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DO PLANTS HAVE CONSCIOUSNESS? . By Pro/. Francis Darwin.

If a sleeping plant is placed in a dark room after it has gone to sleep at night it will be found' next morning in the light position, and will again assume the nocturnal position as evening comes on. We have, in fact, what seems to be a habit built by the alteration of day and night. The plant normally drops its jeaves at the stimulus of darkness and raises them at the stimulus of light. But here we

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see the leaves rising and tailing in the absence of the accustomed stimulation. Since ..this change of position is not due to external conditions,| it must be the result of the internal conditions which flabitually accompany the movement. This is rhe characteristic, par excellence, of habit—namely, a capacity, acquired by repetition, of reacting to a fraction of the original environment We are indebted to Keeble for an interestingof apparent habit among the lower animals. A minute, work-like creature found on tiie coast of Brittany leads a life dependent upon the ebb and flow of the sea. When the tide is out these little creatures cometo the surface, showing themselves in large green patches. As the rising tide begins to cover them they sink down into safer quarters. The remarkable fact is that when kept in an aquarium, and therefore removed from tidal action, they continue for a short time to perform rhythmic movements in time with the tide. It is impossible to know whether or not plants are conscious; but it is consistent with the doctrine of continuity that in all lining things, there is something psychic, and if we this point of view we must believe that in planttf thbre exists a faint copy of what we know as consciousness in ourselves. ENDURING LOVE NOT EXACTING. . ; By Nelen Oldfield.

The true philosophy of content is to make the best of what we have, which usually is better than we deserve, instead of arraigning fate because.the gods have not been more lavish Os their gifts; to live in the sunshine rather than in the shadow, and in faith and patience to labor and to wait expectantly instead of making the gray day grayer by tears and repining. It is an error to be too exact-

mg with those who love us; the better way is to accept them as they are and endeavor to .And and to. strengthen the divinity which the Hindoo vedas teach us dwells in all' men. The coat too straightly cut by our

SATISFIED. My days have all been sunny. My nights all full of dreams; My gardens sweet with honey ; 'My groves with staging streams; My house, from floor to rafter, Delight forever fills; My life is joy and—after— It shall be if God wills. My friends have all been true ones— And many have I had; My thoughts—both old and nCw ones — Have evermore been glad; My heart is light with laughter And song that never stills; My life is joy and—after— It shall be if God wills. —New York Sun. • ft After the Wedding l>-“ ' - -= . " -ry —"I-.;.-— The maid of honor settled herself in the carriage with a great flutter of laces and chiffon and gave a (long sigh. “Wasn’t Cora just the loveliest bride you ever saw ?” she demanded breathlessly of the tall young man who climbed in after her. “iShe was certainly a winner,” admit-ted-the young man. “It made me kind of blue, though, ushering for Tom's wedding, I tell you! He’s the best eyer and I hate to lose him!” “Lose him!” cried the maid of honor. “I think it's perfectly hateful for a man’s friends to act as if he had been snatched from them eternally by a cruel fate, just because he marries a nice girl down. It’s— —” “Oh. I don't mean it that way,” protested the tall young man. “I’m not. down on matrimony. I think I was ■i blue because it wasn’t my wedding. If ” \ ‘Aren’t you frightfully tired?” broke in the maid of honor hurriedly. “I am —standing up at that reception- for three hours straight! I can’t imagine why Aunt Mattie went home without me!” - “I hope,” said the young man, stiffly, “you don’t think I forced myself on you! Cora’s mother asked me to take you safely homq.” “Oh,” said the bridesmaid, with equal haughtiness. “I knew’ of course it was something like that! I knew you never would condemn yourself to an hour’s ride with me unless you pimply couldn’t get out of it. I’m very sorry you should be so “Now. GSwvieve,” said the young man. “don’t be so foolish! You know .perfectly well I’m not bored ” “I suppose,” said the maid of honor, icily, “that was the real trouble—my constitutional foolishness! That was why you discovered it was all a mistake.” “I!” cried the usher. “If it wasn’t you who broke off our engagement fair and square I’d like to have some one point out to me What really happened.” “I thought you wanted it brbken off !” said the maid of honor. “I’m glad It wasn’t announced and nobody knew it. I’d hate so to put you* to any trouble or annoyance. As it is,

