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"Old lilll," who has been culled ilio richest horse In tli world, retired from
un net! vc llf hiiiiiu Unit) tigo and now graze on a Jive-acre picture In Youngs
town, ()., tlmt Ik worth S'joo.titio, fronting on some of the most expensive busi
ness property. Tlie owner, Miss Ilaiinuh Kyle, say tlmt "Old It! II Inn boon
fultliful for twenty-nix year und nobody can buy tlmt property until be U
finished with It.
Large Increase in
Waterfowl in U S.
Maps Show Breeding and
Wintering Grounds.
Wushlngtun The United State bu
reuii of bloloKlnil survey bus prcpuriHl
a series of maps showing the breeding
und wintering ranges of six species of
wuterfowl moHt iKipulur with gunner.
Them) limps uIho show certain area
which tiro classed iim both breeding
iiiul wintering territory. The imillurd
pi'rhnpM exceeds nil other birds In pop
ulurlly with the bulk of the gunners
of the country. It Id the opinion of
most (link shooters that In number
the mallard exceed alt other species,
mid during heavy mallard migration
It would His-ni that there were more
milliards than till the rent of the duck
put together. Tho American (lume
I'roiectlve iiHHoclutlnn points out In a
recent bulletin tlmt thl 1 not true, n
anyone who bu Been a heavy plutull
or blue-bill flight will tumify. The bul
letin nays:
' "Tlie wintering urea of the Cunuda
goose Is even less In proportion to It
breeding urea tliuu Unit of tho mal
lard, but we doubt If the strain on the
wintering ground I nearly us severe,
because In numbers thl goose can In
no way be compared with the milliard.
It must also be borne In mind Unit the
Cuniuln goose will not rest where It Is
frequently disturbed by man. Since
the puNsugo of the law stopping
spring shooting, milliards and other
duck have shown conclusively that If
let alone tbey will again occupy much
of (lie ureu which was their breeding
grunge In former days. The Gulf coast
states, tlie const section of Georgia
und tho Carolina and the Pacific
coast country of California, Washing
ton und Oregon compose the, wintering
section of the pintails of our country,
niuny of these preferring to go Into
Mexico, Cuba und Central America.
Migration Puzzled Hunters.
"The migrations of these ducks have
puzzled gunners since tlmo Immemo
rial. In the late winter und curly
spring literally millions of these birds
go up the Mississippi and Missouri val
leys from their winter home to their
breeding ground.
"The only mnp of this series In
which the wintering area equals that
of tlie breeding territory Is In tlie ense
of the blue-wing teal, which not only
spreads out over Mexico mid Central
America but goes on Into South Amer
ica. "Many men prefer the- canvasbock
to nny other duck us a shooting prop
osition, and perhups It I the con
sensus of opinion that as a table bird
he ranks at the head of the list. How
many men who have enjoyed shooting
tliese birds along the Virginia 'and
Carol ina coasts liave realized that
their favorite game bird comes from
the Northwest and that their sport de
pends upon the care that Is taken of
this bird not only on Its breeding
grounds but during Us migration
across tho country? The canvasbnek,
Instead of making n north and south
migration, travels from the northwest
to the southeast and back ngnln.
"Some time ngo we solicited the
support of an Influential man In the
Interests of the public shooting ground
game refuge bill, and were told by
him that he was not Interested In the
conservation of wild fowl anywhere
except on his Southern preserve. He
stated tlint he shot principally canvas
back and that he had good shooting,
and that he enjoyed good sport be
cause out of his own pocket he em
ployed wardens to pntrol his property
and keep nil gunners off; that he. had
spent enormous sums In providing
food for the birds and that It was be
cause of these facts and not through
nny conservation work which might be
done anywhere that he had waterfowl
to shoot on his Southern estate.
Federal Law Necessary.
"We would like this gentleman to
study the canvasbnek map carefully.
