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The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

ed the middle of the one hundred and
fftieth page he was fast asleep.
For an hour he slumbered. his
daughter watching patiently beside
him. Then rousing himself, Sir Ru-
pert said: "By my halidome. think
was it that ! read? Beshrew me, but
it has all passed from memory"
Then he began at the first page to
read again, and again he went to sleep
on the one hundred and fiftieth page,
sand after an hour awoke to find that
he could not remember what it was
he had read.
He now began to perceive that the
old alchemist had laid a spell upon
him or the book Then Alice tried the
volume, and she, too, dropped her
beautiful head in sleep at the 15Oth
page, and forgot when she awoke what
she had read.
Janet, the housekeeper, was called in
and that ancient dame was affected
Ike the others Finally Simon, the
steward. was asked to read the book
and at the 15Oth page his shores re-
sounded through the castle.
There was no one else in the castle
who could read, for people were not
very well educated in those days, and
the book was put back for the night
in it's secret niche.
Greatly disturbed, Alice paced the
moonlit battlements of the castle all
night trying to think of some way of
circumventing the spell of the wicked
alchemist. Just at daybreak she clasp
ed her hands together joyfully and
exclaimed: How positively absurd!
Why did not 1 think of it before?" and
ran down to the library.
She took out the volume and opened
it and read; but this time she did not
slumber over it, and when her father.
hearing her stirring below stairs, came
down to see what was the matter, she
cried out joyfully: "Oh, father have
the secret! When the wizard touched
the book it lay open on the floor be-
twene the 149th and 150th pages.
These only he touched, and these only
with the sleep which follows their
reading are enchanted. Begin reading
at the 160th page and you IRE safe.
And here it is set down in black and
white on page 329 Let the master of
Ashley. in his dire extremity, dig be-
meath the dungeon of the northern
tower and chests of gold and silver will
he find"
Then they were so happy that Sir
Rupert and his lovely daughter danced
a stately minuet on the library floor
while the morning light came stream
ing in through the eastern windows.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
The Magic Bears Leg
An Indian Story.

Long years ago. before there were
any white men in this country, an
Indian boy lived with his uncle in d
desolate place in the forest. They had
a little clearing where they raised
corn and the uncle fished in the river
and hunted in the woods to get other
food.
The boy was too young to hunt,
but he used to hoe the corn when he
was not playing among the trees and
getting acquainted with the animals
who came to see him in the long
summer days when the uncle was
away hunting.
Now the uncle was a very wonder
full man and could talk with all the
animals in their own language, but
they did not care much for his So
ciety-he was too fond of hunting to
suit them.
However, the uncle taught the ami
NAL talk to the boy, and of the boy
the creatures of the wild wood were
not afraid. So the people of the woods
taught him many strange things.
One winter, after a fall in which the
crops had been particularly bad, the
boy and his uncle found themselves
with scarcely enough corn to last
them until spring, and the uncle as
was HIS WOHI WH6Il dHylHlIlB went
wrong, began to groan and lament.
"Oh, we shall starVe to DEATH" he
cried. The snow is too deep and the
weather too cold, but if we eat up all
our corn we shall have none left for
seed, and then what will we do?"
"Oh, don't worry said the boy,
who was always cheerful, no matter
what happened. II know where there
is plenty of corn, and l will go and
get some"
''Where?" asked the uncle.
ut is stored on an island in a lake
into which our river flows. 1t is ex-
cellent corn, but the island is enchant-
ed and is guarded by a flock of geese
of great size and ferceness, who drive
off everybody who tries to land. A
handful of this magic corn will in
crease so that we could plant our
corn field many times over with it,
who told you all this?" asked the
uncle.
"A friend of mine-the White Swan,
which comes to see me often when
you are away" replied the boy
II don't believe a word of it," said
the uncle. mo, we shall starve, and
that is all there is about it. Besides,
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months at the castle, engaged in an
alteration in the library. The library
was a vast room. wainScoted in black
oak, with black oak beams in the cell
ing and huge presses of black oak
filled with muSty old tones.
In this sombre apartment Sir Rupert
was berating the aged alchemist for
the large amount of money he had
spent and the lack of success which
he had met in his attempts to Great
gold out of the baser metals, while
the savage-looking old man on his
part was demanding more money
from the knight, whom he threat
ened with dire disaster in the case of
refusal.
The library had long windows like
doors opening upon the stone-paved
terrace, and, alarmed at the threats
of the alchemist, Alice ran hastily in
at one of the entrances to beseech
her father not to anger the man
farther. But just then the alleged
Greater of gold came flying out at an
other window, the enraged knight,
with his sword drawn. in close pur-
suit
"Oh. father!" she cried, LANCER not
old Nostradamus farther, lest he lay
some wicked spell upon u.s."
Spell me no SPELLS" replied the
doughty cavalier. returning his sword
to its sheath and throwing himself
into a splendidly carved, but exceed
ingly uncomfortable oak chair, 1.-The
old swindler has been eating of my
substance and pocketing my money
for three months. the while he laughed
at me and grew fat with his pretended
powers of transmitting iron into gold.
He is not half the necromancer that
old Janet, the housekeeper, is, who
always manages that we have dinner
to eat or old Simon, the steward,
who so manages my affairs that we
still have table left to eat it from.
1t is all for thee, my daughter; all
for thee, thou pretty one," continued
the knight in a softer tone, that l adj
venture thus with wizards and alchem-
lists. For myself shepherds cot and
mess of herbs were sufficient; but my
Alice, fairest vine that ever twined
its tendrils round "a ruined house, for
thee must be the wealth and the posi-
ton which is thy due"
Alice, with tears, protested that life
in cottage would be just what would
suit her, but the father would not lis
ten to her.
NO" he said "the life you speak of
is very pleasant to talk about, but
you are not fitted for it. You must
have the advantages which money can
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hand grasping the Bears Leg.

