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THE CHILDREN'S COMING HOMt
FROM tbe far and frozen Nor'land wttb
a whirling Sight of snow
Fr jm the Southland, fair and fragrant,
on the merry morning ray
From the East and from the West, o'er the
ocean's heaving c-e;t,
Turn tbe drifted children homeward, with
the dawn of Christmas day.
Light the weary eyes with long ng fcr the
haunts of long ago.
Leap tbe heavy hearts In greeting to the
old folks far away;
And tbe Yule-log, blithely burning, guides
the wanderers return ng,
When they speed their footsteps home
ward, as they do on Christmas day!
"Bedeck the walls with greenery, the livery
of Yule, .
(And kiss me once, old wife o' mine, be
neath the mistletoe): -
The berries white and red, let them glitter
overhioud.
Is tbe pudding ripe and ready? Are the
glasses ail a-row?
For they're coming home the children
ita the world s ungentle school.
ley came In by-gone Yuletides, ere our
was scant ana gray;
corners of- the earth, to tbe home
nve tnem Dirtn,
jcomlng happy -hearted coming
.mas any.
US-
JUT
SftfAK AWAY
itt AT
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re the
he knows tna
tbe port to wh
He Is coming borne.
sea, for Christmas
"O'er the rolling Western pi
forest, thro' the fant
Speeds an engine bearing tJ
vinevard or the mine! i
ti.fliir Harry, freed from r
tilU V 1 1 J our.
Fast as fast express can bea
o'er t
old rami liar line.
They are coming home. tri .'hlldren, Just to
i t feel the wondrous ciia'Ti
Vt their jocund youth renewal of the
w season's kindly sway; xSm.
Ana we 11 greet them at tae dot.
in days or yore
When they kissed Us 'Merry
coming borne on ( hristm.
"Is the Christmas tree ablaxlng? a)e
candles all in nlace?
For Nell, you know. Is coming
rosy elrls and boys:
And my splr't bankers after happy bursts
oi Da Dy laugnter
And the merry madcap riot of tbe younk
ers with their Joys.
There's a glory In your een, good wife, a
glory upon your face;
Again the Past comes back to you aga'n
our balrnles play
What! a tear! No time for tears, iritb the
Joy bells in your ears.
And the children coming hom ward on thi
blessed Christmas day.
"Hark to slelghbells on t
roadway! they
here!
are coming
From the Nor'
the Southland
from the Ea:
m the West
We will scan each
face, we will feel
each war:
Oar vaerom b
meet again at peace
within the n
So fling the doors wide open let them see
our Christmas cheer;
Then kiss me once again, old wife, for oh!
my heart Is gay;
And our broken voices raise. In a carol
fraught with praise.
, Unto Him that brings tbe children brings
them home on Christmas day."
Gerald Brenan, In Louisville Courier
Journal. Nothing to Hold.
"Suppose that Father Time were bald,"
remarked the girl with the illustrated al
manac; "how it would interfere with pro
gress." "In what way?"
"Why, we couldn't take time by the
forelock." Buffalo News.
Saturated.
Van Ishe Well, old. man, did yon greet
Christmas with the proper spirit in your
heart?
Ten Broke Yes, the doctor said it had
soaked in almost everywhere. New York
Journal.
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INCOMES OF ROYALTY.
SALARIES THAT GO WITH JOBS
AS RULERS.
Many Monarch Enjoy All the Lux
uries of Abundant Wealth-Czar of
Russia Reputed to be the Richest Man
In the World.
Seventy-four men and two women
iivide among themselves the govern
ments of tbe world. In other words,
there are seventy-six rulers. Of these
twenty-two govern as presidents, fif
teen as kinds, eleven as dukes and
grand dukes, six as emperors, five as
princes and five as sultans. There are
two khans, of Beluchistan and of
Khiva ; two ameers, of Afghanistan and
at Bokhara; two queens, Queen Vic
toria and Queen Wilhelmina; one khe
dlve, of Egypt; one shah, of Persia;
one bey, of Tunis; one mikado, of Jap
an; one maharaja, of Nepaul, and one
rajah, of Sarawak. Of these august
potentates Queen Victoria and her
grandson, William II. of Germany, are
the only ones who sport two titles
the one queen and empress, the other
emperor and king.
The most venerable of these rulers
Is Sidl All Pasha, bey of Tunis, born
in 1817. The youngest head of a na
tion is Wilhelmina of Holland, born in
1880, the young king of Spain not yet
being seated on his ancestral throne.
In the spring and summer seasons one
third of the birthdays of these poten
tates occur, April, May and August be
ing the particularly favored months.
