COLLECTION OF ORR KIDS. A Bunch That Must Have Impressed the Naturalist as Being Ex ceedingly Fine. One of the stories John Burroughs, the »ii«(i naturalist, loves to tell lias to do with a friend of his named Orr, says the Now York Press. On one of his trips Mr. Bur roughs happened to be in the town where Mr. Orr lives. Meeting him in the street Mr. Burroughs insisted that his friend should accompany htm to the hotel tor luncheon. As they were eating ;\lr. Bur roughs inquired if his friend was not in terested in any specialty. "1 think." said the naturalist, "every man ought to have a collection of some kind. It adds zest to life." "Oh, yes," said his friend. "1 have quite a collection. 1 am interested in flowers. Come home with me and I'll show them to you." As they approached the Orr home six fine, healthy children, playing on the lawn, ran to meet their father. "These," sanl Mr. Orr, with a twinkle in liis eye, "form inv collection of orchids. Ain't they grand specimens?" HIS EXPERIENCE TEACHES THEM. Tlint 1)...111's Kidney rills \\ ill ( are llriitlit'n Disease—llemnrkable ( use of (iecirue J. Ilnrber Qulclc Recovery After Vcara of SnfTerinjff. Estherville, lowa, .lan. 2.1 J. (Special) —The experience ot Mr. (Jeorge J. Barber, a well known citizen ot this place, jus tifies his friends m making the announce ment to the world "Bright's Disease can be cured." Mr. Barber had kidney trou ble, and it developed into Blight's Dis ease. He treated it with Dodd's Kidney Pills, and to-day he is a well man. In an interview he says: "I can't say too much for Dodd's Kid ney Pills. I had Kidney Disease for fif teen years and though 112 doctored for it with the best doctors here and in Chi cago, it developed into Height's Disease. Then I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, and two boxes cured me completely. 1 think Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best in the world." A remedy that will cure Bright's Dis ease will cure any other form of Kidney Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills never fall to cure Bright's Disease. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, cut a very poor figure in com parison with the high-priced buds that bloom all the year around in hothouses. —Birmingham Age Herald. Are You Going to Florida or New Orleans ? Tickets on sale via Queen & Crescent Route and Southern Railway to Florida, New Orleans and other points south at greatly reduced rates, good returning May Also variable route tickets good going to points in Florida and Cuba via Atlanta, and returning via Asheville. For rates and other information address : VV. A. Buckler, N. F. A., 113 Adams Street, Chicago, 111 D. P. Brown N. E. P A ,11 Fort Street,W., Detroit;, Mich. XV W. Dunnavant. T. P. A , Warren. Ohio. VV. C. Rinuarsou, G. P. A . Cincinnati, Ohio. A Wonder. Stranger—-You advertise suburban lots "u stone's throw from the station." Agent—-Yes, sir. Have you seen the lots.' "I have. I am the mat# ger of Darnem & Gillie's side show, and I want to see the man who threw that stone, lie can have any salary he wants."—Cleveland Leader. The Real Thing. Ethel—Who was that man you iust bo wed to? Penelope—That was Dobson, the great composer. "A composer, did you say?" "He manufactures soothing syrup."— Tit-Bus. How He Put It. "Well," said the warm advocate of cremation, "I'd have you know that cre mation is a live subject. You can be dead sure of that!"—Yonkers Statesman. A GREAT SUFFERER LAY HELPLESS AND SPEECHLESS FOR HOURS AT A TIME. Sinking Spells, Headaches, Rheumatism, AH Caused by l'oor lSluod—Cured by l>i'. Williams' I'iuk l'iiu. "When Mrs. Williams was asked foi eoine details of the fearful illness from which she had so long suffered, she spoke as follows: " Ever since I had nervous prostration, about thirteen years ago, I have had periodical spells of complete exhaustion. Any excitement or unusual activity would throw 1110 into a .state of lifeless lioss. At tlio beginning my strength would come back in a moderate time, but the period of weakness kept length ening until at last I would lie helpless as many as three hours at a stretch." " You were under medical treatment, of course? 1 " Yes, when I became so bad that I had to give up my housework, in May of 191)3, I was being treated fir kidney trouble, and later the doctor thought my difficulties came from change of life. I was not only weak, but I had dizzy feelings, palpitatiou of the heart, misery after eating, hot flashes, nervous head aches, rheumatic pains in the back and hips. The doctor did lue so littlo good that I gave up his treatment, and really feared that my case was incurable." " What saved you from your state of hopelessness? " "In July of 1003 I had a very bad spell, and my husband came in one day with a littlo book which told of remark able cures effected by a remedy for the Wood ami the nerves, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. 