SOME NEW DESIGNS M V" tOli r -fl : V C &1 r9i 3 HE eagle, the buffalo and the Indian have well-nigh disappeared from the Western prairies. Inexorable civilization found them i ' unfit. Now they are to be banished from the crisp, green uaim uuiro, lilCJl inai unui l, il iiic ciit,it iiiju-Fdiiiiiiuu vl uvj- hood be excepted. "Too easily counterfeited," Is the terse ex planation. Other changes tending toward uniformity and sim plicity of design for United States notes and coin certificates are contemplated. At present there are nineteen different designs. Under the new plan, which embodies the Ideas of officials of the Treasury Depart ment, bankers, business men and currency experts, there will be but nine designs. The possibility of confusion will thus be reduced. All classes of notes of each denomination will carry the same portrait. No portrait will appear on the notes of more than one denomination and the portraits selected are easily recognizable, excepting, perhaps, those of Salmon P. Chase and Alexander Hamilton. As Chase's likeness will be on the $500 note and Hamilton's on the $1,000 note, there Is really no reason for anxiety concerning them. Men who handle money on such a scale aa that ought to be as familiar with the lineaments of the Chief Justice and the first Secretary of the Treasury as the newest alien on these shores is with the portrait of Washington, which will mark the $1 bill. The $5 note will carry the portrait of the man whom some hardly count as second even to the father of his country Lincoln. Cleveland, who, confronted by a break in his party, stood for sound money, will be used on the $10 notes. As no pictures are hung in the Louvre until after the death of the artist, so no portrait of a living individual Is used on any of the currency issued from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. Hence the $10 notes will be the first to bear the picture of the only Democratic President since Buchanan. The $20 notes will have the portrait of Jackson, the $50 that of Grant, the $100 that of Franklin. Even the new pennies will no longer show poor Lo. The artistic quality of either our metal money or the certificates is not a minor matter. In a certain sense the money used by a nation is tha measure of its civilization. Always when men reach the stage of exchang ing goods which implies a certain form of community life, they need a medium in which values of varying commodities may be expressed. The Indians used shells. 8kins of the beaver and muskrat had in the early days of the Northern trapper a current value. Long ago the Germanic peo ples expressed fines in cattle. Oxen were unitH of value and sheep decimal parts. Whale teeth among the Fijians; glass beads and brass wire In Africa; cacao beads in the land of the Aztecs; red feathers among the South Sea Islanders all these have been used. Now that man has left the prim itive stage far behind and mastered many arts, he strives to make his money safe, durable, beautiful. The men who are responsible for the contemplated changes in the notes are also striving to achieve th same result. a bevy of in figuring a snail al In a rubber factory at Sourabaya, Dutch West Indies, the material is ex tracted from the leaves by a chemical ' process. Electric street cars, built In Phila delphia, have been introduced by a private company in the Turkish city of Salonlki. The first refrigerator cars in Brazil will be put In service in the near fu ture on railroads controlled by the gov ernment. The Japanese cabinet recently re pealed an ordinance enacted in 187C prohibiting the use of foreign inks on official documents. Serious experiments by French scientists resulted out the average speed of fourteen days to the mile. In a mountain near Montalban, Lu ion, there is a large cavern, with many branching chambers, and a central dome 200 feet in height, perforating the mountain top, from which, in De cember, 1907, Hugh M. Smith saw Issue a solid column of bats, which flew rapidly, In a straight line, for fif teen minutes, disappearing over a mountain range in the direction of Ma nila, without a single bat having left th column. American engineers sta tioned there told Mr. Smith that the flight of bats had occurred, at practi cally the same time each day, during two years. From other sources it wan learned that the phenomenon had been observed for at least thirty years. Professor Penck, the German geog rapher, lecturing In America, recently pointed out that although the climate of Europe Is hardly at all affected by the Mediterranean Sea, on account of the Alps, the absence of a similar mountain belt north of the Gulf of Mexico allows the winds to sweep over the southeastern part of the United States, bringing the moisture and warmth of the Gulf to that part of the country. Europe, on the other hand, gets the southeastern winds from the Atlantic, bringing the molBture and warmth of the Gulf Stream drifts. Thus the presence or absence of high mountain ranges In particular locali ties Is an Important Influence In deter mining the climate. There could hardly be a better exam pie of the scientific spirit than the re cent application of the methods of biometry to those excessively