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'Well, well,' he exclaimed, with a laugh; 'here is the most interesting thing we've seen yet! It's old Grover. Let's see what he looks like.' Mr. Cleveland and his portrait stared at each other for a moment, and then the ex-president remarked, with a chuckle:

"So this is the man we have all heard so much about; I must say that this picture makes him out a good deal better looking than some of the portraits I have seen of him in the newspapers. He looks healthy, but a little worried. I would be willing to wager that he's glad he's no longer president.""

The Most Lonely Monarch in Europe. - It has generally been an accepted fact that the principal trait in the character of the Sultan of Turkey is cowardice. As a youth, says Tit-Bits, he was courageous to recklessness, and if he now suspects all those who come near him it is only because the lonely life he leads, often speaking to no one but those who bring his food for days together, has made him dread his own shadow.

"No monarch in Europe works harder than he, for he rises at four in the morning, winter and summer, and goes to his white-tiled bathroom for his bath, after which he sips a cup of coffee brewed by the cafedji-bachi, or chief coffee-maker, and then with a cigarette between his lips he goes straight to his desk. He works till midday, when he adjourns for prayers; then more coffee and an entrée, an hour's siesta, and work again till dinner, which is served at four in the afternoon. During these hours he signs some hundreds of documents, for, in addition to governing affairs at home, he is practically his own Foreign Minister.

"The Sultan is chiefly afraid of the darkness, and it costs him £180 per night to have his bedroom guarded. This sum is split up between the eight generals entrusted with the work and their supernumeraries. Two generals take the long watch every night outside his door, and receive £40 apiece for it; beneath them is a colonel who is paid £30 a night, and a guard receiving smaller amounts. All they have to do to earn their princely salaries is to tramp up and down the corridor with their eyes on the beautiful satinwood door inlaid with mother-of-pearl which took an expert two years to inlay.

"The few hours' leisure the Sultan takes every day is spent in various ways. He is passionately fond of revolver-shooting, and it is doubtful if there is a better shot with this weapon in Europe. A trusty mulatto who accompanies him, a man of enormous strength called Hassan Pasha, throws glass balls in the air for the Sultan to shoot at. Then Abdul Hamid is very fond of animals. He has over 200 horses in his stables: one of them, a magnificent cream Arab, was the gift of the Czar. He has, too, an aviary in which he spends much time, and a number of deer which he frequently has brought to his apartments.

"The Sultan is very fond of music and likes to play the piano, tho he possesses but poor talent as a musician. His favorite music consists of airs from 'Il Trovatore,' which he can play from memory, but he dislikes classical music, and will not have it played at the Yildiz. There is, of course, a theater at the palace, for the Sultan is very fond of the drama, but no light is allowed in the auditorium when performances are being given, the players performing to an audience of which they see nothing. Abdul will come in when the performance has begun and sit in some obscure corner and drink raki, a form of bitters.

"The Sultan reads a good deal, but his taste in literature is curious. He will never read anything but fiction, and fiction of the most sensational order. He loves French literature, and has read all the novels of Gaboriau several times over, and he prefers to read to himself rather than be read to. In spite of his love for fiction he has found time to learn to speak five languages perfectly since he came to the throne, for as ,a youth he never imagined that he would become Sultan, and so did not study. It was only after he had declined the crown several times that he allowed himself to be invested with the Sword of Osman when his brother's lunacy had been proved. He has always hated sovereignty, but as a ruler he is headstrong and courageous and a master of diplomacy."

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France demands indemnity from Morocco for the arrest of a French-Algerian subject.

August 24.-The French Council of Ministers decides to make a military demonstration against the Sultan of Morocco if the demands for the release of the French-Algerian citizen are not met.

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August 19.-President Roosevelt begins a supreme effort to bring about peace between Japan and Russia by summoning Baron Rosen, one of the Russian plenipotentiaries, to a conference with him at Oyster Bay.

August 20. The President is pleased with the results of his conference with Baron Rosen. August 21.- Baron Kaneko, the Japanese statesman, visits the President at Oyster Bay. It is be lieved that the Baron has greater authority than either Komura or Takahira.

August 22. The peace envoys resume the sessions,

the outlook for peace becomes much brighter, both sides indicating a willingness to make concessions.

August 23,-The Japanese withdraw their demand for a direct "indemnity" and put it in another form. Witte is reported to have said of the new proposals: "They are the same hard terms, only the forms are changed." The Russian attitude remains unchanged on the question of indemnity in any form, but it is said that the government is willing to treat on all other points in dispute.

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August 19.-The Great Northern Railroad announces a sweeping reduction of grain rates in its eastern territory.

The death-rate from yellow fever in New Orleans is low, and the physicians are confident of controlling the situation.

August 20.- -The War Department is considering a plan to increase the strength of the army to 250,000 men.

August 21.-The court of inquiry into the explosion on the gunboat Bennington finds that the boilers were in fine condition and that the accident was caused by neglect on the part of three men killed by the explosion, and Ensign Wade, who is to be court-martialed.

The Statehood Convention assembles in Indian
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August 22.-Edwin H. Conger, Ambassador to
Mexico, resigns from the diplómatic service.

A national association of manufacturers is incorporated in New York to deal with labor problems.

August 23.-The Department of Justice is seeking to indict Senator Burton, of Kansas, on a charge of taking fees for representing Chickasaw Indians before the Interior Department.

