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Show .' Thurs~ay, July 3, 1930 :THE MIDVALE JOURNAL .. • SSI Really Thoughtful Act of Modern Daughter LION AND LIONESS "\Veil," said the Lioness, "I said to the people who passed by, 'Look at me !' It was a command, not an in\'ltatlon. An Invitation Is a silly thing. "It's too polae, not wild enough. I didn't know that anyone wanted to look at we, and 1 didn't care. "I wasn't going to Invite people to gaze upon me and my queenly beauty. "I was goin;:; to command them to do so." "How could you have commanded them?" asked King Lion. "I think people lll\e to look at me and my handsome full-grown mane. Ah, what a beautiful thing a mane is. 'You, poor Lione~s. haven't su~:h a bcartiful pos~es,;i ou." "You needn't pity me, for I am not en vlous or you.'' "Indeed,'' snld Ring Lion huu;;htily, and In a tone as if he didn't believe her in the lenst. ". ·o, I am not envious of yon," said the Lione,s. "If I 11!1\·en't a mane I have at' least a wild nature. I'm wild· er than you are, far, far, wilder. "l've more character, In shor·t, I am a rPgulnr lion-or a regular lioness. "I am a wild henst. "Ah, that souncls so wonderfully to me, a wil <I beast ~" "Something to ln·ag about, no douht,'' said Kin"' Lion, who w11 s fePling sleepy and not In the last bit wild. "It don't matter," said the LionPss, "whether I am her·e in the zoo, or far out In the jungles, I always take th'e lead in wildnl'Ss." "You told me you <'OU!(I <'omm and the people to look at you," said Kino; Lion. "I don't sPe that people who are passing by are looking at ~·ou. They're .. ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 1914 there died in Cin- cinnati a famous native . American. "Martha" was and her tame of the tact that she was the last or her race, the sole survivor of the countless millions of passenger pi~eons which once darkened the skies h tl.eir tli~ht in the Mh;slssippi valley. Today somewhere in the protectIng scrub oak wl1lch co\·ers the green plains of 1\Iartha's Vine~·ard there wanders another native American who is the succes~or to the unique posi· tion once held by "Murtha." lie bears no man-given name, for where "l\Iar· tha" died in captivity he is spending his last years in the freedom of a vast reservation which wn-s created 20 years ago to save his species from -extinction. But the effort has failed for today this single health hen, a male, on Martha's VIneyard is the last of his race. When tile earliest settlers came to New Englund the heath hen was the most 9.bundant of all game birds in the East, being distributed from Cape .Ann to Virginia and especially abun-dant In the lowlands of Masl':achusetts, ·Connecticut and Long I~land. In fact, Governor Winthrop's day this bird was so common around Boston that laborers "bound out" to emplnyers :Stipulated in their agreements "itL their masters that it should not be ~prved to them as their food oftener "than a few times a week." But when -the settlers ,began cutting off the for-ests Ute decline of the heath hen -'3tarted. The spread of civilization and "the Increasing number or cats and dogs which preyed upon its young further -decimated the heath hen and by a -century ago they were gone from t h e mainland of Massachusetts, although few lingered for another decade or two on outer Long Island and on th e Jersey plains. Eventually It was discovered that the i.sland @f Martha's VIneyard off the Massachusetts coast, was the only J>lace where the.