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mans, French and Italians who live here
hold to their native languages that a
mere guess as TO the number of visitors
would most likely prove an exaggeration.
That foreign travel to the United States
IS rapidly increasing is agreed by steam
ship and tourist agents and bankers who
10 an exchange business. At the same
time Americans are getting TO be such
travellers and think so little of ocean
journey that the number of foreigners
who come here for travel, study or profit
is small as compared with the number of
Americans who flock to the other side.
For every European who comes here ten
or fifteen Americans go TO Europe. and if
only the first cabin traffic of ocean liners
is considered steamship agents estimate
that ninety-f1ve Ger cent of il is composed
of Americans.
Canadians. of course. come to the
United States in great numbers; Mexicans
and Cubans are fond of visiting the prin-
cipal cities and to Central and South
America it is a convenient asylum after
domestic upheaval. But then these peo-
pies being covered by the mantle of the
Monroe doctrine. are. in d certain sense,
our own kin and come in by so many
gateways that it would be impossible to
enumerate them.
Uncle Sam. unfortunately, keeps no rec
ord Of visitors to the United States The
ords showing the number of immigrants
examined. but in the figures furnished by
the statistical bureau these first cabin
passengers are Jumped with second cabin
and steerage under the general head of
aliens" the head tax i'm each case being
the same.
Customs officials. who require from each
cabin passenger statement as to his ma
tivity and his purpose in coming to the
nj cd no iC
kept so that the information had to be
obtained from the agents of steamship
lines, managers of travel bureaus and
bankers who come into contact with for
eigners travelling here.
Great Britain sends in the greatest
number of any European country. This
has always been the case, but of late
years the number is increasing. Germany
is second. and then some distance in the
rear come France and Italy. The Scandi-
navian countries, Norway, Sweden and
Denmark. come next, and then comes
Holland From Russia, Austria, Belgium
Switzerland Spain and Portugal the num-
F Der of visitors is small.
j 1t is estimated that fully 1900 English
men visited the United States last year
Most of these Travelled in the first cabins
Of steamships. Business men made up a
great portion of this number, but there
were many who came TO make tour oil
the States as the name is abbreviated
in London.
Besides these were many army and navy
officers and civil officials returning from
or going to posts in the Far East who
come or go by way of Vancouver and New
York. and whose stay in this country is
usually limited to the time consumed in
transit and day or two in New York
before their ship sails.
Business men who come here are in
most cases members of houses with
branches here or statesmen for textile
manufacturers The latter visit most OF
the big cities and some go TO the larger
Southern towns.
English tourists. say H. E. Kaeser OF
Thomas Cook & Son. and Mr. Wilson
1 manager for RAYMOND & Whitcomb, al
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send their sons here to learn our
methods, professional and business men
come to study our industries. our trans
portation systems, and in the last few
years the Emperor himself has sent many
army and navy officers and employees of
the German Foreign Office to the United
States TO learn what they could.
Every German traveller who comes here
is a student and carries back with him
some particular knowledge which he feels
he can apply at home
From the leading German universities
learned professors come to lecture in SINH
lar Institutions here. Orchestra directors
come in increasing numbers to lead mus-
cal organizations. and the array of musi-
clans who come in the course of a year to
ticeable size In almost all the foreign
banking and commission houses in New
York are sons of wealthy Germans sent
here to learn English study business
methods and get a general knowledge of
affairs here, so as to be able to adopt
anything which is found TO be an improve
ment on methods in vogue in their own
country upon their return.
Tourist agents say many German trav-
elers have a way of combining business
with pleasure. Most of them are young
men, and their inquiries are usually made
with reference to great manufacturing
centers. Cities like Pittsburg. where there
are great steel works and manufactures
of electrical appliances, seem to be for
them great lodestones. Chicago attracts
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most invariably go to the Far West, or at
least as far as Denver. though many
travel Immediately up to Niagara Falls
and thence into Canada. They uslally
come in the spring or autumn, the greater
number in the latter season. With, most.
Washington, ID. c., is the first objective
point, and the usual programme is to re-
turn to New York after q ti1p 10 the car
ital. Next, the Englishmal Nao is max
ing the grand tour heads for Niagara,
going by way, of the Hudson l.iyer, of
whose beauties he has heard SO much.
