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selves to their mound, but penetrate
the soil directly beneath it to a great
depth, sometimes as far as ten or
more feet. The circular chambers,
with their low arched ceilings and
level floors, vary from one to three
inches in diameter and from one-half
to one inch in height. The connect.
ing galleries have uniform diameter
of about three-eighths of an inch and
vary in length with the distance be.
tween chambers. Beyond the first
three or four inches below the base of
the mound the chambers decrease
markedly in number and in proximity
to one another. Sealed and unsealed
storerooms filled with seeds occur
throughout the nest; larvae, pupae
and young ants occupy many cham
bers, and adult members of the colo
ny use the remainder for working and
living rooms.
The mound building prairie ant
shows three distinct classes of indi-
viduals-the queens fertile females),
males, and workers (sterile females).
Males and fertile females, which are
about equal in number, form a COM
paratively small portion of the colony,
while the workers in large nests seem
almost numberless, there being at
least 10000.
The queen is about ssven-sixteenths
OF an inch long, of uniform yellow
brown color, with one pair OF small
compound eyes and three very small
ocelli. Her mandibles are large, black
and armed with seven teeth, and she
is provided with a sting.
The male is about three-eighths of
an inch long with head and throax
nearly black, abdomen brown and
more pointed than that of the queen.
His head is small and bears two large
compound eyes and three ocelli, the
middle one of which is much larger
than the other two. He has no sting.
The workers vary in length from
three-sixteenths to five-sixteenths of
an inch. The head is very large, two
or three times the width of the pro-
thorax. The mandibles are large,
curved, and armed with seven teeth
They are well fitted for the tasks of
Selling, cutting, crushing and saving.
The head bears no ocelli and the com.
pound eyes are small-about the size
of those of the queen. The workers
also are armed with stings. They vary
in size from large form known as
the worker major to a smaller form
known as the worker minor. Inasmuch
as this distinction is based on char
acters all of which show such a clear
intergrading that ten well-selected
workers may be so arranged that the
characters of the worker major grad
ually shade off into those of the work
er minor, there is no good reason for
distinguishing the two extremes of
the series by special names. Not only
are there no structural characters but
there is no difference in function to
justify such a distinction.
Although these ants are larger than
most species and have two of the
most formidable weapons known
among insects-large, pointed man.
dibles and most efficient stings-they
are not quarrelsome, and fight only in
self-defense.
G. A. DEAN,
Assistant FntomOlooiSt Kansas
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Unbeliever in Vacations Kept His
Clerks at Their Desks.

The man who doesn't believe in
vacations gathered his Office staff
about him.
Il want to read you something,
boys" he said kindly, "from the diary
of the great John Wesley. Listen"
And he read:
To-day 1 entered on my eighty
second year, as fit for any exercise Of
body or mind as was 40 years ago.
I am as strong at 81 as I was at 81,
but abundantly more healthy, being
a stranger to the headache and other
bodily disorders which attended me in
my youth
'In his eighty-fourth year he said
he was wonder, writing:
"T am wonder to myself. It is
now IL years since I have felt sensa-
ton as WEAKNESS. / am never tired
either with writing, preaching or
travelling"
In the impressive silence thas en-
sued the man who doesn't believe in
vacations said:
Boys, Wesley attributed his ex-
traordinary health and longevity to
early rising, to hard work, and above
all to the fact that he never took va
cations"
With grunts of assent the young
men YEARLY took up their pens
again.-Buffalo Express.
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wherein each swallow is a thrill and
your stomach gets up and yells at
every climax.
can see you and Alice sitting there,
spilling Schenectady French all over
the tablecloth, while the waiter gets a
stone bruise on his palate from hold
ing back his Partisan laughter.
Now don't wrinkle the map when
you read this, Bunch, because I've
been present when you blurted out
some of your French with the ossified
accent and it's a scream all right.
Remember that day in Martins here
in littleoldnewyork when you ordered
lamb chops and a baked potato in
French? The waiter bowed, said,
"Oui, M'sieu!" and brought you a
bowl of vegetable soup and a morning
paper!
That's how good your French is, my
lad.
It's almost as bad as Fred Perry's-
and that's going some.
/ met Fred and Henri Leoni at the
Bingle club not long ago, and they put
it all over me.
With Henri speaking almost-French
and Fred gesticulating nearly French
there wasn't anything left for me to
do but call the waiter and talk booze.
I found out later that Fred knows
exactly nine ordinary French words,
including incest pas and avec plaisir,
but he has memorized the name of
every street in Paris.
So when Fred exhausts his nine or.
binary words he rushes all over the
city, out to Vanguard, over to the
Batignolles, to Clichy, by Rues and
side streets to the eastern Boulevards
Beaumarchais and st. Denis, then
across lots to the western Boulevard
des Italiens, then with hop, skip and
jump, he's in the Place de la Concorde
and off into the Champs-Elysees- 3
immense!
Fred can sit there and rattle off the
names of the streets in Paris so elo-
quently that the average listener be-
gins to cuss himself inwardly because
he didn't learn French enough to fol-
low the Guy de Maupassant story
which he thinks Fred is telling.
A bas lie Fred!
notice in your letter, Bunch, that
you met some of your old pals in
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ON
POKER
LAY ING.
BY GEO. V. HOBART, t"HUeH M,HueH.1.

