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The Cedar Rapids Gazette says
fMobs make fewer mistakes than the
jfcourte But their mistakes are not so
-easily corrected
A New York theater announces the
forthcoming production of Die Wilde
Uagd If it is anything like its name
rounds the authorities ought to inter
fere
But after all Chicago can hardly criti
cise Nevadas physical culture perform
ance on the 6Core of brutality so long
a bicycle races against time are toler
ated
The Salvation Army in Chicago is
iworking on the idea that converts can
be best made on full stomachs It is
eeding the poor as well as preaching
nd praying for them
Claus Spreckels is building a 6000
00 palace in San Francisco It will
contain six bathrooms which alone will
cost 50000 There is no telling how
much he will expend for soap but it
fvlll doubtless be beyond the dreams of
avarice
The old lady of 72 years who has just
iaied in New York from dancing all
night with too much vigor had no idea
of a fate that would serve to warn
-other aged persons of social excesses
Giddy people of more than three score
and ten should pause ere it is too lote
An old sea captain of Long Island has
proposed the unique scheme of equip
ping mortar batteries at life saving
stations from which to throw bombs
filled with petroleum to calm the
iwaters raging about a wreck Through
the resulting smooth water and surf
the rescue work would be comparative
ly easy
The popular will expressed in the de
plorable form of riots seems to be mai
ling headway against the toll gate sys
rftem in Kentucky Bourbon County has
expended about 5000 on roadmaking
machinery and last week nearly 100
miles of roads were thrown open to
free travel The county will acquire
fhe remaining 200 miles in a few
Tweeks
No metal is increasing in importance
more rapidly throughout the world
than -copper Half of the copper mined
Is produced In this country the total
output of the United States last year
reaching 47722500 pounds a little
inore than half of which was exported
Our copper yield is now 40 per cent
larger than that of the world in 1881
The increased demand for the metal is
due to electrical appliances
Lewiston 3Ie Journal So long as
gentlemen who would neither1 lie nor
steal nor boycott nor tyrannize as in
dividuals will consent to put their mon
ey into enterprises managed so as to
adopt methods of business which char
acterized Tack Cade and the pirates of
13ie Spanish main and Avkich yet char
acterize the highwaymans art these
esteemed gentlemen must not be
amazed if people continue to identify
trusts with robbery and the manipu
Jators thereof with enemies of financial
order and industrial fair play
In some of the Eastern and far West
ern ates the practice still obtains at
rthe adjournment of legislatures to di
Tide among the newspaper men who
liave reported the sessions a certain
amount of money from the public
funds This sum often reaches several
hundred dollars and in some cases it
lias been known to amount into the
thousands No more barefaced rob
Vbery of the people than this is can be
Imagined and it amounts to no more
dor less than an open bribe to reporters
jto suppress the evildoings of the legi
slators No self respecting newspaper
jinan woifd accept money under those
circumstances
Frances foreign legion is the last
refuge for adventurers of all nations
In one company there were serving re
cently a Roumanian prince who was
Buspeeteg of having murdered his
brother a German count who had been
a lieutenant of the guards and on the
Emperors staff an Italian lieutenant
colonel of cavalry dismissed for cheat
ing at cards a Russian nihilist escaped
from Siberia a former captain in the
English Rifle Brigade and an ex canon
of Notre Dame suspended for immorality-
The legion is always used for dan
gerous service in which the government
does not wish to employ regular troops
as the men have no care for their lives
An Italian physician who has -
ed years of study to the diseases that
in tropical countries is of the
fcat eirerv nn of tiiom nnmi
M4U ptU
IS is of parasitic
rds the result of
that with the
kand hygiene
im why white
ina an long
Iwhere the
rasons of
rising
bed is
tere
poisonous fluid beneath the skin This
operation he repeats three times In
twelve hours and then releases- the
animal green eyed with dilated pu
pls frothing at the mouth and raving
mad It lives from thirty to forty
hours after being liberated but like a
dog with hydrophobia it bites every
thing It meets and every other wolf
bitten becomes Inoculated and in this
way the poison spreads and death fol
lows at a rapid rate The Big Horn