All he does at his Southern shooting
reserve Is to congregate the birds In
Rich Pasture
that vicinity. Iet unrestricted slaugh
ter go on In the Northwest during the
breeding season, and thl man's shoot
ing will suffer, no mutter how many
thouHunds of dollars be spends In sup
plying duck food for the birds und
guards to protect blm agnlnot tres
pass. "Tho passage of a federal law to
protect migratory gumo birds was nec
essary because no state could protect
any 8iecles of bird that sojourned
within It border for only a short
tlmo. For obvious reason the differ
ent states dlil not co-operate with each
other, mid It la believed that hud not
a federal law been enucted many spe
cies of migratory game bird would be
extinct today.
"Since the federal government has
been given Jurisdiction over these
bird they have Increased wonderful
ly, ltut In order that seasons, bag lim
its and other regulations may be mnde
Judiciously and the birds given effec
tive protection, the federal govern
ment must learn all possible ng to
their Journeying bnck and forth
across the country. The banding of
migratory waterfowl has already done
City in Ecuador
Razed by Quake
Was Accessible Only by
Mule Trail.
Washington, D. C "Tulenn, Ecua
doreun city reported wiped out by an
earthquake, lies in u region where the
only rift In nature's lute seems to be
seismic disturbances," Buys a bulletin
from the Washington, V. C, headquar
ters of the Nutlouul Geographic so
ciety. "Tulcun hnd about 5,000 people. It
lay 100 miles northeust of Quito, near
the Colombian border, and wus accessi
ble only by a mule trull.
"One writer says tlie climate Is so
heulthful that "hens luy so persistently
that medicine bus to be given them to
save their lives.'
Water, Rail and Bridie-Path.
"The mule ride Is the lust stretch
of a waterway, rull, und brldle-path
route which tnkes the visitor up South
America's principal Pueltlc river, the
Gunyus, to Guayaquil, Ecuador's prln
clpul port, and thence to the country's
capltul, Quito, after two days' railroad
travel. -
"Quito Is only 28(1 miles from Guaya
quil, but the trains do not travel by
night. That Is the visitor's good for
tune, for the route discloses the rugged
beauty of the Andes and traverses re
gions which produce stuples of Amerl
cun retail trade l'unnma hats, quinine
und cocoa.
"Though hidden far from the busy
world, Tulcnn was a thriving com
munity, to which American exporters'
representatives In Guayaquil bent
agents, and Its own people frequently
Joined the colorful crowds on the
streets of Quito, a capital ubove the
clouds.
Quito Cultured Capital,
"Quito resembles our own capital
In that It Is more residential and gov
ernmental than a business city. Ladles
In smart motor cars shop at stores
displaying the latest Importations from
New York, London and Paris. Ameri
can Indians frequently come to Wash
ington; but the Eucndorean Indians
are far more plentiful In Quito's
streets. 'They stroll about In orange
ponchos, stillor-llke cotton trousers,
and broad-brimmed hats. Their native
villages usually can be distinguished
by the shape of their ponchos, the cut
of their hair, or a turn of their head
dress. "There is no daylight saving prob
lem In Quito. Day and night are 12
j
! Unhappily Married
Men s Club Formed
J'nrl. The little town of Mr
tnlny, nenr St. Kllcnne, has the
distinction of being the lirst com
munity to organize un "Unhap
py Married Men's dim."
The population of Firtnlny lit
tho last census was l!l..'no. but
when notice were posted In pub
lic places calling upon "every un
happily married man In town" to
be present lit a given place and a
given date "In order to organize
a club, nominate ofllcer and ar
range a banquet," nearly IMO
J men, ranging In age from twen-
ty-llve to seventy-five, responded
T Tlie humorists of I'arls liver
thut should a similar summons
j be made here the huge Velo-
drome would be too small to ac
J commodate the crowd.
much to trace the courses our duck
take when traveling In search of food
or suitable climate. Koch year thut
number of duck are bunded more
will be added to the knowledge of
man, and more adequate will be the
protection be can offer hi feathered
friends,
"Tho work the United States bureau
of biological survey Is doing In Inves
tigating the habit of the migratory
birds Is of Inestimable value to the
gunners of the country; In order thnt
the conservation work can be carried
on In an Intelligent manner."
