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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
THE COST OF ROYALTY.
Figures Cleaned from the Latest Issue OF
Whitaker's Almanac.

Whitaker's Almanac.
Royalty may be a very fine thing, but
it comes high. There is little book
published every year in London, and
known as "Whitaker's Almanac" which
gives some interesting information con.
cerning the cost of royalty in England.
Counting the pound sterling as S., the
sums granted to the royal family last
year were as follows: The Queens sal
ary, $l,925,000; revenues of the Queen
as Duchess of Lancaster, $3.50, 900; al.
lowance to the Prince of Wales, $780,
600; revenues of the Prince as Duke Of,
Cornwall, SS10,0O0; allowance to the
Princess OF Wales, 0,OOO; allowance to
the children of the Prince of Wales,
S1S0,000; allowance to other children of
the Queen, $40, 900; royal pensions not
enumerated, S127,OO0 making total of
So, 312, 200 for the royal family proper
The collateral branches have to be
provided for and thus it is that numer-
Gus petty Princes have large salaries
and nothing to do.
Besides all of these her Majesty has
what is called the royal household, COM
posed in part of Dukes, Earls and Mar
quises, who get big pay for going on
parade occasionally, and the salaries of
some of whom are much less than their
perquisites. 1t should be mentioned
that if by chance any work should fall
to these people it is done by proxy
and paid for by the Government. For
instance, the master of the Queens
horse gets Sl2,5OO year. He has
a nice, easy job, for he does nothing and
he has numerous assistants. He has
crown equerry at $4,000 a year, seven
equerries in ordinary who get from
S., 800 to $1,000 each, and extra equer-
ries and equerries honorary. Besides,
he is provided with a superintendent of
the royal news, a clerk, storekeeper, two
veterinary surgeons, state coach
man and an accountant. 1t appears
that few grooms do the real work.
The grand almoner gets $4,000 year
for distributing coronation medals on
the Gay a sovereign is crowned, and he
10 dSSlSteu pg d ioIu n1ku dlulOueE.
The master of the buck-hounds gets
81, 500 year, but there hasn't been a roy
al stag hunt for several centuries. Like
wise royal hawk is thing of the dim
past, but the grand falconer gets 81, SIS a
year, and he probably grumbles because
he has no assistant. 1t is out of the ques-
tion to mention one-half of these sine
cures, to say nothing of those outside
of the royal household. There are
twenty-five Dukes, twenty Marouises,
lis Earls, twenty-seven Viscounts and
2S2 Barons who must be supported.
Yes, royalty is very fine thing for
those who hold the sinecures, but it is
bad for the middle classes who pay the
taxes. 1t is not surprising that repub-
lies are gaining in popularity, Toledo
lo.l Blade.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
IN FAVOR OF WOMEN.

WOMEN shine most in adversity; men
in prosperity.
IBELIEvE that the great vices in your
large cities will never be conquered un-
til the ballot is put in the hands Of
women.-Bishop Simpson.
No MAN ever lived a right life who
had not been chastened by a woman's
love, strengthened by her courage, and
guided by her discretion.-Ruskin.
"WoMAN cipher''l Granted. But
she is a cipher on the right side, that
sounts ten in Gods government just as
surely as in mans arithmetic NJ.
Hammer.
A WOMAN may have all the rights she
wants. but that is not the question; the
question is. has she all the rights she
needs as responsible human being?-
womaa's Standard.
EVERYWHERE thoughtful people are
coming to see that wherever the inter-
ests Of women as a class are con
cerned, there should be women with
power to look after those interests.
WHILE woman has property and is
taxed for It, while she has children and
is interested as much as any body else
for them, while she has just the same
stake in society that I have, and Just as
much intelligence as have about cast
ing the ballot, / never can escape the
plain, homely logic which makes it right
that she should have the same suffrage
that ! haye.-Hon. John D. Long.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03

