is;
"a Then Lest la r.
Pastor Beware, young man. It
toember, The wicked thai! net live out
kalf tbttr days."
1
V1
Rounder Don the Bible say thatl
Pastor Th.
Rounder--Well, I'm all right. I'vi
a all BIT Ufa to far rWalnnil
Leader.
Fr Vwrnlnar.
Toung a.llj,htly (to pretty girl) Is
lb teat next to you engaxed. miss?
Miss No; but I am! And he's go
TI ta get In at the next stationi
ng
Comlo Cuba.
Reminded Itlm.
"I wish I could remember," aald Rtv-
Ira, "what It waa that my wife told me
ds to-day."
"Perhaps," auggested Breoks, 'aha
Sold you to bring my razor back. Tou
orrowed It about a month ase.' '
"Razor back? Rarer back? I know
taw I was to be sure to take home
me pork chopa." ChlcnBO Tribune.
In Norway the longest day last!
from May 21 to July 22 without Inter,
ruptlon.
Bargain Instinct.
She would hare declared strenuously
that aba did not hare the feminine bar
tain mania, but
"George," she asked In the aweet way
k woman always opens an argument, "how
tuch did you hare to pay '(or tie mar
Ware license?"
"two dollars," he replied.
"Two dollars?" she repeated thought-
tally. "Couldn't you get then three for
Te?" i
Then, when be asserted that he waa ne
tfermon, she woke up and blushed, and
ftrled te explain, and only made thlags a
little worse. Judge.
I Planting: Corn In Panama.
"Anyone who la willing to work: can
get rich In the Republic of ranama,"
said Dlllwynn M. Hazlett to a Kansas
City Journal writer. "It costs 10 cents
I bunch to raise bananaa and there Is
always aale for them at 30 cents a
bunch. Threa crops of corn can be
raised a year and no cultivation ia re
quired. A man walks along and drop
the corn In the footprints he makes
and a native follows and covers the
corn with his big toe. That la nil there
la to do until It Is time to gather It."
Don't
Some people swell up on "emotion"
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick of the leadera ot the
Labor Trust to twist facta and make
the "sympathetic ones" "weep at the
Ice house." (That's part of the tale
further on.)
Gompers et at. sneer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympathy
by falsely telling the people the courts
Hrere trying to deprive them ef free
Speech and free press.
jt Men can speak freely and print
'opinions freely In this country and no
(Court will object, but they cannot be
allowed to print matter as part of a
criminal conspiracy to-injure and ruin
other citizens.
Gompers and hla trust associates
Started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co., drive its hundreds of workmen
out of work and destroy the value of
the plant without regard te the fact
that hard earned money of men who
worked, had been Invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious "trust"
methods, (efforts to break the firm
uiai won i come utiuer irum ruie;, uui
Instead of stopping they "dare" the
eourts to punish them and demand
r.tv lawn to nroteet them in such de
structive and tyrannous acts as they
ttay desire to do. The rea
son Gompers and his band persisted
In trying to ruin the Bucks Stove
.Works waa because the stove cempany
Insisted on the right to keep some old
employees at work when "de union"
Ordered them discharged and uome of
"do gang" put in.
Now let ua reverse the conditions
and have a look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
their union, and, the demand being re
fused, should institute a boycott
iigainst that union, publish Its name
In an "unfair list," Instruct other
manufacturers all over the United
JUtes not to buy the laber of that
Vnlon, have committees call at stores
And threaten to boycott if the mer
chants sold anything made by that
union. Picket the factories where
members work and slug them en the
.way home, blow up their houses and
wreck the woaks, and even murder a
few members of the boycotted union
to teach fhem they must obey the or
ders of "organized Capital?"
