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Show SOLDIER )UNG tEB 5 weds daugh. CF SECRETARY OF 8TATE. BRILLIANT AFFAIR A teldent, Vice President and Other Distinguished Guests Present-Un-ion Is Purely a Love Match. i In the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt, the fesident and Mrs. Fairbanks, l( Justices of the supreme court and eir wives, several senators, rep relatives and other distinguished jests, Miss Edith Root on Wednesday came the wife of Ulysses Simpson Irant 3d, Lieutenant United States x ' Sglneer corps. The wedding was generally recog-,!ze- d at the capital as being the sec-:r- j in social and official Importance lat has taken place during the Roose-tl- t administration, there being only sa Interest in the marriage than In iat which centered about the mar--ag- e of Miss Roosevelt to Mr. Long-orth- . Washington. and bride is the only daughter of retary of State and Mrs. Ellhu The while the groom, from his name, is if General Grant, his fcneral Frederick Dent it, iows as everyone the grandson father being Grant of the MRS. U. 3. GRANT. jinny. Lieutenant Grant is a nephew of Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Stryker of Hamilton college, who was for several years the pastor I of the Fourth PreBbyterian church at Rush and Superior streets, Chicago, I and who was a college friend of Sec-- I retary of State Root, a friendship that li to be made the closer by the marriage of the secretarys son to the college presidents daughter. The tying of the. bonds united two young people who are very much in love with each other. There is not a whisper in any quarter that position or name had the least thing In the world to do with the engagement The former Miss Root has always rather shunned the gayer life of the capital, and Lieutenant Grant has never been any too fond of it He is studious, and so is his bride and both are of domestic Inclinations. It was a good American wedding, with Cupids heart engaged In every detail. i The cards of Invitation to the wedding read as follows: wish of the secretary of state and hi? family, too, for that matter, was to have the wedding company as small as possible, and the ceremony marked by attending simplicity. Of the grooms family there were present his father and mother, General and Mrs. Grant; his aunts, Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartorls and Mrs. Potter Palmer, and several of his first cousins, one of whom, Mrs. Sartorls daughter Vivian, not long ago married Frederick Roosevelt Scovcl, a cousin of President Roosevelt, and so, although rather Indirectly, a connection Is established between the Root and the Roosevelt families by the Root-Gramarriage. The Root residence, where the ceremony took place, belongs to former Levi P. Morton, who occupied it for months between the times of the leaving of Count Cassini, who leased it for the Russian embas-sa- y quarters, and its renting for residence purposes by Secretary Root While the wedding party was comparatively small, the house is big enough to hold a multitude. It stands on a triangular piece of ground with Scott Circle at one end, Fifteenth street at the other end and a street on each side. Lieutenant Grant and Miss Root were married In the great south room on the first floor of the residence, a room which Is as long as the house itself. It is a huge drawing-rooknown in the days when the Countess Cassini presided over social affairs in the residence as the "yellow room." Miss Root had no bridesmaids. Several of Lieutenant Grant's classmates and other army officer friends were present at the wedding, and bis cousin, Potter Palmer, Jr., of Chicago, was his best man. After the wedding Lieutenant Grant and his bride left for a short honeymoon trip. They will go to Clinton, N. Y., to be present, December 7, at the wedding of the brides brother and Miss Stryker. From there Lieutenant Grant will take his bride directly to Boston, where In the suburb of Brookline there Is a pretty little bouse awaiting their occupanry. The house was selected by the bride whose mother recently has Interested herself In furnishing it completely for housekeeping. Lieutenant Grant was ordered a short time ago from Washington to Boston to carry on his engineering duties under the direction of Major Edward Burr, who has charge of the river and harbor work along the Massachusetts coast Miss Root made her debut in New York several seasons ago and has twice been a cabinet girt although Bhe was extremely young when her father was secretary of war In President McKinleys second administration. She is a gifted linguist an accomplished musician, and Is devoted to outdoor sports. She is an expert horsewoman, and her smart trap la familiar to all the uptown sections of Washington. Lieut Grant has served as military aid at the white house during the last two seasons, acting with CapL Fitzhugh Lee, Jr., and Lieut Philip Sheridan. 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-sen- e of Russia, who was Miss Julia Dent Grant, and the oly child of the Grant family born In the white house. Lieut Grant's early education was obtained In Europe while his father and was minister to Austria-Hungary marriage of their daughter EDITH to LIEUT. ULTSSES S. GRANT, Id, United Statee Corps of Engineers, on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 27th of November, at four o'clock at 1500 Rhode Island avenue. In the City of Washington. Present at the wedding were Ellhu Jr., and Miss Allda Stryker, daughter of Dr. M. Woolscy Stryker, president of Hamilton college. Mr. Root, who Is the oldest son of the secretary of state, will marry Miss Stryker Just ten days from the day that saw his sister married to Lieutenant Grant Tbo Invitations to the wedding were restricted as far as Washington was concerned to the' persons who "must be invited." The local Invitations were about 230 In number and they Included only the closest family friends and those persons who hold such official positions that they had to of necessity be Invited to be present Invitntlons greatly The Root, LIEUT. U. 8. GRANT 3D. 