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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1920.
UNION-RECORDER
EXPLORE LITTLE WOULD PROTEGT
KNOWN ISLANDS HLASKSN EAGLES
Exped tion to Visit Channe' Group
in Pacific Off Coast of
California.
Audubon Society Urges Halt in
Destruction. Due to 5'0-Ceiit
Bounty Law.
PETROGRAD IS
‘NO MAN'S LAND’
, |
Once Gay Capital of Russia Is
Now a Nightmare of Hor
ror and Death.
6ICH IN historic lore birds of freedom LISE!E0 houses mm F0R FUEL
l«lands Are Within D2 Miles of Cali
fornia's Shore, Yet Less Than 50
Persons Annually Visit Them
— Discovered by Cabrillo.
San Francisco.—An expedition of
•elentifio students has been made up
Ui California and Oregon to explore
thoroughly the ehaiinel Islands oflfthttt
part of the coast in California known
as Santa Barbara and Ventura coun
ties during the next six months. Tlie
■party, says the Dearborn Independent,
Is to be sustained by Stanford univer
sity largely and to a less extent by
several denominational colleges in
southern California. Anthropological
•lid archaeological students, who have
spent several upeks each on these Is
lands. say they are one of ilie very
richest fields for work In that depart
ment of knowledge on the Pacific
coast.
The ehannel Islands constitute Cali
fornia's only archipelago, with the
possible exceptions of rbe rocky and
scanty Farallone islands. They have
been objects of romance, legends,
curiosity and mystery for a genera
tion.
The Islands are within 82 tulles of
California's shore, yet are unfrequent
ed anti years roll by with visits to
them of less than 10 persons annual
ly. Each island lias its own particu
lar strange, uncanny traditions of the
tribes of red men, and each has file
countless traces of an occupation by
thousands and thousands of Indians.
Discovery of Channel Islands.
When .Tuan Roderiguez Cabrillo,
the Portuguese navigator, sailed up
the coast of California in 1.142, he
stopped for a day or two at each of
the channel islands, and his records
bear testimony that on the islands of
Santa Barbara, Catalina, Clemente
and St. Nicholas there were a "vigor
ous and lusty nice of natives, who
thronged the shores of the little bays
and headlands,” and gazed, in mute
wonder at the white-sailed ship of the
navigators.
Today the* islands stand as they did
more than 110 years ago. intt the na
tives are only a memory, represented
by Immense quantities of stone im
plements, barrels of fine wampum and
cart loads of human bones.
St. Nicholas island lies 8tl miles im
mediately opposite the little city of
San Buenaventura (recently
the more modern and easy name of
Ventura) and is the most interesting
of ail tlie channel islands from many
points of view. As far back as tlie
toemory of any person in Southern
California extends, hundreds of wli^ie
Skeletons have dotted the valleys and
hillsides. Strange utensils of seriien
line sandstone and steatite are found
there among tlie bumau bones, and tlie
Island and its erstwhile inhabitants
have a history so curious that it is dif
ficult rtf comprehension.
In 18-11 the Franciscan padres in the
Santa Barbara mission. learning that
there were bur Itl of tlie strange and
almost extinct human rtjee then living
there, determined to rescue them from
the Island. They wiyil over ill a sloop
and succeeded, as they thought, in get
ting all on board.
At tlie last moment an Indian wom
an returned for her child, and. one of
the frequent storms of the channe) is
lands springing up tlie sloop was driv
en away without her. The sloop went
on the rocks oft Point Conception and
•11 were lost.
St. Nicholas.
St Nicholas is TO miles Tong and
four miles wide at the widest point.
Its topography shows a nearly level
plateau, with an elevation of 800 to
1,000 fePt. Two-thirds of the surface
Is covered with drifting sand, and tlie
remainder grows a species of nutri
tious grass and moss, on which a
thousand sheep find pasture.
As far as the eye can trace there are
barren levels witlt innumerable circu
lar depressions, showing where primi
tive dwellings once stood. Not a ves
tige remains of the materials used in
the construction of these rnneherias.
