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MA4DAZINE SECTrION. PAGES I TO '4 WI-NN-SBORO-. S. C., WEDN-\ESDAY, APRilL 4, i906. ETBIHD14 MOST BEAUTIFUL WOM . MRS. WALTER FARWELL OF CHICAGO AND WASHINGTON IS HOLDING THE HONOR. Is Daughter of the Wife of Stephen A. Douglass, Herself a Famous Belle. Husband's Father Began Life a Poor Boy. Who is the most beautiful woman in America? This was the question re cently propounded in connection with the preparation of a Beauty Book which was designed to sell at some thing like twenty-five dollars per copy. It was intended to present in the ex pensive volume portraits of the hand somest women in each of the princi pal American cities but one member of the fair sex was to be selected as preeminently the most beautiful crea ture in Miss Columbia's domain. Naturally there was great rivalry for the honor and the persons who sat In judgment upon the photographs of beautiful women which were submit ted in the contest had a rather difficult time to reach a decision. Finally, the choice fell upon Mrs. Walter Farwell of Washington, D. C.. and Chicago who was a bride of but a few months when the mooted question was decided in her favor. In arriving at a decision the judges studied the features of each subject critically just as a per ..M...S..WALT; (P so ihtfde h oo uliiso a itr ndteaad a aet Mr. areB astepsssrfth the deision fdg the godmittelitie may be sid nd simpe awrd thas made tof Mrs. Farwel' liente ssesor ofsthce mrathe typre o pefetioineveryt asthbue "Gibsonil" beathy.edr u peretige;eto a marol cleo compl eiosedai toa find tinged with She decsioen ofatemouee sitc may feid ne sipetrut that benone ol' thrst, ares rathernee o ther josticr Shistall, surpassmein graefu puo pefethfue; a a arouslyeauty. Mrs.exc a thates tined wiath gold anghfu aheryitfrmte manner She has temo famous eautyc she ther best, eore her marriagte mrs. tisticllygw w omeMss ined uillims Morhaps this aam os Bea uty.s ofrsu Freer come the hde beauty pa ightu hriaso the mother o this statel beaty faofs theapresent eday. Bnefreer arr Mrs.pe Augh unulf tofof the olefecrtoe oetu eaofehs but the hdesfnfa ofsa th geatey beauty of the peen iod. Some time after- the death of Ste phen A. Douglass his widow married Gen. Williams of the United States Army. For a time the couple lived in Washington but Gen. Williams who was a man of some note became so incensed at hearing himself referred to only as the husband of the former Mrs. Stephen A. Douglass that he se cured a transfer to a Western army post and remained in the wilds of western America for many years, not returning .a the capital city until his wife's Ler.uty was tess conspicuous than formerly and he was himself less sensitive on the sose of personal van It Miss Mildred williams was a greal belle from the very day that she madE her first formal bow to the social world. To be sure she had no dowei but her own marvelous beauty but shE made what the gossips pronounced a "great catch" when she married Wal ter Farwell of Chicago, one of the mos prominent young millionaires of the Windy City. Started with $10 Capital. Young Farwel is the son of ex-Sen ator Farwell who started in life as a poor boy at Painted Post, New York later removing to Illinois and eventu ally going to Chicago on a load o1 wheat with but $10 in his pocket He secured employment in the coun ty clerk's office; later became teller o1 a bank and finally established with hi brother the great dry goods business which to this day causes the name ol Farwell to be well known in mercan tile circles. In 1887 the Farwell broth ers built the Texas State Capitol re ceiving in payment therefor more than 3,000,000 acres of land. Much of this land they sold but considerable hold ings of it went to form a gigantic ranch which was stocked with 150,000 cattle and helped materially to swell the Farwell fortune. Both of .Ex-Senator Farwell's daugh. ters married men well known to the public so that the beautiful Mrs. Wal ter Farwell has two very prominent sisters-in-law. One is Mrs. Reginald De Koven, wife of the well known com V ......... .... 