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The New York herald., 1921-05-08

He is a field collector for the American Mu
scum of Natural History, and here his va
rious specimens gathered during his twenty
years in China are to be seen.
The scientific world a year ago was stirred
by the arrival of Roy Chapman Andrews
from Mongolia with the head of the biggest
Eighorn sheep ever killed or captured. 1t
had been killed by one of the white men
of the expedition That man was Caldwell
who was granted a special leave of absence
from his missionary work in Fukien to ac-
company the expedition
That Bghorn Kill only an incident il.
Caldwels exciting life. Tigers have been
his main interest a sportsman especially
the maltese tiger. Chinese villagers in the
mountains of Fukien, where the deprs sda-
tions of these beasts yearly reach an ap-
paling total of human lives and financial
losses in live stock, who used to depend
vainly on Buddha or Confucius for protec-
ton, now turn to the white preacher of
Yenping, sending runners across country
to hes the clergyman to come to their rescue
when tiger raids community. And there
is usually one less tiger in the Fukien
mountains thereafter Serving the Lord
with gunpowder," Caldwell calls it.
Mr.. Caldwell comes by his religion his
science and his sportsmanship by heredity.
With three brothers, he was reared down in
eastern Tennessee, where good game was to
be found if one only knew how to look for
it. His father was the Rev. l.. b. Caldwell
a Methodist country minister. who had the
customary minister's attitude toward boys
in their teens" loafng about the country
store at the crossroads and spending their
time swapping lies" about what they never
did would like to do. The father drove a
bargain with his boys. He would teach them
to hunt and fish, buy them guns. tackle,
reels &c. and go with them on expeditions
The New York herald., 1921-05-08

NHOONSHINING in the South, since ii
IVA now is conducted by blacks as well
as whites and on an Unprecedented scale.
looms as a big contributing factor to the
conditions which have attracted nation
wide attention, first through the Williams
murder farm case and more recently
through the presentation by Gov. Dorsey
of Georgia of a long list of outrages pur-
porting TO show that persecution. ensiave-
ment and murder of negroes are wTde-
spread in that State.
How the illicit manufacture of whskey
is linked with Iaxity and graft in public
Office, peonage, increased racial bitter
ness, factionai clashes among the whites
themselves and revival of night riding
and threats of violence reminiscent of the
days of the old Ku KIux KIan is told in
the subjoined article written. for THE
NEW YORK HERALD by one who de-
scribes his actual observations in the
moonshine districts of the South.
A MONG the startling events of the after
~ math OF the world war in the cotton
States Is the entry OF the negroes
into the distilling of whiskey-heretofore
strictly the monopoly of the country bred
whites. From the close of the civil war to
the passing OF the volstead act all the Illicit
distilling in the South was conducted with
great skill and profits by the poorer type Of
tho white farmers, mainly In the mountain
country. They jealousy guarded this monop-
oily, were so firmly established in it by the
common approval OF the entire community
that men who have studied the case declare
that they cannot recall single prosecution
OF negro for moonshinlng. Now the bulk
of the arrests are made among black men.
OF course countless Stills" are now run by
white men, but the prejudice against a
cclored man operating a still has vanished.
This extraordinary change has also
brought to the fore in startling fashion the
issue of "peonage," or holding black people
in sort Of slavery To the whites of the
farms. The Williams case at Covington,
Ge. has brought nationwide attention to the
evils Of this system. this case grew out
Of the murder OF no less that eleven colored
farmhands and resulted lin the conviction of
Williams, white farmer Of wealth ana
social prominence OF murder
Along with the collapse of the price OF
cotton from 43 cents in July, 1920. to bare
10 cents IN January. 1921, an economical sit
uation developed that involved a radical
change Of the social attitude toward the
moonshincr by some Of the best elements
of the communities. Driven by debt. many
Of the best young white farmers made
run OF whiskey to gain enough money to
save their little holdings They made no
concealmcnt Of the facts when arrested and
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white operated stills, especially in so far as
the trade in the cities was concerned. Ii
is this very city trade with the shipping Of
corn whiskey into the Northern and West
ern States that brings the biggest profits
and draws outside money into the districts
hard hit by cotton losses. The ring"
which gained by the negro distilleries began
to make raids on the white men, and this
stirred up tempest in short order
In several cases of arrests of white men
the sinister shadow Of the old time Ku Kux
Rlan was seen falling across the scene.
Scrubbed warnings were found posted
doors. and great excitement regned through
out the whole countryside; a subtle spirit of
distrust and suspicion of neighbor against
neighbor broke out
Prominent men assert that Immediately
after white man is arrested and his still
broken up hard riding bands of men robed
in flowing white garments are seen patrolng
the roads adjacent to the location OF the
still. fiery signals flash in the night from hill
top to hilltop, and strange, unearthly shrieks
may be heard near the homes OF those re-
sponsbe for or thought to have instigated
the arrests. These masked men ride far and
strike suddenly, as was the old time custom.
Short work is made Of the stills of the
negroes working under protection of white
men suspected Of having attacked white men
who operate their own stills. This factor i'm
South bids fair to more trouble than
the "peonage" system
But the operations of the mysterious night
riders are not. il seems, all directed toward
the protection of the white distiller Events
point to movements within their own circles
that lead men TO believe that perhaps there
may be two distinct organizations afeld in
the South. Occasions have been noted where
riders bound for point to make demon
stration against some one concerned In tor
ment!ng the white distiller have been seen
TO disappear into the night upon observing
an equally mysterious band riding across
their path near the homes of those whom the
band desired to warn. The second band then
vanished in an opposite direction.
Some assert that warfare between these
bands may break out at any time. In tnar
event the position of such Federal agents
as might venture into the Southern country
side would be most dangerous for, while
warning against each other over a difference
Of who should make the precious liquors.
these factions would undoubtedly unite in a
mighty effort against outsiders no matter
how lawful their mission. Any one who
knows the rural cond' tions In the cotton
country knows how helpless outside investi-
gators find themselves and what really grave
dangers they face on such missonk. In adj
dtion to the mysterious bands. secret service
operatives would find hostility and him
drance on every side
The New York herald., 1921-05-08

