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all matters of pO-
litical moment First he was an object
of the aversion of certain political ele-
ments in his own state of Missouri, who
disliked to see so important position
filled by a Missourian who was not one
of the gang" 1T seemed like waste of
good material to have the most impor-
tant political Office held by any citizen
of the state rendered practically useless
from political point of view through
its bestowal on plain business man.
But Hitchcock weathered that opposi-
ton, and he weathered the opposition of
leading far western senators who per-
sisted in going to the president with
complaints that the secretary of the in
terror should be one more closely in
touch than Hitchcock with far western
affairs
He is now engaged in struggle with
certain interests which believe they have
been injured in a business way by the
secretary's course. 1t remains to be seen
how long the attacks will continue, and
it will be interesting to watch the de-
velopments as they affect the secretary's
future
Before Hitchcock became secretary of
the interior he was ambassador to Rus
STA. so that for plain business man
without political aptitude he has man
aged to occupy some pretty important
places.
LOUIS e. COOLIDGE.
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SUI just CiOSSu
will not be much less than 81 100000.
1t was equally as great during the sum-
mer of 1902, and the two years coming
together have made it hard for some
Of the stores to weather the gale.
ALI summer long State street has
been practically deserted of buyers.
To be sure, there has been The custom
airy run of shoppers, but the pres
snce of crowd of shoppers does not
always mean money in the cash
drawer. They wait for bargain sales.
Summer dress goods, summer suits,
and, in fact, summer goods of all
kinds have been drug on the mar
ket, for the reason that summer prac-
tically failed to materialize. But the
merchant had to prepare for a season
that did not come, and the goods he
bought are lying in his warehouses, or
are being offered for a song in his
store.
Holding goods from one season to
another is Improbable, because the
styles change, and people demand the
latest. It does not matter whether the
customer is buying taffeta silks or
print calicoes, there is such thing as
the latest" in everything pertaining
to styles, and 'the latest" is what is
demanded if the customer is to pay full
price for the goods. To dispose OF
anything else, the price must be cut
until the profit is gone, and this the
State street merchants have mad to do
Cor two years.
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Woman's pocket ms 'Aopps' Fo'Ns''
is old enough to have long since passed
over the dark river, as it probably has.
To-day, aside from the business wom-
an with her practical tailor-made suit,
women have no pocket-except their
stocking.
So great has become the craze for
utilizing the stocking as safe place
in which to carry pocket book, or a
roll of bills, that several Of the more
fashionable stores on State street have
arranged little retiring rooms where
women may get at their purses
screened from the eyes of vulgar man.
So expert, however, have some of the
women become in getting at or return
ing their money to this place of safe
keeping that they no longer seek these
retiring rooms for the purpose, but
swish their skirts about, and in a
twinkling have their money in their
hands or out of them, as the case
may be. The custom is so common
that it no longer attracts attention.
The savings banks have followed the
retail stores in thus catering to wom-
en- depositors, and several of the in
situations that cater especially to wom-
en- have what is known as "the stock
ing room" 1t is nothing more or less
than a neatly furnished room for
women depositors only, equipped with
desks, chairs and other conveniences.
Here the women may get their money
from it's hiding place, make out her
deposit slip, or if she has just drawn
