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Downfall
Of IQing Apple
By Horace Seymour Ker-
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Y dear friend and much admired philosopher and savant as
well as caustic pricker of bubbles, fads, foibles and tommy
rot "Tip" bewails the passing of the apple. He longs for
the fruit, and depicts his longing in words that strike home
and appeal. But if "Tip" will take the trouble to meander
In the season of bloom, the season of the full flush of the
fruitage of the tree, the season of the picking, his eyes will
be onenpd to tho snri fart that it la not only a matter of
graft, but a matter of man's disregard of nature for the sake
it money.
The greatest apple that ever appealed to the lover of the greatest fruit
Cod gave to man (and the apple comes first and foremost) is beyond all ques
lion the great Spitzenberg. There are other apples ranging up and down the
long list, but there is but one Spitzenberg. I am loath to say there was the
Spitzenberg. That great apple has gone the way of all good things. It is now
and has been for an age, but as a memory in the mind of the man who knew
nd enjoyed a nectar-laden fruit as something from the hands of the gods.
There are no Spitzenbergs now. They have gone like the chip hat, the
bent pin, the cotton line and the magic and seductive tamerack wand of the
delightful fishing days of old, when there was prey fit for the boy with the
freckles in the old mill pond. And along with the passing of that most deli
cious of apples went the Greening, the Pippin and the Gilltlower. If "Tip" will
visit the old farms where the famous apples flourished and made glad his
uean lasie as wen ne win quiCKiy learn wny mere are nu mviv. ayi,iKa
j Graft! Yes, graft, pure and simple. The old-time farmer kept watchful
ye upon his cherished apple orchard and was proud of it. He had reason to
e, for it was most productive in a pecuniary sense. He was proud of his
pitzenbergs, especially. They brought him the best of returns. They were
he best keeping of all among his fruits, and he coined them into money
oney to buy ginghams, money to pay taxes, money to add a few more acres,
oney to send many a clever boy or girl, or both, to the village academy tor a
ries of winter terms. The orchard was the apple of his eye the old-time
armer, I mean.
But it changed when the advent of getting rich in a hurry opened its Pan-
ora pack and spread its fabled cloth of gold broadcast. Then the apple or-
hard began to be crowded. Pigs could be raised more quickly than apple
rees. Pigs were turned among the grand trees to fatten, to plow among tne
loots of trees that throve for a quarter of a century to reach perfection. Pigs
nd cattle killed the grand old apple-bearing trees. Pigs and cattle fattened
pon the spoils. Pigs and cattle passed rapidly adown the gullet of humanity.
And in the wake of the greed for getting rich quick passed the finest or
jhards of New York state. "Tip" will find the ghosts of old trees leaning and
ptten to the vrv roots upon many a hillside. The graft caused it the graft
br riches. N" York Press.
Trouble With Cereals f
AUays Gives Warning of Catastrophe
That is Coming;..
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By Woods Hutchinson, J. M., M. D.
OW these be the virtues of the cereals: they are cheap, eas-
they came from Scotland with a consequent flavor of ortho-
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man mind, half Puritanic, half stingy, which is inclined to
count as a virtue the ingestion of any kind of food which is
not especially attractive, but believed to be nutritious. In
fact, to eat that which is cheap and filling is one of the petty
vices. I call it vice because it is a defiance of instinct.
L'se are the qualities which give the cereals their fulcrum and short handle
their lever. Now what forces have conspired to lengthen it to such enor-
jus purchase? As usual two spring promptly to aid which are already famil-
faces in this field; one transcendental, the other pseudo-scientific. The
hscendental, a mild form of the vegetarian propaganda, which seized upon
virtues, of these blameless cereals as a means of saving the race from the
ors of chronic blood-thirstiness. Everywhere the doctor goes among his
tents he finds a sort of vague impression that cereals in some way are cool-
both to the blood and to the impulses; that they are as far as possible re-
red from that most diabolical quality which a food can have "richness;"
they "thin the blood," stimulate the liver, and act upon the bowels; and
a fast upon some form of them for one meal a day will act as a kind of
rious atonement for all the fleshly sins which may be committed in the
r two. All of which beliefs, with the exception of the "acting upon tne
els" part, are pure delusions and easily traceable to ancient superstitions
h have already been discussed. Of course, Scripture has again been quot-
n their behalf and the pulse and water upon which Daniel and his tnree
lanions outshone the oUiir captive Princes fcav ben trinmohntrv cftod
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Defects of Cur
Criminal Law
By George Us. Jllger.
