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SIGNALS I Icroper it ' A BROAD HINT And then the fire chief came in with Suddenly in the course of a busy a grievance and the head of the de- afternoon the confectionery which you at Skyscraper gas and electricity might have bought So the whole day City’s progressive shop might cause and so does the whole year some restlessness on the part of your passed of Skyscraper teeth You merely have to go to 12tb pass for the mayor street which is Skyscraper City's City "A strange sort of place Indeed this twelfth floor and have the trouble city" you will say “Where Is it?” remedied by the dentist Or perhaps Skyscraper City to enlighten you is some fruit from the stand below might a ubiquitous located in result in a little disturbance in your community every part of (he Uiited States where interior mechanism you will find a land has become so valuable that doctor on 8th street An occasion a might arise where you might require over stead of capitalists building the services of a lawyer— a bad account large area they build in a limited or and of the many little things that space any straight toward the clouds In plain words it is none other than simply will crop up in everyday life the great modern skyscraper with its Skyscraper City just swarms with The law population as great in many cases as these eminent practitioners will always be sure of interpreters so that of a third class municipality "But the mayor” you will say "Who long as Skyscraper City rears u ever heard of a mayor of a building?” ward Yes the mayor You have heard Population Over 10000 of a superintendent of a building and if the superintendent of a skyscraper All the stores in this "city” are housing from five to twelve thousand In Main street — nothing unusual people has not as much right to the for municipalities of its size In one title of mayor as the chief executive case this street is more particular of a community of say one thousand than three hundred feet in length and of streets Is traversed daily by thousands spread along a couple oi where the city limits are marked out people More than twelve hundred by fence rails and stone walls then residences are located in this "city" the United States is not a democratic each being labelled on the front doot country with the name of the inhabitant and Building operations can’t go on with his business These residences ar the spirit of emulation that now holds specifically termed offices and each between contractors without the Skyone is visited a number of times dur scraper City of a few years hence ing the day by the postman OI being in sore need of a real course it would take one postmkn a administration with a mayor al- good many hours to cover the entir dermen and all the other public servroute of the “city” Consequently tht ants that make annual elections nec- streets are divided into territories sc essary It has them all now under Skyscraper City may be said tt different names have its own postofflee department There are for instance the mem- In this particular "city” one street i bers of the health department which inbabitated by more than seven hun sanitary body consists of a corps of dred people This “city” has forty women equipped with one Btreets the able bodied entire population be voices mops and pails and compelling ing more than ten thousand That corps of women alone is suffThere is one thing in this same citj between icient to suggest an analogy of which the inhabitants may well be a and representaSkyscraper City It is the transportation sys tive American municipality and should proud tem It consists of eie give the former a lasting right to the vators the combined capacity being name of a thriving city about ten thousand people an hour Policemen on Patrol Transportation in these cases is both There is no mortal Then there are the members of the quick and safe this transil police department whose main duty ity in connection with An elevator in one of the of criminality is to system in the suppression see that no one walks off with any latest of New York’s skscraper municipalities travels 548 feet into the part of the building or its contents These are the watchmen who patrol air all the way up to the fortieth and this without the inconnight and day and the street continuously main differences between them and the venience of changing cars which police of your recognized city are that more than can be said of New York These eie City’s car lines at times they are paid less and are perhaps hundred not subject to periodical charges of vators can carry twenty-fivgraft Nor do they have to parade for pounds at a speed of six hundred feel which with means a minute rising composed of the electricians and sun doffing some rapidity stand out in the Again in the method of summoning their hats and smiling approvingly the or the police dewhile patting each other on the back the fire department a between of the department they partment