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GOVERNOR HARRISON'S SILK HAT Former Representative Francis Bur ton Harrison, the newly appointed governor general of the Philippines, is already known in that part of the world as "the man with the hat," and has been made the object of a good deal of fun. It seems that while on his way to join his post he gave all sorts of elaborate directions, by means of wireless, about his ofcial recep tion on his arrival at Manila, and em phasized in several of these communal cations that he would wear for the occasion a cutaway coat, and "a high silk hat," thus indicating that he ex pected American and native civilian dignitaries to be similarly garbed. Now high silk hats are virtually nn known in the Philippines, being un suited for the climate, the usual form of headgear being a pith helmet, such as is worn by white people in the tropics. In fact, the only use made of high silk hats in the Philippines is' to present them to petty sultans and chieftains of the remote islands of the archipelago, in lieu of crowns. The governor general arrived in due course, and landed in his high silk hat, which created a great impression among his compatriots, as well as among the Pllipinos. But there were only four hats of this style of architecture visible among the civilian officials and leading American citizens assembled to greet him, and these were of so ancient a vintage that they had the effect of giving a burlesque savor, rather than any solemnity to the occasion. The American and native newspapers of the Philippine islands are getting no end of amusement out of the new governor general's "topper." INTERESTED IN SOCIAL CENTER WORK Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president, is tremendously inter eted in the social center movement. She has Joined the Monday Evening club of this city and is taking an active interest in the social settlement work in which that club is engaged. Last Monday evening the club held SIts meeting in the public library, and Miss Wilson was in the audience, but not upon the program. They had un der discussion the use of the public school buildings of Washington as the social centers, with United 8tates sen stars and representatives and several other public men on the regular pro. gram. Miss Wilson was not included among the regular speakers, but when the chairman announced that the meeting was open to general discus sion Miss Wilson, who was accompa nied to the meeting by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, frankly exprssed her snti meats. she said: "The ooial cente movement in its naal aalysis is an expression of the spirit of the true democracy. No matter how culturd we are, we annot get our ide alone; we have got to get together and get them from meach other." Miss Wilson urged all who have the welfare of the city at heart to unite In the movement. She declared that those who are interested at all will have to take an active part, for unless they do they will prove their inconsistency and insincerity. Miss Wilson also warned against the peril of the ever-present hobby. "After the bill twe are supporting is passed, then what is going to hap pen?" she asked. "Are we going to try to get our word in first for this build ing ad that blding, so that this organization and that organization may have n opportunty to eanrise its own partlcular hobby? I hope that nothing IIse that is going to happea. I trust that we will act together for the common good. I hope we shall all prove our democratic spirit by getting togethe' and seeing what the Distret of Columbla really needs." ADMIRAL WATT'S VIEW OF NAVY "Ships we are going to build in the future will have even deeper drafts than thirty feet, and the depth of prominent harbors in the United States should be at least thirty-fve feet," said Rear Admiral Watt, chie of the naval bureau of constructioa and repair, in a statement to the house naval affairs commlttee. Admiral Watt was advocating a provision in the naval appropriation bill, which the eommittee soon will report to the house, to authorise a contract for use by the navy of private dry docks at Hupnters poilt San Plan. cisco. Admiral Watt urged that this action was imperative. "With the opening of the Panama canal." he explalned, 'it is probable that our prnecipal fleet willhave