After Niagara comes Chicago, and usually
next on the route is Denver Then comes
Salt Lake City, with the Mornons and
their Tabernacle as the drawing cards.
Next he visits the Yellowstone Park ana
then the falls of Yosemite. anl finally
reaches San Francisco, where lie catches
through train hack to New York, be-
leving he has "done" the country Pretty
thoroughly. He seldom goes to the
South.
Ever since the coming of Prince Henry
to the United States German visitors have
come here in ever increasing numbers,
until last year, it is estimated between
1000 and $500 came in the first cabins OF
steamships while in the second there
were more than $500. During the last
year the number has increased about 20
per cent.
Agents of German steamship lines say
Prince Henry's visit awakened among
Germans an intense interest in this
country. Bankers and merchant princes
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butterflies containing specimens that
could not be obtained for any amount of
money.
In the rear of the domcile aref situ-
ated what are inapproprately called
shops. but what in reality are the labora-
tory and the breeding places. where dead
specimens are chemically treated and CO.
coons carefully coaxed into life.
The butterflies that are sent from other
countries are treated and mounted in a
manner that differs from every other
method employed by dealers in butter
flies, and which formed the foundation of
the present business OF the Denton
brothers,
We have done away. says William
Denton with the old-fashioned way of
mounting butterflies on pins or putting
them in paper
terfy specimen could last but a short
served indefinitely. serving at the same
time as an object of art.
We are really the pioneers in the field
OF artistic butterfly mounting for our
process of preserving and mounting but
terfiies has enabled such specimens to
become art decorations.
We have branched out into making
paperweights and other trifies that go to
make the home beautiful, with butter
HES as the sole ornament, but our chief
venture in the artistic direction is to be
butterfly jewelry. the patent for which is
now pending and which we expect to
place shortly ON the market"
Butterfly. breeding is perhaps the most
difficult part of this unique business.
Not only must the cocoons be handled
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A butterfly farm where $1,000 has been
obtained by one specimen raised here,
is located in Massachusetts. This farm.
perhaps the only one of its kind in the
world, is to be found in the picturesque
town of Wellesley, where the two Denton
brothers have for years conducted one of
the largest establishments in this country
for supplying museums and collectors
with the rarest specimens OF butterflies.
In the large house where they dwell
and in their shops are to be found thou
sands of mounted and unmounted butter
flies. ranging in price from fifty cents
per specimen to almost fabulous amounts.
But the most interesting sight of a visit
to their farm is the process by which
they raise butterflies out of cocoons sent
to them from every spot where these
beautiful moths exist.
The Denton brothers of Boston started
their enterprise when. as children, they
used to gather butterflies some fifteen
years ago.
One of the brothers. William. who is a
cripple, found in it a congenial occupa-
ton. and by devoting himself to the
study OF insects he invented a new meth
od of preserving butterflies.
What at first was chiefly amusement
gradually developed into business, with
the result that instead of remaining a
helpless cripple William Denton is today
together with his brother. at the head OF
the butterfly industry of this country
The Denton butterfly farm is but a few
minutes walk from the Wellesley rail
road station, down a shady lane. and oc-
cupies quite large space of ground
The large house, where both brothers
! live. is filled with priceless collections OF
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BUTTERFLIES

with the utmost care, but after they de-
velop into moths the males and fenlales
must be mated. and when the eggs are
Matched constant supervision and minute
care are absolutely essential for success
In this way the Dentons procure many
specimens that otherwise would have to
be imported, and the town of Wellesley
may be said to contain within it's bound
aries more varieties of the butterfly world
tnan any given locality in this country.
All the butterfly species feed on the
leaves OF apple trees. which circumstance
is explained by William Denton by the
fact that no matter how large or how
small the butterfly is. no matter what
cline or country it comes from. the food
of all of them is nearly Identical. and the
leaf of the apple tree combines all the
essentials of their necessary nourishment.
