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r MARKED CHANGE IN OPINION tlaturallsts Claim That Ideaa Held by Former Colleagues Were Based on Wrong Conclusions. Naturalists a?o not pinning their faith to afl toe theories of the Darwinians, atTuffcy were a few ypars ago. They are re%d? to discard any theory ae soon &b it is demonstrated to he incompatible with facts. One of the latest ideas to be cast into the discard is that every part of a plant or 0f an animal had a definite value and 01ayed a part in securing its survival. This change in attitude is well illus Mniea Dy an article in the Journal of Heredity in which the editor expresses the opinion that the extrrfloral nectaries found on cherries, cowpeaB and other legumes, castor | beans, ferns, etc., "just happen;" they have no particular reason; once there they remain, for they are of no disadvantage. Nectaries are the glands that secrete nectar. They are found in most flowers, but in many are also found on the leaf stemB. Many theories as to their use have been advanced, but long experimentation bar proved each of these theories to be erroneous. "We can hardly avoid the conclusion in many cases," writes the editor, "that they have no vital function and that the plant would proba bly get along just as well without them," although he admits that it ie "dangerous for man to assume that lis can understand all the ways ol Nature and decide by his own stand ards whether or not a certain struo ture is of value to a plant." FROM SEVEN TO THIRTEEN Said to Be Age When Spirit of Recklessness Especially Dominates the Child. The motor development of the child from the age of seven to thirteen, says Philip Davis in his book "Street Land." is far urreatfir than ita mantoi development. The thirst for adventure, for discovery, for taking chances is the strongest characteristic of this age. The greatest risk, the more it satisfies certain children's unconscious calls for acts and daring and cour- ! age. In illustration. Mr. Davis tells of discovering two boys swinging from telephone wires on which they had climbed. "You may be electrocuted," he warned them. "That's what we want." one of them answered grandly. Co-operation ou the part of teachers, parents, police and public service companies, the author says, will to some extent solve the social problem presented by this spirit of recklessness among young children. The Mirror and the World. The glass reflects the features of him who looks therein. Smile is returned for smile or tears for tears. With the world, as with the glass, one finds what he brings to it. Is a man suspicious and looking for evil? He will meet it on every hand. Does he seek goodness? He will find it all about him, lurking in unexpected places. The traveler intent on watching for obstacles or enemies misses | the wayside tlower, the song of the bird, the music of the brook, the smile of a child. If he is on the lookout for ?vil it seems to meet htm and the good is unseen. Are you possessed of fear? You see danger in every shadow; you hear threats in the wind. Smile on the glass. Smile on the world. Hope and fear not. Believe in good and expect good in others and you will find it. Look for sunshine, look for Joy, look for love and kindness. Do not miss the good while repining over wrongs, real or fancied. He yourself what you would see in the mirror. He yourself what you would find in the world.?Milwaukee Journal. Clever Borrowing. The college stadium is but another Instance of the modern adaptation of ancient devices to twentieth century needs. In many things the so-called | civilized nations of our day have ex- j celled the ancients of Greece and ! Home, and in many other things they have not improved much on what had been acomplished some two thousand years ago. In science, discovery and , invention, especially in regard to things material and utilitarian, we have undoubtedly outstripped them; but in poetry, philosophy, painting, sculpture, architecture?in short, in the realm of the arts?we have made but little progress, and that not on particularly original lines. Their works are still serving as our models, although occasionally we do succeed in expanding their ideas to fit our own j larger needs, and the modern stadium is a case directly In point. In this instance we have borrowed both the idea and the name. Taking