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MR. PEASLEE TELLS OF DOWN.
FALL OF STUBBORN MAN.
Of Course Jonas Might Have Thought
the Window Was Open, but It I
Certain That the Shoe Came
Through It.
"That Jonas Ebbitt," observed Caleb
*Peaslee as lie leaned upon his hoe and
rddressed Obed Gunney, "is the stub
bornest man in Dilmouth. I wouldn't
9e 8'prised if he was the stuhhornest
one in Maine."
Mr. Gunney nodded his head in con
hithaation. "Ebbitt is sot," he conceded
mildly, "hut what fetched him into
e,;our mind right at this minute?"
"Oh, I Jest got to thinkin'," Mr. Peas
-tee replied. "Last night Jone had a
ihance to show how 'sot' he could he,
Aind I happened to he there when he
done it."
"Jest what shape did his sotness
take?" Mr. Gunney wanted to know;
and Caleb chuckled.
"He'd come down to the post office
)y way of the beach rond," he began,
"and he'd got gravel into both of his
"hoes. 'Stead of takin' off one shoe
tnd dumpin' the gravel out of that and
Wien puttin' it back on again, he took
em both off. I' di'now why. I lre
sume likely he done it to be different.
"When he went to put 'em on again
he took up the left shoe fust and tried
so put it onto his right foot. Mehbe
k'd have shifted it to the other foot if
f.,em Piper'd kep' his mouth shut ; but
,Lem ain't gifted that way.
"'That's the wrong shoe you're tryin'
to put on that foot, Ebbitt,' Lem says.
aind Jone's mouth came together like a
Lrhp.
"'I guess I know full's much 'bout
ny shoes and feet as you to, Lem
Viper,' he snapped out, 'and 'less it
liakes some gret difr'rence to you, I'm
,oin' to put these shoes on to suit my
.eif 1' So Lemt, knowing that talkin'
wouldn't change him, Jest watched him,
and so did the rest of us.
"Well, by workin' and twistin' he
uanaged to get the left shoe onto his
fght toot, and then he started on the
ther one, and by the time he'd got
;fat one on I don't b'lieve a day's work
Sgeid have tired him more. His fore
1aad was all of a sweat, and they must
ve'hult him like time, but he never
bowed a sin of changing 'em.
"He sot there a spell, to make it ap
pear that he hadn't been doin' anything
out of the common, and then he said
he'd got to be gittin' 'long home.
"My way laid along with his, so I
started with him. I wanted to get
home, of course, and besides that I
wanted to see how he'd make out to
cripple home with them shoes on the!
wrong feet. He didn't act very tickled
to have me along, and only grunted
when I told him I'd bear him company.
"I mistrust that if I hadn't been with
him them shoes would have come ofr:
'bout as soon as he got round the fust
turn ; but with me there he couldn't
shift 'em without givin' in that he was
wrong, and I guess he'd ruther lose a
foot than do that.
"If a half a mile ever seemed long to
any man, that piece of road between
the post office and Ebbitt's place must I
have seemed long to him. It must
have 'bout killed him to walk it, buL
he tried not to make any sign of it.
Once or twice he'd step on a stone
that'd roll, or on an oneven place
in the road, and it'd fairly fetch a
groan out of him; but he triel to turn
it off that he was kind of singin' or
hummtn' onder his breath.
"We fin'ly fetched up at his place,
and Jone didn't waste any tIme in
sayin' good night to me. le jest hob
bled up that path to his (loo', walkin'
on the sides of his feet and groannin'
every ine he sot foot on a hubble. le
fairly fell into the door, and for what
took place a fterwards-well, I dessay
Jonas thought the winder was open."
"'Winder was open'?" repeated Mr.
Gunney, wonderingly, and Caleb nod
ded.
"I hadn't taken more'n a dozen
steps," he explained, "when I heard
the sound of glass breakin', and some
thing struck within ten feet of ne in
the road. I took pains to go and pick
it up, and it was a shop-'hout such a
shoe as I'd seen Jonas put on to wear
home.