money from the paying teller, retire
to these secluded hooks to secrete it.
Banks possessing these little rooms
are, as a rule, more popular with the
women than those not so equipped.
The stocking room" is a necessary
fixture in any institution patronized
extensively by women.
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AS~1 N' ter OF Jay 0Ouiu
married foreigners; since 1900 America
has tailed two duchesses and countess
or two.
Miss Goelet will be the fifth American
duchess in Great Britain, not to speak of
duchesses and several ladies wearing
the higher title of princess on the con-
tinent. The first to go was the Miss
Yznaga, of New York, though of Cuban
descent, who became the duchess of
Manchester and still wears the title as
dowager. She is the mother of the
young duke who recently married Miss
Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, after vainly
trying to get Miss Goelet.
The Marlborough name has also been
borne by two Americans. Mrs. Hamers-
ley, of Troy, married the late duke very
quietly in the mayors Office in the city
of New York. She has since abandoned
the title to wed Lord Beresford, and is
no more duchess. 1t was her step-son
who married Consuelo Vanderbilt, now
the most prominent socially of all
American titled women. So Miss Goe-
let will make the fifth, though only four
OF the five may now properly be aG-
dressed as your grace"
The new duchess of Roxburghe will
be prospectively the richest American
woman who has ever married abroad.
Her estate is in New York land, tied up
by her fathers will SO that it can hardly
fail to increase. Ultimately she will
have the income of SEC, 00O, 900, the prin-
cipal passing to her children, or, if she
has none, to her brother Robert, on her
death. Should duke be born of the
couple in due time he will not need to
worry therefore concerning the burden
Of supporting the title
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BY the settlement of the H. c. Moul-
ton will case in the Oshkosh court Mrs.
May Hinkston Berry, of Waukesha, is
to receive large sum from the estate
of an aged man who Took a fancy to her
20 years ago. when she was IA years
old. 1t was in 1883 that the present
Mrs. Berry went co Berlin to visit rel
atives, and there met Moulton. who
was go years old. Mr. Moulton died In
1900, leaving her a generous part of his
estate, which is estimated to amount
to as much as 100000. The will was
contested and the courts have just up
held it.
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Iact that there nave
been fewer changes
in the cabinet dur
ing the past sc ven
years than is usual
in an administra-
ton.
The course of
President Roo S e.
welt in retaining so
large a proportion
of the advisers of
his predecessor in
Office is unprece-
denied. II he had
followed the exam
pie set by Presi-
dent Arthur when
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laces are piled onto the counters and
handled over by the crowd of shop
pers There cannot be clerk for
every possible customer, and honest
and dishonest women stand shoulder
to shoulder IN the crowds of shoppers
that pull and haul at the merchandise
thus spread before them
A State street merchant said to me
the other day that practically nine
out of ten of those caught in the act
of stealing were novices. and were. in
all probability committing their first
offense. The desire to possess some
thing beyond their means, and the
seeming ease with which it might be
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u Is Ju6 pTdCLlCS vi
District officials to
buy all supplies in
The open market
without invit in g
competitive bids.
This is a practice
which has not been
permitted in any
other department of
the government for
many years, and it
is open to all sorts
of abuse. 1t opens
the way to differing
almost w i t b o u t
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SEX THAT EATS PICKLES.
Women I'm Restaurants Consume
Twice Many of Them
as Men Do.