periods of duty on the west coast. "This provision would permit the docking of the largest ships at Hunt era point, instead of sending them to Iatke, 9 mle farther orth. We cannot get the battleshipe to the Mares lsmd avy yard, and evsa though the channel were d4sep enoush to send them to the yard. the present docks there would not take ten of the last vessels of the lst. The battleships contemplated to be seat to the Paeto coast, will draw twentyseven to thirty feet. They ean gSet a ship drawing twenty-four tet up to Mare islad at low wateu, though dredg~l is bektg doas with a view to deepeinlg it to secure thirty fat." The admtral also told the committee that ther were not enough dry decks 1 for practical purposes on the Atlantic coast DR. JACOB RIESSER In the overthrow of the conserva vthe party In Gemany at the last leo tions for the reichstag, two years ago, some saw only a socialist victory Others who had been studying politic al and economic conditions in the em ptre for the few years preceding greeted the result u an ant-agrarian e r triumph. In addition to the great number of mats won by the socialists, ffty-eight eeadidates who were avewedly or known to be agrarians In their sya pathles were defeated, not because of the increasd popularity of socialist doctrines, but by reason of the spread .1 revolt against agrarian domination of politics in the empire and the or gnlsed campaign against the big landowners and what they stood for., waged for a little more than two years by the Hansa league. The credit for the defeat of the agraras is largely due to Prot. Ja cob Rleser, the well-known German xpert on banking and finance. Dr. Riesser is the founder of the Mas II agrue, the organiation which was formed four years ago to fight agradshals. I Otherwise he is privy councilor of justice, honorary profesor in the UiIner sity of Berlin, and the author of many standard works on banklang ad coin mereo. He has been a practical banker and lawyer and has elped driaft many commercial laws or the revisions of such, and is a member of amesr e Isal and fnadcial aoociatlon I "BLACK CABINET' OF RUSSIIIAS BRANCHES IN OTHEIOUWTRIES Emissaries of Czar Nicholas Search Private Caspomndenoe for Evidence of Conspiraies--A Law to Do Away With Tamp ering of Letters Failed to Pass Duma in 1906-SpI. in Other Nations. Philadelphia.-Russia's "black cabi m set" has brought on a minor interna id tional crisis. The "black cabinet" is is a vast secret organization subject to ie the minister of the interior, which id spies on private correspondence, and id now Great Britain, Japan and Italy are in complaining that the cabinet, in its 11 thirst for surreptitious knowledge, is as ignoring the postal convention which p declares private correspondence to be m- Inviolable. - When the mail bags via Siberia from ie England to Japan arrive at their de h tination they are often a week late. i- and many of the letters bear signs of n having been tampered with. Some times no concealment is made, says a- the Philadelphia Ledger. Newspapers s- are opened, articles censored and a blacked out with the sticky mixture h which Russians call "print earare." ie One Japanese mail bag which arrived t via Siberia in Moscow on August 1 Is' was not dispatched to London until d August 9, though by schedule it ought to have been dispatched on the day of t. arrivaL And several letters were lost. g Italy's protest has another basis It e is that the "black cabinet" meddles o not only with the Russo-Italian corre if spondence, but that it even maintains at Rome, under the nose of the Italian g police. a "black cabinet" manned by Russians and by Italians, which inter cepts the letters of Russians resident 1 in Italy, opens them, and sometimes. out of too much professional seal, even steals letters from Italians to Italians. The "black cabinet" is so bold at times that, after reading private letters, It does not take the trouble to forward them to their destination, but destroys them. That fate overtakes even let ters which have nothing to do with Russian affairs. Invitations to dinner and scented epistles making appoint. ments to feet in the forum are sacrl iced to Russia's spy system. Russia Is now the only European state that maintains a department with **I Emperer Nichoels of Russia. home and foreign sections for the per n