Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-04-12

who has written volumes about birds
 and beasts, who has camped when in
 pursuit of his studies in every sec
 tion of the United States and in many | other parts of the world. MT. Hen
 shaw has been connected with the
 bureau for a good many years. He | succeeded Dr. c. Hart Merriam as chief of the bureau when the latter left | Uncle Sans service to become the
 chief of the Hartman Geological foundation few years ago.
 Biologists of Fame.
 Others of the biologists of national fame are Dr. A. K. Fisher, who is the great authority on the birds of prey; l D. M. Nelson, who knows to a hair
 every beast of the field and to feath- CT every bird of the air, and Dr. T. s. 1 Palmer, Ornithologist and mammalo- gist, whose particular work just at present, and one in which his heart is | engaged, is the subject of the preser- vation Of the game, both birds and mammals, of the United States. The biologists of the government service own rocky island in the Po- tomac river at some distance from the city of Washington. The island was a neglected spot for years, being un- suited for residence purposes be- cause of it's situation. It is a wild place, and it is the haunt because of it's sequestered location of many rare species of birds, and it also is the abid- ing place of some of the mammals which are not often found in other of encroaching civilization.
 The island tha+ the biologists go to whenever a vacation day comes rises about seventy feet out of the water to rocky point upon the top of which stands a snug cabin with a huge fire place at one end This Is the early spring season in Washington, and the birds are beginning to come back, but all winter long on this island of the biologists the winter birds have been fed constantly and made happy there by even when the snow was drifting and the cold was closing in.
 There are bird breakfast tables, din uGI ldDlGo olIu huppGI ldDlSS SpIGdu all about the biologists cabins.
 There are a good many quail on the mainland near the scientists is- land. The quail are fed in the cold weather when the snow is deep and their natural food, the weed seeds, is covered. Foxes occasionally visit the island, and there is a thriving family of woodchucks, or groundhogs, as some people call them, leading happy existence just below the cabin.
 It is the wish Of the scientists to have growing on the island every spe- cies of wild flower which this section of the country has to offer One by one the species have been gathered and transplanted. In the spring the place is a garden.
 Speedy Cavalry Chasing Villa.
 The speed of an army is the speed of the least speedy of the organiza- tions which make it up. General Per shing when first pushing into Mexico made about thirty-hye miles a day through sand and rocks and thickets and mountain defiles. Army officers in Washington have been watching the outcome of the bandit hunt in Mexico and they are also watching the records of travel made by the troops.
 There are records in the war depart ment of scores of long, hard rides made by American troopers, but there are no records since the Civil war days of speed expeditions" in which so many men were engaged as is the case in the Pershing advance. Taking into consideration the size of the Pershing outfit, the material that it necessarily must carry with it and the awful condition of the country through which it must travel, it perhaps al ready has made new mark for rapid ity of advance.
 The movement of Pershing, how ever, with his thousands of troopers is slow as compared to the records made by small attachments of regu- lars in the past when they were on vital hurry-up errands. Col. Theodore | A. Dodge, United States army, now de- ceased, collected the official records Ol iOlle -ulSIdHC6 cavalry IiucS dllu | them public, so that it was possible to compare them with the performance of soldier horsemen of other nations. Almost Beyond Belief.
 Some of the performances of Amer ican cavalrymen are almost past be- | lief, but they are attested by witnesses | and in most cases the attestation is known to be valid because the hour of starting and the hour of arriving were taken down and put into the official reports.
 In the year 1879 when the Utes sue. ceeded in getting some United States troops into what afterward was known as Thornburg's "rat hole," several mounted troopers succeeded in slip ping through the circling line of say ages. All of them reached the column of General Merritt. ITO miles distant in less than twenty-four hours. The exact time was not taken for as Colo nel Dodge puts it, rescue was of more importance than records"
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