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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. JULY .30, 1912. . ' '. -' 9 , MLxv rl A I rl AKK Y o DIVUKUJi SUIT T"ere Are Moments When One Wants to Be Alone ;' Copyright. Ml National New. Ast'h. Drawn for The Bee by Tad t 1 RPP,9 ft " M age 'Ti A fUA5UP TO BE S'.- AWA'F1tOA TWArT Oivow Jfy IT. U. 3USTTAK a 5tA wT TMrOU AVOU AtBUA. AM- GEE WHAT" H-AtW tVkvs TWOSfc W6P -HA-A-Ttff7ft'.S BO VNITX TW PiEO- L- "L-r II II JI 1 Sarpints an' Rich 11 J By ELBERT HUBBARD. There art several things In New Jersey besides mosquitoes, jersey justice, Jersey lightning and presidential timber. Came to Roycroft not long ago a young ., man by the name of Foster, from the town of Elmer, N. J. He had three grips one on his dignity, ;one for his clothing, and. the other ; grip - was full of snakes. They seemed like kindly, , gracious, generous - snakes, filled with frogs and right intent. Some of ' these snakes were black, with yellow spots on them, and junderneath they were, yellow, , fading off into russet browns. Others were pink, with art colored geometric studies. A. few. were green, aad one was a bright .purple-C- V" ,.. , : . Snakes of the same ' variety take on ykai color: Also, they are of different coiora at different times of the year. In time snakes will become an . extinct product in America, They are very few now as compared to what there were thirty, forty, fifty or a hundred years . ego Civilisation., is at war with the lanake ai4.deep Jo in jb'rfan.J a prejudice against this pleasing. 'insect" '. . There was a snake, in .Paradise,, and fcmar Khayyam states plainly who it wag placed the enake there. Paradise without the snake would not be Paradise. Before the days of Adam and Eve, the snake, we are told, walked on its tail and was then competed to travel longi tudlhally, or horizontally, not upldicu' larly. In any event, the snake Is much safer when crawling and wiggling along on the ground than if he walked upright like a man. So the change wasn't wholly bad nothing is. Many snakes have rudimentary lege that can be found under the skin. Nature evidently has tried every possible, plan for producing life, and the snake is a sort of second cousin to the newt and the lizard. The crocodile, or as he la familiarly called in the Congo, "croc," is a lizard with a college education. All of these animals seem to belong to an extinct age. They are .rudimentary survivals like the kangaroo, the beaver, the calico dress and the fascinator. ' Fr Foster of Elmer, N. J., is an ex pert on all questions pertaining to these peculiar, strange, little brothers that creep, crawl, run and swim. He has made friends , with them. . Fra Foster 'is a thin, small, slender, little fellow with a bulging brow and bright blue eyes. He is very mild, very gentle and Very animated on the subject of hie specialty. There are only three kinds of venomous snakes and these are not found in the iwrthern states excepting on very rare occasions. .... The garter snakes, bull snakes, black snakes, rat snakes and snake-snakes are not venomous. Snakes that run out their tongues and hiss do not possess stingers, as were told in our youth. No such thing as a stinger In a snake exists. The snake's tongue is a wireless, .very sensitive apparatus by which the snake hears and realizes the approach of an ; Pointed Paragraphs J everyx fortune hunter thinker is a man is a good Who isn't " ' is to owe Not shot A free married. Some men's idea of luck more than thev can car. Its difficult for a man to be upright after he Is down and out. How the average married man would like to see a tax on the old bachelors! Does a girl take a stitch in time when she mends the clocks In her stockings? Culture will do much for a woman, uui 11 wui noi permit ner to sneeze gracefully. In the eyes of a silly girl clothes make a migniy poor specimen of a man look line ine real tmng. And many a father loses all Interest in the prohibition movement when the DHDy cries jor water at : l in. when a young man tells a girl she la me omy one ne ever lovea ire. up to her to tell him to go and get a reputa won. vnicago news. Dyspeptic PkileeoBhy. The fool's mistakes are often the wise man a opportunities. When you sit on a fellow you can't very well blame him for acting like a bent pin. - It takes a mighty little shove to send some men down hill. Even when they have one foot in the grave some people can't resist kicking. A woman Is as old as she looks, but not as young as she thinks she looks. Some people spend most of their lives trying to sprinkle salt on the tails of opportunities. New York Times. enemy. The wiggling .of his tongue is not for the purpose of threat, but is used solely for his own private information, to catch the etherlc vibrations; Fra Foster went out with our girls and boys in the woods at Roycroft and caught several snakes and proved that, so far as he was concerned, they