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that 1t changes the clay into a paste or
glue which afterward turns to stone. 1t
may be mixed with water and softened,
but as a rule 1t is as hard as cement and
has the same properties. All over Africa
the natives take this ant-olay for their
building material. They start their huts
by making a framework of sticks, which
they weave in and out much like a basket.
over this they spread the wet clay from the
white ant hills, using It as a plaster. After
a time the walls become as solid as stone,
and they form a perfect protection from the
weather. In some places the huts are
composed entirely OF this material, and in
others they end in cones OF thatch. Many
Of the pioneers of Rhodesia live in huts Of
this character, and there is a mission
church here which is plastered with red
clay from the abandoned homes of the
wi Q ants. The church is floored with
sucn clay, but its overhanging roof is Of
galvanized iron. 1t was put up by Rev.
John NJ. Springer, who for a long time was
the head of the Methodist Episcopal mis-
sions at Umtali. Mr.. Springer stopped at
Broken Hill on a trip across Africa, and
built this church during his stay.
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the house the same year Mr.. Allison did,
remarked to a friend in the rotunda of the
capitol. The death Of Stevens is an
emancipation for the republican party. He
kept It under his heel"
Whom have you got for leaders left?''
queried the friend.
There are three young men coming for
ward" was Mr.. Blaine's reply, There is
a young man to be heard FROM" pointing to
Allison, who was passing. James a. Gar
fic'' Is another"
There was a pause, ana the friend asked.
well, who is the thiTd2"
Mr.. Blaine gazed III in the dome and said
quietly: 81 don't see the third"
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journalistic EnterprIse.

HARRINGTON says that
in no state have the newspa-
pers more Journalistic enter
prise than in his native In
diana. While stopping at "a lit
tie HoOsier hotel I'm fha courss
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Allison, Garfield. Blaine

4 L in the congressional
career of the late Senator ALI
son, when Thaddeus Stevens.
who for ten years had domi-
mated congress, died in 1868,
James G. Blaine. who entered
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The KaIser's Good shooting.

Count Zeppelin OF airship fame is well
known TO many American veterans. mas
much as he served CALAMITY in the civil
war, on one occasion, II is remembered,
going up successfully to reconnoiter in a
balloon.
Il see Zeppelin" said a New York vet
eran. every time l 90 abroad. He is an
interesting old fellow-full OF anecdote.
II talked TO him one day about the
kaiser's wonderful shooting. 1 couldn't
say enough in the royal sDortsman's praise.
Zeppelin wlnked. He said that he had
once shot with the kaiser over Count 5tol-
berg-wernigerode's huge deer forests. At
the end of the day It was announced that
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whips Hard-up Husband.

Because Mrs. Grace Metzler. 10 years old.
lost her temper when her husband asked
her for more than 20 cents out Of his
weeks wages for spending money she was
fined 81 and costs by Justice Carr In a
Baltimore court. Although she admins
tered the worst beating to her husband II
was for throwing a teapot at Mrs. Sarah
Miller. a neighboT. who tried TO save
Metzler. that she was hailed to the bar,
According to the story told at the hear
ing. Mrs. Metzler became incensed when
her spouse asked for a whole dollar. bit
him on the arm. and tried to dust the floor
with him. Then she turned her attention
to her 3-year-old child. and the ~neIghbors
interfered. Mrs. Miller came off second
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Inaects Which Make Cement,

Speaking of the white ants, they are Of
great value to Africa. There homes form a
natural cement. The ant hills are built
grain by grain by these little insects, which,
as they build, moisten the clay with a
juice from their mouths. This spittle con-
tains formic acid and it is of such a nature
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
From victoria rails Northward.