It would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things If lawful
lor the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws, the
boycotted union could apply to our
eourts and the courts would order the
company to cease boycotting and try
lag to ruin these union men. Suppose
thereupon the company should sneer
at the court and in open defiance con
tinue the unlawful acts in a persist-
Jl, carefully laid out plan, purposely
tended to ruin Uie union and force
prlnembora Into poverty. What a
feowl would go up from the union de
manding that the courts protect them
and punish their law-breaking oppres
sors. Then they would praise the
eourts and go on earning a living pro
tected from ruin and happy in the
knowledge that the people's courts
could defend them.
How could any of us receive pro
tection from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to, and do punish
uch men.
The court Is placed In position
where it must do one thing or the
ether punish men who persist In de
fying Its peace orders or go out of
service, let anarchy reign and the
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain the
courts as their defenders, whereas
thieves, forpers, burglars, crooks of
all kinds and violent members of la
bor unions, hate them and threaten
Violence If their members are punish
ed for breaking the law. They want
the courts to let them go free and at
the same time demand punishment
for other men "outside le union" when
they break the law. Notice
the above reference Is to "violent"
members of labor unions. The great
majority of the "unheard" union men
ere peaceable, upright citizens. The
P's'ft.V violent ones get into office and
nw-aaers or tne great i-auor irusi
ifuOw bow to mass thla kind of men,
Tangled ta Ills SpeelBeattaae.
"Tommy, you were not at school yes
terday. Why was that?" asked the teach
er. "I was sUk, ma'am," answered Tommy.
"I am sorry to hear It. What was th
trouble?"
"I had an awful sore thumb."
"That Is too bad. What caused ItT
"I I stepped on a rusty nail, ma'am."
Then the teacher knew that Tommy
h.id placed hoi.Lcy nod gone to the hall
game.
Vegeturiuns hsslii timt one acre of
land will comfortably aupport four
persona on a vegetable diet
Eliminating the Romaaea,
"Let us have a clear understanding,
Mr. Spudhunter. Tou are marrying ma
far my money."
"Thafa right, Miss Plalnrltch. and
you are marrying ma because I'm the
only eligible man that haa ever asked
you."
So they were married and lived aa
happily aa anybody had a right to ex
pect. The United States Is tha world's largest
consumer of coffee and cocoa.
When Anatle Waa lllenced.
"Auntie" was showing off her little
nephew, aged 2, to an admirer, who
was calling upon hep for the second
time. He was a very bright youngster
and during a pause In bia performances
specially requested by 'auntle," he
suddenly remembered the way she had
been teasing him before the caller ar
rived and decided to turn the tables on
her. So he pointed a chubby finger
at the. door and aald, "My rug!"
Auntie at once caught the spirit of
the thing and cried emphatically. "No,
my rug!"
"My dress," said her" little nephew,
pointing to auntle'a gown.
"No, my dress," replied Runtle, de
lighted to have an opportunity to show
how cute he was.
Then the little boy sidled over to the
caller and pointing at him, cried "My
man!"
Silence on the part of auntie. Boa
ton Eagle.
There Is a unton of tiatmakera al
La Mana, France, In which the officel
of president, vice president, secretary
and treasurer are held by one man.
Weep
The lee
in labor conventions and thus carry
out the leaders' schemes, , frequently
abhorrent to the rank and file: so it
was at the late Toronto convention.
The paid delegates would applaud
and "resolute" as Gompers wanted,
but now and then some of the real
worklngmen insist on being heard,
sometimes at the risk of their lives.
Delegate Egan is reported to have
said at the Toronto convention:
"If the officers of the federation
would only 'adhere to the law we
would think a lot more of them."
The Grand Council of the Provincial
Workingmen's Ass'n of Canada
haa declared in favor of severing all
connection with unions in the U. S.,
saying "any union having its seat of
Gov't in America, and pretending to
be international In its scope, must
fight industrial battles according to
American methods. Said methods
have consequences which are abhor
rent to the law-abiding people of Can
ada involving hunger, misery, riot,
bloodshed and murder, all of which
might be termed a result of the prac
tical war now in progress In our fair
province and directed by foreign emis
saries of the United Miners of Ameri
ca." That is ap honest Canadian view ot
our infamous "Labor Trust."
