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OUTLINES OF T HE E A R TlO
NATURAL SINGERS.
MASTERS OF FOOTPRINTS.
A Slew Frem Hie Felton Laden Fenfe
le AI moat AI way a Fatal.
N tg r t tt P n n n tht Harmon 1« Ear, a
Diatinot Mualoal Q lft
Tbs Qauohoa Are Wenders In Tree king
Men end Besets.
A very basilisk among our native
deadly snakes is the "diamond rat
tlesnake/' a creature more vicious
as v e il as more brilliant then its
more northern relative, the com
mon crotalus. Ordinarily the jingle
o f a handful o f ring« is not an un
pleasant sound, but when it hap
pens that these rings are fastened to
■ix or seven feet o f serpent as thick
as a Qian's wrist and that serpent is
armed with the sharpest of fangs
nearly an inch in length, with cis
terns o f liquid poison at their base,
the music aoes not seem cheerful or
inapiring.
As is the "b ig Indian” among his
lesser braves, so is the diamond rat
tlesnake o f the southern states
among other American serpents.
Dressed in a brownish colored coat
plaited with light linee in diamom
shaped blocks, the sleek, oily look
ing rascal glides slowly through
"hamok” ana "scrub,” a terror to
man and beast, turning aside for
ior going
goin g out o f his way to
sen e nor
attack unless pressed
i
by hunger,
which seldom
n happens in that cli
mate, where animal Ufa is so abund
ant
As he movee quietly along his
wicked little eyee seem to emit a
greenish light and shine with
much brilliancy as any jew el Noth-
ing seems to escape his observation,
and on the slightest movement near
him he swings into his fighting at
titude, raising his upper jaw and
erecting his fangs, which in a state
o f repose lie closely packed in the
soft muscles o f his mouth.
This snake ia not so active as his
copperhead cousin o f the north, nor
so quick to strike, but one blow is
almost always fatal. His fangs are
so long that they penetrate deep
into the muscles and veins o f his
victim.
In one instance the measurement
o f a diamond rattler’s fangs showed
them to be seven-eighths o f ar inch
in length and, though not thicker
than a common sewing needle, yet
perforated with a hole through
which the greenish yellow liquid
could be forced in considerable
quantities, and in the case men
tioned each o f the sacks contained
about half
a teaspoonful.— New
Y ork Press.
"T h e American negroes possess
what has been called the ’ harmonic
e a r / ” writes Natalia Curtis in tho
Craftsman. "Though utterly with
out training, the negroes improvise
alto, tenor and baas parts to their
songs with entire ease, and a whole
negro chorus will spontaneously
break into harmony o f real interest
to the musician as well as o f beauty.
"In the tobacco factories o f the
•outh and in the fields I have heard
ignorant negroes who seemed near
ly related to their primitive African
progenitors sing four part harmony
o f a richness and charm truly amaz
ing. This harmonic talent o f the
negroes is strikingly in evidence at
Hampton institute, the industrial
school fo r negroes and Indians in
Virginia. There a chorus o f 800
negro students sings without ac
companiment and in faultiest pitch
throughout an evening, chanting in
the untanght harmonies peculiar to
the negro the old plantation songs
o f the past generation. It ia safe to
aay that Hampton has done more
than any other single influence to
keep extant the negro music in its
punty.
"Once when I was visiting Hamp
ton there was present a musician
from Europe. He asked me who
trained the chorus. 1 said: ’ Nobody
trains tha negroes. Their singing is
natural.’ He said: *1 don’t mean
who trains their voices or teaches
them tone production. I mean who
teaches them their parts and trains
them to ring together.’ I repeated,
’Nobody.’ He said: ’That ia not
possible. I have never heard finer
choral singing.’ I said, T f you do
not believe me ask Major Moton,
the negro leader who starts the cho
rus in each song.’ Major Moton an
swered as I did. The musician was
amazed. *How do you do it ?* he
asked. The negro answered, T don’t
know how we do it— we just sing,
that’ s a ll/ And we agreed that a
people who conld ’just sing* as these
aid and improvise harmonies o f
such simple and natural beauty cer
tainly possess a distinct mnsical
gift, probably capable o f rare de
velopment.”
"
.
