Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1920 — Page 2

HUNTING LAIR OF SEA SERPENT

Scientists' Search Leads to Dis* covery of Many Strange Monsters of Deep.

BIG SEI LIZARD EXTINCT There Are Still Sharks to Be Found, However, Forty Feet Long—Dangerous Marine Creatures Not the Largest. New York. —Imaginative sea captains and their followers on returning to local ports entertain their 1 friends and unsophisticated strangers with highly colored narratives of great sea serpents and other unfamiliar monsters of the deep that they have encountered on their voyages. That monsters of the deep exist today as in olden times is well known to science, but they are quite different from those described by the old salts. —aiei Nichols. head of the department of recent fishes at the American Museum of Natural History, “as that creature is pictured In the popular mind is a purely mythical animal. Although there are doubtless many strange beasts in the sea, as yet unknown to science, it is highly improbable that such a monster will be

found." Big Sea Lizards. The nearest approach perhaps to this monster that ever existed was some of the big sea lizards which used to navigate the globe in prehistoric times. The most authentic reports of sea serpents nowadays when traceable at all turn out to be faulty observations of some ordinary marine creatures. A school of porpoises stretched out in line and rolling their backs above the surface in unison, may readily enough appear like the coils of a great sea monster to an observer with an active imagination. There are plenty of monsters in the sea. though none equal in size (he largest of the whalelwne whales. The largest of such creatures are some-, thing like 90 feet In length. If there are larger specimens they have bpen remarkably successful in eluding accurate measurement. In order to find sufficient food such gigantic creatures must be content with a humble diet. Hence they have developed their whalebone —a substance in which no imitation can compete in the manufacture of high-grade whip handles and corset stays—for the purpose of straining an abundance of small fishes or other ainmals from the sea water. Inhabiting the deep are two gigantic sharks, either one of which may reach a length of 40 feet. The basking shark is found in northern seas, occasionally straying southward to our

ROLLING STOCK DESTROYED BY THE REDS

Rolling stock on the Trans-Siberian railway which was destroyed by bolsheviks. In many cases the wrecked cars were pushed from the track and roll?d down into the nearest ditch so as to facilitate uninterrupted passage of other trainsv---““““27 i; =* sa

TRADEMARKS PIRATED

Business Men Complain of Acts in Foreign Countries. Appeal to State Department to Pro- —. tect the Interests of Rightful Owners. New York.—The American Manu--fw cm rers' Export association launched its fight against trademark pirates in Portugal and elsewhere by sending an appeal to the state department asking that the American ambassador to Portugal protect the interests of the rightful owners. > ' J The patent and trademark committee of the association in the appeal pointed out that more than forty American automobile trademarks have Already twxm pirated In Portugal. The pirating of trademarks is not Rrntfed to anv particular country, explained a statement issued by the com-

coasts. and the whale shark seems to have its principal habitat in the Indian ocean, though stragglers have tumefi up as far away as the shores of Florida, Oue such, mounted, is on exhibition at Miami and will repay a visit to any one who chances to be in that vicinity.

Plenty of Sea Monsters. There are plenty of monsters In the sea, the giant devil fish, or manta, which probably grows to be over 20 feet between the tips of its great wings. The model of an individual of 18 feet or so Is on exhibition at the American museum. The manta has hornlike processes directed forward, one at either side of its broad head, and there are well-authenticated Instances of a devil fish “flying” through the water, catching a boat’s anchor between its horns hy chance, lifting the anchor and towing the astonished boatmen out to sea. At certainseasons the devil fish is common along the Gulf coast of Florida, where it furnishes exciting sport for blg-gameJisb-ermen. The dangerous marine creatures are in general not the largest. The killer whale, which is 20 feet or so in length, will attack and devour almost anything that swims in the sea. Sqmetimes they join in schools and hunt the big whalebone whales like a pack of hungry wolves. The man-eater shark, seldom more than 20 feet long, of the fiercest of sea creatures. He is as rare as he Is dangerous. The hig sperm whale seems to feed largely on large specimens of octupus, for which it dives in deep water. Some observers assert that they have seen spectacular contests between such a sperm whale and an octopus which it had brought to the surface.