claims for recognition were not un-
founded.
"Why don't you ask your Congress
man to help you?" inquired the Secre-
tary.
81 have done so, but to no purpose"
was the reply.
After little Mr.. Blaine promised to
see what he could do for him, and the
applicant left. Then lrning to me the
Secretary said: "Do you think that's an
unusual circumstance here? Well, it's
not by any means Visitors like that
average half dozen or more day. Ask
any of the Cabinet officials and they
will tell you the same story and then
you can estimate for yourself how many
such people there are in Washington. !"
] then went over to Secretary Tracey
and asked him if there were any Office
seekers left in the city.
Thousands. was the emphatic reply.
"They stroll in here every day."
Here Mr.. Tracey thought minute
and continued. There is man who
has come here every other day since I
have been in Office, except for the past
two weeks. When he first came his APP
pearance was that of well-to-do busi-
ness man. ] could not give him what
he wanted, as 1t was not within my
power, but he kept coming all the
same. Finally he told me he had spent
his last dollar and could not even get
home. That was little before Christ
mas. l lent him enough to get home
and four days ago the money was re-
turned to me. The return of the
money made sucn an impression on me
that finally found something for him
to do in his home city and sent his
papers to him the other day"
Secretary Noble has a good many
such callers, but is not so tolerant OF
them as the Secretary of the Navy. The
Postmaster-General is the favorite
prey for office-seekers, on account Of
his known wealth and extensive
reputation for charity. Not long age
he went through very trying ordeal
In a little town in Maryland there
were three candidates for the Office OF
postmistress, and the three candidates
all came in to see the Postmaster-G Gen
eral. One was about thirty-five, un
married, and somewhat masculine in
appearance. Another was fair, fat and
forty, and the third pretty brunette
hardly twenty-five years of age. Now
instead of each one coming and present
| ing their letters and recommendations
and then going home to wait the out
come they would come in all together
wait for a chance to see the Postmaster
General, and then all talk at once
Albert, the colored messenger who
stands at the door, is authority for the
statement that the candidates would
appear one by one, each evidently mo-
wanting either of the others to get {
word with Mr.. Wanamaker alone. Whe1
all three arrived they would descend or
the Postmaster-General in bunch
Finally the fat one gave out and went
home. Then the remaining two worked
things for awhile, but the money of the
elder gave out, and the young one alone
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
Women Who Vote.

Over so, 900 women of Kansas voted at
the last municipal election. The wom-
en- Of Wyoming Territory, who have full
suffrage, vote in larger proportion than
do the men, and they have done so for
the last twenty years. About $4,000
women OF Boston voted last year for
school committee, which, by their help,
was cleansed of the sectarian Catholic
influence that had begun an injurious
domination of the public schools. More
than $4,000 women Of Massachusetts,
have petitioned for woman suffrage, and
an immense number in all the States,
collectively. The ballot was given to
the freedmen of the South at the close
of the war, not because they had petit
toned for it, and held conventions for
the expression of their desires, for they
had done neither. 1t was thought they
needed it for their protection and de-
velopment. Not more than half the
men of the country can be induced to
register or vote, except on some exciting
occasion like Presidential election.
As far as they have had opportunity,
women have certainly, thus far done as
we'll az men
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr.. Edward W. Box tells in the
Boston Journal OF one magazine editor
who literally handles his manuscripts
with gloves, so fearful is he of con-
tagion from some disease that may be
transmitted through the paper.
Miss Susanna Warfeld, who COM
posed the Grand Inaugural March"
played at the Inauguration of William
Henry Harrison, died lately at Grove
land, her estate near Sykesville, Car
roll County, Md, in her ninety-fifth
year.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes decided
after the death Of his wife that he
would do no more literary work. He
has changed his mind, however, and
finds in the monthly letters to the At
lantic source of pleasure that he did
not expect to again experience.
Frances Berry Whitcher is scarcely
known by name to the present genera
tion Of American readers, yet she wrote
one of the most popular books of her
time, "The Widow Bedott Papers" She
was born in Oneida County, N. Y, in
1911, and died there in 1852. In 1S47
she married Mr.. Whitcher, an Episcopal
clergyman, and it was the peculiarities
of his flock which she portrayed in her
'papers."
The amateur authoress is generally
| difficult to please. This Is especially
true of ladies who dabble in literature.
Quite recently blue-stocking accord
Ing to the Printers Register had the
usual galley proofs sent her for correc-
tion. She was much gratified, but still
not altogether happy. Presently
she mildly ventured to suggest that the
book might be printed on better paper
and perhaps, too, it would be an advan-
tage if the pages were "not quite SO
long"
Lord Justice Coleridge is one of the
best "talkers" in England. Every
one," says writer in the New Review,
"knows his silvery voice, and that per-
feet elocution which prompted com
petent Judge of such matters to say: Il
should enjoy listening to Coleridge
even if he only read out page of
"Bradshaw."' To these gifts must be
added an immense store of varied
Knowledge; genuine enthusiasm for
whatever is beautiful in literature or
art; a great copiousness of appropriate
anecdote, and a natural power of exact
yet not offensive, mimicry."
Jules Verne can travel no more,
prevented by the accident which befell
him four years ago when favorite
nephew went mad suddenly and shot at
the novelist. One of the bullets hit
him in the leg, and the wound has never
healed. He is consequently unable to
walk much. His forthcoming book is
called "The Journey Backwards, /" and
describes a trip through the north OF
America and Alaska and over the
Behring Straits. Verne is now at his
seventy-fourth novel. He writes two
every year. He gets through certain
amount of work every morning, never
missing day.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
IMICAWBERS OF WASHINGTON
Still Thousands of fOfice-Seekers at
the Capital
Secretaries Blaine and Tracey Besleged
by Them, But the Postmaster General
Suffers Most-A Contest for Office
That Had Romantic Ending.
COPYRIGHT, 1901
Especial Washington Correspondence

