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Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-07

terial of the nests weighed fifty tons. In
some places it entirely covered the walls, the
nests being built upon each other season after
season., until an artificial wall of nests was
the result
For several hours this strange warfare was
kept up, until, finally nearly all the nests
and young had been thrown down in that
portion and the old birds, driven by the fire
and smoke, had retreated far into the interior,
where the natives dared not venture, affirm
ing that those who had gone in had never
been seen after. The naturalist going in
short distance, however, found the floor fill.
ed with sink-holes, that probably led into the
underground river, as terrible, roaring sound
came up through them and in these he con-
cluded the former visitors had probably lost
their lives.
The battle with the birds over, the bodies
were collected by the natives and carried out,
the young being opened and the fat removed,
and the old birds reserved for food. The oil
Of the young is valued by the natives for
many purposes, and can be kept for long
time. The crops of the young birds were all
opened and the seeds taken out. These are
extremely valued as possessing medicinal vir-
tues, and are known as Semilla del Guarcharo.
Another famous bird cave is that of Caripe,
Trinidad This is also entered every year by
the natives, at the festival of ST. John, and
a similar destruction, as above described, is
carried on. The bird is one of the night
hawks known popularly as the Guacharo, oil
bird, Trinidad goat-sucker, or scientifically as
the Steatorius Caripenss. 1t is about the
size of pigeon, about eighteen inches in
length including the tail-a very attractive
bird.
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most frightful cries. The air seemed rent as
if by tornado, and walls, groans and shrieks
were heard all about.
Rushing from his covering of palm leaves,
me found that not leaf was stirring, and
that the strange sound came from living bodies
rushing through the air in immense numbers,
and the echoes of sounds that seemed to
come from noises beneath the earth.
For long time this curious tumult kept
up, the natives, who were evidently used to
it, pronouncing it the cries of the Guachero
In fact, they were very near the Cueya del
Guachero, and the rush and confusion was
occasioned by the birds rushing out of their
cave at night in the most astonishing mum
bers.
On the following morning preparations were
made for the onslaught, the natives arming
themselves with long sticks and brushes, and
starting in body for the cave The night
encampment had been near its entrance, which
was nearly eighty feet in width and seventy
in height. Into this ran small river, leav-
ing, however, a narrow bank on each side,
and along these pathways the natives crowded,
and soon we're fairly in the cave, that grew
smaller as they progressed, and rapidly dark.
A thousands yards from the entrance the
brushes were lighted, and then remarkable
spectacle was seen The river, that had roared
so furiously at the entrance here disappeared
in the earth, and went winding off to an un-
known depth. The lights gave weird and
1nearthly appearance to everything. Great
stalactites, hanging masses of lime, resembling
silver icicles, seemed to flash with an rides
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STORY OF TWO FAMOUS SONGS

