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Show 0 THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH ing his habitat for scientific purposes, was sent out by the Miami Aquarium association. A yacht was the mother ship of the expedition and an express cruiser was used as a scout boat. Canvas canoes were taken along to get into the shallow salt creeks, and nose into the lagoons for deep entrances to the murky swamps where the flamingo hides. A Bahama guide, Peter Bannister, who had aided Doctor Chapmans party 19 years ago, also went with the party. After penetrating to the utmost navigable points with the canoes it was necessary to traverse miles of the swash or tidal marl marshes, carrying the heavy cameras and motion picture machines, in search for the birds. Wading in water up to the waist, knee deep in the marl mud, was the daily prbgram, while blinding - swarms of mosquitoes compelled nightly retreats to the yacht, anchored several miles off shore. But the hardships found a worthy reward when the party came upon colonies of several hundred birds, described by a member of the party as a flaming mass of brilliant scarlet bodies, Jet black' beneath the huge wings, with their long, slender necks gracefully lowering and raising their Roman-nose- d heads as they sought beneath the water the tiny spiral shell known to scientists as Cerithiuin, upon which the flamingo lives exclusively in its native habitat lble from a railway that crosses the river half rm lie below them, and they lie under the route of the proposed Cape to Cairo aerial service. Louis Livingston Seaman, in a communication to the National Geographic society, describes a visit to Victoria Falls and contrasts them with Niagara, as follows: Early In the morning of the third da, we were suddenly awakened by the guard and treated to a scene of beauty never to be forgotten. Some ten miles distant five enormous columns of vapor were shooting their roseate-tinte- d shafts hundreds of feet heavenward, while the faint roar of the falls told us the Mosioa-Tung- a the smoke that sounds was no longer a mystery. Each moment increased the beauty and vividness of the scene. With the first rays of the rising sun came a picture of color of wondrous loveliness. Delicate tints of violet, crimson, and " beryl played through the mounting It and filgfier higher, as shot spray ultimately disappearing as virgin clouds in heaven, while the thunders of the waters lent an added solemnity to the view. Hardly could we wait to reach our destination, so great was our enthusiasm. But our hopes were doomed to momentary disappointment, only to be more than realized after a study of the environment; for, notwithstanding their magnitude, the first view of Victoria Falls is decidedly disappointing. Although nearly a mile in width and 400 feet in height, the grandeur of their proportions is eclipsed by the sudden disappearance of the river, as it plunges into a narrow, rocky fissure extending across its entire width. Only at a single central point is there a breach in this fissure through which the falls can be seen and appreciated in their full proportions, where the converging waters rush madly to the zigzag canyon below. So restricted is this view that there is an entire aband most sence of that visparalyzing effect which strikes the itor dumb with wonder and amazement when Niagara bursts on his near vision. On first sight of the Victoria Falls one involuntarily exclaims, Oh, how beautiful! but they lack the majesty of our grand Niagara. No single visit can adequately reveal the fullness of their charms, but repeated excursions must be made to their Islands and precipices, their grottos and palm gardens, their rain forests and projecting crags, their rainbows and cataracts and many-sideviews of their exquisite setting in the emerald framework of tropic forests, before their, indescribable beauty can . be appreciated. . Had the falls been in America, the Indians would surely, have named them Minnehaha, Laughing Waters. INSECTS FROM ABROAD CAUSE OF. IMMENSE LOSS HERE EVERY YEAR WITHOUT RX1LS Off RIVETS New Scientific Metftod of Shipbuilding; Seen- in Construction- of- Veeeelat Liverpool:- ' ' ' ' Chn ovs Imagine1 &i ship without a1 nail or rivet ln all lts; hull? Do the visit to the1 shipyards and-tharmy of men nailing: huge timbers to Hie skeleton- frame of- a ship?1 And,, over in the next yard; the swarm: of men hammering the white hot rivets-ithe great plates of a battle ship?1 Ones Imagination- is- stretched' considerably to- conjure- a- method by which: all these workmen may have their PISA: AN OLD CURIOSITY reduced- or eliminated: Yet thin toil SHOP, OF HISTORY is todays development in the science A city of 10,000 skyscrapers before of shipbuilding; The steamship- Fulla-g- ar Peter Minuit bought Manhattan island has just slid' down the Liverpool for flie present price of a supper at ways without a nail or a rivet in its a Broadway cabaret hull. From stem to stem the- plates A city that warred and traded with are electrically welded: The Fullagar. empires, yet plunged into a disastrous is an oil driven cargo steamer of 5001 ' struggle with a rival city over the tons. She is now