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THE “FIRST LADY OF LONDON" |
most popular and respected women in English society. She is tall and hand
some, and possesses that dignity which is so highly valued in this country.
Although she has never entertained on a big scale, her affairs are pop
ular and there is keen competition to be numbered among her guests. Her
town house in Prince’s Gate, fronts on the south side of Hyde Park, a
couple of doors west of the London home of J. Pierpont Morgan, in which the
American banker shelters his unrivalled collection of art treasures.
PAYS HOMAGE TO A SERVANT
On the eve of his departure for the
land of the heather and thistle, the
Laird of Skibo bade farewell to one of
his servants who had been in the serv
ice for 23 years. The occasion was
made a gala one in the servants’ hall
at the Fifth avenue mansion, New
York, the Carnegie family participat
ing in the function and being no small
part of it.
Skibo castle will be minus its head
house maid in the person of Miss Mag
gie Anderson. In giving her best
years in service, Miss Anderson devel
oped some of the thrift for which the
iron master is famous, and announced
some time since she was going to open
a public house in Edinburgh. That is
her home town, but the only living
member of her family is a brother out
in San Francisco.- She planned to pay
the brother a visit, and the laird pre
sented her with a round trip ticket to
the metropolis of the Pacific coast.
This was not all he did. He present-
ed her with a handsome gold watch and a life pension of SSOO a year. In
the servants’ hall were gathered all the help of the big mansion at eight
o’clock. The haughty Jeems of the upper hall condescended to lend his dignity
to the occasion and beamed on simple Sandy from the stables. The house maid
fraternized with the cook, the butler with the groom. It was a truly harmo
nious family gathering.
Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie and their daughter Margaret, still in her teens,
and the idol of servants’ hall, and Miss Whitfield, the sister of Mrs. Carnegie,
were all present. The laird presented the watch to the blushing and a bit
flustrated Maggie, and expressed the regrets of the family at her leaving.
SUGGESTED AS VICE-REINE
people gave to “lan” Churchill for his victories in protection of the "low coun
tries.” The duchess would make a most dignified, queenly hostess. Only one
circumstance seems to bar the way between her and the dream which she
has cherished when the Marlborough marriage was made —her domestic es
trangement. This, however, appears to be drawing to a welcome close.
Queen Mary has expressed her desire that the duke and duchess should
forgive, forget, and begin all over again. And it is hinted that if the proud
Consuela consents to be pacified, the vice regal coronet will grace her brow.
NEW QUEEN TO BRING GAIETY |
Alexandrine, the new queen of Den
mark, promises to delight her subjects.
Queen Louise lived austerely, despite
her great wealth (more than $15,000,-
000), and the French blood in her veins
that come from the Bernadotte line
to which she belonged. It is said of
her that she never attended a theatri
cal performance or a ball. Queen Alex
andrine is far more pleasure-loving,
ai& the court, when the period of
n»Urning has passed, may well be ex-
I®ted to take on a gaiety it has not
S^wn for some years. The queen is
a sister of the crown princess of Ger
niany. Their mother is Grandduchess
A^stasia, a shining light in society on
tk^ Riviera, whose liveliness and un
cpnventionality sometimes make Em
peror William nervous.
Though Queen Louise is rich in her
own right, she is thrifty, and as she
held the purse strings during her hus
bhnd’s reign, the Danish royal family
nlaihtains its reputation of being pov-
■ erty stricken. Denmark can afford to pay her sovereign only about $250,000
» year, which is not enough to support royal state to compare with the other
European monarchs, whose Civil list (salaries) run into millions.
,Many Americans are already among the intimates of Christian and Alex
ai^ine. Mrs. Robert Goelet is an especial friend of the latter, and last sum
when Mrs. Goelet visited Copenhagen on her yacht Nahma she was en
tertained extensively by the then crown princess.
'The new king audqaeen follqw the example of Frederick, whose admira
ti^f ot-Ihe United ‘ States ,was'sq great that he read American newspaper?
daHffand was a close studeiif of American literature.
