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i Odd News From Big Cities Stories of Strange Happening in the Metropolitan Town Soldier Victim of PORTLAND, Ore. Sojourning hore t ho luHt several weeks hns been a man who turn attracted widespread at tention In medical circles. He In 'Thomas P. Dunn, a native of Mon tana, who, as a member of the First Montana volunteers In the Spanish American war, was shot through the bend at Caloocan In the Philippines .more than twelve yours ago and la , alive to tell of It today. , When Dunn fell wounded on the battlefield of Caloocon he was car ried to the ward where the fatally Injured were placed and no one paid any attention to him for two days, as there were too ninny other wounded whom tho physicians and surgeons in chorge believed hnd better chunces for recovery. At tho end of two days, during which the Montana boy lay practically without attention, the sur geon lit charge remarked upon his vl'ality and decided to try to save tils life. A Mauser bullet bad entered tho left sldo of bis head Just above tho temple and emerged from the right side Just below the temple, a wound that hod previously proved fatal as far as any of tho medical men who have examined Dunn ever beard. Woman Laughs Her N:V YORK. Tee-boe-hee! Haw haw! Cra-a-a-ack! ! ! Mrs. Cecilia Goldberg's birthday par ty was an enjoyable occasion up to this point, or, to be exact, until she dislocated her Jnw laughing at her nilstako In kissing the wrong man. The occasion was the eighteenth an niversary of Mrs. Goldberg's arrival In Harlem, where she has since become duly popular In her set. She Is a pretty young woman, and her parents invited oil their friends and relatives to conic around and celebrate. They come by the dozens, and It was one of those "a-gorgeous-time was had by-all" affairs. The tables groaned with good things to eat, and there was a decorous but all sufficient damp ness out In the vicinity of the Ice box. Along about midnight, when the young folks began thinking of going home, some on suggested that "blind man's buff" was a good game to taper off wiih. The music was stopped and tint,?" - , i Day Spent in Circus Beats School SPRINGFIELD, Mo. "No session of the public schools of Springfield after ten o'clock a. m. on circus day." This edict from the office of Prof. Jotiuthan Fairbanks, life-long educator and for 36 years superintendent of the public schools of Springfield, brought Joy to the hearts of 9,000 school chil dren, for It meant that at ten o'clock on the morning of circus days the city schools closed for the day. "A circus Is something every child ought to see," Superintendent Fair banks said, in explaining his orders, "for it is a veritable education In it self. You can see for a small sum attractions that have been grouped to gether at a cost of hundreds of thou sands of dollars, and which would cost large sums to see outside a cir cus. "School c 'ldren read of lions and see pictures of them, but they don't really know what a lion is until they see one. Merely seeing the animals in the open cages of a circus parade is of great value to children. They see many animals with which they are not familiar and get a real knowl edge of animals of which they have read but which they have little op portunity to see. In the menagerie there are animals from all parts of the world and the child who goes to No Missionary Cash for the Indians NO MORlMrW MPSKOGEE, Okla. The Methodist church In Oklahoma has decided upon a now policy relative to religious ,work .among the Indians. At a meet ing here of the executive board of he church it was decided to combine all of the five civilized tribes, Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws and Sominoles, in one district, under the (supervision of one presiding elder, and to require the Indians to support their own pKstors without the aid of for eign missionary money. ' It was also decided to request the bishop to transfer every English speaking congregation of Indians to some white charge. This is for the purpose of getting the Indians under a white pastor in order that educa tional as well as religious work majr Rare Affliction Ilia remarkable, recovery and tin fact that lie retains his reason artf the most remarkable, features of thli case. While hu Is ullve, In good health una able to walk around th streets and converse with his friends mid acqtiulntancea, Dunn U handi capped by the loss of all seuso ol smell or taste and has lost the sight of his right eye. Despite those uf Mictions ho bears his lot with forti tude. He cannot enjoy a meal, for no matter what choice viands be may or der, be cannot relish them any moro than he would hardtack and salt pork. The loss of the sense of taste be looks upon as bis worst aflllctlon. Tommy Dunn, as he is known among his friends. Is a ward of the govern ment, though not of his own choosing, for be has relatives and Influential friends who take care of him and look after bis comfort at all times. HU Impaired eyesight bus proved an ob stacle toward hia securing employ ment, and idleness Is something he dreads because of bis afflictions. HU only amusement Is to Join several con genial companions and tell stories of past experiences, or to take street car rides or Journeys through the country In automobiles. He cannot go to tho theater, being