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Middletown transcript., 1917-11-17
EstiIl-Col!ins Wedding

Miss Rebecca Collins, daughter Of
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Vaughan S. Collins,
formerly of this town, but now of Sails
burg, Md, and John Dice Estil, of Will
mngton, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Floyd Estill, of Lewisburg, W. w.,
were married at noon on last Saturday
at the home of the brides parents at
Salisbury Md. The bride, who was
unattended wore charming afternoon
gown of blue velvet, an old rose hat and
corsage bouquet Of vioIets and sweet
heart roses. The Rev. DR.. Collins faith
er of the bride officiated DR.. Collins
is superintendent of the Salisbury dis
trict Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Following the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served, after which Mr..
and Mrs. Estil went to Wilmington
where they will spend several Yne y
Mr.. Estill, who has been emplrlur "
the Atlas Powder Company, has resign
ed his position with the company and
has enlisted with the aviation section of
the Signal Corps and expects to 60 in
to service about the first of next month.
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RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE

Philadelphia, Pa. November Z, 1917.
POSTMASTER:
Supplementing our letter of Novem-
ber 1st, herewith enclosed, relative to
the receipt of parcel post packages for
delivery to Soldiers of the United States
Expeditionary Forces in France. the
following instructions from the Depart
ment are submitted to you for your
guidance in connection with the weight
of these parcel post packages being
twenty (2O) pounds instead of seven (O
pounds, as stated in ours of November
1st
lowing to the limited and irregular
shipping f ABILITIES available for hand
ling the large amount Of Christmas par
GELS for the troops, the War Department
has consented 70 receive and deliver
through its channels of communication
to soldiers in France, Christmas pack
ages for soldiers up to 20 pounds in
weight WHEN ADDRESSED as fol-
lows:
"Name of Soldier,
Unit to which he belongs,
''Care of Commanding General,
Port of Embarkation, Pier l,
HOBOKEN. N. j."
packed and mailed in accordance with
the following regulations:
"All parcel-post matter must conform
to the postal regulations and in addition
mist be inclosed in wooden boxes with
not exceeding 20 pounds for the pack
age, the box to measure not to exceed
2 cubic ,et in volume, to be Of wood,
to be well strapped, and to have a
hinged or screw top to facilitate open
ing and inspecting. No perishable food
products other than those inclosed in
cans or glass jars should be packed in
any such shipment.
''Such parcel-post matter should be
marked ''Christmas Box" and should
reach the Commanding General, Port
Of Embarkation, Hoboken, N. j., Pier
l, on or before Dec 5. 1917
''The rate of postage on all parcel
post matter intended for men in the
service abroad, whether sent through
the mail service direct under the TIP ,und
limit or sent in care OF the Command
ing General, Port of Embark alton, for
delivery by military authorities to the
addresses, is IL cents pound
Please be governed accordingly and
give all possible publicity to all these
instructions so that every advantage
may be given the patrons of your Of
flee in dispatchiag Christmas packages
to men in the service abroad.
j. ]. SCOTT,
Chief Clerk.
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WARWICK

Mrs. William Vinyard spent last week
with philadelphia friends.
Miss Eula Vinyard is attending Insti-
tute, held in Wilmington. this week.
Miss Bessie Gunkel was week end
guest of Mrs. G. J. Hill at Centreville
Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maxey Bland and family
were guests of MarshalIton friends Jr
Sunday.
Mr.. Davis z. Yealman, Of Ke'lnet+,
Square, Pa, was Sunday guest 81 M ,ss
Eula Vinyard.
Quite a number from here Intended
the minstrel, held in Middatown, on
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. T B. Vinyare spent Saturday and
Sunday in North East, gust of Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy johnson.
Miss Name Merritt returned home
Saturday after two weeks stay with
Wilmington relatives.
Mrs. R. B. Merritt Sr. spent several
days last week with her son, Mr. q. n.
Merritt and family, in Wilmington.
Mrs Jamie Hall entertained her
daughter Mrs, John Smith and children
of Middletown, Saturday and Sunday.
Aid Society held its regular business
and social meeting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Bishop on Thursday
evening.
Miss Alice Smith, of Wilmington,
spens Saturday and Sunday with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith. of
near town.
Messrs. Howard Bishop, of Morris
town, Pa, and Lester Bishop, Of near
Chesapeake City were Sunday visitors
at the home of their parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. E F. Bishop. of near town.
Ladies of the VI. P Church will hold
an oyster and poultry supper in P. o.
S. of A. Hall on Thursday and Friday
evenings, 22d and 23d Of November.
Come out and help the worthy cause.
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RED CROSS

