Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-12-11

-262 quail and 2S woodcock were
seized by officers of the law at the N.
Y. p. e. N. Railroad station in Salisbury
on Thursday of last week. The birds
were packed in trunk which bore the
tag of !. T. Hearn, Willards. Md. but
it is not thought that the trunk was in
the possession of Mr.. Hearn or that he
had attempted to ship the birds. The
trunk was carried to the depot by an
unknown young man who purchased a
mileage book and said that he desired
to ship the trunk to Jersey City and
wanted the same to surely go on the
midnight train. His nervousness at
tracted the attention of the station
agents assistant and resulted in an in
vestigation of the contents of the trunk.
The birds were sold at public auction
Friday afternoon and brought from
IL cts. to Ia cts each. Deputy Game
Warden Jones. of Berlin, was present
at the sale and suspecting that some of
the birds were being purchased for ship
ment, he had search made at the rail-
road station later on and found box
containing 100 quail and four woodcock.
These were taken and sold by the
authorities.
The first supply of one million Red
Cross Christmas stamps has been receiv-
ed by the Maryland Association for the
Prevention and Relief of tuberculosis
and it is expected that the people Of
Maryland will buy them in liberal guam
titles, for use as Christmas greetings
on letters and packages sent to friends
during December. An effort will be
made to have business houses, profess
sional men. lodges and other organiza-
tions use the stamps on their outgoing
mail, not only because the stamp is at
tractive and carries hearty greeting.
but for the better reason, that the money
from the sales goes into the Red Cross
fund for the suppression of tuberculosis
in this state. Every stamp sold is bull
let in the warfare against the White
Plague in Maryland. In all communities
where they are known, the Christmas
stamp is very popular with men, women
and children and millions of them will
go through the mails during the next
month. The stamps sell at one cent
each, which places them within the
reach of every giver of Christmas
gift. and the use of the stamp will en-
rich the kindly sentiment which prevails
everywhere at this season of the year.
An order for any quantity. addressed to
H. Writ Steele, Executive Secretary,
l0l w. Saratoga street, Baltimore, will
bring quick response.
Astronomer Frank E. Seagrave, of
Providence, r. l., the star gazer, who
computed the time when Halley's comet
would make a turn in comparatively
close proximity to the earth told recently
what mankind will see when the visitor
gets into the range Of the human vision.
The comet is within telescope range
now and drawing nearer the earth at a
speed which would make the velocity of
cannon ball seem snail's pace. 1.-The
EARTH" said Mr.. Seagrave, twill pass
through the tail of the comet on May
10Th next. At about $50 on the even
ing of May 18th the comet will be at a
place in the heavens which will make it
it appear form the daylight side of this
planet as if just going onto the suns
disc. Then the comet will sweep in
transit across the face of the sun. The
transit will not be visible on this con-
tinent, however. This will be one of
the most interesting celestial events
astronomers ever had a chance to watch.
1.-THE tail of the comet, streaming
out towards us, will be a sight to be
always remembered. The tail of the
comet will look to us like superb,
aurora. If the tail is 10000 miles
abroad it will sweep over practically
half of our sky" When the earth
rushes through the tail of the comet the
sphere we inhabit will sustain shower
of star dust. This earth is likely to pick
up vast quantity of the comets
material. But the dust will SETTLE
imperceptibly down through the atmos-
phere. Perhaps it may cause electrical
disturbances.
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