Shepherdstown register., June 14, 1917, Image 1

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ESTABLISHED 1849.
I!. L SNYDER, Publisher.
A Great Discovery
(bv j. n. watson, m. p.)
Swollen hand:*, ankles, feet are due V
a dropsical condition, often caused b;
disordered kidneys. Naturally when tin
kidneys are deranged the blood is filltx
with poisonous waste matter, which set
ties in the feet, ankles and wrists; o
under tho eyes in bag-liko formations.
As a remedy for those easily recog
nized symptoms of inflammation causes
by uric acid ?as scalding urine, back
ache and frequeut urination, as well a
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the blood has caused rheumatism, lum
bago, sciatica, gout, it is simply wonder
ful how quickly Anurtc acts; the pain
and stiffness rapidly disappear.
Take a glass of hot water before meal
and Anuric to flush the kidneys.
Step into any drug store and ask to
Anuric, many times moro potent thai
i' ' > ' and eliminates uric acid as ho
? meltj sugar.
los. B. VanMetre, President.
N. T. snyder, Vice-President.
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ry Staley, N. T. Snyder,
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Catarrh, Constipation, Consumpti.
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What Is Sunshine.
A little gold amidst the gray?
That's sunshine;
A little brightness on the way?
That's sunshine;
A little spreading of the blue.
A little widening of the view.
A little heaven breaking through.
That's sunshine ;
A little looking for the light?
That's sunshine ;
A little patience through the night?
A little bowing of the will,
A little resting on the hill.
A little standing very still?
That's sunshine ;
A little smiling through the tears?
That's sunshine ;
A little faith behind the fears?
That's sunshine:
A little folding of the hand.
A little yielding of demand.
A little grace to understand?
That's sunshine.
Uncle Billy.
Everyone in the community knew
Uncle Billy, whom Rhoda, his seventyyear-old
sister, described as a "preserved
boy." The little old man's sixty years
had subtracted all the hair from his head
except a thin remainder of white silken
fuzz on a level with the tops of his ears.
The back ot Uncle Billy's head looked
like a big egg in a nest of wool; his face
suggested a full moon on the disk of
which two twinkling stars stood guard
above a smile.
Uncle Billy was always busy, and
usually he was doing something worth
while. One of his favorite expressions
was, "Doing nothing is the hardest sort
of work." Uncle Billy tried to like
everyone, but he had little use for one of
the neighbors named Bruton, whose wife
worked the garden while he spent the
day at the village store playing checkers
and talking politics.
But Uncle Billy had faith in other people.
He often commented upon the fact
that the persons we like best are usually
those we know best, and one day he
said to his sister, "Rhody, that man
Bruton is all right; the fault was in my
mind. I didn't look at him the right
way."
Uncle Billy was always hopeful. It
he ever had the "blues," no one knew if
except himself. Usually when two people
meet, one says, "Good morning!"
or "How-dy-do ?" and the other replies,
"Good morning!" or "How-dy-do ?"
When anyone greeted Uncle Billy,?
morning, afternoon or night,?his response
was always, "It's all right." If
you suggested that the world is growing
worse, the little old man shook his bald
head vigorously and replied, "No, no,
no, no I And even if it were, it would be
our business to leave it better for the next
generation."
The fact that Uncle Billy was undersized
caused some thoughtless remarks
that would have hurt the feelings of another.
But they did not hurt Uncle Billy's.
He would say, with a laugh, "You can't
hurt my feelin's," and go whistling about
his business. Even the dogs recognized
the little old man as thJir friend. More
than once, when some thoughtless or
cruel boy tied a tin can or a package of
firecrackers to a dog's tail, the frightened
creature ran to Uncle Billy for help and
protection.
No one ever heard Uncle Billy recite a
creed, and no one ever heard him boast
of what he had dor.e, was doing or expected
to do; but everyone knew that
he was religious and that his life was
clean and his heart was pure.
Uncle Billy believed that people are
affected by the language they use. One
day one of his nephews spoke profanely
in his presence. "Oh, my dear boy I"
exclaimed the old man. "If you expect
some day to get through the pearly gates
and shout 'Glory 1' you'd better begin
now to shape your mouth for it."
One blustering March midnight Uncle
Billy's sister, Rhoda, leaned over him,
placed her wrinkled hand gently on his
brow, kissed his hot cheek and w hispered,
"Billy, the doctor says you carnot
stand this pneumonia."
