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- t • s EDITORIAL PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH MAY 12, 6»« SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Busine/s Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA Subscription Terms : * To those who aubtcrib* to Ghe Sonny South only Six Months, 25c 'N One Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEES titered at the foitefflce Atlanta, Ga««aa ■econd-rlas, mall matter March 13,1901 sm 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 weekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of ecUpas 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. i