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which the man of millions. no matter
buy and command, has never yet gain
ed the entree. A plutocrat of ques-
ttonable origin may succeed in securing
an invitation to be received by dukes
and duchesses, even to dine with them.
He may meet the king, perhaps be one
of King Edward Wis most intimate
friends, and yet have not the remotest
chance of entering this most select
circle of English society.
There are hostesses so exclusive that
they would not consider for a moment
acknowledging mere bow from scores
of King Edwards constant friends, or
from many of those who are intimately
received by Queen Alexandra.
One of the most particular Of these
naughty DANES is Lady Leconfield, an
other is the Duchess of Buccleuch. and
third, although her husbands Off
cial position makes it quite impossible
for her to be as rigidly exclusive as she
would privately wish, is the latter's
sister, the Marchioness- of LanSdoWne.
Lady Leconfield is a daughter of the
famous Duchess of Cleveland, of Bat
tie Abbey, one of the most historic
places in Great Britain, and she is a
sister to the Earl of Rosebery Her
the earldOm, Lady LecOnfieId was
raised by royal warrant to the position
of the daughter of an earl Her
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PAGE OF WORLDWIDE INTEREST FROM LANDS ACROSS SEAS

up the population of Lourdes live by
catering to these afflicted creatures.
Five days is the length of time that
most of them stay at Lourdes, and
most of them are lodged either at the
Hospital of Our Lady of Dolours or
the establishment of the Sisters of the
Immaculate Conception. The scene of
the miracles" however, is. of course,
the famous grotto, with it's statue of
the virgin, its banks upon banks of
crutches discarded by cripples who had
no further use for them, it's baths and
it's miraculous spring. Here occur
some of the most extraordinary and
pathetic scenes to be found in the
world. Before the entrance to the
grotto, as the accompanying photo
graph shows, are rows of benches. and
these are crowded with cripples, with
the deformed and with folks in band
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distant countries, and a large number
Of these sufferers have been given up
by their physicians. Among them are
paralytics, cripples, deformed persons,
people afflicted with frightful diseases
of the skin, with consumption and with
palsy. From all parts of France they
come in trains run for their especial
beneht-these being known as blue
trains" white trains," etc. according
to the sort Of sufferers carried. The
white trains carry supposed incurables
only. With these afflicted pilgrims,
travelling to Lourdes to bathe in the
spring which the Virgin is supposed to
have blessed, are many nuns and
priests and prayer is kept up constant
ly during the entire journey.
The two thousand persons who make
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mother died only about two years ago,
and the story is told that when Will
liam Waldorf Astor went to Battle
Abbey, he, noticing the stairs worn
deeply by the tread of warriors
throughout SO many centuries, sug-
gested that they might be replaced by
new ones. YES" replied the duchess,
that Is the worst of those old Nor
mans, they began wearing out the
stairs so long ago." Battle Abbey, by
the way, was afterward sold to Angus
tus Webster, and he has now given a
lease of 1t for twenty-one years to M.
P. Grace, the American, whose daugh-
ter was married the other day to Mr..
Phfpps, Of New York, and whose other
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taking food through a tube. Both legs
were paralyzed.
With hundreds of others he was Civ
en- place on the line of march over
which passes daily the professions Of
patients able TO walk, led by priests
bearing the holy images. AS the Host
passed him Gargan struggled to rise
from his stretcher and with the help
OF friends about him finally got upon
his legs. Then, stimulated no doubt,
by the excitement to an extra effort,
he managed to totter five steps before
falling back into the arms held out to
catch him. That night the man slept
next morning he took solid fod and
in a few days walked as well as his
nurses. 1t is said that 1000 miracles
Of this sort happen In Lourdes every
year.
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Vehicles and Trains In london.

Colossal were the figures dealing with
the traffic of London which Mr. Edgar
j. Harper, of the London County Coun-
Gil presented to the Royal Statistical
society recently.
There are about 600 miles of railway
in Greater London, and some coo. .OOO. 600
train journeys are made in a year. The
busiest hour Is from to 10 a. M, when
1884 trains arrive at the London terminal.
Between 1 and 2 p. m. there were
counted in Piccadilly 366 omnibuses and
1000 other vehicles. The days toll of
twelve hours was 1924 vehicles. with
out counting barrows and cycles.-London
Daily Mail
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Thomas JetfersOn,s stenooran,,.r.

Jefferson had fired the stenographer.
II had to-" he said sadly; "see what
she made. OF the Declaration of Inde-
pendence."
1--WE hold these tooths to the shelf Of
assdentist-the tall men are Grated quail. 1"
Signing heavily he finished the rest
with his fiSt.-New York Sun.
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SOCIETY LEADERS
REPORT PARVENUS
Some English Women Are More
Exclusive Than the Queen
Is at Times.

