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TAKING OF C01 Remarkable Christians I Prom the Prince of India. rri1 lnf/\ urKinh thp Turkish 1 I1C S1ICUW 11UV TV I11VM host was sunk did not continue a great while. The Greeks on the landward walls became aware of a general murmur, followed shortly by a rumble at times vibrant?so the earth complains of the beating it receives when vast bodies of men and animals are in hurried passage. "The enemy is forming," said John Grant to his associate Carystos, the archer. Minotle, the Venetian bayle, listening from the shattered gate at Adrinople, gave the order: "Arouse the men. The Turks are coming." .Justiniani, putting the finishing touches upon his masked repairs behind what had been the alley or passage between the towers of Bagdad and St. Romain, was called to by his lookout: "Come up, captain?the infidels are stirring?they seem disposed to attack." "No," the captain returned, after a brief observation, "they will not attack tonight?they are .getting ready." None the less, without relieving his working parties, he placed his command in station. At Selimbria and the Golden Gate the Christians stood to arma So also between the gates. Then a deep hush descended upon the mighty works? mighty despite the slugging they had endured?and the silence was loaded with anxiety. The earth in its forward movement overtook the moon just before daybreak; then in the deep hush of expectancy and readiness, the light being sufficient to reveal to the besieged the assault couchant below them, a longblown flourish was sounded by the Turkish heralds from the embrasure of the great gun. Other trumpeters took up the signal, and in a space incredibly short it was repeated everywhere along the line of attack. A thunder of drums broke in upon the music. Up rose the hordes, the archers and slingers, and the ladder bearers, and forward, like a bristling wave, they rushed, shouting every man as he pleased. In the same instant the machines and light guns were set in operation. Never had the old walls been assailed by such a tempest of bolts, arrows, stones and bullets?never had their echoes been awakened by an equal explosion of human voices, instruments of material music and cannon. The wardens were not surprised by * * ,A ?Kv <ta /lln q n H xne assauu so muvn <u> uj no < ?? fury; and when directly the missiles struck them, thickened into an uninterrupted pouring rain, they cowered behind the merlions and such other shelters as they could find. This did not last long?it was like the shiver and gasp of one plunged suddenly into Icy water. The fugitives were rallied and brought back to their weapons, and to replying in kind, and having no longer to shoot with care, the rabble fusing into a compact target, especially on the outer edge of the ditch, not a shaft or bolt or stone or ball from culverin went amiss, after while, their blood warming with the work, and the dawn breaking, they could see their advantage of position and the awful havoc they were playing; then they too knew the delight in killing, which more than anything else, proves man the most ferocious of brutes. The movement of the hordes was not a dash wholly without system?such an inference would be a great mistake. There was no pretence of alignment or order. There never is tn such attacks?forlorn hopes, receiving the signal, rush on; each individual to his own endeavor; here, nevertheless, the pashas and beys directed the assault, permitting no blind waste of elTort. They hurled their mobs at none but the weak places?here a breach, there a dismantled gate. Thousands were pushed headlong into the moat. The ladders then passed down to such of them as had footing were heavy, but they were caught willingly; if too short, were spliced; once planted so as to bring the coping of the wall in reach, they swarmed with eager adventurers, who, holding their shields and pikes overhead, climbed as best they could. Those below cheered their comrades above, and even pushed them up. "The spoils?think of the spoils? the gold, the women! Allah-il-Allah! Up, up?it is the way to paradise." Darts and javelins literally cast the climbers in a thickened shade. Sometimes a ponderous stone plunging down cleaned a ladder from top to bottom; sometimes, waiting until the rounds were filled, the besieged applied levers and swung a score and more off helpless and shrieking. No matter?Allah-il-Allah! The living were swift to restore and attempt the fatal ascents. Everyone dead and everyone wounded became a serviceable clod; rapidly as the dump and comber, of humanity tilled the moat the ladders extended their upward reach; while drum beat, battle cry, trumpets blare and the roar of cannon answering cannon, blent into one steady all-smothering sound. All this Justiniani had foreseen. Behind