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TBLEPIJGNH) 72.

Hannis Taylor is having quite a respectable run for his money.

It appears to be something more than 100 in the shacte 'fa "the city of Prague.

At last-Russia has gone against Mr. Bryan. He would better hurry up that Mexican trip.

There is no disputing the fact that those Germass evep. in Austria have their Irish

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Just at present Mark Hanna has the grip. 'And the indications are that he also has the password.

"Stormy" Jordan of Iowa, the saloon man (who never gets enough experience in con-rt, Is rich- picking, for the lawyers.

In Nebraska ia reform school superintendent is reported short about $15,000. It is evidently the effect of bad company.

Arthur Pue,,jGlprma,n Is not saying much nowadays, biityhis newspaper friends continue to dally fondly with his name,

The Spanish claim to have put the Cubans to rout in two engagements. Wonder if Weyler forgot to take his typewriter along?

It may 'be hard to break into the Chicago 00, 'but that appears to be an easy matter compared wUh getting on the Luetgert jury.

The Sullivan' county miners have swung Into the prosperity column. Industrial currents are about, all Tunning in oue direction now.

The canal' deacon In New York is closed, but that- will not prevent Dick Croker from trying to float his Tammanylzed -Empire State project.

If Emperor .-William could get a few whacks at China he would come off with tnougljL.treasure to build that navy he so wrnestly -desires. -\\. .N

An lbcfease of 20 per cent in the wages of Ihe employes of the Providence and Naitnoal Woolen Mills ai, Providence, R. I., is a fact Mth a Diugley-like countenance.

If Jacob,.Cc^ey does not eliminate that work-for-everybody plank from hie platform, tie mlght'&'sVfeTlmake up his mind now to fet along,without the panhandle vote.

In the ozar's. country the financiers have made up their-.miad that gold is the proper monetary ba^ts. They perceive that it fluctuates*. less-than any.„othei metal and is in every Respect pre-eminently adapted for the ImpdKMfflJ rdjoireftieiits of a measure of value. kk

Tta&t-mifortiTnate affair which occurred on Tuesday at Highland Lawn cemetery cont«ins**an XEojporiant lesson to all hot-headed men. Owens is a murderer and of oourse^tugt-l^'a^ainet bts will. There is no evidence thaft' h©v wanted to kill Alexander "Lawrence^- yefche -will be held to a strict accountability for his crime and of right tthould.be/ Too many men are ready to give free r&n"*'o their anger. Too many men are quick to seize what is nearest their hand and convert it into an implement of war. The ahoujki be rigidly enforced iu the interest,, ol-. becoming and prudent self-re-etreinl. -.*•

RUSSIA AND GOLD.

After many-years-of pa stale in study of the science of finance Ruesia has adopted the gold standard. Her st-itesmen and economists have been long-sighted. Long ago they refelK&J, tie utter fully of fiatism. They perceived th$t a money system that is nothing and rests upon nothing necessarily must fee a dalusioa. Tfoey set about to give character and stability to the currency of Russia. Bmlssaries of the czar's government traveled &11 over the world in search of concrete examples of monetary methods. They visited England, Germany, Prance, the United States aind the countries of South America and gave long periods of time to their investigations.

After ail this inquiry, comparison and Urougbt, and aided by the light of the soundrat theory upon the subject, these Russian •tudents and statesmen have arrived at the conclusion that a monetary system which shall stand must be builded upon the rock of gold. They see no evil in the yellow metal. They detect no oppression there. They are patriotic subjects of the Empire of the Ciar and see its perpetuity and development (ruaranteed, as far as a safe and wise financial system «aa guasactee tfeem. in the civilised werM'sacoepted standard of valuew

Such 1st the march of monetary enlightenment

PROSPERITY.

