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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1913)
v. "TT DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. WI5ED1 ONE-PIECE BATHING SUIT AT OSTEND STARTLES AMERICANS, JbdtitTbjwachDt Clark fa w j. 4 -V f si- m r i w iISE BILLY," thoy called him up B"bw- manvtlle way. He was called this in derision, for Wlso Billy wbb witless. Thero wero aomo of the Bowmanvllle people who wouldn't have It that Billy was entirely witless, and It was In the expression of this belief these people showed that they were to bo classed with the wiser ones. Wlso Billy had been hit on tho head when he was nothing wore than a toddler and it wa3 tho blow that set his mind groping for things that It could nevor fully grasp. Bowmanvllle, while It la a part of a great city, has green fields and great 'forests yet untouched by tho ax of nature's tyrant. Billy roamed the fields and threaded the forests. Like Little Hiawatha ho learnod of tho birds and tho Bquirrels their secrets. Thoy wero playmates that never made sport of his mental shortcomings. He loved them and they loved him. Tho streams beyond tho little stream which farther on In Its course becomes the Chicago river, wore the haunts of bobolinks. It was there that tho Italian bird catchers hired by tho big city dealers were in tho habit of setting their traps to catch rollicking Robert of Lincoln that ho might bo cooped up In a 7 by 6 cago to pine away a few brief summer months for the sup posed pleasure of someone whose Ideas of liberty did not include bird and beast. One aftornoon the Italians set their traps all over tho meadow with a captive bird in the lowor compartment. The men went to a hedge by the roadside to watch results. They saw a boy start ona keen Jump across the meadow. His feet were winged. Before the trappers could realize what was up the lower door of tho first trap In line was open, a bobolink was freed and the trap itself was a crushed mass of wire and sticks.1 They tried, but thoy could not catch this grey hound of a lad. He liberated twelve birds and smashed twelve traps, and then shot into the Budlong woods. It was Wise "Billy who had done this turn for his bobolink friends. Wise Billy's father and mother sent him to school, r The teachers did not want to receive him, but ho was quiet and he showed shortly that Impression could be made upon his disor dered mind. He knew more about tho pictures than he did about the words, but In tho course of a year or two he wrote sentences dlsjolntodly. It was poetry that Wise Billy loved, especially the poetry In which, the words sang of birds and trees and flowers. It was an Inspiration to hear Billy repeat Bryant's '-'Bobolink" and the "Lines to a Waterfowl." There was a place In his heart seemed to speak to some little sound section of his muddled mind. Wise Billy reported at the school one morning that ho' was going to be a poet. Ho stood at his desk and made the announcement out loud Tho pupils laughed and laughed. The teacher tried to look kindly, but thero was a bit of merriment in her face. "I'll bring some verses and show you," cried Billy. He was keenly alive to rldl 'cule, witless though he was. Wise Billy had found a friend. He was a man who 'tramped the field with a round box in which he put leaves and flowers and with an opera glass through which he stared at birds. Billy had come across the stranger near the river's edgo Just west of tho Budlong wood. The man was picking marsh marigolds. Billy told him he would show him where thero were some pret tier ones If the man would promise not to pick them. Tho stranger seemed struck by this ap peal from the boy with halting tongue and vacant eyef "You're a seoond edition of Ralph Waldo. Emerson, my boy," said ho n little quizzically. "They're pretty by the water," said Billy, "and the wind whispers to them and they tell me what tho wind says." "You're a poet," said the man with the box. "I wouldn't pick your flowers now wero they the real gold they seem to be, but I'm after birds, too." ''Bang 'em and put 'em In a box?" "No, Just look at them." "I'll show you lots," said Billy. The man came to tho meadows often after this and met Billy. The lad knew where tho lark finch, where tho vlreo placed Its paper-lined home and where the oriole swung its cradle. He showed all his treasures to the man who was willing to look and to spare. One day Billy brought some papers to his botanical-ornithological acquaintance. "They're poems," he said, "like what the man with tho gray beard wroto about bobolinks and llko what the man Shake something said about the yellow swamp flowers." Billy's naturalist friend took the manuscript. Rhythm there 'was none; the spelling would make a lexicographer weep, but there was poe try. The boy said in essence