hand grasping the Bears Leg.
In an instant the tumult ceased. the
geese arranged themselves in a respect
full circle, and the leader, an old. graz
goose, said
You have got our master and Wa
cannot harm you. Take what you want
and begone, but leave behind the Bears
Leg"
The boy answered never a word for
his uncle had told him that more neo-
pie got into trouble by talking than IN
any other way, and he judged that
was one of the times when if VIC
wiser to SAY nothing, but saw wood
as the saying is. So he took the hae
of magic corn and went back to his
canoe with it over one shoulder and
the Bears Leg over the other.
His shoulder hurt him where the old
gray goose had pecked it, but he suf-
fered the pain in silence
The geese followed him to the shore
begging him not to carry awav The
Bears Leg, and the old gray goose
cried out: He is faint from loss NJ
blood! He will fall down"
But the boy, making a great effort,
kept on.
Then the old goose said, Leave
behind the Bears Leg and 1 will heal
your wound"
liz IVY was 1C0AlllS DIS IL ne could
not stand the strain much longer, So
he said, "All right. 1t is a bargain"
The goose touched his wound with
the tip of her wing and at once the
blood stopped flowing, the pain ceased
and the adventurous youth was all
right again.
Getting into the canoe he began to
paddle up stream, and the old goose
cried out, Here, what did you prom
Use? You said you would not take
away the Bears Leg"
Neither will l." said the boy. and
tying a big stone which he had taken
from the shore to the Bears Leg. he
threw it far out into the middle of the
river where it sank. Then he pad
died away, leaving the geese diving
desperately, trying to flush up their lost
MASTER
When the boy reached his uncle's
home at last he saw the old man sit
ting in front of it talking with a Gin
namon bear VINO had come to tell him
that, in his opinion, the boy was as
good as dead.
The uncle groaned and began to
sing the mourning song of Hi Wadi."
and the bear wept in a very friendly
manner.
''Haloooo" shouted the boy, "ha-
loooo 1 have come home all right.
and brought the magic corn. We
shall want no more"
Then he began to sing the song OF
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

