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Show HBlsacelk Iflp9g :(GBIlaI - ' ; -- : THE STORY On a pleaaure trio In eaetern waters, Philip Amory, English World war veteran, now a trader on the Inland of Papua, Naw . Guinea, pluncea overboard to aave the Ufa of a musical comedy actraaa, known a "Oln-Sllne- ." Amory become! Intereated in Pla Laurlar, member of a wealthy New South Wales family. Ha telle her of hie knowledge of a wonderful gold field on the though he doea not dleclone the name of the place. "Ola-Slin-telle him Pla la engaged to Sir Richard Fanabew. Amory, however, la confident that the girl la not Indifferent to him. Hit holiday ended, ha arrlvea back at Darn. Ha meeta an Knglleh-ma- Bplcer, there on develop-mn- nt bualneea for a ayndlcate of which Fanebaw la head. Pan. ahaw'a same recalla to Amory a lnn..rA,.nllAn In.li1nt In whlrli ' Beatrice Grfmshaw Illustration bg Irsclis Mgers Copyright by Hughs) VUaele St Co. .,.,!..,.. 'WW Serrie J: J crags of Prince of Wales snd Horn. I think, so looking, she saw none of these things, nor, yet the sky with galloping tradewind clouds, nor the near palm tree tops, that almost blew across the rail beside us. ( think that she saw only rough Phil Amory, called Black Sheep. Bud the day, for ber, ran filled with shlnlnjt gold. . . . There's time and time for thinking, In the lands where black sheep live. Sometimes, since then, I have won-dered bow things might have gone; what my life, and that of another, might have been, had there been no I'la Laurler on the stenmer. If there .. 1 one bnt goats to look on, and then jumped op and declared my intention of going out on business. What 1 mennt to do was to sail my boat over to Cape Vork, and sent my message now more than ever necessary by land line. The address of Pis Laurler's father was easily found; I knew where I could get a directory and year book of "Prominent Aus-tralians." ' . First, however, I went to the post office, on the off chance of mall. had to wall a little; somebody, Inside, was busy telephoning message to Cape Xork after the strange 'local fashion words spelt out letter by let-ter, with a Christian name for each, to avoid blunders. Mechanically, as I leaned on the counter, 1 began tak-ing np the message, which seemed public for all the world to hear " . . P for Potar. T. tnr tanrl he wltneaaed the eecape of Fan ahaw from a leper colony. He tella his friend Baaeett about It and decldea to Inform Laurler. He goes to Thuraday Island to aend tba message. " CHAPTER IV Continued 9 I found my usual room, and dumped my gear In It; walked round the echoing veranda, with a wary eye for ant-eate- n boards; peeped into the pilot's room, and bad about made up my mind that there was nobody here save myself and he, when I heard voices In the upstairs parlor. A man and e woman, talking. "Gln-Slln- for a ducat," I said to myself. "Now what on earth J I did not mean to listen ; but stand-ing there in the dusk of the staircase, uncertain whether to go on or go back, I caught sentence or two, before It became clear to me that, up or down, I must move on. "... Off that Infernal ship. Of coarse you will, Jinny, tou don't expect me to believe you missed the boat by accident?" , ' "Missed it for s lark." "Yon didn't miss it for a lark Genevieve. If you didnt miss it for me, yon missed it for some one else." Jinny's reply was tuneful. Irrelevant, and chiefly concerned wltb the un-luckily comic love adventures of a "coon In Alabam." Then the other person, the man, E for Emily, A for Alice S for Samuel, El for Emily, D for Dora. . . . T for Thomas, O for Oliver. . . , H for Harry, A for Alice, V for Victoria, H for Emily. . . ." Somebody was "pleased to have" something. Waiting, I listened ; I was really not conscious of cvjsdropplng; what was chiefly in my mind at the time was the bare possibility of a let-ter from Pla. "Fleased to have you Join," the mes sage slowly ran. "Prospector failed us. See letter March." And then s word that waked me np like a shock from a live wire "Re Tatatata." If I had any scruples about listen-ing (and really, one doesn't or oughtn't to listen), I had none now. "Ta-tatata" the word so clearly Papuan, to any one who knew the country, the odd, distinctive word, not really for gotten, was the keyword to the secret that I had, for almost a year, been cherishing; the secret that 1 bad thought mine only. Where, In the name of everything that was Improbable, had Fanshaw got hold of that word, and