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I BUFFALO HERD IS GROWIN Animals on Government Preserve i Oklahoma Continue to Show Gratifying Increase. Sk ? The government's herd of buffalo o the Wichita national forest in Okh horaa, which Is also a federal gam preservo, has been Increased by th arrival of ten calves, according to report received by the forest servlc from the supervisor in charge. Th herd, which now comprises 62 spec mens of tho almost extinct bison. Is 1 good condition, says the supervlsoi in vmnsi'H 10 continue Increasing a a rapid rate. Eight of the calves ar females. bringing the number of hell ers and cows up to 30. The bulls nun ber 32 and have been placed by then' selves in a pasture which has jus been fenced in for them. Three year ago the buffalo herd in tho Wlchlti forest was little more than half a large as it is now. It is said that tin other game animals In tho preserve including the elk and antelope, alsi are increasing, duo to the protectioi affordod, not only against hunters bu against wolves, wildcats anil othe predatory animals, which committei serious depredations from the estab lishment of the preserve in lOOR untl measures were taken to stop them In protecting the game from predator; animals, the wardens and forest ofll cers are also promoting the interest! of local stockmen, who graze severa thousand head of cattle on certain al lotted areas within the preserve. MAKES A PLEA FOR FICTIOf\ Writer Puts Up Argument for Reten tion of Popular Literature In the Country's Libraries. Tho dropping of fiction from th< public libraries, as proposed by th( head of tho bureau of statistics and Investigation as a meanB of economy would accomplish at a stroke a con summation long devoutly wished bj many. That Is. it would materlallj reduce tho percentage of novels read as compared with that of other books Perhaps Mr. Mclntyre has heard thai fiction was decreasing in popularity and thinks that he is merely aligning himself with a growing tendency. \V? fear, however, that when ho hears from tho people he will havo to re vise his ideas. His proposal will be met with a counter-proposal. Hanist fiction? Why not banish all othei literature instead? Would the sav ing not bo as great? Nav, would it not be greater? As for novels being a "form of entertainment," a luxury as our statistician holds, they are in reality ulmost as much of a neces slty as the newspapers. Millions go iiiiuuKii me conuortaDly without rub bitig elbows with even so human a nonflctionist as John Stuart Mill, but whoever lived until ho had breathed the wind that blows through the pages of "Ivanhoe" and "Vanity Fair?" ?New York Evening Post. Detects Approach of Storms. A revival of the long-abandoned filings coherer used so extensively In the pioneer days of radio communication Is presented in the novel form ol an electric storm detector used at the .Waterside station of the New York Edison company. Briefly, the equipment comprises a filings coherer, a sensitive relay, a decoherer for restoring the filings to their normal, loose state, and an alarm bell. I.ong before a thunderstorm is within hearing distance the sensitive coherer operates the alarm bell and gives warning to the power station attendants of the increase in load that is to follow. It is saiil that during some storms when it becomes quite dark the load is Increased over 00,000 kilowatts in the course or tlvo minutes' time. It Is obviously necessary for the attendants to have amplo warning so as to he prepared to take care of the sudden load that Is thrown on the generators.? Scientific American. Describes Habits of Penguins. The penguins of South (leorgia are described in a very interesting and Informative memoir by R. C. Murphy, issued hv the museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Tho writer's Held work in this subantarctic "^land extended from November. 1912, to March, ion. thus including the greater part of the breeding season. During this time he acquired a rich store of Information concerning tho life histories of the local species?especially tho king and Johnny penguins?and would have gathered more but for tho stupid vandalism of the crew of the sealing brig on which ho made the voyage. A curious discovery of the author was a penguin grave yard, a pool of snow water on a mountain top. to which these strange birds retire to die. Why Ware Are Fought. The first wars were fought for food. The second wars were fought for revenge. The third wars were fought for women. The fourth wars were fought for religion. The fifth wars were fought for conquest. The sixth wars were fought for aggrandizement. The seventh wars were fought for liberty. The eighth wars were fough( for all or most of thpso thlrou mvo ?Exchange. ? Queer Lack. ( \ ' Wouldn't you like to visit the