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B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: XUVKMI.ER 28. loop. J HOLIDAY DINNER FAVORS Many Changes Are Bung on Turkey and the Pumpkin. the SPECIALLY HONORED P 5. IDES w Mark Inaenoltr llplael for the Tbikilln( and (hrlilmn f Tables I'rrlly Decora. tlone l.orr la Trier. k a Favors of Home noil are an almost Indis pensable adjunct of the modern dinner party. Any one who doubts this statement need only drop In el any one of several establishment given over to retailing thing! of thif aoit to be convinced of Its truth. One ahop of thli kind, probably the larg est in New York, offers tens of thousands of varieties ranging In price from 6 cents to much mora than 6 each. Hera pur chasers of moderate meant may supply the needs of a dinner party or other entertain ment where favots sie illst rlbuted as cum paratlvaly small cost and with happy re aullt provided they have a little Imagina tion and know how to choose. The highest pi Iced favors are not always the most ef fects. There are now favors suitable for every season of the year, for all sorts of occa sions and kinds of guests. ' "But the choosing. There's the rub!" sighed a woman new at dinner giving to a' practiced dinner giver. This difficulty hu been met In part by th dealers, who put to the front at certain sea nona favora especially appropriate. For example, with Thanksgiving approaching favora suggesting the season and appro priate for dinners taking place within Thanksgiving week have a prominent place. There are painted turkey gobblers about two and a half Inches at the largest con taining no box and In themselves a pretty ,T;inient worth keeping, and colored paper turkeys somewhat larger containing a box intended to hold a favor more or less costly or simply bonbons. At a certaon Thanks giving dinner of last year the favors for Vbolh men and women, hidden under the "cirkey'a breast, were gold foot ball cuff- buttons. This year new favors which are taking well are figures of Peary and Cook holding a roast turkey and similar figures chasing a turkey. Ingenious Decora! lona. There are Individual closed pumpkins, the top decorated with a leaf, for Ice cream cases, one variety representing a candy box. Sheaves of wheat tied In the middle are used for almond holders and tiny double baskets of twin pumpkins are used for the same purpose. Small' pump kin topped with a turkey in which may he hidden a surprise favor and snapping mottoes containing a turkey picture are comparatively Inexpensive favors aside from whatever filling the purchaser may decide to use. Thanksgiving dinner cards tanging In price from 25 to 60 cents a dozen Include some pretty designs, for example a small turkey In gold and brown, Illuminated on llnotte board, a turkey and boy plate printed; a darky and turkey steel etching with tinted edge, anil clowns chasing tur key a. A huge paper pumpkin pie for a center decoration containing as many favors at there are guests attached after the style or a jac.K xiorner pie to me enai oi no S hons. together with Individual turkey boxes filled with bonbons and pumpkin Ice cream cases, comprise the favors to he used by one hostess who will entertain sixteen dinner guests on Thanksgiving day. The favors In the pie will consist mostly ef wood and Ivory carved novelties In the shape of sporting - articles. Including air ships and automobiles. For any but the most formal and dig nified of dinners huge favor balls sus pended over the table are for the time being having a great vogue, the rose de sign preferred. This design, which Is from twenty to thirty Inches In diameter, ac rtrdlng to the number of favors hidden Jk'ay In It, Is composed of about ISO ar bViclal pink, red or yellow roses as pre ferred, a dozen or more narrow streamers of satin ribbon finishing the lower side of the ball like a fringe. Near the end the dinner these are pulled simultaneously as in a Jack Horner pie. The very newest thing in pies, the use of which, by the way. Is not confined to young folks' dinners, are the snow man pie, glistening white, trimmed with a dozen or more cotton men surrounding a dome-like senterplece; the Japanese pie, decorated wltf'4 eighteen pretty little Japs encircling a taller Jap under an umbrella, and the star pie, which is to be hung from the cell ing above the table and will be particularly pproprlate for Christmas dinners If yimmed with holly. Still snother new newgn ts shaped like a flowerpot or Jardiniere raised on a mid dle shank and filled with artificial roses In which the favors are concealed. There are no string to this pie. the roses being distributed among the guests. The chrysan themum pie Is a beautiful table decoration, a huge blossom being surrounded with many smaller ones and a drooping border of lraven. Kor several weeks to come there will be a tun on sporting favors ice cream, candy, sailed nuts and other IhlnKS being served in tiny elephants, hears, tigers and other trophies of the chase. Oolf hags. bae halls, foot balls, rifles, together with the figures of sportsmen, are mounted as candy boxes and sometimes as veiy pretty bits of brlc-a-hrac. "Teddy In Africa" is one. f.'orth pole favors are proving a very profitable Idea to the manufacturers, who have Impartially tinned out no end of them n honor of both Cook and Peary. Among the best of these is an upright figure of one of the explorers, perhaps seven Inches tall. In polar garb, with or without a dog, and colored to resemble old Ivory. More popu lar are the all white kind, ranging in size from not much more than an Inch to four or five inches In length, the explorer wear ing white hoods and traveling on skis. In slelphs. sleds and on foot, and carrying in some designs the American flag. A ho.