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The Sunny South l* tho oldest weekly paper of Literature,
Romance, Faft and Fldllon In the South It la now re*
fiored to the original ahape and will be published as for*
merty every week ^ Founded In it74 It grew until IS99,
when, as a monthly, Its form was changed am an expert*
meat & It now returns to Its original formation as a
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ing Its moat promising period In the past.
When Egotism Is an
Affliction
iFPLING makes one of his Dutch-
wyR men reproach a favorite monkey in
the following unique terms, ‘‘you
haf too much ego in your cosmos.”
The story sustains the accusation,
too. That particular monkey
thought so much of his importance,
of his griefs, and of his dignity that
he kept people’s nerves on the edge
three-quarters of the night with the
most unearthly screeching and wail
ing. When it got past the point of
endurance, the husky Dutchman
rose from his sleeping-rug, flung
that philosphic sentence at the
chattering ape and draped a cloth around his cage
so that he was left alone to meditate in the black
ness brought on by his own overwhelming conceit.
The man from Holland might have addressed the
same admonition to a great many individuals of
both sexes. Egotism is an extremely prevalent
quality with both. There can be no question, of
course, that a certain amount of love of self is nec
essary to the happiness and development of all of
us. If we think poorly of ourselves, others are like
ly to share the opinion. It is the belief in his own
abilities that makes a man fight the world’s hardest
battles, and we can hardly question that some of
humanity's greatest triumphs have been in the
name of ambition. It is likewise true that a knowl
edge of self, in the wav of limitations and weak
nesses, is indispensable to success and evolution.
But the thing can and, in some cases does, be
come morbid. We have seen men and women who,
from being merely selfish and conceited, gradually
became convinced that the attention and anxiety of
all their friends ought to be concentrated on their
talents, their aims and their happiness. This varie
ty invests every one ot its actions wun mmuc i
portance
implied assumption that, ^ na * roun< l'UP» P e °"
pie are all on the same foo^ in ? as regards their rel
ative importance and thei/, P r »vt ege to pursuehap-
piness. When we ignore / t ^ lls j U,e ; we ^ nn f> trc * u ^ e
and suffering on ourselv/ e ® a ., e , r P eo P‘ e - “ ,s >
of course, natural, that individuals of strong person
ality should dominate thcr se weaker qualities, for
there is a great deal of | tru ** 1 in * ^ h eat l len doc
trine of the survival of t!v e But there ts an
ocean of difference betwe ; en t ^ ie su P rem acy of merit
and the intolerable, irr- itating inanner in which
egotism assumes to itseh* ^ le *° niake its en
vironment miserable. I
And, in the end, the e : fe ot,st P a >' s the penalty—a
heavy one. If he has tb/ e P ower to wound people,
he finds that he has estnf* n & e< ^ a ^ friends; if he
succeeds in merely making himself ridiculous, peo
ple either avoid hirn or | en &fh merely make him
understand, through the/^* 0 ^ l a y ers his conceit,
that he has woefully ovfrestimated his own impor
tance; generally dip!om> c y and tact fail in h,s
fast devotion to self, can not avoid, sooner
or later, impressing uprr n w ith whom he conies
in contact the fact thats an unmitigated and a
hopeless bore. He has ff he selection of many routes,
and they are determine*^ largely by his own char
acteristics. *
But they all lead to if he same destination—loneli
ness, imisunderstanding.# neglect a tremendous pun
ishment. you will say/ for his offcnse ’ Yet none too
ge, When it is c( wr lderefl t,iat ,n t,1e R reat ma '
jority of cases he hr ’ had ample opportunity to re
trace his footsteps*
Along' the Highway
By FRANK L. STJiNTON
Busy World
Dress Retform for Men
OR a many summers the bolder
part cr* masculinity has entered a
deterny* ncd protest against the ar-
gumei F ts which custom has forced
upon 1 ' ts sweltering frame. Some
have & on e so far. as to discard coat
an( j , rest, and appear in the broad
lio-ht 1 da >' upon public streets in
the 'beruffled shirt-waist—thereby
exc ptiiig the ridicule, the resent-
merthe acrid criticism or the
a k,.ise of the eminently respectable
co ,,itingent. In fact, so strenuous
ha ; / this opposition grown, that dur-
iii£> the last season or two, the shirt
waist man has nc jt flaunted his boldness so reckless
ly as in the past > and tor the time-being the problem
lias ceased to P reser >t an acute aspect. And yet,
when we strii 1 °t its humorous features, it has a
"ood deal of c °mmon sense back of it. Women
have the i>riv' dc g e °* appearing in the lightest, cool
est imaeina’ de summer raiment—why not men?