"And from the way it come out
through the winder there so spiteful,"
Mr. Penslee concluded dryly, "I thought
that Jonas had sort of give in for once
that he was wrong."-Youth's Com
pinion.
Thieves' Insurance Plan.
A thieves' mutual aid society has
sprung up in London. Its aim is to
pay police court fines inflicted on
thieves. Offenders are insured against
fines, paying toward the support of
the society as they would in a life in.
surance proposition.
It is said that both honest Abd dis
honest men have clubbed together to
make a livelihood from the Ihusiness
done by the society. They appoint ati
oficial culled "the banker," who col
lects the money, and it is his duty tc
attend the court and pay the fines.
In one case a youth enught stealing
had in his possession a card showing
subscriptions .to the amount of ?2 foi
use in paying fines of friends found
guilty of theft.
Germany Exports Copper.
Ironmougers (n Tlolland are contin
uing to receive copper utensils export.
ed from Germany. People in Holland
are utch astonished that so great n
quantity of copper is still being ex
ported i!om Germnny.- I.oralon (lobe,
FIRST HUMANS BLACK HAIRED
interesting -heory Formulated by
American Expert on Conditions in
the Tropical Regions.
Lieut. Col. Charles E. Woodruff,
whose long experience as5 chief meal
cal ofilcer of the American army in the
Philippines umakes him n expert on
tropicnl conditions, has written a book
(nlled "Medical Ethnology," In which
he advances some Interesting theories
on dasrk-skinned and white-skinned
races. The Lancet, in reviewing the
book, says:
"The author holds that the first hu
ua beings were black-haired anlnals
but not black skinned, as their seat of
development must have been in a cold
country where condItions of life were
hard, necessitating a great develop,
met of brain. since only the most In
telligent could survive. They were
originally cave-dwellers. After a time,
when the earth was largely peopled
with this race, there arose it large
blond type in northern Europe--Nietz
sehe's "blond hnst," the Teutonic su
perman-who estatiblished himself in i
dominhting position in many countries
by right of conquest.
"To this race belonged the ancient
Greeks, the original Itomans, the rul
Ing race in Egypt, and so forth. .
fortunately this type tends to di
when it migrates fromt its native t
mate, and so in titne the Itomans died
out and their empire fell to pieces and
the glorious period of the Greek intel
lect was short-lived. In the same way
white races fall at the present day to
establish themselves permanently in
tropical climates."
The Lancet quotes, also some of
Colopel Woodruff's opinions on the ef
feet of light; which he considers al
most wholly harmful to white men.
"The dark skin of tropical races
serves as a protection by cutting off
the rays of light; it also assists the
body in radiating heat, but at the
same time favors absorption from a
hot environment, so that dark races
stand such heat as that of a stokehole
worse than light-skinned people.
"Contrary to common opinion, the
author holds that bright light is bad
for children at school, rendering them
restless and irritable. The neurasthe
nia which affects white residents in the
tropics and their children is due, he
considers, largely to excessive light,
aided doubtless by high temperature."
Then and Now.
We never heard the word efficiency
in those days, s.o far as I can re
member, outside the physics labora
tory. -Would to heaven it had stayed
there! It must not be supposed, how
ever, that we did not work when we
did ,work. As I look about me, I do
not'see many young men under our
present efficient systems who seem to
he working harder. Somehow we de
rived from the old men a thirst for
knowledge, a restless curiosity, a joy
ous knight-errantry in the quest for
truth. Surely, that tenehing which
can induce students to pursue their
researehes voluntarily outsi!e of the
einssrcom is the best kind of teaching.
