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THE EVENING NEWS, WINFIELD, KANSAS, JUNE 15, 1899 HUMAN STATURE. OUR NEW NATIONAL PAR ETTERSf1 I jQ UOHN LUTHER Ci ZfX ySif But truly it wasn't a bit "Paradoxical" for me to write That I could not be that yet admit That I like you. It's not that way quite. As a comrade good fellow, Jack yes! As your wife as my husband no, no! Though I like you, I nevertheless Never thought of you once as a "beau" (Yes, once when I fancied you Nell's At your head, Jack, she simply was hurled). Should you want me for anything else I'd fly from the ends of the world! I doubt it! Jack I know there is! And if you will hurry straight here I'll tell you I'll show you where 'tis.

It has something to do with an arm, And something to do with a lip Two four! and three words full of charm Jack bring them all with you this trip I thought you the finest I knew But a man from your head to your feet, Carleus Facts About It It Is Possible, to Add to the Height. I do not think it is possible to add more than an inch or so to human stature, said a well-known physician in answer to a question of the writer. This is one respect in which nature insists on having her own way, and I am quite sure that under no conditions would it be possible to raise a race of giants. Nature is always at work correcting any tendency to extremes, though here and there someone escapes her notice and grows into a giant or dwindles into a dwarf. You might think the tall parents would have taller children than themselves, a little observation will prove that this is not so.

Nature always seems to be striving to reach and maintain a medium height, so that as a rule tall parents have shorter children than themselves, and short parents raise taller children; the two extremes meeting in a few generations at the average height. But something can certainly be done if the attempt be made early. Practically a man does all his growing before he is eighteen and a woman before she is sixteen, although I have known cases where a man' has grown perceptibly in stature until long past' thirty. After all, stature is largely a question of length of legs. If you take three men, one of six feet, another of five feet six Inches and a third of five feet, there will be only the smallest difference in the length of the body, and in fact the short man may have the longest body of the three.

But the long man will have an advantage of ten inches in length of leg over the short man. The margin for growth in the legs is 66 per cent more than in the body. This means that the legs of an adult are five times as long as when he was born, his body three times, and his head 'twice it3 original length. It Is thus, you see, very largely a question of legs, and to the legs we must look for any great increase in stature. As you may know, each leg bone is In early youth in three distinct pieces, which later unite into one bone.

If you could devise any means of preventing this unison or delaying it for a few years, there is no question that although you would destroy the proportion and symmetry of the body. Nothing checks growth more than illness, and by avoiding it you help growth very substantially, especially in the very early years. I think you will find that most men and women who are dwarfs have suffered from repeated illnesses in the first few years of their lives, and have unable to make up the leaway. Anything; which promotes health promotes growth, and the only royal road to stature and symmetry is in the direction of fresh air, nourishing food and judicious exercise. You see what the emancipation of our daugiuers had already done for their stature.

In the old days, when girls were shut out from almost every form of outdoor i-ercise, it was unusual to see one higher than five feet six inches. Now that they cycle and swim, and play golf and tennis as unrestrainedly as their brothers, they shoot up like young saplings to five feet nine Inches, and even six feet. I quite believe that in another generation the average height of women will be quite two inches more than in the last generation. It is curious to observe how the average height of men varies, with the class to which they belong The wealthy and professional classes are quite three inches to four inches taller than the poor, working classes, and the Inter mediate stages are marked by the degree of prosperity of the class to which a man belongs, so that while an average factory worker is about five feet five inches, a skilled artisan will be five feet six inches; a laborer, five feet seven inches; a tradesman, -five feet eight inches; and a lawyer or doctor, five feet nine inches. Briefly, then, my advice is, if you want your children to be tall that is, to attain their full natural growth-guard against illness of all kinds, let them be in the fresh air and sunshine as much as possible, encourage every kind of open air exercise in moderation, with a course of gymnastics to make them straight and supple, feed them on plain and nourishing food, and send them to bed Human science can do nothing more than this to make them tall, although "elevators" may add a fraudulent Inch or two.

