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7 4 ' t 5 1 I" i ENTERED ' AT THE TOST OFFICE IN SAVANNAH, TENN., AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. VOL. XVI. NO. 49. SAVANNAH, HARDIN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1900. $1.00 A YEAR. 1 ? TO THE PUBLIC. B' fourteen months or to; l ve taught myself to walk. iit I nm now concerned to know How I i-hall learn to talk: , w ' how any bnbe who ve Both day and night among His Idiotic relatives Can learr. ths English tongue. An,t tn"eflr I would make It cleat (Nor doera the act amiss) "tVhat chimce have we when all we hear s Inngunge auch bb this: Za peclous sing!" "01 wootsy wootil" " muzzer's tunnln' pet!" "Zt iltty, pltty, witty tootsl" Now what does danma detT" They tell me that a drink's a "dink;" My Angers "Angles" are; That think la "sink." or also "link;" And that a car'e a "tar." With "tumpty tump" and "bow wow wow," . And "dlddly, dlddly, dee." And other phrases that, I row, , Are useless, quite, to me. Bo when from mother, aunt and all I've gained a moment's grace, With none to clutch me lest I fall. Or stare me In the face, I've printed out this statement rude . (The letters learned with pain From cans of patent baby food), And hope 'tis not In vain. -Edwin U Sabln. In Woman's Home Companion. Couldn't Lose Him THE BOY came nt 7:30 p. m. and stayed. I did not want him. I lenew that the moment might come when his presence would be positively obnoxious, yet I could not get rid of him. He was well-meaning (in so far as he could be said to have a meaning), light-haired, long-legged. He tat on the sofa, and put himself into 33 distinct attitudes, not one of which was graceful. I could1 not exact ly tell him to go, and anything short of that he disregarded. He wore a pink striped waistcoat nd a blue tie. He did not admire me; his idol was iu hort frocks and fuzzy hair. Other boys worship the seasoned belle, but bis taste In enslavers was the only one peculiar thing about him. I never cared for the very young- attached to me; and the very young despairing for an other is even worse. He did not even talk of Her. I wished lie had. I would have sympathized to the best of my power. Presumably, I was too antique in his estimation (I was 27) to take an interest in such things. He talked of love, to make up for his silence on the nearer subject. I listened and wearied and took out the fancy work I kept for the Boy, and never finished. He spoke with the superior air of one instructing the ignorant. I was, I am afraid, absent-minded, and he lan guished after awhile. I offered him sweets, and insulted him into a ruby blush. After that he stared sadly at me, as If he had come for no other purpose than to least his eyes for one last time on my adored features, i He was very like the immortal Toots. At last the conversation got upon its legs, and in a rickety fashion managed to keep moving. : The marriage question (not the im- proper marriage question) seemed to interest him greatly. He did not ask for my advice, but merely soliloquized at some length. He mentioned the de sirability of early marriages; the im possibility of asking a girl to share ten shillings a week; the expense of bring ing up a young family; there was the education of the sons and the portion of the daughters. "You "would not educate them?" I in' quired, smothering an incipient laugh ' He thought he would let them choose between an education' and an income. "Besides, they might marry." "To be sure," I assented. "And there might be grandchildren." A puzzled look crossed the Boy's face; he had uot thought of the grand children. "O, that would be all right," he said, after a short silence. "A man is only responsible for his own family. Directly responsible, of course." Here I threaded a needle. "But there is no harm in looking at things from all sides." However, we had plunged far into futurity, even for the Boy; he took another bypath from the same thor oughfare. "I think it very wrong for people to throw obstacles in tho way of mar ,'iage," he remarked, solemnly. "But, on the other side," then said I, "it would never do to encourage the thinir too much; if the couple quar rclcd they would lay tne blame of the position on you. This was evidently a new idea; he Dondcrrd on it some time. The Man came in, sat down, and wailed. "I'eople might sometimeB interfere unintentionally," the Boy said, re flectively. "They might," I agreed I hope not grimly. The Man looked at the clock and fidgeted. "Is that the right time?" he asked "Two minutes slow," said the Boy. "Thanks." said the Man. -"I have to catch the 8:35 train." , My needle would not thread. Then I said: "So soonl" and "When do you return?" "I don't know," he answered. "It depend." "Don't get fever at the Rock," said the Boy, paternally. "I have