.THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 12,' 1920
MANY CREEKS fLOW. FROM UPLANDS WITHIN
FEW MILES OF EACH OTHER INTO YAKIMA
Large Number of Streams Along Eastern Line of Lincoln Wind Into County and Out, for Eastern Line Is
Not on Crest of Coast Range.
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his employment continuously until
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two men knew each other intimately
and from this friendship and daily
conversations this record':, has been
prepared, and it is a moat worthy
I paper one. .
Sometimes arguments are heard as
to the manner in which. Mr. Ingersoil
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21, 189, Colonel IniErersoll euffered
from indigestion and was resting:,
with his wife in his room. It was in
their beautiful Hudson river. New
York City home. Mrs. Ingersoil and
he were talking gently about his state
of health, and suddenly he looked at
her with a loving gaze, slowly 'closed
his eyes, dropped his head upon his
breast and without the slightetst
sign of suffering, like one falling
peacefully to sleep, passed away.
The book contains also several of
Colonel Ingersoll's famous addresses,
particularly the touching oration he
spcke at his brother's grave.
BT ADDISON BENNETT.
This is the 23d of a series of article
by Mr. Bennett on Oregon waterway.
The 24th will follow at an early date,
presumably the Sunday following this
tirtitle. Readers of The OreRonlan would
do well to save these articles, for when
concluded they will present the first auth
etuie tabulation of our rivera, lakes and
creeks.
THE last stream taken In article 22
was Beaver creek, which flows
into Depot slough near Toledo.
I will Skntlnue up the Yaquina in the
left or north river. The next nanJed
stream is Balal creek, which flows
In about two miles above Toledo. It
comes in from the north and has one
TiHjned tributary, Simpson's creek, six
mUes lone. There are a good many
creeks flowing into the river between
tiaial creek and the county line, 17
miles in a straight line, but none of
them named.
Going up on the right or south
Bide of the Taquina, the first named
stream is Elk' creek, which flows in
at telk City. It is a long stream
which rises near Mary's peak, two
miles east of the Lincoln county line,
Jn Benton county. It is a winding
stream and difficult to measure, but
1 think it is fully 25 miles long, that
is. in Lincoln county.
.Elk has several named branches,
as follows: Bear creek, which flows
1n: about five miles from Its mouth.
It Is three . miles long. A few rods
above that. Bolter creek flows in.
The name of this creek has a letter
knocked out between the o and t.
which I think must have been an 1.)
This creek is also about three miles
long.
Savage creek Is next. It flows in
from the south about five. miles due
east of Salado, a town seven miles
east and four miles south of Toledo.
It is about six miles long. Three
quarters of a mile above Savage, but
on the opposite side of the Taquina,
Upthe-Spout creek flows In from
the northeast. It is about four miles
long, and has one named branch,
Johnson creek, which flows in from
the east. It is three miles long and
rises very close to the county line.
There are a great many streams
along the eastern line of Lincoln,
some of them flowing into the county
and some flowing out, for the eastern
line is not on the crest of the coast
range it seems, only in spots. For
instance, Mary's peak, west of Philo
math in Benton county, is surely the
summit, for it "Is said to be the
highest peak in the coast range. Yet
the Lincoln-Benton county line is two
miles west of that peak.
I will now begin at the southwest
corner of the county on the ocean,
and follow along the south line to
the southeast corner of the county,
and then north along the east line
to the Tillamook line, and give the
named streams flowing in and out of
the county and their named tribu
taries. The first is Buck creek, flowing
in from Lane county, about 12 miles
from the ocean. This creek's length
in Lincoln is about two and one-half
miles, and it has one named tribtr
tary. Wilson creek, which flows into
It from the west. Wilson "Is two
miles long. Then Crab creek flows
up from Lane county and flows into
a river 1 never heard of before
Five river. I ljnow about Sixes
river, but nothing about Five. Crab
creek has a course of only three
quarters of a mile in Lincoln. Five
river, which flows' into the Alsea
near the town of Denser, nas
length of ten miles in Lincoln.
give three streams flowing into it.
