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Wednesday Nov, 9th, 1892
THE SITUATION IN THE
AMERICAN SOUTH.
Mr. A. W. Wright, who, it will
be remembered, waa at one time
editor of the Guelph Herald, has
an interesting article in tue current
number of the Lalce Magazine on
the Southern States since. the war.
From 1865 all 1$73, he •points out;
the South shared in the waves of
prosperity which swept, over the
Union. The hopes held out aa to
the importance of freedom to the
negro, and the progress and happi
neaa which would folloav emancipa-
tion, seemed about to be realized.
To -day, the people of the South,
white and black, instead of being:
free of debt, are struggling under a
Lurden too great to be borne. In -
steak of receiving good pri es the
products of their farms will barely
pay the cost of production, and are
usually mortgaged before being
harvested in order to pay current
expenses. Instead of good wages
and steady employment, laborers
can.hardly get a poor subsistence in
return for their work.
So bad does the position appear
that Mr. Wright, with 'alt hie sym-
pathy for labor and for freedom, de
claree that "what I have seen in the
South compels me to doubt whether
after all it is not true that both
morally any physioally the negroes
have loot by emancipation." Hard
necessity parts as many families as
did the auction block. The goad of
hunger is as terrible as the whip of
the overseer, while the chargee of
laziness and improvidence made
against the negro are, to eay the
the )east, not greatly exaggerated. A
significant sign of 'changed condi•
Clone will be found in the simple
fact mentioned to Mr. Wright by
an old negro, with a probably unin-
tentional touch of pathos ; "Befo'
de wahwe ,used to sing at cotton
pickin'; you nebber hear dat no
mo',"
The South is a beautiful country,
with fertile soil, and in many parts
a delightful climate. Yet Mr.
Wright is able to make the follow-
ing statement :
"Southern Maryland, say the
counties of St. Mary's aria Charles
were at one timethe moat produc-
tive on the continent. The lands
are wonderfully rich, and the cli-
mate has not a drawback, Draw a
circle around this district, melting
Southern Maryland the centre of a
circle 400 miles in diameter and
you include more than five million
inhabitants. Washington, Balti-
more and Philadelphia are close at
hand, while New York, Brooklyn
and Boston are easy of access, Yet
land is offered for sale there, with
no purchasers, at ten and twelve
dollars per acre."
Knowing the way in which Oana-
dian farmere make money out of
cattle, hp wondered for some time
why the Southerners did not turn
to the occupation of cattle raising
in order to aid their profits. But
he has ceased to wonder. Next in
importauce to the Standard Oil
Company in a land of rings and
combines," is the great beef com-
bine, which, from its headquarters
in Chicago and Kansas City,
"stretches its tentacles into every
state and county in the Union." If
a butcher starts a business anywhere
he is offered the choice of selling the
combine's beef, or of meeting the
opposition of a shop established by
the combines at his very doors. So
this opening is destroyed- Mr.
Wright, in his whole article, pre-
sents clearly a condition, not a
theory, aad it remains for the Unit.
ed States to End some remedy for
this menacing state of affairs in the
most pleasant portion of its
dam ains.—Guelph Herald.
0a411 170104 YAOU
On the tenth`page of .rhes m rte
of Sstyrdily will be found' iihe ',
Ur, dress of ill A. MQNoi11, Af.,..,
for Nor)h Bruce, before the She!.
Roll, Eng„ ("Amber of Commerce
ou the the 12th O.atober,. For olear-
uese of expression narebaliittg of
reliable facto, well reasoned dedutf-
tione, patriotic inspiration and au
altogether exhaustive argument for
imperial reciprocity in a oondeneed
form the presentment is an effort
without parallel either in the best
efforts of Colonial or Imperial states.
men. We make a few extracts r --
',CANADIANS UNANIMOUS.
If ever there was a proposition up
on which the people of Canada were
united it is upon thie proposition
whioh 1 am about to lay before you
to day. (Applause.) 'Phis proposi-
tion, whioh I will read from the
official records of the House, is as
follows :
"Moved by Mr. McNeill, That if,
and whey, the Parliament of Great
Britain and Ireland admits Canadian
products to the markets of the
United Kingdom upon more favor
able terms than it accords to the
products of foreign countries, the
Parliament of Canada will be pre•
pared to accord corresponding ad-
vantages by a eubitantial reduction
in the duties whioh it imposes upon
British manufactured goods." (Ap-
plause.)
