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For catalogue and application blank address, REV. THOMAS ROSSER REEVES, B.'A.TjPrinclpal, , BLACKSTONE, VA.f SATVMZ UUTATKi), y* Furuiatu'* m Fir Id ?r Study For Ti*e luvt'ittor. f? l>i<i you ever realise that Nature h?* tt pHt?H< offie* Ml full at lliYCil tioiiH thai man would bo at a loss to get along without them, aud if he hud to pay royalties on nil of them the price of the necessities of life would ho greatly increased there hy? Long before man took to in venting labor Having devices Nature had worked out many of the great est inventions of the age. It would Ko hard with some inventors if t he re was a law preventing infringement* upon Nature's patents. The curious tiling about it is, however, that man has laboriously thdught out his great inventions,, through the centuries, while a11 tfie time Nature had them ready for his study if lu? hud only the eyes to see. it in only in recent years that we have fully appreciated the fact that all about us are scattered de vices which serve us the fotftidatlons of most of our greut mechanical principles. For , instance, the fhnst block and tackle, which we employ so gener ally today, wus created in the eye of the first man born on the earth. This block and tackle controls the movement of the eyeballs, anil is a perfect miniature of those used in ordinary mechunlcul fields. if the first inventor of this labor-saving de vice hud understood the physiology of the body as we know it toduy he would have been saved many day 4 and nights of hard thought and ex periment. The first pump ever made and' the most wonderful and powerful yet in existence, is the heurt. For. its size It 1ius a greater efficiency thun any pump invented hy man. There are all the principles of the modern force pump in the heart, and it is murvelously up to date despite Its ancient , origin'. Hut for centuries inventors strugled with the pump, improving it slowly, and discover ing the elementury laws governing it. How much easier it would have been for them if they could have ta ken the human heart and studied it carefully! The force pump would then have been invented or copied completely. - When you pick up tools and use them you will find that many of them have what is called the ball and-socket joint. This enables one to form mechanical labor in an easy and efficient way. Half of our tools and machines would be pretty clum sy affairs without this little invent-] ive device. Yet Nature knew of this invention long before man dis covered it, and she utilized it in the construction of the human Frame. We have, after all, the most re markable ball and Troctcet? device rev? j er invented right in our bodies. We could not swing our arms without it. Our shoulder bones swing back and forth on the ball and socket arrangement, which no one has yet ever surpassed. Pivyn the modern invention of ball hearings was an ticipated by Nature. 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They are put together and held there by a pei feet hinge, which cannot be sur passed in efficiency by any found in your hardware btore. \mong birds, flowers and crawl* i? ft creatures we may f i 1 1 ? 1 tlie pro totype* of many of our modern in vention*. Nature lutb concealed botue of ? bese inventions, ?<_> that for age* they were not <libcovored, and ? ?t li - er* are exhibited ab plain a* day, Possibly their \ ery simplicity pre vented fiian troni discovering their value. l>o you suppose that the in Minor of the common gasfltters' pinchers went to the lohbter to Jear th^ principle* of hlb device? if not, he might well have done so, for '.lie lobster'* claw ib the original gas fitters' pincers. Recently tjiere have been put on. tlie market small boxes and recp t??ls which cannot roll off a shlf or able. These boxen and recepta cles which cannot roll off a shelf or table. These boxes oare made to contain snfull articles, such as fine gold dust, diamond chips, or any small article of value. They cannot roll of because of their pe culiar oval construction. If you hit them they roll around and around instead of off the shelf. A great invention, you say! Htlt it was a secret only to man. Nature made the original of this box in the first e^g of the miirre. You cannot knock one of those eggs off a table very easily, for it will roll around and around instead of off. This principle has now been applied to the construction of many small ar ticles for- desk use. Elect ricity gives us light -practi cally without heat? -an ideal method of illumination. Hut the lantern fly of tropical America was in the field long