By the election of her husband
to the important position of chairman
x of London county council, Lady
w Cheylesmore, an American woman, be
■ comes in a sense the “First Lady of
1 London.” The county council, of
I course, is the real governing body of
I the greater city, and the position of
I chairman corresponds in a general
J way to that of mayor of a city like
41 New York, the so-called lord mayor of
n London “ruling” over only the old city
II of London —about a square mile in
P area.
\ Furthermore, "Lord Chayleamore
A himself is half American. His mother
L was Charlotte Harman of New Orleans
and he is a living example of
i the advantage of wedding the hus
* tling, practical qualities of the Amer
ican with the liberal conservative qual
ities of the best English aristocracy.
Lady Cheylesmore, who was Elizabeth
French, daughter of F. 0. French of
New York, has become one of the
When the first Irish parliament
since the dawning of the nineteenth
century assembled in the “Old House
at College Green,” Dublin, where the
eloquence of Grattan and Flood stirred
the Europe of their time, an American
woman may stand at the throne, listen
ing to her titled husband reading the
king’s speech Inaugurating home rule
in Ireland. This great day, so soon to
come, is the talk of town and country
in the British isles.
The question that has rocked the
politics of the three kingdoms to the
foundations of political life has ceased
to be political. Its social side is what
now appeals most rapturously to vola
tile Ireland and gay, dashing, fun lov
ing Dublin.
Two women are most prominently
spoken of as the likeliest to lead the
new regime as vice-reine of Ireland.
The first is Consuela, duchess of Marl
borough, the self separated mistress of
Blenheim palace, which the English
CLOUDS ARE LIKE SNOW PEAK
Heavens at Certain Time of Day Re
semble Gigantic Glaciers in
the Alps.
Berne, Switzerland. —Whoever has
traveled in the western states or in
Europe knows the beauty and under
stands the fascination of snow moun
tains.
At places like Pau, from which on
a clear day the whole range of the
Pyrenees is visible, or Bern, from
which, when the weather la favorable,
can be seen the glaciers of the giants
among the Oberland Alps, at such
places travelers will wait for hours
and even for days for the clouds to lift
in order to see this sight which is
so wonderful. Yet I have often ob
served at home great white clouds
heaped on the horizon which had the
same majestic beauty as a distant
view of the Alps, the Pyrenees or the
Rockies. And no one has stopped to
look at them twice or to admire them.
The rosy glow on the Alps at sun
set, to see which people will even de
sert their dinners, the pink glow of
In the Shadow of the Ice Mountains,
sunrise that entices them from their
beds in the small hours of the morn
ing—these sights which are so en
chanting in their loveliness are sur
passed by the coloring of the moun
tainous cumuli that without going a
step out of your way you may fre
quently see at evening in the western
sky.
This thought which has so often
passed through my mind was recalled
by a sentence written by Sir Francis
Younghusband in a book describing
Kashmir: “Early in September the at
mosphere- has been freshened and
cooled by the rains which, though they
fall lightly in the valley itself, are
often heavy in the surrounding moun
tains. The sun is still powerful in
the daytime and the sky unusally
bright and clear. But the monsoon
will often make a few final efforts.
One such day I noted when volumin
ous masses of cloud rolled up behind
the Pin Panjal to a height of twenty
five or thirty thousand feet, their west
ern edges aglow from the setting sun
and showing clear and distinct against
the background of pinky blue sky,
while the great main volume remain
ed dark, heavy and somber, with now
and then a split of lightning flashing
out, and on the far side, away from
the setting sun, threatening tentacles
stretched out across the valley in un
availing effort to reach the mountains
on the northern side. Under these
mighty monsoon masses even the
great mountains looked dwarfed and
puny. It was a great and final effort
of that stupendous natural phenomen
on which bears the waters of the In
dian ocean to beat upon the Hima
laya.”