pattern may cramp and chafe the w«arer overmuch, and sympathy, love, faith and patience are the surest keys to thorough understanding of our fellow man and woman. Beyond doubt there’would be fewer matrimonial disappointments if all who marry wbuld resolve to see only good in one another and steadfastly live up to that resolve. People usually find that for which they diligently seek, and the fundamental doctrine of the new thought is that we invite what we expect; to look for good is to receive it. It is an older thought that courtesy and consideration for others are flowers which have their roots in charity and good will to all men. Nowhere is charity, the love which “thinketh no evil, which is not easily provoked, which suffereth long and is kind,” more urgently called for than in the marriage relation; nowhere, is there greater need of faith and hope as well as of love. There is nothing which so draws us to people as the effort to do good to them, and thus love unconsciously begets love. To expect the best ■ of people, if there be any good in them, is to bring out , that good; and, thank heaven, there is much good in . even the worst of us. WHAT ARE THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE? By John A. Hobson, i

readily admit that they were necessaries for them. In tracing’the historical process of development of wants and satisfactions each earlier element seems more important than each succeeding one, the need of food and physical protection being more pressing and essential than the needs of “the higher nature.” Logically, however, or in the order of nature, considered as a complete system, not as a process—each subsequent need or satisfaction is important and more valuable than the preceding one in time, because it represents a higher type of life. From this latter standpoint the early functions are-valued chiefly as the means or material basis of a higher spiritual life. The higher need and its satisfaction—the soul-saving or intellectual education—only seems important when viewed by itself, torn away from relations and conditions which attach it to other aspects of life.

noflody is the wiser. I don’t suppose Cora’s mother realized she was picking out the one girl in all the world you disliked most for you to escort home. Isn’t it funny?” “Perfectly killing,” said the ybung man. “It makes me feel about as much like laughing as a funeral would. It’s a shame, too, when the best man obviously was yearning for my chance!” “Why didn’t you give it to him, then?” inquired the maid of honor, smoothly. “Great guns!” breathed the usher. “You don’t really care anything about Tad Kirby, do you? He hasn't enough brains to put in a peanut shell, for all his money. He ” , “Your temper certainly hasn’t improved any,” broke in the maid of honor. “You haven’t a particle of right to object to Tad's paying me attentions if I choose to let him.” “I’m quite well aware of that!’ said the young man, stormily. “Well,” said the maid of honor, “it doesn’t make any difference to you, so it can’t worry you much.” “That’s all you know about it,” said the usher. “Why—if things hadn’t gone to smash we—you and I—wduld be having our wedding just about now !”. “Think of it!” cried the; maid of honor, interestedly. “Think . what 1 ! ■' ' A ' I J Jml, JW o “that’s all you know about it.” you’ve escaped and thank fate! Why, - all your best friends might be sighing over you as you just sighed over Tom, and mourning because they had lost you! As it is, you are safe and resr cued and entirely free!” j “I’m glad you can be so philosoph- - leal,” said the young man. “It shows you really didn’t care much If you can t consider the affair so lightly. Not that r I expected your heart would be broken, > but I thought possibly you might have ’ a little tender feeling for what is, past i —and for what might have been.” i There was a little silence as they J rolled along. Then the maid of honor > spoke casually. i, “Neither Tom nor Cora seemed a bit

Good air, large, sanitary houses, plenty of : wholesome, well-cooked food, adequate changes . of clothing for the climate, ample opportunities of recreation —is there any one of these things that does not sensibly assist to lengthen the term of physical life? Yet most, if not all, of these things would be clawed among comforts or even luxuries for laborers, though numbers of the well-to-do classes would