Gamekeeper Kills Old
Wolf Who Stole Lunch
Lenox. Muss. Richard M. Davis,
gamekeeper at the New Marlboro
Gome association preserves In south
ern Iterkshlre, recently shot a gray
timber wolf which had killed his
largest goose for a dinner. Two dead
mallard ducks were close by.
Mr. Davis estimates that the wolf
was forty yeur old, a Its teeth were
worn down smooth with tlie Jaws. The
fur Is In good condition. The wolf
put up a stiff fight before muklng a
final leap to escape over a nine-foot
fence.
Thl Is the first wolf killed In the
nerkshlres since 1002. It Is believed
to be one of a pair thut Cortlandt Field
Bishop saw In Sheffield last FtDruury
and which later was seen by Ike Beck
on Mount Washington.
Increase Army Outlay
Heme. In the Swiss budget for
1924, which shows 250,000,000 francs
receipts against 294,000,000 francs ex
penditure, military appropriations
amount to 81,000,000 francs, being 4,
000,000 francs in excess of 1923. Tlie
greater pnrt of this sum Is for the In
struction of a number of recruits
greatly In excess of the quota of pre
vious years.
hours the year round. The cllmnte Is
Just as equable It Is always early
spring In Quito but there Is a 10-de-gree
difference between the sunny
plnces of the direct equatorial rays,
and the shade.
"Four hours toward the mountains
will land one In a region of perpetual
frost ; In hnlf a day one can descend to
the deep nnd sultry valleys between
the mighty chains of the Andes.
Where Chocolate Comes From.
"One Ecundorean chocolute planta
tion produces 25,000 pounds of cocoa
yearly for American and European
confection makers. The cocoa beans
are spread,' for drying, over acres of
bamboo mattings. Workmen scuflle
through them with bare feet occasion
ally to make sure they dry. When the
pods are first opened the beans and
pulp ore creamy white; they grow
brown after exposure to olr.
"Quito, from the slopes of the hills
which surround It, presents n picture of
dazzling white, relieved by the red
roofs of Its wooden houses.
"Although wood Is Its only available
building material, Guayaquil's public
buildings, churches nnd theater lire
noted for their architectural beauty.
And because Its buildings are wood It
maintains what Is reputed to be the
largest fire department of any city of
Its size In the world. In times past it
suffered from disastrous fires.
Make "Panama Hats."
"Sixty miles up-river, Guayaquil Is
the country's great distributing cen
ter. It has one manufacturing indus
try of great Importance to the United
States that of Panama hat making. It
exports more than a million dollars'
worth of headgenr annually. The raw
material comes from smaller' Inland
cities; the finished product gets its
name from the canal through which H
It shipped to this country.
"One ' other prospect of northern
Ecuador which is not so pleasing Is the
snow-clad, ever active, volcanic Coto
paxl, with Its ill-omened smoke halo.
The crater is near Latacunga, where
the legend- survives thnt the great
earthquake of 1098 was foretold by a
priest. The Carmelite nuns of Lnta
conga, so the story goes, held to their
faith In the prophecy for seven years
during which they slept In tents In
their gardens. Their faith was re
warded when the quake finally came,
for their convent fell, but the tent
dwellers escaped."
Secretary ancT Senator Tie in Milking Contest
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Scene Dulry barn of the United States Soldiers' home, Washington. Event Milking match to a finish. Actors
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace left, and Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, right Time 9 minutes, 48 seconds.
Itesult Tie Each man milked exactly 4V4 Inches of milk In bis bucket. Iteferee General Tasker Bliss, superin
tendent of the home.
Will Use Rocket
to Explore Air
Professor, Who Proposed
Trip to Moon, Now Will
Test Atmosphere.
Cincinnati. Prof. B. II. Goddard of
Clark university, whose attempt to
build a rocket that would make a trip
to the moon at., acted wide attention
several years ago. Is still working on
plans for a high altitude rocket for
the purpose of making scientific rec
ords of air conditio,,., 50 miles above
the earth, he told physicists attend
ing the science conw.,tion here.