Nothing could give to people who
have never seen a mighty range of
mountains a better idea of their ap
pearance than the great clouds that
pile themselves just above the distant
landscape. The soft, rounded sum
mits are more beautiful than the sharp
outlines of the mountain ridges, but
the mountains are so often veiled in
clouds that the similarity of effect is
striking and often in the neighbor
hood of some great snow covered
range one is uncertain whether it is
the actual heights or the clouds that
one perceives from a distance.
WET CHEMICALS FOR FUEL
Inventor Thinks He Has Found Sub
stitute for Coal —Liquid Used to
Heat Boiler.
Darby, Pa—After working on the
principle for a long time, George ,
Smith, a well known hot water heater
expert, believes he has perfected a
compound that will do away with coal
as a medium for heat.
Smith’s invention, which he says
will heat a house at a temperature of
70 degrees in winter and maintain it
at that in the coldest winter weather,
is an elaboration of the principle of
heat generation in water by chemical
combustion.
The best units generated play on a
wrought iron boiler, instead of cast
iron, and thus have the advantage of
heating water quicker, because this
metal is not as thick and yet it is
stronger than cast iron. Once the wa
ter is heated to a certain point it be
gins to circulate through the pipes.
Say* There Is No Middle Class.
Montclair, N. J. —At the closing ses
sion of the New Jersey State Federa
tion of Woman’s Clubs here Mrs.
Florence Howe Hall, one of the dele
gates, a daughter of the late Julia
Ward Howe, objected to the use of
the term middle class by Mrs. Setk
Abrams, another delegate, in referring
to the need for playgrounds in cities.
“It is a term copied from an English
aristocracy,” said Mrs. Hall, “and we
do not want It. W’e are a democracy.
We have no ‘middle class.’ We alj
belong td the first class.”
RAISING HORSES FOR GENERAL
FARM WORK MADE PROFITABLE
Possible to Breed Farm Mares and Make Lucrative Busi
ness Out of Colts at Very Small Expense—With
Large Animals There Is Better Profit in
Raising Mule Colts.
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. .. —a—
Champion Sire Stallion, “Tatton Harold."
The matter of supplying teams for a
farm of any size is one that is a mat
ter of importance from the purely
business standpoint, as well .an from
personal Interest. There was a time
when this question was very general
for farmers who had land at all suit
able for the business to raise their
own colts to supply the deficiency
from time to time in the teams for
farm work.
It is less so now in these days when
making a specialty of things has
reached the point that seems almost
a craze. I am old fogy enough to like
the “good old ways,” says a writer in
the Farm Progress, and I still think
that on the great majority of farms, if
not absolutely all of them, it will pay
to raise all the colts that may be
needed for use on the farm, and any
more that can be raised without inter
fering with the farm work.
There has not often, if ever, been a
time in the last two generations when
it did pay to raise good horses. And
now, although power vehicles and
power-driven implements have cer
tainly taken the place of a vast num
ber of horses, first-class animals are
Belling at as good prices as they ever
did. Consequently, there is profit in
the business, even if at times it is a
little inconvenient.
The thrifty farmer will generally
make something out of every depart
ment, if possible, on the farm where
general farming is done. The amount
that can be made will depend alto
gether on the capacity of the individ
ual to supply the executive ability
needed to do justice to a variety of
Interests.
Not long ago I took a drive of ten
miles with a man who was taking me
to his home on the farm. He was driv
ing a sorrel mare of about medium
weight, and extremely quick and alert
in her movements. She was not fast,
but seemed to go along at a good,
steady trot, and was reeling off not
MAKE THE CROP
FIT THE SOIL
Farmer Needs to Study Require*
meats of Various Crops He
Grows and Plan for
Rotation.
(By W. M. KELLEY.)
There is no use in trying to achieve
success with a soil not fitted to the
crop. We must make a more intelli
gent study of the selection of crops
that are better adapted to our soils
and that can be made to return larger
and more certain profits. There is
something that is very interesting
'about the preference of crops for cer
tain soils and climates.
