and Aches.
Sis for Catarrh and Chillblaines. I use
it for everything, and it never disap
points any of us. It surely yanks any
old pain out by the roots.
Hunt’s Lightning Oil is what I am
telling you about.
Punishment by Inches.
A Bergen (Genesee county) justice
of the peace has adopted an original
scheme for the dispensation of justice.
Henry Meyer, 27 years old and seven
feet two inches tali, was a prisoner in
his court for stealing four bags of
oats. He was sentenced to 90 days in
jail, one day for each inch of stature
and one for each bag.—Nunda (N. Y.)
News.
Actual Facts.
For upwards of fifteen years Hunt’s
Cure has been sold under a strict guar
antee to cure any form of itching skin
troubles known. No matter the name
—less than one per cent, of the pur
chasers have requested their money
back. Why? It simply does the work.
Pronounce These Rapidly.
The vicar of Dwygyfylchi-cum-Pen
maenmaur told the royal commission
of the church in Wales recently that
he had been at Pistylecum-Carnguwch,
Llangeftii-cum-Tregaian, Llandyfuan
cum-Llanfair and Arleechwedd.
Mr*. Winglow‘8 Soothing Syrnp.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces In
flammation. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
Beautiful is the activity that works
for good and the stillness that waits
for good.—Collyer.
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