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Llftt in Cuba !a just one roughhouse
after another.
Chicago's birth rate Is decreasing,
but its population liars are not.
Aviators who carry the mails will
have no chance to read the postcardfc,
All genuine Mocha and Java coffee
comes from Brazil, and the valoriza­
tion mill.
A few drops of oil, properly admin­
istered, will soften^ your lawnmowet's
raucous voice.
New Jersey Is discussing whether
dead mosquitoes should be paid for by
weight or by the pint.
Speaking of unsolved mysteries,
what has become of the bearded lady
and the dog-faced boy?
Some men live for years in indus­
try and righteousness and then spoil
It all by going into politics.
Today's short story deals with a
man who poured gasoline into his mo­
tor car while smoking a pipe.
Every time we read of an aeroplane
accident we are reminded of the fact
that there is one born every minute.
"Massaging with warm cocoa but
ter," says a beauty expert, "develops
the arms." So does massaging dishes.
"Bathing," says a German scientist,
"multiplies bacteria," but few men
have died from excessive cleanliness.
Chicago boasts of the year's first
heat prostration. Evidently trying to
live up to its reputation as a hot old
town.
Once In a while the weather man
causes us to forget the straw hat ques­
tion and cast longing eyes at some­
body's umbrella.
Chicago man was given a divorce be­
cause his' wife persisted in going
through his pockets. The Judge, we
take it, is a married man.
In France eagles are being trained
to attack airships. The day may come
when we shall have city ordinances
requiring the muzzling of our eagles.
Now a scientist says that a big nose
is a sign of nerve. True, and often its
bigness is due to the fact that its
owner insisted on putting it in other
people's affairs.
Nearly 4,200 Ameflcan books were
listed by publishers this spring, and
few of them, Indeed, will provide
money to those who wrote them for
summer vacations.
Cincinnati women have voted to set
an example In simplicity. But it Is
said sometimes that there is nothing
else so expensive as simplicity, that
is, fashionable simplicity.
Trinity Church, New York, has an
Income ol $1,000,000 a year. How
cheap a man who can't afford to put
more than a nickel upon the contribu­
tion plate must feel there.
A Pennsylvania court rules that
voter's home is where his wife lives."
Which leaves the bachelors to find
their own homes, a feat sometimes
difficult for some of them late ax
night.
The New York Medical Journal
makes the announcement that card
playing Is injurious to the mind. It
does not explain how it found the ma­
terial that was necessary for experi­
menting.
The new French aeroplane line over
the English channel has adopted a 15
minute schedule.
An Indian woman wants a divorce
because her husband tried to compel
her to wear his old false teeth. When
the case comes to trial her lawyer
ought to be able to work in a few bits
of biting sarcasm.
Ten bull fighters killed and 166 in­
jured in 872 bull fights in Spain dur
ing 1911 is a statistical testimonial
that Spain's bullfighting game is de­
termined to keep ahead of our nation­
al pastime of football.
An English writer tells us that wo­
men would make successful explorers.
When It comes to exploring the fast­
nesses of friend husband's trousers in
the dead of night they certainly are
there, as the lowbrows say.
Baseball magnates threaten to short­
en the playing season, but they gen­
erously refrain from taking any action
which might prevent the fans from
talking about or thinking of the
game the whole year round.
A Chicago woman advertised for a
maid and promised an auto ride once
a week as an inducement. Her only
applicant wanted to see a picture of
the chauffeur. Certainly there could
be no joy in a joy ride if the element
of joyousness'were missing.
In San Francisco, the defendant In
a divorce suit ignored his child, but
asked that the custody of a pet span*
iel be awarded to him. The dog with
the child was awarded by the court
to the more human-minded of the con­
jugal partners in the case.
A Philadelphia brain expert says
that women »ave not as much brains
as men. Just now no man interested
in public affairs would be bold enough
to indorse any such insinuation in a
state where women are voting.
The government has decided that
two cats employed in a subtreasury tc
fr keep rats and mice from eating im
portant papers and who are faithfully
fulfilling their duties, must subsist on
charity, as the price of meat is too
high for the treasury department tc
toed them.
NEW
YORK.—There was a silent
commotion of an extraordinary
character before Magistrate Krbtel in
Center street court the other day when
Henry J. Hecker, a deaf-mute pressman
of 754 East One Hundred and Fifty
second street, appeared as complain­
ant against Miss Nora Sullivan, a young
woman of twenty, also a deaf-mute, of
330 Water street. Hecker charged
that Miss Sullivan grossly Insulted
him on the street last Saturday after­
noon, flinging a broadside of slander­
ous epithets at him from the tips of
her fingers and then banging him on
the head with an umbrella.