Basin papers have published reports
brought in from the range of the death
rate among the coyotes being enor
mous from a new disease never before
heard of and the inventor claims it is
his mad death wiping out the tribe
The educational drift of English
schools Is thus described by a British
journal and there are some schools in
the United States whose courses of
study are not greatly different
We teach the children Banish
Trigonometry and Spanish
Fill their heads with old time notions
And the secrets of the oceans
And the cuneiform inscriptions
From the land of the Egyptians
Learn the date of every battle
Know the habits of the cattle
Know the date of every crowning
Read the poetry of Browning
Make them show a preference
For each musty branch of science
Tell the acreage of Sweden
And the serpents wiles in Eden
And the other things we teach em
Make a mountain so immense
That weve not a moment left
To teach them common sense
Efforts are made from time to time
to take from the gutter some especially
degenerate member of the human fam
ily and imbue him with principles of
right living The results of such ex
periments are always instructive al
though it Is difficult to determine just
what is the lesson taught in the experi
ence of the gentle music teacher who
sought to practice a kindness theory
on one of Clevelands most wayward
embryo citizens The teacher believed
that there was not a human being who
could fail to be susceptible to the inliu
ences of kindness and she determined
to give the particular subject on whom
she was to operate at least one kind
word each day She also proposed to
teach him music It is possible the dose
of kind words was not sufficiently large
to fill such a void or it may be that the
music she taught was not of the savage-breast-soothing
variety but what
ever the cause the novitiate in the
school of morality has issued this proc
lamation Theres no dough in this
life Im looking for dollars Ive gone
to work soliciting trade for a gent I
get 3 per and 10 per cent commish
and that suits me better than learning
how to be a dude The experiment
will now be shifted to a more amenable
member of society
What is probably the smallest com
plete illuminating plant ever construct
ed has just been built by A Graner
an electrical engineer of Philadelphia
He has devdsed and constructed a small
light for vehicles which throws a beam
penetrating the darkest gloom and
clearly revealing all objects at a dis
tance of 100 feet ahead The point of
light projected by this tiny lamp can be
clearly discerned as it moves across a
surface more than 200 feet away The
device is nothing less than a miniature
searchlight The light is supplied by
the smallest storage battery that has
ever been utilized for lighting Hereto
fore it has been necessary to resort to
large batteries weighing from GO to 100
pounds for this purpose but the inven
tor has managed to make a fifteen
pound battery supply a light for eight
hours without any perceptible dimin
ution in its power This battery can
be recharged by a few bluestone jars
if a central station is inconvenient but
it can be more quickly done at one of
these generating plants and at a cost
which makes the electric light quite as
cheap as an inferior oil lamp Another
noteworthy feature of the lamp says
the Record is an ingenious method of
establishing the connection between
the lamp and the battery without tflie
necessity of making the wire connec
tions The battery once fixed in its
place under the seat remains there un
til its power is spent The lamp how
ever for the purpose of protection froin
thieves or accident may be taken off
and put on at pleasure As the lamp is
put into its place the current is made
through the brackets which support it
If desired the lamp can be fixed on the
tongue of the carriage instead of the
dashboard
The Irishmans Reply
At a well known mill not a hundred
miles from Coatbridge a Scotchman
and an Irishman were employed carry
ing bags of flour Each had to carry
three dozen bags and then get a short
spell to rest The Scotchman work
ing harder than the Irishman got
through with his three dozen first
which came in six bags at a time and
of course had a rest While sitting
the Irishman came along and exclaim
ed You havent carried three doz
en yet Ay says the Scotchman
sax times sax sacks is thirty sax
sacks Be the powers says Pat
you might as well say bags times bags
thlrty ahe bacs
Marriage and Murder
A rather curious happening
develop
ed in a Justice Court at Brunswick Ga
a few days ago The court was En
gaged in taking evidence of a most
TARIFF BILL PASSED
