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Tank Cars for Larvae and Houseboat.

which the sea water flows freely, and
gasoline engine. There is no difficulty
about Matching lobster eggs. 1t has been
done with equal ease in Norway. in
Woods Hole and at Wexford. Nor is
there any trouble about feeding the lob
ster larvae. They eat eagerly anything
within reach. and chopped clam meat or
chopped beef are equally grateful to their
palates. The trouble is they will also
eat one another Settling to the bottom
of the tanks. they grab the one nearest.
quite unconcerned as to whether it is
brother or sister. cousin or merely cas-
ual acquaintance, and calmly begin di-
gestion OF one end before the other end
has been swallowed.
1t is difficult to understand how they
can thus feast on one another until 1t
is known that the rate Of growth is very
unequal The one which gets the best
start in the race of life. therefore, is up
to the task of accounting for several hun
dred of his fellow beings before he learns
to feed on a more diversified menu.
In their natural state the larvae not
only feed on one another, but are es-
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part of the country fall is not properly
ushered in until the weeklies begin to
print full-page pictures of the foot ball
heroes and the. Pullman people recognize
the fact that you've just Tt on your
flannel fuzzy wuZzies by warming up
their cars to the even temperature OF
steam-heated incubator. One of these
DAYS some ilI-starved sinner who's wear
ing his heavy underclothes Will be killed
while riding on sleeping car. and when
news comes back from the other place
that he's caught congestive chill due to
the abrupt change to a cooler climate. the
railroad people will become sagacious to
the fact that it's not absolutely necessary
to Theoretically seal all the windows and
tune up the radiators until the G-string
snaps in order to make travelling COM
fort after the thermometer outside has
fallen to 40"
.Speakin' of foot ball. wot wuz the
score today" asked the House Detective.
Il didn't pay much attention." said the
Hotel Clerk. It's hard to get me en-
Unused over a newspaper account of how
the young college boys are out in the
bracing November air kicking goal AMI
the bucket. I can get all the thrills l
want reading about how the night riders
uf the sunny southland have just held an
other informal lynching of circuit Judge.
SIT as nearly as 1 recall. the score today
was four to three
-Four to three. in foot ball game?' in
CURED the House Detective. wonderingly.
Sure" said the Hotel Clerk. -Four
ambulance calls for Harvard to three for
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places with modern installations. Soon
the brew became famous and the business
rapidly grew and returned splendid
profits.
Owns Motor Bus Lines.
The success of this first venture in buy
ing land in Berlin gave the prince taste
for speculation in the real estate market,
and he followed it up to such purpose
that he soon possessed large tracts OF
building land in the most promising quar-
tiers of the capital, which have since daily
increased in value. While engaged in
these transactions he became interested
in street transit in Berlin. His banker
drew his attention to its possibilities. Al
the time an amalgamation was proceed
ing between the old omnibus company anc
a new one which threatened rivalry. The
prince acquired stock in the joint CON
Germ to the extent of 81 100000. thus Sc
curing q controlling voice. Since Their
developments have been made In the
street traffic in Berlin through the intro
duction OF motor omnibuses that serious
ly threaten the street car service ano
bring huge profits to the stockholders
Just at that period the princes friend
Prince Kraft zu Observation-Disclosures
better known as the Duke OF C1est, was
interested in the development OF the ST.
lesian mines and he suggested to Prince
Furstenberg that he should come into
the enterprise, which he did with ardor.
The mines developed TO such an extent
that they became unmanageahle as pri-
vate concern, and 1t was decide to form
them into a company. The Duke of ujest,
who was the principal owner, on It's Tor
nation received an enormous sum as his
share of the purchase price. and he and
his family were assured u perpetual year
ly income of $50. 600 Prince Furstenberg
still holds a considerable block of stock
In the company.
Gigantic Financial Deals.
The two magnates from this time on
associated in their real estate deals. They
did not, however. care for their names
being brought constantly before the pub
lie in connection with the transactions.
Consequently they decided to run their
Joint interests under the name Of an ex-
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be gathered from the amount of capital
he has sunk in various undertakings, In
conjunction with his close friend, Prince
Kraft zu Hohenlohe OehrinGen, a man
as high in aristocratic rank and whose
wealth is second only to that of Prince
Furstenberg.
Apart from all private deals and en-
terprises. no less than $21.S75OOO Is the
capital engaged in stock companies found
ed and controlled by the two princes. OF
this $3.50, 900 is accounted for by the
Commercial Union; s., 5000 in land
and building company; $4,125,OOO In de-
company and the same amount in a
steamship line.
Millions in Private Investments.
Besides these there are the endless pr-
vate speculations of Prince Furstenberg.
which run into countless millions. There
is his brewing business. for instance: then
his coal mines In Sicsia and his great
holding in a transatlantic steamship line.
