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Cure for Old Age.
A GOOD WAY TO CHEAT DEATH.
The Prescription Is to Mix Open Air
and a Hobby, Shake Well and Take as |
Many Hours a Day or Night as Pos- |
sible—The Cure In Real Life.
Old age can be cured.
tion is a simple one. Mix open air and
au hobby, shake well and take as many
nours a day as possible. No one be-
wins to age until he is bored. and the
tirst gray hair comes when a man sud-
denly thinks to himself. “What's the
use?” Then is the time when a hobby
makes life interesting again.
There was an official on one of our
great railroads who was retired at sev-
enty.
kindly. But he didn’t. Instead, he be-
came interested in the wild flowers,
and now he is too busy in looking for
the ram’s head orchid and trying to
lind a new station for the hart’s tongue
fern and tramping around in the woods
and fields in all kinds of weather even
to think of dying. Anyway. he would
not have time until he’s finished his
monograph on the willows of the Unit-
ed States.
There is a woman in Baltimore, sev-
enty-two years old, who years ago
sought to forget a great sorrow by
learning the butterflies. Her city home
has become a rendezvous for entomolo-
wists all over the world and houses“h
famou - collection. While her contem-
poraries are dozing their lives away in
caps and easy chairs she spends her
summers in the mountains and her
winters in [Florida with a butterfly net.
Twenty-one new species to identify
are her contribution to the lepidoptera,
and she plans to live until the last
wwoal of an entomologist is reached—
the using of her single initial species
An octet of men in Philadelphia, all
well past their threescore years. some
in business and some foot loose, be-
long to the same ornithological socie-
ty. They are afield every day of the
vear, rain or shine, to watch the ever
changing bird life. In the spring each
prepares migrant sheets showing the
arrivals of the hundred odd migrants
that pass through every place every
vear. There is great rivalry as to who
shall score the most warblers or iden-
tify the largest number of birds in one
day. At present writing the oldest of
the eight holds a record of seventy-
five different kinds of birds seen or
heard in one day between dawn and
dark—omne for each year of his age and
one to grow on.
A man in North Carolina by the sud-
den death of two of his family was
left alone with but little money. no
friends and the cheering dictum from
his doctor that he had only a year to
live. To while away the few months
still left to him as well as to help out
his household expenses he took up the
study of edible mushrooms. At the
end of a year in the open he notified
his indignant physician that he had
become too much interested in his
lobby to confirm his diagnosis. In ten
vears he has discovered, classified and
tested 170 kinds of edible mushrooms
and has published a book which is one
of the standard authorities for mush-
room eaters of the world.
Another septuagenarian attributes his
long life to the stars. Confined tc
Liusiness during the day. he sought the
open air at night and began to study
the changing constellations and the per
plexing planets. Then he found that
with an opera glass he could detect
their colors and reveled in the blue
light of Vega, the green glare of Sirius.
the rose red of Aldebaran, the flame
color
shades of other gleaming
sky kings
Varied Theories as to How the.
Ores Are Formed.
NATURE HIDES THE SECRET.
: Science Has For Centuries Tried to,
The prescrip- |
itching fingers, of prospectors picking
“He'll die now,” said his friends :
of Betelguese and the strange
I'inally he bought a small telescope. |
Now, at seventy, he has published a
monograph on the double stars, besides
a quaint little star guide that has in-
terested thousands in his hobby.
Nome of the nature studies requires
inuch money or time.
trated guidebook. an opera glass and.
Wrest it From Her, but Geologists |
and Mineralogists Are as Yet Unable |
to Agree Upon the Process.
You have read of that legendary Im- |
dian who while chasing game on a
Bolivian mountain side seized a bush |
to prevent himself from falling, and. |
the bush being pulled loose from its
scanty hold on the rocks, he saw its
c¢rovked roots grasping masses of
gleaming white ore and thus became |
the discoverer of the famous silver |
mines of L’otosi.
You have also read, perhaps with
up nuggets of gold worth a thousand
dollars each or opening veins of quartz
all shot through with heavy threads
of the yellow metal.
You know that ores otf gold and
silver or of any other precious or use--
ful metal are not to be found in every- |
body’s buck yard, but must be sought
for in certain favored parts of the
earth.
But has your intelligent curiosity ever
led you to inquire how those ores came
to Le where they are and nowhere |
else Have you ever wondered what |
makes a gold nugget?
Possibly you think that gold and |
other metals grow somewhat as fruits |
do—in soils and climates that are spe-
cially suited to them. Well, there 35)
considerable truth in that idea, and |
the word “grow” is. in one sense, sur |
prisingty applicable to such deposits.
