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Justice might do better service In
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the bandage were removed from her
eyes and a modern weapon substitut
ed for the Roman sword.
The saio rule to guard against mala
ria is to slap at every mosquito that
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mine whether it is an anopheles or a
culex. There is as yet no society for
the protection of the common punc
turer.
In 1888 the first law adopting the
Australian system of voting was passed
in Kentucky, and by IS9B the Austra
lian system had come into force by
legislative action in every state of the
country, except North Caiolina and
South Carolina.
The Chinese residents of the coun
try are evidently taking to heart the
old slogan "The Chinese must go," for
they have "gone" to the number of
29,000 in the last 20 years, and we now
have less than 90,000 of them. When
the Chinaman makes his little for
tune he goes back to China to live as
a nabob among his people, and this ac
counts for the decrease.
A new theory concerning the In
crease of appendicitis attributes it to
worms or microbes swallowed by the
patient when eating raw fruit. Old
school physicians and surgeons sling,
however, to the opinion that most of
the alleged case 3 are fictitious and the
product of imaginative young practi
tioners who desire an opportunity to
display a little surgical skill at the
expenso of the patient.
A Paris schoolmaster has petitioned
the French chamber against kings
still being portrayed on French play
ing cards. Ho suggests that kings
should be replaced by pictures of
Thiers, MacMahon, Grevy and Carnot,
and queens by equally prominent re
publican women. The parliamentary
commission sitting on the petition has
replied that tho change is impossible,
fincc it would ruin quite a number of
playing card factories.
"Blind Tom," who was the musical
prodigy of the last generation, has re
appeared in concert at the age of 62
years. He is the same mental imbe
cile as of old, and since retiring from
the stage has spent his days in asy
lums and sanitariums, but his musi
cal powers are said to he unimpaired.
He can still play three airs at once,
play with his back to the piano, and
immediately reproduce any air which
he hears. He is a human freak, unex
plained and unexplainable.
Human Frey of Wild Animals.
The report of the government of In
dia for 1899 shows that for that year
25,587 human lives fe'l a prey to wild
animals. By far the largest number —
24,021 —were killed by snakes. Tigers
were responsible for 899 deaths, wolves
for 338, leopards 325 and 1,402 were
killed by elephants, hyenas, jackals,
and crocodiles together. The deaths
due to serpents were much more nu
merous than during preceding years.
Pope <f;ets /lis Snuff In AmorVa.
Pope Leo XIII. is still addicted tc
the habit of taking snuff. It is not
generally known that the snuff usee!
by the head of the Roman Catholic
church is made especially for his use
in America. This particular kind is
the highest priced made anywhere in
the WOT Id. arid before being packed is
Savored with tho costly attar of roses.
Prussia's recent action In making
all railway return tickets valid 45
days has been promptly followed by
fiaxouy and Baden.
I THE FALL OF A SEA-MONARCH.
£ Br FRANK T. BCLT.ES.
Glorious in all his splendid majesty,
the great sun issued forth of his
chamber, and all the wild sea basked
in his beams with a million, million
smiles. Save the sea and the sun and
the sky, there was nought apparently
existing—it might well have been the
birthday of Light The one prevail
ing characteristic of the scene to a
human eye, had one been there to see,
was peace—perfect, stainless peace.
Yet beneath that sea of smiling, placid
beauty a war of unending ferocity
was being waged, truceless, merciless;
for unto the victors belonged the
spoils, and without them they must
perish—there was none other food to
be gotten.
But besides all this ruthless war
fare, carried on Inevitably, because
without it all must die of hunger,
there were other causes of conflict,
matters of high policy and more in
tricate motive than just the blind, all
compelling pressure of hunger. The
glowing surface of that morning 3ea
was suddenly disturbed simultaneous
ly at many points, and like ascending
incense the bushy breathings of some
scores of whales became visible. Per
fectly at their ease, since their in
stincts assured them that from this
silent sea their only enemy was ab
sent, they lay in unstudied grace
about the sparkling waters, the cows
and youngsters frivoling happily to
gether in perfect freedom from care.
Hither they had come from one of
their richest feeding grounds, where
ail had laid in a stock of energy suf
ficient to carry them half around the
globe without weariness. So they
were fat with a great richness, strong
with incalculable strength, and be
cause of these things they were now
about to settle a most momentous
question.
