The Hermiston herald., October 06, 1921, Image 2

tieth milestone, and 51 men, within the
limits of old age, were received. There
were 500 of the total under twenty,
misguided, Ignorant, reckless, und their
crimes were nearly always more seri­
ous than those of men between forty
and fifty. In this latter group are
found the habitual drunkards, so that
they pad the total of their generation
to 554.
weapons, 74 fewer cases of larceny,
“Twenty to thirty Is the age of
and 30 fewer cases of grand larceny yielding to temptation,” the report
than last year.
concludes, adding: “It Is there the
"There were 58 persons sentenced ounce of prevention Is needed.”
for Joy-riding, a decrease of 34. There
were 49 committed for murder, a gain
of 10 over last year. There are four MEET AROUND ‘ROCK OF AGES*
men awaiting execution.
Pilgrims In England Honor Composer
Young Men Offenders
at Spot That Inspired
"It has been the accepted belief that
Great Hymn.
the boy brought safely through his
teens Into the full promise and estate
Burrlngton, Commbe, Somerset, Eng­
of young manhood has safely passed land.—The rock visualized by Augus­
the fields in which wild oats are tus Toplady, when he was Inspired
grown, and Is firmly embarked upon to compose the hymn, "Rock of Ages,”
the broad hlghwuy of rectitude and stands Just outside this village and a
right living.
great demonstration to perpetuate his
"Because the courts took such a do- memory was held there on the August
the view Is undoubtedly well founded. bank holiday. Toplady Is said to have
And yet 1.334 of this year’s Jail pop­ taken refuge on the rock from a severe
ulation were between the ages of storm which was sweeping over the
twenty and thirty; more than one- gorge on the edge of which the rock
third of all, at the exact time when stands, and, while waiting for It to
life should hold for them every In­ pass over he was led to compose the
ducement to be loyal to the precepts hymn.
of righteousness.
The great pilgrimage to the rock
"It has been so before—other reports was organized under the auspices of
disclose It—not the wild, carefree age the Church of England, but a Sulva-
of youth, but the nge that leaves a tlon Army band also took part. The
wife and child to hang their heads In 10,000 people present, some of whom
shame, In the squalor of privation, be­ were perched on Jutting rocks on the
cause of the misdeeds of a grown side of the gorge, took part In the
man.
singing of the hymn. It was also de­
“Then on to other years the arrow cided that a memorial to Toplady
points until It passes beyond the six­ should be placed on the rock.
Hair Tonic Jags
Fill This Jail
34 Per Cent Increase in Arrests
at Washington Due to “ Non-
Beverages.”
1,097 SENTENCED IN YEAR
Flavoring Extracts, Tonica, Parfumes,
Medicine Containing Alcohol and
Even Wood Alcohol Used as
Beverage.
Washington.—The use of hair tonic,
flavoring extracts, perfumes, medicines
containing alcohol, and even poisonous
wood alcohol, for beverage purposes,
had a good deal to do with the fact
that the number of Jail sentences dealt
out at the nation's capital for intoxi­
cation during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1921, showed an Increase of
84 per cent over the previous year, ac­
cording to the annual report of W. L.
Peak, superintendent of the District
jail, Just made public.
Superintendent Peak described the
increase us “an erratic fluctuation In
the process of extinction,” which local
observers declared not such a bad way
of putting it, after all. At any rate,
there were 1,097 sentenced to Jail for
drinking more than they could handle,
as compared with 841 who didn't get
home safely the year before.
Intoxication Increasing.
"From their low point following the
new luw the figures are ascending and
intoxication for the moment Is In­
creasing,” reads the superintendent’s
report
“The beverages are new, and most
of them are legitimate articles of com­
merce, but they are being used for pur­
poses never designed by the manufac­
turer. llalr tonic, flavoring extracts,
perfumes, medicines and the poisonous
wood ulcohol are all being consumed
by the old-time victims of u habit
which required an act of congress to
cure.
“The Increase Is due to the fact that
younger men have been able to evade
the luw und have found ineuns of traf­
ficking In saleable Imitations of old
beveruges having un ulcohollc con­
tent nearly double thut of the older
product
"The enforcement of the law Is ful­
ly In keeping with the public's view­
point, and the Increased violations are
probably only an erratic fluctuation In
the process of extinction.
"Because It Is so nearly universal,
termlned stand In the matter of frown­
ing upon certain forms of recklessness
and defiance of law, good results are
already Indicated.
There were 57
fewer cases of currying deadly
$443,313,000 in Gold
Brought in This Year
New York.—Gold to the value
of $443,313,000 has been brought
to the United States from for­
eign countries since the begin­
ning of the present year, while
exports of the metul for the
same period liuve amounted to
but $10,720,000, according to fig­
ures made public by the federal
reserve board. Of this amount
$325,330,000 was In foreign bul­
lion, $07,417,000 In foreign coins,
$25,845,000 In gold ore und base
bullion and $24,293,000 In United
States gold coin.
