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DJRE WASTE OF HUMAN UFE indictment of American Railroad Man agement Called for by Annual Slaughter. It is a serious indictment which the interstate commerce commission bringst American railroad manage ment During the year now drawing to a close there were 8,215 cases of derailment, and of these 1,877 were caused by defects in roadway and ZJ847 by defective equipment. This ls a total increase of 1,675 over the de railments of the preceding year. In trna serious case of derailment the commission found 906 rotten ties with in a distance of 147 rail lengtbs. Some ni these were so badly decayed as to be unfit for use, and in many cases the spikes fastening the rails to the ties were so loose as to be easily dis engaged by the hand. Notwithstand ing such conditions, there is no les sening of speed on American railroads and thousands are yearly sent to hos pitals or the grave because of this mismanagement and contemtuous in difference. The total number of casualties on steam roads during the year ended June 30 was 180.123, of which 10,585 were persons killed and 169,538 in jured. These figures indicate an in crease over the previous year of 189 Silled and 19,379 injured. Not until the heads of railroads are held to accountability other than mon etary for this awful slaughter, due to poor equipment and bad management, ^vill the death toll be reduced. A few convictions on criminal charges would lead to greater safety.-Utica Globe. ?BEES DRIVE OUT WORKERS ?Welsh Manufacturing Plant Has Come to Look for Annual Invasion of the Insects. For the tenth successive autumn a iflourishing mineral water factory at Cardiff, Wales, carried on by Messrs. iSmith & Co., is being invaded by bees, -which come in huge companies. The firm has consulted local bee -Sleepers and experts, but no one can .aay where the bees come from, al though bee keepers in neighboring suburbs state that they have lost Sarge numbers lately. Bee experts say 'they may come from many miles around. A curious fact is that although Messrs. Smith have been "honored" hy these armies of bees for ten years, another mineral water factory nearly ?opposite and another round the corner ."have been left alone. The bees come ?very morning as soon as day breaks and depart when the sun goes down, JOT, rather those of them do who have mot fattened themselves too much on <he little pools of syrup which are ai rways to be found on slabs and utensils -and window sills in a minerai water "?'l?iwbryr^ . Constantinople's III Luck. Herbert Vivian the other night al luded to an extraordinary superstition connected with the famous wild dogs of Constantinople. These dogs were supposed by many to bring good luck ?to the city, and though a dog is deemed unclean by all good Moslems, they were well treated by the popu lace. Lut the powers that be one day removed the dogs to an island where they were allowed to die in awful tor tera by starvation, and with their dis appearance has departed the good 5nck of Constantinople. Certainly the ^Turks have fallen upon evil times, twit whether the wild dogs have pt y thing to do with the fact is quite another matter.-Westminster Ga mette. .y. Novelist and Professor. : The kins has been pleased to ap Tprove the appointment of Sir Arthur .QuiDer-Couch to be King Edward VII. professor of English literature in the .University of Cambridge. Slr Arthur Quiller-Couch becomes, therefore, the second occupant of a ?hair formed in 1909 for the promotion ?cf the study of English literature "on {literary and critical rather than cn ?philological and linguistic lines." The appointment, while giving great ?pleasure to the novelist's numerous admirers, comes somewhat ac a sur Trisa Sir Arthur is an Oxford man, Trho graduated from Trinity college in 3?S6 to become lecturer in classics at the same college.-London Standard. Courtesy of the Street. An incident seen on a city street, the other day, indicates that the an -tagonism between drivers of horse -drawn vehicles and chauffeurs of mo tor trucks is giving way to an entente cordiale. A heavily loaded wagon was stuck between two car tracks, and the horses were vainly endeavoring to pull out their load. A huge ten Ion motor truck pa?sed, then tarn ish, backed up, and with a mighty push .dislodged the wagon. The driver beam ed his thanks, and an atmosphere, of general good feeling took the place of one of gloom and hard words.-The Outlook. How Willie Knew. "Til bet you didn't know I was to be here today to dinner?" "I didn't know you were; but 1 (knew some one was." "How did you know?" * 'Cause when ma set the table she jrai clean napkins around." Better Late Than Never. "Our American girls are game, any 8?ow." "How now?" "When one of them decided that aha is going to marry a poor man, sb? ?tarts to learn bow to cook." Program of Entert to be Givei Friday Welcome address. Recitation, A Small Boy's Troubles - Hayseed Drill.