Especial Washington Correspondence
'Uncle Jerry"Rusk is philosopher Of
no mean order, despite the fact that his
departmental duties have chiefly to do
with "seeds and garden sass" as Con-
gressman Martin says. Twas in Secretary
Rusk's Office the other day when that
dignitary was in mood both communi
cative and philosophical. 81 tell you
what it is,' said he, pointing impressive
ly at prize onion, this town of Wash
ington has more discontented people
within its limits than any place of its
size in the world. More people come
here on hopes than go to Europe on the
steamers. It's just awful to think Of
how many ambitious people come to
Washington and go away disappointed
within six months or year after the
installation of a new administration.
Why, know =" here the Secretary's
flow Of sympathetic rhetoric was stopped
by the advent of a lot Of Western farm
crs who wanted to talk 'crops" and his.
tory, and lost valuable reminiscence,
The idea that struck "Uncle Jerry" is
correct one, and inquiry revealed good
doal about the people who come here
for Ministerial positions or fat Consul
ates and finally go away with nothing
or stay to take 5000 clerkship. Wash
ington is a reservoir of disappointed am
bitions whose possessors stay here in
very much the state of mind of Micaw-
Der, and with very much the same sue
cess. The army of office-seekers of
whom one hears SO much do not come
with swoop and then depart. They
tricl1le in steadily from the month after
election and stay as long as their
finances allow. just now they are real
ly thinning out and not few are right
here in Washington without money
enough to go home.
A brilliant example of the class called
on Secretary Blaine the other day. He
was from the West. Nearly three
months ago he had come to Washing
ton secure in the belief that his letters
and pull would secure him a good
place. Week after week passed, during
which time he went through all the
grades between the Ebbitt House and
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
HUMOROUS.

