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down that they have come to seek Amer
lean wives.
Barons Alphonse and Louis are sons
Of the head of the Austrian branch of
their great house, and ~grandsons of the
Partisan Rothschild. They are quite sin
cere in their protestations to report
ers that they know nothing of "fee-
narnce." 1t Is quite true. They do not.
There is no such thing as hereditary
leadership in the world of money, and
these young men are merely Austrian
noblemen and gentlemen, members of a
crack military corps, and by the favor of
the emperor ennobled to 16 quarterings,
which would carry them far past that
not so remote Nathan of the Red Shield
time of war, and restored them enhanced
when peace came.
Sixteen .quarterings would carry the
Rothschild nobility back to the six
teenth century; as a matter of fact, the
RothschiId fortunes in the old world are
in the new world. The original Roths-
child was a poor banker, meaning prac-
tically a pawnbroker and goldsmith in
a crowded ghetto, when the original
John Jacob Aston was already a pros
porous man in New York. The great
Rothschild fortune, as WE Of to-day
know it, was founded during the Ma
poleonic wars from 1907 to 1915, less than
a century ago, when all the nations of
Europe were floating bonds at rates that
would be to-day ruinOus and impossible,
and when advance information Of Wa
terloo in the absence of t~elegraphs
meant a great fortune.
The Rothschilds are one of the three
families of Jewish blood who rank with
the bluest-blooded a%ristocrats at all the
courts of Europe. Everyone knows the
pretty story about Lord Rosebery plan
ming when still a %schoolboy to wed the
richest heiress in England, to be prime
minister, and to win the Derby. He did
all three; the heiress was the daughter
of the London Rothschild.
So society does not look unfavorably
upon the two young Austrian noblemen
who have sought New York's hospital
ity. The abandonment of the traditional
Rothschild policy of intermarriage to
keep the money in the family" raises
interesting possibilities. This policy
was a suicidal one. 1t went against the
laws of religion and of nature, and it is
limited that in one or two instances it
produced upon descendants such physio-
logical effects as any physician might
have predicted.
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NEW TINT FROM CATS HEAD
Paris Felines Furnish the Basis for
Mummy Brown" the Lat
est Color Known.