__. Recitation, Jennie Enter tains Sister's Bea Doll song_. Mu: Recitation, The Time Honey Got Lost... Handkerchief drill. Mus Play, "Cabbage ACT. I-The trials of a new "skt ACT ll-Performance of pupils in prese Mu Recitation, An Aspiring Warbler. Scarf driU... Pantomime, LEAD KINDLY LIGHT Mm Play, "Popping CAST OF CHARACTERS Mr. Primrose, an elderly gentleman in lo Ellen Murray, rich ward of Mr. Primrose Miss Biffin [ 2 old maids aspir Miss Winterblossom \ Amince Cartu Henry Thornton, in love with Miss Mum Bobbin, Miss Murray's maid. (Conducted by the National Woman'? Chris tian lemperance Union.) OUR CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR, Compares Favorably With That of Other Countries, Thanks to Activ ity of Temperance People. Our per capita consumption of liquor compares favorably with that of other countries, thanks to the tem- j perance agitators. When temperance people are de- j risively told thai the report of the | commissioner of internal revenue shows an increase in the output of the brewers and the distillers, we must consider the increasing number of immigrants who come to our coun try with their own ideas of liquor drinking. The quantity of beer con sumed per capita in the United States is not as great as in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany or Den mark; and our per capita consumption of distilled liquor is less than that ol Denmark, Hungary, Austria. France: the Netherlands and Sweden. Thc quantity of wine consumed in the United States ls less per capita than In Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria and Hungary. We should consider how much worse conditions would be in the United States were it not for the activity of the temperance people of our country. We understand there is in the liquor warehouses an immense amount ol liquor which has not yet been dis tributed, but which is reckoned in the Internal revenue report. SALOONS CAUSE OF TROUBLE Convictions In Police Court of Bris bane Increase Greatly When Dram Shops Are Opened. The citizens of Brisbane. Australia, were recently given a striking Illus tration of the fact that arrests for mis demeanors multiply with the opening of saloon doors and decrease when they swing shut. A big strike was on In the city and many workmen were idle. As an experimental measure the saloons were closed for one week. Convictions in the police courts promptly dropoed from eighty-six to twenty-six. and arrests for drunken ness from fifty to five. After one week of prohibition the saloons were permitted to do business from three to six in the afternoon. Convictions Jumped to thirty-five, and arrests for drunkenness to fourteen. Next, the sa loons were allowed to run twelve hours each day. Convictions Jumped to eighty-eight, and arrests for drun kenness to forty. The following week all restrictions were withdrawn, and the convictions numbered 109, the ar rests for drunkenness sixty-seven. NOT A PRODUCER OF REVENUE Intoxicating Liquor ls Not Necessity Nor Luxury-Fountain of Vice Should Be Suppressed. (By ATTORNEY GENERAL DAWSON Of Kansas.) Our Ideas of equity acquiesce read ily in the doctrine that luxuries should bear a heavier rate of taxation than necessities. But intoxicating liquor is neither a luxury nor a necessity. It rs a vice and the fountaiu of vice, and we have no moral right to depend upon vice as a source of revenue. Luxuries are to be taxed; vice Is to be suppressed. Furthermore, it can fte shaws, fxQin, a. myriad. Qi proofs ainment ti at Colliers y Night, March 28 ...._GUY MILLER ._WALTER BLAND MA THIS _....12 Children u._.Effiie Cosey .Five girls SIC Jamie Miller ..Eight boys ;ic i Hill School" rwl-marm" on the opening day. nee of august visitors on closing day. SIC . Miss Amince Cartledge _...Eight girls SIC the Question" n>e with his ward.Harris Mathis .._Miss Sallie Hammond ing for liand of Mr. Primrose-Miss tdge and Miss Ellie Mathis. ay.l.._Murphy Miller ._Miss Ruth Miller that the license system is not a reve nue producer; it is not even what lt pretends to be. In cities where thc prohibitory law has been enforced and the revenue licenses or license fines shut off, the incidents of the liquor business - court costs, paupers, de pendent and neglected children, and Mndred public expenses, shrink a?so.. BO that the loss of the license revenue does not affect the ordinary taxpayer. What He Wade. A prosperous liquor dealer was boasting to a group of men standing near his saloon of the amount o? money he had made. "I have made $1,000 in the last three months," he said. "You. have made more than \]??it," quietly remarked a listener. "What is that?" was thb^C sponse. "You have made my two sons drunkards. You have made their mother a broken-hearted woman. You have made much more than I reckon, but you'll get the full account some day!" Had Been Tried. The police court magistrate of n southern town was talking to hi? friend, a distiller. "Judge." he asked "have you ever tried my number one brand of old Markham?" "No, John.' admitted the magistrate, "but I tried three men in court today who had tried it." God's Great Levers. There are the same difficulties in enforcing the restrictions of license as those of prohibition. We have also learned that if prohibition does not al ways prohibit, neither does civlliEa tlon always civilize, nor education ed ucate, nor Christianity Christianize. But they are God's great levers by which we can lift; his blessed tool? with which we can work; his leaven in the lump of humanity obedient to the slow, sure law of growth.