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-THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE JANUARY 27, FORTY-EIGIIT PAGES. 33 CYCLERS SETTLED DOWN. AS Old Timers Who Are Now in Business and Happy. Glimpses of Sen Who Once Hade Wheels Ham on Road and Tract ROMANCE Of QUEENLY LIVES, Prom the Time of Cleopatra, but Few Reigns of Queens Have Been Remembered Chiefly for the Good That Was in Them Comparisons of the Careers of Zenobia, Cleopatra, the Catherines of Russia, Catherine de Medici, Isabella of Castile, Marie Antoinette and Maria Theresa of Austria. Latest Gossip from the Various Clubs and Some Coming Events.

Mr, F. Heilman, the Famous Lawyer of Kansas City, Talks About His Case. Strong Words Telling How His Hsaltli Was Restored Ey Dr. Greenes Nervura. Coul1 ULVe done made her In a campaign against the Turks Peter was surrounded with his armv of men by Turks at Pruth.

His surrender was demanded, but Peter preferred to fight, and retiring to his tent he shut himself up. giving orders that no cne approach him on pain of death. His purpose was to wait ur.til darkness came and cut his way through the Turirish hosts. was in the camp, and knew the ueperate condition of the Russian army. She went to the Turkish grand vizier, cajoled and bribed him into a parley, and then approached Peter in ris tent.

Her presence ever soothed he listened to her propositions, wh.cn led to the peace of Pruth, on terms much more advantageous than the Itussians could expect. i act Peter made the peasant girl his empress, and crowned her with his own hand at Moscow, after the two marriage ceremonies mentioned. After the death of Peter, Catherine reigned alone three years, and though herself illiterate, she did much for the advancement of education in Russia, rounding the Russian academy of sciences and sending out the famous naval expedition under Bering that resulted in the discovery of Bering sea. Catherine's life with Peter was not distinguished for faithfulness. On one occasion he found her guilty of ity and had her lover, an official of high rank, hangpd.

In order to humiliate her he had her driven under the gallows while the mans body was still dangling in the air. Catherine was unmoved, remarking that it was sad to see so much wickedness in high places. The life of Catherine while it cannot be said to belong to the lives of great queens. Is unique In historv in that she is the only peasant who ever ascended a great throne. Born to reign, possessed of magnificent beauty and high spirit, Maria Theresa of Austria is one of the noblest queens of history.

Her long reign was filled with wars, but 6he was a match for the greatest fighters of her time, and she found time always to give to her large family, and to cultivate domestic virtues. She was known as the mother of her people. Maria Theresa was bom in Vienna in 1717. and was the oldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI of Austria, whom she succeeded on the throne by virtue of the famous pragmatic sanction, a proclamation, or compact, issued by Charles in 1724. which declared that, should he die without sons, his eldest daughter should be heiress to all the Austrian dominions.

In 1736 Maria married Francis, duke of Lorraine, and in 1739 took up her residence with him in Florence. The next year, on the death of her father, she ascended the Austrian throne, to be greeted with wars on all sidos, as Prussia, France. Spain, Sardinia, Bavaria and Saxony all opposed her succession to tile throne. Maria Theresa was a noble spirit, and slie resisted the encroachments of her enemies. Retiring to Presburg, she summoned the Hungarian diet, appearing in the midst of the martial assembly with her infant son Joseph in her arms.

She addressed the diet earnestly and eloquently in Latin, closing with the words, The kingdom of Hungary, our children, our persons, our crown, are at stake foresaken by all, we seek shelter only in the fidelity, the arms, the hereditary valor of the renowned Hungarian nobility. The noble Hungarians drew their swords, and shouted that they would die for her. Thus Maria Theresa began a reign of 40 years, that was filled xvith wars which she conducted with pious zeal, beating off all her enemies, and solidifying and enlarging her dominion. Among those whov fought her were Charles VII, emperor of Germany, whom she defeated, and In 1743 she placed the imperial crown of Germany upon the head of her husband, who died in 1765. Their married life was noted for its harmony.

and in the 30 years of their union she bore him 16 children, one of whom was Marie Antoinette, afterward the queen of Louis XVI of France. In her 40-years reign Maria Theresa inaugurated many reforms. She abolished torture throughout her kingdoms. She abolished personal serx'ices which the peasants of Bohemia owed to their feudal superiors, and she inaugurated a general system of popular education in her dominions. New ports xvere opened, canals were dug, manufactories were established, and public libraries were formed during her reign.

