Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-07
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some members of the numerous youth
full gangs" that appear before him,
but "turpentining" dogs is no sport to
be encouraged in Young America" he
believes. For the first time in his
twenty years on the Juvenile bench
Judge Lindsay last week sentenced an
entire group of seven boys to the state
reform school, at Golden, because they
covered a stray dog with turpentinc
and then set it on fire. The dog was
discovered, suffering excruciating pain,
and had to be shot by state humane
officer.
Frogs that bark like fox hounds
and squeal like frightened pigs, ac-
cording to the American Museum of
Natural History, in New York, are
among the more than 200 living and
preserved specimens of reptile life
brought TO it by an expedition just re-
turned from year in the wilds of
Santo Domingo. Capture Of the bark
ing frogs was thus described by MEM
bers of the expedition: Hunting was
carried on chiefly at night and it was
a weird experience to penetrate the
blackness of these tropical forests and
to hear, as one would suppose, dogs
barking high over ones head in the
tree tops. The first barking frog that
was captured startled the members of
the party considerably. Instead of
wriggling like a frog, or even growl-
ing like a dog, it opened its mouth
Vide and gave a terrific squeal such as
q pig in agony might make. Later it
was discovered that this tree top frog
left the trees in the breeding season
and laid its eggs on the ground. The
eggs, which were very large and about
80 in number, did not hatch out as is
the general rule among our northern
SfrOgs, into tadpoles, but instead into
tiny froglets Of the same form as their
parents" The first giant tree frog was
found taking a mist bath beside a
mountain torrent Its capture was not
without hazard, as when touched, it
sxudedSa milky secretion which in
Hamed She hands and filed the air
With a puAgent and irritating vapor.
EsIJautenaRt John A. MacReady and
Oakley G. Kelly made a record break
ing flight across the continent last
wTeekf They left. San Diego, California
at;an early hour iFriday morning with
the intention of making a non stop
fight.tC New York. They did not quite
succeed, but they made 1000 miles,
two thirds of the journey, before they
were forced to land at Indianapolis,
Indiana last Saturday night at about 8
o'clock, because of leaking radiator
They broke the record for sustained
flight and they proved the practic-
ability of flying the whole distance
They came near having a smash-Up in
the Rocky Mountains when, flying at
a heighh us moro than 6, zoe feet they
suddenly saw a high cliff looming
above them. 1t was necessary to take
an upshoot as abruptly as possible and
tIjS they did with the result that they
sor,over the cliff only by a few feet
Because of unusually bad weather con-
dtieps with which they battled for II
hours, they were afraid they would be
unable to get across the state of New
Mexico; but at length they made it.
TheY were in the dark from the east
ernrboundary of New Mexico until they
saw the first ray of light at st. Louis.
A leak developed in their radiator over
the state of Kansas and they continued
t6, have trouble from there on until
finally their engine got so hot that they
had TO come down, approximately 700
miles short Of their destination. The
average speed of the plane, according
to MacReady, was about 80 miles an
hour, Except for the water leak in the
radiator the men say they could have
made the entire trip.
Funeral services for Colonel Dun
can +. Cooper, 70, convicted slayer of
foauiersUnitcd States Scna tor Edward
Ward Carmack, on the streets of Nash
VILE, Tenn, in the fall of 1908, were
held yesterday morning at his old home
in Ashwood, near Nashville. Colonel
Cooper died Saturday night following
brief illness. The tragic death of
Carmack at the hands of Colonel
Cooper and his son Robin, now dead,
was the elimination of one Of the
bittcrest political fights i'm the history
of the state AT the time Carmack was
editor of The Nashville Tcnncsscean,
following his defeat in a Democratic
primary by Malcolm Patterson of
Memphis, for the gubCrnatorial nomi-
nation. The Tcnncssccan was wagiug
bitter editorial war on Governor Pat
tersOn after his inauguration, and the
name of Colonel Cooper, as one of the
staunch friends and advisers of the
governor, had often appeared in the
editorial columns. Word was sent to
Carmack by a mutual friend that
Cooper would not countCnancc further
public use of his name, it was stated
on the following day an editorial para
graph was written in which sarcastic
reference was made TO Cooper. The
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