'WE MUST GROW. OR DIE. Constant Study Is Necessary to Keep Pace With the Times. A passion for growth, a yearning for a larger life, is char acteristic of all great souls. A man is measur ed by his power to grow, to become larger, © broader, nobler. The intensity of his desire to reach out and up defines hig capacity for deviopment. Any one, young or old, ;possessed by a passion for growth is constantly add- ing to his knowledge, always pus hing his horizon a little further. Every he gains additional wisdom, every night he is a little larger than he was in the morning. He keeps growing as long as he lives. Even in old age he is still stretching out for larger things, reach- ing up to greater heights. ¢ We often find plants and fr ees that are not. fully developed, but have reached the limit of their growth. They cannot be made to respond to the woo- ing of enriched soil or copious water- ing. The power for the. extension of cell life seems to have departed. "Phere are many human plants of sim- ilar nature. Early in life they settle into grooves, from which nothing can displace them. They are dead to enter- prise, to advancement along any line. New movements, new Sy stems of busi- ness, larger conceptions of life and sim- ilar things in the living, moving ¢ present do not appeal to them. Immovably bound to the past, they can step only just so far this way, only so far that way. There is no further growth, no more progress for them. . They have reached their goal. 4 Employees often think that Ig are kept back designedly and that others less deserving are pushed ahead of them, when the real trouble is with themselves. They have ceased to grow. They continue to move in 2a circle. They have not kept pace with the trend of the times. "Forward!" is the bugle call of the twentieth century. The young man or woman or the old man or woman who. has ceased to grow is to be pitied. Life holds nothing more for either. THE LAU MELOMELO. How Hawaiian Natives Go After the Finny Tribe. "Lau melomelo" is the name of a de- coy used by the native fishermen of Hawaii. It is made of the hardest . wood to be found on the islands and is carved and rubbed till it assumes the shape of a club 'with a little knob at the smaller end, to which the line is tied. The club is from one to three feet long. A village sorcerer performs cer- tain rites over it over a sacred fire, After this is done the club is magic, and the fisherman must be extremely careful of it. If a woman should step over it or enter a canoe in which it lies, the club would lose all its power and would be useless ever afterward. After the club has been charmed the fisherman mixes candlenut and cocoa- nut meat, bakes it and ties the mixture in a wrapper of cocoanut fiber. At the fishing grounds the club is' covered with the. oily juice of the stuff and is then lowered carefully to the bottom. The scent of the baked nut meat attracts certain kinds of fish, which soon gather and begin to nibble at the club. As soon as enough fish are around the decoy a small bag shaped net is lowered very gently until its mouth is just over. the club. The latter is then pulled up carefully and cun- ningly till it is within the bag. The fish are so eager for the stuff with which the club is covered that they follow it -into the net without fear. As soon as all the fish aré in it a fisherman dives and closes the mouth of the net, wheres upon the rest. haul it up. quickly. i Rp : Later In the Game. = "Ah, me," sighed the ang clerk) "how women do change!" swan = "What's tangled in. yo now?' asked the boss. *° doit "When I was doing the" Four it stunt with (day 5 said the du e., "she declared' that if I should pass'i my checks she would also die without 'delay. And now'-- "Well, what now?' queried the boss. | "We have been married only | six. months," continued the assistant pill compiler, "and she is dropping hints around to the effect that I ought to get |, my life insured." Odors of Sickness: 5 In gout the skin Sccretions thle af special odor. which Sydenham .com- pares to that of whey. In jaundice' the odor is that of musk; in oppilation, of vinegar; of sour beer in scrofula, of warm bread in intermittent' ifelyenis End diabetes, when there is perspiration, the smell is of hay or. rather, of ace: to; Bouchardat, | - tone; but; : according midway. between aldehyde and ace- tone, being due to mixture in variable proportions of these two bodies. : ' Wasted Time. "You want that book bound, sir? Yes, sir. It will cost 8 marks: But there are pictures in it. iin will make it'd marks, sir. "But why is it more with pictures?' "Oh, , you see, sir, my helper will waste so much time looking at them!" --Fliegende Blatter. "| Johnny" stibmitted 1 STARTING, A TRADE. Secret ¢f His Success, "Peddlin's a hire business. even if it hurts your principles, there's a possible chance. with me. my mind he'd got to. nutmegs; pocket sawmills," says I, 'an' the bottom out of a fryin' pan, an' zot, I guess. Whoop! says L. head. 