Good travelling arrangements stop with
Victoria Falls, although private cars may
be brought northward to Broken Hill. 1
came on the ordinary train and had a
first class compartment all the way. 1
had to carry my own food and bedding,
however. The travel through the wilds is
light and the road has not been COM
pleted Ions enough to make the demand for
comforts warrant the expense Of furnish
ing them. II takes two nights to make the
trip to this point, and a few thick blankets
enable one to sleep we'll on the ordinary
cushions of the car. l have rolled up my
overcoat and used it for a pillow, and not
w~ithstanding the jolting have slept like a
top.
The eating Is a more difficult matter. I
had a tin cracker box filled with such
things as canned tongue and ham, with
several varieties of pickles. which serve
as a relish and aid in cutting the grease.
/ started out with some canned butter, but
1 will say nothing about that; Il was
amply strong enough to speak for itself.
/ had also some jam, made in London,
which I spread on top of my ham sand
wiches, and that took its place. As to
bread, I carried three loaves with me from
Victoria Falls hotel, and 1 will get an
other supply here when I go back.
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nowhere are the meals as much as 81.
The rate from Cape Town to Broken Hill
is over 500, but the second class tickets
cost about one-third less, and the third
class are not half as much as the first.
For those who wish to travel without re-
gard to cost, private cars may be had.
These have cooking and dining compart-
ments attached to them, and a single car
has every arrangement to accommodate six
persons. 1t has a dining room, kitchen,
bathroom and bedrooms. The railroad
company furnishes a cook and all the pro-
visions. The terns are $3.50 a month,
which includes board, lodging and travel.
This is an average of $40 per person per
day, and 1t seems to me comparatively
cheap.
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.
FIghtIng the White Ants.

Fighting the white Ants.
All the way from here to- the Zambesi
river the telegraph poles and the railroad
ties are Of steel. The ties are a hollow
steel shell about seven feet long with
clamps into which the rails are fitted. In
order to show just how they look 1 had
a native stand a tie upon end and photo
graphed 1t. The man is fully six feet in
height and the tie reaches more than a
foot above him. All of the railroad sta
lions are made OF galvanized iron, and in
the huts here at Broken Hill almost no
wood is used. This is necessary on ac-
count Of the white ants which infest the
regions north of the Zambesi. They live
upon wood and they burrow into the rail-
road ties and eat away until nothing but
a shell is left. When wooden telegraph
poles are erected they chew them to pieces
so that the wires fall to the ground.
White ants are to be found all over
Central Africa. l nave seen tens of thou
sands of their hills during this trip. Some
times their mounds will be twenty feet
high and at others they do not reach the
height of your waist. They go about as
far below the ground as above 1t, and each
hill is divided up into little rooms much
like a flat building. The ants have their
soldiers and guards. They have their
workers and drones, and there is a big
queen who looks for all the world like a
white worm of the size and shape Of a
small Frankfurter sausage. and who lays
all the eggs. 1 was offered one of these
queens as a present during my stay in
Uganda. 1t had been caught by an Eng
lish army officer and picked in alcohol.
1 feared, however, that the bottle might
break and had to refuse.
Insects Which Make Cement,
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A story AbOut ''FiEhunE BOb."
n other day at Lake MohOnk a friend Of
Ad0iral EvanA RAked him.;
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enormous force into pills. Each tabloid
is as hard as q stone until the water
touches Il, when It dlssolves to a powder
and gives forth a delicious aroma. The
pills are put up in tin boxes and they are
so small that you can carry enough for a
hundred cups in your pocket. A little box
of short sweetening goes with them. This
is composed Of saxin, a material which is
600 times sweeter than sugar. 1t IS com
pressed into pills as big as the head of a
pin and a single pinhead pill will sweeten
a cup.
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How the Cape to Cairo Trunk Line Across Africa is Progressing

APOo, by Frank q. Carponter.)
HILL, Northwest Rho
desia -(special Correspondence
OF The Bee.)-I am at the
Broken Hill mines, $50 miles
north OF the zambesi river ana
At the norfbora -
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When It Hurt.

A German surgeon in the Franco
Prussian war had occasion to lance an
abscess for poor fellow, and, as the
sore was obstinate, it became neces-
sary to use the knife twice. The opera
ton was not a very painful one, but
the patient declared that it had nearly
killed him, and when third resort to
the lancet was proposed he protested
that he could never go through the OPP
Grafton alive.
The surgeon promised to make it easy
for him and, calling up a few of the
loungers, ordered one of them to hold
his hands close over the patients eyes
and two others to grasp his hands
firmly.
This arrangement" explained the
doctor, sis said to prevent pain in such
an operation. Now, lie perfectly quiet,
and when say 'Nowl prepare your
SELF"
The surgeon at once began quietly
with his work and in short time had
completed the operation without the
least trouble, the patient lying as quiet
as though In sleep.
When all was done the surgeon laid
aside the knife and said, "Nowy' Such
a roar came from the lips Of the sick
man as seldom IL heard from any hui
man being. He struggled to free him
self, yelling, "Oh, doctor, you're killing
mew
Shouts Of laughter soon drowned his
cries, and he was told that the opera
ton had been all over before the signal
was given 1t was a good joke, but 1t
is doubtful If the poor fellow could
ever be made to believe that be did not
feel actual pain Immediately after that
fatal "Nowy
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penarted elorias of E.z.