August 24.-A marked improvement is shown in the yellow fever situation in New Orleans. The Federal authorities are taking steps to guard against reinfection from the country, where the disease is spreading. Forty-four new cases and seven deaths from the fever are reported. August 25.-The President makes a three-and-a-halfhour trip on the submarine boat Plunger, running the craft himself part of the time, and remaining submerged at one time for fifty minutes. Edwin R. Holmes, Jr., former associate statistician of the Agricultural Department, is indicted in Washington in connection with the cotton leak. The Equitable Society files its answer to AttorneyGeneral Mayer's suit, admitting that certain Equitable officials had been guilty of improper conduct, and asking for a full investigation in

court.

CONTINUOUS INDEX.

Below will be found an index covering the issues of THE LITERARY DIGEST for the last three months. Each week the subjects for the week previous will be added, and the subjects for the issue fourteen weeks previous will be eliminated, so that the reader will always be able to turn readily to any topic considered in our columns during the preceding three months.

Acting, art of, A dramatist on the, 243*
Adler, Felix, on divorce, 896

Africa, Central, The drying of, 148*
Agnosticism responsible for social evils, 53*
Agnostic's refusal to be miserable, 180*

Agriculture, Department of, Scandals in, 202*
Albright Art Gallery, Dedication of, 11*.
Alcohol and the medical profession, 175*
America, French view of corruption in, 220*

in the new grouping of the Powers, 124* American historians compared, 143*

laborers deported from Canada, 57*
literature, Mob spirit in, 77*

paintings, Collecting, 142*

president, Powerlessness of the, 941

scholarship, British thrust at, 141*

temperament in painting, 171*

Anarchy versus Anarchy, 902

Anesthetic, A new, 47*

Animalcules, how they behave, 856

Ant as a medicine, The, 855

Anthropology? What is, 931

Arabian rebellion, The, 941

Arbitration movement, Progress of the, 266 Art, Great religious work of, 182*

How it may aid religion, 280*

Art mergers, New York's, 815
Asphyxiation, Warnings of, 117*

Athletics, "Professional amateurs" in, 39*
Atlantic ports, Rivalry of the, 808
"Atlantic's" victory, The, 846

Balzac his own literary ancestor? Was, 892
Notable tribute to, 274*
Baptist brotherhood defended," 897
Barrie, J. M., The fairyland drama of, 43*
Battle won by telephone, 146*

Beef trust indictments, 42"

Bennington" disaster, The, 138*

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Bjoerkoe, The mystery of, 253*
Blue light as an anesthetic, 174*
Bonaparte, new Secretary of the Navy, 849
Books in Russia, Fear and distrust of, 12
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Africa from South to North (Gibbons), 944
Autobiography of Andrew D. White, 187*
Beautiful Lady, The (Tarkington), 93*.
Chatham, Life of (Harrison), 944-
James Watt (Carnegie), 94*

Life of Thomas Hart Benton (Meigs), 94*

Love Triumphant (Knowles), 188**

Miss Bellard's Inspiration (Howells), 187*
My Poor Relations (Maartens), 943
Sandy (Rice), 943

Shining Ferry (Quiller-Couch), 93*

Short Constitutional History of United States (Thorpe), 93*

Smoke-Eaters, The (O'Higgins), 224*

Sunny side of the street, The (Wilder), 188
Wild Wings (Job), 943

Bottle-washer, An automatic, 50*
Bowen-Loomis case, End of the, 3*
Breed, The American, 275*,

British army contract scandals, 88*
Brunetière's, M., conversion, An analysis of, 54*
Butterflies, The migrations of, 933
Byron, The apotheosis of, 928

Cabinet changes, Rumored, 806
California, Oil fuel as the salvation of, 275*
Canal commission, Troubles of the, 168*
Chicago teamsters' strike, Losses in, 166*
Chinese boycott, Alarm over, 203*
Chinese exclusion troubles, 924

French justification of the, 285*
physicians, 144*

Results of the, 38*

Chopins, The two, 929

Christ and the Sense of Justice, 52*

Christianity illustrated by a contrast, 282*

impugned by Confucianism, 859
Scotch and English compared, 52*
Should it countenance war? 20*

Church Architecture, Two new influences in, 180*
as a brotherhood, The, 123*

as a school of fine arts," The, 150*
union in the May conventions, 822
union, A protest against, 939,

Churches in America, New attitude of, 87*
Clergyman, The New Anglican, 18*
Cleveland, G., on rabbit hunting, 883

Coal miners and President Roosevelt, 238*
College athletics, Commercialism in, 807

Colleges, Denominational, excluded from Carnegie

benefit, 861

Collision exhibition, Mr. Westinghouse's. 857
Comedy, Zang will's indictment of modern, 816
Compass points, Universal symbols for, 176*

Congregational Church, Liturgical unrest in the, 151*
Congress, Cutting out work for, 237*
Cotton-crop reports, Leaks in, 923

Scandal of, 103*

Cranes, Magnetic, 83*

Critics disagree, Where, 273*

Crops, Promise of record, 264*

Crucifixion, New light on the, 821

Crystal or organism, 84*

Czar, offers a stone for bread, 217*

Dalrymple, Mr., on municipal ownership, 925

D'Annunzio's unsuccessful tragedy, 46*

Deficit, Government, 76*

Delcassé's defeat in Morocco, 902

Depew, Senator, and " Equitable" Finance, 106*
Diamonds, The making of paste, 82*
Divorce, Felix Adler on, 896

The Roman Catholic theory of, 821
Drama as an aid to sedition, The, 891
Dramatic art and the masses, 142*

problem, An interesting, 114" season, End of the, 851 Dunne's, Mayor, change of base, 105* Dynamite transportation, The problem of, 934

Egoism as a basis for Christian ethics, 936
Electric transformer, The, 935

Electrical industries, Progress in, 935

Electricity in railroading, 858

Engine, rotary, Problem of the, 17*

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