Payne declared that he had first heard the
tune from the lips Of Sicilan peasant girl,
who sang it artlessly as she sold some sort Of
Italian wares The copyright of the song
brought ten thousand dollars OF profit in
twenty months; but John Howard Payne APP
pears not to have retained the copyright.
Yet, in the course Of his changed life, he
did have few hours of triumph. Great act
ors played some of the parts which he created.
Is cane had thrilled mighty London audiences
been amidst these tinsd glories rather than
in days of gloom and failure that he had felt
his heart most tenderly "wae for his ain coun-
trie." For does not the song run;
/" Mid pleasures and palaces though we may
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like
A charm from the sky seems to hallow US
there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met
with elsewhere,
Home home, sweet homel
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home
Gan exile from home, splendor dazzles in
vain;
Oh, give me my lowly matched cottage
again!
The birds singing gaily as they came to my
call,
Oh, give me the peace of mind, dearer than
ALL
Home, home, sweet homel
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home!
1t was East Hampton which was in Payne's
mind when he wrote that-quiet East Hamp'
ton--which has been described as consisting
"of a single street, and the street was lawn
-an immense carpet of rich grass, set with
tapering poplar-trees, and bordered on elthei
side of its broad expanse by ancestral cot
tages."
Later in life, Payne came back to visit his
native place, and moved about among his old
humble connections, spare, elderly man
primly fine, with the Student bend" of the
head; or was it not rather bowed by the cares
of that poverty which he said took more diplo
macy to conceal than was required by the
politics Of Washington?
He was a man of ffty-six when he writes
that he "was electioneering every side fol
an appointment under General Taylor" who
had Just carried the Mexican War to con
quering conclusion, and was about to fill the
| Presidential chair
The same sort of curious, official want o
tact which made the poet Burns an exciseman
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4
A slave and row a galley
But when my seven long years are out
Oh then III marry Sallyl
And then how happily wen live,
But not in our alley"
These verses offer a unique picture Of
social state whose last lingering remnant has
now almost disappeared
Henry Carey died in London in 1T43. He
had had long and unsuccessful fight with
poverty, and it is said that he finally persisted
by his own hand. He left widow and four
little children absolutely penniless.
Yet it seems singular that some good for
tune did not come TO Henry Carey, il he
We're really the composer of Briton's national
anthem, as many competent Judges believe
But some assert that the anthem had made
It's appearance as early as the reign of James
!; while some represent it as originating in
honor of James II, when he was first threat
ened with the invasion Of the Prince Of
Orange.
The evidence for Carey as the writer of
God Save the King" is as follows:
The national anthem came into notoriety
IN lI45 1.-TWO years after Careys death), when
the first successes of the Pretender, Charles
Edward Stuart, called forth burst of anti
Catholic feeling in the population of London.
To crafty this sentiment the song was
brought upon the stage, where it was receiv-
ed with repeated cheering. 1t was printed in
the Gentleman's Magazine in the October Of
OndO yediy Dub SeeH Une uRnD previously
in some obscure collection.
"In, l794," says Chambers, "a gentleman
named Townsend was able to report that his
father had dined with party which met in
a tavern in Cornhill in 174O, to celebrate the
capture of Portfolio, when he heard Henry
Carey sing the song as his own composition,
with great applause from the company"
| About the same time Doctor Harrington,
the celebrated physician and amateur musi-
clan of Bath, took down from the lips Of
John Christopher Smith (who had composed
an opera for which Carey gave the ibretto)
statement which Doctor Harrington had
often heard from the old gentleman before,
| that Henry Carey came to him with the words
and music of "God Save the King" desir-
ing him to correct the bass. which was not
proper, request which Mr.. Smith COM
piled with by writing another bass in correct
| harmony
The song was of no apparent value during
Carey's life, and his family were probably too
young and too INDECENT to understand the
matter or to insist upon their dead fathers
literary rights, if they knew they existed. 1t
is feared, therefore, that the authorship can
never be definitely decided.
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sent the author of "Home, Sweet Home" in
to exile at Tuns, by making him the Ameri-
can Consul there
He held his appointment in Tuns for less
back to America for the adjustment OF GER
tam political disputes" returning to his exile
only to die on the 10th of April, 1852 of
those pathetic figures in literary history
which seem to wander through earthly life
like ghosts. and leave but the echo of a vail
to record that they have passed that way.
For more than thirty years his body lay
in that distant country, among barbarians,