-tess Those husband is off on a shooting trip In the Adirondacks and who Is preparing to give a large dinner on his return will distribute among the men miniature elephant tusks about five Inches long, mounted on which In one case is a hunter with a gun, in another case a hunter stabbing a boar. Other favors of the same order show Jungle animals In pahs and singly posed on a flat pedestal. Among the favors are enough different devices In fishing designs alone to give character to a dinner where the guests In clude men fond of the sport. Domestic animals, fur and skin and cloth covered, ranging In size from six to twelve inches, often make a great hit, especially the dogs, as dinner favors. At any rate, English, bulls, Boston terriers, fox terriers, hunting dogs and others are supplied for this pur pose, with and without a concealed candy box, and they cost from $1 to $5. Call of many kinds, and horses, with and without a saddle, are shown In the same class. Similarly there are favors which can be used to hit off the particular hobDy of -me and another guest where a variety of fav ors are used, things for the artist, for card enthusiasts, for amateur agriculturists, for motorists. FtToru Varied in X umber. A few years ago few persons used othor than holly and greens on the Christmas dinner table, with perhaps place cardi seasonably ornamented. Now, on tho contrary, in the holiday season fancy pa per cases, diamond, round and oval shaped, mostly red and trimmed with holly berries, are used for serving ices, sorbets and bon bons; there are scarlet miniature pots hold ing a Christmas tree decorated with can dles to place at eaon plate, red hearts, holly trimmed which often hold a trinket, red coated Santa Clauses with tree and box, with reindeer and sleigh and in automobile; scarlet stockings containing metal favors and Christmas bells candy filled. Among the newest Christmas favors are a Santa Claus mask and head dress, a bisque Jointed Santa Claus doll and snapping mottoes containing toys and jewels, a spray of holly on each. There are new designs also in large bells to be hung above the table. The favors for dinners and luncheons In honor of a bride or a bride-to-be have been multiplied by four In the last year. Some of the Prettiest of these comprise sexes need for Ices and bonbons, the largest not exceeding six Inches at the widest point, and the paper varieties are the most popu lar because as a general thing they are the moat artistic. These are shown In diamond, oblong, square, oval and heart shapes, trimmed with ruching topped with a glided Cupid with bow and arrow of a couple of cooing doves. An oblong pink box, the top a mass of puffy ruching, shows Cupid, his white and gold wings extended, bow In hand, and a dove which has been brought down by an arrow. A white, gold speckled example is adorned with a couple of cooing doves. A dove with a spray of orange blossoms In Its mouth Is poised on the cover of a heart shaped white box and a round box flecked with silver supports a couple of wedding. bells tied together. Cupid lying down, shooting with golden arrows at a bunch of hearts, is the device used to decorate another box. There are silver bells and gold bells va riously decorated slippers, hearts, cuplds of every style and size, hearts of many kinds and degrees of cost, miniature brides, favor books and snapping mottoes suitably deco rated, all designed expressly for the bride's dinner and to match many favors designed for the men of the party. CLUBS OF ST. PETERSBURG Some Curious Fhasei of Social Life in Russia. SsaSttSS V The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States 120 Brodway New York Paul Morton, President n.D. Neely, Mgr. Omaha, Neb. By representing a Company second to none in general excel lence, and by offering a policy em bodying every desirable guaran tee and privilege, agents of The Equitable life Assurance Society of the United States are able to succeed where other agents, less fortunately situated, fail. . Some agents never experi ence the impetus "which the backing of a large, ably managed company gives in the selling of life insurance. The impregnable strength of The Equitable; its standard up-to-date policies; its liberality and fair dealing are ad vantages which the most humble representative