TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
O
King Oscar of Swed* n Is critically
111.
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The Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western, has raided' the wages of
1,000 of Its men 10 per cent, amounting
to 1160,000 a year.
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Anna Gould acknowledges $410,000
of household expenses that occurred
when she was living with her profli-
gate French husband.
The total resources or
five trust companies In
state shows a decrease
$00,000 In three months.
the eighty-
New York
of about $30,-
It Is reported that J. Plerrepont
Morgan will mnke a gift to Now York
city of a stupendous work of art. Of-
flclal confirmation Is awaited.
The divorce case brought by Augus-
tus llartje, tho millionaire Pittsburg
paper manufacturer, against his wife,
Mary Scott llartje, in which he named
Coachman Thomas Madlne as co-re-
spondent, was decided In favor of Mrs.
llartje, who Is to retain tho children
until a further order of court
ft
A brother of Count llonl do Castel-
lano has arrived in New York. He says
the count feels very bmlly over tho
loss of his wife in the divorce proceed-
ings and hopes for a reconciliation.
When he was asked If the couut would
go to work, he rt piled "nevalre." but
will continue In politics "for the hon-
or of France."
Ur
Pn ddtnt M iof thi Ei ill
able Life Assurance Sodomy, has called
a meeting of tln> presidents of moro
than thirty of the principal life com-
panies to ho held In New York city to
form an association to prevent extrav-
agance and reduce < xpensea by en-
couraging uniformity of administration
and to consider whotner to advocate or
oppose legislation.
A NEW YEAR RESOLVE.
The Colonel—Rnstua, you old rascal, how did you come by that turkey?
Uncle Kastus—I Jes' wanted one mo’ befo' 1 made my New Year—what
am dat you call It?—I mean dat change what comes over you when you cas
jog pasa a turkey by, if you dun don't change your mind.
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The Great Button Era.    : spread themselves from the trunk,
The United States census bureau simllur to the cocoanut, which, of
says that last year there were 4,298.-', ccunse, grows on a different kind of
iSS.lMS buttons made In tho United palm. Theso burrs and
President Ingalls of the Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Chicago k St. Louis rail-
road delivered an address before the
Civic League of Nt w York city on big
fortunes and the n metly. lie assigned
the tnriff and railroad rebates as tho
principal cause lie said the rebate
system bail happily come to an end,
as much to the relief of the railroads
as tho general public. The tariff
should he revised he said before public
sentiment grew so insistent as to de-
stroy the protective system, and moth
ods should be adopted to prevent
graft In cities
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The Catholic church extension socie-
ty, at a meeting In Chicago, adopted
resolutions denouncing the recent ac-
tions of thi> Frt neh government as "at-
rocious," and branding as "outrageous
th-'fts" the S' ./ure of ecclesiastical
property and uio .illti • to mankind for
rc dress. Coplis of the resolution,
which was signed by Archbishop
Qulgb y and th* other governors of the
society, were telegraphed to President
Roosevelt the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, the pope at
Ron i King I- ward and the llritlsh
Parliament, and to .ill the foreign am
basBadors at Washington.
ft
Secretary Root of the State Depart-
ment, delivered n significant address
In \> a Y- i < It • i i 'litli o' i- -tin-
ner of the Pennsylvania Society, on
the waning po\ii r -d the stales and the
augmentid pnwvi of the federal gov-
ernment. The speech handled tho
Japanese school situation In San Fran-
cisco without mentioning the city or
tho state The efforts of San Francis-
co to dictate to the federal government
what It 'I b in ti r which hat
s distinct federal tide have caused
much discussion among Was hington
lawyers recently lie cit' d the federal
antitrust law, the anti-rebate law, the
rutliond rate law. th< meat Inspection
Isw. the oleomargarine law-, the pure
food law a . exan pb of tho pnr|H> o of
the people of the United States to do
through the agree/ of the national
government the tilings which the sep-
arate elate rnvcrmnciita formerly did
adeipmtely, hut no longer do adequate-
RlateH. And there will be 5,000,000,-
000 billions made this year, and about
6.0(10,000,000 next year according to
tho rnte of increase for the last decade.
This seems almost Incredible, says
Art In Huttons, when one considers
that this Is simply tho output tu the
United States and takes no account of
the buttons of special kinds that are
Imported every year.
The average man buttons and un-
| buttons thirty or forty billions on his
apparel twice a day.
According to the census report New
I York holds the first place In value of
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Massachusetts, which was first In 191)0.
i Connecticut is second, .V w Jersey
| third. To look nt a nicely turned but-
! ton on a suit of clothes a person not
Intimately acquainted with the button
or clothes business would hardly im-
agine that it Is a purely vegetable pro-
duct; in fact, the nut of a tree, which
within the last twenty live years has
come to be of very great Importance to
the civilized world. The nut Is known
the world over as vegetable Ivory, and
the title Is most appropriate.
