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INSECTS AS MlMICS
ODD DISCUSSES SOME OF THEM ADOPT
FOR SELF DEFENSE.
Butterflies That Look Like Leaves, Moths
That Mimic Wood and Stone and Insects
That Can Appear Like Dead Tvigs-The
Eakir In India.

In wandering through one Of the pictor-
esque canyons OF the Sierra Nadre noun
tains one day I noticed coming down
through the air with peculiar motion a
green leaf It ZigZagged from side TO
side and finally landed in bush near at
hand. Wondering merely why such a leaf
would fall from spruce tree, l would
have passed on had not my dog, with more
prescience stopped and nosed the leaf,
telling mo, after his fashion, TO look. This
I did and found this green object that had
come scurrying down was not a leaf at
all, but a great green katydid, with eauZe-
like wings, protected by covers that were
so exact in their imitation Of other leaves
in general that any one would have been
deceived.
The insect was a natural mimic, and
even its flight downward from the tree
was protective one, calculated to deceive
any feathered enemy that might have
been in the vicinity. This phase of animal
life, the feature OF protective resemblance,
Is one well calculated 10 attract our atten-
ton and cause unceasing wonderment
Nature has wisely endowed certain de-
fenseless animals with certain protect
i've resemblance-made them mimics Of
their surroundings, so that they may avoid
their enemies-3nd the extent to which
this is carried among certain animals,
especially insects. makes the study one of
absorbing interest.
In all life there is a certain adaptation
to its peculiar surroundings Gaily tinted
birds are not as rule, found OF white,
sandy wastes, but in forests where there is
deep coloring and the contrast is not great.
The tawny lion, the giraffe, the ostrich,
are forms which assimilate their surround
ings. In California the horned toad is al
most as invisible as the sand in which it
lives. 4 little canyon toad mimics the
rocks upon which IL rests in color. while
the frogs of the east are hardly distin-
guishable from the green reeds among
which they hide.
This peculiar method of defense is partic-
ularly marked among insects. Some years
ago travelling fakir stopped at bunga-
low in India and offered for small sum
to show the guests of the sahib, who were
new in India, miracle. Told to go ahead,
he produced a small tree with leaves about
3 inches long, which he thrust into the |
ground. then took from a large box car
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had upon Its sides anG1egs curious excres-
cences that minicked fungous grOwths,
so that the bird who had seen il moving
would consider it nothing nut dried twig.
The curious insects known as the Inantis
are remarkable for their powers Of min
icry. Their movements are slow, their
bodies and legs resemble twigs, and they
are by this disguise enabled to creep upon
their prey. One species has been known
TO seize and eat small birds, who, think
ing il bit Of the branch, 30 fall into its
clutches. Perhaps the most remarkable
mimic among these insects i pink man
It's of India that is almost exact Ia its re-
semblance 10 an orchid. The object here u
evidently 10. capture insects that alight on
ie by mistake w ashington star.
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That The Santa Re route (St- Loui. nj
san Francisco railway IL positively
the only line running two daily through
passenger trains from wichita TO ST
Louis. without change. leaving WichI-
"a at 1870 a. m. and 1875 y. m. Rrrty-
ing IN 81. Louis al $50 p. m. and 90 a.
IN. The equipment Of these trains 10
first class ia every particular. consist
Ing Of elegant reclining chair cars (ssats
freel and Pullman Palace Drawing
Room SlceDcrs.
If you are going beyond ST. Louis -
member that connection with ali lines
Tor the east, northeast ana southeast n
made IN the magnificent new Grand
Union station. 81. Louis. the largest and
handsomest passenger station ia tbs
world.
For sleeping car berths and all insor-
patton relative 10 rates. routes. etc
call Al Santa Re Route ticket ONCE. ia
North Main street. or Douglas Avsnus
station dy5-tf
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bomeeeeher> and land Excursions Via the
Missouri Pacific Railway