minute animals, the bacteria. C. E. A. Win slow and Anne Rogers Wlnslow have, according to Prof. F. P. Oorham. mark ed the beginning of a new era In bac teriological classification and nomen clature by their studies In this dlrec tlon. They have applied the methods used by anthropologists and students of variation and heredity to the deflnl tlon of the species of bacteria. Tht results are, of course, technical In their nature, and in themselves only Interesting to students of the subject but they have a broad general Inter' because they serve to assure the pub Ho that advance on strictly scientific lines is being made In the study ot those almost Infinitesimal creature that play so Important a part in hu man life and everything that human life depends upon. The nt Machine. The idea that peace could be tK normal relation of the nations never entered Napoleon's head, or the head of any man about him, declares "A. L. Klelland In "Napoleon's Men and Meth ods." In his mind peace could only mean a pause between two wars. He had no Idea to give to the world. His thoughts did not go .beyond his own life. lie shrinks at once in compari son with a man of Bclence, who ex pends his life to create a thought that will nourish and elevate posterity. If Nepoleon reached the highest sum mit of a prince and a commander, he was also the last who succeeded In gathering about his person all the glamour that had been wont to accom pany and adorn the bloody business of war. There was no more of It after his fall. War became afterward an aca demic study. Military affairs came to resemble Industrial Interests, In which It Is the best machines that gain the victory. We now strip our armies of their gold cords and waving plumes. The admiral, who used to stand on the bridge In his gala uniform, with his decorations and sash, now sits in a steel box and presses buttons like a telephone girl. When the glamour goes from a thing. It Is near Its end. SOCIETY NOTES. Miss Althea Alexander, who has been attending the Art School the past winter, Is now studying water-color. Juat for m Ihunire. "What I want," said the theatrical manager, "Is a genuine novelty." "Something realistic?" asked the playwright. "Yes, but I don't want any real pugilists or real naval disasters or real live stock or real battles In it." The playwright looked wearily thoughtful and, after a pause, In quired: "How would tt do to spring some thing on the public with real actors In it?" London Tit Bit. GEORGE MEREDITH. aa-Hah Readers Throughout WorK Mourn Death of Novellat. George Meredith, English poet and novelist, who passed away recently In his unpretentious cottage in Box Hill, Burrey, has endeared himself to En glish readers throughout the world for many years. He was born in Hamp shire, Eng., Feb. 12, 1828,) and was left an orphan early in life. Until the age of 15 he was educated in Germany, and before he was 23 years old he had published poems and a novel. He de moted himself to writing. "The Ordeal 9f Richard Feverel," which was pub lished In 1859, was received with great praise and has been widely read since then. His early life In London was an unceasing struggle against poverty, and he was hampered at the outset of his literary career with pecuniary dif ficulties. Mr. Meredith possessed in a marked degree the three grand qualities which are essential to the making of the nov elist analytical power, narrative ca pacity and humor. A notable feature of the genius of Meredith was his power of under standing women. There Is hardly a more lovable woman in any Action than Diana Merlon; then in "The Ad- OKOIIGE MEKEDITH. The stenographers are also Joining the muck rakers. One of them said to-day: "I get $9 a week. The men who pay their stenographers 'only . $9 a week ought to be strung up." ventures of Harry Richmond" we meet with that exquisite creation Princess Ottilia, and In "Emilia in England," with Emilia herself, the wild child of nature. Mr. Meredith was a serious humor ist. His books are replete with quaint drolleries, but his fun was the out come of his cynical way of looking at human nature. "Life," he says in "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel," "Is a su preme procession with ,ironic laughter of gods in the background." The laughter Is not all that of the gods, for George Meredith laughed, too, though there was a spice of sadness in his laughter, as one of who had looked out upon the world and had found little there to cheer him. Nay, Meredith's humor suggested that he made haste to laugh lest he should weep, and at best his laughter was charged with bitterness. Mr. Meredith married twice. His first wife was a daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, an English humorist, to whom he dedicated one of his first books. After twelve years his wife died, leaving him one son, and Mr. Meredith married again and settled down at Box Hill, Surrey. His second wife died Sept, 17, 1885, leaving a son and a daughter. Of late years he lived quietly at Box Hill. He kept himself in almost complete seclusion, seeking recreation mainly In long country walks. He was regarded as the dean of English men of letters, and received from the King the Order of Meritt. On his 80th birthday, Feb. 21, last year, he was honored by the leading literary men of Great Britain with an address of con gratulation. His American admirers also sent their greetings, drawn up by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, and signed by such men as Mark Twain, Henry James, Richard Watson Gilder, George W. Cable and William Dean Howells. Mr. C. Dusty-Rhodes is taking . much needed recreation at Indian Lake. Quite tlenn. Manager You say this is a play of the slums. Is it a clean play? Author It couldn't be cleaner. The hero is a white wings and the heroine Is a washerwoman. Baltimore American. 