NEVER SEE THE SUNLIGHT
Animals That Live Underground Eter
nally Deprived of the Light
of Day.
T he underlife of the caves has a
world of its own. Animals are born
in subterranean caverns hollowed out
by streams, develop, reproduce and
die while forever deprived of the sun
light. There is no cave mammal ex
cept a rat, nor is there a cave bird.
There are no animals that require
much nourishment.
Grottoes with underground rivers
have the most life, an exchange says.
Usually the subterranean life resem
bles the general types of the country.
It has entered the cave and become ac
climated there, undergoing divers
adaptive modifications. So we gen
erally find, in modified forms, the life
of our tinhe. But in some caverns
there scent to he the remains of an
ancient animal li£t> that has every
where else disappeared from terres
trial riveits and lives only in certain
caverns. '
The creatures of modern species
that have adapted themselves to un
derground conditions are sharply sep
arated from the light dwellers. The
skin is whitish or transparent. The
eye atrophies or disappears altogether.
The optic nerve and the optic lobe
disappear, leaving the brain profound
ly modified. Other organs develop
proportionately. Those of hearing,
smell and touch become large. Sensi
tive hairs, long and coarse, appear all
over the body.
These changes are produced gradu
ally. In animals kept in darkness it
has been possible to see the i egres
sion of the eye and the hypertrophy of
ihe other sense organs. With fishes
observed since 1900 the absence of
light determined a remarkable arrest
of growth. Their length was about
two inches and their weight less tharr
an ounce, whereas similar fish kept in
daylight reached five inches and 2 7-10
ounces.
COPY OF THE MATTERHORN
Remarkable Work of Art That Adorns
the Estate of English
Baronet.
The largest rock garden in England
is that of Sir Frank Crisp at Friar
park, Henley. It is a faithful repro
duction of the Matterhorn in about 1
three acres. Seven thousand tons of
limestone were brought from York
shire to make it.
The snow-capped peak is represent
ed by quartz. Below it are thousands
upon thousands of alpine flowers grow
ing in pockets between the rocks and
tilling every chink in the trails that I
ascend the mountain. There must be
200 different species in bloom at once. I
At the base of the moutnain is a !
miniature Swiss chalet, where one ;
may sit and enjoy the scene, compar
ing all the main features with a little
bronze model of the Matterhorn which
Sir Frank had made for the entertain
ment of his guests.
A brook courses down the mountain
side, and just before it reaches the
chalet it forms a pretty cascade and '
then spreads out at your feet into a
miniature lake decorated with pygmy
water lilies and margined with pinks,
primroses, gentians and other alpine
flowers.
A Narrow Escape.
She was a demure little lady, yet
quite proud to be allowed to go down
street alone in her new red coat and
hat. She returned much sooner than
her mother expected, and appeared a
little flushed and excited, though en
deavoring to preserve her demure de
meanor.
Her mother inquired as to her trip
and little Mary proceeded somewhat
breathlessly to relate her experiences.
“I was going by the corner,” she
said, “when a great big man came
across the street and said,
‘Wouldn’t you like to walk with
me?’ And I said, ‘No, I thank you,'
’cause 1 didn’t know him. And then
ho asked me again and 1 spoke real ,
loud. 1 sajd, 'No, I thank you,’ and
then 1 walked home just as fast as I
could, for it was a very narrow es
cape.”—Los Angeles Herald.
The Beauty Hour.
The girls, in kimonos of gold, of
scarlet and of blue, busied themselves
with face steamers, with electrical mas
sage rollers, with creams and what
not; for it was the hour for turning
in—tiie hour sacred to beauty stunts.
“I have here," said a Chicago girl,
“the very latest. Behold. Two little
round mustard plasters—nothing hut
that—yet all you have to do is to ap
ply them to your cheeks ten minutes
before you start out and you’ve got a
deliciously rosy complexion that will
“last you all the evening."
“Sell me a pair!”
“Sell you a pair? Indeed I won't,
I got them in Paris and it’s true they
only cost two francs fifty, hut all the
same I wouldn't sell you a pair for a
five-dollar hill. They can't hr; bought
on this side.”
Trouble in His Brain Pan.
“Doctor,” said the little Boston
boy, “you are an alienist, are you
not?”
“Yes,” answered the distinguished
physician, "that is the particular
branch of medical practice to which
I devote myself. Can I do anything
for you?”
