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menagerir for many years n saw
Jumbo killed by a freight train in
Canada.
THE literature of the show" he said,
placed Jumho's weight at ten tons,
which, in my opinion, was alb n twu
tons above the right figure. Neverthe-
less he was the largest elephant eve
captured by man, II hes des was a
kind, sensible GA fellow.
He tried to beat the train down the
track and escape, | going ahead Of
him as fast as | cou.d. hut he was hit
IN the leg and doubled up, the engine
and three cars being thrown into the
ditch by the collision. lie saw the
headlight # the iocomotivc--wc were
loading the animals after n.ghtfall-
and was Intelligent enough 10 know
that he would he run over unless he
got off the main me. but he couldn't
find an opening between IN" cars
standing on either side Of the track"
For ncar.v n quarter of Il century
Mr.. Blackburn has been the land
lord. educator. physician and regulator
OF tnCc Sans Wild animal colony in
Washington. More chan 100 creatures
from the Woods and Jungles are his
boardcrS, pupils and pat ents.
I Brcai. made after HIS " recipe, is
baked in the park for the bears. n
700 pound bear getting about eighteen
pounds daily. There il q kitchen
where vegetables are cooked for some
of the other animals. Pigeons and
chickens are raised for the large
snakes.
An anaconda" Mr.. Blackburn said.
will eat about eleven chickens a year
and viii XIII them more quickly than
We can 10 the trick curse. YES. The
chicken Will be caught by II lightning
thrown around il instantly. In II mo-
mcnl it Is dead.
"lhvsicians declare that a great
many human beings die from overeut-
ing. \ snake never does. lie knows
when he has mad enough. The alleged
wisdom of serpentS may he based IN
th"r dietary practices, have taken
many live chickens OUT of cages con-
tanning big snakes, though the chickens
had been walking around among the
snakes for "A day and "A night. A lion
or "A tiger Wi. eat from twelve To
fourteen pounds of meat "A day"
Alsu Mr., Blackburn is n wild animal
doctor.
H." "pa.dS, wolves, elephants and 50
on" ii" said, cant he treated medi-
cally in the same manuc as Fan horses
and cows, Their sense of smell is Sd
acute that they will detect medicine In
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I'll, million, -, ~
south jersey from which th,, f,,,r..
tiuu of the y,rI,, !.
planned has u market vain, ,f l.,i.
more than fifty dollars am lcr, r.ir,
IN close proximity To large centres ~
population labor is easily ur,ossL.
S"Ncn-tcnths of the total rumbor n,
those who own farms I'm New Icr,,r
hired labor during the pas, ycnr anal
the average amount annually o>,,cri,,
for hired help amounted to ,uIv stsa
a farm.
I'm, tho ,d,,r,.,.. .O.
s,,,c :, %, ,,r, F "e
because ,hcy ar, .,c,,,,,,,, ,r'
conditions n,e,u cb,,,aI ~
The VERY. mon wb, l., ,.,,,, "
thei. faces ,ov.,rl -. a,.
member tho ch,rn. -, 81.
Irnroved cnrd;,i,n. oe ,rau,
mick and 1iro,,
The bir centres -, ,,,,,,in,t-a
len, schools and 4, h.,,,h,.
. men, that anr,a,s o.,o,i,,,, =. ,r.
lnnn ,,,Ear r.,, ..,
he farmers of Wost.rn t
rnrn,ar,, va,, and AVIAN ,a, - r.n,
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Model poultry plant of New Jersey Agricultural College at New Brunswick.

sweet potatoes in New Jersey Will he
over three and a half million
bushels. From Monmouth county
alone more than loco. coo bushels of
have been shipped this fal,
to nearby markets for consumption.
Practically all tho other POTATOES
raised in the State come from the
neichboriuG count of salem. The
three WI of Salem. Elmer and
Woodstown made a combined record
Of 600 carloads for the soI~on.
Gloucester county this fall has sold
more than 800, 900 crates If TOMATOES
direct To- the residents OF Philadelphia.
II would Ne unfair to cave the SUBJ
jeCt of New Jerseys farming puss h'li-
ties without mentioning the cranberry
industry. Ten Thousand acres in
southern Jersey aye used for produce
ing crauberricS for nearby markets..