the fact It connoted? Could a man keep noth-ing to himself, even though he locked his lips snd reined in his very thoughts? The clerk came forward, snd told me there were no letters. I hadn't expected any, so it was unreasonable for me to feel as 1 did exceedingly disappointed. I took myself and my disappointment out Into the yellow Thert Setmed No Reason, Now, Why - I Should Not Kiss This Jinny, and I Old With Thoroughness. had been Just Jinny Trencher, Jinny whom I had saved at the near risk of my own life; Jinny who gave me 1 know that which she never gave to sun and flying winds. ... I come to the conclusion that my telegram bad better go In any case and that after that the sooner I set sail for Duru again, the sooner I got my gear together, and started off on my trip to the Interior, the better. I hadn't money enough for all that was --wanted well, I would get Maidstone to "grubstake" me, much though It went against my pride, I hadn't a mate to no with me. Well, I would take the risks of going alone with my boys. Anything, sooner than let Fan-shaw get ahead of me with what 1 fancied to be the biggest And ever made In Papua. Mow that I raked my mind through and through, now that I squeezed the last drop out of every recollection that could help me, I was able to make a rough guess at the possible source of Fanshaw's Information, And, like most mysteries, It turned out to be simple enough when explained. The fiancee of the dead miner, Grace, had been, not a girl, but a widow. Her name, as I had heard It,, was Brown rlgg. Straining my memory, I seemed to recall something about her maiden name; and If I did not mistake, that name was the fairly common, but In this case, most significant one, of Fanshaw The miner perhaps had talked to Mrs. Brownrlgg more than one had supposed. Mrs. Brownrigg perhaps had talked to her relative (if indeed he was her relative), Sir Richard Fanshaw, the great man of a very mediocre family. I didn't see that 1 was ever likely to know the exact cir-cumstances, and perhaps they did not matter. One thing did matter, and that was that a man who signed his telegrams "F," who was almost cer-tainly Fanshaw himself, was Inviting some prospector to Join an exploring party ; using In the message, the name of the point where Grace's trip, yean ago, bad ended. (TO BB CONTINUED) said something that woke me up. "Where," be asked, a sudden rasp In His voice, "Is fhe beachcomber fellow who picked you out of the sea?" ' "At the bottom of It, for all 1 know," ajiswered Gln-Slln- "Jinny, you're enough to" That was all I beard. Conscious that I had already listened too long for de-cency, I hurried down the rubber-enr-pete- d stairs, and out Into the desolate back street behind the hotel. I wanted to see who would come out I bad half guessed already, . . ; Yes. It was Sir Richard Fanshaw's figure, thin and tall, that stalked out presently from the dusky doorway, followed by that other tall, thin fig-ure that was Jinny. From what I bad beard, 1 guessed that Fanshaw had left the ship at some Intermediate port and that Jinny, at the same port, had acci-dentally, or purposely abandoned her passage, and stayed behind. She and Fanshaw had returned Australia-ward- s In the same ship ; had disembarked at Thursday Island I didn't quite see why, but that could pass and were staying at the Grand. Fanshaw, clearly, was making light love to her; she did not favor bis suit, and be was In-clined to blame me for the rebuff. Thought slie wits "gone" on me. Im-agined (owing to the gossip he bad no doubt heard on the ship) that she bad abandoned her voyage and her contract and headed back toward Papua because of me. That was the situation, as I sized It up. While I was pondering these things, no less a person than olr Richard him-self came down the ste?a of the hotel. I was clear In his way, but he scatx' ly brushed me wltb his glance, as be passed. In that Instant I realized, what Indeed I might bavo known be-fore, that to I'ia's fiance, 1 was noth-ing more than a name. I had seen him on the ship, but he had not anyone else, "What am I doing?" she answered tightly. "Missed me boat In Soura-bay-stuffln' rice table at tho Orunje. Fanshaw was there gorgln' himself too; he was booked for Sourabaya oil business of some kind and be lent me my fare back to Sydney. There was a boat next day, and I thought I'd get away from him by taking It. but spare me days, that wasn't his Idea ; he saw his man and did his business and got away