The Cross-a small neat stain where
blood has been,
The Cross that whispers hope to fight
ing men.
The Red, Red Cross-lhat bears its sim.
pie grace,
In tolors of the heart; within firm
:, embrace
The work at the Club House continues
to flourish Our gauze cutters are
most faithful. In four days they have
cut up 500 yds. Of gauze. When you
consider that a thread must be dram
every time piece is cut you can realze
that this has meant some work. The
new members this week are Mrs. J ohm
R. Ward, indianapolis; Mrs. James
Moore, Edna Carpenter, LesterNaylor,
William H. Brady. The ClU House
is open for work everu afternoon ex-
cept Tuesday from 1.30 to 5. There
is work for every body. y
Don't forget the Y. NJ G. A this
week. The money will 60 to taking
care Of our soldiers am sailors, both
physically and morally and it couldn't
posVs,y be put to better use. Do your
bit Nd the result viii take care of it.
self The Red Truhgle is On duty
wherever our boys are in khaki. keep
Ing the house ties from breaking. Our
boys will give their lives to make Amer
lea safe for you What will you sacri-
flee to give them touch of home life,
so that our millions of soldiers. who go
with the colots. shall keep true to their
home ideals? can unbeaten nation,
nation which means not to be beaten,
k ,eps its soldiers "fit", morally, mental
ly and physically. If it doesn't do that
it is beaten.
Contributions can be sent to Fred
erick Brady and must be in by Monday.
'3y their gifts shall you know them. !"
The question is: Will you be known?
HELEN f. BRADY
Chairman of Surgical Dressings.
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Regular Missionary Meeting

The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's s Home and Foreign Missionary
societies was held at the home off Mrs.
w. B. Wilson. near town, last Mbndxs
evening. Routine business of sach
society was transacted. Miss Nysry
j. Wilson was elected secretary OF the
Foreign auxiliary, Mrs. John G Arm
strong having resigned, owing to her
moving to Wilmington in short time.
Interesting articles, in regard to the
work in the foreign fields wofe read by
Mrs. E. w. Caswell, Mrs. John =. Arm
strong and Miss Emily Alice; also' a
brief account of the receft annual meet
ing of the Pbiladelphia Brancn OF the
". IaaS Warr5t1 Tba FTaa ps.
csn,hsr is vii be held at the
homs IL Two schce,erd with the Queen
Tin Wilmingt5
NI. N.Y. hen of the seco1icious refresh.
men, in wireless s.hly enjoyed the
end that SUCH
soe armv as cana
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Y. M. G.. A. War Work

Charles w. Bush, ESQ.,, now station
ed at Fort Oglethorpe, Ca, made a
very interesting address in St. Anne's
Church last Sunday morning. on the
war work the Young Mems Christian
Association is doing in the Army and
Navy. both in this country and in
Europe. The congregation was inter-
ested in the discussion of this most inn
portant work.
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OBITUARY
REV. w. H. HUTCHIN

