CAVE DWELLERS ALL BLIND.
Animals That Live Underground Have
Sensitive Organs of Hearing.
The underlife of the caves has a
world of its own. Animals are born
in subterranean caverns hollowed out
by streams, develop, reproduce and
die while forever deprived of the sun
light. There is no cave mammal ex
cept a rat nor is there a cave bird.
There are no animals that require
much nourishment.
Grottos with underground rivers
have the most life. Usually the sub
terranean life resembles the general
types Of the country. It has entered
the cave and become acclimated there,
undergoing divers adaptive modifica
tions. So we generally find, in modified
forms, the life of our time. But in
some caverns there seem to be the re
mains of an ancient animal life that
has everywhere else disappeared from
terrestrial rivers and lives only in cer
tain caverns.
The creatures of modern species
that have adapted themselves to un
derground conditions are sharply sep
arated from the light dwellers. Their
skin is whitish or transparent. The
eye atrophies or disappears altogeth
er. The optic nerve and the optic
lobe disappear, leaving the brain pro
foundly modified. Other organs de
velop in proportion. Those of hear
ing. smell and touch become large.
Sensitive hairs, long and coarse, ap
pear all over the body.
The Doctor Outdone.
Scottish shrewdness is occasionally
overmatched by Irish wit. The hand
ful of people who inhabit a certain lit
tie island in the Atlantic, oft' the coast
of Donegal, enjoy so much health and
so little wealth that there is no doc
tor on the spot. In rare cases of
emergency n physician is brought in a
boat from the nearest village on the
mainland.
On one occasion some islanders
who were obliged to summon the doc
tor found that lie had gone to Dub
lin on business. As the case was ur
gent, they invoked the services of an
other practitioner. This gentleman
was a Scotsman, with the proverbial
canniness of his race, and he declined
to undertake the voyage unless he re
ceived his fee a golden sovereign—
in advance.
There was no help for it, and the
money was paid. The physician went
to the island and attended to the case.
But when he inquired for a boat to
take him away lie found that not a
boatman on the island would ferry
him back again for any less considera
tion than two pounds, paid in advance.
The doctor had to part with the
two sovereigns and to admit that he
had been beaten at his own game.
How Lightning Kills.
The cause of death by lightning is
the midden absorption of the electric
current. When a thundercloud which
is highly charged with positive elec
tricity hangs over a certain place, the
earth beneath it becomes abnormally
charged with the negative electric
current, and a man, animal or other
object standing or lying directly be
neath, also partakes of the last men
tioned influence. If, while the man,
animal or other object is in this con
dition, a discharge takes place from
the cloud above the restoration of
the equilibrium will be sudden and
violent, or, in language that we can all
understand, the negative current from
the earth will rush up to join the posi
tive cloud current, and in passing
through the object which separates
the two currents, if it be an animate
thing, will do so with such force as to
almost invariably produce instant
death.
According to the above, which
seems a tenable hypothesis, to say the
least, a person is really "struck" by
the ground current and not by the
forked fury from above at all.
Disliked Publicity.
"Young man,"the rising statesman
said to the reporter, "newspaper notor
iety is exceedingly distasteful to me,
but since you have asked me to give
you some of the particulars of the
leading events in my life I will
comply. I do so, however, with great
reluctance." Here lie took a type
written sheet from a drawer in his
desk and banded it to the reporter.
"I suppose, of course," he added, "you
will want my portrait, and, although I
dislike anything that savours of undue
publicity, I can do no less than comply
with your wish." Here he took a large
photograph from a pile in another
drawer and gave it to the reporter.
"Anecdotal matter concerning my
self," he added, "you will find in this
printed leaflet, as well as particulars
of my hobbies and tastes, When this
appears in print you may send me two
hundred and fifty copies of the paper."
Children and Fools.
The boy was an idiot. His head was
twice the normal size, and lie would
sit for hours without speaking. How
ever, when he did emit a remark, it
was sure to be startling, and couched
in apt language. One day, an ex
tremely "plain" old maid was calling
on ills mother. After a long period of
apparently thoughtless silence, the
idiot remarked suddenly, "Do you
know, Miss Perkins, you are absolute
ly the homeliest woman I ever laid
my eyes upon?"
