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NATURE IN THE OCJEAN
Creature DwonrInfir Each Other to
Prevent Overproduction
It Is estimated that the Cyclops will
beget 442000 young iu the course of
the year aud if these were all permit
ted to mature and reproduce them
Belves the seas would In a short time
be a simple mass of living organisms
But the cetochllus or whale food
constitutes almost the exclusive food
of the vast shoals of herrings and the
sea living salmon and salmon trout
Their existence Is one of the -greatest
economic triumphs of nature for these
minute creatures scour the sea of ita
refuse and keep It sweet while they
form the food of fishes which in turn
furnish wholesome food for millions of
human beings
Feeding on dead vegetable and ani
mal matter these entomostraca are
converted into the food fishes of the
world by one remove being first assim
ilated by the herrings then absorbed
by the tunny cod mackerel and other
fishes which follow herring shoals and
prey upon the latter They mainly
swim on the surface of the water aud
it Is the search of them in this position
which briugs the shoals of herrings to
the surface Their countless numbers
are also augmented by the microscopic
larvae of fixed shells such as the bar
nacle which begins life In this form
first as a one eyed swimming crusta
cean then growing a pair of eyes and
finally affixing Itself
Iu rivers these larvae are the sole
food of all young fish and often also of
Older fish In early spring the crea
tures in every stage eggs larvae and
perfect though miscroscoplc entomos
traca swarm In the water on the mud
and on the water plants aud were it
not for natures provision for keeping
them In check so rapid would be their
rate of multiplication that the whole
character of the water would speedily
be entirely changed
AIR IN HIGH ALTITUDES
The Same an In Other PInccn hat It
Contains No Microbes
It Is an error to think that the chem
ical composition of the air differs es
sentially wherever the sample may be
taken The relation of oxygen to nitro
gen and other constituents is the same
whether it is on the heights of the Alps
sale through druggists one has to take or flt the surface of the sea
the matters say so alone as to their cura
tive value Of course such testimony is
not that of a disinterested party and
accordingly is not to be given the same
credit as if written from disinterested
motives Dr Pierces medicines how
ever form a single and therefore striking
exception to this rule Their claims to
the confidence of invalids does not rest
solely upon their makers say so or
praise Their ingredients are matters of
public knowledge being printed on each
separate bottle wrapper Thus invalid
sufferers are taken into Dr Pierces full
confidence Scores of leading medical
men have written enough to fill volumes
in praise of the curative value of the
several ingredients entering into these
well known medicines
Amongst these writers we And such med
ical lights as Prof Finley Ellinewood M D
of Bennet Medical College Chicago Prof
Hale of the same city Prof John M Scud
der M D late of Cincinnati Ohio Prof
John King M D late of Cincinnati Ohio
Dr Grover Coe of Now York Dr Bartho
low of Jefferson Medical College of Pa
and scores of others equally eminent
Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription cures
the worst cases of female weakness prolap
sus ante version and retroversion and corrects
irregularities cures painful periods dries up
disagreeable and weakening drains some
times known as pelvic catarrh and a multi
tude of other diseases peculiar to women
Bear in mind it is not a patent nor even a
secret medicine but the Favorite Prescrip
tion of a regularly educated physician of
large experience in the cure of womans
peculiar ailments who frankly and -confidingly
takes his patients into his fulL
by telling them just what his Pro
scription is composed of Of no other medi
cine put up for womans special maladies
and sold through druggists can It be said
that the maker is not afraid to deal thus
frankly openly and honorably by letting
every patient using the same know exactly
what she is taking
Sick women are invited to consult Dr
Pierce by letter free All correspond
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womanly confidences are protected by
professional privacy Address Dr R V
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Dr Pierces Pellets cure constipation
The fa
vorable effects therefore of a change
of air are not to be explained by any
difference in the proportions of Its
gaseous constituents The important
difference is the bacteriological one
The air of high altitudes contains no
microbes and is in fact sterile while
near the ground and some hundred
feet about It microbes nre abundant
In the air of towns and crowded places
not only does the microbe impurity in
crease but other impurities such as
the products of combustion of coal ac
crue also
Several investigators have found
traces of hydrogen and certain hydro i
carbons in the air especially In pine
oak and birch forests It is to these
bodies doubtless consisting of traces
of essential oils that the curative ef
fects of certain health resorts are trac
ed Thus the locality of a fir forest is
said to give relief in diseases of the
respiratory tracts But these traces of
essential oils and aromatic product
must be counted strictly speaking as
