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THE AKeUS, SATUHDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1903. 11 Hicfa Toga. Wearers Senate is Richest Body of Men in the World -Orve-quo-r(er Milliona-ires. Auhdig Hie Uniied States senators who for the tirst time appeared us nu mbers of that august body at the opening of the special session ofcon- i m SKXATOIl l'KANCIS O. SEWLASDS. gross were several wnoso great ror tuues will aid in maintaining the repu tation which the American house of lords has gained as being the richest legislative assemblage iu the world. The senate has long been called a "millionaires' club," but it has never had so many rich members ns at pres ent, their combined wealth being es timated at -!iMK;0,0U0. Three new members of large wealth who have just entered the exclusive circle are Weldon 15. Hey burn of Idaho. Levi Aukeny of Washington and Francis G. New la nds of Nevada. Senator Hoy burn, who was married only the other day. is the fattest man in tlio I'.pper house, being of such gen erous proportions that a special chair of extra size had to be built for him before he could be seated among his confreres, lie is live feet ten inches tall and weighs IJ'-J pounds. Senator Heyburn is said to possess one of the most robust appetites known on the I'acitic coast, but whether or not this reputation is deserved his girth is six ty inches, and his wealth is $2,000,000. Senator Ankeny is tall and slender and is known as the Itussell Sage of me west": He commands more ready cash than any other capitalist of his section and is chief stockholder in twenty banks scattered throughout Washington, Idaho and Oregon. It is said that in forty-eight hours he could mass $.",000,000 in any of these banks to his own credit. Mr. Newlands. whose wife, a daugh ter of the late William Sharon, former ly United States senator from Nevada, brought him a large fortune, is proba bly worth $15,000,000. much of which he nuul; by speculation in real estate in the District of Columbia. Another new senator who has been a member of that body only since last January is John I Dryden of New Jersey, who is credited with $10,000, 00U, nearly all of which was made in life insurance. He began operations with an oftice staff numbering but three all told and an outtit costing Hot more than $200. Today he has under his supervision over 150.000 persons in all parts of the country. John Kean. the other New Jersey senator, is rated at $3,000,000. mainly inherited. The richest man in the senate is W. A. Clark of Montana. Probably he him self does not know how much he is wortjv, but .his .income.is said to be.S.l.- X : t .Ms c SEXAZOn JOHN F. DItlDES. 000,000 a month, so it is safe to put him down at $100,000,000. The two West Virginia senators. Stephen B. Elkins and Nathan B. Scott. ..together own a large part of the state. It is suppose'il mat each of tneir. is the possessor of at least $10,000,000. Mark Ilanna's $10,0!X).000 is chiefly in vested in the iron business and in steamship traffic on the great lake3. Kearns of Utah and Wetmore of Rhode Island also count their wealth in this class. Then there are dozens of senators who reckon their possessions between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000. among the latter being Proctor of Vermont and Alger of Michigan. In fact, the num ber of men in the senate who are mil lionaires comprises at least one-quarter ot that august bodr. A MARVEL OF THE MAILS. Great Distance That Letter- Travel at Small Expense. If a man should start from New York and travel northward to Alaska, then down the coast to California and take ship to Manila and follow the lines of travel to Hongkong, to Singapore, to Canton, to Tokyo, to Vladivostok, to St. Petersburg, to Vienna, to Lon don, to South Africa and linally to South America, touching on the way at several Pacific and south Atlantic islands and thence back to his starting point, he could travel a distauce sever al times greater than the circumference of the globe. If he ordered his mail forwarded to him and left correct ad drosses behind at each place the letters would dutifully follow him and linally be delivered to him in New York a few days after his own arrival there. All that he would have to pay extra for this remarkable journey of his mail would be a dollar or two in tolls, which would represent the charges for for warding exacted by some of the coun tries through which it passed. There are in the post oflico department at Washington the envelope of a letter which traveled in this way 130,000 miles and another which came safely through a trip of 123,000 miles. St. Nicholas. A Case of KidnapliiK. The pretty baby had fallen asleep in her perambulator in front of her fa ther's house on a fashionable street. The nurse was nowhere to be seen. A shabbily dressed man. clad .in black, looked at all the windows and saw that the blinds were drawn. It was the afternoon hour, when wealthy New York likes to drive in the park. "Ah!" he exclaimed as he crept stealthily toward the sleeping child. "If I can only catch her before she wakes so pretty, so peaceful! 