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BOOM IN WILD ANIMAL MARKET Growing Demand Because of De pletion of Slocks During WorlJ War. MANY EXPEDITIONS NOW OUT #> Year and a Half Frequently Elapses Between Time of Captufio and of Sale ? African Native* Catch Fever for Higher Pay. New York.- The wild animal market la enjoying un unprecedented boom. During tho 'World war lite wild unU uuil supply was shut off, although the normal demand con tin nod. Tho breed ing of such stock In captivity, is very limited, while the death fate la com* yarativoly high. The zoological gar* dens, circuses and wild-animal exhibit tlons of nil klndH have suffered a steady falling o(T In their stock, with no means of renewing It. A tyrge sup ply of lions, tigers, elephants, hippos, bears, snakes, In short, of every va riety of animal used for exhibition purposes, must be collected and dis tributed to bring the supply up to nor mal. Kvery scot Ion of tho globe, from the Arctic circle' and beyond to tlie equa tor, Is searched for wild animal* to I meet this demand. Expeditions, ma.ny j of them very elaborate, are at work afield today In some twenty-three dif ferent countries scattered throughout tho world gatherlnK such specirrer*. The work Is organized on an elaborate scale. Knrh expedition must 1 e di rected by speclnllsfs who have - ; -enl years In these fields and thoroughly underst and the conditions undvr which a particular animal may be tracked dowrt and captured. Transportation i? Difbcutt. Since most wild animals are cap tured In remote regions far from civ ilization, the question of transporta tion Is extremely difficult. Hundreds of miles must be covered over wild regions before the nearest railroad or shipping port is reached. The han dling of most wild animals under such conditions Is extremely dangerous and difficult. So great is the American de mand for wild unlmsls at present that stock is now shipped directly to the United States from the South African and other fields. New York lias be come a great clearing house for wild animals, where extensive ihlpments * are received rivaling Noah's ark for the variety of its passengers. There are at present three suctj cJ?itring houses, one In New EnglaAu, another in Jersey City, a third at Coney Island, from which wild animals are distrib uted to all parts of the United States. Wild animals nre one of the few commodities which have not Increased In price during tho war. The present quotations for the stock of a nienanerlo compare very favorably with the pre war prices. A lion or tiger fully grown can be bought anywhere from $700 to $5,000. A glraiTe brings from $0,000 to $14,000. Considering the dif ficulties of capturing these animals In remote parts of the globe and trans porting them thousands of miles to their ultimate home In noiiio zoological garden, the prices seem surprisingly low. Tho prices incidentally nre large ly determined by the purchasing pow ers of the owners of menageries. Most zoological gardens, for Instance, are supported by subscription and can only afford to pay certain prlc?>a and the wild animal dealer Is obliged to meet tliem. Cost Has Increased. The cost of gathering wild animals, mwnwhllp, has considerably Increased since pre-war days. In (lie most re mote Jungles of Africa the natives have caught (ho fever for higher pay. The now Hj>i r 1 1 naturally affects (he price of wild animals t<> the ultimata consumer. , The average visitor to a meaaKcrlA ' who gar.es Idly nt wild animals rol lecte<l for his amusement hiis little Idea of the enormous work required to assemble such a show. An expedi tion sent out for timers, lions, ele phants or hippopotami will often con sist of mora than 100 persons. It is necessary to have experienced beaters who arc familiar with tho Jungles imd the habits of the animals required There must ho s large force of run ners who are also skilled In handling wild animals under various conditions. Several nutlves must make the trip to prepare tv,f* food for the animals. There Is, besides, the stafT who direct ^ the expodlt!-'! s. In some cases the ex pedltlons Include 3.00 experienced hunters. The point of departure for Home of these expeditions in h large farm In Bast Africa. Here uiore than 300 na tives are constantly employed The farm, incidentally, is situated nearly 100 miles frcm n railway, and here tho wild nnlrr.als are br'?ug' t and kept for Severn! months to a<- ;.stoin thorn gradually to rnpfivlty such an it pedltlon n ay he absent - ne nnd n half years In the Jungle T'.oy m'ist time their trip so that the iuilr:... i.s \\,ll he ? raptured at u fa\ ir.