known such lots of fellows go oft like you and they never come oacK. "I hone this will be an exception,' I said. (O, would no one take the Boy away and bury mm;; "Thnnk you," said the Man. Tin. Tiov irot up was be going? He merely looked at a photograph over the mantelpiece ana eat aown "That is ft nice-looking girl," ha re marked. "Some people think apeaf ance everything. Now, I notice care fully how a. girl acta to everybody, and learn her all round, then make up my mind." "Does it take long?" I inquired (with polite interest, I hope; how I longed to stick my crewel needle into him). "Is" (the Boy's mind had wan dered). "To learn her all round?" "Not very long. Of course, it de pends" The man who had been staring at the ceiling began to hunt savagely through a six months' old magazine. (Ting ting ting ting ting ting.) I wish he would go the Boy I mean; 01 I wished. Could one be dip lomatic? "I wonder," I said, "I wonder could you post a letter for me?" "With the greatest pleasure," said the Boy. "For the country?" "Yes, for the country." (OI my evil star!) "O! that's all right," he said. "I need not run with it." Then, in an explanatory' tone: "You see the next post out is to-morrow morning. Any time till ten will do." My heart sank. The Man who had looked up hopefully turned to the frontispiece once more. If he would would absorb the con versation, there might still be a chance. Yet, if the Boy found him self too well entertained he might stay forever. But the Man was by this time in such a state of nervous irritability as to be incapable of con versation. His very boots expressed his desire to summarily eject the Boy. How I wished he would I "Our friend is suffering already from home sickness," said that wretched superfluity. I laughad the tears into mine eyes. and pricked myself badly. "Have you seen that sketch?" said the Man at length, handing me the paper. Something on tie page, writ ten in pencil, interested me consid' erably. "What is that?" asked the Boy, eon. descenuingly. "Harper's," said the Man. "Jtiave tney changed the cover, then?" he inquired; "it will get mixed with rearson's." It Is Pearson's," said the Man; "I made a mistake. What do you think of it?" he turned to me. "It seems a bit startling," said the Boy. I looked up, and my eyes met the Mans. "Have you a pencil?" I asked, courn. geously. "I should like to mark this.' I wrote tiny note in the margin; only one word, in fact. I always annotate books, ap proved the Boy. The Man took the magazine and looked at the page; he looked happier than he had done since his entrance. "Thank you," he said, so fervently that he aroused the Bo.y's curiosity "May I look?" he asked. "Unless it Is poetry." "It is poetry," said the Man. "The nicest verse I have ever seen." He looked regretfully at the clock and at the Boy and me. "I am afraid I must" "Must you?" said the Boy, cheer fully; "that's the best of living on the spot; we need never hurry away." "Have you oiled your door lock?" asked the Man. "It was very still when I last tried it." I put down my work. ' "I must see wha,t I can do," I said; I felt happy enough to laugh. If the Boy would only stay on the sofa he might come again and stay ten h urt. He jumped up. "I'll help him to lever the door open," he said. "It wants stronger hands than yours; I can post that letter besides." "It is on the hall table," I told him "O, that's all right. I can get it when I go out," he said. "Oood-by." ne politely waited till his senior had had his inning. "Till I return then," raid the Man, "I thought you did not know if you were returning," said the Boy. "I have made up my mind," he re plied. "Good-by." They were in the hall. The door opened again and there was the Man "I had to," he said, breathlessly after the first two seconds, "Con' found that fellow. Don t mind, dear; they are to last me a long time." "Mind!" "Look here, you'll lose that train," said the Boy, opening the door. The Man hod managed to get a good deal out of four seconds, but all the same he swore, and it is odd how it relieved my feelings. When their steps sounded down the path I went to the window ana raised it; as they passed the Man tried to look round the Boy, who was be tween us, but dodged him unsuccess fully. I watched them growing small er and smaller with the lamps until they were out of sight then I tore out the page of a magazine, ana, car rying it upstairs, lockeu it in the trinket box, where It is sun. The Boy was a nice boy, and I could not find it possible to hate him, even though he spoiled the Evening of my life. I think of it now that he is stout n fatherly, and in my heart is amusement, exasperation, and some thing far mere bitter. Because the Man neve ame back Bock fever killed him. Black and White. Mo Time for Day-Dreama. The persistent "man never