LADIES' COLUMN.
UNAPPRECIATED.
(By Lucy Sherman Mitchell.)
, who to please a woman striveth
much,
Doth seem to price the least her who
for him
Hath sacrificed the most. A servant,
w. such
As he might hire for gold one strong
of limb
To wash and scrub, and cook a tooth
some meal
At small expense would serve his
purpose well
As doth the faithful wife whose woe or
weal
He scarce considers. She in error fell
Through strong desire to make his bur-
den light.
And take her share In what he count
ed til.
Had she Instead claimed homage as her
right.
Or, like a child accustomed to Its will
Ruled strength by weakness, she had
been a queen.
And he her willing subject for all
time.
But even Interchange Is seldom seen,-
And strange perversity calls love sub
lime
What so exists; and women worthier
far
Of worship, holding place aa high
above .
As o'er the earth Is yonder shining star.
Stooo not to learn by art to win
man's love.
The dolt, the fashion-plate, the but
terfiy,
The wily flatterer, the vine ' that
clings.
Do so confuse his brain, he looks not
high
Enough to see those borne aloft an
wings. ,
MILLINERY.
The woman wno cannot find a hat
to suit her style, this season, must be
constructed on a most peculiar plan,
for never before were the millinery
shops so rich in variety.
The newest bats look to be much
heavier than they really are. This Is
lue to the arrangement of the trim
ming, for, as a rule, small foundations
-are used the turban and toques, and
hats of the flat walking order being fa
vorites. But among these may ' be
found many Dlrectolre hats, heavily
trimmed with ostrich plumes, which
etart from the center front and fall
back on either side, and these are al
most the only new hats showing os
trich plumes.
Most of the new hats may be worn
over or off the face, accoidlng to the
fancy of the wearer, but the Dlrectolre
is always set well back. Many of the
new hats for young faces are becoming
-when tilted Jauntily toward one side.
The amtetials used for trimming pre
vent as great a variety as may be
found in studying hat-frames, but
-velvet leads, and black Is the popular
color. Taffeta, corded, stitched, shirred
and tucked, ranks next. It is used to
over crowns, as a draping for bri.ns,
or to form graceful, undulating folds
In different forms. A favorite scheme
seen In many of the better-class types
ja to take the several shades of one
olor In their natural gradations, plait
them softly, and dispose around the
fcase of the crown.
A striking favorite is a rather tall- !
frowned velvet hat In which the ma
terial Is laid in rather cloe folds, sur
rounded by an lrnmenw bow of taffeta
piece silk. In some stores these bows
may be obtained already made up, and:
are a great help to the home milliner.
There Is very little demand for fancy
"feathers, and It is predicted that, for
the spring trade, they will disappear
entirely In favor of mallnes, mousse
lines and chiffons. Even at this season
if the year these materials are popular
for trimming. They are made Into im
itation plumes, rolls or wreaths, and
.are combined with velvet, furs and
other materials in endless confusion.
Strings are ir.ore generally worn than
they have been In a long time, and are
of tulle, sable, velvet or ribbon, as best
suits the hat They must either be
very broad or extremely narrow me
.jdlura widths being entirely forbidden.
J
i THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Salt thrown on soot which has fallen
an the carpet will prevent stain.
To curl feathers easily, dampen
lightly and place them in curling pins
4 such as one uses for curling hair);
allow them to remain two or three
days, then separate them out carefully.
The feathers will not be so much In
jured as when curled with a knlft, dons
ver so carefully.
If knives or other steel articles are
to be stored, smear them well with
mutton fat, wrap In tissue paper, then
'In heavy wrapping paper, and lastly in
Hud.
Aluminum Is so generally used for
toilet articles, ornaments and household
artesurti that a wash that will restore
It white color will be appreciated. Dis
solve thirty grams of boras in one liter
0t water, add Ave or six drops of am
xtjonia aod It will come out as beautiful
FAVORITE RECIPES.