-.Mi- s. .ison when rhe change to a 1 'vnp'ivitj >* ill least affect t: ? r . ? tl'L Mine :s on Kn;? Five. Johnson ('It > i . ? I \ ; v n were killed and a score i. juretl. son.e s? rl vUBljt When a cha-g?? <>f Md- iovj <ier exploded pn . * re y ,n a tmne nff here. Three >.f tt??* d^ad men were surveyor ? r* **#r? miner*. 7 NOT EASY TO TRACE ROSARY Probabilities, However, Ar# That It i PI nil WM UrouQht Into Uh III | AMbl* or K?ypt. It In not at Mil likely, I lliltik, thstj the use of prayer beads originated n? Arabia or Kgypt. It Is to India that wo must k? for the homo of (Ma rolls-', lou? device?India, '.'the mother of re ligions," the IhiuI where tho gods OUt numher the people and where the carry tlfclr seal, to the point of Intoxication. There Ih convincing evidence (hut the roaury existed In; Indlu Jong. before It appeared In .other parts of the world. At some remote period, when the Vedas were still lu vogue, the circlet of Jewels or head* a rope i*h n means of promoting medi tation and registering meritorious acts. It may be aeon In inultlfurlous i colls about til? necks of the gurus of today, Cornelius II. I'atton write* lb Asia Magazine. Starting from India, we uia.v c|esrljr trace the spread of the rosary to the IUiddhlM? Ce> b*o, norma and Slam, known a* the southern school, and especially to Tibet, where In I.aiua Ism the faith of Gautama reached Its lo\>e?t and whence the rotary, along with other customs spread to China K -v-ea and Japan. The M .'..muoedans may easily have taken 'over the iWary through their couth s with India, or else, as seems m?>ci? bWty, they lesrned Its us? from henm:> 4 ad monks of the Kaatern or church through their earlier t-xK u *?'tq Palestine. Syria and north I m. Africa, The oriental Christians, in icm roaj have taken over the de I k y fnmlbf Indians by way. of Per >:V aoO the caravan routes of the Kjts: If we f-ould say with certainty that !h* Koman church borrowed the l4ea ttam t he *ucce?M**ra of Mahomnt durtng tbe Crusades, the claim of de would be logical and com* -pei>. ? - ? ?? We must not rule out, however, the possibility that this aid to prayer sprang up spontaneously in different parts of the earth, under the pressure of tbe need of the hnman heart, everywhere the same. My own opin ion hss adopted both imltatively and spontaneously. Throughout the Bud dhist world It was clearly copied from India. In the Christian and Moham medan worlds It appears to have had an indej^endent origin, but to have owed somewhat to the borrowing process Incident to travel und trade. Anthracite First Burned in 1806. Anthracite coal was first experiment ally burned, and Its value as a fuel and marketable commodity tested, la the old Fell bouse, Wllkes-Barre, Fa., in February. lKurt. The experiment was conducted In a very primitive sort of grate built f?r the purpose by Judge .(??ssf l-'vll, then one of the loading men in the community. He had written in letters to relatives describing the achievement, and had for some time contended that if properly Ignited the "stone coal," as It was then railed, would burn, but his friends laughed at him. They would not belly v<> ' until they had. as he wrote, "in i, demonstration of i h ?? fact." l>a> al'ier day the old room In the tavern wns erowded with the people of the little v 1 1 1 :i and tin* travelers who passed through, and soon to all parts of the region where outcropping* of ctml had boon discovered, the news was home. Bells With Interesting Histories. The bells of the old missions along the length of California must have In teresting histories, l>ut there is little of an authonllo nature concerning them. One of them at Santa Vsobel, San I>icgo, lacks hut sevtm years < ? f being two hundred years old. It la marked "N S: de hereto, 17N2," which mi'iiii'' < Mir liiid.v of I. ore tor ? Tint real origin of this hell is not known, but It is said to have been In service In Lower California where the mission* were established 1 f x ? years before the mission fathers Invaded Alta, Calif. These bolls must have been a power ful aid to the fathers In gaining the attention and Interest of the Indian?! and it wins that some facts concern, lng the castings .should have been kept, but there appears to ho nothing like 11 n authentic record. Tame EnouQh in Front. Fat Ilegarty had Just purchased * mule, but he did not obtain from th# animal all that he required of it. So he wended his way back to th| horse dealer. "Vou said this mule wns (jnifi> fume," he sai(J to the dealer, "And so he Is tame, Isn't he?" replied the dealer, in nu aggrieved tone. "Not altogether ? only partlalli so.