~e birds could be found and even there they were eo,gaged in what seemed a hopeless ~truggle against death. In 1876 they were reported extinct and the Introduction of foxes and racoons to the island the following "'ear made the death of the race seem .., -certain. But somehow the heath hens re-established themselves. In the -early 'OOs William Brewster reckoned that there might be 200 birds left on the Island. The grass fire of 1894 J·ulned their breeding ground, and ob4!ervers could find only five birds that autumn. In 1891 a hunter with a bird dog tailed to start a single bird. Yet again they came back, only to .suffer in another fire in l!JOG. Massaoehusetts game warden;~ set the heath llen population at twenty-one in 1907 and at fifty or more In 1008. Then t he state took a hnnd and gave the birds active protection. B " 1"16 tlte colony had grown to a ·' " tllou.sand. The foxes and raccoons ~·ere e··termt"natn·' ·, other pests were " -' '" k ~pt down. I>ut thut summer an· < " ~ther fire swept over the heath ben v l·e~. er··att'on, an·' that autumn great ., • · " 1\,. ghts of g<lshawks descended on the • ·~lao·' and pre.•-ed on the survivors. •u u ·' In 1"1-1 fe\"er th~n 100 heath hens " '' " •rere left·, the!<e Increased to more " titan 400 In 1,.,_>:>2, wlten a co~d, wet " season almo~t wiped out the colony. l'erhnps fifty birds were left In lfl::!3, [1osstbly thirty in 1U:!7. De:spite the care o! the :;;tate and of the .iartha's Vineyard Rod and Gun club, de:;;pite distribution of food, cultivation of clover and suuflowers, despite the destruction of cats and rats and crows and bawl;s, the colony dwindled steadily. And now there Is only onP left. Prof. .Alf•ed 0. Gross ot Bowuoin college, who for several years had made an annllal census of the heath hens on the Island, returned to Boston recently and submitted his annual report. In it lie aid: "Dt\ •ing the YC'::tr 1928 the number of heuth hens dwindled from tht·ee to one lone bird. This bird was alh·e at the time of the annual ceru;us taken Marcb 30 to April 3, 19:!9. Though suggestions have been mad~ .. , to the ata~ depart~nt. "This is the age of selfishne>:!'l,'" deelares Kate Lee Stahl, the social worker. ''Or maybe It Is just thoughtlessness. I am not sure which. At any rate, the young gl rl of today seems to think and do everything but housework. She leaves that to mothPr. "Not long a~o. I w4ls Instrumental In helping a young girl get a start In lite and shortly after, when I met her on the str~t. I a~k~>d her how thin~ were going at lJOmP-. " 'Oh. just fine !' she crl('d. 'Why, .fnst think, last week I was able to buy mother a nice vacuum cteanel'.' " "l'hat was very thoughtful of you: •• 'Yf's, I guess it wns. You see, mother is a little sti fl'enPd up wltn rheumati;;m anrl used to feel so sorry to ree her tryln~ to use a broom that 1 always lPft the house on swet·ping <lay.' "-Los Angeles Times. From Tl<'ll' on Willl1m llil!J!in!l,)n of Metllelne Bow, Wyo., pluns to walk when lie \1 ants to ((n any plnce. liP" FOR CONSTIPATION rcc~:ntly steppctl in the wny of a horse's lticlt and emerged with a Real Living Rooms broken leg. lle was -plueed In an The betls have heen taken out of nutomohile ani! ru:<hecl towaT·tl Lurthe Ameri<"an Hving room. "Living nmie for rnt>dieal utt<'ntion. 'rite car room" now means something In our hit some IO.Hie graYel :wrl sma!':hed lives.-Woman's Home Companion. Into a pole. l!i!!p;ison finally reached the hospllul with a broken arm to match !tis hrol,en IPg-. Sundial Made of Cement One of the suhurhs of ~au Frnnclsco has undPrtaken to nttrnct :souw attention to its elf hy t>rectlug the largest sundial ever mude. It Is made of concrete and its top is high ubove the hea!ls of the spedutors untl lls shadow is cast U[lou· the ground which is marl\e!l niT for the purrJoxe ot lndi<"atin!!: the time. Tl1e in clined surface ot the dial Is oftPn irreverently u~e rl hy dlildren fur the purpose of a l;clly ~!ide. Uplift Stuff "\Vhat's het·ome of Old Grandma nrown who U>'ed to sit all da y knit- sox ~r· "Oh, she belong-s to n hh::h tone liternry ('lnh now and knits her l>row in thought." Give the Lawyer a Break servat!on to collect and preserve this last bird for science, It has been nl· lowed to live its normal life among the scrub oaks on the sandy plains of Martha's Vineyard Island. "The bird continued to visit the farm of James Green, West Tisbury, during the early spring of 19:!9, and was reported as late as ~lay ll. After that date, as was the custom of the heath ben in the past, this Individual disappeared among the dense scrub oaks to live In