before we invented and constructed the electric lamp. Na ture built the electric battery long before man thougth of it in the head of the electri eel and the tor pedo fish. These creatures are ca pable of giving an electric shock of considerable force. In the head of the torpedo fsh I here are vertcal cojuiunsll of electrical plates which -irtrrrrber? his many as half a million. The plates or disks are separated by delicate membranes, which insu late them, and t bey resemble very much the ordinary voltaic pile so in use in electrical work. ^ Even our sewing and spinning ma chines had their prototypes in Na ture. The tailor bird was t lie first seamstress, and it stilt bed its leaves together perfectly long be fore man used the fish bone as a nuedle to sew bis Bkin garments to gether. It Is possible thrt It lie an* cientts got their first lesson in this art from the tailor bird. Then, as to spinning, the caterpillars and silk '?worms were ahead of our machines, and the spider even today can give us lessons in this art. No skill of man has ye tetjualled the fine spin ning of the spider. We cannot be gin to make threads :<s f lie and small as the spiders, nor can we weave them into such a fine, tough rope. These insects are supplied with machinery for spinning that is still little understood. Under the ultramlcroscope we may yet discov er some new principle of the art that will greatly help us to Improve our'splnnlg methods. Man today Is going more and more to Nature to learn secrets that are of interest to the mechanical and Industrial* world. It has long been a mistake to suppose these lit tle creatures are of value only to the specialist interested in catalog ing and mounting specimens. We know, for instance, that the earwigs carry about with them a dainty pair of forceps, and thut efficient pliers, pincers and scissors are part of the equipment of other Insects. The first balloon was the balloon or . "swellflsh," and we know that the first airship was a bird or fly ing insect. Indeed, our whole ad vance in aviation has been based upon a close study of birds and in sects. At first we -studied only the birds, but now we are making a more exhaustive study of the insects^ The common beetle constructed on the plan of a biplane and the birds on that of the monoplane. There Is a big distinction between them, and this fact has opened up a new field for study and experi ment. The lungs were the first pair of bellows, and their construction might well be studied by builders of forge and blacksmith's bellows. The jaw Is a perfect illustration of tthe lever principle of mechanics. For its size, the Jaw of any of our wild animals Is the most, marvelous application of tills mechanical prin ciple, The bones of the human body are fashioned with the idea of getting the greatest amount of stiff ness and strength with a minimum of material. Engineers long ago re cognized the value of a hollow ti^be In securing rigidity with lightness, but this principle was well ktlown to Nature, and she availed herself of it In building the bones of our legs and arms. The first, great chemical factory pf the world was the liver and sto mach of man and animals. We are Just beginning to learn the secrets of chemical action and reaction which Nature has been using for ages In the human stomach. En ough poisons are generated there every day to kill a dozen men, but Nature has supplied the antidotes, a of that we rarely suffer, except from excessive eating and drink ing. There is In the system a net work of semicircular canals which for ages baffled all scientific lnves " ? ? ..... ... ? , ? - ? ? ? ? ? ? ? * tigatoru u? to their meaning tud use. Now wo know that they oou? bittutu the r it-iit and greatest spirit level ever made. Without thl? ?l?l ill level we would not he able to balance ouraelveu. When the body Jjb beju or tipped over a little ihtw tipTrit-level Immediately Informs tin* bruin, and the proper aal of muscle* are called 1 tit <.? pluy to prevent our falling. We may think it |* our or gans of vUion that tell n* when the body Ik in danger of toppling over, but it ia in reality thiti ?plrlt-l?vel which works Ju?t an well artd satis factorily when the eye* are closed We say we know instinct vlely win n we art* lotting our balance, but this instinct in simply another naine for a proper working of our spirit-level In a remarkable way Nature* has* conserved her resources and udopted the tuoiii effective way of achieving result*. Consider the tree* t?i the forebt. What an enormous wind prt'hhure thertK i? brought to bear upon a large, leafy tree. A flagpole with half that amount of pressure would snap off. Then why do not the trees break oftener in wind storm*? Because Hie bark hinda the tisoucK of rhe wood together f><? that they cannot point a device which is frequently resorted to in median* hs t ?? secure great resisting strength. With wed gen we split rock ? and stones, but Nature ran split the hardest ami strongest nut terJal with a growing vine that Htea dlly but persistently pushes 1 1 h way up through a minute crevice. That Ik the f I r?