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themselves in Denver, St. Joseph.
Omaha, Nebraska City and thence
to Boston, "where they will spend
the summer
In describing briefly the cases Of
two other sets of quadruplets, men
ton is made that one set were nour-
ished by the help of three wet
nurses; in the case of the other four
children. averaging FIVE pounds each.
all were nursed by the mother.
During the years 1926 to 1880, in
Prussia, there were eighty-fve cases
of quadruplets and three cases of
quintuplets. Comparative statistics
reveal that twins occur about once in
every 120 births in Philadelphia and
New York; the proportion is just
twice as great in Bohemia, where it
is estimated that one birth in every
sixty is that of twins.
In New York city statistics for
last year show that there were
twelve sets of triplets and 1850
pairs of twins; there were no multi
pie births above that. The total
births for the five boroughs We're
1924.
An interesting record of prolificity
is evidenced by the curious epitaph
at Conway. Carnarvonshire:
Here lieth the body of Nicholas
Hookes of Conway. gentleman.
who was the one-and-fortieth child
of his father, William Hookes.
ESD. by Alice. his wife. and the
father of twenty-seven children.
He died goth of March. 1887.
This inscription is rivaled by one
in Litchfield, Conn. which reads:
Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary
wife of DIR. John Bull. Esq. She
died November 4, 177s. aetat
ninety. having had thirteen chill
dren. 10l grandchildren. 274 great
grandchildren and % great-great-
grandchildren, a total of 410; sur
viving. 1886.
When you indulge in a computa-
ton of the possible number of living
descendants one person may have
you have luxuriously large figures to
satisfy yourself with. Gould and
Pyle mention that "in Esher Church
there is an inscription. scarcely leg
ible. which records the death OF the
mother of Mrs. Mary Morton on
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The Passing of the Deer

disappeared from all densely settled
regions. but have extended their
range much farther North.
In the days before the white man
this deer was one of the main food
supplies of the Indians east of the
buffalo country. and it was very ns-
merous in all suitable localities.
Thompson Seton estimates the white
tail deer population of that time at
10000, 900. Just before white settlers
flocked into Minnesota. a camp of
Sioux within twenty miles of St. Paul
brought to the traders 1.S00 deer
skins in one season. The present
number OF white tail deer. as already
stated. is probably 352 900.
The scattered Indian tribes. with
their primitive weapons. made no inn
preston on this noble game. but at
the present time we kill probably
close to 100000 annually of the rem
nant left
How long win the noble game en-
dure this drain? It is a Serious
question for all real sportsmen and
lovers of nature.
have no quarrel with real sports
men, If it were not for their active
interest our stock Of game animals
and birds would be worse depleted
than it is now But / should prefer
to train our boys to hunt with their
eyes and their cameras. rather than
with guns 1t is excellent sport, be-
cause a cool shot with a camera is
much harder to get than with rifle.
The game one shoots with camera
does not bleed and suffer. it never
spoils. the pictures becorae more
valuable with age. and there is no
closed season for the camera hunter.
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stand more than a rs per cent. an
nual kill of the total stock. The
total -deer population of the region
named is about $4,000, a reasonable
estimate. Undoubtedly there are
more deer in this region now than
there were before the lumbermen
and forest fires had invaded the
country.
L have no recent figures available
for New York. New England. the
Southern and Western States. but
think that 100. 900 deer outside of the
Great Lakes region is a liberal esti-
mate. This would bring the total
Whitehall population of North Amer
ica up to a grand total of S52. 900.
These figures look quite respectable.
but they indicate only "A remnant,
possibly X per cent. of the original
number.
With rigid protection we should.
however. have plenty of deer in their
present range for another fifty years.
But we shall have to give effect to
our game laws and establish and
patrol game refugees and breeding
grounds with a thoroughness which
sportsmen and nature lovers have
never known in this country.
Good roads and the automobile are
going to leave no natural refugees
The whole big game range of the
continent is getting to be easily ac-
oessibIe. Guns are getting more
deadly and the number of hunters in
Creases every year.
The range of the white tail origin
ally extended practically over the
wooded region of the United States
east OF the Rockies, and even into
the mountains. Deer have. of course
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Few Births of Sextuplets.

