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Show THE LIGHT OF HIS EYES. It was on a June Friday afternoon, and the band of the Gordo Republl-caln- e had just finished playing one of the popular marches, which set the toes of all the little models sitting un-bthe trees In the Luxembourg Gardens tapping sympathetically upon the gravel. Out on the broad walk near the pond passed to and fro the ceasoXca stream of "types," which one meets with only in tbe Quarter, and very frequently even there on!ly on Fridav afternoons. Above the palace fluttered flocks of pigeons which have made the gables and finials their home for years. "Truly the palace would not be the same without pigeons," remarked a little model to her ami. as she trlned gayly down the steps and passed across tho bath on their way to a shady corner on the farther side of the garden. But neither bonnes, with fluttering Tlbbons and immense white aprons, cor overdressed nor underdressed children bowling hocps and crowing, nor fluttering: balloons on the end of the strings, nor artists, nor students, nor even the old soldieis with the grizzled mustaches and shuffing footsteps, attracted half so much attention as the blin l younc man sitting beneath the shad a of one of the chestnuts, with the lovely, quietly dressed girl at his side. "Ah!" said Dufayel. as he saw our glances rest Questlonlngly on these two, "there is a sad history attached to him and to her, and yet why should I call It sad, for they love each other?" "That," he continued, "is Andre Delcrme. and she once Suzanne, the pretty model at Colorossl's Is his wife. Yes, he is blind1, and that is the sadness cf their history. Three ' years ago Andro was one of the most Dromislnc of the young painters; every one thought that ho was sure of a 'Bronze.' He worked hard and studied hard, and except that he admired Suzanne no one could accuse him of having any interests outside the picture be was paint-iut sun-bathe- d rapidly that tbe pompiers scarcely realized what he was doing untn he disappeared; but they arrived in time to of the studio which in a few minutes catch him as he staggered blindly out had become like a furnace, holding Suzanne in his arms. "Except for smoko and fright she was little the worse. But Andre! He poor fellow, was terribly burned no doubt his face and hands had been licked by the Xlames ere he discovered Suzanne. The doctor at the hospital gave little hope at first of his recovery, and Suzanne waited anxiously day after day for any news that was good news of him. And then when at length one sunny day in the spring he emerged from the hospital portal with Suzanne leading him and the kindly surgeon accompanying mem to the fiacre, we who waited to welcome him back to the Quarter knew that he was blind. "No more would Andre Delorme be able to paint pictures, for, alas! a man can not paint by touch alone. But In the tenderness of HtUe Suzanne, who works for both of them and who economizes with such cleverness as to make her friends marvel, it is possible that Andre has found something to compensate him. "Andre and Suzanne may be seen every Friday In fine weather sitting under the trees of the Luxembourg Gardens listening to the music. He with close eyes and she with eyes that see for him all the brightness of the life around. She chatters and tells him who passes and who is talking to who, and then she will read to him, and then she will lk up and down while tellhim of the approach or this or that ing acquaintance. "As one sees them together it is almost Impossible, to realize, from Andre's face and expression and Suzanne's gentle care, that the painter who was to have had the 'Bronze' Is blind. "But such." as Dufayel says, "is Ufa in the Quarter." And Andre is not to be pitied so much after aU. for with little Suzanne by his side he has both the angel of 2. their little apartment and "The Light "One day you will remember read- of His Eyes." dive Holland, In II ing about it a great fire broke out at lustratcd Bits. the hack of one of the studios not far from the Gare du Mont Parnasse. Wj Statistics of Litigation. heard nothing of it at the studio until There fiTe 2,000.000 civil suits brought the noiso of the engine thundering by In this country every year. If the at tbe bottom of the street- and the plaintiffs were different in every case, shouting and the blowing of horns told one In eisht of the voting oooulatlon us that a fire was in crogress. could be said to be a litigant. As it is. "Andre and half a dozen others hasti- the actual number of different litigants ly threw down their paHcttcs. put on Is not In excess of 800,000 400.000 their coats, dashed down the steD plaintiffs and 400.000 defendants staircase out Into the street, and then which Is 1 ner cent of the total popula rushed away along the boulevard to the tion of the country, now about 80.000.- place where the fire was. Before they 000. could make their way through the The number of lawsuits brought in a crowd which thronged the end of the year in France is 800,000. In Italy Italians are much inclined street, like a flash it came to several of us at once that Suzanne on Tuesdays to litigation it Is 1.400,000. and in Ger it was a Tuesday always sat to Jules many It is 3,000,000, a very much largf-Donnard. rmhor, both actually and relatively. "So one liked Jules somehow ws than the number in the United States. could not trust him and therefore we Civil actions of all kinds begun art were not much surprised to eather year in Great Britain and Ireland num froni ono of the crowd that Jules bad bered about 1.