Buck, Crab and Wilsonreeks, the
latter a feeder Of Buck, and there is
one other. Lobster creek, and three
feeders of Lobster, Camp, William
son and Little Lobster. Lobster
creek flows in from' the extreme
southeastern corner of the county,
reaching the Five near the town
of Denser. Camp has a length
the county of three miles, William
son two. miles and Little Lobster
one-half mile. Lobster creek is
about nine, miles long.
Six miles north of the south line
of Lincoln and one mile west of the
east line. Fall creek flows into the
Alsea from the north; it Is ten miles
long. There are also some other
tributaries of the Alsea which I did
not mention in their proper order.
Sudson creek flows in from thesouth
three miles west of Tidewater. It
is five miles long. Scott creek, five
miles long, flows in from the north
east, about four miles southeast of
Tidewater. It is six miles long.
Grass creek flows in two miles
south of the mouth of Scott creek,
coming up from the south on the
opposite side from Scott. It is four
miles long.
Mrs;t's Prorma, by Douglas Gold ring-.
nomas seltzer, flew Tors Ctty.
Margot in plain English MissMag-
Sie Carter, daughter of a Canadian
grocer who left her J3000 is our
heroine. '
Margot determines to see the world
and be a "fine lady." She sails on the
steamer Majestic for Cherbourg,
France, and, to wrap herself with an
air of social distinction, says she is
Miss Margot Cartier, Canadian aristo
crat.
Margot succeeds in capturing her
social world and she becomes a bold,
heartless young woman, a profession
al heart breaker, a Becky Sharp. She
breaks the heart of the man she mar
ries. A depraved aristocrat who is
no relative of hers dies and leaves
her l,250,O0O.
The world is Margot's sugar plum
and she certainly sees to It that every
thing she wants somehow comes her
way. "
Then, bing! comes the blir war with
the kaiser, and trouble comes for
Margot.
A clever novel and sure to arouse
the most blase.
Artemua Ward, by Don C. Salts. Illus
trated. Harper Brothers. New York
city.
Echoes of -delightful,, quietly ex
pressed American wit of the long ago
steal from these storied pages of the
biography of Artemua Ward (Charles
Farrar Browne), wit, lecturer and
general showman.
Ward was born in Waterford. Me.,
April 26. 1834, and died in Southamp
ton, England where he had been on
a lecture tour March 6, 1867, from
consumption.
Mr. Seitz has written a biography.
of permanent value. He obtained his
facts from conversations with the
Browne family and also from an ex
tensive search for information on the
subject, a search that went far away
from the quiet Maine town where the
subject of this book first saw the
light of day. - "
Examples of Artemus Ward jokes
are furnished, also several of the fa
mous lectures. The pages are 338.
The Hand In the Dark, try Arthur J. Rees.
jonn lane Co., New Yrk city.
An English novel of the present
day, with a murder mystery in it.
One of the girl characters is shot.
an old-fashioned manor house; and
the hunt for the guilty person is de
scribed with force and Ingenuity.
Interim, by Dorothy M. Richardson. Al
fred A. Knopf, New York city.
Miss Richardson is a talented and
Industrious young novelist. This is
the fifth instalment of her interesting
and original series of novels "Pil
grimage."
"Interim" is an English novel of
promise and polished art. It has
dull beginning, and at first would be
all the better of shorter paragraphs
and more conversation, but this is
remedied as the reader progresses.
lli'art Trouble. Their Prevention and Be
lief, by Louis Fangeres Bishop, M. D.
I'unk & WaKnalla Co., New Xork city.
Our author is professor of diseases
of the heart and blood circulation,
Fondham university, president of the
Oood Samaritan dispensary and phy
sician in Lincoln hospital. New York
city.
This book of 435 pages, SO full-page
halftone plate and text illustrations,
contains an authoritative discussion
of the subject at issue, and is writ
ten in an easy popular style with the
ahsence of the use of obscure tech
nical terminology. It is designed for
the guidance and help of the layman
who suffers from heart trouble oi for
the family or immediate relatives of
euch sufferers, and especially for the
nurses in charge of these cases. It
describes the various types of heart
n.-ease in a most lucid and informing
way and tells exactly what should be
clone in each case, the mode of life
Vest suited to the trouble, the most
Veneficial diet, etc. It goes carefully
into the question of palliative treat
ment by drugs, by the Nauheim bath
method, and also by exercise.
