The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 03, 1923, Image 7
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. *
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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
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A dclicious confeo?
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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.
WORRY is a disease for
which money in the bank is
the best medicine.
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<y
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NOTICE!
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stock of Nitrate of Soda at an
attractive price.
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