CORNAYLIUS HA - Twin the godfather etuttered, or may - hep the priwl; But, be Iliut it it may, it i certain, t least, TW the wan or the other was surely to blame Fur preintin' the lad the quare twu.t to his name. Foi there at the rhiint nin', id iv'ry wan list'niii'. Now didn't his Kiverenre, father " Kianigan, Wid nervousness slnm'rin', lVi hune the child's clum'ritr. Bupliip it ' Cornaylim llu Ha Ha ITnn mgun! Wid these words from the priest, inure, the cute little romii Up an' stopped his own mouth wid hia chubby kithoKiie. An' the dimple broke out an' prosadrj to li All the tears an' the frowns from his inno cint face. Kor. faix, he was afilier , AliMorbin the lauglither Stuck into hia name by good Father O'FIanigan! Now tlini's the thrtith in it. An' so from that minute Share, iv'ry wan called tin lad ''Hu-H.t-11a Ilanuig in.' -J ; i i ' JJ L J A BALCONY SCENE Bv CAMILLA I l I l II II JtOW. HEN Katharine came back j( J( to the dinner table after ' O f O answering the telephone 4 J? she looked so sober, es StOW pecially in contrast witU lier previous high spirits, thut the tamily resolved itself into an interro gation Hirit ut once. "Harry can't come for me." she said, slowly. "Ik that nil? Thou-lit there must ltave been u death at the very least." "No, tliat'H not all. 1 1 very kindly provides me with an escort, and that escort none other tliau Mr. Randolph Payson." "Well, what's the matter with Mr. Paysou? I thought he was all right." "That's JuKt what's the matter he's o invariably and provokingly all right. He's a perfect para gou of propriety, ami I shall be stir;- to do something to shock him. I've half a mind not to to." "Oh, Kanharine." interposed her mother, "you.inust. Harry is depend ing on your solos." "Yps. that's (mother thine. Some o:ie has failPd bim at the last minute a i l be wants me to sing another. I liato these concerts for the benetlt of omethint: anyway; they're always lu otne stuffy hall, and there's never a decent piano." "An unprejudiced observer would al most be tempted to think you are cross. Kit." remarked Iter brother. ' "It's enough to make anybody cross. 1 don't sep how Mr. Pay son can recon cile it with his conscience to take me in a carriage without a chaperon, but tarry says he jumped at tin chance. The idea! Of course it was ull right to go with Harry." "Well, dear." said her mother, sooth ngly, "you must just do the best you nu. I can't imagine why you feel o about it. Most sirls would be de lighted with Randolph Payson as an escort" ".Most girls are scared blue of him just the same. It's enough to 'rile' anybody jusf.to look at him, he's so absolutely faultier." Katherine was ready at the Appoint ed time, and was alone, the other mem bers of the family, luclndlng the maids, having gone out. She was positively nervous about meeting Mr. Payson. and started violently when the boll proclaimed his arrival. She picked up her gioveg to go, but to her horror her room door would not open! No, it was not locked, and the knob turned but did not milaieu. Meanwhile thf bell rang again. W.iat t.hould she doj Of course she could not make llitu bear, and she rattled the kuob and pounded and pulled to no purpose. She lived in the lower rlat of an apart went house, and her room had long windows opening ou a small balcony. She rushed out there, only to find that he could not see Hip front entrance, but she hailed a lxy. passing. "Boy." she called, "come here If you want to earn a dime." The boy came with alacrity. "Is there a carriage iu front of the house?" she asked. "Yes," said the boy. "Then please go around to the en trance and tll the gentleman who is at the door of this flat that Miss Har rison cannot come to the door Just now, and ask him to please wait a few ininuteR. )o you understand it?" "Yes'm." said the boy. and repeated the message. Then he started off. "Oh, come back a minute. Do you know where the janitor s rooms are? Then please go and ask him to come at once lo Flat 1, at-.d fix a door that won't open. Now. don't tell (lie gentii' inan that," she added, as she tossed fiiin a dime. A moment or two laler, she hear.', teps, but instead uf the small boy or the Janitor, It w.