“Yotl can assist me, perhaps, in
allaying a serious apprehension that
lias arisen in my mind. This morn
ing, doctor, I found myself saying
‘fossiliferous’ when I was trying tc
say 'palaeontological.' Does that in
dicate aphasia, or is it merely tern
porary hrterophemy?”
UNCLE BELA ON WRONG TRACK
Old Gentleman Had Mixed Up in Mat
ter Belonging Exclusively to
Aunt Maria.
"I don’t know what we're a-ooming
to, said 1'nde Bela Cummings, as h<’
surveyed a sheet of thin paper which
had accompanied a periodical sent to
Aunt Maria by their daughter in Now
York.
"What's the matter now?" asked
Aunt Maria, tranquilly. "What are
you doing with that sheet o' paper,
Bela, and where are your specs?"
"I'm hunting for ’em now," said Un
?le Bela, excitedly, "and I suppose this
here," shaking the paper, "is a new
map, and the way it's cut up hv the
railroads is a shame and a disgrace!
I don't see how there's room left for a
decent house-lot in the whole state!"
"Well, now, find your specs, and
read what it says," counseled Aunt
Maria, abandoning her socks to look
over Uncle Bela's snoulder. "Perhaps
they're only prospecting the roads as
yet; maybe they won't be built any
more n some o' these western towns
that’s laid out all so pretty on paper,
and nowheres else. IC-ud what it says,
father! ”
"It says," faltered Uncle Bela, with
a confused expressioh on his counte
nance, " 'Pattern of skirt and jacket
on page 372. Pattern of evening waist
on page 374. Pattern of—’”
Here, you give it to me!" command'
ed Aunt Maria; and she departed to
spread Uncle Bela's supposed railroad
map on the table, while he was left to
ponder on the wonderful works of man
—and woman.—Youth's Companion.
USED WORDS HE UNDERSTOOD
Clever Idea of Lawyer That Won
Sailor Juryman to His Side •
of the Case.
It was a clever lawyer in a Boston
court recently who took advantage
of the nautical knowledge he pos
sessed to work upon the mind of a
juryman who did not seem to show
much comprehension of a case of
suing a street railway for damages. j
The dull member was an old sailor, '
who, though doubtless very keen of !
perception along some lines, was liev- 1
ertheless rather slow in liis under- ]
standing of the points Involved in the ,
case being tried, says the New York j
Journal. The lawyer noticed this and j
made his strike with this particular j
man. Approaching the jury box, he |
addressed himself to this one jury- j
man and said:
“Mr. Juryman, I will tell you how it !
happened. The plaintiff was in com
mand o» the outward bound open car,
and stood in her starboard channels.
Along came the inward bound closed
cal', and just ns their bows met she
jumped tlie track, sheered to port, and
knocked tlie plaintiff off and ran over
him."
The sailor was all attention after
this version of tin- affair and joined
in a $5,000 verdict lor the injured
man.
The Age of the World.
An end loss number oj scientists have
’rived into the question of the age of
iliis good old world, and many have
mdertaken to fix its age. But the fact |
Is that none of them lias ever been I
ible to produce irrefutable evidence of
the absolute truth of his deductions.
°inned down to b id facts, these men
of science are forced to admit that
their deductions are in great measure
mere specu’ation.
Countless dates have been assigned
.o tlie earth’s creation, ranging all the
way from 3016 to 09S4 It. ('.. one just
as authentic apparently as the other.
There is in fact no way to tix the date
with any degree of certainty. For the
nost part we are inclined to favor the
late given by the Knglish Bible—1004
B. C. In this opinion of the creation
inch profound scientists as Usher and
Slair concur, although they admit that
t must forever remain in the shadow
of doubt.
The question of the oldest race is
ao less speculative.
—-- ,
Dictionary Lore.
“Poison" and "potion” are doublets,
he former being an older form of the
.'alter, Both ,n.»iy,.,i 'rein th°
Latin "potare,” to drink, and poison,”
n its original sense, signified merely
something to drink.
While the word "human,” used as
Meaning "a human being,” is now only
colloquial or humorous, Lowell, in the
introduction to the "Biglow Papers,”
■hided Bartlett for including it in his
‘Dictionary of Americanisms.” and re
narked that it was Chapman’s habitu
al phrase in his translation of Homer,
ind that it is found also in ihe old
play of "The Hog Hath Lost His
Pearl."—Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
First Time on Record.