pose of what Ip called "perlustration." t The resaeh "cabinet noir," which was , founded under Louis XIV. and lasted t (with an Interruption during the rov lutlon) until late in the restoration, is C declared unlawful by the 187th artile t of the penal code. England in 1837 t forbade the opening of letters and Ger s many extended the prohibition to the whole empire by the imperial post law t of 1871. In civilized Europe letters i may be opened only by court order, In a ease of criminal prosecutions or under b martial law. r In Russia a law a lagainst "perlustras tion," which would have done away with the "black cabinet," was one of I the projected reforms of 1905, but it has gone the way of all other reform projects. When the question comes up In the duma the answer of the minister of the interior is that postoIsce of dals never open letters. This is a gamble with words. The letters are opeaned by the "black cablot," which ia mostly manned by sendarmerie of. Score. The postofee cann6) protest beeanse Russia has no special minister of posts, and ali poestofces are aub ject to the ministry of the Interior; that is to the department which con trols and instruets the "black cai net," and which alone of all Russian --ministries carries on espionage. This explaains the anomaly of there bein no minstry oft posts. - An iadependent minister riht refuse to hand up Iet ten to the "black eablnat" aad.weld I ho ambe to t~ this euine n law. It ma estimated that at least 7,00 of. filais adre engaed In these ebinaets. but this number does not oinclude the host of auziliary workers and letter stealers. Vassill Desyatinasky, an gendarme who is now making revels. t ations, says that the number is ny 4,200. but that the auxiliary workers ·mnber at least 6,000. The "black cablnets" are overned by the followig rules: Pinrst, that he must open all lettes addreseed to 5sapected p5raoes or to peronos who have been eonvieted of politieal of. fenses. This rule is so well known that ampected meon, as fHr s it de. pends upon themselves, do net have letters seat to them through the post. h They make an exception to this rule when they want the police put of the i scent..They write leters to themselves, t gintg alse appoaintents to meet, si hase addreses, ete. hi BECOME YOUNG MEN SLAVES Effeminacy Run Mad. in Leedea In o1 veigles Them to Wear Gold Ean ft glee Around Their Wrlets. London.-The smart younga men in a London have hit on a new phase of it foolishness. Hltherto their eUcency hI bha shown Itself tn a taste for rain- w ew seoeks and fancy shoes, but ow , th go ia stage further in their deo l eanesO by asetins a fashion for r aot "slave" haias, worn loosely it They do this l tie conviction that the letters wll be opeoed and the po lice and spies te bmed. Desyatin sky says 'that there are 17,.000 persons in Russia whose letters are always opened and he estimates that at least 2t,000000 such letters are opened every year. This system accounts for the long delay in the deliver of letters, for in dependent "black eabinets" exist only at the post o es at oescow, St. Pe tersburg, Warsaw, Odessa, Kharko, Saratof, Tomsk and Irkutsk. Subor dinate "black cabl~sts" which act only on instructios, are attached to the post oiees of 14 uaropean provinces; to all the tea Plsh prorincial post offices and to esrtM poetofsee in 81 beria. There i also a "black caM net" at Tauhket, in Central Asia. Where no "blak esainet" exists lo cal oorrespondemes, which does not pus through the "black binest" post omoe is otfte' oe d on peela In strctions frnm St. Petersburg. The gendarmes simply call at the post of ies and demand certain letters. Some time Instrutions are sent to a local post oice to send all letters to the nearest "black cabinet" and the result ts that letters written to friends who live ten miles away may be sent 200 miles Into another provinse; and so take days to deliver. The system of openinl is by eteaminj. The second work of eho "black cab inet" Is known as "rulbolovlya," that Is, "fishing." It consists in opening let. ters addressed to persons not suspect ed; this on the mere chance that they may contain political matter or revh anti-governmentai pilots. The "bl cabinet's" principle is to open one out of a certain number of letters. The number has varied. Csar Nicholas L gave the chief of his "black