What is it,°ther than the fetish of fashion which
decrees tln-v 1 while the woman may appear sleeve
less and costless, the man must bear the weight of a
hcavv, en sloping garment, or be thought a crank
or a p'ers^ 11 P oor breeding? We venture the as
sertion J bat should some of the more prominent
men in America take the bull by the horns and ap
pear sef’ cra ' consecutive times thuslv clad, the prej
udice v von!d speedily disappeor. and all over the
country t1ie shirt-waist brigade would assume formi
dable proportions.
Then e * s ’ °‘ course, the deep-grounded aversion.
*..s-.*shed through centuries, toward a man’s ap-
The faintest suggestion of slight or in-'pea/ ig in other than conventional garb. We must
attention on the part of an acquaintance, is the sig- J ad ff\\t that, to a certain extent, we share the feeling,
nal for heart-burnings and midnight tossings. The Bjfrt. after all, is not comfort the main thing in this
merest hint from a friend that lie is not exactly | life? And when it can be attained without inde-
as much interested in their own self-glorification as j cflmcy. “where’s the odds?” as the sporting man
is the object, is enough to cause an enmity which | wlould say.
will last indefinitely. j ; We are conscious, too, that the views we arc
One of the worst phases of the disease is that it expressing are somewhat radical. They must nee-
is progressive. The day finally arrives when self- essarilv partake of that nature, when aimed at
ishness and self-worship are supreme and no thought
or consideration, or a minimum of both, is given the
right of other people. The more tactful egotist, of
course, suppresses this instinct and mav, for the
sake of policy, assume an enthusiasm in things out
side of himself. But as sure as the sun rises, the
real feeings cannot long be concealed. Some tri
fling incident, almost unnoticeable in itself, will
Customs several hundred years old. People once
^bought that to ride on a railroad train was sinful,
'that the telegraph was an invention of the gentle-
fman with the horns and hoofs, and if you had of
fered two hundred years ago to transmit a wireless
'message, you would have had the life scorched out
of you at the stake.
The world moves slowly and the blemish of todav
He Had Enough.
It Is of a western girl that the story is
told that she refused to marry a most
devoted lover, a very free spender, until
he had amassed $4,000. After some ex
postulation. he accepted his fate and sat
.to 'wqfk to save the money.
About three months after this the ava
ricious young lady, meeting her lover,
asked 1 : “Well, Charley, how are you get
ting along?’’ “Oh, very well, indeed,”
Charley returned cheerfully. “I’ve saved
$17.” The young lady blushed and looked
■down at the toes of her boots, and
stabbed the inoffensive earth with the
point of her parasol. “I think," she
said faintly—"I think, Charley, that’s
about near enough.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
His Last Word.
The detective was fond of enumerating
the good points In human nature. “At
any rate, women are truthful,” he said,
solemnly. “I had that fact impressed
on mo recently, when a woman's hus
hanj disappeared, and I was called in to
try and find him. He had been missing
three days when I arrived. Of course 1
first of all questioned ills wife. The first
thing I asked was:
" ‘What were the last words your hus
band said to you before he disappeared?’
“She blushed deeply as she answered
truthfully:
“ ‘His very last words were: “Oh. for
goodness' sake shut up!” ’ ” Tit Bits.
Dear Friends.
Miss Angles—This new gown of mine
doesn’t give me the graceful figure the
•tailor claimed It would. I must have
It altered.
Miss Plumpleigh—Why don’t you take
it to .Padem & Co.?
Miss Angles—Are they your tailors?
Miss Plumpleigh—Oh. no; they’re up
holsterers.—(Puck.
In Greenland.
Joey Esquimaux—Give me a bite cf
yoiir seal blubber.
Ma/ge Esquimaux—No. I won't.
Joey Esquimaux—All right, you! Didn't
I let you drink half when I hooked the.
lamp out of tho mission Sunday school.—
Modern Society.
His Scheme.
“Yes. I’m in tine lect.ure business.” said
the long-haired passenger. “and I’m
makiqg money. I’ve got a. scheme, I
have, and it works like a charm. Bi.i
houses wherever I go.”
“A scheme?”
“Yes. I always advertise that my lec
tures are especially for women under
thirty years of age. and men out of debt.
You just out to see the way the people
come trooping In.”—Illustrated Bits.
Balfour in a Bad Way.
