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T DANGER FROM WHITE WOLVES I No Greater Peril Can Be Encountered I by Those Who Have to Travel in the Far North. Writing of his recent adventures in the Arctic in Harper's Magazine. Don- ! n'.d II. Macmillan tells of a dramatic 1 meeting of his sledge team with a pack 1 of white wolves. i i "I thought we had better move ] while we could, so I ordered the men i BUFFALO HERD IS GROWING Animals on Government Preserve In Oklahoma Continue to Show Gratifying Increase. The government's herd of buffalo on .the Wichita national forest In Okla- i Tioma, which Is also a federal game ' preserve, has been Increased by the I arrival of ten calves, according to a report received by the forest service j from the supervisor In charge. The I herd, which now comprises 62 sped-1 mens of the almost extinct bison. Is in j good condition, says the supervisor, and promises to continue Increasing at a rapid rate. Eight of tho f?iv?" <" " females, bringing tho number of heifers and cows up to 30. The bulls number 32 and have been placed by themselves In a pasture which has just been fenced in for them. Three years ago the buffalo herd in tho Wichita forest was little more than half as large as it is now. It is said that tho other game animals in the preserve, including the elk and antelope, also nre Increasing, due to tho protection afforded, not only against hunters but against wolves, wildcats and other predatory animals, which committed ( serious depredations from I he establishment of the preserve in 1905 until i measures were takon to stop them. J In protecting the game from predatory animals, the wardens and forest otTl- i cers are also promoting the interests j of local stockmen, who graze several thousand head of cattle on certain al lotted areas within the preserve. MAKES A PLEA FOR FICTION ^ Writer Puts Up Argument for Retention of Popular Literature In the Country's Libraries. The dropping of fiction from tho public libraries, as proposed by the head of tho bureau of statistics and investigation as a means of economy, would accomplish at a stroke a consummation long devoutly wished by many. That is. it would materially reduce tho Dercentaeo of novels ranrt as compared with that of other books. Perhaps Mr. Mclntyre has heard that i Action was decreasing in popularity, ] and thinks that he is merely aligning himself with a growing tendency. We fear, however, that when he hears from the people he will have to revise his ideas. His proposal will be met with a counter-proposal, lianish fiction? Why not banish all other literature instead? Would the saving not bo as great? Nay, would it not be greater? As for novels being a "form of entertainment," a luxury, as our statistician holds, they are in reality almost as much of a necea* Blty as the newspapers!. Millions go through life comfortably without rubbing elbows with even so human a nonflctionist as John Stuart Mill, but whoever lived until be had breathed the wind that blows through the pages of "Ivanhoe" and "Vanity Kali ?" ?New York Evening Post. Detects Approach of Storms. A revival of the long-abandoned flirtings coherer used so extensively In the pioneer days of radio communication Is presented in the novel form of an electric storm detector used at the Waterside station of the New York Edison company. Briefly, the equipment comprises a tilings coherer, a sensitive relay, a decoherer for restoring the filings to their normal, loose state, and an alarm bell. Long 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 la to follow. It is sild that during some storms when It becomes quite dark the load is increased over 6o,000 kilowatts in the course of five minutes' time. It is obvioi!sly necessary for the attendants to have ample warning so as to be prepared to tako care of the sudden load that is thrown on the generators.? Scientific American. Describes Habits of Penguins. The penguins of South Georgia are described in a very interesting and informative memoir by R. C. Murphv, issued by the museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The writer's field work in this subantarctic Island extended from November. 1912, to March, 1913, thus Including the ' greater part of the breeding season. i)urlng this time ho acquired a rich store of information concerning the life histories of the local snecies?es peclally tho king and Johnny penguins?and would have gathered more but for the stupid vandalism of the crew of the sealing brig on which he made the voyage. A curious discovery of the author was a penguin graveyard. 