In twenty-fou- r hours, along wltb me. And when 1 got off here, he got off, so that's that." "He got off,n' I-- said, "because he's going across to Papua ; he has one of his exploring trips on." She nodded. "I know; he told me. He's heard something about It that he didn't like, this morning; he got fair snake-heade- when bis letters came along In some little boat I wouldn't have bad a chance of this yarn wltb you, only that he went off, for the tele-graph office as soon as he'd read the letters." I answered her ' nothing at all-sil- enced by a new and unpleasant thought I had brought over a gov-ernment mall bag In the cutter, as one usually did when crossing to "T. I." What was In Itt Who from Para had been writing to Sir Richard Fan-shaw- l Sptcer's cool Indifference to my de-parture was easily comprehensible, If he bad obtained, through that very circumstance, the chance of warning Sir Richard against Tiyself and my ugly knowledge. It was no news to him, I dared say; be seemed to be Sir Richard's creature through and through. Over these thoughts 1 sat glooming and worrying, till Jinny noticed the sudden drop In temperature, and be-gan to tease. Then 1 rot sed myself. She must be In Fanshaw's confidence, more or less, I thought; It wouldn't do to set that keen mind of hers to work. I kissed her again, wltb no consciously seen me. --just as well, I thought, though I could not have told why. The sight of him. busy and pur-poseful about I knew not what, re-minded roe that my telegram was still unsent I went op to my room to concoct It; but I bad scarcely got out pencil and paper, leaning over my sultcsse with back to the door, when I was suddenly and not disagreeably blinded by two long cool hands that closed, without warning, over my eyes. "Guess who," said Jinny's voice, with Jinny's own unmistakable chuckle In t "The prettiest girl In the Pacific, I answered, pulling down ber hands, and twisting hf r face till It met mine. There seemed no reason now why I should not kiss this Jinny, and I did, with thoroughness. I had not wanted 'to kiss ber on the boat when the vision ot Pia Laurler as trill gilded wltb the light of not Impossible fu-ture hopes. Now . . t What did It matter? Let Pla marry, or not marry, whom she listed ; there was always the man-grove rcll, and what It signified to stand between us two. . , . Jinny broke away from me; she was Bushed and laughing. I thought I bad never seen ber so pretty. "Tell me what It's .all about?" 1 said. "Why aren't you delighting the smart folk of Singapore, and why Isn't Sir Richard Fanshaw well, why Is be here, anyhow? I don't mean why Is he with you ; that's his luck-- but what the deuce do the two of you want in this dead dustheap of a place?" Jinny settled herself purrlngly tn a hammock chair like a slim kitten that curls Itself on a pillow. Her eyes were half closed; she looked be-neath long lushes, heavy with paint and across the plain ot seiUa-blu- t sea, and the far-o- fairy Isli of Tues-day and Wednesday, and the purple : HOW TO LIVE I ; LONGER By JOHN CLARENCE FUNK f . . A. M- - Se. D. ; Dtrecter el fubO, Hl CeWetlea, f State af Peeaeyhraala. X Don't Get Spoiled THESE! days one heart much shoot Utile U said about tullk bottles. However, this fact does Dot diminish the necessity of proper care of the latter, particularly In summer and In families to which there are Infants and small children. In fact, too much cart canuol be given this matter. v Of course, In every properly super vised dairy the milk Is carefully pas-teurised and the bottles sterlllicd be-fore the milk Is poured ltilo them. Or. If the raw product Is sold, sufficient safeguards, In the form of the tuber culln test and cleanliness factors, have been erected. Nevertheless, one sbonld not forget that the container, must be hnndled after It leaves the plant. And that in the majority of Instances It will repose for some time on the door-step or porch where It will be scces slbte to dirt, dust, snd, In season, to files. It follows that milk bottles should be taken Inside as soon as possible and the outside of them. Including the tops, be thoroughly cleansed before being placed In the refrigerator. Tho anmn ruin hnlrta ewiil for all foods to be eaten raw. The sense of this suggestion becomes apparent to anyone who visits a dally or semi-weekl- y market Apples, peaches, to-matoes, lettuce and similar provenrtet are subjected to much unnecessary handling by all sorts and conditions of people, not to