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Show ran UNABLE 10 (OPE : WHAT (MOONS OF RULERS EXPLORERS WORKING OUT II SUPPRESSED BY FRANCE WITH CARNIVAL OF (RIME Art of Caricature, as Understood by Parisians, Streets of French Capital Practically Given Over to Organized Bands of Robbers and Murderers Who Laugh at the Authorities. Secrets of the Famous Mesopotanv ian Valley, Among Others, to Be Laid Bare-Re-cent Discoveries Made in Asia Minor. Long-Hidde- n Lacks the Real Humor of the American Article Some Specimens of Alleged Wit The heavy hand of the French The Cour la Reine bandits are as Once more comes the news, astoundhas suddenly swooped down familiar Bande as are as the de formidable such all to Neuilly, except ing with the corruption which exists but are not so coarse. They haunt on and put out of business the pubamong the police of that city, that the fortifications of the city, attacking lisher of a series of cartoon postal Hards which, although cleverly drawn Paris is terrorized by organized bands of footpads and burglars who do not hesitate to murder if they find the killing of human beings requisite for the success of their operations. Hardly a night passes but some unoffending citizen is set upon by thugs and as many as a dozen revolver, knife and sandbag attacks have been reported in one night Recently a new method of assault has been introduced. A citizen walking hurriedly along a street on his way home from his place of business or entertainment hears the whirr of a lariat and before he has time to see whence it comes finds himself lassoed and being dragged into some dark alley or doorway, where thieves relieve him of whatever Bande de Neuilly Thugs Throwing of value he has on his person. When Victim Over a Parapet he escapes if he is fortunate enough not to be killed he hurries to the po- only selected victims, who, after being lice in the hope that an effort will be plundered are thrown over the walls made to recover his property and and killed. The German Emperor. punish his assailants. His complaint causes no surprise and arouses no GRATITUDE OF A BLACKBIRD "By the shade of my Imperial Grandfather, I will make the hairdressers official to action. Robbery is such a ( bankrupt. the Absolute Authenticity of This Story and of a humorous commonplace affair in Paris that character, are alNot Vouched For. police do not deem it worth while some of the crowned to hold We are unable to guarantee the ab- leged tracing the offenders in any particular to ridicule. All of heads up Europe mursolute authenticity of the following case, unless the graver offense of stock in trade of these cards of the der occurs also. story; but as truth is often stranger were in possession of the pubSo bold are these Paris thugs that than fiction, we leave it to our dis- which at the time were confiscated lisher they band together and give them- criminating readers to settle the point when his place in Paris was raided, selves names, as secret societies have as to which category It belongs. A and these, it is said, have been a habit of doing. The names and rencharitable gentleman, burned. dezvous are, many of them, well who was in the habit 'of taking a Meanwhile copies of the offensive known to the police and no other reaconstitutional every morning, saw cards which had gone into genpostal French on son for the failure to rid the one of his rambles a have risen to a high circulation eral He metropolis of them can be ascribed blackbird lying on the snow. Paris. in They will henceforth price than collusion, with profit to the po- picked It up and took It home, where, take their among those curious place the of or a division with care and proper food, it became lice in the shape words of collections suppressed plunder. As their names differ, so a general pet; and its kind master, which range all the way from 10 cent do their purposes and methods. There finding it very teachable, got it to to costly books. are at least thirty of these guilds of learn a popular song, which, by dint pamphlets the French government at Evidently crime and some of them wield con- of practice, it was able to whistle the time is anxious to keep on present from beginning to end without fault siderable political influence. good terms with the crowned heads, As their name suggests the mem- With the return of the spring, our and took this means of showing the bers of the Habits Noirs gang are friend set it at liberty, as he could fact. well dressed and, for the greater part, not find it in his heart to detain it in The expostulations made by the they are also good looking. The term captivity any longer. A year passed, British ambassador at Paris against means Habits Noirs evening and in the following spring the phil- the publication of the vulgar caricadress. They frequent the reading anthropist was awakened on morning tures of Queen Victoria and members well as by .certain harmonious tones which of the British cabinet, at the outbreak and smoking rooms of hotels as picture galleries and similar places proceeded from a tree opposite his of the Boer war, will be recalled in of entertainment during the day, and bedroom window. It was the song he this connection. In no country in the cafe concerts at night, always dressed had taught the blackbird now ren- world is the art of