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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
The First of the ArtiStS

They may even have been cannibals
Scientists believe that some of the hui
man bones found in these old caves
bear good evidence of having been
split and bitten by human teeth.
At dawn the inmates of the caves
stole out furtively, each bearing club
or flint maui, to seek water to drink,
ready to leap into cover at moment.
Then they went prowling through the
forests, creeping in the underbrush,
climbing trees, looking for prey.
When they found it, they would steal
on it from behind, leap on it with
snar1 and beat it to death.
Then they would return to the cave
as furtively as they had gone, drag
ging with them the carcass of wolf, or
bear, or deer. As they approached
their lair, they shifted the air, for they
had the same keen sense of smell as
animals, and they could detect the
odor of enemies at distance.
Frightful feasts they held in those
caves growing at each other, no
doubt, as they devoured the meat,
possibly fighting like dogs over par
ticularly desirable pieces.
Nowhere in all their lives was there
any attempt at the thing we now call
beauty. They did not even dress the
skins that they used for covering, but
Used them after drying them rudely.
Their clubs were mere limbs of trees,
untouched by tool. The flint MATHS
were rocks just as they were picked
from the ground, dashed to limbs with
sinews of deer.
And in the midst of this animal life,
once upon time, boy was born who
had vague STRINGS and emotions that
he could not define. He looked at the
skies of dawn and the skies of even
ing, he looked at the great trees and
| the mountains and rivers, he gazed
upon the stately elk and the graceful
cat animals, and the furry cave bear
and the noble auerochs. And, in
stead of feeling within him the savage
desire to kill and drink their blood,
he felt a great love for them that
made him creep or them where they
fed or. played, and watch them with
all his eyes.
So he lived, probably despised, per-
haps even hated, by the other cave
people No doubt he got many hard
knocks, and his share of the food was
the poorest. But after the rest had
rolled themselves UP in the back of
the cave to sleep, he would sit at the
entrance and gaze out over the beauti-
full valley.
And one day there came to him
something gigantic-the first artistic
| idea. He seized a sharp bone or a
flint, and with it he scratched lines on
a smooth pebble, or bit of horn, or
bone, and lol the first picture was
imadel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
THE yqNIMRTED LDOLF

Now turn to the disk containing
the scattered eyes and the various
mouths and cut it out.
Thread needle with coarse thread or
darning cotton and tie large knot at
the end. Push the needle through the
dot Just above the eye sockets in the
VOLTS head. Then pass it through the
dot in the other disk. Draw the
thread through up to the knot and tie
a second knot close to the under side
of the lower disk.
Hold the upper disk (the one with
the VOLTS head on IT'D by the handle
and turn the lower disk slowly.
The wolf will look sleepy, wild.
gentle, fierce and alert by turns.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

ID such thing as Natural His
- tory" says Professor Will
helm Boelsche, there has
been a dark, mysterious corner in it,
where, as in romantic museum, stand
the beasts of whom the world could
not be sure that they even existed.
with time, these ghostly animals
change. Some are found and others
are crossed out. But new mysteries
always take the place of the old.
Zone of these mysteries was the
unicorn. If we judge from the extent
of unicorn legends, we must believe
that it once was known all over the
world; yet all Our science has never
been able to find out anything about
it. When the old scientist, Gesner,
wrote his Animal Book in the six
teenth century, he printed picture of
it; horse with straight horn in its
forehead, such as we see still in old
coats of arms. He expressed surprise
that no one had ever brought living
specimen to Europe, but, said he, its
horn is common and is being pre-
served in many museums. 1t has won
derful curative properties
I'VE know now that these unicorn
horns really were the ivory swords of
a whale-like ocean mammal, the mar
whal. And the true four-footed ami
NAL of more than the size of horse,
with single sharp horn in its face,
presently appeared in Europe as the
rhinoceros, specimen of which was
exhibited alive shortly after Gesner's
book was published.
"At that time, the world felt sure
that the riddle of the unicorn had
been solved, and the beast disappeared
from natural history.
And now, in our own time, it has
been resurrected. In excavating in
Europe, investigators of modern days
found the remains of gigantic horse
like beast, larger than the rhinoceros
of to-day. And this beast carried a
single horn on its head, in true uni
corn fashion. They named it elias
motherium.
''But this elasmotherium is an ex-
tinct animal, which lived in Europe
and Siberia at the same time as the
mammoth.
'And then we began to hear tales
told by the Siberian Tundra-dwellers.
Among them the tale of the unicorn is
ever present. Their unicorn is
huge, black, ox-1ike beast with a single
horn. Now, how did they get this
story?
did some of them find carcass
of the giant unicorn in the ice, as
they found carcasses of the mammoth,
with flesh and hide perfectly preserved
through centuries by the intense and
never-failing cold? Or did their i'm
mediate forefathers actually hunt the
living elasmotherium-unicorn? Or is
this elasmotherium not an extinct
beast at all? Does it still live in desc
late tundra-s teppes, that are never Wis
tied by man, hiding away in haunts
even more inaccessible than those of
the musk oxen, which still exist in big
herds in the far north, although they,
too, were contemporaries of the
mammoth!
THAT is the dark corner of our mod
ern knowledge. And every bit of the
world that is unexplored has its
ghostly animal for us to-day"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
DTO WHOM does the world owe
ali its beautiful things, its
fine buildings, its paintings,
its scu1nt,1res7