mention the sprays from coughs and sneezes that are likely to find their destination on such articles. Aside from the diseuse spreading possibilities, ordinary clean-liness demands that such food should be thoroughly washed before being placed In the Ice box. Again, an unwarranted sense ot se entity Is likely to be developed be-cause foods have been refrigerated Meats, fruits or vegetablea that are even slightly "off" should be promptly consigned to the garbage pail. Avoid getting spoiled by spoiled foods. ' Take Care of Them JCST at present dental byglene It the limelight The schools are full of It health departments extol It and dentists preach It The net re-sult is that many thousands of chil-dren ere going to possess permanently much beaithler mouths thun formerly was the case. When It Is realised that many ot the killing diseases of later life enn often be directly traced to faulty teeth, the consequences of this move-me-can be appreciated. Indeed, It Is not too much to predict that e vast army of the present school population, through the dental hahlts now being Inculcated, will be saved hundreds ot thousands of serious disease cond-ition! Nevertheless, one must admit that there Is a tremendous number of young and older people who do not come under direct dental hygiene In-fluence at all. And that Is exactly where the rub comes la Many die as a consequence. Undoubtedly, long and healthy life will have a greater chance of being one's lot If proper dentnl care Is regu-larly applied. At least two brushlngs a day and a semiannual examluatioo by a reliable dentist are the funda-mental requirements for dental health. With yon and your dentist working together In this way to keep ' your moutb In proper shape, a mighty bul-wark against many diseases bos been effectively erected. Just reminder: False teetb are false. Don't believe the fellow who tells you that they are Just as good as the real thing, lie Is Just as false as are his teeth I ((B. Ml. Weetera Newspaper Union.? toed every, morning Get poisons out of the system with Fe--mln- t, the Chewing Gum Laia. tire. Smaller doses effective whet taken la this form. A modern, aciea title, family laxative. Safe sad mild, e23IHSTON FOR CONSTIPATION - WILBERTU heart of goU. Will tell him what's the matter why girls turn pale, and gracious matrons freeze at his approach? Yei, t will. This has gone far enough. Get a new pipe, Wilbert, and break it in gently, thoughtfull, with Sir ir.i...i.ij.t,.f. u t- - Cold In Head, Chest or Throat? RUB Musterole well into your chert throat almost instantly you feel easier. Repeat the Musterole-ru- b once an hour for five liours ... What a glorious refiefl Those good cold feme-di- es oil of mustard, menthol, camphor are mixed with other valuable ingre-dients in Musterole. It penetrates and stimulates blood circulation and helps to draw out infec-- !rtn ni niin 7 Lu mMlinn. fre 7f ture, When the curling wisps of its fragrance surround you, everything will be changed, Wilbert. How to Take Care of Your Pipe (Hie Ne, J) To make your pipe sweet from top to heel, smoke the pipe loedvhea ou break I It In, ot fill the bowl half tall the fir few timet 0 that the heel, and not merely the top, will be broken in. Send for out fne booklet. "How to TikeCue ofYoui Pipe. " Btown at Will urn. toaTobaccoCotpoitloo,LoaitvUlc,Karuckr, Dept. 97. I 1 Sir Walter Raleigh Smoking Tobacco years. Recommended by many doctors and nurses. Keep Musterole handy, jars, tubes. All druggists. To Mothers Musterole is also made in milder form for babies and smalt children. Ask for C'iif-tlren- 's Musterole. I A X Boschee's Syrup , VVrsv1 couBlm8 stops at VSoncet Relieves where others faiL Contains nothing injurious but K to eflectivel GUARANTEED. . Boschee's druggists Syrup WEADACHE 7 ar ff Instead of dangerous heart da-- I y m praaaants take safe, mild, purely I Iff vegetable NATURE'S RIMCDT ft I Jf and getrid of the bowel poisons E m that cause the trocble. Moth- - Z M Ing like M for billouanesa, tick f I headache and constipation. Acts I pleasantly. Never gripes. .. fj Mild, safe, purely vegetable At intuitu only 25c Male the test toaifhs, FEEL LIKE A MILLION, TAKB The Ideal Vacation Land Sunshine AH WinterLong Splendid roads towering mountain ranges Highest type hotels dry in vigoratlngair clear starlit nights-Califor- nia's Foremost Dtstrt Playground Ore A CHaltmr - m FWrltt Spring CALIF OBWIA Denver Mother Tells Story Nature controls alll "LLp" the functions of our digestive