'I'll take pewter, copper, zinc, iron ey an' old maids! shuk his head. half cents is coined,' says I. or four pair. 'Now, tinware. er trade on next time I come,' KNOWING TOO MUCH. the subject. ir Indeed your a observations. Nr of mind. a wit. imity to a live wire. tercourse. of alternating currents of high voltag for them. draw myself. of cleverness. pot." Atlantic. The' Site of the White House. hy President Washington and Majo 'eral city in 1792. {Chirtes Moore in Sontury. The iy "Johnny," said the (teacher, Ave sentence containing the word tents. ' 23 Wt A aE ta After a few mgments Con me para contents of a cow, is mili" Solemn Moments. HA "It is a: solemn thing." man, 'when a woman 'with her affections." "Tt ain't as solemn." with the pink necktie, said the tas --London Tit-Bits. The New Englond Peddler and the The se- . eret of it is that you mst do a trade, when t I remember Low I once managed with an old fel low who wouldn't hev nothin' to do | He was so confident an' sure | he warn't goin' to trade that I made up 'T've got wooden horn gun flints, basswood hams, tin bungholes, calico hog troughs, white oak cheeses an' various other. articles too numerous to mention, includin' of cast iron ratholes, an' if any of them ain't big enough to answer I'll knock that'll let any rat through that you've 'I'm fom way. in the mountings of Hepzidam, where the lion roareth-an' the whang- doodle mourneth fer her firstborn!" The old man just looked on and shuk his rags--anything,' says I, 'exceptin' mon- But ibe oid man on'y "TI just Simply nan: to start a trade. I saw a pair of old boots, an' I said them was just what I wanted. 'What? he says. 'D'ye buy old boots? an' I said them was my partickler specialty. 'How much ay e give? he asks, an' 1 says, 'Half a cent a pound, 's long as He didn't take no heed of my meanin', but begin to rummage round and git out three They warn't no good to Newton, but I was startin' a trade. hain't yer got some rags? I says. Them was what I asked fer first, an' the old miser said he didn't hev, none, put now, stirred up by the chanst of gittin' somethin' fer his old boots, he brought out seventeen pound of rags, an' we done a brisk bit of tradin' fer 1 left the old boots settin' beside the gate when I druv away. "Phem 'll come in handy to start anoth- I says." .--Julian Ralph in Harper's Magazine. pleasure in conversation with a. too well informed person is the nervous strain that is involved. We are always |- wondering what will happen when he comes to the end of his resources. Aft- er listening to-one who discourses with surprising accuracy upon any particu- lar topic we feel a delicacy in changing It seems a mean 'trick, | ike suddenly removing the chair on which a guest is about to sit down for the evening. With one who is interest ed in a greit many things he knows iittle about there-is no such difficulty. If he has passed the first flush of youth, it no longer embarrasses him to be caught now. and 'then in a mistake. tion is welcomed as an agreeable interruption and serves as a starting point for a new series: of The pleasure of conversation is en- hanced if one feels assured not only of wide margins of ignorance, but also of the absence of any uncanny: 'quickness I should not like to be a neighbor: to It would be like being in prox- A certain insulat- ing film of kindly stupidity is needed to give a margin of safety to human in- There are certain minds whose processes convey the impression on a wire that is not quite large enough From such I would with- One is freed from all such apprehen- sions in the companionship of people who make no pretensions to any kind. "The laughter of fools is like the crackling of thorns under a What cheerful sounds--the crack- ling of the dry thorns and the merry bubbling of the pot!--S. M. Crothers in ge The-site for the president's palace; as the first maps name it, was selected L'Enfant when they laid out the fed- They proposed to have the president's house and the cap- itol reciprocally close to the long' vista formed - Ry Pennsylvania avenue, and | they! alsoflaid outa parklike connection between the two great buildings. J plans for the house, selected by Wash ton and Jefferson as the result of a The labor el following: 4 Ime nan Flen 'she won't trust him with his own wages." KNOWS CANADA, Mr. Ww. L. Griffith, the New Secretary ta Canadian High commiksipner, Lord Stratheona, in London. In Mr. W. L. Griffith, the appointed Secretary to the Canudia High Commissioner in Londo, this | country will have at what is¥ really ! her Consulate in the me stropolis, a | gentleman who knows Canada better than do most Canadians, says 'Che News, Toronto. 