THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, OOTOBEIt 8, 1B0.
BOY OR GIRL JUST
AS PARENTS WISH
Learned Dr. Schbcner Tells of
Important New Law as to
Determination of Sex
THE DIET HAS NO PART IN IT
But After First Blessing It Is Within
Human Possibility to Regulate Sex
of Others Physician Declares Ho
Has An Infallable System.
Berlin. "I hope it will be n llttlo
girl as lovely as her mother," wishes
papa, antlcipattvely, sometimes.
And, often, mamma answers fondly:
"But I hope It will bo a baby boy
worthy of his daddy."
Now comes Dr. A. Schooner, an un
romantlc savant, declaring calmly
that there Is no need for parents to
try to prophesy the sex of the little
one which they will find under a rose
hush or which the doctor will fetch.
Dr. Schoener writes In a Leipzic
medical Journal that he has a new and
unfallable system by which the sex
of infantile blessings about to be be
stowed can be foretold Infallibly; In
deed can be determined by the par
ents If they exercise a certain pati
ence. Dr. Schooner's system has nothing
In common which that of the learned
Prof. Schenk, who got a gallant idea,
highly flattering to the fair sex. Prof.
Schenk laid down the rule that the
mother's diet fixes the sex of the in
fant she Is about to embrace. Put
unscientifically, Prof. Schenk said, In
effect:
"Let the mother nibble bon-bons
and a sweet girl will reward her.
"Let her consume sausages and
beer and a rude boy will come to
her."
Prof. Schenk's theory fell in the in
teresting case of the Empress ot Rus
sia. Having two daughters, the Em
press nearly ruined her digestion with
the black bread, the fiambouyant
cheese and the heady beer of her
spouse's realm. To her intense dis
appointment, the industrious stork
brought her a third daughter.
Then the Emperor ransacked the
confectioners of Europe; the Empress
was cloyed with the choicest sugar
plums. Now the Emperor clasps to
his proud breast the heir for which
he yearned.
So much for Prof. Schenk, Dr.
Schoener's partisans declare. The
learned doctor says, and stakes his
wide reputation on It, that diet does
not enter into the determination of
sex; neither do the wishes nor the'
predictions of the baby's father.
Dr. Schoener insists no being can
tell beforehand what the sex will be
of the first child that rewards a happy
pair; the sex of the first depends on
a fixed organic law In which the
mother, alone, Is concerned, in which
she only is the agent of the law.
"If the first child be a boy the
next, in regular, rythmical and timely
alternation, will be a girl by this fixed
law.
But by remembering this law of al
ternation, by carefully studying the
calendar, by self-control, parents, says
Dr. Schoener, will be able to say
not
"I hope It will be a boy."
But
"When this next boy is old enough
wc will let him study medicine."
Or
"If the girl shows any genius for
music she shall be an opera singer."
FOLLOWS "LOADED" BEE8 HOME.
"Bee Line" Is Zlz-Zag When this Hun
ter Has Stood Treat.
Wln8ted, Conn. Thomas Newsome,
a Thomaston apiarist, has hit on a
novel way of finding the homes of
honey bees in the woods. He feeds
them alcohol and sugar until they are
drunk. As the honey makers stagger
home unlike many humans they
seem to know enough to go home
when they have a skin full their pro
gress Is so slow Newsome is able to
keep up with some of the stragglers,
In this way last season Newsome
found 100 pounds of honey. His meth
od is to wander about until he finds
some boes on flowers. He has a small
bottle filled with sugar and alcohol,
He gives the bees a taste of It, until
he gets them so Jolly he can "line"
them to the tree. Later in the sea
son he cuts down the tree and takes
the honey.
LIGHTNING STRIP8 A BIRD.
Electrical Flash Takes Every Feather
but One from Hawk.
Menahga, Minn. In a recent elec
trical storm here, a bolt of lightning
stripped every feather hut one from
a mouse hawk without killing the
bird. The hawk was found the next
morning under a tree, which had been
struck, when the hands of the Stone
farm were inspecting the work of the
storm. The bird was barely alive and
stripped of all but the one feather,
and presented a sorry appearance.
