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New Indian Animal Stories
How the Redbird Became the Daughter of the Sux
By JOHN M. OSKISON
Two to Four Candle-Power Lamp Will
Give Sufficient Heat Danger of
Fire Eliminated.
As most people are aware, It Is dan
gerous to use an incandescent lamp as
a bed warmer owing to the fact that a
'considerable amount of heat is given
off by a comparatively small body
the lamp, writes Wilbur R. Simpson In
Popular Electricity. This heat Is
confined and not allowed to radiate be
cause the bedclothes pack tightly
around the lamp. More than once fires
have been started from this cause. But
I have found that no harm is done it
the lamp is Inclosed In a fruit Jar as
Made Impossible Promise to Boss
When Reproved for Spending so
Much Time on Ladder.
Tbe late George A. Hearn, the mil
lionaire business man and art collector
of New York, was noted for his kind
and reasonable treatment of his em
ployes. Mr. Hearn used to smile at
the new scientific management craze,
of which he once snld at a dinner:
"TheBe scientific manngoment peo
ple, with their impossible claims of
doubling and trebling a man's labor,
remind me of the humble hod-carrier's
Impossible premise.
"A facetious boss said to a new hod
carrler: " 'Look-a-here, friend, didn't I hire
you to carry bricks up that ladder by
the day?'
"'Yes, sir,' said the hod-enrrior,
touching his cap.
" 'Well, I've had my eye on you, and
you've only done It half a day today.
You spent the other half coming down
the ladder.'
"The hod-carrlor touched bis cap
agnln.
" 'I'll try to do better tomorrow, elr,'
he said humbly." New York Tribune.
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Copyright, 1914. by tlin McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Long time ago, In tbe days when
the clouds hung over the sky from the
time the people got up until they went
to bed, and the rain came pattering
down on the roofs hour after hour, tho
old men would gather the little hoys
who wanted to go out In the wet woods
to play, and tell them that they must
wait until the sun had stopped crying
over the death of her daughter.
And while the little boys listened,
the old men would tell them about
how the wise medicine men got word
from the Yunwl Tsunsdl (the little
ipeople of the woods) to send the rat
tlesnake to kill the sun. In those days
the sun shone so hot every day that
many people were made sick by the
beat
Tbe old men would tell about how
the rattlesnake went up to the house
of tbe daughter of the sun, In tho
middle of the sky, and made a mis
'take. It was the daughter of the Bun
be killed Instead of the sun herself!
( "So," the old men would say, "the
pun began to weep as soon as she
Sound out that her daughter bad been
Hied, staying up in her daughter's
Jbouse so long that tho people grow
cold and afraid because It was dark all
(he time.
! "Then came the chh-f of the Llttlo
People and told the wise medicine men
that they would have, to send moBscn
sera to Tsunglnal (the Ghost Country)
In Ushunhlyl (the Darkening Land In
the W est) to bring back the daughter
of the sun.
"So the wise medicine men chose
even hunters to go to the Ghost Coun
try, and they set out carrying a box
to bring the daughter of the sun back
In. When they got to that country,
they found all tbe ghosts at a big
dance, Just as the chief of the Yunwl
tsunsdl said they would.
"And Just as they bad been told to
do. ther stood close br the rlrrln nf
Cancers, and. whenever the daughter
t me sun came round In the dance
BUCKING GOAT TOY AMUSES
Billy Raises en Forelegs and Butts the
Manikin Flat Figure Is Elastlo
' ally Mounted.
An amusing toy for children has
teen Invented by a Georgia man. It Is
a rearing, tearing blllygoat that butts
a manikin flat In Its charge. The toy
comprises a base with a figure elas
tlcally mounted at one end. The figure
toormally stands erect, but when struck
Bucking Oost Toy.
blow In the chest will flop over back
ward and spring back when the pres
sure Is released. Facing this figure a
jcoat Is mounted on a platform, through
which the animal's forefeet pars to a
sillde, which Is slso elastic-ally operated,
lly means of a projecting button the
ftllde Is drawn out. When It Is relessnd
the elastlo makes It fly bsck and the
jcoat pitches forward, raising bis hind
s In tbt air and butting tbe nisnl-
to 8ult Yourself.
each one of the seven messengers
struck her with a stick which they car
ried. And when the anvsnth man h.j
Btruck her, he stepped out of the cir
cle or aancers and fell down as If
dead.