In agony, the mother turned to him:
"Charlie, do not let me ever hear you
make such a remark again," she cried,
severely. "Mother," quoth the idiot,
"I never shall have occasion to."
St. Bernard Monastery.
At present the monastery of St.
Bernard costs about S9OO a year to
keep up. This money is partly col
lected in Switzerland and partly de
rived from the revenue of the mon
astic order.
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At exactly 11 o'cloek on New Year's
morning there was a curious cere
mony at "the old Edwards place" in
Maine. The word ceremony, in fact,
but faintly describes what happened.
It was more like a jubilee, with the
semblance of a barbaric rite added.
All the Edwards kith and kin were
there,' with a goodly number of< their
friends and neighbors.
At the further end of the garden, in
front of the farmhouse, there is a
knoll, at the top of which a mossy
ledge crops out. On this ledge there
was a pyre erected of dry wood, pitch
and rolls of curvey birch bark- a
fine pile of it. At the centre stood an
iron rod, set in a hole, drilled in the
ledge, and here an old oppressor of
the Edwards homesteam was burned
at the stake!
This sounds so savage that I make
haste to say that the o'd oppressor
was not an animate form of flesh and
blood, but merely an effigy.
The effigy was a masterpiece in its
way, the very simulacrum of rapacity,
with a face like the fabled Harpies
and hands like talons, hugging to its
breast a folded, yellowed paper.
That yellowed paper was a mort
gage, which had rested on the heme
farm for one entire generation.
The history of that mortgage is so
much like thousands of others that
it would hardly be worth relating if,
at the last moment, a noble effort to
lift it had not been crowned by suc
cess.
The Edwards farm adjoins the one
where I lived when a boy. There
were three hundred acres of tillage,
pasture and woodland, with a well
built two-story house and two large
barns. The Edwards children Ches
ter, Thomas, Catherine, Eunice—were
my youthful neighbors.
In those days the farm was well
tilled, unencumbered and prosperous;
but in an evil hour a traveling agent
caioled Jonas Edwards, the father,
into buying the State right to make
and sell a certain newly patented au
to.natic farm gate, for the sum of two
thousand dollars. Edwards had a
thousand dollars in the savings bank;
he drew out this and raised the other
thousand by mortgaging the home
stead.
It was the old story. The much
vaunted gate proved a gite to trouble
for Edwards. lie was never able to
sell it. But if the gate proved illusory,
the mortgage was tangible. The farm
er spent the remaining fifteen years of
his life paying interest on it.
After his father's death Chester Ed
wards "went home to live," as peo
ple say in Maine. The family then
consisted of his mother, his sister
Eunice, who was an invalid from
spinal curvature, and his mother's
brother, Uncle Horace, who had lost
a leg in the Civil War, but for some
reason did not draw a pension. Ches
ter began by selling off the wood and
timber on the old farm, thereby pay
ing the accumulated interest. He
then embarked in the dairy business,
but did not prove a successful farmer,
and during the fifth season lost almost
his entire herd of cows from tubercu
losis. Becoming discouraged, he gave
up and set off suddenly for the Klon
dike gold region.
A nephew then carried on the farm
for a year, but did not remain.
Meanwhile Thomas, the younger
foil, had become a Methodist minister.
He was unable to do anything toward
reducing the mortgage.
"The mortgage will get the old
place now, and no help for it,"the
neighbors said.
But there was still another mem
ber of the family to he heard from —
Catherine, the younger daughter.
Largely by her own efforts, Cath
erine Edwards had g aduated from
the State normal school, and obtained
a position as instructor in another
normal school at a good salary. We
imagined that Catherine would aid
her mother and sister, but never sup
posed that she would come home to
care for them there.
But after Chester left, Catherine
never hesitated for a moment. She
resigned her position, bade farewell
to all prospects of advancement as a
teacher, and came home.
She had saved seven hundred dol
lars. With this she paid a year's in
terest, had the leaky roofs repaired,
and hired such help as was necessary,
indoors and out. Yet what could she
do with that old farm and its mort
gage?
That season, however 1003 the
old place quietly put forward one of
its natural assets.