stops to consider whether he 1b succeeding or not. The only question with him is how to push ahead, to get a little further along, a little nearer his goal. Whether H lead over mountains, liv er or morasses, he must reach it. Every other consideration is sacrificed to thi on dominant purpose. KINO AND ARTIST. tatter's Fraakaeas la Exprest-latj Uluiself netore His Moral Cmtoiuer. The most' conspicuous object in ths, Swedish pavilion at the Paris exposi tion is a splendid full-figure portrait of Kir;g Oncar II., painted in oil by Anders Zorn, the artist whose work was sq popular in. this country during and after the world's fuir. It has been wide ly reproduced as the latest portrait of the popular monarch. There is a later one bv the same artist, however, and an amusing story is told concerning it, says a London paper. When the portrait which now adorns the Swedish pavilion in Paris was fin ished King Oscar was so pleased with It that lie sent one of his chamberlains to Zorn with the message that he wanted the artist to go to work nt once on a bust portrait of smanersize. "Yes," answered Zorn, in his usual shrill nasal tone, looking anything but pleasant. "Yes, yes all right! But tell Lis majesty that I don t want to paint him in uniform. I don't want it, nd 1 nm not going to dolt, will you be sure to tell his majesty that?" "Yes," replied the chamberlain, with smile, and then he returned to the castlo and told the king that Zorn was overjoyed by the honor shown him and would be happy to begin work on the new portrait ut a stated date and hour. The king, who possesses in fullest mea&nre the politeness expected of princes, was more punctuul at the first sitting than the artist. When Zorn, a little late, wns ushered into the royal prese nee, he discovered at once that the king was in uniform. "Why," he exclaimed, unhesitatingly, in pretty much the same tone he had tised to the chamberlain, "I said I didn't want to paint your mojesty in uni j form!" 'I heard nothing about it," declared the king, with a glance of surprise at the indiscreet artist. "Well, well, well!" muttered Zorn, while he put his easel in order. "But then I'll tell your majesty something. If I have to paint your majesty in uni form I shall have to charge my large price." "How much is that?" inquired the royal customer. "It it 25,000 francs, your majesty," explained Zorn. "But if your majesty will change clothes I'll only charge my mail price, which is 10,000 francs." "Well," mused the king, trying to look very serious, "that's a very big sum 25,000 francs. Why, my dear Zorn, I'll tell you what I'll do I think I shall have to change clothes." The king retired to his private apart ments for a hort time, and when he appeared again to resume the sitting he was drestcd as a private citizen. The portrait was finished in 11 or 12 sit tings, for Zorn works very quickly. To keep the king entertained during those trying hours a member of his suite, the Court Councilor Boettinger. read aloud to him out of the two vol umes of poetry which King Oscar has published. Every now and then the old councilor paused as if overawed by the beauty of the poetry and the king's poetry Is far from bad, to say the least. "But that line Is wonderful," he would exclaim. "It Is, Indeed, a line worthy of a monarch and a poett" "Don't you exaggerate a little now. my dear Boettigcr?" the king would suggest, looking pleased in spite of his efforts to appear indifferent. On one of these occasions the incorrigible painter suddenly looked up from his work. "What's that?" he broke in. "Who wrote that?" "Mr. Zorn," the councilor expostu lated, In horror-stricken voice, "this is his majesty's own poetry I am read ing." "Well, well, well! Did your majesty really write that?" the painter re marked, unnbashed. "That is rather nice, I must soy." Whether the old king took the re mark as a compliment in a rough form or regarded it as the utterance of a spoiled child, he only smiled and did not reply. , Vienna Women In a Foot Itace. A singular race for which only women were allowed to compete, was writes our Vienna correspondent arranged a few duys ago in the sub urbs of this city. The distance to be run was about five English miles, and the prizes offered were a gold watch and chain, a i;ilver watch and chain, gold bracelets and sums of money. Twenty-seven women were entered for the race and one was started every five minutes. Thousands of persons lined the streets and roads, greeting the competitors with ironical cheers. The police hafl much trouble in keep ing the course clear and to preserve order. Agents at different points con trolled the race, and cyclists accom panied the runners. Of the starters, 25 renched the goal, a village outside the capital. The winner of the gold watch accomplished the distance in one hour and