handicapped by partial blindness and fearful lest the glare of the lights shall Impair tho sight of his remaining eye. As a ward of the government Dunn must report at Washington or some other military headquarters at certain periods and to undergo the periodical examination required by the surgeon general's office. Jaw Out of Joint Mrs. Goldberg was chosen as ths first to be the blind one. She was blindfolded and led Into the parlor. She was entitled to kiss any man she could catch, and she supposed that Jim, her husband, would bo on the Job and see that he was caught. Hut a young man named Har ry was caught by Mrs. Goldberg and was kissed. Jim was Just a second too late. Then they pulled the blind fold off and Mrs. Goldberg saw whom she had kissed. The crowd combined In a roar of glee and Mrs. Goldberg graciously joined In the laughter. liut she over exerted herself. In the midst of an unusually loud "Ha-ha!" she grabbed her Jaws and began to dance about i lio room. She gasped and groaned, and Policeman Mott, rushing upstairs found tho company in confusion and hysteria. Mrs. Goldberg seemed un able to close her mouth, and nobody could hold her long enough to close It for her. A policeman gave all the first aid he could muster without re sult, so he called a doctor from the Harlem hospital. The doctor mude a hasty examination and diagnosed the trouble as a dislocated Jaw. He final ly succeeded in getting It back In place, and advised the patient not to laugh again for a day or so. She won't for a week at least. the circus learns more about animals in one day than he can learn from the teacher of a nature study class in a year. "The trained animals of a circus are an object lesson that cannot be beaten anywhere, and for this reason every school teacher ought to attend the circus. The performances of the animals prove what conscientious and continued training will do. If the school teacher put as much effort in the training of children as the circus trainer gives to the training of per forming piga, the improvement shown by the school children of today would be remarkable. "The influence of the circus is broadening for the reason that it shows so many things which seem Impossible to the average person, but which are really do:ie with apparent ease. The child who attends a circus gets an entirely new idea of expert horsemanship and of skill in the per formance of physical feats, and for this reason I say the circus has an educational value. "Then schoolroom work Is dons In tho most perfunctory way when there is a circus in town. The minds of the children not nearly all of the children are there are not upon the work, and the teacher can put no life In bis or her tasks. The teacher knows all the work will have to be gone over the following day." Professor Fairbanks is almost eighty years old, and he has been elected su rorintendent of the public schools l.ere almost without opposition 36 times. be carried on. The old idea of teach ing a white missionary to speak the Indian tongue and sending him among the Indians to preach in their own language Is to be abandoned. It was pointed out that, under the state government, the Indian, and the white man are the same socially and politically, that the state schools are being extended Into every Indian set ' "ment, and that the Indian children everywhere are being taught English. Methodists, Baptists ai d Catholics have been carrying on religious and educational work among the Indians, through mission churches and schools, In Oklahoma, for moro than half a century. The missionaries arrived Im mediately after the Indians came In 1838. Until now their efforts have boen to meet the Indians on their own grounds. It is expected that other religious organizations will take the same step, it being practically forced upon them by the new conditions arising from the adoption of state government and state sohools. GERMAN CAPITAL'S NEW PALACE OF MUSIC - 2 J'':'' ;iiMI 'TV-.. Mill I IMF- JuiiU. The opera house at Berlin, which lion dollars. IS RICHEST WOMAN Mrs. Taylor, Daughter of Former Governor, Inherits Millions. Detth of Mrs. Sarah M. Flower, Widow of Roswell P. Flower, Makes Daughter Wealthiest Woman In Northern N. Y. Watertown, N. Y. With the death In this city of Sarah M. Flower, widow of the late Governor Itoswell P. Flow er, the only living daughter, Mrs. Em ma Flower Taylor, becomes one of d-e richest, If not the richest, woman In northern New York. While as yet Mrs. Flower's will has not been filed for probate, estimates of the value of the estate place the sum at a figure far exceeding $5,000,000 and possibly close to double this sum. That her daughter Emma will inherit the great er part of this amount is deemed likely. Mrs. Taylor, who was the wife of John Byron Taylor, of this city, whom she divorced but a few months ago, is already the richest woman In this section and hor liberal expenditures of her riches for benevolent purposes have made her, as well, the most pop ular. Since the death of her father, Governor Flower, in 1899, at which time she Inherited a considerable sum, she has devoted her time to phllan thropical acts and her charitable deeds, both public and private, have been numberless. The estate of Governor Flower at the time of his death was valued at $6,576,000. In his will be mnde be quests amounting