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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-16

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06
MIMETIC POWER OF INSECTS.

They Often Initiate the Color of Their
Food and Hiding Places Why This
Faculty is Given Them.
"Why, Cousin Helen! What do you
mean by saying that locust is mimic?'
asked my little cousins, John and Lin
coin.
Eyes, he is very good mimic, and
so are all the insects in this case. Look
at them, and will tell you in what way
| have seen them mimic.
'1nSects have a power called 'mimetic,'
which enables them to mimic, or imi-
tate, the substances which afford them
food and shelter. They are mimics all
the way from the larva state to the i'm
ago, whether they are moths, butterflies,
beetles, bugs, or locusts. In the larva
state some insects are easily distin-
guished from their food and shelter, but
oftentimes they are not. Don't you re-
member how, when we went bug-hunt-
ing up in grandpa's orchard, we chased
some white cabbage butterflies over the
tomato bed, and you, John, found a
brownish caterpillar on one of the
plants? Then we hunted for more, and
found one so much like the leaf in color
that l almost took it in my hand before
l saw what it really was.
''When the insect is in its pupa state,
it is as great a mimic as before For
then the cocoons and chrysalides, or
aurelid@, are of the same color as their
Oh,
Aides we find hidden under posts,
fences, stone, hanging from trees, etc,
are of the same color as the stones,
bushes, etc. This light-brownish
cecropia cocoon is the color of the bush
or tree on which it hung. Perhaps it
was barberry BUSH
"This one isn't brown; it's white, :"
said Lincoln.
80 it is. 1t came off the top of a
white birch tree, and so it initiated the
bark of that wood in color. | think
that only in the image state is the in
sect mimic in shape. Examples of
this kind are walking sticks and walk
ing leaves.
Gone day | was out on specimen
hunt with a naturalist on the banks of
Duck Pond, in birmingham, Massachu-
sets. l was a short distance behind
when l heard her call me; on my
Fastening to her she showed me what /
thought was little branch in tin cup.
just as was going to ask what there
was curious or interesting about it,
some little twigs on the side of the
branch began to move, and imme-
diately thought it must be a walking
stick, of which had read, but Lever
until then seen. | believe my friend
said there were but three varieties of
this insect in. North America.
"Any warm day in summer, when
you boys are playing in the yard or
orchard, you can see some very striking
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06
BETTER THAN GOLD.

"My little world is very small,
Scarce worth your notice, sir, at al"
The mothersaid.
any good, kind husband as you see,
And these three children at my knee,
Who look to us so trustingly
For daily bread.
"For their sweet sal<es who love me so,
keep the freight in glow,
In our dear home.
That, though the tempests roar outside
And tiercely threaten far and wide,
The CHEEKY blaze. may serve to guide
Dear feet that roam.
Sand as the merry kettle boils,
We welcome him who daily tolls,
For us each day.
OF true love kisses fun a score
He gets, I'm certain, if not more,
When fond ones meet him at the door,
At twilight gray.
some gets the slippers for his feet,
Another leads him to his seat
The big arm chair
And while the children round him sing
And make the dear old rafters ring,
One little daughter crowns him king
With blossoms fair.
"Ah, sir. we are not rich or great,
The owners of vast estate"
The mother said;
''But we have better far than gold,
Contentment, and little fold
As full of love as it can hold,
with daily bread"
AIRS. N. a. Kidder in ". 7. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06
The ESQuiMAUX.


Habits of Semi-CiviIiled People of Whom
Little Is Known.
DR.. Franz Boas, who has travelled
along the shores of Ballin Bay and Lab
rador, read Il paper on the Esquimaux
of those regions last evening before the
German Social Science Association.
The hall was somewhat too large for
the lecturers voice, and as lie spoke
rather rapidly some doubtless interest
ing remarks escaped the ears of many
in the audience. He said that the Es-
quimauX We're scattered over q very
large extent of territory in small settle
ments, and as they did not have fire.
quent intercourse there necessarily eX-
listed differences in their habits and
dialects, although the inhabitants of the
various districts were able to make their
wants understood by each other In
winter they live in snow-houses that are
thickly lined with seal-skins or reindeer
skins, and are so low that person can
barely sit upright. AS there are very
few plants that can be utilized by men,
the seal and reindeer supply the inhab-
itants with food, clothing and habita-
tons. The lives of the men are spent
in eating and hunting, while the women
attend to domestic duties. In hunting
the seal the hunter creeps up to his VIC
tim on knees and elbows, and should
the seal become suspicious the man im-
mediately lies down Hat and initiates
the movements of the animal. As he is
dressed in seal fur the Esquimaux, when
living, closely resembles the seal When
he is near enough the hunter must strike
quickly and kill his game with the first
thrust. otherwise the seal will slip
through an ice-hole and be lost The
people are fond of music and often sing
for hours and hours. Much Of the poetry
refers to returning summer aud rushing
waters, the sound of which, after the
painful silence of hard winter, is crate
fully welcome to the ear. Should
family desire to move 10 a distant part
of the country to trade or visit another
tribe, preparations are made months
and sometimes year beforehand.
Dogs are purchased and trained, and
finally the start is made when the ice is
hard. The EsquimauX are hospltable
to strangers. Their religion is fraught
with superstition. They believe in good
and bad spirits, who either protect and
bring good luck or cause sickness and
misfortune. They also belieye in the
existence OF the human spirit after
death. N Y Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06
Inc Farmer and the Editor.

