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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-29
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Supreme Keeper of Records md
Seals Makes n Report-Imperial
Secretary of Knights Of Khoras-
san Also Reports. if5

oeaiS muEeS heport-1mpeTla
Secretary of Knights Of Khoras-
san ALSO Reports.
DETROIT. Mich. Aug. 2S.--The SUI
prcme Keeper OF Records and Seals OF
the Knights Of Pythias makes the fol-
lowing report:
Totnl number Of subordinate lodges
December 81, 1899. C,7io. Total mem
bership 1886; net gain during '0S and
90, ff,y-elght lodges and 2l.237 mem
bcrs. Practically 90 per cent OF the
gain was in 1899. Illinois led In the
gains with Indians and Ohio close sec
onds. Louisiana suffered net loss of
7s2. The appropriations ut the Indian
apols biennial cncampment In 1898 were
:93,55O, OF which @S3,S92 had been cx-.
pended nj the close OF the fiscal year.
Subordinate lodges had been organized
In Hawaii. Alaska, Cuba and Quebec.
April I, 1899, there was balance on
hand OF s7.052, and there has since
been received from sale OF supplies
s2Gsi5; from grand lodge per capita tag
s3l,loG; from subordinate lodge per.
capita tax, 1870. n total OF sG5.iO3 Re-
ceipts OF grand lodges were siOS.59O.
and, With balance on hand. the credits
we're s5el.2lo. Disbursements werc
.a7a,55O. There has been expanded for
relief :l,335.Il5 CO, md grand domains
had on hand December 1, 1889, $f,S35,t5t.
The total assets OF tho grand domain
are s9,:iGl3O. Lodges outside OF grand
domains have expended for relief 49,
COL; have cash on hand. s4,4S5. md as
sets. s2c.524.
The report OF tho supreme master OF
the exchequer Elbows total OF 33i,27l,-
sol on hand June 30. 1000.
Report OF Imperial Secretary Fl. w.
Belding, Of the Dramatic order,
Knights OF Khcrnssnn:
There are slxty-five active temples In
existence. The. receints TO August l..
1900, were s5.223, which was paid to the,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-29
Hc Fooled tho Surgeons.

All doctors told Rcnick Hamilton, OF
West Jefferson. O.. after suffering Is
months from Rectal Flstula, he would
die unless n costly operation was per-
formed: but he cured himself with I'VE
boxes OF Bucklcn's Arnica Snlvc, tho
sureat File cure on Earth. md tho heat
salvr. IN The World. % cents a boz. Sold
bV Logan Drug Co.. druggist. si4 T
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-: (1bunn Of Royalty.

