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r " ry r 5wd v tow (CanjTlfDt. "WoS, , by Kdwp4 W. Towaseed.) 'hi wa alt ptcUnii gp. to so our place. In the country, and Wnlikwi nyi t Mr. Ymut, ' TlCvery yar We gooe .-" t de' country earlier and ataye der : longer.- Pretty aucn wel do what tou : nd of our friends haa done, glva-up ... our town house, and, for da few week v- .: wo mnu to stop In 4a city, hlr room In a hotel. 'Den nobody will .live In town but has to, and what will New York be like, denf' ,. "Well. sir." mm Mr. Paul, "we haa ' : to consider why dey baa to live In town. Dere will be all aorta of reaaone; aome . goes to wolk 'so early and atopa to wolk ' ao Ion dey haan't time to. get' to-de - country. : Soma haan't de price of a com router's ticket tO'Dlngley Boil or Ka- tomwlll, and ao dey atopa in town, too, .But, air, let ua not dwell , ao long cn dut unlntereatln' classes of folks; ' let ua toln our mind to anodder claaa what haa to. atop 'In town but for an--dder reason.- Blf, I meana dat largo '' claaa what haa to lira in, New York to toe happy.-. Hera la da only spot on aart (ley can find amusement; can find eom V fori, can even find da kind of air dat ' will keep 'am from dying of compreeaed V: motion." : .-.-'i .- . .- . v ..-'.--. i, guee der Isn't ao' many of dat fclass dat dey - will make de tmpreaaton " on da looks and maanera'of de city.' 1 .. gueea moat everybody will live In de .-.a-country .who can." - . ' .. ; ,i "Surly"-saya Mr. -Paul, "and does 1 i mention, can't Dat's da point I haa In rr roe mind. Rents won't go down' In de diamond back district of Manhattan; " to let signs won't take de . place -of solvent golls at Am front ' windows of - do manslona of da terrapin territory of le metropolis: da policemen in de brown ': t atone quarters will still have hot coffee and better beverage solved to him at da basement entrances of millionaire row; : da hold-up Industry will ao- merrily on M In da avenue, and d carriage trade will ' continue to . be wort . advertising ,, ! "Me point atr is 'dat der la . soma .Million or . so of ' genta and delr . fam , - lliea What wouldn't .lira out of town t rent free, wit a salary to .do it .on; dere . Is rich and poor, native born, and for eigners from. Pittsburg and- odder ; de.l , pendencies who can't and won t be happy till dey gets de feel of Manhattan lo ' delr bones and keepa.lt dere.". - -r I was thinking of what, da cents was Raying when ma and Duchess takes a ' whirl around to say good-bye to a few - Vrens and a pec tally ma madder. Well. - dere was da old loldlea, modder and Mr. .' Murphy, near crolay wit excitement, and nil of delr nelghbora In tbd same state of noivea and mind. ' -.. "What's dolngr I aays.. seeing dat ' dey "was dressed tn delr Sunday close ' ; and ready for to go out on parade. And --dey must have put in a whole bargain ? Hay la Grand street, for dey had .new '. bonnets and waists and gloves. ; and r aura was swell for fair. Duchaas, she - rtearly - faints when she sees 'em, and t Mrs: Murphy asks 'em If her waist was ' da latest atyla for da avenue. Bay,- even - I could frame It up dat do goods aha V was wearing had been called in uptown a )'." dosen years ago. bnt Duoheaa, when she caught up wit her breat, she saya. de -eld loldlea wss hints from Paris. . 4 "Well, den," aays modder, "I'll tell you what Mrs. Murphy and ma is going ' 't9-And tell AuJcV! I says. Sr rU jll. "r trtin--B fit wit ma oonoaity.- - "Tie da trute as ever was,' aays Mrs. ' Murphy, "dat your modder and maJiaa dona so fine , wit da laundry dls year dat we are going to take a look at, da v avenue for da folat time." "And atand you- and Duehaes a lunch in de swelleat place dat will let OS inside da doore." saya modder. ,r. ... it .. "trill be better-dan a soleus," t says. . . "Leave ns start before you change your , mlnds.'vi,;" ' ' . "I was ones on de avenue, 'twaa de -' day da corner stone of de cathedral waa jble8sed. says moflderi'Tour fadder ...was alive den. but you waan't. I -didn't i e d--avenua becauee of de erawda. . and didn't notice netting at all because '. your fadder, dear man, waa flghtln' moat ;of de time to get breat .for me. Duch : eas, dear,, la ma hat on straight?' , As. I waa telling you. da neighbors .wss dera In plenty, and wild wit excite- . start for de avenue; and so, of eouras; ' , a can waa sent out now and den, dat . nobody would die of de thoiati and .