great lesert?" "Indeed I would, but I haven t got ho oonfl " ITrolionw* L. G DANGER FROM WHITE WOLVES No Greater Perii Can Be Encountered n by Those Who Have to Travel in the Far North. Writing of his recent adventures in n | the Arctic in Harper's Magazine, Donj aid B. Macmillan tells of a dramatic e j meeting of his sledge team with a pack " i of white wolves. a | "I thought we had better move ? j while we could, so 1 ordered the men ? io pack up their sledges and drive over tc the battlefield. After going n a short distance, a yell from Pce-alir' wah-to turned our attention toward * the south. Could we believe our eyes! e it was like a picture from one of the old books on travel in Siberia. Twelve white wolves were leaping over the 1 snow directly at us. Fiction would have us now fighting for our lives, 8 j knives between teeth and rilles conI stantly going. On the contrary, we 1 prayed that they would not stop, but 0 keep coming on. Undoubtedly they ' would have done so had we been able 3 to control our clogs, who were now wild with excitement, whining, yelping and straining on the traces. We . limited and threatened and lashed with 1 ...i.;? -i._ in, mi i|>, ai. nit: Mil mi mm' Holding j hack with all our strength on the upstanders ot tin sledge. The loader of | thy band stopped, surveyed us critically for an instant and wheeled, t'ol3 lowed by the others. IJy the time that . we could tear the covers from the rilles th"y were out of range. "I have no compunction whatever In | shooting at these sneaking cowards . of tho animal world Axel Helberg ' lacd is infested with them, their tracks being found intermingling with those " of tho muskox and white caribou. A mother and her young are surrounded, worried to death and torn into pieces. ' During Sverdrup's expedition tho 5 wolves came into camp, attacked and I killed some of the d igs and later, on tho trail, even attacked one of the men who had no other weapon to defend ' himself with than a ski No animal r in tho North is so enduring, none has I such a wide range and none an easier existence, their food being muskoxen, t caribou, Arctic hare, lemmings and possibly foxes. There is also every evidence 10 nenevo that wolves prey upon seals along the ire foot." POINTS OUT NEW OCCUPATION Expert of Department of Agriculture Urges the Cultivation of Edible Snails. oiiuii culture apparently has not yei made a beginning in this country, the few snails found on the market here being brought over front Europe alive In barrels and casks and sold by tish dealers in our large citi?-s. Writing in the last Yearbook of the department of agriculture, Mr E W. Rust sug gests that the opportunties for snailgrowing are really much better in the TTnited States than in Europe. While in the old world the snnil grower generally has but a small piece of land on which the snails must be confined by a fence of special design, and 1 where they must be regularly fed, in \ this country there is an abundance of waste land where the creatures might ' bo successfully raised without attention, and as they do not wander far. they would not need to be confined. Mr. Rust states that the Mississippi valley offers Ideal condit.ons for snail vuiiuru. mere is no reason why snails? should not he used to some extent as a substitute for oysters, which they resemble in llavor. Their feeding habits do not, as in the case of oysters, involve the possible danger ' of Infecti.>11 with typhoid and other | diseases.?s-i ientiflo American. Lumber to Travel 10,000 Miles. A cargo of Douglas fir to be used in 1 building docks at Port Nelson on Hud! son bay will travel nearly 10,000 miles on shipboard before it reaches its destination at the end of a voyage which has already begun with the vessel's departure from liritish Columbia. Although, "as the crow flies." the forests that produced this lumber are only 1,400 miles from the Hudson bay port to which it has been shipped, transportation by way of the Panama ; canal, through which it is being sent, i means a trip which has been estimated at 9,900 miles, or seven times the I actual distance between Vancouver and Port Nelson Consul Julius I). Dreher. at Toronto, Canada, w*ho reports on this matter, states that a consignment of British Columbia timber Is on the way to the Poison Iron works at Toronto, by way of the Panama canal, to be mndc into masts for a dredge being built for uso at Port Neli son. Big-Eared Holy Man. Major General Hlraoka, who has | Just come back to Japan from tho ' Islrnd of Formosa, declares that the late revolt had a curious origin. It appears that a rumor gained circulation among the aborigines that in tho mountains had appeared a sago so holy that Ills ears hung down to his shoulders, and so wise that he was even better fitted to be the ruler over the