'Mr. J..G. Colmer, who has retired, was a painstaking and courteous. official, but his visits to this country had been few and short. His successor was. for five or six .years a farmer in Southern Mani- toba, near Morris, and there he laid the foundations of a comfortable for- tune. During his incumbency of the position of Canadian Government agent at Cardiff he had one stock statement that must have greatly im- pressed : the 'Welshmen 'who . thought of coming to Canada to. take up Tang. "When I went to Manitoba,' Griffith would say, inl paid three an acre for my farm. When I sold it, 1 was paid twenty dollars an acre.' Many an immigrant fin- ally CE to come here 'when ne heard that concrete example of the chances which Canada gives the in- dustrious immigrant. Mr. Griffith has seen a great deal of the world, for he is not a man to be content to remain long in one place. He likes to have headquar- ters, but he also likes travel. Last year when the members of the unsuc- cessful Welsh colony in the Argentine Republic were brought to: Canada, it was Mr. Griflith who convoyed them to their new home in the great West. In 1899 Mr. Griffith came to Cana- da in company yi DD. Lloyd George, M. P...and Mr. Rees, the latter stew ard. of one of DS largest landed estates' in the principality. The iid envoys had been 'invited to Canada by the Minister of the In- terior, with a 'view to their inducing Welsh emigration to the Canadian West. In company with Mr. Grif- fith and Mr. W, «J. White, of the De- | partment. of "Interior, they visited several sections of the great prairie land, but while both Mr. Griffith and Mr. Rees were much taken with sev- eral proposed: sites for a colony, Mr. Some. Serious Drawbacks to the David Lloyd George turned out to be Pleasures of Conversation. netty man for the Minister One very serious drawback to out Tod "deal He is ga fiery © Welsh THI 'Radical, one of the fiercest fighters in the House of Commons, as Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour know. Usually completely influenced by his prepossessions, Lloyd-George ness of his judgment to convince him that he is wrong. One of the fixed tdons 'brought to Canada was: that the on- ly satisfactory way in which a Welsh colony could be established was to "have it as completely as _ possible se- gregated from the other 'dwellers in the country. Lloyd- -George would be by no means satisfied to , have the | be Welsh in truth. Welsh must be 'jts only language, save, perhaps, "when some outlander 'should enter within its bonders. And its customs could not be' other 'than Welsh. ;» To | ug Canadians,' accustomed as we are to the successful assimilation of Ice- 'landers, Germans and' Scandinavians, not te mention the other folk: whom we are now digesting, . this: talk of Lloyd-George seeins naught but. ar- rant nonsense, and arrant nonsense it was. The trouble was' that . the rather cock-sure Welshman believed it to be common-sense of the most pellucid kind. When 'Mr. Sifton told him he could not and would not guarantee that English-speaking settlers would keep ¢| away from the borders of the Welsh take any interest: in 'the project. Mr. Sifton pointed out that it would be sort of natural belt of 'unsettled land --our good prairie soil, 'ser remarked, is too' lhable for that sort of waste. Mr, Griffith saw, eye-to-eye with the. Minds but .the Welsh M.P. was "obidurate. [ not have his ow ay; 'so er had no | waly 'at, all." ] " That colony ~never came, "but, thanks to the efforts of Mr. Griffith, Canada since 1899. It is said, and, judging from his record, it is prob- ably true, that nothing 'ILloyd-George out of the next Liberal Cabinet. when "the time shall have arrived to form one. He may male a good Minister, but, from the point of view of the ordinafy subordinate civil servant, there are several other men on earth who would make more desirable heads of departments. . Mr. Lloyd-George is always ready to bet r | competition in which L'Enfant took | "% or pe ya > 2 pny, . ra « 5 5 bis , L3 pork were drawn by James Hoban, | = "14 think, must be an undesirable native of Dublin and a medal man of | cuperior in a Government depart- the Society of Arts of hat | iy ment where so much. detail frequent-. ly 'has to be rushed: Shion within a very short time. : Courage Is that erement of manhood | ta a man which never deserts himself. por Lis friends. --Schoolmaster. ; A hata a aia Ny A Bashful Mans' Ruse. > A bashful young man Aviom as: afraid to propose to his swettheéart indarced her to fire at him with a pistol 'which be assured her was only. lotded: with 'powder, and 'after shevliad dete soihe pretended to be dead. : self! wildly upon the iy called m her: darling and 'her beloved," whereupon. 'He tgot up ang married her.--London Tit-Bits. ; a ge le ' is not the man to allow mere argu- "tment or even proof of the incorrect-. 