scared at the wedding,” she said. “I never saw people beam as they did. They really seemed happy!” When the young man spoke his voice was gruff. “Not half,” he said, “as happy as you and I would have been if things hadn’t gone wrong! Oh, Genevieve—l can’t stand it any longer! Isn’t there a chance for us to go back to the beginning and start all over again?” The maid of honor was crying into her ridiculous handkerchief. “I ththought,” she gasped, “I’d just d-die all evening, I was so miserable. Do you really care?” “Thank heaven, Cora’s mother happened to send me' home with you,” murmured the young man, somewhat indistinctly. For the first time the maid of honor laughed, a choked, hysterical little laugh. “She —she didn’t happen to,” she confessed. “I asked her to!”— Chicago News. REVIVAL OF THE MINUET. Directoiro Gowns Bring Back the Old-fashioned Dances. The old-time minuet, the gavotte and the graceful cotillon are to be the dances of the winter, says the Boston Post. It has. been decreed that they are to supersede the Merry Widow waltzes, the barn dance and cake walks. This is the edict of the dancing masters, and already the quaint, stately old dances of our grandmothers are coming into vogue in the ballrooms of the most prominent society women. • “The old-fashioned minuet is infinitely inore graceful than the modern society dances,” says Miss Isabel. Florence, teacher of all kinds of fancy dancing, who trains the Vincent Club girls for their festivities. “Its greatest charm lies in the dignity and stately grace used in the .figures. There is not one abrupt motion; not one sudden turn. , “It is quite natural that we should return to the old minuet. There are two reasons. The tendency has always been to change, change, constantly change, and it. would be hard to find a greater change from the slap-bang dances that are'the fashion now to the minuet of long ago. “Then, too, the costumes that are to be worn this season point back to the costumes of the empire period. They are not adapted to the popular dances and they are singularly adapted to the dances of that same period. “The minuet is not an easy dance. The steps themselves are not difficult, . but there is more to the dance than the step. ‘The minuet is a test of a woman’s grace. An awkward woman cannot dance it “One really delightful result of the j reviving of the old dances is that the i old minuet music will be heard again.* ; It is quite slow, but full of old-sash- , ioned trills and quite typical of the > dance. : ‘The minuet has changed greatly since it originated in the empire per riod. At first it was a simple, stately • dance, which developed into a really intricate maze of stately turns in tbe : quadrille.”

‘ Puzzled. New Yorkers had been warned to boil water. “What for?” they asked, with languid interest. “To make it safe to drink,” replied the sanitary official. “But why drink it?" they queried, with a keener curiosity.—Philadelphia Ledger. . ’ The Consultation. First Doctor—-This is a most mysterious case. I can’t make anything out of it. Second Doctor—Hasn’t the patient any money?—Puck. A Slight Mistake. “I see eggs are quoted at $3 a karat.” “Are they selling eggs by the karat now' ?” “Pshaw, I read it wrong! It’s $3 a I crate.”—Kansas City Journal. ‘‘Obviously Impossible.” W? 1IFond Parent—What do you mean by such carrying on, you young imp? You never see me doing that, do you? . V.'.-i— Great Every Way. How’e —Football is a great game for discussion just now. Wise—Yes, and for concussion, too He Did. ? Mabel—Jack proposed to me : last night. Stella —Poor fellow! So he did keep his word, after all? Mabel—Why, what do you mean? Stella—When I refused him last week he said it would cause him to So something desperate!—London Opinion. A High-Class Watch Dog, Gentleman (to dog dealer)—l gave you a high price for this log last week because you warranted it to be a good house dog. My house was broken into last night, and the dog never even barked. Dog Dealer—No, sir; I quite believes yer. lie was too busy lookin’’ at the burglars, so a$ to be able to identify ’em, to even tliink of barkin’. If' you was out with this ’ere dog, and was to meet them burglars, he’d know ’em In a minute. He ain’t no common barking dog; he’s a reg’ler ’tective, an’ worth ’is weight in gold, he is.—TitBits. Mixed Composition. . “Gimme a pound of sagar,” snapped the crabbed woman in the fed sunbonnet. “What will it be, madam?” asked the rural storekeeper, who was slightly deaf. “Oh, I reckon it will be a composition of sand and glucose. That’s what it always turns out to be when I buy It here.” And the next time the crabbed woman in the red sunbonnet came in the old storekeeper sent his brightest clerk to take her order. Lack of Consideration. ■ m IT (if t» First Workman —Work for all, eh? Second Workman (bitterly)—Yus! Just our luck! Her Make-up. Lovely woman has to hustle After starting in life’s race; Time strives hard to overtake her, But she only makes a face. Her Mouth Was Closed. Jack —Miss Peachy started to say something about impropriety of kissing the other evening, but she didn’t finish. ® » Tom —Why not? Jack —Because I took the words right out of her mouth. Popularity Explained. “The looking-glass is the only truthteller that is universally popular with the fair sex,” remarked the typewriter boarder. “That'is because women interpret its reflections to suit themselves, and not literally,” rejoined the scanty-haired bachelor at the pedal extremity of the mahogany.