Trustworthy records of sextuplets
are. of course, extremely scarce.
There are a few catalogued at Wash
ington and but two authentic cases
are on record in the United States.
On December 80, 1881. woman in
Dropin was delivered of six daugh-
ters, all living. and only a little
smaller than usual in size. The
mother was not quite 20 years old.
but was of strong constitution; the
children lived long enough to be bap-
tized. but died on the evening OF
their births.
The Boston Medical and Sur0icd!
Journal records the case of a Maine
woman who brought forth. in a single
accouchement, on June 27. 1S47, six
children. of whom two survived and,
together with the mother. were do
ing we'll" The Journal of the amer
lean. Medical Association cites the
birth of sextuplets in Dallas, Tex.
in 1888. Mrs. George Hirsh. the
mother in this case. and the four
boys and two girls. small but all
perfect and we'll formed. also "were
doing we'll"
Passing beyond sextuplets we find
but rare records in olden days. ana
practically none for modern times:
the old records are fantastic and
even if they are untrue they evi-
dance a fertility of imagination which
abates the breath. Pico della Miriam
du!a. quoted by Pare. says that one
Dorothea. an italian, bore twenty
children OF two confinements. the
first time bearing nine and the sec
ond time eleven.
One OF the most whimsical and
celebrated cases of great proliticity is
that of the Countess Margaret.
daughter OF F'lorent w. Earl of Hol-
land. and spouse Of Count Herman
of Henneberg. The event is sup
posed to have occurred on Good Fri
day. 1878. The Countess was at this
time az years of age. and. at one
birth brought forth S65 infants.
They were all baptized in two large
hrazen dishes by the Bishop of Tre-
ras: the males were called John. the
females Elizabeth. AS late as the
| last century the basins were still on
exhibition In the village church OF
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pie arithmetic progression; he tells
of the wife of the last Lord de NAL
demeure-a tale of marvellous pro-
lificity. Within a year of her mar
riage she gave birth to twins; in the
next year to triplets; in the third
year TO quadruplets; in the fourth to
auintuplets, and in the fifth year
bore sextuplets-her last and fatal
confinement. The case attracted
great notice at the time. it is re-
ported, for the family was quite no
bic and very well known.
Quoting again from the Gentle
mans Maodsine the tireless Gould
and Pyle give the case of woman.
shopkeeper named Blunet, who had
twenty-one children in seven success
sive births. They were all born
alive and twelve still survived and
were healthy.
Coming nearer home we have the
dispatches from Lafayette. Ind.
during December. 1895. telling OF
Hester Curtis, who was the mother
of twenty-five children. including
seven pairs of twins.
Pico della Mirandola, the Italian
scholar, gathered from the ancient
Egyptian inscriptions that the women
of Egypt brought forth sometimes
eight children at a birth. and that
one woman bore thirty children in
four confinements.
The subject. you see. is univer-
sally and perennially interesting. al
though the happening is of infre-
auent occurrence. The ancient sta
tistics and tales may be believed to
be distorted and false; but it is evil
dent from the wonder and surprise
shown in the narration of them that
they were exceptions and rare, even
as are their parallels to-day.
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By d. LANCE.

~ + all American big game the
white tail deer. or Virginia
deer. of the Eastern States
is the only big game animal which
thrives and endures near civilization
ie given reasonable protection. In
fact. deer thrive better on the from
tier and near clearings and scattered
settlements than they do in a coun-
try entirely wild. because they find
much more food in n cutover coun-
try than they do in a region of
primitive forests, and they suffer less
from wolves.
In the northern parts of Mime
sofa. Wisconsin. Michigan and in the
province of Ontario hunters. settlers
and Indians kill about $4,000 deer
annually. These figures are based
on official reports from Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan; and they
are more likely to be too low than
too high. The number of deer in On
tario is estimated to equal the num-
ber in either one of the three States.
To this number must be added at
least $1,000 killed by wild animals
Il. -
makes a grand total of $4,000. Judge
Shras found 1926 deer killed by
wolves during one winter in one
county in Michigan.
The deer in this region seem to
have about held their own during the
last three years. although think the
killing has reached the danger line.
l do not think that the species can
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Negro Farmer Had IS Children.


The fecundity of the negro race.
although well known, is always a
matter of discussion and interest.
The New York EUening Post on
July %. 1898. reported that one
Moses Williams. a negro farmer in
Raleigh, N. c., 65 years old Gas
nearly as he could make OUT but
who did not appear to be over SO.
had married twice and had begot-
ten forty-fve children by his two
wives. There were fifty grandchiI-
dren at that time
Behind these figures and summary
speculations there is an essential and
far-reaching problem and situation.
The camps of the Roosevelts and the
Sangers are armed one against the
other. A country's population is at
once its asset and liability. accord
ing to its health and wealth.
French medical journal. discussing
the fecundity Of the French Cana
dams. regretfully wished that some
countrymen at home were like their
brothers in Quebec.
In the case of the rapid multiple
cation due to multiple births. there
is little voluntary in the matter; the
consensus of scientific opinion traces
it to heredity. Indeed. even casual
observers have noted that twins run
i'm families" They seem to be acci-
dents. felicitous or otherwise. against
which there is no provision.
There is scant reason to believe
that the Prestage triplets and quin-
tuplets would not be most welcome in
our legislative chambers even though
our English cousins across the ocean
have just ruled that all who cannot
write their name i'm the visitors book
are barred from the gallery of the
House This polite, but none the less
invidious legislation against the pres
ence of babies. was prompted by the
bringing into the visitors gallery OF
an infant in arms. But for the
American baby there would be.
surely. Rooseveltian delight at its
presence. Il. T. Z.
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Other Cases Reported.