The young woman, who is short
and plump and highstrung, appeared
in court in answer to a summons ob­
tained by Hecker. She was accom­
panied by a dozen friends, all deaf
mutes. Hecker had about the same
number of friends with him and the
two factions made the air jump with
the hot remarks they tossed at each
other in the sign manual.
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CHICAGO.—Thieves
Deaf Mutes Fling Epithets in Court
There was no deaf-mute interpreter
in court when the case was called and
Magistrate Krotel was at a loss to
understand the multitude of high signs
that were snapped at him. Hecker
vainly talked himself into a state of
manual palsy, and court attendants I
were sent scurrying everywhere for
Dfew
Away back in the summer of 1861,
according to tradition, a ship different
from those usually seen here put oft
a small boat which made for the shore
and deposited above the tide line an
object that several hours later was
discovered to be a man. His legs had
been freshly amputated and there was
a jug of water and a package of ship's
biscuit beside the man, who had suf­
fered greatly from exposure.
Wrapped in blankets and taken to
the Comeau house, where, ever since
he has been a welcome member of the
Man Dies After Fifty Years' Silence
IGBY, NOVA SCOTIA. —Within a
hundred yards of a beach where
51 years ago two fishermen found him
with his legs amputated, "Gerome,"
Nova Scotia'B man of mystery, died a
few days ago, silent to the end about
his identity.
Although he undoubtedly possessed
the power of speech, "Gerome" had not
conversed with anyone in the half cen­
tury he had been cared for by Didier
Comeau and the latter'a sons and
daughters. During all of this time
"Gerome" had remained a mystery to
the settlers here, most of whom are
known as "returned Arcadians," being
the descendants of the compatriots of
Evangeline who returned to this part
of their adopted country after their ex­
pulsion by the English In 1755.
Girls to Enforce Hat Pin Ordinance
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to catch thieves,
and women to catch women. If
the first, why not the second?
So reasons John McWeeny, chief of
police. And since it sounded good to
the head of Chicago's police depart­
ment thereupon outlined his plans for
a regular beauty squad.
Hat pins caused his cogitations and
the same pointed reasons, coupled
with an old ordinance that never has
done duty, will inspire the 20 girls he
hopes to enlist in the service.
"You see, my men are bashful," ex­
plained the chief. "And men are any­
way. Now if you were standing on the
corner and a pink cheeked girl stroll­
ed by with the points of her hat pins
sticking out a foot, would you arrest
her?
"No, you'd probably wink your eye
at your brother officer and say, 'No, no,
my no—she ain't breakin' the law.' So
you see, we've Just got to have girls
to catch girls—a regular beauty
squad."
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an interpreter. Finally Police Sei*»
geant Quackenbos, who is six feet tall
and built like a hack, was reached at
police headquarters and came down to
court while the quiet excitement was
at its height.
Complainant Hecker was pretty
weak in' the wrists when he took the
stand and related how he had been
Insulted and thwacked with the um­
brella. Quackenbos did not translate
the insults, but Informed the court
that In thumb and digit discourse the
language was pretty fierce.
Then Miss Sullivan took the stand
and talked so fast that Quackenbos
couldn't get her. He told the magis­
trate she was having a fit of manual
hysterics. He made swimming mo­
tions at the witness, wig-wagging for
her to become calm. There' was a
great stillness in the court and at the
same time a great tumult. All the
deaf-mutes were talking at once and
becoming purple in the face.
At last Miss Sullivan talked herself
into a swoon and was carried to an
ante-room. Brought out again, she
talked herself into another swoon and
came out of No. 2 quite limp. Then it
was drawn from her that Hecker had
made unpleasant left-handed remarks
to her and that she was entirely justi­
fied in swinging at him with her um­
brella.
"I guess this is all we can stand for
one day," adjudged the court, mop­
ping his brow. "Case dismissed."
As the two silent factions filed out
of the courtroom there was a wireless
riot in the corridors until the mam­
moth Sergeant Qackenbos intervened
and waved them apart.
household, the man was finally revived
by a physician. In half a dozen lan­
guages the man was asked:
"What is your name?" To this ques­
tion, in Italian, propounded by the
elder Comeau, the man made muttered
reply: "Gerome!" Never after that,
however, did "Gerome" utter a word
except on one occasion when asked
where he came from. "Trieste" was
the reply made, seemingly In an un­
guarded moment.