This years crop has been estimated
at about 800. 90, barrels and it's value
will he little less than Cd million dol
lars.
The raising OF cr,nhcrri"s is de-
Ncrih,d as a particularly !Jy.in- in
uu>trN. Their" remain "a south Jersey
thousands Of acres that may hc cleared
at an uvrrIe" cost "f s. an acre. Tn
like cranberry farms in Their sections.
New Jersey rich marsh lands hc@!a
to bear the third year following plt"t-
ing. \ profit paying crop j. generally
raised during the fifth year AVID the
nf" of a New Jersey cranberry meadow
pr p,ily cleared and So, uut l. u(,ca
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Picking time in a Monmouth county apple orchard.
Plan of the State to Reclaim Waste
Land Enough to Feed Entire
Metropolitan Area

whose nature and character show IL
responsive to cultivation. In these
sever counties, whose land area is
practically equal to that Of the State
Of Iowa. there are less than 500, 900
acres of what is commonly charac-
tcrized as improved land. Less than
80 per cent of these 1900, 900 acres is
given over to productive farming.
of New Jersey must first solve the
comparatively simple problem OF con-
verting many square miles of stunted
oak and pine forests into fertile
fields. He has many advantages to
encourage him. The soil is a COM
bination of sand. clay, gravel and mari
declared by agriculturists to he the
very best for gardening purposes. So
level are the broad eXpanses of waste
land within these counties that there
are few places where an elevation Of
more han eleven feet above sea level
is recorded.
Prof. a. J. Rider, treasurer Of the
state Board Of Agriculture. and AL
fred Gaskill, head of the recently or
Ganizcd Conservation Commission. are
convinced that ali New Jersey needs
to interest n half million new settlers
in her million acre garden venture is
publicity.
1T isn't the price of foods that is
to blame for the high cost Of living
said Mr.. Gaskill. 1T is sweltcring
nights, children ON the streets, the
father of the family bent over the
bench for hours at a time. That is
the rouble And all the time more
are consuming and fewer producing
the wealth contained in our soils. We
want to draw such men to our small
towns and villages. where, they can
have an opportunity to produce some
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their food and 50 we have TO starve
them ana deprive them Of water AZ
times, ! have developed my own list
of remedies and might set up as a
ion and tiger doctor If prospective
patients were more numerous. ! can
likewise treat birds and snakes.
Moose. caribou, the prong horned
antelope, mountain sheep and goats
and me Columbia black tailed deer. all
native Americans, by the way. soon
sicken and die when brought down
from the high attitudes in which ,hey
are accustomed to live. Some animals,
too. have strange appetites ana fail IN
health If they can't get what they
want. The reindeer in Alaska eat
moss, in which there is little nuurisl'-
mont. and the caves and young bark
OF willow trees, hut they viii not touch
hay ~ grain. Experiments are now
being made 10 eac young reindeer to
eat oatmeal. but | am told The chances
Of success ar" mo- very promising"
For Twelve seasons he took part in
Barnum's stree parades. He was
asked If any of the animals with which
he . ever tried to deVour him.
Well" ne replied, ali of them, |
SUPPOSE, privately longed to sample
me and several of them tried to do 50,
but here | am. whole of limb and
body. with only the scars of a few
scratches accidentally or purpoSely in
n.ctcd. ! have been in some tight cor
ner., but man IS IA thinking machine
and the odds are with him So long as
he doesn't lose his head
MY greatest scare occurred on that
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and markctin" the crops Is practically
the only one after the original cost of
clearing the marshes.
And while considcr.ng the subject
of valuations IL might he Of interest
To call ~ttentlo to the fact that the
raising of poultry is now being con-
sider.d seriously hv the big truck
farmers in south Jersey. From fic-
rr.s co,rpilcd during the present sum
m.r u is asserted that poultry valua-
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~ VIC lions fighting in their winter
quarters at Bridgeport bent
the bars of their cage out of
shape. They had been separated
and stood with lashing tails and
half open mouths in opposite corners
The keeper got tools and entered
the cage to repair the damage, or
dering William II, blackburn, the
nearest man in sight, to follow him.
