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Minneapolis.—Again
that "murder will out'
disproved.
AGENTS OF SULTAN OF TURKEY
BLAMED FOR CRUEL MURDER
In tbe heart of Minneapolis, busy
city of the great Northwest, six ap
parently inoffensive men have been
cruelly put to death, and all the efforts
of men bred to the unraveling of
ghastly mysteries have been unavail
ing, either to And the murderers or to
discover a motive for the crime.
The slayers have disapeared as com
pletely as if, indeed, they wore the
fabled invisible cloaks.
Macedonian Refugees in Minneapolis
Love—
Revenge—
At the bidding of a secret order—
Because the Turkish government
wanted them out of the way.
These are the various theories
formed by the police. And at theories
they stop.
Slaughtered in Hovel They
Called Home.
All that is positively known is that
six men, marked for murder, lie in
their graves in Minneapolis—all six
killed by orders of some one while
they slept.
Bodies Not All Together.
The knives, the blood-stained
hatchet, the splashes of blood every-
KER5TAN
YOVKE
ROBBERY CLEARLY NOT MOTIVE FOR CRIME
Fact That Currency arid Valuables Were
Found with Bodies Proves This—Inter
national Politics at Bottom, Is Theory
of Police Officials.
the old saying
bids fair to be
Motives Apparently Absent.
Everything sems to point to poli
tics. It was not money, because the
men's money and other valuables were
all found intact. It was not revenge,
because they knew no one in Minne
apolis. It was not love, because they
had no women, either as wives or
sweethearts, in this country.
There is but one explanation—they
were put out of the way by order of
some high political power on the other
side of the water. This is what the
police believe. What were the intri
cacies abroad no one dares surmise.
And dead men tell no tales.
The six were found lying quite dead
In a ramshackle old wooden house, No.
245 South Tenth avenue, Minneapolis.
So little known were they thereabouts
that the police had a hard time in find
ing out the names of the six. Finally
it was found that two were father and
son, Nicolo and Kirle Demetri, and
that the other foud were Kerstan
Yovke, Krivie Metie, Nukola Jaless
and Andri Jaless.
where, the disorder, the signs of a
struggle, told the story as plainly as
words could tell it. Four of the bodies
lay about the front room on the second
floor tbe other two—those of the De
metris—lay in a dirty, muddy base
ment, where they had been dumped
by the murderers.
Not a thing was found on any of the
men to give absolute proof of their
identities. Even the landlord, H. Mag
nusson, didn't know their names. All
he cared about was that the men had
paid four months' rent in advance
when they came there a week before.
The men ate, slept and lived in the
little roms on the upper floor. They
never drank liquor and were appar
ently of the most peaceable disposition.
They went out regularly every day
and returned with equal promptitude
in the evening.
Even the people who lived below
heard nothing on the night of the mur
der. It was only guessed at because
the men didn't appear on the second
morning after the murder. Some one
notified the landlord and be summoned
the police. They broke in.
Peter Stuyanoff knew the dead men.
He was arrested as a suspect at first,
but there was nothing to prove against
him. In fact, he gave the police all the
little they do know. He said the men
never had a quarrel in their lives and
never carried weapons. He said they
were all men who had,come over.here
to make their fortunes, and had no
thought of anything else but of mak
ing money and of sending for their
loved ones on the other side of the
world.
Pathetic Sight at Morgue.
It was a pitiful sight at the morgue
when poor Stuyanoff went. there to
identify his dead friends. The sight
of the gaping wounds moved him to
tears. He knelt before each body and
made the sign of the* cross as he
breathed a ^prayer.
Then he arose to his feet and kissed
each dead man on the brow. When he
finally came to the body of his cousin,
young Yovke, he was completely over
come. Great tears rolled down his
swarthy cheeks his big red handker
chief was soon soaked with them. He
took the head of the murdered boy in
his arms and kissed the still face
again and again. Then he left the
room shaking with grief.
"They would not hurt a fly would
not hurt a fly!" he moaned over and
over.
Fought Hard for Life.
When the house of slaughter was
searched a lamp was found burning in
the rear room upstair. A light bad
been seen there the night before. It
looked, however, as if the bodies found
in the cellar had ben dead longer than
the others. This only added to the
mystery.
