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JAPANESE FORESIGHT.
Three Thousand Yen Invested for a
Period of $50 Years to Pro-
duce 1,2OS, 41I,179.

The Dai-ichi Cingo in 1900 re-
ceived deposit of 5000 yen which
will remain fixed for $50 years, from
Mr.. Goichi Abe, dealer in coal and
coke, at 4 Minami Shimboricho Nj
chome, Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo. The
bank has contracted to pay the sum
of 1908, All, 179 yen at the end of $50
years, dating from 1900 inclusive, re-
ports the Toxic (Japan) Times. The
father of the deposition was 'rkisha
man, and he himself was an iceboy
some 90 years ago. Then his mother
was seriously i'll, and three days be-
fore her death she said that she
would like to eat SODA, which is a
cheap dish, but luxury for the poor.
He, then only eight years old, pur-
chased some from the sale of ice,
and was carrying it home when he
was encountered by his father. He
and his mother were then scolded
for their luxuriousness. His mother
died and he was employed as an err
rand boy for the next six years by
IL different masters. Meanwhile the
father and son did not know of each
others whereabouts. 1t was only
by accident that the son read in a
newspaper that his father, who was
named Ki-ichi Abe, was employed by
Mr.. Soichiro Asano. The son
searched for his father, and was
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O very pain
the accession 70
the evidence OF beng the most
capable monarchy Arcfduke Karl seems pest 10
although his uncle who under
ordinary his
of naneJ
this dissatac
ITSELF
which general renng of the
Arhduke
haueur lnsoenc2
brothers Francis Ferdinand
which he made he has brand
the hcren of the political parties the Panerans tral
His nobewoman him the enny
Sights dscourtese he
shown official
is
while
probably royal
thoroughly hated than brothers.
is military
attention of
School
other pupils
little with them
him He occasional journeys to
of
with
following languages: Czech
Hungarian Soak Italian
accomplishments will enable
to with diplo-
mats a diplomacy
administrative
military drill; riding
drill digging othe
In crammed with knowledge and
represented by Emperor Francis
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door key as a substitute for the orthO-
dox wedding ring. There was nothing
else to be done. The lady, against her
will, assented, and the door key did its
new duty!
At another wedding, the awkward
fact of the forgotten wedding ring be-
ing esta bIished, substitute was
sought for, but the only thing in the
shape of "a circlet in possession of the
limited company assembled, was, above
all things, corkscrew!
Another curious incident at village
wedding. The bridegroom was the viii
lage carpenter. IN fumbling in his
pocket, at the usual cue from the cler-
gyman, for the real wedding ring
(Which he had forgotten) his trembling
fingers touched screw ring (for hang
ing pictures) which by accident hap
pened to be there instead. He grasped
the situation with wonderful astute-
ness for yokel, and, with a muttered
explanation, placed the ring on the
A London registrar of marriages
once informed the writer that in all
cases of forgotten" rings he lends
his key ring for wedding purposes.
Formerly, to save time, he used to
keep stock of cheap rings which he
allowed the couples to retain, but the
report soon got abroad that the
''blole at the weddin' orfis" presented
all his clients with rings! The result
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was that amongst perhaps dozen
couples only one or two would take
the trouble to come provided. So the
system of wedding rings for nothing had
to be stopped, and now should the for
gotten the ring" excuse be made, the
blushing bride has to be content with
the use of the key ring.
A Jack Tar who was seeking the hand
and heart of a buXom New Hampshire
lass at Portsmouth came to have the
knot tied with the assistance Of a cur
tain ring! He explained with pleasing
candor that he had got rather drunk
the day before and was robbed of the
real article, but he solemnly promised
to buy another wedding ring as soon
as he drew his pay.
An umbrella ring once came to the
rescue of a wedding party in distress
at Leicester quite recently. Even the
ring of a nice-nez eyeglass has been
known to satisfy the scruples of a
bride.
But perhaps really the strangest
substitute was the ivory ring OF a
baby's comforter. 1t was the same old
story-the ring forgotten and not one
to be found among the limited COM
pany present. There was, however, a
small, fat baby, with comforter.
This was requisitioned, and with its
aid the contract was completed. The
baby showed his disapproval Of the
whole proceeding by bowling vigorous
ly till the comforter was restored.
PHIL LAUDER.
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Minister who
burdensOme
study crowded with travel He has been far from Mngo the
African perhaps feeling the Ito u.s. udicrous
dignity British
kingdom