&00.000, or one for nearly made his escape from the studio at the every tenth male or female adults in first alarm of firo without giving much the United Kingdom. In 1302 there waft an Increase of nearly 02,000 over the thought to Suzanne. "Soon there was a great outcry a previous year, and 42 actions were the roof of one of the studios fctl In beard out of L410.484 that were begun. Of the number of appeal cases heard, with a crash, and plumes of sparks and smoke and flames darted skyward. one in every three was successful. Not lone, and another shout, for Bon-car- d against one in four or five, years ago. bad sufficiently recovered his Tne total cost of British litigation in serve to cay that there was a girl in 1&03 was placed at $7,809,875. The best measure of litigation his f tn die. the end of which was alhlm-an- d at dashed on fire. Andro usually the number of laws or statutes. ready and not contrary to general belief, the shouted close to his face: " 'Is it Suzanne is it Suzanne? Tell number of lawyers. In this country it is found generally to be the case that me, or 111 kill you! was to as he about the largest amount of litigation docs "And then. Just not originate among Americans, but Bonnaxi seize him by the throat. among newcomers here, who appeal to gasped out: " Suzanne. It is the courts for the adjudication of mat a "Andre turned without word, and ters cf trilling account. In no other pushed through the pompiers, who country in the world are there to many tried in rain to stop him. he dashed damage suits brought as there are la Jown the narrow passage which led to the Uclted States. New York Sun. the court of the studios from which people were throwing furniture pell ftnak Dofna a Flourishing Business. A cromlncnt actor teKs this story roell. as thou eh the flames were alabout two brother players and their ex ready at their reels, and disappeared. "What bao&ened to him when he perlences In a Maine temperance town vanished from our 6lght we learned Feeling In need of alcoholic refresh from one of the pompiers. It a wars mcnl they made application at the local that he dashed into the studio above dru? stores, but were told that stlmu which Bonnard's now burning one wis, lants were sold only in cases of snak9 and forced his way tip the narrow stair- bite. The actors had about decided to case in snlte of the TcCumes of smoke content themselves with such refresh which poured down It Into the studio mcnt as the town provided, when they he managed to crawl although no soen-- r heard that a certain resident owned was the door open than flames rush- rattlesnake which he kept as a pet Se ed at him like fiery serpents, curing his address they called an Suzanhim and offered to hire his snake for "Just Inside he stumbJed ne, who had hastily thrown on her use in some scientific experiments. "Nonthlng doing," answered the own thfacs tn aa endeavor to escape, and tad then evidently been overcome by er: "he's booked solid for four months the smoke. He had dashel upstairs si ahead." n - r T, ti-- n COST OF ROAD BUILDING. OLD SCHOOL WAS DUQ UP. Children of Babylon Studied 4,000 Years Ago. The details have reached London of an interesting discovery amid the ruins of the Babylonian town of Sclppara. Father SchleL the French archaeologist, has unearthed a perfect school room, with materials for writing and instruction. Lessons were taught and learned in this Babylonian school room 4,000 years ago much like today. Where Scippara once Btood is now only a mound of earth covered with potsherbs. Beneath tho surface Father Schiel found bits of walls and remnants of houses and public buildings. The most interesting find was the schools, "lo cated in a house opposite the temple. Olay tablets, tho predecessors of modern slates, were abundant One tablet boro the Inscription: "He who distinguishes himself in tho school of writing will shine ever as the sun." The school house contained seven rooms, and in one filled with clay tablets arranged in regular order, most of the tablets being unbaked, the inscripbecome undecipherable. tions hav of th however, were in tablets, Many as perfect condition as when they wcro laid aside forty centuries ago by the childish Babylonian hands. Some of the tablets contained hymns in the oldest Symerlan. namely, the Others con Turanian of Babylonia, tained primers, dictionaries and arith metical problems. Some of the tablets had served as copy books, as was proved by the beautiful clearness of the letters. They were used for class ex ercises, for on several tablets could be seen how pupils bad scratched out faulty wrltins and smoothed the day over again with a stylus. All dated texts Father Schiel found bore the name of King Hammurabl.about whom the recent controversy between Prof. Delitzch and the kaiser arose. Where fore it is known the school must have cenbeen used as late as twenty-onturies ago. Despite the difficulty of Cuneiform writing the tablets show the pupils were bright. Nothing was found to show that the mayor of Sclppara had not provided