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SOME SWIMMING BIRDS. Cormorant Recognized aa > Faajter Than Fish I'nder Water. > (I.. K. b'ubanks in Dumb ^nimaln.) Most of jus if asked t<$ name the ,s;fti .st thing in waWr would answer, that fish are thy beat ..winuut rs and , livers. Hut that is not true. It has been well said that a fish has no more i' ha nee to escape from a cormorant, afU'r the bird has once spied it, than a cottontail rabbit has of outrunning a greyhound. . * An observer of these birds, as 'they i ?hunt" on San Francisco Bay, des- ! oiibes -them as *'a pirate crew in black." They .l|ine up on the weather rail of an old wrecked vessel in tho mud flats, and watch the fish hunt- | ing for crabs and worms on the moss* , covered, rotting timbers. Then, quick ! as a flash of lightning, a cormorant dives. He has seen a fish, and nine times out of ten that fish is doomed, for the bird has wonderful sight, can dive fully as well as the fish and swim decidedly faster. Cormorants ? at least in some countries? are protect- 1 i-d, by law; not because they destroy! fish, but on account of the fertilizer, ' ^uano, which they deposit. Wherever ( their fishing is good, millions of these hi i ds gat her, and the guano becomes a valuable commercial product. The penguin has been called' as much fish as bird, and an examination of its feathers shows them to resem ble scales! Accordingly,, one writer has suggested the name squamipennis scale feather. The penguin's wings are useless for flight, bat he can strike out and swim fifty miles to sea ?with astonishing ease; then, with his appetite for fish and oxex*cise satisfied . lie 10 turns to his home among tho rocks near the shore. The female penguin is a stanch defender of the home nest; she will light anything, man included, in defense of her eggs. The pelican is another good swim mer, though not so fast as cormorants ? and penguins. He is a little too fat and clumsy to dive well, so he adopts strategy and co-operation in his fish ing. A flock of pelicans, selecting some shallow Jhgoon . that:' is full of fish, form a line across it and, accord ing to JOd ward T. Martin, who has been favorably situated to study bird Insect bites ? MENTHOLATUM stops the itching and gives comfort habits, splash the water and beat Mptr wings uAtil they drive the fl?h, up the gradually sloping bunk and out onto the mud. Hero they fill their bags at their leisure. Tho pel lead's Kti ati-Mt t't)f i^the lish eagle, but h?W again he resorts. to "headwork," drop ping one Ash and making His wit-h the ivsi while the eagle secures thut one. Among the smaller water birds "none are more clever than the dipper^. They like a waterfall, and find most pf their food in the eddies and around the stones. Usually they go through *01X10 fnUivstyiK preliminaries before: tho plunge, but once they have made a dive it-is surprising how easily they pYOg&ea? under water. They actually i fly beneath the surface, staying^ near the bottom . and searching among we^ds and rocks for food. I do not know just how long they Can remain under but the fact thaV they do not hesitate to enter through a hole In the ice indicates that they have but little fear of suffocation. From Fireplace to Electric Fan. * Blowing Hock, at the comb of the roof where the waters run dovyn east in one direction and west in the other, is just. 100 miles from Indepen dence Square. Safely within the state speed limit and under what may bo called careful auto driving it is four hours' run. Yet, while it is hot summer in Charlotte, it is crisp fall at the Hock. It is hard for. people at Charlotte to hear of people at the Hock sleeping under blankets ? and gathered around the fireplace in front of a chesnut log fire at nights and early tnornings, yet that is exactly the meteorological conditions there. It sounds strange to hear of a Charlotte man standing before a fire Ht Blow ing- Rock^iidJbj^tpjgin^ over coat for the rjde down the mountains, but that is an every-morning expe rience there. In four houfs one drops down from where the air is frosty ? it was 62 degrees there Mon day night ? back to where the -heat waves dance from the paved streets. Due to the peculiar topography of Blowing Hock, that is the only place in the s.tate where coJd weather du ring the summer