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Show r Worvderful Career The Meteoric Rise of Cherries M. Hays by railroads which needed men such as the Wabash had found In its hour of heed. ' Among these roads was tht The Grand Trunk peoGrand Trunk. ple sent to St. Louis for Mr. Hays. They offered to give him a salary of $25,000 a year If he would come, aad be made a contract with them to aerve as general manager five years at this salary. The eyes of railroad men followed His Mr. Haya to the Grand Trunk. genius for results likewise followed him there. Within three years he had become so Valuable to the road that It broke the condition of lta contract with Mr. Haya and Increased his salary to $35,000 a year. When Collls P. Huntington died the Southern Pacific railroad waa without a president and the office was offered to Mr. Hays, who accepted It. Few men in the whole wide world drew a bigger annuel salary than Charles M. Hay, the successor of the late Colils P. Huntington, aa president (of the Southern Pacific railroad. President McKinley gets 150,000 a year and iCharles M. Hays geu $5,000 more. Twenty-seve- n years ago, at the age of It, Charles M. Hays was a clerk jin the San, Francisco railroad offices jla St, Louis with a salary of $40 a jmonth. A few weeks ago Mr. Hayes, (now In his 46th year, became presl-jdeof the Southern Pacific railway, second largest In the world. (the Hays was 19 years old when he a clerk In the St JamiIs freight nt TERMS MEAN LITTLE. of Articles la ( maos Cm TSal Carry Mlaeaaasptloa The following are a few mistakes terms which mean anything but what Cayenne pepper, they seem to mean for Instance, Is prepared not from a pepper plant, but from capsicum. Jerusalem artichokes do not eem from Jerusalem. The plant Is not a natlv of the Holy land. Turkey do not e come from Turkey. The bird Is a of America. Camels hair brushes are made from the soft, bushy tall of the common squirrel. German silver is hot saver at ail, but an alloy of var I ous baaer metals, which uas Invented in China and used there for centuries. An injustice Is done to Germany In calling the cheap, but useful, wooden-case- d clocks she has so long produced Dutch. The mistake arise from the German word for German Deufsch.'' 'Fork legs trehot Constructed of cork neither did they come from the city of that name. Thej usual material for a cork leg is weeping willow, covered with rawhide. People with or without cork legs sometimes pride themselves they are wear- -, tng porpoise hide boots. porpoise hide ia tn reality the skin of1 tht white whale. Irish stew la not Irish, but an English dish; and Turk- -' Isb baths did not originate la Turkey, but la Russia. Cleopatra's needle has nothing to do with Cleopatra, hut was aet up about 1,000 years befors that lady waa horn. na-t'v- CHARLES M. HAYS. Tiffice of tht old Atlantic & Pacific ) allroad, now the Frlaco. He was a He ennative of Rock Island, 111. tered the SL Louis office In November He began pushing himself of 1871. the day he went, to work. In March of the following year heTTadpushed himself from the $40 per month position Into place la the auditors which paid $50 a month. Next he Ibecamf a clerk In the superintendent's office aad In 1883 secretary to the general manager. Ia two years he was assistant general manager at a salary of $204 a month. A year later he tbs general manager of the Wabash himself, and his salary, which always keeps abreast with the man, went up to $12,000 a year. He continued la this position six years at a salary of $12,000 a year, and the Wabash system manager much la demand e, ed be-m- ss A YOUTHFUL Bt)ER HERO vanced to within ' who arAmong the UVe refugee rived In this country from South Africa the early part of the week, the first Poor fighting men ever seen here, waa youth of 18, C. G. Bnyroan, son of on of thr members of the party. This youngster waa the hero of Gen. D He Wet's division during the war. Was little more than 15 y?ar old when hostilities began and his father, who sheep herder In Thi Orange Free ",ai a took him from school and placed State, 8 rifle in his hands to fight the English. He Joined the Boer fordes under Go. D Wet, being made a member iof the general staff. He fought in 15 battles and Innumerable regular Skirmishes and never as much aa received a scratch. Hs has the honor among his people of having killed the first British soldier In the Orange Free State during the war. It is said that no leas than a dozen of the queen's troops fell before his unerring rifle. Young Snyman's heroism, on the field of battle attracted the attention of President Steyn of the Orange Free State, who promised to reward the young hero with a farm It peace was Wver declared and the Boers got back He - frequently ad their property. the British , 1 fur-cla- rs Potsdatm s Pala.ces (Special Letter.) Three days should be devoted toibe palaces- - and the other attractions of r. Potsdam. The average traveler, cover one in Ay's to it tries exploration. The man or woman tho attempts to vee five big palaces, aefiral castles, churches, and the parka wWch make the city celebrated, in ten hours will be a fatigued mortal at