A college for the sciences was instituted in Vienna, which bore hei name. The only blot on her career was her cooperation in the partition of Poland. She died in Vienna, Nov 29, 1780. at the age of 03. beloved by all her subjects, and renowned throughout Christendom for her valor and virtue.

She was like Victoria, a rarely exceptional queen, though she loved war as well as Victoria loved peace. Mb. N. F. IIeitman, cured by Dr, Greene's Nervura.

"It come and go In the cycle game, and hat becomes of the former stars? was a question put to the writer at thq late indoor meet In this city by a mari whose Interest had been aroused but a short time ago in the cycle racing competition. "They follow the cycle track for 10 years. continued the gentleman, "and then what becomes of them? They learn no trade, and are almost too old to begin when they finally cease cycle racing. What is their future, anyway? What has been their future? Cycle racing has been a sport in this country for many years, and scattered along the road passed over there must be left many wrecks. This hard life must be wearing upon their systems.

Is it not a fact that they die young? My boy wants to race, but I don't know about it. I would like to see him do well on the cycle track, but a dread comes over me of his future in the world. This rapid fire of question caused a lot of thought and some letter writing. The results of both dexreloped a fact perhaps not known before. Cycle racing men do not come to a bad end.

Cycle racing men upon leaving the track accept positions oftentimes of responsibility in the cycling world. The so-called speed merchants oftentimes spend years upon the cycle track, laying by their money and then starting life all over again. Some enter school where they left off. Others go to college and complete courses of learning which fit them for an active professional life. All learn independence, and gain an education through traveling the country over which the sons of immensely rich men could nex'er purchase with the expenditure of thousands of dollars.

The youngster entering cycle racing starts out to see the world. He earns his own way as he does so, and returns home a self-possessed man of business. Some racing men are frugal and save their money, while making it is easy. These men quit the game with comfortable bank accounts and take their time about seeking a position. When they do locate In a money making business they hax-e made a thorough study of the possibilities and in a majority of instances achieve success.

A small proportion only return to their native towns. During a career of 10 years they change their places of residence oftentimes without taking particular notice of the fact. The dissolu- tion of their families oftentimes brings this about. Associations formed at various cities wean them from the home fireside and they sttle down to a business pursuit at some point where they have a great many friends. Some of them follow the track for years, first as a racing man, next as a pacemaker, then as a trainer and finally as a manager either of a track or a racing man.

The attractions of cycling are many, and breaking wy from the life is oftentimes hard. Reputation oftentimes earns the way of a man for years as was the case with Zimmerman, Bald, Schock and many others. Failure to hold their own finally forces the star down and out. His reputtion is soon lost sight ef In the story of some new star, and he ceases to be an attraction for the race promoter. As a promoter himself he seldom achieves success and the final announcement is made that he has entered some field of business.

Reports of his success follow', and finally he fails to five ex'en in the public print. At the late cycle show a well-known amateur asked this question, "Who is that man, George Hendee? Yet Hen-dee was the king of amateur cyclists only 12 years ago. W. A. Rowe, another king of Hendees time, is a grocer in New England.

Hen-dee is a bicycle manufacturer and prosperous. Dick Howell conducts a hotel down at Flushing, I. Wilbur Knapp, another old-time professional. Is a whisky salesman on the Pacific coast. Charlie Ashinger, of the Knapp period, whose career extended over a period of 15 years, is raising chickens io Ohio while fighting his title to property in Oklahoma, for which he raced on a bicycle at the boom period.

This property la now worth $100,006. Jack Prince, champion of England and America in the early 80s, started as a promoter In '85, and is promoting yet. Tom Eck is still following the game, managing and training. He brought through the winners of the late New York race and also of the Boston contest. Eck has grown gray and prosperous in the service.

Senator Morgan is an editor of a liquor paper and a leading advertising solicitor for cycle publications. Ned Reading, another old-timer, was killed in the Philippines, as was also Con Baker. W. C. Thorne, prominent as the king of western safety riders from '88 to 92, Is manager of a big granger supply house In Chicago.