*t and greatest wedge ev er invented, A growing acorn can split asunder the stoutest pavement or raise a ton rock from ith bed in the aoil. ? There in nothing ho promihlng to the Inventor as a careful study of the whole broad field of Nature. The World Today. TOOK HKK *TtOM (iH.WK Hut Husband Failed To Kevive Corpse of II Ih Wife. Napervllle, 111., May 26.? One of the wierdest struggles against d^uth -.t. world lum record of oc curred at Naperville, thin week; the ;4 hour,btrugglo of CharloB Hlilega . V?r^ 11 K ,1,H wlfe' who dledp-b?ck 0 life. And when it failed the uait broken man's thread of reason s lapped. Ho 1h mow a raving ma ttlac in the JQ.Il at Napervllle, the victim of the rnostt crushing gner that human being can experience. The pen of KdKUr Allen I'oe nev er wrote anything more appealing}} pathetic than the simple storv ?l Charles Hillegan. Mrs. llilleKan died while visiting relatives in Seattle, Wash., 2 weeks ago. When informed that his wife was doad Hillegan wouldn ot ?><? lieve it. Even when the body wan taken from the baggage car at Na pervllle, he insisted that a physi (,,?n should he called and efforts made to revive her. During the fu neral services in the simple home he sobbed violently and completely collapsed when the coffin hearing the body of his wife to the grave, was carried from the house. H was necessary t<> take him to bed ?lrid give him JKcdicai assistance. He remained in bed the following "ay until nightfall. As soon as 11 began to get dark, he stealthily crawled out, hastily dressed himself and, armed with a shotgun, an ax and a spade, he crept through <hc shadows to the silent cemetery, there he sought out the iresniy made grave, laid the ax and shot gun at the head, and began to <Hg- I Hillegan is 50 jears old and In! Trail condition, .and it took practi ca'ly the entire night for him to reaei, the box that held the coffin. 1 ?*h he smashed with the ax. The lid was removed Mom the coffin in 'he same manner, but more gently. Hillegan then tenderly lifted the body of his wife from the coffin and ?"t of the grave, and, staggering un der his crushing burden, both men tal and physical, began the two-mile a k to IiIb home. How he sue ceeded in making this long trip his relatives do not know and he pro ly will never be able to tell. But he made it, trudging thru the gate and back to a shop In tho rear of his home shrotly a'ter sunrise. He piace(] the body tenderly upon a In the shed, raised the head siignijy with ? a pilow and armed with his shl .t gun. then went to the house for fool. Relatives re monstrated with him, but Hillegan bternly reproved them. Waving his shotgun, he orderec them to leave him alone with hln, wife. "You robbed me of her once be iu>re,,'? he said. " j'ou can't do It He took food and a little bottle of camphor to the shed and began the work of trying to restore life In the body of his loved one. He rub bed camphor upon the cold brow, then offered food to the lips that refused to open. This process he continued for hours. Meanwhile word had gone out through the village that Hille Kan was trying to "work a miracle." A crowd soon congregated about the ground but nobody ventured inslue the enclosure. Hillegan made occa sional trips to the fence, trained his shotgun on the most curious ana warned them against interfering with him. <l?y l?nK Hillegan worked In the little shed, his eyes growing' wilder in their look and Ills move ments more uncertain eacj, hour. Then the sun went, down and even ing descended, and with the shad ows came tho realization tYiat work wfts in vain. The tears be gan running down his chfeeks. His emotion continued to grow until, af ter one exceptionally bitter outburst his reason gave way and ho became a raving maniac. Officers removed nim to Jail, and relatives tender ly returned the body of his wife to her grave in the cemetery. Mettood In Her Madness. A woman withdrew her divorce ?ult against her husband and bought blm an aeroplane. Evidently undertake ? . r,v ?' Sjj e>x AUbt PT PatJSON TS?rtUNfc - ? KAZY HORSE. Through u village of the Ogalatla Sioux dashed a pony, crazed by fright. A baby boy had