Here is a fine and active beast to
add to the great menagerie and ag-
oreeated congress of marvels of the
9erpetually excellent Boyandgirl Land
Wonder Show.
This wolf is not mere picture, but
IS able to move his eyes and mouth in a
manner calculated to make him appear
like real live animal, with the utmost
variety of changing expressions.
Cut along the circular line which IS
drawn around the VOLTS head, being
careful to leave the bottom piece at
tached. 1t. is to serve as handle Tor
the picture later on. :,
Then cut out the blank spaces in the
eve sockets and the open mouth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

VO Wv IlOM QOcS LHc WOIlQ owe
all its beautiful things, its
fine buildings, its paintings,
its sculptures?
To a boy who lived and died in
some cave in the Rhone Valley of
France so long ago that all the scient-
lists of to-day cannot even tell within
thousands of years how long ago it
was.
Nobody knows what his name was;
it is probable that he didn't have a
name at all.
Nobody knows how he looked, ex-
cept that he was shaggy and uncouth,
and clad in the skins torn from beasts.
He was armed with club, and he
fought wild beasts for his food, not
as men fight beasts to-day, but as ami
NAL fights animal.
Yet this rough, stumbling, fierce
boy was the first artist of the world
When he scratched the first rough line
on rudely polished bit of stone or
reindeer horn, he gave birth to all
art; and after thousands of years,
when the savage men of his kind had
long died out and barbarous tribes
that followed had in turn died and
been forgotten, after civilization had
built cities and empires to crumble
away again and give place to succeed
ing ones, men found those tlrst draw
ings and learned that there, in the an
cient caves, had lived the first per-
son to draw picture.
And now, although we cannot tell
even how that savage artist looked,
except to know that he must have
looked hardly human-like, we can tell
something of the story of his art from
the works that he left behind him; and
we can tell how his work helped al
most at once to make the world of his
day strive for the beautiful. For as
soon as he showed the cave-merl
around him what he had done, others
learned the art, and the caves became
ornamented with the pictures that we
discover to-day wherever we dig IN
the old caves in that. region
This first artist" says a modern
student of art, was, perhaps, one OF
the greatest artists that ever lived
not in point of achievement, but III
point of talent; for, consider, that he
not only had to learn to draw without
help of any kind, he actually had tc
invent drawing-to invent art itself.
Nowhere around him was help. His
father. and mother, and brothers, ane
sisters covered in the cave, with theft
cleaning eyes watching the entrance
constantly for the approach of enc
nice as fhe wild cave-dWelling beasts
do now. They cracked bones betweei
their jaws and tore at the. flesh o
slain animals with fingers and fargs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

All necessary this to cut out the cards and
little them bits of cardboard
Japanese together and let
players them giving each player equal number
ships denoted by the number the cards.
number / being the lowest and number the highest
leads throws card The
with card bearing the number
the table with the FIRST and the
gets card when he
the lot
throw card Then the
it with bearing similar number It ne
fails the first player takes both cards. and so
be played the contestants
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
A Smart Lizard.

