HERE TO STAY
R line of farm implements are the best
makes and we have some bargains to offer.
Just think Walking cultivators $10.00 and up ,
Riding Cultivators $21.50 and up and for fine
Buggies and Surries we are in the lead und dent
fail to get our prices on Wind Mills , Pumps and ,
W. C. Shinn Lightning Rods and our work is
guaranteed. Call and see us when In need of
any of the above. Yours Truly : : :
WERNER , MOSI-
MAN&CO.
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Fire Another ,
On Wednesday night , about 2
o'clock , our citizens were called
to the north part of town ,
by the sound of the fire bell , and
found the new barn of James Plill
to be on fire. The house was
finished but was unoccupied , al
though Mr. Hill had one horse
in the barn. The origin of the
fire is a mystcrr to all.
It seems to have caught in the
hay loft and when discovered had
such a start that it was impos
sible to extinguish the flames.
This makes three Wednesda } '
nights in succession that our fire
boys have been called out to
fight fire.
George Jennings Heard From.
This community was greatly
startled on Saturday morning ,
May 27th , to learn that George
Jennings had disappeared. He
had attended the commencement
exercises the night before and
had not been se .i or heard of
since until Tuesday of this week.
The community at large was
alarmed at the state of affairs
and two local lodges made some
effort to locate him but failed.
This week Mrs. Jennings received
a letter and a mone3r order from
Mr. Jennings and he stated that
he was in Chicago driving a team
'
on a dray.
Children's Day ,
Or last Sunday the Methodist ,
Christian and Presbyterian
churches observed their annual
children's day. Ver } ' appropri
ate exercises were held at each
place consisting of song , recita
tions and drills. A collection was
taken for foreign missions ; nd
the collections were very credi
table. The ladies in charge of
the different schools are to be
congratulated on the success of
the programs. The crowds were
large and all were more than
pleased with the exercises.
Thomas E. Stanley of Indiano-
polis is the guest of Miss Effie
Foster.
Tom Kinsey of St. Joe was
in this city a short time Wed
nesday.
George and Sherni Kinsey of
Table Rock visited friends here
Wednesday
Herbert Kerr and wife are
spending the summer with Dr.
and Mrs. Kerr.
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Remember the Tom Thumb
wedding at the Methodist church ,
Tuesdar evening.
J. M. DeWald left the first of
one week for Alma , Nebraska , to
be gone about a month.
Laura Camblin left Wednesday
forXHighlandKansasto visit her
uncle , N. G. Camblin and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Wamsley
attended the Clift-Williamson
wedding at Humboldt last Wed
nesday.
Mrs. James McDowell of Tecumseh -
cumseh attended the Ross-Dor-
rington wedding in this city
Wednesday.
On June 20th Miss Evans will
give a Tom Thumb wedding at
the Methodist church on Tues
day evening.
Joe Geiger moves this week in
the building'just south of Shields
grocery store end will be settled
down and ready for work the
first of the week.
Tom Poteet , Gus Ruegge ,
Harry Foehlinger and Ed Hayes
spent Tuesday fishing. They
returned home Wednesday morn
ing with about twenty-five pound
of fish.
During the past week the marshall -
shall has been taking offenders
against city ordinance up before
Justice Moran instead of before
the police court although Judge
Cleaver has been ready to attend
to all business belonging to his
office.
FISH AND BIRDS IMITATE.
Inflects , Crabs and Other Animals Pos
sess Remarkable Faculty for
Changing Color.
Many insects , birds , animals
and even llsh aud crabs are won
derfully clever imitators. They
will take upon themselves the
color , shape or position of their
surroundings so perfectly that
neither friend nor enemy can dis
cover their whereabouts.
There is a fish to be seen in the
kelp beds about the island of San
ta Oatalina which has aclever way
of making itself invisible. Tin1
body is Blender , with a pointed
head and prominent eyes. Along
the back is a continuous frill ,
which is the dorsal fin , while , op
posite , the anal flu is equally or
namented. Tiie lish vary in color.
Some are amber , others orange or
vivid green , Avhile some have two
hues combined , dark and light
green or olive and yellow. These
peculiarities of form and colo"
render the fish marvelonsly like
the kelp leaves among which it
seeks protection.
