HE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA.
TO FKKSHEN FLOWERS.
CAN XI HALS OF NEW HKItKIDK.S.
Their Feathers Cost Forty
Five Dollars An Ounce.
CANNOT BE IMITATED
V1lle Algrrta In This Country Arr
Nvw Protected the Demand for
Their Plumes Has Sent Hunters to
India, China and llunnah Work
of the Andubon Societies.
.Six times a year a sale of plumage
1 '.(!s Is held In Mincing Lane, Lon-
n. Look down the long tables
er which stoop the connoisseurs
: i color and the quality of feathers.
There are gorogous tall feathers
from Australian lyre birds, and hum
mlng birds from Venezuelan thick
ets. Ibis wings from up the Nile,
parrots and tanagers from the Ama
zon, with peacocks and pheasants
from India. There are purple, yel
low and green fruit pigeons from
North Africa, orioles, swallows,
honeysuckles, toucans, trogous, the
quetzal, too, sacred and resplendent,
with crested orange and scarlet cock-of-the-rock.
Lastly, there are the
glorious bird of paradise from New
Guinea, with sweeping plumes of
silk and gold, and sixty varieties of
aleret and heron.
Surely the world has been de
spoiled of Its feathered beauty for
women's hats. And each bird differs
In beauty from the other, as one
differs from another star In glory.
"Hem, 3.02C oz. of osprny," tho
tntlliner's pride, you read in the cata
loL-ue. India, Chlua, Japan, Austra
lia, Africa and both American con
tinents have been diligently hunted
for It is fine and prelcous stuff, lllmy
and delicate as a woman's hair.
Ei'fli beautiful bird yields but ono
sixth of an ounce of onprey, and
2"0,000 birds were sacrificed for the
I'n i la market alone last season.
The much sought after trophy con
sists of the loose, slender waving
plumes of the snowy heron, which
cannot be Imitated artificially. Hu
ninn fingers may dexterously model
a white wax arum lily; a rose that
would deceive the honeysucking beo,
but the snowy silver, fiber plume of
the white algret Is beyond imitation.
And so the heron's enemies are
abroad over the earth, and the
dealers In great cities seek to reen
force them by making tempting
offers to traders, missionaries, naval
f ".-1 military officers on foreign sta-
:n. Consuls and explorers gen-
.. n.
Tn China the blue bloused peas
s call these birds "the good to
. .," and they encourage them to
h :;rch the rice fields for food. But I
now that the plume hunter is found
In every province of China, seeking
noddling bunches of slender beauty
for women's hats there Is no more
homing of the herons to their here
ditary nests above giant Buddhas,
tolling the hour of the dusk to all
the village.
The finest tufts are the wed
ding garments of both birds. They
grow only as breeding time on the
algret's back and droop gracefully
over sides and tall. The less fine
plumes, with shorter and stiff er fila
ments, such as form the yellow
algret, are plucked from the buff
backed or squacco heron, which
properly speaking is not an algret at
all.
The snowy heron has plumage of
surpassing whiteness. Viewed side
by side with It, the swan, the wood
this and the stork look earthly. Re
ferring to this excessive whiteness
different species have received such
scientific names as "alba," "lmma
oulate," "candldlsslma." It Is as If
the lovely bird had some lumi
nous quality existing within Itself
and showing through the plumage.
The havoc wrought among these
beautiful creatures in Florida was
enormous before the Audubon so
cieties stepped between them and
their slayers. The latter having
discovered a rookery by watching the
birds flying to and from their nests
would survey the ground, learn the
lines of flight followed and the
perches or lookout stations com
monly frequented. Then, armed
preferably with a small rifle, the
plume hunter would secrete himself
and wait for his prey.
The busy birds, having families to
provide for, would be active all day,
and as they returned with food for
little mouths they would rest a mo
ment on the lookout perch, offering
an excellent mark to the hunter be
low. The bird fell; a slight report
did not alarm the others; and in a
few days most of the parents would
be slain for the sake of their nuptial
plumes.
At present the Florida egrets are
strictly protected, yet such is the
cupidity of plume hunters that
Warden Guy Bradley of the local
Audubon Society was shot dead by
poachers while watching over his
feathered charges two or three years
ago.
A writer invariably falls Into a
curious error about cats namely, the
supposition that a "tabby" is a fe
male cat. As a matter of fact the
word "tabby" is merely descriptive
of the color of the animal, which is a
light ground with "tiger" bars and
markings.