THE DINGLEY MEASURE GOES
THROUGH THE HOUSE
Receives 205 Votes Out of 348 Re
publicans Present a Solid Front
Amendment Adopted to Affect All
Future Imports Lively Scenes
Vote Is 205 Ajrainst 122
Washington special Amid great enthu
siasm on the floor and in the galleries the
House of Representatives Wednesday
passed the Dingley tariff bill and the
duties imposed by the bill are now in
force and the Wilson law is a thing of
the past if the last amendment attached
to the bill before its passage in the House
fixing April 1 as the day on which its
provisions should go into effect shall be
held to be legal by the courts The Re
publicans presented an unbroken front
to the opposition All the rumors that dis
satisfaction with particular schedules of
the bill might lead some of them to break
over the party traces proved unfounded
On the other hand five Democrats braved
the party whip and gave the bill the ap
proval of their votes These five Democrats
are interested particularly in the sugar
schedule Three came from Louisiana
and two from Texas One Populist Mr
Howard of Alabama voted for the bill
Twenty one other members of what is
denominated the opposition consisting
of Populists fusionists and silverites de
clined to record themselves either for or
against the measure The Grosvenor
amendment which provided that the pro
visions in the bill be immediately enforced
was passed by a strict party vote
The vote on the final passage of the bill
stood yeas 203 nays 122 present and
not voting 21 giving the bill a majority
of 83 Speaker Reed added to the climax
of this ten days struggle in the House by
directing the clerk to call his name at the
end of the roll call recording his vote
for the bill
As the hour for voting arrived the ex
citement increased Mr McMillin of
Tennessee was recognized for five min
utes to close the debate for his side He
briefly reviewed the extraordinary
methods by which the bill was being
brought to a vote He charged that
amendments- were cut off because the
leaders of the majority feared that they
might be crushed by their own cohorts
I defy you now he said to give us
an opportunity to amend the sugar sched
ule which was framed to protect the big
gest trust in the country And to day
you crowned the infamy of the bill by
making it retroactive Mr McMillin
concluded by having read at the clerks
desk the words of Speaker Reed then in
the opposition on the occasion of the
passage of the Wilson law With those
words said he I let the bill go forth
to the just execration of a robbed and out
raged people
Mr Dingley then took the floor and
closed the debate in a ten minute speech
He spoke of the extraordinary circum
stances which produced the exigency
which Congress had been called in extra
session to meet The Ways and Means
Committee had labored faithfully for
months to adjust duties to present condi
tions There might be some little dis
satisfaction with rates He assured his
colleagues and the country that he felt
confident the bill would accomplish the
purpose for which it was framed
The debate being at an end the commit
tee rose and the bill with pending amend
ments was reported to the House by Mr
Sherman the chairman of the committee
of the whole The roll call on the pass
age of the bill was then taken and was
followed with intense interest and the
Republicans applauded vigorously when
the Speaker announced the result The
galleries joined in the demonstration
TAKE OUT A MILLION
How the Bucket Sliops of Chicago
Work the Country
John Hill Jr chairman of the com
mittee on gambling of the Chicago Civic
Federation has been at Eldora Iowa
before the Hardin County grand jury It
is claimed he secured some valuable in
formation affecting the bucket shops al
leged to be running in that part of the
State
It is claimed it has been proved to the
satisfaction of the grand jury that a cer
tain produce and stock exchange of Chi
cago is doing a bucket shopbusiness It
is claimed there that the institution act
ing for the Chicago concern took 3S000
out of Hardin County in one week last
January and has secured from the peo
ple of Iowa over 1000000 during the
last four months
Mr Hill has the names of many losers
as well as evidence in the cases He
claims that agents of the bucket shops are
traveling over Iowa systematically organ
izing the business and that the main
evidence is to the effect that two former
employes prove that the business is only
carried on the books of the company and
not in the open market
In an interview at Eldora Mr Hill said
few people had any adequate idea of the
extent to which the State of Iowa is being
drained to enrich the bucket shop proprie