It was taken to the house and fed
and bids fair to recover.
Dolmar, Del. On the farm of W. H.
Hastings near here Is a two months
old .kitten with hands and arms like
a monkey. It walks on Its hind feet
with its hands up most of the time,
Hastings values his kitten very high'
ly and is now teaching it many tricks,
The kitten Is perfect In all other
trayi. . .
RENGH ARMYREVQLUTI0H1ZED
Maneouvers Demonstrate Great Reor
ganizing Work Generalissimo
Lacrolx Has Wrought
Paris, France. The French army
has been transformed, and the recent
army maneouvors has demonstrated
that the work which Henri de Lacrolx,
the generalissimo, has accomplished
during the few years which he has
Henri de Lacrolx, Generalissimo of
French Army.
been at the head of the military forces
is little short of marvelous. The
birthplace of this remarkable man
was the American-French isle of Gua
deloupe. He graduated from St Cyr
In 1864; served in the campaign of
Rome (1867) as sub-lieutenant; and
came out of the Franco-Prussian war
a captain. In 1883 he fought the Ton
kin campaign. By 1894 he was colo
nel; by 1898 general of brigade; by
1901 general of division, and by 1903,
commandant of the higher school of
war for officers, from which he was
transferred to the military governor
ship of Lyons and commanded the
Fourteenth Army corps. In 1906 he
became a member of the high war
council; and by 1907 he was its vice
president and generalissimo!
SNAKE POISON KILLS MONGOOSE,
Rodent with Record Killed Rattler,
but was Stung to Death
In Battle.
Montclalr, N. J. George Mcintosh's
West Indian mongoose, which had
killed thirty-two snakes in ten mln
utes, is dead from the effects of rat
tlesnake poison. It fought three rat
tlers in a barn in Verona, and killed
all three, but was stung by the last
one when it seized the reptile in the
wrong place. The combat was on a
wager. The rattlers were brought
from the Pocono Mountains by John
Harkness.
The first snake released In the barn
was five feet long. The mongoose
circled around it several times, caus
ing the snake to dart its fangs thrice.
Then the graycoated rodent dashed in,
caught the snake by the back of the
head and killed it. The mongoose
fought the next rattler with equal
caution, never exposing Itself to the
repeated dartlngs of the serpent's
fangs. Six times the snake struck out,
but recoiled each time before the mon
goose could get at Its head. At the
seventh the mongoose ran In swiftly
and it was all over.
The lost rattle was smaller than the
others, but more active. The specta
tors could hardly see the combatants,
so quickly did they move around. The
snake's head seemed to dart like
lightning, and the mongoose was ap
parently on all sides of Its enemy at
the same time. Finally the mongoose
leaped In, but seized the rattler In
tho middle of the body Instead of at
the back of the neck. The snake
sank Its fangs in its adversary's foot
The mongoose, though, did not let go
till it had crashed the life out of the
snake. Mcintosh dosed tho mongoose
with alcohol, but it died. He says if
it had fought In its own country It
would have eaten a wild plant, which
Is an antidote for rattlesnake poison.
FARMER FELL ON A 8NAKE.
Ho Killed the Reptile but Broke His
Own Collar Bone.
Bvansville, Ind. While crossing a
log over a small ditch George Hoi-lings-worth,
a farmer, near Becker,
Ind., saw a large viper beneath him.
He was so frightened that he fell oft
the log on top of the reptile.
Lo killed the snake by the fall and
by the same time fractured his own
collar bone.
Noblewoman a Mighty Hunter.
London. Lady Grlzel Hamilton has
had herself photographed with the
leopard she shot while on her honey
moon trip in West Africa. She had
tho creature skinned and tho skin was
afterward stuffed and mounted by a
London taxidermist Lady Grlzel is
the eldest of the three daughters of
the Earl of Dundonald and Is the wife
of the Hon. Ralph J3erard Alexander
Hamilton, the Master of Belhaven.
SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
By REV. T. E. DAVISON
Rutland, Vt
30OO0OOOOO0OC6
OBSEQUIES POSTPONED
International Bible Lesson for
Oct. io, '09. (Acts 22: 30-23: 35).
A band of ruf
fians gathered in
a secluded place
1 n Jerusalem.
They talked over
the events of the
past few days.
They felt that
something ought
to be done to
Paul, the man
whose goodness
shamed them all,
and they made
a n agreement
among them
selves to assassinate him. With Sa
tanic malice they would kill tho man
whom they could not answer. The
knife or the bullet has always been
the rascal's argument, and prgficlency
In the use of deadly weapons secures
the respect of the mob.
The Conspiracy Formed.
And see how determined they were.
They pledged themselves not to eat
nor drink until they had killed the
apostle. The blood of that holy man
would have been as nectar to them,
and they confidently expected to havo
It in a few hours. But if not, they
swore that they would not eat nor
drink till the plot, waa accomplished.
And how cunningly they laid their
plans. They knew that Paul was In
the castle, and that the chief captain
had tried several times to get at the
real facts in the case, without avail.
Paul was held by the officer, not so
much a prisoner, for no charge had
been sustained against him, as to pre
serve his life from the furious Jews.
Now these conspirators visit the chief
priests and elderr and lay their plan
before them.
They say: "Send word to the com
mander that you have called another
meeting of the council, and that you
would like to question Paul a little
further. He is interested to get at the
facts in this case, and he will send
the prisoner at your request. Mean
while we will He in wait for him, and
when he gets to a certain place on
the road we will rush out upon him,
and kill him. You do not need to ad
mlt that you knew anything of the
plot. We will take all the risk and
all the responsibility."
What sort of an estimate could they
have formed of those men to suppose
that they would listen to them for a
moment, much less become their ac
complices In crime. And yet, the
narrative bears unmistakable evidence
that those ecclesiastics, those unscru
pulous and hypocritical religionists,
fell in readily with this most infamous
plot. They professed themselves
ready to do the lying, if the conspira
tors would do the killing. Thus the
trap was set. The next day It was to
be put into execution. And when night
came forty scoundrels in Jerusalem
went supperless to bed, wondering if
they could stand the enforced absti
nence until the deed was done.
The Conspiracy Discovered.
We know very little about Paul's
family, but in this instance it is said
that the apostle had a nephew in the
city who somehow got wind of the
plot to kill his uncle. Without a mo
ment's hesitation he went to his kins
man in the barracks and related what
he had heard. Paul knew that the
promises of God are not given to en
courage presumption, but that Provi
dence helps those who help them
selves. And though he had received
tho most positive assurance that he
should bo preserved in safety, he knew
that that assurance instead of being
a pillow for lazy Inactivity, was rather
a spur for prudent natural means. And
hence, when he knew what was going
on, he sent the young man to the
chiefxcaptaln with his story. The kind
hearted commander took the lad aside,
and the story of the nefarious plot
camo out.
The Conspiracy Defeated.
Man proposes, but God disposes. No
sooner had the officer learned the par
ticulars of the plot than he resolved
to remove tho apostle out of the way
of danger. He, therefore, made prepa
ration to send Paul to the Governor
at Caeserea, 70 miles away. And at
nine o'clock that night, after the city
had become quiet the narrow streets
ot Jerusalem echoed with the tramp
of marching feet, and nearly 600 Ro
man soldiers passed through one of
the Eastern gates, and took the road
to Caesarea. In the midst of that
formidable guard rode Paul, the apos
tle. And when the hungry conspira
tors went forth in tho morning they
wero astonished to find that their vic
tim had escaped.
We are not informed whether tho
men kept their vow, and starred to
death, or not. But the probability 1st
that they at once repaired to the near
est place where food could be obtain
ed, and took a hearty breakfast They
had fasted twenty-four hours.
And thus the conspiracy was de
feated, and Paul's funeral Indefinitely
postponed. I can imagine tho groat
apostle, during that midnight ride over
tho hills of Judea, repeating softly this
triumphant Psalm of David, so appro
priate to himself:
"Our soul Is escaped as a bird out
of the snare of the fowler; the snare
is broken, and we are escaped."
