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DECORATED AMERICANS dKIKF 0_^ pjpom . cSITTOT? I Surely Americans cannot complain at the lack of honors winch foreign countries and societies are bestowing upon citizens of the United States for noteworthy achievements and distin. guishtng services. Aad while there is no undignified eagerness on tfie part of Americans for medals and decora tions, there is still a warranted pride in receiving such marks of distinc tion. The already long list of those who have been thus honored is grow ing apace, and if all whose names ap pear there were to form a society of decorated Americans it would start out with a membership far in excess of that with which most organizations begin. Such a society would not be in much favor with intensely democratic Americans who have been wont to re gard decorations almost in the cate gory of bribes, but rsuch feeling is surely without warrant- and is growing less each year. Said Count Cassini on this point not long before he left America for Spain: “I have received 33 decorations, and can it be possible that according to the old notion I have been bribed 33 times? I have recommended the bestowal of many decorations, but they were given in recognition of favors rendered without a thought of a return. Indeed, I have many times during by life been very glad that I could make use of such orders. Men have done me very kind and substantial favors. I cujild not in honor offer them $100 or 1100. They would have been insulted by such a crude form of gratitude. The only re course at my command was to give a decoration or a gold snuffbox. The latter the recipient would never use and could find little pleasure in, so I have chosen to give the decorations where I could." ium but twice m 20 years given its consent for officers of the government to accept decorations that have been tendered them. Further more, 4 is the law that all decora tions fhaf foreign governments may wish to give to American officials must be deposited with the state department until the question whether they may be accepted or not is decided. Thus it is that there is a beautiful order in gold of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor lying in the vaults of the state department for Gen. Chaffee. Some time congress may allow him to receive it. The time may come when, as with Admiral McCalla last March! • he lies on w-hat his tearful family or dearest friends think is hjs deathbed. Or it may happen that even then, the desired permission will be withheld, and only after the brave old soldier is dead and gone will the decoration pass to the hands of his wife and dhildren. to whom it will be a treasured testi mony to the worth of the man whom it was intended to honor. And y-et if the order were to be allowed to be given to Gen. Chaffee he could not wear it as other men wear theirs on public occasions. No officer of the army or navy nor any civil emplove of the government is permitted by law to wear such an emblem of favor with a foreign potentate. TJiis applies to the retired officer as well as those in active service. Once in a long while an official has a chance to get a decoration by what is at least a pardonable evasion of the law. Secretary H. H. D. Pierce last year, when he resigned his post of as sistant secretary of the state-depart ment to accept the appointment as minister-to Norway, spent a day in private life between the two positions. and In that choice interval took good care to call for his decorations, which had for years, in some cases, laid in the vaults of the department. Among* them were the Order of the Double Dragon, conferred by the Chinese gov ernment, and the cross of a comman der of the Legion of Honor. In the same way William F. Will oughby, formerly expert of the bureau of labor, and lecturer on social eco nomics at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, stepped out of government employ a few days before accepting his appoint ment as treasurer of Porto Rico, and in that time got his medals out of of ficial hock. The number of legionnaires in this country has so increased of late years that the fact has justified Prof. James Howard Gore, of George Washington university in preparing and publish ing a directory of all who have re ceived this honor. The French statutes restrict the cumber of officeis of the Legion of Honor to 4,000, of commanders to 1,000, of grand officers to 200, and of , holders of the grand cross to 80. Gen. L haffee has received probably the highest honor in the Legion of Honor in this country. Archbishop'Ireland, Thomas A. Edison, Gen. O. O. How ard, Prof. George F. Barker and Perry Be2mont wear the cross of a command er. Prof. Agassiz, Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew D. White, Prof. Simon Newcomb, James Hazen Hyde, I ... E. Stone and Prof. Gore hold the | erpss of oflicer. Among women it this country who .1.11 e had the distinction of wearing ; the cross of the Legion of Honor is ; -urs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, and A'rs. Daniel Manning, of Albany, who ere thus honored for their services '.n0connection with ttle exposition of Among other orders given to Ameri cans there are numerous decorations, such as the Order of Leopold, the Osmanieh and Mecjidieh of Turkey, the order of the Prussian Crown, the Red Eagle of Germany, the order of St. Stanislaus of Russia, the White Elephant of Siam, the order of Dan nebrog of Denmark, and many similar decorations. Probably F. J. V. Skiff, of the Field museum, of Chicago has as many dec orations as any one man in this coun try. He has made a collection, it might be said. They all came for his services at expositions. Mr. Skiff is an officer of the Legion of Honor for work connected with the Paris expo sition of 1900. He has the order»of •Leopold, the order of Civil Merit of Bulgaria, has the second class order of the Double Dragon of China, the oHder of the Sacred Treasure of Japan, the order of Orange and Nassau of Holland, the order of the Sun and the Lion of Pbrsia, the order of St. James of Portugal, and the Red Eagle of Ger many. Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht has nu merous orders for his researches in ancient history. He wears the Cross of Albert, the Bear of Germany, the Cross of Dannebrog of Denmark, for his cuneiform investigations. Prof. Simon Newcomb received last year the German Order pour le Mer i.ite. This is a distinctly great honor, as there are but 4C members of the ! order, and a new member is chosen by the survivors whenever death makes a vacancy. The decoration is given by the German emperor. Con gress authorized Prof. Newcomb, who Is a retired attache of the naval ob servatory, to accept the decoration. CHURCHILL’S MAIDEN EFFORTS. First Speech in Parliament Hit the Mark in Spite of Faults of Delivery. The first time J noticed Lord Ran dolph Churchill in the house of com mons was on a May day in 1S75, says a writer in Blackwood's Magazine. Sir Charles Dilke had been making merry at the expense of Woodstock, then represented by one known in the Parliamentary arena simply as a cadet of the ducal house of Marlborough. From the third bench behind ithat on which ministers ought to have been sitting, rose a well groomed young man, with protuberant' eyes, pale face and a ponderous mustache, with which as he spoke he nervously toyed. f . Members asking each other:’ *Wl#o4s this?" learned that it was the mem ber for Woodstock rising to defend the■ corporation of the borough that sent him to parliament Thoug&"as8iBted by notes, on which the speech was fally written out, the young member *was so nervous, his voice was badly pitched, his delivery -• 'it**' NVi-: ':T’ ■ -:V ■ ■> so rauity mat mere was difficulty in following his argument. But here and there flashed forth a scathing sentence that made It worth while to attempt to catch the rest. When he sat down Lord Randolph had made bis mark, had established, himself as a personality in an assembly in which •-within ten years he was predominant Longer on Throne Than Father. King Frederick, of Denmark, pre sents the curious spectacle of a father who has become a king at a later date than his own son. W hen King Haakon, of Norway, was lately at Copenhagen King Frederick is suid to have asked him: “fclow do you like beiag king?" “I will rather ask y<iu,” replied Haak on. “I have been king longer ■you havte.” 1 Haakon was elected king of Norway by the storthing on Nov. 18, W05, * whilb'F rederick, "his father, did opt Succeed to tile throng of Den mark until Jai. 21, jpoe, en the death of King Christian. Pluck not a courtesy in the bud bv m a* la U|a.A * W. Vf' ' i*' ? *ore«isrtj|*; u i V: V.TO FOR THE MERCHANT LITTLE POINTS THAT HELP IN SELLING GOODS. BE READY FOR OPPORTUNITY Let the Public Know What You Have to Sell—Never Stop Pushing— A Hint for the Clerks. Pluck. How often you hear one business man say of another who has been suc cessful: “Ain’t he lucky?” Luck has nothing to do with anyone's success. It is pluck. Pluck and enthusiasm are the pow ers which make the winner. With these two qualities, which are in variably found together, a man will succeed. Business men who have achieved greatness in their line are those who possess an abundance of enthus iasm. A possession that is better than any thing else to a man is that determina tion of character known as pluck, and an enthusiastic confidence that he will succeed. To persevere against great odds, and to make a victorious fight in the face of almost impossibilities, it re