that the marigold didn't die because he thought of It all the year through, and thinking of things "makes 'em live." One of Billy's schoolmates had trapped a shore lark. The bird sings as it soars, and in that re spect is like unto the lark that "at, heaven's gate sings." Billy had fought a good fight for the trapped lark when the trapper was taking It homeward, but a crowd of schoolmates who re garded the larks aa fair prey made numb"" carry the day. One day Billy and the stroller afield were tramping tho meadow that edges tho Bowman vllle road that runs along and crosses the niBtlo bridge over the north branch of the river. They heard shouts and turning saw that a building facing the road was on fire. It was a frame structure with tho two upper stories occupied by families. It was on the ledge of the front win dow of the upper apartment that the caged lark which Billy had tried to save had been Impris oned for several days. The man and boy started for the scene of the Are. The building was furnace. "Everybody's out," called ,a man in the crowd that had gathered. Billy, tho witless, looked up. He saw the lark in the cage. The stairway was burning. He eluded a detaining hand and dashed into the en trance and up the stairs. A man Jumped after htm, but It was too late. He was driven back. In less than a minute the people with staring eyes saw the boy appear at the front upper win dow. His form was framed with smoke and flame. They saw him fairly tear apart the cage that held the lark. In an instant the bird was freo and went soaring heavenward singing. There was a crash; a floor had given way, A little later a crowd had gathered round the dead body of a boy. The school teacher and Billy's naturalist companion were looking down on th face that tho flames had left untouched. "He wanted to be a poet," said the teacher. "Wanted to be?" said tho tramper of the fields. "Wauled to be? His whole life was a poem and his death was a song." BARN SWALLOW, CHIMNEY SWEEP AND KING BIRD By JULIE ADAMS POWELL. When the King bird arrives in the early spring with his bride from the south, ho guards her most Jealously, and fights most pugnaciously alhoth ers of his kind who come near. Noted for his fighting nature, the King bird is entitled to his royal name, and Is also called the tyrant Fly Catch-' er, and from his epicurean love of In sects, he is known again as the Bee Martin, although far removed from the Martin 'family, being really one of the Fly Catchers. He possesses no noble qualities, as without provocation he often allows "his angry passions" to rlBC, and makes bold and aggrepsive attacks on the crow, and pften chases away from his field the less offensive small birds. Very like the Indians of the western plains, tho King bird never likes to meet n foe in open warfare, preferring to swoop down upon some unoffending neighbor, giving him a Cat Bird's Nest peck in tho back of tho head, and then our King bird turns llko a flash to his resting place. The King bird Is about eight and a naif Inches In length. His upper GIVES HELP WHERE NEEDED Unique New York Institution Provides Clothing for Actors Make an "Appearance." That How many actresses, after a long period of Idleness, when they at last lecured an engagement In stock, let as say have been at their wits' end to know how they wero going to pro rido themselves with tea gowns or ivenlng dresses necessary for the parts are grayish slate color; on his head Is u concealed orange red crest. The under parts are whlto, washed with gray on the breast Tho tail Is black, tipped with white. The nest Is built at the end of a branch of some low tree, soveral feet from the ground, and Is a compact structure, composed of leaves, string, weeds, graBB, fine rootlets, bark and hair. The number of eggs are generally five, and they nro creamy white, spotted with dark brown and purple gray. I suppose that every boy who reads this paper has seen the Barn Swallow, but how many have seen tho bird at work building her .nest? Some day If you hide away inside the barn, and keep very quiet, you can witness this very interesting performance. One day last summer I was out on a farm, and In the barn I heard a great chattering and chirping, and discover ed the Barn Swallow wore building. As the male of moat bird families does no assist his mato In this work, 1 concluded that it was "ho" who was doing the chattering, while the little housewife carried the mud und straw of which the walls of tho house were built. Most of the time he was Inside the half-finished nest giving advice, whllo sho worked. Thero wore three nests under way, and thoy wero round In 'form and the mud and straw were firmly and smoothly plnstered together, and tho Insldo of a finished ono was lined with soft feathers from the chicken yard. These birds are