AS everybody knows, spiders usually
fight to the end if one happens to en-
ter the web of another. Yet there are
spiders that live together in peace. In
South America one variety of spider
forms colonies of several hundred
members. These build a joint nest,
almost as big as a hat. 1t hangs
from high branches. and a silken
strand, sometimes ninety feet long, dam
giles from its lower end to serve as a
ladder for the inmates. In Venezuela
there is a spider which joins with hun
dreds of others in the manufacture of
a giant web. Often they weave a web
big enough to cover a whole coffee
shrub. Inside this web is divided in
to cells, and the spiders not only agree
perfectly. but often help each other kill
particularly large insects.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

some sort Of strong covering. For
this purpose they weave themselves
shelters of cobweb, in which they en-
Irvine bits of wood. grass. stones,
sand or shells. These they drag
after them AS they move around.
If you collect these caddice worms,
you may furnish them with brightly
colored beads Of which they will then
form their cases.
Caddce flies. like May flies. can
not eat after they get their wings,
and they live only a very short time
in a winged state.
Far different is IL with the dragon
fly. He manages to make the best OF
both worlds. and whether crawling
on the bottom Of the pond under the
water or flying above IL, he is one OF
the most strenuous and interesting
OF insects.
Even when he is only a water grub
and seems to move slowly. the swift
est insect cannot escape him.
He has peculiar mask that folds
back against his face by a sort OF
hinge. Although II gives him an in
nOcent sort of expression and looks
quite harmless. Il can be thrown out
like lightning IN such a manner that
two sharp hooks at It's broad end fast
en- into his prey. which he inme-
diately proceeds TO devour.
The dragon-hy grub takes in water
through the hinder end Of his body
and when he wishes TO get out OF the
way OF an insect larger and stronger
than himself he shoots this water out
and propels himself out Of the way. sd
that he has means Of escape from
danger as we'll as OF capturing
. prey
The grub Of the dragon ny make,
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The most interesting parts of their
lives are passed under the surface of
the water.
If you will take the trouble to pro-
vide yourself with one or more wide
mouthed glass jars of water, partly
filled with soil from the bottom of
some pool or pond, and stock the sim
pie aquarium thus made, you can
raise these and other insects from the
grub stage.
Caddice worms also make interest
ing tenants. In turning over stones in
streams where the current is rapid
you will sometimes find. fastened to
the under side of the boulders, little
aggregations of pebbles which are at
tached to each other and to the larger
stone by what seems to be a cob
web.
Within the rude enclosure made by
the collections of pebbles is the cad
dice worm, and near him is his net,
fastened between two or more of the
stones, funnel shaped, with the open
ing up stream in the current where
it is swiftest.
Caddice worms need to protect the
lower part of their soft bodies by
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
AQUATIC INSECT JAR
Novel and Simple Collection of Strange Water
Creatures.

If you have ever been on the Dor
ders of a pond on warm quiet sum-
mer's day and kept your eyes open
you must have seen those delicate and
fragile insects called May flies, which
sport in the sunshine, droop as the
sun sets and die in the night 1t is
easy to recognize them by their broad,
unequal wings and their slender bod
les, terminating in three long brls-
ties.
They seem to do nothing all day
but to rise and sink in a sort of may
dance, for they never pause to eat
or to drink; their mouths are not
formed for it.
They have only a few hours to live.
The whole end and aim of their lives
in their winged state is to form and
lag eggs in little packets in the water
that will in due time hatch into young
May flies.
May flies are, however, by no means
"mere creatures of a day." as they
have been often called, for May flies
live for nearly two years in the bot
tom of the pond over which they fly.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

water insects do not live in peace with
each other.
Use the ordinary insect meta bag
of mosquito netting fastened to a
hoop attached to a pole-to make
your capture.
Some of the most interesting of these
insects live in water when the current
is swift, and these require constant
change of water.
In order to have an aquarium where
this is provided it is only necessary
to have the right kind of a siphon. 1t
can be made of a piece of lead pipe,
which you can buy and have bent at
small expense.
In order to make ii work, the arm
in the aquarium must be shorter than
the one outside, and the aquarium
must be placed under a faucet or flow
of water which is considerably smaller
than the bore of the siphon. The ST.
phon must be filled with water and
both ends temporarily corked up be-
fore it is put in place.
The end of the pipe inside the equa-
rum should be first uncorked and
then the other, to make il work.
If it is bent as shown in the illus
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