In Australia there is a lizard which
has even a more effective way of hid
ing itself than the chameleon, the rep
tile of many colors. The Australian
lizard, when alarmed, sticks his four
feet fast to a eucalyptus leaf, hops
over on his back, and not the keenest
eye could detect him under his cover
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

game number that each player
following the checker board regulated by the
his representing his side
players representing Russians take the Russian counters
and the other players take the Japanese counters
trick the shpcard has
army He make
on the Is he cards of his kind.
this first the fight by ships tor
and then the fight by counters for land
victory
board checkers being
white white jumps being permissible
reaches the fartest OF his eneys
white
AS regular checkers player who clears the
o he opposing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
BEASTS OF
MYSTERY

<<TVVER since there has been
such thing as Natural His
- tory" says Professor Will
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-11
Notice 10 Sell Real Estate Of
Alonzo B Valentine Deceased.

(,TATE OF VERMONT, In Probate
) District OF Bennington. S. Court, held Ut
the Probate ONCE in Bennington. M and for
said district, OH the eth day OF October, A. ID
1904.
Present John V Carney. Jugde:
Jennie A Valentine, executrix OF the estate
of Alonz) Il. Valentine, late II Bennington in
said district, deceased. makes application To
said Court Tor license to sell all OF the real es-
tate of said deceased situate In the Village and
Town of Bennington. for bounds ana descrip-
ton reference may be had to the land records
In the Town Clerks ONCE OF the Town of
Bennington, aforesaid; representing that the
sale of said real estate win be beneficial TO the
estate OF said deceased and those interested
In said estate
WhereupOn, ii is ordered by said Court that
said application be referred 81 u session there
Of to be held at the Probate Office In Benning-
ton In said district on the llth day OF n VEN
Der. A. ID 100, for hearing and decision there
on and, IL Is further ordered that all persons
interested be notified hereof by publication of
notice OF said Applicant II and order thereon,
three weeks successfully In he Bennington
Evening Banner, a newspaper published at
Bennington, and which circulates IN the neigh
bOrhood OF those intere- ted, before Snid time
Of hearing, that they may appear at said time
and place, and, II hey see cause, object there
TO
by the Court
Attest, JOHN V. CARNEY, Judge
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-11
ARLINGTON.

Mrs + N Garfield has gone to New
York for week to visit her daughter,
Mrs j ID Curtis.
Miss Mabel Rogers is spending q
week with Mrs f. B Garfield in Ben
nington.
James Thompson of Albany is al
home for while.
NJ j Conroy. who has been for sew
erai weeks in Colorado for his health,
Is nome for the winter.
Miss Florence Hard Of Schenectady
ha, Ueen home for week.
The st James Guild met on Thurs
day with Miss Mabel Woodwork OF
East Arlington.
The Ladies Auxiliary met with the
Misses Hard on Thursday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-11
GRISW
SpOrt.Music -Art.StatiOnery-
BOOks.Maeazines.
A NEW
OPPORTUNITY

for the people of Bennington
and vicinity. a great reduction
sale on every Saturday, only.
II you want to save from SOC to
Soc on every dollar purchase
kindly call at j. Levin's, 40
Gage ST., corner Park st. We
give you II list OF some of our
goods which we carry sin stock
Mems Suits, Mems Overcoats,
Children's Suits in short pants
from to 10 years, Boys Suits
from lit lSyears in long pants,
Children's and Boys Overcoats,
Ladies Closks in very latest
styles and at very low prices,
Ladies Skirts, Shirt Waists,
Wrappers and a nice line of
Furs, Mems and Children's I'm
derwear. Ladies and Mems
Sweaters, Comfortables and
Blankets. There are a thousand
more articles which we have no
space to mention. Kindly call
and look at our very low prices,
on Saturday only.
Us n m
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-11

TOLEDO. o. Nov. ia rate war
between Toledo and st. Louis is prom
lscd after the close of the ST. Louis ex-
position because Of the fact that roads
In the Central Passenger association
have up to this time been unable to
agree upon a proper dnercntial for
the Glover Leaf railroad.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-11
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Complete but Unofficial Results Show
Plurality of 1851 25.