If Uwe is ajKisool of political coaomisls in tibia oottntry tbit te having a hard time la stemming tlw^bde ot truth just now it Is «ii« wja "W~ioh declares that prosperity can^»0| ttfet Qatar awT sold

standard. Say# the St. Louis Glflbe-DfeBO-eaat in this connection: St. Louis has been making another great business record. Her bank clearances In November were 27.1 per cent larger than those of the same month in 18&6. But she has been doing so well aH the year that -tie clearances from January 1 to date exceed those of the iike period at any previous time in the city's anaals. iHffcher«« the best eleven months were those of .4895, but those of 1897 furpass the same period of 1885 to the extent of l"~ TSO.&l-e. This equals the figures for an average month. That is to say, the bank clearings in St. Louis for the eleven months Just ended were about as large as those of any entire year In the city's previous 'history.

What is true of St. Louis in this regard Ls true in varying degrees of practically every other city in the country. Terre Haute is vastly better off from an industrial and commercial point of view than it was when President McKinley was elected. The improvement in the business situation in this city has been gradual but steady during the past year and the number of men now employed here in excess of those %t work twelve months ago is admittedly large.

From every part of the country come 6tories of the resumption of business activity. Many employers of labor have voir untarily Increased wages and Dun and Bradstreet are issuing no convolution for the croakers. Tire promise for a big Christmas trade is bright and merchants $s a rule axe feeling greatly encouraged. The Dingley bill has begun its good work and will complete it iby the time It dull have had a fair "trial.

CURRENCY REFQFM.

For nearly a year past, since soon after the last presidential campaign, and especially since the Indianapolis monetary conference, in January last, the Journal has been arguing the duty of currency reform, says the Indianapolis Journal. It baa done this partly because it believed the Republican party was v'rtuai'.y pledge^ to earn a action in that direction, but more because it thought pibiic interest requ!r?4 it. Tbc tariff art being out of '„h«» way tie duty of cur-ency reform fteeti? to bav-3 te come inuperative^—at least, the duty of facing in the right direction and taking the first step towards a reform which will cure the worst evils of .our present system and pface it on a solid, stable and healthy basis, ccanmensur&te in volume with the business tteed$ of the country and with a degree of •elasticity that will make it responsive to every legitimate demand. Whatever the Journal has said on the subjeot has been saiid from the standpoint of public "welfare and public duty. Th© question of currency reform is not a partisan one and should not be discussed as such. It is one in which all parttea and all classes are alike interested in reaching a, night conclusion and having wi$e action. The Journal still believes It the paramount duty of the hour and the most import^nit matter that will come befote congress at the coming session. For it must came before congress. It is before the country now, and the president's message and the forthcoming report of the monetary commission will bring it forward still more conspicuously. Congress ought not to wish to evade it and cannot do so. without a degree of cowardice that will amount almost to imbecility.

Of the many plans of currency reform which have been submitted to the monetary commission by persons who have made a study of the question quite a. number have been laid before (the public. All of these, without exception, recommend either the redemption and permannet retirement of the greenbacks, or the repeal of the clause requiring the secretary of the itreasury to pay them out again when redeemed, and providing instead that they shall only be paid out in exchange for gold. Some of the plans favor the raising of gold for this purpose by the issue of bonds for refunding and banking purposes, though an entirely legitimate measure, would be certain to excite popular opposition, and that should be avoided if possible. The, idea of currency reform needs to be popularized, and to this end public sentiment should, if possible, be conciliated instead of antagonized.* If the retirement of the greenbacks could not be accomplished without an issue of bonds then it should he done, but if it can be accomplished without that, so raucji the better. By retirement in this sense is. meint repeal of the law requiring the greenbacks when once redeemed to be paid out again as such, thus putting them on a gold basis. For a first step towards currency reform on this line that would be sufficient. This can be done without an is*us of bonds, provided the revenues shall increase so as to exceed the expenditures, and 'there is reason to expect that will occur within two or three months. The Journal believes the, business sentiment of the country would rally strongly to the support of auch. a measure and that it would pass congress. It will be wiser for the friends of currency reform to unite in support of a moderate measure that will probably pass and serve as a first step in the right direction than to take the risk of failure by trying to accomplish too much at once.