( Mrs. Murphy, aha waa so busy wit all - of da goinga on. aha didn't eount how - many times da can went on Its way, nor how much aha helped bring de bottom of da ean In'alght 8o whan wa started. ,Mra Murphy was carrying a nice jlttle I A "Horizontal Vie i. i . . " ' From the San Franclaco Bulletin. " HE room X was let Into wss' plain I . to barenes. The great atova in the heart of It waa the only ' " eondeacenalon to man's lower V nature. There were ao eigne of wealth ; and its squandsrings -it waa too much the pther way. - On the walla were pho 1 tograph and cheap, prints of fiowera alway flowcra. '. ';'. v-,;':' ' - :-- While waiting for my boat I' glanced ait the book on th table; Borne mag V; alnea. a cumbersome affair by Hugo da Vrlo. and a email paper-bound .copy of rtta "Simple Ufa,",. -J. .' 'It was so unneceasary hers A thl , rather supercilious -"Slmpl Life." ',. Nothing could be almpler or lea taw- dry than th great life that , is being lived about the meager rooms and ' little patch-work garden oS a by-street f th town, of Santa Rosa, v .. v J l- Th door opened nd I turned t great an aged, bent and hoary-headed Merlin Of th Soil. ,':. V ';, : Not at alL A small man. with man .. .nera almoat shy. so unassuming Is be. His Is th youth that belong vr. toJ -, th man who ha lain many years c risen : to cheek with nature. His delloately tinted skin admitted few' lines, and no j wrlnklea. Th clear blue eyes that shin 7 out of th narrow, Intellectual head are " thssya of th Idealist. -not tha t;: dreamer,, but of the man who ,"goes about doing good." - ,' - ' "My work) To m It la of ths great oat Import. The discoveries that are .- being mads on thaaa lines are far more (.-Important, to humanity than war th dtacoverle bf steam and electricity. Those merely established facta; w are -r discovering the meaning of things. ' ''- "If such wonder can be wrought With - plants, what ean ba don with man. the - meet eenalttve -of all living thlnga to -- hla environment? No matter how good ,. th conditions, w cannot ebarig a tree ' in a generation. But man Is so sensi- tits to his environment . he can be . worked upon- aJmoat rraned lately. v "If It only meant the question at the . right thlnga to eat. It would be of Im mense benefit to humanity. . . I believe Vist most crime and inability and wean ; veaa coma from not having th right kind, of food." Give men better food- -and mora of it-ead they are bound lo amiss baUar Uamaelves. . . , . . . . i- . . . i : r : " " j,,), i' .' ;:: i f I i '. i ' ." ..- .v- !...: I . f 'lit Mtff ' y.m -;. - ; :- '' r -amd-'pops Hen'.iH , r-:- : bun, along- wit her, and X tink if aha'd only heard a band playing da "Wearing of da Orean," she'd agreed, wttout. argu ment,- aat aha waa in heaven, ' - - Wa takes a aurfaca car dat lata ua off at a croaa atreet, where wa had only a oiock -to walk, to cut right In de middle of avernoo parade hour. . And, say, it waa a parade for fain da warm afternoon bringing out-thousanda of swell dames for to go to da shops or sbow what dey already had bought at de shops. Dera day was, 1n open victoria and broua-hama. . horse and -oil- klmla. a eolld atream going up, a solid stream "in aownj niu ana nun na riv bona and hats all to de good, with nolaae malda and klddlea bn da. front seats and grand dames on 4a back; a aoicua for color and style, sure to malce you wusay if you looked at 'am too long. .But Mrs. Murphy would look; ahe could sea more than. de. rest of ui, per haps, because two carriages where dera waa only on waa an easy trick for her and. ahe wa near paralysed with de number of wn and da atyla. n ror. aa lova or heaven.! Duenesa. dear," aha say. "Is every one going to a wedding, dat dey Is all dressed up. like disT -. -It s delr regular afternoon close day is wesrln,? says Duchess. '- i ., Sura, you re fooling me! - Dey Is all prinoeaaea going to da lord mayor'a cas tle for tea. Oh, but de atyla of 'em, and da beauty, and 'da eo(or andveut of delr gowns, and delr smllea and complex- ions" i . " - - .'-,.., , w. She got dat far. den all of a auddent let out a Kerry yell, dat frightened all da klddlea and atartad da mounted cope and foot cop and plain cloee men run- ntnar onr way ta sea who'd been mur.jme tn gst Mrs Murphy to r"fsnn and dared. 