Soon after being beaten at the recert
election. ex-'Premler Balfour was on the
links with some friends.
One of his companions expressed his
sorrow that Mr, Balfour would not have
a seat in parliament.
“Too bad,” agreed the former Prime
Minister, “r don’t know what I’ll do now
fo(r recilea tion (from golf.”—Cleveland
Deader.
TO A LITTLE POEM.
I.
Six editors declined you
An’ sent you packin’ home;
I know that you are tired
Of being so often “fired,”
And never once admired!—
Sent o’er the world to roam!
II.
But now your journey’s ended—
You shall not forth again;
Since editor's don't heed you,
Nor to the goat will feed you,
I’m thinking I shall need you
To patch that window pane!
that he can see the gleam of a sil- j
ver dollar six blocks, and hear the
ring of it through a Chinese wall. I
He Is not a patron of literature—to (
any extent. He’s his own monument.
—on the installment plan.
HOW FAME FOOLS US.
Let not, the literary beginner be
discouraged. Thomas . Bailey Aldrich
only received five dollars for “Babie
Bell”—the poem which first attracted
attention to him; Longfellow sold
many of his early poems for less than
that, and we doubt If Poe ever re
ceived more than $;t0 for his poems;
at least, that was all he got for “The
Roven.” Put—it won’t do to take lit
erature seriously, as a business propo-1
sition. As Mr. William Little Bigger
saith: “There may he bread in it, ac-
casionally, hut precious little meat!”
WHERE THE SKIES BEND BRIGHT
I.
We’re singin’ in the sorrow—
The shadows of the night,
Of the beautiful Tomorrow,
Where the skies bend bright.
II.
Storms may break around us,
But we’re goin’ to win the fight
An’ be worthy o’ that country
Where the skies bend bright.
III.
An’ what is all the sorrow?—
A phantom, lost in light—
In the glory of that country
Where the skies bend bright!
AN ARGOSY OF LOVE.
I.
My ships are sailing on the sea,
And straight their course they hold;
And I shall have an argosy
Of love—and not of gold.
Yet, is it true, as wise men say,
Where gold is not, Love flies away?
II.
I know not: I can only trust.
And faith with Love still hold;
With Love fuli sweet would be a
crust:
Without him, what were gold?
Yet, is it, true, as cynics say,
Where gold is not, Love flies away?
ENTERPRISE UNDER DIFFICUL
TIES.
While the earthquake was rocking
San Francisco they were writing a
history of it—and we are to have it
on the stage in spectacular form.
We believe that if there shall happen
to be one man who is overlooked
when the world is burning, he’ll seize
the opportunity to write a story of
“The Great World Conflagration,” to
be read and
"Acted o’er
states unborn and accents yet un
known!”
Com. Garfield.
>vMES RIIPOLPK
GARFIELD, who ha*
scored the Standard
OH Company In an
official report on its
business methods,
(has been commis
sioner of corpora*
tions In the depart
ment of commerce
and labor since 1903.
He is a son of tho
late President James
A. Garfield, and was
born at Hiram, Ohio,
In
BRAND NEW IDEA.
“What a great blessing to humanity
is trouble!”
“A blessing?”
‘Yes: it gives me such good exer
cise running from it. I’m never laid
up with the rheumatics!”
Authors who ride in automobiles
At his great age, the sight and 1 get to Oblivion quicker than the fel-
hearing of Russell Sage are so good lows who have to foot it.
HALF-AND-HALF.
I.
If life be half a sigh, dear
The lonely way along,
Let us still be thankful
If the other half’s a song!
II.
When the sky is shadowed,
And the tempests meet.
Song shall make the darkness
Hear an echo sweet!
III.
/ So. we’ll weave a garland
Where life's lilies throng;
Let life be half a, sigh, dear,
If the other half’s a song!
Crafty Hunter Wasps
^ And Their Victims
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
Musical.
“Papa says he W^es to hear me play
your accompaniments. ITo usaully sits in
the next room you know.”
“Then he admires the music?”
“In a way. He says I always play so
loud that it drowns your voice.”—The
Tatlef.
Knew Enough.
Tt was nine miles from anywhere, and
the motor had broken down.
“Do you know anything about automo-
biles?’’ asked the owner, speaking to a
man in a. gig who was driving along.