loose stones on top of the hill he had collected culverins, making, in modern phrase, a masked battery, and trained the pieces to sweep the causeway; with them, as a support, he mixed archers and pikemen. On either flank, moreover, he stationed companies similiarly armed, extending them to the unbroken wall, so there was not a space in the breach undefended. The captain, on watch and expectant, heard the signal. "To the emperor at Blacherne," he bade, "and say the storm is about to break. Make haste." Then to his men: 'Light the matches and be ready to throw the stones down." The hordesmen reached the edge of the ditch; that moment the guns were unmasked and the Genoese leader shouted: "Fire, my men! Christ and holy church." Then from the Christian works it was bullet, bolt, stone and shaft, making light of flimsy shield and surcoat of hide; still the hordesmen pushed on, a river breasting an obstruction. Now that they were in the causeway. Useless facing about?behind them an advancing wall?on both sides the ditch. Useless lying down; that was to be smothered in bloody mire. Foreward, forward or die. What thought the causeway was packed with dead and wounded, though there was no foothold not slippery, though the smell of hot blood filled every nostril, though hands thrice strengthened by despair grappled the feet, making stepping blocks of face and breast. The living pressed on, leaping, stumbling. staggering, their howl. "Gold, spoils, women, slaves." answered from SSTANTINOPLE t of the Siege of iy Moslems. the smoking: hill. "Christ and holy church." And now, the causeway crossed, the leading assailants gain the foot of the rough ascent. No time to catch breath 'wivontooo nnno to IlUUtf iu IUUIV &V1 UU V UIIVUQV, ..W*?v profit by a glance at the preparation to receive them?up they must go, and up they went. Arrows and javelins pierce them, stones crush them, the culverins spout fire In their faces, and, lifting them off their uncertain footing, hurl them bodily back upon the heads and shields of their comrades. And the brow of the rocky hill, a mound of bodies arises wonderous quick, an obstacle to the warders of the pass who would shoot, and to the hordesmen a barrier. The Christians suffered but few casualties, yet they would have gladly rested. Then from the wall above the breach, whence he had used his bow. Count Corti descended hastily. "Your majesty," he said, his countenance kindled with enthusiasm, "the Janissaries are making ready." On his horse, by the great gun Mohammed had observed the assault, listening while the night yet lingered. Occasionally a courier rode to him with news from this pacha or that one. He heard without excitement, and returned invariably the same reply: "Tell him to pour the hordes in." At last an officer came at speed. "Oh, my lord, I salute you. The city is won." It was clear day then, yet a light not of the morning sparkled in Mohammed's eyes. Stooping in his saddle, he asked: "What sayest thou? Tell me of it, but beware?if thou speakest falsely, neither God nor prophet shall save thee from impalement to the roots of thy tongue." "As I have to tell my lord what I saw with my own eyes, I am not afraid. My lord knows that where the place of Blacherene begins on the south there is an angle in the wall. There, while our people were feigning an assault to amuse the Greeks, they came <upon a sunken gate?" "The Cercoporta?I have heard of It." "My lord has the name. Trying It, they found it unfastened and unguarded, and pushing through a darkened passage, discovered they were in the palace. Mounting to the upper tloor, they attacked the unbelievers. The fighting goes on. From room to room the Christians resist. They are now cut off, and In a little time the quarter will be in our possession." Mohammed spoke to Kalil: "Take this man and keep him saroiy. 11 ne has spoken truly great shall be his reward; if falsely better he were not his mother's son." Then to one of his household: "Come hither. Go to the sunken gate Corcoporta, pass in, and find the chief now fighting In the palace of Blacherne. Tell him I. Mohammed, require that he leave the palace to such as may follow him. and march and attack the defenders of this gate, St. Romain, in the rear. He shall not stop to plunder. I give him one hour in which to do my bidding. Ride thou now as if a falcon led thee. For Allah and life!" The besieged were exultant, as they well might be?they were more than holding the redoubtable Flower of the Faithful at bay?there was even a merry tone In their battle cry. About that time a man dismounted from a foaming horse, climbed the rough steps to the deck of the gallery and delivered a message to the emperor. "Your majesty, John Grand, Minotle the bayle, Carystos, Longasco and Jerome the Italian are slain. Bleacherne is in possession