cabinet." Colonel Karamuslcheg, orders to open all letters. This system proved too cumbrous. Under Alexander IL "fish ing" was abandoned, but it was re vived In the next reign. when one in every 250 letters was the rule. Duting the first part of the revol-. tionary outbreak of 190446, one letter in every 100 was opened. At present the rule is one la every 1,000. This practice has very little value. The chances are 100 to 1 against any dan gerous letter. bein opened as long as it is addressed to a person whom the "black cabinet" does not suspect. St. Petersburg has the largest "biJok cabinet." When the central post office w rebuilt a decade back. a fine suite of rooms was provided. Here sit the gendarme oicers in charge aid thet subordinates. Letters of specially In terestingr character are at to the gendarmery, or to the "Okhrana," the detective center, and there they are photographed and In most cases mt Os. Post eards on the Siberian ralroed are Infested with the "black cabiet." Russian railroads all road ar nests of "perlustratin," and this is so well known that the buropea embassies never use the poet evew for private let. ter. The Siberian manl cars were given over to the "black cabinet" du-e ing the revolution. Behind this etor ton a teacup are certain private interests, and In par ticular there is the seal at Maklakof to Justify his clalm to have made the spy system mere *elet. The third and most dagrou see. tio of the "blek cabinet" is at work in foreign countries. The abinet is active in every 8Nat uropean Cap tal, and its work is to watch the cow repoadene of exilee and at Rusasim OLDEST PAIR OF TWINS IN THE COUNTRY William sad SausI Muncy, the young nlasty-lve.yeiad twns ao Baby. ia,. Lona Island, ws recently elebrated their birthday, are Just as spry to. day as any young mea their age are expected to be, theas a sood deal happier than most altve-yeerold youngsters, becase they have the dil. tnction of being the olest living twins. They attribute their good health and spleadid physcal oesditica to the fact that they have lived an outdoor life so far as they posibly could. They eat whenever they feel hungry, do no smoke, chew or drink and although there are seven phslsnsm who a mn. be at their family. they have never had oecasion to eall am t isd. ^---Y------------------------------ roud the wrist. As aMW, u lar or Av* of thee sider gid dlasP are often wor, ad the wearers, so far from feellng ashae of their ali,, sem to tae a pride It. A west nd Jeweler tells m that any number of these hsagles are sol to the same class of sma mn who have beean s the hat 'of wearing watch braoelets. The earn detnanst youth oftes wears theas rings a hi signet fsagesr, two ie ands and a rnag with ths msm sad he tse It al hy .tleshag a g.s.. s the.r volutari resideat abroad. who ae nearly all foes of the governmet. UOn t three years age little was known of this, bqt when Bourtsef made his famous revelations In 1910 It was shown that at least 10 "black cabinet" men were engaged In "perlustration" in foreign lands. vyes ompnaratively tree London has its "black cabinet," though it has no relations with' the English postal anthoritles or with the English police. In continental codhtries the cabinet works, or worked In the past, more or less topter with the lo6al political police; and it fmd an excuase for this by making out that all malcontents were advocates of terrorist methods. In Berlin and Vienna, after the Bourt. sNQ revelations, the police began to treat the cabinet emissaries coldly, and now the cabnlet must work cn their own lines. In Paris, before 1910. the cabinet acted hand in band with the police, al thoush ln.helping them the police were violating French law. M. Clemenssa, in 1910. promised the chamber of depu ties that no more Russian agents would be tolerated on Prench soil. The promise was not kept. The cabinet. under a man who has often been in jail for crimes, still steals and opens private letters. Two French colabora tors were lately exposed. One way of getting hold of the let. tenr is by bribing the concierges. Sometimes the "black cabanet" emis mary approaches the concierge with a foraged ard making him out to be a French polee agent, and demands the letters of a Russia resident The osn clerges, who are in chroae dread of the police, usually give the letters