Physicians from all parts of the
world, who have visited this Land of
Evangeline in the 51 summers that
have elapsed since "Gerome" was
found on the beach, have studied the
man's case. Most of them have agreed
that he might have spoken had he de­
cided to do so one or two have vouch
safed the opinion that some terrible
experience through which "Gerome*
passed frightened him out of his
senses and rendered him unable to ut­
ter an intelligible word.
And since the decision has been
made, the next step is to get the girls.
The chief says he has received letters
from many volunteers. From these he
will choose the "beauties" and they
will be placed in charge of Mrs. Mary
Owens, Chicago's only police woman.
Then when the woman with the hat
pins strolls by, a fashionably dressed
girl, wearing a tiny star where she
formerly wore the pin of her sorority,
will touch her on the shoulder and
suggest that, "The captain wants
you."
Coed Throws Her Own Effigy on Pyre
ST.
LOUIS.—Passengers on a Market
street car passing the western end
of Forest Park saw a girl trudging
along the tracks with what appeared
to be the lifeless body of another girl
on her shoulder.
The body was clad in a blue suit and
a pair of brown-stockinged legs dan­
gled limply. The motorman slowed up
the car. One glance at the bead of
the object and he threw on the power
again.
With an indignant look the girl with
her burden marched on her way. She
was Miss Annie Brown, president of
the junior class of Forest Park uni­
versity, who was carrying her effigy to
a grocery store half a mile away to
burn it. By burning her own effigy
Miss Brown established a precedent.
As the climax in the class light
whioh had been on between the junior
and senior classes for three days, 'the
seniors had abstracted a {iress of Miss
Brown, stuffed it with paper and rags
and hung the effigy on the high oak
in the front yard of the university.
The effigy was discovered early in
the morning by Kiss Gertrude Schnei­
der, vice-president of the juniors. Aft­
er heroic efforts she managed to cut
,!t down. The question was what to do
wtth It before the entire school saw It.
And herein lies just one fear that
may wreck the proposed beauty squad
before its organization.
What if the woman shouts: "What
for?" and the beauty policeman says:
"Your hat pins are too long they
stick out too far you are under ar­
rest will the arrested one cry "Leave
me alone or I'll scratch your eyes
out?"
Will this be followed by a real hair
pulling contest? And will the original
gentleman policeman have to cry
"break," stop the argument, and take
both fighters for a ride in the blue
wagon?
These are questions experience alone
can solve. And Chief McWeeny says
he will take a chance on the battles
just to try out his plan.
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It was then that Miss Brown' decid­
ed on the visit to a grocery up the
tracks. None of the seniors saw the
disposal of the effigy, and all were
mystified at seeing the oak tre«* re­
lieved of its burden.
While the 21 members of the junior
class were attending a reception given
by Mrs. Anna Sneed Cairns, president
of the university, the seniors, 45
strong, stole a march* on them by
climbing telegraph poles in the vicin­
ity and affixing their colors, yeUow and
white.
Easy Ink Eraser.
A blot of ink on your paper may be
easily removed by means of one of
those little emery cardboard strip*
that are used for manicuring the nails
Just rub it lightly over the Ink aftei
blotting carefully, and It will remove
every trace, yet leave the paper 11
good condition.
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Pre-eminent among these stands
Yuan Shi-kal, a mna who, though
trained in thft old school, is neverthe­
less a modern man. He is thoroughly
Chinese and undertfltnds the capaci­
ties as well as the feeds of his peo­
ple. He is eminently a practical man.
He is not ?. theorifft, but a man of
action.
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PRESIDENT GOMEZ' BIG JOB
Notwithstanding the statement of
President Gomez of Cuba, that he
would soon put down the rebellion
against his government, there are
well-informed Americans who think
the Cuban president has a really big
job on his hands.
One such man, who recently re­
turned from the island, said that the
chief trouble with the Cuban govern­
ment is that it doesn't understand
economics and has no desire to do so.
Any person who arises with a sugges­
tion to check the reckless expendi­
tures is quickly squelched. More than
anything else Cuba needs some one
to curb this throwing away of public
money and the United States will
have to put some one in Cuba to do
that very thing in the near future.