tors of Chicago and that his mission now
is to secure evidence throughout the coun
try districts that would convict those men
and drive them out of the business which
he asserts has no connection whatever
with legitimate market quotations or spec
ulation in actual transactions on the
Board of Trade but is a system of gam
bling in which the operator has every ad
vantage no matter how prices may fluctu
ate and the patron is inevitably a loser
if he stays in after the initiatory stage of
the game
The Chicago house has leased wires
from the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany running through Illinois Indiana
Ohio and Iowa It establishes agencies
in small towns v here no other bucket shop
or legitimate hojse is represented its ob
ject being apparently to avoid compari
sons of prfces with the quotations of other
hduses
A man giving his name as Arthur John
son attempted to murder ami h Tnim
bloody and revolting type in a mUrdeKL3haPman in MHan Mo Johnson -is one
case when the proceedings were to- iof a San of highwaymen -who mnwlprpd
terrupted by two negro lovers who brakeman conductor and nearly killed
asked to be married The murder case a doctor in R Wing Minn for wich
investigation was suspended and tho te7 are t0 be hanged March 28 It is
knlinrA T t
Lknot was tied It was a stranire
cling of sadness and joy -
fche average woman will forgive
jaad any crime ou earth so long as
iag every assurance that he will
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The Kentucky House has passed thi bill
providing punishment for egg throwing
and other interruptions nt nhi JXntI
lags Sixsilver Democrats were the oW
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SENATE AND HOUSE
WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW-
MAKERS
A Weeks Proceedings in the Halls of
Congress Important Measures Dis
enssed and Acted Upon An Impar
tial Resume of the Business
The National Solons
The House Monday without a quorum
continued debate of the tariff bill but
made little progress The Senate reso
lution appropriating 250000 for imme
diate use on the Mississippi amended so
as to carry 140000 for clerk hire for
members to July 1 20000 for miscel
laneous expenses of the House and 1
000000 customs deficiencies was adopt
ed and at 525 the House adjourned In
the Senate a bill was reported favorably
to prevent kinetoscope exhibitions of
prize fights Mr Caffery of Louisiana se
cured favorable consideration of a joint
resolution on makinc immediatelv Avail
able 250000 for the improvement of the
Mississippi River from the head of the
passes to the mouth of the Ohio River
The appropriation is to be deducted from
the 2500000 given to the Mississippi
River by the last river and harbor appro
priation bill The bill was passed con
firming the compromise made between the
officers of the government and the au
thorities of Arkansas relating to mutual
claims At 1250 p m the Senate went
into executive session on the arbitration
treaty
Tuesday was the last day for debate of
the tariff bill in the House and no other
business was done A number of amend
ments were adopted but not one third of
the whole bill had been considered when
debate closed In the Senate Senator
Allen of Nebraska made a long speech
in the constitutionality of tariff taxes
beyond those requisite for revenue The
House amendments to the Senate joint
resolution appropriating 250000 for the
snving of life and property along the Mis
sissippi River were agreed to Among
the petitions was one from the Board of
Sheep Commissioners of Montana urging
the most ample protection on wool in
accordance with the platform promises
and asserting that the policy of protection
would not long prevail without this ade
quate protection to the wool growing in
terest
The House Wednesday adopted the
Grosvenor amendment to the Dingley
tariff bill and then by a vote of 205 to
122 passed the bill itself The amend
ment gives the bill immediate effect thus
making the measure retroactive upon im
ports already here but yet in bond The
President sent to the Senate the follow
ing among other nominations of post
masters John A Childs Evanston 111
Joseph C Weir Rantoul 111 William T
Pritchard Franklin Ind John W Beard
Converse Ind Henry L Chesley Suth
erland Iowa James W Peekinpaugh
Olivia Minn P P Corrick Cozad Neb
Clifford B McCoy Coshocton Ohio E
A Deardorff New Philadelphia Ohio
William F Bishop Peshtigo Wis
In the Senate Thursday four Cuban
resolutions were presented The most
important by Mr Morgan declares that
a state of war exists and announces the
policy of this country to accord both par