HERE are two reasons why criminal law reform is a pressing
A ,1 I A 1- 1 1 P M
Ti yruuitiu luuay. vjiiv is me repression uy iiiul reiurui in
I lynch law. The other Is not less important. We need that
I rpfrtrm hfMneo tho cnplsl rrn rlit irm nf rnr rlov imnprntivflv
demands a substantial increase in the scope and power of
criminal law, a system strong enough to meet the new and
Increasing requirements of our civilization for corrective
and repressive criminal law. A system too complicated to
deal out certain justice to common offenders, ignorant and
poor in purse and influence, can never adequately deal with our new
of big business criminals, with the man who get rich by fraud, the cor
on inflaters and wreckers, the faithless trustees and grafting directors,
ploiters of municipalities, the magnates who give bribes and the bosses
ake them, the trust operators who sin against fionoity ia &utffnea, who
the law against monopolies, who give and take forbidden rebates. How
et'atory wealth, powerful, influential, oftea intrenched In office, be pun-
by a system which creaks, groans, and often breftki down, in brltng c
ruffian to justice? The Atlantic.
If : Hypnosis
Through Fatigue
By
gan Robertson,
I VERWORK fatigues the consciousness, and fatigued cftn-
I inant idea, born of the operator's mind when the hypnosis
I i inliiffwl hv him in tho minfl nf the virtim whpn it ia cp'f.
induced. An operator, unless a fiend incarnate, always re-
Jl moves the idea, or obsession, before waking the subject; in
self-hypnosis the subject must awake as he can, trace the
to ilc cnnrfa nnrl rpmnvA it- nr have it rpmnvpH iiiQf
how, he must decide for himself.
ry author knows the difliculfy in some cases the impossibility of
g a story until it is finished, lie is under control of, the idea, and can
the obsession only by finishing the story. Then he awakes, or partly
for a time until the next idea comes along.
Ol tht Tip-t irion mav be one not available for fiction one which cannot
ved in this manner; yet it will seize him with a force commensurate
depth of his hypnosis, and if he is far enough gone, will torture him
ie road to the borderland of madness. Rest, change of scene, and
of air will do him but little good. The idea has become part of his
ll he takes his soul with him. Yet there is escape for him. Critic.
experienced farmer on the
lookout for a farm shies at the
ight of a fallow covered with
. the reddish spikes of the sorrel,
lie knows at once that the soil is
poor and thin, and will cost more than
its crops will ever be worth iu fertiliz
ers of various kinds.
Weeds tell him a whole story at a
single glance. If (he leaves of the
coltsfoot roar their heavy heads, he at
once suspects the presence of thick,
sticky blue clay, hard to drain and cul
tivate. Sandwort and thyme proclaim a hun
gry, sandy soil; myrtle, the heaths ami
tormentilla toll of peaty laud valuable
only for summer grazing; sheep's sor
rel speaks of iron; the valerain and
vanunculous of marsh, whiles veronica,
sileiie, the hybrid poppy and other simi
lar plants are sure signals of chalk
and flint below the surface.
For those who have eyes to see
them, kindly nature hangs out signals
of all kinds. She only asks that men
will use their eyes, says Pearson's
Weekly. If they can, and do so, she
w ill never betray them. She has both
good and bad signs, which are as plain
in their way as red or green lights to
a railway engine driver.
Ior instance, what is called the low
country of the Northern Transvaal is
partly healthy, partly feverish. In
one spot you may camp in safety for
a month, in another not a mile away
the dreaded fever will seize you in a
single night.
To uneducated eyes there seems little
or no difference in the outward aspect
of the two places, but your old pros
pector is never caught camping on
fever ground, lie knows the fever tree
too well. The fever tree is an odd and
sinister looking piece of vegetation,
with twisted, greenish trunk and
brandies, and grows only in those spots
where fever mist hangs at nightfall.