of
made
lot of
civilization which should the
the however,
railroad
had
villages and inhabitants For long time after Sans visit
warlke
destroyed forced back
off Valuable
of the
commercial
railroad
completed the engineering
of
and
of King Mwanga who finally
dandn with the King of Unyoro at seychelles
affairs of He said
main of the Nile supply the
irrigation of Egypt MILTON Mains
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A month ago the manager said to
four department heads that as they
had worked pretty hard they should
take months rest, charge the bills
to the firm and make 'em generous.
The four put up at the WaldOrf-As-
toria, rode in cabs and went to the
theaters. Perhaps there was some
shrewd advertising of the Dayton
sort in this. Anyhow, the girls Wis I,
tied the sweatshops. Straightway, as
they were very nice girls, indeed.
kindly and we'll fed and paid, they
melted in pity.
Miss Flora Pike, one of the four,
says that had they not seen the Di-
vision street sweatshops with their
own eyes the visitors could not have
believed them possible. Lives are
crushed out" she said, in her vigor-
Gus way. young girls and men are
crowded together promiscuously, 50
close together that their elbows
touched, while the air was nauseat-
ing. Girls at Is were old. No one
had taught them how to breathe"
-
wisdom beyond the ordinary. If a
man or woman knows how to. breathe
he has a certain advantage.
At it's worst l have seen this sweat
shop evil grew in less than a
generation. 1t was about 1882 that
the great immigration Of Jews began
because of Russian prosecutions. 1
saw the poor fellows by thousands
on docks hastily rugged up for them
by generous Jews of New York; I
heard their stories of the persecution
from which they fled. [ don't think
any of the old people who remember
Russia grumbles very much at New
York.
Exteriorly this so terrible Division
street is well worth seeing. I
shouldn't advise any visitor to miss it.
It is perhaps the only street of mill
liners in the country where female
''pullers-in'' are employed on the
Baxter street plan. Big, brawny
girls stand on the sidewalk, and as
women go past grab them by the
arms to drag them as unwilling GUS
toners into the shop. The slang of
the girls is wonderful, their scorn
for rival establishments whitening
or used to be- Now Division street
employers talk of forming a trust
and doing away with ''pullers-in." 1t
won't be so picturesque.
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shoots are great and successful or
CARNATIONS.
The Union is the only club whose
members ever proposed their sons
for membership as soon as they were
born. 1t was taken for granted thaC
a members son would be ''clubbable'
The waiting list was so long that 4
boy might grow to maturity before
his turn came. The list was lesSened,
however, twice; once when the CaIu-
met club was formed, again when the
Metropolitan, now called the Mil
lionaires' Club" sprang into being.
It's members were rich men We'll
along in years" They couldn't wait
half a lifetime. When these big new
clubs formed the Union was fright
ened and enlarged it's membership.
When you say "Clubman' in New
York, you mean Union club man
Men belong to other clubs incident
ally, busy men, and go there Occa-
sionally. In the Union there is an
element of dO-nothings, men VINO
have no business, choice specimens
of our small leisure class" They
sit at the window all day with their
hats on and watch people go past.
For their convenience the old Union
club was building with five big win
dows on each floor along the side and
three on the end facing 1.-The Avenue.
The new club has three windows on
each floor facing the avenue and seq
en- on each floor on the side. The
new, like the old club, is three sto-
ries high; at least, it looks it. Seeing
the house, or a good picture, one
thinks of it as stately building pos
sibIy 40 feet wide and of three good
stories. It's a trick building. The
members are old-fashioned; they
want clubhouse looking like the old
one, but with more room. Really, the
end on the avenue stretches 70 feet;
the side with it's seven windows is $50
feet; the three stories cover in height
more than hundred feet. You see
from behind that it is really ten
story building. The ten rear stories
are divided into rooms for members
who live on the premises. The great
rooms in front have ceilings ranging
from So feet high on the first floor to
25 on the third, splendid series Of
reception, smoking and other public
rooms.
"Public?" Not so! No public meet
ings are held there; no public causes
advocated, to be reported in the
newspapers, as in the Union League
or University or Reform. The club
simply is.
The TRlIest Hotel in the World.
As a problem in architecture the
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VIZ en- TIE We ddinS
RINGS Were MiSSin(
Fnprompfu Affairs Thar Rore Done
Dufy When Bridegroom ForSof.
Ways Of Geffine Oar Of Distressing difficulty.

