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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1904)
7S!ww!w5w5f5fi5iiwl I'dnwnwi'iM1- V V-J-J5-V -- Kr,-yB' V -; HIIIRjpMQI tf S J " The Commoner 16 ? 5. , V0LUIH5 4, NUMBER 3f, k. '.r 16: i Th Awakening of Mr. Blm. (Continued From Pago 10.) Tho noxt day ho learned that Heza, Squeoza & Co. had been closed down by . tho trust, and Mr. Dim and 900 others wore out of work. Mr, Blm'a vacation lasted seven months, and then ho found a Job at starvation wages In a little shop on the other side of tho city. JEJut during thoso, Hovon months Mr. Blm road arid studied and thought, and when he met Mr. Heza some weeks after 'finding tho new job ho morely nodded. "Hollo, Mrt Blm." said 1-Ioza. 'jSa'y, I wish you-would help us m our plan for sending Jlmson to; congress this fall'.' ; Mr. Bim grinned, thon winking his left eye he said; 'Ndthiiig doing, Heza. I'm voting with' 'my eyes open' now' Most Reptiles Arc Deaf : ' ' ' A German, naturalist, M. Werner pf Vienna, has recently reported tho result of observations that he haB been making for some time on the senses of inferior vertebrates. On certain points tho conclusions o M. Wernor aro very surprising, and in all thoy aro worthy of notice. Mi Wer ner has observed 13G Individuals, of which ' one-third were at liberty, and ho td'ok all posslblo precautions not to lot the creatures know they wero watched. One general ract is evident that reptiles and amphibians aro strongly attracted by water. Thoy go CLUB LIST. Anronf oMhe 'nllowlnptflll tercnl wllhTrTE COMMONFN, tolh one yenr, Jrr tie club price; rcrlodlrnls irny rc Font lo (liferent nddrews U dfplrcd. Your Irlendp nmy wIbIi to 1oln vllh yon in tending for n combination. Allsubscrlp Wonanre lor one. yenr, oncl Hncv,bciln wlllitho current number unlcfsotlicrn Redirected. FrcB cnt lutrerlters need rotwnlt rnlll their sub crlptlons expire. Kencwnlp received now will be entered or a lull yenr from cxplrntloiidnte. fuLficrlptloiiB for Lfternry Dipt ft unci Public Opinion must bo new. Kencwnls lor these two notnqcepted. ' Forclii pcFtngcextrn. AGRICULTURAL. Rctr. Clnb I'rleo Price Agricultural F.pltomlsl.mo f .60 $1.20 r.reedcr'frSnr.ettp, wk..., ., ,. I'.OO 2.25 Campbell's Foil Culture, mo ;. 100 1.35 Frm nnd Ilome,6eml-mb f0 1.00 Fnrm, Field nnd Fireside, vk 1.00 1.85 Fnrm, Ftoek nnd Home, seml-mo... .50 1.00 Former's Wile; mo ' 50 1,00 uomennu rnrm.scml-mo M l.oo Irrigation Ape.mo ; i.oo 1.85- Knn?nslrnrmer, wk 1.00 l.oo JIlEBourl Vnlley Fnrmer.mo 50 l.oo Orange JuddFrmer,wk 1.00 l.io Poultry Puecess 50. 1.10 Poultry Topics, mo '& l.oo rrne.tlcDl Fnrmertvk M. 1.00 1.85 Profrlo Fnrmcr, wk ,. 1.00 1.00 Itellnble Poultry Journal, mo 50 1.00 cb" Kvlue L'rectfer mo 50 1.00 "A "hand in everything." i : .. , ' . ' The greatest octopus of them all. NEWSPAPERS. Rccr. Clnh rrlco Price Atlanta Constitution, wit et.nn Cincinnati Fnqulrer.wk l.oo Indiannpolls Sentinel, wk, 50 Kansas City World Dally.. 8.00 Kansas City World, do. exc. Sun.,. 1.50 Nebraska Independent, wk.-. -,. 1,00 Kooky Mountain Ncwa-Tlmes, wk. . 1.00 Seattle Times, wk l.oo Thrlce-a-Weck N. V. World 1.00 Wachterund Anzelger.Suuday.... 1.50 World-Hcrnld,lwlco-aweck 1.00 MAOAZIMES. Rcjf. ... rr,ca Cosmopolitan, mo 51.00 Good Housekeeping, mo l.oo Pearson's. Magazine, mo ", 1.00 Pilgrim, mo 1.00 Bevlew olRcviews.mo 2.50 Fuccesa, mo 1.00 Twentieth Century Home, mo...... 1.00 Woman's Home Companion, mo. . 1.00 MISCELLANEOUS. Roar. Price Literary Digest, (new) wk $8,00 Pnblic Opinion, (new)wk 4.00 Tho Publlo.wk , , 2.00 Wlndlo'B-GatllnRGun.mo , 1.00 wow.uiuDDing Lomuinaticns or premium oEerBln which the Thrleo-B.Wrpt Wnrifi wJi!r Herald, or IUimns City World, cr rnrm, Stock and Home appearp, ere not oprn tcmldenlror tht reipectlYe cities lu which ttc r rick namtl ireiublUhtd. "u 81.85 1.85 1.00 8.00 2.00 1:85 1.C0 1.85 1.85 1.88 1.85 Club Price fl.86 1.85 1.50 1.85 2.85 1.G5 1.85 1.45 straight fofc it even wnen they are at a distance so great that thoy could not divine its presence by any of the senses known to us. It seems really that a sonso of which we have no knowledge informs them of tho direc tion in which water may be found. There seems to be a sort of chemi cal attraction says M. Werner. But how does this act, and on what part of the creature? This remains a mys tery. Reptiles also seek the light, but independently of neat; -they are posi tively heliotropic, and in winter they often leave a comfortable and warm retreat to seek the sunlight. Sight Is probably the finest sense they possess, but it would still appear to be llmtied. The caymans .and the crocodiles can not distinguish a man, at. a distance of more than six times their length, ad cording' to M. Werner. In the water tishes sea only at very close range about half their own length. This will' seem, perhaps, unlikely to anglers, although some of them can cito in stances showing that the fish can not see far.