Apart from the main gathering of
females and calves by the space of
about a mile lay five individuals, who
from their enormous superiority in
size, no less than the staid gravity
of their demeanor, wero evidently the
adult males of the school. They lay
almost motionless In the figure of a
baseless triangle, whereof the apex
was a magnificent bull over 70 feet
in length, with a back like some keel
less ship, bottom up, and a head huge
and square as a railway car. He It
was who first broke the stillness that
reigned.
Slowly raising his awful front with
Its down-hanging 20-foot lower jaw
exposing two gleaming rows of curved
teeth, he said;
"Children, ye have chosen the time
and the place for your impeachment
of my over-lordship, and I am ready.
Well I wot that ye do but as our
changeless laws decree; that the choice
of your actions rest not with your
selves; that although yo feel lords
of yourselves and desirous of ruling
all your fellows, it is but under the
compelling pressure of our hereditary
Instincts. Yet remember, I pray you,
before ye combine to drive me from
among ye, for how many generations
1 have led the school, how wisely I
have chosen our paths, so that we are
still an unbroken family, as we have
been for more than a hundred sea
sons. And if ye must bring your
powers to test now, remember, too,
that I am no weakling, no dotard
weary of rule, but mightiest among
all our people, conquerer In more than
a thousand battles, wise with the ac
cumulated knowledge of a hundred
generations of monarchy. Certainly
the day of my displacement must
come; who should know that better
than I? But methinks It has not yet
dawned, and I would not have ye
lightly pit your immature strength
against mine, courting inevitable de
struction. Ponder well my words, for
I have spoken."
A solemn hush ensued, just empha
sized by the slumbrous sound of tlio
spnrkling wavelets lapping ' those
mighty forms as they lay all motion
less and apparently inert. \ r et it had
been easy to see that along each bas
tion-like flank tho rolling tendons,
each one a cable in itself, were tense
and ready for instantaneous action,
that the great muscle mounds wero
hardened around the gigantic masses
of bone, and that the flukes, each some
hundred feet in area, did not yield to
the heaving bosom of the swell, but
showed an almost imperceptiblo vi
bration as of a fucus frond in a tide
rip. After a perfect silence of some
15 minutes an answer came—from the
youngest of the group, who lay re
mote from the chief:
"We have heard, 0 king, the words
of wisdom and our hearts rejoice.
Truly wo have been of tho fortunate
in this goodly realm, and ingrates in
deed should we be had our training
under so terrible a champion been
wasted upon us. But therefore it is
that we would forestall the shame
that should overtake us did wo wait
until thy force had waned and that
all-conquering might had dwindled
into dotage ere we essayed to put. thy
teaching into practice. Since thy dep
osition from this proud place must be,
to whose forces couldst thou more
honorably yield than to ours, the
young warriors who have learned of
thee all we know, and who will carry
on the magnificent traditions thou hast
handed down to us in a manner worthy
of our splendid, sire. And if we be
slain, as well may be, remembering
with whom we do battle, tho greater
our glory, the greater thine also."
A deep murmur like the bursting of
a tidal wave against the sea-worn
lava rocks of Ascension marked the
satisfaction of the group at this expo
sition of their views, and as if actu
ated by one set of nerves the colos
sal four swung round shoulder to
shoulder, and faced the ocean mon
arch. Moving not by a barnacle's
breadth, he answered, "It is well
spoken, oh, my children; ye are wiser
than I. And bo the issue what it will,
all shall know that the royal race
still holds. As in the days when our
fathers met and slew the slimy dragons
of the pit, and unscarred by fathom
long claws or ten-ply coats of mail
dashed them in pieces and chased
them from the blue deep they be
ioulde, so today when the world has
grown old. and our ancient heritage
has sorely shrunken, our warfare shall
be the mightiest among created
things."
Hardly had the leviathan uttered
the last word when, with a roar like
Niagara bursting its bonds in spring,
ho hurled his vast bulk headlong upon
the close-gathered band of his huge
offspring. His body was like a bent
bow, and its recoil tore the amazed
sea into deep whirls and eddies as if
an island had foundered. Full upon
the foremost one he fell, and deep an
swered unto deep with tho impact.
That awful blow dashed its recipient
far into the soundless depths, where
the champion sped swiftly forward on
his course, unable to turn until his
impetus was somewhat spent. Before
he could again face his foes, the three
were upon him, smiting him with Ti
tanic fluke strokes, circling beneath
him with intent to catch tho down
hanging shaft of his lower jaw, rising
swiftly, end on, beneath the broad
spread of his belly, leaping high into
the bright air, and falling heavily up
on his wide back.