The budget must be prepared under
some systematic plan of making neces­
sary expenditures for the public good
and not under a general plan of dis­
tributing money for the benefit of
those in office. The Cuban treasury is practically empty now and the country
has little to show for it
A good deal was expected from Gomez. Now fifty-six years old, he is
the.son of a wealthy cattle raiser. When he was a mere lad he took tip arms
against Spain and demonstrated his courage and capability. He was inaugu­
rated enthusiastically and It seemed for a time as, If he would have the whole
people, save a few disgruntled Moderates at hls back. But there were sore
spots in the now administration that werenot easily cued.
"It's along tijhftto think back," said
Miss Alma Matthews, thfe "Angel" of
Ellis Island, ''and one's inind is over*
flooring with memories and stories. I
just don't kn^jr where to begin. I
bfegan work here fbr the Women's
Honje MissidoaryVSociety of the Meth­
odist Episcopal church in 1886, and
have been here $v6r since.
"Just now we deal with girls only,
but years ago we often had to care
for boys. too. When I first began work
we used to meet the immigrants at
Castle Garden. "those were dreadful
times. Runners'from all the lodging
houses, mostly dives waited for the
gates to open, and when the dazed
immigrants were turned loose'they
pounced on them like wolves, and we
had our work cut out for us. But New
York soon woke up to the situation
and changed all that."
In the bright little parlor of the
Home at No. 9 State street, New York,
there were young women and girls
who had come to the annual reception. Although there was the stamp of the
American woman already upon them in the instinct for refinements in taste
and dresp, yet there still remained some of the accent of the old mother
tongue, tempered with the easy and picturesquely slangy idiom of the new
mother tongue.
"These," continued Miss Matthews, "are some of our girls. Of course
they are scattered all Over this big continent. Look at this little card. We
give each girl one of these when they leave us to enter employment or travel
to their distant relatives in the west. You have no idea how they treasure
this card. We are continually getting, requests for new ones when the old
ones are worn out or lost They never forget us."
YUAN SHI-KAI MAN OF ACTION
The most hopeful sign that the new
order of things in China will be bet­
ter than the old is the rise of leaders.
For several decades the Chinese have
tried to arouse themselves from their
lethargy, so as to become a wide­
awake, modern people. In all their
struggles upward they have bewailed
the lack of leaders. Time and again
during the last decades it has been
said: "China has no great men, no
leaders." The revolution brought the
leaders.
Li Yuen ISung, th* vice-president, is
the real her") of the ''evolution. He is
the man wl~o can arouse the enthusi
asm of the people ffV the much needed reforms. He received his training in
Japan and harped £iere to be thorough, painstaking and conscientious In all
his work. Any reactionary movement would find in Li Yuen Hung a rock
against whTch it wculd hurl itself in vain.
Dr. Suti Yat Sen, who originated and planned the revolution, is more of a
foreigner tl^an a CFfnese, having spent many years of his life abroad. He is
a dreamer and an fiealist. He is far ahead of his time. His dreams, though
Utopian ard perhaps unrealizable, are nevertheless useful in teaching the
Chinese to "urn theTr thoughts to the future instead of to the past. There are
many othef leader** but they are of the second magnitude and need not be
enumerated here. They constitute a reserve force which will step into the
first rank
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the nation needs them.
WINSTON CHURCHILL CLIMBING
There is good reason for the keen
interest felt in this country in the
recent cable dispatches to the effect
that Winston Churchill bids fair to be
Asquith's successor as premier of
Great Britain and leader of the Lib­
eral party.
Half American, as he is through
his mother, the present Mrs. George
Cornwallis-West, who before she be*
Came Lady Randolph Churchill was
Miss Jennie Jerome, and who is the
daughter of the late Leonard Jerome
of New York, his every political act
has reflected his friendliness to the
United States and his high regard for
American political institutions. His
induction into the highest political
office in Great Britain should mark
the beginning of even closer relations
between the two countries than now
exist. Almost his last political utter­
ance in justification of the Irish home
rule bill passed in the House of Com­
mons offered as one of the prime rea­
sons for its adoption his belief that more than anything else it would tend to
promote friendship between England and the United States.