undergoing final rights to a iapdog. tests. Experts--declarthat she will-noA city which was seized after a only stand1 all the tests required, Ready to Take Up Attack on Codling Moth. Florentine Hobson but her success as an ocean carrier bottled, up its harbor entrance with sunken boats In discovering America, Columbus for guarding against this new source will revolutionize shipping. We may six centuries before the battle off Sannow calculate what a boon the elec-- : not only opened up a vast new home of danger. Mexico has contributed its share of trical welding process will be If great' tiago bay. for man, but for insect pests of culSuch is Pisa, whose leaning tower tivated crops and domestic animals insect pests that are now established annles of men have to be transported was endangered by recent earthquake as well. Fully 100 of these foreigners in this country to the destruction of on the bridge across the seas. Not tremors in Italy have made their way to American American crops. ' Chief among these only does this method release man are the boll weevil, the pink bollworm. power for other tasks, but it enables Pisas record abounds in incidents as shores, and incidentally to American to the freakish as its famous tower; yet it present. and the little Mexican beetle, known shipyards to turn out mighty steel gardens and fields, up The last, which ships within a short space of time. possesses a history necessarily more They have multiplied so that today as the bean ladybird. their destruction of orchards, garden has been discovered in Alabama, now significant titan any British or American city. and farm crops is estimated approxi- threatens to spread to, other southern COULD USE TOMATO SEEDS THE ISLAND OF to Indicative of Pisas importance In SARDINIA: mately at $500,000,000 a year more states1 and inflict immense damage PYGMIES AND WOLFRAM than $1,000,000 a day. Their havoc the cowptea and bean crops. the thirteenth century was her sendof Agriculture Points Out The general public has its duty in Department would be much more than this were fine imagination sugA traveled-o- f ing an. ambassador to Borne. ThereHow They May Be Made a control of Agriculture it not for the quarantines and aiding the Department by bangs the story of the iapdog. Dur- - gests that travel involves a double Source of Revenue. work conducted by the United States to prevent the further spread of insect ing the coronation ceremonies of journey one forward through space, its in and and diseases of through pests Frederick II the Florentine emissary the other backward through time. Agriculture Department That much valuable material is beYour1 steamboat ticket from Civbureau of entomology and its federal renders a great service to the admired the Iapdog of a certain' wasted annually by throwing away ing I can farmer.. Automobillsts and other tomato seeds board. so that dignitary promised ' to itavecchia, the port of Rome, entitles extracted in pulping, infested through Sarpersons journeying give the tiny animal to its admirer. you to an eight-hou- r voyage to and canning plants is Only Few Native Pests. catsup soup, I all observe should as carefully Next day the Pisan1 ambassador said a dinia, but affords a premium of sevOf all the insect pests and diseases by Investigations made, by the being careful United States few kind words about the same doi eral thousand years backward to Euthat attack cultivated crops and cut quarantine regulations, Department of Agricuin transporting articled capable of car- lture. and the cardinal just as readily prom- ropes earliest traceable history. into the profits of the American farmthe insect ised it to him.' The Florentine sent Sardinia has a' double interest just ers severely, there are relatively few rying Department investigators have found for his gift, and got it ; the Pisan sent, now because of the reported native that more than one thousand tons of of the more important ones that are and received an apology. Florentines demand for home rule, and because seed are thrown away annually In native to the United States. Like began joking the Pisans about this innorthern tomato-pulpin- g mericans have found tracts containother baneful things. Insect pests plants, with , many cident, and fights ensued on the Ro- ing wolfram, highly prized as a source large enough output of seed to pay for and diseases have followed the course man streets. When the Pisan home of shipping, and that they may be made r of civilization. They are carried in tungsten. folks heard this it gave them an exaninto edible oil and stock food worth many ways from one country to Second only to Sicily among Medcellent chance to pick a quarrel that Dethe about $86,000 (December, 1919). Cost of work is the it and been has Sardinia other,, ' iterranean islands, had long been simmering. A sort of the of collecting and preparing the seed to guard of of partment to as the lost isle that Agriculture, medieval Boston tea party was staged referred Is estimated at about $35,000, including their entry1 and States United said been has against it sea. Geographically by the Pisans, who seized all the enall proper charges, and the cost of the to prevent their spread once they on