Out of his eyes there came a twinkle,
as of the stars, and, attempting to pat his
old sister's cheek, he panted, "It's all
right, Rhody; it's all right."
3 Constipation Causes Serious Ills.
"Let me see your tongue" is the doctor's
first question. When tongue is coated
it means sluggish bowels, and you invite
not only headaches, indigestion but
serious ill-health. Avoid those dangers
by taking Dr. King's New Life Pills. They
are sugar coated, highly efficient, yet mild
and easy in action, pleasant to take y
young, aged or delicate. Sold for years
at your druggist, 25c.
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SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA.
Geo. M. Beltzhoover, Jr.,
CHARLES TOWN, W. VA.
Attorneys and Counsellors.
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Shepherdstown, W. Va.
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Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
Represents the best companies in both
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promptly attended to.
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jpherdstown, Jefferson County
STRANGE CREATURES HARD TO
SEE.
Of all the thrilling sights that 1 have
ever seen, none, I think, was more exciting
than the battle of the termites,?the
so-called "white ants" of Java,?which I
watched for hours through a magnifying
glass. The picture of that battlefield,
with its scores of mangled warriors?one
of them deliberately eating the body of
another?will always be vivid in my
mind. So interested did I become in
watching those battles ot the white ants
that I follow ed the creatures to their lairs,
and passed days iiat on tne grouna, peering
through a glass into their wonderful
houses and trying to unravel the mysteries
of their social life.
1 found that they were mushroom growers,
and that they cultivated their mushrooms
on elaborately fashioned manure
heaps made up of undigesteJ wood fragments.
Through those manure heaps,
which were almost as fragile as a wasp's
nest, passages ran in every directionpassages
that looked as if they were lined
with'white velvet, so close together were
the white filaments of the mushroom
spawn. Protruding here and there from
this velvet weft of filaments, were the
curious fruiting bodies, like little pearls,
that the mushroom spawn had apparently
been induced to form. Those fruiting
bodies seemed particularly adapted to the
needs of the baby termites, for, although
1 could never catch them in the act of eating
the mushrooms, I found undigested
mushroom fragments in their microscopic
stomachs.
I carried the kings and queens and their
retainers, in their brick-hard royal chambers,
to different parts of the island, and
watched conflicts between four different
species. I came to fear the jaws of one
species, for they would bring the blood
at every pinch ; but the strangest ant of
all was the black nasuti, which had no
pincers at all, but kept its enemies at bay
with a squirt gun in the top of its head.
The sticky fluid that it threw out generally
deterred the enemy from attacking it.
The insects of Java were so fascinating
that, although I am a botanist, I could not
help studying them. I did not realize
then that the insects here in America are
just as fascinating and curious, and that
their struggles for existence are just as
fierce as those of Java. It is only since I
have been hunting them with a big camera
on my own place in Maryland that 1
realize what a field of adventure exists in
our very back yards.
There are half a million species of insects?each
of which numbers multitudes
of members. Some have powers of fiight
so tremendous that they can sail a thousand
miles before the wind; some have
jumping powers so great that, if we had
them, we could jump over the highest
houses and across the widest streams;
some have poison fangs ot terrific power.
What object in the meadow is more
curious than the cast-off skin ot a garter
snake? N et everywhere in the grass in
early summer, if you only look tor them,
you can find the outgrown shells of spiders,
grasshoppers, crickets, and all sorts
of strange creatures. That the caterpillar
turns into a butterfly is something that
almost every schoolboy knows, but that
all the dragon flies, and true flies and beetles
and bees and wasps and g tats have
two lives, if we may call them such, is a
tact that most people do not understand.
It is hard to realize that the brilliant
dragon fly, which darts through the air at
such terrific speed, was once an ugly,
mud-colored, slow-moving inhabitant of
some pool or lake. These mud dragons,
or dragon fly nymphs, conceal themselves
in the mud at the bottom of the pond
where they are born, and cover up their
faces with innocent-looking claws, which
are in reality powerfuF gripping organs
with cninpc nn the incidp If vnu nut a
mud dragon into youraquarium and watch
it, you wiil sec those claws open and
stretch forward, grip their victim, and
convey it to the mouth that lies concealed
behind them.