The Gauchoe o f the South Amer
ican pampas are o f mixed Indian
and Spanish blood. Among them
the tracker holds a high place, for
his instinct in tracking men and
beasts makes him indispensable.
Some o f his achievements would
seem wonderful even to the Ameri
can Indian and our old time guides
o f the plains. In a confused track
o f animals’ feet he can tell how
many o f them are laden or have rid
ers. He will detect the footstep o f
a human being or an animal and
follow them for many miles without
tiring.
The stories told o f Calibar, a not
ed tracker, illustrates the instinct
and memory o f the Gaucho when
hunting for his man.
Once when Calibar was absent
from home his best saddle was
stolen. His wife carefully covered
np the footmarks and showed them
to him on his return, two months
after the robbery.
One afternoon, a year and a half
later, he was passing along a street
in the suburbs of a certain town
when suddenly he stopped and ex
amined certain footprints. Follow
ing them, he came to a house, en
tered it and there found his saddle,
•oiled and tom .
Once a criminal under sentence
o f death having escaped from pris
on, Calibar was sent in pursuit.
The fugitive, knowing he would be
hunted, had taken every precaution
to leave no track, even to walking a
long distance in a shallow stream.
Calibar followed the stream until
he came to a place where he saw a
few drops o f water on the grass.
“ He got out here,” said Calibar.
Through fields and over walls he
followed the fugitive until he led
the soldiers into a small vineyard.
Examining the approaches to the
house, he told the soldiers they
would find the criminal ..inside.
They searched the' premises, but
could not find their man.
“ He is inside,” insisted the track
er. A second and more thorough
search found the man, and the next
morning * he was shot.— Harper’s
Weekly.
THE DIAMOND RATTLER. ~
The RifU Fish.
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S tv td . by a 8nak*.
Robert Louis Stevenson tells o f a
Welsh blacksmith who at the age o f
twenty-five could neither read nor
write. He then^ heard a chapter o f
"Robinson Crusoe” read aloud. It
was the scene o f the wreck, and be
was so impressed by the thought o f
what he missed by his ignorance
that he set to work that very day
and was not satisfied until he had
learned to read Welsh. His disap
pointment was great when ua found
all his plans had been thrown away,
for he could only obtain an English
copy o f the book he was so anxious
to read. Nothing daunted, he be-
once more and learned Eng-
sh and at last had the joy and tri
umph o f being able to read the de
lightful story for himself.
Count Zinzendorf, the founder o f
the Moravians, visited North Amer
ica in 1742 and for a short time la
bored as a missionary among the
Shawnee Indians. When he first
went to them they received him
with coldness, and a plot was form
ed to assassinate him. The count
was sitting one evening in his wig
wam upon a bundle o f dry weeds
which he had gathered for his bed.
While he was writing by the light o f
a small fire a rattlesnake, warmed
into activity, crawled over one o f
his legs. Just then the murderous
savages lifted the blanket that
served for a door and looked in.
They stood motionless for some
minutes watching the aged man
and then, gliding from the scene,
fled into the f o r ^ t From thet night
the m i«,,oner, fonnd them frien d.
Writing to the Travelers’ Gazette
from Queensland about the strange
forms o f animal life in that coun
try, which include the web foot
duck, which lays eggs and suckles
its voung, the “ lung fish” and the
“ walking perch,” a correspondent
gives a description o f the rifle fish,
which when full grown measures
about ten inches and weighs about
one and a half pounds. It subsists
on food which it shoots— hence the
name.
It swims leisurely about
the stream a few inches below the
surface and ia always on the look
out for flies and other insects that
settle on the floating surface of
water plants. On getting close
Hard to Baliava.
enough to its victim it discharges a
"Think
o
f it, my dear,” remarked
tiny jet or ball o f water, which, if
•hot straight, knocks the fly into Mrs. Emily Street, looking up from
the stream, where it is instantly the morning paper she had cab
baged at the breakfast table, “ just
gathered in by the sh ooter..
think o f it! This paper says that
there are three thousand millions
Woman on tho English Stag*.
Pepys went to the Clare Market o f dollars in circulation in this
theater on Jan. 3, 1661, saw "T he country!”
“ Is that so ?” responded Mr.
Beggar’s Bosh” well performed and
records "the firat time that I ever Street, as cheerfully as possible un
saw women come upon the stage.” der the circumstances. "W ell, well!