of the Turks and they are marching this way. The hordes are in the streets. I saw them and heard the bursting of doors and the screams of women!" Constantine crossed himself three times and bowed his head. Justiniani turned the color of ashes and exclaimed: "We are undone? undone! All is lost!" And that his voice was hoarse did not prevent the words being overheard. The fire slackened?ceased. Men fighting jubilantly dropped their arms and took up the cry?"All is lost! The hordes are in, the hordes are in." Not a Christian survived the combat. Greek, Genoese, Italian lay in ghastly composite with hordesmen and mailed Moslems around the emperor. In dying they had made good their battle cry?For Christ and Holy Church! Let us believe they will yet have their guerdon. THE WINTER PALACE Facts About the Great Home of the Czar of Russia. The famed Winter Palace of the Russian Tsar probably has seen more romantic history in the making than any other building in Europe. The dramas that have unfolded within its walls would overshadow, if told, the most highly colored imaginings of political fictionists, and the huge building appears worthy of all the fascinating memories which cling to it. For generations Russia has stretched out from his home of the empire toward every more distant frontier, toward every compass point, building the greatest states. The Winter Palace, a syma large number of carpenters will be gered by the present Teutonic invasion, is describt-d in the followin statement issued by the National Geographic society: "Among the many places of Petrograd, a city wherein dukes, grand dukes, diplomats and millionaires dwell in abundance, the tsar's Winter Palace, a structure of truly imperial immensity, stands out unapproachable. It is one of the world's largest and most imposing buildings, and the air of its rooms and corridors is surcharged with the romance of history. During the capital seasons in peace times, the most brilliant court in Europe could be seen here, when the great rooms were ablaze with the light and jewels and filled with a splendid display of gowns and uniforms. "The Winter Palace stands on the left bank of the Neva, on a site be ii a a- n?A *L? Ktr V*<o queawieu iu rcici mc uiroi uj ??> high admiral. Count Apraxin. The Km press Ann first made her residence in the admiral's house, which was pulled down in 1754, and the foundations for the Winter Palace laid. The building was first completed in the reign of Catherine the Great. The whole interior of the palace was destroyed by fire in December, 1837, when valuables valued at $20,000,000 were consumed. It was restored on an even more elaborate scale in 1839. The structure is four stories high, or about 80 feet, with a front of 455 feet and a width of 350 feet. The principal entrance, the 'Perron des Ambassadeurs,' is from the Xeva river. Connected with the Winter Palace is the Hermitage of Catherine the Great, where the renowned queen played first boliemian in a bohemian throng. "There is a tablet hung on the walls of the palace, draped with a green curtain, which contains Queen Catherine's by-laws for the Hermitage societies. They are: 1. Leave your rank outside, as well as your hat, and especially your sword. 2. Leave your right of precedence, your p^lde and any similar feeling outside the door. 3. Be gay, but do not spoil anything; do not break or gnaw anything. 4. Sit, stand, walk as you will, without reference to anybody. 5. Talk moderately and not very loud, so as not to make the ears and heads of others ache. 6. Argue without anger and without excitement. 7. Neither sigh nor yawn, nor make anybody dull or heavy. 8. In all innocent games, whatever one proposes, let all Join. 9. el&t whatever is sweet and savoury, but drink with moderation, so that each may find his legs on leaving the room. 10. Tell no one tales out of school; whatever goes in at one ear must go out at the other before leav Incr tho rnnm ' j "Good rules all, but rules difficult for any but a queen to hold before her friends. The penalty for breaking the rules was the drinking of a glass of cold water for every offense. The queen was most severe with those who broke the tenth commandment; they were never again admitted to the Hermitage, after once found guilty of tittle-tattle. "An immense square before the palace gives it the proper dignity of setting. Within, it is said, 3,000 people can dance under the blazing light ciystals at one time, while 2,000 people can be seated at the great dinner gatherings. The palace'is a treasure house of relics, jewels and paintings. One of the finest collections of pictures in Russia is hung on the palace walls, among them numerous excellent war pictures. Among the Jewells stored here, there is a scepter with one of the largest diamonds in Europe, 194 3-4 carats, the