2R FAI2WELL. T BEAUTIEUL WOMAN IN AMER2ICA. poser of Robin Hood and other operas, and the other is Mrs. Hbart Chatfield Tayler, who has gained fame and for tune as a writer of novels. Mrs. Far well's home is in the beautiful family mansion in Chicago but she spends much of her time at the capital of the nation where she formerly resided and where her sister-in-law, Mrs. De Koven has a handeome home. Origa of' Easter. Easter is so called from the Saxoz goddess, Easter, or as others think from the Saxon, Oster,-to. rise. Ii the East the tlay is known as th4 "Bright Day", and in Bohemia as th( "Great Night." The Russian Easter. Easter Day is set apart for visitini In Russia. The men go to eaoh other' houses in the morning and introduct themselves by saying, "Jesus Christ it risen." The answer is, "Yes, He it risen." The people then embrace, givi each ether eggs, and drink a grea deal. They present a colored red egg to the priest of the parish on Eastel morning. The common people carra one of these red eggs in their band: upon Easter Day, and three or fou: days after. They use it in tokena o: the Resurrection, whereof they rejioice Oriental Egg Gamblers. Hyde in his description of Orienta sports, tells of one with eggs amoni the Christians of Mesopotamia or aster Day, and forty days afterward 'The sport consists in striking thei: eggs one against another, and the egs that first breaks is won by the owne: of the one that struck it. Immediate 1y another egg is pitted against the winning egg, and so on till the last egg wins all the others, which their re spective owners shall before havy won." The great majority of Italian immi grants cor..a from the southern pros Inces, mainly Sicily and Calabria. The: ea rm bred. FAMANKS IS ACT WORKING TO SECURE PLEDGES r FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOM. p INATION IN 190s. Is Sure of Indiana Delegation-Is Also Counting on Illinois, and Thinks Chances Good In Ohio-At Work in South. Vice-President Fairbanks is 6 feet, 3 inches in height, the tallest man in the Senate. He is also looming up pretty tall as a presidential candidate for 1908. Unless other candidates bestir them selves, Mr. Fairbanks will at no distant day. have a sufficient number of dele- P d( a b ti B tr ti -ti D ti ti ti of 1 a: b n q1 s VICE-PRESIDENT EAIRBANKS. W te gates pledged to make him the most formidable candidate for the nomina- or tion.a Mr. Fairbanks has had the Presi- p dential bee in his bonnet for many B1 years. He wa a great favorite of se President McKinley, and many persons je believe that Mr. McKinley desired to n( see Mr. Fairbanks succeed him in 13 the Presidential chair. p There have recently been long con ferences between Indiana politicians, v Mr. Fairbanks, and his friends, and n( there is good reason to believe that a se great deal has been accomplished in a! the way of perfecting the organization ni formed for the purpose of securing the h< Republican nomination for Indiana's is son two years hence. ti Beveridge Is in Line. f a Everything is said to be lovely for Mr. Fairbanks in Indiana. He has cleaned up the opposing faction in the p Republican party there, headed by the youthful Senator Beveridge, who is un- tj derstood to have responded so readily f. to the treatment applied that he now gives three cheers every time the name rc of Fairbanks is mentioned in his pres- tj ence. Senator Beveridge is no longer w in a position to hamper the progress of the Fairbanks' boom in Indiana. In dc the factional fight over the State chair- _ manship, Mr. Beveridge suffered an ig- ce nomiinious rout, and even if he does be not train with Mr. Fairbanks in the ui future, he will not actively oppose m him--.t Following Senator Hanna's Methods. us In his camp~:ai1 to secure delegates 0: for William Mcl nley in 1896, Marzus A. HEanna began his operations in the ' South. He had securely nailed down a that: section before the representatives i of other candidates had begun to work. " Mr. Hanna enlisted in the cause at number of young men, who went out P looking for delegates and got them. 9 Mr. Fairbanks knows something about J' the methods of Mr. Hanna, and his rep resentatives are now treating with ~ leading party men in the South. While a the Republican party in the South is ' shor-t on votes on election day, it is long on delegates in the national on vention. This fact is keenly appreci ated by Mr. Fairbanks. t Chances in l~lnois. The Vice-President is certain of in- 14 diana's delegates, and he is counting t* upon Illinois. Hils fortunes in that & State are in the hands of Charles G. ~ Dawes, former Comptroller of the Cur- a rency, one of Mr. Hanna's "young men"t in the pre-convention campaign made in the interest of the candidacy of Mr. ~ McKinley. Fairbanks had strong a-id. influential friends in Illinois and his ' chances of securing the delegation frc m that State are probably better than a those of any other man who has been mentioned for the Presidential nom ination, with the exception of Speaker ~ Cannon. Mr. Dawes is understood to. be the western manager of the Fair- a banks boom. At least, such a report was circulated recently, and it his Inever been C.enied. The Vice-President and his friends profess to believe the next standard bearer of the Republican .party will be a western man. Ohio has two