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"" r " "fr ' THE DAILY JOURNAL, 8ALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1903 TWENTY 23 MUSIM "-AS THE ANIMAL nnfaci rtf st flnntno Masfca, Ancient Fish Lone-. Its Ribs Etehteen HaK a Ton, Cot Id Eat an Elephant for Ltmch and Use the North Pole Fox a Tooth-pick From dsop down In tho ico and snow of Alaska to Uiroo Michigan men ihoro has coin a hugo skeleton -of such rom&rk&blo proiortlon8 and shnpo that thus far it has baffled all attempts at classifying it, and baa puzzled somo of tho boat naleontolo jslits la America. Tlio fact that thoso bones baro come clown through thousands, and perhaps xnUIions, of years from a time when Alaska nnd tho northern, seas woro a tropical paradise, when Uio Great arc tic region woo a land of lakes, rivers auid luxuriant vegetation, makes Uiom no of tho most interesting paleon- tologlcal dlscoTorlos of recent years FamibUB paleontologists havo agreed that In Uio days whoa theso rcmarka- Wo bones woro covered with flesh what Is nw a world of Ico and raow was a troplcnl land. Llzard-llko rop tllos of such prodigious proportions that tholr heads raeched into tho tree tops, roamed Uio oarth. The huge Ichthyosaurus, with tho beak of tho porpolso, tho teoth of a crocodile, Uic head of a lizard, and the vertebra of a fish, splashed In tho warm waters. Horned inonBtem, like Uio legendary dragons, battlod wlUi creatures whoso nrmorod skulls could ropol a batten Ing ram. Winged Uilngs, half 'bird, half ropUlo, cleft Uio air as do our birds of today. OlganUc crocodiles and tortoises crawled on tho shorts of tho prlmovnl lakes and rivers. Air sea, and land woro strangoly tenanted In thoso oarly periods of tho world porlodu to which scloutlsts bellovo tho now relics belong. Found by Gold Hunters. After lying for. unnumbered cen turies under Uio Ico of tho frozen north, thon oxhumed by Alaskan gold hunters, looked upon ns tho remains of n burled god by tho Indians, fought ovor and carrlod for hundreds of mllos on dog sleds, Uioso romarkablc relics (if prehistoric ages havo now been brought to civilization and at present aro at St. Charlos. Mich. The largwt of thoso remains, which hau been clnsslflud as tho polvic bono of somo prehistorlo giant, Is ton feet across and five foot high, and though It la nulto dry It weighs 1000 pounds. This hugo bono has lod authorities to bollevo that tho animal could havo been none other than a broutosaurus, that.lt wns nearly a hundred foet In length, and weighed probably 30 tons. Ono of tho ribs of tho animal mens- urea 18 foot, nnothor 14. and a slnglo I vertebra found with tho remains, . and supposed to ho Uio flint vortohra of thu tall. Is two and a half feet In diameter, and weighs CO pounds. Two I of tho thigh hones found aro. nearly olght riet in height. ' Not only In respect to the site of Its bones Is the skeleton moro re markable ' than the ordinary discov eries of paleontologists. Around Its -disoqvvry, Hh disinterment, and, final iy, IU Journey on dog sleds up tho Yukon and over tho Chtlkoot pass to SknKway, art associated moro thrill IntC adventures than art) probably written In 'any other paleontologies' discovery in America. At the time of the discovery of the flliumtie hnuss. Dr. A. Patterson, a , . , ., , ,. , , .. ivs-rteurne nrat dug up with the r Bn,Umtf UmUnlvowlty o M(chl.,MUn8 mmntM nmtly tow f-0 . ww... iwsNKi. was looMw ovt some claims only a few iwj, away from whsr the r mains wn ftwml 1hs first sir,, , ol th skwlotiw was brought to Dr. Pate torsn BH's nutlet by James Buck. (,.,, ,, .., ,,, ..,. Dimw. Ark., who wm working the vMw oh which the discovery was ma4ev. "I'm Rolns to uftve trouble In thaw ing utit " said Huck oh day. ' 1V stiuck a plet't- of 'tilde' rack as high as a house." It was la the heart of winter and Buck was thawing ground for wank Iny whH warm waalker eaiue. A sliort Uhiw after he cam back to Dr. IaUNan and uxoUedly told him that he had struck a huge bone. The rumor quickly spread up and dawn Hunan : oreek. Prospectors left their work to come ami view Uie "filud," astl scores of wiling auds aid ed In tho oxoavoUoa. Remains Buried Thirty Feet The rtHimlHS wnr 30 feet down, sol Idly lmbtjddl la lee and froaen eor.lr. Iuch by lueh the ground was thawed OM Rrnnrngaarus Fotfnd la Trap Was a Hundred -Feet Feet, and Pelvic Bone Weighs out. Tho first bono, which Is now known as the pevllc bone, was hauled out by means of ropes. This was