Price of an Invention,
The Inventor of eau de cologne whs
an Italian, Giovanni Farina. Farina
v -offered vainly to sell his receipt for
$3,750 In 1893, but a few years ago
t joss, sold Ja, hia heira for IZOiUifl
Oue of the Little Things That Kvery
Woman Should Know.
It always seems so distressing to
see beautiful cut flowers wither and
fade, and to revive flowers that are
not actually dead try my plan. Cut
a tiny piece from each stem and
i place the stems In a large glass, or,
' even better, Jar of cold water; then
I submerge the jar In a bucket of cold
water, allowing the entire bunch to
bo almost covered. Put all In a dark
place, cover with a newspaper to ex
clude the air; let them remain thus
overnight; In the morning they will
be as fresh as new, even to the
glistening "dew drops."
Hoses and carnations respond bet
ter than other flowers treated In this
manner, but so far I bave not found
any way to freshen violets satisfact
orily, says a writer In Success.
It might not ba amiss to add that
wilted green vegetables, such as spin
ach, lettuce and celery, are to bs
freshened by this same means, and
may be kept for days, changing the
water every morning, of courso.
However, we all know that the fresh
er all vegetables, the better they are.
Novel lSottlo Washer.
Very few of the brushes designed
" .v -... ...... icwvur-
i cies come up to expectations. In ths
I majority of these cleaners the bris
tles or the brush fail to reach the
sides of the bottle, which renders
theui practlcully useless for cleaning
nursing and medicine bottles. This
failure seems to huve boon overcome
CLEANS BOTTLE THOROUGHLY.
In the bottle-washing brush Bhown In
the accompanying Illustration, the
Invention of a Chicago man. In this
cleaner two brushes are used, one to
reach the bottom of the bottle and
the other to remove particles adher
ing to the sides. All the brushes are
connected to a spiral handle, the
operation of which Is well known.
Then the handle Is pulled, a whirling
motion Is Imparted to the brushes,
any substance adhering to the Inside
of the bottle being thus cleaned off.
HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS.
A pinch of salt improves cakes,
candles, and almost everything that
is cooked.
Salt on the fingers when cleaning
meat fowls and fish will prevent the
bands from slipping.
Starch made with soapy water pre
vents the irons from sticking, and
gives a better gloss to the linen.
Cold baked potatoes, sliced thin,
then put in a baking dish with salt,
pepper, butter and milk, make a
much better scallop than raw pota
toes. The molasses to be used for gin
gerbread is greatly Improved by be
ing first boiled then skimmed.
In roasting meat turn with a
spoon, Instead of a fork, as the lat
ter pierces the meat and lets the
Juice out.
An equal mixture of turpentine
and ammonia will remove paint spots,
no matter how long the blot baa
been upon a garment.
Paraffin can be used the second
time to cover Jelly and Jam if it is
washed clean and boiled before be
ing turned over the fruit again.
A Hard-Working Queen.
A hard-working queen is Wllhel
mlna of Holland. She rises early,
breakfasts at 7 with her mother,
Queen Emma, and then withdraws
to her private study, where she con
scientiously goes through the state
documents which await her peruBal
and signature. It is a task Involv
ing serious application, for the young
queen insists on making minute In
vestigations of all details, and puts
hor name to no documents with the
contents of which she is not thor
oughly familiar. Like the queen of
Portugal, she finds a congenial hobby
in millinery, in which she Is skilled
When They Have a Chance.
One has only to go to a fancy dress
ball to see how eagerly the men folk
escape from their eternal black and
white; how they revel in uniforms
and burnouses, in robes and petti
coates, in sandals and turbans. For
one golden hour they live in a fan
tastic: world, in which they are not
all garbed like crows, but can taste
the innocent vanity of the Spanish
toreador or the African sheik, and
wear as gaudy and as rakish dress
Afl EX TrttBrstt.
Strange Mixture Of Knees Their
Peculiar Custom and Illtes.
In Sou'wcstern Bay, nlone I hnv-
seen, writes Beatrice Grlmshaw In
the Windsor Magazine, describing
the people of the New York He
brides, distinctly Jewish types of
face, types suggesting the West Afri
can negro, types like an extremely
depraved monkey and types like no
thing else on earth but themselves.
There are in the bay three distinct
languages, no one of which can be
understood by the speakers of an
other, and in the rest of the Island
there are at least seven or eight
other languages.
The houses are of a very low and
degraded type, being merely roofs
set on a bamboo stockade a couple
of feet high, but the hamals, or sa
cred houses, of which each village
owns one, are high, pointed, gabled
buildings, with tiers of windows in
the gable and loftly, narrow doors,
apparently meant for the nd mission
of very high prowed canoes, which
the Ned Hebrldeans do not possess.
