The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-09-11
BILL ARp'S LETTER.
Arp Studies Bats.
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marked There i Il lat in the
room. i long time ago >hc used to
lump mp with a!acriiy and 90 into
another room and wait till got the
lit;ie varmint out hn, anno domini
takes the scare ou Of 4 WOMAN - well
as a man. and 50 now she Keeps her
seat. TIE @irl, said Take the
lamp in the hall and il will 20 ont,
but il woaldcm,. Ny wife said You
had better get the broom and knock il
down. but don't You knock it this
way. noticed that she had put the
,SunDy Sorth on her head saddle fash
ion, and the girls had covered up all
but their eyes. Carefully ! mounted
a chair and began to sweep for the
little creature as ii skinned around.
but it takes long time and lost my
perpendicular several times. The
bat is ihc missing link. said a> |
gave another stroke. Seems to be.
said my wife. you miss it very
time. 1T is not an amphibiou>
animal. said |. But very ambieu
Gus. said she. ''It is chiroptcrous
and vcSpcrtilio, said as | made
another lungc and the chair carccncd
and let me down easy. Pausing awhile
to get breath. ! remarked that those
biz words Of Linncous meant having
hands and fingers and coming out at
twilight. "Wcll, do please get the
thing out Of hcrc-and you can tell us
about it aftcrward," F." said my wife.
The next effort was an accidental
success. The bat was knocked down
and swept out. Then got tie cyclic
pacdia and discovered from it how the
bat was a bird that laid no eggs. but
gave birth to its young and sucked
thcnl-how it had hands and feet and
fingers and toes and even finger nails
and toe nails how it lad teeth,
CANNES and molars how it was not
blind but had little tiny eyes hid in
the hair, eyes that cannot bear the
light and are entirely closed when
Aying around lighted room. Cuvier
cXpcrimcntcd with them and put their
eyes out and they could still fly around
and never touch wall or the ceiling.
He said it was owing to their exquisite
sense of touch and Of smell and hear
ing. The ancicnts said the bat had a
sixth sense By which they could avoid
collision with walls and so forth, but
Cuvicr did not think so. They are
very ancient little animal and reckon
had place somewhere in Noah $ Ark,
but we don't know whether he put
them with the birds or the bugs
Moses declared them unclcan and
classcd them with owls and yulturcs.
1t seems to us that it is a poor. miscr-
able life they live but reckon they
enjoy it. especially when they come
in the house and alarm the women and
children They have unique and
lonely place in creation, there being
but two or three kinds. and they never
cross or mix and have no society.
They lave the miniature hands and
feet of human beings. the teeth Of a
dog and wings to fl! Ikea bird. Even
Darwin could not ,cll whether they
cvolutcd backward Or forward.
wish that | was naturalist. 1t
i: an everything mystery to study these
little creatures all around Us. How 4
Ay can so swiftly glide upon the wiz
dow pane. what language tlc ants
use rs they pass and rcpass one
another as they 20 and come from
their hidden nests. | watch them on
the poles in the trcllis and they never
fail to pause for an instant and say
something and quickly pass on:
Maybe it is ''ITowdy,' or "Arc all
well p or 81 am glad to see yon-
give my love to the children. That
they say something there is 10 doubt
Then there are the lightning bugs that
would be great wonder if they were
not 50 common Did you ever observe
that they never tighten except to rise
higher in the air? They make no
descending light. and 50 it is evident
that the light they make is not to sec
by. but to propcl them upwards. 1t
is an electric powcr-a force without
heat and our scientists might study
it and analyzc the wonderful little
chemical machine that lies hidden in
its tail. 1t is Il power as well as a
light. Ny friend l'us>cy. the bee man
Of Marietta. says he tried diligently
to cross lightning bugs with his bees
50 that the cross could see how to
work in the dark. but he failed. |
have great respect for Linncus and
Cuyicr and .Audobon and \gassi2. who
have left Us such treasury Of
knowledge that they gathered from ma
turc. 1t does seem that providence
raises up such men with 4 kind purpose
and gives them key to unlock His
storchou:c. Every once in Il great
while treat man comes up to minis
ter to our pleasure. our learning or
our comfort THUS knowledge be
comes difiuscd and the world becomes
wiser and better If man is the best
finder woman is the best diiuscr
Of knowledge. contemplated them
Yesterday a. they worked on craz:
quilt at my house. y GOOD lady: who
is always at work for the church, or
poor. or the hca,hcn. brought over the
PATCHWORK Of quilt to be made up
She got her many friends t. make
each a square and Yesterday it was all
stitched together and embroidered and
the seams pressed down and rich
border put on, and it is about aS
lovely as Il crazy quilt can be. for they
are the most distracted things in the
world and nobody but crazy people
admire them. ';cmcral Young liked
to have taken fit over lhiS one be
fo.c it wa> put together. and he ha>
bought it for 50 and is going to take
it to Huatcmala when he goes back
and will make an oIlcal spread Of it
on his couch Of state. Perhaps he
may wear it on reception days Ike
l;oman loea or Il Spanish Mau;illa
At any rate. the good woman lave
been as crazy as the quilt. and al for
the sakcs of the heathcn Chinese.
who are killng rp oUr missionaries
hope it will be invested ed in powder.
| never saw the like. The harder the
times The harder do the women beg
for money for >omc charitable OF
c!urc! work. .llno,t every mail
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