Tit-Bits. Know When They've Got Enough. "You have a great country," said an Englishman to an American. "I admit it. But your climate.

It is averred that Americans die early." "Die early?" "Yes, sir, and especially your business men." "And don't you know the reason? Is it to be found in the nature of our climate? No, sir. The reason Americans die early 13 because they know when they've got enough. Public spirited, patriotic and unselfish, they die early, sir, to make room for the rising generation." London Tid-Bits. The Panama Canal. An article in El Porvenir, a Cartagena journal, on the position the Colombian government in relation to the Panama canal clearly demonstrates the right of the Colombian republtc in the matter, and claims that the vwn- ershlp, and consequently the direction, of the canal will revert to Colombia, and that Colombia will offer the vhole to the United States.

This artlcl has created a profound sensation in Central America, and Is likely to bb the subject of much lively comment in France. necessary baggage strapped on pack animals tho journey is slowly continued until Camp Muir is reached. The night is spent at this point, and a second start is made at 4 a. m. on the following day, in order to pass Gibraltar Rock before the sun begins to loosen rocks on the side of the mountain.

The route continues past a spur which divides the Nisqually, and Cowlitz glaciers, and on to the famous rock, which has proven a stumbling block to so many. The terrors of passing this butte causes the nerves of the novice to tingle. He is ready to frightened to death by the first real or imaginary danger, and unless securely roped to competent guides is likely to fall to his death. A REMARKABLE TRIP Of as Ocean Liner In Trying a Mew Route. The steamer Gaspesla, which was first to attempt to reach London by the new route via the Gulf of St.

Lawrence and Milford Haven, Wale3, had three months of guch experience as happily but seldom falls to the lot of an ocean liner. The dream of a certain group of capitalists is over, for although the distance is appreciably less by the way proposed, the fate of thehip which came limping back into port ten weeks after every one had given her up will cast a damper upon all future efforts. The Gaspesia left Milford Haven on Jan. 11; she made the south coast of Newfoundland on the 19th, and entered the gulf on the 20th. She should have reached Paspebiac in one day.

The trip actually took six. It was Feb. 7 when she started out, with her return cargo and three passengers, in the very worst weather of an unusually bitter winter. She was caught by the ice floes and held helpless. Keen winds raged about her and the rigging froze.

The fires were put out to husband coal, and every one on board suffered from cold. Her 75 sailors were clothed only for an ordinary winter passage in the North Atlantic. They did not know when they would be released or whether they might not be driven from a ship crushed like an eggshell to wander over the shifting floe to their death. There are 50,000 square miles of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The Gaspesia saw a good deal of drifting to and fro with the wind and current. Deliverance came when the famous sealing steamer Kite signaled the Gaspesia and went to her assistance. The Kite likes ice; she was built to resist it, and carries dynamite to blast herway through it. By several days' hard work her crew opened a way for the Gaspesia, and she reached St. John's nearly three months out.

She was almost a wreck, and the crew and passengers were quite exhausted. It may be shorter by the new route, but the chances are that ordinary travelers will prefer the old, although Nansen might enjoy the trip as practice. Arsenical Wall Paper. The former popular fear of arsenical wall paper appears to have quite subsided. However, several cases of alleged poisoning by arsenical wall papers having occurred in Ithaca, Dr.

E. M. Chamot, of the chemical department of Cornell university, undertook a series of analyses of wall papers of various colors and patterns, as a result of which he is said to have asserted that nearly all wall papers sold at the present time contain arsenic, some of ttxem in large quantities. Central American Floral Curiosity. A strange flower has been found on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

It grows on a small tree and gives forth a perfume only at noon, but this is not the queer part, for in the morning it Is pure white, at noon red and in the evening blue. A woman may say all sorts of unkind things about her husband, but she 1 not tine blue if she lets any one else say them. Mount Rainier Now ncl of the Aost (Seattle, Letter.) Mount Rainier, the grandest mountain peak in America, is holding up its massive, snow-capped head with added dignity. Its tremendous greatness has been recognized by the congress of the United States, and it now stands as the sentinel of the most beautiful natural park in the world. On March 2 last President McKinley an act to set aside a certain portion of lands in the state of Washington known as the Pacific Coast Reserve, which future generations will oall the Mount Rainier National Park.

