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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

story With pelIect frankness after
swearing him to secrecy He seemed
to regard the matter As merely ANUS
ing-a good joke on Howland that he
should have chosen this particular day
for his fishing excursion. AS for any
help that Miss Thayer might require,
he. was entirely at her service. 1t
would be a great pleasure to assist her,
and he was obliged to Rowland for Civ
ing him the Opportunity.
Celia almost feared that she had be-
gun too graciously-had excited false
hopes in this young mans breast-and
had proceeded to surround herself with
a slight atmosphere of frigidity, Nor
timer was entirely unaffected by the
chill, and she decided that she had been
mistaken. He was. after all, a really
good fellow-in her notion.
'FOf course" said he, Il can give you
lots of points that | can't use myself
You 6now the policy of The Free
Press?"
'1Mr. Mortimer" she said, blushingly.
II didn't know The Free Press had~a
policy-politically / shouldn't know a
political policy if I met one coming
down Main street in broad daylight.''
Mortimer pondered, while in hissmind
q =
there rose the vision OF unique double
revenge. ,s f
Just jot down these points that
give YOU he said, and she made ready
her notebook. go
dnwardly Mortimer was wondering
how strong dose he should mix. II
he should make the forecast too absurd,
The Free Press wouldn't print it. It
must get into cold type in. order to
have its full effect upon Rowland
Therefore he made his opening state
ments as strong and as accurate as pos
sible. They would inspire confidence.
Then he proceeded with the predic-
ton, and he did beautiful piece Of
work. On National, State and local
tickets he forecast the vote precisely the
way in which he knew it wouldn't go.
He did net "slop over" by predicting
majsrities tina. would be seen to be pre-
posterous by the editor OF The Free
Press. He merely made everything
stand upon its head in plausible, nat
ural way.
The Free Press was strongly Republi-
can-as The Tribune was-but Morti-
mer knew that it would print reliable
forecast favoring the Democratic side.
He knew himself that it was a Repub-
lican year in that district. All the po-
litical sharps. experts and oldest inhab-
itants knew that, yet probably The Free
Press people were not so well informed.
He gave them as. strong as he. thought
they would stand it and in a very clev-
er way predicted a general Democratic
sweep in that section.
The guileless Celia who had thought
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one afternoon as he was skirting the
desert between uiiIi and Vromfous-
tein he saw what he took to be beer
barrel lying on the hot sands AL
though strictly temperate man and
realizing that q single sip of beer might
lead TO jag and the loss of his life.
he went closer to make an inYestiga-
ton. To his surprise. the barrel had
feathers on it and got UP and walked
off. 1t was Young ostrich, who had
been taking sun bath, and it had
scarcely cried out against being dis
turbed When the mother bird. came
rushing up and attacked the traveller
so furiously that he, had, seven ribs
broken and was left on the ground for
dead
Various attempts have been made to
domesticate the ostrich and compel
him to earn his board and lodging. but
for various reasons they. have failed.
He appears TO have the same sensitive
feelings as the American mule When
at liberty. he will run MS legs off and
feel that he is having good time. but
the moment he is harnessed up to
cart he becomes broken hearted and
respondent. Instances have been
known, however, when .ostriches have
been used in the place of saddle horses.
Ny illustration represents an African
speeding over the plain mounted on
the back OF one Of these birds. and the
speed is about the same as boy going
down toboggan slide and through
patch of blackberry bushes at the foot
of IL &N
From all that naturalists have been
able to learn up to.the present time the
sole mission OF an ostrich appears TO
be to furnish plumes for ladies' hats.
but 1t is hoped that before the tven-
tieth century expires his true sphere
will be ascertainsd and appreciated.
It does not seem . il nature would 80
to the trouble Of creating 50 much bird
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

