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THE LOWER VIEW POINT. 1 would not have trusted the bee with a sLing. Nor the Knit with a taste for meat; I would not have hidden 111 brake and ling The Adder that haunts my feet; I would not have bristled the hedge ivith thorns. X- ,.. ?,i , 1.? ,.?,i . IIUIM'IICU I.ur- ;ci I iv?? , I would not have fashioned the bullock's horns. Nor i-icltlit J tha night v.ith dread. 1 would r.?t have burdened the sun with spots. Xor put out the moon so quickly: I would not .sel. sn.tils in the garden plots, Nor scatter the weeds so thickly; But Imowinc tiio world is (.tod's, not mine, I fancy the gnat and the bee, The adder, the lnwli, and the horrid kine Must wonder why (Jed made me. ?London Daily Chronicle. & f?he|^aM<'ng &. 1 ^ w w y IMubbcll ftamilu.SfH mgnrr r 1 el son W? ?Mi "Say, I got a chanct to git some easy money," said Jakie Appell. The seven Appell brothers were seated in the office of Caesar, the fight promoter. He was the eldest of all the fighting Appells, while Jakie was the youngest. "I'm going on the stage." Jakie added, pompously. "Aw, gwan. yousc talk like a fish!" shouted Abie, the crack featherweight. "They ain't none of us but me kin be on the stage, see? When I beat young Bob Fitzsommons I'll be havin' a million offers, 'cause champeens gits 'em. But you aiu't no champeen." "He's foolish,said Miah, con ICLUJJIUV/UOIJ . xww; hiin." Jakie took on an offended air. He scowled at liis larger relatives, who eyed him scornfully. "Let him tell what it is he's tryin' to do," suggested Caesar, with tolerance. *1 s'pose nobody but youse guys knows nothin'?" bitterly demanded Jakie. "I got a regular job at Shiner's Bowery Theatre, beginnin' Monday mat'nee, an' meetin' all comers." "He's lose his nut complete," declared Morris, the middleweight, i The other Appells gazed at Jakie increulously. "Are you tryin' to kid us?" Monte < A nnall < rirt 11 i rort M VttllCB Vftll r Stllff wouldn't get a laugh in forty years. . It's punk. Where'd you get that at, . anyway?" Jakie sullenly observed the sneering faces of his relatives. He had not removed his hat and overcoat upon | entering the office, therefore hasty departure was easy. He got up. "All the know-it-all Appells kin go chase 'emselves fur all o' me!" he exclaimed. "Good night!" The door noisily closed after him. i "That kid's sick, I'm afraid," said Miah anxiously. "You don't 'spose, now, that readin' about lunatics and that has got him bug? 'Cause that talk he was shootin' ain't good sense." The family, after earnest discusSi sion of Jakie, decided that, angered at not having his name in the fight columns like his more famed brothers, Jakie had merely endeavored to impress them with his own importance. They separated, those individuals who lived by physical combat going to their training quarters, while Caesar went off to sign a couple of men for a preliminary at his next fistic entertainment. It was on the next Monday night that Maw Appell asked Paw Appell where Jakie had gone. With sons so plenteous paw had not missed Jakie. "Where, indeed, is it he has gone?" .said he. ""I do not see the boy again yet." "He blows out wit' some guy wearin' a big hunk of ice this afternoon." Monte, who was not in active training at the time, furnished this news. Paw Appell remarked that if the man wore diamonds it was all right. "But no lead ones, you bet," said I -the proud parent. Jakie Appell, gloom in his young heart, was in an unventilated dressing room at Shiner's Bowery Theatre, attended by a smashed nose, little eyed youth named Micked McGoogle. Messrs. Appell and McGoogle were .slightly nervous, but they did not confess it. Outside the theatre two red i lettered signs announced that Jakie Appell, "champion featherweight"' (of what locality was prudently omitted), was meeting all comers twice daily for three rounds. "It's finding it," said the burlesque show's manager enthusiastically. "Stand these dubs off twice a day. We'll put a hurdle up for any guy who looks tough game." "And I get a hundert bucks an' fifty per cent, oi everything after $2000 business is did on the week." "My boy," said the manager, *1 sec they can't trim you. Exactly. Our contract says if you're knocked out. only $25 altogether. But we don't let you get knocked out. So you're safe." . Mr. McGoogle, aged seventeen, and Jakie, who was then sixteen, considered it an excellent financial deal. In Ijjiun. ci ii;iiyss u:i nail lldi^ UUIl and fighting shoes, Jakie bowed to his second audience at 5).45 p. in. The champion of the Bronx Bricklayers' Union was his opponent. "Why, he ain't no feather?he's a welter,""protested Kid McGoogle. "Are you runnin' my stage or am I, young fellar?" coldly asked the manager. Mr. McGoogie quieted. The bricklaying person obviously was not aware that, in most sots of articles the La Blanche swing i.? barred. He used it effectively in the first round. In the second, well sponged and fanned by Mr. McGoogle, Jakie chased the hmm iiiiidtfui muuiiu lit ring, punciuaiiny ? the trip with frequent wallops. 