favorite sons in the persons of Secretary Taft 4 and Senator Foraker. Both are very strong in Ohio and both are widely 1 and favorably known throughout the country. The Fairbanks men believe that the rivalry- of Taft and Foraker T will prevent either of them securir~g the ;imited support of Ohio's delegation T1 to the next convention. Therefore. Fairbanks is figuring en the Buckeye state. Some of the Hoosier's friends are very enthusiastie, and to hear them one would think that the fnrmaitries o s nominating convention and an esoc on might just as well be dispensed ith. Of course if Mr. Roosevelt should in for reelection. as it is being cominently argued that he will, Atwithstanding his publicly express I attitu(le a,;minst another term, it admitted that he would be the prae enlly unanimous choice for nomiina-. on and the work of the Fairbanks irty would have bew in vain. BDIA'S RICHEST POTENTATE. e Owns a Carpet Made of Precious Gems and Diamonds and Rubies by the Bushel. During the stay of the Prince and rincegs of Wales in India they will )ubtless meet and be entertained by personage who has every reason to regarded as the richest of men in te Orient, if not in the whole world. This is the Gaikwar (or Rajah) of aroda, a potentate who well illus ates Milton's famous line concerning te "Barbaric pearl and &old" which te "gorgeous East" showers on its ings. No doubt, in point of annual .come, there are richer men-Mr. John . Rockefeller, for instance-but, from te standpoint of personal possessions e Gaikwar probably has no rival in Le world. When he came to the throne some renty-five years ago the present ruler Baroda found stored in the vaults his palace wealth so colossal that description of it outdoes the "Ara an Nights" itself. Certainly Aladdin %ver thought of a carpet of jewels, ich as the Gaikwar possesses. To .y that there is nothing like it in e world is only feebly to describe its ories, which can be better indicated r the statement that it is about four trds square and composed of ropes rubies, diamonds, pearls, woven into regular carpet well-defined pattern id border. Thousands of dollars' rth of jewels, every one of the finest Lality, went to make up this wondrous rpet, the product of three years Drk by skilled artists and jewel set rs. Now, if the Galkwar of Baroda were ily moderately wealthy, this mon ch of carpets would doubtless occu r the place of honour in his palace. at as he possesses jewels enough to t up a dozen ordinary monarchs the welled tapestry occupies an odd cor r, and is shown to visitors as mere but one of the treasures of the tlace. Less of a curiosity, but far more luable, Is the Gaikwar's diamond ,eklace, a trinket the value of which veral times make a man a million re. This necklace is the most mag ficent in existence. And even the mor of. possessing the second finest denied to the rest of the world, for at also is amongst the Gaikwar's mily jewels, being worn by his wife, ho is, besides, dowered with brooch ,, bracelets, rings and other orna ents, the value of which is com ited in millions of dollars. Another notable ornament worn by te Gaikwar is a collarette made of re hundred diamonds of the purest ater, which includes in its glittering ws the famous "Star of the South," Le fourth largest diamond in the orld. Such a dazzling collection-such a velter" of jewels-was, needless to &y, not made in a single life-time. For nturies the Gaikwar's ancestors have ~en accumulating their treasures, un I to-day the jewels alone could be easured in bushels. As for the rest, ere are pictures in bronzes and stat a~ry to the value of several millions money. A royal procession in Baroda is orth going many miles to see. Horses ad elephants, all splendidly capar oned and blazing with gems, lead the 'ay; but the cynosure of all eyes is ze Gaiker, not merely because of his ersonality, but also by reason of the opendous wealth represented by the ~wels with which he adorns himself. He is, perhaps, the one man in the orld who could wear that mammoth Iogst gems, the great Premier Dia oud, without incongruity. Sleeping Car Acquaintances. Representative Smith of Maryland is ie subject of a good story these days. Then he hears it he merely smiles and soks wise. Mr. Smith, the little narra .ye says, was standing a few days go in front of the White House talk ig to two Secret Service men, when boy came dashing out of the Execu ye Mansion. "Who's that?" queried the Congress an. "That's Archibald Roosevelt," he was iformed. A moment later another youngster ppeared through the same door and r. Smith repeated his question. "That's Kermit," said one of the uardls. JTust then a third boy came swirling long on roller skates. "I guess that's