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Show 4 ' vvj Ml AIN'T NATURE GRAND! JTV jlYi ' HlP ' Elt smiles and beams, and beams and jN;,,V'i 1 15)1 S lWA V smiles. .-;-s . J Z ' Dame Nature does, with springtime wiles, T7- Twn E! And tlK-n she gets her wires plumb riU , pTV,V "S? NU crossed ( AT L.rST- ' " - And goes and flirts with old Jack Frost, Mh.i,rk " J Although she knows the brute Jui 1)1Gl ry 0 y Z tnUsLflrdrsSaanfldoofdUiL ST T 'Z SeVe'"e b"rnS n Or thunderbolt-no dud. II 1 ?) y' e yunfc'ster was wlninper- Mlxed in with forest lire T?:5js5-iTXS 'ng 1"'"m "le Dain an t'ie frester Or nose-dive of a flier; "el::r '-ZIS- t0"li Pitv on il. lifted it into his car S'rthTdSl -TTZ3 "na m,lde jt filst with rope- ?e Or blows a village down ' "v T ranSer started, only to discover that Or cloudbursts on a town! the mother bear was in hot pursuit. So Nature empties o'er the land ' " ZS The forestry book of instructions does J,,"0. vriCkf3 t'UTvf8 KJirna' " STrr7 not cover this situation, but the ranger Practical jokes to beat the band, JLL ( A Mixed In with jokes of milder brand; vlf. decided to throw the cub overboard. Terrorist, comedian bland XviATv " V attemPts to untie the knots proved Ain't Nature grand! JDS fBLWl L-Z: rg futile. Finally, on a steep grade, the . " ' ' - jSS2C1- Dear threw herself on the back of Ey JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN WZj2L the car' The forester Jumped off the ALD JIOTHER NATURE ""fei car and regained his feet In time to has her genial moods. At see it continuing its journey Later AIN'T NATURE GRAND! 6he smiles and beams, and beams and smiles. Dame Nature does, with springtime wiles. And tlien she gets her wires plumb crossed And goes and flirts with old Jack Frost, Although she knows the brute Will nip the flowers and fruit And then she sends a flood Or thunderbolt no dud. Mixed in with forest lire Or nose-dive of a flier; Maybe she next does knout The farmer with a drought. Or blows a village down Or cloudbursts on a town! So Nature empties o'er the land The box of tricks she keeps on hand, Practical jokes to beat the band. Mixed in with jokes of milder brand; Terrorist, comedian bland Ain't Nature grand! J. D. S. Ey JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN V LD JIOTHER NATURE 6 has her genial moods. At j W times she radiates good-"jj good-"jj W cheer, health, strength, $ B sanity with occasionally a bit of humor thrown in. But In general she is far from being the loving old party sung by the poets. Some, who think they know her well, Insist she is not only capricious but malicious. Others hold her neutral, with Immutable laws that must be obeyed. The wind bloweth where it listeth, regardless of the man-made village In Its path. The bolt strikes In its appointed place. Fire burns. Waters drown. Anyway, here are some condensed Items from newspapers of recent date which show Nature in the terrorist role : Peking. Deaths In the typhoon at Bwatow, China, now are estimated at 00,000, with 100,000 homeless. Tueblo, Colo. D. Z. Bray and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Morrow, negroes, were drowned as they were crossing Peck creek. A wall of water six fept high caused by a heavy rain on the prairies came roaring down the creek, overturning their automobile. Estes Park, Colo Lightning killed J- E. Kitts of Greeley on the summit of Long's peak (14,255 feet), Rocky Mountain National park. J. E. Bullas of Topeka, Kan., was knocked senseless, sense-less, but was revived. Missoula, Mont. Fifty forest fires J were started by lightning during an J electrical storm over District No. 1 i' of the forest service. During the last I ten days 239 fires have occurred in the district. The total area burned over Is approximately 24,000 acres. ' Of "ordinary drownings" there are ( hundreds that might be chronicled. Almost every newspaper contains at (1 least one such heading as these: Life Saver, 3 Children Drown (Ce-. (Ce-. dar Rapids, la.). Three Children and Man Drown .,, (Racine, Wis.) wg Cramps Cause Bather's Death (Dundee, 111.) of . VERSATILE OLD DAME Nature, too, Is nothing if not versa-,UU versa-,UU Ule examples : Plttsfield, Mass. James Burke, thirty-seven, whose body for nine years has been slowly turning to stone, died in the Mother Margaret Mary home in Cheshire. Nine years ago, in the Panama Canal zone, he became infected infect-ed from an insect bite. Warsaw, Ind. John Zaner, sixty-one, sixty-one, died in a dentist's chair at the office of Dr. J. C. Hart at Silver Lake. Death