A few days ago the daily papers
printed the following:
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C, Nov. 10. Char
acterizing the attitude of Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison of the American Federation
of Labor in the contempt proceedings
in the courts of the District ot Colum
bia, In connection with the Bucks'
Stove and Range Company, as "a will
ful, premeditated violation ot the
law," Simon Burns, general master
workman of the general assembly,
Knights of Labor, has voiced a severe
condemnation ot these three leaders.
Mr. Burns expressed his confidence in
courts in general and in those of the
District ot Columbia in particular.
APPROVED BT DELEGATES.
This rebuke by Burns was In his
annual report to the general assembly
of his organization. He received the
hearty approval of the delegates who
beard it read at their annual meeting
in this city.
"There is no trust or combination of
capital in the world." said Mr. Burns,
"that violates laws 'oner than do the
trust labor organ Iza ..cms, which resort
to more dishonest, unfair and dishon
orable methods toward their competi
tors than any trust or combinations
In the country."
Mr. Burns said the action of "these
so-called leaders" would be harmful
for years to come whenever attempts
were made to obtain labor legislation.
"The Labor Digest," a reputable
workingman's paper, says, aa part of
an article entitled "The Beginning of
the End of GomperBism, many organi
zations becoming tired of tho rule or
ruln policies which have been en
forced by the president of tha A. F.
ot L."
"That he has maintained his, leader
ship for so long a time In the face of
his stubborn clinging to policies which
the more thoughtful of the working
men have seen for years must be
abandoned, has been on account part
ly of the sentimental feeling on the
part ot the organizations that he
ought not to be deposed, and the un
willingness of tho men who were men
tioned for the place to accept a nomi
nation in opposition to him. In addi
tion to this, there Is no denying the
shrewdness of the leader of the A. F.
of L., and his political sagacity, which
has enabled him to keep a firm grip
on the machinery ot tha orgunrsaUon,
and to have his faithful henchmen in
the positions where they could do him
the most good whenever their services
might be needed.'
"Further than this, he has never
fulled, at the last conventions, to have
some sensation to spring on the con
vention at the psychological moment,
which would place him in the light of
a martyr to the cause ef unionism, and
excite a wave of sympathetic enthusi
asm for him, which would carry the
delegates off their feet, and remit In
his re-election.
Hint.
We show the duke about New Tork.
This." we explain, "la Wall street"
His grace yawn.
"Er where Is Brad street, dontye
know?" he oaks.
The Indies of the party are much eg
Itated; It Is the first hint our distin
guished guest has let fall. Puck.
Croutons fm !,.! are mutt milty
mndo by cutting smlr lire:il M out -..il'
nn Inch thick, t n: lori'irr It thickly on
both Bides, cutting in l;u'..-i:i.'!i erpKirrs
and baking In the oven until brown.
A Vanning Void.
"No mero mortal," declared the pro
fessor In astronomy, "can comprehrn 1
the Immensity of space."
"I think I can," ventured one of hl
auditors.
"And why your
"I have a daily humorous column te
fill up." Louisville Courier-Journal.
In Cuba the State teleprmph offlcei
have been combined with tha posts,
department.
Pall of II a mnn Intercut.
Naccus What are you working at
now, Iiorus?
Bonis I am writing a story In which
there Is neither hero ner heroine, no love
making, no villain, no detective, and not
a particle of plot.
Nagus That ought to be Interesting.
norus It ought to he more than that.
I hope to make it touching and pathetic.
It's a hard luck story, written for my
landlord's exclusive perusal, and nets forth
in detail the reasons why I shall have to
ask him for another extension of time
on my rent.
Disappointed.
"It's too bad, miss," said the turnkey
at the jail, "but the sheriff took that
murderer to the penitentiary this morn
ing. The only real ornery cuss we've got
here now Is a chap that stole a bulldog.