on February II. The Missouri Pacific
railway company viii sell tickets -
Lake Charles, La. TO al points in Ar
kansas and Texas To Colorado. Utah
wyoming, Idaho (east of and inclu6-
ing Market Lake and Weissr) to Dem
ing. New Mexico and 10 Phoenix. ana,
P~-kScott, Ariz.. at rate Of one fare pins
q Tor the round trip on March
eio April :. same rates will be made
10 all points in Arkansas. Texas sn.5
10 Lake Charles. La Tickets viii b.
limited 10 twenty days after da
sale Stop-oVer granted It all pGlass
south OF CoGeyville WtSreever t,c,-
PTS read over foreign lines stop-oyers
will be governed by local conditions n
lines over which tickets read. For fur
fhef particulars cali on or address
=. L. BLECKLEY-
p. and T. \. ia North Main
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Four bottles ot Paine's celery COM
pound gave me strength. quicted my
nerves. and brought sleep 10 my pill
low. ] owe lasting gratitude to this
wonderful medicine. and ! take pleas
ure in adding mine 10 the long Inst IL
testimonials.
Yours gratefully.
MRS. +. BURKE COLLINS
3iS NaieBcc ST
Paincs celery compound s. found 20
best supply the great need Of studious.
sedentary people. It's extensive use by
brain workers. both men and women.
suffering from sleeplessncss. Indigestion
or other effects Of a deficient nerve forces
shows its ability 10 feed tired Crnacia-
ted. nervous tissues. Nothing else has
ever possessed anything Ike the power
or Paine's celery compound % restore
a healthy. nervous tone 10 the entire
body and TO thoroughly cleanse the
blood. School teachers. professional
men. newspaper men. ministers. public
officials. men whose daily outlay OF ST
tality. because of hard. trying. anxious
work. is excessive. find renewed strength
not only Of the nerves but. through
their healthy action, OF the entire
body. In Paine's celery compound Its
use shortly dispels headaches. rheumat-
f. pain. dyspepsia. heart trouble. gen
eral debility and ianGuor. and all other
outward signs Of the grave mischief
that comes from dis0rdeIed nerves and
impure blood.
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Change OrTmc on Missouri Pacific.

Commencing Sunday, Nov. -. new
time card Will go iuto effect The most
important change will be in train No 454
which LOW leares Wichita for the east at
1o'clock p. IN. This train will leave Wich-
lta Nov. y at 1l:45 a. H.. arriving at st.
Iouis next morning at 6:50 L. will make
direct connections at Yates Center with
The through Hot Springs train from Kan
sas City. arriving at Little Rock next
morning at 5 O'clock and Hot Springs a.
Il:lV At. ~. Other changes in the time
card VIII be shown in local time card IN
this paper.
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The Massachusetts Mutual Life In
surance company have established a
woman's department IN connection with
their general Office in this city and have
appointed Mrs. Florence L. Shaffer of
this city general agent. Mrs. Shaffer
is well and favorably known and will
make a competent agent d96 st
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Notice.


TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Office OF Comptroller OF the Currency.
Washington. u. c.. Jan I6. 1895.
Notice is hereby given to all persons,
who may have claims against he
Wichita National bank OF Wichita, -
Kansas. the same NUT be presented to
w y. Ewing, receiver. with the legal
proof thereof, within three months
from this daIe, or they may be dIsaI-
lowed. JAMES II. ECKLES.
Comptroller OF the Currency.
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Registration Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the regis
tration books of the city of Wichita
will be closed on March y at o'clock
J.. m, and remain closed until after
the ELECTION to be held April .
94-l3t c. s. SMITH, City Clerk.
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: Ju.s fhs hing.

Ms Bingley Gin her nesv fatAThis
closet IS altogether too small for our
things
Bingley-Can't vou use ~
Ms Bingley-Dh, yes IL wiz make
: lovely serva-9ts roo1n.-N. Y. world.
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ApVTcR TO MO- EPes

Mrs. WiHslow's Soothing Syruo
should alyaws Se used Tor children
feething. Il soothes the child cofteas
the gums, allays all pain. cures vino
collie. and Is tire best remedy for
diarriloea. I've sty-Ive cents a bot
lie. Used by millions Of mothers.
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Registration Nnfice.