The tormented sea foamed and
hissed in angry protest, screaming sea
birds circled around the conflict, rav
ening sharks gathered from unknown
distances, scenting blood, and all the
countless tribes of ocean watted
aghast. But after the first red fury
had passed came the wariness, camo
the fruitage of all those years of train
ing, all the accumulated instincts of
ages to supplement blind brutal force
with deep-laid schemes of attack and
defence. As yet the three survivors
were but slightly injured, for they
had so divided their attack, even in
that first great onset, that the old
warrior could not safely single out
one for destruction. Now the young
est, the spokesman, glided to the
front of his brethren and faced his
waiting sire:
"What! so soon weary? Thou art
older than we thought. Truly, this
battle hath been delayed too long. We
looked for a fight that should be re
membered for many generations, and
behoiu—■'* Out of the corner of his
eye he saw tho foam circles rise as the
vast tail of the chief curved inward
for the spring, and he, the scoruer,
launched himself backwards a Hun
dred fathoms at a bound. After him,
leaping like any salmon in a spate,
came the terrible oldwarrier, the smit
ten waves boiling around him as he
dashed them aside in his tremendous
pursuit But herein the pursued had
the advantage, for it is a peculiarity
of the sperm whale that, while he
cannot see before him, his best arc of
vision is right astern. So that tho
pursuer must needs be guided by
sound and the feel of the water, and
tuo very vigor of his chase was telling
far more upon his vast hulk than up
on the lither form of his flying ene
my.
In this matter the monarch's wis
dom was of no avail, for experience
could not tell him how advancing age
handicaps the strongest, and he won
dered to find a numbness creeping
along his spine—to feel that he was
growing weary. And suddenly, with
an eel-llko movement, tho pursued
one described a circle beneath the
water, rising swiftly, as a dolphin
springs towards his pursuer, and dash
ing at the dangling, gleaming jaw.
These two great jaws met in clashing
contest, breaking off a dozen or so ot
the huge teeth and ripping eight or
ten feet of the gristly muscle from
the throat ot the aggressor. But hard
ly had they swung clear of each other
than the other two were fresh upon
the scene, and while the youngest one
rested, they effectually combined to
prevent their fast-weakening foe from
rising to breathe. No need now for
them to do more, for the late enor
mous expe-nditure of force had so
drained his vast body of its prime ne
cessity that the issue of the fight was
but a question of minutes.
Yet he still fought gallantly, though
with lungs utterly empty—all the
rushing torrent of his blood growing
fetid for lack of vitalizing air. At
last, with a roar as of a cyclone
tnrough his head, he turned on his
side and yielded to his triumphant
conquerors, who drew off and allowed
him to rise limply to the now quiet
sea surface For more than an hour
he lay there prone, enduring all the
agony of 1113 overthrow, and seeing
for before him the long, lonely vista
of his solitary wanderings, a lone
whale driven from his own, and nev
ermore to rule again.
Meanwhile, the three had departed
in search of their brother, smitten so
sorely early in the fight that he had
not since joined them. When they
found that which had been he. It was
the centre of an innumerable host of
hungry things that fled to air or sea
depths t their approach. A glance
revealed the manner of his end—a
broken back—while already, such had
been the energy of the sea people, the
great framework of his ribs was partly
laid bare. They made no regrets tor
the doing of useless things finds no
place In their scheme of things. Then
the younger said: "So the question
of overlordship lies between us three,
and I am unwilling that it should
await settlement. I claim the leader
ship and am prepared here and now
to maintain my right." This bold as
sertion had its effect upon the two
hearers, who, after a long pause, re
plied: "We accept, O king, fully and
freely, until the next battle day ar
rives, when the succession must be
maintained by thee in ancient form."
So the matter was settled and proud
ly, the young monarch set off to re
join the waiting school. Into their
midst he glided with an air of con
scious majesty, pausing in the centre
to receive the homage and affection
ate caresses of the harem. No ques
tions were asked as to the wherea
bouts of the deposed sovereign, nor as
to what had become of the missing
member of the brotherhood. These aro
things that do not disturb the whale
people, who in truth have a sufficiency
of other matters to occupy their
thoughts besides those inevitable
changes that belong to the settled or
der of things. The recognit'on com
plete, the new leader glided out from
the midst of his people, and pointing
his massive front to the westward
moved off at a stately pace, on a
straight course for tha coast of Japan.
