Tin: omaha sunday bee: October 20. ioor.
Aristocratic Cats of Long: Descent and High Quality
I an ordeal which aft
women approach with
inJecribaMe fear, for
nothing compare with
BW YORK, Oct. II Tb only
elite eatdom was going to compete.
And lo and behold when the prizes were
awarded, Jne, the unappreciated family
tabby, had won the blue ribbon, He was
carried all oxer the Garden by his friends;
they bought him a beautiful Enaitsh collar
and when he rot home he had an extra fish
dinner to complete the Joys of the day.
But poor Joe Hoggeng elmer had been
made by nature a quiet, home-keeping souk
Dissipation elmply dldnt ag-e with him
and the next day he died nf distemper
As short a time as ten rears ago England
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pain and horror of
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too glad to be Interviewed about
the profusion of cat breeding,"
aid Mlsa Laura O. Hopklna
secretary of the Atlantic Ca
Club, ae (he settled Anmn in K.
ild-birth. The thought
of the Buffering and danger in store for her, rob the expectant mother
ef all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casts over her a
shadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women
hare found that the use of Mother's Friend during pregnancy roba
ronfincmcnt of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother
nd child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to a'l women at th
time of their most critical trial. Not only dors Mother' Friend
carry women safely through the perils of child-birth, but its use
gently prepares the system for the coming event, prevents "morninj
eiickness." and other dis
ohair for long talk; "only you musn't
call It a profession. Of courae, there are
ome people who raise cam for filthy lucre,
out with most of ua it's an art. a sport,
and a very absorhlng one at that
"But, to get dowi to business, one of the
comforts of this period, n n TVs ttpji nr &
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most expensive cati Is, of course, the Per-
alan, or the Angora, as some people call
them. They are not really the same, be-
cause the Persians come from the high-
land of Tibet and have a dry, shiny fur.
whereas the Angoraa come from the low-
lands and are apt to be duller In coloring,
"The Persian cat la the result of yeara
and years of breeding and they hava been
Inbred to retain certain traits until they
havo become llko some people much over-
refined. Consequently they are very dell-
cate aa kittens, but onoe over all tha youth-
ful ailments they are as rood n Investment
as a horse or an automobile. .
"Of course, great care must be taken of
a thoroughbred Persian even when It Is
grown up. i nave many rnenas'wno iaae
tl.e'r cata to the mountains every summer
because It's much too hot In New Tork
for such thickly clothed animals.
"But the refinement of these cats shows
leather ways as well. For example, an
ojimary cat would Just as soon sit on the
coal bin aa not and Is Just aa ready to cud
dle up to an ash can, but a real Persian,
if he happens to stray from his proper
quarters, will select a nice clean piece of
paper to sit on, or, If It be at home. It will
usually choose your softest and silkiest
sofa cushions.
"What's more, they wouldn't even think
of stealing. They're much too proud to
stoop to that. And then they are so sensi
tive.
"nr rerstfln once looked at the
canary In a most ordinary and catlike man-
ner so I Just lectured her for It good and
v. . 'a .a .k- t,.. n.vr (tone It slnoe. If
., in ti i,ntnra a mv eat rooms I'll
show her to you.
And Miss Hopkins led the way through
the picturesque rooms of her house, which,
by the way. Is the birthplace of the Au
thors' club. On the top floor toward the
front, where the windows are broad and
the sun streams In all day. Miss Hopkins'
pets are, housed In a room devoted exclu
sively to their care, comfort and amuse
ment. A big white cae stands along one of the
walls. sihioIs attached to long strings hang
from the celling, and scattered about are
ptngnong ball for the pleyf"' kittens and
big. soft pillows for the more dignified
oldr puss'es. Some white kittens were
gambollna about on the floor and over on
the window ledge stretched out on a dark
red cushion in a winning and luxurious
tillnklna
pose lay nite Aigrette. ""
her bright blue eyes In the sunshine.
If the great Robert Louis Stevenson
meant what he said when he asserted that
cata are not vain he never could have seen
a thoroughbred Persian. White Aigrette
la aa self-possesbed and self-assured as a
belle of sis seasons and knows how to show
off her good points Just as cleverly. She
Imitates society queens In other ways also,
for when she has a litter of kittens she
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Is very much longer than that of most
Americans and goes straight back to
her native Persia. Her . Immediate parenti
were Oberon,,an English cat, and Carrara,
who made herself famoua last year at.
t),e Madison Square Garden exhibit by ea-
caplng from her cage and climbing tip to
the elerjrlc light chandelior which hana
from the celling. White Aigrette, herself.
has two kittens, Buperha and Matador,
who have much If not all of their mother's
beauty.