If you'd like to "
But the young woman with the costly
bouquet of hothouse flowers had turned
indignantly away.
Can't Shake 'Era.
"Still hanging on to those town lots In
the suburbs?"
"Not a bit of it They're hanging en
te ne new."
At
House
"That hla long leadership, and this
apparent impossibility to fill his place
has gone to hla head, and made him
imagine that he is much greater a
man than he really is, is undoubtedly
the case, and accounts for the tactics
he has adopted in dealing with ques
tions before congress, where he has
unnecessarily antagonized men to
whom organized labor must look for
recognition of their demands, and
where labor measures are often op
posed on account of this very antagon
ism, which would otherwise receive
support.
"There is no doubt but what organ
ized labor in this country would be
much stronger with a leader who was
more in touch with conditions as they
actually exist, and who would bring
to the front the new policies which
organized labor must adopt if it ex
pects to even maintain its present
standing, to say nothing of making
future progress."-
We quote portions of another arti
cle, a reprint, from the same labor pa
per: "Organized labor, through its lead
ers, must recognize the mistakes of
the past if they expect to perpetuate
their organizations or to develop the
movement which they head. No move
ment, no organization, no nation can
develop beyond the intellects which
guide these organizations, and if the
leaders are dominated by a selfish mo
tive the organization will become
tinged with a spirit of selfishness,
which has never appealed to mankind
in any walk of life at any time since
history began.
"It can be said In extenuation of
certain leaders of organized labor that
the precarious position which they oc
cupy as leaders has had a tendency te
cause them to lose sight of the object
behind the organization. The natural
instinct in man for power and posi
tion 1b in no small measure responsi
ble for the mistakes of the leaders,
not necessarily in labor unions alone,
but in every branch of society. This
desire for power and leadership and
personal aggrandizement causes men
who have been earnest and sincere in
their efforts in the start to deteriorate
Into mere politicians whose every act
and utterance Is tinged with the desire
to cater to the baser passions of the
working majority in the societies or
organizations aud this is undoubtedly
true when applied to the present lead
ers of tho Federation. We mention
the Federation of Labor particularly
In this article because that organiza
tion is the only organization of labor
which has yet found Itself In direct
opposition to the laws of the land.
There are other organizations of labor
whose leaders have made mistakes,
but they have always kept themselves
and their organizations within the
bounds of the law and respected the
rights of every other man in consider
ing the rights of themselves and their
constituency; whereas, the motto of
the Federation is Just the reverse, and
unless the leaders conform them
selves and their organization In ac
cordance with the laws of the land,
the leaders and the organization Itself
must he disintegrated and pass Into
history, for in America the common
sense In mankind is developed to a
greater extent than in any other na
tion on the earth, and the people, who
are the court of last resort In this
country, will never allow any system
to develop In this country which does
not meet with the approval of the ma
jority of the citizens of the country.
"This must have forced Itself upon
the leaders of the Federation by this
time. It it has not, the leaders must
be eliminated. The organization which
they head has done many meritorious
things In times past and the people
are always ready and willing to ac
knowledge the benefits which their
efforts have brought to their constitu
ency as a whole, but at the present
lime labor organizations in general,
and the Federation of Labor In par
ticular, stand before the bar of public
epinlon, having been convicted of self
ishness and a disposition to rule all
he people of the country In the Inter-
st of the fey. 'jDe people are pa
tiens and awaiting to see
If the
object
1 lessen which they have bcea forced to
Retort Coartwsi,
"Aw captain, you need to be a whal
er, didn't you?"
"Vos."
"Would you mind telling ma aw
what kind of bait you used In catching a
whale?"
"lut!r, when we could get em, young
feller." Chieaco Tribune.
iiittlna: IJie Arllrni,
"When you t.ilk about the ultimata
consumer," aald Curie .Terry Peebles,
i'i!k his p.;je with l!ir remnants In
Ills tobacco pouch and lighting it Tm
hi in."