-"The Herr Baron is not at home, but
you can leave your bill if you choose"
BILL? 1 haven't any bill; / only
meant -" mo bill? Then you must
have made a mistake in the house,
Fliegende Blatter.
-Tramp-"Haven't you got some-
thing for me to do?' Farmer-"No l
guess not. There is not much work just
now" Tramp-'I don't need much.
You would be surprised to see with how
little work could worry along."-Texas
Siftings.
MAY inquire your occupation?"
asked the doctor. 81 am a clerk on a
salary of S47.5O a month" "Your all.
ment, SIR" said the doctor, with decis-
ion, sis not gout, 1t is simply an ag-
gravated case of ingrowing toenail."-
Chicago Tribune,
Little Girl-''Papa, did mamma say
yes to you right off when you asked her
to marry you?' Papa-''Certainly she
did" Little Girl-"Why don't she say
yes now just as quick when you ask her
todo things?" Papa-"Mamma's hearing
is not so good now, darling-thats all"
N. Y. Le6ge;.
After the railroad accident. Hus-
band (extricating himself from the
wreck)-''Emily, thank God you are
safe! Heavens! isn't this awful?" Wife
-"Dreadful! Hear the poor people
groan! Dearest?" Husband-"What is
it love?" Wife SIS my hat on
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
--Minnie-T wonder what ever be.
came of Jennie Smart, who took first
prize in our graduating class?" Mamie
why, don't you know? She wrote an
article on The Degradation of Ameri-
can Womanhood,' got 81, 900 for it from
magazine, went into Wall street, made
fortune, and went to Europe and
bought one of the sweetest little princes
you ever sawr-Terre Haute Express.
--Brown-"And so you have got a
first-rate cook? What paper did you ad-
vertise IMP" Fogg - Didn't advertise
in any. My wife told Mrs. Gray we
wanted a girl, but made her promise not
to tell any body" Brown = 'Well9'
Fogg-'Well, we had the door-bell
ringing for fortnight from morning
till night No less than hundred ap-
plications for the place." - Boston
Transcript.
New Clerk-"This prescription calls
for a drug l never heard of, and can't
find in the books" Druggist-''That is
one of DR.. Richman's prescriptions. He
uses faked-up names for simple drugs,
so that patients will have to go to
Catchem 6 Cheatem's drug store to get
them filed. He has half interest in
the firm" 81 see. What shall do?'
Tell the messenger we don't keep
Photographic chemicals. Then the
family'n get scared and hire another
doctor. IN. Y. Weekly.
Can. you put poor starving man
in the way of getting bite of breadg'
inquired hungry tramp as he presented
himself at the door where lived the
humorist of the local paper. "Why,
certainly, my poor man." said the kind.
hearted wife of the humorist, "here is a
cake of yeast that you are welcome to. =
'But I can't eat yeast ma'am.
mo; but perhaps you can raise some
bread with it; we do And the hungry
man lifted his hat and retrested in the
shadow Of smile that vas suolins.-.
Boston Courier,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
THE ELECTRICAL GOOSE.
A New Device for Smoothing Out Wrin-
kles in Masculine Garments.

A New Device for Smoothing Out Wrin-
kles in Masculine Garments.
The latest of the many late things
in electricity is the electrical goose,
which dates from Minneapolis, where
it has been used for smoothing out tho
wrinkles and other eXcrescences of blue
Jeans overalls. 1t is of about the samo
size and weight as the ordinary tailors
goose, but there the resemblance ends.
1t is described by the girl who is in
trusted with its manipulation to be
perfect wonder. The electric current is
supplied from an overhead wire by an
ordinary silk-covered wire with plenty
of slack. AS each garment is brought
to the bench of the manipulation she
grasps the goose, and in trice the
overall is ready for the next operator in
the long list that go to fit it for the
hired man or the chimney sweep. The
girl who is handling the goose says she
can do third more work with it than
with the old kind, and with good deal
less fatigue. The old geese in that es-
tablishment are now doomed to be sold
for old iron, and the new outfit, which
is shortly to be provided, will enable
the girls to do their work with greater
comfort and profit. In the same estab-
blishment, and the invention, too, OF
one of the firm which controls it, is an
electrical shears. 1t consists of small
electric motor connected with an over
head wire, and running at tremendous
rate q small, keen-bladed knife. This
will cut through score of thicknesses
as easily as a buzz saw will slide through
q cream cheese. 1t can be steered in
any direction and by the slightest
pressure. 1t is calculated that one man
with this machine can do the work of
half dozen by the ordinary cumber'
some methods. From the same city
comes the statement of an enterprising
laundryman that before another year he
will have an electrical roller, and will
be able to so cut down laundry rates
as to drive all Cinnamon out of tho
business. minneapolis Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03