aborigines than Karon Goto. A local prophet assured the natives that this tnysterious personage was tho i heaven-ordained emperor ot Formosa, j 'and that if theV did nr?? Hon ?? nnnn I to do battle for his cause they would Irogret It all thoir lives Tfcey rose, fully expecting that Big Kara would come to their assistance, but were disappointed In His Wife's Name. I Harry?Paw. w hai is a henpecked j 1 husband ' Paw?A man whose nerve is in his j'wlfo's name.?Cincinnati Enquirer. TIIK IjAXCASTKU XKWS. "PAY DIRT" UNDER NEW YORK ?. . Legend Which Seems to Point to Existence of Gold Under Streets of the Metropolis. A Philadelphia assayer, Walter ocou oy name, recently took several handfuls of sand from a street excavation near Independence hall, and after putting it through an assaying process, extracted a small quantity of gold He declared there was enough gold under Philadelphia, in his opinion. to make hunting it worth while. Residents of Upper Manhattan remember Thomas Hartshorn, an eccentric chap who lived in the vicinity of One Hundred and Sixth street and Fifth avenue for many years. One of his hobbies was absolute faith in the divining red. lie talked about its unerring certainty in the pointing out of metal for nnny years until he could seem to talk of nothing else, and ho got to be known as the Rod Crank. One afternoon several years ago Hartshorn sallied forth from his home and, entering Central park, took his way to where the McGown's Pass tavern now stands. In those days it was the M- unt St. Vincent House of Refreshment. Several hovs linUrnrl Hartshorn walk al .ng the path to the oast of tha tavern and hold out his divining rod. Presently he was seen to stop at: 1. after looking around to see if ho was observed, stick a small stake into the grass. One r.f tin* boys shadowed him for the remainder r.f the day and told his father. That night Hartshorn was followed to the place of the stake and they saw the Hod Man fill a pail with sand. The news spread the next day or two that Hartshorn had found gold. The Hod Man never denied it up to the time he died, and many Harlemitos still believe there is gold near McGown's pass.?New York Sun STICKS IN HIS CEMENT BED Pickax Needed to Assist Sleeper to Get Up From Soft Spot In Which He Lay. It took a pickax to arouse a citizen of this place from his bed. After the pickax had been used there was also some strong pulling by friends before I ho could jump out. for he had slept all night in a bed of concrete and it had hardened more or less during the night. It was late in tho evening, after the rest of the people of Bayard had retired. that the hero of this episode stumbled toward home. A new cement pavement had just been laid In front of the home of rapt. \V. P. Wllgns, and workmen had been stopped by the darkness. Our hero did not know of the pavement and landed on it with both feet. Finding that he was sinking up to his shoe tops in the soft concrete he laid down and bothered no more about it. In the morning the workmen found him fast asleep and also last iti the concrete, which had hardened during the night. It took pickaxes before he could be pried loose. A new pavement Is being laid.?Dayanl (Del.) Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. Find Curiou3 Siberian Tribe. Tlio last members of the Siberian expedition promoted by the Oxford | university's school of anthropology and the Philadelphia museum have returned to London with a rich collection of material and new information about a strange region The strangest tribe met in their travels was the Tungus, a primitive : nomad peoplo of the Mongolian type, j who live to themselves, have only ! vague notions about the Russians and i the eznr and no system of writing. | They live in wigwams and have no orJ cupation other than the breeding of I reindeer and the hunting of white | foxes. Their religion is a belief in good and evil spirits A large collection of costumes, wea1 pons, implements and copper and iron ornaments was brought home by the expedition. Close Estimating. I A geologist of the United States geological survey once estimated feet as tho necessary depth to < 1 ri 11 in a certain locality to find water, with the result of less than 1 per cent of error, a flow measuring 500,000 gallons a dav havini? been utriir-lf !?? o il-.i'tVi of 2,987 feet. In another branch <" the work of the survey, that of esti mating at the close of the calendar year the production of the various minerals during that year, even this : percentage of error is being reduced. The survey's estimato on January 1. 