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on the margin of the paper: THE council
thought TO trick me. but they shan't"
Polovtsetf, then state secretary. felt
much grieved by this marginal reference,
especially as owing to the glaze it would
remain as long, or longer than the other
writing upon the paper. and managed TO
screw up enough to make an explanation
and an humble protest to his imperial
master. The Gar heard him through.
and asked what was his wish. The secre-
tary's reply cannot be given its full sig
nincanCe, perhaps, in English, but may be
freely translated as follows: That your
majesty would be graciously pleased to
order that the words should not be pre-
served. lest they be endowed with an in
vidiOus species of Immortality
The Car is said to have declared the
secretary's speech rot" but he ordered
the words stricken out
1t is stated by some who claim to know
much Of the Gar that the notion here put
forth that he is kept in ignorance of the
real situation in Russia is not a correct
one, but the burden of proof is the other
way. His advisers came to understand
him soon after his accession as a man of
no great mental caliber. as one who meant
we'll, but who was prone to de-
vonte his time to petty potter
ing over minor details-one who
might make mountain out of
a molehill, but never see the real noun
tain at all who might discover some
slight discrepancy or wrong that a more
able man might miss altogether. but one
who would allow the grossest discrepan-
cieS to pass unnoticed Accordingly all
through his life he has been led to believe
that ninc-tenths of the criticisms that
have been directed against him and his
government have been infamous lies that
the number of dissatisfied people in Rus
sia has been so small as to be hardly
worth noticing, and that the great mass
have been happy, Contented, prosperous
and loyal. AS to the loyalty of the average
Russian there is no question; the Car has
been from time immemorable second only
to the deity in the peasants minds and
Alexander III. has been regarded with as
much reverence as was hs3 father or any
of his predecessors.
The Czarina only it is stated, of all
those VINO have had free access to. the i'm
perial car, has been inclined to tell him
the truth, to, make clcar to him the feel
ings of amazement horror and disgust
that have been entertained toward Russia
and it's government by the more en-
lightened nations of the west. She, it is
said, has always been fully aware of the
true state of affairs, and of the regard in
which Russia was held by the world at
large, 1t is believed that her statements
to the Car and her expressed desire for
radical changes must have resulted for
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During the war a regiment 200 strong
was organized in the treasury for the
protection of that institution i'm case of
necessity Ii was composed of clerks, la
borers and messengers in the depart
ment There was a drum corps of mes
scnger boys. Several of these boys now
hold official positions in the treasury;
and there are two or three grandfathers
among thcm. The colonel of the Treasury
Guards, as the regiment was called was
#. A. Willet. The present assistant
United states treasurer James r.. Meline,
was a corporal.
flag was presented by the ladies of the
treasury to the Treasury Guards. This
bit of silk was destined to figure impor-
family in a great national tragedy. 1t
was loaned by the regiment to the owner
OF Ford's theater, and was used TO drape
the box occupied by President Lincoln on
the night when he was assassinated. 1t
was In this flag that Wilkes Booth caught
his spur when he jumped from the box
to the stage, thus breaking his ankle
But for that chance he would have es-
capped unhurt and very likely he would
not have been captured.
The National museum has tried to get
possession of the flag, but the treasury
will not give it up. 1t is kept In a glass
case on the wall of the office OF the cap
tain of the watch. The tear made by the
spur Of the assassin is about four inches
long.
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stated that the Iatter's knowledge of this
tender feeling between her husband and
his old sweetheart was the cause of much
jealOusly and many tears on the part OF
the czarina. With the coming of the
children, however. a feeling Of sincere af-
fectiOn for his wife is said TO have inn
planted itself in the breast OF the czar.
and during their later years the domestic
life of the imperial couple is said to have
been almost ideal.
Stories of the first money earned by
man who has carved a fortune for himself
in the face of adverse circumstances. are
always in demand. Here is the story Of
the first money earned by the czar. It
was perhaps some seven or eight years
ago that he decided to contribute his
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STORIES OF THE CAR.
Re is One Of the Hardest Worked Men
in the Whole World.

