Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1902 — Page 13

ANARCHISTS OF LONDON

HOOT OF A l'LAM AV1IOSR AOXlotji riuiT is i:vi-:iiYviii-:Hii. In il!ipr CiilcnRO Nor NpW York In There n More .ninprous or More Active PropaKamln. Lon-I"1" Standard. The extent to which assressivc anarchism, with its rstlferous propaganda, has v., cure 1 a hold upon the foreign settlers in llat Lonuon is strongly borne in upon me in the course of a tour of the quarter be-ycr.-i Ahlate, where the Ilusso-Jewish and othr continental immigrants have their hcrr.es. A fowr years ago, less than a dec-a-io, in-Iced, the Anarchists, as well as the rot of the anti-social confraternity in the n. Uhborhool of Whitechapel, were Iocatoi here and there in by-strects on cither side of the Commercial road. They had thrown out feels, as it were, in the direction of Stepney, where they had a meeting rlace of their own, and there was a notorious rendezvous of the brotherhood In the upper room of an unlicensed public house at the end of AVentworth street. There was but a solitary Anarchist club and a single Anarchist journal, Der Arbeiter-Freund, printed In Hebrew characters, but in the Yiddish Jargon. Now the streets between Church row and Berners street swarm with both Socialists and Anarchists, and the region stretching1 from the arches over which the Tilbury and South End Railway runs, south of the Commercial road, right up to the site of the old Mile-end turnpike, 13 simply a huge Anarchist colony. Within its limits the members have now fully a score of clubs. They have their own special cook shops and coffee houses, their own dancing rooms and gambling dens. In the news vendors shops I find exposed not one, but three, publications of the fraternity, advocating every form of sccialism and anarchism, from the mild to the wild, and suggesting" every imaginable remedy for the reformation of society, from the abolition of marriage to a "hempen collar for the neck of the Czar" and a "rain of cartridges" for the capitalist. There are nearly a dozen affiliated lodges of women Anarchists now, and women are freely admitted to all the clubs of the fraternity, where the talk, I may add, is not always directed to the turning of society upside down or the dispatch of their fellow-men to heaven by what they, v;ith their own special idea of humor, term the "dynamite express." Their old printing press still stands in the stable yard off Hanbury street, in a loft inaccessible from the street save by a ladder that lets up and down. They have, however, secured another half way down IJerners street, which turns out in quantity the kind of literature for which there appears to be abundant demand in the Anarchist colony. The fraternity have their own places of meeting for public worship, for the Russo-Jewi.h Anarchist is nothing if not religious, and believes in praying for himself, even if he advocates something stronger for "tyrants." In addition to consolidating the colony in the East End of London, the immigrant Anarchists have now branches in Liverpool, Birmingham. Manchester, Leeds and Hull. In the course of a conversation with a number of the lierners-street Club I made some inquiry as to the probable number of Communists and Anarchists in the metropolis. I was assured that the contributing membership the assessment is 2d weekly was upward of 6.W. Assuming that 4.0 of these were heads of families, and that each family consisted of five persons only, which is anything but an excessive estimate for Jewish households, we shall have an anti social colony in our midst of something over 20,000 individuals, whose mental nourishment is drawn from the pernicious teachings of the Anarchist press, anil whose practical creed may be summed up as the evangel of violence and assassination. Their ranks, too. are being constantly recruited by arrivals from Russia and southeastern Europe. Including among them men known to be advocates of force and belonging to the very extreme of the Anarchist wing, whose connection with the party has rrade their native land a good deal too hot to hold them. THEIR FAVORITE RESORT. A favorite resort now of the East End Anarchist, who is almost invariably a Jewish immigrant, is a little club and meeting room on the ground floor of a house off the end of Berners street. It is not one of the inner circles of the orgatdzation, where matters of weight are discussed, but just a place cf call, where the members of the fraternity may Indulge in social intercourse and air their views on men and things generally. Many of the frequenters of this club hail from southern Russia, from Kiev, Odessa, Elizabethgrad, and Ekaterinoslav, where I met some of them as far back as the year of the great riots. "When