organs ex-- t cept one. We have 3 control over that, and JV-- v It's the function that iJr causes the most trou- - V - f ' ble. S4)A. See that your chfl-- l f dren form regular bowel habits, and at the first sign of bad breath, coated tongue, biliousness . or constipation, give them a little California Fig Syrup.. It regulates the bowels and stomach and gives these organs tone and strength so they continue to act as Nature Intends them to. It helps build up and strengthen pale, listless, underweight children. Children love 'Its rich, fruity taste and It's purely vegetable, so yon can give It as often as your child's appetite lags or he . seems feverish, cross or fretful. Leading physicians have endorsed It far SO years, and Its overwhelming sales record of over fonr million bot-tles a year shows how mothers depend on It A Western mother, Mrs. R. W. Stewart, 4112 Raritan St, Denver, Colorado, says: "Raymond was ter-ribly pulled down by constipation. He got weak, fretful and cross, bad no appetite or energy and food seemed to sour In his stomach. California Fig Syrup had him romping and play-ing again In just a few days, and coon he was back to normal weight, looking better than he had looked In months." Protect your child from Imitations of California Fig Syrup. The mark f the genuine Is the word "Cali-fornia" on the carton. W. N. U, Salt taka City, No. 30. WhenRest'Is j Broken t j feoff Suffers When Kidney irregularities Disturb Sleep. IF troubled with bladder Irrita- - getting up at night and eonatamt backache; don't take chances. Help your kidney with Doane Pills. Recommended the I world over. Sold by dealer every ' where. 50,000 Users Endorse Doan's: Mrm. Ctr NUdW, t9S Enle A- -, D.troit, Mich., an -- 1 bad dur PU mad peniiMnt hVrW 1 felt ao tired tlt I couldn't da mjr honeworfc. The kidney eecratioue m too fnquut end Dwui e Kile i hut tW j Why Wc Behave Like Human Beings 0, GEORGE DORSEY. Pt D LLD. Why We Hate Our Enemies IT IS In our very nature to hate our enemies, impossible to love them? Why Is the very cornerstone of Christ's teachings so. rarely taken literally? James thinks those "swayed by It might well seem superhuman beings. Their life would be morally discrete from the lives of other men, and there is no saying what the effects might be: they might conceivably transform the world." They might Indeed. As the world is, hate Is given freer rein, lieceotly it reigned; and each half of the world besought the same God to help it kill the other half. We can hate enough to kill, but killing no longer solves problems, nor hating an enemv convert nna Fear Is old stuff, out of date. It should be thrown off with our swad-dling clothes. And yet it probably plays a greater part than bone in the dally lives of most men and women. Fears are played upon by all sorts of propogandlsts for political, social, and religious purposes. Fear of bell-fir- e is supposed to lead to love of heaven; fear of "ign'runt foreigners" to hatred of aliens and so to the closing of the doors. And the only reason this na-tion could not be led to bate Germany as France did was because we could not be made to .feel the fear of Ger-many as France did. - But for most of us life Is only meat and the body raiment. Same reaction system, same environment: stereo-typed behavior because our world stands still. And an enormously val-uable emotional reservoir of energy, capable of moving mountains and giv-ing all life a Joy ride,. Is expended In hating those we envy and kicking against the pricks or in fleeing in ter-ror from our shadows because we can-not shake them off. And so it is that an Instinctive emo-tional endowment rooted deep In the body of life and inherent In man and mammals and all living beings that meet dangerous situations with com-plex mechanisms which must function ns a unit and without warning be-comes personal and individual.. The organization of that endowment Into specific fears and hates and general ntntiirloa fuvortns negative and nost- - tive responses begins the day we are born. "When I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood as a child,, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Some childish things we do put away, and' we 'do forget most of the rag dolls, tin soldiers, and mud plos; but we get our start in childhood for much of our bent and most of our set. We do not put away our nature. Taul was an exception. We are afraid of the dark, of little green worms, of hundreds of things. And got