AT THE TOP Hut, lord," she Mid, "my shoulders still are strong t have been used to bear the load to long; 'And see, the hill is passed, and smooth the mad." Yet," said the stranger, "yield me now thy load." Gently he took it from her, and she stood Straight-limited and lithe, in new-found maidenhood Amid long, sunlit fields; around them sprang A tender breeze, and birds and rivers sang. My lord," she said, "the land is very fair!" Smilmit, he ai.iwered: "Was it not so there?" mmmffifflfflimm THE GODS AND THE ALLY! Br CECELIA IBiliil Both ot the Old People chose the Ally because they were afraid to trust in the gods. They had not seen tho gods and they had Been the Ally and had found her good to look upon. Of course they did not call her the Ally they called her Mrs. Renolds. She was a widow, rich, young and good looking, with such a dainty, de mure style of good looks that both ot the Old Peoplo forgot the society adage concerning widows, and went to her for advice on various subjects. And the Ally enjoyed it. She had been a widow for four years, and it was beginning to be whispered among her most intimate friends that she was not inconsolable. Among other good qualities the Ally was possessed of a keen sense of humor. Therefore when the Old Lady who lived on the comfortable estate adjoining the Ally's own In the quiet but well-to-do suburb, took a fancy to the young widow and made her by degrees her confidante, the Ally was a little touched and more than a lit tle amused. The crowning proof of the Old Lady's affection came one bright spring afternoon when she was calling upon the Ally. It was a long tale If you go back to the be ginning, for It started when the Old Lady was twenty-two Instead of sixty-two. She had been In love with and engaged to a certain Allan Hins dale. But they had quarreled and thereafter hated each other with an Implacable hatred. Eventually each had married an other, though neither had forgotten. The Old Lady's daughter Nell was Just what her mother had been, "Only she hasn't any pride at all," complained the Old Lady. "If she had the least bit of pride In the world she would not fall la love with the son of a man whom her mother hates." "I don't understand. Can't you make things, a little clearer?" "Well, you see," said the Old Lady plaintively, "I bought this place when my husband died. He never would get It for me. He positively refused to live more than a half-hour away from his business. Said he could use all the time he would consume going and coming in making money. I guess he did. When he died I took It and bought this place. "We had tho best time you can Imagine out here until the Falrweath ers sold their place on the other side of you, and then my troubles com menced." The Ally patted the Old Lady's hand and said "Yes?" encouragingly. "Of course you know those people. Goodness knows they've braved It out long enough. I was here first and I will not be chased out of my home. It's just like that hateful, stubborn Allan Hinsdale! And his son Is just like him only not bo good looking. You wouldn't believe It, but he was handsome in those days," and she sighed. ' "His son is good looking now," suggested the Ally. "Yes, just. like ninety-nine out of a hundred young men you meet every day. They all look alike and he looks just like the rest of them. No dis tinction ubout him as there Is to my Nell." "Nell is a good looking girl," sup plied the .Ally, diplomatically. "Well, you can see the rest. It's going on right under our noses, and I'm perfectly helpless. It's Frank Hinsdale and Nell Coover seven days out of the week. "It's outrageous, and Nell will not listen to a thing I say. It's a wonder there hasn't been a scandal before this. Young people weren't per mitted to act so in my time. And every one knows perfectly well that Allan Hinsdale and I wouldn't speak to each other to save our necks from the gallows." The Old Lady rocked violently a moment before she continued. "I cau't see why she should be so infatuated with him after all the nice men she has met. He hasn't any manners or he wouldn't smoke while they are out playing that horrible golf together. Even his father wouldn't do that!" Then Ally's eyes narrowed Just a little as Bhe said: "Really, Mrs. Coover, Frank Is a nice young man!" "Well, supposing he is! Is that any reason why Nell must make a fool of herself over him? If those two were to marry It would put their parents In a pretty fix, wouldn't it?". "Perhaps this friendship doeBn't mean that they will marry after all," suggested the Ally, and then she was filled with astonishment at the effect of her words. "Not marry! After such actions