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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. The vertebrae
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of the snake consist* of a long chain
of balls and sockets which work on
the principle* of the ballbearings
tin- principles of the ball bearing*
of our bicycles and automobile*.
Many Invention* are so common
iiiiii we iio uot uiop to inuutrv u.
pout their origin bm you cau rest,
assured that their construction by
primitive man was not a simple or
mat tii, Working in the 4(iVk
h? must often have stumbled upon
mechanical principles by accident, or
possibly he copieu some of his ideas
froijj Nature. Ktor Instance, the
fit'H and best hinge ever made was
found in an oyster. Take the
horny oybter of the Pacific coast
and examine itb shells. 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
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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
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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. ? -
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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!'"