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the naturalist the little larva Goes not
touch the digestive organs, the vascu-
lar system of the more important
nerves for a period, thus permitting
the aphis to live and feed until the
appetite and growth Of the parasite
warrant it to eat all before it. Then
the aphies dies, of course, and rapidly
becomes only an outer skin, with head
and legs attached.
For some strange reason the aphis,
not long before dying. forsakes its
place among it's fellows. AS If ostra-
cized for it's condition, although its
disease is hardly catching, it crawls
away to one Of the larger leaves, fast
ems up it in exile and thus remains. 1t
is obvious that this benefits the para
site; the aphis here is far less apt to
be found and attacked by numerous
other enemies that would endanger
the life of its guest. But what can i'll
fuence it? 1t departs from its habit,
for it is altogether social and non
migratory. 1t removes to a less desir-
able pasture ground Normally, if dis
lodged from the stem and falling on the
leaves it crawls back as fast as its i'll
dolent legs permit to the stem again.
The parasite is alone benefited, but
it is out of the world, so to speak; it
can not get at its hosts locomotory ap-
~pendages; it is a legless, eyeless crea'
ture that at best would make a poor
guide if it should get out and take the
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YIELD NOT.
Flat Rejection Of Anthracite Miners
Last Proposition.

Flat Rejection OF Anthracite Miners
Last Proposition.
New York City.-The formal answer
of the anthracite operators commit
tee Of sever of the last proposition
of the committee Of the anthracite
mine workers was sent by the opera
tors to John Mitchell, after q meet
ing in the Jersey Central Building.
1t is an unqualified rejection of all the
propositions of the miners.
While the letter does no. say spe-
officially that the operators last offer
still holds good, it was declared that
it holds good until a break comes, as
does also the alternative offer to con-
tinue the agreement under the award
Of the anthracite strike commission
for three years longer.
Preparations are being made by
the operators for strike emergencies
and the starting up Of the washeries
is the entering wedge in breaking the
deadlock.
The suspension of work" in the
hard coal regions thus becomes a
strike, so far rs the operators view OF
the situation is concerned. They put
it up to" Mitchelps committee to agree
to limit arbitration to the two ques-
tons mentioned, or to have their con-
yention formally declare a strike.
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DEVICE TO AID The SWIMMER

=. A recent invention of : Canadian
will be of interest to those who delight
in swimming. 1t is an attachment
which, being worn by a swimmer, will
facilitate his progress in the water by
affording him an enlarged area with
which to push himself forward. In
the Illustration it is SHOWN attached
TO the leg Of a swimmer, although
it a. be modified to fl the arms also.
Th0 peration will be obvious.
. The device consists Of an open rec
Triangular framework, within which are
SUSPENDED a series Of light vanes
hinged along one edge of the open
framework in such q I'M as to be
susceptible of setting themselves with
the current of water going through
them as the legs are drawn forward
or bent for the stroke.
During the back stroke or thrust the
vanes will close and form a plane
normal to the movement of the limb.
A framework Of Of this kind
is supported from each limb Of the
swimmer, to which it is secured by
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By 8. A AARON.