Fee the fertile" the Rome of the
western Arabs, still retains traces of
the magnificence which made her in the
middle ages the rival of Mecca. In the
twelfth century the holy city, to which
when the road to Mecca was closed
pflgrimages were made, contained as
many as 700 temples, fifty of which
were adorned with marble pillars. In
those old days the city was the haunt
Of philosophers, physicians and astron-
Omers. A mere formal pretense Of
study is now all that is practiced.
"They have Euclid in folio Volumes" a
traveller writes. "but neither copied
nor read The teacher sits crossleg-
ged on the ground and repeats in a
drawing tone between singing and
crying words which are echoed by the
scholars sitting around him." Fez how
ever, is honest enough in one respect
she does not believe in outward show.
In the interior of the houses are apart
ments decorated with paintings and
arabesques, while the outside walls
are often built Of mud.
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coIors in Dreams.

Red and yellow are the dream colors
If DR.. Havelock Ellis is right. No 9th
er hues come to the dreamer Of dreams
Simroth has declared that red is the
most primitive of colors, and long age
protopiasm from which human beings
derived their origin on the new earth
probably responded to or was affected
by red color waves.
In the depth Of the sea the algae, OF
seaweed, are red With the savage red
is the favorite color, and for bright
piece of red calico African savages
gladly would give valuable elephant
tusks.
Red strikes the note Of intense emo
TONS 1t is the color of joy, exultation,
jubilation. Savages paint themselves
red and rejoice at seeing each other In
burning hues. German women Of the
early ages daubed their bodies with
brilliant red and yellow and considered
themselves most beauteously adorned.
On sacred festivals In Rome and
Greece, Pliny records. red was smeared
over the statues Of Jupiter and was the
color of religious rejoicing. The hui
man eyes, it is said, can distinguish
100000 different hues or colors and can
appreciate and differentiate twenty
shades of each hue. In other words,
the eye is capable Of 100000 color i'm
pressions.
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"Oh, Dicki You? Why-you are not
Mrs. Glidden's boarder-the one I've
been hiding from?'
yes: but tell me. what frightened
your
''The bull! He chased me down here
through the meadows
Orville placed her in a chair and
stepped outside. In a moment he re-
turned with the pail of paints and
brushes
Its all right, Kathie," he said reas-
suringly; 'the pail, supposed to con
tain nourishment, was the attraction.
The gentle creature l found shifting
suspiciously and disapprovingly at
your paints was a young, hornless
thing commonly known as a mulley
cow"
Kathie's eyes were downcast. The
silence that ensUed was profound and
eloquent Then she looked up and met
his steady gaze with a half smile.
"Dick," she said family. ibid Tom
Murray by any chance know you were
here?"
''Tom Murray Why, he found me
this place. l wrote him to look me up
a farmhouse where / could be quite
alone and write. WhyT
az saw him the other day and told
him l wanted a farmhouse where
could be quite alone and paint. Dick"
"Dear, Tom was far wiser than we.
Shall we profit by his vision and let
his plan work out as he intended?
Can't we forgive and forget, Kathie?"
Later, when Mrs. Glidden saw her
two boarders coming slowly up from
the fields she sagely remarked to her
spouse:
"Well, pa, that's a man and wom-
an the world over?'
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TESTING DRUGS.
Ereotine Is Tried on Chickens, Disi-
tails on FroQs,