The book's cheery optimism and
pane counsel should prove of real
service not only to all heart patients,
but also to physicians', who can ob
tain much valuable information from
the instructions given.
Notable chapters are on theje
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is meant by hardening of the arter
ies: cause and symptoms of heart dis
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nervousness; heart troubles and the
, cure resort; nitroglycerin and how to
use it; the care of the heart; the anl
mil proteins; health how remedies
should be given to keep it; tea, coffee
and tobacco: the danger of the heart
from anti-fat treatment; and nurs
inr in heart troubles.
Dr. Bishop does not pose as a cure
all, lie is cautious. For Instance, in
discussing Graves' disease, or exoph
thalmic goiter a disease of the thy
roid gland. It is a puzzling disease,
and experts are not agreed as to its
cause. It is stated to be difficult to
cure. Dr. Bishop's advice under this
head is conciee: "People who have
this disease, should have their hearts
carefully looked after."
The Seventeenth Centnry, by Jacques
Boulenger.N ti. P. Putnam Sons, Aaw
York Crty.
In this case the title "The Seven
teenth Century" refers especially to
the national history of France. The
book is translated from the French
and has. for its stage the sway of
Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XXV,
known as "Le Grand Monarque."
Scholars are agreed that the age
depicted by our author is known as
the Great Age.
"France was enriched through the
successive efforts of Louis XIII and
Richelieu, Mazarin and Louis XIV
by the acquisition of Roussilon
Franche Comte, Alsace, Flanders and
.nnois, provided witn a vast colonial : csm
aomain ana protected tty a solid ana
stately girdle of fortresses. Intel
lectually, Franca shed her radiance
throughout the world. The age in
which French national patrimony
was enriched by so many provinces,
by so much glory and beauty, is just
ly known as the Great Age."
The pages are 393. The presenta
tion of historical events is interest
ingly arranged.
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Ethics and Natural Law, by George Lansing-
Raymond. G. P. Putnam's Sons,
New York City.
This Is a learned, reconstructive
review of moral philosophy, applied
to the rational art of living.
Such abstruse subjects are dis
cussed as: "Human experience start-
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By ANTHONY EUWER
This Poem, Written fcij Mr. Euiver, Was Read by Him Last Monday at Hood River. It W as an Interesting Feature
of the Meeting Celebrating the Completion of the Columbia River Highway to Hood River.
Masterful builders! Tou who've planned
Tour limitless highways through our land
Splendid in vision well have you wrought,
Leaving your trails where trails were not;
Weavers weaving gigantically
Into a boundless tapestry
Systems of travel, skillfully traced
Hither and thither interlaced.
Gathering, linking, chain on chain.
Corn land and pasture, fields of grain.
Acres of orchard rolling down.
Forest and homestead, nestling town.
Binding our counties, joining our states.
Breaking the walls of our cities' gates.
Letting humanity's stream rush through
Into the open, into the blue.
Into the sun or into the shade.
Into the playgrounds you have made,
Treading where never before they've trod
Touching the earth and seeing God!
Long have you wrestled, uncontounded
With problems the grim, old earth pro
pounded; Meeting each taunting challenge while
She watched with a cold, sardonic smile.
Flinching at nothing your labor met.
Writing your answer in dirt and sweat.
First with your, transit, pounding stakes
Rotten logs,, briars, sticks and snakes . .
Trees of the thicket, hatchet-scarred, .
Biasing tomorrow's boulevard.
.Now comes the new world's big romance.
Unloosing your swarms of human ants.
Slashing the willows, 'crowding In
Under the maples, and chlncopin;
Totterng timbers see them crash
Deafening thud arid crunch and gash.
Tearing their rifts where the bows arch high.
Baring blue hole In the gaping sky;
Follows the blasting dynamite.
Deep in the damp earth tamped in tight.
Sputtering spark.
Into the dark
Travels the fuse to the burled runs.
Vomiting stumps in hurtling tons.
Falling back, mangled, shattered, torn,
Into the clay where they were born.
Through pine-pillared aisles the thunder-
lngs ring,
Echoing canyons answering;
Enter the horses lashing reins.