'Come along. Mrs. Murphy." -I say. "and -behave yourself, or da cops will run, you In, and put ahama on all of na. and make va sorry we mistook you for a lady." . ' - Dat eased her off for a little bit. but . da - carriage getting ticker, 1 de dressea finer and de whole show more -'"Take whekt, for Instance. If I can produce a Variety of wheat that ; will grow one ' grain mora1 on the ear, - it meana that very year the United States alone will produce (,900,000 more bush- is. Of Wheat..-;v.i"; '.': f-K "And flowers if it Is bnly to make them more" beautiful. W need beauty in llf to help us keep our tdbals. "r " "So much for the practleal. . Of th greater and higher benefit, of the eo- clal and spiritual import of th work that opens vlstss.lt would take days to discuss.";' (, : .;.( ' : . V ; :...'.'- ' And Mr". , Burbank went on, hi eye glistening with the philanthropist's en thusiasm., to tell of his wonder-working scienoe. '" .-.--'.' -",- "Many people think of flowers as Just the. rose, - the . lily and ' the pink an.1 atop there.- Other go on to other names, other, apeclee.; Even botanist used -to stop at that. - "But now they recognise that every species, has Ita variations, its Individ uals, its. monstrosities. . - "Of these variations I select th ones most suited to th needs and surround ings and jby artificial eel sot I on I aeek to perpetuate the beat qualities of the beat variations Into a species of Itself. It Is like! breeding rac horses, only you are nevel- eure that a rac hor will beget a (race horse. Yon are always sura of your tree or plant. ' "I will, pick out from the many ex perlmentil of crossing th Individual tree that I .the moat . aucoeaaf ul, aqd from-that, one tree I can produce thou sands and then tens of thousands of the new spectra. And each new tre will be as perfect as the mother tree." ' " - - . "And will this new speolts persist in Itaelfri1-' -' - - , Torevtr, except In the oaa of aeeds. Seeds require careful watching, and even then they may revert to one of th par ent type... -'-. -,, v-.'r "Orul will grow In the desert It la simply I question of selecting the fit test. Yod take yod varletlee of graes" (Mr Bsrbank haa only I0O.000 different kinds of grass at BebeatopoD "and teat them In that aoll. You select th vari ety that will live la that soil and atrengthen snd Improve- it by crossing, and perpetuate it Into a species," . It might sound simple aa he tells It Ba doesn't menUon ths Ufa of study and CN Tin AVNUJ-BUIUNG- PARAD2 HOUR Ilk aomething out on top of the ate re Mrs. Murphy waa all on da aide of her loot again, aaklng bold and loud to be told the name of da dame driving past. and wanting to know from ' Duchess what she called de style of dress dey 1-was wearing,' and where dey got delr una laundry, wolk none. - Den aba got tlnklng about' da t'reat dat d police would pinch her. and her Irlah began to wolk backward. "Who's dem dude eops wit sailor nets and ladder atocklnga. on horseback. Chlmmte-.-dearT"- ahe saya "Is folka ao wicked here dey haa to be took care of by oops a-horsebackT I could put out any cop on foot, but It's oppression to de poor and honest to put horseback cops over us. My, my! Be de little dears tn dls carriage, and de angel In dat one. Wow!" .;..r,. .' .-. - i T- , L It was anodder Kerry yell, and de cops en da crossing cornea up and aays: "Move on or I'll run you In for dlstolb lng da peace."'. .. -. ' "Run me in, I itT'-ssy Mrs. Murphy, beginning to dance on de crossing where she'd stopped. "I-wouldn't have a good time . entirely V unle I showed one cop or two dat a Kerry lady can lick any cop dat stands on his feet. , Keep de horsebsck cops away, Chtmmie, while ma and dls on on foot gives a little entertainment to de ladles In de car ruges!" V -' wetL we'd blocked da crossing, and da ladles n de carriages were rubbering at da game for sure. . seeing de block, a mounted cop comes up, and two or free more on foot, to sea waa dere a riot, and in lesa dan a minute dere waa a Jam .for half a mile. - ..' ,' Duchesa and ma mudder waa beggin' be good, but aha-had her fighllng l)Tc)dtsourorde Brtaf-1-nTgTKVff; Atrarftin up and woaMn't move. But ahe would talk, all right ' -. is oere no Americana here to help ma lick all da cops In eight, on foot or mounted V aha says. "Tou are all font- era. . Der ia no Americans left on dls part 'Of Manhattan."- shs says, "or we'd have as fin a ruction aa aver aoul could BurtanU car and th wonderful wisdom that has made these thing almple. .- "I am looking forward to the effect Of my thornleaa cactus on desert land. "Th cactus that grow upon th dee ert la really quite good eating. It Is a splendid cattle food, and lust for that reaeon It Is so protected by thorns that cattle cannot get at it. ' - . 