obliged to treat him with considerable
severity. but this was secret history;
nobody knew anything about it except
herself and her victim. Their relations
in public were so cordial that every
body supposed Mortimer to be still in
the race, even including Rowland, who
had moments of panic and cold perspir-
ing terror on account of it. ~
If Mortimer had not been a phenom-
enally shrewd fellow, he, too. might
have fancied that the campaign OF love
was yet on; but, being what he was, he
knew that the election was over. 1t is
the best policy for the defeated to wear
a cheerful smile on the countenance
and a sharpened knife in the sleeve.
lHowland was local correspondent of
the New York Free Press, and his eyes
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

herself 81 shrews tsIietsd that thi.
courteous gentleme@ vas snrichins hel
notebook with gratuitous wisdom. and
she began to admire INN. It was i fine
thing TO do for Rowland whom. after
all, she knew that Mortimer didn't love
She thanked him with such hearth
ness that the rascal vas a1most shaken
in his infamous composure. but he shut
his teenth and held on. .
Celia went home aad put this delight
full batch OF malicious misinformation
into English that would not have
shamed the masters of the language
She had samples OF Howland's political
writings in a scrapbook-which she
never showed TO him-and from this
treasure house she distracted his
brightest phrases. eleverly working
them into her story until it looked like
fine example OF his. best work
When it was finished she said TO her
self that Rowland could not have done
it so we'll. She felt that She had con-
ferred fame upon him and that he mus,
be deeply grateful. She even was vain
enough to speculate upon the possib.-
ity of pretending that the facts were
all her own. Could Mortimer be relied
upon not to tell?
In the Office OF The Free Press there
was tremendous hurry that night.
This four-page supplement of political
predictions had been hastily conceived,
and it was, rashly thrown together Yet
Howland's story was recognized as A
truly meritorious effort. The exceller 20
Of the writing carried the absurd, sur
prising prophecy. Indeed Rowland was
accorded the honor of having his nama
signed TO the dispatch.
Celia got The Sunday Free Press On
the following forenoon and beheld The
signature with pride. She was so glad
for Howland's sake that her heart gay e
her its first warning OF her real atti-
tude toward him. But for that she
would have felt herself defrauded Of
any honor.
In the afternoon she went down TO
The TRIBUNE office, and the frst thing
she saw was the managing editor sit
ing at table tearing has hair. He hell
a copy of The Sunday Free Press in
his hand.
If he only hadn't signed his name 70
it," he was SAYING But, great hesv-
ems, this mass of absurdity. dead
against our policyA He's known as our
man, and they'll have fun with us. The
fellow ought to be fred"
Celia recoiled-fed, On the stair.
she collided with Howlsnd, who was
coming ur, four sttps at time. He
had The SUNDAY Free ppess in his hand
and he was breathing forth fire anG
birthstone,
Have you See he began
She leaned against the wall, pale ant
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

it begins to spin a cocoon and goes to
sleep. The sleep begins when the larva
is about 10 days old~and lasts for II
days. Then the young bees emerge
from the cells. After they have been
fed for "a hours they are ready to work,
or, if they are queen bees to lead a
swarm forth to seek a new home Two
queens can never iivein the same house
and before one of the little princess
bees is ready to come from her cocoon
cell the old queen quietly departs with
some Of her followers II there are
more princesses than there are provis-
ions for, some OF them are ruthlessly
killed by the reigning queen of the hive.
The new queen goes to work to lay up
eggs in the cells to make another col
ony of bees, and the round of life in
beeland goes on as before. Before sum
mer is over the drones are all killed,
for the thrifty worker bees do not care
to support the idlers Through the win
ter" rt
Bees do not seem to have much fun,
| must say" one little listener observed
as grandfather took up his paper again.
THE bees love their work, and when
one loves work it is, after ALL only
play" was grandfather's comment
but how can one learn to love the
work, grandfather" asked one child.
by keeping busy at it as the bees
do, was the deply. And then they ran
out to the hive, regretting that nature
had provided bees with stings that
made it uncomfortable to come into
closer acquaintance With them, for they
were anxious to look for the wax pock-
ea,5 and the long beak with which the
bee extracts sweetness from the flower
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