as this! What do they mean then? As soon as ever I reach homo I shall find out If that young scamp has pro posed, and it be hasn't J'll see to It that he does. And I'll see to It that he gets refused, too. If I have to call In all the neighbors to help!" There was a determined gleam la the Old Lady's eyes, which were still bright and blue bohlnd her nose glasses. "That's what I wanted j-sm to kelp OF THE ROAD "There!" In her voice a wondering ques tion lay; "Was I not always here, then, as to-day?" He turned to her with strange, deep eyes aflame; "Knoweat thou not this kingdom, nor my name?" "Nay," aha replied; "but this I under stand That thou art Lord of Life in this dear land!" "Yes, child," he murmured, scarce above his breath; "Lord of the Land, but men have named me Death." Charles Buxton Coing, in McClure's. A. 10IZEAUX. me about," she suddenly remem bered. "But what could I do in such a matter as this?" -jyverytning, my dear, every thing!" said the Old Lady brighten ing. "You can do anything with Nell. She worships the ground you walk on, and she thinks anything you do or say Is simply perfect. Now what I thought of was this" and she lowered her voice and hitched her chair a little nearer to the Ally. "You know such a lot of nice young people whom Nell has never met, be cause she has really been away at school for two or three years. And If you could Introduce some of the most eligible of the young men they'd be sure to fall In love with her and she would see that there are other people In the world." The Ally stiffened a little, and the Old Lady, seeing this, interpreted it to please herself. "I know It's a good deal to ask of you, but you're the only one of all the people I know who can help me. I know you like Frank, too, so I won't say all I could about him. I might like him myself i! I didn't know his father so well." "Well," decided the Ally, "I be lieve I will help you. I like Nell and Frank too well to see either or both of them made unhappy for life, if a little effort on my part will save them." She looked reflectively at the Old Lady, who had begun to beam. "But you must let me do things my own way, even if It seems silly to you." "Certainly," said the Old Lady. "I want you to seem to stop oppos ing Nell. Let her see Just as much of Frank as she likes, and even en courage her In It, but not too sudden ly. Be nice to him yourself and you might, for the sake of the cause. Just recognize his father when you meet him on the street." The Old Lady gave a squeak of dismay. "I would far rather let Nell marry Frank and then spend the rest of my life getting even than speak to that man now!" She fairly bristled with dignity as she stood up and drew the voluminous black silk coat, which she wore la all weathers, around her and prepared to go. The Ally walked with her to the door and out on the porch, and then wished she had not. It Is dreadful not to be able to laugh at times when one wants to most. All the Ally could do was to lean against a pillar and pray under her breath for becom ing sobriety. As the Old Lady gingerly descend ed the steps and sailed majestically down the long, straight walk, the gate opened and there entered a tall, very straight Old Gentleman, who came up the walk with dignified taps ot a gold-headed cane, and whose chin was lifted In a most dignified manner. When he met the Old Lady, who had become so straight she near ly bent backward, he stepped oft the sidewalk and stood with his back turned, twirling his cane between his hands as he hunted for clouds In an absolutely flawless sky. The Ally seemed not to notice the very visible wrath of the Old Gentle man as she came down the steps to meet him and led him into her sun warmed library. But after a little preliminary skirmishing about the weather depths to which the clever Old Gentleman rarely descended he suddenly blurted out: "I think I owe you an apology for the apparent rudeness I Just showed one of your guests." "Why, no," faltered Ally, but he seemed not to have heard. "It Is a little unfortunate that Mrs. Coover and I have seen fit to occupy homes In the same neighborhood. It I bad known she lived here I certain ly would not have bought tblB place. But now I'm here and I do not mean to be chased out of a comfortable home." "But why should you?" puzzled the Ally, though she knew perfectly well. "Madam, It Is very awkward for me to be constantly meeting that er Mrs. Coover. The best thing she ever did to me was to Jilt me when we were younger, and I've never for given her for that. She was an out rageous flirt, Madam, and I was com pletely taken In by her pretty face. You wouldn't believe