prevails for a 'cer tainty and as a Regular local feature. ? Charlotte Observer. ? ^ ? . Brooklyn, N. Y., police on Tuesday picked up a man, his Wife and three children, all hungry, and destitute. Tho man claimed that he and his wife and children had traveled from a to\vn in Wyoming .to Hew. York, afoot, in sixty days, a distance of 2,000 miles. The police cannot figure out how the travelers could haVe made an average of thirty-three miles a day for GO days on foot. * SPECIAL SUMMER SALE EXTRAORDINARY VALUES ! ON Kelley - Springfield and ? Diamond TIRES \ 30x3% ("Clincher Rim) Cord Casing ...... $12.50 32x3V2 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 20.00 32x4 (Straight Side) Cord Casing.-. ...... 25.00 33x4 (Straight Side) Cord Casing ...'26,25 34x4 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 27.75 32x4% (Straight Side) Cord Casing ,35.00 , 33x4% (Straight Side) Cord Casing :?... 36.00 34x4% (Straight Side) Cord Casing 37.50 35x5 (Straight Side) Cord Casing 40.00 Fully Guaranteed Standard Cord Casing!) ^ have never been quoted at ? such prices. If you arc going to need tires soon it will v be your advantage to buy while these prices are in effect', which will be for 10 days: Starting* July 13th. WE ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL PRICE ON EXIDE BATTERIES The fully guarantee ? trouble proof battery. LJTTLE'S GARAGE' Downy Comfort Prepare for tomorrow by sleeping tonight. Restful slumber is assured on a COTTON DOWN Mat- . tress ? a satisfactory mattress . at a reasonable price. GhoUtin Spring St Mattress Co. For Sale By CAMDEN FURNITURE CO., Camden, S. C. TRANSJ0RDAN1A, ; NEW ARAB STATE Amr.nn. Its Capital. Once Itiila . ftlpHla, Ancestor of All Mod ern Philadelphia*. I \\^i?hlngt?>n.r-'''\Vhothi-r ttVft newest Anil. ?t?l? 10 *>v? It- ln<le|?o?clei>r? m-ojiulKe'l h. ?n?l ?>' "? &??"* title of Trnnajordttfcta or b> Us ?J*V Lrn ii.ni>', Kerak, It seeuw . hopvlcMy iXiVt of toiwb wl,h *'h,n^ [says n bulletin from th* NVut,ll,n^ kw'4wmw .<* the *?>"?;; ; * graphic society. In regard to the lun 1 hmuedlafoly oust of the lUvw Jordan I'Oyam Wlllfih 3RwW Abdullah rult*,. "perhaps it will bring the dependent i but very old Closer," continue# the bulletin, realize that It* CflpP. "?\v was once Philadelphia--' the great treat great grandfather of the hal doacn or more phllaarfphlas, gre? ?nd I small, that aw to be found In our Mod.rn ??But It was only a mere matter of twentv-odd centuries ago that the clt> took the name of Philadelphia from Its new lord, Ptolemy Phllodclphus I had existed as llabbath Amman., chief cltv of the Ammonites, almost from the davs of Lot, from whom the Am monite* are- said to have sprung It was ivfttr a victorious these same people of A?ma? J1'1 . Jsphthah, according to the I story, retume<l to the fatal meeting with his daughter:. "When Transjordanla Is described bs stretching from the Jordan and the Dead Sea toward the interior of Ara bia. one Is likely to call up the picture of a hopeless desert. Put much of the replon Is steppe land, a high plain sup porting some flocks and even capable of tillage. Nomadism Jms long helfl the region in its grip, however, and It is ?s n s?-t of 'chief of nomad* that Abdullah Ibn Hussein finds It neces sary to rule. He holds his 'court' not In a palace but In a group of tents which he moves with the seasons. Centor of Ci<jtur?. " "This land, now given over largely to nomads, Is capable of- development along stable lines, as Is shown by Us past Importance. After Alexanders Eastern conquests the cities to the east of the Jordan became ilellonlzed and the seats of prosperity and cul-, ture. In the Second centu?y before Olirlst, Ptolemy Phlludelphus built In thp city which wo* given his namo an extensive acropolis which, l?v the Am man of today, Is only a mass of fallen columns and ruinod wfrtls. o "Rome's sway over Philadelphia Is shown -In Amman by the' ruins of R huge amphitheater which seated 7,000 spectators^ In the sleepy Eastern, town of today goats browse among the foun dations/ Of temples and public build ings, Arabian coffee shops lean against once-proud walls, and tho Eastern species of the village lounger sits on overturned marble pillars. Emir Ab dullah Is showing some Interest in the ancient structures of his capital, how ever, and is having