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Show Nurses Emulate Doctora. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS. Feb. 12. Recently the doctors of Paris demanded and vsecured a higher scale of fees. The nurses emboldoned by tlic success of the doctors have placed a minimum rato of SI a day on th'.Jr services. called upon by the speaker, ho wonders how the function of electing that official is to be conducted. Hero Is where a solemn-looking personage known as the elerk of the tablo gets in Ills big work. Already he has Impressed the new members mem-bers by the dignity with which he has silently rebukJQ their mistakes in tlie ceremony of handing to him the writs received from the returning officer certifying cer-tifying to their election. Method of Procedure. Tlic clerk of the table suddenly gels on his legs and his glance falls upon some unoffending member, at whom also he points with Ills extended forefinger. All eyes turn in that direction and tho unsophisticated un-sophisticated beholder almost cxpcLts to hear the man indicated exclaim, "Not guilty,'" or offer some excuse for being present, or something of that sort. But the member simply claps his hat on his head. If it Isn't there already, bobs to his feet, and in a few set words moves that the speaker of the preceding parliament parlia-ment be re-elected to the chair. When he has subsided, the clerk of the table transfixes another member with his glance and stabs at him with his finger. The second member don3 his hat. gets to the perpendicular and seconds the motion mo-tion of tlie honorable gentleman who has preceded him. That settles It. for the party leaders have agreed mat there shall be no opposition, and the elerk of the table settles himself back in his chair with an air that says, "The game is started and you can play It out for yourselves." your-selves." To Umpire Game. But the speaker, who has been silting sonibwhore on tho benches among the plain, everyday M. P.'s, betrays astonishment. astonish-ment. He looks as If the honor so suddenly sud-denly conferred upon him was the last thing in Ihe world that he could expect. And with that look of astonishment on his face he bolts for the door and disappears. dis-appears. Tlie stranger scarcely has recovered re-covered from his surprise at this action ac-tion and from his pity for the man so overcome by unexpected honor, when tint door reopens, tho maeo-bonier appears with tho gorgeous emblem of ills office. Behind him, In the splendid dignity of wig and gown, the speaker enters, and, taking the chair, delivers a carefully edited Impromptu speech of thanks to the house for Its confidence and the honor conferred upon him. Later in Uu proceedings pro-ceedings he goes to the hou.e of lords and In line phrases informs their lord- ! ships that he lias been selected to "umpire "um-pire the game in the other Held and hopes It will be played fair, but if not he will be Ihe oiih to take ull the blame. He doesn't mean that pan of it a bit. but it's Included In the book of the piny ant; he Is loo polite to rut It out. Women Might Have Turned Scale. Dark rumors were current as to some new device of the suffragettes. Threats were heard of some conspiracy that will render It impossible for men to record their voles during the election. But tho tcrrlblo coup did not come off. One report re-port was thai in default of wearing the trousers, women might steal them. You may Imagine a million men waking up on tlie morning of polling day and finding that a million wives had bidden their! trousers and gone out to spend the day with their mothers. .You may Imaglno a million men scouring the house, nnd in a turmoil of conscience between decency de-cency and patriotism. If the women of England, tho wives, mothers, sisters, had agreed to concentrate on trousers, they could keep about 900.000 men without the franchise and within the home. There kxp some men who have more trousers than can be so conveniently stolen. But the 1)00.000 searchers for trousers would have turned the scale. Ministers Decline Call. Both Dr. Campbell Morgan and Dr. .T. 11 .lowott have declined the call to the Mfth Avenue Presbyterian church In New York, though It carries a very much larger salary than either of these dls-lingulsed dls-lingulsed divines are now receiving. When. Dr. .lowett announced to his congregation con-gregation In Birmingham his decision to decline the offer to go to America, he was greeted with open applause. He roc-, ognlzed the outstanding Importance of the New York church, the wide Influence of Its pulpit, and Its almost boundless opportunities of service, lie frankly said that he knew no church on the other side of the water which could compare with It in possible range of life and labor. The grealnessflf Its pastorate wns only excelled ex-celled by the grace and delicacy vlth which It had been offered to him. It was the vast opportunity for an evangelical ministry' In America which had laid such a grip upon him. and had led to such uncertainty of decision. But he had been led to the conclusion that the New i'ork ministry was not for him. |