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?!GOT THE EGGS FRESH
I They Were Turtle Eggs and
Agassiz Wanted Them.
A WILD RACE AGAINST TIME.
Tbs Professor Kacl to Have the Errs
Before They Were Three Hours Old,
end This S3 ths Scary cf Hew ths
Huntsr P.'sds Good His Premise.
When Professor Louis Agassiz was
writing a buok od the turtles of the
United States it became necessary for
him to hive some fresh turtle eggs.
lie engaged Mr. Jimks of Slide! oro.
about forty miles from Cambrkig;, to
get them for him. iir. Jeuks premised
tu:;t the eggs should be in Agassiz's
hands before they were three hours
old. Mr.
who to!
the tale to
Charlotte, The stringent laws
govern' ng cltabs and lookers ::n this
city went in force on July l and in
accordance "with these stringest. rules
each social club in wliVh liquor and
b3er is kept, this -week filed with
the desk sergeant of the police de
partment, a complete list of alii mem
bers of the club, and a seperate list
of those members having lookers. It
L3 required in the first place that
every club shall have at least 50
members. Each member keeping a
Hooker is required to pay $2 Per an
num for the privilege, and the club
is required to pay S.u per year spe
cial tax.
Let every farmer see to i't that
his son has an -educaiton; for hisl life
work if he loves the farm and wants
to stay there. Do not think that the
farmer, of all professions, needs no
education. He needs a broader one
than the lawyer or doctor, for the
art of fairming depends on so many
:f the sciences that a "man need be
experience in. several of them. Let
the Farmers Union use its influence
with the legislators to get the col
leges all the help they need. For
tiie legislators will always do wihat
the farmers want if they know
what they want. Raleigh (X. C.)
Progressive. Farmer and Gazette.
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a writer hi the Atlantic Monthly, had
to wait by a certain pond for the tur
tles to come out and lay their eggs in
the sand. Finally, after weeks of
waiting, one morni:: about 4 o'clock
a turtle crawled up the beach, partly
buried herself in the soft sand and
laid her eggs. Mr. Jenks went on to
As she did so the distant clock struck
4. There was no train till after 1). and
the eggs must be in Cambridge in
three hours.
I laid the eggs on a bed of sand in
the bottom of my pail, filled in be
tween them with more sand, so with
another layer to the rim, and, covering
all over smoothly with more sand, I
ran back for my horse. He knew as
well as I that the turtle had laid and
that he was to get those eggs to Agas
siz. I let him out. I shouted to him.
holding to the dasher with one hand,
the pail of eggs with the other, not
daring to get off my knees, although
the bang on them as we pounded down
the wood road was terrific. We had
nearly covered the distance to the pike
when ahead of me 1 heard the sharp
whistle of a locomotive.
With a pull that lifted the horse
from his feet I swung him into a field
and sent him straight as an arrow
I for the track.
By some stroke of luck I got on the
track and backed off before the train
hit my carriage. But the maneuver
vras successful, for the engineer stop
ped, and I swung aboard tha cab hat
less, dew soaked, smeared with yellow
mud and holding as if it were a baby
or a bom!? a little tin pail of sand.
'Throw hevide pptn," I tElniand
ed "wide open! These are fresh tur
tle eggs for Professor Agassiz of Cam
bridge. He must have them before
breakfast."
The engineer and the fireman no
doubt thought that I was crazy, but
they let me alone, and the fast freight
rolled in swiftly to Boston.
But misfortune was ahead. We
slowed down in the yards and came
to a stop. We were put on a siding
to wait no one knew how long.
I suddenly jumped from the engine,
slid over a high fence and bolted for
the street. In the empty square stood
a cab.
The cabman saw me coming. I
waved a dollar at him and then an
other, dodged into the cab. slammed ;
the door and called out: "Cambridge!
Harvard college! Professor Agassiz's
house! I've got eggs for Agassiz!" and
I pushed another dollar up at him
through the hole.
"Let him go!" I ordered. "Here's an
other dollar for you if you make Agas
siz's house In twenty minutes!"
We flew to Cambridge. There was
a sudden lurch, and I dived forward,
rammed my head into the front of the
cab and came up with a rebound that
landed me across the small of my
back on the seat and sent half of my
pail of eggs helter skelter over the
floor. But we were at Agassiz's house.
I tumbled out and pounded the door.
"Agassiz!" 1 gasped when the maid
came. "I want Professor Agassiz,
quick!"
She protested that he was in bed
and threatened the police. But just
then a door overhead was flung open, a
great, wmite robed figure appeared on
the dim landing above, and a quick,
loud voice called excitedly:
"Let him in! Let him in! I know
him! He has my turtle eggs."
And the apparition, slipperless and
clad in anything but an academic
gown, came sailing downstairs. The
great man. his arms extended, laid
hold of me with both hands and, drag
ging me and my precious pail into his
study, with a swift, clean stroke laid
open one of the eggs as the watch in
my trembling hands ticked its way to
7 as if nothing unusual were hap
pening in the history of the world.