Hundreds of shell mounds are scat
tered about and are found to consist of
astonishing numbers of moliusca, the
bones of every species of fish found in
the channel, skeletons of seals, sea el
ephants. whales, sea otter, tlie island
fox and various aquatic birds.
An examination of some mounds dis
closes all sorts of curious utensils—
•tone cooking pots, ollns, mortars, j»es-
tles. drills, bone needles and fish
hooks, shell beads, charm stones,
pipes, cups and a few arrowheads,
•pear points, and swords made of
bone. Tlie absence of many weapons
proves the peaceful attributes of the
islanders. Small imitations of boats
ami fish carved from crystallized talc
»nd serpentine also show a rudimen
tary knowledge of tlie art of sculp
ture.
tiled by ! American
bounty !•
I
Batr«6 His Wife in Raisin “Jack."
Cincinnati, O.—Antonio Kisola. fruit
dealer, is one man the Volstead law
couldn’t touch. He was arrested for
having an illicit still, but prohibition
agents \i ho found the still and 200
gallons of raisin mash, also found lie
wed the mush to DaUi£ hie wile, who
Official Cites Instances cf Mistaken
Bird Campaign in Asking Suspen
sion of Bounty Law—12,000
Killed Since Law Enacted.
New York.—American eagles in
: Alaska frequently kill • full-grown
deer, and are devastators of sheep and
other live stock, fur-bearing animals,
domestic and wild fowl, salmon and
| other food fish, according to Alaskans
! who have been writing on llit* sub-
| Jed to T. Gilbert i’eurson, secretary
| of tlie Audubon Societies National us-
t soeiation.
Mr. I’eurson lias been directing from
j the New York odices of the assoeia-
j tiou an agitation to save tlie American !
i eagles m Alaska by removing tlie (
price of 10 cents a bead, which was !
placed on their heads by the Alas- I
kan legislature in BUT, which made j
them outlaws because of their sup
posed destructiveness. The accusers
of the bird of freedom in Alaska have
j made out a very black prima lacie
I case against him, hut the bird experts
i of the Audubon societies generally he-
j lieve that tlie eagle lias been convicted
j on hearsay evidence and without much
j of a trial. By way of giving the bird
i his day in court, tlie department of
agriculture 1ms sent u scientist to
Alaska to make a close study of ways
! and habits of the defendant.
, The number of eagles killed in
| Alaska since the bounty law went into
j effect is not less than 12,000, acconi-
1 tig to estimates today. C. T>. Gar-
Held. secretary of tlie Alaska Fish and
Game club, in a letter to Mr. Pearson
ill August said:
“A vnsf difference is noted in tlie
numbers of these birds showing in
south-eastern and western Alaska, and
it is safe prediction that, if tlie
slaughter continues for a few years
longer, tlie species will become prac
tically extinct in this country.”
Asks Suspension of Bounty.
According to Mr. Pearson, one sec
tion or another of this country is al
ways working itself up into a witcli-
biirning zeal against some particular
bird, which usually proves in time
to lie not only innocent, but benefi
cial.
"(if course, human beings tire more
important than birds.” lie said, "and
their concerns are entitled to first con
sideration. If the charges against the
gle were all proved, the
would lie justified. But
I there have been so many mistaken
slaughtering campaigns against valit-
j aide or harmless birds that we are ask
ing in this case a suspension of tlie
bounty law until tlie study of tlie hab
its of the eagle, which have been un
dertaken, allow whether lie really de
serves slaughter or not,
“A few years ago there was an anti-
meadow-lurk campaign In California.
Speeches were made in the legislature
to the effect that they were ruining
the grape crop in some sections. For
,a time it seemed as if tlie meadow
lark was doomed, but a careful inves-
! ligation of the origin of tlie outcry
against ilie lark showed that it all
started with r> statement of a farmer
lliat lie had seen a lark sitting on the
grapes.
"New .1 ersey lead a similar period
of hysteria against the robin, which
was iill'geil 10 lie destroying the
flu rry >too. There was a great propa
ganda in Arkansas and Texas for a
time because of t lie* untrue charge
that thc,\ were destroying rice fields.