WATER LILIES FOOD

Seeds and Tubers Make Good .Stew With Meat. Dr. M. G. Gilmore Learns From Indians of Valuable Food Supply Left Untouched. Bismarck, N. D.—Tons of food lie peacefully undisturbed in the hundreds of acres of water lilies throughout the United States, according to Dr. Melvin G. Gilmore, curator of the North Dakota Historical society, who is engaged in research work covering North America to determine the possibilities of native products; As a result of the first stage of his inquiry, findings of which were published recently in the thirty-third annual report of the" American bureau of ethnology. Dr. Gilmore declares devel-

mittee. but hundreds of trademarks are appropriated throughout the world. Recently a Brazilian concern took forty well-known trademarks belonging to American automobile and accessory manufacturers, it was stated. Similar cases of pirating were cited in Spain. Japan. Argentina and Cuba. The motion-picture industry has also completely lost its foreign trademarks, the statement adds, owing tc the practice in the industry of permitting registration by the foreign agents. The statement pointed out that In view of the patent and trademark provisions of the peace treaty, ratification of the treaty would permit the recovery of all trademarks pirated in. Portugal owing to an extension of the international trademark convention, to which this country is a party. X holder to suspend a... flat jam eg tobacco from a man’s belt has been patented.

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EXPERT IN DATE CULTURE

American Methods More Advanced Than Those of Any Other Country. Washington.—American methods of date culture are probably more advanced" than those of any other dategrowing country in the world, in spite of the fact that experience in this country is limited practically to two decades. This statement Is made by the chief of the bureau of plant in-

Tree Bearing a Big Crop of Dates.

dustry, United States department of agriculture, in his annual report for lb 19. Though still conducted on a small scale, date culture has become a recognized commercial fruit Industry. and gives promise of steady growth. The culture of the Deglet Noor, the finest of the imported date varieties, has already become well established in California.

opment of America’s wild plant life has been practically nil. “In the 300 years that the white man has dominated the western hemisphere,” the scientist asserts, “he has not reduced to cultivation from wild stock a single natural species except to bring under semi-domestication the pecan fltld certain grapes of the, east,*’ In connection with this assertion. Dr. Gilmore quotes the United States crop report for as giving a value of $3,000,000 to crops of this country alone grown from plants first brought under cultivation by the Indians. He sees the greatest possibilities for advancement in this direction in wild fruits, nuts and roots. An Instance is found in the “Nelumbo” type of water lily flourishing largely in the ponds of the east and central west. The seeds and the tubers of this species are good food. Dr. Gilmore declares, and make good stew when used with meat, particularly beef. Such stew was originally concocted by the Indians, as were many other dishes which, it Is said, could be economically adopted today. “These uses of wild plants are no longer experimental.” the investigator says. “We could have learned all about them from the Indians, but we didn’t go to them and inquire. “I have spent a number of years among them trying to learn more_of their habits of domestication and mean to continue the work while the older of the tribesmen still live to hand down these lessons.”

Eighty Widows Drawing Pensions for War of 1812

Eighty widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 are still on the government pension rolls, according to the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Lane. Pensioners included 215 survivors of the war with Mexico, and 2.739 widows of soldiers. Names of 271,391 Civil war veterans are listed. Deaths of Civil war veterans last year numbered 27.703, compared with 30,446 the year before.