A great transcontinental railway company was forced to return to the government its title to many, many thousands of acres of the eighteen square miles in the newly established park. The land now under the jurisdiction of the interior department, which will at once take steps to care for it so that i the people may fully enjoy the many advantages that it offers. The improvement of transportation facilities, which is already being considered, will make the Mount Rainier National Park the Mecca for tourists rom all parts of the world. It is itow, with all its difficulties of ascent, tSie goal for the world's famous mountain climbers who have not yet reached its summit. Scores of people have climbed its slippery sides over glacier ice and snow, and many others will attempt the ascent within the next few months.

Washington's Natfonal Park is undoubtedly the peer of the famous Yellowstone and other parks in this country. In fact, comparison is impossible, jas there are no points of similarity Yellowstone and Rainier. Yel-jlowotone is simply a grand beauty spot iwith a few hot-water fountains when icompared with Rainier, its majestic scenery and boundless attractions for of nature. Mount Rainier must be named with iPugiyama, St. Elias, Ararat and Blanc, lit is more like the mighty mountain of sunny Japan than the supreme peak of the snowy Alps.

Unlike Mount Blanc, it is not merely the dominant ipeak of a chain of snow mountains; it is the only peak in view for hundreds of miles. Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams are similarly Isolated and are (many miles away to the soutn. Rainier rises from 7,000 to 8,000 feet above the surrounding mountains in majestic It springs out of a valley lot wondrous beauty 11,000 feet in seven imiles. Eminent scientists and mountain climbers the world over are ready to bear witness to its grandeur.

The first view of the mountain to the newcomer is awe inspiring. But its beauty is not confined to the huge peak alone. There are acres of meadow land running clear up to the snow line veritable flower banks and in the summer season gorglous with a brilliancy that can scarcely be described. There are wonderful glaciers, scarred with grim crevices of unknown depth. iThese are bordered with evergreen for-lests, and they present a spectacle of wild beauty that is not equaled elsewhere in the world.

On the summit of the mountain is the crater of an extinct volcano, out of which jets of steam and boiling water are continually spouting, giving evidence of terrible and unknown things in the depths of the mighty pile of rock and snow. There are many streams full of ice water dashing over rocks and preci-pioes into waterfalls and then finding their way down to the low lands until they become lost in the rivers that empty into Puget Sound. The greatest on the list of superlative things that the mountain park affords, however, is tho magnificent, view from the summit. This summit Qf three peaks, the central and ihighest being Crater Peak, To the south Is Peak Success and to the north Stands as the Senti-Beautiful Park. Liberty Cap.

The billowing tops of successive mountain ranges stretch off in every direction. Below, to the east and south, lie the plains of Eastern Washington and the Columbia river valley, a valley that is known at least by' reputation to every person In the country. To the west and north are the timber covered foothills of the Cascades and the Olympic mountains, the great coast range. Beyond these a light blue haze tells where the old Pacific rolls. Puget Sound lies between like a scroll of molten silver in its emerald setting of green forests of fir and cedar.

In several directions, looking like tiny threads of white, the Puyallup, Carbon, Nisqually and Cowlitz rivers can be seen racing on to mingle their waters with the salt waves of the sound. Their glacier sources shine like diamonds when the sun is bright. In 1883 Professor Zittel.a well-known German geologist, and Professor James Bryce, member of parliament, and author of the "American Commonwealth," made a report on the scenery of Mount Rainier. Among other things they said: "The scenery of Mount Rainier is of rare and varied beauty. The peak itself is as noble a mountain as we have ever seen in its lines and structures.

