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Stories Of People in
Wa SbinSfo on ~ ~ ~
National Capital Gossip of Society. the DipIo-
MATS. Tourists and Statesmen.

! have become almost part of the
establishment.
The Washington police force for
many years was peculiar in this
that every member of it must have
had military training. No man was
eligible for appointment who could
not show an honorable discharge
from the United States army or navy.
This law was enacted by congress
just after the civil war and was in
tended to help out the union vet
| Grams. 1t was not many years before
the veterans became too old for the
service, but the law remained, and in
time it became the practice to apply
to the officers of the regiment of
cavalry stationed at Fort Myer, just
across the river in Virginia. A srlita-
BILE enlisted man would be picked out.
his discharge would be obtained and
new guardian of the city's peace
would thus be created. Cases were
known of men enlisting at Fort
Myer for the express purpose of get
ting discharge so as to receive an
appointment to the police force. The
situation became absurd, but con-
gress did not dare to change the
law for fear it might be charged with
discrimination against the veterans.
Finally in 1898 case was taken to the
supreme court, and decision was
handed down that the law was in
tended to apply only to soldiers and
sailors in the war of the rebellion.
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she consents to this marriage. Thaw.
the future countess, is lovely girl.
1t takes more space to describe the
earl. He is one of the two PLAYER
earls," the other being the earl of Ross
Ign, who have cavorted about these
United States, playing as amateurs or
professionals, petted and feted in So
ciety as Joe Jefferson couldn't be If
he would Yarmouth has been yerv
hard up, or he would never have gone
on the stage, which means little.
work, even for a nobleman. The young
bridegroom eXpectant's earnings have
been no more sufficient TO support him
in this country than in his own. A con.
siderable number of young men in New
York who are said to have loaned tbe
noble earl sums ranging from $50 To
$500 are taking interest," in the an.
proacning nuptials. Th.. romance does
not appeal to them. Tuey wonder if
they Will get dividends 'on account %
Yes, it is an ''internati1nal romance -
Not typical one. Some international,
marriages have been as pretty love stu.
ries of real life as could be wishec
But Yarmouth
OWEN LANGDON.
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street cars ana 1t
has worked to a charm from the very
1lrst day it was put in force. There
Is no reason to doubt that the extern
sion of the prohibition to the side
walks viii be equally effective. The
chances are that the first embarrass-
ment will come to newly arrived
members of congress who will get to
Washington next November, most of
shem in blissful ignorance of the
regulations which have gone into
effect during the summer recess.
1t is remembered that when the
ordinance with regard to street cars
was adopted the first offender was an
surprisingly dignified justice of the
supreme court-one of the three or
tour great national figures on the
bench. This justice is persistent
tobacco chewer, and of course is a
victim of the attendant habit. He
never forgot himself but once. The
conductor warned him that a second
oifense would subject him to the full
penalty of the law. In some way the
story reached the supreme court re-
tlring room and our justice was long
sn hearing the last of it.
The new ordinance is a good thing.
The sidewalks of the capital are in
pretty bad condition anyway, and
this Will at least keep them clean.
The asphalted streets of Washington
are the best in the world, but hither-
TO less consideration has been shown
TO foot passengers than to horses.
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STICKS TO OLD CUSTOMS.
The Supreme Court of the United
States Is Welded to Its
Traditions.

The supreme court of the United
States does business on an Anticipated
plan. While it undoubtedly is the most
dignified body of men in this country,
if not in the world, it has its peculiari-
ties, and they are striking ones, says
the Indianapolis Sentinel. One of the
traditions of the court prevents news
paper correspondents from attending
the sessions of the court in their pro-
fessional capacity. Provision is made
for representative of each of the
great press associations, but the corre-
spondents have to push and crowd in
behind the rear railing with the hun
dreds of 6ther spectators. Usually
they have to stand up, and if they are
seen taking notes an attendant escorts
them to the door. The result is that
the 200 or more correspondents have to
depend on their memory for their re-
ports of proceedings in the supreme
courtroom.
There is another custom of the court
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02

