The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 17, 1916, Page 7, Image 7
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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
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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
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^ 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."
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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,
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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
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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.
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ith efronge-moietener top that
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R. J. REYNOLDS
TOBACCO COMPANY
WLn?ton-Salcm, N. C.