5?|3 "Aw, mix it up! He's stollin'," g|B howled the gallery. "Make 'em fight! ga Go git him, kid!*' gig They clinched. 8?? "Can't hold'n' hit," ;.rgued a voice. 8j?3g "Put j-our head on his chin, Jakie! T.ock hold?that's the boy! Good Hkid!" ||y The bricklayer cravenly quit. It fflvas Jakie's fight. K?1| Fifty dollars was offered to "the JIM man who stays three rounds." It m will be seen that Jakie had taken on ia large contract. At eacti show the contestants grew huskier in size Kid McGoogle labored over Ills ctiar^f I and Jakie panted out after the enemy I i each time, putting them out one bj one. Protest was vain. The man. ager said that if no light men came LIl^'Il JcULIt? illUbl >V licit, luatvuui was at hand. "Or no pay," lie finished. "What size they'll be by Sattiday,*" moaned McGoogle tearfully. Jakie sighed. He had not been j home since Monday, therefore he i lacked the sage kdvice of his six shrewd brothers. Saturday matinee a tall, thick boxer appeared. He was a bouncer in j a toncert hal! on the Bowery. "Gimme a ladder so's I kin reach up to his map," cried Jakie angrily. "Well, if you lay down that let's us out." announced the manager coolly. The big man couldn't find Jakie, who ran between his long legs, skilfully harrying him, under Kid McGoogle's coaching. Jakie introduced a Graceo-lloman hold, which caused the other to bend down to see what he was doing, whereat Jakie hooked him with a hard jab to the stomach. | The roars from the admiring audience wouid have prevented the management from giving a decision to the ??i ? ?:i big man in any case, dui as evu uviu& had induced indigestion in the bouncer, the body blow settled him. One show remained and Jakie could only wait and pray. It was clear that the treacherous manager was providing these enormous men in an effort to save paying the industrious Jakie. That night a hefty two hundred I pounder climbed on the stage, to I emerge from the wings in red tights j five minutes later. j "Myie O'Erien!" yelled the stage ; manager. "O'Brien had a large hook nose. I Kid McGoogle, seeing him, stared in j wonder. It was C&esar Appell, who j would do anything for money. The | offer outside had tempted him. Caesar's surprise equaled Jakie's, but he made no sign. At the first clinch Jakie agitatedly whispered his story. "Knock me out in the next," said Caesar; "don't worry." With a vicious right swing to the jaw Jakie sent "Mike O'Brien" to the canvas. Unwilling and slow as the referee's count was, he did not rise, for Caesar would have stayed there all night. Wild bellows applauded Jakie, the marvelous young tiger. At ten-thirty Jakie and Mr. McGoogle, keeping close to Caesar's large bulk, heard rthe latter demand his little brother's money. It was given and the percentage also, for Caesar would not be denied. Then he took the exhausted juvenile away. "Next time never hold out to the family," he gently rebuked, a 'cause them's your best friends."?New York Telegraph. "OBLITERATIVE COLOR." j The Part It Plays in Animal Life and ! Defense. Whales, lions, wolves, deer, hares, mice; partridges, quails, sandpipers, i larks, sparrows; frogs, snakes, fishes, [ lizards, crabs; grasshoppers, slugs, I caterpillars?all these animals, and many thousand more, crawl and crouch and swim about their business, hunting and eluding, under cover of this strange obliterative mask, the smooth and perfect balance between j shades of color and degrees of ilium ination. Nature, having thus visually un- J substantialized the bodies of animals, i i so that if seen at all they look flat and | I ghostly, does not stop there. From solid, shaded bodies they have been converted, as it were, into flat cards or canvases, and, to complete the lllu] sion of obliteration, pictures of the i background?veritable pictures of the i more or less distant landscape?have ! been painted on these canvases. Such, in effect, are the el a .orate markings of field and forest birds. This is the consummation of obliterative coloration; full obliterative shading in conjunction with a true picturing of such scenes, nearer or farther, as would appear straight beyond the animal were it transparent, or as would appear if there were no creature there at all. The animal has vanished and in his place stands a picture of the distance, with its numberless details! The term "obliterative coloration" truly fits the case, since these