Conditional.
The man who had been shot by the
hunter opened hla eyes.
"Forgive me," said the person with
the gun.
"Not yet, replied the sufferer, "but
if you can prove to a Jury that I look
like a squirrel I'll think nbout It."
Philadelphia Ledger.
When a man la In a hurry, his bar
ber icons to be very alow.
First Coffee In Europe.
The first cup of coffee was drunk In
Europe at Venice toward the end ol
the sixteenth century. The Venetian
chronicler Moroslnl, in his records ot
the events In the year 15S5, mention!
the beverage called "ravee" drunk by
the Turks and noted for its antl-sopo
rifle qualities.
In the year 1591 a Venetian doctoi
Introduced the berries from Egypt,
taught his countrymen how to crush
them and brew the beverage, and the
use" of coffee soon became general, sc
much so In fact that Venice was full
of coffee houses where the people Idle.!
away their days drinking the aromatli
beverage.
A peculiarity of the Venetian coffee
houses was that their patrons did not
pay for each cup of coffee they drank,
but settled their bills for all the cof
fee consumed at the end of each year
The regular price ol u tup of eonV
was five soldi, about 2' cents, and In
some of the old cafes of Venice to day
the same price is still charged.
After a man 'goes fishing, he can
smell Ash worms for a week.
givo to these leaders Is going to be
recognized and if they are going to
conform themselves and their future
work and actions in accordance there
to."
Let the people remember that com
ment, "The Federation of Labor in
particular stands before the bar of
public opinion having been convicted
of selfishness and a disposition to rule
all the people of the country in the
Interest of the few."
The great 90 per cent of Americans
do not lake kindly to the acts of tyr
anny by these trust leaders openly de
manding that all people bow down to
tho rules of the Labor Trust and we
are treated to the humiliating specta
cle of our Congress and even the Chief
Executive entertaining these convict
ed law-breakers and listening with
consideration to their Insolent de
mands that the very laws be changed
to allow them to safely carry on their
plan of gaining control over the affairs
of the people.
The sturdy workers of America have
come to know the truth about these
"martyrs sacrificing themselves In the
noble cause of labor" but it's only the
hysterical ones who swell up and cry
over the aforesaid "heroes," remind
ing one of the two romantic elderly
maids who, weeping copiously, were
discovered by the old janitor at ML
Vernon.
"What is it alls you ladles?"
Taking the handkerchief from one
swollen red eye, between sobs she
said:
"Why, we have so long revered the
memory of George Washington that
we feel it a privilege to come here
and weep at his tomb."
"Yas'm, yas'm, yo' shore has a de
sire to express yo' sympathy, but yo'
are overflowln' at de wrong spot, yo'
Is weepln' at de ice house."
Don't get maudlin about lawbreak
ers who must be punished if the very
existence of our people is to be main
tained. If you have any surplus sympathy
it can be extended to the honest work
ers who continue to earn food when
threatened and are frequently hurt
and sometimes killed before the courts
can Intervene to protect them.
Now the Labor Trust leaders de
mand of Congress that the courts be
stripped of power to Issue injunctions
to prevent them from assaulting or
perhaps murdering men who dare earn
a living when ordered by the Labor
Trust to quit work.
Don't "weep at the Ice House" and
don't permit any set of law-breakers
to bully our courts, If your voice and
vote can prevent. Be sure and write
your Representatives and Senators in
Congress asking them not to vote for
any measure to prevent the courts
from protecting homes, property and
persons from attack by paid agents of
this great Labor Trust.
Let every reader wrlto, and write
now.
Don't sit silent and allow the or
ganize J and paid men of this great
trust to force Congress to believe they
represent the great masses of the
American people Say your say and
let your representatives in Congress
know that you do not want to be gov
erned under new laws which would
empower the Labor Trust leaders with
legal right to tell you when to work,
Wherel For whom! At what price!