Our county is in what is known as
"the apple belt" of New England. Ap
ple trees spring up everywhere here,
and if grafted and trimmed, soon bear
well. Although a cripple, Uncle Hor
ace Flint had been in the habit
every spring of hobbling about from
one young apple tree to another, set
ting Baldwin scions and trimming the
trees. He had not thought his work
amounted to much, but he liked to be
doing something.
The year 1903 was an "apple year."
Every young tree on the farm was
bending down under its load. A
crop with the farmers of the apple
belt is far from being an unmixed
blessing, however. They rarely gut
more than a dollar a barrel for their
apples. The barrels cost them thirty
live cents each, and as the expense of
hauling them is ten or fifteen cents a
barrel more, there remains bit fifty
cents to pay for picking, sorting and
barreling. If the farmer does this
by hired labor he may clear ten (cuts
a barrel, or he may not. For Cath
erine, therefore, a crop of seven or
eight hundred barrels of apples on Ihp
trees meant little if gathered, barrel
ed and sold in the usual way.
"It seems a shame," one neighbor
said to her, "but it will be about as.
well for you to let those apples har
vest themselves."
Against such waste of nature's
bounty, however, Catherine's New
England thrift revolted. She began
to look into the apple problem; and
the result of her study of it is worth
recording.
She purchased no barrels, and the
only help she hired was a boy to push
a wheelbarrow. She herself, with
Uncle Horace and Eunice, went out to
the trees to gather up the fruit. The
boy wheeled the apples in, two bushels
at a load, and stowed them in bins,
built up in two rooms In the house,
where, later, they could be kept from
freezing by means of a stove in the
cellar beneath.
Catherine had thought this all out
in advance, and she had sent off for
four "evaporators," payment for which
used nearly all her remaining money.
Carelessly dried apples, on strings,
brings no more than six or eight cents
a pound, but nicely sliced, "evaporat
ed" apple always commands a much
better price. She had resolved to
put the whole crop of Baldwins into
evaporated apple.
In almost every rural neighborhood,
village or small town there is sure
to be some old "aunty," "grandma"
or widow in Indigent circumstances,
who has outlived the most of her
earthly ties, and must goto the
"town farm," or subsist on sufferance
with some grudging relative. Life
grows very dreary to these old per
sons. There seems to be no place for
them. In cases where a few hundred
dollars can be raised for them, they
sometimes goto an "old ladies'
home."
Within three miles of the Edwards
homestead there were two of these
old souls, "Aunt Netty" Stiles and
"Grandma" Frost, who were by no
means helpless or feeble, but had
merely outlived their welcome on the
earth.
Catherine first made the old farm
house dining room cozy and warm,
and then invited Aunt Netty and
Grandma Frost to come and sit with
her mother and Eunice and slice ap
ples. She offered them seventy-five
cents a week and board. Moreover,
she took them all into her confidence,
and told them her plans for saving
the old homestead.
Uncle Horace peeled the apples on
a paring machine, and the old women
sliced them. Their tongues ran; they
were as chipper as crickets. They
had not had so good a time for years.
Catherine had to look to it that they
did not overwork. They produced
more sliced apple than the four evap
orators would dry. Uncle Horace had
to contrive a fifth drier over a large
stove out in the woodhouse. Two
more forlorn old women from the
town farm came on foot, begging for
work. They were taken in.
Apple drying went on from the first
of October till the middle of January,
and the whole crop was dried. liefore
the first of March Catherine had sold
the entire output at eleven cents a
pound. The result was an object les
son to every apple farmer in that lo
cality. She received fifteen hundred
and sixty dollars; and owing to the
skill with which she had managed the
entire expenses of drying the apples
were less than a hundred and seventy
dollars.
There was also this otlier curious
result: The old women did not want
togo home! In fact, the two from
the town farm cried when the last of
the apples were cut.
Then Catherine determined to keep
them all over for the next season. She
bought a lot of yarn and set them to
knitting socks and woolen gloves. In
fact, she had started a happy old worn
en's home before she knew it! And
the number of applications which
came to her from homeless old wom
en and from those who had aged rela
tives on their hands whom they wish
ed to be rid of would have been laugh
able, if it had not been pathetic. But
for the time being Catherine could
do no more than keep those whom she
had.