James, George and Bob Thorne, brothers of W. are associated with him in business. N. II. Van Sicklen, prominent all over the United States at the same period as the Thornes, is a raiser of poultry and eggs for the big Chicago clubs.

lie made and lost a fortune in the publication of a cycling paper. George K. Barrett. partner of Van Sicklen and a champion of his day, was until lately Mr. N.

F. Heitman is one of the foremost lawyers of Kansas City, Mo. He is a living example of what a man of ability, energy and distinction can accomplish for himself. Mr. Heitman has risen, seep by step, by hard work from a poor farmers boy to the highest pinnacle of fame in Western legal history.

He is one of the most prominent and highly respected members of the Kansas City Bar, is a graduate of the University of Virginia, was awarded the oratorial medal at this famous university, and also received the highest average grade in his class of a large number. Mr. Heitman ascribes his success to keeping steadily at work. Of course everybody knows that the person who applies himself diligently to hard work in order to gain a coveted honor must work, not only from nine oclock in the morning to four in the afternoon, but from sunrise to sunset, and sometimes way into the night. No one can do this for any length of time without breaking down their health completely.

Thi3 is just what happened to Mr. Heitman, but thanks to Dr. Greenes Blood and Nerve Remedy, he was rescued and restored to good health by its use. There is nothing which will prevent attacks of the grip, or if you have it, there is nothing which will drlx'e it away so quickly as Dr. Greenes Nervura.

Those who have had the grip should know that their systems are always left in a weakened condition after it. Dr. Greenes Nervura will restore them to perfect health by purifying the blood and building up the entire body. What stronger words are needed to convince you of the wonderful curative powers of Dr. Greenes Nervura than these from Mr.

Heitman, who says; From constant attention to my business, together with a weak stomach, I was completely unfit for the strain that comes to a man in my profession, and 1 have found nothing that has so generally helped me and given me back my natural energy as Dr. Greenes Nervura, blood and nerve remedy. I have taken several bottles, and can say nothing but good about the results. If you believe at all in the truth, plainly spoken, 3rou cannot fail to take counsel from the words of Mr. Heitman.

He was sick and was cured. If you are sick, and most people are at this season of the year, you should take this wonderful remedy. Remember it is the prescription of Dr. Greene, one of Americas most famous physicians. Dr.

Greene can be consulted absolutely free of charge, either personally or by mail. If you are not within calling distance of his office, 34 Temple Place, Boston, write him a letter describing your case fully and he will tell you what to do to get well. TITLES COME HIGH. AVARIA THERESA 2wiISXRJIk EIGHT FAMOUS QUEENS, FROM CLEOPATRA TO VICTORIA. Octavia.

He squandered fortunes and lixeil in the lap of Cleopatra. Egypts famous queen bore Antony three children, and when she heard of bis death she killed herself by poison in the 89th year of her life, and when still at the height of her charms. Sharp indeed is the contrast between Cleopatras reign, the most famous in ancient history, with Victoria's, the most famous of modern times. Tax on a Baronet is $500; on a Duke it is $1750. But when a man receives a title in England he has to pay a tax in proportion to the rarTR to which he is elevated.

Thus, if John Smith becomes a baronet he has to pay $500 before he can style himself "Sir John Smith, Bart. He may have paid in other ways, and heavily, liut that is voluntary. If Air Smith becomes a baron, and is Rt Hon Lord Smith of Jonestown, he must pay $75o; and as a viscount, the next step bexond, xxhen his title would be "Rt Hon the Lord Viscount Smith, he must pay JlOOi). If he becomes an earl sav earl of Jonesville (or Smith-town). the fee is $1250; to be a marquis costs him $1300, and should he be one of fortunes favorites, and obtain the coveted strawberry leaves in his coronet, he pays $1730 on becoming "his grace the duke.

If a patent of precedence be granted to anyone, this means a payment of $300. leans, afterward, from 1347 to 1359, king of France. Catherine combined all the virtues and all the vices of her race and time. She was beautiful, subtle, unscrupulous, ambitious, politic, revengeful and cruel, though reiined withal, and she played with the destinies of France for 33 years, first as the scheming princess of the heir to the throne, next as queen, twice as regent and always as the power behind the throne. The three of her sons who were kings were Francis II (1339-tkn.

