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HEAT. Fatal TO ENERGY.
Sc Hot in Aus eralia That Ambition
in the Most Active Man Soon
Becomes Withered.

The Montreal Herald says an $50
lated Englishman would always re-
matn an Engtishman if his desert is
land were n the North Atlantic.
There is q saying. however that an
EnglisAman drops his morals when he
crosses the equator That is pretty
rough on those who live here down
under" but it need not be interpreted
more literally than I'D hiot at the inf1u-
ence GO climate on character. There
is nothing new 10 that theory, at least
since the days of EuckIs The idea
usually held, however, is thai it is
only a climate Of rigcg0as cold that
can breed good men. On that ground
Canadians can look to the future al
their race with confidence, knowing
that the virtues of energy, industry,
determination and hardihooa will in
spire the generations yet unborn. But
the fercest and longest winter does
not call forth that grim courage, pa
tient determination aaf unbreakabIa
hopefulness which alone eSn carry q
man safely through a seYen-year Aus
tralian drought.
There are, 1 think, faw SETTLES an
Canada who would stagger solidly on
like an Australian when he saw his
sheep dying by thousands and not q
blade OF green or a drop Of water on
his holding, Even for the city man in
his Office it needs more resolution and
concentration Of mind to do a heavy
days work in a muggy atmosphere OF
100 degrees than il needs 10 face your
widest winter storm Yet slowly bat
surely, as the generations follow each
other, this southern sun will wither
Australian energies. You see it now
III the louRging gait of those you meet
on the streets. Commercial men who
come 70 Australia all comment on the
easy-going way in which business is
conducted.
People not only do not hustle them
selves, but they do not bother their
heads about anyone who does. Often
one has to make repeated calls on
man to settle a matter of business that
might easily have been arranged in
five minutes Punetuality end dis
patch, however, are not Australian
qualities. No person goes to work be-
fore nine o'clock in the morning, and
many business men, like the fountains
in Trafalgar square and the clerks in
the foreign Office, play only from ten
to four o'clock. It is ali very well for
the new ehum to laugh at this, but
after year or two he may find that
he, too. has lost the secret OF the
strenuous life
OF course if Australians were wise
they would adapt themselves more
than they do to the Qecu1iarities OF
their climate. A noon siesta is just as
suitable to Australia as it is to Spain
or Italy or India. Far more could be
accomplished in the day If business
was begun in the early morning and
suspended during the heat of the day.
But, shaekled by custom, the Aus
tralians keep not only TO the old Brit
ish working hours but to plum pnd-
ding at midsummer Christmas and the
conventional silk hat and frock coat
for street year. But though they may
defy the climate IN these
respects, they cannot sestst its more
subtle influence on the general char
aetsr.
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HIS mENoRy WAS GOOD.
and He Recalled Something Which
Too1e the Insolent Lawyer
Down Sit.

. story is told of an eminent lawy 81
rece58ing a severe reprimand from a
witness whom he was trying to brow
beat. It vas an important issue, and
in Cgder to save his cause from defeat
it was necessary that the lawyer
should impeach the witness He en-
deaTered to do it on the ground of age.
in the following manner:
How old are you?" asked the law
yer
tseventy-tvo yaaps." replied the
witness
your memory, of course, is not SO
brilliant and vivid as 1t was 90 years
ago, is it" asked the lawyer.
81 do not know but It is" answered
the witness.
state some circumstance which
occurred. say Z years ago., said the
lawyer, and We shall be able to see
how well you can remember"
Il appeal to your honor said the
witness, IF am to be Intercepted IN
this manner it is insolenti6'
You had better answer khe ques-
tion," replied the judge.
Eyes, sir: state it. said the lawyer,
We'll, sir. if you compel me to do
it, will About u years ago you
studied in Judge IS gmees did YOU
aot??"
YES. anssered ne lawyer.
well. sir, remember your rather
coming into my Office and saying to
me: Mr. D. my son is to be ex-
amined tomorrow, and wish you
would lend me SIS to buy him suit
OF clothes I remember also. sir, that
from that day to this ne. has never
paid me that sum. That, sir, I remem-
ger as though It were yesterday"
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Work Done NgainIy by Manual Labo-
--E5oolies Paid Seven and Eight
Cents a Day.