in Elizabethgrad I was made free of the "Biblia Bratski." of whlc!i the notorious Jesse Helfman, concerned in the assassination of the Czar Alexander, was a member; so I have no difficulty in obtaining access to the rendezvous here. The clubroom is fairly large, consisting really of the two ground floor parlors of an ordinary workingmans house, knocked into one. There are a couple of long wooden tables, placed crosswise to gain space, and four long benches comprise all the seating accommodation considered needful. On entering, I find some eighteen men and young women present, eleven of the former and seven of the latter. They are all smoking the "paplros," which Is never out of a Kussian's mouth. Eor the nonce, too, they are amusing themselves in the intervals of some political discussion that has just terminated. They are all, men as well as women South Russians, tall, well-built, and intelligent-looking. None of the men have beards, but are shaved except for a mustache, and they wear their hair close cropped. They have all served in the Russian army, and are good types of the advanced Russian Anarchist and Nihilist. One thing, I feel constrained to say here, puzzles me, and has always puzzled me, in connection with the frequenters of this and the other Anarchist clubs I have visited. What do the members do for a living? How do they earn their bread and maintain themselves? They are very well dressed, and they evidently have plenty to rat and drink, for they look well and in good health, the young women particularly i . Rut I have never been able to discover tint thy do work of any kind. I have b-en to these clubs at all times before noon, nfter dinner, in the evening. I have generally found the same people there, dolr.cr much the same as they are this evenly-talking, joking, deriding the police, an 1 occasionally hinting at some sly stroke they hear is in preparation. Whence do th y get the money to live? This is one of tho mysteries of the East End Anarchist felony that I have never been able to fathra. And there are a score of clubs of thU kind where the members seem never to toll nor to spin, yet find a living somehow in the profession, if not the practice, "f anarchism. OTHER TYPES OF AGITATORS. There are, of course, other and very different types of the Anarchist to be found among the foreign colonists of the Commercial Road side streets. There are men s-!m;Ie as children, others dangerous as the worst of criminals. Here is one, whom I accompany from the club where we leave the men romping over the wooden tables with the young women. He Is going to his rorn in a small hou.e near by. He is a rulrs-he. of c-ours. ..Ii . " '"-. U C UUSC ii ione: and h tu,.,... n: and i l ilii U J ill support of his Socialist theories. Ami shall we do otherwise than as" the Bible teaches?" And so the fanatic goes on

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Oppressed and restricted in their native country, they bring with them here the natural feelings of resentment inspired by their rulers. Extreme in their religious fanaticism, they tend to extremes in their socio-political creed. Not, some may say, very dangerous people, these. True, perhaps, but they are as tow, ready to burst into flames when the spark is applied by more advanced and less timid advocates of Anarchist doctrines. DANGEROUS ARE BEST EDUCATED. The more dangerous members of the fraternity, the prime instigators and oracles of East End anarchism, are the better educated men, who are the directors of the Berners-street press and the wire-pullers of the Berners-street Club, with its affiliated lodges. These arc the men whose wild teachings and fiery denunciations rouse the more stolid mass of their coreligionists and fellow-countrymen. These are the men who pocket the weekly subscriptions of the faithful as they are garnered in, and treat them in return to delightful pictures of a world turned topsyturvy, where no one will work, but everyone will receive pay; where none will rule, and yet all obey; where there will be no marriage, and yet each man have the woman he loves, and where only merit in the shape of anarchistic journalism will be honored and rewarded. These men, the roaring advocates of thorough-going nihilism, alternate between their haunts in Berners street and their presses in the stable yard north of the Commercial road. Never accessible to outsiders, they may be found on a Friday evening in their own particular club down Church lane, by such as have the password that admits to the inner sanctum, where they sit surrounded by their admirers. Book in on such an evening, and you will hear them spouting out their odes on "The Hempen Cravat for the Czar," the title of a poem in the Arbeiter-Freund, or