Both the weather oureau and the
Smithsonian Institution at Washington
are said to be Interes.ed in Professor
Uoddard's plan, which is now nearlng
completion, lie suld he had only one
more step to make before he could pre
pare a model for flight.
ProfoQuAp f!ii!il!ir-rt nrnnrAft tfl '
shoot a rocket into the air at least fifty
miles perhaps more. It will be
equipped with very delicate apparatus,
which will open and close automatical
ly when the rocket readies a certain
altitude. The closing of the apparatus
will lock Into a chamber a quuntlty of
tlie ulr at that height, and the rocket.
In falling to earth, will carry with It
the first sample of air man has ever
brought down from such a great
height In space.
May Find Frozen Nitrogen.
Professor Goddard will examine tills
specimen In his laboratory and ex
pects to be enabled to supply an an
swer for the first time in history as
to the constitution of the air at such
a distance.
According to Professor Goddard's
theory, frozen nitrogen may be found
nt a height of 50 miles from the earth.
That there Is something there which
Is not common at points close to the
earth Is believed to be evidenced by
the fact that the aurora borealls and
meteorites appear at this height.
In addition to the air trap, Profes
sor Goddard's rocket will carry Instru
ments fur measuring pressure, electri
cal effects and the radiation which
incurs ut such altitudes, and which Is
?ald to he much more powerful even
than X-rays. The rocket will also
curry a machine for taking the tem
perature at certain ultitudes and keep
ing a record of the changes.
The rocket will be fired from the
earth at a speed of six miles a second
or more. This speed, which Is six
times faster than the best speed ever
attained by a cannon ball, It Is esti
mated would enable the rocket to free
itself from the attraction of tlie earth
and keep on traveling for the desired
distance.
Professor Goddard Intends to propel
the rocket with liquid oxygen, which
gets energy from evaporation. The
rocket will be highly polished and
marked so that the experimenters can
keep It under observation long enough
to calculate Its range and course, nnd
to estimate Its landing place.
What science is doing to minimize
loss from earthquakes was told by Dr.
T. A. Jagger, Jr., who lived on the
crater of a volcano at Hawaii for
eight years and recently was sent to
Tokyo by the Department of Agricul
ture to study the causes and effects
of the Jnpnnese earthquake.
According to Doctor Jagger, much of
the terrible loss of life In Japan could
have been avoided had the proper pre
cautions ' against earthquakes been
taken. He showed photographic slides
of the damage done In Japanese cities,
Illustrating that most of the properly
built houses withstood the shock.
The care with which a building had
been put up, and not the material
with which it was constructed, was
chiefly responsible for its ability to
remain standing' during the disaster,
sold Doctor Jagger. '
Congested population Is one of the
big fnctors in causing heavy loss of
life in earthquakes, ha said. The 11
great disasters of this sort In the last
21 years , have been progressively
more serious because of greater popu
lation in the affected areas.
Doctor Jagger, who is In the gov
ernment service, urged that more geo
logical observatories be established In
various parts of the United States to
prepare for earthquake disasters. He
said that New York, Philadelphia,
Washington and other cities on the At
lantic seaboard were not Immune from
earthquakes by any means. He point
ed out that New Tork had had earth
quakes In the Eighteenth century, and
it and other Eastern cities should be
warned by the precedent of Charles
ton. He said earthquakes might re
turn to the Pacific coast, and might
even shake cities In the Mississippi
valley.
Warn of Dense Population.
According to Doctor Jagger, condi
tions In America are especially bad
in case earthquakes should come, be
cause of the density of population in
certain big cities, and because we
have more volcanoes than any other
country.
Organized city planning was urged
by 'Doctor Jagger as the best -means
of preparing for the danger. He said
all onr cities should provide emergen
cy means for turning off electricity
and gas without delay, and for getting
Immediate police and fire aid, so that
; 100 fires could be fought at once,
The
streets should be wide, he suld, and
parks numerous, so they could be used
as places of refuge.