may enjoy and profit by. The Equitable is the exempli fication of all that is desir able in a life insurance company. Its assets are safely and profit ably invested; its affairs are con ducted economically, solely in the interest of its policyholders; its policies are liberal and compre hensive; its great financial strength insures the fulfillment of every obligation promptly and in full. The demand for insurance such as offered by the Equi table is becoming greater each year. The return to Equitable representatives will be measured only by their industry, intelli gence and zeal. NO GRAND DUKES IN OLDEST CLUB Goirrnmrnt ttatrk on All feathering Vandal of the Cam hi Ins dabs Offlrers Not Mnhjert to tlvll Toner. ST. rKTKRSBURa. Nov. 8 -The oldest club in the capital, the Angllskle Kliih, founded in November, 175!. is celebrating Its l.V)th anniversary, "fhls Knglish club, which dues not now number an English man or any other foreigner among Its members, was started by Francis Qardnr, merchant manufacturer and ship owner, a partner In the old Muscovy company, whose first charter was granted by Queen Eliza beth of England and Cxar Ivan the Ter rible. Throughout the ferment of a few years ago St. Petersburg was never without Its crop of mushroom clubs, which sprung up in a night and changed their names and the names of the games they played every other month or at shorter intervals If they failed to reach a working arrangement with the local chief of police. The old Angllskle Klub has watched them come and go with sovereign Indifference. Its membership has contributed to the annals of universal clubland. Boeuf Strog anoff, which figures Id the restaurant menu of mankind. Is an invention of one of Its members. Count Stroganoff, sauce Nesselroda Is another, named after Alex ander I's secretary of state, who directed Rufcla's diplomacy In the days of Napoleon I. and signed the treaty of Vienna after the Corstcan's downfall. Pushkin, poet and of ficer of the Imperial Guard, "Russia's By ron," was a member, as was Bismarck's diplomatic rival. Prince Oortschakoff. No Grand Dukes Here. The membership today Is drawn largely from the senior officers of the army and the nominated members of the Council of Empire. The absence of grand dukes Is ascribed to a scene In the club card room long ago when one of them after a run of bad luck threw his band angrily on the floor. As ho refused to apologise to the other players the committee asked him to resign. The grand dukes thereafter transferred their club attendance to the Tacht club on the Bolstoya Morskala, an institution which has no more relation to yachting than the Angliskle Klub has to do with England. The social customs of the two are alike dining, cards and plenty to drink, but no politics, although of course there must be no speck of doubt about the loyalty to the czar of any of the members. The Yacht club is also the resort of the diplomats resident In St. Petersburg, The annual subscription la 400 rubies. The dinner is served at one great table and each newcomer before he sits down must walk round and shake hands with the members who have already begun. Bridge and poker are the games. VIndt, the native Russian game, which Is bridge of four dimensions, has been driven from the fashionable haunts, but holds Its own at domestic parties and in the provinces. where the unworked tchlnovnlk will play it daily from noon till 4 o'clock the next . Miller, Stewart Beaton 1 413-15-17 South IGm Street Great Display of Holiday Goods Do You Realize That Christmas is Almost Here? TABOsBTii.n Colonial IeMn Tabourette, made of quarter sawed oak. claw feet, polished finish 98.00 8olld Mahogany Tabourette, colonlul design in a deep, (lull finish, very uandsome, price, now 10.00 Fumed Oak Tabourette of the Gustav Stlckley manufacture, price 3.75 Pedestal Design Tabourette, very massive; top 1H Inches thick, 20 inches square, made of quarter awed oak, hand rubbed and polished, prlre. now $11.00 m ft i ' . Z.ASXZ8' DESK Solid Mahogany Ladles' Peak; drop fro,it with two large drawers, -.wo wmall drawers, 1nlde, large space for sta tionery taa.oo Holld Mahogany. Chippendale design lesic; very finely fin ished, price llS.00 Quuarted Saw.'d and Polished Oak Desk; wood knobs, one large drawer, polished Inside, price $16.85 Quarter Sawed Oak Desk: no drawers, finely polished $7.78 There are only TWENTY-THREE more shopping days, ami it is time you wore making your selection of CHRISTMAS GIFTS. We are ready with the largest and best assorted stock we have ever had pomething at tractive and practical is the order of the day in gift giving there is nothing better appreciated than something for the home, useful, ornamental and serviceaDie wdicd. will carry long and pleasant remembrances of the giver. There are hero hundreds or beatitirul articles tnat. as gifts, will greatly brighten the pleasure of giving and greatly please the recipient. You are cordially Invited to visit our store and we will show you many Useful Christmas Gifts Ladies' l)csks-$T)0.n() to $9.00 Music Cabinets-$:5r).