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CURRENT EVENTS.

Parke county is most unfortunate in the notoriety caused by the exceptional tragedies whibh have occurred in the county. The Clara Shanks case, the young man who killed Sheriff Mull and others aud then himself, and now the Sturgeon murder, all werei of a nature to attract, wide attention and, of course, persons who do not know the people of the county will form an impression of the community from these reports. As a matter of fact there ire few counties in the state, if any, where there is a higher decree of refinement and morality.

The discussion of the question of extending the time for the railroad companies to equip their cars with safety appliances comes rather late. The representatives of the. railway brotherhoods are in Washington opposing an extension of more than a year from the dftte set in the law, which is January 1st nexl. The railroad companies had several years notice. Many of them h^ve wilfully disregarded the law. The brotherhoods could have been in good business during the pas* year keeping this fact before the public, and V4 this manner they mi^ht have advanced the work of equipping the roads to an extent thiat would have made it the duty of the interstate commerce to rtfuse an extension. Of course, there must be an extension now. If none should be granted the railroad business of the country would be completely demoralixedC *Fhe law provides that a road which is equipped "with the appliances shall not haul cans of other reads which are not equipped. Therefore, tSie Eastern and especially the New England roads that have compiled with the law are as solicitous for an extension as those which have done nothing toward complying with the tew.

Morton C. Raakia was asked by the monetary commission tor his views on currency reform. He told the commission of a plan for a national bond note. He would have ihe government issue bond notes in denom-' inations of &, $5, $10. $20, $50 and $199.1 These would run for five years and bear 1 per cent interest. He would issue $50,000,000 every three months, or $260,000,000 a year. At the time the first $50,000,600 feJJ «ac the^e w©oid in si»«-«siau

tion, which would be enough to take up all the national bank notes and the greenbacks. With -ihe issue of the $o0,0G0,0QQ at the end of five yearn from the first issue the bond notes would begin to conse tor redemp tion so that the continuation ot the issue for years afterward would nsijfr further expand the currency. Ha ljelievesb.|hat no one would begin holding tie notes for the purpose of collecting ithe accumulated interest until the end of three and a half or tour years. There would be 5 per cent to pay -at the time of redemption but while money is worth more than 3 or 3^4 per cant people 'would not hold the bonds until perhaps afte^ four years of interest had accumulated.

The Business ifen's Association of Evans ville voted unanimously for a winter carni val. J. A. Gorman kt the. promoter. He works on a per cent. There will be four days of It, beginning Tuesday, December 14th. The first day there is to be a parade and for this Gorman furnishes some floats he has uged in Southern elties. The second day there is to be a parade of the police and fir$ department, and an exhibition by the fire department of the workings of their apparatus. On the third day there will "be sham "battle, and at night an illuminated parade. Tite fourth day, and last, the merchants and industries will have a trade parade. A mask ball at night, free, will be given especially for out of town people. The railroad companies have promised a $1 round trip rate from points within 100 miles. Those who are promoting tfee- carnival are talking about from 20,000 to 35,000 visitors. Gorman estimates the expense at $1,000.

Three -wealthy farnjere of pebois county "were before the United States commissioner at flvansvill^ Wednesday on a

Six thousand bushels of apples have bean bought at Marshall, 111.,, thjis fall. One buyer for a commission house who paid $1,985 to the farmers who delivered apples to him in Marshall has giv$n !{U9 advice 9s to the proportion of trees fer a marked orchard as follows: Jn am or^rd of 75 *-rees th?re should he 10 tree® fgcfe of B^n Davis, White Pippins, Smiths, Smith's Cider, QoMen. Russet, Baldwin, Fall Rambo and 5 each of Grimes' Golden, Winter B(ell Flower and Wine&atp. These varieties ave good bearers and always salable,