an evening and try to drag money
away from us.
Uncle Gregory Grant and Aunt Julia
from Kansas City are visiting at
Uncle Peters house across the read.
Uncle Gregory Is the original human
SAFE You can't get money out Of him
with an ak.
He came 20 New York on a visit
some years ago with a red undershirt
and ten-dollar bill.
He stayed two weeks and never
changed anything. 3o
Uncle Gregory Is a charter member
in Zero lodge of the Companions Of
the Cold Feet. -....
Uncle Gregory never sat in a game
in his life without being prepared to
have pneumonia in both heels the mo-
ment he was six dollars ahead of the
game. te- .
He plays them close to his append
citis, unkie does, and every time he
fills a four-fush he feels an awful
draught on the floor.
He has his feet SO well trained that
every time their owner rakes in a pot
with four blue checks in it they give
him the icehouse signal to cease
firing and cash in before the bank ex-
plodes.
We had little poker party at our
house last Monday night, and for sew
eral days after we bought costly
trifes with the money left by our low
ing neighbors.
Thee was Uncle Gregory and Aunt
Julia, George Riggaby and his wife,
Maude, Georges mother-in-law, Mrs.
Lorrenz, Peaches and yours respect
fully.
Uncle Peter and Aunt Martha don't
play poker, so they went out in the
other room and played the phono-
graph. ...-
I think the photograph won, be-
cause they are both easy. . ......
George Riggaby is a member in
good standing of the Little Brothers of
the Boost, and he can laugh louder
and mean it when he loses three dol.
lars than any man ever met.
But Georges wife, Maude, takes two
aces and a pair of jacks seriously,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
FOOLS UNDERTAKEN TWICE.
On Third Call, However, EmbaImer
... Finds Her Dead.

Winsted, Conn.-Mrs. John Barnum,
whose suspended animation deceived
a doctor, an undertaken, relatives and
friends twice within week and who
narrowly escaped being embalmed
alive few days ago, died at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hawley Wickwire, in
Falls Village. That life is extinct now
there is no doubt.
After she had been pronounced dead
for the third time relatives watched
the body as before for signs Of re-
turning life, but in vain. Undertaken
I. P. Hornbeck was called again, and
this time prepared the body for burial.
Mrs. Barnum was i'll six weeks with
general debility. At times she lapsed
into Inconsistencies and appeared as
if dead. Her heart seemed to stop
beating, but of a sudden she would
revive and chat with those at her bed
SIDE She was in state of coma for
hours before she breathed her last.
Mrs. Barnum was 76 years old.
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She Fought Until IA Bullets Pierced
Her Body.

