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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-25

brush and reached ravine, only to see
the flock wheel and fly back to the
top of the hill again. where there were
quantities of yellow flowers. l might
have known they would come back to
the yellow flowers, but l quite lost my
head.
AT dark 1 had fourteen butterflies.
The boys helped me to pin them on
my setting braid as we sat around the
campfire.
II knew that the rest of the flock
could be caught in the morning, and
/ was out before the sun was up, for
that is the easiest time to catch but
terflies, for they are sluggish then and
stick to the damp foliage.
Yes, I caught the rest to pin down.
Money was rather scarce with us then
and l was saving my postage, which
meant a good bit of a sum, so, as a
safeguard, l sketched my butterfly in
water color and sent the sketch home
to England.
Such a long wait as / had and fancy
my delight when word came to send
my entire flock to London.
You'll never guess what they Of
fered me for them, even when | tell
you they were rare specimens? Twen-
ty-five dollars each. AS there were
twenty three you see l had the tidy lit
tie sum of 1915, which / promptly IN
vested in three very fine sheep.
'Well, that was the beginning After
that 1 worked in real earnest. You
see California is very rich in new spe-
cies both of butterflies and beetles.
Then Miss Yeomans showed ME a cat
alogue of a firm in Paris which deals
only in butterflies, and every butterfly
or beetle has its marked value; some
of them ranging as high as 500.
In Europe many people in private
h. t,lA, ~ nj
nothing to do make these collections
and pay great prices for rare or beau
tiful specimens, so that 1t is regular
business to handle butterflies and bee
ties. There are at least three large
firms in London and Paris with seve-
raj hundred thousand dollars capital
invested
Americans" continued Miss Yeo-
mans, use these specimens in their
museums, and every college has it's
specimens for the students. They are
my customers"
Miss Yeomans' cellar is not intended
for vegetables or eatables, but for the
rearing of beetles.
In one corner is q box filled with
what looks like sticks of wood for the
kitchen stove.
This is my nursery and these my
babies" she explained. May be I am
their Bluebeard, though, for I make
out of this box the series of the life
of beetle from the time it is in the
egg to maturity
Then she took up one stick and
showed 1t to me. 1t was split down
the middle, but the two halves were
held together by a rubber band. In
a hole between the two sticks she had
put a beetle to eat its way through the
wood. When it works its way out she
will put it back again and so prevent
worth SO each. She receives SIS for
the entire synopsis which consists of
a male and female adult, eggs. larva,
pupa, in different stages, showing the
entire metamorphosis. The beetle on
that particular stick was one which
was supposed to grow only In Italy
'One day a stranger and his son came
to our house." said Miss Yoemans.
"He was Frenchman and asked per-
mission to stay a few days while he
collected butterflies in the vicinity.
Il was surprised. Of course, but said
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markets for her specimens and he him
self was able to make more extended
researches
Miss Yoemans likewise can find no
one to help her in collecting except
small Indian boy.
-Four or five years ago a small,
brown. barefoot boy emptied his pock-
cts on her kitchen table. He had
caught some rare butterflies which he
called his flying flowers. His mother
had washed for the Yoemans, bring
ing her boy with her. He had seen
Miss Yoemans' cabinets full of butter
flies, as boys will see things you never
give them credit for. In running about
the hills he watched the bugs and had
learned a good deal of their habits.
Whenever he found butterflies he had
never seen before he caught them and
brought them to Miss Yoemans.
Il could have cried when l saw those
crumpled remains, for they were moth
ing else" she said. They happened
to be very rare kind and the custo-
dian of the Smithsonian Institution
had asked me to try to find the very
| species. / told Joe l would give him
dollar if he would bring me some
more. He could not find any, but
brought me instead a big beetle. 1t
was not one / recognized, for, you see,
l know a great many beetles and can
| tel DIT Il SidllCc Wldl lfley dIe. L klileu
| it with ether and made careful draw
| ing of it and sent 1T to the custodian of
| the Academy of Sciences in Philadel-
phia with a description of the place
| 1t had been found. | told him | had
sent the same drawing and description
| to Washington. 1t is just as we'll to
sell in an open market, you know.
In few days / was surprised to see
our next neighbor ride into our ranch
in a great hurry and give my brother a
| telegram. The neighbors were sure
some one was dead, so my brother
opened the telegram with a very Sc
rious face. AS for me, 1 was neal
fainting, for kilograms are almost un-
known in this corner of Humboldt
County.
I" Mary, he wants bug. said brother
at last.
Who wants bug?'
ct lis wise man of Philadelphia
He was afraid the other man might
get the beetle whose picture l had
telegraphed, and asked me TO sell it Il
him at my own price"
And what was your price?" / asked
Fifteen dollars and it was the most
valuable beetle l ever sold.
Il went with Joe to the place where
he had found it, If there is one there
are sure to be more, if you know whert
to look for them.
wren lhS iSP'y 'dhiC Il oilI INC mai
, at Washington offering me $40 l SEN
, him one. / sold four others-one for So
, one for SIS and one for Sand now
) can get only 81 each for them, becaus,
, they are no longer rare. The specie.
was supposed to live only in the Alps
and was very scarce"
; Miss Yoemans goes through the red
5 woods every year to collect her speci
[ mems. Spreading white sheet on tn,
ground, she gathers up the refuse I'M
: der the trees and scatters it on tn
sheet When something moves SHIT
looks to see what it is, and if it prove:
to be q good specimen she places over i
a wide-mouthed bottle having a spongt
dipped in a solution of cyanide of pc
tassium, which kills the insect instant
ly. This last year has been very baC
, for insects, for they demand moisture
and there has been so little rain.
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WONDERFUL SKELETON OF A DRAGON
DISCOVERED IN ENGLAND.