One of the first things for farmers
to learn is to find out which crops are
best adapted to his soil and grow
them on his farm. He needs to study
the requirements of the various crops
that he grows and plan his rotation
of crops so that each crop may be
grown under the most favorable con
ditions.
While I am a staunch friend of sta
ble manure and constantly urging the
keeping of more and better farm
stock, yet I can see the necessity of
facing the situation in a practical man
ner.
The average farmer has reached a
point where stable manure will not
supply the adequate amount of plant
food to produce the maximum yield of
grain and other farm crops, and the
only sensible thing to do is to supply
the deficient elements.
.• The generality of soils on our stock
farms are deficient in mineral fertil
ity, especially phosphorus, and it is
clearly to our interest to supply this
one element to our soils if we fit the
soils to the needs of our crops.
On soils possessing an abundance of
humus and nitrogen wd may purchase
the phosphorus in the form of the raw
ground phosphate rock and mix it
with the stable manure, but on soils
that are lacking in humus and nitro-
less than a mile in five minutes. Her
activity and quick movements made
me think she was a young mare, as
she had none of the appearance of age.
I said to the owner, “That mare looks
like a mare it would pay to get some
colts from.”
“I have been breeding her, but have
quit now,” he replied. "She will soon
be twenty-one years old, and I have
had fourteen colts from her since she
was seven. They were all good, and
the youngest, now six months old,
looks as good as any of the rest did.”
This mare had been doing farm work
mostly during all that time, and was
used a great deal for driving, because
she was quick and always ready to go.
The fourteen colts no doubt averaged
$l5O as three-year-olds. A few years ago
I had a mare with the same qualities
from which I got some splendid colts,
used her for farm work as well as driv
ing; still she was twenty-five years
old when she died from an acute at
tack of colic. Some of her colts sold
as high as $175 each.
Os course, it is sometimes a little
annoying to either drive or plow with
a mare with a young colt, but fall
colts, as a rule, do not give nearly so
much trouble as those that come in
the spring. This makes it possible to
breed farm mares and make a profita
ble business out of colts at a very
small expense. I never half-starved
our colts. When foaled in the fall
they were ready to run to pasture by
spring, and it is a very poor farmer
who cannot supply ample pasturage
for colts at least nine months in the
year. But with plenty of clover hay,
or pea hay, colts can get along with
very little grazing or grain.
If, therefore, any one is in a posi
tion to get some colts from work
mares I would counsel them, by all
means, to breed them. In most cases,
with large mares, there is a better
profit in breeding to a jack and raising
mule colts.
gen better results will be obtained by
using acid phosphate, which is read
ily available to the growing crops.
With clover and manure plowed un
der, to liberate potash, and supple
mented with this purchased phospho
rus, the fertility problem will be
solved on the average stock farm. On
many types of soil potash will be
needed, but the average stock farm
in the middle west has plenty of pot
ash locked up in its soil to produce
good crops for a hundred years or
more.
READY RESULTS
FROM A DAIRY
Cow Is Constant Quantity as Far
as Her Production Is Con*
cerncd — Regular
Money Crop.
The great value of dairying in con
nection with mixed or diversified
.arming is that the cow is a constant
quantity, so far as her production of
milk is concerned. She can be banked
on more than poultry, hogs or field
crops to yield a constant amount of
salable products every week, if she
is given a variety of good feeds and
general good care.
This cash coming in at regular and
frequent intervals from dairying en
ables the farmer of moderate means
to use the money to good advantage
as it is needed, for general running
expenses and making things go. For
this reason the average dairyman
should become prosperous and have
a well-improved farm.
The only regular money crop for
the farm ,is that which comes from
the dairy house. Every week the milk
and butter goes out and the money
comes back.
The modern dairyman seldom has
to go to the bank to borrow money to
t.de him over till he sells his crops,
because he is selling his crops -every
week. ■
Even the thirst for glory may have
its direful after effects.
For years Garfield Tea has been on the mar
ket. This must mean a remedy worth while.
How He'Got Them.
“Dat feller’ Rastas Sklnnah done
bin talkin’ a powahful lot ’bout how
he's a-raisin’ chickens.”