"One of the most exciting cam-,
pnlgns of persecution against a lib
eral bird started along the gulf coast
In Ibis, when it was alleged that tile
brown pelican was destroying food fish
tit tlie rate of nearly a million dollars
a day, and as it was put in one in
dictment—'every day they consumed
more food li-di than tlie people of
Texas got in a year.
Mistakes Campaign Against Gulls.
"Tlie assailants of tlie birds placed
their numbers at a million and started
the slogan: ‘Kill the pelican or tlie
kaiser will get you.’ They appealed
to the federal food administration to
aid in destroying tlie bird to save the
fish. By co-operation between the
federal and state authorities I under
took an investigation of tlie habits
of tlie bird and made a cruise with a
party visiting nil but one of the is
lands on which they were supposed to
breed. This showed tliut. instead of
numbering a million, their number
could not exceed 01,000. It also
showed that they lived exclusively on
menhaden, a fish not eaten by hu
mans.
“One of these periodic flare-ups
against birds actually left a deep mark
on the development of tlie country and
Is truly an historic episode. It is re
counted h.v E. It. Furhush, -ante
ornithologist of Massachusetts, that
tlie inhabitants of Southern Harbor a
great many years ago became alarmed
tit tlie grout decks of gulls which con
gregated there to eat the heads and
n mains of tlie fish which were thrown
Inio ilie water. It is a frequeut charge
against tlm galls that they destroy
food fish, but the fact is that they are
• " v.--g.. ; -s The
•in-1 lord fever spread >>%. i ilfis com
munity and gulls w,-.,e si; i^fiii-red nti
til they were exterminated. Then
Death Stalks on Every Side, Waiting
for Winter to Aid in the Grim
Work of Mowing Down
Thousands.
Burls.—A graphic, eye-witness de
scription of the fearful conditions ex
isting ill l’etrograd is given by tile Fin
nish lied Cross in uu appeal just is
sued to I he Bed Cross Societies of tlie
World. It is accompanied by docu
ments preput ed by Professor Zeider
formerly head of the Petrograd Bed
Cross, hut now a refugee iu Finland.
The documents tell tlie story of the
agony of a dying city. Petrograd s
present population hosed on the food
cards, now is from 500,000 to 600.000,
and tlie former capital of the czars is
described as having shrunk to one-
fourth its pre-war size. The report
say > .
"Death stalks on every side, waiting
for winter to aid In the grim work of
mowing down the silent, hungry sick,
and dying by thousands. With streets
and houses choked with filth that is
already spreading spotted and Inter
mittent typhus the cold weather will
finish ilie task with pneumonia and
abdominal typhus.
Wreck Houses for Fuel.
"The fuel situation was never so
bad. Wooden houses have been
torn down for fuel. The material is
distributed equally among the popula
tion but during tlie night the more
active citizens steal tlie quota of wood
from otliers.
“Attempts to repair the streets,
which are full of holes, owing to burst
ing water pipes, failed because the
wood blocks used for pavement hud
been stolen during the night for fuel.
"Lighting is allowed only two lialf
hours each day, and tlien not alfi
houses are supplied on the lines fur
nished by the authorities. Kerosene
costs 450 rubles. There are no cau
dles. Most homes are in darkness.
"There is no means of transporting
tilings by waterway, because the
barges were long since demolished for
fuel. l’iie railway transportation is
devoted ulinost exclusively to the dis
tribution of Hour. Only 200 persons
are permitted to leave Petrograd daily
by passenger train.
"Workmen receive half a pound of
bread daily; sometimes other food is
given. The prices of foodstuffs con
tinue io rise to Incredible heights.
Many products have almost complete
ly disappeared from the markets.
"The mortality lias reached a star
tling rate, owing to tlie lack of food
and tlie insanitary conditions of
houses and streets. Fat lias left tlie
majority of the population long ago.
At present the muscular tissue is con
sumed. The faces of tlie people have
taken on a vvaxlike color.
City of Ghastly Horror.
"In order to fill their stomachs with
something, they drink different substi
tutes for tea and coffee, or great quan
tities of plain water, resulting iu putfl-
ness and dropsy, which change the ex
pression of the face so that even old
acquaintances are unrecognizable.