What to buy! What not to buy'
Whom to vote for! How much you
shall pay per month in fees to the La
bor Trust! etc., etc., etc.
This power Is now being demanded
by the passage of laws In Congress.
Tell your Senators and Representa
tives plainly that you don't want them
'o vote for any measure that will al
low uny set of mtn either represent
ing Capital or Labor to govern ant'
dictate to tho common people, who
prefer to bo free to go and come, work
or not, and vote for whom they please.
Every man's liberty will disappear
when the leaders of the great Labor
Trust or any other trust can ride
rough Blind over people and mass their
forces to prevent our courts from af
fording protection.
"There's a Reason."
a W. POST, Battle Creek, Mich.
?' .'.-i. V ( zz-1
At 6:30 p. m., recently, the corner of
the rue Dnmreniont and tho rue de
Tourlaque, Taris, sank Into the ground.
Pedestrians Raw a man and woman
disappear. The man, twenty feet
down, burled to the hips In falling
dirt, heard the woman crying: "Mon
sieur, I am the mother of a family,
save me!"
The hole enlarged. Tons of debris
poured In. Two policemen, let down
With ropes, disengaged the man. But
the woman had disappeared.
The hole was fifteen feet long, twelve
feet wide and thirty feet deep. Po
lice and troops made a cordon; fire
men evneuated the adjoining houses.
At a depth of 108 feet they found the
body of Mme. Chevalier on the floor
of a gallery of the ancient catacombs!
They blame the recent heavy rains,
undermining the surface; because, the
next day, a spot ten feet square In tho
quadrangle of the old Louvre Palace,
sank knee-deep with a crowd of tour
ists.
Next, two days later, a part of the
Place of the Palais Royal went down
three feet in the midst of pedestrian
traffic. In neither case had the Met
ropllltan Underground Railway any
thing to do with the cave-Ins.
At this hour, the' Paris under-realm
shelters Incredible enterprises; store
bouses of criminal bands; vast mush
room plantations of honest under
ground farmers; stored hones of gener
ations of Parisians, and luxurious se
cret refuges of rich families.
It Is the whole story of old Paris.
WILD HORSE IN NEW YORK.
flonnilnv tne Woods Kail of t'llr
Hall nnd Frlwutrnlnar Itraldenta.
Driven wild by cold and hunger, a
black bobtalled ownerless horse has
been running In Burden's woods in the
Rnvenswood part of Long Island City
und residents have asked tho police to
capture it.
No one knows where the animal
tame from nnd Its presence waa un
known until about two weeks ago, the
New York Sun says. Those who know
something about horseflesh say the
animal is a. thoroughbred and when
out on a foray it clears a fence with
the ease of a born and trained cross
country hunter.
Telling about the horse, one woman
informed the police that it chased
her around the yard and toro her
waist from her back with Its teeth.
Another woman nays It vaulted the
fence Into her yard, ripped her wbhIi
from the line and kicked over the out
buildings. On another occasion it bolt
ed into the stall of a hard-working
horse and, kicking the rightful occu
pant out of tho place, proceeded to eat
everything in sight. It Is further re
lated that it attacked a feed wagon
on Vernon avenue and got away with
two bags of oats.
Equipped with a wash line Police
man George Morrison, of tho Hunter's
Point station house, who has punched
cows in the We3t, accompanied by John
Kelly, of the Bergh Society, spent all
Wednesday trying to lassoo the ani
mal. The woods where the animal
roves are about a mile in length and
half a mile wide. Morrison and Kelly
got back on Wednesday night empty-
handed.
It is proposed to get a detail of cow
cops together and have a round-up to
capture the animal.
BUENOS AYRES.
City with All the Finish
of n
Par! a or a llerlln.