There are certain Jewish rites In use
among them; they have caste regu
lations suggestive of India, and they
make mummies not very Inferior to
those of Egypt. Also, they are can
nibals, and they sing Gregorian
chant or Its first cousin In their devil
dances. They worship the man-of-war
hawk, which holds an extraor
dinarily high place In their religious
beliefs, they set an almost sacred
value on pigs, and the real object
of their Idols or Images, which are
hideous, no man knows.
The existence of mummies has, (
believe, been questioned. This Is
small wonder, since they are always
kept. In the hamals or temples of tho
heathen cannibal villages, and
st rangers are not encouraged to
meddle. I have much difficulty In
seeing one myself, as the temples are
most strictly barred to women. A
native woman would be instantly
killed If she so much as put her
head Inside, and I do not think it
probable that a white woman would
escape either if she were naught do
ing It. I was, however, lucky
enough in another part of Malekula
to find a temple unguarded snve by
a few women squatting outside, and
seizing the opportunity I entered.
It was not a very good specimen,
being little better than a shed, and
It was very dark Inside; further, I
thought It well not to stay very long.
However, I saw a number of mum
mies, mounted on carved stretchers
and painted red and blue, hanging
up around the supporting parts of
the roof; also a good many skulls
placed on rough shelves, their faces
covered by a mask of fibrous stuff
painted red, and some curiously
curved spears, adzes and killing mal
lets hung around tho walls. I got
away again without being seen, aud
left that afternoon by tho monthly
steamer, it being the last day of my
stay In Malekula. I heard ufter
ward, however, that 111 feeling had
been caused among natives by my
violation of their Blubeard chamber.
On another occasion I succeeded in
seeing a place into which no white
person had ever ventured before a
forest cannibal fortress, six miles up
In the untravelled Interior. My
host told me that If I went with him
quite unarmed and with only a
couple of boys to guide us and carry
our dinners our Insignificance would
probably bring us through all right.
Within the bamboo stockade that
surrounded the houses dancing had
begun.
I have not space to relate the tale
of that strange sight of the wild,
wierd dance, performed by a band
of howling black demons, carrying
cocked and loaded rifles, around a
group of skull faced drum Idols in
the centre of the square; of the deaf
ening boom made by the hollow idols
themselves as they were loudly
beaten by the musicians; of the
strange solo dance performed by a
famous cannibal chief, wherein he
enacted, with unpleasant realism, a
hawk pouncing down on Its prey;
of the still stranger dance performed
by another, who capered lightly
about with a large, squealing live
pig on his shoulder; of the extraor
dinary character of the dancing
chant, as like Gregorian, pointing
and all, as a small pea Is like a big
one.
Fear to Admit Identity.
"It's really alarming how hard It
is getting to be nowadays to get a
person to admit his identity to a
stranger," said a Boston business
man, recently. "Now, I have a per
fectly legitimate line which draws
me to a middle class of people and
those who are on tho eds?e of so-
called society. I go to their places
of business. Some of them I know
by sight. I go up to thorn and ask
If Mr. So-andSo Is in, knowing at the
time he Is the man I am looking for.
Half the time the man will reply;
'No, he's out Just now, but I will
take the measure."
"When he finds out my business
he generally laughingly admin his
identity and says he thought I was
the representative of So-and-So.
I suppose this Is the result of the
modern way of living ou the instal
ment plan, with collectors at our
heels."
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kino You Have Always Bought
Bears the Xjt stfa, T?T
eSgnatort of V&a&jfflertcA
I I II
Many Varieties Found In
This Country.
ALL NOT DANOERONS
The Diamond-Dark Rattler in Point
of Veninousness Is, Second t'
None of the Poisonous Snakes of
the World Habits of the Deadly
Water Moccasin.
Quite a number of varieties of sea
turtle are to be found In American
waters. They incline to the warmer
latitudes but are sometimes drlveu
as far north as Connecticut and
Massachusetts. The cold readily be
numbs them, and the severe hurrl
canes of the autumn and early via
ter often cast them upon the beachos
along our northern Atlantic coasts
Of our sea turtles the best known nnd
most highly prized is the green tur
tle. Individual specimens of which
sometimes attain a weight of r00
pounds. '
Next comes the snapping turtle.
This Is a fresh water turtle, its
members are barn fighters. They
are possessed of Jaw of great power.
They live on fish and water-fowl.
One of the snapping turtle's chief
peculiarities is that it can feed only
under water. Unless its head Is
completely submerged It seems un
able to swallow.