impurities since they are apparently
not necessary constituents of the air
Recent analysis has shown that these
bodies tend to disappear in the air as
a higher altitude is reached until they
disappear altogether It would seem
therefore that microbes hydrocarbons
and entities other than oxygen and
nitrogen and perhaps also argon are
only incidental to the neighborhood of
human industry animal life and damp
vegetation Chicago Chronicle
Ancient Remedies For Hlccongh
The hiccough seems to be a modern
and dangerous disease but the an
cients knew it and prescribed reme
dies that might now be tried advan
tageously Galen recommended sneez
ing Aetius approved of a cupping in
strument with great heat to the
breast Alexander believed in an oxy
mel of squills Alsaharavius made use
of refrigerant drafts Rhazes put his
trust in calefacients such as cumin
pepper rue and the like in vinegar
Rogerius looked kindly on calefacient
attenuant and carminative medicines
Not Just What He Meant
Lloyd George was addressing a meet
ing in Wales and his chairman said
I haff to introduce you to the member
of the Carnarvon boroughs He bass
come here to reply to what bishop
of St Asaph said the other night about
Welsh disestablishment In my opin
ion gentlemen the bishop of St Asaph
is one of the biggest liars in creashon
But he bass his match in Lloyd
George
Savored of the Trnth
Thats no lie remarked the man
with the newspaper
Whats no lie queried the other
party to the dialogue
This paragraph to the effect that
wise men are more often wrong than
fools are right answered the other
Chicago News
IjVTiy Bodies Were Embalmed
Toe Egyptians believed that the soul
lived only as long as the body endured
hence their reason for embalming the
body to make it last as long as possi
ble It is estimated that altogether
there are 400000000 mummies in
Egypt
Bad men live that they may eat and
drink whereas good men eat and drink
that they may live Socrates
i it is some compensation tor great
evib that they enforce great lessons
Bovee
ssarr
Named In the News
Alger to Retire Sherman Indian Ex
pertNovelist Sinclairs New
Book Milwaukees Kid
Mayor Prince von Buiow
Jefferson Davis
RUSSELL A ALGER
USSELL A
ALGER who
has announc
ed that he will re
tire from the Unit
ed States senate at
the conclusion of
his present term In
1007 has been in
public service for a
long period He
was born in Ohio in
1830 became a law
yer enlisted In the Union army when
the civil war broke out fought in sixty
six battles and skirmishes and was bre
vetted major general of volunteers at
its close He was commander in chief
of the G A R in 1889 In 18S4 Gen
eral Alger was elected governor of
Michigan and in 188S he was a lead
ing candidate for the Republican presi
dential nomination He received 143
votes on the fifth ballot at the national
convention of that year He was sec
retary of war under President McKIn
ley and entered the senate in 1902
General Alger is a rich man now but
he was a poor man at the close of the
civil war At that time he engaged in
the lumber business In Michigan with
hardly a dollar with but little credit
but with lots of pluck His first crop
of timber he shipped to a Chicago firm
It was valued at 2000 and was all he
was worth in the world An old time
friend tells how Alger expected to
boom his business by this first sale and
how manfully he stood the shock oftho
news of the failure of the Chicago firm
before he got returns It was a total
loss cleaning him out completely but
he went to the holders of his paper and
told them he would pay every cent and
as an earnest of his nurpose put up
his watch as security In due time he
made good
There was nothing slow and sedate
about the campaign of the new kid
mayor of Milwaukee Sherburn M
Becker who surprised the political
wiseacres by defeating Edward S
Rose hero of five successful canvasses
for the mayoralty office Sherbie
Becker as his friends call him is thirty
years old but he looks very young and
has been known as the boy alderman
and Mayor Rose Is said to have refer
red to him in a campaign speech as a
brat born with a silver spoon in his
mouth To this Becker retorted with
The mayor was born with a tin horn
in his mouth and has been tooting it
ever since Beckers youthful enthusi
asm made things
lively during his
canvass He attend
ed dances of the
Poles Slavs and
Bohemians mingled
with the young
men and danced
with the girls He
would not permit
any one to contrib
ute to his campaign
fund outside of his AYOR Bf11
immediate relatives but he spent his
own money freely and just before
election distributed 5000 corncob pipes
and packages of tobacco hence the re
mark that the majority of his oppo
nent went up in smoke
Mayor Becker is rich is a Harvard
man and the son of a bank president
His grandfather S S Merrill was a
millionaire of the St Paul railroad
Young Becker was the candidate of
the Republicans stands for municipal
ownership and in the city council has
voted in accordance with this principle
although in so doing he had to go di
rectly against the interests of ricli
friends He is married has been
around the world twice has been min
er and cowboy and is in love with the
strenuous life
The man most in the public eye at
the present moment is the man with
the muck rake and the type is repre
sented in Upton Sinclair whose re
markable story The Jungle has won
attention from President Roosevelt
The Jungle deals with conditions in