up. Only during the present year did it become known that Rome has the largest Russlan "black cabinet" on Street Scene Is M -ee Sev ce Experts Live Here. the continent Italy has many po litical refugees. The chief of all Ital Ian cabinets Is a Russian named Each arian. who calls himself a art student. acharin has many men n his pay. Franiesco Leone, the chief of them. has lately made a confession, and the question is to be raised in the Italian chamber. For months the cabinet opene4 every letter addressed to or written by the well kaqws Ruesia as thor and satirist, Amphtheatre Ex.MInister of the Interior Bulugin Is the greatest living antborlty en "black cabinet" matters. Bulalnta is now a prominent member of the coun cil of the empire. When serving as a manor ocial In the inistry of the In terlor he reorganised the cabinet, gave it entirely Into charge of the gendarm. ry and Issued a decree -pttlan an postmasters under control of the gendarmes. The result was that the cabinet grw ina efretery. No mansa letters were sacred. Wlhen a Kursh merchant complalned to the late Pre mier Peter 8tolypn that the cabinet delayed for days hris bslnss corre spondenoe, 8tolyin aniswered: "They asometimean delayt mine for weeks." oa a& lge of lucky white feather, a hu sbr, vebur uabrg ha l ua... Om.--Aa um.erseeu rier ooom otiag th great lakes Is believed to b swaUiowi p T aOerrk . are here. Mana slrathe of r.edway have KiM Talk. IM Phm p. Cspeohe ...(fs. X. Is the arlt mmaeob s tSalk lade a pm. raphk or ~pusesat. For Handu Bous and Girls to Make and Do ;l miy A. NEELY HALL TOYS PROM NUTLAND. The amusing little fure shown aIn the llustrations are a few of the many a that live In Nutland. live cents' worth of peanuts, a few chestnuts ad pe I cans, some pumpkins or squash seeds, I and a few handfuls of toothpicks wll nfurnlsh material for making thm. e Figure 1 shows the wild man and his prancing horse. The man Is made n of two peanuts, one for the hbead and a one for the body. These are Joined to Ssether by a short peece of toothpick stuck into,a hole pierced Ia the end of each nut with a hkif. Pieree holes tn the body peanut Ina the right places for the arms and legs, and stick tooth apiek beat as shown, into these a boles. S Jer the wild hore, select a long a. double peanut Pieree two small holes Snear one end, and Insert two bits of toothpicks for ears. Ebur beet tooth it pleks form the legs, and another forms Sthe tail. The wild man must be fa a teneo to the horse by sticking o end t 5 The a o( Th WR.nDooP.) t *Thd* bood n a sAND WiLD t "arE n o p 1boe. to Ieh a t ·rti L " e -THE "P Pi 3 n 1oUp a W9 m o 1 b nta a and I of a poiece a toothpick tnt his body h and the other end Into the heorse' SThe gdrns (i1. f) has a peanut body. toothpick legs, a tsethpiet seek, and teethpit tatdL Its sged is a . pumpsi seed, with yes mared with .pen or pencl. The ears are Ahart L pieces of tosthplshs steks into a slit made with a 1a0- the sw of the sd. Anathe n mhr t n made to the Sedge of the seed for the toothpick neck * to stick t (t) t The pig (Pga. 3) hr a pias au t r body, and four short tethpk legs. . The tasl Is a pioe.. string . Twist the string to a enareene, moke i a stit by dipping t lft glue, and s.lek a Its end into a bole made in tbe.ed s of the pecan nut. The eyes an ark. 0 . ed with pea or peo. a The old owl ('g. 4) Is made o t a peanut. By earetfutl he tng, ye wit soo oa apom o 1 U a 4 Mr ho yl tr aM ot as otad a emt o eut the form shLe Thto al yohs will hato to do s rka h SpaJr or too thpi eto a Irowt Jio (ns 5) I s p eepa e at the atiawb aoe. a hple as a • a arms p hSsm le- e *lnt es th ha.t e . a ne tm anm o trg aat fotdas aut t htst ht form erow s hUpe aat, and, it le more ete toLor N at l yoparrrlWae fto as bted e le wlei hpen r pema We * bonrd mks &owntle ari sag 6) wit pen keeer pL. kellw o.T puovin medr sot a Tuc y mran lives onles Ly N av ev see o e ets a peabnult path abo dy ae the feet of toothpicks, admak the ese and bea wimtea orp meni . of a perant flto holes, and stick toontoothpiks intothesi tolese for a hisfdri atei"-ftt bS. n o By DOROTHY PERKINS. A PLAY STORE. 3m Play store-keeping lIs great fen a my m mummer's day, and a very Pud th counter for a little store may be r in the simple manner shown i Is, Iand 2. 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