“Yes, sir.” said the man, “I do; I’ve
serve to bring the old conceit seething to the snr-t becomes the virtue of tomorrow. Perhaps, in tiine.it
face—where it will he easily seen by the person will evolve in the direction of dress reform-—not
skilled in analyzing human motives and actions. j spell a small matter, when von consider what it
Society, its progress and its laws, is based on the I involves.
of ’em. Good
Leaves from an Old Scrap Booh
• used a* barracks for the contrabands of
ihis department, will, ns it now has been
abandoned for that purpose, he set apart
. for rebel prisoners. Those that are now
confined on Johnson's island. Lake Erie,
will, in all probability, be transported
here within a short time. The reasons
which are the ui-jst potent for the use of
Graney island for this ptirpose are, that
i it is situated in a climate more congenial
to the health of those confined: that it is"
easy of access in the forwarding of sup
plies. and tHat it is nearer the point of
By A GEORGIA COLONEL. t liberation of the confederate officers.
held jirisoners on Johnson-s island. Lake
T HE plot to liberate the confederate | Erie, having failed. In order to remove
prisoners at Johnson’s island cans- j the. misapprehensions that may he cre
ed great excitement in 1863. I find '.'ted by federal accounts of a Canadian
the following about the affair in the oid plot to burn western cities, we give be-
war serc>,jwbook: ) low all tiie facts in which the public is
“The yankee public lias been startled j interested, which may, we are assured,
by the exposure of a plot in Canada to I be implicitly relied on.
release the 2,000 confederate prisoners on ] “The Washington government, having
Johnson’s island, in Bake Erie, and to [ refused to continue the exchange of pris-
burn Ogdenburg and Buffalo. The con-I oners of war under the cartel, sent the j exchange for the delivery of prisoners.
spiracy was exposed in a letter from I southern officers, accustomed to a tropi-
Lord Lyons. The following dispatch has | eal climate to Johnson's Island, where HUNTED FOR REASONS,
been rereived from the United States sec. 2,000 of them were confined in wretched J Said The Richmond Dispatch:
quarters, absolutely unfit to house cat- i “The Herald is filled with reasons why
tie. There Is no reason to doubt tfcat \ ‘the rebel capital B not yet taken.—why
the officers selected for this prison were ‘Burnside is not in Richmond,’ etc. .etc
those on whom the cold, damp climate It says: ‘If such and so and so had not
and exposure would act most prejudicial- been the case, etc.; if the anthorties had
ly. It was. in fact, an attempt to commit ! Tone as old Squint-E'ye wanted them to;
murder, without publicly incurring the the James river route had been taken;
odium of slaughter. I *f McClellan had been lot alone; if pon-
“In these circumstances the confederate toons had been furnished to Burnside; if
government determined to make an at- | 50,000 more men had 'been sent him; in
tempi’ to rescue the doomed offiers, and ®bort, if he and his (predecessor had not
for this purpose an expedition was fitted nhoVnin^T si'rnvnd Vn ? he Chic-
. * , ... * . ... Thorn lny around to h redencksburg .the
out. consisting of thirty-six officers, un- abolitionists might now be in the rebel
retary of war by the mayor of Buffalo:
“ 'Washington, Midnight, November I I■—
To the Mayor of Buffalo: The British
minister, Eord Dyons, lias tonight official,
ly notified the government that from tel
egraphic information received from the
governor general of Canada, there is rea
son to believe there is a plot on foot by
persons who have found asylum in Can
ada, to invade the United States and de
stroy the city of Buffalo; that they pro
pose to take .possession of some steam
boats on Lake Erie, to surprise Johnson’s ° 1H . consisting oi imrty-six otneers, un- j abolitionists might now be in the" rebel
island, free the prisoners of war confined j ‘b. 1 ’ the command of one who had distin- stronghold, and the heart of the rebellion
there, and proceed with them to Buffalo. ■ guished. himself in similar dashing en- | crushed.’ That *f is a terrible obstruc-
This government will employ all means j lerprir,-, and 800 men. The officers cm- ; ''’!?• P'’ ov e a.s good a peace-
in its power to suppress any hostile at- I barked at Wilmington on the confederate ke L o d Abe as u dld for Touch-
tack from Canada; but as other towns | jteanier Robert E. Lee, and landed at
and cities on the shores of the lakes are 1 Halifax. The cotton and tobacco brought
exposed to the same danger, it is deemed ' by that steamer, as freight, were sold to