caricature so pros- in the very height of fashion. They dered by four voices. The grateful do not disdain the acquaintance of bird had, during the winter, taught men, especially if they happen to be three of its comrades to sing the popforeign visitors, and are only too ular air, and now performed it as a ready to pilot them to haunts where quartet for the delectation cf its they can be robbed in ene fashion or another with impunity. Yet, as a general rule, they look to women as their Safety of the Temple. There was one famous building of legitimate prey. In one manner or another they manage to scrape an ac- antiquity, which, according to the recquaintance with their victim, and ords, was never once damaged by once they have achieved this the rest lightning during its thousand years of is easy. For woe betide the woman existence, although placed high on a who allows even a scrap of writing, a hill above a city in a mountain region are very freglove, a handkerchief or a card to where thunderstorms fall into the hands of one of these quent. It was the temple of Solomon adventurers. It is used at once for at Jerusalem. The temple was overpurposes of terrorism and of black- laid within and without by plates of mail, and unless the woman has the gold, writes a contributor to Leslies good sense to immediately appeal for Monthly. Now gold is one of the best protection to some male relative there electric conductors, and in this way is no limit to the depth of the degra- the whole building was protected with dation to which she will be dragged. a perfection and thoroughness that Nlcholas II., ths Emperor and AutoIn the end she may be murdered. has never been attempted before or crat of All the Russias. Another notorious band operates in since. The dullest of all the tyrants." the Bois de Boulogne. The police sutituted as in France, vulgarity and freStudents Josh Carrie Nation. pervision of that famous park is of obscenity taking the place of quently Mrs. Carrie Nation went to New Hathe most inadequate character, and the genuine humor of the real caricathe result is that' each clump of ven to have a heart to heart talk with ture. In this, as in most other lines of bushes, each copse of trees has be- the Yale students, as she expressed come the hiding place of bandits of it. She made her way to the campus, the most audacious description. To where she found a number of young such an extent is this the case that it men, some smoking cigarettes. This has become positively dangerous for was enough for Carrie, and she prosolitary promenader3 to turn off into ceeded to give the students a scoldany of the less frequented side paths, ing. They stood it good naturedly for In an age afar when the pristine star and scarcely a day passes without one a while, but finally treated the saloon hung over our rolling world, or more robberies being reported to smasher to a round of joshing col- When over the night he set a light and ' the flag of his glory unfurled, the police. lege yells and choruses, and Mrs. Nasweet little cave by the restless The coarser thugs beyond mostly to tion was forced to beat a somewhat In awave man. nice a resided young the Bande de Neuilly, a league whose undignified retreat Whose heart was of gold so I have been d members make night attacks upon betold and was built on a plan. lated citizens returning home through Church Theatricals. There the shy Plesiosaurus both ambled the streets that are badly lighted and The vicar of Gorleston, England, and little frequented. Their audacity re- Rev. F. A. Phillips, is proposing to And the prowled, coy Megatherium whistled and mains almost incredible. They think start a parish theater, with the vicar howled, the Ichthyosaurus quite frequently nothing of attacking a policeman on for manager and the parishioners for And scowled. his beat. In Neuilly and in other sim- performers. All kinds of plays are to And Rogets Thesaurus but let It all pass. ilarly infested quarters of Paris the be introduced, but for the churchs he lived in a cave with a lass, with patrolling is done by the police In seasons Advent, Christmas and Lent For a lass, couples, or even in parties of three. he proposes reviving, as far as pos- His beautiful Annabel Lee, And she sible, the old miracle and mystery a vision to see. plays and moralities of the middle Was really wore she the flirt! a ralny-da- y ages. Mr. Phillips is a member of the For skirt, of a kind that was bound to C. B. S., wears mass vestments, and allure, And also a smile of a fetching style It burns incense. was really extremely demure And the man In the cave by the restless wave was happier than a king, Younger Element Scarce. Young women will be scarce in the And he said, polite: "Now, you are all right; you are surely a nice young cabinet circle at Washington next winthing. ter. Last season there were eight girls to take part in the social features, but To thf age afar when the pristine star shone brightly and lightly and clear. next winter, what with, marriages and' agony came though it seems a absence from the capital, things will Deep shame to drag in the tale of it here be quite different. The two pay girls Deep agony came, for Cupids flame In the shy Plesiosaurus burned, are married, Miss Root is In Europe, the coy Megathe was smitten dear as 13 also Miss Knox, and