The EvansviUe Journal eays there is some talk there of the necessity of a probate com njtissioner for Vanderburg county. The Journal discusses the situation and what it says wiU be read, with peculiar interest here wHre there has grown up a s-wry state o( affairs in the probate business. The Journal f-ye: "Cases two decades old still remain unSnlsLed, and it is: unreasonable to say that Judge Mattison will be able to take up the regular and growing work of this count and shoulder the burden be^de of what has beer, left him as a legacy, js it not t"ue the widows and orphans and others interested in .probate business that their affairs .be given as prompt attention as the regular routine matter of the counts? A concensus of opinio® of tlie lawyers at the bar favors the appointment of a, commissioner. Mr. James T. Walker, through whose office a great amount of business of this character passes, putts the case in these words: 'I think a probate commissioner is a necessity. The amount saved by facilitating probate business would more than pay the increased cost. We have outgrown our village environments and require better facilities. The circuit judges have been conscientious and worked hard to keep probate matters in shape, but no one man can give it proper attention and attend to the oither business. The judges of both the Superior and Circuit Courts are kept busy with civil and criminal matters. In probate matters there is no one to push them as in oivil and criminal affairs, and delay is the result. Owing to this delay it not infrequently happens that bondsmen become insolvent and innocent and 'helpless wards are made to suffer. Justice demands that a commissioner be appointed.' "What Mr. Walker says jJs voiced very generally by the bar, and it wou^d see that the demand should be promptly met."

Recant liirths.

To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foley^of 324 Norith Water, a son, yesterday. To Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lanz of 1224 North Seventh, a so®-

SXCmNCE ECHOES.

Cinoinnati Commercial Tribune? The promised increase in prices under the protective tariff is not feeing realized. The advance in the price of articles imported, basing the estimate on the net change in some thousands of articles, is found to be less (ban 1 per cent, while there is a marked increase in tlhe .prices of form products generally. When the increase in earnings of those employed in the manufacturing lines and the increastd profits which those "engaged in agrieulture are considered, it is easy to see ithat 'the slight increase in rices of the class of goods affected by the tariff is far more than balanced by the gain in earnings of those employed in producing and manufacturing, thus fully Justifying the claim of the supporters of the protective

^Chicago Record If Private Hammond had been anything but what he is—as iU-conditioned, mutinous clown ^-tlie punishment decreed by the court-mar-tial to Captain Lovering probably would have been more severe than a mere reprimand. The court was naturally influenced in it® finding by the fact tbat, tlammond courted trouble and that lovering was goaded into losing command of dataiself. In this view Of the subject perhaps Captain Lovering's punishment is severe enough. It is sufficient to give warning to commissioned officers generally that no provocation ls excuse for brutal treatment of enlisted men and that the punishment of recalcitrants must be Inflicted according to law and not at the whim of an individual oificer. And fhe force of the reprimand is not expended upffc Captain Lovering alone. It applies equally to Colonel Hall, who ptfblicly approved that officer's action and who has defended him from first to l«si. It is not strange that Colonel HaH has asked to be transferred. His usefulness1 at Fort Sheridan is -ended.

Philadelphia Press: Professor Elliott, who would seem to be the city of Cleveland's chief claim to fame as a scientific center, is out in another one of his famous exposes of tfho itoaition of th« United Sattas on the sealing question. Professor Elliott & to bitter In his hatred of his own. cqi£trymen, who hare refused to admit that he alons "knows ail about the seals and sealing," that ever since WA he has bean pracgti&ily writing triefs for Canada. Of course, if "Professor Ell ion Kkes tb*t sort of thing, that is the sort of thing he will tike, but it is about time Cleveland stopped exploiting as the greatest scientist of the age. Certainly, one is to judge from his method?, the l're'fJior" ts absolutely incapable of arrirng an unbiased judgment in the premises, and if Canada does sot take him ualar her wing -i la not from lack of cause on hi$ part.

