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UNCLE SAM EXAOTS FULL TIME. Employes Are Docked for Mlnate's Loss of Time. "It's an old story that the United States treasurer occasionally pays war rants for the sum of one cent to credit ors of the government," said an old department clerk the other day, "but it's so well known, but equally true, nevertheless, that government clerks are sometimes docked one cent for overstaying their annual leave a minute or a fraction thereof. In the treasury department in particular tho rule is inflexible that a clerk who ex ceeds the regulation leave even for a minute in a year shall forfeit a pro portionate amount of his pay. "The taxation of delinquents re quires eternal vigilance and careful calculation, but it is regarded as es sential to the best Interests of the ser vice. No fractions of a minute are considered and there is no penalty less than a cent. The salary per minute is determined by dividing the annual sal ary by all the working days, which ex clude Sundays and holidays, and al lowing seven hours for each day. On that basis It is computed that the sal aries of government clerks average about a cent a minute. Of course, some are more And others less, but that covers the most of them. "It does not seem much to deduct ten cents from the $1,200 salary of a clerk who has exceeded his sixty days' leave by ten minutes, but he invari ably treats such action as a great out rage on his rights as an American citizen. The other day a woman in the treasury upset tho entire office In which she 13 employed for almost a whole day," says the Washington Star, "in her persistent efforts to get back thirteen cents which had been deduct ed from her salary for overstaying her leave about a quarter of an hour. She nearly went into hysterics, but the authorities were firm and she had to submit." SECURED A CONTINUANCE. Sharp Trick Perpetrated by an In genious Illinois Lawyer. Ethan Allen Sniveley of Springfield tells a pretty good story of how, some years ago wnen he was editor of a C'ar llnville paper, he brought the press agent of a circus to time and made him pay the paper its price for a big ad vertisement by threatening to small pox the show. But up till last week we don't know that we had ever heard ol an attorney working this bluff on a court and jury, and the little incident, which occurred in tho county court, is quite laughable. W. H. Crpw was attorney for a man under Indictment for an assault, and the case had been continued several times on one pretext and another, and was up again, and tho prosecution was insisting on going to trial. Mr. Crow's witnesses were not present, and to go to trial under the circumstances would surely result In a conviction of his client, and just what to do he was at a loss to know. The jury was in the box ready to be passed upon and things were becoming desperate for Mr. Crow, when all at once a bright thought struck him, and, addressing his honor, he announced that the defense was ready for trial, but at the same time stated that he thought it was only fair to the court and all concerned to state that his clieqt had been exposed to the smallpox and was just about duo to break out with It. "But," said he, "as far as I am concerned, I have had smallpox and am not afraid of it, and if the others Interested in the case are willing to proceed I am." Tho bluff worked like a charm, and It is needless to say that it was the unanimous opinion of the prosecution, judge and jury that they had bettet take no chances, and the attorney got his continuance. It, however, is due to Mr. Crow to state that his client resides in a neighborhood where there has been a case or two of smallpox recently, and may have been exposed, but up to last accounts had net broken out yet.—Pike County (Illinois) Democrat Patents In Prance. In order that a patent may be ob tained in France, the three following conditions are necessary: That tho invention be absolutely new; that it possess an industrial character; that It be not contrary to public order or security; good morals, or the law 3 of the country. An invention is not con sidered new when, previous to the date of filing of the application, it has received sufficient publicity in Franco or abroad to reader it easy,of imita tion. PERSEVERANCE. Finish what thou hast to do, Prove thy right to wear a crown; Bravely tread thy journey through Ere the sun goes down. Lay some stone each passing hour In thy palace of renown; Run the flag up on the tower Ere the sun goes down. Crowd thy bark, though storm-sailed, Over seas that seek to drown, To the harbor-mouth, full-sailed, Ere the sun goes down. Stand up