So, too, in Florida, when a hunter is
traversing the immense swamps
"hammocks," as they are called which
cover huge tracts in the southern part
of that State, he searches for a spot
where pine trees rear their tall heads
among the cypresses and gums. There
he can camp and sleep in safety,
1 hough to spend a night but a few
hundred yards away from the pines
might mean a bone racking dose of
ague.
Many an Australian explorer has
been saved from a horrible death by
thirst because he has known the water
mallee. This tree, though it may stand
in the midst of a burning desert, in
variably tells of water below the sur
face. If the traveler be not too far
gone to dig, he will find the precious
fluid below the malice's roots.
The old shepherd crossing Dartmoor
or one of the Scottish moors travels
with dry feet, while the stranger is
perfectly certain to tumble knee, per
haps waist, deep into horrible black
compound of rami and water. The
shepherd avoids the bogs, because he
has learned to read nature's danger
signal. He does not walk on places
where the sphagnum covers the sur
face, and so avoids the pitfalls hidden
beneath its pale green fronds.
Most of us know something of
weather signs, those warnings which
are hung out for all to road in the
sky, and yet how many never notice
them at all, so chat when there comes
a really great convulsion of nature
they are caught unprepared.
That awful cyclone which over
whelmed the great seaport of Gal
veston three years ago, was heralded
by an immense greundswell, which
was seen forty-eight hours before the
tempest broke.
The Mississippi storm of 17S4, which
Is genera 11 j' supposed to have been the
worst gale that has ever been recorded,
and the result of which was to wipe
out nearly twenty settlements), flood
10,000 square miles of land and perma
nently change the course of the great
river, was preceded by a strange and
at the time inexplicable moaning
sound, which went on for three days
and seemed to come from the upper
air, although all below was still. The
Indians heard it and left for the high
ground; the whites heard it, stayed
where they were and were drowned.
In the winter British Columbia and
all the western slopes of the Rockies
are at times visited by a strong east
erly w! jfJ, which, blowing off the warm
surface of the Japan current, will rap
idly melt the mountain snows, causing
sudden disastrous floods.
But no inhabitant of the slopes is
ever caught unawares, because for
many hours before the warm gale there
appear over the heads of the mountains
long lines and bands of the so-called
'LuinooK clouds. luese are a cer
tain sign of the hot wind, and are
never known to fail.
Desert dwellers are never surprised
by a "khamsin," or dust storm, unless
it comes too quickly to be avoided.
Before such a visitation the horizon
changes color, and according to the
color, which varies from dull yellow to
deep red. so will be the strength and
fury of the storm.
As strange a danger signal as may
be found on the surface of this planet
is the so-called "Quesbrada Encan
tada." the enchanted ravine of the
Uloa Valley, in Honduras, of which an
account, written by Mr. George Byron
Gordon, who visited the place, is to be
found in the memoirs of tho Pea body
M u sen m.
"When rain is approaching there
conies from this ravine a melodious,
whistling sound, which varies in in
tensity according as to whether the
coining storm will be heavy or light.
Before one of the terrific tropical tbun-
U I that part of the world the sound is of
a deep organ note, which is heard
many miles away in every direction.
Even earthquakes and volcanic erup
tions, most terrible of all nature's
visitations, do not come without due
warning:. Sir Norman Lockyer has
stated that the most disastrous vol
canic eruptions and earthquakes occur,
like the rain pulses of India, at the
dates of the sun spot maxima and min
ima. At the minimum in 1S07 Mauna
Boa, Vesuvius, South America aud
Formosa were involved. At the maxi
mum in 1872 Martinique and St. Vin
cent; in 1S83 came the frightful ex
plosion of Krakatoa. and, to give a re
cent instance, the Matinique eruption
came at a maximum of solar disturb
ance. Also before an earthquake there are
other and plainer warning signs. Just
before the catastrophe at St. rierre
came news that the Martinique cable
was broken. This sort of thiiy has
happened more than once before simi
lar visitations.