A blind man, guided try a large and
athletic dog, went down the street the
other day. Just as they turned a cor
ner the blind man’s dog saw a dog it
knew and darted forward in a way
that threw the sightless mendicant to
the ground. He was speedily assisted
to his feet, however, by a waggish
passer-by, who remarked that lie had
heard some remarkable stories of the
feats performed by dogs, but this was
the first time lie had ever known one
to pull down tl# blind.
Distant Relations.
"Bliggins was referring to distant
relations in a rather disapproving
tone. I wonder whom lie meant?”
“1 don’t know.” answered Miss Cay
enne. "Judging from their manner, I
should say the most distant relations
he knows anything about arc his wife
and her family."
GETTING EVEN WITH A THIEF
Japanese Servant Devised Shrewd
Scheme for Punishment of
Cheap Marauder.
A physician who keeps a Japanese
house servant was having new floor
ing laid in his offices. The Japanese
was greatly disturbed by the work
men, who interfered with the smooth
ness of his household routine. One
day he came to his master with a
look of alarm. One of the workmen
had been stealing eggs from the
pantry.
"Stealing eggs," said the doctor,
"how’s that?"
"1 watch,” explained the Jap. "I
see him put something in his coat
that hang in the hall. 1 look In
pocket and find eggs; 1 look in pantry
and don’t find eggs. I will go take
them back from the pocket."
’’Oh, no," said the doctor. "That,
would be no better than taking them
from the pantry. You must never
take anything from another man’s
pocket.”
The Jap went away with a look of
disappointment. A few minutes later
the doctor passed the hat rack in the
hall where the workmen's coats were
hanging and found the Jap beating
the coats with a rug heater.
"What are you doing?" exclaimed
the doctor as he saw the dust rising
from the coats.
"I beat all the coats alike,” said the
.lap, "and the eggs, they only make
the bad man sorry."
SURELY LIMIT OF PRECOCITY
All Achievements of Smart Juveniles
Fall Before That Recorded
of Job.
A minister, so often the lone man
at various church gatherings, is some
times placed in positions that try his
patience as well as his tact. Dr. John
Kelniau, a noted Edinburgh divine, is
credited with a clever evasion in just
such an embarrassing position. Fol
lowing a certain missionary meeting
of the ladies of his parish several of
ilieni had fallen into a more or less
heated discussion of the precocious
attainments of their several sons.
One good lady declared that her eld
est had mastered his alphabet at llie
unusual age of If months. Another
maintained liar child's superiority
from the fact that he had been able
to read Caesar’s "Gallic War” with
ease when only eight. A third called
upon the reverend gentleman to at
test the feat of her youngest \jn in
repeating the Twenty third Psalm
when but two years old as the most
exceptional prodigy of them all.
“Weel, ladies,” said the doctor,
hesitating and smiling, “ 'tis sma use
in bantin’ the faeks when the Good
Hook tells us beyond a’ doubt that
Maister Job outstripped them a’ by
cursin’ the day he was born."—
Youth's Companion.
How Prince Ito Solved a Problem.
When Mine. Sads Marco, the fa
mous Japanese actress, received the
news of the assassination of Prince
ito at Mtto, where she was playing
with her troupe, she burst into tears.
"In my frequent -quarrels with my
husband,” said the actress, "we some
times asked Prince Ito to judge be
tween us. 4 One day. when we had a
more than usually violent dispute at
Chigasakl, the prince came in unex
pectedly, and I asked him to decide on
the question.
“He declined, while proposing the
following solution: 'Go down into the
garden, both of you. and fight it out
like wrestlers. The one that wins
will naturally be the one who is in the
right.’
“No sooner said than done! In a
trice Kawakani and I were in wrest
ling trim. My husband was just re
covering from a serious illness, and.
being weak, I soon threw him to the
ground. This amused the prince
enormously.”—Paris Figaro.
V
Inns with Literary Associations.
According to the legend, the Span
iards Inn, still in existence, was a ren
dezvous of Itlck Turpin, and it is said
that in the stable there be stalled his
Black Bess. But the Spaniards has
other associations. Its tea garden
was certainly the spot I hat Dickens
chose for Mrs. Bnnlell and her party
to take tea in. .lack Straw's Castle is
quite as well known. Washington Irv
ing mentions it in "The Sketch Book."