very graceful, and , they go about In colonies, flying low over tho meadows and fields whllo on the lookout for the Insects on which they feed. I The male and tho female Barn ' Swallow are marked alike. Tho upper parts uro steely bluo throat, uppor breast and forehead are chestnut rufous In color, and tho under parts are washed with tho same, shading to a buff. The tall is very slender, nnd deeply forked. Tho female Is slight ly smaller than tho male, and her col oring Is paler. She raises two .broods of young In a season, from tho. four to Blx eggs at a sitting, which are white with spots of purplish brown. Tho Chimney Swift Is more com monly called "The Chimney Swallow," play? And how many actors when, In straitened circumstances, they havo had an Important engagement with a manager, havo despaired of securing tho placo because thoy could not mako a "prosperous" appearance? Tho number Is ,dlscouragingly largo-. Ib It not true that when a person is out of work ho Is most anxious to mako a corroct Impression, and gen ernlly at the precise moment is in a position the least favorablo for doing so? There must be thousands of ac tors and actresses In Now York who whereas It is no swallow at all, being more nearly related to tho humming blrdB than to tho swallows. These birds congregate about my homo in small flocks, and In early morning and late afternoon may be seen rapidly sailing over the house tops, where they build their nests In unused chimneys. Their nests are composed of twigs glued together with The 8plashed and Sprawled Eggs of the Purple Grackle. a gummy secretion of tho birds' Ball vary glands. When the Swift files, his move ments aro more suggestive of the bat than those of a bird, as he darts hith er and thither, and It Is often perplex ldg, at dusk, to distinguish the two. These odd birds cling to the sides of the chimney, nnd to rough places, as sl8ted by their spine-like talis, and are never seen to alight on the ground, be. causo thoy would bo unablo to arise again, on account of their long wings and short feet Their song conBlsts of a rolling twitter, which 'is quite pleasant to hear. Tho Chimney Swift Is about an inch shorter than the English Sparrow, but Its long wings make It appear larger. The inalo and female aro marked alike, being of a deep, sooty gray. Tho tall is even, and has very olastlo and sharply pointed quills, beyond which tho wings extend an Inch and a half. The feet have exceedingly sharp claws. ' " In country houses, during the sum mer, I have heard the roar, liko dis tant thunder, of a flock of these birds rising from ono of the large chimneys, in the early morning. I The Swift lays from four to six puro white eggs. Point of View. The Poet How gracefully Mrs. Jones sweeps out a parlor. Tho Housekeeper Yes, but does she take tho dirt out of the corners? , " .....I....... i ., ,i, i i ,.,L: .. , SHflilHL iPFrr F&EstfBtOt29j9M fUWeiBaBBBBMh ysllBro -&. BHMBeBHBeeeeBMNVeeHB?iJ!MW bbT sBMS&LalelBaeeeeenHBeeVV- -., M A group of American tourists at Ostend. Belgium, tho moBt famous watering placo In Europe, gathered around an individual bathing hoimo from which la emerging a fair creation In n one-piece bathing suit Blase as the Americana nro, tholr curiosity nnd perhaps tholr admiration Is aroused by tho fair Venus on her way to'the bath,-' Much discussion has been arousod by tho wearing of thoso ono-pieco gnrments, both here and abroad, and many communities have forbidden tho wearing of tho ono-pieco garment, Tho house from which the bather is emerging is an individual bathing closet on whouls which Is carted down to tho water's edge, whero the bather has but to step out and plungo In. . , - I ,T 1 "ENOCH ARDEN" IN REAL LIFE Daughter Finds Father, After Fifty Three Years, Who Failed to Claim Remarried Wife. Tnrrytown, N. Y. An tho last chap ter In a dramatic story which closely parallels Tennyson s' "Enoch Arden," Capt. Lewis B. Hunt of Tnrrytown, N. Y now eighty-four years old, and quito feeble, has started for Oregon with his daughter, who has Just seen him for tho first tlino in flfty-threo years. Ho loft his wife to another man she had married In the belief that howaB dead, When Captain Hunt camo home to Buffalo. N. Y In 18C5, after being dis charged' from his rogiment at tho close of the war, amazed friends met' him at tho station and told him thoy had belioved for soveral years -that he had died in battle They told him that his wife had be lieved the reports of his death and had married again. Lko Enoch Ar den, he turned his back on Buffalo and went adrift into the world, leav ing his wlfo in Ignorance and to tho new happiness sho had' found. When he went to the war his daugh ter wob two years old. When he re turned to Buffalo ho, wanted to see tho child, but he dared not, because the knowledge that