On the Western coasts of South
America where earth tremors are con
stant, severe shocks are usually her
alded by disturbances of the sea. Such
heavy quakes also invariably happen
at high tide. In Hawaii, another vol
canic centre, certain springs stop flow
ing before an outburst. In the crater
of Mauna 1ia the lava always rises
steadily for some weeks before an
eruption.
Indeed, it may be truly said to those
Who have eyes to see nature invari
ably gives due warning before a com
ing catastrophe of any kind whatsoever.
HOW SHE ALWAYS KNEW.
She
Lonely 01l Maid lxplnlns How
Kcfi Up Willi Town t.oftiiip.
All alone on the hilltop lived -Hannah
Jane Spriggins, and a lonely life
she led, this ancient maid. Much
to the wonder of. the-good people
of the village of Meddybemps, she was
never at a loss for news, and when
neighbors called with stray bits of
information, Hannah Jane always
knew it long before it had been spread
broadcast through the town.
"Say, did you know Sain Whitten't
Anne had a shock?" volunteered an
excited female, dropping in on Hannah
Jane early one evening, just as that
peaceful soul was sipping her nightly
brew of tea.
"Taken at 2 o'clock this afternoon,"
calmly replied that lady, serenely, "had
to send for that know-nothing critlur
of a Dr. Smith, 'cause Dr. Brown
wasn't home. Got Sam Kite-hum's Ta
bitha for a nurse."
"For the land's sake, Hannah, how'd
ye know itV" gasped the astounded
caller. "You ain't had time to go
down to the village and back since it
happened." Hannah Jane shook her
head in mysterious fashion.
"You do beat all getting the news
first," continued the neighbor, with an
injured air. '"How in time's sake do
ye manage?" Hannah Jane meditated
a moment, then beckoned to her guest,
who was one of her oldest friends, and
led her in solemn silence up the wind
ing stairs that led to a turret chamber
at the top of the bouse. This room had
been made for her father, an old sea
captain of the town, so that he could
watch the vessels as they sailed into
the harbor.
From an ancient bureau in the cor
ner of the room Hannah Jane drew
forth something wrapped carefully in
tissue paper. "Opery glasses," she ex
plained briefly, as she took out her
treasure from the numerous wrap
pings. "Niece Ellen sent 'em to me
for years ago; and a great comfort they
have been, too," she added feelingly.
"There's not many a place in town but
what I can make out with these op
pery glasses, and there's not much go
ing on that I don't know," finished this
original being triumphantly, who in
this novel fashion kept herself well in
touch with the rest of the world. Lew
istou Journal.
The Earthquake Kradicator.
The man was explaining his business
to Major Beardsley.
"I represent the American Rubber
Tube and Tiling Company," he said.
"Our products are the greatest inven
tion of the age. Any city whose water
inaius are made of iron or any other
inetal is at the mercy of earthquakes.
Our proposition is to equip the water
department complete with rubber
water mains. Earthquakes cannot in
jure them. Freezing cannot burst
them. They are pliable and give room
for expansion."
"But in case of an earthquake," said
the Major, "the great buildings would
fall on the rubber water mains and
choke off the supply of water."
"Our company," said the agent, "is
now perfecting plans for rubber con
struction in all skyscrapers, so that if
an earthquake topples them over they
will bounce back immediately into
place." Kansas City Times.
State Flags.
Most of our States have flags, some
of them very peculiar ones. These are
carried as the State colors of the
militia regiments. Our own is too
familiar to need description. "The
white standard of Massachusetts" has
been seen iu the forefront of many bat
tles. New York displays a buff flag,
and the State banner of Maryland
bears on a ground of blazing yellow
the arms and motto of the Calverts.
The heraldic design is so disposed as
to give Maryland's flag, seen at a dis
tance, somewhat the semblance of a
gorgeous crazy quilt, although we sup
pose to the Marylanders it is more
suggestive of the picturesqueness of
a royal standard. Boston Transcript.
It is stated by the Irish Independent
that coflins for children are being sup
I plied by a contractor to south of Ire
I land almshouses at four cents each.
The English Feminine Ideal.