Si. Louis Globe-Democrat: William of Gapmany talks as often and on as t.mall prjvacation as William of KetorasS^. fa ihe rumber of speeches he has made h? hss distanced all other monarch* «s iar as his Pojxxu-atic camesaka did all other preside 1 lul tea. WUJuun has *»een c.i IUb ths-ano nine *ars and Franeie Joseph has been ia ft-: ty-nine, yet the German »vereig has «:jvertd more orations than the Austmn. Csaaiiy, t-o, he saya something which attracts attention, because of its caalict with moJtern ideas. Tius he gets hi* name .a the nepers cftcaer than aH the oi'her iroTn-weirera com^in^d. ll.e Kaiser Is an exceedingly interesting persoikajs—ta ^0?% ont^iiv oC Q^r^ji-ax.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, DECIMBER 3.1897.

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eelling beer without a license. There was a t«g solj^re' reunion and these three men sent their money to 8he gov3rninent revenue officer Cor a license. They waited several days for the license and when it had not arrived on the day of the reunion they took it Sor granted that the money having been paid to Uncle Sam they could sell w. They did a big business on the first day, but on the second day a deputy United States marshal arrested them. The "United States commissioner discharged them- after fiparing their statement of the facta One of the men, named Bucbart, is sald to be the ripest man in Debois couniy,

TWO FINE HOSPITALS

rHIS C1TI FOS8^gn TBKK 1M ST. ANTB02ir8 AND THE DN|ON.

The Former the Pioneer aud the Latter liecently Kquipped With Important Improvements.

That this city is so well provided with means for oaring for the «ack And Injured is a source of pride and oons™tul»ttop to all aright-minided citizens.

The Little Sisters of the Poor were the pioneers in this creditable and humane work. Many years ago they cama to Terre Haute end established themselves i& a large brick house (still standing) at the northeest corner of-Second and Eagle streets. Deservedly they grew and -grew until their quarters became too limited both in respect of space and convenience to.xtjeei tlie increasing demands upon them, K,

In, this emergency Mr- Hulman, well known if or his extensive philanthropies, came to the support of the Little Sisters of the Poor and by the liberal use of money, largely lug oven, purchased the beautiful and commodious property in the south end of the city tfca't has become widely known as St. Anthony's Hospital. This Institution is thoroughly equipped in every respect and stands as a becomtog monument to its founders.

As the years passed and the city became larger a demand o&me for another hospital. To meet the demand a few medical men supplied the means and purchased the venerable home with its ample grounds on the northwest corner of Eighth avenue and Seventh street. It was converted into a hospital under the name of the Terre Haute Sanitarium. From the beginning it was a success. Increasing in importance from year to year it more and more came to be regarded as a necessity and now occupies a high place in public favor.

Two years ago a popular nwvejneut toward e^ablishiHg a non-sectarian, hospital led to negotiations resulting in a change of its management and n^tne from that of tfoe Terre Hititve Sanitarium to "that of ths Union Hospital. Miss Bauer of the Deacooess' Home, ia Cineina«& was secured a$ matron of the new hospital and later she was joined by Others of that devoted and efficient order. To ibis lotellisgeavt body 0! earnest Christian, "women is entrusted the care of the sick. It is a pleasure to go through the institution and note the extreme c%re and cleanliness with which it is kept Ra equipment is first-class and Its rooms seetm homelike ^nd in vi tine.

Recently a thoroughly equipped pharmacy has been added to the operating mm. It is handsomely furnished and reflects groat credit upon those whose voluntary contributions made it possible. Some of these persons have been recipients of service in the hospital and .their names appear on the hospital's record. Tfce kitchen is wonderfully clean and its woodwork is adorned with delicate tints of blue—the work ef Mr. Joseph Montgomery, one of the first patients treated in the house. The preparation of the food and everything pertaining thereto is In the hands of Mrs. Reane Skelly and Miss Pearl Stuck.