to the Woods. Mrs. Flatbush?"I see Sweden Is being urged to pass a law giving women the right to propose marriage." Mr. Flatbush?"Well, I only hope the woods in Sweden are convenient to the towns." Scared. "I believe that woman Is trying to flirt with me. I wish you would tell her I am married." "I did tell her." 1 0 TJ RECORDS OF SONGS OF BIRDS; Gramophone Has Been Successfully Employed in a New and Interesting Way. The gramophone is sometimes put j ; to strange uses. The leader of an | ; African hunting expedition, who set out on a motor trip from the Cape of Cairo, recently used it as a decoy for ; I tigers and hippopotami. In tiger- ;! hunting it is usual to tether a lamb to a tree; its blcatings attract the tiger within reach of the hunters. Before leaving England the explorer had some records made of bleating lambs. ; and. says, a recent writer, he tried 1 i ihem on the unsuspecting tigers of the African Jungle with considerable success. 1 The record makers gained one of I !; their greatest triumphs when they sue ceeded in getting good nightingale and blackbird records. The chief dif- , . ficulty was the objection that birds ( had to the sounds of the recording machines. The clever men got round that by setting up a dummy record- j j ing machine, in the horn of which . they put some of the birds' favorite food. When the bird entered the horn to get the food the clockwork was set EN in motion. The little creatures soon grew accustomed to the sound, and So so, after much tedious and discourag- < ing labor, successful records were 1 made. These records are selling in thousands all over the world. j C hav TENANTS DIDN'T MIND HIM ! nev Old Gentleman Merely Was a Harm- j . j less Optimist With a Seemingly ( t^e. Peculiar Delusion. ? ' ! act< ! mill A district visitor was paying calls on the folk in a row of cottages, and <or| was shocked by the conduct of a shab- i tjm bily-dressed old gentleman, who b,j(j passed from door to door in a great . any rage, and threatened the occupants | with all manner of dire penalties. I " "Dear me, what a peculiar old _ man!" she exclaimed to one of the , " ' tenants. "Whv rfn vm> nm-mit Mm to abuse you in that fashion?" j ? "Oh. wo don't mind in the least, ! ma'am," answered the tenant, with | . infri a twinkle in her eyes. "We're quite ! j used to his little ways by now. He s ^ been a harmless lunatic for ten or i .. P??r. eleven years. ^ . "You don't say so! Poor old fel- ; t j low! What particular form does his o'f madness take?" goo "Optimism, ma am. He comes for | the rent every Monday, and actually flKa allows himself to fancy that he'll get ' it!"?London Tit-Bits. not didi Exercise for Thin Folks or , When it comes to the question of ^is exercise, the thin woman will do well sur, to remember the old Greek warning. RHV Nothing too much." She assuredly (5Ut. needs a certain amount of gentle ex- ,jop ercise every day, hut she does not need and ought not to take up the violent sports which will do the fat woman all the good in the world TO There are two outdoor practices, however, which will be of great benefit to No the thin woman One of these is walking, the other is swimming. When the thin woman walks she should not try to see how much H ground she can cover in a certain an period of time. Let lier walk quietly is e and at a moderate pace, paying particular attention to her breathing. to ? Walking in the lresh air will help Pre Mil ?n lirootli., ~ 1 .1 -in ... ?. ?vi.? ? wiicvu y, uuu ii. Will 1 - -1 ro'.so give you a splendid appetite tor ' pag those three meals of good, wholesome of i tood of which you ought to dispose the daily. Swimming also will aid your appetite, and it is positively the best and and quickest way to develop the bust pull and shoulders. This is the swimming season; don't fail to learn if you want of r to gain weight and a healthful syui- clip metrical body. coel Papuans Die Young. nov The average duration of life Is shorter in Papua or New Guinea than and m any other country, possibly owing Am to the peculiar diet affected by the natives, who devour with gusto the ran: larva of beetles, dug out of decayed ain. tree trunks and habitually drink sea of ] water when near the coast. "The key people die off at about 40," we are told of in \. E. Pratt's Two Years Among the the New Guinea Cannibals. "We saw one Stai very old