the members Of the posse for few
minutes and while they carried the
dying man to the edge of the woods
Roberts and his wife barricaded the
door of their cabin. They then took
up positions at windows. Mrs. Rob-
erts commanded the rear of the house,
where the posse first attacked, and her
husband fired from side window, pre-
venting a flank movement on the part
of the posse.
Mat Lowrey, a farmer and member
of the posse, was shot as he peered
from behind a tree to take aim,
bullet from one of the rifles in the
cabin taking off the tip of his nose.
His son, who ventured close to the be-
sieged, was shot in the hip as he made
rush toward the door.
When the posse had tried without
avail for three hours to capture the
cabin, and were in consultation in the
woods, Sheriff Conkin of Ozark coun-
ty, and his deputy, Lyman Steven, who
had heard over the telephone that a
posse had gone into the mountains,
joined Lu6Iu anu dSSlSLSu III Iu0 next
assault.
Reinforced, the men attempted to
make concerted attack on the cabin
from all sides, but were unable to get
past the clearing and around the cab
in, so deadly and rapid was Roberts
fire from the window. Frequently they
saw Mrs. Roberts head at the
windows as she took hasty aim and
fired at tree or stump which sheltered
deputy. 1t was impossible to follow
her movements, so rapidly did she fire
from the openings in the cabin walls.
The posse were loath to shoot at the
woman, and though she was hit IA
times each wound was made by a
stray bullet, or one that had first PEN
etrated the wall.
After every assault had failed the
posse decided to make one more eff
fort to surround the cabin, taking a
wide detour. While one detachment
mounted and rode away the other
again opened fire to deceive the be-
sieged Their fire drew no responses,
| and some of the holder crept up to a
window and peered in on the scene Of
death
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

Dear Bunch: So now you're at
Monte Carlo, Ell?
Gee! you and Alice must be having
the time of your lives hiking over
Europe, handing out good money to
hotel clerks and bad French to hotel
walters all day long.
Oh, what bliss, what joy must be
your portion, Bunch, when you squeeze
into one of those French cafes, grab a
French menu card, glance over the
"ready-toserves," and in confidential
tone give an order like this to your
French waiter: "Avec lie beaucoup
pomme de terre. Donnez-moi de Peau
chaude; je vais me raser. Avec get a
move on you!"
Then in a French hour and half
your French waiter hurries back and
serves you q culinary melodrama
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
BEATEN BY TERRIFIC
SEA FOR SIX DAYS
CAPTAIN AND CREW HAVE
THRILLING EXPERIENCES
IN A HURRICANE,

San Juan, Porto Rico.-After thrill.
ling experience in hurricane, Capt
j. B. Morris and five seamen of the
schooner Mary B. Judge, from Mobile
for San Juan, were rescued by the
steamer Julia Luckenbach. The Luck
enbach, under command of Capt w
]. Cornell, arrived here from New
York, bringing the rescued men.
The Mary B. Judge left Mobile for
San Juan with cargo of lumber She
was due here in the early part of Sep
TENDER, but during considerable part
of the voyage Gains prevailed. She
ran into a gale on September 10, and
on the following day it had developed
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Va ~. DHl
Assistant Entomologist, 4
Permanent,


Few of the fruits of civilization may
be looked upon as ultimate.
For the most part they have their
day, and pass.
The plug hat, however, discovers at
tributes of permanence, notably that
uniformity in variety which best at
tests an essential fixity of species.
Whether in the pot of Paris or the top
of Tomkinsville, there is always to be
found the element of browning alb
surdity which is the character ST the
plug.
Moreover, religious sentiments are
the longest abiding, especially where
they are touched with superstition;
and now that no man whose wife con-
siders herself somebody will venture
to walk up the aisle of Christian
church at the morning service, any,
way, without a plug hat deity sup
ported on the crook of his elbow, we
may not expect soon to see the finish
of this remarkable article of headgear.
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Paris and that you stayed up all night
playing poker.
It's a good old wheeZe, Bunch, and
no doubt Alice believed you when you
brought home the nine miHlon francs
you won.
OF course she didn't stop to think
that nine million francs is only about
$40 in real money. But why wake
her up?
If you really had to play poker,
Bunch, I'm glad you stayed up all
night at It, When you first mentioned
the word in your letter was afraid
to read further for fear I'd see that at
IL o'clock you got kink in your in
step and quit four dollars winner.
If you play the game, play it like a
sport, Bunch, and wear overshoes to
keep your feet warm.
hate the poker player who gets
congestion of the ankles every time
he wins two dollars over his car fare.
Poker players are divided into two
classes; the Companions Of the Cold
Feet and the Little Brothers of the
Boost.
The Companions Of the Cold Feet
make the most money, but the Little
Brothers of the Boost have all the
fun-and this would be pretty
tough old world If we couldn't have a
bit of fun with each other, wouldn't it,
Bunch?
We're living out In the country all
the year round now, and once or
twice week the neighbors drop In Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Warned by Fathers Ghost.