bravely in the fight, Play the king and not the clown; Clear the trenches, storm the hight, Ere the sun goes down. Plow thy furrow in life's field, Though the heavens may smile or frown; Falter not, look back nor yield. Till the sun goes down. If thou canst not reap, then glean Midst the stubble bare ana brown; Search the field and leave it clean Ere the sun goes down. Time enough to lay aside Warrior's mail or priestly gown In the dusk of eventide Wheu the sun goes down. —The Rev. A. J. Hough. pV — vA f \ Mjwr THE talk had boon of eases ex traordinary, queer clients and singular precedents, when there ivas a rap at Judge Hastings' door and the olHce boy came In to say that Mrs. Hastings was In the ante-room. "You've never met her, have you Proctor?" asked the jndgo, turning to his friend. "No? Tell her to come right In, Pete." She came in radiant, dignfled, wom anly, cordial, and Proctor, who was an old bachelor, began to realize his friend's reverential faith in marriage vows, his fame as a peacemaker be twixt warring pairs, his dislike for frail divorcees and errant husbands. Very gracious to her husband's col league, she lingered hut a moment and went away. Hastings closed the door, lighted another cigar and resumed the talk. "Speaking of queer clients," he be gan, "the worst and the best, the most deceptive and yet the most Ingenuous 1 ever had was a woman shoplifter. It was down in Cincinnati, in the old days, when X had hut little experience outside of criminal practice. You know, X was proaipted to come here to get away from a growing reputation as a criminal pleader, and yet my tlrst ease in Chicago was for one of my loyal Cincinnati crooks. Crook—yes, that's tile word, I guess, though It seems harsh now, for slie was the most loyal, ingenuous and most virtuous thief that ever dodged the penitentiary. Well, to begin at the beginning. "She was arrested one Cay In Cin cinnati by tho house detective of a big dry goods store, searched, and as the saying Is, 'caught red-handed.' Of course sho sent for me. I was terribly strong with the shoplifters of Cincin nati, and the I-oril knows there were enough of them to keep a hard-working tyro In hoard money. I don't deny that I was struck with her beauty and evi dent retlncment the moment I met her —she was on the hooks as Mary Smith —anil the cheap calico and dowdy cape she wore wore not much of a disguise for her extraordinary qualities, phys ical and mental. "I told her to tell me the truth about herself up to the time of her arrest, and sho dkl. I'm sure she did, as you will find. She was of good family and tender nature, had eloped with a hniul some salesman and had been living for three years in Covington, where her husband was doing well, hut living be yond his means as the manager of a TOLD TEE WEOLE STOEY. big furniture house. Well, ho was found to he short In Ids accounts, con victed of embezzlement and sent to the penitentiary, leaving his young wife mid hahy in absolute penury. She sold everything the first year to keep him supplied with the extras that are not on prison menus; she denied her self, looking for work of any kind, and finally awaking to the realization that there was nothing between her and hunger except the few gcod garments that remained of her once splendid wardrobe. "She sold them, and in utter gener osity wrote hopeful let'ers to her hus band even when her prospect loomed blackest. She could hardly sow, knew nothing of business, had neither means nor time to learn shorthand or type writing, and soon found that even the petty positions open for young women in tho big stores, paid next to nothing. Assailed ou all sides by rascals of the unclean and Impertinent type, who would have 'favored' her on account of her beauty, she could do no better than fill nil occasional vacancy iis 'ex tra' in some store. She tried writing at home, hat found that the pittance for addressing 10.000 envelopes would not keep lier anil her hahy a day. Then, in desperation, she began to steal, tim idly at first, but finally with a boldness anil shrewd dexterity that for a time meant ease and even luxury for her and the baby. "She fixed up a s nr.g little flat in Cincinnati. but with her weather eye on possible detection, held on to the squalid room in Covington, where she had lild her misery and her shame from the fair-weather friends of her early married days. She made no effort to conceal nor condone the crime for which she had been arrested. I got bail for her, and, as we left the Jail together, what do you suppose she pro posed? Simply that she go baclc with her baby to the dirty, bare room in Covington, and, leaning wholly upon her story