'Wow, when there Is plenty of wster and vegetation, aa along th banks of the Amason, the cactus is thornless, As Is always th case, the thornless 'plant is not - as good eating as th variety with thorn: - The problem was to pro duce a variety of s good quality as the tnorn oactuo that would -grow In the desert and .-that1 would be without thorns so that th Stock could sat It. "You -see buds putting out hairs to protect - themselves .from insects. The thorns of a cactus are a development of these hairs.- -The only edible thing In th desert, they had to protect them selves from the foraging animals. I crossed ths Cacti so ss to keep the good quality-of the thorn cactua with . th smootbneas of -e South American" -variety, I produced a cactus smooth out side, bat th thorns still persisted In th Inner substance. But now I hnv e cac tus that will grow in th desert that m thornleaa, and at the asme time rich and excellent food for stock.'1 - r -, .- "I can't tell yet how far thts discov ery may lead. . It will reclaim desert landa, and may have even wider effect titan I dream af.M .'-' It la a miracle aa miracles nc went To look at a little patch of earth beside a garden Walk studded with prickly cacti and know that out of thla one man'a wis dom will make - a wilderness to put forth! -. -.- - , ; . .'.' , "Where do you trace thl life Instinct of self-preservation. .- Mr; . BurbankT" For to me it was ths same old circle r which earn first, th hen or th ggt "In all vegetable aa well aa animal Ufa there ta a nerve reflex.- If yon put a plant tn th aun, ths leaves will thicken; If any face t exposed to th sun, ths skin will tan. , . . 'I will put It biologically to you. 1 hav never learned biology" , No. . Ha makea It. . ,- Then h uloglsed Par win. . . "Th greatest man that has sver lived. He had the mental eight to a thlnga aa they are. Other, alnce the Or, bad thought U theory out; it bad been long for. Coma 4nl" ah says, squaring off at de cop nearest her. "I haven f had a good shindy for a year or more, and now's de time to begin. Whatr she saya, "won't even de cops fight in dls part of townT" v Well, de cope hated, to touch her, for dey geta called down If dere la a row on da avenoo Ilka dl one threatened to be, and der waa nottln' to do but'send for de hurry-up wagon; but before dat could be don d whole avenoo would be tied up. ' -'Can't you get d old woman, away T" aaya a cop to me. "Anywhere off de avenoo and aha'll find all de- copa to fight aha wants. .But get her away xrom here! ty "Hooroo!" ' says Mrs. Murphy. Tve frightened de whole police force. . Put m off de avenoo If you. can!" ... Just den me life waa aavad. I aeen our earrlage, what had left Mis Pannia in soma ahop and was empty. . 'Voms slong and have a ride," I whlspera to Mrs, Murphy, -and 'enow d cop dat you naa fashionable rrens. I rushes her to de carriage, and pops her In, aha making faces at de cops, and saying she would give de svenoo a treat of de real ting In style. Coachy drivea ua over to a aid atreet. and 1 gets de old lady, aa pleased aa Punch now, on a aurfac car, and back home. Da newa spread that Mrs. Minhv had stood. no de avenoo oops, and aha had a reception Ilka a champcen heavyweight, which waa going on, with de help of da can, whan ma modder comas In and says. "never again: ' - v. , "Sure, never again!" yelle Mr. Mur phy. "We'U stick to de part of New York where der is good Americans and good times. Nort of Grand street end of Ufa is between. Her I'll live and die in peace, never wantln' to go away from her to dose foren parts where women dresses In delr Sunder close every day ana de copper is afraid or a lady, As Mr. Paul was saying, dare ia all sorts of folka dat wouldn't live out of New Torksome parts of New York. lost In the darkness of ths middle agea, and was revived again. . But.no one had proved it - Darwin went around the world, saw ths proofs of It, cams home, xpeiimented and established evolution." I turned to thla simple man. tha log ical aequent of Darwin,' and nought to hav him speak or himself. "I am not a college man. I atartad to study medicine. Then my father died and' thlnga war different, and I went Into the nureery business. I am of Naw England blood. My people came over with the Mayflower. . On my mother s side there is a French strain. - . . " "I don't know Just why I cam to do thla work. Maybe my cousin, Levi, in fluenced me. Ws lived in ' the sams hou and used to take long walks to gether. He wss a friend and associate of Agaaals. and It may be that it was his interest that inspired mine. "At first my work only Interested nursery and seedsmen, but by and by scientists ' wer attracted, and .1 went into the deeper problems. .1 had man aged to accumulate through my nursery work what was a little fortune to me" eueh a waning smils Of self-deprecation. telling the' email need a" of th man "an 9 I worked away until 1 had spent all that Then the Carnegie Institute mada ma this grant of 110.000 a year, which Just pays th expenaea of. my experi ments. '-'Jr--.