seclusion during the summer months. In October, after going through the ordeal of moulting, it again appeared at the Green farm to announce to the world that it was stiH alive. '·It was seen at Irregular Intervals during the winter, and since the first warm days of March It has made daily visits to the traditional 'booming' field, the old meadow along the state highway between Edgartown and West Tisbury, in a place less than a hun· dred yards' distance from hlr. Green's house. Almost simultaneously with the an· nounC!ement that the heath hen was traversing the last mile or Its road to extinction came the news also that the supposedly extinct passenger Pigeon had staged a ''come-back." At least two Michigan men, Robert H. Wright, Munising publisher, and Dr. Samuel R. IJandes of Traverse City, both of whom knew the passenger pigeon in the days of its abundance, declare that within recent months they have seen passenger pigeons in northern Michigan. 'Vright, his wife and son declare that from a distance • or 10 feet they saw two adult pigeons sitting In the road near Munising, and Doctor Landes and his brother state that they saw a flock of approximately fifteen between K ok·omo, 1n d., ll!IJd . wh i1e ,,ur1vmg . f rom .,,.., 1orIndianupolts, ida to Michigan. William B. Mershon of S:u;'ihuw, . one of America's leading authorities on the suhjert, and Prof. • 'orman A. Wood of the University of 1\IIch· igan say thN·e Is not t 11e remotest chance for the survival of a sin; 1e passenger pigeon. Heports have long been receiYed of the pigeon's presence in various localities, but inve:stiga· tion bus proved the ohservers mis· taken. Usually the psuedo "passen· ger pigeon" was found to be a mourn!ng dove, or the band-tailed pigeon ft·om the West. The extermination of the passenger pigeon was accompll~hed even morP swiftly than that of the heath hen. The state of Michigan was their prin· cipal nesting grounds aud their rookeries In the northern part of that state covered dozens of square miles with us many as a hundred nests, each occupied by one or two ~quubs, in a single tree. 'l'he farmers conside:red them a pest and the slaughter of the birds which be!(an In the six· tics reached Its high tide In the seventies, when the commercial posslbll- No one took steps to regulate the slaughter, for the supply was consldered unlimited. No matter how many thousands or even millions were killed, the enormous flocks still streamed out of the South In Aprll. They still darkened the sun-broke the branches from trees by their weight. Their rookeries still filled the woods. Then shortly after 1880 the pigeons suddenly disappeared. Pigeons were observed near Cadlllac In 1888, but disappeared a month after their arrival. They were traced northward as far as Oden, Emmet county, and are presumed to have crossed the straits of Mackinaw into the Upper Peninsula or Ontario. After 1888 no large flocks were seen any· where, and the ap!}('arance of a single bird was considered worthy of mentlon In scientific journals. Another American bird which Is now extinct-and has been for nearIy a hundred years-Is the great auk. It wa.o; different from any other Amerlean bird, in that It could not fiy, although It had great powers of swimming and diving. Its native habitat was the coast and islands of the North Atlantic and from the fi rst arrival of white men on the shores ot the New '\Vorld they preyed upon these birds, seekl · ng out t 11e1r eggs for food and killing t h e birds tor their feathers. The slaughter of the defenseless birds went on for more than two centuries \Vhen it was suddenly discovered that the great auk was all but exterminated. The last specimens, a ma1e an d a f emu 1e, were kllled on Fire Island off the southwestern coast o! Iceland In the North Atlantic on June 3, 1844, by the crew h of a sloop which visited t e Island for a cargo of meat and feathers of other seafowl which inhabited the place. 