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FRIDAY, JULY 1. 1927 THF. REAVERTON REVIEW same log. each holding on for dear life and all past enmities entirely for gotten. “The vast flocks o f ducks to whom Ihe marshland* of Louisiana were picnic ground« are safe hut not their young. As our boat sailed through the flood lone, I often noted broods of H s r * Is a a s w fv a tu r * th at w ill hahy ducks The mother duck was p r o v id e p ro fita b le en te rta in m e n t as a rule swimming just ahead of them, sometimes pretending to have a fo e all o f o a r roa d o r«. la s a c k Muskrat casualties, Mr. Arthur be broket» wing In order to distract our Common Danger Causes An Issaa * • w ill prin t a r sris* o f lieves, will be 'higher than other spe attention from her little family. On imal Enemies to Frates tw e n ty q u e s tio n » c o v a r ia g ru ck cie« of wild life In the state, with the top of one floating hen house. Hie t a k ja c t * a* k ir lo r y , r cia a c a , go- nize During Escape. possible exception of the rabbit. sight that met our eye* was two big O g rap k y, lite r a tu r e , a rith m e tic , “ I have Just returned.“ he said, rahMts and a half doten full grown Now Orleans.—Side by side with “from an Inspection of the muskrat rats. They were brothers in distress, r e lig io n , s p o r t», e c o n o a iic * , fa - the rush to safety from the flooded territory In the pari shoe o f St. Ber and It seemed they knew IL B a a s s a y in g s , a a ta r a l k isto ry area o f hundreds of thousands of hu nard and Plaquemlne. From these and o t k e r tk ia g s. la tkis issaa Not So Friendly. man beings there Is being enacted In marshes came a majority of the musk w e sta rt tka »arias w itk ih e first “On some of the muskrat rafts not the Lower Mississippi valley another rat pelts which meant more than tw e n ty q u e stio n ». O a r n ea t issaa and perhaps more desperate struggle 000,000 annually to Louisiana trap only rabbits but also mink and some w ill s a r v y tka a n sw er to ik e s e for life. State and federal govern pers. I found thnt at least AO per times snakes found a refuge. Here I am afraid the fTatemtty spirit did mente ind relief organisations are co rent o f these valuable little rrea q u e s tio n » an d a a o tk e r s o l ml not last, for minks are noted for their operating In efforts to care for the turee have perished. t w a a t y , an d so o a o v e r a p e rio d people whose homes on farms and In “ With J. G Durham, one o f our love o f muskrat chop* and the snake ml s e v e r a l aseatks. T r y t e a a s e r e r settlements are under water. Rut the special deputy wardens, 1 covered I* quite fond o f mhbit tuoaL aa you ik e s e q u e s tio n s as tk ey a p p e a r perhaps know. wild animals and birds of that part much of the muskrat country south of la e e c k issaa. T o d o so, ta “ 1 have not been tn the northeast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi, New Orleans—a country which Is to sea rch f o r ik e an sw ers that y e a ern »one yet. but when we do get which Includes the greatest game pre day little more than a great lake. d o a a t k n e w , will o d d m a te ria lly serve In the country, for the most pert “ In our tour days' Inspection of the there 1 am quite certain we will And to y e a r s t o r e o f v a lu a b le in fe r - hsve had to shift for themselves, says muskrat area Mr. Durham and I saw that the same fraternity In the face Tli* lit*11 h iiL’it iiioiUfplMU* i'oluuibl* twin« towetl from in* I imiikni l*» lb»* runway for III* hop«»IT for Kuro(»* l'Ilo! the New York Times. m allow . T h is sa w , “ W h a t 's tka thousands o f muskrats In the flood- o f the flood peril existed on the hills Cl«mnee D. Chambwrtln *m1 C t*rt«« A. Levine, ht« wealthy hack«r. mini* th« flight toO«rm«ny. lendine Ami «t KUlHwa. Common danger has drawn togeth waters. Everything that floated—a and other elevations, where we be A a s w s r " d e p a rtm e n t it s a e d u er holders and the hunted. Mutually log, a piece o f plank, anything that lieve the deer, hear, wolves, cougars c a tio n a l few t a r e o f u a u sa a l v alu e. hostile species have been observed was buoyant—was carrying Its load and foxes assembled and sought safe C a t o a t tk a q a e s tio a s , k eep them ty along with the wildcats, turkeys floating downstream together on the of refugee rats. On the roofs of antU th e a n sw ers a p p e a r la the same logs and rafts. The shiest of