Th« C*nr ti Hodrit.
Practically the czar baa the power to
convert to his own uses any portion of
the state revenues that suits his fancy.
But Russia hac not in vain been called
an “autocracy tempered by assassina
tion." If t’| “little father” assumed
too much, his assistants in the govern
ing business might get jealous and bat
ter his brains out, as they did with
Paul, or poison or stab him to death,
as they did with the various Peters,
Alexanders. Annas and Catherines.
Assuming that the Petersburg
Statesman's Year Book can be relied
upon, Nicholas takes 4l4 cents annual
ly from each of his subjects—but
though he has nearly 107,000,000 of
them, the official excuse-maker figures
his income from the empire at $5,000,
000 per annum only, while other
sources state it to be twice as much.
It should be added, though, that the
state places 1,000,000 square miles of
cultivated land at Nicholas' disposal,
besides gold and silver mines yielding
a fortune every day in the year.
It doesn’t do a man any good to be
close-mouthed when he is in the den
tist’s chair.
Concentrated Pain—Rheumatism.
Concentrated Medicine—Hamlin's Wiz
ard Oil.
The pickpocket keeps In close touch
with the public.
S*t> A WII.K AMI liXl’ENlKS
to men with rl« >o Introduce our Poultry goods,
brn istji. JuvellutUfg Co..De[it U.Purs./Ui.Kau.
It Is hard to find a truth without
an error in its shadow.
Mr*. Whitlow** Booth!ii|? Syrop
For children i**» thing, voften* the ►'iiiiih. reduces In
tiaimuaiiou, allay*pula.cured winu *■ uHc. !$5t- a little
A I’liiKled p«*«6n!flr.
At the table on an incoming liner on
a recent trip, one of the first-cabin pas
sengers found in an oyster one of the
tiny seed pearls which look almost ex
actly like bird shot. Apparently the
formation of pearls was a mystery to i
him, for he examined the thing curi
ously, picked it up gingerly, and laid it
on the tablecloth for further investiga
tion. Now, it is a habit of cooks at sea
to carry fish hooks In their pockets,
and on this trip, by a curious coinci
dence. part of a small hook got caught
In a piece of beefsteak that was served
to this particular passenger. As soon
as his knife encountered the hard ob
ject, he started, picked it out carefully
and laid it beside his other find on the
cloth. Then he beckoned tc the wait
er and confidentially whispered in his
ear: “I don’t want to be impertinent,’’
he said, “but would you mind telling
me where you shoot your oysters and
why you catch your steaks with a hook
and line?”—New York Post.
Reciprocity Insisted On,
Rev. Alferd Waller, a clergyman
whoso church is located in Southend,
a few miles down the river from Lon
don, is an enthusiastic temperance
worker. He offered a local saloon
keeper $10 for the privilege of hang
ing up behind the bar a temperance
placard. The salon keener is a bit of
a wag and he replied: “Certainly, par
son, let me ’ang up on the pulpit an
advertisement of my bottled ale."
A $40,000,000 Station for Chicago.
All the railreads. with four excep
tions, centering in that city have ac
cepted the proposed terms of a move
ment to build a $40,000,000 union rail
road station. It is to combine both
passenger and freight facilities, and
will be equipped to make it the finest
structure of Its kind in the world.
There has always been a great desire
pmong railroad men to Chicago to
bring the Eastern and Western roads
together in the same structure, and
this union station will accomplish the
object.
Second King*, Fourth CIit»|»tcr, Tenth
Verse.
If you read this verse you will And
the basis for the little story printed In
The Four-Track News for May, which
Is entitled “The Prophet's Chamber."
The Four-Track News will be sent
free to any address in the United
states for one year for 50 cent3; single
copies, 5 cents. Address Oeo. H. Dan
iels, Publisher, Grand Central Station.
New York.
The need of an excuse is the step
mother of invention.
To Cure a Cold in One day.
Take l.axativu Bromo yuinine Tablets. All
druggist* refund moueyif it fails to cure,
Nine times out of ten when a man
does get justice he doesn't like it.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not
stain the hands or spot the kettle (ex
cept green and purple). Sold by drug
gists, 10c. per package.
Charity sometimes begins at home,
but frequently nowhere.
IRONISU A SHIRT WAIST.