Both bodies were terribly hewed and
hacked. In all, the six bodies between
them bore more than 100 wounds, al
most any one of them sufficient to kill
any able-bodied man. There were great
splashes of blood all over the walls
and floors, and it seemed as if the
dead, aroused from their sleep, bad
made a desperate fight for life, but in
vain.
Two big bowie knives were found in
the room with the four. Two more lay
in another room. A fifth, in its sheath,
lay in the basement beside the De
metris. Then there was the hatchet
and not another clew.
"Robbery!" said the police, as a first
guess, but that was knocked in the
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head when a money belt was found In
plain sight, containing $502, besides
many other articles of value.
Finally the knives were traced by
trade marks upon them. Thomas Wil
son, clerk of the Kelley Hardware
Company, in Duluth, identified them
as having been bought at the store
by a party of six foreigners a week
before the murder. That these were
the six murderers, one for each of the
intended victims, there can now be no
doubt.
Plainly the dead six had been
marked for vengeance.
Their trail has been followed from
far across the seas to the hidden fast
ness of the far Northwest by men who
evidently had sworn to kill. They had
traced their quarry, to Albion, Minn.,
a tiny town, and from thence to Du
luth. When tbe six came to Minne
apolis they were hunted still.
Had lied Far to Find Safety.
Adding to the mystery, tbe vest
ments of some order, religious or se
cret, were found in the house. What
had these to do with the strange
deaths? But most remarkable of all
was the plain proof that the six had
fled half-way around the world to es
cape their mysterious pursuers.
Passports proved this without doubt.
The papers-bore the earmarks of
Turkey, Greece, Italy and the Balkan
States. Their money, their foreign
coins of gold, several checks and
money orders were all found intact.
They had not been pursued to be
robbed.
What was it, then?
There .had been no drinking bout.
Neither wine nor spirits, or empty
bottles or glasses were found. There
was no love affair, apparently, at the
bottom of it. The men knew no wo
men in this country. It niay have been
the vendetta, who knows? But every
thing to-day points to politics.
And now comes the story told by the
passports, that seems to poirit to polit
cal murder. There were two pass
ports found among the belongings of
the murdered men. One was Issued to
young Demetri on January 25, 1905.
This was a passport from Macedonia,
issued by the Turkish government. It
bore the seal of the sultan. Half of
the document was in French, the other
half in Turkish.
It described him as smooth-shaven,
about 33 years of age, medium size, a
native of Macedonia and a subject of
Hfs Imperial Majesty the Sultan. The
other passports were old and inde
chiperable.
Strengthens Theory of Politics.
And this pointed to the politics of tbe
case. The Macedonian rebellion took
at once accepted this theory and went
to work on it But the murderers had
covered their tracks too well.
This much the police believe:
That the victims Were leaders of the
rebellion and fled to this country and
that their murderers were agents of
the Turkish government. The idea is
that they fled here, well knowing they
would be followed, but hoping to escape
into the far Northwest, where perhaps
they might be safe. Tbey went West
in the guise of railway laborers to es
cape pursuit.
But those whose appointed task was
to kill were cleverer than they and
were always close behind. Though the
chase led half way around the world,
the Turkish agents found their quarry
in an obscure corner of Minneapolis
and then went deliberately about the
job of killing.. They bided their time.
When all six were rounded up together
and asleep, and when all was quiet
and deserted without, they stole inside
place about two years ago. The police
Chicago.—There are slight indica
tions that Chicago may experience
an earthquake within a few years,
according to Professor*J Paul Goode,
pf the University of Chicago geology
faculty. The presence of certain
species of rock in the earth inside
or near the city limits, he believes,
is an indication of a condition that
might result in the dismantling of a
portion of the city.
"There is no absolutely geological
proof that Chicago may have an
earthquake in the. next few years,"
Professor Goode declared. "One can
detect slight symptoms, however.
Certain formations of certain kinds
of rock underneath Chicago might
be taken as an indcation. An earth
quake is as simple as the breaking
of. a timber.
"I believe that the seat of the
disturbance at San Francisco was
about seven miles below the surface
of the earth. It was quite probable
a slipping of the crust of the earth.'
Generally one block of the crust
slips up while the other slips down.
The focus of the disturbance may be
noted by tbe direction of the cracks
in the Sierra Madra Mountains are
in the wrecked buildings.