The work of terrifying was dona
mainly by manual labor, with as littla
use of machinery as possible. All the
dirt for the fills and the eenbankments
and that removed from the cuts was
dug up by primitive Chinese shovels,
and carried in baskets. two of which
were suspended upon a pole balanced
over a coolies shoulder, says the Chi
cago Record-Herald. Instead Of using
pumps TO get the water cut Of depres-
sions, tigl tly woven baskets with a ropa
at each esd were skillfully swung by two
stout meR SO as 10 carry water from one
reservoir to another higher, whence in
the same manner it was lifted to an
other, and 50 on to the required height.
So cheap was human labor that thesa
primitive methods were really the most
economical. seven or eight cents a day
helms consideres a5sE wages for saalie.
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the very last striving to shield the Eame
of her husband, begging of her counsel
to spare jim as much as possible not
to bring to light the facts of his dissolute
life. Surely, it would seem that nothtag
but dotage could so have perverted the
mind OF the judge whose attitude caused
the verdict branding this woman TO
punishment for the worst crimes II tbs
calendar.
Florence Maybriel1, a southerner. born
il. Mobile, Ala, made her luckless mar
risge when a mere girl. She was but II
when she became the wife Of James May
brick, Of Liverpool. a man 20 years: and
soon after her marriage went to England
with her husband. Seventeen years Of
girlhood, - years of married life, i
years of imprisonment make the record
Of Florence May life up to the
present.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER
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suspecting public. The telephone has
been installed,s some day it may be use
ful and competitoR for the old estab-
tished Bell system; to-day. and for
several years TO come, it would not gay
operating expenses, to say nothing OF
dividends on an investment of some
s30,000,000 which the company has put
into the tunnels. The 10 miles of tun-
nels, which were ostensibly built TO
wires, but telephone conduits are not
necessarily Is feet high by II feet wide,
which represents the dimensions Of the
largest tunnels, nor even seven feet
wide by nine feet high, which is about
the dimensions of the smallest of the
tunnels. Neither is an electric railway
track in all of these tunnels. or hun
dreds Of electric cars needed in the
operation of a telephone system. The
telephone wires are there; they occupy
a few inches of space in the apex OF
the tunnels; the remainder of the ex-
tensive system will be utilized for the
purpose of freight delivery to and from
the depots.
The company has purchased a large
tract OF land at point where it is
possible for every railroad line in the
city to reach it. All merchandise
freight going to OF. from the wholesale
or retail district will be received at or
shipped from this point To this point
the tunnel cars will rim making a1e-
vator connection through the basement
with each of the large stores. Goods
going in OF out of the city will pass to
and fro 40 feet below the surface of
the streets, instead of on the streets as
they do now. Such a freight transfer
is unknown in any other city in the
world.
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Eaore startlingIy in many years than the
announcement that Senator Clark has
Tor three years been married to his
card. The little romance in the south
Of France will have d very curious and
very spect 5ulaP sequel in the metropo-
lis. There are to be some superb enter
tainments at he Clark house. But the
rnost-looked-s feature of these enter
tainments wi not be the palace or its
filings, but til little girl who captured
the heart Of 8 northumberland was
married to him, bore him two children.
NIL without the knowledge even OF the
mult-mfilionaire's family.
The announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Pauline AstGl has for va
rious reasons called out much debate.
The man in the case has already had
his share of notor5ety. Capt. Herbert
Horny spender Clay formerly belonged
10 the Second life guards. He became
mixed up in money scandal, and his
resignation was therenpon demanded by
the EQng, after he had refused to re-
! sim to Lord poterts. The father Of
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written about us ever since there was
anything to write about. They have
dattered, ridiculed, sneered, prophe-
sled as they have pleased, and We have
always read what they have had to say
with a great deal OF interest. Foreign
ers pretend TO be amazed at the avidity
with which we read such things. But
this latest analysis, praisful as it is, for
the most part-abounding in glorffica-
tons of the American girl, and all that
has brought up q new question, or one
that gems new in It's present form.
How far is a guest Of an individual priv
iliged to go in describing what he sees
and hears white he is guest? Is it
good taste for a Frenchnan or for any
one else to accept entertainment at a
private house and then go away to find
fault. satifize, even guy litsIe? This
is what Ne. Huret seems to have done.
