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English nurse that the present czal
owes his ability to speak our language
without accent and the planting in his
mind Of a love Of England.
Queen Wilhelmina Of Holland, 1t is
interesting to recall, received her
education under the supertntendence
Of an English governess, Miss Saxton
Winter, and an affecting little incident
which took place on the occasion Of the
Queens marriage shows how deeply
attached her majesty was to the gov
erness.
When about to leave the palace. af-
ter the ceremony with her husband,
the queen caught sight Of Miss Win
ter in one Of the corridors, and turning
back, gave her an affectionate embrace
and bade her fearful farewell.
1t was an English lady who nursed
the queen Of Italy when the heir to
the throne was born a couple Of years
ago. She was Sister Margaret Brown,
an English hospital nurse, who was
specially selected for the important
duties by the matron of Queen Char
lotte's hospital.
The recent death, by the way Of
Mrs. Johnson. who as Mile. Vauthier
was French governess to the children
Of the king and queen, is much regret
ted in the royal family. The deceased
lady was regarded with friendship
that did not wane after her retirement
from Office. and the queen Of Norway,
when Princess Maud Of Wales, paid
frequent visits to Mrs. Johnson. To
avoid publicity her royal highness
elected to be known on such occasions
as Miss Mills and the fact gave rise
to some highly romantic tales con-
cerning hopeless aspirants for the
hand Of the princess. 1t Is hardly
necessary to say that little truth lay
behind such stories, and the young
princess always thoroughly enjoyed
the peace and simplicity that marked
her visits to her former governess.-
Tit-Bits.
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surrounded by sordid and rotting fur

surrounded by sordid and rotting fur
niture. For weeks together he never
put his head outside his front door,
and he spent half his time in his
DIRE ssing gown. When his will was
opened 1t was found that he had left
the whole Of his stupendous fortune for
philanthropic purposes, from building
schools for girls to providing cheap
lodgings for the working classes.
When M. Paul Colasson, the famous
hermit Of Paris, died recently, 1t was
stated that for the last twenty-seven
years Of his life he had lived exclu-
sively on a diet of eggs and bread,
supplied to him every third day by an
old servant, the only human being he
ever allowed to enter the magnificent
mansion to which he had retired on
the tragic death Of his favorite neph-
ew. During all these years he had
nur ,ed his grief in solitude, never
once, so far as is known, leaving the
gorgeous palace which he had con-
verted into a prison.
st. Petersburg recently lost her most
remarkable character in the person of
q millionaire count who, in spite OF his
immense wealth, lived life OF the
most sordid poverty and self-denial.
His figure, clothed in rags, was a IA
miliar spectacle in the streets of st.
Petersburg, and many sympathetic
passerby pressed aims into the hands
of the man whose daily income was
estimated at e1,000.
Nor must we forget the millionaire
baronet who died a few years ago In
the garret Of house in Waterloo
Road, London, at the advanced age of
ninety-on For many year no SER
want had entered his poor attic; his
meals were served and placed outside
his door at stated intervals. He was
never known to cross his threshold,
and he died alone in the one-ill-fur-
nished room in which, though he had
an annual income Of $4,000, he had
spent so many years of sordid and
self imposed Bits.
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NURSES OF ROYALTY.
Most of Them Have Been English
Women.