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. i un ntrvtmtu whtb wwrr iou|ni ior liberty. The eighth wars were fough| for all or most of theso things save the last. ?Exchange. Queer Lack. ' Wouldn't you like to visit the great leeert "Indeed I would, but 1 haven t got ho HQ n rl ffrfthonwH to pack up their sledges and drivo i over tc the battlefield. After going i a short distance, a yell from Pee-ahwah-to turned our attention toward 1 the south. Could we believe our eyes! I 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 i have us now fighting for our lives, < knives between teeth and rifles con- i stantly going. On the contrary, we prayod that they would not stop, but keep coming on. Undoubtedly they would have dono so had we been able to control our dogs, who were now wild with excitement, whining, yelping and straining on the traces. We liouted and threatened and lashed with the whip, at the same time holding back with all our strength on the; upstandors of the slcdgo. The leader of tlij band stopped, surveyed us critically for an instant and wheeled, followed by the others. Ily the time that wo could tear the covers from the rifles they were out of range. "I have no compunction whatever in KllOOt inc at the?i> snnnUlnir rnwnril? of the animal world. Axel Helberg land is infested with them, their tracks being found intermingling with those of the inuskox and white caribou. A mother and her young are surrounded, worried to death and torn into pieces. ] During Svordrup's expedition the wolves came into camp, attacked and j killed some of the dogs and later, on j the trail, even attacked one of the men who had no other weapon to defend himself with than a ski. No animal 1 in the North is so enduring, none has j such a wide range and 110110 an easier I existence, their food being muskoxen. I caribou, Arctic hare, lemmings and 1 nosslbly foxes. There is also every 1 evidence to believe that wolves prey upon seals along the ico foot." POINTS OUT NEW OCCUPATION Expert of Department of Agriculture Urges the Cultivation of Edible Snails. onaii culture apparently lias not yet mado a beginning in this country, tho 1 few snails found on the market here being brought over from Europe alive in barrels and casks and sold by lish dealers in our large cities. Writing in i the last Yearbook 'if the department of agriculture, Mr. E. \V. Rust suggests that the opportunties for snailgrowing are really much better In the United States than in Europe. While in tho old world the snail grower gen- j orally has but a small pleco of lnnd pn which the snails must be confined by a fence of special design, and J where they must be regularly fed, in this country there is an abundance of t waste land where the crentures might ; bo successfully raised without atten- | tion, and as they do not wander far, 1 they would not need to be confined. ! Mr. Rust states that the Mississippi i ...II... ?#r u.-l - ,, I vuni-y uuurH michi conuiuons lor hiiuii culture. There Is no reason why snails should not be used to some extent as a substitute for oysters, which I they resemble In flavor. Their feeding habits do not, as In the ease of i oysters, involve the possible danger of infection with typhoid and other diseases.?Scientific American. Lumber to Travel 10.000 Miles. A cargo of Douglas fir to be used in building docks at Port Nelson on Hud- | son bay will travel nearly 10,000 miles | | on shipboard before It reaches its des- j tlnatlon at the end of a voyage which has already begun with the vessel's departure from Pritish Columbia. Al- i though, "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 ot the Panama canal, through which it is being sent, means a trip which has been estimated at 9.900 miles, or seven times the actual distance between Vancouver and Port Nelson Consul Julius D. Dreher at Toronto Cannula oihn rn. ports on this matter, states that a coni stgnment of British Columbia timber is on the way to the Poison Iron works at Toronto, by way of the Panama canal, to be made into masts for a dredge being built for use at Port Neli son. Big-Eared Holy Man. Major Genera) Hiraoka, who has ; Just come back to Japan from the ! Island of Formosa, declares that the late revolt had a curious origin. It appears that a rumor gained circulation among the aborigines that in the mountains had appeared a sage so holy that his ears bung down to his shoulders, and so wise that he was ' even better fitted to be the ruler over ! the aborigines than Baron Goto. A local prophet asrured the natives that this mysterious nersnnacro was th<? heaven-ordained emperor of Formosa, j 'and that if they did not rise at once I to do battle for his cause they would | regret It all their litres. Tboy 1060, fully expecting thut lllg ), Ears would come to their assistance, | but were disappointed. |, In His Wife's Name. ; Harry?I'aw. what Is a henpecked ' husbf.nd. | raw-A man whoso nerve Is in his j'wife's name.?Cincinnati Enquirer. HE LANCASTER NEWS. . 