IORhlS A.. SlRlCkLER or Detroit.
MI has a hobby. So have we all, but
: 4 most of us are loath to admit 1t.
Some hobbies are classified as assets; others
as liabilities In the particular case Of Mr..
Stricl<ler who readily admits possession Of
. hobby it comes under the head OF assets
and for several years has paid dividends OF
Sufficient size to encourage him to give his
whole attention TO IL.
Strickler's admitted hobby is butterflies.
He began the study of them at the age of
10 years. and a few years later invested his
savings OF S35 in necessary material. He
soon turned 1t into 5000, and finally into as
high as $4,000 per month. An hour spent
In his small laboratory, among thousands of
butterflies; to watch them developing into
living flies" from the many bushels OF
cocoons and especially TO listen to Strick-
ler's talks of them and to them-he ap-
parently knows them all by name-cannot
fail to interest
Fashion says: "Bluebrds and butterflies
will lead in feminine adornment"
Stricker says: "Ill contribute 100. 900
butterflies to beautlfy femininity."
The first eggs obtained by Strickler came
a collection from foreign countries.
Chrysalides, too. the dormant state Of the
butterfly, we're also secured. and at the pres
cnt time he is receiving thousands Of spec-
mems from all parts OF the earth. Boys In
Detroit--especially the Boy Scouts when on
their usual "hikes"--have become cocoon and
butterfly hunters for Mr.. StriclSler, who fur
nishes the necessary professional collectors
outfits
The raising OF butterflies on a commercial
scale requires patience, study and extremely
sanitary equipment The choicest OF both
sexes are allowed TO mate IN white enameed
breeding cages. The female deposits her
eggs about 600 at a time on a sheet Of damp
white muslin in the bottom Of the cage, and
the eggs are hatched by the suns rays or by
artificial heat The eggs can be kept for
period or six months, If SO desired, before
being Matched. and of course in this way can
be shipped from all parts Of the world
From eight To twelve days are required 20
hatch
The tiny larya that emerge from The
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Copyright, 1921, by THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
London, April 2S }
r ORD MINTO and his bride came home
just a little while ago in the midst
L. of all the old time ceremony of
Scottish border laird The young Earl who
married Canadian girl Miss Marion Cook,
% in Montreal last January. IS of the larg-
est land owners in Scotland, with more than
$4,000 acres in his two estates in Roxburgh-
shire and Fifeshire,
II was to his place near Hawick, in Rox-
burghshire that Lord Mimic brought home
his bride There are many hundreds of
tenant farmers and villagers on the estate,
and they all united in the traditional well
come In the old days they would have
taken the horses from the coach and hauled
it to the house from the borders OF the
estate. In 1921 they contented themselves
with inducing the Earls much amused
chauffeur to throw out the clutch of his big
motor car and let them haul it up the drive
with the engine silent.
At the entrance to the fine old house the
entire tenantry was gathered to cheer the
the Earl TO play his part. Since the days
when border lairds were not averse to hop
ping over into England and bringing home
their brides by force it has been the custom
for the bridegroom to carry the bride across
his own threshold the first time. The young
Earl of Mnto did it with all the ease of
his muscular forbears
Education is still much under the super
vision of the great landed proprietors and
school children played a big part in the well
come home. They were gathered on the
steps of the main entrance TO the house and
brought a delighted handicap from the abride
when they burst forth into "The Maple
Leaf Forever even before Scotland For
ever" And of the little singers was
Miss Margaret Wilson. In fact. she was the
youngest, and the bride delightedy accepted
a pretty bouquet from her.
1t is significant that only a week later
some Of the Earls neighbors were marching
with the red flag to the attack OF railway
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
Nature Freak That
Terrorizes Chinese
Province Hunted by
American for Decade

