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Show Thursday, July 7, 1SS8 THE PARK RECORD PAGE THREE r tv - '-ffAX ' 1 v.. 1 'V- Seven years a' son descried sec e'v l-f3 in east- ?f-' N 7;,ti ern cit;es to buy a ronch in the Sawtooth rvounta-n wilderness of Idaho Here s'1:? has learned to do everyth r. a rancher should, chopping wood.handh.nj horses, hunt n b'g game and even bu !d n h?r cwn house. Her former roc elv prsociates may scoiT. tut Helen srys Lie's mur- . .' "". aid srt "fy n-; 'vV-, ' f - A - - ; t St r .X ', . ' i It's a far cry from Manhattan Helen has forgotten about cocktails! "l rx, i I v - . . - v . vvtX . wt 'SV' A ti v,s P fe x 1 V'M 'ill VVf trtf J"M ,A' fY 1.V rA,A rA(fK - - A-S' 1 t r-A,s 1 i v A, - -V f a ' !' 1 , . V' iA fAu 'A1 a Helen's ranch is 90 miles from a railroad, which is a long way from civilization. But she's become so adept at horseback riding that "5A: tVio nntivp wpstprn COW- k bovs think she's god- 5 '1 ft ? ' ? cocktail parties to a western range. Bij Massacre Blamed on Smell of Baking Bread An Indian who wouldn't take no for a:i answer when he wanted bread and could smell it baking, precipitated one of the bloodiest In-d In-d an massacres in Michigan's history, his-tory, says a Byron (Mich.) correspondent corre-spondent in the Detroit Free Press. As a result the little town of Byron, By-ron, settled in 1825, was wiped out and every family except one slaughtered. The one family was that headed by a miller named Smith. The Indians refused to harm Smith because he had taken one of their chiefs who was severely injured in-jured into his home and cared for him until he recovered. The massacre resulted when the husband of the woman who refused to give bread to the Indian walked into the house and shot him dead. The Indians demanded immediately that the killer be turned over to them for punishment. They threat ened to kill and scalp every settler and burn their homes unless this were done. In general the settlers felt that the killing had not been justified, but they stubbornly refused to submit sub-mit one of their members to the Indians for torfure. They sent a runner to get a company of soldiers from the fort at Detroit. That night, Smith, who had been confined to bed because of an illness, ill-ness, heard guns fired, piercing cries of agony and the roar of flames consuming his neighbors' log cabins. He rushed from bed to the door. A blanketed Indian told him to go back to bed. Smith attempted to go to the help of his friends through a back window. win-dow. Another Indian barred his way. Imprisoned in his cabin he watched the destruction of the village. vil-lage. The next day a squad of soldiers arrived. They found the village reduced re-duced to piles of charred logs, and heaps of hot ashes covered by the bodies of the victims, with Smith's family the only living beings. About the Swastika The swastika, oldest of all Aryan symbols, is definitely pre-Christian and many specimens of it have been found in the diggings of old Troy. From its rough likeness to a wheel it is associated by some with the solar motion and early worship of the sun, through the most important impor-tant of its attributes, in ancient usage, is its character as a charm, a sign of benediction, of long life and good luck. It is the sacred symbol of one Buddhist sect, and from time immemorial has been known to all peoples of Asia. The fact that it was not unknown to the American Indian is held to point to early communication between the hemispheres. The word, swastika, says the Detroit News, derives from the Sanskrit "su" meaning well, and "asti" which means being. On the bust of Apollo in Vienna's famed museum of historical art is a large and unmistakable swastika, which bears out the supposed solar significance, signif-icance, and identifies that god, perhaps, per-haps, as the first of the Austrian Nazis. All Bats Have Eyes Bats are quick to learn and can be trained sufficiently in two days to eat from the hand. These mammals are very clean, washing themselves with their tongues. The saying, "blind as a bat" is incorrect, since all bats have eyes and in all probability prob-ability are merely dazed by sudden bright lights. Although bats' feet are undeveloped and unadapted for walking, their wings are so well equipped with exceptionally keen sensory nerves that they can whizz through pitch darkness without colliding col-liding with any object. Aaron Burr a Busy Man in War and in Politica Aaron Burr, born in Newark, N. J., February 6, 1756, was educated at the college of New Jersey (later called Princeton university) and was prominent in the war of the Revolution. In 1778 he resigned his commission as colonel, partly on account of ill health and partly through disappointment at not being promoted more rapidly. In 17315 he was admitted to the bar in Albany. Al-bany. His progress in politics was rapid. In 1784 he was elected to the state legislature; in 1789 became attorney-general of the state, and was United States senator from 1791 until un-til 1797. His efficiency in the presidential pres-idential canvass of 1800 caused the friends of Jefferson to bring him forward for the vice presidency. An equal number of votes having been thrown for Jefferson and Burr, the election went into the house of representatives. rep-resentatives. On the thirty-sixth bal lot Jefferson was chosen President and, in accordance with the constitutional constitu-tional provision, Burr became Vice President, serving from 1801 to 1805. His unethical conduct in trying to defeat the candidate of his party caused him to lose his political influence, in-fluence, observes a writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He ran for governor of New York and was defeated. de-feated. The bitterness of that contest con-test led to a duel, in 1804, between Burr and Alexander Hamilton, in which the latter was killed. Burr was later tried for treason on the charge of attempting to establish an empire