Lies Told by His Headed by
PobiedonokeIf, They Keep Him From
Knowing the World and the World
From Knowing Him-An Early Love
ATair-Tne First Money He Earned.
His Amusements.
New York, Oct. 20.-It is quite likely
that If one could get at his real person
atty Alexander III. the Gar of all the
Russias-'that unfortunate potentate"
would not be found such bad fellow
zfter all. But during the whole of his
IMPERIAL career, beginning in 1881. when his
tataer's life was taken by the bomb of the
nihilists, the present ruler of the strange
and vast empire that extends over so
large a portion of both the greatest and
the smallest continent. an invisible but
none the less impossible barrier has been
maintained between him and the public.
Bv reason of this barrier all accurate
knowledge of Alexander the man has been
concealed, even as all precise informa-
fon cbncerning his empire and the world
at large. has been kept hidden from him
Abolute though his power is and in spite
of the fact that it needs but the lifting
Of a finger or the speaking of a word on
his part condemn any Russian to in
stant death, to lifelong Imprisonment or
TO Punishment to the mines of Siberia he
has never been able to put himself in di-
rect communication with the mass of his
own people or to obtain knowledge Of
their true condition. There is plenty of
evidence to show that this is not as he
has desired it; that he has been anxious
ever since his reign began to understand
the circumstances and the conditions
under which his people live, to study
their lives, and to do away with those
causes that have made for the terrible
discomfort which has been felt toward
his government and which even he
could not be prevented from discerning.
So absolute a monarch as the Car of
Rusia must in the nature of things be
2 person in whose life and habits and
doings the world at large would take
much interest. His constant danger from
the fury of his down-trodden subjects has
added Immensely to that interest. There
has not been a day, probably, since his
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Strange to Goham tive municipal re-
form work some months ago. but his mis-
sion was so incomplete1y accomplished.
and matters were in such a choatic state,
that the reformers found 1t impossible
to let him go. Now he is so arran ging his
work that others can take # W where
he leaves off, and carry it to a triumphant
termination.
Parkhurst is at present apotheosized as
the guardian angel of New York He will
take with him into his retirement (Which
will not be a retirement from the pulpiO a
more unique renown than il has ever be-
fore been the lot of a New Yorker TO win.
In the future the doctor will devote much
ime to polemic divinity, and seems likely
to rival as a theologian his own pre-emi-
nence as a curer of municipal rottenness.
Money matters are the origin of nearly
every closeted skeleton that makes it's ex-
istence a source Of general discomfort.
Just now the Union Club is doing its best
to hide from view q skeleton that threat
ems TO stalk forth into the broad light OF
day at any moment.
The trouble began some few weeks ago.
A New Yorker famed all over the country
introduced at the Union Club a man of
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The Maine Moccasin.

rom the portland Advertiser.
Everybody who has ever been in Maine
during the winter among the Iumbermen
and backwoods farmers knows the blown.
up looking muddy yellow boots and shoes
these useful and picturesque citizens
wear They call them moccasins. Tho
first pair was made by a shoemaker I'm
Bangor, and their fame long ago spread
to the west. The shoe factories of BAN
gor now turn out annually something like
10000 pairs of moccasin boots and one
quarter as many shoes, and there are
factories out in Minnesota and Wisconsin
that make most as many.
A person on first seeing this yellow and
baggy footwear would suppose that IL
was made from some strange leather, but
IL isn't The material is just common
leather. but leather tanned in a way that
Is known TO only a few All we know
s that salt. alum and some kind OF an
out-of-way oil are the principal agencies
that give the leather color and fieAibility.