"The Lierra Madra Mountains- are
young and are growing slowly, and
no doubt their growing was the
cause of the earthquake."
According to Rollin D. Salisbury,
of the university, California has ex
perienced close to 1,000 earthquakes,
of which number 417 have occurred
in San Francisco.
"Previous to 1887, 948 earthquake
shocks have been recorded in Cali
fornia/' he stated. "Of these 417
have taken place in San Francisco.
Since that date the earthquake rec
ord of California, so far -as available,
is as follows: 1888, 35 1889, 40 1890,
3d 1891, 2i I892r, 42 1893. 41 1894,
33 1805, 36 1896, 40 1898 26.
"The majority of this large num
ber of earthquakes were the merest
tremors. Many of them would have
passed unnoticed but for the exist
ence at various points of seismo*
and upstairs to finish the job for which
they had come so far.
The dead men were not caught en
tirely by surprise. There are plenty of
signs that tbey struggled" desperately
against overwhelming odds. All the
furniture was upset, showing that
there was a struggle before the men
who had been aroused from their "sleep
to go to their death had not given in
without a whimper. Every body bow
wounds' enough to kill a dozen- men.
Imagine it, then—tbe semi-darkness,
lighted dimly by one feeble kerosene
lamp at the window, the silent en
trance of the murderers into the
gloom the sudden awakening of some
one of the doomed when his wound did
not kill him at the first blow, his cries
to the others, their sudden awakening,
too the clash of the steel, the cries of
the unarmed victims as they vainly
tried to fight off the the knives, the
grappling, wrestling, biting, scratching
of men fighting weapons with only
their hands the thrust at bead and
heart the death rattle of one after
another until there was none left to
die.
Then the dragging of two of tbe
bodies to the mouth of tbe black pit
that passed for a cellar, the dumping
of them down into the hole, and fin*
ally the flight into the murky dark*
ness of the dawn. ,\^
Evidencesi- of /Conflicts
It was a sight to terrify when the
police broke in. The six Were stone
dead, but there was plenty of evidence
that every one had fought for his life
till, weak from loss of blood in the un
equal contest, he had fallen at the feet
of his enemy to receive his coup.
After satisfactory identification had
been made, and the authorities had
made their preliminary inquires, the
bodies were buried together. A Minne
apolis medical college attempted to get
them for dissection, by right of a law
allowing them the bodies of all paup
ers without kith or kin, but when the
$502 was shown the college had to give
In- :^.*f': •'"."'-$•:."
The police have*worked bard, but
nothing turned up. They have been
to Chicago and to Duluth, where there
are other Macedonians, but notra single
clew has come to anything.
And now, "Who killed the six?"
seems to bid fair to go down into his
tory as one of the greatest murder
mysteries of tbe century.
SEES SEISMI PERIL
graphs which record movements
much too slight to be sensible.
"Practically half of the earthquakes
recorded in California have been felt
in the vicinity of San Francisco.
Only a few, however, were severe
enough to be destructive. The most
severe was April IS 1902. Others
severe enough to be destructive oc
curred April 21, 1892, and March 30,
1898. A careful record of earth*
quakes and of earth tremors has
been made at Lick Observatory and
on Mount Hamilton."
According to Professor Ulysses S.
Grant, head of the geology depart
ment of Northwestern University,
there is no city in the country in
whch a great earthquake could be
more destructive than in' San Fran
cisco, because tbe western city is
built on a solid foundation of rock.
"If a shock of equal severity had
occurred in Chicago," said he, "it is
probable few buildings would have
been destroyed, because of tbe clay
and gravel foundation of tbe city. It
is probable -there may be smaller
shocks in the Western States for a
few days, and there may be consid
erable danger from tidal waves, for
these things are likely to come at
once.
"In fact, it may be that so severe a
shock as the recent cne in San Fran
cisco may bring on .a tidal wave that
will be large enough to extinguish
the flames along the water front.
"I cannot say that I think there is
any connection between the eruption
of Vesuvius and the earthquake in
California, because the two phe
nomena are of different origin. The
latter is bf the sort that 4s caused
by sliding or slipping in the rocky
crust from cooling. Besides this, the
line of 'volcanic sympathy,' which
causes a chain of earthquakes to oc
cur at about the same time, runs
from north to south."
When New York Had Slaves.