He advocated the continuance of ex
periments to perfect earthquake
proof buildings with special braces
and special foundations. He also sug
gested compulsory earthquake insur
ance and other measures.
Experiments with the mercury vapor
boiler recently tried out at Hartford,
Conn., have been very successful, ac
cording to Ernest L. Robinson of the
turbine department of the General
Electric company. He said this ex
perimental unit "appears to have borne
out all the things expected of the In
vention, both as to Increased efficiency
and as to cheaper power." There was
no question, he said, but that "theo
retically the mercury engine Is the
tiling."
Mr. Itoblnson said he was not pre
pared to Insist on the present utility of
the new engine until the experimental
one had been operated long enough
to test out the theories on which it
was built.
Ante-Columbian Chorus Girls.
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes of the bureau
of American ethnology at Washington,
In an Illustrated lecture on pottery
found in the MImbres valley In New
Mexico, declared that this region had
been inhabited by a highly civilized
race of Indians long before Columbus
Winnipeg Labor
i
This Is the Ukrainian Labor temple at Winnipeg, Manitoba, In which It la
claimed a Communist school is conducted and more than 250 pupils Instructed
dally in the principles advocated by Lenin and Trotzky. A Judge of the su
preme court of Ontario recently charged that the building is a menace to free
dom on the continent of North America and thnt from It bolshevistic doctrlna
is spread all over the United States and Canada. '
discovered America. According to
Doctor Fewkes' interpretation of the
designs on this pottery, pictures of
which he threw on a screen, various
American institutions of the present
day such as poker, dice and chorus
girls originated with the Indians of
the MImbres valley, or at least were
known to them before Columbus Im
ported European customs Into Amer
ica, Doctor Fewkes said the Indians
whose pottery he had found had lived
In complete Isolation In their part of
New Mexico, and that their mastery
of artistic design was remarkable in
an untutored race. Paintings on some
of the pottery showed figures of three
men, with bows stacked up like poker
chips, and with black and white
squares like dice In front of them.
According to Doctor Fewkes, the In
dians were gambling.
Other pieces of pottery showed what
looked like figures of chorus girls,
birds, grasshoppers, turkeys, dancing
figures, animals and fish and several
others had geometrical designs.
The prediction that designs like
those on the Indian pottery might soon -be
seen in the Fifth avenue shop win
dows was made by Doctor Fewkes. It
was thought the Indian designs might
rival those of Tut-Ankh-Amen.
"As soon as designers saw these re
markable patterns," Doctor Fewkes
said, "they became eager to reproduce
them for the decoration of fabrics, and
I believe that before long we will see
them In shop windows."
Has New Theory.
According to Doctor Fewkes, the
pottery showed that the Indians had
a theolojy as well as an art that an
ticipated modern life. Several of the
paintings on the pottery showed that
they believed In a Virgin birth, and
that this belief included a Virgin who
had born twins, which had become the
gods of war of this Indian tribe.
A new theory of the ultimate unit
of electricity has been put forward by
Prof. A. P. Mathews of the University
of Cincinnati. Scientists generally be
lieve that protons and electrons are
the primordial elements of the uni
verse, and that they are the positive
and negative charges of electricity, but
Professor Mathews says the etherlon
Is the ultimate unit of both electricity
and light
Professor Mathews pictures the
etherlon as a particle of matter before
it becomes an electron, rejecting the
prevailing theory that light consists
of ether waves. He says that the
ether consists of etherions, minute
spheres that revolve at tremendous
speed with a velocity of 186,000 miles
a second, and that when an etherlon
gains energy of rotation It becomes a
proton, or positive electrical charge,
and that a neighboring etherlon, losing
the same energy, becomes an electron,
or negative charge. According to Pro
fessor Mathews, -light Is the basis ol
all matter, as the etherions are noth
ing but waves of light too small for
transmission, and moving around and
around in one placed
Temple Denounced