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The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Why the Hen cackIes,

The accepted explanation of the
cackling in which a hen INDUCES af-
ter laying an egg is that she is SO
pleased that she wants everyone to
know it. The rooster answers the
cackle with n crow, and this is taken
as further indication that both are i'm
mensely proud of the achievement.
This explanation is not tenable. If
the question Is considered fairly, 1t is
very easy to see that instinct would
teach the hen that to cackle is to call
the attention of the enemy to both
herself and her embryo offspring,
which she would naturally avoid do
Ing. The cackle is a relic of long by
gone days when fowls were not do
mesticated, and ran about wild. When
the hen wished to lay, she retired
from the rest of the fowl community
and performed the task. By the time
she was ready to rejoin the common
wealth the other members had wan.
dered some distance, and she did not
know where they were. She waited
till she had gone some distance from
the egg in order not to endanger It.
and then she cackled, after also hay.
Ing taken good look around to as.
sure herself that no enemies were
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
When Aidrich Laughed.

did you ever laugh at funeral?r
said Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island
II did once. 1t was the funeral of an
old-time acquaintance, and the min
lister who made the opening address
was absent-minded. He got up in
the pulpit, began to speak. and then
hesitated. He had forgotten the sex
of the corpse.
"'Our deceased, our deceased
brother-or sister he said, and then
went on and spoke with great feeling
about the virtues of the deceased, call
ing it always 'brether--or sister Fin
ally, pausing moment, / heard him
say to the aged deacon who sat In
loud whisper:
1.-The corpse, which is it, a brother
or sister,
THE deacon was very Old and slow
of wit. He answered in a whisper:
Neither Only an acquaintance
Here" Senator Aldrich ended, 81
laughed.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
The Whalers of New Bedford,
Simple HeroLsm of the Men Who "Go Down the Sea in
Ships"-Hazardous Exploits That Seen, Common
place to Those Who Undertake Them

We have raised a race of men who
have gone down to the sea in ships
on the most hazardous of enterprises,
says the New Bedford Mercury. No
men have hourly for lifetime taken
such disastrous chances as our whale
men, and their voyages have been fire.
quently crowded with moving acci-
dents, hairbreadth escapes and dis
tressful strokes. And we go to these
men, like Desdemona. with greedy
ear to devour up their discourse The
records of the thrilling voyages of our
whalemen are kept in log books and
in the hundreds of volumes stored in
old sail lofts. How many of us have
Dored over them to have our nerves
played upon after the manner of the
fictionists, but it is net there. And
we seek out the man whose ship is
struck and sunk by whale in mid
ocean, and who takes to the boats
and reaches land after weeks of buff
feting, and the men whose ships are
crushed in the ice, and their story is
as prosaic as the story of the man
who goes to the days work in the
electric car. We are thrilled by the
boat journey of DIR. Kane, of tramp
in the Arctic ice by Nansen Last
week man arrived here who had
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Women Who Carry the Mail
Many of Them Are Doing Good Work in Rural Free De-
Gvery-Lose Little Time Gossipine and Are
Valued by the PostoAice Department

Within the last few months the
women of the country districts of the
United States have found a new occu-
patton in the government. service.
Some hundreds of them all over the
country have been appointed rural let
ter carriers, and the reports to the de-
partment show that the women have
done wonderfully well in their new
occupation
Indeed, only a few days ago Supt.
Machen OF the Free Delivery Division
of the Pustoffice department received
reports that number of his female
rural carriers braved the severe bliz-
yards In the West, and while acting as
substitutes for the men carriers made
the daily deliveries in the deep snow
and sleet of the blizzard in a most
remarkable and satisfactory manner.
There are at present no less than
thirty-seven female rural letter car
riers, that is, thirty-seyen women who
have stood the civil service examina-
tions and passed so well that they ex-
celled the male candidates and have
been appointed regular rural carriers.
not substitutes.
Under the rules for the appointment
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