It is hardly necessary to 6ay that both St. Anthony's Hospital and the. Union Hospital provide for charitable service proportioned to their size and neither is conducted with a view to making money.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scene!) With tlie Nobility of the Old World. An unprecedented sensation has been "ere ated in diplomatic circles by the sudden withdrawal of the Russian minister at Belgrade, on the ground that it is beneath the dignity of a Russian emperor to. be represented at a court where an individual of so degraded character as King Milan is permitted to play any role at all, writes the Marquise de Fon tenoy in the Chicago Record. This shows that Czar Nicholas entertains much the same ideas about Milan as did his father, who never tired of denouncing him as the most contemptible of swindlers. It is difficult to conceive any more terrible slight placed by one monarch upon another than the one to which the czar has just subjected young King Alexander of S&rvia, and it will have the effect of throwing him rnore t&ga ever into the arms of Austria.

Russia now has broken off relations with two of the Balkan courts, both of them owing their existence to the Muscovite blood shed in their behalf, the Servians being quite as much indebted to Russia for their liberation from Turkish thraldom as are the Bulgarians. When one recalls to mind the Ingratitude "with whioh the Russians have been treated by those whom they may be said to have saved, it is easy to understand why the czar should hesitate, to devote any blood or treasure to securing the liberation and independence of the Armenians, the Cretans, or of any other equally downtrodden people. Were Armenia to be converted into a kingdom tomorrow it is just as likely as not that she would become in quick time as bitter a foe to her savior a# are Bulgaria, Servia and—in a minor degree—Roumania.

Prince Arthur of Connaught, only boy of tt*e third favorite son of Queen Victoria, is taking his turn at fagging at Eton along with the rest of the lower-form boys. As such he is called upon to perform all kinds of menial1 services for his master, including the blacking of his boots, the brushing of his clothes, the making of his tea and toast, rt^nning errands for him and fielding for him at cricket, of course having no ohance of taking his turn at the wicket with the bat, the bare idea of 'a fag wanting to bat when on duty with his master being rank heresy.

The young prince goes by the name of "Connaught," titles having no. show whatever at Eton. Indeed, there is no place where a boy gets the nonsense taken out of him so thoroughly as at Eton, where, if a lad has the misfortune to refer too often to any distinguished relative of whom possibly he is justly proud, he is kicked strenuously whenever he is imprudent enough to repeat the indelicacy.

Prince Arthur's experience of fagging will do him no harm. Far from it. In the first place it will teach him a number of things which a royal prince usually does not learn, such, for instance, as the blacking of boots, the brushing of muddy clothes and the heatiqg of shaving water, while, secondly, it shows him that a prince of the blood after all is a human being like the rest. A fag is a very, very small and almost mean person in his own eyes when in the presence of his master. The contrast is striking between the young prince's condition during his holidays, with sentries presenting arms to him and generals and other officers waiting on him to do his bidding, with everybody bowing down to the ground before him, and then a few weeks later blacking boots and brushing clothes as fag to a lad his senior by but a few years and who possibly is the son Of a rich brewer.

Grand Duchass Sergius of Russia, sister of the czarina, is prostrated with a severe attack of measles at her palaSe IUnskoe, near Moscow, a place only arranged for a summer residence and which is entirely without means of heating. Much anxiety is felt for her. She is far and away the most talented lady of the reigning house of Russia, and at one time was the most beautiful. Her married life has been very far from happy. With a merry and very sunny disposition, she found soon after her aarriapo that her husband «u a gloomy fanatic, full of the most

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PRICES REDUCED TP ALMOST HALF ON

JACKETS and CAPES.

S? 5Qc does the work of a dollar in our cloak room. ~3 £E Friday and Saturday—Special prices on, Jackets will 3 |E save you money. 3 sE $12.50 Jackets selling for $8,003 10.00 E 8.50

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Misses' Jackets, the $10 kind, now. -.

The $8 kind now

The Princess "Lily Dolgoraukif wJiose death is reported to have occurred th# other day in Salvador, either front yellow fever or through violence (a soi-disant Italian Count di Castro Sormenho, who accompanied her in the" capacity of secretary, being changed with having murdered her for the sake of her jrfwels), "was not the morganatic widow of Czar Alexander II, but merely tffe""discarded wife of one of the hundred or so Russian Princes Dolgorouki. She was not a Russian, but a Spaniard hy birth. Her origin was most plebeian, and the prince never attempted to introduce her in society, declined to furnish, any money toward her maintenance, and never livec^ with fcer since the marriage.

