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LONDON MOURNS FOR ITS KIWI Only Apt?ryx In England ls No More -Wingless Bird ls Believed Nearly Extinct' The total extinction In England of the kiwi (or apt?ryx) has become a reality. The London Daily Mail an nounces tte death of the Regent's park zoo's only specimen. The species is nearly extinct lu New Zealand now, but the British Zoological socieiy has .written to the New Zealand govern ment asking if just one more kiwi can be spared from the island sanctuary. Zoologists will mourn the loss of the dwarf wingless ostrich more than the zoo -visitors, for not one in ten thou sand ever saw lt while it lived there more than nine years. The keeper would turn out this queerest of birds every now and then, but the I?ng bllled bundle of apathy and sleepiness scrambled back Into Its box as soon as released. A curious point about the kiwi Is the fact that its nostrils are at the tip of its long worm-hunting beak, and in the ardour of the chase it emits an unpleasant snuffling noise. Its mating call is a pig-like squeal. England is responsible for th? vir tual extinction of this rare bird. Brit ish ships brought rats to New Zea land, so weasels were sent to extermi nate the rats. When they had nearly wiped out the kiwi, the New Zealand government found a ratless Island and eonsecrated It to the poor bird. But the problem of saving an Idiot bird that puts all Its eggs Into one shell, so to speak, was a difficult one. The kiwi laid one egg a season, nearly as big as Itself. Exceptional mothers would lay two eggs and then find lt almost Impossible to hatch both, as the ends would project out beyond their feathers as they sat on them. FEW IDEAS OF REAL VALUE Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Are Still Comparatively in the Stages of Infancy. MAs every one knows, It Is a com paratively simple thing to get a patent on anything, so long as you have a good patent attorney and are able to Incorporate a few new knickknacks In your device. But such a thing as a really new Idea, not to speak of a basic one, Is scarcer tfcan the proverb ial 'hen's teeth."* Thus H. Gernsback, In the Radio Amateur News, comments on the rarity of anything new In wireless telegraphy or telephony. Inventors, he says, content themselves with making improvements In existing devices. These are good, but Inventors should not get the idea that the last word bas been said In basic principles. He says some one will probably discover a more sensitive . detector tfcan the vacuum tube; some one will devise a better transmitter; some one will in vent a receiver that makes use of the eyes Instead of the ears. "Get off the beaten path," he says. To Give China a Bible. Americans have spent $132,000 so ' ' far to give China a Bible in its own language, the Mandarin. And Just now they are agreeing to spend $31,000 more to put the Bible into type and plates and to print and bind an edi tion. However, it ls expected that copies will be sold to sufficient value ' to pay the printing bill, and It ls fur ther explained that these sums for ex penditures are Mexican, which money is the standard of China at this time. It has been found by American schoK ars that the Chinese Mandarin ls a wonderfully flexible language, capable of expressing almost every shade of meaning. More than twenty-five years has be?n the period of preparation, and foremost American and Chinese scholars have had part The aim has been not only to give the Chinese people a Bible but to give them one that is pure in language and will set the standard for the republic that English translations set for the Eng lish-speaking world. This new Bible is for people who number more than a fourth of the world population. Palestine to Have Stamps. Talestine is the only country which xhas no postage stamp of Its own. But representatives of the Zionist govern ment have Informed London philatel ists that this anomaly promises soon to be rectified, for, with the establish ment of Palestine as the national home .of the Jewish nation, It is believed illirie time will be lost in emulating the examples of other small nations called Into being by mandates of the peace conference by the Issuance of distinc tive stamps. Stamps sold by British army post offices In adjacent former enemy territory are being utilized by overprinting with the word "Pales 1 tine." ^fe^lateria! for Bridges. 3ridges now needed In national parks and ftirest reserves are to be built of the steel girders and trusses, and other bridge material, which was ready to be shipped to France, for the use of the American army, when the war ended. There ls a vast amount of this material on hand, ready drilled and quite portable, 2,856 pounds being the maximum weight of any part.