sight, with only a Jumbled recollectlot of what has been so hastily viewed. Tka your time If you mean to fully Joy the magnificent scenery, the exquisite glimpse of water, hill and dal the historical buildings that hold so Men fofc 4h seeker after knowledge. The old royal palace, where Frdcr-ir- k the Great passed so many yesik is a venerable-lookin- g pile three stories ww high, with a noble portico. ' a'so the abode of Queen Lou Lb. who made the court respectable wr the voluptuous reign of Frederick William ho was the most licethe Second. ntious of Prussian sovereigns. The apartments of the Queen, In 1810, are left Just as they were at the time of her death, by order of her Imperial son. The rooms eontil a fire screen of needlework embrgijlered by Louise; a chair made by Frederick the Great, and a gentleman on torse-bapainted byhl imperial fitter-Throom where Napoleon slept tiilao V visited. jT Tb Castl. at BbiUbAr. The rooms In. the palaee are la silver and light blue, and are small m-home-llkIs one" of A departure broan inlaid, known aa the Pompeiian room Louise's apartments, Queen where ahe expired, show sage. The walla were covered with white mull and are now turned black With age. The Castle of Babelshurg, built by Ilia. gran slfaUieL fiLDafijraseaLEa.-peror- , la on a sightly point overlooking a picturesque stretch of country. It (lies a mile away from the roadway, tot 'far from San Soucl, tn tht midst of a Igreat park. The castle la of medieval 'style and has been unteianted since the death of the son of the Emperor builder. Father and son Fere had of the chase and trophies dt their skill iwith the rifle, in the way of deers are plentifully distributed heads, through the caatle. There are historic furniture and trinkets. Brown wood predominates in the ornamentation. Two rooms art finished In mart) and gold. Several shields are suspended from the walls and a unlqae gift are I the two porcelain elephants three feet L high,, which were sent by 'ruler to the Emperor three yearn ago. lw-eve- vrtu-rt)ir- e'l C. O. BNYMAN. of the other refugees, are in the hands of the British. - There Is a price upon all their bends. of ftoelnitom. Despite all oppressive measures taken by the government, socialism, or, rather, the Socialistic party of Germany, gains constantly In strength, and even Brandenburg, which has been affected least by the movement, has returned to the Reichstag a Socialist for the first time In It history. The result of the election has caused much excitement In Germany. Feus, the candidate, got a majority of 648 votes. In 15 years the number of Socialist members of the Reichstag has increased from 23 to 58. two members having been added In since the general election In 1898. InJSSo 600.000 Socialist votes were recorded, and these Increased 750.090 In 1SS7, to 1,500,000 In 1890, and in the last general election to 2,250,000. It a estimated that the next general election will give the 8orUlists 100 out of 397 votes in the Reichstag, , RICH IN ART AND ROYAL REMIN- - ISCENCE theory is that Increased business will eventually make the system 'c Fropct ROOF CARDEN SUGGESTED THE CHURCHES. FOR Xv. to seat 2,000 guests, but la rarely called upon to do o. The large grotto, or shell-roois most unique and, as no other palace has this feature, original. The room U round and low, and the walls are covered with marble and polished stones, while shells are employed to outline the forms of the fishes o' the sea. A frost-lik- e substance Is used which gives a glittering and realistic effect to the whole. The subterranean aspect prevails so strongly one can readily Imagine hlroselfln a grotto with the finny tribe. At holiday time thli is made resplendent lnhonor of goad St. Nick. Nine Christmas trees arc placed in position and each Is fl led with presents for the members of th; royal family. With hundreds of candles burning the walla glisten until li looks like fairyland. The Emperor Is opposed to modcr Illumination in the palace. Consequently his apartments rely on candle i for artificial light. Even In his gorelecand geous dining-roohave no In th gas tricity and part " lighting. Opposite the palace is a building Ju3. as mammoth and Ju3t as handsome a the abode of the sovereign You ar ball-roo- m Ell Burdette Itldfer of Colombo, lnd., Ibe Oricloalor of tho startling Innovation W hat tl of tho M; Original Idea. The Idea of erecting a roof garden upon a church originated In the mind of Rev. Ell Burdette Widger of Columbus, lnd In speaking on the subject Mr. Widger thus expresses himself in an interview: The idea of a root garden was suggested entirely by myself, as the days being so oppressively warm, attendance at churches necessarily fall away. The church being situated in a thinly populated and built-u- p portion of the city of Columbus, lnd., and being also on a alight elevation, gave us the advantage of cooling breezes from all four points of the compass. The roof garden la 53 feet wide and 75 feet long, haring capacity to seat 1,000 ptrson. m Whan William ami Blnark Mat. The room In which Emperor William and Bismarck used to hold their conferences la arranged Just u these dignitaries left it