Eight governors, three Omitted States
senators, three generals of the civil
war, one Of the worlds greatest engin-
GERS, a distinguished painter and sculp-
tor, two noyelists who are read wher-
ever the English language is known, a
poet whose songs have thrilled mil
lions of hearts, rear admiral and n
gallant commander whose heroic and
tragic death is known to everyone, to-
gether with almost innumerable state
legislators and a number of financial
magnates, constitute Brookvlle's
Qnd) contribution to the genius of
the world, writes Landon Knight, in
National OF the eight governors,
James b. Ray was the first.
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1SS1,reaching $780, The Man Who Fays the
600 in the latter Bill.
year. Ten years later, in 1901, it was
only SIS, 900 again.
The prices follow the activity of
stock sales. AS the number Of mem
bers is limited, doubling the business
quadruples the net profits of mem
Der. He handles his larger share with
out proportional increase of expenses.
1t is a mistake to suppose that spec
ulation has been unusually active for
the past few years, as compared with
oast epochs. In 1881, 141, 511,243 shares
were dealt in on change. Ten years
later, in 1891, only 60,O31 ,6S9 were sold.
The 1914, $50 shares sold in 1901 were
actually less in proportion to the
amount of outstanding securities and
to the wealth of the country than the
sales of 20 years earlier. Sales last
year dropped to S6,9o3, 942; this year
they bid fair to run somewhere be-
tween the 1901 and 1902 totals. They
may drop again sensationally.
On the New York market a share al
ways means $500 par. "Buy 100 Penn
sylvania'' means buy 200 shares, of a
nominal value of $50 each. Hence the
1901 transactions represented the enor.
nous total of 1884, 465 900 worth of
securities changing hands.
The broker gets an eighth of a
cent Tor selling dollars worth of
stock, which seems cheap enough.
But on the business of this one
change in 1901 the brokers' COM
missions alone amounted to $33.243.-
o47. And there is no shaving OF those
commissions.
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ing that we have now In the city
these new professions for women:
l. The public charity diatetician.
She is sensible young woman train
ed in the art and science of cooking
and the nutritive values of food; it
is her business to oversee the provid-
ing and the cooking for charity
patients in free hospitals, for pris.
oners, for old men and women, asy-
lum children, etc, many thousands
in all. She saves the city money,
people.
2. The school nurse of these
young women there are a number.
They operate in the poor quarters,
yisftina; Wiisre SS,;;i,i - lesen sanEt
home from school for illness. They
tell mothers how to care for the lit
tie ones SO that they can get back to
school sooner.
3. The babies hospital nurse She
looks after children not big enough
to go to school. Tells about baths,
sterilizing milk. and all the rest.
'ohe HSlPs hlSHIly 10 Keep the Qeath
rate down to little more than half
what it was generation ago.
Grace suicide" in this city? There
was in 1867. There isn't now. Then
more deaths than births occurred in
New York. Last year there were 90
900 more births than deaths.
4. The social secretary, who looks
after girls in the big shops-but she is
an old story by this time. The first one
was appointed almost three years ago,
and there are more than so now.
School Fairgrounds on roofs, the va
cation school at Coney Island-that's
surely new, for it's to be opened the
coming summer-better streets, i'm
proved tenements-there are things
that New York does we'll and un-
selfishly.
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almost under the
shade" of the white house it has been
decided that the wedding shall be
celebrated, not at the capital, but in q
thriving manufacturing city where
sthe brides father made his fortune
The ostensible reason for this is a
sentimental regard for the old home
The real reason is that the newly
srich arc still struggling to break into
the exclusive set in Washington So
ciety and have not yet succeeded.
They prefer therefore to make their
matrimonial splurge and celebrate
5the capture of an English title in a
place where such events are rare and
where their money will show for all
ii is worth.
After another season or two in
Washington the rough edges will be
worn off, the Exclusive set" will have
had its arms pried open and our
family of climbers will have arrived,
prepared to greet all future aspi-
rants for social recognition with a
stony stare.
That is always the way. Hardly
"a season passes lnaC Goes not witness
the absorption of at least one family
of so-called 'parvenues" by the com
posite thing known as Washington
society, but it always takes season
or two to complete the analgama-
tion.
Washington is now the Mecca for
the newly rich. 1t has fairly sup
planted New York.
It is not so many years, after all,
since the old Knickerbocker families
of Manhattan island were sneering
at the social aspirations of John
Jacob Astor's children. A little later
the Astors joined them in sneering
at the Vanderbilts, who in turn have
now taken their place at the easy
end of the sheer.
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Some Odd Nicknnmes.