4 always thought" said waiter.
according to the Chicago Chronicle,
that the stories about women being
such great pickle eaters were Just
jokes told by people who thought they
were funny; but one of my first ex-
periences as waiter taught me in a
very simple manner that the stories
were true.
This was in restaurant where we
had many women customers, one side
of the restaurant being for men, and
the other side for women. On the
wcmen's side we used to have to Eli
ap the pickle Jars that stood on the
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Good Book Banished Devils.

A Bible was effectively used to ban
ish the devils supposed to occupy the
body of a sick man in Hawaii At first
an educated physician was called; but
as he failed to give relief, a native
medico, or Kuhuna, was brought to the
invalid. He whacked the sufferer over
the head with a Bible, to thus drive out
the devils, and his treatment was so
persistent and vigorous that the sick
man died.
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era, and who is
untiring in her eff
forts in amateur
photography as
she is skilful in
taking pictures OF
rare merit. Near
ly 100000 snap
shots stand to her
record, and nearly
every one of them
has been an ar
tistic S u C C e s S.
Fads come and
fads go, and the
average man and
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Complying with her little brothers
request of few minutes previous to
fish doll out of cistern, Mary Goss,
daughter of Frank Goss, of Menasha,
went to the cistern with rake and.
thinking she had located the doll at the
bottom of the cistern, pulled 1t to the
sugface. 1t was the body of her infant
brother 1t is supposed that while Miss
Goss was getting the rake the little
fellow fell into the cistern and was
drowned
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us OF u ii i G a 3 y.
The city boasts of
it as the longest
single city street
in the world, and
1t probably is. On
it are mansions
and slums and
mansions again.
On the North side
it is lined for
blocks with the
homes of the we'll
tO-do; on t h e
West side it trav-
erses the toughest
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money in real es- oame'
tate. Baroness de Seilliere, who has
been conducting brilliant society sea-
son this year in Newport, got large for
tune from her father, a typical New
York contractor. The Castellane money
came from stock jobber and railroad
wrecker, whose children are such an i'm
provement upon himself that even his
own character seems becoming slowly
rehabilitated through them. Wilson, the
grandfather of the future duchess Of
Roxburghe, is a cotton merchant and
banker from Georgia. The Letter money
of Lady Curzon came from dry goods in
Chicago. The dowager Lady STAFFORD
owns a c1eanly source for her wealth In
Colgate's soap. Lady William Gordon
Cumming and her sisters derive from
mills.
Comparatively few of the women who
have married titles have come from long
established families in this country. No
one cares on 'tthe other side" whether
they do or not; the foreigners lump all
Americans. together as new and raw.
Comparatively few have come from Bos-
ton OF Philadelphia, where American So
ciety is perhaps at its best. New York
and California have furnished far more
than their share. In very large major
ity of cases the Americans transplanted
often in extreme youth-the Bradley
Martins married off their little girl to the
earl of Craven at 15--compare fayorably
with aristocrats of long descent in beau
.ty, brains, breeding and courtly bearing.
Put an American man up on sort of
intangible pedestal and call him ''your
grace" and he wouldn't know what to do
with his hands; but women are differ
emf
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interest much like
a lottery. It may
be conceded that
M i S s Vanderbilt
got good value for
her money, as such
things go. The
title of duchess of
Marlborough and
princess of Minded
b e / m-wherever
that may be-is
not to be sneezed
at. Similarly, Miss
Goelet'S mamma,
who is one of the
marrying VIII
sons, S." has shrewd-
ly managed her
j a u g h t er's ar
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to u BT16n SLOTy, 1T pfOmISeu lHelu d
fee of $4,000 if successful. The offer Of
the agents was laid before Mrs. Goelet by
two women high in London society, no
doubt acting under promise of a contin-
gent fee One of these ladies reported
that Mrs. Goelet thought her daughter
too young to marry and that the matter
could not be considered until the appli-
cant was shown. The go-between added
that she thought Miss Goelet would
marry for love. anyhow.
Hohenlohe, who came to New York,
later to go into a Wall street banking
house as a clerk, did not care to show
himself then, as he was over so years old;
this when Mrs Goelet learned of it was
fatal objection. While in this coun-
try, Hohenlohe was, nevertheless, enter
tanned by the Goelets in Newport. The
story of the marriage brokers would new
er have come out had not Hohenlohe for
gotten to zap them trif1e Of $50, pre-
sumably for expenses, and they sued him
in Germany for the money. The case
made quite scandal until a maiden aunt
of Eohenlohe paid the bill to quiet 1t.
1T was currently reported when Count
Boni de Castellane was here counting
that he had employed marriage broker.
The story was false-and true. He hired
no one with money, but when he was liv-
ing in seclusion in New York, seeing no
one, able to meet no one, his title ignored
because no one here had ever heard of
it, he was taken up out of friendship by
an eccentric, good-hearted woman, the
late Mrs. Paran Stevens, who introduced
him into the society of which she was
then the ruler The rest was easy. OF
course duke of Marlborough needed no
advertisement. How such shop-Worn
noblemen as Yarmouth and Manchester
secured pretty and rich young wives
well, only they know, and they are not
likely to tell!
OWEN LANGDoN.
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women than in the
State street stores.
All classes ar e
represented from
the slumS to the
mansion, gowned
in everything from
calicoes to silks.
There is one
trait peculiar to
all classes and
that is their meth
cd of carrying
money. The So
called joke of the
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drowned.

