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demonstration of Huxley concerning the crop of red clover in a 
certain section of country. He has proved that there is a direct 
ratio between the quantity of red clover in any given section, 
and the number of old maids residing in that section. His 
demonstration is as follows: Old maids keep cats; cats are ene- 
mies of the field mouse; these mice in turn are the foes of the 
bumble-bee, for they devour the little store of honey, which the 
thrifty insect lays by for its winter sustenance. Bumble-bees 
are the pollen-carriers of the red clover. Hence, the more old 
maids there are in a region, the more plentifully it is stocked 
with cats; the fewer therefore are the field mice; the greater is 
the number of the bumble-bees, and the more abundant in con- 
sequence is the crop of red clover. 
Some wild flowers are very wonderful in their construction, 
accomplishing feats which, if universally known, w ould e con- 
friends of the botanist. The harassed scientist wages ceaseless 
war upon them all summer, but all in vain. One can imagine 
what comfort the thought brings to his sorely tried soul that 
there are plants in the world which avenge their fellow plants 
and turn the tables by eating insects. The commonest and most 
wonderful of the ogre-flowers is the little sundew, which Darwin 
admired so much that he thought it a worthy object for long and 
patient study. This plant is found in wet sandy spots. The 
leaves are round and long-stalked, pressed flat in a rosette against 
the ground, and rather a reddish color at the first casual glance. 
A stem bending downward at the tip bears a number of buds 
and one white flower. As they wave with the wind they cer- 
tainly do not look very bloodthirsty or even mischievous. Upon 
examining the leaves closely one finds that their surface is really 
covered with living movable sticky hairs, each tipped by a ruby- 
colored gland scarcely as large as a pinhead. When an insect 
lights on the leaf, attracted by the bright red glands with their 
honey-like gum, he becomes clogged by the sticky hairs and 
cannot drag himself free, for all his frantic efforts. The hairs 