"There Is no fuel, no hot water or
baths, no janitor, doorkeeper or serv
ants for cleaning yards, streets, build
ings, or for the removal of garbage.
"Petrograd is facing a dreadful
phantom of epidemics. Thousands are
already dying every month of spotted,
abdominal, and intermittent typhus,
dysentery, Spanish influenza, small
pox, pulmonary diseases, hunger and
exhaustion.
"Tlie hospitals are overflowing with
dropsy victims, mostly women, elderly
men and children.”
Hair Tonic Enlarges Cranium.
New York.—William C. Kendall of
Newark beguu suit for damages in
the Supreme court against a chain
drug store. He says he bought a bot
tle of hair restorer on Feb. 17 and
soon after was suffering from "en
largement of the cranium."
Kendall says his head expanded to
twice its size and tliut more than two
weeks lie was unable to see and suf
fered intense pain. lie demands
$10,000.
Bride Objects to Delay.
Hagerstown. Mil.—“Hurry up, Sam ;
we can’t take all day.” Thus Mrs.
Samuel Reed. 28 years old, admon
ished her 62-year-old husband ac
quired here. For with the ceremony
ended tlie pair was homeward bound
to SkiBettown, in tlie mountains.
While legal arrangements for the
union were under way. Mrs. Reed be
came impatient and urged Reed to
“cut the red tape.”
44
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Our *
Budget Plan will bring/
the New Edison this Xmas!”
T his is the time of the year when our Budget
Plan is most helpful. You ought to come in
right away and find out what it can do for you. '
In the first place, it will put a New Edison beside
your Christmas tree, (how the family will rejoice!)
In the second place, it will stretch your Christmas
dollar so that you’ll hardly feel the purchase.
m
,The Budget Plan treats the New Edison as an
essential of life, such as a home, and arranges
payments on the sound “time” principle. It com- 1
bines modem business practice with thrift. £ 9
This way of treating a dollar actually makes it go
farther. Let us explain how the Budget Plan\
brings the longed-for New Edison for what an*
extremely ordinary gift would cost,—and makes
1921 thrift pay for the balance.'
WILLIAMS & RITCHIE
Reforming a Gretna Green.
Wellsburg, \V. Va.—Tlie du.v of tlie
marriage “tout” is passing. ' No long
er will couples, bent oil being married
in this city, the Gretna Green for
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia, lie carried half over tlie town
and then charged exorbitant prices,
when tlie distance to the marriage li
cense bureau is only block away.
! Tlie Wellsburg found' [ms passed iid
tndiiniL.ce outlawing "Ui.qlcg."
A LAND SALE.
GEORGIA—Baldwin County:
Under and by virtue of a deed with j
power of sale, executed and delivered 1
to me by C. J. Jones of said county. |
I will sell at public outcry, before j
the court house door in said county, !
between the hours of sheric's sales, to
the best and highest bidder for cash,
on Tuesday December 7th, 1920, the
following described property to wit:
All that tract or parcel of land situate
lying and being in Baldwin county, J
Ga., and within the corporate limits j
of the City of Milledgeville, known as ;
as the 0. M. Cone Dairy Farm, con-
taining thirty-four and 1-20 acres,;
more or ess. Said parcel of land is 1
bounded North by the “Gunim” place,;
formerly belonging to M. H. Bland;
South by lands of C. F. Barrett and
the public road; West by lands of R.
S. Alford and tbe “Gumm” place, and
East by lands of J. H. Ennis known as
the Davidson place. Also all that lot 1
or parcel of land situate in the City i
of Milledgeville, Georgia and known
as part of lot one (1) in square num
ber thirty-seven (.37), aeording to the
plan of said city. Said lot fronts east
on Wayne street fifty-three (53) feet,
more or less, and north on Montgom
ery street one hundred anl twenty
feet, more or less. Commencing at the
corner of Wayne and Montgomery
streets said lot runs south fifty-three!