FNo~ HE flower : loving insects
are all friends in need; but
81 D the %unhoneyed flowers al
so have their insect
'Nea< friends, not agents Of fer
Utilization only, but protectors and
champions that fight the battles Of
those that must depend on the flower
stems and leaves and buds to survive,
says American Homes and Gardens.
But though the flowers are ~voiceless,
they tell US with none the less elo-
quence what their enemies are and
how they suffer by them. Ask the
rose. The withered, skeletoned leaves
proclaim the EMMY Of the saw-fy
slug; eaten leaves and others folded
over tell Of the larvae of the golden
winged fortified moth; while canker-
Gus. eaten buds and flowers denounce
the rose bug, the aphides, that crowds
the green stems and leaves of the new
er growth and swarm all over the ten
der buds.
Annihilate the aphides upon a dozen
stems Of a thrifty bush and keep others
of; then let a dozen others 90 full of
the lice, and watch results. The num-
Der and the beauty of the blossoms
will be the answer. Now, Nature gen.
orally makes a wise effort to strike
a proper balance. and though we hare
heard this denied concerning the po-
tato beetle, yet it is true, more or less.
Thus she has furnished several anti
dotes for the aphides; IL she did not,
the little pests would become a nuis-
ance irGeed, past all calculation. This
salutary purpose is effected by the sew
eral larvae Of the syrp-Cs fly, the lace
winged fly, the ladybug and a number
of very small Hymenopterous para
sites. OF these latter the most inter-
estiny and the most common is the pref
ty 6ttle fly known to the scientists as
Praon, which may be called the CO.
coon-making parasite of the aphis. Any
one with sharp eyes may discover this
little friend Of the rose at work, and
may follow, with a little care. its
complete life history.
At the time when the plant lice are
thickest a small insect resembling a
miniature wasp, or an ichneumon fly,
which it really is, may be seen max
ing it's way among the fat aphides,
moving ~leisurely and with a dignity
quite beyond it's size, for il usually is
not longer than an eighth of an inch.
1t approaches n Of the larger aphides
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"It is important to this people to
| grapple with the problems connected
with the amasSing of enormous for
tunes and the use of those fortunes,
both corporate and individual, in bust
ness. We should discriminate in the
sharpest way between fortunes we'll
won and fortunes i'll won; between
those gained as al incident 10 perform
ing great services to the community as
a whole and those gained in evil fash
ion by keeping just within the limits
Of mere law honesty. Of course no
amount Of charity in spending such
fortunes in any way ~compensates for
misconduct in making them. AS Il
matter of personal conviction. and
without pretending to discuss the de-
tails or formulate the system, l feel
that we shall intimately have to con-
slider the adoption Of some such scheme
as that of q progressive tax on all for
tunes beyond q certain amount either
given in life or devised or bequeathed
upon death to any individual-a tax so
framed as to put 1t out OF the power OF
the owner Of one of these enormous
fortunes to hand on more than a GER
tain amount to any one individual-the
tax, Of course, to be imposed by the Ma
tional and not the State government.
Such taxation should, Of course, be
aimed merely at the inheritance or
transmission in their entirety of those
fortunes swollen beyond all healthy
limits"
During the delivery of the speech the
Presidents features afforded an inter-
esting study in expressions. At times
he beamed and even laughed outright
with good nature. For instance, when
he declared he was certain the country
would soon have q good rate bill, he
looked dow at Senator Foraker, only
O few feet away, and smiled broadly.
But the Presidents face took on a Sc
we're, almost savage lock. as he de-
nounced the liar in public life as no
better than the thief, and inveighed
against the brutal greed Of the "have
nots" and the brutal greed of the
"haves."
And It was interesting, also, to watch
the features of the Senators. damned
up close to the speaker. AS the Presi-
dent fayed the sensational and I'LL
thinking writer's who attack public men
without just cause, there were smiles
of intense satisfaction from TIC Sena'
tors, many of whom have lately been
targets for the ten-cert magazines.
Whatever disappointment was felt be-
cause of the mildness Of the Muck
Rake" feature Of the speech was more
than made up by the surprise caused
by the advocacy of the tax on fortunes.
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MESSAGE ON INSURANCE
President Roosevelt Urges Congress
10 Enact a General Law
Every Effort Should BE Made to Prevent
= Repetition OF Scandals Disclosed
by the Armstrong Inqairy.