Blackburn was a Philadelphia boy
and was learning the snow business
under i. 7, Barnum.
IL trembled all over as ! obeyed
the order Mr.. Blackburn said in his
narrative of the incident. Lions and
myself had never met before on so
intimate "A footing, Immediately l
experienced what properly may be
called "A startling magnitication vision.
The man who unexpectedly sees a
little black bear in the woods
gives it afterward, as long as he lives,
OXlike dimensions. Fishermen too en-
hibit the same optical idiosynCrasy.
mo, ! would not call them liars,
since that cary event in my life as
an animal trainer has given me a
fellow feeling with all persons who
under the shock of fear or excite
ment transform rlhDits into wildcats
and copperheads into boa constructors.
Those lions standing ON all fuurs APP
peared to he ten fee high.
'OnCc IA nan wrote and asked how
much | would give for "A wolf that
was three feet tall at the shoulders.
He had seen the wolf and meant ia
trap him. replied that would pay
$50 for a wolf tIGt was two feet
three inches at the shoulders and
would allow u bonus of $40 for every
inch above those figures. Send me
the wolf said, and | will mai! YOU
O check for $40 So ended our CORE
spondcnce.'
Mr.. Blackburn entered the lions
den at Bridgeport t%hirty-siV years ago
From that time to this he has LIVED
among the wild creatures Of the earth
lie is big, strong, alert and nctiv,
and Is as competent as eve to train
rons. tigers and elephants. lie is now
the head animal keeper of the Unite,
States Government, being ASSOCIATED
with the Smiths Man Institution ant
on daily duty at the National Xoo.oai,
cal park IN washington Practically
II not Theoretically, he has "A better
understanding Of wild beasts than any
other man in this country. lie was
resistant superintendent Of Barnum's
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FEW Jerseys official attempt
to reduce the cost of living
may seem to many to have
been long delayed. However. few
will dispute that there remains
much to he accomplished in bringing
the necessities Of life within the means
Of the average citizen.
The Conservation Commission cs-
tablished by the state of New Jersey
on July 1 has already announced its
intention Of using its powers and re-
sources to influence lower prices for
those commodities recognized by all
housekeepers as daily necessities. And
the new Conservation Commission OF
New Jersey does not Plan to 20 to
the courts or conduct long. tedious
and expensive Investigations to bring
about these changes. The members
are OF one opinion: that New Jersey
furnishes the natural means for the
long sought relief from the high price
evil. They plan to make of New Jer-
sey a million acre garden from which
more than ten million persons who
make their homes on its borders may
be provided with the products of the
soil during the entire year.
BY careful development and scientific
cultivation it is believed that New
York city's million acre garden may
be within "A decade equally as valuable
to the inhabitants of Philadelphia,
Baltimore and even Washington. In
q single section of New Jersey there
are more than a million acres from
which practically nothing j. produced.
Seven counties, Ocean. burlington,
Camden. Gloucester, Salem. Cumber-
land and Cape May. have land areas
totalling about 1900 900 acres. of
which about 40 per cent. is farm land.
In this section alone there are more
than a million acres of waste land
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then for several days showed r 20
ms aStorishcd friends bN ut.N
long straws back and furtl .t....-t
the wound.
another m"nkcN NuII -,' n
piece Of hay and nsr POO $50
w~atcrhugS ont Of the ,l.,n-
cage, II required some ,iun.I- 49,
advance L. ia such "A tl.u- ...'
hut the ANNA, that lI.us~
and At best can't - Very faf y
moving and living rrcatile~ az, -N-
ernod by their instincts 'jr>, 700 we
teCt themselves. second 'p -' .nl
for themselves and tu.rd e. r,i. .t''
themselves. .\nd thcr" the,
81 don't humar.2e an,ma'-. We
Lived too long amoUs ia"iu 'n eve
them attributes they dua'i iu~~'-s
They can't lac raised up or upIt'.. ,
some good persons phrase \
leopard will always be a leopard ''r-
turtles can't change him. \ Will u,r,
however, may hc caught In the woods
taught Ia eat with q knife and frn
and to read and write. His genera
tons will constantly improve IT,"
American Indian is an illustration n
point. Many Indians have become az
lists, engineers and poets,
1.-THE war in Europe has cu' ~ ne
supply Of animals coming from AFRICA
and the Orient. Practically, The Ger
mans have a monopoly OF the hG~.HeS,
and Hamburg is the greatest ~ a."
wild animal markets. In normal tines
a fine black named lion VII So. fo'
$1,000, an ordinary adult lion for ''''
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me with his nose. My last hour had
come. So ! thought.