for such medium results, especially
when mans inventive genius can take
a few ROSTERS feathers and curling
iron and produce a plume nj for the
hat OF prima donna. gu
No boy who visits a geological gar
den and beholds an ostrich walking
around inside OF his wire fsnce should
heave clubs al him or attempt TO poke
him up with a stick. The oird is
stranger in strange land. lie has
much to reflect upon and make him
downhearted and discouraged. Next 10
him on the right Is the .csssOwary,
claiming to be blue blooded bird, but
really only scrub, and on the left ia
the baldheaded eagle without scream
left in him and trying to make up for
spect his feelings and seek 10 make his
stay among us as pleasant as possible.
p. ST. had forgotten TO add that an
ostrich sitting down 70 rest o. sleep
and disturbed BY the near presence OF
lion always leaves its place with
jump. and full grown bird has been
known 10 cover distance Of 20 feet
without touching a Doe 10 the ground.
When running away from ssn enemy.
its plan Is to throw sand in the eyes OF
its pursuer. and this Is the reason that
most OF the lions OF Africa are near
sighted and squirt eyed. They have
been sanded
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kind of flowers. For instance. if it
touches a violet first it will until its
sack is filled stick to violet honey. Ma
ture has wisely provided the bees with
this instinct since it thus serves her
own purpose-that they should fertilize
the different blossoms with the pollen
which they unconsciously carry from
flower to flower
But what are they doing in the hive.
grandfather? You are telling us what
goes on in the garden" urged an i'm
patient child.
''One morning you will notice a bee
longer and more slender than the 9TH
ers come flying out of the hive 1t will
be attended by troop of bees larger,
darker and trife broader of wing than
the little worker bees which you have
already noticed. These bees are the
ians OF the queen bee and follow her in
her fight. watching her as carefully as
any courtier guards his queen The
Whole party will f. away, but by and
by they will return home. These out
ings may be continued for several days.
and then even the worker bees will not
come out of doors so much. The queen
bee is the mother bee and begins to
place in each cell a little egg, which Is
carefully tended by one of the nurse
maid bees as soon as the egg matches.
At first the youngster is just a minute
white worm, but it grows fat and
strens On the diet of pollen and honey
which its nurse feeds it, and presently
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empI w Y
Il did It. she Nhisrered.

trembling.
4 did It, she Whispered.
She told him the whole story stand
ing there on the stairsS and during the
last of it he had to hold her so that she
wouldn't fall. When it was Al lover. he
looked UP the stairs and down. and
then he kissed her. she received the
caress with humble gratitude.
There's only one way to do" he
said, and that's to blum 1t out. This
story can't and shant be told. If Nor
timer tells it, rllrub him into the earth
and SOW ragveed over him. Till cleo
tion day I'll stand for this prediction.
and then-well go to Australia"
He kissed her again and ran up the
stairs. where there was q most terrible
quarrel with the managing editor which
ended in a simultaneous firing" aud
resignation.
For ten days-untll electlon-How-
land remained out OF a 100 end the but.
of ridicule, but happy, for Celia had
agreed TO marry him any minute. no
matter if he never earned another pm
ny. To live with him in the humblest
cottage, in the fields. in a .ree-any-
where If he would only forgive her.
And then suddenly he bscams ths
greatest man in New jersey. FIR the
election. with that perversi.y for which
elections are famous. went precisely the
way of that article in The Free Press
and with an accuracy that was more
than ridiculous,
On the day after elecs'ou ne got six
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28
YOUTHS NATURAL HISTORY.
Copyright, 1901. bye. B. Lewis)