Nearly every prominent man of title
in England has a nickname and some
Of these cognomens are a trifc odd.
For instance, Sir Michael Herbert,
British minister to Washington, is
known as "Mungo," just why does
not seem to be clearly known: the
duke of Westminster is called Bend
Or" which was a Derby winner
owned by his grandfather; the duke
of Marlborough is sunny" from
Sunderland, one of his many second
titles, and Lord Granville Gordon has
his life answered to the name of
"GrannN."
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than IS trips to his credit and
total travelling record of more than.
$4,000 miles, or twice the circumfer-
ence of the globe.
The great majority of these jour-
neys were taken when President Nc
kinley was in Office. Mckinley was
one of the most persistent travellers
Had he lived he would have undertake
efAzathe journey which President
T5Ss;,s is taking this spring. He
went Ato the Pacific coast-that
was y spring Of 1901, when he
was brought back suddenly BY Mrs
McKinley's unexpected collapse
Cortelyou was with him then and had
to decide on the instant upon all the
emergency arrangements for Mrs
Mckinley's comfortable return to
Washington. That was an experience
which fitted him somewhat for the
infinitely more trying test of the as
sassination at Buffalo, where he had
to assume complete responsibility in
national emergency.
1t is no wonder that Cortelyou is
glad to be relieved of further travel
in the president suite. The novelty
is we'll worn off SO far as he is con.
cerned. President Roosevelt asked
him to accompany him this spring
for part of the way. He was very
glad. indeed, to escape on the plea
OF being busy with his new depart
ment.
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how. This boy put his empty shells
back into the paper bag from which he
had emptied the peanuts into his peck
ct.
Il have seen men eat apples in an ele-
waited car and throw the core under
the seat. ! have seen man eat an or
ange in an elevaed car and not even
take the trouble to do that with the
orange peel, but just lay that down on
the vacant seat beside him. But such
men as those regard as fine gentlemen
as compared with the grown man who
eats peanuts in an elevated car and
drops the shells on the floor. HimI re-
gard as
We'll. the peanut eater ! would have
firmly, even if gently, put off the car"
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the picture being Lefebvre's much
photographed Truth"
Now if brokers wish to enable
chorus girls to pose as art patrons
along with Vanderbilts and Mar
quands. that's their business, but |
object to people in the country
helping pay for it. Several farmers
IN my own country village have just
been cleaned out" in stocks. They
bought New York Central at about
l6o, it has fallen some 30 points and
their margin liz gone. Now Central
is an excellent stock, but as it pays
only five per cent, it would net the
purchaser only about three per
cent, when bought at 16o. Obviously
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which prevents correspondents from
seeing the opinions handed down until
they have secured authority from the
judges who severally deliver them
from the bench. This authority is not
always given, the judge exercising his
own discretion about it. Not infre-
quently the correspondent has to go
to the home of the judge to get the
written authority, and perhaps by the
time he gets back to the capitol the Of
flee of the clerk of the court is closed.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02