I get the impression today that
most of the joy of college life is con
fined to the student bldy, and that
that is often hectic. The faculties
seem to me overworked, over-serious,
Inelking in wlhtt we call pedagoglc
faith-faith that the student may be
trusted to get some good out of leis
uire. I suppose that we shall have to
blame, as usual, the Zeitgeist. Crowd
ed curricula. imultIform "student ac
tivities," and all the full-steam and
weighted throttles of modern efil
eilency are pushing out of college life
Just the one element that should be
charneteristle of it-time; time for ru
mination, day-dreaming, thought.
Robert M. Ony, in the Atlantic.
Copper Had a Heart.
Here is a potato theft which
showed the cop to be a real humani
tarian: A little, frail, white-haired
old woman, her hent shoulders cov
ered with a small shawl, came down
an Eastside street toward the corner
grocery store. In front of the store
she stopped and glanced hastily
around. Her trembling old hands
came out from under the shawl, seized
two or three potatoes on the top of a
basket and were drawn back under
the shawl again. For a second she
stood there,_h'er thin lips moving i. it
In prayer, then she weht on. Not ten
feet away stood a big patrolman with
his back turned resolutely toward the
store and his gaze fixed across the
street. The storekeeper was singular
ly unobserving. As soon as the little
old woman had gone the big cop
turnel to the storekeeper and re
marked: "She's fixed for the day,
eh?" "Yes, all right for today!"
laughed back the storekeeper.-New
York Times.
Plant Poplars.
Poplar is a quick growth and is in
good demand for the making of
matches. Recently two steamships
have been loaded with the wood for
European ports and the cargoes
brought large profits to the shippers.
With all kinds of forest trees rapidly
disappearing from the face of the
American continent, this tree might
be made a paying crop for many sec
tions of the country. The time Is com
ing when we shall need wood and
there will be little wood to be had.
Easily Traced.
"The plot of Dasher's latest book
has a sort of vague, elusive familiar
ity."
"No doubt ; he wrote it from the mo
fion picture that was adapted from the
stage suc'-ess translated from the dra
nuitlzed French version of a Russian
problem novel. -- Life.
Chocolate In the Trenches.
This afternoon, everything being
quiet, I invited the neighboring sec
tion commander to come and spend a
little time wIth me. In the trenches
we rarely have anything to drink but
winef ( and coffee, and, by the way of
sptelal feast, I decilded to make some
chocolate. So I sent for a canteen of
water and poured some of the pre
clous fluid into my pan and devoutly
emptied in the chocolate and sugar.
It was simmering gently on my braz
iner, and I was just on the point of
adding condensed milk, when someone
called me from the outside. It was
my orderly coming to see if I needed
anything. I invited him to join us,
but at the precise mo ment the stupid
battery of a 77 began to spit its six
shells at us. Two burst so near that
my faithful - 'tampon' stumbled in
fright and fell headlong, taking with
him brazier, saucepan and chocolate
our chocolate so nearly ready, which
our eyes were drinking so hungrily.
The poor chap was most unhappy, so
I laughed ; but I must confess my
laugh was a bit sickly. At that mo
wtjent I detested the Germans worse
than ever.---From a French LIeuten
ant's Diary in the Atlantic.
Finely Milled Broad Seems Best.
~ommenting on the recent order of
the British hoard of trade that in
milling wheat 80 per cent of its
weight must be recovered in floar, in
stead of 70 per cent. as formerly.
Nature remarks that bread made fronr
80 per cent flour is not so nutritious
as that made from 70 per cent flour.
And it adds:
"Although 80 per cent bread con
talus on the average rather more pro
tein than 70 per cent bread, the di
gestibillty of the protein in the for
mer is rather lower, so that the actual
weight of protein digested by the av
erage individual from one pound of
80 per cent bread is rather less than
the amount digested from one pound
of 70 per cent bread. Again, the en
ergy value of 80 per cent bread is
rather lower than that of 70 per cent
bread."
It Waa.
The family album of old courting
(lays Joust have been a consummate
hore if it was any worse than the
todoern kodak album.-Kansas City
Star.
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