'sone hundreds of Welsh have entered: THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Used to ads the Question, iy Water Flow up Hill? Since the earth is an 'oblate spheroid 'instead of a perfect sphere, it comes to newly. well that -he . pass that its center is farther from the equator than from either pole. The difference is about thirteen miles. The Mississippi flows southward for so great a distance that its surface at its mouth is about four miles farther from the earth's center than at its source. Does it then ficw up hill? This is a question 'which the coast. and geodetic survey in Washington is frequently asked to answer. The reply is that "up" means against gravitation and "down" with gravitatiom; hence the Mississippi does not flow up hill, although obviously it moves away from the center of the globe. Plumb lines rarely point directly toward the center of the earth. The variation from that direction has given rise to an interest- ing branch of the government's work. The visible irregularities of the sur- face of the earth--mountains, valleys and water basins--affect the form of attraction which is known as gravita- tion. A cubic mile of land is two and a half times as dense as a similar volume of water. The plumb line tends to lean toward the earth masses and away from the water basins. These influ- ences, which may be computed with scientific accuracy, do not, however, explain all of the deflections. Varying degrees of density some miles below the surface of the earth must be as- sumed to exist. Trifling as these deflections are, nev- er exceeding nine inches in a plumb line a mile long, they are of considera- ble scientific importance. They modify the calculations of navigators and ex- plorers as to positions on the earth's surface derived from the stars. They thus become essential in high grade mapmaking. They also help to make the records of measurements of the. earth contribute to the story of the his- tory of the earth. In the eye of science there are no trifles.--Youth's Compa : ion. ; ANCIENT MEDICINES. = Some of the Repulsive Remedies. | Used by Our Ancestors. Some of the remedies used by our ancestors ought to have been sufficient to scare away any: disease without their application. Here are a few of them: "A halter wher ewith any one has been hanged if tied about the head 'on a human skull if dried and pow- 'dered and taken as snuff is no less effi- cacious." Dr. Samuel Turner, wrote on diseases of the skin, notices a : prevalent charm among old women for the shingles, the blood of a black cat ~ taken from its tail and smeared on the colony Welsh in name only; it 'must' impossible to. have the Welsh colony cut off from the outside' world by a. the Minlis- part affected. The chips of a gallows tied on a string and worn around the neck are said te have.cured ague. - Spiders, as may readily be supposed, 'were in great repute as remedies. Bur- ton, the writer of the "Anatomy of who "will cure headache. Moss growing up- Melancholy," was dat first dubious as to the efficacy of the spider as a remedy, though he' states: that he had seen it used by his mother, "whom he knew to have excellent skill in chirurgery, sore eyes and aches, till at length," says he, "rambling amongst authors, as I often do, I found this very medicine in Dios- corides, approved by Matthiolas and repeated by Aldrovandus. I began then to have a better opinion of it." . For stopping hemorrhages all sorts of things were used. for this purpose "they tied live toads behind the ears or under the armpits in the hand till they grew warm. Mi- i ¢chael Mercatus says that this effect of toads is a truth, which any person will- ing to take the trouble may satisfy ! himself of by: a very simple experi- 'ment, for if you hang the toad around "a -epck's neck for a day or so you may can keep indictment for Sn Tins a to commit suicide has no foundation in then cut. off his head and the neck will not bleed a single drop." The malade imaginaire 'of those days pursued his hhh. under difficulties. AES Not a Judge. A good instance of repartee occurred in a law court when the following con- versation took place between a witness, a rustic looking individual, and the presiding judge. Judge--You say you had occasion to taste this whisky ? Witness-- Yes, my lord. 3 Judge--Now, are you sure you could tell the difference between good and bad whisky ? : Witness (drawling) -- Well, 1 don't quite know as I could exactly, me lord (with a knowingssmilé), for, ye see, I'm not a judge !--London. Times. JsiPuo The Judge's Candid Opinion. x Mish to state," ¥0ld a Tresh young fact. 1 saw him this morning, and he has retained me to defend his life." "That seems to confirm the rumor," said the judge: ceed."'- There is 16 use Sing excited when a man calls you a liar. If you are! 