-Popular Mechanics Magazine. Burden of Public Debts. The annual Interest on the debt of Great Britain ls 12.92 per cent of her Income, that of France 32.17 per cent, that of Italy 14.43 per cent, that of the United States 2.53 per cent, that of Germany 20.96 per cent, that of Aus tria 254)2 per cent, that of Hungary 24.78 ps? cent, that of Bulgarin 21.80 per cent, and that of Turkey 17.60 per cent KILL ALL HARMFUL ANIMALS Annual Loss Wrought by Predatory, Wild Beasts and Rodents Mounts Up Into Millions. Live stock and wool valued nt $20. 000.000 are lost annually through the depredations of wild animals. The value of farm produce and forage de stroyed euch year hy rodents is approx imately $00O.<W0.000. It is . esti mated ttiat the households of this country sustain an annual loss from rats and mice of $200.000,000. These figures sum up certain of the larger losses due to destructive wild life which the biological survey of the United States department of agricul ture ls engaged in reducing as rapidly as possible. A force of between 400 ?nd 500 experienced hunters was em ployed by this bureau during the past year to kill predatory animals, many of which were Infected with rabies; Live Stock and Wool Valued at Mil lions of Dollars Are Destroyed An . nually by Predatory Animals, Chief of Which Are Wolves and Coyotes. this disease often Is spread from the wild creatures to domestic animals, and frequently endangers humans. In this work of extermination the states and numerous private organizations have had an important share. The work of killing rodents-prairie dogs, ground squirrels, jack rabbits and cottontails, pocket gophers, native mice, wood rats, cotton mts. etc.-ls also carried on with the co-operation of the states. During the past fiscal year ground squirrels were poisoned on more than 14.000.000 acres. In one Idaho'county alone 40,000 rabbits were killed. In the same period from 75 to 95 per cent of the prairie dogs found on a total of 2,200,000 acres were de stroyed. BANK FAVORS BETTER SIRES Concern at Fond du Lac, Wis., Urges Its Patrons to Improve Qual ity of Stock. With the publication of a four-page farm news leaflet, of which a current copy is a "Duroc Sale and Pig Club Number," a bank at .Fond du Lac, Wis., is encouraging its patrons to Im prove their live stock. The editor of the sheet has the unique title of "hank agriculturist," and his activities are devoted largely to financing farmers who wish to acquire well-bred animals or to become Joint owners in valuable sires. In a letter to the United States de partment of agriculture the bank ag riculturist calls attention to the sup port being given hog-cholera control, pig-club work, and other activities In which the government is active. The leaflet contains a "For Sale and Want Column." relating especially to live stock, gives current news, among breeders, and contales discussions ranging from the cure of cattle to the handling of boes. An expressed pur pose of the bank's activities is "to make Fond du Lac county a land where milk and honey flows." RATION OF COTTONSEED MEAL One Pound Per Day for Each 1,000 Pounds Live Weight ls Most Satisfactory. . One pound of cottonseed meal per day for each 1,000 pounds live weight Is the most satisfactory quantity to feed work animals, according to re cent experiments conducted by the Uni ted States department of agriculture. A test In feeding cottonseed meal to work horses and mules at the govern ment farm, Beltsville, Md., was begun in 1918, and continued last year. When the meal was fed in large quantities harmful effects were apparent, how ever, Indicating that cottonseed meal, like any other high-protein feed must be fed with care to horses and mules. BLACKLEG VACCINE IS FREE Department Report Shows That 3,339, 815 Doses Were Distributed During Last Year. Vaccine for immunizing cattle against blackleg Is still In great de mand. A report of the bureau of an imal Industry. United States depart ment of agriculture, shows that 3.33S, 815 doses were distributed free to stoefe ?Toners during the last ' fiscal year. The vaccine sent out by the bu reau is in the powdered form. USING THE SUN AS A STOVE Device Invented by American Scien tist Is Acknowledged Valuable Fuel Saver. Baking bread and roasting meat on the summit of a mountain without fuel is possible by the use of a device Invented by a scientist of the Smith sonian institution, Washington, D. C. The intensity of the sun'.