tho fairly well-pre served amphitheater cleared of debris. ^Ammrifi Is not Inaccessible. Five hours by automobile over reasonably good roads through the sizzling valley of the Jordan suffice for the trip frt>m Jerusalem to the capital. The Jordan forms the boundary line, and across It Is an iron bridge. Amah is only about thirty miles from the river and, as the crow flics, is hardly more than sixty miles from Jerusalem. The Hedjas failway, connecting Damascus and Me fllna, runs through the town."" Length of "Immortals' " Span of Life Measured Paris. ? The recent death, at the age of ninety-flve, of ' Do Freyclnet, the French engineer and former premier, has raised the question, "How long do *tho 'Immortals' live?" De Freyclnet was a member of the French Academy for thirty-three- years. The record for long life goes to the nephew of 0>rn?'llle, Bertrand Fonte nelle, scientist, philosopher, poet and dramatist. Ho was born In 1657 and died In 1757, lacking but one month of living a full hundred years Tie was a member of the French Academy for sixty-six years, elected at the age of thirty-four, after* being refused four times previously. - The honors for holding membership In the French Academy longer than anyone else go to Marshal Richelieu, grandnephew of the famous cardinal, lie was elected In 1720," at the age of twenty-four, and In 1788, at the age of ninety-two, thu? being an Im mortal' for sixty-eight years. Faithfuf Lover Carries y Girl to Wedding Altar San Francisco. ? A broken back did not deter pretty ninete^n-vear-old J^lin' 8trang from eloping. Confined to a hospital for more than a year. MIhs Strnng was permitted to go for an automobile ride. Her faith ful sweetheart, Qeorge C. Franklin, also nineteen, who since the automo bile accident In which she was Injared, has haunted her bedside, carried her to his machine. Two hours later they had not rrtrrmrrl and Mrs. Rebecca Sprang, becoming worried, asked the pongs ra nnrt thtra; -TtrF porrw ffftrcc, but the next' day Mr*. Strang wm notified that , her daughter and Franklin had been married at Redwood aty. -. -J m** i i * lim?*1 ? it y ^ * jjff gMnk SHCT JUT JUST ! Hjv/ Royal Northwest Mounted I Police Controlled Indians. ? &meti Pore# Did Wonderful Work in Patrolling and KedpWg Ordor in Vast Territory. ! ^ For decade* the mounted police of ("anuria have been the subject of un numbered fiction stories, Such In the remarkable record of the force that there are many true stories about it that far outrival any work oT notion, of the host writer's Imagination. hon tho monopoly of w estern <*an ada hy the "Gentlemen Advent urers trading Into Hudson Hay"- better known to t|?e world ad the Hudson's Hay company ? wu?4 bought from the company in lSdU, an army of crlmlnuls, whisky smugglers, catlle rustlers and gunmen poured In from west of the 'Missouri river. The chief stamping gtounris were In Alberta and Sa? I katehewan, and their main business* was trading bad whfsky to the Indians for furs. I 1 o rope with these men, protect the Indians and few white settlers, the premier of Canada, Sir John A. Mac dona Id, decided on the formation of a body f,f guards who, as he put It. "would be without any gold lace." In May, 1N7M, the authorlKutlon of the Royal Northwest Mounted police was I made by the house of commons. Immediately 800 nftn were recruited In the city of. Toronto, under Lieuten ant Colonel French. From there they traveled by train to Farpo, N. I). This I was then the end of steam hatomotloii to the great Northwest. With two field pieces and two mortars, this little army marched 800 miles from Fargo to Fort MoT, cod, Northwestern Terri tory, near thV?fopthllls of the Ilockles, In the very heart of the Bluckfeet lu I dlan territory. ? Yet the entire western region, eotn I prising fiOO.OOO square miles, was tnken over by the mpunted' police without a gnn being fired. The whole episode Is OJie of the most, remarkable In the his tory of the Canadian frontier. . The first mounted police fort was completed I at McLeod In 1874,. In tho same year a detachment pressed ft n to the coun try of the Wood Cree and A'ssln^bolne J Indians, and established a post at Fort Edmonton. 