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sto-x ~ q strauxe Passport.

The passport regulations Of Russia
are absurd, as was shown by Journal
ist, Prince Metchersky, who was sent
by the car to make Investigations.
He crossed to Rumania, and purposely
obtained a permit to take live stock
over the border. At the Russian
frontier the official could read no Ru-
manian and little Russian, but he was
impressed by the official paper, and let
she prince pass. When Prince Metcher-
sky returned to Moscow, he presented
the document to the governor. "This
is my passport" he said. ~ Travelled
for five months IL Russia on the au-
thority of this document, but the
Identification is neither fattering nor
true" The governor took the paper,
and found the prince there described
as "black sow, full grown, with one
ear partly torn away"
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THE COMING MIKADO.
Crown Prince of Japan Will Visit
America and Europe.
He 10 Cha rminx Young Fellow. Pos
sexsed Of Hut One Wdfe-Speaks
English Fluently and
Quite Correctly. ,s4N

Again it is reported that Japans
crown prince, Haru-no-mtya. is going
to the United States and coming
thence to Europe, and there is every
indication that the report is true.
Until he was ten years nld---which
was ls years ago---llaru-no-miya
thought he was the son Of the en-
press. Then some chatterer about
the palace ut Ao3ama tcld him who
his mother was---a peerees, one of the
four supernumerary wives OF the
mikado. These extra Ml.cs all
descended from younger sons of
mikados of ancient days, II wevcr, so
that the crown prncl's n.otEc.' is of
imperial blood. She had her home
within the Aoyama palace grounds. 4
complete establishment in its own
house and garden, as had the three
other countcsses. BY these the
mikado has had some IS children, but
Haru- no-miya is almost the sole sur
vivor. Two years ago the prince
married Princess Setsu Kujo, 16 years
of age. eldest daughter of Prince
Kujo Michetaka. 1t is significant
of the march of western ideas in
Japan that she will be the only wife
of the next mikndo. despite the fact
that the present ruler has four be-
side the queen, and his father,
Komei Tenno, had IL extra, as had
been the custom with the mikados
for ages. EE ....
c. l.. Browncll, author OF "The
Heart of Japan" and Tor q long time
n resident of that country. said:
"Haru-no.miya is al exceedingly pop
ular prince. He is the first heir to
the mikado's throne that the Japan
ese have ever seen, and they have
seen much of him. Like other young
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Sr'N lNIfHS AMI ~ ~ n. EIOHNAN.
(Recently Chosen Democratic Leader on
the Senate Floor.)
astute politician than Mr.. German.
He was always ''strong" man in,every
undertaking. Mr.. German was born in
Howard county, Md. March II, 1899
For brief period he attended the pub
lie schools Of his native county. In
1852 he was appointed page in the
United States senate and continued in
the service of the senate for ia years,
or until 1866. He was then removed
from his position and at once appoint
ed collector of internal revenue for
the fifth district of Maryland. lie re-
manned in that office until the Grant
in 1869. In that same
year he was elected member of the
Maryland house of delegates as dem
ocrat and became speaker of the house.
He was elected president of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal company, Of
which he had been director for some
time. In 1875 he was elected to the
state senate. He was elected to the
United States senate in 1850 and took
his seat on the following 4th of March.
He remained a member of the senate
through three terms and was then de-
feated by Senator Wellington, whom
he now succeeds,
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THE PAY OF RULERS,
King of Saxony Is the Best Paid of
the Entire Let
President Of the United Ste ties At the
Fo0t OF the List-EmperUrs and
kinXs Are Expensive
*. Luxuries.t.