Washington, D. C.-President Roose-
Welt sent to Congress q message relat-
ing to insurance legislation, accom-
panied by the report and recommends
tons Of the insurance convention.
which was held in Chicago last Feb
ruary.
The text of the Presidents massage
follows:
ITO the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives:
II herewith transmit the report and
recommendations. with accompanying
papers. of the insurance conventions
which met in February last at Chicago.
The convention was called because Of
the extraordinary disclosures of wrong
full insurance methods recently made
by the Armstrong Legislative Commit
tee Of the State of New York, the sug-
gestion that it should be called coming
to me originally from Governor Jehn
A. Johnson, Of Minnesota, through
Commissioner Of Insurance Thomas
D. O'Brien, Of that State.
"The convention consisted of about
100 Governors, Attorney-G Generals and
Commissioners of Insurance of the
States and Territories of the Union.
The convention was seeking to accom-
plish uniformity Of insurance legisla-
ton throughout the States and Terri
tories, and as a prime step toward thiS
purpose decided to endeavor to secure
the enactment by the Congress Of the
United States Of a proper insurance
code for the District of Columbia.
which might serve as a model for the
several States.
Before adjourning the convention
appointedfa committee Of three Attor-
ney-Generals and twelve Commission
ers of Insurance Of the various States
to prepare and have presented to the
Congress a bill which should embodY
the features suggested by the conyen-
ton.
"The committee recently met in Chi
cago, and in thorough and painstaking
fashion sought to prepare a bill which
should be at once protective Of policy
holders and fair and just to insurance
companies, and which should prevent
the graver evils and abuses OF the
business. and at the same time forestalE
any wild or drastic legislation which
would be more harmful than beneficial.
"The proposed bill is discussed at
length in the accompanying letter by
Superintendent Thomas E. Drake, OF
the Department of Insurance, In the
District of Columbia.
81 very earnestly hope that the Con-
gress at the earliest opportunity Will
enact this bill into law, with such
changes as its wisdom may indicate.
I have no expert familiarity with the
business, but I have entire faith In the
right judgment and single-minded pur-
pose of the insurance convention which
met at Chicago and of the committee OF
that convention which formulated the
measure herein advocated.
1--WE are not to be %pardoned If we fall
to take every step in u power to pre-
vent the possibility of the repetition Of
such scandals as those that have &C.
Cured in connection with the insurance
business as disclosed by the Armstrong
Committee.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"The White House."
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THREE NEGROES LYNCHED.
Springfield, Mo-. the Scene of a Muir
derous Mob Which Wrecked Jail.

derouS Mob Which Wrecked jail.
Springfield, Mo.-The %lynching by
rope and fire Of the two negroes, Dun
can and Copeland, did not complete the
nights work of horror. Those two
black men, protesting their innocence
of the charge of attacking a white girl,
had been hanged from an electric tower
topped by the Goddess Of Liberty, and
fires had been lighted under them be-
fore they were dead.
The lynching of a third negro oc-
Cured just before daylight.
The last man put to death was Will
Alien. charged with the killing in jan
uary last Of o. M. Rouarks. The prison
was mobbed and the cringing negro
dragged to the spot where the horror
Of q few hours before had been per-
petrated.
The better element of the city is in
dignant at the work of the mob, es-
pecially as there is no reason to be-
lieve that the three negroes who were
lynched were guilty Of the crimes for
which they died. Miss Mabel Edmond
son, the woman who was assaulted,
said that she could positively identify
the guilty ones if they were brought to
her.
A reward of $500 has been offered by
Governor Folk for each man proven
to have been a party to the lynching.
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STOCK TRANSFER TAX UPHELD.
Highest New York Court Decides
Against Wall Street Brokers.

Albany, N. Y.-The Court Of Appeals
decided that the stock transfer tax
law passed by the last Legislature Is
constitutional, sustaining the conten-
ton of Attorney-G General Mayer. who,
in order that the State might immedi-
ately collect the tax, amounting to &c.
100000 a year, took the law to the
courts within a week after it was
signed. The decision Of the court up
holding the constitutionality Of the law
was unanimous. Wall Street interests
are expected to pay up the tax they
have withheld, and not to carry the
fight to the Supreme Court OF the
United States.
When the law first went into effect
the brokers declared that it would
drive the New York Stock Exchange to
Jersey City or Philadelphia, and end in
depopulating Wall Street. Instead Of
having that effect, the transfers OF
stock upon which the State receives $2
on each 100 shares, have increased.
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TO PROBE COAL TRUST
The Government Employs Charles E.
Hughes as Special Counsel,
Enough, Evidence to Warrant Action
Administration to Retrieve Recent
Defeat In the Beef Trust Case.