'PAY DIRT" UNDER NEW YORK Legend Which Seems to Point t.o Existence of Gold Under St eets of the Metropolis. A Pliilade'phia assayer, Walter Scott by name, recently took several tiandfuls of sand from a street excavation near Independence hall, and ifter putting it through an assaying process, extracted a small quantity of gold He declared there was enough gold under Philadelphia, in his opin- ! ion, to make hunting it worth while. Residents of Upper Manhattan remember Thomas Hartshorn, an eccen nib tua|i wuu iivku in uie vicinuy ui One Hundred and Sixth street and Pifth avenue for many years. One of his hobbies was absolute faith in the divining red. He talked about its unerring certainty in the pointing out of metal for many years until he could "tern to talk of nothing else, and he g~t 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 Mount St. Vincent House of Refreshment. Several boys noticed Hartshorn walk along the path to the east of the tavern and hold out his divining red. Presently ha was seen to stop an l. after looking around to see if he was observed, stick a small stake into the grass. One of the boys shadowed him for the remainder cf the day and told his father. That night Hartshorn was followed to the place of the stake and they saw the Rod Man Till a pail with sand. The news spread the next day or two that Hartshorn had found gold. The Rod Man never denied it up to the time he died, and many Harlemites 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 arouso a citizen of this place from his bed. After the pickax had been used there was also some strong pulling by friends before 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 the evening, after the rest of the people of Ilavard 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 Capt. W. P. NVllgus, and workmen had been stopped by the darkness. Our hero did not know of the pave mem ana lanaea on 11 witn notti teet. Finding that ho was sinking up to his shoo tops in the soft concrete ho laid down and bothered no more about it. In the morning the workmen found him fast asleep and also fast in the concrete, which had hardened during the night. It took pickaxes before he could bo pried loose. A new pavement is being laid.?Bayard (Del.) Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. Find Curious Siberian Tribe. Tho last members of the Siberian expedition promoted by tho 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 tho Tungus, a primitive nomad peoplo of the Mongolian type, who live to themselves, have only vague notions about "he Russians and the. czar and no system of writing. They live in wigwams and have no occupation other than tho breeding of reindeer and the hunting of white foxes. Their religion is a belief in trrxr.i 1 on/1 nvil unlritu A largo collection of costumes, weapons, implements and copper and iron ornaments was brought home by the expedition. Close Estimating. A geologist of the United States geological survey once estimated 3.000 feet as the necessary dopth to drill 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 day having been struck at a depth of 2,987 feet. In another branch o> the work of the survey, that of esti mating at the close of tho calendar year the production of the various minerals during that year, even this percentage of error is being reduced. Tho survey's estimate on January 1, 1915, of the production of iron ore was 41,440,000 long tons; the actual figures received from all the com panics are now seen to be 41,439,761 long tons, a difference of only 239 tons. Real Favor. "It annoys me to bo reading a war dispatch and 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 piled the cheerful citizen. "I should think It would." "No. You see, I have an Idea that 1 wouldn't be able to pronounce the name, anyway, and the censor saves mo 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 chlefK blamed for the rise Imported butter has risen 20 per cent, and Is stll' mounting, largely due to the fact that the belligerent powers In Europe ha v. prohibited the export of butter. 