In ether words we in Canada say
to you in England—We are one peo-
ple *itb you ; our interests are
yonr interests. Let us then
take concerted , action in de-
fence of our " common interest.
Let us stand shoulder to shoulder
together and say to day that
British goods in British markets shall
at least receive some little advantage
over the goods of the foreigner, who
in every quarter of the world is crip-
pling and curtailing our trade, and
injuring it by every means, in his
power. (Cheers) The interests of
England are inseparable from those
of her colonial' empire—(cheers)—
and any argument addressed to this
subject which does not recognize that
essential -condition is misleading,
short sighted,and fallacious. (Cheers)
England must be prepared to make
almost any sacrifice for the main-
tenance and defence of her colonial
eml'i •e -she roust if occasion arises
be prepared to pour out her blood
and treasuee like water to maintain
that empire. (Cheers.) Not from
sentimental considerations only, but
as a mere matter of business ; because
in doing so she would be fighting for
her own existence as a firstselass
power—she would be fighting for
the maintenance of that trade which
is the very breath of her noatrils—
(cheers)—fighting for her own future
aggrandisement as the emporium, the
centre and the heart, of the mightiest
trading confederation that man has,
ever seen. (Cheers.)
THE RESOURCES OF THE EMPIRE,
You know, alt of you—and I need
not eleborate that branch of the
subject, because in dealing with
business men I will assume many
things which if I were dealing with
a popular audience I should be
obliged to prove—that within your
own empire you h'tve everything you
can require. You know that your
own empire can provide you with all
yon need in lavish abundance.
(Cheers.) All that is required is to
develop the resources of your empire
and to arrive at concerted action
among yourselves. (Cheers.) I would
ask you, as business men, whether as
a matter of business it would not be
well to turn your attention a little
to the development of your own re•
sourdea rather than to continue
to patronize the foreigner to the
injury of your own people --(cheers)
—and to the neglect of your own
poseesaions. I would ask your
whether that is not especially true,
in view of the fact that by develop-
ing the resources of our own empire
you,would be developing by far you
best market—(hear, hear)—while by
continuing to patronize the foreigner
you are strengthening the hands of
those who are your commercial rivals
and who are injuring your trade in
every quarter of the world. (Cheers).
Now I say that the policy for Eng-
land to pursue, the policy for traders
to pursue, is the development of
your own empire. Every man who
can be induced to settle in your
territories rather than in foreign
countries is a source of wealth to this
country and of ddfensiye strength to
the empire. (A voice : •'True,"
For it is proved not in theory mere-
ly, but by the test of praotioal ex-
perience, that "trade follows the
flag'' and that the people of your
own empire, man for man, consume
enormously more of your products
than do the people of foreign coun-
tries. (I3ear, hear.) I will read you
a few figures in proof of that state-
ment, and you will forgive me if I
quote from some words of wy own .
"Let us compare the United States
and the five great powers of Europe
with Canada and five of the other
great colonies of the empire, We
find that while the United States
takes over $2 per head of her popula-
tion of English manufactured goods
Canada takes over $8. (Cheers),
While Austria takes 16 Dents per
head the West Indies takes $I1.65
per bead. While Russia takes 31
cents per head the Cape takes $23
per head. While Italy talres $1.35
New Zealand takes $26 per head.
(Cheers.) While:Germany takes $2.06
per head Victoria takes $31 per
her bead, (Cheers.) While France
takes $2.16 per bead New South
Wales takes $31.50 per bead.
(Cheers,)
REASONS FOR A CHANGE OF COMMERCIAL.
POLICY.