a Farmer who Felt in his Heart thai
this was a cold World and that no one
Cared for him or his, Mechanically
slipped a goose Egg into his coat tail
pocket and Betook himself to the village
and the Office of the Gazette, where he
Produced the Egg and Swore by the
Horn Spoon that it was laid by Pullet.
The AstOnished and Delighted Editor
sent out for a BEDFORD to Measure the
Length and Diameter of the Egg, pre-
scented the Farmer with a Years Sub
scription, and took Voluminous Notes
with a Pencil. The next issue of Gazette
contained full and Thrilling Descrip-
ton Of the Egg and the Pullet, and
wound up by saying that Farmer John
son was Honest, Upright, Enterprising
and Progressive, and that he had the
LoVelieSt Family, the best Farm and the
Fattest Live Stock of any Agriculturist
in the State. All of which so Tickled
the farmer that he carried Grin until
the Weather Wore the Enamel off his
front teeth, and he had no Trouble in
Marrying off his Daughters, Selling off
his Old Hay, and getting Elected as SUI
pervisor.
MORAL.
If you can't get hold of a Goose Egg,
a Pumpkin, Squash or a Peck of Turnips
will Answer just as well,-Detroit Free
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06
FOB OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
PAPA IN HEAVEN.

My papa went to Heaven to live
About "A month ago.
wish God hadn't taken him,
Because we miss HIM so.
thought perhaps we shouldn't keen
Thanksgiving when it came;
Because, with papa gone away,
1t wouldn't seem the same.
So I asked mamma what she thought,
When | was going to bed,
Last night. The tears came to her eyes,
But then she smiled, and said:
''Was papa all we thanked God for,
My darling child, last year?
Have We not many blessings still
We had when he was hercY'
And then she said: "You shall decide
What we had better do.
tomorrow morning, try to think
Vi all things Old and new,
That we have now or we have had
Within this present year,
10 bless us and to make us glad;
And then decide, my DEAR
"If there's enough to make it seem
Bcfitting every way
That we, with very grateful hearts
Should keep Thanksgiving Day"
And so this morning I began
To do as she had said:
And oh! how fast Thanksgiving things
Did come into my head.
1 wondered I had never thought
Of all of them before;
! don't believe ever could
Forget them any more.
There's mamma-papa's gone away,
But mammals with us still;
And there is darling sister May
And little brother Phil,
And little baby brother too
He's worth his weight in gold;
And there is grandma don't think
She ever will grow old.
And there is aunty, and besides,
The Other folks love:
I'm thankful that no more of them
Have gone to Heaven above.
Then | am glad that we can see;
I've heard my mamma say
That there are children who are blind,
L glad were not that way.
And am very thankful. too,
That we are well and strong;
My mamma knew a lady once
Was sick the whole year long.
And have heard of children. too,
Who could not run or walk;
And mamma says that there are some
Who can not hear or talk.
And then thought, through all the year,
What pleasant times we've had,
And how so many things have come
10 make US very glad.
And all the summer, everywhere
Such lovely things to scc
And trees and birds and flowers, that look
So beautiful to me.
Dear papa always loved the flowers
So much when he was here:
I'm sure II always think of him
whenever they are near.
Butmamma says that up in Heaven
They have more lovely flowers
And that they bloom there all the time,
And do not die, like ours.
/ am so glad, for papall be
SO happy then, | know;
I'd like 10 thank God just for that,
And l told mamma so.
told her too, of all the things
I'd thought about so long,
And that it seemed, because Of them,
1t would be almost wrong
If we didn't keep Thanksgiving Day,
And that, if papa knew.
He'd like it better if we did.
She said she thought so, too.
And then she cried a little bit,
Then wiped her eyes and smiled;
tShe looks so lovely when she Smiles)
And then she said: Dear child,
you've helped me more than you can kno
1t shall be as you say;
Though papa is away from us,
Wen keep Thanksgiving Day"
And then she took me in her arms,
And held me very tight,
And kissed me very fondly twice,
just as she does ist night.
Fanny PerciUdl in N. Y Independent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06

Emancipation in Brazil.