a most interesting inhabitant of an in
sect aquarium,
The grub or the larva, as it
is called. of the water tiger or
diving beetle also is well worth
collecting
Put your specimen in a jar in which
plants are growing, so that the insects
can use them as flights of strairs to
reach the surface of the water or to
go below as they choose.
Some of the little insects called back
swimmers are interesting to watch.
They are built on the plan of sub
aquatic boats. Two of their legs
have the forms of oars. which they
use assiduously in going from one part
of the aquarium to another.
A big water beetle, the large dobson
or helgramite, is very interesting in
sect.
Whirligig beetles that chase each
other in circling around a bit of still
water. and water walkers that run
about over the surface of the aquarium
as easily as if it were solid instead of
liquid, to the puzzement of all who see
them, should be collected.
Your beetle aquariums will require
restocking every little while, for these
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
The Fooled Pirate
How President FiIImore's Great
Grandfather Captured a Pirate
Who Had Captured Him.

II you go down to Ipswich. that
quaint old Massachusetts, seaport
town. they will tell you many stories
there of old times and those who
lived in them. And most OF all they
like TO tell the story of President
Fillmore's eat-grandfather. John, an
Ipswich sailor boy. who put an end
TO the maraudings of Phillips the Pr
rate. captured his ship and brought II
with its pirate crew safe into Bos-
ton.
John Fillmore was a boy Of unsual
strength, large Of frame and courage
Gus OF heart. Ipswich boys went %
sea at some time I'm their wives. else
their education was not considered
complete. 80. OF course. he went forth
on ship az soon as he was old
enough.
This was In the first quarter OF the
eighteenth century. when pirates did
not confine their cruising 20 the Span
ish Main. but sailed up and down the
coast from the West Indies 10 Nova
Scotia, capturing ships and recruiting
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

procure and, sooth to say, I should
not object to having a few OF
them myself. I have still one re-
source left. If this fails us, then in
truth we will become shepherd and
dairy maid"
The knight went to the side of the
room and. touching a secret spring in
one of the oaken panels, it flew back,
revealing a recess in which lay an
ancient book, written on vellum and
bound in curiously fooled leather.
This volume" he said. has been
handed down for many generations
with the injunction that it should
never be read except in the direst
need. when all other means of help
and succor failed. The time has now
come
Saying this the knight was about to
place the book on the table, when a
loud and scornful laugh behind him
caused him to turn suddenly, dropping
the volume to the floor, where it lay
open as it fell.
It was the wicked old Nostradamus
wha had laughed. He had returned
stealthily, had overheard Sir Rupert's
words regarding the volume, and now,
clad in a long flowing robe worked
about with mystic characters, and
wearing a high, conical hat, inscribed
with the signs of the zodiac, he waved
a short wand and cried in derision:
You shall not readl You cannot read
it! Ha, ha, am avenged
Then he fed swiftly, as we'll he
might, for the knights sword was out
again and his temper was UP. But
before he fled the magician touched
the open book as it lay upon the floor
with his magic wand.
After he had Gained down a bit, Sir
0ioknd I'm the fallen volume
and beginning at the first page began
to read. 1t was a long, uninteresting
record of family history and by the
time the knight had read to the one
hundred and forty-ninth page he be-
gan to get drowsy, and when he reach
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

triumph which the braves sing when
they come back victorious from the
warpath, the cinnamon bear, who was
versatile creature, joining in the
chorus and the old uncle forgetting
his rheumatism so far as to engage
in few of the most lively steps of
the corn dance.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
FOR THE PUZZLE LOVERS.
CurtaiIed words.

G). Curtail an herb and get to set
tie.
(2). Curtail to refresh and get royal.
(S). Curtail to frighten and get a
mark Of a wound.
(D. Curtail prepared and get to pc
rUse.
(5). Curtail darkness and get near.
80. Curtail twelve and get to sleep
lightly.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
Solution of Last sundays GeOgrnph-
icuI Puzzle.