Another distinguished member of
the turtle family Is the diamond
backed terrapin, whose home Is In
the salt marshes of the Atlantic
Coast and tho Oulf of Mexico. It
cun not live In water that is entirely
fresh, although it is found some
times in tho brackish Hudson.
Tho upper shell of tho diamond
backed terrapin Is grayish or olive
in color, uud it reaches a maxlaitii )
length of about ten Inches. Diamond-backed
terrapin are growing
scarcer every year.
The alligator ulono umoag tex
tiles has the habit of bullowlug.
The noise It makes resembled so:nu
what the plaintive mooing of a cow
when milking time draws near.
The sound will curry for a mile cr
more.
The crocodile Is a much nioro vici
ous animal than the alligator, uud
more agile. It was not known tnstt
It was Indigenous to North America
until 1875, when a pair of crocodiles
were discovered In Blscayne Bay.
In Florida. Except In Florida,
tho species does not exist north of
Mexico.
There are more different varieties
of lizards In North America than any
other reptile, The only poisonous
lizard found in tho United States is
the Gila monster. It takes its name
from the Gila River, in the vicinity
of which it abounds.
The Gila monsters total length Is
usually nineteen Inches. Its body is
streaked, In a sort of marble fashion,
with black and some pale color, usu
ally salmon pink or light yellow. It
has heavy Jaws and long fangs, and
where once It Imbeds its teeth In a
foe, It has the tenacious grip of a
bulldog.
The two most deadly classes of
snakes are the elapine and vlperlne
families. To the elapine family, but
few of whose branches are to found
in this country, belong the dreaded
hooded cobra, the Australian tiger
snake, and the death adder. The
vlperlne family comprises among its
offspring the copperhead, the mocca
sin, the fer-de-lance and the rattle
snake. The American elapine serpents are
the coral Bnakes. In their anatomy
they show their kinship to the
cobras, but they belong to a degen
erate offshoot of the elapine ltneagn.
The North American coral snakes are
to be found from North Carolina to
Southern Mexico. Around their
bodies they have broad rings of red
and black and narrower rings of
yellow. Their heads from their
slender shape, look harmless, but the
sub-family to which the coral Bnakeg
belong is one of the deadliest of all
the serpent tribes. They can move ,
with a rapidity that is lightning Uko.
The fangs are small, but after tho
coral snakes have succeeded in affix
ing them in the flesh of their prey
they bite and bite again, until their
fangs have made a number of inci
sions. Of the vlperlne family the most
common In America are the water
moccasin or "cotton mouth" snake,
the highland moccasin or copper
heud snake, and the rattlesnake.
The moccasin Is an extremely ven
omous reptile. The water moccasin
Is met with in the Atlantic Coast
region as far North as North Caro
lina. In a wild state these water
moccasins are inclined to be pugna
cious, but after a few months In cap
tivity they become docile and lazy.
They derive their nickname of "cot
ton mouth" from the habit they havo
of opening their Jaws wide when
startled, and showing their mouths'
white interior. It Is impossible, as
popularly asserted, to tell the age of
a rattlesnake by the number of Its
rattles. A rattlesnake does not
acquire a new ring in its rattle
every year, and after a rattle attains
a length of ten or eleven rings any
subsequent additional segments sooa
break off. New York Sun.
Oysters in Sponges.
Live sponges furnish homes for
oysters, mussels, crabs and other
small animals, which often live In
the sponges their entire lifetime.
Sometimes the creatures grow toa
large to get out, remaining until
they. die.
Pill
ANcgctable Preparation for As
similating liicFoodandBegula
ting the Stomachs and Dowels of
Promotes Digcdlion.Clverfur
ncss and Rest.Conialns neither
Opium .Morphine nor Mineral
Hot Narcotic.
Anavfj Smi-
JnMksVMM risTMRt
Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa
Hon, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
ncss nnd Loss OF SLEEP.
Facsimile Signalurt of
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Fortune Telling In Olden Days.
Nowadays idrls co to fortune
tellers with strange names shiny,
fascinating eyes and wlerd studios,
when thev want a neei lntr thn fu
ture. In gitindmother's day tho
mystery of to-morrow was read in
much mora simnln wiiva. On
popular way was to leurn which of
two sweethearts was to bo tho final
choice was to nlant three snrliru of
some rapid growing plant, one
named ror tho girl und tho other
two for each of her two favorite
beaus. Tho ono that grew nearest
to her was destined to bo her hus
band. Another wav was to lav
three twigs on a bench or shelf. If
two or them, one named for the girl
and ono for one of the beaus blew
off, It meant that the two would
marry and go away. If only ono
twig, that of one of tho beaua blew
away, It meunt that the two remain
ing would bo married. If all three
twigs blew off the bench tho occur
ence was Interpreted to Indicate that
tho girl would remain an old maid.