These nuts are know'll in their na-
tive land as Tagua or CoTo*o, and are
a product of the northern part of South
America and the isthmus of Panama
The scientific name of the plant or
tree Is phytelephas, and the tree it-
self closely resembles the palm, with
magnificent wide leaves spreading out
from the top of the trunk.
The young plants are among the
most beautiful products of nature and
are much sought after by palm collect-
ors. The flowers are of very showy
colors and grow In a large pendular
cluster five to six feet long, and are
very fragrant the odor being somewhat
similar to that of almonds. These flow
ers finally wither away and In their
places grow the burr which contain
the seed of the plant and (His seed Is
the nut from which the buttons are
made. The burrs which contain the
mils or seeds grow on the tree just at
that point where the palm like leaves
nuts resent
hie In a great many ways our common
North American horse chestnut, except
that the burrs are very much larger
and heavier, and cotat&ln, Instead of
one or two nuts, like the horse chest-
nut, anywhere from S or 10 to r>0 or
more. These burrs, or cases, open
when the Is ripe .and In burst-
ing release tho seeds fnliTs) which
drop to the ground wf.enco they are
gathered for commerce.
As In the case of the horse chest>
nut, the outer thiu brown shell is, at
How Lincoln Worked.
In Harper's W. H Crook, who waa
Lincoln's body-guard, gives a dramatic
picture of Lincoln in war-time He
picture:, one of the levees at the White
House and then:
'The levee was supposed to be over
at eleven, but some people remained
until nearly twelve. After they had
al] left, Mr Lincoln wrapped himself
in the rough gray shawl he usually
wore out-of-doors, put on his tall
heaver hat, and slipped out of th*
White House through the basement.
According to my orders 1 followed
him. and was alone with President
Lincoln for the first time.
"We crossed the garden, which lay
where the executive offices now are
Mr. Lincoln was bent on his nightly
visit to Secretary Stanton at the War
Department. I stole a glance up at
him. at (lie homely face rising so far
above me. The strength of it is not
lessened in my memory by what
would seem to me now the grotesque
setting of rough shawl and silk hat.
"That night, as I said, I was a Hill*
nervous. The President noticed It. He
seemed to know how I felt, too. 1 had
fallen Into line behind him, but he
motioned me to walk by his side. He
began to talk to me in a kindly wav,
its though 1 were a bashful buy whom
he wanted to put at his ease, instead
of a man appointed to guard him. In
part, of course, Ills motive must have
heon the dislike of seeming to be
guarded, of which I have spoken. Hut
his manner v as duo to the Intuitive
sympatb' with every one qf which 1
afterward saw so many Instances. It
was shown particularly toward those
who were subordinate to him. k’he
statesmen who came to consult b’m.
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^ jUw« want you to waar a pair of Trualght
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We want you t<> see the great difference between coi .innn (laeart and the fuiuous Tru-
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h»*» lieen tilted by i. ml with Truaignl Spectacle* and can Dow read the smalleii
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tho time the nuts arc green, In very    who had it lit their power to lb
close adhesion to the liner white meat.
In the case of the horse chestnut,
however, It is possible to cut this thin
brown shell. In our nut if Is so hard
that It resists steel and blunts a saw
Immediately. Our first step there-
fore, Is to shrink the meat or kernel
on the inside to such an extent that, it
rattles in the shell. Then tho shell
can be broken by a blow and the inner
kernel becomes available for manu-
facture. Tills material varies In grain
very much as does wood. The coars-
est nuts grow on the Atlantic coast.
As we go westward we And the nuts
smaller nnd the grain finer. The best
and costliest grained nuts are those ob-
tained from Ecuador.—Philadelphia
Record
High Class Sheep.
As in the high standard class the
sire is the sheep, which above all oth-
ers .Instills worth, excellence and qual-
ity, so In this manner of flock also,
does the ram plnv the most important
part. He should first of all possess a
frame well suited to the laying on of
flesh, not fat. on the parts furnishing
the highest-priced cuts. A good back,
well-sprung ribs, a full twist, plenty of
heart girth, short, strong neck, a mas-
culine head, with short legs, set at the
corners, are essentials In the sire, and
all should he well hacked up, In the
breeding behind, with Ilne3 of good,
useful ancestry.
Don’t ask the fish what people are
doing on land.