We have seen nothing more beautiful In Switzerland and Tyrol, in Norway or the Pyrenees, than the Carbon river glacier and the great Puyallup glaciers; indeed, the Ice of the latter is unusually pure and the crevasses unusually fine. The combination of ice scenery with woodland scenery of the grandest type is to be found nowhere in the old world, unless it be in the Himalayas, and, so far as we know, nowhere else on the American continent." There are several routes to the summit, but the only one that has ever proved practical is known as the Paradise valley route. All of the more interesting features of the great mountain and the park that surrounds it can be seen from this road and it will probably be the only one used this summer. The start under present arrangements is made by stage from Tacoma. For two days the prospective mountain climber travels rapidly over a good road through one of the Washington forests of gigantic trees to Longmlre Springs.

Timber line is then but six mites away, over a plain trail. The distance can be covered by pack horses or by walking. Paradise Park, which is a place of beauty beyond description, has been named by untrained mountain climbers. Here muscles are hardened by climbing over the snow fields and glaciers and one becomes generally accustomed to the high altitude. Here also guides are to be obtained, for it is not safe to attempt the ascent without an experienced escort.

That strangers have gone to the top of the mountain and returned in safety is no proof that others can do the same. The elements at this high altitude are very uncertain and a storm is likely to blow up at any time. Then the danger is very great for even those who know the mountain, thoroughly. To any one except a hardy mountaineer the ascent requires more than ordinary strength. This is especially true in the case of women, and none of the gentler sex should attempt the Journey without at least a month's training by taking long walks until twenty miles or more can be covered without fatigue.

From Paradise Park the climb commences. Two full days are usually required for the ascent, although It has been made by small parties in much less time. Camp should be broken very early in the morning, and with the "The Spire," Philadelphia Dec. 16, '97. Dear Jack: I have just got your note.

Thank fate and the blizzard that you Could not come in person, but wrote In that heart-breaking way to renew Your proposal. If you had been here. With all that despair and dismay In your heart that you write of, I fear I could not have sent you away. But it's quite a mistake to suppose That I will ever wish to undo This "mistake." Yes this under the rose If I should I would simply ask you! So, remember that while I reject Tour offer, yourself I retain. Forget this, and please recollect That I wish you to "call soon again," Just to show that you cherish no spite.

For, strangely since you'Te gone away The sun is a little less bright, And "Thursday" a very dull day. Why couldn't it always be just As it was in the dear days of old, When we ate the same apple? Oh, trust Me, Jack, those were apples of gold! Even now, as a friend, you're sublime And I feel a queer pang of regret, As I sign myself for the first time, Respectfully yours! P. GENET. March 1, '98. P.

Jack: It went down to the dead-letter place And then well, it simply came back Of course you see why on its face? But, meanwhile, you came and you saw You conquered. What was it I said? If you came here I'd have to withdraw Everything and and lose my poor head? Does it mean that my "state is not given?" How funny? Why, I didn't know It till you kissed my hands then "New Heaven" Seemed not so impossible. Oh, I doubt if there's "no such place," dear THE CAMEL DRIVER. WHY IS HIS FACE SO FULL OF PATHOS? The Hot Sun of August That Scorches the Sands of the Syrian Desert Has Burned It to a Crisp Poor Hajl Moussa. 8 When I saw Moussa I understood what the American consul meant when he spoke of a driver's face, says Mac millan's Magazine.

I had called on the consul a few days before with Kha- led, the camel dealer, who supplies the Turkish post with dromedaries for the journey between Bagdad and Damascus. At the time I was under the impression that Khaled was to I accompany me across the desert, but the consul knew better. "That is not a driver's face," he said. Now, Mous-! sa's was unquestionably a driver's face. It was like an old coffee-colored parchment.