of says suddenly struck whole section OF
backbones laid his pickax and called the fore
man, who notified the expert.
was big Job. The expert proceeded slowly and
with caution and in due time uncovered the remains
of noble ichthyosaurus He lies forty-ive feet below
twenty length the head two feet across
and three inches long The paddles are unusually
distinct pair feet six inches and the
hind foot eight inches in length The tail is alb
of the lumbar vertebrae slight
y displaced The pelvic ring missing removed perhaps
before find guessed and still to be
recovered.
The quarry where the find made belongs to M
Larkin bennington who intends to present the speci
the South Kensington Museum
parts of the county throng to the
dragons little vigilance is necessary
protect dishonest visitors attempting to purlon
fragments 1t been beautifully photographed
by H. Ellington of Broadwell Rugby who WILL
pcaton furnish biologists and others desiring
them. . e.
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~ l a fortune could be made by
HH collecting butterflies and
" " beetles? Away up in the
mountains in Humboldt
County lives Miss Mary Yoe-
mans with her three brothers. She
owns ranch we'll stocked and bring
ing in large income, and all of it was
paid for by butterflies and beetles.
1t is now nearly thirty years since
a gentleman died in England, leaving
four children. They had been reared
in luxury and highly educated, but at
their fathers death they found them
selves possessed only of a few hundred
pounds. They decided to come to
America, as in their own country there
seemed no opportunity for them to ad-
vance or even gain a livelihood.
One of the younger brothers knew
something about botany and bulbs,
while Miss Yoemans. the. daughter.
knew good deal about bugs and bee
ties and butterflies, and so the four
young folks set to work.
Humboldt County is one of the rich
est countries in the world for collect
ing Beetles says DIR. Fuchsii of the
San Francisco Academy of Science, and
this must be so, for the beetles and
butterflies paid better than sheep or
any other stock.
1t is a modest home where the Yoe-
mans live, but there is the air of re-
finement and culture about it which
only much study and we'll used books
can give. Books and pictures, a great
fireplace and grand piano q Won
dered how it ever came there. ninety
miles from anywhere), and a gentle
To- xrr{t ID hot
voice, help to form their living room.
ut is such a pleasure TO me to talk
about my bugs as my brothers call
them" and Miss Yeomans told me more
about butterflies than l can ever write
down. The beetle is a symbol of the
resurrection, and is found in all Egyp-
tan tombs. Every one knows how Of
ten the butterfly is used to symbolic
the resurrection.
Miss YeomanS possesses boxes and
boxes of beetles, which she has gath
cred but which she intends to keep for
her own private collection. More beau
tiful than jewels they reflected the SUM-
Hight in a thousand colors as she shook
them about. l asked her to tell me
no. she had collected them, and she
salt.
when we first came out here we
were very lonely away up here in the
mountains, but we had to make our
farming venture success, for we had
TO live, you see.
'I had collected butterflies in Eng
land, and knew the rare ones. One
day l was out on those mountains back
that way" pointing to some high hills
on the horizon. My brothers were
laying out a new road which had to be
surveyed / was afraid to stay at
home alone. and as they had to be
away for four or five days at time we
all went UP there together and camped.
/ was on the lookout for butterflies and
had my net. That day had my first
real success. ] saw whole flock of
butterflies, yellow, large, with white
tracipgs on the wings, and / caught the
whole flock of twenty-three.
Such chase as | had! could run
we'll. fortunately. or / would have lost
them, for after I had caught one the
flock flew straight down overa chemisal
covered mountain. / ran around the
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|6Lt1LD t>,, fam