Cake. One cupful of sugar, one en,
two-tfctrdo capful of tweet milk, one
tablsspnnnfnl of butter, two teaspoon
fats of cream of tartar, one ttaspoonful
4l goda, sad one and one-half cupfuls
f Sour. Thla recipe la good for a layer
Olagor Snap. One cupful of molaav
flaa. as. mpful of sugar, one tabte-
i until ef glasTer, six tsblespeoufuls
erf mm ttslsnwi iifwls of water.
lit'tMMwfMsa of mas of tar
tar. ' wlt -sMtt
AH.
COLLtai Q1RL UVII SHAKES.
Betoian With Cardan Snake and than
Got tho Larger Varieties.
Miss Caroline Morse is looked upon
with awe by her fellow freshmen of
Wellesley college, because she loves
snakes and makes pets of them.
She Is the daughter of Prof. Morse
of Amherst college and Is 1 years old.
Only In respect of her fondness for
reptiles does she differ from the popular
Ideal of what a sweet girl undergrad
uate ought to be.
Miss Morse dates her remarkable fad
back to the age of 10, when she caught
and tamed her first blacksnake. A
fearless lover of nature, she felt no re
pulsion for It, because she knew that
the species was not poisonous. It de
lighted her to see it drink the milk she
would place for it In a saucer.
Her love of snakes overmastered hei
one day when she was out bicycling
soon after her admission to Wellesley
last fall. Espying a large garter snake
she dismounted and caught It by the
tail. Remounting- and steering the
wheel with one hand, she rode for her
boarding place; all whom she encoun
tered along the road gave her a wide
berth. ,
This was the beginning of her collegt
menagerie. .Soon afterward she caughl
a second fine garter snake, which so
perfectly matched the first one that she
called them the big twins.
The next addition to the family was
a little green snake, which she captured
one day while roaming the woods with
a pack of children at her heels. The
youngsters fled In panic, and Miss
Morse has not since been harassed by
small admirers while hunting snakes.
She housed her pets In a glass Jar
covered with wire netting. Sometimes
they would escape id hide under the
carpet or climb plet . of furniture. The
areen snake one nU.it took refuge In
Its mistress' bed.
A blacksnake, which was the next tc
be domesticated, rut out all the otherr
in Miss Morse's affections. She enter
tains a high opinion of the Intelligence
of blacksnakes. This one was only s
baby, but he proved a constant sourc
of delight up to the time of his dis
appearance. . "1 hunted and hunted." said Mini
Morse, In telling of the tragedy. "Then
I found that one of the big twins had
broken from his box. He was In th
closet, and so big and distended that I
knew poor blackie's fate. He had gont
to sustain his brethren."
WOMEN IN CENSUS OFFICE.
The Director of the Census Wants
Women Clerks.
(By Elnora Monroe Babcock.)
Some time ago it was announced that
women were to be gradually eliminated '
from the governmental departments at
Washington. Every reason but the tru
one, which is that women have nc
votes, was given aa an excuse for suet
a course. In contract with this actlor
of the various heads of departemnts lr
Washington It is refreshing to find one
man who overrides political bosses and
Insists upon employing those best fitted
for the work, Irrespective of sex. Th
following announcement comes from
Washington:
General W. R. Merrlam, director ol
the census, refuses to accept any more
men as clerks. He wants women. He
has addressed a letter to ea'-h member
of congress and Informed him that
hereafter he will not admit the exam
ination of men for positions. On July
1 he will employ from 1.500 to 1.800 ,
women. i
Against this there has been a decided t
protest. Republicans and democrats
alike have political favors to repay,'
and women vote only in a few states.
Already there have been charges that
men have been found deficient In ex
aminations, yihlle women have nearly
always passed. Director Merrlam will
have the employment of nearly S.00B
persons, and Insists upon appointing
women to nine-tenths of the places.
Senators receive fifteen appointment!
each, representatives six, and members
with a "pull" as many as they like.
Few senators or representstlves have
filled their quotas, and unless appoint
ments are made before the examina
tions In April, Director Merrlam him
self will make the selections from th
civil service eligible lists.
At the recent municipal elections In
Ohio the women turned out In large
numbers to vote for members of the
board of education. Over 1.000 women
voted In Cleveland, Mrs. Taylor, the
only woman candidate In that city for
the school board, receiving 21.21 vote.