| sHOulu ever come
that Lees statue is placed in the
capitol it is safe to say that it will
1lnd statue of John Brown, of Os-
saWotamie, close at hand. Indeed, it
would not be strange if the agitation
about the Lee statue should decide
the question for old John Brown
whether or no. The proposal has al
ready been made by Congressman
Lacey, of Iowa, and it is the sort of
suggestion which, when once made,
will not easily die out of memory.
1t is rather odd that no state has
yet contributed to Statuary hall a
monument to any of the men who
owe their fame to service in the civil
war or to the anti-slavery agitation.
But such is the fact. The tendency
has been for each state to go farther
back to the early days which are no
longer the subject of serious contro-
versy. John Winthrop, Samuel
Adams, Charles Carroll, Of Carrollton.
John Hanson, of Maryland, Mullen.
burg, Marquette, are samples of the
character which are immortalizcd in
the chamber of the old house of rep
resentatives.
Each state is supposed to name it's
two most distinguished soma BUT the
result is a collection some Of the
members of which need an introduce
ton to the ordinary sight-seer Of
this generation.
LozJ1s A. CooLEDGE.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02

lliS SlbS w a lNS tll1-
der penalty of a
fl n Ell o t | e S S
than one dollar,
and notmore than
$40. The. board
of district COM
nissioners adopt
ed it after a Sc
'1ies of hearingsin
which hardly any
body appeared to
object.
There has been
an ordinance for
years forbidding
expectorating in
c+,oat ,ore o,J =,
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ford, if he lives
long enough, will
marry Miss Thaw,
the Pi t t S b u r g
heiress. 1t is a ro-
nance, | suppose:
yes, we shall have
to call it that.
L h a w t h 9
father, is dead;
Thaw, the son, is
better known in
New York than in
Pittsburg, a n d
still better known
in Paris. Thaw,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02

q oitlSd Ing
man in search
bf an income.
Thcass,hi the be-
Trothal and most
ST the ante-nup-
tisa.l arrangements
have taken place
s l;,ss = asfriflg ton
and though the
family occupy an
historic mansion
finely appoin ted
in the very heart
o f t h e fashion
able district and
~
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02

For every 10000 inhabitants of Ger
many, 100 acres Of potatoes are plant
ed as against 112 acres in Austria, 9S
acres in France, So acres in the United
States and RI acres in Great Britain
and ireland.
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come to the
street in droves.
as they did in
1901, the broker
orders S C h l o S S
Johannisbe r G e l.
to drink, and in
vites chorus girls
to share it. A year
later you hear of
a chorus girl buy
ing at auction a
painting by a ia
nous French art
list, as the "pinls
pajama girl" did
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with a few eXcep-
tons, like Keene
and Gates, do not
speculate. They
invest.
But let us turn
from money
mad New York
to good New
York, to New
York the idealis-
ing, the generous.
Perhaps even in
this she is behind
other towns, but
I will risk stat
tic, the enterpris-
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COSlS pOS.OOU uOW.
About $3.50 per
year has been add
ed, therefore, upon
an average, but
the growth has not
been constant. A
seat was worth
only $4,000 in 1880,
only $1s,o ooin 1890,
only SAL, 500 in 1900.
1t has doubled in
three years. 1t
doubled in o n e
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ef eN p e r / en- c e
with presidential
trips than any
other living man.
He began with
Cleveland a n d
continued wi t h
Mckinley a n d
Roosevelt, until
when he was pro-
NOTED from the
post of secretary
of the president
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02

talled from the
regular force of
the Metropolitan
police and the
white house bill
] e t is IN Il c h
sought after by
members of the
force. 1t is very
apt to lead to
subsequent pro-
motion.
Some of the
white house po-
licemen have been
detailed to that
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02

placedln Statuary
hall at the capt
tol. The leg'isla-
lature of Virginia,
w h i c h proposed
at one time to
present it to the
nation, has taken
counsel of the
storm of criticism
the prop o S a |
raised and prob
a b | y w i'll n o t
press the question
further.
But if the time
Il
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after this writing,
strikes permitting,
is a monument.
1t looks like a
Grecian TEN p | e,
sandwich e d b e.
tween towers of
Babel. Brea d t h,
not height, is en-
phasized j n j t S
lines. No rooms
are to be rented;
except the cable,
telegraph and tel
ephone offices and
the lighting, heat
;,~ and oon1i N a.
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"Romance"-of a Sort

In about week the earl of Var
mouth, who will be marquis of Hertz
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Washingt on.-This city now has an
ordinance which forbids splitting on
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02
The Reign of Money.

