She waited hours, sitting in the crowded room, ill from the oppressive air, the fixed stare of the officers, and the sobbing of others like herself waiting a word with the autocrat.

Who in Russia had not heard of that mysterious unknown person who had directed a hundred conspiracies against the Imperial Autocrat, and yet the identity of whom the police had always failed to discover.

There's no use leaving before the 'Autocrat' is ready to ship.

He paused, and added impressively: "I am Wampus!" "Have you ever driven an 'Autocrat' car?" asked Mr. Merrick.

You seem to be the man I want, for I am going to California in an 'Autocrat' car, by way of the Santa Fe Trail andand" "No matter.

I drive 'Autocrat' from here to Los Angeles blindfold.

There were two folding chairs that could be used on occasion, and the back seat easily accommodated three, the "Autocrat" being a seven passenger car; but Patsy was perched in front beside Wampus, which was really the choicest seat of all, so there was ample room inside to "swing a cat," as the Major statedif anyone had cared to attempt such a feat.

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.

He was an intellectual autocrat, who had matured his own scheme of interpreting Nature, and thought, that, if it were systematically carried out, the inmost secrets of Nature could he mastered.

The portraits of Nicholas the Grand Duke and Nicholas the Autocrat seem portraits of two different persons.

But soon rose again that great problem of old,that problem ever rising to meet a new Autocrat, and, at each appearance, more dire than before,the serf-question.

Not one traveller who does not know that the evils brought on that land by the despotism of the Autocrat are as nothing compared to that dark net-work of curses spread over it by a serf-owning aristocracy.

So, according to the testimony of the autocrat of the Russias, he exercises great clemency towards the Poles, though he exiles them by thousands to the snows of Siberia, and tramples them down by millions, at home.

In such a state, the very proudest autocrat would yearn for the sympathy of the veriest wretch.

The official style of the Russian autocrat is Samoderjetz.

Father, however, is always amused by flunkies, and treats them as an expected part of the show; even as the jovial Autocrat did when, at a grand London house, "it took full six men in red satin knee-breeches" to admit him and his companion.

The metaphysician less than the poet, the country minister less than the successful lawyer, is the autocrat of the dinner-table.

Among the athletes I instantly recognize Biceps Max., captain of the Cricket Eleven, and practically autocrat of my house"Charity's" the house was called, in allusion to a prominent feature of my tutor's character.

The happy autocrat, a life of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

St. Clair was an autocrat both by military training and by political principles.

Here reigned supreme a fiery autocrat, a fervent admirer of Greek and Latin, a cordial hater of mathematicsmy weakest pointa D.D., LL.D., who was determined to drive everybody into college.

The labors put upon him by the autocrat of the house were sweeter than mococks full of maple sugar from the hand of the Chippewa housekeeper.

"I gather," said Vincent, "that he is an absolute autocrat, and that you have to do what he tells you; but that he doesn't preach, and he doesn't fuss.

Meanwhile he remained an autocrat.

Even an autocrat has his advisers, and in some of them he was fortunate.