'Then the seven munnn tnnv
her up, as they bad been told to do,
and put her in the box they had
uruugui. Ana iney started east to
ward the country from which they had
come.
"In a little While, thn rinilirhtai. nf
the sun came back to Ufa nnA hiij
the man to let her out of the box. But
tney remembered what the chief of the
Little People had told the wlnn
cine men, and they would not let her
UUl.
'After they had sons & 1nn av
the girl In the box said that she was
nungry and begged the seven men to
let her out to eat; but they refused
and went on.
"When they were near home, the
daughter of the sun begged the men
who carried her to lift the lid of the
box Just a little, for she snld she was
smothering. And so pitifully did she
beg thnt the men decided that it would
do no harm to lift the lid Just a crack.
"And Just ds they raised up the lid
of the box a tiny bit to lot In some air
to the daughter of the sun, something
flew swiftly past them into the bushes
and they heard a redbird cry, 'Kwlh!
Kwish! Kwlsh!' from thn limi. nf
tall tree. Then they shut down the
no: or tne box and went on to where
the wise mcdlclno men were waiting
"When the seven messengers got to
me council nouso ana opened the box
they found that It was empty. It was
the daughter of the sun who had flown
out of the box when they lifted the
lid she bad taken the nhina ih
redbird: and so we know today that
the redbird Is the daughter of the sun."
And whon the boys would ask what
maae me sun stop crying for her
daughter, the old men WnillH nnlv asv
"Oh, that Is another story. If It Is
raining tomorrow I will tell It to you.
kin full In the chest or face. The
maniitin thereupon rails flat on bis
back, to the great amusement of any
children who may be wntphinr
upon the goat resuming bis normal po
sition, ma other figure boldly springs
up and faces Billy again.
Origin of the Word Velocipeds.
Frank II. Vlzetolly tells "Th ami-.
of the Wheel" In the Anril nt vii..
olas. After describing the Introduc
tion or ine ceiorirore and the dandy
horse, Mr. Vlzetolly says:
ny this time the principle of balanc
ing tbe wheel was understood, and the
task of dovcloDlna- the emtio vahini.
of M. de Slvrac was begun. It was not
long, bowever. before this machine
was replaced br another, fir raa nan.
baps, only renamed. During tbe French
revolution a new form was Introduced
under the name of veloclrnnt ni it.
riders became known as velocipedes.
in me year isos on or these vehicles,
shown at the Luxembourg gardens In
Paris, was much used. Eight years
later another wheel or similar rorm
came Into France, and alnnl
favor at the Oardens or the Tlvoli; this
wss the Dralsloe, named from Its In
ven tor.
Going to 8chool.
flefore the lioer war took place
there were no country schools In the
Transvaal or the Orange Free 8late,
and very few In the towns. Now they
have been established everywhere, but
tho trouble Is to get scholsrs. The
Itoer father holds thnt If his boy can
ride a horse and shoot a ride ho has
all the education he needs, and many
of them have been sent to jsll for en
couraging their sons to koep away
from schoolhoufes. A Boer mother
holds that when her daughter can
make bread she la f n irl mm in
rt-ung lady In the irM
Lamp In a Glasa Jar as a Bed Warmer.
shown In the sketch. I solder an ordi
nary lamp socket Into the metal top
of tbe Jar and a two to four candle
power lamp will give sufficient heat
The size of the jar prevents packing of
the covers too closely around tbe lamp
and permits radiation of the heat fast
enough to keep the temperature down
to a safe point
NOVEL USE OF ELECTRICITY
English Railroads Sort Freight by
Merely Pre sal ng Button May
Cause Wide Reform.
