So battle-scarred soldiers. BIG_ NEW YORK DOINGS HALF MILLION A YEAR FOR DOING NOTHING. A "Marked Man' Alive and on Top--Another Great New York Jollification Getting Icto Shape--A Four-Million-Dollar Building on Leased Ground New York, April 3.--It is generall believed that anyone in New Yor who is willing to drop a large sum of money for a specific purpose can find some onc ready to take it, especially when the taker is not expected to give up any visible, tangible property in return. Yet it seems that fifty thou- sand dollars a month, more than half a million a year, has heen waiting for a long time for the only man entirely appropriate as a taker yet who refus- =d to touch it. Ie was not even ask- ed tofdo anything in return for the money; on the contrary, he was mere- ly expected to refrain irom doing any- thing whatever regarding certain mat ters within his purview--matters which presumably might be let alone with- out anyone heing the wiser. The naine of the offeror of the money ha# not been divulged, but he who refused the cash was Gen. Bingham, our commis. sioner of police. Quite naturally he thinks that if his office would be put up at auction it might bring a big price from some ome of the many shrewd chaps whose knowledge of the inMde of things enables them to sec what money might be made out of the job. If a commissioner could make more than half a million a year by doing nothing whatever in coriain matters there probably are other mat- tors that also might be let alone at a stipulated price, and so long as the police continue vieible and draw their pay, and do their full duty at parades and fights and fires, as they always do, who would be any the wiser but the: map who put up the moncy ? "The subject is worthy of contemplation by the thoughtful residents of every eity and also of every town big enough to have a police force, for the police are tho only disturbers to be feared by cer- tain kinde of business which consist prineipally of profit--big profit, f Mention of the police recalls one of the strange revenges which time is said to bring about. A fow years ago when the force in this city was being investigated by the legislature's "Loxow Committee," the thing most necessary was that some police officer of prominence should be forced or coaxed or otherwise moved to 'peach' on some of his associates, on the theory that 'When rogues fall out," ele, Fo was ' found--an industrious, fearless, useful young giant named Schmitberger, a man who had. been known to tackle single-handed a frenzied murderer, a gang of toughs, or with a handful of men do a "for- Jorn hope' act so daringly and sue cessfully as to win the admiration of But there were weong-doings - in town that required a different Find of courage; they need- ed the moral grit that can overcome an itching palm of one's own when somebody stands ready and anxious to soultice the palm with greenbacks. Frged by his wife and by her pastor, it was said, he went on the witness stand and confessed misdeeds of his own to an extent that was assurance of some grave indictments and the re- gulation numba of prison stripes. He also charged so many erooked doings t6 some of his highrup associated that when proceedings against him = were suspentled everybody wondered why he did not skip the town and hido him- self in Darkost Africa or go in search of the north pole and remain as far out on the ice as he could get. Some men exposed by him were as brave as ho and not of a kind to forgive an injury, and they knew how to hit a man from ambush without a possi: bility of detectign. Besides, he pro- fossed to be penitent; a penitent and a hypocrite are one and the . same thing to some men, and a hy pocrite is fair game for anybody. Plainly, Sch- mitberger was a marked man; his life was not worth a year's purchase; some people said he would be killed within a month. All this occurred more than a dozen years ago, but Schmitberger still lives. Instead of going into hiding or wasting his savings on a bodyguard, he put himself under charge of the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, the city's most prominent vice-chaser, who is said to have declihed the job, apparently doubting the penitence of a police of- ficer as much as anybody. But Darting Pains Around 4 Shoulders and Spine Brocton Merchant in Hospital For Weeks Cured of Rheumatic Pains Bv "NERVILINE." *Tt, would he impossible for me to fell how much 1 suffered with a sort of travelling rheumatism. It wasn't confined to any particular spot, but wandered over all that area from the neck to the small of tho back. Sharp, shooting twinges and dull, gnawing aches finally stiffened out my muscles and leit mo so helpless I had to give up work and go ingo the hospital. 