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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-30
FIFTH LEAVES CUBA.

Santiago de Cuba, July 29.-The second
battalion of the Fifth Us. infantry, Ma
jor Borden commanding, Will leave to-
morrow for the United States by the
transport Mcpherson. The companies at
Guantanamo and Baracoa will be taken
aboard en- route.
The officers have received instructions
to prepare warm clothing for a hard
winter camTaign and to be ready to re-
embark shortly after arriving at New
York. All the men are enthusiastic a t
the prospect OF active service in China.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-30
SATURDAY GAMES.

Boston, July Pittsburg won today
by opporture hitting. Boston could do
nothing with Lever. A phenomenal
catch by Beaumont was the feature. At
tendance 6,5OO. The score:
B PR5sS%i ! Q 3 Q Q 80 20
Batteries, Nichols and Sullivan, Lever
and Schriver.
At Brooklyn-BrookIyn, 8; St. Louis,
At Philadelp hia-Chicago. 8; Philadel-
phia, 4.
At New York-New York, 8; Cincinna-
ii, 2.
FORT WILLIAMS. %; IR ONS, 3.
The Fort Williams baseball club played
the Irons of Portland, Saturday, the
game being too one sided to be of much
interest to the many spectators. The bat
ter1es of both clubs played good ball. Tn
only time the Irons were in any danger
of making a few runs was in the third
Inning. With the bases full and no men
out 1t looked as If they were going to tie
the score, but Burkhart of the Fort
team retired the side, striking two men
out and the other was only able to Dor
up little fly, which was captured by the
second baseman. Blood, the crack fielder
OF the Fort team, played magnificent
ball. The score by innings:
TT, Williams, 5 p 81 x-9F
Irons, u 0 +
Batteries-Irons, Bimson and Murphv
Fort Williams, Burkhart and Devery.
Game called in seventh inning on &C.
count of time.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-30
SUICIDE CAUSED BY ILL HEALTH

Bangor, July s9.-Mrs. Nettis May
Southland OF Hampton, aged 30, commit
ted suicide today by hanging. Despon
dency over i'll health is the cause as
signed. She leaves husband and three
children.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-30
LATE MARINE.

Baltimore, July 29.-Arrived, schooner
Isaac Il. Campbell, Cheverie, N. 81 John
a. Beckerman, Bath; Florence LELAND,
Richmond Me.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-30
FoRT PREBLEs. aa: CREsCENT s. l

The Fort Prebies and Crescents crossed
bats on the Bates grOun DIS at Lewiston
Saturday afternoon and tine game was
put up from the start to finish. The
Fort Prebles won out by heavy batting
by the score of p to IL, Score by innings:
Fort Prebles, o 6 o O-92
Crescents, 0 5 2 0 O1 oil
Batteries-Fort Prebles, Burns, Rehm
and BoWden; Crescents, Parker, Kelley,
Barry. and Moran Hits-Fort Prebles
10; Crescents, IL. Errors-Fort Probes
9; Crescents, IL.
The Volunteers and Auburns played q
game at Auburn Saturday, resulting in .
victory for the Volunteers by a score OF
"a to z.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-30
MIDDLEBORG OCCUPIED.

Gen. r onch Takes PosB ,szion of the
Place.
London, July 90 General French has
occupied Middleburg, in the Transvaal
and General Pole-C arew, with the guards
brigade has arrived at Brug Spruit,
twenty miles west of Middieburg.
BRITISH TRAIN CAPTURED.
London, July 29.-The war Office has
received a despatch from Lord Roberts
explaining that only one train was cap
tured on the night of July 81 between
KrOons6ad and the Vaal, and that it con-
tanned supplies and two officers and 100
men of the Welsh fusiliers.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30

beasts showing all signs Of exhilara-
ton.
While the animals are having good
time the dark-skinned natives appear.
Some of the monkeys escape. but the
others are too joyful to mistrust
anything, and appear to take the ne
groes for larger species of their own
family. The negroes catch one or two
and begin to pet them and lead them
away. The monkeys take the hands
of other monkeys and form a line of
ten or a dozen monkeys. being led by
a negro. They are led in this man
ner some distance away. where the
negroes have been hiding and have
cages awaiting them. always on the
outer edge of negro village.
For two or three days little of the
liquid is given the monkeys to recon-
cile them by degrees to their captiv-
ity. The men feed and tame them and
take them down into the city and to
the wharfs to sell them. and, as the
Brazilian lives in a land where food
and drink are easily found, he lives
very cheaply, so by selling a monkey
for 25 cents he makes a handsome
profit.
He has even less trouble catching
parrots in many traps and raising
them, so he can be said to live lazy
mans life.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
CAPTURING MONKEYS.
The Manner in which the brazilian
Negro Takes Advantage OF
JoclSo's Appetite.