the similitude In appreciation have developed municipality and Skyscraper City What more heroic and picturesque is maintained In the big cities when is desirous of bringing depart- a policeman body is there than the fire about a meeting between some rement with its red shirted or creant citizens and the judge at the or any other color shirted he summons with to an appropriate court men ready and eager grapple else under any conveyance flames or anything by ringing up headquarand at every moment? In ters from a little box on the corner conditions may be required City the fire department The fire department Skyscraper In one Sky consists of an efficient band of men as and it is similarly called there is a well trained as the firemen of a large scraper City in Chicago oi operaand equipped with all the system of signals possible municipality tion from any part of the premises latest devices for combating flames And there is the department of which permits of an official getting the latter in touch with his subordinates at any water gas and electricity of the elecricians and as- instant And so far as the postal de composed These partment is concerned there is the sistants in the engine room to every floor running large buildings do not depend upon letter chute to correspond sources for their electricity which might be said outside They have thoroughly equipped plants to the letter boxes installed at various As far points throughout their own American cities for manufacturing is concernas the water department So the immense building operations ed one New York skyscraper has a of the times are surrounding residents these twentieth pumping station that is capable of of real cities with sufficient water to furnish with all tbc supplying century municipalities form a city of 350000 people in different officers and laws Now here is where the similarity of a regularly chartered city There between the skyscraper and the recogIs nothing missing not even the fanized city is made strongly apparent cilities for traveling home from work of the Skyscraper City often has within its without leaving the confines establishments which can buildings for Borne of these skyscrap boundaries supply every need of a hungry thirsty ers have private entrances to subway and elevated lines And all must not dirty naked citizen No need to die of starvation were necessarily be work here any more you to he confined for life in Sky- than in any other city If the inhabare its while restaurants of this modern institution wish itants City scraper able to get a dinner together Its cafe to take recreation some Skyscraper would banish all fear of longing for cities afford an opportunity by havto render the throat and ing palm gardens laid out on the roof something without more comfortable stomach hope of receiving it Its haberdashery and tailor could clothe you In the latQuite True Bill — He says his books are his best est fashion its shoe store would attend to the task of keeping your feet friends well shod Its baths would be ever Jill — Well he can turn ’em down ready to open their arms to you Your when he gets tired of ’em without ofevery want for things procurable only fending ’em— Yonkers Statesman fillbe would confectioner’s in a shop ed while you would merely have to All Are Sinful should you feel that go downstairs We are all sinful Therefore whatyour happiness might be enhanced by The fruit stand la ever we blame In another we shall a fragrant cigar find in our own bosoms — Seneca on the main floor left partment of water and other officials u Jim — I suppose you love to go sleighing because of the melody of the Jingling sleigh bells Jess — Yes and they often lead up to the wedding bells That’s the best of ' ’ It Sign of Recovery ‘‘If when the devil is sick a monk he will be” said Rose Stahl sagely "then the devil gets well in double quick time Witness that young ‘divil with the ladies’ my kid cousin Last winter he was ill so ill he didn’t have any sense of humor left nor any sense I was staying at the same hoeither tel and when I went in to look after him he virtuously remarked that his room was no place for a ‘Chorus Lady’ and promptly shooed me out (A few years ago I spanked that kid) Then he got scared and sent for a doctor and the doctor sent for a trained nurse For several days I got bulletins of his progress from the chambermaid The fourth morning she set my mind completely at rest ‘‘"Sure “hia’am’ said Maggie "an' I thlfik be do be gettin’ along very well The nurse was sittin’ on his lap this mornin’!”’ 