TIME strangest tiger in the world, the
maltese tiger of Fuken. ranges the
mountains in the province of F>ukien
in South China, and he has been sought for
eleven years by one of the most remark
able preachers in the world.
The tiger is clearly a freak biologists
recognize only two species of this ferocious
beast the Bengal and the Malay. each of
which is well known Scientists have been
hearing about the maltese tiger for ten
years or more. The matter of bringing in
his skin has been left to the Rev. Harry
Russell Caldwell. missionary in charge of
the Yenpng Missions Station, Yenping
Fukien, China.
The Chinese villagers whose homes and
herds he raids believe the maltese beast
10 be the devil himself in tiger form. He is
a prodigy in wits as well as color and has
played at hide and -go-seek with many skill
full hunters from various parts of the world
Maltese Tiger Twice in Range
of CaldweHs Gun, but Escapes
Roy Chapman Andrews on the third Ash
attic expedition of the American Museum of
Natural History spent five weeks with Harry
Caldwell ranging the Fukien mountains after
this freak of nature but to no avail.
Twice Caldwell and Andrews almost had
him, but each time native Chinese appeared
nearby and thwarted their strategy Twice
Caldwell has seen him plainly, both times
for good shot, and each time has had to
hold his fire. Once he him creeping
up on two Chinese boys, and Caldwell
knew that if he should only wound him
the beast would tear the little fellows to
bits So he saved the boys by shouting
and waving his hat. This scared the tiger
and Caldwell sacrificed the chance he had
sought for six long years. Some day he
will get the beast, so everybody in Fukien
believes According to Caldwells latest
letter to the museum, the collection of skins
he is sending contains "a prize" but he
does not tell what il is. Is the prize speci-
men the skin of the maltese tiger of Fuken?
Several more shipments are due and only
time will tell.
Some of Mr.. Caldwell's latest collections
are now being unpacked at the Museum
Seventy street and Central Park
West There are the skins of tigers leop-
ards, mountain wolves, wild pigs, civet cats,
deer, rodents. bats and numerous inverte-
brates, reptiles and insects in the first con-
signment One tiger skin is among the fin
est specimens of fur of that beast taken
anywhere in recent years
From tigers to insects. they were killed
or captured single handed by Mr. Caldwell
To the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church he is known as
an energetic evangelist, whose itinerating is
never at an end and whose record in con-
versions is proof OF his devotion> to the
mission cause To the readers of hunting
stories by Roy Chapman Andrews and other
world famed hunters the name of Harry
Caldwell of Fukien stands for hunter
whose skill and daring are the admiratio Of
huntsmen all over the globe. To he world
of nature science the Caldwell specimens are
well known and esteemed, always to be
depended on for accuracy Of classification
and satisfactory standard OF preservation.
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
Stays Huge Beast That Ate
One of His Young Parishioners