1 stayed there three weeks and felt bei- tor. Still I wasn't cured and as soon as I started back to work again the pain was as bad as ever. Nerviline Cures All Pain, *1 fortunately read of the strange, powerful effet Nerviline has over such sain and at once I got five bottles. Four times cach day Nerviline was rub- bed over the seat of the pain and I could feel it sinking deep into the muscles and sinews that were stiffened and sore. In a short time I was lim- bor, active, free from pain and per feotly cured. "No other liniment could have cur- od me but 'Nerviline," and 1 strongly urge its use for rhoumatism, neuralgia, sciatica. lumbngo, strains and swell- jngs and all other muscular affec- tions." (Signed), A, M, MoLelland. Remember this: Nerviline is five times stronger, far more penetrating, possesses more pain-relieving power than any other known remedy. For fifty years its use has been universal. Bowara of the substituior<ask for and L get Nerviline only. Large 20c. bottles ne a mn litberger insisted on reporting to thurst frequently, almost daily, and not only on unbosoming himself but giving "straight" information concerning varisties and whereabouts of crimes which the reverend gentle man held in special detestation and which he was trying to run down with agenta of his own anti-vice soci- ety. In time he won Parkhurst's re- t ahd esteem, he returned to lice duty, made a bétter record than before, maintained it year by year, and cleaned up or cleaned out one after another of the most vice-infested police precincts of the city. A few days ago, after the re' tirement of Chief Inspector Cortright, long and justly known as "The Hon- est Cop," Schmitherger was promoted to the highest position under the police commissioner. Some of the worst offenders against whom he turn- od informer still live and their me- mories and wits are as keen as ever; perhaps they are still "laying" for him, but any, veteran policeman has taken his life in his hands so many times and against so many enemies, seen and unseen, that his last moment is the last thing he ever thinks of. Now that he is at the commissioner's right hand perhaps the aldermen will vote General Bingham the money he still asks for secret detective work, but I wouldn't like to say so to an alderman until quite sure that he knows how to take a joke. But the aldermen are not always stingy with the city's money. They have just voted three hundred thous- atid dollars to the commission which has charge of next September's twin memorial celebration, the discovery by Hendrick Hudson of the river which bears his name and Robert Ful- ton's inauguration of steam naviga- tion on the same river. The state has promised half a million dollars more and private subscriptions are to in crease the total to a million and a quarter, the commission has planned festivities that will fill an entire fort- night, and there are to be private and semi-public additions and side- shows almost numberless. September ig still almost half a year distant, but now is the time for out-of-town people who wish to take in the entire show to make positive arrangements for their bed and board. New York's hotels are fairly full, even when noth- ing particular is going on; I have known respectable people with plenty of luggage and money to 'be driven to several in succession. before they could get rooms. ~ In times of and press the managers can squegze many cots into a. single room, Hut there are limits, and no hotel has yet been built of India-rubber. One of the attractions of the occasion will be the new river steamer Robert Fulton, which is the finest thing of her kind afloat, being about three hundrea and fifty feet long, with more than ten horse-power per linear foot, capacity for four thousand passengers," and a speed of twenty-five miles an hour. And she was designed to do all her running by daylight and on the hand- somest and most interesting river in America. stress Another biggest-thing-of-its-kind is about to appear in' New York, and, for obvious reasons, to remain here. It is a four-million dollar department store, which is 'to occupy the full front of a Broadway block, be four hundred and fifty feet high and have twenty acres of floor space. Aside from the cost of the building is the rental charges on the site; the ground could not be purchasea, but New York shop-keepers don't let a little thing like that stand in their way when they are ready to put four millions into a building. One of them is known to he paying, on a sliding scale, an even hundred thousand dollars a year for ground-rent. Unlike merchants in most other lines of business, who look for a site apart, where they may con- trol the trade of the vicinity; the de- partment store people seem to delight in getting as close together as possi- ble, as if they were satisfied to catch the overflow of their neighbors. In the block next to the new building refer- red to is one of the city's newest and largest in the same line of business; on the next block to this is another, equally new and enormous, and all day long both of them are as full as men and women can move about un- comfortably in. Where all the custom- ers come from is a mystery to city folks who are accustomed to such places, of which New York has many. Where all the customers' money comes from is still another mystery. But the owners of the stores are not worrying on either subject, for their patrons' seem to be getting what they wdnt and they themselves are sure that they are getting the money. Neither do 'they lose any sleep over the ap- pearance of a new competitor, for they know: that 'Competition is the life of trae," would-be