Nearly everyone has seen at least once
in his life the praying mantis, and wondered
at its curious attitude of devotion.
In reality, however, this creature is far
from devout! Its knees, which are bent
as if in prayer, have spines with which it
can grip rnd hold its prey ; and its triangular
little head, so poised that it can turn
it haltway round, has a pair of jaws with
which it can tear any small creature into
fragments. Its appetite is insatiable, and
it has cannibalistic tendencies that you
cannot even read of without a shudder.
It is often a small thing that shuts us
out of a very great enjoyment. In the
case of this interesting world of insects it
is generally the fact that the inhabitants
themselves are hard to see. If flies were
as big as buzzards, and germs as large as
peanuts, it would not have taken mankind
thousands of years to discover that flies
w ere the carriers and germs the causes of
disease The microscope, however,
solves the problem for us. There are now
instruments of sufficient magnifying power
that are inexpensive and easy to carry.
With the help of one of them y&u can see
the tiny creatures so plainly that they
take on a form, almost a personality. And
you will soon come to realize that their
actions have just as much meaning as the
actions of larger animals.
Why, I wonder, are we so otten afraid
of these fascinating insects? Perhaps the
same kind of ignorance that prevents us
from eating mushrooms from the field because
a few are poisonous prevents us
from picking up the insects that we see
for fear they will sting or bite us. But,
with the exception of bees and wasps,
most insects are harmless. Even the
fiercest-looking beetles with their powerful
jaws can hardly penetrate our skin.
Of all the thousand species of spiders
that inhabit our Northern States there a^e
perhaps two that could in any way harm
us. Yet children are taught to kill a spij
der. Not one child in half a million knows
that spiders are our friends.
It is remarkable how our attitude
changes toward these creatures after we
have seen them through a lens. My boy
and 1 sat for half an hour with our opera
glasses, watching three dragon flies that
had found a fine hunting place in a still
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MPER L1BERI.
, West Virginia, Thursday, June
corner by the house where the warm sun- t
light streamed through an opening in an
arbor. Each creature perched, motionless,
on a leaf or fern frond until some
gnat or fly sailed leisurely near; then off
it would dart, catch its prey, and return
to its perch. Fully a dozen unfortunate
gnats met their death as we Sat there in
the sunlight. The dragon flies never
seemed to interfere with one another's
prey.
Round a spider's web tragedies are
enacted rapidly, and anyone with lens in
hand can see them if he wishes. As I
stood last summer looking at a running
spider's web, a brilliant bee, as brilliant
as any Australian cockatoo, struck the
web and floundered there. The spider?
a great, gaunt beast she was?ran out and
circled a dozen times round and round
the bee, although quite far away from it.
Ilndpr the lens I could see hersninnim?
out her silken rope, and watch the sticky
threads binaingupthe creature. Then
she waited out of reach of the bee's sting,
which darted in and out, dripping with
its poison; when the bee's wings stopped
tor an instant, she rushed off so quickly
that I could hardly follow her with my
eyes, and with one vicious stab drove
both her poison fangs into the bee's body.
The noisy buzzing of the bee grew fainter
and then stopped. The spider waited
for nearly half a minute, until the poison
from her fangs had done its work ; then
she leisurely dragged her quarry back
into her cave of woven web.
There is an uncanny little bug, called
the assassin bug, that looks like a convict ,
with its striped legs and an ugly, striped
body covered with spines; it stalks round ,
in the most unconcerned fashion, as if it
were afraid of nothing in the world, l or |
a long time 1 could not make out why it |
looked so impertinent and vicious. One |
day I caught that bug in the act of assas- |
sinatinga ladybird?that most beneficial ;
of little beetles, which hunts down and ,
devours the scale insects. Mow that soft- |
bodied, ugly bug had succeeded in over- ?
powering a winged beetle with a well- (
protected body was a mystery to me until i
1 found that the bug had run its long,
sharp sucking beak down between the (
neck plate and the shoulder plate of the ;
beetle's armor. i
Then again there are the robber flies? j
those large, long-bodied, swiftly moving |
flies that you often see darting up from
the path or from some bare spot in the
pasture. I never saw a robber fly attack t
its prey, but it must be a thrilling sight. |
They are so fearless that they dare to ,
nnunre unnn hpes and wasns and the i
hardest shelled beetles.