IX (1560-74), and Henry HI ing in the study of the law. Earl Peabody, xvinner of 113 firsts in 1S97. is working his way up in railroad circles in Chicago. Clinton Coulter, prominent until 1596, is in business in San Francisco and doing well. Jay Eaton is in business in Newark.

Ray Macdonald, the half-mile champion of 1S93, is a machinist tip in New York state. W. E. Becker of St Paul is in business. A.

C. Aier-tens. the five-mile champion of 1897, is in the railroad business in St Paul. Oscar Brandt, prominent in 1893, is an engraver for Tiffany in New York. E.

V. Miller, a team mate of Brandt and Titus, is editor of a daily paper at Vine-land, J. H. R. Steensen is a tout at the horse tracks in Chicago.

Charles Ilofer of St Paul Is also In the railroad offices of that city. The Terrill brothers of San Francisco are contracting carpenters. Van Wagoner Is manufacturing wheels in Syracuse. He is one of the best designers known and a leading patentee. Nat Butler, suspended In 1598 by the American racing cyclists union, and thus far unable to secure his reinstatement, is proprietor of a barber shop in Cambridge.

Harry Wheeler is representative of the Standard oil company in New Jersey. Ralph Temple is a big cycle manufacturer in Chicago. Eddie Bald, who finally retired tast year, is about to enter business. He Is wealthy as the result of his winnings of 10 years. the reigns of famous queens but rempatatlveiy few are remembered cliietiv for the good tiiat was in them.

"Tin evil that men do lives after them." and tlie same may be saiJ of queens. Rood queens, like good men, r- rare, and up to the Victorian era he virtues of remarkably few- reigns have made Rum remembered. The reign of Catherine II of Russia, for example, is remembered for the parti-iton of Poland, and for its violence, its intrigues, and the loose morals of the most famous woman ruler of the Russian empire, as much as for the great progress Russia made during its continuance. lie reign of Isabella of Castile is re-mi'iiibered almost as much for the hor-r ars the Spanish inquisition as for the expulsion of the Moors from Europe, or the part of Spain In the discoveries of Columbus. The reign of Catherine de Medici, as then regent, ami again queen In let.

if not in title, of Prance. willr-er tv remembered for the slaughter of the lh ii ienots on St Bartholomew's eve. ihe reign of Elizabeth, made bright it was by the genius of Shakspere 1 hare Is ti Jonson," has its sinister fc'Uiurks in the history of Marv, queen Seats. An example of what lixes most vividly hi 1 story js found in a die of ii. iiobia.

an i Cleopatra. lived three centuries after 4i'npatra. and her kingdom was vastly Cvanr ju extent, embracing not only me most of Asia Minor, but Egypt as eii, was beautiful, wise and pew.riai and is said to have been "tiio e.i-v woman of ilie e.isi whose superior mis hr. ike through the servile indo-imposed on her sex by the climate nianiu rs of Asia." fried Romans at hvi armies, but v.ts taken and the during the reign of Charles Catherine brought about the most massacre of history, the slaughter Huguenots to the number of in Paris on St Bartholomews 24. 1572.

Among the victims Admiral Coligny, one of Frances men, but a Protestant. He was assassinated, and Catherine his head sent to Rome as a gift pope. fascinating pages of romance ever been written than those in Dumas has portrayed the character Catherine de Medici. She was of force and linoese, and she hesitated In carrying her points. or the dagger was the portion enemies, and not a few- of her when they had ceased to serve Her ruling ambition was to keep firm on the throne of France kill Protestantism, and her greatest passion wa3 hatred of Henry of Notwithstanding her unlovely character.

Catherine was a patron of the arts letters, and the galleries of Paris enriched during her life with many works by great masters. the evil and not the good of life that stands forth most however. 111 the list of English queens lie fore Victoria perhaps the one most in the memory of the public is Elizabeth, the 7l 574-59). nuidtn queen. Sne reigned 43 years, i jt and in her time the world was enriched h.v such genius as Shakspere, Spencer, B-n Jonson.

Sidney and Tyndale. The period was one of great industrial and educational development in England. The new world was beginning to attract English voyagers, and tobacco was at this time made known to the gentlemen of England. In the reign of Elizabeth the Spanish attempted to invade England with the largest fleet ever gathered. Their great armada was destroyed in J5SS.