Another advantage of raising butter
flies on our own premises" explained
William Denton. lies in the fact that
when butterfly specimen is imported
it is somewhat mutilated IS ours is the
only process that permits perfect preser-
walton of butterfly without the removal
of the intestines."
Butterflies in all stages of growth may
be seen on the Denton farm, and We're
they permitted to fly at liberty. they
would have made the most beautiful
spectacle in the world, as the color vari-
atiors are infinitely sublime
Visitors from all parts of this conti-
nent go to the Dentons, for the discovery
of their process was Of the utmost ina
|portance to the scientific world while
their collections are at once subject of
deepest interest and of the highest ar
tistic enjoyment.
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CL-[7s, L11cClon Ee5vvards, Pa.D.
6iTSC6Sr The F1oati1aS La-bo9IacoIC
81 Mzrne AB1oloSS-&o l1- 11a1Ey
Co1leSs

the Bahamas, Of ever varying life, cannot
be overestimated The climax of possi-
bilities is reached in the marvellous tropic
luXuriance of life in the Bahaman waters.
Here the gulf stream debouches from the
Gulf of Mexico on the west, the Atlantic
currents swoop down from the east. both
bearing with them the multitudes of trop-
ical and neo- tropical creatures picked up
in the broad sweep of these great rivers
of the sea.
Another object of the schooner labora-
tory is TO afford time, place and living
material for researches into comparative
anatomy, geological and botanical and
the variation Of animals and plants. This
means that specimens of any particular
kind of animal may be collected at proper
intervals of latitude, from the northern
limit Of that animal all the way to the
tropics. furnishing series of living or at
least fresh specimens, to be compared and
studied on the spot.
Variation. that wonderful law of change
which we meet everywhere in nature, and
which is one Of the two chief factors in
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SMALL GIRL
HAS HER FUN

1t is a common thing to say that women
have no sense of humOr. but here was a
little girl that had some. anyway.
Tt is a familiar practice that of hand
ing out advertising circulars and cards to
passersby in the street. which some
people take. but more do not: such circu-
lars being usually handed out by men or
boys.
Here was a trim little girl handing out
circulars. and of those to whom she Of
fered them everybody took one. 1t was a
novelty. for one thing. and then nobody
wanted to be impOtte to the little girl.
For each of those who took the circulars
thus offered there was surprise in
store. These circulars were simply pieces
of paper cut out of a newspaper, and cut
without regard TO the columns. so that
there We're only fragments of reading
matter on each: the pieces were of uni
form size. but in making them the page
had simply been creased up regularly into
a number of folds and then cut with no
regard to where the cut came in the type.
so that the matter on each piece was
meaningless They were all just pieces
of paper with some printing on them and
the little girl was handing them out just
for fun.
A young woman who took one. and who
saw at a glance what il was and realized
i'm the same instant what it meant. stop
ped and spoke to the little girl whom she
found to be quietly. but at the same time
very greatly ticSled over this little joke
of hers and its success. And this young
woman also thought il was fun. and she
enjoyed it accordingly. but she was only
a young woman. and her appreciation OF
it, perhaps. would not really weigh
against the Senral indictment of the sex
as one having no sense Of humor-
There remains to be noted the final in
teresting feature of this distribution.
II is common thing for people who
take circulars thus offered to drop them
soon: but the men who took these slips Of
paper did not so drop them. Possibly
when they saw what it was that had
been handed to them. they enjoyed hav-
ing been fooled but anyhow they were
polite Out of dozen or so men observed
only one man dropped his circular while
he RENAME within s.ght Of the little girl.
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Na1uraA H1sroryA ALeGtU> Roorra- >
TrIaItr 9COlle9s,

The 'tangle'' is simply a mass Of
shredded rope attached to an iron bar
and dragged over surfaces too rocky
for dredge or trawl. The Duke Of Monaco
invented kind consisting of brushes OF
hemp in bundles.
Another kind of deep water net is a
drag net with height. width and
meshes. and is to catch any large fishes
COR ''sea serpents." possibly that live
in these midnight depths.