Italy, for its east turn back to its emy merchandise within their reach, necessary equipment Is given at not This Isolation they make . their appearance here. and thus precipitated the first of a coast is mountainous.in to exceed $50,000. While' many of the pests have come the a has preserving compensation series of wars, with Florence which In addition the same, plant, which who have a from European countries, Asia has culminated in the subjection of Pisa homogeneity of a people run not more than five months would Promof them. Its share contributed rival. by her long-tim- e in the year, could be used for the handestructive its for these inent among story seems trivial, yet dling of grape seeds and pumpkin ' activities is the San Jose scale, which characteristic of a certain childish Uni-seeds, which would distribute the overi the in made Its first appearance The crow js best known by the un- head andcut down the cost of manuI quality noticeable among the juvenile ted States forty or fifty years ago, favorabje reputation it has acquired in facture of the tomato-see- d civic nationalities that preceded naproducts. having made its way here from China. the coro fleld the poultry yard and one As further tional Italy. proof the became widespread throughout beIt on other attacks crops j(g might recall tlje occasion when the Cavalrymens Splendid Ride. Unlted States in the late nineties, and I gdes corn however, carries on a victorious army of Lucca hung upon Col. Ezra B. Fuller, the author of a is practical- - I vvarfare against certain insect enemies timetilere the at present a Pisan tower a mirror with the inI has himself a anthology, ly not a commercial deciduous orchard I the farmer. Indiscriminate killlpg riding THE MARSHALL ISLANDS scription Oh women of Pisa, use have to notable achievement of endurance and not does that In this In country areas even and not the with warranted, jg The Marshall islands, along No oththese to look at yourselves. be sprayed once a year to control I wbere che crow Is doing harm prevent-thl- s horsemanship to his credit During Carolines, were seized by Japan soon er challenge was needed for the Pisans I Nez Perces campaign of 1877 Fulpest. ive measures will often put a stop to the after the outburst of the war, and their to march to the gate of Lucca, and ler, then second lieutenant of the Sevwhich this burden the of Idea Some to bird allow the nuisance and been under has permanent disposition there to plant poles, topped with mirstationed on the north puts upon the orchardists of tinue what good work it may be e enth cavalry, Yellowstone Their proximity to the discussion. rors bearing retaliatory comment. the bank of river, near when it, had be can United States ng on insects.,; Among the preventive Philippines has been referred to in Were a super Rip Van Winkle of for I measures suggested by the Unite! Miles City, was ordered by General the that realized expenditures Is connection. this medieval Pisa to come with his latter-day- 1 Miles to take five troopers with him 1 apparatus and spraying amount to ap-- I gtates Department of Agriculture are: and The two chains of curiously-shape- d compatriots to Ellis island in 1920, In carry dispatches to General SherdeR The use of coal tar and other atolls, or coral islands consisting of proximately $10,000,000 annually. I not only the national bird of his man at Fort Ellis, Mont Much of the the terrents on seed grain, g coral reefs encircling la- addition to this are the losses that I had to be made running alongadopted land, but the skyscraper line control trip this of causes in where fields 2. over insect Marshall" spite group, Scattering grain goons, known as the of New York might make him feel at of the horses, owing to the mounside are large, very and they tbe cr0p S just sprouting, lie a little south of the center of an treatment, ' home. tainous character of the country travhousesmall orchards and 3 stretching twine about and across Imaginary line between the Philippines especially in ersed and the almost impassable conTowers they were called, these Pisa" not is where spraying hold intervals, stationed fields from at plantings, poles and Hawaii. . dition of the trails. The total disskyscrapers, huddled together for all This Insect network of such strands is often ef- tance covered was over 350 miles, practiced. Guam, Samoa and Honolulu form a commonly the world like groups of tall apartment counthis cost fective In protecting poultry yards. triangle of trade routes, with its sides alone., Undoubtedly has here made In four days and houses. Two reasons are assigned for upwards devices which was its presence 4. The use of frightening during try steamship not by important penetrated to common method of without changing nineteen boors, building, this bodies and the hanging np of the dead lines. Near the. center of this isolated of $100,000,000. ' Sardinian Miners.mounts. Italian towns of the twelfth century, The oriental peach moth, which of crows in conspicuous places. Pacific zone are the Marshall islands. One was that the wall permitted only In places where more drastic measInterest for students of racial was reached entry In 1912 with Imported special war