fol lowed by tho rest of tho remains, nearly all of tho smaller pieces of which woro carried away. For a fow days tho find created a tremendous sensation and tho rumor quickly spread among tho Indians that the remains of one of their gods had been found. It was thon Impressed upon Buck by Dr. Pattorson that tho skeleton might bo of priceless valuo. More nnd moro Duck becamo possessed of tho Idea that ho had mado a raro dls covory, and soon ho abandoned his claim. Somowhero ho had hlddon tho bonos, and as tho wooks dragged on ho began planning for tholr removal l tuo United States. Dut Buck feared 10 approacn uio dominion govorn- ment for a pormlt to tako the skeloton out of Its territory. It would tako time, and if tho bonos woro of great valuo to sclonco they might rofuse the permit nltogothor. So. ho hit upon a dating scheme. It was In tho middle of the Arctic winter. Virtually there was no day. But this was all tho hotter for Buck's designs. Ho oullstod In his sorvlco a number of daring natlvo guldos and a number of dog teams. Ono night Buck disappeared. With him wont tho skeloton. Buck was travollng swiftly up tho Yukon, toward Skngway. Whothor Buoks guldos betrayed him, or whothor tho Indians wore, keeping closo watch of what Uioy ro- gardod as a snored rolic, is not known, but hardly had ho started on hli long, portions journoy boforo Uio rod men woro In hot pursuit. Just what happened to Buck on that Uirilllng raco will never be known. Varying roports camo back to Daw son. In th 1 3 Buok had been killed; In othors guldos nnd prospectors told how tlioy had camo across Indians who had beon shot to death. Held, Enemies at Bay. At least thrso times it U said that Buck hold his onomloe at bay with his rlllo. Thoro was not rost for hlmsolt or his dogs on this raro to Skagway. At that plaeo ho boxod his relics, and it his summer ncocmpanled them to San Francisco, and thonco to his home in Arknnsas. Thoro Buck mot nn old frlond from Michigan, William McCrory, and also wroto to Da Pattorson, telling him a part of his story. Ha thon made lm msdlato preparations for returning to Alnsjni jn tno hopo of securing othor ,mrU of Uie 8Uoloton, nut his torrlble hnrdshlps now began to show upon Mm tn nn mne8 from whlon he novor raeoverod e dl(M, a rilort Ume nR0 wUi,0Ut toimiK 0Ven his friends tho whole story of his terrible Journey. Dr. Patterson, knowing tho valuo of Uie bonos, nt onco got possession of them in conjunction with McCrory, and they are now free to tho Invest! gatlon of all scientists. Thoee scientists who have thus far examined tho remains ax press llttlo doubt but that they aro thoso of n bmntosniirus. The pelvic bone shows a well-dunned ridge for Uie vertebrae of the spine, ns well as a canal for the cord. The, faet that some of the larger vertebrae first dug up with the r RCroWi nB0lh-r BvId,IVM tliat thc ,0flW Rf(t of ft Uroilt(Wnuni, , orflett lmM v,0 u.-. ...i ,.. .,.i. .. ... .wnttmtv ifc nm Mtm, , ltmv Ml th tali. A new lllumlnant. Hermtsn llau, a chemist of Bsia via, has discovered rm illumlMUMg UMterial of whiek groat Uttugt arc predicted. Uy a eartalu vecUfylng nrocosa. ho sotmratos tho methane ami hydrogen from oil gas, and by a ttreeouiw of about 40 ataioanhoros re duces it to the Ikiuld form, la toe' receivers. Th so-called "Ifquld g8" thus ttjwlticetl may be used In the Ulaee of ietroleuiN. alsohol or aoety lene. RHd ivw .i light preferrable i tho olootrie. Philadelphia Record. Everybody Goes to the White House luaqa sounter at noon. Open all hours of the day and night. HOW MUCH DOES A MAN LOVE A WOMAN "How much doo3 a man lovo a wo man?" Tho quosUon, asked in more than ono popular novol of Uie day and mooted by several correspondents, la of thoso to which thero can bo no definite answer. As well assign a fixed velocity to the wind, which "blowoth whoro it llstoth;" Uio -wind dies to a dead calm ono day and rages as a hurricane tho noxt Thoro aro men and men, nnd what Is still moro Important In tho problem, thoro aro also womon and women. To on i man lovo may bo merely an oplsolo, a flowor plucked by tho way side, and worn until faded, then cast asldo readily for another qulto ns pretty li his oyos. To anothor man, on tho contrary, It may bo as tho breath of life, "bound with all his heartstrings," his chorlshcd vino and fig tree under which ho builds his homo, and the loss of which leaves him desolate Ono can mcosuro feel ing nnd emotion only by tholr vlslblo effects. Thoro