1.012, G. TUESDAY, -------- DECEMBER 17. THE DAILY BEITISH WHI AEE TWELVE. s him "- THE BELL ROPE. == ar wre. He was *» you. When yon open some dusty oldjcame readily to hes lips still and her e "The sermon ended to preach n rae homely Pea and the congreg 'Doxol Jul gan and pedalled 1did. One who came a stranger to my |tomis and shadows and bloody awaken r re { people in the Georgia foothills would set liigs--intimate they old da- i jsn't that first 'affair' were always them down as maybe, | suerreotypes. ume that comes to you?| snd the joy o potil he stayed to "My fa s Corners we had, of course, the eyes, the woubl to of single street boy: every little com | features was th that heart which wo drunkard and the gil s'first awskening to self against sin because of the jeopardy a sonrce of almost! "1 was happy i ! (s 5 v ity {to immortality. The life beyond is over by their sins is the agam. My vanity, shadowing; piety is, with folk, name igort of spiritual mortgage, you under- stand, which is lifted only by death, | "Here are Anglo-Saxons, as you stipu-| late, bound by ages of the restraint of | law and stern religious conviction. i | "Tom's Corners was the little town of Imy birth. It was, and still is, 1 suppose, ia little Sleepy Hollow in a green valley 'of the Appalachians, as far away from] | the world as--as Chefoo, say, but not a blasted desert like this place. It was) nearly a day's ride from Tom's Corners ito Atlanta, We had no neighbor towns | growing out of their blue jeans to make {us jealous. We were rural, isolated and | contented. Not since the agony and the heartbreak of the great war had anything occurred to disturb Tom's Corners... The sun shone, the rain came down, fields were green, thep bare, with the seasons, i 1 to sine the ogy. are, like chest of your ng the OEY hes the ¢ e hell "Praise God, from whom all bless "A shot! Then liscordant tia | wail from the organ, ending in a sigh. I nk that for half a minute the singing absolute silenge. seat at » laver al atl "In Tom the was a fairly th eorn tassel hair and blue; this little Julia Massey and I intolerant bigots, ler pe was ws on this long , Rquire Massey's. live with them ; then b the learn know sweetness bad ilusive -- resolutely fortifies it-!Julia Massey she a terrible, little girl when 2 nay be 1ked with hers in continued. Then silence age. You under] "Everybody in the ¢ so tingling with! Fallows, a twisted leer on his face, put sne hand on the sill of the open window t the organ and vault out sunligh Then a sound of horse's hools blue eyes- communal p virtue of the spotiess made more White | when my Beilthe mouth of the al was | | " {Our bad boy was Renwick Fallows. : | { was the son of old Tom Fallows, about!siand: sper | the fancy chaelf these rch saw Renny youth % 80 © to ma at it bugs there was always a Ww lof gossip. 1 remember having overheard my father say to my mother that 'the&in lot Tom Fallows and his woman will sure-! wat either Julia or I--no, I deo not the sod, - 1¥ be visited on their heads by their mis. | believe - 5 Julia bad fallen d Id off "But Renny Fallows injected himself {arms spreading the yel wed course, but after that f ars 1 into gur affairs, or, wer, it seemed that board of the organ, It as if wagined that must I had crossed his. ( wn to a biz you uid dropped to sleep at her instrument | : tert i th fai of wling, imperiousibut a thin cloud of smoke was shredding in some way deformed. 1 go: it in my}¥3ih a fair = § : x tears. of attractiveness, - Renny Fallows |through the golden mist of her bair, head, as chiliren will nurse wild fancies, | ; etry us Sarina the Petals of apple tl dropped, one by that beneath his jacket was some hideous had be paying court to Julia during i Bar'# enormity--may be skull and Leones in year preceding nry ret He bad. capone to her leet, streaked birthmark on his chest. I stood Hed things .with : 1 overcoming | "Men!" He Thundered. "Men!" of him. na Juli for him O¥| «1, standing dazed, swaying under the "As I remember him now, Renny Fal? erude Haste. 1 whieh women 8d! shock of comprehension, heard a single mire. He resented my intrusion, took 0 hout saw a black contd figure rush to lovilish ye 1 HIDE at 4 fiually| iq rope by the pulpit and leap to in his! ed the a quarees withi, grip high above the floor. The bell him on remember DOW, apzed once, A moan, shivering, sibi- I can seg her|jane swept the pews. The gaunt, scramb- e white WaR-|)i,. shape at the bell rope reached above gateway andipic head and cut furiously at the rope and never dare| ith a knife. There 'was & stirring, a murmuring in the benches. "The strands parted just as the first woman to sense the call of compassion slipped tender arms about the dead girl at the organ. He who had cut the ropes gathered the coil in his hands and stepped to the middle of the pulpit. His eyes, as I see them this minute, were the eyes of Hosea, whose life inet of loving even as greatly as o the Now, as I look back, I do not be | } love | nea re on the forward, with key she : over begotten boy | not understand mt Was Jr Any ye : Renny WS bet share a measuye secretly in aw ill tempered boy, much of lows was a moody mcealing that fa given to sneden fils 1 1 an Ope to be te 8 1850 ten in Julia's presence { Though company, was uted to. play. with uted to. play with flamed w anger stood under old she the covered jcrdered leave {te speak to r again, | The Humbling of Renny Fallows. | Am 1 disappofatlag you, gentlemen? {Do you i a love enough. But ow in order tol follows | of Renny | Tom's Corne I am t ire cot uk They this 'much you have t {story ? 