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PILE ERECTED AT STONY BATTER.
The birthplace of James Buchanan,
the only President Pennsylvania has
given the Nation, has at last been
marked by a monument.
It was 116 years ago that James
Buchanan was born, near the village
of Flotz, in Franklin County, at a
place calied Stony Batter. Before
the present monument was erected
there was nothing about the cabin, in
which the fifteenth President first
saw the light of day, to indicate that
it had once sheltered the only son
of this State who became the head
of the Nation.
By the will of Harriet Lane John
son, of Washington, D. C., niece of
President Buchanan and mistress of
the White House during her uncle's
term, agsum of money was set aside
to erect\a marker at her uncle's birth
place. - This monument has _ been
finished..
The marker is pyramidal in shape,
thirty-one feet high and thirty-eight
ABYSSINIA'S RULER.
Yielding to the progressive spirit of
the time, the King of far-away and
secluded Abyssinia has decided to
give his country a constitutional gov-
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ernment, and to that end has ap
pointed ‘a cabinet on European lines.
A parliament elected by the people
will' be established -in due time.
King Menelik has shown himself in
many other instances a liberal and
intelligent sovereign. He has nego
tiated treaties with several of the
leading countries looking to an en
largement of commercial relations
with them. His country is provided
with no seaport, but it is to be con
nected with the coast by a railroad
built by foreign capitalists, to whom
he has made concessions. Menelik
calls himself Emperor of Ethiopia,
and claims to be a direct descendant
of King So&\lgnon and the Queen of
Sheba. -He ‘gained his throne only
after a fierce struggle with opposing
claimants.. He has been one of the
best rulers his country ever had. One
of the remarkable features of his!
reign was the terrible defeat admin
istered to the Italian army by the
Abyssinians at Adowa. Menelik has
expressed a desire to have the negroes ‘
from the Southern States of America
emigrate to and settle in his country, }
and has promised them good treat-!
ment and every pessible advantage.l
No exodus from the South to Abys
sinia has as yet begun.—Leslie's
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feet square. The body of the monu
ment is composed of native stones,
showing the weather marks, many
being covered with moss. The .stones
are set in cement, of which over three
and one-half carloads were used. The
inscription plate and seat are made
of hammered American gra’ granite.
The plate is six by two and one-half
feect and the letters are three inches
high. The inscription is as follows:
“This monument marks the birth
place of James Buchanan, fifteenth
President of the United States. Born
April 23, 1791. Died June 1, 1868.”
The monument stands near the
cabin in which President Buchanan
was born. The country round about
is wild and has not changed greatly
since the time the President, as a boy,
played in the mountains. The mon
ument will be inclosed by a neat iron
fence and the ground inside will be
graded and sodded for a distance of
fifty feet.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Herds of Elk in Kansas,
Up to fifty or sixty vears ago big
game abounded in this vicinity. Buf
falo, elk, deer, antelope and bear were
ias plentiful as rabbits are to-day.
' During the later years of his life the
famous hunter, Daniel Boone, came
annually to what is now Jefferson
. County to hunt. .
The noted surveyor, John MecCoy,
who surveyed the Fort Leavenworth
reservation and most of the Indian
reservations of Kansas, says: ‘“One
evening on going into camp near
Stranger Creek, on our way out, less
than twenty miles from Cantonment
Leavenworth, a herd of elk, estimat
ed to number 200 or 300, was en
countered, and several killed. (This
was in 18%0.) Captain Martin in
1818 camped for the winter with
three companies of United States
riffemen on Crow island, ten miles
above Leavenworth, and during that
winter killed betwen 2000 and 3000
deer, besides great numbers of bears
and turkeys.”’—Potter Kansan.
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Fooled Bloodhounds by Chemical.
Acting under orders of Governor
Glenn, Sheriff Biddle, of Craven
County, N. C., brought Joe Bailey,
negro, the alleged murderer of John
M. Lancaster, a merchant of Vance
boro, to Raleigh for safe keeping.
The killing of Lancaster aroused pub
lic indignation, and posses were or
ganized, bloodhounds were secured,
and the swamps were searched. By
the use of a chemical concoction on
the soles of his shoes, the negro threw
the dogs off his trai! when within 200
vards of him, but he was captured
while crossing a bridge.
* Insects That Are Eaten.
| - By Percy Collins.