one spring out in Fukien very fine
specimen of tiger killed and ate a sixteen
year-old boy in Caldwell's parish and
thereby doomed himself to a glass case and
a card entitled "Felis tigris, South China"
in the museum. Caldwell bagged him next
day and the carcass measured over nine feet
in length and weighed over 400 pounds He
proved the finest specimen killed in al
south China for many years. The Chinese
came and soaked up the beasts blood for
medicine and a prevention charm against
smallpox and measles The bones, too, they
cooked into a gelatinous mass, which makes
the best preventive against all diseases
known to Chinese native quackery.
The remains of small boy We're found
in the lair of this man eater, and yet no
such child had disappeared from that section
for many years. There were evidences that
the child had been carried there alive, from
q great distance, and been tortured by the
tiger as a cat would play with mouse. In
the lair of tiger found many side
passages, and in some of these only will the
beast eat. Here are found the bones of deer.
wild hogs, porcupines, pangolin, calves and
other animals.
And so the maltese tiger hunt is still going
on as ii has been for the last eleven years.
The world seems to have left the matter
largely up to Mr.. Caldwell and every one
believes he will win
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
CARL LUGS BRIDE HOME--MALTESE TIGER SOUGHT

Lord Mino Scottish hieftain who followed ancient
his bride M Marion Cook his
threshold.
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
Twice Within Range,
but Each Time Great
Animal Escapes by
Merest Chance

into the best shooting grounds accessible to
their little mountain home, on the condition
they keep away from the loafers and that
they undertake a scientific study of their
sport The boys agreed. Thereafter for
years the father himself good shot, ranged
the Tennessee woods with his four sons.
OF those four boys three became Methodist
preachers All four are known expert
huntsmen. Two of them went to China as
missionaries, but the wearing climate OF
Fukien forced one to return to America to
be district superintendent of the Methodist
churches about Suffern, N. Y The other
minister brother is preaching at Frankfort,
n. Y.
In China Harry Caldwell took his recrea-
ton as in the days of his boyhood He
fought his first tiger with shotgun,
hazardous thing to undertake. On this oc-
casion Caldwell squatted behind a bush just
before twilight and watched the tiger for
half an hour at fifty yards-a fine range
for rifle. but hopelessly far for fowling
piece. Caldwell had tethered a goat and
two kids to a stake within ten feet of this
hiding place on a terrace of the mountain
side. The tiger sat and watched the goal,
suspicious, but hungry Then he slipped
forward, sprang up to the terrace, and found
himself face to face with his first missionary
fifteen feet away
Caldwell fired point blank into Lau Hu's
striped face The great brute leaped into
the air, rolled down the terrace, as Cald-
well fired again load of lead into his hind
quarters. The tiger dragged himself away
while Caldwell fumbled in his pocket for
more shells. Next day the tiger was found
dead three miles away, at the end of
bloody trail.
Since then Caldwell hunts tigers with
high powered rifle, but the calibre is ri
dicuously small, being only %. He uses
this gun for small specimens of mammals
for the museum, and throws in explosive
bullet for tigers, leopards and wolves
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
A Strckler laboratory Raising
mercial requires infinite patience special equipment

EoRRIs A. sTRIcKLER OF Detroit
MI has a hobby. So have we all, but
most of us are loath to admit It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-05
AbERCROMb|E IS
 OFF FOR CAPITAL Senate Committee Wants His Testimony in Department
 of Justice Inquiry