A number of these fish were
placed in the tanks of the Zoolog
ical Gardens , where they might be
observed. They showed great un
easiness , some of them even leap
ing from the tank. Another tank
was prepared where the natural
surroundings of the fish were imi
tated as nearly as possible. A
branch of macrocystis , with leaves
hanging in the water , was sus
pended over the tank. The most
uneasy of the fish were placed in
the new home , and their change
of feeling was soon evident. One
swam at-once to the kelp leaves
and poised itself head downward.
Another , with head poised up
ward , became a remarkable imita
tion of the hanging leaves in shape
and color. The fish made no fur
ther effort to escape.
Another inhabitant of the kelp
beds is an olive green crab , which
clings to the under side of the kelp
tangles. This crab also showed
great uneasiness when it was
placed in a tank. When the kelp
was introduced it crawled upon it
and was at once almost invisible ,
so much did it resemble the kelp
leaves. Another crab makes itself
look exactly like a rough stone
When it is alarmed it draws up its
legs and appears a bit of inani
mate stone.
Several deep sea spiders which
had been found at a deph of 80G
feet were kept in a tank for sev
eral weeks. When taken from the
dredging net they were a dark
brown , though presumably the
spot where they came from was
so dark that they could scarcely
have been seen. Yet even this
type of apparently sluggish life
had sufficient intelligence to real
ize that in the light of the tank it
was a conspicuous object
, so it
began to add seaweed to its back ,
The seaweed was plucked , then
passed to the mouth , and finaVlj
attached , not to the back , but to
the point of the shell above thy
mouth so that it fell over the crab
like a gorgeous plume , making tin-
crab very conspicuous. But when
t was startled the plume of sea
weed would point upward , and
the crab would become a rock with
a tuft of seaweed growing upon
it , well calculated to deceive the
most observing enemy.
PERIL IN Si ONE "JETTING.
Rewards Are Offered for a Method to
Remove Bisk of Lead Poison
ing Little Hope.
Advices fi'om Washington are
to the effect that the government
of the Netherlands has altered a
prize of (1,000 ( florins , some ? 2)00 ( )
in the currency of this country , for
a complete solution of the prob
lem involved in the setting and re
setting of diamonds without in
curring the danger of lead poison
ing.It
It is'to be feared that nobody
will come forward to claim this
reward. For years scientists on
both sides of the water have boon
experimenting with a view to rem
edying the defects of diamonds ,
eliminating their dangerous prop-
pi-ties , but thus far their ell'oi'is
have not been productive of t Ik-
desired results. Many diamonds ,
particularly the larger Atones ,
can be set without the metallic
background which threatens tlu
lu'ulth of the , gold and silver
smiths , but in every instance they
lose their brilliancy , and , at
tached to the shirt bosoms of
"dressy gentlemen" or the bodices
ices of portly dowagers and ma
trons attract scarcely more at
tention than window glass. Four
aud even six-karat white diamonds
mends , shorn of a thin , filmy un
der surface of lead or lead and tin
composition , fre < iuontly become
transparent and fail to refract the
light. Unhooked and presented
as pledges after banking hours
these gems are appraised at from
$2.45 to i3. ( ] ( ) a quart , which is but
a tithe of their apparent value.
The lead which enters into diamonds
mends of "purest ray serene" not
only imperils the lives of those
who handle them for the market ,
but also stains the clothing of
those who wear them. Some little
time ago the French bureau of
chemistry announced that it would
give 50,000 francs to the. person
who would devise a process which
would free diamonds from the
taste peculiar to alum which
many of them possess , but the de
partment mentioned still has the
money.
Cook's Paradise.
Nora Sure , Bridget Maloney
lias sthruck a snap.
Mary Phwat's that ?
"The people she's cookin' fer
now don't belave in atin' break
fast at all , loouches downtown
ind ginerally dines out. " Chica
go Sun. j.
One on TJncle John.
Little Willie Say , pa , what are
those holes in the side of Uncle
John's derby for ?
Pa To enable him to .talk
through his hat , my sou * . Chicago
Daily News.
Soon Told.
Gladys What do you like best
nbout these automobile trips ?
Percy You. Chicago Trib
une.