Buenos Aires, the capital of the Ar
gentine Republic, is in some respects
the most cosmopolitan city In the
world. No important European nation
but has contributed its capital and its
people to the upbuilding of this great
metropolis. It also has the distinction
of being the second city ot Latin pop
ulation in the world, being larger than
the largest cities in Italy aud Spain.
There is perhaps no city which ex
hibits a greater variety of pleasing
contemporary styles of domestic archi
tecture. The city council tiles to en
courage beautiful building by annually
offering a gold medal to the architect
who Is found to havo planned the most
attractive facade and by freeing from
the building tax the building thus fa
vored.
The outward aspect of Buenos Aires
is rather that of a European than of
an American capital. It has all the
finish of a Purls or a llerlln. The ab
sence of the Irregular sky lino, caused
In North American cities by tho ex
treme height of some business build
ings as well as the fact that the
ground of the city Is quite uniformly
built upon, even In the more outlying
regions, keeps the city from present
ing that unfinished appearance which
even our Inrgct cities have. World
To-day.
('tinny I.naa.
Wee Miss '.Mamma, mayn't I take
the part of a milkmaid at the fanry
bull?
Mamma You are too little.
11'.... I)ln ll'll V
."inn wvw, i can ue a
con-
Junsed nillk-mald. Comic Cuts.
The woman who is suspicious of all
other womn Is apt to be suspected.
The Purls of the middle ages was quar
ried underground for the stono built
above ground. In the days of Joan of
Are there was already a subterranean
labyrinth under half Paris, already a
mystery, where Satanallost Hardy de
Pnssavnnt and Jhe Duke of Burgundy
met the heads of the trades unions.
Fantastic streets, their smooth stone
ceilings forty feet beneath tho aurface,
emptied Into vast dark halls, turned.
Intersected, without plan, according to
the quality of the stone. Galleries dat
ing from Gallo-Roman times had be
come forgotten in Gothic times as
tourists know who have stayed at a
certain pension near the Pantheon.
The known extent of this under
ground world is astonishing. Up to
the twelfth century the palaces,
churches, public and larger private
buildings were constructed from cata
combs quarried under 1,500 acres of
the present surface in the three well
known groups under the Gobelins;
under the Latin quarter, and. on the
other side, the whole Trocadero quar
ter. How U it that this underworld does
not cave in oftener? The weaker sur
faces have already caved in. In par
ticular, around the year 1774, the cave
Ins, following prolonged rains and
much new building, became so numer
ous as to alarm the population. At
the moment when a cammlsslon was
examining a house In the Rue de'En
for went down entire twenty-eight
yards below the surface Into an abyss.
Drayloads of boxed goods enter cer
tain Monmartre courtyards In plain
daylight and disappear. No search
could find them. They gave gone down
concealed elevators to a primitive lit
tle railway that runs through some old
quarry gallery, five blocks, ten blocks,
to another part of Paris. Some honest
commission merchant hoists them up
and mingles them with other goods,
all ready for shipment.
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QUEEN WILHELMINA AND PRINCESS JULIANA.
The Dutch royal baby is one of the most interesting little royalties in
the world. Her mother was so long giving tha nation an heir that it looked
as though there would be no direct successor to the throne, and the Dutch
people feared that Germany then would try to gain control of their coun
try. Their interest in little Juliana's health and general welfare, there
fore, is more than usually great Fortunately for the hopes of the nation,
Juliana seems unusually sturdy. '
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The longest sea wave ever measured
by the hydrographlc office was half a
mile In length.
Sweden's increase in , population
lust year was the greatest for any of
the lust ten years.
The Chilean government has under
construction sixteen different railroad
lines or extensions.
Blast furnace slag waste Is being
chemically treated In Great Britain for
utilization as cement.
The Cape' Cod ship canal, work on
which is well under way, was project-
d before the revolution.
Attempts at aviation that met with
some degree of success were made by
an Italian priest in 1751.
Recent cujea of bubonic plague lu
California have been traced to squir
rels eaten by the victims.
