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NIGHT PLOWING 



A NOVEL departure is reported tj have 

 been made in New South Wales by 

 starting plowing at night. For this pur- 

 pose two powerful acetylene headlights 

 are attached to the traction engine which 

 draws the plows, and the ground is so well 

 and brilliantly lighted that the operator 

 can work over the field quite as well as by 

 daylight. Departures of this character 

 frequently lead to man" improvements in 

 the application, operation and adjustment 

 of the lights. 



OUR HERALDIC BEASTS 



THE quaint beasts of European heraldry, 

 says the Youth's Companion, still used 

 on armorial bearings have no proper ex- 

 istence in America ; but the animals used by 

 our cartoonists to represent political parties 

 and factions may be said to belong to al- 

 lied species. To the public they are fa- 

 miliar and significant, just as in medieval 

 days the arms of a leader displayed on pen- 

 non, shield or badge made his recognition 

 by his partisans an easy matter. 



If, in the year 636, a loyal adherent of 

 Sisinand, King of the Goths, had seen a 

 banner bearing an embroidered elephant 

 streaming above the court-yard arch of the 

 castle, he would have entered with the 

 same assurance of right and welcome that a 

 Republican has when he beholds the same 

 animal on a transparency outside party 

 headquarters. The elephant also figured in 

 the devices of several of the noble houses 

 of Italy; but it was never very popular in 

 England. Even less so was the tiger ; yet 

 the Tammany tiger, oldest of our party 

 symbols, first used by Thomas Nast some 

 forty years ago, might claim honorable kin- 

 ship with that tiger, the head of which was 

 the armorial device of the brothers Chris- 

 topher and Richard Barker, printers and 

 booksellers to Queen Elizabeth. 



The useful, wise and patient donkey, the 

 animal assigned by the cartoonists to Dem- 

 ocracy, is too humble to have been gener- 

 ally accepted in the heraldic menagerie of 

 the past. Whenever he did appear, it was 

 usually with a motto or an angelic sup- 

 porter to indicate that he was no other 

 than Balaam's extraordinary ass. 



As for that recent arrival, the bold and 

 belligerent bull moose, his species was un- 

 known both to heralds and naturalists of 

 knightly days. But his nearest European 

 relative, the stag or hart, was always pop- 

 ular; it was part of the personal devices 

 of several Plantaganet and Tudor kings ; 

 Richards, Henrys and Edwards. It was 

 emblazoned upon the trappings of the vic- 

 torious Henry V when he courted Cather- 

 'ne of France, and on those of Henry VIII 

 when he met King Francis I on the Field 

 of the Cloth of Gold. 



In the past, heraldic beasts were often 

 chosen for elaborately allegorical reasons, 

 founded upon classic myth. King Sisin- 

 and's elephant, for example, was shown 

 surrounded by flies, and the motto was, 

 "As best I can." 



"Their skin is covered neither with hair 

 nor bristle, no, nor so much as in their 

 tail, which might serve them in good stead 

 to drive away the busy and troublesome 

 fly," the old translator rendered his Pliny ; 

 "hut full their skin is of cross wrinkles 

 lattice-wise ; and therefore, when they are 

 stretched along and perceive the flies by 

 whole swarms settled on their skin, sud- 

 denly they draw those crannies and crev- 

 ices together close, and so crush them all 

 to death. This serves them instead of tail, 

 mane and long hair." 