It now, but she really was very pretty much more so than her daughter is. That girl Is a forward young minx. She has much ot the personality of her father. Very disagreeable person, the father." "I never knew him," murmured the Ally. "It I thought the girl would servo Frank as her mother did me, I shouldn't care. It would teach him a lesson, I've) warned him and he will not listen. But she won't. It ever a girl meant business I should think It was Nell Coover. Her fath er took Molly from under my very nose after we had quarreled about our wedding trip and had tempo rarily broken off. But I want you to help me," he suddenly remembered. The Ally opened her eyes in hypo critical surprise. "It Just occurred to me this after noon that I might tell you of my troubte and ask you to help me. I know It's a good deal to. ask, but It you knew how much you can do with Frank! He worships the ground you walk on, and anything you say or do he thinks Is all right. I thought you would try to Interest him in some other girl If I let you know how I felt about it. If he married Nell Coover her mother and myself would be la a pretty fix." "I might help you," reflected the Ally again. "But you muat let me do It in my own way. For Instance, should you care It I were the cause ot making Frank fall In love with another woman?" "Gracious, ho! Any one but Nell Coover! I am willing and even anx ious to see him married. Use your own taste." "Well, then, you must help. The first thing I want you to do is to stop opposing Frank In the matter of seeing Nell. Encourage htm in It if you can, without being too obvious. There Is such a thing as too much sugar, you know." The Old Gentle man saw her point and nodded de lightedly. "And It would help a lot If for the sake of the cause you could JuBt bow to Mrs. Coover when you meet on the street." The Old Gentleman reached for his hat and cane and stood up very straight. "Madam, I would far rath er see my poor boy married to that girl and then spend the rest of my life getting even than speak to that woman now. Good day, madam!" The Ally planned her campaign with much care, telling neither one of the Old People any more than she needed to keep their spirits up. She took every opportunity to talk with Nell and Frank, and finally she made out a list of young people for a two weeks' house party. She asked both young people for a list of names, and she saw the little flush that red dened Nell's tanned cheeks when Frank Insisted that she ask his frlond Phil Bradley. Frank insisted that he didn't know a girl he would want around for two weeks other than the ones who were there already, but promised to be nice to those whom the Ally would tnvite. There was a fortnight of merry making, and when it was all over, all the guests departed but Phil Bradley, who moved his traps over to Frank's and stayed on. From that day on the quartet was as much In evidence as the couple had been. Nell was ob served to be very polite to Frank's guest, and the Ally, In the role of comorter to Frank, was eminently successful. The Old Lady teamed upon Philip and the warmth of her smiles pene trated even to the depths of outer darkness, where Frank was suppos edly gnashing his teeth. She did not take the trouble to stiffen so very much now when she met the Old Gentleman, and she even allowed herself the luxury of a supercilious smile, for she had no other idea than that the dearest wish of the Old Gentleman's heart was to marry his son to her daughter. And as for the Old Gentleman, he was seen to cut an insultingly wide swath around the Old Lady's floating silk draperies, and was heard to hum as he twirled his cane: "We never speak as we pass by, al though a tear bedims her eye. I know she thinks ot her past life turn dldl turn!" New York News. The Truth About Trapping. Mr. W. H. Wright, the noted grizzly-bear hunter, declares In the World's Work that the trapper of to-day lacks every characteristic which romance has interwoven with his name. He says: People who have not seen can form no Idea ot the suffering trap per's cause, nor ot their ruthless de struction ot game. Nothing escapes them; even the squirrels are sacri ficed to bait traps for marten and fisher; and not only the squirrels but all kinds of birds, whether game or song-birds. In trapping mink, otter, beaver and a few other fur-bearing animals, the trap Is nearly always set near the water, where the animal when caught is soon drowned, so that its sufferings Is soon ended. But with bear, marten and fisher it Is differ ent. The bear must drag a heavy clog about until it catches in some root or bush. There he must wait until the trapper