1 what afte fing rs | "l Can See Her Now as She Stood Under the White Magnolias." By Robert Welles Ritchie| "So it is with these Chinamen," the| | | Englishma onti "bl (Onpyright. 1012. by the Now York Herald Co, an) Englishman continued, and and sm rights reserved ) {ing and respectable as fat jade gods until{ HEY sat in the hot dark on the yoy provoke them sufficiently and then veranda of The Club, at Chefoo,| gavages iu the raw." the three of them contriving io-| "But that's the way with all of us, dolently to find seme excuse for|p.e hen and Christian alike, isn't it?" staving off the time when night-! It was the American who said this. | | { i Newest comer to Chefoo, latest member | in| of the club, his was the proper deference| of the neophyte; he spoke rarely and then! te. lik clensiy. with regard to the English made conven- tion of suspicion against upstarts. his fellow's shoulder for assistance in for-} wn 0 4 on Los © SHY The third ofl getting self and exile. One talks audfipe , uncompromisingly Seotch, listens to talk at night when labor is|spoke with msperity. "Among the white A new | peoples--the Anglo-Saxons I mean to say, in!lof the of restraint, the Paris. | w eight of ages of law and decency--and "Ghastly business over there," the Eng-|' Hat Sort of thing ~whajeves the pray. 3 Yrewy ocation, your man of Saxon blood cannet lishman said, and with the red coal of his | ho the brute beast: never! cigar he igdicated Nanking, five hundred | the American miles bebind the Llack battlements of the said, simply, and he told this tale, new to Shantupg ranges { Chefoo: nL pesieging the Old, intrenched behind its | Life Yin Tom's Corners. seven-foot walls of mediaeval time. Horrid | "Il am a Georgian," he began in the stories were filtering through the screen | tone slightly altered from the conversa- tional that men assume in narrative, "I of the republican forces of burnings and think that probably my people are more buteheries, tnearly like your people of the northern piled like yams in the market square |shires and the southern lowlands than White men in Obefoo shivered, wondered gre any others of my country. Simple, of slaughter would | unspoiled by the fashions and the vices eRe Ri the big cities, God fearing folk they burst the dam of the Shautung range and Tyo: Bille fa; indeed, thelr book of drench Under thei, : their pastor is spiritual and tem- starlight the long mountain wall over be-| poral judge. They are, for the most part, yond the jumbled roofs of the native City blood of the old Covenanters and they llive by the iron rule, even as their fathers caps would be quaffed and each would find himself alone, Nights China are lonely for white men who try One leans heavily upon group, done with a poigrant soul hunger. tale in Chefoo new custom opara course is as a "1 will give yon a story," New China was there insensate reprisals, 'heads when the red tide of the northern coast showed shadowy, unsubstantial and the Word of God was always the] staff and comfort of every man. "1 cannot make you see my Tom's Cor-| ners as at nights here on this edge of | Nowhere I close my eyes and it is with] me. The long street of white blooming jocusts stretching from the old park where the red brick Court House stands, | up the hill to the thin spire of Calvary] . Church: white old houses sprawling be-| "Julia Had Fallen Forward." neath the oaks, and the magnolias of deep | yards on both sides of that street; Judge|used to stalk Indians in the hollyhock Trumbull's octagon house, with the blue thickets and make corustalk fiddles when light conservatory jutting from one angle | she was in blue gingham pinafores and 8s a permanent monument to one of old |] wore one-gallus, cut-down trousers. We Mis' Trambull's hygienic crotchets: old| went to Sunday together up at man Hewitt's trading store opposite the|Calvary; picnicked huckleberry par Court Housé, the line of chewed tether | ties: nursed familiés of small robins to- pests before it, and the perpetual wooden | gether in the crotch of the old cherry tree bucket of gumdrops in the window--do I used to carry her to and from 1 sketch the proper atmosphere for my|Miss Robinson's academy. Yes, story? These things recollect them heartss You men remember the when a fellow is out here in this land of loves--the first little girl school an books sweet puppy who smiled at to What Doctors Say About the HumanMr. Rudolph Veadémie des Sciences. Stature | ¥ there is any question which has been . J + d which still