-... .- - "Th$. government TV' - - 'The government did offer, 'but there wer too many atringa to It." - .. "Either . of our two big universities Should" " '.'.". " . . .'--.' i. ' "Th Stamford univeralty did make an offer that tempted me. But I would have had to remove all my experiments to Palo Alto, and that would mean the loss of years to me." In the meantime, leat any on should think th greatman neglected In hla lit tle) home In a by-street of Santa Rose, I will mention that I was pilgrim Na 11,0(0 and. aomething odd according to my ticket.- .---.-. v Still it la a commentary that this man who la spending a life to benefit hu manity dwells in- a shabby cottage, while tha president of stolen rallroada haa mansions .In svery favored spot In thla world, and la guaranteed, for oesh, mors In ths nsxt. " . . "If I gave all my time to demands I'd hav none left for myeelf. it take five hour to answer my correspondence, and It would take th other five to e all the people who come. "Once I mad a rule never to let an man do for me what I can do for my self. . Now ti never do for myself what sfiv man can do for ma. t "I don't know why, but I bavg to send eest for i y bst men. It may b the climate, but California men won't do u wpra inorpugniy, . ;No, I don't think I was thinking of tn climate when I came out here. There were ciroumetancea mad ma wish t leave my borne, pf course It is advan tageous to be able to experiment all the year round, but the drawback la, tl can't teat tb hardiness f m plants. ,1 did semi aome on to the government station. but although the officials were always honest, aome of my things.. worth thou. sanaa or ao liars, were stolen." a wouldn't you like to have a station or your own out mere. Mr. BurbankT" Mr. Burbank amlled a amlle of accus tomed sbnegation. Again I went baok to the faaclnatlna thought of the essence of his work! Its meaning, not to aclentlsts and horti culturists, but to mankind that is strua gllng, so pitiably without direction, to get out of the mire whsre ignoranc and false conditions and use hold it. ; , "It'a enormous. - The imnortanca of this to humanity is Inconceivably enorm oua. ' ..'.. ;:: ,7 ' - And as the, wise man spoke, the walls seem to glide out until the whole uni verse w comprehended in thla little room-.. - .. . ., -i : .v.--' .!- v ' " 1 "Not only doea It mean better condi tion materially to man, but it must bring an- understanding of the social and the spiritual Intentions- of life. It win mean that Man will b made happy tn me -- ininga mat he now thinks would make mm unhappy. - "Kverytning that exists. IS the Sum of Its environments. "Heredity la the sum of environment. "I believe we are developing a. sixth. a psychological sens to sea things as they ere. . '..., . - - ', ... . , "There are no more miracles. The X-ray has solved the fourth dimension xor us.'-'- ..,.'.-,' ..".,..... . - "My .only secret Is. I am hoaeat with nature. ... You..' can .cheat -other people. you .can sometimes r eheat - yourself. never nature. : it you want. to set -any thing out of nature, you must so to her nonestiy, without any delusions, without sny deceit. And she will give you up sll her secrets. . - - - , "The charm' of my work ia. that I meet tue great men. of the world, and can interchange ideaa with them. My work tends to -the same end as' Loeb'e, but the man with whoso work It la most in aympathy la Da -VrleS. W have made the same experiment and reached the aama result, but our deductions are different. I think he Is coming to see things my wsy, though. v: I made some . remark about : . hla usurping nature's place doing In a few year what ahe would have taken can. torlr to do if she would think of it at alL r' ; , .., . ;: "No, Indeed. I do not uaurn the nlac of nature. I don't want'1 to aeund con ceited, but I often think nature ia laugh ing in ner aieev that at last sbs haa found a man who can help her out. 11 an real on whether a man wants to ba. selfish or. helpful. And his work will ba good -or bad. accordingly... You Can't fool all the people all the time, 1 aw aula. ....... ..u..'