The Astors, Fishes, Belmonts, Whit
neys. Sloanes and Harrimans took him
up; he saw their drawing heard
their talk, ate their dinners, and it is the
unanimous opinion that he has not
shown great delicacy In what he haT
written of his experiences. Very bad
Saste is what the society people as well
as those who do not Ike to be called So
eiety people say OF M. EIuret's chapters.
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that big firm of brokers, both mem
beers of the exchange, were going to part
company on account of Christian Sci
ence. 1t was Henry Pennington Toler
who had taken up the new creed. THE
separation of the partners was entirely
friendly, and Mr.. Toler took new part
ner of the new faith, opening large Of
ices at the high-priced corner of Broad
way itself, across the way from Trinity
church. Mr.. ToIer comes OF a prominent
New Jersey family. He was famous at
Princeton as one OF the greatest Ioor-
ball players that college has ever pro-
dueed. Later he won fame at golf. He
Is a large, handsome, magnetic man.
with a. manner that is at once charming
and forceful. About two years ago ToIer
astonfshed New York By assailing the
city's right to the upper part OF Man
haitian island, it being shown that the
old town of New Harlem had never
been legally ceded to the city. Search
made by lawyers on behalf Of Toler
showing that about 81, 900 600 GOO worth
Of property on the water fronts and old
creek beds were never New York's to
give away. Scarcely less astounding
was To1er's proposition TO take this
tract of the city, still legally belonging
TO New Harlem, and make It into new
Jerusalem Christian Science New
Jerusalem. When the scheme was fully
under way. and after ToIer had spent
/ $4,000, Mrs. Eddy sent word to Toler
| that the Christian Science could not set
up a material New Jerusalem. AT this
moment Toler had five richly furnished
offices in New York. all devoted to the
propaganda. he had sold his seat on
the exchange to advance the work. Hs
closed all the offices without a murmur.
uncomplaining1y faced what looked to
everybody else like financial ruin. and
turning his back upon Wall street and
all other business concerns. became q
healer in company with Mrs. stetsou at
the First Church Of Christ Scientist.
/ OWEN LANGDoN.
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suits-and the touches of masculinity
that were wont to creep into feminine
apparel have entirely disappeared
Woman is no longer tailor-made, anu
one of the economic results OF this
change Is the ruin of the ladies' tailor
The Imagination cannot picture man
in the act Of making any part OF one OK
these new creations, and the fact is that
no man does. The Fifth avenue ladies
tailors are going out of business one by
one. Except for riding habits there Isl
nothing for them to make, and automo-
billing has cut so seriously into outdoor
| entertainment that riding habits are not
SO much in demand as they were. The
change in Fifth avenue Is great but II
is not so great as the change in the ap-
pearance of the fashionable women. It
Is Just as true that questionable wom-
en- show the change. The shop girls re-
fleet these new ultra-feminine styles in
clothes that are by no means SO we'll
adapted for business as the former
tailor-made suits.
Among new feminine fsds is that for
tanned" hair. Tanned compilations
have been in favor for some time. So
long as physical culture is fashionable
I suppose that all the signs of outdoor
life will be fashionable also But tanned
hair is new There are tricks about
washing the hair and drying it in the
sun which keep the tanning from being
streaky and make it shaded" And this
is the necessary quality" shaded" hair
The observer in New York notes also
that gloves without buttons are the
fashion. There is another feminine
fashion which one does not learn by OBJ
servation but by authoritative informa-
ton. This is the fashion for socks
half hose" the floor walker calls them
which are described as being wonder
fuI; in color and weave. When 7 spoke
of the buttonless glove I should have
added the button1ass shirt waist, which
ties with a string. The modern fash
fonah1e young woman refuses to be
hampered. Her revolt from mannish
garmenture IS complete
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y.
but small stir id
the city. The oldest citizen" takes
great pride in making comparisons of
sizes between each new volume and
others that have preceded it. He goes
back haIf century and more to the
little volumes that contained but Few
hundred names, and following it dowa
comments upon the rapid growth, IL
Illustrative of the growth of the city,
to the present book of ten pounds in
weight, and carrying 657 900 names, in
dicating, SO the experts say. a papu.
lation of about 2,25oo0o people.
