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SPEAKING OF early parts' symbols, a reader
of Harper's Weekly says: "My attention
has recently been called to an article in your
issue of September 19, in which Mr. Albert
Bigelow Paino credits Thomas Nast with, in
venting the donkey as tlio symbol of the demo
cratic party. This statement, originally made
by Mr. Pai'rio in his book on Nast, under-rates
tho extent 'to which Nast utilized the symbols
of tho earlier American cartoonists. 'Tho first
democratic donkey,' to use Mr. Paino's phrase,
is to bo found in a cartoon issued in 1837 rep
resenting Jackson as a modern Balaam riding
an ass, Tho ass stands for the democratic-republican
party of that day. Itff progress is
stopped by the Angel of the Lord brandishing a
flaming sword, and Van Buron, stepping in its
tracks, is saying that he follows in tho footsteps
of his' illustrious predecessor. Thus Mp demo
cratic donkey originated in an application of
tho story of Balaam. The design recurs in
modified form in the so-called 'shlnplaster car
icature. A cartoon of the campaign of 1844
drawn by E. W. Clay, represents Tyler as trying
to balance himself between a whip horse and
a 'loco So(io' or democratic donkey. There were
nroBatflyS-Jrheruses of this symbol. At a' later
day NosPFevived, consciously '6i unconsciously,
the symbol-used for thouemodratlc party by the
earlier cartoonists. In tlie caricatures of Jack
son's administration thetiHiteuStatebailk was
represented as an,. elephant with, Jackson t.wiBt-
ing itataiL,,, TlVoelephaiit 2$psfc used.. for ftho
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A RARE OLD bookuJS;i in 'Ae possession--of
Edward Young, G1Q St.', Antoine street,
Detroit;; Mich. It is a volume!! iOOpages and
has been handed' dowii in tire Young family
through; pearly two centuries, The Detroit cor
respondent for the New York Herald says: "The
"book, old ond yellow and much the worse for
wear. Is 'The Young Man's Companion; or;
Arithmetic Made Easy.' Tho introductory an
nounces that it contains 'Plain Directions for a
Young Man to attain to Read and Write true
English, with Copies In Verse for a Writing
School, Indicting of Letters to FriendB,- For'nfe
for making Bills)?: Bond'sv-Relea'sej JVillsr-ft'c.
Likewise;-Easy RulV- forfttie i .Mea$iVin;sS6 pc&Tr
and Tjmher, by tft? Corpenterg'atn-'Kuio, atfd
by Fractions; wirlv'Tables for such-, as have not
learned Arithmetic; And to?!-" compute the
ChargO of Building a House or' any Pari: thereof.
Also Directions for Measuring, Gauging and
PlotjtriiT'df Land by Gunter's Chain; and taking
- tiighftfl and distances by the Quadrant and Trl
anele." The Use of Gunter's Lfn in Measuring
Globes, Bullets, Walls, Cones, Spire- Steeples,
v and Barrels; With the Art of Dialling and Col
ouring of Work within and without doors. Di
rect Ions for Dying of Stuffs &c. Together with
a Map of the Globe of tho Earth and Water;
and Gopernicus's Description of the visitilo
World, Also a Map of England; and to know
which, are Cities and their Distance from London,
Choice Monthly Observations for Gardening,
Planting, Grafting, Inoculating Fruit Trees, and
the beat Tiine to Prune Them; and the, making
Wino df Fruit; With experleno'd Med-jqines for
the Poor. An Account of Curiosities' in -London
and Westminster.' The book was. written by
W. Mather 'In an easy Stile, that a young Man
may attain the s&me without a Tutor.' That
tho 'Young Man's Companion' was popular In
Its dny is indicated by tho fact that this was
the thirteenth odition, 'with many Additions and
Alterations, especially of tho Arithmetick, to
tho Modern Method. The 'Companion' was
'printed in London for-S. Clarko, tho corner 6E
Exchange Alloy, next Birchin. Lane, 1727.'