7 t Mrs Wlggrn’a Idea of London During the recent visit of Mrs the American author in London an interviewer called on her With the Interviewer asked: pencil poised "And what do you think of London Mrs Wiggin?” "You remind me” answered the author cheerfully “of the young lady who sat beside Dr Gibbon at dinner She turned to him after the soup " ‘Do dear Dr Gibbon' she said ‘tell me about the decline and fall of the ” Roman ' r tt r HE mayor of Skyscraper laboring City had been the whole day with many of the problems that devolved upon him as one responsible for the wel- fare of ten or twelve All thousand people these had been probempire’ lems different from those which commonly arise in Those Cocked Hats he administration of the affairs of a Dilly — My salary is knocked into a In the first place mniclpality cocked hat this week had no- - unemployed to city Dally— Why? rovide for It had no prisons no chantecler will Dilly — My wife’s no hospitals nor any of poorhouses take it all — Town Topics the many other public institutions American The entire nature of man is the that are part of the average And it was not furthermore city garden which is given him to cultirent by political strife periodically vate— W E Gladstone The population nevertheless was a most exacting one and in this respect City was unlike the averSkyscraper In most age American municipality communities the people will stand idly divide the by and see the politicians even without loot of offlceholding looking to their personal interests In let a winCity however Skyscraper dow be broken let the voice of a radiator be raised in plaintive protest against too much steam or let the waEasy to start the day ter supply be affected by too little cool and comfortable if pressure and the mayor is instantly besieged by angry constituents demanding this or that official’s removal from office These were some of the annoyances that had wearied Skyscraper City’s Even while he sat chief magistrate back in his chair gazing at the ceiling and pondering upon the designs in the decorations the chief of police walked in and announced that he was with so unfavorably the impressed people at No 1511 Fifteenth street their enthat he would recommend are in the pantry ready forced departure to serve right from the some "They are always breaking No cooking law or other” he exclaimed indignantpackage ly "and I want to get rid of them just add some required They haven't paid their taxes either cream and a little sugar for the last month and what’s more they have a barrel of gasolene in their Especially which Is a violation of the possession Cut Out Breakfast Cooking Post Toasties pleasing these summer mornings berries ' or fresh with law” So a writ of deportation was Issued and the chief of police withdrew exultantly making way for the head of the health board "In Tenth street" said that dignitary “I find there is a leak In the sewer pipe I am having the sanitary fruit' One can feel ' cool in hot weather on proper food “The Memory Lingers POSTUM CEREAL Battle i' Creek CO Mich IN INFECTION The flm Indication of kidney disorder is often backache Then comes pain in the hips and sides lameness soreness and urinary troubles These are the warnings— nature’s Blgnals for Doan's Kidney help Pills should be used at the first sign Mrs W R Cody 402 15th St Lewiston Idaho says: had a bad case of dropsy and bloated 40 lbs in weight My ankles swelled and I had to wear shoes two sizes larger than usual I was nerv ous restless and much run down After using Doan’s Kidney Pills I came down to natural weight and my kidneys became normal” Remember the name— Doan’s For sale by all dealers 50 cents a box Co Buffalo N Y Ltd J squad remedy it" to The mayor was still endeavoring which individual determine design in the ceiling would hit him on the nose were It to fall or which particular design his nose would hit if he were to rise and meet the ceiling and the health board officer went out JV THE PRISON Hl'JR AND DAY RECKONING Field There for Favorable Peculiarly the Spread of the 8courge of Tubei julosls Not Altogether Workman’s Thoughts Fixed on What Might Be Called Higher Thlnge ' in fifteen prisons Only twenty-onand territories have provided Bpecial places for the treatment of These Intheir tuberculous prisoners however stitutions can accommodate of only 800 patients In the major prisons and in practically all the Jails of the country the tuberIs allowed freely to culous prisoner lufect his fellow prisoners very few restrictions being placed upon his mode of habits When the congregate the danger of prison life le considered Infection becomes greater than in the and New York general population Massachusetts are the only states where any systematic attempt has been made to transfer all tuberculous to one central Institution prisoners The largest prison tuberculosis hospital is in Manila where accommodaare provided tions for 200 prisoners The next largest is Clinton prison hospital in New York which provides for 150 Mayor William 8 Jordan at a Democratic banquet In Jacksonville said of optimism: "Let us cultivate optimism and hopefulness There is nothing like it The man can see a bright side optimistic to everything— everything "A missionary in a slum once laid and his hand on a man’s shoulder said: " 'Friend do you hear the solemn ticking of that clock? 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