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 the United States and was graduated In 1898, when he at once joined bis father In Porto Rico, where he had his first experience In warfare. At the end of a year ho 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 outnumbered those given Tn WashingUnited States, was ordered to Washfew ton. but there were comparatively of the guests present The ington barracks. n mnrrr 1,1,111 A Wireless Addenda. Bacon I see a Japanese elec-- I has Invented a wireless system la asserted to be superior to Inst now In use. Gracious me! Are bus-tim- in . Bacon in style once more, really? kers Statesman. World's Submarine Cablet. altogether 1.750 I world contains 200,000 totullng ,rlne cables, in length and dropped Into their r bod I cost f f27G.000.000. Plagues of Nerve Sufferers. There Is a class of welldnflnod "phobias," as they are called, with which nerve sufferers are plagued. "Monophobia," or fear of being alone; or fear of closcd ln "castrophobla, crowdtf or of broad open spaces; a "gorapliobta," or fear of or fear of not going somnlaphobla, to deep, and many others. The one great remedy for all these and similar mental miseries, writes Dr. Samuel McComb tn Good Housekeeping, ii . DEPENDS UPON POINT OF VIEW. A SONG. than the Many a man Is worth lt insurauco he carries. man Airs assumed by the are mostly fresh airs. The average girl would rathe' have freckles than a low Instep. s A womans figure, like her age, sometimes a doubtful quantity. When a woman has a train of thought it's apt to be an unlimited express. The easier It is to pump a man the less the Information you get out of him is worth. ' A man may have a fondness for widows, and still fed that a Miss la as good as a Mrs. Only a man whose foolishness exceeds his bravery would ever attempt to stop the runaway tongue of a woman. The primary cause of divorce la Not all the coM of tho arctic aonoa, Nor all the chilling wind that blow; Not all the winter's monotone, Nor mountain of Ice and mow Would ever chill me through ant selt-iead- Vice-Preside- The Secretary of State and Mrs. Root request the pleasure of the company of at the SHAH OF PERSIA e ln-a- p through As Just one unkind word from you. Nor could the wsimth of tropic sun, Though It were binr.'ng on my head, Remove the bl.giit that had been done, When that one hitler word was eald. o fire that earth or Heaven may hold, Onld warm me If your love growa cold iMrolt Free Press. THE DREAM AND THE REALITY I; marriage. man Bhould be on the square. Give the devil his due. If you don't there is the devil to pay. People who are suspicious always find what they are looking for. A woman may be as young as she feels, hut she Is generally older than she thinks she looks. There Is a certain brand of ChrisLove at first sight, or nearly won b tian who feels that paying pew rent entitles him to a reserved seat In a neck. heaven. Bunkoed. Tbe man who boasts of his wicked"What is tbe matter. Uncle JlmT ness is seldom to be believed any "Matter? Why those blamed city more than tbe man who prates of bis fishermen are the biggest fabricator! piety. on the face of the earth. "In what way? TOUJOURS LA POLITESSE. "Why, they told me there was th finest kind of spoon fishing in thli stream. Here I have been flshlni four hours with every kind of a spoon from a kitchen spoon to a silver tea spoon, and, by heck, Jw haven't got s much as a nibble yet!" Chtcagc Daily News. An d His Platform as Amended. shouted the orator bringing his fist down with a resound lng thwack on the desk before him Is, 'Leave well enough alone! Beg pardon," whispered the chair man of the meeting, an eminent Bos ton citizen, pulling his coat taili Let well enough alone' ii gently. the preferable form. Chicago Tri bune. My platform," a iMvmM. H. Y. His Imperial Majesty Mohammed All wearing the Kajar crown. unique photograph of the Persian rutar Is the only one In existence. Urea (Uieocmph, oopjriht, kj Vaterwood NOT STRENUOUS. This WOMAN RAISES MICE MISS LATHROP FINDS RODENT FARM IS PROFITABLE. These she keeps in the house, where there will be no danger of chill from They are exceedingly funny litairily up and down the cage floor, Instead of gliding along as their commoner brothers do. The mice are kept In small pens, usually a dozen or so In each, and these are ranged down the house or shed, several tierB high, on both sides of a center aisle. The mice shrink back Into tbe corner of their cages when & stranger Is In the house, but they seem to recognize Miss Lathrop's voice and will rush to tbe front of their pens when she appears. They require constant care and watching. Food and water must be regularly supplied, and all the cages and the number of Inhabitants in each must be constantly watched, for they breed so rapidly they have to be continually shifted over Into new cages. Often she finds so many mice In a pen that a few hours more would mean serious difficulty, and If she were not constantly shipping them off she would be overrun with them. To feed them she puts In as much as 6100 worth of grain and also several tons of green forage. cold. tle creatures, always waltzing Supplies Medical Colleges and Universities with Anlmali for Experiment-Waltzing Mice Have Great Market Value. Boston. In the face of all tradition about woman's insane fear of a rat or a mouse, Miss Abble E. C. Lathrop, of Granby, Mass., Is earning her living by managing a rat and mice farm. She says frapkly she was