The Gcatlemans Nacd zine (Lon-
dom reports the case of a poor
woman who gave birth to three boys
and two girls in dairy cellar in the
Strand. London. in March. 1876. The
same journal reported in 1873 the
birth of four boys and a girl. all or
whom were christened and healthy.
Going back still further in time we
have the instances of quintuplet
births reported in 1549 by Pare. who
had an uncommon and indefatigable
sense for the extraordinary. The
earliest record of quintuplets we have
is that of Pliny. who reports that on
the peninsula of Greece there was a
woman who gave birth to quintu-
plets on four different occasions
but then Pliny also states. positively.
that there were authentic records of
as many as twelve at a birth. Aris-
totIe gives it as his opinion that one
woman can bring forth no more than
five children at a single birth and
discredits reports of multiplicity
above that number.
Aristotle's position as an author
ity is not as undisputed rs 1t for
merIy was. but. any way. Mr.. Pres
tage may find comfort in the philoso-
pher's belief. You may remember
that Mr.. Prestage. who was in no.
wise thrilled by the recent arrivals
was teased by the doctor on the Curl
GUS coincidence of first. the birth OF
triplets. five years ago. and now by
the advent of five babies. The next
time. it was suggested. the number
might be seven. but the father
tainted at the thought of the actu-
ality of this progression.
Cases in which there is a repeti-
tion of multiple births are quite nu-
merous. and sometimes so often re-
peated as to produce a family of al
most incredible size. Pare. who
7 am told. ''may be believed when he
quotes from his own experience
gives an interesting instance of sim
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Losdun. and most Of the visitors to
The Hague went out to see them, as
they were accounted one of the Gu
riosities of Holland.
The affliction was ascribed to the
curse OF poor woman who. holding
twins in her arms. approached the
countess for aid. She was not only
denied aims, but was insulted by be-
ing told that her twins were by diff
ferent fathers-an occurrence known
to happen not infrequently. The
poor mother prayed God to send the
countess as many children as there
were days in the year. Gould and
Pyle comment that there is room for
much speculation as to what this
case really was. There is a possi-
bility, they say. that it was simply
a case OF multiple molar pregnancy.
elaborated by an exhaustive imagi-
nation and superstitious awe.
From such fight into the in
credible. to consider quadruplets
seems a prosaic matter; yet the in
dex catalogue OF the Surgeon-Gen-
erals Library gives less than one
hundred cases; quadruplets are sup
posed to occur once in about every
400, 900 births AT the Hotel-Dieu.
Paris. in 10000 births, covering a
period of sixty years. there was only
single case of quadruplets.
Eight Offspring in Three Years.
AS with Siamese twins. unusual
fertility can be capitalized. There
is the case of Mr.. and Mrs. Page of
Ingersoil. Tex. who. during the
three years of their married life had
eight offspring. On January 10.
1890, Mrs. Page was delivered of
auadruplets. weighing in the aggre-
gate 19k pounds. On two previous
occasions she had presented Mr..
Page with twins. BY her first hus-
band she had had a pair of twins
and four single births. Nor was Mr..
Page averse to exploiting this rapid
and geometrically progressive addi-
ton to the family. DR.. De Leon, the
attending physician, added to his re-
port that the family went to st.
Joseph, Mo-, to begin the fulfilment
of a contract with a Mr.. Uffner of
New York to travel and exhibit
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"HE recent report of the birth
of quintuplets to Mr.. and
Mrs. Prestage in Natohez,
Miss, is worthy of interest if not Of
credence-I have always quarreled
with Mark Twaiu's verdict that sit
is interesting-if true" Neither DR..
William H. Spiller, superintendent of
the Lying-in Hospital. nor DR.. Will
lam H Guilfoy. chief of the Bureau
of Vital Statistics of the Board of
Health. could verify the report by
any similar incident in this city.
''Three is the best we've ever done,
but any multiple birth above that is
even more interesting" they said;
and you might infer that a possible
dubity increased the interest in the
case.
Much in the manner of lawyer I
sought the books fer precedent and
found it in the tome. Anomalies and
Curiosities of Medicine" by Drs.
Gould and Pyle, which informs me
that quintuplets are quite rare and
that the index catalogue of the Sur
geon- Generals Library of the United
States gives only nineteen cases of
quintuplets, but no mention is made
of their survival. In the "Philosopht-
cal Transactions of the Royal So
ciety of London" Garthshore speaks
of n healthy woman. one Margaret
Waddington, giving birth to five
girls. two of whom lived. These two
children weighed at birth eight
pounds twelve ounces and nine
pounds respectively. The Prestage
quintuplets of Mississippi averaged
two and a half pounds each and the
attending physician is quoted as be-
ing confident of their thriving.
In discussing the case of Mrs.
Waddington Garthshore argues that
woman was meant to bear more than
one child at birth.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