-.s Mr. Payson. Her first Impulsp was to hide, but the (jlare uf tho street light made her conspicu ous, so be l ad already seen her. Lift ing his hat. he said, "Good evening, Miss Harrison. " as calmly as If u was Ills dally custom to greet from the lawn a young lady on a balcony. "Oh," began Katharine. "I told the boy uut to tell you." "The boy," said Mr. Payson. gravely, "gave me a rather confused message about a door and waiting and said he was going for the Janitor. I Insisted en knowing where I might find the young lady who had sent him, and following his directions, I um here." "Yes," said Katharine, confused. "May I ask what thetroubla Is, and if I ran do anything?" Katharine wanted to tell him he might ask anything If he would only take off Ihr.t expression of calm dis approval which made her feel as Jf aba were a naughty five-year-old. But a explained matters. In an embar rassed, hesitating way, which made ker appear more charming even than , ual. I 's l' "Isn't your door locked" iwMU "I kuexr you'd uit that. INo I c HA - HA - H ANNIGAN. ' Now, the "lTa! Tla! Ha!" stack to him phe a hi nnme, For the urm a tear coiiid be drownin' the same. Xot a c:re lver touched him from that b!iHut day But his gift o' the luuglither would drive it AU'nv. Wid jokiu' an' rhnffin' lie niver stopped laughin'i , Or if he did stop he immajiate began agin ; An iv'ry wan hrnrin' His laughter o cheerin' ,7it lined in the mirih o' young "lis 1 f u Ha Hunmg.in. .Share, the throublen o' life are lo pnltliry an' stnnll. 'Tis a pitv we let tliim disthnrb u at all. 'i-i ' - U..4 l.l !.... ... There is niver a rare but would 1'ave s m p ace If we'd only stand up nn' jist laugh in its face. Faix, life were a pleasure If all hid the treasure Conferred so uiitliiiikin' by Father 0'K',ani:an, If all could but borrow That cure-ell for sorrow IVhsixed bv "Cornaylms Ifa Tla Ifa Tlan niganl" T. A. Daly, in Catholic Standard and Times. i : i i i i I ! I L J. KNIGHT. I i I l I I I I I It acted Just this way once before we've lived here only a week ami the Janitor said It was r.ll right after he tiled it, but It won't open now." An oppressive silence whs broken by the return of the boy. The janitor had gone out and his wife raid hp would be back in an hour or two and she would tell him. "An hour or two!" echoed Katharine in dismay. "The concert will be over by that time." "If we hail a ladder. Miss Harrison," said Mr. Payson. "Ah! 1 have a thought. Excuse me; I'll be back In a minute." and lie turned quickly away. "Oh," what will he think of me?" moaned Katharine. "This is awful!" and she went Into the room for an othpr try at the kuob, which, however, proved futile. The sound of steps called her back to the balcony. What In the world. The carriage, Mr. Payson on the box with the driver, was coming straight toward her. As it stopped, Mr. Pay sou stood upon the seat, from which he could just reach to climb to the balcony. As he came over the rail, ho said: "We'll just pretend I'm the Janitor for n minute, while I see if I can do anything with that refractory door," and he stepped Into the room. Ills en tire manner had changed, ami Kath arine stood in amazement at the vision of tht, paragon of propriety in her room on his Uuees before her door-knob. What was more, he was running on w ith merry nonsense the -while, in a way she could not have imagined pos sible, lie was obliged to give up the problem, however, and returned to the balcony. "I see but one way for yon, Miss Harrison," he said. "I'll ask the driver to stand at the horses' heads, and if you can climb over the rail-it's not very high-ni stand ou the seat and help you down. Can you manage it, do you think?" Ills eyes were dane with fun, as he looked Into hers. Could It be that the precise Mr. Paysou was enjoying this escapade? "I oau do It all light." admitted Katharine, "but. yes, 1 wlii. I mustn't disappoint Harry." "Hope it won't hurt your gown," he said, as he sprang lightly down to the seat. "That's it; very gracefully done. Now. take care your dress doesn't catch. There, that was dead easy. Now wait a minute. Here you are on terra tiruia. Ml?s Harrison's carriage." as he opened the door with a flourish ami a very low bow Then, to her sur prise, he mounted to the balcony again, went In, turned out the light and closed the window. "Now we are all right," he said, its he settled himself comfortably beside her, and the carriage rolled along. "We shan't be very ;te, either; only fashionably so." "Thank you so much," murmured Katharine, unsteadily. He turned quickly to her. "Why, you poor little girl! You are trembling! Don't take it so hard. Ac cidents will happen, you knew, and 'all's well that ends well.' Cheer Up," and be smiled so genially that she na turally responded. Suddenly Mhe started tip. "Oh. stop him quick!" she cried. "I've forgotten my music! What u stupid " Payson told the driver to turn back, then said: "I don't wonder that you forgot It. Hut I'm equal to another raid ou your 10O!!" "Vu must have It, I suppose?" "I could get along, but my accom panist ''The carriage stopped at tite entrance. "Is tln re a balcony off the music room, too?" "Yes." "Then that's dead easy If the win dow is unfastened. If not, glass is brittle." They drove to the side of the house and stopped, by Katharine's directions. "The music Is on the piano In