born with a fear of the rodent . tribe, but soon conquered it when she found there was money in them. Miss Lathrop has at present more than 1,600 rats and mice of every variety, which she tender cares for and will put on the market as fast as they can be prepared. The stock Is all carefully penned and, in spite of their gnawing abilities, it is rare that a rat or mouse escapes. Miss Lathrop began breeding mice as a business about five years ago and the Industry has grown rapidly. She began with a few boxes In an old shed. She soon needed more boxes and now the whole place. Inside and outside, Is fairly alive with mice. One house has been built exclusively for them, and every available inch of shed room about the place has been utilized. Miss Lathrop will put up still more buildings, and says she has no idea to what limits the Industry may go. y It seems as If there would be no market for mice, but here Is a good one. At first they went wholly to bird stores and fanciers to be sold again as pets. They also figured In window displays where, with training, they performed little tricks. Then there came a big demand for waltzing mice. Later a still more promising field opened up and Is her best paying line, namely, supplying medical colleges with mice for experimentation. The University of Philadelphia and the medical departments of various other Institutions throughout the country now have become her regular customers and she ships mice to them every month. The little creatures are Inoculated for all sorts of disease, their condition carefully watched and the progress of the disease noted and recorded. So great during the past year has been the call for mice that Mias Lathrop has hardly been able to ship them fast enough and has been obliged to refuse many orders. In addition to the mice and ra's Mias Lathrop has about 200 guinea pigs and a large number of ferrets. The waltzing mire she Is particularly careful of, for they are rare specimens and possess great market value. SELLS HIS OLD COFFIN. Harold (seated on fathers knee In crowded tramcar, has been told to always give up hla seat to a lady who Is standing) Will you take my seat, lady? The Exception. "Slow and sure," remarked the man with the quotation habit, "is a good motto." "But," protested the thoughtful thinker, "there is one thing that can never be slow and sure. Whats that?" queried the quotation dispenser. A watch. replied the t.. Chicago Daily News. t Had Tried Politics. Great Statesman (to married daughter) My dear, your husband will never amount to anything If you don't spur him on. Why dont you persuade him to go Into politics? Daughter But, pa, he has tried, and be cant Btand It The whisky makes Miss Brlnmore Oh! Mr. Prince him sick. N. Y. Weekly. vard, I heard that you were "left back on the varsity team? A DOUBTFUL INVITATION. back al. Prlncevard the garret. , "But my wife tells me that styles have changed, and, since I have accumulated a little fortune, she will not permit me to die unless I consent to casket. To avoid get an trouble I agreed to sell tho old one. "But at tho same time, I think that the coffin which was good enough fo-In my poorer days should satisfy me now, and I shall always feel out affair. of place In the new-fangle- Im left jk x V 1 V It Wouldn't Go. Widow (sobbing) We will have t break off our Intended marriage. Suitor (dismayed) Wbat on eartl Is the matter? Widow I told my daughter tbit morning 1 was going to get married again, and she objected. Suitor What did she say? Widow She said the Idea made be tired so tired, that she could not and would not go a Haiti more American. i. v i Btop-fathe- r. Is Out of Style, So Aged Man's Wife Has Him Dispose of It Hatton, Ta. Isaac Coffman a few days ago sold a coffin he had made many years ago. He sold It, not because he felt be would have no use for It. but because his wife Insisted that It was out of date. Mr. Coffman Is nearing his eightieth birthday. He explained to a friend that he constructed the coffin 20 years ago, at a time when plans for future had to be made. It was built of chestnut, because, as be put It: "Many's the time I have sat beside a cheery blaze of chestnut logs and heard them crackle and burn merrily. It makes such a homelike blaze that I picked It In preference to other woods. "It was my desire to make the coffin as cozy as possible, and I rejected the frivolities which so many per sons affect In the matter of coffins. In order to havo It handy I kept It In Yes, right, the captain thought I wasn't quite up to the mark. Stranger (to extremely old gent, who has asked him the way) Im a goln that way meself. mate. Better come with me, theres a lot o rough characters about. near-sighte- d Accounting for It "Do you know, dear, our gas mas is a poet." That accounts for th "Humph! Baltk rapid flow of his meter. more American. KEEPING HIM QUIET. Revenge. "Wasn't It embarrassing to stand up and recite that piece before tho company, after overhearing that odious Miss Tartun Bay it always mado her sick to hear you read?" asked the Intimate friend. "No, It was fun," answered tho amateur elocutionist. "It was the keenest pleasure in tho world to know I was making her sick." Chicago Tribune. Carlsbad 8prlngi. Pikes Dla paper Sandy sRys science concedes dat do world Is going Insane. Gritty George Don't doubt It in de least, pard. I read de other day where a man traveled 4.0u0 miles to drink water. Think of dat! Chicago Dully News. Stopped. "Tompkins doesn't run people down the way he used to. "No? Ho sold hts automobile." No. Milwaukee Sentinel. 1 tv .'5 5V' Ik, iJGArrj ffit (i t k'vtl N i 7 f! s Tired Business Man Ive a split ting hoklarhe. For goodness' sake, take those things sway from Harry. Wife I dare not, dour. It Is b only way to keep him q ilet. |