History shows "good Queen Bess" to have been a strange mixture of masculine strength and feminine weakness. She was tail, thin, red-lieaded and swore at times like a trooper. Her temper was violent, and she was given to jealousy. which was undoubtedly one of the motives for her harsh treatment of Mary, queen of oots. All her paid fulsome compliments to her, even after she became a very plain old woman.

Bir Walter Raleigh, when a prisoner in the Tower, wrote that he was pining because he could not see the queen, i hoping doubtless that his letter would be shown her. He described himself as one who "was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking iike Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph's, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes placing like Orpheus." At this time Elizabeth was 59 vears old. The extract from Raleigh's letter is valuable in showing how 'her of France Charles It was that cruel of the about 5000 eve. Aug was greatest treacherously had to the No more have which of a marvel never Poison of her friends, her. her sons and to Navarre.

and of were nobie It is Catherines boldly, A to that less subtle, xvoman Though our- loose lo' 1 A- 'K H'1 GOSSIP OF THE CLUBS. a Sf- -V a- character similar in some respects of Catherine de Medici, though xx-as Catherine H. the greatest ruler of the Uussias. a usurper of the throne, of morals and little conscience, and under the guillotine, in view of a howling Paris mob, after suffering for weeks untold horrors in a filthy prison, watched by a brutal and criminal guard, and denied the common necessaries of life. It is the strength of character that Marie Antoinette displayed in this time of anguish, from whicit her death, gave her merciful deliverance, that marks her as one of the noblest queens of history.

Under all the brutal assaults of the mob she never quavered. She urged her loyal husband, Louis XVI, to take measures to stop the revolution long before he woke to Its significance. When besieged in the Tuileries palace in Paris she showed the greatest fortitude. Her young son was torn from her and apprenticed to a cobbler. She was dragged to the Conclergcrie prison in August.

1793, and put into a cell but 8 feet square and below the lex'el of the ground, to be brought forth nearly 10 weeks later and tried before a pack ot human hounds. The only tear she shed in all these trials was when she was accused in the court of debasing the morals of her young son. Throughout the unspeakable anguish of the trial and her progress to the galloxxs in a tumbril, or rough cart, she carried her head high, and her face, under her hair prematurely white, was raised to heaven with firm resolution to die as became a queen written on it. Marie Antoinette was bdrn in Vienna, Nov 2, 1735. She died Oct 16, 17s3, the victim of a nation gone mad.

Had she been less a queen she might have escaped her fate by fleeing In time from Paris. But she put oft flight until it was too latb. One reminder of the life of this heroic woman is to he seen in New England, in an old mansion at Edgecomb, Me, known as the Marie Antoinette house. It was owned by Capt Stephen Clough, a master whose ship, the Sally, was in France in the fateful summer of L93, and who was secretly commissioned to bring a distinguished passenger to America. The passenger was to be Alarie Antoinette.

Many of her personal effects were sent to the shm, but when the captain was obliged to sail from France it was without her, though Tallerand and the Dauphin came with him. The queens effects were given to Capt Clough, and some of them may he seen now in the house yi Edgecomb. that might have been, had fate xxdlied it the asylum of a queen whose cour-age led her to prefer death to flight. Marie Antoinette was the most cruelly misiudged queen of history. Her light manners led the French, naturally sus-pieious to believe her wanton.

hen Lhe was nothing r.iore than careless in her bearing. She xvas accused by the French of every social crime in the knowledge of the times Plots to compromise her were hatched, and when the revolution broke out the people of France believed her the vilest woman in high life. She never spoke in her own defence. story as interesting, as any in the annals of history is that of Catherine I of Russia, who, an ilhgitimate child of a peasant mother, and a slave waiting on a Russian officers table, became the mistress of Peter the Great and eventually empress of Russia. Catherine, christened Martha, was born in Ringer, Livonia, April 5.

19. When she married a Swedish dragoon, with whom she lived but a short UYhen the town of Marienburg was taken bv the Russians, on Aug 27, 1702, a pretty 14-vear-old girl among the prisoners caught the eye of the Russian general Bauer. He took the girl for his own servant, and established her in his house though her status was little, better than that of a slave. Here, by gome arrangement, she passed into the hands of the prince, Menzikoff. and at the princes house, perhaps after a convivial feast she was brought before Peter the Great who was so smitten with her charms that he made her his mistress.