1A X I'A 1\ V 17, 1?M(>. SAVED BY STRAINS OF MUSIC "Home, Sweet Home," on Harmonica, * Calms Raging Moose, on Murder I Bent. | w< un Miko, long regar-'ed a? the tough- , est bull moose which over Hipped a 0,1 horn about the game preserve of 11 Henry 1'ayne Whitney, on October mountain, was so thoroughly overcome by the strains of Home, Sweet "r ,, .. . . .. it" effect. i ol j tr > i>i Timber for Shingles. , j, For shingles alone. 7r>n million feet j ui of timber is cut in that part of the \> state of Washington which lies west ] of the Cascades. | s. Treat Children s \ <> Colds Externally Don't, dose delicato littlo stomachs with ! harmful internal medicines. Vick's "YapO-ltuh" Salve, applied externally, relieves | qi by inhalation as a vupor and by absorption w through tho skin. Vick's can bo used j freely with perfect safety on tho youngest member of tho family. 2~>c, SOe.or $ 1.00. [ VICKSV-6 SALVE mj I I Get on ~pii ~0 | Unders I I ? \ '" A r < ?,* \ \ HL ^ copTTigi wmrmm nume, piayeu on a mourn organ, that he ceased trying to butt down " a tree, from the limbs of which one of ''' the most frightened linemen in the world was getting ready to fall, ac- '' cording to u Pittsfleld (Mass.) tiispatch to the New York Herald. Cleveland Morey. a telephone line repairer, and Lawrence \V. Kidney, his assistant, were repairing a wire through the game preserve when SJ Mike, aching for an afternoon of uninterrupted murder, started to work. ' 1 Kidney leaped a nine-foot fence, although ordinarily he cannot do moro than one and one-half feet. Morey tlew into a tree and Miko petulantly a* began to butt it down. in Morey yelled for help and rocked j " with the branches as Mike butted it, i 'c while Kidney yelled outside the fence. | " Finally, remembering that animals delight in mouth organs, he Jerked his ^ harmonica from his hip pocket and 1 played what is "Home, Sweet Home,'' 11 when his teeth will stay apart. Mike was overcome; one moment a roaring I : fnrv ll... I .., .... 1.. .1- 1-- I l' IU? J, u?v ocvuiiU ?ll UIII UL Lilt? popillill ? tunc converted him into a perfect gentleman, content to amble off up the " mountain dejectedly. Morey leaped <( so far out of the tree that he had to ,!1 hurry hack to Join the life-saving mutician. High Explosives. m Almost without exception, high ex- a plosives are composed >1 some organic gi substance, which means some form of ei carbon, treated with nitric acid. With- ol out nitrogen, which is the chief in- c( grodirnt of nitric acid, it might bo L said that there can be no explosives, d Yet by a paradox nitrogen is one of 15 the most inert gases known and the chief ingredient of the air we breathe. N Possibly its explosive value nrises ti from this very inertness; it combines ti so exceedingly reluctantly that on small provocation the compound tr breaks up into gas. giving the cnor- j ni mous exnaiision needeit for ovnino't-o ?1 Woman in New Field. The automobile school at the Y. M. / A. at New York has proved that 1 uiu'ii have a mind tor mechanics as I I sll as for millinery, the Hare skirt j j id tango. The class at this school is a number of men and about a dozi woman members. In order to vtin VAJ chauffeur's certiilcate, they must jj >sorb a lot of technical motor inrmation. That the woman members j/ e doing so is shown by their examat ion papers. Not one of their num- JLI r has fallen below the 90 per cent ting, and three of theui have 100 per nt. The women must learn the dlf- \j\ rence between a cog and a carburer. and also locate and remedy enne trouble. Instead of bossing the yy' < b, they must g<-t out and net under. "\v? other Huhbards are used for this lrpose. There are more than a tliou- (.'j'),' in<l woman auto drivers in that city mon id the number is increasing every lne '< ty foU 3 was but British Take Cures at Home. and Great Britain is taking her "cures" . homo just as Americans ar<> "see- _. g America first This year tin Jj&I ritish had to forego their vacations Sclu i the < ontinent?Germany. Austria, aly or southern France. The war ade it impossible to rea< li any of |'viese places where the "cures'* and H 1 laths" are principal excuses for the j'v" inual pilgrimage. I ^r' Jut Britain didn't seem to mind i >i the gouty she offered Ruxton. i,v arrogate. Llandritidod Wells, Hath Lv. id Strathpeffer For the phthisical I .v. 10 I lighlands of Scotland and the lake '-vnmtry of Ireland afforded the nrac- VlI\ itr ?i-- dial the lung sufferer had ( ern >< u accustomed to look lor on the ' jr.tinent. j." Jin What's in a Name? L The action of the Russian govern til in changing the name of the ipital from St. Petersburg to Retro- SC rad. and that of the municipal coun- !' 1 of Paris, after the heroic defense PAS Liege, in honoring the Iielgians by T inverting Rue de Ilerlin into Rue do *0. iege, bring to mind similar incidents tiring the Franco-Prussian war of " ?