-Fran ces E. Willard. Word Has Larger Meaning. A reader questions the use of the word "replica" in the phrase "a replica ot Hudson's ship." A replica, properly speaking, is a duplicate copy, by the artist himself, of a work of art. But the term is acquiring a larger use. as ls evidenced by the fact that the Ox ford English Dictionary includes a secondary definition of the word af "a copy, reproduction, facsimile," and quotes Kipling and other authors af using the word in this wider sense. The Outlook. Short and Incisive. Talleyrand covld write a short let ter. When a woman wrote to inform him of the death of her husband, he simply replied: "Chere marquise, he las." And among official dispatcher there is that of Sir George Walton, who, after an engagement with the Spanish fleet, wrote: "Sir: I have taken or destroyed all the Spanisb ships as per margin. Yours, etc." And a later instance was the complaint ol Cecil Rhodes that Dr. Jim had upset the apple cart. His Principle. "Why is that rich man so selflst with his money?" "Principle, my dear. He believe wealth is a burden and he does not care to put it on anybody else." Its Place. "We don't find much of the fresl bloom of youth among the girls now adays." "Why, what's the matter with theil ranity bags?" , ALL HAULING DONE BY HAND Draft Animals, Except the Humar 1 Kind, Are Absolutely Unknown in Mombasa. ' There are no horses or draft ani [mais in Mombasa; the fly is too dead |ly. Therefore all hauling is done by ?hand. The tiny tracks of the unique 'street-car system run everywhere any |one would wish to go, branching ofl even into private grounds and to the very front doors of bungalows situated far out of town. Each resident owns his own street car, just as elsewhere a man has his own carriage. There are, of course, public cars also, each with its pair of boys to push it, and also a number of rather decrepit rick shaws. As a natural corollary to the passenger traffic, the i.. Jghtlng also ie handled by the blacks on large, flat trucks with short guiding poles. These men are quite naked save for a small loin cloth; are beautifully shaped and glisten all over from the perspiration shining in the sun. So fine is the texture of their skins, the softness of their color, so rippling the play of muscles, that this shining perspiration is like a beautiful polish. They push from behind, slowly and steadily and patiently and unwaveringly, the most tremendous loads of the heaviest stuffs. When the hill becomes too steep for them they turn their backs against the truck and by placing one foot behind the other, a few inches at a time, they edge their burden up the slope.-Stewart Edward White, in Harper's Magazine. HOW HE ACQUIRED BLACK EYE Humiliating Mark of Personal Con flict Made Automobilist Some thing of a Hero. . "You, sir," he said to the man with the black eye who sat down beside him in the street car, "are an auto mobilist?" "I ara," was the reply. "You were out cn the road the oth er day speeding at the rate of 40 miles an hour." "No, I was only going 10." "You found yourself about to run over someone, and you steered the machine into a lamp post to prevent. That's the way you got your black eye." "Oh, it came easier than that." laughed the victim. "I was passing a farmhouse at 10 miles an hour when I saw that I was about to Tun over a chicken. I kept on. and the chicken was killed. I came back that waylan hour later and the farmer and his two sons held me up and blacked my eye." "But you didn't pay for the chick en?" "No, sir. I I took a $10 licking rath er than pay 80 cents of a chicken." -difference of $9.70. Sir, your hand. You \ are a hero. A halo of romance surrounds, but why the devil don't you put heefsteak on your eye and take the black out?" Heights of Lions and Tigers. Three feet or a little over is the real height of good-sized lions and tigers, and when sportsmen realize what an extra six inches or nine inches added to the stature involves In increased length and general hulk to balance the known proportions of the animals I am equally sure they will admit that no lion ever scaled anything like four feet at the shoul der, and that the height measure ments of dead specimens give quite a false idea of the actual heights of the animals in life. The following are the heights at the shoulders of some of our larger feli dae: Large lioness, 2 feet ll inches; Manchurian tigress. 2 feet 9 inches; Nepal tigress, 2 feet 8 inches; Suma tran tiger. 2 feet 7 inches; large male jaguar, 2 feet 3 inches; male cheetah, 2 feet 2 inches.-The Field. Other Colonists Than British. "If there is one tenet In which British self-complacency has clung with more desperate energy than an other," says an English author, Mr. Charles Thomas-Stanford, in a recent ly published book "About Algeria," "it is that our people are the only suc cessful colonists. ... A motor drive through the rich plain which en circles Algiers will send our long cherished beliefs a-packing to the lim bo of dead British prejudices." The author describes with special enthusi asm a visit to a farm whose equip ment included two motor cars and an aeroplane. Day of Turks' Glory Gone. "O for an hour of Suleiman the Mag nificent," the beaten Turks might well exclaim in this day of their extinc tion as a great military power. On thirteen different occasions Sulei man's armies marched forth from Con stantinople through its Adrianople gate, and as many times returned in triumph through that portal of vic tory. The equally famous golden garte was walled up by Mohammed II. after his capture of the city in 1453, as a superstition arose that by lt the Chris tians would re-enter Constantinople, victorious. Misdirected Energy. "Mrs. Waggson is always working for some charitable object or other." "Very commendable. What is she engaged in now?" "She's making fancy pin cushions for some poor factory children who don't get enough to eat." Their Peculiarity. "Fine speaker, eh?" "Splendid!" "And yet his wife says she haa never heard him make a speech." < "Wives are rarely listeners." Roup is Common Now It mav appear ia your dork at any time. 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