The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, May 25, 1911, Image 6
SENTINEL-JOURNAL
PUDLISIEI4D WIMKLY.
PICKENS, S. C.
Say what you think, but not all.
"Harvard is after $1,200,000." So
are several other people.
A Russian doctor has confessed that
he killed forty people. Few doctors
are as frank.
The -lament is made that the supply
of crabs is going backward. But that
is the nature of crabs.
It is a good idea to stay away from
a powder magazine, even when you
"know" it isn't loaded.
Advocates of a universal language
seem to forget that we have an effec
tive one already-the language of the
byes.
e
That Chicago woman who takes tax
Icab rides to cure tho blues evidently e
Isn't blue because sli hasn't any t
money.
With the millennium and the Pan- i
sma exposition both scheduled for c
1915, one or the other will have to y
give way.
i
8'toughton, Wis., has the largest h
Steel ski hill in the world. This shows Ii
that almost any town can beat the m
'world at somothing. b
ii
The new Manhattan bridge may now
Pe said to be in successful operation. t(
A man committed suicide by jumping t
off it the other day. t:
t:
The author of "Curfew Shall Not it
- ing Tonight" has been discovered fil
In' Texas. Well, Texas is big enough b
to stand almost anything. a
p
A young American heir is to marry A
the daughter of a near-royal family. P
Is this the first step in a crusade to
even up a long uneven balance? t
A Scranton, Pa., man has refused an
offer of $1,000 for a hen. He must V
have an idea that the reduction in the
price of eggs will be only temporary. a
Warships would be more admirable
as preservers of peace if they could
be so constructed as to be reasonably t
safe for the men who operato them.
A westorn contemporary wants to
know what line is the most beautiful
in the English language. ', "Inclosed C
And check" is a promising candidate.,
The aviators now are getti a I
ried -and giving up their at , mar
iarriage is a thing cal ., travels.
bring the average man d;blated to
%n to earth.
French town the riot
ers made the streets run with chain
- agne. There must have been an un
usual amount of spIrit in thut lively I
3iot. ..
C
New York -cab and taxi owvners have
petitioned the city council for perumis- r
sion to r-educe their fares 25 per cent.
We certainly live in an age of won
ders..
We may now telegraph by tele
phone. At the rate modern invention t
'ise saving time our up)-to-date year t
ought to last twice as long as tbe old
style. -
A .French. aviator has accomplished
tthe feat of carrying five passengers in
en aeroplane. E0vidently killing them1
ffone at a time is 'too slow for
rance.
Now it is possible to go around the
world in a little over a month. Per
~aps before this wonderful century
tends we will be flying around it in
a week.
A woman in Newark found a man
thiding under the bed and promputly
Id him arrested. The traditional old
feminine terrors are giving way be
tre the modern woman.
I"Don't," says Mr. Carnegie to the
poor working gir-l. "refuse a man
simply because he's a millionaire."
But be wary of the fellowv that has
lonly about $10,000 a year.
A rich Pittsburger who died recent
left $10,000 to his pretty stenogra
etpeople to whom he wrote from
nxking jokes about his spelling.
ISixty thousand worlds discovered
by Professor Hale of the Mount Wil
n observatory should mitigate the
renuosity of those acquisitive per
na wvho seem bent' on getting pea
ession of this small specimen.
Wellesley students are to be taught
. he art of raising onions. Coming so
bon after the announcement that an
' nusually large number of the Welles
Sy girls are about to be married, this
indeed significant.
G otham waitress lost nearly $1,.
she had saved from tips, by the
iperfidy of a designing lover. Plain
ly, no oneo had given her the most mm
'portant tip of all about trusting to
~the specious promises of a borroWing
-wooer.
"Chicago," says a prominent citi
.4enf of that burg, "is a magic word."
~', Too ti'ue. On meeting a stranger in
'dark alley all one has to do is to
eaculate "Chicago" and said stranger
w1l throw up his hands without fur
1rparley.
PASuN
PASSEf
RESUMARLY everybody
knows , by this time that.
there is a standing offer of
$400 in cash for the man,
woman,. boy or girl who
* finds the nest of a wild pig
eon (ectopistes migratori
us), otheiwise known as
the passenger pigeon, and
finds with it' the nestling
birds. In order to got the
eward the person who makes the dis
every must leave the nest and the
Irds unmolested and prove the truth of
. by making a report and giving the sci
ntiats an opportunity to verify the case.