ten minutes. The win ner of the fourth race was a woman of 58, The first five prizes were won by married women, and the two last by young girls. London Telegraph. Dyed for I,oyc "Congrotulntions, old man!" "What for?'' "Oh, don't be hypocritical. Jonkley tells me : our rich uncie died last week." "Joakley thinks lie's) funny. A pretty young widow moved in next door to my uncle, and he's dyed his hair and mustache." Philadelphia Press. Concerning; Color, She Did you tell Mr. Luggs my hair was red? He I did not. "He says you did." "I did nothing of the kind. He asked me, and 1 told him it was the color of a popular novel." Detroit Free Press, THE TAMEST FISH. lad the Cnrloas Sight the Tama An gel Flahet Present at Their Feeding- Time. The tamest fish that the aquarium has ever had was a young spotted hind, eight or nine inches in length, from Bermuda, which would readily permit itself to be lifted out of the water in the hand, and held thus for eight or ten seconds, lying perfectly quiet meanwhile, without any flop ping or fluttering. Permitted then to slide gently back into the water again, it would swim around in a little circle in the tank back to the hand, from wlhch it had just been released, and take food from it, says the New York Sun. While this spotted hind was excep tional, there are fishes in the aquarium that will permit themselves to be touched, and almost no end of fishes there, including such odd creatures as eels, that will toke food freely from the hand, taking food held down In the fingers, or, in the case of fishes that like such things, eating elams out of shells held down to them. It it a common thing for fishes to come scurrying up to the top of the water in their tanks when the food is brought along the corridor back of the tanks, and some of the exhibitions of this kind on the part of the fishes are remarkable, the most so being that of the angel fish. Quarrelsome and disposed to nag one another among themselves, yet the angels are among the very tamest of the captive fishes, and to see them eome for their foou at feeding lime is a curious and wonderful sight. The food is always put into the tank in one corner, and there the fishes flock for it. Ihere are 26 angel fishes in this tank. They are scattered com monly all about through the body of water, from end to end, from front to rear and from top to bottom of the tank; swimming this way and that and turning and twisting and criss crossing and weaving in and out Fishes beautiful in coloring, and their bodies edged and otherwise marked with a deep but brilliantly vlear and bright shade of blue, making of the tank a marvelous picture. Then the food is dropped in the up per rear corner of the tank; and from all parts the angel fishes go rushing for it. They flock like chickens in poultry yard when somebody comes in with a pan of feed; they suggest chickens to the mind at once. They are very different from chickens in form and in color, but their flashing fins suggest the chickenr' flapping wings and flying feet; and the impres sion is heightened by their movement as they come 'rushing from far and near and from all directions, straight as they can come, along lines all con verging at the feeding point. WORLD'S GREAT PAWNBROKER Inch Is 1.1 Hung; Chang-, the Many Sided Manipulator vf China. Among the great leaders that may be classed as of the liberal (though not properly the reform party), is the only Chinaman whose reputation is world-wide Li Hung Chany. He is a man of the measure of Bismarck as ft statesman. With but one exception, he stands head and shoulders above any of his countrymen. He is thor oughly Chinese, in his geneial conserv atism, in his conceit, in hi duplicity, and in the way silver sticks to his palm, says I. T. Headland, in Ains lee's. He knows China's weakness. He knows the strength of foreign gov ernments. His shrewdness is more than a match for that of all with whom he comes in contact. After his return from his trip around tne world, In an audience with the empress dow- iger, she askedt "Tell me truly, now, what you think of these foreign barbarian countries through which you have passed, ai compared with China." "You want to know truly their con. flitlon?" "Yes; I want to know truly." "Well, they are in a much better condition than China. They are mora powerful, cleaner, and more enllght ened." "It is said that the empress dowager was not well pleased to hear tho truth, but her lips remained sealed. A few months ago Sir Claude Mac Donald, the British minister, suspect ed that Li Hung Chang was favoring Russia against Great Britain, and he managed to have Li xiung Chang re- moved from the tsung-li-yamen. This was the worst move he could have made. In a few weeks the old states man managed to ingratiate himself Into favor with the empress dowager In such a way as to secure his own sppointmcnt as viceroy of the two Kwangs. He is one of the kind of whom it may be said! "You mny put me out, but you cannot put me down." Li Hung Chang is as great a states man as Bismarck, as great a warrior is Grant, as great a politician as Piatt, and as great a business man as Rocke feller. A large part of his wealth lies in pawnshops. He is probably the greatest pawnshop owner in the world. Fa's Chips. "Maw, I guess I don't have to cut nny kinlln' this winter," ventured lit tle Willie. "Guess again, son.1 'Veil anyway, I heard paw tellln' Mr. Blake that he bougnt $25 worth of chips the other night, na I thought that ought to last quite a spell. 