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AVIATOR FELL 3,000 FEET. "I>ropped in for Tea," He Tells Owner of House 011 Which He Fell. A young Liverpool member of the royal flying corps, who is now in training somewhere in England, came unscathed, except for a bruise or two, from a thrilling experience when "his machine fell from a height of ?>,000 feet on a house in a populous part of London. He tells of his feelings during the descent at the rate of 1,000 feet a minute as follows: "I was leading a reconnoisanee flight and had to go up to 3,000 feet, when I signaled to the others following by firing a pistol. The pistol exploded and hit me on the head and broke my propeller, and the back of the engine caught fire. Both controls were cut away, so I only had the elevator control left and could not guide her. "The broken propeller tore a large hole in the plane. It was very windy and damp, and the wind carried me up toward London, dropping me about 1,000 feet every minute. I shut my eyes and dropped and landed half in a house and half in a little alley. I was covered with petrol and got an awful knock on the head and was dazed when I hit the ground. My right wing went through a window, and the whole machine was smashed. "When I crawled out with my head in my hands, the first thing the lady of the house said was, 'What on earth are you doing here?' So I said, I've come for tea.' She said, 'You've killed one of ray chickens.' The machine was a wreck. ' "It was a nasty feeling, as I had no control, and it was just luck that I did not land on a church steeple." DREADED GERM FOUND. ??? Infantile Paralysis Germ is Spread by Raw Food. The mystery surrounding the cause of the spread of infantile paralysis has been solved, according to an official announcement made tonight at Johns Hopkins hospital, relates a Baltimore dispatch of Monday. Extensive research conducted by Dr. Horace T. Burrows, pathologist, of the hospital, has resulted in the discovery of the infantile paralysis germ, the existence of which was established nine years ago by Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller institute. According to Dr. Burrows, the disease is not spread by contagion, but the germ is introduced into the human system through the mouth in; milk or water. "Always in every case of the disease a germ has been found in the big intestine showing that the disease is spread by some raw food. That food is milk or water is established by the fact tiikt babies, whose only diet has been milk or water, died of the disease. Dr. Burrows and his assistants, under the direction of Pro. Wm. H. Welch, have been making autopsies upon every victim of the disease since July. They have conducted a careful miscroscopic search. Of the diseased organs it has been found that the germ occurs only in the colon. The investigations prove that 100 per cent, are infected in the big intestine. Since it is only possible for the germ to enter the big intestine by way of the mouth, food and drink must be the carriers. This discovery demonstrates for j the first time clearly that raw food contains the germ of infantile paralysis. The investigators are so certain that this is true and ti .. there is no other way for the disease to be con-1 tracted that they suggest that the quarantine be raised against personal contact and that all raw foods, such as milk, water, fruits, etc.. be sterilized, boiled or cooked before being given to children or others. The investigators found that house flies and other insects undoubtedly help to spread the germ from one food to another. This discovery is the first one that has been given out officially by Johns Hopkins hospital before it has been puuiimieu in a, ictu6ui<>cu journal. This rule is broken for the first time in order to clear up the mystery surrounding the disease as quickly as possible and in order to allow the schools to open and business to go on as usual. The find was not made by accident, but as a result of a painstaking research. The spread of the disease is so much like that of typhoid fever and its methods of communication that the investigators are sure they have hit upon a way to make an antipoliomyelitis vaccine like the antityphoid vaccine that stamped out typhoid in the United States army. Jo Cose?Is Mr. Dowman in? Ima Stenog?No; he went out to lunch. Jo Cose?Will he be in after lunch? Ima Stenog?Xo; that's what he went out after.?Chaparral. BRITAIN HONORS BOY HERO. | ! Every English School \\ ill Observe "Jack Cornwall Day." A day will be kept in the elemen-: tarv schools of Great Britain as "Jack j Cornwall day," in honor of the boy: hero of the battle of Jutland, who; lias just been awarded a posthumous V. C. The story of the life and death of the eallant sailor bov will be told to j I the children and the splendid exam-: pie which he has set to the boys and: girls of the empire will be pointed] out by the teachers. Collections will be made to endow a "Jack Cornwell, -- ~ " -i Ul-J or.,1 V. U., WaTCl lor UlSclUlfU Siiliuio auu marines at the Star and Garter hospital. at Richmond. Seven million stamps, containing a portrait of the hoy hero, have been supplied to the schools, and every child subscribing a penny will be given a stamp as a memento. A large picture of the battle scene on H. M. S. Chester, as described by one of CornweH's wounded comrades, will ? be supplied to all schools subscribing one pound and upwards to the fund. ?London Chronicle. GOOD NEWS FOR SLATE. Pai>er Scarcity May Restore It to the Schools. j When it was discovered that about I everything on this plane of existence ^was either filled or covered with I "?prms" thp old fashioned slate was O~ barred from the public schools of J New York. Now the rising price of I paper and the shortage of the supply l may bring it back. At a meeting of the board of superintendents of the public schools the paper situation was discussed and it was agreed it might be necessary for the children again to "get their lessons" on the slate with a wooden frame, red cotton border and sponge attached by a string, familiar to the older generation. Contracts made last year, it is said at the office of the board of education, should protect the paper supply for the present school year, but it is reported that a shortage has been felt in many schools and that pupils have had to provide themselves with a supply.?New York Telegram. Well Bread Horse. Some time ago, when Sir Iafl Hamilton was reviewing a certain corps, a laughable incident occurred. One of the officers was mounted on a horse that had previously belonged to a baker. A wit in the crowd, who was aware of this fact; shouted out "Baker!" and immediately the horse stopped dead, and nothing the officer could do would make it budge. Things were beginning to look serious wheh suddenly the rider was struck with a brilliant idea. "Not today, thank you!" he shouted, and at once the noble animal moved on, to the intense relief of every one concerned.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. LEARNS TO READ IX OLD AGE. YVell-to-Do Farmer Nearly Seventyfive Made Happy by Night School. He was a farmer of South Carolina, nearly 75 years old, and he was well off enough to be able to go on the notes of friends. But he couldn't write his name. So he had to make his mark and let it be witnessed by some one else. One day one of the officials in a bank he did business with said: "Captain, you had better let me see to it before you go on people's notes. Somebody might do you some day, on account of your having to make your "mark." A short time ago, the old farmer came into the bank, beaming like one of those first spring days in February?when the sun seems to make the bare bleakness of winter bright and cheery. "Well," said he to his banker friend at the wiftket, "don't have to make my mark any more. Just watch me write my name! And that is not all?" putting down the pen with which he had labored with very creditable success, and pointing to the large lettered placards hanging on the wall behind the banker: "I ran rpari pvprv word on that calen dar, too! Been going to night school, son. It's great!" And the white haired school boy ?with the heart and soul and gladness of a freckle-faced, read-headed, bare-foot one, breezed out of the bank, happier than if he'd made the finest horse trade of his life. It Stays There. One day a keeper was out walking with a number of harmless inmates of an insane asylum, and the party met a pedestrian not far from the railway tracks. With a nod toward the tracks the traveler asked one of the lunatics. "Where does this railway go to?" The lunatic surveyed him scornfully for a moment and then replied: "Nowhere. We keep it here to run trains on."?Philadelphia Public Ledger. I Now Well I H "Thedford's Black-Draught H H is the best all-round medicine H B?| lever used," writes J. A. D SI Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas, m y "I suffered terribly with liver ^ $9 troubles, and could get no relief. Bj| H The doctors said I had con- || pa sumption. 1 could not work at H all. 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