havo boon men, not a fow, who, crave lovo, havo counted all clso worthless without it, nnd finding Uio ono precious drop lacking in Uio cup of llfo hnvo cast tho goblot from them and gono shrloklng out Into Uio dark unknown, cursing fato nnd defying tho futuro, in mad dospnlr at Its absenco. Fortunatoly for tho raco, men and womon alike, such lovers aro tho ox copUon. Thoro aro many moro men who love ns woll, but moro sanoly, who, denied their heart's doslro, aro honccforth bankrupt In love, yet vho llvo tholr lives as befits men and do tholr duty to tho worll nnd their maker as well, porhaps bettor than thoy might havo dono if tho venture upon which they risked all their hopos of happiness had been successful. According to tho gospol no man hath tho right to llvo sololy unto him self. "Who art thou, O man," asks n quaint old wrltor, "that thoii shouldst expect happiness? Learn instead to do tho work which God glvoth thee, not bewailing Its hardnoss, and so shalt thou find blcsscdnoss, which Is bettor." Thoro bo somo who must toll in tho dark whllo othors labor In tho full light of tho sun, and 'coal and corn aro nllko essential to tho welfare of mankind. With all tho rldlculo poured upon tho head of tho lukewarm lovor, It is doubtloss far bettor for all con cerned that most mon lovo modoratoly and aro not inconsolablo when disap pointed. Tho man who succeeds In llfo la not ho who bomoans tho fish which has escaped him and tells him Bolf over nnd ovor how greatly It was to bo doslred, but ho who, recognizing tho fact that tho loss Is final, forthwith baits his hook and proceeds to cntch anothor. Crying over split milk Is a profitless occupation. Tho fox In the fablo who decided that grapos boyond his roach woro not worth having was wise, and for Uioso who can achieve it such bollaf, though it may not bo true philosophy, Is unquestionably comfort able. Neither Is It glvon to all mon cor rectly to reallzo tho difference be tween tho heart flood, "I lovo," and the clear Ico drops, "I ostoom," a dif ference which has somotlmes drlvon othor mon mad. Thoy aro calm and phlogmntlc, with no vain longings for tho unattainable. To such a one any well conducted woman who will govern his household to suit him, bear his children,. nnd mnko him com fortablo 1b a satisfactory spouse. He has small opinion of sentiment, but ho cherishes his wlfo in his way and is what tho world at largo terms a good husband. If his wlfo dlos his sorrow, which scarcely amounts to WOULD THE CAT HAVE SURVIVED A small kitten the property of John II. Yore. T10 First street. St. J eptt. Mo., to dead. The fact Itaolf Is sot so iarUtsg. but tho nuuuor of the kit teH's deaUi Is so uhhsuoI that it bos aroused Mtueh Interest oe the part of neighbors. physktsBB aud vetoriaar leas in this city. The kitteu, la a moment of Exces sive itlay fulness, IS days ago. swal lowed a hat pin. The animal was only four mouths oM. and of the usual else for such au ago. The hat pin was seven inches hmg, with a stoae head. Mr. Yore noticed the kitten plnyiag with the oraameut. which came from his daughters hat. Seou afterward the nta was missing. Search was fu tile, and the kitten, whtoh continued to be as aporUve aa ever, gave no symptom ef distress, uaUl a few days ago, when It became III and subject to fits. This started & controversy In grief, Is sincere, nlbolt self-contained. Ho waits a decent period before ho boglnB to tako notice, no thoy say in country neighborhoods, nnd fills her placo with anothor. Ono should not expect tho compass of a violin from a Jew's-harp. Crockery Id far more fitted to bear Uio rough usage of life than flno china. It Is only wealUiy people who theso days of careless housomalds can afford to set tholr dally board with SoVros or royal DroEdon. A good appetite, which rellshos and digests! plain food, is by far moro conduclvo to health than Uio cultivated palato of tho gourmot, which can bo satisfied only with the dainties of Lucullus and which taxes tho skill of a cordon bleu. As already said Uio woman In the case has much to do with tho amount of devotion upon tho part of tho man Every electric light upon tho boule vards on summer nights preaches a sermon of Its own, with Uio hundreds of moths and flics which, dazzled by Its brilliancy, dash themselves against It and dlo for tho sake of ono. brief Instant of agonizing joy. On tho othor hand, tho homely candle, though It bo of wax, servos only to attract a fow stray