The heavy brow was furrowed and pitted with years of exposure to the fiery heat of August and the fierce cold of January nights in the Syrian desert; the grizzled hair of his cheeks matted his face almost to his eyes; his beard might have "been a sprig of withered tamarisk bush; his eyes, neither expectant nor reminiscent, infinitely patient, infinitely resigned, were cast from long habit on the sky line. Moussa and the camel are inseparably connected in my memory. When I used to wake in the desert from dreaming of some English garden or crowded city, I would peer out of my sheepskins to see the camel's arched neck framing a starry ring of sky, with head posed so motionless that were it not for a slight twitching of the mouth you would think the patient beast asleep. My thoughts turned instinctively to Moussa. The old man would be nursing his beaked coffee pot over the.

scanty embers of a thornbush fire, as patient as rate. He looked like one who had been devoted from his youth to a great trust, in which his life centered. I cannot remember ever having seen Moussa or the camel asleep. Moussa never looked quite comfortable when out of the saddle; the jogging swing of the camel was second nature to him, and I have no doubt that he would have suffered discomfort in an easy chair. The old man was plainly clad in long black boots, a very di lapidated, weather-worn sheepskin cloak, and a brown hood clasped with a single black aagal (a cord of wool or gcat hair round the head to secure the tuvban), all of which seemed quite insignificant against the icy winds that after sunset sweep across the desert Lebanon.

Relics of brass buttons and an edging of red braid revealed that there had been some pretense of a uniform. As might be expected, his figure was slightly bent and his gait a rather difficult shamble; H() Wu pi a-rl 6 (XjtuJ! And who would imagine big you To a woman to me could be sweet! And wasn't I silly, Jack? Oh! To confess as I had to confess That I liked you too well to say no, And not well enough to say yes! I have lost my head, Jack and more There! If you won't ask me again. Please please call to-morrow at four. And I'll beg to be always yours, PEN. Saturday Evening Post.

but he never lost his peculiar Arab dignity, which was heightened perhaps by the burdenof his trust and the memory of that longer journey of his youth to the prophet's tomb at Mecca. At least, such were my impressions of Hajl Moussa, the old man who, in oriental parlance, was my father and my mother during the long ride over the desert from Bagdad to Damascus. I obeyed him in all things Implicitly, as one does the captain of a ship. His attitude was paternal enough to make me feel a child again, and wonder if I had been good at the end of each day. Life in the desert with Moussa was so new and unaccustomed.

Villain StiU Pursues Her. A suit at Oklahoma City has brought out a most curious train of circumstances. A woman secured a divorce from her husband, together with a large amount of alimony. The divorced husband then entered into an agreement with a good-looking young man in the neighborhood whereby tha young man was to pay court to tha woman, marry her, get control of all her property and divide It with the divorced husband. The young man carried out his agreement to the letter and then fled the country.

The suit is now brought by the woman to recover the property of which she had been defrauded, by the conspiracy. Did ever a novelist conceive of an improbable plot such as this one sworn to in a court of justice? Kansas City Journal. Original In Her Way. The domestic employed in the household of the Fergusons must have been, after her own peculiar fashion, a treasure. "George," said Mrs.

Ferguson, who, having finished her breakfast, was glancing over the "miscellany" column of the morning paper, "I see there are now sixty-five ways of making coffee." "Does the paper say so?" asked Mr. Ferguson. "Yes." "Well," said Mr. Ferguson, tasting the cup of coffee by hie plate once more and pushing it away from him, "without knowing what the sixty-five ways are, or anything about them, I am wining to go on record as saying that Brid get's methrvt of making coffee, is the sixty-sixth." A Preferred Exchange. Mrs.

Hones (proudly) The landlord was here today; I gave him the quar ter's rent and showed him the baby. Hones (who was kept awake last night) It would have been better, my dear, if you had given Ihim the baby and shown him the quarter's rent" Tit-Bits. A Sausage Effect. "They say that President McKinley's trousers are creased only from the knee down." "That must give 'em a sausage effect." "Sausage effect?" "Yes below-knee." Cleveland Plata Dealer. ill.