* the disconsolate Hegarty replied. "II< Is taiue In front. I dare say, but lie i| desperately wild behind I" Co-Operation in Japan. At the eighteenth national conven tion of co-oj>eratlve societies recently held In Tokyo. 12,000 delegate* weri on hand representing 2,&f>0,000 "co> oj>ernfors," belonging to 3,770 local organizations, according to reports of the meeting received by the all-Amen lean co-operative commission of Cleveland. Hanking is ona of the strong features of Japanese co-opera tive activities. Arctic Sea Cow Extinct. An authentic wrlteup of the Arctic' <ea cow (now- extinct) was made about the middle of the Klghf eenth century! by < ieorge William Steller, who j shipwrecked '>n Bering Inland, "1741. w!th the Husslan navigator, Capt. Vi tus Bering. This "cow" was not un. like the manatee or dug->ng of south ern waters, weighed x.o?w> [Moirrds. find was 20-80 feet long. Stiller and hll companions ate it? (.l COTTON CULTURE IN CHINA Long Neglected, Native Industry ff Recent Yosra MaAe Extaaor din?ry Development. In the beginning the Chlmnte were too much devoted to the lovely Yuenfl, k'oddoA* of mulberry leaves and silk worms, to look with favor upon a cult of "mien-hua," the cotton lluwm. Cot- , tou <lld not thrive tint It it, too, acquired a patron; the Lady II nam,', of the Yuen dynasty, who distributed seed* from Turkestan tlirouuh the region about NnnkhiU In this city wan made the famous yellow "nankeen," from which were cut the trousers of many characters In Kugll.sh tlctlou. Am nankeen was imi tated In foreign hinds, It was exported In .smaller quantities, and the Chinese even hCKUM to Import cotton cloth. In recent times, however, the nutlve cot ton Industry hits developed rapidly, Much of the eonrso-flbered, kinky cot ton from the farms 1# sent to Shanghai, Wualeh or Tientsin,, to mills equipped with' Kngllsh ?>r American machinery. Hut the looms in most Chinese mills ore constructed on the same principle hk th??*e In household weaving by sim ple folk, such us the old Chilli! peas ant*. They are adept at unwinding the twisted thread from a bobbin into a skein, to be dyed blue und woven Into narrow eh?tb. BELIEVE ANIMALS HAVE SOUL . >. -? Primitive People Have From the Be ginning Based Their Religion on That Supposition. ? Among the moro primitive people of the earth, nil animals are supposed to be endowed with souls, which In many eases have formerly Inhabited beings. Many ^frlcun tribes call them selves by the name of, and even de rtve their pedigree from some animal. Its cries become the omens of the tribe. In the modern world the most civilized people among whom animal worship vigorously survives lie within the range of Brahnmlsm. Perhaps no worship has prevailed more widely than that of the serpent. It had its place In Egypt and among the Hebrews; in Greece and Home; among the Celts and Scandinavians In Europe; In Persia and In India; In China and Tibet*; In Mexico aad Peru ; In Africa, where It still flourishes an } the state religion of Dahomey; In Java and Ceylon; among tha Fijian* and elsewhere In Oceanlca ; and even in the limits of Christianity the sect of the Ophites continued or renewed snake worship, blended curiously with purer rites. Business Callers Are Selfish. A business man was telling me re I cently that whenever anyone came to see him and Inquired If ho were busy he invariably replied, no matter how busy he was ; i "No, not at all. What can I (lo for you ?" His idea was that courtesy required him thus to put the caller at ease. Visitors stayed too long and recently this man tried the experiment of re plying, when asked if he la busy : "Yes, 1 am pretty busy, but I can Klve you a moment or two. What Is It?" Hut his callers stay exactly the same length of Mine, he says, that they used to stay when he Raid he wasn't busy. In other words, most callers are selfish and stay ns long as they want to, un less compelled to go sooner. ? Fred Kelly In the Nation's Business. And the Res* Is Silence. An Englishman who knew no lan truau'e but his own hud lnnt his way j In Rome. hi his perplexity it oc curred to hiiu to write the name of his hotel in large letters on his card, and hand It to the first benign-look ins Individual ho met. The Ifalinn thus accosted turned, and. with the charming manner of hiu race, accompanied the perturbed Englishman for about twenty minutes In solemn silence, until they reached the hotel designated. In a transport