he was alive would ruin his wife's happiness. Therefore ho dropped out of sight of all who had known him. This daughter grew to womanhood, was married to a man named Miller French nnd moved to Clntskanle, Ore gon. Mr. Hunt's wlfo nnd her new husband moved to Wisconsin. As tho daughter of a Civil wnr veteran Mrs. French recently wroto to tho pension bureau to ace if sho could not obtain a pension. Tho bureau Informed hor that her father was alive nnd living at Tnrrytown, whoro ho was receiving a pension. - . Mrs. French hurried horo and thon for tho first time In flfty-threo years met her father. WINS BIG ENGLISH TROPHY Canadian Lands King's Qold t Medal for 8hootlng at the Blaley Meet. London. Great Interest marked the final day of the shooting meet at Bls ley when, vafter closo competition with Sergeants Ommundson and Fenby, Private W Hawkins, a Canadian of the 48th Highlanders at Toronto, won s HEP I PANAMA Chiriqui Mountain Peak Formed by Crater Eruptions. Is 11,000 Feet High and Hat Been Dead for 176,000 Years Geologist McDonald Tells Results of Recent Expedition. i Boys and girls may be saved for the agricultural districts by teaching them to love the country and to look upon farming as a noblo and profitable occupation. feel keenly the disadvantages of a lack of clothes. But such peoplo need no longer de spair absolutely. Thero Is in New York city a "Clothing Bureau" that has a professional department devoted entirely to the neodB of actresses and actors in exactly this or a similarly embarrassing position. On the first Friday of each month the bureau is set aside wholly for their use, and a tympathetlo lady, with an Intimate knowledge of the members of the pro fession both men aad women and their need, is In charge of tho bureau for tho day In order to help and advise them. Almost any kind of dress Bult, hat or coat can be procured" there; It not immediately, at least within a rea sonable length of tlmo. The solo ob ject of the bureau Is to perform a kindness to those immediately In need of 1L Dramatic Mirror. Fine Produet of Copper. It it now possible to produce cast copper of high electrical conductivity that Is mechanically sound. W$f ""&, Carry Victor From Field. the King's gold medal Hawkins (soon with tho maplo lenf, the Canadian em blem), acted as a substitute on the of ficial team, huvlng taken the place of an absent man. This Is tho second tlmo tho King's gold medal was won by a Canadian,. HELD ON A MURDER CHARGE Man Charged With Killing Wife and . Daughter Is Engaged to Young Woman. Wichita, Kan. W. A. Borah, who Is In Jail at Ardmore, Oklu., in connec tion with tho death of his wife and twolve-year-old daughter at Tishomin go, Okla when his house was burned, was engaged to marry the daughter of a wealthy citizen of this city, accord lng to an announcement here. Now Ydrk.Dr. D. F. McDonald, tho geologist of tho Panama canal com mission, has JUBt completed a tour of western Panama, and In the -last Issue of the Canal Record, the official bulle tin of the commission, which reached' Now York tho other day, Dr. McDon ald tellH some of the results of his trip. The trip lasted two months, and was mado under the auspices of the Smttheonlan institution, the Panama' canal commission and the United States geological survey. f "The full results," Dr. McDonald says In the Canal Record, "of the Jour ney, whch lasted about two months, will bo' published .later by the "Smith sonian Institution. In this Ibbuo the so-called Chlrqut volcano will be brief ly treated. "Perhaps tho most Interesting new thing discovered about tho extinct vol cano was tho evidence that Indicated about tho number of centuries that havo elapsed since tho last volcanic outburst. It will bo remembered that about a year ago tho newspapers told how an eruption of Chlrlqul volcano had flung death and destruction far over western Panama, This proved to be u nowspapor 'story,' for the Inst exploslvo outburst of tho mountain did no J. occur In 1012, but many hundred 1 centuries earlier. "Tho majestic Chlrlqul pcuk stands as n king among mountains. Tower- Nng over 11,000 foet above sen levol, It overlooks nil the other rugged creBts of western Panama. From Its sum mit, on a clear day, one can seo tho wide coastal plain of David meeting tho low lying shore of tho Pacific, forty miles away, Streams, llko loose lying silvery threads flung oceanward,' tie the mountains to the sea, and on their banks here nnd thero are dis tant specks of little native villages. Scattered grazing herds dot tho nearer plains, and a tiny dust cloud, barely visible In tho blue haze of tho distant valley, tells of a train of bull carts tolling from David out to tho coffee plantations, near the foot of tho, moun tain. "Turning then tp tho northwp'd, ono may behold Intoning waves of moun? tains