WE KICK THE CHAP THAT'S DOWN This is a queer old world of ours, just as it's always been, It is made up of hills and dales, of women and of men; And while a host is ever near the one that wins the crown, A foodly number are about to kick the chap that's dbwn. Whoever strives in any line and meets with great success The world will sit up half the night to (latter to excess; But woe to him who tries and fails —he jrcl 3 a chilling frown, lJec;i .- so many still delight to kick the chap that's down. And so I fancy 'twill remain down to the end of time Since human nature's 'bout the same in every age and clime; A man has always been a man, a clown Has been a clown, So there will always be a crowd to kick the chap that's down. -Boston Globe. 10 * * * ***-*-*.* ***** lUirriee'sfemptatiDril <€? By Clio Stanley. IOW and musical sounded the rt ripple of tlie liny brook.as it V rau riverward, past the vine wreathed door where Victor Duty's young wife sat, with her brown haired baby in her arms. A ions: hour she had sat there, witli the child on her knee, crooning old songs, which she had loved to sing when a gay-hearted girl, in her fath er's house, but which she had almost forgotten in tlie work-day life which liad been hers for the last two years. Site had been very happy, though, ip her wild Western home. It had grown to lie for her tlie centre for all happy visions, all pleasant dreams, all peace ful days. By iter cheery fireside In the long winter evenings and by the sweet -climbing roses out on her little porch on the bright slimmer nights, site had learned contentment; and she often asked herself, in the quiet autumn days which were spreuding a golden glory over the earth, what there had been in those old days half as satisfying as the simple joys of their home-life. And then sue would go in, and lay the baby down in his cradle-bed, and go about on light, quick feet, to pre pare their evening meal. But on this brightest of bright days, when she liad been thinking with a half-longing of the forms and faces nt home, there had dashed down tlie road a gay cavalcade—fair ladies and brave gentlemen, in holiday attire— and foremost among them was Madge Wilder, a careless, happy rider, intent on tlie double duty of managing her fiery pony and of seeing every beauti ful tiling on either side of the road. She was the first one to catch a glimpse of tlie cottage standing hack among the trees, and of the sweet picture framed in by I he scarlet bloom of the autumn leaves. "Oil, Clara!" she said, wheeling her pony so as to bring her to tlie side of Miss Rodelle's horse, "do you see that exquisite picture in there? It's a poem without words, and isn't it beautiful?" "Don't you know tlie face, Madge?" "Surely it can lie no one we know, living here in this wilderness?" "It in Aimee Dane." With a cry of surprise, Madge Wild er turned her pony's head, and beck oning to Ray Ilarcourt, the gentleman nearest her, she rode directly toward the cottage. Aimee had come out on the steps and watched them as they dismounted; but only their side faces were toward her, and tlie low branches of the trees swept down between them, and so she really had no idea of meeting oid friends, until Madge's clear voice rang across the intervening space: "Aimee Dane, is it truly you?" And then, like a fire that springs suddenly into blaze, up leaped the old love and friendship into vivid being again. "Oli. Madge!" she cried. Aud the two friends liad met, and their arms were round eaeli other; and for one moment even baby was for go! ten. Hilt Madge introduced Mr. Harcourt, and that reminded Aimee that she too. liad a young gentleman to introduce; and the brown-liaired boy, so like his father, witli ills big blue eyes and smiling mouth, was brought out and held up with a mother's proud delight. Before they were half through ad miring him, Victor Doty came in, and •when lie found that her friends had gone on, and that Madge was intend ing lo spend two or three months with a relative only five miles distant, be said at once, witli a genial smile: "Why not stay with us a little wiille, Miss Wilder? Our cottage is a. small one, but we always have room for a friend; and I am sure your pres ence would cheer Aimee." Aimee looked her entreaty, and Vic tor promised to send for Madge's trunk tlie next morning. "I cannot resist so warm an invita tion; so if you will give me a nook at your fireside for five or six days, 1 will stay," said Madge. Mr. Harcourt agreed to take a note for her, that her trunk might be ready In the morning, and galloped awp.y with n little look of regret at leaviug her behind "l'ou won't need much here, Madge, In t lie way of dress," said Aimee, laughing. "We never see company, and the dress you have on will do for all occasions." Madge smiled, but evidently thought differently, for when her trunk came, there was an array of dainty dresses spread out for inspection that made Aimee's brown eyes envious. That niglit Madge put 011 a soft-lint ted silk, the hue of wood-vioit" d with a delicate scarf dropping from her shoulders, and a white lily (which Aimee had broken for lic-r from a little vase in the window), falling from her shining hair, she looked like a queen beside Aimee, in a plain chintz dress and hair banded plainly back. Aimee felt