(’3) feet, more or less to lot of J. H. ■
G. Williams, thence west one hundred
and twenty (120) feet more or less:
to lot formerly owned by R. N. La
mar, thence north fifty-three (53, feet
more or les s to Montgomery ■'street,
thence east to beginning point, one.
hundred and twenty (120) feet more !
or less. Said lot is part of lot known as
the C. L. Morris lot. and is the same
nropertv conveyed to C. J. Jones hy
W. A. Walker October 3rd, 1906, hy
j deed recorded in Book P. P. page y67,
| office clerk Superior Court of said 1
county.
The proceeds of said sale will be
applied to the payment of a promis-!
sory note for $2500 given to me by-
said C. J. Jones on October 13th,
1919 and the costs of this proceeding
and the balance paid over to said C.
J. Jones. Fee simple title will be 1
made by me to the purchaser at said i
sale.
The above described parcels of land i
will be sold separately.
This November 20th, 1920.
Mrs. Ida M. Armstrong,
By Allen & Pottle,
Attorneys at Law.
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
On a Return Visit
THE PROGRESSIVE MEDICAL
DOCTORS’ SPECIALIST
Treating Diteases Without Surgical
Operation.
Free Consultation and Examination
to All Who Need and Want
Medical Aid.
Will be at the Santon Hotel
Monday, November 15th.
Hours: 10 A. M. to 4 P. M.
Tuesday, November 16th.
From 9 A. M. to 2 P. M.
Two days only, returning in three
months.
The Progressive Medical Doctors’
Specialist is licensed by the state of
Georgia: a graduate of one of the
best universities; twenty-five years
ot practical experience; comes well
recommended. Will demonstrate in
the principal cities methods of treat
ing diseases of long standing by
means of medicines, diet and hygi
ene, thus saving many people from
a dangerous and expensive surgical
operation.
This specialist is an expert in
diagnosis and will tell you the exact
truth about your condition. Only
those who have a good chance to re
tain their healtn will he treated, so
that ‘‘very one who takes treatment
will bring their friends at the next
visi.
T hose v’finse coses »r P found hope
less will be told the truth and be
advised as to their mode of living,
etc.
The diseases treated are: Diseases
of the stomach, bowels, liver, blood,
blood vessels, skin, kidneys, bladder,
heart, spleen, eye, ear, nose, throat,
scalp, swelling of the limbs, enlarged
veins, leg ulcers, rheumatism, sci
atica (sciatic rheumatism), paraly
sis, high blood pressure, weak lungs,
bronchitis, consumption, asthma, ap
pendicitis, gall stones, tumors, en-
1 larged glands, goitre, piles,
1 lure of spine, club feet, nerves, «l
! ness or exhaustion of the nera
I system giving rise to loss of me|
! and bodily vigor, melanchola,
couragement and worry, undeveloi
children, either mental or phytj
i and all chronic diseases of
j women and children that have
j fled the skill of the family physicj
A diagnosis of any disease of IJ
standing, its nature and cause,
be made Free and proper niedicj
will be furnished at a reasonable f
to those ^elected as favorable el
| for treatment. j
Children must be accompany
! their parents and married la<^
i their husbands.
NOTE—This is the speciali'H
made so many wonderful cures|
year.
! LAND FOR SALE OR R £l 1
I 1 will sell on terms. or rent .|
! tenant who can furnish himsel J
Ed Collins place, located *
I northeast of Milledgevil t-
residence, three good tenant
excellent barns. 3
land open. JOS. E. POTTLE-
DOUBLE TREES for two !><»*|
gons and two horse pl° w ' J
or made to order. l'h ( 1
able. Wagon and buggy JJ
done cheap; also Fold 1,115 c]
In fact most mv ren»"' *
first class hv Shop HO’
Training School.
. , ,, if some LI
I will appreciate it
|-ho was at t he meetmg^
when a committo ' ■
| see me about certain 111 ^
' G’ive me the pavticuho , „ c i
Shells.' Shells! Closing
l geeRon. Get our pr> ce
I and by the case. Bn ,th«|
j chandletI
! ' Everything cheap 1,1,1 '
at , i B« rB |
Emmett 1
tn tone val,r l
Now is the cme ■ jndj0 f
up for fall laying