dimming In tho distance, where they meet tho wldo embayments of tho Caribbean shore. In tho bays and be yond tho headlands dam Island spots are scattered along tho landwnrd mar gin of tho sunlit sen. These remnunts of n submerged mountain gioup stand llko a struggling rear guard protecting the nfaln shoro linn ngalnst tho foam crested t-njo wind waves. "(lazing out ovor this pleasing plc turo one's aesthetic sense may bo I slightly shocked when ho realizes that I ho Is only on the lop of an nnh Jwnp, I for this mighty peak wnB built up by emonatlons pf volcanic ash and debris i blown out during long conturles from I a crater or group of craters, Tho last I explosion, or series of explosions, was morn vlolont than tho rest, for it blew the top off tho mountain nnd scattered tho dfbrls far nnd wide, burying tho surrounding country un der some hundreds of fqet of volcUnlc ash nnd ejcctnmentn, Later Btreams formed on tho new surface; and these slowly entrenched themselves Jn tha new volcnnlu formation. Tho Caldera river thus excavated for itself a canon that Is 350 fcot, dpop and nbout half a mile wjtle a vastor trench by far than Culebrn cut, and nil dona by a river, without drill, powder or steam shovel. In tho lint, wldo bottom of this canon, vv -h. .: J, m; Williams of Tishomin go camo hore to lntervlow tho young woman to whom Borah was engaged. Sho told tho sheriff that sho had planned to marry Borah September 10 and showod him her woddlng gowns. Bwo said sho recently resigned a posi tion in Kansas City to prepare for her marriage.. She will mako a deposition in the caso. Sheriff Williams said the fire In Borah's house was of Incendiary ori; gin and that his wife and daughter were dead before the tire started. The close to the bank of the stream, art'''' some old Indian srravos. and near hv 'L-l rB-HyWW.WT.WI'IIW-WWWW I I HID BU1IIU itl ,UU DWUU0 UtyKUtaStt'-wn tndas.' y J "From tho weathering of these and ,. , from the pottery and other objects, k remnants of an ancient Indian culture, .- burled In them It Is known, that they """ are at least 1,000 years t old and probV u. L 'I bly considerably more. Since these nSfr; J graves wt,re -tnaae me camera river c has not cut Its channel more than ten ; feet dpener over about one-tenth of the total width of Its valley, bottom. --4 This is equivalent to a deepening ofrU ;X the whole width of the valley one foot; 'From these data It la seen that the, vl minimum rate of excavation of the '- I Chldera valley, under, approximately, ' "' pisenoudlUonsr6Uld-beron-f)tpti: pur thousand years. At this rate the, ' ' ; present valley, which Is 350 feet deep, rj wouM Vequlre 350,000 years for ex1; cavatlon. However, during thellrit',,, itstv wuiuiiqr vawvquuu u(i it. went ym t ? " much moro -rapidly than now.4, TbIsavK Ik due to "the fact that- In tfalHas through tho atmosphere the coarsenY , rocks of the volcanic debris dropped "; raster ana are more conceniraiea jnv ; the lower part, whjlehe upper' parte A", of this formatlonare chiefly of'snn-';.?: ash.'" ' ' &$& . vrr h !: MRS, ASTORSQCIALLEAjm V t Timzr Mother of Vincent Astor and Twe.'to, ' clety Friend a Big Lawn .Ten-- nls Match. i " Newport. The elite of society t turn-' v ed out on masso to watch theNattonal tennis match hold at Newport; Xaffi y' which the winners of the DaviaTennls' V tJ cup took part. ,ThemoBt prominent uguro present was Mrs. Ava, wining j r" "f " &J ' " &MEV'ViSM i BLP f,'v' V $ K Y BBv y $ s LBLH aEiS'SC. Ss&HbBBBBBBBHBhBHBBh " - - vrrr l 'n iilil i iiim,J. Myiri" ApA- ..- -. r.l.Hi4. if.iu. riiv anu m ritiiu' j,-.tt, Astor (loft), mother1 of Vincent As- -l tor, and acknowledged by "Who's" Who" In Newport, to be tha social r leader of that exclusive socloty cen ter. With Mrs. Astor Is Miss Eliza- both Sands. ' '?!. , ( St 8klrt Not Immoral. Kansas City. "There Is nothtngvlra. moral Jn tho silt skirt, tho diaphanous women's nttiro," declared Judgo Ralph'' r J KuiDiiinv ui mis iiuuiiiui court. nerat when asked for his opinion by persons furthering a campaign against extreme" styles in woman's dress.' ,i Was Father of 29 Children. Noblesvllle. Ind. Riley Shepard. ninety-four, father of 29 children, died hore. Ho Is survived by 20 chlldren,s 126 grnndchlldren, C8 great-grandchlk dren, nnd 4 great-great-grandchildrep, Shqpard had been married three times. , V If flames w,er6 quenched, Williams said. bofore thoy reached the bodies- The sheriff, arrested Borah and took Hm to , Ardmore to elude, a mob. ' Borah fe ' merly was mayor of Tishomingo. ',' 4 0 J I A Well Dsscrlbed. - J Small Sadler was walking along the ;, street with her mother when a fere- ', clous looalug, hut friendly bulldog-at (t., preached. With a, little Wean tae clung to her eryJn:""OH,') mamma, look at ta.ec with tie Ua- gtedfacej" l , T ' - '-' vV, '- -t.