But there is a great deal more in the
matter than you would imagine, and |
on no subject has science fought more
battles royal than on this of the origin |
of metallic ores, 1 think that there are |
sone geologists who would rather find |
out this secret to the very bottom than
discover the richest lode that the ribs!
of the earth contain.
both that would be perfection, and we
must not forget that knowledge is)
power.
[Intil about 400 years ago everybody |
who thought about it at all believed |
If they could do;
that veins of precious ore were dis-
tributed under the influence of the
planets. At that time astrology held
the place of science.
Finally George Agricola, a German
mineralogist, who lived about the time
when the gold and silver of Mexico
and Peru were making Spain the tem-
porary wistress of the world, hit upon’
a theory which came in substance very
near the truth. He taught that water,
penetrating into the'earth and becom-
ing heated. took up scattered minerals
in solutien and afterward deposited
them as ores in cavities in the rocks.
The mineral solutions he called the
earth's “juices.”
A couple of hundred years later the
German geologist Werner set forth a
view that became very famous under
the name of the "“Neptunist theory,”
from Neptune, the god of the sea.
Werner's idea was that as the earth
cooled down from the primeval nebula
out of whieh it was formed it was en-
veloped in a universal bot ocean, hold-
ing in solution all kinds of minerals.
and that when the rocky crust was
formed the water leaking down into
it deposited its metallic contents by
chemical precipitation in veins and
lodes wherever the circumstances were
favorable.
But a hundred years ago the Nep-
tunist theory, which had swept every-
thing Lefore it in the minds of men
of science, met its Waterloo at the
hands of Hutton, the Scottish geolo-
gist, with his “Plutonic” theory (from
Pluto, the god of the infernal regions).
Hutton’s idea was that the materials
which fill the metallic veins were melt-
ed by heat and forcibly injected inte
the clefts and fissures of the strata
! from below.
A cheap illus.
if possible. some walks and talks with |
an expert, and you will learn almost
immediately to identify a score or more |
of flowers, or birds. or constellations,
«or mushrooms, and you will have found '
1 hobby on which you may ride away
Arom Death.
Try it, young men, lést you grow old.
“I'ry it, old men, before you grow tired.
Ascape into the open from these nar
«ow indoor days and learn the way to
where the wild folk dwell. In their
wand you will find the help of the hills
and hope wide as the world, and
strength, and youth, and happiness.
‘I'ry it.—Samuel Scoville, Jr., in Lippin-
cott’s.
Across the Atlantic.
The narrowest part of the Atlantic is
between Brazil and Guinea, where the
ocean is only about 1,800 miles wide.
From Newfoundland to Ireland, the
narrowest breadth north of the equa-
tor, is nearly twice as far. From New
York to the nearest point of France is
nearly three times as far.
The Lesser Evil.
“It’s Mr. Boreleigh. 1 think I'll send
- him word I'm out.”
“Won’t the still, small voice reproach
you?"
*Oh, yes, but I'd rather listen to the
still, small voice than to Mr. Bore
leigh’s.”—Boston Transcript.
The most deadly foe to success in
the future is the inertia which springs
from self satisfaction in the success of
thie past.
The *“Neptunists” and *‘Plutonists” |
bad a hard fight, with the latter hold- :
ing the upper hand, until their theory
bad assumed a kind of compromise
form, with water again playing the
principal role. The American geolo-
gist, Van Hise, is the author of one ot
the latest theories, according to which
meteoric water (condensed atmospheric
vapor) penetrates deep into the earth’s
crust, and, with steadily increasing
temperature, takes up mineral matter |
into solution. Spreading, as it gets |
deeper, the water reaches larger open-
ings in the rocky crust, in which it
ascends, with decreasing temperature
and pressure.
There it deposits the ores, whose ma-
terials it has collected in its wander-
ings and carried along in solution.
But this is not the last word, and in
recent years there has been a partial
reaction toward the Plutonist theory.
Besides, a great deal seems to depend
upon the nature of the ore whose ori-;
gin is in question.—Garrett P. Serviss
In New York Journal,
He Knew.
Mrs.-—-Oh, Jack! Dolly told me the
most exciting secret and made me
swear never to tell a living soul! Mr
—Well, hurry up with it. Um late to
the office now.—Cleveland Leader.
Axiom In Economics.
As a rule. the money a man doesn't
save by remaining a bachelor would be
more than enough to support a wife
and ten children. Clicagy News.
Life without industry is guilt.—John
Ruskin.
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Siervas Hot Springs.