to $305,000 and left the residue to be equally divide:! be tween his widow and his daughter. I!y the terms of this will Mrs. Taylor received over $3,500,000, while Mrs. Flower received an equal sum in ad dition to the fortune which Bho then possessed. Mrs. Flower was a daughter of Nor rls M. and Roxana Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff was one of the pioneer set tlers of this section, where he invested large amount during the early days of the settlement of the country. He also went Into land deals elsewhere with John Jacob Astor. Mrs. Flower Strange Varmint Is Loose Wild Animal of Ferocious Mien Roam ing About Section of New Jersey State. New York. Caldwell, N. J., a coin ninity in which mystery has alwa en held to be a thing abhorrent, is puzzled about almost to the point of hysteria by the appearance intermit tently in its environs of a predatory animal of which nobody knows the name. The good folk of the pleasant countryside near Caldwell, Pine Brook, Clinton and Fairfield have been bunt ing the strange beast, but, while the animal has gone right on killing hens, calves and dogs, none of tho hunts men has got close enough to end its life. Oh, yes! Charley Rollins got close enough, but he had no gun. There was a tree handy and Mr. Rollins in pla cing himself in the topmost branches did some gymnaatic work equal to any performance on the horizontal bars ever seen in the circus. The other men, who had guns, never saw the animal. Mr. Rollins, whose eyesight is about as good as his agili ty, says the animal is about four feet long over all, that it is two and one half feet high, has a generous tall, and is yellow. Were It not for the di mensions given it might be a cat, but Mr. Rollins is sure it is as big as he says it is. Some persons think it Is a panther, Ithough what a panther would be do--.n at large in peaceful New Jersey v!th the menagerie business in full Kiss Cure for Woes. Chicago The Rev. E. L. "Williams, pastor of Grace Methodist church, has found that a good-natured kiss Is the panacea for all domestic ills, and, if properly applied, would cut down the business of the divorce courts Im mensely, he says. "In the homes of the laboring men and in those of the rich there Is a no 'epablo lack of sentiment that ex osses Itself in terms of endearment," said at the Des Plalnes camp meet r. "The hand of toll gets hard and unappreclative. The rich man neg lects bis wife, goes to Europe and only tao often is accompanied by some fas cinating actress. Attention to the courtesies of home life would save disaster." French Submarrne to Cruise Far. Paris. The Arcbimede, tho largest submarine boat in the world, will start soon on a 600 mile cruise from Cher bourg to Toulon, Biserta and Oran Lieutenant Trochot wished to tal-r -the Archlmede to New York, but tl. minister ol marine would not consent .-. ij I, t ,5 Is being rebuilt at a cost of a mil upon the denth of ber futher Inherited no small sum. Governor and Mrs. Flower had threo children. Helen Flower and Henry Keep Flower, both of whom are dead, and Emma Gertrudo Flower Taylor, who now becomes heiress to the com bined fortunes of ber father and mother. What the entire sum will amount to Is problematical. Mrs. Taylor was born In this city March 23, 1870, and the greater part of her girlhood was spent here, al though she lived at various times in Albany, New York and Washington with her parents. X J 2 - ,. -'- Matorman Picks Up Money Envelope and Roll, Covered With Mud, Big Help In Financial Straits of Worker. Chicago. "It Is not collectors of old rags alone who And valuables in odd places." This confession was elicited from a Chicago street car motorman the other day in a discussion of the un usual good fortune of a New York rag dealer who discovered money and dia monds in the old clothes which he had bought for a few cents a pound. "It's a funny thing." said the motor man, as tho car whizzed by Diversey boulevard. "Running past this corner reminds me of what happened here about a year ago. I was especially hard up that month and was wonder ing how I'd be able to raise enough money to make payment on a mortgage coming due. "I needed about $25 more than I knew I could spare from my pay check and I was at a Iobs to discover how I'd arrange it. "Well, one morning I was running by this corner and I saw what looked like an old envelope, all covered with mud, in the street. It looked as if it might contain almost anything except money, but something led me to stop the car, get out and pick it up. After brushing off the mud I put it Into my pocket and forgot all about it until that evening. When I reached home blast all over the country, Is another of those things that no citizen of Cald well can find out The alien has been seen on many occasions without the assistance of v-rsey applejack, the effect of which n the gift of vision is proverbial, and until it is slain there will be more ex citement in the vicinage of Caldwell than there has been since last circus day. GET LARGE CROP OF APPLES Washington Has More Fruit Than Last Year and Values Are Higher Than Ever. Seattle, Wash. Reports of growers and handlers indicate that the pro duction of apples In Washington this year will be between 3,500,000 and 4,700,000 boxes, but while the yield promises to be the largest yet grown, orchardtsts and