Importations of silver also
showed substantial
Increase.
During the first eight months of
this year silver vulued nt $1,270,-
000 has arrived here from Ger­
many.
Sense of Color
Guides Turtles
Scientific Experiments at Dry
Tortugas Elicit Many Facts
About Reptiles.
TOOK BLUE PAPER FOR SEA
Tropical Fauna Is Affected by Adja­
cent Flora—Brilllant-Hued Flamin­
go Fades Out When Removed
From Regular Habitat.
nesting place, as the name tortugas,
Spanish for tortoise, would Indicate.
The eggs are laid some distance
from the shore, and as soon as the
young are able to swim they make In
a straight line for the open sen. It
was at this age of the young turtles
that the experiments were conducted.
The scientists had with them sheets of
colored paper, red, yellow and blue.
When a sheet of red or yellow paper
was placed between the baby and his
view of the water he would Immedi­
ately turn and go In another direction.
But when the blue sheet was used, no
matter where placed, the infant would
make for It without hesitation. There
wasn’t any question about “blue for a
boy, pink for a girl.” All experiments
showed that, whether or not we have
picked blue as a dismal color, as far
as the turtle Is concerned, It Is the
bluebird for happiness.
Gets Color From Food.
The tests were made with the At­
lantic green turtle. It Is also believed
that he gets the color for which he Is
named from feeding on the seaweeds,
which are more brilliant In color. Re­
search along slmllnr lines has devel­
oped the theory that the beautiful
scarlet flamingo gets his coloring
from cerlons and the brilliantly htied
molluscs which abound along the
coasts of the southern Islnnds and
shoals. It Is strongly substantiated
by the fact that the European fla­
mingo Is almost white and that our
own species fades rapidly when put In
zoological collections where he can
no longer get these foods. In the
same process, the wonderfully colored
tropical fish lose their vividness wheD
placed in captivity.
Washington.—Representatives of the
department of murine biology in the
Carnegie Institute at Washington have
been engaged for some time in re­
search work In the Dry Tortugas, lit­
tle Islands near Key West, and have
discovered muny Interesting facts con­
cerning the glunt sen turtles which fre­
quent the Atlantic coast.
One discovery has been made by a
method which could be well
de­
scribed as “mocking the turtle,” for
by this method It hns been pretty
well established that the baby sea
turtle Is guided by a sense of color
alone In seeking the water us soon
as It Is old enough to leave the sandy
nesting place that Its purents have
chosen.
Heretofore It has been
thought that tho young were guided
by Instinct, sight or even perhaps by
a sense of smell.
In Breeding Time.
The marine turtles, green hawks-
blll, loggerhead, and the less known
leatherback, seek the land In their
breeding period.
The New York
aquarium kept a platform where
the specimens would spend shore
lenve for a long time before they
found out that they were not used. BLIND 11 YEARS, SEES AT 80
But when the time for the egg-laying
arrives, the great sea reptiles leave Former Kentucky Policeman Enjoyed
Ball Games While Sitting
the water, making for the uninhabited
In Darkness.
Islands and coasts where they de­
posit the eggs to be Incubated and
Maysville, Ky.—William B. Dawson,
hatched In the sun-kissed sands.
The Dry Tortugas are a favorite eighty years old, who after eleven
years of blindness has regnlned his
sight sufficiently to distinguish certuln
objects, has gone to Cincinnati, where
he will undergo an operation which. It
Is promised, will enable him to see
well.
Mr. Dawson retired from the Mays­
ville police force when he was stricken
after several years of service.
During his years of darkness his
chief diversion was attending base­
ball games. Though sitting In utter
darkness, he could tell when a hatter
hit the ball. In which direction It went
and whether It was a safe hit.
The first Indication that he would
see again came when he learned he
could distinguish light from dark­
ness. Later he was able to see the
windows In his room.
Jobless Veterans to Fight in Morocco
Stray Deer In Town Harbor,
Seattle, Wash.—A stray deer, quit­
ting his woody retreat on Mercer
Island In Lake Washington, here
swam almost Into the heart of the
city of Seattle recently. The crew
of a lake steamer sighted the fugitive
and gave chase. When the deer had
nearly reached the city dock, a lasso
thrown from the boat caught him.
He was turned over to the municipal
zoo here.
A group of men receiving $10 bill»—one Io each—aboard 8. S. Italia, Just
before It sailed from New York. These men are part of a large number who
hnve enlisted at the Spanish coi.sulnte In New Y’ork In the foreign legion of
the Spanish army for the duration of the war against the Insurgents in
Morocco. Among them are scores of American veterans who were out of
work.