Yelling and. curses. Jangling chains, ' -Snorting
and straining, steaming brutes,
Grappling hooks shackled to stubborn roots,
Snug in their sockets holding fast
Steadily pulling, they yield at last;
Shovel of steam omniverous scoop.
Gouging the way for one more loop'.
Rearing a wall that will prevail
Against the push of eliding shale.
Peeling a slope to fill a draw,
Stuffipg the crusher's hungry maw
That crumbles to bits the rock you've fed
To blanket a roadway's winding bed;
These are the digits running through
The problems that Nature's handed you.
And you of the Norseland yon who found
This Oregon wilderness goodly ground,
Tou came with a love In your heart for men
Tou got but you gave it back again.
You looked toward the years that were to be
And you gave to those years unstintingly ;
Tou knew that a road was a useful thing, -But
couldn't go far without fostering.
And fostar you did and spared no pains.
Backing your backing with all your brains,
- Filling your place in the age-old plan.
And they're calling you Simon the Highway
Man! "
And we of the people we for whom
These miracles are, behold we come!
. Driving our chariots biasoned bright
Crimson and yellow and pink and white.
Silver and black and gray and green
Rattle-trap Liszle and limousine.
Bulgy with bedding, grip and can.
Lashed to the back and tucked to the van, -Letting
our home-town banners flame,
.- Advising the world from whence we came
From everywhere under the dusty sun
From Mosler, White Salmon, Pendleton,
.From Boise. Seattle. Saginaw,
From Buffalo, Little Rock, Waukeshaw
Still we are coming see 4he train
From "all points east" to Bangor, Maine,
Up from the Dixies, coming still,
k . From Charleston. Havana. Jacksonville,
Down from the Old Dominion, see;
From Montreal, Winnipeg. Calgary
We of the people are on our way.
Turning the world to a holiday! '
And vast.are the hollows from crest to' crest
Where stretches the hand of the big north
west. And out of the .winds from her frozen peaks
A welcome speaks
Come all you people: come and keep
.Tryst in our mountains; play and sleep.
Wrapped in the silence here that lies
Under our star-jeweled western skies;
Wake if you will and see the sun
Unveiling our canyons one by one.
Slanting his golden fingers till
The shadows have crept from each drowsy
hUl.
Rousing the giants in their beds;
See how they, lift their hoary heads ' "
Up through the purple robe of night,
RubWing their eyes in the morning light; -Tahoma
the mountain that was God,
Jefferson, Adams, St. Helens, Hood;
Hold fast your visions and your dreams.
Memories born of our laughing-streams.
Our cataracts, castles, towering domes.
Oh, carry them back to your million homes!
Drink, oh, you people! Be satisfied!
Our wells of beauty are never dried.
Search out'each Eden that awaits
Blazed are the trails and wide the gates!
Come, oh, you people! Look upon
The bountiful sweep of the Oregon,
Forcing a pass through the blue Cascades,
Lapping the walls of her palisades,
Cradled in sand dunes, gleaming white.
Girdling her islands of malachite!
And high on the hills where a thrush's song
Tells out its gladness, there winds along.
Like a sinuous serpent twist and bend,
1 - Following on to the river's trend.
The lordliest highway that ever ran
Through the hills of the world since the
dawn of man
Pride of the west! Sublime event!
Columbia the Magnificent!
Conceived by a poet who believed
Dreams should be dreamed and then
achieve
And he dreamed! at his dream and put it
. through;
.And, old Sam Lancaster, this means you!
'And he bored him a tunnel rock and boulder,
-Out of a mountain's granite shoulder.
Chiseled his windows, arching wide,
Glimpsing the sky and the rolling tide;
Throwing his gracetul spans across
Dripping ravines of fern and moss;
Charming the serpent up and down
Till it lazily coiled cn the lofty crown
Goal of eac"i traveler who would be
Thrilled with unspeakable ecstasy.
Oh. climb in your chariots, pink and green.
Rattle-trap Lizzie and limousine.
Throbbing triumphantly toward the sky
(There's never a grade but you can take on
high).
Honking and honking, round on round.
Honking again till the cliffs resound.
Looping at last the Crown Point top
And there you sop!