quires pluck which is not governed by impulse;.1 To cultivate pluck one must encour age steadfastness of purpose. When a thing is begun it should be fin ished. The trouble with most of us is not so much that we have a hard row to hoe but that we dislike hoeing. Opportunity knocks once—and often a dozen times—at every door, but you have no kick against the fates if Opportunity knocks, finds you lost in a pipe dream and turns away never to return. Bacon said: “The mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.” All men cannot be captains of indus try. All men cannot succeed phenom enally. All men, it seems, cannot suc ceed even moderately, but all men can make an effort to succeed. JVe must not stop striving to reach a higher and better place until we are willing to sink to the bottom. If we tise most businesses, but mine is* dif ferent.” Tiis sheriff sold him cut, and now he works for his successor, who does advertise. Success. The secret of most successes lies in the man rather than in the method. Making people want the goods is, after all, about as near the secret of it as there comes to being any secret. Make the public want what you have to sell and Jhe sale is half made. Epitaph of a failure: “He worked overtime dodging work.” That Man with the Overalls. When the man with the overalls comes into your store don’t turn around and take your time to wait on him. Don't snub the man with the overalls in order to wait ■ upon some elite of your town—that is, if the over all man came into your store first; Your overall man usually stands by the home town. He works in the shops, in the stock yards, in the fac tories and in thq. mills. iHs dollar is just as good as the dollar given to you by the man who tries to put on all kinds of airs in your town. The old American eagle on the silver dollar given to you by the man attired in overalls counts for just as much and screams just as hard as the bird on the dollar turned over Dy the man who belongs to the “upper tens.” Be sides, if the man in the overalls wants credit until Saturday night or until the first of the month, you’ll stand to win to get the cash from him when he says he'll pay you. Don’t give him the marble heart. You want his trade. He needs dry goods and gro ceries, and he will spend his money w'ith you if you treat him right. Business Sickness a Common Com plaint. Stuck in a rut, are you? Same old rut, boss doesn’t appreciate your ef forts. Interest in your business wear ing thin at the edges? Eh? Tkought so! Well, what are you waiting for? You know nothing really comes to the fellow who waits, except the “push.” Some people never “get there” unless they’re pushed. If you're sick of your job you’re do ing yourself and your boss a bad turn by hanging on. Start looking' around for another job—that’ll keep your mind liquid. Wonderful what a pick me-up job-hunting is to some people. Turn to and bury the mail-order house monopoly under the sod of local prosperity. You can do it by spending your money with the local merchants. If you give them an opportunity they will treat you fairly, and they, like your self, represent the interests of the home town. - simply expect to float and not try to swim we might just as well quit. It would be well for us to keep as a motto before us: “Perseverance and pluck conquer all things,” for it bears close relationship to the subject ■chosen. If we regarded the little op portunities in life more seriously and .made the most use of them we would ’be better able to master the golden op portunities. Let It Be Known. You may know that you have the best assorted stock in town, but the public will not know it unless you tell them about it; they are not clairvoy ants. First use the newspapers liber ally, then circulars, personal letters, talk to them when you can catch them in your store, at their homes—any where. The first and last thing to bear in mind about advertising is that it is as wide as human nature in its appeal. Advertising is the mighty engine of success, and without it the business world would be minus its dynamo of energy. * Push All the Time. If it pays to push when business is good, it pays to push when business is bad. If it pays to push when business is oad, it pays to push when business is good. If it pays to push at all, it pays to push all the time. Therefore, don’t let it die. When everything is coming your way, push to make it come the faster. When everything is going the other way, push to make it come back to |TOU. Push oil the time and ‘you’ll feel the better for it, and make more money. It takes hard thinkings and hard work to Increase business in the fare of strong competition. But the bu»i aess is there, and somebody will get it —you or your neighbor, or perhaps your competitor in the next