- HAT is an awful moment in
ESA the life of a man when, at
Nh his own marriage ceremony,
NyWZX it suddenly flashes across
- his mind that he has for
gotten to bring the we'd
ding ring! Think of the mental tor
ture endured by the unfortunate being
who has to acknowledge that he has
made such deplorable blunder! If
the church floor were to open and
swallow him that man would regard it
as a personal favor on the part of the
church
The kindly clergyman who is tying
the knot whispers, perhaps, the gentle
reminder:
THE ring"
But in sort of shuddering gasp
comes the response:
1--we forgotten it,"
What a glorious thrill of excitement
runs through the spectators. Every
man, woman and child in the church
realizes the situa ton.
He's forgotten the ring!"
And it is no excuse for the wretched
bridegroom to say the best man ought
10 have reminded him. The best man
always disclaims responsibility if any
thing goes wrong.
1t is sufficient to state the fact that
many such instances of forge ting the
wedding ring have actually occurred.
The only wonder is that the occurrence
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Long way from the Finish.

The Cape-to-Cairo railway would be
300 miles long in a direct line be-
tween Cape Town and Cairo. At the
present time the rails are laid to with
in 200 miles of the Zambesi, or about
500 miles from Cape Town, and there
is now a railway from Cairo to the
junction of the blue and white Nile,
or /, 400 miles from Cairo. 1t is thus
seen that line $500 miles long must
vet be built to connect these terminal
systems. The Uganda railway is
built, connecting the port Of Nom
basa, on the Pacific ocean, with Port
Florence, on Lake Nyanza; the length
of the line is 500 miles. The Bulawayo-
Beira railway connects the system
with the ocean at the last mentioned
port. At Bulawayo the line is AGO
feet above sea level.
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land can own their own land also.
Otherwise the Astors would have
fallen heir to buildings erected by
other men. Equity seemed to point
either to a renewal of the leases or
to the sale, which was arranged on
a five per cent. basis, which is con-
sidered liberal A ground rent of
$4,000 sells for 100000. As big
mortgages are easily placed at AZ
per cent, these are good terms.
The Astors have owned this land
60 years. 1t has been thrice leased
for 20-year terms. 1t cost 100000,
and is worth some S5.000,0 900, though
not all was sold at this deal. Will
lam B. Aston left the land among
other properties to his two sons.
William and John Jacob, 3rd. Will
lam Aston left four daughters and
one son, the present John Jacob,
fourth of the name. John Jacob, 3rd,
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pose being the introduction of
her daughter, Miss Julia Cal
houn. Mrs. jefferson Davis, who has
more friends than any other woman
/ know and no enemies, was present.
So was Miss Sophy Marshall. great
granddaughter of the great chief
justice; so were others whose names
are like a breath from the old south
Walk the street here, and you may
meet John S. Wise, of Virginia, or
John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky In lit
erary salons you see Julia Magruder
or Alice MACEDONIAN, or Brander Mat
thews, of New Orleans, or Mark
Twain, of Missouri.
Not many southerners are promi-
nent in mere money making, though
the marrying Wilson's" of Georgia.
are well up among the very rich. The
old traditions hold. Southern men
take more kindly to law or letters or
medicine. OWEN LANGDON.
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able TO find him out again. After
this the son was given place in Mr..
Asano's establishment. Lately the
father lost a ship Che had become
rich enough to own ship in a
storm. The ship had been insured
for 5000 yen. The fact of the insur-
ance was unknown to him, for the
policy-holder was the son. But the
father and son settled between them
selves that the money should be de-
posted on behalf of their posterity,
and hence the long term contract.
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does not happen more frequently. 1t
is, in fact, remarka bic that the average
man, on his wedding morn, can manage
to keep a thought of mere circlet of
gold in his mind
In the East end of London there is a
church where, on certain days through
out the year marriages take place on
wholesale scale, with reduced terms for
a number. The good man whose duty
it is to assist young couples into early
trouble, knows his congregation SO he
keeps a little stock of brass rings to
meet emergencies, as the youthful
bridegrooms do not grasp the fact that
visit to. the jewelers. is usual and
necessary preliminary to entering the
bonds.
Most churches are not, however, fit
ted out with the same regard to detail
in providing accessories for those
aspiring to matrimonial honors.
Therefore, should a bridegroom, in a
short fit of mental alteration. leave
the all-important band of gold behind
him on the morning of mornings, sit
uatfon is apt to arise requiring some
very diplomatic handling.
To complete the marriage ceremony.
according to the laws of some churches
ring is absolutely essential. For
tunately it has been decided that any
thing in the form of circlet will do
in an emergency.
And so, the memory of man being
but frail thing, the annals of matri-
monial contracts bear testimony to a
number of substitutes for wedding
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rings which have from time to time
saved the situation.
Not many months ago in New Eng
land church this incident occurred. A
young couple had turned up at the
appointed hour to have the matrim oni-
al knot tied. All went well until the
vital moment came for the production
of the ring. But 10! the bridegroom
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Unreasonable.

