The Green Forest tribune., 1916-04-14

I
 love their fellow men.
 The chief of the bureau of blologf
 cal survey is Henry w. HenshaW'
 who has written volumes about blrds
 and beasts, who has camped when Ill
 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. lie
 succeeded Dr. c. Hart Merriam as
 chief of the bureau when the latter le1t | Uncle Sams 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; | E. M Nelson, who knows to a halr every beast of the field and to feath-
 CT every bird of the air, and Dr. T. $.
 Palmer, ornithologist and mammalo-
 gist, whose particular work just at l 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 a 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 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 places near Washington in these days of encroaching civilization.
 The island tha+ the biologists go to whenever vacation day comes rises about seventy feet out Of the water to a 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 ner tables and supper tables spread 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 thriving family of woodchucks, or groundhogs, as 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. --z.z.-.ysg..s,szz=-.s=z.
 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-fve miles a day | through sand and rocks and thickets and mountain detiles. 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.
 ;,, I, 5oo If ment of scores of long, hard rides made by American troopers, but there are no records since the Civil wal | 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 1t must carry with it and the awful condition of the country through | which it must travel, it perhaps al ready has made a 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 detachments 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 of long distance cavalry rides and made 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 i 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 l 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