Insects, content to buzz around It nt a safo distance from the flame and to light tho bloodthirsty mosquito to his proy. Thoro are somo chemicals which will set flro to Ice and thoro aro womon whom tho vorlost clod In tho shape of man will adore, and, if need bo, dlo for. And, by tho Irony of fate, theso fow womon are In most cases apparently destitute of heart and car not at all for the lives thoy wreck and tho misery thoy occasion. Thoro aro also women with hearts warm enough to lovo all hu manity, the sort whom naturo croated for wives and mothers, who novor mnko any, man's pulso throb a beat fastor, and whoso heart history is summed up In tho-brlot ceuplet: "Four words coraprlco It: I wns never loved, Tho palm of grlof, thou wilt allow, Is mine." Moreover, whon a woman has won the lovo of n man, however dovotod he may appear, it is usually necessary for hor to tako somo pains to hold fast to his lovo If sho wishes to keep It. Thoro aro oxcoptlons, but most mon's lovo is a flro which caBlly dlos for lack of fuol. Shakospcaro assorts that "Mon woro deceivers ovor, Ono foot on sea and ono on shoro, to ono thing constant novor." Indeed, It sooms somotlmos as though tho lovo of man woro llko a toy rubber baloon; lot go of tho string and It Is off In a Jiffy, whllo, for yet another point of rosemblanco, thoro aro lovos which must not bo kept In a too warm atmosphoro lest thoy shrivol to nothlngnoss in tho hands ot the holder. In this stronuous ora no man of affairs can afford to mako lovo the ohlof, much less Uio solo, business ot his llfo. He rjuit hold It as a thing apart, somothlns for himself alone, and alUiough ho may covet tho earth only Uiat ho may give it to some wo man, ho must forgot tho woman for tho tlmo, whllo he struggles with othor mon for tho prize which ho in tonds to lay at hor foot. And tho mora of a man ho Is the moro thoroughly ablo bo will be to do this, turning baok to lovo, always, whon labor Is done. Wondors will nover cense. A Pater son (N. Jv) automoblllst bumped in to n troo when trying to avoid running over a child, was thrown from tho ma chine, and sovoroly bruised. And yet thoro aro persons who assert that the days ot miracles have passed. the household. Ono side asserted that tho kitten had swallowed the bat idn. The other ridiculed the Idea as phys ,ieaUy Impossible. Nelthor would Jwiakea. however, and anally Mr. Yore became convtn d that the only means of soJuUon of tho mystery lay la a seorrhlag examination of j pussy's anatomy. No X-ray belug , handy, eatoroforai aud a knife were 'used. 'The result was the recovery of the bat pie at the cost of the cat's life. The pin bad been swallowed. Its .white head going down first, the metal body following uaUl the point found a lodging place la the nulmal.s throat Before the dissection took plaeo the case was placed before a HHysleiaa and two vetemariaHs, Is their oplnteH they declared that the kitten eouhi not have swallowed a pin of aueh leagth. Later when the pin was produoed and shown to theml they expressed mueh astonlshmeat ANIMALS AND BIRDS CARE FOR CHILDREN The story of Uie Sydney woman who has Just beon flnod 1 in an Australian police court for leaving her child to bo reared In a chicken run, with Uio consequence that the llttlo ono could do nothing but imitate tho fowls In every way, oven to roost ing at night, has caused much com ment in London. At tho offices of Uio Zoological so ciety tho opinion of an eminent orni thologist was sought. "Apart from Its pathos," ho said, "It Is nn extremely intorosUng case. I am unaware of any provious in stanco of a child being reared by birds. "Tho ncarost approach to it hap poned in Scandinavia, where a peas ant, finding a wild swan frozen fast In a lako, took It homo, revived it, and mado it a domosUc pet. "One very stormy night his wlfo wns brought to bed with a child. Neither doctor no nurso was obtainable. A baby was born, and tho wlfo died. Tho husband was In dospalr for the baby's llfo, when ho remembered his pot Bwnn, that was accustomed to re pose in front of Uio kitchen fire. Swan Nursed Baby. "Ho took tho tiny baby down and laid It beside tho swan. Tho bird scorned to understand what was re quired, and spread, its wings ovor the baby, which it kopt alive and warm for many hours until a nurso was ob tained. "As regards children who havo been roared by wolvos thero aro many truo Instances, although the caso of Romulus and Remus, who woro nour ished by a sho wolf, Is, ot