made boat journey in Hudson bay as
remarkable as the journey of Dr.
Kane. and he had nothing to say eX-
cept that 1t was four weeks and FIVE
days from the time he left his ship in
a whaleboat with two comrades until
he reached fur station. In answer to
persistent questioning a reporter
dragged from him that it was hard
work, and a shipmate spoke up for
the adventurer and ex .,lained to re-
porter that there was not a minute of
those five weeks. night or day, when
the little boat was not menaced by the
floating ice which piled up about them
on occasions as high as the church
steeples. And against Nansen's per
formance we can produce whaleman
who put half dozen pieces of hard
bread in his pocket and, in midwinter
left his ship in the Arctic, in latitude
rs or thereabouts. and walked 1900
miles back to civilization. And to
save him he couldn't understand why
the reporters wanted to talk with
him. He didn't see why he was an
object of interest
Hence it is our habit to say. often
in the spirit of criticism or at least
regret, that our whaleman is not lin.
aginative."
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

with two ends of the handkerchief,
and by apparently pulling the ends un-
tied again. Take two ends OF the
handkerchief one in each hand, the
ends dropping from the inside of your
hands. Tie single knot when your
hands and your handkerchief will be
in the position shown in our illustra-
tion. Instead of pulling the ends C
and d, grasp the part marked G with
the thumb and forefinger, dropping
the end d and pulling upon the end
c and the bend sB, when instead of
really tying you loosen the knot All
this must be done as quickly as possi-
BILE to prevent detection.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
A Few Conundrums,

II Mississippi wore Missouri's New
Jersey, what would Delaware? Alas
ka. I'll ask her).
Old Mother Twitchhead had but one
eye,
And long tail. which she let fly;
Every time she went over gap
She left bit of her tail in trap?
A needle and thread.
Why are men like facts? Because
they are stubborn things.
Why is lazy dog like hill? Be.
cause he is slow pup (slope up).
Who is the greatest chicken thief
spoken of in Shakespeare? Macbeth. /.
because he did murder most foul.
Why does a minister always saw
Dearly beloved brethren" and not
refer to the sisters? Because the
brethren embrace the sisters.
Which musical instrument is the
most moral? An upright piano.
When did George Washington first
take a carriage? When he took q
hack at the cherry tree.
Why is life the greatest of all
conundrums? Because we must ali
give 1t up.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

The San Francisco News Letter
doesn't believe in brain fag. 1t ex-
ploits the so-called disease in a man.
ner altogether its own; a manner
made popular by the distinguished edi-
tor of that coast publication. Freder-
ick Marriott This publication in Ques.
tion has never yet been afraid to say
what 1t meant, and its conclusions on
any subject are worth attention, If
only to catch fresh point of view.
Brain fag is frequent subject of
discussion. Here at the East we fire.
Quently hear of citizens falling by the
wayside because they are beset by
this irsidious difficulty. and this is
the more apparent, the careful OBJ
server believes. among those who have
no particular brains to fag. The source
of the prevalent complaints about the
spread of this disease-we find them
chiefly in religious papers and in nam
by-pamby society journals-plainly
suggests the question whether the re-
cent discovery of the hookworm, as
the bacillus of laziness is called, has
not some connection with this sudden
epidemic of brain flag. The brain is
most reasonable as well as a reason
ing organ. Its habit is to give exceed
ingly little trouble. The eye, the
stomach. even the useful hand, is
poor and troublesome instrument COM
pared with the brain. Nobody knows
just how the brain does its work, but
ordinarily it goes on doing 1t without
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

of rural carriers the regular carrier
after his appointment has the right to
name substitute, who is to do his
work when the carrier is sick or inca
pacitated for work. Generally the
carrier appoints some member of his
family, as he has to supply his horse
and wagon for the service, and of late
the carriers have been naming their
wives. sisters or daughters and some
times their mothers as their substi-
tntes. The department has found that
these substitutes have performed good
work, and that their sex has not inter.
fered with the rural delivery, so when
a woman is named now as a substitute
she is accepted
The department officials say that
women make very good rural carriers,
and they do not lose time gossiping
when delivering the mail as one would
suppose, and that the innate love of
gadding about and visiting their
friends to see what is going on makes
the female like the work and forget
the drudgery and hardships incident
to a daily drive of twenty, thirty or
even more miles in all sorts of
weather.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Cause for IhankfuInes..

Lieut.-Col. r. II. Pratt, who recent.
ly resigned from the dictatorship of
the Carlisle Indian school, once slept
in tent with eight young men, all
OF whom snored. Col Pratt listened
in disgust to the medley of gurgles,
C-nnts and means. In this horrible
chorus each participants snore could
be distinctly heard, for each had in
1t something characteristic and unique.
Col Pratt writhed and fretted. A man
on his left snored nervously, with a
kind of fiuttering. wavering accent.
His was perhaps the most unbearable
snore of all. Suddenly the snore
ceased-its producer snorted and thep
lay very quiet.
Thank heaven" murmured Col
Pratt, lone is dead"
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
The Worst Fool Under the Sun.