The year 1904 also proved to be
an apple year; and again the whole
crop was put into evaporated apple,
two other old women having been ad
mitted to the "circle of slicers."
By this time, too, Catherine had
come to realize the possibilities of
her new business. All the apple trees
were carefully looked after, and two
hundred young trees set out. Sue
planted, too, a hundred and fifty plum
and pear trees, and an acre of black
berry shrubs; for now her design
was to make a new venture, canning
pears, plums and berries in glass jars.
In fact, it would not surprise me if a
few years hence this neglected old
homestead were producing five thou
sand dollars' worth of fruit annually.
Catherine appears to have solved
two important problems in social
economy; First, how to make a run
out farm pay a handsome profit; and,
second, how to utilize and make happy
a class of homeless and forlorn old
women who seem to have no place
in the world. With their wages in
their pockets, and the prospect of
home and companionship ahead, it is
quite remarkable how these old wom
en have cheered up.
Of course there were many ex
penses for the first two years. The
house and outbuildings had to be re
paired and repainted; and it was r.'t
until this present autumn three
years from the time she came ho.ncs
—that Catherine saw her way ele-ir
to pay off the mortgage and free the
old place from its twenty years of
bondage.—C. A. Stephens, in Youth's
Companion.
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe
DOMESTIC.
C. M. Schwab advanced the wagea
of laborers at the Bethlehem Steel Co.
Dr. S. J. Essenson urges State su
pervision of the milk supply and de
clares the pasteurization process robs
food of its value.
Reports from big Industrial centers
tell of Improved conditions of working
men, many increases in wages being
received.
The reduced duty on Canadian
cream will result in much cheaper
butter for New YorkersS.
The Governors of the New York
Stock Exchange adopted resolutions
that deal a hard blow at gamblers
whose wash sales and manipulation
have caused a series of scandals.
Edward Fay, the yeggman reputed
to be worth $300,000, was one of the
two men captured as the robbers of
the Richmond postoflice.
David O. Ives, now head of the
Transportation Board of the Boston
Merchants' Association, but formerly
traffic manager of the Wabash Rail
road, pleaded guilty to rebating and
was fined SI,OOO.
Many stories of girls who have
been insulted in New York when an
swering calls for stenographers are
told by heads of big agencies. The
Aldermen have called for a law de
signed to safeguard the young women.
Edgar D. Crumpacker was renomi
nated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Tenth District of Indiana at La
fayette.
A janitress carried $2,400 in a scrub
pail from the vault of the First Na
tional Bank of Belleville, N. J., con
fessed and returned the money.
Every demand of the Brotherhoods
of Trainmen, Conductors, and Yard
men of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad has been granted
by the road at New Haven, Conn.
WASHINGTON.
Republican leaders plan an aggres
sive campaign to defend the Taft Ad
ministration from the criticism to
which it has been subjected. The
President himself will take part.
It became known that evidence of
violations of the Sherman law by the
combination of Atlantic steamship
lines was laid before President Roose
velt, who failed to act.
The Hobson bill to contribute funds
equalling a certain per cent, of the
cost of warships built or purchased to
the cause of international peace, was
decisively defeated in the House.
The Department of Justice, it was
learned in Washington, will substitute
suit in equity under the Sherman law
against the "European shipping pool."
The House decided to investigate
the alleged ship subsidy lobby.
President Taft requested the Re
publican members of the House to get
together and caucus on the Adminis
tration's legislative programme.
President Taft appointed Maurice
H. Thatcher, of Kentucky, a member
of the Isthmian Canal Commission.
Attorney General Wickersham, in a
letter to Representative Bennet, de
nies he ever acted as attorney for the
Sugar Trust.
The United States Senate delayed
action on the administration railroad
bill.
FOREIGN.
Thomas B. Jeffery, of Kenosha, Wis.
a prominent manufacturer of bicycles,
automobiles and pneumatic tires, died
suddenly in Pompeii, Italy.
Followers of"The Mad Mullah"
have kitted eight hundred natives of
Somaliland; have laid waste wide
areas and razed many towns; Great
Britain may take steps to stop the out
rages.
John Redmond, the Nationalist
leader, addressed a large meeting at
Tipperary; he insisted iliat the party
must break the veto power of the
Lords before the budget was taken up.