II stood mp, the head of the lion still
under my Scottish skirts. and backed
to the centre of the cage, where an iron
partition was strapped 10 the roof, II
was hours. it seemed 10 mo, hrfurc ]
got the partition loose.
"In the mclntim" tho lions nose
was hard against my stomach and
he Wa breathing horribly, bat mot
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-08
SAYS WEST VIRGINIA
LIKES PROHIBITION
Fred Blue. Commissioner Of Prohibi-
ton. Tells Anti-Saloon League
State Is Not Rankrupt.

Atlantic City. July West Virginia
has been so successful in the enforce
ment of its drastic prohibition liquor law
which went into effect just a year ago.
that the State Is permanently committed
to its new policy. and not in the slightest
danger of giving way to the anti-prohibi-
ton pressure which has been brought TO
bear upon it. according to Fred o. Blue.
the commissioner of prohibition in West
Virginia.
In an address before the national con-
vention Of the Anti-Saloon League of
America here today, Mr.. Blue said West
Virginia had demonstrated that prohibit
ton will prohibit-that prohibition law
can be enforced. and quoted testimony
from both the employees of labor and
the heads of labor unions to the effect
that conditions had been remarkably i'm
proved. He charged that the liquor in
terests were spending large sums of
money to create the impression that
West Virginia was bankrupt because she
no longer collected revenue from the
liquor business.
West Virginia is not now. and has not
been. a bankrupt State" said Mr.. Blue.
THE State is in as healthy a financial
condition as any State in the Union
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Wireless Violation of Neutrality.

J 4 few years ago there was some strong tall
| in the United States the fact that the Ger,
mans had erected a wireless station at Sayville
| The arguments then used were that the German
| government, during time of uncensored dis
| patches, might be able to make of valuable
information which would be antagonistic to the
interests OF the United States. The affair was
passed by and nothing was thought of the great
value of the station at Sayve, until the present
broke out.
1t now comes to light that the Germans may
have been using secret code in the transmission
OF some OF their messages, and to an extent that
would be violation of the neutrality laws. This
secret code, the instrument by which the code
is made possible seems to have been invented
by a certain DR.. 1sidore Kitsee Of Philadelphia
who declares that at the time of its sale he did
not know to what it was to be put and that
if he had known, the invention would never have
passed out of his hands. Pertinent to the fact
that the Germans may have this code in their
possession, is the presence OF the great wireless
authority, DR.. Zenneck, in this country, and more
particularly in the immediate neighborhood of
Sayve. The Germans did not send DR.. Zen
neck TO this country for his health at this stage
of the game, because men of his stamp abso-
lutcy necessary in Germany during the course
of the He here, therefore, on no
small mission and that mission would seem to
be, the trying out of the code at Sayyille
DR.. Zenneck, is a pre-eminent authority on wire
less, and his book on the subject is the best that
Germany has put out in the last decade. So
valuable is it. that John Hays Hammond, jr., had
complete translation made for his personal use
in working out some of the great problems that
confronted him in trying to arrive at system
of seectivty
The question naturally comes up as to what
our own experts were doing when valuable
an invention thrown upon the market; and
arc to allow valuable pirated inventions to be
used to defeat the object of our own lawss
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John L. Not at His Best.