The highest rote received by any msn
running on her ticket was 17,220. A
woman was also elected at Ravenna
and several other places. Six hundred
women voted In Toungstown and 1,500
voted hi Canton.
Over 1,000 women attended the re
publican primaries In Cleveland for the
purpose of securing the nomination of
good candidates. The movement was
not confined to any one party, demo
crats, republicans and noo partisans all
making an excellent showing. All
SB-reed on one vital point, that the
schools must be divorced from politics.
Methodist leaders, those who are In
the midst of affairs, declare there Is
not th slightest probability of any
thins; whatever being done this year
toward union between Methodist north
and south. Neither side want union;
th south, because many of the old
leader are still In control and have the
old prejudices, and the north, because
they say that as a body the general
conference la too big now. A working
basts of ministerial exebangr and of
church comity la respective Held sn
arrived at four year ago. It may be
further perfected at thla tljaa,
FARM NEWS NOTES.
GROWING COLTS.
The colts are beginning to come on
the farms of the west, and farmers
should remember the tranacendant Im
portance of management duilng the
first year of the colts' life, as it affects
the future usefulness and value of the
animal. A colt may be ever so well
bred and yet can easily be spoiled dur
ing the first year. It should be han
dled early and continuously In auch a
way that It may never have cause to
suspect that Its owner is anything else
than Its best friend. Every day that
handling and petting is postponed
makes work for the "horse breaker"
later on. Sudden, violent motions must
be avoided until the youngster's confi
dence is gained; It should be accustom
ed to the halter early and then to the
bit and gradually toother parts of the
harness, so that Its education goes on
continuously. When this Is done the
animal will never need "breaking."
which a barbarous term anyhow in
connection with horse growing.
It Is in the feeding of the colt and
the core it receives, however, that the
owner Is so largely the arbiter of its
destiny. It ought not to go into a re
mote pasture with the dam where it is
only occasionally seen, nor should It
follow the dam over a plowed field
backwards and forwards, snatching a
mouthful of overheated milk from
time to time when the dam rests from
her work. It should get Its milk at
quiet Intervals and when the udder Is
not fevered, and supplementary feed
ing should be Introduced as early as
possible. As soon ss the colt begins to
eat, it should have bran, crushed oats,
clover hay and other growthy food, not
much to begin with, but gradually In
creasing ro that when weaning time
arrives the dams' milk iray be with
drawn with just as little disturbance
k possible. The feeding should be lib
eral, for on this depends growth, good
bones and good joints, all very im
portant things In a horse; and liberal
feeding requires plenty of exer'lse ac
company It, for It Is a good muscu
lar system that is wanted, and not fat.
Plenty of pure air, plenty of sunshine,
a good place i lie down comfort with
out coddling all these are essential to
good colt growing.
After weaning continue to feed liber
ally on foods of growth, and when
winter comes make It a matter of prl le
to carry the youngster through so that
he will show no signs of a "hard win
ter," but In such a way that he thrives
during the cold season and gets his
fair share of growth then. A large
number of colts are spoiled by bad win
tering, and a great many more are tar
fro m being the valuable animals they
might have been If properly wintered.
If the colt is carried through till grass
comes as It ought to be, it is well-nigh
reared, for it Is the first year that Is
the trying one and the rest of colthood
is comparatively plain sailing.
EXERCISE- FOR SWINE. j
Do hogs need exercise? is asked by a
correspondent. Yes, at most periods of
their lives they do. although the ten
enis of modern breeding has all been
In the direction Df early fattening and
nicking the largest gains on the small
est pcifciilUe amount of feed. The suck
ing pig needs exertit-e or plethora and
nn attack of thumps may be expected.
The time when thumps is most com
plained of is when, after farrowing:
time, there is bad weather that ke.p
the litter and the dam confined to the
pen. where the former surk and sleep
and have no work Jo do to keep thfrn
healthy. In good weather, with room
enough to run about out of doors, the
litter always gets exercise enough and
rarely hai thumps. Growing pigs need
some exercise, too. but they can be re
lied upon to take all they need If glv-n
room enough, ani the weather Is not
too unfavorable. Breeding stock ehould
always have plenty of exercise or they
will become shy breeders and the pigs
they have will not be vigorous, and
they may even become entirely sterile.