animals prove to be colored to disappear from view and not, as has hitherto been snnnnsprl tn look lifeless snlirl nh jccts. Some writers, indeed, have mentioned the fact that animals blend into the varied ground behind them, but all have failed to see that this phenomenon could not exist without the aid of some profound principle in j addition to the general resemblance I of color and pattern.?From Gerald j H. Thayer's "The Concealing ColoraI tion of Animals," in the Century. Old Scottish Sanctuary. k The old sanctuary of the Abbey and I Palace o! llolyrood House, to quote j the full description, was an interest! ins institution. The debtor was free j from arrest during the week. O# ! entering the sanctuary he enrolled i himself in a formal manner and ob! tained a room?that is, if he could I pay for it. There was a public house ! within the boundaries, and it was not uncommon to see the debtor in the I inn playing dominoes and his credit! ors standing looking in at the win* { dow with wistful eyes. The debtor | was safe, and he knew it, and the face of the creditor told the same tale. Sunday being a dies non, the debtor could leave his sanctuary and . visit his family, but he had to be careful to get back to Holvrood on , Sunday night. Sometimes a debtor iiad the temerity to leave on a week , j day, but he did so at his peril.?Lonj don Globe. A Thought For the Week. The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being i told. But next to doing the right thing without being told Is to do it ^ot-q tnlrl ntifp .?TT.lliorf llnK. j w LI CU JV/U c** W v?vv. b nui/' !bard. Several million dollars' worth ol i machinery for large modern sugar ? mills has lately been purchased iu . Formosa. THE LATEST CRAZE-a.; j2> k (6m * sr yT*. ?may nag. A \fk . ^ \ /r r*\\ Comrades K j/j-fs' $H*g ^jft J^jlfl ?Cartoon "EAT LESS, DRINK LESS.GHEEI Dr. H. W. WHey, Government Expert hoi and Gloomy Friend Washington, D. C.?Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, food expert of the Government has a few simple rules for eating and drinking during the heated term. Here are his commandments: Eat one-fourth less in summer than in winter. Eat meat in moderation. Select the lighter meats. Banish all alcoholic beverages. Eat most largely of cooked fruits and vegetables. Drink nothing below sixty degrees in temperature, and drink sparingly. Be careful to seek, the society of cheerful friends. Practice moderation in open air exercise. Don't fret; don't worry. "Thousands of people are made sick in summer because they do not know how or what to eat," observed Dr. Wiley. "But the same criticism applies to -the winter season as well. Few people follow definite rules. Moderate eating, moderate drinking, moderate exercise in the open air and cheerful friends will keep any good man alive through the summer. "Eating in summer should be diminished by about one-quarter, inasmuch as the heat energy is one-quarter less than in winter. "Fruits and vegetables are the normal diet for summer, provided they are cooked. If eaten raw they should not be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. "Few persons who delight in raw fruits for breakfast have any idea of WANTS DRINKERS Spokane Wash.) Foliti Solved the l_a< Spokane, Wash.?The Republican party in this State is pledged to local option and the Democrats are on record as favoring absolute prohibition. Knowins that there are voters to whom neither course is acceptable, E. E. Hall, of Spokane, who is a candidate, has come forward with a novel plan. He would compel every man and woman'who drinks intoxicating liquors to pay a license fee, exempt saloon men and permit any one who desires to engage in the traffic, the sole restriction being to sell only to license holders. Outlining his plan, Hall said that while he is willing to stand squarely upon the Republican State platform and vote for the passage of a local option law, if elected, he will introduce a measure which provides that the man who drinks the liquor should pay the license. He added: "My plan would be to abolish all saloon licenses, permitting any man | desiring to do so to sell liquor. If a 1 IT'S A COLD WORLD Dr. Taylor, President of Vassal of Only a Pour Poughkeepsie, N. Y.?"The world is not giving much encouragement to women to go on in the higher scholarship. Even in the old institutions, after all the talk is over, what do they do for women in the fields of scholarship?" This is what the Rev. James Monroe Taylor, president of Vassar College, said to the graduates at the commencement exercises in the college chapel. Dr. Taylor was defendinrr Uioeon'o m ofVinrl rvf li'mifinff tlio ,i ii3 * aooai o luccuuu vi utuiwu^ buv number of students and of leaving post