After a long illness Rev. William
Henry Hutchin passed away calmly ant
peacefully at his home on Cass Street
at TO- Is o'clock on Friday night. Novem-
ber 9th, aged 70 years. Mr.. Hutchir
was retired minister in Middletowr
since 1905, from the New Hampshire
NJ. E. Conference, frequently filling
various pulpits for brief periods. In
his early ministry he was member OF
the Wilmington Conference. He was
born in Philadelphia, son of Amos and
Mary Ann Brooke Hutchin, and at the
call of President Lincoln for troops at
the breaking out of the Civil War res
ponded and served the time of his en-
listment in the army, after which he
went to Cambridge, Md, and was en-
gagged in the real estate business for
brief. time. He served Bridgeville Cir
cult, 1868; Cambridge, Md. i 1869.7O;
Crisfeld, Md; 1915; Agent Whining
ton Conference Academy, Dover, 1874;
Seaford, 1875; Chestertown, Md, 1876 g.;
Odessa, Del, 1879-81; Newark, 1882;
Fairmount, Md, 1885; Greensborough.
Nd, 1868 Transferred to the NJ H.
Conference, Tilton, 1882; Lawrence,
Mass. First Church, 1898 1900; Supply,
1901, Manchester, ST. James: Somers-
worth, 19O2-4; S'y, 19O5-9. He con-
itnued a member Of the New Hamp-
shire Conference until his death. He
was an earnest spea' .r, faithful PAS
tor and was beloved by all who knew
him, and especially by the people he
was called tc serve. He was a mem,
Der of Doric Lodge, No. 78, A. F. and
A. M, of elton, N. H., and ST. Omer
Chapter, 20. %, R. A. NJ, of Franklin,
N. H.
sIr. Fltchin married Miss Elizabeth
Reedy, of Milford, who died about six
years ago. He leaves two children,
Miss Mary Hutchin, who resided with
him and w. Harry Hutchin, of Mime
aptlis He also leaves one sister, Mrs.
T H. Medford, of Cambridge, Nd.
I Funeral seevices were held at his late
residence on Monday afternoon at one
o'clock, in charge of Rev. J. w. Jones,
assisted by Rev. Percy L. Donaghay,
the remains being taken by automobile
hearse to Milford for interment.
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Pleasing Recital

The recital gwen in the New Century
Club House last Friday evening, by
Mrs. Leonard E. Wales. ..sopraao and
Miss Marjorie Hill pianist b ,th of Will
mlngton, was one of the most pleasing
and entertaining musical affairs evei
given in the Club House. The music
loving public Of this community is in
debted to Mrs. Ethel Brown IN bringing
these | ,dies here, Apd making the pro-
gram successful in yery way.
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Forest Church Notes
Sunday, November 18th, 1917.

Sunday, November 18th. 1917.
1890 A. M. Public worship with SER
mon.
11.45 A. M. Sunday School session.
Men are cordially invited to attend the
Pastors Bible Class.
2.3OP. NJ Armstrong Chapel Sunday
School.
6.45 2. M. Christian Endeavor SER
vice. Topic: Our "Denominational For
eign Mission Boards: Their History and
Achievements Isa. 55-13.
7.2OP NJ Evening service with SER
mon.
Wednesday evening, Prayer meeting.
Do not forget to give literally this
week to the Y. NJ C. A. collection for
the work among our soldiers and sail
ors. The pastor will receive contribu-
tions and forward them to the commit
tee.
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Inspect Mill Dams

The Levy Court and County Engineer
James Wilson will inspect the mill dams
day Saturday at eleven o'clock.
These two dams W re broken by a
heavy storm few weeks ago and both
the court and owners are planning to
replace them in more substantial man.
ner than heretofore.
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Who Made The Kaiser

Some folks were made to be soldiers
And the Irish were made to be Cops.
Sauerkrout was made for the Germans
And Spaghetti was made for the Wops
Fish were made to drink water
And buns were made to drink booze.
Banks were made to keep money
And money was made for Hebrews.
All things were made for something
Except the Stacker and miser.
God made Wilson for President
But who in the He'll made the Kaiser I?
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Young Soldier Injured

While riding a horse I'M camp at
Louisville, KY, Wednesday of last week
Capt C. Kendall McDsueII met with
serious accident when aiolh M officer's
horse made 'iunge colIidiug With Capt.
McDowell's horse which resulted in 9
badly broken ankle for, tie young man.
Capt Mcnowell's many lifIends here
will regreA ito learn Of hid nisfortdns. !
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FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Items About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND co