the Misses And me! and unto this Annabel yearned. Hitchcock are in mourning for a near And the Ichthyosaurus both gurgled and relative. hissed. And vowed by his bill that the maid should be kissed, Englands "Murder Judge. Though she said: I will not, for Ill The Lariat Men at Work. Justice Grantham is called the par surely resist! M&rqceiot, the founder of this gang of excellence murder judge of England. And Rogets Thesaurus Oh, hapless but thugs, ultimately met with his death In one day at Leeds recently he tried The good, young maw resolved he would do on the scaffold for the murder of an three murder cases two before lunchwhat he could old lady, and during the course of his eon and one after. The justice is an For beautiful Annabel Lee-D- ear me! i trial the fact was brought to light inveterate smoker, and in the course couldn't well help It, you see. that as chief of the Bande de Neuilly of the day leaves the bench four or o He he got a large club, and he played he had taken part in no less than sev- five times to snatch a few whiffs from b on the bill of the Ichthy-osaenty separate night assaults with rob- a stumpy little pipe which he has used And he knocked out the cuss In a terrible His hideous society survived for years. bery. fuss with a blow on the tip of the him. As a general rule its members jaw. content themselves with throttling, And the shy Plesiosaurus Zulu in American University. left nothing here for us excepting his bones, nls pounding and kicking their victims inPlxley Ka Isaaka Seme, ,the first bones, to insensibility. But if the persons Zulu to enter an American university, world prehistoric grew very cathus assailed show flgat or lead their has succeeded in passing the severe Oh, the loric, as every sage scientist owns. assailants to believe for one moment entrance examinations at Columbia, that they have recognized them they and has matriculated for an eight And that is the reason its really quite the antediluvian brood will stab them, or beat in their skulls years course in medicine and surgery. Are pleasin' why frequently found in museums around, without the slightest hesitation, then He has been in this country since 1898 and mostly are catved out of wood, they .vanished. It's clear, in that drop th'dr bodies over the parapet of and is 21 years old. His purpose Is to Fo long-ago year, by dint of the comthe bridge at Neuilly into the swiftly practice medicine in his native land. bative might flowing liver. Of the chap in the cave by the restless Thero is no bridge in all Paris that wave, for he was a strenuous A hundred years ago men married has been the scene of so many mur- younger than they do now but And wight; ever been, as It ever will be, ders of ihia kind as the bridge at women didn't object tq doing their That ita younghasmar in love with his Anown nabel Lee housework then, Ksullly, . , nt ert, science and industry, America leads the world. Here the caricature is a work of art, and except In tare Instances the subject himself at the portrayal made. may-laug- The postal cards suppressed included caricatures of Emperor William wearing a mustache guard, one of the Czar in a half sleepy condition, one of the Emperor of Austria, who Is called The Emperor of Babel In Ironical allusion to the language problem in his cioirUnion, and pictures of King Leopold and the Sultan, together with caricatures of the King of Italy and Mr. Kruger. The latter seemed to be the least offensive of all the pictures, but it was suppressed with the rest of the bunch. It is recalled, however, in Paris that much more offensive if not such amusing caricatures of Emperor William were openly sold there on the streets a few years ago and no attempt was made to put an end to the traffic. Abdul Hamid and the Emperor of Austria have also often been roasted Ty the lively French caricaturists, with no attempt on the part of the government to spare their feelings. Emperor William is said to have laughed heartily well-know- n half-froze- n r. - gilt-edge- rub-a-du- STORY OF THE WORLD (Special Correspondence.) Hunter, son of Ham, first ruler of Shinar. The engineers have been effort being made in all fields to work planning a railroad station on the out The story of the world very site, perhaps, of the place where he used to entertain the great hunters archeologlcally, Paleontologically and geograph- of the Babylonian kingdom that e is ically. There is said in old eastern tales to have foundhave Prosaic mathematicians hardly a spot on ed. the earths sur- been drawing up long statistics on the face from New stone tables that remain intact on the Zealand to the rocks in front of Urfa, and that still Poles that Is not are pointed out as the tables at which being made the Nimrod himself used to sit to drink subject of ener- his wine and tell, no doubt, of hi3 nargetic exploration. row escapes and the big game that he The town of Or- had killed. When the steel rails are laid they an in Algeria recently celebrated a may lead over those very stone little occasion. It benches and tables. They will pass by was the anniversary the holy Lake of Abraham, with its Part of the cere- sacred fish. By its banks, according of its existence. monies consisted in a session of a to the local Mohammedan tradition of Abraham the Patriarch degeographical congress. At