The color-makers of Paris have Gre
ated what the artists are rejoicing in, a
new color, mummy brown" a tint of
peculiar richness that lends itself to
wonderful artistic effects. Although its
name indicates 1t, no mummy of some
Egyptian who may have knelt at Cleo
patra's feet contributed to the fabrication
of the new color.
In old Egypt cats were worshiped
and their bodies were mummified. But
to make mummy brown" it is not
necessary to violate the tombs of cats
which purred to the pharaohs. The
heads Of modern cats, pulverized, pro-
duce the m~uch-desired tone and without
undue formality OF expense too great.
At the same time the number Of cats
of to-day is being reduced quickly and
artistically.
With mummy brown" painters hope
to produce some of the effects that added
to the glory of the old masters, but
which the new mes have not attained.
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because people of the buying age have
long been accustomed to buying dolls,
and are slow to notice that little girls
| care less for them than they did. OF
course, too, almost any girl is fond Of
her doll while it is a novelty to her; but
she plays with it less than her grand
mother did with one not one-tenth part
so fine.
Philosophers like H. B. Marriott Wat
! son, who says that American women
have slain love-" and who has got into
a mess by saying it, may explain this
tendency along race suicidal lines, and
preach about the decay Of the maternal
instincts-a line of argument which
| would be nonsense.
The real reason why little girls tire
| sooner of dolls is that so many of them
at least lead more active lives than their
| mothers did. They skate and swim and
ride ponies, if they are so fortunate as
to have them, or bicycles, if they are
not, and they are altogether too active TO
sit for hours grooming over a doll. Be-
sides, fewer girls learn how to sew now
adays, and that deprives them of a big
part of the joy of doll possession, which
was found in making clothes for them,
something to do"
That again is why the most popular
| doll of the season is really a mechanical
toy masquerading as a DOLL The little
figure that can talk by a concealed pho
nograph or bow by a concealed spring.
has taken the place of the doll that can
only open and shut its eyes, just as that
improvement spoiled the plain old-line
doll for half the little girls that used to
love them. The s~hrewdest toy makers
in the country are allowing for this
change of sentiment, and have provided
a tremendous stock of mechanical toys
upon the sound theory that girls are
just as much interested in them as boys.
Both sexes alike in early youth demand
more strenuous" occupation when they
play. And perhaps the little women
gain as much in health as they lose in
sentiment. But. after all, a doll is a doll,
and she who has never played with one
has missed much.
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Gr than the new Pennsylvania senator.
When he and Senator Martin of Vir-
ginia stand together there Is no appre-
ciable difference in their height. Sem
ator Alice, of Delaware, is glad to see
some small men come into the senate. as
he has felt a little lonesome with his
short stature and light weight.
Knox, Alice and Martin, it Is
said, will all be able to look down
upon the man who is expected
to be elected from Nevada. This is
George S. Nixon, who will probably be
the shortest in stature Of all the mem
bers of the senate. He Is described a.
being nearly a head shorter than SEN
ator Knox, but, like many small men, is
possessed of much ability. The ablest
parliamentary gladiator in the senate
is a regular st. Paul in stature, and that
Is the doughty Senator Spooner, OF Wis
cousin. He can drive the biggest mar
in the senate to cover in a 15-minute de-
bate.
There are in the public service a num-
Der of little giants, and diminutive stat
ure in no way detracts from a man
fame. In the cabinet Secretary OF state
John Hay and Attorney General Moody
are both a little below the average
height of men. In the house John Dali
zell, of Pennsylvania, recognized as n
of the most brilliant lawyers in that
body and one of the keenest debaters, IS
a small man and even President Roose-
Welt himself, although broad and carrying
good weight, does not tower in height
among men.
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The field for such an enterprise has been
carefully studied and the great difficulty
is that any project for a gambling out
fit will lack tremendously in patronage,
if it is o far from New York. If a
man must take a sea voyage, anyhow,
he might as well go to the original Monte
Carlo, and be done with it. Hence the
beautiful plan that was once suggested
of building a big floating island and tow
ing it outside of the three-mile limit TO
sea, where, under the flag of some cheap
the metropolis only 80 miles away. To
such an island business men could go for
an evenings sport at bucking the tiger,
without losing the next days business.
1t would be a very pretty problem in in
ternational law, would it not, such al is
land?
Practically unlimited capital could be
found for a good gambling investment.
The district attorney in New York is too
vigilant, the politicians who insist upon
sharing the kitty" are too rapacious.
The necessity of making "double-OO"
boards, throwing six per cent, instead of
three per cent, odds against the player.
has often been accounted for in New
York by the fact that the political ring
insists upon addition, division and
silence" With the "single-O" game,
that is to say, with such odds as the
Monaco tables establish in their own ia
vor, a million a year could easily be taken
in as profits by a syndicate that could
guarantee no police interference. That
would be over thirty millions of money
passing over the boards. In Monte Carlo
$3.50, OO0, 900 a year pass across the green
cloth. The company's little three per
cent. upon the total business" is the
sole income of the province, whose TX
p%enditures are Upon a lavish scale, be-
sides providing bride money for hun
dreds of f~unctionaries and a magnificent
private income for the prince. No won
der the Canields are looking for an
American Monte Carlo!
OWEN LANGDOc.
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United States from the first down to
Vice President-elect Fairbanks. he
can name them in rotation and is ia
miliar with their features either in life
or in portrait. Many years ago con-
gress authorized the execution IN marble
OF busts OF all the vice presidents who,
by virtue of their office, were also pre-
siding officers of the senate. Old rec
ords and picture galleries were ran
sacked until the list was completed and
the counterfeit presentments of the vice
presidential lineaments were trans
ferred to marble by more or less dlstln-
guished sculptors.
These busts were placed wherever a
convenient niche offered. In the walls
surrounding the galleries OF the senate
are indentations in each of which was
placed a bust of a vice president. In
out-of-the-way corners in the corridors
of the senate wing Of the capitol others
were perched. 1t was a puzzle for even
the capitol guides, who are resourceful
men and can fix a name to a picture or a
statue whether it is a right one or not,
to suppl names IOr ali OIL lueSe puseS.
During the past summer Mr.. Ransdell,
who is somewhat of an antiquarian, be-
gan the labor of Identifying the vice
presidents, and as a result each bust
now bears the name OF the man whom it
represents.
Another improvement that the SER
geant-at-arms has placed in the senate
chamber is a large gilt clock placed
above the chair of the presiding officer
where all the senator's can see it. 1t is
a duplication of the clock which has
hung for nearly a century on the OPP
posite wall above the main entrance
into the chamber. The latter clock has
told more lies than any other time
piece in the country. BY pushing back
it's hand the doorkeeper OF the senate
has time and time again made the sun
to stand still and delayed the arrival OF
the hour of adjournment in order that
the senate might finish some important
business. AS it was the official time
piece OF the senate its record was ac-
cepted as correct and adjournment not
taken until the hands pointed to the
proper hour.
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Pleasure of Old Age.