Theodore Roosevelt and members
of his family sailed from Alexandria
for Naples; they were cheered by
crowds at the pier.
The opinion was generally express
ed in London after the debate between
Messrs. Asquith and Balfour that the
government would have a goodly coali
tion majority for the vote resolution
and carry the budget to a second read
ing without the aid of the Irish.
Eight men were killed in gun prac
tice on the cruiser Charleston off Lu
zon, a breech block of a 3-inch gun
blowing out.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt deliv
ered an address in the university at
Cairo, Egypt, which conferred on him
the degree of Doctor of Literature.
NO CLEW TO MURDERER.
Dogs Fail to Find Man Who Killed
Miss Blackstone in Springfield.
Springfield, Mass., April 5. —The ef
fort to trace the murderer of Miss
Martha B. Blackstone and the assail
ant of Miss Harriet Dow at the hitter's
home last Thursday night by the use
of bioodhounds having resulted in fail
ure, the police are all at sea over the
case.*
Meanwhile citizens are becoming
aroused over the inability of the de
tectives to find the murderer and
criticism is heard.
Much Unused Water Power.
Germany utilizes 20 per cent, of her
water power; Switzerland, 25 per
cent.; France only 11 per cent.
Home Consumption.
If music hath charms to soothe the
sage breast, let her try them on her
own wishbones.
fcGYPTIANS MENACE ROOSEVELT.
Angry Demonstrations Before Ex-
President"s 'Hotel in Cairo.
Cairo, April 4. Ex-I'resident
Roosevelt's speech before the Univers
ity of Egypt has aroused the extreme
Nationalists to a state of fury. Seven
hundred students marched to his hotel
I and made a demonstration against
l him, shouting in Arabic: "Down with
autocracy! Give us a constitution!"
The students were applauded by
many spectators, and some of the
guests left the hotel, fearing violence.
Mr. Roosevelt was not in the hotel at
' the time, but drove ujp soon afterward.
MINIMUM RAT2S TO WORLD.
Tariff Agreement with Canada—Presl
; dent Taft Signs Proclamations.
I Washington, April 4.—President
Taft signed proclamations granting
the minimum rates under the Payne-
Aldrich tariff law to Canada, Australia
I and several less important countries.
These proclamations, with a few which
will be signed complete the extension
of minimum rates to the whole world.
112 About one hundred and thirty nations
1 and dependencies are included in the
list.
Huntsville, Ala., Mar. 30. —John G.
Hambrick, of New York City, was ar
rested here charged with having sent
a challenge to fight a duel with John
Begenshott, of Cuerley. The men had
trouble over a division of property.
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Quoted for the Week.
MILK—Per quart, 3%c.
BUTTER Western extra, 33%®
i 34M.C.; State dairy, 24@28c.
CHEESE State. Pull cream, special,
17 V2 @lßc.
EG(iS State. Fair to choice, 21 Vi <3>
22 Vfec.; do, western firsts, 24@25c.
APPLES—Baldwin, per bbl., $3.00©
4.00.
DRESSED POULTRY Chickens, per
i lb., 16@24c.; Cocks, per lb., 14c.;
Squabs, per dozen, $2.00® 4.25.
HAY —Prime, per 100 lbs., $1.17%.
STRAW Long Rye, per 100 lbs., 70
I @77 V2C.
1 POTATOES State, per bbl., sl.oo®
1.25.
ONIONS —White, per crate, 50 c.@
SI.OO.
FLOUR- Winter patents, $5.60@6.10;
Spring patents, $5.00@6.55.
WHEAT—No. 2, red, $1.25; No. 1,
i Northern Duluth, $1.24%.
CORN—No. 2, 60c.
OATS-Natural white, 40@51c.; Clip
ped white, 50 V2 @s3c.
BEEVES —City Dressed, ll@l2V£c.
; SHEEP—Per 100 lbs., $6.00@8.00.
I CALVICS - City Dressed, 11 @l6 %c.
HOGS Live, per 100' lb3„ $11.25;
Country IJressed_, jnir lb., 13® 15c.
Army Crossed Frozen River.
The Danube river was frozen over
so lliat an army crossed it on the ice
! in the year 462.