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Evening star., 1923-12-02
PARIS, November %.

PARIS, November 22.
d" HERE 10 one division of the
great Paris Central Markets
which Is called "the pavilion of
= poultry and game" This par
ticular pavilion uses more than
10000 long tons, more than $4,000, 900
pounds, of its special provisions every
year.
When these markets were built, in
the ffties of last century, with their
Twelve paviiions, covering as many
street blocks. they gave the first ex-
ample Of steel construction on a big
scale. and they still stand fast. But
the number of people in Paris COM
Ing to them for daily food is more
than four times as great. 1t is twice
as great as it was in the eighties
The war alone brought into Paris
| more than 100000 refugees from
devastated parts of France and from
ruined foreign lands, with other
Frenchmen and foreigners to do busi-
ness for them. and more than half of
| these have settled down and remained.
| And 1t is pretty clear that all these,
quite like old Parisians. like to eat
| chicken and hare, not to speak of kid
and turkey and goose, all cooked in
the best French style.
Until home production and easy
transport from other countries began
again all France was on short ra-
tiens for these favorite foods. Even
now the difficulties for eating as one
| likes are not finished in Paris. On
the last day of October this very year
| the minister of agriculture called to-
| gether the representatives Of the
markets supply of milk, butter and
cheese and eggs and, after long argu-
| ing, induced them to stop sending
| their produce to other countries-at
least, until next April, when winter
will be over and dear cost of living
may not worry housewives as it does
! now.
| AS for chickens and rabbits, in the
| first year after the war Paris received
! from foreign countries only $1,000
| pounds of poultry and game to help
| out the home production, SO dimin-
ished by the war. Last year Holland
alone fed into the maw of Paris
$4,000 pounds of such poultry anG
| small game as it grows, and Czecho-
slovakia, which was once Bohemia
sent $4,000 pounds. Altogether for
| eigners sold with profit to themselve!
1,632.400 pounds of poultry and game
to Paris.
France herself, from her own rapid.
| ly recovering production, furnished
Paris more than 20,000.0O0 pounds OF
| these light meats. One single depart
ment of France-the Loiret, in the
| center. just south of Paris. with less
than 10000 inhabitants-sent 440, ,00O
! pounds of poultry alone
| Tourists remember viyidly how all
| over the continent of Europe chicken
was sure dish for one of the two
meats in every boarding house OIL
/ fixed-price hotel dinner. Or a certain
seasons of the year it was turkey
In Switzerland it was French turkeys
and French "poulets de Bresse" thai
were served. Chicken is comine
back in France, as 1 found in a cheaI
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cred on the lapel Of, the, brown velvet
coat and above this the letters 'sC}
W. painted in black In the. form of
a monogram. On the chin of the
face area is number. resembling a.
pawnbroker's mark, which reads,
"Abo 161 49, and evidently was
placed on the painting for identihca-,
ton. On the hair ribbon, some tonef
has written "1s51.P Many Others
marks Of curiosity appear ON ,the7
paintingf such as '179;--,r a very
small engraved figure of beaver orr
rat, and a number of calculations in /,
percentage and division. These
marks. however, scan be seen only
under a strong lens. ~ =,
Discovered at the same time Is.
another interesting relic, framed !.
sampler brought from England about
125 years ago, but much older than
that, possibly OF the sixreenxn rem
tury, as date of 1914 can be plainly
read on IT,, The subject. OF the elabo-
rate petit point: embroidery is Noah
and the Ark and it Is in the style of
the Italian ,primitives. sort IL mot I'M.
probable that It may either have beeRt
made in Italy. and brought to England,
or copied from an Italian picture. The
piece of work contains 1000 stitches to
the square inch.
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Happily the gun boy came up in time
to save his master by killing the
beast.
This hunter was an extraordinary
character. He was very successful
and yet he was almost stone deaf.
How he dared hunt elephants or any
other big game without the aid of his
hearing l have never been able to con-
ceive, yet he did it and did it well.
One morning Cuninghame. having
gone out with some boys to shoot
meat for camp. came upon three old
buffaloes. He sent a runner back to
camp with the news. and Mrs. Akeley
,, and ] started out to Join him. Half
way from camp we were obliged to
make a wide detour to avoid an old
rhino and calf. but soon caught up
with Cuninghame. He reported, how
ever that the buffaloes had passed on
into some dense bush. We started to
follow, but suddenly came upon two
rhinos.
We quickly turned to leeward in
order not to disturb them by giving
them our wind. for we were not anx-
-, ious to bring on general stampede
! of the game in the neighborhood. This
| turn brought us to the windward of
! the old COW and calf that we had first
avoided, with the result that she came
! charging up, followed by the calf
! close at her heels. snorting like a To-
comotive. Cuninghame helped Mrs.
Akeley up convenient tree. He
stood at the base of the tree and l at
J the foot of another, where we waited,
with our guns ready. watching the
! old COW go tearing past within twen-
ty feet Of US.
! We continued on the buffalo trail,
f. but the stampede of the rhino had re-
suited in alarming the buffaloes so.
| that instead of finding them nearby,
we were forced to follow them for an
| hour or more before again coming in
/ sight of them; and again twice more
they were stampeded by rhinos that
| happened to get in our path. At last
the buffaloes evidently became tired
of being chased from place to place
and came to rest on a sloping hillside,
which we could approach only by
crawling on our hands and knees in
! the grass for a considerable distnce.
| In this maneuvering it happened
that Mrs. Akeley was able to stalk
the best bull, and few minutes later
! he was finished off and we were busy
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Poultry and Game
For People of Paris