She was at that time 17 years old. Five vears later the great czar married the former slave girl, pn May 29, 1711, Jaweroff. Poland. The next year. Feb 20.

1712. the marriage was solemnized at St Petersburg with great pomp. Catherine rise to the throne was the result of a womans wit. Although she cou-d neither read nor write, Catherine was possessed of a keen mind, and had a powerful influence over the often violent czar. A single incident In which she accomplished more than any other llv- arm wi, she graced the 1 Y'' ot Vl, Emperor Aurelian triumphant the entry to the city against Palmyra, 4 HU i Ire themselves toxvard lnr.

jin many ways a tyrant, she did much In spite of overtures made to her (for Russia, and while her reign of 31 by courts and royal personages. Eliza- years, from 1762 to 1796, will be remcm-h refused take a husbanu. bored for its general sanguinary char- ha. gland is the husband to which I actor, she is recalled as "the mother of haxe espoused myselt. sue said.

So her country. and the creator of modern at Pittsburg and Chicago. The Coburn brothers of St Louis, Will. Jack, Dave. Tom and Lou, are all in business in Newark and doing nicely.

The Baker brothers of Cleveland, four In number, were prosperous in Columbus when last heard of, excepting Con, whose death was reported in the Philippines. Walter Sanger is a prosperous manufacturer in Alilwaukee. Laurence Melnt-jes is a scout in the British army in South Africa. L. D.

Cabanne, the partner of Titu3 and Alurphy in the sensational racing scandal of '95. is now a wealthy insurance man in St Louis. Fred Titus, team mate of Cabanne, Is with the Belle of Bohemia company now in Loilon. Charlie Murphy of mile-a-minuto fame, is a salesman for the cycle trust. Zimmerman, the mighty man from Jersey, isthe keeper of a hotel at Point Pleasant, J.

Harry Tyler, "Gentleman Harry of cycling, is a farmer up in the Adirondack.5". Johnrie Johnson, whose sensational record breaking feats astonished the world, lives in a $10,000 house in Minneapolis purchased with his winnings. Pat OConnor, the genial Irishman, who came to America to race, is in the bicycle business in Louisville, where he married and settled down. Albert Schock runs a big business in bicycles In Brooklyn, having five stores. Schock has grandsons almost old enough to help him, yet he retired but a few years ago.

1 Dr A. I. Brown of Cleveland is now a money lender. Bobbie Goetz, whose folks purchased his release from the cycle track by settling on him a fortune. lives a life of ease.

Earnie John-son. also of Clexeland, is a jeweler. Lutie Johnson, his brother, died with consumption last year. Mike Dirnberger. who lowered the worlds record to 1:51 in 93 and whose career was sensational, has Just graduated for the law from Cornell university.

Louis Caliahan. also of Buffalo, Is a ticket broker. Arthur Lumsden of Chicago, the great opponent of Willie Wln-dlo, Is agent for a big rubber concern with headquarters in Buffalo. Arthur Gardiner, prominent in 93 to 97 times, is In the automobile business in Chicago. Eddie McDuffee and his brothers aro also prominent in this branch of business.

Hoyland Smith, a rival of Zimmerman, Is proprietor of a cycle business in New England. Geo. C. "Riverside Smith, is in the bicycle business in Yonkers. Sidney B.

Bowman is a cycle agent in' New York city. The Sims brothers. Wili and Fred, are railroad men of Philadelphia. Otto Ziegler, xvho came east with Charlie Wells from California in '94 and snowed under the eastern men in the championship at Denver, is a beer bottler in San Jose. Wells is a newspaper man.

a career for xvbich he fitted himself by hard work, after quitting racing. Walter Foster is now the eastern representative of a large street sign advertising company of the Pacific coast, with offices in New York. Wilbur Edwards. ex-champion of the coast, 13 employed in a batik at San Jose. Grant Beil, the old champion on the stai style of wheel, is in the bicycle business in the same city.

Orlando Stevens is married and conducting a large bowling alley at San Jose with Howard Freeman. Hardy Downing, who has but just retired from the game, is about to enter the cycle business in San Jose. Lon Leffcrson, the Asbury park professional, is an actor, being with the Ben Hur company. Lefterson raced last year. Fred Graves, who retired in.

'96, conducts a fine cycle business at Providence. Charlie AIcCarthy, retired in 98-is a reporter on the St Louis Republic. F. Howard Tuttle is a salet-man for a pew ri ter company. E.