If then, gentlemen, the policy that
I advocate must result in diverting
the stream of emigration which is
now pouring into foreign countries to
your own territory, and thereby in-
creasing your own best customers by
millions; if it must result in the
dttR f t>re :great W4atrt•stowing
Orr tar ;' 11 therele supply;p
yore lq It !Air year* Iudeod with
that a► ounl of w,heIt,whiab would
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come and she may •1)0 induced too
in her lot with the people of t
United Statex --if, 1: oay,.:thie poi
will in deed and in truth accompl
all this, then surely the reasons m
be potent indeed that can justify y
in refusing this offer made. to you
your kinsmen in Canada, (Chea
It requires no argument to prove
business men that a•settler in Cana
would have a tremendous advanta
over a settler in foreign countries
the United States, for example) if
could have his goods admitted in
the great markets of England --i
comparably the greatest markets
the, world—on terms more favorab
than are accorded to the settler
the United States. (hear, hea
It requires no argument
show what an enormous ac
vantage a man going to Caned
would thus possess over a man goin
to the United States. I venture t
say that there is not one seen wh
has resided for any length of time i
Canada or in the United States, an
who has given any reasoning atten
tion to this question, who la not con
vinced that such an advantage afford
ed to the settler in Canada woul
divert the main strean ofemigratio
from northern Europe and from th
United States to the shores of Can
ada. (Cheers.) Thus you .woul
have your wheat fields in Caned
peopled, you would be supplied wit
the wheats you require, and yo
would have millions, as I say, added
to your best customers—millions, re
member, who would be better cos
tone s still, because, according to
the terms of the resolution, they
would admit your products on terms
more favorable than ever before, and
thus the prosperity of the Dominion
would react on the mother land, and
Canada and England would be unit-
ed together by ties that neither
fraud nor force could dissever,
(Cheers.)
NO FREE TRADE EXISTS TO'.DAY,
Judging from the way objection is
urged, one would almost think that
the objectors imagined England bad
free trade. But . the trader must
sell as well as buy. (Cheers,) You
cannot trade by buying only. (Hear,
hear.) In order to have trade you
must have both buying and selling,
and in order to have free trade there
must be free selline as well as free
buying. (Cheers.) If England has
not free selling and you in Sheffield
know something about that---(laugh-
ter)—she can scarcely be said to have
free trade, (Hear, hear.) Some of
these advocates of this so called free
trade seem to think that the selling
is an altogether subordinate consid-
eration—(laughter)—that the whole
and important matter is the buying.
(Laughter,) Well, that might suit
moneyed men lIke my friend Col.
Vincent—(laughter)—or It might suit
people with mixed incomes, or per.
haps even it might suit eminent
professors who sit comfortably in
their studies evolving, fine drawn
theories of political econony. But
the selling side of trade is of some
importance to the laboring man.
(Hear, hear.) He can only earn the
necessaries of life for himself and for
those dependent upon him by sell-
ing his labor, and he cannot sell his
labor unless ,you can sell the pro.
ducts of it. (Hear, hear.) I think
therefore to the laboring man the
selling side of trade is a matter of
considerable importance. (Cheers).
It does not matter how cheap you
call food it is dear to, the man who
cannot afford to buy it. (Cheers).
This, therefore, is especially a poor
man's question. (Cheers.) I am
compelled to the conclusion that if
some great change do"its not take
place in England within a short
period of time, the condition of
those who are dependent for their
suste-nance ou their manual labor will
become desperate indeed. (Cheers)
•
THE PEOPLE OF TEMOCHO,
MEXICO, ALMOST COM-
PLETELY ANNIHI-
LATED.
BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T PAY THEIR
TAXES TO THE GOVERNMENT --
HAND TO HAND CONFLICT
• IN A CHURCH,
News of the extermination of the
Temechjona, a people who inhabit
the village of Temocho and who
are nearly pure Aztoce, was received
here last night. Temocho is situa-
eituated on the direct road to Guer-
rero and Jesus Maria, in the Moun-
tains of South•weetern Chihuahua,
Mexico, and. has been in open rebel-
lion against the State and Federal
'Governments for. more than a year
on account of excessive taxation,
extortion by Government officials
and Government interference in
their religious belief, Two
months ago the Government gent
the Eleventh Battalion, in command
of Gen. Ranjel, to make the people
pay the tax or kill every one of
them. This alternative was openly
boasted of by the officers in Chihua-
hua before the tr'oopl started for
this town, and when the Temochiona
heard of it they decided to
fighknew
that even shoulit out, d they y receive
the soldiers peaceably they would
be shot on the slighest provocation.