The Worst Fool Under the Sun.
He is n fool who sits and pines
While other men push along.
Who thinks that his lines are the hardest
lines
And croons pitiful song.
He Is a fool who siEhs: "Ah me-
I've arrived In the world too late,'
But the worst fool under the sun is he
That nurses hate.
lie is n fool no matter how high
Who fancies that when he dies
No other may worthily occupy
The place that he occupies.
He is fool who claims to be
Foredoomed to the scorn of Fate,
But the worst fool under the sun is he
That nurses hate.
There was never a man who nursed a
wrong.
Intending TO scourge his foe.
Unless he dragged future sorrow along
And added to future woe.
The anger we foster is sure to be
Remorse for us soon or late,
And the worst fool under the sun is he
That nurses hate.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
The Cause Of brain Fag, "
Some Good Advce for Chronic Sufferers from Disease
That Seems TO Have Prediction for Those Who
Have No Particular Brains TO Fsg.

any fuss whatever. Now and then. to
be sure, it appears to be raising n
great disturbance. Its plant of agony
on such occasions is heard through
the whole system. But the chances
are that 1t is merely fighting some
other organs battle-the stomach's,
probably, or very likely the liver. or 1t
may be that cold feet have sent an un-
due flow of blood to the head. AS to
becoming brain tagged" it is ex-
trmely rare that the hardest work
tires the urain out The seat of the
trouble is not there. The brain grows
brighter by work. II was made for
toll. II works while we sleep, and
does not seem to mind that. Nine
times out of ten those who think they
have tired brains simply have tired
consciences. or much more customar-
lily, weary and sadly overworked stom
achs. Or else they have those same
redoubtable and pestiferous germs,
the hookworms Of laziness. The very
excellent Mail and Express of New
York recently found that the hook
worm had seized upon all too many
OF It's staff, and it set about applying
a cure 1t gives the following recipe:
Take a large dose of determination
every morning, fortified with cold
bath on rising. and followed up by an
hourly dose of persistence" 1t guar.
antees that this will dissipate brain
fag as the rays of the summer SIN
scatter the dew. Try it.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
with left-handed spiral, while In A
middle the bands Of foliage were hor
zontal. The result was that the plA
lars looked as If they had "buckledc
Scrap Picture Books.

I know boy of who has half :,
dozen scrapbooks. They are all 1,
beled and whenever time hangs heary
on his hands. as 1t is likely to do a
rainy Saturday and Sunday aftesI
moons, he gets them out and sorts TIL
pictures, which he has thrown into q
box between times. When the VenA
zuelan war began he saved pictursee
and clippings of that and now has Z
first-rate history of the war. Anoths''
book is made of clippings and pictured
OF the great coal strike. another of thc
faces of great men and another lis al1
about President Roosevelt. One boor
contains an odd assortment of pit,I
lures of art and historical subjectA
clipped from the illustrated per,od''
icals. A man who was writing q booa
about the Venezuelan situation ofYere
him IS for his scrapbook. I
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
A Trip Around the World.

Did you ever play the. game called
"Trip Around the World? 1t is the
very thing for childrens party. Each
player should be provided with a
small notebook and pencil. Blank
dance cards. with the tiny colored
pencils attached, are pretty for this
purpose. The leaves should be num-
bered to correspond with various ar
ticles distributed about the room. The
game is then to guess the country or
city designated by each of these ar
ticles. A tiny jar OF cold cream stands
for Greece, a miniature pot of baked
beans for Boston; bottle of perfume
for Cologne; cigar for Havana. etc.
The guesses should not be made too
difficult. but just enough so to brush
uR the memories of laggard geograph.
ers. Prizes should be awarded to
those who secure the greatest number
of correct answers. A book of travels,
a travelling cup, book for notes. good
pictures of the places named. are all
appropriate souvenirs. When the COM
pany is marshalled for supper let the
little ones find their partners by
means of duplicate postal cards.
These can be had now in the shops
and are very pretty and interesting in
themselves. They boy who gets a
Pixies Peak card takes out the girl
who receives a similar souvenir Of
Uncle Sam, etc. For the table tiny
suit cases or little steamer trunks of
bonbons or foreign conserves and i'm
ported fruits make pretty and appro.
pirate favors.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
LITTLE SEEDS OF KINDNESS.
How Representative Curtis Came Near
MAKING an Enemy.