(H) to ,.-$4.75 Shaving Stands-$-.10.00 to $8.00 Fancy Bnsketa $8.00 to $2.00 Hall Clocks-$125.00 to $5.75 Cellarettes-$30.00 to ... $12.00 Brass Lamps and Electroliers $27.00 to $5.50 Brass Jardienieres $4.00 to 80( Brass Smoking Sets, Trays, Tobacco .Jars, Candle Sticks, etc. $4.00 to : 25c Jidies' Desk Sets $7.00 to $3.75 Ladies' Work Tables-$33.00 to $12.00 Wilton Bugs $8.50 to $3.50 Axminster ttugs $5.00 to $2.25 Craftsman Bugs $i.50 to $3.50 Bath Bugs $4.00 to $1.50 Hassocks $2.00 to , 75c? Carpet Sweepers-$3.75 to $2.00 Sofa Pillows $2.50 to : 59c Table Co vers $7.00 to 85c Pillow Tops (Craftsman) 75c Shirtwaist and Utility Boxes-$10.00 to $1.95 CedaV Chests-$16.50 to $8.75 Screens $18.00 to $3.75 Leather Portieres $11.50 to 1 1 j III I M CELLAKETTES ? 1 Early Knglish Cellar tt-. with glass ware and copper iiixiiig tray, price, I now $18.00 J Karlv Knglish t'ellarotte with glas X ware and revolving bottle rack, price. now $14.80 S Oolden Oak Cellaret te with humidor, glassware, top turna back, leaving I large, opalesrent glass for mixing. J price, n"v $18.00 ) MTT8XO rfrsr? , Qu.irter 8awed and I I 1 Polished Mailt) ' I 1 I Cabinet, with pat- I 1 nt interior, round- I Jji ed top, price $30.00 I 1 tT Quarter Sawed Oak 1 II Music Cabinet; 1 J m o v a b le shelves, -jA 1 without door, price, VSf l now $?.7S Ii II 3 Mahogatiised Birch II II Music Cabinet with II II I patent adjustable II 'I f CT Kit shelves, finely fin- I $ I 4.tU IshedL price $U.5 I . . . . T - at M " WVLJ morning In his government bureau with his government colleagues. There Is the German Merchants' club In the center of the city. Like the two senior aristocratio Institutions it refuses to admit that tta title should define its membership, which Is neither very German nor very mercantile. It Is the synonym for good bourgeois comfort and Is probably the most steadily prosperous of all the clubs. Its social complexion resembles the re cently founded Octobrlsts club for moder ate politicians, founded by the party of that name. Their radical opponents founded a Constitutional nemocratlc club three years ago, but its lease of life was about as short as If it had been a gamblers' club; like the latter species, it has been resurrected under a new name, the XJons kle club, or Women's club, and here again Some Thing's You Want to Know The American Congress The Great Slavery Battle The history of the struggle to abolish slavery In the United States Is the his tory of the republic for the half-century ending with the civil war. Kvery political act was affected, In greater or lesser de greet by this one great Issue. But no Im portant political party espoused the cause of abolition, and with but few exceptions, all political leaders were united In deter mined opposition to the consideration of the question. James Bryce, British ambas sador to the United States, in his excellent work, "The American Commonwealth," comments at length upon the curious fact that In the United States Issues In which the people are most vitally Interested are not necessarily considered In the realm of national politics. At the present time the political issue which holds the greatest Interest for the American people, the question about which the hottest battle Is raging, the supreme problem In the greater part of the coun try, Is the fight for and against the pro hibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. But as yet that question haa barely touched the national political situation. Congress has passed a bill prohibiting the delivery of express shipments of liquors to any person except the bona fide consignee, but in no other fashion haa it recognized the existence of a political fight which la the all-absorbing topic in a majority of the states. Congress haa been asked to pass a bill prohibiting saloons In the District of Columbia, but the bill haa been pigeon holed in a committee room. So It was with the slavery question. Congress for years declined to consider It. The first movement was the presentation In 1TD7 of a petition from certain free blacks asking immunity from treatment as slaves. Congress received the petition under protest. Later came the petition to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Congress then refused to receive such peti tions. The first great contest came when Mimourl sought admission to the union as a slave state. Henry T.'lay postponed the evil day by devising the Missouri compromise. The main purpose of congress was to keep the slavery question out of federal politics. With the clearest of working agreements the leaders of both whig and democratic parties, in both north and south, conspired to keep the question down. When new states were to be admitted, congress care fully balanced things by admitting to at a time, one slave and one free. John Qulncy AdJins and a few abolitionists bat tled mightily In congress, but they were opposed by the power of both political parlies. The most notable example of collusion be tween the two