until, through the bene6cence of W. W. Cor
coran, the Washington philanthropist, the re
mains were brought to this country in June,
1883, and inferred in Oak Hill Cemetery,
Washington, ID. c., the spot being marked by
a handsome monument
Another poet who sang sweetly and truly
OF lowly life and love, has also left sad his
tory behind him
We mean Henry Carey, to whom some au-
tholities assign the composition of England's
national anthem, God Save the King" Tor
Queen)
Little is known Of him except that he was
"a musician and music composer of great
merit, but not fortunate in his life affairs. !"
But there is no doubt that he wrote "Sally
in Our Alley" which ''has been the delight
Of an infnity of people, and will probably
continue so while the English language lasts." ."
What buoyant young life there is in its
artless swing!
"Of all the girls that are so smart
There's none like pretty Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.
There is no lady in the land
Is half so sweet as Sally;
She is the darling of my heart
And she lives in our alley.
"Her father he makes cabbage nets,
And through the streets does cry 'em;
Her mother she sells laces long
To such as please to buy 'em;
But sure such folks could n'er beget
So sweet girl as Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.
"Of all the days that's in the week,
l dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday;
For then Pm drest all in my best,
To walk abroad with Sally;
She is the darling of my heart
And she lives in our alley.
''My master and the servants all
Make game Of me and Sally,
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Idfh00I the time he was thirteen years of
S-exssS age, was practically homeless, who
o, has been graphically described as
the football OF fortune" who wandered. to
ana tro upon the earth and finally filed an
exiles grave
John Howard Payne was born June 8, 1902,
IN New York city AT an early age he re-
moved to East Hampton, quiet, old-fashion-
ed town on Long Island, and there his boy
nooq Gays were spent.
:, Ills father was for while schoolmaster in
East Hampton. Payne was apprentieed to
carpenter. But that honest calling did not
satisfy the. ambitions of the handsome lad,
WIN ms sight but seductive gifts in oratory
and dramatic performance.
:, so his wandering life began He went on
the stage, He played Romeo in Philadel-
pha., While he was still in his teens he
edited some periodical in Boston, and was
tne associate OF important literary men. He
went to Europe, wandering from country to
country. writing composing, acting but al
ways faithfully corresponding with old neigh
bors in East Hampton.
lie maintained through all his rowing middle
age, pretty, playful, pathetic correspondence
elderly woman, still lives in the old place.
Ills hrst messages we're sent to her when she
was fourteen and he was forty-two. But as
she grew. older, the friendship, which could
be but faneiful, naturally faded. And yet,
wnen we think of the lonely, defeated. man,
mock complaint he addressed to her:
Am l to be utterly forsaken? Does even
Miss Rosalie treat me with contempt"
But the pain was not really for "Miss
Rosalie's" detection; rather for the empty
heart in which he had playfully set her up-a
childish toy in deserted shrine
He must have been a, man full Of pleasant
gifts; one. who made many acquaintance, but
possibly formed few close friendships. His
old neighbors show albums and fortune
books" which he helped them to get up
His letters-still cherished in antiquated
desks and work.boxes, in his native place
are written with slight touch, with abund
ant dashes of wit that is not very costly, with
thorough sense of what will please the kind
townspeople who will hear them, with per
petlally yelling memories"
He seems to have written "Home, Sweet
Home" while in England. "The home he
was thinking OF, as he traced the deathless
lyric in some London rookery, was indoubted
ly East Hampton" The song appeared in al
opera called "Cari, the Maid of Milan,
which is otherwise forgotten.
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seemed familiar with it, and told many WON
derful things about their ancestors, who had
zone under the earth to fight the birds, and
had never been seen after; but, for long
time. the traveller could find no one who
had seen the birds themselves Finally, when
far up in the interior, he came upon tribe
that not only claimed that they knew the
bird, but that they went on great hunt az
ter them once year.
The time for this strange battle being near
at hand, the naturalist remained to witness
it. At the time appointed, several hundred
of the men formed themselves into band
and started for the mountains.
The road led through an almost impenetrable
forest. Since it had last been crossed the
vines and other plants had choked the way,
and almost every step had to be cut through
the labyrinth of lanes.
For three days this march was continued,
and then the natives announced that they
were quite near the great door that, they
said, led into the world of the underground
birds. Up to this time the naturalist thought
that there was some mistake about their
living underground. That night, when the
men were asleep, he was awakened by the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-07
Copyright by James ElversOn,)