great Orloflf diamond, which was originally the eye of a lion that crouched before the throne of the Great Mogul. When the tsar is in the vicinity of his capital, the imperial standard floats from the Winter Pal ace flagstaff." WOOD PULP Silk Stockings, Clothes and Other Articles Made from Trees. The claim of the Germans to have substituted wood pulp for cotton in the manufacture of explosives? whether the claim be true or false ?calls attention to the properties of this wonderful product, which has already wrought more than one revolution in the manufacturing world. Wood pulp is Just what its name implies, and is obtainable by disintegrating wood either by a mechanical or a chemical process. The former variety is prepared by grinding it under water. It is inferior in quality as the fibres are short and the product readily discolors. Under the chemical process the wood is cut up and boiled under pressure with a solution of caustic soda, sodium sulphide, or, best of all, calcium bisulphite, and the resulting sort product is pulped, pressed, washed and bleached. It was the use of this material that so reduced the cost of paper as to make the halfpenny newspaper pos sible. So rapidly, indeed, did paper cheapen from 1875 to 1886 that the introduction of wood pulp is said, within those years, to have trebled the circulation of England's newspapers. It is a far cry from high explosives and halfpenny newspapers to ladles' atockingB and "silk" neckties, yqt the latter no less than the former are nowadays commonly products of the same origin. It is years ago since the writer, on a trip in the states, was invited to inspect a knitted "silk" tie of wonderful color and softness. He Inquired its price, and expected to hear a "tall" one for so hahdsome an article. Yet the figure was negligible?ninepence or so?and the "silk" was only wood pulp. Thousands of the "silk" stockings that flash in the sun along Piccadilly and on the seaside "prom" are made of the same material. All sorts of hardware articles are now compounded of the pulped tissues of trees that once swayed gracefully in some northern forest?cigar and cigarette holders, fancy combs, umbrella handles, buttons, insulating materials, films and a hundred other things. Of course, the extensive use of wood pulp for articles of clothing is not strange. Cellulose, which is employed in enormous quantities in the fibrous state in the form of cotton, linen, jute, hemp, etc., is the chief component of all vegetable tissues, in which it exists in elongated cells or fibres. Cotton-wood and fibre-paper are matter of technical skill to convert to textile uses the cellulose of the spruce tree instead of using that of the cotton plant. In the manufacture of hardware purity is not so essential, high pressure and a strong adhesive being the great factors. Nor is the course of wood pulp run when it is made into textiles, or papers, The paper itself, when it has served its turn, goes back into the boiler and once more becomes pulp. Mixed with starch paste or glue and pressed, it is then forced into moulds, previously oiled and we have that useful product papier mache. The commercial value of this commodity has of late years been greatly enhanched by the ingenuity and skill of decorative artists, especially the French. The rich mural moldings that give so imposing an aspect to certain of our public buildings are a superior kind of pulp product. Carton plerre?an article that the French have carried to a high state of perfection?perhaps marks the acme of this line of manufacture. It consists of paper pulp, whiting and gum, pressed into plaster molds and stove dried. Improved so as to admit of gilding easily, it decorates portions of the Tuilleries, the Louvre and the Falas Royal at Paris. The demand for wood-pulp articles is said to be rapidly increasing, and in some of the factories they are unable to cope with it. The making of propulsive explosives does not exhaust the uses of the pulp even from a military point of view. In the forin of a solution it is extensively used in the treatment of fabrics for aecountrements and in other ways. ? Answers. Would Be a Cruet.?A lady told me, as a true story of a soldier's wit, that a soldier in a hospital on recovering consciousness said: "Nurse, what is this on m.v head?" "Vinegar cloths." she replied. "You have had fever." After a pause: "And what is this on my chest?" "A mustard plaster. You have had pneumonia." "And what is this at my feet?" "Salt bags. You've had frostbite." A soldier from the next bed looked up and said: "Hang a pepj>er box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet."?Strand Magazine. piscrllaitfous grading. TESTING COTTON SEED Farmers Should Make Careful Test of Seed Distributed by Department. Office of Information, United States Department of Agriculture. Washington, Nov. 1.?Approximately 50 varieties of cotton seed have been distributed during the past 12 years by the United States department of agriculture to farmers Interested in securing a variety best adapted to their ruirtionia i- lopalitv. No new variety I will be sent out the coming year, as It is considered more important to estabish a few superior varieties in general cultivation than to add to the number of new varieties. The distribution is made in two ways. A general distribution is made of a small quantity of seed?1 quart? to enable the farmer to become acquainted with the characteristics of the variety. The second or special distribution furnishes enough seed to produce at least one full bale of the new variety of cotton and also to produce sufficient seed to plant a considerable acreage the following season. The 1 special distribution is made to farmers who have shown interest in the subject by complying with the request 1 of the department for a report on the previous year's planting of the 1-quart sample. i Growers who wish to share in the special distribution the following year are expected to furnish a sample of the seed cotton representing ten 5locked bolls. These are to be used for determining the length, quality and percentage of lint, information that is needed to enable the special distribution of larger quantities of seed (probably half a bushel) to be sent to communities that are likely to adopt the new varieties and establish them In regular cultivation. A mistake made frequently by farmers, and sometimes by professional breeders, is to attempt to combine testing with breeding.. The new variety of cotton is planted by the side of the local variety or a mixed stockj in order to test its behavior, and seed lu <m vert from the on me nlantlnsr to Increase the stock of the new variety. There is serious danger that the seed of the new variety will not be pure oh account of crossing with the local variety, so that its special value will be lost. The amount of crossing differs with the locality and the season, depending on the abundance of bees or other insects that carry the pollen from one flower to another. Usually, however, there is too much crossing to make it safe to rely on the purity of any stock of seed that has been grown close to another variety of cotton. Isolation of Seed Plants. A farmer who wishes to make a really adequate test of the value of a new variety should plant the seed In a separate plat, removed at least 300 yards from other fields of cotton or separated therefrom by 25 or 30 rows of com. An Isolated planting does not provide, of course, for a close comparison with the local variety, but this can be made in the following year to much better advantage. With the larger stock of seed then available a field planting can be made, as wefl as test plantings. In the third year there will be enough seed to stock even a large farm with the new variety, if it , has shown itself superior under the local conditions. j The distribution of seed of superior , varieties of cotton is no longer limitaA 4 s\ a olnrrln aooonn o a u/no tho fnrm. cu iv/ a oniric otuovu, aa *?* ? ???v ?w??. ( er custom. Unless improved varieties , there would be a distinct advantage in some part of the United States the work of breeding and distribution serves no useful purpose. To increase the number of varieties in a community is not desirable. On the contrary, there would be a distant advantage in having the whole community grow one variety, if the best variety for the purpose could be determined. The danger of confusing varieties by crossing and the mixture of seed at the gin would thus be reduced, and the uniformity of the product would also enable the community to secure a higher price for its cotton. Methods of Seed Selection. No matter how good a new variety may be or how carefully it may have been bred and selected, inferior plants are likely to appear, especially when it is grown under new and unaccustomed conditions. A special effort is being made to limit the distribution to seed from uniform fields of cotton, but selection is necessary to keep any variety from deterioration, and it is useless to wait until the deterioration becomes serious before beginning the ^ selection. ii proper miciiuuii oe ptnu | to the elimination of inferior plants in the first season there may be much less variation in the second, the variety becoming better adjusted to the new conditions. As uniformity is one of the first essentials of value in a variety, the behavior of a new variety in this respect is one of the first things to be noted. The plants should be watched in the early part of the season for even before the time of flowering it is possible to distinguish "freak" plants by differences in their habits of growth or the characters