courso, a fablo. "But Mowgll, tho llttlo wolf-chlld hero of Mr. Kipling's 'Jungle Book,' is founded upon fact Particulars of snch casos havo beon recorded by Colonel Slcoman and Sir R. Murchl son. Thoy havo occurred for Uio most part In Northern India, especial ly in Oudh. Tho children havo nil beon boys, and woro all apparently idiots. "No grown-up pcoplo havo over beon found among wolves. Tho ultimate ond of thoso wolf-children has proba bly been tho obvious ono consequent upon tholr getting into a set of less scrupulous wolvos. Educated in Wolf Fashion. "Thoso animals havo frequently carrlod off Infants In the districts ot Cawniwro and Lucknow. Somo un doubtedly havo beon eaton, but oth ers havo been brought up and educat ed after tho wolf fashion. "Somo havo beon reclaimed sovoral years later, but havo novor got rid of a strong wolfish smoll, and thoy have boon known to receive frlondly visits from llttlo compnnhs of tholr formoi savago acquaintances." Zoologists havo a 'ecord of a typl cal caso whoro two soldiers of a 04oHlDtt4tlM-frOtflfa'ttl-sW We Haye a Few IDeating b To close out Any :::::Call and Willamette University John H. Colkman, Pkhsidknt, Salem, Oregon. College of Liberal Arts, Law, Art, Medicine, Masic, Oratory, Theology. PREPARATORY DEPARTMET Open io students tomFletlnir eichtb grade U panrnent lower grades In preparatory department. Besides affordli professional training, the University seeks to clve a thorough ptactlcil education for all who are aware of the value of trained train. THE NORMAL DEPART MEM-Offers a.ttcroi)hccuneln tre ineory J practice of teaching. Meets all the naulremenls of state school ! Its teachers are In constant demand. Catalogue Upon Application. Hairitt &Lawwe Ql1l Rl. -- &..- --. -I-- 1L.. 1UVDIMW m "iuit viiwbviica sua ccttcr uxutciics iiuoAninvwi There's where you get GOOD treatment aud GOOD goods Slop in and for yourself. King of Oudh surprised and capture threo animals who came doira ( drink on Uie bank of tho Goomte river. Two of Uio animals were avtfl.i. young wolves, but Uio, naturo ot the imru was a mystery until tho men got near It, and saw that It was a Btn&l naked boy on all fours. Ho bit and scratched furiously in resisting capture, and when taken in.. human socloty drank llko a dog, tori up nis ciomos, ana ouw cat nothlnr but bones and raw meat, aftor flnt smelling it well. Intellect Is Clouded. Aftor many months ho learnt .. say tho namo of a woman who adopt. uu iiiui, uui coma novor artlculaU moro than a fow words. His jn, loot was always clouded, but, doe. llko, ho was always excoptloniiu qulck at understanding signs. 'People who llvo muc among sat mals always gain somo animal chin acterlatlcs, oven 'if such bo enntw. to Uio ability to imltnlo a partlcultr animars call. For myself, I Cw cause a stir of curiosity among mm birds by imitating their cries, and I havo known mon who can in that way bring back a tomcat to a cortiln spot over and ovor again, causo qu!t a commoUon in a rookory at nesting time, or put a bird In a complcto state of mystery as to the whereabouts ot Its Bupposod mate." Gllbort Whlto baa recorded a rt markablo caso of a boy who lived to much among beos that ho became a very boo-blrd. In winter he dozod away the din In a state almost of torpor. Ho ipent all his tlmo by tho fire. But In num mor beos woro his solo food an4 amusoment. He rushed after them all day long In tho sunshine, buzzed an tho whllo llko a hoc. Every kind of beo was his proy. He was novor stung, although ho mail havo caught thousands and sucked thom for tholr honey. Some ho kept In bottles, othors bctwoen his shirt and his skin, until wnnted. Ho would actually enter prlr&te gardens to steal bees, sometimes turning hlvos upsldo down. Needleei to say, tho boy was a hopeless Idiot Tin In Alaska. Stream tin wns dlscovorcd la Alas ka last year, and now It Is reported that great lodges of tin ore have been found nt Capo York, on Behrlng sea Numorous individual placer miners aro reported to havo mado small tor tunos during Uio past summer, two men, for example, having taken tons of stream tin from claims nlonj ono crook In Uio Capo York regioi, using tho crudest hand methods. Hr drnulic machinery will be taken nto the district next season, when th ex tont and value of Uio Un deposits will be ascertained. Now York Engineer Ing Nows. Stoves II old price takes them : ; See Them::::: rilJlOfre-WoarlofrO-HH WADE & CO CLD P. O. OROCERY. J 'J '4 i 'iU'-ii- '-