C. Bode is representing a credit agency in New York, and is a leading man in the advertising field. Birdie Hunger, patented a tire for motor vehicles a year or so ago. Fred Dickinson is with Hunger. Willie de Cardy.

prominent in 90 to 93 is with John West, in the manufactu-1 ing business in Chicago. B. W. Twyman the 24-hour record holder, is also with West. A1 Welnlg, prominent until 95 13 fighting.

Will Taxis is an automobile salesman in Philadelphia. Irving Powell. the ex-amateur and inter-eoiiegiute champion, is working his way through college to be a physician. His partner. RSv Pr c.yf 'VSif'-'' i.

Tins was in 'the ais after Cleopatra oa-'tet-s ot Rome into doing but the Li.it gives Zenobia here an re a lVw the of eu-o- trrs1, a k.tlitl -'ar J'-eM the uni ant '-'fn On account of the annual ball last Wednesday evening the whist party of the Metropolitan wheelmen will be held next Thursday evening. The semiannual election of the Rajah wheelmen of Dorchester resulted in the following officers being elected: Fred C. Pearson pres. Oliver Morgrox'e vico pres, A. E.

Perkins sec, William Me- Vicar treas, Charles Peard fin sea. Harden Seott capt, A. E. Dayton 1st lieut. array Allen 2d lieut.

Inxdtations are out for the Bostonian O. C. masquerade to be held in Paino Memorial hall Friday evening, Feb 8. Members and friends enjoyed a German supper at the club last evening. Th next public whist party will be held tomorrow evening at 17 Roosevelt st.

The prizes at the last members whist party xvere won by Miss Bradshaw and Mini Dora Degel. Alias Ida Harrison will hax'e charge the member's party Tuesday evtning. The prizes at the whist partv of tho Cosmopolitan C. A. A.

last Tuesday evening were won by Frank Butler and Miss Theresa Suifix'an. An entertainment was given after whist had been played. The comic and fancy dress bl! of the Chelsea cycle club next Wednesday evening promises to be a very successful affair. Clubs from Chelsea, Everett Malden, Revere, Charlestown, East Boston and Boston have signified their Intentions of competing for the special prize, ths judging of which will be in tae grand march, frizes will be offered tor comic and fancy dress costumes. John J.

Donovan. fT iim I a ''f 3 Vs'vn Xu in -s. -a 1 mod-A. 1 i lid of the Annua, Austria and 17. hduurit ht ti'ton.

the rages of 1' 2 'w'YNx A ft i the 4 UfTiu Iherfc Vs'l w- 1 rU hm i fits; trn ir mi, ti the HO-t id the reigns Rah if women sini of ti, hat ue -'V Prttr'fir king r.f France, sued for her hand, i In the reign of Elizabeth religious mat-! tors forintni an important part of the events of the royal life. Catholic Eu-1 rope was arrayed against Elizabeth. She established the Anglican church on a firm basis, and did as much In England for Protestantism as Catherine de I Medici did in France against the political events of Elizabeth's I reign, one nark chapter is remembered 10re than ad the bright ones, that of the imprisonment and the execution of sentence of death on Mary, queen of Sects. The painting of Elizabeth sign-- ing the death warrant of the Scottish queen is familiar in all lands. Estimates of Elizabeths character as formed from this act are varied.

Elizabeth affirmed that she signed the death warrant of Alary because deceix'ed bx-her ministers. The story of the life of -Marv, Queen of Hoots, ufid her imprisonment and death is cne that enters so largely into the life of Elizabeth that history of the one of the hapters in IRa: "iz.rl test Pessiblp historv tiie nates, a Rome, si, Xy-t et the things that stand most prominently forth in the record of Catherine II in the popular mind are her crimes Born a German princess. May lf'ig i in Stettin, she was married at the age oi 16 to Peter of Holstein, nephew of 1 the Empress Elizabeth of P.us-ea and grandson of Peter the Great lm wad enthroned Jan 5. 1762, as Peter 111. In July of the same year ho was seized and taken to a secluded.place.

and there ho died, undoubtedly from poison. Catherine, with the assistance of her lover. Gregory Orloft, who was also her chamberlain, seized the throne. During her reign she mad Europe' bend tile knee and Asia tremble. Sht fought sanguinary wars against the Turks, and she participated In the partit'on of Poland, and thus left a blot on her it cord that xvill nex-er be wiped out.