A Family Feclin». The star pupil arose at the school en- ' terta'inment to declaim his piece. “Lend me your ears!” he bawled. “Ha!” sneered the mother of the opposition, but defeated, pupil, “that’s Sarah Jane j Doran’s boy. He wouldn’t be his moth- j er’s son if he didn’t want to borrow | something.”—Tit-Bits. She Meant Wei, However. First Society Woman —Has the business panic affected you any? Second Society Woman —Dreadfully. We’re on the verge of starvation. Do ' come and have dinner With us.—Life. ! One Thing Lacking. I’ve pencils, pens and paper white, Erasers and a quart of ink ; I What a great poem I now might write j Could I but contrive to think! > Firesjde Chat. Mrs. Jawback —Do you know I came very near not marrying you? Mr. Jawback—Sure, but who told you about it?—Cleveland Leader. i Heartless Relative. . j _ “Got any near relations?” “Got a rich uncle.” j “That’s great. Think he, will leave you anything when he dies-?” f ' “I doubt it. When I leave my, watch and overcoat with him now I have the " time of my life getting them back.” — Nashville American. Defined. - - Knicker—What is a naturalist? Bocker—A person who stuffs dead animals and live people.—New York ' Sun. Enumerated. “How many speeds has your automobile?” “Three,” answered Mr. Chugggns, “slow, slower and stop.”—Washington Star. Same Old Story. He (during spat)—At the marriage altar you promised to love, honor and obey. . She—And you agreed to endow me with all your worldly goods. He—Well? She—Well? Liberal. Her Husband—What reasons have you for thinking Mrs. Blank liberal in her religious views? His Wife-L-Why, she contributed a cake to a rival church affair. Cupbeard Love. # ■ Pater —I wish Mary’s young mat would come round after supper. Mater—That’s all he does come after —The Tatler. His Idea of It. His Wise —Don’t you think my ne'n : hat is a poem, dear? Her Husband —Judging from its : height,, I should say it looked more llkfl ' a short story. —-■ ' IProof Positive. Kind Lady—And are you really and truly hungry? .. Husky Hobo— Sure, ma’am. Why, I’m so hungry dat I'd be willin’ t’ fill up on health food. i Wise Kid. ' The New Superintendent (his first visit at this particular school) —Well, children, what shall I talk to you about? Kid (on the front row)—About five minutes. — Blinded by Dust. blinds a great many people,” i remarked the moralizer. “Yes,” rejoined the demoralizer, “it’s ' easy to throw ‘dust’ in their eyes.” i Feminine. Opinion. Mrs.' Hyker—So you met my - husband; did you? Mrs. Pyker—Yes, I met him at my , husband's office last week. - i Mrs. Hyker—Well, what is your opinion of him? Mrs. Pyker—l think he is badly hen- [ pecked, but doesn’t know it. Human Nature. Green—Smith asked me to forget my troubles this morning. Brown —What for? Green —He wanted me to listen to his. Explained. Hobo—No. madam, I am neither a socialist nor an anarchist. I am a passive altruist Housekeeper—And what in the name of common sense is that? Hobo—l believe in being helped all I can—Boston Transcript Th« ..Secret Out. “What is your idea of happiness?” asked the young man. “Loafing when I have something to do,” answered the home-grown philosopher. Taking No Chances. She —I’m going to cook the dinner to-day myself. What would you like, dear? He —Er —cold beef and pickles.— Meggendorfer Blatter.