. "Tree" and plants are flka a eMM. They respond to kindness and pleasant aurroundlnga at once. .You can get any thing out of nature if you go to her In in ngnc mooo. . "I shall be content If because of ma there a hall b . ,. , -', "'Better fruit and fairer flower.' MiranJy on Happiness By DOROTHY DIX (Oepyrlgbf, 1006, ky W.' . Btaret.) DONE mat Ma'y Jan Jonas on, " mmj up nwp, said Ml ranay, w ane - sno ly . was a-travelln' throuah tha . Im grounds of troublegn' trlbulatlona. She was dat mournful datyou could have cut her sorrers wld a knife, an' her vole had a kind of a tremble to It dat mada you .wanato- ery -Wfd 'herwidqut knowin' w odder her huabahdrdohe die sudden an 'onexpected, or her canary bird waa allln. -Wfiaf da matter wld youTTliFeV hsr. 'You don't seem to be eegaahuatln well k usual.' Wld dat aha fetchea a ' rroan an' pon : - 'De band of de Lawd auttlnly am laid heavy on me, Sis Mandy. My husband don los' bis lob. an' mr babv-a looaen wia d measles, an' de wboopln' cough, an' da chlckenoox. an' mr oldee' crapa, an' my girl Elvlry dona eloped wld d preacher, an' I'ae got d misery In my side' an' de rheumatic n my lef nouider. an' dere s fo' dsys dlahea piled up In d sink to horns wsltln' to be washed.' - My Ian',' I says, "but you Is a lucky womanr 'Huccoma you say- dat. whan I'm msmed for sorrerr shs axes me. "CtHl I iy, yoda got trouble right at your do' instead of ha via' to go out an' hunt for It, an' dat saves you a lot of wuk an' worry. , Yassum. dem suttlnty Is lucky what hss got a real., live grievance 'steed of havln' to mak on out of whol cloth. 'Causa none of - us ain't gwln to be happy leastways no woman ain't an' f wa ain't a-moanin' an' e-groenln' over one thing, we ae a-weepln' an' a-wallln' over nnudder, sn' ao you might Jest as welt nave trouble of your own as to have to go out an borrer It. "I s been moseyln'. around a good many years, an' I ain't never fonnd no happy puaaon yet. Dat Is. I ain't found no happy woman. I seen a good many mighty cheerful men what waa fresh widowers, but I ain't never met no worn. an what didnt' hav a secret sorrer dat ah told to ev'ybody dat would listen. cas women l. lot more persevenn' dan men, an' no matter bow you fix em, dey'lt hunt around . tell dey find aomethln' to be mlsefbl over. 'If ders ols malda. dez'B sorrerful an' sad because dey ain't got no husban', an' af day's marrl'd dey' unhappy 'cas dey am t fre an' I tied down to a man. Ef dey haa chlllen dey'a alwaya a-com-plalnin' about havln' to walk de collo atld ofgaddln' around -to -Saturday night balla..an' ef dey ain't got no chll len dey moans dat delr handa is empty, Ef dey's got a Job dey groans 'case , dey has to wuk, an ef dey aln t got no Job dey expects to be pitied as po , unfor tunate critters what can't git not bin' to do. Ef dey po' dey'a mlaerbl for fear folk won't like 'em 'case dey ain't got no money, an' ef dey's rich desrs wretch ed for fear people will Ilk 'em 'cas dey hss got money. . . -"80 fur as I can see, a po', lonely, ole woman wld .'leven little chlllen to sup po't. ia Just as well off sa a .rich ola maid wld no hueban' an' no troublea to bodder her. ' ' i . . .. An' yet happiness ia Jest ne way you look at a thing. "Der afiTt Hothln' In dls worl' dat ain't plumb full o' misery an fun, an you can take airy one you want. : - - i - . ' : "Mos' folks takes de misery becsxe It's d easiest to git. an' It'a on top;, but ef dey'd look under de bottom dey'd find dat happiness wss dere, too. "One time one of dee oh-bt-sorrerful slater csm a-pltyln' tn. It mak m ween,' aaya shs, to ae a peart, smart woman 1ik you, what's married an can t eashay off. wld u fre women on de excursion. .. 'I 'specks ds excursion la mighty en joyable.' 1 'apon's. "but a husban' Is mighty handy t have areun' de hou, specially on rent-day- . , " If you wonld marry,' sbs went an. LARGEST From the. New York World. . '' ' ' FEW week ago the world waa Intereated In the report of the finding tn the-. Premier mine, . near Johannesburg. -In the Tranavaalv Of the largest diamond ever recovered. What It looks like, how It waa formed, and what la likely to be eome of It. are quaetlone which reader of all claaaea -will be gratified to hav answered. --. .' . .