Prince Furstenberg arrived at his pres
ent powerful position in trade through
what may be described as search for
an outlet for his strong natural energies.
After his succession to the vast family
estates he visited them all in turn. 1t
was when staying at his beautiful castle
in Donaueschingen. in Baden that he
took his first lesson in commerce He
discovered the excellent quality of the
beer brewed i'm the private brewery at
tached to the domain, and the idea came
to him to push its sale all over the
empire. AS the brew swas virtually un-
known outside the district, he found
many difficulties In placing it on the mar
ket. These. however. did not daunt for
q moment man of such determined
character as the prince. He decided to
make use of some Of his immense cap
ital in order to have his way.
His first step was to seek out his old
playmate. schoolfeliow and college chum
Herr kunzig. councillor In the imperial
treasury. and appoint him his general
manager. He gave him carte blanche
TO buy up property in Berlin and to erect
thereon spacious halls and beer gardens
where the Furstenberg brew should be
on tap. An immense sum was expended
In this way and in fitting out and fur
nishing the newly erected OF acquired
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tiers of the globe and the Same destruc-
tive conditions have been "a work every
where. it followed that civilized nations
have devoted much thought and labor to
the problem of saving this valuable food
supply. Norway has been prominent in
the undertaking. Japan has entered the
field more recently. The United States
government at it's Woods Hole. Mass,
laboratory has put its best scientific
thought to the question.
1t was also the principal subject which
engaged the attention Of the little boat
house laboratory started ten or a dozen
years ago in the. harbor Of Wexford
r. L.. under the joint auspices of Brown
University and the state Of Rhode Island
Wickford's chief claim to fame up to the
recent time has been that there New
York's ultra-f fashionable set transferred
from an express train de luxe to a steam
boat to go to Newport. Henceforth its
citizens may display more pride in boast
ing of the achievements of their lobster
hatchery.
The essential features of the Wexford
hatchery are floating tanks, through
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pecialiy paiataDiS. ,!dbits TO every SWIM
ming creature. The sordiG and: common
place herring eat them with as much
avidity as the lOrdly bluefsh. There re-
suits a mortality uncqualed on any bat
tlefield of history except that of the Kill
kenny cats.
1t was discovered at Wexford that the
larvae could be deferred in some degree
from eating one another by gorging them
with other food. But the results were
not sufficient to satisfy the director
After puzzling over the proposition for q
long time. however, he worked out the
answer. The secret was simply to keep
the water in motion SO that the little lob
sters could not get hold of one another.
Prof. Mead flied up a number of pad
dies which he connected with a gaso-
line engine, and these paddles keep the
tanked water in motion day and night
with the result that the larvae is brought
to the fourth stage. where they are turned
out on their own resources.
How this work is looked on by other
scientists may be gathered from recent
remarks of DR.. H. c. Bumpus president
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II guess at that there's a lot Of girls
fallin' in love with them young foot ball
huskies." said the House Detective.
mo doubt of it, said the Hotel Clerk
AT this very hour there are probably
large numbers of young girls growing up
who feel that life for them can never be
the same again unless they are wooed ana
won by those stalwart young sides Of beef
who provide the fresh sirloin that's served
on the foot hall gridiron. At the same
time feel quite sure that in due season
they'll get over 1t. 1t may take good
while, but they'll recover. People rarely
marry the ones they pick out for them
selves in the springtime of youth. If they
did our divorce judges would have to bor-
their court in
Take the budding young maiden just
out of the high school who's shed her
sailor suit and let her skirts out. and put
her hair up and is apparently attempting
to be in two places at once by walking
with the new forward bend from the hips
She likes to take pound Of caramels and
Robert Chambers newest one and go of
somewhere and think out the main prob
lem. the result being that she decides the
only man who can ever claim her heart
must be tall and very slender, with grace
full. unstudied gestures. something Ike
Hackett. but more like Faversham. There
must also be piercing black eyes that viii
seem to burn into her very soul. for some
reason or other. ard eaor curls that droop
athwart his broad brow. and,he must have
a secret sorrow and a sash belt. and know
how to play the guitar and call her by
Spanish love names.
what does she get? Does she acquire
Sigmund with the burning eyes and the
tall. dark. slender form like a panatella
Not so as to be really discernible to the
casual passerby. In due time she dis
covers that II she wants a husband with
a working knowledge Of Spanish love
names she'll have to take some party
making a speciality of picking out the
titles for new brands of five-cent cigars.
Young men who can play on the guitar
acceptably and at the same time earn as
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The Chemical Laboratory.

cation of the principles established at the
Rhode Island hatchery may make broiled
lobster daily diet
The lobster Is a peculiar beast. It Is
the savage Of the seas-ferocious, soil
of development sDbject to the most ex-
traordinary mortality and singularly fond
OF feasting on its fellows.