Miss Blanche Deakyne spent last Sat.
urday in Philadelphia.
Mrs. L. E. Cullen visited relatives in
Philadelphia over the weekend.
Mrs. j. E. Walls has Mrs. A. Harlan
Elliott, of Philadelphia for a guest.
Dr., G. B Pearson, of Elkton, spent
the week end with his family here.
| Miss Elma Deakyne visited Miss Es-
telle Beaston. of Wilmington, recently.
Mrs. &. B. Pearson entertained Mrs.
Howell Buckingham, of Dover, on We'd
nesday.
Mrs. E. H. Beck is entertaining her
aunt Mrs Jane Paris Hughes, of Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Aichard S. Rodney. of New Cas-
tie; visited her mother Mrs. E. C. Green
last week.
Mrs. A. Fogel and daughter Laura
are spending this week with friends in
Baltimore.
Mrs. R. r. Cochran is visiting her
daughter Mrs. L. E. Hutchinson at
Trenton, NJ J.
Mrs. Julian G. Cleaver was entertain
ed last week by Mrs. Mary Hampton,
of Philadelphia.
Mrs. T.S. Fouracre, Carolina and Mas
ter Thomas Fouracre were in P.iiladel-
phia part of this week.
Mrs. M. T. Barnett and Mr.. Taylor
Barnett spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. James Collins.
Mrs. Curtis Millman. and two daugh-
ters, of Wood side, visited her mother
Mrs. Rosa Weber Wednesday.
Messrs. Ray Dickson and Theodore
Whitlock, of Wilmington, spent the
weekend at their homes here.
Miss Olive Lockwood, of Wilmington,
was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mel
lie C. Lockwood, o1er Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Wilson had
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bittle, of Philadel-
phia, for visitors over Sunday.
Mrs. G. W. Lockwood has returned
home after visit with her sister Mrs.
Edward NIiffiin at Ridley Park, Pa.
Mr.. and MIS- Edward S. Jones spent
several days last week with Mrs. Mar
garet Darlington, of Baltimore, Md.
DR.. and Mrs. M. 8. Burstan and little
son, of Chester. were Monday guests
of his parents Mr. and Mrs. 5. Burstan.
Miss Fannie Shepherd spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mrs. John Clendaniel
and Miss Schrietz near Kennedyville,
Md
Mrs. Ella C. Southland and daughter
Mrs. Philip Southland. Of Wilmington,
are visiting DR.. and Mrs. w. S. P,
Combs.
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph R. Heldmyer
and children and Mr.. John Heldmyer
were guests of friends in Philadelphia
Sunday.
Mrs. Ethel Gilbert and Mrs. Florence
Clemmens, of Philadelphia, are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Hurd near Nc
Donough.
Mr. and Mrs. Royden E. Wilson and
son Earle and Mr.. Clifford Pyle were
Sunday guests of Mrs. Hattie Eliason
in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hurd entertain
ed on Sunday Mrs. Ethel Gilbert, Mrs.
Jacob Rhodes and son, Mrs. john He'll
er, Misses Anna, Laura and Madeline
Hurd, and Messrs. John, James, Char
les and George Hurd.
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Bethesda Church Notes

Sunday. November 18th, 1917.
Brotherhood, Sunday, $50 A. M.
Preaching 'at 1890 by the Pastor.
Subject, Restoration of the lost JOY"
Sunday School at 2 P. NJ.
Preaching at Z 7.333 by the Pastor.
Sunday is Christian Advocate Day:
Sample copies will be on the table at
the entrance of the auditorium. All
are requested to take one copy home
with them. The Advocate will be sent
free till the first of the year to all who
subscribe now.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-17
Peplow-Lindley Wedding

Mrs. Ida F. Lindley announces the
iarriage of. her daughter, Elizabeth
Eindley, to Sergeant Robert A. Pep.
'nik, of Kearny, New Jersey, in St.
qnne's Church, on Wednesday evening
sseven o'clock, by the Rev. P. l..
paghay. The happy couple left on
tevening train for points south, for
hort honeymoon, after which they
o. reside in Wrightstown, New Jersey.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-17
Corrections