I'm travelling through some of the
northern countries of South Amer
4 lea, some years ago, naturalist
~ heard many strange tales OF an
underground bird, that the natives
called the Guachero. They all
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-07
ConvrIeht hr lama Iilrnrsnn.

Copyright by James Elverson.
L is not universally known that
Home, Sweet Home" was writ
ten by an old bachelor, who, from
the time he was thirteen years of
age, was practically homeless, who
has benn oronh;coll,, daeorihnd aa
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-07

And but for her, I'd better be
A slave and row galley;
But when my seven long years are out,
oh, then. I'll marry Sally
And then how happily wen live,
But not in our alley"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-02


WORTH MANY TIMES THE T1fsEIcEs :. I. 49,
MesrA Kriand
SECURE TELESCOPES SOL
sshs ed any lee than $500 p siooe
~ % %
= KInTLANu HR0s. CO., Dept chanbera
Suns Moon morn fof
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-02

The Importance of the Appalachian
| forest cover to the cotton milling In
dustry alone, In the Piedmont regions
of North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia is shown by the statistics of
the mills operated by the water power
derived from the streams having their
sources In these mountains. In these
three states there are 163 mills so
operated, with combined capital stock
of $33,000,000, with 2,770,000 spindles
and 50,926 looms and giving work to
over $4,000 employees. The total an
nual production of these mills is APP
proximately $G4,0O0,000.
Virginia has interests also, which
are not included in the above figures,
az have also Tennessee and Kentucky,
on the western side Of the mountains.
A National forest reserve III the
White Mountains Of New Hampshire is
also q matter of general concern and
vital to the we'll being OF the industries
Of all New England. We are upon the
threshold of great Industrial COMPETE
ton with the producing powers Of the
world; to maintain our supremacy we
must retain our hold upon our cheap
water power, which, through electrical
invention is being utilized as never be-
fore and greatly aiding to our national
prosperity.
The creation OF the Appalachian and
White Mountain Forest Reserves cam
not be left to the states; the question
is an Interstate and therefore a ma
tionai one. Nearly all the rivers Of
New England head In the White Noun
tains of New Hampshire and Il Is Of
supreme inheritance to the industries
of all the New England States, repre-
senting tens of millions of dollars, that
the forest cover at the river sources
shall be preserved and improved.
National delay in the acquisition of
these reserves would be dangerous
and wasteful Timber land which a
few years ago could have been pur-
chased at $3.50 to 50 an acre has now
trebled and quadrupled in value Adj
ditional delay will mean further in
crease IN cost Congress should act
at once and preserve from destruction
one OF the greatest resources of the
nation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-02
IN The SOUTH CAROLINA AppALAchlANs.

became his wife and the mother of his
son, the present congressman. The
mother still keeps and prizes her first
declaration of love.
Judge Longworth was once travel.
ing in Italy. He was in a forward car
with friend; and when his wife sent
word for him to come back to her, the
judge remarked, eve had best take all
our things as the dago marquis here
might swipe them" This remark was
made concerning a swarthy looking
man In the opposite seat. The judge
vas only joking, thinking too, that the
stranger did not understand English.
When the train stopped, the Marquis
handed the judge a card. He was
a sure enough marquis and he knew
English. The card meant a duel, but
Longworth was equal to the occasion,
for he responded, why hello Marquis,
glad to meet you" The offended noble.
man had to laugh and the two be.
came good frineds.
At another time the Judge conceiv-
ed the plan Of living few days with
the bandits in Thessaly. With sever.
al friends an expedition was organ.
lied and the party went into the noun
tains of upper Greece. They found a
famous robber chief and told him they
wanted to have social visit with him
and his men. A bag of gold was CIV
en- the outlaws and for two weeks
Longworth and his party saw much
Of section and people which had
been sealed book to even the near
est inhabitants. They hunted and
played games. but the robbers COM
mitted no crimes during the visit.
When the stay was over the chief
escorted them to the frontier and saw
them in safe hands. There was a
price on his head and beyond a GER
tain line he dared not go. The Judge
often remarked that he never enjoyed
trip more,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-02