Magazine and newspaper articles lit
rally by the thousands have been writ- .
mn about the disappearance of the
'ild pigeons which once, as it is al
'ays put, "darkened the sun with their
ights." The members of the biologi.
al survey in Washington are specially
iterested in the subject of the disap
earanco of this bird of passage from
a wild haunts. For years it has been
oped that nesting pairs might be found
i some part of the country and that
11th proper protection the bird might
o restored In part at least to its place
i nature.
Recently there was a story published
> tho effect that the birds, wearied of
1e constant persecution which met
iem In the United States, had changed
10 course of their flight and had gone
ito Mexico and there were living peace
illy and happily. This story proved to
e absolutely without foundation. Still
nother tale was to the effect that the
igeons had gone into the heart of South
mnorica and there finding conditions
leasant were leading a non-migratory
fe. This tale also proved to be en
rely fictitious.
In all parts of the southern states in
'1o winter seasons there are people
ratching sharp-eyed for a glimpse of
10 bird that once was a common sight.
a the summer sharp eyes of the north
re constantly on the alert for the same
urpose, but as yet no authentic report
as been received that the bird of mys
3rious disappearanco has revisited the
cenes familiar through the centuries to
.a ancestors.
One of the scientisirP..ya,. d M.
I the search for,-m . 1 tterested
.uthve(n 19 'v the wild piigeol Is
. .4.2ane, fellow of the American
.. thologists' union and president of
he Illinois Audubon Society for the
'rotection of Wild Birds. Mr. Deane -
irtually has given up all hope that any
[ving specimen of the passenger pigeon
ver will be found, but he is as tireless
oday as over in tracing reports of the
ilrd's reappearance to their sources.
"he offer of $400 for the discovery of a
iesting pair of the pigeons and their
n(isturbed nest comes from Clifton .
lodge of Clark university, but $100 ad
itional will be paid for the discovery.
f a pair of birds and their nest If found
the state of Illinois. Th'le additional
eward Is the joint offer of Mr. IDeane
nd(, as' I remember it, of Professor Whitman of
Lie University of Chicago.
One of the most curious features of the
earch for the wild .pigeon 'is the mistakes which
re made .constantly by menh who years ago
rapp~ed the pigeons and were as familiar with
beir appearance as they were, and are today
nr thait matter, with the appearance of the comn
ion robin of the dooryard. Reports have come
a from all sections of the country of the reap
'earance 'of the .pigeon, but on investigation it
nyariably has been found that the discoverers
ad seen nothing more nor less than the corn
non wild clove ('venailnra macroura), or mourn
ng dove, which is so familiar a bird that it
eems almost impossible that any. man of the
~ountryside could have failed to overlook it as
its constant neighbor and could confuse it with
te much larger cousin, the plassenger pigeon of
>ther days.
To give an example of how the search is con
lucted for the wvild pigeon and how conscientious
ire the scientists in attemp~ting to ye gfy reports
>f its reappearance this one instance, taken from
a hundred instances, may be nioted. Recently a
-eport from northern Michigan reached the presi
Ient of the Illinois Audubon society that the
passenger pigeon In very truth had reappleared
in the vicinity of a club house freqiuented by
ishormen and gunners, many of whom had
known the pigeon well in the old clays and who
were certain that in this case they could not
be mistaken as to the identity of the bird vis
itors.
It was a long journey to the northern Alichi
gan club house, but an ornithologist undertook
the trip believing In his heart that finally the
pavsenger pigeon had been found, for lhe knew
that the men who had made the report had been
familiar with the bird in the old days and sup
posedly knewv the appearance of its every feather.
At the end of the journey he was told that the
pigeons were there and he was led out to see
them. They proved to be mourning cloves, a
bird common in nearly all parts of Michigan
and in most of the states of the Union. The dis
appointment was keen, and keener in this case
because this was one report which seemed to
have about it every mark of truth.
When I was a boy I knew the wild pigeon
fairly well. It was nothing like as abundant
as it had been in the years gene by, but occa
sionally small flocks were seen in the vicinity of
my birthplace in the foothills of the Adirondack
mountains in central New York. I am sorry to
say that I shut some of the birds before I fully
realizcd the value of giving protection to a van
ishing race. The mourning dove I know as well
as I know the I~lnglish sparrow, and I think that
there is no chance of confusion in my mind re
specting the identity of the dove and its bigger
relative, the pigeon. It is possible, though I am
not euro that such Is a fact, that I saw the last
wild pigeon reported In Illinois. Others may
have been seen since that time within the bor
dera of the state, but if so I have not seen their
oppearance reported.