In the list of Home Town People ir
Active Service" furnished us las
week. two incorrect addresses were
printed. The following is correct:
Sergt. D. B. Gallagher, 104 Ammun
ton Train, Motor Section Headquarters
Camp Mcclellan, Admission, Alabama.
Craig T. Naudain. Electric Sd Class
Company 54. care U. 8 Naval TraininI
Station, Norfolk, Virginia.
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: keresting new + SEND

IN AS College, NewaT A
duction of chorus singf,tin was the guest of
for this has long been fey recently.
ents are enthusiastic oscClain spent this week
ments made. Mr.. Lestn and wife. ;
waaaa.sa,, u ~, ~ send, Jr., and wife are Wis
-. ~ .s.ss s.as 20 - more and Washington.
Ib.ve .lss.or bon1Lockerman and family. of
4 htinued on 9Th pager
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ETC., and for far greater perfection
| in the machinery of the Sunday School
than in the old haphazard style. This
increased efficiency is largely due to a
minute subdivision of authority and
work that seeks the teacher or officer
best fitted for one particular task-and
generally, but one.
This minute official oversight of every
department of school work, in the class
room and out Of it, beginning with the
diligent outside hunt for scholars and
| then keeping tab on them once they
are brought in-results in bigger and
better schools.
This fact has been so conclusively
demonstrated in the nine years this new
system has been used, that already IS
per cent of the $4,000 Methodist Sunday
Schools have adopted the new methods.
Both Mr., Wilson and Mrs. MorehOuse
delightfully."- set out the new and better
ways of Interesting the children. MIR.
and how to get hold >of it for good,
were both witty and true. Mrs. More
house cha mingly told how the teacher
might capture the little ones through
story telling. quoting Stanley Halls
words, "Of all the things that teacher
should know how to do, the most i'm
portant is to be able to tell storys''
AS an illustration of how systematic
hunting up of absentees keeps q Sum
day Sci hools attendance average up,
the case of q school was given whose
:, 800 members had weekly average o.
1856 per cent or 692!
The whole thing was to the Scribe
surprising revelation that deeply inil
pressed him. How any Sunday School,
in the light of all these wonderful facs2
so cleverly set out by. these talentt
lecturers, can still 60 on in the, o&
pokfy. inefficient way, is somethiM
difficult to understand.
The Huttig news., 1917-09-22
SLACK-WATER PERIOD OF DAY
Two O'Clock In Afternoon, Declares Writer, Is for Some Reason
 Time of Disillusion.

Each period of the day has its own subtle quality, which no arbitrary re arrangement of our own hours of work and rest can destroy. And two o'clock In the afternoon is a time of disillu4 sion, time when a man has neither great faith nor profound convictions, writes William Melee in the Atlantic. The morning is gone, the evening too far away. Even teatiIne seems at an immense and tragic distance. II is the slaek-water period of the day. And 1t Is the period when man may perhaps experience, in the space of a flash, a peculiar sensation of being an impos- tori It Is, I suppose. in such moments that generals, commanders. chief en- gineers and the like jump overheard. It is a sensation extraordinarily vivid and brief. No external evidence Is of any avail to neutralize its dire and dreadful omniscience. No personal written record. no esteem of lifelong friends, no permanent and visible ae- eomplishment can shield the sensitive human soul, thus suddenly stripped bare by some devilish cantrip of it's own mechanism. One feels hollow sham.
The Huttig news., 1917-09-22
St. Augustine Nights.

By night Gin St. Augustine) you may hear the negroes sweeping the streets. doubly darkling over their surface and softly gossiping together. writes ". D. Howells in Harper s Magazine. Theirs are not the only black voices you hear, for their cas- ual race seems 10 have no more stat ed hours for sleeping than eating. Their mellow murmurs. especially when the nights are warm, rise fn what seems perpetual joking. as if from their humorous pleasure at be- ing alive together in the same anus ing world, and if you have no worse conscience than the takers, their voices will Hull you again to the slumbers they have broken IL is as if swarm Of blackbirds, carrying news Of the spring nOrthward. had swept chuckling through the trees and fluttered the fans Of the palms and the leaves Of the magnolias with such comment in their course as would nat uraily occur 10 blaekbirds.
The Huttig news., 1917-09-22
A Costly Kitchen.