proper to communicate this information I furnish the funds required, amounting to
to you, in order that any precautions may ! about $110,000. The then came overland
be taken. The governor general suggests through the states, in small parties, to
that steamboats or other vessels, giving ^be general rendezvous,
cause for suspicion by the number or i lie intention was ro surprise the fed-
eharacter of persons on board, shall be era ' garrison on Johnson's island, liberate
arrested. jthe prisoners, convey them to Canada in
“ ’You will please acknowledge the re- vessels provided for that purpose, and
celpt of this dispatch, and communicate forward them by Halifax to Nassau or | shells were tired, to all of which .he
to tills department any Information you \ Bermuda, the greater part of the funds brave garrison were unavoidably exposed
may now or hereafter have on this sub- 1 being specially devoted to paying their >iu consequence of the dense smoke and
j**t. EDWIN M. STANTON. passage to one of these points. \ great heat of the place. Notwithstanding
“ ‘Secretary of War.’ j Any further operations on the lakes this, the only casualty by the enemy’s
‘•The Baltimore American says that wore left , to the discretion of the office* fire was that of Liutenant Elliott who
the number of rebel prisoners on John-j in command, whose orders were stringent ' was slightly wounded bv a Parrott shell
B ?t" f! an<5 ~. 0Ver two thousand—nearly; and peremptory to avoM a breach of ! knocking off some bricks one of which
un « ffloer -:7 an <l that, in view of British neutrality, and to take 1 knockmg olt som " bri ‘ ks ’ ono of whlch
an apprehended attempt to escape, the ' v
gunboat Michigan was ordered thither. ; *’ _
and has arrived. As these prisoners could should be prevented. Had Johnson'^, ■ state, have not incapacitated him from
(not leave the island, excepting with the i island been taken, it might have formet! duty and lie still remains in command
aid of vessels, the story is not impossible a base for other operations against fea- ’ remains m command,
that the transports were to be l'urnishei eral commerce on the lakes, hut the real ,
stone.”
IN SUMTER
The Charleston Courier In 1863 publish
ed the following:
“The enemy, in the action of Frfiday,
upon the discovery of the fire, opened,
for the time it lasted, the heaviest lire
upon the fort yet experienced, directing
thely shots upon the angle from which
the flames were issuing. Two hundred
and twenty-live rifle shots and mortar
been run over by four
morning.”—Tit-Bits.
Learning.
The new cook was helping her mistress
to prepare dinner. All went well until
the macaroni for the pudding was
brought out. The cook glow’ed with sur
prise as she beheld the long white sticks.
But when they were carefully placed in
water she gave a choking gasp.
“Did you say. missus?” she said, in an
awed voice, “that you are goin’ to make
puddin' out of that?”
“Yes. Jane.” was the reply, “that is
what I Intended to do. Have you never
seen macaroni cooked before?”
“No. ma’am.’ ’answered the cook. “I
ain’t. The last place T was at we always
used them things to light the gas with.”
—Saturday Evening Pest.
Logic.
fFrom The Graphic.)
Two Irishmen were moving some kegs
of powder when one noticed that the
other was smoking, and the following
•conversation ensued: “Look hero,” sa'd
one, “ain’t ye got any better sense than
to be smoking whilst we’re handling
these ’ere kegs of powder? Don't you
"know that there wa's an explosion yes
terday which blew up a dozen men?”
“Enith, but that cud never happen
here,” replied the other. “Why not?”
“Bekase there’s only two of os on this
job.”
Discouraging Quest for Capiital.
(From Harper’s Weekly.1 '
One of Pittsburg's bank presidents Is
a friend and most unassuming benefac
tor of ambitious young men. He is sym
pathetic when listening to eases which
have merit and encouragement, hut can
also dismiss an Interviewer .with admira
ble abruptness.
A youth on one occasion entered the
banker's office and 'jovially announced
that he intended going to college. He
intimated that a little assistance in the
matter of obtaining a scholarship would
be a most convenient asset with which
to start on his career.
‘"And to what profession do you as
pire?” questioned the president gra
ciously.
“I won’t give up." asserted the young
man, boldly, “until I am privileged to
place after my. name the letters D.D.,
LL. D.”
The banker turned in his chair and in
timated that the interview was at an
end by saying, tersely:
“A capital idea, sir, but one entirely
beyond the resources of this ‘bank.”