Almost every day White Aigrette has
ner automobile ride, and so that she may
not take cold she wears a light blue silk
cioajt which Just matches the color of her
eyes. Her meala are aerved three times
day Bt nxe(j hours and ir any delay occurs
(ha bangs at the wires of her cage, knocks
over the little chalra In her room and
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Curious and
An Official Weddlnar.
FF1C1AL Washington Is agog
over the approaching marriage
of Lieutenant Ulysses S, Grant
Ill, U. B. A., to Miss Edith
Root, only daughter of the
secretary of state, which
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will take place shortly after the wed 'with the extreme simplicity they mod
return of the bride's family from estly desire, so their marrlrase will be In
Mexico. These particularly favored young
PPle have not only succeeded In pleading
themselves, but also their respective fam-
'". Hrge circle of frlonds and society
'n general, which Is Just 'as It should be,
as the most carping critic could find no
excuse for adverse comment on a match
so obviously desirable.
Miss Root posseasea much the same qual
ity of mind as her distinguished father,
but has been educated along entirely
feminine lines, Inheriting from her gentle.
kindly mother those rarer qualities which
make Mrs. Root the greatest home maker
of all the administration circle, an Ideal
wife and mother, loyal and faithful
friend. That the announcement of her en
gagement came as a complete surprise to
everybody Is an example of Miss Root's
discretion. While many of the administra
tion circle knew the dashing young engi
neer officer found great pleasure In the
society of the daughter of the secretary of
stat. no one could accuse the reserved
MISS nooi or snowing mr uiiwi iien-i-
foj, jjutenant Grant, one of many
Miss Root of showing the slightest prefer
young and distinguished bachelors, Amer
ican and foreign, whom the wheel of offi
cial life brought frequently to the side of
tha leading belle oi the cabinet circle.
When the coming or going of this par
ticular young man brought that unmis
takable llirht or shadow to Miss Root's
beautiful brown eyes, their owner quietly
departed from Washington, going "to the
home at Clinton, N. Y., long before
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,. of th. last .,.,on. There, the
romance begun at a state reception
preny ro
at tha White House, reacnea n i.ii'ii,
Omaha and Portland
(Continued from Page Three.)
tlon, by moving heavy raw materials
cheaply, aids In building up the country
tributary to Itself and the adjacent rail
way. Increases Industries, home demands
and tonnage of high grade. It glvea the
railway ultimately a maximum of high
grade tonnage in place of a mlx.t and less
yrofltublo tonnage. Transient disadvan
tages come to the railway or river trans
portation by tha competition. In no case
nown to commerce haa It been found that
tver trafflo has wrought remanent n
lury to railway traffic. This haa beon
hown more clearly In Europe and eastern
mertca than In the sparcely settled west.
an rranclsco ts largely at the mercy of
ne road. No other road now there could
andle any large percentage of the tonnage
r readily develop a large network of feed
rs near the coast. Apparently, though not
ally, the Cnlon South Paclfio Intereata
In promoting San Ftaneisoo rather than
orlland with Its numerous competing
nes. For the nearer future this may be
rue. Ultimately and for all later time.
-ery road reaching a great city la bene
ited by the entry of each succeeding road
iroufh the increased city growth. The
ne faot that the. Southern Pacific company
practically the only road of Importance
aching Ban Francisco, Is Itwlf enough to
nilamn that city as to Its value to tke
uthern Pacific railway. Portland, bo
tuse of having other lines, has assured to
xrlf a more even, substantial growth, anj
can In the reasonably near future give
mure of value to the Uuion J?clflo company
.cakes herself generally disagreeable until
she gets something to eat. B'Jt put the
most tempting tidbit before her between
meals and White Aigrette will regard It
with supreme Indifference.
Her disposition Is not affectionate and she
never goes -out of her way to win caresses.
As her Miss Hopkins says. "sh has become
so sure of herself that she Just poses all
day long and carea about nothing but ad
miration." Last year White Aigrette carried off the
ribbon at Madison Square Garden as the
best kitten In the show, and most cat
fanciers expect .that this year, when the
Romantic Capers of Cupid
and there, surrounded only by their near-
est and dearest. Is where the marriage
would take place could the dainty little
bride follow her own will in the matter.
However, the daughter of the head of the
Cabinet, and the grandson of the greatest
soldier president of madern times, cannot
Washington with all the d'gnlty of an offl-
c'al function attended by the president,
members of the cabinet and the diplomatic
eorpa.
Lieutenant Grant, as every one knows, la
the only son of General Frederick Dent
Grant, U. 8. A., the oldest grandson of
the president, whose name he bears. He
was graduated from West Point In 10O8
and Immediately wns ordered to the Phil
ippines, where he served thre years. His
assignment to Washington with special
duty at the White House, where he and
Captain Fllihugh Lee divided the social
honors of two years, was never particu
larly acceptable to IJcutcnant Grant, who
Inherits the true soldlsr spirit of his Illus
trious grandfather, and consequently wel
comes the prospect of more active pro
fessional life awaiting him, (n Boston,
where he and his bride will have their
home In the coming winter. '
Men's Affinity Club.