In Washington's time theVe were
21,324 negro slaves in New York
state.
C* ,t* -*?*Jz &A
The night was made for love,
the morning for reflection.
A man never understands the
other sex so little as when he is
in love with one particular mem
ber of it
The most permanent note in
literature is tbe sad note. The
sense of humor and theif actors
of optimism must surely change
with the changing times. But
that which echoes the spiritual
sadness, always resident in hu
man life, is forever permanent.
And this no times can change.
S Jhe daring spirit and tbe im
agination of men will always
strive to seek in words some
sympathetic echo of that which
clamors in the silence of their
lives,
O
Most men get a second copy of'
2 illusions like a second set of
teeth, and this second set is
really the tough set, intended
O for chewing the bitter cud of re
flection in this world.
Your very learned critics, in
measuring too much, are likely
to miss the spirit of literature.
They are too much like me
chanical experts or juries who
do not get the whole of the evi
dence.
A woman may bully her bus
band for love, to secure his pros
perity, comfort and interests. A
man usually bullies his wife be
cause circumstances deny him
the privilege of bullying those he
meets outside of bis own home.
The poor have more hope than
the rich, for with them it is a
continual exercise.
The only way to lend .money
or anything else is to lend it
with the spirit of giving—never
expecting to see it back again.
Then if it comes back, it comes
with all the pleasure of a pres
ent.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
... Twenty neglected canvases dt Tur
ner, worth more than a million dol
lars, have been unearthed in London.
These must be the pictures ordered
some years ago by Mr. Porkpacker of
Chicago, in his famous message: "Ship
me two dozen Turners at once, with
bill for same." The pictures were
never sent. Evidently Mr. Porkpacker
changed his mind and ordered a gross
of Corots or Constables in place of the
Turners.
Following the lead of Leslie's, which
changed its name to the American Il
lustrated Magazine, and later cut off
the "Illustrated," other changes are ru
mored, in the magazine world. Mc
Clure's is to become the "Christian
Citizen's Magazine." The Bookman is
to become "Dodd's Monthly." The
Cosmopolitan is to become the "Tel
low Book." And Ainslee's will become
'Inancslee's"—though this is denied by
the management.
Our Best Society.
(From tbe Diary of Mortimer Cadd.)
Saturday.—Arrived at Palm Beach
for the week-end. as the guest of the
Rhinestones, at Mirth House. Pumped
the 'chauffeur on the way from the sta
tion, but couldn't get a line of scandal
out of him. Afterward I remembered
to have seen the fellow in the office of
T. T- Evidently he, too, writes, and is
not giving away any material. I had
better success with the valet. He tells
meHjjjroung Van Stuyverbilt is a frequent
caller at Mirth House, especially when
Rhinestone is away, and is expected to
night. I received a very cordial
welcome from'Mrs. Rhinestone. She is
a sweet little woman, with a baby
6mile and big innocent eyes. I am half
inclined to doubt the story about her
and Van Stuyverbilt. But I mustn't let
my sympathy spoil a good paragraph.
.Got a wire from the Colonel this
afternoon telling me to keep an eye on
Miss Harrington and Rhinestone. I
like his impudence. One would think
I was a common reporter. However, I
will keep an eye on the fair Harring
ton. The valet professed ignorance of
.an affair, but I coralled a*maidservant
In the hall, tipped her liberally and in
return got a tip that there certainly is
something doing between Rhinestone
and Miss' Harrington. I owe her one,
anyway. I suspect her of having writ
ten the paragraph about me in last
week's T. T., though tbe Colonel won't
admit it. I like Rhinestone, he's tbe
right sort, and is free with his cash.
He seems to have perfect confidence in
his wife but then, you never can tell.
Sunday.—A very lively dinner last
night, and my shirt cuffs are scribbled
all over with choice bits of. scandal. I
saw young Lushington: and Miss Brad
ley also taking notes, so I got up early
this morning, in spite of an awful
headache, to send off my letter to T. T.
I slipped out quietly, and when I hit
the main pike, whom should I see but
Lushington and the Bradley woman!
Each of us had a letter In his pocket,
but I beat the others' by wiring my
stuff. None of the guests of Mirth
House showed up this forenoon, but if
you listened hard you could hear pens
scratching in all the rooms. T. T.
ought to be unusually racy next week.
