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
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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.
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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.