emotionally excited about them. Some react to a cabbage worm as they would to a wild elephant or to a mouse; and are as nearly scared to death as life lets them. It is no merit of their own that they "have not died of fright a thousand times. We are not born that way. The newborn sets up a fear reaction only to fearful stimuli : the bang of a door, being dropped, a sudden push or pull at Its blanket; especially by remov-ing Its support It catches Its breath, clutches at anything within reach, crosses Its eyes, cries, voids waste. A rat learns to thread a maze for food;, It must pass a trap which al-ways "terrifies it. Itemove the trap ; It Jumps as though the trap were pres-ent , e The child Is afraid of a sudden and loud noise. It hears the thunder, sees the lightning; It learns to be nfratd of the lightning. If the flash is blinding. It Is afraid of the room. If there is some particular person in the room every time the lightning flashes, the child learns to be afraid of that person, lightning or no lightning. With a what-no- t loaded with what not In the parlor and a dresser cov-ered with hand-painte- Junk In the spare bedroom, and both parlor and bedroom In perpetual gloom,, means must be found to keep little Willie out A short-cu- t Is found In the fact that Willie can be scared. And Willie Is scared. By the time he Is three, or sooner, he Is as big a coward as his mother was when she was three. We move about In a lighted room wltb the aid of our eyes. In a dark room we are not distracted by what we see and consequently are more alert to what we feel and bear. We keep meeting with the unexpected sometimes the sudden crash of a falling chair, bark of a dog, bump on the forehead. And by the time our fear of the dark has become further conditioned by ghosts and hobgoblins, we are more than afraid of a dark graveyard. So with rage. The baby cannot fight, but by cries, slashings with arms and legs, stiffening of body, flushed face, clenched fists, and held breath, it shows Its rage when Its nose is pinched, head held, or its body ham-pered. And It soon acquires the abil-ity to kick and slarh and scream, I have seen a boy of two beat bis head on the floor in a rage at being denied something. Such early outbursts are signs of the coward and the murderer that are In usl The way these poten-tialities are trained Is the key to character and the clew to most of our attitudes. (S bj Qeorte A. Doraej.) Sympathy Blinker There's no doubt about it, he's going to the dogs. '.. Sinker I'm sorry to hear that Blinker Good friend of yours, eh ? Sinker Oh, no, not at alt. But lot of dogs are. r Take Your Choice) If a man's income Is small and he needs money, he Is broke. If bis In-come Is large end he needs money, be Is financially embarrassed. American Mugaxlne.. , - , - German Railroac. Safety Some 2,000 miles of German rail-ways have been equipped with elec-trical devices for automatically stop-ping trutus when a danger signal has been passed. Fifty-thre- e locomotives have been fitted with the correspond-ing device. Speaking of Operations A doctor can poke and tinker and thump and nod his head and shake Ills head and assume a learned ex-pression that might mean either the best or the worst for his victim, but no doctor on earth, not even a high-price-one or one with a goatee, can be as mystifying as a radio repair man. Life. " Why, Senator! "Why do you object to being Inter-viewe- d by a girl reporter?" the sena-tor was asked. "Because," be snapped, "I hate to be Miss quoted." Explaining Symbol of the Lemon at Funerals The mystery of the use of lemons at funerals has been solved. The cus-tom attracted attention when a spec-tacular funeral of one of the members of the Hamburger Zlmmerleute, a fraternal society, of North German traveling carpenters and artisans, took place. Fifteen thousand carpenters who were members of the society at-tended the funeral. Each carried a glittering hatchet, upon which was spitted a lemon. After the reading of the burial service the Zlmmerleute filed past the open grave and heaped the lemons over the coffin, says a Berlin correspondence. . In Zurich recently another funeral was held along similar lines. At the close the leader of the mourners threw the first lemon Into the grave, saying; "As sour as Is this lemon, so harsh has been your life." Research workers who Investigated the custom explain that when one of the great plagues swept Europe It was considered that the Juice of a lemon provided some