comes to kill him, and this la some cases Is not for days. The bones ot the leg are al most invariably broken by the trap, and the leg Bwells to incredible size. One trapper in one day shot nine teen large blue grouse, merely to try a new rifle. The birds were nesting; be had no use for them, and not one did he even bring to camp. Three years ago In British Colum bia, ,an old trapper camped near our bear-hunting party. He shot every thing he could find, even little ducks and marmots. A goat he killed fell over a cliff; and as it was harder to recover It than to shoot another, he shot another. He was trapping beaver out of season, and boasted ot having caught one that was about to become a mother. I have seen the spot where a bear, fast in a trap, had been caught for more than a week, in a thicket through which it was impossible to drag the trap and clog. I knew an' old French trapper who shot seventy three moose and elk In one winter, for bear bait for the spring catch. Punishing a Convict. One of the best attractions in the penitentiary during fair week was Charles Holland, colored convict, who cut oft his finger to get out of work several weeks ago, and was compelled to stand on a box la the blacksmith shop, where hundreds of visitors pass each day, and there dls. play himself. A sign on his back' and also In trcnt read: "I cut oft my finger To get out ot work." Holland stands on the box all day long. He has already spent nearly twenty-five days on the box and has a prospect ot standing that much longer. He will be released when his finger gets well. Columbus Dis "IN PRAISE OF THE FIST." MAETERLINCK'S DEFENCE OF BOXING AS A MEANS OF ATTACK. . . .. Belgian Writer Halls the "Human Weapon" and Declares That Pugilism Is Essentially a Means of Promoting Peace and Gentleness Man and Insect. Maurioe Maoterllnck ' la the holiday season it Is well that we should occupy ourselves with the aptitudes of our body, once more restored to nature, and In particular with the exercises that most Increase Its strength, Its agility, and the quali ties which It possesses aa the body of a fine, healthy, formidable animal, ready to face all life's exigencies. I remember In this connection that lately, when writing of the sword, I allowed myself to be carried away by my subject and that I was guilty of a certain Injustice toward the only specific weapon with which nature has endowed us; I mean the fist. This injustice I am anxious to repair. The sword and the fist form each other's complement, and If it be not ungracious thus to express oneself, are not ou good terms together; but the sword la or should be only an '.exceptional weapon, a sort ot ultima 'et sacra ratio. We should not have recourse to It save with solemn pre cautions and a ceremonial equivalent to that which we surround those criminal trials which may end In a sentence of death. The flat, on the contrary, is pre eminently the everyday, the human ,weapon, the only weapon organically adapted to the sensibility, the resis tance, the offensive and defensive structure of our body. I The fact is that if we examine our selves well we must rank ourselves, without vanity, among the most un protected, the most naked, the most fragile, the most brittle and flaccid beings in creation. Compare us, for Instance, with the Insect, so formid ably equipped tor attack and so fan tastically armor cased! Contemplate .among others the ant, upon which ;you may heap ten or twenty thou sand times the weight of its body without apparently Inconveniencing ;it. Consider the cockchafer, the (least robust of the beeltes, and weigh what It Is able to carry before the rings of its abdomen crack or the '.casings of Its forewings yield. As for the resistance of the stag beetle, :it is, so to speak, unlimited, j In comparison, therefore, we and 'the majority ot mammals are un Isolldified beings, still in the gela jtinous state and very near to the primitive protoplasm. Our skeleton alone, which Is, as It were, the rough sketch of our definite form, effers a certain consistency; but how wretched la this skeleton, which one would think constructed by a child! 