tanning the chances are hundred to
one that he will succeed.
1t is the army of office-seekers from
out of the District that is prominent
now, owing to the fact that they are ''on
the move" Congress has settled down
to work for the session, and the Offices
are nearly all full. The few vacancies
will be filled too slowly for the financial
abilities of the remaining applicants, so
they must leave. The hotel-keepers are
to some extent the only mourners, and
even their grief is not overwhelming,
for they have had to cut down a great
many bills to meet the purses of the de-
parting guest whose political ambitions
have been doomed to disappointment"
as the Secretary of Agriculture puts it.
The owner of one of the largest hotels
here told me that he had been forced to
let no less than nine men who had come
here for positions leave without paying
their bills because to his certain
knowledge they had spent all their
money in their dreary wait for the
positions which never came. "Much of
this oftimes sad disappointment" says
Secretary Rusk, lis due to political
condition which centralizes the giving
power and makes Government posi-.
tions reward for political services"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
The Old Gar and His Doctor.

An interesting story is told in the
Pail Mall Gazette of the manner in
which the celebrated Russian physician,
DR.. Botkin, who has just died in the
south of France, lost the intimate friend
ship of the late Gar, which he had pos
sessed for many years. 1t appears that
through serious illness of the present
Emperor DIR. Botlin remained day and
night at the patients bedside, and sue
ceeded after hard struggle with death
in saving the then Czarowitch. Alex
ander II. was deeply grateful, and asked
the doctor to choose something with
which he might recompense him. DR..
Botkin replied: "Your Majesty, l do
not want any thing; but l beseech you
to have mercy on Tchernicheffsky' (the
Socialist author who died few weeks
ago and who had been banished to ST.
beria). The Car turned away without
saying word, but next day DIR. Botkin
received the st. Vladimir order and
100, 600 rubles, Internationally remain
ing where he was.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-04-03
A NOVEL EMPLOYMENT.
A New and Profitable Field of Occupation
for Women.

A New and Profitable Field of Occupation
for Women.
comparatively new avenue of en-
ployment for women, particularly for
intelligent and educated women, is that
of purveyor of information on topics of
the day. The plan originated, says the
New York Sun, with bright woman
who, at a dinner some months ago, when
the Samoan matter was first prominent,
beheld the CONSERVATION into which the
entire company was thrown by the inno-
cent question of one of them: "Where
is Samoa, by the way?" None of them,
including herself, knew for a certainty,
although several more or less hastily
correct surmises were given The bright
woman, whose resources needed eking
out, saw her opportunity Within a
week she had sent out to various ladies
of her acquaintance little written no.
tices that on the following Tuesday af-
ternoon an informal talk upon "Samoa
and the Samoan matter" would be de-
livered at the residence Of a somewhat
prominent society woman who lent her
this aid. 1t was further stated that the
purpose of the talk was to present in
concise and portable way the salient
features of subject at the moment on
the popular tongue. Fully score of
ladies were present, from which number
class of ten for course Of the talks
was evolved. The terms were dollar
apiece from every member for a lecture,
and one lecture per week was given dur
ing the following three months, the
class increasing to twenty in very
short time. Before she had conducted
the enterprise a month the fair lecturer
had secured classes both in Brooklyn
and Jersey City, and this year her
scheme has so enlarged upon her hands
that four days in the week she is at
work morning and afternoon, for, in ad-
dition to the three cities, she has classes
in several suburban communities. One
lecture, OF course, serves for weeks
work, and as she will take no class OF
less than ten paying members, it may be
readily seen that the work is profitable.
1t Is also pleasant and not difficult. The
newspapers furnish her with topics and
an afternoon at public library affords
the information needed. Occasionally,
though not often, fashionable book is
the subject of talk; the gist of such,
however, is usually so readily obtained
through any one of the innumerable
newspaper and periodical reviews that
the value of comment is not so obvious
as In the case of other popular topics.
The success of the pioneer in the work
has been of nature to attract others to
non-competitive fields. Two charming
women in Seneca Falls have taken to
the parlor platform, joining forces in
the undertaking, and have fouri1ling
classes, not only in the village named
but in Waterloo and Syracuse, with de.
signs upon ad jacept neighborhoods. All
of the takers make specially of com
plete and accurate information upon the
topic discussed, rather than voicing
their individual opinion upon it. 1t is
gratifying comment upon the growth
of the standard of development in VII
lage communities that the disciples OF
the metropolitan lecturer so quickly SO
cured their audiences.