the difference, and was sure Victor noticed it, too; and when Madge, with an exquisite voice, begau to sing, she did not wonder that he was entranced. "Don't you sing, Aimee?" Madge asked, when she had sung a dozen songs for them, each one thrilling and sweet. "No," said Alraee. softly. "I can only make music with my fingers." "Well, then, you surely ought to have a good piano." Aimee sighed—a soft bit of a sigh that somehow found its way to her husband's heart—but she managed to answer gaily: "I am waiting till our ship comes In." The piano was hardly missed, though, while Madge entertained them every evening with her charming voice. As the girl's visit drew near a close, Aimee began to feel a sorrowful kind of satisfaction. Though she had never betrayed her feelings, she was growing jealous of Madge. Robed in her silks and soft laces every night, with the lustre of jewels at the fair throat, the girl would sit in a glamour of light and an atmos phere of sweet sounds, and was even to Aimee's clouded eyes a mirror of loveliness. There was a glow of warmth about her, too, which appealed strongly to ilie senses; and while Aimee mourned Victor's defection, she scarcely won dered at It. When Madge first came Aimee, the kind, thoughtful hostess, insisted that Victor should take the girl to ride often, while she remained at home to look after baby; but now baby's face could no longer charm her, for she was in the chill mist of distrust. That morning slio had heard, through tlie half-open door, Victor say, softly: "If Aimee was only out of the way!" "What a wish for a devoted husband lo express!" Madge had replied, laugh ing. "It is your fault only, Madge," he had said, in an eloquent voice. And just then their horses were at tlie door, and they had ridden away, Victor forgetting tlie good-by until Madge reminded him of it. Tiie sound of tlie horses' hoofs had died away, and still Aimee sat, with her head bent down and her eyes full of tears. "I could not have dreamed it," site whispered to herself. "No! He really wished me out of the way. And shall 1 not go, if it will make him happier?" And the light of the perished happi ness made her pale face bright. She took baby in her arms and kissed him a hundred times; lingering with a wistful tenderness over tlie smiling lips at-Jt the sleepy blue eyes, and then she put him down In ids cradle, pulled the dainty curtains together to keep out the light, and wrapping her waterproof around her, went out from tlie little paradise which had been home. A mile away, as she was hurrying along the road, in an oppi. e direction 10 that in which hand and Madge liad gone, - a ncard their voices borne along Xi the wind in light laughter. She bowed her head and went swift ly by, but not before both of them had recognized her. "Aimee!" they exclaimed, in one breath, and Madge held slill her Im patient horse, while Victor sprang to tlie ground and caught in his arms the flying figure. "Aimee, darling, what are you doing here, and where is baby?" At that question she hurst into loud er sobs, which shook lier frame, then, losing suddenly her fictitious strength, she fainted away. Somehow tliey got her home; and there, by the time they liad coaxed tlie loses back iuto her cheeks, the secret was told wlileh liad so nearly caused Victor Doty to lose his wife. For a lumbering wagon was driven to the door, and out of it five men lifted Aimee's new piano, which Victor had ordered, a week before, at Madge's loving instigation. Madge stayed long enough to hear Aimee wake the old music again with skillful fingers; and when, a week Inter, she bade them good-by, Aimee whispered, with a happy smile: "Ah, Madge, I "do not believe I shall ever be jealous again!" "And if you are," laughed Madge, "don't he tempted to run away and leave that baby!"— Saturday Niglit. Germany Rejects Puffy Recruits. The German Government is very careful indeed in its selection of men for service for China, says a Berlin correspondent. Of those who pre sented themselves as volunteers only ten to fifteen per cent, were passed as medically fit. All desirous of be ing selected for service there must be able to prove that there is no trace of hereditary tuberculosis or madness in their system. They must not he of choleric or melancholy disposition. Their skin must be elastic, and not in the least puffy or bloated, and they themselves neither excessively thin nor excessively fat. Their hearts must not he affected by hill climbing or run ning, the beat having to remain under 120 during such exercise, nnd no one liable to colds in tlie head or in the lungs, or anyone suffering from mdl geqtion or rheumatism would nave f chance of beiag accepted by the medi val board. OUR SWEAT SYSTEM. Prom Two to Twenty-oiglit Miles of h\v •of Glands on tile Body. It may lie interesting to know iliac one perspires more on the right side of the body than on the left, and that | the skin of the palm of the hand ex j eretes four and a half times as much l proportionately to the surface as the | skin of the hack. The pores in the [ ridges of the palm number as many at ! 