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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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that the government and the people
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power to protect and to bring about
% rightful use of this rich heritage.
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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
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made in the month of JANUARY,
1916, and TWO PER CENT pen.
ilty for all payments made In the
nonth of FEBRUARY, 1916, and
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ST DAY OF MARCH, 1916 to the
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