These devices are for bottom work:
from a few yards TO six miles. wherever
mud or rock lies. Quite a different ap-
paTatus is needed for searching the wa
ter from the surface TO a few yards
down. Here light and delicate nets of fine
mesh and the finest silk gauze bags are
used IL must be remembered that the
majority of the salt sea organisms are
extremely delicate, small and difficult to
handle. Fishing nets and trap bags are
also used. A trap bag is one that is low
cred closed to certain measured depths,
there by special devices, opened. and.
after an interval, closed again and
raised TO the surface. Thus only can it
be discovered at what exact depths ami
NAL life exists and what such life is.
Chemicals, alcohols and preservatives.
Jars. bottles. dissecting apparatus. micro
scopical supplies and so on will be pro-
vided, but each investigator will bring
to- the work his own chemical supplies,
microscope and papers, as is usual upon
voyages for the purpose of aiding indi-
vidual research
One of the interesting sides to the
work on the floating laboratory will be
the collecting With dredge. travis tam
giles and fish net nearly every part of
the sea can be reached from top 10 bot
tom The class of fishes forms but a
small part of the sea life There are the
crabs and Holsters. the CLAIMS and linn
pets, cuttlefish, sea urchins, sea a1eTl-
ones. jelIyfish. sea squirts or cucum-
bers, the hydroids. moss animals and
lamp shells, the tiny floating vases or
ctenophores (cOmb-bearers) and the
! siphonophores. such as the men o war.
with the untold millions of individuals in
each order and family. The echinOderms
alone Will furnish years of study about
! the Bahama Islands. Professor Edwards
has already made researches in Bahama
echinOderms.
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letters come over here to deliver lectures
and to record their impressions of the
country.
OF Italian visitors the number arriving
last year is estimated by steamship agents
to have been about 1900. Cesare Cont said
that in the year. of the St. Louis Exposi-
ton the number was about 5000. Many of
these visitors are business men, but there
are many who come to study. They usu-
ally remain about three or four months.
Most Of the Scandinavian visitors travel
in the second cabin and their destination
usually is the Northwest.
iN 9nd sends a large number of visitors
in proportion to its population. some esti-
mates giving the number as high as 800.
Most of these are business men. and there
are among them many diamond mer-
chants. Belgium sends perhaps 100, but
Austria-Hungary, while she supplied us
with about 275.OOO immigrants last year,
sent hardly as many visitors as Belgium.
Russia. from whom we received about
lSS, 900 immigrants, is estimated to have
sent less than one hundred tourists while
from Spain and Portugal the number of
visitors was almost infinitesimal. The
Swiss are not great Travellers so far as
America is concerned. Most of those who
arrived last year came in the second cabin
Of the French line steamers. and came
here to stay. From Greece and Turkey
come very few travellers.
From Asia generally the travel to the
United States is small. except from Japan.
Most Asiatics come by way of San Fran
cisco. Hindoo missionaries do not arrive
in such numbers as they did a few years
ago. and with the exception of two inn
peral commissioners. who recently passed
through New York, travellers from the Ce-
lestial Empire have been few.
Interesting to note is the fact that for
eigI travellers. in the main. arrive here in
ships nying their national flags.
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various occupations aboard will consist Of
dredging. towing. taking water tempera-
lures, fishing, sounding, etc, besides the
regular pursuits incidental to study. For
all these purposes special apparatus will
be taken.
ing up life from the bottom. whether mud
sand or rocks. Silk tow nets to secure the
surface animals (plankton) a large part
of which material consists of eggs, larvae
and minute forms too small to be taken
in ordinary netting. For the pelagic, or
open water form, not. however. on the
bottom. special tow nets and trap bags
are used. All these must be managed
whlet he vessel is in motion. either by the
aid of engines and windlass drums or by
hand. Along the shores the littoral or
shallow water forms are to be caught
when the vessel anchors in some quiet
bay. For these raids the small nets, kelp
rakes and pals are needed. and even
spades come handy to dig in the mud On
the vessel there will be shallow wooden
troughs into which the bottom brought up
by the dredge will be dumped for exam
nation and hose lines to wash il down
carefully.
The dredging used on the bottom Is a
very practical mud scoop. 1t consists of
a metal frame several feet high, to
which is attached the mouth of a net
shaped like purse. At the tapering top
end of this net is opening, tied shut.