Hull, which has Just secured Its
own telephone system. Is to be the
center of an experiment that may
cause wide reform In the methods ot
handling freight on the English rail
ways. The system practically means
the sorting of goods In warehouse by
simply pressing a button. Electrical
machinery has been Invented by a
company with which Mr. Marconi Is
associated for dividing the warehouse
Into a series or alphabetical sections.
Traveling trays under electrical con
trol distribute the goods according to
the Index letter of their destination
B for Bradford, L for Liverpool, and
so forth In a manner similar to that
by which letters are sorted In tbe
post office. A French, an American
and two English railway companies
are now negotiating for the adoption
if the system.
Test Electric Blasting,
r.nld mining companies of the Hand
field. South Africa, have been ex
perimenting with clectrie blasting
with a view to reducing the danger
of miner's phthsisls, a disease ascribed
to the One dust that results from blast
ing. By using electric systems the
firing can be done from the surface,
and the air can be cleared of the fine
dust before the miners need to enter
the mine.
Berlin's street railway Is to be eleo
trifled at a cost of $6,000,000.
New York hss more telephones
than London, Paris and Berlin to
gether. The richest and probably the larg
est Iron-ore mine In the world, which
Is In Lapland, is being equipped with
electrical machinery.
The city of Los Angeles has Illum
inated signs indicating the names ot
the streets, which are turned on and
off by clock-work mechanism. '
, With a four horsepower engine, a
motor driven plow Invented In Eng
land cuts a six-Inch furrow at a speed
in excess of three miles an boor.
; More than 1,000.000 American farm
ers are now using telephones In their
homes, mora than 100,000 having In
stalled Instruments within a year.
Two-thirds of the telephones need
In tbe world are In the United States,
or a total or over 1,362,000. To oper
ate them requires mors than 11,000,-
1 000 miles or wire.
An electiio flat-iron Invented by a
'Colorado man Is propelled by a motor
'driven roller, an operator having only
to guide It and control the current by
a switch In the handle.
' Electric mechanism similar to that
!of automatic telephones baa been In
vented to enable a restaurant patron
i to ordor a meal by numbers from
an Indexed bill of fare.
At the time of the last accurate re
port there were 875 public coast wire
leas stations la the world, ot which
the United 8tates bad 142, Ureal
Hrltaln 43, and Canada 33.
Wise Janitor.
The lady of the houBe was chilly.
There was no heat In the radiators.
She sent for the Janitor.
"Do you want to freeze us?" she de
manded. "Madam," replied the Janitor, "I fear
you do not read tbe papers."
"What have I missed?" she coldly
asked.
"The statement by a leading scien
tist that steam beat ruins beauty."
What could she say after that?
OF COURSE.
First Man (waiting in barber shop)
That barber is rather fresh, don't
you think so?
Second Man No. I never see him
talking to any customer be doesn't
know.
First Man Well, he scrapes a good
many acquaintances.
Suspicious.
"They claim," remarked the senator,
'thnt by a new device thoughts can be
sent by wireless."
"Great, isn't It?" said tho Interested
constituent.
"It may be great," the senator ad
mitted, "but It ain't going to catch me.
Just as soon ss I began thinking for
transmission some detested meddler
would hang a thought dictaphone on
the nearest bunch of air waves."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Something Different.
"You say she's athletic?"
"Yes. Sho's a star basket ball
player.
"Basket ball? Ha, bal That's a
sissy game."
"Scarcely. She's the girl who knocked
a masher over a fire hydrant and
lugged a burglar to the police station."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Fashion's Origin.
"How do you suppose tbe Idea of
rainbow hair originated?"
"I can account for It only In one
way," replied Miss Cayenne. "Some
society leader who was fixing her hair
got an unexpected chemical reaction
and had to braien It ouL"
The Artful Dodger.
Tbe Landlady (to artful dodger)
Have you any Idea of the site of your
bill, Mr. Hlllte? It ought to worry you
a bit If you was honost minded.
Mr. Hlllte It does. It does! Why,
for three nights In succession I dreamt
I was a pelican. London Sketch.
Without Precedent
"There's something queer about this
automobile accident"
"What Is It?".
"Each of the drivers admit that he
was going more than twelve mile an
hour at the time." Detroit Free Press.