gained the Before Sydney when population vertical expansion The Domestic Optimist at Work. Sardinians are small of are necessary the killing of even ures more than of history. a voyage believby steamer, pressure increased. Another, Even their soldiers have an and My husband has never spoken a will crows others intimidate a few stature. is other The egress only 3,000 miles. able in view of the constant factional word to me. ' five cross under fraction area a for will the shun these average height usually a steamer to Ponape which connects fights and family, feuds, attributed feet, four inches. is afllays at the head of include some Such Daughter time. procedures with the French line to Singapore. them to the necessity for protection. her class, and she doesnt have to 1. The use of poison (strychnine) in curiosities most the But conspicuous g of loosely-strunchains Like two seems to Bridges that could be thrown-froof Sardinia are Its nuraghi, great places where this1 is permitted by law, study a bit hard. She really tower to tower further suggested the round towers, relics of the bronze age. jewels, the islands stretch from northmore time to than have efany of most play are the and hens Corn eggs ' to southeast, each with its lathe other girls. skyscraper likeness. On these precur- which served as fortified dwellings for west baits. fective d strangely-shapea encased by sors of the modern fire escape, many some Im so glad you came, I assure you. There are goon setting 2. Trapping by means of steel traps, prehistoric people. circlet of coral, some like triOne extra for dinner doesnt matter. a community battle has raged. with baited j 5,000 or more of these towers, some 60 concealed and carefully stirrups, and one So glad you called! I didnt care, The Leaning Tower of Pisa served feet high, usually about 30 feet in di- angles, harps andhead heps eggs. with its horns. a bulls outlining from to go to the matinee, anyway. aside becoming well, of stone humanity measure made a nests that o. the at base, ameter Destroying n natives, Straight-haireMy husband could get a much largthe most effective bit of city adver- - blocks and smeared with clay on thd will most frequently put a stop to the the religious signifl still er preserving It for by going with another house. devised, permitted salary chamyet to tising poultry-raidinactivities of a pair of upper inside. Stairways lead canee of tattoo and taboo, are to be n fact they are begging him to do Galileo, a native of ijjsa to carry on bers and platforms. crows which have their nest nearby. found. employers have his experiments with the laws govern4. Shooting the hunter being aided It but his present Interesting as are these relics of unwas given a higher position so nicely that he just him Woman treated the fascipendulum. more crow ing call, and, where by the use of a known inhabitants, even wont leave them. than among most savages because sucpossible, also by a mounted owl placed nating are the traces of ancient civili- cession was through the female line. Never mind breaking the vase it . I life Several on a in the found of be BIRD OF daily A night Apples. pole. conspicuously Wormy zations to THE FLAMINGO, not one that 1 cared especially was chiefs power was absolute, tc Codling Moth Cause the But find men One attacks by a number of may equipped of Sardinians of today. BEAUTY AND MYSTERY, of life and death. One am. oriental From Life. , s for. has the point from trees Japan, cherry with shotguns will frequently remove oxen plowing as they did in the days bitious ruler learned an alphabet and IS SAVED FROM and depredation, its spread begun roosts. winter Roman implements just empire, of the is said to have beheaded all his sub- It affects practically all deciduous objectionable Women and Cats. EXTINCTION which were introduced by the succeswho seemed likely to acquire bird of bids fair to be as destrucjects the that Women are like cats. If you move t flamingo, Assurance sive occupants, one Catalan town more knowledge than he had. In some fruits and n codling moth, SWEET POTATOES FOR SIRUP toward them they run away. But if beauty and mystery, will escape ex- (Alghero) where there is no Jarring islands the mother 'was allowed to tive as the of wormy apples. cause the tinction is contained in a letter from note In the illusion of old Spain, and ydu sit there and say Puss, puss, the first three children. She Superior for Table and Cooking, Say puss, and put a saucer of milk on The Japanese Beetle. H. E. W. Grant, colonial governor of dances of the classic Greek period at keep only ' had to bury the fourth. Chemists of Department the floor, in due course 'they will be the Bahamas, which says: The Japanese beetle, brought Mn the mountain feste. Skillful and fearless navigators, the of Agriculture. moved by curiosity to; come- and see as the time peach Ton will be glfid to hear that an same the Is the Corsica about and Sardinia in e brfad-tremake wood to ' Only used ' 1 what there is in the saucer. Then, order in council has been passed giv- mufloni, predecessor of our sheep, to natives canoes in which moth, has already gained such firm they would Sweet potatoes make a superior click 1 youve got