-; rays ls har nessed, the unusual energy ls capital ized, ?and food can be cooked beyond the line of perpetual snows. An astronomical mirror nt the Smithsonian institution is capable of receiving and measuring the energy of the sun rays, calculating that In summer the solar luminary transmits upon each acre of land energy equiv alent to 7,.r)00 horse-power. The so-termed "solar cooker" con sists of a half-cylinder of iron lined with mirror glass, which catches the rays of the sun and concentrates them upon a metal tube that ls the half cylinder's axis. The tube contains oil, which expands and becomes lighter, by the heat as it passes through the tube. The latter is continued to form a loop j outside the half-cylinder, thus making a sort of endless chain. Passing through the loop, the oil cools. However, the sun's heat forcing the oil through the portion of the. tube Inside the half-cylinder, compels the cooled oil to follow it, otherwise there would be a vacuum. So while the sun shines there ls a Antinnous circula tion of oil. The "loop" passes through a box which contains an oven. Heat from the oil warms the oven and does the desired cooking. POSITION CALLS FOR ABILITY Englishman Chosen to Administer Af fairs in Jerusalem Has Been Given a Hard Task. The office of governor of Jerusalem, once occupied by Pontius Pilate, is now held by Col. Ronald Storrs, a graduate of Cambridge university and son of the dean of Rochester college, England. His task ls one to t?st the adminis trative ability of any man. Jerusalem is a. city of disunions, where what ever may come of the future, for the moment Zionists and Arabs are passionately divided, and to steer a just path between them and Induce them to Join him on that path Is thank less work. It ls to that task, however, that he chiefly devotes himself. Twice a week he has meetings of his favorite pro Jerusalem society, where French, Ital ians, British. Americans, rabbis. Zion ists, leaders, commercial men of stand ing and others who are In any way prominent In the life of the city are brought together and In the course of debate led to see that they have in common a single citizenship. His motto as governor ls "unify and be friends." - - . - - - - Colonel Storrs was one of the prime movers In the establishment of an In dependent Arab kingdom. He Is thir ty-eight years old. Searching for the Point John George, executive secretary of the High street M. E. church of Muncie, who Is a Scot was listening attentively to a story about two fish I ermen who had been having good luck fishing from n boat In a lake. They wished to remember the spot where they had caught the fish, but looking shoreward they saw no land mark that would assist them In find ing the spot on another day. ' "Finally." said the story feller, "one of them had a happy thought and cut a notch in his boat at this spot." . The crowd laughed, except George, who appeared puzzled. Finally, he, too, burst out laughing. "I was just thinking," he explal?ed, I "what a good joke it would have beef] on those fishermen if the next day they were unable to get the same boat!"-Indianapolis News. Incendiary Bullets. The Incendiary bullets used during the war, mostly fired from machine guns carried by airplanes, were in effect miniature high explosive shells. Those supplied to our armies (mil lions of them were made at the Frank ford arsenal) were of brass, hollowed out to hold a composition of which the principal ingredient was barium nitrate. To set this off, each bullet had a priming charge of magnesium and red lead. An ordinary rifle bullet of course, Is solid. The incendiary bullet ls of wholly different construction, though of the same caliber, being meant to carry flame. Its discharge sets Are to the explosive stuff contained In lt -Kansas CP v Star. ^ \ . New Grade of Rubber. Chrysil, a new high grade rubber, is vulcanized without difficulty. It is pro duced by the Chrysothamnus, or rab bit bush, a genus of shrubs yielding In different species from 1,93 io 2,83 per cent, and In one individual plant as high as 6.57. Of Chrysothamnus nauseosus, the chief species, 22 vari eties are known. 12 of them contain ing chrysil. The plants are large shrubs, maturing In six or eight years, with an average weight of four to six pounds, and abound In many parts of North America. The rubber occurring In the cells and not as a latex concentrates near the soil line A Strike. 'Til show 'em." said the hen as she kicked tte porcelain egg out of the nest "They can't make a brick layer oui of me."