est daughter made two consecutive love
matches. His youngest, the supreme
beauty Of the family, was madly in love
with the actor Delaunay. This was toe
great a trial OF autocratic magnanimity.
Delaunay was expelled from Russia and
the grand duchess married of to the
crown prince Of Wurtemberg. Madeleine
Brohan remembered the court OF st. Pc
tersburg as a Northern Olmpus, where
the gods and goddeSses always were
seeking amorous adventures. She was
greatly courted by the former But Alex
ander H. became melancholy and de-
jected after he came to the throne and
submitted to the Intellectual guidance of
the Grand Duchess Helena, who was a
scientific philanthropist. The young en-
press soon grew stated with wealth and
grandeur and became religious The
court following her took another COM
plexion. Madeleine Brohan was glad to
nnd herself again star Of the Francois.
Madeleine was married once but she
used to speak of that marriage as IAN
accident, one Of the merest incidents In
her life. She married a young aspirant
for literary fame, Mario Uchard, and
they separated within a year Then
Mario wrote play "Fiamma," and dedi-
Gated II to Madeleine "by her widowed
Mario Cchard." She was known wen to
the gay world that 1uttered around the
gilded fabric of the second empire, and
used to appear on the stage long after
increasing girth and rheuma tism had
made 1t impossible for her to play any
part which did not allow of her sitting
down before the audience
For some years after she retired from
! the stage she lived In Versailles, and
! then came to Dassy. The back windows
! of her villa there looked on the fortiflca-
! lions and the Bots beyond. The prince
! called daily, in the afternoon. and then
| both went out for a drive and walk. A
! maid, who carried wraps and folding
| chairs, went--wlth them. There could not
| be a more unaffected or less STACEY party
He looked quietly happy. His tall figure
was a good deal bowed. His observant
and very kindly eye often sought the
lady's face. to lose no observation that
she might let fall. They returned to the
villa at 5, when tea and cakes were serv-
| ed. The prince. after tea, went home,
| and his friend pottered about until din
| ner. She busted herself In the evenings at
! her work table, but had to give up read
| ing In order not to risk blindness. Not
many old comrades remained; but the
children of dead literary and theatrical
| friends regarded her as a kind Of aunt
She was devoted In her old age to the
children of her sister, Suzanne Samory
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New York Press.
Another woman with past In which
princes. kings and emperors figured has
died in Paris. Her real name was Made
letne Brown, but she has been known
for SO many years as Nine Brohan that
Ii is by the latter name that she will be
recognized. Her death was a severe blow
to the Prince de JoinviIle, whose partic-
ular friend she had been for long time
De JoinviIe Is eighty-two years old, and
Nine. Brohan was seventy-one She was
lively of plind, cultivated of taste and
Of interesting conversat Ion. Her express
sive countenance, her clever pantomir 9
and distinct enunciation made the prince
forget in her company that he was al
most stone deaf. When they first met
Louis Philippe was on the throne of
France, and his son, the Prince of Join
Vile, was the sailor prince who was pop
ular as the bluff .'seadog, copied after
the Anglo-SaXon model. 1t was this
prince who brought the body of Napoleon
back from St. Helena. In those early days
De JofnviIle used to haunt the green
| room of the Theater Francois, where
Medicines mother, Susan Brown, was
playing. Susan Brown boldly dropped
her commonplace name and became Su-
zanne Brohan. thus appropriating the
name Of the Prince de Rohan and add
ing to 1t her initial letter "B."
| Madeleine made a sensational debut in
| Paris as a stage coauette IN 1916 She
had talents suited to the role and beauty
in those days Later in life she became
stout and suffered much from rheuma-
! tism.
Madeleine Brohan looked upon herself
! as sort of aunt Of the late and present
ear. She broke away from the Fran
Gals as soon as she obtained a leading
place there togo gp st. Petersburg. The
Winter Palace was then a court Of love
Every son and. daughter Of Nicholas I
| was in love, and not wisely. Nicholas L.
though an autocrat, believed in the free
dom of the hearts affections and never
tried to force fne inclinattons Of son OF
daughter in regard to marriage. His cid
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08
TWO PRETTY GIRLS.
Hold Up United States Senator'S
Clark and Hanna for S76.