The Australian state of Victoria
spends nearly $300,000 a year in its
wurfare against tho destructive rab
bit. The Austrian government Is bulld-
ng automobile trucks designed to car-
y twenty ton guns up IS per cent
grades.
The swamp area of the United
States, if combined, would cover the
New England states, New York und
New Jersey.
London's electric street railways
"any about 4 12, 000, ODD passengers a
year, of whom 24 per cent pay but u
1 cent faro.
Wooden pavements in Purls, treated
with a buth of alkull, caibonates and
wood tar at a high temperature, are
said not to need repairs more often
than once in two years.
It requires approximately ten tons
There Is even a persistent Paris ru
mor of "R. C." "the King of the Cata
combs." In the version used by Gas
ton Leroux he is chief of a disciplined
army of foreigners, counterfeiters, bur
glars and abductors for ransom, t
tacklng only the very rich and operat
ing without scandal. In the quarter
of the Pantheon where superposed gal
leries exist below the level of the Me
tro, the King of the Catacombs has a
secret chamber. Surrounding it, in a
circle, are the headquarters of each of
his sections, watched and overheard by
"R. C," when he pleases, through a
circle of peep-holes.
This vast conspiracy, which utilizes
equally young men of good society as
Indicators, clerks of public services
as spies, physicians to give false cer
tificates and bands of Apaches to mud
dle clews of expert burglary, has ex
perts to work its counterfeiting press
es, execute its forgeries and frauds on
Insurance compnnles.
The work is done in leisurely impun
ity 100 feet beneath Paris. Electric
lighting, steam heat, scientific venti
lating, vast underground kitchens,
heavy carpets and hangings, luxuri
ous furniture in sleeping-rooms and
clubrooms makes this realm of "R.
C." seem like pipe dream romance. But
the police know its existence and are
powerless. The catacombs are a maze,
a labyrinth, tangled with masonry and
cave-ins!
Subterranean Paris! It is a wonder
ful place, concealing mysteries, honest
and dishonest, equally enticing to the
Imagination. It has been long known,
long forgotten. It has enjoyed long
impunity. But now that the Metropol
itan Underground Railway Is throwing
its branches, Ifterally, under the entire
capital, the supporting surfaces that
were Just strong enough are being
weakened. A few streets have caved
In. There will be more. ' You will hear
lots more ot Subterranean Paris!
of pitchblende to yield a single grain
of rad,ium bromide, to obtain which
over a thousand reductions and crys
tallizations have to be made.
The development of motor-car en
gines, and other machines having
much vibration, has concentrated at
tention upon devices for locking nuts
upon bolts. In a. recent discussion of
this subject attention is called to the
fact that, for ordinary motor-car work,
a well-fitted nut tightened upon a well
fitted thread will not slip under vibra
tion If tho number of threads is more
than twelve to the inch. Such bolts
and nuts Bhould be secured with
spring-lock washers. They are then
safe up to a bolt diameter of over
three-quarters of an inchff
Whether the globe on which we
dwell Is gradually drying up or not Is
a question that has been much debat
ed. Recent discoveries in Central
Asia have been regarded by some as
favoring an affirmative answer, but
others have replied that the observed
phenomena are simply periodic
changes. Doctor WalBer of Zurich
champions the affirmative view on the
ground that a great number of Euro
pean lakes have certainly disappeared
within tho last 2.rj0 years. The canton
of Zurich, for example, had 149 lakes
a quarter of a century ago, and only
seventy-six to-day. H believes that a
similar tendency to disappearance has
affected the lakes of Germany and
Russia.
Tlie I'rowrraxl v (unk.
Our t ook .has lived in some of our
best families."
"Our took has lived In all of them,
and Is making good progress on the
second time around." Louisville Courier-Journal.
We have heard about forehanded
people all our lives, but we never
knew anyone to prepare for cold
weather until It arrived.
If you would keep your frltu.de: kee
your troubles to yourself.