that congress a man, burned almost black, signed to sacrifice his son, Jacob. enAustria has shown remarkable arose and told in a dry, matter-of-facscientific way of a little jaunt of al- thusiasm about exploration in Arabia. most two thousand miles that he had Besides Dr. Heins expedition, the His trip had been Vienna Academy fitted out the expediJust finished. through middle Morocco, which never tion of a philologist, the Rev. Dr. before had been visited by a Euro- Alois Musil, and the painter, Hans pean, and which, the inhabiting Ber- Mielich, to explore the land of Edom, bers had sworn, never should be so in northwestern Arabia. In their first This man, whose name is trip they discovered the famous, but, visited. until then, never seen ghost palace of Amra, which the Arab caravans had made known to Europeans generations ago by their marvelous tales. Wtlpl According to them, it was beautiful and deadly. Its walls were decorated by magnificent paintings that were guarded by the Djinns and other evil spirits of the desert. No man ever had approached it and lived, according to the tradition. The Viennese expedition fqund it, thanks to the friendship of an Arab chief, who turned out to be quite the Arab of romance handsome, loyal and the soul of hospitality and truthfulness. The emperor of Germany is busy with a unique project that will be of value to the historical as well as the world. Some time ago he military Palaces. Ruins of Nimrods Col. Janke and the Cap Count R. de Bordon de Segonzac, de- dispatched Von Plessen and Von tains Bismarck, cided differently. So he worked his Von Marees to Asia Minor to make way as near the unknown land aB he photographical topographical , and could, and then, obtaining disguises, studies and to draw up complete he wandered as an Arab. Despite 'his of the famous battlefields of excellent knowledge of the manners, charts Alexander the Great Especially Moroccans of the customs and speech have been and charts good pictures mounand the Inhabitants of the Atlas obtained of the field of the Issus, tains, he feared that they might pen- where Alexander conquered Darius etrate his disguise if they became in- 2235 and the battle of the ago, years So he quisitive as to his business. the Persians he beat where Cranikos, took advantage of the fact that Mohammedans believe that Insane per- a year before that. Even the stolid and not easily Imsons are under the especial care of or curious Turks have Joined pressed Allah, and pretended to be insane. which is a This assured him of respect and good the explorers. In Yemen, rule reallj where their of Arabia, part treatment everywhere, and, although so that the? he had many narrow escapes, he man- is more than nominal, can dig without danger of being aged to play his role to the end and swooped on by obnoxious desert kings, to civilization made bis way back ol with his valuable head still on his the Turks have come on the tracks no less a personage than the Queen shoulders. He saw the land of the Djabala, then crossed the Atlas mountain home of the Berbers, and, to end his trip pleasantly, he wandered through the country of the famous and savage the second year of the twentieth century nears its end it sees a mighty As ethno-logicall- to-da- t, lion-hearte- Abdul Hamid II., the Sultan of Turkey. "The brightest of all the tyrants. when shown the picture postal card of himself which has just been placed on the black list Pearys Future Plans. While In Brooklyn a few days ago Lieut. Robert E. Peary, the arctic explorer, was asked whether It was true that he had at any time declared he would never again try to reach the north pole, replied: If I had an Independent fortune I would go back to the arctic at once and I would stay there until I had reached the pole or had been removed from the possibility of further effort. What I did say was that I had spent all my money and that I could see no prospect of another I have nothing to fall expedition. back upon, except my place In the navy. For that reason I am going back to Washington to report Hair Changed Color. that a young girl has just died in the asylum at Hamburg who possessed the peculiar gift of changing the color of her hair according to the state of her mind, writes the St In periods of sedatePaul Globe. ness the hair was its natural color; when excited It became reddish, and her anger was indicated by a blond color. Three days were generally required for the change to be completed, and her complexion also varied in the same periods and in the same direction. It Is said Can knock out ths biggest of big Meg- athe. Dear me! It Is really quite easy to see. Alfred J. Waterhouse In New York Times. Great Water Scheme. A great scheme is suggested by the Figaro of Paris for the utilization of the rainfall of the Pyrenees. It Is proposed to dam the valleys all along the chain, hold up all the mountain torrents in a series of artificial lakes, regulate the overflow, run it through and so generate electric turbines, power. It is calculated that no lesa r than 10,000,000 could be obtained from the Pyrenean range, and this power could be supplied at about of the cost of that horse-powe- one-sixt- h produced by steam. Veterans In British Commons. Mr. Charrington, who In point of age is father of the British House of Commons, will retire at