an "Axe for the Head of Kings." . They will read you the "Thirteen Art'eles of Anarchist Faith," imitated afUT Maimondes, the Jewish rabbi, in which they express their belief in the leveling down of everything amid a "deluge of bullets" for the capitalist with the "crack of myriad cartridges" to bring the landowner to his senses. They scoff at religion as only men absolutely void of all religious sense can do, and deride above all the religious practices of their own race. Nevertheless, to stand well with their followers you may see them on the Saturday attending the praying room, which some members club together to hire in common, there affecting a regard for observances which they have laughed at a few hours before. Scores of such dangerous scoundrels make a good thing out of the advocacy of anarchism in East London, unless, as is too often the case, they gamble their gains away in one or other of the many little "hells" and dens which abound in this part of London east of Aldgate, and to which the police are ever and anon calling the attention of the metropolitan magisBefore the Russian exodus set in to this country, such men were unknown in the East End of London, and the appearance of a socialistic or Nihilist organ, openly advocating the murder of rulers, and the employment of bullets as a means of dealingvwüh capitalists, would have fluttered the Jewry of the metropolis from one end to the other. Now both are commonplaces of the situation in foreign East London, and incitements to violence are regarded as quite in the natural order of things in our Anarchist colony. Even ten years ago the East End Anarchist had to he sought in his haunts and holes. Now he meets you everywhere in the streets. You cannot sit down in a restaurant or coffee house in the side streets of the Commercial Road without hearing him and his denunciation of capital and capitalists, of rulers and kings, of labor and of responsibility. He talks to you there as openly and glibly of getting rid of an Emperor as of knocking down ninepins. It is a sign of the times in East London, and one of those ominous signs that I do not think the people and authorities in this country can long ignore Popular Mrs. Cleveland. Chicago Chronicle. Mrs Grover Cleveland is the most popular woman in Princeton. Rarely a day passes that she is not out on the streets walking with her three daughters. She nods to all the townspeople and has a pleasant word for most of them. Her visiting list is one of the largest in Princeton, and many names are on it that do not belong in Princeton's exclusive society. Mrs. Cleveland belongs to the charitable societies and takes a personal interest in their work. She visits sick neighbors and takes an active interest 'in everything that goes on. She is as charming as when she went to the White House as a bride. She devotes most of her tima to her household, her three girls, Ruth, Esther, Marion, and her boy Dick. Dick is now two years old. Tho girls are cared for by a governess. The quiet life is as much to Mrs Cleveland's taste as it is to that of her husband. She was first to fall in love with Princeton and suggested it as a future home. She had gone to Princeton with Mr. Cleveland, where he was to speak at the equicentennial. She was impressed by the quiet, dignified air of tho town and wanted to so there to live. .From "CRANKISMS , by '

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QUEEN DRAGA AMBITIOUS CONSORT OF THE SERVIAN KIX A lAST3IISTltESS OF INTRIGUE. AVIlIlnpr to Sncrlllce a Brother to Secure Ilnsfilnn Recognition of Her Socially Boycotted Court. W. E. Curtls's Belgrade Letter hi Chicago Record-Herald. Draga Maschin, the daughter of the Servian cattle dealer, reached the throne, as I told you in my last letter, by a series of sacrifices and intrigues more sensational than have ever occurred outside of fictional literature, and yet she is not happy because for their sins both she and her youthful husband are boycotted by all the courts of Europe. Queen Victoria was so disgusted at the vulgar comedy enacted at Belgrade tha ehe wanted to emphasize her disapproval by withdrawing the British minister. There have been a good many scandals in royal families and some exist at tho present time which would make an interesting chapter, but there has been nothing for generations so nasty as that of Servia. As a consequence the royal couple have not been recognized in any way by other royal houses, much to the chagrin and disappointment of Queen Draga. Negotiations are going on at present between the Servian minister of foreign affairs and Count Lamsdorff, the head of the Foreign Office at St. Petersburg, for a visit to tho Czar, which is the height of the ambition of both