The emancipation of slaves in some OF
the Brazilian provinces is going on
rapidly. According to the Anglo-
Brazilian Times of the 2lth ultimo, the
city of Rio Grande do Sol freed all its
slaves on the 18th of September and de-
clared its intention to liberate oil within
the municipality the I'd of December.
The cities of st. Boria, Villa da Con-
ccical do Arroio and Wants Boria have
also taken the same course. tPelotas.
the center of the jerked-beef trade $500
slaves were emancipated between the 9TH
and the 10Th ultimO, and the remainder
were soon to be given their freedom. The
movement is general and active through
out this province, and it is expected that
it can be declared on the 1st of january
entirely freed Of slaves. A large proper
ton of these slaves are being liberated
on condition Of a term Of service. usually
not exceeding five years. -,Nev Tor6
Commercial AdCcytjSer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06

think that l was afraid of you and
dreaded to have you Gomez
''Was that because you knew | was an
'old maid?'" asked Martha, laughing.
Yes, that was just it. l didn't know,
you see, that you were such a blessed
old maid. "-HedrtbStoRe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06

"A visit to many of the homes in the
settlements of Indian Territory would
surprise the visitor by the evidences of
refinement and education. and the alb
sence of everything that would even re-
motely suggest barbarism. With diff
Guilty he would be persuaded that the
fair-haired lady at the piano was an
Indian, or that the white skinned chill
dren had any tinge of Indian blood in
their veins. They are Indians i&leed,
by birth, and, according to the laws of
the nations, by Inheritance, but by their
education, as well as their descent, they
are white people, and quite as well able
in the contest of life to take care of
themselves by developing their patri-
mony as their neighbors across the
Kansas line. -- Chicago INTERIOR
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06

Experiments have for some time
been made in Belgium for preserving
wood by eXhausting the air from the
pores and filling them with liquid gutta-
percha. The gutta-percha is liquetied
by mixing it with paralline and sub
iecting to heat After ID is introduces
into the pores it hardens as it becomes
cold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06

The large and elegant buildings of
the Union theological Seminary on
Park Avenue, in New York City, have
been completed at cost of S725,000
and they are now occupiod.-N T. sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-06

The 'gnnial commercial solicita-
ZIONIST is the Boston style of address
for drummer.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14
THE FLOODS.

The friends of timber preservation are hav-
ing their arguments nightly reinforced by the
annual floods on the Ohio and its tributaries.
There were freshets in the past, it is true, in
the days when the forests still fourished on
the banks of those mighty streams. But they
were infrequent and occurred only under ex-
ceptional circumstances. In these late years.
since the forests have been removed, the floods
have become regular and there seems to be
no good reason to hope that they will ever
be otherwise. The bare hillsides and river
banks offer no shade to restrain the melting of
the snow or any check to its rapid flow when
melted; and unless the forests can be replaced
the cities of the valley must continue to hold
ing and submit with such grace as they can
muster. But where the forests still remain
the lesson of the Ohio may be studied with
profit. 1t is not a matter which concerns on
ly the owners of timber land. 1t is of the
highest consequence to all communities dwell
ling on the banks of rivers; and it should be
treated by them as subject of grave public
concern. The people of New York are taking
the alarm, and one result of the Ohio food
will probably be the preservation of the Adir-
ondacks from the denudation with which they
have been so sharply threatened of late The
people of Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana
ought also to heed the warning and interpose
while there is yet time to prevent the total de-
struction of the forests.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14
WHY HATING DOES NOT PAY.

1t is not worth your while to hate Your
life is not long enough to make it pay to cher
ish ill will or hard thoughts toward anyone
What if that man has cheated you or that
woman played you false? What if this friend
has forsaken you in your time of need or that
one, having won your utmost confidence, your
warmest love, has concluded that he prefers
to consider and treat you as stranger? Let
it all pass What difference will it make to
you in few years, when you go hence to the
" undiscovered country" All who treat you
wrong now will be more sorry for it than you,
even in your deepest disappointment and
grief, can be. A few more smiles, few more
tears, some pleasure, much pain, little lon
ger hurrying and worrying in the world, some
hasty greetings and abrupt farewells, and life
will be laid away, and ere long forgotten 1t
is not worth while to hate each other.-Catt-
0lic Herald.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14

A REMARKABLE WEDDING came off in our
borough last week, too late for the makeup
of our paper to mention. 1t was such one as
has not taken place in human lifetime more
than once during the last three thousand
years, and we are not advised that such were
common even before that period. Our citi-
zens appreciated the occasion and made the
home in which it was held lively with their
numbers, their cheerful faces and merry
voices. About seventy-fve guests assembled
on the occasion at the house of Mrs McAllis-
ter on Main street, to greet the couple and
each other, and enjoy the bountiful repast,
the excellence of which was one of the enjoy
able features of the gathering. We like a
thing like this, because of the affection it ex-
hibits between parents and children, and the
hearty respect it evinces for the venerable
groom and his excellent lady by their friends,
who in this case came from Salem and Phila-
delphia and other places to do them honor.
1t was golden wedding" We could wish
that our friend Coles and his good wife might
live to have another.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14
POLITENESS.