When the soldiers made their de
scent on the village they were met
and driven off, with twenty-two
officers and fourteen men killed
tikeia, prlIonoxa, ThwOriaohers 'ore
eimilhad qukthe top of teamt oho
Qhurgh,. %h.. R*p$el t"lritl-. be -only
Qfcer who .etre. ed, Wlien '.the..
new(i' Otitis Sfrol tea be. -:
d he r
of Prealdent Diaz he deafiled ears
Annihilatethe village, and wizen
the people were ;milled they on.
owmred; "fled ie with us and we will
not be token," 8eldliera',1eft Chf•
huabua two Week ago cod fgrtu.sd; a
june ion with otbera from linos
Altos, Guerrorro, to the number of
1„200. and last Monday the attack
watt made on all $idea. The Tomo,
ohibns, who only number 38, with
their families, took refuge in the
church and awaited the attack,
which took place about one o'clock,
The attack was made on all sides
and the slaughter was something
terrible. At dusk the soldjera
gained an entrance to tliip church,
and a terrible hand -to hand fight
took place, and the soldiers Com-
pleted the massacre with 368 of
their number killed and many
wounded. The village the next
day presented a terrible aspect.
The streets of the Little village lead-
ing teeuthe church were filled with
the bodies of the soldiers, and
blood seemed to have flowed in
torrente. Not a man of the Tomo
thione was left, except those who
happened to be out in the moun-
tains, but the Government has paid
dearly for it. The Temochions
were some time ago very wealthy
people in cattle and farina, but the
lack of rain and 'failure of their
crops had brought them to poverty,
and they were unable to exist under
the extortions of the Government
and its petty officials. and were
nearly brought to starvation.
POULTRY AND EGGS.
When eggs are ten cents a dozen
there is profit in incubators, says
the tlanacliau Poultry Journal. But
when they are 25 or 30 cents a
dozen sell the eggs.
Whole wheat is better for fowls
than corn, It does not make them
so fat, and considering the number
of eggs that can be secured by using
it, ie altogether a more economical
food.
Over and over again has it been
demonstrated that though the pro-
fit from one hen per annum may be
. one dollar and the protit from 20
hens $20, the profit from 100 hens
will not be $100, nor from 500 hens
$500, in the hands of the average
individual. Poultry, as a side
issue on the farm, pays well for
labor and food invested, but it is
only in exceptional cases that a big
poultry business has any money in
it for the person engaged. A flock
of twenty-five hens, managed for pro-
fit, may be made very profitable ; occ-
asionally the number may be doubt•
ed with safety ; after that, in nine
cases out of ten, trouble and loss
The mechanism of the leg and
foot of a chicken or other bird that
roeata,Mali- ?_-ala•isamarvel of de-
sign. It. often seems strange that
a bird will sit on a roost and sleep
all night without falling off, but
the explantion is perfectly simple.
The tendon of the leg of a bird that
rooate is eo arranged that when the
leg is bent at the knee the claws
are bound to contract, and thus
hold with a sort of death grip the
limb round which theLare placed.
Put a chicken's fent on your wrist and
then make the bird sit down and
you will have a practical illustra-
tion on your akin that you will re•
member for some time. By this
singular arraugment, seen only in
such birds as roost, they will rest
comfortably and never think of
holding on, 'for it is impossible for
them to let go till they stand up.
The best remedy for diseases of
the brain and nerves in fowls, says
Joseph Wallace in tka. Poultry
Monthly, is bromide of potassa, three
or four grains dissolved in half a
gill of scalded milk, twice a day.
In such cases the milk must be
poured down, After the third day,
reduce the dose to two grains.
Feed bread soaked in milk, in the
same way, for the fowl is unable to
eat. Unless the bird is valuable,
after a few day's attention and rest
from excitting causes, and does not
improve, it is certain that the twist•
ing of the head is dependent upon
sone nervous lesion either in brain
or apinal cord, and it will not pay
to bother any longer with it, se such
canoe rarely terminate satisfactori-
ly.
ROMANTIC SUICIDE,
A MYSTERY OF CHARING CROSS HOTEL
—A PITIFUL LAST LETTER,
The number of suicides of young
women in England has been appall-
ingly large of Late. One of the
saddest was that of Rose Clifford, la
beautiful girl, who took a fatal dose
of chloral at the Charing Cross
Iiotel last week. She left one
of the moat pitiful letters ever
penned. She had been deserted by
her Iover, said to be a prominent
man, and, after describing his 'con-
duct without exposing his identity,
she wrote :
' "I have learnt today how utter-
ly alone I sin in the world, and it
has filled nie with a grief and dee-
.
and two officers and forty -fire men TI
I cannot endure and live,
fere were faults on both sides,
':bwl 1 litiit . ,a little (ort etrlrauee
:frottalto sttto»ger would .have been
More, taharjtable and certainly, 1.00:.