King Alexander and his Queen and a matter of political importance for the Russians. The negotiations involve the political control of Servia and the nomination of an heir to the Servian throne. Although Queen Draga has other plans and desires her brother, a young lieutenant in the Servian army, to be proclaimed heir apparent, it is believed that she would sacrifice him and all the rest of her relations if the Empress Alix would receive her. But the latter, who is a good woman, has absolutely refused to do so, and even declined to answer a letter which Queen Draga wrote her nearly a year ago imploring her kindly consideration. It is said that she threw the letter indignantly into the tire before reading it as soon as she discovered who it was from. Count Lamsdorff, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, has therefore a difficult job on hand when he undertakes to arrange an interview for a bad woman with a good woman. Telegrams from St. Petersburg to the Vienna newspapers announce that the King and Queen of Servia will spend a few days as the guests of the imperial family of Russia at their palace on the Black sea next summer. This gives great satisfaction to Queen Draga's party in Servia, which is tew in numbers, but very active in politics. They do not know exactly what compensation Russia expects, but are confident that Queen Draga will do whatever is required, because she believes that if the Czarina consents to receive her, even at a price, she will have no further difficulty with the other European courts. RUSSIA'S PRICE. It is probable that Count Lamsdorff, in exchange for this consideration, expects King Alexander of Servia to name as his successor Prince Mirko, son of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, and brother of Helena, Queen of Italy. The royal family of Montenegro have very close relations with the Russians, and are always educated at St. Petersburg. Prince Mirko is a great favorite with the widow dowagerczarina, and spent several years of his childhood in her family, developing a remarkable taste for music, lie is such a clever composer that his music is played by all the Russian military bands, and Is equally popular in Italy. He is a goodlooking lad of twenty-one, of stalwart figure and athletic habits. His life has been very different from that of the depraved young King of Servia; in fact, the entire family of Montenegrins have been admirably brought up and are persons of cultivation and retlnement. Two of his sisters, who were also educated under the direction of the dowager-czarina, have married members of the Russian imperial family, and their dowry was provided by the late Czar. Danilo, crown prince of Montenegro, married a daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and is therefore a brother-in-law of the Grand Duke Vladimir, who gave him a million rubies to start housekeeping. Thus the interest of the Russian Imperial family, as well as the ministers of state, is excited by the prospect of securing a throne for young Mirko. Such an inducement would have great weight with the Czarina Alix and might possibly persuade her to consent to receive a woman with even so bad a record as Queen Draga. The Italian interest in the appointment of Mirko is equally great. Queen Helena is taking an active part In international affairs. Her mother-in-law, Margherita, dowager Queen of Italy, never meddled with politics, but Helena is said to have developed a decided taste that way and is an active participant in the negotiations with Servia for MIrko's nomination. The Servians do not care so much for Italy as for Russia. Queen Draga does not care whether the Queen of Italy receives her or not, but of course appreciates that Queen Helena may exert some Influence upon the Czarina. There is still another and very important political phase to the negotiations. Peter Karageorgovitch, the "pretender" to the Servian throne, married a sister of Mirko. the eldest daughter of Prince Nicholas, and although she died in 18S7, he is still consid ered a member of the Montenegrin family. and the relations between his sons and their uncles and aunts In Montenegro are very cordial. Two of these sons are now at a military school at St. Petersburg and a third is in the Russian army. It might be that Peter would renounce formally all pretensions on the part of himself and the Karageorovltch family to the throne of Servia if his brother-in-law, .Mirko, were proclaimed heir apparent. This would be a preai aavaiuaBe . uciicx, xnu wuum go 41 ii t a Is well as' they know men and if)nen knew women. 2S they fcnowthemselvi esthings ould be very much as they are. y &