When It comes to civil lists the em
peror of Russia, who is said to be the
richest man in the world, can show
the largest bank account, $12,000,000
being his yearly income. This is no
more, however, than some good citi
zens of our republic have as their In
come! Seven other sovereigns have incomes
reaching the million figure the saltan
of "Turkey, who has $10,000,000; the
jmperor of Austria, who baa $3,875,000;
Emperor William of Germany, $3,852,
770; king of Italy, $2,858,000; the queen
of England, $1,925,000; king of Bava
ria, $1,412,000, and the king of Spain,
$1,400,000. The king of Spain, how
ever, has an additional $600,000 for his
family, and the king of Italy must de
duct from his millions $180,000 for his
family.
The one who obtains the bulk of his
Income in the most original manner is
the sultan of Sulu, who raises it by
fines. He has men whose business it
is to watch his subjects who are mak
ing money, and as soon as a man gets
something ahead he Is charged with
some crime and the result is a fine. If
a man has amassed $500, for example,
he Is accused of some crime, and to
save himself from prison or death must
pay a fine of $100. The crown prince
Is often sent out to collect the fines.
From the rents of lands he reo
$5,000 a year, and the United
ados $3,000 in silver to fie royallHjs
ury yearly.
The monarch who stands last on the
list as regards hSjjBticome rs King
Malietoa Tanu of Samoa. He ekes out
Ilflflff"
Lpldi
thron
exlstenctrUkthe paltry sun: of $150
pnth. or le-Hfe. r. S-u00 a year. The
Vy paid to mi predecessor for up
holding the dignity of the Samoan
throne was $50 a month, and with this
sum he' was well satisfied. When the
new king, a year ago, came to draw his
first month's salary he struck for $150
and got it after going to law about it.
The cashier of the treasury, which is
now controlled by the consuls of the
United States, Great Britain and Ger-
at first refused to pay the
t demanded.
fact that the king Is drawing
large salary Is m source of grat-
to his adherents, who ?xpet
.wear a clean calico fijfievery
st on account of biijjW -5?
uu 'jl weai in.
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AnnrPfiHtAil Kv Pnlltina I
X- M "J .
I For some years the talk
has played an impo
pontics of America
stances the candi
ment of
the rest on
a caoable
IUar candidate
. clockwork ex-
B Unions is an un-
hostile constitu
- 9 ... .asa aav. Hnn,.Ki!1,i,n
ranaiair.e
imagiiiabh
even want to throw
antiquated
bles at him, but the
nachin
nd and Impervious,
wi
steadily grinding
views on the war
Ut 1
:r the
nders' act without
even pau
Gentlemen, I
5en a retired egg
inside the funnel.
a simpii
vance the phono-
graph may be nl
;o register the feel-
ing of the audie
so that when the
meeting is over t
e records can be sent
back to the candidate, who reproduces
the proceedings and perhaps feels
gratified that he did not attend In per
son. .
HE DIED WITH HIS SECRET.
Man Who Discovered How to Petrify
Bo J tea Never He ealed Process.
Carrying with him his secret of petri
fying a corpse and giving it for ail
eternity the flesh color of life, Dr.
Marini, the Italian, is dead. His secret
can be kept no more surely now that
he has taken It with him than he kept
it in his lifetime. He lived only with
his daughter, and he did not allow her
to know the slightest about the won
derful process. Like all inventors, he
impoverished himself and what there
was of his family in his devotion to the
one object of his life. His death in Na
ples was of that terrible disease, cancer
of the intestines, and the slow agony
drew out its attenuated length for six
months. He died only with his daugh
ter, for he refused to see the few
friends that be had. He left to his
daughter nothing whatever, unless the
name of "'crank" can be considered that
good name which is better than sliver
and gold.
Or. Marini was born in Sardinia. For
tarty years he had given day and night
Wesl
any.
fin fwn.M
Kgrai -Wti
(avin
oh sisiatr
e mxttat
5 IWII' II
to this single purpose of diseoieilng
how to preserve human bodies In the
flesh so that they shall be as hard as
statuary and yet retain the lifetime
color. Nor was this all. He aimed to
retain the softness and the flexibility of
flesh In life, and it Is reported that he
succeeded In part, for in his studio,
among the hard and stony busts, heads,
arms, feet and" entire figures that once
were full of life, he had several hands
of women which seemed as fresh and
flexible as In life, and he was confident
that he had learned tbe secret of con
verting the whole human body into that
condition. A
So careful was he of his process that
he bought the various materials which
he used in different towns and wrapped
them In camphor cloths to disguise
their odor, so that not even a guess
could be made as to what he carried.