graduate work to other colleges. "This does not mean that we yield to any college in the world as to scholarship," he said. "It means "TAG DAY," THE LATEST SPECIES Washington, D. C.?"Tag-day," the latest species of refined highway robbery, consists in holding up the entire population of a town and demanding a contribution to the local hospital in return for a tag which, if worn in plain sight, becomes a safe- | guard against further molestation, j Automobiles and other vehicles are ] stopped in true Jesse James style. Even a train is reported to have been held until the passengers' pockWashington Orders Destruction of Fish Wiers in I'orto Kican Streams. I San Juan, Porto Rico.?A local law j which was passed recently, authoriz- j ing the construction of weirs and J dams in inland waters bu? failing to specify which streams were meant. by the term "inland waters," has! caused the erection by fishermen of weirs in navigable streams. This has been reported to Washington, and instructions have been sent to District Attorney Savage 101 destroy the weirs wherever they obstruct navigation. Women in the Day's News. Mrs. Howard Gould's father left her $1. Four out of five of all English women of position are smokers. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is said to be the best bridge player in New York. Miss Ellen Stewart, of Carthage, aged 104 years, died at Watertown, N. Y. Mrs. Katie Hartigan, a widow, of Brooklyn, N. Y., died of fright at the sight of bloodstains on her waist, caused by a slight wound in her side. The wound was not dangerous. tag datf sncsdtms. .ff 7ft\w^who vyas nt 4?# -.taggtd% '.,_ by Berryman, in the Washington Star. 8 UP," HOT WEATHER ADVICE t, Says Ice Water, Raw Fruit, Alco 5 OriOUlU De Onunnow. pathogenic bacteria, its appearance I or its taste, if it has any. So apples, peaches, grapes and even the delectable grape fruit are to be banished because they may have been contam-. inated. Stewed prunes are good, if you like them and the contamination has been cooked out of them. "The festive highball and the more plebian "scuttle of suds" are to be put aside. Alcohol when oxidized is nothing but heat, and these summer days are hot enough. Should more alcohol be used than is oxidized the user gets poisoned. It is hard to tell during the heated season when the alcohol imbibed is going to stop oxidizing, so the safest plan is to cease imbibing. "Care should be taken against over-indulgence in very cold drinks or frozen relishes. On hot days no beverages below sixty degrees in temperature should be taken. Otherwise they are apt to produce what physicians describe as ice-water dyspepsia. Soda water and ice cream are alike bad when taken in large quantities. Observe the law of moderation and eat and drink slowly." j Here Dr. Wiley interrupted his sol- , eran warnings to break into verse: Full many a man, both young and old, Has gone to his sarcophagus < By pouring water, icy cold, Adown his hot esophagus. "Tell your readers to be cheerful; it might be worse," Dr. Wiley concluded, as he mopped his brow and turned on the electric fan. TO GET LICENSES oian Believes He Plas quor Problem. ; man wants to drink he should be compelled to take out a license to do so, and it should be a misdemeanor for any person to sell to a man who does not have such a license. Such licenses should be issued by county and city, a reasonable fee being about $5 a year for county licenses and from $1 to $3 a year for city. This would bring in a larger revenue than under the present license system, and would put the burden where it belongs. "Each license thus issued should have attached thereto a photograph of the person taking it out, so there could be no using of the license except by this man. It should also contain a provision that a conviction ( for drunkenness at any time would be punished by a revocation or tne ( license for a period of six months or j a year. This appears to me to be the logical solution of the liquor question ( in districts where saloons are not barred by local option." FOR GIRL SCHOLARS. , I r. Tells Graduates the Wisdom Years* Course. 