Free from the distractions of life,
the aged are at leisure to observe and
admire. 81 never knew said Cor
marc, "that the world was beautiful
until l reached old age" This period
was frequently declared by him to be
the most beautiful of his life. Writ
ing at the age of 81, he said that he
felt it his duty to make known to the
world that mar could attain an earth
ly paradise after the age of 80; but
only by means of the two virtues, self
restraint and temperance. At that
time he vas writing eight hours a day,
walking and singing many other
hours, enjoying the beauties of nature,
and abundant in labors for the good
of mankind.-Good Health.
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like the wealth that Rockefeller and a
few associates command and control. In
deed, in these days the Rothschild wealth
does no than keep pace with the
necessary subdivision to meet the in
crease of the prolific family. The es-
tate, which is most co~nservatively man.
aged. does well if it nets four per cent.
a year upon it's vast capital; in the Span
ish war the Rothschilds lost heavily
upon Spanish bonds, the head of the
house, Baron Alphonse, having taken
from association the common Partisan
view that Spain must be victorious.
The social gentilization of a Roths-
child is no new idea in this country.
Old New Workers remember well that
August Belmont, who came owe to rep
resent the Rothschilds in what was then
unimportant America, came of a family
whose original name was "Schon-
berg" which had been gallicized into
Belmont" The family he founded is
one of the highest placed in New York
society. Similar rank may be claimed
by the head~of the great international
banking house of the Speyers, who mar
ried one of New York's fashionable ma
rons, and whose munificent benefac-
lions for New York are a pattern for
others.
Meanwhile, the 1atest international
romance" to agitate society is the re-
cent marriage of Miss Edith Devereux
Clapp to Count Rene du Temple de
Rougemont. of Memellon, France. De
Rougemont is a good-looking young fell
low, who has considerable family es-
tates. His bride was not in the inner
circle of New York's wealthy society, but
had lived very quietly before the mar
rage, which came after a brief wooing,
and is called a love match. De Rouge
mont has no connection with the odd
adventurer. who borrowed that name
some years ago. and under it worked of
astonishing stories of travel and ex-
%ploration upon English scientists.
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ington for a number of years as cor
respondent for his paper, but iatterly
he has been doing editorial work and
travelling throughout the length and
breadth of the land giving his readers
his unique views on public men and al
fairs. Col. Sterrett always has on tap
an abundance of philosophical advice to
his fellow newspaper workers.
Now look here, son." se will say to a
young man in the profession, If you
want to write interestin' stuff, don't
confine yourself too strictly to news and
facts. What the people OF this country
want to read are theories. l know, for
| have tried both. When | wrote news
nobody paid attention to my column,
but when I begun to write theories the
people talked about them. Write the
cries, write theories, my son."
Col. Sterrett was very much afraid
that he had lost caste in Texas by his
performance while in Washington last
winter. He was invited to a dinner at a
French restaurant at which the piece
d. resistance was a dish of broiled
snails. The colonel was never known
to refuse a dare; so he tackled the
snails, but with much misgiving as to
the effect his participation in such a
feast would have among his simple
minded constituents in the Lone Star
state. "If they learn that | have been
a eatin' of snails, | won't dare go back
to Texas was his mournful comment.
He has survived the test, however, and
to make himself solid is now extolling
the delights OF q 'possum roast a la
Texas.
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HINGE,

