The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
Thousand Dollars Refused For
Cow Which Gives Red, White
and Blue Milk
TURTLES THAT IMPEDE NAVIGATION
A Yell from Constituencies-Ske
and Fresh Old Buttonball Tree and
the Lone Cow Of DeIalr Township
Demand Attention.


stitious politicians and they are won
dering what they portend in elections
for the next session. 1t is admitted
that when shooting stars loaded with
hoptoads begin to fall, and swapping
turtles become so numerous in
streams that they impede navigation,
1t is time for the party in power to sit
up and take notice. What excites
greatest interest, however, is the ap-
pearance of green mosquitoes with
pink and yellow wings and purple legs
and bills.
Nor is this the only cause for dis
quietude. 1t has been reported from
Newark that buttonball tree there
is putting out buttonballs with wire
shanks on them, all ready for the
thread, and that one of the ducklings
in the Weequahic Park reservation in
that city is cackling like a hen. The
disquietude is increased by informa.
ton that Lady Delair, the only COW in
Delair township, refuses to eat any.
thing except tulip, hyacinth, Towering
almond, magnolia grandifora and
azalea blossoms and is giving red,
white and blue milk, which is being
sold to Grand Army veterans in the
township at fancy prices.
H. Wisner Dolson of Warwick has
habit of watching the heavens,
and he was thus very intently en-
gagged last night when he saw a star
shoot and come toward him. The
speed was terrific. When it was about
three feet from his head he lodged
and yelled so loudly the star burst.
Immediately he found himself bom-
barded with hoptoads, with which the
shooting star had been loaded. Dolson
was frightened so badly he did not at
tempt to pick up any Of the toads,
and they escaped in the tall grass
near the car shops.
Inc man who discovered that the
Pequest River is full Of swapping tur-
ties is the Rev. DR.. z. F. Fowler Of
Tranquility. He went out fishing and
caught four big turtles in a few min
utes and then went back TO Tranquilli-
ty and told about his luck. There was
rush for the river Immediately. Two
men went out in a rowboat. In the
middle of the stream their boat
grounded on what they thought was
an uncharted shoal. One Of the bare
footed men stepped over the side of
the boat to shove it Off He felt the
shoal heave and work under him and
then felt his feet seized in several
/ places. With the assistance of his
companion he succeeded in getting
back into the boat with seven snap
pers still clinging to his feet. His
friend wanted to use him for bait once
more, but the man would not consent.
So many snappers' heads are sticking
up that 1t is with difficulty the water
can be seen, and the boys have been
warned against going in swimming.
The first appearance Of the green
mosquitoes with pink and yellow
wings and purple legs and bills came
from Takanasse Lake, between Long
Branch and Elberon. That is the
place which reported red bluebirds
three years ago and blue redbirds and
white blackbirds last year. Hector
| Bradley, one Of the oldest fishermen
| in that section, says one of the pecu-
liarities of the bite Of the green mos
quito is that it produces almost imme-
diately an Unsuitable craving for
strong drink.
1t is in Military Park and also in
| Washington Park, Newark, that the
buttonball trees this year are bearing
| buttonballs with wire shanks. 1t is
the first time they ever did 1t, and
the Button Makers Amalgamated
Union has petitioned the Shade Tree
Commission to have both trees cut
down as menaces to union labor. The
Society Of Buttonhole Makers has
Joined with the other union in de-
manding the destruction of the trees
The women in the society say that II
the trees bear metal-shanked button
balls this year they are likely to beal
ready-worked buttonholes next yeal
and the livelihood of the members Of
the unions will be destroyed.
The cackling duckling in the Wee
quahic Reservation of the Essex Coun
ty Park Commissioners is one of fif
teen in a colony Of thirty-five ducks
of all sizes. William H. Bross, fore
man of the reservation farm, seems in
clined to think that the ducklini
cackling because 1t was hatched BY
hen after the mother duck had de
serted the nest.
"It takes after its foster mother,
Bross said. "The Matching out wal
done under a box stall in the stable
and am expecting any day now tt
hear one of the other ducklings neigf
like a horse. It is remarkable wha
effect environment has on thes'
things. We also have a one-eyed gos
ling here. 1t swims sideways, and hal
done 1t 80 much that its feet are turn
ed to meet the unusual condition"
The swans have made a pet of thi
one-eyed gosling and fight OF an!
geese or ducks which try to molest
or steal it's feed II II be thrown on II
blind side.