Where winds from the north, east, west and
south
Tumble their clouds in tjie chasm's mouth.
Curtains of mist and far-off thunder
And, somehow, you look and look anl wonder
If he who was wise to the sparrow's fall
Didn't have something to do with it all.
Over tjie broad Willamette go
Into the coast range, learn to know
Who are the Vikings see them rise
Out of the gulches Into the skies
There are plummet lines dropped through the
hearts of these.
. And they're girthed like the pillars of Her
1 cules!
Nursed by the centuries still they stand.
The Viking spruce of the bottom land.
And ever the pageant swings along.
Blossoms and fruit and birds and song;
Sword ferns, high-heaped beneath the firs.
Glistening like emerald scimitars;
Foxglove and flreweed. sunlight flashes.
Blotching the banks in purple splashes;
Salmcnberries in hordes untold.
Luscious clusters of dangling gold;
Elders above them, bending branches.
Falling in ruby-red avalanches.
Hedging the roadways, climbing back
Up through the alders and tamarac;
And over the bridges rumbling, coasting
Oh, God of the humble, keep us from boast
ing! - Ranges ruff-backed with th.eir jagged trees.
Crawling and sprawling down into the seas.
Reaching their ragged, granite hands
Out through the shifting, drifting sands!
Out where the wild, white horses prance.
Tossing their manes and the cormorants
Strut with the lions and blustering seals.
And the smn-god reels
With a splash of blood
Into the great Pacific flood!
And this is the welcome waiting you.
Drivers of chariots gold and blue
You who fare
Under the heavens from everywhere
This is the crowning of your quest
When you've looked in the heart of the great
northwest!
Parkdale. Or.
Queen I.acia, E. F. Benson.
Doran Co., New York City,
Mrs. ijucaa naa a nusoand, money
and comforts. Yet she was not satis
fied. She yearned to be a reformer,
and she undertook to play the part of
a modern Lorenzo de Medici lr the
"cultural awakening" of an English
village.. She had been an enthusiast
in Italy and Italians; and the havoc
she caused and the fun that ensued
behold! are they not all displayed
in the 331 pages of this laughable
story of England?
An Intimate View of Robert G. InsrersoU.
by 1. Newton Baker. C. P. F&rrell, New
York City.
Those lucky enougn to have heard
Robert G. Ingersoil in life, deliver
one Of his speeches or addresses, will
haidly expect to find in cold type a
book with as eloquent a greeting as
he spoke in speech of silver.
This tribute to the memory of the
late Mr. Ingersoil, is told in 207 pages.
and is a sincerely expressed,' affec
tionate one. The author, Mr. Baker,
entered Mr. Ingersoll's office in 1879
as private secretary, and remained in
The Letters of Thackeray.
Although William Makepeace Thack
eray was one of the great letter
writers of the Victorian period, the
world has waited for more than half
a century or a reasonably complete
collection of his letters. Those which
he wrote to Mrs. Brookfield, the Bar
ters, and various kinsmen and kins-
women have been published in the
magazines and later in book form
But no one has undertaken to
bring together from widely scattered
sources the hundreds of letters which
arranged in chronological order and
adequately annotated, would furnish
a continuing and -lluminating record
of his life as an author.
The task remained for Hufus Rock
well Wilson of Boston, author of
'New England in Letters" nd other
widely-read books, to accomplish
after a number of years of loving
and unremitting labor. The work
now has reached the stage which
promises within the next few month
the publication of "The Letters of
Thackeray." carefully annotated, in
two octavo volumes of about 30(1
pages each. The first edition, pri
vately printed, will be limited to 250
copies, numbered and signed, of which.
it is stated, only 200 will be offered
for sale in America and in England.
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war. and they depict the doings of
brave sailor boys serving in our navy
against German opponents and espe
cially against German submarines.
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girls and growsiups, 37 pages a pageant
that has already been given with success
in many school, colleges and Y. W. C. A.s
(T. 8. Denlson & Co., Chicago.
Miss yinerva's Baby, by Emma Speed
Sampson, the third story In the delightful
"Miss Minerva" series, describing this
time fluffy-haired Josephine, a baby with
the appearance of an angel and the per
sonality of an adorable sprite a home
story of healthy Interest (Tha Retlly &
Lee Co., Chicago).