Polaon, Mistaken for Wino, Kills Four.
Chicago. — Six men working In a
railroad freight house discovered a
paper carton labeled "Wine—34 per
cent.” It was part of a shipment of
colchlcum, a deadly poison. The men
drank three of the twelve bottle« In
the carton. Four of them died In
agony, and the other two are lighting
fur their II
France Welcomes Visiting Members of the Legion
The members of the American Legion on their arrival In France aboard the S. S. George Washington, were ac­
corded the greatest reception ever tendered a foreign visiting body. Naval, military and civil authorities turned
out to pay respects to the men who fought on the battle fields of France. The Legion Is In France to dedicate a
memorial to the American soldiers who fell on the French battlefields. The visitors are here seen marching
through Cherbourg.
Animal Pests
Worry Farmers
Sometimes Hard to Tell Which
Are Useful and Which
Are Nuisances.
MILLIONS FROM THEIR FURS
How Those Which Must Bo Exter­
minated May Be Trapped, Is Told
In Bulletin of Biological Sur­
vey—Rats and Mice Worst.
other trees. These animals are all
easy to trap, the main difficulty be­
ing that they frequently occur In great
numbers.
Habits of Mice.
"House mice have a habit of follow­
ing the walls of a room as they run
about, and a trap placed behind a
table leg or small object where mice
naturally run need not be baited.
House rats are sometimes wary and
difficult to catch In traps set In the
ordinary way. A small steel trap set
In a pan of bran or oats and care­
fully covered will usually catch the
shyest of rats. It Is well to scatter
small pieces of meat or bread over
the bran. Wild rats and mice may
be trapped readily at the entrance to
their burrows or In their runways,
the traps and the manner of setting
them being the same as employed
In catching house rats and mice.
Prairie dogs, ground squirrels and
woodchucks nre usually caught In
steel traps set at the entrance to their
burrows. Sometimes It Is not nec­
essary to cover the traps, but as a
rule It Is advisable to press them well
Into the enrth and cover them lightly
with grass or leaves or whatever may
be at hand.
"Porcupines may be caught by
means of an apple or carrot or a bit
of green corn placed In a crevice be­
hind a No. 2 or No. 3 uncovered steel
trap, as these nnlmals are quite un­
wary. They may also be caught In
traps set at the entrances of their
dens, which are often located In cliffs.
Cottontail rabbits are frequently de­
structive to young fruit trees and gar­
den truck. They may be caught In
box traps baited with sweet apple,
carrot or pumpkin. Where rabbits are
abundant, shelter traps are occupied
by them more or less regularly dur­
ing the day. A dog trained to hunt
rabbits will give warning when one
is Inside a trap. To prevent the quar­
ry’s escape a stick with a disk at the
end of It may be thrust Into the en­
trance, after which the top of the
trap may be opened and the animal
caught In the hand. The skins and
flesh of trapped rabbits are superior
to those of rabbits which have been
shot
The Pocket Gopher.
“In many of the western states the
rodent most destructive and most diffi­
cult to capture Is the pocket gopher,
which spends most of its life under­
ground. Owing to Its subterranean
habits It hns been found expedient to
devise special kinds of gopher traps.
In making Its burrows, the gopher
Washington.—Practically every farm
Is overrun at times by pests of one
kind or another. Farmers, therefore,
find It necessary to kill such pests In
order to prevent them . from Injuring
their property or crops. Some he de­
stroys by poison; others he eliminates
by employing traps.
“A knowledge of the traits and
habits of the animals,” says Ned Dear­
born In a bulletin of the bureau of
biological survey, “and of proved
methods of capturing them Is Impor­
tant If the farmer Is to combat them
successfully. Besides such out-and-out
pests as rats, mice and pocket
gophers, some other anlmols are oc­
casionally harmless, but, having valu­
able skins and being classed as fur
bearers, are given special considera­
tion.
“The lively demand for all kinds of
fur puts Into the pockets of American
trappers millions of dollars a year,
which, until the harvest, has not cost
them a single effort. Moreover, sev­
eral of the furry tenants of the farmer
not only are not pests but are useful
while alive. Foxes, for example, de­
stroy many rabbits and mice, both of
which, when abundant, are very de­
structive to fruit trees and crops.
Skunks are exceedingly beneficial, for
they feed almost entirely on mice,
grasshoppers, crickets, white grubs
and other farm pests. It Is only In
exceptional cases that either foxes or
skunks attack poultry; It Is fur better
to keep poultry In suitable lnclosures
or to kill the Individual animal which
Is doing damage than to adopt a policy
of general persecution toward the
tribes to which the few offenders be­
long.
Excellent Mousers.
“The food habits of other fur bear­
ers are usually of less Importance.