'Today either mounted spec!mens or eggs of the great auk command huge sums whenever, which is a ral"'! occurrence, they are offered tor sale. It Is estimated that there are about 70 eggs in existence today while the number of skins or mounted sped h clmens does not excee eig ty. The great auk and the pu:ssenger pigeon are extinct. 'l'he heath hen is nearing extinction. And not far be· hind It on the road to oblivion, in spite of all the efl'orts that have been made to preserve them, are other spe· cies. Notable among these are the majestic trumpeter swan, which is today a rn;ity even in zoos, and the snowy egret, which is all but extinct because its dorsal plumage in the breeding season fumishes the much· sought aigrette for the ornamentation of women's hats. And so widespread has been the destruction of our na· tiona! bird, the bald eagle, that only reeently a hill was ltttro!luced Into congre ·s forbidding the killing of an eagle, except when It is caught attacking liYe stock, in an effort to save it from the fate which has already overtaken some of our birds and is threat· "You Needn't Pity Me." stopping and gazing at me, and at my handsome mane." ''I said,'' the Lioness amnvered, "that I could command them to look at me, and I cnn, too." "Let's see you do it,'' said King Lion. "And do 1t quickly, for, if not, I'll take a nap. "I don't believe you can command the people In the zoo. "You want to pretend to me that you can, and then pretend that you have succeeded In doing It when I was nsleep and when I renlly wouldn't ltnow If you were telllng the truth or not." "l am truthful," said the Lioness, "yes, I am a truthful beast. And I don't wish to be insulted by a creature weal\er than myself, King Lion. "I hope you understand that I mean yourself !" "l understand," said King Lion. "Now, watch me,'' said the Lioness. "I've no intention of waiting tor you to go to sleep before I prove to you ruy great power." And with that the lioness roared, such a roaring and roaring that all the people gathered in front of her cage. "I command you to look at me !" she was roaring. "I command you to gaze upon my wildness so as to show old King Lion that people will be my bidding." And as they looked at her, they all said to one another: "What wild eyes she- has. Truly, she looks far wilder than the King Lion. "How awful It would be to meet her in the jungle." "1'here,'' she roared to King Lion, "tan't I command the people to look at me?" "Indeed you can, wild Lioness,'' said King Lion, and she sm!led at what she thought was a great compliment. Jumping to It The two school bo~·s were discussing their athletic prowess. "How high can you jump?" asked one. "Just over four feet,'' explained the other. "What can you do?" "Five feet,'' his friend promptly replied. ''How ahout the long jump?" "Just about ten feet," said the first. "'Vhat can you do?" "J~leven easily,'' was the reply. "What's your time for the half-mile?'' By now the other was a little suspicious. UF'J,..e seconds better than sours," be said. He Knew Warm weather and changes or rood and water bring frequent summer upsets unless healtlly elimination is assured. You will find Fccn-a-mint eft'ect.ive in milder doses and espe.. dally convenient and pleasant for summertime use. His Jinx Active tin~ ' in Prevent SummerUpsets , Robin's Hard Luck An industrious robin came to a sad Pnd at Lewiston, ~!nine, when he attempted to overdo in the matttor of building hfn1~elf a home. Happening on a rather long piece of twine, the little bird flew to the tOil of an elm tree with it in llis mouth. There he became entangled In his lourdeo and shortly found himself suspended about five Inches from n mall l>ranch with thf! string wrapped around his ueck. lie was taken from this 1 recarious position ahout half an hour later, but lie could not be reviYed. Juclg-e-And why do you think I ;;hould he lenient with you? Is this Time for Haste your first olfPnse? ".John, the paper say:; the Jenk· Prisoner-::\'o, your honor; hut. it's . inses are bnck from their vacation my lawyer's !irst c·ase.-Judge. in Yellowstone park." 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