which should embrace some of the southwestern states of the Union. He died September 14, 1836. Cock-of-the-Woods, the Largest of Woodpeckers The pileated woodpecker, commonly com-monly called log-cock or cock-of-the-woods, is the largest of our native woodpeckers and is only a trifle smaller than the crow, writes Albert Al-bert Stoll, Jr., in the Detroit News. Like most members of the woodpecker wood-pecker family, it is possessed of a scarlet red crown with white stripes running down its neck to the wing joints. The body is grayish-black with the base of the wing feathers white. The pileated woodpecker loves the dense forest. It is seldom seen beyond its confines. It is of no interest to the farmer as an insect destroyer, for its work is confined to the dense timber stands and it is recognized by foresters for digging out destructive tree insect larvae. It is able with its strong, chisellike chisel-like bill, to penetrate the hardest woods. There are many legends woven around the pileated woodpecker. wood-pecker. It was one of the guardian birds of the Chippewas. The Me-nominees Me-nominees looked upon its presence as a good omen. Even old time deer hunters believed that where this bird worked the hardest in searching out forest insects, there would he find good deer hunting. As our virgin timber disappears, so does the cock-of-the-woods. The two go hand in hand and there is no separating them. Steamships on the Atlantic The Savannah, built in New York, is usually considered the first ocean steamship. On May 26, 1819, she left Savannah, Ga., and reached Liverpool in 25 days, during 18 of which she used her engines. Regular Regu-lar steamship service across the Atlantic was started by the Great Western and Sirius. Both ships arrived in New York on April 23, 1838, thes Sirius having finished the trip from London in 17 days and the Great Western from Bristol in 15 days. casoline in some 01 the HIS shows you what a price I A iV---- - " s H -r A II they pay for gasoline in some of the coun- vlpv - j- - - VXaIS tries overseas. Gasoline certainly comes reasonable in your own U. S. A. And right in your own neighborhood the lowest-cost mileage you can experience is assured by Your Mileage Merchant's genuine Conoco Bronz-z-z-z gasoline. Land Grant Kosciuszko's Reward for Aiding U. S. Like all other Revolutionary officers, of-ficers, Thaddeus Kosciusko, the Polish patriot who aided the United States, received a land grant from congress. But he left the United States soon after the Revolution and did not file a claim for his lands until he returned in 1797. He then selected 500 acres, a colonel's share, from a map. Most of the grants had been parceled par-celed out by that time, so he was obliged to take a tract on the extreme ex-treme westerly edge of the bounty lands. This tract, according to John Howard Galbraith, in the defunct Ohio Magazine for November, 1907, was a few miles north of Columbus, Ohio, on the east bank of the Scioto river, in Perry township, Franklin county, immediately south of the Delaware county line. Kosciuszko left the United States again in May, 1798, and before leaving, leav-ing, made a will leaving his American Amer-ican property to be disposed of by Thomas Jefferson, the money to be used in purchasing the freedom of negro slaves, and in their education. Dice an Ancient Game The University of Pennsylvania museum has a special exhibit devoted de-voted to the game of dice. It contains con-tains dice made of terra cotta unearthed un-earthed at Tepe Gawra, Mesopotamia, Mesopo-tamia, in 1927 that must be at least 5,000 years old, judged by the strata, showing remains of past ages in which they were found. Another set shown were used approximately 1,000 years before Abraham in 3100 B. C. These are marked exactly the same as modern dice and were found with an illustrated gaming board. Dice were common among the ancient Greeks and Romans. Sophocles declared dice were invented in-vented during the siege of Troy by a Greek prince. The Roman poet, Horace, criticized his people for "dicing" instead of learning to defend de-fend their country. Mark Antony, Augustus, Nero and Claudia all are known to have played the game. Badger Is a Fighter The courage and fighting ability of the badger is traditional, and he is said to be able to easily defeat any dog less than twice his own weight. He never cries quits and never retreats, the final outcome of the battle always being death to the badger or the death or retreat of the dog. The badger's battle cry is in itself more than a little startling even to a man. Savage snarls and loud, explosive hissings pour from his mouth in a continuous volley when he is aroused. Ground squirrels, squir-rels, gophers, field mice and other small rodents form most of his food, and much of it he obtains by digging dig-ging into the burrows of these small creatures, who are unable to dig themselves deeper at a sufficiently rapid pace to escape. 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And the reason for this is, of course, that throughout the ages all animals have been pursued by man and his smell, therefore, in stantly brings to the surface th timeless dread of their greatest enemy. en-emy. A deer, for instance, will often gaze upon a man in sheer curiosity, but will instantly fie upon getting wind of him. Sine the beginning of time nature hat showered her greatest gifts into the lap of man, but on the whole h has shown only base ingratitudv, and heedlessly continues to destroy( and dangerously deplete her mag-' nificent creations. In the open all senses must be mighty keen, and so nature in her great wisdom ha endowed her charges with faculties that will give them at least a fighting fight-ing chance in a life that is always hard. The French Broad River The French Broad river is one of the sources of the Tennessee river riv-er and rises in the Blue Ridge mountains of southwestern North Carolina. 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