of their stems and leaves Whenever such variation can be detected, the plants should be pulled out at once in order to prevent the crossing of good plants with inferior pollen. After the bolls begin to reach mature size it is well to go through the plat again and pull out all plants that show by small size or other peculiarities of the bolls that there has been a variation from the standards of the variety. The preliminary selections greatly simplify the final selection in the fall, when attention can he limited to the yield and to the character of the lint and seeds. Methods of Testing Cotton Varieties. The best way to test the behavior of two varieties of cotton is to plant ihem in alternate rows so that they can be compared carefully during the growing season and the yield of each row weighed separately at the end of the season. Of course it is often possible to judge that one variety is superior to another without weighing, but if the results are nearly equal, weighing is necessary. Even experienced cotton men are likely to make errors in guessing at the yields of different rows of the field. A variety that "scatters" its lint may appear to be vielding much more than a storm- 1 proof variety with dense, compact lint 1 which a comparison of actual weights ' of seed cotton and percentages of lint < will show to be much more product- t ive. The line values are also to be i compared, especially In long-staple I varieties. l Mixture of Seed in Gins. f One of the most serious difficulties i in maintaining the uniformity of a ' superior variety of cotton is the mixture of seed in gins. A few farmers have their own gins or small hand gins for their seed cotton, and in some localities ginning establishments are beginning to provide small gins that are kept clean for ginning seed cotton. Some farmers take care to avoid the mixture of seed by holding their seed cotton until the end of the season. when time can be taken to clean out the gin. It is also possible to plant progeny rows or seed plats with unginned seed by wetting the lint be for* planting or by pressing the seed j into moist ground. 1915 Efficiency. Oh. hush, little children! for mother's asleep And must not be waked until ten, Then comes her massage, and her , hath, and her mail, And she will not have time for you then? For the lady who treats mother's hair will arrive, And she'll take an hour?no doubt? And then the chauffeur will come round with the car And mother will have to go out. Oh. hush, little brother! Your clothes are all torn, But mother must not be annoyed. She is chairman of this, and director of that. And all nervous strain must avoid. Just eat with the servants, and run off and play With the boys who the alley infest? Your dad you may fool and play hookey from school? For mother is taking a rest. Oh, hush, little sister! You're taken a cold. And your stockings are all hanging down. And there's no one to note if yo're wearing a coat. For mother is lunching In town. Your hands are so hot, and your throat is so sore, And something is hurting your head. But mother's directing a charity ball. And there's no one to put you to bed. Oh. hush, poor old daddy! Your chops are burnt up And your soup and your coffee are cold, AnH Intra hnvo mno mrnn? n t the office today, And you're feeling dejected and old; But there's no one to lay a soft hand on your hair. Or to drop a light kiss on your cheek For mother has gone?with her fighting clothes on? At a suffrage meeting to speak. "What a wonderful woman you've married!" they say "How efficient! how brilliant! how smart! What executive gifts! What infinite tact!" But daddy, deep down in your heart, Don't you wish she was more like the housewife of yore. Whose children and home were her life? Oh, what has become of that old fashioned thing. The efficient and capable wife? ?F, L. Calhoun. AMERICAN GAME BIRDS Were It Not for Protection They Would Soon be Exterminated. With tlie beginning of the hunting season, the variety and plenty of the North American huntsman's domain Is indicated in a communication to the National Geographic Society from Henry W. Henshaw, chief of the Unit ed States Biological Survey, which tells of "American Game Birds." Mr. Hcnshaw enumerates more than 100 kinds of game birds common to this :ountry's preserves, among which are 37 kinds of ducks, eight kinds of goose, eight kinds of quail, and five kinds of grouse. While America's preserves are distinguished among the hunting fields of the world for their wealth of game, the writer shows that they are hunted with langerous thoroughness. He says: "America has always been a paraJise for sportsmen, but of late years the number of those whose chief relaxation is the pursuit of game has greatly increased, and today there are probably not far from five millions who are