of pinching want, throw her self wholly on the mercy of the rich merchant she had robbed. No lawyer could have devised a better plan, and at once I was struck by her swift in genuity. It meant a chance to plead 'first offense,' and I seized upon it as her only chance to escape a sentence. "Of course I played her hard-luck story to a finish, got the opposing law yer to go over with me to Coviugton, and, to make a long story short, not only got the case dropped, but actually convinced the proprietor that 'Mary Smith' should have a place in the glove department of his store. She got it, and, as I took pains to know, contrived to eke out a decent living for herself and child till her husband came back from the penitentiary. Of course that meant that they must leave Cincinnati, and the next thing I knew, they were gone, bag and baggage, nobody knew whither. "I came to Chicago a year or so after, set up a modest office, resolved to keep away from the criminal branch, and was in the way of forgetting 'Mary Smith' when suddenly one day I got a telephone message to the effect that a woman prisoner at Central wanted to see me. I went over and met 'Mary.' She was almost in rags, had come to Chicago with her husband, who de serted her as soon as their money gave out. She had tried to get work, failed, begged a little—too little to keep her child warm—then she resumed steal ing. The old story. Everybody knows it. Well, I took the case, got her over to her squalid room on the West Side, and began to figure on a scheme to get her out of trouble. "I couldn't think of any, but when I came back the next day I found her m TSI m 3\\ - v) *U 1 Akft' : THEIR OWN DOCTOR WAS SENT. full of hope, though she was in bed, ill and looking quite cadaverous. 'l've got consumption, Mr. Hastings,' she said, smiling wanly; 'we must try the quality of Chicago mercy this time.' Then I noticed that the handkerchief which she brought to her mouth was stained with red and at the corners of hor pretty mouth were tiny crimson lines. I got a doctor to visit her, and he promptly declared that she was in rapid tuberculosis—pthisls, I think he called it. "But the prosecution was obdurate at first. They didn't swallow the 'dy ing mother' story very easily; it had been worked too often, they said; so I suggested that they send their own doctor to see my client, and, if he de clared her other than consumptive, or declared that she was shamming, I would pay her bill and go to trial. He went a dozen time and finally agreed with my doctor that she was failing rapidly. lie was a good-hearted man. The pretty child touched his heart, I dare say, but the unfortunate mother's hemorrhages, her failure to gain flesh, her pinched, almost transparent flesh, brought him over to our side. "Then my Cincinnati experience was repeated. Case dropped, position for tlie mother as soon as she was able to walk, kindness, help, hope. But she rallied so last that I was nonplused, afraid that her employers might be come suspicious, though none but the proprietor knew her story. Yes, I ad mit it, Proctor, I had more than a law yer's interest in her. At last, at sup per one night after the play, I quizzed her about her 'pthisls.' She smiled querulously at first, but said: 'lt was a desperate fraud, I know, but I was desperate, Mr. Hastings. You don't blame me? I'll never deceive you again.' "And she never did. Proctor. She's the best woman in the world. I got her a divorce and—well, she was in hero a moment ago—my wife, in fact, and I'm not ashamed of her." "But the consumption?" said Proc tor, after a wondering moment, "the emaciation, th—the—er hemorrhages? How 011 earth did she " "Just worry, starvation and—and a morsel of raw calves' liver"—John H. Battery, in the Chicago llccord-Herald. Mountain Itutfl. On the summit of Mount Kosciusko, the highest peak of the Australian Alps, an astronomical and meteorologi cal observatory is maintained. The official in charge states in his latest report that the place is overrun with rats, and that lie is slaughtering them at tlie rate of hundreds a month. He adds that he would soon accumulate a fortune if the Government would pay him at the rate that rules in Sydney, where rats' tails are worth threepence each since the visitation of the bubonic plague. Such swarms of rats on the roof of Australia, at a height of 7328 feet, constitute a curious fact in anti podean natural history. It is supposed that they have been attracted from all quarters by the lnrge depot of food supplies in connection with the obser vatory. However, the keeper does not mean to surrender to the invaders. "I am thoroughly contented," says this Alpine Mark Tapley, "and I mean to stick to the mountain as long as it will stick to me."