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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

paraquets with black heads chartered as thew
flew; noisy green and red parrots climbed
among tic palms; and huge ma Jaws, some ell
tirely blue, others almost entirely red, scream
ed loudly as they perched in the trees or took
wing at Our approach. If one was wounded
its cries kept its companions circling around
overhead
The naturalists found the bird fauna totally
different from that which they had been col
lecting in the hill country near Corutnba, 70 or
8O miles distant, and birds swarned, both
species and individuals South America has
the most extensive and most varied avifauna
OF all the continents On the other hand its
mammalian fauna, although very interesting,
is rather poor in number of species and indi-
v1duals and in the size of the beasts 1t pos
sesses more mammals that are unique and dis
tlnctive IN type than does any other continent
save Australia, and they are of higher and
much more varied types than in Australia
But there is nothing approaching the ma esty,
beauty and swarming mass of the mammalian
lite OF Africa and, in a less degree, of tropical
Asia; indeed, it does not even approach the
mammalian life of North America and north
ern Eurasia poor though this is compared
with the seething vitality of tropical life in
the Old World.
Until geologically recent period, a period
extending into that which saw man spread
over the world in substantially the physical
and cultural stage of many existing savages,
South America possessed a varied and strik-
ing fauna of erhormous beasts-sabde-tooth
tigers, enormous lions, mastodons, horses of
many kinds, carnel-lke pachyderrns, giant
ground-sloths, mylodons the size of the rhin-
ocerous, and many, many other strange and
wonderful creatures. From some cause, con-
corning the nature of which we cannot at
present even hazard a guess, this vast and
giant fauna vanished completely, the trenlend-
Gus catastrophe (the duration of which is I'M
known) not being contaminated until within
few thousand, or few score thousand years
When the white man reached South Amer
lea he found the same weak and impoverished
mammalian fauna that exists practically I'M
changed today Elsewhere civilized man has
been even more destructive than his very de-
structive uncivilized brothers of the magnif-
cent mammalian life of the wilderness; for
ages he has been roofing out the higher forms
of best life in Europe Asia and North Africa
and in our own way he has repeated the feat
on a very large scale, in the rest of Africa and
in North America
But in South America although he is in
places responsible for the wanton slaughter of
the most interesting and the largest, or the
most beautiful birds, his advent has meant A
positive enrichment of the wild mammalian
fauna. None of the native grass-eating NAM
mails, the graminivores approach in size and
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09
SE9THRO OUCH THE BRAZILIAN WILDEPNESSkE


At Corumba the weather was hot In
the patio of the comfortable little hotel we
heard the cicadas; but I did not hear the
extraordinary screaming whistle of the To-
connective cicada which had heard in the
gardens of the house in which I stayed at
Asuncion.
This was as remarkable sound as any
animal sound to which have ever listened
except only the batrachian-lilee wailing of
the tree hyrax in East Africa; and like the
East African mammal this South American
insect has voice or rather utters a sound
which so far as it resembles any other ami
NAL sound at the beginning, remotely sug
gests batrachian affinities. The locomotive
whistle part of the utterance, however, re-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