400 miles to the north. In t 1N75 Inspector Hrishols bnilt a fort I where the city of Calgary now stands. Region, Saskatchewan, flrst known as File of Honesty reason of the grent Stakes of buffalo skeletons standing there In the early days, was made the headquarters. Reglnji retained .the sit uation as headquarters until after the war, when tho headquarters' was moved to Ottawa. . I Shortly following the mpssaere of General Custer In 1870, nt the batth? of the LIMIe Hlg Horn, by the Sioux t-lilOf. Sitting Hull, the chief entered Canada with several hundred .braves and attempted to stir 'the Canadian In dians to war. I . Only the tact, dlplomncy and that I self-reliant bra very by which one man marches cn and sways to his will a preat number of men. as the mounted police did at this time and on hun dreds ? of other .occasions, prevented - one 0f (hose terrible Indian wars which were so common during the early settlement of eastern Canada and the United States. As it was, Sitting Hull and his band were handled without bloodshed. In the end they were escorted across the bor <?er by two constables. Perhaps the true secret of the success of the force with the Indians lay In the fact "that the Indians had rights In the West and whenever adjudicating cases' ?where red men ? were ennpornn,! f^|, fact was always to the fore with the police. Gautier's Versatility. Gautier was an extremely various and volumlnpus author. There cannot be many things In the visible world ahotit which he did not say something -^and generally something wise, mem orable, and urbane ? hi the sixty vol umes ? he wrote. Hut his principal achievement is fourfold ? he was a novellsj, a critic, a traveler, and a poet. In each of these departments he wrote some of the best things that have ever been written in French. We suspect that Gautier's fnme has suffered somewhut bj; reason of this very versatility. The world will not believe that a man can do more than one thli^g well; It Insists on hTs being j a specialist, restricted to one Urn* of i activity. If -a man Is naturally versa 'tile, he always runs the risk of bning i classed as a dilettante; because be does many things, the public cannot conceive that he does any of them with i suprenfe excellence. ? Henry Rett In j the London Quarterly Review. Could Sing, but Wouldn^. Civic* pride and Interest ran high recently when members of the congre gation of a church In the southern part of Indianapolis held a social gathering. Mothers and fathers sat with prl le while their offspring sang hook* of various musical standards. The en thusiasm was not so pronounced among the boys and girl* who wete not participant* Jo the program. ? The crowning blow came when t group of little girls sang a chlllJsh Sunday school song In a manner that ww ? - hearty-applause from- ttof- ntt dlence. * The popularity of the girls was too much for a four-year old boy, who ?aid In a loud voire to a companion wfcatHthe Mmtaoae cetuMd: v "1 know ? aoag I could atng, bat i woo't.^? indUiaipoUa Kiwi N vitro I turned at Stake. Yazoo t'ity, Miss,, July 2l>. Willie -Miwvineld, a negro, W&a burned at the stake in a swamp near here at 1 1 o'clock this iftorning by a mob, which accused htm of attacking a white wo man 120 miles southeast t> i here with an axe early last night, intlictihg wo units which physicians believe will prove fatal. Minnitield ami another negro werv captured by a posse in a swamp near here at 10 oVIoek this morning. Ac cording to numbers of the posse, the other negro who escaped^ declared that he stood outside- the woman's home while Minni.rteld went in to at tack her. Minnitleld was t&en from the poSKC by a mob, tied to a stake and burned to death. A posse took up the pursuit of the other negro. - In the contusion attending the lynching of Minnitield the other ne gro, whose name could not be ascer tained, escaped and is now bei,ng sought in the swamps. A mob of about 50 met, took Minnitield from the posse, according to reports received here. ,A Democratic canvass of Michigan shows, according to Senator Ferris, WRIGLiYS Toko it homo to the kids. Have a packet in your pocket for an ever-ready treat. A dclicious confeo? tion and an aid to L the teeth, appetite, digestion. ^ Sealod in its Purity Paokatt that Win, (J. MjpArioo U the choice of the party for thc> providential noaiijin tion by voter* of that state over Hen ry Ford. 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