—London Chronicle. Poor Green. There was once a fellow named Green, Who grew FO alarmingly lean And so flat and compressed That his back touched his chest, And sideways he couldn't be seen. —Philadelphia llccord. His First Year of Law. Young Physician "What Is your practice mostly?" Young Lawyer "Domestic econo my."—Chicago News. A Misnomer. "Pa, what Is a misnomer?" "A misnomer? Oh, when a man goes to a church bazaar and is inveigled into taking chances, some people say he's got a fair chance, but that's a mis nomer."—Yonkcrs Statesman. Mr. Bacon—"l see by this paper that ice one and a half inches thick will support a man." Mrs. Bacon—"l always said there was an enormous profit in ice, John." —Yonkers Statesman. Half the Pleasure Gone. "I don't like to get postal cards," said she. "Why not?" asked he. "Because I can't spend half an hour turning it over and over and wonder ing who it is from."—Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. Confidence In Herself. Agnos—"Yes, I'm very fond of skat ing. I think I could live at the North Pole." Louise—'"Nonsense! There isn't a man there." Agnes—"But I don't think it would he rery long before there would be."—New York Sun. An Kxiilnnutlen. "You can't believe half that a man tays when he is in love," said the young woman, reproachfully. "That is very easily accounted for," answered Willie Wishington. "When a man is in love, half the time he doesn't know what he is saying."— Washington Star. Misfit Names. Miss Short—"lsn't my name an ab surd misfit, Mr. Long?" Mr. Loug (thoughtlessly)—" Yes, rath er. If you could have mine it would he all right, wouldn't it?" Miss Short—"Oh, Mr. Long, this is so sudden."—Philadelphia Keeord. In a Quandary. "How do you like your now cook?" "Ever so much, hut I'm afraid to let her know It." "Why?" "She'd want more wages." "Then why don't you appear dissat isfied?" "Because then she'd leave."—Cleve land Plain Dealer. The Profit In Literature. "Do you thluk there is any money in literature?" "Loads of it," said tlie man with a genial air of prosperity. "In fact, I can personally testify that there is," "I didn't know you were a writer." "I'm not. I'm an architect. I make a specialty of designing library build ings."—Washington Star. A Peculiarity of Conscience. "I suppose you will vote according to your conscience," said the friend. "I will," answered the politician who is sadly practical. "Pecuniary considerations will not figure?" "Well, I don't know. There's noth ing that hurts my conscience more than to feel that I have been wasting mon ey."—Washington Star. Mollified His Indignation. Indignant Father —"Hadn't you done nothing but laugh?" Boy—"No; nothing at all." "And the master caned you for that? The scoundrel! I'll teach him " "Yes, and he thrashed me hard, too! He's a great big man." Father (not quite so indignant)— "H'm, is he? You mustn't laugh in school, Johnny. It's against the rules." -Tit-Bits. Professional Knthuslasm. "I am glad to hear that your patient has gotten well," said one young phy sician. "Yes," answered the other, "I thought for a little while it was going to be one of the prettiest cases of appendicitis that ever happened. But prompt and careful treatment brought him around and I missed a chance for a fine opera- j llou. I didn't know it was possible for a man to feel so glad and so disap pointed, both at once."—Washington Star. HOW TO BECOME FORESTERS. Official Information For Young Men Who Would Follow the Career. So many applications have heen re ceived by the Bureau of Forestry in Washington for information as to the way to get a training in forestry, and also for information as, to the employ ment by the bureau of young men am bitious in this direction that the bu reau has issued a circular ou the sub ject. For those who have had no training in forestry or those whose training is incomplete the bureau lms ouly one kind of work. It is that of student assistant. This is practically the place of help er In field work, and it lasts from three to six months. The wages paid are $25 a mouth nnd expenses. The men pay their own way to and from the field. If they are ordered to Wash ington at the close of the outdoor sea son to finish up the routine work, the bureau pays the expense. To become a student assistant one must write to the United States For ester, Department of Agriculture, for a blank form of application. Appoint ments depend upon the answers. The applicant must make plain that lie iias already studied forestry or is desirous of doing so for a permanent calling. So many applications have come