Hold Up United States Senator's
Clark and Hanna for $40.
Washington Special New York World.
Two girls. smartly gowned. graceful and
altogether lovely, swished into the SEN
ate marble room today.
My card to Senator Clark, please, I
mean Montana Clark" said the taller one.
Soon the Montana man, erect, we'll
greomed and dignifed. appeared. The
girls introduced themselves. The taller
one did the most Of the talking. The
other one devoted her time to stage
managing her dimples, and she did 1t
capitally. The taIker was earnest, en-
thusiastfc. pleading. Senator Clark glar-
ed, looked forbidding. shook his head,
smiled, laughed and took out his wallet
and gave them two $40 bills and a So
YOU'RE SO good!" gurgled the dimpled
one, and the multi-millionaire walked
away with his head up in the air and a
heavenly smile on his face.
Senator Hanna came stumping through
the room just after Clark left The girls
stopped him. handed him their cards and
said something.
The taller one smiled archly and the
dimpied one murmured please and a
lot Of other things.
mo, oh, no, I can't do that" Senator
Hanna almost shouted. IT am sorry. but
I've got my own people to look after.
Lots Of things like that out in Ohio that
have to tend to- Good-day." and he
started off.
Just moment. senator" said the dim
pied one, appealingly. Hanna halted. The
two girls sidled up; one Smiled. then the
other, and then both together. Then they
talked and smiled some more. and finally
Hanna smiled a little himself. 1t was a
stingy, arctic sort Of smile, but 1t en-
eouraged the girls. and they fairly beam
ed on the stern old man.
''Oh, WELL" ne said. ''now can I help
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by Mrs. Mickey during the past winter,
when she persuaded the distinguished
people to pose their hands for her in or
der that she might make the casts and
have engravlngs of them published in a
book which she said she intended to pub
lish called Hands That Have Built En-
pires."
The press dispatches have already sent
out few words about the swindle which
this woman operated here in Washington
but behind the bare story of these opera
lions there is pathetic tale. which
shows that even the greatest of our
statesmen are not above the vanity which
accuses and leads men to do foolish
thugs.
The most gigantic feature of her swim
ding operations is the fact that cast
bearing the name of President Mckinley
has been found among those which she
left behind when flight became necessary.
In all WashingtOns history 1t is to be
doubted If any one quite so adept, oily
and also successful as Mrs. A. Juan Nc
Key ever operated in the nations capital.
She proved by her success, however, that
by aiming high one brings down big
game
Mrs. Mickey, who was, a woman of
about fOrtyfive years Of age, with a
tlnSe of gray to her hair, first made her
appearance In Washington early last fall,
when she took rooms at the Hotel Cor
don and opened q studio for making plas-
ter OF Paris casts. Engraved invitations
were sent to some of the most prominent
political religious and society lights in
o Washington, reading as follows: Mrs.
A. Juan Mickey requests the honor of
casting your hand in plaster. to be used
In a historical manupsychological text
book. entitled Hands That Have Built
Empires"
Such an of1cial-looklng invitation, en-
graved. too, usually received enough at
teEti1n to merit an investigation.
The statesmen who sent their secre-
tarles to calf on Mrs. Mickey were court
eOysIy received by this well-dressed, ell
derry lady, who talked intelligently, even
brilliantly, about the rhythm of a mans
hand and the manupsychological features
of the contour OF the hand.
A visit led to an appointment for Mrs
Mickey to cast the statesnan's hand In
plaster Her arguments were so per.
suasIve and her conversation so f1atter-
ing that the subject almost invariably
fell into the happy scheme, and in addi-
ton, signed a contract to pay Mrs. Nc
Key SZ5 or $50 for q copy of the book as
soon al 1t was published, containing q
photograph of the hand.
Not a few offered to pay In advance,
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IEA0gV a Clever NJomaam PaHnisf DMped
~ President MeKinyeg and OTHERS

and to the others gentle but effective
hint was given that the money would
be much appreciated beforehand, and
they were readily induced to make de-
posts. Mrs. Mickey was diplomatic and
said she would only take casts of great
statesmen" This argument usually was
a regular clincher.
Since coming to Washington she
would say, Il have been amazed to find
that there are so few statesmen who are
really great. Some members of congress
have offered me hundreds OF dollars if
l would put their hands In my book, but
1 have refused. My volume must have
only the hands of men truly great. will
not be a charlatan and sell advertising
space in my book" What statesmen
could refuse her after such subtle fat
terry?
Mrs. Mickey seemed to understand her
business thoroughly. She could converse
upon any subject with the utmost ease
and displayed a vast amount of intelli-
gence. Withal, she was modest. Her
conversation showed clearly that she
had travelled very extensively and had
read much.
William Jennings Bryan, during his
last visit to Washington, received ono OF
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Philadelphia Press
Deft indeed, are the hands that nodded
the Hands That Built Empires" Clever,
indeed IS the woman who obtained checks
for various sums from those same hands
Foolish. indeed, do many statesmen in
Washington now feel when they realize
that they have been taken in on a gigan-
tic swindle. instead of having their hands
handed down to posterity as Hands
That Have Built Empires"
Ia the office OF Chief of Police Sylves-
ter In that city are about fifteen plaster
casts Of hands. They were seized a few
days ago. when the police took possession
OF tho rooms until recently occupied by
Mrs. A. Juan Mickey at the Hotel Cor
don.
Most OF the hands are labeled, bearing
names OF Admiral Dewey, Admiral
Schley. William Jennings Bryan, William
Sulza. Olga Nethersole, Ellen Terry, Sir
Henry Irving. Susan B. Anthony, Speak
.er Henderson. Secretary of State John
Hay and many other prominent people.
These casts are genuine and were taken
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08