In the neighborhood stood giant fg-trees
slngly or in groups, with dense, dark-green
toliage. Ponds, overgrown with water plants
lay about; wet meadow, and dryer pasture
land, open or dotted with palms and varied
with tree jungle, stretched for many miles on
every hand.
There are some $4,000 head of cattle on the
ranch, besides herds of horses and droves of
swine and few flocks of sheep and goats
The home buildings of the ranch stood in a
quadrangle, surrounded by a fence or low
stockade. One end of the quadrangle was
formed by the ranch-house itself. one story
high, with whitewashed walls and red-tiIed
roof Inside, the rooms were bare with clean
whtewashed walls and palrn-trunk rafters
There were solid wooden shutters on the TN
glazed windows.
we slept in hammocks or on cots. and wa
toasted royalty on delicious native Brazilian
dishes. On another side of the quadrangle
stood another long, low white building with
a red-tiled roof; this held the kitchen and
the living rooms of the upper-grade poems.
the headmen, the cook the jaguar-hunters,
with their families; dark-skinned men. their
wives showing varied strains of white, In
dian and negro blood. The children tum-
bled merrily in the dust, and were fondly
tended by their mothers.
Opposite the kitchen stood a row Of
buildings, some whitewashed daub and
waffle, with tin roofs, others of erect palm
logs with palm-leaf thatch These were
the saddle-room, storehouse, chicken-house
and stable.
An Impoverished Workshop
The chickenhouse was allotted to Kermit
and Miller for the preparation Of the speci-
mems; and there they worked industriously
With big skin, like that of the giant ant
eater, they had to squat on the ground;
while the ducklings and wee chickens
scuffled not only round the skin, but all
over it, grabbing the shreds and scraps of
meat and catching flies
The fourth end of the quadrangle was
formed by a corral and a big wooden
scaffolding on which hung hides and strips
of drying meat. Extraordinary to relate
there were no mosquitoes at the ranch; why
l cannot say, as they ought to swarm in
these vast "pantanals," or swamps.
Therefore, in spite Of the heat, it was very
pleasant. Near by stood other buildings:
sheds and matched huts of palnl-logs in
which the ordinary poems lived, and big cor
rails. In the quadrangle were flamboyant
trees, with their masses of brilliant red
flowers and delicately cut, vivid-green foil
age. Noisy oven-birds haunted these trees.
In high palm in the garden a family of
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

beauty the herds of wild or half-wild cattle
and horses, or so add to the interest of the
landscape.
A Timely Admoniton.
There is every reason why the good people
of South America should walSen, as we of
North America, very late in the day, are be-
ginning to waken; and as the peoples of
northern Europe-not southern Europe
have already partially Weakened, to the duty of
preserving from impoverishment and extinc-
ton the wild life which is an asset of such in
terest and value in our several lands; but the
case against civilized man in this matter is
grewsomely heavy anyhow, when the plain
truth is told, and it is harmed by exaggera-
ton.
After five or six hours travelling through
this country of marsh and of palm forest we
reached the ranch for which we were heading.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

sembled our food, tents, cooking utensils
and supplies of all kinds, and he and Sige.
during their stay in Corumba, had been
putting everything in shape for our start.
Colonel Rondon at the end of his inspec-
ton, said he had nothing whatever to sug-
gest; that it was extraordinary that Fiala,
without personal knowledge of the tropics
could have gathered the things most neces-
Sary, with the minimum bulk and maximum
of usefulness
Miller had made a special study of the
piranhas, which swarmed at one of the
camps he and Cherrie had made in the
Chaco. So numerous were they that the
members of our party had to be exceedingly
careful in dipping up water.
Miller did not find that they were canni-
balls toward their own kind; they were can
nibals" only in the sense of eating the flesh
OF men. When dead piranhas, and even
when MORALLY injured piranhas, with the
blood flowing, were thrown in among the
ravenous living, they were left unmolested.
Moreover, it was Miler's experience, the
direct contrary of what we had been told,
that splashing and commoton in the water
attracted the piranhas, whereas they rarely
attacked anything that was motionless un-
less it was bloody. Dead birds and man.
mails, thrown whole and unskinned into the
water, were permitted to float off unmo-
Tested, whereas the skinned carcass of
good-sized monkey was at once seized,
pulled under the water, and completely de-
voured by the blood-crazy fish
A Wide-Awake Enemy
A man who had dropped something of
value waded in after it above the knees, but
went very slowly and quietly, avoiding
every possibility of disturbance, and not
venturing to put his hands into the water
But nobody could battle, and even the
slightest disturbance in the water, such as
that made by scrubbing the hands vigorous
ly with soap Immediately attracted the at
tention of the savage little creatures, who
darted to the place, evidently hoping to find
some animal in difficulties.
Once, while Miller and some Indians
were attempting to launch boat, and were
making a great commotion in the water, a
piranha attacked a naked Indian who be-
longed to the party and mutilated him as
he struggled and splashed, waist deep in
the stream Men not making a splashing
and struggling are rarely attacked; but if
one is attacked by any chance, the blood
in the water maddens the piranhas, and they
assail the man with frightful ferocity
sembles nothing so much as a small steam
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09
siren. When first heard it seems impossible
that it can be produced by an insect
All Aboard for Las Palmieras.