Montgomery, February 4.--(Special.) Upon the request of Senator Knute Nell. son of Minnesota, chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. pr. John w. Abercrombie, state superintendent of education, left Saturday morning for Washington
 Dr. Abercrombie has been asked by Senator Nelson to appear in the ca pacity of witness in connection with investigation by the Senate judiciary committee of charges alleging illegal practices on the part of the federal department of justice in relation to the |arrest and deportation of aliens. pr. Abercrombie was requested to ap- pear before the committee as wit ness at a meeting of that body to be held in Washington Tuesday morning, February 8, at 10:30 o'clock.
 It will be recalled that Dr. Aber- cromkie was formerly a member of
 President Wilson's official family in Washington, having been appointed by the President on February l. 1918. so- licitor for the department of labor. In making this appointment President Wilson also issued an order designating pr. Abercrombie as acting secretary for the federal department of labor. The appointment was made immedi- ately after expiration of pr. Aber- tcrombie's term of office as congress- ma lat large from the state of Ala bania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-05

M7o WORDS of praise from an indi- i llWl vidual or an organization are c V more sincere or vital than those that come from someone who has been closely and intimately connected with either.
 In view of this fact, I have enjoyed talking to Mir. Fred wegand. the tal- ented leader of Wiegand's orchestra, who for three years was a valued member of the Minneapolis orchestra, which will be heard here in the midwinter festival of music presented by the "All-Star Con- certs'' next Saturday afternoon and eve ming, following the initial programme on Friday evening with Madame Luisa Tetrazzini and her concert company.
 MT. Wiegands praise of the great or chestra and the scholarly musicianshlp and tremendous personality of it's con- ductor, MT. Emil Oberhoffer, corrobor- ates what the critics everywhere have said of the perfection achieved by the orchestra and it's eminent leader.
 Mr. Wiegand, who is one of the most painstaking musicians Birmingham has ever claimed, and whose ambitions musi- cally are of the highest order, his work ever since he has lived here being to promote and cultivate only the best that is in music, received his splendid train ing as an orchestra leader largely from his association with the Minneapolis or chestra and his close utilization with MT. Oberhoffer, from whom he gained wide experience.
 sI consider Birmingham very fortu- nate in having such beautiful musical occasion as the Midwinter Festival of Music" Mir. Wiegand said, bringing as it does two entirely different angles of music into play-one, the Queen of Song, Madame Luisa Tetrazzini, whose voice is phenomenal, and the Minneapolis symphony orchestra which, of all forms of music, is the most valuable from an educational angle.
 The Minneapolis when I played wiSh the orchestra" MT. Wiegand continued twas a perfect joy and delight to me- The thoroughness with which MT. Ober- hoffer does his work, his fine attention to detail his splendid interpretative abii- ity make him the ideal conductor. MT. .Oberhoffer, to begin with, knows music from the very fundamentals up. He studied the organ and the violin for many years and the piano with Kistler. Later he studied the piano with Phillips in Paris and perfected himself in all branches connected with music.
 'In 1897 MT. sOberhoffer came to America and went to St. Paul" MT. Wiegand said, ''as conductor of the Apollo club In 1901 he accepted the in vitation to conduct the Minneapolis Philharmonic club, which later led to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-05
ny FRED H. GonMLEY

Hamilton, February 4. .- (SpeciaI)- Many things have happened in Hamilton during the week to bring diversion and remove thoughts of the seriousness ot the duty which citizens of Marion county have been called upon to perform in de- ciding whether the nine members of the Alabapa national guard are innocent or guilty of the lynching of William Baird after the Walker county jail had been raided in the early hours of the morning of January 13
 Perhaps the most amusing of all things resulted from the appearance of a man on the streets who seemed to have wor- shiped at the shrine of Bacchus for a few hours. This mans breath indicated that he had been among those present at some kind of a party where refined water had been passed freely among the crowd. Anyway, he owned the world and claimed credit for all the glory within the world. If he had kept this claim to himself he probably would not have attracted the attention of officers of the law, but he became rather liberal with his conversation
 He met friend on the street who had a good mule, one which never failed to attract the eye of lovers of domestic ani- mals.
 q want that mule,' the inehriated one is said to have told his friend, and 1 want to trade you one of Connie Aus tins law enforcement men for him.
 The friend refused to trade, and the talker would have refused to go to jail but for the strong arm of the law which took him at this period of his existence.
 A report spread throughout Hamilton after the trade had been called off that the inebriate had been arrested on a charge of an attempt at proflteering