HE housekeeper does not
love the “mud-dauber”
wasp, and surely no one
can blame her, when trie
summer fight comes on,
and it is a daily watch
and .ward to preserve her
walls and ceilings and pic
tures from the desecration
of being used as building
sites for sundry mud
houses. For just as soon
ns tho spring warmth has
awakened the maternal
instincts of the insect world, the mud-
d’nuber wasp, aroused from her winter
sleep some time before, may be seen
hastening on her way to the margin of a
stream or pond. There is no uncertainty-
in her flight. She knows just what sne
wants, and where to get it, and how to
get it. In this the humble mud-dauber
is wiser than her human brothers, for
ofttimes they do not know (what they
want, nor where to get it. nor how to
get it.
But the little mud-dauber knows.lt all
from beginning to end. She was horn
with the knowledge, and it never leaves
her. Down to the very margin of the
stream, puddle or pond, she goes, anu
neither hesitates nor experiments before
beginning to gather her building mate
rial. It is only mud, but mud well
kneaded and manipulated by her mandi
bles. whibh are both spade and hoe, and
mixer, so that it becomes mortar, rather
than mere mud. In this manipulation
some substance is worked into the mass,
that is evolved by the wasp, a sort of
liquid cement that converts the mud into
a genuine, stiff mortar. When this mass
is worked over to her content—and be
sijre jhat there is no slighting or slurring
in her work—the mud-dauber fills her
mandibles, and then awa.v she flits to a
spot previously settled upon as a build
ing site. It is preferably some rather
rough surface, rock or wall, or board or
beam. But often, when these are not
handy, sometimes even when they are,
the quiet, dark seclusion of the back of
a picture frame, or a dark corner behind
a door, is a. favorite site for the mud
house. And it is just here that the ex
asperated housekeeper comes to the
front, and 1 wages furious war on the un
witting offender, who so ruthlessly breaks
all the laws of household neatness and
tidiness by utilizing her walls as build
ing sites for mud dwellings.
MASON AND HUNTER.
Having reached her destination, and
the word “she” is used because it is
never the male wasp that survives the
winter, and is seen in the early spring,
the mud-dauber spreads her mite of mud-
mortar, and 'with head and feet shapes
it to her satisfaction. Then she hustles
away for another load, .and thus flits
back and fortli many, many times, with
•most commendable patience, until she
had built a tubular cell about one inch
long, and three-eights of an inch wide.
And then, from mason, she turns hun
ter. Alas for the spiders in that vicinity,
busy with their own hunting expeditions,
their cob-web traps, and the unsuspeet-
insects that alight in their midst.
hunter. Cell after cell is added to the
first, spider after spider captured and
placed within them, and a single egg,
always only a single one, laid in each
cell before it is sealed up. Watch the
haunts of the spiders in the late spring
or early summer, and you will always
see the energetic wasp l*iwking near or
over the ceils. She is a bold hunter,
venturing Into the beaded and meshed
snares that serve as fatal traps for the
smaller and weaker Insects, and some
times prove the undoing even of the
mud-dia.uber herself. But only sometimes.
As a rule, this wasp, pouncing down on
the spider in the very midst of its cob
web castle, shakes the silken filaments
from her wings and feet, turns upon the
spider, stings it, snatches It up in her
strong claws, and bears It away in tri
umph.
But cobwebs are not the or$y hunting
grounds of the mud-dauber. Hovering
among the flowers, burrowing among
dead leaves on the ground, creeping along
the limbs of trees and shrubs, searching
in the grass, or wherever spiders most
do congregate, there we find madam
mud-dauber at. work. Not unt> one coll
after another is filled to the brim does |
she seal up the entrance, entombing her j
prey alive.
Alive, yet seemingly, so dead that the j
casual observer, opening the cells at this i
stage, would at once pronounce life ex
tinct. Occasionaly it happens that this
is really the case, for once in a while
the wasp poison seems to be espeeially
virulent, or to strike a vital spot, and
then it kills at once. Usually, however,
as we have seen, its action is merely to
paralyze for about two wet ks, and
where the cells are sealed, this action
is slower still. But, however long the
victim may be “alive, yet dead,’’ there
is no recovery from the poison. Sooner
or later, it kills. But its slow action
Insures to the voracious larva an ample
supply of live spiders, which is its natu
ral food.
NATURE’S ART.
It Is well to note in passing, that na
ture, In the person of a humble insect
had attained the art of preserving ani
mal flesh without impairing its value as
food. In the sting of the wasp was the
preservative that kept the flesh in its
natural state indefinitely, through sus
pended animation, while the sealing of
the cell protected it from the deteriorat
ing effect of air and water.