Designed lo solve the problem of the
scarcity of marriageable young women In
the Pacific northwest Is the Spokane Af-
finity club. Just organized by twenty-three
bachelors under 3i years of age.
President Brown of the club said at the
close Of the organization meeting:
"The purpose of the club Is to provide
wives for the eligible young men of the
Spokane eountry by Inducing the glrla to
come Into the district. There Is a great
scarcity of young women In the north-
west I am not overstating the fact when
I say that 5,000 women between the ages
M hi.h,nj.
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than will Ean Francisco. The northerly
lines of railway, one after the other, have
been bending aouthward from their origi
nal more northerly terminals, to reach the
Columbia river city. The Northern Pacific
and Great Northern are soon to reach Port
land via the Columbia river. The Canadian
Pacific company haa Just made arraiitfu
ments to put Its business With Portland.
Both the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
company and the Burlington-Northern Pa
cific company can secure mueh belter grad
ients and transportation arrangements to
Portland than can be secured to San FYan
claco. On the Burlington route a maxi
mum gradient of only thirty feet per mile
between Omaha and Killings ts being sought
with good promise of success. The North
ern Pacific road between Billings and Co
lumbia river Is being greatly Improved In
line and gradient, and soma of Its great
deviations of route removed From the
Columbia river near Tasco, to Portland
a road on a low water-line gradient Is
nearly eompleted. No other transcontinen
tal route haa or can be secured equally
good, or can handle tonn ige so easily. Mr.
Hill has been petting ready to handle trans
continental transportation via Omaha, Hill
ings and Portland as It has never hitherto
been handled.
The I'nion Pacific system plans to double
track the road from Omaha to Portland.
At but little greater expense the proposed
second track. Instead of paralleling the
present track across the Blue mountains
beyond- Huntington, could diverge at On
trio on the Snike river, follow up the
Northern rlv-r and down the Pea Chutea
river to the Columbia river, gaining mui-h
traffic from new country. This second
tra k, although encountering as much rise
4 along th preD.t Una, would encounter
axhthtt comes off In December, ahe will
carry everything before her as the best cat
In the show. As yet no pictures of White
Aigrette are In existence, as Miss Hopkins
believes "rmly In the superstition that It la
sure death to a cat to have a photograph
made before she Is quite old. With tears
In her eyea she will tell you of her pal,
Fanchon the Cricket, a valuable chinchilla,
who was photographed by one of his ad
mirers and died the next day.
Another cat tragedy which Miss Hopkins
tells Is the story of Joe Hoggengrelmer.
Joe was a big, brown tabby, a most phllo
aophlo cat, who had been his mistress'
special pet all his life, but had never been
thought worthy of being entered In a show.
Last year he was entered In the Garden
show because It world hivr. been too mean
to leave Joe at home when a'l tha reat of
and comfortable homes in Spokane alone.
"This may seem- an extravagant state
ment in a city of nearly 100,000 population.
but the fact la the young men have come
Into the city In such large numbers dur
ing the last eighteen months that there are
not sufficient girls to go around.
"The first step In the campaign to bring
young women Into the country will be to England and once In America, by her own
write to our friends and acquaintances In daughter, Purltana. Other Inhabitant of
the old homes In the middle western, east- the Omar cattery, as Miss Pollard's ken
em, southern and New England states and ' are called, are King of the Silvers,
eastern Canada, urging them to come te winner of eight firsts; White Monk, a son
the northwest, and then prevail upon them of Purity; Boynton Grip, a blue eyed white.
to write to their girl acquaintances. In
that way a chain system will be established
and the problem finally solved."
President Brown added that any man be
tween the age of 25 and 40 years. Indus
trious and of good character and possessed
of at least fl.000, or Its equivalent In really,
la eligible to membership In the club.
Matchmakers la China.