Weasels are excellent mousers; minks
feed on frogs, fish, mice and other small
animals, while raccoons and opos­
sums eat. In addition to a wide vari­
ety of harmful small animals, many
kinds of vegetable food of little or no
direct value to man. Muskrats and
beavers live on wild products of
HERE’S A QUEER HYBRID
marshes and woodlands, and only in
rare Instances are their burrows or
houses objectionable.
"In short, speaking generally, fur
animals transform uncultivated and
useless materials Into valuable peltries,
without expense or attention on our
part. They are doing this through­
out the country. When the com is In
the crib, and the landscape hns been
browned by front, farm lads take down |
their traps with happy expectation and
set out to gather unearned Incre­
ments of fur.
“The most destructive group of pests
on the farm Includes the small gnaw­
ing animals known as rodents. Among I
them are house rats and mice which
have been brought to this country from
the Old World, and several kinds of |
native rats, meadow mice, pine mice,
white-footed mice and pocket mice.
Ground squirrels of several kinds are
found throughout the western states
and In many localities are very de­
structive to forage and grain. Prairie
doga of the plains region, related to
This Is a "Rooster-Tom." and Is the
ground squirrels, also destroy a great
deal of forage In the vicinity of their property and pride of Dr. Thomas
•towns.’ Here and there woodchucks, Roea of Portland. Ore., who has about
The roos­
or groundlings, also related to ground forty queer hybrid f«wh
squirrels, are destructive to field and ter-tom's mother was a turkey and
garden crop«. In mountainous and his father a rooster. Ills call starts
timbered regions porcupines are more like a cock's crow and tapers off Into
or lea« deetrnctlve to orchard and a liquid gobble.
* Lightning Flash Picks
Setting Hen’s Bones
Winchester, Va.— A marvelous
freak of lightning was reported
by Mrs. Coleman Lyne of Jeffer­
son county, West Virginia, who
declared that after lightning had
struck a small pear tree near
her chicken yard she went out
to look after a hen whose eggs
were soon to hatch. She found
the lightning had run down the
fence a short distance to the
nest, and there was the skele­
ton of the hen In the exact posi­
tion In which she had set upon
the n est
The bones were as clean as
If they had been scraped, and
the meat and feathers lay near­
by not even scorched. None of
the eggs had been cracked, but
on close Inspection a small hole
was found In the end of each,
and the Inside of the shell
burned out as clean as a new
pin.
throws up on the surface of the
ground the dirt it excavates. The
trapper, opening a fresh mound, sets
a gopher trap well within it and covers
the opening behind the trap with a
piece of sod, or whatever may be at
hand.
“Besides the rodents, which consti­
tute the majority of farm and garden
pests, there are certain other crea­
tures which are sometimes obnoxious;
among these are stray cats, which too
often destroy useful birds. In many
localities one of the worst farm pests
Is the crow, which Is often destruc­
tive to grlan, eggs and young chick­
ens. Crows may be caught in steel
traps, carefully covered with soli and
baited with whatever they are de­
stroying—eggshells, for example. Such
hawks and owls as are destructive
may sometimes be caught In small
jump traps. Another pest Is the Eng­
lish sparrow, which destroys no small
amount of grain during the ripening
period.”
STOLEN GEMS HURT MARKET
Pilfered Russian Diamonds Ruin the
Trade in Holland and
England.
Amsterdam, Holland.—Steadily In­
creasing unemployment In the Dutch
diamond Industry Is causing some ap­
prehension In business circles here.
Last week the number of unemployed
exceeded 7,900, and a considerable
Increase is expected in the near future.
Unfavorable news from the United
States Is having a bad Influence on
the diamond market. It Is hoped, how­
ever, that abundant American crops,
followed as they probably will be by
more active general business, will lead
to some revival In the demand for
diamonds. The fact that guilders are
low in the Amerclan market may also
lead to some American buying.
Messages from England attribute the
poor trade In diamonds in the British
and Dutch markets to the fact that
many stolen Russian stones have been
sold In various European cities. The
larger number o f ' these stolen Rus­
sian gems came by circuitous routes
Into the hands of Dutch dealers. Vir­
tually all of them had to be reground.
It Is the belief among the initiated
here that the market will not be
normal again until these stolen stones
have all been cleared off the market.
Well, Now That’s Settled.
Eldorado, Kas.—The old question of
how many kernels of corn a rooster
will eat after It has not been fed for
twenty-four hours has been answered
to the satisfaction of residents of the
Leon community, near here.
A general merchandise store at Leon
offered a prise of a pair of shoes to the
person guessing the correct number.
Mrs. N. 8. Matthews of Leon won. Her
guess was 238 grains. The rooster con­
sumed 240.
Gatun lake, a part of the Panama
canal system. Is the largest man-made
body of fresh water In the world.