Adorning the fly leaf aro the names of several
Into whoso possession the book found its way,
beginning With Anthony Linnis, in 1730. It is
fairly bursting with information, although' in
this day and age it is difficult to see how a con
siderable portion of it possessed any especial
Interest fpj -young men." .
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WRITER m thoew York Independent
recently Kavo an intorestinir studv nf ftnhfi
Saying, among other things: "If youput &rbeo
and BOine-h'ohdy, pollen andwator under aglass,
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tho insect does not take the slightest notice of
the food and dies in a futile effort to escape."
ALBERT R. LEDOUX, of Cornwall, JN. Y.,
writes to The Independent to challenge
this statement. Mr. Ledoux says: "This is
entirely- the reverse of the experience of every
bee-hunter. Convey a worker, seeking honey
from a flower, to a glass or cup containing it, it
almost instantly settles on the comb and gorges
itself. Remove the cover, the bee flies straight
for homo, unloads and returns, again and again.
Bees do not seem to go to special fields, 'as
ordered-.' They will be found on near-by flow
ers in tho early morning, or on the sunny side
of a hill; tlien gradually extend' their range un
til afternoon. If you catch a bee before 9 a. m.
you may be reasonably sure its hive is compara
tively near. By 3 o'clock they may be miles
from home. It is by tho sense of smell
that they are guided to the extra, unexpected
store, not by the order of any 'explorers' or
'council.' Go into a field where flowers have
been killed- by a sudden overnight frost. By 9
or 10 o'clock the bees are there, in the acous
tomed pasture; but no store rewards them to
day. Now burn some honeycomb on a heated
stove and place some more on the- rocks. Up
the wind come the workers, circle about ..and
light on the comb and fill themselves. Every
bee-hunter knQws this. Finally, when your pail
is full of bees working on honeyepmb, coming
and going, clpse the lid andvearry them off -half
a- railec If on- the line, the bees? you then.- re
lease will return straight to the pail, affcejvun
loading,at the hive. If off the- line, theyi will
first return to the original stand; then, not find
ing the pail,, they will come to the new -stand
and again attack the comb."
WYALUSING, Grant county, Wis., boast's 'of
what is said to be the instance of a
family of six generations all living. The' pro
geny of this family are scattered over Iowa and
Illinois. The Mason City (Iowa) correspondent
Of the New Yprk Herald' tells the story as fol
lows: ''The woman who stands at the heaxl of
Vthese generations and has established this'' un
paralleled record js Dydia' Thomas Ault Shrake,
.w.ho has attained the age of ninety-five years,
.yet is remarkably well preserved,, and fondles
the child of her sixth generation as If it were
her own. One other remarkable thing is that
every one of the six generations is a female.
For many years most of,, the members resided
within the township of Wyalusing, and have
lived, many of them, within ten miles of each
other since their birth. Th'e more indirect de
scendants are scattered all over the northwest.
One would' think that the time of six genera
tions would extend over atv least two hundred
years, figuring on the allotment of mankind of
thirty-three years. But- it; is not so in the
Shrako family. All tlie girls were married early
in life, as the record -will show, and all gave
birth to children, and this fact has narrowed the
time limit down to ninety-five years. 'Grand
ma Shrake now nume'rsi.67 direct descendants
and the world is challenged to produce its equal
Baby Gulley, recently born, is the youngest mem
ber of the family, The youngster is blessed with
,more grandparents than any living child. With
o many grandparents the question naturally
'arises, what will pretty little Baby Gulley be
This is a condensed record of these six genera
tions: First generation, Mrs. Lydia Thomas
Ault Shrake, bom in Connellsville, Pa. in 1814
Married at eighteen to William Ault ' To this
union were born five children. Mr. ' Ault died
in J839 and two years later Mrs. Ault was mar
ried to Jacob Shrake and to this union were
born five children. 'Grandma' Shrake sent five
,sons to the civil war, and her last husband was
a veteran of the war of 1812. Second genera
tion, Margaret Ault-Eldor, born in 1835, mar
ried at. fifteen, and is the mother of ten children
4Tfcn iQJ? S reJivIn&- Third generation;
Rachel ElderjGofT, born in. 1851, married at
soventeeii, Sho, is the mother ofjtwelve child-
h n' 8S5P of-02l-are livin. Fourt& genera
.tion, Melissa qoff-Spaulding, born in 1872, mar
ried at fifteen, mother of three children, all
living. Fifth generation, Gora Spauldiug-Gullev
born in 1891, married at fifteen; mother of one
child. Sixth generation, Agnes Elder Goff
Spaulding Gulley, born August 5, 1908."