Special Foreign Service.
LONDON, April 16.-Society in Lon
don may be mixed, but there are some
houses of the British aristocracy into
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MIRACLE CROTTO
MAY BE CLOSED Up
Famous Shrine Is Object of
Attack by French Anti
CIeriCals.

Special Foreign Service.
PARIS, April 16.-If the French gov
ernment, egged on by the anti Clerical
party, carries out its intention of clos
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And he had poured it into the box until
It was filed, completely covering the
Snastly object that it contained, and
hiding it from the sight of anyhodv
who might remove the lid. But one
precaution he had neglected. He had
not first covered the bottom of the
trunk with cement. If he had done this
the body would have been 'hemetically
sealed" in the cement, and Crossman's
quit might never have been discovered.
NO. 8 simply figuring as another OBJ
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scure case of mysterious disappear.

scure case of mysterious disappear
ance."
But for long months the tin trunk
had it's CHASTITY secret in the cupboard
under the stairs. And save for pecun-
iary difficulties wife No. continued
to live happily with her husband, for
as she testified at the coroner's in
quest, he was always kind to her. One
wife at a time, however, would never
satisfy Crossman. especially when he
found himself getting hard up again.
Followed more matrimonial adVer-
tisements and in August, of last year,
as George Weston" he married Miss
Venables at Richmond making wife
No. 6. Then he began living a Box and
Cox life. He told wife No. and wife
No he had become foreman of a
bakery and that his occupation COM
PEELED him to work frequently all night.
This enabled him to spend three or
four nights in the week with wife No.
at Richmond and three or four at the
Ladysmith road house with No. 4.
Meanwhile No. 5 lay in the tin box
with the cement hardening around her,
her friends far and near wondering
what had become of her.
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No Over Production of Cheese.
the Milwaukee Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 "Yotf might as well look for an over- production of children as an over produc- tion of cheese said U. S. Baer, secre- tary of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association. at the republican house. "The fact that we have upward of 1,7oo cheese factories in Wisconsin has raised the cry that the business is being over done. The people of this country have not yet learned to eat cheese. but they are coming to 1t. Let me. tell you the consumption per capita In England Is nearly thirteen pounds a year. while in Wisconsin it is only about three pounds a year to each person. We are away above the average of the states in the consumption of cheese. notwithstanding we are so far behind the Englishmen in this, respect, There were produced in Wisconsin the past year 9o.00000o' pounds of cheese. which is more than a quarter of the whole amount produced in the United States. The average price has been ten cents per pound, so that you can see, with possibly the exception of butter, the making of cheese is the first single farm industry in the state. There is no Wisconsin cheese being exported for the simple reason that the domestic de- mand takes all the supply"
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Arson In the Ar.
From tho Lancet.

From the Lancet.
 An interesting communication was made recently to the Paris Academy of Science on the subject of argon in atmospheric air. M. Mofssan reported that he had followed up the researches of M Schloes- ingp who had already determined the proportion of argon existing in certain specimens of air. By utilizing the prop erty which calcium possesses of absorbing at one and the same time the oxygen, the nitrogen and all the impurities which are found in atmospheric air, and by the use of @ special apparatus of which he had already given a description to the Acad- emy, M. Molssan had been able to esti- mate the amount of arson found in the air of Paris. of London, of Berlin, of Vienna. of St. Petersburg and Of Athens.
 In all these towns the amount was iden- tIcal. The same proportion of argon was also found in samples of air taken in the Naples. in the Valley of Chamounix. at the Grand Muiests and at the top ot Mount Blanc. Air collected fin the middle of the Atlantic appeared to be slightly richer in argon than that from other places.
 This illustrates the remarkable uni- formity of the complsition of the air. The observation that the air collected in the middle of the Atlantic appeared to contain a slightly greater proportion of argon than that Tram other places is probably in some way connected with It's variations Of atmospheric pressure to which the Atlantic Ocean is liable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-17
THE WEATHER BUREAU.
Chief w. L. Moore Discusses His Work
 From Practical Point of View.