He had among the specimens of his
work the petrified statues of Benedetto
Calroli and Cardinal Sanfelice of Na
ples. Besides his discovery proper he had
just one other ambition in-life. He
wanted to hold a chair in one Of the
universities where he could impart in
a suitable manner some of his informa
tion to his fellows. His friends tried to
get for him a professorship in a univer
sity, but failed.
To provide bread for himself and
daughter Dr. Marin! offered to take a
much inferior post in the university,
but even this he could not get Sad
dened by his poverty and his failure in
having his work appreciated, he shut
himself up and grew as white as his
petrified bodies. So he passed the six
agonizing months which preceded his
death.
mcjo
1 i jli II II an '
At the close of a performance given
as a benefit to John Brougham, the
actor and dramatist, one of the audi
ence threw upon the stage a purse of
gold. Brougham picked it up, and, af
ter examining it, said: "Ladies and
gentlemen, circumstances compel me to
pocket the insult; but" (looking grim)
"I should like to see the man who
would dare to repeat it!"
A party of Americans were sitting on
the upper deck of a Rhine River boat,
enjoying the charming scenery. One
was reading aloud from a guide-book
about the various castles as they came
into view. Just as the boat was pass
ing one of the finest old buildings, a
woman in the party exclaimed to her
companions: "Why, that old castle Is
Inhabited. See, there are blinds at the
windows." "No," said a man standing
by her side, "those are the shades of
their ancestors."
During Lincoln's second presidential
campaign, John J;-JaiiBey, of Colum
bus, Ohio, went to see the President at
Washington. In the course "of their
conversation Lincoln said: "You are
going to defeat Sammy out in your dis
trict this time, aren't you?" referring
to a Democratic candidate for Congress
in Ohio. "I understand that Sammy is
a great friend of mine just as warm a
friend as I have. He reminds me of a
hog that old Sam Brown had. It got
out and was gone for some time. Sam
could see where it had been rooting
along the creek, and he said one morn
ing to one of his sons that the boy was
to go along one side of the creek and
Brown himself would go along the oth
er, 'for I think,' said he, 'that the hog
is on both sides of the creek.' "
When Mail us Dahlgreen, . the artist,
left for Nome some time ag, to seek
bis fortune in the gold-fields, he decided
to take a varied supply of pitints and
I with him, so that, shoved the
ets tail to materialize, he nlignt
his time profitably immortalizing
picturesque scenery of the new
g camp with his brush. These
s were shattered, however, when
een's party landed at Port Clar-
', for on attempting to put together
small boat with which they had pro-
Ided themselves, It was found that the
dishonest or only careless shlp-bulld-
er had forgotten to Include the white
lead in the boat's fixings. How to calk
the seams without it at eighty miles'
distance from Nome civilization was
the question. At last the Goth of the
party suggested the artist's paint-box,
and with tears the sacrifice was made,
the "landscapes of the future" decor
ating the insensate seams of the little
craft
Henry W. 0'M.elven-y, f Los Angeles,
had a unique experience last week at
Madera, wbere he arrived at midnight,
dirty, unkempt and unshaven, after a
ten days' fishing trip in the interior.
After settling down in the deserted sta
tion, to await the arrival o the Los
Angeles train, O'Melveny decided to
purchase his railway ticket before the
ticket window opened. Only a week
before the railroad agent of a neigh
boring station had been robbed, so
when the traveler opened the side door
of the ticket room and walked in, the
Madera agent instantly sized him up
as a road agent, and, drawing his gun,
held It in his right hand, while with his
left he drew his money from the draw
er and, thrusting it Into the open safe,
slammed the door. Then, keeping
O'Melveny coveted with his revolver,
be reached over and rapped out on the
telegraph key for the benefit of the
assistant operator in tbe next room the
single word "tongh," while the assist
ant answered in the same fashion.
"Yes; very tough." In the meantime
O'Melveny had extracted a twenty-dollar
bill from his pocket and requested a
ticket to Los Angeles. The tender of
so much wealth by such a disreputable
fellow was positive proof In the agent's
mind that it was a scheme to have him
open the safe for change ad then rob
him. Backing away as far as the par
tition would permit, and holding his
revolver ready to Are, the agent was
about to take desperate measures,
when bis assistant recognized the sup
posed robber and rapped out on the
key: "Los Angeles lawyer; O. K.; not
half as tough as he looks." Mutual ex
planations followed.
Men are seldom charitable on an emp
ty stomach.
JOHN D. HART..
Death of the Famous Filibuster of the
Cuban War.