The appointments of the Wisconsin
Methodist Episcopal conference, held at
Green Bay, show the most general shake
up in the pulpits thathas been known for
years. There are " changes, including
% in the Appleton district, II in the Fond
du Lac, 10 in the GAINESVILLE. 3 in the Mil
waukee and IA in the Oshkosh district.
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tables every day, while the jars on the
mems side had to be filled only once
in two days.
$50 here, you see, the women reg
Ilarly ate about twice as many
pickles "a the men did; and 1 should
say that that is just about what they
always do, everywhere.
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~ wiz bASAS SAASA
has been made on
him ever since he
became secretary of
the interior it is al
m o S t marvellous
that he continues
to hold his place
through the vicis-
STUDIES of two adj
ministrations. For
Hitchcock is not in
any way a politi-
clan. He is as in
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Center of Interest.

Wisconsin is the center Of interest in
insurance circles because of Commits
panies must distribute their surplus.
If it is upheld by the courts millions
will be released and the business of the
state revolutionized.
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President Roose-
Velt's cabinet-Sec-
rotary Wilson, the
head of the depart
ment of agricul-
ture.
Curiously enough
Secretary Wilson
was the least known
of all the men Sc
lected by President
Mckinley at the
time of his appoint
ment. His reputa-
ton was confined to
his state OF Iowa,
nnI AVIAN fh1.o l.
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Mrs. Mary Russ, Mrs. George Williams
and two others were taken violently i'll
in La Crosse as the result of eating
canned beef. All recovered except Mrs.
Russ, who was in a serious condition.
This was the second family in that vicin-
lty poisoned by eating canned beef dur
ing the past two weeks.
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The steamer Park Bluff was capsized
in a fierce storm which prevailed on the
Mississippi, between Prescott and Still
water, and Engineer James Ferguson, of
La Crosse, was drowned. The rest Of
the crew were rescued by the crew OF
the steamer Glenmont.
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They are the bane
of the State street
merchants 1if e,
and yet compare
lively few of them
are ever punished
for the crime, or
for that matter
ever convicted in
court, though they
are convicted in
the eyes of the
merchant.
H IL n d r e d s of
thousands of dol
lars worth of mer-
chandise lies daily
within the raanh
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, 1 III gle lutSTud-
tional romance"
such as society re-
porters love to
gush about; yet
the approaching
nuptials of May
Goelet and the
duke of Roxburghe
recall the fact that
from 1895 to 1900
no British man of
title secured an
American bride.
These things go
in w a v e S, k e
crime and small
nOy In 1895 both
Consuelo Wander
bilt and the daugh-
49, of Tow Could
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make b a r 6 a ! q
sales, but t h e y
are, as a rule, OF
t h e Improbable
kind.
Bargain S a ! e S
have been the rule
in Chicago for the
past two years.
Last year, and
again this year,
the weather has
been against the
State street mer-
chant. The loss in
profits of the sea-
son inst closed
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just now Uy d IOE-
mer newspaper cor
responde n t W h @
less than a year ago
became one of the
commissioners OF
the District of Col
umbia.
Henry Litchfeld
West was for many
years the political
writer f 0 + t b c
Washington Post,
and is pretty well
known throughout
the country for his
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baronial b OK e S
abroad.
Commodore VAN
derbilt's prowess as
a ferryman every
one knows. Miss
Morton, Countess
Talleyrand = P e RI
CORD, got her
money from her
banker father, once
governor of New
York. The Thaw
money came from
coke. The original
Robert Goelet kept
q little hardware
shop in Hanover
square and shrewd-
L. sHouAnl hSr
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1 I'd
ing not only good title but good fell
low for son-in-law. But Anna Gould,
whose fortune was the third largest ever
concerned in such transaction, Sc
cured only a count, and not of very
ancient or lofty vintage at that. Boni
de Castellane is an amiable little fell
low. however, and by no means bad
lot his chief fault being recklessness in
spending money.
The duke of Manchester may have
some reason to feel aggrieved. He is
inst as much a duke as anybody, but
when he married Miss Zimmerman he
secured only a fraction of the wealth
that went with that title in 1895 and
that goes with even Scottish dukedOm
again this year. Of course there was a
considerable reduction on the price in
his case, as he was badly damaged in
reputation, but he is turning out as well
as could possibly be expected. A sim
liar reason may have operated in the
case of the earl of Yarmouth, elegantly
known to his cronies as "bloater."
His is, curiously, the only case where
the exact price paid is known upon au-
thority. Miss Thaw's mother publicly
stated hat the countess fortune was
half million dollars; that the free"
estate, about half of the above sum, was
put in trust for the earl and countess,
part of the remainder being tied up abb
solutely in the Thaw coke trust. that
the earl was to get small compliment
tary income" and that if the countess
died one-fifth of her income was to be
paid to the earl and his successors. ThiB
income would be about SIS, 600 a year.
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Traffic Abandoned.