Gamblers insist that the law OF mathe-
NAUTICAL probabilities may be applied to
all incidents OF life in which risk or 40
cident is factor. conspicuous ex-
ample of the principle is found in life
insurance. where. through stady OF vital
statistics involving hundreds Of thousands
of lives system Of wagers on longevity
is made a certain and profitable business.
When 1t comes, however, to his applica-
ton to games of hazard, no man has as
yet been able to estimate the matured
chance in any play in which successive
turns of card or casts Of die above q
certain limit Is required.
Button, the naturalist and mathema-
tician, attempted 1t by throwing q per-
fectly balanced coin as evenly as he WIS
able. He made several thousand casts in
the endeavor to throw heads ten times In
succession. He threw heads nine times
successfully, but never ten. He then re-
peated the experiment with the same
number OF casts as on the first occasion,
when he not onfy threw ten heads sew
eral times in succession. but also eleven. s
This punching" is the despair OF calcu-
iatorS of mathematical probabilities in
games Of hazard. 1t makes 1t impossible
to formulate any trustworthy rule of
computation of matured chances open to
sure and practical application. 1t may
be this or superstition that leads almost
all writer's on the subject to discriminate
in gambling transactions between indi-
vidual luck or vein and the matured
chances Of the game.
ONE THEORY OF LUCK
In a series of articles entitled 'Iotter-
| les, Luck, Chance and Gambling Sys-
| TENS now in course of publication in the
Pail Mall Magazine. In the issue for Jan
uary, 1860. the author states a case to
| illustrate his theory of luck. He pre-
| sumes that on June 10, 1877. the popula-
| ton of the United Kingdom amounts to
&c. So. 432 persons. and that 1t is preserved
I intact into the year 1901. That Is, there
shall be no births or deaths. or causes Of
decrease OR Increase of the population
during that period.
On the 30th of June. 1877, all Of the 3d.
654, 4S2 persons participate in a lottery
each to have one share. The conditions
are that the prizes are to number one
half OF the persons who enter the lottery
and that the losers are to retire after
! that drawing, and the winners, 16, III, 216
are to take a chance In the lottery for
1873; the losers to retire as in the first in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08
PLAYING CYCLONE.
Description of "a Game That Has
Become Popular In New York.

Description of "a Came That Has
Become Popular In New York.
New York Sun.
Lets play cyclone said fine-lool1-
ing middle-aged man to q strapping
friend in New street cafe yesterday
afternoon.
Whats that?"
"Oh. that's the new game
How is It played2'
well. when two play at 1t, It's Ike
this: 1t is best played on snowy nights.
We stop downtown for dinner and have,
first, two brandy cocktails; then we have
what ordinarily Is known as a gentle
mans dinner, oysters. soup, fish, entrees.
a salad and roast, and one or two It'd
bits to wind up with. Meantime, you
have g. fat bottle of rich old Burgundy,
followed by latter bottle of very dry
champagne. At the end of it there are
the usual cordials and so forth and so
on. Then you call for a cab and hop into
1t and start either for Recter's or the
Waldorf-Astoria or Delmonico's; 1t
doesn't make much difference which, so
long as It gives you an opportunity to
stop on the way, and the more stops
you make between down town and Forty
second street the more successful the
game Ia played For instances In every
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} mOafurifY OF a Gbanee..,.
. y w
The Principle That Should Undere All Hazard Games