At ive o'clock on the morning of a late April
day. fifteen years ago, I went into Lincoln park,
Chcao tolo o mgaigbrd hc a
drope dwnint te lesur goud ro
thirnih flight inodrt- et n ed. a
jus enere th akwe y teto a
atrctdt a ?ag bidprhe nte ibo
a ape re ad acngthsnwhchwa jus
riin;uto LaeMcia. yhatgv
a sortof lep, forI recgnize itintaty.s. h
paene pienabd of which I a o
seena lvingspeime fo-a les twev ya
Thnistnl I egntodub ndtouh
thatmy ees mst b misake and, thtth t
mosher wamanifingth bir an ta wa
was beore m wa eal a mornn dov.I
fo *ulyhl an horadthniet h al
an eti royfih donthKe hr
Cricbe. Mr. looseveotknewating birds which had
dropede down th spee nowleared grou berxtoct
thengtfih ir. orerto wareset ofed thd
Unit enSte the oaiohnlly aentona wasd
apttrate toria lare brd ehwed onta liabn Ho
almle tepae anPing Knt.e suWhihr was dayt
heisng wht of Laeichigan. My hieart pge.
aIt wofldep forfecognizedper intanfor as the
phossawe asmay igeonsr os whish togehd nto
setence. livin oesimply freorts tele ypear.
ancen iantyigeon tafoc doub aien thought
onespdobts verynifyingl the birdt and that tahe,
walin thatr te wasureallydovmoursingenoagaIn
mdstak clor ndtshcusn Irdne.,trewsn1
sibi idofectoseveforei o ae a beut iful
shimn othecaloeo paseetign with thae
his througt wertoo with ignys. f he brdh
forobably wolda houran shthni efthe maple
and ont ixep afewyscightst dondth ae sried
drive towd th ithe an of the roaeoftenr
nishe yid inc thea flsh it woudatea.a
one otcotme ofd the crh oo survivin mem-n
beshifch theredent eawfwere passenero peo
trie.grpgos vr ieta Mr. Roosevelt ke h idwe e~a
as byanen hins trips aseline ala has epfo
aathful eyeh opten frs poiblmae sihtm gad
sJeimn Bouhcsesrd frehi torend extict
dWrenooseveoosethat ensn prient had te
spot in Virginia. Buhrroh belwed thein stoy
bcae the plcene not.accurae thoerer day
honawre hoelvd tosenin waslad igeo
Itore wo .bte peectly proprgi tod for. ar
wogsa to many pnqirieos as onceis toher toe
shootwonerkfsthem-onetonly--inoder topoe
itncg inhen oldlne simplyghtport the apptarg
alc apigeon r of a focko pgeronth every.
noeo thm nabe
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lyanew he biunrd well.rt
Hojw-eer there seeno pos
1tive prof today tht thet
Sne ork famersabend
gunneAr. werotust was
muchfo mistakea were
the oldtimere wodtold
th ewoyo the breturnlof
tHoevpieons tohhe usopper
cgyv publisheda bya the
Aerica Oarnihlsts'd
unonr there recently ap
- uc mearedakaer by Awert
Hazen Wrigt on "Som
Earl Resor s of the Pas-n o
thengePon." In thisppe
of thega forstrcont
the pTge muktitusro
terly days. When oe
read tulhe b temsal
mtndlt a r ere wcht num
b t v ansd t woutr ay Apert
teen turl dp fro hse
faeaf h ar.- oe o tn hd been
is os failarto hepepnLe Po . he cutyis
st. IseemsfromoM . Wr rht' paprogh hwver
tha aceturad halind befor iAuubo th ase
bor reord weemdeofrthe foimemen whoer
of te brds hicmwee se i Aerica odThe
eariet rier clldhe turOt~lle~ adovsppoMr.
age;the resmblth mnewatory bird wftel.