Not infrequently a young woman
finds It necessary to launder a shirt
waist at home for some emergency
when the laundryman or the homo ser
vant cannot do it. Hence these direc
tions for ironing the waist: To iron
summer shirt waists so that they will
look like new it is needful to have
them starched evenly with Defiance
atarch, then made perfectly smooth
and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be
laidtaway two or three hours. When
Ironing have a bowl of water and a
clean piece of muslin beside the iron
ing board. Have your iron hot. but
not sufficiently so to scorch, and abso
lutely clean. Begin by ironing the
back, then the front, sides and the
■lceves, followed by the neckband and
the cuffs. When wrinkles appear ap
ply the damp cloth and remove them.
Always iron from the top of the waist
to the bottom. If there are plaits in
the front iron them downward, after
first raising each cne with a blunt
knife, and with the edge of the iron
follow every lino of stitching to give it
distinctness. After the shirt waist is
Ironed it should be well aired by the
fire or in the sun before It is folded
and put away, srys the Philadelphia
Inquirer
HOW CHEAP BAKING POWDER IS
MADE.
'Qho Health Department of New
York has seized a quantity of so-called
cheap baking powder, which It found
in that city. Attention was attracted
to it by the low price at which it was
being sold in the department stores.
Samples were taken and the chemist
of the Health Department reported
the stuff to be "an alum powder,-*
which analysis showed to be compos
ed chiefly of alum and pulverized
reck.
The powder was declared to be dan
gerous to health, and several thou
sand pounds were carted to the ofTal
dock and destroyed. It Is unsafe to
experiment with these so-called
“cheap" articles of food. They are
sure to be made from alum, rock, or
other Injurious matter. In baking
powders, the high class, cream of tar
tar brands are the most economical,
because they go farther in use and arc
healthful beyond question.
False Alarm.
While up to their ears In mud at
Carlsbad one morning last summer,
some Americans were startled by a
loud scream, r dates the New York
Sun. "Good American lur.gs. those.”
they remarked to each other. A sec
ond later came the cry. “Snakes!”
Such a commotions as there was!
The air reverberated with nearly every
language you ever heard of—some
that you hadn’t. Suddenly ’.he hubbub
ceased. It vas learned that an Amer
ican woman bather had seen what she
supposed wan a snake wriggling in the
mud around lur, only to discover that
it was her own switch.
Good Prices for Some Pictures.
Eighty pictures from the Matthies
sen collection were sold in New York
at. auction last week fur $uz,505, and
several price? were noteworthy; the
highest sum. $13,OCO, was for "Arabs
Crossing a Stream," by A. Schreyer;
"The Awakening cf Love." by Diaz,
brought $10,000: Rosa Bonheur’s “A
Narmardy Horse." $7.2^0; "A Gypsy
Mother,” l.y L. Knatis, $7,200; "'Offi
cer Ordering an Advance," by Dotaille,
$7,100; "Castle and Forest, Lombardy,"
by Corot. $6,200, end paintings by Ren
ouf. Vibert, de Neuville. Henner, Du
pre. Troyon, Gerome, Mauve, Muller
ami Lessi received fair prices. A por
trait of the pepe. by Lenbach, went for
only $600.
A Soldier’s Narrow hNcup**.
Watts Flats, N. Y.. May 0th.—George
Manhart of this place, a hale aud
hearty old soldier of SO years of age,
tells a thrilling story of a narrow es
cape from death.
‘ Four years ago," he says, “the doc
tors who were attending me during a
serious illness called my wife aside
and told her that I could not live two
weeks as 1 had Bright’s Disease,which
meant certain death.
“As a last resort we thought we
would try Dodd's Kidney Pills, and
accordingly sent to Mr. Clark’s drug
store and got a box.
“This remedy worked wonders in my
case. I noticed the improvement at
once and discharged the doctor.
“I kept on improving until every
symptom of illness had gone and I was
strong and well.
“I feel like a boy and to-day I am
chopping wood as well at eighty a3 at
twenty. Dodd’s Kidney Pills did it"
Made a Professor at 84.
At the age of 84 the German novel
ist, Max Ring, has been honored with
the title of professor. It had been his
ambition as a young man to become
a professor, but the death of his father
and the lack of means prevented him
from taking a university course.
Do Yonr Feet Ache and Ilurnf
Shake into your shoes, Allen’s Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet.. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Aildress Allen S. Olrn.sted, Leltoy, N. Y.
It's folly to preach future punish
ment to the man whose mother-in
law boards with him.
If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz.
package, 5 cents.
We often hear of the sweet simplic
ity of childhood, yet every mother
considers her baby cunning.
The world needs kindness of heart
more than keenness of head.
A Hoarding-House 51,798 Years Old.
is the “motif" of the story of “Tho
Prophet's Chamber'' in the Four-Track
News for flay.
This little story will prove Intensely
interesting to every farmer, and par
ticularly to every farmer's wife, la
New York and New England.