Two iron arms drag this framework
along, thus seooping up everything in its
way Certain kinds of dredgeS contain
inner bags of cloth A large dredge. or a
beam trawl, has to be dragged along by
the vessel itself when sailing Often, as
with one of the Albatross dredgings, the
piano wire cable to which the dredge
was attached was seven miles long The
the Albatross party We're often five
miles and in one case six miles below the
surface. At such depths the piano wire
cable alone weighed tons. and when a
dredge full of mud. with several miles of
cable, is dragging behind vessel she has
difficulty in moving at all.
The beam trawl. borrowed from the
English fishermen and greatly improved,
is a dredge-like apparatus. A great bag
net is attached to runners like a sled.
with the front ends curving backward
above. and sharp crosspar to cut off
objects in its path.
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Early in the summer Of 1906 there will
be launched. through the efforts of Pro-
fessor Charles l. Edwards, an enter
prise unique in the history of university
methods This win be the floating labor
atory of marine biology Of Trinity Col
lege in Hartford. Conn
AS the laboratory viii be a combined
laboratory. biological station and collect
ing expedition. there will be three objects
put forward as pertinent TO its success.
one Of these objects is to provide work
ing laboratory containing as many as IS
feasible Of the advantages Of similar in
stitutions situated on the coast. but which
can move constantly into new waters,
aachoring in protected harbors for a
month at time if desired. to make eX-
tended embryological investigations, or to
investigate fauna or flora whose char
acteristics gradually change as the
schooner sails southwark or nOrthward
The advantages of this plan. covering. as
il docs. coast line of a thousand miles
from Connecticut 10 the coral islands Of
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GET WEALTH
AND LOSE 1T

Nothing in real life is more grim than
the way in which fortune. sought or un-
sought, will suddenly smile upon an indi-
vidual, and then with equal suddenness
withdraw her favors. Such cases. OF
course are to be seen by scores at gam
bling resorts like Monte Carlo. Quite
recently a young Austrian officer won
%. 600 at the table in five days and lost
every penny of it on the sixth.
The Vicissitudes of fortune We're never
more vividly illustrated than by the evil
dencs given recently in a bankruptcy
ease in the Sydney court
The bankrupt, mining engineer. had
won and lost no fewer than six fortunes
IN his lifetime. once he made $1,000 in a
single week by buying mine and selling
u again So soon as he was paid the
money he went TO Wyoming and invested
il, and some three thousand besides. in
purchasing an interest in another-a cop
per mine. Before night came the news
that the copper lode had suddenl1
pinched outs The investors were beg
eared
James Addison Reavis spent more than
twenty years in building up a fictitious
claim TO l2.5O0.000 acres Of land in Mexico
and Arizona. This enormous territory
which is. roughly speaking. ten times the
size Of Devonshire, was originally granted
10 Don Miguel. a grandee of his court by
Philip V Of Spain, ana still belongs to his
heir, II one can be found
Reavis invented one in the shape of 9
beautiful Mexican girl. There is no space
here 10 detail the ingenious forgeries Of
the birth and marriage certificates tn.
false miniatures and other evidence
which this brilliant swindIer prepared il
order to bolster up the claims OF the girl
A verdict was given for the girl. whs
was by this time Reavis' wife. Reavi.
was turning to receive the congra tula
tions Of his friends on his enormous in
heritance when a telegram was hande,
in. II contained the news that a secons
examination had proved that the origina
deed OF gift 10 Don Miguel was a forgery
The verdict was revoked. Reayis wa.
tried and sent to prison for a long term.
Macmillan Hershal. a wealthy miser
was found one day in his wrerched room
dying and carried TO a hospital At one,
ne asked that his adopted daughter Nigh
De sent for On her arrival he told he
that he had left her all his wealth-rlor.
than f3CO 900. Breath was falling him fast
but after short pause he began to speal
suddenly again, in low. broken whispers
Suddenly he fell back and expired II.
had not revealed the secret Of where hi
bonds or cash were hidden. Search proved
useless and the poor girl. wealthy for ;
minute went back TO work for ffteei
shillings q week