Erqotine Is Tried on Chickens, Digi-
tails on Frogs.
A lot Of sorry looking chickens, dogs
and cats loafed in the black, i'll smell
ing yard of the great chemical plant.
1--WE use these animals to test our
drugs on" said the chemist. 'They
come in very handy. They more than
earn their board.
s'Ergotine is a drug we test on chick
ems. 1t is a simple test. If dose OF
ergotine fails to turn a chickens CONT
black. we know that the drug is fol
some reason or other worthless.
"Hasheesh we test on dogs. Hash
eesh is made Of female hemp buds
Male hemp buds have no medicinal
value. vet some dishonest dealers put
male buds on the market, and since
they resemble the female buds precise
" it is impossible to detect them save
by an actual test. Dogs given hasheesh
get drunk and happy if the stuff If
good
"Digitalis, the heart stimulant, Is
tested on frogs. We inject drop OF
it into a frogs stomach, and in the
kymograph, or heart recording ma
chine, we study the changes that take
place in the frogs heart action. Thus
we get a very accurate knowledge OF
what our digitalis can do.
do we ever test drugs on ourselves
oh. yes, indeed, often. Chemists have
lost their lives, chemists have gone In
curably insane, through too rash
bravery In testing drugs on their OWL
persons."-Los Angeles Times.
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Drug Store For Horses.

II came across a queer little drug
store the other day." said the city sales
man. 1T makes a specially Of vet
erinarian prescriptions. According to
the proprietor's own account. they don't
sell very much in that store except
horse medicine. They sell more of
that than any other drug store in town.
The neighborhood abounds in stables
and animals hospitals, and most of the
drugs used in doctoring sick horses are
bought at that store. OF course the
place is fitted up with the usual drug
store paraphernalia. There is soda
water fountain, cigar stand, postage
stamps can be purchased there and
drafts and doses for human beings will
be compounded upon request, but those
familiar and supposedly primary func-
tons of drug store are in this case q
superfuity, because about all that drug
gist does is to put up cures for equine
ailments. New York Press.
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Writing on "Birds In Christian Leg
end and symbol in the National Re
View, Rev. r. L. Giles says:
The raven is looked upon with divid-
ed feelings. He is the ''bird of Ill
omen" par excellence "Corvo di NAL
augurio" is indeed the Italian equiv
alent of the phrase and "Ungluck-
srabe" the German one. According to
the fathers, he is the emblem Of pro-
crastination. with his cry Of "Cras,
ras"-"Tomorrow. tomorrow" His
not having returned to the ark has al
ways been remembered against him. Yet
he, too. is a pious bird He played his
part in the Christmas mystery. 1t was
said that at the hour of the great birth
the crock crowed "Christus natus est, "
the raven croaked "QuandoY the rock
cawed "Hac nocte.' the OK mooed
''UbiY' the sheep bleated bethlehem"
and the ass brayed "Eamus." This is
found as early rs the fourth century
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find Temple pacing the deck Impatient
". He hurried toward her as she ap-
peared and led her to a cozy corner,
where two steamer chairs were placed
close together
81 am content that you are here.
That Is enough for me- she said shyly.
"But how did you ever get hereT
next train after you left" was the
prompt response. my chum at col
iege, Jack Wainwright, is representing
his fathers business in Paris, and
when you prepared to come wrote
asking him If he could find place for
me- got an answer by cable to come
at once"
"And you never let me knowY' she
said reproachfully. Temple smiled.
II had an idea," he said softly, that
perhaps it would be better to wait until
after we had left port. It's lonesome
work sailing alone and''-
you were right" said Nella. ut has
shown me many things in a new light
Perhaps If you were to ask certain
question over AGAIN.
81 do ask the question over again"
he declared earnestly. II shall never
cease asking that question until your
answer is Yes"
1T is Yes now" she said shyly. 81
see life more clearly, and love is better
than career, after all"
And heavens blessing on the new
perspective" ne said fervently as his
hand cIasnad hera In fha aarlv dtIsk
that was settling down upon the sea.
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Der New
Perspective.
Copyrighted. 1908, by E. c. PARCELS.
By LULU Johnson.