When hogs get their rrowth and are
put In the yard for fattening Is the
tme when they need exercise least.
For a short time that remains before
marketing they can both safely and
advantageously be kept as quiet as
possible. The time Is oo brief for
them to suffer Injury for want of ex
ercise, and the feed will have a quicker
effect If they do not run l off. The
answer to the quei.tlon should therefor
be that hogs do need exercise, but no
partlculer pains need be taken to see
that they get It except in the case of
young pigs In bad weather, or In that
of breeding stock that has been fat
tened for the show ring. The latter.
when they reach borne after the shows,
need reducing, not by cutting off the
feed so much as by exercise, and In
doing thla driving them around the
yard with a buggy whip for a while
each day Is often resorted to.
ORAM LAND MANAGEMENT.
There I In many part of th west a
great deal of complaint about the fall
ure of grasses to be permanent and
productive. Much of the complaint,
however, I due to the prevalence of
the Idea that almost any kind of soil
will do for grass, that abundant fertll
lty la not essential to the crop, and
that almost any kind of preparation
will answer. There never was a great
er mistake, and yet many make It, even
to the extent of believing that land
that ha been laid down to' timothy
will somehow become fertile, even tho'
It were not so when the grass seed was
sown. Land Intended for grass grow-
Ing should be made rich or It will not
produce rich grasses nor any consid
erable tonnage. It should be t borough
ty well prepared, for culture I needed
for graa. and th only kind that oan
be given to It la the preliminary culture
and an occasional loosening of the sur
face with the harrow when It become
root bound. Many think that because
most of the tame grasses need a good
deal of moisture, und rained land will
answer for meadows and pastures. This
Is an error. Meadow land should be
well drained and underdralnlng on soil
that need It dries it if too wet and
gives it the power to retain moisture in
dry seasons. It stimulates growth ear
lier In the reason and maintains It
longer In the fail by cerrylng of! cold
surface water and reducing the chill
that evaporation causes. Dry seasons
are never so injurious on well drained
lands as they are on undralned soil,
and good drainage makes many solis
that are intractable and sour, mellow
and sweet. At all points grasses ate
benefited by good drainage, good pre
paration and the maintenance of fertll
lty, and those who do not act upon this
theory are not likely to find them profit
able. VEGETABLES FOR THE FARMER.
Does the average farmer pay suffi
cient attention to growing vegetables
for the family table? We think not.
We are glad to see that our agricultural
experiment station la doing work along
these lines ss well as the more im
portant ones of stock snd fruit raising
A bulletin just issued gives Interest
ing Information regarding the farmer's
vegetable garden and the cultivation of
some of those beautiful but too seldom
grown vegetables. This bulletin should
be In the hands of every farmer Inter
ested In adding to the comforts and
happiness of home. It recites the ex
perience of the horticulturists at Ames
in growing many varieties of such veg
etables as lima beans, cucumbers, to
matoes, egg plants and sweet potatoes.
We understand that It may be secured
by writing to the director of the agri
cultural experiment station, Ames, la.
FEEDING BROODER CHICKS.
All persons do not succeed alike in
feeding brooder chicks. Neither do all
who feed chicks running with hens
feed them alike. The hen herelf can
furnish no food. All she can do la to
furnish heat for warming the little
fellows, give them exercise, hunt for
food with them and by so doing she will
find a great deal of food that cannit
be supplied In any other way. She
may act as company for the little fellows-
She may succeed In getting a
great ninny of them to maturity, ,r
she may rear only a few of them.
The greatest loas comes from leg and
bowel troubles, both of which are at
tributed to not enough heat at the
right time. We have reared a brooder
of chicks and have had but little trou
ble and again we would lose many of
them and all with the same manage
ment and feed. In feeding chicks we
begin on plnhead oatmeal and we feed
four times a day at the beginning, later
only three. For three weeks the great
er part of the food Is cooked or baked.