Method Of Matching.
1t is Matched from an egg, the female
carrying on the under surface of her ta
from 10000 to 10000 OF these seed"
they are called. for eleven or twelve
months. The Matching Of the seed sets
free a number Of minute, translucent
creatures with voracious appetites. which
pick their living from the microscopic or
ganisms in the sea water. and, as they
grow a little larger turn upon one another
as especially desirable additions to their
bill of fare. In it's first larval stage the
lobster drifts with the current, but after
its first moulting. 1t develops swimmer
cts" so-called which enable 1t to direct
to some degree. although feebly, its move
ments.
In the larval stages 1t resembles only
remotely the brick-red adult which is dis
sected to the everlasting advantage of
the salad. And it is In these stages that
the mortality of the tribe is SO terrible.
Scientists assert that if more than
single pair of Holsters should survive from
every 10000 larvae Matched the sea would
be cverrun by Holsters in eight or nine
years. The Holsters natural enemies have
held such catastrophe in check. while
man has put a high polish on the work
by catching SO many as to threaten ex-
termination.
AS the lobster is found in many quar-
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much as twelve dollars a week are so
rare as TO be practically out of the
market.
$50 oYr heroine strikes compromise
by hitc: ing up with a stout person in the
wholesa egg and produce buSiness
named James X. Yolk. If James *.
ever had any ebon curls doing the
athwarting thing across his brow they
have long since been driven back over the
brow of the HILL When he wants to
brush his hair he has to take off his col
lar. His waist line extends out some dis
tance In front Of the foundation line In
an Italian balcony effect, and he has
large well filled feet that look as IL in
ternal injuries might develop if he ever
smashed one of them. He is not up on
guitar culture, his favorite musical instru-
ment being the double-entry ledger. His
idea of a pleasant evening is to take off
his shoes and read the produce market in
the evening paper. after which short
open-faced nap is enjoyed. The only
Spanish love name he ever calls her by is
old lady
Then there's the grille who knows that
Size was cut out lot tne CllnslnS WIG
role. She has a mental picture of her
self going through life looking trustfully
up to some sturdy oak about fourteen
hands high. In The last chapter We find
her engaged In the athletic feat of run
ming boarding house with one hand and
raising a large family with the other
while husband sits back behind the pre-
scription case at the drug store down by
the corner for hours at time pointing
out the mistakes of the second Cleveland
administration.
Members of the ostensibly stronger sex
don't pick 'em any better. The POLITICALLY
inclined youth who feels that the cravings
Of his temperament demand a helpmate
that will understand the longings of his
soul and be able to wander afield with
him into the uplands OF fancy. cullins
sweet garlands of sentiment and truth
from the bowers Of the soul. is discovered
in an unguarded moment leading to the
altar Mrs. Henrietta Vestpatski widow Of
the well known clothing dealer, a stout
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speciality firms under one roof. The
building stands right in the center of
and great gilt dome $50 feet in height
and 100 feet in diameter dominates prac-
ticaliy the whole of the city.
Position in Politics.
The management has been placed in the
hands of one of the princes most init
mate associates, Mr.. Otto Markiewitz.
who is possessed of thoroughly up-to-date
American ideas gained from long So
journ in the United States. where he
married New York woman.
But high as is this German-Austrians
position in the financial world it hardly
compares with his position in the world
of diplomacy and politics. He is the
only man in Germany whom the kaiser
treats as an absolute equal: in other
words. he Is Emperor Williams best and
closest friend. For more than a year the
two have been separated for scarcely
day. and it is an open secret in d;plo-
matte circles that he emperor has on
several occasions offered his multi-mil-
lionaire friend the position of chancellor
But the prince would rather be a maker
of chancellors than the holder of the i'm
portant and arduoIIS office. Last No
vember when the Moltke- Harden Incl
dent was at its height. the kaiser. who
was in England, cab!ed for his friend
and. 1t is said. again pressed him to
step into the shoes of Prince Won Bulow
who was threatening to resign his post.
Prince Furstenberg pointed out his ex-
treme youthfulness for the important job
and declined with thanks. but there is no
doubt that today he is the real power
behind the throne of Germany. When
Won BuIow resigns or retires "A defeated
man politically. Germany will not go far
afield for his successor
Powerful in Four Countries.
The prince owes allegiance to no fewer
than four different ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Prussia, Wurttemberg and .Baden-and
holds hereditary seats I'm the upper cham
Der Of all of item. He is Roman
and being a father of five chill
dren is man after the kaiser's own
hear. In tnat respect. as we'll as in
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the other lads. There were no touch
downs. and SO the coroner had compare
lively nothing to do, and went away at
the close of the second half feeling that
a slight had been put upon him"
Il thought you wuz strong for foot
ball." said the House Detective.