The Four-Track News will be mailed
free to any address in the United
States on receipt of 5 cents in stamps,
or it will he mailed for a year for
50 cents, by Geo. H. Daniels, General
Passenger Agent, Grand Central Sta
tion, New York.
It Is said that the ladies of Egypt
stained their cheeks with alcohol 1,000
years ago. It is now used as a nose
tint by some men in this country.
Try One Package.
If “Defiance Starch” does not please
you, return it to your dealer. If it
does, you get one-third more for the
same money. It will give you satis
faction and will not stick to the Iron.
| Anything that is mighty enough to
prevail is mighty enough to set itself
up as the truth anyway.
MOKK FFFMIiFK AMD FASTING,
won't shake out or blow out; b* using
Defiance march you obtain better result.,
than possible with any other bri.tid anil
one-third more for same money.
The man who is long on wheat may
be short on dough.
The man who makes the best of
everything should have no trouble in
disposing of his wares.
When one borrows trouble the in
terest is usually pretty heavy.
! LIFE IN BUSY CITY OF BUTTE
Heu Are Orto^enurlxn« At 40; H«qU»
Kolnn at 53*
Into an ounce of bramly put a ;
small dose of cocaine; drink the mix
ture, and in ten minutes you will find
yourself in the mental and nervous
condition which is the normal state of
the citizen of Butte, says a writer in a
Boston paper.
Butte never sleeps. It is as wide
awake at 2 in the morning as at mid
day, every shop open, every industry
in full blast. The life of the town de
pends upon the mines and the smelter;
and these never stop. Day in and day
out, the year round, they work con
tinuously. with three eight-hours
“shifts” of men, one stepping in as its
predecessor steps out; from year's end
to year's end neither industry ever
drops a sSitch. The shift that comes
off duty at midnight must eat, drink,
and be served with its amusements
like the others. So it happens that
every door in town, of boarding house,
shop, saloon, theater and all the rest
stands always ajar. So far as busi
ness is concerned, there is literally no
day, no night. One hour is like all
the rest; every hour is an hour of
hustle. To the stranger it appears
like delirium; to the man of Butte it
is a matter of course.
The result is easily foretold: Quick
exhaustion and early death. The man
of Butte is an octogenarian at 40. a
senile ruin at 55. No one lives to be
old. in the accepted eastern use of the
word; you will never see that v.hit°
and venerable and useful old age
which has so firm a place in our life,
our poetry, our very religion. Over
strung nerves snap; brains crumble;
hearts yield to their load.
WHAT PHYSICIANS MAY DISCLOSE
A Decision by the Court of Appeals of
Missouri.
An important ruling made by a court
was that when a person who is suing
for damages testifies in court that a
doctor examined him and found him
injured, the doctor is a competent wit
ness in the case, and must tell about
his treatment of the case and what he
found.
This ruling was made in the case of
\V. It. Highfall against the Missouri
Pacific Railway company. Highfall
was a passenger on a train, and
claimed to have had his hip dislocated
by a blow of a swinging ear door. His
case was tried in the Circuit court of
the county, and a jury gave him $500
damages. This verdict the Court cf
Appeals reversed and remanded tl%e
case for a new trial because when Dr.
Wood was put on the stand in the trial
of the case, and was asked what he
found to be the matter with Mr. High
fall. the lawyers for the latter objected
to the question, and the court sus
tained the objection, holding that a
physician cannot be forced to reveal
the secrets of the sick-room. But the
Court of Appeals holds that when a
witness seeks to fortify his case by tes
tifying that a doctor found him in
jured, he waives the secrecy imposed
by the statute, and the doctor may be
put upon the stand to testify.—Kan
sas City Star.
"Lbn All”.
The Sunday school lesson had been
on the beauty of truth and the evil
of falsehood and the scripture pass
age under especial consideration was
the story of the sudden demise of
Ananias and Sapphira The study of
the lesson ended, a visiting clergyman
was asked to speak to the children and
point the moral.
‘•Suppose," he began, ‘‘the T.oril was
to treat everybody that told untruths
nowadays the same way he (lid An
anias and Sapliira—what would be the
result?”
Prompt and clear came the answer
In the small piping voice of a very lit
tle girl:
“Why, there wouldn’t he a single
person left in the whole world!”
This is no fairy tale, either, for this'
question was put and this answer
given at the Everyday Church two
Sundays ago, says the Boston Journal.
Dr. Shutter had been preaching for
Dr. Porin, and at the latter’s request
began to address the school as above.
Dr. Perin did not state whether the
address ended right there, but it is
pretty safe to say that there was at
least a brief intermission before Dr.