owncoutry Inoneseaowevrteroves are s
times foudin ituchabundanc toay that endho
thei arm canotbgsenwen te not fusting
7imchaistkenas.er
Mr.Wriht oun anthestry efn te rturn om
ses-umeso the pigeons te wrteg uppe
anoherJesit athr Amterica rn1.Thlots
seratin ws mdet Cyug Tae Auk ae Yoar
state "For leaue erm jurnalsawoby ithosid
of rier ithn avey puithed pac heo
nin exreely iealuspions there recnres are
setthee fr cthngpears, fro pseve by Albert
hundrd beng oten aen tronce. nothea
teenh ceturywriearRcrs of the Pasnerpgos
th t Lwec coftheAmn fi he accountf
ever varety o b hfoun heer sawo prin nof
tha pieonaouninsh pienmrsthte ofi
yearone anklled1r2ada thngem iht."es
Wostinretbe tast fay brd specirs whicht have
fce of the eappaanth.tepieninM
Tour Oaon, ofltinogrs, igeonsincksichichn
thatitenyvanaes Audubn h Vgnatual
perhapses from Mohr. Wrts paer owenstanc
that arooftueen andd ha befoe rAudubosngers
bigorn, rerd of mae od thimmenwste numers
ee.Tedsperneof the focks which weeseninceic.Te
coearest wthes alletod the turte dofvthe Mr
Wright qu ote fvromtheg toedouith terhe Jnnhla
whionf the speares 1but likened theAerthan Indi
ains else thae peons, usge ae heldvaccount
abge athe esemblertfo the migrtng out- of thobe
owncofufetrIned ae. ute lvsar oe
tieHoudi Wsuc aTndnc thaiseenlo
ther. arvy cano bieyee theymere flyingx
inrt, boidya," ecn inenWshntn
"ut ightu fearch aotherurefoodenwe toythe too
sense Thunsbr ofd etere lgoer'n the wrtings day
seratonsn maade ave vryu laein CrNws Yor
stae, "rour lerapes from thoe Ire sawn by thatd
ofame-uerranthin ao know, limihcruted f ihor
theNSt. awralncey onry: "orptd, mthebrdd thf
MEN WHO THIN WITH
THEIR FEET ELEVATED
BLOOD THUS MADE TO GRAVI
TATE TO THE BRAIN WHERE
IT QUICKENS THOUGHT.
St. Louis, Mo.-"Hello, Mark!" call
ed a man on a Mississippi river steam
er, who sat with his feet elevated on a.
table in front of him as Mark Twain
approached.
"Your face seems familiar," return.
ed the Hannibal humorist, "but I don't
seem to recognize your feet!"
Many persons are recognizable to.
their intimate friends because of the
appearance of their feet, however.
They are so accustomed to putting
their feet on' the table, the desk or
even the wall, that those who know.
them best usually see their feet first.
This gentleman, whose pedal extrem
itics show so prominently in the ac
companying picture, may be easily
recognized by his feet. He is a hail
fellow-well-met sort of a person,
whose hat is set at a rakish angle and
Thinking With the Feet.
wbO had ahe ati'o of a cigar in his
mouth. He is -nost democratic. He
believes that all men were really
born "free and equal," as asserted in
the preamble to our constitution. To
prove that he is the equal of if not
better than all coners he elevates his
feet whenever, wherever and upon
whatever he chooses.
This man, of whom we have a
glimpse here, always stands on his
feet and never on his head, meta
phorically speaking; there is more
blood in the lower than in the upper
Portions of his body, consequently he
thinks with his feet oftener than with
his head. 'hien he has a downwright
hard job of thinking before him, as in
the present instance, lie invariable ele
vates his feet. In that way the blood
gravitates naturally out of his feet and
his heart has less labor .in elevating
it to his brain where it quickens his
thought. The good nature of a man
who puts his feqt on the table is fre
Quently augmented to the disadvan.
tage of his manners.
GIRLS PLAY INDOOR ALL
Sport Fast Taking P1, ' of Basket.
Ball AogChicago Young
Weomen.
Chicago.--lndoor baseball has been
invaded by the girls of Chicago, and
the sport is fast taking the place of
basketball, which for years was su
premne as the exercise and amusement
for" girls in their gymnasium work.
When -indoor baseball was first
brought into prominence back in 1887
it is doubtful if George WV. Hancock
of Chicago, who is credited as the
originator of the game, ever thought it
would develop as a pastime for girls
as well as boys and men, but such is
the case:
To the girls of West Park No. 1
goes the credit of probably the su
perior gathering of indoor baseball
players in Chicago and vicinity. The
girls are coached daily by Miss Franz,
and1 it is due to her general knowledge
oif the game that her class has devel
oped( into such expert players. 'rho
niany daring feats which are attempt
ed1 by the sterner sex in their clashes
Playing Indoor Ball.
on the wooden diamonds are duplicat
(Id to a "" by the young girls. What's 4
.more, they have become very adept
1at the game, and without any thought
sof injury or accidents they slide to
ithe bases, romp around tho diamond
'and push each other out of the way,
just as boys, when the score becomes
close.
CONVERT BURNS TOBACCO
Another Confesses Stealing Chickens
When He Was a Boy and Pays
for Them.
Blrookville, Ind.--As the result of re
ligious fervor aroused by a revival at
Bluena Vista, Howard Jockson, who
raised a fine crop of tobacco last year,
decided that the use of the weed Was
wrong and burned all that lie had. He1
also threw his lodge pins into the fire
and renounced his allegiance to sev
eral secret organizations. Another cit
izen made public confession to stoal
ing some chickens many years ago
for a boy's midnaight feast, and paid