When the shut in larva has eaten all
that it can find to devour, it follows the
next law of its nature, and spins about
itself a thin envelope. Then 't passes
into the chrysalis state, and when this
period has passed, and it has become
possessed of wings and legs, and sharp
mandibles, it cuts its way out into the
world. From this point it starts upon
the self same course of life that its
forbears have followed for countless
generations. The open door through
which It escaped may often be plainly
seen.
The mud-dauber usually places its
cells one on top of the other, in small
clusters, binding all together with a
smooth coat of mortar, so that they
look almost like one, save for the pro
jecting ends of the cells. The big blue
mud^lauber sometimes builds its cells
alongside of one another, like the pipes
of an organ. Sometimes little black dig
in 1865. Twenty years later he was grad
uated front Williams college, then studied
in the University of Columbia law school,
and was admitted to the baa- In 1888. Mr.
Garfield was a member of the Ohio sen
ate from 1896 until 1899, and also has
served on the United States civil service
commission. He Is a trustee of Williams
college and is president of the board oi
trustees of Lake Erie college, at Paines-
ville, Ohio. His wife was Miss Helen
Newell of Chicago.
IVY COUNCILOR
GOREMYK IN, w ho
succeeds Count Witte
as Russian premier,
for some years lias
taken a conspicuous
part in Russian po
litical affairs. Ho
was minister of the
Interior from 1895
until 1899. and a
rear ago wa s made
head of a commission
to counteract tho
G. Goremykin. agrarian movement
in the Caucasus. In a general way be is
considered to be a reactionary and incom
petent to deal with the present crisis, b it
his administration has not been marked
with any undue harshness. Count Witte
lias won a name in history for hi s ne
gotiation last year of the pence treaty
with Japan at Portsmouth, N. H. He is
57 years Oid. and has had official connec.
tion with the Russian government since
1877. He has been at the head of the
railway and finance departments, and
from .August, 1903, until the establishing
of a “responsible ministry,” was presi
dent of the committee of ministers. He
was born in 1849, of German origin.
IA RLES F i TZPAT.
RICK, who is to he
promoted to the chief
justiceship of Can
ada, Is minister of
justice in the Lau-
rier cabinet, and is
distinguished as a
lawyer. He is moled
for his eloquence,
speaiking both French
and English, rid was
conspicuous In the
settlement of the
C. Fitzpatrick. Manitoba school
question. Mr. Fitzpatrick was born in
Quebec in 1853. For a time he ./as crown
prosecutor of the Quebec district, and also
was a. member of the provincial cabinet.
He defended Louis Riel after tha P.ed
ri ver uprising of 1885. His wife is a sis
ter to Sir Adolphe Carom.
USTRIAN newspapers
assert that the crown
prince and princess
of Montenegro are
ruining their coun
try by their extrava
gant tastes^ Ths
crown prlnjj
said to be
enamored dia
monds* the iM’.cc la
said to lavish them
upon her, the prince’s
father is said to cn-
Crown Princess, courage them-sn*
the result. It is claimed, i s taxation For
some time dissatisfaction has existed,
but unmistakable symptoms Indicate that
it is rapidly coming to a head.
T CE ADMIRAL DOT’-
DASSCFF, governor
general of Moscow,
who narrowly es
caped death yester
day when a bomb
was thrown at his
carriage, wounding
him, is hated by the
people of Russia for
the stern measures
with Which he put
down the outbreaks
_ , in the old capital of
Doubassolf. [he czars. He is
charged with having armed the Bla. k
Hundred, and his troops are said to have
aided these thugs in their work- of slaugh
ter. Doubassoff is a. representative of
the aristocratic reactionaries, and i.= a
Strong opponent of the reform movement
which has swept over Russia. Little is
known of hi s naval exploits or of the
achievements through which he wag ad
vanced. He is 55 years old.
little thinking that with them It will 30or, i & er wasps may be seen emerging from
be a case of “the biter bit.” these cells. Not that their own legiti-
For right down upon them swoops the I mate “mar” has built them, though
big mud-dauber, seizes a nice,' plump i Not at all. The black digger wasp does
specimen and darts away, stinging her
captive as she flies, unless she has suc
ceeded in doing so at the moment of cap
ture- To thrust the unlucky spider into
not take the trouble to construct her
own cells. She thinks It much nicer to
lay her eggs in the cells built by more
industrious wasps. In short, the black
care that I struck him-in tho bead and another in
The Saturday Evening Post.
_ .. . , , — ... . There was a paradef in the morning.
gunboat Michigan was” ordered thither, ; l , v n _ semblanc e iwf^rnational wrong j the foot. His wounds, we are happy to j in which all the visiting statesmen rode
In carriages. The -local committee
(brought the earrings# around to 11 jo
The total number of casualties by the j Portland hotel. The scheme was to have
A Distinction or a Difference.
