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.
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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
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