town. Which shall It be? Help your employes increase your business. Be Business Throughout. A joke is a joke, but business is no If }*u get “turned down” two or three times you’ll,begin to think what small potatoes you really are after all, and that's good tonic for business sickness —rtie first sign of recovery, in fact. Your present job will, maybe, ac quire a fresh interest to you, and yo»'ll come at it again like a two-year ohl. If you were born^with a square chin and the normal amount of gray mat ter you'll probably. want to get ahead of the procession. There is only one sure w*ay, and that is “know how.” A fellow with "know how” never loses interest in his job. He wouldn’t get th* “know how” if he did. It’s marvelous how interesting busi ness is when you get the proper spirit. Some men obtain more genuine pleas ure from business than they do from play. If you .want to enjoy business study it—soak yourself in it, and ima gine it’s play. You won’t L.o to imagine long, and when you've got the spirit of the game you couldn't be kept out of it with a pickax. Women< as Lawmakers. Nineteen women holding seats in cortgress. What do you think of it? Not in any little congress of women’s . clubs or anything of that sort, but in the lawmaking body of a nation. Not one in ten thousand people in this quarter of the globe know this is a fact, although there is really no rea son why they should not know it. These women have won congressional honors and assumed the duties’of law makers in Finland. At the election held in that country only a couple of weeks ago the socialist? developed sur prising strength, and, consistent with their pretensions, they nominated a number of women for congressional seats. This forced the other parties to do the same thing. When the hallots were counted it was found that 19 women had been elected, nine of them socialists. They have taken their seats and promise to make good lawmakers. To fully ap preciate the Importance of this it must be borne in mind that never before have women or a woman been elected to the national lawmaking bijdy of any country.—Woman’s National Daily. Minions in Lins of Shipping. There is about $100,000,000 invested In transatlantic passenger boats 8teMnln#:rrom Naw Vork bay PUDDING THAT WILL KEEP. j Savory and Cheap Dessert Ready to | Serve at Any Time. One-half cup beef suet chopped fine, one and one-half cups seeded raisins, one cup New Orleans molasses, one cup milk, three cups flour, one-half teaspoon soda dissolved in warm wa ter; beat the molasses and soda water well; add milk, suet, raisins, then flour. Put it an airtight vessel and set in boiling water to steam four hours. Sauce for same.—One pint water thickened with two tablespoons cornstarch, one-half teaspoon cinna- j mon, half cup sugar; just a little nut meg and? allspice, juice of one leitaon, little grated rind, whisky to taste; boil and serve hot. When done and turned out on a plate it resembles fruit cake. Slice as much as you want in thin slices and put the re maining portion away. Turn a gran ite cooking vessel over it to keep it moist, and it will keep a long time. When you want to serve it again cut as much as you need and warm it by steaming in closed vessel. HAVE THE HOME ORIGINAL. Ideal Abiding Place Carries Stamp of Individuality. The surest way of making the home distinctive is to do all we can our selves, and stamp it with our own individuality. ' Never copy other people’s ideas of comfort and decoration, but employ your own talents and experience to the best advantage by carrying out original designs and schemes. Don’t copy; originate. : If you can’t afford to buy a news parlor table on the installment plan, you may buy a cheap table, and caver it with pretty chintz and muslin very reasonably indeed; and if the cover ing matches the wall paper, the suc cess of the venture will be doubly sure. All husbands appreciate the efforts of wives to make the home pretty, bright, and dainty, and as they are mortal, and do not possess inex haustible purses, if will please them still more when they hear it is all "home-made.” Swiss Curtains. A pfretty way to finish white swiss curtains for summer use is to edge them down the fronts and along the bottoms with narrow linen or cotton lace. It is not fulled in, but stitched on flat by machine. Curtains of swiss never should fall below the window sill, and, when edged with lace, may have a hem an inch or more wide on the fronts and bottoms, with the lace sewn to the edge. Thi3 finish is far more durable and neat than ruffling .the material on, and the expense is about the same, since lace may be bought for from three to five cents a yard. Overdraperies of cretonne also may be finished at the edges with lace, and this will tend to make them hang