Long, long lay the defeated one,
liovionless and alone. His exertions
had been so tremendous that every
vast muscle band seemed strained be
yond recovery, while the torrent: of
his blood, befouled by his long en
forced stay beneath the sea, did not
readily regain its normally liealthfuL
flow. But on the second day he
roused himself, and his mighty head
swept the unbroken circle of the hori
zon to satisfy himself that he was in
deed at last a lone whale. Ending
his earnest scrutiny, he milled round
to the southward, and with set pur
pose and steady fluke beat started for
the Aucklands. On his journey he
passed many a school or smaller
"pod" of his kind, but in some mys
terious manner the seal of his lone
liness was set upon him, so that he
was shunned by all. In 10 days he
reached his objective, 10 days of fast
ing, and Impelled by fierce hunger
he ventured in closely to the cliffs,
where great shoals of fish, many seals,
with an occasional porpoise, came gai
ly careering down the wide gaping
tunnel of his throat into the inner
darkness of dissolution. It was good
to be here, pleasant to feel once more
that unquestioned superiority over all
things, and swittly the remembrance
of his fall faded from the monster's
mind. By day he wandered lazily, en
joying tho constant easy procession
of living food down his ever-opened
gullet; by night he wallowed sleepily
in the surf-torn margin of those jagged
reefs.
And thus he came to enjoy the new
phase of existence, until one day he
rose slowly from a favorite reef patch
to feel a sharp pang shoot through
his wide flank. Startled into sudden,
violent activity, he plunged madly
around In tho confined area of tho
cove wherein he lay, in the vain en
deavor to rid himself of the smart.
But he had been taken at a disadvan
tage, for in such shallow waters thers
was no room to manoeuvre his vast
hula, and his wary assailants felt
that in spite of his undoubted vigor
and ferocity he would be an easy
prey. But suddenly he headed in
stinctively for the open sea at such
tremendous speed that tho two boats
attached to him were hut as chips
behind. He reached the harbor's
mouth, and bending swiftly sought
tho depths. Unfortunately for him
a large pinnacle of rock rose sheer
from the sea bed some hundred fath
oms below, and from this he hurled
himself headlong with such fearful
force that his massive neck was brok
en. And next day a weary company of
men were toiling painfully to strip
from his body it 3 great accumulation
of valuable oil, and his long career
was ended.—New York Evening Post
How to Eiitor l'olltic*.
If you want to be a politician, the
first thing to do is to get into the push,
or at least create tho impression that
you are in. When there is a conven
tion, if you can't work in as a dele
gate, you can at least get into the
crowd in the hotel lobby, and if you
carry ourself in shape you can mako
the stranger who is within the gates of
the city believe you are not only a dele
gate, but one of the steering commit
tee. Keep busy. Take at least eight or
ten men off to one side in the course of
the evening for private conversation.
There is quite a good deal In making
people believe you are cutting a good
many lemons, whether you are or not.
It is a good idea to be seen often on
the corner talking with some promi
nent candidate. You can arrange this
if you have the proper amount of gall.
You may not have anything to tell
him, but then you will be seen in con
sultation, and you will make some par
ties who don't know you very well
think that there must be a hen on. But,
above all else, cultivate your gall. If
you can get some reporter to inter
view you on the political situation,
that will bo a good scheme. The news
papers can make a reputation fcr al
most any sort of a man.—Topeka Mail
and Breeze.
An Otn'lU Anion? Krtlnnl ri-iTilm-n.
An oculist who has examined the
eyes of pupils in five of the Jersey
City public schools has found that
one-sixth of the children have defec
e vision-
THE SWAMP SINCER.
List to bis voice—
Ker-rank! ker-ohunk !
As he sings in the lowland sedges.
List to the plunge of his dart-like lunge
As he dives where the cress-meed dredges;
The fox-ilre glows in the misty gray
Of the home of the singer chilly,
TVhuse pop-eyes peep in u furtive way
From tho breast of a white pond lily.
List to hfs voice—
Ker-runk! ker-chunk!
As he sits on the bank a dreaming.
List to the splash as his sleek legs dash
To the depths where the llsh are gleaminß;
The sunbeams creep through the leafy gloam
Or the nook of the singer chilly.
Whose pnp-e\ es peep from his island home,
Tho brcust of a white point lily.
—Boston Courier.
HUMOROUS.
First fly—l was shut up in a fly
paper trap ull night. Second fly—Well,
you needn't feel so stuck up about it.
Nell—Young Mr. Sappehedde has
quite a vein of sentiment in him.