Traffic between Baraboo and Portage
was abandoned, the roads being COW
cred with from two to six feet of wa
ter, and the damage to crops and pro-
perry by the breaking of the levee at
Portage was estimated at $4,000.
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self princess if she
chooses. In Ger
many she might so
choose.
There are other
prinecesses. P rim
C e S s Brancaccio
was a Miss Field,
and she married
her italian hus-
band so long ago
that the fact is
nearly forgotten.
Prime e S s Col
o mn a W a 8 the
daughter of John
w. Mackay the boz
nanza King her
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husband, scion of the proudest family
among the proud mobiles of Rome; fer
a thousand years the rivalry Of the Col
onnas and the Orsinis for the primacy
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An Unusual Cor dition.

Although Wilson is the only survival
of the original Mckinley cabinet ii. is g
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WASHINGTON LETTER
National Capital Gossip That Is Just
Now of Timely Interest.
TIE DISTRICT GOVERNMENT
Commissioner West Turning Things
over Many Opportunities for
Fraud Have Existed-Rotafion
of the Cabinet Wheel.

Washington.-A good object lesson in
effective administration is being given
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Peculiar Methods.

One most important discovery of
Vests is just announced. He finds that
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Ths way the Monsz Came.

1t is interesting to note whence came
the coin that jingles into ducal and
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regularly 1 e e o g
niZed abroad.
Miss Goelet her
self has been the
shining mark which
such brokers have
in more than one
instance tried to Sc
cure. The affair of
Prince Hugo Won
Hohenlohe is we'll
r e m embered. A
former Austr i a n
military attache In
London and an
Irish solicitor COM
bined to secure
Miss Goelet for
him and according
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SOCIETY OF GOTHAM
Doings of the Smart Set That Inter
est the General Public.
THE INTERNATIONAL ROMANCE
Miss GOeIet VIII BE the Fifth Amer
Jean Duchess in Great Britain
Titled Husbands Expensive
nuxuries-Other Gossip.

New York--It hardly seems as if any
recent five years had passed without
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New Boulevard Planned.
Halsted street is Is miles long, and
every mile of it is within the city linn
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The cost of titled husband must
seem to those who study the matter with
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HitchcOck's Methods

Secretary Hitchcock is another sur
vival of the Mckinley regime. In view
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GOSSIP OF CHICAGO
State Street Has Had Two Unprofit-
able Summer Seasons.
POCKET OF WOMAN SHOPPERS
Why the stocking Room" Has Be-
come a Fixed Instftution-Amate
and Professional ShopIifters
and Their Methods.

Chicago.-Seasonable weather makes
trade: unreasonable weather may