'Look at our spine, the basis of our whole system, whose HI set vertebrae .hold together only by a miracle, and our thoracic cage, which presents only a series of diagnosis which we hardly dare touch with the finger tips. Now, It is against this slack and Incoherent machine, which resembles an abortive effort of nature, against this pitiful organism,' from which life tends to escape on every side, that we have contrived weapons capable ioi annihilating us even if we pos sessed the fabulous armor case, the prodigious strength and the incred ible vitality ot the most indestruc tible insects. We have here, it must be agreed, ia very curious and a very disconcert ing aberration, an initial folly, pe culiar to the human race, that goes ion increasing dally. In order to re turn to the natural logic followed toy all other living .things, though we be permitted to use extraordinary .weapons against our enemies of . a different order, we ought among our selves, among pen, to employ only the means of attack and defence pro vided by our own bodies. Were mankind to conform strictly to the levident will of nature, the fist lwhich is to man what Its horns are ;to the bull and its claws and teeth to the Hon the fist should suffice ifor all our needs ot protection, Jus tice and revenge. A wiser race would forbid any other mode of combat as an lrremisslble crime against the es Hential laws of the species. At the end ot a few generations we should thus succeed in spreading and put ting Into force a sort ot panic-stricken respect of human life. ' How prompt, how exactly in ac cordance with nature's wishes, would be the selection brought about by the intensive practice ot pugilism, in which all the hopes of military glory would be centred. Now selec tion is, after all, the only really Im portant thing that claims out pre occupation; it Is the first, the great est and the most eternal ot our duties toward the race. Meanwhile the study ot boxing gives us exoellent lessons In humility and throws a somewhat alarming light upon the forfeiture of bo me of e-ur most valuable instincts. We soon perceive that, In all that con cerns the use of our limbs agility, dexterity, muscular strength, resis tance to pain we have sunk to the lowest rank ot the mammals or bat-, rachians. From this point of view, In a well conceived hierarchy, we should be entitled to a modest place between the frog and the sheep. The kick ot the horse, the butt ot the bull, the bite of the dog, are me chanically and anatomically perfect. It would be impossible to Improve by the most learned lessons their instinctive manner ot using their natural weapons. But, we, the "ho mlnians," the procuest ot the pri mates, do not know how to strike a blow with our fist. We do not even know which exactly la the veapon of our kind. Look at two draymen, two peas ants, who come to blows; nothing could be more pitiable. After a copious and dilatory broadside of In sults and threats, tbey seize each 'other by the throat and the hair, make play with their feet, with their in London Dally Halt. knees, at random, bite each other, scratch each other, get entangled In their motionless rage, dare not leave go, and If one ot them succeeds in releasing an arm, ho strikes out blindly and most often Into space a series of hurried, stunted an I sput tering little blows; nor would the combat ever end did not the treach erous knife, evoked by the disgrace ot the incongruous sight, suddenly, almost spontaneously, leap from the pocket of one or the other. On the contrary, watcb two pu gilists; no useless words, no grop ings, no anger; the calmness ot twe certainties that know what lies be fore them. Tho athletic attitude of the guard, one of the finest of the male body, logically exhibits all the muscles ot the organism to the best advantage. From head to foot, no pqrtlcle of strength can now go astray. Each single one has its pole In one or other of the two massive fists charged to the full with energy. Three blows, no more, the fruits ot secular experience, mathematically exhaust the thousand useless possi bilities. Three synthetic, irrestlole, unimprovable blows. As soon as one' of them frankly touches the adversary, the fight is ended, to the complete satisfaction of the conqueror, who triumphs so incontestably that he has no wish to abuse his victory, and with no dangerous hurt to the conquered, who is simply reduced to Impotence and unconsciousness during the time needed for all 111 will to evaporate. Soon after the beaten man will rise to his feet with no lasting damage, because the resistance ot his bones and his organs la strictly and natu rally proportioned to the power ot the human weapon that has struck him and brought him down. It may seem paradoxical, but the fact Is easily established that the science of boxing, In those countries where it is generally practised and cultivated, becomes a pledge of peace and gentleness. Our aggressive ner vousness, our watchful susceptibility, that sort of perpetual state of alarm In which our Jealous vanity moves, all those arise, at bottom, from the sense ot our weakness and of our physical Inferiority, which toll as best they may to