From New York Tribune.
 Willis l.. Moore, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, came over from Maritime Exchange Seen at the Man haitian the morning following he said concerning the expansion of the service ever which he has presided for nearly nine years: Tt seems almost incredible that such a development should have been accomplished In the thirty-four years since the service was established in an experimental way. General Albert J. Meyers, of New York, who was first in charge, had only $20,000 to expend in the year 1870, and last year the weather Btu reau had $1,25O,000.
 The present practical value of the bu- reauis due to the degree of skill acquired by experience of the men trained and drilled in the service. Of course it was possible at the time the bureau was es- tablished to determine the horizontal dis trfbution of pressure and the center of disturbance and the course of atmospheric changes for a few hours that had passed, but it was not then possible to predict with reliability what would be the changes in the next twehty-four hours By close lyobserving and noting the conditions 1t became possible, however. to forecast with high degree of accuracy
 The mariners of the early 70s scoffed at the predictions of the bureau, and delight ed in exhibiting their disrespect for the warnings They semed to take pride in ignoring them, but in the last ten years not a single disaster has come to vessels running in and out of the ports of the United States that has not instanced a defiance to the danger signals of the Weather bureau. The most notable case was that of the steamer Portland. which left Boston for Portland Me- about five years ago. but against my personal pro- test. wired to the eemuander and handed to him by one of the employees of the bu- reau at Boston before the vessel sailed.
 Tbe obstinacy of, the commander cost him his life. as well as that of 15i pass engers. That was the last occasion on the New England coast ignored the storm warnings. One of the most valuable functions of the bureau Is It's distribution 10 tho farmers of the country daily, through the free rural idelivery of the forecast not merely of rain but of cold waive and frost warnings. These latter are more reliable and more valuable than rain predictions. During the last year we reached one hundred thousand farm houses. and if may have the q, 300, ,00o for which I shall ask to cover the needs of the bureau in 1904. I shall hope to utilize the full benefit of the rural free delivery and put the forecast into the homes daily of one million farmers. There are now 1,400 trained, drilled and paid employees of the bureau, which includes the force required to man 190 meteorolog- ica1 stations. and there are besides 1000 volunteer unpaid observers who make daily report of the temperature and precipi- tations Fifty employees are constantly engaged in replying to inquiries that come
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hour with friends and fellow members no one dreams of maintaining
 Following the rules of most mems clubs, those of the Womens club set forth that every applicant for member ship must be proposed by a member and voted upon by the officers before she can be admitted
 Strict teetotalism is not included in the rules. Moreover, a cafe is part of the es- tablishment, and refreshments may be ordered la carte at certain hours Talk Ing 1t all in all. there is a mildly fash ionable flavor about the Womans club which may or may not be harbinger.
 One thing Is certain, just so soon as the New York fashionable woman wants social club, a social club will be forth coming.
 At the present time" said one wo- man, In answer to a question, New Yorks fashionable women have no use whatever for social clubs, for the reason that they have no time to go to them
 "As a rule, London woman has far more time on her hands than the New Yorker. Here Is. the season, say from just before the holidays until Lent be- gins, we are rushed from morning till night -t
 We crowd our social gayeties into less than three months, and, after that get out of town as fast as possible, coming back, maybe, for only three or four weeks before starting off again for the summer. The women who can afford to support a really luxurious. up-to-date club would get little use out of one.
 "One reason. I suppose. why most of us do not feel the need of club is that over here the restaurants and hotels are so different in some respects from those in the English capital. For instance they make much more, of an effort to put at the disposal of women almost as many privileges as she could have in a club. Therefore. instead of meeting at a club we New Workers agree to use aur spare half hour to lunch or take tea with our friends at a restaurant. Of course, we can order stronger drinks than tea, if we want to.
 "These meetings are about the only chance some of us get in the busy sea son for a confidential chat with inti- mates, and we substitute for club the Waldorf, Sherrys, Delmonico's or some tea room or other
 NO, we have no need whatever for a women's social club, and what Is more l don't believe New York will ever have one on q very grand scale.'
 New York would be the better I think, for one or two women's clubs, ' remarked an equally fashionable hostess who has travelled much. Many wo- man often finds 1t impossible to- get a quiet half hour in her own house during the winter season, and occasionally she would be glad to have a club to flee to for an hour or so
 "I don't think hotel will ever take the place of club. No woman cares to go to a hotel and ask for private room to shut herself up in. It looks queer.
 "I believe it will not be long before New York will fall into line and have womenss clubs equal to those now run solely in the interest of men, which are certainly as good my husband says as any other club to be found in the world. '
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0 he he has los i N m B thar anywher
 
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Not Work for a Boy.
Inc Washington Post

From the Washington POst.
 When Representative. Morris Sheppard of Texas was nominated for congress as the successor of his father, he was but 2 years old. and with two or three vet erans against him for the nomination it was an uphill fight he had to make His opponents lost no opportunity to make capital of Sheppards youth. In joint de- bate one day one of his opponents pro ceeded somewhat like this:
 Why" he said, Tit Is ridiculous to think of sending mere boy to congress. It is time and place where we need ma ture men with mature minds. It reminds me of the old darkey who thought tho end of the world was at hand, and he got down on his knees to pray: Oh. Lord. he pleaded. come down and save this sinful world. And, come yourself. Lord: don't send your son. This ain't no time for boys.''
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to the bureau for imformations of practical character. For instance, If a road culyert is to be built 1t is desirable to know what Is the maximum sudden precipitation for which provision must be made, and if a water-works plant Is to be established an accurate knowledge Is required of the precipitation of the count ry representing the watershed to be relied upon. Such questions are constantly be- ing addres sed to the bureau.v
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WOMAN'S CLUBS NOT NUMEROUS IN N. Y, Nothing in Gotham Like the
 London Institutions VIEWS OF FASHION LEADERS New York Women Do Not Want Clubs Like Those for Men.
 Only Three Women's Clubs
 in Town.