the end of the present parliament, by which time he will be over 85 years old. He Is member from the Mile End district of London. At present there is but one other octogenarian in the house, Sir Frederick Mappln, but before long four ethers will have reached the eightieth milestone. Riff pirates. In Asia Minor the imperial German Archeological Institute has paid for excavations on the site of the famous old temple of Gordlum, and enough finds have been made to prove that the workers are digging out an ancient settlement that was great and flourishing 1,500 years before Christ. Other excavations in the peninsula of Miletus, on the Aegean sea, have produced results so tempting that private German capital has been fun nished, with which the great part of the peninsula has been purchased outright to assure successful prosecution of the work. The territory thus acquired comprises the site of the great Necropolis and the Sacred Way leading to the famous Temple of. Apollo of Dldyma, the greatest holy place of Asia Minor In its day. This purchase, It is said now, will make a far more wonderful place to visit than even Pompeii, for when the excavations are completed a perfect dream city will have been unearthed. The entire hill in front of the city, crowned by the famous theater, belongs to the excavators, also the ancient harbor basin with its entrance marked with two colossal marble lions and with a port city with halls in it more than three hundred feet long. In the wonderful Mesopotamian valley, the scene of the most Intensely Interesting history of all mankind, there has been digging in many places. Places that were held against all study and even entry by the powerful, unbeaten Bedouin tribes, who . Survived Official Hanging. Figyelmesay, a Hungarian and a compatriot of Louis Kossuth, who was officially hanged for treason fifty years ago, is still living In Philadelphia. The official" hanging consisted of his condemnation to fate at such time as the authorities could lay their hands upon him, but the colonel escaped to the United States In time to save his neck. Col. Philip tlt Not Allowed to Withdraw. W. L. Rice, who has been mayor of, Bristol, Tenn., ever since that place became a city, resigned the other day, pleading that being 70 years of age he was getting too old to properly fill the place. In response to general desire among the citizens he has just withdrawn his resignation and will serve out his term: CapL Talked Over Old Times. Three old settlers of Minneapolis, John Tappen, Simon Stevens and Horace Webster, met the other day for the first time in many years, and indulged In reminiscences of- - the days sixty years ago when . the present site of that city, with a population of over 300,000, was tho'r favc Ite hunting ground, (o5' g IT vALUA8i. Unique Explanation Made bv ' guese Antiquarian. John C. Groom, captain of City troop, while in Porto ths war with Spain, undertook chase some relics of historic thet should serve as souvenirsi.,, campaign when he returned home 8 ran across a shrewd Portugur had been doing a thriving busbl!5 an antiquarian" with other of the troop; and bargaining benan. The fellows assurance developed beyond anything V1 Groom had ever before encounC and there was placed on display,,; an iy of jewelry, weapons scripts and odd articles of attir?7l we.-patently fakes. Groom his head and was turning away the antiquarian recalled him w an assertion that he had a pistol . 7 was originally the property of (v He added M topher Columbus. had been in the keeping of a Fcrci' relative for many years; and Civ Groom asked to see it. He was 8W a revolver of modern pattern d and rust encrusted, with the ham snapped as though in the procesJ antiquitatlng. , You rogue! exclaimed the Pm delphiau, amused but irritated Ing been called back. Revolvers v JJ 1 not made in Columbus day! Si, senor I know! I know!"'e plained the Portuguese. And tt' gracious senor, is what makes this rare! Philadelphia Ledger. T COULD HAVE n. IT ALL " V Secretary Windom's , Liberal Often Souvenir Hunter. A characteristic story is told coJ cerning the late (Secretary WiaaoiJ who was bald to an unusual extej He was believed to be in opposition!! a proposed piece of important tlon in the interests of which a iql well-fixelobby was at work. Till 1 d lobbying had been carried on extend ively, and a great deal of the void was undertaken by women. Windojl was scheduled for a speech on ami vital issues oi the day; and it vJ feared .that he was going to turn bonl against this special bit of legislation He never referred to it, however, the course of a long and striking ti. dress; and the lobby, taking that an favorable indication, sent one of th women to try flattery on him, In fe hope of inducing him to show hand. She began by expressing ferns admiration of his speech, which t the talk of the day in Washington, ak then said: O! I should so much like to have a souvenir of you to take home Ohio! Thank you! Thank you! resport ed Windom politely. Could, you not Oh! please me a lock of your hair? Madam, he replied, bowing low, you may take it all. And with a sweep of his am he i moved his wig and handed It In he direction. to ve What, Stepping Westward. are you stepping westwarfr-Ye- a. be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange land, and far from home, Were