Previously all female parts had been Judging from the difficulty I al
taken by boys or young men. The ways experience in getting you to
change was probably suggested by five me 10 cents more than carfare
Charles II. from his continental ex every morning, I thought there
perience and arose from an amus couldn’t be more than $3.60 in the
ing episode. The king had gone to whole world.”
Conversation languished a good
the theater "before his time,” and,
finding the actors not ready, asked bit after that.— Cleveland Plain
for an explanation, whereupon he Dealer.
was gravely informed that "the
Gibraltar.
queen has not shaved yeti” A* the
Gibraltar, tho strongest fortress
merry monarch loved to laugh at a
in the world, haa the record for the
jest as well as to make one, the ex
ongest investment in
cuse was accepted and a reform in
times, the English holding it
itiated.— Westminster Gazette.
against the armies o f Frande and
Spain from July 16, 1779, until
The Qlraffs.
Every one who has seen the gi Feb. S, 1783. Military experts aay
raffe must have noticed the great now that no one can carry Gibral-
size and beauty o f its soft, black ar, and those who have seen the
eyes. They heve a gentle yet fear English guns on tn » rocky hills and
less expression, and their promi he English battleships 1» tha quiet
nence enables the animal to aee al larbor will agree with tha experts.
most behind it, so as to guard Tha only way in which Gibraltar
against an enemy attacking it while can be taken ia by starvation, and
fortress provision
feeding. In walking the giraffe does Sngland haa the to
or several year« now.
not move its legs like a horse, ox ed IO
and moat other quadrupeds, but
Dlekena Spared Nat Hla Fan.
moves both the fore and hind legs
With
ao many demands upon his
o f the same ride at once, like the
>en one would expect to find Diek-
elephant and camel.
>ns availing himself o f all poaaibla
jrevities in his correspondence at
Why He Knttktd.
'east Bat a glance through hia let
Small Welsh station:
Porter— Yea, you see, sir, it’ s no ters shows that he scorned all such
f ood tapping at the office window, opportunities and preferred to spell
t will not open until ten minutes everything o u t The date o f the
before the train starts whatsvsr months, for example, are given in
words instead o f figures. "Monday,
you do.
%
teenth January;” "Tuesday, sev
Benighted Traveler (who wishes
enth
M a r c h "W e d n e s d a y , twelfth
to reach Llanfairpwligwyngyllgogo-
April;”
"twenty-sixth May,” “ Fri-
gerbooltysiliogogo)— Ten minutes ?
Good gracious! Why, it’ll take me a lay evening, nineteenth May” — in
? uarter o f an hour to tell ’em where hia way are all his letters dated.
Ha spared not hia pen.
want to go.— London Mail.
«•*“ * ■ £ -» • • T o * Herald.
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Dirtt Main Ftrott Constantly
In Changing Thant.
Many agencies ar* constantly
Rearing away the surface o f the
earth and its coast lines. They are
o f three main kinds— air forces,
•ueb as wind and weather; water
forces, such as rain, hail, «now, run
ning water, the sea and ice, and
tiring forces, such as plants, ani
mals and human beings
The air does great work in chang
ing the appearance o f the surface
o f the earth. It blows solid par
ticles from one place to another,
sometimes quietly and sometimes
with violence. The wind is respon
rible fo r making and for remov
ing great sand hills or sand dunes
and may even cause cities to be
buried under sand, as in the desert
o f Gobi. By the chemical and me
chanical action o f air hard rocks
tre slowly and gradually worn
away, especially in countries whe:
there are great variations in tl
temperature. This is due to tl
fact that solid bodies, like rock
d and contract with heat ai
COld and
I
so break np into fra
manta. Tha wind w ean away tl
surface o f tha earth over which
ia passing.
But the action o f the water fore
is fa r more important and pbriot
As a matter o f fact, the appearan
o f the surface o f the earth ia ve:
largely due to the action in ot
form or another. This water
solid in the form o f either ice, anc
or hail; gaseous, as in vapor ai
steam, or liquid, as we drink it.