vacation along the Swiss and French
frontier. But French chickens are
now eaten at home, and mostly in
Paris.
At present we can buy chicken
enough for four persons at one meal
"a two and a half pound fowl. with
nothing left over. not even it's shadow
for broth next day-for 20 francs,
which is less than a dollar and
quarter. 1t sound dear in France
among middle-class people, who have
the same income in francs as before
the war. when 20 francs meant 81
and bought more than four times as
much as now. Prof1teers and work
men with high wages are the only
ones able now to eat chicken pie. But
in France nobody knows how to make
real, honest-to- goodness chicken pie.
Chickens are cheap and plentiful In
Paris from September to January. Be
fore that season you have to pay
spring-chicken prices, and after it
they are old or dear. Geese come in
with November and go out with the
new year-and they are good stewed
and simmered and pot-roasted in
saucepan with bacon and beans,
which is the far-famed "cassoulet' OF
Toulouse. Turkeys are plentiful only
in November and December-for
Thanksgiving and Christmas, az 1t
were, and you have to import your
cranberry sauce in a glass. Even IL
you do that. you will most likely
keep also to the French mashed
chestnuts with it and crisp bits Of
bacon or mushrooms.
Kid meat, which Americans often
take for young venison, and which is
too aften eaten gamey or in a sort
of pickle, appears chiefly in April and
May Real venison and any large
game are always rare and limited by
a regulation hunting season, and they
are dear.
Poultry and game alike have to pay
the "octroi" or town dues on entering
Paris This tax list shows the yarie-
ty which is offered to families with
small money:
Woodcock, pheasant. thrush, quail
Outlets of fat. like Philadelphia
squabs) and lark pay cents, and live
rabbit from TO cents pound in
these dues to the city.
STERLING HEILIG.
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A N extremely interesting and
n valuable oil bust portrait of
~ George Washington. painted
4 a from life, by one of the
notable artists. has been discovered
in historic Georgetown, the oldest
part of the city Of Washington,
where he spent a great deal of his
time during the colonial days. The
discovery was made by Andrew X.
Reynolds, a Washington newspaper
man.
The portrait has caused much in
terest among art lovers at the Cap
ital, and has been an heirloom or
an old Georgetown family for nearly
a century. 1t is painted on an oh
long poplar panel, about eighteen by
twenty-four inches, and is in an ex-
cellent state of preservation. 1t
somewhat resembles the Gibbs-Chan-
ming Washington, painted by Gilbert
Stuart, and now owned by the Met
repolitan Gallery of Art, OF New
York. - 4, - :,
The picture hung in the parlors
Of Charles Sumner while he.. was 2
member of Congress in. 1864. and Is
literally covered with marks Of all
descriptions. While it was being
cleaned and varnished . short time
ago the word "Peale" was discov-
Evening star., 1923-12-02
Divining Rod Mystery.

