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PRINCIPLES BAFFLE SCIENTISTS.
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Why Trees Grow Straight Up or Draw j i
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Water From Ground a Mystery.
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"What force is it of nature which
makes water rise in the stem of a j,
plant to the leaves from the roots? j
This is contrary to gravitation, is it
not??L. F. S."
You have hit upon one of the ques- i
tions at which science shakes its j:
head and says: "I am trying to find j i
out." If trees had hearts, the cir-1,
culation of the sap, which is as blood j
to them, could be easily explained;,
but nobody, except the poets, has
discovered a heart in a tree.
The tree stands before us in its
summer garments and its winter
nakedness, challenging us, like the
Sphinx, to guess its secret. We know i
that it gets practically all of the wa-;
ter upon which its existence depends
from the ground. Its whole life is
a defiance of gravitation, and a con-j
tinuing victory over that abasing j
force.
What makes the tree rise straight
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ways contrary to the direction of;
gravity? It seems to be the joy of!
life for a tree to keep its trunk ver-1
tical. If it happens to spring into j
being on the slope of a steep hill,
what does it do but struggle upward ;
into perpendicularity? It simply will
not lie down. The plumb-line is its f
ideal.
A shrub growing out of the side:
of a precipice turns its tiny stem
sturdily upward, away from the cen- j
tre of the earth and toward the cen-;
tre of the sky. A tree is never pros- j
trate until it is dead. There is an j
invincible opposition between gravi-l
tation and tree growth. They re- j
semble the forces of the opposite j
poles of a magnet; you can not make
them agree.
In this "polarity" may obscurely
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of water in a tree?but I can not I
clear up, or fill out, that explanation. [
It may depend upon the cooperation;
of many things, as, say the botanists,
who now and then invent a new the- j
ory on the subject, but always add j
to it, as auxiliaries, some of the old;
explanations. There is none of these!
theories that is able to stand alone,
on its own bottom.
You will have to study a considerable
number of more or less puzzling
subjects, such as capillarity, surface J
tension, osmosis, root pressure, transpiration,
the tendency of columns of
water of extremely small diameter to
resist tensile strain, so that they can
be lifted bodily, and so on, if you
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svish to learn what botanists have
guessed and speculated concerning
this mystery, and after you have
finished you will be forced to concede
that nobody knows much about it.
That, of course, does not make
the speculations and theories any
less important, because it is only in
this way that we can get any of nature's
secrets. Difficulty and mystery
should be to the mind what gravitation
is to the tree?a stimulus to
growth.
And what a wonderful thing a tree
is! How near it stands to an animal!
What do you think of the following
from a distinguished botanist: "The
body of a vascular plant (any plant
that has a circulatory system) is developed,
in the first place, by repeated
divisions of the fertilized egg and
the growth of the products of division."
"Fertilized egg!" That is said of
the gern} of a plant. You have, per
naps, supposed mai eggs aic cauiusively
animal affairs. But here is a
scientist who does not hesitate, in the
plainest language, to recognize the
fact that an egg ?that is to say, a
reproductive cell?is essentially the
same thing, whether it hands on j
from generation to generation an ani-1
mal'or a plant.
And another botanist of rank i
writes of "the nervous system of
plants." Not long ago we had a
learned visitor from India who talked,
in scientific phrase, and to scientific
men, of "the feelings of plants."
Everybody knows there are "sensitive
plants," such as mimosa, which
shrink and droop at a touch or at a
blow, exhibiting at least as much appearance
of nervous response as does
a worm, or a bivalve, and that there
are also "carnivorous (flesh eating)
plants," such as the Venus fly-trap,
which catch and devour flies and even
small animals. But the later speculations
go so far as to suggest that
plants may possess a certain degree
or kind of consciousness, or perception
of their own existence and of
their surroundings.