Once. while / was a cabin hoy on a
merchant ship, we stopped for several
DAYS at Rio Janeiro, which gave me a
splendid chance to look around that
very interesting South American city
But, being a true American hoy, L
didn't think anything there was as
good as my home in New York, e.
cept the monkeys and the parrots.
About a dozen peddlers swarmed
about the wharfs selling monkeys and
parrots to the many travellers who
came and went from that port. They
had SO many young monkeys and sold
them so cheaply Il paid 25 cents for
little monkey and five cents for a
young parrot that my curiosity made
me ask: do they raise them?"
which question greatly amused q
dark-skinned old Brazilian who spoke
very good English. He then told me
how these people got the immense
number of monkeys they brought to
the wharfs.
The natives make fermented liquid,
one of the ingredients of which is
sour milk from cocoanuts, of which
the monkeys are very fond. They
take this beer to parts of the forest
frequented by monkeys and set it on
the ground in big calabashes, as the
vessels are called, and then hide. As
soon as the monkey sees and tastes
this enticing liquid he utters loud
cries of joy, calling his companions
Then they begin "janaboree," tho
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
ARTIFICIAL SCENTS.
Dainty Floral Perfumes Are Made
Nowadays without the Use of
Buds or Flowers.

The so-called chemical senses
taste and smell-differ from the other
senses in that stronger stimulus
does not produce stronger impress
sion, but rather one different in kind.
This is well illustrated by the prop
critics of ionon, the artificial perfume
of violets.
| A few grains of this substance-the
equivalent of hundreds Of pounds of
violets-may be heated in an open
vessel. and even completely vaporized
without producing the slightest trace
of the odor of violets, except at the
beginning of the operation.
As this perfume, disseminated
through the air, becomes stronger, the
peculiar violet odor becomes weaker
and is replaced by the odor of rasp-
berries. But if a bottle of pure ionon
| is held to the nose the odor perceived
is neither that of violets nor that of
raspberries, but that of cedar wood.
AS a matter of fact, many samples
of artificial extract of violets have the
odor of raspberries because the man
ufacturers are too liberal and cannot
persuade themselves to give their GUS
toners little enough for their money.
Now it is very singular that neither
the odorous principle of raspberries,
which has also been isolated, nor the
oil of cedar smells in the least like vio-
let's, no matter how much it may be
attenuated, so that the rule does not
work both ways. Many intolerable
stenches may be transformed into
agreeable perfumes by sufficient dilu-
ton.
A striking illustration is afforded by
certain odorous nocturnal parasites
which shall be nameless. When these
ill-omened beasts of .'rey are rubbed
up with sugar, which is then dissolved
in large quantity of water, the re-
suit is a delicate hyacinth perfume.
The fragrance of the jasmine is
exhaled, as chemical investigation
has shown, by a mixture of several
substances. One of these, indol, is
well-known product OF decomposition.
Many perfumes when strongly con-
centrated are nearly or quite odor-
less.
This is the case with artificial musk;
vanillin, the odorous principle of the
vanilla bean; piperonal, that of the
heliotrope; cumarin, that of the para
site plant known in Germany as
"Waldmeister," and used for flavoring
the national spring beverage, Mai
wein," or May wine;" and also with
the odor of new mown hay.-N. Y.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
FINDS A FREAK OF BOTANY.
haywood Resident Finds Natural
Picture on . Piece of
Fungus.

While strol;ing in the woods near
haywood. H., the other afternoon
Charles Westcott, president of the viii
lage. found a remarkable work of ma
ture. Upon the white surface of 3
large piece of fungus at the foot of an
old dead tree there was drawn an ar
tistic pastoral scene. A close examina-
ton by the aid of powerful glass, Mr..
Westcott says, proves beyond a doubt
that the drawing is the work of nature.
The picture represents comfortable
farmhouse and grounds. The barn
doors stand open, displaying the WELL
filed granaries and haymow, fat stock
stand in the fields and the farmer,
prosperous-looking, is at the gate reaGy
to mount a well-laden farm wagon filled
with the fruits of his industry.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
A FRENCHMAN'S IDEA.
He Would Keep ships from sinking
by EIuippinE Them with Rub
Der Gas Bags.