nying illustration the pintles are formed
integral with the leaves which are at
tached to the door jamb, while the other
leaves of the hinges are formed with
slotted knuckles adapted to fit into re-
cesses in the pintle hinges and engage
the pintles. The slots in the knuckles
of the door-leaves, however, are OPP
positely disposed, so that when mount
ing the door the upper leaf is first moved
into engagement with its corresponding
pintle leaf and then the lower one is
moved into position. The door is kept
in hinged position by the action of
gravity, but can be unhinged by a hori-
zontal pull. BY examining the illustra-
ton it will be observed that upper leaves
cannot be disconnected until the door is
wide open.-Scienti1c American.
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pine mill work flooring, thoroughly sea-
soned.
Cover roof with good sound seasoned
one by six fencing and well nailed.
Shingles to be best quality of pine or
metal. laid four inches to the weather.
All closets to be finished up with not
less than three shelves to each one, and
strips with wardrobe hooks every eight
inches.
All finishing work of main stairs to be
constructed of oak; rails, balusters,
newels, steps, ~risers. nosings. etc.. all
to be constructed in the most substantial
name
All doors must be made of best white
pine, thoroughly seasoned and all pro-
vided with good and suitable thresh-
olds.
All hardware to be of the best kind for
respective places, as the owner may Sc
lect.-From Hodgson's Low Cost
Homes" published by Frederick ].
Drake & Co., Chicago. Blue prints sup
piled by them.
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beer the case this year and from several
districts there will appear men who
heretofore have had but a dim idea OF
what a seat in congress means. The po-
litical revolution in Missouri has this
year. as a former one did in 1894,
brought into the house men who had lit
tie idea of being elected when they were
nominated. One of these is Frank d.
Keeper, of the Third Missouri district.
where a normal democratic plurality OF
$500 was overcome.
Mr.. Klepper will contest with the
giant Sulloway, of New Hampshire, the
honor of being the biggest man in the
house. He is six feet four inches in
height and weighs $50 pounds. He is a
great friend of President Roosevelt,
whose acquaintance he made a few
years ago while hunting mountain lions
in the wilds of Colorado, where the
president was also seeking big game.
Mr.. Keeper relates the incident of their
meeting as follows:
"You are from ColOrado?" inquired
the president.
NO" was the answer. Il am from
Missouri"
Then of course you are a democrat"
laughingly replied the president.
Not in a thousand years. | am one
of those fellows who are going to re-
deem Missouri and throw her vote into
the republican column"
Another Missouri member, w. P. Tin
dali, from the Fourteenth district, is a
schoolteacher and has enjoyed the mu-
nifcent salary Of some $40 a month.
After the 4th of March he will draw as
much in one month as he heretofore re-
ceived in a whole year by his teaching.
FrankL. Dickson, ofthe Twenty-third IL
linois district, will probably be the light
est weight, physically, in the house, as
he only weighs 40 pounds. Zeno J.
Rives. of the Twenty-first Illinois dis
trict, is said to be under Is years of
age, and will be the youngest member
of that body, if he is not debarred for
age.
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to labor for at least W years.
Despite a tremendous majority OF
11S that the republicans elected
In the next house, the percentage of new
men is remarkably small. There are
less than 100 out of the 1856 members
who have been elected for the first time.
This proportion is rather unusual in
a landslide year. There are a number
of the new members who have had ex-
periences in former congresses and to
them congressional duties will be no
new thing.
About the first thing a now congress-
man and his wife think of is the glorles
of Washington and as soon as possible
they hasten to the capital city to look
over their future residing place. Many
of them never before visited the national
capital and the sights are as new to them
as to the casual tourist. They are not
long in catching On to the privileges OF
a congressman, and they receive valu-
able pointers from older members. The
congressman-elect has the privilege OF
the floor of the house and he makes USE
of it to accustom himself to being looked
at by the occupants of the galleries. He
can sit in a fine, revolving mahogany
chair. assume a most s~tatesmanlike air
and gloat over the visions of real great
ness soon to be his when he becomes an
active participator in national legisla-
ton.
The wives of the new congressman are
proud to sit in the reserved galleries,
look down on the assembled house and
imagine the important figure their hus-
bands will cut when the Fifty-ninth con-
gress meets. They will be disillusloned
before many months, as in the bear
garden" as the house is often termed.
very few members become conspicuous
and the newcomer is mighty lucky II ne
gets a chance to make one speech during
the session,
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An Explanation.