Most of Them Have Been English
Women.
Some of the tenderest and most af-
fectionate remembrances Of royalties
are naturally of those who tended and
watched over them in their happy
childhood days.
And 1t Is a fact Of which the women
of this country may well feel proud
that in the leading royal families of
Europe the nurses have been British.
who, by their devotion and faithful
discharge Of their onerous duties. have
earned the love and lifelong friendship
not only of their illustrious charges
but Of the royal parents who commit
ted them to their care.
Naturally Queen Victoria Of Spain
preferred an English nurse, and her
engagement Of Mrs. r. H. Green, a
nurse Of great experience and tact,
has been q very wise choice. Her
majesty has also engaged Miss Ger
trude NJ. Bunting to tend the Spanish
royal baby. In this important task
Miss Bunting will be assisted by an
other English nurse Miss Alice Mary
Evans, who was engaged last October
by the queens mother, Princess Hen
ry of Battenberg.
1t may not be out of place to men
ton here that probably the most priced
possession of the king of Spain's nurse
is a gold ring in which is set the first
tooth shed by her royal charge. The
ring bears the curious inscription:
my tooth to my nurse-Alfonso XIII.
For centuries past it has been the
custom of the Spanish royal family to
dispose Of the lost tooth of the helr
to the throne in this way, and the ring
in which the precious tooth is set Is
looked upon and jealously guarded as
an heirloom in the family Of the for
tunate recipient.
The imperial court Of Russia had an
English. or rather a Scottish nurse
who held her post for a great many
wears. She was Catherine McKinnon
who was born and bred on the Ross OF
Null. The daughter Of an humble
crofter, she was first in the service
of a Russian nobeman, whence she
passed into the Russian royal house
hold.
She was trusted implicitly by her
imperial master, and how she was es-
teemed by the late czar was shown py
the fact that a couple of years before
his assassination he ordered a tweed
suit, which was to be woven under
the sooty cabers of Ross Of Null
weaver's house. The cloth was dyeo
with the lichen which grew on the
rocks where Catherine McKinnon nae
romped and skipped when a barefoot
ed Highland lassie.
1t Is a little known fact, too, tna'
until few months ago an Englisf
nurse had charge Of the children VI
the present czar. She was only driver
from her post by the secret terrors OF
the Russian court. the extraordinary
behavior of the second nurse being the
cause of her resigning and returning t'
England.
She discovered that this woman wa:
in reality a spy in the employ OF tn'
secret police. She could not leave
room without being followed by her
and every evening the cupboards ant
hooks and corners of the nurseries
were carefully searched for BOMBS
No wonder that this spying got on TIT
nerves Of the English nurse and ina
she resigned her post. 1t Is to thi'
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A SCIENCE WONDER.
Success Of an Experiment in Wireless
Telephony.