1t wasn't polite message that John L. Sui
livan, once the champion heavyweight, sent tc
the Anti-Saloon League convention at Atlanti,
City when he was informed that Gen. Nelson A
Miles had refused to speak against liquor from
the same platform with Sullivan. John L. wired
Il have no desire to address convention oil
bigotry and -mndedpess which hold.
sway with pretense of doing good, and which
is presided over by an arrogant prejudiced, self
conferred strutting old peacock, now in his dot
age. | have never been jealous of any fighter
Why should Miles be jealous of me. Yours
for temperance, John L. Sullivan" The old
fighters incorporate language indicates that he
has been taking his temperance lessons in the
Billy Sunday school, And as for dotage. Sulli-
van began fighting in the prize ring before Nile,
had finished fighting indians.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-08
ANTI-SALOONISTS LAUD
PRESIDENT WILSON
National League Commends Chief
Executive for Standing by APP
proval of State Prohibition.

Atlantic City. n. J.. July THE Ma
tional Board of Directors Of the Anti
Saloon League OF America, at an eXecu-
tive session today adopted resolutions
urging Congress to submit to the States
the proposed amendment to the Federal
Constitution providing for national pro-
hibition. The board also passed a reso-
luton urging legislation that will prevent
the use of the mails for the advertising
of intoxicating liquors in dry territory.
Another resolution adopted commended
President Wilson for refusing to re-
nounce. despite strong pressure. a letter
he Is said to have written when gov
ernor of New Jersey to a citizen of Texas
in which Mr.. Wilson is said to have de-
clared that State prohibition is proper
where public sentiment is ripe for 1t.
Members of the league are urging an
other resolution to call upon Congress
sional representatives in their respective
districts to support any measure that
will bring about national prohibition.
Former Gov. Eugene n. Foss, of Mas
sachusetts. spoke on Failure of Regu-
lation in Massachusetts," Referring to
license. he said 1t was a colossal failure
In checking drunkenness
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u5agz.

ed the blankets around them and in
closed the Indian in the folds of the
blanket so that he was between them.
They so skillfully arranged the blan-
kets and made so secure a prisoner or
the Indian that they felt perfectly
safe in going to sleep. They did not
think he would get away or even try
to get away without awakening them.
But in the morning, when they
woke. they found the Indian had es-
capped. He must have spent the great
er part of the night in wriggling inch
by inch very cautiously out of the
blanket. He did this so skillfully that
he did not awake neither of the broth
ers. BY looking at the ground they
saw that the Indian had made tracks
toward the distant camp. They there
before the expected attack was made
and by pushing the cattle to their ut
most they at last reached the out
skirts of Salt Lake City and, looking
behind them, saw the Indians riding
as rapidly as possible toward them.
Had they been a few miles farther
away, the Indians would have caught
up to them before they reached Sar
Lake City and would undoubtedly
have massacred the entire body and
then driven the cattle and horses TO
afterward learned that these Indians
had been watching them from the
time they rounded up the cattle and
started for Salt Lake City. and II
they had not kept the roaming Indian
a prisoner for the greater part of the
night they would probably have been
attacked that night"
Copyright. 1875. by Z. J. Edwards. All rights re-
ssrredJ
Tomorrow DR.. Edwards will tell
How the San Francisco Banks Kept
Open"
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Admiral Lord Fisher has been appointed
chairman OF the "Invcrtions Board" Great Britain
having decided to organize her scientists to COM
bat German ingenuity in dcvisng implements and
methods OF warfare. 1t must be admitted that so
far the outside world has been permitted to
know, scientists have not contributed much TO
highlands strength since the war began, and ap-
parently she is at present in need of the in
vcntionS than the board.
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With socialism taught under the name of
psychology in our colleges, and anarchy preached
in public squares by such characters as Emma
Goldman. 1t is not strange that the professors and
common people alike occasionally run amuck If
Holt had only killed himself-did he really kill
elf?-before he had spread terror in a dozen
places, there might have been some satisfaction
in the fact that he the victim of his own dis
ordered brain, and the world would have been a
gamer by his death. But unfortunately these
maniacs find too many preachers to show the way
TO martyrdom TO allow of peaceful exit from
earthly existence, and a result leave behind
them trail of blood. Can it be wondered at,
however, that these OF disordered intellect
commit crime here or there, when the Emperor
of great and generous people is ordering whole
sale murder and his grovelng satellites are glory
ing in the act. The name of the Lusitania will
carry its blood-red stain to the last page of Ger
man history. nor can the water of the ocean wash
it out =.