The English ideal of a woman, ac
cording to a writer in the Nineteenth
Century, seems to be a dull, placidly
pretty, regular-featured, dignified piece
of ice. Intelligence, animation, indi
viduality, knowledge are not needed.
Desperate State of Woman.
Woman is at her worst; she has con
trived to escape from the net of con
ventionalities in which man had en
listed her. Anarchy reigns in thou
sands of homes. Woman in England
is no longer on the side of the angels.
London Truth.
A Doer of No?lt Vecls.
A young Chicago girl, Miss Ottelia
Guenther, was given special honor by
the Pope a few days ago in recognition
of her charitable work among the poor
Italians of her city, and because she
is studying law in order to be able to
give free legal service to the poor
there. Miss Guenther is finishing a
course of international law at the Uni
versity of Berlin. She is but twenty
one years old, and was educated at St.
Mary's Academy, Notre Dame. Indi
ana. The Tope presented her with a
photograph of himself at his working
desk, and the gift was accompanied
by his autograph.
Curved Umbrella Handles "Sow,
Women who manage to keep well
supplied with t lie supposed evidences
of wealth are beginning to stock up
their closets with English coaching
umbrellas. One of the shops in the
avenue has set forth a most attractive
group of these of colored taffeta with
most original handles. A blue um
brella, for example, has a light colored
wooden handle with a blue and gold
parrot crouching on the outer curve.
Another is of green, t lie handle curved
at the end into the long neck of a
swan, skillfully carved, with jeweled
eyes. "If one doesn't want to suffer a
spasm of covetousness, she oughtn't to
look at these things unless she has the
price to buy," said a woman the other
day, who had her pose pressed close
to a window glass as she contemplated
the .-tlluring objects. "I don't know
what a coaching umbrella is used for,
but I want one." New York Press.
Don't. Worry.
Some people really enjoy unhappl
ness. Strange as it may be, this is ac
tually a fact, else why do so many
women expatiate upon their woes at a
length calculated to wear out their
hearers? There are women, and men,
too, for tljat matter, who are constant
ly on the lookout for unpleasant things,
and who, after a while, form a habit
of always looking on the wrong side.
The weather is never what it should
be, Ihe meals are badly cooked, the
children are troublesome, and alto
gether there is such a continual fault
finding over trifles that the . big, real
troubles are lost sight of. Such a trait
should be nipped in the bud, for it not
only leads to endless unhappiness on
the part of the perpetrator, but makes
life miserable for those in the imme
diate vicinity who are so sensible as
to see that, summing all things tip,
they find that good generally counter
balances the bad, says Woman's Life.
There are some people, too, who gloat
over the description of their ailments,
and retail them at length to horror
stricken friends, who do not always
realize that a trouble grows in magni
tude each time it Is expatiated upon.
Story of llurdett-Contt.
The Baroness Burdctt-Coutts kept
her ninety-second birthday the other
day at her London house.
She. received, as usual, an enormous
number of telegrams and letters of
congratulation and bouquets of flow
ers. It was of the Baroness Burdett
Coults that the King once remarked:
"After my mother, she is the most re
markable woman in England." She
Is still the most philanthropic woman,
in the world, and at ninety-two gives
all her charities her personal atten
tion. The story of her accession to a for
tune running into the millions at the
age of twenty-three, her long spinster
hood, and her romantic marriage late
iu life to Ashmead Bartlett, who took
her name, is too well known to need
retelling.
Her activity is the wonder of every
on who knows her. She still takes
long drives every day.
She enjoys the friendship of half the
celebrities in Europe. The late Duch-e-s
of Teck was one of her closest
friends, and Prince Francis of Teck is
the Baroness' godson.
Most of tho contemporaries of her
youth have now passed away, but her
interests are so varied that she is con
stantly making new friends.
If Von Would Be Good Looking-.
Don't lake a hot bath more than
twice a week, and then only at night,
just before going to bed.
Don't dry your face in a hurry. A
quick rubbing coarsens and injures
the skin.
Don't rub your fare downward. It
makes the cheeks hang down. The
forehead should bo rubbed from the
centre to the temples.
Don't eat your meals in a hurry. If
you do you will have indigestion and
very probably a red nose.