When orders are scarce brokers
cat apples for luncheon; when lambs
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02
Stocks and Stock
Brokers Of Gotham
Operations of tie Markef and Hos0 the Lambs Are
FIeeced of Their Dollars.

New York-The new stock exchange,
which will be opened within a few days
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02
MThe Climbers /.

a certain family of the newly rich
put to attach to itself by marri-
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Tor years. Two OF them, stationed at
the loors of the presidents office,
nave been there so long that they
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-02
No statue of Lee,

No Statue of Lee.
There is no immediate prospect
that a statue of Robert e. Lee will be
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The white House Detail.

Fortyfour policemen are stationed
about the white house. They are de-
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The Volume OF SDecu1atiOn.
just a quarter of a century ago a
seat could be bought for $4,000 II
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corte1xou a. a Traveller.

Secretary Cortelyou has a distinc.
ton all his own in having had great.
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a Glimpse of Good New York.
Poor men cannot afford what rich
men cannot afford; and rich men,
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On the White House
Staff.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-22

George Benz of St. Paul is probably
caught bass. or came near catching
one. with a line on which there was
not hook. bait or sinker 1t happened
in this way:
The line, a silk No 8, had become
considerably twisted in trolling, so
twisted, in fact, that it would kink
badly when reeled i'll; all lines get
that way, though spoons and most 9th
er artificial bats have swiveis on
them
70 straighten out the line Benz took
the bait and hook from it and trolled
it behind the boat. 1t is en- old trick,
but known to comparatively few fish
ermen. The line in going through the
water without spoon on it reverses
the twist and straightens out in lit
tie while.
While trolling in this fashicn Benz
felt a jerk and then a succession of
sharp tugs. With no idea other than
floating weed or branch, he realed in
slowly.
When not more than twenty feet was
out he became convinced that he had
fastened to fish in some manner He
then played it as carefully as he could,
anxious to see the outcome of the
strange happening.
The fish fought gamely and tried all
it knew to get away, but was brought
in until it showed plainly in the water.
1t was half-pound red-eyed bass, and
it was caught about the body near the
middle 1t wss brought to the boat S
edge all right, but in the attempt to
lift it in gave one final firt and got
clear, falling back into the water and
darting away.
When Benz removed his spoon from
the line he left III its end the plain
loop which is Known as the fisher
mems bend. This loon was about f0ur
inches long and wHeH the line was
dragging through the water must have
ficated open.
The fish either struck at the line, or
was swimming fast when it ran into
the loop, which was just big enough to
permit Of the passage of a part OF its
! body In fighting the rod it kept the
line at a stiff tension, and there was
no chance for the loop to slip off.
Benz would have given something
to land that fish, but. as it was, had az
experience that will never come tC
him or TO anyone else again. Fish have
been caught, OF partly caught, in many
ways, but a red-eyed bass in the lool
unique.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-22

an; it aims to state facts in such
way that the reader can use them as
the basis of an intelligent opinion.
lis weekly article on hygiene is uf the
of the household. It reflects on every
page the wholesome. Industrious
home-loving, home making side OF
American life-the life of noble aims
and honorable ambitions.
A full announcement of the new
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-22
!, :. j.
VoPauNent of Cod.

Crimped cod is the best fer this pUr
pose, although plain cod may be used,
but in either case the fish must be
dressed in boiling water. with plentE
Of salt thrown in al the same time
A few minutes in both Instances. will
suffice 20 boil this kind OF fish. especial
ly if it be crimped If allowed to re-
main in the water after it is done, it