How is it possible that the young muddauber
wasp, whose parents never live to
teach her anything, can build a house just
like the one she was born in? Ana how
does she know that to provide tood for
her young, every egg she lays must be
packed in a little cell with plenty of paralyzed
spiders? The wonderful instinct
that enables her to do all that tells her
also just where to sting her spiders.
The most terrible of all conflicts would
seem to be those between the ichneumon
flies?parasitic, wasp-like insects?and
the slow-moving caterpillars. The fly
attacks the caterpillar and then lays an
egg in some inaccessible portion of its
body; there the egg hatches, grows more
rapidly than the caterpillar does, and
tinally consumes it. Almost every little
round hole in a cocoon or caterpillar case
is a sign of such a tragedy.
But the work of insects is not all a
struggle of the strong against the weak.
Watch the honeybee, or that clumsy
rover, the bumblebee, and you w ill see
that she is so intent upon gathering pollen
from the stamens of the rose she is visiting,
and so keen to suck the last drop of
nectar from it, that she pays no attention
to your approach.
Many people see bees at work without
stopping to think what a gigantic service
these pollen-gathering insects are rendering
to mankind when they carry the pollen
from one plantto another and cross-fertile
the flowers. Should some catastrophe
suddenly sweep them out of existence, .
gigantic plant industries would disappear. 1
No one could afford to buy hand-pollen- '
ated clover seed. Most fruit trees would
have to be cut down because the fruit
would not begin to grow. The price of s
vegetables depends a good deal upon the 1
price of seed, and there would be no
penny packages of seed. The bills for 2
flower seeds would be prohibitive, and
we should be forced into growing shrubs s
that strike from cuttings. Take the fer- ?
tilizing insects out of the world, and we
should have a readjustment of values that ?
would disturb commerce more than anv
war could disturb it.
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Too Much Natural History. n
In a detachment of Confederate soldiers f
captured near Warrenton, Virginia, sev- fi
eral prisoners, by a freakish coincidence, s
bore names that resembled those of u
animals. The sergeant at the desk, a
testv, fussy fellow, eyed them crossly.
"Your name!" he snapped to the first. :
"Fox."
"Next I"
"Bhaer," was the reply.
The sergeant sniffed and glanced at the
third. (
"Wolfe," said the soldier, and his interrogator
gave him a sharp look.
"Next I" he shouted; and he turned a c
dark red when the stolid answer came, 2
"Campbell."
The sergeant knew well enough that r
they were not tricking him. for those
were not the days of tricks, ard the tired
faces were impassive.
"And what do you call yourself ?" he
asked another tall johnny in ragged gray
"Lyon," the fellow responded sadly,
whereat the officer threw down hi? pen
and shouted with good n ture.1 laughter:
"Go order some cages built!" he roared
to a private. " We've got to shut up a
whole blamed menagerie in the camp!"
Two men were hotly discussing the
merits of a book. Finally one of them,
himself an author, said to the other:
"No, John, you can't appreciate it.
You never wrote a book yourself."
"No," retorted John, "and 1 never laid
an egg, but I'm a better judge of an omelet
than any hen in the State."
Ucgts
14, 1917,
\ Terrible Reckoning: Awaits Germany.
If the Allied powers shall exact full
satisfaction from Germany when the war
s over, the ruthless barbarians who are
esponsible for such dreadful deeds will
rave a terrible price to pay Murder in
detail and by wholesale, ravine, arson,
obbery, wanton destruction, outrage of
;very degree, treachery?indeed every
:rime of which brutal and bestial minds
ire capable?are laid at the doors of the
Lierman soldiers of high and low degree
ind charge j toofticials of the government
lhat instigated, ordered and approved
of these dreadtul deeds. British courts
long since formally indicted for murder
certain German otficials of high position
who are charged with the death of innocent
men, women and children who
were killed or drowned when the Lusitania
was sunk and when other peaceful
ships were destroyed.
In Belgium and France it is said that a
strict account has been kept in each city
and village and the country districts of
the damage done by the Germans, ot the
destruction that they have caused, ot the
goods they have stolen, of the murders
they have committed, of the outrages and
other horrible crimes for which they are
responsible. These reports, where it
has been possible to do so, have been
made a part of the records of the French
and English governments in tull detail,
and if victory shall come to the Allies
they will require full reparation, as a
matter of principle.