Land Office, Frederick II. Newell, Chief
Engineer OF the Reclamation Service
and Clifford Pinchot. Chief OF the
Bureau OF Forestry, has during the
course OF two years made a study OF
the public lands condition and has
brought in report which has been
forwarded to Congress by the President
with special message recommending
the repeal Of the Timber and Stone
Act and the substitution of a rational
forest policy OF selling only the stump
age from the public timber lands, re-
tanning the lands for future timber
growth; recommending the radical
amendment of the Communication clause
of the Homestead Act and a like
amendment Of the Desert Land Act IN
such manner as to require actual resi-
dence and improvement under both of
the latter named laws, amounting TO
their practical repeal.
The provisions of this report are
highly satisfactory to the Forestry and
Irrigation Committee OF the National
Board of Trade, which believes that
their enactment into law. strictly en-
forced, would do away with land and
ouAhcA 6AoDbAhS anu pTOnOl6 lneSe pol
icies on this subject for which the
Board has consistently striven.
The present indefensible land policy
OF the United States is resulting in an
actual money loss to the government
OF tens Of millions of dollars annually.
in the denuding of our watersheds and
the destruction of all chances for a
future timber supply, in the building
up OF lordly landed estates in the West
OF tens and hundreds of thousands of
acres in single ownerships, instead of
providing for the creating OF thousands
of small rural holnes-in short in the
mismanagem and waste of the
greatest resource ever possessed by any
nation on earth.
The attention of our lawmakers in
Congress should be urgently called to
the fact that while they are attempting
economy In the expenditure of money,
they are allowing laws to remain In
force under which by far the most
valuable asset Of the nation is being
recklessly wasted
Under the Timber and Stone Act.
the sales of public timber lands dur.
ing the last five years have been as
follows:
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-02
e, are as woolly as sheep and quiet

table, are as woolly as sheep and quiet
as lambs.
Seven of these little fellows were
imported by Mr.. Jamrach, the natural,
list, and he insists that they are quite
at home and we'll hammered in the
house and that baby might safely
play with them. Two Of the herd are
chestnuts, two mouse, one bay, one
black, but the "pick of the bunch" the
smallest of all, has a long cream
colored coat and a tail that sweeps the
floor.
All seven were bought at SIS each
on the first day of their exhibition.
One of the customers is an intimate
friend of the Queen, so that it is quite
probable that pigmy pony will find
a royal mistress.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-03-02
4.7Os,s6o.SS


A large oportion Of these lands have
been in the heavily timbered belt OF the
far Northwest and is of the class oil
timber described by the Secretary OF
the Interior In his report for the fiscal
year ended, June 30, 1903, in which he
says.
"The Timber and Stone Act will. II
not repealed or radically amended re
suit ultimately In the complete destruc
tion of the timber on the inappropriate
ed and unreserved public lands. The ra
pidity with which the public timbered
lands are being denuded of their timber
and the opportunity offered under the
Timber and Stone Act for the fraudu
lent acquisition of title to public tim
bered lands at the uniform price OF
$3.50 per acre when they are in many
instances worth forty times that (S100)
has been heretofore set forth in the
pages of my annual reports and those
of my predecessors"
Hundred Million Dollar Waste.
But estimating the values only of the
4,T09, $50 acres of timber land disposed
OF In the last five years, and at only
$25 per acre, the government has, in
that time, parted with the title of land
worth s117,746,500. The price received
for this land has been at the uniform
rate of $3.50 per acre, or 11,774,650,
a loss to the government of over $780,.
100000 Your committee endorses the
recommendation of the President and
his Public Lands Commission for the re-
peal OF this Timber and Stone Act and
the substitution of rational forest
policy, by which the title to the public
timber lands shall remain forever in
the government, the stumpage only to
be disposed Of, at its market value.
Under such plan as this, and under
an agreement whereby one half the
proceeds could be devoted to the Fer.
estry Service and the other half to
the Irrigation Fund, two policies Of
great internal improvement and i'm
portance could be generously main.
tanned, while at the same time the
forestry question would be to great
extent solved, public forest lands being
numbered In such manner as to pre-
serve the young growth and leave the
forest az perpetual source Of income
to the nation and at the same time
conserve the water supply.
II the S100,0O0.000 which have been
lost to the government under the above
showing, were at hand, score or more
of enormous irrigation projects could
be Immediately constructed, retaining
from 100000 to 100000 acres OF
desert land, and enormous areas Of
Eastern forest reserves created through
the purchase of mountain timber lands
east of the Mississippi.
In this connection y-ur committee
Is much impressed with the Importance
OF the creation Of federal forest re-.
serves to preserve the water supply
of eastern steams, upon the continued
flow OF which depends much Of our
manufacturing activity. Tbs western
half Of the United States has over 100.
10000 acres set aside In national forest
reserves, as source or future timber
supply and for the preservation of the
How OF streams for irrigation: but
the east has no such an advantage.
whereas, the menace to her water SUP.