better, as* the stitching and extra iweight of the lace make the edge firm. Brown Sauce. Two ounces of butter, two pounds of ibeef, two onions, a quarter of a'pound of lean bacon, two cloves, one bay leaf, pepper, salt and two quarts of water. ■ Put two ounces of butter in the hot-' tom of a stewpan, with the bacon cut into small bits and the beef into very thin slices, with two small onions, a little pepper, salt, cloves, bay leaf and a little water, just enough to keep it from burning; stir over the fire for ten or 12 minutes, then let it simmer until it looks brown and rich; fill up the stewpan with two quarts of water and when boiling draw it to the side of the range, skim off all the fat and allow to simmer slowly for an hour and a half. To Can String Beans. The beans must be young and newly gathered. If toughened by long-keep ing or if old and stringy, they are not available for our purpose. With a sharp knife remove the strings from both sides of the beans. As you do this let the prepared beans,.fall into ice cold water. Now cut them into inch lengths, still dropping the bits into water. Put over the fire covered with cold water, slightly salted and peppered. Boil until soft, but not broken. Transfer to heated jars, cov er with boiling salted water from the kettle and seal. Sauce for Roast Meats. A quarter of a pint of water, a sprig of parsley, the juice of one lemon, pep pfer, salt and one ounce and a half of butter. Put the butter into a stewpan with a sprig of parsley, chopped fine; the juice of one lemon, strained; season with pepper and salt and a quarter of a pint of water; set it over the fire for about ten minutes until hot or just on the boil, and serve with roast meat. Gingerbread. One cupful of molasses, one-half cup of butter, one-half cupful of brown sugar, two eggs, one and one-half tea spoonfuls of soda dissolved in one cup ful of hot water, one teaspoonful each of ginger and cinnamon, three cupfuls of flour. One cupful of chopped raisins and citron may be added if desired. Bake in well-greased pan in moderate oven. Monument to a Bull. Dan R. Hanna, son of the late sena tor, is about to erect a costly monu ment of gray granite at his Cottage Hill farm, Ravenna, to the memory of Bapton Diamond, an imported bull that w^s the pride of his famous short horn stables and was a prize winner at leading stock shows in the coun try. f Washing Berries. Take an ordinary tin milk pan,' a hammer, and nail and punch holes all over the oottom. Put in your berries, let the water run over them in the. sink, and all the sand and dirt will wash right through those holes. Put in holes from inside of pan, so that it will stand a little way from the floor of sink. No Right to Wear Them, fused to allow the girls to wear caps ' and gowns, which he says are wholly ! wrens in schools below the college j American women have much to learn from their sisters in Paris as to the art of wearing tailor-made gowns, for it is certain that no women in the world equal the Parisiennes in this difficult art. Nature has made them exceedingly careful of details, and this in every walk of life, and from early youth they are taught to regard dress as an affair of paramount im portance. To a Parisienne it is a mat ter ef vital importance that the dainty little purse carried in the hand should harmonize with some other detail—wit;h the sporting-looking little necktie, perhaps, or with the embroid eries on the waistcoat of pale-hued suede. Everything has its own mean ing and nothing is too small to lack importance. It is natural to French women to look at the subject from this point of view and this is why they can—when they wish to do so— dress perfectly on a comparatively small income. A peculiarity of the Parisian eyen ing gowns this season is the close re semblance which they bear to tea gowns. There is the same graceful flow of supple material and the same vague outline. The Parisiennes revel in this particular mode and invest it with exceeding charm and grace. They never permit their picture gowns used to trim the bodice, the hat being of brown with brown shaded rosea in clusters on either side. Roses have taken unto themselves every conceivable tone, the most fashionable being, of course, blue, and these are Usually allied to black cen ters and accompanied by black leaves, a wreath of the latter appear ing with considerable success round the base of the crown of an Qpeii brimmed crinoline straw hat. But to turn to dresses of the com moner sort and of the greater utility. All combinations of black and white are prominent, and a mode which threatens to become universal in cludes a three-quarter coat of the sim plest style in combination with a short skirt, both being made of black and white striped coarse flbered material of