I have quite fallen in love with
Mrs. Rhinestone. The fair chatelaine
of Mirth House strikes me as being on
the level. WIstt I could recall what
I wrote about her this morning and
about Rhinestone, too. Sometimes it
occurs to me that to accept people's
hospitality and then write slander
about them isn't exactly the proper
thing to do. I felt a„blt mean when I
borrowed the hundred of Rhinestone this
afternoon. But when you're in Society
you muse do as the Society people do,
I suppose, it's all part of the game.
Still, I believe I'll wire tbe Colonel to
cut the Rhinestone paragraph.
Monday.—As I was leaving this
morning I saw Mrs. Rhinestone give
the chauffeur a letter to mail. I bribed
tbe fellow and got a look at tbe letter.
It was addressed to the editor of T. T.
Shocked? I should say so. D—n her
big innocent eyes and baby smile! The
letter was half an inch thick. I bet
she roasted all of us to a finish. Such
duplicity makes me sickr The literary
game is getting altogether too com
mon. If I didn't need the money I'm
banged if I would write another para
graph for T. T.
•.-
Newspaper dispatches informed us
that Mr. Mizner, whose entertaining
love affair was recently on exhibition,
had a brother who made epigrams.
This shed no very great light on the
other Mr. Mizner's identity. Just what
brand of epigrams does he manufac
ture? And where is his epigram fac
tory? In former days an epigram was
a kind of precious stone, comparatively
rare. Now epigrams are as common as
glass beads, and strings of them are
offered for sale at any price they will
fetch. There is really nothing cheaper
or commoner than the modern "epi
gram",of commerce.
Tbe Literary Market.
(For the interest and guidance of
writers who may have wares
for sale.)
The Burr Mcintosh Monthly, New
York, cannot accept novels of more
than 50,000 words.
Farm, Stock and Home, Minneapolis,
Minn., could use to advantage a few
pictures of chorus girls, with brief
sketches of their lives.
What to Eat, Chicago, would like ar
ticles on amateur photography and
boat-building.
The North American Review is pay
ing good prices for humorous verse,
and is also in the market for strictly
fresh hand-picked jokes.
The Atlantic Monthly says: "We buy
manuscripts of real merit which have
not previously been printed."
Frank Munsey has started another
magazine.
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston has
finished "Frenzied Finance." This is
the most important cessation since the
Lord rested on the seventh day.
NOW FOR OSTRICH RACES.
Huge Birds in Training at a Phil
adelphia Race-Track for
the Purpose.
In this age of queer ventures, when no
bid for the dollar seems absurd, even
the plan of a man to supersede race
horses by training ostriches to take their
places in the track may strike some as a
wise one. This idea, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, is actually being carried out at
the Philadelphia race track, known as
Barney Owen's course, the headquarters
of tbe East Suffolk Park Driving club.
About a dozen OBtriches have been in
training at this track for several months
past, and several are in thorough condi
tion broken to harness and readyto race
as soon as the time is deemed ripe for
springing the new sport on the public.
It has been no easy task to train the
big birds. They are by nature a stupid,
untractable lot, prone to take fright at
their own shadows and ready to strike
out blindly with their great feet at the
mere suspicion of danger. By unlimited
patience, however, the meaning of the
harness has been beaten into the stupid
heads of the.birds, and once the ostrich
is hitched to a racing sulky it is not diffi
cult to manage him.
The only way it has been found pos
sible to harness the ostrich is first to
blindfold him. No matter how many
times he has gone through the same
struggle he will resist the efforts to har
ness him with all his great strength and
unwieldy weapons of defense. To be
gin with, therefore, the attendants draw
over the bird's eyes a black hood. The
hood is pulled down on th,e neck, leav
ing only a hole through which the beak
protrudes. When this hood is on the
bird instantly becomes as quiet as a
lamb, although up to the moment of the
darkening of his sight he will fight like
an enraged tiger. When the hood is on
and the ostrich stands meek and still
the trainer drag*the shafts of the sulky
to their place and straps the bird to tbe
vehicle. Then he slips the harness over
the ostrich's bill and the bird stands
ready for tbe race. The hood may then
be withdrawn, for these racing ostriches
stand still'when the harness is fixed,
they probably having grasped, even
with their limited Intelligence, the idea
that it is exercise time, a welcome relief
from the confinement of the pen.