- Snakes seejn to have a very mediocre sense of sight. The boa for instance does not see at more than a quarter or a third or us own length; different species are limited to one fifth or one-eighth of their length. Frogs aro better off; they see at fif teen to twenty times their length. Prog catchers know this from experi ence. Hearing is much poorer than sight, if possible. Most reptiles are noticeably deaf, except caymans and crocodiles; tho boa appears to abso lutely senseless to sound Revue Scf-entlfique. Club rrlco 8.00 4.00 2.25 1.85 ' Curious Condeasatlons. Missouri has farms Dolow the Mis sissippi river level. It is easier to domesticate a hum ming bird than a canary. . Iron Mountain, tho highest elevation in Missouri, is but 1,800 feet above the level of the sea. More than three nunared native Puerto Rlcan native teachers will take a summer course at Harvard. The blind delight in races of all sorts. They .do not run toward a tape, as the seeing do, but toward a bell that jangles briskly; There iswa board of guardians in the" south of London that allows Inmates who have seen better days to don tho silk hat when they go out for a noil day. Football' and many o;!icr outdoor games are played, by tho'bliud, certain changes being made so that In each game the sense of hearing takes the place of sight. In tho coat pocket of a workman who was discovered horribly mutilated' at Vincennes, near Paris, .were found manuscripts of poems written by him in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. A single mesqidte seed, imported from tho southwest and planted in Honolulu In 1837, has propagated and spread until in the Hawaiian Islands tqday there are 50,000 acres of the famous plant of tlie alkali plains of Arizona and New Mexico. In Russia the native insurance com panies, which do the major portion of the country's business. Insure the lives of single women and widows, but at at higher rate than thoso of men, and married women are only accepted in case their husbands are aiso Insured. The firat really emclent luclfer match must be put to the credit of John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, who in 182-, praced them on tho market under the namo nf "rnn. greves," in compliment to Sir Wil liam Congreve, the inventor of the war rocket. A quaint feature of Samoan life is kava drinking. This beverage is made from tho root of tho nn ,r,.w which being pounded arid mix:ed with? water ferments and forms a mild In toxicant. It tastes like soap suds and ginger ale mixed and the relish tor it has to be acquired. The local telephone company at St. Johns, Mich., which handles an ex tensive rural service, is seeiting to make its service indispensable by fur nishing subscribers with the govern ment daily weather reports and other important news of the day. Signals are rung each morning on all farm lines,, and. all who desire may get this report. An English inventor has replaced the ordinary grooving 01 a rifle bar rel with lines of small ball bearings, along which' the hard steel projectile slips. The inventor claims that ho gets 40 per cent greater average ve locity., penetration and range than can be obtained with the same weight of projectile and charge guns made on the old system, Mrs. Hester Trudow of Le Suour, Minn., whose age fs 98 years, and who, until lately, had been entirely tooth less for 30 years, began six montus ago to cut her third set of teeth, ana nas now a complete outfit of new, natural teeth, both uppers and low ers. Sho claims that she has acuuirea her new teeth "by eating each day a teaspoonful of powdered oyster sheiu. Nearly eighty years ago, when the presidential struggle between uJ and Jackson was at its height, it w related that a band of emigrants from Kentucky and the then other westeru states commenced to settle on w north side of the Missouri river wo called their county Clay and the coun ty seat Liberty. At the same tine, says the Oak Groye (Mo.) Banned Bays tne unit uiuyo yjf, another lot or emigiuu "-ched ginia and other southern states pitcnj their tent on Uncouth side 01 1 pig Muddy and coUed their jumy Jackson and tfieJtySital Independonc Pittsburg Dlsifetcg. u.