leading parties was the agreement between Clay and Van Buren just before the campaign of 1S4. The Whigs, furious with Tyler whom fate had placed In the White House, had resolved to nominate their great leader, Henry Clay. Van Buren was absolutely certain that he would be the democratic choice. The two men met at Clay'a home in Ken tucky and reached an agreement by which both pledged themselves to oppose the an nexation of Texas, another effort to sup press the slavery question aa an Issue. The fact that statements professing ex actly similar views were Issued by both Clay and Van Buren at the same time Im Clay, Calhoun and Webster bad no succes sors in the senate; Jackson waj followed by no great man In the White House. William H. Seward and William Pitt Fcs mediately led to the public charge of col lusion. Van Buren was from New York, a free atate, at the head of a party which had Its chief strength in the south. Clay lived In Kentucky, a slave atate, and was leading a party which had Its chief strength In the north. Both were afraid to face the slavery Issue, and therefore both opposed annexing Texas which they knew would precipitate the struggle. The south witnessed the ' Increasing growth of the western territories and saw that the even balance In the senate could not be maintained unless Texas could be added to the slave territory of the states. Decided opposition to Van Buren developed In the south, covertly encouraged by An drew Jackson, then living In the retire ment of old age at The Hermitage. Van Buren had a majority of the delegates in the democratic convention, but he could not muster the two-thirds vote required by the laws of that party. James K. Polk was nominated ' and elected. From the time Polk defeated Clay until the civil war began, the alavery question became the chief topic of debate in con gress. But still there was no party de claring for abolition. The south was de termined to extend slavery Into new terri tory, the north was opposed to extension. The Whig party won one more national victory In 1848, Henry Clay came to the front once more with a compromise meas ure, and once more men believed that the slavery question was eliminated from na tional politics. Clay, Calhoun and Web ster died and the old order changed. Cali fornia had been admitted to the union in 1860, and no slave atate had come in to offset It. The south hud lost its euual division of power In the senate. Then it began to fight for Kansas. From that hour the fate of the question was sealed, but even the wisest could not foresee the end. The whig party died of an overdose of compromises never having the courage to take up as a national Issue the principle in which the majority of its members had the most interest. There wa a period of political disintegration. The demo cratic party seemed to have absolute power, but crystallising sentiment in the north at last forced division even In the ranks of that most compact and well dis ciplined political organization. The new republican party was born. In Its first campaign It developed enormous strength, all at the north, and although the dt'mocrats elected the president, they were terrified. The question of party pol icy concerning slavery extension was hotly debated and In lS'iO the democrats wplit hopelexsly and nominated two candidates for president. In the same year the repub lican party nominated Lincoln. But still the real question at lsmie was suppreKited. Even Lincoln avowed that he was not an advocate of abolition. The abolitionists still could not find a political party brave enough openly to champion their cause. Then came the war. ending slavery and the doctrine of the right of secesKlon at once. It will be many generations before the history of that great congressional and po litical struggle will be written with abso lute Impartiality. It was a conflict of a moral docrine against a legal right, and such conflicts are alwaya bitter, .because honest men may conscientiously support either side of the controversy. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the whole struggle waa that It produced such com paratively small number of (Teat leader. senden were strong men, but even they did not live up to the full measure of their opportunity. Jefferson Davis and Judah P. Benjamin were intellectual giants, but their conception of relative valuua was hopelessly Inaccurate. Stephen A. Douglas was the greatest man In the sen ate In the closing era of the slavery fight, but he devoted his talents and energy to the hopeless task of resisting the Irre sistible. In the house, as the crisis approached, there were a great many men who after ward achieved fame Thaddeua Stevens, Schuyler Colfax. John Sherman and others, but they were there then not as great lead ers, but rather because there were no great leaders. Horace Greeley, out of po litical life, was then perhapa the most pow erful man In all the country until the de bate with Douglas brought Lincoln Into the foreground. But even Lincoln was nominated for president on