1 that we have kept our academic work . sanitary long enough to understand that not all who study can be scholars. We hold that beyond four years of a course in a woman's college a woman with a vocation of scholarship in view would better go to the great < universities and there strive for her degrees." The sentiment expressed by Dr. Taylor, that few women have any ca- j . pacity for further scholarship than i I tlfct obtained in four years at college, i i aroused vigorous applause, and the | I chapel was thronged with parents ; and friends of the class, which is the ; 1 largest in the history of famous old j ] Vassar College. I 1 OF REFINED HIGHWAY ROBBERY. !, ets were emptied by women in the I garb of the trained nurse. From re- ' lieving suffering to inflicting it is an t easy change. The whole idea is ex- i f cellent, and the inventor of this new i way of getting money for charity ought to be known and immortalized 1 ?provided that it does not fore- 1 shadow the passing of the indispensable hospital fair or concert or rum- < mage sale. This would be a calamity i I too dreadful to tolerate. I * c Trial Marriage Failed; Worried Himself to Death, i t ( * North Dana. Mass.?Elmer M. j Thayer, of Hardwick, a wealthy ! Grand Army man. died of worry be- 1 cause of his inability to find a satis- | * factory wife through his method ! ( of trial marriage. j ' Mr. Thayer advertised extensivelj ; 5 and his mail assumed the proportions j 1 of the correspondence of a get-rich- 1 quick concern. The plan scandalized J 1 and alienated life-long friends and i Mr. Thayer became a gloomy recluse , ( and a woman hater. I * I Tlio ll'nplfl nf Snort. There will be no more Yale re- i gattas on Lake Whitney, hereafter, ' it is understood. Howe, the crack hurdler of Yale r University, has been elected captain of the Eli track team. Carl Schlechter, of Vienna, and .0. . S. Duras, of Bohemia, tied in the in- 1 ternational chess tournament at Prague. With Annapolis and Georgetown x out of the Poughkeepsie regatta Ibis year, only five crews lined up for the 1 word?Cornell, Columbia, Wisconsin, * Pennsylvania and Syracuse. < My of 25o,ooo planned, says oliver ! First Move to Make America a Military Power. PRAISES PINE PLAINS GAMP Assistant Sot /etary of War Outline* Scheme For Union of State and Regular Troops Under Call of the President. Pine Plains Camp, N. Y.?The War Department has perfected a plan for the virtual amalgamation into a standing army of.250,000 men ready to answer the call of the President of all the regular and National Guard troops in the United States. Assistant Secretary of War Oliver, who was at Pine Camp witnessing the De- < partment of the East maneuvers, gave ?' out this information. 1 Secretary Oliver, in outlining the ( plan for the reorganization of the ( National and State troops, declared that the word militiamen is now a ' misnomer, and that the State troops ( are at this moment United States < Volunteers. i The War Department plan means < nothing more or less than that the , moment this country gets into trouble } the so-called National Guard organizations will cease to exist as such, and immediately become active units of the regular army, absolutely under the control of the President and the < Secretary of War. ? * "This scheme," said General Oliver, "is the first move in the plan to make this country a military power. Before this we have had no authority over the State troops, better known, perhaps, as militia and National Guard organizations. What we propose to do is to organize these State troops and all the regular forces into eight army corps, and the New England States, New York, and other States in the military division known as the Department of the East will constitute toe r irsi Army ^uips "The maneuvre grounds here on Pine Plains if the Government buys them will be the place where the National and State troops that will be in this First Army Corps, will have their field training. In other words j it means that two years hence 50,000 . men will be mobilized on this plain. "As at present planned the War Department will be able to put into 1 the field almost immediately an army of 250,000 men, part of them being regulars and the remainder under the 1 Bystem of instruction. "This new plan obviates all possibility of confusion in the event of a , sudden call to arms. There will be '{ no troops around the country in haphazard fashion; every regiment, regular and State, will know exactly 1 where it belongs and where it is to go. The plan will facilitate every ! feature of mobilization. It will bs my duty to put this plan Into opera- ] tion, but should the necessity arise, , my successor can carry on the work ( without the slightest interruption so . perfectly and so thoroughly worked out are the plans of the Department. ' "Prior to the passage of the Dick i law the President of the United States i had practically no power at all over I the militia organizations. But now, , in view of the recent legislation, a militiaman enlists for real service, , and in the event of a war his status is that of a regular, and no re-enlistment on his part is necessary. ' / I CHILI) SLAIN BY WIZARDS. Negro's Confession Says Her Heart's | Blood Was Used as a Cure. . Havana, Cuba.?In the toWii of I Alacranes, Province of Matanzas, Victor Navarro, a negro lad, arrested ; on the charge of complicity in the , kidnaping of Luisa Valdes, a white ! child who recently disappeared from her home, has confessed that the girl was the victim of a band of Brujos, 1 or negro wizards. He said that he and one of thw t wizards named Marin, wno also has i been arrested, entered the house and abducted the girl, who was mur- ( iered for the purpose of using the t blood of her heart to cure an old impress of consumption. Members of the Rural Guard are in pursuit of others of the band of Brujos. 