Making an Enemy.
Secretary Wilson is receiving nu-
merous requests from all parts of the
country for seeds. and is replying to
all of them that congress at this ses-
sion has made no provision for seed
distribution. and there are no seeds
left on hand at the department of ag-
riculture. Representative Charles
Curtis of Kansas, who was one of the
contestants in the recent fight for SEN
atorial honors. told a story to-day
about the farmers in connection with
this matter. One of his newly elect
ed compeers came to him in great in
dignation. The compeer was rapidly
reaching the conclusion that a career
in congress was humiliating sort of
business. With a few words more
forcible than elegant, he showed Cur
tbs postal card he had just received.
Its back merely bore this inscription:
H. d. Jones. Owneua Kansas" Moth
ing more. nothing less. There was no
key to the possible code; no accom-
panyirg diagram to explain the brief
but apparently inexplicable puzzle.
What are you going to do about
it?" asked Curtis, smilingly.
DO about it? Fold up the postal
Very carefully and throw it In the
waste basket, of course
Then you can count on losing a
few votes next campaign
Why" asked the surprised new
statesman.
simply replied Curtis, that that
is an established way for asking for
government seeds. You'll get great
many of them before the time comes
for the annual seeds distribution to
begin, and what such postals mean is
to put the name forwarded on your
list of those to whom you will have
the seeds sent this year out of your
allotment from the agricultural de-
partment." 1t was surprise to the
new member. and he went away NUT
tering at the divers duties of congress
men, but, nevertheless, his constitu-
ent, Jones, was one of the first to get
the seeds in the ensuing distribution.
New York Tribune
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Too Much for the Jockey.

James R. Keene. anticipating the
opening Of a new racing season. went
outside his own wide experience as
an employer of jockeys when he re-
lated a story concerning an over
anxious horse-owner and particular
ly conscientious rider. The horse.
owner had issued full orders as to
the way horse was to be ridden in
a coming race to small negro boy,
the only rider he could secure. The
original orders then were added to.
with provisions for all sorts of emer.
gencies. until the Jockey became be-
wildered.
Look yere, boss" the boy broke
IN at last. dis yere race is only one
mile. KANT do all you done told
me In Just one mile. New York
Times.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Not Our. Weak Hand.

How small Is this THAI has been ASKED of
US
'Tis hut to try;
Not our weak hand has been required to
set
With stars the sky
Or swing the great gold moon above the
clouds.
Nor yet have we
Commanded been, to place the singing
shell
Beneath the sea;
might.
With our whole heart
Not waste our strength by doubling that
success
Will be our part.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
THERE ARE STILL WARS.
Some of the Battles of "PeacefuI''
Year

oome or the Battles of "Peaceful'
Year.
The year of grace 1902, which saw
the end of the Boer war, the practical
end of the rebellion in the Philippines,
and the termination of half a dozen
South and Central American revolu-
tons, will probably go down into time
labeled as year of supreme peace.
nearly a dozen countries and war is
abroad upon every continent
The average reader. il asked to
name the wars now in progress, would
very likely stop uncertainty after men
tioning the struggle between Britain
and the natives of Somaliland. But
this is not the only war of the day by
any means. Here is a little list of
the places whereat battles have been
going on, either now or recently, with
the names of the opposing forces:
Venezuela
Hayti-Three revolutions.
The Afghanistan-Indian Border
Waziris VS. British.
Morocco-RevoMtion to dethrone
the sultan.
Upper Nigeria-Arabs VS.. British.
British VS.. Somalis.
Southern Arabia-Arabs vs. Turks.
Macedonia-Turks VS.. Macedonians
and Bulgarians.
Sarawak-British native force VS.,
Dyaks.
Corea-Corean regulars VS. rebels.
Sumatra-Dutch VS.. Achinese.
The guerrilla warfare in the lower
Philippines and the aftermath of the
Boxer troubles in China are not i'm
cluded-L london Answers.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

around the perch so that 1t actually
cannot let go without first straight
ening up to an erect position. 1t thus
clings to its perch and maintains
fixed position without any effort
Little Chronicle.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
.Nnah's Advancement,