Owing to a new vuIe of the publish
ers, made this year, to leave out the
names of fsaII unmarried ladies not en-
gagged in business" the book IS not so
noticeably larger than the one of last
year as has been the case in previous
years, there being but 5000 moro
names this year than last
A study of the book shows the moEs
common name in Chicago to be John
son. There are 81 closely set columns
Of him. Smith is the next most popu-
lar name, with ten columns less than
the Johnsons. The Andersons rank
third with 40 columns: Browns ara
fourth with IS columns, and good, old.
familiary Jones comes along In fifth
place with but rs columns.
From the ghetto district many pecu-
liar names are gathered, among which
may be found Bing, Ding, Bang. Zipp,
and Finger among the explosives;
Geiser and Kidder in the slang class;
Bugg, Monk and Duck for natural hiss
tory and Booze, Beer and swig to
shock the prohibitionists. Henry Neg-
erthought probably does not live up 81
his eognomen. and Fred Love1ady aauas
be a social favorite.
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Willie Fitzgerald, newsboy of At
iantie City, N. J., was carrying six white
mite in a box down the board walk ore
day recently, when a rolling chair hit
him. causing him to drop the box, The
lid few open and out jumped the mice
The walk was crowded with hundreds
Of men. women and children, and the
feminine contingent scattered IN all d.
ractions. Neither direction nor the
manner of going was considered, the
gomen giving vent to heartrendlng
yelIs.
Who learned much about athletics WINE
at yassar, made a bound for the ralllng
on the board walk, cleared it and lanaea
on the beach. Mr.. and Mrs John =.
IYans who came from Pit5sbu g on taeN
honeymoon. we're ruoely separated.
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0$t GS4A 0AeSfs11t Liz
bird scale numerous representatives OF
each family may be found. Like the
Johnsons Of the human family, the
sDarrows-the little victims of the air
guns and the slingshots of the boys
are by far ths most numerous. AM
other family that is not SO common is
the chimney swift. They find attrae-
tive nesting places in the unused CHM
neys of the city. The barn swallows
are another variety that is even less
numerous than their cousins, the
sWifts. In the residence districts. es-
pecially, the purple martins are favor
ties, and are catered to with attrac-
tive bird houses, which are often pre-
empted by toe omnipresent sparrow.
Rather an uncommon bird for tina
city, and yet one Of which there are
considerable numbers. Is the night
hawk. They build their nests on this
graveIed roofs of the tall shyscrapers
and fat buildings, and many a ianitoz
refers to them as my friends =
: OF all the birds of the city Zone are
more popular with the passing tholts-
ands than the pigeons Of the downtown
district. Their feeding place is the
street and the sidewalk, and for any
person to maliciously harm one OF
them would be almost cause for a
lynehing bee.
WRIGHT a. PATTERsOE
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Clay waa q beavS sPocknofder In IN
Bass Brewing COS ::snlrany. Last yea4
captain was huI eiag grizzlies ia
Rockies It is sa5 20 that he is NOT
ular in London. Hence it may be
peeted that the carriage will no
crease the popularity of the AS
who are not liked IN London any :
than they are liked InNAew York.
liam Waldorf Aston was SO nnetssss
liked in New York that he shook
dust Of the metropolis from his feet
went across the sea to make himsel-
Englishman. England liked his mof5
and has taken a great deal of it, bt
has never been able to like Aston.
king is known TO have said some pre-
harsh things about that fellow ASH
while observing the outward form
civility to the American. l fancy II
the king knows that he would not pc
uIarize himself with the Americans
and this is a thing he IS always desire
Of doing-by making Astor a Pc
though Aston would pay more for GO
title than ever was paid when the nj
ket price of that commodity was at
highest. Mr.. Astor owns many millio
worth of property in New York.
owns the Netherlands hotel. the "
dorf-Astoria, solid blocks of handsol
property in good localities, and FRI
ments Of property that are only to
guessed at.
Yes, Mr.. Astor has lot of money. a
"spenders Clay is rather a signiffea
name for a young man who marries
Aston daughter.
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Tin, Is Iava -Cbanged.