1 ? WILLIAMS QUITS LEADERSHIP. j Gives House Democrats Time to 1 Choose His Successor. Eufaula, Ala. ? Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, has resigned the minority leadership af the House of Representatives, to :ake effect in December next. This mnouncement is made by Representative H. D. Clayton, chairman of the Democratic caucus, who received th? otter from the Senator-elect. [low Chicago rrofited by the Republican Convention. Chicago.?By a $90,000 subscrip;ion, of which $20,000 was returned, Chicago has separated convention vistors from 21,000,000. Restaurants, stores and amusement parks ".vere the largest bpnefieiaries lext to railroads and hotels. The railroads report that this :onvention, because of the anti-pass provision, has brought them more noney than any previous national :onvention. jiigantic Steel Trust; ^ S7o0.000.000 Capital. t] e London.?In spite of all denials . .he Iron and Steel Trades Journal deilares it has authority for stating that che formation of an international A iteel trust, in which American. Gei- vnan and Russian syndicates will unite V vith British steel interests, will bo an a iccomplished fact in a few weeks. v The headquarters of the new con- f. :ern will be in London, and its ca;?i- w alization will reach ?150.000.000 ,, [?7G0,000,000). Stub Ends of News. Industrial activities are slowly , /i ifautuiiiQ. ( al Canada is to be boycotted by the ? Theatrical Trust. 11 Robert Hunter, the Socialist, de- ^ :.'ared that a labor crisis is at hand 11 md the unions are in peril. h; The authorities of Staten Island, c' 'Jew York, started a crusade to ex- ti ;erminate dogs in the borough. it As a result of a conference called cl )y Secretary Straus, new orders will ni )e issued making the physical re- oi luirements for aliens the same at all ' t1 United States torts. . I :. ' v., .. ' ?r, NJ.'W; "i?. PRESIDENTIAL RANGE Last summer an enterprising Bos:on man, like the three Philadelphiins who lately 3tarted on a 10,000nile tramping trip to South America, lecided that ho would do something original in the line of pedestriani3m. ; Like thousands of other well-bal- > inced vacationists, the gentleman in luestion selected the White Moun:ains as his objective point, and eached them over a route which, he :laims, was never traversed throughout its entire length by any other b.u-1 nan being. Going from the modern Athens by ail to Rochester, N. H., he walked from the latter place to Alton Bay, j 5n the southern shore of incompar- j ible LakeWinnipesaukee. From there j Profile Lake, Franconia Notch. tie took the steamer, "Mt. Washingion" (scores of readers of this paper will recall with pleasure a similar sxperience), across the lake to Cen:re Harbor. , Next , day . he tramped through Moultonboro and Tam worth (the "Grover Cleveland country"), to j Wonalancet, annexing at that place a local guide, who safely piloted him over Mt. Wonalancet and Mt. Paugus, two of the lesser hills of the White Mountains, to picturesque Passaconaway village, where he changed to a second guide. The new pathfinder, an experienced hunter, led his ambitious employer Dver the mountains and through Sense woods that have been wholly innocent of roadway or trail since they were created, eventually striking in at Livermore, whence they reached the summit of Mt. Washington by way of the Crawford Notch ind the southern peaks. Much of the way lay through svoodland solitudes where the eye of man had seldom, if ever, penetrated, ind the chief member of the expedi:ion says of it that it was "A walk lull of surprising interest as well as nteresting surprises." This was in July, when the moun:ains were in their full glory of folilge, sunshine and birds and animal ife. A few months previous, in Februiry, two other New England lovers of )utdoors enjoyed a pedestrian trip of LOO miles or more through the White fountains, traveling most of the way >n skis and making the ascent of Mt. iVashington in this way under condi;ions that were nothing less than perlous. Three or four feet of snow almost everywhere covered the trails and oadways,-and the Alpine character )f the journey was enhanced by at east one avalanche. Such are the contrasts one gets in 'Jew