-banorehle;..and manly, To thrust
:1110 elope t0%I am, and knowing • the
tendepoy 1 have to $elf•doatruetton,
out in t.bo world without a friepd
anywhere 'was the trot of a coward •
and by refusing to answer any of
my appeals for explanation,'ire eon•
deceit to ta'y act encl. perhaps won.
dere at the delay*hy do 1
lingerWhat hope can there be
in my heart when the curt message
east me was. 'Out of town.' Ou
Wednesday last I should have
crushed and ruined him, but even
now in this bitter hour, I will be
more noble than he has proved, and•
let his conscience be hie must r;
but will hie God. or mine adjudge
him the less my murderer becauee
man shall say 'temporary insanity'?
That condition has indeed pearled
over me, leaving me so weak and
irresolute that I cannot decide on
anything, and so conclude the beat
way 'out of my difficulties is to go
hence and be no more trouble to
any one.
"I have today taken back the
greater portion of. the money he
would buy his freedom with, keep-
ing only what is required for my
last uses. If disclosures make it
appear I have been extravagant let
my judges remember the miserable
position I was bit, and think would
they have been better than I. Will
he send a few yellow rosea? No, I
know he will not, and for yearn the
sight of them will make him wish
he had less unworthy proved.
"pear as remembered kisses after death,
Aad sweet as those is hopeless farcy
feigned,
0 death is fife, the days that are no
more.
"Good -by."
TCOUBLE WITH POULTRY.
I have often thought I would
write a letter but did not have the
courage till I saw Lithe Nan's letter
about her experience with poultry.
I started in the poultry business
nine years ago, when we first went
to houaekeepiug.
The first requisite is to keep your
chickens free from lice ; on that
depends your success. I began one
winter with twenty five hens, and
what care I did give them ! They had
is hot breakfast every morning of
potato parings and all the scrape
from the table, cooked and thicken
ed with bran or meal, skimmed
milk to drink, all the water they
wanted, and after their warm break•
fast I would throw wheat and (sate
in some straw and how they would
work to get it ! That would keep
thein busy till supper time ; then I
fed them scorched corn. My hus-
band banked the coop with straw
and I papered it on the inside to
keep it warm. I only sold eight
dollars worth of eggs. Through
carelessness on our part next euro.
mer the hens got lousy, and what
was the reenit? More lice hatched
than chickens, and out of one hun-
dred and fifty I sold twenty-seven.
About the middle of summer we
found out the trouble, took the
straw away and tore off the paper,
and oh what a sight 'under that
paper ! Well, I gut rid of the lice
with kerosene, fire and water and
have been careful to keep clear of
them since. I will come again and
toll you of my success.
MR,S. A. DO,
FALING HEARD FROM.
TIIE NOTORIOUS CROOK WORKING IIIS
GAME AGAIN.
Faling, alias Cole, Alias Hale,
who escaped from the Stratford jail
a short time ago, has turned up at
Salt Lake city, where he has swindl-
ed a bank out of $2500. Tho prises
oner was awaiting trial at Stratford
when he escaped, on the eharee of
obtaining $1000 from J. W. Scott,
a banker, of Listowel, on a bogus
draft. He was extradited front the
U. S. on this matter, and notwith•
standing the fact that tie Stratford
authorities were warned that he was
a noted jail breaker, got away.
THE FALL WEB WOR1I,
Dr. W. E. Lazenby says : The
fell web worn is a well known in.
sect; and does a vastamount of injury.
During last summer and the early
autumn the Targe unsightly web of
this foe to trees may be seen along
the roadside and in the wood lot.
The orchard does not escape its
attack. The perfect insect is a
light-colored moth, which deposits
its eggs on the leaves of various
trees in early summer. When the
eggs hatch the young caterpillars
begin to spin a web for protection.
They enclose a good supply of leaves
and enlarge the web as their own
increasing size demands. The most
practical remedy for this peat is to
cut off the webs soon after they are
formed and either burn or crush the
larvre. This a simple remedy and
ought not to be delayed. If the
webs are too large and to cut them
off' would remove ton much of the
tree they can be destroyed by a
thorough spraying of Paris green or
London purple. Thn earlier this ie
done the more effective it is likely
to prove.
.3TGt 0.441100.<,.