The hotel lounger went to the fau-
Get and drew gIassful of water.
'Here!" he exclaimed, looking with
Mortified eyes at something in the
glass. what kind of water do you
keep on tap, anyhow"
whats the matter with it?" asked
the hotel clerk.
There's a thing swimming around
in it that looks like lizard"
well" demanded the clerk, what
did you expect with free drink?
Alligators ?'- Chicago Tribune.
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Clubs, Hotels, >Ss0eGfsbopS
and Society an .Nes0 York City

had one son. the present William Wal
dorf, the imam without a country"
one of the richest men in the world.
For wears the two branches of the
family never communicated; two Of
fees stood side by side, in each of
which the business of one branch
was carried on, rentals, renewals.
leasing. The Waldorf-Astoria hotel
is a monument to the Astor feud.
The oldest portion of it was built by
w. w. Astor. while his aunt. Mrs.
William Astor, still lived on the cor
ner Just above, in the plain old
brown-stone mansion so well remem-
bered bv New Workers. After the
death of Mrs. w. W. Astor in Eng
land the two branches came trifle
nearer together, united in complet-
ing the Waldorf-Astoria. aud, of
course, in selling the leased property
downtown. They have done this be.
cause they like uptown land better,
and think it has a greater future
There are other great land-owning
families in New Yor<-Gerrys, Goe-
lets, Rhinelanders and the like. The
Astors are the greatest. | think the
duke of Westminster in London may
own many more houses, or rather the
land on which more houses are built.
The Astors own some 1000 houses,
and leaseholds besides, on which
other people have built. They are
the greatest hotelkeepers in the
world. Besides the Waldorf-Astoria
and the old Aston house downtown
the Astor house, par excellence,
where they take pride in showing
YOU the room in which Charles Dick
ems stayed and the parIor where
Daniel Webster met his political
friends, the family has built and is
building three huge new structures
uptown And there are others not
SO big.
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laid in the great
m a u S o lie u m on
Riverside Drive, a
reception was held
i n n e w Y ork
which emphasized
t b e e Y t e n t to
W h i C h southern
names are localiz-
i n g themselves.
The coincidence in
date was of course
accidental.
The hostess was
Mrs. John C.. Cal
L -.
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which mas J u 5 I
moved up town to
a beautiful new
home, has num-
bered but 66 ye ars,
yet it is the oldest
in the city.
And the most ia
nous. 1t was the
scene 20 years ago
of the bic
Turnbull : Loubat
controversy; i t S
membership h a s
been most closely
guarded; its off
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Thirty-third street, is wiser. His
building is to be of 80 stories, the
tallest in the world; and everywhere
he can put a window he has done so.
The building is rs feet square in area,
but its 400 feet and more of height
make it look like shaft. The base
is three stories, the shaft Is, the cor
nices and capital between them six
more, and six are Struggled away in
the roof. Of course a real shaft
doesn't have a roof, but that makes
little difference. The man in the
street never sees the roof in any case
The tallest office building is only 20
stories. They're about to put up one
of 35 stories, but the 3O-story hotel
will hold the record for nearly
year. That, il New York, is long
time.
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worthy successor to
Emperor Francis Jc-
seph, in event of his
death, are now centered
upon a school boy of
Is. Of course the boy
is a relative of the en-
peror's; h $ g r e a t
nephew, the son of a
younger son of the en-
perOr's younger broth
er. He is known as
Archduke Karl. The