buildings, on the limbs of trees that and the raccoons and opossums. “ It Is a pitiable sight to watch th* n ea t Issaa a a d then see h e w n ea r anímala the Louisiana muskrat, haa still were above water were other c o r r e c t y e a r ow n an sw er* have looked to man for help. refugees, and sometimes they were antics of some o f the rats trying to save themselves. We frequently And k een . F o llo w it fr o m issa a ta The Louisiana muskrat supplies 53 sharing their haven with raccoons and the mice, aa the baby muskrats are per cent of the fur used by the gar rabbits, and, now and then, even Issaa a a d yaw w ill find it fa s- called, clinging to the tips o f cattails ment trade of the Tnlted States. Add snakes. *1 anting. protruding from the water. Often “ It ia quite poesible that some of to this “pillar of the fur trade* the four or live mice will he cllngtng to a otter, the mink, the heaver, the rac the muskrats migrated to the lowlands Questions— No. f hunch of cattails, a-hlle the mother coon and even the humble ‘possum of the Bayou Biloxi marshlands, but muskrat frantically swims around tn 1—Who discovered the Pacific oe*an? that have Louisiana habitats. The re they were a very small proportion of the water, occasionally diving down I— What la ths oldest town tn ths the vast number to whom the low sult Is that. In quantity production, and bringing up shreds of grass for United States and when was It settled? lands of S t Bernard and Plaquemlne the fur crop of Louisiana la almost her young. Sometimes the mother twice that of Canada, nearly fifteen was home. The great majority o f the 9— What Is the ares of ths earth'« will turn over on her back next to the times that of Alaska and greater by survivors are still dinging tc the surface? cattails, so that her young can feed rafts, the logs and whatever else there hundreds of thousands of pelts than 4— What Is the tverag* person’s from her breast. la that floats on the flood waters thnt that of any other section o f the coun “ And so the battle gones on. We range o f visibility? crashed down upon the trapping try. 6—IIow many times has St. Louis are busy every minute aud we expect grounds through the man-made cre Extermination o f this trade would to have enough rats to restore, the woo th# Natloual league pennant? vasse south of New Orleans. be a terrific economic lose for thou muskrat fur Industry to Its pre 6— What Is the meaning o f the Ren sands of Louisiana trappers. There Lost Shyness. flood prestige In due course o f time." aissance as applied to nrt? are signs, however, that when the 'When the dynamite charges that Above the desolation o f the waters 7— What land Is remarkable In that floods subside the wild tlfe o f Louisi cracked the Caernarvon levee were hover great numbers o f vultures, said ana will by no means be extinct set off there was do animal, hlg or Mr. Arthur. These unpleasant birds, It has practically no drainage to the This Is the view of Stanley C. Ar little, more shy than the muskrat sea? however, appear to have been balked thur, director of the division of wild 8— What Is the oldest Greek letter But with the flood It seems the cus In their efforts to prey on the smaller life of the Louisiana State Conserva tomary fear of mankind largely animals and birds. An “aerial pa college fraternity? tion commission, and few are able to disappeared. As Dunham and I pad- trol“ Is functioning and holding the » — Who said. “ 1 regret that I have discuss the birds and animals o f the died our canoe through the flood wa but one life to give to my country"? vultures In check. state more Intelligently or sympa ters o f S t Bernard and Plaquemlne 10— What Industry Is considered the Fight tbs Vultures. thetically than he. some o f the rats— the big strong ones, “ Kingbirds and blackbirds," Mr. Ar barometer for general trade tn the Sportsmen’s Paradise. who still had a lot of pep and dash United States? “ As all sportsmen know," he said, left In them— would dive and swim thur explained, “and other birds na tive to the country flutter above the II — What Is myopia? “ the lowlands and the virgin swamps away. Others, however, weakened by Early congressional sci Ion for the mutrol of floods In llie Mississippi valley Is vsim - cim I to result from the great 12— How old Is the earth? of Louisiana teemed before tne flood the long struggle for Ufe lu the wa mangrove trees, where once were flood conference In Chicago which was attended by thousands of prominent men In all walks of U fo This their nests, but now covered with with deer, bear, wild turkey, quail, ter, headed straight for our boat photograph shoes the conference In session In ths Hotel Bhenuan. 