His country has been amazed repeatedly by his audacity, his political
^wonsietencies, his dyoamic energy and his unequaled power of self-advertise­
ment. Not for one moment has he been lost to the public eye. For his scorn
of precedent and radical campaign methods he has frequently been denounced
by the old British school of politics as being more than half Yankee. And so
today, although his persona* enemies—and they are countless—are untiring
ia their ridicule and bttter parodies of Sir Joreph Porter's song in "Pinafore"
are heard in every London street, this young "ruler of the king's navee" has
made himself strong with t«»at great major!tr who demand that Great Brit­
ain's supremacy on the seas fhall be maintained by boldly increasing his naval
budget with the declaration to Germany that he was prepared to go her one
better in any building program which she might devise.
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MO longer will the minds of the em
iv ployes of the patent office be dis­
tracted by the jangling of the
auctioneer's bell.
For some time past numerous com­
plaints have been made to Clement S.
Ucker, chief clerk of the department
of the interior, by employes of the
patent office, to the effect that their
work was interfered with by the in­
cessant ringing of a bell at an auc­
tioneer's establishment, in Seventh
street Northwest, betwen E and
streets, opposite the patent office.
They complained that the bell com­
menced ringing promptly at 9 o'clock
in the morning and that it continued
until 4:30 o'clock.
Chief Clerk Ucker finally reported
the matter to the police and an at­
tempt was made to arrest the auc­
Liquid gas is Professor Snelling's
invention. It is manufactured from
waste gases and vapors of oil wells,
cheaply produced, easily condensed
and transported. That it will revolu­
tionize farm illumination is predicted
by its inventor. His suitcase "gas
plant" carries enough material to light
a room for two weeks, without re­
plenishing, at a cost of about $1.
"Canned" gas, Professor Snelling
says, can be supplied farmers at a
cost as low per 1,000 feet as city folk
now pay. In a single container, 2,000
feiet, nearly a month's supply, is held
in liquid form, to be liberated when
burned as needed. The liquid gas de­
velops a heating and lighting power of
2,400 British thermal nnits, as against
The Chocolate Plant.
The chocolate plant is a native of
America. When first introduced into
Europe chocolate was used only as a
luxury, but it speiedlly advanced in
popular esteem. It is now cultivated
countries far from its original home.
The chocolate plant, as well as tea
and coffee, has been cultivated from
tine immemorial. Chocolate as a
beverage, rapidly made its way in
beginning in Spain, whither it
Capitol Trees Planted By Statesmen
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AS THIS
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me a real
shovel," exclaimed Sunny Jim
Sherman, vice-president of the United
States, the other day as he stood on
the lawn of the capitol and cast a
critical and experienced eye at a hole
in the ground six feet In diameter and
three feet deep. In the hole stood a
small tree, destined to be known as
the "Sherman tree," and Sunny Jim
was there for the purpose of perform­
ing the historical business of planting
it. An attendant had just handed the
vice-president a small spade, child
size. Upon his indignant refusal of
this implement a man-size shovel
with a rounded bit and a long handle
was placed in his hands, and if they
had not stopped him he would have
filled in the hole In a few minutes.
"I supposed I was to plant this
tree," said the vice-president as they
asked him to desist after he had
thrown a few shovelfuls into the aper­
ture. Until this spring only two trees
on the grounds of the United States
capitol bore the name of any human
being. One is known as the Washing­
Lost Hats at the Executive Office
NOW
we intend to make it an issue.
For some years we have openly
lamented that. at the executive office
of the president of the United States
there are no hat racks. The time is
at hand when the great issue must be
met. Congressman C. B. Slemp of
Virginia, who is generally as punctil­
ious as an ordinary mortal can be, fin­
ished a rapid-fire conference with the
president and came out to find his hat,
which he had left upon one of the
seats in the outer room. Hastily
and then carefuly he looked, but his
hat was not there. Someone had
changed hats. Now Congressman
Slemp's hat was of fairly normal size,
and all he could find was a little hat
that would coyer only the rear end of
his head. And that was discovered
only after the process of elimination
had been applied and the little hat
was the only one left.
It is humiliating to think that the
statesmen of the country should have
to roam about the executive office
hunting for stray hats. Of course ev
erybody joked Congressman Slemp,
but it was far from a joking matter
to walk down Executive and Pennsyl­
vania avenues to a distant hat store.
It did not comport with statesmanlike
dignity to say nothing of the embar­
rassment of meeting on the way his
colleagues and other friends who won­
dered what could be wrong with the
Bell "Peeved" Uncle Sam's Young Men
Daylight Canned and Sold By Expert
ANNED DAYLIGHT" is an illum
V* inating invention of Prof. Walter
O. Snelling of Pittsburgh, former ex­
pert of the department of agriculture.