ties to the conflict full recognition as
belligerents This will be acted upon at a
future day Two others of the resolutions
call for information both were adopted
The third proposed a protest to the trial
by drumhead court martial of Gen Ri
viera The tariff bill passed by the House
was referred to the Finance Committee
A joint resolution directing the use of a
war vessel to transport relief to Indias
famine districts was agreed to and the
Senate adjourned to Monday No busi
ness was done by the House
Most of the members of the House have
gone to their homes and some of them do
not expect to return until the Senate has
passed the tariff bill At present Speaker
Reed is determined to enforce the pro
gram of having the House meet every
three days and immediately adjourn with
out attempting to transact any business
It is not certain however that the policy
of nonaction can be adhered to Great
pressure is being brought to bear upon
the Speaker and his lieutenants in the
House to prevent consideration of othei
business Until the tariff bill is reported
the Senate will occupy its time in discuss
ing the arbitration treatv
Notes of Current Events
After a bitter debate and many stormy
scenes the Manitoba Legislature ratified
the settlement of the Roman Catholic
parochial school question
Lord Salisbury has left London for Ri
viera He is expected to break his journey
at Paris for an interview with M Hano
taux on the Cretan situation
Charles F Houghton principal owner
of the Corning Glass Company and re
puted to be worth a million dollars shot
and killed himself at Geneva N Y
The claim of Edward J Ivory the al
leged dynamite conspirator for 20000
damages against the English Government
for false imprisonment has been forward
ed to Secretary of State Sherman
Joseph Blauther the murderer of Mrs
Langfeldt in California committed sui
cide while in jail at Meridian Miss by
taking poison Officers were expected the
same day to take him back to California
Articles of incorporation were granted
in New Jersey to the Composite Typebar
Company with an authorized capital of
10000000 The company is to manufac
ture machinery and objects used in the
art of printing
During o gale in Oregon a large sus
pension bridge across the Willamette riv
er at Oregon City was wrenched from its
piers fully eighteen inches The bridge
was afterwards moved back into position
by means of hydraulic jacks
The grand national steeplechase at Liv
erpool was won by Manifesto Filbert
was second and Ford of Fyne was third
The grand national steeplechase is of
2000 sovereigns the second horse to re
ceive 300 sovereigns and the third 200
sovereigns from the stakes
In response to notices from American
importers several of the Toronto houses
are rushing to the United States all the
wool they have for jthe American trade
This is done in anticipation of the pro
posed duty of 12 centsa pound
x The strike on the Erie canal at Pen
dleton N Y assumed a serious aspect
when the stone masons were attacked by
sixty Italians because they refused to
quit work Sheriff Kinney ordered the
Italians to return to their cabins They
refused and were reinforced by Poles
whereupon the sheriff and his posse fired
a volley at them
4fe4A
ov a
If there is a blowhole anywhere in that
Supreme Court decision the railway attor
neys can be depended upon to find it
Kansas City Journal
If the arbitation treaty ever emerges
from the American Senate it bids fair to
look more like a product of war than of
peace Montreal Star
There are some Congressmen who do
not seem so large when they reach Wash
ington as they do before they leave home
Baltimore American
The Crown Prince of Corea has got
himself kidnaped It is to be hoped this
is no indication that he intends to go on
the stage New York Press
It is said that the people of the United
States smoke 115000 tons of tobacco ev
ery year Nobody has attempted to weigh
the cigarettes Cleveland Leader
Too many bills are introduced into legis
lative bodies but there is always the con
soling reflection that most of the bills in
troduced will never be passed Chicago
Record
Canton doesnt exhibit good business
judgment in offering 5000 bonus for a
boiler factory It could get a season of
Wagnerian opera for less Chicago Times
Herald
Now the bacillus which causes baldness
has been located by a French savant Dr
Sabourand and vaccination for loss of
hair may be next in order Springfield
Republican
If reciprocity is good for anything it
ought to be able to score a hit by giving
Jamaica bromo seltzer and watermelons
in return for rum and ginger Chicago
Times Herald