overawe, by a proud and irritable mask, the men often churlish, unjust and malevolent, that surround -us. The more that we feel ourselves disarmed in the face of attack, tho more are we tortured by the longing to prove to others and to persuade ourselves that no one attacks us with Impunity. Courage becomes the more fretful, the more intractable, in pro portion as our anxiously terrified In stinct, cowering within the body that is to receive the blows, asks Itself how the bout will end. What will this poor, prudent Instinct do should the crisis go badly? It is upon our instinct that we tpy in the hour of danger. Upon our instinct devolves the anxiety of the attack, the care of the defence. We have so often In daily life dis missed it from the control that, when its name la called. It comes forth from its retreat like one grown old in captivity and suddenly dazzled by. the light of day. What resolution will it take? Where ia it to strike? , At the eyes, the stomach, the nose, the temples, the throat? What weapon is it to choose? The feet, the teeth, the hand, the elbow, or the nails? It no longer knows; It wanders about Its poor dwelling which is about to be defaced; and, while it dotingly pulls them by the sleeve, courage, pride, vanity, spirit, self esteem, all the groat and splendid but irresponsible lords, envenom the stubborn quarrel, which at laBt, after numberless and grotesque evasions, ends in an unskilful exchange of clamorous, blind, ataxic thumps, hy brid and plaintive, piteous and puer ile and Indefinitely impotent. He, on the contrary, who knows the source of Justice which he holds In his two closed fists has no need, for self-persuasion. Once and for all, he knows; longanimity emanates like a peaceful flower from his ideal but certain victory. The grossest Insult cannot Impair his Indulgent smile. Peacably he awaits the first act ot violence, and Is able to say to all who offends his: "Thus far shall you go and no further." A single magic movement stops the insolence. Why make this movement? He ceases even to think of it, so certain Is its efficacy. It Is with a sense of shame, as ot one Btrlktng a defenseless child, that in the last extremity be at length resolves to raise against the most powerful brute the sovereign hand that regrets beforehand its too easy victory. Watch That Speaks the Time. A Swiss watchmaker has Invented a watch which speaks the time from a tiny phonograph. A very small hard rubber plate has the vibrations ot the human voice imprinted upon It, and is actuated by clockwork, so that at a given time the articulation is made, Indicating the hour. The utterance Is sufficiently strong to be heard twerty feet away. It la pos sible by means ot a' device of this kind to combine sentiment with util ity, as the vibrattons can be made by by any clear voice,' and a man's watch may tell him the time In the tonea ot wife or children. " PleTrVLbti, tho French culhor. baa Just been promoted from captain ot frigate to captain ot battleship. He baa never quitted his sorvlco la the ArPEXDICITlS. A New Theory Advanced Respecting Its Can ho. The question as to whether It Is advisable to operate so frequently for appendicitis continues to arouse the Interest of French physicians. M. Blanchard, a shining light In the French medical world, now comes forward with a startling new theory which entirely upsets all pre conceived notions. He asserts and says his assertion is backed by Pro fessor Metchnikoff, of the Pasteur In stitute that appendicitis Is undoubt edly caused by intestinal worms. These are of three kinds, and the most dangerous is that known as the trygocephal, which causes the sharp pains 'and symptoms which indicate appendicitis. Microscopic examination In every case ot appendicitis that has come under the observation of Professor Blanchard and Professor Metchni koff has revealed the presence ot these parasites In the appendix. "Ap pendicitis," says Professor Blanch ard, "more especially occurs during the hot weather, and, although not contagious or infectious, it frequently assumes the character of an epidem ic in certain districts." Now, according to the professor, market gardens In the neighborhood of great cities, such as Paris and London, are frequently manured and fertilized by the deodorized and chemically treated product ot the city sewers. In these market gar dens the vegetables are forced, and examination shows that they contain numerous intestinal parastteB, and especially the eggs of the dreaded trygocephal. The professor says that a surgical operation for appendicitis is abso lutely unnecessary, and that It should never be performed unless