No president of the United States
has ever been able to save dollar
out of his salary. Itseems strange the
chief ruler must be obliged to
leave his Office a poorer man than
when he entered upon his duties.
Washington never accepted a penny
of his salary and it cost him large
sum to- Sentertain. while--president.
None Of his successors has followed
his money-refusing precedent.
But the country was poor when
George Washington presided over its
destinies. 1t, has been different since.
The United States has prospered Won
derfully, yet not only the president,
but all the federal officers are poorly
paid, considering their services and the
salaries of state, county and city Off
GERS. AS to the president, persons ask
in wonder if $50, 600 year is not sutti-
cient. They do not appreciate there is
a great house to maintain, constantly
recurring receptions and numberless
expenses forced upon the prcsid ent.i
Although the president of the United
States is ruler over 75,00O,000 of PEG.
pie, his salary is only $4,000, while the
king of Portugal, ruling over 4,50O, 900
people, receives each year $775,oo0. ! a.
The king Of SaNony, king in name
only and by no manner of means in
fact, the most important and arduous
affairs of Saxony being controlled and
directed from Berlin, receives salary
of $725,0oo, the area of Saxony being
$500 square miles and the population
100000. The president of the repub-
lie of France gets an annual allowance
of $125,0O but there is an enormous
additional allowance for expenses.
France is nation Of &C, OOO, 900, colonies
jncluded, and the president of the
French republic exercises legal juris-
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ARTHUR puE GoRMAN.
Maryland Senator who Will Re the
Leader Of Democracy This Year
and Next.

Senator Arthur Pue German is too
we'll known in Washington to make
necessary even review Of his public
career. No one was ever more closely
identified with the United States SEN
ate than Mr.. German. He first entered
that body as page and among the old
er employees to-day there are men who
Joined him in boyish sports about the
capitol and on the Fairgrounds Of the
city. His name is identified with the
prominent legislation during his
career as a senator, and among the
democrats he has been one of the most
influential leaders. No senator ever
achieved greater reputation as an
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Rifine the Finger Nails.

Watch that baby does not get this
habit. The annoying habit of nail
biting, common among children, is Gu
rable in its earlier stages without re.
sorting to the trick of rubbing the
finger tips with bitter stuffs. Mani
cure the child's nails carefully, and see
thatthereare no hangnails. Cutrather
deeply into the corners, and file the
nails short. Children often bite their
nails because they are not quite COM
Portable. A ragged edge on one nail
is bitten to make it smooth, and the
foundation of the habit is laid. If the
little fingers were cared for regularly
from babyhood few children would
adopt the disagreeable practice.
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ISHAFT AT ANTIETAM.
It Will Be a Monument to McKin-
ley's Heroism.
Incidentally 1t VIII Comm e mOrate =
Coffee Incident Which Has Beea
Made the Subject Of Many
COmmen