After that they can have some raw
food If thought best. At no time Is It
thought best to give ecur food, though
there may be a temptation to do so
sometimes because some has been left,
A box of bran left where they may
pick at It will be good and also char
coal with some grit. They do well on
green stuff, and if given In the right
manner plenty of It will do but little
harm. As they rrow older they may
have millet seed, cracked wheat or
cracked corn. They should be fed the
first thing In th morning and when
very young they may be fed the last
thing before bedtime. They will eat
by lantern light when fed and this
makes the night shorter. Feeding
carefully and keeping an even temper,
ature will succeed.
THE EGO BUSINESS.
The business of getting eggs Is a dis
tinct business in poultry management,
and In many Instances this Is the most
profitable part of poultry keeping. To
get eggs Is the constant study of some
poultry keeper, and they will do any
and everything to keep up the laying.
The hen that Is uncomfortable will not
lay eggs. The hen that is not well fed
will not Isy eggs, and the hen that is
too fat will lay but few eggs. The hen
that haa to shiver sll night In a cold
house or In an oetn shed will lay no
eggs.
It Is an old argument that "mother's
hens laid plenty of eggs and roosted In
trees." Others hold the theory that
hens ready to lay eggs will lay them
without regard to the weather or the
food conditions. It Is quite true thst
many hens roosted In trees, hatched !n
the weeds and brought up their broods
In the fields, but the msn who haa
winter layers doe not adopt that plan
In this day.
It is quit generally believed that the
egg formation take place mainly at
night Let ua suppose there are twen
ty fertilised cells In the egg sack of a
healthy hen. Under fsvorable condi
tion lahe will probably lay twenty
egg within twenty-live or thirty days,
but If exposed to weather she may not
average an egg a week. This can al
ways be observed during a cold snap.
Hen will be laying right along and
some oort of adverse weather or other
condition will arise and stop laying at
once. The way to keep up the egg pro
duction I to give the matter some
thought and do everything that can be
done 4o keep bens laying.
The deepest ocean temperature ever
recorded was aboard th Pacific sub
marine telegraph survey ship Nero re
cent)?. At a depth of 8,070 fathom a
temperature of St. degree waa re
corded, and at a 5.101 fathom, 24 de
green. The deepest previous cast were
mad by th British survey ahlp Pan
gala.
WISS VIEW OF AMERICA.
Isnproaelon of a Swiaa Travolor 1st
! tha llnltari Htmtaa.
By Prof. August Forel of th Univer
sity of Zurich, Bwltxerland.)
I shall try to give In the following
t few impressions ef the United Stales,
ut in doing so I wish it plainly un
lerstood that this Is merely s hasty
ikelcn penned down after a short jour
ley. A good deal is being written
ibout American corruption. The Eu
o pea n who goes to the United Stales
hinks It absolutely necessary to pro
fide himself with- a revolver and con
stantly watch his pocket book, as hit
nlnd is hounted by thieves and swln
llers intent on cheating and robbing
aim of his valuables. In this respect
Je's happily disappointed. Tou travel
n the United States as safely as In our
wn country; people are courteous,
lonest, respectable and scrupulously
:lean, and there Is no more cheating,
Jing, overcharging than with us. Es
pecially the policemen excel in theli
gentlemanly manners. There Is not
:he vexatious red tape and chicanery so
sommon with our officials.
Also with regard to morals the North
American excels the European. Family
ife is held sacred.
Where, then. Is that Ill-reputed cor
ruption? For It cannot be denied that
t sxiats. It Is the worship of the dol
ar which creates and maintains it.
An American lady with whom I dis
cussed this subject said to me, smil
ing: "We have an amendment to the
:lghth commandment, viz.: Thou shalt
not steal, except from the stater " The
itate is the cow of plenty of the weal
thy; It would appear as though every
body, even those otherwise honest, con
iplred to plunder it.