room for all pupils desiring an educa tion, as mayors of more modern towns have failed to do. Denver News. vtooms Where Good Macadam Can Bs $3,500 a Mile. Made PICTURES BY TELEGRAPH. at Bavarian Scientist Has Perfected ths The cost of road building varies in the different places according to the topography of the country and the proximity of the stone used. A satis can be built eighteen factory feet wide exclusively of stone usually for $3,000 to $3,500 a mile. These are A more knowu as macadam roads. from $4,000 costly stone road running to $6,000 a mile Is the Telford road. Both are named after Scotchmen, who first devised the systems. The maca dam roads consist of a deep foundation of largo stones, laid aa smoothly together as possible, the foundation stones being of a nearly uniform size. A layer of smaller 6tone3 Is placed over the foundation and rolled down, bind ing the two together. Then layers of each layer being of finer crushed stc-nquality than its predecessor, are rolled into and over the foundations. The final layer is of very fine crushed stone. The whole settles Itself into a compact mass, almost as smooth as a flag stone, from which water runs off as soon as it falls. The Telford road is more expensive because Its foundation Is laid with more care. The foundation Etones are of a uniform size and are laid with the ends uppermost, like so many bricks set upon edge. These aro bound together by smaller size of Etone, the various dressings of finer stone being laid and rolled in the 6ame way as for the macadam roads. The dur ability of 6uch a highway Is unquestionably longer than any other kind of a road known. Outing. fTelephotngirwpn. Many attempts have been mads t Invent some apparatua adapted to the transmission of photographs, handwriting, etc, over Jong distances by means of the electric current A realty successful device appears to have beea perfected by Professor Korn, of Munich. The sending device is on the principle, which has been known for some time, of the oscillations in electric currents falling on a selenium cell. If a photographic negative has a ray of light falling upon it from above, and a selenium cell resting below it, then when the negative is moved we have changes in the electric current due to the differences in the amount of light passing through the negative. The difficulty has been to find a receiver which would reconvert the elctrio oscillations into changes in (light Intensity. This is the problem that Professor Korn has solved. He observed that the luminous radiations from the electrodes in a tube exhausted to a tres-sur- e of .2 to 2 mm. of mercury were very sensitive to variations in the circuit By an ingenious mechanical contrivance he was able to make these rays act upon a photographically sen ultlve film, producing a picture of thd variations in the electric circuit When this tube is connected with the selenium cell of the transmitter, in such a way that slight variations in its current affect the amount of electricity la the circuit of the receiver,, an accurate reproduction of the light received is given by the light emitted. This apparatus has already given satisfactory Strength From Proper Breathing. reproductions of handwriting and pb The Japanese, although men of very tographs. Collier's Weekly. small stature, are among the strongest In the world. Any boy of fourteen or Effect of Poor Milking. fifteen who will, faithfully practice One of the obstacles to successful will their system of producing strength is the inability to secure dairying few a end of find himself, at the mllkets. The first quescompetent of power months, able to cope in feats an applicant for a position asked of , twenty-fivewith the average man of on tion a dairy farm is, "Can you and aU this without the dangerous milk?" A young man who answered practice of lifting very heavy weights. the above question by saying that he It should always be remembered that had always milked at home was enrest must be taken after each exercise. for the college farm. At the While resting try deep breathing. gaged end of a week the milk records showStand erect, though not in a strained ed a shrinkage of 12 per cent in the position, and at each breath draw the amount of milk secured from 6 cows abdomen in and throw the chest out. assigned to this man to milk. An inAs the breath is exhaled, let the chest Fortunes on Finger Tips. vestigation followed at the close of The costliest thimble in the world Is fall Inward again, and the abdomen out- the next milking time and the 9 owe undoubtedly one possessed by the ward. From twenty minutes to half were Immediately mllkd a second Queen of Slam. It was presented to an hour Is a long enough time to do- time and 22.23 peands of mflk were and this Includes the obtained, testing 10.6 per cent or 3.38 her by her husband, the King, who had vote to In more time during rest- s- pounds of butter fat cost a breathing of spent it made at than At another rather is In Itself time 6 cows milked by ooe individual correct an far breathing deep, $75X00. This thimble is quite work of art. It is made o! one of the best exercises possible In made a shrinkage of 70 pounds la pure gold, in the fashion or shape of a Inhaling draw the breath through cith- seven days, while the rest of the herd half opened lotus