Complete but Unofficial Results Show
Plurality of 105,525.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. II. - Com
plete but unofficial figures received
up to last night from every county in
the state, with the exception of Ale
gheny, in which Pittsburg is situated,
but from where close estimate has
been obtained show that President
| Roosevets plurality in Pennsylvania
has reached 494,525, probably the larg.
est plurality ever given Il presidential
candidate by any state in the political
history of the country.
President Roosevelts total vote, ac-
cording to figures at hand, is $50, l2J
and Judge Parker's 33J,GOO Mckin-
ley's total vote in 1900 was 1860
and Bryan's 424 1892.
The city of Philadelphia gives Roose-
welt total vote of 22T,693 out of 2S0,-
7l3 votes cast for all candidates.
Returns received from forty nine of
the sixty-seven counties give Swallow
Prohibition) 23,7S6 votes. The eight
cen missing counties in 1900 gave
Woolley 6,56S Woolley's total vote
in Pennsylvania four years ago was
27,00S.
The returns so far received for Debs
Socialist and Corregan Social La
bor) are so meager that no approx
mate total can be given.
incomplete figures from all counties
in the state give Elkin a plurality of
about 10000 over Thompson for su-
preme court judge.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-11
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

Jack Demsey of Hoosick Fa Is was
in town yesterday.
Miss Kittie Monohan of Boston is
visiting friends here.
Miss Mable Rogers of Arlington is
the guest of Mrs e. B. Garfield.
Miss Ruth NJ ,tin is the guest # Miss
Fai h Powers 1T Hammond Hall Mid
dlebury.
The rooms from the kindergarten
room 8 inclusive will be closed until
turther notice.
The rummage sale at the Center
closes tonight. The ladies have been
having good success.
A Somerset hunter shit an otter
there last week, the first that has been
seen on the Dee held river for several
years
Mrs Joseph Plamondon of Lebanon,
n. H., who has been visiting her
daughter the wife of DR. Houle has
returned to her home.
John H, Norton has commenced
considerable repairs on the residence
he recently purchased on the corner
of Valentine and Union street
At the annual meeting of the Yer
mont Fish and Game club Wednesday,
Collins M. Graves was elected one of
the vice presidents OF the society.
Union services will be held Thanks
giving day in the Methodist church.
Y sermon will be by Rev George
Sherman Mills, pastor of the COngre-
gational church.
While putting a Darrell of cider into
his liar Friday, the birrell slipped
and falling smashed one foot of Frank
Cunningham qu tie badly. He will be
off duty for several days.
Among the incorporators named il a
bill presented esterday by Mr. Graves
relating to the Lucy Ruggles h, me Cor
indigent teachers are John q. McCu
Tough and Chas II. Darling of Ben
niugton.
George McDonough, Jacs sonville
residen after separation of twenty
years, has discovered his sister living
in Fall River, Mass, and has gone
there to meet her. They were !epara-
ted when he was six and she three
years old.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-11
IF EkDEhV0RING

to keep up and make tn e
best Of q wOrn-Out con-
stitutiOn or chronic dis.
ease, a Sanitariunn -
where trained attendants
ana special facilities for
meeting all requirements
are at hand, is the place
for you. Address for new
booklet
Or. Primes Vermont Sanitarium
Burlington. VI.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-07
Forcing Fowls to Moult.

Many poultrymen have tried the So
called Van Dresser plan Of forcing
fowls to moult early and have met
with varying degrees Of success. The
plan consists Of placing the fowls in
a run Of rather limited dimensions and
giving them as little food as possible.
and yet sustaining life for two weeks.
The writer tried the plan for the Sec
omd season last year and with salts
factory results in the case of Leghorns.
but only fair results with Plymouth
Rocks. The plan of feeding was to
scatter in the runs some small grain
like wheat. mixing it with a small
quantity of oil meal. The quantity
was sufficient to give each fowl about
the equivalent Of a t%easpoonful Of
grain, provided she got her saare.
At the end of two weeks the hens
were again fed literally and on the
usual variety of rations. The expert
ment was made in August and in four
weeks most Of the Leghorns had their
new stock of feathers and were be-
ginning to lay. The Plymouth Rocks
dragged along for from six to ten
weeks before all Of them were laying
again. There is enough in the plan to
warrant trying it, and if the results
obtained with the Leghorns could be
generally brought about it would give
Doultrymen eggs much earlier in the
fall than now.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-07
4 War Dogs.

