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Show the surfae in front of him. Ilka & bltnu man tapping the ground with his stick. As he crawls along, it is Interesting Inter-esting to watch the curious wave which, starting behind; runs forward along the fence of legs on each side. IN THE ODD CORNER, QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. Many-Leegrd Crawlers Live I'n-ler the Stones of the Fields and Woods An Indian Who Had a Brother to Dispose Dis-pose or. A LIGHT CAME 1TOKTH. A light came forth from the heart of the west, From the golden sew where our dream ships are, Where the Song of L'.fe from evening eve-ning star Harps joy that to man finds wings. And I said to myself, these things be best: The amberous gleam and a silver spar And a white hand beckoning from afar Through night's velvet shadowings. For the light came out from the heart of the west 'Tis mine, and no one may take It away, A radiant crown for the dullest day, And sandals for tiredest hours. And the fluttering hand from the Isles of the. Blest Awakens the chords of my soul to play Of lily-aweet sound, till I sense the sway Of winds blowing unseen flow'rs. So again to myself: These things be best, Red sunset glow and one twilight star, And a misty rift like a broken spar And Home, where my soul may sing In the jeweled dusk to love dreams that rest Like birds nestbound; and the tremulous trem-ulous bar Of palpitant songs pulsating afar To throbs of night's outspread wing. Ollah Toph in Indianapolis News. MANY-LEGGED CRAWLERS. In any pasture or other uncultivated piece of ground, or by the roadside, kpvs a writer in St. Nicholas, you may find many pretty buried stones, of all sizes, from small pebbles up to boulders many timers larger than a man can lift. No one who has not explored ex-plored would guess how much of the life of the fields and woods goes on under the stones. Here a multitude of little creatures snakes, newts, snails, and many insects live all the year round, or take refuge from their enemies ene-mies or from the cold. Besides this, these rocks, form doors which you can open, and then you can catch glimpse, of the life of the underground world which goes on everywhere beneath be-neath the surface of the soil. If you turn over one of these stones quickly you sometimes find nothing at all; often an ant's nest, occasionally a colony col-ony of snails, or sometimes a tiny snake coiled in a ball like a marble. Once in a while you find a glossy red-i red-i o oiimit an inch long. This little fellow seems to be mostly legs, and he scampers and i wriggles away so quickly that it is almost impossible im-possible to seize him before he disappears disap-pears down some minute hole. He is often called an earwig, but incorrectly; incorrect-ly; he is really a centipede, which, as young students of Latin already know, means "hundred-legs." But this little fellow is only a second cousin of the foot-long centipede of hot countries, whose bite is as painful and dangerous as that of a scorpion. This little centipede, cen-tipede, however (Lithobius, the naturalists natur-alists call him), is perfectly safe to handle, for though formidable enough to the creatures of his own size, he cannot bite through the human skin. You see how quick he is, and can imagine im-agine how fierce and terrible he must seem to the sluggish worms and insect in-sect larvae on which he feeds. In spite of his' name he doesn't really have a hundred legs, but only fifteen pairs, jointed like an insect's; and, like all centipedes, he has only one pair to each segment, as the parts of the body between the joints are call- T3Mfio his thirtv legs he has a pair of big poison claws, which he carries folded forward, one on each Bide of his head. His prey he kills with these claws, their wound being instantly fatal to small animals. Very unlike the fierce and active centipede is another creature about as long, but with a slender, round dark body and very short legs. Some young folks call this a worm; but he is not a worm at all, but a millipede, or "thousand-legs," "thousand-legs," and is called Julus by naturalists. natural-ists. Actually he does not have a thousand legs, but only about a hun- dred; and, unlike the centipedes, he has two pairs of legs on every segment seg-ment except the first three. Unlike the i centipedes, too, he has no poison i claws, and is not venomous; he is a t timid . gentle creature that crawls about slowly, in spite of his numerous legs. He is, however, somewhat m-1 m-1 - . jurious to vegetation, because he bites " off the roots of plants for food; but , for the most part, be feed, on decaying decay-ing vegetation. If you frighten him be will coil uP quickly; but if you handle him gently he will crawl over your hands, touching his short antennae anten-nae first on one and then the other, to '( ' i |