'one, you knew it before he told youiyand if you are not you know he is. SE ltimore; American. ; 0 a J%Let the case pro- John Bell says that THE BROAD JUMPER. His Training Must Bo Get the Best | nits. ¥ Every schoolboy thinks that he eam broad jump, and so he can to a certain degree. But this event is ons i should be gone at systemati the best results. The ju first carefully notice lis de on go- ing up to the take off. so that he cam Systematic tox mark off a distance--say twenty-five yards back--and by stopping ou this mark with one of his feet as he runs: by he will be sure to strike the take off' when he comes to it. The jumper can- not be sure of getting his best efforts into his jump unless he is practicaliy cure of hitting the take off. After this: has been acquired the athlete can: gel L to work. In this run the jumper's highest speed should be reached at about tem or twelve feet before the take off, so that he can gather himself for the jump. After leaving the take off he should shoot out and up. He must have elevation or his efforts will be in vain. He should go into the air at an angle of at least forty-five degrees. A. good way to get this elevation is by placing a hurdle in the jumping pit and jumping over it. The jumper should gather himself together as he goes through the air, and at the finish, just before alighting, he should force himself on by & spasmodic effort with his arms and body. The legs will strike the ground at the farthest possible distance. Practice will show how far out the feet can be thrown without the athlete's falling back into the pit. It must be remembered that the greater the speed the farther out the feet cam be thrown with safety. A great deal of practice i necessary to become #& good broad jumper, but this is an event which it is not well to practice too frequently, ag it is very hard om the legs. The broad jumper will there- fore not expect to get at his best dur- ing his first season.--G. W. Orton in St. Nicholas. f Vs TRAGEDY OF ANIMAL LIFE. Something Pathetic In the Career of the Passenger Pigeon. To him who knov s the story of the passenger pigeon. this group of beauti- . ful, grayish brown birds with the iris descent golden sheen upon their throats 'is the last word of 'a tragedy of animal 'life. America was once the land of the wild pigeon. Barly American Ww riterg "are full of references 'to it. 'Alexander Wilson, the father of, American orni 'turned in to utilize what the * or 'to the soles of the feet or held them reservation, Lioyd-George: ceased to, °j 'thology. estimated that a flock seen by 'him in 1808" contained over 2,000. 000 individuals. It stretched from the lo- rizon to the- horizon, as far as the eye could see, and was over four houts in passing a given point. He saw a nest= ing colony forty miles long and several miles in width. } In 1805 Audubon saw schooners at the wharfs in New York loaded not in packages. but in bulk, with wild pi- geons 'caught up the Hudson river and sold for a cent apiece. Up to 18GQ the bird continued fairly abundant. Then a frightful slaughter began to supply an increased food demand. Gun, pole, club, net and sulphur pot were ems ployed. Thirty dozen birds were cape tured at one spring of the net. One man netted 500 dozen in one day. Im the nesting season trees were shaken or felled and wagon loads of squab taken nightly, droves of hogs being 'hunters' had left. Wherever the distracted flocks appeared the slaughter began, At the last known large pigeon "nest- ing." in 1878, a billion birds were killed during the season. Like the bison, it was effectually exterminated, showing the terrible efficiency of man hen he sets out systematically in pursuit of a lower species. Not Very Filling. Mrs. Andrews was the most conscien- tious visitor of the district, but for va- rious - reasons she was not popular among the poor people whom she longed to help. "I don't want to see that peaked look- ing woman in my room aguin, nor I svon't!" said the grandmother of the nine ragged Palmers. ' 4] read my Bible wid the best o' folks," went on the old lady, "but there's times for some things an' times for others, an' that Andrews woman is without the sense to know the one from the other. What was the motto she brought us yesterday, all in red and gold letters, and we with empty stoma achs? -- 'Be filled with faith!" | liss. She put the book down, with a sigle. "What is it, darling?' he asked. "Ah, dearest, I'm so happy." plied. "But you had such a sad look in your oyes just now." "I. know. I've been reading ubout the unhappiness that the wives of men of .genius 'have always had to bear. Oh, 'Alfred. dear. I'm so glad yoa'r® just an. ordinary plug of a fellow!" "YA Fair Deduction. | Miss Verisopht--Why do you say that van Million, who is to be married y, is so plain? Do you know her by sight? ! 3 CE but I notice that oe printed only the pie ure husband Mis tu e of J fut she re- rere