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A SPLENDID NEW WAR SERIAL “WITH LEE IN '.-'4 f IA,” BY G. A. HENTY, BEGINS NEXT WEEK, VOL. XXIV—No. 120?: ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY, APRIL 8,1899. ■ * y Price $2 Per Year. Oglethorpe County, Ga. ^ k. f*r.. amothEJ^, .SPIRIT The Many Valuable Wed ding Gifts to Young Vanderbilt and Miss Fair. A MILLION USELESS CAPITAL The Wealth of the Continent Vie In Good Intentions to the Young Couple—Person ality of the Contract ing Parties. mm iMmmmmRmm r If Miss Virginia Fair were a queen and AY. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., a prince, it is very unlikely that they would receive wedding presents as costly as those that they, simple young American citizens, will get upon the occasion of their marriage. There are hundreds of these presents. It would be impossible to put an estimate upon their value that would be at all ac curate. At least one of them is worth $150,000. All told, the cost of the entire lot will be considerably more than $1,000,- 1 000. Of course, neither the Vanderbilts nor the Fair relatives have made any apprai sal of the cost of the extraordinary as sortment of diamonds and other precious stones which have been worked up by the cleverest and most artistic jewelers In the world into tokens of affection and wishes for the future happiness of the young people. But it is certain that no wedding in this country or ten weddings combined have caused such lavish ex penditure of money. The gigantic wealth of the Fairs, the Vanderbilts, the Oelriclis, the As tors, .lie Shepards and till their relatives and friends have been lavishly used to secure the first diamonds and pearls to be pos sessed. Money was absolutely no consid eration. Those who sent the presents could as well have afforded to bestow a million-dollar necklace as one costing $100,000. It wtis merely a question of what appropriate or suitable or what hap- ■s / //Z Lifl Vtt- n/CKS’ A VIEW o*" the: FACTORIES was pcncd to catch the fancy of the donor. The possession of such wealth has its disadvantages, too. The care of such pres ents gives anxiety. On their receipt they are carefully guarded by servants and at once shipped to the vaults of a trust company, where they are guarded by the latest things in the way of burglar proof safes and patent locks. Not any are kept in the house. Miss Fair cannot see her jewels together without taking a trip to the bank. In this respect she is much worse off' than the happy bride whose wedding presents are so simple as not to tempt the cupidity of the burglar. As the things are wanted they are sent, then returned to the vaults. The Journal is able to give the first au thentic description of the principal pres ents. There arc so many of these that it is impossible to tell about them all, but as a rule they are remarkable for their unprecedented cost. Miss Fair, when she becomes a bride, will have so many dia monds that if she put them on all at one time she will be practically one great big diamond. If she tried to carry all her jewelry from one room into another, in all probability she would be unable to ac complish the task, so great is the weight of gold and silver and gems. Among the very remarkable presents are two huge solid silver trays, given to the young couple by Mrs. Shepard. These are so heavy that when they were brought out for a visitor to see it took two men to carry them. On the surface of the trays, in relief, on an embossed ground, are old English paintings, relig ious in character. This combination of color and silver is most unusual and most effective. Few of those who have seen the trays had ever before come across anything of the kind. The cost of this work, done as It was by the best ar tists and best silversmiths in the country, must have been enormous. The title of one of the pictures—which is in itself a magnificent work of art—is “A Visit to the Cardinal.” Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, the" mother of the bridegroom, from whom something magnificent was expected, fully justified the ideas of her friends. She has sent what is possibly the finest diamond riv iere in the world, apart from royal and imperial collections. It is made up of very large stones, some of them as big as the proverbial pigeon's egg, a hackneyed similie, by the way, which it is very hard to keep out of this article,for thepresents include so many diamonds that are best described in that way. These are old mine stones, blue-white v They sparkle and fairly dance in the sunlight. The riviere was purchased from a princely house of France, a family that had possessed the gems through generations. There tire thirty or forty stones in the riviere, the smallest of which is as large as an almond, and which in itself would be worth a small fortune. The riviere is sot in silver—the old-fashioned custom of France. It is likely that it will be reset in platinum, as silver tarnishes and must be polished after each use. it is very un likely that anything in the way of a riv iere was ever put together that nearly approaches in beauty or value this splen did wedding present from Mrs. Belmont. Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, whose enormous wealth allows him. if he likes to buy the total output of a diamond mine and select the very best for his daughter-in-law, chose on tills occasion to purchase pearls. He has sent her a pearl necklace that in every respect excels any of recent collec tion. The rope of pearls which the late Ol*E plainest possible kind, and no one would know the difference. Mrs. Oelrichs. the sister of the bride, gives a beautiful and costly collection of silver and gold table ornaments. There are hundreds of other presents, the usual articles given to bride and groom—jewels, gold and silver plate, and dozens of duplicates. They have been taken down to the Safe Deposit company and carefully stored away. They may be seen as a whole on the day of the wed ding. and when they are arranged to gether they will constitute a museum i:t themselves. A more interesting collection than any jeweler ever made. A fact interesting to women is that Miss-Fair cares little for jewelry, dresses very simply and sensibly, and will prob ably wear her elaborate jewels only occa sionally. if at all. CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE Page 1.—Gorgeous Presents. Page 2.—The Glass Dagger. or the: WAGON YAR#^ Page 3.—Great South: News Notes—The Idaho Pea—The South's Folly—Falls of Toccoa—Intensive Farming — Various Uses of Cotton—Light . Behind the Clouds. Page 4.—\Voman.'s Kingdom: Chat R‘ Roy—Chow-Chow Postscript—Our Le ter Box. August Belmont sppnt fifteen years in collecting is the only one to compare with it. Bach pearl is perfect. Comparisons in the jewelry line are very difficult to make, as experts differ, but in all human prob- a bility no Indian or Persian princess ever wore anything in pearls approaching the necklace that will go around the neck of Miss Fair. A rather strange, quaint present came from Mrs. Astor. It;is a brooch made in imitation of a piece of the bark of a tree. Upon the brooch are five small birds made of sapphires, a jewel indicative of affection. There is something quaint and almost humorous about this gift. It is beautifully designed and finished. There is certainly nothing else like it in the coun try. From Mr. John W. Maeltay comes the finest piece of jewelry ever made in America, so experts say. It is a diamond ornament, a sort of half stomacher and half breast plate, to cover the whole front of Miss Fair's dress. Diamonds have-been employed in this ornament in a way sug gesting that Mr. Maekay bought them by the wholesale. In addition to this being the finest and most artistic piece of jew elry eyer put together in this country, it is also the most expensive. Mr. Macjfeay is especially interested in Miss Fair. He and her father were old friends together many years ago, when neither lt*ul ever seen a diamond except through the plate glass window of a jew eler's store, and when neither would even dream of buying one, even if they were as low in price aB $t each. A few years later both men. profiting by the fortunes of mining, had "more money than they knew what to do with. On this ornament are flowers and pat terns artistically -worked in diamonds and gold. When Miss Fair wears this on the front of her dress there will be no room for any Other ornaments. In fact, the dress underneath might be of the Page 5.—Kingdom Continued: The Book of the D«v—I Loved Her So. Page 6.—Editorial: Georgians of the Fif ties—The Filipinos’ Literature—The Se cret of Happiness—The Point in Pun ning—London and New York—Profit From Waste—Shelley's Death—A Feat of Memory—The First Silver Wedding— Five Arab Maxims—Are Men Neator Than Women?—In Love. With Celebri ties—Conditions of the Hair—Sweet heart, My Own—Fiction Pays Better. Than a Gold Mine. Page 7.—Adolph Ludwig, short story. Page S.—Our Boys and Girls: Don't Cry —What Could You Do?—Jack the In ventor—Miscellany. Page 9.—Youths' Page Continued: Sun day School Lesson—A Photographic Deception—Diplomacy — Kills Without Hitting—The Puzzler—Money in Alaska —Impersonal Writing. Page 10.—Confederate Vet’s Page: Gen eral Evans’ Orders for Charleston Con vention—A Forged Order—The Bookish Bootblack—Our First Fight on Water- Feminine Vanity—A Bouquet. Page ll.—For Love of Sigrid, conclusion. 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