A report recently made by the finance
committee of the French Chamber of
Deputies says: "In reparation for the
damages caused in the invaded sections,
we will require of Germany immediate
restitution in kind of machines, stocks,
merchandise, lumber and material of all
kinds that have been stolen from our unfortunate
people, and also that the towns
and villages destroyed by a criminal race
of barbarians shall be rebuilt by German
fiands. We shall insist, in addition, that
ships of the German fleet shall be delivered
to us to replace those sunk by the pirates
"
From various sources there has been
:ompiled a list of characteristic outrages
and crimes for which the Germans are
responsible. We publish a tew of these
ncidents, some of which are vouched for
oy high authority as being absolutely true.
The priest at Aershot, Father Dergent,
efusing to tell ot the ^whereabouts o*
French troops, which he did not know,
>vas crucified?nailed to the cross; and
lis wrists and ankles were broken.
At Roan I'litoppe soldiers set fire to a
:ottage in which a baby was s'eeping.
I he mother tried to enter and save her
child.
"Stay ; 1 will bring him to you I" said
a German soldier.
He entered the house, and brought the
)aby to its mother-on the point of his
jayonet I
At Au Pin two boys were tied to the
ails of horses ridden by German officers
ind dragged over the roads till their legs
vere worn off below their knees.
At Senlis, AAayor Udent, for answering
vrongly a question, although it is beieved
he thought his answer correct,
vas shot and buried, while still alive,
lead-first, with his feet sticking up.
That it was no unusual thing for the
(aiser's troops to shoot down inoffensive
-rench civilians and that this was done
lot only by Prussians, but alson Bavarians,
s asserted in affidavits collected by the
-rench government.
One of these affidavits is bv Virginia
)uren Bernard, aged 29, who lived in the
Ullage of Jarny. She said, in part:
"Bavarians occupied our village. An
ifficer told me to go to my home at once,
^s the Germans were tiring machine
[uns, I took refuge in the cellar with my
,ons, Jean, aged 6, Maurice, aged 2; my 1
laughter, Jeanne, aged 9, and the Aufiero 1
amily. Soon our home was on fire. I 1
eft the cellar then, carrying my two boys, 1
ny daughter and Beatrice Aufiero clingng
to my skirts. Just as we were cross- '
ng the brook the Bavarians fired. My '
ittle Jean was struck by three bullets. 1
Che poor child gasped, *0 mama, I am '
ick I" inddied. Little Beatrice was shot
n the right arm, w hich was so badly torn 1
hat it hung to the body by a shred. Just
s we reached the road M. Aufiero came
rom the cellar. Some ot the Germans 1
aid to his wife: 'Watch us shoot your
nan.' The unhappy man on his knees 1
egged for mercy and his wife cried out '
loud. The soldiers answered her with !
hold your tongue.' They shot him ten '
eet away from us. A general gave the I
irder that we should be shot, but I threw
nyselt upon my Kneesana pieaaea lor piiy.
fe consented to spare us. Another ot- [
icer, pointing to the corpse ot my little
on, said tauntingly : 'He will not grow
ip to fight us some day.' " I
Charles Nicole, a French soldier who
5 in New York on a briet visit, tells this |
tory:
"It was near Charleroi in Belgium, j
Children were clamoring tor food One |
jerman soldier was throwing bits of
iread, enjoying himself watching boys
ind girls scrambling for them. Justwhen |
me little boy had his hand outstretched, .
inolher German soldier with one blow (
>f his sharp bayonet hacked off the child's ,
land."
Nicole is a corporal in charge of a hand
jrenade squad. "Monsieur, do you real- |
ze why we take very few prisoners ?" j
te asked.
I will tell you. Back there in North:rn
France many of my comrades left
vives and mothers and sisters. The |
jermans came?and turned northern i
-ranee into a hell for our women folk. |
rhere is no* ung gross and bestial and
xuel that the German soldiers have not I
lone to these helpless ones. One of my I
rench mates, a tine fellow, went crazy, j
His wife and daughter were in one of ,
hose villages in Northern France. There
ire things*one doesn't print in newspa>ers.
We took no prisoners that day.
jne day we saw several German soldiers
lolding up their hands in token of surender,
coming toward us with knapsacks
?mitm
iter.
on their shoulders. When they came
into our lines?whist?w hist?there was
a sound like that, and we saw- those fellows
manipulating pipes that w ere scattering
liquid fire on our men. The knapsacks
were really tanks with that terrible
stuff in them. Nowadays we take no
chances."