interested in the pursuit of game! What this army of five million hunters means to the large and small game of America can better be imagined than described! Modern guns ind ammunition are of the very best, and they arc sold at prices so low as to be within the reach of all. Added to these very efficient weapons for killing small game, are innumerable devices for killing waterfowl, as sneakboatcs, punt-guns, swivel-guns, sailboats, steam launches, night floating, night lighting and others." The varieties of American game duck given by Mr. Henshaw are baldpate, Barrow's golden-eye, black, bufflehead, king, Pacific, spectacled and Steller's eider, fulvous tree-duck, mallard, merganser, red-head, pintal, scaup, scoter, canvas-back, shoveller, ind teal. Of canvas-back he says: "The canvas-back, perhaps the most famous of American waterfowl, bas purchased its fame at a price. So highly is it prized by the epicure that today he who can afTord to dine on :anvas-back sets the mark of luxurious living. Not that the canvas-back dlfTers essentially from other ducks but Its exceptional flavor Is due to the fact that its favorite food is 'wild celery,' a long ribbon-like grass which grows in shallow ponds and estuaries. As the plant roots several feet under the surface, only the diving ducks can secure it and the plebian kinds have to be content with such floating fragments as they can pick up or can steal from their more aristocratic relatives. In Oregon and Washington the canvas-back lives much upon wapato, a bulb-like root formerly a staple article of food among many Indian tribes, and their exceptional flavor is said to be little, if any, In tenor iu mm ui me txici/-xcu vau?au back of the east. Prized aliko by sportsman and by epicure the ranks of the canvas-back have been depleted by the relentless pursuit to which it has been subjected. However, the BTeater number of these ducks breed far to the northward where they are safe, and under present laws their number should increase to something . like their former abundance." Despite this country's present vast wealth in game birds, according to the writer, they would soon be shot away but for proper protection. As it is, he continues, the number of game birds oday are quite insignificant of former days. Destruction of former oreeding places by drainage and, more especially, the relentless pursuit with firearms, are the causes asdgned for the falling off of supply. VIr. Henshaw writes: | "The statement of the early chron- i iclers regarding the multitudes of ducks, plover, and wild pigeons al- I most defy belief. When, In the records < of the first part of the last century, i one reads of clouds of pigeons that required three days to pass a gjven < point in a continuous moving stream, i and again of flocks estimated to con- i tain more than two billion birds, 1 credulity is taxed to the limit Yet not l only were shuch flocks observed, but i they were of periodic occurance during many years of our early history, i and the accounts of them are too well : attested to be doubted. As throwing a l curious sidelight on the abundance of I wild fowl and the hardships to which i the slaves of the period were sub- ] jected, I quote from Grinnel, who i f FROM All OVE WE GET LETTERS LIKE TH1 Gentlemen:? Enclosed you will find a two please send me one of your catal< I have just begun using Luzlf best I ever used. 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IN A; ELEMENT THAT IS LITERALLY CONSTANT AND PRESSING VAI THE PUBLISHER'S PRICE < ARY IS $4.00 A COPY; BUT WE One Dollar, Cash, 01 Five Paid i To THE YORKV1 O TABLE OF CONTENTS OF 1 Abbreviations of the Parts of Christian Names for Men, Christian Names for Constitution of I Decisive Battles, Declaration of Independei Dictionary of the En, Dictionary of Ci Electoral Vt Facts A' Far Famous Characters in Poetry Foreign Words, Phrases, Key to Pronunelatioi language of the Metric Systc Origin, Composition, and Deri Presidents of the United States, Names of, the Synonyms of Ant Time Differ* U. S. Ce Vol no 11 Colored and 28 IJlark and X ? o EVERY HOME, ESPECIALL DREN GOING TO SCHOOL, SHO ARY FOR CONVENIENT REFEF SCHOOL LESSONS. A GOOD DIC SPELLING AND CORRECT PRO> ARE NOT OF EVERY DAY USE AIIY WILL ADEQUATELY SKR1 IS WITHIN THE REACH OF EVt $1.00 CASH, OR FOR FIVE PAII) THE YORKYILLE ENQUIRER, L. M. Grist's Sc states that ' in early days slave owners who hired out their slaves, stipulated in the contract that canvas-back ducks should not be fed to them more than twice each week'!" A high money value is placed on our game resources, Mr. Henshaw states that Oregon values her game resources, consisting largely of game birds at $5,000,000 a year, while California and Maine each claim their game to be worth $20,000,000 a year, which suggest the enormous aggre Kate value of the country's game. Mr. I Henshaw concludes his communica-1 tlon with an expression of the belief that the government and the people of the country should do all In their power to protect and to bring about % rightful use of this rich heritage. ;R the SOUTH 1 S ONE 1 Shelbyville. Tenn., November 7th, 1916. cent stamp for which you will )gs for Premiums, inne CofTee and can say 'tis the t t enough. Will take it to all my friends, i very truly, Mrs. W. S. McCONNELL, F. D. No. 9, Shelbyville, Tenn. 