- - - ;- -. f ''-. It waa found almoat by accident. Fred Well, superintendent of , the" Premier mine, while on his round Jt inspection before the closing down for the night on January f. saw aomething glistening in the wall of th mine, and climbed up to see what it was. He-r-found -th diamond partly protruding from Ita matrix. -Ita least estimated value ex ceeds materially ' th entire capitalisa tion of the company by which he is em ployed, lie considered, therefore, that he had. flnlahed. a reasonable good, day's WOrk. " "' ". J : . o '. 'f ' It weighs In the rough t.014 karats (or tit pounds), with tha. general di mensions of 4 by : 14 by li, inohe. It to1 ; Actul Size of the-Famous Premier Diamond. la "water white" and without defects which impair its value. .. : '' Concerning this slon the opinion of Dr. O. A. K. Molengraf, th leading geologlat of South Africa, la of greater Interest than any discussion based on experiencar-.Twrrn ummonaa in general. After examination -.. under - lenaes Dr. Molengrai aaya: -,j , I. .... v--. "The-big diamond la a portion of a much larger stone, the original lurm of which can only be roughly- guessed at. Four pieces of this original ston have been broken off along cleavage planes. which we know, to have tha position of octahedral planes. Each of these frag ment must have been of" considerable slse. Consequently the stons itself shows only' a portion of Ita original natural ' aurfac -recalled . nyf In 'the diamond-cutters' Jargon), - the -greater portion being formed by these four flat cleavage planes. Th remaining part of the surface shows one octahedral face and a curved Irregular aurfac roughly corresponding to six faces of the dode cahedron, while one very Irregular face of tha hexadedron Is indicated by quad rilateral Impressions which are char acteristic of thess facee in minerals, such ss th diamond, which possesses th octahedral mode of growth. "The stone is a single crystal, n twinning plane r twinning lamellae being preient 1, 1 It transpsrency 1 best compared to that of pur ice or of th vsrlety of silica known as hyalite. "There ar a few grain (Inclusion) and also aome flawa or Internal cleav age planes 'glesserr," as ths diamond cuttera rail them In it, but their po-, aitlon is such thst they do not detract from th value of th ston as a gem. It la certainly th purest of all ths very big otones known. - '.. '' "Th question Is raised whether there Is any likelihood of finding th frag menta which hav been detached from this stone by cleavage. It la, ofcours. possible, but nobody can say whether or where they will be found in th mine. ' Dlamonda ar '. formed at vary great deptha front the' carbon dissolved In Ths molten basic igneous rock (blu ground), from which, under the condi tions of snormous ' preesur and very high temperature . which prevails at these depths, the carbon crystallaes out In the form of diamond. During ths I It looks lak a , f ine-lookln' woman lak you might havs don better dan to hav tied up wld a po', runty, little, bow-leg ged man lak Ik.'-.-' :...vr ',' ' ', -;.'; " TJat'a so,' saya L "but da wuss-look- In' d husban', d lesa reason da wife has to II awake at night wond'rln' ef some body w.haf younger an, spryer dan ah Is Is gwtnv to mak sheep ayes at him, "'I was jnlghty sorry for you," aha says. when ypu los your little Ben. " Dat was a sure-enough sorrer.' I says; "but maybe be mought a-growed up to git on de chain-gang.. .' '- ' "Tou ha towuk mighty hard,' she aays.'- t - - -', t t "Dat I ' does, says I. -but a better cook dsn I Is never passed her band over de not- an' de wuk keena ma well an' strong, a dat t aata my three aquah meal a day, an aleepe Ilka a log, an' ain't had no call to go to de- doctor for deae beak aeben yeah. ' 'I Bee,', ah says, dst you ain't got nothln' but po'k chops for Sunday din- jier, while Hannah Smith,, done got chicken, . "Oaf a facV, I 'spon's, but, blesa Qord, dey Bint' no feddera on pek chopa, an' dey don't have to be picked.' - "'Teuum, data me; n ef ole man Trouble gits me he'll have to com a'ter me, aho'. -.'ain't gwlne out to meet him.' ' : 'But de mos' folka ain't never happy when dey's mlser'ble, an' ac tint' DO call to- ymperthla wld 'em when misfortune git 'em by de acruff of d neck. Dey aho' in havln' a gnod time when dey's got some sorrer dey can prognosticate about." DIAMGH period of. erupt.on th diamonds v " ' . carried to th surfsc with