COWBOY MADE FUI KIN6
Cowpuncher with Star-Tattooed Face
Returns Home His Mate
Created a Prince.
KansaB City, Mo. Joe Carr and Ed
ward Burns, after being gono six
yonrs, passed through here on their
way to tho Texas Panhandle, where
they expect to return to their cow
boy lives. In their absence ot six
years they wero cowboys in Australia
and shipwrecked on one ot tho FIJI isl
ands, .where one was made king and
the other prince.
That they will never forget their ex
perience among the savages is evi
denced by tho fact that Carr, who
was made king, has stars tattooed on
his forehead, chin and both cheeks.
Burns, who was simply a prince, has
a single star on his forehead.
Six years ago two adventurous cow-
hnvti 1licv t Ihn Ufa nn ft TflTfta
range, decided to go to Africa. From J
South Africa they went to Australia. 1
They enjoyed the herders' life on tho
big cattle ranges there, made some 1
money, but finally decided to return '
to the country of their birth.
They took passage in a tramp ves- 1
sel. I
When near the Fiji Islands their j
vessel was wrecked in a storm and ,
they found themselves In a boat with, I
two sailors. Two days later they
made land and were received by a
grotesque assembly of savages.
The quartet of whites had a riflo
and three revolvers and several
rounds of ammunition handy, but they
soon ascertained that the attitude of
the natives was friendly. Tho savages
hailed them as superior beings, and,
taking this as their cue, Carr was
bowed to by his companions, who also
bowed to Burns. This established the
class of Carr and Burns.
From that time on Carr was tho
king of the island and Burns was the
prince. All four were taken in great
state to the village half a mile from
the beach, where a big feast was held
In their honor. Carr was seated on
a throne and was presented with
feathers and bits of metal.
"I had a happy reign so far as ab
sence of trouble was concerned," said
Carr at the Union Depot "The na
tives seemed to divine my wishes and
they were as obedient as the best
reared children. We had plenty of
fish arid game for food, but with noth
ing to do but watch for a sail the time
certainly was lonesome.
"We kept a signal flying by day and
tor the first few months wo kept bea
sons burning at night It was almost
two years, though, before a tramp
ship came our way. Both Burns and
I by this time had been decorated
with tattooing such as you see on my
face, which indicated our rank.
"Our skins were almost black and
when the boat's crew came ashore
they had to examine us closely before
telling satisfied that we were really
white men. It took us several
months to get back to this country,
hu here we are, and here weare go
Ini to stay."
HEAD OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
Prof. Ernest F. Nichols of Columbia
University, Known as B road
Minded Scholar.
Hanover, N. H. Prof. Ernest F.
Nichols of Columbia university. Just
elected president of Dartmouth col
lege. The new president of Dartmouth
belongs to the most useful class of
broad-minded scholars whose Inter
ests are not confined by the bounda'
ries of any one field of thought or
activity, but exten over all funda
mental problems of human concern,
Prof. Ernest F. Nichols.
Dr. Nichols was born in 1869 at
Leavenworth, Kan., and was gradu
ated at the age ot 19 from tho Kansas
Agricultural college with the degree
ot B. S. The next year was spent in
teaching, and the three following
years as a graduate student In math'
ematics and physics at Cornell unN
versity, where he held the Erastus
Brooks fellowship. He received from
Cornell the degree of master of ocl
ence In 1897, and doctor ot science in
1897, both taken in course. In 1892
he was appointed to tho chair ot phy
lcs and astronomy In Colgate univer
sity. Dr. Nichols was at Colgate for
six years, but two and a halt years
of tho time was spent on leavo of ab
sence, studying under Planck and Ru
bens ot the University of Berlin.
With Knife Kills Lynx In Den.
Lowellvillo, O. W. William Smith,
a South Carolina hunter, crawled Into
the dark den of five lynxes near hero
with a big knife and killed the lead
er of the band. The fight lasted throo
hours. The lynx was six feet in
length. The battle was fought in tho
darkness, and tho den was so small
that Smith was unable to stand treat.
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