among these. One more turn and Casa
nova had won
MATURITY CHANCE IN GAMBLING.
This game IS not conclusive Of the in
, fallibility Of the maturity of the chance,
but When taken In conjunction with nu-
merous- others where Casanova won very
large sums, throughout long and sue
cessful gambling career, It is to be pre-
sumed that he based his system Of play
and r1sked his money on something more
tangible than on mere luck Garcia fol-
lowed similar method with such sue
cess that when he started in for serious
play at Baden Baden. the shares OF the
Privilegirte bank Immediately declined
from III to rs per cent In value.
Life insurance offers the most extended
and practical application Of the ethics of
the maturity or chance. There the tend
ency of the maturity chances of death
to 'bunch" or to appear In larger proper
ton In so many thousands of lives and to
decline in successive thousands Is pro-
Vided for. Ss"
For twenty years the ratio of deaths to
| the thousand may be largely in excess of
| the average. but; in the succeeding forty
| years they may be so much less than the
normal that the loss In the first instance
| Is more than compensated for In the sec
| ond. 1t Is this accumulation OF matured
| chances at unexpected intervals that
| confounds the gambler and makes OF any
but a phenomenal genius in games OF
! hazard a firm believer In wild and unrea-
soning luck.
| In modern warfare the exact number
| Of small arm cartridges that are expend-
| ed in each engagement is known; there
| fore it is easy to compute how many bull
| lets must be fired to wound or kill sim
! gle man. If commanding general ex-
poses himself feaIlessly to the enemy S
fire throughout a series Of actions; then
| after a certain number of bullets are
| fired in his direction his chance Of being
| killed or wounded comes under the deslg-
nation of mathematical probability.
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well known place on the way uptown you
are expected to stop in and get, first,
beer, then gin, then brandy, then whisky,
then applejack and so on through the
entire list. By the time you reach the
goal OF the game or Forty-second street
you are expected to be ready for more
Burgundy and champagne; and this IS
kept UP until o'clock in the morning,
when you hop into the cab again and are
taken home with your heels out of the
window. That Is how to play the new
game cyclone"
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(From Photograph Taken Twelve Years
Ago.

George Samuels. a Waterman in the
New York postoffice, Is almost distracted
with sorrow owing to the disappearance
the lad has not been seen since July Il,
1885, his father has never given up hope
that he would return to the parental roof
at rs East One hundred and thirteenth
street.
MY son will be twenty years old on
May Is said Mr.. Samuels at the postof-
flee the other day. He was very bright
boy for his age. From one of his chums
heard that my boy some four years
ago freighted his way to Toronto, where
he is said to have obtained a position
from a bank president as coachman.
How much truth there Is in this do
not know. We never heard anything
from him. and my heart is we'll nigh
broken. I would give anything to have
my boy with me- We tried in every way
to obtain some news of his whereabouts.
but have not succeeded in finding out
anything"
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K1tehener suggested Chains.

The South African correspondent of the
New York Evening Post says that the
following story of Kitchener Is probably
not very far astray; Cecil Rhodes made
more or less trouble for the military au
thorIties In Kimberley. and finally Col.
Kekewich one day photographed Lord
Kitchener that Rhodes interference was
getting unbearable. Kitchener's prompt
answer was: You had better put him in
chains!"
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It'll" and he took out SIS, gave the bills to
the dimpled one and marched away,
chuckling.
The girls were soliciting subscriptions
for the Longfellow monument fund.
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lists is a Central American moth. called
the Erobus strix, which expands Its wings
from eleven to eighteen inches.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08

An EnOrmOuth Moth.
The largest insect known to entomology
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08

Remember. we guarantee to save you money on
every article you buy and if you can't spare the cash
Just now. take the goods and have your way about
paying for them.
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Paul without a COM
plant. We know what
they are, and will
put one In on trial In
any home In Bt. Paul, or
will pay your car fare to
any house where they
have one. so you can find
ont what they think.
That's a pretty strong
guarantee. isn't it2 Well.
the stove will back It up.
We know what they are
fuse one In our own
house), and made q big
contract so as to get the
exclusive agency.