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more than any other one thing to put an end to the conspiracies and political agitations which have distracted this country. All this is speculation, however, based upon a few facts that have leaked out of the Foreign Office. It is only known that rapid correspondence has been conducted between the Servian and Russian governments concerning the selection of an heir to the throne and that Mirko is the Rus sian candidate. SNUBBED BY A PRINCESS. King Alexander, as well as Queen Draga, will have to swallow a good deal of chagrin if Mirko is selected, for that depraved fellow received a most humiliating snub from the lovely Princess Xenla, the fourth daughter of Prince Nicholas, not more than two years ago. Before his marriage with Draga Maschln, the boy king. agreed to yield to the importunities of his ministers and seek a wife elsewhere, and there was some correspondence concerning an alliance with the royal families of Montenegro. King Alexander made a visit to Cittenje, the Montenegrin capital, to get acquainted with the young lady, who was recommended as a suitable bride, but when the Princess Xenia saw him she was so disgusted with his appearance and manners that she refused to sit at the same dinner table or receive any attention whatever from him, and Alexander had to be told that his suit would not be successful. He left Cettlnje in a state of furious indignation, and when he returned to Belgrade dismissed from office and banished from the country the members of his Cabinet who had advised him to go there. He married Draga Maschln forthwith. There was a sensation scene at the palace about a month ago when Queen Draga's plan to proclaim her brother as heir apparent was disclosed. He is said to be a reputable young fellow and a good soldier, about twenty-four years of age, but has no claims upon the throne, and nobody wants him except his sister, who, the people think, has already received more consideration than she is entitled to. His name is Ntkodem Lunievitza. At first nobody believed the story that floated out of some mysteriou quarter that Alexander intended to adopt him as a son and name him as the future king of Servia, because it was so audacious as to be incredible, but within a few days the confirmation was abundant. The King expressed his intention to three or four different persons. Then the Ministry took up the matter and decided, after a long and serious consultation that it would be an act of duty and patriotism to check in the bud the ambition of their Queen. Therefore, the entire Cabinet, with Mr. Vuitsch, the prime minister, at their head, called at the palace at an unusual hour and asked for an audience. Alexander must have suspected the purpose of their visit, for, after keeping them waiting for fifteen or twenty minutes, he appeared in the full uniform of the commander-in-chief of the Servian army, with his wife upon his arm. Advancing a few steps from the entrance, the royal couple stood arm In arm with a defiant air while the eight ministers arose and saluted them. Mr. Vuitsch, in a conciliatory way, sug- j gestea that as they desired to consult the King upon a matter of importance to the state, the presence of Her majesty was not necessary. But Alexander had evidently been through a rehearsal, for he replied firmly and without hesitation: "The Queen of Seriva is interested as much as myself in all affairs of state." ROYAL PLANS CHECKMATED. The prime minister bowed in acquiescence and proceeded to say that disquieting rumors concerning the selection of an heir to the throne had been in circulation for several days and had reached the ears of ' the cabinet from unofficial sources. No notice had been taken of them until they had been confirmed by persons who were in the confidence of his majesty more than his own cabinet and lawful advisors. Therefore they deemed it their duty to enter a remonstrance and to remind him that the skuptschina, which was about to assemble, under tho constitution must be consulted and their approval obtained before the proclamation of an heir apparent could be formally made. He was confident, the premier said, that a majority of that body, which was radical in sentiment, would never agree to the choice his majesty had made and, with the history of Servia so familiar in his mind, his majesty must recognize the danger to himself and to the country of a difference with his parliament upon so important a subject as the selection of his successor. He therefore begged that, before any formal steps were taken, the leaders of the parliament should be consulted. Alexander here interrupted and shouted in an excited manner: "I shall carry out my will." "The will of the people must also be considered," answered the prime minister firmly. Queen Draga, who