Restraint. Men should restrain themselves from unflridled appetites and passions. Rev. C. K. Carpenter, Methodist-Episcopa-lian, Aurora, 111. Sacredness of Marriage. It is not so much marriage, but the : sactredness of marriage, which must be ! recognized.—Cardinal James Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Baltimore. National Religion. A religion makes a nation. The an- ; swer to China is Confucius ; to India is ! Buddha ; to civilized Europe is Christ. —Rev. W. F. Crafts, Baptist, Washing- ; ton. God’s Help. , ! We can always find those who will help us where we are strong,- but He helps us where we are weak.—Rev. ■ i George Thomas Dowling, Episcopalian, Brooklyn. Holding Office. A mean, little politician may have to prostitute all his virtues to hold office f but a great man wath convictions and. patriotism need not do so.- —Rev. M. • E. Harlan, Disciple, Brooklyn. i Making Heroes. Knowledge of right will make a hero !of the frailest. The one who realizes that he is right with God can bathe his hands in the martyr flame. —-Rev. Dr. White, Baptist, Macon, Ga. Happy Homes. There iS not enough religion in many homes. More Bible reading and moi" praying would help keep happy many an otherwise unhappy home.A-Rev. L. M. Zimmerman*Lutheran. Baltimore: The Spiritual World. The spiritual world is eb-extensivs! with creation. It fills all space and .in-! terpenetrates the physical world. We do ' not go. to it: we dp not bring it to us We are already in it. —Rev. W. E. Ben: ley, Episcopalian, New York City. The Rainbow. What a striking symbol of God's love I and forgiveness is the rainbow. In the “bow in the cloud” we see mercy and hope, written large and beautiful, on the very symbol of wrath anti judg-l ment.—Rev. James Avery Norris, Pres-. byterian, Glen. Cove. N. Y. Faith and Rower. A man’s power is measured by hisfaith. Ills creed is his point of lever-1 age. It makes all the difference in the' world as to what a man beMevbs. To. those who follow Christ, His word is ■the couiv of last appeal.—Rev. S. G. I Neil. Baptist, Philadelphia. Mission of Catholicism. The Catholic church is to-day tie wily well organized power for religious, political and economic peace. The gft peace was given her from above, coming down from the Father of Light' —Rev. Dr. Mackin, Romart Catljolic, New York City. - God and Man. The true relation between us and God Is the relationship of character. We Are His children: that is the deepest fact of history. As we grow in go; 1ness wc come to understand, little ■ y little, the divine goodness,—Rev. J. ?, Uriitarian, Brooklyn. Then and Now. A few years ago competition was tlie spirit of the churches; to-day the?spirit is federation. Monuments of the old method are seen in multiplied churches in compiunities that ought to support but one or few. —Rev. D. O.’ Mears, Presbyterian. Albany. Whnt Life Is. Meat and bread, toil and worry, getting and spending—is that all there is to life? No! Life is nun 1 than meat and the body than raiment. To truly live is to" truly realize, in thought and feeling, the “truths of. the Spirit”— Love — Beauty — Hope—Faith.—l lev. Thomas B. Gregory. Universalist, New York City. True Worship. God may be worshiped as an abstract, an omnipotent something, and such: worship may be only a dreamy and dreary mysticism. The true worship of God is that of the human mind, which lAvingly and reverently seizes hold of or broods upon the divine nature —-Rev. Dr. Barrows, Presbyterian. Oberlin, Ohio.. God’s Justice. God’s justice gives to all alike the privileges of the gospel, for God is no respecter Os persons. God’s lov< to man and His goodness to the race prompt Him to offer to man the privilege of so-nship to God in Christ. Man has power to accept or to reject this gospel. —'Rev. A. C. Smither, Disciple, Los Angeles. Selfishness. , We cannot be selfish with our lee's ' power and live. No life, hpwever "ich, is rich enough to keep the power of ife. We must spend it. We have minds, power of thinking and reasoning. It is our duty to search for the preiious truth and to give it to the service of righteous, human progress.—Rev. I R. Griffin, Unitarian, Braintree, Mass The Ruling; Passion. Servant (to woman at the door) — , The mistress was took very ill last < night, and can’t see any one. Them’s J my orders. Woman—Yes? Will you please say that Miss S , the dressmaker, is at the door?” ; I Servant (after a brief absence)— You | are to walk upstairs, mum.—Ans era.