1 know her father will be only too glad to pay my price!" In two seconds he stood before the baby carriage, drew a black box from beneath his coat and snapped a rubber bulb directly in the baby's face. Then he put the black box beneath his coat and walked away with a smile of su preme satisfaction. "Gee!" he exclaimed. "Such luck! Daddy will pay $3 for a dozen ot those photographs; sure thing'." New York Times. Oliver Crouivrell. Newburg priory claims the distinc tion of sheltering the remains of Oliver Cromwell. After the protector's death on his lucky day. Sept. ?. his body was embalmed and, after lying in state for some time, was interred with regal pomp in Westminster abbey. After the restoration his body, along with those of Ireton and Bradshaw, was ex humed and hanged on the gibbet at Tyburn. The heads, so the story goes, were struck off and placed on the top of Westminster hall, while the bodies were buried beneath the gallows. On the other hand, it is said that another body was substituted for that of Crom well and that the protector was buried secretly on the Ilambledon hills. At all events, at the top of Newburg pri ory there is a narrow room, one end of which is occupied by a mass of stone work built into the wall. Here, it is said, the remains of Oliver Cromwell rest. The Lead Pencil. The name lead pencil is a misnomer "made correct by custom. The so called leads of a pencil are in reality a mix ture of graphite and clay. Graphite is a word derived from the Greek, mean ing "to write." It Isa native mineral carbon of black color and brilliant me tallic luster. To the touch it feels smooth, somewhat like soapstone. and it breaks in a very flaky manner under a very light blow. It is so soft it will leave a trace on paper. It is sometimes culled plumbago and has stiil another name black lead from which, of course, we get the name lead pencil. Graphite is found in the oldest rock formations, and deposits are to be found in various parts of the world, the most famous being those at Altai, in Siberia, and at Ticonderoga, N. Y., in this country. The I'ostman's Knock, The British postal service may be slower than the American, but it has its humors. The story is told that in one of the remotest districts of Oxford shirewhich contains some inaccessi ble and primitive villages there has long been a subpostmnster with a wooden leg. In performing his delivery of letters he drove a donkey cart. But he found it difficult to get up and down. So it has been his custom to take with him a tin bucket full of large stones. These he hurled one by one with steady aim at the doors jif his neighbors as occasion domatm'etl. That was the postman's knock. l'aniell Superstitions. . Charles Stewart Parncll was one of the strongest men that ever lived, but he had numberless superstitions. Once a colleague of his brought him the draft of a bill Jo the cell he was tjie - oceupyiug in ' Kflmainham. It was in thirteen clauses. Parnell was horrified. He insisted that somehow or other a fourteenth clause Once Parnell saw three lights in his iiuite uneasy Until lights put out. I once when he had should lo added, a colleague with bedroom. He was he saw one of the traveled with him a scarf that had boon presented to him by a lady ad mirer. There was some green in the scarf. One of his suerstitions was that green was an unlucky color. He used io say, half joke, whole earnest, that all the misfortunes of Ireland came from the fact that her trior was green. He was very much put our by this scarf. It was in the days when the habeas corpus was suspended in Ireland and we were sleeping on the mail boat at Kingstown and were not to start for Holyhead tiil next morn ing. He was quite sure the green scarf would have us arrested before we left In the morning. M. A. P. Beauties of Ileil Tape. A typical instance of the war office methods is furnished by a correspond ent on one of our stations. An officer having occasion for the use of a screw driver made application for the supply of that humble but handy implement from the government stores. His appli cation was bandied alout in the usual manner from officer to officer and linal ly reached the upper authority, from whom a reply liltered back by the same devious ways to the effect that screw drivers were only supplied in tool boxes and not singly. Nothing daunt ed, the officer at once applied for a box of tools and after the usual cir cumlocutory tactics was informed that boxes of tools were only supplied to carpenters' shops. By this time the officer, who had quite forgotten what he had wanted the screwdriver for, had thoroughly entered into the spirit of the campaign, and his next applica tion was for a carpenter's shop. He got it. Ixtndon Tit-Bits. A Kulr