Nssdsd on All Lawns.
Post A beautiful garden party was
given yesterday under tbe auspices of
Mrs. Black.
Mrs. Newrtch I'll have our land
scape architect plant some auspices In
our lawn at once. Boston Globs.
Real Owner.
Tbe Botanical Old Gentleman (In
public garden) Can you tell me, does
this belong to the arbutus family?
The Custodian No, sir; It belongs
to the corporation. London Sketch.
A Proof.
"Money's tight Just now, the paper
says."
"I should think It wss from the dlf
,flculty I have In getting my husband
to give m a little Isose change."
rArKU ff ARBOR, LABRADOR
M
EMORIES of Nantucket whal
ers dance again on the men
tal horizon! Recollections of
the old-Umo, off-shore whal
ing at Monterey come to
mind. Whaling Is no longer to be ac
counted an extluct profession, as is
taking the walrus or buffalo, and up
on the coast of Labrador, even now,
they are making ready for the spring
catch of whale. Not little whales,
either, bnt fellows so large that we
recall a ship's captain once seating
himself comfortably in the mouth of
one about to be dissected on the dock.
Of course you've read and read of
whales and, probably, when you
crossed the Atlantic you may bare
seen a whale or two blowing in the
distance, but unless you have gone to
the far north, the chances are you've
never really seen a whale at close
range.
Naturalists place the whale as the
largest of known animals and they
will tell some strange facts anent him.
For example, the head of the wbale
forms nearly one-bait the bbdy. If
our own beads were In like propor
tion, fancy tbe queer looking crea
tures we would be. Tbe nostrils,
again, are on the top of the bead and
vary sometimes one, sometimes two.
More tban this, they do not serve as
organs of smell, but only as respira
tory openings, through which tbe wa
ter, taken in while the animal Is be
neath tbe surface, Is ejected.
Has No Voice.
Though living on animal food, the
stomach Is complex, consisting of
from four to seven apartments. Queer
ly enough, this giant creature has no
voice.
Nor Is that all. One of the Impor
tant products ot whaling, prior to the
introduction of the metal stave, was
the whale bone. In certain varieties
of the whale there are several longi
tudinal rows of horny plates, from
which this came. These plates are set
cross-wise and bang from each upper
jaw Into the cavity ot the mouth be
low, which, to make place for them,
Is also destitute of teeth. When the
mouth is shut these plates are In
closed on tbe outside of tbe upper
Up and the tongue lies between the
two rows. These plates, which are
fastened at their base In the roof
of the mouth, ase hardly more tban
one-fourth of an Inch apart, and their
Inner edges are fringed. This curious
device is admirably suited to the wants
ot the animal. It lives on small ma
rine crutacea and molluscs and is said
never to take In anything larger than
a herring. Indeed, Its throat Is so
small that It cannot swallow larger
objects. It swims along In tbe water
where myriads of these minute ani
mals are moving and Ingulfs a whole
shoal of them at once. Tbe water la
trained off, as through a slave,
through the spscos between tbe
whale-bone, and is discharged at the
sides ot the mouth, or through tbe
blow-boles, but all tbe animals, even
the minutest, remain In tbe mouth.
Thus, by this capacious net, the
whale Is enabled to make a meal suit
ed to his enormous bulk, though his
prey consists of creatures often not
larger than Insects.
Whaling has been the theme of the
writer ot romance and adventure
since time Immemorial, but as a mat
ter of fact, the method of It has
changed little. At the big modern
whalerles great black painted steam
era go out In' search of whale, other
wise methods are as of old. As soon
as a whale Is sighted by the lookout
the vessel "bears to" and dories, car
rled aboard for the purpose, are re
lessed and rowed cautiously as pos
sible, toward the whale. When close
enough to suit his purpose, the har
pooner, who has position In the prow
of the vessel, shoots his great iron
bar into the bend of the whale.