The hot springs of Las Siervas, near |
Vaile de Canizos, in a remote part of
the state of Guerrero, Mexico, have
been visited by few people from the
| loutside world, but they are famous in
, the legends and history of the Indian
{ tribes of that part of the republic.
According to the natives, the waters
of the springs possess great medicinal
properties. In ancient times the
springs were the favorite bathing re- |
sort of the noble families of the Tepa- |
neca, Alcolhua and other tribes that
lived in that region.
Ou both sides of the chief spring
there are huge rocks with hieroglyph-
ics and the figures of women beauti-
fully carved Judging from the robes
worn by the women. their stately ap-
pearance and the jewels around their
necks, the figures must represent prin-
cesses or ladies of very high rank.
The spring is-at the entrance to a
grotto that has never been explored.
How an American Consul Brought
a Dictator to Terms.
A THREAT AND A SURPRISE.
The Venezuelan Despot to Whom Uncle
Sam’s Official Had Issued a Comic
Opera Uitimatum First Got on His
High Horse and Then Stepped Down.
A great many years ago Phil Hanna
was cousul at La Guayra, Venezuela,
. when a litzle revolution broke out. A
From the grotto a rumbling sound re-
sembling distant thunder is to be heard
all the time. According to natives, the
rumble is caused by the ghost of King
Excamina. who ruled over that part of
the country three or four centuries be-
| fore the Spaniards discovered America.
King Excamina, the tradition says,
was as bad as man could be. He mur-
dered people merely for the pleasure of
seeing them die and committed every
crime, He had his palace constructed
in another cave, which communicated
with that of the spring by a tunnel
There Excamina, in company with
some of his favorites, had orgies that
lasted weeks and months.
When he died an earthquake destroy-
ed his palace. Since that day his ghost
has been haunting the cave near the
spring, and none of the natives has
ever dared go into the cave.—New York
Sun.
GREEKS LOATHE THE TURKS.
Incident That Shows How Deep
Seated Is the Hatred.
The extent to which the Greeks’
hatred of the Turks goes is illustrated
in **A Child of the Orient,” by Demetra
The author's Aunt Kalliroe was
i an old Greek woman, whose feelings
were the most anti-Turk. She had
| bought a large Greek homestead, for
which she had no use and which she
could not at all afford, solely to keep it
! from falling into the possession of a
| Turk. The author writes:
“The next time we visited Aunt Kal- |
| liroe she was installed in the Spathary
| homestead. Just within the front door
stood a small table, covered with a
white linen tablecloth, such as an
orthodox Greek woman spun herself
i for the purpose of putting on the table
where the ikons were laid—a table-
cloth always washed by the mistress
herself in a basin kept apart from the
other dishes. On the table lay a Greek
ikon, a brass candlestick holding three
candles, all burning, and a brass in-'
cense burner, from which a column of
blue smoke was rising, filling the house
-with the odor of incense.
*“ “Why, it isn't Easter,
Christmas! 1 cried.
great saint's day. Why are you burn-
ing the candles and the incense, great-
aunt?
“ ‘They bave been burning since 1
moved into this house, and they shall
burn for thrice forty days. to cleanse it
from Turkish pollution.’
“ ‘But since Baky Pasha
bought it and never lived in it’—
* ‘No, but a Turk coveted it, and that
is enough to pollute a Christian
home.” ”
and it isn’t
never
Good Word For Religion.
This is a broad minded age, and the
gentleman on the last tram, who was
in what one may define as the taka
tive stage. shared the characteristics
of the times. “I’ve nothin’ to say
against ’im even if he does belong to
a P. S. A. I’m no bigot, not a bit of
itt An’ 1 say this—that, considerin’
all things,
fellers like you an’ me.” —Manchester
Guardian.
Planning a Future.
“Do you think you can support my
daughter in the style to which she has
been accustomed?”
“Yes.” replied the slangy young man
after some hesitation. “But don’t you
think I'd better stick around with your
family a few years so as to get accus:
tomed to BT Washington Star.
Nothing Doing.
“Can | interest you in an attach-
ment for your typewriter?” asked the
agent as he entered the office.
“No chance,” replied Mr.
“I’m still
I’ve not found these reli-
gious chaps to be worse than ordinary
military martinet in command of the
town announced himself dictator and,
needing money to carry on his activi-
ties, seized a bunch of American, Eng-
lish and German residents in the place
and locked them in the town jail.
They were informed that they would
be released when they had made cer-
tain cash contributions to the revolu-
tionary war chest.