some hard substance such as a cher ry stone has been accidentally swal lowed by the patient. He urges leg islation to forbid the use ot deodor ized and chemically treated sewage as manure, and that thymol should be extensively UBed against intesti nal worms. "Appendicitis," adds Professor Blanchard, "when not the conse quence of the accidental swallowing of some hard substance. Is undoubt edly caused by the parasite to be found in cabbage, turnips, carrots, and cauliflower. The danger lies in eating vegetables that have been forced by manures or watered by contaminated well and spring water." Paris correspondence London MaiL Speuking Through the 'Nose. The offenslveness of tho present defect could not be exaggerated, per haps, but it is best to guard against exaggeration in dealing with it. Not long ago we talked with an observant Englishman, who was hardly the most willing ot witnesses, but a Just as well as a gentle spirit, and we asked him if ho had been much struck by our far - famed nasality since coming amonug us. No, he said, not half so much as he had expected; but what he had noticed was that we Bpoke drawllngly, drag glngly, in. tones that weakly and tardily did their office. It seemed to "us, when we thought the matter over, that there was a great deal of truth in what he said, and we now commend his remark, together with our own less lenient accusations, to the attention of the American Wom an's Speech Reformers. What they want to get at is the average of fence, and not to err as to its pre cise nature. There is no doubt that certain of our women twang, and whine, and whiffle, and whinny, hut possibly close inquiry might develop the fact that, after all. It may be a lazy and careless mismanagement of the voice In the sort suggested which is most to be corrected. William Dean Howells, in Harper's Bazar. The Secret of the Muplo. No thoughtful person who has ever visited a maple-grove in the sarly Bpring, while snow-banks are yet lingering in sheltered hollows, and has seen pailful after pailful of sweet sap drawn from the auger holes in the shapely trunks, can have failed to wonder what forces govern the flow of the sap. When the warm sun touches the treetops the flow in creases. A rise of a few degrees in temperature often causes a great Increase of flow, If the rise passes the zero point, on the Centigrade scale, that is, the freezing-point of water. But a considerable change of tem perature in which the fluctuations do not cross the zero line causes no marked change In the flow of the sap. Dr. K. M. Wlegand, discussing these and other related facts in the American Naturalist, reaches the con clusion that neither expansion of gas in the wood, nor expansion of water, nor expansion of the wood itself, is the underlying cause of the pressure which produces the flow, but that this pressure arises from the effects of temperature In altering the osmotic permeability of the pith ray cells. Manners. The antiquary took down a small, fat volume, vellum-bound, with a brass clasp. "This is a 'Book of Manners,' " he said. "It was printed in 1173. Here are a few extracts." And he read: "Do not gnaw a bone like a dog nor suck the marrow out of a bone. "In peeling a pear begin at the stalk, but with an apple begin at the top. "Do not wipe the hands on the clothes, nor suck them, but use the cloth. "Do not eat an apple all alone, but cut it in two and give a neigh bor a piece. "Wipe your nose and mouth when you have drunk, and do not cough into the cup.'" Minneapolis Journal ' Buying or Belling? It Is told of the son ot a horse dealer, a sharp lad, when once un expectedly called upon by his father to mount a horse and exhibit its paces, the little fellow whispered the question, In order to regulate how he should ride: "Are you buying or selling?" . Tit-Bits. ArPLE TREES 80 YEARS OLD. Ihry AVer Planted by Indians at a Historic Spot in Michigan. Planted by the Indiana eighty years ago, when the spot was an In dian reservation and burying ground, two apples trees still stand aide by side on the bank of the Shiawasse River near Vernon. The trees are now of mammoth, size, measuring six and eight feet ia circumference, and notwithstanding their age they are still In healthy condition and bear fruit each year. Near whore they stand was lo cated the first aettlement made by white men in Shlawaase County about one hundred years ago. Ia those early days the spot was one ot the chief trading points in the lo cality. It was located on one nf the first trails hereabouts, and, being also on the river bank, was accessible by water. In those days water waa used for travel more than It is now. So large