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S Odd Creatures Found in Subterranean Lift Subterranean animal life presents many curious features. The life of the animals of the_caves is unique. The subterranean forms of life develop, reproduce and die entirely without sunlight. Among such forms of life there t* none of the mammal form, except a species of rat; and jX there Is no cavebird. Then, too, none of the subterranean animals requires • much nourishment. The greater abundance and variety of this life is met In grottoes with underground rivers. Usually the subterranean life resembles the general types of the country. It has entered the caves and there become accli-, mated, undergoing curious adaptive] * modifications. So it happens that generally find. In modified forms, thff life of our own time. In some cav». ems, however, there seem to be dls-f closed the remains of an ancient an** " ' lmal life that has everywhere else disl*^' appeared from the terrestrial rivers, living only In the caverns. The creatures of modern species1 that have adapted themselves to un-; derground conditions are sharply dif-* ferentlated from the dwellers in thef light Their skin is of a whitish hues'! . . or else transparent The eye ®trophies^ c y * j ^ . v J - v ^ - *T~' k i r *<*, ; • > • < 4 * > '*M ttr $ r~ >'*> :?'k • » 8" Sti? ;,w »'»i4»i>iw (f *;;'*• •%.- ^VT* or altogether disappears. The optic- 4 1 •' nerve and the optic lobes vanish, leaving the braio extraordinarily modified.;: ; Other organs deve'op In proportion :s those of hearing, smell and touch be-*' come enlarged to a degree. Sensitive hairs, Ions.and coarse, appear all overf the body. » „ j - - " i - - . i t - . t , 1 " , £-\1 cr • *+mr- ** v4 i-*2 • -'L* ,V*W4 •- <. ^ *7'*? f V ».•*>* \ * 4 * v.';*r Jf. • ' •*"*!* ,, rir. ' Din of Modern Battle Ended Drum's Prestifrf It was France which took the inlti-! ative, years ago, In doing away witlt the drum. Other nations followed. the example, and long before th«f World war the drum had disappeared^ It still figures In military bands, <fl course, but It plays no more part in warfare than the harp or the violin. Thus ended a long and honorable^ military career. The Greeks ascribed the Invention of tbe drum to Bacchus.' The Egyptians charged behind a rank!- of drummers. Plsarro found drum^ In South American temples. The Puritans of New England used the drum as a church bell and as a cal^' to arms against invading Indians. The heroic drummer boy was th«v stock figure of authors from Pllnyi down to Kipling. But France pointed oat to the world that the drum was a aerlous en cumj branee to marching, that rain spoile<f it, that its calls could not be heard. In the din of buttle, that it took tw« years to train an efficient drummer, and that the instrument's abandon* meat would release many young men for active service. The drum was accordingly done... away with.--Reboboth Sunday Hertldr K:,*' ;1' . ; . *;•>>' ;^r • % . >•, A +-:jr$W : - ;v . MM* ••V"' WW . rt . gwjyh; • < ^:. \ . f h - 1 mr • ,'«* ,"i" • - -'Vi •, N 'I.::- • • ,t; ^ .:iv . nave grows 'St Lim-' : • **- rt1* ' 4"^- you can n.. vs. i '* Jkr~ vmi- 'Al t ^ >s •' >y - ,1 Happy Gorilla Furfly. efWr i The gorilla Is monogamous and dS>> ,, <. K "vorce and remarriage are not amon^ • >"1"'. his problems. When domestic rela* ,v ' ^°** have once been formed they ro , t. main "until death doth part." No com- * ; panlonate or trial marriages In th* r / *OPe8t- The young clfng to the family ?"• <WP until matured, and often longeiv t V bringing their own mates to live la' ' . the habitat of their parents. The repu>» \ tation of this type of ape for ferocity j r'; ' la said to have been greatly exaggerate (•ved. As might be expected of an anii* f - mal loving peaceful home life with itf 4 I ^ family, the gorilla, naturalists assert; ' X_ rarely becomes dangerous unless at< . t tacked. In defense of Its family or ltx . self, however, it will savagely attack" ' who forces it late battM* as# no iv: tZsWi a • # % . -•'C' •> * M f •-••t 'jf ?• ;;.S- 7; V . i 1 •' f*' * 'V . x?: ' 4r Earth's Moti*M. The Naval observatory says that It cannot say fimi the earth has any cerv tain definite number of motions. ••Popular Astronomy," by Flammarlon and Gore, gives the following as the l| principal motions of the earth--other authorities might regard their number ' as greater or less than 11: Rotation on its axis, revolution about the sun, precession of the equinoxes, motion, around the center of "gravity of earth and moon, nutation, variation in the obliquity of the ecliptic, variation in the eccentricity, motion ^f the perihelion, planetary perturbations, motion of the sun arounj} the center <rf gravity of the solar system and the son's motion through space. « - '• *. - "ytovF' . •' . .. . > . vr- • K ***•- -rtm-.- • With Your Name Neatly Printed On Each Card vw.-i • '• W* *• i'i:4 ^ .;VvtV!"; • " •"• I*--. 4f.u«'75r "'v'w.- - ' *i •- FV : Twain. Likod TymwriUfc . Mark Twain Is said to be ftie first author) to submit typewritten manuscript t*-i publisher. In the autumn of 1874, 'Mr. Clemens was strolling down one of the streets of Boston with a friend, when he was drawn by curiosity to a strange-looking dein the window of a stationery *'W- ^ made a deep impression upon Twain, who purchased this prlmitf tlve typewriter, and shortly thereafter tbe manuscript of "Life on the MIs- Maalppr was typed on the machine which be had bought. Two boxes v . . • Three boxes . L-' - ns. . • - •• . --V' *• • - • ,?.y-A TT/f • k • • • • . r , ¥'», v • ite;. Without your name, per box y- tr i *r-ir:S , ' N' . * J W * :T->iVi^ r ».V.' A v ia/..'«ai ©K: -* f Dittrttd Eaongk. |m"Wd-proverb says the mind ought sometimes to be diverted In order that it may return the better to thinking. 4 Not much argument in that for the 1 average American. Most of our day Is given over to beipg diverted rather than to thinking. There are few of us who couldn't at least do better work, than we do if we gave more time to quiet and deliberate thinking and less to the. kind of hustle and hurry which la • quietly false motion.--Grove Patterson, iB the Mobile Register. ? • Now York'i F5r»t CKurck. Jpbe first church of Manhattan island Wis established there 300 years ago by JfOas Michfteltns. a tHitch minister Who whs wni over fW»m Holland. H«l»f«l Visitor. 'DeMt feel you must be Juat aa f^my is you can be when visiting a sick per lgn |q order to cheer him up. Keep h •leasant face and try to be entertaln tog, hm don't talk a© wort that yoo gtre the piifieni. \ \ ** ± """'I - 1 •' k' -. . ' i •. ,- ± •» .r ik:y .<• .v* »'.• . •• - if ' ,/. ?' :" V. -. '• >*1 , jiV/T \ v . : " ^ y § t. '>!• ap.t.?4