Probably few persons are aware
that insects, as a group, cons.itute &
source of food supply for the races of
mankind. Yet insects have been
eaten fronr time immemorial, some
times figuring as luxuries, at dtl{:m
as a staple article of diet. Perhaps
the chief food insect—and’a very im
poriant one, too—is the locust. It
furnishes the favorite food of many
numerous African tribes, some na
tions living almost exclusively upon
its teeming hordes. Locusts have
been regarded as luxuries from the
earliest times of which any records
remain to us. In the British Museum
there is a Ninevah sculpture showing
men carrying different kinds of meat
to some festival, and among them
are some who carry long sticks to
which locusts are tied. In Athens of
old, locusts and grasshoppers were
sold in the markets, and they were
then preferred as dainties above the
most succulent quails or the best figs.
In the law of Moses, as set forth in
the book of Leviticus, we find locusts
permitted as food to the Jews; and
to the present day, in Palestine, these
insects are fried in sesame oil and
eaten. In Arabia Petrea locusts are
dried in the sun and ground into a
kind of flour for cake-making. In
Central Africa certain tribes make‘
them into thick brown soup. In\
Madagascar they are baked in huge‘
jars, then fried in grease and mixed
‘ with rice. In Algeria they are sim
i ply boiled in water and salted to}
Itaste. The Arabs grind and bake
| them as cakes, roast them in butter,!
or crush them with camel's cheesei
l and dates; but it is said that they
only resort to this fare in years ot‘
famine. In Southern Russia, where
locusts are still extensively eaten by
the serfs, the insects are usually‘
smoked in the first instance like fish. }
When rgquired for consumption, the
legs and wings are bro’ken off, and
the bodies are then boiled, roasted,
stewed, fried or broiled. ‘
According to Mr. P. L. Simmonds,
who made an exhaustive study of
Istrange kinds of animal food, the.
flavor of locusts, while strong and
disagreeable when raw, becomes mild |
and readily disguised when cooked.
In fact, from his own experience, and
that of several of his friends wbom‘
he induced to partake of the fare, he
assures us that a broth made by boll—‘
ing the unfledged Calopteri (a Rocky
Mountain species) for two hours in‘
the proper quantity of water, and
seasoned only with pepper and salt, is
quite palatable and scarcely to be
_distinguished from beef broth. From
the same authority we learn that 10-’
custs, fried in their own oil, and with
the addition of a little salt, have
quite a nutty flavor, and are by no
means unpleasant eating. Indeed, the
fla‘or very quickly becomes an “ac
quired taste,” and the experienced lo
cust eater grows very fond of it. That
a judicious course of locust fare is
wholesome and nourishing cannot be
doubted, for locust-eating tribes in
variably grow fat when the food is
plentiful. Moreover, it has been sug
gested that these insects, nicely
cooked and served, would prove bene
ficial in cases of wasting disease.
Apart from locusts, the most pop
~ular insect food consists of grubs and
caterpiliars, of avhich many Sspecies
are eaten with avidily in different
countries of the civilized world. Few
people realize that the grub of the
common cockchafer (Melolontha);,
when properly dressed, forms a nu
tritious and actually dainty food. Yet
such is unquestionably the case.
Twenty years or 'so ago a hanquet
was given at the Case (ustoza in
} Paris for the special purpoze of dem
\ onstrating the excellent qualities of
the ver blanc, as this grub is called.
The insects were fried to a golden
brown color in a paste of flour, milk
and eggs; and of the fifty guests pres
ent, the majority called for a second
helping. A recipe for cooking these
grubs, which is still extensively em
ployed in certain parts of France, is
as follows: “Roll the: vers blancs,
which are short and fat, in flour and
bread crumbs, with a little salt and
pepper, and wrap them in a stout
piece of paper, well huttered inside.
Place it in the hot embers, and leave
it to cook for twenty minuteg, more
or less, according to the degree of
heat. On opening the envelope a very
appetizing odor, exhales, which dis
poses one favorably to taste the deli
cacy, which -vill be more appetizing
than snails, and will be declared one
of the finest delicacies ever tasted.” ‘
That the ancient Romans were
very partial to a ‘large wood-boringi
grub as a dainty is certain, but exact- ‘
ly what this insect was has néver yvet
been satisfactorily explained. 'l‘hc‘
Romans called it “Cossus;” but the
Cossus of our day is the grub of the
large goat mot}x, at times so destruc
tive to fruit trees. This insect pos
sesses a very objectionable odor,
which seems to indicate an equaliy
Horse Must Not Shy at Motor.