1,7n4er thie head .the Prooki;yci
a,gre pOiieheM.-the 'fellow
The largest a in 011#coital y
that we hate seed any 014(r4 of rt.
what waa known as the (hntonpial
ox. Ho toad exhibited at `>'ifft
Centenrial in Philacielpbio in 1$78,
Fie me bred by 8atttnel Iiitrkley, of
Somerset ,county, Pa.,, and VW the
largest lipoolmen of the bovine the
world has ever seen. Ile weighed
4,600 pounds the day he arrived in .
Philadelphia, Be was Of mixed
stock, being native scrub and Ayr.
shire, the native predominating.
After the close of the exhibition the
giant ox was butchered and ex,
hibited as show beef at Philadeiphia
during the holidays of 1876.
A Shorthorn steer weighing 4,100
pounds was slaughtered at Detroit
in 1874. A. N. Meal, of Moberly,
Mo., formerly owned the largest
cow in the world. Mr. Meal dis-
posed -of in 1883, the Cola circus
company being the purchaser. She
weighed the day of the sale, 3,296
pounds. Mr. John Pratt, of Chase
couuty, Kan , was the owner of a
cow weighing 3,200 pounds. She
was of the common scrub etock and
stood nineteen hands high.
TO PARENTS.—DIPHTHERIA.
Diphtheria is prevalent in Toron•
to and the doctors are trying to ar.
rive at the cause. Parents can do
a great deal to prevent its spread,
and that is this: Examine your
children'e throats every morning.
If ' you see signs of sore throat
send for your doctor and keep the
youngsters at home. A little ex-
perience makes one expert at the
b•taine's. A child of three can be
taught to open its mouth and show
its tonsils in one or two lessons.
Get then) on your knee, tell them
to open their mouth and to say the
vowel sound A1J continuously for a
couple of seconds. If there are
any white patches you can see them
without trouble. The danger lies
in neglecting these sore throats for
two or three days and allowing the
little ones so affected to mingle
with others. A sore throat that is
only an inconvenience to one
yonngster, if communicated to an-
other may find in the latter just Inc
conditions to develope diphtheria.
There is no father too bray to
justify neglect of such a daily ex-
amination.—World.
CANADA'S IMPORT .DUTIES.
IF LOWERED WOULD BENEFIT HER
MERCHANTS, SO SAYS SIR JOHN
LUBBOCK,
At a meeting of the London
Chamber of Commerce held last
week Sir John Lubbock, delivered
an address in which he dwelt upon
the unsatisfactory state of trade,
which, however, he declared, had
not been affected by the McKinley
tariff to the extent that was expect-
ed. British trade with America, he
said, had declined less than it clad
with other countries The greatest
sufferers' wore the Americans, who
felt the pinch more acutely than
did the British. Canadian export-
ers, Sir John added, were in a con-
ditition of commercial paralysis
that could not be indefinitely pro-
longed. The McKinley bill con-
stituted a grand opportunity for
Canada. This bill had placed
American farmers at a disadvantage,
If Canada profited by the position
and lowered her import dutiee on
British goods her merchants would
be benefited, because many British
products required in the West
wood inevitably find their way
through Canada and across the bor.
der without paying the heavy cus-
toms dues.
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A GRASSHOPPER'S EARS.
Here is a funny state of affairs.
A grasshopper has its ears in its
forelegs 1 Supposing one of your
friends had an ear on each of his
arms, between the wrist and elbow,
would you not think it a very queer
place? Yet this is just where ears
are situated in crickets and •graes-
hoppera, tells a writter in St. Nich-
olas,
On the tibia of their forelegs may
be seen a bright, shiny spot, oval in
form, which has been found to be a
true ear. Old naturalists supposed
these, strange structures helped in
some way to intensify the penetrat-
ing, chirping sound of crickets.
No one for a monent thought they
might be ears, and I don't wonder
at it. However, Sir John Lub-
bock and other modern naturalists
have decided that crickets, bees,
ants and other little animals shall
not keep their sense organa a secret
from us any longer, and although
these are often in the least supected
places, etill by careful experiments
they are sure to be diseovered, as
was the cricket's ear. Some grass-
hoppers have no ear in their legs,
and as a rule these cannot sing.
While on the subject of eats I
have something else to toll you.
There is a certain member of the
cruatecean family whose two ears
would give yon much trouble to
find ; for where do you suppose
they are ? In one of the segmenta
of its tail !
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