3000 to the square inch. They are j scarcest on the back, where there are ' only 400 to the square inch. These I pores are not simple holes or perform I tions in the hide, as some imagine, b_t j are little pockets lined with the same i epithelium or pavement stuff that cov | ars the external of the body. The run 1 straight down iuto the deepest stru"- ! ture of the skin, and there they kink I up and coil around till they look like a | iishiug line that has been thrown down J wet. Enclosed in this knot are little veins that leak the perspiration through the walls of the tube, and it j wells up to the surface of the skin. It . is estimated that the average-sized man has 7,000,000 of these sweat glands, aggregating twenty-eight m'les jof tubing. Think of it! Twenty j eight miles if all those tiny tubes could be straightened our and put end jto end! These figures, wonderful though they ma; seem, are on the | very best medical authority. They are ! the figures of men who have given their | lives to the study of this subject. But still, if they seem too large to you. there is just as good medical authority for the statement that there are 2,400,- 000 sweat glands on the human body, each one-fifteenth of an inch long, and that their aggregate length is two miles and a half! Think of it! Two miles and a half! If you object to that, too, I have the very best author ity for the statement that rhey are one-quarter of an inch long and ag gregate more than nine miles, or I can figure it for you at seven miles or twelve miles. Take your pick. Oui motto is, "We aim to please." If one figure suits yon more than another, it's yours. We can substantiate it liy the very best medical authority. I find only one figure, however, for the amount of liquid secreted by the skin of an average person in a year, though it is evident that the quantity must vary greatly according as the person works in an Icehouse or rides a bicycle tip hill. Prom the average person in a year's time there oozes through the pores of the skin 1500 pounds of water. Let us see: "A pint's a pound uic world around,' two pints make one quart, four quarts one gal lon—oil. well, you cipher it out for yourself. I never was much of a hand at figures. Harvey Sutherland, in Ainslee's Dared by an Elephant. Engine Driver Russell, while taking his freight train from Teluk Anson to Ipoh, on the Malay peninsula, was confronted by a big tusker elephant, wiio usurped the centre of the trhek. A grand contest then ensued between elephant and engine. The elephant repeatedly charged the engine, and this game went on for nearly an ltott". The driver occasionally backed the engine, and then the elephant would stand aside from the track, but on tlte engine again coming forward the ani mal would return to the track and re new its charges. The driver describes the onslaught of the elephant as most terrific, particularly on one occasion, when he feared the smoke-box door hail been battered in. Of course, the driver could have charged at the tusker, but then the great probability would have been that tlie engine would have been derailed. Doubtless suffering from a sore head at the futile contest between ivory and iron, the elephant altered his tactics, and, turning its rear portion to the iron steed, endeavored to pnsli its an tagonist backward. Here came the chance for the driver, who quickly turned on the steam and gradually pushed the elephant off the line, but in doing so oue of the engine wheels went over the hind legs of the ele plinnt, and thus Mr. Tusker was dis abled. The freight train then pro ceeding on its journey, bearing evi dent marks of the struggle on the cow catcher and the smoke box. Several pieces of broken tusks were picked up and these commanded a good price.— Perafc Pioneer. Dlsnpiienrlng Waters. Father Daull, a French missionary in tlie heart of the Dark Continent, writes from Karema that, since 1879, the surface of Lake Tanganyika has fallen twenty-five feet; with the re sult that along the shore of the lake there is a belt of cultivated ground, over half a mile in width, between the present water's edge and that of twen ty years ago. The level now seems to he permanently fixed. Father Daull does not think that there has been a shrinkage of the lake, but that tlio present is its normal level, and that the previous higher level was owing to one of the outlets being clogged up. His opinion is, however, not shared by many travelers. Scott Elliot, who made a careful Investigation of the lake, found evidences that at a form er period the level was much higher than even in 1879, and thinks that there has been a great shrinkage. Be sides, this latter idea is only in keep ing with the general tendency of Afri can lakes. The Ritwa Lake, which is still fifty miles long and from twelve to twenty miles broad, is known to be drying up. Dr. Ivandt, a celebrated German African traveler, has recently reported that during his travels he discovered the dry bed of what war formerly a large lake between Lakes -Albert Edward and Kiwu. 40-foot channel is to be dredged in New York harbor, and the work will le done by the two largest dredgers .11 CM: Ivuce. A Missouri judge lias hit upon an ef cctive plan for getting tramps to leave own. ile sentences ail brought before lim to 30 days' work on the streets and fives them half an hour to get their ools. That half hour sees them well 0.1 heir way. .STATE OK OHIO. 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