the last tint. There la no pretense at luxurious furnishings 'Inthis apartment; everything Is plain. The table at which they sat, the chairs and the position they occupied, the furnishing of the room-- all are the same aa when these mighty personages formulated plus for the advancement Pt Germany. There are newspaper prints and clippings on the wall that seem strangely out of place In the temple of royalty, tad engravings that bear on the battles with France In 1870-7Singularly enough, the old Emperor had at hit tide copies of the celebrated esnvues from D'Etallles brush of the engagements In this conflict, and which la the arrangement of figures favor the French eoldlery. These pictures ire "such splendid reproductions of realistic warfare, filled as they were with spirited scenes, that even when ths painter inclines to his own they rq appre-- , dated by those who fought aghast ' them. The room where the found of the empire yielded up his spirit retains Just as It was when the peaeetuljtra- Ctf CASTLE OF BABELSBERS. (Where Emperor William the First Lived and Where He Counse'ed with Bismarck ) as enacted. The gedy eavgj .bed where the final struggle toollvdace, with the crucifix hanging at thread, ia there; and his mother, (freon Louise, is represented by a iarble oust in a glass rase which thi son pr.x-beyond price. 1 he mausoleum where Vperor Frederick, father of th- - piesent ruler, is buried, adjoins a memorial church ericted In h,s honor. The Interior is after thv m Hirer of Napoleon's tomb In P.iri;, though much smaller and far moio r'.j n. In the renter Is the and resting tiureupon is the niiih'e figure of the Emperor in -- t pos-fdjoirmg is a slab be p'neji'the remains of .h"'1 .'os Sevetal of his children arc b ried in this An altar and a chapel laiEe crucifix are la the .principal al- - OF EMPEROR FREDERICK. (Where repose the ashes of who ruled Germany for three months in 1888.) taken back when you ascertain this Is devoted to cooking and an arsenal. The dishes for the Emperors table are prepared here, and there are underground palaces In .which the food is brought from one building to another. It is probably the largest kitchen In the world If not theimost expensive, and it is used the nlna months the imperial family. spend In) Potsdam. MAUSOLEUM tbe-Tna- n J Taking Ike flmW at Soon. 12 o'clock each day" all business must be taken off the wires controlled by the Western Union company, and that meanx the absolute cessation of business along the main lines of electric communication In the prin-clp- a cities of America. Three minutes before noon wire chiefs In each of the principal cities ana (owns and cities leading to and from their large sisters cease sending or receiving messages, no matter how Important they may be and devote theraseves to switching wires in such a way as to make an unbroken circuit of communication from Washington around the uttermost boundaries of the United States This is called aa unbroken national Thua a smooth track Is made circuit, along which the electric message may flash encompassing the union aad announcing the time of day. Ten seconds before the time bell strikes comes another silence, and then a mighty throb, a titanic heartbeat from the foremost factor In modern commerce, and an electrical current pulsates from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Gotham to the Golden Gate, announcing the fact that the sun has passed meridian and It over the seventy-fift- h is noon at Washington. Pearson s Magazine. Just before , EaSIUh Mr. Flora XV om it la India. Arina Steel, the novelist, recently declared at a meeting In England that apart from the missionaries little or no charitable work is don by English women In India, who are mainly responsible for almost every serious trouble the English have there." Mrs. Ste?l lived for years in India nd knows wbatshe is talking about Her charges have created considerable indignation, but a contributor to the Times of India assert thrt the presence of, English women In India militates against the efficiency both cf the civil and military administrations and of commercial work also. The ceaseless Junketings of Simla and the minor hill stations Interfere with good work, and for hls the Englishwomen are to blame. He further charge them with responsibility for spirit which the life la India. At the same 'time he admit that their conduct durand plague showi that ing famine noble and as brave la as be can they a their 'predecessors trial ef time contro-vers- y were in the mutiny. A lively teems to be beglnni g. L. A. Boyd In Chicago Reqprd. char-acterls- es ultra-Xrivolo- Mare Railway la ll A wile. is now possible to go from New York via Berlin, Moscow and Irkutsk twenty-fto Vladivostok on the Pacific In days. A railway which shall ive almost connect Asia and America at Fe predicted the Behring Straits may U. There engineer future. ss of the . the COU say no obstacle in the way except immense the and winter of cold J I Th New Klimh terrific The new palace of Emperor Wifiigm fields of tundra throngh which a pith I the largest and grandest In ra.lvay line through must be ci n vh?avern Sibtrla dam. The Interior