If children are taken in hand at very
early period of life and trained to habitual
Narefulness of the feelings and rights of
others, and made to see the evil of selfshness,
and t0practice self-denial, there will be but
little trouble in teaching and enforcing the
duty of politeness. Much of the formality
and ceremony which is objected to by plain,
straightforward people, would then be dis
pensed with in favor of true, rational and
genuine courtesy, and natural, unconstrained
and graceful gentility. Dr.. Royal on Polite
neis, %. 207-8.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14

lower English branches, 80 that our room has
become sort of night school for boys. L
asked Mrs. Mickle what should tell you for
her on the subject She said if she had it to
go over again she should decide the same, for
she had no reason to change her views. At
the Workingmen's Institute here they have
games of skill but none of chance, but boys
do not go to that room, (only the library
room) Of course each community has its
peculiar needs, and one cannot lay out path
for another, SO can only give you our ex-
perience and mind The rooms must be made
interesting and kept SO by something new all
the time SO as not to get into ruts. But l
trust your heart and brain will solve the ques-
ton Alright, and for the best interests of the
community. One great secret of interest is to
keep all busy. Give all something to do
some responsibility make each his brothers
keeper.
Object lessons of all kinds are excellent
Experiment with alcohol on egg or lizard,
magic lanterns, lively, innocent humor mixed
liberally-in short, rack your brains and set
others to racking theirs, for the evolving of
new ideas as they are needed. You will sue
coed, for you know in whom you trust and
He has not led you thus far to forsake you
now, lever faithful Friend and Guide"
suppose your Union has the last state
minutes Be sure and have the Union sigma
on the table in your reading room. Do any
of your members take it? If not, they ought
to. No other temperance paper will take its
place, as it is the organ of the W. c. T. U.
like your plan of advertising on the back
of tracts. Hope to see you and other repre-.
sentatives at Glassboro in April-semi-an
convention.
Rev. D. Harris called here yesterday for in.
formation; wants to organize w. G. T. q.
in Haddonfeld. I shall watch with much in.
terest the conference appointments and
trust your lines will fall in pleasant places,
but, should you in your new home find the
gates still unopened I know they will not long
remain SO. God may send you to open more
gates. shall read your letter to our Union
on Friday and we will all rejoice with you
praising God. Lovingly, A. E. COOPER.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14

WITH THE ELECTIONS to council on last
Tuesday four of its six members are members
of religious societies. AS it is a disciplinary
offence in these societies for member to sign
an application or vote for licensing the sale
of alcoholic liquors as beverage, there ought
to be no doubt as to the result if the license
question should happen to come up in that
body during its present complexion. 1t
ought also to settle the pool-room question SO
far as receiving any countenance from our
borough authorities. Whatever may be said
in favor of pool-rooms in other places, we
are satisfied that no impartial judge in the
matter would decide that they are anything
but curse to Woodstown.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-14

The VOTE in the New York Legislature
few days ago on submitting the constitutional
amendment to the people prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors
stood 81 to &c. Unfortunately the two major
ity were on the wrong side. A 81 reconsider
alton. " however, was secured by the friends
of the bill. SO that it will be voted on again
and may still pass. Seventeen Republicans
voted against it eight Democrats voted In
favor of it, so that it was by no means party
vote. Only one member from New York city
voted for it, and very few members from the
country voted against it. 1t is thus further
seen that the stronghold of the liquor infu-
ence is in the cities, particularly in the large
cities.
The country generally is all aglow with
zeal for constitutional amendment and fam
ing up with indignation at the trickery of the
liquor interest management east, west, north
and south. 1t is system of villany from the
foundation, destroying persons and fami-
lies, perverting legislative action, corrupts
politics, and essays to interfere with the
constituted channels for administering JUS
tice, in order that it may be perpetuated and
fill its Golfers with the dimes worse than
stolen from the homes of drunkards and the
support of the needy. But let the soldiers for
prohibition hold fast and hold on, and gen.
eral victory is certain in the not distant
future. The whole thing will be settled with
staying qualities before the boys of to-day get
old enough to vote. This generation will set
tie it. The temporary defeats it gets in local.
ties, as lately illustrated in Bridgeton, and by
the trickery practiced in defeating it in legis-
lative bodies, makes new friends for it and
girds up the stamina of old friends and will,
in the end, make its triumph more illustrious.
When laymen occupying leading positions in
the churches cease deferring to hotel men,
and get backbone enough to take hold with a
will with those moving in the cause, the
whole business will be overthrown without
further delay.