Aboard the liner the last goodbys
were being said. Some of the more
cautious among the home stayers had
already gathered at the end of the
pier to wave farewells cut short on
the deck through the fear of being
carried off, and others were trooping
down the gangplank.
Now and then a couple of cabin
stewards rushed up the gangway bear
ing the steamer trunks and parcels OF
some belated arrival, and from the
pier the sharp exhaust of the donkey
engines punctuated the farewells as
the busy drums coifed and uncoiled
the ropes by which the last of the hold
luggage was being rushed to the cav
ernous depths of the huge ship
Busy little tugs pulled about the end
of the pier to assist in turning the
huge bulk of the steamer, and man
in rowboat padded about the stern
to be on hand in case of an accident.
To Nella Wynn the scene was decid-
eddy novel Only the day before she
had arrived in New York from her
inland home for the purpose OF en-
barking, and for the first time she had
realized what a steamer really was.
Now she could scarcely believe that
presently this great black vessel would
slip down the bay and so out to the
broad ocean beyond the sight Of land.
For time she was absorbed In watch
ing the crowds, but the very presence
of this crush Of humanity presently
began to weigh upon her spirits.
1t had been hard to raise the funds
10 send her abroad, so none Of the
family had been able to accompany
her to New York She had no ac-
Quaintances in the city, and she was
absolutely alone In this mob Of leave
takers. There was no one to stand on
the edge of the pier and wave farewell,
no one to give her a friendly farewell
kiss. She was even more alone than
the little crowd of returning emigrants
huddled on the lower deck forward.
Back in Cressville it had seemed
great thing to be going to Paris to
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Copyrighted. 1903, by Homer Sprague.
Es-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s
Find me-" Orville commanded, 'tht
most isolated farmhouse in your dis
trict, where l can have comfortable &C
commodations for the summer and il
no way be hampered in the creation Of
the book that at present exists in EN-
bryo within my BRAIN
After much skirmishing and securing
of the country Murray found what he
thought he wanted and wrote his
friend to come on.
Orville came by next train. Murray
met him at the station in his big red
car, and they sped down broad, dust
white highway.
Looks thickly settled" objected Or
vile anxiously.
1--WE have only started on our road to
nowhere" laughed Murray 'T'll cure
you of your desire for solitude,
think"
Six miles farther he turned into 9
crossroad with farmhouses few and
far between.
''This is better" declared Orville.
at will keep getting better from your
standpoint" retorted Murray.
On they sped until the car swerved
and turned into what looked to Orville
like an overgrown copse.
"You don't mean this is roadY' be
said as the car bumped and protested
against the ruts and underbrush.
NO; just lane, the only house on
which is the one where have engaged
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What the cat Had.


The teacher of the Sunday school
class was telling the little boys aooul
temptation and showing how 1t some
times came in the most attractive form
She used as an illustration the paw OF
a cat.
''Now," said she, you have all seel
the paw of cat. 1t is as soft as vel
vet, isn't it?"
"Yessum," from the class.
"And you have seen the paw OF 8
dogg"
'Yessum.''
"WeIl, although the cats paw seems
like velvet. there is nevertheless con
cealed in it something that hurts. What
is it?"
No answer.
.'The dog bites," said the teacher
"when he is in anger. But what does
the cat dor"
Scratches" said boy.
Correct" said the teacher, noddine
her head approvlngly. Now, what has
the cat got that the dog hasn't?"
"Whiskersw said boy on the bacs
seat.-Home Magazine.
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Her ExaIted Position.

Eye needn't think because ye see mt
goin' an comm be tn back door ~
Mr. Malcolm Goldborough's mansion
that Oi'm wan Nv tn common servants
iv tn house." said the naughty Gus
toner to the uncivil butcher.
oh" CALCULATED the fat little man
abruptly turning obsequious, "are-art
you a family connection of the grea
Goldborough's, ma'am"
''Ofm more than a mere connection
SIR"
Pardon me-" added the butcher gaz
ing patronizingly at this parsonage
you're one of the family that's beer
abroad and whom l haven't had the
pleasure of meeting before perhaps?"
yen have t. go higher than thot."
mot Mr. Malcolm's new wife?'
gasped the fat little man. 81 didn't
have a suspicion that he
Higher, mon. Oi'm higher"
"Higher?" uttered the perfectly be
wIldered butcher.
'Yis. Dim tn kw-Bohemian
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Some curious errors have crept into
the Bible at various times, giving
names to the editions containing them
Here are some instances; The I'm
righteous" Bible. from the misprin'
"the .unrighteous' shall inherit ths
kingdom: the "Placemakers' Bibl'
"blessed are the placemakers' peace
makers; the printers Bible "the
printers Qor princes) have perseeuteg
me- the 'sTreacle" Bible, us there ne
streacle' (balm) in GileadG" the win
egarv Bible, 1.-The parable of the vine
gar" (vineyarD; the bug" Bible
9thou shalt not be afraid of bugs
(bogies) by night" the Brooches Bi
Bile, ..they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves breeches;' the
"Idle" Bible, "woe to the idle" ddoil
and finally the wooden Leg Testaf
ment, SO called from the frontispiece
depicting Satan limping with wooden
Leg