Hanna was notified of the situation,
and. looking up the consulate and leav-
ing an extra sized American flag fly-
ing. he marched up to the headquar-
ters of the dictator.
**Mr. Dictator,” said Hanna, *1 note
that you have Jocked up a number of
Americans, Permit me to introduce
myself as the American consul.”
The dictator asked what interest that
fact had for him. i
*It signifies that 1 am here in the
name of my government to demand
that these Americans be released in-
stantly,” replied Hanna. i
“Can't do a thing for you,” replied
the general. *They’ve been told that
when they cough up they’ll be turned
loose.” |
“They'll be turned loose without
coughing and without delay,” retorted
Hanna. "1 desire. in the name of my
government, to say that if the Ameri-
cans and all the European citizens
whom you have locked up are not re-
leased by 6 o'clock this afternoon 1
shall proceed to shell the town.”
“To shell—what’ll you shell it with?”
snorted the dictator. “Why, you
haven't an American ship within a
thousand miles, and you know it.” |
*What | said,” replied Hanna with
frozen faced dignity. “was that if those
people are not released by 6 o'clock I'll
shell the town.” And he marched out
again. i
Hanna knew perfectly well that there
wasn't an American ship nearer than
New Orleans, and he knew the dictator
knew it. But he had something up his
sleeve. He went back to his office and
waited patiently, meanwhile sending a
clerk down to the water front to watch
things. i
The day wore on to midafternoon.
Hanna was getting nervous. He must
make good somehow. At last his mes-
senger returned. :
“I'wo British cruisers are coming into
the harbor, sir,” he reported.
*1 knew they were due today,” re-
plied Hanna. “Now, you get word to
» the commander about what we've done |
‘It isn’t even a |
. replied Hanna.
bere and tell him it’s very important |
for him to come and see me.” |
At 5 o'clock that afternoon three very |
impressive officers in the uniform of,
the British navy came ashore and:
marched straight to the American con-
sulate.
Hanna slouched out of his chair, |
shook hands all round and explained
his scrape. The naval man wanted to
know how he could best serve the
necessities of the moment. |
**Just go back on shipboard and begin |
clearing those vessels for action in
the most ostentatious way you can,”
“I’ll do the rest.” {
As soon as the necessary time had
elapsed to assure that these facts would |
have duly impressed themselves on his !
dictatorship Hanna started for the
palace again. He didn’t have to wait
for admittance. I
“Have the American and European |
prisoners been released?” he asked.
*They have not yet,” replied the dic- |
tator.
**Then permit me to say that at 6
o’clock sharp, as I mentioned this morn- |
ing, 1 begin shelling this town!” i
*Where’s your American ships?” per- |
sisted the dictator.
i
The two British cruisers that have
entered the harbor today are under my
orders.” replied the American consul, |
“and we'll blow you and your town off |
this coast before morning if you don't
perform. Do you get it?”
The dictator didn't know whether it
* was bluff or not. but at 5:59 o’clock the
' prisoners were turned loose.
Grouch. ’
paying alimony on the:
strength of the attachment 1 had for
my last typewriter.”—Cincinnati En-'
quirer.
Drawing Materials.
“What have you got in that little
package?”
“Drawing materials.”
*]1 didn’t know you were an artist.”
“Artist nothing! It contains a couple
of pairs of forceps the dentist asked gn his heart for me.
fue to get for him.”—Boston Transcript. | you know he has? Gladys—He says
Nothing to Offer.
“Have you.” asked the judge of a re- | heart.
cently convicted man, “anything to of- |
fer the court before sentence is pass .
ed?’
—London Mail.
To Clean Mother-of-pearl.
Mother-of-peart
lawn.
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| doctor and put him to bed.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer,
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“No, your honor,” replied the prison: |
di
er. “My lawyer took my last farthing. | satisfactory interview with papa? Jack
articles that have!
become dull and blurred may be re- |
stored by cleaning them with pure!
olive oil, then applying the ordinary
nailbrush and rubbing with chamois.
| tion.—Seneca.
Hanna got a promotion for the job.— |
New York Sun.
Overworked.
He had carried a cue nine miles
around a billiard table and pushed a
lawn mower once across his 30 by 20
Then he collapsed.
“Overwork,” said the sympathetic
Where the Soft Spot Was.
Gladys—Jack really has a soft spot
Muriel—How do
| be is always thinking of me. Muriel—
| Why. a man doesn’t think with his
The soft spot must be in his
head.—Judge.
Not Satisfactory.
Betty Van Rocks—Did you have a
| Brokeleigh—Not very; he said all he
would give was his consent.—Boston
Transcript.
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