1--WE were bounding along" said a
recent traveller on a local South Al
rican single-line railway. "at the rate
of about seven miles an hour. and the
whole train was shaking terribly. ]
expected every moment to see my bones
%protruding through my skin. Passen-
gers were rolling from one end OF the
q to the other. / held on firmly to
my seat. Presently we settled down q
bit quieter; at least l could keep my hat
on. and my teeth didn't chatter
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There was a ~quiet-looking man OPP
posite me. looked up with a CHASTITY
smile, wishing to appear cheerful, and
said:
I'VE are going a bit smoother, l see.'
YES he said; we're OF the track
now. kansas City Independent.
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What a Queer Fellowl

"Jiggleby is a queer fellow. He
bought a couple of tickets from me
for an amateur theatrical performance
for charity, and"
"And actually used them?"
mot only that, but he declares he
enjoyed himself Chicago News.
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A HINGE.
Invention Which Will Simplify the
Removal and the Hanging
of a Door.

Great difficulty is often experienced in
hanging a door or shutter provided with
ordinary hinges, and an inexperienced
person sometimes finds it almost i'm
possible to replace a door which has been
unhinged. A New Yorker has invented
an improved type of hinge adapted to
overcome this difficulty. The construc-
ton also provides easy access to the
pintle for the application of a lubricant
thereto. AS revealed in the accOmpa-
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Appreciated

She-I had a delightful chat with
young Simpkins last evening.
He-Indeed! Why, everybody says
he is stupid, and never says any
thing.
She-Yes; but he's an excellent lis
tener.-CasselIs.
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This house contains four large-siZed
sleeping rooms and copious closet room.
All lath must be No. 1 pine. In lath-
ing care must be taken to break joints
at least every IS inches. All corners
must be made solid before lathing.
All walls and ceilings finished in two
coat work, hard finish.
Paint all exterior work three coat
lead and oil as selected.
If interior work is to be of pine it may
be either finished in three coats OF lead
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Lust as Represented.

Jerrold-I can't get any speed out OF
that auto you sold me. You told me
you had been arrested six times In It.
Hobart-So l was, old chap. For OBJ
structing the highway.-Puck.
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The Soft Impeac hment.

Widow-Do you know that my
daughter has set eyes upon you?
Gentleman (lattered) Has she,
really?
Certainly; only to-day she was
saying That's the sort of a gentle
man / should like for my papa.
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Oddities in Statesmen.

ANDSLlDE years
always bring some
new and curious
material into the
house. In some
districts nomina-
lions are handed
o m e n m e r e.
ly a S C o m j.
ments without any
idea of their being
elected. Such has
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Decadence of the Doll.

DON'T suppose that
old people in gen.
eral know that the
doll is no longer SD
popular as it. was
with young people
in general.
that's the fact. OF
course, o and
finer dolls are sold
than ever before,
but that is in part
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Talk of Gambling Syndicates.

is revived of an
American NJ o n t g
Carlo, in which Mr.
Garfield is said to
be interested. This
time gossip places
it in Havana; l
have known Yucca
t an, Nicaragua.
Panama, and b
o o f. t h e way
points suggested.
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IllC oCldtO ShOAN
will be an &C
cess of little big"
e S e n a t o
Knox, of Pennsyl-
vania, who has
just taken his seat
as successor to the
late Matthew Stac-
ley Quay, is of boy
ish stature and
cherubic cOunte-
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Busts of Vice Presidents.

r AL
ARMS
Of the senate, has
performed a good
work in labelling the
marble busts of past
vice presidents that
occupy inches IN
the senate walls.
Mr.. RanSdell IS able
to name ali the vice
presidents of the
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nance. The big brain that operates IN
that boylike head, however. is bound TO
make him one of the most brilliant
members of the senate. There are other
men in that body who are not much tall
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A1ohama,s Cement Industry

Alabama is developing quite a trade
in cement, as she has a large supply OF
a limestone that furnishes excellent raw
material for Portland cement
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One of the strangest freaks discov-
cred Of late was a turtle with an oys-
ter growing on its back. The turtle
was taken by . gill METER In the
Choptauk river.-Detroit Free Press.