110 bought a box for me, and that was the beginning of my return to health. Myappetite grew keen, my food no longer distressed me, my nerves were quieted, and my strength bewail tore- Vive." "How long did you take this remedy?" "For two months only. At the end of that time I had regained my health and cheerfulness, and my friends say that I am looking better than I have done fort he past fifteen years." Mrs. Lizzie Williams is now living at No. 41G Cedar street. Quincy, Illinois. The pills which she praises so highly, cure all diseases that come from im poverished blood. If your system is all run down, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the very best remedy to tttktj. Any drug gist oau supply thou. i £>tatr S>houlit BUfiintt, Nut (Confirm, tutl-Unrra By JAMES L. DAWSON. Police Serdeant of St. Louis—Father of Juvenile Court Ides. ! reports and other ita recently obtained from a half TTJ dozen of the leading in> istrial reformatories of this coun try, covering years of ' me, I have no hesitancy whatever in stating that in ever instance time lias proven the wis dom of their establishment. They are meeting every requirement and justifying every expectation previously entertained by the friends of the reformatory system; a system, by the way, which has come i" stay. The principle embodied in this law rings the death knell of "retributive justice," or so much punisli | ment for so much crime. Except upon the theory of retribution, why should a criminal be I sent to prison for a definite period of time any more than a lunatic to a hospital for the insane? Again, as to the retributory theory of the criminal law in its prac j tical application to criminals how is it possible to adjust crime and i penalty to each other unless we find some accurate measure of guilt \ on the one hand and suffering on the other, which seems to be im- I possible? The law deals with crime and from whatever cause it may be com ' mitted, the effort of the law should be to reform, not to confirm the evil-doer. Definite sentences are never reformatory, since they are in fact I retributory and founded on the act which is passed, having occurred i prior to the sentence, and therefore irrevocable. Reformatory sentences can be based only on the character of ; the person which it is desired to convert. But the time required to alter it cannot be estimated in advance any more than we can tell how long it will take for a lunatic to recover from an attack of insanity. It must be borne in mind that a large majority of those sent to : penal institutions are committed in tliat youthful period of their exist ence when character and habits are formed. It must be borne in mind, also, that crime is a condition before it is an act. This condition is social more than individual, environmental more than hereditary. It arises through the failure of the fundamental institutions (the j home, school, church, society, etc.). The responsibility for this neg i lect or failure does not rest upon the youthful offender, it is true, but | upon those whose duty it was to prepare him for the tasks of life, which, when forced upon him in early manhood, completely upset his previous habits of existence. The responsibility rests upon their shoulders, but the retribution j falls upon him, and, regarded from this point of view, he is to be pitied i as much as blamed. How often does it occur that actual want of ability by such youths is mistaken for idleness, carelessness or want of will, and punishment is inflicted when it is out of order, and often marks the beginning of a criminal career? And it is really astonishing to note how rapidly a youthful offender, once thoroughly started on a career of crime, dc- I serts the straight and narrow path and goes down to destruction as if crime was governed by the law of gravity. Dean Wayland said: "It is not impertinent or irrelevant to inquire whether society is sufficiently guarded, or whether the innocent, law-abiding citizen receives a fair j equivalent for taxes 'well and truly paid' into the treasury of the state, j when dangerous and incorrigible criminals are let loose upon the com munity simply because an arbitrary or definite term of imprisonment is ended. Indeed, it cannnot be doubted that there is no more effectual j agency for creating and fostering a criminal class than a series of j short sentences for repeated violations of the law." In the words of my friend and co-worker, Dr. Pettijohn, of j Brookfield, Mo.: "If the only benefits society receives from their | being thus held is the sense of security while their term of imprison- I ment lasts, as well might we claim the tiger's cub until his muscles are strengthened and his fangs full grown, and then turn him loose with greater powers for evil and destruction." Psychical science rr * » < lias proven that the S>lttni spirits of the dead sj? * . » communicate with the (LmmtUUtUattmttf living, that telepathy is By REV. R. HEBER NEWTON. a P owcr possessed by many men and women, that clairvoyance is an established science fact, and that it may be possible for men to carry ! halos about their heads. I know a woman of fine culture and high character who will not ' trade her gift for commercial purposes, but who has a most remark able power known as psychemetry—the power of holding a sealed let -1 ter in her hand and giving a diagnosis of the physical condition of the writer and a picture of his character; of taking a bit of stone from an ancient villa of Cicero, for example, the nature of which is entirely unknown to her, and calling up a vision of the villa as it existed in | Cicero's time and of its owner. She is incapable of fraud and her case is but one of others which I know. Mesmerism was laughed out of court at the opening of our cen tury, and it is back again, in good standing, under the alias of ''hyp notism." So one may run 011 through a list of strange, unaccountable, mysterious and most unbelievable powers of man, leading up to that nightmare of the dogmatic scientist, spiritism. h'or the first time in the history of man these powers