Washington, D. C.-The Government
has employed as special counsel for the
proposed Investigation into the inter-
state transportation and sale Of coal
Charles E. Hughes, who was chief
counsel for the Armstrong Insurance
Investigating Committee. Mr.. Hughes
has agreed to undertake the work.
Alexander Simpson, Jr., will be aSso-
ciated with Mr.. Hughes. The All
nouncement was made in the following
statement Of Acknowledgement Moody:
Charles e. Hughes, Esq, Of the
New York Bar, and Alexander Simp-
son, Jr., Of the Pennsylvania Bar, have
been retained by the Department Of
Justice to take under consideration all
the facts now known, or which can be
ascertained, relating to the transporta-
ton and sale of coal in interstate com
merce; to advise what, If any, legal
proceedings should be begun, and to
conduct, under the direction of the
Acknowledgement such suits or prose
c~utions, if any, as may be warranted
by the evidence in hand and forth
coming.
1.-THE general subject for some time
has been under consideration by the
Department. It is believed that suf-
icient evidence has been developed in
the investigations of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and otherwise
TO warrant the employment of counsel
under the provisions Of the appropria.
ton act Of February 25, 1908, author
izing the employment Of special u
sci and agents in proceedings of this
nature.
can important element in arriving
at this conclusion is the recent decision
of the Supreme Court in Hale VS..
Kenkel, holding that the Federal Gov
eminent has the right, under legal pro-
ceedings, to examine the books and
records of corporations engaged in
interstate commerce."
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of the device in the wafer. This con-
stitutes the primary element Of the
attachment, the form and manner Of
attachment being modified to the re-
quirements of arm and leg.
TO supplement the leg movement
with the instep action of the foot. the
vane frame is pivoted to the leg at
tachment by a system of parallel links,
which link motion is connected by 4
light rod to the toe Of a sandal or shoe
on the foot. The feet, instead Of act
ing merely as paddles, are utilized to
impart considerable muscular power to
propel the body forward, the legs
being kept merely far enough apart to
avoid striking the frames together
Philadelphia Record.
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TEN DIE IN ROW OVER EASTER,
Greek and Roman Church Adherents
Fight About Date.

Greek and Roman Church Adherents
Fight About Date.
Memphis, Tenn.-Ten Greeks are re-
ported killed in q riot at the little
station of Gurley, Ark, forty miles
south of Helena. Ark, on the line or
the new Memphis. Helena and Louis
lana Railroad. Others were injured.
The rioting began in a dispute be-
tween Roman Catholics and adherents
OF the Greek Church as to the date
on which Easter should be celebrated.
Those who believed Sunday the day
of days ordered beer and whisky from
Helena to liven up things. While will
ing to Join in the car9usal, the Greek
Church adherents insisted that their
calendar was correct. Bad feeling
soon cropped out, and. from individual
euarrels the matter ~broadened into q
riot.
Sunday afternoon shooting was gen
eral, and seven men were killed by the
time a messenger got away for Helena.
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Notes.

The Stove Mounters' Union will hold
a convention in Cleveland in July.
John Burns, the labor refOrmber in
England. is now entitled to be called
Right Honorable.
Sixty-three labor and reform organ
izations joined in launching 4 new
labor political party in Chicago.
Imposition of fines for imperfect
weaving caused a strike of about 300
weavers at the mills in Greystone, r. I.
Oscar Ricketts,, foreman Of the Gov
eminent Printing Office, Washington,
resigned to become an insurance agent
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S%ELF.PLAYING EITHER.

Inventors are quick to attempt any
thing that affords a chance of reward.
Why they do not tackle musical in
struments is a query hard to answer,
but the fact still remains that prac-
tically NJ new musical instruments are
patented. Improvements on those al
ready in use are occasionally recorded,
one of the most recent being the self
playing either, illustrated here. This
is an attachment for zithers or similar
stringed instruments to produce a con-
tinuous vibration of the strings. Jour-
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CALLS AUTOMOBILES CRAZY.

Insurance Company's Reason For Re-
fusing to Pay a Death Claim.
New Orleans, lathe Ocean Acct
dent Insurance Company has refused
to pay a large policy on the death OF
NJ. L. Hancock, who was killed IN an
automobile accident in Los Angeles,
CAL, several months ago, on the ground
that the company cannot pay a claim
on an automobilist, as most OF them
are monomaniacs on the question or
speeding their machines, and, there
fore. the company is not responsible.
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The National Game.