13— When was negro slavery Intro- water. These angry kingbirds are marsh hens, foxes, muskrats, beaver, They would climb up ou the paddles, duced Into the United States? proving terrible adversaries to the opossum, mink, raccoons, squirrels, cling to the side o f the canoe, and 14— When was Tale college founded? When the latter venture W INS FIVE PRIZES otters, weasels, and, to a lesser ex wait for us to take them lu our hands vultures. 15— Who was the first man to drive too clone the "aerial patrols" fly at tent such predatory animals as the and drop them In the bottom of the an automobile more than a mile In s them and peck at their eyes, and f»l cougar, the wildcat and the wolf. In canoe. minute? ways the vulture takea to flight.“ the Jungles of the northeastern par “Once safe on board the muskrat “ What o f the otter, the beaver and 1«— W?iat American actor has won ishes on the right bank of the Mis began to make his toilet When his the alligator?” Mr. Arthur was asked. distinction as trageil'.nn and come sissippi the late Theodore Roosevelt toilet was complete, the little fellow "They can all swim," was the reply dian ; as an Interpreter o f Shake used to hunt bear and turkey, and I would lie back and snooze away for “ And the squirrels, the raccoons and speare and o f the modern drama, and might mention other hunters whose an hour or more. Later on. when we Is equally proficient on the stage and names are household words In the sighted a raft, we would set him the opossums?" "They can all climb and their home tn moving pictures? wopld o f genuine sport adrift and off he went to board the Is the tops of trees," he answered. 17— Which o f the continents has the “When the flood crests swept down craft the trappers have launched “ It's a great problem, this wild Uf* most regular coast line? on our state few thought, naturally, throughout the flood tone as a haven of Louisiana," concluded Mr. Arthur, o f our wild creatures. Hundreds of for him In his hour of distress. All 18— Who was the first lyric poet ol thousands of our people had to be this may sound a bit fantastic, but It "and we have got to solve IL and the France? first thing after the waters recede saved. That was the first duty; wild so happens it Is the truth. 10— Who sa id : “ D—a the torpedoes I will be the strifit enforcement o f the life had to await Its turn. Now that “These rafts ere proving a partial laws for the protection o f game life Go ahead!“ ? the desolation Is about complete we solution o f the problem created by the 20— What Is America’s greatest un can begin to take stock as to what flood. If we save SO per cent of the and the fur-bearing animals of the "has happened to the wild Inhabitants animals the raft will have to be cred state. This will probably prove to be developed resource? o f our Jungles and marshes. I am ited with a very large part In the the darkest year in our history, but hopeful that a very large proportion achievement Of course, we are go we will emerge from the gloom of ll A ccidents That H ave all In due course. Louisiana will as o f them have survived, and I’ll tell ing to lose practically all the baby Made Big Industrie» same her place at the head of the you why. and the very young rats, but we are A piece o f cheese tossed by one “I am sure that we will And most of going to save a lot o f the old fellows game and fur-producing states of the the Louisiana deer alive when the and their mates. On many o f these Union. Just now we are busy trying workman at another during the to save as much of It as we can luncheon hour missed Its mark and floods have passed. Large numbers of rafts the nest-making activities of them are safe on the red hills of many of the females indicate that It Come back four or five months from dropped Into the plating bath used In the production of copper disks from Mississippi, and the very fact that so won't be long before there will be a now and I will tell you bow." which wax phon--graph records were many of them are In that state now lot o f baby rats on board. stamped. Later the disks from that Looks Like Knock gives ns ample reason to hope that "Nevertheless, the fraternization of most of the other deer are still aliTe Princeton, N. J.