accession Of this youth
to the throne would be
a rather curious breah
in the line of success
sion; put puDllc APP
prevail of a candidate
for the throne is not an
important consideration
in the Dual Monarchy;
it often overrides mere
arbitrary laws.
The present emper-
or, who succeeded his
uncle, has kept the fac
tiOns Of his nation uni
ted by the very force
of his genius and his
power; and it has been
predicted by some pol
iticians that, upon mis-
death, the disintegra-
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nified copy of the
old, is a mistake.
A club is a pri-
vate hotel. Its ar
chitecture | o S e S
i n effectiveness
whe n it fails to
meet hotel needs.
Since the ideal of
bliss for a Union
club man is to
look out upon the
avenue, why not
have more than
nine w i n d o w S
where that pleas
ure is obtaina BILE?
T h e promoter
of the new Hotel
Martinique, which
w i'll soon tower
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had forgotten it, as many had done be-
fore. The wedding was private one.
The church held no guests, no kindly
married lady to proffer the loan of
wedding ring. The officiating clergy
man had no ring, the prospective bride
was without even an engagement ring.
What was to be done? The verger,
the only witness. stood by, church
door key in hand, He proposed the
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GO not cOIleCJ rem L
f + o m starving
wretches / i k e
those whom four
shopgirls t r o N
Dayton, o., have
been visiting.
Dayton is a mod
ell village. The
big factory there
treats it's people
we'll as a matter
of business, pro-
vides airy work
rooms, baths, Ii.
rioc o+n
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VI uafdly ever.
To be exact, they
have sold land in
C o n S i d e ra b | @
quantities three
times. The third
time was only
the other day,
when the Asrtors
sold valua BILE free
hold to leasehold-
ers at the expira-
ton of the term,
so that the own
ers of the build
inpS reared on
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Prof. John Fiske is authority for
saying that a man can travel the whole
length of the earth's circumference
in less time than it would have taken
Herodotus to go the length of the
Mediterranean.
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Rad and Mnrae.

PoIly-The most disgusting thing
alive is a man who firts.
Betty-Yes, that's so-except one
who won't.-Town Topics.
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OF Austria, upon whom
the British governments
has conferred the title
ellis Highness.' This
boy is Kabaka, King of
Uganda rich bit OF
territory about Vic
toria, Albert and Albert
Edward Nyanzas in
cluded in the British
East African protecto-
rate.
+ his nine-year-old
king leads a very diff
ferent sort Of life from
Archdukc Karl, for he
is a descendant of a
race of African chief
tains. He is Il grand
son Of the famous
M'tessa, King of Ugan-
da, who died IS years
ago, and son of the
treacherous and war
like M'wanga, who has
made such hot" his
tory for Uganda during
recent years. Kabaka
is not old enough to
administer the duties
of his kingly position,
and the affairs of the
kingdom are therefore
III the hands of the
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Not Wholly Abandoned

Eyes, said the old Georgia farmer.
sits true that Jim's in the legisla-
tur'; but there's hope fer him yit!"
Atlanta Constitution.
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Kabako. the Young King of Uganda

included also, interesting
concerning than Archduke Karl
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Royal Youngsters Des-
tined to Rule Millions


political probabilities them
according
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Club life is not so ancient fea- I
ture of New York; the Union club. |