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Investigation of
the
has or-
lumber
The house of repres<
Ing ilerlaint u In . «li
lag, Pit sldent Rooxcvrl
to withhold his order fo
public printer, lie say
wish ti
more li
A Itcgler
went ft gray
shew up M
on it black.
IS till
itant
Until
itntlvm hav-
pllfled epelh
lias decided
Its use to tlu*
inya he doet not
»tlon overshadow
-re.
AT THE CHRISTM/
It has been nci rly a
last we heard o r bln
our husbund dlsap-
was seen nt the
shot
Mrs.
Core
«ad>
who sue
before he
led man should alw
suit, the dandruff doe*
plainly on a gray suit
n’t
About the only thing a "good dis-
position" gets a person la in nllo% the
fiber fellow to always gel his own
in
shot lira*
vi been Rli
Is of the II
feel that
>r a union
III cost
k IS In be i
the ysar
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Alienee tho policy of tlm party which
had chosen him. never hid the consid-
eration from Mr. Lincoln Ibat he gave
the humblest of those who served him.
‘‘A few strides of the President’s
long legs—a few mor» of mine—
brought us to the old-fnahionM turn-
stile that divided the White House
grounds from Ihe enclosure of the War
Department. Mr. Lincoln talked. In
his soft low voice, chiefly about life re-
cep! ion through which he had just
gone.    .
“ ’I am glad it is over,’ he said
"I ventured to ask if he was tired.
" ‘Yps, It does tire me to shako
hands with so many people,’ lie an-
swered. ‘Especially now when there
is so much other work to do. And
most of the guests come out of mere
curiosity.’
"With these words and the half-
sigh which followed wo entered tho
east door of the War Department. In
those days that was a small, mean,
two-story building, just In front of the
Navy Department. We went immedi-
ately to Mr. Stanton’s office which was
on the second floor, on the north front,
and overlooked Pennsylvania avenue
and the White House There, at the
door. I waited for him until his con-
ference with Secretary Stanton was
over. Then I accompanied him back
to the White House. From th* moment
Mr. Lincoln spoke to me so kindly I
felt at home in my new duties 1 never
lost the feeling which oeme then that
while the President was so great, he
was my friend. The White House
never awed me again."
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Lincoln and tha Bible.
Mr Lincoln, as I mw him ever
.'ornin-: .In the carpet slipper* h* w »•
n :1c bouse tind the block clothes n.
h 1 rould make really fit his cam
f    whs a homely •
The routine of hi* Ilf" wits kIui
too; it would h«ve teemed * tread
III to nio*t Of u*. He w«* *n "arlj
n 1 when I nine on duty, at eight It
He morning, he wa* often alreadi
Mrs. Eddy's Will Power.
Wilful, ungoverned, nnd dominant In
her youth, 6he became all-dominating
In her age. Her associates In the early
years of the Church have told how
nothing could stand against In* when
her biood wns up; how she overmas-
tered everyone. They have testified,
further, lo her persuasive sweetness
and to the inspiration of her presence
when things were going well between
them. "Afier I had left her I seemed
to be walking on air," wrote an unbe-
liever who hnd met her In the time
when she was founding her Church.
Others talk of her extraordinary phy-
sical beauty, "which seemed lllumln-
nted from within." She has not only
hlnztng will, but persistence will to
bent down the temporary obstacle, per*
slstence »o clear away the wreckage of
* cause nnd begin rebuilding. Three
times she li»* been beaten to the
earth; each time *ho hns #rl*cn nnd
triumphed.— McClure's Magazine.
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Take one-half pound prepared chalk,
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and apply with a sponge, allowing the
mixture to dry before rubbing with a
flannel to polish.
Two ounce* of best prepared chalk,
one ounce of oxalic acid, two ounces
of benzine and one ounce of turpen-
tine. Thoroughly mix the acid, tur-
pentine and benzine anT then add the
ehalk. Use the same as the first mix-
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dressed and feadlnw In the tlbrnr>-.
There wn* n big table tienr Ibe centre
of the room; there 1 have seen him
reading many lime* And the bonk?
We have all heard of the President's
fondness for Hlinkesponre, how he In-
furiated Recretury Stanton bv reading
llnmlet while they were wait ing for
return* from Gettysburg; we know,
Ion. how he kept enhlnet meetings
waiting while he read them the latest
Petroleum V. Nnsby's witticism* It
wns the Tllblp which I *aw him tend-
ing while most of Ihe household still
■lepl Harper's Magnzine
Cenndn. too, hn* n Japntir** problem.
Th* Pacific coast I* being Invaded by
rheup Jnpnnese labor, nnd two of the
Canndlan railway! are encouraging It.
The tit Iren* at large, however, favor
their *irlu*!on.