The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-28

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Or when he's swiped the jam or lied.
Ny wife remarks: ''Poor little lad!
If any mischief he has done
That it's my fault she'll intimate
what I've transmitted to my son.
| It's quite marked maternal trait
| Chicago News.
! Heifer Welcomes Buck.
Grass widower. a large buck which,
! Tilted by all the does in his herd,
sought consolation in the herd of cat
i tie of William Campbell at Long
bridge, N. J., and began paying devot-
Jersey heifer, has been killed by meat
hunters. Fish and Game Warden J..
| B. Hendershott, of Newton, has a
cleW to the slayers of Grass Widower,
and he is making plans to bring about
their arrest and punishment. The
buck weighed about 180 pounds
Fearful of detection. the hunters
waited until after nightfall and then
took the body away in a wagon.
There was a time when Grass Wfd-
over was the pride of one of the finest
nerds of deer ever seen in the culver
Lake section Of New Jersey. He was
big, handsome fellow, and had a
household that resembled in many re-
spects that of Brigham Young. The
buck was so overbearing, hoWeveS'
that he gradually lost the affection
of the does. and finally young DUCK
grew up, fought with him for the
him. Too proud to occupy second
place, Grass Widower sulked few
weeks and then left the herd. He
tried to make up with other does, but
they knew him by reputation ana
Finally the Iovelorn buck saw Vel
vet Eyes, the Jersey heifer BELONG to
Campbell He made eyes at her and
she made eyes at him. Encouraged
by her he became bold, and recently
Campbell went out and found Grass
Widower much at home in the midst
of the herd. Supposition is he was on
his way to taunt his former wives
with the fact he had found a new
New York Press.
Trains Flies to Tricks.
The only fly market and training stable
for insects in the country is owned by F.
B. Smith, a young official in the service
of the local government board, who re-
Gently delivered a lecture before the
Royal Photographic Society. in which he
talked of feats performed by flies and
exhibited photographs.
Mr. Smiths house. in Islington, highly edu-
Gated flies perform remarkable antics.
revolving on its feet for hours at a stretch.
or sit on chair. dressed in a specially
says the Chicago Inter Ocean. So perfect
are the performances that cinematograph
records nave Deen taken OF Lnem.
Great patience had to be exercised by
Mr. Smith before he could make the flies
do as he wished. Their home is glass
topped case, and when a fly has, by much
drumming against the glass, had the fact
dinned into it that it cannot really get
away 1t becomes tractable and teachabIe.
Some flies that Mr.. Smith has reared
will not fly away when they have the
chance. and even wild fly, snatched
from freedom, sometimes consents of Its
own free will to stay at home Among
the articles which the fly trainer has
made for the purpose of performance
are:
Machine which registers on a dial the
strength of a flys pull in grains.
Chair carved out of top of a pen
Doll carved from the handle of tooth
Durnbben made of two cork balls join
ed with stick.
A cork ball.
All these toys a trained fly will play
with
Il find that fly placed on its back
will turn a cork bali for nearly an hour
said Mr.. Smith. MY idea is that the
fly does not realize its position, and I'M
agines that it is running along a sur
face the whole time. To get fly to sit
gummed to the back to give it the nee
essary support. Then it will hold the
doll on its legs and nod its head like
nurse girl
other insects besides flies have been
trained by this young government Off
stick and take food held out to it. A liz
ard which he has in his possession will
take and hold a cigarette in its mouth.
but resolutely refuses to smoke it.-New
York Herald.