The most striking incident of the
soldier life of the late President Will
liam Mckinley will be immortalized
by granite and bronze. On January
80, 1908, at Columbus, the Ohio Ante
tam battlefield commission awarded
the contract to erect a monument on
the spot where Mckinley as a mere
soldier boy served his comrades with
hot coffee on the firing line. The entire
contract provides for the erection of
ten monuments in honor of the several
Ohio regiments and batteries which
took part in that bloody battle, but,
without a doubt, the most unique and
the one in which the people of the
United States will be most interested
is the Mckinley monument. 1t will
be remembered that this battle was
fought September II, 1862, on Mary
land soil, and that the Twenty-third
Ohio regiment was an important fac
tor in the fight. Belonging to the ia
nous Twenty-third We're two men who
afterwards became presidents of the
United States, Hayes and Mckinley,
as we'll as long line of other distin-
guished men, Perhaps no other bat.
.tletield commission. either in Ohio or
the other states of the union, will have
so pretty a sentiment to enlarge upon
as this heroic act in the life of the be-
loved Mckinley. =
While going over the battlefield with
a companion not long before his
tragic death. President Mckinley said,
in speaking of the coffee incident, that
he knew the boys must be hungry and
thirsty from their long service under
fire. and concluded to take them some
coffee. With one of the supply wagons
he started for the"line when he was
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"a Possibility for the Democratic Nomina-
ton for President.) .'
ernor four years. He was secretary OF
the interior in the cabinet of President
Cleveland, succeeding Hoke Smith, and
is now president of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition company. He is
three or four times millionaire.
"'Dave' Francis would make an ideal
candidate for the democracy" prom
inent democrat said to New York Her.
aid correspondent. "He would have
the hearty support of conservative
democrats who for eight years have
come to regard the party as the enc
my of property. Of course, he would
have to fight for the nomination. Any
conservative democrat who gets the
nomination next year must fight for it.
II know no man whose personality
would be a greater inspiration to the
conservative old line democrats than
Francis. He is not a mere politician.
He is great big, broad man. With
him as candidate the democrats could
get bigger campaign fund than with
any other standard bearer"
Mr.. Francis is devoting all his time
to the St. Louis worlds fair. 1t is his
ambition to make it a success. The in
1luence which his position is bound to
have on his candidacy, it his friends can
induce him to attempt the race. is n
factor which must be reckoned with.
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sters of good birth, he went to the
mobiles school six days in the week.
Here he became the friend OF the
best of japanese youth. I met him
at the school one day, and after
wards saw him frequently. Six of
his chamberlains formed conversa-
tion class, (Which met ut my home in
Kajimachi three times week. Mr..
Coolidge, a Harvard man with whom
was living. had great success in teach
ing them the English language.
"They enjoyed the conversation
hugely. and it came to be part of their
scheme for entertaining the crown
prince to tell him what they had done
in the house of the two foreigners.
One day we made an exchange of pho
tographs. The chamberlains were pro-
fusely solemn when they handed to IFS
the pictures. Kadeynnakoji,w who made
the presentation, was little in front
of his friends.
He bowed low, and, laying the photo
graphs of his august master on a siIken
mat. before us. begged us, on behalf of
themselves and of their imperial
charge. to condescend to accept these
unworthy tokens of regard
1--WE condescended astfast as everwe
could. The viscount gave us. further
more, a word of caution about the
pictures. It would not be polite in
japan to refer to a. gift as being other
than contemptible-yet the photo
graphs were of,thea son of Heaven
There was a divinity that must be re-
spected, but. said the ingenious Kade:
of course, if we give present they
must be very unworthy to you. and we
are ashamed for so small a thing. but
in our country Haru-no-Miya is like a
god. People cannot believe he is the
same as an ordinary man. So. though
it is only an unworthy photograph,
please do not let it be common We
followed instructions and kept. it apart
in honorable seclusion. nor did we
show it generally when we brought out
our other Photographs for the enter
tainment of guests.
cit is his, keen desire to acquire
knowledge, more particularly the
knowledge that has given western
countries their civilization. Hence. the
mikado's councillors advised foreign
tour so soon as Haru-no- Miya should
have married and established himself.
With the announcement that the heir
apparent had a son, plans for tour
of the west were at once set on foot"
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Air A. q Curative Agent,

Air injected under the skin is said
to relieve neuralgia, scatica and lum-
bago. 1t is known that these diseases
are affections of the ends of the nerves,
which lie just under the skin. The in
lection of air causes the nerves to
lengthen, and thus the pain is miti-
gated. When the bubble Of air is
pressed by the finger the air moves
along the nerves, giving relief in all
parts of the affected region.
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NEW YoRK,s DUCHESS
she II xcw Ia yIenns @ have Hsass
Ing Restored ~ Famous
Austrian Specialist.

The duchess of Marlborough has re-
Gently come to Vienna for the second
time for prolonged stay.
She came there late last autumn to
consult Vienna specialist, DR.. Isidor
Muller, about deafness, and he began
to treat her. but having planned to att
tend the Delhi durbar, the duchess i'm
sisted ON leaving Vienna, despite DR..
Muller's warning that the possibilities
of cure largely depended on prompt
treatment.
She has just returned, accompanied
by her sister-in-law, Lady Norah Spen-5
Ger Churchill.
The duchess ailment has steadily
grown worse and English specialists
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directed to Commemorate McKinley's
Unique Heroism)
stopped by superior officer and or
dered back
"What did you do?" asked his COM
panion.
awaited until the officer had passed
on and then proceeded to where the
boys were fighting" said the prcsi-
dent
The monument to mark this sacred
spot, says Leslie's Weekly, has been
designed by the Hughes Granite &, Mar
BILE company. of Clyde, O., whose plant
is within eight miles of the Oak Wood
cemetery, at Fremont, where lies the
dust of President Hayes. The monu-
ment is a cylindrical shaft, 81 feet six
inches high, surmounted by granite
eagle on a granite ball. Upon cor
ner of the die rests an allegorical fig
ure of "Peace and Bereavement" hold
ing a palm branch. Two bas-reliefPor-
traits of Mckinley, one representing
him at the time he entered the army
and the other just before his untime-
" death at Buffalo. appear on the die.
On the face of the lower die will he q
bronze. battle scene representing the
central idea of the whole scheme by
showing Mckinley. the soldier boy.
serving hot coffee to his comrades un-
der arms. The Ohio Legislature has
appropriated nearly $4,000 for the ten
monuments. of which $4,000 is especial
ly appropriated for the Mckinley mon
ument. The purpose is to have it the
finest monument on the battlefield.
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Courtesy Pays Big Interest.