To buy a Jacket here means that you will save enough to buy a 4tcm, U&

OUR RIBBON SALE

Many are taking advantage of the low prises, Ribtions here at half their real v*lue. AAaAAAAaaAAAAAAA

RibtHns here at iialf their real v*iue.

brutal instincts—a man In fact vfljo ssldom smiled, and -who ^ivided his titpe between extraordinary austerity and revolting de baucheries. Moreover, he has the reputation pf being the least endowed with refinement of any of the brothers of the late czar.

Reports as to the manner in which he has ill-treated his wife have been in circulation at every court in Europe, and in England, especially, on several occasions, when he happened to be present at some public function, he has received popular tokens of (Jiaspproval. The grand duchess has no children, but has to all intents and purposes adopted those of her husband's brother, the Grand Duke Paul, wbo lost his beautiful wife, a daughter of King George oft Greece, a few years ago, being left with two infant children who w§re taken charge of at once by Grand Duchess Sergius. ,,

H. ALBRECHT &, CO.

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The Russian embassy at Paris and in other cities where she was in the habit of performing on the violin in cafes chantants and beer gardens, endeavored in vain to prevent heir from using the name of Dolg^rouk Her marriage never was recognized as valid in Russia, for, in the first place, she was married, not according to the ritual of her husband's church, but according to Roman Catholic rites, and, secondly, Prince Vladimir Dolgorouki, who made the mistake ot marrying her, was at the time an officer lit the Russian army and a member of the imperial household, and as such was required by Russian law to obtain the czar's sanction before marrying, which, I hardly need say, he neglected to do. The lady in question played the violin well, but in any case she had no right to the title of princess, which constituted, however, her principal stock in trade.

MM PEOPLE, "J*

Virginia newspa.vjrs a*a urging Senators Daniel and Mtrtin to sceuce a pension Jjr Mrs. S6mple, *ha only survivng daughter of President Tyler. It is quoted as necttu.t that ten years or so ago a pension was grant ed Mrs. William EUndridge, also a danghttr of President Tyler, wnos.i pen twic^ increased in »he last five year*. Mrs. Siirarty,' tt is staiced, is now an inmate of the liouise home. The daughter of a resident sha is. also allied by ties of blood a tbr^e U*r presidents of the United S:r.e», neing a crusin to President Monroe anil of Heajamin and William Henry Harrison. Ska Is gradually growing blind.

Senator MdMillan, of Michigan, possesses' one of the finest collection? of paintings ia this country. He is a great admirer of American art- ,1

Dr. Thomas Dunn English, the author of "Ben Bolt/' has begun work on an Irish drama In collaboration with a newspaper aua$ Of Newwarlc, N. J-. 'Borasjena Koloman Ti«zo, Hungary greatest statesman, has not taken any active interest in politics since lie resigned the premiership. iH is said to resemble Bismarck in many paints of personal character

Dr. Susan- ®. Eds on the well-known woman physician who died In Washington not long ago, was a personal -friend of James Q. Blaine, who declared she was tbe only woman he knew who never talked about herself,

S&ss Mary MeCullock, supervisor of the public school kindergarten, of St. 'Louis, and one of the best known klndergartnera of the country, is going to Arkansas to ass'st in establishing a system of child-training in that state.

Sir Heary Irving, at a supper given In his honor -in Manchester, (England, alluded to a remark made by the chairman about Lord Tennyson, and told how, chatting with the poet soon after he iiad received ennoblement, he said to him: "Look here, Tennyson, I can't call you lord." Said Tennyson: "J can't help It I onljr did Ij for the sake of the boy." V'V*/

At the Vrsuline convent at -Bologna lies a nun who hw proved very ooanVu^vely that an occasional change, of air and «c«fe are not. as physicians would have us believe, necessary to sound health and along life. This woman join&d the Ursuline sisterhood eighty years ago when she was just 5(0 years of age. Since she took the v-eii she has never crossed the threshold of ttie convent nor held Intercourse with the world outside its walls.