EOR countless ages a divining rod
in the hands of mystics has
supposedly been capable of locating
ore deposits and underground
streams, but the stories told of its
mysterious virtues We're long con-
sidered by modern science as mere
remnants of medieval superstition.
discoveries in many fields have,
however, made the scientist more
cautious and tolerant in his atti-
tude toward phenomena disagreeing
with his ideas. The diyining rod
has thus been taken out of the scrap
heap to which 1t has long been con-
signed and made the subject of many
officials tests to solve it's mysteries.
The solution of the problem seems,
however. to be near at hand, expert
ments made by Muller of Zurich
showing that the marvellous move
ments are mainly electrical and mag
netic. though only those endowed
with a special sensitiveness will re-
spond to them.
Jaggi-Perrard. one of the masters
of the divining rod, placed himself
at Muller's disposal. The first expert
ment consisted In keeping q brass
pendulum or divinilg rod of whale-
bone over a copper plate charged
with electricity. The pendulum
would then move back and forth
violently under the action of a mega
tive charge and be silenced by a
positive charge. and the divining rod
was, according to the sign of the
charge, DETECTED in an upward or
downward direction.
Another experiment was made in
order to further examine the sub
5ect's sensitiveness to electric charges
of opposite signs. A set of glass cups
belonging to a galvanie battery was
placed before Mr.. Jaggi. who. though
ignorant of the nature of these cups,
found his divining rod to defect
alternately upward or downward on
passing over them.
Incidentally, these experiments
show that the human organism. in
special excitement, will exhibit sensi-
tiveness and faculties as yet unsus-
pscted.
The French Academy of Science has
also Investigated the rod of mystery,
appointing a commission to expert
ment with members of the association
of so-called OWNERS" In the re-
port of the proceedings given by
Prof. d'Arsonval, we'll known through
his work with electrical currents. 1t
was stated that streams and water
could be located at a depth of from
fifteen to fifty-seven feet with great
accuracy.
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British East Africa. while the ami
mails are perhaps heavier.
The buffalo deserves his reputation
as one of the most dangerous Of big
game animals. His eyesight is good.
he has keen scent and is vigilant and
vindictive. While the lion is usually
satisfied with giving his victim a
knock -out blow or bite, the buffalo.
when once on the trail of man, will
not only persist IN his efforts TO find
him, but, when he has once come up
with him, will not leave while there
is a yestige of life remaining in the
victim. In some cases he will not
leave while there Is fragment Of the
man remaining large enough to form
a target for buffalo's stamping
hoofs. 20.
A HUNTER met once told me of
an experience he had with buf-
falo, which shows in rather terrible
way these characteristics of the ami
NAL. He and companion wounded a
buffalo and followed it into the long
grass. 1t was lurking where they did
not expect 1t and, with a sudden
charge. was upon them before they
had a chance to shoot. The buffalo
knocked down the man who told me
the story and then rushed after his
companion. The first victim managed
to climb a tree. although without his
gun. BY that time the other man was
dead. But the buffalo was not salts
fed. For two hours he stamped and
tossed the remains while the wound
ed man in the tree sat helPlessly
watching. When the buffalo left, my
informant told me. the only evidence
of his friend was the trampled place
on the ground where the tragedy had
taken place. There is nothing in At
rica more vindictive than this.
There was another case of an old
elephant hunter in Uganda who shot
a. buffalo for meat. The bullet did
not kill the animal and it retreated
into the thick bush where there were
even some good sized trees. The old
hunter followed along a path. Sud
denly the buffalo caught him and
tossed him. As he went into the air
he grasped some branches oyerhang-
ing the trail. There he hung. unable
to get up and afraid to drop down,
while the wild bail beneath him
charged back and forth, with his long
horns ripping at the hunters legs.
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photographing, measuring and pre-
pairing the skin.
A BOUT twenty-five miles to the
northwest from the Tana, across
the plain on the Theba river, is a
marsh. where herd of nearly hun
dred buffaloes was known to live, but
the provincial commissioner had def
nitely said. that we were not to shoot
these. We decided, finally, to ask for
the privilege, which was granted, but
with a warning in the form of an ex-
planation-that he had told US not to
shoot there because of the danger in
volyed.
We found a reed marsh about one
by two miles in extent, with. at that
time, a foot or two of water in the
buffalo trails that criss-crossed 1t in
all directions. On arriving and while
making camp at one end of the marsh
just at dusk, we saw the herd come
out on dry land a half mile away
out they returned to cover before we
could approach them. In fact. during
nearly two weeks that we spent there
we saw them come outside the swamp
only twice, each time to return i'm
mediately.
We made several attempts to ap-
proach them in the marsh, but found
that while 1t was quite possible to get
up to them, 1t was out of the ques-
ton to choose our specimens. Also it
| would have been impossible to beat a
! retreat in case of a charge or stam-
pede, so we adopted a campaign of
watchful waiting.
From the camp at daybreak we
| would scan the marsh for the snowy
COW herons that were always with
the buffaloes during the daytime.
| These would fly about above the reeds
from one part Of the herd to another,
and at times, where the reeds were
low. they could be seen riding along
perched on the backs of the animals.
Having thus located the herd and de-
termined the general direction of Its
movements we would go to a point
at the edge of the marsh where it
seemed likely that the animals would
come out, or at least come near
enough to be visible in the shorter
reeds.
1t was in this way that We secured
| the specimen that makes the young
bull Of the group-and two weeks
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never go into the swamps, a fact not
only confirmed by observation. but
also indicated by the condition If the
hoofs. These are horny. round and
smooth as result of travelling on the
hard aRd more or less stony ground
of the region. But the tinga- -tinga
buffaloes have lived in swamp for
years and spend practically no time
on hard ground, hence the hoofs are
long. sharp and unworn as result of
walking always in the SOFT mud and
water. All this is despite the fact
that these two herds may actually
come in contact at the edge of the
swamp Other herds live in forest
country, but come out into the grass
lands to feed at night always going
back into the forest at daybreak.
In Uganda. where buffaioes are rec
ognized as a menace to life and are
of no particular value except for food.
they are officially treated as vermin
and one may shoot as many as he
will Here the herds had increased
to an enormous extent and, because of
the dense jungles and general inacces-
sibility of the country, it was rather
difficult to hunt them. While ele-
phant hunting in Uganda we found
the buffaloes a decided nuisance, fire.
quently coming onto them unexpect-
edly while hot on an elephant trail
sometimes having difficulty in getting
rid of them. not wishing to shoot or
stampede them because of the danger
of frightening away the elephants, to
say nothing of the constant menace
Of running into truculent old bull at
very close quarters in dense jungle.
The buffaloes actually mingle with
the elephants, each quite Indifferent
to the other excepting that on one
occasion We found elephant calves
charging into a herd of buffaloes, evil
IDENTIFY only in play. They chased
about squealing and stampeding the
buffaloes, who kept at safe distance
but did not actually take alarm. Oc-
casionally an old COW whose calf was
being hard-pressed by the young ele-
plants would turn, apparently with
the intention of having 1t out, but
would always bolt before the ele-
phant could actually reach her. De-
spite the fact that the record head
fifty-four inches In spread, was shot
by Mr.. Knowles in Uganda, from our
general observation, the heads in
Uganda run smaller than those of
Evening star., 1923-12-02
Pumps Shoot Water.