another one of the oosevelts," suggested the man from [aryland. "Yes," was the answer, "That's uentin." "By gum," commented Mr. Smith. they've all ect names like sleeping irs. I feel just as if I were standing a the station platform at home watch ig the limited express sh-:3t by." Why Use Force? ~ith heavy foodstuffs I certainly am. My system loth to encumber; hat's why I am fond of magazine jam Full of good things-current number. Nearly all plants with purple blo. ams ontain noison. A DARKY CUMHSTEING. WEIRD SCENE AMONG THE SOUTHERN COLORED BAP TISTS-FEET WASHWG. Third Letter of Account of Trip into the Sunny Southland. - Interest ing Visits to JacksonviMe, Savannah and Richmond. The first Sunday we spent in Eustis we drove to Lake Gracie, just in the rear of the hotel grounds, to witness the Baptist colored immersion. It was a perfect June meoning, with settings of pure gold. It dd not seem possible that it was windy March at home. The orange groves reached down to the very edge of the lake, which lay placed, like a mirror. Several of the guests rowed across from the hotel to witness the ceremony. Presently the preacher, fol lowed by his candidates and ficck, came through the woods singing one of their wild refrains. A few words from the Good Book, a prayer, all kneeling, and then an exhortation delivered with much vigor. The baptism was quietly performed with the exception of the case of one of the sister candidates who felt so happy, that two men were obliged to carry her out of the water. In the evening we all drove to Egypt, the colored settlement, and I never in my life attended such a service. It was the first Sunday in March, which is a high day in the church-"The Prim ative Baptist." The church building is a little wooden structure with bare benches along each side and a rough table in front of a box of a pulpit. When we entered, a prayer meeting was being held. As many of the native congregation cannot read, the hymns are lined, two lines at a time-and such strange music I never heard. They don't seem to sing the words; it is just a loud monotonous refrain, and was perfectly deafening in that small building. The prayers were mostly ejaculations to the Lord, accompanied with clapping of hands and loud ex pressions from all the brothers and sisters. The sermon was the most rambling discourse imaginable, begin ning with Genesis and ending in Reve. lations,acc6mpanied with vigorous pan tomine of face, arms and legs. Then the darkies screamed and yelled at the top of their voices and during all of which one of the sisters got "happy" and surged over into another seat, I screaming and jumping up and down. Several buxom sisters held her until she became quiet. Then the collec tion was taken up, each one going up to the table and laying his money on A LABYRINTH OF ANGIN( BONAVENTURE CEM1ETER i';; while all the time this dreadful singing continued without a break or interruption. A Modern Amazon. Then "Aunt Savannah," the Captain of the frail sex, became busy. She THEf NATI( Latest Copyrighted Imperial i Daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Lori A Magnificent Souvenir of the G: Published by authori These exclusive photographs have 1 printed in scola on rpecial tinted paper, Arrangedi in large panels as shown 5 poses in Ball Dres 5 poses in Street Dre! Now selling in New York City for $1.OC Either panel 25c., or both Addres NA TIOAL T. was attired in a white and-gray-cot ton mother hubbard gown tied:around, the waist with a white apron;,around her neck she wore a black,fur;collar, and on her head a very broad~brinimed black hat turned up on one side in a jaunty manner. This colored lady1 weighing 285 pounds, as I was told, proceeded to set the communion table. From his chair in the pulpit, the min ister called out, "Let us know, sister, -6 ONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT SAVANNAH. when you, are ready, and we'll begin >usiness." "All right," responded kunt Savannah cheerfully, "Ise ready.' Fhen right in the midst of the ser rice another woman became happy, jumping over in the seat back of her lirectly among the women and babies, mnd I don't know why the babies were iot killed. Such a scattering I never iaw before. Pandemonium reigned, but ill the time the plate of bread was b ng passed. Washing Their Feet. Then came the "foot washing." Two :en-cent basins were placed on the able; the men and women took off :heir shoes and stockings; the preacher washed the first elder's feet, wiping .hem with the towel which was girdled tround his waist; then passed the basin ind towel to the elder, who washed the next one's feet, and so on until il were done. 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