A "LABOR DINNER" was arranged for the
White House November 17.. The Wash
ington correspondent for the- Chicago Record
Herald referring to that dinner said: "In dis
tributing the invitations Mr. Gompers, president
of the American Federation; Frank Morrison,
its secretary; Treasurer John B. Lennon and
Third Vice President James O'Connell are omit
ted from the list. Barred with them are other
members of the organization who supported Mr.
Gompers in his fight during the last campaign.
While much emphasis will be given the omission
of these names, the president feels that he will
be able to secure an accurate statement of the
views of labor from the leaders who will be
his guests. Among those who are understood
to have been invited to the dinner from labor's
list are John Mitchell, formerly president of the
mine workers and now a vice president of the
'American Federation of Labor; T. V. Powderly,
formerly head of the Knights of Labor and now
an official of the department of commerce and
labor; F. H. Morrisey of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen; Grand Chief Engineer Stone
of the Locomotive Engineers; President Faulk
ner of the Amalgamated Window Glass Workers
' of America; Secretary Dolan 6f the Interna
tional Association of Steam Shovel' Men; Presi
' dent Keefe of the Longshoremen's Union; Vice
President Duncan of the American Federation
' 'of Labor, who is also the head of the; Granite
Cutters' International Association; Attorney
"Gavegan of the Central Buildiiig- Trades' Asso
ciation of New York, and a number of others."
; p EFERRING TO the White House "Labor
v JAj . dinner" Samuel Gompers, speaking to a
correspondent for the Associated Press at Den
ver, said: "I am honored by the president when
he excludes me from his guest list, rt is a high
tribute to the manner in which I have repre-
sented the interest's of the millions of working
men and women banded together in the federa
tion, both in the matter of pressing tlie admin
istration for fair labor legislation and in the
political campaign just ended. This is the first
affair of the kind that I know of at the White
House to which I have not been invited, but
despite the fact that I have frequently been
asked to meet the president and his friends
socially, I have never availed myself of such an
invitation. My dealings with the president have
always been on a strictly business basis. I have
frequently requested an audience with him re
garding matters of Import-to the federation and
itr membership and have always been well re
ceived and treated courteously. There, how
ever, my relations with the president ended.
I, by virtue of tho trust imposed upon me by the
Federation, represent the millions of people of
the country who toil with their hands the
hired men and women, so to speak. If the
president or any other person cares to say that
I do not represent the membership of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, so be it; I don't care
to become involved in a controversy or criticise
such a stand. When the need presents, I shall
meet President Roosevelt or any other presi
dent or public man as the representative of tho
workers of the nation if they re-elect me and
care to have me represent them." The Feder
ation officials decline to discuss the matter, but
many labor leaders gathered In Denver declare
that the action of the president is simply a part
of a plan to divide the forces of organized labor
so they would not be effective in future contests.
REFERRING TO Mr. Roosevelt's letter on
"Religion and Politics," tho Chicago
Record-Herald says: "President Roosevelt's
letter, giving his views on the relation between
religion and politics, and declaring that it was
'an outrage to agitate such a question as a man s
religious convictions with the purpose of in
fluencing a' political election utruck a respon
sive chord among the clergy of Chicago whea