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Published every Thursday at Her
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ager.
ever seen, returned .-\etvan.
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Court.” demanded the Justice.
“But 1 haven't raid anything about
you. Judge,” protested the culprit.
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missioner here as well as Jestlce o’
the peace.”
Humming Bird Small
W onderful Tale» Told
but Famed a» Fighter
of Monster Serpents
A man’s bravery can never be
Judged by his size. Frequently the
midget has the spirit of a raging lion
while the big, hulking 2U0-ponnder
has the timorous heart of a rabbit.
The same law of nature applies to
birds, Kendrick Kimball writes, in the
Entered aa second class matter
Detroit News.
The P erfect Picnicker
December, ItO f, at the peatotflee at
The bumming bird, sometimes called
Hermiston, Umatilla dnin ty, Oregon.
Saw (t teamster at his midday meal. I
ills table was the earth and Ills cut- I the "Jewel of the air” because of his
flashing luster, Is only three Inches in
tlery a rather battered looking ax
length, but'his courage knows no boun
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The menu consisted of a tin of bully
One Tear ................ ..................U -0*
beef, a bottle of tomato sauce and a daries. Humming birds are fearless.
They will attack a hawk, a crow or an
8tz Months .................................. » 1 .H loaf of bread.
The beef was hacked open with the eagle, and against such a nimble ad
versary the bigger bird would have no
ax, the neck of the sauce bottle was
chance.
knocked
off.
also
with
the
ax,
and
“To thine own self be true, and it
With his rapier bill, which he thrusts
most follow as the night the day, the bread was torn Into lumps In his Into (lowers for their nectar, the hum
A billy of cold water washed
thou canst not then be false to any hands.
ming bird Is capable of dealing an ad
It down. For simplicity and an entire
man.
versary a sharp prick which would dis
absence of fuss or frill I ’ll say that
courage further aggressiveness. Among
the teamster's methods take the bun.—
themselves, the humming birds fight
Sydney Bulletin.
frequently. Like skilled fencers, they
Ant» Never Found at
thrust at one another with their long,
Lost in Finding W ater
needle-like bills, ducking and darting
458
Year»
on
One
Farm
In a thirsty land where, as some I
so fast that the eye can hardly follow
In
Warwickshire,
England,
the
Neale
times happens In South Africa, a
them as they maneuver for openings.
three-years’ drought dries up every family, of Exliall grunge, a few miles
blade of grass, the white ants always from Nuneaton, has for the uninter
have water. The reason has been rupted period of 458 years farmed this
H ere Endeth th e Lesson
found by M. Murals, a South African particular land, and the connection
A thrifty Scotch farmer started off
wns
severed
recently,
when
there
was
naturalist The atits are water-tlnd
each day by reading a chapter from
a sale.
ers and well-Hnkers.
the Bible to Ids field hands. One
On a Transvaal farm while a man's
morning during the harvesting season,
well was being sunk the borers came
he struck the sixth chapter of Chron
First M aple Sirup
upon a tiny two-inch shaft running in
icles, which consists of 81 verses of
Maple sugar making is an ancient
to the earth. The ants had been
genealogical names. He droned on
art
entirely
confined
to
the
North
there before them! They had sunk
until he came to:
American
continent
Before
the
ad
an unt well 05 feet deep to where
“And Shallum begat Hllklah, and
vent
of
the
white
man,
the
Indian
had
water was to be found.
Hllklah begat Azarlah, and Azarian
Up and down this shaft, night and learned to extract and concentrate the
begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Job
day, water-carrying ants went, each sap of the maple tree. On the ap
bearing its drop of water. It took proach of spring the trees were gashed ozadak."
Then he paused and looked over the
each ant half an hour to get down to with the tomahawk, and a wooden
the reservoir, draw its water, and chip or spout Inserted to direct the leaf.
“Weel, my friends,” he said, “they
bring It up to the nest. Then down fluid drop by drop Into a receptacle
begat ane anlther rlcht down to the
aguln It went. There uppeared to be on the ground. The sap was caught
end o' the page and a lang way ower
night shifts and day shifts, and the In a birch bark dish and bolfed In
earthen kettles. The small quantity on the lther side, so we’ll Jlst leuve
night ants worked the hardest.
of dnrk, thick sirup thus made was
them to It. Off wl' ye to yer work."
It may be true, as declared by M
Forel, the greatest living authority on the only sugar available to the In —Boston Transcript.
ants, that they are creatures working dians and Is stated by early writers to
almost wholly by Instinct, and only to have been highly prized.