Taking the facts and the theories
together, then it is plain that the ascent
of water in their stems against
the opposition of gravity is by no
means the only mystery or secret
that the trees have with which to
puzzle us. They "know" many things
that may well astonish us. How does
! a tree find water, reaching out its
I roots to great distances, and even
! twisting them around intervening
obstacles, such as the cellar of a
house, in order to attain its object?
Look at the spectacle of a struggle
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OCONEE MEN FOUND DEAD.
Sheriff and Supervisor of County Die ]
of Asphyxiation.
Elizabeth, N. J., Dec. 28.?John W.
Davis, sheriff of Oconee county, ]
South Carolina, and. William C. Foster,
superintendent of prisons of the
same county, were found dead today!
from the effects of inhaling illuminat- ]
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Walhalla, S. C., to take back John
Walker, a negro, accused of murder
in Oconee, S. C. The police are con- ;
vinced their deaths were accidental.
Pointed With Scripture.
In Montpelier, Vermont, they tell
of a bachelor rector who was alone
in his study one afternoon when his
housekeeper brought him a card of
one of his parishioners, a spinster of
means.
When the lady was seated on the
opposite side of the study table the
rector looked at her, expecting her
to sav something concerning parish
| work, in which she was active. To
his surprise an embarrassing silence
ensued, during which he vainly
| sought to find something to say.
"Doctor Blank," began the lady at
last, in faltering tones, "do you think
?can you imagine conditions under
which a?a woman is?justified in
proposing?"
"Why, yes," said the minister, after
some deliberation.
"Thou are the man!" said the lady
resolutely.
Moreover, it appears that she was
right.?Brooklyn Eagle.
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The Meaning.
John H. Freese, an astronomer,
said in a temperance address in Bangor,
in the dry State of Maine:
"Our State has prospered on dryness.
It is like the case of the Gaskell
family.
"Her teacher said to little Mary j
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" 'Mary, please tell us what teei
total means.'
" 'It means three meals a day,' the
youngster promptly answered.
" 'How do you makt that -^t?' the
j puzzled teacher asked.
" 'When pop's drinkin',' said little
Mary, 'we don't have nothin' to eat
! scarcely, but ma says when he's teej
total it means three meals a day.' "?
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! in any crowded forest. The trees do
, exactly what our intelligence would
tell us to do if placed amid similar
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Tell Him Now.
[f with pleasure you are viewing any
work a man is doing,
If you like him, or you love him?
tell him now;
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Don't withhold your approbation, till
the parson makes oration,
As he lies with snowy lillies o'er
his brow.
For no matter how you should shout
he won't really care about it,He
won't know how many tear- 40
drops you have shed.
[f you think some praise is due him,
now's the time to slip it to
him, . do
For he cannot read his tombstone
when he's dead.
More than fame and more than
money is the comment, kind ^
and sunny,
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And the hearty warm approval of ^
a friend. ac
For it gives to life a savor; and it
makes you stronger?braver, j be
And it g'ivps vnn heart and SDirit 26
to the end.
If he earns your praise, bestow it; if:sa
you like him let him know it, ^
Let the words of true encourage- J0
ment be said;
Do not wait till life is over and he's
underneath the clover,
For he cannot read his tombstone Bh
when he's dead. D<
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Joy of Living. re
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An Atlanta man was walking down
Peachtree street with a friend from ; ^
the North. The street was crowded
with darkies, who were forming in
line for a parade. The northerner'
was curious to know what it was j w
about, and questioned the darky aj
nearest him. 3*
"What's the occasion for the
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paraae: 110 asKeu.
The darky grinned at the northern- I
er's friend, and replied: "It's easy I
to see dat dis genulman is from de I
norf. He don't know colored folks I
well 'nough to realize dat dey don't I
need no occasion fo' a parade."?Atlanta
Journal.
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been awarded employes of the South- !
ern Pacific Railroad who did efficient
first work during the last year. The Li
prizes are won under a point system, p
credit of so many units being given s
for suggestions which are classified
as to value and the number of prize ~
points merited by each. T
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An excellent way to get rid of a i
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