my muslc-roll," said Katharine, as he entered the window. "The telephone Is ringing three," he called as he reappeared, "Is that your number?'' "Yes," answered Katharine. "Prob ably Harry is getting Impatient." "Shall I answer It? We might as well relieve kl mind. Or no; I can find the door and let you in, if you drive around to the front." So It came to pass that Katharine was let into her own home by Mr. Payson, who, smlllrgly bade her wel come, the telephone meanwhile ringing wildly. "Hello!" Yes, this Katharine. No, but we're Just starting. No, but we've oeen hindered. Oh, no matter how. Ye, we'll couie right along now. Oood by." "It k Hurry aiifijitfutiuued, "aad h' wild to know whv I'm not therey' her cheeks flushing as she remembered Harry's peremptory question: "Have you find Payson eloped?" As they neared their destination, Mr. Paysou said: "Suppose we keep the events of th evening to ourselves, Miss Harrison? Not that you have anything to be nshanied of; but I know what your life will be If Harry Thayer gets hold of what has happened." "He Is an awful tease," said Kath arine. "I never thought, but I'd have to explain, though. It's kind of you If we could avoid telling " "Of course we can. It's agreed, then, that It's n secret between us." Harry had no time to question as he dragged Katharine Into the dressing room, saying: "I've had to change the program now so as to bring your first song later. "Don't be cross. Thayer," said Mr. Payson. "Our delay was absolutely una voidable, on her part, at least." "That was generous," thought Kath arine. "And almost as If it was his fault." She was at her best that evening, many telling her they had never heard her sing so well. Harry and Mr. Pay son were on their way to her after the concert, when Harry said: "Much obliged of you, Payson, for escorting Miss Harrison safely here nt last. But I'll relieve you now; I can take her home." . "Thayer," said Payson, suddenly, "how much claim have you on Miss Harrison?" "None at nil," answered narry, promptly, "only she's my cousin, and I've always known hpr." "Then I take her home." said Pay son, decidedly. "Hope you won't be as long get ting there as you were coming here," laughed Harry, adding, ns Katharine came toward them: "Mr. Payson in sists on finishing tip the escorting business. Kit. so I'm out." . As they left the carriage. Mr. Pay sou said: "Why did you seem so surprised when Thayer said I was to take you home. Miss Harrison?" "Why I thought you must be dis gusted with uie. I'd made you so much trouble, and I knew you were so particular about " "About the proprieties? I have that reputation, I know, and I am, I have no patience with girls who do all sorts of wild things unchaperoued; but this Is different. Such a thing might have happened to any one, and your evi dent distress proved that you were the kind of a girl I had always thought you were. Anyway, I shall be very glad if I may have the privilege of calling on you and being admitted in a proper manner, not 'climbing up some other way.' May I?" Katharine assented, and he went on impulsively; "I heard you say as I left you to get the carriage: 'What will he think of me?' Some time I shall be glad to tell you exactly what I think of you," and bis eyes told her then, as she bade him good-night. The American Queen. One Way to Make a Living. The chief Industry of Beth-lehem of .Tiulea is that of the mother-of-pearl workers. The shells nre brought from the Red Sea, and In the hands of native artisans are polished and carved, the larger Into elaborate designs; the smaller are cut up for rosaries and crosses. The Work is ull done by hand, and the methods are amazingly primitive to a spectator from the home of steam and electric power. But the results are extraordinary. The largest shell we saw was carved lu scenes from the Birth of Christ, the Agony in the Garden, and the Crucifixion, and bad the general effect of delicate frostwork. Older the magnifying ghiss every detail was seen to be per fect in outline aud In finish. It was executed to order for a wealthy Ameri can, and was to cost $lii. About a ITS) people make a living by this Industry, which Is 500 yeurs old. In the shop the workmen sit upon the floor, their benches in front of them; the air Is full of whitish dust, and the light, admitted by the single window and the open door, so dim that the exquisite tracery of the wrought shells Is a mystery even be fore the visitor notes how few, simple and crude nre the instruments em ployed. Marlon Hatiand, in I.lppiu cotl'a. Oualnt Questions. Do you know that the bayonet was so called because it was first made at Bayoune, France? That coffee received its name for the reason that It first came to Europe from Kaffa? That candy was first exported