great f. and th excessive friction which rm hav existed in the magma during e e tion through the crater pip cauaed th fragmenta to be cleaved from tne original ' atone. They mar hav been blown out during the eruption, or they my . atlll be ' In th volcanlo ehlmnep (diamond pipe), and may be unearthed , aome other day tn the long and promis ing llf of thla big mlnev ... Those dlspoaed to regret that the Pre mier diamond is but a fragment, and . that th entire stons wss not found, may find conaoiatlen in lie thought that, as ' it la, the question of what to -do with it la -giving the - owner -many aleepleea nights. .The recovered fragment is of priceless value, but for that very rea son It might- not Inappropriately b named the Whit Elephant. Primarily. na individual is rich enough to buy It, and no- government could' probably- And Justification In popular approval far its purohaae aa - crown JeweL Conse quently, there haa been In the Traps vaal a great - awakening of loyalty to r, Vr j his - - jmperlaj f- majesty. King, Edward VII, followed t y a warmly pressed "sug gestion" that it: be purchaser- by popu lar subscription snd presented , to that amiable monarch as a token 'of tho re spect and affection of his loving sub jects. . Thla Is possible, of course, but If -carried out It will be necessary for the- owners to sell ths stone at a price very much below Its estimated value. ' Th recourse of dividing it lnt a number .of email atones of practicable commercial dimension ia alwaya open, and . may be economically poaalble, but there I a general feeling of horror at what' would be regarded a a desecra tion. Judged by - the atandards of Jeffrie and Travemler. by which th value of th diamond Is estimated by th aquare of ita karat weight, the' Premier diamond la an extremely . Inconvenient asset, recalling Mark Twain's story of tha man in Ixindon who had the fS.000. 000 Bank of England note, but bad to live on credit, since ha had not a atx- pnc. : : . - Assuming that th' Premier diamond will cut to on half its preaent gross weight. Its value- by the Jeffrie Travenler scale would b almeet tt.000. 000, pr aay It0.000.000. Th Brsgansa, diamond, only about half aa large aa th Premier, la valued , by . Btreeter at 15.000.000. whereaa, Bauer. In hla book, eatlmatea Ita value at ilH.000.000. or f 1. 120,000.000. Tbla meana thatiuch a diamond la worth. ut wht any one may be pleaaed to value It. Irrespective of the practical consideration that if It la held too high ita aal la impossible. Ths Jagerfonteln diamond, known, aa the Excelsior. 071 karat a uncut, and of which the larger fragment, when cut. weighed 11 karats, ha been variously estimated at frem 160,000 to 11,000,000. Th Pitt,.- among the . . French crown Jewels, 111 karats, waa once valued at 1410,000; th Porter-Rhodes and the Victoria, th on 1(0 and th other 110 karate, ar each valued at about 1200. 000 by their ownera. - - . - : , Th . disposition Jt the company Is said to be to hold to th arbitrary value ... tlon of 1600.000, and to part with It for that price If th aum can be raised by subscription in the British empire, for presentation to King Edward for -th British . collection of crown Jewels in. the Tower. ... . ;',,v' v. -,. . , AaTTOS AJTO TMM FOT. V- Burton J. Hendrlck in McClure . John Jacob Aator and his son rigidly attend to business In the same offioe ' a little one-story building in Trine street. Just east of Broadway, Their constant companion 1 there wss Fits Oreen ' Ha)lck-Mrco v Bosarrts Hal lack. - Halleck became a clerk for Aster In lilt and worked IT years, Th em ployment, he himself said, wss not' "profitable' but permanent" Aslr warned bim when he began not to talk , to any one-of his wealth. Th two men became great -frtende. Halleck spent months with bis -patron at hla country, seat and became on of tha lrwei C th Astor library. Th poet frequently' rallied the old man oa his wealth. "Why. Mr.-Astor." he would say. "If," I had 1200 a year and was sure of It I would be content." . The greet la rut ewnsr took him at his word, and tn hi will, much 1 th amusement . of bu hemlan New York, left Halleck aq an nuity of 1200. t - - "- , ' - . 2eked in IZag Saaien. . , ' From tha Boston Transcript Hlgglns My wife esys.lf I aho' dl ahe would reroaln a -widow t death. Of eouree. ahe in""' t t" her mind, wit It- I ort ef 1 Just the seme. Jinks fcvideotly yor ' there I no other man In ( ymi." jiiain rn the c-1 ; Cir is, a&j 1 t .. J ;