A ship that cannot sink is a great
desideratum in view of the increased
frequency of collisions in recent years.
This increase is due not only to the
increase in traffic, but also to the
construction of sea routes. In the
good old days, a captain simply fol-
lowed, as well as he could, the short
est line between his port of departure
and his destination, but nowadays
vessels seek to take advantage of ia
vorable currents and this concentrates
the traffic in comparatively narrow
lanes.
4 French engineer, Henri Mariolla,
has devised a method of keeping a
ship from sinking entirely, no matter
how badly it may be injured in coll
lision. The device is ingenious, to say
the least.
1t consists, in the first place, of a
number of bags of India rubber COW
cred with stout canvas. These are
placed separately in pockets or de-
pressions distributed along the ships
side a little above the water line.
Each pocket is closed by sheet-iron
cover, and from the bottom of each
bag a pipe descends nearly to the
water level. The bags which are coll
lapsed and folded contain a little dry
calcium carbide.
The theory of the device is that
when the ship begins to sink water
will rise in the pipes, come into con-
tact with the carbide and cause
brisk evolution of acetylene gas. This
will distend the bags to their full ca
pacity. bursting off the sheet iron
doors in the process. The added buoy
ancy of the inflated bags, if they are
sufficient in number and size, will
prevent the ship sinking more than
few feet. And all this is to take place
in a few seconds.
The inventor has calculated that q
large ocean liner may be made I'M
sinkable by $50 bags of carbide, which
will produce about half a million gal
Ions of gas.-N. Y. World.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
HUMOROUS.

"Niss Anteek seems very much in
tcrested in that homely old musician
Yes. She heard that he made over
lures quite frequently" -PhiIadelp
Press.
what does Mildred mean when she
says that she is engaged in campaign
work. she means that she is writ
ing her letter of acceptance to Theo-
dorc. denver News.
Mrs. Smith-"So Hattie is going to
marry Mr.. Stickker. after all?" Mrs.
Brown-''Yes, she was forced to it. 1t
was the only way of ever having an
evening TO herself" Trans
cript.
She-''I heard about your elopement
with Gertie Giddygirl, Mr.. SHOCKS. Has
her mother forgiven your He-"No
fear! She knows how to pay off an old
score. She has come to live with u.s."
american Fun.
An Unfortunate Occurrence.-Lucin-
da-"Whar stahted de row at de sta
tion?" Melinda-"Dat vulgah Jim
Johnsing went a little too fab Luz
cnda-"How's date" Melinda-"Why.
he frowed a hull rice-puddin' at de
grOom!'-Puck.
Allow did your automobile jour
ney turn out?" B.-''Beautifully! Al
though | ran over two pedestrians and
three bicycles and Knocked two wagons
into ditch, my motor was not at all
injured and arrived just on time
Fliegende Blaetter.
Women are funny things.
Wonder why woman instead of put
ting her pocketbook in her pocket al
most invariably carries it in her hand?"
Briggs-"Perhaps she thinks that
some man may come along and seek
that hand in marriage" - Boston
Transcript.
House Owner-"You didn't pay the
rent last month" Tenant-"No? Well,
| suppose you'll hold me to your agree
ment" Owner-"Agreement - what
agreement" Tenant-"Why, when 1
rented you said must pay in advance
or not at all. co. State
journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
GRAN PA.

My grandpa says that he was once
A little boy like me.
l s'pose he was and yet 1t does
Seem queer to think that he
Could ever get my jacket on,
Or shoes, or like to play
With games and toys, and race with Duke
AS do every day.
He's come to visit us, you see.
Nurse says 1 must be good
And mind my manners, as child
With such a grandpa should.
For grandpapa is straight and tall,
And very dignified
He knows most all there y to know,
And other things beside.
So though my grandpa knows SO much.
thought that maybe boys
Were things he hadn't studied,
They make such awful noise.
But when l asked at dinner for
Another piece of pie,
] thought l saw a twinkle In
The corner of his eye.
So yesterday when they went out
And left us two alone,
l was not quite so much surprised
To find how nice he'd grown
You should have seen us romp and run!
My! now 1 almost see
That p'r'aps he was, long, long ago,
A little boy like me.
Gertrude Morton Cannon, in Youths
Companion.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30