from Candla? Tbnt tobacco was so called from the Island of Tobacco, the home of Daniel Defoe's Imaginary hero, Robinson Crusoe? That gin was Invented at Geneva and early became an important factor lu the commerce of that city? That the tarantula was a notorious pest In the vicinity of T'arautoV That cambric was made at Cam bra y'f That muslin was made at Mous sellue? That calico was made at Calicut? That dimity was made at Da mietta? That milliners first plied their trade at. Milan? That the magnetic property of Iron ore was first noticed iu that dug in the neighborhood of Magnesia? Ask your friends and see how many of them know these facts. Washing ton Post. Shorthand 1000 Ytars Old. Prof. Prledrlch Prelslgke, of the University of Strassburg, has been en gaged on the translation of certain ancient Egyptian papyrus MSS. which he recently discovered at Oxypuyu.' thus, In Egypt. He baa come to the conclusion that the art of stenography was certainly known to the Greeks iu I'-gypt. In a letter from a certain merchant, named Dlonyalus, to his uls ter, DIdyme, dnted November 15, twenty-seven year after Cbrlet, the merchant complains that his sister has not written to him either In the usual churaeter or Btenographlcally. Prof. Prelslgke believes the Greeks learned stenography from the Kgyvtlana and bases his belief on papyri dated A. 155, In -which an Egyptlun sWtbaud It mtftliily. ja use.-Sejj;jQrk. World, A PAVEKENT CFJf HALES' I0XES t annum lsitnsLrr, One of the most picturesque towns In California or on the Pacific Slope Is Monterey. Historically, it Is the most Interesting town In the Western Plates, it was the capital of Alts, Lsga.t.iUiS jjVV:''-,Vfr California, where the Spanish held sway In the days "before the Gringo came." Father Junlpero Serra landed at Mon terey, which Is on the bi.y of the same name, on June 3, 1770, more than six years before the signing of the Dec laration of Independence. The mis sionary prhst preached to the Indians and founded the mission church of San Carlos, which Is still In excellent pres ervation. Many relics of Spanish rlile are to be seen at Monterey, such as the old custom house, the jail, etc. Besides being the capital of the Span ish province, Monterey was nn Impor tant whaling station, many of those great mammals being found In Mon terey Bay. The wak leading from the street to the main door of San Carlos mission church Is paved with the ver tebrae and other bones of whales. The accompanying photograph, made at the end of August last, shows the composition and present condition of this remarkable pavement. Scientific American, TBE ZAMBESI RIVER BRIDGE, VICTOR IA FALLS, RHODESIA. The great steel arch bridge designed to carry the northern extension of the Rhodesia Hallways across the gorge of the Zambesi niver Just below the famous Victoria Falls In South Africa, was opened to traffic on Sept. 2, 1905. The 500-foot spun of the Zambesi arch ranks It among the large steel arch bridges of the world. To this feature of Interest Is added the novelty that the bridge was erected thousands of tulles from its place of manufacture VIEW OF ZAMBKSI AKCU aud Iu a part of the world which not many yeurs ago had been reached only by a few Intrepid explorers. NEW SHOE FASTENING. In the illustration below will be found a shoe fastener entirely different from any yet introduced. A Baltimore man Is the inventor, and he does away entirely with eye lets and luces and uses Instead a com bination of straps, eyes aud a buckle. Iu the fastening operation the normal overlap is increased, the part of the upper above the Instep being drawn toward a point on the rear section and brought closely against the portion of the foot Immediately above the heel. The upper Is divided into two sections, which are primarily disconnected, ex cept where they unite neur'the sole at the Bides of the shoe, the frout sec tion of the upper overlapping the rear section, so as to present no apparent openings between the parts. Straps fastened to the back section connect with eyes secured to the edges of the front sections, the straps being per forated at regular Intervals and fasten ing in a suitable buckle. The fasten ing operation consists In crossing the straps at a polut ou the rear section of the upper, which fs directly over the heel of the foot, after drawing the straps tightly in buckling their ends together. Chans For "Plana" Cook. The following advertisement ap peared recently in the "Help Wauted" column of a certain Journal: "Wanted A flat servant for a tingle iaoy.