the cat by the back flamin-sailing and to the habits of in its view protection wild foothold complete hoar that, and ing found. Wild deer They devised table and cooking sirup, say chemists of the neck so that it cant scratch voyage for months. of our marshes owes be incapa g0- - This glory are plentiful In the mountain districts. charts, made of sticks, showing the lo- prolonged flight, it is probablyultimateof the United States Department of Ag- you. of When the cat has struggled a debt t gratitude." ble of extermination and may the expedition Tunny1 fishing is a major industry, riculture. Thus far no large commercations of islands and the directions It States. and discovered that it cant . council United Bahamas the the of enough action to overspread The ly In aren Sardinia is comparable of prevailing winds. ail fruits cial use has been made of the discovan expedition, and been tickled behind the not away, get only practically attacks but has more than twice the wajL taken following Vermont, Ancestor worship was their predomiand ery. The department is prepared to ear, shell sit on your lap and purr. vegetables trailed the flamingo, the most also garden many" but island The state. wmch of that sentiment. With pehow to make sweet potato sirup And population ' then, ah, then, you no longer need com. Attempts to check the spread tellhome beautiful of' the worlds, larger birds, lies directly south' of Corsica, and is nant religious and how to use it in cookery to say, Puss, puss, at and gifts they worshiped the titions means You can made motion took' by are puss! being tliis pictures separated therefrom by the narrow of pest to its last stand, were .. whose spirits supposed You damn cat! and shell go local quarantines, par- and candy making. and say, federal of of the timorous creatures; and brought straits of Bonifacio. In shape it has departed to .return to earth in certain palm trees on sitting there, purring. From Calabout a realization of how near they been compared to a human footprint! which they set off in stone inclosures ticularly in New Jersey. Under this in new iban" by W. L. George. the extinct the government maintains were to becoming quarantine embodiec sometimes fishes Birds and movement of native the over annihilation by a through supervision world ' these spirits, they believed, and thus articles likely to carry the pest from These fishermen For Launching Lifeboats Safely. Bponge fishermen. AIRPLANES certain species became taboo. food for down purposes areas to other sections of the Infected The hurried launching of lifeboats hunted them Homes of the natives were not preTHUNDEROUS FALLS from disabled vessels is usually atcountry. Another foreign pest in comr at the nesting and molting season. above were raised Floors will tentious. continue which Falls has r. While Niagara "t tended by confusion and danger. An paratively recent years The first American .naturalist to lomecca for the ground to escape the rats, and made Its appearance In this country Liming sour soil will greatly in Eastern shipyard worker has devised and study the gorgeous flamingo to hold their own as a cate combination covered the ' and other travelers, they thatched roofs com borer. Infesta- crease its fertility. the a new method of lowering the boats Is European was Dr. Frank M. Chapman in 1901, submit to comparison house anchstorage room. tions have been discovered In several that carries them forty feet away from when he estimated that some 20,000 must henceforth e known Vicare island two cent Twenty-onof the tame the groups The per be found on one with another natural wonder, the states and local quarantines eastern ships side, lays them on an even flamingoes were to horticultural hoard have hay acreage is alfalfa. toria Falls of the Zambesi, as Africa as the Ratak and Ralik chains. Their j tbe jederai and gives them a forward imkeel, of the little known islands of the ,! entire area is not more than 160 square bebecomes frequented by tourists. instituted to prevent its spread The small boat, instead of pulse. Bahamas group. Since s then it Is 15,000, native All should their of inpopulation mystery, so miles; marketing of the From being a place corn beU Recently heavy in davits, rests in a cradle hanging lieved that fully The 300 be based upon local organization. wlth fewer than foreigners. feared that Livingstone, who discovong were- d,SCOVered in Canada, . have perished. by three parallel inclined supported colonies r , the falls in 1855, had great diff- seat of German government was on P a more immediate menace arms, which are pivoted near the The expedition that spent ten days ered in Island. You would most not the let live and stock .Taluit to populous your belt. Specialists of the persuading his followers of Andros iculty i to water line and guyed by cables atIn the abysmal salt swamps are now considering steps starve why starve your soil? and study accompany him, the falls now are vls- is Majeru, with but 1,600 persons. above. tached flamingo the department filming Island, - cnr-dina- l, t - - e , al awe-inspiri- , d The-iapdo- . . con-inse- do-th- I low-lyin- - . -- dark-brow- g well-know- ; . to whir over ' -' ; two-third- the-cor- |