seemed perfectly cool in contrast to the agitation of her husband motioned to the latter to silence, and said, "The will of the monarch is the more important," then, whirling the king around, she almost dragged him to the door. And the royal couple left the audience chamber without the usual formalities. The cabinet exchanged glances and retired. Within a few days they took occasion to have ihe leader of the radical majority in the parliament send a message to the queen by a person who would be sure to deliver it correctly, that her plan to name her brother as heir to the throne would never be agreed to, and admonished her that her own safety required her to relinquish it. Since then nothing further has been heard on the subject, and, although Queen Draga is a very stubborn and determined woman, the correspondence with Russia concerning the appointment of Prince Mirko is accepted as evidence that she has given up the hope of placing her brother upon the throne. There have been frequent rumors of attempts to assassinate the Queen, and at least one story that she had committed suicide. The latter is believed to have originated with her enemies to cover an expected assassination, but it is impossible to ascertain the truth. She is extremely unpopular, and her vindictiveness has incited a personal hostility that may provoke attempts upon her life. Alexander is a mere puppet in her hands. He does nothing without her approval. She is actually the head of the Servian government. There are likely to be exciting events in Servia this winter, as the hostility in the Parliament against the Queen may take any form. As I told you the other day, all of the Kings of Servia during the last century have either been assassinated or compelled to abdicate for opposing the will of the people as represented in the Parliament. DOUBLE-DECK BEDS. Made of Iron or Brass, They Are Crowding: Folding; Beds Oat. Philadelphia Press. A salesman in a furniture store who had just sold a double-deck brass bedstead to a customer said: "There is nothing new in the idea of a two-story bedstead, but some manufacturers have put ginger into the trade this season by sending out new and attractive designs. Ve are 3elling, consequently, more of them than ever before, and to a different class of customers. In small suburban homes and in an apartment house the double-deck bedstead offers advantages that do not seem to have been appreciated heretofore. "Simplicity of construction is the secret of success with all furniture of this kind. The demand for the old-time, cumbersome wooden folding bed, designed to look like anything but what it really is, decreases each year. In the double-deck bed the four corner posts are carried to a height sufficient to support a second frame directly over the first one. They have been used for years in cabins on the better class of ocean steamships in place of wooden bunks. "In that case it has been necessary to provide them with guard rails in place of the front board of a bunk. In making double-deckers for shore use we still stick to the top guard rail. No man want3 to sleep six or seven feet from the floor if there is any danger of his rolling out of bed. If he has children whom he wants to put in the top bed the precaution of a guard rail is even more necessary. "The up-to-date double-decker Is made so that the upper shelf may be folded out of the way when it is not needed, like a section in a sleeping car. We sell them to students who room together, to boardinghouse keepers and to many private families. Hotels buy them for servants' sleeping rooms. Economy of space is the main point with customers. "How do sleepers get into them? Salesmen never Inquire into details of that nature. I suppose standing on a chair would be the simplest method. Those little stepladders, such as are used in the public library for reaching the shelves, would not be amiss. The cost of an iron or brass double-decker ranges from J25 upwards, according to design, finish and bedding equipment." A Solid Object. Washington Post. When President Roosevelt makes up his mind the wise man will refrain from throwing stones at it.

JANUARY 5, 1902.

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A Great Cloak Sale, such as the town has never seen, is now ready at this 5tore. Mr. I). D. Bro5nan left for New York on Chrl5tmas day, and, fortunately, ran across the greatest values in cloaks we ever saw. Newmarkets, Raglans, 45-Inch garments and 27'Inch Jackets and Fur Jackets, all at from 25c to 3nc on ths dollar. Money back on any garments you buy If you can duplicate them in any store In the State for twle wliit we charge you for them. This Is the greatest sale of fine cloaks ever held in the State of Indiana.