---uarper .weekly. X HELD IN PLACE III STRAPS. NOAHS OF ART THIRTY-FIVE CEX TUXIES OLD. In 1807 the French Government es tablished n special nrcheologleal mis sion at Susa, in Persia. The mission was under the control of M. de Mor gan, the former director general of an- tiqultles In Egypt, and the Government has allowed j'Jtl.OOO per year for es penses. Recently the results so far ob tained were placed on exhibition In the THE FIUl'BI AT THE BIGHT IS OF QUEEN KAPIR ASON, RECENTLY FOUND IK THE KUIN8 OF BU8A. Louvre, and a writer In the Illustra tion, of Paris, describes them as fol lows: "The chief feature of the collec- BRIDGE DCKINU ERECTION. tion is a bronze statue of Naplr Ason the wife of Kiug Ouutueu Gal, who lived some 3500 years ago. This sta tue was presented by the king to his wife, and It has remained for centurlet buried at a depth of sixty feet Iu tb ruins of the acropolis of Susa. During the past year the laborers emploj ed in the excavation brought the staKie to light. The figure was Intact, but the head was missing. However, as only some 280,000 cubic meters have beeu excavated up to the present of the 1,220,000 cubic meters which represent the area of the acropolis, it Is only rea sonable to suppose that the bead will eventually be found. On the base of the statue tiro carved the names of the queen, and behind her are two enam eled lions which weut through the fire of the kiln at least 2000 years before Christ. "In addition to the statue the Ham urabl code was found carved In gran ite. This stone is of great value, since it gives us the civil code of the Chal deans 2000 years before our own era. Further, the commission has found 'Koudourous' or property deeds en graved on stoue which are 5000 years old, bronze vases, magnificently chased and dating back 5000 years before the Christian era, and other relics of a past age which are of immeasurable value." A PIPE-ARCH BRIDGE. An engineering curiosity, said to be unique In this country, aud to have hut one parallel example lu Europe, is the pipe-arch bridge over the Sudbury River, which carried Boston's water supply. The spau is eighty feet, and the steel pipe, seveu aud oue-h.il feet In diameter, rises fire and cue-half feet above the horizontal ut the ceutre. Th pressure on the abutments when tha pipe la filled with water Is very gieat, and is resisted by a mass of concrete forty feet thick behluf. each abutment Across the curved iop runs a band railed foot-bridge. The steel of th pipe iu the arched portion is five eighths of an inch lu thickuess. Lba&sa, the Forbidden Pity, of Tibet, has lQ.OOO. tnwnla. ' ' . . '.iv4i'Mia:';'-M'. T Mm- f o . i ; U :y nniwiiismro ii l WINGED CARRIERS OF DISEASE ' T Is probable that the next i ....... .... . . i .. . .... i Oiuil'uiltuib Dirrr 111 Bum tation will be a declara tion tt war nonlnat flip musca doniestlcn, or ord inal y housefly a war to be carried on as resolutely as that started a few years ago against the ubiquitous mos quito. There are still a few medical men who think that too much has been made of the germ theory of disease. Tho facts nre overwhelmingly against these skeptics; but the fighters of microbes and bacteria are beginning to realize that they should not confine their attacks to the microscopic or ganisms, but must also demolish the visible Insects and other carriers of disease. There Is good reason for the belief that smallpox, typhus, the plague, and other deadly maladies nre largely spread by fleas, rats, nnd other domestic pnrnsites and vermin, whose systematic extermination would there fore mean a large decrease in human mortality the world over. In our own country and In Europo the darkest blot on the good name of the sanitarians is the wide prevalence of typhoid fever and the shocking mor tality among Infants. The waste of child-life Is largely due to overcrowd ing, want of fresh air, improper meth ods of feeding, and parental intem perance; but these factors lire mostly in uninterrupted operation throughout the year, and do not account for tho sudden increase in mortality during the months which are consecrated to the fly. In the Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, nn English medical officer of health, Dr. J, T. C. Nash, expresses his conviction that the musca domestlea is chiefly responsi ble for this increase. Milk is one of the favorite foods of files, and the milk in our houses, especially in the homes of the poor, is constantly exposed to their visits. Even when they do not resort to their favorite method of com mitting suicide, they contaminate the milk with the noxious matter clinging to their feet; and thus the germs of disease find a new aud favorable me dium for multiplication. Dr. Nash takes the position that milk is even more liable to pollution after than before delivery to the purchaser. This may be true, and, if so, it is a very Important point in sanitation. At the same time, his convictions (which are based on observations made at Southend as to the