The story of Senator Quay and the
Florida panther ought to warn all such
animals of the danger attending transac
tions with Pennsylvania politicians New
York Journal
When President Krueger of the South
African republic doesnt like an editorial
in his morning paper he suppresses the
journals publication There are officials
in the United States who must envy
Krueger his power Scranton Tribune
In the Glad Sprinc Time
How the wheelmen responded to the
suns invitation Cleveland Plain Dealer
The first baseball game of the season
seems to have got in ahead of the pio
neer robin Boston Herald
Windy March has finished its task of
blowing up the earths pneumatic tires
for the bicycling season Chicago Record
Fishing is very good in Florida plenty of
fish in the river blackberries are getting
ripe and nobody need starve Florida
Times Union
Great weather this But the skies are
not half as blue as the poets who cant
find a market for their spring songs At
lanta Constitution
Will somebody please organize a society
for the prevention of spring poets Or
else persuade the Humane Society to in
clude this branch within its scope Chi
cago Journal
No matter what the almanac says the
small boy will not admit that spring has
arrived until he can carry home in a tin
can a live snake of the vintage of 1897
Cincinnati Tribune
Spring is evidently on the way The
temperature mounted to 80 degrees in
Kansas one day last week and was at
82 degrees in several parts of Texas The
warm wave is said to be strolling east
ward Boston Globe
Foreien Affairs
King George must be holding a lemon
In front of the performers of that Euro
pean concert Cincinnati Tribune
On sentimental grounds the Cretan
seems to deserve about as much sympathy
and respect as any other semi savage
New York Advertiser
England would enjoy a larger measure
of confidence if her impact on Greece
didnt come simultaneously with her im
pact with us Chicago Dispatch
Another attempt to federate Australasia
is being made Unless the old jealousies
and differences have disappeared the at
tempt is doomed to failure Buffalo Ex
press
The new treaty of alliance between the
Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free
State shows that Oom Paul is still keep
ing his weather eye open Providence
Journal
Emperor William says his grandfather
was modest and unpretentious But
then probably Wavlike Willie thinks he
is modest and unpretentious himself
New York Press
Salisbury is suffering from an attack of
the influenza but if he doesnt have an
attack of Russia and Germany one of
these days he will be getting off lucky
Cincinnati Tribune
When a British Premier goes to Paris
to confer with the French Minister of For
eign Affairs it is indicative of a desire to
get their instruments in tune and up to
concert pitch Indianapolis Journal
Office and Office Seekers
The office seekers motto The man who
stands back is lost St Louis Star
The first Indianian to refuse an office
has come to the front It is thought he
wanted a better one St Louis Chron
icle
Maj McKinley is confronted by the old
problem of how to put a million pegs
more or less into a few thousand holes
Chicago Dispatch
There never were and there never will
be enough offices to go around until every
citizen has an option on a public place
Indianapolis Journal
One of the Chicago applicants for office
has his indorsements bound in sealskin
Yet it is not believed he will land on vel
vet Washington Post
The offices are being filled gradually
and what Ij more important they are
most of them going to men of high char
acter and of excellent ability Boston
Journal
Some politicians do not seem to care
who makes the songs of their country or
its laws either so long as ther get their
share in the disbursement of the patron
age Chicago Record
It would be interesting to note how
many office seekers would suddenly be
called home from Washington if we
should get into dSBculty with any for
eign nation Commercial Advertiser
j
AMERICAN JOCKEYB
Thay Forced English Homcm
Adopt Their System
uXto
When American jockeys first invaded
England both they antl their methods
were the laughing stock of tht oUl
world
The idea of tbe saddle being placed
right on the horses withers with the
stirrups so short that the jockeys knees
were almost up to his chin seemed to
the Englishmen such a departure front
the general conception of the way a
jockey should ride that it was simply
ridiculous Another system which the
majority of Englishmen have not evea
yet got used to is the American idea
of getting away lirst and winning the
races in the first stages rather tlian to-
gallop for three quarters of the dis