overflow. The water comes direct
from the pipes to the cup and is al
lowed to run as long as desired. The
flow is controlled by a faucet just
above the basin.
1t is proposed to allow the water
to run into this cup during school
hours, says the Constitution. There is
a constant fow over the sides of the
cup, preventing contamination of any
kind. Sticks, weeds or anything else
not too heavy are thrown from the
cup by the force of the water. The
edges can never be contaminated by
diseased mouths because of the con-
slant flow. In drinking. the mouth is
placed to the cup, without moving the
contrivance.
In addition to its other advantages,
the cup is believed to be especially
adopted TO southern schools, because
ice cannot be placed in the water
which the children drink. The water
is cooled by means o: q coil Of pipe.
around which ice is packed. the action
being much like that Of . condensing
worm in q still.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
GREGARIOUS SPIDER S.
One Species of the Insect, Discovered
in Venezuela, Is Truly Repub-
Iican in Instinct.

The spider has usually been regard
ed as a type of the solitary among
animals, each individual preferring to
live alone. But naturalists have dis
covered exceptions to this rule, and
among the most remarkable are three
species of spiders recently studied by
Eugene Simon in Venezuela. The most
interesting OF these, the Uloborus re-
publicanus, seems to be truly repub-
lican in its instincts, several hundreds
of individuals dwelling together in
huge webs, made up of smaller webs
linked together by strong threads and
fastened among the branches of trees.
On these webs the spiders can be seen
moving freely about meeting and ex-
changing greetings with their anten-
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
DOG. with Territorial Rules.

All the streets in Constantinople are
divided up into separate dog quarters,
which are inhabited by sets of dogs
varying from perhaps ten or 20 in num-
Der. The frontiers of each quarter are
known only to the dogs themselves,
though one can get to know them by
noticing how far dog will follow one
when enticed by some food. Each sepa-
rate colony guards its colony with the
utmost vigilance, and these same crea-
lures which seem so Indifferent to all
that goes on around them will at once
jump up and bark at any strange dog
that encroaches upon their territory,
and should the intruder persist they
will set upon him and chase him out
again. One wonders how the demar-
cation of these quarters was first ar
rived at.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30

Its very remarkable" said Mr.
Meektown. pensively. Very remark
able, indeed. really think the matter
is worth bringing to the attention of
science"
"what are you talking about?-
"0ur six-year-old son, Telemachus.
Henrietta and 1 were discussing him.
and after ten minutes conversation it
was conclusively demonstrated that he
inherits all his good qualities from his
mother and all his bad ones from me-"
Washington Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
AN IRISH JAUNTING CAR.
odd Article of Transportation Met
With in the City of
Dublin.

A loEg line of vehicles. outside cars
and cabs, some of them battered and
shaky. others sufficiently well look
ing, was gathering on two sides of the
green, says Kate Douglas Wiggin, in
Atlantic, for Dublin. you know, is
the car-drivingest city in the world
Francesca and | had our first expert.
ence the other day. 1t is easy to tell
the stranger, stiff, decorous, terrified
clutching the rail with one or both
hands, but we took for our model a
pretty Irish girl, who looked like
nothing so much as a bird on a sway
ing bough. 1t is no longer called the
"jaunting." but the outside car, and
there is another charming word lost
to the world. There was formerly an
inside car, too, but it is almost I'M
known in Dublin, though still found
in some of the smaller towns. An
outside car has its wheels practically
inside the body of the vehicle. but an
inside car carries its wheels outside
This definition was given us by an
Irish driver, but lucid definition is not
perhaps an lrishman's strong point
1t is clearer to say that the passen-
ger sits outside of the wheels on the
one, inside on the other. There are
seats for two persons over each of the
two wheels, and a 'dickey" for the
driver in front, should he need to use
it. Ordinarily he sits on one side,
driving, while you perch on the other,
and thus you jog along, each seeing
your own side of the road, and dis
cussing the topics of the day across
the well, as the covered-in center of
the car is called. There are those
who do not agree with its champions
who call it "Cupid's own conveyance"
they find the seat too small for two,
vet feel il a bit unsociabe when the
companion occupies the opposite side.
To me a modern Dublin car with rub
Der tires and good Irish horse is the
jolliest conveyance in the universe;
there is a liveliness, an irresponsible
gayety, in the spring and sway of it;
an ease in the half-lounging position
against the cushions, a unique charm
in travelling edgeways" with your
feet planted on the step. You must
not be afraid of car il you want to
enjoy it. Hold the rail if you must,
at first, though it's just as bad form
as clinging to your horses name
while riding in the Row. Your driver
will take all the chances that a crowd
ed thoroughfare gives him; he would
scorn to leave more than an inch be-
tween your feet and Guinness beer
dray; he will shake your flounces and
furbelows in the very windows of the
passing trans, but he is beloved by
the gods, and nothing ever happens
to him.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
HI. Patience Wa. Exhausted.