This leather had been made years and
years before any one thought OF using IL
for boots o. shoes. The only use TO which
IL WAS put up to 1851 was to make lacings
for mill belts. IT was made only at
Pawtucket. One day a man named Bald
win, who was a shoemaker in Bangor,
made uD his mind that the leather was
just the thing for winter moccasins, and
he made Il few pairs. They were tried
right. Nothing had ever been offered to
the Maine lumbermen that filled the bill
like Baldwin's yellow moccasins, and In
less than year big factory for turning
out these queer boots and shoes was
started in Bangor Other factories spranR
up in Maine, and the tanning Of the belt
lace leather made those knew the secret
Of II rich I'm a short time, and compelled
the increasing Of tanning capacity ten
fold
Until 1871 the boots and shoes were
made just as Baldwin made his first pair
twenty years before. Then machines
for cutting and fashioning the moccasin
came into use and revolutionized the busi-
ness. In 1856 the fame of the Maine moe
casn having reached the far western
lumber Regions. Bangor firm received an
order for pair from someone In Iowa
The order was filled. and this led TO other
orders. untll, when the war broke out
the eastern factories were shipping
thousands Of pairs OF Maine moccasins
to the west. The war almost killed the
business II began to revive soon after
the war. and then rival factories sprang
up In the west. and now the great de-
mands for this Maine foot-gear from the
lLmber regions OF the northwest are al
most entirely filled by factories az ST.
Paul. Racine, Minneapolis and other
points
The value Of the moccasln lies almost
entirely in the peculiar way In which the
leather is tanned The tanning renders
perfect conductor Of heat and cold.
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self has said that these street talks are
now the most potent force in politics.
Yet there is a slight embarrassment
connected with them. These meetings not
infrequently block up whole street ana
make the way of the pedestrian nara.
The modest style of going from corner to
corner in a cart is still much in vogue,
but is being elaborated somewhat. There
is now a portable pltform, constructed on
a truck that has come into general use.
Some very absurd and trivial PERSONAL
ties, by the way, have been introduced
into the campaing. One of them mas rel
erence to Morton's wig. Many New
Workers are by this time convinced that
the republican candidate actually wears
d wig because he has no hair on his head.
There is nothing in the republican plat
form reading wig wearers out OF the
party, but as a matter of fact Morton Is
not wig wearer, strictly speaking. He
has quite decent amount of iron-gray
hair About three years ago he con-
tracted a severe cold and was ordered to
keep his head wrapped up from the win
ter weather. His hair is usually close
cropped, and as an additional precautlon
Mr. Morton donned a heavy wig by the
doctor orders. When the winter had gone
he discarded it, and went about in his
natural hair, which grows and Is cut like
any other mans. He still, however, wears
a wig occasionally when the winter is
severe. 1t looks better than shawl and
is far more comfortable. At his country
seat he wears no wig az all, for he needs
none Mr.. Morton has "a very. good head
of hair of natures raising, q o'i
Another baseless personality has to do
with David B. Hill. There have lately
been made assertions that he is addicted
to the use of bad language One street
corner orator in New York went so far as
to say that Hilrs profanity Is at times re-
voting This charge is absolutely false.
The senator rarely, if ever INDUCES in
an oath. 1t is true that he did swear on
the now historic occasion when the nom
ination of himself was made at Saratoga.
But that was an exceptional case The
charge of profanity is not one that can
be honetly placed in the long catalogue
of charges against New York's senior
senator.
Or. Charles II. Parkhurst will before
long retire from the work that has made
his name nationally famous So far he
has not said a word about this to any one,
but those who have opportunities of OBJ
serving the clergyman closely can notice
that the immense
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statesmen of influence. was that he is
after an office. This. likewise, Is a rash
assumption. Mr.. Wilder wants no Office.
The young man is far more serious by
nature than most persons would suppose
who have opportunities to judge him only
by he merry saying he is perpetually
guilty OF. He is a very shrewd man Of
business, and manages several good sized
properties that he has succeeded in ac-
quiring with great profit to himself. Such
men as Moses p. Handy and John A.
Cockerill have great confidence In his
judgment on serious questions, and fol-
low his advice into the bargain.
Wilder lives with his father i'm New York
now, and has hosts Of admirers among
the fair sex. Indeed. It IS with women
that his fame is greatest and some Of the
most exclusive society danes I'm the me-
tropoiis think he is darling because he
can mimic a Bowery tough so faithfully
It is even alleged that he has made a
boon companion Of one noted slum hero
in order to study the ways of that inimit-
able characteristic New York tough.