'Den ver Times. Try Combining the Two. Amiability is not everything; sorts smiabl people show a noteworthy lack of. common sense. Atchison Globe, PITH AND POINT. Experience is the pay a man- ret for making a fool of himself. Chicago Daily News. "I'd rather have my way," w heard a man say lately, "than be president." Atchison Globe. It is the self-made man that often thinks he Ba a mission to make over everybody else. Indianapolu News. First Philadelphian "Here's an in teresting book." Second Philadelphian "You can recommend it highly, can you?" First Philadelphian "Why, I sat up nearly all day reading It." Town Topics. "I can't imagine why Stutterton mar ried Miss Strongmlnd." "Nor I. How. ever, she's curing him of the stuttering habit." "You don't say so?" "Yes; she doesn't give him a chance to talk at all now." Cassell's. "Very well," shouted the hate sub scribers, "we'll stop the paper." Ac cordingly, they did so; and, further more, they stopped the circulation oi the editor's blood, leaving him in sus pense upon a tree. For all this, gentlt reader, occurred in the far west. Philadelphia Record. Her Reasoning. He "I told you 1 couldn't afford to buy myself a winter suit, and yet you .go and buy an ex pensive bonnet. I should think you might be as unselfish as I." She "But I think it was unselfish of me to let you have the credit of being the unself ish one." Philadelphia Press. jester -mat man Margin is a shrewd one." Jimson "Is he?" Jes ter "Is he? Margin couldn't afford to keep his stenographer any longer, so he married her." Jimson "Well?" Jester "Well, now his wife's fathei supports them both and he doesn't havs to pay his wife any salary." Ohio StaU . Journal. IN VENGEFUL MOOD. An Injured Woman Who Couldn't Find Punishment Severe Enough for Her Husband. The woman stepped inside the sta tion house door and stood looking around the room. It was a pleasant morning, the windows were open, ad mitting a refreshing breeze, and the trees in front cast a cooling shade over the front of the building. The piace seemea more like the com. fortable office of a wayside inn than a city police station. The official be hind the desk took off bis cap and bowed, for the lady was not such as he was wont to receive there. She came over within conventional con versation distance and bowed slightly to the official, says the Washington Star. "This is the police station house. isn't it?" she inquired. Yes, madam," replied the officer. This is where they bring prisoners when they arrest them, isn't it?" Yes, madam." Do you keep them here until you are through with them?" "Oh, no; we lock them up in the cell room." "Indeed! May I see that?" "Certainly, madam," ana the polite official, bowing, escorted his strange visitor through the heavy door into the cell room. It was empty and still and clean, and the fresh air of the morning had got in and made it most attractive in its cool cleanness. She looked around for a minute or more. "Do you shut toe prisoners in those Iron cages?" she asked. "Yes, madam." "What do you feed them?" "We don't feed them.- We do not keep them here long enougn for that." "Where do they sleep?" "On the benches you see in the cells." "How do you punlRh them?" "We don't punish them at all. That is not our part of the business." She looked surprised. "Don't you put irons on them, or gag them, or douse them in ice water, or put them in straightjackets, or tie them up by the thumbs, or wnip them with a cat-and-nlne-tails, or shut them in a dark room, or something like that?" 