Belle —I'm afraid liis sentiment is all
In vain.
Siliicus—Woman is a riddle. She
keeps us guessing. Cynicus—And yet
we would rather be kept guessing than
give her up.
Waiter (who has upset a bowl of
soup down the old gentleman's back)
—Not a word, sir; not a word; my
fault entirely.
Tommy—Pop. what Is a cynic?
Tommy's Pop—A cynic, my son. Is
usually a man who has to put up with
his wife's cooking.
Muggins—That fellow Scribbler Is
a wide-awake author. Buggins—What
has he written? Muggins—His last
work Is a treatise on Insomnia.
Hubbubs —Do you have many
through trains here? Subbubs —Yes,
most of them are through trains. Tlicy
go right through here without stop
ping.
Mr. Pitt —It Is odd that the lecturer's
motto and the highwayman's motto
are the same. Mr. Penn—What Is
their motto? Mr. Pitt —Stand and de
liver.
First Actor—What's the latest?
Second Actor—l'm told they're going
to dramatize the hooks of that bank
cashier who lately defaulted lor ?!,-
000,000.
B'.obbs—That girl next door thumps
the piano ad day and all night. She
ought to bo locked up. Slobbs—
Wouldn't it do just as well to have
the piano locked up?
Mr. Newlywed—These pies are not
like mother used to make. Mrs.
Newlyv.ed—Also permit me to remind
you that you don't make the dough
that father used to make.
Tecs—l met Mies Lo Fevre in Paris.
She said she knew you. Jess —Oh, yes.
I learned French under her; did she
tell you? Tess —No; she said you
used to take lessons from her.
First Little Girl—My dolly can say
'Mamma' and 'Papa.' Second Little
Girl—Oh, that's so old-fashioned. It
is proper now for children to address
their parents as Mother and Father.
Guest—You say this is the smallest
room you have. How much is it?
Summer Hotel Proprietor—Seven dol
lars a day. Guest —And when I am
through with it may I take it home
with me as a souvenir?
Irate Customer—l've brought this
parrot back. You told me its former
master had taught it to talk, and it
does nothing but sit all day and wiggio
its toes. Dealer—That's all right, it
used to belong to a deaf and dumb
man.
HORSES WEAR HATS HERE.
SunbonnetH Dovlapil for tlm Protection of
tlio Kqutne*.
Horses with hats are a common
sight about the streets of the city
these days. The hats are of straw,
of course, with high crowns and broad
brims, in which are two good sized
holes through which the animal's cars
protrude. Sponges are generally
placed in the crowns and dampened
in order to keep the horses'heads cool.
The hats are tied on. The equine
sunbonnet lends a new significance
to the phrase "I'll eat my hat." Per
haps tt Is the suggestion of this idea
that has something to do with the
firmness with which every driver ties
the bonnet on his horse.
The animals for the most part, ap
pear to carry their headgear without
any display of self-consciousness, and
trot along unconcernedly with the
bonnets shaking in the breeze. Some
sneak along shamefacedly, witlf their
ears laid back along the brim, as if
this new-fangled finery was not ex
actly welcome to thorn. Others have
been observed to look with some
thing like contempt on their un
capped brothers and sisters, whose
complexions are undefended from the
sun. An east side Iceman, whose
team wore the new headgear, alleged
this morning that his mare Invari
ably grew restless and threatened to
bolt unless her headgear was set
straight. This statement, if it be
true, is not without pyscholological
value.
In Washington the Humane society,
after some agitation ot the subject of
horse hats, has announced that a
number of the straws in the latest
stylo are being made under the au
spices of the society, and will be dis
tributed among the hack drivers of
the capital, to be used for their steeds.
—New York Sun.
Lurk of Cnnfl<lenr*.
Assistant—ls the meaning of this
poem absolutely incomprehensible to
you ?
Magazine Editor--Absolutely! You're
going to accept it, aren't you?
Assistant —Oh. yes. But I wasn't
willing to trust my own judgment.—
Life.
WHERE QUININE IS RAISID.
Java Han Supplanted South America—
Mel hod* of Manufacture.