— Next to Smith and hath were found to be fnr superior to wild life In moments o f grave peril Is on high land In the flood zones. always a wonderful thing. in my Tassar Harvard Is the favorite “ worn the others, and an Investigation re “I also believe that we will find tours of the St. Bernard and Plaque- an’« college” of some seniors at Prince vealed that the casein In the cheese most of the bears alive. But they mine desolations I have seen snakes, ton. <>f 470 members o f the class 32 had done the trick. This disclosed a Midshipman Ferol Davis Ovcrfi possible Improvement worth thousands are not In Mississippi. Some of the raccoons, mink and rats all on the so voted. o f New Mi-ilen, a metnlier o f the N of dollars to the manufacturer. Tele cubs probably were drowned, but I vnl nendemy graduating class, w phone engineers discovered that an think that the older ones had more has act a new record hy taking fl alloy of nickel and Iron, when pro than an even chance. We all know out of twelve prise*. They are t duced In the form of a narrow ribbon that the bear Is no fool—he is one of Thotn|Moti price, it navigating sextan and wound around the copper core of our wisest animals—and It Is more class of 1M17 sword; (he Gardner a submarine cable, would Increase the than likely when the flood waters I’nskey memorial prize, a gold wale speed of the cable all times. The only hare gone that we will find Brother class of Iirj4 gold wntcli; military <1 trouble was that no one seemed nble Bear peacefully treading his way | der of Foreign War's prise, a wrl to And a flux thnt would weld the ends back to bis old haunts In the Singer I wntcli, and the cotnmemlnlnry letter o f the ribbon Info a solid piece. One reserve and the other Jungles In the I day a workman Jokingly sold; “ Let's northeastern parishes and In the ! basin of the Atchafalaya. Moreover, j try sa lt" Picking op the shaker from “ G OOD-BY” the toother hears are such wonderful his luncheon pall, he started to mothers that I am hopeful that a lot ¡ sprinkle the salt over the flux, when o f little fellows will be saved, too; If | tfee cover fell off the shaker and the Betsy Rosa flrat conceived the design of the American flag In this house, the cubs can be saved, trust the moth ■alt poured over the weld. This start er bears to do It.” ed a chemical action that united the her home In Philadelphia. The birthplace of Old Glory attracts many visitors, Big Game Safe. edges, and the problem was solved. A especially on Flag day, June 14. Mr. Arthur ia sure that foxes, like scientist In France, while ex;>erlinent- the bear and deer, are above water Ittg Id his laboratory. Inadvertently somewhere. As for (he cougars, opened the wrong valve. Before he wolves, wildcats and other predatory could rectify hla mastake several drops animals, few tears would be shed over of moisture settled In a glass tube that vhelr loss. There appears to be a good was part o f the apparatus. Ills ela chance, however, that a very consid Here Is the "Noah's Ark," as It Is called by Its owners, h . uetersou aud tion knew no hounds, for here at Inst erable proportion of them have suc- G. Wood, both of Sausollto, Calif. It has a tag from every state tn the Was the end of the long search for cessiully evaded the deluge and that Union, aa well as lots of funny quips marked on It. The owners are World liquid oxygen. Again bo accident cre In the course of time they will he ns war vets, gassed In the Argonne. Told they had not long to live, they decided ated an Industry and gnve us an explo numerous ns ever In the Jungle fast to see the world. Bo far they have been up and down the roast and sive far safer and mightier than dyna nesses of the game section of across the United States live times, and their health has Improved so that mite.—Floyd W. Parsons in the Satur Louisiana. they no longer reel the III effects of the Argonne gas. day Evening I’oat. Wild Life Rides River Torrents What’s the f Answer___ < Bellanca Monoplane About to Hop Off Planning for Control of Mississippi Roods Birthplace of Old Glory “Noah’s Ark” of Gassed Veterans Plane to Hunt for Lost Rvers “ HUMAN CLOCK” BAFFLES BRITISH MEDICAL SOCIETY Bill Jenney, Clock Winder, Develop« Uncanny Ability to Tell Time at Any Hour. London.