According to reports In the French
newspapers, M. Maiche has made re-
markable discovery in the direction OF
wireless telephony. Particulars OF the
invention are not yet given, but 1t Is
stated that conversations can be car
ried on with ease between two small
experimental stations 100 feet apart.
Each station consists Of q telephone
battery, a special form Of induction
coil and a frame like contrivance con-
sisting Of a number Of insulated wires.
It is believed that the distance be-
tween the parts can be gradually In
creased by augmenting the power
employed in the operation Of the In
strument. The inventor, NJ. Maiche,
holds to this belief and insists that his
apparatus only requires a more thor
ough test to establish its reliability
and general usefulness. 1t Is to be
feared, however, that the wireless tel
ephone will be subject to the same dis
advantage that besets the telegraphic
systems dependent upon the radiant
form of electricity, for their opera
ton. The messages from the trans
mitting station will radiate therefrom
in all directions and will be heard at
all receiving stations within the
sphere of influence. In this case there
can be no sort Of privacy about the
hut that ia NOT the
worst, for, supposing half a dozen
transmitting stations to be working
simultaneously, the corresponding nall
dozen receiving stations will each re-
ceive six messages at once. The re-
sultant confusion Of tongues would put
to shame even the worst induction
noises Of the telephone system with
which we are now familiar.
If, however, wireless telephony
comes to be accomplished, as Its in
yentor insists that it will, 1t will no
doubt find a sphere Of usefulness
quite apart from the wire systems al
present in use, just as pireless teleg-
raphy, has done 1t is said, for In
stance. that the new system will be
applicable to submarine vessels, and
for that reason alone its development
will be awaited by the naval powers OF
the world with anxious interest. 1t Is,
perhaps, a natural consequence OF the
great amount of attention which has
been attracted to telegraphy without
wires that the dreams Of inventors
should turn toward telephones SIM
ilarly operated. So far the results
have given rise to no very buoyant
hopes Of success; but NJ. Maiche seems
to be confident that he Is on the right
road, and time may prove that his
self-assurance is based upon a practi-
cal knowledge of the possibilities still
latent in radiant electricity.
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lPaurs and at Harvard, the dear ole
DAYS Of hope and happiness, when we
planned for the future, try to think OF
me only as you knew me then, as you
know that should now be, but fol
the Systems curse"
The clerks were pounding on the
door; through the glass showed many
forms. They had been gathering FOL
minutes while Bob talked in his low
sad tone, a tone that no one could be-
lieye came from the same mouth that
few moments before had poured
forth flood of brutal heartlessness.
Bob went to the door. The office
was in an uproar. Twenty or thirty OF
Bob's brokers were there aghast at
not getting reply to their calls
Many were pouring in through the
outer Office. Bob looked at them cold
ly. well, what is the trouble? Is
1t possible We are down to a point
where the stock exchange rushes over
to a mans Office when his wire hap
pens to break DOWN."
They saw his bluff. You cannot de-
ceive stock exchange men, at least
not the kind that Bob Brownley en-
ployed on panic days, but his GOODNESS
reassured them, and when they saw
me it was odds-on that they guessed
to a man why Bob had ignored his
wires-guessed that 1 had been plead
ing for the life of 'the Street"
We'll, where do you stand?"
| Frank Swan answered for the
crowd: 1.-The panic is in full swing.
She's a cellar-to-ridge-pole ripper.
They're down 40 or over on an aver
age. Anti-People's is down to S5, and
still coming like sawdust over a brok-
en- dam. Barry Conant's house and
dozen other of Reinhart's have gone
under. His banks and trust compa-
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nies are going every minute. the
whole street will be overheard before
the close. The governing committee
has just called a meeting to see
whether it will not be best to adjourn
the exchange over today and tomor-
row"
Bob listened as if he had been a
master at the wheel in a gale, receiv-
ing reports from his mates.
There was no trace now of the
scene he had just been through. He
was cold, masterful, like the seasoned
sea dog who knows that in spite OF
the oceans rage and the winds howl
the wheel will answer his hand and
the craft it's rudder. Jim, come over
to the exchange" The crowd follow
ed along. I'VE have but a minute and
want to have you say you forgive
me-" he said to me. Il know, Jim
you understand it all, but I must
tell you how sorrowful 1 am that in
my madness l should have so forgot
ten my admiration, respect, and love
for you, yes, and my gratitude to you
as to say what l did. I'll do the only
thing l can to atone. l will stop this
panic and undo as much as possible
of my work: and now that l have
wrecked Reinhart l am through with
this game forever, yes. through for
ever"
He pressed my hand in his strong
honest one and strobe into the eX'
change ahead of the crowd. All was
chaos, although the trading had toned
down to a sullen desperation. 81
many houses, banks, and trust COM
panies had failed that no man knew
whether the member he had TRADED
with early in the day would on the
morrow be solvent enough to carry
out his trades. The man who haC
been long" in the morning, and ha(
sold out before the crash, and wht
thought he now had no interest in th'
panic. founc himself with his stool
again on hand, because of the failur'
of the one to whom he had sold, ant
the price cut in two. The man wht
was short" and who a few minutes
before had been eagerly counting hi
profits now knew that they had beeI
turned To loss, because the man from
whom he had borrowed his shor
stocks for delivery would be in m
condition to repay for them, the mex
day, when they should be returned t
him. The short" man was himself
therefore, long stock he had bough
to cover his short" sale. In depreSs
ling the price he had been working
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CHAPTER vIILContinued.