coincidence of In fantile diarrhoea with the number of flies) raise the question as to whether sufficient attention is paid to flies at the dairies where the cows are housed and the milk is stored. All milkmen keep horses, and Dr. L. O. Howard has shown that most of the house flies breed lu horse dung. This furnishes the key to the remedy, Infinitely simpler than in the case of mosquitoes. It would be well to compel farmers aud others to take measures to keep the flies from the manure pits, which is quite easy. That would not only re duce infant mortality, but decrease the number of typhoid cases. In view of what has been said and whnt is known of the filthy habits of files, It is not surprising that so many city dwellers, safe at home, should come from an outing lu the country smitten with typhoid. Heretofore tainted wells have been held responsi ble for these cases, but In all proba bility files are very frequently the cul prits. This probability Is largely in creased by the sad experiences of our army in the summer of 1S98. It was shown abundantly at that time that the inost careful system of water sup ply is unsatisfactory if there is sewage aud if there are flies about to pollute the food and drink. Surgeon-General Sternberg knew of this danger. As early aa April in that year he Issued a circular lu which he referred to it. His instructions were, however, ig nored, with the result that over 21 per cent, of .the soldiers in the encamp ments that summer had typhoid, aud over 80 per cent, of the denths dur ing that year were from this one cause. That the Surgeon-General's warning against files aa carriers of enteric fever germs should have been disre garded, at such a cost of life, will not seem so very surprising to those who know how slowly, In some cases, great and important discoveries make tbelr way to general recognition. Apparent ly, the Eugllsh Surgeon-General Gall wey has never heard of flies as car riers of disease, for In a recent letter to the London Times he attributed the typhoid at Bloemfontein to the "grlmo, dust, dirt of war, which harbor tho bacilli on the human being, on his clothes, on his bedding, on his food, while the overcrowding of tents and grounds spreads the .disease by con tact and by lowering vitality." The grime and dust and dirt and over crowding of war exist, however, at all itiines, while the multiplication of ty phoid cases coincides with fly-time. It is the same with cholera, which dis appears when files disappear. A French man of science, Frofessor Chantemesse, bus recently demonstrat ed the role played by files iu the dis semination of the perms of that dis ease. Fortunately, us his experiments proved, the cholera germs In files logo their virulence after forty-eight hours. Can it be that the Philistines bad an Inkling of a great truth when they built a temple for the worship of Beelzebub,' the destroyer of files? Mod ern experience certainly points -to the conclusion Uiat the fly is the most dangerous of all animals more so even tnan the deadly mosquito. It is so, cer italnly, In our climate, where the mosqulto'a specialties, malaria and yellow fever, are much rarer than In fantile maladies and enteric fever. But even In India, for instance, one can easily Imagine that lu cholera Ume, amid the prevailing horribly in sanitary conditions, files must slay their mllllonst-probably quite as many wlUons as the mosquitoes slaughter with the malarial germs. How harm less tigers and snakes seem lu compari son, or even the tsetse fly and the other poisonous tropical pestsl Luck ily, the experience acquired In recent years regarding warfare ou mosquitoes encourages the hope that (he house fly may bo speedily exterminated or kep.t at bay.. Ejea. la tj mxaL UA: ma L o m lariat plague-spot lot Europe, the Ro man Campagna, the most encouraging progress has been made. A volume recently issued by the Societa Italians per gll Btudl Malartcl .-ontaln Inter esting details on this point. On the lines of the Adriatic Railway the per centage of malarial cases has been reduced from IK).92 per cent. 'In 18H8-. 189t to 33 per cent.