A PUMP of peculiar construction
lifts water by the direct action
of exploding gas in much the same
way that projectile is driven from
cannon. In trials the machine is
said to have proved so economical
that it is to be tested for use on a
large English project for draining
Lake Mareotis in Egypt. If the tests
are successful, pumps which Will
raise a billion gallons OF water daily
to a height of twenty feet will be
installed. II is planned after the
work is in progress to double the
capacity of the pumps first installed,
thus making the station the largest
known pumping plant in the world.
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spent there resulted in securing no
other specimen. On this one occa-
sion the buffaloes. accompanied by
the white herons, had come to within
about hundred yards of our posi-
tion on the shores of the swamp.
They were in reeds that practically
concealed them, but the young buffalo
in question. in the act Of throwing
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up his head to dislodge a bird that
horns that indicated young bull of
the type / wanted. A heron standing
on his withers gave me his position.
and aiming about two feet below the
bird / succeeded in killing the bull
with a heart shot.
Copyright. All rights reseryedl
Evening star., 1923-12-02

This Is the last of a series Of FIVE
remarkable articles giving the ex.
periences of one Of the most dis
tinguished Of American explorers
and natural scientists In pursuit OF
xhe bio game Of Africa.
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Hunters Find
nmas-
Evening star., 1923-12-02
BY CARL f. AKELET.