man, who may have been Dis; about (50 years of age?the only exam pie of longevity that wo came across. He was bent almost double, and had ( J a long white beard. His fellow tribes- j n men regarded him as a great curiosity and brought him to see us. Despite Rj" the decrepitude of his body, however. there was no trace of senility; his j senses were unimpaired, and the poor ()[(! old creature showed great gratitude ! amj .'or a gift of tobacco." ; salt Styles Soon Change. mai "So you are going to motor across stor the continent (Ira Wlivffor*'" "Yes. We start tomorrow." : thai "I dare say you anticipate a pleasant i whl time?" ' her "Yes. but there Is one thought that KRn -.roubles me." to f "And what is that?" "I'm afraid our car will be out of date when we reach our destination." dra ten Great Advantage. . 1 "What Is your idea of the zero of en- ee: Joyment?" ,fTO' "Why?or?a monologue on a pho- r nograph." "I know somehinf lesa enjoyable *?r than that." "YeeP* i IE LANCASTER NEWS JANU.A |: ECLIPSES Doctors and Astronomeri :j a to Wh Lawyers w i| Messrs. t published ii Tokio Mat! \ i the results < , dates of sot We print neat profes- in Chinese i mentioned i 0 m WM9 _. sionai cards. We i Shu Ching, in the reif print neat letterheads. fourth emp? there occuri We print neat bill- which had i astronomers heads. J* their duties rites for U ; i should have !; tronomers. p* ? |f ? performed 1 Lall on Us ana proper prep cordingly o; We'll Prove It -L- (j, this event i (Julian calc ed eclipse i i shows that TIRELY A STATE OF MIND eclipse on t 1 in China, tl Just Feel Sure You Have the Ss- motions of :ret ot Longevity and the Years , accurate en Are Yours. ] the path of j authors are entenarlans all know why they information e been blessed with long years. It: eclipse is di Decause they never drank, or be-; ?f a later a se they did drink; because they aclipse occt er smoked, swore, quarreled, wor-1 roneously si L. eat up late of nights, or because *n China. y did all these things, yet counter-1 ? ?d the evil effects with diets of i SHOWING k. mush, cornbread or an apple a . Neighbors and relatives and doc- Much That i may wonder why the tooth of Woman e has provod incapable. Hut the 1 jects of their wonder have never ' doubts. They know exactly why I The Unit y and death keep apart. Agriculture n intimate study of the character J to place a "cntenarians might reveal the true i every comrr nula for long life. These tenacious why should: folk all have one thing In com- Just as well i. and that Is perfect confidence. , The worn sy are never troubled with misgiv-1 for women, s. nevei afflicted with self-ques- the farm < ling. If a person is absolutely cer- for the men i thaj he is going to defeat time. , The aim in haps that is as effectual as it is : some defit h the man who is absolutely cer- j which teacl i that he is going to defeat a case ' greater ach typhoid. Confidence may be a canning-clul d anodyne for sleeplessness, a structed he 'thy aid to digestion, a protector other veget Inst accident. acre, and h< he records indicate that it does ! an(' 'n other matter so greatly that the can- i Winter gard ite for a hundred be abstemious have naturi noderately indulgent, careful with canning and food or reckless, as that he feel making and n that he has the secret of Ion- i^ipravomeii ity. So, it would seem, the first up. y of aspirants is to cultivate a efile matle set of opinions.?Toledo rpSOUrt'< (je i the quality | to become From the g ASTS OF "FIVE CAPTAINS" ers' kitchen and easy st Record of What Happened After : haa opened the Last Glass Was Turned home-econoi Upside Down. home, and organ i/.atioi ere is an interesting dipping from i'1'3 work. American publication in 1854. It ? ntitled "Five Captains. ' i Cost of R There were five captains chanced As a res met?one Russian, one Turk, one bureau of n nehman, one American and one department ;lishman. One proposed a rham- tion with t ne supper, each one to give a toast tute. radiur its own native country or pay for duced at a wine drunk. gram, a The Russian Here's to the stars when it is Oars of Russia, that were never cently the ed down. $120,000 a The Turk: 'Hero's to the moonH Still, we ha Purkey, whose corners were never what It co Ppd." priced salt, rhe Frenchman- 'Here's to the possibility k of France, whose feathers were greatly red er