In "The Tales of a Traveler” Irving
makes Dribble, the poor scribbler of
Grubb street, say that, during liis ram
bles he visited Hampstead and occa
sionally took liis dinner at the castle.
It is with Dickens, Jack Forster, Mac
lisp and their friends, however, that
Jack Straw’s Castle is most intimately
associated. In the bedroom which
Dickens occupied may still be seen the
chair in which the novelist use to sit.
—Westminster Gazette.
Willie Grasped the Idea.
“Willie,” said an interesting young
mother to her first-born, "do you
know what the difference is between
body and soul? The soul, my child, is
what you lo\e with; the body carries
you about. This is your body," touch
ing tlie little fellow’s shoulder, “but
there is something deeper in. You
can feel it now. What is it?”
“Oh, I know," said Willie, with a
flash of intelligence in his eyes,
“that’s my flannel shirt!”
Appreciation.
“She had a good husband," said
Mrs. Babbleton.
“But she got a divorce from liim.”
“Yes. She didn't know what a good
husband be was till sbe saw bow gen
erously he behaved about the ali
mony.”
PUGNACITY OF EAGLE OWLS
Many Cases on Record in Which They
Have Made Attacks on
Human Beings.
On his way home one evening last
October from Karbenni g railway
station, tp central Sweden, a young
man when passing through a small
wood was vigorously attacked by an
eagle owl, relates a writer in The
Field. Alighting on his shoulder, the
bird indicted some severe wounds
with its powerful beak and daws, and
when beaten off it carried off his cap
in token of victory.
Some years ago several similar at
tacks by eagle owls occurred during
the summer months in the province
of Voster Holland, in one of which
an unfortunate old man lost an eye.
A correspondent of tin* Swedish
periodical Fran Skog och Sio states
that in the part of Veriueland to
which he belongs there was an eagle
owl which became well known for its
repeated attacks on human beings
who chanced to come near its abode
While cutting timber one day a man
was assailed by tile bird, which drove
its claws into the upper part of his
body.
He managed to get rid of It, but it
at once came on again, when a blow
from his ax put an end to Its further
attentions. A peasant in the parish
of Stammar, Norike, had a similar
experience in April last. He was
retelling water from a lake close by
his house when ail eagle owl sud
denly flew at him. A kick made it
retire a few yards, when it came in
contact with the fence. This seemed
to irritate it, for it returned to the
attack, but the man seized it by the
neck, tucked it under his arm and
carried it off home.
Oil tile way the owl's mate kept fly
ing around in unpleasantly close prox
imity ritiinately the captor had to
dispatch his prisoner, his wife and
children being much scared at its
formidable aspect.
TO RESTORE OPAL TO FAVOR
Jewelers Plan to Remove Silly Super
stition Connected with Beauti
ful Store.
The temU nev of lull' lo rid the opal
of the foolish' superstition that has
clung to it for so many years is the
result of a reform movement begun by
the jewelers and art workers who ap
preeiate Its great beauty. At first the
opal was not considered to be In any
way connected with misfortune, but
was supposed to embody all the vir
tues of the other stones, as it con
tained all their colors. It was also be
lieved to share with the turquoise the
sympathetic power of revealing the
owner s state of health. If it turned
pale i1h> owner was ill, and if it brigh
tened uii perceptibly he was on the
road to recovery.
The opal’s reputation for misfortune
dates back about six or sen n centur
ies. when ii was used In the crown of
a reigning prince. Through some
chemical process the stones began to
contract and finally dwindled away
and fell out of their setting. This bad
omen, followed by the destruction of
the principality, resulted in the con
demnation of the opal.
S
Quaint Custom at Gordon Castle.
Gordon Castle is an immense build
ing with a huge square tower and a
frontage of COO feet. The gardens are
elaborately laid out and the park con
tains large herds of fallow and roe
deer. The Spey flows through the
domain and affords some of the best
salmon fishing in Scotland. The
duke's deer forest and grouse moors
are lk miles away, up in the hills at
Glcnfiddich, where there Is a fine
shooting lodge, at which the late duke
and duchess once entertained Queen
Victoria. At Gordon Castle a cus
tom prevails that if any distinguished
guest has special success with his
rod on t lie waters of the estate a
model should he made of the biggest
catch and a picture of it painted and
Imng mi over the model. The weight
of the fish, the date of Its capture and
the name of its captor are also iudi
eaied. and many of them: interesting
remembrances appear in different
rooms of the castle.—Western Scot.