the ground of expediency rather than because of his transcendent greatness. Hlnton Bowan Helper, a North Carolina "poor white." -wrote a book entitled "The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It," which apeared In 1858. It was an attack on slavery based upon economic, rather than moral, grounds; and it pointed out that the "peculiar institution" was more harmful to the white people of' the south than to anybody elae. It had a more profound effect than "Uncle Tom a Cablp," or than all the agitation of the abolition ists. It was the last straw. Because John rlherman had given the book his endorse ment he was defeated for speaker of the house. Helper's book, by defeating Sher man, had the effect of solidifying Sectional sentiment and thus precipitated the crisis which it predicted. Helper died by his own hand in Washington less than a year ago, forgotten by the nation In whose history he had played such an Important part. It is interesting to remember that all through this great fight the congress op erated under rules In no wise changed from those obtaining before the struggle was precipitated. The speaker often used the power of appointing committees to further party Interests, but debate waa practically unlimited and there was no attempt by a speaker, of whatever party, to Increase the power of his office. The debates upon the "Gag Rule" fill many volumes. That rule, by which the house declined to re ceive abolition petitions, was not supple mented by gag rules to cut off debate, such as subsequently came to be employed. The speaker had not conceived the notion of controlling the house by the simple de vice of withholding recognition. The strug gle was always one of votes. That It lasted so long In congress and that congress never did take any decisive action concerning it was due to the fact that the sentiment of the country waa divided by geographical lines Into two sec tionsnorthern and southern while the politics of tiie country as divided by party lines crossing the geographical llii' i at right angles. Concerning far different lakues the same phenomenon now presents itself In the Sixty-first congrexs. There U the sentimental division Hue between .-on-servatlves and progressives, crossed at tight angles by the party line dividing the organizations of the republican and demo cratic parties. Those who expect congress soon to take positive action concerning cer tain mooted questions would do well to stcly the story of the struggle over slav ery and prepare for a long, long wait. Br razouxo t. xaskut. Vemmortow Tfea Americas Ooagresa Cae War OosgTeiae. the membership is not made up predomi nantly of women. It crosses the border land into the region of the political so ciety with club premises and Indulges In Sunday lectures on democratic topics, which the police attend and occasionally put a stop to. The problem that the gregarious In stincts of Russians In their long dark evenings has set before the governor of the city springs mostly from the smaller clubs. In a tentative way the chiefs of the government are trying to steer them Into what are officially looked on as safe and wholesome courses. Prime Minister Stolypin has Just sent good wishes to the newly former Academic club of senior atu aents and graduates whose bond of union is Interest in scholarship and university studies. But none of these Institutions Is allowed to see the light of day until Its articles of association have been passed through a mlnuts and suspicious examination by the officials of the ministry of Justice. It haa taken a sailing club, whose quarters are at the mouth of the Neva over a year to Incorporate Itself. The prefect of the city decided that he must first satisfy himself of the good Intentions of the promoters and Impose on them a set of regulations which aimed at preventing the membership ever getting tainted by persons who might use their liberty of assembly for any kind of agitation. This ingrained fear of meetings Influence every application of the regime of re enforced protection. In the private rooms of restaurants where dinner parties are given there must be no key or bolt to the doors, nor may the restaurant keeper sup ply his guests with writing materials. If a party of more than ten are to meet In any hired room they must give forty-eight hours notice to the police, stating the pur pose of their gathering, even If it be only a dance or a wedding feast. Excess of Males. St. Petersburg has an excess of male population due to the great number of men from the provinces In the Junior branches of the imperial administration and to the aggregation of young army officers. More youngsters lose great sums at cards than In any other capital In Europe, and the cheating Is notorious. The gambling clubs that get closed and reappear in other prem ises are usually marked down on the com plaint of a family whose son lias gone bankrupt at their tables. At nearly all of them men and women play side by side, and. of course, take one another's money with equal