Courtesy proved profitable invest
ment TO S. H. Brown, conductor on .
street railroad in Buffalo, n. Y. In
October. 1901, he met q lady and her
two daughters in a car, and learned
that they had become penniless
through the loss of the lady's purse.
He advanced Is cents to pay their
fares. and the lady took his address.
A short time ago he received letter
postmarked Philadelphia, and in it
was a new $1,000 bill, with a letter
thanking him for his courtesy over .
wear before.
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OLD TREASURE WAGON.
More Ihan Four Billions OF Dollars
Have Been Carried Ia This
New York Cart.

Down in the sub basement of the old
custom house in New York, along with
the ash cans and rubbish barrels, there
stands sturdy little wagon which has
carried in its day more than 81, Ooo, ooO,-
900 of Uncle Sans money.
When the little wagon was consigned
to the scrap heap some time ago Gus
todian Lawlor decided to preserve it
if he could.
"Ive been here now for nearly 20
years." said Mr.. Lawlor, land it amt
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Ivory for Piano Keys.

The consumption of ivory for the
KEYS of American-madep pianos is grow
ing rapidly. Purchases on American
account have been on an unusually
large scale, and so eager have buyers
been to secure desirable parcels that
prices have been run up in startling
fashion. Almost the whole of the ivory
bought on American accounts is used
for piano-forte keys. and as the waste
material is not required by Yankee
manufacturers it is reshipped to Eu-
rope and utilized by Sheffield and
Solingen cutters as scales fos PEN
knives.
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ri. R.ttle.nake,, Rattle,

The rattlesnake's rattle consists Of .
number Of hollow, horny rings. some
what like quill in substance, and inter-
locked with one another, while they
are so elastic as to permit Of a consid-
cradle amount of motion between
them. These rings are not Indicative
of age, as has been supposed, since in
some years several appear, while in
others only one ring may be developed.
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EDWARD NJ. SHEPARD.
toned for the Democratic N0A-
ination for/ President.

Edward NJ. Shepard, who was the
principal orator at the recent Jackson
day banquet Of the Iroquois club at
Chicago, has been mentioned promi-
ncntly as a candidate for the demo-
cratic nomina ton for presidentin 1904.
and his address was looked forward to
with much interest and anticipation
Mr.. Shepard is an eminent and wealthy
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within my memory when the little
wagon failed to make its daily trip up
Wall street to the sub-treasury, and
never penny spilled. There's them
that have been here 30 years and the
tale is the same. call that faithful
ness and Uncle Sam'll have hard time
finding any other word for it, guess.
Anyway. I'm going to keep the little
wagon as long as he'll letme."
The wagon, as its picture shows, still
seems fit for duty. Its joints are rather
weak. though, and it has been repaired
so often that it was thought best to re-
place it. 1t carried the money received
as custom payments from the custom
house to the sub-treasury at the close
of business each day for more than 80
wears.
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LEWIS HEISLER BALL.
Delaware by the. SO-Called Reg
ular Republicans.