remains : asked for ages, and which this Xind He selected the Swiss Canton of Valais, best conditions for a study a subject of controversy, it is that of the location geographical of always influence exerted by . . where the three principal factors--geo- upon the development ha . atitude and orientation of logical strata the man stature Biologists have claimed phat an growth of the human skeleton is p ay ed by the mature of the soil, the altitude aid the geological formation Not to go back toe-far, it was in 186% that Durand de Gros, while prosecuting anthropological investigations in the De partment of Aveyron, obfrved that in calcareous regions man's osseous system is remarkably and are tall, while in a graumitic district; on : teeth, a distinctive on the studied. moetuntan apes present imopriant role In the features, and whose inhabitants, other hand, have been carefully Without being greatly versed in geology it suffices to take a quick glimpse of the principal parts of the Canton of Valais to recognize that its geology is complex, es- pecially in the secluded region on the left bank eof The the whi right bank being much more thickly popu- | lated, it was on this sidé that Dr. Pittard, the Rhone land on well developed made his. observations, In a general way bave of of 2 i the river Louza composed of mica-schist Similar phenowena > : aod a land gneiss, while all that portion which occur meng animals. Dusan' de 'Gros attributed these re | X1ERdS to the bend of the Rhone be | "its w Aheidilfertice beiween the regions, {unas to the Jurassic system. This opilion, while accepted by many! peuple, was contested - by others, and gran sige that time, although a great number 1 metre G33 milliivetres while among ol works have been published upon the dwellers 'upon chalky sites the average subject, the question has remalbed wn! beight was only 1 metre 621 millimetres. oben ones : ' | Does the factor of altitude exert auy ine It Is generally &dwitten (hat great de- | uence in this respect? While the ma jor-| velopment st of organic progress. ' Such bodily growth! must not be forgotten that Signor Livi, in ia attributed to itiproved economic con-1 1taly, and M. Collignod, in France, found ditiong--that is to say, to a diminution of | hat the stature of human beings, aithough| poverty. "But the assertion is far from | showing diminution at levels just above! being proved. Que might even better, the 700-metre line, increases again at iaterpret it in As the Canton of Va-. fashion, and it is such a conclusion, in!lais includes localities whicch presen: al warlance with aceepted opinion, that Dr. gradual rise between the 380-metre and; Eugene Pittard bas reached in com. the comtrary, poor slender . form and particalacly in some which he examined. men L it may be said that the soil, apart from stature, { are low . certain districts, is from Mount Furea to] the .ownships He found that among the inhabitants of | ! itic districts the average height was! au entirely different greater altitud: munication he has made to the Paris|the country into five ones of 300 metres each. In oriler to make the question clear, be chose a region which seemed to offer the! bhotmi nature is a mark|ity of authorities decline to admit this, it the 1.936-metre levels, Dr. Pittard divided] N the President's desk in the 0) House ar | one the 1,000-metre line, and that in the zone, oo ¢ 1,300 He found that ther? is no diminu- ix ali buttons. Th pt tion of stature among people living under most worn from pressur refinger soun buzzer a 2 "udelph Vor a 0 between 1,000 metres and 1etres of rater. his execu the stature of the inhabitants diminishes! He we 1, on (an average by one centimetre > : water" i solutior "Mr F White Hou further observed that on rising to | 3 800-metre level of amounting 3 centimetres From this examination D cluded that, contrary to general opinion, high altitudes are far from exerting ap un ian height the Rhone the Vaud that the valley . When An lncrease statnre is percepti worning ttard upon hu favorable influence 1 Va Un desce he mding from Brig to Canton oue inated by the right southern slopes of the Berne the northern slope not: so of sunshine, | notes is dom twe huge mountain slopes--on ina sinny Alps: Valaisian the very on (he A », well situated fr the point of view owever, just on ndee Mr. La eh und Mr. Hilles nont, Mr the side less exposed that the stature the namely, 1 mei pared with 1 the sunny sity ope, but i is pa 0 inhabitants greater GIN millimetres, as com- 0 be as 3) But important meire G25 millimetres Wash on outside of of the « of the White House siaff, headed by ¢f is A Cunous; ented in each of} the differs: exvept the fourth, that)' between the and 1300-metref Me. | levels, where, as stated above, the stature' decreases i is known other mem nes Luu re ester at part of the Hr President an Ame volves 8 § Pres jenfia vifice In samming up the abuve it may stature is not anfaverably influenced by geological conditions, such as granitic sitey, high altitudes in no way binder its ie Hous