One Fish Did» »t Crow. 1 A number of men w -re telling of r>’ markable catches off Atlantic City, and fine of them said that one day he. caught a very, small cw, and. not taring to take home sueh a little fellow, f he took a piece of coi per wire, -ran it , throdgh the tail of the fish, anti on one end of the wire he a tached a coppei tag with his name scratched upon it. ‘The next year when I was off ther£” continued the man, “I got a heavy pull on the line, and after five minutes’ fighting landed a twelve pound cod, and there on its tail was my tag.” “That reminds me of a similar experience off there,” s; id anpthef' man, “I caught one of those small cod. and i I wanted to hang some sort of identiflj cation on it, but I- couldn’t find anything in the copper tig line from pne end of the boat to the other. I did ’ find, however, a little din whistle in j one of my pockets, and, running a wirethrough.the tail of tie fish. I hung on : the whistle and threw the cod back 1 into the whter. i “The following yea” I got a most peI culiar bite on my hook, and after pulling in. the line I got lhe surprise of my - life. There was the same little cod. j He hadn’t grdwn an inch, but hanging I on his tail was a ong fog horn."— Philadelphia Press. . . Whiskey for Lurne Buck. The increased use of whiskey for lame back rheumatism is causing considerable discussion a'inon;. the medical fraternity. It is an almost infallible cure ; when mixed with certain other ingre- ; dients and taken properly. The following formula is effective: “To one half pint of good •whiskey add oneouneb of Toris Compound- and one' ounce Syrtlp Sarsaparilla Compound. Take in tablespoonful doses before each meal ; i and before retiring,” ? Toris compound is a product of |the laboratories of the Globe Pharmace/utical Co., Chicago, but it As well as the other Ingredients Can be had from any j good druggist. | Could Not Afford It. j Improvident Citiz ; n—-.Would you like , to subscribe a dollar or two to help oflit a poor old washerwoman. in bed wish rheumatism and the house full of hungry children? / Provident Citizen—Sorry, bld mam.' but I can't afford it. J AV ill-you come | along with me* to some lively show at the theater where we can forget these sordid miseries.,aid a nibe little supper after? —New York’ Press. PILES CUREn'.IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OIKTMENT is guaranteed to cqre any case of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Files in 6 to 14 diys or money rhfutnded. 50c. \ Fair Warning. \ The answers in the correspondent’ column of a German journal contain 1 the following: “P. S. —We really think that you had better not visit us in- or- > der to receive an explanation <of the reason why we have rejected, your manuscript, Our staircase, we beg to ; inform you. has tvvnty-four steps, and we do not keep a bolster at the bottom.” , Are Your Clothe* Failed? *, Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2oz. package, 5 cents. A Fly sto.;peu a train. In north Wales there is a section of single line worked on the electric train staff system. Wien the signalman tried recently to draw a staff from the. instrument in order to dispatch a train he was unable to do so. The failure of the ins f ”’unent lasted for nearly five hours. Investigation revealed that a’ small fly had crept into the instrument and apparently died while in the act of examining the delicate mecanism of one of the contacts, leaving its tiny body as an insuperable barrier to the passage of the electric current.—Great Western Railway Magazine. Absurd Beliefs Ahodt HedjrehoKS. In .olden days the hedgehog was accredited with the possession of many wonderful powers. Pliny and, after him Aelian and ’others Eave related how it would climb apple and, fig trees, shake down the fruit and afterward fall upon and impale the fruit on its Spines and carry them off upon its back. The belief .that it was in the habit of milking cows during the night is likewise a very old one. iff StMKADAME - j-— | Positively cured by these Little Pilis. v AlilL tv j The y alsoreUev e pi* B tress from Dyspepsia, InE digestion and Too Hearty •|« Slating. A perfect rem■I vi edy for Dizziness, Nausea, Cl Drowsiness, Bad Taste * ’ in th®. Mouth. Coated Tongue. Pain in the side, ——J TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowe s. Purely Vegetable. SmiLRIL SbW-L DOSE. SMILLPRICE. PADTEQCI Genuine Must Bear EuAKI Eno Facsimile Signature 8. (REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.