Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-04
ALWAYS TEEMING WITH LIFE
Noises Of Animals, Birds, or insects
Never Completely StiIIed in the
Jun0les Of Malay.

One may as we'll try to describe with
Justice the crater of an active volcano
as to describe the jungle of Malay.
From without one sees n dense FOR
est of very irregular height and of The
most vivid green imaginable Here
and there towering above the Others
one sees immense trees. 200 feet high
or more. From without the Jungle
looks impenetrable. and so it is. excent
by well-defincd tracks. or by hacking
| ones way through, rs have done, for
$50 miles.
Within the jungle all is gloom, ex-
| cept overhead. where one can see a
misty light that filters up through the
delicate fOlinGe. All tile trees shoot
straight up, there being practically no
horizontal branches from them. In
fact, there are no trees that resemble
, the oak or other shOrt-trunked trees.
! The ground is nearly always damp
or even slushy in places, and infested
with land leeches that crawl up ones
clothing and gorge themselves on your
blood. The atmosphere is steamy, hut
far cooler than out in the open. have
taken the temperature just within the
jungle, and found 1t to be about so de-
grces, but on placing the thermometer
out in the sun it has rapidly reached
| the temperature of 14S degrees.
Early in the morning the Jungle re-
sounds with the cries of the monkeys
just waking up. About 9:30 these
cease and the ordinary day noises of
birds, and the steady hum Of insects
prevail. The frequent tap of woodpeck-
erS. the croak of huge treefrogs and
the call Of the peacock and argus
pheasant re-echO through The jungle.
Every now and then one hears Il famil-
lar cock-O-dOOdle-doo and the clucking
OF hen and imagines one must be
near farm. until it is realized TINT
1T Is only the jungle fowl, the ancestor
Of all domestic poultry.
| Toward sunset, about six o'clock,
there suddenly bursts out q perfectly
deafening din of buZzing and shrieking
insects. 1t is no exaggeration to state
that the noise Of the insect life Mt sun
set makes it practically impossible to
hear oneself speak. This continues I'M
til about seven o'clock, when darkness
has set in and then it dies away con-
siderably. Throughout the night one
hears all kinds Of queer noises that
were absent during the day.
With luck. you may hear the growl
and roar of tiger, hunting some poor
animal. Frequently one hears great
commOtion among the birds and mon
keys that had been sleeping in some
tall tree, as their slumber Is disturbed
by snake that has climbed up and
caught one Of them. A common sound
Is the despairing shrek OF q jungle
fowl caught by some wildcat Occa-
sonally ones sleep Is disturbed by a
loud crashing Of trees and the trum-
peting OF herd Of elephants. In fact,
the jungle teens with life and death,
day and night.-G. Carveth Wells, in
Oregon Journal.
Shaping Steel.
Repeated quenching tends to chanpe
the shape OF steel. In recent expert
ment, small tank Of water was heat
ed by raising to redness n soft-steel
cylinder 3.5 inches in diameter, and
then plunging It into the water. After
800 quenchlngs the metal1was found 70
nave been shortened three-fourths of
an inch, with corresponding increase
In width. The steel contained OO5 Der
cent OF carbon, O.01 of silicon, O.8 of
phosphorus, COS Of sulphur and O.45
II manganese.
Sprinkle little salt of economy on
the tail OF riches and they viii not
] fly AWAY -