The unconstrained liberty of acquir
ing wealth has killed in the American
almost every feeling of solidarity and
responsibility with regard to state and
ociety. His patriotism is a Chauvin
istic sentiment, a kind of monomania
for boasting of his being the cltlien
jf the most powerful republic. It raise
in him great national enthusiasm, bul
Joes not animate him with the con
sciousness of duty and responsibility
toward the entire body of his fellow
:itlzena.
I was struck bjr two things the uni
formity of Aemrlcan fashion from one
end of the land to the other, and the
power of Americanization. Though the
American fancies himself free of preju
dices, he Is In reality chock full of
them. Everybody is a slave to custom.
which accounts for many strange
things that shock the foreigner. An
atheist will say grace at table, merely
not to offend against a good old cus-
'.ocn.
MARRIAGE A BAR TO SUCCESS.
Opinion of Edwin Markham on tho
Question.
Is marriage a bar to success for an
ambitious man or woman? All such
questions are difficult ones. They are
too complex for any general rule. Each
life is a problem by Itself. You say
"success," but what is meant by the
term? Mere worldly success, that Is
one thing. But some lives are successes
though weighted with poverty and oth
er lives are failures though' winged
with wealth. It may be said safely
that a true marriage a spiritual mar
riage would be no bar to success of
any sort. Hut such a marriage of souls
Is not common, fur It Is a union founded
on fundamental fitness for each other
and for marriage. i
In some quaiters marriage la recom
mended for young men as a preventive
of perilous vice; In other quarters it Is
looked on as a means for enlarging
one s circle of inliuence. It serves
these ends In many cases, but these
considerations degrade the noble ideu
of marriage. Success by such means
is only another name for failure. There
is but one success worth while the re-
Izatlun of charai-ter.
The question Is asked: Will the mis
ery a man suffers by an unhappy mar
riage tend to help rather t
the development of special
the sufferer is really capable
would barm the development. Joy
the normal condition of all excelle
work.
We are told that the poets "learn In
suffering what they teach In song."
Doubtless there is truth In this state
ment. But the poet does no work
while misery Is delivering her Instruc
tion. It Is long afterward that he ut
ters his lyric word long afterward In
some tranquil hour. Then It Is that be
else from the hand of memory the
precious element In all that bitter past
seises the thing thst Is eternal, let
ting the Insignificant and superficial go.
7 fsayl V
It Is a fact that does much to nkJ.The csar occasionally attenrfi th.
or mar many of ua. We know thl
plant Is conditioned by Its environment!
It prospers In a warm atmosphere.
Love Is the warm atmosphere of the
soul.
In a true spiritual marriage the wo
man become the chief Inspiration, of a
man's csreer. She I th muse quick
ening In It beautiful way the sleeping
forces of hi life. She I an expression
of the eternal womanly leading him
onward forever.
Political combination In the canvass
for the new Methodist bishops sr In
Ihe air. They are declared to be neither
political , nor combine, but they are
slates just the same. For example.dur
Ing the past few days (certain men
whose friends sre pushing Ihem for the
honor have held conferences. The gen
eral concensus of opinion just now ar
rived at Is that the Interest of the de
nomination demand the election of four
new bishops. What In real politics
would be called a slate hue appeared,
and It bear th name of Rev. Drs.
Joseph F. Berry of Chicago, A- J, Pal
mer of New Tork and J. W, Hamilton
and D. II. aloor ot ClnclnaaU.
MtA. OVER THE WAVE
Oooorlptlon of a Now Klnsl av
So Craft
Despite the msny failure that has
mended the efforts on th part of a
lumber of Inventors to construct a
soat to roll its wsy through th water
ressels of this type are being constant,
ty brought to the front. There eeema
to be s deep-rooted Idea In the mind
yt some few designers that the passage
;lme between the two continent Will
3t halved In this way. and the fascina
tion of thus lowering the time between
the two worlds Is such a fasclnattag
jne that there seems to be some ofc
hammering away In this direction con-,,
tantly. An entirely new design Is her
alded from Cansda.