Senator Lewis Heisler Ball, of Della.
ware, republican, was born near Will
mington. of the state he represents.
September FL, 1861. He has had consid-
cradle Legislative experience, having
served in both the Legislature of his
state and also in the house of represen-
tatives of the Fifty-seventh congress.
He was the choice of the regular re-
publicans or anti-Addicks men. Mr..
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DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.
uIer Friends Fear That She Is Losing the
Sense OF Hearing.)
have been unable to find any remedy,
says the New York World.
1t was Miss Rockefeller's cure that
induced the duchess to put herself in
the care Of DIR. Muller, who even now
has undertaken to cure her in six
weeks. En-
He says he can cure where others
fail, because the English aural specials
lists have devoted their studies and ex-
perience exclusively to diseases of the
ear, while deafness does not always
originate in a disease of the ear. Mul-
ler's wide experience in treating the
nose and the throat helps him to find
other exciting causes, which he re-
moves.
His cure consists chiefly in inhala-
tons and the application Of electric
currents.
The duchess does not look at all like
an invalid. Except for the two hours
which she gives daily to treatment.
she is at liberty to do as she likes. She
could not have chosen worse season
to stay in Vienna, as open-air exercise.
even driving, is out of the question just
now. She spends many hours a day
viewing art treasures in the museums
and in private houses, while in the
evening she sometimes goes to the
ODera, %@a
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diction over 100000 square miles Of
territory.
In strange comparison with the SAL
ary of the chief ruler of France is that
of the emperor of Austria, who re-
ceives each year $2,775,OO0. The king
of Sweden and Norway. within whose
domains 100000 persons live, has
$575,OOO year salary. The king of the
Belgians, who ostensibly directs the
destinies of the people of tba + populous
and prosperous country, receives
$500, 900, while the ruler Of the Neither
lands gets only 100000, though the
population of the Dutch colonies in
various parts of the world is nearly
30,0OO,OO0.
It will be remarked as peculiar that
Germany, now one of the three great
empires of the world pays no salary
to it's kaiser. He draws his annual
stipend as king of Prussia, however,
and the empire gives to him $685. to
be spent inepresents for needy subjects
and $4,000 for the salaries of his ad-
jutants.
The Russian emperor has state in
come of almost 100000 year, be-
sides drawing several millions more as
chief of the house of Romanoff. The
king of Italy has an annual salary of
$3.50, 900. The king Of Greece is ruler
of only 100000 people, but receives
salary of 100000 year. The king of
Roumania gets $3.50, 500 and the king Of
Servia $4,000. -,
Great Britain paid to Queen Victoria
$1,925, 900, exclusive of payments made
to the members of the royal family and
their relatives and exclusive of the
queens revenue from the duchy of
Lancaster, and there were many other
amounts paid to her each year appro-
priated by the nation, which swelled
her income to an enormous amount.
There are presidents of railroads,
insurance and other corporations in
New York and elsewhere who receive
salaries of $4,000 and upward, with
many opportunities for greatly in
creasing their incomes, yet their la
bors and responsibilities are insign;f-
cant when compared with those of the
president of the United States.
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Holds Maternity Record.

Mrs. stanislaw spyholski, Of Toledo,
O., when 16 years of age, gave birth to
twins. Three years later she had trip
lets. The following year she had a
single child. A few weeks ago, at the
age of %, she gave birth to four chill
dren. Her record is ten children in
six yE1IS.
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Vitality Of Hu mon Skin.

It is said that a piece of skin cut
from living person will show signs of
life for ten days after separation.
This discovery is important in con-
nection with the grating of new
skin over a damaged part of the body.
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Ball was graduated from Delaware col
lege with the degree of Ph. 3. in 1882.
He attended the University of Pennsyl-
vania, from which he was graduated
with the degree of NJ. D. three years
later. He is married, his wife having
been Miss Catharine Springer Justis.
From 1898 to 1900 Mr.. Ball was state
treasurer of Delaware. He has taken
an especial interest in educational
matters since he left the University Of
Pennsylvania and is now trustee Of
Delaware college. His term in the SEN
ate will expire two years hence.
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lawyer of New York. He has interests
in several railroads and other corpora
tons, and inc home in Brooklyn, but
in spite of his busy life he finds time to
devote himself to study, and has pub
lished Martin Van Buren," one of the
volumes of the american Statesmen
Series" He is now in his fifty-fourth
wear. =
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Lonx Time Between Whoops.

Ninety years between whoops is the
record of Mrs. Linus Alderman, of
Bloomfield, n. J. At the age of three
years she had the whoopins cough;
now at the age of 81. she has it again.