Question. A hypochondriac who visited Sir Conan Doyle in the days when he was a practicing physician complained of "a very bad side." He told his story in great detail, says the London Chronicle. He put his hand above his waist line and said: "I get a sharp pain here, doctor, whenever I touch my head." "Wby on earth, then, do you touch your head':" Dr. Doyle asked mildly, but dryly. Self Control. "There's one tiling 1 will say." re marked Mrs. Cumrox. "and that is th.at my daughter Arabella has a line disposition." "Indeed';" "Yes. sir. The way she can sit for hours listening to herself play on the piano shows remarkable self control." Exchange. Xmas Bay of Terror Hard Lines of tKe Players VVKo Entertain Theatre Crowds. In the vaudeville houses where con tinuous performances are given Christ mas day strikes terror to the most time hardened dramatic soul. The doors, open anywhere between t:3u and 10.o a. m. and close at abut midnight. The headiiners play their, customary two turns, 'hut those lower in the dramatic scale play "on de mand." generally about four times. If an net is particularly weak, it is used t "chase" out the audience in plain LIngMsh. to tire it into" leaving the house and making room for the line waiting in tLc lobby. The low salaried vaudeville actor, therefore, eschews any Christinas din ner and hies himself to the nearest quick lunch counter, there to feast on turkey sandwiches, execrable coffee and pie as heavy as his spirits. By the time he has done his last turn on the stage he is more ready for bed than for the festive board. To the unsuccessful actor Christmas is likely to bring that blessing of the Bialto, a "turkey date." Scattered within easy access of New York are numerous small cities, or, more properly speaking, towns, where good shows never come', or tr.ese lije catchpenny manager keeps a list, and on quick notice lie scours Broadway for cheap, unengag"d talent, from which he organizes his company, re hearses it hastily in some playhouse conveniently idle at the time, rushes some cheap printing upon the poor, un suspecting town and lands ther;; bright and early Christmas morning. The population, show luiuury. wel comes the holiday diversion and packs the town hall, matinee and night. The actors are thus assured of a good Chri.itmas dinner ami supper and a percentage of the box office receipts. Usually these are divided according to the importance of the roles played by the actors. This will tide them over until New Year's day. which brings an other "turkey date." Many an actor now featured on Broadway has played his share of "turkey dates." One in particular tells how, with live associates, lie put on "The Clemenccau Case." not abash, d that the cast called for no less than twelve capable actors, and was quite radiant over the returns of "one Christ mas dinner with trimmings" and 8123 to be divided among the actors. Wash ington Post. A DANCE IN THE KLONDIKE Juuiiuin Miller's Story and the AVar He Clinched It. At one of his lectures jusl after his return from the Klondike Joaquin Mil ler told the following story: "One night I was Invited to a dance in a miner's cabin, and while Bill Dalton scraped away o'n his liddle we just 1-oeil it down. But the miners tramped in and out so much between dances that be fore midnight the ladies declared the floor was so slippery they couldn't dance another step unless something was done. Then something was done that never was possible in mining days jn California. Kach miner gal lantly opened his buckskin powder pouch and sprinkled gold dust on the floor! And this was repeated through out the nig.it. And in the morning, ladies and gentlemen, those miners never troubled themselves about sweep ing up that gold dust. They just hitch ed up their dog sleds and rode away." At this point of Miller's narrative there was a slight agitation in the au dience, an ominous sign of incredulity, but Miller was equal to it. With a wave of ins hand toward one of the boxes, tie sst-tl. ""And my o:l trieml up there in the b:.. Captain .!ohn Ilealy. will substas: : i ite what 1 say." It was a m...-er stroke of the poet, for the house burst into applause and greatly embarrassed liie modest mil lionaire mining and railroad promoter of Alaska, who unsuspectingly had ac cepted ?,Iiiler"s invitation to attend the lecture in Ihe afternoon. Mixed MMaiiliiir. "Brethren." said an earnest exhort er to a body of religious workers, "breth ren, remember that there Is nothing which will kindle the fires of religion in the human heart like water from th'J fountains of life." Keeping Her Avray. riiotograi!:er Don't assume such a fierce expression. Look pleasant. Murphy Not on your life! My wife is going t send one of those pictures to her mother, and if I look pleasan, she'll come down on a visit. Kansas City Independent. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. 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