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RNOUIRER I "PREMIER" DICTIONARY Speed), I Women, the United State* of America, ( nee, glish Language, jmmerctal and Legal Terms, >tc In 1908, bout the Earth, niliar Allusions, c and Prose, Proverbs, Quotations, etc.. ), < Flowers, < m of Weights and Measures, r vation of the English Language, f States, i ilr Origin and Meaning, onyms, 5 nee, 1 nsus, 1910, | of Foreign Coins In U, S. Money, j Weather Forecasts, t I'hUe Full Page Illiistrallons. c Y WHERE THERE ARE CHILULD HAVE A GOOD DICTION- , IRVOrc WHEN 8TUDYING THE f TTOXARY INSURES CORRECT rUNCUTION OF WORDS THAT . THE "PREMIER" DICTION- I /E EVERY PURPOSE AND IT ? ^RYBODY?YOURS FOR ONLY J ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO >ns, Publishers < REAL ESTATE ' LOOK! Now Isn't This a Nice Selection? The J. K. Hope Place: 70 acres, near Tirzah, on Rock Hill and Clay Hill and Yorkvllle and Fort Mill roads. 5-room dwelling; large barn; 2 tenant houaea and other buildings; 2 wells? m one at house and other at barn. AdJoins T. M. Oates, F. E. 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Williams ^ REAL ESTATE BROKER. 1 ^ SERVICE-That's It It is a well known fact that when It comes to Fire Insurance, there Is no difference In the rate charged per $100 by. all the reputable companies, but It is a fact that the rate charged by agents who are not on the job?the kind who are writing Insurance principally for the commission?could often be reduced materially if certain changes were made and the agent who knows, and is not In the business sole* - R ly for commissions, will, at least ad- , vise his clients how a rate can be re- '?s duced. Service of this kind is and has J always been my specialty, and I have saved hundreds of dollars for my * clients. Some of them, in fact the majority, havo appreciated It, but some A have not, but I will continue tho policy because it is right I do not art for ^B business on any other ground than B value received. 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WHICH WILL IT BE WITH YOU? ? ? ?????? Look at the men who are successful n the eyes of the world. Ninety-nine )ut of every hundred started a Bank Account when they were young?and ituek to it. And now, look at the failures. Very few of them have a Bank account now. W Sot speaking of when they were young. a Perhaps you think you have not f ;nough money to start an account. 1 Haven't you a dollar? That's all It takes A it THIS BANK. 4T v a a li S - as a!w mnnths J UBl iry 11 lur A jroai mi via iuwu vu?> ^ [f you do not wish to continue It you tiave lost nothing by the triaL N Which Will It Be?Success or Failure? ITS UP TO YOU. Bank of Hickory Grove HICKORY GROVE. 8. O. WOT Send The Enquirer your orders For high grade Commercial Stationery, Booklets, Law Cases, etc. TAX NOTICE?1015 Dffice of the County Treasurer of York L County. _ 1 York, S. C.. Sept IB, 1915. NOTICE is hereby given that the TAX BOOKS for York county ' will be opened on FRIDAY, the 16TH I DAY OF OCTOBER, 1916, and remain ' jpen until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1915, for the collection of STATE, COUNTY, SCHOOL and LOCAL rAXES, for the fiscal year 1915, with>ut penalty; after which day ONE PER 2ENT penalty will be added to all paynents made in the month of JANUARY, 1916, and TWO PER CENT pen. ilty for all payments made In the nonth of FEBRUARY, 1916, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be idded to all payments made from the ST DAY OF MARCH, 1916 to the 5TH DAY OF MARCH. 1916, and af or this date an unpaid taxes win go nto executions and all unpaid single Polls will be turned over to the sev- A :ral Magistrates for prosecution in ac- ^ :ordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I vill attend the following places on the lays named: And at Yorkville, from Monday, November 22d, until Friday, the 31st day >f December, 1915, after which date ^ he penalties will attach as stated ibove. Note.?The Tax Books are made up jy Townships, and parties writing ibout Taxes will always expedite mat- J ers if they will mention the Townihip or Townships in which their v >roperty or properties are located. ^J| HARRY E. NEIL. S^Buy your Typowritsr Ribbons, yy Carbons and Paper at The Enquirer Office. Prompt attention given to mill ind phone orders.