In this place the guests of Chaatt Yet who would stop, or fear to adv&nct, Though home or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on? The dewy ground was dark and cold; Behind, all gloomy to behold; And stepping westward seemed tote A kind of heavenly destiny; I liked the greeting; 'twas a sound Of something without place or bound; And seemed to give me spiritual rtgbt To travel through that region blight ' The Was The The voice was soft, and she who spake, walking by her native lake; salutation had to me very sound of courtesy; Its power was felt; and while my eye Was fixed upon .ne glowing sky, The echo of the voice unwrought A human sweetness with the thought Of traveling through the world that Before me in my endless way. lay Holy Lake In Urfa. Modern Mosque In Background, of Sheba, the delightful lady of fashion who visited Solomon. The Turics have unearthed fine marble tablets uncommonly well preserved, with 8 vast amount of inscription dating back so far that the excavators are encouraged to hope that some of them really will prove to be edicts of the famous queen nerself. , , The French explorer, De Morgan, who has been excavating in Susiana, in Persia, has found not one buried city, but half a dozen of them, one on top of the other. The conquerors as they succeeded each other there had the amiable habit of destroying everything and building their , own city, according to their own tastes, on the ruins. So it happens that, as the De Morgan expedition excavated, it unearthed one city below the other. Gradually the entire lost history of Persia was laid bare. The Dominican Father, Sheil, who accompanies this discovered a stone colparty, umn that is covered with cuneiform writings. He has deciphered enough aleady to know that these writings represent laws and statutes that were promulgated in Persia one thousand years before Christ was born. , When Curran Failed to Score. Curran, the famous Irish advocate;' ... S' was a master of repartee, but he did 'GTV.w r, not always score, though he enjoyed an encounter none the less If he was fairly beaten. One day, in a gay mood, J stopped and chatted with a certain i ather OLeary. , Ah. father, said the advocate, waiting for an opening, Ghost Palace of Amra. how I wish when I die that you had defied the successfully exploration party key ofheaven. Way? said tne after party In the past twenty years, priest, for he guessed a trap was laid. have yielded at last to the railroad enBecause you could let me In. Ah said Father OLeary, it would be betgineer. The valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris are being crossed ter for you if I had the key of the and recrossed by Americans and Ger- other place, for then I could let you mans with surveyors' rods and theodo- out lites. Their tapes Belated Americans Abroad. gleam on the tawny sands where once the queen of Sheba trod. They are Belated Americans abroad, accordlaying out the route of the Bagdad ing to the steamship people, afe findrailroad where once the Assyrians ing themselves in an odd predicament came down like the wolf on the fold. It is estimated that there are about Engineering troops have been climb- 17,000 of the 45,000 who took passage ing around and delving in the ruins since last April still on the other of Urfa on a branch of the Eupherates and nearly all of them want to side, return ?14 Ur, the city of Nimrod, the this or next week, New York Letter. . MADE The Penalty of Progress. ' Is it anybody s business to kf count of the number of persons fk are killed by accidents from dayti day In this country? The numbs must be enormous, and most of victims die of modem improvement! of one kind or another. Fatal trolley car accidents are more common tlu ever before; railroads kill and main about as usual; automobiles do ttei! share, and mines, factories. Hr drowning accidents, gas accidents, plosions and the like contribute vritl extraordinary steadiness to our mot tuary statistics. In the . Industrialo! world, especially, the sacrifice human life seems prodigious. Humaa life is cheap, but cheap as it Is Am can civilization seems unduly lavisl in expending it. ' Better Than the Genuine. The plutocratic father finds daughter in tears. Are you wt How now? he asks. happy with the noble count to whoa you were married with great eclat anl at much expense? Oh, papa! weeps the beaute heiress, flinging herself into his ami and breaking two cigars and ths CT?a tal of his watch. Oh, papal ItJ terrible! " I discover that he is abopd count! . There, there, soothes the father,aU That's with a smile of relief. to right. , It wont cost near so much not keep him and, besides, he will above going to work. Pleased With His Own Wit H. M. C. Vedder, vice president the Account, Audit and Assurant othe? company, took out his. watch the malnsprW day and found that the was broken. He went into the netf est jewelers, who was a stranger him, and was told that he would bar to leave the timepiece for about week. , , , to "1 wish you would loan me on to1 am I for Mr. carry, said Vedder, without it Yes, replied the jeweler, qulddf. but if I loaned you one you might ' get lost with it. The Jeweler was so pleased his own wit that he loaned his 4 tomer a good watch. New V . , Times. , , .! It is the guilty mn whs afraid of his shadow, Is 8lW |