picked.' deposits of rhe American: 'Here's to the Stars which radii Stripes of the United States of are held v< erica, who never failed to defeat' ertH and mc I he Englishman: 'Here's to the not last mai pant, roaring lion ot (Ireat Hrit- of working that tore down the stars and bars wJth a raph Russia, clipped the wings of Tur- undoubtedlj . picked the feathers of the cock dluin even France and ran like h 1 from ores, notwi Stars and Strips of the United "tents in th t'?s of America ' ?St. Louis Post- Scientific A patch. ? Cas< The Man's Mistake The Rev. ut of loyalty to his own sex the 1$aPt,8t Mia lager of the woman's suit depart- Htory at 1,1 it discharged his young woman 'n^erna lographer ;,i:d hired a man The clat,on- A* ' hatch of letters dictated to the ple needrd i were written to about a hundred of their customers whom he invited to ex- says the ne privately a lot of exclusive gar ca,led an ' its before they were placed on tnission day - The day after the letters were "teeting ari led the women flocked Into the comfort Ma e. hut the fire that burned in their 8'c't *)ed' s was the Are of the avenger rather every night a of the bargain hunter. One word read?" i"nu ch each woman had underlined In flald the m letter explained their wrath. The ?? ments, so the manager had meant when I ha lay, had been designed for women stock flgure. auch as they pos ~ ied. but the male stenographer had wn on the alphaliet and had writ- "An expe it "stocky." i says that if No woman on earth would hare rel at brfta n guilty of such a mistake," through thf wled the manager. "That so he next week the girl stenographer to mis her job back.?Philadelphia Led- ! f "Did that ) wife's style n | ' iRY 2a 1916 ; OF EARLY DATEi "Sol(X^^r" ^ . Somo more, some less. ' . Hold Differing Opinion. mlnd lg 8Q conBtltuted , en They Were Officially cerUln couditlon8 of 8tret l8erv? " China. upon itself and Bays: auuseu u -ng.' me ruins liyaratnu and Ogura have i8 vrroughi by it appears a the proceedings of the that when a man pities hematico-Physical society d0os so for the very reason >f their attempts to fix the to jead him to Belf-condenc l early eclipses recorded pities his weaknesses, ri literature. The earliest is reforming them. He codi n one of the books of tho tiimitics, when they need I where it is recorded that puuishment which pugilist: [n of Chung K'ang, the other. No man ever pit! jror of the Hsla dynasty, when he is doing the hard red an eclipse of the sun mean, really doing them. V aot been predicted by the is being brave the though i, who were alleged to have abused or ill treated are and to have neglected thoughts to him. The bu ?. Hence the customary who sits down, and while b ellvering the sun, which face in his hands, bemoo been urranged by the as- having a hard time," need were in the emergency of that really cold water by other officials without versity always uses when aration. The emperor ac- make a strong man. S' lered the army to punish twists the fiber of which mors. A later document are builded. Hard times i assible to fix the date of robust, stalwart men?wh< is October 13, 2127 B. C. stance is there to work < r.dar)?tho earliest record- ington Journal. n the world. Calculation there actuully was a solar Mo8t g0||(j Book In th? hat date, but probably not Consisting of but ten lough the elements of the laying claim to tho title c the sun and moon are not so'lfd book in the world, a uuKii 10 indicate certainly cently presented to the so remote an eclipse. The Field museum is a unique inclined to think that the the World's Advance. It fixing the date of the of ten slabs of the fines ue to Chinese astronomers quisitely engraved with Cb ge. who calculated that an acters. The text is in bo trred on that date and cr- ond Manchu. with the moa apposed that it was visible ornamentations on the flri pages. This queer Jade \ made at the order of Emp HOW TO DO THINGS h"- wh? "'f 'rom ,S6= it iB a family document ol Could Be Accomplished by toric value. It is suppose i County Agent in a re,,r waB BO,d on acco(Unt ? Community. c,al stringency affecting ti imperial family, who livec ed States department of ment on a limited income si has started a movement tablishment of the Chinee woman county agent in unity in this country. And A Venetian Trait n't it? Mother needs help "Our town is considered as father. of Sagebrush county." an county ngent is to do "A town on a prairie? girls and the home what have to haul your drinkin loin oust ration agent does this alkali burg" and the hoys on the farm. "That may be true." each case is tc get done "Then where does your r lite worth-while things, to Venice comes in?" i a lesson and inspire to .