* i"0. After the collapse of tlio empire of apoleon III at Sedan and the formallll l\f tho Prnn/'h rnroi hlln ??? ~ . W*. v>>vy 1 VMVU I V.JIU L/l IV, IUC lia* onal assembly, on whom the whole No. it'ety of the country depended, spent luch of Its time?although the Uer- . ^ inns were thundering down on the ' 0 vet 1 <-it v in changing the names t things?streets, buildings, departlonts. and what not?from "Uoyal" ad "Imperial" to "National." Finally. N*o. y solemn decree of the assembly, the | iir.ii! of the royal liengal tiger in the aris zoo was actually changed to the ! national lien gal tiger," and the custo- ! iaiis of the animal were charged to ee that the signs above the cagesjjnfc ere changed in accordance with the I por ecrce. J f: re I Much the Same Principle. i ^ "Those South s?-a islanders are a , ders ueer lot. rhey have many things Has hlch are taboo, mustn't be touched." i 101 I see nothing strange about that. P"a is the same principle on which we < ()U iret'ully plant a iot ot grass for poo- ' '''SI le to keep oil ot. ?i.ouisville Cour- i r-Journal. I, All l -- i mice moeri IS such friendly to just makes a man sorry he did d cigarette smoke long, long ago nick as the goodness of Prince . fe! The patented process fixes 1 i parch! i the right-smoke-track soon a: tand yourself how much you 1 R1NCE Al the national joy smc It stands to reason, doesn't it, th? nation WafrK VfMir nrofnr W - j wva> Oivp It's easy to change the shape tlciVG I snd color of unsalable brands coticfw to imitate the Prince Albert BHtleiy tidy red tin, but it is impotiible . . to imitate the flavor of Prince JVlGn, ? Albert tobacco ! The Albert patented process protects that! tObaCC than ] it's so grant 7 "remember Pte^ru-M >u (all Our rug 5tore^y r. Robert IT. Norris, >"n. 1333 Hen ?t., North Rerkeley, Cal., writes: > have never had any other medibut Peruna in our home since we ? been married. I sutterod with ey and bladder trouble, but two ths treatment with Peruna made a well and strong man. Mv wife weak and was easily tired and also troubled with various pains, since she took Peruna she Is well strong." icaster & Chester Ry. Co uuie in raieci August i?, Eastern Time. WESTHOUND. Lancaster . . .6:00am?2:30pm Fort Lawn ..6:30am?4:08pm Itascomvil'.e . .6:45am?4:28pm Richburg, . .. .6:55am?4:43pm Chester T:30am -5:25pm EAST HOUND. Chester .... y :00am?6:45pm Hichburg ... 9:45am?7:27pm Hascomvlllo .10; 00am?7:2 8 pro Fort Lawn .. 10:3 0am?7:55pm Lancaster . . .11:00am?8:25pm onnections?Chester with SouthSeaboard and Carolina & Northtern Hallways. ort Lawn, with Seaboard Air a Railways. ancaster ,wth Southern Railway. )UTHERN RAILWAY 'rcmier ( airier ??? the South. Tl) A TV LVM11. l\TT1 t^C_ 'U14.1VJU1V i i v a \ i > ^ iJVylll^UL LiFiD. "alllB arrive Lar.crs'.er from: 118?Yorkvilk, Hock Hill and intermediate stations 8:31 a. m. 113?Charleston, Columbia and intermediate stations lu:06 a. m. 114?Marion, Blacksburg, Charlotte and intermediate stations. 1:35 p. m. 117?Columbia, Kingsville and intermediate stations, 7:41 p. m. rains leave Lancaster for: 118?Kingsville, Columbia and intermediate stations. 8:31 a. m. 113?Rock Hill, Blacksburg, Marion, Charlotte and intermediate stations, 10:05 a. m 114 ? Kingsville, Columbia Charleston a"d Intermediate stations 1:35 . 117?Rock Hill. Vorkv'lle and intermediate stations, 7:41 p. m. choduie figures are published as rmation only, not guaranteed. Information as to passenger is etc., call on Notice of Discharge. 'otice is hereby Riven that the unsigned will, as guardian of Springs kins, on the 9th day of January. I. make his final return as such rdian, and apply to the probate rt of Lancaster county for letters nissory. R. A. BLACKMON, Guardian of Springs Raskins, tec. 10, 1915. I 9 | >bacco I I i^ n't get wind of this 11 Ho counts it lost ^ Albert gets firm set that?and cuts out |j s j'ou know how! || I like ^ .BERT it if men all over the gig , all over the world, II P. A. that it must %11 the qualities to your fondest desires? ||| >^et us right on Prince |1 ! We tell you this li :o will prove better 11 you can figure out, || chummy and fra- J and inviting all the Pi Can't cost you more ic or 10c to get your |j| uy Pri nci Albert everywhere |pi3 baeco i? eold ? in loppy red Kp|i we. Se i tidy red tine. 10c t ^ indeome pound and half-pound ^ n humidore?and?in that claeey H yetal - glaee pound humidor slS ith efronge-moietener top that tepe the tobacco in each great |||l dm ! R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY WLn?ton-Salcm, N. C.