“Sho’ He doan' mean ‘raisin’,’ he
means ’liftin’.” —Catholic Standard and
Times.
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For COMM and CRIP
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lieves the aching and feTerishnsss—cures the
Cold and restores normal conditions. It's
liquid—effects immediately. 10c., Z6c.. and 50c.
At drug stores
Some people are so wrapped up in
themselves as to suggest human balls
of twine. 5
Easily Answered.
“These kids I teach aren’t a bis
slow,” observed a school teacher yes
terday. “In fact, I’m afraid they read
the papers. The other day I proposed
the following problem to my arith
metic class:
“ ‘A rich man dies and leaves sl,-
000,000. One-fifth is to go to his wife,
one-sixth to his son, one-seventh to
his daughter, one-eighth to his broth
er and the rest to foreign missions.
What does each get?’
“ ‘A lawyer,’ said the littlest boy in
the class.”—Case and Comment.
Not Reliably Informed.
The gentleman who wore evening
clothes and the remnants of a jag at
9 o’clock in the morning was clinging
to the footboard of a crowded surface
car in Chicago. As the car rounded a
sharp curve with a jerk the person in
incongruous apparel fell quickly and
heavily to the cobblestones. He was
picked up by the strong hands of the
conductor and about 20 passenger^.
"Collision?” he asked in a dignified
one of voice.
“No,” said the conductor.
“Off the track?” further questioned
the victim of the accident.
“No,” sai^ the conductor.
“Well,” concluded he of the jag, “if
I had known that I wouldn't have got
off.” —Popular Magazine.
Oddities of Justice.
That the whole theory of penal
codes Is practically unsound and op
posed to the modern conceptions of
the relation of the state to crime, is
the contention of Eugene Smith of the
New York bar, writing In the May
number of Case and Comment, the
lawyers’ magazine. Illustrating the ab
surdity and disparity between penalty
for crimes In different states, Mr.
Smith says: "The average sentence
for perjury In Florida is ten years, in
Maine one year; for larceqy, in Dela
ware ten years, in the District of Co
lumbia ten months; the penalty for ar
son in Pennsylvania is twice that of
burglary, but in Connecticut the guilt
of burglary Is twice that of arson; the
guilt of counterfeiting in Ohio is twice _.
that of perjury, but in Rhode Island
the guilt of perjury is twice that of
counterfeiting.
A HIGHER TRIBUTE.
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Sam —Dat Miss Snowflake, she am a
peach.
Pete —G’long! She am a watahmil
llon!
WELL POSTED.
A California Doctor With Forty Years’
Experience.
"In my forty years’ experience as a
teacher and practitioner along hy
gienic lines,” says a Los Angeles
physician, "I have never found a food
to compare with Grape-Nuts for the
benefit of the general health of all
classes of people.
"I have recommended Grape-Nuts
for a number of years to patients with
the greatest success and every year’s
experience makes me more enthusias
tic regarding its use.
“I make it a rule to always recom
mend Grape-Nuts, and Postum in place
of coffee, when giving my patients in
structions as to diet, for I know both
Grape-Nuts and Postum can be digest
ed by anyone.
“As for myself, when engaged in
1 much mental work my diet twice a
day consists of Grape-Nuts and rich
cream. I find it just the thing to
build up gray matter and keep the
■ brain in good working order.
1 “In addition to its wonderful effects
’ as a brain and nerve food Grape-Nuts
always keeps the digestive organs in
perfect, healthy tone. I carry it with
1 me when I travel, otherwise I am al
! most certain to have trouble with my
stomach.” Name given by Postum Co.,
' Battle Creek, Mich.
Strong endorsements like the above
from physicians all over the country
have stamped Grape-Nuts the most
scientific food in the world. “There’s
i a reason.” :
1 Look in pkgs, for the famous little
bock, “The Road to Wellville.”
Fiver read <lie above letter! A-new
one appear* from time to time. They
nre genuine, true, and full of human
Intereat.