She lived a loose lile. but she worked all the time for the aggrandizement of jfussia and in spite of her wickadn-ss did n.uch good. An imperious and handsome woman, she was fond of luxury and the flattery of courtiers. She encouraged men of letters and artists and carried on animated correspondence with sax'ants of various countries, including Voltaire, who said, referring to her reign: "Light now conies from the north. Paul Jones.

founder of the American aopaira fbiiy i-f Vi gr, a A to MICHAEL, ROSS AND ELKES. in, aidiiifc? 'Min shll'ie i him 1U a some under she serious affairs of the heart. a stern exterior site often he grand passion, as was perhaps This patent is granted frequently editor of the Motor Age. Charles P. in the case of brothers and sisters of a i Root is a printer in Chicago.

J. P. commoner who succeeds to a deceased Bliss, the Chicago midget, whose prow relative's title, say that of a duke, in ess for three year3 astonished the world, iiuxver before i. power of remained Ki, a lSxx 7 an'1 whi-h hen iesar re- I -lira follow ed hurt yd in the temple beside that of the B.f of roa- but natural for the daughter of Henry III and Anne Hoieyn. Elizabeth was proclaimed oucen I.S.X.

on the oi England No- 17. -1iilh of her sister Mary, Getting Ready to Boom. The only occupant of the Nebraska cabin was a girl about 12 years old, and when the colonel rode up and asked way to Seottsville she replied: Dad might tell you if he was hert-etranger, but dads off over there lavin' out a new town to boom. And your mother? Harms off down this way hayin out another new town to boom. Any brothers? One.

Kili might tell you If he was here, but hes over the river layin out a third new town. "And how about you? Cant you direct me?" I might, stranger, if this wasnt my busy day'. You see, Im layin' out a. hundred a-eres of this claim for a nexy town, and Ive just made Marx Jane av run from here to the creek. Want to speculate, stranger?" "No; I guess not.

Cause if you do TH give you the first pick of lots along Mary jane av for $10 apiece and take bail of it ia steer rav bt. nax-y. served in her navy against the Turks as an admiral, but was forced a 1' larch 34. 10U3. to be succeeded i out through the jealousy of Russian Janus J.

son of tiie queen she had 1 officers. am, Rome C.uherine do-J Nov 17. 1796. and in spite of her unlovely character she left Russia better off than she found it. xHv is associated xvith the former manager and trainer of Jimmv Alichael.

Dave Shafer, in a bowling alley at Hammond, Ir.d. Herbie Githc-na of the same team as Bliss is a prosperous business man in Cleveland. Charlie Kinseley is a tin roofer in Chicago and owns a big business. George F. Taylor is a near Boston, a career for which he fitted himself while cycling racing.

Willie WLndle, the champion up to 90, is a prosperous manufacturer near Worcester. The Banker brothers of the same period are manufacturers of automobiles which case the nexv dukes sisters and brothers are granted the precedence of a duke's children, and. instead of being plain Mr Henry or; Miss Alice, become Lord Henrv and Lady Alice. If any one is compelled by will to change his name, arms, etc, on succeeding to an estate, he has to pay a tax of 250, but if he voluntarily changes his name, say from Mr Jones to Air Deeourcy Fremont, he only rays 53d. Crests or coats of arms must not be used on note paper, etc, except on payment of $3.25 annually, with a further similar sum if placed upon carriage or harness.

Exchange. m.iruV, had carry lived 'any had Cone int ivaxs. aiit) lar more com Her Ca ar. H-r inri put to death the most sinister figure among I tne great queens of history is Catherine Medici, the wife of one and the mother of three kings of France. lo entire by Jiirth.

the daughter I'rban. Lorenzo de Med-as married when but 14 mature ase for a royal among royalty went cays to Henry. duk of Or- le had vr Ver fine of the nobly pathetic figures In French history was the beautiful and heroic Marie Antoinette. Her history has never been paralleled in human events. Beautiful, refined, a oueen of France and nn archducht-ss of Austria, descended from a long royal line, she died miserably at the age of sx tvi i i 4 tiiK-? of I I in With ft" oi the duke of tnose.