Horses have no business to be fright
ened at motor cars. Such is the lat
est decision of M} Sere de Rivieres,
the “Good Judge” of Paris. A case
was brought before him by the own
er df two horses which had been
frightened by the passing of two mo
tor cycies on one ot the public high
ways in the Department of the Som
me. The driver, in trying to master
the horses, was run over by the cart.
The owner sued for damages. The
Judge decided they were not due, as
horses ought to be trained %o as not
to shy at the noises of motor vehi
cles. If peasants had no motor ears
to supply the object lesson, so much
the worse for the peasants.—Paris
Correspondent London Telegraph,
unpleasant taste, so that it seems u.-
likely that epicures of the past can
have found in it any attractions.
Some naturalists are inclined to re
gard the grub of the Stag beetle as
the original “Cossus,” and certainly
its larva is sufficiently large to make
a juicy mouthful, while there is no
reason to suppose that it would prove
less appetizing than the ver blanec.
On the whole, however, the larva of
the large wood-boring beetle known
as Prionus seems most likely to have
been the Roman dainty. It is found
all over Europe. in half-decayed oak
trees, grows to a great size, and un
questionably possesses culinary possi
bilities. 3
So far as the writer is aware, the
only butterfly distinguished by sup
plying food to mankind is the Aus
tralian species called by the natives
“Bugong.” Regularly every vear this
insect congregates in vast swarms on
the rock slopes of the Bugong Moun
tains, and it is said that the natives
light great fires beneath the trees
upon which the butterflies have
settled for the night, thus suffocating
them and bringing them to earth.
When a sufficient quantity has been
collected, the fire is cleared away, and
the insects are spread upon the heat
ed ground and raked about until their
legs, wings and feelers are singed off.
The bodies are then pounded into a
pulp in a wooden vessel, and after
ward made into cakes.
Among the insects that are eaten
it is necessary to include the famous
grugru, or palm grub, of the West
Indies, with the allied species found
in Java, These grubs, when roasted
on tiny spits and richly spiced, are
said to surpass all other kinds of ani
mal food in flavor. This, however,
appears to be an acquired taste, for
the traveler Leblond, who ate them in
the Isle of Reunion, says that at first
he thought them disgusting, but that
after a little time he grew aceus
tomed to them, and found them ex
cellent. , .
Many other insects have been, and
‘are, used as dainties. The ancient
Greeks were very fond of cicadas,
or harvest fliess—insects of a very
wide geographical range, whose shrill
note is a familiar country sound
throughout the Southern States dur
ing the summer season. Cicadas are
also eaten to-day by certain African
tribes. The Greeks also were eaters
of crickets; nor are these insects
neglected at the present day, for the
natives of a large portion of South
eastern Africa dig up a large subter
ranean species, and roast it over a
bright fire for food. -
In China, where almost every kind
of animal food, whether predisposing
in aspect or the reverse, finds a ready
‘market, the chrysalids or silkworms
are regarded as a luxury by the lower
classes. They are sold in the streets
‘—after the valuable cocoons of yel
low silk have been removed from
them—and find willing buyers at a
price equal to about ten cents per
pound. As to their edible qualities,
nothing can be said, for no civilized
being has proved bold enough to taste
the dish. The mere fact that the
chrysalids are relished by the Chinese
goes for nothing, it heing impossible
to place any confidence in the nationat
palate of a Tace which actually raises
the grubs of bluebottle flies in heaps
of putrid fish near the seacoast, and
values the produce mcre highly than
the facility of obtaining it would lead
us to helieve,
\ It is related by M. Daguin that
\French peasant children are in the
‘habit of catching wild bees for the
purpose of sqeezing from thém the
‘minute store of honey which each has
collected. This reminds one of the
use made of the Mexican honey anz,
Those who have paid any attention
to the natural history of this remark
able insect will be aware that certain
individuals in its colonies have the
power of drinkicg in an enormous
quantity of sweet nectar, until they
become converted into veritable
honey pots. They are used, in fact,
as honey pots, to which the other
ants bring their surplus store of
sweets, and from which they draw a
supply when they are pressed by
hunger. Now these ants, distended
with sweet juices, are sold by measure
in the Mexican markets,
In conclusion, it may be said that
all civilized races are insect eateys
unconsciously, Therg is a small
beetle, known as tie corn weevil,
which infests grain to an enormous
extent., It has been known to damage
hopelessly a cargo of wheat worth
SBO,OOO during the voyage across the
Atlantic; while even the cleanest and
best wheat, after it has been stored
for a period, is almost certain to har
bor at least a few of these pests.