Shutter resumed.
Tlie ring Pone Crn*«.
In London a ping pong dance, in
which the ladies wear ping pong
patches and powdered hair, is the
latest development of the present
mania.
The ladies, carrying white balls,
with a red number on each, and each
gentleman a scarlet ball, with a corre
sponding figure in white, walk down
the ball room and meet at a silken net.
Hatting begins. As soon as each
dancer secures a hall the numbers are
called out. pairing off begins, and the
couples glide down the room hand in
hand, in minuet style.
The latest rival of ping pong by the
way Is table bowls, which aie just be
ing exhibited at the Alexandra palace.
Not Pieiupt In Amorloa.
There was an amusing incident yes
terday in a house-rental office in Du
luth. The agent of a certain dwelling
had managed to squeeze two raises
out of a steady and prompt paying ten
ant and was after the third. The ten
ant is a son of the Emerald isle. He
paid the two first raises without pro
test. but lie became wroth at the third
attempt. He hied him to the agency
and said to the agent:
‘T'll not stand thot raise.”
‘‘All right. Get out.”
‘‘Gladly. I kem from Olreland to es
cape the landlords and 01 little thought !
I'd find a maner one here than there.”
—Duluth News-Tribune.
Old JVebv J^ork. Landmark.
Is Being Demolished.
Last week workmen began tearing
down the old De I^ancey house, on
Heathcote Hill, near Mamaroneck, N.
Y. The property had been sold In
partition proceedings, and had passed
out of the possession of the last of
the De Lancey heirs.
The house was built in 1792 on a
high knoll overlooking the inlet, and
on the site of a brick house erected in
IG97 and burned just before the Revo
lutionary war. The original house,
known as Heathcote Manor, was oc
cupied by Col. William Heathcote. an
early settler and slave owner. The
house was nearly surrounded, it is
said, by the quarters occupied by Col.
Heathcote’s slaves. After the death
Lancey, one of the heirs, bought the
interests of his cousins. De l^ancey
had been a captain in the British
army, but in 1789 he resigned his com
mission and went to Mamaroneck.
He erected the house now being de
molished, and lived there with his
family until his death.
roof off of the house. My wife found
the letter and stood before me with
flaming eye, reading between her
teeth:
■ ‘The three little Thompsons are
not at all well, and I think you had
better come down to see us. Signed,’
hissed my wife with a contemptuous,
drawn-out slur on the name, ‘H-e-d
w-i-g!’
"Imagine the rest.”—New York
Times.
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A STATE
New Jersey** Kaplil Drop from n Coin
niAiifllng I'lAre In National Affairs,
The rapid changes in the fortunes
of state at the national capital are
strikingly illustrated in the case of
New Jersey, which, in a few years,
rose to the pinacle of influence, but
has now fallen back into the ranks.
A brief while ago Garret A. Hobart
filled the vice-presidency as no other
man ever did. He was a power in the
mo an incident in the history or that
ship which was closely connected with
my childhood, and which to this day
stands out vividly in my memory.
When I was about five years old my
family was interested in the old Sal
isbury iron mine, which is, I suppose,
the oldest mine of real worth in the
United States. The first large anchor
for a United estates warship to be
made in this country was made from
iron taken from that mine, for the
frigate Constitution. The anchor was
forged near Salisbury, and the pro
cess created a great amount of in
terest all over eastern Connecticut.
A special wagon was made to cart
the anchor on. It was drawn by elev
en pairs of oxen and when the day
came to start on its journey over the
hills to the Hudson, where it was to
be received by Old Ironsides, a holi
day was declared all along the route.
Schools were dismissed, and in each
village girls came out and decorated
the oxen and the wagon with flags
THE OLD DE LANCEY HOUSE. MAKARONECK. N. Y.
In one of the earlier visits of James
Cooper, afterward the first great Am
erican novelist, to whose original
name Fenlmore was added by act of
legislature when he was thirty-seven
years old, to Westchester county, he
became acquainted with Susan, John
Peter De Lancey’s second daughter,
and the friendship soon ripened into
a more tender regard. Cooper soon
became a frequent visitor to the De
Lancey homestead, and on New
Year's day, 1811. was married to the
young woman of his choice, probably
in the house now being destroyed.
Nobody in Mamaroneek is positive
that Cooper was married in the house,
but his biographers have no cause to
doubt that the wedding was celebrat
ed at the home of his bride. The fact
that many of Cooper's friends and
admirers deprecated his marriage into
a Tory family seems consistent with
the belief that he was wed in Mr. De
Laneey’s house. There seems to be
ample reason for believing that tne
old parlor was the scene of his mar
riage, as well as of his courtship.