is finished a" country tj,e such 4 color-ot0 construct royalty, white and gold. not will the state rooms are Unusually tnj as was the tne of the White pass and ,r,? The banquet hall Is capa-lo- u enough Yukon route. re-cu- n) v- - I ne fe ZnUwl'a Mall Pmlni, New Zealand propojes to s nil a .ter to any part of the world included In the postal union for 2 centa. The Mew v? pt. t i DlSCOffTtHTEP CUBANS PLAN. e. base on a passed ball, with the sensational accompaniment of a slide from third base clear to the plate. The Thallium's crew eventually won by a score of 48 runs to their opponents' 31. The Thallium la the first schooner to arrive from Greenland In twenty-fiv- e years. She Is a new vessel launched at Bucksport, Maine, last August and built with a heavily timbered hull, especially for this perilous trade. Philadelphia North American. Orowtfc IS A KOVEL ck 1. n Kzeltleg (! hips' Craw Mad la the A rods Kerb's Baseball was Introduced Into the arctic regions by the crew of the schooner Tnallium, which, under command of Captain Kent arrived yesterday from Ivlgtut Greenland, with cargo of cryolite. It Is safa to say that th national pastime was never before attempted ia the face of such difficulties. The British bark Silicon wrs at that , lonely Greenland port with the Thallium, and also loading for Philadelphia. The temperature while the two vessel were receiving their cargoes bordered close on to SO degree below sero. The sailors, not being called .upon to handle the curious mineral, shivered around the galley fire and papldly became imbued with the lassitude which Is almost Invariably the portion of those called upon to endure extreme cold. .Captain .Jansen of the Silicon proposed more In Jest than in earnest that the men play ball. The Idea Impressed them and they determined to brave the temperature and essay the sport with which all of them wera tolerably familiar. A level plain was found near Ivlgtut, with flooring Of powdered snow, frozen tq: .the consistency of adamqt. midnight sun, and with a d Eskimos 'horns audience of were Knocked runs and three-baggeout It wag necessary for all the players to bundle themselves up in 'true hands wore gloves arctic fashion, po that wild throws and errors galore were many. Boatswain Brown qt the Thallium tied the score In the fourth Inning by coming home from second and 200 yards of the face of a rain of bullets, bringing back information to his commander. Young Snyman's relatives, except hi father, with those BALL ON SNOW. gw 200 Unea In r B WIDGER. REV. The floor looks like the deck of a steamer, being highly polished. The roof'ls pitched, and Is of heavy slate, supported by substantial posts. The garden Is surrounded by a balustrade three and one-ha- lf feet high, finished with elaborately carved brackets at the four corners. Inside are shutters, removable if desired, to use in the event of severe storms or unexpected cold spells. The auditorium has a movable platform extending across the room, nearest the highest tower of the church. Three stairways lead to the garden, one from each turret; the little enclosure formed by these towers are utilized as croak-room- s. Ths ladles at the pariah (have rendered '(be garden still more 'attractive by potted plants and vines. Ivy, planted In four corners, will bs trained so as to cover the entire church" with the exception of the sides of the garden. The body of the church Is 105x53 feet, and has three distinct auditoriums, together with the roof garden, offering seating capacity of nearly I fully 3,000. Rev. Mr. Widger says- believe this Idea will become generally popular, and In a short time churches east will add roof gardens to their edifices,- where divine services can be conducted with comfort In the heated days of summer, and also used in fall and early winter months, as not only more pleasant places to hold services, hut also in times of large attendance, necessitated by revivals, etc., to accommodate the overflow. The church over which Rev. Mr. Widger presides Is the Central Christian church. An fatiir Sf , Bright of That Cnuitr. far An army friend of mine Just home1 from Cuba, writes a correspondent says that Americans are not very popular at present with the natives, who resent their presence and chafe at having to obey the laws enforced by tbs In fact, he had frequentAmericans ly of late heard Cubans state in club and cafes that If they bad to choose between the two races, the American or the Spanish, ns to which should exercise control over their destinies, they would unhesitatingly choose the rule of Spain- - The Cubans. In spite of all tliat has occurred, look upon Spain as the mother country; they Epeak th same language, and being of tbe same blood, think that their characters, alms and ambitions are therefore better understood by the Spaniards than by th Americans. Among other things that have tended to make Our control unpopular In the Island my friend thought a large part was due to certain orders that bad bees promulgated by those in authority. Stopping bull fighting greatly angered the Cubans. But It was another order that most influenced them. It seems it is the custom there for the