'Certainly not, madam," and it was the official's turn to be surprised. "That is all," she said, and started for the other room again. Once there, she stood by the desk again. "I have a husband," she said, medi tatively, rather than didactically, who comes home about five flights a week drunk and disorderly, and I was thinking of having him arrested, at have stood it about as long as I can. "You ought to do it, madam, if he is ugly," suggested the official. "He is ugly," she said, with empha- sis. "Then have him arrested." "No, she said, as she started to leave; "no, I guess I won't. I am much obliged to you for your polite' ness, but this is altogether too good for him." America's First Bees. There were no hive bees in America when first settled by the whites. The common brown bee was brought from Europe in the seventeenth century, and within the last few year superior va rleties, such as the Cyprians andCarnl olans, have been introduced here. There are email stingless beet of an other genus in Central and' South America which make delicious honey, with a peculiar armomvatic flavor. It hot been proposed to bring tlhera to the United States, but they would not stand the climate. Though they havt no stings, they can bite quite painfully, Indianapolis News. A Danger to Shun. "Did that girl give any reason tot refusing you?" "es; she said I looked too much like a man who was bent on having his own way about every tJilDg."Ind anapolig Journal. ARTIFICIAL SCENTS. Dainty Floral Perfume Ara Blade Nowaday! Without the lie of Bads or Flowers, m, ...iu t,An,ini .an.. taste and smell-differ from the other senses in that a stronger stimulus does not produce a stronger impres' sion, but rather one different in kind. This is well illustrated by the prop erties of ionon, the artificial perfume of violets, A few grains of this substance the equivalent of hundreds of pounds of violets may be heated in an open vessel, and even completely vaporized without producing the slightest trace of the odor of violets, except at the beginning of the operation As this perfume, disseminated through the air, becomes stronger, the peculiar violet odor becomes weaker and is replaced by the odor of rasp berries. But if a bottle of pure lonon Is held to the nose the odor perceid is neither that of violets nor that of raspberries, but that of cedar wood, As a matter of fact, many samples of artificial extract of violets have the odor of raspberries because the man ufacturers are too liberal and cannot persuade themselves to give their cus tomers little enough for their money, Now it is very singular that neither the odorous principle of raspberries, which has also been isolated, nor the the female spiders can be seen assem oil of cedar smells in the least like vio- bled, each guarding her own silken lets, no matter how much it may be cocoon filled with eggs. Youth's Com attenuated, so that the rule does not work both ways. Many Intolerable stenches may be transformed into agreeable perfumes by sufficient dilu- tion A striking illustration is afforded by certain odorous nocturnal parasites which shall be nameless. When these ill-omened beasts of ?rey are rubbed up with sugar, which is then dissolved in a large quantity of water, the re- suit is a delicate hyacinth perfume. The fragrance of the jasmine Is exhaled, as chemical investigation good old days, a captain simply fol has shown, by a mixture of several lowed, as well as he could, the short- substances. One of these, indol, is a well-known product of decomposition. Many perfumes when strongly con centrated are nearly or quite odor less. This is the case with artificial musk; vanillin, the odorous principle of the vanilla bean; piperonal, that of the heliotrope; cumarin, that of the parti- sitic plant known in Germany as "Waldmeister," and used for flavoring the national spring beverage, "Mai- wein," or "May wine;" and also with the odor of new mown hay. N. Y. Journal. SANITARY DRINKING CUP. The Comtant Flow of Water Prevent Contamination of Any Kind Whutever. Members of koth tte board of edu cation and the board of health are discussing a new drinking cup for use in the Atlanta public schools. It is represented as being the most sanl- tary drinking utensil that has yet been invented The cup is stationary and rests oyer a basin which catches the HOW THE CUP OPERATES. overflow. The water comes direct from the pipes to the cup and is al lowed to run as long as desired. The flow is controlled by a faucet just oove me oasin. It is proposed to allow the water to run into this cup during school hours, says the Constitution. There is a constant flow over the sides of the ' wm pjjjiL cup, jiccuuub iuiuauuim.mil ui nnj jWQ p0pUinr articles oi aiet. in inv'se kind. Sticks, weeds or anything elseLm.ntriea wi,ere banana flour is pr. not too heavy are thrown from the eup by the force of the water. The eoges can never De contaminated by aiseasea mourns Because oi me con- tram now. in annKing, me mouia is placed to the cup, witnout moving tne contrivance. In addition to its other advantages, the cup is believed to be especially nt.d to .m.thern schools, hecam,. ice cannot be placed In the water which the children drink. The water is cooled by means of a coil of pipe, around which ice is packed, the action being' much like that of a condensing worm in a still. Beat Way to I'ae Camphor. The best method of employing cam- phor when