Show Great Inease of Fatal Accidents The old law of compensation as Interpreted In-terpreted by Carlyle ISmerson and other philosophers of both ancient and modern mod-ern times seems to find Us verification In recent reports > of the census bureau showing that the proportion of deaths from accidents in the United Slates Is Increasing That Is to say all our new and wonderful devices and agencies Insuring In-suring highei speed In traveling more ease and convenience In the operation of almost every branch of productive industry more comforts and luxuries In homes and households all these have an offset in some degree In the increased risks we run at every turn and the real perils we encounter while we Indulge ourselves In these now and impioved ways of life According to this census report the proportion of deaths from accidental cause in 1011 was 7G In a total of 1000 deaths from all causes In JSOO the proportion was only iif7 Some curious facts brought out by Ibis same report art that thc death mat e due to accidents and Injuries is i highest among persons 1C years of age and over that the average age of death from iircldtnls is about MO years andthat the warmer warm-er months show a larger proportion of fatal accidents than tIme < cooler ones In March time country is a more dangerous place to live in than the city and in May and JUt the reverse l Is true It also appears thai l pareon is twice as likely to dlefrom accident ns from old age and that accidents happen more frequently and kill more persons in time Rocky mountain regions and on the Pacific Pa-cific coast than In the Atlantic Stal sOn s-On the whole It appears that nearly G i per cent of all deaths In the United States are dim to accidental I injuries < s One obvIous moral to be cluimi from all thils would seem to be the Increasing need of exercising can lion among the compleodlles of modern life Leslies Yeeltl Weekly WeeklyAn Au Impassioned Burglar Not long ago a popular young actress of Paris received the visit of an able a1s ICCCct burglar in evening dress who suddenly appeared In her rooms on the HoulCPard do Port Hoyal without knocking at her door or being announced by l her servant The actress was preparing1 to retire for the night when she heard strange noises in her clahl room Going in there she found herself face to face with a tall dark man In evening dress and soft slippers who appeared lo be about 10 years old As the actress entered Use slranger dropped on one knee and made a 1 declaration of love lie said that he had watched her on the stage with admiration that he had tried to see her at the theater and having failed to do so resolved to enter her residence even at the risk of being < taken for a burglar The actress was much annoyed but believing the mans Htory allowed him to go away without raising any alarm The stranger disappeared dis-appeared quickly when the t dOn was opened 10 him and the t nctrcis subfiy quently found that before she had heard his ot tStCiS In I her salon he had broken bro-ken open her Louis Qulnzc table there and abstracted from the drawers all her money and sonic Jewels |