04M44444444444444444444C: 0 ! Old Favorites i I I'm Hot Myeelf at All! O, I'm not myself at all, Molly dear, Molly dear, I am not myself at all ! Nothin' carlo', nothin' knowin', 'tis after you I'm goin', Faith, your shadow 'tis I'm growin', Molly dear, Since a change o'er me there came, sure you might change your name And 'twould just come to the same, Mol ly dear, 'Twould just come to the same; For if you and I were one, all confusion would be gone, And 'twould simplify the matter en tirely ; And 'twould save us so much bother when we'd both be one another So listen now to reason, Molly Bnierly, O, I m not myself at all ! Samuel Lover. Old Shoes vu. Old Man. How much a man is like bid shoes ! For instance, both a soul may lose; Both have been tanned, both are made tight, By cobblers. Both get left and right, Both need a mate to be complete, And both are made to go on feet. They both need healing; oft are sold, And both In time shall turn to mold. With shoes, the last is first; with men, lhe first shall be last: and when The shoes wear out, they're mended new: When men wear out, they're men dead, too. They both are trod upon, and both Will tread on others, nothing loath. Both have their ties, and both Incline, hen polished. In the world to shine : And both peg out. And would you choose o be man or be his shoes? A Compliment to Cooka. We may live without poetry, music, and art, We may live without conscience and llv) without heart; We may live without friends, w may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. Owen Meredith. Croaaed. "Father, what are wrinkles?" "Fretwork, my boy, fretwork." In dependent. Even In the face of th kind of hats they are wearing this spring, there nre some women who claim thy haven't their, "rights." Taking the average for the world there is one uewspaper for S2.000 In habitants. JOAN OF ARC'S ORIGIN. evidence to Show That She Belonged to Noble Italian Family. The beatification of Joan of Arc has reawakened an interesting discussion, namely, as to whether the maid of Orleans was of French or of Italian nationality. French historians are unanimous in asserting that Joan was born at Dom remy and that her parents were James and Isabelle Romee, humble peasants from Ceffonds, in Champagne, whose French nationality is undoubted. In the process of beatification, which last ed from 1894 to 1909, no document was produced referring to the place of ori gin of Joan's father, and naturally the church takes it for granted that she was French, an Ignorant, humble, simple-minded peasant girl whose achieve ments were truly miraculous. Until recently the opinion that Joan of Arc was of 'Italian origin was nev er seriously entertained since it mere ly rested on traditional evidence un supported by documentary proofs and dating only from the nineteenth cen tury. The tradition was that a certain nobleman of Bologna named Ferrante Ghisllieri fled to France in 1401 and that Joan was his daughter. Several Bolognese writers, notably Pancaldi and Marzano in 1835, Caro lina Bonalode in 1845 and Crollalanza several years later, supported the opin ion that Joan of Arc was an Italian, and Moroni mentioned the tradition in his ecclesiastical dictionary. Still historical evidence was lacking. A manuscript record written in 1731, or perhaps earlier, and entitled, "Lives of 227 illustrious members of the Ghis llieri family famous in sanctity, in learning and in arms, compiled from the most accredited historians," has Just been discovered at Bologna by Sig. Amerigo Scarlatti, says a Rome corre spondent of the New York Sun. This manuscript contains the following en try: "1401. Ferrante Ghisllieri fled from Bologna when Giovanni Bentivoglio be came master of the city and usurped power, and to escape the anger of the tyrant he went to France, where he had two children in 1424." Manifestly this sentence is not suf ficient to prove that Joan of Arc was one of Ferrante's two children, but Sig. Scarlatti supplies what is lacking. He explains that Ferrante settled at Domremy with his wife Isabelle and that as in his family coat of arms there was an arch, "arco" in Italian, he adopted this as a name for his chil dren, hence Joan was called D'Arc, while the name Romee was merely a nickname, as It were, meaning that the family was exiled and hence pil grims. Some years ago a fresco represent ing a kneeling girl clad in armor, over which she wore a pilgrim's hood, and bearing a standard with the red cross of Bologna, was discovered in the Church of St. Petronius. The figure has been identified as Joan of Arc and it was painted in 