The dramatic companies have begun TO
scatter themselves pretty widely over the
country, and reports from the New York
combinations report distinct boom IN
matters theatrical. fact which speaks
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The Empress of Russia in Her Court Robes.
share in making ready the apartments of
the Anitshoff place for winter residence.
Before that year the pictures were hung,
each season, by a professional, who
charged seven rubles a picture. This task
the czar appropriated to himself on this
occasion and hung them all to his intense
satisfaction.
This is the first money I have earned
in my life" he said proudly, when the
work was done.
When the car was a child he was
cared for almost constantly by an En-
glish nurse who taught him the Anglo
Saxon tongue, and for whom he felt the
deepest affection. She was always re-
tanned as a member of the imperial house
hold and apartments were fitted up es-
pecially for her use in the winter palace.
When she was stricken with her last ill
ness few years ago, the czar and his
brother called upon her often and after
her death they lifted her into her coffin
with their own hands. Her funeral was
held at a little English chapel on the Nera
and the c2ar himself followed the hearse
on foot to the church and sat in one of its
pews during the services.
Unquestionably the czars most pleas
ant hours have been enjoyed during the
annual vacation season passed every sum-
mer in Denmark with his wife and child
ren about him, as guests of his father-in-
law, the king of that little country. One
of his favorite amusements during these
few weeks of respite from the cares Of
state and danger from the nihilist's bomb,
has been horseback riding and there he
has always kept a large stud of handsome
saddle horses. There, too, he has com
pletely unbent, each year, making him
self especially agreeable to the children Of
his own family and those of the other
guests Private theatricals in which the
young princes and princesses have been
the actors, and in which the Gar him
self has sometimes taken part have al
ways been a prominent feature of those
rnarinde of rnla Va ton Marshall
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Truth About MOTtOn'S Wig and
Hills Profanity.

The Election to be Fair-Dr. Park
hurst's Retirement and the Skeleton
in the Union Club.
New York, oct. 2O.-One Of the note
worthy features Of Gotham's present ex-
citing campaign is the care being taken
by all the parties that the election shall
he an honest one. Tho registration Of
the voters already indicates how unprece-
dentedly heavy the vote will be, and the
precautions taken to scrutinize the lists
form the best guarantee in years that
little. if any. fraud will be possible. The
Improvement in all these respects is so
great as to be subject of universal con
graduation. New York seems destined, for
the first time in many a day, 10 have an
absolutely honest election.
The fight. however, is "a very hot one.
That is but natural. in view Of the re-
markabIe local situation. 1t would be a
waste of space to enter into any details of
an already well shredded canvass. The
really new influence is what may be
termed the development of street corner
electioneering. New York citizens seem
now to have acuired a positive taste for
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fashion. who soon
made a name for him
self as an all around
good fellow. He won
game after game, and
n such a place as the
Union Club I h a {
means money. As sud
denly as a thunder
bolt from "A clear sky
came a charge that
the man Of fashion
was "A cheater at
cards. The sponsor OF
the newcomer. accord
ing TO The circum-
stantially told tale,
was Offered irrefraQ-
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The Club Skeleton. able evidence that his
social protege was deliberately cheating
night after night The members OF the
Union club was completely staggered and
refused TO believe the allegations Finally
he was afforded opportunities Of seeing
for himself and Was obliged 10 admit the
evidence Of his own senses. N Is said
that the New Yorker made good tho sums
lost by the Union club men 10 the swim
dler, but this has been denied. A. any
rate this particularly fashionable social
organization b0ustH, among other century
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well for the re-
vival OF prosper
ity In the land.
Maud Adams Is
one Of the latest
successes, which
Is a rather unfor-
tunate fact from
one point OF view.
because ev cry
newly founded
fame brings an
other army OF am
bilious girls 10 the
metropolis. all
eager to be great
stage que = n 3
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d. McFarlan Moore. tri fl e younger
than Tesla, and the two are at present
running a race in the matter of electrical
discovery Both are working along the
same lines and their rivalry is attracting
great attention.
