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^STANDING AUTHORITIES
ATTEND GAME CONFERENCE
olumbia, S. C., April 6.?Among
outstanding authorities who will
) part in the State Game Conferj
in Columbia on April 15 is Her,
L. Stoddard, Dr. Havllah Habi,
president of the South Carolina
e and fish association, announced
ty.
Icrbert Stoddard is recognized as
foremost authority in the counon
the Hob White quail," said Dr.
cock. "For the past thirteen years
its devoted himself ' to studying,
Imenting with, and raising quail
i extensive scale, and his book
te subject is accepted as the
ird treatment throughout the
ry. For sometime he has been
ing the Cooperative Quail Study
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Association of Thomusville, Georgia.
"1 think I can confidently buy that
there. are few men in the United
States, If any, who know so much
about the Southern partridge, the
most superb game bird in the world,
this mild-mannered man, and we are
most fortunate in having him for our.
conference."
Stoddard's special field of experimentation
and the subject of his address
in Columbia is "Uand Management
for f^uall Production." He will
discuss the factors necessary to quail
increase and explain how the average
Southern farm can greatly augment
its crop of birds by a little timely
cooperation on the part of the farmer.
West Jacocks, secretary of the
State Association, today expressed the
opinion that Stoddard's coming will
give South Carolina sportsmen, an unparalleled
opportunity to confer with
a man who has more first-hand information
about quail-raising than any
other. "What Mr. Stoddard has to
say will be of special Interest to ev-j
ery land-owner and blsd-hunter in the
state, and we hope to. have a large
attendance. Those attending the conference
will have an opportunity - of
discussing with him their own local
quail-raising problems. Everybody is
Invited," said Mr. Jacocks..
In addition to Stoddard, such other
authorities and officials as Dr. Ira N.
Gabrlelson, chief of the Bureau of
Biological Survey, Frank T. Bell, U.
S. Commissioner of Fisheries, Charles
E. Jackson, deputy commissioner of
fisheries, a number of game commissioners
from other states, and other
interesting and informed speakers
will take' part in the conference on
April 15 in Columbia.
H. L. Stoddard ~
I; MISSIONARY UNION
MEET IN ORANGEBURG
i annual meeting of the Woisionary
Union, aurri11iiry to
t state convention in South]
will be held with the.First!
lurch of Orangeburg, beglnan
evening session on April
ntinulng through the afterlie
15th. Mrs. J. B. BoatMullins,
state president, will
itative program which has
nged carries the names of
it of state speakers, notably
iu being Dr. J. B. Lawrence,
of the. home mission board,
la.; Mrs. Carter Wright of
Ala., Southern W. M. U. rep
and Miss Inabelle Graves
publicity secretary of the
Mission Board, Richmond,
e are also to be seyen miaou
the program as follows:
Mrs. I. N. Patterson, of Afis
Cornelia Brower of Chile;
line White of Brazil; Miss
hide, of China and Miss
larratt of China. Speakers
iin the state are to be Dr.
Jones, secertary and treastlie
Baptist general board;
h E. Burts, president of the
tale convention,
oiling sessions on.Tuesday
nesday will be outstanding
The Tuesday evening sesbo
devoted to work among
k people in charge of Miss
>vence and Mrs. Charles M.
At the conclusion of the
session Miss Coleman will bring a
message on foreign missions which
will be of interest to the young people.
She has recently made a tour
of mission fields in China and Japan
and has mapy interesting and challenging
facts to relate about her
On Wednesday evening the' pageant,
"The .Frustration of Luther
Rice," which was presented by a Columbia
cast last September and received
favorable comment by Baptists
an& people of other denominations all
over the southland will be repeated
by the same cast with one or two exceptions.
This will occupy the major
portion of that session.
The day sessions will be given over
to the business of the Union and to
inspirational addresses. The reports
of the officers of the organization will
show progress in every line of activity.
More money has been given,
more mission study classes have been
held and more organizations have
rated as A1 on "their respective standards
of excellence. >
- The year has been exceedingly successful
from beginning to end' and
the coming together of the Baptist
women in Orangeburg will be an occasion
for rejoicing over the-progress
that has been made It is expected
that representatives will attend from
every section of the state.
The Massachusetts senate, by a roll
call vote of '30 to 6, has rejected the
child labor amendment to the federal
constitution. The house had previously
rejected the amendment by a vote
of 188 to 13. '
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Peanut Declared Member
of Bean Family; Not Nut
The peunut is not really a nut.
It is ? vegetable, belonging to the
bean family. In the South it goes
under the lowly name of goober or
pindar, states a writer in the Detroit
Free Press.