Hampshire's White Mountains; ind yet American travelers rave over he Alps and the Himalayas as if woo n o cimti tl-iinsr ns rpal licic iraa uu ouvu ^ nountains in their own country at all. r PRESIDENTIAL RANGE To these two examples of White j lountain tramping trips, some of j hem within rhe writer's own experi- j nee, an indefinite number of others, light be added. In these common-1 ense days of outdoor enjoyment and : .ppalachian Mountain clubs, the | 'onderful region embraced in the;: i'hite and Kranconia mountains, I way up in the northern corner of i! Winston Churchill's fnvorite State, is !; lirly gridironed with trails, path- j < ays and carriage ronus, hiuhi ui lem leading to a scenic surprise. j The "New England Alps," hut 1 ite known to the general public hall , i century ago, and not nearly as well I ppreciated as they deserved to bo: ren twenty or twenty-five years ago., j ave to-day come to he one of the j l lost popular Mercas for the vaca- i onist on the continent. The region ! as had development, too, curiously : ifferent from that of any other vacaon section in the country; for, while < retains, in a certain sense, its "ex- j i .oitmnooi! '* ifu wulmroo hne hv nn i i leans been confined to the wealthy t r aristocratic few. Indeed, these 1 lountains are socially democratic. ] - v j-' -"' . 'r? " ' .. FROM BRETTON WOODS. i There is one summer city in the White Mountains whose population expands to nearly 10,000 during the height of the vacation season; and there are days when as many as 500 tourists ascend to the summit of stately Mt. Washington, 6300 feet above the sea, on the famous Cog railwuv trt He* fArn hv t V? a f onrfnl luiin uj) tu wv vvi u uj luuii an iui mental conflict that always must be fought by the man or, woman who has to decide whether it shall be dinner indoors or scenery outdoors. And what an appetite that mountain air does give one! Once, during an ocean voyage, I elected to forego my dinner in order to enjoy an unusually fine sunset. As the barometer falls with the1 approaching storm, so did I fall in the Fstimation of my traveling companions as the result of that little bit of self-sacrifice. If I had but a half hour on the summit of Mt. Washington, and it was a question of dinner or view, I would decide in the self- ' same way, however/In passing, let me say that the prospect from Mt. Washington's altitudinous crown fs one that cannot easily be described in too extravar gant language. In a way, it is even more wonderful than the cycloramic outlook from the top of Pike's Peak, which stands twice as high in the world as does "Old Agiochook." The normal radius of observation extends for about 100 miles, taking In the ocean on the east and including a marvelpus mosaic of lakes, rivers, mountain peaks, notches, towna and villages and forest tracts. Aided by the refraction of the atmosphere, . there are some features of the landscape that can be identified 140 miles distant. No one possessing anything ... . SUNAPEB HARBOR. il^n^llarht^f-t A^r-t^r, r^omhling O 1X1 C1XO OlI5UbC0V UVQ* vv . 0 ? soul could look upon this scene and not become a sound convert to the doctrine of forest preservation. Forty or fifty years ago the sojourner on the summit would look out at night upon a gulf of darkness almost as opaque as that which fills the yawning pit of the Grand Canyon of a moonless evening, but nowadays he can amuse himself by identifying, by means of their glittering Electric lights, the numerous towns and cities that lie scattered throughout the sable circle. The cities of Portland and Lewiston can thus be picked out. i ..-'S .V - .< :v- V/'V'*" ' ' " -.' - r< ^ FROM WHITEF1ELD. Indeed, the vacation seeker who cannot liud a sufficient diversity of amusement, exercise aud study in the White .Mountains rnigni as wen cctiao looking for what he wants on this planet. In addition to the conventional tramping (the most helpful and exhilarating ecercise in the kvo' Ul), there are delights of driving, horseback riding, golf, tennis, fishing n!id rowing, not to mention other attractive outdoor pastimes, including lie great national game played by rack baseball clubs. There is life and health and men <1 healing in the ozone of the White Mountains;, for. next to the impressive auty of their scenery, their most mportnnt attribute is their wonder- . 1.1! air. \ shall never forget my first introduction to it, as I descended Vi?m Ilio f v;> iti from Itcistnll at .'I little ?t:Uion in the Crawford Notch. Tiie unfamiliar surroundings, the i'.iieturie of that vast canyon, but more than all else the elixir of that :ihm1(>ss mountain oxygen, made it seam as though we had entered a new ivorld and transformed us all instantlv into new men and women.