of Joy at finding him self once more on known ground the tourist poured out voluble thanks In tho only language at his command. At this the Italian looked at htm In amazement and remarked In perfect WbKllsh : "I thought you were deaf and dumb Author Poorly Rewarded. "Black Beauty," the moet successful animal classic ever written, was gold by tho writer, Anna Sewell, for lest than $100, says Vincent Starrett in the Mentor Magazine. In America wlone the hook has achieved a circulation to date of more than 3,000,000 copies, yet the Quaker girl who wrote it on hor sick bed. and whose life was one of remarkable! bravery and cheerfulness under the! most depressing circumstances, is prac- | tlcally unknown to fame. She u-ai born in Yarmouth. England. March 30,,' 1H20, and died 1877, one >ear nfter tl?e , book v h.u published. Birch Wood Chief Fuel in Sweden. 1 Domestic hfattnor !n Srredec would be little afT.vted *y coal strikes, for1 thf most common fuH In that country | Is birch wood. The Iocs are usually cut durlnc Mm ^rtn'r-r months, sn<1 the ' pleccs n re piled fi lar^r stscks to dry until the n?-\. autumn. A h ft 1 f* ? | dozen or more not unlike large, Iiaj stacks In apiuutraitco, 1? s oom*1 mon sight In runny sections of th? country T>) ?? flreidnrp* ore #o roo? I sfru<tc'l it-i to sf-' ?* t' " ???*?!. *o that virtually n> ue ? f it i* vested. CLOCK OVER 100 YEARS OLD The clock is a very important p:.#ee of congressional machinery. For this reason there are about 125 clocks In the United States capltol at Washing ton, the more Important ones receiv ing dally .attention. These docks are cared for by Cleorge H. Jones, as they were by hts father before him, who was locksmith of tho capltol In Gar field's day. The picture shows John adjusting the clock In ^tatuary hall which Is over one hundred years old. TOTES GUN, BUT FEARS MOUSE Woman Deputy Sheriff Sees No Rea eon Why She Cannot Fill Job a* Well as Man. Kenton, O. ? "I can't understand why you, make so much fuss about a woman serving as a deputy sheriff. We women vote now and I cannot understand why we should not be willing to take our places in any of the positions men assume," was the way Mrs. Kthel Johnson Pfelffer, twenty-eight, first regularly appointed w6man official with the power to ar rest who ever has served lp the Har din county sheriff's office, met a ?ug gestion that she pose for her picture ai\d talk for publication. ''I feel perfectly at home In this Job and am getting along Just fine," Dep uty Sheriff Kthel Pfelffer continued. "Why, I served my Apt warrant tp day and. If I do say It myself, I wasn't a bit scared." "Will you tote a gun and go out after the bold, bad men who fracture the laws?" the new deputy sheriff was asked. ?'Most certainly I will," was .ier re joinder. "I feel confident that I am capable of fulfilling the duties of my position and I don't want to be a slacker. "I won't be afniid to pack a gun when I have to ; but, say, do you know, it's a funny comparison, but I am really afraid of a mouse. That's a feminine trait I guess I'll never get over," confessed the deputy sheriff, who Is the mother of several children. JAPAN BOOSTS RICE HARVESt Enlarged Production Due More to Improved Methods Than In crease in Acreage. Tokyo.? While Japan does not pro duce sufficient rice for the needs of her people, who, even after an elabor ute banquet, require a bowl or more of their staple food, production has kept pace with tho increase of the population. In the early days of the MulJI reign, when the population was -WKKJXKKT; there was 35,000,000 koku of rice produced. This year, with a population of 70,000,000, the crop is estimated at an equal number of koku. The Increase in production is due more to Improved methods than great | er acreage under cultivation. YANKS MAY SAVE RICE FIELDS Crop Near Mt. Ararat Threatened With Destruction by Failure of Irrigation 8y?tem, Krivan, Armenia. ? Certain flourish lug rice and cotton fields at the foot of Mount Ararat are threatened with tho same destfuctlon that at. one time in ancient history - overwhelmed the hanging gardens of Babylon, namely failure of the system of Irrigation and the Inroads of desert sands. American engineers are trying to save the situation. They are going In with 500 refugee laborers, and will en deavor to reopen a 30-mlle Irrigation canal from the Zanga river. German Nitrogen Output Cllmba. Berlin. ? Germany Is producing 8A {>er cent more nitrogen now than In prewar years The output this year Is expected to reach 340,000 tons. U. S. Automobiles Lined Up