The peanut has an interesting
personality. It is often called the
burrowing bean, because after the
flowdk fudes the plant stems bend
over from a height of about eighteen
inches and, like an ostrgch
hiding its head, bury the pods in
the ground to mature. In tho late
summer and autumn the nuts are
^hrown out of the ground with a
digger, and then dried in pjles or
stacks for four to six weeks.
The peanut plant originally came
from Brazil, was carried to Africa
during our colonial times, and
thence arrived in the United States
on slave ships. Before the Civil
war the peanut was little known
outside of Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee; but when the
Union troops went back to their
fhomes they took along with then;
a liking for peanuts.
United Stutes production is still
less than one-tenth of world production,
some 70 per cent of which
comes from Asia and about 20 per
cent from Africa. , The peanut is
essentially a tropical plant and
grows only in our southern and
southwestern states. About half
the domestic production comes
from the three states of Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee. The
other half, almost, comes from
SoUth Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama and Mississippi.
Copperhead Snakes Have
Hour-Glass Shaped Spots
The distinguishing features of the
copperhead snake are its two tones
of copper coloring, with patches of
dark coloring in the shape of an
hour-glass being imposed on the
lighter dopper, or almost tan, coloring
of the snake. The patches
of dark coloring run at right angles
to the snake, with the l.arrow part
of the hour-glass beipg on top of
the snake's back and the broad
portions spreading down the sides.
The Copperhead never gets to be
more than three feet in length and
its fangs are on an average of
one-tjuarter of an inch long. Like
all of the venomous snakes, writes
Otto Fuerbringer in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, it is a pit viper and
has a distinguishing pit mark on
the side of the head between the
eye and the nostril. This, however,
can be seen only at a close
distance.
The banded, or timber, rattle- |
snake is the largest and most poisonous
one in this area. It will
attain a length of six feet and its
fangs get to be three-quarters of
an inch long. It has a geometric
arrangement of black chevrons on
a gray background and its tail is
all black. For this reason it is
sometimes called the velvet-tailed
rattlesnake.
Monument to a Leg
A monument is to be found in
a corner of the battlefield of Sara-,
toga, N. Y., where it was erected
in 1877 by Brevet Major - General;
John W. de Peyster, second vicepresident
pf the Saratoga Monument
Association, in memory of the
"mos't brilliant soldier of the Continental
Army, who was desperately
wounded on this spot, the sally
port of Burgoyne's Great Western
Redoubt, 7th October, 1777, winning
for his countrymen the Decisive
Battle of the American Revolution
and for himself the rank of MajorGeneral."
Arnold's name is not
mentioned on the' monument. One
side of the marble slab carries in
relief a column carved like a. Revolutionary
cannon, over which are a
boot, an epaulet and a wreath, with
no inscription. The other side has
the inscription quoted above.
The Fine Pearl
The outstanding characteristics
of a fine pearl are its perfect
shape, its subdued luster, and its
iridescent loveliness. While there
are many kinds of pearl - bearing
mollusks and many classes of
pearls, the finest and most valuable
are the best pmong the oriental
pearls, fresh water pearls, conch
pearls, and abalone pearls. Some
other classes have a certain
amount of beauty but are considered
to be of less vr^lue.
First Iron Works
The first iron works were erected
at Falling Creek, Va.f near Richmond,
in 1619, by the Virginia Co.,
but Indian troubles and the revocation
of the charter of the cotnpany
in 1624, caused the foundry to
close. The first successful iron
works were located on the Saugus
river, near Lynn, Mass. There
works were built in 1643 by John
Winthrop, Jr., and teh other Englishmen,
.forming the "Company of
Undertakers'for the Iron Works."
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A True Prophecy
The fate of the kingdon of the
Rajas of Gonda, Indiq, was said to
be bound up with a Chibil tree
which, like many of the sacred
trees of India, had sprouted from
the tooth-twig of a saint. The kingdom
was to last till the day ~*
monkey was to be seen sitting in
ode of the trees. This occurred
on the day the Indian mutiny broke
Cut which ended in the ruin of the
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SOME FACTS ABOUT THE
AUSTRALIAN KANGAROO.
(Uy Kweu K. Patterson in Our Dumb
Animals)
Although t ho kangaroo 1h undoubtedly
the best known of Australian an-'
iinuls. being familiar, as a Zoo animal
or in pictures, to millioua of people
who have never visited Auatralia, it
la only in their native land that theae
splendid animals are seen at their
best. They are still fairly plentiful
in Australia; in Homo states they are
closely protected by law, but in otln
era, unfortunately, the so-called
"sport" of kangaroo hunting is still
indulged In. Years ago kangaroos
were as numerous in the Australian
bush us were buffaloes on the
American prairies, but as the bufTf
aloes were exterminated by hunters
so ure the knagaro'oB being
wiped out in Auatruliu, for,
being mass-eaters, they are considered
a pest, und in the Stuto of Queensland
alone the Government bus paid
bounties for nearly 10,000,000 kungaroos
destroyed in the last 20-odd
years.