men to go about clad in elbow sleeved undershirts of th gaudiest description Considering this Indecent, those tn authority in certain provinces decreed that all ma'es must wear a shirt. If ever a silly order was The native put forth that was it. are now looking eagprly forward to the time when we shall depart and leave them to their own devices. My friend does not consider the Cubans as being or of anycapable of thing approarhing it, and looks for all sorts of trouble to follow after they He start In to govern themselves. says that r.ll the materials for a scrap exist there, and once our restraining hand Is removed, all sorts of complications will be likely to ensue. Emigrants will nof go to Tuba so long as such uncertainty as to its future exists, and even could you remove that uncertainty he thinks that the futUT outlook for many reasons would b by no means clear. one-quart- er SEEKS PLACE IN CABINET. John L. Wilson, who represented ttte state of Washington In the house of representatives and afterward In tlto senate, aspires to a plaee in tbe newt cabinet of President McKinley, says The secretary, Washington dispatch. ship of the interior Is the post on which his eye Is fixed. He says he la thoroughly familiar with conditions Ilk the west, and has had sufficient ex. perlence in public life and m the departments at Washington toNmake am acceptable official if appointed. H. bylleves that the political conditions make his appointment desirable forr the administration, aa he says something should be done to holdf the states In the nofthwest to the Republican standard, and says that If a cabinet place Is given to Washington this will be done. It the should be appointed, his former colleagues in congress say the Interior department building would not be a dull place, as he distinguished himself during one of the sessions of congress in engaging In two fistic encounters on the floor of the house. He is also known to have mixed It up" with one of the clerks In one of the corridors In the interior department building, on another occasion. His chances of appointment newly-acq- uired LIVE IN BLISS. Mlitmiw and Maids la Perfect Accord In Queensland. Queensland has the distinction of being the only spot on earth where mistresses and maids never quarrel, and the domestic life there is described by Mrs. Douglas Campbell of England, who has just returned from a visit to that country, as an Ideal one. In that country, she says, the domestic servant betters herself In every She has higher wages, more way. leisure, jpore liberty and she is cared for betteV than in any other country. The mistress assists her to establish a home of her own. and her success is all the easier because she can afford No to dress herself becomingly. Queensland mistress ever refuses her maid permission to attend balls or to go to concerts or theaters, and very often the mistress does the work in order that her servant may have a share Womin the good things of this life. en who are willing to go into the bush and work on a station are treatpd with There Is even more consideration. scarcely any difference between her and the family in which she lives. She has a horse to ride, drives with the family to church, is asked out and taught music. Mrs. Campbell adds that Queensland Is no place for lazy or pretentious girls. They must he prepared to use their brains and think fop themeelves. then Success is certain. In England, she conclude, the servant is part of a system. In Australia she la A member of th.household. and the mistress holds herself responsible for her comfort ami happiness. IlmpiU) I,(nen Horned A curious official regulation demand j that all the old linen of the Ceylon JOHN U WILSON, are slender, as Secretary Hitchcock la believed to be willing to serve another term. But Wilsons candidacy ha created a little stir ia political circles. Vfw Fam Wtrt In v? a ted. following Chinese legend accounts for the invention of the fan in a rather ingenious fashion: The beautiful, Kan-S- l, daughter of a powerful mandarin, was assisting at the feast of lanterns, when she became by the heat and was compelled to take off her mask. Aa it was against all rule and custom O expose her face, she held her mask before It and gently fluttered it to cool herself. The court ladles present noticed the movement, and in an Instant 100 of them were waving their masks. From this Incident, it is said, came the birth of the fan. and today it takes the place of the mask In that country. The over'-power- ed Mat Iat Sultan Win. The Sultan of Turkey Imagines himhospital shall be Tt:rned every three self a sport Lately he has developed months. A government official comes a passion for playing cards for money, round on a periodic linen Inspection and the man who Is unfortunate and condemns wornout sheets, towels, enough to win th Sultans money inetc--, to a fiery fate. curs his enduring dislike. Public officials permit him to wint and thus Ohios cities and towns gained 485.-0- save their place. tn population during the last ten - years, or 792 more than the Increase - Though'!) s ia often selfish: In the rest of the ecre static. with rname. 21 - -- ;Y. -- r |