This craft has been constructed at
the boat yard of Walter Dean of To
ronto, and It is about to be put to a
trial roll. The vessel, according to the
Scientific American, consists of a cigar-shaped
steel hull, which Is encircled)
for about a third of Its length by aa
outer revolving cylinder. The cigar
shaped portion of the vessel contalnn
the motive power and the crew, and
the outer cylinder, which serves as a
propeller, is rovlded with project
ing metal blades, which are wound)
helically sround It. The outer cylinder
revolves upon the Inner cylinder, fric
tion being reduced by Interposing care
fully constructed roller bearings. It la
driven through a gear wheel, twlva
Inches In dlsmeter. which works In a
wster tight case and engages a circular
rack formed upon the Inner face of tho
outer cylinder. The vessel Is driven by
a four-horse power gasoline engine. lo
order to prevent any rotary movement
of the Inner cylinder. It la provided)
with a keel which Is about twelve
Inches In depth and Is hung below th
vessel. The keel Is also Intended to
prevent the vessel from making lee
way. The shsllow depth of the keel
and the fact that It weighs only about
125 pounds, will render It difficult to
keep the boat on an even keel, and II
has been suggested that a deeper keel,
carrying a cigar-shaped weight, some
thing after the faahlon of the bulb keel
of racing yachts, would give better re
sults. In addition to the accommoda
tions within the hull there Is a deck al
each end, which Is protected from lbs
wash at the water by coamings, con
nection from one deck to another being
had by means of a bridge, which ex
tends shove the revolving cylinder.
STORIES OF ANIMAL LIFE,
it la said that silkworms are vei
sensitive to the action of light of differ
ent colors, and according to expert
mrnts f recently described by Flamr
marlon, before the French Academy of
Science, silkworms were kept in boxes
covered with glass of different shade.
The silkworms all received the same
food, but they gave different results aa
to the quantity of silk and eggs. -
Maternal Instinct waa curiously ex
hibited the other day by a cat. Some
of the officials of the Norfolk county
asylum, England, caught a young rab
bit, which they gave to the cat, think
ing that she would kill and eat It. T
their astonishment puss did nothing ol
the kind; she adopted It and reared It
with her own offspring. Both the rab
bit and its foster mother seemed to b
perfectly happy together.
One white fox in the flesh and In th
fur has been discovered in the Esse
Union country of England. It was on
of a litter of four reared In Norsey
wood, near Billerlcay, last spring, anxl
the hounds got on to It recently when
cub-hunting. Owing to the poor scent,
however, this unquestionable rarity,
which waa viewed by many of the field,
escaped for the time being Its pursu
ers. A white fox is a real rarity, and
the many superstitions concerning It
render It a curiosity.
'Recently a captain captured a young
seal near Anacapa island, California,
and took him on board his ship. A
the vessel started the mother seal waa
noticed swimming about, howling pit
The little captive barked
Hively. After reaching th wha
nta Barbara the captive was tied
tn a jute sack and left loose on
he deck. Soon after coming to anchor
the seal responded to Us mother' call
by casting Itself overboard, all tied
up as it was in the sack. The mother
seised the sack and with her sharp
teeth tore It open. She had followed th
Lump eighty mile.
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Once a week the staff officers of tha
Russian army aasemble under the pre.
Idency of the Grand Duke Vladimir ta
discuss tho progress of the Boer war.
i.
The city of Akron, O., Is entitled ta
the credit for Installing the first auto
mobile police patrol. It Is of the largest
si, having a seating capacity of M
persons, and was built at a coat of
12,200.
A group of literary folk In Boatoa
have started plan to observe the one
hundredth anniversary of th birth of
Longfellow In 1M7. The people of Port
land, Me., where he waa born, will ala
celebrate the date.
The recently published statistic
Europesn countries regarding emigra
tion and Immigration during th lat
ter part of into show that Ihe United
Etates still offers th strongest attrac
tions for Europeans who wish lo eav
their native lands.
Walters In the most exclusive restau
rants have rome to look upon th tip
s so rertslnly thelf right that they
hav rome lo assume an air that I of
fensive In the extreme. There Is no ao
knowledgment from Ihem for this cour
tesy on th part of the diner now. Th
waiter merely grab It aa a thing thai
belongs to aim.
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