Wichita, March Z. 1895.
Notice Is hereby given that the books
for the registration of voters will here
after be kept open till 6 O'Clock o. m.
March n, 1895. c. s. SMITH.
dyb 1T City Clerk.
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Al oxtin,.+-

Mrs- Beaaoa-H-ye jon forsnd razr-
riags . l4u1re2
Mrs Wabasa--No-o. a. icast no. OF
la.@ yesra--S. 4. World.
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HoNEsEEKERs EXCURSIONS


On March :. ana April 2. ire Santa
re Route N3I sell tickets 10 IAk-
charies- Ia: and q al points IN Texas
fexcept II PasoB at ore fare pias :,
for the round trip. TICKET limited 20
days frITu date u sale For farfb.r
particulars call 81 City Ticket Cfrcs
rs North Main street. or Douglas av~nus
station IAGG q "a fszON.
City Ticket Ags-ss.s
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As the light is none too good, many min
ers take fearful risks by using naked
lamps. The Connellsville district has
been the scene of many accidents and
great loss Of life.-Chicago Record.
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Exchange stables at Orlando and gsfB
water. We make a speciality ~ carry
Ing passengers between these polut..
Travelling mems patronage solicited.
SHIVELY. VA$WYCK x ElsfyEI.Y.
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All the standard medicines, surgical
appliances and toilet requisites at Wal
laces drug store. e9-tf
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fresh BuffernniI,,

You can get your prescriptions filed
at Wallace's drug store at any time OF
the day or night. 69-tf
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Too ooos for Earth.

Binl-s-Sad affair. Goodnsu's death.
coat believe he had a enemy IN the
world
Sinks dsn't believe be had. either
Way, even h4s relatives always spoke
wei u hi1n,-Puelz-
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Go TO lis South Main street for Texas
seed oats and seed corn, flour and feed,
lower prices than any place in the city
VIM. Crow. dq6 81.
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10 hsyt~ Ts~r.

Little Mia Br.eS<r0w-wer~ Twin, IN
very stylish and exeluAs-s he..,,,s..--
icua=-
LIE A4i-s hae<co-r+ - Huhi Yoa
ear ia-ss anybody believe TIA,
Why not7-
Dare TOO fxt----f3oof S---x
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"i'oar eio7v o5t ire gaa.- aid the
bellbCT.
y m right glad yOu tod ne. said ~.
gentleman with the esDrins whiAker..
We don't have nothin' bu. electric
Ugh; al Plun<7ille- --Cincinnst Tric-
uue-
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ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.

March 5th and April end, 1895. Round
trip. One fare plus seq. Good 20
days. J. II. PHILLIPS.
titY Tinker A.rarr
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InOla Block Goa! 5 %:; q, :: ; sg's.

ton delivered. 1t burns like Canon City
makes no clinker5. Telephone 1872 and
1913. Yards Sal and 223 West Douglas
avenue.
SCHWARTZ BROS.
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The kmpress Josephine once paid -. 0oo
for dress and 50 anSeaed tie en,p.rs.r
that &c ordered the 61ess.aassr 10 De SINS
TO p-isca-
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nieu; Je suis rranca1se" q am 1erenon-


NIeu; Je suis rranca1se'' q am .frenon-
woman).
The prince confirmed the sentence, but,
happily, before it was executed the news
of the armistice arrived and saved her life
In 1878 the Geographic heroine was in
charge of the postoffice at MontreuiI, near
Vincennes, and the 18th of August sh5
was decorated with the legion of honor b.
Marshal MacMahon, president of the re
public. Philadelphia Times
Every detail in the manufacture OF
Or. Prices Cream Baking powder is a
guarantee purity, quality and perfec-
ton. True economy is achieved in its
use.
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For sale every day at Lewelling
Creamery, 40 North Market street
d69 If
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Edi;0--SouehosT or other, I doat
zee tie sense q this thing
Poet-Ay dear sir. that's po@;ry,-At-
lzata Coustsutios-
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Seeds Of all kinds at w. T. Pucketts,
il9 West Douglas. GIFT
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Fr&<ttfai tAlsntfna
IL yos iseg fsrlT Ior.
As1 80 - via trr ,oT yo-r saa.a
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HARVEST EXCURSIONS no rExAs

p and T. \. ia North Main
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Berlioz,s 10000 Francs.