The dogs of war; in these days as
sist in field hospital work. In Ger
many and Italy st. Bernard dogs have
been trained for years so as to aid,
after an engagement, bearer parties in
their search for the wounded, especial.
~ at night. Russia, apparently, has
no canine corps, and Major Richard
son of Carnoustie, England, who has
made a speciality of training ambulance
dogs, has received a communication
from st. Petersburg asking him how
many he can supply for service in the
Far East.-New York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-07
The Bee Colony.

1t should be as far away from public
highways as possible, and. if conven-
lent, in a quiet place, sheltered from
high winds, where the bees are not
likely to be interfered with by men
or animals. The hives must be secure
ly fenced off, if situated on land. where
cattle are accustomed to feed. They
should also be not so far away as to
prevent those engaged about the
dwelling house from seeing when
swarms are in the air. If the
hives can be SO placed as to afford a
free bee flight toward the open coun-
try, while the beekeeper has room to
work at the side or in rear Of them
without interfering with tue flight of
the bees, it is mutually advantageous
to them and to the beekeeper.
One of the most reliable arguments
in favor Of combining agriculture with
small farming lies in the fact that the
beekeeper can time his work so as not
to interfere unduly with the attention
needed for harvesting his ordinary as
ricultural produce. Moreover. much
valuable help can be rendered by Il
farmers wife who is SO disposed, and
many instances are recorded in which
women make most successful bee
Observation-Disclosures Ploughman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-07
Raadinr in the Dark.

"It was CHASTITY" said the under-
taker. GAS we returned to our CABS
from the cemetery in the black dark
ness OF the evening, the nal read out
loud to his wife, the same as If it q
been daylight.
81 sat opposite him. 1t was intensely
dark. 1 could see the mans face
a vague whiteness, and 1 could see the
book he held on his knee. Everything
else-pitch black. And humble,
humble, went his voice. He read flu
emily. Cold shivers ran up and down
my spine. Finally I interrupted.
"sPardon me- said I, 4 am the IN
dertaker. Would you mind telling me
if got really read in q light like this:
"I certainly cam said he. 4 can see
more clearly in this darkness than in
the sunlight
"Then he explained the matter to ne.
He said men every now and then were
born with cat eyes that worked better
by night than by day. He said Jui!us
Caesar had been one of these men.
Caesar had been able to read in thu
dark up to the age of twenty-three;
then the gift had left him. Joseph
Scaliger had also had the gift. He said
all pure albinos saw clearly in the
dark, but in the sunlight their 'eyes
grew dim and painful
'Then the cab stopped and we got
out. AS the mai passed undo the
arc lamp / saw that his hair and his
eyebrows and his skin were white and
horrible, and his eyes were pinker than
coral. I had never seen an albino so
perfect."-Kansas City Independent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-07
PaultrY Notes.


An elevated site is desirable for a
poultry house.
See that the poultry house is we'll
ventilated.
Leg weakness comes from high feed
ing and forced growth.
Sprinkle the. places most f]reGnentei
by the fowls with slaked lime.
a sole diet of corn produces too much
fat. when given to laying hens.
Mix a little powdered charcoal with
the soft feed and it will assist diges-
ton.
With poultry. as with other products,
it is Il safe rule to market as oon as
ready.
The turkey is M of the best pay
ing fowls the farmer can heep. when
the surroundings are favorable.
The egg shell is porous and any filth
on it soon affects the meat. Eggs
should be cleaned as soon as gathered.
The breed Of fowls to select from is
the one you like the best. This has a
great deal to do with which is the best
fowl.
Fresh eggs are more transparent at
the centre, old ones at the top. Very
old ones are not transparent III either
place.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-07
One Farmers Method.

One of the best farmers We ever
knew kept a slate hanging un in the
barn and on this slate made entries
something like these:
Weak place in the west hell fence;
Joe repair it at once.
Take c%ultivator shoVeis to shop next
time buggy goes.
Repair Jacks harness lcd BOb's bri-
die first wet day.
Frank, see Smith aud tel! him to
bring log chain hom-
Two sows due to farroH May l6;
keep sharp lookout.
Bunch of red sorrei IN south field
near shade; for self.
Wood pile must be watched; haul
some first chance.
Wien any job Hike the one noted
was done. the rnle was to erase the
memorandum about it. and the man
who kept the slate told us that there
was always q friendly rivalry betw""'
himself, his son and tile hired man in
the way Of keeping the slate clean.
The rule was to scan the slate when
ever any one came to the barn. and