on the previous expedition has been re-
moved. on account of the unsteadiness
of the Arctic winds, which had to fur
nish power for the electric plant.
There is nothing English about the
exnedition at ALL and published state
ments to that effect must be due to
the expedition being mixed up with the
Antartic expedition, which, under com
mand of Carsten BorcngreTlnh' oli Inc
Southern Cross, is starting.
Expenses of that expedition are borne
by an Englishman, Sir George NeWnes,
and its twenty-six members are ABOUT
evenly divided between Enghshmeh
and Norwegians.
The object Captain Sverdrup has In
view with the Fran is to circumnavi-
gate and explore the Arctic regions to
the north and east of Greenland, but
there is no intention of trying to find
the north pole. The sole and only OBJ
ject of this expedition is scientific re-
search.
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THE FRAM'S
NEXT TRIP

r JUDGING from the comments with
which the American press recent
ly accompanied a couple of tele-
IL grams about the Fran having
been reported seen by different
vessels since she started on her
second expedition to the Arctic regions,
it will not be amiss to give the Ameri-
can public a few data about the new
Fran expedition. 1t is not private
scientific expedition, chiefly English.
under command of Lieutenant johann
sen," as the papers have repeatedly
stated, but it is scientific expedition,
essentially Norwegian, under the COM
mand of Captain Sverdrup, the we'll
known commander of the Fran dur
ing Nansens expedition.
Expenses Of the present expedition
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" HE complete skeleton of dragon has at last been
unearthed, lying just it did when it breathed
1 its last. This is Of the most important finds
made in the way Of geological remains.
1t in England that this valuable skeleton
was The locality long it's
fossils yielded anything equal this
little Warwickshire village of Stockton plowed and
by three manufacturing firms, claims
all the honor.
The late rector Of that city educated the by
lectures and in conversation
prehistoric bones and fossils that they constantly
earthed. With their help he formed collection
constitutes the nucleus of
The saurian remains found the vicinity
nave always been fragmentary, likely,
the mems careless digging To calamities
the future the instructed the
expert if ever they what appeared be a
large portion a
In the of the find this
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singular custom prevails among the
Tartars or Kurds. If a man gets into diff
ficulties, t. e. loses his cattle or other
movable property, he pours little brown
sugar into a piece of colored cloth, ties 1t
up and carries one such parcel to each of
his friends and acquaintance. In return
he is presented according to circum-
stance with COW. or sheep, or a sum of
money. He is thus at once set on his
legs again. The same method is adopted
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when a young man wishes to marry, but
is not in a position to satisfy the parents,
of his intended bride In the matter of the
"bashlyg'-i. e., marriage dover. Only in
this case he. does not go round himself,
but sends friend or servant.
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GUILD any one believe that
a fortune could be made by
collecting butterflies and
beetles? Away up in the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-26
CORRESPONDENCE With SPAIN
which is Held 10 Put Upon Her the
Burden OF Declaring War

washington. April 7s-Th@h presisents
message recommending = declaration o.
VA was accompanies By ten Or hHsen
kilograms and notes THAI rad passed BE-
tween the gove-nneaes q Spain and ne
United States, manly through M.nigsr
wooofsr6. CO, partly through Aia-sisr
Polo.
Telegram from NJ. wooaford 90 ~
Sne-Danc
'SUustea States Legauon. MAdrd- Apr
q 1ssS
Following = he tsKt % o1sSal not.
received thss r3o-sinE * 80 froz span
2sa minister q s-sxe:
II c5nVsszhSs E1sa = painful 1gty I
Rave TIE honor to iaso-ra yosr eIosllscsey
ina: the president. having approved
resolution q oo.h caaz.b>-s q tss uaEs1
States. ze-ch. - ssayfnr The legitimate
s5vs-sEnsy C spz1a ard tszrsztszzns ~
lzsn ssls &<Tae5 ssterveotssz j. CEi.ss -s
ss7ugvz-e1E % a. esssezs aselzrass8a -
EA-. TIE goTerzasns q eas rrAssstg. Ia
o-5e-sd SIS minister ~ TA1xza1E.oa -
~i;Aa-s= z1t5o2: lozs g Ike tr0z tas
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manly selves. Either they live childless
lives, OF for brief spell are the mothers
of puny, sickly children that bring them
only pain, and leave them only sorrow.
The woman who suffers from weakness
and disease of the distinctly feminine or
gans Is certain 10 become an invalid No
woman can suffer IN this way and be a
healthy, happy, sniable wife and Compe-
tent mother. Troubles of this nature sap
the strength, rack the nerves, paint lines of
suffering upon the face, DESTROY the temper,
make the once bright eyes dull and the once
active brain sluggish, and transform a viva
ciouS woman into a weak, siCklv. invalid
This is all wrong. 1t is all unnecessary
DR.. Plerce's FavoTte Prescription is a mar
velous medicine for ailing women. It acts
directly on the delicate and important
organs that bear the burdens of r1atcrn-
ity and makes them strong and healthy.
1t sll2ys inflammation, heals liberation,
soothes pain and tones and builds up the
nerves. II banishes the discouforts Of the
expectant months and makes baby's COM
ing easy and almost painless. Il guarantees
the little newcomers health and an ample
supply of nourishment. Thousands OF
women have testified TO its marvellous uler-
its. An honest dealer will not endeavor to
substitute some inferior preparation for the
sake of an extra little selfish profit
~ took DR.. Pieroe's Favorite Prescription
previous to confinement" writes Mrs Corda
Culpepper, of Tanks, Cottie Co. Texas and
never did so well in nv life. II Is only two
weeks and am able 10 DO my work"
In most healthy families you will find
DR.. PieTCe's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser. For a paper-covered copy send II
oue-cent stamps, 10 6O5ey Mailing 0Rly.
Cloth bound 81 stamps. Address Dr.. r Y.
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routine business to pass q declaration Of
war.
Mr. Mcguire explained subsequently
that his purpose in rising was to ask
whether the declaration in the bill had
existed since April q was intended to
legaIize the seizure of the Buena Ven
tura.
II consider that act and other seizures
up to this time nothing more than pi-
racy," said he.
The Wise-Young election contest from
Virginia was next taken up.
Mrf. Messick made the opening argu-
ment in the election case in favor of
the claims OF the contestant, Mr.. Wise.
Messrs. Burke CDem.. Tex.), Yost (Rep.,
Va-) and De Almond Dem, MOI spoke
on the election case.
Just prior to adjournment Speaker
Reed signed the bill declaring the exist
ence Of state Of war.
When the army reorganization bill.
with senate amendments, came back to
the house, on motion Of Mr.. Hull, the
amendments were non-concurred in and
the bill was sent to conference. Messrs
Cox (Dem., TENN and Marsh Rep.,
IlL) were appointed conferees.
AT 5:10p. m, the house adjourned.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-26
GUT, and THEN TALK
Is How Wars Gordian Knots
are to be United
WHICH APPLIES TO CABLES
No Matter What Agreements
in Time of Peace.