Would Nearly Circle Globe Washington. ? If all the auto mobiles In the United State* wore to take to the road at the *nme tlmo, end to end. the lino would extend four-fifths of the distance around the world at the equator, or wvvn lines from Sr tc York to San Francisco. Presi dent George C. Dlehl of the American Automobile association said there a ro 3Q.flOOOf*> tn the t'nltod States, * hlfch If stretrhed from end to end would extend 20,000 miles. Where Fillers Mean Dollars In other words, when you fill up your car here with our guaranteed gasoline, oils, greases, etc., you are getting the most for the least ? you are saving money and ad ding to the life and running effi ciency of your car or truck, Yqu can prove this, too. Ford Repairs and Vulcanizing. Beard'* Filling Station West DeKalb Street RAISING MILK (J OATS. Greenwood .\Iun Says He Han Best Herd Kast of Rockies. (Inde*-Journal.) Dr. J. W, Payne of Kpworth, Greenwood' county milk goat breeder, has just received by express, ten very fine pure bred registered Swiss Tog genburg milk goats from one of the most prominent breeders in Califor- , nia, the state in which two thirds of j all the milk goats in America are ! found: These goats are from some of the best stock in America, sopne of them being descendants of world record animals and related to a part i of the famous herd of 72 head bought last spring by a group of Chicago millionaires for $24,1)45.00. Dr. Payne values this lot of does at from $i,500i00 to $2,000.00 and the express charges on them from San Francisco co were $235.00. They were in tran sit seven or eight days, but seemed to be in splendid condition after such a Jontf journey. This shipment with what he already had on hand, makos the Greenwood county breeder's herd the finest and largest herd of pure bred registered . Swiss Toggenburgs southeast of the Rocky Mountains, it is believed. Dr. Payne has done much to intro duce these valuable animals in this section of the country, where they have been so little known and as a result, the masses are being edu cated as to the real value of their milk as an ideal food for babies, in valids, convalescents, old people who are ill nourished, tubercular and pel lagra patients, as well as those who wish to stay well. "This milk is the most perfectly balanced easily digest e4 and assimilated food known .as being far richer in iron, calcium, phosphates and vitamines than that of. the cow," Dr. Payne says, "and one of the .mest important features to be considered ip the faot that the Swiss milk goat is the cleanest and healthiest domestic animal in the world and immune from the dreaded disease, tuberculosis. . . "They are thoroughly domesticated, very affectionate, fond of ? children, mako the nicest kind of pets; and can be kept on a city or village lot to supply a family with this suporior milk at a very nominal cost/' declare* Dr. Payne, "and while the price may at first seem prohibitive, after one owns one awhile and becomos thor oughly attached to her and knows the real Value of her milk, the price doesn't seem to be bad after all." He and his family use tho milk alto gether in preference to cow's milk and he states that his goats would be priceless if ho could not buy, any more, hs he never expects to be with out a real milk goat- as long as he lives. He expects an exceptionally fine crop ot spring kids frpm his herd. He is also flooded with calls for stock from people in all neighboring states as well as a few from the Northwest. ' While Dr. Payne at first intended to breed purebrod only, he is now pre paring to raise grades to supply tne demand for utility stock at moderate prices. Visitors are always welcome at Dr. Payne's goat farm, which is located about ten miles south of Greenwood* and he takes pleasure in showing his herd as well as answering any ques* tions one may ask concerning it. To Welcome &mali Accounts V That Promise to Grow Planting- potatoes one day and pulling them up the next, would- not develop into a bumper crop of potatoes. Just so in depositing funds, While the First National Bank wants and welcomes small accounts, it urges the importance and desirability of having them grow. * Remember that regular deposits and consistent checking will have the desired result. WANTED- 1,000 bushels cow peas. F. M. WOOTEN WE ARE SAVING MONEY for thousands of others in cleaning and dyeing Win ter Garments, Carpets, Rugs, Blankets, Comforts, Curtains, etc. We will be glad to serve you. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS Cleaners- Dyers. Cumberland, MaryUa<L