April IS. 1854, saying that She was
the wonder Of her sex and age, for
she lived to see nearly 400 OF her
offspring"
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~ + all American big game the
4 white tail deer. or Virginia
deer, of the Eastern States
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"HE recent report of the birth
of quintuplets to Mr.. and
Mrs. Prestage in Natohez,
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Gains 20 Pounds
Fe els Like a
New Woman

Il have gained twenty pounds by
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ily different person." declared Mrs. J..
B. Bigger, highly esteemed resident of
Lowell, N. c., r. F. D. No. 1.
when l began taking Tanlac," she
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But now l never feel trace of
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POWERFUL, THEME

"A mans fight with himself sags
A, S. LeVin@ adaptor CT Jack Hol )
latest Paramount picture, while Sa-
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Theatre today, SIS 8, 1T deaor;p
ton of the theme of this piature. 10
fight with material enemy is comp}r-
asiveiy easy, but to battle, with ones
own conscience and best the evil IN
fiuences at work in ones self, is a
scrap that will put a man to the test
as nothing else can. That is the kind
OF role they have given Jack Holt in
this picture
Many have read Peter B. Kyhe S
story. "The Parson of Pandmlnt up
on which this new picture was based
Joseph Henabery directed END the
! cast includes FRITZ Brunette, Wade
Boteler j. P. Leckney. Mabel Van
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other capable Paramount stock COM
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SPECIAL N0TECES


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PLEA OF RAIL MEN
100000 Maintenance of Way
Workers Demand Increase.
Ask Labor Board for Return of War
Time Standard-Figures Pre-
scented by w. J. Lauck.

Chicago, Aug. 29.-The United States
Railroad Labor board opened hear
ing on the demand made by 100000
maintenance Of way workers for an.
increase in wages to the war time.
standard.
w. Jet Lauck chief statistician for
the union, was introduced by Il. f..
Cradle and j. G. Shook, president and
vice president, as the witness who
would present the basis Of the de-
mand TO the railroad board. Upon his
testimony the union hopes to show the
present wages Of the men are not
commensurate with the cost Of liv-
ing.
Our demands have the following
definite meaning" said Mr.. LauCk.
"That the board accept and make
the basis of its decision in this case,
as well as part Of its general policy
in fixing the wage rates of railroad
employees, that adult workers of the
lower grades, unskilled railroad en-
ployees, be awarded rates Of pay
which will enable them under nor
NAL conditions to earn yearly an
amount sufficient to permit them to
maintain standards Of living that are.
approved as healthful and decent. and
that are promotive Of genuine indus
trial economy and efficiency, and
"That proper differentials above this
minimum living wage be paid for
added skill, responsibility, training and
hazard"
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KILL 20 IRISH REBELS
Severe Battle at Kenmar, Say
Dublin Reports.
lrreaulars Are Driven From the Cable
Station at WaterVlle-Three
Slain at Blarney.

Dublin, Aug. 29.-Twenty Irregular
soldiers were killed in battle at Ken
mar according to adyices received
here. luegulars have been active
at many points in the West and South
west during the past "A hours. At
least four were killed and many
wounded.
Tie irregulars have been driven
from Wateryille, where they were
holding the station of the CONNER
ciaily Cable company.
The irregulars are adopting ter
rorist tactics that were familiar in
the days of the black and tan regime.
Three men were captured by them
near Dublin and we're shot to death.
The bodies were left lying in the road.
Two men we're captured in broad day.
light near Ballybough Bridge and were
shot TO death in the presence Of a
crowd of men and women. The body
of a well dressed man riddled with
bullets was found in a field near
Bally Griffin.
Three irregulars were killed in bat
tie with Free State troops at Barney.
Intermittent fighting has been in
progress on this section on the line
since Friday.
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SUPER PEACE LEAGUE URGED
Association Superior to Present Organ
izatons Is Proposed at Grenoble
Conference.

Grenoble, France, Aug. ga new
plan for a "world association of states"
to link together the League of Nations,
the Pan-American union and those gov
ernments which are members Of
neither has been submitted to the In
stitute of International Law at it's
meeting here by Prof. Alexandra Alva-
rez of Chile in the form of a report
drafted by Professor Alvarez for the
twenty-seventh commission Of the in
stitute which approved il at an execu-
tive session held in Paris from July 81
to August 8.
The new association would be super
imposed upon the present league and
Pan-American union and would seek to
encourage regional and continental
groups rather than attempts to replace
them entirely