When Berliozs pecuniary horizon was
darkness that might be felt, he was sud
denly restored to comfort and respectable
ity by golden shower of 20, ZOO francs
which Paganni was popularity credited
with bestowing. All Paris was aghast,
for the fiddler was known to be miser
1t turned out that he added hypocrisy to
ayarice for Rossini assured Berlioz that
the real benefactor was Armand Berlin,
the wealthy owner of The journal des De-
bats, who persuaded Paganini to pose as
the self denying patron of brother musl-
clan. Hitler visited Berlioz shortly before
he died, base, disappointed, i'll condl-
toned man of genius, who was so mortl-
fed with the reception given to his opera,
'The Trojans, - that he determined to lay
aside his wand, like Prospero, and have
nothing more to do with entertainments.
He told Hitler that not only had he be-
queathed all his scores to the library OF the
Conservatoire, but that he had deposited
them on the shelves with his own hands.
This was the last act of man who
knew what the vanity of human wishes
means as we'll as DR.. johnson himself, for
all the hopes and aspirations at the outset
of his career had been but family realized.
In early days he had written to Hitler:
beethoven WAS Ine OolulIlpus VI ho"
tone world. l hope to follow after him
as a Ferdinand Cortez.' There was an
element of truth in the prophecy for,
though, as a profound critic has observed,
''he was by no means an erudite musician,
his knowledge being restricted, like that
of most men of genius, to the range of his
personal sympathies, yet he stands alone
a colossus with few friends and no direct
followers; marked individuality, origi-
nal, puissant, bizarre, violently one sided,
whose influence has been and will again
be felt far and wide, for good and for bad,
but cannot rear disciples or form school. "
-Temple Bar
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floral adornment for the parlors. The
great lighthouses of the propagating gar
dens have been robbed of their choicest
blooms and their finest plants. In the
broad but shallow lobby just within the
entrance palms have been arranged to
screen the musicians of the Marine band.
Seats have been placed in semicircle for
them at the left of the entrance and be-
yond the Tiffany glass screen has been
swung aside so that the concord of sweet
sounds" may penetrate undiminished to
every part of the mansion. The door at
the other end of the screen, too, has been
thrown open, and through this the crowd
is to pass on it's way to the reception
rooms.
In the Blue Parlor.
In the long hallway extending from the
conservatory to the east parlor door be-
yond the screen palms have been grouped
here and there, but the passage has been
left almost free for those who will want to
observe the incoming crowd and study hui
man nature developed under the binding
light of authority 1t is a curious study,
and queer things happen in front of the
receiving line in the blue parlor.
In the three connecting parlors-the
red the blue, the green-which form the
reception suit most elaborate floral prep
arations are made, and in the east parlor,
which Dolly Madison used as a drying
room on wash days, the mantels and
CRATES are hidden by great mass of bril-
liant foliage and bloom, while the corners
are tropical with palms and huge ferns
and rubber plants. The curtains in all
these rooms are drawn, and the glow from
"sunbursts' of electric light illumines
the east parlor. In the other parlors the
softened radiance of frosted electric bulbs,
springing from the tapestried walls, lends
brillianoe to the spectacle.
The first arrivals are the members of
the presidents neutrality-suspicious. today
81 overland their wives or daughters or
whatever woman is at the head Of the
household of each. Secretary Herbert's
daughter is his social representative, and
Mr.. Morton is represented by his sister.
All the women of a cabinet household
may attend a New Years reception and
stand behind the line, " but only the head
of a household may stand at the presi-
dents right unless the head of the house
hold is absent from the city or sick. Even
then il Is still a mooted point whether the
next in authority should claim her place
in the official line, and great was the dis
mute and many the heartburnings because
Katherine Bayard took the place OF her In
valid mother at the head of the cabinet
women ON the occasion of one OF MI
Cleveland's first official receptions.
The cabinet members and the cabinet
women are ushered to the private apart
ments of the presidents family on the sec
ond floor of the White House, and there
wraps are laid aside, and possibly little
r,rimpiup is dOne-nOt by the cabinet
members, of course. Before the last hair
pin is in place or the last dab of the pow.
der puff has been given the members oil
the diplomatic corps have begun to arrive
and have been shown to the state dining
room. which is the apartment next to the
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WEST GATE OF THE WHITE HoUsEwHERE