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"TT r Iii . CHOKER AND A GIRL. How the Tammany Iloss AVaa Photofrruphed Against Ills Will. New York Letter In Washington Star. Tho other afternoon Richard Croker whose "swan song," by the way, is regarded as a sure sign that he is soon to abandon the Tammany leadership, and not voluntarily was seated In an easy chair before one of the windows of his famous ornate room It is really a sumptuously beautiful room on the second floor of the Democratic Club. He was alone and smoking a cigar. There was a slight scuffle outside his door, and then a sudden knock on the door, and in response to the boss's "Come In," there entered a pretty young woman in a tidy rainy-day skirt, a neat tan jacket, well-fitting:, high-topped shoes and an Alpine hat with a leather raklshly stuck in the band. She had a camera slung across her shoulder by a strap. A uniformed club servant entered right behind her. The club servant looked scared. "I tried to keep her out, Mr. Croker," he started to explain, "but she " "Rut she didn't intend to be kept out that's all right, now run away you've done all you could," interrupted the nattylooking young woman, gayly, waving the club servant out of the room and beginning to unstrap her camera. "I'm going to photograph you in your nice room, you know," she went on, addressing the stupefied Tammany boss. Now, the Tammany boss has always made it a strict point that his Democratic Club apartment should not be photographed, and some of the New York yellows have failed dismally In their attempts to get a picture of the apartment. The Tammany leader started at the young woman, too amazed to say anything. He took his cigar from his teeth and his jaws came together with a click, while she smiled at him and proceeded to get her camera in working order. "Yes," she went on, "I've been wanting a picture of this apartment of yours for some time to add to my collectioji, having heard of its magnificence. My, but it is pretty, isn't It! Of course, the picture'll be all the better with you sitting there by the window. Er just put that shade up a little higher, will you, please?" The boss Tammanyite was still so paralyzed with astonishment over the sheer nerve of the young woman that he continued to stare at her as she walked over to him and lifted the window shade a bit higher so as to, admit more light. "Wait a minute, madam mis3 er missus," he contrived to ejaculate, hoarsely, when the young woman was in the very act of getting the focus on him, "what paper " "Oh. how funny!" she laughed, joyously breaking in on him. "Why, no paper, of course! It's for my own collection. Urn I think I like that sldo view of your face, especially as you've nearly aiways been photographed full-face. Urn chin just a leetle higher, please there, that will do! Now, please, not quite so grim!" and there was a click, and the job was done. "Now, let me tell you something, little lady," said the Tammany boss, rising from his chair, "I have heard and read of nervy persons of your sex, but you" "Oh, mercy on us, don't mention it, Mr. Croker!" exclaimed the natty-looking little woman, cheerfully. "Don't, I pray you. Pleasure's mine, I am sure. I think you're real nice, and I don't believe more than half the stories I've read about you. Well, good day g-o-o-d afternoon!" and strapping the camera around her shoulder again she tripped out with a cute little rippling laugh. The boss gazed abstractedly out of the window in a daze for a long while after the departure of his extraordinary visitor, and then his hard features relaxed into a grin and he descended the stairs to tell the men downstairs the story. "I don't know who the young woman Is, or where she came from, or anything about her," he said, "but, whoever she is, she's

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the coming woman. With her brand of cheek she ought to be running Carrie Nation a pretty close race before many years." Diamond "Experts." Philadelphia Record. "I am convinced that few people know anything about diamonds, no matter how much they may pose as experts," said a young bulnes man yesterday. A recent experience of mine has forced me to this conclusion. I bought, as a Christmas present for my wife a brooch containing a cluster of diamonds and took occasion to show it to several of my friends at the club. They examined it very closely, looked wise and then started to show me where my judgment had been at fault. Every man In the crowd seemed to be a diamond expert. By the time they had got through I really felt as though I had been buncoed and was considerably depressed. Next day I got to thinking the matter over and 1 came to the conclusion that my friends had been talking about something they knew nothing about. At any rate, I determined to make a test. I went to one of those imitation diamond stores and for fifty cents bought a brooch which 1 placed in the box that had formerly contained the real one. Again I went to the club and announced to my critical friends that I had taken their collective advice and by paying an extra $50 had exchanged the brooch in which they had picked so many flaws. They all agreed that the fifty-cent bauble, which I showed them, was a great improvement over the other and when I told them of the trick, I had played on thtm they wouldn't believe me. To a man they contended that they couldn't be fooled on diamonds. Now I feel better satisfied with my purchase." A Prnctlcnl View of It. Chicago Post. "The office should come to the man," asserted the theorist. "Possibly," admitted the practical politician. "Instead of which," continued the theorist, "the man now rushes to the5 office." "Well, now. see here!" exclaimed the practical politician, suddenly waking up. "if you think an office can be trained like a setter pup. you're away off you are for a fact. An office is a good deal like a woman. The one that will come when you whistle isn't the one you want." ali5ort men and J .A'

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