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Notice of Altering and Vacating Public
Road.
You will take notice, that the undersigned, and
ethers, as petitioners, will on Monday. Novem
ber 13, 19Qf, present to the County Court of Jack
.son County, Arkansas, a petition asking that the
."acksonport and Newport public road be vacated
and altered as follows:
That said road as now traveled and established
he altered so that the same shall run over Lot 4
and part of lots 7, 8 and 9, of block* 12, and lots 4
and 9 of block 13 of Morris Addition to Newport
according to the plat thereof of record, and that
sa a road as now traveleu be vacated.
C. G. HENRY et ol.
Petitioner*.
Warning Order.
Caledonia Williams, plaintiff, vs. Ben I Wil
liams, defendant, in the Jackson Chancer.'- Court.
The defendant. Ben I. Williams is warned to
appear in this court within thirty days and an
swer the complaint of the plaintiff. Caledonia
Wijlian: s, October 23, 1906.
J. D. NEAL. Clerk.
Warning Order.
J. B. Fowler, plaintiff, vs. Nannie Fowler, de
fendant, in the Jackson Chancery Court.
The defendant. Nannie Fowler, is warned to
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oeriia. iAl,'.. J. It. NEAL, Clerk.
OCEANS TO ORDER.
WTiat Engineers Propose Doing
with the World's Deserts.
\ rkt Rak ara t ould Be galrklr Mala
aa lalaad Sea—Project t» Of rid*
Irelaad with a
Caaal.
Few people realize how completely of
late years the surface aspect of this
w eazened old globe of ours has been al
tered and improved.
1 he world to-day, in fact, differs
from the world of our ancestors, much
as a society lady, in all the glory of fold
md frill and furbelow, differs from her
•stage sister running wild in pestilen
tial woods. As art has transformed the
one, so has it the other.
Only the “Maie. Rachel” who has
made the earth, if not exactly “beauti
ful for ever," at least a pleasant and
healthful place wherein to dwell, is no
charlatan with a dray load of cos
metics and a glib tongue, but a civil en
gineer, owning nothing more harmful
than a few mysterious-looking instru
ments and a measuring tape.
And the marvel of it all is this—that
what has been done is but an infinites
imal fraction of that which may, and
doubtless will, be done. Who can doubt,
for instance, that the great Sahara
desert — that mole u^>n the world'a
face—will one day be but a memory?
> It was an inland sea once. It would not
be a very difficult matter to convert it
| Into one again.
A canal 60 miles long, connecting
with the Atlantic the vast depression
which ruus close up to the coast nearly
midway between the twentieth and
| thirtieth parallels of latitude, would do
the business beautifully. The water
would not, of course, cover the entire
surface of the desert. Here and there
| are portions lying above sea level.
X UC8C TYVU1U WCCUUIC lur I9IIUU1 luw
new Sahara ocean.
What would ba the results that would
aasue upon thta stupendous transfor
mation? Some would be good and soma
bad. Among the latter may ha men
tioned the probable destruction of tha
viueyards of southern Europe, which
depend for their existence upon tha
warm dry winds from the great African
desert.
In a similar manner the greater por
tion of the central Australian desert,
covering an area of fully 1.000,000
square miles, might be flooded. The is
land continent would then be recon
verted into a gigantic atoll, and would
resemble, roughly, an oval dish of
which the depressed central portion
would be covered with tenter and only
iho “rim" inhabited. In this connec
tion it may be interesting to note that
a company has actually been formed
for submerging the V«ma desert, in
southern California. If the plan, as at
present proposed, Is carried out, a tract
of absolutely uninhabitable territory,
comprising nearly IS,000 square miles,
and the greater portion of which lies
between 500 and 1,000 feet below sea
| level, will be submerged
A few Englishmen—known as “little
Englanders”—still blstne the govern
l ment for insisting upon the reconquest
of the Soudan. “A useless acquisition,”
! say they. Perhaps I
Hut capable judges believe that It
would have been little less than suicidal
to have allowed these regions to fall
Into the hands of France; for the aim
pie reason that her engineers, by divert
ing the course of the Nile at Abu Hamed
1 or Berber—no very difficult task—
could at any time turn all upper Egypt
Into a desert.
I It has even been suggested that It
might be possible —by turning its wa
ters into one of the many lateral
ravines which run at right angles to
the present course of the river—to find
a new outlet for it into the Red sea. and
thereby to transform, (a process of
time, that sheet of water into a great
fresh water lake.
TO accompli All till*, .T woura OI couriii
be necessary to build a giant dam
across its southern "neck," near Perltu,
and to regulate, or rather atop alto
gether, the inward flow of the Mediter
ranean through the Suer canal- a big
task, but one not eutirely Impossible of
accomplishment.
The abbve are example* of big
schemes. Th»re are many others that
might be mentioned, including, of
course, the Panama and Nlcaragian
canal*, and the French “war canal” be
tween the mouths of the Loire and the
Rhone, which, when completed, will
enable iheir ironclad* to dodge round
behind Gibraltar when pa*»ing from
the Atlantic to the Mediterraenan or
sice versa.
But it is the comparatively little en
gineering feats which have slowly but
surely altered In the past and will alter
in the future the face of the earth. Even
so small a matter, for inatance, aa the
proposed seawall at Southend will cer
tainly deepen the estuary of the
Thames, and may conceivably do aw-ay
with the Goodw in sands.
A scheme was recently mooted to cut
a ship canal through the center of Ire
j land, beginning at !>t *lin and finish
j ing at Galway, it would be no very
difficult feat to aocorip’Nb. for nc*st
! of the country throng!- whi< b It would
pass is flat ate I boeg' * hieagot 1—on
tele. _
I I nalit ••l.lef llial Fellow Basil?