hand to another attendant who stands at
the door. The signal passes to Fanciulli,
and with a crash the band strikes up the
familiar and unimpressive strains of Hail
to the Chief" If any one of the long line
of presidents of the United States had had
any music in his whole soul, think he
would have issued a proclamation against
the playing of that air on official occasions.
To the crash of brass and the sound OF
flute and horn the president comes down
the stairway. 1t is customary for him to
bring down the wife of the vice president.
Mr.. Cleveland has violated this custom on
occasion by bringing down his own wife,
and fortunately the rule on this subject Is
less rigid than the rule of precedence, for
whomsoever the president brings down
stairs his own wife stands at his side when
he takes his place in the blue parlor. On
this occasion, too, Mrs. Stevenson will
probably not be present, as she is in
mourning for her daughter.
Behind the president and his wife are
the secretary of state and his wife and
then the other members of the cabinet es-
corting each others wives. The husbands
lose the order of official precedence on this
occasion, but their wives maintain it for
them. The wife of the secretary of state
must precede the wife of the secretary of
the treasury, and the sister of the secre-
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of mods with those who are behind the
line the final preening of gay plumage.
Then the president takes his place at the
entrance to the red parlor, and the secretary
of state presents to him the dean of the
diplomatic corps, that pompous but rather
democratic knight, Sir Julian Pauncefote.
Another representative of the state depart
ment standing beside Mrs. Cleveland pre-
sents the diplomats to her, but the presen-
tation is a useless formality in most cases.
All but few of the figures are familiar to
the presidents wife. Sir Julian is in a
brilliant military uniform. He carries a
gorgeously gilded cooked hat in his hand
Behind him come the other members of
the corps attired in the gayest of uniforms
or silk robes. The Chinese minister and
his attaches keep their little skullcaps on
their heads, and, save when they shake the
presidents hand, keep their own hands
buried in their flowing sleeves of silk.
The hour named for the reception of the
diplomatic corps is II O'Clock. Before
that time the supreme court justices have
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torment the natives until what time SOME
of them get Justly killed for their crimes.
Then the others flee and spread report
how they have been assaulted by savages,
how the evangelists of civilization have
been slaughtered, how the king OF the bar
barian state Is to blame for 1t, and how
we only are escaped alive to tell the news.
What follows2 All Englishmen must
be protected and avenged A military ex-
petition is sent into the offending country.
History cannot even recapitulate the hor-
rors that follow in the train. Arithmetic
cannot sum up the hundreds and thou
sands and millions of innocent victims
that have fallen in foreign lands under the
bloody swords of the British soldiery. The
offending country Is conquered. Forts
are built garrisons established, colonies
sent out. A local government is set up.
The natives are either destroyed or en-
shaved. Great Britain colonies the world
And yet she has no friend!
She also civilizes the world. Indeed her
civilization is worth considering 1t is
civilization effected with sword and she'll,
promoted with brandy and opium, based
on the Bible and free trade, and secured
by the dissemination of religious tracts
and venereal diseases! Follow the trail OF
this British empire through the islands of
the Pacific ocean, in India, in Africa, in
the west and in the east, wherever she has
gone, and the trail is everywhere stained
with blood marked with trophies which
violence has set up on the charred remains
of native races, commemorated with rec
ords of slaughter and violence and lust, at
the appearance of which the soul OF hu-
manity sickens and the face of charitable
hope is averted with burning shame.
Consider the arrogance of this race and
nation. The presumption of Great Britain
reaches all the way from impudence to
brutality. The tone of supercilious con
descension with which she invariably ad-
dresses her betters is such as to provoke
the Just hatred of mankind. The notion
of equal and humane intercourse, of good
manners of the gentleness which real
| greatness always shows even to the weak,
and all the more because they are weak, is
thing unknown to British thought.
England, obliged by the sublime com
pulsion of history to sit at times in equal
condition at the council table of nations,
thinks herself Inundated. For three CEN
turtles she has been the prime bully Of the
world, extending her reign by violence
and fraud, by breaches Of good faith and
hectoring diplomacy, accordingly as the
one or the other has been least expensive
to herself and most offensive to her neigh
bors. Such is the time built, weather
worn and crime painted government and
nation that now, brought into strait
place and confronted with the legitimate
results of her own work, emits a mutter-
ing monologue to the effect that she has
no friends, and the London Spectator tries
to explain it by repeating the offense!
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.