Montgomery, Ala.-News has been
received here of the death of Bose
Skipper at Moneraville, Ala, under
peculiar circumstances.
A few days ago he walked out to his
well. Returning, he told his family
that he had met his father (who is
dead, and had shaken hands with
him. He said that his father told him
that he was going to die and leave
his business in tangle, just as his
father had done. He said his father
told him to wind up his business, that
he would soon come after him.
Skipper, on the next day, went to
Greenville with his cotton, paid for his
grave, returned home, and went to
bed The family physicians were
called, but he was beyond the aid of
medical science. He finally clinched
his teeth and refused to take any
medicine.
He died the other day, leaving a
wife and several children.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Expressions Of a cynle.

Walter Pater, an old man at so, bald
as a coot and grotesquely plain, re-
garded every woman much as did Dean
Swift, who wrote: GA very little wit
is valued in a woman, as we are
pleased with few words spoken intel
lightly by parrot" "You don't ap-
prove of marriage?" friend once OBJ
served to Pater. NO." he replied.
NOR would anybody else If he gave
the matter proper consideration. Men
and women are always pulling diff
ferent ways Women won't pull our
way. They are so perverse."
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FlNGER-BOWLS OF SHELLS

nearly perfect than the most exquisite
models of ancient Greece. 1t is deli
cately hued with pale brown in the
inner part and with deep sienna brown
outside.
This bowl is half a cocoanut-shell-
beautiful, useful, practically unbreak-
able, yet not of sufficient worth to pre-
vent its being thrown away tomorrow
and replaced by fresh one from the
nearest palm. Fresh plates and cups
for ones food are a refinement civil
cation has not yet attained. You must
go to savages to look for them
Youths Companion.
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Electricity and the Human Body.

The average resistance of the hu.
man body from the feet to the hands,
when the soles of the shoes are sat
urated with water and the hands are
wet, is about 5000 ohms, and may be
represented approximately by the re-
sistance of copper wire about one
MISUNDERSTANDING of an inch
in diameter aud 7.710 feet in length.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
TheCause.

Languid Lannigan-It must be sim.
ply awful ter be afflicted wit dis
spirit Nv unrest" we read so much
about lately.
Torpid Thomas-I knewed all along
dat dem cookin' schools wuz de fore
runners of some national calamity
Puck
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

while her mother, Mrs. Lorrenz is the
corresponding secretary in the Wom-
ans Annex to the Companions of the
Cold Feet.
She certainly runs Uncle Greg.
close second when it comes to getting
frappe in the pedals.
Every time Mrs. Lorrenz is sepae
rated from so cents something in her
mind seems to give way with a crash.
But Uncle Greg. and Mrs. Lorrenz
love money so much that every time
they bet blue check they close their
eyes and pretend it was a white one.
Amy time you see silver dollar
with all the tail feathers pulled out
of the eagle it's cinch the bird once
belonged to Mrs. Lorrenz and the part.
ing was bitter one.
She is the original Tessie Tight
wad.
Ever thine,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
First Jewish Cemetery.

Many travellers on the Third and
Second avenue elevated railways of
New York city wonder how the little
cemetery at New Bowery and Oliver
street came to be there. 1t is a
remnant of the first Jewish cemetery
in the United States and was estab-
lished in 1860.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Tea . Germ Destroyer.

Tea is now elevated to the dignity
of germ destroyer. DR.. Mcknight,
the medical investigator, Eas found
that typhoid bacilli placed in cold or
lukewarm tea are greatly diminished
at the end OF four hours, and have
completely disappeared at the spd Of
"a hours.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Mvstified.

MI unghusband-Don't you I'M
derstard how to do it, darling?
Mrs. Younghusband-Yes I Under.
stand all right: but 1t says, first
clean your chicken" and don't know
whether to use toilet or securing soap
Judge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Unsatisfactory Menu.

Timpkins-I saw Windig partake o:
a linguistic meal yesterday.
Simpkins-What do you mean by
thatf
Timpkins-Biffkins made him eat
his Chicago Daily News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Put Him Mise.

First Porter-Gee! Dat man glib
me a large tip.
Second Porter-Yep. An yo done
glib yo'self away by thanking him and
smilin'.
why, amt dat all right?"
'.No, sab! If 20 had acted nachul,
he'd felt obligated to do it mex time.
See ?"-Life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Ever thine,
TRIUMPH FOR MEAN MAN.

Copyright. 1908. by G. W. Dillingham; Co..
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
Butler Lidded.