One day Toinm.' a-ompanied his
mother on a shopping expedition, and,
seeing a large eaudv man in * onfec
i tinner’s window, he pa ised in front of
! It with a wistful look Then, turning
away, regretfully, he said 'Mamma,
I could lick that fellow with both hand*
tied behind me."—Troy Times.
Natural Instinct*.
I There has never yet been discovered
». woman v> strong-minded that she
j didn't long and pray for a sealskin
siiMHte and a white satin sofa cushion.
scorpion's srrcroi*
Positive Evideace TStat the CreatuM
Does Kill Itself.
j
| In Which <h« Ael »f irlh
D«alra(?ll«n Wat taatlttakthlf
Wlta«a»4—
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Lord Byron bas referred to a tendane
vy of the scorpion to commit awicldo
when unrounded by Are. Naturally
enough, this has been regarded as w
poetic Action; and a distinguished
writer has gone so far as to say that the
“popular Idea regarding scorpionlo
suicide is a delusion based on an impos
sibility.” The impossibility to which
this writer refers is this: The sting of
the scorpion is in its tail, and the ter
mination of the tail is recurved, so that
it would really be impossible for the
scorpion to sting itself on the under
part, of its body. But it is not impos
sible for the sting to penetrate the back
or even the head; and there is positive
evidence that in certain circumstances
the scorpion does commit suicide in
that way. This creature seems to bs
unable to endure light; and when ills
exposed to light it seems to become so
desperate as to end ita torture with its
own sting. W. G. Biddle tells this In
cident, which he himself observed in
Madras, and which he communicated
to Nature:
"One morning a servant nrought ta
me a large specimen of scorpion, which,
having staid out too long In its noo
turnal rambles, had apparently got be
wildered at daybreak and been unable
to find its way home. To keep it safe,
the creature w^s at once put into a
glazed entomological case. Having a
few leisure minutes in the course of the
forenoon, 1 thought L would see how
my prisoner was getting on, and tb
have a better view of it the case waa
placed in a window in the rays of tha
hot sua. The light and heat seemed ta
irritate It very much, and this recalled
V) my mind a story which I had read
somewhere that a scorpion, on being
surrounded with fire, had Committed
suicide. I hesitated about submitting
my pet to such a terrible ordeal; but,
taking a common botanical lens, I fo
cused the rays of the sun on its back.
The moment this was done it began ta
run hurriedly about the ease, hissing
*nd spitting in a very fierce way. Thia
experiment was repeated some four or
five times with like results, but on try
ing it once again the scorpion turned
its tail and plunged the ftinger quick
ss lightning into its qwn back. The
Infliction bf the wound was followed by
a audden escape of fluid, and a friend
standing by me called outi ‘See, it has
itung itself; it is dead;’ and sura
enough, ih less than half a minute life
was quite extinct. I have written thia
brief note to show (1) that animals may
commit suicide; (2) that the poison of
certain animals may be destructive to
themselves.” /
An eminent writer, Dr. Allen Thorny
son, F. R. S., has contributed the foi
lowing narrative of facts observed by
B. F. Hutchinson, while living in tha
summer at the baths of Sulla, in Italy.
Mr. Hutchinson and his family were
very much annoyed by-the frequent In
trusion of small black scorpions in tha
house, which secreted themselves
uinong the bedclothes, in shoes, and ia
other articles of dress. He saya:
"It thus became necessary to be eon
•tantly on the watch for theae trouble
some creatures, and to take means for
their removal and destruction. Having
been informed by the natives bf tha
place that the scorpion would destroy
Itself if exposed to a sudden light, my
informant and her friends soon became
adepts in catching the scorpions amf
disposing of them in the manner augf
gested This consisted in confining
the animal under an^^urted drinking
glass or tumbler, which s card
waa Inserted when the oaptare waa
made, and then, waiting till dark, sud
denly bringing the light of a candle
_ .. _ t A * kn M <n nrki.ili ilia nni nrta I
was routined
“No sooner was thin done than the
scorpion invariably showed signs of
great excitement, running round and
round the interior of the tumbler witi»
reckless velocity for a number of
times. This state having lasted for •
minute or more, the animat becaino
quiei, and, turning Un tail on the hindaf
part of ita body over ita back, brought
Its recurved sTIng down upon tho ml4
die of the head, and, piercing it fore*
iblv in a few seconds became qaitu
motionless, and, in fact, quite dead.
This observation was repealed very
frequently; In truth, It was adopted aa
the beat plan of getting rid of tko ani- ,
mala. The young people were in the
habit of handling the scorpions with
Impunity inimodia'ely ufter they wore
on killed, and of preserving many of |
them as curiosities "
It would be difficult to prove that
suicide Is an evidence of intelligence}
and it is certainly different from any
other act that is prompted by instinct,
for instinct always tends to the proo
ervation of life In the individual and
also in the species, never to its lies true*
tion. Unless, therefore, there werf
some reason to i»elleve that light af>
feet* the physical organization of th« !
scorpion in such a way as to be fatallk
injurious alike to the individual and \
1 the species, the extraordinary fact ai
i leged in these anecdotes is quite iaex«
j plicabie. ITiere is reason, then, to rw>
| eeive these stories with some hesitation,
1 but they cannot be summarily rejactod.
j —8t. Louis Uepublie.
Animal Istrs.
“Uncurl yourself and dghytf" jjd*
the catamount. “You have no bacWo*
at all.”
“Mebbe I haven’t,” cause the omttgd
reply fivwn the rolled-up poroua^K
“but I have Rrdnes to thr*w aava^®
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