NCpPStiStits 40Vls ny - ID. l&tNiss
The Ostrich.
The ostrich was created on large
and liberal lines of architecture and
has never been able to crawl through
the same hole in fence as a chicken.
There was a time when he could be
found rambling over North America
in search of potato bugs and other arti-
cles of luxury, but owing to climatic
changes and frost bitten feet he with
drew and left the field To the goose
and the turkey. His fayorite roaming
ground at the present time is Africa.
and there is nothing he enjoys more
than a stroll over the sands with the
thermometer standing al $50 degrees.
While the ostrich is not a bird Of
prey. he is liberal minded and never
troubled with dyspepsia. and it is sell
dom that he comes across anything
that does not appear to be fit for his
stomach. Cast away beer bottles and
meat tins surprised and bothered him
for awhile after white. men began to
penetrate dis haunts. hut he soon got
on to their shape and discovered a way
of swallowing them without scratching
his throat or interfering with his hol-
iday excursions. For bird who can
step over ! rail fence with the greatest
ease and has kick on him which will
tumble oysr horse 1he = shy and retir-
ing, like ! fat man. ii a@street car.
Naturalists are asreA AGyever. that
this is geod thing - y natives Of
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

Few people are aware that Lord Kitch-
ener shares one notable pseuliarsty with
the greatest Of British naval Heroes Like
Nelson. the present commander in chief IN
South Afries has only one eye. II was
characteristic Of hls undsunsed pluck ard
foresight that ar soon as he realized that
r. was faIsd 70 lose ore Of bis eyes ~
learned Brake ard aid everything 10
max. himself independent " eight. iris
WAS many years ago. and Lord Kttchensr
mas since PRAYED that for AL pyacticai pur-
poses his sight - - keen - eve.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

UrGctcu f1eT W I'm FOltcncsBs
sat chewing the cud OF. lonely medita-
ton. dfMortiner had not been as deep
as well and as cold as the water in the
northeast corner of 1T, he might have
been seriously affected by that smile.
The girl looked sweeter than blossom
on tree, but Jack Mortimer knew that
that blossom grew on a bough that he
would never reach.
He greeted her with pofiteness that
was as smooth as glass and expressed
desire to serve her befort she could
open her mouth to ask him He was
very nice about it. She had never sus-
pected that Jack Mortimer could be
such fine fellow. Perhaps his hope
less passion for her had improved him.
She had read of such things in books
AS he was SO nice she told him her
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

Africa. Were he an aggressive, bold
faced creature he would keep. half the
population on the, climb most of the
time.
a---~--
Do not deceive yourselves, however,
into believing that an ostrich cannot
become a dangerous enemy Under
certain circumstances he becomes
trust and goes in to control the entire
output. An African traveller who was
brought UP to go to Sunday school ev-
cry Sunday in his dife' and therefore
could not tell an untr,th relates that
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28
NATURE
STORIES.
Copyright, 1901,
BY Elizabeth
LangsdOrf.

Out on the old apple tree a swarm
Of bees was settling. Aunt Eunice spied
them ana called to the children:
Hurry, here is a swarm Of bees.
Bring your sticks and tin pans or they
willAfly away to some other hives.
Out scurried the Youngsters, laughing
and shouting and dancing to the music
they beat out of the shining tins.
The bees were trifie perverse; they
could not quite make up their minds
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

~ Did IT," She Whispered.
kilograms from The Free Press asking
him to take position on the staff. the
last of them naming salary that made
him dizzy. Armed With these, he vert
to find Mortimer; but as he told Celia
atterwsrd, the fellow had grown TO
small that he had ceased TO be visible.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

were ever open for a place upon its
staff. He saw a wide field for himself
as a political writer in the metropolis.
When he thought upon this prospect,
bright pictures fitted before mis- mag
nation, and it is needless to say that
Celia was in the foreground of them
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-28

Just. generous and farstvixs a. was DR..
the late plshop 81 London. be
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-17
VACCINATION.