were absolutely harmless, and, in fact, could be soon tamed. I have written a little vaudeville sketch for Fra Foster that will be unique in its way when It i produced this fall. The entire scene takes place in the office of a hotel. A colored man bring 'down the baggage from room No. 23, and not being sure that he Tias the right lug gage, opens up one of the grips for Afri' American Inspection, and the snakes escape. The disappearance of the colored man into space and the scene that fol lows between the naturalist and the hotel clerk afford the piece de resistance, as it were; The hotel clerk rings up the police. and before the hurrp-up wagon arrives, the wonderful blonde girl with the wealth of golden hair, who always presided at the cigar case, comes to the assistance of the snakeologtst. Suddenly she recognises, Wm as her long lost lover. When a girl believes in a man, ahe be lieves In all of his ambitions, aims, as pirations and properties. And so this girl with the golden crown, relieved of all. fear. by. love's glad acclaim, turns to and helps catch the snakes. The policeman enters, and thinks sure that-he has 'em. He hesitates to make me arrest, accusing the hotel man of violating the excise. The hotel door is hastily locked by the girl with the golden crown In order to keep the properties of the scientist from escaping. The police man cannot get out to Join the colored WUiT orrt 'J0 J)if)jt ABar 5-' '6pE & A GOOD I 4s'IJsZrfP7H W a Ohck u better I 4- 5o HF CAxSHT)' oovvs OAVTO THE DESERT. "THe &vh beat Down . PW, POOR ' PH0OL .WAt iviBKtB OUT 4iltWm, J, THF 5ANO lii',' y'C'Cj YOU XAuuwc Never mwhd thet NAPKINS e6NwE HAVE fVtfO BOILEO EGtf. OH CHS 1 AM A LooKiM' A BIT THA.VOO dCC :: SET VP iti THC WORKING, CHOP r)FQR THE FIRE i to OP 1 .; ta Tata tk booaa- I WANT TO A5K NoU ..STl-OAf bones "n"l IT , V T6XCENt5,.iS- HAW " ' - " AsTHE KT, THE KAJG WAS A The ooa Watch nS' AMJfXKA TfeM THB WORLD. THOKP THF ;WJB . FIE-Up,, .THE" WGr AAt) JPOON vACEs i ill OOE"AL Y A 5CRFAM REA4T,THf5. v r "r-- . . 'w. ... . KANtkLE THAT UCs,.iJ MO RACE NWST HA3 i: rr I EAi. .1. Prril UxW li-ANWAKSi A aTo . WIT: U Ot RRV U 7 0 V T6 rw&i jBurKJAAtnl A AN. .MEf T -THf? f PUT ON -THE f(k,S An p C OFF CB. AJH cR A N 0 ' THE AMUK THE" COWS 'CHURN yue CREAA MVK. IAyNHTLH AKD 3IT I. TfiAiHPftWB 8AOC, HAPPji'i IIMI Political and Social Genius of Women v. By CHARLES FERGUSON. The national convention of the Fede atlon of Women'a olubs at San Fran cisco would have filled more space la the newspapers and In the thoughts of Intelligent people if NqTHlM' Tojv6 ni,i?Aw.i .TW6 HAND J $iT fAW man, much as he would like to. , No vaudeville sketch ie complete with? out the telephone, of course, and, so we have the telephone worked overtime by the policeman. And it seems that on hl- aecond call, instead of getting the hurry- up wagon, by accident he calls for a minister and asks that he will come on the run without delay, and take care of the case. ; -, The naturalist ' wear' a snake for a necktie; another ene for a belt; a turtle a. t. t . . ' . . . . ' is jja.uuL iwwy prejiei jqf jt oaogjs.ana a norned "toad Is" used for a watch fob. The golden gil l.- to show the policeman and the hotel clerk, that nothing is dang erous, when your nnlnd is rightly poised and fooused on beautiful things, deco rates herself with the varmints, A tame eiow perches Itself on the bead of the dominie as soon as he arrives, two white doves liberated frotrrths jpockets uf the naturalist, alight on the head of the golden girl,., and small . turtles are. dis tributed as souvenir's among the guests who have by this time pushed their way in from the elevator and other parts' bf the building, A ' . . , The gramaphone in the corner plays the wedding march from Lohengrin. All end happily as th door Is opened and the policeman slides out for ,' fresh , lr and' to jender his report. , " t I A .. ...' io's.y.'.-" It had not chanced to coincide In time with the absorb ing Baltimore con vention and the subsequent politic! excitment. There are, how ever, .creditable prophets who fore tell that some day soon the dolnie of women In clvlo nd sociological af fairs will be the most compelling kind of news. The Fan Fran dsce , convention discussed the ques tion whether the Federation of Women's clubs, which heretofore hs confined Itself to practical, good work; ought now to commit itself to the suffragist 'pro gram. Mrs. Fennypackef of . Texas,, was elected to the presidency of the national organisation because of the general ac ceptance 6f her view tHat every woman ought to insist upon her right to vote, but that the federation has a special function to perform apart from the suf frage agitation ., , v., . ,.. .. ' Thls stand, taken -by so many represen tatlve women, suggest the. important truth that voting. is after all only one of the rights or duties that ' cltlsens should claim or discharge In the state, Probably It 1 because men have, tor the most part, limited their acttvttlei and interests In civil society to an annual die cusslon around the ballot box that the i . . . . V, The Way of a Man With a Maid"v : .