La Suisse, a newspaper printed in Geneva,
gives details of a case similar to
that ol Miss Fdith Cavell, the English
nurse who was executed by the Germans
in Brussels in October. 1915. I he Germans,
says the newspaper, recently arrested
two women. Mme. f'feister and
her daughter, aged 22, on the Swiss-Alsatian
frontier. They w ere charged as acting
as spies. The women promptly
admitted at the trial that they had smuggled
letters, without knowing their contents,
from Alsatian families to relatives
in Switzerland. This was done simply
as a friendly act and without political or
malicious purpose. Both women, says
La Suisse, were shot at Mulhausen. The
mother was a horrified witness of the ex*
ecution of her daughter before her turn
came. The newspaper adds that it has
received confirmation of the execution of
the women from their relatives.
Rena Bache, a well-known author, of
Washington, writes : "A lady of my acquaintance
in the City of Washington recently
adopted two orphaned Belgian
children By good luck they managed
to get across the ocean without being
murdered by German submaiines. The
children are little girls, one of them twelve
years old, and the other fourteen. Some
time after they arrived they began to ail,
and a doctor was called in. Me found
that both were about to become mothers.
They had been the defenseless victims of
Prussian officers."
the Crimes Of (iermany.
The world is not hostile to Germany
becau e it is unwilling that Germany
should have a fair chance in the world,
or because it had in the beginning any
special love for the enemies of Germany.
When the war began it was a fair field
and no favor with most of the neutrals
Germany has alienated a dozen nations
by the faithlessness, the brutality, the
arrogant contempt for the rights of others,
that its government has displayed at every
stage of the war. It has been its own
worst enemy ; it has written its own condemnation
in the eyes of the world ; it
has done its be<t to convince everyone
that German d- < i lion in the affairs of
mankind would be a calamity that civilization
must avert, even if it perish in the
attempt.
The violation of Belgium and the looting
and burning of Belgian cities and
French villages; the horror of the Lusitania
and the atrocity of the submarine
1- ...U!U thu Muir.lur /\l nAnrnrti_
VVdJMIC, III Wllllll Hit IIIUIUWI V? IIVIIVVUIbatants
and neutrals is cynically planned
and coolly carried out; the spiteful destruction
of priceless memorials ot the
piety and artistic feeling of the human
race ; the invention of the Zeppelin raid
and the poison-gas attack; the otfenses
-some of them nameless?against the
liberty and the honor of french and Belgian
noncombatants; the wanton and
wicked desolation of the evacuated country
of the enemy; the deliberate sinking
of hospital ships; the Armenian massacres,
which the Kaiser could have stopped
by raising his finger?those things
have one by one brought about a universal
hardening of the world's heart against
the government that can order such deeds.
We long hoped that the charges against
the (jermans were exaggerated through
passion and prejudice, tfere and there
single accusations may be without basis,
but the great outstanding hcts are well
known. Our own diplomatic representatives
resident abroad have told us
enough in their official reports to convince
lis that Germany makes war in defiance
of the laws of decency and humanity that
other nations recognize ; that it considers
the slow and painful progress that civilization
has made as a thing of no moment,
i thing to be ruthlessly sacrificed if it restricts
German ambition. The Kaiser
once ordered his soldiers to fight as the
tiordes of Attila fought and to make the
name of German dreaded as that of Hun
was dreaded in the ancient days. They
lave obeyed him ; but is it necessary to
remind them that Attila and his hordes
smona fhn /*i?jili-roH
Wtlt UUl UVIUUU aiiivif^ mv VI? ni? v?
neople of those early centuries? Neither
:an any nation that fashion* itself upon
such a model expect to prosper in the
iffections of mankind.? Youth't Comlaniort
They had quarreled bitterly and for a
month not a word passed between them,
rhen the girl wrote :
"Kindly return my photograph. 1
gave it to you in a moment of girlish folly,
jnd now regret that I was so thoughtless
in such matters "
She imagined that to part with her photograph
would be so painful that the
young man would repent and return to
her, but she got a severe shock when a
bulky parcel arrived, in which was a note:
"I regret," it ran, "that at this fate date
I am unable to pick out youi pnotograpn.