The prevalence of smallpox on the
mainland has made the subject of
compulsory vaccination live one there
as it is here. The issue appears in
different forms i'm different places. In
Chicago the matter was brought into
the courts. The Chicago Record
Herald discussing the question as it
has arisen there, says:
THE Board of Education of Chicago
under present conditions can compel
the parents of unvaccinated children to
keep them away from the schools until
they are vaccinated. This is the mean
ing of a decision rendered by Judge
Dunno in the mandamus proceedings
brought by a citizen of Ravenswood to
compel the school authorities to admit
his children to the schools in spite Of
the fact that they were not vaccinated.
Whether this opinion is good law or
not it is supported by considerations of
public safety and common sense. 1t is
plainly obvious to any right minded
person that the enforcement of health
regulations, deemed necessary for the
general good of community, cannot
be baked by individual whims or no
lions. Sanitary regulations cannot be
nullified by private caprice or unreas-
oning obstinacy.
THE anti-vaccination movements
have made no progress against the
overwhelming weight of experience and
medical testimony. The belief that
vaccination renders a person practi-
cally immune from smallpox rests up
on such incontestable proof that it is
+ idle to assail it or to oppose measures to
prevent the spread of contagion by the
schools. There are occasional and ex-
ceptiOnal instances where the physical
condition of child makes vaccination
Iinadvisable. That is a matter to be
determined by physician, and in such
a case the child should be kept out of
school until all danger of a small pox
epidemic has passed.
The tendency to resist the apparent
invasion of parental rights is natural
But all sanitary laws and regulations
are necessarily parental" in their ma
ture and scope. The government that
educates all the children of the people
free of cost is decidedly parental. We
have progressed along these lines to
point where a man cannot be permit
ted to contaminate the atmosphere OF
pollute the water supply even though
he may cOnfine his operations to his
own property.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-17

The list of new books which the Ho-
nolulu Library Association has just re-
ceived shows a number of titles which
speak we'll for the quality of the pat
rons of the library. While there is a
proportion of the works of a light or
ephemeral character the average is
fairly high. The book committee of the
association doubtless seeks to get such
class of books as it's readers want.
So that after all, the character of a
library depends largely on the charac-
ter of it's patrons.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-17
wILCOX'S "REPUBLICANISM."
whats in a name?"

whats in a name?'
According to Delegate Wilcox there
is the magic in it to remove governors
and to give Hawaiians anything they
want.
1t is hard to understand whether
Wilcox is the victim of his own credu-
lily, or whether he is simply playing
on the credulity Of the people who
elected him.
That any rational man can suppose
that the mere addition of the word
Republican" to the already long party
name of the Independent Home Rulers
with the distinct avowal that neither
party principles nor party purposes
are changed can impose on anyone in
Washington seems impossible. And
yet this is what Wilcox told it's follow
ers it would do, even eliminating the
allegation that he said he could secure
Dole's removal, which he now says he
did not say.
There is a Republican party in this
territory. 1t is recognized by the ma
tional organization. 1t was represent
has a member in the National commit
tee-an absentee, nonresident mem
Der it is true-but a member. That is
the only Republican party the admin
istration, the Republicans in Congress
or the National committee can recog-
nize. Where then is recognition as
Republican to come from for the hide
pendent Home Rule Republican party
which has not even,'by suggestion ac.
cepted the principles of the Republican
party, and distinctly repudiates any
. intention TO do 5o?''
OF course Wilcox may believe tha
the Republican National committee
man for this territory, Harold M. Sew
all, may betray the men and the or
ganization that MAGE him Nationa
committeeman, and join with him tC
seek to control federal patronage anC
boss Hawaiian politics. But who els'
will believe Sewall capable of such
perfidy? And even if he were capable
of it, could he carry it out?
The Republican party on the main
land will look to the substance of things
and not be deceived by the mere shad-
ow. especially when it isn't a very good
shadow. y,g. ...l
So far from Wilcoxs latest move be-
ing an advance toward or even ar
olive branch extended to the Republi
can party, he is either building oil
chimerical hopes, or has expectation
of an unholy alliance, which in thei
nature must be almost as chimerica
as his hopes. ...'...
Neither honest and intelligent HON
Rulers nor honest and intelligent Re
publicans will entertain either hopes o
fears of party success or disaster from
Wilcox's "Republicahism."