homespun description. Such a costume is suitable, however, only for most work-a-day occasions, and lends itself to be crowned only by straw hats trimmed with ribbons and wings or rosettes of silk, and will no doubt look i{s very best when worn with a white batiste or lawn shirt and per mitted to take its walks in th«t country. Black and white cheek ap pears in every size and form; smooth of face and rough of face, it alike finds devotees, and an easy means of an Original Designs for Smart Gowns. to look In the least like robes de ehambre, and in this they display much cleverness, for a semi-loose robe has a tiresome way of looking bed roomy unless worn with great dis cretion. The picture styles which are making themselves so strongly felt in the world of fashion this year are special ly prominent where evening dresses are concerned, not so much with re gard to gowns for dinners of cere mony as for those to be worn at bridge parties and receptions amongst intimate friends. A leading feature of the new bridge gowns is the hang ing sleeve, which can hardly be called “angel,” but which is of that order. This sleeve almost invariably falls back from the elbow, leaving the lower part of the arm quite bare. From elbow to shoulder it is often nearly tight, but the real picture sleeve falls in graceful folds all the way down. Lace of every sort is as fashionable as ever, if not more so. You may see thick guipure doing duty on <the cos tume to left in our large illustration. The bodice is of lace, while braces and trimmings to the full sleeves are of taffeta, fringes decorating the sash ends, which are held with enamel but tons at* the waist, and the plain full skirt is of voile. The other dress shows cinnamon brown cloth in com bihation with black and white striped silk, small bands of Irish lace being j swering the question of what to wear ] at the- immediate moment in the morn ings can be settled by a kilted skirt of black and white check, a small coat of whatever shape that may best please and best suit you, with a white waistcoat embroidered with black I braid and fastened with white pearl buttons, and a white lawn frilled shirt, crowned with a green straw hat trimmed with green rosettes, and a short green spotted veil thrown over the crown, to fall just to the nape of the neck. The veil must be short if the dress be short, the veil long if the dress be long. Here lies one of the rules not to be forgotten by those who realize the advantage of graceful pro portion. And again I remember that this special virtue may be accredited to the short-waisted dress, so that the lines of the waist be chosen with spe cial care. The Genuine Test. “Do you believe that man is a real musical critie?” “Of course he is. Does anybody ever know what he is talking about?”—Bal timore American. Fortunate. Cobble—I had great luck in Wall street. Stone—What did you do? “Came out even.”—Life. * . The best thing in the world is to live above it A SHREWD ECONOMIST. Pat t*roved to Be One Too Many for the Preacher. Patrick O’rioilihan was the oracle of the little Irish village. He was the wisest of the wise, and was looked up to by the other members of the com munity as a veritable encyclopedia. But especially did he pride himself upon his scriptural learning, says Sun day Magazine. It was the custom in the village church Sunday mornings fbr all the inhabitants to attend, and Patrick, who never missed a Sunday, always occupied the front pew. One Sabbath, when the minister was reading from the Bible, several dignitaries were present from another town, and in an endeavor to wax par ticularly eloquent the pastor became slightly^ confused and said, "And there were 6,000 loaves and three fishes to feed the multitude of seven.* And then to point his moral and adorn his tale he looked straight at the infalli ble Pat and- said, "And sure, Pat, you wouldn’t do that, now could you!" lndade, I could, said Pat, and the sermon continued. That night, however, when the preacher reached his home and thought over his morning sermon, it dawned on him that he had made a serious error conoeming the loaves and the fishes. Accordingly the next Sunday he rose in the pulpit and said in explanation. “Brethren, iast Sab bath I made a mistake and said that there were 5,000 loaves and three fishes to feed the multitude of seven, but what I should have said was that there were seven loaves aad three fishes to feed the multitude of 5,000.” And then he looked at Pat again and said, “And now, Pat, sure you could not do that; could you?” “Ah, yis, Oi could,” replied Pat “And how would you do it, Pat?” asked the minister. “Why,”4 said Pat, '*Oi would give thim what was lift over from last Sun day.” Looks Vs. Feelings. ’if The fairest looking shoe mty pfaah a fnnf the foot