The one staple drug that is now
used the world over is quinine. j
Wherever there is fever or malaria
there nature's antidote stands ready
to relieve the sufferer. From Patago
nia to Alaska and from Ceylon to Si
beria the prescription used oftenest
is the white powder that is the prod
uct of the cinchona tree. The dis
covery of quinine by the Spaniards
in South America is an old story, but
it is not generally known that the
world's present supply of quinine
comes from the island of Java where
the cinchona tree is not indigenous,
but was introduced only after many
failures and with infinite toil and pa- ,
tience on the part of the Dutch gov
ernment. i
Fifty years ago a Dutchman named j
Hasskarl was sent to South America ]
to obtain slips and seeds of the qui- J
nine tree. After many adventures and *
two years of wandering near the head i
waters of the Amazon, Hasskarl re- /
turned to Java with 16 saplings. They .1
were planted and flourished remarka- ;
bly well, but when the baric was first
taken, five years later, great was the
disappointment to find that Hasskarl
had been duped, and that the saplings
were not cinchonas at all.
Another attempt was made a few
years later, when an English mer
chant, a Mr. ledger, sold to the Dutch
planters some cinchona seed he had
obtained in Bolivia Twenty thousand
trees grow from Ledger's seed, and
many of them are still standing.
The quinine forests are planted in
clearings in the jungle and are kept
as free from weeds as a flower garden
in this country. When a tree is six
years old it is cut down and a new
slip planted alongside of its roots, so
that the quinine supply is never dl- /
minlshed. The bark is stripped from -A
the trunk by Javanese women. They j
cut it into short lengths and dry it, j
first in the sun and later in ovens. The
dried bark Is then put through a crude
mill, which cuts it into small bits.
These are shipped In bags to Amster
dam or Bandoeng, the centre of the
quinine industry of Java.
At the factory the bark is mixed
with an alkaloid and ground again.
It is then pumped into immense tanks
filled with hot crude petroleum, which
dissolves the alkaloid from the bark.
The oil in turn is washed out with
sulphuric acid to remove the alkaloid,
and the crude quinine# crystalizes when
it is cooled. The crystals are then
placed in trays to dry. In 100-pound
cans the finished quinine is now ready
for the market
The cutting down of the cinchona
tree is the distinctive feature of Dutch
quinine culture. The old South Amer
ican method was to peel the bark and
then wait four or fivp years until it
grew on again. "But this process \ '
proved too slow for cinchona gather- ,r
ers. and during the last decade thous
ands of trees have been cut down,
without any new ones being planted
in their places. As a result, the ac
cessible quinine forests of South
America are greatly depleted and com
paratively little of the general sup
ply comes from the part of the world
where it was discovered.
Quinine of an inferior quality comes
from Ceylon, and the British govern
ment supplies its army nnd navy hos
pitals from plantations of Its own in
the Himalaya mountains.
The Growth of Floriculture.
It is said that in the state of Con
necticut there are more than 800,000
feet of glass devoted wholly to the
growing of flowers for commercial
purposes, nnd doubtless a similarly
good showing could be made in other
states. Vet not so many years ago
flowers were looked upon as an ex
pensixe luxury that, for somo curious H
reason, whimsical rich people liked to 1
have. Indeed, it is not too much to
say that the average American of a
generation ago would have been rath
er ashamed to avow openly any lik
ing for flowers. Such a taste would
have been looked upon as a mark of
effeminacy, to bo ridiculed, if not con
demned. But today the appreciation
of flowers is general and the amount
of money Invested in tbelr cultivation
is in the aggregate enormous. But the
commercial side of the question is,
after all, subsidiary. The growing I
love for flowers misdirected though
it sometimes is, indicates an increas- j
ing sympathy with the beauty and
" of nature that Americans have
lacked hitherto, perhaps because na
ture was the first and greatest ob
stacle they encountered in their early
pioneer life. Similarly, Americans
used to feel somewhat ashamed to
confess that they were from the coun- j
try, because, from the point of view of
the pioneer settler, the city repre
sented civilization, while the country
stood for struggle, privation and, per
haps poverty. Happily, however, that
provincial view Is passing away with
the growth of a higher culture and a
keener understanding of the beauties
of nature.—New Vork Tribune.
Glvfi Everybody n Chance.
Emerson's dictum that we should
treat every one as if he were all he
ought to be is an excellent rule to
pratice In dally life. It is human na
ture to rise to the level that is ex
pected of it. It is not necessary to
wanle time upon uncongenial people if
unless you are bound to them by
strong family ties; but it is important
that all with whom you come in con
tact be studied with the desire on
your part te give credit for all that
is rood In them, and that nothing Id I
their outward circumstances or ap- V
pearance be allowed to prejudice you
against them.—Ada C. Sweet, in the !
Woman's Home Companion. 1