However, I tend you my entire collection,
aod would request that you pick out your
own and return theVrst to me by express
at my expense."
The man who is always trying to save
himself trouble is likely to save a lot more
than he can take care of.
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Why We Are Ticklish. I
la his recent book, Man an Adaptive I
Mechanism, Dr. George \V. Crile ?ives I
an interesting explanation of the reason I
for ticklishness. Me considers the sen- I
sation to be a prehistoric relic ot reaction I
against peril? It is more strange than I
appears at first glance that the tickle reflex
can be excited only in certain parts 1
of the body, by but two types ot tactile I
impressions, and that it is invariably ac- I
compamed by a sell-protective reaction. I
One type is elicited by a light, running
movement on the surface ot the skin,
which produces a sensation like that I
which is produced by g crawling insect. I
lite reflex is an irresistible desire to |
scratch or rub the affected part. It un- 1
doubtedly came into being at a time when ]
insects w ere a great menace to life, and I
w hen only those individuals who eyotved I
an effective defense were able to survive. I
It may even supply an explanation of I
man's gradual loss of hair trom the body I
in his long, slow, upward march, since J
the presence of hair would provide am- I
bush for the insect enemy, whereas the I
loss of it, together with the evolution of I
the tickle sensation, would greatly facilitate fl
defense. A second type of tickle reflex I
is elicited by heavy penetrating pressure 9
in the region ot the ribs, the loins, the
base of the neck and the soles of the feet
?pressure like the penetrating contact of
a tooth-shaped body. The reaction in
this case is a violent discharge of energy
in the form of laughter with cries lor
mercy, and frantic muscular efforts to be
free if the stimulus be continued. It one
were tied hand and foet and vigorously
tickled for an hour, he would probably
be as much exhausted as it he had run a
Marathon race or sustained a crushing
injury; indeed, persons sentenced to
death by torture in the Middle Ages were
often killed by prolonged tickling lite
fact that the lu klish areas are lound in
those parts of the body that still are, and
always must have been, the points moat
frequently attacked by savage beasts
leaves little doubt that the reaction developed
at a lime w lien man's progenitors,
like the carnivora ot to-day, fought their
enemies face to face w ith tooth and claw ;
and that the mechanism came into existence
as a means of protection against
foes. J
Do Insects Migratq?
Ore ot the unexplained phenomena of
animal tile is the annual migration of
hmlc llinni'li Ih* ltnr? rtl tlu>ir oml ftiahls
have now been accurately mapped in
both hemiapherci. Mr. Howard J.
Shannon, in an article in the Scientific
Monthly, entitled Insect Migrations aa
Related to Those of Hirds, maintains that
many insects as well as birds make annual
migration southward in the autumn,
following well-delined routes that cor*
respond to those taken by the birds of
same regions. The insects include certain
North American species of Diptera,
butterflies and dragon flies. Mr. Shannon
believes that there may be a return
migration in the spring, but he is not sure
whether such migrants are the same individuals
that llew south in the tall or a
new generation, bred in the southern
winter quarters. Some idea of the magnitude
of the migrations may be gathered
from the statements of the author in regard
to the monarch butterflies (Danais
archippusi, which "In mingled myriads
move forward in swarms, forming a veritable
crimson cloud mile* in width, and
streaming backward for equal distances,
catting below them as they go preceptible
shadows."
A Serious Shortage.
Sandy, a Scotsman that the Windsor
Maga/ine tells about, hid returned to his
native village alter a visit to London.
When some one asked him what he
thought of the great city, he said :
"It is a grand place, but the folks there
are not honest."
"How is that ?" asked his friend.
"Well, I bought a box of pine labeled
'a thousand for a penny,' and coming
home in the train I counted them, and I
found they were seventeen short." i
The customer picked up a knife from . 1
the counter and handed it to the butcher,
with a friendly smile.
"I don't really want it," he Mid, "but
it you cut it it off I will take it along with
the rest."
"Cut what off ?'' demanded the butcher
in blank surprise.
"Your hand," was the geStle reply.
"You weighed it with the uusages and
I like to get what I paid tor."
w? |
A month-old Jersey calf was nibbling I
at the grass in the yard, liessie, who
was Irom the city, eyed it thoughtfully a
moment.
"Does it really pay," she uid at last,
"to keep as small a cow as that?"
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Thermos Bottles.
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