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grass and weeds at the roadside as fast 

 as he could travel. I tried then in many 

 ways to make him pose for his photo- 

 graph, but uniformly without success. 

 He became excited and tried his best to 

 escape. I finally began stroking his 

 back in the manner a cat so thor- 

 oughly enjoys. The beetle enjoyed the 

 process so well that he lost all his fear 

 and remained perfectly still for some 

 time after I had ceased stroking him 

 and had taken his photograph. 1 have 

 since found this to be a very effective 

 method with other creatures. Even 

 the horned toads and ghekkos squat 

 down and go to sleep under the influ- 

 ence of gentle stroking and petting. 



The pleasures of the intellect are per- 

 manent, the pleasures of the heart are 

 transitory. — Thoreau. 



Photograph of a Cyclone. 



BY G. F. GREEN, BREWSTER, WASHINGTON". 



The accompanying picture of the 

 Waynoka cyclone or tornado was taken 

 by me during my residence in Oklaho- 

 ma some few years ago. It was made 

 with an old Vive camera, the lens stop 

 being £—11, the exposure one twentieth 

 of a second, the time about five p. m. 

 in April. The camera was pointed di- 

 rectly towards the sun, the tornado 

 being between it and myself as the ex- 

 posure was made. As the light was 

 coming from the clear horizon behind 

 the tornado, my side of the funnel was 

 in shadow but fine light and shadow 

 effects were produced in the madly 

 rolling clouds on either side and above. 

 These clouds seemed to be rolling 

 violently in various directions and they 

 would certainly have made a most 



AN ASTONISHING PHOTOGRAPH OF A CYCLONE. 

 Taken in Oklahoma by G. F. Green, Brewster, Washington. Copyrighted 189* 