-We have a large lloat iovements. In the girls tion."?Louisville Courier-d j work the girls are in w to grow tomatoes and ables on one-tenth of an _ , \h? ParaMeI; :w to can, preserve, pickle. Their moXh** trea.ta th< ways utilize the products. lf the>' w"e "I" 3en clubs and poultry clubs 'U DO be,tor |?r 1 illy followed the work in did for then she would g summer gardening. Hread licking every day. many other forms of homo t 7?rk |>ave also been Monarch. Named All This work trains girls to A? the k, Qf PrU88ia dent home makers, develop prederlck or wimain js of the farm, to Improve of the country life and economically independent. lirla' garden to the mothand the home is a short ep. The work with girls / i 25 the way for systematic S | 2*^ nlcs work In the rural Ai . has developed the logical f J ft i and method for doing / !| [a adium Greatly Reduced. / ult of work done by tho L Ml nines of the United States I ' _".vof the interior, in connec- A lie National Radium insti- W ?v'~: v*"""'* 11 bromide has Leen procost of only $:16,050 per "J most remarkable result tEESj^^^Sn **"") kF remembered that only resalt has been selling for nd upward per gram. ve no definite information sts to prtxluce this high There is. however, little . that the prices will bo uced, as all of the known the carnotite ores, from Write for Free Cata im is at present obtained, fry closely by their own- | ireover. these deposits can- rfr lTlCP^lf**C iPi ty years at the present rate These facts, together ________________ Jly-increasing demand, will r inert use the price of ra- ________________ above the ubove big flgIthstanding the improvee methods of extracting.? merican. ^ TV/SI s of Bible Reading. ?$ X .1J W. Y. F\illerton of the ! & sionary society told a good | .1. fa(R e anniversary meeting of Y ^ tional Bible Reading asso- B i showing that some peo jl Vf I wf^ k guidance in the selection ? Y JL JLadM 3le reading. Mr. Fullorton. " Westminster Gazette, re- V ncldent reminiscent of his < v> s, when a man came to his v* id told of his efforts to \ \ wife as she lay upon the V u "I read the Bible to her he said. "What did you ^ ired the mlssioner. "Well." J ,p. an, "I began at the first : V ' ' the Rook of Proverbs, and i <* d finished the book she ! rpj Y The Only Way. I 1 rt in affairs of the heart A a young couple don't quar- X kfast, they'll probably get j A 'I' 4 117H 5 day without a fuss." I ?[ I A VV K unds reasonable, hut I'd 1 VII 4 II II 4# s my breakfast." ! XL IJL lignlflcant 8ort. (Yi u v smart Alec criticise your I Kear r, ' must men. I "Vaporize" Croup Z\ bZ7r or Cold Troubles ts. It turns Vapor treatments for cold troubles are 'You poor, better than internal medicines, as the vaition which pors carry the medication direct to the in the fact lungs aDd air passages without disturbing ? himself ho . stomach. v i that oueht When Vick's "Vap-O-Rub" 8alve is ap. it ! plied over the throat and chest, these vainat on. He ( pors> released by the heat of the body, are ather than inhaled with each breath. 25c. to .$1.00. "YICKS ^^SALVE 3 give each led himself ' things?we irhlle a man The ??Bbt Side of Serge, ts of being When determining the right side of impossible or any other, goods in which sincss 'man there are diagonal lines in the weave le holds his these lines should run from the upper n8; "J am 1 right-hand corner to the lower leftIs the dash fcuud corner on the right side which ad- i she would Bottles In a Trunk, elf-pity un- jf you have to pack bottleB in a manly men trunfct tie ^ tjje corks and wrap them nake Breat. tn 8Qft toweis> garments, etc., and 11 _ni 8U PIac? 'n the middle of the trunk away ;>n* loom* from anything the contents would ruin if leakage occurs. i World. I MANY PEOPLE DOX'T KNOW pages, yet A sluggish liver can cause a per>f the most sou an awful lot or misery. Spells of volume re- dizziness, headaches, constipation Columbian and biliousness are sure signs that work, says your liver needs help. 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