to the bureau from college stu dents already studying forestry, that men entirely without preliminary train ing must be fitted exceptionally for work in the woods to get appointment. The work of these student assistauts is severe. They live In camps nnd keep the hours of lumbermen. Their chief labor Is in valuation surveys, that is, in measuring standing timber or the contents and rate of growth of felled trees. It requires strong young men for this labor, and all the instruction that such a student receives Is what he absorbs In his work. The circular says of these student assistants: "They are not attending a summer school, but are taking a salaried posi tion. the duties of which they will be rigidly required to perform. The head of the party Is at all times willing, In so far as it does not interfere with his own duties, to explain matters to the men under his charge. "Ho has, however, no time to de liver lectures, nor to give formal in struction of any kind. The student assistant has in his dally work abund ant opportunity to learn; whether he makes the most of It rests with him." The bureau's circular says a trained forester should he skilled in geology, physical geography, mineralogy, chem istry, botany, mathematics, and the practical principles of surveying. It also says that the expert forester should know something of physics, me teorology nnd political economy. There are three schools of forestry In the country, one at Cornell, one at Yale, and one at Biltmore, N. C. The Cornell school requires four years' study, the Yale school requires two. The Biltmore school gives Instruction of one year without a degree. Further details may be secured from those schools. As to the future employment of for esters the bureau says It "is at present unnble to find a sufficient number of suitably prepared foresters to supply its needs." Preparation of working plans for private, State and Federal forest lands, forest investigations and tree planting in many States demand more men than can be supplied at pres ent. Holders of timber lands also realize that conservative lumbering pays, and tlds enlarges the field of the foresters. The bureau says the profession offers a fair living for a well-prepared man. but also says that the "salaries will never be large." It adds that trained foresters now In the bureau's employ receive from $720 to s3ooo.—New York Sun. Striking A Falance. The visit of an examiner is an event of Importance to a bank, nnd if there are any irregularities an occasion of anxiety as well. Strange subterfuges are occasionally discovered, hut it is not often an examiner stumbles upon anything at once so irregular nnd so honestly Intended as the custom in a certain Southern country hank visited by former bank examiner James S. Es eott, of Kentucky. The incident Is told by the Louisville Dispatch. At a small nnd rather primitive in stitution in a mountain town the exam iner found a deficiency of SIOO. Of course an explanation was demanded. After an attempt nt looking wise the cashier took SIOO from a private money drawer. "There, that will tlx It," he rentnrked. "How will you enter that to make good the balance?" asked the exam iner. The cashier looked bewildered, but finally said he wouldn't enter it at all. "You see," he remnrked, "that draw er I just went Into to make tho balance is what we call the 'outs and over' drawer. Whenever we're out of bal ance we go to 'outs and over' to make things right. Then, again, when the sheet shows more cash than we ought to have, the surplus goes to the drawer. Funny you all have never thought of that scheme In the big hanks." Kpltnph In Martha's Vineyard. In a quiet and deserted burying ground on the Island of Martha's Vine yard, with not a few stones bearing dates of the seventeenth century, the occasional visitor, if he takes time to decipher them, finds many quaint epi taphs, One of these reads as follows: Had charming grace nnd innocence And all that's pleasing to the eye Against grim death been a defence Elizabeth had not gone hence. —New York Tribune. Construction Ideas. 