Show JAS THE WORLD REVOLVES PHYSICIAN TO SHAH OF PERSIA dr W L sm th of worcester mass has un que honor dr william lord smith of ter mass graduate of harvard sports man and 1 unter ot big game is head ed for home loaded dov n with decora bione tione from the grateful Muzaffer ed din chah of persia whom be cured ot a malarial disease which had baa fled native and foreign physicians dr smith has also now the title 0 in ordinary to the throne of persia but it Is not certain that he will return to the land of the shah and fill the position dr smith is ending a two years tour of the world early in the summer he arrived in persia and as the plague was raging there was quarantined but just then the shah nas taken ill at teheran and dr smith was summoned A journey of miles to the palace on camel back across the desert followed after the shah was cured he and his doctor went hunting together and this ce dented their friendship CHIEF OF POSTAL CLERKS arthur donoghue of ch cage chosen for the posit on arthur donoghue the newly elected president of the national association of postal clerks has been four teen years connected with the regis to department of the chicago cen aral office mr donoghue graduates from high school in 1887 ten years later he took his degree from the achl cago college of law he nau never held office in the local organization ox postal cleri s and the action of the convention at st louis was a pleas ant surprise to his fellow clerks in the chicago office marveled at me s changes when henry james the novelist returned to the united states after an absence of twenty years he was overwhelmed by the changes wrought in new york during that time As he stepped out upon that part of the pier which affords something of a view of manhattan he stood silent several moments deaf to the question of his friends and gazed at the outline of his native city in true rip van win hie wonderment at the same time mrs mary king waddington widow of the famous french diplomat ed in new york after an absence of thirty nine ears As one after an other of the huge shapes that scrape the clouds over the city came into view she turned to her son and ex claimed ugh how hideous mme VI addington also is a native ameri can the granddaughter of rufus king of isea york joke on edmund rostand bidi Bund rostand was the other day the hero of a little episode which might furnish him ith the material for a scene in a future play during a visit to a friend in the country M rostand was requested to accompany him to a maire in order to register the friend s newborn infant the adjunct of the maire a conscientious little man booked the infant and then turned to M rostand as the first witness your name sira admond rostand your vocation 7 man of letters and mem ber of the french academy very w fall replied the official you have to sign our name can ou write if not vou may make a cross czars numerous relatives the list of the czar s relatives in eludes a brother an uncle four cou sias of the first degree ten of the second thirteen of the third and a great uncle all of these except the thir een cousins of the third degree must be addressed as imperial highness these thirty three male relatives of the czar are a great financial burden to the empire each of them re calves an annual income of they moreover own in the aggregate COO square miles of land and palaces employing an army of 20 servants anti cigarette law not popular the agitation igi tation over the decline ot the english physique to which atten alon was forcibly called during the boer has led to a crusade against juvenile smoking and an anti cigar ette bill is now before the house of commons though it is not believed that there is any probability of its passing the objection is made that the fine of 2 50 which is imposed upon every boy or girl under 16 who is convicted of smoking must be paid by the parent and that the offense is one that parents cannot prevent mill without change pierpont morgan james stillman william rockefeller james J hill and chauncey M depew attended the same board meeting in new york recently while the meeting was in session a messenger arrived with a note and a package for senator depew the charges being all five of the millionaires a called upon to con tribute b t the amount could not be made up mr hill s stenographer finalle palal the boy who possibly de pa ted with a new idea of what it Is to be a millionaire |