A creature that bops on its bind
legs und carries its young in a baglike
pouch, especially developed for
the purpose?that id What the kungaroo
is, as probably every one knows.
At birth the baby kanguroo is a very
tiny creature, not more than an inch
or so in length. It is blind aud devoid
of any fur. Immediately after
birth It ia transferred by the mother
to her pouch, and there the little one
obtains its milk food.
The baby is carried by the mother
in her pouch until it is about eight
or nine months ol<l, when it is able to
run about and fend for itself. From
time to time the baby leaves the
pouch to nibble grass and to play
with other young kangaroos, but
ft never goes far away from its mother,
seeking refuge again in her pouch
at the first sign of danger. The little
animal actually dives into the pouch
head-first and turns a complete somersault,
ending with its head at the
opening. Sometimes the baby when
making a dive will miss its mother's
pouch and hit the ground instead; it
then cries in a thin, reedy voice uutil
its mother comes to the rescue.
It is well known,- of course, that
kangaroos possess remarkable powers
of leaping, but it is in their native |
haunts that the animals excel in this
respect. In the Australian bush kangaroos
have been known to do with
ease a high jump of over 12 feet, and
a broad jump of more than 30 feet.'
The average- distance covered in a
hop, when the animal is traveling at
high speed, is about 17 feet. Some
species of kangaroo are even able to
climb trees. This fact is not gener-|
ally realized outside Australia. Until;
recent years the animals were believed
to be monkeys; they live in the
tree tops in the jungles, and are
amazing acrobats. They can run up|
a tree at an extraordinarily fast speed,
and It is astonishing from what
.heights they can jump down to the
ground without injury. I have fre
quently seen them leap down from a
tree to the ground 60 feet below, and
without a halt bound away into the
bush.
Kangaroo hunting is a poor sport,
but the courage those noble animals
display when they are hunted is Inspiring.
At bay a kangaroo can be
dangerous to any person who ventures
within range of the powerful
hind limbs. Many hunters have been
badly wounded by the big kangaroos.
With its back to a tree the kangaroo
will fight gamely to the very last, and
the females will do anything to protect
their young. Often, when pursued,
the animals take to water,
standing in wa,ter Just deep enough
to compel their adversaries to swim
| while they have a firm footing. In
such cases the animals can generally
evade the dogs employed by many of
| the hunters,, but against man they
have ^o chance.
No other animal has been so much
honored In Australia as the kangaroo;
It Is represented in the Australian natlonal^coat-of-arms,
and the most popular
set of postage stamps ever issued
In Australia were those bearing a picture
of a kangaroo. Because of that,
it Is tragical that the animal should
now he regarded as a pest and be
slaughtered sq ruthlessly.
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Automobile truffle deaths in tho
United States during Januury totaled
3,150, and in February tho total wus
2,350, making a total for the first two
months of tho year of 5,500 a decided
increase over the same period of last
year. ThiB is believed to bo partly
due to increased tt-avel incident to
a mild winter.
WI8DOM IN WIT ~
Congressman Will ltogurs, of Okluhoina,
enlivened the dull-too-hoavy ,
Congressional Record the other day
with a bit or verse that is well worth
remembering. It may be familiar to
you but it is really now to us. Hero
it is: v IS
"A lion met a tiger T
As he drank beside a pool.
J3aid the tiger, 'Tell me why you're
Always roaring like a fool.'
"Said the lion, 'That's not foolish',
With a twinkle in his eyes? Iraa
'They call me king of all beasts?
It pays to advertise.'
"A rabbit heard them talking
And he ran home like a streak.
He thought he'd try the lion's plan,
Hut his roar was just a squeak. is
"A fox came to Investigate;
He had dinner in the woods. ji
Moral: Never advertise ^
Unless you've got the goods."
At first blush you might think this
applies only to merchandise.
But on second thought many other
applications will suggest themselves
to you.?Greenwood Index-Journal.
- The Soviet government of Russiar
has .warned government officials, responsible
for the lag in spring sowing :%3I
campaigns, that criminal action might ' .
be taken against them unless they get
busy and accomplish results.
/A bullet fired at a Chicago policeman
ricocheted from his flashlight, ;
penetrated his overcoa^ and his unl- * . .)
form coat and lodged against his sepctacie
case in an inner pocket He was <.
not hurt A bullet from the police- '
man's pist9l lifted the hat of the ' g
would be robber. He escaped*
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