Capt John D. Hart, the famous fili
buster of the Cuban war, friend ot
Cuba Libre and despair of the Spanish
marine patrol, died at Philadelphia re
cently of apoplexy. He was one of the
most Interesting characters In the last,
rebellion of the Cubans against the rule
of Spain, and did more to supply the
struggling patriots with arms and am
munition than any other man. Inciden
tally he was a source of incessant wor
ry to the revenue officers In charge of
American ports, from which the two
notorious little vessels, the Bermuda
and the Laurada, were wont to set sail
CAPT. JOHN D. HART.
for Cuban shores laden with warlike
goods for the island patriots.
The authorities were forced to inter
fere with the captain's traffic, owing
to a demand made upon the United
States by Spain, which charged that
Hart was violating the laws of neutral
ity. He was arrested and sentenced in
March, 1897, to two years' Imprison
ment and what amounted to $5,000 in
fines. The brave mariner did not go to
jail for a year, and was pardoned by
President McKinley after having
served four months of his sentence.
In ahls adventurous business the fili
buster and his companions were often
chased by Spanish war boats, but he
was never caught nor were his fleet
ships Injured. In this way he landed
thousands of rifles and tons of powder
In quiet spots on the Cuban shore. Cap
tain Hart leaves a widow and two
charming daughters, Laura and Ada
Hart, for whom the filibuster boat
Laurada had been named.
NOT PLEASED WITH ROME.
Kansas Cityan Smashes the Idols in
theEternal City.
Here's a Missouri idol smasher who
has the courage of his convictions in
the matter of "speaking his mind," at
any rate. A Grundy County man who
is making a tour of Europe "did Rome"
one afternoon a few weeks ago with
the following disastrous result, as de
scribed in his latest letter home:
"St. Peter's disappointed me. It is
large enough, but too light and bare.
The inside is of gray marble, and there
Is no stained glass. So it looks like an
unfitted art gallery. The famous
bronze statue of St. Peter, sitting in
a chair, from which the toe has been
kissed, would not catch your eye If It
were not for the guide book. The great
Vatican palace is about as pretty as
the 'brick row.' It is very old, very
irregular, and the pictures by Raphael
and Michael Angelo were an utter dis
appointment to all of us. The Sistlne
chapel, in which M. Angelo's greatest
paintings cover the walls and ceilings,
Is a large, plain room. The pictures
are all in a dark, purplish gray color,
hard to make out and absurd when you
do make them out. They remind me of
rather plain and faded circus bills with
the actors performing on the trapeze.
Raphael's greatest pictures are rich In
colors, but are not more Interesting
He and Angelo never saw a naked
woman or child, I guess, nor were ever
evetl-at Atlantic City. They give chil
dren the riiuscles of a Roman gladiator
or a Barnum strong man. The ruins
of ancient Rome are also a great dis
appointment, as a rule. With the excep
tion of the wonderful Coliseum and a
tew more things all the rest are nothing
but stone piles, .so far as they appear
to the common spectator." Kansas
City Journal. :
Tea Culture in India.
The east has always been considered
the home of the tea plant, China hav
ing grown it for centuries, although the
original country of tea is not known.
It has been found In a truly wild state
In Assam. It may be cultivated in
the east through a wide range from
India to Japan. The Industry, how
ever, is not Indigenous to India, but
rather a child by adoption. It Is but
little more than a century ago that an
attempt was made to cultivate the tea'
plant in India and it was not until as
late as 1841 that the first public sale
of tea occurred at Calcutta, which city
seems to have ever since controlled thet
market of the Indian tea trade.
Cobwebs Stop Telegraphing.
A peculiar but very serious difficulty
besets the operation of telegraph lines
in the Argentine Republic. The small
spider of the variety that spins a long
cobweb and floats it In the air, is so
plentiful there that the floating webs
settle on the wires in enormous quantities.-
As soon as dew falls or a shower
of rain comes up every microscopic
thread becomes wet and establishes a
minute leak. The effect of millions of
such leaks is practically to stop the op
erations of the lines, and the govern
ment telegraph department, especially
In Buenos Ayres, has been put to vast
inconvenience by the cobwebs. A num
ber of expedients have been tried, but
to no avaiL "
Russian Orthodox Church.
The present orthodox church of Rus
sia Is divided into sixty-seven epar
chies, including one in Alaska, and
forty-three vicarial seats of bishops.
Russia has now 117 archibshops. In
cluding three metropolitans, slxty-sev-Russia
has now 117 archbishops, in-thirty-nine
bishops.
Feinting the Way Out.
"What do you think Miss Popklna did
when, I stayed late last night?"
"What?"
She got up and '-n-tn 'iiT'Tlf ' l 1 i