On December IL Colonel Rondon and sew
eral members of our party started on shad-
low river steamer for the ranch of Senior de
Barros, LAS Palmieras," on the Rio Taquary.
We went down the Paraguay for few
miles, and then up the Taquary. It was
beautiful trip. The shallow river-we were
aground several times-wound through
vast, marshy plain with occasional spots of
higher ground on which trees grew There
were many water birds. Darters swarmed
But the conspicuous and attractive bird was
the stately pabiru stor1. Flocks of these
storks whitened the marshes and lined the
river banks
They were not shy for such big birds be-
fore flying they have to run few PAGES and
then launch themselves on the air Once, at
noon, couple SCARED round overhead in wide
rings, rising higher and higher. On another
occasion, late in the day, a flock passed by,
cleaning white with black points in the long
afternoon lights, and with them were spoon
bills, showing rosy amid their snowy compan-
ions.
Cayinans, always called jacares, swartned;
and we killed scores of the noxious creatures.
They were singularly Indifferent to our ap-
proach and to the sound of the shots. Some
times they ran into the water erect on their
legs, looking like miniatures of the monsters
of the prime
One showed by its behavior how little an
ordinary shot pains or effects these dull-nerv-
ed, cold-blooded creatures AS it Law on a
sandbank it was hit with long ~ bullet 1t
slid into the water, but found itself in the
midst of a school of fish 1t at once forgot
everything except its greedy appetite, and be-
gan catching the fish. It seized fish after fish,
holding its head above water as soon as its
jaws had closed on fish; and second bullet
killed it.
Some of the crocodiles when shot perform
ed most extraordinary antics. Our weapons
by the way, were good, except Miller's shot
gun. The outfit furnished by the American
museum was excellent-except in guns and
cartridges; this gun was so bad that Miller
had to use Fiala's gun or else my Fox 12-bore.
In the late afternoon we secured more in
teresting creature than the jacares. Kermit
had charge of two hounds which we owed TO
the courtesy of one of our Argentine friends.
They were biggish nondescript animals, OBJ
viousy good fighters, and they speedily de-
veloped the utmost affection for all the mem
bers of the expedition, but especially for Ker-
init, who took care of them.
One we named "Shenzi," the name given
the wild bush natives by the Swahili. the semi
civilized African porters. He was good
natured, rough and stuDid-hence his name.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

green paraquets had taken up their abode
and were preparing to build nests They
chartered necessarily both when they flew
and when they sat or crawled among the
branches. Ibis and plover, crying and wall
ing, passed Immediately overhead Jacanas
frequented the ponds near by; the poems,
with familiarity which to us seems cacri-
legious, but to them was entirely inoffensive
and matter of course, called them ''the Jesus
Christ BIRDS" because they walked on the
water.
There was wealth of strange bird life in
the neighborhood. There were large papy-
rus-marshes, the papyrus not being a fifth,
perhaps not tenth, as high as in Africa In
these swamps were many blackbirds Some
uttered notes that reminded me of our own
Continued Page sixl
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09
UPON THE TAQUARY RIVER.

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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

1,5;2S3HE morning after Our ar
MI rival at Corumba l asked
M Colonel Rondon to inspect
(N our outfit, for his expert
X ence of what is necessary in
~ tropical travelling, gained
through quarter of CEN
duous exploration in the wilder
rivaled. 1t was Fiala who had as
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

The other was called by native name, '"Tri-
gueiro"
The chance now came to try them. We were
steaming between long stretches of coarse
grass, about three feet high, when we spied
from the deck black object, very conspicuous
against the vivid green. 1t was a giant ant
eater, or tanandua bandeira, one of the most
extraordinary creatures of the latter-day
world
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-11-07
PUBLIC SALE.
PUBLIC sALE OF REAL ESTATE.