A congressional - committee went to the newly built tube-cell is the work jf a diggi r is the cuckoo of the wasp family,
Portland. Ore., to nsAst in the (opening I moment, and then she hastens aiway io.- the land grabber and the uninvited guest
of the exposition on June 1 last, says another and yet another, until the cell of the human family.
by their sympathizing friends.”
A CANADIAN VERSION.
The following account of the plot to i taln dca:1 ‘ ln a climate and situation in
liberate the prisoners on Johnson's island tll .f, ,ast degree inimical to them.
■» *>■* Canadian Evnn.n, Ta,.- ; U| , A *K£ h 3T n
it am. says:
“THe •xpedltRfti intended to effect the , “ ‘It la said that Craney island, so long
object of tho expo." tion was to rescue declarable occurrence was. we aire in
2.000 valuable lives /rum Hie cruelty formed, eleven killed and forty wounded,
which had devoted them to slow but eer- I We have been unable as yet to obtain
a full list, the official report not haring
been t^celved up to eleven o'clock last
nig!/.
“Among the killed are Captain Frost,
Continued on Third Page
two local men in each carriage.
After the vice ipresider.i and his party
had been sent away, a Portland notable,
who was acting as majordomo. came
into the lobby of the 'hotel, where the
statesmen were waiting, and bawled:.
“Two congressmen and two gentle
men. please l”
is filled to the brim. Then the wasp lays | But the mud-dauber is not the only
one single egg In their midst, and liermet- ] hunter among the wasps, nor are spiders
Ically seals up the opening with her mud j the only Insects hunted. Few insects in
mortar. The spiders thus entombed are j fact, are exempt from the pursuit of
Some of the latter provision
not dead, understand. The poison in the
sting of the wasp is not a death-dealing
poison, not. at least, a swift acting one.
It paralyses, but does not kill for -»t
least two weeks. Anti meantime the egg3
in the cell hatches, and the hungry larva
(feeds eagerly on the living food shut in
with if.
The mud-dauber is a very busy insect
all this time. She Is both mason and
wasps. Some of
their cells with grasshoppers. Other pre
fer snout beetles, others again, cock
roaches. aphides, ants, bees, or the larva
of moths. Still others like two-winged
flits the best. This is why the hornets
and some other varieties of the wasp
family come flying into our kitchens and
Continued on Fourth Page.
HAVANA HEALTHFUL.
(From The Havana Post.)
Dr. Wilson’s trite statement to
American Public Health convention that
Havana has washed her face and left
her underclothing dirty” already bids
fair to lose the force which made It so
widely quoted a year or more ago. The
statement was so true at the time it
was uttered that not even the Cuban
health department officials, most of
whom were present, could do more than
blush with embarrassement caused by
the old doctor’s frank shot.
But things arc certainly beginning to
be different now. All who have follow
ed the work of the sanitary department
know that the cleansing which has begun
in various streets in the lower part of
tho city, and is being carried on stead
ily every day, have confidence that the
much quoted statement of Dr Wilson
will not in future fairly apply.'
It is true that construction of a com
plete sewer system still awaits a begin
ning, and it is true that progress of re
moving all filth .from interiors, and of
enloreing requiretnenments of cleanli
ness, under the new decrees inside of
all premises, is going on as yet slpwly.
The $200,000 turned over (by decree
of the president for these cleaning-up
operations in Havana and other large
cities of the island Is perhaps no vast
amount with which to carry on this all-
important reform. But, nevertheless,
the beginning has been made the past
few weeks, and well made. What has
been done is thoroughly done and the
officers of the sanitary department have
an air of quiet determination in directing
these matters, born of the broad poweis
conferred upon them by the new sani
tary decrees. They are now clothed
with the authority which they formerly
complained of not having, and they
have a special appropriation for the new
sanitation campaign, with another $200,-
000 included in the regular expense
budget shortly to be voted upon by con
gress. So, to use a slang expression, it
is ‘up ’ to the department to carry out
a reform which shall give Cuban cities
a reputation for cleanliless Inwardly as
well as outwardly. The Post sincerely
compliments -the corps of efoetors and
assistants In charge of this important
‘oil °. Utset - We trust congres*
- U, " ot ..I 1 ° rea,, *e the importance
of liberality toward the defluuncot **
health and sanitation.
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