-Carnegie Puppet We have just r< mobiles and can f mg car. You do after placing you rolet back home v If You are Contem] Gil Chevrolet cars have ste have the wearing ?quality th 'is the cheap upkeep and rui Acme . BEEF PRODUCED FOR FAMILY More ls Bought From Village Butcher Than ls Raised on Farm-Little Veal Killed. The farmer buys more beef than he takes from the farm. Only about 10 per cent of meat furnished by the average farm is beef. In the north and west the average consumption of beef per family is nearly 300 pounds .and in the south it ls less than 100 pounds, according to the United States department of agriculture. The beef animal killed for home use may be a beef steer or an un profitable cow, or a heifer that does not promise to be a good producer and would not bring a good price for beef on the market. Very little veal A Steer. An Unprofitable Cow or a Poor Looking Heifer May Be Used for the Family Table. Is killed on the farm for home use. Much of the beef bought by farmers is bought in the summer from village butchers who operate meat wagons or cars in the country. On the average farm there are no facilities for keep ing fresh meat during warm weather. PLAN TREATMENT OF LAMBS Attention Attracted in Many Locali ties to Value of Docking and Castrating Lambs. The value of castration and dock ing of buck lambs destined for mar ket is attracting attention in many lo calities where the practice has not been generally followed. In Braxton county, W. Va., for example, the farm bureau plans a demonstration of the value of castration and docking by sending to market one carload of buck lambs that have not been thus treated, and at the same time a carload of buck lambs that have been docked and castrated. The prices will be compared, and a forceful object les son is. expected. Farmers In Gllmer county, of the same state, expect to dock and castrate all their buck lambs In the coming year. Failure to follow this practice gen erally is regarded by officials of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United "States department o? agriculture, as a weak point in agriculture, and they recommend the practice to all farm ers. Has Never Seen Their Equal. "I have used Chamberlain's Tab lets for stomach trouble, biliousness and constipation off and on for the past ten years. I have never seen their equal yet. They have strength ened my digestion, relived me of headaches and had a mild pleasant action on my bowels. I take pleasure in recommending them" writes H. D. F. Parmenter, Cridersville, Ohio. Do not forget to place your orders early for your Fordson and Ford Truck for this fall. Bceived a car load ill your order for a not have to wait r order, but can tal nth you. plating Buying a Cai re You a Demonstn iod the test of the Edgefield r lat everybody wants. Couple ming expense. Let us give 3 i Auto C( Consult Your Own Ir Whei , Metal or Com Mantels, Trim fl Wall 1 Youngblood Mantel 635 Broad St. { AUGUST Contractors Persons contem any kind shoulc for estimates, e We make a specia and We have a lar men and can c PARDUE TRENTON, S. C. * Union Meeting. The Union Meeting of the secon division of the Edgefield Baptist Ai sociation will convene with th church at Republican, August 28t and 29, 1920. 11:00 a. m. Devotional services b the moderator. 11:30 a. m. Roll Call of th churches. Discussion of subjects 1st How may the layman in ou churches be led out into larger field of service?-S. B. Mays, M. 0. Boal wright. 2nd. How may our churches exei eise closer and more helpful an brotherly watchcare over their nun bers than they now do?-L. I of Chevrolet auto run-a,bout or tour an unlimited time ie your new Chev \ ? ? Come in and Let Us ition oads for a number of years and d with their wearing qualities ,'ou a demonstration. )mpany iterest by Consulting Us i Buying I position Roofing Tile, Grates [ardware 1 Board Ste. [ Roofing and Company Telphone 1697 A, GEORGIA and Builders plating building of I see us or write us :tc. lty of paper handing painting ge force of skilled lo work promptly. & STEIFEL ROUTE 3 Brimson, Rev. W. R. Barnes. Saturday Afternoon 3rd. How may we secure better attendance upon and derive greater benefits from our union meetings? J. H. Courtney, J. 0. Atkinson. 4th. What should be the term of a deacons office in the Baptist church? -G. W. Medlock, Tom Adams. Sunday service to be provided for. P. B. LANHAM, For Committee. The cheapest kind of fire insur ance or protection for your automo yfffHonOEebsodrr etaoin shrdlu yw bile or truck is a "Pyrene"" fire ex tinguisher. The price is only $10. TONCE & MOONEY.