Little four-year-old Willie had been
told repeatedly that he must never
ask for anything at the table, but
should wait patiently till he was
served. One day while dining at
neighbours with his mother the little
fellow was accidentally overlooked.
Patience finally ceased to be a virtue,
and in an audible whisper he said:
Mamma, do nttle boys go to Heaven
when they starve to death?"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30

nae, like so many ants. In the cen-
ter of the main web is a space where
the eggs of the entire republic are
laid and where, az the proper season,
the female spiders can be seen assem-
bled, each guarding her own silken
cocoon filled with eggs.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
SANITARY DRINKING CUP.
The Constant Flow of Water Prevents
Contamination of Any Kind
whatever.

Members of both ire board of edu-
cation and the board of health are
discussing a new drinking cup for use
in the Atlanta public schools. 1t is
represented as being the most sani-
tary drinking utensil that has yet
been invented
The cup is stationary and rests
over o basin which catches the
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
INSECTS IN WINTER.
Many Show n Wonderful Instinct in
Caring for Their Eggs During
the Cold M0aths.

A little boy once asked his father
if the house flies went south for the
winter, like the BIRDS and then his
father told him a long story about
different insects and what became of
them during the cold months.
He told the boy that when the au-
tumn comes the death knell of mil
lions of flies has sounded. They do
not prepare for winter as many
other insects do. The majority die,
and their little bodies are blown away
by the passing breeze. A few hardy
flies will linger in the cracks in the
walls, creep under the door frames or
into crevices in the woodwork, and
some naturalists believe that these
few lingering flies are the parents of
the multitude that appear in the
warm days of June, for they lay thou
sands of eggs.
Katydids, grasshoppers, crickets
and beetles are killed by the frost,
and the eggs which they hide in the
ground or conceal in the bark of
trees furnish the supply for the next
year. These hatch out in the warm
days of spring.
Beetles exhibit wonderful in
stinct in caring for their eggs during
winter. Among some species the eggs
are rolled in balls of material suit
able for food, and then the balls are
packed away in a nest until the in
FAINT beetle wakes up and eats its way
out.
Then there are sexton" beetles,
which deposit their eggs in the bodies
of dead birds or field mice, after
which they set to work and perform
the proper rites of burial, heaping
the earth upon the body of the dead.
The young beetle, when Matched from
the egg, finds store of food awaiting
its arrival in the world.
1t is said that spiders store away no
food supply in winter quarters. Guam
titles of eggs are laid and carefully
sheltered in velvety cobweb sacks that
defy the weather. These sacks may
be found swinging by silken robes
from the goldenrod and milkweed.
and hidden away in crevices and cor
ners of board fences and stone walls.
The little spiders creep from their
coy sleeping bags which the wise
mother has provided for them, and if
they escape their cannibal brothers
and sisters they enter at once on ca
reer of trapping and hunting.
Bees and wasps lay up stores for the
winter, the wasps not as carefully as
the bees, but in the center of the cone
shaped nest of the paper making
wasps may be found goodly stores of
honey.
The thrifty ant deserves much SYM
pathy, in that it is dainty morsel for
spiders, beetles, crickets and other in
sect hunters. A few ants may survive
and feed on accumulated stores dur
ing the winter, but it is chiefly the
eggs and cocoons hidden away in the
secure underground chambers of the
ant hill that furnish the ant popula-
tion of the following summer.
The ans care of its young; the
management of its slaves, and the |
tiny insect cows which they capture |
and from which the honeydew Is
MIXED, all would furnish tale as in
teresting as the customs of any wan
dering tribes of the desert or any lost |
nation of darkest Africa.-N. Y. Trib-
une.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-30
SNAIL. Con.umed IN P.rI..

One hundred thousand pounds Of
snails are sold daily in the Paris mar
kets to be eaten by jewellers in Paris.
They are carefully reared for the pur-
pose in extensive snail farms in the
provinces. and fed on aromatic herbs to
make their favor finer