Instantly the Infuriated whale
makes off, releasing the long harpoon
lino behind him. r,y and by be must
come up to breathe and by thnt time
the other dories are at hand and ready
tn dispatch him. In some easos an
explosive is fired Into the head of the
ahalo, but (he whalers do not seem
ti take kindly to this m-d-rn Inno
vation and It la not goner,.l:y pi se
nsed. Working up the whnle presents the
Interesting modern aspect of the
lory snd to see this roe needs to
(ait Hawk 11a: bor, or soma other
whale "factory" on the Labrador
coast. A single filthy steamer car
ries passengers up these bleak shores
beyond Bnttle Harbor, which Is tbe
JlrBt port of call after one has crossed
the Straits of Ilclle Isle and loft New
foundland behind.
Killed In the sea the monster
whales are towed to the factory and
there, if time for cutting up be In
opportune, the whale is pumped full
of air and allowed to float out In the
bay until the men can find opportun
ity to get at him. Then, by aid of
windlass and cable, be is slowly but
steadily drawn up the wide platform
to the station which runs with gentle
slope to the sea.
Many-Sided Subject
The background to the scene pre
sented at the whaling stations of New
foundland and Labrador is practically
the same for all. One has the harbor,
with the great islands of pinkish
rocks and on the land behind, tbe
white-painted main building or whale
factory. Smaller buildings nestle be
side this on tbe rocks. At one end
of the dock are the warehouses; be
hind these 'a series of vats flank each
side tbe dock.
In these vats. If one visits at the
lucky moment, he finds boiling the
greenish mass which Is what remains
of the black hunks of tbe whale meat
after a continued boiling. Over the
vats there extends a bridge out over
the rocks to little coves, in whose wa
ter one sees the huge jaw bones of
whales slowly waBhed clean by the
tides.
Then In another bowl, or pocket,
formed by tbe rocks there lies, jum
bled together, a mass of gills of the
whale, a consecutive series of slightly-curved
black plates, each and all
edged with graylsh-whtte bristles and
running out from a heavy, bloody
bone-form. These are the gills that
permit the whale draining off water
when It engulfs a bit of sea thus leav
ing only fish in the maw!
Scattered over tbe granite rocks,
too, aro the messy remains of the
wbale. Cleaning a whale, however, Is
a many-sided subject Once the great
mammal baa been brought on the
beach, the fat Is removed and carried
off In buckets, mounted on an endless
chain. Its destination Is the cutter
and in this the fat Is cut Into square
chunks, which, In turn, make their
way down to tanks, to be boiled for
perhaps a day. As a result one bas
the oil as clear as water and ready
to be put Into casks and exported as
tbe whale oil ot commerce.
What la left after the oil Is taken
out. the "pitching!," so-called, Is sent
away to be worked up Into fertilizer.
This Is done very largely at Savannah,
Ga. The bone, too, Is boiled until per-,
fectly clean, when It, tn Its turn, Is
exported to Boston. The upper Jaw
bone of a fair-sized whale will aver
aga Ave feet In length. The thick
black gills, too, must be cleaned and
cut up for sending away.
It takes perhaps a day In all to cut
up a whale, 20 men being employed.
One station, that at Hawk's Harbor,
cut up 60 whales In one summer and
what this means may be surmised
when It Is recalled that an average
whale will yield from 25 to 30 barrels.
A single sperm whale Is on record
there as yielding 90 barrels.
Beginning of Oblivion.
It Is plcssant'to learn that R. L
Stevenson's grave In 8amoa has not
been neglected. Tbe German authori
ties, as It appears, remember his ge
nius and take care of his last abode.
They will continue to do so for a
time, but ultimately Stevenson's grave
will be neglected and forgotten Ilka
all others. Oblivion bas her poppy
laid up for great names as for little
ones. When Cicero visited Archim
edes' tomb be could not find the cylin
der and sphere until be bad raked
away the briers Portland Oregonlan.
Absolutely Necesiary.
"How Is it that you, who owe every
body, can sffbrd a man servant?"
The way bill collectors chase me,
I've got to have somebody to act
a bluffer, old boy."
Juds Johnson's Affliction.
Something Is loose In Juiie John
scn a hesd. Jude says It Is a tooth,
but no one believes thsL Alchlaua
Q lobe.