buyers say there will be no cheap apples. The cause as signed is the late frosts in the other apple growing states. The yield in Washington Is esti mated at around 4,000,000 boxes, against 2,414,000 boxes in 1909, when the average wholesale price was $1.40 a box. Oregon Is second in the north west this year with about 2,000,000 boxeB, and Idaho and Montana follow. Buyers have been active over the state the bast two months, and it is robable that half of the crop Ir en sold, but many apples will ! eld In anticipation of increase . Big Gobbler " Tears Up Hired Man's Red Flannel Shirt, Thereby Furnishing Owner With Dinner. Cedar Brook, N. J. Squire Hake Baldwin and a party of friends were furnished with a frog-leg dinner by Obadiah, a turkey gobbler the squire is fattening at his home for Thanks giving. Obadiah, like all turkey gobblers, is incensed at red. The family for this reason kep red out of sight. The hired man, Hans Oleson, however, washed out his red flannel shirt and laid it out on the grass to dry. In the evening the squire and a party of friends were surprised to see nearly 100 large and small bull frogs, hopping about, unable to croak, with a small fragment of flannel in their mouths. They weer caught and killed and eaten. Obadiah was responsible for the ch. He had torn the red flannel it of the hired man to ribbons. ..o wind had carried the pieces u "UGLY" CASHIER IS WANTED Real "Frights" Are Told They Ars Too Good Looking Contest Narrows to Three. St. IjuIs. Three of the prettiest of 25 applicants In answer to an adver tisement for an "ugly" cashier wers selected by Vincent J. Gorley, of Grimm & Gorley, florists. One of the three flnully will be chosen for thlB Job. Mr. Gorley said that some of the uppllcants were "frights." Others wero beuutlful, and nearly all declared they had overlooked tho word "ugly" In the advertisement. "We didn't want a 250-pound cash ier," said Mr. Gorley, "and we really didn't care for any with all their teeth gone. Wo had several applicants who tilled both descriptions. My idea In advertising for an ugly cashier was to get one who did not have such great personal charm that she would be pro posed to by the first unmarried cus tomer who happened to spy her. "How did I get by with the impos sible ones? That was easy. One must have weighed 250 pounds. I nuked ber If she was sure she could qualify in the 'ugly' class. She declared she had not noticed the word 'ugly' In the ad vertisement, and I assured her she was entirely too good looking. That was easy. Slie went out with a smile on her face. Finding It worked in one case I used that right along." "I know I don't fulfill the require ments of ugliness specified in the ad vertisement," said the first applicant, with a flirtatious glance at herself In the mirror, "but I assure you I wouldn't marry the best man living." A fond mother appeared with her daughter In tow. The latter was tail and lank. "I'm afraid my daughter will not suit you," said the mother, "because you wanted an ugly girl, but she will never disappoint you by leaving you to marry. She Is a confirmed man hater." I opened it In the envelope were three five-dollar bills. I knew then how I'd meet the payment. "Three days later," he added, "while crossing this same corner one rainy evening the searchlight of my car fell on something that looked like a little roll of bills and I stopped again to pick It up. I examined my second find and discovered that it was a two-dollar bill. That evening at home I unrolled it and prepared to clean the mud off as before. To my surprise I discovered a five-dollar bill and another two-dollar bill wrapped up within the ouUide bill! I guess that's luck for you, eh? And I wasn't looking for 'paper' like the rag dealer in New York, either." prices at holiday time. No prices axe mude public, but it is believed the wholesale price this year will be above two dollars a box. Several growers will send large con signments of apples to England and Australia this season, while others will market their fruit In the orient, Hawaii and South America. One grow er has already arranged to accom pany a shipment of 3,600 boxes to Eng land. PET ANGORA CATS GET AWAY Three Women Marooned at Long Island Railroad Station Until Pet Feline Is Captured. Bellport, L. 1 A large pet Angora cat created quite a furore at the Bell port depot. As the 9:52 a. m. New York express pulled Into the station a party of smartly-dressed women hur ried out of a motor car and made a rush for the train. In the hurry of departure a large basket, carried by one of the women, was dropped, and out of the basket Jumped a beautiful specimen of the Angora cat Frightened beyond reason the cat made a dive for shelter, and crawled under the station platform, to the con sternation of his mistress and her com panions. Cries of "Teddy! Teddy!" proved of no avail, and finally one of the women, dressed In Immaculate white duck, went down on her hands and knees in an endeavor to coax the pet out Teddy wouldn't budge. In the meantime the train proceeded on its way, leaving the women behind. When the train had disappeared well toward Patchogue Teddy was still oc cupying his easy berth under the sta tion platform. The next train for New York left Bellport at 4:25 p. m., and it's pretty certain that Teddy and his fair companions took plenty of