From the New York Sun.
 When it comes to question of women's social clubs. New York, compared with London, might be called provincial. For some reason or other the New York wo- man shrinlss from them. There are ex- pectations, to be sure, but so few as only to prove the rule.
 Even the women of fashion who are usually eager to follow the lead of Eng fish society are indifferent when the ad- visibility of starting women's social clubs in New York is suggested. New York has many women's amusement clubs, such as literary clubs and card clubs and women generally turn out eagerly at every chance they get to penetrate to the in- terior of mems clubs: but when it comes to social clubs on their own account, that is quite another story.
 And yet 1t is averred that no other wo- men are more sociable and more given to tea drinkings, luncheons, informal spreads of any kind and to passing spare half hour with friends at convenient meeting place that the women of New York. It is to this tendency. in fact. that many a hotel and restaurant owes good slice of its earnings and that tea rooms and parlors are now important features in sl- most every hotel in New York and that smaller independent tea rooms have sprung up all over the city.
 New York and London.
 Why then are there practically no so- cial clubs for women in New York? Why are there really none like the London wo- mems clubs which are run practically on the same lines as the mems clubs? The London Daily Mail said recently:
 ''The Army and Navy Club asks an en- trance fee of f4O, an annual subscription of 410 10 shfllings; the Ladies Army and Navy Club an entrance fee of only f2 shillings, and an annual subscrip- ton of R4 shillings. And yet, despite the fact that entrance fees and annual subscriptions of womens clubs are so small in comparison with those of mems clubs, the women insist upon having all the luxuries of the latter, sumptuous car pets, lerldly halls a host of highly train ed servants, the latest appointments or every kind are demanded by the club women" ft-f @r.f. q !, Another para graph, relating to com plaint that the London womens clubs were becoming uneomfortabiy crowded, says that in consequence of the compara- lively small dues imposed upon mem bers ''linless we had crowds of mem bers and their friends in to spend money on dinners and teas whisky and sodas and so on, we should soon. be short of money"
 Real Clubs.
 This statement is Illuminating It leaves no doubt on the question that the women's clubs of London are really clubs in every sense of the word. and not tea
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Real Clubs.

This statement is Illuminating It leaves no doubt on the question that the women's clubs of London are really clubs in every sense of the word. and not tea shops.
 In New York it is different. So far as
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-24
ANOTHER MAY HAVE HAD
A HAND IN HER DEATH
Richard Higgins Friends Suggest a
Third Party in Peoria
Mystery.

Although accused by almost the last
words which Mrs. Thomasson uttered
that he was her murderer, Richard
higgins of Peoria, who is confined in
jhe county Jail where he is held by the
yerdicr of the corOner's jury for her
ieath. still protests his innocence and
n this he is supported by hundreds
If friends. Higgins Will be held to
await the action OF the grand jury,
which meets Nov. IA.
Although the corOner's inquest es-
tablished without a doubt that the
woman died from bruises inflicted by
some heavy object, possibly a boot
md although Higgins acknowledges
hat he struck her several times in
he waiting room of the Rock Island
lepOt. he declares that the injuries
which he inflicted were not of a nature
o cause her death. Back of this state
ment is the fact established at the
inquest that Mrs. Thomasson went to
Lacon unassisted after the scuffle and
that d physician was not called until
II hours after her arrival at the Tay-
lor home.
Attorneys Quinn. We'll and McCabe,
who are defending Higgins. Instituted
habeas corpus proceedings and insist
ed upon preliminary hearing which
was allowed by the state.
Friends of Higgins state some I'M
known person might have inflicted the
injuries after Mrs. Thomasson had
reached Lacon. The only person adj
vanced by the defense as being a
party to the deed is a man named
Hretzerts, and employee of the Peoria
Casket company, to whom, it is said,
the Thomasson woman was engaged to
be married.
The fact that this man did not see
Mrs. Thomasson between the hour of
noon last Saturday and Sunday morn
ing. when DR.. Potts was called, is es
tablished by a statement made by
Charles w Teeter, manager of the
Peoria Casket company and in whose
employ he has been for 4 number of
years.