The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 17, 1916, Page 7, Image 7
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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<>.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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