protection from infec-tion resulting from contact with a plague victim. Those employed In burying the dead used the Juice of lemons freely. Now, so far as Is known, only the Ancient Order of the Zlmmerleute con-tinues to use lemons at funerals as implying that life Is sour, but that after death Is peace, Holyoke Tran-script eeeeeeeeeea Earthworms Too Bulky for Ordinary Angler their burrows on the approach of an enemy." But what animal would de-liberately elect to antagonize sucb s creature? And why should nine-fo- ot worms run away from anything? Per-haps tiwy are too proud to turn. If any one wishes to angle for whales, be should go to Australia for his bait sayt the New Xork Times. Earthworms averaging from four to six feet long are reported from that continent One specimen was discov-ered which measured nine feet The account can hardly be set down as the yarn of a "nature faker," for tt ap-pears In the British scientific magazine Nature, which Is careful about what It publishes. These earthworms would have de lighted Darwin, who wrote a book on worms, drawing attention to the ex-traordinarily clever way in which they drag leaves down their holes, by the tip Instead of by the stalk, so tnat the leaf rolls op naturally. The Australian worms have green Isn, translucent eggs, wltb horny shells. They are said to make "loud, gurgling noises when they retire Into . , But It Csm't The microphone Is a wonderful In- - ' rentlon and all that but It would be an even more wonderful one if It could keep a lot It bears to Itself. Life. . The Wrong Hand Old Lady If yon really want work O Farmer Gray wants a right hand man- - Wanderer Jus' my luck, tidy I'm Stone That Floate left 'ended I Passing Show. ' There Is no other Instance In nature of the fusing of quarts In the absence of a flux, except by the action of light-ning striking sand or a mountain top. Science has named this product ful-gurite glass. At the crater there are many wonderful specimens of snnd-ston- e seemingly so fused. In ome cases the quarts Is fused into lumps of opalescent material, but more fre-quently the sandstone has been puffed up and distorted, owing to the steam produced by the water which was In the stone at the time the outer and very highly heated part of the advanc-ing meteoric mass was In close con-tact with the rock. Innumerable water- -tight cavities, as In pumice, were formed by the steam, so that large and small masses ot this peculiar and most Interesting sandstone will float like a cork. Two-Part- y System All this talk of benefits from hav-ing two parties recalls the whimsical remark of the late Dr. James Wood-row- : "Why should we desire half our people to be always In the wrong?" Columbia State. Curly Hair tt Is not known why tome people have curly hair and others not. Curl-ines- s depends on the shape of the hair. Circular hair Is straight; fiat hair is curly. The difference can be seen under a microscope. World's Oldest Tana The tune to which the popular ditty "For he's a Jolly good fellow" Is sung is said to be the oldest tune known to man. Its origin, says Looker-o- n In the London Daily Chronicle, Is lost In antiquity. Research has brought to light that it was well known to the ancient Egyptians, and that they prob-ably got it from Babylon, but beyond this the trail Is lost . Visitors to Lap-land have beard the melody there; tt Is known to the native tribes of Soutb America, snd It Is frequently used by the aborigines of Australia, as well as by the Maoris and Arabs. It came to Kngland when the Crusaders returned from the Holy land, and It was useJ by these old-tim- e warriors, as a sort of war song, when they were besieging Jerusalem. ' ' Whale Meat Palatable Many of the older New Bedford whalers who as young men were fre-quently absent from one tc two yean on whaling voyages, will testify to thi excellence of this cetaceous mammal's flesh. All whales are really excellent food, but thi supply oreventi the widespread use of whale meal although occasional). It Is to be found In New York restaurants, while ont can often buy it canned. In flavor i) strongly resembles the best of beet but Is much more tender. Briefly Told Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have an tborlty over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving bis own. Good Suggestion It's all right to pick np a stranger on the highway If, like the Good Samaritan, you pick one too far gone to knock you In the bead. San Fran clsco Chronicle, , - |