1445. This discovery completes the evidence that Joan of rc was of Italian origin. Preeoctona. Small Girl Why doesn't baby talk, father? Father He can't talk yet, deaf. Young babies never do. Small Girl Oh, yea, they do. Job did. Nurse read to me out of the Bible how Job cursed the day he was born. Tit-Bits. Every woman believes that her horse, her cow, her cat, her dog and her bird "know exactly what yoa say I to them." FRENCH INCOME TAX How the Impoat Will Affect Amer icana Realding; In France. In furnishing the following informa tion concerning the French income tax which has passed the chamber of dep uties, as It will affect Americans re siding in France, Consul-General Frank H. Mason of Paris reports that the Senate commission will occupy at least a year in its final consideration, so that the tax will hardly take effect Derore tne beginning of 1911, says Dally Consular and Trade Reports. For the purpose of the law, all per sons occupying a leased dwelling room, flat or house for a period of one year or more are subject to the supple mentary tax based upon an income which the law will assume to be seven times the amount of the rental paid for such habitation. The tax on this assumed Income is progressive accord ing to the following scale, in which. for convenience, 5,000 francs will be considered equal to $1,000, although the actual value of the franc is 19.3 cents: A person with an Income of 50,000 francs ($10,000) will pay the supple mentary tax as follows: First 5,000 francs, exempt; second 5,000 francs. 1 per cent, or 50 francs; third 5,000 francs, 2 per cent, or 100 -francs; fourth 5,000 francs, 3 per cent, or 150 francs; fifth 5,000 francs, 4 per cent, or 200 francs; remaining 25,000 francs, 5 per cent, or 1,250 francs; total tax, 1,750 francs, or $337.75. Take as another example the very frequent case of an American family living In Paris for purposes of health, education or enjoyment and paying for a fiat of eight rooms an annual rent of 5,000 francs. The income of such a family would be assumed by the law to be 35,000 francs ($6,775). The real income may be much less than that, for as a matter of fact Americans as well as others pay one-fifth or even one-fourth of their incomes for rent, thereby securing residence in a desir able quarter, and practice economy in other items. All the same, however, the income of a family paying 5,000 francs as annual rent would be as sumed to be not less than 85,000 francs, the tax on which would be 1,000 francs ($193), provided this in come tax law shall be finally enacted with that portion of the statute un changed from its present form. When an American living in France practices his profession or is engaged in other business as a means of earn ing money he becomes of course sub ject to the other taxes and contribu tions that pertain to French citizens. In a recent book entitled "Some Eminent Victorians," the author of which is J. Comyns Carr, an English man of letters, there is a story which rather contradicts the tradition that English youth is invariably suckled on Shakespeare. In the course of his career Sir Henry Irving found himself In Dublin at a time when the Duke of Marlborough, the father of Txrd Randolph Churchill, was Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland. "Hamlet" was the play of the evening, and Lord Ran dolph, seated alone, occupied the vice regal box. When the second .act was ended he went behind the scenes to Irving's dressing room and introduced himself to the actor. With an apology that was evidently sincere, he expressed his regret that, owing to a reception at the castle, he was unable to wait for the conclusion of the performance. He declared him self, however, intensely interestea in what he had seen, and begged Irving to tell him in a few words, as his time was limited, how the play ended. Irving was at first so taken aback that he thought his visitor was indulg ing in a humorous sally at the ex pense of the immortal dramatist, but a quick glance at the young man's earnest face sufficed to reassure him, and he then told Lord Randolph the outline of that concluding part of the story which his social engagement did not permit him to see represented upon the boards. When do you play it again?" in quired the young man of the actor. "On Wednesday next," answered Irv ing. "I shall be there," declared Lord Randolph, earnestly; and there, as suredly, he was, from the rise of the curtain to its fall, in rapt attention to every succeeding scene of the tragedy. At the conluslon he again went round to Irving's room, even more en thusiastic than on the occasion of his previous visit; and, with a naivete that was, Mr. Carr thinks, deeply char acteristic of that power he afterwards displayed in public affairs the power of swiftly appropriating the knowledge needful for every successive post he occupied he made the frank avowal that unee their last meeting he had read for himself, not only "Hamlet," but two or three other plays by the same author. And do you know. Mr. Irving," he said, "I find them enormously Inter eating." . The Announcement Followed, j She They say there are germs in kisses. Now, what do you suppose a girl could catch that way? He A