Commissioner's sale.
Doc o.. circuit Court of ohio County
John ~ adams. as
Administrator of the as-
toto of Maria = Paut~ch.
'aaries ilrrhucr 90
a. Defendant
Er virtue uf decree of the circuit
COURT 90 ohio County. rendered iu the
above entitled cause ou fhe 1d dav uf
October 1919. Will ON saturday. Nov
tmher -l~t. 1919. at 10 O'Clock "a. m, az
thc north fruut.door OF The Court House
nf 'hio county. Hffcr Ut public sale the
foliowing described real estate In the
CITY OF Wheeling Ohio County. West
Ntr-iuiu that BE- Go say. al of the south
'rlN IWcntN-SCNer feet t-G feet Of lot
numb "rcd Ten tin1 .u square numbered
Ten llol fronting on the cast side of
Chaplinc street between Tweuty-siNth
and twenty -SeN cufh streets tn the said
city 90 Wheeling ohio County West
Co said city of Wheeling. bounded as
folI fws to-wtt- E"giuninr IN the south
west corner OF ihai part az said Tot cone
NcN-d Co Frederick Martcu by said first
parties by Deed dated February lst.
1905. as ui record ma the office ~ the
clerk off the county Court HI said ohio
county in Deed Book ~. no NJ PAGE
s1-. thence southwsrdiy binding ON the
east lime OF Chaplluc street twenty
seven t-.l i'ft 10 the southwest corner
or said lot. thence castWardly binding
uu the south line OF said lot one Hun
drvd tiUOl feet Co the southeast corner
thereof. thence northWardly binding on
'hc west line or Alley "D' twenty
t-11 feet tu the southeast corner OF said
MHrtau property. thence wCstWarly
binding on south limo OF said Martrn
property ON" Hundred tluoJ feet 60 the
place of beginning.
TERMS OF SNLE--Onc-t third Of the
purchase money. and as much more as
the purchaser shall elect. Co De- paid m
cash ON the day of sale. and the residue
thereof in two equal installm,nts bear
INK interest from the day or sale al six
per D,utum per anuum and payable pa
one and two years from the day or SALE
for va ich deferred payments. tho pur-
chaser shall give his negotiable promiS-
sorry not" bearing interest from thc dHN
OF sale. and payable Co the said special
commissioner tho title Co the property
sold Goo be retained until the payment
900 fuil of the said purchase money and
interest
CLYDE D. AMOS.
Special COMMISSIONS.
hereby D,rfif, that bond and sccur-
ity has been given 10y the above named
special commissioner. as required bN
law and said decree.
IDEN l.. kINElIpEN.
CI.rk OF zinc Circuit Court uI ohio t1uu-
tl. West Virginia
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which arrived az their home Tuesday.
The members uf On. Fastrcr-' rcIe-
pauN on She $50. .Iue Viii hold
meeting in the Rock Line school house
Saturday night. Several Important
business matters will b." taken uu at
this time
Armstrong ard Frtuk Blake cWr-
business visitors Boo EiW Grove Erie
dHv.
e.. ". StsI,kHu was Transactions hu-i-
mess 900 Nuuuu-Nillp "Wednesday.
Ni-S IuSulfa Archer. co. NlHIor~ytl.v.
is visiting Icr cousin. Marie Str.c>liu
John MtWhortsr and IslIr Shoes.
OF Fulton. spent THURSDAY hunting near
Dallas.
Miss Bessie EarIhaIt who has been
Very 100. i- atI. fu ur 30 and around
Mrs Harry N,GlufrrrE .- visiting
hsr PARENTS Ma amt Mrs N.'aEU'. uc
ItffahurLh
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200 BUSINESS MEN WERE
PRESENT DURING TIE
EVENING
Affair Held at Elks' club-Promirent
Business Men and Manufacturers
Deliver Speeches