N ature A lw a y s Fair
the extent of about 2 per cent by In
How Just is Nature In distributing
telllgent or reflective observation; but
Feu) L eft-H an ded P eople
her gifts. As a tribute for the gossa
when It comes to water finding, their
From
the meager Information ac mer skin she doles to the true blondes
Intuition makes them hard to beat.
cessible on the subject It appears that
and the Titian blondes, she Is greedy
primitive peoples are os predominant In the coloring pigment, for eyelashes
ly right handed as civilized peoples. and eyebrows. With the stirring, vi
Napoleon Untiring in
Any theory which seeks to explain the vacious beauty of the Bluck-eyed-Su-
W ork He Set Himself origin of right handedness must go san type, she mingled a nice brownish
back farther than civilization. Accord skin, none too delicate perhaps, but
Many witnesses have testified to Na
poleon Bonaparte's amazing powers of ing to the bureau of American eth which Is fur more resistant to sun
continued work. Itoederer, who wus nology, there arc very few cases of and wind than that of the fairylike
blondes. To the face that is not per
his close companion during the consu left handedness among the present-
day Indians. It Is supposed by that
fect in any sense, she adds the body
late, wrote:
"He ran work 18 hours at a stretch, authority that the Indians were pre silhouette of a beautiful dryad. In
each case, there is sure to be one
It may be at one piece of work, It may dominantly right handed before their
feature, fact or figure that Is nearly
be at several In turn. I have never contact with Europeans.
n t i fu l T h o h n t i f a
n <v«»w{no
seen his mind without a spring in it.
not when he wus physically tired, not
when he wns taking violent exercise,
not even when he was angry.”
Napoleon robbed hundreds of hl»
fellow workers of youth and health
because he demanded too much ol
them when he demanded from them
what he extracted from himself, says
Emil Ludwig In his biography of the
Corsican. His private secretary woultl
be sent for at a late hour and would
get to bed at four In the morning! at
seven the poor man would find new
tasks ready for him and would be told
they must be Qnlsbed within two
hours. During the consulate he would
sometimes begin a sitting with his
ministers at sis In the evening and
keep It up until five the nest morn
In*.—Detroit News.
Insect Hunter»
Giant hunting grasshoppers nearly
five Inches long, that prey on small
animals such as mice and the young
of ground-nesting birds, are found in
' the Congo.
They rival the kangaroo as Jump
ers and can leap a considerable dis
tance on to their prey. The hunting
grasshopper la not so great a leaper
In proportion to Its size as the king
grasshopper, the young of which, even
before Its wings are developed, cun
Jump a hundred times Its own length
Very few men can cover more than
twice their own leugtb in a Jump.
The hunting grasshopper Is the larg
est of all grasshoppers. Its great from
Up hides a pair of Jaws as effective
ns a hay-chopper, and Its appetite
makes it a plague to mankind.
From time Immemorial the sea ser
pent has figured In story and legend.
Pliny, till* Koitlan natural;-t (-' 71»
A. D.) tells of enormous water and
land serpents, some so large that
whole armies were sent against them.
The hardy Norse fishermen gave
thrilling stories of sea monsters.
Olaus Magnus, a Swedish bishop,
wrote of ”a very large serpent of
length upward of 200 feet and 20 feet
in diameter, with a row of hairs 2 feet
in length hanging from the nick,
sharp scutes of durk color, and bril
liant, naming eyes. It attacks boats
and snatches away the men by rais
ing itself high out of the water, and
devours them.” Hans Egede, a Nor
wegian missionary to Greenland, tells
of encountering, on July 6, 1734. "a
very terrible sea animal, which raised
Itself so high above the water that
its head reached above our maintop.
It had a long, shnrp snout, and blew
like a whale.” The oarflsh, with u
body from 25 to 30 feet long, and al
most as thin as a ribbon. Is believed
by some naturalists to be the creuture
which gave rise to many remarkable
yarns, told from ancient days until
now, of “sea serpents.” The silvery
body, crossed with dusky stripes, the
grotesque head and face, with en
larged tins tipped with red, waving
above like a horse's mane, might well
give foundation, It Is said, to almost
any story. Still no one can definitely
say that the eea serpent does not ex
is t
C orrect
Little Betty was bragging about her
ahility to add. Her uncle gave her a
problem to solve.
" If 1 gave you two rabbits In the
morning and three rabbits in the af
ternoon how many rabbits would you
have?” Inquired the uncle.
"Six,” cried little Betty.
“Just as 1 thought Two and three
are six,” answered the uncle.
“Iiut uncle,” said little Betty earn
estly, "I already have one.”
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What was the very first missile era
ployed by primitive man? It Is stated
that the Eskimos, Egyptians and the
Chinese were the first plscators, and
they used spears centuries before the
Introduction of the net; but the men
tlon of spears does not suggest an an
clent date, whereas “atoning.” which
does not seem to be mentioned any
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