Don't use soap on your face If it
doesn't agree witli your skin. Almoud
taeal is au excellent substitute. Used
with warm water it is not only cleans
ing but refining for the complexion. .
Don't eat fat meats, highly spiced
food or stimulating coffee if your face
is inclined to redness. A careful diet
and plenty of exercise should remedy
it.
Don't go out for a five mile walk one
day and stay in the house all of the
next.
Don't get into tbe habit of blinking
your eyes nervously. It is a strain on
the eyes and renders the sight weak
and irritable. Keep the eyes shut for
at least ten minutes in every hour if
you find the habit growing on you, and
bathe the lids in warm water.
Don't read until midnight. One
hour's sleep before twelve is worth
two afterward, to say nothing of the
good effect on the eyes.
Don't neglect drinking water and
plenty of it. Many a woman suffers
from an ugly, blotched complexion who
could remedy the trouble by drinking:
plenty of water and eating fresh fruit.
Don't sleep six or seven hours one
night and ten or twelve the next. The
amount of sleep needed depends on
the individual, but there is nothing so
conducive to health and good looks a
enough sleep at regular hours.
Don't sleep with your window closed.
Fresh air is absolutely necessary, and
the temperature should lie from forty
five degrees to sixty degrees. Boston-Cultivator.
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Jlr1s In Germany,
The German girl leaves school at
about fifteen years of age, by which
time she has learned to sew, mend, and
supposedly to speak English and
French.
She has not learned higher mathe
matics, says Modern Women, but she
has learned the small things which
tit a girl for a housewife or companion,
and that, in Germany, is woman's ouly
sphere.
However much we American girls
may enjoy our colleges we dare not
pity the German girls, for they have
something which takes their place and
of which we have no conception until
we reside in Germany a few months.
Bid you ever hear of a pension? It
is cne of the most enjoyable things
which exists. Certain influential ladies,
mostly widows or maiden aunts, make
known that they are willing to take a
limited number of young ladies into
their families.
We went to Hanover, two of us girls,
with a horror and dread of a boarding:
school, as we heard a "pension" de
scribed. We found ourselves in a fam
ily of eight girls, all from the very
best class of Germans, and all placed
under Frau von II.'s care for a year
or more.
None of the girls had any special ob
ject in life; a few wanted to learn how
to keep house, a few indulged in an
hour's music lesson per week, but most
of them came, as is the German cus
tom, for the sake of becoming polished,
and being escorted to concerts, thea
tres, balls, receptions, student Kneipes,
etc., opportunities not afforded In the
smaller cities, and even not in many
cities that are larger than Hanover.
Consequently our chaperon accepted
invitations for the girls, parties were
given and the great intimate familj
spent a year full of pleasure.
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The Persian designs and colorings
are very attractive for hand-painted
china tobacco jars.
Watleau styles in hats are finding
favor, and very appropriately accom
pany princess and empire robes.
Artistic ash trays of hammered silver
have a jovial monk or stern Indian
head in relief upon their surface.
Mohair in a phantom check of plain
dark blue makes an ideal three-piece
knockabout costume for summer wear,
Drawn work on the finest of linen
makes a charming pincushion cover, if
you have time and patience, or money
enough to procure it. -v
A pointed lace tunic skirt arranged
over a foundation with four or five
fluffy lace ruffles is a charming design
for a graduation gown.
A small round black Neapolitan has
small purple clover heads massed at
the front and the back filled in with
black velvet ribbon and green foliage.
A bit of variety may be given your
lingerie blouses by running picot
edged Persian ribbon through lace
beading on one or two; this gives a
Frenchy touch that is sure to be much
admired.
In selecting, the design for an em
broidered hat choose one with the pat
tern near the edge, for many a worker
has found after adjusting the trim
ming, that hours and hours have been
spent on a design too elaborate to ap
pear to advantage.
Bows of insertion alternating with
bands of material deccrated with lar;;e
French knots form the yoke of a
dressy blouse. The sleeve is unique
and very pretty. A line of the inser
tion and French-knotted band follovS
the inside seam and lower edge, trie
sleeve itself being failed into it both
vertically and arcund the bottom.
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