Burglar-Proof Safe.
The latest burglar-proof safe is an
Invention called the carrousel or
round-about sale, which Is described
In the current Issue of the German
technical journal Prometheus, It is
chiefly designed to ImfT.• ■ burglars who
work with an oxygen and acetylene
blowpipe.
The roundabout safe is a polygonal
steel structure, which revolves Ireely
< n ball bearings, it is built into a wall
and when the outer door is closed a
small electromotor is set in motion
and the safe starts revolving cease
!* .-sly and me iessly on its axis with
in its stone chamber. Any tampering
with its motion causes an alarm bell
to ring.
So long as the safe continues re
viving the blowpipe can have no ef
l<ct upon it, as the tiame cannot bo
applied long enough to any partciular
rpot to make an impression.
Pulp from Olive Mills as Fuel.
Experiments are being made with
pulp from olive mills for fuel and it is'
i-.iid to burn well. So far this has
been waste material, but If it can be
■sod as fuel successfully it may be
inine an important item in iho year’s
business of the mills.
The quantity of pulp is large enough
in give the new fuel quite wide use,
and with the maturing of new orchards
and the expansion of the olive oil in
dustry the fuel may become quite com
mon.
JOHN W. POWELL
Real Estate and Loans
MORTGAGES BOUGHT AND SOLD
Monev to Loan at 5 and 0 per cent interest on good rrol estate
security. Also monev to loan on good chattel security.
West of (ourl House Palis Citv, Nebraska
Do You Want to Rent a Farm
All Your Life ?
If You Don’t, Read This
Ilcic arc several bargains that you can buy on as A'usy tenti.
as renting a farm. It you have ambitions to own a home of you
own and go to paying rent to yourself instead of some one else,yon
want to get busy and look at I he following propositions that art* al
owned by large land company nncl are offering on very easy terms
special bargains for renters. If you want any of these you must no;
delay as they will be sold and mighty soon to.
No. ISA 80 acres, well located, fine black land all smooth, smal
improvements, good water, on It. N. I>. Price $,‘1,600.00 $600 cast
and the balance, $200.00 March I. 1012, and $200 a year t.herenftej
for six years, $1,600 in twelve years all optional payments.
No. 282 80 acres, about two miles from Number 18 4, is well lo
rated, is a fine farm and Jusi needs an owner, improvements, on it
K. I). and phone line, one mile to school, good soil, farm nearly al
in cultivation. Price $2,800. $500 March 1st, 1012, $250 March 1st
1014, $250 March 1st. 1010, $250 .March Ih(. IMIS, and balance $l.:tOD
in ten to twenty years if desired.
No. I SO i ll acres, I mile from railroad station. 5 miles iron
good town of 1200 people, good |. room bouse, fair barn, cribs and
other out. buildings, good orchard. This Is an ideal alfalfa, bog am
corn farm. Will graw anything. Price $4,200. $850 cash, $200 Aug
list 1st. lino, $250 August 1st, 1012, $200 March 1st, 1913, and $20t
March 1st. I0t5, $2,500 August 1st, 1916. or can be extended for I1
years longer if desired.
No. 231 SO acres, adjoining town and railroad, 12 mile, from
town of 18,000 population, good five room bouse well finished, in good
repairs, good summer kitchen, good smoke house and cement cellar
good cistern with pump in kitchen good well on porch, good hog lions*
and sheds. 3 burns and ginneries. Kalin 80 fenced bog login* will
woven wire. Nol an acre of waste land, 15 acres of tame grass, bal
anco under plow, “i mile to school, 2 miles to church, in line neigh
borhood. One of tin* best farms in Kansas. It’s a borne. Can In
made a palace*. It’s yours if you get there lie lore it is sold. Price
$4,000.00. Terms, $4,200.00 cash; $200.00 March tst, 1912, $200.no m
March 1st. 1913, $200.00 March 1st, 1914, $220.00 January 1st. 1017 ’
All optional payments.
The above* farms are all located in the rain belt of Kansas, an
good propositions and you cannot afford to miss seeing these Com*
and see me at. once and we will look at. these right, away before
they are gone.
G. H. FALL STEAD
Falls City, Neb.
I am trying to make a
date with
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