Just been born in the village, and the appearance of the maddened pony wan taken by the in* font's parents as an omen, So tho now born child wan named "Cn.zy 1 lorso " (Among various Indian tribes it las always been the custom to give each child the name of the first object on which Its mother's eyes hap|K>u to f ill after tho baby's birth. This accounts for such odd Indian titles as "C n-.zy Horse," "Poor Dog." "White Ste? r," "(.old I K)llar," "Hidge Polo." "Hoi! :>g Kettle." ct ?? ) Craz.v llmae from the first herd civilization and was tho sworn em i y of the govern nuvut Ho silrrod > the southern Sioux to keep on leai' n* their old-time wild life and to refuse to 'settle on any reservation, fn con? sequence he speedily found hliti elf the loader of hundrcdg of "bad" In dians. both of bis own and of ot'er tribes. He was the firebrand of the whole frontier. Moro than once by superior strength, tho government sue ceoded In chocking and even tmptii* onlng him Hut he would never ad mit himself conquered, and always ? until tho last tragic episode of his tierce life- managed to wriggle 'Vee and tj> resume his career of blood shed. The Sioux Revolution. In 1875 many tribes of the Sioux and of some allied "nations" went on tho warpath. Their Slack Hills lands were stolen from them by the wMPo men. Government agents had mal treated and cheated them. Altogether they deemed It better to plunder at will and, If need bo. to die fighting rather than to starve or bo cheated on reservations. I'p to this time Crazy Horse had confined his warlike efforts foi tho most part to conflicts with Crow, Man dan and other tribes hostile to t ho Sioux, and . to raids on poorly defend ed whito settlements. In such ex ploits ho had won fame and hi#l learned generalship. Now he beramo one of tho principal war chiefs of tho whole uprising, scarce second In im portance to Sitting Hull himself. During a blizzard In the wittier of 1875 General Reynolds, at the head of a force of regulars, made a sudden attack on Crazy Horse's camp. Tho general sought to cripple the Indians there by capturing all their ponies. For without a pony an Indian la of little value on the warpath. The ponies were caught by the troops and were herded together. Hut Crazy Horse and members of his hand rushed- through the blinding snow, past tho guards, straight Into tho captured herd, waving blankets, screaming, firing guns and altogether making such wild uproar and con fusion that the whole panic-stricken herd burst through the lino of soldiers and stampeded Into the pralrio. Tho Indians, following tho escaped pontes' trail far more quickly and easily than could the troopers, soon caught up with their steeds, mounted them and rode to safety. General Crook followed up Crazy Horse's band, and first came upon (hem at Rosebud river, In Montana. There Crazy HorBe and his GOO "braveo" charged tho soldiers with 3uch ferocity and knowledge of sav age tactics that Crook, after a furi ous battle, was beaten back. He inachod with his warriors to Join Sitting Hull's red army. It was these two united bands that met and crushed Custer's troops at the Little Rig Horn on June 25, 1876. Sitting Bull found his way to Canada after this, campaign. Rut Crazy Horse and hla followers, botly pureued by General. Miles, went back to Rosebud ruver, where they had defeated Crook. Gen eral Mackenzie fell upon Crazy Horse's camp und, with some loss of men, succeeded In destroying it. The Last Battle. Crazy Harse then retreated toward t)ie Big Horn mountains, trying In vain to ahake off Miles' close pursuit. At length Miles caught up with him, and a terrible battle ensued. The sol diers could scarcely withstand the sav ages' hood long charges until the ar tillery wao brought up. Then the bom bardment of Rhells broke the Indian formation to pieces. Unable to cope with Buch overpowering odds as can non and gatllng, Crazy Horse was forced to retreat. The following spring he and his fol lowers were captured and placed on a reservation. He at once set to woi;k planning a new outbreak. The government heard of his plot and sent a squad of men secretly to arrest him. On 'September 7, 1877, Ife was over powered And seized. He wrenched himself free from the guard and while making a dash for freedom was shot dead. ? - (Copyright.) A Bit Mixed. u, He ? Do Yiurry, Kate; the train ertves In twenty minutes. She (absent-mindedly) ? Oh, be quiet. You know It's bail form to be *n time. ? Boston Transcript. HI. Virtue. "A horse is the most sympathetic it all animals." f "How do you make that outf" "Because he is always so ?ive to ? cry of 'Whoa!'"