He is startling Washington scientists
and gas manufacturing experts with
demonstrations of his new "sunshine"
maker, carried in small suitcase.
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ton elm because #hen the father
his country used to do some surveyi'nip
in the vicinity he ate his lnnch
neath it. The other was the Catneron^
tn^ Vso called because 8imon 'Can£?f
erbnof Pennsylvania paid for having*
it saved and moved when it' was
found necesary to use the spot on
which it had stood for some other pur
pose. This spring Elliott Woods, su­
perintendent of the capitol, noting
that some of the trees on the grounds
were showing age, devised the idea of'
planting new ones to preserve the ap­
pearance of the grounds when the old/
ones finally gave way. With this came
the idea of having some statesman
hold the shovel a moment in order to
give the new trees each a name.
Nine trees have now been planted
and when former Speaker Cannon fin­
ishes his, making the count ten, the
work for this year wil be done. The
vice-president planted a purple beech.
Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island
who is very rich, sent home for an.
English beech. Senator Cullom plant­
ed an American elm and said he hoped
to live until it should attain its
growth. Senator Lodge and Congress­
man James R. Mann of Illinois and
William J. Browning of New Jersey
planted red oaks, while Senator Bar
con of Georgia inserted a pin oak into
the ground and Senator Gallinger of
New Hampshire a willow oak. Speak­
er Clark planted a sugar maple and
his predecessor will plant a, red oak.
intrepid congressman from Virginia.
Furthermore it was at that season of
the year when not only the feminine
mind, but the masculine mind also,
was focused on the subject of hats.
Under these conditions was Mr. Slemp
obliged to run the gauntlet amid the
volley of none too sympathetic que­
ries.
This may serve as notice to anyone
who has by mistake walked away with
a size seven and three-quarters "hard
boiled" hat, a derby of late design and
good quality, that it should be re­
turned at once to Congressman Slemp.
Said hat has associated with it cer­
tain memories—besides costing five
dollars.
Therefore are we justified in the
suggestion that a hat-rack and cloak­
room be established at the White
House Then-the^viiltor c&n redfeiv*
his check, emblazoned with the seal
of the government^ and can,fe«l some
sense of security as to the siafety of
his headgear while he Is chatting with
Secretary Hilles or conferring with
the president.—Chappie's News-Letter.
tioneer on a charge of disorderly con­
duct. While the warrant was being
sworn out In police court, however*
Assistant Corporation Counsel Gus A.
Schuldt considered the case and ren­
dered a decision to the effect that the
auctioneer was not liable to prosecu­
tion for the ringing of the bell.
The warrant was not sworn out, but
Capt. AjHchael Byrnes, of the Sixth
precinct, visited the auctioneer and
explained to hita how he was uncon­
sciously interfering with the work of
Uncle Sam and slowly demoralizing
the patent office. Tears came to the
eyes of the auctioneer at the thought
of having caused Uncle Sam a mo­
ment's trouble, and in broken words
notified the captain that it would be
unnecessary to arrest him, for hs
would discontinue the ringing of the
obnoxious bell at once.
So the bell will ring no more. That
is, during patent office hours. But up
to one minute of nine in the morning,,
and after 4:31 o'clock In the after­
noon, the bow-legged wlelder of the
massive bell will jangle it in a man­
ner never before heard'of in order to
make up for lost time.
so*? o'
THAT
CAJtMB
MYUtHT
to HfAM
Tfll
1,000 units of ordinary illuminating
gas.
Republican money and railway
sleeping cars are two innovations in
old-fashioned China, The new Chin­
ese republic dollars, the minting of
which has just begun, bear two lions
and the Chinese character for "one
dollar" on one side, and on the reverse
the character* "Current Mopey" and
"Chinese Reptfttfc," with a wreath of
flowers, appear. Tuan Shi-kal has in­
spected the new sivdns and has given
his approval of thets.
The first of two sleeping cars avail­
able for service between Shanghai aad
Nanking was put into use on April 1L
It is 68 feet long and the blanks are
each 7 feet^ long.
Pell Far Without Injury.
Simone Catlnot, a ftre-yearold gi&
fell from a fourth floor window of aj
building at Havre, France, the other,
day, without sustaining slny injuffj
tare a few scratches. The child hi£
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been left alone In a locked rtiom,
as she could not open the door 50:
broke paae of glass with an' 2
bwlla 5pd jumped on^of He
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