Packingtown where the beef trust
has Its headquarters and Mr Sinclairs
story is said to have caused President
Roosevelt to set a number of trusted
investigators at work to discover how
much of truth and how much of fiction
Niix
there were in the
novel which has
produced such a
sensation Mr
Roosevelt also In
vited the author to
the White House to
discuss the subject
treated in his story
Before Doubleday
Page Co publish
ed The Jungle
they commissioned
TJPTON SINCLAIR a avrjer to visit
Chicago and make an investigation of
Packingtown On the strength of his
report they went ahead with printing
the book Mr Sinclair has had a live
ly career He is twenty seven years
old was born in Baltimore and studied
at the College of the City of New York
and Columbia university He paid his
way through college by writing jokes
and stories wrote a book of 80000
words when he was seventeen and be
fore he was twenty had produced an
output about equal to that of Sir Wal
ter Scott In 1900 he gave up college
and went to Canada to write King
Midas For four years he lived In
shanties and tents often subsisting on
3
flK and game During the next sum- I
uier he wrote Prince Hagen Thu
publishers rejected it and during that
time he nearly starved In Now York
The story of this terrible experience
was told in ihe Journal of Arthur
Stirling a modern Grub street
edy Mr Sinclair then became a So- i
J ciallst and wrote Manassas the first
ol a civn war trilogy in a shanty that t
he built near Princeton N J which
ue nas enlarged anil where he now
lives The Jungle wns the result of
his Socialistic investigation To obtain
the information be spent a long time
in the meat packing district of Chica
go and thus obtained inside facts of
the terrible living and working condi
tions that he describes
Representative James Schoolcraft
Sherman of Utica N Y who was re
cently elected chairman of the Repub
lican congressional committee has been
vice chairman of the committee foreight
years He Is one of the best known
Republicans of the house in which he
Is now serving his ninth term When
the late Thomas B Reed retired from
poJItlcal life Mr
Sherman who was
one of Reeds clos
est friends was a
prominent candidate
for the speakership
He was bom In Uti
ca in 1855 graduat
ed in 187 from
Hamilton college
was admitted to the
bar in 18S0 and in
18S4 was chosen
mayor of Utica Mr
PRINCE VON
BULOW
Yip0ffifof
JAMES SSHEHMAN
Sherman has bepn for some years at
the head of the committee on Indian af
fairs and enjoys a reputation for wide
knowledge of the history and present
condition of the red men Sherman in
stitute at Riverside Cal for the edu
cation of Indians is named in his hon
or He is one of the most affable of
the members of the house and Is gen
erally popular among his colleagues
Prince von Buiow the German chan
cellor who fainted recently in the
reichstag during a discussion on the
results of the Moroccan conference
has a hard place to fill It is said that
during the sessions of the conference
dispatches came in late and he work
ed over them night after night For
three mouths he
was busy from- S
oclock in the morn
ing until past mid
night almost every
day and the strain
proved too much
for his physique
Von Buiow to
give him his full
name and titles is
Prince Bernard
Henry Martin
Charles imperial
chancellor prince of the kingdom of
Prussia and Prussian president of the
council of ministers He was born at
Klein FIottbeck Holstein in 1840 and
is the son of a German statesman who
was himself a distinguished diplomat
and was once secretary of state for
foreign affairs The chancellors ca
reer has been somewhat meteoric and
he owes his recent successes largely to
the fact that he is about the only man
who can control the kaiser He made
his way into the latters good graces
and has contrived to stay there in spite
of every difficulty that has arisen
Somewhat less than a year ago on the
wedding day of the crown prince the
kaiser elevated him to the dignity of a
prince and about the same time he in
herited a fortune of over 1000000
The character of Jefferson Davis
now governor of Arkansas but pro
spective member of the senate from
that state is described by the compre
hensive word picturesque He is the
very opposite of the dignified senator
James K Berry whose seat in the sen
ate he is expected to take next year as
he has defeated Mr Berry In the Dem
ocratic primaries
and the result is
binding upon the
Democratic m e in
hers of the legisla
ture who constitute
the majority of that
body Governor Da
vis instead of being
digniGed is hail fel
low well met His
style appeals to the
rural voters and
they pile up big ma
jorities for him
JEFFERSOX DAVIS
When President Roosevelt visited Ar
kansas last fall the governor refused
to don a high hat in honor of the pres
ence of the chief magistrate To friends
who urged him to do so he said Why
the wood haulers wouldnt know me In
those togs
When the hour for luncheon arrived
Governor Davis refused to attend
President Roosevelt urged him to do
so It finally developed that Powell
Clayton former ambassador to Mexico
was to be one of the guests Mr Clay
ton is a resident of Arkansas a re
minder of the days of reconstruction
Davis insisted that the militia under
Clayton killed his aunt
Well governor asked President
Roosevelt cant ire persuade you to
join us Is there anything personal in
this
Oh no returned Davis nothing
personal at all Its only because that