"It has interested me much" said
the scriptural literalist, ito speculate
on how Noah arranged all those mis-.
.cellaneous animals in the ark"
WELL" replied the cheerful idiot.
me probably arranged The crocodijes
in tears and the jungle beasts An
iiairs."
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

Gear. The rooster, hearing the cackl.
answered 1t by a crow. and thus |, :
formed the hen of the whereabouts q
the tribe. This sort Of thing may -
seen now among the ancestors OF o. 8
domestic fowl in the Malay countxs r.
and India. a
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

Cut out the several parts of the
above illustration and paste them to.
gether on a sheet of paper SO as to
form a perfect checker board. The
pieces, as they stand above, mus. be
cut out whole and not subdiyided.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
First Indieation-

Young Wife-Im afraid Jack does
not love me as he formerly did.
Her Mother-What reason have
you for thinking so, dear?
Young Wife-He is beginning to
read the paper exe1 morning while
at breakfast.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17

species of plover found in South Amer
lea. India and Africa have wing spurs,
and sharp and effective spurs they are,
too. The spur is situated just at the
base of the thumb, and, like the spurs
on the legs of other birds, consists of
sheath of horn fitting closely over
a core of bone.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Not the Only Attraction.

WIFE during the quarreD Dyes. and
people say you only married me for
my money
Husband-People are wrong, my
dear. They overlook the fact that Won
also had considerable real estate.
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Physicians Puzzled by Bow. oi..,,.,

John kerns, 15-year-old son d'
Hanford kerns, died at Whitacre, vana
from disease which has long bafiet
the physicians. Shortly after brit \
his body began to shrink and at thd
same time his head to expand. Thu
disease could not be correctly diasei
nosed by the local physicians. but aHe'
1t progressed the boys limbs ant
body SO shrunk that he became a skes,ss
eton. At death his head measured Sc,
inches in circumference and was 81
inches over the top from ear to ea.ri
Ihe boy was unable to walk, having
become top-heavy. and would fall oveaI
owing to the weight of his head.-t'
Baltimore Sun. d
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
Optical Illusion.

This is perfect square, as may ~
proved by laying a rule along each sN
in succession. y
The apparent curvature OF the sidscj
is an optical illusion due to the cid,
cles. =
A curious effect of this sort. alarni,
ing to timid people. was produced u
the recent opening and dedication "a
new theater in Leipzig. The squa,u1
pillars Of the lobby were wound WITH
garlands. of leaves, according to tlmdl
honored German custom, but in pe.
culiar fashion. u
The lower part Of pillar wud
wound with a right-handed, the uppec'
The Dolores star., 1903-04-17
The MAGICAL Knot.

very entertaining trick is done
with handkerchief knot is tied
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-26
Is There an American Face:

The English face, the Jewish face,
the Irish face, the Italian face, the
Chinese face, the Japanese face, the
French face, the Indian face, even the
negro facial these have something
about them which calls up a definite
picture in ones mind. But the Amer
lean face has no strong characteristic
to differentiate it from other faces Of
superior races, remarks London Health.
It is international, for here and there
one may find the traces which suggest
Il relation to this, that or the other face.
1t may be line or a ligament be-
QuCathed by an early English ancestry,
or something suggestive of TeutOnic
origin, or Il sharp suggestion Of the
Frcnchman's face Or the Irishmans or
the Italians or the ScOtchman's. But
when one must deal with the American
abstractly one can scarcely call up the
American face
Uncle Sam, with his striped trousers,
his sharply cut coat, his plug hat his
whiskers and his bland, good natured
countenance, is a happy conception,
yet he may never hope to portray the
matchless and indescribable cosmopoI-
taniSm of the American face.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-06-26
SEEK WAY TO CHECK FLOODS
Legislative Representatives from Affected
Regions Meet in East st. Louis
for Conference.

East st. Louis. ILL.,, June 23.-The
senator's and representatives of the
Forty-fourth, Forty-ninth and Forty
seventh senatorial districts met in the
city hall here to confer with the may
ors Of Granite City, Madison. Alton,
East st. Louis, and Venice to consider
what will be the most feasible plan to
protect those cities and the adjacent
territory from floods.
Representative Troutman and May
or Silas Cook of East St. Louis have
sought the assistance Of the mayors
of the cities in the recently inundated
districts. AS state help would be the
only way out of the trouble, they
deemed it proper that the representa-
tives and senators of these districts be
called into the conference and asked
their opinions.