flower, the floral er the nostrils or the mouth, as prefer- held its own. These and other similred, in exhaling always let tho breath ar experiences suggest the value of emblem of the royal house of Slam. Nichodairy record. Marked shrinkages like It Is thickly studded with the most escape through the mouth. St the above might be noticed la the las. beautiful diamonds and other precious pall, but smaller variations might go stones, which are so arranged as tc unnoticed Veara-if a record is not kept. A Clock Rto tin About 30,000 form the name of the Queen, together inIs While it will time important to keep an inradium clock keep with the date of her marriage. She re-- ' dividual of tbe milk flow of record constructed been by gan'.s this thimble aa one of her most definitely has owner may know the each that cow, of Martindale Harrison England. precious possessions. which are the of at end the the tube small a year clock The comprises Not long ago a Paris Jeweller made a an which the a minute unprofitable profitable In quantity is which placed most elaborate thimble to the order cf same serve as tho record ones, an exhausted may in radium of supported a certain well known American' Billiona milkers. Prof. C. tho check To the rod. a upon vessel quartz by aire. It was somewhat larger than the glass which is col- L. Beach la Bulletin 23, Conn, Exper the tube of end lower ordlnarv size of thimbles and th ored violet by the action of the radi- tmcnt Station. agreed price was $25,000. The gold set- um, an electroscope formed of two ting was scarcely visible, so completely Denmark and Eggs. leaves or strips of silver is atwas it set with diamonds, rubies and long Llttl-tached. Denmark, considerably less pearls in artistic designs, the rubles tho size of Minnesota than which In of A electricity cbargo showing the initials of the recipient of little less a with e and transmitted is population no beta rays Five or six years ago a Jeweller in In 190 2V2 radium than of the millions, exported the activity the west end of London was paid a through and the latter there- 2C.000.000 dozen of eggs, for whicl the lUo leaves, sum of nearly $15,000 for a thimble expand until they touch the sides Ler farmers got CYi million dollars, aa which the oamptred wife of a South by the of vessel, connected to earth by avcrago of over 18 cents a dozen. Thll African Crcesus Insisted on having which InstanUy conduct the Is a comparatively new Industry la wires, made for her. This was one mass of electric charge, and the leaves fall Dcsmark; In fact up to about 20 years precious gems diamonds and rubles ago there were no exports, and but together. which as thimble ornaments seem alThis simple operation Is repeated few for several years thereafter. The most to monopolize feminine taste. Incespantty every two minutes untu egg business in Denmark, like tho The late Shah of Persia presented a tbe radium Is exhausted, which in dairy, is largely and lha thimble to a lady whose guest he was thlJ instance It Is computed will oc- farmers are made to fel directly the for a few hours. In the words of the cupy 20,000 years. Scientific Ameri- necessity of producing eggs of a qualdelighted recipient, it looked like a can. ity and size that (s desired by their clurtcr of glittering gems, which in chief customer England. Quality of in save for the was, gold it In. fowl meat cuts no figure in Denmark, reality When Papa Sailed An expert In which they were set. fishera for the mission of the hen is to lay t like "Bertha, why am valued thimble this at stones reached as he precious eggs, and hence that is the only qual man ?' be asked, softly, $ 7.500. London Answers. for his hat. ity that Is developed. Pure blood, whisshe "I don't know, darling," fancy markings and "points" as ts the Bears Kill Twenty-Thrs- s lapels shape, ecmbs, etc., cut no figure. The Dog. pered, as she gently pulled Mr. Doc Bryant, the grocer, has re- ct his coat together. "Why are yon, hen that lays the most eggs of the received another letter from Mr. George Egbert quired size Is the one selected to 1 lob In son, the ice man. who Is down in "Bocause I never go without tcy maintain the Cock, though, she might Arkansas upon his annua hunt, and smack " cot be "knee high" in an American bull-lik- e a exclaimed In the eplstie Mr. Robinson states that "No, fir," poultry show. The hen is a very It without shan't In "and far succeeded you go have thus voice, prominent ,figure &mcag TJcnmarks killing they shall have Ton it much either. other live and but bears stock. game, eight torlght, at the sacraSce of many hounds, as Dow, sir a whole fleet of smacks." And papa procee'jd to lay that they have only sixteen left out of ths Manchester, with a population two packs carried down. This makes fleet cf pmacks on, while Egbert beless than that of Liverpool, has a full a blown came killed skipper. dors three altogether. twenty greater number of public tfoitfes. but Taducah (Ky.) Register. whereas' Liverj-oo-l has eight firit If a man got a!! .e prated for he licenses t: every beer I!cen?, Manr.uld soon quit work and make pray- - chester has Tbe more thorns a rose cas the great for beer licenses to every; continuous performance. r the deslrs of some poople to pick It license. spirit pre-Semiti- c e Jiu-jits- 3 one-Cft- a-- r one-sixt- h 'n |