And when this wheat is converted
into flour, the heetles are ground up
with it, and thus become a part of our
bread, cakes and confections.—¥rom
the Scientific American.
We Should Outgrow Our Wounds,
Nature has a beautiful way ot over
growing her wounds and hiding her
scars; if the hark be knocked off a
tree in due time the evidence of the
wound will bz cbliterated, the vital
processes in the tree itself will find a
g‘.fl.y to cover the scar. This is a les
gouut, a blessed lesson, that men should .
learn. We ought so outgrow the”
wounds we receive from others. If
we have in us a full and abounding
life we will outgrow them. A pin
scrateh wili not make a permanent
wound on a heaithy skin.— Western
Methnodist.
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The Atlantic fleet, now on its way
to the Pacific, comprises 222,000 tons
of tighting ships.
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dotted challis is trimmed with lace
and banding, but lawn, batiste,
French gingham and all the inexpen
sive wash fabrics are admirable for
the purpose, and lace, embroidery or
any preferred finish can be used, The
big collar is becoming and attractive,
and the elbow sleeves are eminently
graceful, but the long ones, finished
with cuffs, poseess certain practical
advantages so that the choice of the
two is likely to be a welcome one,
The jacket is made with fronts and
back and the circular basque portion,
which is joined to it by means of a
belt. The collar is arranged over the
neck and shoulders, and hoth the el
bow sleeves and the long ones are
gathered into bands. The long
sleeves are left plain, however, while
the elbow sleeves are finished with
pointed frills.
« The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four and one
half yards twenty-four, three. and
seven-eighth yards thirty-two or two
and one-eighth yards forty-four
inches wide with sic yards of em
broidery, four" yards of insertion and
one and one-half yards of beading,
Pows and Bows, |
The little lingerie bows show no
end of pretty ideas. Some are made
from fineé edging of embroidery; oth
ers, of linen, have hemstitched ends
and the tiniest of lace motifs set in
above. Batiste is trimmed with the
narrowest thread lace, and handker
chief linen is often embroidered in a
color or simply bemmed with it, each
End all perfectly charming in effect.
Butterfly bows of colored chiffon and
velvet are added to the family of
bows this season. i
Tucked Blouse or Shirt Waist.
The simpiy tucked shirt waist is a
prime favorite and fills an all impor
tant place in every wardrobe. It can
be trimmed with a little embroidery
or with frills, as in this instance, or it
can be left plain, and it can be made
from a whole host of attractive mate
rials while it is equally well adapted
to the gown and to the odd blouse.
In this instance handkerchief linen is
finished with frills of the same and
with bands that are scalloped at their
edges, but madras gcan be used for
such a waist as this, the cotton lawns
are in every way desirable and for an
entire gown such materials as dimity,
figured batiste, lawns and the like are
charming.. The elbow sleeves are
both becoming and comfortable dur
ing the warm weather, but long ones
can be suitituted if a more severe
effect is required. In addition to all
the materials mentioned, taffeta and
the very thin wash flannels botfi are
suited to the model which, when
made from both of these becomes ex
cellently well adapted to hard usage.
The waist is made with fronts and
back. The back is tucked to give tap
ering lines to the figure, but the
fronts are arranged in groups of
tucks and are becomingly full and
soft, There is a regulation shirt
walst pleat at the front edge. The
elbow sleeves can bhe tucked or gath
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a choice allowed of turn-over or stock
collar,
The qguantity of material required
for rthe medium size is three and
three-quarter yards twenty-one, three
and one-half yards twenty-seven or
two yards forty-four inches wide,
with two yards of rufling.
Evening Dress Tip.
Pale tinted goft satin wears better
than chiffon or chiffon cloth. A prae
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such material with only a little soft
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