The men who call Princeton their alma mater have decided to orgaals* as alumni association in Houston, Tex., on December 6. W. G. Jones of Temple recently wrote to Mr. Cleveland sta&ag that the graduates desired the pleasure of Enrolling his ittfaut son. Mr. Cleveland's reply, to be read at tbe Houston meeting, says: *'I am sure that 1 ought not to p&dge my SOB to anything, but 1 believe I can safely promise that when the Texas contingent is 1916 or 19W arrives at Princeton they will fin4 fellow by the name of Cleveland whooping for old Nassau"

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Outon Walnut street there lives a simpleminded woman who is a aaienti&e pbiiaathropi^t. She does not believe in giving $ something for nothing. She says that hers old father used to urge his children never to eat "ia?y bread" end never to encourage anybody else to do it. '"From childhood," said this woman to a reporter for The Express, "I have made it a ryle never to want anything I could not earn and pay for. If it was worth anything to nge the fact would he due to my ability to give an equivalent for It. I have never encouraged anyone to expect good things that they do not deserve by reason of their industrious pursuit of -them. I never feed tramps or beggars for nothing. If they are willing to work I never turn them away, but if they are impudent and indolent iaey leave xgy. door empty-handed. I only regret that cannot follow them and prevent them from getting, a bite anywhere unless they come off of their high horse and work for it."

The ,w.oman was asked what kind of work She supplied for tramps and beggars to perlorm. .''Weil/' said she, "my scheme is not at all complicated. Out in the back yard I have a- good-sized pile of boards. When a man comes to me asking for food I take him out and sbow him the amount of chopping he must do if he gets any help from me. When the sold weather commenced this fall the beggars began to pour in on me at the rate of qne qr two a day, I gave everyone of thfijij ft job chopping kindling, and it was not long until I did not have more tbun one of tfyeee callers a week. I think it has been at Igast, three weeks now since a beggar has rapped my door, I am out a! kindling an# am hoping that I shall have a chance to get ^ome" split very soon. Of course, after the tramp or other mendicant "has finished the 'worfc assign to hhn I give him a square lunch, in more than one case when I proposed"to exchange my food for a little of the tramp's muscle he has made sonoe e^surd excuse or incontinently fled."

WOffc is the cure for the tramp nuisance. "Sympathy only aggravates it, As this one Walnut'street woman has driven the beggars from her door by setting them a task to perform,' so might the entire t.ity get rid of them if the people had the backbone either to require work of them or to send them to the Chestnut street ofjice of the Society fof^ Organizing Charity.

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Serious Charges Against Society Girls of %, Prohibition State. TopsTca, Kan., Dec. 2.—Miss Olivia Van Tassel, a leader in Topeka society, haa created a" sensation by declaring that the young society women of this town are luring the young men 'to ruin by offering them drink when they -come to their homes. Miss Van Tassel charges the downfall of one young enaa tt this custom, and she has made an appeal tq the society women of Ttopoka to put away their wine decanters and assist, in saying Ihe young wen from drunkards' graves. She said tonight: "I think It just awful the way wine is served to young men: by some of the society women of Topeka. One young man has been ruined by this practice, and others are op the road t» ruin. Theee- society young woman are responsible for their downfall. It is amazing tfegt so many of the young wom&n of this town da not abject -to the young men artnking iiqusr, and it is etill more shocking to know that many of the young women drink liquor themselves." Miss Van Tassel will carry her war into the churches and will appeal to the parents to "throw the nasty etuff into the gutters

Lecture at tbe Polytechnic. Professor Parkhur&t of Marengo Observatory, III., who is encaged in a sei:to of astronomical lectures at Rose Polytechnic this week, is capturing the rapt attention of his auditors. Hie explanations of the celestial phenomena are both entertaining and li^cid- Tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock be win lecture on "The, Earti^ latitude. Longitude end Time."

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