tance and sprint the balance
Two hundred years of sticking to oltt
methods has not made it easy for the
Englishmen to accept new Ideas but
the success made by Jockey Reiff
abroad on Duke Wisbards horses
has forced even the most egotistical
of Che Englishmen to admit that there
Is something good In the new styles
and methods despite the fact that they
are radical departures from old and
accepted ideas This Is made manifest
when such a decidedly and radically
English sporting paper as the London
Sportsman publishes the following
The repeated success of Mr Wish
ards stable formed quite a feature of
the Newmarket first meetingjfand
tihose who have been most set against
Reiffe style of riding and I freely ad
mit to having been one of them were
compelled to admit that there was
something in his methods I think few
of us would ever become reconciled to
seeing the saddle placed on a horse3
withers and it does not seem possible
that a in that position and rid
ing so short that his knees are nearly in
his mouth can have much control over
his mount
On the other hand iteiff very speed
ily demonstrated tflaat no one could
teach him anything in the art of get
ting a way and one or two of our lead
ing professionals would do well to take
a leaf out of his book and try to win
an occasional race in the early part
of it instead of depending entirely up
on that one run at the finish which
so f reqnently just fails in its object and
lands them in second or third place
It is well within the possibilities that
next season may see some of the chief
English stables departing from old tra
ditions and embracing the advanceJ
ideas transplanted from America
3Iother Live in Snakes
Even the cold blooded and clumsy
snake evinces maiternal affection and I
am fortunately able to produce evi
dence corroborative of this statement
that is fresh In my memory On March
20 while seated on my front porchr
says a writer an the Home Magazine
I noticed one of my dogs a yearling
puppy acting in a peculiar way on my
lawn He was circling around a small
circumscribed spot every now antHi
thrusting his nose toward the ground
and then quickly jumping back
On approaching the animal I discov
ered that the object of his playful as
saults was a bunch or ball of snakes
a three or four year old mother and her
last years brood of young The day
was very warm the sun shining clear
and bright and these creatures had
emerged from their den or nest in the
ground a foot or so away from the spot
where they were lying and were sun
ning themselves
When they observed me they made
an attempt to regain their nest I killed
two of them however before they
could enter I had read somewhere
that if a snakes young were taken and
their bodies dragged along the ground
the mother snake would follow the
trail and if she found them alive
would conduct them back to the nest
I took the two which I had killed and
after dragging them along the turf de
posited them on the pavement some
fifty feet from the den I then resume
my seat on the porch and awaited
developments
In a short rime the morher snake
emerged from the nest and after
crawling about for a second or two
struck the trail and at once followed it
to the pavement and her dead young
Fortunately I had a witness in the
person of my iceman who was deliver
ing ice at the time and who was dum
founded at beholding such high intelli
gence in a creature so low in the scale
of animal life
I killed the old snake for theso
snakes garden moccasins become
harmful after the third year eating
young birds etc and ten of her
progeny leaving two pairs to carry on
and perpetuate the race
Great Good Fortune
Good luck is of all kinds some of it
queer The San Francisco Post for in
stance tells how a laboring man ir
that city found himself fortunate in s
way most unexpected
When the noon whistles blew the oth
er day he sat down on a box in rht
shade thrust his hand into his overcoat
pocket looked surprised and then re
marked
Ive lost my lunch
He pondered over his predicament
moment and then adtiuc
Well Ive got something to drinlc
anyway And he pulled a bottle of
coffee out of his other pocket
He slowly drained the bottle threw it
aside and sat lost in thought for a mo
ment Suddenly he sprang up slapped
his thigh and exclaimed
Its a good job I lost my lunch
Why so inquired another work
man
Why I left my teeth at home
Xo man wants to be a woman longei
that it would take to show his wife
that he can improve on her methods
It is hard to do hnsines said a
business man and c ompetp with mej
who do not pay tlir ills
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