ty years after his death,
Archimedes was so completely forgotten by the city he had immortalized,
that Syracuse denied he was buried on her soil; and a foreigner had the
honor of clearing away rubbish and brambles, in order to show the grave
to his own countrymen."

Leighton Douglass handed to his cousin a bunch of the delicate lilac
blossoms of acanthus, tied with a wisp of some ribbon-like grass, and
taking off his spectacles, replied:

"Leo unduly exalts my memory at the expense of her own; and we have all
levied heavily on her fund of topographical accuracy."

"If I travel much longer with two such learned and philosophical
scholars, I shall inevitably degenerate into an intellectual Dodder,"
yawned Alma.

"Into a what?" asked her father.

"A Dodder, sir. Pray, papa, be more considerate than to force Doctor
Douglass to believe that instead of listening to the sermon he preached
us last year, you either slept ignominiously throughout its delivery,
or else allowed your unregenerate thoughts to dwell on those devices of
Lucifer, 'puts,' 'calls, 'spreads,' 'corners, 'spots' and 'futures'. Of
course you remember that he believes in evolution? There was a time,
even in my extremely recent day, when that word was more frightful to
the orthodox than a ton of nitro-glycerine; was to the elect, a fouler
abomination even than opera bouffe and the can can. But 'the thoughts
of men are widened with the process of the suns', and now it appears
that the immortal soul of us must be evolved, somewhat in the same
fashion as protoplasm, and unless we fight for 'survival' elsewhere, we
shall not be numbered among the spirited 'fittest', but degenerate into
parasites, dodders, backsliders. So, drawing nutriment from the
Doctor's historic brains, and from Leo's, I fall back into worse than a
dodder, a torpid violator of the Law of Work, a hopeless Sacculina!
Doctor Douglass, it was the bravest hour of your life when you stood up
in--church pulpit, and told us the scientists whom we were wont to
regard as more dreadful than the cannibals and Calmucks, are only a
devoted sect of truth seekers, preaching from older texts, and drawing
nearer and nearer to the kingdom of Heaven. To throw that ethical bomb,
required more courage than Balaklava."

"Mine was merely a feeble attempt to follow out the analogical
reasoning of one of the most original and scientific thinkers of our
day in Great Britain; but the fact that you recall so corre