was the business done by Indians and fur traders that in 1840 a bank was established here. It waa one of the wildcat variety so com mon In those days, and Issued a great amount of wildcat currency. Tradition has It that while the bank was doing a flourishing busi ness some ot the large holders of ttg currency became uneasy about the security for the redemption, of the paper and planned a raid to loot the bank. The bank officials, hearing of the plan, took the bank's specie and burled it near the river. There still live in that vicinity some oldtimera who believe that the money is bur led there yet, and many excavations have been made in the hope of un covering it. The trend ot progress has been away from this spot, and any one visiting there to-day will find a peace ful farming community. Detroit Free Press. Seven Rules For Longevity. The following rules for living to a ripe, old age are given by Mrs. Henderson in her recently published volume, The Aristocracy of Health (Harpers) : 1. Study the laws of nature for health and the remedies of nature for cure. 2. Avoid all poisons. 3. Take abundant exercise in pure air, but always short ot fatigue. So exercise that every portion of the body is equally benefited. As it takes a strong engine for a long Jour ney; cultivate lung-power by slow, deep-breathing exercises. 4. Eat only the amount of food that nature needs, and study what to eat from a scientific point ot View. 5. Cultivate normal sleep. Live and sleep only in rooms that are well sunned, well ventilated, and not over heated. 6. Cultivate the habit of work in connection with some worthy ambi tion, tor healthy exercise ot body and mind is as strengthening as re pose, and should balance it. Work while you work and rest while you rest, avoiding all worry. Make your self useful to the world, and feel that you have a mission in it. 7. Avoid all environments, the worst of which is the friend who en courages you to poison yourself. , Science and Manufacture. In the Zeiss glass works at Jena fourteen doctors of science are em ployed, and these include mathema ticians as well as physicists. The great German aniline color works employ more "scientific" than "tech nichal" chemists. At one of them, for instance, fifty-five scientific and thirty-one technical chemists are en gaged; at a second 145 scientific chemists and 175 technologists; at a third 148 scientific chemists for seventy-five technicists. The re search laboratories of these works are lavishly equipped; one of them possesses a library of 14,000 vol umes; a second spends 150,000 francs a year on glassware. Tbeso things are no doubt expensive, but these great factories still manage to pay a dividend of from twenty to thirty per cent. Every newly dis covered substance which is usable Is patented, and in this way Germany has managed to establish a monopoly. Tho house of Baeyer possesses a thousand patents at home and 1200 in foreign countries. London Graphic. lSurbcr's New Experience. A good story of Charles Hawtry is told in Vanity Fair. When making a trip through Europe he found him self In a small village minus his luggage and his razors. There was no barber's shop, but, having heard ot a man in the village who occasion ally had shaved people, the famous actor sent for him, and was aston ished at being requested to He fiat on his back before operations' were commenced. Thinking it a custom of the country, he lay down, and was shaved with ease and dexterity, but afterward asked the niau the reason why he requested his customers to adopt so peculiar a position. "Be cause, Bir," was the naive reply, "1 nevor before shaved a live man!" Our Mew Nuvy. In commislson and under construc tion we now have twenty-sit battle ships and thirteen armored cruisers, eleven coast defense ironclads, a large fleet ot unarmored steel vessels, upward ot forty gunboats and nearly sixty torpedo boats and submarines. Of ships ot all classes we had 327 at the end of 1905; and the comple ment bad risen to more than 83,000 officers and men, exclusive ot a ma rine corps ot more than 6000, a force considerably larger than the regular army before the Spanish war. New York Sun. Copperhead Comes to Town. Aa Miss Anna Montgomery was de scending the stone stairway of the Carnegie Library lust evening she al most stepped on a copperhead snake colled on one of the steps. She screamed and ran out into the street. The snake was killed. It meas ured over three feet. How it got on the steps of a publlo buildiug iu the most frequented part of the town ia a iSyatery. Beaver Falls Correspon dence Pittsburg Dispatch.
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