1915, of the production of iron ore was 41,440,000 long tons; the actual figures received from all the com panles are now seen to be 41.4.19,761 long tons, a difference of only 239 tons. Real Favor. "It annoys me to be reading a war dispatch ami come to a sentence in which the name of a town or fortress is represented by a dash," said the fretful man. "That doesn't worry mo any." re plied the cheerful citizen. I It tJ * niivum iiiinrv it WIIUIU. "No. You sot', I have an Idea that I wouldn't bo able to pronounce tho pame, anyway, and tho censor saves me the trouble of trying." Japs Pay Higher Prices for Food. Imported foods, on the average, cost In Japan from 10 to 15 per cent more than before the war. Increases In freight and insurance are chiefl\ blamed for the rise Imported butter has risen 20 per cent, and is stir moun Ins. largely due to the fact thn' the belligerent powers In Europe hov prohibited the export of butter. .1A M'.Mv V 17, SAVED BY STRAINS OF MUSIC "Home, Sweet Home," on Harmonica, Calms Raging Moose, on Murder Bent. Miko, long regarded as the toughest bull moose which ever Hipped a horn about the game preserve of llenry Payne Whitney, on October I mountain, wan an M>nrnfir?>lv come by the strains of Home. Sweet Home," played on a mouth organ, that he ceased trying to butt down a ?rec, from the limbs of which one of the most frightened linemen in the world was getting ready to fall, according to a I'ittsiield (Mass.) dispatch to the N'ew York Herald. Cleveland Morey, a telephone line repairer, and Iaiwrence \V. Kidney, his assistant, were repairing a wire through the game preserve when Mike, aching for an afternoon of uninterrupted murder, started to work. Kidney leaped a nine-foot fence, although ordinarily he cannot do more than one and ono-lialf feet. Morey Hew into a tree and Mike petulantly began to hutt it down. Morey yelled for help and rocked with the branches as Mike butted it, while Kidney veiled outside the fence, finally, remembering that animals delight in mouth organs, he Jerked his harmonica from his hin noekot and played what is "Home, Sweet Home," when his teeth will stay apart. Mike was overcome; one moment a roaring fury, the second strain of the popular tune converted him into a perfect gentleman, content to amble off up the mountain dejectedly. Morey leaped so fur out of the tree that he had to hurry back to join the life-saving musician High Explosives. Almost without o.\coption. high explosives are composed of some organic substance, which means some form of carbon, treated with nitric acid. Without nitrogen, which is the chief Ingredient of nitric acid, it might he said that there can be no explosives. Vet by a paradox nitrogen is one of the most inert gases known and the chief ingredient of the air we breathe. 1'ossibly its explosive value arises from this very inertness; it combines so exceedingly reluctantly that on small provocation the compound breaks up into gas. giving the enormous expansion needed for oxnlos^vo effect. Timber for Shingles. For shingles alone. 7ob million feet of timber is cut in that part of the stat?? ot Washington which lies west ot the* ("jtscailes. Treat Children's Colds Externally T>r>n't close clelieato little stomachs with harmful internal medicines. \ mk'a "\apO-Kuh" Halve, applied externally, relieves hv inhalation as a vapor ami by absorption through the skin. Viek'a can bo use 1 freely with perfect safety on tho youngest member of tho faiuilv. ?~?o, ROc, or > 1 .b<>. YICKSVa-^SALVE f^iiiml [mj a ?atcs:? Get < 10HG BURNING P!Pt AND I Tn,lp, CIGARETTE TOBACCO U nUC fe; < - <".,.-NNf-<r V." SX^ --V van EEayg . (kmEr, few bj i rg&h&A>4 . . ,* W^>>'3|t *&i Tobi Woman in New Field. Tho automobile school at the V. M. ('. A. at New York bus proved that women have a mind fu mechanics as well as for millinery, the flare skirt I and tango. Tho class at this school has a number of men and about a dozen woman members. In order to win a chauffeur's certificate, they must absorb a lot of technical motor in1 formation. That the woman members ; are doing so is shown by their examI ination papers. Not one of their number has fallen below the 90 per cent rating, and three of them have 100 per cent. The women must learn the dlf .. . v?v.^ ?i cog anu a carburetor, ami also locate and remedy ?-nKiito trouble. Instead of bossing the , job, they must got out and get under. Mother Hubbards are used for this ' purpose. There are more than a thou- | sand woman auto drivers in that city i and the number is increasing every lay v British Take Cores nt Home. 3 (Iretit I'ritain is taking her "cures" ut homo just as \morioans are "see- T iug \n.eri< a first This year tin ' * Ttritisb tent tn ; I iik ii >u< iinun.s d i to tho continent?Germany. Austria, i Italy or southern Franco Tit* war ( Made it impossible to roach any of y these places where the "cures' and J" l>;>ths" are principal xcus'-s for the | antra;! pilgrimage. | \ tut Britain didn't seem to mind j j F >r the gouty she offered Buxton. l | Harrogate, L.landrindod Wells. Bath j 1. 