. HE buffalo is different from
any other kind Of animal in
Africa. A lion prefers not to
u fight a man. He almost never
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-15

LOS ANGELES-Samu McGee, a messenger for the First National Bank, while walking down the street accompanied by two guards. was shot and killed in a daylight robbery by two auto bandits, who made their escape with a package of money, the amount of its contents as yet undetermined. Later on a lone robber held up the proprietor and two employees in a jewelry store and dashed away with s75,000 in diamonds and s1.O0O in gold. A pedestrian gave chase and the robber, seeing he was hard pressed, threw the diamonds in the face of his pursuer and made his escape in the crowd with the gold.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-15

SEATTLE-Agents of the depart ment of justice, whose Investigations resulted in the sentencing at Valdez, Alaska. of NJ. V. Hcskins to five years m7risonment at McNeil's s island, declared that thousands of dollars worth of furs are stolen every year by fox pirates preying on the fox farms of Alaska.
 Hoskins confessed the theft of 30 blue fox skins, valued at retail prices at s8,000. Hoskins and the furs were traced from Cordova to Seattle, Spokane and Denver. He took the skins from shed on the fox farm of Louis Van and Jack Stamier on Axei Lind island. where they had 50 skins stretched and drying.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-15
ELKS HAD 45, 900 GROWTH IN
 MEMBERSHIP PAST YEAR

CHICAGO Elkdom numbers 1,455 lodges with total member ship of S12,657 according to the re- port of the secretary of the Benevo- made public here and shows the as- sets of subordinate lodges to be in excess of $5S.000,000. Last year the local lodges spent more than s2,000.000 for charity. A net gain of 44,s96 members for the year has been recorded, and thirty four new lodges instituted. Nebraska was the only state to register decrease in membership. In 1878 the order showed membership of820 and in 1921 a membership of 767,661.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-15
Want Federal
 Highway to
 Include Alaska

At the Commercial Club luncheon Monday the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
 WHEREAS, The Alaska Delegate, Dan Sutherland, has introduced a bill in Congress lH. R. 13552) ex- tending the Federal Highway Act to Alaska, and Delegate Baldwin of Hawaii has introduced a like meas ure for the exten nsion of said High way Act to that territory, and
 WHEREAS, That under said Fer eral Highway Act and Post Office Road Act there is available for dis tribution approximatelys10 100000 for road work in the political divis- ions covered by said act, upon the basis of one-third on area, one-third on population and one-third on mileage, which, if Alaska is placed upon the same basis as Nevada would make available s6,000,00O for road work in the territory. This is exceed ingly desirable inasmuch as the Bud get Bureau has made no provision for new work in the coming year either as feeders for the government rail- road or otherwise and has only all lowed s465,000 for general road ex- penses which amount is insufficient for the maintenance of the roads al- ready constructed; therefore be it
 RESOLVED, That the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce endorses the measure presented to the Congress by the delegates from Alaska and Hawaii providing that these territo- ries may receive share of the funds mentioned for the purpose of deyel- opment and maintenance of their means of internal transportation,a and be it further
 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to the Delegates from Alaska and Hawaii. in Wash ington, the Washington State Dele gation, MT. Alexander Hume Ford, editor of the Pan-Pacific Magazine, Honolulu, and to the Commercial bodies in Alaska.
 Adopted February 12, 1923.
 WRANGELL (ALASKA)
 COMMERCIAL CLUB
 J. G. Grant. J. w. Pritchett, Chairman
 Secretary.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-02-15
ALASKA'S GREAT SHOWING

It is with a great deal of satisfac- tion that commercial interests view the continued activity in the Alaska trade. which gives promise of anoth- CT record year. January. usually one of the poorest months, has wit messed a continuance of heavy north bound shipments. In fact, the ton mage in general merchandise, equip ment and supplies manifested from Seattle is greater than for any simi- lar showing, while early in March will come the annual migration of cannery employees wit hall attend ant tonnage in supplies for the va rious fishing enterprises.-Railw and Marine News.