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Showing what has already been done and what yet remains to be done
|o complete the big dltok
English Drawing Room
and Evening' Court
The American girl is born to many
privileges, and in the light of the pres
ent talk about King Edward's first
court of the season and the number of
American women to be presented, we
feel inclined to include among the privi
leges—though by so doing we may of
fend vaunting republicanism—that of
eligibility to make a bow before their
English majesties. A writer in the
Canadian Magazine, of issue 1901, re
marks: "The United States mother
planning eagerly for the social careerof
her daughter, remembers, perhaps with
relief, that all the daughters of the
greatest republic are eligible-Hinder
favor of their ambassador—whilst Brit
ish girls are by virtue of lineage or upon
marriage."
Presentation a Trying Ordeal—Court Dress and Procedure Strictly.
Regulated—Changes Introduced by King Edward.
Among the Americans to be presented
this season two young women are con
spicuous: Miss Jean Reid, daughter of
Ambassador Reid, and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, daughter of President
Roosevelt.
At a drawing-room tbe matter of
costume is not left to individual taste
certain features are strictly regulated.
4 court train is obligatory, from three
and a half to four yards in length, de
pending from one or both shoulders,
so arranged that the wearer upon retir
ing from the "presence" may carry it
over her left arm. A white veil must
droop from the hair, and three white
feathers stand up white gloves, shoes
and stockings must be worn. The bou
quet was once an important part of the
toilet, but Queen Alexandra has de
cided against flowers as taking up too
much room.
Court dress for a man consists of
black velvet tail coat, decorated with
At the entrance to the august apart
ment, the second precious card is deliv
ered up to an attendant, who hands it
to the lord chamberlain. This func
tionary in a loud voice announces tho
names of debutante-and lady present
ing. With heart throbbing, a film be
fore the eyes, tbe awed debutante
makes her curtsies and, with what
grace she. is able,' retires. Formerly
she had to back out of the room, a very
difficult matter with that cumbering
long tail, four yards in length. The
article in the Canadian Magazine in*
forms us that formerly an attendant
equipped with a rod lifted the Ion?
train and put it over tbe lady's left
arm "the debutante should keep her
wits about her and have her arm ready
to receive the train, as unwary and un
fortunate debutantes have before now
literally received the trains over their
beplumed heads."
BALL AN© CONCERT ROOM.
cut-steel buttons, black silk stockings
and buckled shoes, white gloves, cocked
hat with a steel buckle. A small sword
is also worn.
A presentation at court involves no
little fatigue and is assuredly an or
deal. It is by no means easy nowa
days for the American—in spite of the
eligibility—to get the "favor of the
ambassador" and win the coveted
cards of invitation. If favored, two
cards are received, upon which appear
the name of the lady who is to present
the debutante and the name of the
debutante. Now the question of gown
engrosses attention, and at last the fate
ful day arrives. The start for Buck
ingham palace is made due early, that
the experienced coachman may line
up in a good place. There are several
entrances to the palace the garden
entrance is reserved for the royalties
and their equerries by Pimlico en
trance and state entrance the company
is admitted one ingress is sacred to
the corps diplomatique and those that
hold the entree—wives and daughters
of ambassadors and other distinguished
foreigners connected with thelegatlons,
and wives and daughters of high of
ficials of the court and government.
To hold entree means not only the
courtesy of a special entrance but also
an early presentation.
At the afternoon drawing-room there
would be a tedious wait before the pal
ace, the grand ladies at the mercy of
the cockney come to look his fill at the
show and sharpen his wits a bit. "It
is a wit which embraces every phrase
ology from the sporting slang in which
a bechecked coster acquaints his 'Ar
riet with the fact that in his opinion
such and such«a dowager (indicated by
personal description which admits of
no doubt as to identity) should be
'scratched because she carries too much
weight' to the poetic panegyric which
describes a blonde debutante as a
•primrose floatin* in yer pot o* beer, if
you loike."
At last the palace gate is open, one
leaves "one's cloak, delivers one
card and makes progress through vari
ous apartments, sometimes through a
much hindering and heartrending
crush wherein chaperon and debutante
are separated_and it would seem never
could be brought together again. But
they always get together, somehow or
ather, in time for the entrance to the
ballroom where their majesties of to
day hold court. .'•'•'•."