THE MILKY WAY. L,
A Hundred Million Stars Gleam In
That Silvery Scarf.
The census of the starry sky is con
cerned almost entirely with the Milky
way. The number of stars not con
nected with it is negligible. But when
you look at the Milky way the idea of
numbering its stars seems the dream
of a madman. It stretches all round
the sky. Its extent is so unthinkably
immense that science has never under
taken to measure it, and the imagina
tion could not grasp the figures that
such a measurement, if it was possible
to make it, would involve.
Yet that whole enormous expanse of
srace occupied by the Milky way is so
crowded with stars that they' make
upon the eye the impression oa sil
very scarf wound round the Lvr of
the universe.
It requires a telescope to see them as
a broad zone of glittering points in
stead of an almost uniform band cf
whiteness in the firmament.
In some places they are more thinly
scattered, so that, as you gaze through
the glass, you almost think that, with
infinite patience, you might count the
number included in a space as large
as the face of the moon.
But in other places they seem to be
packed together like the sands cf the
seashore. They stretch away over
thousands of square degrees of space,
hanging in great festoons, spreading
out in vast banners, where billions
upon billions of cubic miles seem to
be filled with stars thicker than the
flakes in a driving snowstorm!
There are begemmed knots in that
starry scarf so rich that the eye is daz
zled and the mind confused by the
spectacle which they present.
Yet science, although it shrinks from
trying to estimate the space which
they occupy, has succeeded in forming
a fairly correct enumeration of the
stars of the Milky way.
The most extravagant estimates do
not put the number at more than 300,
000.000, and the most trustworthy and
probable- make them a third less.
A hundred million stars, then, is the
total population of the glittering uni
verse, and when we see what a mar
velous effect of innur.ierableness they
produce we begin to appreciate what
a hundred millions mean. Garrett P.
Serviss in New York American.
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MAN'S THREE DUTIES.
A Good Husband, a Good Father and
a Good Neighbor.
I have made a code for my own guid-
1 ance which rhav interest you. I bold
that a i"uans first duty is to be a goC'l
husband, which implies, of course, that
he ought to marry and then make his
wife believe, if he can, that she has
been 'the most fortunate of women.
It isn't easy but, my, how it pays!
He must be lover, husband, son and
even father by turns and occasionally
jast nobody he must get clear off the
earth. But when he comes back
A man's second duty is to be a good
father, which implies, of course, that
he ought to have children adopted, if
necessary. He ought to be to them
the standard by which all other men
are measured and found wanting, be
cause he is their daddy and they love
him.
A man's third duty is to be a good
neighbor, to carry his share, no matter
how small or how great it may be, of
the community's worthy enterprises.
to share the sorrows and the joys of
those around him, to make his home
a real asset to his community.
After a man has done these three
things, if he has time and means and
strength, he can and should think in
wider circles. But the man who does
these three well is doing more than if
he contributed millions and neglected
these three. The man who neglects
his wife or his children or his neigh
bors, no matter what other apparently
great things he may have done, will
hear Gabriel's trumpet very faintly if
at all on the morning of the great day.
Erman J. Ridgway in Delineator.
Is It Wise lo Plan Ahead.
A Fearful Poison.
From the microbe which gives rise
in human beings to the disease known
as tetanus, or lockjaw, a poison called
tetanine is obtained which is over 100
times more powerful than strychnine.
A fragment of tetanine so small as to
be invisible to the naked eye would 1
kill almost instantaneously the strong
est man. One fifteen-thousandth part
of a grain of it has caused the death
of a horse 1,000,000,000 times its own
weight Pearson's, .frr-irr-
Whers the Pule Kicks.
"No man unless he is blind should
ever be kicked by a mule. There is
no excuse for it. If kicked he is as
much to blame as the mule," said a
mule raiser. "A mule never kicks
without first wagging his ears and
switching his tail," said the breeder.
"All you have to do is to keep your
eyes on his ears and tail. And when
he begins to wag his ears cr switch his
tail then it is time to dodge. And if
you dodge quickly yen will never be
touched." Kansas City Journal.
A Coid Bits.
"You were twenty miles from the
north pole and starving!" exclaimed
the credulous housewife. "And how
did you save yourself:"
"Why, mum," responded Frigid
Fred as he wiped away a tear, "in me
starving moments I remembered de
Eskimo dogs. Pushing out through
the snow, I twisted one of der tails,
an' den an den"
"And then what, my poor man?"
"I got a coid bite." Chicago News.
' Fully Informed.
"With all your wealth are you not
afraid of the proletariat?" asked the
delver in sociological problems.
"No, I ain't," snapped Mrs. Newrich.
"We boil all our drinkin' water." Phil
adelphia Record.
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then you may be sure there is one
less rascal in the world,- Carlyle,
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