Moore conducted for the government the
remarkable series of electrical expert
ments with the Miantomonomoh that es-
tablished a new principle with reference
to the equipment of men-of-war. He is
little better known among electricians
in France and England than he is in his
native America, although very recently
his original ideas have been widely dis
cussed. The success Of Moore and Tesla
demonstrate the pre-eminence Of electri-
cal science as the future fortune making
field 1t has displaced railroading as the
realm of possibility for the ambitious.
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open air c a M
paigning. The or
ganizers of mass
meetings are by
no means sorry
for this. 1t saves
the expense of hir
ing halls. and inn
parts a sponta-
neity to the par
tisan enthusiasm
that is sldom at
tanned inside a
building. More
over, any little
hitch in the pro-
ceedings becomes
trivial HiU him
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youthful great
ness in fields po-
litlcal, social and
professional. In
other cities fame
comes only after
years of patient
and hard work.
D. NJ & Il a ri a n
Moore is one of
the latest of the
youths to make
a hit. He Is now
the rival of am
other T a m 0 u 8
young fellow In
the same field of
endeaYor, Nikola
resla. Moore is a
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A CARD.

For nervous and sick headaches,
indigestion. biliousness and constipation
(of which l have been a great sufferer), I
have never found medicine that would
give such pleasant, prompt and permanent
relief as DR.. II. Moseley's Lemon Eixlir.
j. p. SAwTELL, Griffin, Ca, Publisher
Mornning Call
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nervous strain he is
continually s u b.
jected to tells upon
him severely. The
doctor is not nearly
as strong physically
as he once was. His
retirement Will
mean that his la
bors are to be de-
voted to his own
church and the con-
gregation that sus-
tains it. The doctor
wanted to leave ac-
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is to the effect
that he will be
married before
long. This soft
Impeachment he
took occasion to
disown in rather
emphatic terms.
Another state
ment, inspired,
no doubt, by his
close friendship
with Chauncey
M. Depew, BEN
jamin Harrison
a n d u o [ n e r
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end luXuries. a skeleton in its closet. 1t
was seriously debated among the mem
bers, or rather among the few of them
who knew anything about the matter,
whether or not it would be well to make
a public exposure of the fellow, but it was
finally concluded to let the matter remain
quiet. A fun revelation might make known
too much about the gambling propensities
of certain Of New YorlEs gilded youth.
New York is probably the only place In
the country where young men can grow
famous easllY. The CitN is now fnll OF
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These young persons are now legion, and
managers are daily beseigod I'm their be-
half Their final disposal becomes a
serious problem because IN time their
money gives out and they must be cared
for by somebody somehow.
Miss Adams does not take the same pes
simistic View Of these girls that managers
Ike 10 adopt. She thinks too much talent
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One who has taken a walk through
Shaw's Garden, says the st. Louis Repub-
lie, viii hardly believe the assertion that
the majority of the flowers of the world
are without odor, but such is the case.
Take the fora Of Europe as an illustra-
tion: Four thousand and two hundred
species and varieties of flowers have been
named and classified by the botanists of
that country, and II has been found thar
less than 10 Der cent Of the whole give
forth distinguishablc odors, or have per-
ceptible colors. The very commonest
flowers Of the world are white, colorless
varieties predominating by at least one
third. ane only one-siXth Of that class are
odoriferous. In Europe there are i94 spe-
cies of white flowers, only 200 of whicl,
are fragrant In the same country they
have 9j1 kinds Of yellow flowers, Of which
number only II are odorferous. out OF S23
varieties of red flowers they only have 81
that give forth odor. and In nine Of these
"the smell is far from being fragrant"
or the 59i blue species only "a are fra
grant. and OF the 30s violet blues only 13.
Next week we will give a mote" entitled
"rhe Odor Of Flowers" which will give
many curious points In that branch Of bo-
tanical knowledge
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GRATITUDE.

Dr.. II. MosELEY-Dear Sir: Since
using your Lemon Elixir, have never had
another attack of those fearful sick head
aches, and thank God that / have at last
found medicine that will cure those
awful spells.
Mrs. ETA w. JONES,
Parkersburg, West Va.
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Some rather exaggerated statements
have been made about merry Marshall
Wilder within the past week. One Of them