If the two beau twlss were blown
away and she remained on the bench,
It meant that she would marry, but
not ono of those two.
In the winter when there wom
no buds and all the eround w
white with snow the girls used to
be so anxlouh to know their for
tunes that they would creen down tn
the big cellar and hide three onions
on a shelf. They named each onion,
and the one that sprouted first was
the man they were to marry.
Properties of Gold.
Pure gold Is unaffected bv thn at
mosphere either at ordinary tem
peratures or when the metal la
heated. It is also proof against the
action of common acids when used
singly. .
Moreover. It confers Its nrnnnrHn
more or less upon copper and silver
when these metals are alloveri with
It. Thus, for example, twelve karat
go. . win withstand the action of
nitric acid and the atmosnh
ordinary temperature, but some of
tne copper will be oxidized during
annealing. Nine Darts of urold mnv
be alloyed with tenparts of platinum
in an ordinary crucible and Are, but
Buch an alloy will not be uniform; a
larger proportion of platinum will
free itelf from the solidification and
a homogeneous alloy of the two
metals cannot be obtained.
Home Mode Liniment,
One cup of vinegar. 1 cun of tnr.
pentlne, 1 raw egg. nut in a lottl
and shake well; good for sore threat.
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Important Rules for WiiuVrs '.f i,e
Cream, Fish and Meat to Hxm
Lmr During Hot Weather.
Dairy and Vood Commissioner
Fottst has laid down so mo new rules
under the new food law, cspei ially
relative to fish and meats offered
for sale in summer. All such food
must be covered and protected from
flies aud insects by screens. Any
meat or fish kept for sale in any
other manner will be held to be a
violation of the law. This will be
the first time such requirements
have been laid down for the sale of
such provisions aud Mr. Foust be
lieves that it will do much toward
preventing possible illness.
The last requirements are that
any foreign substance will be con
sidered an adulteration.
As to fruit, aud nut ice cream,
they must be true to name, no mat
ter whether fresh or canned fruits
or nuts are used, and must contain
no less thau 10 per cent, butter
fat, together with sugar, eggs and
a small amount of gelatine, not ex
ceeding 3 ounces to 10 gallons of
cream.
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Can you believe your senses ?
When two of them, taste and miih-II,
having been impaired if not utterly
destroyed, by Nasal 1'atarrh, are fully
restored by Jflly's Cream Halm, can
you doubt that this remedy deserves alt
thut f-asbeeii said of it by the thou
sands whotn it has cured? It is ap
plied directly to the a fleeted air-.tiNt-ajjes
and begins its healing work at
once. Why not get It today? All
(Irugidstsor mailed bv Ely liros., 50
Warren Street, New York, on receipt
of 60 cents.
There are eopl6 M ho seem to sH'iid
most of their lives trying to get even.
A Sustaining Diet
These are the enervating days, when,
as si)iiiet)ody lias said, men drop by the
sunstroke as if the Day of Iire had
dawned. They are fraught with dan
ger to eoplo whose systems ure. jioorly
sustained ; and this leads us to suv, in
the interest of the less robust of our
readers, thut the full effect rf Hood's
Snrsnparilla is such as to suggest the
propriety of calling this ujedici no some
thing besides a blood purifier ami tonic,
say, a sustaining diet. It makes it
much easier to bear tho heat, assures
refreshing sleep, and will without any
doubt avert much sickness at this time
of year.
a.
Some men are so constituted that
they would rather lose a friend than
an argument.
Forcible Facts.
Ono-slxth of the deaths from disease
are due to consumption. Ninety-eight
per cent, of all those wlio have used
Dr. Pierce's Goldeu Medical Discovery
for "weak luns," have been perfectly
and permanently cured. Dr. Pierce's
Oolden Medical Discovery is not ad
vertised to cure consumption in its ad
vanced stages. No medicine will do
that. The "Discovery" does cure ob
stinate, Unvoting or "hang-on-coughs."
and all thoe catarrhal conditions of
throat aud bronchial passages which if
not properly treated end in consump
tion, 'fate the "Discovery" In time
aud if given a fair und fuithful trial it
will seldom disappoint.
Free. Dr. Pierce's great work, The
People's I'wiimuu Beuse Medical Ad
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to pay cost of mailing on'j. Hend lit
one-cent stamps fo pa ner covered book,
or 81 stamps for a copy In cloth bind
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