The . Cheery way, or John KenaricK
Bangs, a charming book, worth being
called a "gift" book containing a poem
by Mr. Bangs for every day In the year
verse that la cheerful And bright; Leerlfc.
by Ruth Sawyer, eloquent, heart-throbbing
tales of a war nurse and her patients
quite a notable bit of fiction (Harper's,
N. Y ).
Letters to a Young Man on Love and
Health, by Walter M. Gallichan. wise ad
vice and instruction to young men on sex
problems consisting of letters from- an
uncle to his young nephew, the first writ
ten when he boy Is 18 years old and the
last when he Is about to be married
(Stokes A Co.. N. Y.).
The Man Who Convicted Himself, by
David Fox, a story of excitement, mystery
and humor, being the first of a series of
detective novels dealing with the activi
ties of an organization of retired crimi
nals who form a crime prevention burfau;
and A Tour Through Indiana in 1840.
edited by Kate Milner Rabb, an unusually
Interesting, educative book, being the
diary of John Parsons, a young Virginian
who left home to see tna west or aeciaea
historic interest (Robert M. McBride tc
Co.. N. Y.). -
Tha Seventh Real, by Jeanette Agnes, a
book of religious Importance, 'discussing
salvation, revelation, the Levltlcal law, the
lost word," etc. (John C. Winston Co.,
Phila.).
Old and New, sundry papers dv c. h.
Grandgent, professor of romance languages
In , Harvard university, eight essays or
papers on educational subjects, a message
of marked culture (Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Mass.).
Jane and the Owl, by Gene stone, illus
trated, a charming story book for chil
dren, and telling about new friends worth
while (Crowell Co.. N. x. ).
A Mating in the Wilds, by OttweU;
Binns, a romantic- novel of engrosaing In
terest, depicting the regeneration of a
hero in Hudson Bay company territory in
the far north (Alfeda Knapf. N. Y.).
The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons.
by William Z. Foster, secretary and or
ganizer of tha steel workers in the trade
dispute referred to. atis pages, paper cov
ers (B. W. Huebsch. N. Y. ).
Atlantida. bv Pierre Benolt. translated
from the French by Mary C. Tongue and
Mary Ross. This exciting and dramatic
story was recently awarded the "Grand
Prix du Roman" of -5000 francs by the
French Academy as the best novel of the
year, and already l( has sold in France
more than 100,000 copies. It la a novel of
mysterious, wild Africa, df North African
mountains, fierce tribes and Antlnea,
wonderful heroine who reminds the reader
somewhat of the principal figure In Ryder
Haggard s masterpiece sue (Uuttieid ac
Co., N. Y.).
War Poems and Other Verses, by R. E.
Vernede, 82. sterling poems of more than
ordinary merit, being visions of War scenes
depicted by an English soldier-poet who
was killed in the recent world war in
Adventures and Enthusiasms,-by E. V.
Lucas. 62 charmingly written, restrul es
savs depicting literature, satire, English
acenes, etc.: and Wild Cat. by Hugh
Wiley., a happy-hearted, joyous novel,
about a care-free negro who hates work
a story that shows creditable mastery
of the negro dialect (Doran Co., N. Y.)
The Beautiful Mrs. Davenant. by Violet
Tweedale. an entertaining English novel.
the central figure of which Is a married
woman who for a strange reason does not
live with her husband (Stokes Co., IS. .)
Blueberry Bear, by J. L. Sherard. and
Uncle Squeaky's Country 8tore, by Nellie
M. Leonard, two delightful. Illustrated
story books for litUs children (Crowell
Co., N,
Cats of Many Kind Found
in Various Parts of World.
Felines Minna Tails Inhabit Isle of
Man and ' Hairleaa Animals Are
Seen in Mexico Mo in baa Cat of
Africa Most Peculiar Animal.
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"I love little Pussy, her coat la so warm.
If 1 don't pull her tail she will do ma no
harm."
OW familiar, to at least three
a a generations, tnis old nursery
jingle has been, inciting love lor puss
and "putting over" propaganda for
the A. S. P. A. on unsuspecting youth
at the same time.