development. : Nor does the influence of mountain "UROL give wea seem to the which quest observations given be siated that when homaa uttween th sabds ol Tica iwndre { the Bias who Lave correspondence wi Obs " effect His ont wich he mast ad might be supposed. It would seem that quis that the the less supny side of a mountain is the more favorable to | Hence the conclusion that the three actors not exert the efiecs sumed or whki<h are probable. In that greater developwient of human sia ure corresponds 10 8 lower degree of gy. dfntle th erage organic developmen: that are received pass throdgh poss Ny salient facts ated te him se 1 e drasm iufinencs referred to above do abich might be as gencrally consid musi be ¢ affairs = great, | s wilh unswerving 3 loyal Tea & . eenitive, whoever be may be fact. it ix wot impossih = e respousibility for the prop ve Witite House mail White the a Yet upon the shoulders of to) Allg was white } » shadowed townsfolk locust s to the cal filed ng he Sunday ed 1g to whisper, "Julia at the asthmatic lit she was ( . | singing of the quiet, just th g! until thing be di shocked at He tortured a eat, shriek- at the poor animal's I ran home when I saw that! warn for the remainder of After that] once I was grossly ing with chter anties. tand hid in the the day, sobbing wretchedly, I shunned him. "Here I am, wandering. This ctory| is not about myself; I play only an inci] {dental part. i "But how can I tell it without seem- the intimate and trivi | which quick Massey, my 1 eir-| tragedy | ing priggish cums:ances from sprang? Julia idol, met me on my return with a boyhood"s| hand- clasp and a smile, all hearty and cordial, but with something in her eyes that was her sh say defensive. 1 must know, warned behind the smile, that no longer a little girl whose lover could drop notes in the hollow of the 3 { woman to bound eyes was more stump was waist reflected "Phe te wooed and not to be over from the innocent pledges of childhood And such a woman Julia was! Much of the child remained in her face; the pout ris love sernron 1 o Mess 3 Hurts 8 Ewisg hapds on the awd the Presid negro once, reckoning 1 boyish perversity, radiantly bea ai blue sash girdled her white Xt of was Had The sexton bare with to a th w e aisle from and Fom's the e pulpit Then with 3 le 'alvary"s sole organist 'The King of Love." 1l that morning. ssoms in her low in her the venerable Let gome Su not thy angry Conscious Forster, Right Hand Man to 7 under the| ng before, hardly hurch filled, the belf he Almighty dress at cheeks, preacher's premoni- | tel] He held out the bell rope, looped bes his hands, with tha gesture of 8 arch of Israel dedicating a sacrifice Most High. 'Men! he thundered. 'Men™ ) "They jumped from' their pews with hoarse shoutings, then, those God fearing i men of Calvary; they took that rope in their hands and hurled themselves out of church door to the shed where the horses were tied. A roar of hoofbentny died and there was only the sound of women weeping in the church" The tale teller stopped abruptly, The toom-toom-toom of 8 bronze gong over in the Taoist temple gave pulse to the silence and the dark. "I take it," the Scotchman began, "that they! ---- "Yes, thep did," Interrupted the Amer« ican, "~--to a blasted cak ip thé bury ing ground for negroes." Again silence, "Extraordinary I* the Englishman whis tween at hered I'he f fam Igsters, | Lhe crablike ere the y right langed Corners' organ-- the She was A broad the 17) ! i SII HTH "But of course the old chap wha rope was responsibld for the ' corsage | pered. mt the bell whole thing.' passions | "Ag jt should be," answered the tale "He was the preacher the I which ( the P President gress passes and sends to resident for approval or dis Approval, he carefully notes, she White Services at House sitios the first day of * McKinley administration 1807 has know in in his capacious mind a » of the Presidents va policies and politics of th The widely divergent icteristios and temperaments would fem to have Mr of ad given upse of every s why he in the Cabinet mee swer questions sbout varie rplexing the administratio ent often ca ling him to public men. His telephone Repre or all sorts of inf ringing as Senators and Senta! ¢ f xii on him f ration Bometimes Senators and Representatives ila find ng the President busy, are z {take the matter up with Mr. Forster, who turn briogs it before the Predident The White House is 5 buxy piace bait 3 nobody is mere constantly "ou the job" {than Mr. Forster. He works quietly, but y. His remarkable memory eusbies bin to answer an inquiry or dispose of a problem without kawing 10 stop fo search f Never ruled, never or facts and figores rattled, bis efficiency is oil to the cogs and ol His White House in 1867 was due to Mr. Cortelyou's of His selection the executive ma ine ippointment a8 a clerk. at the e fo reform the the Wh H busipess wet bods te House offices Was Bon t post ns to to further advance yilies oi Fr widents he has absorbed « | rea PT cutive clerk under Mr. Taft three vi of pational affairs