time to connect with this train. Singing Makes Fish Bite. Wlnsted, Conn. Do fish like music? That Is a question fishermen are try ing to solve. Every pleasant Sunday 150 cottagers assemble in boats of every description on Hnghland lake and listen to a sermon by an able preacher who has his pulpit on the land. It Is a very noticeable fact, fishermen declare, that the fish bite nter during the period of the sun- l services than at any other part of day. Catches Frogs . : the swamp and the frogs had con sumed them. America Has 400,000 Autos. New York. Inquiry shows that there are 400,000 automobiles In the United States of an approximate value of $000,000,000. It is estimated that one-half of this vast sum is Invested tor automobile vehicles for commer cial purposes and of actual utility to replace the work of horses, but the other $300,000,000 is Invested in autos for pleasure. Money Without Germs. Washington. To the old National Bonk of Spokane belongs the distinc tion of circulating the first antiseptic germ-proof national bank notes. Fifty thousand dollars hi bills just put out by the bank were signed with nn Ink which consisted largely of car bolic acid. The result is the bills are -aturated with an agency which means death to the most vig&rous germ. ' H'l We Have Over Half WSHINGTON The indications be ing that the census will show the population of the United States to be over 90,000,000, It seems assured that the republic contains more than half of the inhabitants of the New World. It is quite probable that all of the re maining countries of this hemisphere have fewer than 80,000,000 luhabl- j tants. That point can never be settled defi nitely until conditions change radi cally In many extensive regions of Latin America. Now most of the j itates south of Mexico and north of the Argentine either make a farce of their census taking or else do not at tempt it at any time. Recent estimates, partly based upon census records, which hove been made in South America and Central America, indicate that there are about 70.000,000 people living between the i Rio Grande and Cape Horn, Including the West Indies. Canada buB per haps 7,000.000. allowing for rapid growth since the census of 1901, and I Newfoundland adds less than 250,000. i Unless the estimates, which seem most Intelligently made, are very wide of the mark In several countries where there are no authentic and ex act statistics of population, the total for the New World, outside of the United States, cannot exceed 80,000, 000. Brazil, much Uie largest country of South America, Is the most populous In the Western Hemisphere, except the United States. It is probable that Gives No Money UH.T -1 ij 4' S regularly as the sessions roll r around, congress sidesteps, smoth :rs or overrides all propositions which ould embark the government in the )usiness of road building. The logic tnd Importance in tho outcry for goodroads" is universally admitted: jut everybody's business comes peril usly near having nobody's attention. riome commnuities. townships, coun 3es and a few states have made more )r less real progress towards improv ing the highways locally. Where the dates take a hand a beginning Is made towards obtaining "through routes." But, despite all that has been said for l revival of road building, notwlth itandlng editorial support from publi ;atlons of all partisan shades, the movement as yet has no central or ganization which presses the work along broad lines. The federal government thus far co operates only by giving advice. It Maintains a small bureau In the de partment of agriculture devoted first to the propaganda of the good roads Idea and secondly to the maintenance Sf a limited corps of experts, who, nhen their assistance is solicited, will make suggestions as to the best meth ods for road building under given clr ;umstances, and to a certain extent. Capital Boys Are REGULATIONS to protect children from danger of injury and to have ;hem looked after for violations of the regulations are to be enforced by the Washington police. "The danger to children who make playgrounds of the streets," says MaJ. Sylvester, "has been long since estab lished. Now that there are public playgrounds In different sections of the city the children should use them rather than risk their HveB." Complaints against children playing pn the streets sometimes cause a peek of trouble to the police. Children jump upon moving street cars. Others stand upon tho streets. Others are loud and boisterous. In past years MaJ. Sylvester has fa vored the enactment of a limited cur ie law. He still thinks something Government Has I THINK IlL 6UI.D A HAIL Of RffORO. HOW -gf 'S-f V&r? AS the country has been told about once a day for the last 20 years, United States Government has no if records, no place where It can the valuable documents which i.oiu time to time it is necessary to clear out of the departments and put Borne place for safe keeping. This be ing the case when a fire broke out the other day under the offices of the geological survey there was wild es citement In the basement of the store that got on lire are the records and archives of the geological survey. These are Invaluable and if destroyed could never be replaced, but the U'ited States Government la obliged hiso its different departments In 1 buildings all over