was due to heart disease, brought on by fear, as the dentist was preparing to extract a tooth. Fort Wayne, Ala. J. Wiley Reece, a planter, died forty minutes after he had been bitten by a rattlesnake. New Orleans. John P. Thomas, sixty-four, a rigger, was overcome by heat while painting a smokestack. As he fell backward his feet caught in the ropes of his -igger's chair. The paint pot was emptied over him. He hung 25 minutes, head down, till rescued res-cued by the firemen. He died the next day from shock and hemorrhages. San Francisco. OIT Point Sur. below be-low Monterey, a battle between a whale and a swonilish was reporter by Frank McDonald, custodian of the customs house. "The first I saw of .... "wie wlipn the the oatue, .". whale churned up a field of foam that looked like a white island in the sea. Then the big fellow spouted and leaped. I knew he was fighting a foe unseen. Suddenly, as though he had been coming straight up for a solar p'lexrs blow, a swordlish pierced the ',ir" After a battle lasting more than a hajf hour the swordlish was victorious. London. The prince of Wales' polecat pole-cat presented to him during his world tour on the t-rltlcship Renown, bit a sailor named Fred Riddell of the Renown crew, maintaining its hold until it was choked off and killed. IN GENIAL MOOD Bv way of contrast, here are some iten;sdoubtless all strictly veni-rioussettinB veni-rioussettinB forth Nature in gcmal Tcooba, Miss.-Shep. snake-killing dog owned by James Edmonds, seventy-two. has fall.m in love with a kin- snaks and already has fought teveu battle in its behalf with other snakes, the poisonous kind. Prince George.lTc.-A fir pnuol ranger came upon a young cub suffer ing from severe burns on feet and body. The youngster was whimpering whimper-ing from the pain and the forester tool; pity on it, lifted it into his car and made it fast with rope. The ranger started, only to discover that the mother bear was in hot pursuit. The forestry book of instructions does not cover this situation, but the ranger decided to throw the cub overboard. His attempts to untie the knots proved futile. Finally, on a steep grade, the old bear threw herself on the back of the car. The forester jumped off the car, and regained his feet In time to see it continuing its journey. Later the automobile was found, everything intact except the seat where the cub had been tied, the old bear having torn it out to release her offspring. MOSQUITOES AND BANDITS Reno, New A dozen Weary Willies unwittingly played havoc with city, county and state official life here. Camping five miles from here, the men were attacked by mosquitoes so fiercely that they tied handkerchiefs over their faces for protection. Passing Pass-ing autoists saw in the masked group the potentiality of some high misdemeanor misde-meanor against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Nevada, and from Governor Boyle down through the state, county and city ollijiildoin to the lowly constable there was a rapid lire of orders, culminating in a charge by automobile and motorcycle on the camp cf mystery. Query : Were the hoboes more scared than the officials were chagrined? Marlinton, W. Va. The far-famed "belled" buzzard has been seen again. Superstitious residents fear a disaster is imminent, in which there will be a great loss of life. They point to past occasions when the buzzard mmio its nnnearance. which were fol lowed by calamities. Local history has it that the buzzard was captured and belled by pioneer residents shortly after the" War of. 1512. Residents are afraid to shoot it. Washington. Reports have reacht here of the success of a Danish expedition ex-pedition to the Bermudas, in answer, ing the ancient question of the eel's origin. Dr. Jobs Schmidt, director oi the" Carlsbcg laboratory of Copenhagen, Copenha-gen, has been making a special study of the eel for more than fifteen years. Since at least 350 B. C. scientists have been tryinc to find the eel's birthplace, and by tracking down the routo tu::en by the young eels Doctor Schmidt placed the breeding grounds j between the Bermudas and the Leeward Lee-ward islands, where the sea reaches ' a depth of more than a mile. J Brockville, Ont. The members of a foursome on the Mississippi Golf club j course at Carleton place have "some-' "some-' thing to crow about." When one oi liiem drove on the rough a crow picked up the ball ami. Hying to the next green, dropped it. The player then sank it with one putt. "I'll mark that down as a birdie two," he said. |