cuss killed my aunt
Governor Davis was once criticised
because while professing friendship
for the common people he lives in a
fine house In Little Rock Of course
I have a fine house said he replying
to his critics in a speech I got that
house to entertain my friends the plain
people of Arkansas The street cars
pass right by If the door Isnt open
kick it in If you dont find my wife
in the front part of the house youll
find her in the back yard making home
made soap
THE BLUEFISH BRIGADE
What Happen When the Dines Make
n Clmrjce Upon Menhaden
When menhaden or herring are
driven upon the beach by blucfisb as
they often nre so that they can bo
carried off ly the cart load said a
fisherman tuere Is very seldom found
among them one of their pursuers and
If one is found it is likely to be a fish
mat is uiseaseu or mat nas ueen nurc
in some way The blueflsh follows to
the very verge of the water but there
it stops aud it is so powerful and
alert a swimmer that close as It is it
still easily keeps clear of the land
The menhaden or herring are no mean
swimmers They could come as close
and keep off the shore as easily as the
bluefish do but not when the blueflsh
are after them Then they are like
men pursued to the edge of a preci
pice It Is almost certain death to
jump but they must do that or turn
and take the chances of breaking
through the pursuing line
When the bluefish there may be
3000 or 4000 of them together sight
a school of menhaden they go for it
like a brigade of heavy cavalry cut
ting and slashing snapping and biting
right and left The menhaden are sim
ply overborne by superior weight and
there is nothing for them to do but
flee If they are driven toward the
shore the land is to them what the
precipice would be to the man They
must take it or they must turn and try
to fight their way through Many do
turn and try to swim under or over
or around the savage bluefish and
some escape in this way and some are
snapped up and some are maimed and
then cast ashore and many of them
crowding together are so closely press
ed that they are practically forced
ashore
Sometimes fish that are not cast up
very far flop down into the water
again A high wave may set some
free A fish thus liberated may find
its fins so damaged that it cant swim
and It is cast up again Weakened by
its rough experience it may fall a prey
to some of the bluefish yet lingering
offshore It may escape New York
News
SERIES OF SHIPWRECKS
Tiie Most Singular Clinln of Marine
Accidents on Record
The most singular series of ship
wrecks on record began with the loss
of the English merchantman Mermaid
which was driven on the rocks of Tor
res strait in October 1820 The officers
and crew clung to the shattered vessel
which was held fast upon a sunken
ledge until a few minutes before the
doomed ship went to pieces a passing
frigate picked them up
The Swiftsure as the latter craft
was called resumed her northward
course to be foundered In a terrific
gale three days later
Her combined crews were saved by
the warship Governor Ready en voy
age to India May 18 1830 The last
named overtaken by a storm vas
stranded on a barren coast her three
crews to a- man succeeding in reach
ing the shore
After staying a week on the inhos
pitable island they were taken off by
the revenue cutter Comet which a few
days later sprang a leak and sank in
spite of all efforts to save her
Fortunately a rescue ship was again
on hand the four crews being saved
by the Jupiter
Even then however the chain of dis
asters was not broken for the Jupiter
just as she was entering the harbor of
Port Raffle turned turtle and went
down with scarcely a moments warn
ing Her crews barely escaped with
their lives to be picked up by boat
sent to their aid
Thus the crew of the Mermaid was
wrecked five times in one voyage that
of the Swiftsure four times of the
Governor Ready three times and the
Comet twice
The rescues had been purely acciden
tal in every case none of the ships
having been sailing as a consort or
even to the same port
Though the weather had been tem
pestuous and the escapes barely made
not a life had been lost
Safe
In a mediaeval German tale it says
that the parish council of a small vil
lage met one evening to discuss cer
tain improvements in the water sup
ply In this debate the towns one
watchman entered the room quietly
placed in a corner his lantern and
spear and sat down to listen to the ar
gument Suddenly a councilman turn
ed to him fiercely
Fritz he cried what are you doing
here Who is to watch that nothing is
stolen in the village
Fritz with an easy smile answered
Who is there to steal anything We
are all here
An Odd Honse
One of the best known houses In
Northamptonshire England was de
signed to represent the days weeks
and quarters of the year It has four
wings facing the four quarters of the
heavens to represent the four quarters
of the year 365 windows one for each
day fifty two chimneys one for each
week and seven entrances to repre
sent the seven days of the week
Pretension
The world Is his who can see through
its pretension What deafness what
stone blind custom what overgrown
error you behold is there only by your
sufferance See It to be a He and you
have already dealt it its mortal blow
Emerson
In England under the Tudors the
man who gave to a beggar was fined
and the recipient of the gift was pun
ished
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