A Shanghai correspondent of a German
paper writes: "The custom of arrang.ng
matrimonial contracta through agents or dom the most famous Is undoubtedly Caro
matchmakers haa been practiced In China line, owned by Robert Scully. She is a
for ages. This business reoelved support
from all classes, for, although the high
caste men In some Instances select their
first wives themselves, the. additional wives
are all secured through tha agents. This
being so, It was only natural that a re-
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cently distributed proclamation, written by
an unknown person, urging the women to
rebel against the old established custom.
should have created more than a little ex-
cltement. The officials oriered the Imme-
dlate destruction of the handbills on which
the revolutionary screed was printed and
the arrest of those who took part In their
distribution. The empress dowager directed
that further efforts In that direction should
be punished severely, and we know what
that means. She said also that from what
she had heard the French marriages were
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less abrupt r!e and much better gradients
westbound, and find much less trouble .rom
floods and anow. The lessened main
tenance cost, capitalized, would go Car to
wards the cost of the additional tra k. The
present location across the Blue mountains
Instead of via the Malbear route, was
originally a mistake. It ran on one side of
Its possible tonnage-producing area, and
through a rugged unprofitable territory over
n.U' h of 'the route. The Malheur central
Oregon country resemble the country west
of Casper or north of F.elle Fourche, whence
so ii tii h Is pourlns Into Omaha In the way
of oa'tle, woil and sheep. The central
Oregon development will have much value
to Omaha, when a railway makes It pos
sible, aa regards westbound manufactured
articles. '
Tl.e tlmtx-r lends of the Portland territory
are valuable beyond any other timbered
areas of this country. not only because of
the resent dense growth, but for a still
more Important reason The fir which con
stitutes the bulk of the timber reproduces
Itself more rarldlv than any other timber
of equal value and use. A few years gives
a growth large enough for railway ties.
Th'rty or forty years will g've mMl timber.
The fir grows both so density and so tall
that an acre of fir tie timber will furnish a
dozen times as many ties as an acre of
eastern timber. Treated fir ties will relieve
our railroads of tie shortage.
Omal a Is the only city between Ch'cago
and Portland which ran to beet advantage
serve both and be built up to greater ste
by the growth of Chicago and of Portland.
Any resident of Omaha may safely assume
that a long residence In Omaha will see
his Interest. If handled with reasonable
care. develop bandaomely. Wholesale
bouses can safely count on 4 development
oad the best cat, ana rr.e-s Ar 'ilcan
prise winners were imported from that
country, but America has slowlv been gain
ing until It equals England and even sur
passes It In the breeding of slivers and
whites.
One of the best known cat fanciers of
this country Is Mrs. Dykhouse. She haa
put up extensive kennels at Grand Ran'ds.
Mich., at an expense of 1.000. The build
ing la equipped with a miniature furnace
and on electric light plank to provide the
proper temperature and light.
Her blue-eyed Persian, Y-Brenin Gwyn.
Imported by her from England, has won
three first prises In his native country and
four firsts In America, besides six gold
medals and six silver challenge cups. Mrs.
Dykhouse also owns the famous Princess
of Paris, who won first place In the open
class at Chicago, both aa a kitten and a
full grown cat. The Princess also has
to her credit four silver cups and two gold
medals. Last year she won the Beresfnrd
Challenge for the best blue-eyed white fe
male cat.
In the east the best known cat fancier
Is Miss Pollard of Elir-sbeth. N. J. Her
famous white Persian Purity, valued at
$1 600, Is the winner of forty-seven prlxes
and half a dozen cups and belongs to the
best white stock In the country.
She has been beaten hut twice, once In
n Scotland Tet, a blue that has Just
e'n imporiea irom Boouana. wnere ne
was considered the finest rat of his kind
In the country.
Strongheart. a very valuable and very
beautiful Persian and a great prize win
ner. Is owned by Mrs. Richard Hardy of
Detroit. Strongheart Is pitch black In
Color and has bright yellow eyes. Hla aire
was Blackthorn, hla dam Blai kberry Fawa,
both fHtnoua cats In their day.
Among the short-haired population of cat
very big cat, with bright blue eyea, the
color of which Is emphasized by a sapphire
necklace which she constantly wears. By
all fanclera she Is declared to be the finest
short-haired cat In America, and she has
taken all prizes at New York, Boston and
Washington.
Last year the prise for the beat cat In
the show was won by Laddie Loupin, a
blue, belonging to Mrs. Hofistra, who Is the
president of the Atlantic Cat club. In
this way Mrs. Hofstra won her own cup.
the Hofstra trophy, which is offered every
year at the club competitions and which
will finally belong to the person winning
It three times running. So far the cup
has been won by Mrs. Woodward's Conv
modore in 1903 and 1904, by Argent Splendor
of the Argent kennels In 1. and In lje
Bi,.in u r.t h. u.miA i-
by Siuin H of the Hempstead kennels.
Justifying building and arranging on
large scale. Railways are Justified. In con
structing such great betterment aa the
new Northwestern freight terminal. The
city will find future enlarged slae and
valuea to carry some of the permanent Im
provements. The citizen will find the city
growing In beauty. In civic convenlencea,
In educational, artistic and enjoyment fea
tures. The two cities. Omaha and Port
land, not rivals, but helpers, will control
the Intermediate territory and by their
surplus wealth develop It.
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