husband! Ladies' Home Tournal. j Golan- Soma. Can she keep a typewriter running fast?" J "Fast? Gee, she can keen the bell playing chimes! "Kansas City Time,' SOMETHING FOE ETESYB0DT The Queen of Roumania has writ ten thirty volumes. The reclamation service of the Unit ed States has already committed itself to Irrigation projects which will in volve a total cost of $90,000,000. The number of automobiles regis tered in London is nearly 35,000. Traffic between the eastern and western coasts of the United States by way of isthmus railways and steamship lines amounted to $40,000, 000 in value in 1908, a marked in crease over any earlier year. The most illiterate country of Eu rope is Roumania. Two-thirds of the population can neither read nor write. The recently discovered eighth sat ellite of Jupiter has been successfully photographed at Greenwich observa tory. At the funeral of Fred Cavalla, a London costermonger, the open hearse was drawn by six horses. One of the leading horses was ridden by a postil ion dressed in black, while four bear ers carrying white wands walked be side the hearse. Canada, Denmark, France, Ger many, England, Russia, Sweden and the United States were, in 1908, repre- sented among the twelve expeditions which were struggling toward the pole. Eight leaders wore veterans Peary and Cook of the United States, Bernier of Canada, Erlchsen and Ras mussen of Denmark, Charcot of France, Shackleton of England, and" Geer of Sweden. Mrs. A. A. Anderson, of Greenwich, Conn., has given $5,000 toward a par ish building to be devoted to the so. clal and educational purposes of the deaf and dumb. The house la to be three stories in height and to contain rooms for entertainment, handicraft and physical training. The entire cost of the building and its equipment as now planned will be $30,000, and Mrs. Anderson has promised to double her gift if the balance is raised during the present year. In the course of a report on the dis infection of school rooms W. H. Marsh, an English science teacher, asserts that tests made of samples of school room dust showed the number of micro-organisms therein to be from 50, 000,000 to 80,000,000 an ounce.' On some days as much as one and one quarter pounds of dust was swept from a room 400 square feet in area, which, on the basis of the figures quoted, would yield from 1,000,000,000 to 1,600,000,000 micro-organisms. One of the most famous bells in the world is the first great bell of Mos cow, which now stands In the middle of a square in that city and is used as a chapel. This bell was cast in 1733, but was in the earth for over a hundred years, being raised in 1836 by the Emperor Nicholas. It Is nearly twenty feet high, has a circumference of sixty feet, is two feet thick, and weighs almost 200 tons. The second Moscow bell, which Is the largest bell in the world that is actually in use, weighs 128 tons. A rabbit hears a man and a dog coming and goes bounding away for safety. The dog strikes the scent, smells around briefly, and then is oft in the direction the rabbit has taken. The wonder is not that the dog should strike the scent, but this: Each of the several spots the rabbit touched was touched by him within a fraction of a second of one another; yet so accurate is the sense of smell of the dog that he can tell which was touch ed last, and so get the direction ot the rabbit's course New York Press. Mrs. Fannie Friedman, who died the other day in New York, was said to have Just passed her 112th birthday. She was born in Hungary, married be fore she was 21 and had thirteen chil- dren. At the time of her death she had five children, fifty-nine grandchil dren and eighteen great-grandchildren. Up to the day of her death she was active, both In body and mind and took pride in the fact that she had never had a doctor In her life. Her rule for good health was: "Don't wor ry, take things easy, sleep ten hours a day and eat five meals." The Inscriptions on church bells are often quaint and interesting and fre quently relate to historical events. They are more often than not in Lat in, sometimes bad, but nearly always terse and vigorous. The 12 o'clock bell taken down In the French revolu tion bore the inscription, "Ego sum vox vlt, voco orato venlte." The Holy Ghost bell at Strasburg bears the motto, "O Rex Gloria Christe, renl cum pace," and is only rung when two fires are seen in the town at the same time. The following is a quaint and fairly common Inscription: "Funera plango, Fulgura frango, Sabbato pan go, Excito lentcm, Disslpo ventos, Paco eruentos." London Globe. Philadelphia is up in arms, as nev er before, over the action of its trac tion monopoly in abolishing its slx-lor-a-quarter rate and establishing a itratght 5-cent fare. "Here's where I get one pair of shoes t less every year than I served the plain qjsteenas he-.Cs? over his 5-cent f ..v Vm- 'V . -n niv via o six fares, but ajitr 1 I find IH have bo, things to make it U'average four timea "It doesn't sei cents, instea I've figured to do without pay. I ride a day. Thaf rT.itfO times a year. . Un der the six-for-a-Huarter rate, I rode for $60.83. Now I shall have to pay $73, or over $12 . more. Why, that'll buy two pairs ot shoes and a hat."