—Just how far a human be- tnr ran be transformed Into a living dork has been demonstrated In I-on- don by member* of the British Medl eat and Psychical assorlatlon. Their flndtntr* have caused widespread In terest In medlral and lay circles In Er eland. For the last 32 years Bill Jenney, a slxty-two-year-old efockmaker, has been winding and tending the 1 ,<KVI clocks o f the Savoy hotel. London— the winding alone of which has occu pied him four days of every week, llany years ago Jenney claimed that •t any hour of the day or night he could tell the time within half a mlu- nte. He claimed ,t |n •even time* out of ten he 'imute the time correctly crouds. Recently Bill Jenney was put to ex haustlngly thorough tests by members o f the British Medical and Psychical association. They did everything In their power to dislodge what they called Jenney’* “ acute psycho-astral poise." It Is stated that about one person In 500,000 is generally found to have p ecu liar faculties for gauging the pas sage of time, which means, of course, the changing Juxtaimsltlnn of the sun and the earth, and Jenney's faculties have been highly developed owing to I Is vocation. Jenney haa found that, like a clock, hla ability deiwnda large ly on his health. Borne days he might he a minute fast; at other times It would be the reverse. Their tests to try to mskr him ob livious to time Included attendance at one of the most dramatic playa In I/union, enjoyment o f on exquisite iiieul—and they also tested to see If Jenney's time-guessing faculties were affected by alcohol. The greatest d! vergence he made was one- o f only- three quarters of a minute. t-—- 1 -r London Dietitians Plan Perfect “ Square Meal” 1/union.—“The perfect square rueiil” was on display here at th# Nursing and Midwifery exhibi tion, Central hall, Westmlqster, sod attracted such crowd* that queues formed to get a glimpse of IL All three vlUm lnes— A, R and 0—are Included In the perfect menu, which Included cold chick en and egg sauce, new potatoes, salad, corn-flower mold, fruit salad with cream, whole-wheat bread and butter and lemonaue. By adding or subtracting vlta- mlnea the “ perfect square" may De made Just the thing to alter fat or thin persona. _ . -- ■ “.■■ft., P r o p h e c y F ulfilled There are several lakes or streams In different parts o f the woyld with which are connected strange stories. One Is Lake Ubrlsale, four miles from Ermclo, In the eastern Transvaal, When the Dutch emigrants from ths Cape Qrst settled In the Transvaal an old Kaffi/ medicine man predicted that some day the lake would become dry, and then the Iloers would lose their In dependence. This prophecy was ful filled when the Boers were subju gated by the British. A cto rless A g e E x p e cte d Frico Prampollnl, an Italian futur- lat. says th* time will come when thero will he no actors In the thea ter. The future theater, he says, will present ’’abstract forces’’ and each pro duction will lie a "mechanical rite of the eternal transcendence of matter.” Instead of a story enacted hy human I beings It will he an arrangement of ' architectural and scenic forces, with time aid space the chief “ dynamic ele ments.” —Rome correspondence of th# i Detroit Ftee Press. Mrs. Charles A I.evine wife "t fliirenre I). Chamberlin’* companion in flight from New York to Flslehen, The pluue "Jean de Arc," us she rested In the water at Little Ferry, N. J . lermnny, saying good hy to Chamber taking off on a hunt for the missing French airmen, Nungesaer and (.'oil. The lin before the ho|Miff. She did not then know her huslmnd was going. plane Is piloted by F. Sidney Cotton and Cy Caul dwell. FROM FAR AND NEAR T?t« Apache Indians are the only tribe known tn have used a atrtngod musical Instrument. Hmooth-bark trees seem to he lees often struck hy lightning than those with furrowed hark. A nes* beacon light, which la de scribed a* visible through mist and rlouda and la easily dt'tlngnlahablc from street lamps. Is now In wide use (n Germans. Oil from thn liver of the puffer flsh la reported to he fifteen times as po tent against rickets as cod-liver oil. A method o f sheathing radium to prevent the rnys from cow ing hunts has been developed hy Miue. Marla Curie. E. J. Thompeon o f Antrim, N. IL, haa heon using the same automobile for 24 yeore and experts to keep on using It. Chooses Oum Reward A Dutch gypsy whose wife found 0 $20,mu) string of pearls In a residen tial street of Amsterdam recently, re turned It to an Insurance company and was asked to uaiar hla own re ward. He chose n horse, a new wag on, and a new srlsaor-grlndlng nmchlnev Acid Test in Court “ With all my worldly goods I the« endow," gets Its acid teat In the (I? vorce court settlement*. -Boston ller aid.