7T" N excellent address by W. W. / \ Crosby, county roads engi neer of Baltimore County, £ was read before the Governor and lawmakers of South Carolina. Tiio occasion was "South Carolina Legis lature and Good Itoads Day" at the Charleston Exposition. Mr. Crosby's subject, naturally, was the present condition and possibilities of the roads adjacent to this city. He pointed out the great advantages at the disposal of Baltimore Countians to the east and south in the use of oyster shells, than ( which no liner material exists for a 1 smooth, hard roadbed. These advan tages, lie said, have been lost in a great measure by their application to the ' - roads without the proper foundation. Speaking of the "metal" used in the construction of the roads to the north and west of Baltimore, Mr. Crosby said the old methods in use from time im memorial of putting down a layer of stone as big as a man's head, then gradually working up to sizes of a man's hand, the whole to be left to take care of itself after a slight veneer of earth, form the hardest problem for the engineer of to-day. The settle ment lni3 been uneven, drainage prob lems liave been Ignored, and yet it is expected that the engineer can build up a rcadbed on scientific principles with the same amount of funds as was annually allowed for practically letting matters sldft for themselves. Upon the earth roads, Mr. Crosby said, he has been able to do the best work this year. There was nothing to bo undone before modern methods could bo applied. Summing up the matter,' Mr. Crosby believes that the difficulties to be encountered in putting the Baltimore County roads into much better condition are gradually being surmounted, and he believes that when things have advanced sufficiently to show the practical success of his theor ies the movement will develop much like the snowball—the larger it be comes, the faster it grows. Mr. Crosby lias had, and will have, a hard and thankless task for some time. It is hard to convince some that titneworn methods have been super seded by others, even when these oth ers are plainly to their advantage. He is taking the right course, however, in making the most of the limited means at his disposal. The results are sure to be the best argument for the con tinuation of the common sense meth ods he is Introducing.—Baltimore News. The Automobile's Influence. Somebody said once that the condi tion of a country's roads marked its civilization. In a measure this is, doubtless, true. Certaiuly tho condi tion of a country's roads is a concrete illustration suggesting the state of civ ilization of that nation, and it is by a consideration of a number of such outward signs that au observer may arrive at a pretty accurate judgment of the plnce which this or that nation occupies in the world. When, there fore, the bicycle came into service, was legislated against, finally tolerated, and then found a necessity, the extraordi nary movement towards better roads can be at least acknowledged as an advance in the right direction. And It only needs a little consideration by the historical method to show that au tomobiles are tending in the same di rection as bicycles——only further in advance. Wo are Just now getting to the "legislating against" period. Not many mouths or years hence the auto mobile will be "tolerated," and, before we lcuow it. It will be "necessary." In the meantime automobiles cr.nnot lie come general without long and good roads. Already somebody talks of a:i automobile road from San Francisco to New York. Already roads are ac tually being improved for the speedy vehicle. Why try to stop or check the new machine, therefore? It is all so small, when we consider what is inevitably to come! The automobile is going to stay. We shall have better and better roads, better service, better and cleaner cities, and fewer of those accidents now caused by the personal equation of the horse. It is all an ad vance of civilization, which neither should bo nor can be successfully op posed.—Harper's Weekly. IJcKtrnrtive Nilrrow Tlc. Wp spend millions of dollars every year in our municipalities for perrna- 4 nent pavements, and more millions in * the country for better highways, and then permit the use of the destructive narrow tire. It is impossible to esti mate the amount of annual damage to good pavements and good roads result ing from the use of narrow-tired ve hicles. In the city trucks with heavy loads cut up and rut the pavements, making it necessary to expend In the aggregate throughout the country mil lions of dollars for repairs, and the same is true of rural conditions. It is high time that city and country united their influence In advocating the adop tion of State, county and municipal legislation which should provide for the equipment of all wagons with wide tires. The counties of Monroe and On tario, of New York State, have recently ndopted resolutions favoring such a measure, with a provision for a? 23 penalty lor a breach of the ordinance. This is a matter which demands the r if Immediate attention of municipal olli- Jl eors.—Municipal Journal and Engineer. In Russin the forests cover thirty-six 1 per cent, of the whole Imperial area, -is'
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