have been | scientifically investigated iti our day. Already the result is that a con -1 siderable number of eminent men of science have had the courage to , avow that, after allowing fur illusion, fraud and every possible hypothesis of interpretation, they have been driven up to the ultimate ; solution of the problem—the belief in the actual communication of the : spirits of those whom we call dead, with the living. The possibilities of mental medicines are only being opened. Its application to the most distressing form of human malady, insanity, is full of beneficent results. Its potency in character reform and the cure of the drink habit seems vast and benign. Religious faith is finding its true foundations in the recognition of man as a spiritual being, a being who has had dominon over nature given to him, as the child of a vaster Spiritual Being, the Lord of all life. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1905. SHORT TALK ON GRAFTING Some of the Underlying Principles o the Process—Good and Poor Unions. In the work of grafting the nature of | the union stock and scion is not very | generally understood. It is often a I mooted question among those who make a scientific study of pomology. A true : appreciation of the principles will prova j valuable in the practice of horticulture. Some worthy and valuable research along this line has been prosecuted at j the Massachusetts experiment station j under the leadership of Prof. F. A. j Waugh. Prof. Watigh speaks of grafting as | the union of scion with stock. In the ! vast majority of cases the prime object, in fact the sole object of grafting is to He. 1 1 .eft Craft. Klg. 2.—Hud Graft, secure this union. The nature of the ! union is generally understood to deter mine the whole success or failure of the | graft. These phrases, good unions and | poor unions, are common in horticulture, yet their significance is generally un known. The facts are often wrongly guessed and the whole nature of the mat ter at times essentially misunderstood. It is pointed out by Prof. Waugh that in herbaceous grafting (where soft growing parts are used) there is no gen eral commingling of the cells of scion and stock as has been popularly imag ined. The original scion and the origin al stock remain to the end of their ex istence very largely separate and dis tinct. Disregarding for a moment the very thin cambium zone, the stock and scion are made up wholly of deaa wood and bark. With perfectly negligible ex ceptions the cells are all dead, totally and forever. It is absolutely impossible for them to grow or to unite with any thing. One might as well talk of mak ing a lead pencil unite with a penholder or a neckyoke with a singletree. The two may be glued together, waxed to gether, tied together, but they can never unite. The thin sheet of cambium, lying be tween the bark and the wood, is the only portion of the tree stem which is really alive, the only portion which can grow . and is therefore the part where we must look for the beginning of the graft union. Note Fig. 1, which is a diagram of a cleft graft three years old. The black por tions represent the wood of the original scion and stock; the white portions three annual layers of wood which have grown since the graft was made. It has long been the dream of gar deners to produce new kinds of plants by the graft union of new scions and stocks. Our present observations show this to be impossible. No matter how closely the two kinds of cells may lie against one another, their contents are i never mingled in the production of the 1 cell. The cell tissues of the stock and scion may commingle or lap in together somewhat in the line of union, but this ' mixture is only mechanical, not physio- j logical. The experiments were con- I ducted with bud unions, and from our j view there is no difference between a | bud graft and a long scion graft. Fig. 2 shows diagramatically the j growth of a bud when set upon a stock. The black portion represents the wood j of the stock, the shaded portion the bud or scion and the white portion three an- '' nual layers of growth which have been j put on since the Lud was set. In this ' case, as with the common graft, the lay ers of the new growth are continuous, running from top to bottom without any break at the plane of junction. If the normal union of scion and stock Is made of such complete and continuous cylinders of annual growth as above mentioned, one will naturally ask the reasons for the unsuccessful unions. The answer is not an altogether easy one. We may approach it by saying that, when the two members are unlike in na ture and in some way physiologically in compatible, the wood does not heal read ily, owing to some sort of irrigation which continues to be felt at this point. After a close study of a large number of defective scions, Prof. Waugh has reached the opinion that they are al most always due to this incompatibility j of stock and scion. It is a common notion among horti- j culturists that careless or ignorant man ipulation in the grafting will lead to j poor unions. There seems to be little ground for this opinion. If the stock and j scion are of varieties which are congen- j ial, and if the graft or bud grows at all, ' the union will nearly always be good, j Poor manipulation will often cause the i failure, of a large percentage to grow, but it seldom affects permanently the j strength of the union in those grafts which live at all. 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