Washington, le constant danger threatens the . uctlon of valuable archives when ever a fire breaks out, and there is Qt a&jr reason why a fire should rxAi 1 I SI2C rY(THE IDfAl wr nftvf Mil t rfV0 of the New World a full and careful enumeration of the; Brazilians would show about 20,000, 000 of them. Mexico, only about 25 per cent of the size of Brazil In square miles, ls safely established in third place oniong all the nations of the New World, as fur as numbers go. In other respects the Argentine surpasses Mex ico, and so does Canada. Their Indus trial output is greater and their for eign commerce la larger In every way. Argentina and Canada are alke also. In growing so fust and with such as surance of continued swift expansion that they may overtake ond pass Mex ico. Their chief cities already surpass the largest civic centers In the coun try which Diaz makes his footstool. But now neither is witbln 6,000,000 of the Mexican total. From these rlvalB. so unlike In many things, but so similar In their high hopes and their rapid development, down through countries like Peru, Columbia, Venezuela and Bolivia, the experts guess their way to the many small stales which maintain a separ ate existence in Latin America. Costa Illca Is probably the b ast of them all In numbers, counting but. 350,000 resi dents. Cuba Is fairly well filled up, ranking in density of population with, several of the Southern states. As a rule, with comparatively few exceptions, Latin America is rich la unsettled country. A very large part of the vast expanse of land south of lie Mexicsn frontier, all the way to the southern end of South America lies open to settlement. Some uay such wealth in unuBed na tural resources must cause great growth, but that is a matter of the in definite future. For the present it Is certain that the T'nlted States will hold its lead over thu other countries of the New World, counting all of them together. for Road Building exneriments In the use of materials are conducted by the specialists of this bureau. Here the government stops, lor the reason that dominant view in congress has beer, that this properly delimits the government's function. Representative Anthony of Kansaa Introduced a bill in the house last win ter for the construction of a military highway between Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, 100 miles, by convicts In the two federal penitentiaries at '"ort Leavenworth. The bill was lost :ter a debate that developed Into a neral discussion of the good roads movement. The measure had the Indorsement of President Taft, the chief of staff of the army and the quartermaster gen eral. General J. Franklin Bell, then chief of staff, stated in a letter to Rep resentative Anthony that the proposed road would unquestionably be of great military value and convenience." Farmers of many townships through which the proposed road would run offered to supply all the rock and other material to be used in Its con struction. Like others of its kind, this meas ure was wrecked upon constitutional rocks. The opponents of the bill con tended that General Bell did not claim the road to be a military necessity, and that, if not done for this purpose, the government could not build it, be cause the constitution authorizes the construction of only such roads as are quired to meet military necessities d post roads. to Be Suppressed should be done for the better protec tion of children's morals. "Death and accident have been caused by street cars and other vehi cles," the superintendent of police says. "On the other hand, children playing on the streets have caused destruction to property. "Ball playing on the streets," he continued, "has resulted in complaints on account of noises and broken win dows. The same hue and cry Is raised when vacant lots are used for baseball and other games. At times, in certain localities, large and noisy gatherings are attracted." MaJ. Sylvester wants the members of his command to deal gently with, boys who cause trouble. Willie he wants the youngsters to get what en joyment they can, he does not, how ever, want them to violate the law. Street corner gatherings are to be broken up, the superintendent says. Indulgence in profanity and other bad language Is to mean punishment. All offenders who are caught will be pros ecuted. The police think that keei Ing boys oft the streets at night would accomplish much good. No Hall of Records break out in a non-fireproof building. The loss of government property in this fire Is thought to be less than $1,000, but in the library over the firs was a unique collection of geological literature containing more than Go. 000 volumes, 85,000 pamphlets and 3G.O00 maps, the most complete collection of geological works and maps in this country If not in the world What the United States Govern it needs is a magnificent hall irds, where all the valuable arch ives of tho government might be stored In absolutely fireproof vaults. Some day after a few hundred million dollars' worth of these valuable rec ords have been destroyed congress will give us a hall of records. Fees Upl Why are you so indignant beenuse people talk about matters that do not concern them? You do it Atchison Globe. On Leaving Eden. iCve "Shall we take the snake with us?" Adam "Well, 1 guess not; people will think we are going InW vaudeville.''