A pawnbroker would not advance very much on the kitchen utensils Of even the wealthies- ho1seholders in the United Kingdom; but should the shah Of Persia desire 10 pledge his kitchen requisites he might realize half million pounds Every sauce pan of this monarch Is g1Ited inside, and the dishes which appear on the table arg of solid gold. as well as the spoons. knsEes and f9rks- The han dies ot the latter. moreover. are or rane1tei with costly stones. and some are worth zz much ss sI0o each.
 h preparing lunch for the saah rozs but z1Iver spaaus can be Esed. and any eHVsriasz used for keeping crt1 meats rgs1 also he af silver.
 E1s eza .esGy has a staff at over thirty chefs and altogether those e-a- pt,agss1 an atS kitchen number nearly I-,G Their wages amount Eo, $500 g wsex.-Tir Etts.
The Huttig news., 1917-09-22
"s.umc-Jump" Plous.

The fact that practically the entire surface of the areas susceptible to cultivation in western Australia is heavily wooded and that the dearth and cost of labor preclude the clearing of the land of stumps and roots. has led to the invention of special type of blow known as the ~stump-iump." This is so constructed that T. will roll over stumps and other obstructiOns ly- ing on the ground. The blow was invented by an Australian and, So far, has been manufactured only in that country. In breaking up new lands preference is given 10 the stump-jump disk blow. as 1T will cut many roots that s nloldhoari piow would leave r1- touched. As the land becomes clean CT of roots after two or three years application of this treatment. the stump jump nloldboard is preferred be- cause Of it's better soil turning gEalE- ties.
The Huttig news., 1917-09-22
NEW" WEAPONS REALLY OLD
Shell Outerowth of Missiles En- ployed Long Ago by Chinese.

Many of the new" weapons pro- duced by the world war are really very old. Thus the asphyxiating bomb is an outgrowth of missile employed long ago by the Chinese. Instead of deadly chemicals, it contained some substance that emitted a nauseous odor. accompanied by stifling smoke. Later this device appeared in Europe and was known by the inelegant but expressive name of "stink-po pot"
 Another Chinese war method paved the way for incendiary shells. They invented a rocket, later adopted and widely used by the Saraeens, which fired a kind of bal having claws or hooks that would catch hold to the side of a building and set fire to it. These balls were made of petroleum and hitter, which became famous in the later ages as Greek fire.
 The German device of throwing pe- trol upon an enemy by means Of a pump was used long ago, when an at- tacking ship often spouted flames at the object of it's assault This plan was reserved for close quarters, and frequently resulted in the destruction of the vessel so attacked.
The Huttig news., 1917-09-22
AUSTRALIANS GREAT HUNTERS
Knowledge of the Habits of Animals Makes Up for Crude Weapons
 and Lack of Endurance.

In endurance and speed the Aus tralian aborigine is not the equal of the American Indian, and his weapons of wood and poorly fashioned stones are effective only at short range, says the National Geographic Magazine. But as a hunter the native Australian is marvelously adapted to his environ ment. His success lies in an intimate knowledge of the habits of the animals or land. in the ground, in trees and under water. and his wonderfully de- veloped power of observation.
 He decoys pelicans by initiating their crys. catches ducks by diving be- low them, locates an epossum in a tree by marks on the bark or by the flight of mosquitoes. finds sharks by observing the action of birds and fol- lows bee 10 it's store Of honey.
 Any animal which leaves g track however dim in sand, on rock or in grass falls an easy prey 10 the native. Children are taught 10 track lizards and snakes over bare rocks and to find their absent mothers by following tracks loo ildistinct 10 serve as & guide for any European When white man is lost in the desert or . child strays from home the final resort is 70 secure q '-black tracker"