-fty q Bririkley power of the state have so largely fallen Int unworthy hands. ' " ; It appears that political powers natur ally go to those who take a perennial Interest In them. And the woman's movement may perform Its best service in bringing th men of the country to an understanding of the fact that they need, an all-tln-year-round political con sciousness, if they mean to beal the bosses. .." Certain philosophers who pretend 1 to know'the abiding difference between the mental make-up of women and ' that, bf nen aeeur us that men are only ama- teurs or 'prentice hands In politics, any how; that women alone have the teal and Innate political genius. They say that men are by nature crsss Individualists, fit only for private'enter prises, and that nature '- reserve to ' wrmen the. peculiar taH of weaving the tissues. of Jiuman society, and the uper Intendencf of 'all social" relation. 'tA colir U len to this view of the 'mat ter' by. the. observed tact that men are Pt td use their ballots i. e., for merly aggressive or self-defensive purpoe. It may turn out, therefore, that the twenty-fim century will seriously debate the question whether men ought to1 be al lowed to vote-whether the buslnes of keeping human being in equitable rela tion with one another ought not to be left entirely to the women! Men would then be left free to prosecute the con- " quest of the elemental ,fprce-and., to fight bears and barbarians.- ; r Questions in Science J By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIX. "I there a aoutli magnetjS Just so ETe hung her head and listened, and Just ao Adam .lipped hi. hand. oW her. and to lift her ex- to hi. while he iold her the .tor, that w brand new then. Q.-l.) nrffa?'' (3 ) ''Doe the compass point , to the north no matter on Vhlch side of the equator It Is?" (.) "What is the deepest sounding tlift has ever been made in the ocean, add what wa used?" X (4.) "When a ahlp shlnks does it so to the bottom of the ocean regardless f the depth, or 1 there a point at whlih It will sink no further?" ; 1 A-(l.) Lieutenant Shackleton, 1906-1K. measured the position of the south mag netic pole of the earth and found it to be In outh 72 degree 16 minute, anln longitude 155 degree 16 minutes. rtdJn alt Ion varies. This la th latest to'ie published. If Admunsen ha nubllhd position I have not seen It Te: there I a outh magnetic oole. --t (J.) Go to the north magnetic noi. If the earth with a compass needle free 19 move In any direction, it will turn Irfto perpendicular direction. Mark the Sd that points straight downward. '"Nflw carry It toward the magnetic equalot n irregular line around the world not far on either side from the real neorta- phlcal equator. The end that pointed to ward the senlth will begin to turn dojfh- ward and the other upward. When pn thfr exact- magnetlo equator the needle will be horizontal, or level. Carry it south, and the south or unmarked end will begin to dip, and It will be straight down when exaotly over the south mag netic pole, ; . .,:...- (3) The ship Nero, off Guam, sunk" a ounder to the bottom at a depth of i.jm ittinunia, or si.wt leet. xne sinker mn metal, probably Iron. , . I- (4) The .Titanic is at the bottom and part of it is In mud at a distance avilttle below the ocean floor. Q-"You have stated in The Bee that two balls of equal stie, but one weigh ing twice as . much as the other.. . if dropped from the same height at the same time, would strike the earth at the tame time. Please explain tht rtann why the heavier one does not strike the earth first." A.NwtOn made the capital discovMV that action and reaction are equal. And by hie law of gravitation its attraction betwben any two bodies is directly a the product of their masse. From thla it. I clear that if the mass of any body In creases th fjree of attraction also in creases at the tame rate and also its specific speed. In a vacuum, free from friction of air, all bodies, whatever their respective matsaa, obeying the attraction of universal gravitation, fall through the am diitance in. the same time. , . .-, , Q.-"WI11 , you answer the question whether there it more timber in a moun tain section of land than on a section down on the plain., the trees being , spaced the same?" ..-.;.!;...-; - A,-Tni Is imilar to th picket fence problem. Let one square jraie be set with row of tree aa In an orchart. at equal distance apart, f Take another square mile, with a hill- lncloted. On th. plain let the trees be ten feet, apart in 4tlpw from north to south;- then there .ruuia ' be S28 tree. Let a row running oWr the hill contain 6 tree; then there' would ' be u many more tree en the rough es tlon a there are rows having this ' cess of twenty-two. True of any ucesa.