The demolition of the De I^ancey
house leaves only one monument of
the eighteenth century in the vicinity
of Mamaroneek. Almost directly
across the Boston Post Road from the
De Lancey house is the massive stone
chimney of the Dlsbrow house, built
in 1677 and burned only a few years J
ago. This chimney is carefully pre- j
served by the owner of the land on
which it stands, and may last an age
on account of its solid construction
and broad base, unless a vandal hand
has it demolished to make way for
so-called improvements.
THOSE THREE LITTLE THOMPSONS
Hnsluesn M itter Thitl Cmm» Near Break- I
lug Up Happy Home.
“In my business I come in contact
with all sorts of animal people from
the ordinary snake charmer to the
owner of a private menagerie,” said
a prominent New York snake and
reptile man. whose name for the pur
poses of this story must be "Thomp
son.” “Not long ago I presented three
little alligators to a certain 'lady
snake charmer’ named Hedwig, who
was one of my regular customers. 1
received a letter of thanks in return
saying that once the little chaps were
trained they would appear on theater
programmes as the 'Three Thomp
sons,' named in my honor.
“Hedwig was a picturesque sort of
snake charmer, the kind of woman,
though homely and unattractive
as a stone wall, whom a
fellow could not well help
mentioning even In one’s home.
1 thing I spoke altogether too much
about Hedwig to begin with. To add
to the fuel I have been obliged to meet
her several times in a business way
after her evening performances.
“One day I got a letter from Hed
wig, and after reading it I innocently
took it home. It came near breaking
up my establishment and taking the
administration and not merely a pre
siding officer in the senate. He en
joyed President McKinley’s confidence
and few measures of importance were
decided without his aid.
Hobart's protege, John W. Griggs,
was attorney general at a time when
international and colonial questions
gave to the office an importance it
never before possessed.
Gen. William J. Sewell, the senior
senator from New Jersey, was one
of the president’s most loyal support
ers in the senate, and Mr. McKinley
depended greatly upon his influence in
the senate at large and in the mili
tary affairs committee.
A fourth Jerseyman, State Senator
William M. Johnson, was called to
Washington to the post of first as
sistant postmaster general to help ex
tricate the postoffice department
from the slough of politics.
All of these honors fell to the lot
of the long rock-ribbed Democratic
state which Garret A. Hobart brought
into the Republican fold, says the
New York Times, but now New Jer
sey is stripped of them all.
The lives of Hobart and Sewell have
and flowers. As nearly as I can fig
ure, that was In the year 1840.”
The Forge World of London.
An ingenious writer has been making
a curious computation respecting the
wheels in Ixmdon. He points out that
it takes 300,000 horses to move these ^
wheels. Within a radius of twelve
miles there are 500 miles of railway
running through 700 stations, and be
tween morning and night the trains
running over these carry 1,300,000 pas
sengers. But the street vehicles trav
el twenty times as far as the trains
every day and carry more passengers,
for though the latter travel 25,000
miles every twenty-four hours the
street carriages daily accomplish a
journey equal to twenty times the
circumference of the globe. The
’buses and trams move 1,600,000 pas
sengers from place to place every day,
while 120,000 people ride about in
cabs and 25,000 in private carriages.
Londoners traveled in London some
thing like 165,000,000 times a year,
making nearly 1,000,000,000 separate
journeys, while a capital of no less
than £70,000,000 is invested in the
ROOM IN WHICH COOPER COURTED HIS WIFE.
The grate is modern, but the fireplace i3 the original.
flickered out. Griggs has returned to
the practice of law and Johnson has
returned to his business and legal in
terests, which he left only because
of President McKinley’s promise of
the postmaster generalship—a prom
ise that President Roosevelt did not
feel binding upon himself.
Olil Ironaliles* Author,
W. D. Richardson, a civil engineer
whose home is now in Chicago, but
who was born in Salisbury, Conn.,
said the other day: ”1 have Just been
reading a sketch of the old frigate
Constitution, and it brings back to
wheels and horseflesh by means of
which these are moved.
Fortune Hu lit ou Sund.
There is a solid citizen of New York
whose fortune was founded on sand.
It amounts to a few millions. James
Everard dug the earth out of the hole
in which sits that architectural mon
stposity known as the general post
office. This earth proved to be fine
building sand, a very scarce article in
New York. “Jim” not only received
big pay for removing it, but sold it for
fancy prices, thereby laying the foun- J
; dation his ample competency.—New
[ York tffess.