Count von Buelow revarently kissed
the hand Of Susan B. Anthony when pre-
scented to the veteran advocate of Wom-
ans rights. The times have changed
since the champion Of such cause was
publicly hooted by men and women alike
md now receives such homage from q
distinguished representative Of one of
he most conservative governments Of
ne world.-Baltimore American.
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WHITE MICE CAUSE PANIC

Mrs. Ivans made OFF down the board
walk, and was only found after three
hours search.
An aged invalid woman, who was be-
ing wheeled down the board walk in q
rolling chair, forgot her ailments. gave
a leap from the carriage and ran up an
adjacent avenue. Another woman, who,
it is estimated, weighed close to 25e
pounds, slipped as she started to run.
and landed with al her weight "a one
Of the mice
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roofs. How MANI 90 SO, &nO uAuef
what circumstance they do SO, no one
class is prone. to suspect. 0f course. one
half doesn't knou now the other half
lives, aad it is 8 good thing for each
Aalf that 1t zemains in this condition OF
ignorance. C the half that goes to the
roof gardens knew the squalld misery
Of those who sleep On the roofs 1t might
faint their appetites. and II the TOOL
d-gel1ers of the East side land other
sfdes) knee about che cushioned IN
dulgenees of The roof garden thousands,
the KNOWLEDGE might make their thirst
3 little harshar and Sheir tin beds
trife harder The contrast Is indeed
violent enough. Under the stars in one
quarter are the lucky. who caa 1oll
in comfortable seats. listening TO gay
music, watching the best that modern
vaudeville can 90 70 amuse, drinking
iced drinks from @1ll glasses. These IA
Vored are carried to and from the street
levels il easy elevators. and 10 and from
their homes in devil wagons. Under the
stars in another place, neat-bedraggled
tenement crowds are climbing to the
roofs, roofs still gadiating the heat Of
che blistering sua, with cheap pillows
and maybe an occasional tattered
blanket, TO stretch themselves on the
Elm or Tie Slated ethes-drying in
closure. AT midnight both phases Of
life are TO be found at the same time.
At one in che morning the arehing
fights Of che roof gardens have disap-
peared. Who EhaIl say that after that
che root sIeepers always have the worst
of It 2 There are hot rooms In the best
houses and best hotels in New York.
Who shall say that the occupants Of
certain high-prfeed rooms on certain
nights in this season would not choose,
II the choice were open to them, to sleep
on tue roof? Et fa to be remembered
that occasionally someone rolls off
roof. It would make great sensation.
would it not, II someone on Fifth avenue
were to turn over in the night and drop.
into the stFeUtg
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ry,e.+otz ~ Toa expensive TO lay
and even more ex-
pensiVe to keep clean. In fact, it is
next to impossible with the limited
means AT the command Of the city to
clean such streets. To make even 4
semblanee of cleaning them they must
be swept by hand, inch by inch. every
day. Washing is out of the question.
Every crevice is. a lodging place for
dirt, and there it sticks, only to- be re-
moved by the efforts of a lusty street
sweeper applied to heavy brush.
To-day the streets in the business
districts of the city are horribly over
crowded. More SO than the muchly ad-
Vertised overeroWding OF Broadway in
New York. Long lines of heavy trucks
block Important thoroughfares ali
through the working hours, and pedes-
TRANS must either take their life in
their hands and thread their way
through them when wishing to cross
or wait until an obIiging policeman
stops the steady procession fog a few
seconds so as to give the pedestrians
an opportunity
Another thing which this system OF
tunnels will do, especially when the
system OF coal delivery is put in opera
tion. 1t will strike sGeath blow at
the teamsters' unions the strongest Ia
boz organization in the city, and the
one which the indusGial and CONNER
cial interests Of the city have had to
incessantly bow to. Within a year it
is expected that number of the big
trucking companies that now haul
goods to and from the depots will be
virtually put out Of business, and their
employees forced to look for other Jobs.
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JOTlLy OIL =&AS AACi :
chandise shipped
in and out of the
business district
of Chicago will be
delivered to and
from the depots
underground.
The Ill n o j S
Tunnel 6 Tele-
phone company is
above all else a
tunnel company.
The automatic tel
ephone S rv e d
very well as q
hIipd for. an nm