monopolists to the contrary notwithstanding. --GARGOYLE. -------- Got His Share. Success Magazine. "Got any work this morning, Mis. tah Boyd?" asked old Billy Bulger, safe in the knowledge that no work would be intrusted to him. "No," was the response; and before Billy could ask for the cus- tomary contribution : "But wait a minute. Lawyer Phillips has owed me $20 for twenty years. Collect §t and I'll give you hai." And thi per chant, knowing hew bad was the debt, winked at a waiting customer. The old man found the lawyer in thé middle of a group of prospective clients and influential citizens, Thrust ing through the group he called in stentorian tones : "Mistah Phillips, suh !" "Well," queried the lawyer, annoyed. "Mistah Boyd done tell me that you've owed him #20 for about 100 years; and he wants to know kin you pay him, sub." The lawyer hurried to Bill's side. "You idiot," he said, sotto vpice, "do you want to ruin my busijriess ? Here!" and he thrust a $10/bill in- to the old man's hand. / Back to the merchant tgddled the old man. / "Well, Billy," said "did yon get it?" The old man grinned. "I got my half, all right," he chuck- Jed; "but you'd better look out when ou go back to get your hali--he's right smart hot over it!" It's true thit a marble statue has no faults--but then it has no friends, : either, then, much the merchant, -- RULES FOR HOTEL GUEST The Orders Given By An Hotel "in Turkey. Exchange. An: mteresting study of the habits and morals of a nation might be made; basing the researches wholly on hotel regulations. In "The Balkan Trail" Frederick Moore gives a copy of some | rules which hang in gilded frames on the walls of each / bedroom in the Grand Hotel d'Angleterre at Salonica. Here is a literal translation from the French version, there was also a Turk-® ish and a Greek set? I. Mesgieirs the voyagers who scend upon the hotel are requested to hand over to the management any money or articles of value they may have. 2. Those who have no baggage must pey every day, whereas those who have it may do so ouly once a week. 5 3. Political discussion and playing musical instruments are forbidden; also all noisy conversations. 4. It is permitted neither to play at cards nor at any other game of haz ard. 5. Children of families and their ser vants should not walk about the rooms, 6. It is prohibited to present oneself outside one's room in a dressing-gown or other negligent costume. 9. Cofice, tea and other culinary pre- parations may not be prepared in the rooms or procured from outside, as the hotel furnishes everything one wants. 10. Voyagers to take their repast de- scend to the dining-room, with the ex- ception 'of invalids, who may do so in their rooms, 11. A double-bedded room pays dou- ble for itself. save in the case where the voyager declares that one bed may be let to another person. It is, how- ever, forbidden to slecp on the floor. de- "TIS A BEAUTIFUL PALACE. Hardwick, Country Home of Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Court Journal, Hardwick, which for some time hence the Duke and Duchess of Devonp- shire will make their principal coun try residence, is perhaps the most beautiful of all the eavendiso palaces and in its way is quite as stately a place as Chatsworth. It vs often as sociated with ~Mary Queen of Scots, whose prison home it is supposed to le, but as a matter of fact this un fortunate gfieen never, set foot in this Hardwick 'hall. It is the old Hard- wick hall near by where the Scots gueenr was confined under the charge of the Earl of Shrewsbury. 'Building Bess's" fourth husband, and the rooms at Hardwick bearing her name were never occupied, Indeed poor Mary Stuart's tragic end at Fortheringay had come before these rooms were finishéd. "Bess of Hardwick" was furiously jealous of Mary, and the suite of rooms which she intended should be occupied by Mary were: furnished with peepholes and windows to enable her to spy upon the royal occupants at all times, but they were) never required. The belongings of the unfortunate queen now to be seen at Hardwick were moved from old Hardwick Hall, the ruins of which are close by. RESEMBLED NOAH'S ARK Is Way Writer Describes Visited. Country Exchange. In the issue of Harper's Weekly for March 13th appears the first of a series of four articles by John J. White, Jr., descriptive of a hunting expedition which the author under- took, in company with Dr. Rainsford, formerly rector of St. George's church, New York, through those portions of Fast Africa which Mr. Roosevelt will traverse. In appearance the country resembled a Noah's Ark, says the author, being filled with every species of game. For example, on May 23rd, Dr. Rainsford saw a herd of seven teen giraffe, a leopard, eland, and topi. Fhe next day a kongoni antelope hot. On May 26th occurs an exciting encounter with lions. There are also some "tall"' stories narrated to the author, such as that of the hunter who was mauled by two lions. While 18 the beasts sat watching him, ready to pounce upon him as soon as he, stirred, his gun-bearer crawled cau- | tiously up and tied the lions' tails to- | gether in a true-lovers' knot. 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