1 and StrathpefTer For the phthisical ' the Highlands of Scotland fid the lake ' country o' Ireland afforded the nrae- ' ing ci" Uiat the lung sufferer had been nr customed to look for on the ^ cont incut. I. What's in a Name? The action of the Russian govern- _ ment in changing the name of the capital from St Petersburg to Pctro- ? j grad. and that of the municipal couuI cil of Paris, after the heroic defense P j of Liege, in honoring the Belgians by converting Rue de Berlin into Rue do ^ : Liege, bring to mind similar incidents v j during tho Franco-Prussian war of " ! 1870. After the collapse of tho empire of ;s, Napoleon III at Sedan and the formation of the French republic, the national assembly, on whom the whole N safety of the country depended, spent much of its time?although the Germans were thundering down on the j devoted <ity in changing the names m 1 of things?streets, buildings, depart ! nients. and what net?from "Royal" and "imperial" t<> "National." Finally. nvi j by solemn decn of the assembly, the I name of the royal Hongal tiger in the . Paris zoo was actually changed to the * ' , "national I'.cugal tiger," and the custoI dians of the animal were charged to see that the signs above the cages' j, were changed in accordance with the j| decree. r Much the Same Principle. "These South S?'a islanders are a d< j queer lot. Hiey have many things It which are taboo, mustn't be touched." 1! "1 see nothing trange about that. ' Ki It is they same principle on which wo carefully plant a !ot t grass for poo* 1,1 pie to keep c t; ui. -i-ouisvillo Courier-Journal. Prince Albert i i_ r ii sucn rnendly t< it just makes n man sorry he di ind cigarette smoke long, long ag quick as the goodness of Prince life 1 The patented process fixes nd parch! the right-smoke-track soon i rstand yourself how much you RINCE Al the national joy sm It stands to reason, doesn't it, th natioi Watch your sten! nrefoi ? r - I It's easy to change the shape llHVG and color of unsalable brands r to imitate the Prince Albert . tidy red tin, but it it impotttble - _ to imitate the flavor of Prince JVlCn, Albert tobacco ! Tho Alber patented process protects that! tODQC \ than it's s< v grant t 7 f Iremember 1 Pe^M-ma When You (all \ At Our Drug 6tori?i^y Mr. no1n-rt IT. Norris, No. 1333 Hon y St., North UorUeley, Cal.. writes 'Wo have ni'vor h:nl tiny other tnedi itio hut Poruiui in onr lininc since we lave boon marrioi! i sufl'--red wit it ;ldney and bladth r trouble, hut two nontlts treatment with IVruna made ne a well and strong man. Mv wife elt w? ak and was easily tin-it nn.t ms :vh) tr >ul>]i'(] wiili various pains" ut since she took Peruna she is well iuJ strung." jancaster & Chester Ky. Co ohedule in Effect August 15, 1915. Eastern Time. WESTBOUND. ,v. Lancaster . ..(i:00am?2:30pm \ Port Lawn ..6:30am?4:08pm v. i:a-< mm ii'.o ..6:45am ?4:28pm IE hhurg . . . .0:55am 4:43pm ,r. Chester 7:30am?5:3 5pm EASTBQUXD. .v. Cluster .... :?:00am?(l:4opm ,v. Uichhurg ... 9:45am?7:37pm iV. BasconiviBe .10:00am ? 7:3Spin .v. Fort Lawn . . lo:3(?am 7:55pm ,r. Lancaster ...11:00am?8:35pm Connections?Chester with Southrn. Seaboard and Carolina & Northi stern 1':i 11 u !1 vc Fort Lawn, with Seaboard Air ,itie Railways. Lancaster ,wt.h Southern Railway SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Premier < airier of the South. ASSKNCKR TRAIN SCHLDULKS. Tvalns arrive Lar.e: s'.er from: u. IIP?Yorkvllb , Rock Hill und Intermediate statiou.:. 8:31 a. m. o. 113?Charleston, Columbia and intermediate stations lu:06 a. m. o. 114?Marion, Blacksburg, Charlotte and intermediate stations, 1:35 p. m. o. 117?Columbia, KinRsville and intermediate stations. 7:41 p. m. Tri lns leave Lancaster for: a 118?KiriKsville. Coi lmb'a and intermediate station", 8:31 a. m. o. 113?Rock Hill, Rlacksburg, Marion, Charlotte and intermediate stations. 10:05 a. m. a. 114 ? Klngsvllie, Columbia Charleston and Intermediate stations 1:35 . v 117?Rock Hil' Vorkv'lle and intermediate stations, 7:41 n. m. Schedule figures are published a3 (formation only, not guaranteed, or information as to passenger res etc., call on Notice of llischiirtic. Notice is hereby given that the utt?rsigned will, as guardian of Springs askins, on the 9th day of January, 10. make his final return as such tardian, and apply to the probate art of Lancaster county for letters sniissorv. R. A. HLACKMON. Guardian of Springs I'.askins Dec. 10, 1915. 10 obacco dn't get wind of this I ; o. He counts it lost |j| Albert gets firm set 1 I that?and cufs out S 1 as you know how! | 1 '11 like LBERT1 oke ^lil iat if men all over the J n, all over the world, j|| r P. A. that it must |9 all the qualities to || y your fondest desires? 31 get us right on Prince i|| t! 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