Butler people are reading the
history of the New England colo.
MES with a clearer understand.
ing than ever before. In the colo.
MES a man could not kiss his
wife on Sunday without being
fned--the case has hardly gotten
that bad as yet bat it is a sure
thing that the lid is on tight
The Butler editors are mourn
ing because they cannot buy any
clothes on Sunday-we want TO
know when it got so editors
could buy clothing any day in the
week. The soda fountains have
also quit their zizzling on the
Sabbeth, the cigar stores are
locked, men who work at night
are arrested If they arc caught
laboring after midnight on Sat
urday; in fact Butler would have
been q good Puritan city in Mas
~sachusetts IN 100.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
Nevada ChautauQua
Excellent Program : Coed Music
Good Time.

Chas. A. Logan Of Nevada, was
in Rich Hill last Thursday boost
ing the Nevada Chautauqua to be
held in that city from July . to
10 inclusive.
Nevada has an ideal park for
holding such entertainments and
since the street car system in
that city has changed hands and
has been over-hauled and re-
paired, good service is guaran-
teed.
The program is one of the best
that can be secured and the
management is to be congratu.
lated on their selection.
Rich Hill people will doubtless
take advantage of this chautau.
qua and attend in full force
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
United States Leading the World.

Great Britain's production of
coal in 1907 was 267. s2s, 276 long
tons, or 299, 900, 600 short tons,
and Great Britain is the second
coal producing country of the
world. The coal production Of
the United States in 1907 exceed.
ed by $50, $50, 1913 short tons or
more than 90 per cent more than
the British Isles. II was more
than double that of Germany.
and was equal TO 40 per cent OF
the total coal production OF the
world.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25

Very frequently one sees a
person who goes into a new town
and makes fun of everything
seen. This class of people have
been in very few towns and do
not know much of the world, be-
cause the man of the world does
not measure everything up to
the standard of his own home
town. The next time you hear a
man making fun Of your town
with the intention of showing his
worldly wisdom just put him
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
County onlclals,

Representatives. M..Grimth.
Circuit JUDGE A. Denton.
Probate judge. A. Silyers.
Sherin-C. r. Beard.
Circuit Clerk-D. Il. Embree.
County Clerk-C. g. Weeks.
Recorder. NJ. Smith.
Treasurer-W. r.. Bell.
Pros. Atty.-W. b. Dawson.
school Coma. l.. Ives.
BuFveyor-E. b. Boron.
Admlnistrator-Jho. Hayes.
Coroner-O. T.. Renick.
Presiding Judge +. Harper.
Associate "A. ID. Hyde.
Estes Smith.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
SHORT LOCAL NEWS
Happenings of Interest in and About

The food waters of the Nod
away river we're ca ried away
this year by a drainage ditch,
and a disastrous Hood averted on
account of this ditch, says the
Maryville Republican.
Mrs. Will b. Weeks and child.
rem spent several days in this
city last week the guest of w.
w. Jamison and wife.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
SCOOOl Enumeration

The school census of Bates
County shows clearly which is
the largest town in the county.
Rich Hill leads with 1927. with
Butler second with $50.
The county gained So children
of school age over the 1907 cen
SuS.
All the gain was in Rich Hill,
however, as the rest of the coun.
ty lost II in the year.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
Meeting Dates of Courts.

Circuit court meets In Butler LIST
Monday in February, May and
October.
County court meets LIST Monday IN
February, May, August and No
vember.
Probate court meets End Monday
u February, May, August and No.
yember.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
River Out Again

The Marais DIES Cygne river
rose several feet agrin last Fri.
day, on account of rains in Kan
sas, and is again at the flood
stage.
The bottom north Of town have
been under water for almost a
month.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25
Notice OF FInnl saltlcment

Notice Is hereby given to all cred
itors ana Others Interested In the
estate 81 Robert Hamilton, deceas.
ed, that /, John ID. Moore executor
OF said estate, Intend to make final
settlement tlHreof, at the next term
ui abe Bates County Probate Court.
IN Bates County, Missouri, TO be held
NJ Butler, Missouri. On the 18th day
Of May, 1905.
JoHN d. MooRE, EXECUTOR.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-06-25

Meetings Of Township Board
First Wednesday after first Tues
day In April
First Tuesday after first Monday
In July.
Third Monday OF November Of
ach year at Office OF the township
clerk