Mme. Waddington, in her charming
pictures of a diplomat's wife at the
court of St. James, gives us an idea of
For Edwrad's second court there ac
companied the invitations particular
directions as to attire, and this advice:
"Ladies who pass the presence at their
majesties' court are requested to be
kind en'ough to remember that their
trains, which are spread by the pages
on entering the throne room, should
be kept down until they are picked up
and restored to them by the pages who
will be in attendance at the exit door
for that purpose." To-day, we are told,
the debutante "may absolutely trust
to the exquisite and ceremonious r&re
which will attend her every footstep *n
the way from the palace door to their
majesties' presence."
Queen Charlotte held evening draw
ing-rooms William IV. and Adelaide
preferred to hold them by day, as did
Queen Victoria. King Edward and
Queen Alexandra held ho drawing
room during the year of mourning for
Victoria, and when at last formal an
nouncement was promised of a resump
tion of the ceremonious function, all
were, agog to see what changes would
be introduced. The following were
made: Change from afternoon to even
ing, an evening court attendance and
presentation by invitation only.
In the old days the company used to
faint for bite and sup. In the present
rule there is supper, a superbly served
affair. Queen Victoria did not care
for residence at Buckingham, but Ed
ward and Alexandra reside in the pal
ace, and the kitchens are in practical
working order, guests at an evening
court sup delicately." Usually by one
o'clock the general company has de
parted, many to make a visit in the
wee sma' hours to photographers, who
will have flashlight all ready to "take"
the wonderful presentation costume
not a few to finish the night at parties
given in honor of the presentation oc
casion. Formerly grand afternoon teas.
called peacock or train teas, were the
custom—the fair debutantes arrayed in
all their glory. Still farther back was
a custom which seems to us very Eng
lish indeed, driving in state in Hyde
Park, a public display of costume and
fact of court presentation.
the wearisomeness of a drawing-room ter bells ranging from 1,300 pounds to
after one has seen the show a number
of times and 'it also of the ordeal it
proves to young girls. She tells of one
young English girl, a fragile creature
being put through her paces by her
mamma,' who became so fatingued
waiting her turn—she did not have the
entree and had to come in with the
general? company—that she fainted and
was carried away from the crowd, had
to have her dress cut and lie down a
couple of hours. It was not possible
to get her so much as a drop of tea, as
in Victoria's day no refrshments were
given. But tbe rest revived the girl
somewhat, and her Spartan mother de
cided that, as the drawing-room luckily
happened to be a long one and there
was yet time, to have her dress re
paired and the girl go through the
presentation. She did, received the
•iamp that she "belonged."
In the early days of the reign of
Queen Victoria very splendid drawing
rooms were held. But as age and sor
row descended, the queen was wont to
retire after receiving the corps
diplomatique and the entree people.'
relegating her duties to Princess Alex
andra. It was in 1S63 Alexandra held
her first drawing-room, at the time a
bride of 19. It was a great occasion,
for four hours the young princess un
weariedly bowed and smiled to the
throngs over 2,000 women and several
hundred men were present that day.
All sang praises to the lovely lady
representing the queen, and long re
membered the picture made that May
day by the princess of Wales in her
gown of bridal white looped up with
sprays of lilac blossoms.
ELLEN THAYER.
Mammoth Clock Works.
Tbe works of a clock, mado for tbe
French cathedral of St. Gervais d'Av
ranches, weigh two tons there are fiva
sets of wheels, and the hours are
struck on the bell, weighing over six
tons, by a clapper of 220 pounds. For
tbe quarters and the carillon there are
22 other be'ls, the weigat of th-3 quar-
two tons. Tnere are four faces fo this
clock, which is the largest in France.
Bad Recovery.
Scene: Registry office. Bridegroom
(to register)—The firsc timo I was
married was ic achurca, the second
time in a chapel, but like this way
best. It's so plain and simple-^-and I
should come here if ever I got marr ul
again—(catches sight of his byide, :md
sees he has said the wrong tur.ivT
that is, my dear, if ever I ha/e V.\e—
er—misfortune to get marrie 1 agitin ot
course!—Punch.
Census Never Taken.
The population of Morocco can only
be guessed. No census hasever beea ta
ken. The best authorities estimate l.he
inhabitants to number about 7,500,(100.