What I'm strong for is the pictures
that the magazines print at this season
and the stories that go with the pictures
said the Hotel Clerk Il also confess 20
weakness for the graphic descriptions
in the morning papers of how Dressed
Beef Horgan, the lusty young fullbacS
for Yale. broke down and wept because
they took him out Of the game in order
to push his shoulder blades out of his
eyes and take>his hip joints of his chest,
and how he was moaning and protesting
that he could never get over the shame
of failing to kick goal. When I see
story like that I can't keep from thinking
that If his various sections are ever prop
erly reassembled and he goes out in the
world to make his way he'll be surprised
to know how few large business men will
care whether he did or did not make the
hundred-yard gain for dear old Ell in
the fall Of 1905. II his parents had the
forethought to make spelling in it's sim
pier branches a part Of his course of study
he'll be able to find many business houses
where he can get a job at $lS week to
start on. and TO other questions asked re.
garding his past life.
But. as l was just saying. it's the foot
ball pictures on the back covers that I
like the best. It's the same splendid young
lad, nine feet three inches tall, and broad
in proportion, that we used to see in the
numbers. At that time he
wore white trousers turned up a suitable
distance at the bottom and a soft shirt,
and he was lying on the beach looking
up at a summer girl of corresponding
height with wlnd-tossed hair and large
limpid eyes and a duck skirt that never
blew up any higher than her ankles.
owing to the large family circulation of
the magazine. But as we find him now
he's wearing his hair down in his eyes
and there's lot of deep-sea diving ap-
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lady who looks just like q block on the
road due TO confusion of the lighting
arrangement of the block signal system.
when she puts all her red and green
jewelry. Or else he falls for one of those
gladstone sprites from the chorus who
wears a standing room-only skirt and
four pounds OF bracelets on each arm. and
has all the conversational brilliancy Of
cuckoo clock
The girl who knows that she could feel
the mad. consuming pa ssion only for some
brawny hero that would save her from n
team of runaway horses or a boat-rock-
ing contest is eventually coupled In the
running with small person having those
large. bright. outstanding ears like red
semaphores. and an Adams apple that 10
constantly trying to turn porch climber.
and his most daring achievement in Ifs
is adding up four columns of figures Ut
once. The man who feels that he must
have for wife some timid creature who
will bend to his imperious will and tren
bic when he's angry becomes the silent
partner of an iron jawed club lady who
buys his clothes for him and selects what
he eats. thus reducing him to the level "
the tape worm, which is the only other
living creature except him that's never
permitted to pick out what it's going to
eat.
THE man who can never be satisfied
without beauty wins a lady whose teeth
are mainly being worn on the outside OF
the face this season. and she has a coun-
tenance that turns to a red interior scene
when she smiles. The girl who must have
intellect for hers gets a bankers son
whose brain stopped working after he
learned how to sign a dinner check and
crank up a machine.
And SO 1t goes Larry. Romance is a
grand thing. but it don't seem to stani
the acid or marriage test. Three KS on
one of sweethearts letters before mar.
riage means kisses and
And after marriage wot?' broke In the
House Detective
Well" said the Hotel Clerk. after
marriage II means don't forget to order
that barrel of xxx flour sent up"
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of the international congress on fisher
les and director Of the American Museum
of Natural History of i>ew York city.
'Thiss work at Wexford is not only
culture" he said. but also the most
successful The Rhode Island commits
sion is doing the most practical work
in the world in connection with fish cul-
ture. There is none other to compare
with it. And it is being done at the
lowest cost. for. DR.. Mead carries on the
station with the help of only two or three
assistants"
Another long step in the direction of
improving the lobster supply mas been in
the time OF releasing larvae. Formerly
it was the custom to turn them out to
fend for themselves very soon after hatch
ing. At that stage, however, they are
as helpless as babies of the human kind.
with only slight power of locomotion and
NO weapons of defense.
Process Of Development.
The lobster grows by a series of molt
ings, shedding its shell, stretching itself
and developing new shall larger than
the other. The periods between molts
are known as stages. 1t is not until the
fourth stage that the animal assumes the
shape of the lobster of commerce and be-
comes able to defend itself to some de-
gree. After the fourth mott it is found
to have acquired in a metamorphosis.
which consumed only q few minutes. the
physical equipment of an adult and the
disposition Of bulldog in place of the
rabbit-like timidity which had hitherto
characterized it. Previously drifting and
swimming. it now settles to the bottom
and takes a home beneath rock or digs
a hole in the sand. from which 1t reaches
for its prey and in which 1t defends itself
with it's strong claws against all Corners.
1t is now able to give a good account of
itself
The Wexford investigators after at
first following the custom of other sta
lions in liberating the lobster fry soon
after it was Matched. now keep it until
it has reached this fourth stage. Their