The annual banquet OF the Martins
Ferry board of trade was held last
evening I'm the Elks hall az Martins
Ferry and close To 200 business mel
from this vicinity sat down to the
banquet which was one OF the finest
ever served I'm Martins Ferry. The
hail was beautifully decorated Tor the
occasion and the event was one that
will be remembered for some time 20
come The banquet was served
promptly az o'clock and all were on
hand al that time The Martins Fer
~ orchestra was on hand and fur
rished music FOR the evcnig
During the evening several ad-
dresses We're made on the rapid pro.
Uress OF the city IN the last few years
and also the good work that can be
accomplished by live board OF trade.
Menu.
The following was served
Cream OF Tomato Waters
Olives Celery
Roast Turkey and Dressing
Scalloped Oysters
Ri,ed Potatoes Hot Rolls
Cranberry Punch
Combination Salad
Neapolitan Ice Cream Cake
Crackers Cheese
Coffee
After they had all enjoyed the GOOD
things that were provided, an excel
lent program was rendered with Mr
William G.. Bergundthal acting as
POSTMASTER.
Mr.. IA. ID. Nintringer. president OF
tine Steubenyille Pottery Co. OF Steu-
benyille. spoke on Advantages That
Come 10 a City Through a Live Board
Of Trade and his talk proved TO be
very interesting TO the large number
Of business men present
Manufacturers Talk
He was followed by Mr. ]. NJ Scott.
president Of the Wheeling Steel &
Iron Co. who talked on The Board OF
Trade from a Standpoint of the Man
uiacturer MIR. SCOTS talk proved
20 be one OF the most impressive
during the evening.
The closing talk was delivered by
Congressman w y. Francis. who
talked on Martins Ferry as a Manu-
featuring Cit He gave a description
OF the city and the excellent opportu-
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Court News

Stani kalinosk VS. Frank lIIcnZIL
verdict for $500 in favor Of plaintiff.
GIN Herman company vs.. +. G. G..
a St l.. Railway company, dismissed
by plaintiff
Jeremiah pIeTboni vs. Theodore
TobOsso. suit FOR S53S rue on CONTRACT
for repairing q Souse Albau. attor-
uey for plaintiff
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STEUBENVILLE

STEUBENVlLLE. o.. Nov. al
though the Republican nomination FOR
congress TWO years hence H. still some
distant. the friends OF W. r. Alban OF
this city have laid plans 90 20 OUT and
make an active campaigu 10 capture
the nomination Nr Alban viii have
no opposition in this county
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ST. GAINESVILLE


ST. GAINESVILLE. g.. Np, the
''i''M lug realty transfers were rled
yesterday iu the recorders ORC.
'c'o from John Major Co Edward
,Sl'nns"n. tract of land situated N
ii'h Tow n~ulp. cons Iteration $1,000
Deed Rom NJ. ~. TIumble. executor
or " est.t" or Martin craig. deceased.
20 MARY VI Craig. tract OF land situ-
at ir Mead township. consideration.
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The official figures on governor and
the amendments iu jefferson are.
Willis 667S. Cox 1920
Home Rule Yes. 1850, no. 7N13.
Taxation Yes. 1872. no. 1870
Suffrage Yes. 1927. no. 432S
Prohibition Yes. 1910. No. 1850.
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I.'e 'Narsslist. Charles A. bloom OF
'sii1. ohio. viii hold revival meet
.N if lnc Christian church beginning
Thursday sv,rin. ~ O'Clock Tbr
services viii Dee continued each even.
inE, and everyone i> cordially invited
q" attend. IL i- anticipated that thee
INC members OF the church expect to-
take great interest 100 the services
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FOR SALE
For SALE.

The Homestead" cottage on
Moundsville Camp Grounds, in
good condition. Address Forest
View Box iO2, Elm Grove. W. Va.
Or call Bell phone 79-L, Elm Grove.
FOR SALE-pIiycr typewriter. good
condition. ~. y smith, Nfl Swami
st rarkfr- burg W Va r-..ff
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MARTINS FERRY TRADE BOARD
HOLD ITS ANNUAL BANQUET

mites that are offered 20 firms seek
ing locations Martins Ferry Is noted
Tor the many railroads that run INTO
the city, ne said. making the shipping
or products out OF the city an easy
matter.
several short talks were also de-
HNercd b. prominent business men Of
Martins Ferry after which all agreed
ln 'Ntending vote OF thanks TO the
Martins Ferry board Of trade for the
pleasant evening that they had AT
ranged
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Expense Account.

Ih~ local candidates are busy max
lNE out their expense accounts FOR rl,
past election They viii file their ace
counts with the board % election a.
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