- at present, and similar reductions nre recorded among the peasants In various re gions. New York I'ost, MOTORISTS' FINES Trlbntn Levied Upon (tin Speed Fiend Is EnormoDi, The tribute levied upon motorists by the magistrate of the United King dom during 1004 reached the enor mous sum of 218,000. This amount averages very nearly 10 per head for every car on the road that year. Astonishing as these figures appear, it is probable that when the' total of this year's' tlnes can be made up it will reach well over 300,000. The Increase this year Is due to the persistent manner in which the police In many parts of the country, and es pecially In the southern counties, have pursued their campaign against motor -ars by means of traps. "The latest form of police trap Is nn electrical arrangement," says Stenson Cooks, Secretary of the Automobile Association. "A piece of rope is al most burled across the road nt.the start of a measured furlong. When the car touches the rope It starts a timepiece. Another rope Is laid at the end of the trap, nnd when the car touches tills it stops the timepiece. This Is the most just and reliable form of trap, for It does not depend for its accuracy upon cheap stop watches and unskilled police as timekeepers. "By the system of patrols which the Automobile Association has estab lished many of the police traps have been completely nullified. At Guild ford some time ago ns much as 105 was tuken In flues from motorists iu one day. Now that our scouts are at work things are very different. "On two milln roads, working two days a week, the patrols exercised the necessary restraint ou 207 motor cars. But for the association's efforts at least half of these would have been fined. We estimate that we save 100 a week on each road." London Ex press. A Hhop Girl's Pine, It was not a very cheerful memoran dum, and the shop girl's look was not very cheerful, either, as, oa pay night, she brought it home to her mother. It was a memorandum of the fines that had taken a good slice out of her wages, and It ran: Standing on chair $ .10 Leaving lets than one yard on ribbon roll 10 Permitting patron to depart unserved. .25 Lateness M Gum chewing 10 Krror in addition .Ofi Writing indistinct duplicate 10 Krror in address 10 Total $ .33 "There are 100 rules posted up in our little shop," said the girl bitterly, "und nn Infraction of any one of them Is fiueable." New York Tress. When Are We HtrongetT The lifting power of youth of seven teen years Is 280 pounds; in his twen tieth year this increases to 320 pounds; In the thirtieth nnd thirty-first year it reaches its height, 3(33 pounds. At the end of the thirty-first year the strength begins to decline, very slowly at first. By the fortieth year it has decreased eight pouuds, and this diminution con tinues nt a slightly Increasing rate until the fiftieth year is reached, when the figure is 330 pounds. After this period the strength -'falls more aud more rapidly until the weakness of old age Is reached. It is not possible to give statistics of the decline of strength after the fiftieth year, us it varies to a large extent in different Individuals. Chicago. Journal. - " To Orow Stone Pine Tree. The bureau of plant industry of the Department of Agriculture will bring to this country, for preparation iu Cali fornia and Oregon, young plants of the European atone pine. This tree, scientifically called plnus plnea, spoken of In the Old Testament, grows in Southern" Europe, being par ticularly plentiful in Greece and Italy. It bears a small, delicious nut that is used nil over Europe by bakers and confectioners. The local consumption of the stone pine nut is rapidly increasing just as it is in other Eastern cities, and to keep the trade at home the Depart ment of Agriculture will Introduce the trees here. Washington Post. The Dutch Snoeeulon. ' The question as to the future occu pant of tho Dutch throne occupies a writer in Le Figaro of Paris. A re vision of the Constitution has become necessary for the reason that should the present Queen leave no heir the throuo would pass to a German prince. Naturally the Dutch are distrustful of German princes, and particularly of this oue, "of whom nothing 1s known except that he knows nothing of the country." Meanwhile the fear pre vails that whether a German prince succeeds or n republic be proclaimed, the Kaiser will find omi excuse to in terfere and gain a footlug lu the coun try. New York World. Will Harneas Victoria Falls. "Niagara was glorious nature; to day it la power; Victoria is pre.tty," pleads Professor Ayrtm, of the British association in Africa, where the bridge over the Zambesi River, near the Vlc iaria falls, has just been opened. Plans are- forming for utilizing the power of the falls, which represent about one-fifth o( Niagara's power, and fall from more than twice Niag ara's; height The bridge, which was opened with much celebration, is one of the largest iu the world and one of the most remarkable. It was con structed entirely In England. One Girl's Work. Grace Wales, a 13-year-old furmer girl living near Sedgwick, is worth a train load of butterflies that gad the street, flirt and chew gum. This sea son she bos cut ninety acres of grain, cultivated twenty acres of . corn, plowed forty acres of wheat, har rowed forty acres of ground and mowed fifty, acres of Uay, -Kaiia 01 iQtxmlr - ' - -
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