Washin gton, April 25.-Nothing is known
at the naval department of the reported
cutting OF the cable connecting Cuba with
Key West, by the Mangrove, ten miles
out at sea There is a great deal of doubt
as to the accuracy of the report and it
is believed the most that has been done
in this direction has been the tapping Of
the cable in strategic points. The United
States is party to a convention which
binds all the signatories, most of the
marine powers of the world. to refrain
from interference with cables in the event
of war. Perry Belmont, while chairman
Of the house committee on foreign affairs,
labored for this end for several years and
finally succeeded in having the United
States sign the agreement. A naval off,
Ger of nigh rank when questioned on the
subject today, remarked that almost all
agreements are suspended by war when
they injure the interests Of one fthe
combatants and favor the other. The cable
connecting with Madrid would be a most
powerful assistance to the Spanish case
Just now and would work equal injury to
US, wherefore, said the officer, prudent
naval commander doubtless would cut the
cable first and let the diplomats talk about
it afterwards.
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him with assurances OF safety willis
within the territory OF the United statea.
Unless previously handed your passports
You will be expected 90 remain near ts1s
court Of Spain until Saturday noon %
this week. and unless By mat daSs and
hour some communication = received
from the government OF Spain which you
deem will be satisfactory 70 this govern
meut. you a7e % ask FOR your passports
and safe conduct.
Signed: SHERMAN"
At O'Clock On ths following day NJ.
Woodford cent his reply 20 secreary sher-
man. already published. nnouponE chs
action Of the Spanish government before
he had communicated me ultimarum-
WIN tbs ccrrespondsncs are ths two
procIamations OF President Mckinley. ore
for rhs blockade CT Cuban ports and tho
other for I25.o09 volunteers.
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SENATE PUTS IT THROUGH
Declaration Bill Signed by the Vice
President at 0 O'clock

Washington, April 25.-War and war
measures were the only topics discussed
by the senate today during more than four
hours of its session. The body had scarce
ly convened when the message Of the pres
idetn urging congress to declare the ex-
istence of war between the United Staes
and Spain was laid before It. Without
comment the message was referred to the
foreign relations committee.
Mr.. Allen, (Neb.,) introduced the follow
ing joint resolution, which he asked to
have referred to the committee on foreign
relations:
That a state of war now exists and
since the fifteenth day OF February, 1898,
existed between the United States OF
America and the kingdom of SPAIN
ARMOR PLATE AND TREASON
Consideration Of the naval appropria-
ton bill was resumed. the pending ques-
ton being upon the amendment offered
by Mr.. Butler, On. CO. to regulate the
price Of arTnor plate.
The amendment provides that, for the
armor for the three battleships now in
course of construction, the government
shall not pay to exceed $500 a ton. includ-
ing the nickel; and that subsequent con-
tracts for armor shall not call for a
greater price than $500 per ton.
In case the price cannot be obtained the
secretary OF the navy is authorized at once
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