These three forms o f water a
constantly changing one into othc
From the influence o f the sun <
the sea water passes into the a
in the form o f vapor. This fal
on the land as rain or sqow or ha
and in time finds its way back \
tha sea by rivers or glaciers, i
it does so it wears away the su
face of the earth, washing out tl
softer soils and eroding the bordi
rock stones and moving them
It is the rain which is chief
responsible
fo r
the
chemio
changes and the rivers which we«
the earth mechanically. The ox;
gen in the rainwater unites wit
other elements in the earth in tl
process o f “ oxidation,” which is tli
same as "rusting,” while-the organ
matter removes other parts o f tt
earth. All these proeesees make v
what is called "weathering” i
rocks and help to wear the esrt
•way. Soil ia formed in this wa;
expan
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The ancient Mogul buildings i
the palace o f the kings o f Delhi ai
marvels o f beauty. Two o f these-
the Diwan-i-am, or hall o f publi
audience, and the Diwan-i-khas, c
hall o f private audience— were buil
by the Emperor Shah Jahan aboi
two and a naif centuries ago, when
the Mogul style o f architecture had
reached its most decorative pe:
lwan-
The smaller o f the two, the Di’
i-khas, ia famous fo r its jewel-like
to.
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hall contains the great Mogul
Damp Salt Safer* Rain.
throne.
Both buildings are o f
Very few persons know that
marble inlaid with designs in pre
when the salt gets damp it is either
cious stones.
because it is too near the sea or be
cause it is going to rain. It is very
The Ingenious Magpie.
hard to keep the salt cellar dry at
The magpie is nothing If not in-
the seashore, as there is so much
nious. He always barricades his
moisture in the air all the time, but mlky nest with thorn branches, so
in other places it is usually a sign that to plunder it is by no means an
o f rain when the salt -t
gets damp.
,
easy matter, but when circum-
Thmga that help themselves to the atance oMi^e the « pie” to build in
water in the a.r an* called “ deli-. , ,ow bugh^or h e d g e -a n absence of
quescent, and salt is one of them. ,oft treeg ^
a raarked featuro
When water ia in the air in the Qf some northeim lo ca litie s-h e not
form o f gas it aometimes becomes on,y interlaceg hig home but alg0
too plentiful for the air to hold, theentira buah> ^ a mogt f ormida-
and then we get what is called “ pre- ble manner. Nor does he stop here,
cipitation,” or rain. But long be- T o .<make MMrance double sure”
fore the water vanor in the air ia hc fashiong
meang o f exit M well
heavy enough to fall m ram there
as entranoe to the castle, so that if
disturbed he can slip out by his
back door, as it were.
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on sale every day. We
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P a r lo r P h a r m a c y
Q U A L IT Y S T O R E
. OTTR MOTTO:
Ne F»»r of Thlovoo,
They Lead Their Sheep.
Some years ago a London mer
chant sent a cargo o f goods to Con
stantinople. After the supercargo
saw the Dales and boxes safely land
ed he inquired where they could be
stored.
“ Leave them here— it won’t rain
tonight,” was the reply.
.ut I dare not leave them thus
exposed. Some o f the goods might
be stolen,” said the supercargo.
The
Mohammedan
merchant
burst into a loud laugh as he re
plied :
“ Don’t be alarmed. There isn’ t a
Christian within fifty miles o f
here.” — London Chronicle.
The shepherds o f Palestine lead
their sheep. This custom haa aris
en, of course, through the absence
o f roads and the scanty nature of
the pasturage found on the moun
tain sides. It would be impossible
to drive the flocks from place to
place unless dogs were employed,
there are n o sheep dogs in east-
ern countries; hence the shepherd
on in front, the sheep follow-''
tag behind, I, a sh epherd boy, as a
vale, brii nging np the rear. This ia
the shepherd’« principal duty— to
guide his sheep and find pasture for
¡them.
A Reform Movement.
" I have heard a good deal about
people who borrow trouble, but I
think my wife is a champion in that
line.”
“ Why, I thought she was always
cheerful and contented with her
lot.”
until our baby was
1 "She
Now she ia
bo™ I1“
may marry
worrying
not like.”
some girl
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Borrowing Troublo.
Mrs. Benham— When we women
it to running the government we’ll
o a thing or two.
Benham— Such as what?
Mrs. Benham— We’ll make a man
take out a hunter’ s license before
he can look fo r a collar button, and
in his application he will have to
certify that ha doesn’ t swear.— New
York Press.
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