Jim Delahanty has been made third
base on the Cincinnati team.
Pitcher Elliott is very sore over his
transfer by New York to Louisville.
Strang will again hold down the
utility Job on the New York National
team this year.
Next spring the Pittsburss will go
to Hot Springs again, an agreement
having just been signed.
Heinie PETIT will be in the game
again this year. He has entirely re-
covered from his serious illness.
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HONORs SCION OF FRANKLIN.
Andrew Carnegie Makes Miss Agnes
Irwin a Doctor Of Laws.

Andrew Carnegie Makes Miss Agnes
Irwin a Doctor Of Laws.
Philadelphia.-In the presence Oh
the most brilliant gathering of scien'
fists, philanthropists and men of let
ters seen since the Centennial OF 1876,
Andrew Carnegie, as Lord Rector OF
the University Of st. Andrews, con-
ferred upon Miss Agnes Irwin, dean
of Radcliffe College, and the great
daughter of Benjamin Franklin, the
degree Of Doctor of Laws.
It was the closing feature OF the
oneninc session of the bi-centennial
celebration of the birth of Benjamin
Franklin.
Miss Irwin is a gray haired woman
past middle :ge. AS she stood on the
platform just in front Of the marble
bust of her ancestor, not a few in the
audience found a striking resemblance.
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In the Public Eye.

Count Witte has a weak heart.
When Senator Hoar was alive he and
Senator Tillman were great friends.
Ex-senator David B. Hill says he IS
content to be q looker-on i'll politics.
Senator Depew has declined to be a
candidate for reelection to the Yale
Corporation.
Bishop Benjamin Wistar Norris, of
the Protestant Episcopal Church for the
Diocese of Oregon, is dead.
Justice Harlan, Of the United States
Supreme Court, has denied that lie is
about to retire from the bench.
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TRAIN HITS FAMILY, KILLS 3.

Mother and Two Children Dead and
Two Other Little Ones Hurt.
Greenville. Pa.-As q result of a
grade crossing accident on the Erie
Railroad at Atlantic, near here, three
persons were killed and two others
injured.
The dead are Mrs. Maud Calvin, aged
twenty-seyen, and two daughters, n
an infant and the other six years old.
A daughter aged three had an arm and
leg broken. and q young son was badly
cut and bruised.
Mrs. Calvin and the four children
were in a carriage which was struck
by a train running seventy-fve miles
an hour.
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Explosion on Warship.

Three members of the crew of the
British battleship Prince of Wales
were killed and four were injured by
a boiler explosion while the vessel
was undergoing her speed trials off
Malta. The connecting rod bolts on
the high pressure engine and the top
cylinder cover were broken.
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- Drowned Seeking Reconciliation.

DIUN HCV NSNHEHS
Thomas Leisure, a young farmer OF
Dayiess County, Kentucky, was
drowned in Rough River while on his
way to meet his wife, from whom he
had separated, friends having arranged
for the conference. When he reached
q stream in view of his wife's home
he found the bridge washed away
and attempted 10 swim across, with the
fatal result.
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OF course the aphis so treated does
not die at once, else Natures plan
would miscarry. 1t lives and goes on
feeding and maintaining the same stiff
and seemingly contented attitude for
a little while. Meantime the egg
matches a minute, white, m%aggot-like
larva, and this at once begins feeding
on the soft muscular tissues Of its
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prosnerous Fishing Season.

The fishing season has been unusual
ly prosperous, owing to the open win
ter and the abundance of fish of the
New England coast. Nantucket fisher
men report Goldfish and paddock the
largest catch on record, and small
boats have been averaging nearly oOo
fish daily all winter.
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Record of Kaiser's Voice,

DR.. E. w. Scripture, who has been
making researches in %phonetics under
a Smithsonian Institution grant, has
secured a gramophone record of the
voice of Emperor William of Germany.
1t will be preserved by the National
Museum at Washington and, Of course,
will not be used in any public way In
the Kaiser'S lifetime.
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lead. But the little thing, as unintelll-
gent as it looks, maggot-llke, has per-
haps a mind of its own, as we have
seen. The habit is almost invariable;
the victims crawl from their usual
places and position themselves on the
leaves. Out of seventy-one parasitized
plant lice I found two on the stem
and one on the tip Of a thorn, as IL it