BONES IN “BLUEBEARD” HOME

Paris Police Say. Wife and Children Aided in Alleged Slayer's ' J Crimes. .. . Paris. —Police officials investigating charges against Henri Landru, the alleged “bluebeard,” who is accused of slaying a number of women and destroying their bodies, claim to have found about fifteen pounds of human bones in a house where he lived. Among the bones was a skull in a good state of preservation. Some of the bones had been cut with a saw, the teeth of which left pecu’lar marks which wgre easily recognizable. It is said the gpw has been found and that marks made by its teeth coincide ■with those found on the bone fragments. Inquiry as to the operations of Landru’s wife, says the Eclair, shows that she was a “devoted accomplice’” of her husband and “knew 6t everythlnghe did.” It is also charged their children aided tn disposing of property secured by Lapdru In the course of hla •> leged crimes.

YALE BOOKS ARMY FOR 1920, DROPS PENN TEAM

Yale and Pennsylvania will not resume football relations next fall, it has been ‘semiofficially announced. The athletic council has decided to play West Point on the 1920 schedule and a game with Pennsylvania would make the campaign too hard.

POPULAR IMPRESSION OF SHEEP IS ERROR

Grazing Animals on Golf Courses Is Poor Practice. Practically All of- Big Clubs in land Regret Making Experiment to Help Increase Food Supplies During the War. To the question of whether golf courses benefit by allowing sheep to graze on them comes from England an emphatic negative. In the early da vs of golf the belief was generally accepted that sheep were good for the courses, but in the process of time it was discovered that drives through the green could be made just as good in places where it was impossible or inconvenient to graze sheep as on regular sheep runs. The war revealed the whole truth about the effect exercised by sheep on turf used for golf. Many clubs did their bit during the war to increase the food supplies of the country, either by doing sheep farming themselves or by allowing neighboring farmers to graze sheep over their courses. Practically all of them, according to London Field, have cause to regret the necessity of making the experiment. Sheep do little harm, if no positive good, says the Field, on genuine links, such as St. Andrews, For one thing, the constant stream of players at St. Andrews drives them to the less fre--quented spaces during the hours of daylight. On a rich clay soil, which might be warranted* to crop thirty hundredweight of hay to the acre in an average year?"they may even do some good by/fining down the growth of grass. But it is a great mistake to introduce sheep on those courses which, if they are not quite the real thing, form the best substitute for a seaside links. Such courses are carved by ingenious architects to the order of’capitalist committees out of heathery wastes or virgin forests. It is highly important to keep the fairways and putting greens poor when once they have been constructed. Not a few greens in their anxiety to get a new course ready for play at the earliest possible moment, have, exceeded .in the use of manure and top dressing. As a result the water does not drain away from the surface so quickly as it should In winter, and in summer the soil is capable of becoming hard baked.

BELMONT TO RESUME RACING

Intention of Wealthy Breeder Became in Stake Events. The maroon and red-racing colors of Major August Belmont will be seen on the New. York tracks once more in 1920. Among others who will race under the silks of the chairman of the Jodkey club is a coming 2-year-old named All Hours. He is a brown son of Negofol and Hour Glass II and therefore full brother to the great Hourless, who won a majority of the stakes on the New York tracks while racing for the Belmont stable and is now in the stud with a prospect of having winners of his get racing during the coming season. The intention of Major Belmont to resume racing of thoroughbreds of his own breeding was made known when he entered All Hours in the juvenile and Keene memorial stakes for 2-year-olds to be run during the spring meetings at Belmont park.

DICK HOBLITZELL AT AKRON

Former Major League First Sacker Appointed as Manager of New International Team. f Dick Hoblitzell of Parkersburg, W. Va., first baseman, formerly member

Dick Hoblitzell.

of the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds, has been appointed manager of the Akron International league team

WORLD’S CHAMPION FELTON CHALLENGED BY PADDON, NOTED AUSTRALIAN OARSMAN

Paddon, the famed Australian sculler, has challenged Felton to a championship match, the race to be for $2,500 a side and to be contested on the Parramatta river, Australia. Felton, who is shown in the Insert, recently won the world’s championship from Ernest Barry of England.