Among our English - cousins who
live on the Isle of Man the old rhyme
is pointless, for the good and auf
ficient reason that their cats have no
talis to pull. Just why nature discrim
inated, against puss in this way, plac
ing a topknot oi hair at the end of
the backbone instead of the usual
snaky, waving appendage, eeems to
be shrouded in myetery. Of course,
there are a few cats with tails on the
island, generally imported from Eng
land or Scotland, but the tailless Man:
cats are most In evidence. In north
ern Russia and in Japan there are a
few of the ailless cats which, like
the Manx variety, have bind quarters
higher than the fore quarters.
The royal cat of Siam has a long,
thtn tall, and in some instances it has
a kink in it like the tail of a prize
bulldog; these famous and beautiful
cats are white when born and change
gradually as they grow to a silky
chocolate color, the coat shading to a
cream tan under the belly, black face,
legs and tail and big blue eyes. Being
semi-albinos they are rather delicate
nd hard to raise. They are first
cousins to the Malay kink-tailed cats
which eeem of a hardier race.
There is a hairless cat of Mexico,
descendant of a famous Aztec breed.
which is almost extinct, hut they are
strange enough in appearance to be
interesting if a trifle repulsive. The
common domestic cat of Paraguay
has a shiny coat,- indefinite in color,
of short hair lying flat to the body.
luce that of a dog. The cats weigh
but three pounds and have a strange
ly elongated body.
India boasts a spotted cat of un
usual appearance. Domestic cats of
Abyssinia have long, pointed, very
hairy ears, one special variety being
called the "bunny" cat because it is
marked ( exactly like a hare. Cats
have been known in India for over
2000 years, though the domestication
of cats from wild ancestors originated
in Egypt, where they were wor
sniped as emblems of the sun be
cause "their eyes change with the
sun's course, and also each month
change with the moon." When a fa
vorite cat died in an Egyptian home
its owners always shaved their own
eyebrows by way of appropriate
mourning.
From Egypt the cat evidently en
tered Greece.' a fact proved beyond
doubt by a wonderful cat fresco
found in the ruins of Pompeii. Cat
killers in Wales. Switzerland and
Saxony were punished in old times,
the penalty in Wales being the pay
ment of enough wheat to cover the
body of the cat when It was held up
by the tail, its nose touching- the
round.
Amomr less civilized people cats
are highly respected for being self
supporting and always bringing home
their prey. In some localities they
are trained to catch birds, the sale of
wh'cU Is a source of Income to the
owner of the cat. '
White cats with blue eyes are very
apt to be deaf and in eome cases the
eyes are not both the same color. It
In taid that n Chin there is a cat
with pendant ars and in Soutn Amer
ica a breed that is voiceless, unable
ta wail; but tt is difficult to :ind
authentic proof as to the existence of
either variety.
Most peculiar in appearance is the
Mornbas cat of Africa. This animal
has short, stiff, brush-like hair and
orange-colored eyes and is highly
prized by the natives. The seven-toed
Maltese cats with blue eyes are con
sidered the finest of that breed. There
are three shades of the tortoise shell
cats; the species having black and
nut-brown coloring, with green eyes.
is held to be the most rare. The
orange Persian cat is considered the
most beautiful, though the black.
white and blue phases of the breed
are oftenest exhibited. The Angora
has the finest har of long-haired cats
and is a beautiful beast, though the
Persian seems more popular. The coon
cat of Maine has fine hair, almost as
long as that of an Angora; it is only
one generation removed from its wild
ancestors, and though cTomesticated, it
is in no sense a lap tabby. It is very
Intelligent and can be taught tricks
and to follow its master like a dog.
The ordinary lifs of a cat ranges
from IS to 16 years, during eight of
which years the female is a breeder,
averaging four litters a year. It is an
untruth to believe that to be a good
mouser a cat must be hungry. A well
fed cat will do twice the service -In
this line, as mousing is the animal's
sport and not the satisfaction of
hunger.
and is still living to spend his own
money. Moral Hunches are far from
being infallible. i
Hunches Far From Infallible.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Cox has a hunch that he will occu
py the White House. There was once
a man who had a huncir that his old,
wealthy, bachelor uncle would soon
die. Instead the old fellow married
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