The six pictures I'm last Sundays
puzzle represented the following OBJ
jects: Boa. owl. shrub. tea, organ,
notary. The initial letters spell BOS7
TON. The final letters spell AL
BANY.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

tration the water in the Jar will always
remain at the same hight as the out
side end of the siphon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06
The Bdby's Good and Bad Luck

All the world over the mother has
queer superstitions about her baby.
Here are some of the queerest of them
from the four corners of the earth
In Roumania the infants ankle is
bound up with red ribbon Immediately
after birth to ward off evil spirits.
In Ireland, for the same reason, a
strand of woman's hair is placed in
the cradle.
Garlic, salt and bread are placed in
the cot of a newly-born child in Hol-
land
In the West Indies the negroes fol-
low the same custom as the women in
Roumania, but their ribbon is blue in
stead of red. If they have no ribbon,
they make a mark with washing blue
upon the child.
In Russia there is a superstition that
baby and a kitten cannot thrive in
the same house. One is sure to pine
away and die, SO pussy is always
driven away as soon as baby comes
Most Englishwomen think it is ex-
tremely unlucky to carry a baby
downstairs before it is journeyed up
ward. If the baby is born on an up
per floor, and there are no stairs to
climb, the mother must hold her dar-
ling high UP in the air, standing upon
a chair or table, and only then can
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06
This Is the Biggest
Family on Earth

A West indian scientist has lately
been making Investigations into the
family life OF the green fly, plant
parasite whose fertility eclipses that
of all other living creatures.
He asserts that single green fly
will produce ninety young, all fertile
females. In few days each one of
these ninety will produce another
ninety, each equally capable of replen-
ishing the earth.
During the summer, about eleven
generations of this. interesting crea-
ture make their appearance. 1t will,
therefore, be seen that at the end of
the season e progeny of single
fly would number, barring accidents.
three thousand one hundred and
thirty-eight trillions two hundred and
FIVE thousand nine hundred and sixty
billions nine hundred thousand mil
lions.
The accidents that prevent this con
summation, devoutly not to be wished,
take the form of lace wing flies, lady
birds and other birds, and, happily,
hundreds of other natural causes.
If ten green flies should weigh
grain-a by no means moderate esti-
mate-its descendants in the eleventh
degree would weigh no less than one
hundred and forty-five billion tons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06

which is marked by an arrow and a
star. The middle of the back is placed
to a fold.
1t is as well to make small notches
on the shoulder edges to indicate the
tops of the lines for the tucks, or TO
chalk or trace these part of the way
down. In making the waist, the first
thing is to stitch the right shoulder
seam, and the left one so far as IL
goes. Then make all the tucks and
press them all we'll.
Gather or pleat the small, plain
piece at the back waist and fold the
pleats little further over each other
Place and stitch narrow band of the
material over this, just where the
waist line comes. See that il is short
enough ia draw the back faulty down
and secure tape or ribbon on to each
end of the small band to tie around
the front.
Set the overlapping part of the right
front carefully to the left shoulder, as
if to stitch, and fold under the edge
of the left front, SO that it will ex-
actly fit under the first tuck and over
the margin allowed. Sew hooks under
the left edge, and make it neat with
narrow ribbon. Face the right one
and sew straight eyes under the tuck
as near to the seam as possible, and
close together. 49,.
The alternative is to turn the margin
on the right front edge quite under
and hook it over the left one Make
the shoulder hook closely, as if
scanned.
There are several ways Of finishing
off the tucks according to the smart
ness desired. There may be several
rows of stitching, the thread used
being of a contrasting color to that
of the material.
A pretty effect may be obtained By
piping made in bright color which
harmonizes with that of the material
The piping must be made of bias
strips, stitched close to the cord
Then, placed under the tuck. the latter
is stitched on its edge to the piping
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06
By Rosa E. Payne.=Uai LLnh Tucky Gathers or Pleats

tending the top edge from its highest
point, as illustrated. 1t is as well not
to curve out the under part until the
tucks are placed, when the whole top
edge may be revised to match the pat
tern.
To allow for the tucks around the
lower part, extend the length or drop
the corner by the fold, if preferred, as
the tucks will give a certain amount
of stiffness and keep the sleeve out,
so that a little extra length at the
back of the wrist may be an, advan-
tage.
The middle tuck down the sleeve
should run from the shoulder top,
and the others at equal distances on
each, side of that
Those around may either be tucked
in parallel lines with the lower edge,
or straight around. If the former, it