remorselessness. Periodically there is a crisis. Somebody cuts the light off while his confederate scoops the stakes on the tables. A fer revolver shots fol low, there Is a rush for the street and the police are brought In, But, the scampa In the gambling clubs are bo numerous and know so much about each other that nothing can be done to get up evidence for a prosecution. The police have no authority to arrest officers of the army ar.d navy. If they are mixed up in a club scandal the officer of the brigade on guard duty must be sent for to discipline them. This absolute authority of the senior offi cer over all military and naval men at all times overrides club committees or any other social authority. And It Is exercised without compunction. In the main saloon of a leading restau rant here some years ago the late Grand Duke Vladimir after copious refreshment left his table, went toward the wife of a civilian, patted her on th'j shoulder and told her she waa beautiful. The husband sprang up an! pushed him sharply back some yards. Diners and the waiters looked for a srene, but a very old man In general's uniform all military officers whether on the active or reserve list wear their uni forms at all times got up and crossed to the grand duke with the order In one sen tence to report himself at once to the mili tary command int'a quarters. Vladimir went without a word. lions of Europeans, not 1 per cent of whom would have been really assimilated la Europe by the English, the Germans or the French," said eLopold Ranch of Basel, Switzerland at Washington. Horr Rauch Is touring this country and has made close) observations of the question. "Millions of Germans become In th course of a few months rabid Tankees,' said Mr. Rauch, "without any Americana as much as asking them to do so, while all the wisdom and power of the Prussian government has. these 100 years, been un able to assimilate, say, 100,000 Poles. "But when the German peasant arrives at New Tork he has not been there an. hour before a half dozen people have done him what Is to his mind an exquisite and most flattering honor. They have 'sir-ed' him; they have said, "Yes, sir ,' 'No. sir.' In Europe the honor of being addressed as 'sir' has never been done to him, although; he was always expected to 'sir' every bet ter dressed person speaking to him. "For years that has rankled In his heavy soul," added Mr. Rauch. "When, then the first American meeting him says, 'Yes, alrj 'No. sir," he distinctly feels himself raised In his own esteem. A flood of new sensa tions shoot to his heart and brains, and In that very moment he Is a new man. The Americans are quite unaware that the mtanlngless word 'sir' has done more for the assimilation of millions of European newcomers than have all the paragraphs of the American constitution." Washing ton Post. BABY SCRATCHED FOB IHBEE YEARS Bee Want Ads Are tf-e Bett Business Boosters. UPLIFTS OF THE IMMIGRANT Aa Explanation of the Phenomena of Foreigners Beromlng Rabid 1 ankers. "Few Americana are aware of one of the secret cauaea of the fact that they assim ilate, without even thinking it, nill- Until Me Would b:seo Eczema Covered His Whole Body and Head Suffered Keenly from Itching and Burnine Hundredsof Dollars Spent on Fruitlftss Treatments. CUTICURA CURED HIM- ' NEVER TROUBLED SINCE "My little grana n when a year o had e-ze-ria all ovor hij whole body anol head. It lasted nearlv three years. Ha had big sores on his head and the mat tor would run Irom Uie:n. He suffered from tho it'iiing and burning and would scratch until he would Mead. He waa a, perfect sight.' We tried every kind of salve and snip but thoy did no gxd. After spending hundred of dollar, and having several doot n, whioh did him no good, we saw tlm Cutieura Remedies ad vertised and vo git urn totea if they would help him. We used the Cuticura Hoap to wash him with and then applied the C'utirtira Ointninnt. They cured him nicely. He is now Ave and bag never been tothored with it sinoe. Mrs. David Ames, 9 Columbia Ave., Rocky land, Me., l ol . 1'J and Mar. 9, lOOtt." CUTICURA Cleanses, Purifies and Beautifies Skin, 5calp, Hair and Hand Tim constant u.o of Cuticura Roap, asflsted when necessnrv by Cuticura. Ointment, not only prowves, punfle and beautifies the skin, scalp, hair and hands, but prevents inflam mation, irritation and clogging of tha pores, the com mon cause of pim ples, blackheads, redness and rough cwts, and other un w h ol eaoma non ditioru. All who delight in a clnaf akin, soft, white hands, a clean, whole some scalp and live, glossy hair, will And that Cuticura Soap and Ointment mora) than realize a vary expectation. OmnXe Kxtemal and !ntmal Treatment tbr Fvry Humor of Infom fluid" ftnd Aduiu coe- ft,it of Cu'tturs Vr (JSc ) to nfthM Uifl Hkl PiiiMurs Oinvmeui iMe.l la HmI (to Skin n4 full ctira Hranlrent iV . or iu tn form of rmv-M 0,tu fill lie. ier vitl of 0i to run'r iu em wrouf nont uu worm, rami nrus rars . efto rropa . Kootoa. hmb i ti-PM seek ee WtsUMut a4 ear rrus a coa. ae-HaiM haa. itaaa