mo, you don't, Jim Randolph, no,
you don't You came here for some
thing and, by heaven, you will tell
me what it is! You know me; you
are the only human being who does.
You know what l was, you see what
I am. You know what they did to
me to make me what l am. You
know, Jim Randolph, you know
whether l deserved it. You know
whether in all my life up to the day
those dollar frenzied hounds tore nv
soul, had done any man, woman, or
child a wrong. You know whether
had, and now you are going to sneak
off and leave me as though 1 were a
cur dog Of the Reinhart- Standard OH
breed gone mad!"
He was standing over me, ter
rible yet a magnificent figure. AS he
hurled these words at me, l was sure
he had really lost his mind; that l
was in the presence Of a man truly
mad. But only for an instant; then
my horror, my anger turned to
great, crushing, all-consuming agony
of pity for Bob, and l dropped my
head on my hands and wept. 1t Is
hard to admit it, but it is true-l
wept uncontrollably. In an instant
the room was quiet except for the
sound of my own awful grief. 1 heard
It, was ashamed of it, but l could not
stop The telephone rang again and
again, wildly, shrilly, but there was
no answer. The stiffness became so
oppressive that even my own sobs
quieted. l gasped as the lump in my
throat choked, then l slowly raised
my eyes.
Bob's towering figure was in front
Of me. His head had fallen forward,
and his arms were folded across his
breast. But that he stood erect
should have thought him dead, so
still was he. l jumped to my feet and
looked into his face, down which great
tears were dropping silently. l touch
ed him on the shoulder.
Bob, my dear old chum, Bob, for
give me- For Gods sake, forgive me
for intruding on your misery"
1 looked at him. l will never forget
his face. No heartbroken woman's
could have been sadder. He slowly
raised his head, then staggered and
grasped the ticker-stand for support.
Don't, Jim, don't-don't ask me tc
forgive you. Oh. Jim, Jim, my ole
friend, forgive me for my madness;
forget what 1 said to you, forget the
brute you just saw and think of me a:
of old, when 1 would have plucked ou
my tongue if I had caught 1t saying
a harsh word to the best and trues
friend man ever had. Jim, forget L
all. /. was mad, 1 am mad, 1 have
been mad for a long time, but 1t can
not last much longer. l know 1t cant
and, Jim, by all our past love, by the
memories of the dear old days at st
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STINGY MlLllONAlRES.
Some Misery Americans, Two Rus
slams and a Frenchman.

SLAMS ana q FFenCnfIldT'
Not long ago there died in New
York Samuel Dunlap, an octogenarian
who, although he could any day have
written a check for a million and yet
have remained rich, lived for forty
years, with a housekeeper as sole at
tendant, on the expenditure-apart
from drink-of a wcrkingman. Dur
ing all this long period he was only
known to purchase one suit Of clothes,
a cheap pair Of gray trousers and two
top coats; he had four straw hats In
sixteen years, and for the last OF them
he paid a shilling.
Mrs. Ealden, his housekeeper, used
to cut his hair once month, and sne
had instructions to save the hair and
put it in a mattress, "as 1t was pity
to waste it." and when Mr.. Dunlap's
frock coat showed signs Of wear she
cut off it's tails and converted 1t into
a Jacket. For the last eight years or
his life This odd man lived entirely in
a back room of his house and spent
his time in drinking whisky and cham
pagne-his one extravagance-of
which he would often consume five
bottles in a single day.
A similar eccentric was George T.
Cline of Chicago, who left a million
pounds sterling at his death a short
time ago. After the Worlds Fair, Mr.
Cline bought a hotel of seventy-hve
rooms and lived there alone in single
room, occupying his time in playing
the violin. For days together not
glimpse of him was seen, and then he
would repair to a cheap restaurant and
eat a meal which cost his sd, and for
which he provided the tea. He allow
ed himself 12s a month for food, and
apart from his beloved violin found his
principal pleasure in seeking out IRISH
men with rich brogues and buying
food and liquor for them in order to
hear them talk.
In a. tiny, creeper covered hut on the
summit of a mountain in Pennsylvania
there is living today a member or one
of the richest families In America,
man reputed to be enormously
wealthy. From years end to years
end this hermit Of the hills spends his
days alone: he does his own cooking
and housework, washes his own linen
in a neighboring stream, catches his
own trout, shoots his own game, cul-
tivates his own vegetables, milks his
goat and makes his own bread. He
never receives or sends a letter, never
sees a newspaper and holds no COM
munication with the outside world,
with the exception Of an occasional
chat with a young farmer who brings
him flour, eggs and meat once a week
Another millionaire hermit, who,
very few years ago, died in Moscow,
was Mr.. G.. G. Solodovnikoff, who had
made a fortune, variously estimated at
from four to ten millions, by colossal
speculations on the Bourse. So many
and varied were his investments that
| it was said the handling of coupons
alone gave employment to ten girls.
! And vet this lord Of millions, who
might have rivalled kings in the splen-
dor Of his palaces, lived for years In
n tumbledown two storied cottage,
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GOLD BURIED IN GUAM.
Coin Heretofore Sent, Quickly Went
| out of Circulation.