YOUNG BOB AVOIDS MANAGER

Son of Former Champion of World Refuses to Place Himself Under Care of Director. Speaking of" managers, we heard a story that throws an interesting sidelight; on the reason why Young Bob Fitzsimmons is doing his own managerial work. We mentioned the other day that the son of the former champion of the world ought to put himself under the careful eye of some man who knew the game, says a writer in

Bob Fitzsimmons.

Brooklyn Eagle. The story was responsible for a phone message from a man who knows Young Bob and knows him well. “What you said the other day about Young Bob needing a manager,” said the man mt the other end of the wire, “is fine dope, but I’ll tell you something you don’t know. “Bob’s ' father is responsible,” said our informant. “Before he died he warned Young Bob about managers and told him to do all of his own ring business himself. Young Bob believes everything his father told him. That is the reason why he won’t have a manager.” This twenty-two-year-old youngster, is son of the former champion heavyweight, whose recent debut in Newark has caused him to be the most soughtfor boxer in the country today. Young Fitz is a light heavyweight, and is said to be one of the cleverest big fellows ever seen in a ring.

PASSING OF CARLISLE STARS

One of Greatest Drawing Cards in Football Now but a MemorySome Stars Produced. ' The Carlisle Indians, one .of the greatest drawing cards in football, have passed and their football deeds are only a memory now. The game which "produced such stars as Jhorpe, Bemus Pierce, Guyon, Metoxen, Mount Pleasant and Hudson is lost forever at Carlisle and the football world grieves.

L B. GOODWIN IS REINSTATED

•tar Swimmer Connected With New York Athletic Club Is Restored to Amateur Standing. < .. a — ; c - L. B. Goodwin, star swimmer connected with the New York Athlete club, who, during the way. was a war camp athletic director in the United States service, has been restored to amateur standing by a recent ruling of the Metropolitan Amateur Athletic union registration committee.

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPORT

Tufts has been added to the Rutgers football schedule. Professional single sculling races in England date back to 1831. * * • Minneapolis is to have a flyers’ club, run like a golf or country club. • * • The Detroit Tigers are going South early. They set sail fur Macon February 22. — * * * Dave Davenport of the Browns says he will pitch semi-pro ball in Ohio next season. • • * Stanislaus Zbyszko, older brother of wrestle in the United States. • • • The Marathon race has been added to the Olympic games program in Antwerp next year. * • * San Jose sportsmen are petitioning city councils to permit four-round amateur boxing bouts. • * • The eastern intercollegiate swimming championships will be decided in Yale pool March 20, 1920. * * * The University of Washington (Seattle) will send a baseball nine to tour Japan next ~summer.-<~ “7 “2 ♦ * * Bill Clymer laments that the crop of youngsters coming to the front in baseball at present is very small. * * ♦ Up-to-date Pat Moran has not seen fit to accept that house and lot which Cincinnati admirers -planned to give him. ■ - » » » ■ Chick Harley, football star of the Ohio State eleven, is being besieged with offers from owners of baseball clubs. • * ♦ Northwestern university students will be Instructed in wrestling, including the Japanese and Swedish methods. * • • Del Gainer and Paul Smith have been sold by the Red Sox to the Milw’aukee club of the American association. • • • England may raise a fund of $500,000 to try to regain its pre-eminence in athletics at the Antwerp Olympics next year. • • « It is reported that the veteran George Mcßride will be manager of the Nationals, now that Clark Griffith is president. * $ £ Brazil!, obtained by the Mackmen from the Robins by the waiver route, may win a place as regular third baseman for Connie Mack. There promises to be very little trading in the American league this winter. The magnates are too busy with the big squabble. • • • _ The Australian cricket board of control has invited a British cricket team to tour Australia in 1920-21 and will return the visit in •; • . . ■ Lucien Lyne, now in England, says he has signed a new contract with King Alfonso of Spain as Alfonso’s chief jockey for the 1920 season, • • • : Now that waivers have been asked by the Reds on the veteran Sherwood Magee, ft, is reported he may manage a Class AA club. He has ability.