storing away articlet for the winter is in pieces the size of a hazlenut, wrapped each in tissue paper; thus covered the camphor will not in jure the most delicious color. Spirits of turpentine sprinkled freely in a trunk before lining it with newspapers will destroy any moth's eggs that may have found lodgment therein, but ihe turpentine must not be allowed to touch anything which it can po&bibly injure. GREGARIOUS SPIDERS. On Speelea of the Inieot, Discovered In Venezuela, Is Truly Repub lican In Inatln'ct. The spider has usually been regard ed as a type of the solitary among animals, each individual preferring to live alone. But naturalists have Dis covered exceptions to this rule, and among the most remarkable are three species of spiders recently studied by Eugene Simon in Venezuela. The most interesting of these, the Uloborus re- publicanus, seems to be truly repuo liean In its instincts, several hundreds of individuals dwelling together in hnirc we us. made un oi smaller linked together by strong threads and fastened omong the branches of trees. On these webs the spiders can be seen moving freely about, meeting ana ex changing greetings with their anten- INTRICATE SPIDER WEB nae. like so many ants. In the cen ter of the main web is a space where the eggs of the entire repuDiio uro laid, and where, at the proper season. paaion A FRENCHMAN'S IDEA. D Would Keep Ships from Sinking by Equipping; Them with nub- -ber Gas Bags. A ship that cannot sink is a gres desideratum in view of the increased frequency of collisions in recent years. This increase is due not only to the increase in traffic, but also to the construction of sea routes. In the eat line between his port of departure and his destination, but nowadays vessels seek to take advantage of fa vorable currents and this concentrates the traffic in comparatively narrow lanes. A French engineer, Henri Mariolla, I has devised a method of keeping a ship from sinking entirely, no matter how badly it may be injured In a cob- lision. The device is ingenious, to say the least. It consists, in the first place, of number of bgs of India rubber cor ered with stout canvas. These are placed separately in pockets or de pressions distributed along the ship's side a little above the, water line. Each pocket is closed by a sheet-iron cover, and from the bottom of ench bng a pipe descends nearly to tho. water level. The bags whuh are col- lapsed and folded contain a little drj calciu.n carbide. The theory ot tne aevice in inn. when the ship begins to sink vtstet will rise in the pipes, come into en- tact with the carbide and cause a brisk evolution of acetylene gas. Thit will distend the bags to their full ca pacity, bursting off the sheet iron doors in the process. The added buoy ancy of the inflated bags, if they se sufficient in number and size, will prevent the ship sinking more than a, few feet. And all this is to take place in a few seconds. . The inventor has calculated that a large ocean liner may be made un Binkable by 150 bags of carbide, which will produce about half a million gal long of gas. N. Y. World. Flour Made from Bananas. The nutritive value of flour made from dried bananas has attracted pop ular attention during the lust couple of years. The Connecticut state ex perimental station has recently an alyzed banana flour made from three sorts of bananas. The flour is made by cutting the fruit into small pieces, drying and grinding. It appears that the fresh bananns closely resemble fresh apples in their chemical compo- Lition and banana flour similarly re- scmbles dried apples in nutritive ma- teriai, it contains much less protein than wheat flouri an(1 ies8 than half ag mu(.h ag rjcei wnjie itB carbohydrate contcnt), approach closely that of these pare(l jn considerable quantities, it it r URCd jn combination with milk, sugar, etc., in the preparation of custards, takes and similar articles. Southern industrial News. Headache from Eye Strain. In an article in the Medical News Dr. Casey Wood defines ocular headache as those aches and pains in and about the head that directly or indirectly result from organic dnsease in, or from im- : paired function of any part of the vis ual apparatus. He says that 40 per cent, of all headaches are caused by eye strain, and that 80 per cent, of all frontal headache after shopping ex cursion, or a ride In a train or streetcar with its interchanging views, Is an a'.- most sure sign of eye strain. Astlgma tism is probably the most frequent cause of headaches from eye strain. Snails Connumed In Paris. One hundred thousand pounds ot snails are sold daily in the Paris mar kets to be etten by dwellers in Faris. They are carefully reared for the pur pose in extensive snail farms in the provinces, and fed on aromatic beriia to make their flavor fl aer -V L r I. v