Fifty thousand dollars Of green
backs, to be used in paying govern
ment expenses at Guam, will be sent
to that island by the next transport
The greenbacks are from 81 to IS de-
nomination, says the San Francisco
Chronicle.
AS there is a shortage of small pa
per money at the sub-treasury, the
greenbacks were gathered at the dill
ferent banks. The money Is sent III
this form at the request OF the COVER
nor of Guam He sent word TO the
navy pay office that gold sent to Guam
went out of circulation almost imme-
diately, as the natives bury it as soon
as they receive it. The island Is full
of buried treasure pots, the location
of which Is known only to the own
ers. The natives look upon green
backs as stage money and their desire
to pass them along keeps up healthy
circulation Of currency.
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4B An Oakland, Mo-, farmer one day
last year found a score Of men put
ting up telegraph poles all over his
field. He ordered the men away, but
they wouldn't go. They showed him
paper that gave them authority to put
their poles wherever they wished. The
old man looked at the paper, saw 1t
was lawful and walked away in 81
lence. He went to the barn and turn
ed a savage red bull into the field.
The bull made for the men, the men
fed at top speed, and the farmer
shouted after them: "Show him your
paper! Show him your paper!"
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To Be Continued.

81 Manager-I can't do a thing with
Smith, the new clerk. I've had him in
three departments, and he sleeps all
day long.
Proprietor-Put him at the pajama
counter and fasten this card on him.:
"Our night clothes are of such a su-
perior quality that even the assistant
who sells them cannot keep awake.
Til Bits.
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against his own pocket instead OF
against the bulls he had thought he
was opposing. All was confusion and
black despair. There is, indeed, no
blacker place than the floor of the
stock exchange after a panic cyclone
has swept it, and is yet lingering in Its
corners, while the survivors Of its fury
do not know whether or not 1t Will
again gather force.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-11-15

Leslie's Weekly is authority for the
statement that one savings bank in New
York City has nov more money on de-
posit than had all the savings banks in
the country in 1857.
In a half century the deposits in saw.
ings banks have grown from sos, 900, 900
to SO, 400, 900, O00
In that period the country's popula-
ton has trebled. while the amount of
its savings bank deposits has multiplied
thirty-five fold
In the past ten years the population
of the United States has grown twenty
one per cent. In the same time savings
banks deposits have increased seventy
per cent.
The savings banks hold the money of
the wage earners. The wealthy use
other forms of investment.
The working people of the country
are laying aside for a rainy day $780,
0O0 900 year.
This. is sign that times are good.
May these conditions continue. To
ledo Blade.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-11-15
Burrows Sure Michigan VIII be In
structed for Roosevelt.

Washington, November 9.-Senator
julius G. Burrows is of the opinion that
the Michigan delegation to the Repub-
lican national convention will favor
the reelection of President Roosevelt
He talked very freely on the subject
this afternoon. He said:
Michigan will, in my opinion, send
a delegation to the next convention
which will be pledged to work for the
nomination of President Roosevelt.
This will be due to the high regard in
which the president is held throughout
Michigan.
"The people there believe in him and
his policies. They would like to see
him again serve as the head of the ma
tional government. / think this action
will also be due to the fact that. elimin.
ating the president from the equation,
the state could not agree on any other
one candidate.
cit would be unwise to send a delega-
ton to the convention instructed for a
certain man, because il that man
should be found unavailable the delega-
tion would be compelled to continue to
vote for him just the same. So think
the people Of the state will be inclined
to think it best to send delegation
which would be favorably disposed to-
ward the president, and should he re-
fuse absolutely to run, could then go
to any candidate it might think best to
support.
WHO the second choice would be
1t is difficult to tell. Delegates are
selected from congressional districts in
the state. Two have been selected from
Mr.. Fordney's district and have been in
structed for Speaker Cannon. [Senator
Burrows is mistaken as to the delegates
being instructed. They were not. Ed !
The delegates at large will be elected
by the state convention. 1t is at that
convention that think an Endorsement
of the president for another term will
be made. and it will be expressed as the
wish of the convention that the delega.
tion should support him for that honor. I"